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Marvel’s site has a brief interview with Drake Bell who will be voicing Spider-Man in the new animated series. Disney XD will have Ultimate Spider-Man on its schedule for 2012. Another example of how Disney is trying to get the teen male ratings that they have been anxious for.
http://marvel.com/news/story/16379/drake_bell_meet_the_ultimate_spider-man
Just like with DC, Marvel has signed a deal with Lego to produce playsets and characters based on Marvel Comic Book Characters. The line will be called “Lego Super Heroes Marvel Collection” and will draw from the Avengers, X-Men and Spider-Man titles.
ICv2 is reporting that Marvel is taking a page from DC Comics. Marvel has announced that the major Spider-Man and X-Men titles starting with Amazing Spider-Man #666 will be day and date digital.
Here’s a look at Sony’s new The Amazing Spider-Man film due out July 3, 2012, staring Andrew Garfield. Thanks to ICv2, through YouTube for providing this trailer.
Thanks to ICv2 for posting this trailer of the Batman Live show coming to the U.S. in August 2012. I have to admit it looks better than the Spider-Man Broadway Play.
Marvel is talking about the Ultimate Spider-Man Peter Parker dying in issue #160. Librarians that want to have some talking points with their patrons that enjoy comic books can mention this topic for conversation. This title just like the regular Spider-Man titles has had a clone saga storyline. So don’t be surprised if after a year we hear that the new “unknown” Spider-Man will either be a clone or the original Peter Parker and it was a clone that died. This is the comic book world so something will bring the character back. Make the jump to read the full article.
http://marvel.com/news/story/16138/the_ultimate_super_hero_death
Here is a talking point for librarians to use with your comic book fans. In Ultimate Spider-Man the current storyline is the “Death of Spider-Man”. Marvel’s website is reporting that their will be a new Spider-Man costume and a new character under the mask. Remember when you are talking to your patrons that this storyline is taking place in the Ultimate Universe, not the regular Marvel Universe. Link over to the brief article.
http://marvel.com/news/story/15657/marvel_reveals_new_spider-man
Click on over to Yahoo, below, about Amazing Fantasy #15 selling for a record $1.1 million. This of course is the debut of Spider-Man. If you have any collectors of comic books that come to your libraries this can give you a talking point with them. This will demonstrate, even if you don’t really like the medium, you are interested in your patrons and what their interests happen to be.
http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies.ap.org/spider-man39s-debut-comic-sells-for-1.1-million
Marvel’s site has posted the first look of Spider-Man’s new costume for the upcoming summer movie. Librarians could put this as a screen saver on your Teen/Young Adult computers to draw interest to the movie as well as for your graphic novel collections. Follow the link to the short article.
http://marvel.com/news/story/15102/the_amazing_spider-man_movie_update