Media Release -- (BALTIMORE, MD) — (June 17, 2009) — Every month, PREVIEWS, the comic shop’s catalog, offers exclusive items you can only find at comic book specialty shops and other fine specialty retailers served by Diamond Comic Distributors.
Showcasing items shipping in September and beyond, July’s catalog has a variety of PREVIEWS Exclusives (PX), including:
• Marvel Minimates PX Infinity Gauntlet Box Set (Item Code: JUL091429, $15.99 MSRP): With this set, Diamond Select Toys presents four of the key characters from Marvel Comics’ popular The Infinity Gauntlet mini-series – Drax the Destoyer, Adam Warlock, Mephisto, and the Titan Thanos. Designed and sculpted by Art Asylum, each Minimate features 14 points of articulation as well as removable and interchangeable parts and accessories.
• Battlestar Galactica PX Mini-Flyers (Item Code: JUL091424, $14.99 MSRP): Fans of the sci-fi series Battlestar Galactica (BSG) have long been able to pick up their favorite characters as small, fun figures thanks to Diamond Select Toys’ BSG Minimates. Now they can enhance their collections with Diamond Select’s new mini-flyers, the Scar Cylon Raider and Battle Damage Mark VII Viper. Each comes with its own exclusive BSG Minimate.
• Strangers in Paradise Omnibus PX Limited Edition (Item Code: JUL090640; $11.95 MSRP): Abstract Studios presents the definitive collection of creator Terry Moore’s Eisner Award-winning series dealing with strange love triangles and friendships. Twin 1,074 page hardcovers contain every page of the Strangers in Paradise story, while a third hardcover collects all 15 years of color covers. All three books come in a beautiful slipcase. Supply is limited to 1,250 signed and numbered units worldwide, making this a true collector’s item.
Additionally, every month Titan Publishing solicits an expanse of magazines available in PREVIEWS Exclusive editions as well as their regular Newsstand versions.
Those PX editions solicited in July include Heroes Magazine #12 (Item Code: JUL091199; $9.99 MSRP), Star Trek Magazine #21 (Item Code: JUL091201; $6.99 MSRP), and Star Wars Insider #112 (Item Code: JUL091203; $5.99 MSRP).
July PREVIEWS hits shelves at your local comic book specialty shop on June 24, so stop in and pick up your copy to learn more about these items and a host of other great comic books, graphic novels, toys and more pop culture products coming soon. To ensure accuracy when placing your order, please provide your local retailer with the Item Codes provided. Find a shop near you now by visiting www.comicshoplocator.com.
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