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While attending a demonstration in
radiology, high school student Peter
Parker was bitten by a spider which
had accidentally been exposed to
radioactive rays. Through a miracle
of science, Peter soon found that he
had gained the spider’s powers…
and had, in effect, become a human
spider! From that day on he was…

THE WAY OF THE SPIDER DAN SLOTT

writer
HUMBERTO RAMOS
pencils
CARLOS CUEVAS & VICTOR OLAZABA EDGAR DELGADO
inks colors
VC’S JOE CARAMAGNA ELLIE PYLE STEPHEN WACKER
letters assistant editor FREE-nior editor
AXEL ALONSO JOE QUESADA DAN BUCKLEY ALAN FINE
editor in chief chief creative officer publisher executive producer
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Locke & Key:
What it Is, What it Isn't, What it Will Be, What You Need to Know, and What I Can't Tell You

What it Is: Locke & Key is about an unlikely house full of impossible keys. One key opens a door to
death—walk through and you turn into a ghost. Another key can unlock your head, so that learning a new
skill is as easy as dropping a book in. And so on. Three children have moved into this house—Keyhouse—
and have become its defenders. Another person, a demonic young man named Dodge, is determined to find
the most powerful key of all, and to use it to unlock the Black Door. Yeah, you know that wouldn't be good.

What it Isn’t: Locke & Key is about children, but for the most part, it isn’t for children. The issue you
hold in your hands, while it has some scary bits, is perfectly acceptable for all-ages—go on, read away, have
fun. However, the series as a whole is very much for mature readers. The rule is: if you have to ask your
parents if it’s okay for you to read it, then it probably isn’t.

What it Will Be: Locke & Key began as a comic book in 2007, and is telling a single complete story.
That story is now almost over, and will eventually be collected in six books, beginning with LOCKE & KEY:
WELCOME TO LOVECRAFT and ending with LOCKE & KEY: Ω. This particular issue features some material from
the third book, LOCKE & KEY: CROWN OF SHADOWS.

The comics have served as the inspiration for a forthcoming FOX TV show. As we bring our story to a close,
the television version of the story will be just beginning; and it will be both very different from and very
similar to the comic itself.

What You Need To Know:

Tyler Locke, 18, is the oldest of the Locke kids, and has been left in charge of his siblings for the
night, while their mother attends to business elsewhere.

Once upon a time, Kinsey Locke, 16, used the Head Key to remove her own fear
from her head. Nothing scares her now; strangely, this has not improved her life.

Bode Locke, 7, didn’t have all that much fear in his head to begin with.
Or all that much sense.

Dodge. Professional homicidal maniac. Wants the key to the Black Door. Probably
shouldn’t have it. Sent a lunatic named Sam Lesser to murder the patriarch of the
Locke clan, Rendell Locke.

Oh, and here’s the most important character in the story:

Keyhouse, home to the world’s most astonishing keys.

What I Can’t Tell You: After three

years of writing Locke & Key, and with one year left to
go, I still can’t tell you if, in the end, this is going to be
a happy story or a sad one. I don’t know myself. I’m kind
of starting to think that like most big stories, it’s a little
bit of both. If you like this Free Comic Book Day Issue,
and you’re okay with a (usually) R-Rated story about
unhappy teenagers tangling with a mess of magic keys,
I hope you’ll come on back for more. Maybe we can find
out how it ends together.

Written by: Joe Hill • Art by: Gabriel Rodriguez

Colors by: Jay Fotos • Letters by: Robbie Robbins • Edited by: Chris Ryall

Ted Adams, CEO & Publisher

Greg Goldstein, Chief Operating Officer
Locke & Key created by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez
Robbie Robbins, EVP/Sr. Graphic Artist
Chris Ryall, Chief Creative Officer
Matthew Ruzicka, CPA, Chief Financial Officer
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LOCKE & KEY: FREE COMIC BOOK DAY EDITION. MAY 2011. FIRST PRINTING. Locke & Key script © 2011 Joe Hill; art © 2011 Idea and Design Works, LLC. © 2011 Idea and Design Works, LLC. IDW Publishing, a division
of Idea and Design Works, LLC. Editorial offices: 5080 Santa Fe Street, San Diego, CA 92109. Any similarities to persons living or dead are purely coincidental. With the exception of artwork used for review purposes, none of
the contents of this publication may be reprinted without the permission of Idea and Design Works, LLC. Printed in Korea.
IDW Publishing does not read or accept unsolicited submissions of ideas, stories, or artwork.
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