Since the death of Ultimate Spider-Man in the Ultimatum event in Marvel’s Ultimate line of books, Marvel has been teasing a new Ultimate Spider-Man. Tomorrow the identity of the new Ultimate Spider-Man gets revealed in Ultimate Fallout #4, but if you can’t wait Marvel has revealed the identity a day early.

The reveal and press release are after the jump.

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Marvel has just announced another Comics for Comics initiative, offering comic retailers a chance to get a rare variant cover to Fear Itself #6 by Ed McGuinness for every 50 covers they send in from DC Comics Flashpoint books. Read the full press release and list of comics after the jump.
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In a great cross promotion, Disney has released the picture above of Sam the Eagle as Captain America. Captain America: The First Avenger opens in theaters today 7/22/2011 and The Muppets opens in theaters on 11/23/2011.

Marvel announced in their “Marvel Digital: What’s Next Panel” at SDCC 2011 that they will be releasing several major comics digitally the same day they are released into comic shops. The first comics to be released like this will be the Amazing Spider-Man series start with issue #666, and all issues under the Spider Island event. Starting this fall new series Uncanny X-Men and Wolverine and the X-Men will also have day an date digital releases.

While the Ultimate Spider-Man series has had day and date digital releases for a while now, the announcement to start releasing much larger titles this way is most likely a response to DC Comics announcement that all 52 comics in the DCU relaunch will have day and date digital released.

Today Capcom announced Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 for November 2011, an updated version of Marvel vs Capcom 3 which came out in February. So far the only officially announced new characters for the updated version are Strider (Capcom), Firebrand (Capcom), Ghost Rider (Marvel), and Hawkeye (Marvel).

Joystiq noticed that art for character profiles was on Capcom’s web server and was able to download the full list of new characters. Capcom has since taken them down, but it seems likely this is the final lineup.
Capcom: Strider, Firebrand, Vergil, Frank West, Phoenix Wright, Nemesis
Marvel: Ghost Rider, Dr Strange, Nova, Rocket Raccoon, Hawkeye, Iron Fist

After being leaked earlier this week, the official version of the teaser trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man has been released online.

MTV Splashpage has posted the first trailer to Batman: Year One, the latest movie in the DC Universe Animated Original Movies series. The movie is an adaptation of Frank Miller’s Batman: Year One comic, and stars Benjamin McKenzie as Bruce Wayne, Bryan Cranston as Jim Gordon, Eliza Dushku as Catwoman and Katee Sackhoff as Sarah Essen. The movie will premier at San Diego Comic Con later this month, and will be released on October 18, 2011.

Legendary comic book artist Gene Colan passed away last night at the age of 84. He is best know for his work at Marvel on Daredevil, Howard the Duck, and Tomb of Dracula. Just last year Colan won the Eisner Award for Best Single Issue in 2010 for his work on Captain American #601.

Our condolences to his friends and family. Let us know your favorite work or memories of Colan in the comments.