Lost preview March 13, 2008 episode

Highlight the hidden text for info about the March 13, 2008, episode of "Lost."

Also see a trailer for the show and listen to the official "Lost" podcast from ABC.

JULIET REVEALS SOME STARTLING NEWS TO JIN ABOUT SUN,
AND SAYID AND DESMOND BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND THE FREIGHTER'S
MISSION WHEN THEY MEET THE SHIP'S CAPTAIN, ON ABC'S "LOST"

"Ji Yeon" - Juliet is forced to reveal some startling news to Jin when Sun threatens to move to Locke's camp. Meanwhile, Sayid and Desmond begin to get an idea of the freighter crew's mission when they meet the ship's Captain, on "Lost," THURSDAY, MARCH 13 (9:00-10:02 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.

"Lost" stars Naveen Andrews as Sayid, Henry Ian Cusick as Desmond, Emilie de Ravin as Claire, Michael Emerson as Ben, Matthew Fox as Jack, Jorge Garcia as Hurley, Josh Holloway as Sawyer, Daniel Dae Kim as Jin, Yunjin Kim as Sun, Evangeline Lilly as Kate, Elizabeth Mitchell as Juliet, Terry O'Quinn as Locke and Harold Perrineau as Michael.

Guest starring are Sam Anderson as Bernard, Jeremy Davies as Daniel Faraday, Rebecca Mader as Charlotte Lewis, Jeff Fahey as Frank Lapidus, Kevin Durand as Keamy, Marc Vann as doctor, Grant Bowler as Captain Gault, Lanny Joon as Dr. Bae, Simon Rhee as shopkeeper, Zoe Bell as Regina, Christine Kim as admitting nurse, Lynette Garces as another nurse, David Yew as Chinese security agent and George Kee Cheung as Chinese ambassador.

"Ji Yeon" was written by Edward Kitsis & Adam Horowitz and directed by Stephen Semel.

Also see:

Lost Season 4 Episode Guide
The Best Lost Sites on the Web
Lost: What we STILL don't know

DC superheroine Barbies coming in 2008

Mattel will release new collector Barbies based on Wonder Woman, Batgirl, Supergirl and Black Canary in 2008.

Exclusive Green Lantern figure in New Frontier DVD

Best Buy is offering this exclusive Green Lantern figure with copies of the Justice League: New Frontier straight-to-DVD out now.

But, the thing is, it's not a very attractive figure at all, is it? Artist Darwyn Cooke's take on GL is cool. But this thing looks odd. What's up with his face? This is not good at all.

Great comic book art: Jack Kirby back cover for Fantastic Four Treasury 1976

Here's a nice example of Jack Kirby's later work: The original back cover art for Marvel Comics' tabloid-sized Fantastic Four Treasury, published in 1976.

It's up for auction now on eBay (and way, way beyond my price range).

Great comic book art: Another Jack Kirby photo collage

Along with the black-and-white piece I highlighted a few days back, here's a full-color photo collage the great Jack Kirby did for the ninth issue his Kamandi series from DC Comics--now up for auction on eBay.

2008 Oscar winners

Here's the list of 2008 Academy Award winners. Update your Netflix queue accordingly.

Best Motion Picture: "No Country for Old Men."

Lead Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, "There Will Be Blood."

Lead Actress: Marion Cotillard, "La Vie en Rose."

Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem, "No Country for Old Men."

Supporting Actress: Tilda Swinton, "Michael Clayton."

Director: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, "No Country for Old Men."

Foreign Language Film: "The Counterfeiters," Austria.

Adapted Screenplay: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, "No Country for Old Men."

Original Screenplay: Diablo Cody, "Juno."

Animated Feature Film: "Ratatouille."

Art Direction: "Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street."

Cinematography: "There Will Be Blood."

Sound Mixing: "The Bourne Ultimatum."

Sound Editing: "The Bourne Ultimatum."

Original Score: "Atonement," Dario Marianelli.

Original Song: "Falling Slowly" from "Once," Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova.

Costume: "Elizabeth: The Golden Age."

Documentary Feature: "Taxi to the Dark Side."

Documentary Short Subject: "Freeheld."

Film Editing: "The Bourne Ultimatum."

Makeup: "La Vie en Rose."

Animated Short Film: "Peter & the Wolf."

Live Action Short Film: "Le Mozart des Pickpockets (`The Mozart of Pickpockets')."

Visual Effects: "The Golden Compass."

Sideshow Toys presents Indiana Jones figure

This is a nice one, available for pre-order now.





Indiana Jones Regular 12

Target gets exclusive Justice League Unlimited figures

Here's details from Mattel:

Due to overwhelming support from the fans, Mattel and Target are teaming up to bring an all new Collector’s Line to store shelves starting this August!

16 brand new figures along with collector requested repaints and reissues will be available in singles, 3-packs and 6 packs. Figures will be out in two waves. Each wave will consist of two 6-packs, two 3 packs and five single carded figures, some with brand new accessories. This line will be sold exclusively at Target stores starting Aug 1, 2008. At this time the line will be an in store exclusive only.

Wave 1 will be revealed at New York Comic Con in April and Wave 2 will be shown at Comic Con San Diego in July.

We are pleased to show the first 6-pack for Wave 1: Attack from Apokolips featuring Superman, Darkseid, Mr. Miracle, Lashina, Mantis and Forager.

Along with these figures, we are excited to announce that the line will also include several major MIA characters including The Question!


Lost clues: "Eggtown" Ep. 4, Season 4

Episode summary:

On the island, Locke is at loose ends. He can't find Jacob's cabin or contact Jacob and is uncertain what to do next in terms of leading the survivors who are following him.

He goes to Ben, locked in a cell under the barracks, to learn more about the freighter crew, but Ben isn't revealing anything. He knows Locke is confused is seems to be planning how to best use this to his advantage.

Kate, meanwhile, is torn between Locke and Jack's groups. She wants to go home, but fears she'll end up in prison if she does. She goes to Miles, also a prisoner of Locke's, to find out if the freighter crew and, by extension, the rest of the world, knows she is a fugitive.

Miles says he'll tell Kate everything he knows about her, if she brings him to Ben. Kate manages to do this by enlisting Sawyer to distract Locke.

When Miles and Ben get face to face, Miles says "you know who I am, you know who I work for," and Ben says yes. Miles says he could help Ben by telling this mysterious person that Ben is dead but to do so, Ben must pay Miles $3.2 million.

Ben seems annoyed at Miles' crass maneuver and doesn't agree to anything. Kate is annoyed too, and yanks Miles out of Ben's cell, at which point Miles tells her that the outside world knows all about Kate's crimes and that, if he were her, he'd stay on the island.



In flash forward, we see Kate didn't follow that advice. She's in court, facing charges for murder, obstruction of justice and many more charges. But she's also a celebrity, one of the Oceanic 6. The jury is impressed when Jack testifies on her behalf. He tells a false story about the plane crashing into the sea and Kate helping to rescue him and other survivors.

Kate's mother also is moved by this, and the fact that she evidently has a grandson. She decides to to participate with the prosecution and the state, having lost their key witness, cops a deal. Kate stays free, but she must remain in California on probation for 10 years. Kate readily agrees with this.

After she's freed, Kate and Jack meet in the courthouse parking garage. He makes it clear that he wants to be with her, but when Kate invites him to her home, he defers. He doesn't want to see her son. Kate says she knows this is hard on Jack, but until he can make peace with it, they can't be together.

We then see Kate arriving home. She goes upstairs to see her son, who looks to be at least 2 or 3 years old. It's not really her son, although he calls her "mom." It's Claire's baby, now older, Aaron.

Back in island time: Jack forces Charlotte to call the freighter. Although the helicopter carrying Sayid, Desmond and Frank left the island hours ago, it hasn't turned up on the ship.What happened to it?

Also, Locke is angry about being fooled by Kate. He tells her she needs to leave the next morning, which she does, much to Sawyer's consternation. Locke also pays a visit to the capture Miles, sticking a live grenade in his mouth and telling him to keep his mouth shut.



Questions/clues/observations:

* What led to Kate's caring for Aaron? Is Claire dead? Why is Jack struggling with this? Does he know Claire is/was his half-sister? Is he somehow responsible for her death or absence?



* In court, Jack says only eight people made out of the plane. Two of them "died." This is the official cover story, anyhow. So the Oceanic 6 is: Jack, Kate, Hurley, Sayid and who else? Presumably, we're not counting Aaron, as he wasn't born yet and not a passenger on the plane. So far as the rest of the world knows, Aaron is Kate's real son, born after the crash. Are we counting Michael and Walt? How about Desmond? He was on the chopper with Sayid.

* According to the cover story, who is Aaron's father?

* The book Locke brings Ben to read is "VALIS" by cult sci-fi author Philip K. Dick. I read this years ago, but don't remember a thing about it, only that it was a tad hard to get a grip on. Wikipedia says:

VALIS is a 1981 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick. The title is an acronym for Vast Active Living Intelligence System, Dick's gnostic vision of one aspect of God.

VALIS is the first book in the VALIS trilogy of novels including The Divine Invasion (1981), and the unfinished The Owl in Daylight. The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982) is thematically related to the unfinished trilogy and was included in several omnibus editions of the trilogy as a stand-in for the unwritten final volume. Together with his thematically related final novel, VALIS represents Dick's last major work before he died. Radio Free Albemuth is considered an earlier version of VALIS, and is not included as a component of the VALIS trilogy.

* According to some fans, the book Sawyer is reading (I couldn't see the title, maybe other fans recognized the book's cover design) is "The Invention of Morel," a sci-fi novel that according to Wikipedia:

...shares some elements with the 1934 novel XYZ by Clemente Palma and with the better known The Island of Doctor Moreau, being the later the most influential of the two (see "Characters" below.) In the same way, other works of fiction share some elements with this novel rather than with the novels that influenced it. For example, fans of the video game Myst believe this novel is one of its sources of inspiration, while the plot of the episode "Dave" from the television program Lost mirrors one of fugitive's theories--that he is on a psychiatric hospital dreaming he is on an island.

* Hurley puts the 1980 Olivia Newton John movie "Xanadu" in the VCR. The theme song--an annoyingly catchy disco-ish effort by John and ELO--has lyrics that possibly could be used to comment on the island and/or Sayer and Kate's relationship:

A place where nobody dared to go
The love that we came to know
They call it Xanadu

And now
Open your eyes and see
What we have made is real
We are in Xanadu

A million lights are dancing
And there you are
A shooting star
An everlasting world
And you're here with me
Eternally


* Xanadu is also of course, as Wikipedia puts it "a metaphor for opulence," the inspiration for Samuel Taylor Coleridge's most famous poem and the name of Charles Foster Kane's estate in "Citizen Kane."

* Does the weird time anomaly account for the helicopter not turning up on the freighter yet?

* How does Ben have access to millions of dollars? And how does Miles know he does?

* Sawyer plays backgammon with Locke. In season one, Locke taught Walt how to play the game.

* What's up with Charlotte testing Daniel's memory with cards? Or is it really his memory that's being tested? Maybe she's trying to see if he can predict which cards she picked. Is she testing whether the island has affected/enhanced his mental abilities in some way?

* How long is Locke gonna leave that grenade in Miles' mouth?

Also see:

Lost Season 4 Episode Guide
The Best Lost Sites on the Web
Lost: What we STILL don't know

Hammer Horror movie posters

Here are five from the famed British horror studio.


Horror of Dracula


Kiss of the Vampire


Frankenstein Created Woman


Twins of Evil / Hands of the Ripper


Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde

Pop links

A film based on Charles Burns' graphic novel "Black Hole" is planned.

David Fincher is attached to direct the horror romance "Black Hole" for Paramount/ MTV Films.

...the story revolves around a group of high school students whose lives are drastically altered when they come in contact with a sexually transmitted disease called the "teen plague" or "the bug."

...Fincher ("Zodiac") just wrapped "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" for Paramount. He also has "Torso," "The Devil in the White City" and "The Killer" in development at the studio.


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Leonardo DiCaprio is set to produce two films based on Katsuhiro Otomo's manga/anime series "Akira."

The story was set in a neon-lit post apocalyptic "New Tokyo" in 2019 where a teen biker gang member is subjected to a government experiment that unleashes his latent powers. The gang's leader must find a way to stop the ensuing swathe of destruction.

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Beyonce Knowles will play singer Etta James in "Cadillac Records," a film about the founding of Chicago's Chess Records label.

Knowles joins a cast that includes Adrien Brody (Chess), Jeffrey Wright (Waters), Cedric the Entertainer (Willie Dixon) and Columbus Short (Little Walter). Emmanuelle Chriqui and Tammy Blanchard co-star.

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The Wall Street Journal has revealed a few details about the next "Toy Story" film.

In Pixar's coming movie "Toy Story 3," Woody the cowboy and his toy-box friends are dumped in a day-care center after their owner, Andy, leaves for college.

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The Foo Fighters are suing Marvel Studios.

Per the lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, "substantial excerpts" of the tunes "Best of You" and "Free Me," both off the 2005 album In Your Honor, were used in a teaser for the upcoming animated series Wolverine and the X-Men.

Love's Forever Changes gets double-disk reissue treatment

Oh no, not yet another reissue of Forever Changes...

It's one of my favorite albums (and if you don't yet own one of its many incarnations, you need to), but do I want to buy it all over again?

At least with this belated 40th anniversary edition (the LP came out in 1967), Rhino is upping the ante with loads of outtakes, studio tracking sessions, demos and the like.

Let's put it this way, I'm thinking about it...

The new edition comes out April 22. Here's the track list:


Disc one:

01 Alone Again Or
02 A House Is Not a Motel
03 Andmoreagain
04 The Daily Planet
05 Old Man
06 The Red Telephone
07 Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hilldale
08 Live and Let Live
09 The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This
10 Bummer in the Summer
11 You Set the Scene

Disc two:

01 Alone Again Or (alternative mix)
02 A House Is Not a Motel (alternative mix)
03 Andmoreagain (alternative mix)
04 The Daily Planet (alternative mix)
05 Old Man (alternative mix)
06 The Red Telephone (alternative mix)
07 Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hilldale (alternative mix)
08 Live and Let Live (alternative mix)
09 The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This (alternative mix)
10 Bummer in the Summer (alternative mix)
11 You Set the Scene (alternative mix)
12 Wonder People (I Do Wonder) (original mix) (outtake)
13 Hummingbirds (demo)
14 A House Is Not a Motel (backing track)
15 Andmoreagain (alternate electric backing track)
16 The Red Telephone (tracking sessions highlights)
17 Wooly Bully (outtake)
18 Alone Again Or (mono single remix)
19 Your Mind and We Belong Together (tracking session highlights)
20 Your Mind and We Belong Together
21 Laughing Stock

Don't forget Lost tonight!

Read a teaser for tonight's episode. Then come back here tomorrow for a detailed look at what happened, along with clues and observations.

Also see:

Lost Season 4 Episode Guide
The Best Lost Sites on the Web
Lost: What we STILL don't know

First appearance of the X-men's Ororo?

While I've got my copy of Showcase Presents Phantom Stranger Vol. 1 in the scanner, I thought I'd include a panel from this story, which appears in issue #15 from October 1971.



Of course, the character depicted isn't the X-men's Ororo/Storm, but a woman with the same name. And the script is by Len Wein, who would use the name Ororo a few years later when he and artist Dave Cockrum created Marvel's New X-Men.

Great comic book art: More Jim Aparo



I love this sequence from Phantom Stranger #10 of a nasty fellow who has just literally scared his nagging wife to death by placing a rubber crocodile in the swimming pool. The facial expressions, sound effects and motion lines tell you all you need to know about the violence occurring "off-camera."

8th wave of Walt Disney Treasures DVDs detailed

Disney has released details on its eighth wave of "Walt Disney Treasures" DVD sets:

The releases are all 2-DVD sets due out Nov. 11, 2008:

“Destino,” began in 1946 as a collaboration between Walt Disney and the famed surrealist painter Salvador Dali. A first-hand example of Disney’s interest in avant garde and experimental work in animation, “Destino” was to be awash with Dali’s iconic melting clocks, marching ants and floating eyeballs. However, “Destino” was not completed at that time. In 2003 it was rediscovered by Walt’s nephew, Roy E. Disney, who took on the challenge of bringing the creation of these two great artists to fruition. In addition to the completed “Destino”, this exciting addition to the Walt Disney Treasures line also includes an all-new feature-length documentary that examines the surprising partnership between Dali and Disney plus two new featurettes; “The Disney That Almost Was,” an examination of the studio’s unfinished projects; and “Encounters with Walt,” which addresses the surprisingly diverse group of celebrities and artists who were attracted to Walt Disney’s early work.

“Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow,”
which first aired as three separate episodes on Disney’s weekly TV show under the title “The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh,” was edited for theatrical releases in England and the U.S. This DVD set includes all three of the original TV episodes plus the theatrical version of the film that was released in England.

“Chronological Donald, Volume 4,” which includes 31 classic shorts starring Donald Duck. Each of these meticulously animated adventures was created between 1951 and 1961 and has rarely been seen. All of Donald’s CinemaScope shorts will be presented in their original widescreen aspect ratio for the first time on video.

The DC/Marvel solicitations index May 2008

The May 2008 solicitations for DC and Marvel comics are up, so let's see what amusing trends we can spot in them.

Number of titles featuring:
Iron Man: 11
The Hulk: 15
Wolverine: 7
Batman:15

Covers illustrated by Alex Ross: 7 (total for both companies)

Titles scripted by Geoff Johns: 7

Comics with storylines that promise to "change things forever": 4 (total for both companies)

Big events: 8 (total for both companies)

Most desperate covers:


Young X-Men #2 by Terry Dodson


She-Hulk #29 by Mike Deodato


King-size Hulk #1 by Frank Cho


Iron Man: Viva Las Vegas #1 by Adi Granov


Countdown Presents the Search for Ray Palmer by Greg Tocchinni

Best covers:


Amazing Spider-Man #560 by Marcos Martin


Iron Man: Enter the Mandarin by Eric Canete


Batman Confidential #17 by Kevin McGuire

Most perplexing memorabilia


Superman cape. $295.


Ame-Comi Zatanna and Donna Troy figures. Outside of big breasts, neither of these figures look anything at all like their comic book counterparts.

Ugliest action figures (possibly of all time):

Batman Long Halloween collector set

See last month's index.

Pop links

From Classic Television Showbiz: Tim Conway's rare 1966-67 sitcom "Rango."

I'd never heard of it, but apparently the short-lived show also spawned a short-lived comic book from Dell!



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Marvel Comics' has posted 14 wallpapers from the upcoming Iron Man movie.



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Obama the Vampire Slayer.

New comics Feb. 20, 2008

Here's what's in comic book shops today. Click highlighted titles to order from Amazon.

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DC Direct May 2008 solicitations

Here's a look at upcoming DC Direct action figures and other merchandise from DC Comics' May 2008 solicitations.

JLA TROPHY ROOM: Superman’s Cape and Belt Prop Replica Set
The JLA Trophy Room prop replica program continues for 2008 with
Superman’s Cape and Belt!
These life-sized, high-quality, mixed-media replicas of two of the most important pieces of Superman’s costume each feature authentic secret compartments! The lined, red fabric cape features the S-shield sewn meticulously onto the back, while a hidden pocket is sewn into the lining of the cape for Superman to quickly stash any of Clark Kent’s personal effects! The accompanying faux-leather yellow belt fastens with a metal buckle that opens to reveal another secret compartment. Both pieces of this prop replica set can be displayed from the metal wall display shelf included, with the cape hanging from the bottom and the belt sitting on top.
Packaged together in an 4-color box, the cape measures approximately 56” long, 53” wide at the bottom and 20” wide at the top, the belt measures 36” long, and the display shelf measures approximately 22” long x 3.25” high x 5.25” deep. Also included are a Certificate of Authenticity and a “Guide to the Trophy Room” brochure, written by best-selling author Brad Meltzer!
Minor assembly is required.
Advance-solicited; on sale October 1, 2008
• Prop Replica * $295 US


JLA BUILD-A-SCENE STATUE: PART 3
Based on the art of Ed Benes
Sculpted by Alterton Bizarre
DC Direct’s exciting JLA Build-a-Scene Statue project culminates this month with part three of the statue, featuring Green Lantern, The Flash, and the head and cape of Red Tornado!
Ed Benes’ legendary cover of Justice League of America #7 stands tall as a multipart statue. Sold in three parts, each features two of the world’s greatest super-heroes and includes a piece of a bonus Red Tornado figure. (To fully assemble Red Tornado, all three Build-a-Scene statues are needed.) All the pieces slide together to make up a complete cover scene in striking 3-D!
If you missed them when they were first solicited, be sure to place your orders now for Part 1 of the statue, featuring Batman, Wonder Woman, and the tornado and base portion of Red Tornado, and Part 2 of the statue, featuring Superman, Black Canary, and the torso of Red Tornado.
The JLA BUILD-A-SCENE STATUE is a limited-edition, hand-painted, cold-cast porcelain statue measuring approximately 8" tall x 14" wide x 10" deep when fully assembled. (Each piece measures approximately 8” tall x 5” wide x 5” deep, except for Red Tornado, which measures approximately 10.375” tall x 8.5” wide x 5.5” deep.) Each statue includes a certificate of authenticity and is packaged in a 4-color box. This limited edition statue is manufactured to order.
Advance-solicited; on sale October 8, 2008
* Statue * $150 US
* Minor assembly is required.
* Each statue sold separately.


THE JOKER 1:2 SCALE BUST
Sculpted by Kolby Jukes
The Clown Prince of Crime is ready for his Closeup!
Batman’s deadliest foe is the second piece in DC Direct’s new line of 1:2 scale mixed-media busts! The perfect companion piece to the Batman 1:2 scale bust, it features eerie life-like facial details and an intricate fabric costume that is finely tailored to the cold-cast porcelain body. The bust sits on a museum-style pedestal display base.
The Joker 1:2 scale bust measures approximately 13.75” high x 10” wide x 6.25” deep, includes a 4-color certificate of authenticity, and is packaged in a 4-color box.
Advance solicited; on sale October 22, 2008 * Bust * $295 US


AME-COMI: ZATANNA PVC FIGURE
DESIGNED BY UDON STUDIOS
EKOMS RAEPPA!!
DC’s mystical magician casts a spell on the world of Ame-Comi as she becomes the latest addition to this stellar line!
The ZATANNA PVC statue is a limited-edition, hand-painted piece in 9” scale. This non-articulated plastic display figure comes with a base, is packaged in a 4-color window box with J-hook and is manufactured to order. MAZAKALA!
Advance-solicited; on sale October 15, 2008 * Statue * $49.99 US


AME-COMI: DONNA TROY PVC FIGURE
DESIGNED BY DUSTIN NGUYEN
Wonder Woman’s magical doppelganger sibling joins the Ame-Comi sisterhood, in all her cosmic beauty!
The DONNA TROY PVC statue is a limited-edition, hand-painted piece in 9” scale. This non-articulated plastic display figure comes with a base, is packaged in a 4-color window box with J-hook and is manufactured to order.
Advance-solicited; on sale October 15, 2008
• Statue * $49.99 US


SECRET FILES SERIES 3: BATMAN ROGUES GALLERY 2
Inspired by the art of Brian Bolland
Four of Gotham City’s most infamous residents are included in this series! All inspired by the art of Brian Bolland, this Poison Ivy action figure is based on the cover of BATMAN: GOTHAM KNIGHTS #15, and the Two-Face figure is based on the cover of SECRET ORIGINS SPECIAL #1. Based on their appearances in the classic graphic novel BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE, these versions of Batman and The Joker are now available for the first time ever as single figures!
Each figure features multiple points of articulation and a base.
Clam-shell 4-color blister card packaging
Figures included: Hugo Strange • 6.75” h (with alternate Batman head)
The Joker • 6.75” h
Poison Ivy • 6.5” h
Two-Face• 6.75” h
Advance-solicited; on sale October 8, 2008 * Action Figures * PI


GREEN LANTERN CORPS 1:6 SCALE Deluxe Collector Figure

Hal Jordan returns to the Corps!
This deluxe collector figure is the first in this popular line to include interchangeable heads!
Hal Jordan is back sporting his classic Green Lantern costume! This sought-after 1:6 scale figure comes with brand-new, interchangeable heads of Tomar Re, Abin Sur and a never-before-seen, helmet-clad alien Corpsman named NautKeLoi, allowing you to create a total of FOUR Green Lanterns! The figure comes clothed in an intricate and authentically detailed classic Green Lantern fabric costume, complete with character-appropriate accessories and a display stand.
INCLUDES ALTERNATE HEADS: Tomar Re, Abin Sur & NautKeLoi
Packaged in a deluxe 4-color window box with a fifth panel.
Advance-solicited; on sale October 29, 2008
* Action Figures * $99.99 US


BATMAN: THE LONG HALLOWEEN Collector Set
Another holiday, another victim!
From the early days of his crimefighting career, this is the unforgettable story that pitted Batman, along with Lt. James Gordon and D.A. Harvey Dent, against a mysterious killer who only strikes on holidays.
This story also ties into the events leading to Harvey Dent’s transformation from Gotham City district attorney and Batman ally to Batman’s deadly foe Two-Face.
This collector set includes: 2 action figures based on the art of Tim Sale from THE LONG HALLOWEEN: Batman: 6.75” h (featuring an all-new head sculpt!)
The Joker: 6.75” h
And the 376-page softcover graphic novel: BATMAN: THE LONG HALLOWEEN, written by Jeph Loeb with art by Tim Sale.
Packaged in a 4-color window box
Advance solicited; on sale October 1, 2008
• Collector Set * $34.99 US


Women of the DC Universe: Series 2: HUNTRESS BUST
Designed by Terry Dodson • Sculpted by James Shoop
The popular WOMEN OF THE DC UNIVERSE line of cold-cast porcelain busts continues with the Huntress! As a Bird of Prey and uneasy ally of Batman, the Huntress is a nocturnal mistress of vengeance. Perched atop a GOTHAM CITY shipyard crate, her crossbow drawn, this crimefighter is prepared for whatever trouble lurks in the shadows of night.
Collect all the DCU: Series 2 busts designed by Terry Dodson in 2008! Huntress joins Wonder Woman, Starfire, Cheetah, Batwoman, Wonder Girl, Catwoman and more!
This Huntress Bust measures approximately 5.75” tall x 2.5” wide x 4” deep and is packaged in a 4-color box.
Advance solicited; on sale October 1, 2008
* Bust * $55 US