Both Games Workshop and Titan Comics will provide marketing support for the launch of Titan’s Warhammer 40,000 comic debuting on October 12 (see “Exclusive! 'Warhammer 40K' Comic Creative Team, Covers, Release Date”).

A special #0 issue will be produced for October’s edition of Games Workshop’s White Dwarf magazine. The 32-page preview comic will include an original 10-page strip by the comic’s creative team, as well as a ‘making of’ feature.  The launch will also be supported by posts on the Official Warhammer 40,000 Facebook page, The Games Workshop: Warhammer World Facebook page, and Games Workshop’s official blog and newsletter.

A feature on Warhammer 40,000 #1 will appear in Titan’s July - December 2016 32-page preview sampler, which will be given to retailers at Diamond’s SDCC retailer lunch presentation, distributed to comic stores in late July, and distributed at the Diamond Retailer Summit in Baltimore in late August. The #0 comic will also be handed out to retailers at the Summit.  Titan is also setting up a mass interview program for comic writer George Mann with comics, sci-fi, gaming, genre/cult and entertainment media.

Variants will include store variants for issue #1.

The publisher has also planned activity at key conventions to support the launch, including San Diego Comic-Con and New York Comic Con.

See three page preview in gallery below!