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The preliminary orders for the new edition of BRAT PACK are just coming in and it looks like we’ve successfully dodged the Diamond cancellation bullet. Thanks to all! If you are a store owner, you might consider adding to your existing order now before the dreaded reorder fees kick in.

Above, for your viewing pleasure, another lost page from the original floppy BRAT PACK.

Oh, and there’s a nice interview with me up on THE PULSE.

Another ‘lost” page of BRAT PACK, only seen once in the original series back in 1991. Still, it should give the uninitiated a pretty good idea of what the BRAT PACK graphic novel is all about.

Another page from the original floppy series of BRAT PACK that got dropped for new art in the graphic novel version. And if you haven’t got your order for the remastered fourth edition of BRAT PACK in yet, you can always hop over to my favorite on-line comics store, PANELTOPANEL.NET and pre-order a copy with a free exclusive BRAT PACK bookmark.

Another page that hasn’t been seen since the fifth issue of BRAT PACK comic book.

Amazon.com finally got a listing of the remastered fourth edition of the BRAT PACK trade paperback up. If you don’t have a friendly comics retailer around the corner, then you can now pre-order on-line.

With the Diamond ordering window closing fast, I’ll be running a bunch of BRAT PACK related eye-candy this week. Here’s a page from the comic book series that got dropped out when I rewrote the story and added new pages for the graphic novel version back in 1991.

I’ve just gotten the proofs back from the printer and this remastered fourth edition, with new cover, is going to look gorgeous.

If you haven’t put your order in with your local comics emporium, we urge you to do so. And if you are a retailer, you probably know the best price you’ll get from Diamond to stock up on BRAT PACK inventory is right now. Diamond’s new O/A policies mean that you’ll pay reorder fees to get BRAT PACK from them in the future.

Here’s another cool marketing item we cooked up for the original run of BRAT PACK from King Hell/Tundra back in 1991. It’s an 11″ x 17″ window cling with our ubiquitous tag line printed on it. I doubt we invented the window cling, but we must have been among the earliest to adopt it as a cheap strategy. Retailers loved ‘em because they were so easy to put up and take down; no muss, no fuss. Fans would cut them up and rearange the words in their car windows.

I’m sharing it now, along with some of the other marketing stunts we pulled back in the day, to remind you all that the brand new fourth printing of the BRAT PACK trade paperback, complete with new cover and remastered interior art, is being solicited in the March PREVIEWS. Be sure to get your order in to your retailer this week. And if you are a retailer, order a ton now to avoid those odious reorder fees later.

And if you haven’t actually read BRAT PACK, you can savor the first issue free as a 7meg pdf download.

Here’s the other side of the advertising mobile I posted about yesterday. I wonder: can BRAT PACK lay claim to the first true zombie superhero?

Here’s another cool advertising ploy we came up with at Tundra to promote the first edition of the BRAT PACK trade paperback in 1991. It was a 17″ tall die-cut mobile, given free to retailers. All they had to do was tie a piece of string to it and let it spin in their stores. The pay-off, of course, was what was on the other side of the mobile. I’ll post that image tomorrow.

Meanwhile be sure to order copies of the new remastered edition of BRAT PACK currently offered in PREVIEWS. Order code: MAR094365 F BRAT PACK NEW EDITION TP

And if you’ve never read BRAT PACK you can get a free taste with this pdf download of the first issue.

Here’s my pencils to the new BRAT PACK cover. Yes, I’ll be putting lots of BRAT PACK eye-candy up on the blog this month to remind everyone to order early and often. With Diamond’s new policies regarding minimum orders, King Hell will need all it can get while the book is solicited in this month’s PREVIEWS.

Retailers should be reminded that Diamond will not be relisting Independent books regularly in PREVIEWS like they used to. To avoid those odious reorder charges for a book you know you can sell, the wise store owner will order a boatload now at the best price they’ll ever get from Diamond. Ordering code is: MAR094365 F BRAT PACK NEW EDITION TP

If you’ve never read BRAT PACK, download a free pdf of the first issue and see what all the hooting and hollering is about.