More Than 4.6 Million Comic Books Ordered for Free Comic Book Day

Comic book specialty retailers worldwide expect record attendance at this year’s Free Comic Book Day (FCBD) and have also pushed their ordering to record levels—with more than 4.6 million free comic books to be available the day of the event, May 4, 2013.

Nearly 2,000 retail accounts have signed up this year as participating stores for Free Comic Book Day—also a record number of participating stores—and expectations are high.

“FCBD is the day after the opening of the Marvel’s Iron Man 3 film, and thousands of comic book shops across North America and around the world will look to share the magic of comic books with their communities,” said FCBD spokesperson Leslie Bowser. “It’s really a wonderful time for comic shops as they are clearly energized from a full year of strong sales and will look to continue that positive trend going forward in 2013.”

BTS from Exclusive Interview with Mark Millar

Without spoiling the surprise we have for you guys at Flipgeeks, I'd like to share a photo we had with Mark Millar.

As you can see, this is the Flipgeeks team in full force as we got a chance to sit down and chat with our comic book idol Mark Millar as part of this weekend's "MILLA IN MANILA" event courtesy of National Book Store.

Tune in to the other site I run as we provide you with some geek hilarity as we got to sit down with Mark last Saturday, May 26.

Here's a shot of our dearest friends from NBS post-signing.(With Leinil Yu, Gerry Alanguilan and Sunny Gho)

Mark Millar was awesome but it would never have happened if not for you guys. Special thanks to Ms. Karla, Sir Miguel and the rest of the fine people from NBS.