From celebrated comic artist Mike Mignola and award-winning novelist Christopher Golden come the next installments of the critically acclaimed Baltimore series.

In Baltimore: The Play, a mad playwright puts on a Grand Guignol featuring actors that are real vampires. The evil financier of the play makes a bizarre discovery when he finds out that the playwright is a fraud and the true author is the disembodied head of a famous American author kept in a glass case. Baltimore: The Play is on sale November 21, 2012.

Following The Play, Lord Baltimore finds himself in a double feature with Baltimore: The Widow and the Tank, on sale February 20, 2013. “The Widow” concerns a woman whose husband and war buddies have returned from the war as vampires and begun preying on their hometown. In “The Tank,” Baltimore learns of a wrecked tank in a field as he is passing through the war-ravaged countryside. People believe there is a vampire living inside that has been eating cattle and attacking locals. When Baltimore checks it out, it turns out to be true…to a point.

Lord Baltimore’s next adventure, Baltimore: The Inquisitor, features the origin story of one of his main antagonists—Judge Duvic. Look for The Inquisitor on sale June 19, 2013.

Praise for Christopher Golden and Mike Mignola:

“It still takes something special to impose a unifying vision, and Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden have got it.” —The Wall Street Journal

For more information, check out the exclusive interview with Christopher Golden on Newsarama.

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San Diego, U.S.A. — Stern Pinball, Incoporated, the world’s only maker of real pinball games, announced today their second annual International Comic-Con pinball tournament where players and fans will have the opportunity to play Stern’s latest X-Men machine, inspired by one of the most popular comic book series to date.

Hundreds of thousands of San Diego Comic-Con attendees will be able to compete in an X-Men game play tournament for the chance to win a cash prize by signing up to play at booth 114. The tournament starts July 11, on Preview Night at Comic-Con. Contestants will be called to return if they advance in the tournament. The finals will be held on Saturday, July 14 at 3PM. Stern claims to be thrilled to give pinball players and comic lovers at International Comic-Con 2012 a chance to experience the X-Men adventure with their own two hands.

The International Comic-Con in San Diego begins July 12 and lasts until July 15.

“San Diego Comic-Con couldn’t be a more fitting place for fans to get their hands on the new X-Men machine,” said John Borg, game designer for Stern Pinball. “We live and breath pinball design, but there is something about seeing players enjoy the game that really brings the design to life.”

Attendees can find Stern Pinball at the Century Media Nuclear Blast booth #114.

About Stern Pinball, Inc.

Stern Pinball, Inc., headquartered just outside Chicago, Illinois, is the leading producer of pinball games in the world. Stern’s talented creative and technical teams design, engineer and manufacture popular, arcade-quality pinball games. Recent popular Stern titles include Tron, Transformers, Avatar, Iron Man, Batman, Spiderman, Big Buck Hunter and many more. All of Stern’s pinball games are crafted by hand and assembled by Stern’s expert team. Both pinball enthusiasts and casual players around the globe enjoy Stern’s games. For more information visit www.sternpinball.com.

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