Marvel Comics books July 2023 solicits and solicitations in full, from Ultimate Invasions to Dark What Ifs to Hellfire Galas to Mary Jane Watson alive and well on the Hellfire Gala cover to Amazing Spider-Man #29.
ULTIMATE INVASION #2 (OF 4)
JONATHAN HICKMAN (W) • BRYAN HITCH (A/C)
VARIANT COVER BY JULIAN TOTINO TEDESCO
HELLFIRE GALA VARIANT COVER BY LUCAS WERNECK
VARIANT COVER BY TBA
The Maker plans to make sure Earth’s Mightiest Heroes never become heroes at all. And then he can reshape the universe into exactly what he wants it to be…
40 PGS./Rated T+ …$5.99
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #29
ZEB WELLS (W) • ED MCGUINNESS (A/C)
HELLFIRE GALA VARIANT COVER BY DAVID NAKAYAMA
VARIANT COVER BY MARCO CHECCHETTO
DISNEY100 CAPTAIN MARVEL VARIANT COVER BY GIADA PERISSINOTTO
DISNEY100 CAPTAIN MARVEL BLACK AND WHITE VARIANT COVER BY GIADA PERISSINOTTO
• Beaten and bloody, with his back against the wall, has Spider-Man finally met his match?
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #30
ZEB WELLS (W) • ED MCGUINNESS (A/C) • Variant Cover by NICK BRADSHAW
Variant Cover by SKOTTIE YOUNG • Hellfire Gala Variant Cover by BETSY COLA
Variant Cover by MIKE VOSBURG
• Spidey goes one last round with the new and improved Doc Ock.
• Can his newest ally help turn the tide?
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #31
ZEB WELLS, KAARE ANDREWS & MORE! (W)
JOHN ROMITA JR., KAARE ANDREWS & MORE! (A)
Cover by JOHN ROMITA JR.
WOMEN OF MARVEL VARIANT COVER BY ELENA CASAGRANDE
VARIANT COVER BY GEORGE PEREZ • VIRGIN VARIANT COVER BY GEORGE PEREZ
VARIANT COVER BY GREG LAND • VIRGIN VARIANT COVER BY GREG LAND
VARIANT COVER BY JIM CHEUNG
NEGATIVE SPACE VARIANT COVER BY JOHN TYLER CHRISTOPHER
SPECIAL OVER-SIZED ISSUE!
• IT’S THE WEDDING OF THE YEAR! Peter Parker is the best man, and Tombstone is walking the bride down the aisle!
• That’s right – Janice Lincoln and Randy Robertson are tying the knot, and there’s NO WAY all the crime bosses in NYC aren’t seeing this as an opportunity to off Tombstone.
• This story sets up our big Spider-Event of Zeb and Johnny’s second year on ASM, and that’s just the HALF of it!
• Also in this issue: bachelor/bachelorette parties, other ASM-story preludes, glimpses of some of the biggest unannounced Spider-projects and extra bonus awesomeness!
40 PGS./Rated T …$4.99
ON SALE IN AUGUST!
FALLEN FRIEND #1
ALL WILL BE REVEALED. 5/31/23.
40 PGS./ONE-SHOT/Rated T+ …$4.99
MARVEL AGE #1000
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI, DAN SLOTT, JASON AARON, MARK WAID, RAINBOW ROWELL, RYAN STEGMAN, STEVE MCNIVEN & ARMANDO IANNUCCI (W)
KAARE ANDREWS, MICHAEL ALLRED, PEPE LARRAZ, ALESSANDRO CAPPUCCIO, RYAN STEGMAN, MARGUERITE SAUVAGE, STEVE MCNIVEN & ADAM KUBERT (A)
Cover by GARY FRANK
VARIANT COVER BY FRANCIS MANAPUL • VARIANT COVER BY RYAN STEGMAN
VARIANT COVER BY GREG LAND • MARVEL ICON VARIANT COVER BY JAVIER GARRON
VARIANT COVER BY GEORGE PEREZ • VIRGIN VARIANT COVER BY GEORGE PEREZ
WRAPAROUND HIDDEN GEM VARIANT COVER BY FRANK MILLER
IT’S A CELEBRATION OF THE MARVEL AGE OF COMICS – AND YOU ARE INVITED!
This massive commemorative issue includes contributions from some of the most storied creators in Marvel history, as well as a few surprises, as the classic days of Marvel are explored in depth!
J. Michael Straczynski and Kaare Andrews create the Marvel Universe in a backyard! Dan Slott and Michael Allred depict a crucial turning point for Captain Marvel! Rainbow Rowell and Jamie McKelvie explore the blossoming relationship between Cyclops and Jean Grey! The original Human Torch finds his purpose thanks to Mark Waid and Alessandro Cappuccio! The Silver Surfer confronts Mephisto under the guidance of Steve McNiven! And more, more, more! Plus: The ultimate Marvel Value Stamp, #1000! Who or what will it feature?
96 PGS./ONE-SHOT/Rated T+ …$9.99
ON SALE IN AUGUST!
BLADE #1
Bryan Hill (W) • Elena Casagrande (A/C)
VARIANT COVER BY FRANK MILLER • VIRGIN VARIANT COVER BY FRANK MILLER
MARVEL ICON VARIANT COVER BY STEFANO CASELLI
VARIANT COVER BY KAARE ANDREWS • VARIANT COVER BY David Marquez
WINDOWSHADES VARIANT COVER BY TOM REILLY
NEGATIVE SPACE VARIANT COVER BY JOHN TYLER CHRISTOPHER
VARIANT COVER BY PEACH MOMOKO • VIRGIN VARIANT COVER BY PEACH MOMOKO
BLOOD RED BLANK VARIANT COVER ALSO AVAILABLE
Marvel’s slickest vampire hunter returns in a brand new ongoing by Bryan Hill (KILLMONGER) and Elena Casagrande (BLACK WIDOW)!
True evil is patient. And a dark, ancient power has been simmering quietly for centuries…and when Blade himself is the one to unknowingly unleash it, Marvel’s entire supernatural underworld will come out of hiding to demand he handle it. Or pay a pound of flesh for his mistakes.
Bloodbaths, blackmail and Blade – you won’t want to miss the explosive first issue of this new volume!
40 PGS./Parental Advisory …$4.99
INCREDIBLE HULK #180 FACSIMILE EDITION
NEW PRINTING!
Written by LEN WEIN
Penciled by HERB TRIMPE
Cover by HERB TRIMPE
The first appearance of Wolverine! A titanic two-part saga begins right here as the Hulk heads to the Great White North, where a great white beast awaits: the Wendigo! It’s a monster mash of epic proportions – and just when things couldn’t get any wilder, the mysterious Weapon X is unleashed…and the Hulk and the Wendigo must try their luck against the Wolverine! In this initial chapter of the collector’s-item clash of titans, readers got their first glimpse of the diminutive Canadian hero destined to become the most popular X-Man of all! It’s one of the all-time great Marvel comic books, boldly re-presented in its original form, ads and all! Reprinting INCREDIBLE HULK (1968) #180.
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
INCREDIBLE HULK #181 FACSIMILE EDITION
NEW PRINTING!
Written by LEN WEIN
Penciled by HERB TRIMPE
Cover by HERB TRIMPE
The issue that introduced an icon! Just when you thought a battle between the Incredible Hulk and the Wendigo couldn’t get any more ferocious, the Wolverine crashes the party! It’s the first feature-length appearance of the world’s first and greatest Canadian super hero, who would soon go on to become arguably the most popular and successful member of the X-Men! Encounter the Wolverine for the first time all over again in an action-packed throwdown that establishes a rivalry for the ages between the Jade Giant and the Best There Is! It’s one of the all-time great Marvel comic books, boldly re-presented in its original form, ads and all! Reprinting INCREDIBLE HULK (1968) #181.
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
X-MEN #101 FACSIMILE EDITION
Written by CHRIS CLAREMONT
Penciled by DAVE COCKRUM
Cover by DAVE COCKRUM
Like a Phoenix, from the ashes! This momentous issue kicked off the most shocking X-Men epic of all: the Phoenix Saga! As Jean Grey uses the full extent of her telekinetic powers in an attempt to safely guide a space shuttle containing her fellow X-Men back to Earth, the craft splashes down in Jamaica Bay. But when its passengers surface from the depths, where is Jean? As the anguished X-Men fear she may have perished in the crash, suddenly a dazzling redhead in a bold new costume rises out of the waves. She is fire and life incarnate – she is Phoenix! And nothing will ever be the same for the X-Men – or for Jean! It’s one of the all-time great Marvel comic books, boldly re-presented in its original form, ads and all! Reprinting X-MEN (1963) #101.
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
INCREDIBLE HULK #2
PHILLIP KENNEDY JOHNSON (W) • NIC KLEIN (A/C)
HELLFIRE GALA VARIANT COVER BY BRYAN HITCH • VARIANT COVER BY LEINIL FRANCIS YU
VARIANT COVER BY TBA
The Mother of Horrors demands her freedom! And in order to make it happen, her most dutiful servant – a terrifying monstrosity who calls herself the Eldest – seeks to reclaim that wayward son of monsters: the Hulk himself. Now every eldritch horror and primordial being has its eyes set on the Jade Giant!
Meanwhile, on their path to peace and isolation, Banner and his new friend Charlie find themselves forced to pass through an abandoned coal mining town…but when night falls, the term “ghost town” takes on a terrifying new meaning.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
ALL-NEW MARVEL NOW! POINT ONE #1 FACSIMILE EDITION
Written by G. WILLOW WILSON, AL EWING, DAN SLOTT, JAMES ROBINSON,
NATHAN EDMONDSON, & NICK SPENCER
Penciled by ADRIAN ALPHONA, LEE GARBETT, MICHAEL ALLRED, STEVE PUGH,
PHIL NOTO & RAGS MORALES
Cover by SALVADOR LARROCA
Kamala Khan makes her full debut as Ms. Marvel to help usher in a landmark era for Marvel Comics! See the 21st century’s greatest super-hero sensation in action for the first time, against the menace of the Inventor! And fresh chapters begin for a host of other iconic characters as well: Loki embarks on a mission for Asgard! The Silver Surfer and Dawn experience the cosmic rays of Nautikos! A Kree Pursuer and her Special Forces team prepare to invade the Earth! The Black Widow takes on a deadly assignment in Russia! And can Avengers buddy-duo Cannonball and Sunspot keep the Hulk’s power out of A.I.M.’s hands? It’s one of the all-time great Marvel comic books, boldly re-presented in its original form, ads and all! Reprinting ALL-NEW MARVEL NOW! POINT ONE #1.
56 PGS./Rated T+ …$7.99
LOKI #2 (OF 4)
DAN WATTERS (W) • GERMÁN PERALTA (A) • Cover by DUSTIN NGUYEN
Variant Cover by AKA • Variant Cover by Matteo Lolli
The past can never just stay buried, can it?
Loki’s turn at playing “good guy” has been interrupted by the resurgence of relics from his nefarious past. Now that he’s set sail on his ship made of fingernails, he tracks the first of these to the destroyed Nidavellir – where the relic has been crafted into a devastatingly powerful weapon that the dwarves are warring over. And as a bonus: A pair of unexpected Marvel fan-favorites appear to clean up past Loki’s mess!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
BLACK PANTHER #2
EVE L. EWING (W) • CHRIS ALLEN (A) • Cover by TAURIN CLARKE
VARIANT COVER BY SALVADOR LARROCA
HELLFIRE GALA VARIANT COVER BY MATEUS MANHANINI
VARIANT COVER BY MIKE MAYHEW
VARIANT COVER BY Ernanda Souza
Who is the mysterious Beisa?
Delve deeper into Wakanda as we – and T’Challa – have never seen her! No longer in the Golden City, T’Challa goes deep undercover to try to understand the heart of this city that feels it has been forgotten by the Black Panther. And some people aren’t happy with the rumors that the Black Panther has been skulking around Birnin T’Chaka – like the alluring thief Beisa.
Fortunately, some new allies and familiar faces will remind T’Challa that outcast or no, the Black Panther is never completely alone!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
MOON KNIGHT #25
JED MACKAY (W) • ALESSANDRO CAPPUCCIO, ALESSANDRO VITTI
& PARTHA PRATIM (A) • Cover by STEVE MCNIVEN
VARIANT COVER BY STANLEY “ARTGERM” LAU • VIRGIN VARIANT COVER STANLEY “ARTGERM” LAU
VARIANT COVER BY FRANK MILLER • VIRGIN VARIANT COVER BY FRANK MILLER
VARIANT COVER BY GARY FRANK • VIRGIN VARIANT COVER BY GARY FRANK
VARIANT COVER BY JIM CHEUNG • VARIANT COVER BY MARIA WOLF
HELLFIRE GALA VARIANT COVER BY W. SCOTT FORBES
NEGATIVE SPACE VARIANT COVER BY JOHN TYLER CHRISTOPHER
MOON KNIGHT’S PAST AND PRESENT COLLIDE, LEADING INTO HIS FIRST EVENT SERIES!
The past comes back to bedevil Moon Knight as he pursues his latest enemy, someone once familiar and new. From grim New York nights to the blazing sun of Alexandria days, Moon Knight hunts for answers among the graves of Hart Island while haunted by the last mission of the Karnak Cowboys, a mercenary crew counting among its members Marc Spector, Jean-Paul Duchamp, Robert Plesko…and Layla El-Faouly.
PLUS: A CLASSIC MOON KNIGHT STORY FROM THE PAST BY DOUG MOENCH AND BILL SIENKIEWICZ!
96 PGS./Rated T+ …$9.99
MOON KNIGHT: CITY OF THE DEAD #1 (OF 5)
DAVID PEPOSE (W) • MARCELO FERREIRA (A) • COVER BY ROD REIS
FOIL VARIANT COVER BY PEPE LARRAZ
VARIANT COVER BY SKOTTIE YOUNG • VARIANT COVER BY ALEX MALEEV
VARIANT COVER BY CARMEN CARNERO • VARIANT COVER BY TBA
THE DEBUT OF THE NEW SCARLET SCARAB!
Following the events of Moon Knight #25!
When a young runaway is attacked by a gang of death cultists, he is left barely alive outside the Midnight Mission. But Marc Spector made a vow long ago to defend the travelers of the night…and as long as a spark of life remains, his mission isn’t over yet. Follow Moon Knight on his most harrowing adventure yet, as the Fist of Khonshu journeys far beyond the land of the living – and battles across the mind-bending underworld known as the City of the Dead!
40 PGS./Rated T+ …$4.99
CAPTAIN AMERICA #750
COLLIN KELLY, JACKSON LANZING, TOCHI ONYEBUCHI, J.M. DEMATTEIS,
GAIL SIMONE, DAN JURGENS, Stephanie Williams & Cody Ziglar (W)
CARMEN CARNERO, R.B. SILVA, DAN JURGENS, DANIEL ACUÑA, Rachael Stott, MARCUS WILLIAMS & SARA PICHELLI (A)
Cover by GARY FRANK
Design Variant Cover by CARMEN CARNERO
VARIANT COVER BY GEORGE PÉREZ • VIRGIN VARIANT COVER BY GEORGE PÉREZ
MARVEL ICON VARIANT COVER BY JAVIER GARRÓN
HELLFIRE GALA VARIANT COVER BY CF VILLA
HIDDEN GEM VARIANT COVER BY JOHN ROMITA, SR.
VARIANT COVER BY ERNANDA SOUZA • VARIANT COVER BY ADI GRANOV
RED, WHITE, AND BLUE VARIANT COVERS BY JOHN CASSADAY ALSO AVAILABLE
SPECIAL ISSUE #750!
THE CAPTAINS AMERICA MOURN THEIR FALLEN!
After the harrowing events of CAPTAIN AMERICA: COLD WAR, the Captains America return home to mourn their fallen – and strive to honor the power of legacy. Plus: The secret origin of Sam Wilson’s new shield revealed, and a bold new direction for Sharon Carter!
In honor of 750 issues of CAPTAIN AMERICA, a team of fan-favorite guest writers join forces with superstar artists to spin timeless tales celebrating the epic history of the star-spangled hero! Don’t miss this jam-packed oversized issue!
72 PGS./Rated T+ …$7.99
CAPTAIN MARVEL: DARK TEMPEST #1 (OF 5)
Ann Nocenti (W) • Paolo Villanelli (A) • Cover by Mike McKone
STORMBREAKERS VARIANT COVER BY C.F. VILLA
CAPTAIN MARVEL VARIANT COVER BY DERRICK CHEW
CAPTAIN MARVEL VIRGIN VARIANT COVER BY DERRICK CHEW
VARIANT COVER BY GEORGE PEREZ • VIRGIN VARIANT COVER BY GEORGE PEREZ
VARIANT COVER BY ROSE BESCH • VIRGIN VARIANT COVER BY ROSE BESCH
HELLFIRE GALA VARIANT COVER BY JEN BARTEL • VARIANT COVER BY R1c0
EARTH’S MIGHTIEST!
After facing off against the Brood with the X-Men and losing someone she holds dear, Carol Danvers needs a break. She’s not about to get it now! A slinky new cosmic threat comes for Earth’s Mightiest, and they know just who to recruit to really wreck Carol’s world – a surprise legacy villain! Join industry legend Ann Nocenti and artist Paolo Villanelli of STAR WARS: BOUNTY HUNTERS fame as they take the torch from Kelly Thompson’s record-breaking run and slingshot Captain Marvel from the Harpswell Sound to the far reaches of the galaxy!
40 PGS./Rated T+ …$4.99
MARVEL ZERO
ZEB WELLS, AL EWING, GERRY DUGGAN, JONATHAN HICKMAN (W)
PATRICK GLEASON, CAFU, JOSH CASSARA, JAVIER GARRON, VALERIO SCHITI, BRYAN HITCH (A) COVER A BY PATRICK GLEASON • COVER B BY DAVID MARQUEZ
VIRGIN VARIANT COVER BY JAVIER GARRÓN • VIRGIN VARIANT COVER BY PATRICK GLEASON
• A deluxe edition collecting Marvel’s GOLD 2023 FREE COMIC BOOK DAY titles! This giant-sized issue is jam packed with entry points into the biggest comic storylines of the year and bursting with never-before-seen bonus material including preview art, design sketches, and more!
• Spidey faces a new villain as a classic villain returns in a story that sets the stage for the next explosive year of AMAZING SPIDER-MAN!
• A shocking story reveals how Venom fits into the history of the Marvel Universe and leads into the next huge epic coming to VENOM!
• FALL OF X looms over this year’s HELLFIRE GALA! A new threat to mutantkind emerges—one with a very familiar visage!
• And with the world in disarray, the moment calls for a new alliance between the X-Men and Aveners—the all-new UNCANNY AVENGERS!
• PLUS! Preview JONATHAN HICKMAN’S two new Marvel projects, ULTIMATE INVASION with Bryan Hitch and GODS with Valerio Schiti!
48 PGS./ONE-SHOT/Rated T+ …$6.99
DEADPOOL: BADDER BLOOD #2 (OF 5)
ROB LIEFELD & CHAD BOWERS (W) • ROB LIEFELD (A/C) • Variant Cover by ROB LIEFELD
Variant Cover by TYLER KIRKHAM
DEADPOOL VS. SHATTERSTORM — AND THAT’S JUST THE BEGINNING!
DEADPOOL thinks he’s pretty good with a sword…but is he good enough to trounce the mysterious blade-brandishing SHATTERSTORM?! Win or lose, will ol’ WADE WILSON have what it takes to navigate the Terrors of KILLEVILLE? And who or what is ARCATA?
Rob Liefeld’s tour-de-force DEADPOOL epic continues with BIG SURPRISES and EPIC ACTION unlike anything else on the stands!
40 PGS./Parental Advisory …$4.99
WHAT IF…? DARK: SPIDER-GWEN #1
GERRY CONWAY & JODY HOUSER (W) • Ramon Bachs (A) • COVER BY GREG LAND
VARIANT COVER BY MARC ASPINALL
VARIANT COVER BY ROSE BESCH • VIRGIN VARIANT COVER BY ROSE BESCH
• Spider-Legend Gerry Conway returns to his most famous Spider-Story for this WHAT IF along with co-writer Jody Houser!
• WHAT IF Gwen Stacy didn’t die on the bridge that day, but Spider-Man DID?!
• ‘Nuff said, I presume!
40 PGS./ONE-SHOT/Rated T+ …$4.99
WHAT IF…? DARK: LOKI #1
WALTER SIMONSON (W) • Scot Eaton (A) • Cover by Walter Simonson
Variant Cover by GABRIELE DELL’OTTO • Variant Cover by TBA
Walter Simonson returns to his illustrious run on THOR…but this time, Loki’s in charge! A tale of one of Asgard’s worst days – and one of Loki’s best.
40 PGS./ONE-SHOT/Rated T+ …$4.99
X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST – DOOMSDAY #1 (OF 4)
MARC GUGGENHEIM (W) • MANUEL GARCIA (A) • Cover by GEOFF SHAW
Stormbreakers Variant Cover by CHRIS ALLEN
Hellfire Gala Variant Cover by Erica D’Urso• HomageR variant cover by Rob Liefeld
Variant Cover by MICO SUAYAN • Variant Cover by STEFANO CASELLI
THE CATACLYSM THAT LEADS TO THE X-MEN’S DYSTOPIC FUTURE!
Return to the future in a tale that reveals the events leading up to the timeless original DAYS OF FUTURE PAST story that’s inspired spin-offs, films and more!
In a world where mutants are more than simply hated and feared, but not yet SLAIN and APPREHENDED, the assassination of Senator Kelly comes to pass, bringing with it the Mutant Control Act and SENTINELS on every corner. But with mutantkind on the back foot, what lengths will KATE PRYDE, WOLVERINE, COLOSSUS, STORM, BANSHEE, ANGEL, CYCLOPS, PROFESSOR X and the rest of the X-MEN go to in order to find some way to survive? And what scheme of MAGNETO will bring about their ultimate DOOMSDAY?
Witness the thirty-year descent into the dystopic future, replete with the previously untold deaths of key mutant characters, as we flesh out one of the most celebrated X-MEN timelines in its own series for the first time!
40 PGS./Rated T+ …$4.99
X-MEN: HELLFIRE GALA 2023 #1
GERRY DUGGAN (W) • KRIS ANKA, JOSHUA CASSARA, RUSSELL DAUTERMAN,
ADAM KUBERT, PEPE LARRAZ, R.B. SILVA, LUCIANO VECCHIO & MORE! (A)
Cover by PHIL NOTO • X-VOTE VARIANT COVER BY FRANCESCO MANNA
VARIANT COVER BY GEORGE PEREZ • VIRGIN VARIANT COVER BY GEORGE PEREZ
ANNIVERSARY VARIANT COVER BY J. SCOTT CAMPBELL
VIRGIN ANNIVERSARY VARIANT COVER BY J. SCOTT CAMPBELL
RETRO ANNIVERSARY VARIANT COVER BY J. SCOTT CAMPBELL
STORMBREAKERS VARIANT COVER BY LUCAS WERNECK
HELLFIRE GALA VARIANT COVER BY MASHAL AHMED
HOWARD THE DUCK VARIANT COVER BY TBA
X-MEN 97 VARIANT COVER BY DAN VEESENMEYER
THE FALL OF X BEGINS HERE!
The Hellfire Gala is always the biggest event of the season…but this year’s will change everything for Krakoa. What is meant to be mutantkind’s biggest night becomes their biggest nightmare as the Fall of X begins! All your favorite X-Men are going to be left reeling after this one – shocking revelations, stunning betrayals, horrifying tragedy, impossible deaths…and of course the most glamorous looks of the year, all in one CANNOT-MISS package!
80 PGS./ONE-SHOT/Rated T+ …$8.99
X-MEN #24
GERRY DUGGAN (W) • Joshua Cassara (A/C)
STORMBREAKERS VARIANT COVER BY ELENA CASAGRANDE
CORNER BOX VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS
TRADING CARD VARIANT COVER BY RUSSELL DAUTERMAN
HELLFIRE GALA VARIANT COVER BY MAHMUD ASRAR
POGG UR-POGG FOR HIRE!
Hired for the dirtiest of jobs, a deadly mercenary comes crashing into the X-Men right at their most vulnerable moment! But not just any mercenary – finally, the breakout fan-favorite from X OF SWORDS, Pogg Ur-Pogg, returns!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #8
GERRY DUGGAN (W) • Juan Frigeri (A) • Cover by KAEL NGU
Connecting Variant Cover by BOB LAYTON
Variant Cover by GEORGE PÉREZ • Virgin Variant Cover by GEORGE PÉREZ
Variant Cover by JUNGGEUN YOON • Hellfire Gala Variant Cover by TBA
HELLFIRE GALA TIE-IN!
As the X-Men throw their latest Hellfire Gala, Iron Man has to contend with the new Stark Sentinels flying through New York! Can Tony stop these mutant-hunting machines alone? Guest-starring Emma Frost!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
X-MEN: BEFORE THE FALL – SINISTER FOUR #1
KIERON GILLEN (W) • PACO MEDINA (A) • Cover by LUCAS WERNECK
STORMBREAKERS VARIANT COVER BY MARTIN COCCOLO
HELLFIRE GALA VARIANT COVER BY MICHELE BANDINI • VARIANT COVER BY RAFAEL DE LA TORRE
FALL OF X IS COMING!
As the nineteenth century drew to a close, the dying Nathaniel Essex unleashed four clones of himself into the world. They’ve been haunting it ever since, while lurking in the shadows. We know what Sinister has been up to. What about the others? In this issue, we delve into their past…and discover their latest atrocity. When they start to…date?
40 PGS./ONE-SHOT/Rated T+ …$4.99
STORM #3 (OF 5)
ANN NOCENTI (W) • SID KOTIAN (A) • Cover by ALAN DAVIS
VARIANT COVER BY KEN LASHLEY • HELLFIRE GALA VARIANT COVER BY RUSSELL DAUTERMAN
THE X-MEN VS. BLOWBACK!
The X-MEN are alerted to BLOWBACK’S presence, and the classic team of WOLVERINE, ROGUE, COLOSSUS, NIGHTCRAWLER and KITTY PRYDE show up to quell the threat! But does STORM still fit on the team, and will her powers save the day…or doom the mutants?
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
X-MEN RED #13
Al Ewing (W) • Jacopo Camagni (A) • Cover by STEFANO CASELLI
STORMBREAKERS VARIANT COVER BY FEDERICO VICENTINI
HELLFIRE GALA VARIANT COVER BY JAMIE MCKELVIE • VARIANT COVER BY NATACHA BUSTOS
SHE’S BACK!
Genesis once again walks the island she ruled for millennia – with the Annihilation Staff in her hand. But what is in her heart? Is the return of the Mother of Arakko to be celebrated – or feared? As the Fall of X closes in, the Great Ring must decide…or risk their own fall from grace.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
IMMORTAL X-MEN #13
Kieron Gillen (W) • Lucas Werneck (A) • Cover by Mark Brooks
STORMBREAKERS VARIANT COVER BY JAN BAZALDUA
QUIET COUNCIL VARIANT COVER BY PHIL NOTO
HELLFIRE GALA VARIANT COVER BY LUCIANO VECCHIO • VARIANT COVER BY NABETSE ZITRO
LISTEN CLOSELY.
Time is running out. Fall is here. Doug Ramsey is the voice of Krakoa. It’s time for Krakoa to speak.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …3.99
ROGUE & GAMBIT #5 (OF 5)
Stephanie Phillips (W)
Carlos GÓMEZ (A)
Cover by Steve Morris
THE POWERS THAT BREAK!
The Power Broker emerges from the shadows to make the deal of a lifetime! Selling was always risky business, but with an asset like Rogue in his Rolodex, the payoff is worth it. Only, Anna Marie isn’t one who can be controlled. And while Gambit knows her sweet side…the rest of her can be mighty mean. Rogue crosses a line she can’t uncross in a shocking twist that will have repercussions across all Krakoa!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
NEW MUTANTS
LETHAL LEGION #5 (OF 5)
Charlie Jane Anders (W) • Enid Balám (A) Cover by JAVI FERNÁNDEZ
DANGER! BATTERY OVERLOAD!
The New Mutants’ plan to take down Count Nefaria has epically failed, and as a result, he’s more powerful than ever! But there’s no time for Escapade and her teammates to lick their wounds – Nefaria and his diabolical Lethal Legion have set their sights on a convention center in Midtown New York to make hundreds of humans the Count’s personal batteries! Will our ragtag team of well-meaning misfits be able to finally complete the perfect heist and stop Nefaria from gaining almost unlimited power? Find out in this final issue!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
WOLVERINE #35
BENJAMIN PERCY (W) • JUAN JOSÉ RYP (A)
Cover by LEINIL FRANCIS YU
Variant Cover by John Giang
Hellfire GALA Variant Cover
by MAHMUD ASRAR
WEAPONS OF X CONCLUSION!
WOLVERINE. BEAST. Only one of ’em’s left standing after these CLONE WARS. And it ain’t no clone.
The brutal finale of Wolverine’s CLONE SAGA sets the stage for LOGAN’s next journey and presages things to come for KRAKOA!
32 PGS./PARENTAL ADVISORY …$3.99
X-23: DEADLY REGENESIS #5 (OF 5)
ERICA SCHULTZ (W) • EDGAR SALAZAR (A)
Cover by KALMAN ANDRASOFSZKY
KINGPIN WANTS HIS MONEY BACK!
LAURA KINNEY has done terrible things in her time as an assassin for the Facility. And now that past comes back to haunt her with a vengeance! With HAYMAKER on one side, KINGPIN on the other and KIMURA orchestrating the nightmare, the woman once known as X-23 will have to bring all her fighting skills and mutant power to bear if she’s to survive this deadly convergence of enemies!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
THE X-CELLENT #5 (OF 5)
PETER MILLIGAN (W) • MICHAEL ALLRED (A/C)
All hail your new god, Zeitgeist! With his new powers and zealots at his side, the X-Statix don’t stand a chance! But an old friend is about to shake up the status quo… Don’t miss the dramatic finale of these superstar heroes!
32 PGS./Parental Advisory …$3.99
X-FORCE #42
BENJAMIN PERCY (W) • PAUL DAVIDSON (A)
Cover by JOSHUA CASSARA
Variant Cover by JAMES STOKOE
Hellfire GALA Variant Cover by CARLOS GÓMEZ
Stormbreakers Variant Cover by NIC KLEIN
THE GHOST CALENDARS!
BEAST’s epic long game plays out in the only way it could – with NIMROD’S ultimate plan successful, HANK McCOY survives and thrives! But what will this mean for mutantkind, and does X-FORCE still have time to stop it?
32 PGS./Parental Advisory …$3.99
VENOM #22
AL EWING (W) • RAMON F. BACHS (A) • Cover by BRYAN HITCH
Hellfire Gala Variant by JOSHUA CASSARA
Variant cover by MIKE VOSBURG • Variant cover by BJÖRN BARENDS
Venom The Other Variant by RYAN STEGMAN
BLAST IN THE PAST!
For months, Eddie Brock’s consciousness has been displaced in time! You’ve seen what happens when he’s flung himself to the far future of the Marvel Universe – now see what happens when he tries to traverse its past! Face to face with the mysterious FLEXO in the past, the part symbiotes have played in the Marvel U will take a surprising and new turn!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
VENOM #23
TORUNN GRØNBEKK (W) • Ken Lashley (A) • Cover by BRYAN HITCH
VARIANT COVER BY GEORGE PEREZ • VIRGIN VARIANT COVER BY GEORGE PEREZ
VARIANT COVER BY KEN LASHLEY • VIRGIN VARIANT COVER BY KEN LASHLEY
VARIANT COVER BY JIM CHEUNG • CONNECTING VARIANT COVER BY PHILIP TAN
VENOM THE OTHER VARIANT COVER BY RYAN STEGMAN • VARIANT COVER BY RYAN BROWN
SPOILER VARIANT COVER BY KEN LASHLEY • HOMAGE VARIANT COVER BY PHILIP TAN
A NEW VISION OF TOXIN!
Toxin is the offspring of the most dangerous symbiote in the history of the Marvel Universe: CARNAGE. But while Carnage and Cletus Kasady are separated and both devising machinations and plans of cosmic bloodshed and conquest, what has its progeny been doing? And will Dylan Brock or the Venom symbiote survive when they come face to face with this latest terrifying Toxin?!
PLUS: Toxin isn’t the only symbiote in this story who’s unlike anything you’ve ever seen! The symbiote family is about to grow a little larger… and what’s coming will change the continuing saga of the symbiotes FOREVER!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
EXTREME VENOMVERSE #4 (OF 5)
ALYSSA WONG, PEACH MOMOKO
AND D.J. BRYANT (W)
PEACH MOMOKO, KEN NIIMURA
AND MORE! (A)
Cover by LEINIL FRANCIS YU
SYMBIOTE VARIANT COVER BY KEN LASHLEY
VARIANT COVER BY PEACH MOMOKO
VENOM THE OTHER VARIANT COVER
BY RYAN STEGMAN
VARIANT COVER BY TAKASHI OKAZAKI
Face front, Venomaniacs, because we’ve got even MORE never-before-seen and ALL-NEW symbiote stories to show you!
• First, Deadpool scribe ALYSSA WONG and revolutionary artist KEN NIIMURA unite to introduce a symbiotic superstar inspired by anime and manga who’s about to take the Multiverse by storm!
• Then industry superstar PEACH MOMOKO is about to make your skin crawl, with a tale of some fearsome flora the likes of which you’ve never seen! Move over, Groot, there’s a NEW plant in the spotlight of the Marvel U, and this one’s a KILLER!
• And lastly! VENOM NOIR! You’ve heard of Spider-Man Noir – now meet his totemic and terrible opposite as this reality’s symbiotic hive gets explored for the very first time!
40 PGS./Rated T+ …$4.99
EXTREME VENOMVERSE #5 (OF 5)
KELLY THOMPSON, JORDAN BLUM,
CODY ZIGLAR AND MORE! (W)
GURIHIRU AND MORE! (A)
Cover by LEINIL FRANCIS YU
VARIANT COVER BY CHRISSIE ZULLO
SYMBIOTE VARIANT COVER BY KEN LASHLEY
VARIANT COVER BY PEACH MOMOKO
VENOM THE OTHER VARIANT COVER
BY RYAN STEGMAN
VARIANT COVER BY NICK BRADSHAW
THE CONCLUSION TO EXTREME VENOMVERSE!
• Like every issue of the summertime symbiote celebration before it, this one introduces another awesome array of symbiotes!
• FIRST! JEFF THE LAND SHARK GETS VENOMIZED! From the awesome team behind the smash-hit IT’S JEFF! Infinity Comic, Kelly Thompson and Gurihiru!
• THEN! Hope this symbiote’s got a mitt and some bubble gum because it’s getting called up to the MAJOR LEAGUES!
40 PGS./Rated T+ …$4.99
EDGE OF SPIDER-VERSE #4 (OF 4)
TABOO & B. EARL & DANIEL KIBBLESMITH (W) • JUAN FERREYRA & CHRIS CROSS (A)
Cover by PATRICK BROWN • Connecting Variant Cover by JOSEMARIA CASANOVAS
Variant Cover by SIMONE BIANCHI • Variant Cover by TBA
• DREAM-SPIDER RETURNS! The new spider-character from the hit DEADLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN miniseries returns in her first solo adventure!
• ALSO: What if that radioactive spider we all know and love bit…J. JONAH JAMESON?!
40 PGS./Rated T+ …$4.99
SPIDER-MAN: INDIA #2 (OF 4)
NIKESH SHUKLA (W) • ABHISHEK MALSUNI (A) Cover by ADAM KUBERT
Variant Cover by DOALY
A NEW LIZARD HATCHES!
Pavitr Prabhakar survived “The End of the Spider-Verse” and has returned to his own universe’s Mumbai only to find that a brilliant scientist’s dangerous experiment has gone terribly wrong! A new LIZARD threatens all of Mumbai, with its new and terrifying abilities that could make it the most powerful version yet! Pavitr is the city’s only hope…but victory will come at a cost – one Pavitr may not be ready for!
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
HALLOWS’ EVE #5 (OF 5)
ERICA SCHULTZ (W)
MICHAEL DOWLING (A/C)
Hellfire Gala Variant Cover by BENGAL
• Hallows’ Eve is backed into a corner as her masks are used against her!
• With the playing field evened out, it all comes down to a battle of wit and will.
• Will Eve come out alive?
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
SPIDER-MAN #10
DAN SLOTT (W) • MARK BAGLEY (A/C) • Variant Cover by TBA
HELLFIRE GALA VARIANT BY STEPHANIE HANS
SPIDER-MAN VS. ELECTRO – NO HOLDS BARRED!
• The web-slinger and the Emperor of Electricity have both leveled up since they last faced each other, and one really wants to kill the other.
• Plus, Norman Osborn does something that may end his new amicable relationship with Spider-Man.
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
SPIDER-GWEN: SHADOW CLONES #5 (OF 5)
EMILY KIM (W) • KEI ZAMA (A)
Cover by DAVID NAKAYAMA
DESIGN VARIANT COVER
BY PEACH MOMOKO
VARIANT COVER BY MARGUERITE SAUVAGE
VARIANT COVER BY GREG LAND
VIRGIN VAIRANT COVER BY GREG LAND
GRIEF & REVENGE!
Doctor Lyla Bennett’s revenge against all Gwens is complete! What does this mean for our very own Ghost-Spider and her clones? Don’t miss the chilling finale of Gwen’s clone-tastic story, one that will change Spider-Gwen as we know her!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
SILK #3 (OF 5)
EMILY KIM (W) • IG GUARA (A)
Cover by DAVE JOHNSON
Marvel Icon Variant Cover
by JAVIER GARRÓN
Variant Cover by Nayoung Wooh
SILK HITS THE HIGH SEAS!
• Still trapped inside a dreamscape, Silk embarks on a swashbuckling escapade!
• But a pirate’s life is full of danger, and Silk is running out of time to find an escape.
• Luckily she has friends on the outside who can help, including Wong, the right hand of the Sorcerer Supreme!
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
MILES MORALES: SPIDER-MAN #8
CODY ZIGLAR (W) • FEDERICO VICENTINI (A) • Cover by DIKE RUAN
Variant Cover by JIM CHEUNG • Variant Cover by MICO SUAYAN
Hellfire Gala Variant Cover by BERNARD CHANG
MILES BATTLES THE HOBGOBLIN!
SPIDER-MAN, A.K.A. MILES MORALES, has a target on his spider-symbol’d back. The most dangerous super-villains in NYC keep coming at him – hard. First RABBLE, then CLETUS KASADY and now…THE HOBGOBLIN is back and more dangerous than ever, and he’s got his glider aimed squarely at Miles! How could this get any worse for Spidey? Well…Hobgoblin might not be the ONLY thing Miles needs to worry about…
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
RED GOBLIN #6
ALEX PAKNADEL (W) • JAN BAZALDUA (A) • Cover by BJÖRN BARENDS
Connecting Variant Cover by PHILIP TAN
Venom The Other Variant Cover by RYAN STEGMAN
“NATURE VS. NURTURE” BEGINS!
CARNAGE REIGNS may be over, but Normie Osborn and the Rascal symbiote’s problems are only just beginning! For weeks, Normie’s pacified the symbiote and managed to keep the rabid killing machine inside it under control. But in this issue, Normie learns that you can’t fight nature…
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
VENOM: LETHAL PROTECTOR II #5 (OF 5)
DAVID MICHELINIE (W) • FARID KARAMI (A) • Cover by PHILIP TAN
VENOM FACES A DOOMSDAY SCENARIO!
VENOM and SILVER SABLE’s final battle with the most dangerous foes they’ve ever fought reaches its climax, and they better win – because the fate of the entire world is on the line. It’s a battle that will change them forever, but little do they know that the real fight is about to begin…for DOOM has sprung his nefarious trap. His prize? The Venom symbiote itself!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
CULT OF CARNAGE: MISERY #3 (OF 5)
SABIR PIRZADA (W) • FRANCESCO MORTARINO (A) • Cover by SKAN
Variant Cover by LEINIL FRANCIS YU
LIFE LOST!
All of the symbiotes in Alchemax’s care have been STOLEN, including the FIVE LIFE FOUNDATION SYMBIOTES! Harnessing each of their unique abilities, a mysterious and CLASSIC symbiote villain has started making moves in the chaos of the Summer of Symbiotes. But WHO?! Read and find out!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
WEB OF CARNAGE #1
RAM V & TBA (W) • FRANCESCO MANNA (A) • Cover by KENDRICK “KUNKKA” LIM
CONNECTING VARIANT COVER BY PHILIP TAN • VARIANT COVER BY KENDRICK “KUNKKA” LIM
VARIANT COVER BY SALVADOR LARROCA • VARIANT COVER BY TBA
CARNAGE SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH!
As Cletus Kasady exacts his vengeance on an unsuspecting city and CARNAGE REIGNS across the Marvel Universe, THE CARNAGE SYMBIOTE remains left to its own devices, adrift among the stars. With its purpose renewed after the DEATH OF THE VENOMVERSE, Carnage has scant few hurdles between it and a glorious ascension to the throne of the King in Black…and the first is named MORLUN.
40 PGS./Rated T+ …$5.99
AVENGERS BEYOND #5 (OF 5)
DEREK LANDY (W) • GREG LAND (A/C)
• New York has fallen.
• The Lost One steps over the broken bodies of heroes and villains alike in his search for the Beyonder, who cowers in the shadows without his powers.
• Outplayed and outmaneuvered, the Avengers have one last chance to snatch desperate victory from the jaws of unimaginable defeat…
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
I AM IRON MAN #5 (OF 5)
MUREWA AYODELE (W)
DOTUN AKANDE (A/C)
• An old, forgotten (SILVER AGE) foe returns. They crave the destruction of IRON MAN and the subjugation of EARTH. To defeat them, IRON MAN seeks out help from an unusual place – a superhuman prison.
• Follow IRON MAN on his quest to protect EARTH as he builds a planet-protector cannon, trades brutal blows with SHE-HULK and makes a new friend along the way.
• This episode is set in the current era of Iron Man, is the grand finale and is a love letter to Iron Man fans.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
AVENGERS #3
JED MACKAY (W) • C.F. VILLA (A) • Cover by STUART IMMONEN
CORNER BOX VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS
HELLFIRE GALA VARIANT COVER BY DAVID BALDEÓN • VARIANT COVER BY JOSHUA CASSARA
The first Tribulation Event strikes the Earth!
The Avengers fly into action as the Ashen Combine – a collection of the Multiverse’s greatest monsters – descends from the Impossible City to follow their respective appetites. Cityslayers all, pursuing the assassination of metropolitan areas for sport!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
GROOT #3 (OF 4)
DAN ABNETT (W) • DAMIAN COUCEIRO (A)
Cover by LEE GARBETT
VARIANT COVER BY SALVADOR LARROCA
Mar-Vell and Yondar have been captured by the monstrous Agz! But there’s more to this deadly creature than Groot and his friends realize. Who is he? And why has he razed Groot’s homeworld? Find out here!
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
WARLOCK: REBIRTH #4 (OF 5)
RON MARZ (W) • RON LIM (A/C)
VARIANT COVER BY DAN JURGENS
It’s Warlock vs. Warlock! But will Adam emerge victorious? Or will Eve reign supreme as the new Warlock of the cosmos!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY #4
COLLIN KELLY & JACKSON LANZING (W) • KEV WALKER (A) • Cover by MARCO CHECCHETTO
Hellfire Gala Variant Cover by TBA • VARIANT COVER BY RICKIE YAGAWA
Rocket Raccoon is back…and he’s not happy to see the Guardians of the Galaxy! Where has he been all this time? What’s happened to him? Get ready for a Rocket Raccoon you’ve never seen before!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
DOCTOR STRANGE #5
Jed MacKay (W) • Pasqual Ferry (A) • Cover by Alex Ross
HELLFIRE GALA VARIANT COVER BY DUSTIN NGUYEN • VARIANT COVER BY LEINIL FRANCIS YU
DARK WEDDING BELLS RINGING!
Strange and Clea have been invited to an interdimensional wedding. But when the bride is Clea’s own mother, Umar the Unrelenting, it’s not exactly the family event the Stranges want to attend. Especially when the guests are mysteriously being murdered!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
FANTASTIC FOUR #9
RYAN NORTH (W) • IVAN FIORELLI (A) • Cover by ALEX ROSS (W)
VARIANT COVER BY SIMONE BIANCHI • HELLFIRE GALA VARIANT COVER BY OSCAR VEGA
• Alicia, Sue and Johnny face off against Ben and Reed – as they battle for the survival of their minds themselves against an alien that can wipe their memories clean!
• But can they survive this brutal onslaught from their friends and lovers, the very people who know them – and their powers – better than anyone else in the universe?
• We’ll all find out together in this Alicia-narrated issue!
• Plus: A meditation on the nature of art itself! And cool fights too!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
HELLCAT #5 (OF 5)
CHRISTOPHER CANTWELL (W) • ALEX LINS (A) • Cover by PERE PÉREZ
Patsy has been transformed into…DEMONIC HELLCAT! With her very humanity at stake, can she overcome the powers of darkness that have been unleashed? All is revealed as both the past and the present collide in a final battle that will determine the rest of Hellcat’s future – if she has one!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
SCARLET WITCH #6
STEVE ORLANDO (W) • LORENZO TAMMETTA & SARA PICHELLI (A)
Cover by RUSSELL DAUTERMAN • Homage Variant Cover by LUCAS WERNECK
Variant Cover by PEACH MOMOKO • Variant Cover by BETSY COLA
FAMILY MATTERS!
Wanda’s loyalties are tested when an enemy of the Kree/Skrull Empire falls through the Last Door desperate for help avenging their fallen comrades. Will Wanda honor the commitment she made to helping those in need – whoever they are – or will her love for her son Wiccan and his husband, Hulkling, triumph over all?
PLUS: A familiar figure appears at Wanda’s shop…and it seems rumors of his death have been greatly exaggerated. But does he come as friend or foe?
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
GHOST RIDER #16
Benjamin Percy (W) • Chris Campagna (A) • Cover by BJÖRN Barends
HELLFIRE GALA VARIANT COVER BY GERALD PAREL • VARIANT COVER BY E.M. GIST
Over the years, the same hitchhiker has found Danny Ketch, Robbie Reyes and now Johnny Blaze! Join us for this stand-alone tale of terror that threatens the past present, and future of the Ghost Riders…
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
DANNY KETCH: GHOST RIDER #3 (OF 4)
HOWARD MACKIE (W) • DANIEL PICCIOTTO (A) • Cover by BEN HARVEY
VARIANT COVER BY SERGIO DÁVILA
The Scarecrow is unleashed!
The mysterious Broker has powered up Ghost Rider’s next nemesis, and it’s going to take the combined hellfire of Rider and Johnny Blaze to stop him!
32 PGS./Parental Advisory …$3.99
COSMIC GHOST RIDER #5
STEPHANIE PHILLIPS (W) • JUANN CABAL (A)
Cover by VALERIO GIANGIORDANO
Cosmic Ghost Rider has been tested like never before as he’s battled his own twisted alter ego across the galaxy. But now, trapped on an isolated moon, he must face off against an entire horde of Cosmic Ghost Riders! Who will be left alive when the moondust settles?! And one character will undergo a shocking transformation as a new force explodes into the Marvel Universe!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
CLOBBERIN’ TIME #5 (OF 5)
STEVE SKROCE (W) • STEVE SKROCE (A/C)
OGDU FRAIZE’s plan is almost complete, he has reverse engineered
every item of power across the Marvel Universe’s timestream to create the PSYCHOPOMP machine, a device that will steal the creation energy of the nascent GALACTUS and the SENTIENCE of the UNIVERSE at the moment of the BIG BANG. The THING, DOCTOR DOOM and TUVAH TU are an unwilling audience to the universe’s re-making. That is, unless they can get free…
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
THOR ANNUAL #1
JACKSON LANZING & COLLIN KELLY (W) • Ibraim Roberson (A) • Cover by ADAM KUBERT
Women of Marvel Variant Cover by ELENA CASAGRANDE
Variant Cover by GEORGE PÉREZ • Virgin Variant Cover by GEORGE PÉREZ
Hellfire GALA Variant Cover by DAVID MARQUEZ
Enter…MYTHOS!
When M.O.D.O.K. – fueled by revenge and a refusal to ever again be someone else’s pawn – seizes control of all of the Ten Realms but Asgard, Thor the All-Father must step in and regain control of the Ten Realms and the World Tree. But M.O.D.O.K.’s new, cosmic power proves to be a greater threat than Thor could imagine, and he’ll need the inspiration of some beloved friends from Midgard to reclaim his realms and his awesome power.
40 PGS./ONE-SHOT/Rated T+ …$4.99
SHE-HULK #15
RAINBOW ROWELL (W)
ANDRÉS GENOLET (A)
Cover by JEN BARTEL
Variant Cover by GEORGE PÉREZ
Virgin Variant Cover
by GEORGE PÉREZ
Variant Cover by JEFF DEKAL
• Scoundrel pushes She-Hulk to the limit in her final push to save all of NYC from her newest rogue!
• Meanwhile, the Fight Club has their hands full taking on an alien horde!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
DAREDEVIL & ECHO #3 (OF 4)
TABOO & B. EARL (W) • PHIL NOTO (A/C)
Variant Cover by ROD REIS
Variant Cover by MARIA WOLF
CHASING GHOSTS!
Demogoblin has awoken a dangerous and violent force beneath the streets of Hell’s Kitchen. Luckily, Daredevil doesn’t only have friends in high places, he’s got them in low ones too – all the way down to HELL! You know ‘im, you love ‘im and, in this issue, GHOST RIDER makes his presence known!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
DAREDEVIL #13
CHIP ZDARSKY (W) • MARCO CHECCHETTO (A/C)
Hellfire Gala Variant Cover by JAVIER GARRÓN • Variant Cover by STEPHEN MOONEY
DAREDEVIL IN HELL!
Chip Zdarsky and Marco Checchetto are on the last leg of their tour de force through Matt Murdock’s life…and afterlife.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
DEADPOOL #9
ALYSSA WONG (W) • LUIGI ZAGARIA (A) • COVER BY MARTIN CÓCCOLO
Variant Cover by PABLO VILLALOBOS • Hellfire Gala Variant Cover by NICK DRAGOTTA
AT THE MERCY OF THE HORNED EMPEROR!
Deadpool has been in a lot of tough spots, but this is definitely the first time he’s been captured by an antlered cloud-head person. When we say it like that it seems weird, but this is some real trouble! Can even his new paramour or giant symbiote dog save him?
32 PGS./Parental Advisory …$3.99
PLANET OF THE APES #4
DAVID F. WALKER (W) • DAVE WACHTER (A) • Cover by JOSHUA CASSARA
Variant Cover by JOHN GIANG
THE DIE HAS BEEN THROWN!
Juliana must guide the apes on an 865-mile trek from New York City to the CDC in Atlanta, Georgia. The road will be long and treacherous with the Exercitus Viri not far behind, blinded by bloodthirsty rage. Will Juliana be able to get all the apes to safety and potentially usher in humanity’s salvation? Or will the path to hope lead to a dead end strewn with blood and death?
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$4.99
PREDATOR #5
Ed Brisson (W) • NETHO DIAZ (A)
Cover by Giuseppe Camuncoli
Variant Cover by TYLER KIRKHAM
THERE’S NO GLORY IN LOSING THE GAME!
It’s the final showdown. The group of humans are officially divided and entangled in the ultimate hunt…against each other. There’s no doubt that it’s going to be a bloodbath, but it’s anyone’s guess as to who will make it out alive, gain possession of the Sandpiper and, ultimately, salvation. But there’s a Predator lurking on the ship, so whoever survives will have to go head-to-head against one of the galaxy’s most deadly hunters. Find out the fate of your favorite characters in the action-packed conclusion to Ed Brisson and Netho Diaz’s “The Preserve” story arc!
32 PGS./PARENTAL ADVISORY …$3.99
ALIEN #4
Declan Shalvey (W)
ANDREA BROCCARDO (A)
Cover by DIKE Ruan
VARIANT COVER BY FRANCESCO MANNA
HOW FAR WOULD YOU SINK, TO SURVIVE?
All hell has broken loose on base. As Xenomorphs swarm the rig – massacring any Weyland-Yutani personnel in sight – Batya makes a plan for an escape. With her research and family at risk, Batya must take a gamble and pursue her last option for salvation.
32 PGS./PARENTAL ADVISORY …$4.99
STAR WARS: DARK DROIDS #1
CHARLES SOULE (W) • LUKE ROSS (A) • Cover by LEINIL FRANCIS YU
VARIANT COVER BY JIM CHEUNG
ACTION FIGURE VARIANT COVER BY JOHN TYLER CHRISTOPHER
SCOURGED VARIANT COVER BY RACHAEL STOTT
FOIL VARIANT COVER BY GIUSEPPE CAMUNCOLI
“SCOURGE OF THE DROIDS!” A STAR WARS EPIC LIKE YOU’VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE!
• Who or what is THE SCOURGE, and why is no droid safe?
• As a corruption spreads from one droid to the next THE REBELLION and THE EMPIRE face chaos!
• What role does AJAX SIGMA play in all of this? And whose side is he on?
• Find out when horror comes to a galaxy far, far away!
Charles Soule continues his legendary run on STAR WARS with the most ambitious event in STAR WARS comics history! Joined by his WAR OF THE BOUNTY HUNTERS collaborator Luke Ross, the superstar team carves a new path for the future!
40 PGS./Rated T …$4.99
ON SALE IN AUGUST!
STAR WARS: DARTH VADER – BLACK, WHITE AND RED #4
JASON AARON, STEVE ORLANDO,
FRANK TIERI (W) • LEONARD KIRK,
PAUL DAVIDSON, DANNY EARLS (A)
COVER BY TAURIN CLARKE
VARIANT COVER BY TONY DANIEL
VARIANT COVER BY KEVIN EASTMAN
TRAPPED ON THE FROZEN PLANET HOTH!
• FRANK TIERI sends VADER to HOTH.
• STEVE ORLANDO goes cerebral with THE CORRUPTION OF DARTH VADER’S MIND!
• PLUS: The Final Chapter of JASON AARON & LEONARD KIRK’s dark tales!
40 PGS./Rated T …$4.99
STAR WARS: RETURN OF THE JEDI – THE REBELLION #1
ALEX SEGURA (W) • MATT HORAK (A)
Cover by RYAN BROWN
CONNECTING VARIANT COVER
BY LEE GARBETT
VARIANT COVER BY ROD REIS
VARIANT COVER BY TERRY DODSON
VIRGIN VARIANT COVER BY RYAN BROWN
MON MOTHMA MUST DIE!
• ADMIRAL ACKBAR is the only one with the knowledge of THE EMPIRE’s plans to kill Mon Mothma.
• Enter POE DAMERON’s parents, SHARA BEY and KES DAMERON, to thwart the threat!
• But do they have what it takes to take down the unknown assassin in time?
40 PGS./ONE-SHOT/Rated T …$4.99
STAR WARS: THE MANDALORIAN SEASON 2 #2
RODNEY BARNES (W) • STEVEN CUMMINGS (A) • Cover by DIKE RUAN
Variant Cover by CASPAR WIJNGAARD • Variant Cover by JERRY ORDWAY
Concept Art Variant Cover Also Available
THE PASSENGER!
• The Mandalorian must ferry a passenger with precious cargo on a dangerous journey.
• STEVEN CUMMINGS (CRIMSON REIGN, HIDDEN EMPIRE) joins RODNEY BARNES for issue #2 of this galaxy-spanning series!
40 PGS./Rated T …$4.99
STAR WARS: YODA #9
MARC GUGGENHEIM (W)
ALESSANDRO MIRACOLO (A)
Cover by PHIL NOTO
Variant Cover by LEE GARBETT
Variant Cover by SALVADOR LARROCA
WELL, HELLO THERE…
• The MEGADROID is on the march! And only Jedi Master YODA and ANAKIN SKYWALKER can stop it.
•But what is the lesson Yoda is trying to impart on young Skywalker?
•Guest-starring: OBI-WAN KENOBI!
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
STAR WARS: DOCTOR APHRA #34
ALYSSA WONG (W) • MINKYU JUNG (A)
COVER BY JUNGGEUN YOON
Return of the Jedi 40th Anniversary Variant Cover by CHRIS SPROUSE
Classic Trade Dress Variant
Cover by JERRY ORDWAY
Variant Cover by KYLE HOTZ
ENTER THE STARWEIRD!
• Long ago, Jedi Masters SHAAK TI and AAYLA SECURA sealed away a GREAT AND TERRIBLE POWER…
• …a horrifying, ancient creature that RESONATES WITH THE FORCE…
• …and DOCTOR APHRA and LUKE SKYWALKER have just released it!
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
STAR WARS #36
CHARLES SOULE (W) • ANDREA DI VITO (A) • COVER BY STEPHEN SEGOVIA
Return of the Jedi 40th Anniversary Variant Cover by CHRIS SPROUSE
Classic Trade Dress Variant Cover by JERRY ORDWAY
Action Figure Variant Cover by JOHN TYLER CHRISTOPHER
Variant Cover by LEE GARBETT
DISASTER LOOMS FOR THE REBEL ALLIANCE!
• With the discovery that the Empire is building a second DEATH STAR, the Rebels are on the verge of despair.
• But LEIA ORGANA has devised an impossible mission to remind both the Rebels and the galaxy how to hope.
• It’s the FALCON’s time to shine, as the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy flies into the belly of the beast!
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
STAR WARS: DARTH VADER #36
GREG PAK (W) • RAFFAELE IENCO (A) • Cover by LEINIL FRANCIS YU
Return of the Jedi 40th Anniversary Variant Cover by CHRIS SPROUSE
Classic Trade Dress Variant Cover by JERRY ORDWAY
Variant Cover by Luciano Vecchio
DEATH BY DROID!
• With his Force powers still out of control, Darth Vader’s more powerful and vulnerable than ever before…
• Which makes this the perfect time for him to be BETRAYED by one of his most trusted associates (and astoundingly, it’s not APHRA or OCHI)!
• Featuring the return of TRIPLE-ZERO and BEE TEE – and the deadliest team up of droids Vader has ever faced!
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
STAR WARS: BOUNTY HUNTERS #36
ETHAN SACKS (W) • LAN MEDINA (A) • Cover by MARCO CHECCHETTO
Return of the Jedi 40th Anniversary Variant Cover by CHRIS SPROUSE
Classic Trade Dress Variant Cover by JERRY ORDWAY
Boba Fett & Death Stick Variant Cover by SALVADOR LARROCA
BOBA FETT: MARKED FOR DEATH!
• THE BLACK SUN SYNDICATE wants BOBA FETT’S HEAD!
• But the new team of BOUNTY HUNTERS has something to say about that!
• Featuring DURGE, BOSSK, 4-LOM, ZUCKUSS, DEATHSTICK, VALANCE, KHEL and T’ONGA!
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
BLADE: THE EARLY YEARS OMNIBUS HC WILKINS COVER
Written by MARV WOLFMAN with CHRIS CLAREMONT, STEVE GERBER, ROGER STERN & MARC MCLAURIN
Penciled by GENE COLAN with TONY DEZUNIGA, RICO RIVAL, P. CRAIG RUSSELL, DAN GREEN,
STEVE LEIALOHA & MALCOLM DAVIS
Covers by DAVE WILKINS, GIL KANE & GRAY MORROW
Blade hit the comics scene in the 1970s — a time when horror movies were all the rage and Black cinema was introducing bold new action heroes who defied authority. Blade immediately changed the stakes of Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan’s TOMB OF DRACULA, bringing a sense of unstoppable determination as he pursued Deacon Frost, the vampire who killed his mother. And if a few other vampires died along the way, all the better! This Omnibus collects, for the first time, Blade’s complete early adventures: from his influential role in TOMB OF DRACULA to his 1970s solo stories and his climactic battle against Dracula alongside Doctor Strange! Collecting TOMB OF DRACULA (1972) #10, #12-14, #24, #30, #41-43, #45, #51, #53 and #58; MARVEL PREVIEW #3; FEAR #24; and DOCTOR STRANGE (1974) #61-62 and #67 — plus material from TOMB OF DRACULA (1972) #17-19, #21, #44, #46-50 and #52; VAMPIRE TALES #8-9; MARVEL PREVIEW #8; and MARVEL COMICS PRESENTS (1988) #64.
472 PGS./Parental Advisory …$100.00
ISBN: 978-1-302-95023-1
Trim size: 7-1/4 x 10-7/8
BLADE: THE EARLY YEARS OMNIBUS HC KANE COVER [DM ONLY]
472 PGS./Parental Advisory …$100.00
ISBN: 978-1-302-95244-0
Trim size: 7-1/4 x 10-7/8
BLADE: THE EARLY YEARS OMNIBUS HC MORROW COVER [DM ONLY]
472 PGS./Parental Advisory …$100.00
ISBN: 978-1-302-95024-8
Trim size: 7-1/4 x 10-7/8
MARVEL UNIVERSE BY ARTHUR ADAMS OMNIBUS HC
ARTHUR ADAMS WRAPAROUND COVER
Written by CHRIS CLAREMONT, ANN NOCENTI, WALTER SIMONSON & LOUISE SIMONSON
with BILL MANTLO & TOM DEFALCO
Penciled by ARTHUR ADAMS
Covers by ARTHUR ADAMS
Like all great comic-book artists, Arthur Adams earned his way in through long, hard work – by hitting the pavement with his portfolio in hand. But it didn’t seem that way. Adams seemed to burst out of the clear blue sky with an avalanche of unbelievable artwork. Energetic, richly detailed, full of character and just plain fun, his art merged East and West – bringing manga influences to American readers and influencing a generation of future artists. Now, this Omnibus collects Adams’ complete Marvel work from the 1980s through the early 1990s in one volume! From Longshot to the X-Men to the New Fantastic Four; from covers galore to pinups, posters and trading cards – not to mention a huge trove of pencils and original art — this is your be-all, end-all Arthur Adams Omnibus! Collecting LONGSHOT #1-6, NEW MUTANTS SPECIAL EDITION #1, X-MEN ANNUAL (1970) #9-10, CLOAK AND DAGGER (1985) #9, X-FACTOR (1986) #41-42, EXCALIBUR: MOJO MAYHEM and FANTASTIC FOUR (1961) #347-349 — plus material from WEB OF SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL #2, X-MEN ANNUAL (1970) #12 and #14, FANTASTIC FOUR (1961) #358, and MARVEL HOLIDAY SPECIAL (1991) #1.
992 PGS./Rated T …$125.00
ISBN: 978-1-302-95015-6
Trim size: 7-1/4 x 10-7/8
MARVEL UNIVERSE BY ARTHUR ADAMS OMNIBUS HC ARTHUR ADAMS X-MEN COVER [DM ONLY]
992 PGS./Rated T …$125.00
ISBN: 978-1-302-95016-3
Trim size: 7-1/4 x 10-7/8
THUNDERBOLTS: UNCAGED OMNIBUS HC LAND COVER
Written by JEFF PARKER & MORE
Penciled by KEV WALKER, DECLAN SHALVEY, MATTHEW SOUTHWORTH, NEIL EDWARDS & MORE
Covers by GREG LAND & MARK BAGLEY
A new era for Marvel’s ever-evolving, always-controversial team! The most dangerous criminals on Earth are now all in one hellish prison, and the only way out is through rehabilitation and contribution to society via the Thunderbolts program — under the leadership of the steel-hard-skinned Avenger named Luke Cage! So bring on the first participants: Juggernaut! Crossbones! Ghost! Moonstone! And…Man-Thing?! Can Cage restore the Thunderbolts’ tarnished heroic potential? And when new recruits are called, who out of the Marvel Universe’s vast pool of powerhouse criminals will make the cut? Then, when the T-bolts end up lost in time, a new group steps in to replace them: the Dark Avengers! You can be sure that the two troubled teams are on a collision course! Collecting THUNDERBOLTS (1997) #144-174 and #163.1, DARK AVENGERS (2012) #175-190 and material from ENTER THE HEROIC AGE #1.
1160 PGS./Rated T+ …$125.00
ISBN: 978-1-302-95285-3
Trim size: 7-1/4 x 10-7/8
THUNDERBOLTS: UNCAGED OMNIBUS HC BAGLEY COVER [DM ONLY]
1160 PGS./Rated T+ …$125.00
ISBN: 978-1-302-95286-0
Trim size: 7-1/4 x 10-7/8
THE INCREDIBLE HULK OMNIBUS VOL. 2 HC STERANKO COVER [DM ONLY]
824 PGS./Rated T …$100.00
ISBN: 978-1-302-95029-3
Trim size: 7-1/4 x 10-7/8
THE INCREDIBLE HULK OMNIBUS VOL. 2 HC TRIMPE COVER
Written by STAN LEE & ROY THOMAS with GARY FRIEDRICH, BILL EVERETT & ARCHIE GOODWIN
Penciled by HERB TRIMPE & MARIE SEVERIN with FRANK GIACOIA & SAL BUSCEMA
Covers by HERB TRIMPE & JIM STERANKO
Watch out, world! The Incredible Hulk is back — and even the oversized Omnibus format can barely contain him! Even with the extra space, the Hulk will shake the Earth with his mighty rage, traveling far and wide — and believe it or not, he won’t make too many friends along the way! The green-skinned goliath’s itinerary of destruction leaves the Inhumans, the Sandman, the Sub-Mariner, the Thing and the entire Savage Land rubbing a sore jaw. And when the Leader returns, all bets are off! Iconic HULK artist Herb Trimpe makes his debut in this very volume, and writers Stan Lee and Roy Thomas pull out all the stops! Featuring the original series’ letters pages and a host of bonus material! Collecting INCREDIBLE HULK (1968) #103-134 and ANNUAL #1.
824 PGS./Rated T …$100.00
ISBN: 978-1-302-95028-6
Trim size: 7-1/4 x 10-7/8
HAWKEYE BY FRACTION & AJA OMNIBUS HC AJA COVER
NEW PRINTING!
Written by MATT FRACTION
Penciled by DAVID AJA, JAVIER PULIDO, STEVE LIEBER, JESSE HAMM, FRANCESCO FRANCAVILLA, ANNIE WU, CHRIS ELIOPOULOS & ALAN DAVIS
Covers by DAVID AJA & JIM CHEUNG
Matt Fraction and David Aja’s critically acclaimed run in a single sharpshooting volume! With Young Avenger Kate Bishop by his side, Clint Barton continues his fight for justice — and good rooftop BBQs! He’s hoping for some downtime from being one of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes — but when the apartment building he’s moved into, and the neighbors he’s befriended, are threatened by a tracksuit-wearing, dog-abusing gang of Eastern European mobsters who say “bro” an awful lot, Clint must stand up and defend his new adopted family…any way he can. It’s Hawkguy, Katie-Kate, Pizza Dog and friends against the Clown, Madame Masque, the Tracksuit Draculas and more in a fantastic, Eisner Award-winning reinvention of the arrowed Avenger! Bro, you read this book. Okay, bro? Collecting HAWKEYE (2012) #1-22 and ANNUAL #1, and YOUNG AVENGERS PRESENTS #6.
552 PGS./Rated T+ …$100.00
ISBN: 978-1-302-95282-2
Trim size: 7-1/4 x 10-7/8
HAWKEYE BY FRACTION & AJA OMNIBUS HC CHEUNG COVER [NEW PRINTING, DM ONLY]
552 PGS./Rated T+ …$100.00
ISBN: 978-1-302-95283-9
Trim size: 7-1/4 x 10-7/8
STAR WARS LEGENDS: THE REBELLION OMNIBUS VOL. 2
HC EDWARDS COVER
Written by LOUISE SIMONSON, RON MARZ, JEREMY BARLOW, SCOTT ALLIE, JOHN JACKSON MILLER, RANDY STRADLEY, ROB WILLIAMS, BRANDON BADEAUX, JOHN WAGNER, TERRY AUSTIN, BRIAN AUGUSTYN & MORE
Penciled by JUNE BRIGMAN, ADRIANA MELO, JOE CORRONEY, MICHEL LACOMBE, BRIAN CHING,
DAVIDE FABBRI, BRANDON BADEAUX, COLIN WILSON, DUSTIN WEAVER, FRANCISCO RUIZ VELASCO,
CARLOS EZQUERRA, CHRIS SPROUSE, CHRIS BRUNNER & PACO MEDINA
Covers by TOMMY LEE EDWARDS & JOE CORRONEY
Months after the Death Star’s destruction, the Rebel Alliance continues the fight to dismantle the Empire — if they can stay alive! As Darth Vader closes in on the rebels, an old friend of Luke’s is the only one who can stop an Imperial victory — but which side will he choose? Boba Fett takes on a series of deadly assignments — including a seemingly impossible mission — to prove he’s still the best game in town! Luke and Leia are faced with dangerous missions of their own — with Vader himself in pursuit! In these dangerous times, can they trust anyone besides one another? Witness the stories that shaped the Rebellion! Collecting STAR WARS: RIVER OF CHAOS #1-4, STAR WARS: EMPIRE #28-40, STAR WARS: REBELLION #1-16, STAR WARS: BOBA FETT — OVERKILL, STAR WARS: BOBA FETT #1/2 and STAR WARS: SPLINTER OF THE MIND’S EYE #1-4 — plus material from STAR WARS: KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC/REBELLION #0; and STAR WARS TALES #3, #15, #17 and #21.
1024 PGS./Rated T …$125.00
ISBN: 978-1-302-95393-5
Trim size: 7-1/4 x 10-7/8
STAR WARS LEGENDS: THE REBELLION OMNIBUS VOL. 2 HC CORRONEY COVER [DM ONLY]
1024 PGS./Rated T …$125.00
ISBN: 978-1-302-95394-2
Trim size: 7-1/4 x 10-7/8
MARVEL MASTERWORKS: OMEGA THE UNKNOWN VOL. 1 HC
Written by STEVE GERBER & MARY SKRENES with SCOTT EDELMAN, ROGER STERN & STEVEN GRANT
Penciled by JIM MOONEY with LEE ELIAS & HERB TRIMPE
Cover by ED HANNIGAN
In the 1970s, writer Steve Gerber revolutionized comics. His innovative work on MAN-THING, DEFENDERS and HOWARD THE DUCK opened creative avenues that excited readers and inspired a generation of creators. So when Marvel announced an all-new character co-created by Gerber, anticipation rose to a fever pitch! OMEGA THE UNKNOWN debuted in late 1975, featuring an enigmatic approach to one of the most compelling stories: the stranger in a strange land. James-Michael Starling, a boy with a mysterious past, holds a curious connection to the super-powered being known as Omega. Their quest to understand the gritty world of New York City reveals as much about us as it does them. As the pair’s secrets are uncovered and the action unfolds in the Marvel manner, you’ll come to understand why OMEGA holds a place as one of the most influential series of its time! Collecting OMEGA THE UNKNOWN (1976) #1-10 and DEFENDERS (1972) #76-77.
240 PGS./Rated T …$75.00
ISBN: 978-1-302-94945-7
Trim size: 7 x 10
MARVEL MASTERWORKS: OMEGA THE UNKNOWN VOL. 1 HC — VARIANT EDITION VOL. 350 [DM ONLY]
240 PGS./Rated T …$75.00
ISBN: 978-1-302-94946-4
Trim size: 7 x 10
MARVEL MASTERWORKS: WEREWOLF BY NIGHT VOL. 2 HC
Written by MARV WOLFMAN & MIKE FRIEDRICH with GERRY CONWAY, DOUG MOENCH & TONY ISABELLA
Penciled by MIKE PLOOG & DON PERLIN with GIL KANE, TOM SUTTON, GENE COLAN & PAT BRODERICK
Cover by MIKE PLOOG
Werewolf by Wolfman? That’s right, the man born to write WEREWOLF BY NIGHT — Marv Wolfman — takes the reins of Marvel’s moon-cursed monster in this Masterworks! Together with artists Gil Kane and Mike Ploog, he’ll expand the mythos and mystery surrounding Jack Russell and his family’s connection to the demonic Darkhold. Wolfman brings Dracula into the mix and introduces the mystifying Topaz, a woman who will soon have our hero’s heart! Meanwhile, the Committee’s schemes escalate as Mike Friedrich takes the podium and Don Perlin becomes series artist. They’ll introduce another werewolf to vex (or perhaps aid?) Jack! Also featuring Werewolf vs. Werewoman as Greer Nelson becomes Tigra for the first time — and the debut of iconic series writer Doug Moench! Collecting WEREWOLF BY NIGHT (1972) #9-21, TOMB OF DRACULA (1972) #18, GIANT-SIZE CREATURES #1 and material from MONSTERS UNLEASHED (1973) #6-7.
344 PGS./Rated T …$75.00
ISBN: 978-1-302-94948-8
Trim size: 7 x 10
MARVEL MASTERWORKS: WEREWOLF BY NIGHT VOL. 2 HC — VARIANT EDITION VOL. 351 [DM ONLY]
344 PGS./Rated T …$75.00
ISBN: 978-1-302-94947-1
Trim size: 7 x 10
MARVEL STUDIOS’ MS. MARVEL: THE ART OF THE SERIES HC
Written by JESS HARROLD
Kamala Khan is just your average Pakistani American Muslim 16-year-old growing up in Jersey City. She’s a great student, an avid gamer and a voracious fan-fiction scribe. While she’s got the best family and friends in the world, they might be a close second to her greatest love: Super Heroes – capital S, capital H. She has a special affinity for Captain Marvel in particular. But Kamala often feels caught between many worlds, and struggles to feel like she fits in at home or at school. That is, until she gets super-powers like the heroes she’s always looked up to! Things must be easier with super-powers, right? Continuing their popular ART OF series of tie-in books, Marvel Studios presents another blockbuster achievement! Featuring exclusive concept artwork and in-depth interviews with the creative team, this deluxe volume provides insider details about the making of the highly anticipated series.
224 PGS./All Ages …$60.00
ISBN: 978-1-302-94914-3
Trim size: 11-5/16 x 9-3/8
SPIDER-MAN 2099: DARK GENESIS TPB
Written by STEVE ORLANDO
Penciled by JUSTIN MASON
Cover by NICK BRADSHAW
A future filled with new heroes and villains! Steve Orlando (SCARLET WITCH, SPIDER-MAN 2099: EXODUS) continues his journey through the dark tomorrow of 2099! As society begins to crumble, Spider-Man 2099 will need all the help he can get — but does the public even want him to save their neighborhood? Or do they all just want to watch this twisted world burn? When Nueva York comes under attack from Carnage 2099, Miguel O’Hara must gather new allies to stand against this terrifying threat! Enter Blade 2099: zombie hunter! Punisher 2099 reborn! Plus: future versions of Daredevil, Moon Knight, Spider-Woman and Ghost Rider! They all must face the horror of Halloween Jack, Carnage 2099 and his hive army! And death will fall on both sides! Collecting SPIDER-MAN 2099: DARK GENESIS #1-5.
112 PGS./Rated T+ …$15.99
ISBN: 978-1-302-95223-5
Trim size: 6-5/8 x 10-3/16
VENOM BY AL EWING & RAM V VOL. 4: ILLUMINATION TPB
Written by AL EWING
Penciled by BRYAN HITCH & CAFU
Cover by BRYAN HITCH
Meet Venom’s most powerful form yet! With the truth about Eddie Brock, Bedlam and the Garden of Time revealed at last, Eddie has no choice but to fight heaven, Earth, space and time to get back to his son. But it may all be for naught. Eddie’s greatest fears are at the precipice of being realized as Dylan may still succumb to the darkness within him! Eddie has faced down many monsters in his time, but few have been as terrifying as the one born of his own rage. Witness Bedlam’s return to the Garden of Time – and see what’s become of Eddie after DARK WEB! Battered, beaten and brutalized, his grit, determination and faith have wavered at times, but never broken. Collecting VENOM (2021) #16-20.
112 PGS./Rated T+ …$15.99
ISBN: 978-1-302-94850-4
Trim size: 6-5/8 x 10-3/16
RED GOBLIN VOL. 1: IT RUNS IN THE FAMILY TPB
Written by ALEX PAKNADEL
Penciled by JAN BAZALDUA
Cover by INHYUK LEE
The newest – and deadliest – Red Goblin! Spinning out of the pages of VENOM, young Normie Osborn receives his own symbiote at last! Will Normie fulfill his destiny as the grandson of the original Green Goblin? Or will he and his symbiote finally break the cycle and make a difference for the better? Meanwhile, a new Goblin King reigns under the streets of New York as the leader of a resurgent Goblin Nation! But why has he kidnapped Norman Osborn? And why has he siphoned off gallons of Osborn’s Goblin Serum-infused blood?! That can’t be good! Things get even worse when Cletus Kasady returns to New York, determined to paint the town blood red! Normie’s determination to prove himself puts him on a nightmarish collision course with Carnage! Collecting RED GOBLIN #1-5.
120 PGS./Rated T+ …$17.99
ISBN: 978-1-302-94863-4
Trim size: 6-5/8 x 10-3/16
STAR WARS: THE HIGH REPUBLIC PHASE II VOL. 2 – BATTLE FOR THE FORCE TPB
Written by CAVAN SCOTT
Penciled by ARIO ANINDITO & ANDREA BROCCARDO
Cover by YANICK PAQUETTE
The battle of Jedha continues! As Tey Sirrek defends the Temple of the Kyber, Vildar Mac is buried alive — with only his belief in the Force to keep him alive. But Vildar is a Jedi beset by doubts, scarred by a past he should’ve forgotten years ago. Who can come to his aid as the Holy City tears itself apart? Vildar, Tey and Matthea Cathley are forced into a corner, with enemies closing in all around, and a secret of the hidden Jedi vault is revealed. As one Jedi lies dying in Jedha’s frozen desert, another is missing. And all the time, the Leveler waits in the shadows, desperate to feed! Can Vildar resist the lure of the dark side? Or must he become what he fears the most to survive! Collecting STAR WARS: THE HIGH REPUBLIC (2022) #6-10.
120 PGS./Rated T …$15.99
ISBN: 978-1-302-94703-3
Trim size: 6-5/8 x 10-3/16
PUNISHER VOL. 2: THE KING OF KILLERS BOOK TWO TPB
Written by JASON AARON
Penciled by JESÚS SAIZ & PAUL AZACETA
Cover by JESÚS SAIZ
The epic showdown is here: the God of War vs. the Fist of the Beast! As Frank Castle, subsumed by the evil of the Hand, wrestles with devils within and without, the resurrected Maria Castle finds more and more of her memories returning — including the fateful days when her husband first returned from war. Or did he? The all-powerful Ares is coming for Frank with an army of heavily armed Apostles at his back, looking to turn him back into his old self — by murdering his family all over again! But even if the Punisher somehow survives Ares, other forces are gathering to bring him down once and for all. Tainted by demonic evil, can he withstand the onslaught of Daredevil, Doctor Strange and the whole Marvel Universe? Or will Frank Castle be Punisher…no more? Collecting PUNISHER (2022) #7-12.
192 PGS./Parental Advisory …$24.99
ISBN: 978-1-302-92878-0
Trim size: 6-5/8 x 10-3/16
ELEKTRA: BLACK, WHITE & BLOOD TPB
Written by CHARLES SOULE, LEONARDO ROMERO, DECLAN SHALVEY, PETER DAVID, AL EWING,
GREG SMALLWOOD, ANN NOCENTI, PAUL AZACETA, DAVID PEPOSE, MATTHEW ROSENBERG, PEACH MOMOKO & KEVIN EASTMAN
Penciled by MARK BAGLEY, LEONARDO ROMERO, SIMONE D’ARMINI, GREG LAND, ROD REIS,
GREG SMALLWOOD, FEDERICO SABBATINI, PAUL AZACETA, DANILO BEYRUTH, ALBERTO ALBURQUERQUE, PEACH MOMOKO & KEVIN EASTMAN
Cover by JOHN ROMITA JR.
Elektra walks the line between good and evil — with style! It’s an undisputed fact: Trained by both the vicious Hand and the benevolent Chaste, Elektra Natchios is the best assassin in the Marvel Universe! And a murderers’ row of all-star Marvel creators are here to present the proof, in glorious black and white…with lashings of blood! A dozen astonishing tales set throughout her long and lethal life illustrate her fighting skills, ninja training and sheer determination! From the mean streets of Hell’s Kitchen to the seedy back alleys of Madripoor — and even farther afield — prepare to see Elektra in a whole new light…taking on ninja, vampires and worse! Collecting ELEKTRA: BLACK, WHITE & BLOOD #1-4.
136 PGS./Parental Advisory …$17.99
ISBN: 978-1-302-93269-5
Trim size: 6-5/8 x 10-3/16
CAPTAIN MARVEL VOL. 10: REVENGE OF THE BROOD PART 2 TPB
Written by KELLY THOMPSON
Penciled by SERGIO DÁVILA, JAVIER PINA & MORE
Cover by JUAN FRIGERI
Higher, further, faster — to the very end! Kelly Thompson leaves her final, indelible fingerprints on Earth’s Mightiest Hero! Captain Marvel, Spider-Woman, Hazmat and the X-Men embarked on a mission to find Rogue and rescue Binary. But now, overwhelmed and trapped in the alien Brood’s backyard, Carol and her team are forced to sacrifice one of their own. The Brood let Carol through their clutches once before and created one of their worst enemies. They won’t make that mistake again! But what the experience unlocked the first time helped make Carol the Captain Marvel she is today. What will it unlock this time?! You just can’t miss the shocking conclusion of Thompson’s record-breaking run! Collecting CAPTAIN MARVEL (2019) #47-50.
112 PGS./Rated T+ …$15.99
ISBN: 978-1-302-94763-7
Trim size: 6-5/8 x 10-3/16
BISHOP: WAR COLLEGE TPB
Written by J. HOLTHAM
Penciled by SEAN DAMIEN HILL & ALBERTO FOCHE
Cover by KEN LASHLEY
The X-Men like you’ve never seen them before! Krakoa is an island paradise, and it’s a vulnerable one – but not with Lucas Bishop on the case! Armor, Surge, Cam Long, Aura Charles, Amass – these are his students. Their course objective: Get strong. Defend the island. Keep mutantkind safe. Their first lesson? How to fail! And they’ll do it in spectacular Marvel fashion. But what does any of that have to do with an all-Black X-Men team? And what’s a Bishop story without time travel? Shunted to a strange future, Lucas discovers familiar faces who will permanently alter his worldview. Meanwhile, his students are in danger – and not just of failing his course! Aided by shocking allies, the anti-mutant organization Orchis has finally found a way onto Krakoa. Is this the end of the island? Collecting BISHOP: WAR COLLEGE #1-5.
144 PGS./Rated T+ …$17.99
ISBN: 978-1-302-94805-4
Trim size: 6-5/8 x 10-3/16
MARAUDERS BY STEVE ORLANDO VOL. 2 TPB
Written by STEVE ORLANDO
Penciled by ANDREA BROCCARDO, ELEONORA CARLINI & VALENTINA PINTI
Cover by KAEL NGU
As A.X.E. makes waves, the Marauders hold on for survival! The Progenitor has risen, and the crew will face Celestial judgment — but who among them is able to justify their continued existence? Then, Captain Kate Pryde promised to help mutants in need, no matter where they are or when. But can even the Marauders rescue an entire civilization in the past without erasing the future? Perhaps, with an assist from one of the greatest X-Men of 2099! As the Threshold Three are revealed, the shocking secrets of the world’s first mutants may place all of history in the balance! Plus: When a small New England town is hit by a devastating mutant attack, it’s time for Bishop to lead Krakoa’s biggest rescue effort yet! Collecting MARAUDERS (2022) #6-12 and X-MEN: BEFORE THE FALL — MUTANT FIRST STRIKE.
224 PGS./Rated T+ …$24.99
ISBN: 978-1-302-93488-0
Trim size: 6-5/8 x 10-3/16
JOE FIXIT TPB
Written by PETER DAVID
Penciled by YILDIRAY ÇINAR
Cover by CULLY HAMMER
Peter David revisits one of his greatest Hulk hits with a return to Joe Fixit! Gone are the ripped-up shorts of the Hulk of yore — this enforcer prefers the slick style of a suavely striped suit, and the Hulk has traded in “monster” for “mobster” as he lends his strength to the Las Vegas casino scene. Of course, the Kingpin has his own ideas about who the toughest guy in town is, and now it’s up to Spider-Man to keep the two of them from destroying Sin City! Everyone wants to know who the mysterious gray-skinned enforcer really is, including many of the wall-crawler’s deadliest foes, and Spidey is on the case (complete with location-appropriate disguises)! Meanwhile, Wilson Fisk is preparing to make Fixit an offer he can’t refuse. Collecting JOE FIXIT #1-5, INCREDIBLE HULK (1968) #347.
136 PGS./Rated T+ …$17.99
ISBN: 978-1-302-94733-0
Trim size: 6-5/8 x 10-3/16
MARVEL’S VOICES: COMMUNITY TPB
Written by TERRY BLAS, DANIEL JOSÉ OLDER, EDGAR DELGADO, AMPARO ORTIZ, NICO LEON, JULIO ANTA, CLARIBEL A. ORTEGA, KARLA PACHECO, JUAN PONCE, YEHUDI MERCADO, LEONARDO ROMERO,
DESIRÉE PROCTOR, ALEX SEGURA, GUSTAVO DUARTE, DAVID BETANCOURT, FABIAN NICIEZA,
ZORAIDA CÓRDOVA, CARLOS HERNANDEZ & DIÓGENES NEVES
Penciled by JULIUS OHTA, GERMÁN PERALTA, FRANCISCO HERRERA, CAIO MAJADO, NICO LEON,
ENID BALÁM, ADRIANA MELO, VANESA DEL REY, WILTON SANTOS, MAURO FODRA, LEONARDO ROMERO, ERICA HARRELL, ALBA GLEZ, GUSTAVO DUARTE, ALITHA E. MARTINEZ, PACO MEDINA, LUIS MOROCHO,
ROGÊ ANTÔNIO, YASMÍN FLORES MONTAÑEZ, MARCELO COSTA & DIÓGENES NEVES
Cover by JOE QUESADA
Join the festivities as we celebrate the mighty Latin/X heroes and creators from all corners of the Marvel Universe! Spider-Man! White Tiger! America Chavez! Ghost Rider! Araña! Nova! Shark-Girl! Reptil! And so many more costumed adventurers get their moment in the sun as new and fan-favorite writers and artists continue to expand the world outside your window! Plus: All-new characters make their debuts, and celebrate their communities, in adventures you just can’t miss! Collecting MARVEL’S VOICES: COMMUNITY (2021) #1, MARVEL’S VOICES: COMMUNITY (2022) #1 and REPTIL #1.
192 PGS./Rated T+ …$24.99
ISBN: 978-1-302-95397-3
Trim size: 6-5/8 x 10-3/16
AVENGERS EPIC COLLECTION: THIS BEACHHEAD EARTH TPB
NEW PRINTING!
Volume #5 in the Avengers Epic Collections
Written by ROY THOMAS with HARLAN ELLISON
Penciled by JOHN BUSCEMA, SAL BUSCEMA & NEAL ADAMS with FRANK GIACOIA, HERB TRIMPE & SAM GRAINGER
Cover by JOHN BUSCEMA
Roy Thomas’ epic run continues with the origin of the Black Panther, the debut of the Lady Liberators, the return of the Squadron Sinister and the all-time classic Kree/Skrull War! Caught in a cosmic crossfire, Earth has become the staging ground for a conflict of star-spanning proportions! Two eternal intergalactic enemies – the merciless Kree and the shape-shifting Skrulls – have gone to war, and our planet is situated on the front lines! Can Earth’s Mightiest Heroes bring about an end to the fighting before humanity becomes a casualty of war? And what good are even a dozen super-powered champions against the vast military machines of two of the greatest empires in the cosmos? Collecting AVENGERS (1963) #77-97 and INCREDIBLE HULK (1968) #140.
504 PGS./Rated T …$44.99
ISBN: 978-1-302-95052-1
Trim size: 6-5/8 x 10-3/16
AVENGERS EPIC COLLECTION: THE GATHERING TPB
NEW PRINTING!
Volume #25 in the Avengers Epic Collections
Written by BOB HARRAS, GLENN HERDLING, JOEY CAVALIERI, ROY THOMAS, FABIAN NICIEZA, SCOTT LOBDELL & MORE
Penciled by JIM HALL, STEVE EPTING, GEOF ISHERWOOD, MIKE GUSTOVICH, GRANT MIEHM, JOHN BUSCEMA,
ANDY KUBERT, DAVE ROSS, JOHN ROMITA JR. & MORE
Cover by STEVE EPTING
Blood ties and betrayal! As the epic saga of the Gatherers approaches its climax, Earth’s Mightiest Heroes collide with the Children of the Atom! When Acolytes leader Fabian Cortez kidnaps Luna, daughter of Quicksilver and Crystal, as part of his power struggle with Exodus, the Avengers are drawn into a Genoshan civil war alongside the X-Men! Then, the Avengers face Ghaur and the Deviants! But nothing can prepare them for the shocking truth about the scheming Proctor and his multiversal Gatherers! What will the explosive climax of Proctor’s interdimensional plan mean for Black Knight and the volatile Eternal Sersi? Plus: What feelings stir within the Vision? And the immortal Hercules is targeted for death! Collecting AVENGERS (1963) #367-377 and ANNUAL #23, X-MEN (1991) #26, AVENGERS WEST COAST #101, UNCANNY X-MEN (1981) #307, and AVENGERS LOG #1.
512 PGS./Rated T …$49.99
ISBN: 978-1-302-95367-6
Trim size: 6-5/8 x 10-3/16
X-FACTOR EPIC COLLECTION: JUDGEMENT WAR TPB
Volume #4 in the X-Factor Epic Collections
Written by LOUISE SIMONSON, KIERON DWYER, JOHN BYRNE, CHRIS CLAREMONT & MORE
Penciled by WALTER SIMONSON, ROB LIEFELD, ARTHUR ADAMS, PAUL SMITH, KIERON DWYER,
RICH BUCKLER, JOHN BYRNE, MARC SILVESTRI & MORE
Cover by ROB LIEFELD
Out of the frying pan, into the fire! As the Inferno rages, Madelyne Pryor — now the Goblin Queen — targets her and Cyclops’ infant son, Nathan! Can X-Factor survive an onslaught of demons and keep Nathan safe? What happens when the crisis reunites them with the X-Men, whom they thought were dead? And will any of them be ready when Mister Sinister strikes? In the aftermath, X-Factor must deal with the threat of Nanny and the Orphan-Maker, and rescue the boy called Alchemy! But when a Celestial kidnaps the team and their sentient Ship, they’ll find themselves on an alien world — right in the middle of the devastating Judgement War! As X-Factor is separated on different sides of the conflict, another deadly struggle begins — inside Jean’s own mind! Collecting X-FACTOR (1986) #37-50 and ANNUAL #4, and UNCANNY X-MEN (1981) #242-243.
496 PGS./Rated T …$44.99
ISBN: 978-1-302-95398-0
Trim size: 6-5/8 x 10-3/16
FANTASTIC FOUR EPIC COLLECTION: THE CRUSADER SYNDROME TPB
Volume #9 in the Fantastic Four Epic Collections
Written by GERRY CONWAY & ROY THOMAS with LEN WEIN, MARV WOLFMAN, CHRIS CLAREMONT,
TONY ISABELLA & STEVE ENGLEHART
Penciled by RICH BUCKLER, JOHN BUSCEMA & GEORGE PÉREZ with BOB BROWN & SAL BUSCEMA
Cover by RICH BUCKLER
FANTASTIC FOUR stands tall as one of the greatest super-hero series of all time – and it certainly didn’t get there by doing the same old, same old! In this Epic Collection, the strained relationship of Reed and Sue Richards takes a turn for the worse. Sue joins Namor in an invasion of New York City – and the Frightful Four pile on, too! Then, the Femizons and Mahkizmo the Nuclear Man begin a battle of the sexes. Next, the Silver Surfer returns – with a vengeance! The Machiavellian Doctor Doom has captured the Surfer’s beloved Shalla Bal and used her to turn him against the Fantastic Four! Giant-Size adventures and a royal wedding round it out as the FF prove that nothing is stronger than the bonds of family! Collecting FANTASTIC FOUR (1961) #147-167, GIANT-SIZE FANTASTIC FOUR #2-4 and AVENGERS (1963) #127.
512 PGS./Rated T …$49.99
ISBN: 978-1-302-94875-7
Trim size: 6-5/8 x 10-3/16
NEW AVENGERS MODERN ERA EPIC COLLECTION: ASSEMBLED TPB
Volume #1 in the New Avengers Modern Era Epic Collections
Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS & MORE
Penciled by DAVID FINCH, STEVE MCNIVEN & MORE
Cover by JOE QUESADA
From the ashes, a new team will rise! On the Avengers’ darkest day, they are torn apart by one of their own – the Scarlet Witch – and as they mourn their losses, it seems like things might be over forever. But when a super-villain breakout at the Raft unites Captain America and Iron Man with a surprising group of allies – including Spider-Man, Wolverine, Spider-Woman and Luke Cage – a new day dawns, and these disparate heroes form the New Avengers! But will the most powerful hero of them all, the Sentry, become their strongest member…or the world’s greatest threat? From the blockbuster creative team of Brian Michael Bendis and David Finch, a new era of greatness begins for the Avengers! Collecting AVENGERS (1998) #500-503 and #500 DIRECTOR’S CUT, AVENGERS FINALE, NEW AVENGERS (2004) #1-10 and #1 DIRECTOR’S CUT, and NEW AVENGERS: MOST WANTED FILES.
504 PGS./Rated T+ …$44.99
ISBN: 978-1-302-95261-7
Trim size: 6-5/8 x 10-3/16
VENOM MODERN ERA EPIC COLLECTION: AGENT VENOM TPB
Volume #4 in the Venom Modern Era Epic Collections
Written by DAN SLOTT, RICK REMENDER, ROB WILLIAMS & JEFF PARKER
Penciled by HUMBERTO RAMOS, TONY MOORE, TOM FOWLER, STEFANO CASELLI, LAN MEDINA,
LEE GARBETT, SANA TAKEDA, JULIAN TOTINO TEDESCO, KEV WALKER & MORE
Cover by JOE QUESADA
America has a new hero! Flash Thompson is Spider-Man’s biggest fan. That inspired him to join the Army, where he became a decorated soldier. Though he lost his legs, Flash never lost his dignity — or his desire to serve. Now, the government has offered him a chance to don a familiar alien symbiote and protect his country once again as its most lethal operative: Agent Venom! But how long before Flash starts losing control to the symbiote? And when Jack O’Lantern blackmails Flash into following the merciless Crime-Master, can Venom complete the mission and save his loved ones? Plus: After a portal to the underworld opens in the middle of Las Vegas, Venom must join Red Hulk, Ghost Rider and X-23 to stop Hell on Earth! Collecting AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (1999) #654 (B STORY) and #654.1, and VENOM (2011) #1-16 and #13.1-13.4.
496 PGS./Rated T+ …$44.99
ISBN: 978-1-302-95262-4
Trim size: 6-5/8 x 10-3/16
LOKI MODERN ERA EPIC COLLECTION:
EVERYTHING BURNS TPB
Volume #2 in the Loki Modern Era Epic Collections
Written by KIERON GILLEN, DAN ABNETT, ANDY LANNING & MATT FRACTION
Penciled by CARMINE DI GIANDOMENICO, RICHARD ELSON, STEPHANIE HANS, ALAN DAVIS & JOE BENNETT
COVER BY ALAN DAVIS
A forgotten hero returns — but will the truth behind his exile consume the world? Only the New Mutants can help young Loki now! Then, civil war breaks out among the British Manchester Gods! Even with Loki’s aid, can Merlyn, King Arthur and Captain Britain prevail? And what does Hela want with the Holy Grail?! When the cursed Vanir return and declare war on Asgardia, Surtur’s fire rages across the nine worlds! A desperate Loki journeys into the heart of Surtur’s fiery kingdom, but the godling’s future and past collide when Thor becomes trapped in the underworld — and the terrible truth about young Loki is finally revealed! Plus: Experience the ultimate mischievous team-up between Loki and Mister Sinister! Collecting JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY (2011) #637-645, EXILED #1, NEW MUTANTS (2009) #42-43, MIGHTY THOR (2011) #18-21 and material from A+X #5.
384 PGS./Rated T+ …$39.99
ISBN: 978-1-302-95265-5
Trim size: 6-5/8 x 10-3/16
LOKI MODERN ERA EPIC COLLECTION:
JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY TPB
Volume #1 in the Loki Modern Era Epic Collections
Written by KIERON GILLEN & ROB RODI
Penciled by JAMIE MCKELVIE, DOUG BRAITHWAITE, PASQUAL FERRY, RICHARD ELSON, WHILCE PORTACIO & MITCH BREITWEISER
Cover by MARKO DJURDJEVIC
Loki changes his story! In the wake of the siege of Asgard, Loki is reborn — as a child! With this new life comes a fresh purpose, but can the other Asgardian gods possibly trust him? Let’s hope so — because when the Serpent threatens Earth, Thor’s battle plan is doomed to fail without Loki’s help! The former Lord of Lies must use all the skills of deceit that made him so hated in his past life, but will the rejuvenated godling find redemption or damn himself further? Plus: Nightmare is gathering enough energy to rule the world, and the motherlode is inside Loki’s mind. Aided by an undead handmaiden and a demon puppy, Loki risks everything on a scheme so crazy it could only have been hatched by a God of Mischief! Collecting SIEGE: LOKI, and JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY (2011) #622-636 and #626.1.
416 PGS./Rated T+ …$39.99
ISBN: 978-1-302-95259-4
Trim size: 6-5/8 x 10-3/16
SHE-HULK BY MARIKO TAMAKI TPB
Written by MARIKO TAMAKI
Penciled by NICO LEON, DALIBOR TALAJIC,
GEORGES DUARTE, JULIAN LOPEZ, FRANCESCO GASTÓN, BACHAN, JAHNOY LINDSAY & DIEGO OLORTEGUI
Cover by DALE KEOWN
ON SALE SEPTEMBER 2023
Jennifer Walters survived the second superhuman Civil War…barely. Now, she re-enters the world a very different hero. Fueled by a quiet rage, Jen is determined to move forward with her life — but the pain of the past is always there. An undercurrent, a pulse waiting to quicken…and transform her into the one thing over which she has no control! But as Jen returns to legal practice, her newest client struggles with her own dark secrets. And a string of murders soon leaves Jen in over her head as a lawyer. Must she give in to her anger and become the Hulk?! Plus: Faced with a wave of monsters, can Jen help being pulled into the craziness as a force for good? And what happens when the nefarious Leader decrees: Jen Walters must die?! Collecting HULK (2016) #1-11 and SHE-HULK (2017) #159-163.
360 PGS./Rated T+ …$39.99
ISBN: 978-1-302-95077-4
Trim size: 6-5/8 x 10-3/16
AVENGERS: THE KANG DYNASTY TPB –
NEW PRINTING!
Written by KURT BUSIEK
Penciled by ALAN DAVIS, MANUEL GARCIA,
KIERON DWYER, BRENT ANDERSON, IVAN REIS
& PATCH ZIRCHER
Cover by ALAN DAVIS
ON SALE SEPTEMBER 2023
Kang’s ultimate triumph! The time-traveling warlord called Kang the Conqueror returns – and this time he plans to enslave all of Earth! The only thing standing in his way is its mightiest heroes! Time and time again, Kang has been a thorn in the Avengers’ side. But now, the Conqueror has gathered all his vast legions from multiple eras to conquer the present once and for all! Can an expanded roster of Avengers – including returning members and new recruits – wage worldwide war and hold back the colossal forces arrayed against them? Or will they face defeat and subjugation beneath Kang’s merciless boot?! Kurt Busiek, one of the most celebrated AVENGERS writers of all time, crafts an epic clash between the heroes and their most dangerous foe! Collecting AVENGERS (1998) #41-55 and material from AVENGERS ANNUAL 2001.
384 PGS./Rated T+ …$39.99
ISBN: 978-1-302-95190-0
Trim size: 6-5/8 x 10-3/16
INFAMOUS IRON MAN BY BENDIS & MALEEV TPB
Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS
Penciled by ALEX MALEEV, STEFANO CASELLI & MORE
Cover by ALEX ROSS
There’s a new Iron Man in town, and his name is…Victor Von Doom! The Marvel Universe’s greatest villain is no stranger to armor, but now he’s trying something new on for size: heroism. And where Tony Stark failed, Doom will succeed. But what is Victor’s master plan? That’s what a great number of folks want to know — including Ben Grimm, Pepper Potts and the other Iron Man: Riri Williams! In his heroic quest, Doom faces a cosmic-level adversary — and his most mortal enemy, whom he thought he would never see again! But what is the shocking truth behind Victor’s reincarnated mother? Plus: When the search for Tony Stark begins, the time comes to decide, once and for all, who will wear the armor of Iron Man! Collecting INFAMOUS IRON MAN #1-12 and INVINCIBLE IRON MAN (2016) #593-600.
480 PGS./Rated T+ …$44.99
ISBN: 978-1-302-95260-0
Trim size: 6-5/8 x 10-3/16
IRONHEART: THE SAGA OF RIRI WILLIAMS TPB
Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS
Penciled by DAVID MARQUEZ & MIKE DEODATO JR.
Cover by MIKE MCKONE
Can Ironheart survive her baptism of fire? When tragedy befalls Tony Stark, a teen genius named Riri Williams develops her own invincible armor and continues the heroic legacy of Iron Man! Riri may be destined to upgrade her tech and later join the Champions as Ironheart, but this is the shocking story of how her rise coincides with Stark’s fall! While Tony battles Madame Masque, fights alongside War Machine and Spider-Man, and deals with something rotten in the house of Stark, Riri forges her first armor and suits up — and her life will never be the same! As a revelation about Tony’s past sends him down a dark path, and the events of CIVIL WAR II throw the Marvel Universe into turmoil, what exactly is Victor Von Doom up to amid the chaos? Collecting INVINCIBLE IRON MAN (2015) #1-14.
328 PGS./Rated T+ …$39.99
ISBN: 978-1-302-95150-4
Trim size: 6-5/8 x 10-3/16
MARVEL-VERSE: IRONHEART GN-TPB
Written by EVE L. EWING & BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS
Penciled by KEVIN LIBRANDA, LUCIANO VECCHIO, GEOFFO, MARCO RUDY, SZYMON KUDRANSKI
& NICO LEON
Cover by J. SCOTT CAMPBELL
Few minds in the Marvel-Verse are more brilliant than that of teen genius Riri Williams! Inspired by Tony Stark, Riri built her own invincible suit of armor — but she soon stepped out of Stark’s shadow to forge her own future as the heroic Ironheart! Can Riri combine her studies at M.I.T. with her extracurricular activities — by which we mean taking down super villains like the acoustic menace Clash? Plus: Ironheart shares an adventure with her Champions teammate Miles Morales, A.K.A. Spider-Man! And a zombie invasion calls for a meeting of minds with her fellow science whiz, the Unstoppable Wasp! But what lessons will Riri learn on a far-out trip to the future when she meets a 126-year-old Tony Stark…Earth’s Sorcerer Supreme?! Collecting IRONHEART #1 and #6-7, and GENERATIONS: IRON MAN & IRONHEART.
120 PGS./Ages 10-14 …$9.99
ISBN: 978-1-302-95102-3
Trim size: 6 x 9
SPIDER-GWEN: GHOST-SPIDER GN-TPB
Written by SEANAN MCGUIRE
Penciled by TIM ELDRED, ALTI FIRMANSYAH, ROSI KÄMPE & TAKESHI MIYAZAWA
Cover by BENGAL
SPIDER-GEDDON rocks Gwen Stacy’s world! As her fellow Spiders battle the vicious Inheritors, Gwen finds herself exiled to a parallel dimension! Can she help stop the Inheritors from wreaking havoc across the Web of Life and Destiny? Or will she fall before one of her most personal enemies yet: the Gwen Goblin?! Meanwhile, Mary Jane’s perfectionist vision for their band is driving Gwen crazy…her father is pressuring her to return to school…and something sinister is stalking the streets of New York. Can Gwen track down the thing that goes bump in the night? Or will she become one more victim of the Man-Wolf?! Plus: Gwen teams up with Spider-Man — and finally embraces her new codename! Collecting SPIDER-GEDDON: GHOST-SPIDER VIDEO COMIC and SPIDER-GWEN: GHOST-SPIDER #1-10.
248 PGS./Ages 10-14 …$13.99
ISBN: 978-1-302-95010-1
Trim size: 6 x 9
MIGHTY MARVEL MASTERWORKS: THE INCREDIBLE HULK
VOL. 3 – LESS THAN MONSTER, MORE THAN MAN GN-TPB
ROMERO COVER
Written by STAN LEE
Penciled by JACK KIRBY, BILL EVERETT, JOHN BUSCEMA & GIL KANE with MIKE ESPOSITO,
JOHN ROMITA SR. & JERRY GRANDENETTI
Covers by LEONARDO ROMERO & JACK KIRBY
When a time-travel device throws the Hulk into the distant future, he does what Hulks always do: smash! Past, present or future, the Hulk will fight. But when the green goliath returns to the present, he discovers that Rick Jones — thinking he was dead — has revealed to the world that Bruce Banner is the Hulk! As if that wasn’t trouble enough, Hercules hits the scene (and the Hulk), while the Secret Empire weaves nefarious plans of domination. The horror of the Humanoid comes next, but it’s all just a prelude to the debut of the Abomination! Dr. Emil Blonsky is transformed into a gamma-powered monster equal to the Hulk’s might, and their iconic battles will shake the Marvel Universe forevermore! Collecting material from TALES TO ASTONISH (1959) #75-91.
192 PGS./Ages 10-14 …$15.99
ISBN: 978-1-302-94903-7
Trim size: 6 x 9
MIGHTY MARVEL MASTERWORKS: THE INCREDIBLE HULK VOL. 3 —
LESS THAN MONSTER, MORE THAN MAN GN-TPB ORIGINAL COVER [DM ONLY]
192 PGS./All Ages …$15.99
ISBN: 978-1-302-94904-4
Trim size: 6 x 9
JULY 2023 POSTERS – ON-SALE 07/05/23!
Retailers, be sure to place your orders by the FOC of 05/22/23!
BLADE #1 POSTER
24×36…$8.99
5960609900-04921
MARVEL ZERO POSTER
24×36…$8.99
5960609900-05021
MOON KNIGHT #25 GARY FRANK POSTER
24×36…$8.99
5960609900-05121
X-MEN: HELLFIRE GALA 2023 #1 POSTER
24×36…$8.99
5960609900-05221
MARVEL GRAPHIC COMIC BOXES
FOC 06/26/23, ON-SALE 08/30/23
MARVEL GRAPHIC COMIC BOX: SEPTEMBER 2023 MARVEL UNIVERSE A [BUNDLES OF 5]
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MARVEL POSTERS
FOC 06/19/23, ON-SALE 08/02/23
MARVEL UNIVERSE AUGUST POSTER A
MARVEL UNIVERSE AUGUST POSTER B
MARVEL UNIVERSE AUGUST POSTER C
MARVEL UNIVERSE AUGUST POSTER D
COMIC BOOKS
FOC 06/05/23, ON-SALE 07/05/23
CAPTAIN AMERICA #750
CAPTAIN MARVEL: DARK TEMPEST #1
CLOBBERIN’ TIME #5
DAREDEVIL #13
DOCTOR STRANGE #5
EDGE OF SPIDER-VERSE #4
EXTREME VENOMVERSE #4
FANTASTIC FOUR #9
INCREDIBLE HULK #180 FACSIMILE EDITION [NEW PRINTING]
INCREDIBLE HULK #181 FACSIMILE EDITION [NEW PRINTING]
MARVEL ZERO
SPIDER-MAN #10
STAR WARS #36
STAR WARS: YODA #9
THOR ANNUAL #1
VENOM #22
VENOM: LETHAL PROTECTOR II #5
WHAT IF…? DARK: LOKI #1
X-23: DEADLY REGENESIS #5
X-MEN #24
X-MEN: BEFORE THE FALL – SINISTER FOUR #1
FOC 06/05/23, ON-SALE 07/12/23
MOON KNIGHT #25
FOC 06/05/23, ON-SALE 07/19/23
MOON KNIGHT: CITY OF THE DEAD #1
FOC 06/12/23, ON-SALE 07/12/23
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #29
FALLEN FRIEND #1
GROOT #3
I AM IRON MAN #5
IMMORTAL X-MEN #13
LOKI #2
MILES MORALES: SPIDER-MAN #8
PLANET OF THE APES #4
RED GOBLIN #6
ROGUE & GAMBIT #5
SCARLET WITCH #6
STAR WARS: BOUNTY HUNTERS #36
STAR WARS: DARTH VADER #36
WARLOCK: REBIRTH #4
WEB OF CARNAGE #1
X-FORCE #42
X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST – DOOMSDAY #1
X-MEN #101 FACSIMILE EDITION
FOC 06/19/23, ON-SALE 07/19/23
EXTREME VENOMVERSE #5
ALIEN #4
AVENGERS: BEYOND #5
BLACK PANTHER #2
BLADE #1
COSMIC GHOST RIDER #5
DEADPOOL: BADDER BLOOD #2
GHOST RIDER #16
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY #4
NEW MUTANTS LETHAL LEGION #5
SPIDER-GWEN: SHADOW CLONES #5
SPIDER-MAN: INDIA #2
STAR WARS: DOCTOR APHRA #34
STAR WARS: RETURN OF THE JEDI – THE REBELLION #1
VENOM #23
WHAT IF…? DARK: SPIDER-GWEN #1
WOLVERINE #35
X-MEN RED #13
FOC 06/19/23, ON-SALE 08/03/23
STAR WARS: DARK DROIDS #1
FOC 06/26/23, ON-SALE 07/26/23
ALL-NEW MARVEL NOW! POINT ONE #1 FACSIMILE EDITION
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #30
AVENGERS #3
CULT OF CARNAGE: MISERY #3
DANNY KETCH: GHOST RIDER #3
DAREDEVIL & ECHO #3
DEADPOOL #9
HALLOWS’ EVE #5
HELLCAT #5
INCREDIBLE HULK #2
INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #8
PREDATOR #5
SHE-HULK #15
SILK #3
STAR WARS: DARTH VADER – BLACK, WHITE & RED #4
STAR WARS: THE MANDALORIAN SEASON 2 #2
STORM #3
THE X-CELLENT #5
ULTIMATE INVASION #2
X-MEN: HELLFIRE GALA 2023 #1
FOC 06/26/23, ON-SALE 08/30/23
MARVEL AGE #1000
DUE TO JULY 4th HOLIDAY CLOSURES, AUGUST ’23 WEEK 1 COMIC TITLES THAT WOULD NORMALLY FOC ON 7/3/23 HAVE BEEN MOVED UP ONE WEEK EARLIER, TO A 6/26/23 FOC. MARVEL WILL HAVE NO COMIC TITLES ON THE 7/3/23 FOC.
FULL SOLICIT INFORMATION WILL BE AVAILABLE IN THE AUGUST ’23 PREVIEWS CATALOG FOR THE BELOW TITLES.
FOC 06/26/23, ON-SALE 08/02/23
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL #1
ASTONISHING ICEMAN #1
DEATH OF THE VENOMVERSE #1
DOCTOR STRANGE #6
FANTASTIC FOUR #10
MAGNETO #1
MILES MORALES: SPIDER-MAN #9
MOON KNIGHT #26
PLANET OF THE APES #5
RED GOBLIN #7
SCARLET WITCH #7
STAR WARS: YODA #10
STRANGE ACADEMY: MILES MORALES #1
WARLOCK: REBIRTH #5
WHAT IF…? DARK: VENOM #1
X-MEN #25
COLLECTIONS
FOC 06/05/23
BLADE: THE EARLY YEARS OMNIBUS HC KANE COVER [DM ONLY]
(ON-SALE 11/15/23)
BLADE: THE EARLY YEARS OMNIBUS HC MORROW COVER
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Both of these records work to scientists, yet the research study declaration is generally sent as component of a work application package, and also the study trajectory serves as our job advances, as a living record. In this article I review both files.
It’s difficult to give scholastic work market guidance considering that the variety of tenure-track placements is swiftly decreasing. I figured this message may be handy to those that are looking for those placements.
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Points to Do: Listen to Fania Records Salsa Reissue|Houston Press
Currently, the initial recordings of Fania and also affiliated-labels have actually been gotten by Concord Music and also its reissue tag, Craft Recordings. And also Fania songs on the radio led to tape sales. The Fania All-Stars brought salsa and also Latin songs to live target markets around the globe.
Currently, the initial recordings of Fania as well as affiliated-labels have actually been gotten by Concord Music and also its reissue tag, Craft Recordings.” Fania solitarily took on Tropical songs as well as took it to the globe. And also Fania songs on the radio led to tape-record sales. The Fania All-Stars brought salsa as well as Latin songs to live target markets around the globe. Concord’s holdings consist of the master tapes to even more than 2,000 Fania documents.
Jeremy Sumpter announced that he had become a father with a post that was shared on his Instagram account earlier this week.
The 34-year-old performer posted several photos of his baby daughter Lucy Snow, whom he described as ‘beautiful!! Like her momma!’
The actor, who is best known for starring in the 2003 fantasy feature Peter Pan, also expressed that he ‘realized that before today I have never truly loved anything in my life’ in his post’s caption.
Sumpter held Lucy Snow close to his chest in the first snap from the photoshoot.
The performer shares his daughter with his wife Elizabeth Treadway, whom he married last year.
New dad: Jeremy Sumpter announced that he had become a father with a post that was shared on his Instagram account earlier this week
Known for it: The actor is best known for starring in the 2003 fantasy feature Peter Pan
The Friday Night Lights actress was previously engaged to Lauren Pacheco, although they separated in 2016.
He went on to move on with Treadway, whom he met at a karaoke bar, and he popped the big question this past August.
The happy couple subsequently tie the knot during a wedding ceremony that took place in Tennessee last October.
Sumpter and his wife also sat down for an interview with People, where he described his wedding day as the ‘best day ever.’
The actor added: ‘I got to marry the love of my life with all of my closest friends and family there to watch. It was absolutely perfect!’
The performer revealed that his wife was expecting with a post that was shared on his Instagram account this past Christmas.
In the snap, Sumpter held Treadway’s baby bump as they posed in front of their Christmas tree.
The actor also revealed his baby girl’s name and expressed his love for his wife in the caption of his post.
Starting a family: The 34-year-old performer posted several photos of his baby daughter Lucy Snow, whom he described as ‘beautiful!! Like her momma!’
Love: He also expressed that he ‘realized that before today I have never truly loved anything in my life’ in his post’s caption
On her way: The performer revealed that his wife, Elizabeth Treadway, was expecting with a post that was shared on his Instagram account this past Christmas
The performer is best known for his work in Peter Pan, which also starred performers such as Jason Isaacs, Rachel Hurd-Wood and Olivia Williams.
The feature received generally positive reviews upon its 2003 release, with many applauding the impressive visuals and faithfulness to its source material.
However, the movie grossed $121 million, according to Box Office Mojo, placing it below its estimated budget of $130 million.
Sumpter has since appeared in features such as Animal, Into The Storm and The Sasquatch Gang.
Starring role: The performer is best known for his work in Peter Pan, which also starred Jason Isaacs, Rachel Hurd-Wood and Olivia Williams; he is seen along Hurd-Wood in the 2003 film
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Peter Pan’s Jeremy Sumpter announces he has become a father to a baby girl named Lucy Snow
Recap: St. Maarten Phillipsburg is just one of minority responsibility complimentary ports worldwide that is the very best location to purchase worldwide style as well as deluxe things along with handmade mementos.
St. Maarten is an area of hundred tasks. Among others would certainly be treking, steed riding, diving and also snorkeling, sunbathing, windsurfing … there are a great deals of tasks that are normal to any type of Caribbean location: tasks in the sunlight. As well as like any type of various other locations as well, St. Maarten is a location to look for unique products.
St. Maarten is honored as a business. Being just one of minority obligation complimentary ports worldwide, it is the very best area to purchase high-end things also from your nation. It of no reason of shock actually if cruise ship ships nearly on a regular basis dock in St. Maarten, commonly simply to permit its guests an opportunity to go shopping for unique items as well as imported products or simply socialize with hundreds of citizenships that likewise do.
The majority of significant buying mores than the island’s Dutch funding at St. Maarten Phillipsburg. Specifically at the Four Street in St. Maarten Phillipsburg where developer stores and also globe popular tags lined the roads, purchasing ends up being essentially severe with optimal brochures of products, garments, tools and also electronic devices originating from throughout the globe with costs that would certainly match anywhere. Developer shops of all types such as Calvin Klein, D&G, Tommy Hilfiger, Levis, as well as DKNY line the Four Street of St. Maarten Phillipsburg.
One favored buying product common in St. Maarten Phillipsburg is fashion jewelry. These Front Street stores supply whatever, from silver to loosened rubies to emerald greens to sapphires and also rubies, St. Maarten Phillipsburg is the finest area for things such as expensive as well as genuine fashion jewelry given that various other controlled areas (also the most lax guidelines) still needs a great portion of task tax obligations.
While a lot of consumers do often tend to focus much more on worldwide style as well as high-grade French cosmetics, there are various other stores that market indigenous things that are handcrafted as well as created by St. Maarten residents. Like summertime t tee shirts, caps, indigenous hats, as well as also a container of the prominent Guava berry Liquor. Some enchanting art galleries supply indigenous crafts and also arts that would certainly be ideal keepsakes for anybody’s remain in St. Maarten Phillipsburg.
In hugging custom, the majority of shops in St. Maarten Phillipsburg as well as some around the bend do have a tendency to continue to be open 24 hrs to assist in those requiring to purchase something also at wee hrs of the early morning in addition to leaving visitors that often leave at dawn.
Specifically at the Four Street in St. Maarten Phillipsburg where developer shops as well as globe distinguished tags lined the roads, buying ends up being extra or much less major with optimal directories of products, garments, devices and also electronic devices coming from all around the globe with rates that would certainly measure up to anywhere. Developer stores of all types such as Calvin Klein, D&G, Tommy Hilfiger, Levis, as well as DKNY line the Four Street of St. Maarten Phillipsburg.
One favored purchasing thing common in St. Maarten Phillipsburg is fashion jewelry. These Front Street stores provide whatever, from silver to loosened rubies to emerald greens to sapphires as well as rubies, St. Maarten Phillipsburg is the finest area for products such as expensive and also genuine fashion jewelry because various other controlled areas (also the most lax guidelines) still needs an excellent portion of task tax obligations.
The brand-new taste of No Sugar Added granola functions a famous vegan tag and also is made with dried out apples, carrots, as well as raspberries– the initial time in 113 years that Kellogg’s has actually included veggies to its morning meal grain. The sweet taste from the apple as well as the intensity of the raspberry is all well balanced with the earthiness as well as refined wonderful notes of the carrot items,” Kellogg’s grain programmer Sarah Bulfiled claimed. The vegetable-forward granola signs up with the brand name’s brand-new vegan morning meal alternatives, consisting of 2 tastes of No Sugar Added granola (Apricot, Pumpkin Seeds, and also Coconut, and also Cashew and also Almond), 2 tastes of natural entire grain wheat grains (initial and also raisin), and also a super-grains granola in Cranberry, Sultana, and also Spelt tastes.
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Welcome once again to our recurring MCC feature in which I scribble capsule reviews of everything I’ve read that was published in a physical format over a certain page count with a squarebound spine on it — novels, original graphic novels, trade paperbacks, infrequent nonfiction dalliances, and so on. Due to the way I structure my media-consumption time blocks, the list will always feature more graphic novels than works of prose and pure text, though I do try to diversify my literary diet as time and acquisitions permit.
Occasionally I’ll sneak in a contemporary review if I’ve gone out of my way to buy and read something brand new. Every so often I’ll borrow from my wife Anne or from our local library. But the majority of our spotlighted works are presented years after the rest of the world already finished and moved on from them because I’m drawing from my vast unread pile that presently occupies four oversize shelves comprising thirty-three years of uncontrolled book shopping. I’ve occasionally pruned the pile, but as you can imagine, cut out one unread book and three more take its place.
I’ve previously written why I don’t do eBooks. Perhaps someday I’ll also explain why these capsules are exclusive to MCC and not shared on Amazon, Goodreads, or other sites where their authors might prefer I’d share them. In the meantime, here’s me and my reading results…
25. Tillie Walden, Are You Listening? (2019). The best part of my Free Comic Book Day 2022 was discovering Walden’s work, which was unfairly outside my personal radar shaped for better or worse by a lifetime of prioritizing monthly singles over original graphic novels. Image Comics’ sneak preview of her then-upcoming Clementine was my favorite of the FCBD batch, cannoned her straight to the top of my Must-Read list, and kept her name freshly in my short-term memory when I found this book at a most unusual bookshop in Ohio. Two young ladies, one driving with an awful lot of baggage and the other a teenage runaway, pair up for a mythically hued, sometimes surrealist wintertime road trip through the farthest creepier reaches of Texas. The attempted escape from their own painful memories finds new purpose in a self-appointed quest involving boogeymen and a lost cat…or maybe it isn’t the cat who needs to be found. Stops for snacks, car accidents, chases, and stick-shift driving lessons are among the pitfalls laid before them as they keep plowing onward toward where they’re meant to be.
26. Tillie Walden, Clementine, Book One (2022). Speaking of which! That same FCBD sampler nudged me into doing something I rarely do: I pre-ordered this through my local comic shop. Consequently it came with an autographed bookplate, an awesome perk I hadn’t expected. This YA OGN stars a character from Telltale Games’ Walking Dead games, which I’ve never played, but I never felt velvet-roped off here. When last gamers left Our Heroine, she was wandering alone through New England with a makeshift prosthetic leg but managing relatively fine despite whatever tribulations she outlived (alluded to briefly without getting bogged down). Clementine’s journey takes her from a friendly Amish village, where she receives a much-needed prosthetic upgrade now that she’s earned enough XP, to treacherous Mount Killington in Vermont, where she fits in with a group of fellow teen misfit survivors in varying states of mental acuity and PTSD. Like Are You Listening? it’s a hazardous wintertime road trip in which the travelers’ burdensome pasts weigh them down as much as whatever physical effects they can carry, though the Amish lad who tags along with them on his post-apocalyptic Rumspringa feels refreshingly lighthearted about his.
Of course there are zombies, most of them easily dispatched by these young undead-fighting pros but a few situated in fiendish traps that challenge the party, as if the mountainside terrain and impending blizzard weren’t harsh enough for them. Clementine is reluctant to form new relationships given what happened to all her previous ones, but eventually she has to learn that, try as she might, she can’t do everything alone. Mostly everything, but not actually everything. Not everyone makes it out alive, but their suspenseful adventure through beautifully textured black-and-white environments is the best Walking Dead experience I’ve had in years, which maybe isn’t saying a lot since I gave up on the show in season 7, but still.
I;m still running a few books behind on these, but eventually I’ll catch up.
27. George R. R. Martin, ed., Wild Cards: Low Chicago (2018). The 25th book in the adults-only shared-world superhero anthology takes the series to a place where it’s never been before: time travel! Thanks to a freak accident at a superhuman poker party in Chicago, a cast of new and old characters get tossed back into random eras of local history, where they’re all screwing up our timeline and two characters (including the late Roger Zelazny’s Sleeper, one of the precious few characters still alive since Book 1) have to go retrieve them all, one short story at a time. A killer lineup of authors including longtime contributor/co-editor Melinda M. Snodgrass, Paul Cornell, Saladin Ahmed, and more more more take the lost Aces and Jokers through a wild lineup of Windy City highlights that include the 1968 Democratic Convention, the original Playboy Mansion (a different building from our timeline’s), the 1919 World Series, H. H. Holmes’ Murder Castle, the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, the Great Chicago Fire, saber-toothed tigers, and on back to that fabled dinosaur-extinctifying meteor. A running gag about Ray Bradbury’s “A Sound of Thunder”, which I well remember, adds to the tremendous fun.
My favorite chapter is Marko Kloos’ “Stripes”, in which a Mob bodyguard named Khan has to sneak around detailed 1920s street geography, which isn’t easy for a guy who’s one-half burly tiger-man. After accidentally disrupting crime history, he has no choice but to go “fix” the St. Valentine’s massacre, which requires him to be more of an enforcer than a bodyguard, which isn’t the same thing. Different jobs can require different mindsets, even when folks think your skill set ought to be easily transferable.
28. George R. R. Martin, ed., Wild Cards: Texas Hold ‘Em (2018) The 26th book in the adults-only shared-world superhero anthology takes the series to a place where it’s never been before: a YA novel! Bubbles, the Ace heroine who survived the Cthulhu-esque catastrophe of the 23rd book High Stakes, has a much different challenge this time, less deadly but no less vexing: chaperoning her adopted insectoid daughter Adesina’s school jazz band to a national contest in San Antonio. Teenage attitude, curfew violations, anti-Joker bigots, saboteurs, street criminals, one insufferably vainglorious reality-show diva, and a g-g-g-g-g-GHOST are among the obstacles facing our chaperones and their charges as they alternate between their swingin’ sets and their outings to the nearby Riverwalk. The sabotage and bigotry storylines are predictable (surprise spoiler: they’re related!) and one tale of young stupid love on the lam is particularly a letdown, not to mention the book’s climax involving a gratuitous giant creature and the day being saved by a cheesy inter-band jam session, but one arc in particular stuck with me — Diana Rowland’s “Beats, Bugs, and Boys”, in which a drummer girl from deep-backwoods Louisiana who can control and talk to mosquitos, isolated all her life from any other Aces and Jokers, comes to the big city in hopes of meeting other not-so-normal folks like herself and finds a crowd where she fits in. Her curiosity and joy are quite infectious, much like her mini-minions.
Back-to-back graphic novels from a pair we’ve covered before and will cover again.
29. Markisan Naso, Jason Muhr, and Andrei Tabacaru, Voracious, Vol. 3: Appetite for Destruction (2019). The trilogy that began with Volume 1 and Volume 2 reaches its uncompromising conclusion in which Our Hero, the young chef who invents a groundbreaking cuisine whose main ingredients are dinosaur meats he hunted and killed in an alternate timeline where dinosaurs later evolved into people, has to deal with the consequences of his actions and the dinosaur people whose lives were ruined or erased by the butterfly effects of his shenanigans. It isn’t the first time a comic has presented the idea of bipedal dinosaur cops, but it might be the first to deserve to be taken seriously. One battle scene in particular, in which disastrous side effects turn one such cop into a violent mad-saur, is a total jaw-dropper.
30. Markisan Naso, Jason Muhr, and Andrei Tabacaru, By the Horns, Vol. 1: The Wind Rises (2022). The creators of Voracious stuck together for their next/current project, set in a fantasy world where evil magicians need to be taken down lest they ruin everything, which doesn’t sound revolutionary, but nearly all the magical creatures throughout the land are the authors’ own creations rather than loaners from the D&D Monster Manuals that most sword-and-sorcery authors keep next to their laptops. The requisite questing party is led by a young fighter named Elodie with a vendetta against all unicorns because of a unicorn-related tragedy in her past. Of course things get complicated when she realizes she needs unicorn assistance to save her village and the world…though she’d much rather be slaughtering unicorns than world-saving. The first volume makes short work of most of the baddies, leaving more time to focus on the more benign nonhuman party members who bring balance to Elodie’s tunnel-visioned fury and try to convince her #notallunicorns.
Longtime MCC readers may recall when the word “Christian” popped up on MCC far more often than it has over the past few years. I’m working on it.
31. Charles Colson and Nancy Pearcey, How Now Shall We Live? (1999). Years ago when our church used to hold adult Bible study classes on Sundays in addition to the normal service, one of our teachers used to refer to this book all the time. The headliner among the two authors was more well-known as one of the chief Watergate perpetrators, who did his time in prison and found more constructive purposes upon his release — prison ministries and so forth. His largest (co-)written work became one of the seminal texts on the Christian side of that whole “culture war” thing that now bulldozes through far too many attempted conversations and dictates the worldviews of a lot of folks who think the Bible consists solely of Jesus roundhouse-kicking the money-changers in the temple, Paul’s talks about metaphorical swords and shields, all those bloody Old Testament wars and…that’s it, that’s their Bible, the whittled-down Airplane! pamphlet from which they hear God’s voice telling them they’re the action heroes Jesus needs to pummel nonbelievers into shutting up and getting out of “their” America or whatever. They aren’t my favorite crowd and are part of the reason why I edited my social media profiles into more dissociative terms.
That said, this 500-page book sees Colson contemplating numerous sides of modern living — the contrasting and often incompatible worldviews, the nonpartisan deterioration of American society, the worldly assumptions that we maybe don’t reconsider too deeply on an everyday basis, and philosophies that evince some Scriptural influence while compromising them with secular insertions. I disagreed with some of his conclusions, appreciated his and his co-writer’s insights into others from an alternative perspective that doesn’t jibe with the internet cool kids’ party lines, but bristled at a few chapters that lead off with anecdotal role-modeling stories which he confesses in later sections were mostly fictional but filled a need for a parable where he couldn’t dig up a sufficiently perfect analogy to use in their place.
32. Stephen W. Smith, The Lazarus Life: Spiritual Transformation for Ordinary People (2008). Now that our church no longer offers adult Bible classes and all the Christian bookstores on our side of town shut down long before the pandemic, my faith-based book recommendations come primarily from whenever our lead pastor bases a sermon on one. Our Barnes & Noble of course has a religion section, but I can’t tell any of the modern-era Christian nonfiction apart, and in aggregate they just look like the self-help section except Jesus is name-checked on a few more spines. Anyway, this one uses the story of Lazarus’ resurrection as a template for perceiving and praying for times in our lives when we need the removal of old shrouds and the renewal of aspects gone fallow. I read this much earlier in the year and failed to write down any “aha” moments, but I don’t remember questioning or disagreeing with anything.
33. Gary L. Thomas, Authentic Faith: The Power of a Fire-Tested Life (2002). A lengthy listicle of sorts in which the author breaks down ten qualities that Christians ought to consider and hone as true disciplines even if they don’t sound like bragworthy qualities, which isn’t something we should be worrying about anyway. Chapters cover important topics such as selflessness, suffering, persecution (like, actual persecution, not “Twitter liberals are mean to me”), forgiveness, social mercy, waiting (always a tough one for me and my impatience), and so forth. This one had quite a few more “aha” moments than the previous books, though a few of his real-world role-modeling examples have aged poorly in the two decades since publication, such as an entire tribute to former luminary Lance Armstrong that’s laughably null and void. Such is the risk of writing Christian nonfiction about sinners whose lives are still in progress and subject to failure without notice.
And now, back to great graphic novels by women, already in progress.
34. Pamela Ribon, Veronica Fish, Brittany Peer and Laura Langston, Slam!, Vol. 1 (2017). I may have flipped the TV channel to the original Rollerball on some childhood weekend afternoon, but the wild world of roller derby is otherwise a faraway exotic land to me. I’ve seen more mosh pits in my life than roller derbies, though the latter looks way more organized and safer. Indianapolis has its own team, albeit currently in pandemic hibernation, who used to do public appearances at places we went, where I got to learn a few of the game’s surface details, like the skaters’ punny names.
This dramedy chronicles the highs and lows of a particular team in all their feminist, feminine candor — the tough training curve, the messy friendships, the injuries, and the behind-the-scenes stuff that might make some dudes squirm and pale. (I’ve been married for 18 years. I can handle it.) My only qualm is the helpful “How Roller Derby Works” tutorial for ignoramuses like me doesn’t come up till halfway through the book. Of its creators, Ribon has written several animated films (Moana being the best so far) and was among the original contributors to Television Without Pity (Anne was a big fan of that site); I’ve seen Fish’s dexterous line work on series like Blackwood and Archie during its funny, shortened pre-Riverdale reboot era. Together they’re a team to be reckoned with, one that’ll elbow you jokingly in the ribs before they elbow you off the track and into the concrete.
35. Zoe Thorogood, The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott (2020). The British graphic novelist completed her heartbreaking, inspirational, masterfully illustrated debut book at age 21. Meanwhile, here I am at 50 with a rinky-dink blog feeling like Milhouse bringing his toy horsey to Show and Tell. Anyway, Billie from the title is an artist in her formative young-adult years, taking the early steps of her life’s direction and close to finding her voice when a nasty head trauma leaves her retinas nearly detached, soon to be fully so. Before her eyesight disappears for good, she commits to one last visualized project: composing ten portraits for what just might be the only gallery showing she’ll ever have. Her quest takes her through various towns and backstreets, across personalities big and withdrawn, friendly and corrupted. From them she has to decide who’s worthy of the honor of being her last rendered subjects.
Thorogood’s sure hand guides Billie through a parade of city neighborhoods isolated with carefully chosen monotone palette settings, where everyone thinks they’re the heroes of their stories and a few of them are right. I’m reminded of Scott McCloud’s The Sculptor, another story about an artist energized by fear of a Dreaded Deadline Doom into composing the final works for which they’ll hopefully be remembered. Whereas that book’s artist came from a more self-absorbed place and had to have an otherworldly boost, Billie’s smarts and talents are fully inborn, though — much like Walden’s Clementine — there’re gaps in her perceptions and experiences best compensated for by the right set of friends. Beyond the moral of “the real art subjects were the friends she made along the way”, her most important lesson comes after what she mistakenly thinks is The End: the blind are capable of doing a lot. It isn’t The End by any means. Art will find a way.
From the Department of Female Protagonists Written and Drawn Entirely by Men.
36. Pornsak Pichetshote, Aaron Campbell, and Jose Villarubia, Infidel (2020). Pichetshote wrote one of my favorite comics of 2022, the period-piece noir The Good Asian, and shot to the top of my Must-Read list alongside the aforementioned Ms. Walden. When I saw his name on this book at Campbell’s table at Fan Expo Chicago, passersby could hear the sounds of screeching tires coming from my shoes as I braked to a halt to buy it on the spot.
Fractured by the death of a core member, a NYC family and their friends and neighbors (some not-so-friendly) live in a tenement with a checkered history, one that may be connected to its newest inhabitants: a batch of racist, xenophobic, murderous ghosts. It’s unfair to say which among the diverse cast is our “main” character because it’s that kind of horror story where no one’s safe, not even from each other as the debates over What Just Happened reveal unspoken and unconscious rifts among them. Pichetshote and Campbell know exactly how to pace an authentically scary story for maximum shock and plumb deeply into the diverse cast’s internal lives as they walk one by one into the ever-threatening shadows of the building that no longer feels like home.
37. J.H. Williams III, D. Curtis Johnson, Mick Gray, et al., Chase (2011). Before he became one of the best artists in the medium today with rules-defying, multi-styled works like Promethea, Sandman: Overture, and his current series Echolands (and co-created the star of The CW’s erstwhile Batwoman), Williams worked his way up through the Marvel and DC ranks with random guest-art jobs and an occasional odd-duck series like this one that ran circa ’95-’96. Cameron Chase is a world-weary government agent with an anti-metahuman chip on her shoulder, assigned to police that community on behalf of the DEO, newly introduced in this series and later adapted into The CW’s Supergirl. DEO head honcho Mr. Bones — an Infinity Inc. nemesis whose side-switching remains unexplained to this day — is a valuable supporting player here and was recently played by Keith David in two episodes of Stargirl.
Though the ten issues reprinted here are over twenty years old (plus Chase’s debut in an issue of Batman by her creators Doug Moench and Kelley Jones, along with several shorts), even Williams’ earlier efforts from 25 years ago are far more inventive than many of the Marvel and DC comics I ignore on 2022 racks. DC’s frequent timeline changes and company-wide reboots have done the series no favors, as peculiarities of the era abound and hamper readability this far into the distant future. Thrill to such bygone distractions as Electric Superman, the forgettable Teen Titans led by a de-aged Atom, Grant Morrison’s DC One Million crossover event, the post-USSR Rocket Reds, and a Suicide Squad with no classic members except arguably Killer Frost. The mandatory Batman appearance is naturally timeless, but failed to provide the sales boost they needed to keep this going. Helping lesser-known DC heroes with their sagging sales remains one of Batman’s assigned secondary duties to this day, but he can’t save everyone.
The series had fewer story arcs than I expected (the Suicide Squad team-up in particular feels padded) and consequently didn’t give Chase enough memorable cases to become the standout she could’ve been, but at least she looked cool, albeit less so when guest artists began stepping in and navigating their own learning curves. (Not for lack of trying on their part — welcome, for one, a young Charlie Adlard, future longtime collaborator on The Walking Dead.) Bonus points to Williams and Johnson for creating their own entire retro-cheesy super-team, the Justice Experience, who appeared here exclusively before vanishing into DC space-time oblivion forever. At least they tried.
From the Department of Faiths That Differ in Key Ways From Those Mentioned Above.
38. Dash Shaw, Discipline (2021). Previously on MCC, Shaw was admired for such tales as Cosplayers, Clue: Candlestick, and two different Free Comic Book Day shorts. For this historical drama, Shaw stripped down to the most primitive basics to somewhere between concept sketches and storyboards, yet builds to tragedy with an undeniable force. A Quaker lad named Charles walks away from his community’s pacifist beliefs because he decides ’tis a far more godly calling to join the Union Army and do his part to help end the tyranny of slavery. While his family is shattered by what they perceive as a blasphemous rejection of faith, Charles undergoes hardships he never imagined as he learns how to soldier, tests the limits of his endurance, and suffers injuries that never would’ve happened if he’d stayed home and convinced himself that hiding from the world was the best way to serve God.
39. Neil Gaiman, P. Craig Russell, Matt Horak, Mark Buckingham, Gabriel Hernandez walta, Sandy Jarrell and Lovern Kindzierski, Norse Mythology Vol. 2 (2022). I read the original book back in 2021 after picking it up as a souvenir from a Viking-themed attraction in Minnesota, but passed this up when it was first released in singles because I’m capricious about which of Dark Horse Comics’ many Gaiman adaptations I add to my library. Then on a slow new-comics week I looked at the artist roster and figured, “Wait, just why am I not?” That lineup with Buckingham (Miracleman, Fables), Walta (Vision, Magneto), Jarrell (Batman ’66) and of course Russell himself — a longtime adapter of fine literature, operas and other works into graphic storytelling — have all floored me before; why expect otherwise now?
All the artists held to their high standards. Coming into this I didn’t know Matt Horak, but his style reminds me of a slightly jollier Kieron Dwyer and fits in well with the older pros. This is a fine package for anyone who loves Thor and Loki stories with or without their familiar Marvel forms, but personally I had two drawbacks: (a) I had just read the book, so the experience had a certain “too soon” feel; and (b) the biggest problem with comics adaptations of Gaiman’s prose is that the very nature of the beast requires his poetic imagery to be converted into illustrations, and the narration and dialogue pared so the captions don’t crush the characters against their panel borders, which means you’re ultimately getting fewer pounds of whimsically vivid Gaiman verbiage per pound. Like, which is the richer experience: hearing Gaiman’s narrators in your mind’s auditorium narrating to you with an excited gleam in their eye, or cool drawings of that same gleam? Minor fussbudget gripes, these.
From the Department of Hard-Boiled Noir in Which Not Everyone Gets Out Alive and There’s Never Reason to Smile.
40. Neil Cross, Luther: The Calling (2011). As a fan of one of the grimmest TV shows ever, I’d have read this the month of release if only someone had notified me of its existence sooner. The very creator of Idris Elba’s iconic antihero police detective John Luther wrote him a prequel, in which a slightly younger version of our relentless “big man with a big walk” (Cross’ apt recurring sum-up of him) is already the best there is at what he does, with only the occasional moral compromise per case that he keeps below-radar enough to avoid hard looks from The Powers That Be. Then comes a case involving serial child abductions that might just be the one that pushes him over the edge. When the handling becomes a public matter and things go horridly awry…well, Luther does what he does, even in the worst of times when he has to negotiate intel from humanity’s rottenest mentally deformed bottom-feeders.
Meanwhile on the home front, he’s still married to Zoe (played in the series by Obi-Wan Kenobi‘s Indira Varma), albeit not for long as we also learn what tore their marriage apart (not hard to guess) and how Paul McGann’s Mark came in and cuckolded him. Fans, when they’re not drowning in the same level of despair that the show excels in brewing, should appreciate other familiar faces living again in prose, such as Luther’s coked-up staff-hacker pal Benny. (DS Ripley, my all-time favorite Luther partner, rates a chapter-length cameo.) It’s no cheerier than the show itself, yet leads us nonetheless at breakneck speed through its long, grimdark tunnel to the pinpricks of light at the end that keep us and Luther going. As the sole writer of every episode ever, Cross obviously captures the voice of it all, but he nails Elba’s own physical mannerisms and tics as well, bringing him to three-dimensional tough-luck life in cold, hard print.
41. Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, Cruel Summer (2022). While we’re already lingering along these dangerous noir streets and catching up on OGN creators I’ve lost track of over time, here’s a crossing of both those tracks with an 8-issue collection of Criminal, the duo’s celebrated Image Comics series. This late-’80s hard-boiled heist drama tosses complicated father/son dynamics into its volatile mix, weaves a grungy tapestry of lies and intergenerational failures, riddles it with bullets and dares you to root for any of these guys, young or old, who fence themselves in with poor choices and have to claw their way out of the wreckage when someone else’s poor choices blow up in their face.
Yep, there’s a reason I buried this one beneath 4400 preceding words’ worth of Gamma Base bunker walls.
42. Al Ewing, Joe Bennett, Ruy José, Paul Mounts, et al., The Immortal Hulk, Vol. 4 (2022). Readers love buttons proclaiming “I READ BANNED BOOKS”, but no one owns a T-shirt bragging “I READ CANCELED CREATORS”. But…this is a thing I read. I got hooked on the hardcover collections of Marvel’s scariest 21st-century horror series during the pandemic and already proffered a king-sized asterisk when I wrote about Volume 3, which was released after the primary artist infamously said and/or drew allegedly anti-Semitic things, which incontrovertibly sucks. But Ewing swung for the fences so hard and for so long with this book that I wanted to see where he went with it to the bitter end, ugly warts and all. (To his credit, a while back Ewing publicly stated that any future proceeds of his from the series would be immediately forwarded to appropriate nonprofits as karmic rebalancing or what-have-you. That may not fully atone for the perceived transgressions of all others involved from publisher to buyers, but there it is.)
For the record: ten more issues of frightening body-horror rooted in Marvel canon continue apace with an absolutely bonkers revamp of Xemnu the Titan as a mass-hypnotic TV icon, the overdue returns of the Leader and Rick Jones (uh, sorta?), further adventures of the Gamma Flight, deadlier hi-jinks surrounding the Green Door in the afterlife, a hallucinogenic sequence from guest artist Nick Pitarra (The Manhattan Projects) and the headline revelation of costar Dr. Charlene McGowan as trans. Investigative reporter Jackie McGee gets short shrift this time around, but will return emphatically to center stage when we cover the final volume later in 2023, a year in which we’ll also be seeking out further works from the seemingly brilliant-so-far Mr. Ewing and continue apologizing for what I’ve done here.
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…The End. Thanks for reading about reading! For the rest of the list, check out Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 for more capsules. (A special note about Part 2: that one includes my impressions of the first hardcover collection of Kurt Busiek and Carlos Pacheco’s Arrowsmith, which I wrote two weeks before Pacheco passed away in November. R.I.P.)
Here’s hoping the 2023 edition of this recurring feature recurs much more regularly, Lord willing.
The complete 2022 reading stack in order by size till the shelf ran out, not including books borrowed from Anne or the library.
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