The marketing for Action Comics #1000 is heating up, with DC announcing midnight sales and a featurette about the comics that is tied to Syfy's Krypton. Retailers can put Action Comics #1000 on sale at midnight on April 18, along with the Action Comics: 80 Years of Superman poster.

Writer Brian Michael Bendis revealed via Twitter that he and several other comics creators participated in a 23-minute feature for SyFy about the origins of Superman. The video ties the Superman comics directly to the promotion of the network’s new show Krypton (see “New 'Krypton' Trailer Reveals Plot”), which Bendis said answers retailer calls “to incorporate comics in the marketing of the TV & movies.” The video also offers new footage from the upcoming show.

Action Comics #1000 will include Bendis’s first published work for DC, a 10-page backup story with art by Jim Lee (see “Superman Dons His Red Trunks For 'Action Comics' #1000”).

DC also released images for the blank variant for the 80-page issue, which is part of an already stacked list of variant covers (see “Preview: 'Action Comics' #1000 Variant Covers”). A commemorative hardcover for the issue will include a previously unpublished story from Jerry Siegel and the Joe Shuster Studio (see “DC to Release Lost Siegel and Shuster Superman Story”).