IDW Publishing announced today that they are upgrading Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend from trade paperback to hardcover book. The retail price remains at the originally-solicited $35.00, with no increase in spite of the costlier binding.

Beau Smith, VP of Sales and Marketing, explained, “As with all IDW Publishing products, we pride ourselves on giving the consumers more than they’re expecting. We felt that this project needed to be upgraded to hardcover.”

The story of the last man on an Earth overrun by the undead, I Am Legend has seen life as a novel and has been adapted for movies several times. Steve Niles (30 Days Of Night, Dark Days, Wake The Dead) adapted the novel for a four-volume graphic novel more than a decade ago, with brilliant and chilling art by Elman Brown. The original issues are collected here for the first time in one deluxe volume. These books have long been out of print, and the time is right for today’s readers to get bitten by I Am Legend.

Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend is a 248-page, black-and-white hardcover graphic novel, on sale in late November at a retail price of $35.00.