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DVD new releases for Dec. 26, 2006

The Black Dahlia (Widescreen Edition)

Airwolf - Season 2

The Descent (Unrated Full Screen Edition)

The Last Kiss (Widescreen Edition)

Davey & Goliath - The Lost Episodes

Monarch of the Moon/Destination Mars

Sex, Censorship and The Silver Screen

Hammer Film Noir Vol. 4 (Terror Street / Wings of Danger)

Hammer Film Noir, Vol. 5 (The Glass Tomb / Paid to Kill)

Anita O'Day - Live at Ronnie Scott's

New CD releases Dec. 26, 2006

New CD releases Dec. 26, 2006

Singles Box Set by Clash

Rocky Balboa: The Best of Rocky by Original Soundtrack

Arnold Layne / Dark Globe by David Gilmour

I Just Want to See the Boy Happy by Morrissey

See complete lists:
DC Archives
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DC Trade Paperbacks
Marvel Masterworks
Marvel Essentials
Marvel Trade Paperbacks
Upcoming Trade Paperbacks - Graphic Novels

Comics Shipping Dec. 27, 2006

DARK HORSE COMICS

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DC COMICS

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New and upcoming action figures

Complete List of Marvel Legends Action Figures
Complete List of DC Direct Action Figures

Here's a look at action figures available via your local comics shop or via the TIP!-supporting links below:

DC Direct Action Figures

Alex Ross JLA series 5 action figures
--Brainiac
--Lex Luthor
--Green Arrow
--Martian Manhunter
--Red Tornado
--Translucent Martian Manhunter

Batman Through the Ages
--Box Set

Batman/Superman Series 4
--Batzarro
--Bizarro
--Superwoman
--Batwoman
--Batman Beyond
--Kryptonite Batman

DC Direct Reactivated Action Figures
--Batman
--Wonder Woman
--Lobo
--Superman

DC 13-inch Figures
Deluxe Edition 13-inch Green Lantern
Deluxe Edition 13-inch Lex Luthor
Deluxe Edition 13-inch Two-Face
Deluxe Edition 13-inch Superman
Deluxe Edition 13-inch Shazam

Elseworlds Action Figures Series 2
--Red Son Batman
--Red Son President Superman
--Kingdom Come Jade
--Kingdom Come Spectre and Norman McKay
--Gotham By Gaslight Batman

Elseworlds Action Figures Series 3
--Supergirl
--Batgirl
--Nightstar
--Kingdom Come Aquaman
--Red Son Green Lantern

First Appearance Series 4
--Blue Beetle translucent
--Blue Beetle
--Brave New World Atom
--Warlord
--Brave New World Martian Manhunter
--Brave New World Aquaman

Infinite Crisis Action Figures Series 1
--Powergirl
--Omac
--Mongul
--Earth Prime Superboy
--Alexander Luthor

JSA Action Figures
--Mr. Terrific
--Hawkgirl
--Dr. Midnite
--Hourman
--Golden Age Atom 2-pack

Hanna Barbera Series 2 Action Figures
--Captain Caveman
--Fred Flintstone and Dino
--Johnny Quest
--Magilla Gorilla
--Penelope Pitstop and Muttley
--Tom and Jerry
--Yogi Bear
--Flintstones at the Drive-In

Hanna Barbera Series 3 Action Figures
--Fred Flintstone Quittin' Time
--Twinkle Toes Fred Flintstone
--Great Grape Ape
--Huckleberry Hound
--The Jetsons
--Secret Squirrel
--Snagglepuss

Hasbro Spider-Man Origins Figures
--Set of 8
--Spider-Man
--Spider-Man Venom costume
--Green Goblin
--Doctor Octopus
--Iron Spider-Man
--Wolverine
--Captain America
--Daredevil

Lost series 2 action figures
--Crash site box set
--Sawyer
--Jin
--Sayid
--Desmond
--Sun
--Mr. Eko

Marvel Figure Factory Sets
--Angel
--Beast
--Black Costume Spider-Man
--Deadpool
--Invisible Woman
--Silver Surfer

Marvel Legends Action Figures

Hasbro Marvel Legends Figures Series 1
--Emma Frost
--Ultimate Iron Man
--Movie Beast
--Planet Hulk
--Banshee
--Hercules

Hasbro Marvel Legends Action Figures Series 2
--Wolverine
--She-Hulk
--Yellow Jacket
--Quick Silver
--Lord Asgard Thor
--Magneto Xorn
--X3 Jean Grey
--First Appearance Storm

Marvel Legends Series 15
--Mandarin
--Beta Ray Bill
--Moon Knight
--Spider-Woman (variant)
--Quicksilver (variant)
--Thor-Buster Iron Man
--Wasp (variant)
--Captain Marvel (variant)

Marvel Legends Icons 13-inch Action Figures Series 3 Action Figures
--Spider-Man
--Spider-Man Variant
--Beast
--Beast Variant

Hasbro Marvel Legends Icons 13-inch Series 1 Action Figures
--Wolverine
--Thor

Marvel Legends Masterworks Sets
--Spider-Man Vs. Green Goblin
--Fantastic Four Vs. Mole Man
--Hulk Vs. The Thing
--Galactus Vs. Everybody

Marvel Select Figures

Best of Marvel Select Figures
--Grey Hulk
--Thanos
--Ultimate Spider-Man
--Green Goblin

Marvel Studios
--Dr. Doom with Mask
--Dr. Doom unmasked

Star Wars Transformers
--Millennium Falcon With Han Solo and Chewbacca

Pop Artifact! Space 1999 robot

Pop Culture Roundup Dec. 22, 2006

Coming Soon has an exclusive pic of Keith Richards on set and in costume as Jack Sparrow's dad in "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End."

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Could somebody please give me $1,500 so I can buy this Superman painting by Steve Rude?

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Speaking of money, a high school year book featuring rare pictures of privacy minded Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko is for sale on E-Bay.

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The Bat Blog displays some groovy custom Batmobile models. Not to mention a custom Dark Knight Hello Kitty doll!

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A fire destroyed the home of "Lost" star Evangeline Lilly.

...her two female roommates were not home when the fire broke out sometime after 6:30 a.m.

"Unfortunately, it is true that the home she rented in Hawaii did burn down this morning," Lilly's publicist Cara Tripicchio said in an e-mail. "Evangeline was on set already when the fire occurred and luckily, her roommates were not in the house either.

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A whole buncha writers are slated to contribute to Joss Whedon's upcoming Buffy the Vampire Slayer comic, which picks up where the TV series ended.

Whedon says he’ll write several of the book’s arcs, including the first, “The Long Way Home” with art by Georges Jeanty. For the rest, Whedon has assembled a veritable who’s who of comic book writing talent that includes Brian K. Vaughan (Ex Machina), Brad Meltzer (Justice League of America) and Jeph Loeb (Onslaught Reborn), along with former “Buffy” TV writers Jane Espenson, Drew Goddard, Drew Greenberg and Steven DeKnight.

“I have some extremely powerhouse comic book people who surprisingly threw their hats in, and then some of my best show writers,” says Whedon. “I approached the guys I did because I knew they could bring something-not just get it done, but really bring something to the party.”

Former "Buffy" TV series writer Douglas Petrie also is apparently planning to contribute.

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Speaking of "Buffy," Sarah Michelle Gellar is adding her voice to the new "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" CGI flick.

She will play April, the human researcher who serves as the Turtles' tech-services worker and mother figure.

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The seventh and last Harry Potter has a title--"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"--but not release date.

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Jack Burnley, one of the all-time best Batman and Superman artists, died Tuesday. Comics historian Mark Evanier has a tribute.

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What's Christmas without Fred Hembeck's annual presentation of Santa heads? Happy holidays, Fred!

New and upcoming action figures Dec. 21, 2006

Pop Artifacts! Lone Ranger and Tonto figures

Pop Culture Roundup Dec. 21, 2006

The legendary Stax record label has been reactivated, with Isaac Hayes once again on the roster.

The first two signings are Hayes and R&B singer Angie Stone, while the first new release will be "Interpretations," a tribute to the songs of Earth Wind & Fire mastermind Maurice White.

"Stax always has been and always will be soul music, I was a part of that," Hayes said in a statement. "I am coming back to Stax because there is still so much to do. It's like coming home."

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Meanwhile, onetime Stax signee Mavis Staples has a new, politically minded album coming out.

Due April 24, "We'll Never Turn Back" was produced by Ry Cooder, who contributed two original songs and new arrangements of the traditional "This Little Light" and "99 and a Half."

The album will be released by Anti- Records, an offshoot of punk label Epitaph Records.

..."The feeling is that freedom songs and the civil rights movement have particular relevance today in light of what's going on with the war and the conservatism in the U.S.," Epitaph/Anti- founder Brett Gurewitz told Billboard.com. "Hopefully we can subtly point out through this record that liberalism has a foundation in spirituality itself. It's a political record, but one with a lot of soul."

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The FBI is making public a final batch of documents the agency kept while spying on former Beatle John Lennon back in the early 1970s.

Despite the fierce battle the government waged to keep the documents secret, the files contain information that is hardly shocking, just new details about Lennon's ties to New Left leaders and antiwar groups in London in the early 1970s, said the historian, Jon Wiener.

For example, in one memo, then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover wrote to H.R. Haldeman, President Nixon's chief of staff, that "Lennon had taken an interest in 'extreme left-wing activities in Britain' and is known to be a sympathizer of Trotskyist communists in England."

You can check out the documents here.

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Former Procol Harum organist Matthew Fisher has won a co-writing credit for "Whiter Shade of Pale" after a long court battle.

Gary Brooker, 61, who still fronts the band, will now have to share all future revenues from the song, and must also pay a large part of a legal bill estimated at £500,000.

At a hearing last month Mr Fisher, 60, claimed he not only wrote the Hammond organ solo which forms the introduction to the song and is repeated throughout, but that he also made important chord changes to the original Brooker sequence.

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Games and Beyond has some super-cool Captain Action toy scans out of Sears, Montgomery-Ward, Alden, Spiegel and JC Penny's Christmas "wish books" from the mid- to late 1960s.

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Nancy Drew movie poster revealed

Here's the one-sheet for the upcoming "Nancy Drew and the Mystery in Hollywood Hills" starring Emma Roberts (Julia's niece).

Twin Peaks Season 2 DVD due April 10, preview of cover art

Here's box art for the long, long, long-awaited season 2 set of "Twin Peaks."

You can pre-order the set now for $36.99 from Amazon.

The season will be collected in a six-DVD set. No details on extras yet.

Doctor Who soundtrack out Feb. 13 in U.S.

A top seller and download in the U.K., composer Murray Gold's music from the revived "Doctor Who" TV series is finally coming out over here.

Tracks include:

1. DoctorWho Theme – TV version
2. Westminster Bridge
3. The Doctor's Theme
4. Cassandra's Waltz
5. Slitheen
6. Father's Day
7. Rose In Peril
8. Boom Town Suite
9. I'm Coming To Get You
10. Hologram
11. Rose Defeats The Daleks
12. Clockwork TARDIS
13. arriet Jones, Prime Minister
14. Rose's Theme
15. Song For Ten (performed by Neil Hannon)
16. The Face of Boe
17. UNIT
18. Seeking The Doctor
19. Madame de Pompadour
20. Tooth and Claw
21. The Lone Dalek
22. New Adventures
23. Finding Jackie
24. Monster Bossa
25. The Daleks
26. The Cybermen
27. Doomsday
28. The Impossible Planet
29. Sycorax Encounter
30. Love Don't Roam (performed by Neil Hannon)
31. Doctor Who Theme – Album

You can pre-order it now for $13.99 from Amazon.