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EXCLUSIVES*REVEALED! Exclusives are the Holy Grail for many convention attendees, and Comic-Con International 2005 will have scores of them! Here’s a preview of some of the awesome items that will be for sale to CCI attendees. COOL COMICS! Arcana publishing presents these three variant comics for attendees at Comic-Con International: • Criss Cross is a special oneshot dedicated to the late Doug Miers. His daughter Valerie Miers is overseeing and editing Doug’s last published work in a book that will celebrate his life and his amazing contributions. Doug will be remembered for his passion and love of comics, but most of all he will be remembered as an incredible husband, father, and friend. • 100 Girls #5B, drawn by Humberto Ramos. Sylvia and the other Girls need to come up with a plan to get the last Girl out of GSI’s hands. Fighting their way through a small army of soldiers won’t be easy, but Sylvia may just be up to it. We also learn more about Dr. Tabitha Carver’s plans for the Girls—plans that even her masters at GSI don’t know. • El Arsenal #1B, with the penciled version of the original cover. Simon Masiosare is the best mercenary in the business and he has
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recently accepted a mission to steal cockroaches containing a powerful biological weapon. But Simon quickly realizes that his timing couldn’t be worse, because when he arrives at “Las Tristezas de Tutankhamen” he realizes that a bounty has just been put on his head. Now every top mercenary is looking for him . . . and they all have full rounds of ammo! SUPER SHIRTS! From Charles Shultz’s Peanuts comes two Peanuts silk-screened
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tees, based on art from the Fantagraphics Peanuts books. Peanuts © UFS
KILLER CARDS! This Pikachu Pokémon TCG Card is brought to you by the Pokémon trading card game. It features the CCI logo and will be available only from the Nintendo booth at Comic-Con International: San Diego. Three hundred will be given out on Preview Night, and 800 will be given per day on Thursday through Sunday.
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TOTALLY TOXIC! Shocker Toys is offering this Glow in the Dark Toxic Avenger Comic-Con International: San Diego Exclusive; they’re limited to 500 pieces. BLOODY COOL! From one of the year’s biggest movies comes your first look at what is sure to be one of the hottest convention exclusives this summer: NECA presents Bloody Marv, a newly sculpted Marv figure without coat and covered in blood splatter from his final confrontation with Kevin. Marv features a ball-jointed neck and shoulders along with swivel wrists, waist, and legs. Accessories include handcuffs, hacksaw, Gladys pistol, and Kevin’s severed head with broken glasses. HELL-A NEAT! Electric Tiki presents this Hellboy Jr. Teeny Weeny minimaquette; this is a 500count limited edition.