Dark Horse Deluxe has announced a major lineup of licensed merchandise for release in 2008 highlighted by two separate lines of products based on The Spirit. This spring Dark Horse will release statues, busts, PVC sets and sculpted magnets based on Will Eisner's classic The Spirit comics, while later in the year Dark Horse will produce a line of products based on the new Spirit film directed by Frank Miller that is set to debut on January 16th, 2009.
In addition to Hellboy 2 (see 'Dark Horse Readies New Hellboy Merchandise') and Domo (see 'Dark Horse's Domo Merchandise') items, Dark Horse is also planning to release limited edition vinyl figures from MINDstyle based on Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal and Frank Cho's Liberty Meadows. Also set to debut this spring are statues from Weta based on the new BBC Doctor Who series as well as a second set of PVC figures based on Roman Dirge's Lenore.
In July Dark Horse will release a first set of PVC figures based on the classic Yoshitaka Amano illustrations for Vampire Hunter D as well as mini-busts of Mugen, Jin and Fuu from Shinichiro Watanabe's Samurai Champloo.
Other key Dark Horse merchandise releases include a Kull Bust (in June), a wonderful Weta 1902 Ray Pistol, two Serenity Lunchboxes, and six new 'Syroco-style' statues of Classic Comic Book Characters including Grendel, Cutter, Green Lama, Ghost, The Goon and Rocketeer.
