Waning Moon Publications

On February 21st,1977 during a concert stop, KISS band members Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley, Paul Stanley and Peter Criss each donated blood to be collectively mixed with the red ink used in the printing of the first issue of the Marvel/KISS comics.

Authors wishing to add some of their own DNA to their work will be happy to know that Tokyo-based Ko-sin Printing has developed a printing process that uses a special ink that includes DNA extracted from a hair or nail sample (from human or animal) provided by the author. Already Ko-sin has put the technology to use in some self-published autobiographies whose title pages are printed with ink that includes the author's DNA.

Per the company, mixing DNA in with the ink does not alter the appearance of the page and claims it is possible to extract genetic information from materials printed using this process.

Could this mean the cloning of authors in the not-to-distant future? Perhaps. When Ko-sin Printing sent a sample page to a DNA laboratory, the lab technicians were able to isolate and extract the DNA from the page.