STEPHEN KING AND MARVEL RE-TEAM FOR COMIC SERIES BASED ON BEST-SELLING NOVEL!
New Series Expands Upon the Historic Partnership Between Marvel and King via a license with The Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group.
Marvel Comics to Launch First Issue in September, 2008
NEW YORK –Through a licensing agreement with The Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., Marvel Publishing joins forces this fall with World Fantasy Award-winning writer Stephen King, long acknowledged as the master of modern horror, to bring to life in the graphic fiction format one of the most revered and influential novels ever published: The Stand. A strong influence on every major pop culture genre from Top 40 songs to the hit TV show LOST--this seminal work has been translated into twenty-two languages and has sold more than 4.5 million copies in the U.S. alone since its publication in 1978.
Critically acclaimed as one of King’s greatest works, The Stand presents a post-apocalyptic world in which a band of unlikely heroes must come together to fight one of the most memorable villains in any genre
Having written over 40 novels, Stephen King is one of the most popular writers of all time, and is undoubtedly the world’s leading horror writer. His books have been translated into 33 languages and published in over 35 countries. Currently, more than 300 million copies of his novels are in print.

Here’s just a few Novels by Stephen King:

CARRIE, Doubleday, 1974;
THE SHINING, Doubleday, 1977;
THE STAND, Doubleday, 1978;
THE DEAD ZONE, Viking, 1979;
FIRESTARTER, Viking, 1980;
CUJO, Viking, 1981;
CHRISTINE, Viking, 1983;
PET SEMATARY, Doubleday, 1983;
THE EYES OF THE DRAGON and MISERY; Viking, 1987;
THE DARK TOWER: THE DRAWING OF THE THREE, Grant, 1987;
TOMMYKNOCKERS, Putnam, 1987;
DOLORES CLAIBORNE, Viking, 1992;
THE DARK TOWER: WIZARD & GLASS, Donald M. Grant, 1997;
BAG OF BONES, Scribner, 1998;
THE GIRL WHO LOVED TOM GORDON, Scribner, 1999;
HEARTS IN ATLANTIS, Scribner, 1999;
DREAMCATCHER, Scribner, 2001;
FROM A BUICK 8, Scribner 2002; limited edition by Cemetery Dance.


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STEPHEN KING:

Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947 son of Donald and
Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. And had an older Brother David. Stephen attended
the grammar school in Durham and then Lisbon Falls High School, graduating
in 1966. He graduated from the University of Maine at Orono in 1970, with
a B.A. in English.

He met Tabitha his future wife at the University of Maine at Orono, where they
both worked as students. He and Tabitha Spruce married in January of 1971.

Stephen made his first professional short story sale "The Glass Floor" to
Startling Mystery Stories in 1967. He continued to sell stories to men's magazines,For added income. Later many of these stories went into the
Night Shift collection or appeared in other anthologies.

In the fall of 1971, Stephen began teaching high school English classes at
Hampden Academy, in Hampden, Maine. Writing in the evenings and on the
weekends, he continued to produce short stories and to work on novels.

In the spring of 1973, Doubleday Co. accepted the novel Carrie for publication.
On Mother's Day of that year, Stephen learned from his new editor at Doubleday,
Bill Thompson, that a major paperback sale would provide him with the means
to leave teaching and write full-time.

At the end of the summer of 1973, the Kings moved to southern Maine. Stephen
wrote his next-published novel, originally titled "Second Coming" and then
"Jerusalem's Lot", before it became "Salem's Lot", in a small room in
the garage.

Carrie was published in the spring of 1974. That same fall, the Kings left Maine
for Boulder, Colorado. They lived there for a little less than a year, during
which Stephen wrote The Shining, set in Colorado. Returning to Maine in the
summer of 1975, the Kings purchased a home in the Lakes Region of western Maine.
At that house, Stephen finished writing The Stand, much of which also is set in Boulder. The Dead Zone was also written in Bridgton.




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Other Tib-Bits
Stephen is of Scots-Irish ancestry,
Has three children, and three grandchildren &
He has worn glasses since he was a child.

He has put some of his college dramatic society experience to use doing cameos
in several of the film adaptations of his works as well as a bit part in a George Romero picture, Knightriders. Joe Hill King also appeared in Creepshow, which
was released in 1982. Stephen made his directorial debut, as well as writing
the screenplay, for the movie Maximum Overdrive (an adaptation of his short story "Trucks") in 1985.