Daily Bugle Daily Bugle The Daily Bugle (at one time The DB) is a fictional New York City tabloid newspaper appearing as a plot element in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The "Daily Bugle" is a regular fixture in the Marvel Universe, most prominently in Spider-Man comic titles and their derivative media. The newspaper first appeared in "Fantastic Four" #2 (January 1962), and its offices in "The Amazing Spider-Man" #1 (March 1963). The "Daily Bugle" was first featured on film in the 2002 film "Spider-Man". The fictional newspaper is meant to be a pastiche of both the New York "Daily
The Bugle was released on 14 October 2007. New episodes of the podcast were generally recorded and published on Fridays with related material appearing on its official website. At its launch, "The Bugle" was distributed by TimesOnline, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News International. During the News International phone hacking scandal of 2011, "The Bugle" satirised its parent company in a manner which the New York Times characterized as "blistering" in an article published 15 August. Over the course of a few weekly episodes prior to the New York Times' article, Zaltzman and Oliver had gone "straight for the jugular" regarding