The breakout comic book characters of the year are taking over the covers of your favorite Marvel titles this November! That’s right True Believer, Rocket Raccoon & Groot Variants are coming, featuring some of the best and brightest talents in the industry! Not only will you get to see so many great artists putting their own spin on Rocket & Groot, but 20 of your favorite Marvel comics will feature these one-of-a-kind variants depicting some of the most classic of covers!
Marvel is enlisting its biggest Super Heroes to bring added awareness of the problems of bullying. This October, Marvel will join forces with STOMP Out Bullying, the leading national bullying and cyberbullying prevention organization for kids and teens in the U.S., to launch a special variant cover program to commemorate National Bullying Prevention Month and support STOMP’s relentless efforts to stop this growing epidemic. Throughout the month of October, the world’s most popular Super Heroes – Captain America, The Avengers, The Guardians of the Galaxy and more — will be featured on all-new variant covers to spotlight both National Bullying Prevention Month and STOMP’s Blue Shirt Day World Day of Bullying Prevention. The variant issues will be available exclusively at comic shops.
STOMP Out Bullying focuses on reducing and preventing bullying, cyberbullying, sexting and other digital abuse, educating against homophobia, racism and hatred, decreasing school absenteeism, and deterring violence in schools, online and in communities across the country. It teaches effective solutions on how to respond to all forms of bullying. It educates kids and teens in school and online, provides help for those in need and at risk of suicide, raises awareness, conducts peer mentoring programs in schools, creates and distributes public service announcements by noted celebrities, and engages in social media campaigns. An additional focus educates parents on how to keep their children safe and responsible online.
In 2008, the organization created Blue Shirt Day World Day of Bullying Prevention to signify the importance and bring awareness to the fight to stop bullying and cyberbullying. Taking place the first Monday of October – this year on October 6, 2014 – Blue Shirt Day World Day of Bullying Prevention is designed as a sign of solidarity against bullying by having kids, teens and adults wear blue and make that the day that bullying prevention is heard around the world.
The following comic books, on-sale in October, will feature special STOMP Out Bullying variant covers:
Marvel has released a first look at Legendary Star-Lord #3 – the next issue in the hit new series from the fan-favorite creative team of Sam Humphries and Paco Medina! On the run across the cosmos – Peter Quill has landed in the clutches of the Badoon! Not really a great showing for the legendary space outlaw. Not to mention sharing a cell with a Spartax criminal and a Badoon child are not his idea of a good time. Luckily Peter’s got an ace up his sleeve – and her name is Kitty Pryde! But how? She’s on Earth! Wait and see, True Believer! Plus – who is the mysterious crime boss known as Mr. Knife and what does he want with the Legendary Star-Lord? Strap in and blast off for another out of this world issue when Legendary Star-Lord #3 hits comic shops and digital devices this September!
LEGENDARY STAR-LORD #3 (JUL140639)
Written by SAM HUMPHRIES
Art & Cover by PACO MEDINA
Variant Cover by DUSTIN NGUYEN (JUL140640)
FOC 8/11/14, ON-SALE 09/03/14
The breakout comic book characters of the year are taking over the covers of your favorite Marvel titles this November! That’s right True Believer, Rocket Raccoon & Groot Variants are coming, featuring some of the best and brightest talents in the industry! Not only will you get to see so many great artists putting their own spin on Rocket & Groot, but 20 of your favorite Marvel comics will feature these one-of-a-kind variants depicting some of the most classic of covers!
