Lots of news and info as we’re getting closer to D-Day. This will be the first of two posts on SDCC activities for today.

First up, DC Comics will hand out blank postcards to fans at the DC booth, asking them to draw something on it, then mail it back to them for publishing on the Zuda Comics website. They’ve already received Jim Lee’s postcard (above).

Saturday sells out

First it was four-day memberships; now Saturday single-day memberships for this week’s San Diego Comic-Con have sold out. “We were pretty sure this would happen, and it has,” said SDCC’s David Glanzer.

If I wasn’t getting paid to be there, I’d probably skip Saturday entirely and head to the beach, because it will be packed …

Marvel’s Comic-Con Central

Over at Marvel.com, they’ve set up a Comic-Con 2007 Central area, which includes information on signings, panels and more. Here’s their signing schedule:

THURSDAY, JULY 26

11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Peter David, Steve Lieber, Paul Jenkins and John Romita Jr.

12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Reilly Brown, Charles Knauf, Esad Ribic and Joe Quesada

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
David Sexton, Stuart Moore and Leinil Yu

2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Todd Nauck, Brian Reed, Robert Kirkman and Tim Bradstreet

3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Karl Kesel, Billy Tan, Matt Fraction and Dan Slott

4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Tommy Ohstuka, Gurihiru, C.B. Cebulski and David Finch

5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Mike Choi, Chris Yost and Craig Kyle

FRIDAY, JULY 27

10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. (both stations; special sketching session)
Khoi Pham, Reilly Brown, Pierre Alary, Tommy Ohtsuka, Cafu, Ramon Bachs and David Nakayama

11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Sherrilyn Kenyon, Mike Carey, David Morell and Orson Scott Card

12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Fred Van Lente, Michael Ryan, Christina Strain and John Romita Jr.

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Jonathon Green and Laurell K. Hamilton
This is a ticketed event.

2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Daniel Way, Dexter Vines, Simone Bianchi and Jeph Loeb

2:15 p.m. – 2:55 p.m.
Spectacular Spider-Man Animated Series Creators
Sean Galloway, Greg Weisman, Victor Cook and Josh Keaton

3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
John Laymen, Robert Kirkman, Adi Granov and Arthur Suydam

4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
David Finch, Ron Lim, Dan Slott and Greg Horn

5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Esad Ribic, Joe Linser, Leinil Yu and Brian Michael Bendis

SATURDAY, JULY 28

9:00 A.M. – 10:00 A.M. (special sketching session)
Todd Nauck, David Nakayama and Tommy Ohtsuka

10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Michael Ryan, Peter David, Todd Nauck, Dan Slott and Matt Fraction

11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Ramon Bach, Paul Jenkins, Christina Strain and John Romita Jr.

12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Paul Benjamin, David Nakayama, Khoi Pham and Joe Quesada

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
David Finch, Brian Reed, Leinil Yu and Brian Michael Bendis

2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Jon Favreau and Robert Downey Jr.

3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Frazer Irving, David Hine, Ed Brubaker and Bryan Denham

4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Stan Lee
This is a ticketed event.

5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. (both stations)
Raymond Fiest

Amazing Spider-Man Creative Team (TBA)

SUNDAY, JULY 29

11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (both stations; special sketching session)
Pierre Alary, Reilly Brown, Ramon Bachs, Cafu
Tommy Ohtsuka, Jeff Parker and Khoi Pham

12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Leinil Yu, Simone Bianchi and Jeph Loeb

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (both stations)
Michael Ryan, Matt Fraction and Paul Jenkins

2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Dan Slott, Roy Thomas, Phil Jimenez and Bill Reinhold

3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. (both stations)
Giant-Sized X-Men Signing
Chris Yost, Peter David, Marc Guggenheim, Ed Brubaker, Humberto Ramos, Daniel Way, Billy Tan, Mike Carey and Craig Kyle

Hero Initiative booth schedule

Jim McLauchlin shares the Hero Initiative booth schedule on their blog:

The Beast Men Call San Diego is upon us. Hero is teaming up with the titans of GameTap at San Diego booth #s 3848 and #3850. Swing by on us there, and you can also swing by on these swingin’ creators:

WED, 25 JUL
630-730: Scott Koblish

THU, 26 JUL
1200-200: Arthur Suydam
200-300: Chris Gage
300-400: Kevin Eastman
345-445: Terry Moore
500-600: Andy Kuhn
600-700: Ron Marz and Greg Tocchini

FRI, 27 JUL
1000-1100: Keith Champagne and Andy Smith
1100-1230: Darwyn Cooke
1230-130: Lee Moder
130-230: J.H. Williams
230-330: Matt Haley
330-400: Brian Pulido
500-600: Joe Quesada

SAT, 28 JUL
1100-1200: Michael Stackpole
1200-100: Dan Jurgens
100-200: Jim Valentino
200-230: Peter Chung
300-400: Joe Benitez
400-500: Francis Manapul
500-600: John Romita Jr.
600-700: Phil Hester

SUN, 29 JUL
1000-1100: Bill Tucci and Mark Sparacio
1100-1200: Cully Hamner
1200-100: Roy Thomas
100-145: Dan Slott
200-300: Brian Pulido
300-430: Arthur Suydam

And is anyone else pissed that a 6-9 PM “Preview Night” on WED really cuts into drinking time? I know I am.

Dark Horse

Dark Horse Comics sends their booth schedule as well:

WEDNESDAY, JULY 25 (Preview Night):

6:00 - 7:00 Sergio Aragones: Celebrating 25 years of Groo!

7:00 - 8:30 The Artist Within: Greg Preston (Special Book Release Reception - Expect Special Guests!)

THURSDAY, JULY 26:

12:00 - 1:00 Joshua Dysart: Conan and the Midnight God

1:00 - 2:00 Tara McPherson: Lonely Heart

2:00 - 3:00 Will Vinton & Andrew Wiese: Jack Hightower

2:00 - 3:00 Chris Grine: Chickenhare

3:00 - 4:00 Matt Wagner: Celebrating 25 years of Grendel!

4:00 - 5:00 Jeff Smith: The Art of Bone

4:00 - 5:00 Eric Powell: The Goon, Chinatown

5:00 - 6:00 Rick Remender: Fear Agent

FRIDAY, JULY 27:

11:00 - 12:00 Eric Powell: The Goon, Chinatown

12:00 - 1:00 Bryan Talbot: Alice in Sunderland

1:00 - 2:00 Rick Remender: Fear Agent

1:30 - 2:30 Stan Sakai: Usagi Yojimbo

2:00 - 3:00 Adam Hughes: Star Wars Legacy

2:00 - 3:00 Matt & Shawn Fillbach: Star Wars - Clone Wars Adventures, Maxwell Strangewell

3:00 - 4:00 Yasuhiro Nightow: Trigun (*ticketed event: See Dark Horse employee for details)

4:00 - 5:00 Ron Marz & Clement Sauve: Pantheon City

4:00 - 5:00 Travis Charest: Star Wars Legacy

5:00 - 6:00 Dustin Weaver & Michael Atiyeh: Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic

5:00 - 6:00 Steve Niles & Bernie Wrightson: City of Others

5:00 - 6:00 David Lloyd: Kickback

6:00 - 7:00 Tony Millionaire: Sock Monkey

6:00 - 7:00 Arvid Nelson: Rex Mundi, Zerokiller, Kull

SATURDAY, JULY 28:

12:00 - 1:00 Who Wants to be a Superhero? - Meet the contestants from Stan Lee’s reality show on the Sci-Fi Channel: Iron Enforcer, Monkey Woman, Nitro G, Feedback, Lemuria, Creature

12:30 - 2:00 Gerard Way, Gabriel Ba, James Jean: Umbrella Academy (*ticketed event, see Dark Horse employee for details.)

1:00 - 2:00 Georges Jeanty & Andy Owens: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

2:00 - 3:30 Joss Whedon: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (*ticketed event, see Dark Horse employee for details.)

5:00 - 6:00 Mike Mignola: Hellboy (*ticketed event, see Dark Horse employee for details.)

6:00 - 7:00 Yoshitaka Amano: Vampire Hunter D; Fairies (*ticketed event: See Dark Horse employee for details)

SUNDAY, JULY 29:

11:00 - 12:00 Bryan Talbot: Alice in Sunderland

12:00 - 1:00 De: Tales: Fabio Moon & Gabriel Ba

1:00 - 2:00 Emily The Strange: Creator Rob Reger; Artist Buzz Parker

2:00 - 3:00 Yoshitaka Amano: Vampire Hunter D; Fairies (*ticketed event: See Dark Horse employee for details)

3:00 - 4:00 Susan Bernard: President of Bernard of Hollywood, Author of 7 books, star of the classic cult film “Faster Pussy Cat, Kill! Kill!”

And Check out these Dark Horse Related Panels and Events!

SPOTLIGHT ON MATT WAGNER

THURSDAY, JULY 26

1:30-2:30pm

ROOM 1AB

ACTION FIGURE TIMES TOYMAKER Q & A PANEL

(featuring Dark Horse Vice President of Product Development, David Scroggy)

THURSDAY, JULY 26

5:00 - 6:00 pm

ROOM 4

DARK HORSE COMICS *Don’t miss the biggest announcement of this year’s Con!

FRIDAY, JULY 27

2:30-3:30pm

ROOM 1AB

JOSS WHEDON

SATURDAY, JULY 28

4:45-5:45pm

ROOM 20

THE GOON PANEL

SATURDAY, JULY 28

6:00-7:00pm

ROOM 8

EMILY THE STRANGE

SUNDAY, JULY 29

11:30am-12:30pm

ROOM 2

The Too Much Coffee Man Opera!

Horton Grand Theater
444 4th Avenue
3 free performances with Comic-Con Badge!

Friday at 3:00pm
Saturday at 1:30pm
Saturday at 11:00pm

More details available at Shannon Wheeler’s Booth (#2200)

See-thru Man-Bat

The exclusive Man-Bat figure from Mattel gets a variant edition …

Via

Atari brings Godzilla Unleashed to Comicon

From the press release:

WHO: Atari, Inc. one of the world’s most recognized brands and a third-party video game publisher will feature hands-on demos for two upcoming titles at San Diego Comic Con.

WHAT: Consumers will be able to get their hands on a brand new playable demo of Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 for the Wii™ home video game system and PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system at the FUNimation Entertainment booth, # 4129. Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 takes the lightning fast fighting, flying and action that made its predecessor, DBZ Budokai Tenkaichi 2, last year’s #1 fighting game and takes it to a whole new level with exciting new features. Dragon Ball Z continues to be one of the hottest brands in the video game industry with more than ten million units sold since May 2002.

Hands-on demo of Godzilla: Unleashed for the Wii at the Foundation 9 booth, # 4630. Specially designed for the Wii, the intuitive wand motions allow you to unleash your inner monster; battle with the legendary Godzilla and a slew of the world’s most renowned monsters in a challenge to ultimately save the planet from mayhem and complete annihilation.

WHERE: Foundation 9 Booth, # 4630; FUNimation Entertainment Booth, # 4129

More to come …

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