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*UPDATE* Another Injury Plagues Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark

The $65 million Spider-man musical suffered yet another setback last night when a performer playing Spider-man was injured during Monday night’s performance. According to audience members of Monday night’s performance,  the accident happened near the end of the show, on the bridge set.  The character of Mary Jane is supposed …

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“Age of Conan” Web Series in Production

Paradox Entertainment is happy to announce the production of the first episode of “Age of Conan: Hyboria!,” a comedy web series set in the legendary Conan universe. The web series will utilize the characters, locations and graphics engine from the hugely popular and best-selling massively multiplayer online PC game “Age …

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Marvel Resurrects CrossGen

Marvel announced the resurrected Crossgen imprint, launching in March 2011 with two series-Ruse and Sigil. Featuring some of today’s most acclaimed talents and crossing all genres, Crossgen brings Marvel’s incomparable storytelling sensibilities to new characters, new concepts and new audiences. In the war for forever, time is only a small obstacle as the greatest warriors …

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Scholastic to Publish Brian Selznick’s ‘Wonderstruck’

Scholastic announced that it will publish “Wonderstruck,” a mesmerizing new novel in words and pictures by Brian Selznick, the #1 New York Times bestselling author/illustrator of the Caldecott Medal-winning novel and upcoming major motion picture “The Invention of Hugo Cabret.” With over 460 pages of original drawings, “Wonderstruck” will be published in hardcover simultaneously …

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Dejah Thoris Gets The Spotlight In 2011

Spinning off from the incredibly successful Dynamite Entertainment Warlord of Mars series, Warlord of Mars: Dejah Thoris #1 will arrive in comic book stores March 2011. Martians live forever — everyone knows that. So what was Dejah Thoris doing all those hundreds of years before John Carter arrived? Four hundred years …

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Tonner To Release Marvel Super Heroes

Tonner Doll Company, an award-winning designer and manufacturer of high-end collectible dolls and figures, will team up with MARVEL to create character figures based on classic  MARVEL characters. “We were fortunate enough to work with Marvel a few years ago and I am thrilled to be back working with them,” Robert …

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Marvel Knights Animation Presents Black Panther

Deep in the heart of Africa lies Wakanda, an advanced and unconquerable civilization. A family of warrior-kings possessing superior speed, strength and agility has governed this mysterious nation as long as time itself. The latest in this famed line is young King T’Challa, the great hero known worldwide as the …

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The Lone Ranger Avenges The Death Of Zorro

One of comicdom’s first and greatest heroes, Zorro, will have fallen in battle, sacrificing his life to save his people.  Upon learning of this tragedy, it falls unto the future hero of the Wild West, The Lone Ranger, to avenge the death! Dynamite Entertainment, home to several best-selling comic book …

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