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The first chapter of Stephen King’s acclaimed horror epic, The Stand: Captain Trips, debuted this month in graphic fiction form and was an instant hit with fans. After a quick sell out at Diamond, Marvel is pleased to announce that they will be going back to the press with The Stand: Captain Trips #1 (of 5) Second Printing Variant! The Stand, which is commonly deemed as King's most popular novel, is a story of Biblical proportions; after a virus produced by the government spreads across the country, destroying the human race, the few survivors left alive must band together and make their final stand! Written by acclaimed scribe Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Secret Invasion: Fantastic Four) and featuring the visually stunning interiors of Eisner-nominated artist, Mike Perkins (Captain America, House of M: Avengers), comes the beginning of the end of the world! Plus, check out the all new variant cover featuring the mind-blowing art of Mike Perkins!
“The Stand is one of the most realistic comics ever released,” gushed Benjamin Birdie of ComicBookResources.Com. “Mike Perkins and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa do a fantastic job of adapting King's work here. The character designs are spot on, and they inhabit the page perfectly.”
Marvel also advises that retailers check their orders for all upcoming issues of The Stand as the series continues to generate mainstream buzz!
Don’t dare miss your second chance to pick up a copy of this year’s most highly anticipated series from the master of horror, Stephen King, in The Stand: Captain Trips #1 (of 5) Second Printing Variant! And don’t forget to check out the next exciting chapter in The Stand: Captain Trips #2 (of 5), on sale next month!
THE STAND: CAPTAIN TRIPS #1 (of 5) SECOND PRINTING VARIANT (AUG088063)
Written by ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SACASA
Pencils & Cover by MIKE PERKINS
Parental Advisory…$3.99
©2008 Stephen King. All rights reserved
FOC—10/02/08, On-Sale—10/22/08
THE STAND: CAPTAIN TRIPS #2 (of 5) (AUG082299)
THE STAND: CAPTAIN TRIPS #2 (of 5) PERKINS VARIANT (AUG082301)
THE STAND: CAPTAIN TRIPS #2 (of 5) SKETCH VARIANT (AUG082300)
Written by ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SACASA
Penciled & Inked by MIKE PERKINS
Cover by LEE BERMEJO
Variant Cover by MIKE PERKINS
Sketch Variant Cover by LEE BERMEJO
Parental Advisory…$3.99
©2008 Stephen King. All rights reserved
On-Sale—10/08/08
Press Release
Marvel is proud to announce the highly-anticipated The Stand: Captain Trips Premiere Hardcover, collecting the first critically-acclaimed graphic fiction adaptation of Stephen King’s seminal novel, will be released EXCLUSIVELY to direct market retailers on March 10th at a special Stand Advance Release Opening at 9pm local time. This hardcover collects the entire The Stand: Captain Trips limited series by the superstar creative team of writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Secret Invasion: Fantastic Four, Angel: Revelations),Eisner-nominated artist Mike Perkins (Captain America, House of M: Avengers) and Eisner-winning colorist Laura Martin (Astonishing X-Men) with two stunning covers—one by the red-hot Lee Bermejo and a limited edition gatefold cover by Perkins. King fans should know that both editions are available ONLY in comic shops across the country, and through online comics and collected editions sellers.
In the tradition of Civil War and Secret Invasion, The Stand: Captain Trips Premiere HC will debut amid a flurry of mainstream and hobby market press, with Marvel providing retailers an array of complimentary promotional tools.
“Marvel is excited to present this unique opportunity to our partners in the direct market who’ve helped make The Stand such a success,” explained David Gabriel, Marvel Senior Vice President of Sales. “We appreciate their overwhelming support for The Stand: Captain Trips and want to thank them with the option of either the regular cover or the limited edition gatefold cover.”
It all begins here: the epic apocalyptic battle between good and evil. On a secret army base in the Californian desert, something has gone horribly, terribly wrong. Something will send Charlie Campion, his wife and daughter fleeing in the middle of the night. Unfortunately for the Campion family--and the rest of America--they are unaware that all three of them are carrying a deadly cargo: a virus that will spread from person to person like wildfire, triggering a massive wave of disease and death, prefacing humanity's last stand. Don’t miss the beginning of this epic story in The Stand: Captain Trips Premiere HC!
For more on The Stand, please visit www.marvel.com/thestand or www.stephenking.com. The Stand: Captain Trips Premiere HC will be available through participating comics retailers on March 10th during the special Advance Release Opening, and then available nationwide on March 11th at comic shops and online comics retailers.
Published by arrangement with The Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc. This graphic novel is produced under license from The Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group and Stephen King.
THE STAND: CAPTAIN TRIPS PREMIERE HC (DEC082308)
THE STAND: CAPTAIN TRIPS PREMIERE HC LIMITED EDITION VARIANT (DEC082309)
Written by ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SACASA
Penciled by MIKE PERKINS
Covers by MIKE PERKINS & LEE BERMEJO
Parental Advisory SLC ...$24.99
FOC—01/22/09, On-Sale—3/11/09
It’s here! As trepidation builds, the infectious superflu Captain Trips has ravaged the nation and no one has been spared. Follow along as The Stand: Captain Trips #5 (of 5), by the superstar creative team of Roberto Aguirre Sacasa, Mike Perkins and Laura Martin, barrels to the its epic conclusion and hits stands this week! Slowly but surely, society is beginning to crumble and the long awaited arrival of the Dark Man, the “Devil himself”, Randall Flagg is sure to send rifts throughout the country and chills down your spine. And be sure not to miss the must have stunning sketch variant cover for the issue by Lee Bermejo and the last in Mike Perkin’s connecting variant covers!
Fans and critics agree, this series has been red-hot from the very beginning and a must have for any Stephen King fan!
“The Stand: Captain Trips hits that sweet spot in offering something for both fans of the novel and newcomers.” raves Jesse Schedeen from IGN.com
“Captain Trips continues to be a prime example of an adaptation that respects the source material and makes fantastic use of the comic medium.” – Kyle Posluszny of WeeklyComicBookReview.com
Nothing good can come from the emergence of Randall Flagg. With the world slowly dying around them, what can possibly lie ahead for our protagonists? Find out in the final issue of The Stand: Captain Trips #5 (of 5)!
Marvel Comics and Random House’s Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group have reached an agreement to allow The Stand: Captain Trips, the hardcover graphic novel adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand, to be distributed in the general bookstore market beginning in January 2010. The book was originally released exclusively through comics shops, also known as the direct market, in March after Marvel acknowledged that it did not have permission from the prose book’s original publisher, Doubleday, now a part of Random House, to distribute it to the general bookstores.
While Marvel has declined to go into the details of its agreement to publish a comics version of The Stand, in an interview earlier in the year with PW Comics Week, Ruwan Jayatilleke, Marvel senior v-p, strategic-development & acquisition, and David Gabriel, Marvel senior v-p, sales & circulation, acknowledged the distribution restrictions on Marvel’s license to publish the work. At the time the two outlined elaborate plans to publish the book exclusively through comics shops. Marvel titles are distributed to the book trade by Diamond Book Distributors.