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BUCK ROGERS the first, best, original Sci-Fi hero is back in an all-new comic book series from Hermes Press with art and stories by Howard Chaykin.
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SOLICITATIONS: Hermes Press announces Mike Hammer collection
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Hermes Press, home of classic archival comic strip reprints including Buck Rogers, The Phantom, Roy Rogers, Brenda Starr, Milton Caniff’s Male Call, Frank Robbins’ Johnny Hazard, and Smokey Stover now adds America’s most iconic hard-boiled detective, Mickey Spillane’s From the Files of… Mike Hammer.
TEASER: Mike Hammer comes to comics
Hermes Press has announced that it is reprinting the Mike Hammer newspaper series from the 1950s. The first collection arrives in September 2012.
Pittsburgh Comicon’12: Hermes Press sponsors event
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Hermes Press, pop art book publisher of such classic comic strip and comic book reprints as Buck Rogers, The Phantom, Brenda Starr, and Dark Shadows is sponsoring the 2012 Pittsburgh Comicon, Western Pennsylvania’s premier venue for popular culture. Since Hermes Press is the region’s only comic book and strip publisher “it seemed perfect that we should sponsor this show,” observed publisher Daniel Herman. Herman continued that, “we’ve been publishing pop culture art books and classic comic book and strip reprints for over a decade and it just seemed to make sense for us to show everybody in our neck of the woods what we do.”
SOLICITATIONS: Classic Dark Shadows titles arrive in May
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The big screen version of Dark Shadows will arrive on May 11 and the perfect companions to revisit the original, classic Dark Shadows TV show are here now from Hermes Press! In anticipation of the new film Hermes Press is releasing Dark Shadows: The Best of the Original Series ISBN 978-1-61345-016-1 ($49.99 full color, 336 page, the best twelve original Dark Shadows comic book stories) with art by Joe Certa and stories by D. J. Arneson and Arnold Drake together with the illustrated novella Dark Shadows Interrupted Voyage authored by D. J. Arneson with art by Joe Certa ISBN 978-1613450192 ($8.99, full color, 128 pages).
BUSINESS: Alissa Ross named Publicity Director at Hermes Press
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Alissa Ross, a senior graphic designer at Hermes Press, has been appointed Publicity Director at the company, one of the industry’s leading pop culture art book publishers.
SOLICITATIONS: Brenda Starr collected this week
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Brenda Starr is back! Brenda Starr, the world’s most famous fictional reporter and a role model to scores of aspiring female journalists, whose run in syndicated newspapers officially ended on January 2, 2011, is available again, now in a deluxe full color hardcover book from Hermes Press.
SOLICITATIONS: Hermes Press announces I Spy collection
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I SPY, the groundbreaking espionage show, finds it next mission at Hermes Press. I SPY: The Complete Series reprints all six issues of the Gold Key comics, with stories by the prolific Paul S. Newman and art by Alden McWilliams for the first five issues, and Mike Roy for the sixth.
SOLICITATIONS: Johnny Hazard collection arrives this week
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Johnny Hazard, Frank Robbins’ daring aviator, flies into comic shops tomorrow! This one has been a long time coming to reprint form, as Hazard takes his place alongside other Hermes Press reprint editions like The Phantom, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, and Milt Caniff’s Male Call with Johnny Hazard, Volume One-The Newspaper Dailies: 1944-1946.
NYCC’11: Hermes Press to publish Smokey Stover
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Hermes Press adds to their slate of classic comic strip reprint editions with Smokey Stover and Spooky the Cat. Comic strip and comic book historian extraordinaire Jerry Robinson described cartoonist Bill Holman (in the pages of The Comics) as “an outrageous punster and wordsmith,” and Holman’s wit is on display in the volume due out in 2012.
NYCC’11: Hermes Press to publish Gray Morrow’s Orion
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In their long-standing mission to excavate rare comics treasures, Hermes Press is reprinting the entirety of legendary artist Gray Morrow’s Orion from the pages of Heavy Metal magazine. Orion is Morrow’s 1978 sword and sorcery masterpiece about an Errol Flynn-like swashbuckling hero who battles evil on a strange and mystical world. The project has been a mission of Hermes Press’s Christopher Irving for a decade, starting from his friendship with Morrow’s widow, Pocho Morrow.
SOLICITATIONS: Hermes Press to publish The Drawn Word
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As part of their new digital initiative, Hermes Press announced today The Drawn Word, a comic magazine edited by Hermes Publicity Coordinator Christopher Irving, writer and co-founder of Graphic NYC.