Thursday, 14 November 2013

Dynamite Entertainment's Bat/Fury February 2014 Solicitations

And they come with disappointing news.
MISS FURY #11
Writer: Rob Williams
Art: Jack Herbert

FINAL ISSUE! With Miss Fury now allied with US Naval Intelligence she is parachuted into wartime Europe in order to track down Schauburger's laboratory in Germany. Can she find her kidnapped lover, Captain Chandler, there? And who is attacking Schauburger during his garbled ghostly messages? Nazi forces are everywhere but a war can be fought on many fronts, as Miss Fury is about to discover...

The BLACK BAT #9
Writer: Brian Buccellato
Art: Ronan Cliquet

To save Carol Baldwin's life, the Black Bat must do the unthinkable and break his most hated enemy out of prison. But will doing so cement his status as an outlaw? Also, the police start to lose their grip on the city as vigilantism takes hold with disastrous results.
These two items are from an "exclusive first look" at the solicitations that Comic Vine posted.  The fourth issue of Noir should also come out that month, but it was not included in the first look.  When its solicitation is available, I'll add it here.

And so ends the Miss Fury series, unfortunately.

Now historically Dynamite would tend to forget about characters that did not sell well for them.  Of late they've improved on that level though.  They have restored their 1940's version of the Green Hornet, for example, and have included some of their character in other books, much like they did for both The Black Bat and Miss Fury in Masks (and Fury in Noir).  So it's not necessarily the end for our leading lady.

And quite frankly, I believe The Black Bat is headed for a similar fate.  Brian Buccellato's current story ends at #12 and the book isn't a top seller for the company.  As best as I could determine, it was about in the middle of the pack in  terms of sales, but several of the books that sold similar amounts are now cancelled, including Vampirella, Jennifer Blood and Green Hornet: Legacy.  The positive side of that is that those titles all had 30 plus issues published, so perhaps there's hope.

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