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Just in time for the ninth annual Free Comic Book Day, Image Comics is releasing Image Firsts: a line of titles re-presenting ten key first issues as an introduction to Image’s most acclaimed titles. Priced at only a dollar, each first issue serves as the perfect primer to their ongoing series and collected editions, including THE WALKING DEAD, SPAWN, CHEW, INVINCIBLE, AGE OF BRONZE and many more.

“As discussions for Free Comic Book Day began, many of our retail partners brought up how helpful it would be to have additional, inexpensive supplements to our featured title, Silverline’s FRACTURED FABLES, as a way of bringing in an even wider range of fans,” explained Image Comics Publisher Eric Stephenson. “We developed the ‘Image Firsts’ program to showcase the great variety of titles we have to offer. Between the superheroics of SPAWN, INVINCIBLE, WITCHBLADE, SAVAGE DRAGON and YOUNGBLOOD to the science fiction of GIRLS and PROOF to Eric Shanower’s historical epic, AGE OF BRONZE, and the horror of THE WALKING DEAD and CHEW, there’s something for every reader, old and new.”

All the Image Firsts will reprint the first issues of each series in its entirety, acting as the perfect primer to the ongoing series and their corresponding backlists. Available in the weeks leading up to Free Comic Book Day, the 10 Image Firsts titles will give retailers an opportunity to expose their incoming new readers to a broad range of Image material. Two titles will be released every week beginning March 31 and continuing through April 28.

All Image Firsts will be 32-page comic books priced at $1.00 and will be available for order in the February issue of Diamond Previews. The full schedule of Image Firsts follow the press release.

IMAGE FIRSTS SCHEDULE

IMAGE FIRSTS: YOUNGBLOOD #1

story ROB LIEFELD & JOE CASEY

art & cover ROB LIEFELD

MARCH 31

32 PAGES / FC

$1.00

The original celebrity superheroes make their debut in this remastered tale by Rob Liefeld and Joe Casey.

IMAGE FIRSTS: THE WALKING DEAD #1

story ROBERT KIRKMAN

art & cover TONY MOORE

MARCH 31

32 PAGES / BW

$1.00

A continuing tale of survival horror in a post-apocalyptic world.

IMAGE FIRSTS: SPAWN #1

story TODD McFARLANE

art & cover TODD McFARLANE

APRIL 7

32 PAGES / FC

$1.00

Todd McFarlane’s arcane superhero discovers the truth behind his unholy resurrection.

IMAGE FIRSTS: CHEW #1

story JOHN LAYMAN

art & cover ROB GUILLORY

APRIL 7

32 PAGES / FC

$1.00

Bizarre culinary crimes investigated by the FDA’s premier psychic detective.

IMAGE FIRSTS: SAVAGE DRAGON #1

story ERIK LARSEN

art & cover ERIK LARSEN

APRIL 14

32 PAGES / FC

$1.00

A lone supercop fights against a city of organized supercrime.

IMAGE FIRSTS: AGE OF BRONZE #1

story ERIC SHANOWER

art & cover ERIC SHANOWER

APRIL 14

32 PAGES / BW

$1.00

Eric Shanower’s epic retelling of the Trojan War.

IMAGE FIRSTS: WITCHBLADE #1

story DAVID WOHL & CHRISTINA Z

art & cover MICHAEL TURNER

APRIL 21

32 PAGES / FC

$1.00

The only weapon powerful enough to keep the forces of Darkness and Light at bay is in the hands of a New York cop.

IMAGE FIRSTS: GIRLS #1

story JOSHUA LUNA

art & cover JONATHAN LUNA

APRIL 21

32 PAGES / FC

$1.00

A small town trapped in an invisible dome becomes the epicenter of an alien invasion unlike any other.

IMAGE FIRSTS: INVINCIBLE #1

story ROBERT KIRKMAN

art & cover CORY WALKER

APRIL 28

32 PAGES / FC

$1.00

When a teenager inherits his father’s superpowers, he learns there’s much more to being a superhero than he ever anticipated.

IMAGE FIRSTS: PROOF #1

story ALEX GRECIAN

art & cover RILEY ROSSMO

APRIL 28

32 PAGES / FC

$1.00

Crypto-zoological horror as investigated by Agent Ginger Brown and her partner, Bigfoot.

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