Written by Various Art by Jim Mooney, Win Mortimer and Sheldon Moldoff Cover by Jim Mooney & Win Mortimer This new ROBIN ARCHIVES collects stories from the late 1940s in which The Boy Wonder faces the Sinister Knight, declares war on Batman, travels to Rancho Fear, battles crime in Hollywood, and meets the fearsome man with the Midas touch. Features tales from STAR SPANGLED COMICS #86-105. Scheduled to arrive on March 31 256 pages. Full Color.
Written by Geoff Johns Art by Ethan Van Sciver, Darwyn Cooke, Prentis Rollins, Marlo Alquiza and Mick Gray Cover by Ethan Van Sciver In 2004, writer Geoff Johns and artist Ethan Van Sciver - the team behind the current blockbuster THE FLASH: REBIRTH - restored Hal Jordan to his place as the greatest Green Lantern of all with the best-selling miniseries GREEN LANTERN: REBIRTH! Now, DC Comics is pleased to present this perennial favorite in the slipcased, Absolute format. Follow Hal Jordan on his journey from fearless test pilot to Super Hero, from villain to the spirit of vengeance, and finally, returning to his true calling as Green Lantern of Space Sector 2814. This amazing Absolute edition includes GREEN LANTERN: REBIRTH #1-6, GREEN LANTERN #1, the preview story from Wizard Magazine and a tale from GREEN LANTERN SECRET FILES 2005 featuring spectacular artwork by Darwyn Cooke. Scheduled to arrive on April 21 8.25 x 12.5, 224 pages. Full Color.
Written by JIM SHOOTER, DAVID MICHELINIE & BILL MANTLO Penciled by GEORGE PÉREZ, SAL BUSCEMA, DAVID WENZEL & TOM MORGAN Covers by JOHN ROMITA JR. & GEORGE PEREZ He hails from an unimaginable era: the 31st century. Fleeing through the timestream from the pursuing team of futuristic defenders known as the Guardians of the Galaxy, Korvac the Machine Man has established a secret presence on present-day Earth in the self-created persona of the mysterious Michael. Through such an unassuming guise, Korvac contemplates the elements of a universe he thirsts to command. Yet despite the subtlety of Michael's machinations, the world's greatest super-team -- the mighty Avengers -- catches wind of his cosmos-conquering scheme, thus drawing the two titanic forces into inevitable conflict. Collecting AVENGERS (1963) #167-168 & #170-177. 200 pages. /Rated A
Written by GEORGE KAPITAN, JOHN COMPTON & MORE Penciled by JACK KIRBY, JOE SIMON, BILL EVERETT, CARL BURGOS, BEN THOMPSON, STEVE DAHLMAN, GEORGE KLEIN, HARRY SAHLE, LARRY ANTONETTE, ED ROBBINS, MAURICE GUTWIRTH, HARRY DOUGLAS, HENRY FLETCHER, FRED SCHWAB, BUD SAGENDORF, FRANK PRETSCH, FRANK BORTH & MORE Cover by JACK KIRBY There's no age like the Golden Age! Timely Comics second, sensational comic book series started off with an eclectic array of heroes and artistic talents that mixed pulp rawness with the exploding energy of the comic book medium. Now, with a fix on the new field, DARING MYSTERY COMICS brings in the big guns and lets loose! Featuring a who's who of Golden Age talent, these stories are a rollicking ride through the frenetic era that gave birth to America's greatest fictional creation, the super hero. Joe Simon and Jack Kirby bring you the original Marvel Boy, the 31st century space opera of Captain Daring, and the Fiery Mask. Bill Everett, master of the maritime hero, creates The Fin-Robin Hood of the Seas. Carl Burgos's Thunderer debuts as the powerhouse of justice. Ben Thompson unleashes the Blue Diamond, bullet-proof man. Harry Sahle introduces the super heroine Silver Scorpion. And Citizen V battles his way across war-torn Europe for victory! Also featuring Dynaman, Trojak the Tiger Man, K-4 and His Sky Devils, Monako Prince of Magic, Marvex the Super Robot, Breeze Barton, Stuporman, the Flying Flame and Mr. Million, DARING MYSTERY COMICS is a cornucopia of action and adventure! Collecting DARING MYSTERY COMICS #5-8 280 pages. /All Ages
Written by Steve Ditko, Don Segall, Dennis ONeil and Michael Fleischer Art by Steve Ditko and others Cover by Steve Ditko Steve Ditko, co-creator of Spider-Man, struck again in 1968 with the strange hero The Creeper. Now, for the first time, DC collects Ditko's Creeper epics from SHOWCASE #73, BEWARE THE CREEPER #1-6, 1ST ISSUE SPECIAL #7 and short stories from WORLD's FINEST COMICS #249-255. Scheduled to arrive on February 24 256 pages. Full Color.
Written by James Robinson and Jerry Ordway Art by Tony Harris, Gary Erskine, Matt Smith, Leonard Kirk, Gene Ha, Mike Mignola and others Cover by Tony Harris Jack Knight's groundbreaking adventures continue as Starman teams up with Batman and Hellboy, then heads into space to find lost hero Will Payton. Collecting STARMAN #39-46, STARMAN 80-PAGE GIANT #1, THE POWER OF SHAZAM #35-36, STARMAN: THE MIST #1 and BATMAN/HELLBOY/STARMAN #1-2. Scheduled to arrive on February 17 432 pages. Full Color.
Written by GEORGE PÉREZ, RALPH MACCHIO & GERRY CONWAY Penciled by GEORGE PÉREZ, BOB LAYTON, PAUL GULACY & GEORGE FREEMAN Covers by GEORGE PÉREZ It's been a long lively life for Natasha Romanova - in the Avengers, the Champions, S.H.I.E.L.D. and elsewhere - but could it end with her surrounded by international assassins? Old enemies and new are using her instructor, her mentor and her ex-husband against her - or so it seems - but who and what can be trusted in a spy's landscape of lies? Guest-starring Nick Fury, Jimmy Woo and other espionage experts! Collecting MARVEL FANFARE (1983) #10-13; BIZARRE ADVENTURES #25 and BLACK WIDOW: THE COLDEST WAR GN. 176 pages. //Rated A
Written by DENNY ONEIL Penciled by LUKE MCDONNELL, RICH BUCKLER, SAL BUSCEMA, HERB TRIMPE & MARK BRIGHT Covers by JOHN BYRNE & MARK BRIGHT He's lost his armor and his fortune, but not his nerve! Tony Stark's back on his feet after everything Obadiah Stane has thrown at him, but now the bilious billionaire is taking away Stark's friends...one of them forever! The enmity spanning more than thirty issues ends in a steel-plated slugfest from which only one can walk away! Plus: vision quests and extradimensional intrigue! Madame Masque and Thundersword! And the debut of the Scourge of the Underworld! Guest-starring the West Coast Avengers! Collecting IRON MAN (1968) #193-200. 208 pages. /Rated T
Written by STAN LEE & LARRY LIEBER Penciled by JACK KIRBY, STEVE DITKO, DON HECK, GENE COLAN & BOB FORGIONE Cover by JACK KIRBY Prepare yourself for another dramatic dose of monsters from the mind of Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko's strange suspense thrillers from TALES TO ASTONISH! There's more big monster rampages than you can shake a stick at with Trull the Inhuman-a mechanical beast that would make a monster truck shudder- the menace of Moomba, the Creature from Krogarr, the Gorilla-Man, the Abominable Snowman, and the first-ever appearance of Hank Pym, the man who would become Ant-Man! To top it off, there's Steve Ditko's suspenseful shorts that will take you to the farthest reaches of the universe and the darkest depths of the human soul. Each tightly-told tale is a lesson for mankind that will make you think twice before you turn out the light! These strange stories were the mortar in the foundation of the House of Ideas, where Stan Lee and his two greatest collaborators built the synergy and style that would turn the Comics' world on its head. So sign up for your copy today, and experience the energy of their imaginations in its most raw form! Collecting TALES TO ASTONISH #21-30. 272 pages. /All Ages
Written by STEVE ENGLEHART, LEN WEIN, CHRIS CLAREMONT, BILL MANTLO, ROY THOMAS & TONY ISABELLA Penciled by SAL BUSCEMA, DON HECK, HERB TRIMPE, GIL KANE & JOHN BUSCEMA Cover by GIL KANE This is it! The culmination of the Silver Age legacy of Marvel's mutant misfits, the X-Men! Closing the gap between the end of the X-Men's original series in 1970 and the debut of the All-New, All-Different team in 1975, the Marvel Masterworks present several never-before-collected X-Men tales that set the stage for Giant-Size X-Men #1! First up: Forced underground by anti-mutant hysteria run amok, the X-Men find themselves pursued by a secret adversary that seeks to pick them off one by one. And if being on the run wasn't tough enough, here comes Magneto! Only the combined might of the X-Men and the Avengers can prevent the Master of Magnetism from unleashing a nuclear holocaust. Then, with the X-Men's ranks dwindling, Professor X, Cyclops and Marvel Girl head West for reinforcements, but instead bump into the Incredible Hulk and the Juggernaut. (Ouch!) Next comes the culmination of the classic Secret Empire saga, where the X-Men find they share a common enemy with Captain America and join forces with the shield-slingin Avenger to save the nation and rescue their mutant comrades. Then, on the eve of the X-Men's departure to face Krakoa the Living Island, Iceman and the Human Torch team-up to battle Equinox, the Thermo-Dynamic Man-and with his team missing, Professor X must enlist the Defenders to fight a resurgent Magneto and Alpha, the Ultimate Mutant! To top it all off, weve also included X-Man-to-be Wolverine's very first appearance! The ol Canucklehead leaps from the top-secret Weapon X program and throws down in his first famous battle with the Incredible Hulk. It's the all-time classic that made comic book history! There's also the debut of Madrox the Multiple Man-Chris Claremont's first X-Man-and the Beast vs. the Griffin. This X-tra special Masterworks volume polishes off the library of every X-Fan's dreams-completing the original adventures of Marvel's most-famous super team! Collecting AVENGERS #110-111, INCREDIBLE HULK #172, 180 & 181, CAPTAIN AMERICA #172-175, MARVEL TEAM-UP #23 & 38, DEFENDERS #15-16 and GIANT-SIZE FANTASTIC FOUR #4, plus the rare covers to X-MEN #81-93. 304 pages. /All Ages
Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS Penciled by KHOI PHAM, STEFANO CASELLI, CARLOS PAGULAYAN, LEE WEEKS, JIM CHEUNG, ALEX MALEEV & JOHN ROMITA JR. Cover by MARKO DJURDJEVIC Nick Fury is back! As the war with the Skrulls reaches a fever pitch in SECRET INVASION, MIGHTY AVENGERS answers many of the event's most compelling questions: Where is Nick Fury, and what has he been up to? Who are the mysterious Caterpillars? What's keeping the Sentry from taking out the shape-changing aliens single-handedly? And Hank Pym's a Skrull...how the heck did that happen?! Plus: the revelation that Elektra was a Skrull impostor sent shockwaves through the Marvel Universe, and the mistrust that followed tore at the fabric of the Avengers' unity. Now, with the Secret Invasion of the Skrulls in full force, the secrets of her abduction are laid bare! Telling the stories behind the stories that breathless Marvel fans have been waiting for, this oversized hardcover continues to explore the Skrull infiltration and invasion of Earth! Collecting MIGHTY AVENGERS #12-20. 240 pages. /Rated A
Written by STAN LEE Penciled by JACK KIRBY Cover by OLIVIER COIPEL The legend has come true! By the will of the gods, I am alive! I am invincible! I am - THOR!!! And so began the very first epic tale of Marvel's most revered hero, the mighty Thor, whose legend would grow alongside the success of Marvel comics, making him the most exciting super hero of all time! Never has Thor been more sensational than during these early tales, crafted by Marvel's greatest, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Re-live classic Norse mythology in the mighty Marvel manner as well as Stan and Jack's stories of the Norse Gods and Thor before he came to Earth as Don Blake. Witness as these masters breathe life into the thunder god and some of Marvel's most enduring characters: Helmdall, Balder, Loki, Odin and Hela. Read these stories as never before with all-new, modern coloring and acover by current THOR artist Olivier Coipel. Collecting THOR: TALES OF ASGARD BY STAN LEE & JACK KIRBY #1-6. 256 pages. /Rated A
CREEPY ARCHIVES VOLUME 6 Various (W/A) Scheduled to arrive on Feb 24 B&W. 240 pages HC, 8 3/8 x 10 7/8 Dark Horse Comics continues to showcase its dedication to publishing the greatest comics of all time with the release of the sixth spooky volume of our Creepy magazine archives. This collection of legendary yell yarns includes selections from revered writers Archie Goodwin and Harlan Ellison, among others, and groundbreaking artistic contributions from Frank Frazetta, Neal Adams, Angelo Torres, Jack Davis, underground comics great Vaughn Bodé, and more. Treat yourself to this fright-filled tomb, and you'll see why these gore-geous collections have become freaky fixtures on the New York Times bestseller list! Creepy Archives won the 2009 Eisner Award for Best Archival Collection! Creepy Archives includes bonus color pages.
GUNSMITH CATS: BURST VOLUME 5 Kenichi Sonoda (W/A) Scheduled to arrive on Feb 24 B&W. 216 pages TPB, 5 1/8 x 7 1/4 This could be it, folks! Our favorite cutie-pie tough teen bounty hunter could be hanging up her guns after this tightly packed volume of Gunsmith Cats: Burst! And when we say tightly packed, we mean the return of all the characters who were missing in volume four, including Bean Bandit and Minnie-May! Storylines will converge and wrap up! Girls might actually make out! It's a crash-boom-bam race to the finish, and who knows how it will all wash out. Join us as we wrap up this fantastic last volume of Gunsmith Cats: Burst in frantic fashion. Each volume of Gunsmith Cats: Burst comes shrink-wrapped and carries an 18 content advisory.
LITTLE LULU: THE BIG DIPPER CLUB AND OTHER STORIES John Stanley (W/A) and Irving Tripp (A) Scheduled to arrive on Feb 24 Full Color. 200 pages TPB, 6 x 9 Generations have been enchanted by the adventures of Lulu Moppet and her friends, and the stories contained in this latest collection are no exception. Unparalleled comics funnymen John Stanley and Irving Tripp created a deceptively simple framework in Little Lulu, but one that opened up innumerable possibilities for hilarity, and the pair never stopped coming up with new twists to delight children and elicit knowing laughter from their parents. The Big Dipper Club is the latest in Dark Horse's new series collecting Little Lulu in all its full-color glory, making Lulu even more fun than ever!
OH MY GODDESS! VOLUME 14 Kosuke Fujishima (W/A) Scheduled to arrive on Feb 24 B&W. 192 pages TPB, 5 1/8 x 7 1/4 Ever since a cosmic phone call brought the literal young goddess Belldandy into college student Keiichi's residence, his personal life has been turned upside down, sideways, and sometimes even into strange dimensions! Get a job! That's what you hope a college education can do for you-but when Keiichi applies to put his knowledge to work in a custom-bike shop, he finds it's not going to be as easy to graduate college as he thought! And it could be that no one's leaving Nekomi Tech ever again, when it falls under the mind-bending influence of two of the most sinister forces known to man-Mara's magic, and Sayoko's ego! This volume includes a message from creator Kosuke Fujishima, and your fan art and letters! Winner of the 2009 Kodansha Award for Best General Manga Oh My Goddess! is the longest-running manga series in America!
STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS-THE COLOSSUS OF DESTINY Jeremy Barlow (W) and Matt and Shawn Fillbach (A) Scheduled to arrive on Feb 17 Full Color. 80 pages TPB, 5 1/4 x 7 1/2 Jedi Master Mace Windu leads a battle against Separatist forces for control of the planet Simocadia! While the Confederacy of Independent Systems battles for the planet's rare fuel source, and the Republic tries to repel the invaders, the rulers of Simocadia choose a different option to save the planet: awakening the Ardana Shadex, an indestructible mechanized giant that has been sleeping for centuries under the planet's surface! But awakening the colossus could cost many lives and cause more destruction than the current war. Mace Windu races against time and across a dangerous landscape to prevent his onetime friend, Prince Yojan, from causing disaster. Star Wars is enjoying a whole new wave of popularity brought on by the Star Wars: The Clone Wars television show, and Dark Horse has a Star Wars graphic novel for fans from every age group!
Written by Don Cameron, Bill Finger and others Art by Bob Kane, Jerry Robinson and others Cover by Bob Kane and Jerry Robinson The series collecting every Batman tale in chronological order continues with this new volume of stories from the 1940s. Pulled from BATMAN #16-17, DETECTIVE COMICS #75-77 and WORLD's FINEST COMICS #10, this volume features The Penguin and The Joker, plus a visit to The Crime Clinic. Scheduled to arrive on February 24 160 pages. Full Color.
Written by Nunzio DeFilippis, Christina Weir, Gerry Conway and J.M. DeMatteis Art by Jose Luís García-López, Kevin Nowlan and others Cover by Jose Luís García-López and Kevin Nowlan TV villain King Tut makes his comics debut in this title collecting BATMAN CONFIDENTIAL #26-28, plus stories from THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD #164 and 171 and BATMAN #353. Scheduled to arrive on February 24 128 pages. Full Color.
Written by Mark Waid, Scott Beatty and Len Wein Art by various Cover by Alex Ross Collecting the origins of over fifty characters from Animal Man to Zatanna, including Batman, Wonder Woman, The Joker and many more, from DC's hit weekly series 52 and COUNTDOWN TO FINAL CRISIS as well as several first seen online, featuring the work of some of comics' top talents! Scheduled to arrive on February 17 144 pages. Full Color.
Written by Joe Casey Art by ChrisCross, Eduardo Pansica, Rob Stull and others Cover by Stanley Artgerm Lau Japan's Super Young Team just wants to be seen as heroes by their adoring public in this title collecting the 6-issue miniseries. Unfortunately, their part in FINAL CRISIS went unnoticed, and theyve been reduced to performing at public appearances and on TV. Now, intense media scrutiny and a deadly threat complicates the motives of the team. Scheduled to arrive on February 17 144 pages. Full Color.
Written by Matthew Sturges Art by Freddie E. Williams II Cover by KAKO The Human Flame is a dead man. The heroes of the DC Universe have targeted him as the lowlife who caught the murder of the Martian Manhunter on his cell phone. On top of that, the villains want to kill him for selling them out to Libra. His only chance is to run! Collecting the 6-issue miniseries. Scheduled to arrive on February 24 144 pages. Full Color.
Written by Garth Ennis Art by John McCrea, Carlos Ezquerra and Steve Pugh Cover by John McCrea Tommy Monaghan's adventures as a Gotham City-based hitman for hire continue. In HITMAN: 10,000 BULLETS, now back in print and featuring issues #4-8 and HITMAN ANNUAL #1, a vindictive mob boss from Tommy's past puts a contract out on him. With friends caught in the crossfire, Tommy must find a way to exact revenge on the mafia head. Scheduled to arrive on February 24 176 pages. Full Color.
Written by Martin Pasko, Jack Kirby, Greg Rucka, Eric Trautmann and Ivan Brandon Art by Mike Nasser, Jack Kirby, Joe Bennett, Julian Lopez and othersCover by Andrew Robinson This graphic novel features the secret origin of KOBRA, the epic tale of their battle with CHECKMATE, the original KOBRA tale with art by Jack Kirby and more. Collected from KOBRA #1, DC SPECIAL SERIES #1, CHECKMATE #23-25 and KOBRA: FACES OF EVIL #1. Scheduled to arrive on February 17 144 pages. Full Color.
Written by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby Art by Joe Simon, Jack Kirby and others Cover by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby Originally featured in STAR SPANGLED COMICS #7-32 (1942-1944), The Newsboy Legion stars a group of scrappy boys who fight crime in their home of Suicide Slum. Watched over by adult hero The Guardian, The Newsboy Legion battles crime through their own newspaper, taking on crooked politicians, slum lords, fifth column agents and much more. Scheduled to arrive on March 24 360 pages. Full Color.
Written by James Robinson, Greg Rucka, Richard Donner and Geoff Johns Art by Pete Woods, Rags Morales and Mark Farmer Cover by Eddy Barrows Superman's past collides with his present as thousands of Kryptonians create a new society on a new world! Following the New Krypton event, the Man of Steel has had to embrace his past to ensure humanity's future. And while a devastating armed conflict with Earth may have been averted, keeping the peace will be Superman's greatest challenge yet. Now The Man of Tomorrow has decided to live with his newfound people on a brand-new world. But can he keep peace between Earth and this New Krypton? Not if General Zod has anything to say about it, in this new hardcover collecting SUPERMAN: WORLD OF NEW KRYPTON #1-5 and ACTION COMICS ANNUAL #10. Scheduled to arrive on March 10 144 pages. Full Color.
Written by Greg Rucka Art by Eddy Barrows, Pere Pérez, Ruy José, Diego Olmos, Júlio Ferreira and others Cover by Andrew Robinson In Superman's absence, two new heroes arrive on Earth from out of Kryptonian lore in this new hardcover collecting ACTION COMICS #875-879 and ACTION COMICS ANNUAL #12! Following the startling events of New Krypton, Earth finds itself without Superman! And this world without a Superman is a very dangerous place indeed. The only thing standing between the good (and the not-so-good) citizens of Earth and the shadow of doom are the all-new Nightwing and Flamebird. But who are these two heroes who have taken their names from legends of Krypton's past? Scheduled to arrive on March 17 168 pages. Full Color.
Written by William Moulton Marston and others Art and cover by Harry G. Peter In these fantastic tales from SENSATION COMICS #41-48 and WONDER WOMAN #13-15, Princess Diana explores the mystery of The Icebound Maiden, meets a colony of modern-day leprechauns In Shamrock Land, and battles The Tigeapes of Neptunia, The Octopus Plant, The Lawbreakers League and more. Scheduled to arrive on June 30 232 pages. Full Color.
Written and illustrated by Shouko Fukaki CMX/FLEX COMIX. A mysterious society is stalking Jin because his father and sister, Toko, betrayed them in the past by removing Jin before he could further their cause. At the same time, long lost brother Soichiro tries to warn Jin's friend Fusano that Toko and their father are not the good guys they appear to be. Fusano's not buying it and leaves with Toko, a decision she may come to regret. Scheduled to arrive on February 24 5 x 7.375 162 pages. B&W. TEEN PLUS.
Written and illustrated by Natsuna Kawase CMX. The party to announce Princess Rosemarie and Prince Reynol's engagement is approaching! But Rosemarie finds herself caught up in sibling rivalry and it seems that Prince Grayle, Reynol's brother, is doing everything he can to split up the young couple. And he's not alone. The Queen is plotting against them too, but for reasons of her own. Will Rosemarie get past these challenges? Scheduled to arrive on February 17 5 x 7.375 192 pages. B&W. EVERYONE.
Written and illustrated by Yuki Nakaji CMX. Eichi's younger brother, Tomoki, enters a hair styling contest with Suzuna as his model. Even though his parents wanted him to attend a regular college, they support his wishes and attend the contest. When the family meets Suzuna, they all fall in love with her. With everyone pushing for the young couple to get together, could love finally be coming out into the open for Eichi and Suzuna? Scheduled to arrive on February 17 5 x 7.375 208 pages. B&W. TEEN.
Written by Peter Milligan Art by James Romberger Cover by Lee Bermejo Being a cop was in the Keane blood. But Martin wanted to be a writer even if it meant turning his back on the family legacy. Then his wife goes missing, and Martin is forced to delve into the dark history - and darker secrets - of that same family. It's a path that will lead him back to the Bronx Kill: that lonely, godforsaken stretch of land where many years earlier his grandfather had been brutally murdered, and where finally he will learn the truth about his wife's disappearance. It's a truth more monstrous than he could ever have imagined. Entertainment Weekly It writer Peter Milligan (GREEK STREET, HUMAN TARGET) joins forces with New York cartoonist and fine artist James Romberger (Seven Miles a Second) for an urban mystery drenched in family secrets. Don't miss the newest sure-fire hit from Vertigo Crime! Scheduled to arrive on March 17 184 pages. B&W. 5 x 8, US MATURE READERS.
Written by Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning Art by Simon Coleby, Drew Johnson, Mike Miller and others Cover by Simon Coleby The super-team created to protect Earth from threats of a global scale struggle to carry on after they fail in their mission. In this collection featuring issues #8-16 of their monthly series, find out what The Authority must do after their world is destroyed. Scheduled to arrive on February 24 208 pages. Full Color.
Written by Warren Ellis Art and cover by John Cassaday This is it - the final, spectacular hardcover collection of Warren Ellis and John Cassaday's PLANETARY. Collecting issues #19-27 of this unique series, Volume 4 features the final battles waged by Elijah Snow, Jakita Wagner and The Drummer against the mysterious Four along with the surprise return of a key player no one could have foreseen! It's been over a decade in the making - don't miss this unforgettable conclusion to one of WildStorm's most acclaimed series. Scheduled to arrive on March 3 224 pages. Full Color.
Written by STAN LEE & ARCHIE GOODWIN Penciled by GENE COLAN, GEORGE TUSKA & JOHNNY CRAIG Covers by SALVADOR LARROCA & GENE COLAN Experience the original adventures of the sensational blockbuster of the silver screen-the Invincible Iron Man! To the world, Tony Stark is a playboy scientist leading the jet set life - the envy of every man and the object of every woman's desire. But what they don't know is this debonair arms developer is secretly the Armored Avenger, Iron Man! That secret may not last for long when the U.S. Senate forces Stark to divulge the secrets of Stark Enterprises. It's not just political intrigue, though. There's a host of villains and action galore including classic battles with the Mandarin, the Incredible Hulk, the Crimson Dynamo, the Titanium Man and A.I.M. - not to mention the first appearance of the sultry Madame Masque and, soon-to-be star of Iron Man 2, the villainous Whiplash! Written by Stan The Man Lee and Iron Man heir apparent Archie Goodwin, with art by the master of the pencil, Gene The Dean Colan; the iron man of Iron Man artists, George Tuska; and E.C. Comics great Johnny Craig, these tales are the crème de la crème of Iron Man adventures. Collected in the oversize Omnibus format - including every story, every letters page and a host of extras - The Invincible Iron Man Omnibus is a must have for every Marvel Comics aficionado! Collecting TALES OF SUSPENSE #84-99, IRON MAN & SUB-MARINER #1 & IRON MAN #1-25 840 pages. /All Ages.
Written by KURT BUSIEK with RICHARD HOWELL Penciled by SEAN CHEN & PATRICK ZIRCHER Covers by SEAN CHEN Back from the dead (again), Tony Stark's rebuilding his corporation from the ground up -- but enemies old and new remind him his work is never done! With romance, rivalry and robots to keep him busy, can Iron Man still help Avengers teammate Warbird in her match against Stark's own worst enemy...the one in a bottle? Guest-starring the Black Widow and James Rhodes, a.k.a. War Machine! Collecting IRON MAN (1998) #1-7. 192 pages. /Rated T.
Written by DOUG MOENCH & SCOTT EDELMAN Penciled by GEORGE PEREZ, GIL KANE, KEITH POLLARD & AL MILGROM Cover by GIL KANE Because one trip to Attilan and the world of the uncanny Inhumans just wasn't enough, the Marvel Masterworks present the amazing Lee/Kirby creations in their very first self-titled series! Come along and join Black Bolt, Medusa, Triton, Gorgon, Karnak and loveable Lockjaw, as they struggle in battle against both Kree and Skrull in The War of the Three Galaxies! It all begins when Blastaar bursts into the Inhumans' Himalayan refuge to activate an ancient menace designed to devour the entire Inhuman race. That Kree monster is just the first salvo in a war that will lead the Royal Family to the stars and into battle side by side with Captain Marvel. And if cosmos-spanning war isn't enough to keep Black Bolt and company busy, the insane Maximus can always be relied upon to wreak havoc - and then only to whet the appetite for the coming of the Incredible Hulk! Illustrated by the king of detail-packed penciling George Perez, master of amazing anatomy Gil Kane, and 1970s up-and-comer Keith Pollard, with scripts by the fan-favorite writer that crafted many of the era's greatest epics, Doug Moench, it's a singular saga that's collected here for the very first time! Collecting THE INHUMANS #1-12, CAPTAIN MARVEL #52-53 and the rare Inhumans tales from WHAT IF...? #29-30 & THOR ANNUAL #12. 272 pages. /All Ages.
Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS & BRIAN REED Penciled by LEINIL YU, CARLO PAGULAYAN & JIM CHEUNG Cover by JIM CHEUNG In the wake of the superhero Civil War, outlaw Avengers Luke Cage, Spider-Man, Wolverine, Spider-Woman, Dr. Strange and Iron Fist are still fighting the good fight, joined by two new recruits: mistress of mimicry Echo and long-lost Avengers mainstay Hawkeye, now Ronin. But when the heroes uncover evidence of a secret invasion by shape-shifting Skrulls, paranoia starts to tear the team apart. Who can they trust when any one of them might be an alien monster in disguise? Which Avenger betrays the group? And can the embattled rebel Avengers survive when new supernatural crime boss the Hood targets them with an army of super villains? And, join Iron Man, Professor X, Black Bolt, the Sub-Mariner and Mister Fantastic as they take on the threats no one else can handle - and learn of secrets that will forever alter the way they (and you) look at the Marvel Universe! After years spent protecting Earth from harm, it is now when the planet is perhaps at its most endangered - as the Illuminati find themselves at the head of the spear of a Skrull invasion. But can the Illuminati keep themselves from fracturing in the waking moments of this worldwide threat? Collecting NEW AVENGERS #32-37, NEW AVENGERS ANNUAL #2 and ILLUMINATI #1-5. 320 pages. /Rated A.
BLACKSAD Juan Díaz Canales (W) and Juanjo Guarnido (A) Scheduled to arrive on Mar 24 Full Color. 184 pages HC, 8 3/8 x 10 7/8 Private investigator John Blacksad is up to his feline ears in mystery, digging into the backstories behind murders, child abductions, and nuclear secrets. Guarnido's sumptuously painted pages and rich cinematic style bring the world of 1950s America to vibrant life, with Canales weaving in fascinating tales of conspiracy, racial tension, and the red scare Communist witch hunts of the time. Guarnido reinvents anthropomorphism in these pages, and industry colleagues no less than Will Eisner, Jim Steranko, and Tim Sale are fans! Whether John Blacksad is falling for dangerous women or getting beaten to within an inch of his life, his stories are, simply put, unforgettable. Dark Horse is very proud to present the first three Blacksad stories in a beautiful hardcover collection, completely relettered to the artist's specifications and with the latest album, Red Soul, in English for the very first time. This internationally acclaimed series has won nearly a dozen prestigious awards-including the Angoulême Comics Festival prizes for Best Series and Best Artwork-and is a three-time Eisner Award nominee. Blacksad took Europe by storm in 2000 and sold over 200,000 copies in France alone. Blacksad © DARGAUD 2000, by Diaz Canales, Guarnido. All rights reserved.
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER SEASON EIGHT VOLUME 6: RETREAT Jane Espenson (W), Joss Whedon (W), Georges Jeanty (P), Andy Owens (I), Michelle Madsen (C), and Jo Chen (Cover) Scheduled to arrive on Mar 3 Full Color. 168 pages TPB, 7 x 10 Buffy Season Eight Volume 6 showcases the first retreat of the Slayer legion. Vampires have solid footing at the top of the totem and Slayers have been crushed to the bottom-in short, no one likes Buffy anymore. . least of all this season's mysterious Big Bad, Twilight, who is hot on her magical trail! Now that it's the world against Slayers, Buffy must find a way to return the status quo to. . status quo-and keep her girls alive long enough to do it! Enter Oz, the only person/werewolf Buffy knows who is down with the suppression of magic, and can take the Slayer army off of Twilight's magic-specific radar. With Oz's assistance, the Slayers and Wiccans try to become normal through meditation and hard labor-although, not everyone sees the advantage of being magicless, namely, Willow, Giles, and Andrew. And they could be right. After all, is a peaceful life for a Slayer even possible? Oz appears in Buffy Season Eight! Collects issues #26-#30 of the ongoing series. The first three volumes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight have combined to sell over 220,000 copies!
DON't HOLD YOUR BREATH: NOTHING NEW FROM BRIAN EWING Brian Ewing (W/A) Scheduled to arrive on July 1 Full Color. 112 pages HC, 8 1/2 x 11 Sharp as broken glass, smooth as a polished skull, dark as the other side of the moon-this is the art of Brian Ewing, one of the leading-edge visual voices of graphic pop surrealism and the exploding rock-poster scene. Don't Hold Your Breath is the first collection of Ewing's stunning catalog, featuring posters, illustrations, and album covers for Bad Religion, Queens of the Stone Age, Metallica, Detective Comics, My Chemical Romance, The Bouncing Souls, Brand New, The Melvins, Warped Tour, The New Yorker, High on Fire, The Strokes, Fall Out Boy, and many more. Plus original art prints, skate decks, shirt designs, zombie masks, and skulls, skulls, skulls! Foreword by Kevin Lyman, creator of the Warped Tour. Brian Ewing's work is well known among rock fans and collectors of the booming rock-poster market. Brian's diverse list of commercial clients includes the Warped Tour, Suicide Girls, Guitar Hero II, Budweiser, Samsung, Kia Motors, Marvel Comics, Guitar World, and many more. See more of Brian's work at www.brianewing.com.
GANTZ VOLUME 10 Hiroya Oku (W/A) Scheduled to arrive on Mar 31 B&W. 224 pages TPB, 5 1/8 x 7 1/4 Plots are starting to twist in the Gantz storyline! Has Kato disappeared forever? Who is this cute girl Kei's falling in love with? Does someone on the Internet know the secret of Gantz? And who is this huge fighter roaming the streets of Japan looking for the greatest fighting challenge? Well, the challenge he's looking for might come from the least likely of physical specimens. So far, the story of Gantz knows few bounds when it comes to plot twists and a constantly changing cast. When it's kill or be killed against a universe full of odd and resilient aliens, a lot of characters get killed off quickly. So far the most constant, and consistently evolving, character is Kei, a classic antihero. The question begins to set in. . if Kei succeeds in fulfilling his contract with Gantz, will he be willing to give up these superhuman powers he's begun to take for granted? Gantz has proven to be one of the most popular adult anime in recent years, with over 190,000 copies sold in the U.S. alone! Each volume of Gantz comes shrink-wrapped and carries an 18 content advisory.
HELLBOY VOLUME 9: THE WILD HUNT Mike Mignola (W), Duncan Fegredo (A), and Dave Stewart (C) Scheduled to arrive on Mar 10 Full Color. 192 pages TPB, 7 x 10 When ancient giants begin to reawaken in the British Isles, Hellboy is invited to join an ancient band of fellow monster hunters called the Wild Hunt and help bring them down. But an unexpected betrayal sends Hellboy after a quarry far more deadly: the Queen of Blood, first seen in 2007's best-selling Hellboy: Darkness Calls. This newly reborn evil has her murderous sights set on all of humanity, and the only way Hellboy can stop her is to finally confront the truth about his own dark heritage. Mignola reunites with artist Duncan Fegredo for the eagerly anticipated follow-up to Hellboy: Darkness Calls. Hellboy: The Wild Hunt collects the entire eight-issue miniseries, along with an extensive sketchbook section from both artists. Hellboy: The Wild Hunt™ © 2009 Mike Mignola.
INDIANA JONES OMNIBUS: THE FURTHER ADVENTURES VOLUME 3 Linda Grant (W), David Michelinie (W), Steve Ditko (A), Ricardo Villamonte (A), Bret Blevins (A), and others Scheduled to arrive on Mar 17 Full Color. 344 TPB, 6 x 9 The globetrotting hero born of George Lucas's love for high-adventure 1930s fiction returns! Irreverent archaeologist Dr. Henry Indiana Jones scours the furthest corners of the planet for priceless artifacts, hungry for knowledge about ancient civilizations and in a constant race to beat grave-robbing thieves to the goods. Though his quick wit, resourcefulness, and dashing good looks have gotten him this far, what happens when his Nazi foes attempt to wake the dead through sorcery? Join Steve Ditko and Linda Grant in this value-priced collection to find out! This volume also includes the official comics adaptation of The Last Crusade! The first three Dark Horse Indiana Jones Omnibus editions have combined to sell over 50,000 copies!
MESMO DELIVERY Rafael Grampá (W/A) and Marcus Penna (A) Scheduled to arrive on Mar 3 Full Color. 80 pages TPB, 7 x 10 When the Mesmo Delivery truck rolls into town, a heap of trouble is sure to follow. Eisner Award-winning artist Rafael Grampá (5, Hellblazer) makes his full-length comics debut with the critically acclaimed graphic novel Mesmo Delivery-a kinetic, bloody romp starring Rufo, an ex-boxer; Sangrecco, an Elvis impersonator; and a ragtag crew of overly confident drunks who pick the wrong delivery men to mess with. Mesmo Delivery features an extended sketchbook section from creator Rafael Grampá and pinups from top comics creators Eduardo Risso, Mike Allred, Craig Thompson, Gabriel Bá and Fabio Moon! Introduction by Brian Azzarello. I love Mesmo Delivery . It's fantastic. Rafael Grampá is a major new talent.-Brian Azzarello (100 Bullets, Joker) Mesmo Delivery showcases the spectacular panache of Grampá's Grand Guignol linework. .-Publishers Weekly.
OKIMONO KIMONO Mokona (W/A), CLAMP Scheduled to arrive on Mar 24 Full Color. 128 pages TPB, 5 3/4 x 7 1/4 Here's an exciting and charming addition to the CLAMP collection of works! CLAMP artist Mokona loves the art of traditional Japanese kimono. In fact, she designs kimono and kimono accessories herself and shares her love in Okimono Kimono, a fun and lavishly illustrated book full of drawings and illustrations, interviews (including an interview with Ami of the J-pop duo Puffy AmiYumi!), and even short manga stories from the CLAMP artists. Fans of CLAMP will love Okimono Kimono for the personal glimpse of Mokona's kimono obsession, and people who love the traditional Japanese arts will appreciate the love and detail Mokona puts into her work. From the creators of such titles as Clover, Chobits, Cardcaptor Sakura, Magic Knight Rayearth, and Tsubasa. Dark Horse will be publishing Okimono Kimono in English for the first time ever! Features an interview with Ami of Puffy AmiYumi. Copyright © CLAMP Mokona 2007. All rights reserved. Original Japanese edition published by Kawade Shobo Shinsha, Publishers. This English edition is published by arrangement with Kawade Shobo Shinsha, Publishers, Tokyo in care of Tuttle-Mori Agency, Inc., Tokyo.
SHINJUKU Mink (W) and Yoshitaka Amano (A) Scheduled to arrive on Mar 31 Full Color. 160 pages HC, 10 5/8 x 10 5/8 Writer and director Christopher mink Morrison (Dust) and legendary artist Yoshitaka Amano (Final Fantasy, Vampire Hunter D) join forces to craft an unforgettable tale of destiny, danger, and hard-boiled sorcery, featuring over a hundred original paintings by Amano! In the year 2020, bounty hunter Daniel Legend finds himself tracking a quarry of a different kind: his long-lost sister. Armed only with his wits, his gun, and a mysterious postcard, Daniel makes his way to the heart of the seedy Shinjuku district of Tokyo, where a clash between two underworlds-the criminal and the infernal-threatens the very fabric of reality. Shinjuku marks the first totally original project by Yoshitaka Amano for Dark Horse Books. Written by filmmaker mink, a rising star from Quentin Tarantino's A Band Apart production company. Shinjuku™ © 2009 Mink. Illustrations © 2009 Yoshitaka Amano.
STAR WARS: LEGACY VOLUME 8-TATOOINE John Ostrander (W), Jan Duursema (P), Dan Parsons (I), and Brad Anderson (C) Scheduled to arrive on Mar 3 Full Color. 104 pages TPB, 7 x 10 One hundred and thirty-three years after the death of Darth Vader, the Skywalker line has reached another low point-in the person of the last living heir, Cade Skywalker. Cade has abandoned his Jedi heritage for plans of quick wealth and a pirate's life. And his actions have attracted all of the wrong kinds of attention. Tracked by Imperial agents and targeted by Black Sun assassins, Cade is run to ground on Tatooine, where his two most famous ancestors had roots. But even if he can evade those who are trying to kill him, Cade can't escape the family legacy. Before this adventure is over, Cade will be forced to think about who he is and who he wants to be-helped along by his mother, his half sister, and the ghost of Luke Skywalker! This newest volume of Star Wars: Legacy collects issues #37-#41! Star Wars: Legacy includes the uncharted future of Star Wars and the Skywalkers! A return to the planet where it all began-Tatooine!
TARZAN ARCHIVES: THE JESSE MARSH YEARS VOLUME 5 Gaylord DuBois (W) and Jesse Marsh (A) Scheduled to arrive on Mar10 Full Color. 240 pages HC, 6 5/8 x 10 3/16 In this volume, Tarzan fends off a scientist's unnaturally sized jungle animals; protects Cathne, the city of gold, and its people from Tommy-gun-toting gangsters; outwits treacherous witch doctors and a truck-sized spider; discovers Egyptian ruins; and evades the dinosaurs of the lost land of Pal-ul-don while hunting for their eggs. The familiar faces of Boy, Jane, and Lieutenant Paul DArnot-a character fashioned after Jesse Marsh himself-return, and the recurring character Dr. MacWhirtle, a famed and eccentric paleontologist, is introduced for the first time! This archive series has been in the works for years, and Dark Horse is pleased to introduce-and reintroduce!-fans and collectors to classic Golden Age adventure stories that have been out of print since their original publication.
TUROK, SON OF STONE ARCHIVES VOLUME 5 Paul S. Newman (W), Alberto Giolitti (A), Ray Bailey (A), Rex Maxon (A), and Giovanni Ticci (A) Scheduled to arrive on Mar 17 Full Color. 216 pages HC, 7 x 10 Having wandered into a strange prehistoric valley, Indian braves Turok and Andar are cut off from their home and their tribe. While they seek a way home, they struggle to survive threatening honkers (dinosaurs!), man-eating plants, flying men who prey on land-dwellers, cavemen, volcanoes, swamps, and more! This volume collects issues #25-#29 of the Dell Comics run, and issue #30 (the first of the Gold Key Comics run), of Turok, Son of Stone. These classic adventures have not been seen since the early 1960s! TUROK: SON OF STONE TM and Copyright © by Random House, Inc. Under license to Classic Media, Inc., an Entertainment Rights group company. All right reserved.
WEREWOLVES ON THE MOON: VERSUS VAMPIRES Dave Land (W) and Matt and Shawn Fillbach (W/A) Scheduled to arrive on Mar 17 Full Color. 104 pages TPB, 7 x 10 Through all of history, on the night of the full moon, the bloodcurdling cries of werewolves have pierced the night sky. For centuries werewolves have had to content themselves with shortened forays of feral change as dictated by the source of their power-the moon! But all that is about to change as three werewolf friends-Ted, Jeff, and Stan-leave Earth and travel to the lunar surface in a quest to become Kings of the Moon! Unfortunately, Moon Patrol captain Maggie Pilgrim has other plans. . as does the hive of vampires living on the dark side! If you're wondering how in the world werewolves got to the moon, then check out the eight page prologue for the series at myspace.com/darkhorsepresents, issue #21. Collects the three-issue miniseries.
Advance-solicited? Scheduled to arrive on April 7 ? 160 pages. Full Color. 7.0625 x 10.875, US Written by Grant Morrison ? Art by Frank Quitely, Philip Tan & Jonathan Glapion ? Cover by Frank Quitely Brilliantly executed. - IGN A fresh, yet still iconic, take on the character . . . Brilliant and beautiful. - Ain't It Cool News Batman and Robin hit the streets with a bang in their new flying Batmobile to face an assemblage of villains called the Circus of Strange and investigate the abduction of a child by the mysterious Domino Killer. But can this new Dynamic Duo find a way to work together? Find out in this new Deluxe hardcover collecting the first six issues of the hit series!
Advance-solicited ? Scheduled to arrive on March 17 ? 168 pages. Full Color. Written by Mark Waid & Alan Grant ? Art by Diego Olmos, Frank Quitely and Arthur Ranson ? Cover by Jim Lee When a string of bizarre murders hits Barcelona, The Dark Knight makes it his top priority. This new title also features BATMAN: THE SCOTTISH CONNECTION, illustrated by Frank Quitely, plus BATMAN: LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT #52-53.
Advance-solicited ? Scheduled to arrive on March 10 ? 144 pages. Full Color. Written by Paul Dini ? Art by Dustin Nguyen & Derek Fridolfs ? Cover by Dustin Nguyen Secrets shared years ago between Bruce Wayne and Hush come to light in the present! This new paperback collects DETECTIVE COMICS #846-850.
Advance-solicited ? Scheduled to arrive on March 31 ? 168 pages. Full Color. Written by Mark Waid & Alan Brennart ? Art by Scott Kolins and others ? Cover by Scott Kolins A new paperback collecting THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD #13-16, along with tales from THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD (Vol. 1) #181, THE FLASH (Vol. 2) #107 and IMPULSE #17!
Advance-solicited ? Scheduled to arrive on April 28 ? 192 pages. Full Color. Written by Gerry Conway ? Art by George Pérez, Gil Kane, Brian Bolland, Joe Kubert & others ? Cover by George Pérez The second half of the 1980s JLA stories illustrated by George Pérez is collected from JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #193-197 and 200. Also includes select covers by Pérez!
Advance-solicited ?On sale March 10 ? 144 pages. Full Color. Written by Ivan Brandon ? Art by Marco Rudi and Cliff Richards ? Cover by Scott Hampton In this collection of the 6-issue miniseries, Nemesis finds himself a captive by the Global Peace Agency in the mysterious Electric City where members of the superhuman intelligence community are tortured in an attempt to siphon the secrets of the DCU's heroes. The only object is: Escape!
Advance-solicited ? Scheduled to arrive on March 3 ? 144 pages. Full Color. Written by Eric Wallace ? Art by Fabrizio Fiorentino Cover by Brian Stelfreeze In this collection of the 6-issue miniseries, the Tattooed Man is considered a hero for the first time in his life. At first, it's a welcome change, but things go from bad to worse when he finds his body covered in unfamiliar tattoos with lives of their own.
Advance-solicited ? Scheduled to arrive on April 28 ? 168 pages. Full Color. Written by Geoff Johns Art and cover by Ethan Van Sciver Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver, the writer/artist team behind the blockbuster GREEN LANTERN: REBIRTH and THE SINESTRO CORPS WAR, create an explosive, jaw-dropping epic that reintroduces Barry Allen as The Flash in this hardcover collecting the fast-paced 6-issue miniseries. But how will this greatest of all Flashes find his place in the twenty-first century?
Advance-solicited ? Scheduled to arrive on April 14 ? 176 pages. Full Color. Written by Paul Dini and Scott Lobdell ? Art and cover by Guillem March Catwoman, Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn have a new agenda in this hardcover collecting GOTHAM CITY SIRENS #1-7. The three villains are tired of playing by other people's rules - now they're planning to strike out in their own uniqe way.
Advance-solicited ?On sale March 24 ? 192 pages. Full Color. Written by Dwayne McDuffie ? Art by Denys Cowan, J.J. Birch & others ? Cover by Denys Cowan This first-ever HARDWARE collection, featuring HARDWARE #1-8, introduces inventor/engineer Curt Metcalf whose high tech armor enables him to break free of his corrupt employer, mob connected businessman Edwin Alva.
Advance-solicited ? Scheduled to arrive on April 28 ? 256 pages. Full Color. 7.0625 x 10.875, US Written by Grant Morrison ? Art by Howard Porter, Mark Pajarillo, John Dell & Walden Wong ? Cover by Howard Porter & John Dell The JLA's very first foe, Starro the Conqueror, returns in this new Deluxe hardcover collecting JLA #22-26, 28-31 and 1,000,000.
Advance-solicited ? Scheduled to arrive on March 3 ? 192 pages. Full Color. Written by Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis ? Art by Kevin Maguire, Mike McKone, Bill Willingham & others ? Cover by Kevin Maguire & Joe Rubinstein This new volume collects JUSTICE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL #23-25 and JUSTICE LEAGUE AMERICA #26-30 as the team deals with a captured Thanagarian spacecraft and more.
Advance-solicited ? Scheduled to arrive on March 3 ? 144 pages. Full Color. Written by Gerry Conway ? Art by Chris Batista and Dave Meikis ? Cover by Brian Bolland By the year 2024 Buddy's own hometown of San Diego has struggled for years to recover from a cataclysmic typhoon. And now he must face the most vicious foe he's seen in years - while his own powers start to fade. Collecting the 6-issue miniseries.
Advance-solicited ? Scheduled to arrive on March 24 ? 192 pages. Full Color. 8.375 x 6, US Written by Peter Timony ? Art and cover by Bobby Timony In 1920s New York City, Professor Ernest Baxter, an expert in all things arcane; Mindy Markus, a scrappy flapper; and Roscoe, a gargoyle from the Bronx, are The Night Owls. Together they solve crimes no one else can, specializing in the supernatural, in this first volume collecting the short stories that make up their webcomic adventures.
Advance-solicited ? Scheduled to arrive on March 31 ? 128 pages. Full Color. Written by Kevin VanHook and Tony Bedard Art by Fernando Pasarin, Julian Lopez, Claude St. Aubin, Bit & John Floyd ? Cover by Guillem March Barbara Gordon discovers a new path in this collection featuring the 3-issue ORACLE miniseries plus BIRDS OF PREY #126-127.
Advance-solicited ? Scheduled to arrive on March 17 ? 496 pages. B&W. Written by Edmond Hamilton & others ? Art by Curt Swan & others ? Cover by Curt Swan & George Klein Collecting WORLD's FINEST COMICS #146-160, 162-164 and 171-173.
Scheduled to arrive on March 31 ? 256 pages. Full Color. Written by Jim Starlin ? Art by Manuel Garcia, Jim Starlin, Rafael Albuquerque, Scott McDaniel & others ? Cover by Ed Benes & Rob Hunter A deadly peril threatens the universe, and it's up to Adam Strange to stop it. Meanwhile, a contract is put out for the death of Comet, while Bizarro finds a new purpose in life in this collection of the cosmic 8-issue miniseries!
Advance-solicited ? Scheduled to arrive on MARCH 3 ? 128 pages. Full Color. Written by Geoff Johns ? Art by Gary Frank & Jon Sibal ? Cover by Gary Frank The amazing Brainiac storyline from ACTION COMICS #866-870 is collected in this spectacular new paperback! This is the hard-hitting story that revitalized Brainiac and set the stage for the storyline New Krypton.
Advance-solicited ? Scheduled to arrive on APRIL 21 ? 144 pages. Full Color. Written by James Robinson, Greg Rucka & Sterling Gates Superman's pal Jimmy Olsen takes center stage in this new collection of tales from SUPERMAN's PAL JIMMY OLSEN SPECIAL #2, SUPERMAN #691, SUPERGIRL #44, ACTION COMICS #880 and SUPERMAN: WORLD OF NEW KRYPTON #6.
Advance-solicited ? Scheduled to arrive on March 24 ? 160 pages. Full Color. Written by Joe Kubert ? Art and cover by Joe Kubert Legendary writer/artist Joe Kubert returns to the gritty, primal world of Tor in this trade paperback featuring his new six-issue miniseries adventure! Tor strugglse for survival on a quest where he encounters strange tribes, primitive animals, destructive monsters and death at every turn.
Advance-solicited ?On sale March 10 ? 144 pages. Full Color. Written by Mike Grell ? Art by Joe Prado, Chad Hardin & Walden Wong ? Cover by Mike Grell Travis Morgan crashes in the primitive world of Skartaris at the hollow center of the Earth and must learn to live by the sword in this title collecting WARLORD #1-6. When a team of paleontologists and adventurers are stranded in Skartaris, their arrival triggers an unforgettable new adventure.
Advance-solicited? Scheduled to arrive on MAY 26 ? 200 pages. 11x17.5, US This is it! The oversized, hardcover collection of DC's 2009 weekly comics sensation that USA Today called cool, classic-looking. Featuring composite cover art, the WEDNESDAY COMICS Hardcover. includes: ADAM STRANGE written and illustrated by Paul Pope BATMAN written by Brian Azzarello with art by Eduardo Risso including additional panel art on each page! METAMORPHO written by Neil Gaiman with art by Michael Allred DEADMAN written by Dave Bullock and Vinton Heuck with art by Dave Bullock THE DEMON AND CATWOMAN written by Walter Simonson with art by Brian Stelfreeze THE FLASH written by Karl Kerschl and Brenden Fletcher with art by Karl Kerschl GREEN LANTERN written by Kurt Busiek with art by Joe Quinones HAWKMAN written and illustrated by Kyle Baker KAMANDI written by Dave Gibbons with art by Ryan Sook THE METAL MEN written by Dan DiDio with art by Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez & Kevin Nowlan SGT. ROCK written by Adam Kubert with art by Joe Kubert SUPERGIRL written by Jimmy Palmiotti with art by Amanda Conner SUPERMAN written by John Arcudi with art by Lee Bermejo TEEN TITANS written by Eddie Berganza with art by Sean Galloway WONDER WOMAN written and illustrated by Ben Caldwell Plus: Don't miss previously unpublished pages - one starring The Creeper (written by Keith Giffen with art by Eric Canete) and one starring Plastic Man (written by Evan Dorkin with art by Stephen DeStefano)! And, as if that weren't enough, this cant-miss collection also includes a bonus sketchbook section and intro by series editor Mark Chiarello!
Advance-solicited ? Scheduled to arrive on March 17 ? 192 pages. Full Color. Written by William Moulton Marston Art & cover by Harry G. Peter Collecting Wonder Woman's adventures in chronological order for the first time from the pages of ALL STAR COMICS #8, SENSATION COMICS #1-9 and WONDER WOMAN #1. Don't miss Wonder Woman's origin and her search to find her role in man's world.
Advance-solicited ? Scheduled to arrive on March 31 ? 144 pages. Full Color. Written by Gail Simone ? Art by Aaron Lopresti, Bernard Chang & Matt Ryan ? Cover by Aaron Lopresti Wonder Woman falls victim to the Black Horizon in this new paperback collecting issues #20-25 of her hit series! To save herself, she must forge an alliance with legendary warriors while trapped on a world where brutal combat rules the day.
Written and illustrated by Tamio Baba CMX/FLEX COMIX. A troubled student named Negishi is prone to fits of rage, but no one knows why. Will he be reformed before he really hurts someone? During Track and Field Day, Detective Toyama has to fight off two unsavory photographers who are at the school investigating the previous teacher's death. Then, the entire class learns a lesson about teasing someone over a very private matter. Scheduled to arrive on March 24 ? 5 x 7.375 ? 162 pages. B&W. ? TEEN
Written and illustrated by Yasuko Aoike CMX. The saga of the Seventh Seal concludes! The Major fights the KGB over the black box, a device that will close the computer gap between the old Soviet Union and the west.When he's critically injured, it looks like the Russians may get away. But the last laugh might be on them. Then get ready for a gothic ghost story, as Eroica visits a castle and falls in love with a statue! Scheduled to arrive on March 10 ? 5 x 7.375 ? 184 pages. B&W. ? TEEN
Written and illustrated by Banri Hidaka CMX. Kazuha contends with the rivalry between the Sugimoto brothers. Maki, the one she's in love with, resents Saki, the brother who teaches at Kazuha's school-and the feeling may be mutual. Now we'll learn how their mother blamed Maki for all of their family misfortunes and how a mysterious woman became involved in this family feud.Will all of this information affect Kazuha's feelings toward Maki? Scheduled to arrive on March 17 ? 5 x 7.375 ? 192 pages. B&W. ? TEEN
Written and illustrated by Makoto Tateno CMX. Final volume! Manami tries to apologize to Ko and explain why Araki, his rival for Manami's affections, has the ring she lost. But Ko thinks he has it all figured out and that Manami has chosen Araki. The two rivals decide to have a CHAOS match to determine who will be with Manami once and for all-but the final showdown is interrupted when Manami has to be rushed to the hospital. Scheduled to arrive on March 31 ? 5 x 7.375 ? 200 pages. B&W. ? TEEN
Written and illustrated by Asuka Izumi CMX. Sienna returns home to the palace. His parents are delighted to have him back and are excited about his upcoming marriage to Princess Canary. At a ceremony for the couple, Prince Heath accidentally wipes out Sienna's memories. Can Canary bring them back? And when Siennna later loses control of his transformations just before the wedding, will Canary have to marry a lizard after all? Scheduled to arrive on March 3 ? 5 x 7.375 ? 192 pages. B&W. US ? EVERYONE
Written and illustrated by Mayu Fujikata CMX. Souka and her mother are looking for a fresh start, so they move to a new place where no one knows them. Souka embraces the idea of starting over and leaves her private school days behind to enroll in the local tech academy. But the first day of school is nothing like she imagined it would be-she is the only girl around! Unfortunately, not everyone welcomes Souka with open arms, including the school leader. But when she takes him down in front of everyone, Souka becomes the new boss on campus! Scheduled to arrive on March 10 ? 5 x 7.375 ? 192 pages. B&W. ? TEEN
Written and illustrated by Ken Saito CMX. With all of the excitement surrounding the culture festival, Masago didn't study at all for her tests. So, when the spirit of her brother Shiro offers to take the tests for her, she lets him. Now that Masago has perfect scores in every class, her teacher suggests she run for student council. Unfortunately, not everyone thinks this is a good idea and Masago becomes a target! Scheduled to arrive on March 31 ? 5 x 7.375 ? 192 pages. B&W. ? TEEN
Advance-solicited ?On sale April 7 ? 184 pages. B&W. 5.5 x 8, US ? MATURE READERS Written by Christos N. Gage ? Art by Chris Samnee ? Cover by Lee Bermejo An exquisitely creepy crime story loaded with twists. Gage and Samnee make one hell of a team. Thanks to them I'll forever be uncomfortable around power drills. - Jason Aaron (SCALPED) A moody, compelling thriller superbly told. AREA 10 is a breakneck ride. Time after time, I thought I had it figured out, then got thrown at the next bend of the road. - Mike Carey (THE UNWRITTEN) In New York City, a killer known as Henry The Eighth leaves a trail of decapitated corpses - keeping the severed heads to use for unknown purposes. NYPD Detective Adam Kamen leads the investigation, until a seemingly unrelated freak incident leaves him with a brain injury in the section known as Brodmann Area 10. When he recovers, Adam's perceptions of time are altered. He becomes slowly convinced that his bizarre condition could be tied directly to the Henry case - and that the key may lie in the ancient, mystical practice of trepanation.
Advance-solicited ? Scheduled to arrive on March 10 ? 144 pages. Full Color. ? MATURE READERS Written by Peter Milligan ? Art by Davide Gianfelice ? Cover by KAKO A reminder that some stories are too true and too dangerous to ever die...crackles with Promethean fire. - Grant Morrison Boasting a Greek Chorus of sexy strippers, vengeful gangsters, a murderous youth and a disturbed clairvoyant teenage girl, GREEK STREET is Peter Milligan's reimagining of the brutal and visceral tragedies of Ancient Greece played out on the mean streets of modern-day London. This first paperback collects issues #1-5 of the provocative new series.
Advance-solicited ? Scheduled to arrive on March 24 ? 144 pages. Full Color. MATURE READERS Written by Brian Wood ?Art by Dean Ormston, Vasilis Lolos, Danijel Zezelj & Davide Gianfelice ? Cover by Massimo Carnivale Collecting NORTHLANDERS #9,10, 17-20! This collection explores everything from the art of Viking single combat to the role of women in the Viking world.
Advance-solicited ? Scheduled to arrive on April 14 ? 136 pages. B&W. 6.75 x 10.25, US ? MATURE READERS Written by Peter Bagge ? Art and cover by Peter Bagge I can count on one hand the number of comic artists whose work is as strong?maybe on two or three fingers. - Robert Crumb Meet three certified geeks: a self-loathing journalist who has a seemingly normal girlfriend, a conspiracy theorist who still lives with his mother, and an unemployed gamer who lives in his car. These strangely likable misfits find that dark personal secrets can sometimes be a virtue in OTHER LIVES, a hilarious original graphic novel by award-winning creator Peter Bagge (Hate). The story also explores people's identities, both real and created, and how the two become confused and conflated through the Internet and role-playing games.
Advance-solicited?On sale March 3 ? 144 pages. Full Color. MATURE READERS Written by Warren Ellis ? Art by Darick Robertson, Rodney Ramos and others ? Cover by Darick Robertson Spider Jerusalem is hot on the trail of the horrifying truth behind the newly elected President's campaign, all from issues #31-36.
Advance-solicited? Scheduled to arrive on March 17 ? 200 pages. Full Color. MATURE READERS Written by Joshua Dysart ? Art by Alberto Ponticelli & Pat Masioni ? Cover by Dave Johnson In this second volume, collecting issues #7-14 of the acclaimed series, a militant group makes the Unknown Soldier an offer: To focus the world's attention on Africa's problems, kill American celebrity Margaret Wells on Ugandan soil.
Advance-solicited ? Scheduled to arrive on April 21 ? 320 pages. Full Color. 7.0625 x 10.875, US ? MATURE READERS Written by Brian K. Vaughan ? Art by Pia Guerra, Goran Sudzuka and Jose Marzan Jr.? Cover by Massimo Carnevale In this collection of issues #24-36 of the Eisner Award-winning series, Yorick's unbalanced sister Hero tracks him to San Francisco, only to find that he has seemingly succumbed to the male-killing plague.
Advance-solicited ? Scheduled to arrive on July 7 ? 384 pages. Full Color. Written by Warren Ellis ?Art and cover by John Cassaday Snow, Jakita and the Drummer take on their nemeses the Four...then death itself! PLANETARY reaches its conclusion as the field team made a mad decision regarding an old friend. The Absolute Edition Book Two collects issues #13-27 of the stunning series.
Advance-solicited ? Scheduled to arrive on July 7 ? 320 pages. Full Color. Written by Warren Ellis ?Art and cover by John Cassaday PLANETARY has been hailed as a timeless story that turned modern superhero conventions on their heads. These Archeologists of the Unknown delve into secret places most beings fear to tread. Book One is once again available in the Absolute format, collecting issues #1-12 plus the full script from issue #1.
Advance-solicited ? Scheduled to arrive on March 17 ? 144 pages. Full Color. Written by Jeff Parker ? Art and cover by Tom Fowler Explore the unimaginable world of magic and adventure with an eccentric magician known as Mysterius the Great in this paperback collecting the acclaimed 6-issue miniseries. When a young reporter named Ella becomes Mysterius new assistant, their cases drag them into a world of magic, as well as a pocket dimension... and beyond.
Advance-solicited ? Scheduled to arrive on March 10 ? 168 pages. Full Color. ? MATURE READERS Written by Jimmy Palmiotti & Justin Gray ? Art by Darick Robertson & Matt Jacobs ? Cover by Jim Lee The hit 6-issue miniseries based on the bestselling Activision video game is collected with four rare short stories! A pair of New York homicide detectives track a serial killer unlike any they've ever faced - and enter a new era where human extinction and monstrous evolution collide!
Advance-solicited ? Scheduled to arrive on April 7 ? 176 pages. Full Color. Written by Simon Furman ? Art by Federico Dallocchio, Brian Denham, Mike S. Miller & Carlos DAnda ? Cover by Federico Dallocchio This hardcover collects the first seven issues of the series based on Blizzard's smash-hit game. Join the War Pigs, a team of outlaws reunited by their former captain for one last job: the assassination of Jim Raynor!
Advance-solicited ? Scheduled to arrive on April 14 ? 336 pages. 7.0625 x 10.875 Full Color. Written by Alan Moore, Leah Moore & Peter Hogan ? Art by Chris Sprouse, Shawn McManus & others ? Cover by Chris Sprouse & Karl Story In these tales from issues #13-24, Tom faces off against the ruthless Paul Saveen, the Nazi super-woman Ingrid Weiss and more!
Written by JONATHAN MABERRY & REGINALD HUDLIN Penciled by WILL CONRAD Cover by GREG LAND Wakanda has been attacked on every front. Heroes have fallen, old alliances have been betrayed, the country is in turmoil. Now is the time for the new Black Panther to rise and make a stand against threats both foreign and domestic. Power is a bold new direction for the Panther, written by celebrated producer-director Reginald Hudlin and multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author Jonathan Maberry (Patient Zero, PUNISHER: NAKED KILL). New game, new rules, and lots of surprises as the new Black Panther is set on a collision course with one of the Marvel Universe's most feared and powerful beings. Collecting BLACK PANTHER #7-11. 120 pages. /Rated T
Written by PAUL CORNELL Penciled by TOM RANEY & JOHN PAUL LEON Cover by ADI GRANOV Before she steals the world's heart in Iron Man II, get caught in the wicked web of Marvel's sexiest and deadliest super-spy! She's been everything from a Russian espionage agent to a Champion to an Avenger, now a skeleton from Natalia Romanova's past is reaching out for those she's loved and lost...and the Black Widow has many victims to choose from! From the frozen streets of Moscow to the upper stratosphere, writer Paul Cornell (CAPTAIN BRITAIN & MI3) and artists Tom Raney (DARK REIGN: HAWKEYE) and John Paul Leon (The Winter Men) deliver a globe-hopping, bone-breaking, high-tech thriller that reveals how Natalia's shadowy past threatens all she now holds dear. Guest-starring the Winter Soldier and Wolverine! Collecting BLACK WIDOW: DEADLY ORIGIN #1-4. 112 pages. /Rated T
Written by JIM STARLIN, STEVE ENGLEHART & DOUG MOENCH Penciled by JIM STARLIN & PAT BRODERICK Covers by JIM STARLIN Witness the classic and tragic end of one of the greatest heroes of all time, Mar-Vell of the Kree, who became the Earth hero Captain Marvel! After dozens of battles on Earth and across space, and with the power of his Nega-bands and his all-knowing Cosmic Awareness, can Mar-Vell fare well in his battles with Nitro (the exploding villain who later sparked Marvel's super hero Civil War), the death-defying Stellarax and the seemingly dead Thanos? Guest-starring Rick Jones, Drax the Destroyer, Starfox and all your favorite Earth heroes! Collecting CAPTAIN MARVEL (1968) #34, MARVEL SPOTLIGHT (1979) #1-2 and MARVEL GRAPHIC NOVEL #1: THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN MARVEL. 128 pages. /Rated A
Written by ED BRUBAKER with GREG RUCKA & ANDE PARKS Penciled by MICHAEL LARK with CLAY MANN, PAUL AZACETA, DAVID AJA & LEANDRO FERNANDEZ Cover by MARKO DJURDJEVIC The critically acclaimed, award-winning creative team of Ed Brubaker and Michael Lark continue their take on one of comics most enduring legends! Featuring the threats of the Owl, the Kingpin, Lady Bullseye, and the Hand, plus Matt's unlikely new ally, the Black Tarantula! With one of the most surprising endings in Daredevil's history! Collecting DAREDEVIL (1998) #106-119 & #500, DAREDEVIL ANNUAL #1 and BLOOD OF THE TARANTULA. 464 pages. /Rated T
Written by ANN NOCENTI & JOHN ROMITA JR. Penciled by JOHN ROMITA JR. Cover by JOHN ROMITA JR. The Man Without Fear becomes the Man Without Hope as Manhattan falls beneath the fangs and claws of Inferno! Losing everything in more than one kind of fire, DD leaves Hell's Kitchen to walk to and fro upon the Earth - but no matter where he goes, Mephisto's waiting for him! Inhumane experimentation and Inhuman secrets abound! Guest-starring Spider-Man and Freedom Force! Collecting DAREDEVIL (1964) #265-273. 216 pages. /Rated T
Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS Penciled by MIKE DEODATO Cover by MIKE DEODATO The Dark Avengers are pitted against a foe they cannot defeat: A man with the power over every molecule in the world! Norman can't talk his way out of this one as the world gets turned upside down and no joke...someone dies. For reelz!! Plus, Poor Marvel Boy... he had no idea how sinister a gang the Dark Avengers actually is. And now he is running for his life. And poor Ares, he has no idea where his son goes while he is off being an Avenger. And now he is going to find out. And when he does... there will be hell to pay. Guest-starring Nick Fury and the Secret Warriors! Collecting DARK AVENGERS #9-12. 112 pages. /Rated T
Written by FABIAN NICIEZA Penciled by PATRICK ZIRCHER, MARK BROOKS, SHANE LAW & CHRIS STEVENS Cover by MARK BROOKS Wade Wilson and Nathan Summers - Marvel's mightiest mutant mercs - are back, and this time they're stuck with each other! Can two grown men armed to the teeth with deadly genetic weaponry live together without driving each other crazy?! Action, adventure, black humor, black-ops, face-changing viruses, gratuitous France-bashing and lots of gunfire mark the return of two of Marvel's fan-favorite anti-heroes! Plus: this edition comes complete with all letters pages, never before reprinted! Collecting CABLE & DEADPOOL #1-18. 440 pages. /Rated T
Written by JONATHAN HICKMAN Penciled by DALE EAGLESHAM Cover by ALAN DAVIS Be there as Marvel's newest exciting creator, Jonathan Hickman, teams up with superstar artist, Dale Eaglesham, to give you the Fantastic Four experience you've been waiting for! It's adventure, it's family, it's tough questions in dark times. Ben and Johnny prepare for a trip to Nu-Earth while Val figures out what her dad is up to. See what happens when Reed Richards tries to SOLVE EVERYTHING. Collecting FANTASTIC FOUR #570-574. 120 pages. /Rated A
Written by PETER DAVID Penciled by ERIC NGUYEN Cover by ERIC NGUYEN Comics legend Peter David and up-and-coming artist Eric Nguyen bring a whole new HALO story to life! When the colony planet Ariel sends out a mysterious distress signal, it's up to the UNSC's elite, highly skilled special-ops Marines, the Orbital Drop Shock Troopers from the 105th, to find out what's happening. Also known as ODSTs or Helljumpers, these soldiers are some of the toughest in the galaxy?and some of the roughest as well. When the distress signal comes, two Helljumpers will find themselves at the center of the mystery on Ariel, and before it's solved, they'll have to put their friendship-and their lives-on the line? Collecting HALO: HELLJUMPER #1-5. 120 pages. /17 & Up
Written by JEPH LOEB Penciled by IAN CHURCHILL & WHILCE PORTACIO Cover by ED MCGUINNESS It's CODE RED VS. X-FORCE. Who is Code Red? How about Red Hulk, Deadpool, The Punisher, Elektra. Thundra and The Crimson Dynamo. What terrible secret could bring this group together -- only to run headlong into the deadliest team of X-Men? All this -- and wait until you see RED HULK VS. WOLVERINE! Superstar scribe Jeph Loeb is joined by art team Ian Churchill and Mark Farmer as the epic saga of the Red Hulk continues! Collecting HULK #14-18. 120 pages. /Rated A
Written by JASON AARON, DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI, CULLEN BUNN, RICK SPEARS & DAVID LAPHAM Penciled by MICO SUAYAN, TRAVEL FOREMAN, DAN BRERETON, TIMOTHY GREEN II, KHARI EVANS & ARTURO LOZZI Cover by DAVID AJA Out of the pages of IMMORTAL IRON FIST! A handful of Marvel's hottest writers plus an all-star roster of artists bring you IMMORTAL WEAPONS! One volume packed with six thrilling tales of Kung Fu action. Follow Fat Cobra as he uncovers the true story behind his decades of adventure. See the action unfold as Bride of Nine Spiders is forced to confront her past after a disturbing relic surfaces at an exclusive auction house. Learn the mystery of Dog Brother #1 and how he may be involved in the string of disappearing orphans in Under-City. Then it's Tiger's Beautiful Daughter - her beauty is legendary; her kung fu, unmatched. Now learn how one of the most gorgeous women in the world also became one of its deadliest fighters! Plus: so many questions surround the Prince of Orphans. what is his mission on Earth? What is the nature of his incredible power? And is there anyone who can defeat his kung fu? When Iron Fist joins Aman on a life-or-death mission to fight monsters and banish ghosts, Danny may learn the answers to these questions...if he survives! Collecting IMMORTAL WEAPONS #1-5. 184 pages. /Rated T
Written by GREG PAK Penciled by ARIEL OLIVETTI Cover by ARIEL OLIVETTI Get ready for Bruce Banner as you've never seen him, the Son of Hulk in a whole new world of smash, and an insane new adventure that changes everything for everyone's favorite Green Goliath! X marks the spot as the most insane father and son duo in the Marvel Universe take on one of the Green Goliath's most formidable adversaries. That's right, it's the JUGGERNAUT, bi--bi--boys and girls! Featuring artwork by superstar Ariel Olivetti. Collecting INCREDIBLE HULK #601-605. 120 pages. /Rated A
Written by MATT FRACTION Penciled by SALVADOR LARROCA Cover by SALVADOR LARROCA Iron Man 2.0 is here - and Tony Stark isn't the one who made him! Ezekiel Stane is on the scene and fixated on avenging the death of his father, Obadiah. Every bit as ruthless and ten times as smart, the younger Stane is all five of Stark's nightmares rolled into one - and his perversion of Stark's technology into a weapon capable of slaying hundreds of innocents at a time starts the clock ticking on a chess game Iron Man must win! Then, the manhunt is on! As director of S.H.I.E.L.D., Tony Stark had sole possession of a database that contained the secret identities of every registered hero in the country. But now, S.H.I.E.L.D. is no more. A casualty in the aftermath of the Skrull's Secret Invasion, the international peacekeeping organization has been replaced by the Dark Reign of Norman Osborn and his newly conceived H.A.M.M.E.R. - a less kind, decidedly less gentle remaking of the legendary security force founded by Nick Fury. With Tony Stark in disgrace and on the run, the orders have come down from the highest level to every mercenary, mobster and Osborn minion: Bring me the head of Tony Stark! Collecting INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #1-19. 344 pages. /Rated A
Written by WARREN ELLIS Penciled by ADI GRANOV Variant Cover by ADI GRANOV It's the beginning of a new era for Iron Man! Renowned scribe Warren Ellis joins forces with acclaimed illustrator Adi Granov to redefine the armored avenger's world for the 21st century - a landscape of terrifying new technologies that threaten to overwhelm fragile mankind! What is Extremis, who has unleashed it, and what does its emergence portend for the world? Plus: this new edition comes packed with extras, including armor designs, page layouts, issue scripts and more! Collecting Iron Man (2005) #1-6. 184 pages. /Rated T
Written by MIKE BENSON & ADAM GLASS Penciled by SHAWN MARTINBROUGH Cover by DENNIS CALERO A lot can change in ten years. And rarely for the better. Local legend, Luke Cage, invincible, unstoppable, unflappable, finds that out the hard way when he returns to the mean streets of Prohibition-era Harlem after a ten-year stretch in Riker's Island. All he wants is to be back in the loving arms of his woman, but certain powerful men have different plans for Cage. Willis Stryker, Cage's childhood friend turned Godfather of Harlem, wants him on his crew, and under his thumb. And wealthy white socialite Randall Banticoff, whose wife is now very dead, murdered in a Harlem alley, wants Cage to investigate her death. Cage is about to learn that coming home is never easy, and to survive he might just have to kill a whole lot of people. Collecting LUKE CAGE NOIR #1-4. 112 pages. /Rated T
Written by PAUL TOBIN, FRED VAN LENTE, BOB LAYTON, DAVID MICHELINIE & GERRY CONWAY Penciled by MATTEO LOLLI, JAMES CORDEIRO, JACKSON GUICE & ROSS ANDRU Cover by SALVADOR LARROCA The all-ages, all-action fun continues with four stories starring two of Marvel's most famous heroes! First, it's up to Spider-Man to save the day when a werewolf terrorizes Midtown High. And if that's not bad enough, Tombstone and the Torino crime family have put a price on his head! Then, learn the terrible secret from Tony Stark's past that forced the billionaire inventor to become the Golden Guardian known as Iron Man, the world-renowned symbol of mega-conglomerate Stark International! And finally, our heroes battle together in two titanic tales of Marvel past, facing the twin terrors of the Radioactive Man and Zarrko, the Tomorrow Man! Collecting MARVEL ADVENTURES SPIDER-MAN #57, MARVEL ADVENTURES IRON MAN #1, IRON MAN #234 and MARVEL TEAM-UP #9. 96 pages. /All Ages
Written by ROY THOMAS Penciled by NEAL ADAMS, SAL BUSCEMA, BARRY WINDSOR-SMITH & JOHN BUSCEMA Cover by BARRY WINDSOR-SMITH The Marvel Masterworks bring you the original be-all, end-all Avengers event-Kree/Skrull War-in the march up to Avengers #100! Caught in the crossfire, Earth has become the staging ground for a conflict of star-spanning proportions! For those eternal intergalactic enemies, the merciless Kree and the shape-changing Skrulls, have gone to war, and our planet is situated on the front lines! Can Earth's Mightiest Heroes, the Avengers, 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 great empires of the cosmos? The key to victory lies with the expatriate Kree Captain Mar-Vell and his human host, honorary Avenger Rick Jones! And because one super-saga wasn't enough, we'll wrap it up with a three-part classic that assembles every Avenger from day one against the combined threat of Ares and the Enchantress in Avengers #100. Written by fan-favorite Roy Thomas and featuring the trend-setting artwork of Neal Adams and Barry Windsor-Smith, there's no disputing the fact they're Marvel Masterworks one and all! Collecting THE AVENGERS #89-100 304 pages. /All Ages
Written by STAN LEE Penciled by JACK KIRBY with GEORGE TUSKA, JOHN ROMITA & DICK AYERS Covers by JACK KIRBY & DEAN WHITE As America began preparation for the inevitable entry in World War II, a secret military project gave birth to the greatest one-man fighting force ever known-Captain America! Transformed by the Super Soldier Serum from a 97-pound weakling into the Star-Spangled Avenger, Steve Rogers led the charge to liberate the world from the Axis powers grasp. But before the war's end an accident left Cap frozen in suspended animation and his sidekick Bucky dead, while the world turned on for decades. When the Avengers finally resuscitated him, Steve Rogers was greeted by a world vastly changed. He was a man out of time tormented by the death of his partner, but no less committed to the cause of fighting evil in all its forms. In this inaugural Silver Age Captain America collection, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby bring you the rebirth of an American icon in issue after issue of classic Marvel magic. You'll read the classic origins of Cap, Bucky and the Red Skull; see the first appearances of such cornerstone creations as the cosmic cube and the beautiful Sharon Carter; and watch Cap face off against Baron Zemo's Army of Assassins, the Sleepers, Batroc the Leaper, and his Nazi nemesis the Red Skull! Collecting TALES OF SUSPENSE #59-81 264 pages. /All Ages
Written by STAN LEE & OTTO BINDER Penciled by AL AVISON, DON RICO & CHAD GROTHKOPF Cover by AL AVISON The Axis powers may have snuck one past Lady Liberty on December 7, 1941, but America stood ready to give them what for-and nobody was more ready than Captain America! Jumping behind the American war effort with an unmatched fervor, Timely put its star-spangled super hero front and center in patriotic adventures that set the standard for the booming comic book business. Across four jam-packed 64-page classics Steve Rogers and his sidekick, Bucky Barnes, battle Nazi invaders, fifth columnists, weird terrors, robotic menaces, The Red Skull and even Martians! Each issue bursts with action and the unbridled energy that made the Golden Age great! Featuring each and every story complete, including war correspondent Headline Hunter, Stan Lee's whimsical backup feature The Imp and the first appearance of the young patriot Roddy Colt, a.k.a. the Secret Stamp, the only thing you can't do is roll em up in your back pocket! Collecting CAPTAIN AMERICA COMICS #13-16. 280 pages. /All Ages
Written by DAN SLOTT & CHRISTOS N. GAGE Pencils by KHOI PHAM & SEAN CHEN Cover by MARKO DJURDJEVIC Doom, Thor, Black Bolt, Black Panther, Ka-Zar, Namor...There are many monarchs in the Marvel Universe, but only one so powerful and so reviled that he had to be written out of history. He is THE UNSPOKEN. And his return will have dire consequences on both our world and worlds beyond. It's a powerful storyline that will bring dishonor for one Mighty Avenger and redemption for another, a family reunion, and ties into both DARK REIGN and WAR OF KINGS. Collecting MIGHTY AVENGERS #27-32. 144 pages. /Rated A
Written by PAUL TOBIN & MARC SUMERAK Pencils by VIÇENC VILLAGRASSA, COLLEEN COOVER & JORGE MOLINA Cover by SCOTT CLARK Fashion Week is always a hectic time for models, and this year is no exception. Between escaped wolves, robbery attempts, and overly friendly police officers, Mary Jane Watson, Patsy Walker, Jill Jerold, Chili Storm and Millicent (Millie the Model) Collins are testing the limits of their endurance. But when a brilliant young set designer is found murdered with three bullet holes in his back, and Millie proves to be the prime suspect, the models are forced to play detective in order to save one of their own! Collecting MODELS, INC. #1-4. 112 pages. /Rated T
Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS Penciled by STUART IMMONEN Cover by STUART IMMONEN One of the Hood's gang has found a way to power drain the New Avengers and it turns the tides of the Dark Reign in ways no one would have expected it. Plus the new Sorcerer Supreme has a lot to learn, and they're going to learn it from...Spider-Man? Collecting NEW AVENGERS #55-60. 144 pages. /Rated A
Written by JIM MCCANN Penciled by DAVID LOPEZ Cover by JO CHEN Mockingbird and Hawkeye: two heroes, and former lovers, who cheated death. And now that they're reunited from beyond the grave, they'll have to try their hardest to keep from killing each other. It's high-octane action and intrigue as the Mr. and Mrs. Smith of the Marvel Universe take on one of the biggest threats in the world...and each other! Thought dead when she was imprisoned on an alien world, Mockingbird's home again - but the reunion is bittersweet as she finds that this Earth is a much harsher place than the one she left behind. The world is desperate for heroes - and after being caged for years, Mockingbird is eager to punch some bad guys. But when her ex-husband Clint Barton, the Avenger Ronin, tags along on her new secret mission, old wounds reopen fast. Can these two great heroes set aside their feelings long enough to save the day? If not, they might find it's hard to cheat death a second time. Collecting NEW AVENGERS REUNION #1-4 and material from DARK REIGN: NEW NATION. 112 pages. /Rated A
Written by MARK WAID, FRED VAN LENTE & DAN SLOTT Penciled by PAUL AZACETA, JAVIER PULIDO, ADAM KUBERT & BARRY KITSON Cover by ADI GRANOV THE GAUNTLET begins! The event that redefines Spider-Man's classic arch-enemies one by one starts with one of his deadliest - Electro! Destitute and desperate, conned out of his life's meaning and worth-Max Dillon becomes the voice of the common man against the brutal injustice of a system overloaded by greed. With Spider-Man already looking over his shoulder. Then the drama continues as one of Peter Parker's closest friends is on the brink of ruin. This looks like a job for the Amazing Spider-Sleuth...and all clues point to the sinister SANDMAN! But all of Spidey's classic villains are being reinvented as part of THE GAUNTLET, and Sandy is no different -- so nothing is what it seems! Plus, the violent tension between Spidey and Osborn builds to a boil in THE LIST! Collecting AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #612-616, DARK REIGN: THE LIST - AMAZING SPIDER-MAN and material from WEB OF SPIDER-MAN #2. 160 pages. /Rated A
Written by JOE KELLY Penciled by PHIL JIMENEZ, PAUL SIQUEIRA, MARCO CHECCHETTO, DALE EAGLESHAM & STEPHEN SEGOVIA Cover by PHIL JIMENEZ A son of privilege. A son of prestige. And a total basket case. From Harry Osborn's youngest days, he has lived in the shadows of a powerful and narcissistic father. Always seeking approval that never came. Always hiding in the corners of shame. Always being reminded that, no matter what he did, he could never measure up - a fact of life made even worse when what you need to measure up to is the on-again, off-again insanity of the Green Goblin! But now, it's time for Harry Osborn to become the son his dad always wanted him to be, to take the responsibility of being an Osborn seriously. It is time to step into the armor of the American Son and fight for what is right. And what is right is always what Norman wants. Papa has never been prouder - but will Harry, Peter Parker or anyone else around them be able to live with his choice? Collecting AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #595-599 and material from AMAZING SPIDER-MAN EXTRA! #3. 136 pages. /Rated A
Written by ZEB WELLS Penciled by PAULO SIQUEIRA Cover by MIRCO PIERFEDERICI What's Black, White and Dead all over?!?! From the pages of last year's best-selling NEW WAYS TO DIE, Zeb Wells (AMAZING SPIDER-MAN; NEW MUTANTS) and Paulo Siqueira (AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, MS. MARVEL) bring you the story of Eddie Brock, the sallow symbiote known as Anti-Venom! With his life saved by Spider-Man, Eddie is cautiously walking the line between the darkness and light while trying to find his place in a world marked only by gray. The absolute last person he needs to run into is the Punisher. Unfortunately, the Punisher remembers Eddie as a cold-blooded killer, and that is just gonna hurt. Collecting DARK REIGN: ANTI-VENOM #1-3 and material from AMAZING SPIDER-MAN EXTRA! #2. 96 pages. /Rated T
Written by J.M. DEMATTEIS, TOM DEFALCO, HOWARD MACKIE, TERRY KAVANAUGH & TOM LYLE Penciled by MARK BAGLEY, SAL BUSCEMA, TOM LYLE, RON LIM, TOM PALMER, PHIL GOSIER, STEVEN BUTLER, LIAM SHARP & JOHN ROMITA JR. Cover by RON LIM The Jackal is back, and Spider-Man is beside himself again! Where did the Spider-duplicate come from, and where has he been? Is he Peter Parker's dark side...or his better half? Everyone wants answers, and the cloaked killer Kaine is ready to rip them out of whoever has them! Plus: Venom and Vermin! Carnage and Chameleon! New allies, new enemies and a new crimefighting identity! No other Spider-storyline was as innovative or infamous as the 1990s Clone Saga, and you can follow it right from the start! Collecting AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (1962) #394; SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN (1976) #217; SPIDER-MAN (1990) #51-53; SPIDER-MAN UNLIMITED (1993) #7; WEB OF SPIDER-MAN #117-119 and SPIDER-MAN: THE LOST YEARS #0-3. 432 pages. /Rated T
Written by DAN JURGENS Penciled by JOHN ROMITA JR., JOHN BUSCEMA & DAN JURGENS Cover by JOHN ROMITA JR. When Perrikus and the Dark Gods of Narcisson take over Asgard, it's up to Thor to save the day -- along with unlikely allies in Hercules and the indestructible Destroyer! Plus: The Thunder God juggles his new mortal life as Jake Olson with his heroic responsibilities, and faces a deadly battle against Doctor Doom! And who is Marnot? Guest-starring Jane Foster and the Fantastic Four! Collecting THOR (1998) #9-13 and THOR ANNUAL 1999. 184 pages. /Rated T
Written by ORSON SCOTT CARD Penciled by ANDY KUBERT & PASQUAL FERRY Cover by ANDY KUBERT Tony Stark seems to have the perfect life as a billionaire playboy, genius-level inventor and founding member of the world-class super-hero team the Ultimates. But Stark's life in the public spotlight is merely a small part of the picture. What is the untold story behind the man in the iron mask? How did Stark develop from a gifted child prodigy into one of the most powerful men on the planet? In ULTIMATE IRON MAN, legendary science-fiction writer Orson Scott Card delves into Tony Stark's childhood history, exploring the makings of a hero from the very beginning. Collecting ULTIMATE IRON MAN #1-5 and ULTIMATE IRON MAN II #1-5. 264 pages. /Parental Advisory
Written by ROGER STERN, ROY THOMAS & BOB HARRAS Penciled by BOB HALL, AL MILGROM, DON HUDSON & LUKE MCDONNELL Covers by BOB HALL After operating for years out of New York, the Avengers form a second team -- this time based in California! Fresh off their honeymoon, Hawkeye and Mockingbird -- under the direction of the Vision, chairman of the East Coast Avengers -- gather Tigra, Wonder Man and Iron Man (secretly James Rhodes) to fight the forces no single super hero can withstand! See the team's earliest adventures against the deadly Maelstrom and his Minions! The malevolent Crossfire! Spider-Man foe the Blank! The ionic-powered Goliath (later Atlas of the Thunderbolts)! The all-powerful Graviton! Guest-starring the Shroud, Tony Stark and honorary Avenger Moira Brandon! Collecting WEST COAST AVENGERS (1984) #1-4, IRON MAN ANNUAL #7 and AVENGERS #250 -- plus material from AVENGERS #239, #243-244 and #246; and AVENGERS WEST COAST #100. 208 pages. / Rated A
Written by DANIEL WAY & MARJORIE LIU Penciled by GUISEPPE CAMUNCOLI & TOMMY LEE EDWARDS Cover by LEINIL FRANCIS YU He's got the costume. But not the character. He's got the claws. But not the compassion. He's got the healing factor. But not the heart. He's everything his dad feared himself capable of being, but never wanted to be - the inverse of the real Wolverine: Cold. Ruthless. Clinically savage. And now he's Norman Osborn's shiny new toy in the Dark Avengers, with unbelievable power at his command - all the way to the tips of his razor-sharp claws. Collecting Collecting DARK WOLVERINE #75-77 and the backup stories from WOLVERINE #73-74. 112 pages. /Parental Advisory
Written by CRAIG KYLE & CHRISTOPHER YOST Penciled by CLAYTON CRAIN, MIKE CHOI, SONIA OBACK & ALINA URUSOV Cover by CLAYTON CRAIN Extreme times call for extreme measures. They are the X-Men's special black-ops strike team, created to go places and do things the regular squad can't or wont. The members? The best trackers and killers the X-Men have to offer: Wolverine, X-23, Warpath and Wolfsbane. Their name? X-Force. When the bloodthirsty, mutant-hating religious sect known as the Purifiers rears its head, the members of X-Force launch themselves into battle with claws out and teeth bared. But the team's plan is thrown into disarray when the Purifiers get their hands on Wolfsbane. X-Force must make moves to rescue their teammate and put down the Purifiers permanently. Then, the squad is catapulted into action when the lethal Legacy Virus goes missing, threatening the lives of every mutant on the planet. Wolverine and the young X-23 must attempt to hold the team together as the brutal, damaged histories of Wolfsbane and Archangel threaten to tear everything apart, starting with each other. Collecting X-FORCE #1-11. 264 pages. /Parental Advisory
Written by DAVID MACK Art by DAVID MACK Cover by DAVID MACK Collecting the first six art books of Marvel's REFLECTIONS series from multiple Eisner Award-nominated creator David Mack, this gorgeous volume of cover paintings and step-by-step art techniques is being presented in oversized hardcover format to show off Mack's work to full effect. Readers have been waiting for an oversized art-book collection of Mack's work for years, and this monster volume delivers with loads of extras -- including never-before-seen art, new paintings, a cover gallery, figure studies, step-by-step art techniques and commentary, remastered pages, new design pages, a Best of Letters section, and more! A whopping 320 pages with extra features -- all elegantly collected in a high-end oversized hardcover with high-quality paper, embossment, and an all-new introduction and interview! 320PGS.
ACHEWOOD VOLUME 3: A HOME FOR SCARED PEOPLE Chris Onstad (W/A) Scheduled to arrive on Apr 21 B&W. 104 pages HC, 9 1/2 x 7 3/4 Picking up where they left off, Achewood and Dark Horse Comics present the third volume of strips from the massive Achewood archive. As with the previous collections, author Chris Onstad includes extensive character backstories, thorough strip annotations, the celebrated alt texts, and many print-only extras in the classic Achewood style. Time magazine named back-to-back Ignatz Award winner Achewood its 2007 Graphic Novel of the Year, and legions of devoted fans consistently report that it makes them feel the way Bloom County and Calvin and Hobbes did when they were young. Time magazine's #1 Graphic Novel of 2007. Ignatz Award, Outstanding Online Comic, 2007. I'm addicted to Achewood. Chris Onstad is a dark, hilarious genius. -Dave Barry
ALIENS: MORE THAN HUMAN John Arcudi (W), Zach Howard (P), Mark Irwin (I), Wes Dzioba (C), and Raymond Swanland (Cover) Scheduled to arrive on Apr 14 Full Color. 96 pages TPB, 7 x 10 A group of wildcat planetary prospectors plant their flag on a distant new world, rich in land, resources . . . and the greatest archaeological discovery in history, an ancient complex of impossible proportions carved deep within the living rock, a mind-numbing labyrinth of passages, ramps, bridges, and galleries that seems to extend limitlessly. But as the exploration of the leviathan dead city proceeds deeper and deeper, the members of the team slowly begin to lose their grip on reality, and madness gives way to fear as the explorers begin to disappear. Something else lives within the necropolis, a faceless horror as deadly and merciless as space itself, a lethal terror that has waited centuries to awake . . . and destroy. At long last, Dark Horse Books heralds the return to graphic fiction of the heavyweight champion of modern science-fiction/horror, Aliens! Features the top-flight creative team of writer John Arcudi, penciller Zach Howard, and inker Mark Irwin. Major release of new Aliens vs. Predator game for PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 in 2010. After thirty years, it's finally been announced that original Alien director Ridley Scott will helm the new entry in the franchise, a prequel to the 1979 blockbuster! Six value-priced Aliens Omnibus collections are now available, reprinting the classic Dark Horse Aliens library.
THE BOOK OF GRICKLE Graham Annable (W/A) Scheduled to arrive on Apr 7 B&W. 200 pages HC, 5 3/4 x 8 1/4 Get ready for the most extensive journey ever into the brilliant mind of Graham Annable! A classically trained animator with credits in film (including as a storyboard artist on Coraline), television, and video games, Annable has for years spent his free time creating some of the funniest, most poignant comics anywhere. As befits his animation background, Annable's fluid art pulses with life, in stories that practically jump off the page. Alternately poetic and hilarious, Grickle presents a strange twist on the everyday with heart and humor. If you've experienced Grickle before, this is the greatest collection yet. If you havent, there's no better introduction than Book of Grickle! Grickle was named one of Wizard's Top 25 indie books everyone must read! The best of Grickle, plus new and rarely seen material! Graham Annables's Grickle strips were selected for Houghton-Mifflin's 2008 edition of Best American Comics. Introduction by Jeff Smith!
THE CHRONICLES OF KULL VOLUME 2: THE HELL BENEATH ATLANTIS AND OTHER STORIES Roy Thomas (W), Gerry Conway (W), Steve Englehart (W), Doug Moench (W), Marie Severin (A), Michael Ploog (A), Ed Hannigan (A), and Alfredo Alcala (A) Scheduled to arrive on Apr 7 Full Color. 108 pages TPB, 7 x 10 Dark Horse Comics presents the exciting second volume of The Chronicles of Kull, which completes the Kull the Conqueror run with #10-written by Gerry Conway and drawn by Marie Severin-and launches Kull the Destroyer, featuring the creative talents of such esteemed creators as Roy Thomas, Mike Ploog, Alfredo Alcala, and Ed Hannigan! This action-packed tome details Kull's surprising exile from Valusia and his return to Atlantis, where he faces the deadly kraken, winged demons, and the god of flame and frost! In these uncertain times for the former King of Valusia, Kull finds allies among enemies and fiends whom he would once have called friends! The Chronicles of Kull Volume 2: The Hell Beneath Atlantis and Other Stories reprints Kull the Conqueror #10 and Kull the Destroyer #11 through #20 in their stunning original colors, digitally cleaned and remastered! Features the writing of the legendary Gerry Conway, Roy Thomas, and Doug Moench! Art by the inimitable Marie Severin, Ed Hannigan, and Alfredo Alcala!
THE COMICS: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF COMIC STRIP ART Jerry Robinson (W), Walt Kelly (A), Winsor McCay (A), Milt Caniff (A), Hal Foster (A), and others Scheduled to arrive on Apr 14 Full Color. 296 pages TPB, 9 x 12 From Jerry Robinson, legendary creator of the Joker, seventy-year veteran of the comics industry, and prominent figure in monthly books, daily strips, and comics journalism, comes a comprehensive history of the truly American art form! The Comics is a fully reworked and updated edition of the 1974 classic that chronicles the origins and evolution of comic strips, from prior to the Yellow Kid through today, and highlights the game-changing contributions of such creative luminaries as Milton Caniff, Walt Kelly, Hal Foster, and Winsor McCay, among countless others. A fascinating resource of enduring excellence for fans of the art form, historians, and casual readers alike, this edition has been extensively revisited by Robinson and tells the stories behind the newsprint page. The Comics is an authoritative history of the medium from living legend Jerry Robinson! Other books by Jerry Robinson include the biography Skippy and Percy Crosby and The 1970s: Best Political Cartoons of the Decade.
EERIE ARCHIVES VOLUME 4 Various (W/A) Scheduled to arrive on Apr 14 B&W. 260 pages HC, 8 3/8 x 10 7/8 Join Frank Frazetta, Steve Ditko, John Severin, Gene Colan, Angelo Torres, and other legendary artists for an eerie excursion through the haunted halls of comics history, as Dark Horse Comics unleashes the fourth big volume of Eerie magazine archives. Vampires, ghouls, werewolves, and ax-wielding maniacs are only the beginning of the thrills you'll find inside this huge collection crafted by the most gifted storytellers the medium of comics has ever known. You'll get 260 pages of luridly luscious artwork collected into a magazine-sized, dust-jacketed hardcover. This series has appeared multiple times on the New York Times Bestseller List. Eerie Archives Volume 4 contains bonus color pages.
HELLSING VOLUME 10 Kohta Hirano (W/A) Scheduled to arrive on Apr 28 B&W. 192 pages TPB, 5 x 7 One of the best things about Kohta Hirano's sexy apocalypse of warring vampires, Nazis, Catholics, werewolves, and Australian mercenaries is that all the way up to, and possibly through, this final volume, we don't know who's going to win. The streets of London are awash in blood, a zeppelin descends á la Hindenburg, and six of our favorite characters are locked in face-off fights. It's possible that no one will come away from this crescendo alive. Of course, we're not sure who's alive or undead at this point. But what's most certain is that London needs babies, because there isn't a civilian soul left alive in this battle to the undeath. Alas, Hellsing, we knew you well. There are well over half a million copies of the Dark Horse Hellsing series in print! This is the final volume, the end of a very popular series. And yet, the protagonist lives? All volumes of the Dark Horse version of Hellsing are published in the original Japanese format!
OH MY GODDESS! VOLUME 35 Kosuke Fujishima (W/A) Scheduled to arrive on Apr 28 B&W. 160 pages TPB, 5 1/8 x 7 1/4 Ever since a cosmic phone call led five literal young goddesses-Belldandy, Urd, Skuld, and, like occasional vowels, Peorth and Lind-to live in college student Keiichi's residence, his personal life has been turned upside down, sideways, and sometimes even into strange dimensions! Keiichi knew something was strange when his brutish seniors gave him a gift of a vintage camera to repair, but only learns how strange when he and Belldandy search out the identity of the beautiful girl whose picture they still find inside . . . a picture taken more than forty years ago! Plus your fan art and letters! Winner of the 2009 Kodansha Award for Best General Manga. Oh My Goddess! is the longest-running manga series in America! Oh My Goddess! is an eternally charming manga series with magical humor and a big heart. -Active Anime
RAPTURE Michael Avon Oeming (W/A) and Taki Soma (W) Scheduled to arrive on Apr 21 Full Color. 144 pages TPB, 7 x 10 After warring for a century, Earth's greatest champions and villains suddenly disappear, leaving the planet decimated. Like a rapture, the Powers are gone and humanity is left behind to pick up the pieces. Amongst this wreckage, two lovers, Evelyn and Gil, find themselves separated by a continent and will do anything to find each other again. But when a strange being named the Word turns Evelyn into a champion with an angelic spear, she finds the force of her love for Gil clashing with her newfound power. Love and destiny collide in what will become the worst breakup ever! Rapture is the first Dark Horse effort from creators Taki Soma (You'll Never Die) and Michael Avon Oeming (The Mice Templar).
THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN VOLUME 7 Chris Claremont (W), Michael Fleisher (W), Bruce Jones (W), John Buscema (P), Ernie Chan (I), Alfredo Alcala (I), and others Scheduled to arrive on Apr 28 B&W. 560 pages TPB, 7 x 10 In The Savage Sword of Conan Volume 7, Conan faces brigands; magicians; gigantic mutated creatures; nameless, hideous demons; and a tenacious new foe-the disfigured, metal-clad Captain Sharaq. Some of Conan's most unusual and exciting adventures are reprinted here, including The Colossus of Shem, Demons of the Firelight-Parts One and Two, The Cave Dwellers, and others. These vicious tales are scripted by Michael Fleisher, Chris Claremont, and Bruce Jones, and drawn by some of The Savage Sword's finest artistic contributors, like John Buscema, Ernie Chan, Alfredo Alcala, Val Mayerik, and Joe Chiodo! The Dark Horse Savage Sword of Conan reprint series has proven to be giant sized, with over 90,000 copies sold! This volume, which collects The Savage Sword of Conan #72 to #84, also includes Conan covers, frontispieces, and pinups from each issue! For the first time, these classic stories are being collected in a series of omnibus-style books, with over five hundred pages of sword-and-sorcery adventure in each volume-for the complete Conan collector!
STAR WARS: DARK TIMES VOLUME 4-BLUE HARVEST Mick Harrison (W), Douglas Wheatley (P/Cover), and Dave McCaig (C) Scheduled to arrive on Apr 7 Full Color. 136 pages TPB, 7 x 10 Three months after the events in Revenge of the Sith . . . In a time when all Jedi are fugitives, surviving Jedi Dass Jennir is trying to live as an outlaw without actually becoming one. Accepting a job from a mysterious beauty, Jennir sets out to rid her town of a gang of slave runners. But when he finds that his employer hasn't been completely honest with him, he begins to doubt the course she's set him on. Outlaw or not, there's one thing he knows for certain: he has vowed to save this town-and a Jedi never gives up! Meanwhile, Darth Vader makes a discovery that has him questioning his own future and the plans of Emperor Palpatine. There are many questions and few answers in these dark times! Collects Star Wars: Dark Times #13-#17. The first two volumes of Star Wars: Dark Times have combined to sell over 27,000 copies! Explore the uncharted Star Wars era between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope in Star Wars: Dark Times!
STAR WARS OMNIBUS: BOBA FETT Thomas Andrews (W), Mike Kennedy (W), Ron Marz (W), John Ostrander (W), Ian Gibson (A), Cam Kennedy (A), Francisco Ruiz Velasco (A), and others Scheduled to arrive on Apr 14 Full Color. 496 pages TPB, 6 x 9 Boba Fett, the most feared, most respected, and most loved bounty hunter in the galaxy, now has all of his comics stories collected into one massive volume! In these stories, Boba Fett gets caught between the Rebellion and the Empire; seeks a mysterious relic from a wrecked Star Destroyer; settles a diplomatic dispute-with extreme prejudice; takes part in a bounty-hunter free-for-all; fights Darth Vader; and even goes up against a Boba Fett impostor! There's no job too deadly for the man in Mandalorian armor! A complete collection of Boba Fett tales! Boba Fett encounters Darth Vader, Han Solo, and . . . another Boba Fett?
STAR WARS: THE OLD REPUBLIC VOLUME 1-THREAT OF PEACE Rob Chestney (W), Alex Sanchez (A), and Michael Atiyeh (C) Scheduled to arrive on Apr 28 Full Color. 96 pages TPB, 7 x 10 An exclusive first look at the era of Star Wars: The Old Republic, written by one of the writers behind LucasArts and BioWare's wildly anticipated massive multiplayer online game, Threat of Peace unveils a galaxy on the brink of destruction three hundred years after the events of Knights of the Old Republic! For decades, the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire have been at war-the Sith have gained control of the Outer Rim, but their efforts to penetrate the Core Worlds have so far been thwarted. Now, representatives from both sides attempt to negotiate a peace treaty-but deception by the Sith puts the Jedi in an unfortunate position. Collects Star Wars: The Old Republic issues #1-#27, which appeared previously only online at swtor.com. Star Wars: The Old Republic Volume 1-Threat of Peace includes critical events prior to LucasArts and BioWare's soon-to-be-released massive multiplayer online game and is written by one of the writers behind the game! Discover a new Star Wars era!
THE TALE OF ONE BAD RAT Bryan Talbot (W/A) Scheduled to arrive on Apr 28 Full Color. 136 pages HC, 7 x 10 Helen Potter lived a happy life until she got lost in a nightmare of sexual abuse. Now she's on a journey, a journey which takes her through urban and rural England along the same path that another Potter, Beatrix Potter, once took. Across the decades, two lives touch, and Helen discovers that the strength of two is far greater than one. Bryan Talbot constructs a very special story in The Tale of One Bad Rat, which immediately endears the reader. The victim of childhood sexual abuse, Helen Potter becomes the armored knight before her own personal demons in this story of heroism and courage. This new deluxe hardcover edition features a new foreword by Neil Gaiman, updated background material, plus entirely new color separations that better highlight the dazzling artwork of this acclaimed, Eisner Award winning graphic novel. A story of strength and pain and survival. -Neil Gaiman Thoroughly excellent. -Alan Moore
VAMPIRE HUNTER D READER's GUIDE Hideyuki Kikuchi (W) and Yoshitaka Amano (A) Scheduled to arrive on Apr 21 B&W. 240 pages TPB, 5 7/8 x 8 1/4 An international sensation for more than two decades, the now-legendary monster killer known only as D has conquered the worlds of movies and comics, and, since the publication of the first novel in English in 2004, is becoming just as popular in America and the English-speaking world as he has been in Japan for more than a dozen novels. Now, for the first time, go behind the scenes of the phenomenon. With rare artwork from Yoshitaka Amano and interviews that shed light on the inspirations for the memorable stories, you'll have a front-row seat at the creation of the two animated adventures of Vampire Hunter D and learn new secrets about the novels through detailed summaries. Dark Horse has sold over 300,000 copies of Vampire Hunter D! This volume contains a Vampire Hunter D short story from the character's creator, Hideyuki Kikuchi. Featuring sneak peeks from upcoming novels, an extensive dictionary, and exclusive sketches and interviews!
WITCHFINDER: IN THE SERVICE OF ANGELS Mike Mignola (W), Ben Stenbeck (A), and Dave Stewart (C) Scheduled to arrive on Apr 28 Full Color. 160 pages TPB, 7 x 10 Mike Mignola teams up with artist Ben Stenbeck (B.P.R.D.: The Ectoplasmic Man) for a look into one of the Hellboy universe's greatest enigmas: nineteenth-century occult investigator Edward Grey! In one of Grey's first cases as an agent of the queen, he goes from the sparkling echelons of Victorian London to its dark underbelly, facing occult conspiracies, a rampaging monster, and the city's most infamous secret society: The Heliopic Brotherhood of Ra. Collects Witchfinder: In the Service of Angels #1-#5. This volume also includes Witchfinder: Murderous Intent, from MySpace Dark Horse Presents #16, by Mignola and Stenbeck, and Henry Hood: The Burial of Katharine Baker, from Hellboy: The Wild Hunt, by Solomon Kane writer Scott Allie and Abe Sapien: The Haunted Boy artist Patric Reynolds! All in all, this is a detective story that blends just the right amount of cerebral investigation with Mignola's trademark horror and adventure. And perhaps best of all, the story stands on its own very well, regardless of your past experience with Hellboy or B.P.R.D.. -IGN.com
WONDERMARK VOLUME 3: DAPPER CAPS & PEDAL-COPTERS David Malki (W/A) Scheduled to arrive on Apr 7 Full Color. 96 pages HC, 8 3/4 x 8 1/2 It's Wondermark time again! Come along for the ride as Dark Horse returns to David Malki's silly, bizarre, and hilarious world that's not quite present day, not quite the Victorian era, and not like anything else you've seen before. (Unless you've read the previous Wondermark books, of course!) This newest volume of the Eisner-nominated series contains over one hundred comic strips originally published in The Onion and on wondermark.com, plus many pages of additional material by creator David Malki. More than just webcomic collections, the Wondermark books have been praised for their magnificent design and loads of extra content for casual readers and superfans alike. New installments of Wondermark appear twice weekly at wondermark.com, along with a hilarious blog from David Malki! The Wondermark site enjoys over 140,000 unique visitors per month. Wondermark is nationally syndicated in the print edition of The Onion, enjoying a circulation of over 700,000!
(W) Alex Simmons (A) Fernando Ruiz Chuck is asked to teach an after-school program in cartooning to elementary school kids, and he soon learns that kids can be more hyperactive than his doodles! But Chuck is determined to connect with the kids and help them create the next comic book classics. He gets help teaching from an unlikely source, and reaches out to a troubled child known for spreading graffiti. Can Chuck's world of collecting, drawing, and teaching kids how to make their own comics take on new meaning?
Written by JUSTIN GRAY & JIMMY PALMIOTTI Art and cover by TONY DEZUNIGA Discover how Jonah Hex's rough family life transformed him into the justice-thirsty vigilante he became. Legendary Hex artist Tony DeZuniga returns to illustrate a new, archetypal epic written by the acclaimed HEX team of Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray. This heartbreaking, brutal original graphic novel is set against the unforgiving landscape of the Wild West and delves into Hex's painful past, revealing for the first time how his difficult upbringing made him that era's most feared bounty hunter. Along the way, Hex must come to terms with the death of a loved one, long thought lost, battle El Papagayo and his gang of bandits, and attempt to make peace with his own past.
Written by JOHN BROOME Art and cover by MURPHY ANDERSON In a post-apocalyptic future, the Atomic Knights protect the surviving citizens against threats of all sorts in tales from STRANGE ADVENTURES #117, 120, 123, 126, 129, 132, 135, 136, 138, 141, 144, 147, 150, 153 156 and 160. Collected here for the first time!
Written by JUDD WINICK Art by ED BENES, MARK BAGLEY & ROB HUNTER cover by J.G. JONES Can the new Batman maintain his grip on Gotham City's criminal element? With Bruce Wayne gone in the wake of BATMAN: R.I.P., Dick Grayson - formerly known as both Robin and Nightwing - becomes the new Batman in this new hardcover collecting BATMAN #687-691. And it's not long before the city's criminals put him to the test! With the Penguin intent on becoming Gotham's new crime kingpin and Two-Face waging a war of his own, how can any hero, let alone one who's just stepped into his role, stop them? It won't be easy - especially since he also has to round up a posse of escaped Arkham Asylum inmates.
Written by PAUL DINI Art by DUSTIN NGUYEN & DEREK FRIDOLFS cover by DUSTIN NGUYEN How will the police feel about Gotham City's new Dark Knight - and can he control the crime in Gotham the way the old Batman did? Commissioner Gordon's about to find out as he teams with the new Batman to combat the fiery threat of Firefly in this new hardcover collecting BATMAN: STREETS OF GOTHAM #1-4, DETECTIVE COMICS #852 and BATMAN #685.
Written by DAN JURGENS & KEITH GIFFEN Art by DAN JURGENS, PAT OLLIFFE & NORM RAPMUND Cover by JURGENS & RAPMUND Booster Gold investigates the death of Batman - only to run afoul of another Batman who doesn't want Booster near this case. Collecting BOOSTER GOLD #20-25 and BRAVE AND THE BOLD #23.
Advance-solicited ? Scheduled to arrive on APRIL 21 ? 176 pages. Full Color. Written by GERRY CONWAY Art by DICK DILLIN, GEORGE PÉREZ & OTHERS Cover by GEORGE PÉREZ A new helping of JLA/JSA crossovers is here, featuring stories from JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #159, 160, 171, 172, 183, 184 and 185, guest-starring Jonah Hex, Enemy Ace, The New Gods and more!
Written by JOE KUBERT Art and cover by JOE KUBERT Joe Kubert, one of the most influential storytellers in comics history, tells the harrowing, true story of a detachment of Special Forces soldiers on a simple recon mission into the village of Dong Xoai, Vietnam, that turned suddenly deadly. DONG XOAI, VIETNAM 1965 has a unique perspective, since Kubert based the story on extensive information gathered from the surviving members of the unit. It covers not only the action of the event but the details of deployment and build-up that led to the deadly encounter for these young American G.I.s. For decades, Joe Kubert has shown readers the true face of war - all the suffering, horror, loss and heroism of our fighting forces. With DONG XAOI, he goes a step beyond to tell a gut-wrenching tale of sacrifice that will linger long after you are done reading.
Written by JUSTIN GRAY & JIMMY PALMOTTI Art and cover by 4/2 In this epic from issues #44-49, Quentin Turnbull is out for vengeance on the man he believes is responsible for killing his son: Jonah Hex! Guest-starring Tallulah Black, Bat Lash and more!
Written by GEOFF JOHNS, ALEX ROSS & PETER TOMASI Art by ALEX ROSS, DALE EAGLESHAM, FERNANDO PASARIN & NATHAN MASSENGILL Cover by ALEX ROSS Collecting JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA #19-22 and the JUSTICE SOCIETY: KINGDOM COME Specials MAGOG, SUPERMAN and THE KINGDOM, now in trade paperback! Picking up where PART TWO left off, The Justice Society begins to dissolve as Gog vows to bring peace to Earth in a way that frightens some and thrills others. Torn between Gog's desire to help the world and the moral cost it comes with, it's old guard vs. new as the line that was drawn is crossed.
Written by JUSTIN GRAY & JIMMY PALMIOTTI Art and cover by AMANDA CONNER Exploding from the first six issues of her new, hit series, JSA leader Power Girl wants to build a new secret identity - but a villain from her past has other plans for her and to get his way, he's holding Manhattan hostage. Plus, a trio of sexy alien marauders hits Earth for the ultimate party. Unfortunately, by their standards, that means destroying it.
Written by CHRISTOPHER YOST Art by RAMON BACHS & ART THIBERT Cover by FRANCIS MANAPUL A new Batman watches over Gotham City - but Tim Drake won't give up on the old one in this volume collecting RED ROBIN #1-5. In his new guise as Red Robin, Tim won't rest until Bruce Wayne is found!
Written by GAIL SIMONE Art by NICOLA SCOTT, CARLOS RODRIGUEZ & OTHERS Cover by DANIEL LUVISI With Batman's cowl up for grabs, two of The Secret Six think they should be the new Dark Knight. And a mission on Devil's Island draws the attention of Wonder Woman in this new collection of issues #8-14!
Written by DAVE WOOD Art by JIM MOONEY & others Cover by JIM MOONEY The quirky series from HOUSE OF MYSTERY #156-173 is collected for the first time in this title introducing teenaged Robby Reed, whose discovery of the H-E-R-O dial leads to costumed adventure!
Written by GEOFF JOHNS & SCOTT KOLINS Art and cover by SCOTT KOLINS Discover how Solomon Grundy became an undead monster and one of the DC Universe's most feared villains in this epic tying into BLACKEST NIGHT. Featuring FACES OF EVIL: SOLOMON GRUNDY #1 and the seven-issue GRUNDY miniseries!
Written by GEOFF JOHNS Art by FRANCIS MANAPUL Cover by FRANCIS MANAPUL Superboy is back - and can't wait to jump back into his life in these tales from ADVENTURE COMICS #0-3 and 5-6, plus a tale from SUPERMAN SECRET FILES 2009. But which life will it be? Conner makes a beeline for the greatest place on Earth: Smallville. While Conner reunites with his former girlfriend, Wonder Girl, Lex Luthor and Brainiac form a partnership that will cause havoc throughout the DC Universe.
Written by JERRY SIEGEL Art by LEO NOWAK & OTHERS Cover by FRED RAY In these stories from 1942's ACTION COMICS #44-46, WORLD's FINEST COMICS #5 and SUPERMAN #14-15, The Man of Tomorrow faces threats from the mysterious Undersea City and more!
Written by JAMES ROBINSON & JACK KIRBY Art by RENATO GUEDES, JACK KIRBY & OTHERS Cover by ALEX ROSS When Atlas stakes a claim on Metropolis in this tale from SUPERMAN #677-680, it's up to Superman and Krypto to take him down. Also including FIRST ISSUE SPECIAL #1, the 1975 tale that introduced Atlas!
Written by SEAN MCKEEVER, BRYAN Q. MILLER & FELICIA D. HENDERSON Art and cover by JOE BENNETT & JACK JADSON The team faces the new Fearsome Five in these tales from TEEN TITANS #71-78. Plus, the Calculator seeks vengeance after the teen heroes failed to protect his children.
Written and illustrated by Yunosuke Yoshinaga CMX/FLEX COMIX. Rygart deals with his guilt over the death of Dan, the Golem pilot. Later, he's sworn in as part of the Krisna army and his own Golem is outfitted with a new, external armor. Outside of the city, Zess unit sets up camp and plots its next move. Cleo wants revenge against Rygart, who she believes is responsible for Lee's death. But first Rygart has to go up against his friend Zess.
Written and illustrated by Takanori Yamazaki CMX/FLEX COMIX. Tsubura has just moved to the countryside and is ready for some peace and quiet. At her new school, all she wants is to blend in. But when an errant ball shatters through her classroom window and she springs into action, Tsubura reveals her hidden talent for baseball. The school team is determined to get her to join and help to transform them from the worst to the best. No one really understands why Tsubura hates the sport, but their efforts to recruit her might just drive her away.
