Welcome Home Star Wars™ With Epic Launch Parties in January!
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Welcome Home Star Wars™ With Epic Launch Parties in January!
The Force is Strong With Your Local Comic Shops in 2015!
Marvel is kicking off 2015 with a bang big enough to destroy a Death Star asStar Wars makes its triumphant return to the House of Ideas and into comic shops on January 14th! That’s right, your local comic shop is the place to be to get your hands on the blockbuster first issue of Star Wars! In addition to being among the first to purchase and read the landmark STAR WARS #1, fans will also be able to receive special items exclusive to these launch parties.
STAR WARS #1 is already poised to be one of the biggest launches of the year, and Marvel is making sure comic book stores worldwide are armed and ready for the landmark return of Star Wars to its home at Marvel. Each retailer opting into the STAR WARS #1 Launch Party will receive a Star Wars Party Kit from Marvel, containing exclusive promotional materials including exclusive variants, promotional buttons, cake toppers and more. Check your Marvel Mailer for more information on how to opt-in by 12/08 to ensure your store has these promo items and exclusives.
“Brand new Star Wars comics featuring some of the biggest names in comics deserve the red carpet treatment,” says Marvel SVP Sales & Marketing David Gabriel. “We’re committed to making sure our valued retail partners have everything they need to engage regular customers and new fans to check out what will undoubtedly be one of the biggest launches of the year.”
All qualifying retailers will receive the following as part of the Star Wars #1 Launch Party:
Star Wars #1 Invitational Postcards
Star Wars #1 Promotional Pins
Star Wars #1 Skottie Young Lithographs
Star Wars #1 John Tyler Christopher Sketch Party Variant
This January, take your first step into a larger world as a galaxy far, far away returns to Marvel with STAR WARS #1 – on sale January 14th!
STAR WARS #1 (NOV140709)
STAR WARS WELCOME HOME PARTY OPT-IN (NOV140723)
Written by JASON AARON
Art & Cover by JOHN CASSADAY
Variant Covers by ALEX ROSS (NOV140716), JOE QUESADA (NOV140714),
SARA PICHELLI (NOV140718), BOB MCLEOD (NOV140712) and SKOTTIE YOUNG (NOV140719)
Party Variant by JOHN TYLER CHRISTOPHER (NOV140720)
Movie Variant Also Available (NOV140713)
Connecting Variant A by J. SCOTT CAMPBELL (NOV140710)
Action Figure Variant by JOHN TYLER CHRISTOPHER (NOV140721)
FOC – 12/08/14, On-Sale – 01/14/14
For more on Star Wars please visit marvel.com and join in the conversation on Twitter with #StarWars. To experience Star Wars online, visit StarWars.com or follow Star Wars on Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, Instagram, Google+ orYouTube
Action Lab Entertainment's upcoming releases for 11/26 /2014
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ACTION LAB ENTERTAINMENT COMICS IN STORES THIS WEEK
THE F1RST HERO #3
Writer(s): Anthony Ruttgaizer
Artist Name(s): Phillip Sevy (art), Fred C Stresing (letters/colors)
Cover Artist(s): Lee Moder
Using his new powers to save the life of a troubled young extrahuman has landed
Jake Roth in the middle of an armed stand-off with the police and the army's Extrahuman
Task Force. How could things get any worse? Wait until you see who comes to Jake's
rescue!
32 pgs./ Teen/ FC $3.99
MIDNIGHT TIGER #2
Writer(s): DeWayne Feenstra, Ray-Anthony Height
Artist Name(s): Ray-Anthony Height
Cover Artist(s): Ray-Anthony Height
Synopsis: Gavin learns the hard way to be careful what you wish for when he finally comes face
to face with P. Stone! Fortunately, he’ll have some unexpected help from the folks who’ve been
keeping an eye on him since the beginning of what could be the shortest crime-fighting career
Apollo Bay history.
32 pgs./ Teen/ FC $3.99
PLANET GIGANTIC #1
Writer(s): Eric Grissom
Artist Name(s): David Halvorson
Cover Artist(s): David Halvorson (reg), Jerry Gaylord (var)
When two genetically-engineered teenagers crash-land on a strange planet, they must learn to rely on themselves and their still-developing powers as they face down a giant rock monster. Also in this issue: Lyana the Seeker braves a cursed tomb in search of the fabled Eye
of the Sun. Variant cover by Jerry Gaylord, limited to 2,000 copies!
32 pgs./ All Ages/ FC $3.99
SHINOBI:NINJA PRINCESS #3
Writer(s): Martheus Wade
Artist Name(s): Martheus Wade, Marvin Chevealier, Janed Wade
Cover Artist: Johanna Tamminen
Rekishi 歴史(History): When Ninja Master Jubei sees that Shianndrea is upset over the revelation of Kim and Ai’s romantic relationship, he tellsher the story of her ancestor, Yamoto Toshigawa, the Princess Tokuhime and their fight against the all powerful Oni named Dagamon. Meanwhile, Hamasuke makes plans to win back his honor and become the hero he feels he should be.
32 pgs./ All Ages/ FC $3.99
Who Lives? Who Dies? Who Remains Inverted? Find Out in AVENGERS & X-MEN: AXIS #9!
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Who Lives? Who Dies? Who Remains
Inverted?
Find Out in AVENGERS & X-MEN: AXIS #9!
This December, the Earth-shattering finale to the biggest comic event of the year explodes into comic shops as heroes, villains and more collide in AVENGERS & X-MEN: AXIS #9 – the epic conclusion! Blockbuster writer Rick Remender along with artists Jim Cheung, Terry Dodson and Leinil Yu bring heroes and villains to the brink for the finale of Act III: New World Disorder – and not everyone will make it back!
Armies of heroes and villains wage war in the streets of Manhattan as the X-Men and their leader Apocalypse prepare to annihilate all of humanity. With the remaining Avengers twisted and corrupted by the Inversion, our only hope lies with the most despicable villains in the Marvel Universe. Led by the frail and vulnerable Steve Rogers, these villains are all that stands in the way of total obliteration.
To save everything, sacrifices will be made – and the lives of Avengers and X-Men alike will be torn asunder. An X-Man will meet their horrifying fate! An Avenger will make an appalling choice! An old foe must claim the mantle of his greatest enemy. And a new team of Uncanny Avengers will be born!
The Marvel Universe as you know it is about to be rocked to its core. No fan can afford to miss the shocking finale in AVENGERS & X-MEN: AXIS #9 – on sale this December!
For more on Avengers & X-Men: AXIS, please visit www.marvel.com. Join the conversation on Twitter with hashtag #MarvelAXIS and don’t forget to follow us at @Marvel [www.twitter.com/Marvel]!
AVENGERS & X-MEN: AXIS #9 (OCT140787)
Written by RICK REMENDER
Art by JIM CHEUNG, TERRY DODSON & LEINIL YU
Cover by JIM CHEUNG
Looper Variant by PAUL RENAUD (OCT140788)
Inversion Variant by ADAM HUGHES (OCT140789)
FOC – 12/01/14, On-Sale – 12/24/14
SOLD OUT “MARVEL FAMOUS FIRSTS: 75TH ANNIVERSARY MASTERWORKS SLIPCASE SET” RETURNS FOR NEW EDITION!
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Just in time for the holidays – the mightiest of Marvel collections returns! Hot off the heels of its sold out initial run, Marvel is pleased to announce that the MARVEL FAMOUS FIRSTS: 75th ANNIVERSARY MASTERWORKS SLIPCASE (NEW EDITION) will return for another, limited printing! Don’t let this epic collection slip by once more!
Collecting 10 of Marvel’s mightiest Masterworks hardcovers – plus for the first time, the all-new, long in-demand NOT BRAND ECHH VOL. 1! Relive the iconic origins of the Marvel Universe with these deluxe hardcovers collecting the origin stories of some of the greatest super heroes in history!
Each titanic tome in this limited-edition box set features newly designed cover treatments and interlocking spine artwork, while the slipcase itself is patterned after the world-famous Avengers Mansion!
“We were completely overwhelmed with the response from fans and retailers for this one-of-a-kind box set,” says Marvel SVP Sales & Marketing David Gabriel. “The initial run sold out almost instantaneously so we wanted to bring it back for those who might have missed their opportunity to get theirs back in September!”
The MARVEL FAMOUS FIRSTS: 75TH ANNIVERSARY MASTERWORKS SLIPCASE SET (NEW EDITION)will make its triumphant return to local comic book retailers December 10th and will contain the following monumental Marvel collected moments:
CAPTAIN AMERICA VOL. 1 HC
264 pgs. - collecting Tales of Suspense #59-81
DAREDEVIL VOL. 1 HC
256 pgs. - collecting Daredevil #1-11
DOCTOR STRANGE VOL. 1 HC
328 pgs. - collecting Strange Tales #110-111 and #114 - 141, and Amazing Spider-Man Annual #2
NOT BRAND ECHH VOL. 1 HC
456 pgs. - collecting Not Brand Echh #1-13; and material from Amazing Spider-Man Annual #5, Avengers Annual #2,Daredevil Annual #1, Fantastic Four Annual #5 and Sgt. Fury Annual #4.
THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN VOL. 1 HC
272 pgs. – collecting Amazing Fantasy #15 and Amazing Spider-Man #1-10.
THE AVENGERS VOL. 1 HC
248 pgs. - collecting Avengers #1-10
THE FANTASTIC FOUR VOL. 1 HC
272 pgs. - collecting Fantastic Four #1-10
THE INCREDIBLE HULK VOL. 1 HC
176 pgs. - collecting Hulk #1-6
THE INVINCIBLE IRON MAN VOL. 1 HC
208 pgs. - collecting Tales of Suspense #39-50
THE MIGHTY THOR VOL. 1 HC
280 pgs. - collecting Journey into Mystery #83-100
THE X-MEN VOL. 1 HC
248 pgs. - collecting X-Men #1-10
For more on Marvel’s 75th Anniversary, please visit marvel.com/75, like us on Facebook atfacebook.com/marvel and join in the conversation on Twitter with #marvel and don’t forget to follow us at @marvel.
Hardcover: 3,016 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0785191283
ISBN-13: 978-0785191285
Product Dimensions: 19 x 16.8 x 13.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 33.4 pounds
On Sale: December 10th
THE DYING AND THE DEAD
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New York Times bestselling and award-winning writer Jonathan Hickman (EAST OF WEST, THE AVENGERS) teams up with explosive artist Ryan Bodenheim (RED MASS FOR MARS, SECRET) for an all-new adventure series fraught with mystery, intrigue, and exotic end-of life care in THE DYING AND THE DEAD, coming from Image Comics on January 28.
The adventures begins in THE DYING AND THE DEAD #1 when a murder at a wedding sets off a series of reactions, unraveling secrets hundreds of years old. At great cost, a man with a dying wife is given the opportunity to save her. A lost tribe is reborn in another time. Seemingly unconnected events that force relics from the Greatest Generation to come together for one last hurrah.
"It's not often that you work on something that feels almost perfect from day one, but working with Ryan again and how we're both so in sync regarding the story, it really does feel like it could be something special," said co-creator Hickman.
THE DYING AND THE DEAD (Diamond Code NOV140534) is a massive, over-sized, 60-page Indiana Jones-style high adventure that arrives in stores this 1/28 and will be available for $4.50.
