Once again, Taco Bell is offering Marvel Comic books with their Kids Meals.
The fast food chain is giving out four new Marvel comic book stories for a limited time. Your kids (or, you know, you) can collect the X-Men, Fantastic Four, Iron Man and Avengers comics. Each issue also includes a one-page story by Gingerbread Girl artist Colleen Coover. Here is a panel of her X-Men story via DC Women Kicking Ass.
All four books were edited by Nate Cosby and the creative teams are as follows: Iron Man – Brian Clevinger and Scott Wegener, Fantastic Four – Paul Tobin and Craig Rousseau, Avengers – Joe Caramanga and Derec Donovan, X-Men – Alex Zalben and Tom Grummett.
Apparently the X-Men story features the classic Xavier school and Nightcrawler! Also, although Jean Grey and Banshee are featured on the cover, they are not in the book itself. I have also been told that you may be able to purchase the comics at $1 a pop if you aren’t inclined to eat there.
Anyone think it’d be more appropriate for Subway or Blimpie to distribute stuff involving heroes?
January 31st, 2011 at 9:30 pm
The Iron Man in their Iron Man comic is actually only 1/3 iron, 2/3 soy.
January 31st, 2011 at 10:22 pm
Damn you beat me to it.
February 1st, 2011 at 9:24 am
This is a great idea! Much better than some of the crappy toys that fast food chains have been peddling in the last few years!
February 1st, 2011 at 10:10 am
I read the X-Men comic and it totally sucked. Far too kiddiefied and old school for me. But the intended target audience might not have any of those problems
February 1st, 2011 at 11:37 am
Further proof that Marvel continues to spiral downward.
February 1st, 2011 at 11:59 am
re: BookWyrm:
How is this an example of their (legitimate) downward spiral? They are trying to pull in new readers with this move–something that all the ‘Fear Itself’ and ‘House of X’ crossovers will NEVER accomplish.
February 1st, 2011 at 1:22 pm
This is the kind of thing that creates a fan. Marvel needs to offer a line of books just like these at $1.00 and put them everywhere.
February 1st, 2011 at 2:22 pm
The kids would be better off eating the comic – probably tastier and more healthy than their cardboard and mystery meat tacos…
February 1st, 2011 at 2:44 pm
Getting these characters in front of kids is what DC and Marvel need to be doing. Most of us became fans through ‘kidifed’ versions first, certainly in my case with Batman cartoons and cartoon tie-in comics. As well as movies of course.
February 1st, 2011 at 3:32 pm
hulk crush taco meat out of hulk butt
February 2nd, 2011 at 2:07 am
You mentioned the X-Men book cover, but it’s worth noting that it is not a new cover. It’s the cover for the second Uncanny X-Men: First Class TPB – http://www.comicbookdb.com/graphics/comic_graphics/1/402/202371_20100605010755_large.jpg
February 2nd, 2011 at 8:23 am
Good idea.
For more exposure, they should do this with McDonalds or Burger King, which I think are more popular with kids and do more business in general (although Taco bell is my personal favorite).
What they should really do is imprint the names of local comic books shops on the books. If I had a shop near a Taco Bell I’d get over there, talk to the manager and work something out.
Surprised not to see Captain America, Thor & Spider-Man books, since they have movies coming.
February 2nd, 2011 at 8:31 am
Guys I’m sorry what I said about Marvel’s downward spiral I didn’t mean it. I’ve just been going through some tough times lately. My dad caught me having sex my boyfriend. So he knows I’m gay now which I wasn’t ready to tell him. To top it all off my boyfriend crapped on my penis when my dad came in so now I’ve got lots of cleaning to do.
February 2nd, 2011 at 8:31 am
Unfortunately my kids hate Taco Bell (or maybe that is fortunate?)…but I could still buy all four comics for $4…which is the same as one ‘real’ comic. So that’s not bad.
February 3rd, 2011 at 7:31 am
I have friends who got into comics because of the X-Men VHS tapes from Pizza Hut years ago.
This is a great idea.
March 24th, 2011 at 12:45 pm
does anyone out there know if these are still available at Taco bell stores?
May 2nd, 2011 at 10:55 pm
You can sell comics with the suite.
Here is the link to load your items for sale:
http://www.commercesocial.com/?cpid=BUZZ
Here is the article presenting the media suites showcasing your items:
http://www.buzznews.net/buzzblog/item/3123-powerful-social-commerce-company-commercesocial