FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CHAPTERHOUSE MOVES TO THE COMIC HOUSE IMPRINT UNDER LEV GLEASON®
Chapterhouse Comics released its first Issue, Captain Canuck® #0, on May 02, 2015 as part of Diamond Distributors’ Free Comic Book Day. The reboot of Richard Comely’s 1974 beloved character received his first official international release in decades. By interspersing other rebooted International legacy characters- Northguard, Freelance, Fantomah and a host of others throughout the Captain Canuck timeline, the Chapterverse was born. Chapterhouse quickly became Canada’s largest Superhero comic book publisher.
Now, after six years of publishing and quarterbacked by American Daredevil, a biography of Lev Gleason by his grand-nephew Brett Dakin, which was released in March 2020, Chapterhouse will be moving. Now owned by the revived Lev Gleason®, inc., Chapterhouse’s IPs are being distributed to imprints from the publishers’ storied history. Chapterhouse’s Chapterverse is moving into Lev Gleason’s Comic House imprint, Remaining creator-owned books have found a home under the New Friday imprint and remaining novels will be available under the Lev Gleason Library imprint. Each imprint maintains distribution through Diamond Comics, Diamond Books and Ingram Publishing respectively.
Comic House™ is introducing the 80-page Mega- Lev Gleason Presents (LGp), a monthly title that incorporates its line of legacy reboots into its universe, namely Silver Streak™, Captain Battle™, Crimebuster and “The Greatest Name in Comics™”: Daredevil- characters originally released by Lev Gleason Publications (under various imprints) in the forties. The mission is to provide a long-lasting home for the entire Comic House universe in a single monthly title. A new #1 will don the cover of every issue, with two new follow-up stories and a selection from the imprints’ storied Archives. Each issue will also contain free digital download codes of each issue featured. The first issue, featuring Silver Streak Season 1 #1, Captain Canuck Season 5 #3 and Freelance Season 2 #1 and a reprint of a golden-age Silver Streak story, will be available on comic store shelves world-wide on April 28, 2021. Trade Paperbacks of each season of stories will be produced at the conclusion of storylines as usual and single issues of the individual stories from LGp will be available online at levgleason.com
Comic House Archives will be dedicated to collecting and restoring for print publication the entirety of the Lev Gleason line of books beginning with its superhero archives. While this long-term project will take considerable time Lev Gleason® is committing to providing the digitally restored collections available for free on levgleason.com/archives.
New Friday™, the independently curated and run creator-owned imprint, will kick off with the Michaud Brothers’ HΩME Volume 1 available now. Other 2021 titles include Minerva’s Map by Stefan Tosheff, Celery Stalks volume 1 by Pat Rooks, the complete Scratcher by John Ward, and Frogboy by John Burgin.
Lev Gleason Library also debuts in April 2021 with a Lev Gleason® Daredevil novel- Death Takes Centre Stage followed by a new Captain Canuck Novel- The “I” of the Needle, both by D.K Latta.
Information about these releases and many more can be found on levgleason.com, along with a new Library and Retailers Portal and a sign up for the Lev Gleason Monthly Newsletter.
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