New In-Store Releases For Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Highlights This Week: DC’s New 52 line launches 6 new titles this month with 4 of them this week alone! World’s Finest #1 finds Power Girl and The Huntress trapped on an Earth that’s not their own by Paul Levitz, George Perez and Kevin McGuire, James Robinson and Nicola Scott are the creative team on Earth 2 #1, the two heroes’ original world, Dial H #1 updates the 1960s Dial H For Hero concept of a device that can give its owner super powers, and G.I. Combat #1 is a new war anthology featuring new chapters of the classic war comics War That Time Forgot and Unknown Soldier; the first title in the new Valiant Comics revival is X-O Manowar #1Avengers VS X-Men #3 (of 12) has the 2 teams searching the globe for the mutant know as Hope and AVX crosses over into Avengers Academy #29; the Night of the Owls continues in Detective Comics #9; the hit CW series continues on in comic form with Smallville Season 11 #1; The Tick #100 celebrates its anniversary with a special appearance by Robert Kirkman’s Invincible; Dynamite finds another home for a classic pulp hero in The Spider #1; some of Jack Kirby’s never-before-reprinted 1970s work is finally collected in the Spirit World Hardcover; The Boys #66 begins the title’s final story arc; Exiled #1 begins a crossover with New Mutants and Journey Into Mystery; Bart Simpson’s Pal Milhouse #1 is the next Bongo Comic one-shot spotlighting the denizen’s of Springfield and the Skeleton Key Color Special One-shot collects Andy Watson’s recent new work from issues of Dark Horse Presents!

Novelty Highlights:  Regular and Black Costumed Spider-Man Super Deformed Plushes; Marvel Minimates Series 44; Marvel Knights: Astonishing X-Men – Dangerous DVD; Doctor Who Character Building Tardis Mini Set (restock) and Magic the Gathering: Avacyn Restored Boosters (Friday, May 4 Release Date)!

DC Comics

Image Comics

  • Avengelyne #8
  • Blue Estate #11
  • Bulletproof Coffin: Disinterred #4 (of 6)
  • Dogs of Mars Softcover
  • Epic Kill #1
  • Hack Slash #15
  • Pigs #7
  • Supreme #64
  • Vescell #7

Marvel Comics

  • Age of Apocalypse #3
  • Amazing Spider-Man #685 (has Dellotto Variant cover)
  • Amazing Spider-Man: No Turning Back Mini-Poster Promo
  • Avengers Academy #29 AVX
  • Avengers Art of The Avengers Movie Hardcover
  • Avengers Assemble Volume 3 Softcover
  • Avengers: Black Widow Strikes #1 (of 3)
  • Avengers Movie Prelude (Furys’ Big Week) Softcover
  • Avengers VS X-Men #3 (of 12) 2nd Printing
  • Avengers VS X-Men #3 (of 12; has Pagulayan, Campbell, Pichelli and Team Variants)
  • Black Costume Spider-Man Super Deformed Plush
  • Daredevil #12 (new artist Chris Samnee!)
  • Defenders #6
  • Dorothy and The Wizard in Oz #6 (of 8 )
  • Exiled #1 (New Mutants, Journey Into Mystery crossover)
  • Invincible Iron Man #516
  • Marvel Knights: Astonishing X-Men – Dangerous DVD
  • Marvel Minimates Series 44
  • Marvel Super Heroes VS Villains Pop Up Book
  • Spider-Man: Inside World of A Friendly Neighborhood Hero Hardcover
  • Spider-Man Super Deformed Plush
  • Super Crooks #1 2nd Printing
  • Toy Story #3 (of 4)
  • Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #10
  • Venom #17 (has Walker Variant cover)
  • Wolverine & The X-Men: Alpha & Omega #5 (of 5)
  • X-Factor #235
  • X-Men #28

Other Publishers

  • 30 Days of Night Ongoing #7
  • B & V Friends Double Digest #224
  • Bart Simpson’s Pal Milhouse #1
  • The Boys #66
  • Comic Shop News #1298
  • Comics Buyers Guide #1690
  • Doctor Who Character Building Tardis Mini Set (restock)
  • Doctor Who Classics Series IV #3 (of 6)
  • Dorothy of Oz Prequel #2 (of 4)
  • Doctor Who Magazine #446 (Meet the new companion!)
  • Dungeons & Dragons: Forgotten Realms Volume 3 Softcover
  • Fallen Words Graphic Novel
  • Grimm Fairy Tales: Myths & Legends #16
  • G.I. Joe 2: Retaliation Movie Prequel Softcover
  • G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero #178
  • Godzilla Kingdom of Monsters Softcover
  • Grimm Fairy Tales Volume 11 Softcover
  • Halo Minimates Series 4 Box Set
  • Kirby Genesis Silver Star #5
  • Life With Archie #19
  • Locke & Key Volume 4: Keys To The Kingdom Softcover
  • Lone Ranger #5
  • Lone Ranger Cover Art By John Cassaday
  • Magic the Gathering: Avacyn Restored Boosters (Friday, May 4 Release Date)
  • Naruto Volume 56 Manga
  • Planet of the Apes Volume 2 Softcover
  • Pokemon Black & White Volume 7 Manga
  • Red Sonja #66
  • Red Sonja Witchblade #3
  • Roger Langridge’s Snarked Volume 1 Softcover
  • Simpsons Illustrated #2
  • Skeleton Key Color Special One-Shot
  • Sonic The Hedgehog #236
  • The Spider #1
  • Star Trek Classics Volume 3 Encounters With The Unknown Softcover
  • Star Wars Insider #133
  • Star Wars Ultimate Visual Guide Hardcover
  • Summer Camp Science Mysteries Volume 2 Nightmare Cabin Thief
  • Summer Camp Science Mysteries Volume 3 Hunt For Hidden Treasure
  • Supurbia #3 (of 4)
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Ongoing #9
  • The Tick #100 The Tick Meets Invincible
  • Voltron Year One #2
  • X-O Manowar #1
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