Joe Hills Nos4a2 being developed into TV series

Deadline is reporting that AMC is developing a TV series based on the Joe Hill “NOS4A2” novels. But what does this have to do with comics?, you may ask. The 2013 Wraith (IDW) series based off the same novels including an origin story of the series main villain Charlie Talent Manx III. 

From Deadline.com

AMC has put in development NOS4A2, a supernatural horror series based on the bestselling novel by Joe Hill (Horns, Locke & Key). A search is underway for a writer to pen the adaptation, which is being produced by Michael Eisner’s Tornante TV (BoJack Horseman) and AMC Studios.

NOS4A2 centers on Victoria “Vic” McQueen, a young woman with an uncanny talent for finding lost things… a gift that is gradually destroying her mind. Her search for help leads her to someone with powers not unlike her own: the psychopath Charlie Manx, who has survived for a century by abducting children in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith (license plate: NOS4A2), and draining his passengers of their souls to keep himself forever young. When Manx kidnaps Vic’s own son, she’ll plunge into the impossible, nightmare world that lies just beneath the surface of everyday America in a desperate attempt to get him back.

Copies of Wraith #1 have been selling briskly since the announcement, something that really wasn’t happening before the news hit today. A similar thing happened with “The Strain,” a TV show based on a book, with a comic tie in, and that did really well for a while.

Copies of the Wraith #1 regular cover are now going for $14-$20. The Hastings Variant is priced at $12-$35 but you can get them directly from Hastings for $5.99 plus shipping. One copy of the Subscription cover is left on eBay at $35. Also a lone copy of the Phantom Variant for $40 left. There is also only one seller with copies of the Retailer Incentive cover up for $20. No US copies of the Director’s Cut are up on eBay, but Mycomicshop has copies for $3. (They also have a pretty good selection of the rest of the issues in the series

Wraith Welcome to Christmas Land was a pick of the week many moons ago, we reported on the sell out of issue #1 here. The total print run for the book was 16,685 copies including the variants.

Also noted in the above mentioned article is Locke and Key, “Hill’s supernatural comic series Locke & Key was first developed for TV, landing a pilot order at Fox, and then as a feature at Universal. It is currently being eyed again as a TV series.”