- "Evening at Collinwood... the house on Widows' Hill, and home of the Collins family. It is a house of secrets. A place where I first arrived as a stranger. Now I know so many of the Collins family's secrets... the secrets they keep from one another - and secrets I keep from them."
- ―Doctor Julia Hoffman
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| Title: | "Dark Shadows" |
| Volume: | 5 |
| Number: | 1 |
| Cover price: | $3.99 |
| Cover date: | November, 2011 |
| Publisher: | Dynamite Entertainment |
| Credits | |
| Chief: | Nick Barrucci |
| Ex. Ed: | Joseph Rybandt |
| Writers: | Stuart Manning |
| Pencilers: | Aaron Campbell |
| Inkers: | Aaron Campbell |
| Cover artists: | Francesco Francavilla |
| Cover inker: | Francesco Francavilla |
| Cover colorist: | Francesco Francavilla |
| Colorists: | Carlos Lopez |
| Letterers: | Troy Peteri; Comicraft |
| Editors: | Joseph Rybandt |
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Dark Shadows is an American comic book series of the occult thriller and supernatural horror subgenres published by Dynamite Entertainment. It is the fifth comic book series to carry the name Dark Shadows and is the second ongoing series based on the original 1960s daytime Gothic soap opera Dark Shadows. The untitled story from issue #1 of Dark Shadows was written by Stuart Manning with interior artwork by Aaron Campbell who also provided the inks for this issue. The coloring was provided by Carlos Lopez with lettering by Troy Peteri of Comicraft. The cover art illustration was composed by Francesco Francavilla. The story was edited by Joseph Rybandt. This issue shipped with a November, 2011 cover date and carried a cover price of $3.99 per copy (US).
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Featured characters
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Villains
Minor characters
- Jack Harkins
Organizations
Races & Animals
Locations
Items
Vehicles
Notes & Trivia[]
- Dark Shadows was created by executive producer and showrunner Dan Curtis. Major storylines were developed by writers Art Wallace and Sam Hall. The original daytime Gothic soap opera, Dark Shadows aired on ABC from June of 1966 to April of 1971 spanning a total of 1,245 episodes. Two spin-off films House of Dark Shadows and Night of Dark Shadows were released in theaters in 1970 and 1971. A remake series of Dark Shadows was produced in 1991 and ran for thirteen episodes on NBC. In 2012, director Tim Burton crafted a comical reboot of Dark Shadows as a high-budget feature film.
- This issue is reprinted in the Dark Shadows trade paperback by Dynamite Entertainment.
- This issue shipped on November 2nd, 2011.
- UPC barcode: 725139179708.
- This issue shipped with an alternate cover by Aaron Campbell. Both covers shipped with a 50/50 print run. This issue also went to second printing. A virgin cover of this issue was also produced.
- The tagline for this issue is "Barnabas Collins is BACK..."
- The interior cover to this issue includes an opening overview of the series written by Stuart Manning.
- The setting for the series is Collinsport, Maine in 1971, shortly following the events of the last modern-era storyline from the original Dark Shadows.
- First appearance of Jack Harkins. Jack Harkins is unique to the continuity of the comic book series and does not have a counterpart on the original show.
- This issue establishes that Maggie Evans left Collinsport and as such, is no longer the governess to David Collins and Hallie Stokes. Hallie has likewise left Collinsport.