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Dark Horse Comics Specialty Items For January 2009
Posted by Curto on October 9, 2008 at 03:32 PM CST:
BETTIE PAGE HEAT-SENSITIVE MUG
On sale Feb 11
Packaged in deluxe full-color box
$14.99
Like your coffee HOT ? Well, here?s a scorcher!
We have taken one of Bunny Yeager?s best photographs of our longtime muse and inspiration Bettie Page, infused it with color, and applied it to a high-quality coffee mug.
But wait?there?s more. When a hot beverage is poured into the cup, a magical transformation takes place, and our sultry cutie?s top fades away. Oh, Nellie . . . that Bettie! If the coffee doesn?t wake you up, that ought to do the trick.
 
THE SPIRIT MOVIE STATUE AND SNOW GLOBE
One of the most anticipated new films of the year is Frank Miller?s movie adaptation of Will Eisner?s comic strip The Spirit, opening Christmas Day. Dark Horse is happy to celebrate the forthcoming release with some very sophisticated limited-edition pieces based on the characters as they appear in the film.
On sale Jan 28
The Spirit Movie Statue
11.21"W X 7.34"D X 8.5"H
Numbered, limited edition of 750 copies for worldwide distribution
$199.99
The Spirit statue presents the masked avenger in full figure (1:7 life size). Peering over a winter rooftop of Central City, the Spirit is poised and ready to spring. Sculpted by Kolby Jukes.
On sale Nov 26
The Spirit Snow Globe
High-quality 120mm glass sphere
Limited to 500 pieces
$99.99
The continual snowfall is a graphic theme in The Spirit, as it has often been in Frank Miller?s graphic stories, and creates a visual atmosphere that oozes drama. Therefore, it was not hard to imagine a beautiful snow globe that would capture and reproduce the effect. Crafting the miniature environment was a technical challenge for Dark Horse and sculptors Kolby Jukes and Oluf Hartvigson, but the result is a unique collectible that is fascinating.
TUROK TRADING CARDS
On sale Mar 18
50 full-color trading cards, packaged in a deluxe box
$14.95
From ancient times to the present, we have been mystified, frightened, and inspired by dinosaurs. Our fascination was perfectly captured in Dell?s Turok: Son of Stone cover paintings, which teamed American Indian warrior Turok with a variety of saurian adversaries. While these renderings of dinosaurs were considered to be accurate in the1950s and ?60s, modern paleontology has given us a new understanding of the reptile denizens of prehistory. Veteran illustrator and dinosaur expert Pete Von Sholly has created an absolutely stunning series of trading cards depicting the weirdest and most mysterious cover, with scientifically accurate dinosaurs, effectively updating this classic genre with fifty new pieces. Text on the back of the card tells details of the dinosaurs. This set will amaze and inform casual observers and serious Turok or dinosaur buffs alike.
WETA COLLECTIBLES: HALO 3?MASTER CHIEF VS. THE FLOOD STATUE
On sale May 28
16" high, 13.5" wide, 13" deep, 1:10 scale
Limited edition
$330.00
Every bit as dangerous as the Covenant zealots, the seemingly mindless Flood infection threatens to overrun the galaxy. While protecting Earth from its would-be Covenant conquerors, the Master Chief must also fend off the relentless advance of these biological monstrosities?disturbing masses of meat and bone, distorted and sculpted into killing machines in service to the Gravemind.
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