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Comic Book Resources was founded by Jonah Weiland in 1995. It began as the Kingdom Come Message Board, a discussion forum Weiland created for DC Comics' Kingdom Come mini-series, and grew from there into a full news and reviews website.
CBR is owned by Valnet Inc., a Montreal, Canada-based company and subsidiary of Valsef Group. Valnet acquired CBR by the 4th of April 2016, and relaunched the site as CBR.com on the 23rd of August 2016. Valnet also owns Screen Rant, Collider, MovieWeb, and XDA Developers.
CBR won the Eagle Award for Favourite Comics-Related Website in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2010, and 2011. It won the Eisner Award for Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism in 2009, 2011, and 2014. In 2013, its Robot 6 blog won the Harvey Award for Best Biographical, Historical or Journalistic Presentation.
In May 2023, Valnet laid off editor-in-chief Adam Swiderski, senior news editor Stephen Gerding after eighteen years at CBR, and senior features editor Christopher Baggett after eight years. Heidi MacDonald reported for The Beat that they were removed for standing up for writers and pushing back against Valnet's changes, which included asking writers to produce more work while reducing pay-per-view rates.
After Valnet acquired CBR in 2016, Popverse reported that comics coverage was increasingly sidelined in favor of shorter news pieces and reactions to news stories. Heidi MacDonald wrote in June 2023 that CBR had gradually become a more generic outlet producing fewer comics articles and more listicles and click-driven posts.
In 2014, CBR published a guest article by Janelle Asselin criticizing the cover of DC Comics's Teen Titans. The piece led to harassment and personal threats directed at Asselin through CBR's community forums. Founder Jonah Weiland issued a public apology, condemned the community's reaction, and rebooted the forums to establish new ground rules.