Media Release -- This coming August, Vampirella and Barnabas Collins meet for the first time EVER in Dark Shadows/Vampirella #1! Written by the acclaimed Marc (Manhunter) Andreyko and drawn by Patrick Berkenkotter, with a cover by Fabiano Neves, this will be a cross-over to remember! Be sure to pick up Dark Shadows/Vampirella #1 this coming August!

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Media Release -- Hermes Press, publisher of the classic Dark Shadows comic books, starring Jonathan Frid, who unexpectedly passed away on April 13, has announced a special Memorial Panel at the Pittsburgh Comicon on Saturday from 2-3PM. Frid, who helped frighten an entire generation of teenagers during the late 1960s, created the role of the iconic vampire Barnabas Collins.

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Media Release -- The big screen version of Dark Shadows will arrive on May 11 and the perfect companions to revisit the original, classic Dark Shadows TV show are here now from Hermes Press! In anticipation of the new film Hermes Press is releasing Dark Shadows: The Best of the Original Series ISBN 978-1-61345-016-1 ($49.99 full color, 336 page, the best twelve original Dark Shadows comic book stories) with art by Joe Certa and stories by D. J. Arneson and Arnold Drake together with the illustrated novella Dark Shadows Interrupted Voyage authored by D. J. Arneson with art by Joe Certa ISBN 978-1613450192 ($8.99, full color, 128 pages).

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Media Release -- Hermes Press continues to celebrate the vampires, werewolves, ghosts, witches-and more- of Collinwood with their series of Dark Shadows reprint books.

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via The Blog From Another World

Take a look at recent popular vampire epics, like Twilight, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and The Vampire Diaries, and ponder their essential elements. Conflicted vampires? Check. Steamy human-vampire romance? Check. Ancestors who conveniently look just like their modern-day counterparts? Check. (Well, maybe just The Vampire Diaries.) You might never have watched the seminal 1960s vampire soap opera, Dark Shadows, but if you love any of today's vampire tales, you're already a fan and just don't know it yet.

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Media Release -- Hermes Press has signed on with iVerse as a distributor for digital comic book sales, joining other publishers in making the transition to digital distribution. iVerse will not only sell Hermes' original comics line, such as the upcoming graphic novel series Tails and the upcoming line of single issue comic books, but also reprint editions like Dark Shadows and Land of the Giants, as well as some of their comic strip reprint editions. A first for digital comics, iVerse will also be offering digital versions of Hermes Press's successful comics art book line.

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Media Release -- Hermes Press, publisher of the vintage Dark Shadows comic books, will host the only Dark Shadows panel at the New York Comic Con (in the Jacob Javits Center) on Saturday, October 15. Come and sink your teeth into the latest news and announcements regarding the upcoming Tim Burton and Johnny Depp Dark Shadows film, the Hermes Press reprint series of classic Dark Shadows, and also meet two of the stars from the original television series.

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Media Release -- There's a big Dark Shadows convention in Brooklyn, New York the 19th through 21st, and Hermes Press will be there, with our first two volumes of Dark Shadows: The Complete Original Series and the brand new Dark Shadows Story Digest. Since we're only going to be there Friday and Saturday, we've decided to make it up to all the DS fans by offering The Complete Series editions at 25% off-taking them from $50 to $37.

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