ComicMix Radio: The Dark Knight Storms Stores

Chances are if you are serious about comics or pop culture, you’ll be buying Dark Knight on DVD today or soon, but this week’s haul at the comic shop has some other things worthy of your wallet’s attention including that little goodie to the right. We preview them, plus:

• Classic Star Trek comics come to the iPhone
• Late Night With Jimmy Fallon has already started
• Toy Fair is sooner than you think

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Broadcast, $2.97. CometMits.com. What to buy after you pay for the dark night? CometMits.com. Hey there, Matt, Rob here, while Mike is still on assignment, and it's a safe bet to say that today a good chunk of your pop culture pocket change is going to be for Dark Night on DVD, but we've got just a few suggestions on what to do with all that leftover cash coming up on December 9th.

2008, CometMits used. The original crew of the Starship Enterprise are now on the iPhone and the iPod Touch. IDW Publishing and iVerse Media are uploading Star Trek Archives, the best of Peter David, number one. In the first issue of the ongoing digital comic series that reprints some of the best comics from Star Trek's illustrious history, Peter David is one of the most popular and respected Star Trek writers known for his mingling of humor and pop culture. This issue reprints Star Trek number 13, originally published by TC Comics, The Return of the Worthy, part one by Bill Moomy and Peter David.

The story stars the original series cast and is set between the fifth and sixth Star Trek feature film. The online comic can be downloaded right now for a small fee at the iTunes App Store. Jimmy Fallon will begin his dry run as a host of NBC's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon this week in a series of five minute video blogs on NBC.com. New installments will be posted weeknights at 12.30 a.m. to coincide with the show's official time slot. Variety has Jimmy officially taking over for Conan O'Brien on March 2nd.

Also on the web this week, the WB.com kicks off its latest original series, the hospital drama parody Children's Hospital, starring The Daily Show's Rob Cordry, Megan Mullaly, Ed Helms and many other. The show itself was created by Cordry. With 68 days until the American International Toy Fair, information about new products that will be featured at the annual event are rolling in. This year's hot ticket item seems to be the godfather, as Paramount licensing will launch a lifelike six-inch tall limited edition bust of Don Corleone,

whereas Funko Bobbleheads will release the Don Vito Corleone as a talking bobblehead. Toy Fair 2009 will take place February 15th through the 18th in 2009 in fabulous New York City. Hi, this is Rosario Dawson, and you're listening to ComicMix. And it's that time again when the new funny books come out. We can all sit around and talk about what the fun stuff is.

And this week we've got Terry Moore's Echo No. 8, BPRD War on Frogs No. 2, Herbie Archives Hardcover Vol. 2, Star Wars Clone Wars No. 3 of 6, and over at DC we've got 100 Bullets No. 98, Action Comics No. 872 with a new Krypton variant, Ambush Bug Year None No. 5 of 6, Batman Confidential No. 24, Batman Joker's Asylum Trade Paperback, Booster Gold No. 15, Brave in the Bold Lords of Luck Trade Paperback, Camelot 3000, that's the hardcover deluxe edition, Detective Comics No. 851 with a variant,

DMZ No. 37, the fifth issue of Seven of Final Crisis, the fourth issue of Five of Final Crisis Revelations, Gen 13 No. 25, Green Arrow Black Canary No. 15, Green Lantern Corps No. 31, Green Lantern Secret Origin, that's the hardcover, the eighth issue of House of Mystery, Jack of Fables Trade Paperback Vol. 4, that's the Americana, JSA hardcover Vol. 3, Thy Kingdom Come Part 2, Justice League of America No. 27, that's Sightings, Legion of Superheroes, the more things change trade paperback, the second issue of Mirror's Edge,

that's of six, Nightwing No. 151, the fourth issue of Secret Six No. 4, Simon Dark No. 15, Superman Batman No. 54, also Superman Batman vs. Vampires Werewolves, that's No. 5 of 6, Titans No. 8, Trinity No. 28, Venus in Love Vol. 5, and one of the best bets this week is a new printing of Watchmen No. 1, that's the comic book, nice little collectible to have before the movie hits, also from DC, Young Liars No. 10. From Dynamic Forces we've got Army of Darkness No. 15, Death Defying Devil No. 1 in two variants,

Lone Ranger No. 16, The Man with No Name No. 6, a new Battlestar Galactica Ghost, that's three of four, new Battlestar Galactica Season Zero, that's Vol. 1 of the trade paperback, Painkiller Jane vs. Terminator trade paperback Vol. 1, and Red Sonya hardcover Vol. 5, World on Fire. From Gemstone we've got Uncle Scrooge No. 383 and Walt Disney's Comics and Stories No. 698. IDW brings us 30 Days of Night, 30 Days Till Death No. 1, American Freak Show graphic novel,

Doctor Who Classics Series 2 No. 1, Epilogue No. 3, Freaks of the Heartland scriptbook softcover, and a nice best bet from IDW as Ghost Whisper the Muse No. 1 comes out in a hit series in comics also on iTunes. A few more from IDW as time management for Anarchist No. 1 comes out, Transformers Maximum Dinobots No. 1, and Transformers More Than Meets the Eye Trade Paperback Vol. 2. From Image Comics we've got Darkness Laudbrox Hand, that's a one shot with two covers,

Elephant Men No. 14, I Kill Giants No. 6 of 7, Invincible No. 56, Phonogram 2 No. 1 of 7, that's the singles club, Savage Dragon No. 142, Spawn Neo Noir, that's the trade paperback, and Witchblade No. 122. And from Marvel we've got Adam Legend of Blue Marvel No. 2 of 5, Amazing Spider Girl No. 27 with a villain variant, Amazing Spider Girl Trade Paperback, that's the brand new day, Vol. 4, Amazing Spider-Man No. 580, Astonishing X-Men Ghost Boxes, that's 2 of 2, Avengers Hardcover First to Last,

Big Hero 6 No. 4 of 5, Captain America Trade Paperback, that's the chosen, Captain Britain and MI13 No. 8 with a villain variant, Civil War House of M No. 4 of 5, Daredevil Man Without Fear, that's a hardcover, Guardians of the Galaxy Hardcover Vol. 1, that's Legacy, Hulk Chronicles World War Hulk No. 6, Marvel Adventures Spider-Man No. 46, Marvel Apes No. 0, Nova the Annihilation Hardcover, Punisher Warzone No. 1 of 6 with a variant,

Here's another Best Betz for ya, Secret Invasion Dark Reign with a variant, It sets the stage where Marvel is going to be going into their next big crossover series in 2009. Spider-Man brand new day No. 3, Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane Season 2 No. 5 of 5, What If Captain America Fallen Son, Wolverine Dangerous Games Hardcover, Wolverine Flies to a Spider, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz No. 1 of 8 with 2 variants, X-Men Spider-Man No. 204 and finally Toy Fair No. 138 comes out.

In DVDs, as if we really need to tell you, the Dark Knight slams into stores today, set to burst all sales records, you get several choices including a Blu-ray version with a Bat-pod, so choose carefully. Evening Commissioner In comics, down at the drugstore DC gave us Batman No. 178, Black Hawk No. 217, the 64th issue of Brave and the Bold which had Batman vs. Eclipso, Challenges the Unknown No. 48 that featured the Doom Patrol, Hawkman No. 12, the 42nd issue of Justice League, which was when Metamorpho says no,

Lois Lane No. 63 and over at Marvel we had Fantastic Four No. 48, The Coming of Galactus, Spider-Man No. 34, The Strange Tales No. 142 and the very first issue of Fantasy Masterpieces. 1965 In the news, a major scuffle in the Soviet command left many Communist Party leaders scrambling for new jobs, two US Air Force planes exploded over Thailand, killing one American pilot, the Gemini 6 spacecraft was set to launch from Cape Kennedy,

among its mission would be a hookup with the orbiting Gemini 6 spacecraft. In the movies, there was still The Sound of Music, also The Third Day, Dr. Goldfoot and The Mckinney Machine, Disney's Old Yeller and a many British Invasion with Dave Clark Five in Having a Wild Weekend. Oddly enough, the title of the movie was soon changed to fit one of DC5's biggest hits. On TV tonight, there were episodes of Shindig, Bwitched, Peyton Place and Dan

In the movies, there was still The Sound of Music, also The Third Day, Dr. Goldfoot and The Mckinney Machine, Disney's Old Yeller and a many British Invasion with Dave Clark Five in Having a Wild Weekend. Oddly enough, the title of the movie was soon changed to fit one of DC5's biggest hits. On TV tonight, there were episodes of Shindig, Bwitched, Peyton Place and Dan In the movies, there was still The Sound of Music, also The Third Day, Dr. Goldfoot and The Mckinney Machine,

Disney's Old Yeller and a many British Invasion with Dave Clark Five in Having a Wild Weekend. Oddly enough, the title of the movie was soon changed to fit one of DC5's biggest hits. On TV tonight, there were episodes of Shindig, Bwitched, Peyton Place and Dan In the movies, and on the radio, another West Philly singer who was no stranger to the charts. A couple of years back, he hit the top with his group the Dovells, but now he had his first of two solo hits.

Here's Len Berry and 123. I'm gonna let you all in love, it's easy to solve things like taking candy from a baby. ComicMix Back later in the week with a look at some of the best-selling graphic novels that aren't Watchmen. Catch that by subscribing to us right now on iTunes.

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