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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 Kuzma, Sebastian Piccione and Neil Jorge will be signing and sketching on Free Comic Book Day at Famous Faces & Funnies in West Melbourne, Florida, giving away ten free[...]

And they're extending Free Comic Book Day festivities over four days… and into the night. On Thursday May 3rd the store will sponsor the world's largest Taco Tour with superhero guides to helppeople find ove thirty local restaurants serving $2 tacos all night, followed by a party and a midnight screening of The Avengers, for which Double Midnight[...]

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 bus, then two tube trains into Central London with a gaggle of young girls to raid the comic shops of London like they are giving[...]

Aliens Vs Predator, Robocop Vs Terminator… But it appears that for Free Comic Book Day a week from tomorrow, there are doing something very special. The cover is a clue. I thought it was just a play on words, an intriguing title, Buffy vs Vampires in Space or something Could it actually be something  a lot more literal? Buffy Vs Aliens[...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q4Od9A2Nto[/youtube] Mike Wellman, the manager of The Comic Bug in Manhattan Beach, California, takes us through all the Free Comic Book Day titles for 2012 Well, most of them Even the ones he hasn't actually heard of. Like the Moomins The Moomins for goodness sake[...]

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[...]

Every year Jetpack Comics hosts a Free Comic Book Day Festival, across Rochester in New Hampshire Thousands attend what has to be one of the largest Free Comic Book Day events in the country. The event starts in Jetpack Comics at 10am but then extends across the town with many other businesses giving away comic books[...]

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. Signing talent includes Ed Brubaker, Steven Niles, Josh Fialkov, Jim McCann, Kyle Higgins, Rodin Esquejo, Sonia Oback, Gabriel Hardman and Corinna Bechko, Cbisy and Shane Houghton and Matt Whitlock. Theor Free Comic[...]

IMAX cinemas will promote Free Comic Book Day 2012 to their email subscribers and on their website, as well as tweeting, Faceboking and the like, in association with their Marvel Marathon running before the midnight release of Avengers the day before Free Comic Book Day. Larry's Comics of Lowell, Massachusetts, will have David Petersen, creator of[...]

On May the fifth this year, it will be Free Comic Book Day On which most comic shops around the English speaking world will be giving away comic books to all and sundry But some stores will be doing even more… Third Eye Comics will be opening their expanded store in Annapolis, Maryland Moving to the[...]

Just like how Greensboro City Council of North Carolina have just voted unanimously to nickname the city "Comic Book City, USA" on Free Comic Book Day each year Just for the day, mind you May the 5th this year. Local comic shop Acme Comics (as nominated in the Retailer category in the Eisners for its fourth[...]

Marvel Comics are running a promotion with comic book stores and cinema chains, to try and make the link with The Avengers movie and their offerings for Free Comic Book Day. On May 3rd, AMC cinemas across the US will be running The Ultimate Marvel Movie Marathon, screening Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Hulk, Captain America[...]

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 of stores, trying to get their free comics to fifty shops in the magic day. Unlike Free Comic Book Day comics, the retailers don't actually have to pay[...]

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 who will be getting free comics. Because this year Earthworld Comics will be collecting and accepting donations of comics from fans for the BOOKS FOR TROOPS , an organization founded[...]

Antarctic Press complied with the order, and the comic disappeared from the shelves, while the two negotiated. But they'd already lined up a Diary Of A Zombie Kid Free Comic Book Day title, and most presumed that this would vanish as well. But while other titles from other publishers were dropped for a variety of reasons, Diary[...]

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[...]

This, of course, can trigger fan outrage as they feel that a company isn't leveling with their fans, who then perceive this as disrespect when all the company is doing is trying to honor their contract. So we come to Boom's announced Free Comic Book Day book this year, Dune, based on the best-selling series of[...]

Now we have Nightwing symbolically beating up the Marvel Universe. The Launch Of Bendis And Hitch's Age Of Ultron | Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors 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 retailers[...]

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 retailers who order vast quantities It's intended to be used in mailshots or attached inside local newspapers, or given away in mass drives, each copy featuring the details of[...]

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 and the compliance of Antarctic Press, it's doubtful you'll get betting the Free Comic Book Day version of Diary Of A Zombie Kid However the book is still listed[...]

It's getting closer and closer to Free Comic Book Day … in that there's only three and a bit months to go.  But it's a lot closer to the point when retailers hand in their orders to take part in the annual promotion that sees stores give out hundreds of free comics to their customers[...]

Lollipops, T-shirts, comic boxes, temporary tattoos, bookmarks, wristbands, stickers, buttons, there's a lot more to Free Comic Book Day than Free Comic Books… here are some of the items that may be available in your local store on May 5th.           Lollipops, T-shirts, comic boxes, temporary tattoos, bookmarks, wristbands, stickers, buttons, there's a lot more to[...]

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool told you about the DC Comic Retailer Customizable Free Comic Book Day title for 2012, where retailers can list their details and offers on the front cover, earlier in the week. Well now we know a few more details. Unlike last year's Green Lantern equivalent which was not taken up by many,  retailers will[...]

DC's New 52 Free Comic Book Day title, as well as showing off the best of the relaunched titles, will also offer retailers the chance to show themselves off too. Customizable covers have become quite the rage, wth Avatar, IDW and Marvel offering multiple versions of covers for specific retailers who qualify. But this time the cover[...]

Earlier this week we looked at the Gold Titles for next year's Free Comic Book Day, including a Mouse Guard hardcover, an Image 20th anniversary book and Transformers #80.5 relaunching the Marvel Transformers continuity. Today, we see the remaining thirty-five Silver titles for Free Comic Book Day, with a smaller distribution and a wider range of[...]

Yesterday, we told you about Valiant's Free Comic Book Day offering for next year Well now (through hush hush sources that you'd never guess) I can tell you that Boundless/Avatar will have their first FCBD offering for May, Lady Death: The Beginning. Written by Brian Pulido and Mike Wolfer, drawn by Marcelo Mueller with a cover[...]

Valiant Entertainment is to launch in May 2012 with Free Comic Book Day, and a free comic featuring stories from X-O Manowar, Bloodshot and Harbinger, along with a slate of issue ones of the new Valiant comics The cover above features X-O Manowar by Jelena Kevic-Djurdjevic. Valiant Entertainment is to launch in May 2012 with[...]

Free Comic Book Day have announced the 2012 Gold level of free comic books, that will be available in all participating stores on May the 5th next year. DC seem to want to show off all the 52 books, Boom have Peanuts and Adventure Time on a flipbook, Archaia have a 48 page Mouse Guard original[...]

This is the normal Free Comic Book Day in the first half of 2012, not the new Hallowe'en Free Comic Book Day for one year's time. But Justice League bestselling artist Jim Lee will be designing the official shirt. I would be surprised to see a little Justice League in the DC Free Comic Book Day publications. I[...]

It is also half a year from Free Comic Book Day This year, Diamond have been promoting a bunch of cheap mini-comics for kids from a number of publishers, to give or sell cheap to kids duting Hallowe'eb season. But next year, it goes big time At the New York Comic Con Retailer's Breakfast, courtesy of[...]