DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS ROUNDUP

Dynamite Entetainment has announced an agreement with Conde Nast for a Doc Savage comic book series, set to begin in December. The book will be written by Chris Roberson, with art by Bilquis Evely and covers by Alex Ross, John Cassaday and Stephen Segovia.

"In the course of my comics career, I've been lucky enough to work on nearly every character and series that mattered the most to me growing up," Roberson said. "Doc Savage is one of the final characters left on my bucket list. Growing up in the 70s, it was impossible to miss the Doc Savage reprints in every bookstore and on every newsstand, with those striking covers. Doc quickly became and remained my absolute favorite of all of the pulp heroes, and the stories of Lester Dent were a huge influence on my own writings."

In other Dynamite news:

Dynamite has announced a December release for Frank Thorne's Red Sonja Art Edition, presenting for the first time the storyboard artwork from his complete 1976 run of Red Sonja in the Marvel Feature comic book series.

Scanned in high-resolution color and printed at original size, the hardcover collection marks the first in a series of Dynamite Art Editions featuring prestigious creators and comic titles.

"What is it that makes Red Sonja endure? So many fine craftsmen had drawn her," Thorne said. "When I took over Sonja in 1975, I was standing on the shoulders of giants. Still, many have said that I gave life to The Redhead, the living and iconic fantasy female -- and sexiest title on the comics scene at the time. Fans should thank Roy Thomas, the great writer of comics and screenplays, for assigning me to shepherd Sonja into her own series. A sidekick no more, she was finally the star of the show!"