Walking Dead Day Will Feature 15 “Blind Bag” Issues w/ Trade Dress Variants

As you may recall, October 13th will be Walking Dead Day, celebrating the comic’s 15th anniversary.  As part of the merchandise rollout, Image/Skybound has announced some “blind bag” editions of Walking Dead milestone issues.

What’s that you ask?  The comic will be in black plastic wrapper – a blind bag – and “customers have a chance of opening one of multiple trades dress variants (color, sketch, virgin, etc) of each iconic issue. Covers will feature art by J. Scott Campbell, James Harren, Emma Ríos, Declan Shalvey, and Sana Takeda, among other exciting to-be-announced artists, and will retail for $3.99 each.”

15 different issues for 15 years.

Official PR follows:

 Image/Skybound Entertainment is pleased to announce that this year’s WALKING DEAD DAY, on October 13th, in celebration of the series’ 15th anniversary, will feature collectible blind bag editions of milestone issues from Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard’s THE WALKING DEAD.

Fans will experience the thrill of surprise when they purchase any of the WALKING DEAD DAY BLIND BAG editions. Each of the following issues will be available to purchase as a blind bag item, where customers have a chance of opening one of multiple trades dress variants (color, sketch, virgin, etc) of each iconic issue. Covers will feature art by J. Scott Campbell, James Harren, Emma Ríos, Declan Shalvey, and Sana Takeda, among other exciting to-be-announced artists, and will retail for $3.99 each.

• THE WALKING DEAD #1: 15TH Anniversary Blind Bag variant, Diamond Code MAY188674
• THE WALKING DEAD #2: 15TH Anniversary Blind Bag variant, Diamond Code MAY188675
• THE WALKING DEAD #7: 15TH Anniversary Blind Bag variant, Diamond Code MAY188676
• THE WALKING DEAD #19: 15TH Anniversary Blind Bag variant, Diamond Code MAY188677
• THE WALKING DEAD #27: 15TH Anniversary Blind Bag variant, Diamond Code MAY188678
• THE WALKING DEAD #48: 15TH Anniversary Blind Bag variant, Diamond Code MAY188679
• THE WALKING DEAD #53: 15TH Anniversary Blind Bag variant, Diamond Code MAY188680
• THE WALKING DEAD #92: 15TH Anniversary Blind Bag variant, Diamond Code MAY188681
• THE WALKING DEAD #98: 15TH Anniversary Blind Bag variant, Diamond Code MAY188682
• THE WALKING DEAD #100: 15TH Anniversary Blind Bag variant, Diamond Code MAY188683
• THE WALKING DEAD #108: 15TH Anniversary Blind Bag variant, Diamond Code MAY188684
• THE WALKING DEAD #127: 15TH Anniversary Blind Bag variant, Diamond Code MAY188685
• THE WALKING DEAD #138: 15TH Anniversary Blind Bag variant, Diamond Code MAY188686
• THE WALKING DEAD #167: 15TH Anniversary Blind Bag variant, Diamond Code MAY188687
• THE WALKING DEAD #171: 15TH Anniversary Blind Bag variant, Diamond Code MAY188688