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Press Release 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.

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Press Release 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.

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Press Release Hermes Press launches its original comic book line in Spring 2012 with Sparrow and Crowe: The Demoniac of Los Angeles, the spin-off of the successful Wormwood audio drama podcast. Dark, suspenseful, funny, and action-packed, Sparrow and Crowe promises to kick the new Hermes Press comics line off in its own inimitable fashion.

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Press Release Hermes Press has signed on with iVerse as a distributor for digital comic book sales, joining other publishers in making the transition to digital distribution. iVerse will not only sell Hermes’ original comics line, such as the upcoming graphic novel series Tails and the upcoming line of single issue comic books, but also reprint editions like Dark Shadows and Land of the Giants, as well as some of their comic strip reprint editions. A first for digital comics, iVerse will also be offering digital versions of Hermes Press’s successful comics art book line.

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Press Release Hermes Press, publisher of the vintage Dark Shadows comic books, will host the only Dark Shadows panel at the New York Comic Con (in the Jacob Javits Center) on Saturday, October 15. Come and sink your teeth into the latest news and announcements regarding the upcoming Tim Burton and Johnny Depp Dark Shadows film, the Hermes Press reprint series of classic Dark Shadows, and also meet two of the stars from the original television series.

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Press Release Here at Hermes Press, we love finding pop culture treasure, and bring it back from memory to reality again.  But when we stumbled across Agent 13, buried in the files of his creator since the late ’80s, we knew we’d hit the esoteric jackpot of coolness. Agent 13 has it all-deathtraps, secret societies, femme fatales, a friend and lovely assistant, and an enigmatic pulp hero-delivered in a hard-hitting style. He’s now coming back from his whispered cult status, the greatest hero no one knows about, except for a few people:

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Press Release Hermes Press unveils two new vintage releases that honor the legendary Milton Caniff at the San Diego Comic-Con-Steve Canyon: The Complete Series, Volume 1 and Male Call: The Complete Newspaper Strips: 1942-1946. Caniff was one of the newspaper cartoonists who inspired the first generation of comic book artists, his inimitable sense of composition and thick ink line on Terry and the Pirates spanned both The Great Depression and World War II. Caniff later continued to define the adventure strip with Steve Canyon.

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Press Release Hermes Press is gearing up to launch original graphic novels and comic books, and is looking for the right talent! We’ll be doing our first ever portfolio review, for pencilers and inkers only, at the San Diego Comic-Con for three days: Thursday in room PR A from 10 AM to 12 PM Saturday in room PR B from 3 PM to 5 PM Sunday in room PR B from 10 AM to 12 PM

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Press Release The award-winning Lions, Tigers and Bears is officially back and Hermes Press has it! The further adventures of Joey Price and his furry pals are now coming out in graphic novel form, with an all-ages approach that is perfect for libraries and every kid’s bookshelf. Along with reprinting the first two Lions, Tigers and Bears mini-series in graphic novel form, Hermes launches a new series with Volume 3: Greybeard’s Ghost!

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