The Secret Wars may be over, but the battle is just beginning! Today, Marvel is pleased to present your first look at CONTEST OF CHAMPIONS #1 – the brand-new in-continuity ongoing series inspired by the hit mobile game! Written by Al Ewing with art by Paco Medina – enter the Battlerealm, a broken section of space-time where cosmic beings gamble for the ultimate power. Where unwilling pawns from across the Marvel Universe do battle for their very lives, locked in combat with friends, foes and everything in between. Even those long dead are not immune to the Contest. As heroes and villains from various universes are mysteriously transported to Battlerealm, the war is about to begin. To the winners go the ultimate prize – their continued existence. The same cannot be said for the losers. Who will survive….the CONTEST OF CHAMPIONS? Find out this October!
CONTEST OF CHAMPIONS #1 (AUG150731)
Written by AL EWING
Art & Cover by PACO MEDINA
Variant Covers by MARK BAGLEY (AUG150733), SKOTTIE YOUNG (AUG150734),
And LEINIL YU (AUG150735)
Action Figure Variant by JOHN TYLER CHRISTOPHER (AUG150732)
Connecting Variant by RON LIM (AUG150736)
Contest of Champions Game Variant by KABAM w/GABRIEL FRIZZERA (AUG150737)
The Marvel Universe’s American Southwest now has a superhero to call its very own – the mysterious new hero, RED WOLF! Recently seen within the pages of Secret Wars’ 1872, this new hero is suddenly thrust into the new Marvel Universe as its latest righteousness defender no matter what it takes! An outsider and an honest man, Red Wolf is going to need all his wits, and both his fists, to serve and protect this new world from the corrupt organizations that want to control this already stifling landscape of the gritty and harsh American Southwest.
Series writer Nathan Edmondson (Black Widow, Punisher) is joined by artist Dalibor Talajić (Uncanny X-Force, Empire of the Dead) and cover artist Jeffrey Veregge, a member of the Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe based out of Kingston, Washington, who's also of Suquamish and Duwamish decent. Veregge will also be providing consulting when it comes to characterization and design for the new series.
"There's not a character like Red Wolf out there right now," Veregge told Mashableat the time of the series announcement. "As a native, I’m really excited to see that he can do things, he can figure out things and stand with Captain America, and hold his own in this universe. That’s what’s awesome about it: You have all these characters of different nationalities and ethnicities, but it’s not all about their culture. It’s about them being a hero."
There’s something about that harsh terrain of the American Southwest that requires an adaptable, thoughtful, resourceful hero, and that’s Red Wolf all over,” said series editor Jacob Thomas. “He doesn’t have amped up strength or tech, he’s got quick wits, hard fists, and an unshakeable sense of justice. Underestimate him at your own peril.”
This December, the new Marvel Universe gains a new hero who pledges to never let the crushing hands of ruthlessness control those who cannot defend themselves. Red Wolf is here to keep order and maintain peace…no matter the cost.
Experience
the Origin Stories of Gotham City’s Heroes and Villains Along with All-New
Extra Features Before the Series Returns to FOX this Fall for Season 2
With an average of 9.6 million viewers per week, Gothamhas captured and held the
attention of audiences since the premiere episode which delivered FOX’s
highest-rated fall drama debut in 14 years with Adults 18–49. Before the series
returns to FOX for a second season this fall, fans can now enjoy all 22
episodes – plus nearly 2 hours of extras including new featurettes, unaired scenes
and a gag reel – when Warner Bros. Home Entertainment releases Gotham: The Complete First Season
on September 8, 2015. This season’s #2 broadcast drama among men 18-34 will be
available on Blu-rayTM and DVD for $60.10/$59.98 SRP.
Before
there was Batman, there was Gotham City. Everyone knows the name of
Commissioner Gordon, but what of his rise from rookie detective to Police
Commissioner? What did it take to navigate the layers of corruption in Gotham
City, the spawning ground of the world’s most iconic villains? Gotham tells the story of the world’s
most iconic DC Comics Super-Villains and vigilantes from the very beginning,
revealing an entirely new chapter that has never been told. From executive
producer Bruno Heller (The Mentalist,
Rome), this crime drama follows GCPD Detective James Gordon’s rise through
a dangerously corrupt city, while also chronicling the genesis of one of the
most popular DC Comics Super Heroes of our time. Although the crime drama
follows Gordon’s turbulent and singular career, it also focuses on his unlikely
friendship with the young Bruce Wayne – with his mentorship a crucial element in
developing the mythology of Gotham City.
“We
are thrilled to release Gotham: The Complete First Season on
Blu-ray and DVD for fans to explore the unique origin story of Gotham and its
characters” said Rosemary Markson, WBHEG Senior Vice President, Television
Marketing.“With
this release, fans will be able to get acquainted with the early chapters of
their favorite Super Hero prior to the premiere of season two.”
Gotham:
The Complete First Seasonfeatures a star-studded cast including Ben McKenzie (Southland, The O.C.) as Jim Gordon,Donal Logue (Vikings, Sons of Anarchy) as Detective Harvey Bullock, David Mazouz (Touch) as the young Bruce Wayne, Sean Pertwee (Elementary, Event Horizon)as
Alfred Pennyworth, Robin Lord Taylor (The
Walking Dead, Another Earth) as Oswald Cobblepot/Penguin and Jada Pinkett
Smith (HawthoRNe, The Matrix Revolutions)
as Fish Mooney, Also starring Zabryna
Guevara, Erin Richards, Camren Bicondova, Cory Michael Smith, Morena Baccarin, Victoria
Cartagena, Andrew Stewart-Jones and John Doman, the drama series is produced by
Warner Bros. Television. Based on the characters from DC Comics, Gotham is executive produced by Bruno
Heller, Danny Cannon (Nikita, CSI series)
and John Stephens (Gossip Girl).
SPECIAL
FEATURES
§Gotham
Invented: Building Our Gotham
§Gotham
Invented: Paving the Way for the Caped Crusader
§Gotham
Invented: Fractured Villains of Gotham
§Designing
the Fiction
§The
Game of Cobblepot
§Gag
Reel
§Unaired
Scenes
§DC
Comics Night at Comic-Con 2014 Presenting Gotham,
The Flash, Constantine and Arrow
§GOTHAM: The Legend Reborn
§Character
Profiles:
§Detective
Harvey Bullock
§Detective
James Gordon
§Oswald
Cobblepot
§Bruce
Wayne and Alfred Pennyworth
§Fish
Mooney
§Dr.
Leslie Thompkins
§Killer
Character
22 ONE-HOUR EPISODES
Pilot: Extended Version
Selina Kyle
The Balloonman
Arkham
Viper
Spirit of the Goat
Penguin’s Umbrella
The Mask
Harvey Dent
Lovecraft
Rogues’ Gallery
What the Little Bird Told Him
Welcome Back, Jim Gordon
The Fearsome Dr. Crane
The Scarecrow
The Blind Fortune Teller
Red Hood
Everyone Has A Cobblepot
Beasts of Prey
Under the Knife
The Anvil or the Hammer
All Happy Families Are Alike
BASICS
Street
Date:September 8, 2015
Presented
in 16x9 Widescreen Format
Running
Time: Feature:967 min /Enhanced Content:Approx. 151
min.
DVD Standard Features
Price: $59.98
SRP
6 DVD-9s
Language:
English (5.1)
Subtitles:ESDH, Latin
Spanish, French
Blu-ray Features
Price: $60.10 SRP
4-Disc Elite (4 BD-50s)
DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 – English,
Spanish 2.0
Subtitles: ESDH, Latin Spanish,
French
About
DC Entertainment
DC
Entertainment, home to iconic brands DC Comics (Superman, Batman, Green
Lantern, Wonder Woman, The Flash, etc.), Vertigo (Sandman, Fables, etc.)
and MAD, is the creative division charged with strategically integrating across
Warner Bros. and Time Warner. DC Entertainment works in concert with many
key Warner Bros. divisions to unleash its stories and characters across all
media, including but not limited to film, television, consumer products, home
entertainment, and interactive games. Publishing thousands of comic
books, graphic novels and magazines each year, DC Entertainment is one of
the largest English-language publisher of comics in the world.
Warner Bros. Home
Entertainment (WBHE) brings together Warner Bros. Entertainment's home video,
digital distribution and interactive entertainment businesses in order to
maximize current and next-generation distribution scenarios. An industry leader
since its inception, WBHE oversees the global distribution of content through
packaged goods (Blu-ray Disc™ and DVD) and digital media in the form of
electronic sell-through and video-on-demand via cable, satellite, online and
mobile channels, and is a significant developer and publisher for console and
online video game titles worldwide. WBHE distributes its product through third
party retail partners and licensees.
Halloween comes early as “Batman Unlimited: Monster Mayhem” hits the street today (August 18) on Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD and Digital HD from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment.
The first “Batman Unlimited: Monster Mayhem” clip features Batman, Red Robin, Nightwing and Green Arrow assessing the villains infiltration of Gotham City on Halloween night. Roger Craig Smith provides the voice of Batman, alongside Yuri Lowenthal (Red Robin), Will Friedle (Nightwing) and Chris Diamantopoulos (Green Arrow). It includes, as Roger Craig Smith said on Twitter today, "the most hardcore delivery of Happy Halloween EVER."
The second clip spotlights a fight in the Fun House of an abandoned amusement park between Nightwing (Will Friedle) and Scarecrow (Brian T. Delaney).
In Batman Unlimited: Monster Mayhem:
It’s Halloween night in Gotham City and Scarecrow, Clayface, Silver Banshee and Solomon Grundy have hit the streets to stir up trouble! Batman is on the trail of the city’s spookiest villains while, further complicating matters, the clown prince of crime himself, The Joker, is ruling over this mysterious crew of misfit criminals. It’s up to the Dark Knight to stop this gruesome gang before they unleash “digital laughter,” a computer virus that’s part of a diabolical plan to jeopardize all of Gotham City’s vital technology. Batman, Green Arrow, Cyborg, Nightwing and Red Robin must combine forces to battle these baddies and save the city.
TRANSFORMERS: ROBOTS IN DISGUISE – A NEW AUTOBOT MISSION
FIRST TIME ON DVD, BRING HOME THE ADVENTURES FROM CARTOON NETWORK’S TOP-RATED ANIMATED SERIES TRANSFORMERS: ROBOTS IN DISGUISE PRODUCED BY HASBRO STUDIOS
Special Collectible DVD Arrives in Stores Nationwide on October 20, 2015
From Shout! Factory Kids
The lure of TRANSFORMRES saga begins a new chapter as BUMBLEBEE and a team of AUTOBOT action heroes embark on a new mission to protect and save Earth from a new faction of DECEPTICONS. Hasbro Studios’ new top-rated animated series TRANSFORMERS: ROBOTS IN DISGUISE, which airs on Cartoon Network, is the latest installment of TRANSFORMERS franchise and builds on the lore of both the AUTOBOTS and DECEPTICONS. Featuring an all-new animation style, this new hit series is filled with exciting, action adventures and great humor for fans of all age.
On October 20, 2015, Shout! Factory Kids, in collaboration with Hasbro Studios, will release TRANSFORMERS: ROBOTS IN DISGUISE – A NEW AUTOBOT MISSION DVD, featuring five entertaining episodes and special behind-the-scenes bonus content. Packed with unforgettable AUTOBOT and DECEPTICON characters and action adventures, this new collectible DVD delivers fun-filled home entertainment that kids, parents and loyal fans will enjoy! This DVD is priced to own with a suggested retail price of $14.93.
The new mission begins as BUMBLEBEE must step up to be leader in the years after we left the AUTOBOTS in TRANSFORMERS PRIME. Summoned by OPTIMUS PRIME to save Earth from a new DECEPTICON threat, BUMBLEBEE puts his light-hearted mettle to the test after assembling a rouge team of AUTOBOTS action heroes. BUMBLEBEE must balance his job fighting off evil with being equal parts squad leader and coach to a rascally team that needs constant coaxing to learn how to work together. The results are comical when the cool rebel SIDESWIPE, elite guard cadet STRONGARM, bombastic dinobot GRIMLOCK and overly-excited mini-con FIXIT must balance keeping the team together with chasing and capturing their new enemies in each adventure-filled episode.
TRANSFORMERS ROBOTS IN DISGUISE features the voice talent of Will Friedle (Boy Meets World), Darren Criss (Glee), Constance Zimmer (Entourage), Khary Payton (Teen Titans Go!), Mitchell Whitfield (TMNT) and Peter Cullen who voices OPTIMUS PRIME when he makes cameo appearances in this series.
Five action-packed TRANSFORMERS: ROBOTS IN DISGUISE adventures include:
·Pilot, Part 1
·Pilot, Part 2
·Trust Exercises
·More Than Meets The Eye
·W.W.O.D.
Bonus Feature:
A Look Behind-The-Scenes
Total Running Time: Approx. 110 minutes
The TRANSFORMERS: ROBOTS IN DISGUISE series is currently airing on Cartoon Network in the U.S. and on Teletoon in Canada.
About Hasbro Studios
Hasbro Studios is responsible for entertainment brand-driven storytelling for Hasbro across television, film, commercial productions and short-form content. It develops, produces and distributes TV shows based on Hasbro’s world class brands, includingTRANSFORMERS, MY LITTLE PONY, LITTLEST PET SHOP and FAMILY GAME NIGHT. Many of these shows air on Discovery Family Channel and on networks in more than 180 territories globally. Since its formation in 2009, the studio has received nine Daytime Emmy wins.
On the film side, the studio has developed and produced a number of features based on Hasbro’s brands. In addition to partnering with leading studios, the Company intends to make movies based on new and existing Hasbro brands for audiences globally through the Allspark Pictures film label. Films in development or planned for release, include G.I. JOE 3 (Paramount), JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS (Universal & Allspark Pictures), MAGIC: THE GATHERING (21st Century Fox) and an animated feature based on MY LITTLE PONY (Allspark Pictures).
About Shout! Factory
Shout! Factory, LLC is a diversified multi-platform media company devoted to producing, uncovering, preserving and revitalizing the very best of pop culture. Founders Richard Foos,
Bob Emmer and Garson Foos have spent their entire careers sharing their music, television and film favorites with discerning consumers the world over. Shout! Factory’s DVD and Blu-Ray™ offerings serve up feature films, classic and contemporary TV series, animation, live music and comedy specials in lavish packages crammed with extras. Shout’s audio division boasts GRAMMY®-nominated box sets, Broadway cast albums, new releases from storied artists, lovingly assembled album reissues and indispensable “best of” compilations. In addition, Shout! Factory maintains a vast digital distribution network which delivers video and audio content to all the leading digital service providers in North America. Shout! Factory also owns and operates Timeless Media Group, Biograph Records, Majordomo Records, HighTone Records and Video Time Machine. These riches are the result of a creative acquisition mandate that has established the company as a hotbed of cultural preservation and commercial reinvention. Shout! Factory is based in Santa Monica, California. For more on Shout! Factory, visit shoutfactory.com
He’s been called many things, gone by many names, accomplished many heroic deeds. But now, it’s time for a new beginning. This November, the world’s first super hero is back in the game in HERCULES #1! Fan-favorite writer Dan Abnett (Guardians of the Galaxy, Guardians 3000) and artist Luke Ross (Hulk, Secret Avengers) blast out of the gate with an explosive first issue that’ll show the world why he set the bar for heroism in the first place!
Protect the innocent, defend the world, save the day. Olympus’s favorite son is back like you’ve never seen him before! An ancient warrior in the modern day, Hercules battles everything from street-level crime to cosmic scale threats. Whether it’s protecting his block, his city or the entire world – no labor is too big or too small for the mighty Hercules! But a new evil has awoken – one that will push the demi-god to the limit and test his mighty resolve. The world’s first super hero is back in the fight, but will his new lease on life be short lived?
“Hercules is fun, brash and one of Marvel’s more interesting characters because of his connections to both the Avengers as well as ancient Greek mythology,” says series Editor Katie Kubert. “A hero of all eras, he’s trying to reestablish what being a hero means today, and what better place to attempt to do that than NYC with his buddy Gilgamesh at his side? “
Witness the Marvel Universe through the eyes of one of its most powerful warriors, and the heart of a true champion. Ancient hero meets modern day this November in the bombastic debut of HERCULES #1!
Head to Your Local Comic Book Store to Experience the Biggest Launch of the Year!
All-New, All-Different Marvel kicks off in full force this fall, and Marvel is making sure all comic book stores worldwide are armed and ready for the new flagship Marvel title as INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #1 explodes into comic shops on October 7th! You won’t want to miss comic superstar Brian Michael Bendis and red-hot artist David Marquez’s opening salvo in their explosive new ongoing series. And Marvel is ready to make the launch one to remember. In addition to being first in line to purchase INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #1, fans will also be able to receive special items at participating retail stores, including the first piece of the exclusive BUILD YOUR OWN IRON MAN promotional item!
Launching alongside INVINICIBLE IRON MAN #1, the first piece of the BUILD YOUR OWN IRON MAN promotional item will allow fans to assemble their very own Iron Man armor. Based on artist David Marquez’s new armor design, collect all six pieces, launching alongside Invincible Iron Man and five other October Marvel titles, fold and compile your very own Iron Man standing nearly a foot tall!
To ensure these parties are a massive sales success, each retailer opting into the event will receive exclusive INVINCIBLE IRON MAN Party promotional materials. Check your Marvel Mailer for more information on how to opt-in by 8/10 to ensure your store has these items.
“Make no mistake, INVINCIBLE IRON MAN is the flagship title for the new Marvel Universe,” says David Gabriel, Marvel SVP, Sales & Marketing. “Brian and David are exploding out of Secret Wars with an exciting new beginning for the most recognizable super hero on the planet. This one is going to be BIG and we’re backing our retail partners with access to all kinds of promotional materials, exclusive variants, cake toppers and more – everything they need to entice customers to suit up with Tony Stark!”
All qualifying retailers who opt in will receive the following as part of the INVINCIBLE IRON MAN launch:
Invincible Iron Man Invitational Postcards
Invincible Iron Man Build Your Own Iron Man Promo Item Piece 1 of 6
Invincible Iron Man Skottie Young Lithographs
Invincible Iron Man #1 Exclusive Deadpool Sketch Party Variant by Yasmine Putri
Mass media promotion around the launch of Invincible Iron Man and the associated parties
But that’s not all! Retailers who qualify will also be eligible to order the INVINICIBLE IRON MAN #1 Deadpool Party Variant. Everyone loves Tony’s new armor – even the Merc With a Mouth! From rising star Yasmine Putri, fans won’t want to miss this exciting variant only available at the upcoming launch parties.
Strap in and suit up! Prepare for the marquee comic launch of the fall as Brian Michael Bendis and David Marquez armor up and bring you a new Iron Man for a new Marvel Universe. Don’t miss the blockbuster INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #1 – on-sale October 7th !
INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #1 (JUL150696)
INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #1 LAUNCH PARTY OPT-IN (JUL150706)
Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS
Art & Cover by DAVID MARQUEZ
Deadpool Party Variant by YASMINE PUTRI (JUL150710)
Variant Covers by BRUCE TIMM (JUL150700), ADI GRANOV (JUL150702),
SKOTTIE YOUNG (JUL150703)
Action Figure Variant by JOHN TYLER CHRISTOPHER (JUL150704)
Hip Hop Variant by BRIAN STELFREEZE (JUL150699)
Design Variant by DAVID MARQUEZ (JUL150701)
Young Guns Variant Set by DAVID MARQUEZ,
SARA PICHELLI, MAHMUD ASRAR, NICK BRADSHAW
VALERIO SCHITI and RYAN STEGMAN (JUL150705)
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