Marvel Warns Retailers Most 616 Blind Bags May Not Arrive for 616 Day
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Rich Johnston
10d ago· 5 min readenNews
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Summary
Marvel Comics is promoting 616 Day (June 16th) with a line of 616-themed blind bags, but the company has informed retailers that three-quarters of the products may not arrive in time for the event. The article discusses the origins of the "616" designation for the main Marvel Universe, tracing it back to Dave Thorpe and Alan Moore's work on Marvel UK's Captain Britain, and its subsequent popularization by writers like Chris Claremont and Dan Slott.
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Recently, Marvel Comics has been doing a thing for 616 Day, or the 16th of June, in celebration of the 616 parallel universe of reality known as the Marvel Universe
as invented by Dave Thorpe and Alan Moore for Marvel UK' Captain Britain, used in Excalibur over at Marvel USA by Alan Davis and then popularised by the likes of Chris Claremont in X-Men and Dan Slott in Amazing Spider-Man
Recently, Marvel Comics has been doing a thing for 616 Day, or the 16th of June, in celebration of the 616 parallel universe of reality known as the Marvel Universe, as invented by Dave Thorpe and Alan Moore for Marvel UK' Captain Britain, used in Excalib
