Today is Free Comic Book Day 2008

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Free Comic Book Day is an annual promotional effort by the North American comic book industry to help bring new readers into independent comic book stores. Brainstormed by retailer Joe Field of Flying Colors Comics in Concord CA in his “Big Picture” column in the August 2001 issue of Comics & Games Retailer magazine, it was started in 2002 and is coordinated by the industry’s single large distributor, Diamond Comic Distributors. The next event will be on May 3, 2008. Read the rest of this entry »

Nick Fury - Iron Man

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Colonel Nicholas Joseph “Nick” Fury is a fictional World War II army hero and present-day super-spy in the Marvel Comics universe. Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, Fury first appeared in Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos #1 (May 1963), a World War II combat series that portrayed the cigar-chomping Fury as leader of an elite U.S. Army unit. Read the rest of this entry »