Dark Horse Digital Gave Away A Million Free Comics

Dark Horse Comics announced today that their digital division, celebrating its two-year anniversary last week, gave away over a million comics. As part of the celebration of the second year of the company's digital initiative and proprietary storefront, fifty free single-issue comics were made available for only forty-eight hours. In that time, thousands of fans took advantage of the offer and downloaded their favorite Dark Horse titles, to the tune of a million copies! "The success of our digital promotion illustrates the growing reach of digital comics, which we believe are an important element in the recent resurgence of physical comic book and graphic novel sales," said Dark Horse's president and founder, Mike Richardson. Dark Horse Comics launched its standalone comic-reader app and digital store on April 27, 2011, making it one of the only companies not dependent on ComiXology for digital support. They recently welcomed Dynamite Entertainment into the Dark Horse Digital family.