THE MARVEL SUPER HERO

January kicks off Marvel's year-long 70th Anniversary celebration with a variant cover to CAPTAIN AMERICA #46 featuring Marko Djurdjevic's stunning rendition of the original Human Torch! But that's just the beginning as over the course of 2009 we'll present more Djurdjevic variants featuring some of Marvel's most celebrated heroes, as well as top-secret surprises galore! The next 70 years of Marveldom begin here, True Believers!As for the more recent past, January also brings some awesome new collections, including the complete SECRET INVASION and fan-favorite writer Warren Ellis' RUINS, a dark vision of our heroes' potential future! Meanwhile, classic storylines including "X-Men: Proteus" and "Daredevil: Born Again" get the Premiere Hardcover treatment and "Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man vol. 1" swings in with a softcover edition!
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The Star Wars

Star Wars forever
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, searchThis article is about the media franchise. For the 1977 film, see Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. For other uses, see Star Wars (disambiguation).The Star Wars logo, as seen in all filmsStar Wars portalStar Wars is an epic space opera franchise initially conceived by George Lucas during the 1970s and significantly expanded since that time. The first film in the franchise was simply titled Star Wars, but later had the subtitle Episode IV: A New Hope added to distinguish it from its sequels and prequels.[1] Star Wars was released on May 25, 1977 by 20th Century Fox, and became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon, initially spawning two sequels. Twenty-two years after Star Wars was released, Lucas began the release of a second trilogy as a prequel to the original trilogy.The franchise has spawned other media including books, television series, video games, and comic books. These supplements to the film trilogies comprise the Star Wars Expanded Universe, and have resulted in significant development of the series' fictional universe. As of 2008, the overall box office revenue generated by the six Star Wars films has totalled approximately $4.3 billion, making it the third-highest grossing film series.[2]

Monopoly games

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, searchFor the game show, see Monopoly (game show).Monopoly (Board Game) Players make their way around a Monopoly board, such as this Australian Limited Edition one. Publisher Parker BrothersWaddingtons Players 2–20 Setup time 5–15 minutes Playing time 1.5 to 10 hours Random chance Medium (dice rolling, card drawing) Monopoly is a board game published by Parker Brothers, a subsidiary of Hasbro. Players compete to acquire wealth through stylized economic activity involving the buying, renting, and trading of properties using play money, as players take turns moving around the board according to the roll of the dice. The object of the game is to bankrupt the other players. The game is named after the economic concept of monopoly, the domination of a market by a single entity.
Monopoly is the most commercially-successful board game in United States history, with 480 million players worldwide.[1]
According to Hasbro, since Charles Darrow patented the game in 1935, approximately 750 million people have played the game, making it "the most played (commercial) board game in the world."[2] The 1999 Guinness Book of Records cited Hasbro's previous statistic of 500 million people having played Monopoly.[3] Games Magazine has inducted Monopoly into its Hall of Fame.[4]