Halloween Mini-Comics For The Trick Or Treat Bags
Oct 29, 2009
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Candy is essential for every kid’s jump into the Halloween horror holiday. But candy is what everyone is handing out at the doorstep. Every store, whether a supermarket or local pharmacy, has bags of the multi-colored sugar steroids piled up on isle end caps so people can dutifully shell out dollars every year to stock up on the stuff passed out on Halloween night. So what happens when little Johnny and Jane come home to consumer their treasures? A line is drawn in the sand about how many pieces of candy they can eat a day. And then we see how fast “the rule” gets convoluted over the next couple of days. And what should have taken three weeks to get rid of all that candy soon becomes bags emptied in a matter of days.
Hey, who can blame the kids. They’re doing what comes natural. They’re enjoying life.
So who can blame you for doing what comes natural — i.e. looking out for the kids’ health, and well-being?
It’s a given that a trip to the dentist’s office is on a parent’s schedule of things to do before the end of the year. All that sweetness and food coloring in those packs of Airheads and Hershey bars unleashes a platoon of plaque plunderers that drill at the kids’ teeth to start cavity colonies.
Wouldn’t it be nice if parents and friends could help avoid those dental woes, and give the kids something that’s sweet for the head instead of sweet for the tooth?
With Halloween Mini-Comics available from the folks at Dark Horse Comics, Archie Comics, Fantagraphics, and Tokyopop, you can give the lions, tigers, and bears that come to your doorstep something they can read while they’re munching on all those goodies. You’ll be helping them to not only discover comics, but to read! Help them learn something besides passwords for online gaming!
These are the comics you can purchase from your local comics shop retailer:
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Casper/Little Lulu Mini-Comic Click here to download a preview! |
Star Wars Mini-Comic Click here to download a preview! |
Dark Horse Comics
Casper The Friendly Ghost/Little Lulu Halloween Treat Mini-Comic
(W/A) John Stanley (Lulu)
(W/A) Unknown (Casper)
Trick or Treat with Little Lulu and Casper the Friendly Ghost, and fill your goody bag with four classic stories of Halloween hilarity! In the two headlining features, Lulu outsmarts Old Witch Hazel, and Casper looks for friends at a Halloween party, both told with wit and warmth, and featuring beautiful artwork — including some from legend John Stanley! Throw in a couple of hysterical one-pagers and that’s a whole lot of treats, no trick!
Mini-Comic, 16pgs, FC (Bundle 25) PI
Star Wars: Halloween Special 2009 Mini-Comic
(W) Steve Niles
(A) Davidé Fabbri, Christian Dalla Vecchia
(C) Igor Kordey
This Halloween, you’re in for a really spooky treat from the Star Wars universe! Han Solo and his best pal, Chewbacca, stumble upon something frightening when they become stranded on a planet shrouded in a deep and mysterious fog... It’s a classic Star Wars adventure featuring your favorite Star Wars heroes — with a little Halloween twist!
Mini-Comic, 16pgs, FC (Bundle 25) PI
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Betty Cooper Mini-Comic Click here to download a preview! |
Popeye Mini-Comic Click here to download a preview! |
Archie Comics
Archie & Friends All-Stars Presents: Betty Cooper Confidential Mini-Comic
(W/A) Dan Parent
In Betty Cooper Confidential, Betty is en route to the book binder to get her diary professionally bound when a stiff wind literally sends the pages of her life flying! Will her friends be able to resist taking a peek at the pages they recover? Just what has Betty written about everyone over the years? These answers and more await you in this suspenseful and poignant tale. It's perfect for Halloween Trick or Treat bags!
Mini-Comic, 16pgs, FC (Bundle 25) PI
Fantagraphics
E.C. Segar’s Popeye: Popeye Vs. “The Ghosk” Halloween Mini-Comic
(W/A) E.C. Segar
A classic strip from E.C. Segar's Thimble Theater finds the spinach-lovin' Sailor Man dukin' it out with "The Ghosk!" Is this phantom a real specter, or is there something less-than-spooky at work here? Find out in the classic sequence from the heyday of the Popeye comic strip by the legendary E.C. Segar, perfect for young and old swabs alike!
Mini-Comic, 16pgs, FC (Bundle 25) PI
Tokyopop
Domo: The Manga Mini-Comic
(W) Clint Bickham
(A) Erie Horita
International celebrity Domo gets into all kinds of trouble in these full-color manga stories. First popularized in Japan as the mascot for the national television station, Domo has won the hearts of people the world over with his hilarious and unpredictable antics. In these stories, Domo and his friends figure out how cell phones work, while Domo decides to be whatever he sees on TV, including Tarzan, a samurai, and finally, a chef!
Mini-Comic, 16pgs, FC (Bundle 25) PI
Click here to download a preview!
Sold in bundles of 25, and shipped weeks before Halloween, these mini-comics are small in size, so they’re perfect to fit in the bags of the local trick-or-treaters.
Print out the below checklist, take it to your local comic shop retailer to order some of these comics, and help give kids something different for this year’s Halloween festivities.
Dentists will groan — but parents will sing!
