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Ironman & Wolverine Anime on G4

Marvel’s website, linked below, has announced that G4 will be airing the Ironman & Wolverine Anime series exclusively this July.  Voice casting for Ironman is Adrian Pasdar and for Wolverine is Milo Ventimiglia.  The article also states that G4 will be airing the Blade & X-Men Anime series later this year as well.  This makes it one step closer for these series to be made available through Blue Ray/DVD.  Librarians that keep track of the anime collection in their library will want to keep their ear to the ground for when these become available for purchase.

http://marvel.com/news/story/15556/iron_man_and_wolverine_anime_casting_news

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New Daredevil Movie

ICv2 is reporting that 20th Century Fox is taking another chance with the Daredevil movie rights.  The company has hired David Slade to director the new Daredevil movie.  As in all things dealing with the movie industry things can change on a dime.  If your library has any Daredevil fans you might mention that Fox is looking at this property again.  Jump to the full article below.

http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/19633.html

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Hulk #181 Hits High Mark

Another Marvel comic book has made news recently.  The Incredible Hulk #181 has set a sales record for a “Bronze Age” comic book issue.  The significance of Incredible Hulk #181 is that it was the first appearance of Wolverine.  Since his conception Wolverine has been very popular with fans and continues to be to this day.  ICv2 reports that this issue sold for $150,000.  Follow the link to read the brief article.

http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/19631.html

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Spidey Setting Records

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

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First Look at X-Men Anime Characters

Let your library patrons that are interested in comic books and Japanese anime know about the link provided below.  Marvel’s site has posted an article and has a couple of images from the new X-Men Anime series that will be coming out in Japan.  When this series comes to U.S. shores libraries will need to consider purchasing this to have a great tie-in with United States comic books and Japanese Anime.  You could use this to create new fans for both formats.

http://marvel.com/news/story/15331/first_look_x-men_anime_character_art

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Ironman 3 News

ICv2, linked below, is reporting that Shane Black will not only direct, but write Ironman 3.  The article says that Marvel wasn’t happy with Ironman 2’s storyline.  Therefore, they are at this time having Ironman take on real life type situations instead of the next guy in a super-suit.

http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/19566.html