SHADOWGRAM NEWS UPDATE # 319
May 18, 2014
Hello, Dark Shadows Fan,
ShadowGram (SG), The Official Newsletter & News Source for Dark Shadows (DS), announces the following key breaking news in this Official DS News Online Update "bulletin."
**** SG PREMIERE ANNOUNCEMENT:
FANS’ ASSISTANCE REQUESTED –
SEEKING ORIGINAL COLOR 1971 -1972
DARK SHADOWS NEWSPAPER COMIC STRIPS
Hermes Press asks SG to please announce the following.
“Hermes Press, which recently has published deluxe hard-cover, commemorative editions reprinting the original 1968-1976 Dark Shadows Gold Key / Whitman Comic Books, currently is preparing a new volume dedicated to the 1971-1972 DS daily newspaper comic strip series, including the Sunday panels in full color.
“At the time, the strips were published in numerous city newspapers nationwide, with black-and-white panels Monday-Saturday and extended full-color panels in Sunday editions. They told separate original stories based on the daytime show.
“In association with Dan Curtis Productions, Hermes is looking for complete copies of the COLOR Dark Shadows comics, covering the final 4 months of publication dates spanning November 14, 1971 through March 4, 1972.
“DS fans or comic strip collectors who may be able to provide some of the needed Sunday clippings will be acknowledged in the upcoming book with a ‘Special Thanks’ and receive a complete set of all the Hermes Press Dark Shadows books,”
Please contact
info@hermespress.com to help with this special project.
---- NOTE: Over the past 3 years, Dynamite Comics also has released 20+ issues of new full-color DS comic books with new stories and story arcs, under 3 different imprints: “Dark Shadows,” “Dark Shadows Year One” (which expanded on the TV series’ 1795-96 storyline), and a Dark Shadows / Vampirella crossover.
To obtain copies of these books, please look to comic book / collectible stores, online retailers, and other related sources, or go to:
www.dynamite.com and
go to "store" and enter "Dark Shadows."
Marcy Robin
