December
28
Spidey Swings Back to Newspapers
Marvel and News America Marketing have teamed up to republish classic “Amazing Spider-Man” stories for distribution in Sunday newspapers, starting in late summer.
The move evokes Will Eisner’s innovative creation, “The Spirit,” which was produced starting in 1940 as a comicbook supplement for newspapers worried they were losing readers to the new medium. Now that circulation is down for both comics and newspapers, they’re getting back together to represent “Amazing Spider-Man” from the start, with each original comicbook split in two and published 46 times a year.
News America Marketing’s network includes about 1,100 newspapers and the estimated circulation of the comicbook across metro markets will be 10 million, dwarfing the circulation of any single new comicbook being published today. The run back to newspapers also comes as the regular funny pages get a modern makeover with original manga offerings produced by TOKYOPOP.




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They surely needs its to be more reliable and im happy to see spidey back in action.
Posted by: Electro | January 09, 2006 at 06:36 PM