Media Release -- Retailers, this month DC launches a new series of promotionally priced comics under the banner "DC Entertainment Essentials"! These issues will reprint the first issues of key titles, plus related pages from the DC Entertainment Essential Graphic Novels 2013 catalogue! At 64 pages for just $1.00 US, they're a great way to get your customers to sample our best-selling, critically acclaimed titles!
These four DCE Essentials titles are solicited in the August Previews for October on sale:
DCE ESSENTIALS: BATMAN #1
Written by SCOTT SNYDER
Art by GREG CAPULLO and JONATHAN GLAPION
Cover by GREG CAPULLO
On sale OCTOBER 2 • 64 pg, FC, $1.00 US • RATED T
A new era began with this first DC Comics—The New 52 BATMAN issue, as the superstar team of writer Scott Snyder and artist Greg Capullo set The Dark Knight on the road to discovering the deadly Court of Owls!
DCE ESSENTIALS: WONDER WOMAN #1
Written by BRIAN AZZARELLO
Art and cover by CLIFF CHIANG
On sale OCTOBER 16 • 64 pg, FC, $1.00 US • RATED T
In this first DC Comics—The New 52 WONDER WOMAN issue, the gods walk among us! Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons, has kept a secret from her daughter all her life – and when Wonder Woman learns who her father is, her life will shatter like brittle clay. Beginning a stunning new direction for Wonder Woman!
DCE ESSENTIALS: THE SANDMAN #1
Written by NEIL GAIMAN
Art by SAM KIETH and MIKE DRINGENBERG
Cover by DAVE McKEAN
On sale OCTOBER 23 • 64 pg, FC, $1.00 US • MATURE READERS
A chapter from the issue that launched the most acclaimed comics series ever is reprinted! Morpheus is introduced when the Order of Ancient Mysteries attempts to summon Death but instead seizes Dream. Freed after 70 years of confinement, Morpheus emerges in the present day and exacts a terrifying vengeance upon his captor…
DCE ESSENTIALS: V FOR VENDETTA #1
Written by ALAN MOORE
Art and cover by DAVID LLOYD
On sale OCTOBER 30 • 64 pg, FC, $1.00 US • MATURE READERS
In a dystopian future London, young Evey Hammond is rescued from officers of the law called Fingerman by a mysterious, Guy Fawkes mask-wearing man called V. And while the government tightens its grip on the people of London, V wages a one-man war against its reign. Reprinting a chapter of the groundbreaking first issue.
