‘Warriors of Mars’ from Dynamite Entertainment

Dynamite Entertainment will launch its next miniseries set in the world of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Princess of Mars, Warriors of Mars, in February. 

The series will introduce a new character, Lt. Gullivar Jones, to the story, which will be written by Robert Napton, drawn by Jack Jadson, with covers by Joe Jusko.

Jones originated in Gullivar of Mars, a 1905 novel by Edwin Lester Arnold.  Princess of Mars began serialization in All-Story Magazine in 1912, with a number of similarities to Arnold’s novel, including lead characters that are southern U.S. solders that arrive on Mars and fall in love with Martian princesses. 

Gullivar was more hapless and less heroic than Burroughs’ John Carter.  Now the two characters will appear in the same story.

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Hellboy Being Killed Off Too?!?

Spoiler Alert!!

It appears increasingly likely that in Hellboy: The Fury #3, which goes on sale next week, Mike Mignola’s Hellboy is about to join the ranks of recently departed superhero characters such as the Ultimate Spider-Man and Bucky. But it also appears that, unlike so many superhero characters, Hellboy will meet his demise in such a way that he won’t be coming back in corporeal form ever.

But this doesn’t mean the end of Hellboy comics. For one thing in stories set in the past (a Hellboy comics staple), the big red guy will remain the same as he ever was, but also as Mignola pointed out in a revealing interview with Comic Book Resources, “I always say that when characters die in the Hellboy universe, they just become more interesting. So Hellboy now is a lot more interesting.”

Fans will have to wait until next week to find out exactly what happens to Hellboy—and even longer to find out how events in The Fury miniseries affect the B.P.R.D. Dark Horse is promising “mainstream media attention” for what it describes as a “major development" in The Fury #3, so those who enjoy like being “in the know” early and don’t mind having their reading fun spoiled can expect to learn the details of Hellboy’s demise on Tuesday (most likely, if previous patterns hold, in USA Today).

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Death of Spider-Man Issue Sells Over 159k

Driven by press coverage (see “Ultimate Spider-Man Death Issue Gets Advance Press”), the “Death of Spider-Man” storyline brought big sales in June, with the polybaged Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #160 selling over 159,000 copies to comic stores, according to our estimates of comic sales number based on sales indexes released by Diamond Comic Distributors. That was best sales number for the top comic in over a year; Avengers #1 sold 163,000 last May (see “Avengers Launch Is Over 163K”). This issue increased sales on Ultimate Comics Spider-Man by over a factor of three.

Marvel’s Fear Itself was the #2 book at around 96,000, the #3 issue holding strong at only slightly less the sales on #2. DC’s Flashpoint event came in behind Fear Itself, but sales on Flashpoint #2 actually came in higher than the first month sales on #1 (and issue #1 picked up another 8,864 copies this month).

Despite the strong sales on the books at the very top of the chart, over-all sales were down from the year ago period (see “Comics Slide Continues in June”).

DC had only eight of the top 25 issues this month; not shipping the titles Green Lantern or Green Lantern Corps hurt.

Top 25 decliners outnumbered advances by a significant margin in June; 14 of the top 25 titles declined in sales; eight increased.

On the graphic novel chart, The Walking Dead Vol. 14 was the top title with over 20,000 copies in first month sales, a great performance when compared to other top graphic novels in recent months. And if you needed more than the continuing sales on The Walking Dead Vol. 1 to show the series is gaining new readers, the 6% increase between first month sales of Vol. 14 and Vol. 13 (see “Top 300 Graphic Novel s Actual—November 2010”) should help.

Here are ICv2’s estimates for the sales by Diamond Comic Distributors to comic stores on the Top 25 comic titles in June of 2011:

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Marvel Digital Comics – Free Mondays (7/25/2011)

Welcome to FREE Mondays! Each week we focus on all of the newly digitized  books you can read for FREE inside the greatest collection of Marvel comics  available online: Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited! Plus, we’ll let you know  what’s coming up next week for FREE, too! With each book, not only are you  getting a free peek inside Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited, but each free  Digital Comic either gives you a look at a book featured in a recent collection  or a comic that’s in stores now.

How  would you like to have five free digital comics to help get you through the  school and work week? Here ya go!
DAREDEVIL BLACK AND WHITE (2010) #1
AVENGERS AND THE INFINITY GAUNTLET (2010) #1
NAMOR: THE FIRST MUTANT (2010) #1
MARVEL UNIVERSE VS. THE PUNISHER (2010) #1
SPITFIRE (2010) #1

Find out what next week’s five  free digital comics will be below!*
SHADOWLAND: BLOOD ON THE STREETS (2010)  #1
SHADOWLAND: BULLSEYE (2010) #1
SHADOWLAND: DAUGHTERS OF THE SHADOW  (2010) #1
SHADOWLAND: MOON KNIGHT (2010) #1
SHADOWLAND: POWER MAN (2010)  #1

*All scheduled issues subject to change.

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Marvel Digital Comics – Free Mondays (7/18/2011)

Welcome to FREE Mondays! Each week we focus on all of the newly digitized  books you can read for FREE inside the greatest collection of Marvel comics  available online: Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited! Plus, we’ll let you know  what’s coming up next week for FREE, too! With each book, not only are you  getting a free peek inside Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited, but each free  Digital Comic either gives you a look at a book featured in a recent collection  or a comic that’s in stores now.

How  would you like to have five free digital comics to help get you through the  school and work week? Here ya go!
UNCANNY X-MEN (1963) #374
UNCANNY X-MEN (1963) #375
X-MEN (2010) #2
STEVE ROGERS: SUPER-SOLDIER (2010) #1
CAPTAIN AMERICA: FOREVER ALLIES (2011) #1

Find out  what next week’s five free digital comics will be below!*
DAREDEVIL BLACK  AND WHITE (2010) #3
AVENGERS AND THE INFINITY GAUNTLET (2010) #1
NAMOR:  THE FIRST MUTANT (2010) #1
MARVEL UNIVERSE VS. THE PUNISHER (2010)  #1
SPITFIRE (2010) #1

*All scheduled issues subject to change.

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Marvel Digital Comics – Free Mondays (7/11/2011)

Welcome to FREE Mondays! Each week we focus on all of the newly digitized  books you can read for FREE inside the greatest collection of Marvel comics  available online: Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited! Plus, we’ll let you know  what’s coming up next week for FREE, too! With each book, not only are you  getting a free peek inside Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited, but each free  Digital Comic either gives you a look at a book featured in a recent collection  or a comic that’s in stores now.

How  would you like to have five free digital comics to help get you through the  school and work week? Here ya go!

SECRET WARS II (1985) #7
SECRET WARS II (1985) #8
SECRET WARS II (1985) #9
UNCANNY  X-MEN (1963) #372
UNCANNY X-MEN (1963) #373

Find out what next week’s  five free digital comics will be below!*
UNCANNY X-MEN (1963)  #374
UNCANNY X-MEN (1963) #375
X-MEN (2010) #2
STEVE ROGERS:  SUPER-SOLDIER (2010) #1
CAPTAIN AMERICA: FOREVER ALLIES (2011) #1

*All  scheduled issues subject to change.

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Marvel Digital Comics – Free Mondays (7/5/2011)

Welcome to FREE Mondays! Each week we focus on all of the newly digitized  books you can read for FREE inside the greatest collection of Marvel comics  available online: Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited! Plus, we’ll let you know  what’s coming up next week for FREE, too! With each book, not only are you  getting a free peek inside Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited, but each free  Digital Comic either gives you a look at a book featured in a recent collection  or a comic that’s in stores now.

How  would you like to have five free digital comics to help get you through the  school and work week? Here ya go!
THOR (1966) #178
AVENGERS (2010) #3
NEW AVENGERS (2010) #2
X-FORCE: SEX & VIOLENCE (2010) #1
X-MEN ORIGINS: DEADPOOL (2010) #1

Find out what next  week’s five free digital comics will be below!*
SECRET WARS (1985) #7
SECRET WARS (1985) #8
SECRET  WARS (1985) #9
UNCANNY X-MEN (1963) #372
UNCANNY X-MEN (1963)  #373

*All scheduled issues subject to change.

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Marvel Digital Comics – Free Mondays (6/27/2011)

Welcome to FREE Mondays! Each week we focus on all of the newly  digitized  books you can read for FREE inside the greatest collection of  Marvel comics  available online: Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited! Plus,  we’ll let you know  what’s coming up next week for FREE, too! With each  book, not only are you  getting a free peek inside Marvel Digital Comics  Unlimited, but each free  Digital Comic either gives you a look at a book  featured in a recent collection  or a comic that’s in stores now.

Remembering Gene Colan, Comic Book Legend

Gene Colan at WonderCon 2007 (photo by Chip Mosher)

As CBR reported last night, comics creator and Eisner winner Gene Colan passed away at the age of 84 last night.

“The legacy of his artistic storytelling and abilities played a key role in cementing the enduring popularity of characters like Daredevil, Iron Man, Howard the Duck, Blade and Dr. Strange, and garnered him praise and fans the world over,” columnist George Khoury said in an obituary on Comic Book Resources this morning.

In lieu of flowers, Colan’s friend Clifford Meth is asking folks to contribute to a scholarship being set up in Colan’s name for The Kubert School. Details on how to donate can be found on Meth’s blog.

Fellow creators, fans and friends of Gene Colan are sharing memories. Here are a few; as always, click through to see the entirety of what they have to say about one of comics’ legendary artists:

Clifford Meth: “I knew this day would come but it came too quickly. It’s been a rare pleasure working with Gene. He knew who he was—how valuable his contributions to the world of comic art have been—how prized it remains by so many. Yet he never felt less than grateful to anyone who’d even read a single panel that he’d drawn. Until he was too weak to hold a pencil, he put his whole kishkes into everything he drew—whether it was a $5000 commission or a small drawing for someone’s child. And he was never satisfied with his artwork but always eager to learn a little more, do a little better, try something new. At 84.”

Mark Evanier: “Gene was so much a part of comics as long as I’ve read comics. He was the kind of artist who rarely drew less than two comics a month (sometimes, three) and I think a lot of people took him for granted. If he had drawn a handful of comics as fine as what he did in the sixties and seventies and then gotten out, readers would still be haunting their comic shops, praying for his return. I also enjoyed his friendship…and I have to tell you that the one time he drew a script of mine was one of those moments when I would have paid the company for the honor. I received Xeroxes of his pencilled pages — so much more wonderful, of course, than the printed product — and I just grinned for days…because I’d just written a comic drawn by Gene Colan. He always made everything look so damned good.”

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Marvel Digital Comics – Free Mondays (6/20/2011)

Welcome to FREE Mondays! Each week we focus on all of the newly digitized  books you can read for FREE inside the greatest collection of Marvel comics  available online: Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited! Plus, we’ll let you know  what’s coming up next week for FREE, too! With each book, not only are you  getting a free peek inside Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited, but each free  Digital Comic either gives you a look at a book featured in a recent collection  or a comic that’s in stores now.

How  would you like to have five free digital comics to help get you through the  school and work week? Here ya go!
CAPTAIN AMERICA (1968) #130
CAPTAIN AMERICA (1968) #131
CAPTAIN AMERICA (1968) #132
INFINITY CRUSADE (1993) #4
INFINITY CRUSADE (1993) #5

Find out what next  week’s five free digital comics will be below!*
INFINITY CRUSADE (1993) #6
THOR (1966) #174
THOR  (1966) #175
THOR (1966) #176
THOR (1966) #177

*All scheduled  issues subject to change.

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