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DARK HORSE ANNOUNCES SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON 2013 SCHEDULE!

July 10, 2013, MILWAUKIE, OR - It's here! San Diego Comic-Con 2013 is upon us, and Dark Horse Comics is delivering a full slate of signings from your favorite creators!

DARK HORSE SIGNINGS

IMPORTANT: All giveaway, limited edition, and exclusive items are available while supplies last. Free prints, comics, or posters are provided for each signing while supplies last. You may bring items to sign or purchase them at the Dark Horse Store or Dark Horse Exclusives Store. We reserve the right to restrict the nature and/or limit the number of items to be signed, at our discretion. Signing lines will be closed as needed.

Ticketed signings are noted below. Drawings for these events will begin at show opening the day before and day of each signing. Come to the Dark Horse booth early for your best chance to get a ticket.

Events are subject to change. Some restrictions apply. Please see Dark Horse staff for details.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 17

Special Preview Night Signings for Exclusives and Limited Editions

#SDCC: DARK HORSE LAUNCHES ON INSTAGRAM

FOLLOW @DARKHORSECOMICS FOR CHANCES TO WIN EXCLUSIVES!

JULY 11, 2013, Milwaukie, OR - Dark Horse Comics is hitting San Diego Comic-Con in style this year, with a jam-packed schedule featuring some of the industry's best and most notable talent.

#NotAtComicCon this year? Now you can follow @DarkHorseComics on Instagram as we take you backstage with creators like Kazuo Koike (Lone Wolf and Cub), Joss Whedon (Buffy, Serenity), Felicia Day (The Guild), and then some!

Dark Horse joins the incredibly popular photo- and video-sharing social network app to bring exclusive content to the masses, from shots of international conventions to highly coveted peeks inside Dark Horse's headquarters in Oregon.

Have a favorite comic? Snap a picture and tag it @DarkHorseComics!

At a signing with one of our incredible creators? Take a photo or a video and let us know!

Dark Horse cosplayer? Take a shot and post it!

SDCC: DARK HORSE ANNOUNCES SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON EXCLUSIVES STORE!

June 18, 2013, MILWAUKIE, OR - The largest and most highly anticipated pop culture event of the year is right around the corner, and Dark Horse is bringing you the latest and greatest in exclusive comics and products from Dark Horse Deluxe!

This year at the Dark Horse booth, a dedicated store will be open throughout the convention where fans can purchase these limited and highly collectible products.

Game of Thrones 7-Inch Stark Shield Wall Plaque (Limited Edition of 1,200)
Sculptural replica of Stark shield. Packaged in full-color box. Includes hook for wall mounting.
Price: $30.00
Availability: Two per person, available all days

Last Man Standing Signed Hardcover Book (Limited Edition of 1,000)

DARK HORSE OFFICIALLY UNVEILS THE GAME OF THRONES® WHITE WALKER STATUE!

This highly anticipated collectible featured in Diamond Comics Distributors' September-dated PREVIEWS catalog!

MILWAUKIE, OR, JUNE 17, 2013 - Following its "sneak" debut to the industry at this year's Toy Fair International, Game of Thrones fans have been clamoring for an official release date, and images of HBO® and Dark Horse's White Walker statue.

Arriving at finer comic shops, bookstores, and specialty retailers on December 18, 2013, the White Walker is a hand-painted, numbered limited edition collectible. Each bust is packaged in full-color collector box, will include a numbered certificate of authenticity. Retail price is $124.99.

White Walkers, or the Others, are a fierce mythological race who are seldom seen as they lurk and prey in their land in the frozen north of Westeros. The Wall was constructed ages ago to keep them isolated. This evil creature speaks in cracked tones and brandishes a deadly icy weapon, as immortalized in this beautiful collectible piece.

DARK HORSE DELUXE GETS GRIMM!

Hit NBC TV Show to See Full Product Line from Dark Horse

JUNE 14, 2013, MILWAUKIE, OR - Dark Horse Comics' toys and collectibles imprint, Dark Horse Deluxe, is proud to offer new items based on characters and stories from the hit NBC show Grimm! The Grimm collectibles from Dark Horse are licensed through NBCUniversal Television Consumer Products.

Grimm is a cop drama inspired by the classic Brothers Grimm fairy tales, following Portland homicide detective Nick Burkhardt into a reality he never knew existed. Once he discovers this new world, and his role in it, he has to deal with much more than the usual criminals and investigations. With his partner Hank and ally Monroe (who is also a magical creature called a Blutbad), Nick delves into cases involving bees, bats, bears, and more!

DARK HORSE LAUNCHES ALL-NEW NEWSFEED WITH DAILY REVEALS OF 2013 COMIC-CON EXCLUSIVES!

JUNE 10, 2013, MILWAUKIE, OR - As anticipation for this year's pop culture main event grows, Dark Horse makes the first of many announcements regarding exclusive products for this year's Comic-Con International!

Every day this week, Dark Horse will reveal one item to be sold at this year's convention, exclusively on Dark Horse's all-new NewsFeed!

Up first is what will surely be one of this year's most sought-after items! Continuing in Dark Horse's incredibly successful line of collectibles based on HBO's Game of Thrones comes this limited-edition sculptural replica of the Stark shield!

This seven-inch replica comes with a hook for wall mounting and retails for $30, with a limit of two per person. Produced in an incredibly limited run of only 1,200 pieces, these are sure to go fast!

DARK HORSE DIGITAL GIVES AWAY ONE MILLION FREE COMICS FOR SECOND ANNIVERSARY!

MILWAUKIE, OR, MAY 9 - Now that the dust has settled on Dark Horse Digital's incredibly successful two-year-anniversary promotion, the company is pleased to announce that it gave away a million free digital comics!

As part of the celebration of the second year of the company's digital initiative and proprietary storefront, fifty free single-issue comics were made available for only forty-eight hours. In that time, thousands of fans took advantage of the offer and downloaded their favorite Dark Horse titles, to the tune of a million copies!

"The success of our digital promotion illustrates the growing reach of digital comics, which we believe are an important element in the recent resurgence of physical comic book and graphic novel sales," said Dark Horse's president and founder, Mike Richardson.

Dark Horse Comics launched its standalone comic-reader app and digital store on April 27, 2011, and has received incredible support from the continuously growing digital-comics fan base.

DARK HORSE FREE COMIC BOOK DAY COMICS AVAILABLE THROUGH DARK HORSE DIGITAL!

MAY 6, 2013, MILWAUKIE, OR - If you missed out on picking up your Free Comic Book Day comics at your local comic-book store, you can get them from Dark Horse Digital for a limited time!

Both Mass Effect/Killjoys/R.I.P.D. and Star Wars/Captain Midnight/Avatar: The Last Airbender will be available for free download through Dark Horse Digital starting today.

Dark Horse Digital is available through all modern web browsers and features cloud storage in both the Google Play and Apple Store apps.

DARK HORSE DIGITAL: MAY THE 4TH BE WITH YOU SALE!

A galaxy of Star Wars comics for $30 or $100: reader's choice!

MAY 3, 2013 MILWAUKIE, OR - Dark Horse Comics is joining in on the May the 4th festivities with a very exclusive limited offer to their digital comics readers.

Get blasted into a galaxy far, far away with two amazing May the 4th MegaBundles! One MegaBundle is for devout comics readers, and the other is for the younger Star Wars fan in all of us!

The comic collection places over three thousand pages of Star Wars comics goodness right at your fingertips. It includes some of our most popular Star Wars series, such as Knights of the Old Republic, Blood Ties, Empire, and Dark Times, as well as some of our newest series, such as Dawn of the Jedi, Agent of the Empire, and our smash-hit series simply titled Star Wars, written by comics legend Brian Wood.

A NEW ERA OF HALO® COMICS BEGINS AT DARK HORSE!

One of the most iconic video game franchises in history comes to the number-one publisher of licensed comics!

CHICAGO, IL, APRIL 26 – Dark Horse continues in the tradition of bringing only the biggest and best characters and story lines to comics with the announcement of the Halo: Initiation miniseries, launching in August! This exciting new miniseries will be written by Halo 4 writer and comics veteran Brian Reed, with art by Marco Castiello (Secret Invasion: Front Line, Star Wars: Purge)!

Before she was a supersoldier defending humanity as part of the Spartan-IV program, Sarah Palmer was an ODST - Orbital Drop Shock Trooper - carrying out the most dangerous missions behind enemy lines! See how she became the first Spartan-IV commander in this must-read series for fans of Halo 4 and the Halo franchise!