Legendary comic creator Stan Lee appears at the Savannah College of Art and Design while visiting the college to critique some of the work by graduate and undergraduate students in the sequential art program in Savannah, Ga., on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012. Lee, the 89-year-old co-creator of Spider-Man, dropped in on the school after being honored at the SCAD Savannah Film Festival. (AP Photo/Stephen Morton)
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Legendary comic creator Stan Lee appears at the Savannah College of Art and Design while visiting the college to critique some of the work by graduate and undergraduate students in the sequential art program in Savannah, Ga., on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012. Lee, the 89-year-old co-creator of Spider-Man, dropped in on the school after being honored at the SCAD Savannah Film Festival. (AP Photo/Stephen Morton)
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Legendary comic creator Stan Lee, right, looks over a drawing by Savannah College of Art and Design sequential art student Jen Hickman while visiting the college in Savannah, Ga., on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012. Lee, the 89-year-old co-creator of Spider-Man, dropped in on the school after being honored at the SCAD Savannah Film Festival. (AP Photo/Stephen Morton)
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Legendary comic creator Stan Lee poses with students at the Savannah College of Art and Design while visiting the college to critique some of the work by graduate and undergraduate students in the sequential art program in Savannah, Ga., on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012. Lee, the 89-year-old co-creator of Spider-Man, dropped in on the school after being honored at the SCAD Savannah Film Festival. (AP Photo/Stephen Morton)
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Legendary comic creator Stan Lee speaks at the Savannah College of Art and Design while visiting the college to critique some of the work by graduate and undergraduate students in the sequential art program in Savannah, Ga., on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012. Lee, the 89-year-old co-creator of Spider-Man, dropped in on the school after being honored at the SCAD Savannah Film Festival. (AP Photo/Stephen Morton)
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This comic book cover image released by Image Comics shows issue 100 from The Walking Dead series, "Something to Fear." The issue claims the top spot as 2012's top-selling comic book. (AP Photo/Image Comics)
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FILE - This Feb. 6, 2006 file photo shows Joe Kubert, life-long cartoonist and founder of the Joe Kubert School of Cartooning and Graphic Art, talks while seated at his drawing table at the school in Dover, N.J. Kubert, who co-created DC Comics' iconic Sgt. Rock character and Tor, and reinvigorated Hawkman, died Sunday, according to The Kubert School, which he founded in 1976 with his wife to train illustrators and artists. He was 85. (AP Photo/Mike Derer, file)
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Danica Patrick, center, prepares to get in her car before the start of the NASCAR Daytona 500 Sprint Cup Series auto race at Daytona International Speedway, Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013, in Daytona Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)
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This black and white combo image of two sketches released by DC Entertainment shows an image of Superman, left, and Batman. DC Entertainment says it will unveil a new ongoing series focusing on Superman and Batman, two of the publisher’s best-known and revered heroes. "Batman/Superman” is set to debut in June and will be written Greg Pak and illustrated by Jae Lee. It will focus on how the two iconic heroes first met in the publisher’s relaunched universe, dubbed The New 52. (AP Photo/DC Entertainment)
Record 4.6M comics ordered for Free Comic Book day
PHILADELPHIA (
AP) — Organizers say the number of orders by shops that will give out free comics for the annual Free Comic Book Day event has topped more than 4.6 million this year, a record.
Diamond Distributors said Wednesday that orders have come from nearly 2,000 retailers across the country for the May 4 event, which is hosted by independent comic book shops and specialty stores in 46 countries.
The order figure is up 31.4 percent from 2012 when orders tallied 3.5 million, and up from 2011 when 2.7 million orders were received.
Fifty-three titles from publishers big and small — Marvel, Dark Horse, Image, DC and 2000AD — will be given away free.
Titles include "Atomic Robo," ''Aphrodite IX" and "Bleeding Cool" magazine.
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