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Free Comic Book Day (FCBD) is an annual promotional effort by the North American comic book industry to attract new readers to independent comic book stores. It usually takes place on the first Saturday of May and has historically been cross-promoted with the release of a superhero film .
The list of US federal holidays is made up of 11 days of significance that Americans recognise and celebrate
Comic book nerd Christmas has arrived, with Free Comic Book Day kicking off on Saturday, May 7. This year is the 20th anniversary of this annual event, which offers free comics to anyone who asks.
Independence Day. Labor Day. Columbus Day. Veterans Day. Thanksgiving Day. Christmas Day. Federal holidays in the United States are 11 calendar dates designated by the U.S. federal government as holidays. On these days non-essential U.S. federal government offices are closed and federal employees are paid for the day off.
OpEd: On May 6, comic book stores across the country will participate in Free Comic Book Day, offering over 40 different comic books for free to anyone who visits.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day (officially Birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., [1] and often referred to shorthand as MLK Day) is a federal holiday in the United States observed on the third Monday of January each year. King was chief spokesperson for nonviolent activism in the Civil Rights Movement, which protested racial discrimination in federal ...
Juneteenth became one of five date-specific federal holidays along with New Year's Day (January 1), Independence Day (July 4), Veterans Day (November 11), and Christmas Day (December 25). Juneteenth is the first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was declared a holiday in 1986.
The vintage comic books that fetch seven figures at auction -- on Dec. 17 of last year, "Superman" #1 sold for $2.6 million -- didn't start out as vintage. They started out as new-release comics ...