Celebrate Halloween at Your Local Comic Book Shop with Halloweencomicfest.com!

The Halloween season is an ideal time for comic book specialty shops with its emphasis on costumes, the otherworldly, and supernatural tales.

To help celebrate local comic book shops as exciting destinations for Halloween events and merchandise, comicshoplocator.com and your local comic book shop have launched Halloween ComicFest and you can view the latest related news, events and activities online now at www.HalloweenComicFest.com.

"Comic book specialty shops traditionally hold a wide variety of fun events during October and the Halloween season," said Diamond Director of Marketing Dan Manser. "We wanted to help centralize that activity and energy and provide a way for customers to find out what's going on at their local shop."

HalloweenComicFest.com provides a central site where customers and fans can discover the Halloween events, contests, merchandise sales and more that are happening at their local comic book specialty shop:

• Go online now and use the Store Locator to find local comic book retailers and to view special events in your local area.
  
  
• Find out about the great Halloween Products and merchandise available in stores.
  
  
• Read up on the tales of suspense and fun found in the latest Comic Books.
  
  
• Enter The Greatest Costume Contest Ever - and win with over 500 Random Prize Winners!

Plus, you can also view the many special Halloween Comics and Mini-Comics that publishers have created for retailers to use during their events, titles such as Avengers/Spider-Man, Batman/Scooby Doo, Ghostbusters, Adventure Time and more.

Halloween ComicFest is sponsored by comicshoplocator.com with generous support from comic book publishers and manufacturers including Dark Horse Comics, DC Comics, IDW Publishing, Image Comics, Marvel Comics, Diamond Comic Distributors, PREVIEWSworld.com, Fantagraphics Books, Antarctic Press, Ape Entertainment, Archaia Entertainment, Archie Comics, BOOM! Entertainment, Papercutz, Top Shelf Productions and VIZ Media.

For more information, visit www.HalloweenComicFest.com.