Dark Horse Unveils First Wave of SDCC Exclusives


If you're a Dark Horse fan (and you really should be honestly), then you'll want to make a stop by booth #2615 at SDCC. That's where the publisher will be and they're bringing with them a whole slew of awesome convention exclusives for you to empty your wallet in the name of filling your shelves and long boxes.

The offerings will include Itty Bitty Hellboy Plush: 2014 San Diego Comic-Con Exclusive, Mass Effect Alliance Cruiser: Convention Exclusive Bronze Edition, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 10 #5 San Diego Comic-Con International 2014 Variant Cover, Star Wars: Darth Maul—Son of Dathomir #1 San Diego Comic-Con International Variant Cover, Captain Midnight: Stolen Future Convention Exclusive Slipcase Edition, Hellboy in Hell, Volume 1: The Descent—San Diego Comic-Con International Hardcover Edition, EVE: Source Limited Edition, Usagi Yojimbo San Diego Comic-Con International Exclusive Lithograph, Itty Bitty Hellboy Convention Exclusive Hardcover and The Witcher #1 Convention Variant Cover.

All exclusives have limited availability, so act accordingly. Full press release and exclusive details below.
DARK HORSE UNVEILS THE FIRST WAVE OF 
2014 COMIC-CON INTERNATIONAL
EXCLUSIVE BOOKS AND PRODUCTS!

The year’s most anticipated event will host more exclusive Dark Horse merchandise than ever before!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: MILWAUKIE, OR – July means the most anticipated event of the year in pop culture is just weeks away! As we rapidly approach the doors opening to the world on July 23, Dark Horse announces the first wave of 2014 SDCC exclusives, available in the expanded Exclusives Store at booth #2615!

Dark Horse has produced more items than EVER for this year’s show, as well as secured a few other extremely limited edition items from our partners!

The list can be found below, available only at the Dark Horse 2014 Exclusives Store at Comic-Con International!

Look for news on the latest items in our line of products based on HBO’s Game of Thrones™ produced exclusively for Comic Con in the coming days!

A set number of exclusives and limited editions will be portioned for each day of the show.



1. Itty Bitty Hellboy Plush: 2014 San Diego Comic-Con Exclusive 

7.25" tall plush version of the colorful cartoon treatment of Mike Mignola’s characters by Art Baltazar and Franco featuring an San Diego Comic Con International logo t-shirt.

Price:  $15.00
Production Run:  500
Limit:  Two per person

2. Mass Effect Alliance Cruiser: Convention Exclusive Bronze Edition 

9" long polyresin bronze finished Alliance Cruiser. Dark Horse has utilized digital assets direct from Bioware to faithfully capture all details in transforming this ship from a digital creation into our physical world.  

Price:  $60.00
Production Run:  350
Limit:  One per person


3. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 10 #5 San Diego Comic-Con International 2014 Variant Cover

When Buffy and crew try to wrest Xander from Dracula’s control, they begin a battle supreme with the terrifying demon that Dracula has become . . .

Christos Gage, Nicholas Brendan (writers)  * Rebekah Isaacs (artist) * Dan Jackson (colorist) * Andy Park (cover artist)

Price:  $5.00
Print Run:  1,000
Limit:  Five per person


4. Star Wars: Darth Maul—Son of Dathomir #1 San Diego Comic-Con International Variant Cover

Star Wars: Darth Maul—Son of Dathomir is based on unaired episodes of The Clone Wars television series! 

Jeremy Barlow (writer) * Juan Frigeri (penciler) * Mauro Vargas (inker), Wes Dzioba colorist), Chris Scalf (cover artist)

Price:  $5.00
Print Run:  1,000
Limit:  Five per person


5. Captain Midnight: Stolen Future Convention Exclusive Slipcase Edition

In the forties, Captain Midnight was an American hero, a daredevil fighter pilot, a technological genius . . . a superhero. Since he rifled out of the Bermuda Triangle and into the present day, Captain Midnight has been labeled a threat to homeland security. Can Captain Midnight survive in the modern world, with the US government on his heels and an old enemy out for revenge?

Captain Midnight Volumes 1 and 2 are featured in a deluxe convention exclusive slipcase.

Price:  $20.00
Print run:  400
Limit:   Five per person

 6. Hellboy in Hell, Volume 1:  The Descent—San Diego Comic-Con International Hardcover Edition 

After saving the world in The Storm and the Fury but sacrificing himself and Great Britain, Hellboy is dead, cast into Hell, where he finds many familiar faces and a throne that awaits him. This deluxe hardcover treatment mirrors the recently released 20 Years of Hellboy hardcover, and fits beautifully next to it and the previous Library Editions.

Price:  $40.00
Print Run: 1,200
Limit: Two per person


7. EVE: Source Limited Edition


EVE: Source is your comprehensive source book and visual guide to the gargantuan universe experienced in EVE Online and DUST 514. Published by Dark Horse Comics and developed in close collaboration with the EVE and DUST 514 creative teams, this beautiful 200-page, full color hardcover will immerse readers in the history and lore of EVE through stunning artwork and never-before-released material detailing the settings, stories, races, and factions of the EVE Universe.

The Limited Edition contains: A beautiful black clamshell protective box with an embossed silver logo, two lithographs by EVE artists Borkur Eiriksson and Georg Hilmarsson in a protective sleeve, an anodized aluminum commemorative and numbered plaque embedded in the protective box, a unique CCP “source” code redeemable on the EVE Account Management site (https://secure.eveonline.com/).
The limited edition is bound in matte black JVP with embossed silver logo.

Price:  $90.00
Print Run:  1,400
Limit:  One per person


8. Usagi Yojimbo San Diego Comic-Con International Exclusive Lithograph

An 18" x 20" Usagi Yojimbo lithograph signed by creator Stan Sakai to coincide with the 30th anniversary of Usagi Yojmbo.

Price:  $20.00
Print Run:  300
Limit:  Two per person

9. Itty Bitty Hellboy Convention Exclusive Hardcover

Witness the awesomeness that is Hellboy! The characters that sprung from Mike Mignola’s imagination, with an Aw Yeah Art Baltazar and Franco twist! This book has all the fun, adventure, and Aw Yeah-ness in one itty bitty package! That’s a true story right there. Collects Itty Bitty Hellboy #1–#5 in a hardcover edition exclusive to conventions.

Price:   $20.00
Print Run: 1,000
Limit:  Five per person 


10. The Witcher  #1 Convention Variant Cover


Legendary artist Stan Sakai has done a special cover of the tie-in series The Witcher, a canonical entry in the world of the Witcher video games, which have collectively won over 250 awards and sold more than 5.5 million copies worldwide! All proceeds from the sale of this limited edition variant will benefit Stan and Sharon Sakai.

Price:  $5.00
Print Run: 1,000

Limit:  Five per person

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