SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON ANNOUNCEMENT: BESTSELLING AUTHOR DEAN KOONTZ'S HARDCOVER GRAPHIC NOVEL,
FRANKENSTEIN: STORM SURGE, ANNOUNCED FOR OCTOBER RELEASE
An Original Horror Story Set Within the Author's Official Frankenstein
Continuity, Exclusive to the Graphic Novel Format
July 19, 2016, Mt. Laurel, NJ: From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time! Dynamite Entertainment proudly presents Storm Surge, the complete, in-continuity story set within the universe of Dean Koontz's Frankenstein novel series. Pairing the New York Times bestselling author again with co-writers Chuck Dixon (Seal Team Six) and Rik Hoskin (Brandon Sanderson's White Sand), and artist Andres Ponce, Frankenstein: Storm Surge will be available for sale this coming October in both standard and limited Signed Editions, priced at $24.99 and $39.99 respectively.
From the back cover of the upcoming graphic novel: "While healing from a beating she suffered at the hands of Victor Helios (the madman once known as Dr. Frankenstein and her own maker), Erika Five decides to leave the comfort of her glassed-in porch and bottle of cognac to explore Victor's secret home lab, which she believes is an antechamber to something more sinister. With the help of a decapitated head named Karloff, Erika finds a secret lab and within discovers that Victor's experiments are not limited to his attempts at creating a race of super-immortals. No, he has constructed a mirror-like portal to another universe... one of infinite realities that Victor is trying to bridge for his own horrible reasons!"
"Dean Koontz is a true master of storytelling with a list of bestsellers that is too long to list," says Dynamite CEO and Publisher, Nick Barrucci. "Working with Dean and his team to expand upon his Frankenstein story has been just as rewarding for fans as it has for us as a publisher."
Dean Koontz is a New York Times bestselling author whose books are published in 38 languages and have sold over 450 million copies to date. Fourteen of his novels have risen to the top of the NYT hardcover bestseller list (One Door Away From Heaven, From the Corner of His Eye, Midnight, Cold Fire, The Bad Place, Hideaway, Dragon Tears, Intensity, Sole Survivor, The Husband, Odd Hours, Relentless, What the Night Knows, and 77 Shadow Street), making him one of only a dozen writers ever to have achieved that milestone. Sixteen of his books have risen to the number one position in paperback. His books have also been major bestsellers in countries as diverse as Japan and Sweden. Rolling Stone has hailed him as "America's most popular suspense novelist."
Dean Koontz's Frankenstein: Storm Surge hardcover will be distributed to booksellers like Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, and Indigo, via Dynamite's partnership with Diamond Book Distributors. For comic book specialty stores, Frankenstein: Storm Surge will be solicited in Diamond Comic Distributors' August 2016 Previews catalog, corresponding to release in October. Fans are encouraged to reserve copies with their local comic book retailers or bookstores. Frankenstein: Storm Surge will also be available for individual customer purchase through digital platforms courtesy of Comixology, Dynamite Digital, iVerse, and Dark Horse Digital.
About Dynamite Entertainment:
Dynamite was founded in 2004 and is home to several best-selling comic book titles and properties, including The Boys, The Shadow, Red Sonja, Warlord of Mars, Bionic Man, A Game of Thrones, and more. Dynamite owns and controls an extensive library with over 3,000 characters (which includes the Harris Comics and Chaos Comics properties), such as Vampirella, Pantha, Evil Ernie, Smiley the Psychotic Button, Chastity, and Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt. In addition to their critically-acclaimed titles and bestselling comics, Dynamite works with some of the most high profile creators in comics and entertainment, including Kevin Smith, Alex Ross, Neil Gaiman, Andy Diggle, John Cassaday, Garth Ennis, Jae Lee, Marc Guggenheim, Mike Carey, Jim Krueger, Greg Pak, Brett Matthews, Matt Wagner, Gail Simone, Steve Niles, James Robinson, and a host of up-and-coming new talent. Dynamite is consistently ranked in the upper tiers of comic book publishers and several of their titles - including Alex Ross and Jim Krueger's Project Superpowers - have debuted in the Top Ten lists produced by Diamond Comics Distributors. In 2005, Diamond awarded the company a GEM award for Best New Publisher and another GEM in 2006 for Comics Publisher of the Year (under 5%) and again in 2011. The company has also been nominated for and won several industry awards, including the prestigious Harvey and Eisner Awards.
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