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THE  STAND  - Original Comic Adaptation!   by  Stephen King!

The Second Story Arc Begins!

PART 2: AMERICAN NIGHTMARES.

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• OVERVIEW: As fans of the insta-classic know, "The Stand" has gone through a few incarnations in the years since King first released it in 1978. While the story remained the same—two groups of survivors face off against one another in a mythical battle of good versus evil following a devastating pandemic—the 1990 "Complete and Uncut Edition" fleshed out the action significantly.
  
  This version, according to THE STAND editor Bill Rosemann, will come to life in the Marvel Comics adaptation. "From the very first cough to the sinister showdown with the Walkin\ Dude himself, this is the official and authentic translation of Stephen King\s sprawling saga—taken from the "Complete & Uncut Edition"—only as Mighty Marvel can!"

  Written by ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SACASA
  Art & Cover by MIKE PERKINS
  Variant Cover by LEE BERMEJO
  Sketch Variant Cover by MIKE PERKINS

  The second arc begins! The deadly super flu Captain Trips has devastated the country and now the few survivors must pick up the pieces and go on. Larry Underwood seeks escape from New York City. Lloyd contemplates an extremely unsavory dinner option in jail, and Stu Redman makes a desperate bid for freedom from his interrogators. Most ominous of all, the stange being called Randall Flagg continues his dread journey across the devastated landscape of America.

  Of course, as with the Gunslingers series, the project would not be complete with out a stamp of approval from the author himself. Rosemann reassures fans, "each and every issue of THE STAND will be scrutinized, digested and blessed by the incredibly helpful and wise King Krew…and by King himself!

• Issue 1: The second arc begins! The deadly super flu Captain Trips has devastated the country and now the few survivors must pick up the pieces and go on. Larry Underwood seeks escape from New York City. Lloyd contemplates an extremely unsavory dinner option in jail, and Stu Redman makes a desperate bid for freedom from his interrogators. Most ominous of all, the stange being called Randall Flagg continues his dread journey across the devastated landscape of America.
• Issue 2: Enter the Trashcan man! Or Trashy, if you prefer. See how this new character Donald is coping with this new post apocolyptic America and his innate desire to burn things.Remember that dark man who made your hairs stand on end and made you uncomfortable in your seat? Well he's on the move now and he feels this his is "lucky night".Elsewhere in New York Rita and Larry decide its time to leave the once city that never slept but how? Suggested route, the Lincoln tunnel.
• Issue 3: Enter the Trashcan man! Or Trashy, if you prefer. See how this new character Donald is coping with this new post apocolyptic America and his innate desire to burn things. Remember that dark man who made your hairs stand on end and made you uncomfortable in your seat? Well he's on the move now and he feels this his is "lucky night". Elsewhere in New York Rita and Larry decide its time to leave the once city that never slept but how? Suggested route, the Lincoln tunnel.
• ISSUE 4: The penultimate chapter of the second volume based on Stephen King's horror epic! The survivors of the Captain Trips plague have started to team-up. Stu Redman and Glen Bateman trade origin stories--and horror stories about their mutual nightmares--while Randall Flagg sets out to recruit his first soldier in the ultimate battle between Good and Evil: Lloyd Henreid. But will the starving madman accept the dark man's offer? And either way, will he or his soul survive?
• ISSUE 5: It's the Fourth of July, the first holiday post-plague, but none of the survivors are celebrating. While Nick Andros hovers between life and death--and between the influence of Randall Flagg and Mother Abigail--Larry Underwood makes a shocking discovery in his tent... And Stu Redman's path intersects with Harold and Frannie's, but immediately a conflict (that will have enormous ramifications for all our players) immediately erupts among the three. The second mini-series adapting Stephen King's horror epic ends here, True Believers, setting stage for Volume Three: SOUL SURVIVORS.

• Publisher: Marvel, Five Issue Series, March 2009.