“As the name implies, Free Comic Book Day is a single day when participating comic book specialty shops across North America and around the world give away comic books absolutely free to anyone who comes into their shops.” – FreeComicBookDay.com
The comic book industry gets another boost on May 2nd with the release of “The Amazing Spider-Man 2.” Comic book based films are a pleasant lead in to FCBD to hopefully attract new readers.
Marvel Comics will continues to promote “Guardians of Galaxy,” on FCBD fans get a treat with a with a story by Brian Michael Bendis. Also, the backup story written by Dan Slott lays the foundation for 2014’s top secret Spider-Man event.
DC Comics uses FCBD to launch a new weekly series ‘Futures End’ written by Brian Azzarello, Keith Giffen, Dan Jurgens, Jeff Lemire with art Ethan Van Sciver
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