Saturday is Free Comic Book Day, a nationwide event in which fans can scoop up exclusive comic books from all of the major publishers, for free, at participating stores.
This year's selection of Free Comic Book titles are:
- "Archie"
- "Avengers"
- "Bob's Burgers"
- "Bongo Comics Free-For-All"
- "Boom! Studios Summer Blast"
- "Camp Midnight"
- "Serenity/Hellboy/Aliens"
- "ROM"
- "4001 A.D."
- "Pokemon Pocket Comics"
- "Doctor Who: Four Doctors Special"
- "Suicide Squad"
- "2000 A.D. Special"
- "Assassin's Creed"
- "Attack on Titan Anthology"
- "Awake"
- "Captain America"
- "Bruce Lee: The Dragon Rises"
- "DC Super Hero Girls"
- "Love and Rockets Sampler"
- "The Phantom: 80th Anniversary"
- "The Tick Special"
- "Help the CBLDF ... Defend Comics"
- "Comics Lab"
- "Con Man's Spectrum"
- "Dark Horse All-Ages Sampler"
- "Space Goat Presents: Dark Lily & Friends"
- "Grant Morrison's Avatarex: Destroyer of Darkness"
- "Dream Jumper Book One: Nightmare Escape"
- "Grumpy Cat (And Pokey!) Special"
- "Hilda and the Stone Forest"
- "Junior Braves of the Apocalypse"
- "Lady Mechanika"
- "March Trilogy Sampler"
- "Devil's Due/1First Comics Mixtape"
- "Mooncop: A Tom Gauld Sampler"
- "Oddly Normal Chapter One"
- "The Pink Panther"
- "Sanjay and Craig/Harvey Beaks"
- "Science Comics"
- "Sonic Sampler"
- "SpongeBob Freestyle Funnies"
- "Stan Lee's The Unknowns/Howard Lovecraft"
- "Strawberry Shortcake"
- "Street Fighter V"
- "The Stuff of Legend Preview"
- "One Punch Man/My Hero Academia"
- "We Can Never Go Home/Young Terrorists"
- "Worlds of Aspen"
Area stores participating in Free Comic Book Day are:
- JAF Comics, 224 Nazareth Pike (Route 191), Lower Nazareth Township
- Sacker's Collectibles, 106 S. Third St., Easton
- The Encounter, 811 Union Blvd., Allentown
- Cloud City Games, 5661 Hamilton Blvd., Allentown
- The Portal Comics and Games, 321 Woodlawn Ave., Bethlehem
- Comicmasters, 1978 Whitehall Mall, Whitehall
- Tales of Adventure, 201 S. Third St., Coopersburg
Fans can close out their Saturday with a few laughs, courtesy of comedian and ManDudeBro member Dan Maher's "Fwend Fight: Improv Comedy about Comic Books." The performance will take place 8 p.m. at the ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks in Bethlehem. Tickets cost $6-$8.