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Jonah Weiland launched Comic Book Resources in 1995 from the ashes of a single message board dedicated to a specific DC Comics mini-series. The site began as a digital extension of the Kingdom Come Message Board, a forum Weiland created to discuss the then-new mini-series of the same name.
On the 4th of April 2016, Comic Book Resources was sold to Valnet Inc., a Montreal, Canada-based company that owns other media properties including Screen Rant. The site was relaunched as CBR.com on the 23rd of August 2016, with the blogs integrated into the site.
Adam Swiderski, CBR's editor-in-chief since July 2022, along with senior news editor Stephen Gerding after 18 years with CBR and senior features editor Christopher Baggett after eight years, were laid off by Valnet in May 2023. Two HR people were also laid off for objecting to the demands management was making on writers.
Comic Book Resources won the Favourite Comics-Related Website professional Eagle Award in 1999, 2000, and 2001. The site won the Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism Eisner Award in 2009 and again in 2014, while the Robot 6 blog won the Best Biographical, Historical or Journalistic Presentation Harvey Award in 2013.
In 2014, an article by guest author Janelle Asselin criticized the cover of DC Comics's Teen Titans, leading to harassment of and personal threats against Asselin in the website's community forums. Weiland issued a statement apologizing for the incident, condemning the way some community members had reacted, and rebooted the forums in order to establish new ground rules.