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WizKids Announces DC Comics Collectible Miniatures Game

Line-up to Feature World Famous Characters from DC Comics and WildStorm Productions

7/21/01

SEATTLE, WA -- WizKids, makers of the collectible miniatures game Mage Knight, are proud to announce plans to produce a collectible miniatures game featuring the characters from legendary comic book publisher DC Comics.

The line-up will combine classic DC Universe heroes like Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman with newer hot properties from WildStorm Productions like Wildcats and The Authority. These and other popular characters from the expansive DC and WildStorm universes will become three-dimensional, plastic miniatures, pre-painted in superb detail. The yet-to-be-named collectible miniatures game is slated for Spring release next year.

"We wanted the newest game from WizKids to connect with a large audience, while finding a setting and group of characters that would be appropriate for the combat dial. The world-famous DC heroes and villains are the perfect fit with the combat dial system." says WizKids founder, Jordan Weisman.

DC Comics Publisher Paul Levitz is equally enthusiastic about the partnership. "It's fun to find a new way to play with our favorite characters, and bring out the WizKids in our souls. I can't wait for a set."

The project will bring together some of the most experienced talent in the comics and gaming businesses to transform the DC and WildStorm characters into a collectible miniatures game. DC will be a full creative partner in the process, with DC editors, writers, and artists collaborating with WizKids' designers and sculptors to produce the program.

The collectible combat dial-based DC miniatures game will be in gaming, comic, and hobby stores everywhere in Spring 2002.

About WizKids
Founded by Jordan Weisman, WizKids is a Seattle-based game developer and publisher dedicated to creating a new genre of fantasy games that is at once more accessible and more sophisticated than traditional fantasy adventure genres.

About CMG'S (Collectible Miniature Games)
A CMG is collectible version of a traditional miniatures wargame with the strategic complexities of chess, combined with the visceral enjoyment of a quick-playing tabletop battle game.

About DC Comics and WildStorm Productions
DC Comics is the largest English-language publisher of comics in the world and home to such iconic characters as Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and the Sandman. WildStorm Productions is an imprint of DC Comics, a division of Warner Bros. an AOL Time Warner Company. DC Comics' website is located at www.dccomics.com. WildStorm Productions' website is located at www.wildstorm.com.

DC Universe, and all DC Comics characters, related names, and indicia are trademarks of DC Comics.