New Comics Every Wednesday @ Flying Colors Comics!

New Comics and Graphic Novels     

for Wed May 31, 2023   

NEW MARVEL COMICS!

ALIEN 2

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 26

AVENGERS BEYOND 3

BETSY BRADDOCK CAPTAIN BRITAIN 4

CAPTAIN AMERICA SYMBOL OF TRUTH 13

CARNAGE 13

CLOBBERIN' TIME 3

DEADPOOL 7

DOCTOR STRANGE 3

EDGE OF SPIDER-VERSE 2

PUNISHER 12

SILVER SURFER GHOST LIGHT 4

SPIDER-MAN 2099 DARK GENESIS 5

STAR WARS DOCTOR APHRA 32

STAR WARS SANA STARROS 4

VENOM: LETHAL PROTECTOR II 3

X-23 DEADLY REGENESIS 3

 

NEW DC COMICS!

BATMAN GOTHAM KNIGHTS GILDED CITY #4

DC CONNECT #37

DC PRIDE 2023 #1

DETECTIVE COMICS #1072

POWER GIRL SPECIAL #1

POWER OF SHAZAM TP BOOK 02 THE WORM TURNS

STATIC SEASON ONE TP

New Exclusive Flying Colors Mount Diablo T-Shirt!

NEW! Flying Colors "In the Shadow of Mount Diablo" t-shirts!
Youth (Medium) $12.99 Adult S-XL $14.99, XXL & XXXL $19.99
Variety of colors!
Available NOW!

FCBD Prize Winners!

More than 50 fans who attended our Free Comic Book Day celebration have won
prizes!!!

Ranging in age from under 10 to over 70, and from all over Contra Costa County
--- Antioch, Bay Point, Brentwood, Clayton, Concord, Crockett, Hercules, Lafayette, Martinez, Moraga, Oakley, Pittsburg, Pleasant Hill, Vacaville, and Walnut Creek!

Visit Flying Colors soon to find out if you are one of the lucky winners! Prizes will be available until June 30, so please come in soon!

Free Comic Book Day Guest Announcement!

We're happy to announce our Flying Colors Free Comic Book Day SPECIAL GUEST is cartoonist SARAH LEUVER!

Sarah will sign from 11AM-2PM on FCBD, Saturday May 6 at Flying Colors.

Pick up our exclusive Flying Colors FCBD 2023 Sketch Edition
w/ wraparound cover by Sarah!

Copies are limited so get here early!

Jeff Smith Event at Flying Colors 4/29

We're thrilled to be hosting award-winning cartoonist/ graphic novelist JEFF SMITH on a stop on his Route 66 “Dawn of Man” 2023 Tour!

Join us Saturday April 29 at Noon!

Jeff will begin the event with a short presentation about his fantastic work on BONE, TUKI and RASL!

Sat April 15 Special Event! SHARPY-Con!

You are invited to join us for a very special event at Flying Colors.

Sat April 15 at Noon is SHARPY-Con, our final signing event with artist LIAM SHARP before he moves back to England.

Liam is the fantastic artist/writer/visionary of the Image Comics series StarHenge! He is also the current artist for Valiant Comics X-O Manowar. Over the last several years, Liam has added his dynamic visuals to several DC Comics series, including Wonder Woman, Batman/Catwoman, Green Lantern, and Brave & the Bold. 

Also joining us, making a special trip down from Portland, is artist MATT HARDING!

This week sees the debut of Matt's art in the Scout Comics' title "All The Devils Are Here!" 

"An elderly dementia patient becomes possessed by a powerful demon. In order to save him, an unconventional and mysterious exorcist, JC Garcia, must venture into his mind. Once inside, he finds far more than he bargained for! All the Devils are Here reinvents the exorcism story with a unique, emotional tale about the power of love, loss, and memory."

Who know what other surprises may be happening at Sharpy-Con?!

Be here for the fun!

Stockton California Seeks a Fantastic Place in Marvel Cinematic Universe!

Have you heard?
The City of Stockton California is petitioning Marvel Studios to follow the lead of Marvel Comics by getting Stockton into the forthcoming Fantastic Four movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. 

The original campaign I started in October 1985 was something done to promote Stockton and give some fun publicity to to KJOY, the radio station where I worked at the time, and to promote comics, notably Marvel Comics for their 25th anniversary and Al's Comics in Stockton.

The first thing I did was ask Al at Al's Comics to put up a poster I did (pretty low-fi in those days, all hand-lettered) and take names on a petition. After getting 374 signatures on the petition, I went in front of the Stockton City Council and asked them to get behind the campaign. When they approved the resolution, the media picked up on the story in big ways. Read about it HERE!

So here we are, 37 years later (I checked: it's been 13,544 days since Stan Lee stood on the steps of Stockton's City Hall to deliver the Marvel Comics proclamation), and the City of Stockton, though its convention and visitors' bureau ---"VISIT STOCKTON"--- is once again asking Marvel to recognize the city... this time in the blockbuster Marvel Cinematic Universe.

There's a new MCU Fantastic Four movie in the planning stages and it would be great if Stockton received recognition in the movie. Maybe shoot a scene or two in Stockton... or at the very least, mention Stockton by the name bestowed by Marvel Comics and Stan Lee all those years ago--- "The Official Birthplace of the Fantastic Four!"

I hope you'll join me in signing the petition at Fantastic4Stockton.com.

Way back in 19985, when Stan Lee was asked if Marvel could make the change in the company's comics, Stan said something like "It's Marvel's business to save universes on a daily basis. This is the least we can do for good ol' Stockton!"


To see video from way back when, click the links below:

1) Stockton City Council meeting, December 1985.
City Council adopts resolution asking Marvel Comics to name Stockton as the "Official Birthplace of the Fantastic Four."

2) "Stockton Live" cable access show, shot at Al's Comics on February 27, 1986. Featuring interviews with Al "Mike" Greco of Al's Comics and Joe Field (then of KJOY 1280 AM Radio). This was shot during Stan Lee's signing at Al's Comics after the City Hall ceremony when Stan Lee presented the Marvel proclamation declaring Stockton as the Birthplace of the Fantastic Four.

 3) KCRA-TV Ch3 report from Rich Ibarra, December 1985.

From the Stockton Record, February 1986