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We're continuing to highlight Free Comic Book Day retailers going above and beyond. Stadium Comics of Ontario, Canada are running signings and sketching

FreeComicBookDayWatch: Every comic shop across the country seems to be getting loads and loads of press right now for Free Comic Book Day 2012 calling it

And currently, a truck is heading off from Diamond's Memphis warehouse with 20,000 comics, destined to join them. Earthworld Comics is also promoting FCBD at the local Regal Crossgates Cinema for the midnight premiere of the Avengers movie with prizes for best costume. While in Canada, at Toronto's famous Silver Snail store, rappers Wordburglar and rock band[...]

The following article may have minor spoilers, but the major ones have been removed to protect the innocent. Some comic book companies are reprinting old

They'll be raffling off the Neil Gaiman/David Mack print for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. Comic Store West in York, Pennsylvania, will be playing Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Thor, Captain America, Hulk on their HD projector and movie screen, selling comics by the pound, trivia contests through the day, a tent for Avengers Vs[...]

The gay-themed Quatrefoil Library of St Paul, Minnesota has spent the year cataloging its comic book singles, and to promote the collection, will be

We continue to look at comic stores going above and beyond for Free Comic Book Day next Saturday. Well, Rebekah Isaacs, Jim Fern, Nelson Ortega, Joe

This coming weekend, Double Midnight Comics of Manchester, NH will be ten years old. And they're extending Free Comic Book Day festivities over four

This year, I'll be going to Free Comic Book Day with my kids as always. But not just my kids. Their friends too. On Saturday morning, we'll be getting the

Dark Horse Comics does like to take its licenses and play with them a little. Aliens Vs Predator, Robocop Vs Terminator... But it appears that for Free

Another look at a comic store going above and beyond this Free Comic Book Day on Saturday, May the 5th. Memphis Comics & Collectibles will have a

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q4Od9A2Nto Mike Wellman, the manager of The Comic Bug in Manhattan Beach, California, takes us through all the Free Comic

Bleeding Cool continues to celebrate comic book stires that are going above and beyond for Free Comic Book Day in 2012, this May the 5th. Collectors' Corner in Baltimore, Maryland, will run FCBD 9am until 9pm.Although you may want to be there earlier. The first twenty-five in line will get a Free Movie Pass to see AVENGERS[...]

The Mouse Guard hardcover FCBD book by Petersen is probably going to be the most sought after book across the country, and the Free Comic Book Day Festival and Jetpack will have thousands of copies to give away Looks like David's wrist is about to become very tired indeed. Tyler James will be signing and selling[...]

California's Collector's Paradise has two stores involved heavily with Free Comic Book Day this May the 5th, one in Padadena, the other in Canoga Park.

Larry's Comics' versions of the FCBD Mouse Guard book, also has a special tip plate for his autograph. Valiant and Archaia will have booths at the store, promoting their upcoming work. And they are serving hot dogs, with a special "The Pink" relish based on a german recipe – "sweet when accompanied with mayonaise & spicy when[...]

And that's a Third Eye exclusive cover for the upcoming Finding Gossamyrissue one… In other FCBD news, it appears that Muqtatafaht Middle East Comics Anthology by Mohammed el Shennawyand Barrack Rima for Free Comic Book Day has been cancelled. On May the fifth this year, it will be Free Comic Book Day[...]

So skip to the post if you dare. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: More On DC Comics' Trinity War (SEMI-SPOILERS) – And Jim Lee's FCBD Gate Fold | Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors Trinity War, as first mentioned on Bleeding Cool yesterday… The Justice League Is The Walking Dead | Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies[...]

Hypernaturals is the new Boom series from Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning, that's getting a Free Comic Book Day bump and then launching proper in June. The

Well that got commented on rather quickly. Trinity War, as first mentioned on Bleeding Cool yesterday… "has probably something to do with the Trinity of Evil which gets introduced in DC's FCBD comic Pandora is one of the Trinity." "It appears to be the 3 original sinners, of which Pandora has already been disclosed Let me just say[...]

Aaron and Tom from A Comic Shop in Florida look through the week's comics. From their own personal bat cave, in preparation... and here's Uncanny X-Force,

And is planning to use the opportunity to push a literacy drive among children and adults in the town through comics. For this year's FCBD, they are also giving away comics at the Natural Science Center of Greensboro to offer a second Free Comic Book Day location… I love how American towns stake "nicknames"[...]

Comic book publishers FUBAR Press and 215 INK aren't in the official Free Comic Book Day. But they are having a go anyway. And targetting a specific group

Earth World Comics in Albany, New York is participating in Free Comic Book Day this year. Nothing unusual in that, but it seems its not just the customers

Last year, Jeff Kinney, the author of Diary Of A Wimpy Kid took a restraining order against Antarctic Press for their publication of the comic Diary Of A

Monday will be the last days that comic stores can sign up to be a participant in Free Comic Book Day 2012, by ordering at least 25 each of the Gold Level books. Here's the Andy Runton promotional sticker for the occasion, featuring his character Top Shelf, appearing in the Top Shelf Kids FCBD book. We've already[...]

So no Dune FCBD. In its slot comes a replacement Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning's new series, Hypernaturals, to accompany their Resurrection Man from DC and New Mutants from Marvel on the shelf Here's the solicit; This Free Comic Book Day…A UNIVERSE TREMBLES It is the far future; the human race has finally colonized the galaxy, preserving[...]

 There's divided opinion on this one in the forum, but since I missed it the first time and I've been a huge Ultron fan since I first put together the classic Avengers run, I'll pick up the FCBD version to get myself acclimated to what the subsequent project is going to be about. Most-Read Comic Stories[...]

We already showed you what the DC Free Comic Book Day retailer customizable version would look like. Now we have the Marvel version, only available to

With Free Comic Book Day several weeks away, now it's time to find out... the books you won't be getting. We already know that, after a cease-and-desist