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Ardden Entertainment is excited to announce that two Flash Gordon books hit comic stores today! The first is an all-new, all-exciting tale, Flash Gordon: The Vengeance of Ming, in which the evil despot of Mongo attacks Earth! And if you’re wondering why Ming is so pissed off, you can check out the collected edition of Flash Gordon: Invasion of The Red Sword, in which Earth forces invade Mongo! There’s a whole lotta invading goin’ on! These titles lead up to Ardden’s final Flash Gordon story, King Of The Impossible, which will be out in a couple of months.

There’s a lot of other exciting stuff going on at Ardden, including the continued roll out of the Atlas line of superstars and the recent release of Mix Tape #1, a love letter to indie rock of the 1990s and a book that has garnered incredible critical praise. You can find out about this and more, all at www.Ardden-Entertainment.com and www.Atlas-Comics.com

Ardden jas another new series, The Devil Is Due In Dreary, a great modern western horror/thriller. The talented creators of this book are running a Kickstarter campaign and they need your support to reach their goal! Time is running out so please check out their very cool campaign and consider being a backer at:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/642289647/the-devil-is-due-in-dreary-issues-2-4

By supporting them, not only will you be help complete a comic book but you will also be able to get great rewards such as:

Personally signed copies of the comic
An advance, personally signed copy of the trade paperback (all four issues of the comic in on bound book with bonus pages!)
A personal sketch from our cover artist Alex Sanchez!
Original artwork from the comic book (one-of-a-kind original pages from our penciller Allan Jefferson!)
Get yourself sketched into issue # 4 as a character – yes you as a character in the comic book!
Get your own page is the trade paperback – you can use this for anything you like but it will be your page in the published book!

New From Ardden Entertainment and Atlas Comics – Atlas Unified and Knightgail

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Brett

Official Press Release

To start off this exciting new year, Ardden Entertainment and Atlas Comics are proud to announce that two fantastic new comics are now in comic book stores across the country (and the world!).

ATLAS UNIFIED #1

The Grim Ghost, Phoenix, Wulf the Barbarian, and Detective Sam Lomax join forces for the first time in 35 years in a historical Atlas crossover event! Which enemy could make these Atlas Heroes set aside their differences, forge an alliance, and risk everything to defeat it? (Ships with 4 different covers, including a wraparound!)

KNIGHTINGAIL #2

Forester princess Eloa and friends Kaeli and Daniel explore a hidden cave and are confronted by a Dracon named Bellua, who reveals a magical scroll that foretells an upcoming invasion that can only be stopped by reuniting all the tribes. Regrettably, invasion is closer than any of them imagined!

(Check out this great review! http://www.firstcomicsnews.com/?p=36055)

Visit us at www.Ardden-Entertainment.com

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CBLDF Members Get A Discount At Geppi Entertainment Museum in Baltimore!

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Brett

Official Press Release

SPECIAL CBLDF SAVINGS ON “ATLAS AT LAST” EXHIBIT OPENING EVENING
March 11, 2011 – 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Geppi’s Entertainment Museum in Baltimore

“Atlas At Last” is a visual tour of the short-lived (or so it seemed) Atlas-Seaboard line of comics, which was originally published in 1974-1975 by Martin Goodman, the man who founded Marvel Comics. Although it only managed a combined output of 72 color comic books and black & white magazines, saw its longest-lived title reach only four issues, and included at least a few thinly disguised versions of established characters, the Atlas line stuck in the minds of collectors, dealers and pop culture historians.

The line featured a mix of strong concepts executed by both established and up-and-coming creators, and for a few months it stood toe-to-toe with industry giants Marvel Comics and DC Comics.

And then they were gone.

And now, like a familiar comic character who’s been declared definitively dead, Atlas is returning after a hiatus of just about 36 years with the March 2, 2011 debut of Wulf #1, written by 30 Days of Night creator Steve Niles and his Spawn: The Dark Ages collaborator, artist Nat Jones. At the helm is Goodman’s grandson, Jason Goodman.

The first 50 fans who attend opening night will receive a SWAG bag with goodies including The Grim Ghost #0, Phoenix #0, all three new Atlas #1 issues (Wulf #1, The Grim Ghost #1 and Phoenix #1) and a T-shirt from Atlas and Ardden Entertainment, as well as the C2E2 Exclusive Variant Cover edition of Comic Book Marketplace #1 (limited to 400 copies and featuring Howard Chaykin’s unpublished original cover for The Scorpion #2 in color for the first time).

Also included in the swag are the deluxe hardcover book Pop Culture With Character: A Look Inside Geppi’s Entertainment Museum, a copy of The Overstreet Hall of Fame, and a copy of the latest Baltimore magazine (great for finding the hotspots and awesome food around town).

And speaking of food, the goody bags will also include a coupon for complementary beer with purchase of any food purchase at Baltimore’s Luna del Sea or Tony’s Hookah Lounge, along with cool information from the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, The Hero Initiative, the Comic Book Collecting Association, ComicLink, Hake’s Americana & Collectibles, and more.

Admission for this special evening is $20.00.
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Atlas Comics Returns

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Brett

Jason Goodman, the grandson of Marvel founder Martin Goodman, is bringing back Atlas Comics. The comic company was originally launched in the 1970’s by his grandfather to compete with Marvel.

From ICV2:

According to industry legends Martin Goodman sold Marvel to Cadence Publications in the early 1970s with the understanding that Goodman’s son Chip would stay on as editorial director of Marvel. When Stan Lee, with Cadence’s backing, showed Chip the door, Martin Goodman launched what historians now refer to as Atlas/Seaboard Comics to distinguish it from the 1950s Atlas Comics, which was one of the precursor companies to Marvel Comics. When Goodman sold Marvel, he kept the rights to the Atlas name, and dusted it off in the mid-1970s to compete with Marvel and DC.

It is believed a formal announcement will occur at New York Comic Con, but the company claims to have the rights to hundreds of characters.

Deadline Hollywood is reporting that Brendan Deneen, a former development executive for Scott Rudin and Harvey Weinstein, who is now an editor at St. Martin’s Press/Macmillan, is “spearheading the relaunch,’ and comics industry veteran, J.M. DeMatteis will be the new company’s EIC.

The first two titles that the new company are Phoenix and The Grim Ghost.