Having enjoyed a moderately successful leap to the big screen in 2003, the long-standing Disneyland E Ticket attraction, The Haunted Mansion, will be adapted into a comic-book anthology. SLG Publishing, working in partnership with Disney Publishing Worldwide, will release releases the first issue this month, just in time for Halloween.
The Haunted Mansion comics will not be based on the feature film starring Eddie Murphy. The installments will instead draw inspiration from the amusement park ride with stories contributed by some of SLG Publishing’s top creators including Roman Dirge (Lenore) and Serena Valentino (Gloomcookie, Nightmares & Fairy Tales), as well as outside talent.
“The ride’s elements really lend themselves to an anthology comic book” says SLG Publishing president and series editor Dan Vado. “There are 999 ghosts living in the mansion, that means there is potential for 999 different stories.”
The comics will create a new backstory for the Mansion and tell the intertwining stories of The Ghost Host, Madame Leotta, and the Bride who resides in the attic. The first several issues will reval to readers how the ghosts all came to be in the mansion and why the structure is so attractive to apparitions.
“The goal is to create a comic book that feels like a little piece of the ride living in your bookshelf,” Vado adds. “The end result should be something that will satisfy the casual reader as well as the hardcore ride fans (like myself) who have spent good chunks of their lives riding The Haunted Mansion over and over again.”
The Haunted Mansion will be a 32 page black-and-white comic book with covers by Roman Dirge. The series will be available at many comic book stores, select book retailers, Hot Topic stores and Amazon.com for $2.95. It will also be available through the publisher’s website at www.slgpublishing.com.
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