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Adam West Surprises Students During Back-to-School Season

Students shopping for textbooks and school supplies at the Nebraska Bookstore near the University of Nebraska—Lincoln’s campus got some unexpected help filling their required reading list. Actor Adam West, best known as Bruce Wayne and Batman in the TV series “Batman” and voice of Mayor West on the hit TV …

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Hero Ventures & Marvel Entertainment Unveil Design for “The Marvel Experience”

Hero Ventures released a first-look rendering of the highly anticipated design of The Marvel Experience domed complex set to tour the country in 2014. Canvassing a 2-acre footprint of more than 80,000 square feet, this state-of-the-art, custom built multi-Dome complex will represent the first time a venue of this type, size and scope will …

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Zelda Lands #6 On Amazon’s Year-End List

In a monumental year for entertainment, Dark Horse Comics has secured its place in video-game-art history with The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia, which charted in the top ten as one of 2013’s best-selling books globally. In February, The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia soared to the top of the Nielsen BookScan charts, …

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Dark House Announces Matt Kindt and Brian Hurtt Graphic Novel

Matt Kindt, the award-winning, New York Times best-selling author of MIND MGMT and Red Handed, and Brian Hurtt, the award-winning, New York Times best-selling artist of The Sixth Gun and The Damned, are soon to publish Poppy! and the Lost Lagoon, the first in a new graphic novel series for children. The book follows the story of Poppy Pepperton, a ten-year-old girl with a typographic …

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The Walking Dead: Season Two Begins. Premiere Episode Arrives From Telltale Games

Telltale Games and Robert Kirkman, the Eisner Award-winning creator and writer of  The Walking Dead  for his Skybound imprint at Image Comics, today announced the release of ‘ All That Remains,’ the first of five episodes of The Walking Dead: Season Two – A Telltale Games Series. The episode is available now on the Xbox Games Store …

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Batman Tops Comic Book Sales Charts for November

Super Heroes dominated the November comic book sales charts, with DC Entertainment taking four of the month’s top five spots. Landing at #1 and #2 respectively were BATMAN #25 — the continuation of bestselling writer Scott Snyder and superstar artist Greg Capullo’s reimagining of Batman’s early days — and HARLEY …

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Dynamite Announces March Release of Magnus: Robot Fighter

Dynamite announced that the new ongoing Magnus: Robot Fighter comic book series, written by Fred Van Lente (Marvel Zombies) and illustrated by Cory Smith (Fathom), will launch its first issue on Wednesday, March 12, 2014.  Magnus: Robot Fighter #1 marks the second highly-anticipated title release in Dynamite’s “Gold Key” line of comic books, which also includes Turok: Dinosaur Hunter (debuting …

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Dark Horse Unveils Free Comic Book Day Gold Offering

What’s better than a trip to your local comic shop? Free copies of your favorite Dark Horse titles for Free Comic Book Day 2014. In addition to new stories from your current Dark Horse favorites, Dark Horse will feature the long-awaited Juice Squeezers by David Lapham, the Eisner Award–winning creator …

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Dark Horse Announces Hellboy 20th Anniversary Celebration

March 2014 marks the twentieth anniversary of Mike Mignola’s career-defining release of Hellboy: Seed of Destruction #1. After the character’s somewhat humble beginnings as an eight-page feature in Dark Horse’s San Diego Comic Con Comics special, Seed of Destruction would begin the long life of the beloved “beast of the …

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