Marvel NOW! to include digital copies with Hardcovers

In a move that will surely please fans who collect hardcovers and/ or digital comics, Marvel has announced that their subsequent Marvel NOW! collected HC books will have free digital copies bundled together with them starting this March!

Via their official website, The House of Ideas aims to bring value and digital content at the same time as their top hardcover releases come out, making it quite the incentive to pick up these collected editions and put a digital copy of them on your favorite mobile device!

"Batman: Earth One" Special Preview Edition available free and online

In celebration of the release of The Dark Knight Rises this week in theaters worldwide, DC Comics is giving a treat to fans of the Bat, both comic and digital comic wise! The publisher behind the Caped Crusader is releasing a free comic book preview of the newly released "Batman: Earth One". It will contain the first chapter of the acclaimed original graphic novel, and will also be available digitally via Comixology, DC Comics.com, and other sources. For more info on how to get it online, visit DC Comics.com!


Watch The Dark Knight Rises, which is reviewed here, in theaters and IMAX!

DC Comics releases new Batman digital comic series Legends of the Dark Knight!

Announced in April and finally coming out via digital download, DC Comics has officially unveiled via their official website and blog The Source the schedule for their newest Digital Comic series focusing on Batman, Legends Of The Dark Knight! To be released starting this June 7th and coming out every Thursday, the series will focus on adventures and cases Batman will be solving that is outside of current DC The New 52 comics continuity. The first six chapters are lined up as the following:

June 7 – “The Butler Did It” written by Damon Lindelof with artwork by Jeff Lemire 
June 14 – “All of the Above” written by Jonathan Larsen with artwork by JG Jones 
June 21– “The Crime Never Committed” written by Tom Taylor with artwork by Nicola Scott and Wayne Faucher 
June 28 – “Crisis of Identity” Part 1 written by B. Clay Moore with artwork by Ben Templesmith 
July 5 – “Crisis of Identity” Part 2 written by B. Clay Moore with artwork by Ben Templesmith 
July 12 – “Crisis of Identity” Part 3 written by B. Clay Moore with artwork by Ben Templesmith

Each digital comic will cost $.99, so for more information on how to download these for your mobile device, visit the source post at DC The Source!

Fantastic Four #1 celebrates 50 years!

50 years ago today, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby made history by creating one of the most definitive comic books of all time. On August 8, 1961, Marvel Comics published and released Fantastic Four #1 to the general public, bringing together a ragtag band of heroes who were endowed with powers after being exposed to irradiated cosmic rays in a ill-fated space mission! From then on, Reed Richards, Sue Storm, Johnny Storm, and Ben Grimm would be forever changed, and they would be known respectively as Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman, The Human Torch, and the ever lovin' blue-eyed Thing! Together they were Marvel's First Family... The Fantastic Four!

To celebrate this milestone, Marvel.com has a digital copy of Fantastic Four #1 up for reaping now in their website! Go and visit!

Blackest Night goes on sale for Black Friday!

To commemorate the big sale day after Thanksgiving called Black Friday, DC is giving off a mighty sale in their Digital Comic Book department that no fan who enjoys reading their books should dare miss! The entire Blackest Night saga, written by Geoff Johns and illustrated by Ivan Reis, goes on sale for 24 hours only at the DC Digital Comics Store and the DC and Comixology Apps for a mere $.99 each issue! This 2009-2010 miniseries was one of the biggest events DC has chugged up that not only involved the Green Lantern mythos, but the entire DC landscape as well! The dead have risen, and it's up to Hal Jordan and the rest of the universe to figure out how to combat it and bring light back into the world! For more info, check out the source article over at DC's blog The Source!