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Planetwide Media Unites Super Heroes With Innovative Technology to Launch Marvel Heroes Comic Book Creator Interactive Entertainment Software at Retailers in US and Canada
Create Personalized Comic Books Featuring Your Favorite MARVEL Characters -- Spider-Man, X-Men With Wolverine, and Elektra
| Source: Planetwide Media
LOS ANGELES, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- December 19, 2006 -- Planetwide Media today announced the retail
launch of the Marvel Heroes Comic Book Creator™
http://www.mycomicbookcreator.com/marvelheroes/ interactive entertainment
software across the United States and Canada in major retail stores and
through online retailers. Marvel Heroes Comic Book Creator software allows
users to create personalized comic books featuring their favorite Marvel
characters -- Spider-Man, X-Men with Wolverine and Elektra.
Planetwide's Marvel Heroes Comic Book Creator is an innovative interactive
entertainment PC software application that enables Marvel fans to use their
imaginations and actual "MARVEL Heroes" content to create personalized
comics and comic books, which can then be posted to blogs, emailed to
friends or printed out and shared with others. MARVEL Heroes Comic Book
Creator users can drag and drop Marvel Heroes images, icons, tag lines,
symbols, and artwork into a vast selection of over 100 different layout and
design templates, Users can create with over 300 pieces of Marvel content
then combine their creation and storyline to make their own "MARVEL Heroes"
comics.
The retail box version of MARVEL Heroes Comic Book Creator software is now
available through GameStop, EB Games, FAO Schwarz New York, EB Games
Canada, Wal-Mart Canada, Comic Book Stores, as well as mass market,
electronics and online retailers across the United States and Canada. The
retail box version will be sold for $29.99 and is now available at
retailers' websites and http://www.mycomicbookcreator.com/marvelheroes/.
Additional versions of Marvel Comic Book Creator and content "Booster
Packs" will be merchandised and sold separately. Marvel Comics Retro Comic
Book Creator for comic book collectors, Marvel Spider-man and Friends Comic
Book Creator, and Marvel Ghost Rider Comic Book Creator are just a few of
the future and forthcoming products releases.
"MARVEL Heroes Comic Book Creator software empowers the inner comic book
artist inside all of us that yearns to be released and free to express his
or her own super powers and heroism through graphic novel storytelling with
the Marvel universe of characters," said Kevin Donovan, president of
Planetwide Media. "Ever since I was a young aspiring artist painting the
Incredible Hulk on my parents' basketball backboard, I dreamed and aspired
to become a Marvel comic book creator. The day has now arrived where our
proven technology enables me along with millions of new and long time
Marvel Comic Book fans with the opportunity to create their own
personalized comics with authentic Marvel characters."
About Planetwide Media
Planetwide Media, (A division of Planetwide Games, Inc.) provides a
unique and patent pending, interactive, self-publishing personalized media
platform for a wide audience of emerging consumers in the digital media
space. The company provides web enabled tools, software applications and
video games that provide personal interactivity. The company's signature
product, Comic Book Creator™ is a best of breed digital media platform
that embraces User Generated Content (UGC) and enables users to blend their
creations into their social networks, their blogs and across the web. Comic
Book Creator is an easy to use platform that provides the consumer with a
richly enhanced interactive digital experience. Planetwide Media is
currently licensing the Comic Book Creator technology and partnering with
world-class entertainment, video game, sports, music and lifestyle brands
worldwide.
Visit http://www.mycomicbookcreator.com,
http://www.myplanetwide.com, and
http://www.hypercomics.com for more information.
Comic Book Creator TM & © 2006 Planetwide Games, Inc. All rights
reserved.
About Marvel Entertainment, Inc.
With a library of over 5,000 characters, Marvel Entertainment, Inc. is one
of the world's most prominent character-based entertainment companies.
Marvel's operations are focused on utilizing its character franchises in
licensing, entertainment, publishing and toys. Areas of emphasis include
feature films, DVD/home video, consumer products, video games, action
figures and role-playing toys, television and promotions. Rooted in the
creative success of over sixty years of comic book publishing, Marvel's
strategy is to leverage its character franchises in a growing array of
opportunities around the world. For more information visit www.marvel.com.
Except for any historical information that they contain, the statements in
this news release regarding Marvel's plans are forward-looking statements
that are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, including a decrease
in the level of media exposure or popularity of Marvel's characters,
financial difficulties of Marvels licensees, changing consumer
preferences, movie- and television-production delays and cancellations,
toy-production delays or shortfalls, continued concentration of toy
retailers, toy inventory risk, the imposition of quotas or tariffs on
products manufactured in China and a decrease in cash flow even as Marvel
remains indebted to its note holders. These and other risks and
uncertainties are described in Marvel's filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, including Marvel's Annual Reports on Form 10-K,
Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K. Marvel
assumes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking
statements.
TM & © 2006 Marvel Entertainment, Inc. and subsidiaries, all rights
reserved. Super Heroes is a co-owned registered trademark.