Tuesday, October 28, 2008

It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's...Bat Boy?

Bread, milk, butter. . .fake news tabloid? If your weekly shopping routine used to include the out-of-print Weekly World News - famous for such wacky content as alien/celebrity weddings and ominous pictures of the devil's face in smoke plumes - you might have reason to celebrate. WWN stopped printing in 2007 after circulation fell from a high of 1.2 million to below 90,000. A new owner, Bat Boy L.L.C., recently bought the publication and plans to revive it on both the Web and in print. There's even talk of licensing notable recurring headline-grabbing characters, such as the half-breed Bat Boy, for toy figures and movie deals.

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