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In the spirit of extremely bright kids intent upon making fun of everything, this collection of the award-winning Action Philosophers! issues #7-9 is a zany send-up of philosophers! Meet the Pre-Socratics - history's earliest, and weirdest, thinkers! Immanuel Kant, Epistemological Attorney! Six Degrees of Francis Bacon! Detailing the lives and thoughts of history's A-list brain trust - told in a hip and humorous comic book fashion - this collection also features Aristotle, Epictetus the Stoic, John Stuart Mill, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Diogenes the Cynic, Lao Tzu, and 10 more! [by Fred Van Lente & Ryan Dunlavey]
Written by GREG PAK & FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by DALE EAGLESHAM Cover by PHIL JIMENEZ FEAR ITSELF TIE-IN A FEAR ITSELF maxi-series spinoff! Do you fearyour country turning on you? Alpha Flight has long been the protector of an entire nationbut what happens when that nation needs to be protected from itself? New York Times best-selling authors Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente, along withred-hot artist Dale Eaglesham, bring back the team you demanded-the original Alpha Flight! Sasquatch, Snowbird, Northstar and Aurora have been joined by their revived allies Guardian, Vindicator, Shaman, and Marrina as the paragons and protectors of an entire nation. But as FEAR ITSELF takes over, their own country turns on the Flight and brands them traitors for the shocking actions of one of their closest allies. As the borders close and an entire nation hunts them down, will the newly reunited Alpha Flight survive? 40 pages. /Rated T
Written by FRED VAN LENTE & GREG PAK Penciled by DALE EAGLESHAM Cover by PHIL JIMENEZ Variant Cover by DALE EAGLESHAM FEAR ITSELF TIE-IN! Alpha Flight traitors??? After saving their country from the hammer-wielding XXXXX, The Flight are captured by?the newly risen Unity Party and branded as traitors. Now they must escape from the bowels of the top-secret facility, Department H, they once called home. In doing so they must confront the shocking betrayal of one of their core members -- and discover an imprisoned hero readers have clamored to see since this series was announced! The red-hot writing team of Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente and artistic legend Dale Eaglesham continue their highly-anticipated resurrection of one of Marvel's most beloved super hero teams in a story that absolutely cannot be missed! 32 pages. /Rated T
ALPHA FLIGHT #3 - of 8 Description: Written by FRED VAN LENTE & GREG PAK Penciled by DALE EAGLESHAM Cover by PHIL JIMENEZ FEAR ITSELF TIE-IN! HEROES ON THE LAM! Having escaped imprisonment at the hands of the corrupt Unity Party, Alpha Flight find themselves hunted by the government they'd sworn to protect. Outmanned and outgunned, the Flight decide to go guerilla, but what will they do once the government raises the stakes by revealing their leverage against the team, including Northstar's boyfriend and the child of Guardian and Vindicator held hostage?! Marvel Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente, along with legendary artist Dale Eaglesham, continue their revival of fan favorite Alpha Flight in this pulse-pounding issue! 32 pages. /Rated T (NOTE: This was previously solicited as a 7 issue mini-series. This is now an 8 issue mini-series.) 32 pages. Rated: T
Written by FRED VAN LENTE & GREG PAK Penciled by DALE EAGLESHAM Cover by PHIL JIMENEZ Variant Cover by DALE EAGLESHAM FEAR ITSELF TIE-IN! The fight against the Flight continues! As our heroes fight?to survive their own country hunting them down the traitorous Vindicator creates a team of her own, gathering a group of former enemies of Alpha Flight into the deadly ALPHA STRIKE! However, the remaining Alphans reach out to some unusual allies of their own. Marvel All-Stars Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente, along with artist extraordinaire Dale Eaglesham,?continue their highly-anticipated resurrection of the fan favorite title, ALPHA FLIGHT!
Written by FRED VAN LENTE & GREG PAK Pencils by DALE EAGLESHAM Cover by CARLO PAGULAYAN STRIKE VERSUS FLIGHT. As the traitorous Vindicator leads her team of villains, known as ALPHA STRIKE, against her former teammates, ALPHA FLIGHT embraces their outlaw status by joining forces with the mercenary TASKMASTER. Will the master of skill acquisition be able to train the team in the tactics necessary to take on the entire Canadian government? And even so, will partnering with such a compromised cohort reveal itself to be a pact with the devil? Marvel superstars Greg Pak, Fred Van Lente and Dale Eaglesham continue their stellar run with Marvel's much-beloved band of heroes, ALPHA FLIGHT! 32 pages. /Rated T
(Written by FRED VAN LENTE & GREG PAK Penciled by DALE EAGLESHAM) FIGHT FOR FLIGHT! Alpha Flight continues to fight for the integrity of the country they love, but one of their own is being torn apart! The split personality of Aurora and Jean Marie grows increasingly unstable and threatens to destroy the hero, and the rest of Alpha Flight! Only Jean-Marie's brother, Northstar, can save her but will Jean-Paul be able to do what needs to be done to save his sister and all those he hold dear? Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente's lauded revival of one of Marvel's most beloved teams continues with art by the incomparable Dale Eaglesham! 32 pages. /Rated T
ALPHA FLIGHT #3 (EAGLESHAM VARIANT COVER) - of 8 Description: Written by FRED VAN LENTE & GREG PAK Penciled by DALE EAGLESHAM Cover by PHIL JIMENEZ Variant Cover by DALE EAGLESHAM FEAR ITSELF TIE-IN! HEROES ON THE LAM! Having escaped imprisonment at the hands of the corrupt Unity Party, Alpha Flight find themselves hunted by the government they'd sworn to protect. Outmanned and outgunned, the Flight decide to go guerilla, but what will they do once the government raises the stakes by revealing their leverage against the team, including Northstar's boyfriend and the child of Guardian and Vindicator held hostage?! Marvel Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente, along with legendary artist Dale Eaglesham, continue their revival of fan favorite Alpha Flight in this pulse-pounding issue! 32 pages. /Rated T 32 pages. Rated: T
Canada's premier super-team returns to action! The original Alpha Flight reunites to face a threat unlike any other, as the impact of FEAR ITSELF is felt in Canada! Resurrected from the dead, Guardian, Vindicator, Shaman and Marrina rejoin Sasquatch, Snowbird, Northstar and Aurora in defense of the Great White North. But the Canada they return to looks a lot different than the one they left as a new political regime rises to power and brands Alpha Flight traitors! Betrayed from within, Canada's champions are hunted by the government as they battle to release their fellow citizens from the grip of fear and win back the True North, strong and free! Collecting ALPHA FLIGHT (2011) #0.1 and #1-4. [(W) Greg Pak, Fred Van Lente (A) Ben Oliver, Dale Eaglesham (CA) Phil Jimenez]
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by BARRY KITSON Cover by ADI GRANOV 70th Frame Variant by MIKE MCKONE RED-HEADED STRANGER Part II-THE CHAMELEON returns with a terrifying new mission that has MAYOR J. JONAH JAMESON squarely in his sights! Meanwhile, the ANTI-SPIDER SQUAD narrows its dragnet around the Wall-Crawler, and Peter Parker gets a brand new job...will it bring him closer to the newly-returned MARY JANE, or push her further away? 32 pages. /Rated A
Classified until 6/22/09 ISSUE #604 - 32 pages. Rated A ISSUE #605 - 48 pages. Rated A
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by JAVIER PULIDO Cover by PAOLO MANUEL RIVERA A locked room mystery! A string of brutal murders! A missing girl! One of Peter Parker's closest friends 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!. 32 pages. /Rated A
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by JAVIER PULIDO Cover by PAOLO MANUEL RIVERA The Sandman has vacillated between good and evil over the years, joining the Sinister Six and the Frightful Four...as well as becoming a reserve Avenger and a member of Silver Sable's Wild Pack. But as of this issue, and forever more, he will always be known as a villain -- one of the worst in the Wall-Crawler's Rogues Gallery -- and it's all Spider-Man's fault! Find out the shocking reason why in this issue as ""THE GAUNTLET"" continues!. 32 pages. /Rated A
Written by GREG PAK & FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by RODNEY BUCHEMI Cover by ADI GRANOV Hercules! Spider-Man! Ares! New Avengers! Wolverine! Mighty Avengers! The Agents of Atlas! If there's a bigger event this fall, we don't know what it could be! At long last, the Prince of Power takes the fight to his villainous stepmother Hera and the forces of the Olympus Group -- just as she unleashes the most terrifying threat the Marvel Universe has ever seen! But first Herc has to gather together a star-studded strike force from the ranks of the New and the Mighty Avengers! First on the list: THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN! But why is Everyone's Friendly Neighborhood fighting against Hercules? Has he joined the side of the dark gods? It's webs and wisecracks versus Olympian power in this super-sized one-shot! (There will be major property damage, we guarantee.) Plus: The iHerc team proudly welcomes our new INCREDIBLE HERCULES on-going back-up feature... THE AGENTS OF ATLAS, written by fan favorite scribe Jeff Parker! When the forces of New Olympus target Venus, will Jimmy Woo lead his team into the fray for or against Hercules"" forces? 48 pages. /One-Shot/Rated T
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Art & Cover by RON LIM This summer, Marvel Studios is bringing to life two of the AVENGERS in THOR and CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER. But their adventures don't end on the silver screen. Pick up this 48-page book for two whole new stories starring Thor, Cap, and all your favorite characters from the films! Citadel of Spires: When Fandral-one of the Warriors Three-is taken captive, it's up to Thor, Sif and Loki to get him back despite going up against one of the fiercest creatures in the nine realms! U-Base: When Hydra's U-Boats take out an Allied target, it's up to CAPTAIN AMERICA and his HOWLING COMMANDOS to strike back! The heroes sneak in to a Hydra U-Base, but there they find that the tentacles in the Hydra logo might not be simply symbolize! From FRED VAN LENTE (Amazing Spider-Man, Incredible Hercules) and RON LIM (Silver Surfer, Infinity Gauntlet) comes a duo of Adventures from this?summer's hottest heroes! 48 pages. /All Ages
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by LUKE ROSS & NEIL EDWARDS Cover by PAOLO RIVERA The official comics prequel to the Marvel Studios summer blockbuster begins here! As Captain America, Steve Rogers is the inspiration for millions during the dark days of World War Two - but where did he get his inspiration from? How did he meet his best friend, ""Bucky"" Barnes? And what set him on the path to becoming the First Avenger? New York Times bestselling writer Fred Van Lente (AMAZING SPIDER-MAN) and star artists Luke Ross (CAPTAIN AMERICA) and Neil Edwards (FANTASTIC FOUR) take you on an all-new adventure to the European battlefields before the movie hits theaters! Collecting CAPTAIN AMERICA: FIRST VENGEANCE #1-4 and material from CAPTAIN AMERICA SPOTLIGHT. 104 pages. /Rated A
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by KHOI PHAM Cover by DAN PANOSIAN It's the end of ALL things! The Marvel Universe's shattered pantheons fall from the skies! King Chaos marshals his forces for the final assault with every Marvel hero as his target! Hercules, Thor and the God Squad embark upon one last, mad scheme to save existence itself, but what terrible conflicts wrack the heroes and gods of Earth when Hercules learns the true price of their deliverance? Bonus: Hell comes to Hawaii! (Yes, Hawaii.) 32 pages. /Rated T
Written by GREG PAK & FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by KHOI PHAM Cover by BRANDON PETERSON THIS IS IT!! THE MARVEL UNIVERSES LAST STAND! The Chaos King unleashes his ultimate attack against reality as we know it -- and our survival depends on a boy, his god, and their ragtag band of allies: The Mighty Thor! The Incredible Hulks! The Dead (and Living?) Avengers! The X-Men! Alpha Flight! But are they enough to stand against THE ANTI-ETERNITY ... The force that seeks to negate all existence itself? In this issue, the universe dies and everyone wins! What? 32 pages. /Rated T
Written by GREG PAK & FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by KHOI PHAM Backup Story Penciled by REILLY BROWN Cover by ED McGUINNESS Sketch Variant by ED McGUINNESS Bigger than THE INFINITY GAUNTLET! More cosmic than ANNIHILATION! Since the end of SECRET INVASION, the CHAOS KING has amassed his army of alien slave gods -- and the time to strike Earth is NOW! Only the greatest Marvel heroes can oppose him -- all led by the newly-returned god of heroes . HERCULES! But are even his incredible new powers enough to stand against the greatest threat the Marvel Universe has ever seen - a mad god who seeks to destroy Reality itself? PLUS: While thought dead, Hercules was trapped in a dangerous world that threatened his very sanity. Find out the secret of his exile in a special extra story penciled by PRINCE OF POWER's Reilly Brown! 40 pages. /Rated T.
Bigger than INFINITY GAUNTLET! More cosmic than ANNIHILATION! Since the end of SECRET INVASION, the Chaos King has amassed his army of alien slave gods — and the time to strike Earth is now! Only the greatest Marvel heroes can oppose him, all led by the newly returned god of heroes: Hercules! But are even his incredible new powers enough to stand against the greatest threat the Marvel Universe has ever seen: a mad god who seeks to destroy reality itself? Plus: While thought dead, Hercules was trapped in a dangerous world that threatened his very sanity. Find out the secret of his exile in a special bonus story! Collecting CHAOS WAR #1-5, an all-new CHAOS WAR SAGA and material X-MEN: CURSE OF THE MUTANTS SPOTLIGHT.
CHAOS WAR tie-in! The Vision. Captain Mar-Vell. Yellowjacket. Deathcry. Swordsman. Dr. Druid. All lost their lives in the line of duty...or in disgrace. When Earth's Mightiest Heroes are themselves laid low in the carnage of the CHAOS WAR and the graves give up their dead, these six find themselves mysteriously returned, to RE-ASSEMBLE against the CHAOS KING's most fearsome ally -- one of the Avengers' greatest foes! It’s a final chance at redemption, a second life, and most importantly, to prove -- once and for all -- that they are worthy of the name... AVENGERS. 32 PGS./Rated T
For the first time ever, the inspiring, infuriating, and utterly insane story of comics, graphic novels, and manga is presented in comic book form! The award-winning Action Philosophers team of Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey turn their irreverent-but-accurate eye to the stories of Jack Kirby, R. Crumb, Harvey Kurtzman, Alan Moore, Stan Lee, Will Eisner, Fredric Wertham, Roy Lichtenstein, Art Spiegelman, Hergé, Osamu Tezuka -- and more! Collects Comic Book Comics #1-6. [(W) Fred Van Lente (A/CA) Ryan Dunlavey]
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by GIANLUCA GIGLIOTTA Cover by JAE LEE Spider-Man""s most mysterious new enemy takes center stage in a 3-issue mini-series by Official Amazing Spider-Man Web-Head Fred Van Lente and newcomer Gianluca Gigliotta. One-half benevolent philanthropist/One-half underworld mastermind, Mr. Negative has carved out a substantial slice of the big apple for himself over the past year. But when the super-villain mastermind The Hood strikes at the heart of Mr. Negative""s criminal operations with a whole horde of classic Arachno-Foes (including The Scorcher, Speed Demon, The Squid and the long awaited return of the White Rabbit), Spider-Man is left to clean up the mess between these two violent nemeses. 32 pages. /Rated T
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by GIANLUCA GUGLIOTTA Cover by JAE LEE The streets of Chinatown run red with blood as The Hood sends in his entire villain army to take out the Last Villain Standing who refuses to submit to his rule, Mister Negative! The only thing that can save him is the latest ruthlessly violent enforcer he's converted to his cause: THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN! Wha-huh? Plus: as Betty Brant gets ever closer to uncovering the terrifying secret behind Mr. Negative's origin, is she unwittingly sealing her own doom? 32 pages. Rated T.
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Pencils by DALIBOR TALAJIC Cover by HUMBERTO RAMOS MERC WITH A MYTH! Stop rubbing your eyes, fanboy, they don't deceive you! Everyone's favorite Merc with a Mouth stars in a third on-going series, hacking and wisecracking his way across the Marvel Universe with a new guest-star every month! First up: when master assassin ARCADE and NIGHTMARE, Lord of the Dream Dimension, join forces to destroy Wade Wilson and THE INCREDIBLE HERCULES, they get more than they bargain for, taking on two of the MU's most irresponsible heroes! Drunken mayhem, bad jokes, and billions of dollars of property damage ensue! 32 pages. /Parental Advisory
It's more all-ages action in the mighty Marvel manner as two super-powered families team-up in this Power Pack adventure! Featuring Mr. Fantastic, the Invisible Woman, the Human Torch and the ever-lovin' Thing! Can Power Pack stand up to the FF's rogues gallery including Wizard, Trapster and the dangerous Dr. Doom?! Collecting FANTASTIC FOUR AND POWER PACK #1-4. [Written by Fred Van Lente / Penciled by Gurihiru / Cover by Gurihiru]
Jack Power has competition for B.M.O.C. of N.Y.C.'s P.S. 616 ... the new kid in school, FRANKLIN RICHARDS, Son of a Genius! But when two older kids swipe the gear of WIZARD and the TRAPSTER and target both Frank and Jack, the FF and Power Pack have to team up to stop the ""Attack of the Super-Bullies!""
[Written by FRED VAN LENTE Pencils and Cover by GURIHIRU]
Stop! Read this! Have you seen these missing children? JACK POWER, brown hair, brown eyes, can expand his density into a cloudy mass or shrink down to a fraction of his size, also answers to ""MASS MASTER."" He is probably with FRANKLIN RICHARDS, blond hair, blue eyes, wearing a t-shirt with a ""4"" on it, also answers to ""SON OF A GENIUS."" They've run away from home together to make careers as solo heroes, and Power Pack has to track them down before KRAVEN THE HUNTER does! [Written by Fred Van Lente / Pencils and Cover by Gurihiru]
DR. DOOM has captured FRANKLIN RICHARDS and brought him back to Latveria to use the boy as a pawn in his latest fiendish plot against the FF - but he's accidentally captured POWER PACK along with Frank! Alex, Julie, Jack and Katie have to fight their way through Castle Doom to rescue their friend and defeat their most formidable foe yet . but . could that be exactly what Doom wants?
[Written by Fred Van Lente Pencils and Cover by Gurihiru]
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Art & Cover by FRANCIS PORTELA Based on the Best-Selling X-Box Game! Blood Line is the top-secret unconventional warfare unit of the United Nations Space Command's Office of Naval Intelligence, engaging in sabotage and assassination missions deep inside Covenant space. But when this quartet of super soldiers is shot down over a desolate moon along with a Covenant cruiser, humans and aliens will have to forge an uneasy alliance against a common foe before an eons-old threat destroys them both! 32 Pgs./17& Up ©2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Halo, the Halo logo, the Microsoft Game Studios logo, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox Live, and the Xbox logos are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies. Bungie and the Bungie logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Bungie, LLC.
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Pencils & Cover by FRANCIS PORTELA ""Greetings! I am the monitor of Line Installation 1-4. I am 6-8-6 Ebullient Prism. My function is to collect and inspect any and all specimens captured within this sector for evidence of immunity to infestation by The Flood. I require your assistance. Please do not move while you are dissected and all your tissues are properly analyzed and cataloged."" From the smash hit video game series that has sold over 25 Million Copies!!!! 32 pages. /17 & Up.
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Pencils & Cover by FRANCIS PORTELA The Elites and Spartans"" uneasy alliance to rescue their captured comrades from the depths of the ancient complex is pushed to the breaking point when a traitor is revealed in their midst. But is the turncoat human, Covenant...or something even more terrifying? BASED ON THE BESTSELLING XBOX GAME SERIES! 32 pages. /17 & Up
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by FRANCIS PORTELA Cover by FRANCIS PORTELA Based on the Best-Selling X-Box Game! Blood Line is the top-secret unconventional warfare unit of the United Nations Space Command's Office of Naval Intelligence, engaging in sabotage and assassination missions deep inside Covenant space. But when this quartet of super soldiers is shot down over a desolate moon along with a Covenant cruiser, humans and aliens will have to forge an uneasy alliance against a common foe before an eons-old threat destroys them both! Collecting HALO: BLOOD LINE #1-5. 120 pages. /17 & Up [Francis Portela]
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by FRANCIS PORTELA Cover by FRANCIS PORTELA The prospecting vessel Long Time Coming is more than your average explorer ship. Underneath the grit and grime, it's part of the Office of Naval Intelligence, and its crew and ""prospecting equipment"" are en route to the front lines. That is, until the ship encounters a strange phenomenon in slipspace that sends the vessel plummeting toward an unknown planet. But they're not the only ones shipwrecked on this world - a world that's more than just an anonymous hunk of rock. Critically acclaimed comics scribe Fred Van Lente (INCREDIBLE HERCULES, X-MEN NOIR) teams with up-and-coming artist Francis Portela (BLACK PANTHER) to bring you HALO: BLOOD LINE - a story of war, survival and, above all else, a family of Spartans who will never let each other down. Collecting HALO: BLOOD LINE #1-5. 120 pages. /17 & Up © 2011 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Microsoft, 343 Industries, the 343 Industries logo, Halo, the Halo logo, Xbox, Xbox 360, and the Xbox logos, are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies.
TO BE ANNOUNCED
Written by GREG PAK and FRED VAN LENTE Pencilled by NEIL EDWARDS Inked by SCOTT HANNA Gods of Brooklyn
To be announced
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by NEIL EDWARDS Cover by MICHAEL KALUTA FEAR ITSELF TIE-IN As FEAR ITSELF continues to rage across the Marvel Universe, escaped super villains make their way to Brooklyn where they are faced only by...not Herc? A villain not seen since the days of ""Dark Reign"" and accidentally resurrected by Herc during ""Chaos War"" has arisen to challenge Herc's role as the borough's protector -- but what sinister purpose lies behind his so-called heroism? Swords and sorcery clash in the heart of modern-day New York City! 32 pages. /Rated T
Written by FRED VAN LENTE & GREG PAK Penciled by NEIL EDWARDS Cover by GREG HORN FEAR ITSELF TIE-IN As the world descends into chaos around him, Herc and his unlikely myth-villain allies fight to save his new home of Brooklyn from being consumed by the fear being sown by the witchcraft of Hecate. Will Herc keep his wits and save the day, or will his newly depowered nature make him all the more susceptible to Hecate's terrifying powers? It's magic and mayhem of unprecedented levels in this thrilling new issue from Marvel ""Foremen"" Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente! 32 pages. /Rated T
Written by FRED VAN LENTE & GREG PAK Penciled by JUNE BRIGMAN Covers by CARLO PAGULAYAN SPIDER-ISLAND TIE IN! You loved it when Herc dressed up as Thor, but can you handle the senses-shattering debut of... THE INCREDIBLE SPIDER-HERC?!?! And versus THE X-MEN??? Though he is the newly self-appointed protector of Brooklyn, when a rash of unusual occurrences begin breaking out in Manhattan, Hercules finds himself ""infested"" with Spider-Powers of his own. Unfortunately, our web-slinging former demigod soon finds himself under the thrall of the insidious intelligence behind Spider Island and in a duel to the death against fellow champions The X-Men. Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente join up with artist June Brigman to deliver a pulse-pounding, wall-crawling !!! adventure with Marvel's lovable lug, HERC!
Written by FRED VAN LENTE & GREG PAK Penciled by DAVID HAHN Cover by TOM GRUMMETT AN ELEKTRA-FYING ISSUE OF HERC! Herc has rejected his demigod status to distance himself from his Olympian ties, especially his father Zeus. Unfortunately for Herc, that distance is about to get a lot shorter, as Zeus has decided to move in with his wayward son after an angry Hera de-powers him. As if parental baggage wasn't problematic enough, Herc's status as Brooklyn's protector has put him at odds with some powerful enemies. A team-up with the skilled assassin Elektra could give him the help he needs as long as his dad doesn't muck it up first. Written by Marvel scribes Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente and drawn by the astounding David Hahn, it's a Herc story not to be missed! 32 pages. /Rated T
Written by FRED VAN LENTE & GREG PAK Penciled by DAVID HAHN Cover by CARLO PAGULAYAN ENTER BABA YAGA! It's hard to be a depowered deity. Herc knows this, and yet remains a hero. His father Zeus, however, is having a rough go of it. Adding to their troubles, the assassin ELEKTRA has joined with the Russian mob to take some powerful items from their Brooklyn home, which doesn't sit well with the man they're stolen from the KINGPIN! Herc and Zeus are caught in the middle, and their only answer appears to be in a house that walks on giant chicken legs?!? Herculean writers Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente, along with artist extraordinaire David Hahn, craft one of delectable former demigod's craziest adventures yet! 40 pages. /Rated T
HERC #6 (POINT ONE) - Description: Written by FRED VAN LENTE & GREG PAK Penciled by MIKE GRELL Cover by CARLO PAGULAYAN START READING with this Point One Issue! Herc's had a busy time recently. He saved all of reality, got?depowered in the process, moved out to Brooklyn and became a local?hero. Although he's no longer a god and shows no interest in reclaiming his place in Olympia, that doesn't mean that Olympia's forgotten about him. A figure from Herc's past has come to hunt him down, and his intentions for what to do once he finds him remain unclear. Does Olympia have it out for its former son? Written by?Marvel Masters Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente and drawn by artist extraordinaire Mike Grell, HERC 6.1 offers an awesome jumping-on point for anyone curious about Marvel's beloved bruiser, Herc! 32 pages. /Rated T 32 pages. Rated: T
Written by FRED VAN LENTE & GREG PAK Penciled by DAVID HAHN Cover by CARLO PAGULAYAN Variant Cover by MIKE OEMING ENTER BABA YAGA! It's hard to be a depowered deity. Herc knows this, and yet remains a hero. His father Zeus, however, is having a rough go of it. Adding to their troubles, the assassin ELEKTRA has joined with the Russian mob to take some powerful items from their Brooklyn home, which doesn't sit well with the man they're stolen from the KINGPIN! Herc and Zeus are caught in the middle, and their only answer appears to be in a house that walks on giant chicken legs?!? Herculean writers Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente, along with artist extraordinaire David Hahn, craft one of delectable former demigod's craziest adventures yet! 40 pages. /Rated T
FEAR ITSELF TIE-IN. FEAR ITSELF has made its way to Hercules' home turf! Stripped of his powers, Herc must change everything he knows about being a hero to win the day. But against an army of monsters and super villains, what chance does a mere mortal have? Find out when Herc shows the world the true measure of a superhero in Herc #3!
A bold new era for the Lion of Olympus! Hercules is back, minus his powers - but when mythic evil stalks the streets, what is the son of Zeus to do? He takes 3000 years of combat experience, raids Ares' armory for the most fearsome weapons of legend, and gets medieval! But what chance does a mere mortal have against FEAR ITSELF's army of monsters and super villains? Plus: when Spider-Island erupts, Hercules finds himself infested with spider-powers of his own. Can you handle the Incredible Spider-Herc?! Then: Zeus decides to move in with his wayward son after an angry Hera de-powers him. Herc teams up with the assassin Elektra to take on some powerful foes but will Zeus muck everything up? You bet he will. Collecting HERC #1-6, #6.1 and #7-10. [(W) Greg Pak, Fred Van Lente (A) Neil Edwards & Various (CA) Chris Stevens]
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Pencils and Cover by ARIEL OLIVETTI ATLAS backup by PAUL TOBIN & REILLY BROWN Hercules, the Lion of Olympus has fallen. And now his best friend Amadeus Cho must fight to prevent the takeover of the Olympian pantheon by the most terrifying god on the planet! With Banner, Skaar, Thor, and Namor swept into the conflict, immortals choose champions and the destiny of Marvel's mighty world of mythology plunges towards irrevocable change! The next and most shocking era in the saga of ""Incredible Hercules"" begins here! Plus, a backup tale of Venus, the enchanting siren from the Agents of Atlas! 40 pages. /Rated T.
When Humbug discovers that insect members of Hulk's Warbound have plans of their own for Earth, the Heroes for Hire infiltrate their great stone starship. But can Humbug be trusted, or is he being seduced by visions of a bug-friendly future? Go behind the battle lines of WORLD WAR HULK in the second part of this exciting crossover! Plus: a special backup tale featuring a top-secret S.H.I.E.L.D. plan to assassinate the HULK!
[Written by ZEB WELLS & FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by CLAY MANN Cover by TAKESHI IYAZAWA]
The Heroes for Hire find themselves in the middle of World War Hulk when their mission to Hulk's stoneship leaves them on the Warbound's death list! It's divide-and-conquer as each hero is hunted by a member of the Jade Giant's band of alien soldiers. [Written by Zeb Wells & Fred Van Lente / Penciled by Clay Mann & John Bosco / Cover by Sana Takeda]
Written by GREG PAK & FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by REILLY BROWN Cover by HUMBERTO RAMOS THE HEROIC AGE IS HERE The Lion of Olympus has fallen. And as the Heroic Age dawns, the Golden Mace of Hercules passes to a new Prince of Power...who just happens to be Herc's best friend, Korean-American kid genius, Amadeus Cho. But when Amadeus finally reveals what he plans to do with his new power, the heavens themselves may shatter as Marvel's mightiest pantheons are shaken to the core! And wait a minute...what's THOR doing on the cover of this book? Fan fave writers Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente and beloved ""Thorcules"" artist Reilly Brown bring the thunder with the next essential chapter in the mind-blowing, heart-wrenching, and gut-busting epic that is the ""INCREDIBLE HERCULES"" experience! [(w) Greg Pak & Fred Van Lente (a) Reilly Brown (ca) Humberto Ramos]
Written by GREG PAK & FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by REILLY BROWN Cover by KHOI PAM THE HEROIC AGE IS HERE! THE PANTHEON IS BACK! The Hulk's one-time allies, one-time enemies have returned, once again led by the renegade demigod Vali Halfling, and their new mission is a hostile takeover of the Olympus Group! And where is the Greek's champion, Amadeus Cho, the new Prince of Power? In the post-Siege ruins of Asgard locked in a knock-down drag-out with THE MIGHTY THOR! Why has Hercules' oldest ally chosen to oppose the quest of Hercules' former sidekick? Learn the answer here, which will change forever the world of Marvel myth in the Heroic Age, but be forewarned: Lots of smashing is involved! The New York Times bestselling authors of the INCREDIBLE HERCULES have done it again! 32 pages. /Rated T
Written by GREG PAK & FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by REILLY BROWN Cover by SALVA ESPIN It all comes down to this: Vali Halfing of the Pantheon and Amadeus Cho, the new Prince of Power, duke it out for the right to become...a GOD! And no matter who wins, THE MIGHTY THOR will destroy him! For if the Pantheon wins, they will slaughter the Council of Godheads and become the only rulers of the world's divine realms. And if Amadeus wins, he'll use omniscience to locate and bring back... All together now: ""What th-?! YOU?! We thought you were DEAD!"" 32 pages. /Rated T
Written by JEFF PARKER & FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by SALVA ESPIN & MICHAEL RYAN Cover by J. SCOTT CAMPBELL She's left her apocalyptic world for this one. Her mother was a heroine, her father a rampaging HULK. What path is the Savage She-Hulk called Lyra on, and why has it led her to add her might to the Wizard's Frightful Four? See how some of the toughest women in the Marvel Universe tip the balance of power in the Fall of the Hulks with this exciting story by Jeff Parker (AGENTS OF ATLAS, FALL OF THE HULKS ALPHA) and Salva Espin (INCREDIBLE HERCULES)! Collecting FALL OF THE HULKS: THE SAVAGE SHE-HULKS #1-3 and material from INCREDIBLE HULK #600-605. 136 pages. /Rated T
Collecting four tales of gamma-powered adventure! Witness the destruction as the Green Goliath goes toe-to-toe with the Champions, Thundra and the Lion of Olympus himself, the Incredible Hercules. Plus: Classic Hulk writer Roger Stern shows you what it's like to survive an encounter with the Hulk, all seen through the eyes of former sidekick Fred Sloan. Collecting GIANT-SIZE HULK #1 (CHAMPIONS STORY), GIANT-SIZE INCREDIBLE HULK #1, HULK: RAGING THUNDER and HULK VS. HERCULES: WHEN TITANS COLLIDE. [Written by Greg Pak, Peter David, Roger Stern, Greg Land & Fred Van Lente / Penciled by Juan Santa C]
New York Times bestseller Fred Van Lente (AMAZING SPIDER-MAN) and acclaimed artist Tom Fowler (VENOM) retell the beginnings of the green goliath for a new generation! This is the definitive origin of the Hulk - as well as Betty Ross, now Red She-Hulk; and General Thunderbolt Ross, now the avenging Red Hulk! Plus: Gamma Base, Rick Jones and the introduction of a new Hulk villain that will continue to haunt both him and his alter ego, Dr. Bruce Banner, in present continuity! Also includes INCREDIBLE HULK (2011) #1. [(W) Fred Van Lente (A) Tom Fowler (CA) Julian Totino Tedesco]
CLASSIFIED. [Written by GREG PAK & FRED VAN LENTE / Penciled by KHOI PHAM / Cover by ART ADAMS]
In the wake of WORLD WAR HULK, the Mighty Avengers are hot on the heels of unrepentant renegades Hercules and Amadeus Cho. Driven into a mindless berserker rage by Ares, Herc has become the critical piece of Cho's plan to utterly destroy S.H.I.E.L.D. What is Cho's master plan to wipe out the spy agency...and is he willing to get Herc killed to do it? Guest-starring the Champions of Los Angeles! Yes, seriously. [Written by Greg Pak & Fred Van Lente / Penciled by Khoi Pham / Cover by Art Adams]
Hercules vs. Ares, locked in final combat! Amadeus Cho vs. all of S.H.I.E.L.D.! And the bad news is...Amadeus Cho is winning! [Written by Greg Pak & Fred Van Lente / Penciled by Khoi Pham / Cover by Art Adams]
Is Hercules a Skrull? Maybe. But is he an Eternal? Ikaris and Thena certainly think so, and they may just kill Herc to prove it! [Written by GREG PAK & FRED VAN LENTE / Penciled by RAFA SANDOVAL / Cover by JOHN ROMITA JR., KLAUS J]
SECRET INVASION TIE-IN! The Greek Goliath gathers the most powerful super-team ever assembled to counter-attack the Skrull gods! Face front, True Believers, and prepare for the pantheon-pounding premiere of... THE GOD SQUAD! [Written by GREG PAK & FRED VAN LENTE / Penciled by RAFA SANDOVAL Cover JOHN ROMITA JR., KLAUS JANSON]
A SECRET INVASION TIE-IN! The ""SACRED INVASION"" continues! In order for Hercules and his divine allies to attack the realm of the Skrull gods, they first must pass out of our own Earthly pantheons -- with a fear-fraught voyage through the dimension of NIGHTMARE! What could possibly terrify a god? The Dark Lord of Dreams knows -- and he'll use it to destroy the last, best hope of stopping the Skrull invasion before it even starts! [Written by GREG PAK & FRED VAN LENTE / Penciled by RAFA SANDOVAL / Cover by JOHN ROMITA JR., KLAUS J]
SECRET INVASION TIE-IN! ""SACRED INVASION"" reaches its cosmos-shattering climax! Hercules leads the ragged remains of his God Squad into desperate battle with the unimaginably powerful Skrull pantheon -- and if they lose, Earth dies! [Written by Greg Pak & Fred Van Lente / Penciled by Rafa Sandoval / Cover by John Romita Jr., Klaus J]
""LOVE AND WAR,"" Part 1 The Greek Goliath is looking for some R&R after the events of ""Sacred Invasion,"" and hopes to find it in the arms of ex-Renegade NAMORA. But there's no rest for warriors when the AMAZONS declare war on Atlantis! And these ain't your mama's Amazons-- is that why Amadeus Cho sides with them instead of Herc? Plus: ARES returns! Available with a monkey variant cover by Roger Cruz which is only available as part of a set of 11 (10 regular covers 1 variant) [Written by Greg Pak & Fred Van Lente / Penciled by Clayton Henry / Cover by Arthur Sudyam Monkey Var]
LOVE AND WAR (Part 4)-Hercules, Namora and Athena rush to Washington, D.C., to stop the Mad Amazon Artume from shifting the Axis Mundi and placing the whole world under her control. But now Artume has both Amadeus Cho and the mightiest of the Titans, ATLAS, at her beck and call - and Atlas hasn't forgiven Herc for ripping him off during the Eleventh Labor! A variant cover by TBA is available as part of a set of 11 copies (10 regular covers and 1 variant) [Written by Greg Pak & Fred Van Lente / Art by Clayton Henry & Salva Espin / Cover by Bob Layton & Gu]
LOVE & WAR - Conclusion! MS. FANTASTIC! X-23, the WOLVERINE! Mary-Jane Parker, the Spectacular SPIDER-WOMAN! Emma ""WHITE PHOENIX"" Frost! These are the AVENGERS of the United States of Amazonia now that the World Axis has shifted -- and they've got the last fighter for men's liberation, Hercules, in their sights! [Written by Fred Van Lente & Greg Pak / Penciled by Salva Espin & Clayton Henry / Cover by Ed McGuinn]
A special DOUBLE-SIZED issue that is the perfect jumping-on point for new readers! Proudly presenting, for the first time in Marvel continuity ... the ORIGIN OF HERCULES! How did the young man who becomes the Lion of Olympus learn of his divine heritage? In what battle did he earn the title ""Prince of Power?"" And, most importantly, why does the goddess HERA hate him so, now that her DARK REIGN begins to fall across New Olympus? PLUS: In the aftermath of the Skrull invasion, AMADEUS CHO goes on ""The Quest for Kirby!" [Written by Fred Van Lente & Greg Pak / Penciled by Rodney Buchemi / Cover by Ed McGuinness]
Written by FRED VAN LENTE & GREG PAK Penciled by DIETRICH SMITH Cover by DAVE WILLIAMS King Variant by TBA As Hera consolidates her takeover of Olympus, marking Hercules and Athena for death, she reaches out to forge an alliance with the greatest mortal power on the planet -- NORMAN OSBORN! With the forces of Heaven and Earth both arrayed against our heroes, how can they possibly survive? And what role does the ex-New Warrior AEGIS play in Hera's mad scheme? 32 pages. Rated T. A variant King cover available as part of a set of 11 copies (10 regular covers and 1 King variant).
Written by FRED VAN LENTE & GREG PAK Penciled by RYAN STEGMAN Cover by DAVID WILLIAMS In this issue: HERCULES AND AMADEUS CHO DIE!!! We heard that cheap death sells comics, and we"re more than happy to oblige. Though seriously, if you had to plunge into the UNDERWORLD and bring back Hercules" slain father ZEUS to counter Hera's power, could you think of a better plan? And come to think of it, have you ever noticed how... impermanent death is in the Marvel Universe? Well, while hobnobbing among the most famous Marvel deceased over the last few years, Herc and Cho learn the terrible secret why -- and why PLUTO, Lord of the Dead, is fighting-mad about it! 32 pages. / Rated T
Written by GREG PAK & FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by RYAN STEGMAN Cover by DAVID WILLIAMS Pull up a courtside seat for The Trial of this or any other Millennium! PLUTO, Lord of the Dead, is trying ZEUS for Crimes Against Creation in the infernal depths of Hades, with 500 slavering Damned serving as jury, AMADEUS CHO for the defense, and the lead witness for the prosecution...is the incredible HERCULES! 32 pages. /Rated T
Written by GREG PAK & FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by RYAN STEGMAN Cover by DAVID WILLIAMS 40s DECADE VARIANT by TBA They've battled rampaging gods, enraged Eternals, sinister Skrulls, Avengers Dark and Mighty, armed-to-the-teeth Amazons, and literally gone to Hell and back together. But now, after all this time, and all those adventures, the team-up between Hercules and Amadeus Cho may be...no more! What shocking secret is revealed in this issue that could ruin their friendship forever? Find out here, then come right back next month for a MAJOR change in status in the title that will always be 'INCREDIBLE'! 32 pages. Rated T.
Written by GREG PAK & FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by REILLY BROWN (#132) & RODNEY BUCHEMI (#133) Covers by RAFAEL ALBUQUERQUE Incredible Hercules #132 70th Anniversary Variant by MARKO DJURDJEVIC Incredible Hercules #133 70th Frame Variant by SALVA ESPIN Beginning a storyarc so earth-shattering, so momentous, so, well, incredible, we just had to give it to you TWICE A MONTH! (Well, for the three months, anyway). When terrible threats rise in Svartalfheim, the land of the Dark Elves, only Mighty Thor, Son of Asgard, can hope to triumph! But what happens if the Odinson is temporarily...unavailable? It's Hammer Time for Hercules as the Lion of Olympus gets his thunder on! Meanwhile, in Incredible Hercules 133, the Secret Origin of AMADEUS CHO begins! Who really killed Amadeus' family? What is his true relation to Hercules? And, most importantly, what is the connection between him and The Twelve's MASTER MIND EXCELLO? Everyone's favorite irascible boy genius is after the answers himself -- but to get them he's going to have to go through his arch-nemesis, PYTHAGORAS DUPREE, the sixth-smartest man on Earth! 32 pages. (each)/Rated T (each)
Written by GREG PAK & FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by REILLY BROWN Cover by RAFAEL ALBERQUERQUE 'The Replacement Thor' continues as the Mighty Hercules, wearing the Thunder God's togs and towing a most unexpected guest star along to provide the pyrotechnics, descends to mysterious Svartalfheim to save the day from a new threat among the Dark Elves. But everything changes when the wicked Elven Queen turns out to be as languorously lovely as she is lethal! What Would Thor Do? Probably not what happens in this book! 32 pages. Rated T
Written by GREG PAK & FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by RODNEY BUCHEMI Cover by RAFAEL ALBERQUERQUE AMADEUS CHO is MASTER MIND EXCELLO! Heroically parachuting behind enemy lines! Bravely rescuing beautiful secret agents imprisoned inside the death traps of a mad Nazi genius! And discovering for the first time what the real nature of his powers are as his secret origin continues -- at last the truth can be revealed here! 32 pages. Rated T
Written by FRED VAN LENTE & GREG PAK Penciled by REILLY BROWN (#136) & RODNEY BUCHEMI (#137) Covers by RAFAEL ALBERQUERQUE Issue #136 Zombie Variant by TBA The face-off Herc fans have been clamoring for since his series began is here at last! God of Strength versus God of Thunder! Adamantine mace versus uru hammer! Olympian versus Asgardian! Incredible versus Mighty! That's right -- HERCULES battles THOR! The Odinson discovers the Lion of Olympus has been impersonating him and he's out to prove nothing beats the original! Then, in #137, the epic Secret Origin of Amadeus Cho concludes! He learns his connection with the original MASTER MIND EXCELLO and the identity of who really killed his parents! And once Amadeus knows this, will he look to reunite with Hercules... or destroy him? 32 pages. (each)/Rated T (each)
Written by GREG PAK & FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by RODNEY BUCHEMI Wraparoudn Cover by ADI GRANOV ASSAULT ON NEW OLYMPUS: Part 1 (of 4) A battle of god-like proportions begins...right now! For months, the signs have been all over the Marvel Universe... The tension has been rising... All pointing to a single question: ""What is CONTINUUM?"" The answer turns out to be so deadly, so horrifying, that it will alter the course of the MU forever -- unless Hercules and the New and Mighty Avengers can stop it in time... but standing in their way is the fighting-mad ARES, God of War! ""And, in our backup tale, there's no love for Venus as Aphrodite's rain of pain continues to pour on the Agents of Atlas!"" 40 pages. /Rated T
INCREDIBLE HERCULES #114 - A 32 page comic published by Marvel Comics. [Written by Greg Pak & Fred Van Lente / Penciled by Khoi Pham / Cover by Art Adams]
LOVE AND WAR, Part 2 - What's an Atlantean/Amazon war without the Avenging Son himself? For the first time since ""World War Hulk,"" Hercules, Prince of Power, faces off against Namor, Prince of Atlantis! Meanwhile, an infatuated Amadeus Cho dances on the edge of doom with a deadly Amazonian princess -- and loves it, baby! Cover by CLAYTON HENRY & GURU eFX and a Zombie Variant by TBA. [Written by Greg Pak & Fred Van Lente / Art by Clayton Henry]
In the wake of WORLD WAR HULK, the Mighty Avengers are hot on the heels of unrepentant renegades Hercules and Amadeus Cho. Driven into a mindless berserker rage by Ares, Herc has become the critical piece of Cho's plan to utterly destroy S.H.I.E.L.D. What is Cho's master plan to wipe out the spy agency...and is he willing to get Herc killed to do it? Guest-starring the Champions of Los Angeles! Yes, seriously. Collecting INCREDIBLE HERCULES #112-115 and Hulk vs. Hercules: When Titans Collide. [Written by GREG PAK & FRED VAN LENTE / Penciled by KHOI PHAM, REILLY BROWN, ERIC NGUYEN & BOB LAYTON]
From Hulk to Herc and still Incredible! WORLD WAR HULK is over, the man-monster Hulk defeated and imprisoned following an earth-shaking battle that left both allies and enemies struggling to pick up the pieces. Having sided with the Hulk, legendary demigod Hercules and boy genius Amadeus Cho are now outlaws, a situation further inflamed by Cho's grudge against the super-spy agency S.H.I.E.L.D. and Herc's feud with his estranged half-brother - Ares, god of war, who isn't above abusing his new federal clout for the sake of sibling rivalry. It's Marvel's mightiest manhunt, guest-starring Wonder Man and the Black Widow - plus an untold tale pitting Hercules against the Incredible Hulk! Collecting INCREDIBLE HULK 112-115 AND HULK VS. HERCULES: WHEN TITANS COLLIDE. [Written by Greg Pak & Fred Van Lente / Penciled by Khoi Pham, Eric Nguyen, Reilly Brown & Bob Layton]
Written by GREG PAK & FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by RODNEY BUCHEMI Cover by ADI GRANOV The Fourth Extinction is nigh! Hera's plot to become the universe's ultimate goddess has reached its final stage: With Continuum unleashed, the destruction of mankind is here! But the heroes of Earth and Olympus won't go down without a fight! Witness Hercules' final showdown with the nihilistic god, Typhon! Behold the evolution of Amadeus Cho into the kind of champion Athena has been grooming him to be! Watch as the combined faces of the New and Mighty Avengers race through legions of Amazon warriors! And be there as Peter Parker puts the moves on Hercules' hot babe of a wife! Collecting INCREDIBLE HERCULES #138-141 & ASSAULT ON NEW OLYMPUS PROLOGUE. 136 pages. /Rated T
Written by FRED VAN LENTE & GREG PAK Penciled by RODNEY BUCHEMI, DIETRICH SMITH & RYAN STEGMAN Cover by ED MCGUINNESS Proudly presenting, for the first time in Marvel continuity ... the ORIGIN OF HERCULES! How did the young man who becomes the Lion of Olympus learn of his divine heritage? In what battle did he earn the title 'Prince of Power?' And, most importantly, why does the goddess HERA hate him so, now that her DARK REIGN begins to fall across New Olympus? Also, in the aftermath of the Skrull invasion, AMADEUS CHO goes on 'The Quest for Kirby!' Collecting INCREDIBLE HERCULES #126-131. 152 pages. Rated T
Written by FRED VAN LENTE & GREG PAK Penciled by RODNEY BUCHEMI, DIETRICH SMITH & RYAN STEGMAN Cover by ED MCGUINNESS Hercules heads into the heart of darkness! Are you ready for more Marvel action and adventure with the sometimes ill-tempered, often addle-brained, but always lovable Prince of Power, Hercules? First up is a head-on battle with Norman Osborn and his evil Dark Avengers. Next on tap is a trip through the Stygian depths to Tartarus on a bold mission to help Herc's sister, Athena, restore Olympus. And to top it all off, a Marvel milestone for the ages! Forget Wolverine! A classic origin tale is spun as Hercules' ascent from mere mortal to the Olympian heights of godhood is finally revealed! It doesn't matter whether he's in ancient Thebes or living under Norman Osborn's Dark Reign - Hercules is ready to rumble! Collecting INCREDIBLE HERCULES #126-131. 160 pages. /Rated T
The Greek Goliath is looking for some R&R after the events of ""Sacred Invasion,"" and hopes to find it in the arms of ex-Renegade NAMORA. But there's no rest for warriors when the AMAZONS declare war on Atlantis! And these ain't your mama's. [Written by Fred Van Lente / Penciled by Clayton Henry & Salva Espin / Cover by Bob Layton & Guru Efx]
Written by GREG PAK & FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by CLAYTON HENRY & SALVA ESPIN Cover by BOB LAYTON & GURU EFX Marvel's Amazons are ready to rip, rend, smash, bash, eliminate, annihilate and just plain violate any man, woman or god that dares get in their way. Led by Princess Artume, daughter of the Amazon queen Hippolyta, these Amazons aren't gonna wimp out when it's their turn in the ring - or in the boudoir! Amazons are unleashed as Hercules and sidekick Amadeus Cho find themselves unwittingly wound up in Artume's insidious plot, one that eventually draws in plenty of other Marvel heroes and gods from the pantheon! Love and War is a story full of action and unbridled humor, with Herc just the way you like - no, love - him. Charming, dumb and getting away with it! Collecting INCREDIBLE HERCULES #121-125. 128 pages. / Rated A
Written by GREG PAK & FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by REILLY BROWN & RODNEY BUCHEMI Cover by RAFAEL ALBERQUERQUE When terrible threats rise in Svartalfheim, the land of the Dark Elves, only Mighty Thor, Son of Asgard, can hope to triumph! But what happens if the Odinson is temporarily...unavailable? It's Hammer Time for Hercules as the Lion of Olympus gets his thunder on! Meanwhile, the Secret Origin of AMADEUS CHO is finally revealed! Who really killed Amadeus' family? What is his true relation to Hercules? And, most importantly, what is the connection between him and The Twelve's MASTER MIND EXCELLO? Everyone's favorite irascible boy genius is after the answers himself -- but to get them he's going to have to go through his arch-nemesis, PYTHAGORAS DUPREE, the sixth-smartest man on Earth! Collecting INCREDIBLE HERCULES #132-137. 144 pages. /Rated T
Written by GREG PAK & FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by REILLY BROWN & ARIEL OLIVETTI Cover by HUMBERTO RAMOS The Lion of Olympus has fallen. And as the Heroic Age dawns, the Golden Mace of Hercules passes to a new Prince of Power...who just happens to be Herc's best friend, Korean-American kid genius Amadeus Cho. But when Amadeus finally reveals what he plans to do with his new power, the heavens themselves may shatter as Marvel's mightiest pantheons are shaken to the core! And wait a minute...what's THOR doing here? Fan fave writers Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente and beloved ""Thorcules"" artist Reilly Brown bring the thunder with the next essential chapter in the mind-blowing, heart-wrenching, and gut-busting epic that is the ""Incredible Hercules"" experience! Plus, when the most beloved Olympian of all time falls, who will mourn him? Acclaimed artist Ariel Olivetti joins Pak and Van Lente for a mini-epic that marks the end of an era and the beginning of something utterly unexpected for Hercules, the Lion of Olympus. Collecting HEROIC AGE: PRINCE OF POWER #1-4 and HERCULES: FALL OF AN AVENGER #1-2. 160 pages. /Rated T
Written by GREG PAK & FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by RAFA SANDOVAL, CLAYTON HENRY & SALVA ESPIN Cover by JOHN ROMITA JR. The SECRET INVASION has begun, and Earth is overrun by Skrull shape-shifters on a holy crusade to remake the universe in their image. But the goddess Athena has a solution: if you want to destroy the Skrulls: kill their gods. To this end, Athena's brother, Hercules, leads a uniquely divine strike force - including Inuit demigoddess Snowbird, Eternal warrior-scholar Ajak, the monstrous god-eater Demogorge and evil Japanese trickster deity Amatsu Mikaboshi, plus Herc's boy-genius sidekick Amadeus Cho and his faithful coyote pup. Together, they embark on a celestial voyage to the realm of the Skrull gods, finding romance, camaraderie and treachery among their ranks along the way. Then, Amazons are unleashed as Hercules and sidekick Amadeus Cho find themselves unwittingly wound up in Artume's insidious plot, one that eventually draws in plenty of other Marvel heroes and gods from the pantheon! Collecting INCREDIBLE HERCULES #116-125. 264 pages. /Rated T
The Greek Goliath gathers the most powerful super-team ever assembled to counter-attack the Skrull gods! Face front, True Believers, and prepare for the pantheon-pounding premiere of...THE GOD SQUAD! Collecting INCREDIBLE HERCULES #116-120. Cover by JOHN ROMITA JR.. [Written by Greg Pak & Fred Van Lente / Penciled by Rafa Sandoval /.]
Written by GREG PAK & FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by GARY FRANK, KHOI PHAM, ERIC NGUYEN, REILLY BROWN & BOB LAYTON Cover by GARY FRANK When the Hulk returns to Earth for the senses-shattering events of World War Hulk, we can all guess which puny humans will fight against him. But which of Earth's heroes will fight for the Hulk? Don't miss the shocking revelations as Amadeus Cho, the boy genius who took on Reed Richards on behalf of the Hulk in INCREDIBLE HULK #100, confronts She-Hulk and Doc Samson - and precipitates a gamma-powered smash-fest in the wilds of Jersey! Then, the dust has settled after WORLD WAR HULK and Hercules and Amadeus Cho find themselves outlaws, a situation further inflamed by Cho's grudge against the super-spy agency S.H.I.E.L.D. and Herc's feud with his estranged half-brother - Ares, god of war, who isn't above abusing his new federal clout for the sake of sibling rivalry. It's Marvel's mightiest manhunt, guest-starring Wonder Man and the Black Widow. Then, the Greek Goliath gathers the most powerful super-team ever assembled to counter-attack the Skrull gods! Face front, True Believers, and prepare for the pantheon-pounding premiere of...THE GOD SQUAD! All this plus an untold tale pitting Hercules against the Incredible Hulk! Collecting INCREDIBLE HULK #106-112, INCREDIBLE HERCULES #113-115 and HULK VS. HERCULES: WHEN TITANS COLLIDE. 248 PGS/All Ages .
Written by GREG PAK & FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by REILLY BROWN & RODNEY BUCHEMI Cover by RAFAEL ALBERQUERQUE It is said of the mystic uru hammer Mjolnir that whosoever holds it shall possess the power of the Mighty Thor, if he be worthy. But what if he be Hercules? Get ready for a heaping helping of hammer-heaving, Shakespearean-sounding, cape-flapping dramedy as Thor's reputation for mightiness is mercilessly undone by a most irreverent impostor. Not Loki, not a Skrull, but the son of Zeus himself! Plus: the mind-bending secret origin of Amadeus Cho! Collecting INCREDIBLE HERCULES #132 -137. 152 pages. /Rated T.
CLASSIFIED! [Written by Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente Penciled by Khoi Pham Cover by Art Adams]
Written by GREG PAK & FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by ARIEL OLIVETTI & MICHAEL RYAN Cover by ARIEL OLIVETTI Variant Cover by ED MCGUINNESS 70th Frame Variant by MICHAEL GOLDEN Gamma fans rejoice -- the rumors are true! The INCREDIBLE HULK book returns as an ongoing series written by acclaimed PLANET HULK and WORLD WAR HULK scribe Greg Pak! 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! With art by Ariel Olivetti (CABLE) and introducing a new, regular bonus backup SAVAGE SHE-HULK story written by Fred Van Lente and drawn by Michael Ryan! 40 pages. /Rated T
Written by GREG PAK Pencils & Cover by ARIEL OLIVETTI Savage She-Hulk backup by FRED VAN LENTE & MICHAEL RYAN 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! What happens when an unstoppable force meets the Old Power and the gamma-fueled genes of the Strongest One There Is? Massive destruction and emotional revelation, that's what! Continuing the acclaimed writer Greg Pak's return to the 'Incredible Hulk,'plus, in the 'Savage She-Hulk' backup story written by Fred Van Lente, Lyra takes on the all-new Gamma Corps Black! 40 pages. Rated T
Written by GREG PAK & FRED VAN LENTE Pencils by ARIEL OLIVETTI & MICHAEL RYAN Cover by ARIEL OLIVETTI After picking fights with the Juggernaut, Norman Osborn, and the Wolverine clan, the most insane father and son team in the Marvel Universe might actually be bonding. But everything's about to blow wide open for Bruce Banner and his big, green, barbarian son Skaar when one of the Hulk's greatest enemies brings back the most important villainess Bruce Banner's ever faced. Who is the Harpy? And whose side will Banner take when she and Skaar meet sword to claw in a gamma-powered deathmatch? Stone might bleed, feathers might fly, and hearts might break in the highest stakes battle yet for Banner and Son! Plus, The Savage SHE-HULK continues her quest to find Jennifer Walters in a back-up by Fred Van Lente and Michael Ryan! 40 pages. /Rated A
Written by GREG PAK & FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by ARIEL OLIVETTI & MICHAEL RYAN Cover by ARIEL OLIVETTI; 70th Anniversary Variant Cover by MARKO DJURDJEVIC Tyrannus returns! Manhattan crumbles! Moloids attack! And only Bruce Banner and the Son of Hulk can save the day! Unless, of course, Skaar decides to join the monsters...The first big storyline in the all-new ""Incredible Hulk"" comes to a senses-shattering climax as Bruce Banner discovers whether his take-your-savage-barbarian-son-to-work program has been a rousing success -- or the biggest disaster visited upon the Marvel Universe since ""World War Hulk""! Plus: the All-New Savage She-Hulk's quest to find Jennifer Walters reaches its conclusion -- with a stunning twist!. 40 pages. /Rated A
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Pencils by STEVE KURTH 50/50 Cover by FRANCIS TSAI 50/50 Cover by SALVADOR LARROCA Variant Cover by RYAN MEINERDING MOVIE VARIANT ALSO AVAILABLE The Armored Avenger's second on-going series kicks off with a bang as the WAR OF THE IRON MEN begins here! Tony Stark's worst fears are realized when stolen Iron Man technology is used for ethnic cleansing in a civil war-ravaged land. When he defies U.S. government orders to confront the armored assassins himself, Stark sets off an international conflagration that threatens his friends, his company, and his very life -- and sets him on a collision course with China and Russia, and their champions, Radioactive Man, Titanium Man and the Crimson Dynamo! Guest-stars galore! And a shocking last page reveal of the classic Shell-head villain behind it all you won't want to miss! 40 pages. /Rated T.
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by STEVE KURTH Cover by BRANDON PETERSON Heroic Age Variant by TBA WAR OF THE IRON MEN! Tony Stark wages a one-man invasion of Transia to hunt down and destroy the renegade Iron Men, setting off an international conflagration that threatens to engulf his friends, his company, and everything he's worked for! All this sets the stage for a jaw-dropping, no-holds-barred, heavy-metal armored slugfest the likes of which you've never seen! When the mysterious source behind the Iron Men is revealed on the last page, you won't believe your eyesand neither will Tony! [(w) Fred Van Lente (a) Steve Kurth (ca) Brandon Peterson]
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by STEVE KURTH Cover by SALVADOR LARROCA Special Variant by TBA The ""WAR OF THE IRON MEN"" escalates, but how! Captured by his enemies, stripped of the Iron Man suit, Tony Stark seems helpless, the way he was back in that cave in Afghanistan all those years agobut unlike that Tony, this Tony has been taught hand-to-hand combat by Captain America himself! Armor? We don't need no stinking armorBut with an old foe hot on his tail, he might want to rig up a brand-new weapon - and fast! 32 pages. /Rated T
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by STEVE KURTH Cover by BRANDON PETERSON Did we say "War of the Iron Men?" We meant "WORLD War of the Iron Men"! Russia and China have gotten involved and sent their own super-powered champions TITANIUM MAN, CRIMSON DYNAMO and RADIOACTIVE MAN to bring Iron Man out of Transia -- dead or alive! It's all-out armored action, and whoever wins, turns out they lose: As the true Big Bad stands ready to swoop in and claim the spoils! 32 pages. /Rated T [Brandon Peterson]
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by STEVE KURTH Cover by TRAVEL FOREMAN IRON MAN VS. DOCTOR DOOM, as you've never seen it before! ""War of the Iron Men"" reaches its epic climax! Latveria invades Transia with a Doombot army, and Shellhead only has a hastily formed alliance with Radioactive Man and the Crimson Dynamo to defend against it! Tony Stark learns who betrayed the secrets of his armor to the Transians -- and the revelation will change his life (and yours, we have no doubt) forever! 32 pages. /Rated T
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by STEVE KURTH Cover by JUAN DOE The second action-packed story arc begins here! Come back with us to a time when Tony Stark lost his company and his fortune to his greatest enemy, Obadiah Stane. Forced to rebuild a new company from scratch, Tony arrives in a run-down Los Angeles neighborhood and brings the people jobs, hope, and a new beginning -- but unbeknownst to Tony, this district is under the iron thumb of the super-villain lords of L.A. -- THE PRIDE! The Runaways' super-powered parents will do everything they can to destroy this new enterprise, but this is Tony Stark they're messing with here. And he -- and the people he's inspired -- won't give up the streets without a fight! 32 pages. /Rated T
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by STEVE KURTH Cover by JUAN DOE ""INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION"" continues! The now-destitute TONY STARK begins his climb back to the top of the financial heap by bringing hope to Los Angeles' impoverished Imperio neighborhood, but THE PRIDE, secret masters of LA, just as desperately want to keep the people in chains. So they've hired the SERPENT SOCIETY to kill Tony Stark at any cost, and it's a duel to the death between SIDEWINDER and his squad of snaked-themed super villains! SSSSSS! 32 pages. /Rated T.
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by STEVE KURTH Cover by JUAN DOE Caught between the SERPENT SOCIETY on one side and THE PRIDE on the other in his attempts to remake the impoverished Imperio neighborhood in Los Angeles, TONY STARK makes the daring move to take his case directly to the people themselves-but can anything make them stand up against the super villain masters of L.A.? One thing might, when IRON MAN makes an appearance-except at the moment it's JIM RHODES under the golden mask, and he's not too thrilled with what Tony is doing! Find out why here! 32 pages. /Rated T
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by STEVE KURTH Cover by JUAN DOE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: Part 4 The residents of Imperio storm and occupy the factory TONY STARK needs to remake his fortune and prepare for a lengthy siege -- but even with JIM RHODES as IRON MAN backing him up, can they withstand what THE PRIDE can throw at them -- everything from super powers to the bought-and-paid-for LAPD? Tony may have to call in some backup -- from his allies in THE ILLUMINATI! 32 pages. /Rated T
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by STEVE KURTH Cover by JUAN DOE Variant Cover by MARKO DJURDJEVIC INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION (Part 5 of 6) Before their children, the RUNAWAYS, became their greatest nemeses, the villainous PRIDE of Los Angeles faced their greatest threat when a destitute and penniless TONY STARK came to Los Angeles. Through cats-paws both super powered and mundane they tried to break him, but every attempt failed. But now they've made a mistake by kidnapping the person closest to him and sacrificing her to their dark masters, THE GIBBORIM. Tony will do everything to get her back, including attacking The Pride on their own turf ... with some surprise guest-stars in tow!!! 32 pages. /Rated T
They're baaaaaaaaack! Spymaster! Jolt! Plantman! Blacklash! Some of the worst baddies ever to stain the pages of Marvel Adventures Iron Man have teamed up in this one-shot to destroy Tony Stark's armored alter ego once and for all in the most cunning, evil plan ever conceived by ... Tony's secretary, PEPPER POTTS?!? [Written by Fred Van Lente & Margot Blankier / Art by Juan Santacruz]
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by STEVE KURTH Cover by JUAN DOE Come back with us to a time when Tony Stark lost his company and his fortune to his greatest enemy, Obadiah Stane. Forced to rebuild a new company from scratch, Tony arrives in a rundown Los Angeles neighborhood - and brings the people jobs, hope and a new beginning. But unknown to Tony, this district is under the iron thumb of the super villain lords of L.A.: the Pride! The Runaways' super-powered parents will do everything they can to destroy this new enterprise, but this is Tony Stark they're messing with here. And he - and the people he's inspired - won't give up the streets without a fight! Collecting IRON MAN LEGACY #6-11. 144 pages. /Rated T
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by STEVE KURTH Cover by JUAN DOE Iron Man loses everything! Tony Stark's life is in a downward spiral. Obadiah Stane has taken his company and his fortune, leaving Stark to live on the streets of Los Angeles. He is even too destitute to fuel his armor, and his fellow heroes have decided not to help him to see whether the once-great man can build himself back up. Believing he can help the residents of his new neighborhood, the impoverished Imperio section of L.A., Tony begins to rebuild his company and his life with the help of some new friends. Unfortunately for Stark, nothing happens in the City of Angels without the group of villains known as the Pride's consent. And knowing Iron Man is a threat to their criminal empire, they quickly target Stark for destruction! Outnumbered and outgunned, powerless and penniless, Tony Stark has everything to fight for and nothing to lose! Collecting IRON MAN LEGACY #6-11.
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by STEVE KURTH Cover by FRANCIS TSAI Tony Stark's worst fears are realized when stolen Iron Man technology is used for ethnic cleansing in a civil war-ravaged land. When he defies U.S. government orders to confront the armored assassins himself, Stark sets off an international conflagration that threatens his friends, his company, and his very life -- and sets him on a collision course with China and Russia, and their champions, Radioactive Man, Titanium Man and the Crimson Dynamo! Guest-stars galore! Collecting IRON MAN LEGACY #1-5 and IRON MAN: HARD RAIN. 136 pages. /Rated T
The Armored Avenger blasts through the second arc of his solo title in the critically acclaimed, best-selling Marvel Adventures line! Tony Stark shows off some of the various incarnations of his armor, including the Deep Sea Armor and Space Armor as he fights the Techno-pirates, the Living Laser and more! Collecting MARVEL ADVENTURES IRON MAN #5-8. [Written by Fred Van Lente / Penciled by Rafa Sandoval, James Cordeiro & Graham Nolan / Cover by Skot]
A trio of priceless tridents has been stolen from Atlantis, and the prime suspect is ... the Invisible Woman! Can Mr. Fantastic trade his scientist's hat for a detective's and uncover the real culprits before the SUB-MARINER declares war on the surface world? [Written by Fred Van Lente Penciled by Clay Mann Cover by Carlo Pagulayan]
The Human Torch falls into a probability rift and finds himself flung across innumerable alternate realities, including: a world where a heroic Victor Von Doom, a.k.a. Doc Iron, battles against Mr. Devious, Monsterman, The Human Pyre, and The Unstoppable Woman ... a.k.a. The Frightful Four, a world where the Femmetastic Four defends a world completely depopulated of men (then Johnny shows up) and a world where Johnny's arch-nemesis runs the FF ... That's right, SPIDER-MAN! Can The Watcher help Torch get back to his timeline, or will he wander forever through ""The Worlds of What If?"" And a warm welcome to new cover artist PAUL SMITH! [Written by FRED VAN LENTE - Penciled by CORY HAMSCHER - Cover by PAUL SMITH]
And you thought meeting your girlfriend's parents was uncomfortable... The Human Torch invites his new heartthrob Crystal's family over to the Baxter Building for dinner with his family without realizing they're Black Bolt, Medusa, Gorgon, Triton, Karnak and Lockjaw ... The Inhumans! When agents of Maximus The Mad show up to capture them, you can be sure knowing which fork to use will be the least of the FF's problems... [Written by Fred Van Lente / Penciled by Cory Hamscher / Cover by Paul Smith]
The populace of Earth hates and fears the stranded SILVER SURFER. But he falls in with a TV self-help guru who encourages him to win the planet over to his side -- by solving all the world's problems! Wielding the Power Cosmic, the Silver Surfer single-han [Written by Fred Van Lente Penciled by Cory Hamscher Cover by Paul Smith]
All adventure, all action, for all ages! Join Mr. Fantastic, the Invisible Woman, the Human Torch and the Thing for a wild ride of all-new, unforgettable exploits. Featuring the Mole Man, the Skrulls, Rama-Tut and the Sub-Mariner! Collecting MARVEL ADVENTURES FANTASTIC FOUR #21-24. [Written by Fred Van Lente / Penciled by Clay Mann / Cover by Carlo Pagulayan]
The Armored Avenger blasts into the newest title in the critically-acclaimed, best-selling Marvel Adventures line! Who is Iron Man, the world-renowned symbol of mega-conglomerate Stark International? And what terrible secret from his past forces billionaire inventor Tony Stark to become the Golden Guardian? Find out here! Collecting MARVEL ADVENTURES IRON MAN #1-4. [Written by Fred Van Lente Penciled by James Cordeiro and Ronan Cliquet Cover by Michael Golden]
The Armored Avenger blasts through the third arc of his solo title in the critically acclaimed, best-selling Marvel Adventures line! Featuring an army of gray Iron Man armor automatons; the Chameleon; the spectacular Spider-Woman; the Living Laser; Canada's greatest super heroes, Alpha Flight; Kiber the Cruel; and the return of Tony Stark's missing father! Collecting MARVEL ADVENTURES IRON MAN #9-12. [Written by Fred Van Lente / Penciled by Graham Nolan & Scott Koblish / Cover by Francis Tsai]
The Armored Avenger powers through more exciting, all-ages adventures! Featuring Hulk, Spider-Man, Ant-Man, Jolt, Plantman and Backlash! Collecting MARVEL ADVENTURES IRON MAN #13, IRON MAN: GOLDEN AVENGER #1, MARVEL ADVENTURES IRON MAN& HULK - FREE COMIC BOOK DAY 2007 EDITION, MARVELADVENTURES IRON MAN & HULK & SPIDER-MAN - FREE COMIC BOOK DAY 2008 EDITION.
[Written by Fred Van Lente,Jeff Parker, Paul Tobin &Margot Blankier / Penciled by Scott Koblish,Alvin]
The all-new, all-ages, all-action fun continues! It's wall-to-wall mayhem in the Mighty Marvel Manner with four original tales of everybody's favorite teenage wall-crawler! Featuring Doctor Octopus, the Green Goblin and Venom! Plus: Will Harry Osborn succumb to his family's evil legacy and don the guise of the Goblin? Collecting MARVEL ADVENTURES SPIDER-MAN #33-36. [Written by FRED VAN LENTE / Penciled by CORY HAMSCHER / Cover by DAVID NAKAYAMA]
All adventure, all action, for all ages! Join Mr. Fantastic, the Invisible Woman, the Human Torch and the Thing for a wild ride of all-new, unforgettable exploits. Featuring the Watcher, alternate-reality versions of Dr. Doom and Spider-Man, and more! Collecting MARVEL ADVENTURES FANTASTIC FOUR #25-28. [Written by FRED VAN LENTE / Penciled by CORY HAMSCHER / Cover by PAUL SMITH]
Board up Avengers Tower! Lock down the Baxter Building! The ravenous hordes of Marvel Zombies are invading ... the Marvel Universe! That's right, the next chapter of the MZ saga is a non-stop in-continuity gorefest with major implications for at least one Marvel hero! When the super-undead stumble into the MU from the Man-Thing's Nexus of All Realities, all of Florida is quarantined against the zombie plague. Time is quickly running out for a cure, so the Initiative sends a most unlikely group of heroes into the Zombieverse on a desperate mission to find the one item they need before the whole MU is consumed! The scream team of Fred Van Lente (INCREDIBLE HERCULES) and Kev Walker (ANNIHILATION: NOVA) unite for a Marvel Zombies story like you've never seen before! Cover by GREG LAND. [Written by Fred Van Lente / Penciled by Kev Walker]
The monster hit shambles on! The intrepid robot heroes Machine Man and Jocasta have journeyed into the Zombieverse to secure the one item needed to save the Marvel Universe from undead infestation - but first they have to blast their way through the flesh-eating hordes of the Zombie Kingpin of New York! That's right, writer Fred Van Lente (INCREDIBLE HERCULES) and artist Kev Walker (ANNIHILATION: NOVA) are going to reveal what happened during the five-year gap at the end of the original MARVEL ZOMBIES!
[Written by Fred Van Lente / Penciled by Kev Walker / Cover by Greg Land]
The epic battle of Zombie vs. Robot shambles on! All that stands between the flesh-crazed armies of the Marvel Zombies and the entirety of the Marvel Universe is...Aaron ""Machine Man"" Stack? And if he has to shoot, slice, explode, melt, dissolve, chop, crush, dismember, fry, electrocute, bludgeon, blast, harpoon, and, of course, insult every super-powered cannibal in the Zombieverse, well, that's just what he's gonna do. But unbeknownst to him, the Zombie Kingpin has already hatched a fiendish plot to ensure that all of the M.U. will be consumed by an undead apocalypse! [Written by Fred Van Lente / Penciled by Kev Walker / Cover by Greg Land]
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by KEV WALKER Cover by ARTHUR SUYDAM Board up Avengers Tower! Lock down the Baxter Building! The ravenous hordes of Marvel Zombies are invading ... the Marvel Universe! That's right, the next chapter of the MZ saga is a non-stop in-continuity gorefest with major implications for at least one Marvel hero! When the super-undead stumble into the MU from the Man-Thing's Nexus of All Realities, all of Florida is quarantined against the zombie plague. Time is quickly running out for a cure, so the Initiative sends a most unlikely group of heroes into the Zombieverse on a desperate mission to find the one item they need before the whole MU is consumed! The scream team of Fred Van Lente (INCREDIBLE HERCULES) and Kev Walker (ANNIHILATION: NOVA) unite for a Marvel Zombies story like you"ve never seen before! Collecting MARVEL ZOMBIES 3 #1-4. 112 pages. /Parental Advisory .
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by KEV WALKER Cover by ARTHUR SUYDAM Run for your lives! The marvel zombies are invading our world! The flesh-eating inhabitants of a parallel world have come to Earth, aiming to spread their virus in a full-scale biological invasion. Interdimensional defense agency A.R.M.O.R. recruits Aaron Stack - the joke-spewing, multiple-weapon wielding Machine Man - to travel to the zombie-infested world with his long-lost robot love, the Mighty Avenger known as Jocasta. The squabbling duo only has eight hours to obtain the blood needed to create an anti-zombie serum and defeat the undead epidemic. But if they don't make it back in time, the Earth as we know it is doomed - especially as a zombie lurks within A.R.M.O.R.'s own secret headquarters! Collecting MARVEL ZOMBIES 3 #1-4. 112 pages. /Parental Advisory
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by KEV WALKER Cover by GREG LAND Variant Cover by ARTHUR SUYDAM The acclaimed creative team behind MARVEL ZOMBIES 3 returns...with another adventure that takes place in the Marvel U! The vampire. The witch. The werewolf. The muck-monster. The devil. They"re nobody's idea of heroes, but they"re all that stands between our world and an unstoppable apocalypse! They"re the new Midnight Sons, and their quest to track down the undead who escaped from A.R.M.O.R. will lead them around the globe-and right to a cruise ship overrun with undead undersea-dwelling cannibals! Can this monstrous team stop the "red tide" before it unleashes untold horror upon the mainland? Not if the Merc With Only a Mouth has anything to say about it! Yes, writer Fred Van Lente and artist Kev Walker-the guys who made IGN.com say "MARVEL ZOMBIES 3 may actually rank as the best in the series"-are back again, unleashing the flesh-eaters for another roller coaster ride of gore, action, gore, thrills, gore and gore! 32 pages. /Parental Advisory.
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by KEV WALKER Cover by ARTHUR SUYDAM When you have a pair of escaped, flesh-eating monsters on the loose, who do you send after them? More monsters, of course! Assembled by A.R.M.O.R. (Alternate Reality Monitoring and Operational Rescue), the all-new, all-horrific Midnight Sons are tasked with hunting down a pair of escaped zombies that carry an infection capable of wiping out not only the planet Earth, but the entire universe! Yes, it's up to Morbius, the Living Vampire; Werewolf by Night; the witch Jennifer Kale; and the Son of Satan himself, Daimon Hellstrom, to hunt down and neutralize the rapidly spreading infection carried by the classic Zombie, Simon Garth, and the severed yet still talking head of Deadpool! Collecting MARVEL ZOMBIES 4 #1-4. 112 pages. /Parental Advisory.
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by KANO Cover by ARTHUR SUYDAM MACHINE MAN IS BACK! Zombies of the multiverse, watch your rotting backs! To obtain a cure for the zombie virus for Morbius the Living Vampire, Aaron Stack, Agent of ARMOR, must traverse alternate realities hunting down the plague in all its myriad forms...with a most unusual (but somehow oddly appropriate) partner! First up: in the Alterniverse known as ""The Territory,"" the Old West never died. But when the greatest gunslingers of Marveldom - Two-Gun Kid, Phantom Rider, Kid Colt, and many others - rise from their graves in Boot Hill, the stage is set for a High Noon showdown with flesh-eating outlaws the likes of which you've never seen! Also featuring a trip to Camelot to battle the original Black Knight! Collecting MARVEL ZOMBIES 5 #1-5. 120 pages. /Parental Advisory.
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by KANO, MICHAEL W. KALUTA, FELIX RUIZ, FERNANDO BLANCO & FRANK BRUNNER Cover by ARTHUR SUYDAM Zombies on Infinite Earths! The zombie plague has been largely wiped out and the Earth spared from an undead apocalypse. But a cure to the virulent infection still proves elusive, due to the disease's ever-changing nature. To uncover an antidote, Machine Man and Howard the Duck have set out across the multiverse, in search of zombie samples to bring back to their laboratory base. Joining forces with the gunfighter known as Jacali Kane, they must travel to five distinct universes beset by their own unique zombie plagues. A universe stuck in the Wild West. A world overrun with malicious Martians. A land where Camelot is at its height. A cybernetic future megacity. And the world we call our own. Can Machine Man, Howard the Duck and Jacali Kane obtain the samples they need from each of these worlds?without becoming zombies themselves? Collecting MARVEL ZOMBIES 5 #1-5. 128 pages. / Parental Advisory
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by KEV WALKER Cover by ARTHUR SUYDAM The acclaimed creative team behind MARVEL ZOMBIES 3 returns...with another adventure that takes place in the Marvel U! The vampire. The witch. The werewolf. The muck-monster. The devil. They""re nobody's idea of heroes, but they""re all that stands between our world and an unstoppable apocalypse! They""re the new Midnight Sons, and their quest to track down the undead who escaped from A.R.M.O.R. will lead them around the globe-and right to a cruise ship overrun with undead undersea-dwelling cannibals! Can this monstrous team stop the ""red tide"" before it unleashes untold horror upon the mainland? Not if the Merc With Only a Mouth has anything to say about it! Yes, writer Fred Van Lente and artist Kev Walker-the guys who made IGN.com say ""MARVEL ZOMBIES 3 may actually rank as the best in the series""-are back again, unleashing the flesh-eaters for another roller coaster ride of gore, action, gore, thrills, gore and gore! Collecting MARVEL ZOMBIES 4 #1-4. 112 pages. /Parental Advisory
(W) Fred Van Lente (A) Ryan Dunlavey The best-selling, award-winning comic book series that tells the lives and thoughts of history's A-list brain trust in hip and hilarious fashion has been collected into a single volume! The stories from the original nine-issue run, plus four all-new stories only in this volume, have been placed in chronological order, making this the most complete comics history of ideas ever put on paper, beginning with the Pre-Socratics and ending with Jacques Derrida!
(W) Fred Van Lente (A) Queenie Chan A second all-new graphic novel adventure - following the hit success In Odd We Trust - starring Dean Koontz's immensely popular character, Odd Thomas. This new story is also set in the time just prior to the events of the original Odd Thomas novel, and stars Odd, Stormy, Odd's author friend Ozzie Boone, and many other characters beloved by fans of the full-length novels!
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by WELLINTON ALVES Covers by MIKE PERKINS Charging from the pages of SHADOWLAND comes the collector's item first ever POWER MAN & IRON FIST #1! When Danny Rand transformed his multinational corporation into a non-profit foundation, he thought he had left fighting behind - but with so many innocents wrongly convicted, the battle never ends! Their first case is Luke Cage and Danny Rand's former secretary Jennie Royce, imprisoned for a murder she didn't commit or did she? And Iron Fist isn't fighting alone - he's got a new partner with him: Victor Alvarez, the all-new Power Man, he of the exploding punches - and exploding temper! Can Danny train his new charge well enough to face returning foil El Aguila as well as new threats Don Pagliacci, the Commedia Dell""Morte, and the beautiful, deadly Noir? That's right, Marvel's original mismatched action duo begins a new era of greatness right here! 32 pages. /Rated A
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by WELLINTON ALVES Covers by MIKE PERKINS Charging from the pages of SHADOWLAND comes the collector's item first ever POWER MAN & IRON FIST #1! When Danny Rand transformed his multinational corporation into a non-profit foundation, he thought he had left fighting behind - but with so many innocents wrongly convicted, the battle never ends! Their first case is Luke Cage and Danny Rand's former secretary Jennie Royce, imprisoned for a murder she didn't commit or did she? And Iron Fist isn't fighting alone - he's got a new partner with him: Victor Alvarez, the all-new Power Man, he of the exploding punches - and exploding temper! Can Danny train his new charge well enough to face returning foil El Aguila as well as new threats Don Pagliacci, the Commedia Dell''Morte, and the beautiful, deadly Noir? That's right, Marvel's original mismatched action duo begins a new era of greatness right here! 32 pages. /Rated A
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by WELLINTON ALVES Cover by MIKE PERKINS Want super powers to make yourself a Black Ops wetwork specialist overnight? Need an ultra-tech weapon to take down the local government? If you have money to burn we have the ultimate illegal auction web site for you: TWILIGHT IDOL, where the equipment and DNA of great heroes of the Golden Age and today go to the highest anonymous bidder. Power Man and Iron Fist follow the clues to Crime-Buster's clues here, but to go any further they'll have to get past its owner, the world's greatest--and deadliest--gambler, POKERFACE! (Hold 'em like they do in Texas, please...) 32 pages. /Rated A
MEN OF MYSTERY, Part 4. Power Man and Iron Fist are ever closer to CRIME-BUSTER's murderer, but first that means revealing the secret of the beautiful, mysterious NOIR -- and Power Manis about to have his heart broken! Here you'll learn the shocking truth behind her origin and her vendetta against the neo-Nazi conspiracy known as the DIVINE RIGHT! And why is Iron Fist's old ally EL AGUILA seemingly allied with them? You won't believe your eyes!
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by WELLINTON ALVES & PERE PEREZ Cover by MIKE PERKINS Charging from the pages of SHADOWLAND comes the all-new POWER MAN & IRON FIST! When Danny Rand transformed his multinational corporation into a non-profit foundation, he thought he had left fighting behind - but with so many innocents wrongly convicted, the battle never ends! Their first case is Luke Cage and Danny Rand's former secretary, Jennie Royce, imprisoned for a murder she didn't commit - or did she? And Iron Fist isn't fighting alone. He's got a new partner: Victor Alvarez, the all-new Power Man, he of the exploding punches - and exploding temper! Can Danny train his young charge well enough to face returning foil El Aguila - as well as new threats Don Pagliacci; the Commedia Dell""Morte; and the beautiful, deadly Noir? That's right, Marvel's original mismatched action duo begins a new era of greatness right here! Collecting POWER MAN & IRON FIST (2011) #1-5. 120 pages. /Rated T
Alex, Julie, Jack, and Katie Power are just four regular kids, but in twenty-four hours, they're going to have to escape alien abduction, learn how to use their bizarre new super powers, rescue their parents from an intergalactic tyrant, and save Earth from total destruction! The origin of Marvel's premiere kid super-team establishes a new continuity for the Pack! [Written by Fred Van Lente / Penciled by Gurihiru & Colleen Coover / Cover by Gurihiru]
Alex, Julie, Jack and Katie Power are just four regular kids - but in twenty-four hours, they're going to have to escape alien abduction, learn how to use their bizarre new super powers, rescue their parents from an intergalactic tyrant and save Earth from total destruction! The origin of Marvel's premier kid super-team establishes a new continuity for the Pack! Collecting POWER PACK: YEAR ONE #1-4. [Written by Fred Van Lente / Penciled by Gurihiru & Colleen Coover / Cover by Gurihiru]
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Pencils by TBA Cover by ALEX GARNER From a world where society as we know it has crumbled and humanity has been irrevocably changed, she comes-the all-new, all-different SAVAGE SHE-HULK! But now, a deadly mission has brought her to current Marvel continuity. What terrible secret does this gamma-irradiated beauty bare? And is she friend or foe, Inhuman or mutant, Avenger, Defender...or Invader? Discover the mysteries surrounding this all-new superstar in the Marvel Universe as we proudly presents the all new SAVAGE SHE-HULK! Plus 8 pages of Director's Cut Extras! 40 pages. /Parental Advisory .
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by PETER VALE & MICHAEL RYAN Cover by ALEX GARNER From a world where society as we know it has crumbled and humanity has been irrevocably changed, she comes-the all-new, all-different SAVAGE SHE-HULK! But now, a deadly mission has brought her to current Marvel continuity. What terrible secret does this gamma-irradiated beauty bare? And is she friend or foe, Inhuman or mutant, Avenger, Defender...or Invader? Discover the mysteries surrounding this all-new superstar in the Marvel Universe as we proudly presents the all new SAVAGE SHE-HULK! Collecting SAVAGE SHE-HULK #1-4 and material from HULK FAMILY. 112 pages. Rated T
The Greek Goliath gathers the most powerful super-team ever assembled to counter-attack the Skrull gods! Face front,True Believers, and prepare for the pantheon-pounding premiere of...THE GOD SQUAD! Collecting INCREDIBLE HERCULES #116-120. [Written by Greg Pak & Fred Van Lente / Penciled by Rafa Sandoval / Cover by John Romita Jr]
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by MAHMUD ASRAR Cover by MIKE PERKINS Exploding out of the blood-strewn streets of Shadowland: the all-new, all-different Power Man! Who is he? Why is he one of the few heroes to oppose Daredevil's rule over Hell's Kitchen? And what is his connection to Daniel Rand's School of Thunder dojo...and the killer called Bullseye? That's what Luke Cage and Iron Fist must discover--before the vengeful swords of The Hand find this young mystery man first! All-out martial arts action begins here as Fred Van Lente (MARVEL ZOMBIES 3-5) and Mahmud Asrar (SIEGE: YOUNG AVENGERS) introduce a new star with a host of secrets! 40 pages. /Rated T
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by MAHMUD ASRAR Cover by MIKE PERKINS The war for New York's soul escalates big time when Luke Cage and Iron Fist take on the all-new, all-different Power Man! Who is the kid that can mop the floor with them both? And if that wasn't bad enough, the worst villains from Luke and Danny's past are crawling out of the woodwork en masse to take them on: Cockroach Hamilton! Comanche! Specs! Señor Muerte! Discuss! Stiletto! Why has this flash mob of colorful criminality suddenly swarmed against our heroes -- and what role does it play in the long-term schemes of The Hand? 32 pages. /Rated T
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by MAHMUD ASRAR Cover by MIKE PERKINS The Hand has discovered the new Power Man's secret identity! And for violating their edicts, he, his friends, and his family will now be dragged to Shadowland and put to the knife-unless Luke Cage and Iron Fist can save him in time! But does the new Power Man even want to be saved? 32 pages. /Rated T.
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by MAHMUD ASRAR Cover by MIKE PERKINS Exploding out of the blood-strewn streets of Shadowland: the all-new, all-different Power Man! Who is he? Why is he one of the few heroes to oppose Daredevil's rule over Hell's Kitchen? And what is his connection to Daniel Rand's School of Thunder dojo - and the killer called Bullseye? That's what Luke Cage and Iron Fist must discover, before the vengeful swords of the Hand find this young mystery man first! It's all-out martial arts action as Fred Van Lente (MARVEL ZOMBIES 3-5) and Mahmud Asrar (SIEGE: YOUNG AVENGERS) introduce a new star with a host of secrets! Collecting SHADOWLAND: POWER MAN #1-4 and material from X-MEN: CURSE OF THE MUTANTS SPOTLIGHT. 112 pages. /Rated T
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by MAHMUD ASRAR & RAY-ANTHONY HEIGHT Cover by MIKE PERKINS Hey, Iron Fist - meet the new Power Man! From the rubble of a destroyed tenement in Hell's Kitchen, a new hero rises to protect the citizens of New York - for a price! Opposing Daredevil's reign, the brash young vigilante makes himself a target for the vengeful blade of the Hand. What connection does he share with Danny Rand, and how will Iron Fist and Luke Cage - the original Power Man - protect him from the most despicable villains of their past? It's a Power Man and Iron Fist story like you've never seen before as the battle for the soul of New York City brings new heroes and villains to the forefront of the Marvel Universe! Collecting SHADOWLAND: POWER MAN #1-4 and material from X-MEN: CURSE OF THE MUTANTS SPOTLIGHT.
The mysterious identity of the man (Earthling? Skrull? Kymellian?) behind the intergalactic imprisonment of Power Pack is revealed - but you won't believe why he's framed Marvel's premiere all-kids super-team! This is the beginning of a new era in Pack history - If you're any kind of a PP fan at all, you simply can't afford to miss ""THE PROPHECY""! Featuring MINI MARVELS! [Written by Fred Van Lente & Chris Giarrusso / Penciled by Cory Hamscher & Chris Giarrusso / Cover by]
Sssshh! There's this invasion, see, and it's a secret... No, no, not that one. I mean the one where dastardly SKRULLS impersonate Marvel's premiere all-kids super hero team, commit crimes around the universe in their form, so intergalactic bounty hunters capture and imprison Alex, Julie, Jack and Katie in Space Juvie...the dreaded reform-school planet Hadith-VI! And the only ones with any hope of springing them are FRANKLIN RICHARDS, H.E.R.B.I.E., and SMARTSHIP FRIDAY! Collecting SKRULLS VS. POWER PACK #1-4. [Written by Fred Van Lente / Penciled by Cory Hamscher / Cover by Gurihiru]
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by GIUSEPPE CAMUNCOLI Cover by STEFANO CASELLI SPIDER-ISLAND TIE-IN! Jessica Drew and THE EVER-LOVIN"" THING go toe-to-toe over the one thing that can cure SPIDER-ISLAND ... Ben Grimm's old girlfriend, ALICIA MASTERS? What dark secret from Spider-Woman's past threatens to overwhelm her present -- and what old (insect-themed) foe is THE JACKAL bringing back and powering up to destroy the Dark Angel of the Marvel Universe?
Remember back in the day, when super heroes would fight other super heroes? What? That still happens? Civil...what? Well, ANYway...we're taking you back in time, when Spidey was pretty new at all this super hero stuff, and would make silly mistakes, like, oh, say..knocking out the Invisible Girl! I think her friends might want to have a talk with the web-crawler...Also! We've got a backup story featuring TWO Scorpions, Spider-Man J and classic Spidey archives ! [Written by PAUL TOBIN & FRED VAN LENTE - Penciled by PIERRE ALARY & LEONARD KIRK - Cover by PIERRE A]
The action begins with a feature-length tale starring Spider-Man's alien costume and guest-starring the Sandman! Peter Parker would love nothing more than to get a good night's sleep, but his sleek, symbiotic suit has plans of its own...and no one is gonna get in its way! Next, Venom is back in town, and he's on a rampage...but it has nothing to do with his vendetta against Spidey? What could be so important that Venom doesn't have the time to torture his nemesis? Peter Parker is determined to find out, but first he'll have to match journalistic wits with none other than Eddie Brock! And finally, remember back in the day, when super heroes would fight other super heroes? What? That still happens? Civil...what? Well, ANYway...we're taking you back in time, when Spidey was pretty new at all this super hero stuff, and would make silly mistakes, like, oh, say...knocking out the Invisible Girl! I think her friends might want to have a talk with the web-crawler. Plus: backup stories featuring the Lizard and TWO Scorpions! Collecting SPIDER-MAN FAMILY #1-3.
[Written by Sean McKeever, Paul Tobin & Fred Van Lente Penciled by Terrell Bobbett, Pierre Alary & Le]
Written by FRED VAN LENTE & ZEB WELLS Penciled by JEFTE PALO & XURXO PENALTA Cover by LEE WEEKS SOMETHING can stop the Juggernaut! The unlikeliest of foes, Spider-Man and Juggernaut have gone toe-to-toe multiple times in the past, each battle ending in one massive migraine for New York's favorite wall-crawler! But after each previous confrontation, at least Spidey could say he walked away alive. Not so this time, perhaps, as the web-slinger must face not only the once-unstoppable force of the Juggernaut, but also the cosmic entity that finally was able to stop him! Stuck between two of the universe's most awesome powers, SOMETHING may just stop Spider-Man - for good! Plus: The Hood holds an open casting call for someone to don the suit of the old Scorpion! How does this fit into the Kravinoffs' plans? And what is the new Scorpion, Carmilla Black, doing at the auditions? Collecting AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #626-629 & #229-230. 152 pages. /Rated A
Written by ZEB WELLS with FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by CHRIS BACHALO with JEFTE PALO & XURXO PENALTA Cover by CHRIS BACHALO ""Half-Man, Half-Reptilethe Lizard will take over all of Earth unless Spider-Man alone can stop him!"" With these words, Dr. Curt Connors, the man who would be The Lizard, ushered a new kind of villainy into Spider-Man's life. Now a widower with a son in foster care, and working at the bottom of the pharmaceutical industry, Connors is a broken, shell of a manhow long will it be before a Lizard breaks that shell?! How will it affect Peter Parker's date with Carlie Cooper?! How is THE BLACK CAT involved? Zeb Wells and Chris Bachalo reunite to bring you the next great Spider-Epic as The Lizard returns! Collecting AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #630-633 and material from AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #629 & WEB OF SPIDER-MAN #5. 128 pages. /Rated A
With an Age of Heroes unfolding around him, super-hero critic-in-chief J. Jonah Jameson finds himself the target of a vicious assassination plot courtesy of a pro-superhuman vigilante! Who is the Extremist? Why does he want to kill the mustachioed mayor? And why does he claim to be Spider-Man's greatest ally? Plus: Can Mary Jane save Spider-Man?! When Doc Tramma, Mr. Negative's scientist supreme and femme fatale, targets the life of Mary Jane Watson, she kidnaps her ex-beau, Peter Parker! With the help of the Black Cat, does MJ have what it takes to rescue the Amazing Spider-Man? Collecting material from WEB OF SPIDER-MAN #8-12.
Written by FRED VAN LENTE & BRIAN REED Penciled by BARRY KITSON, ROBERT ATKINS, STEPHAN ROUX, YANICK PAQUETTE & JAVIER PULIDO Cover by ADI GRANOV THE CHAMELEON returns with a terrifying new mission that has MAYOR J. JONAH JAMESON squarely in his sights! Meanwhile, the ANTI-SPIDER SQUAD narrows its dragnet around the Wall-Crawler, and Peter Parker gets a brand new job...will it bring him closer to the newly-returned MARY JANE, or push her further away? Collecting AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #602-605. 120 pages. /Rated A
Written by FRED VAN LENTE with BRIAN REED Penciled by BARRY KITSON, ROBERT ATKINS, JAVIER PULIDO, LUKE ROSS & YANICK PAQUETTE Cover by ADI GRANOV Who can forget MJ? Adored by many in the life of Peter Parker and cherished by the man himself, she's nonetheless been a stranger in these parts for some time now. But just when you'd given up hope, the red-headed stranger is back and looking better than ever! Mary Jane Watson returns in a tender story of reunion and rapprochement. But also returning to town is the Chameleon - and this master of disguise is creepier, more evil than ever before! Collecting AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #602-605. [(w) Fred Van Lente & Brian Reed (a) Various (ca) Adi Granov]
Written by FRED VAN LENTE & ROGER STERN Penciled by MICHAEL GAYDOS & LEE WEEKS Cover by LEE WEEKS When a pounding Spider-Sense headache leads Spider-Man to the comatose body of his biggest, toughest foe, he realizes that something -- or someone -- can indeed stop the Juggernaut! But who? How? And who are they coming for next? Can Spider-Man find out before it's too late? And will Peter Parker ever get to have dinner with Carlie Cooper? Roger Stern and Lee Weeks return to unravel the mystery. Plus, relive a classic encounter between Spidey and Juggernaut from Amazing Spider-Man #229 & #230! Collecting AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #626-629 & #229-230 152 pages. /Rated A [Lee Weeks]
While the heroes are away fighting World War Hulk, the villains can play...M.O.D.O.K., sick of being hunted and hounded by A.I.M., gathers together an eclectic team of Marvel's Most Wanted to pull off one last, big score. But news travels fast along the grapevine of villainy -- and pretty soon every bad guy in the Marvel Universe is gunning for the Big-Headed One's unspeakably powerful prize. Executing their heist may be the easy part, because getting away with their loot alive is going to be the real challenge for M.O.D.O.K.'s 11!
[Written by FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by FRANCIS PORTELA Cover by ERIC POWELL]
M.O.D.O.K. reveals the target of his heist to his handpicked team of Marvel's Most Wanted: the most powerful weapon in the universe, one that threatens the existence of all life on Earth. Meanwhile, Mentallo has figured out that one of M.O.D.O.K. 's team i [Written by Fred Van Lente / Penciled by Francis Portela / Cover by Marko Djurdjevic]
M.O.D.O.K.'s team executes its heist, penetrating the impenetrable fortress of THE INFINICIDE. And it goes off without a hitch! Psych! Actually, no. Pretty much everything that could go wrong does. Another traitor is revealed in their ranks. One of the 11 is stripped of his powers. A heretofore unknown mystery villain shows up out of nowhere to rip off their score. And did we mention the wave upon wave of unstoppable killer androids? No? Well, there are waves of them.
[Written by Fred Van Lente Penciled by Francis Portela Cover by Marko Djurdjevic]
Twist follows upon jaw-dropping twist as the greatest heist of this or any other century concludes! A.I.M. at last unleashes the full fury of the ULTRA-ADAPTOID against what remains of M.O.D.O.K.'s team. How can our ragtag gang of crooks possibly stand against a foe with the assembled powers of practically every hero in the Marvel Universe? Well, M.O.D.O.K. is smart enough to have more than one final trick up his sleeve. How smart is that? Really smart. Really, really smart. I mean, look how big his head is. [Written by FRED VAN LENTE / Penciled by FRANCIS PORTELA / Cover by MARKO DJURDJEVIC]
While the heroes are away fighting World War Hulk, the villains can play...M.O.D.O.K., sick of being hunted and hounded by A.I.M., gathers together an eclectic team of Marvel's Most Wanted to pull off one last, big score. But news travels fast along the grapevine of villainy - and pretty soon, every bad guy in the Marvel Universe is gunning for the Big-Headed One's unspeakably powerful prize. Executing their heist may be the easy part, because getting away with their loot alive is going to be the real challenge for M.O.D.O.K.'s 11! Collecting SUPER-VILLAIN TEAM-UP/M.O.D.O.K.'S 11 #1-5. [Written by Fred Van Lente / Penciled by Francis Portela / Cover by Marko Djurdjevic]
What could possibly be better than the latest collection of fear-filled tales introduced by the ever-punning Crypt-Keeper and his fellow GhouLunatics, the Old Witch and the Vault-Keeper? Well, how about even more stories than before? That's what you get when you combine the thrills and chills of Tales from the Crypt will the short and funny style of online videos! It's called U-Tomb, and it packs even more monsters, psychos, vampires, werewolves, and zombies into the pages of Tales from the Crypt than ever before! [Fred Van Lente, Mort Todd, John L. Lansdale & Jim Salicrup]
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by JEFTE PAOLO Cover by ALEX GARNER The fan-favorite anti-hero from AVENGERS: INITIATIVE explodes into his own mini-series! Taskmaster has trained hench-thugs for every terrorist organization and criminal cartel in the Marvel Universe. So when the rumor starts that he's turned traitor and now works for STEVE ROGERS, a billion-dollar bounty is put on his head, and every cadre of costumed fanatics -- A.I.M., Hydra, Ultimatum, the Sons of the Serpent, everyone -- looks to collect. Now Taskmaster has to fight hordes upon hordes of his psychopathic students while at the same time figuring out who framed him -- which requires him figuring out who he really is! That's right, the man with the photographic reflexes has no memory of his true identity -- and you'll learn the unexpected truth along with him! The action-packed SECRET ORIGIN of Taskmaster begins here, courtesy of New York Times bestselling writer Fred Van Lente (AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, INCREDIBLE HERCULES, MARVEL ZOMBIES) and acclaimed artist Jefte Paolo (DOCTOR VOODOO)! 40 pages. /Rated T
Taskmaster has trained henchmen for every terrorist organization and criminal cartel in the Marvel Universe. So when the rumor starts that he's turned traitor and now works for Steve Rogers, a billion-dollar bounty is put on his head. Now, every cadre of costumed fanatics — A.I.M., Hydra, Ultimatum, the Sons of the Serpent and more — is looking to collect. Taskmaster must fight hordes upon hordes of his psychopathic students while at the same time uncovering who framed him — which requires him figuring out who he really is! That's right, the man with the photographic reflexes has no memory of his true identity — and you'll learn the unexpected truth along with him! The action-packed secret origin comes courtesy of New York Times bestselling writer Fred Van Lente (AMAZING SPIDER-MAN) and acclaimed artist Jefte Paolo (DOCTOR VOODOO)! Collecting TASKMASTER #1-4 and material from AGE OF HEROES #3.
Tommy Zhou, The Weapon, has to rescue his partner Megan, before the forest demons Lin Kui, find the secrets of the sacred scroll of Bohidharma and kill her off. But, does Tommy know everything about his new partner, or is she hiding a secret that could be more dangerous than the traps in the Shan-Tao temple? Find out all this and more when you spend your 2.99 for this heart-stopping conclusion!
[Writer: Fred Van Lente / Art Scott Kublish / Colors: Paul Mounts]
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by PHILLIPE BRIONES & PEPE LARRAZ Cover by JELENA KEVIC-DJURDJEVIC FINAL ISSUE! WHO IS DOCTOR OCTOPUS?! As the good Doctor resurfaces in Spidey's life in ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES, get a glimpse into how Doc Ock came to be the multi-armed maniacal menace he is! THEN -- CAN MARY JANE RESCUE SPIDER-MAN?! When Doc Tramma, Mr. Negative's scientist supreme and femme fatale, targeted the life of Mary Jane Watson, she kidnapped her ex-beau, Peter Parker! With the help of THE BLACK CAT, MJ's prepared to rescue the Amazing Spider-Man! 40 pages. /Rated T
TONIGHT! On a brand-new ""When Teenage Mutant Girl Sleepovers Turn Deadly"": SIRYN and KITTY PRYDE get into a no-holds-barred throwdown of a catfight over COLOSSUS's love, with WOLVERINE caught in the middle! [Written by Fred Van Lente / Pencils & Cover by Salvador Espin]
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by FRANCIS PORTENA, HUGO PETRUS, SCOTT KOBLISH & GURIHIRU Cover by DAVID WILLIAMS Flashing claws versus fists of fury! That's right - Wolverine takes on SHANG-CHI, MASTER OF KUNG-FU! Then, though a lycanthrope's bite has turned Wolverine into a true raging beast of the night, he may have at last found peace in his werewolf pack. But when he learns that the focus of the pack's vengeance is Kitty Pryde's father, only Jack Russell, the Werewolf-by-Night, may be able to stop him in time! Plus, CYCLOPS returns to the X-Men! Will Kitty Pryde continue her training with him, or with Wolverine? Scott Summers and Logan duke it out over the right to be her mentor! Collecting WOLVERINE: FIRST CLASS #9-12. 96 pages. /Rated A .
Return with us again to the early days of the all-new, all-different, X-Men for all-new solo adventures of Wolverine and Kitty Pryde! The next generation of students has arrived at Xavier's School--Colossus, Storm, Nightcrawler, and the mysterious Wolverine--and with them, new teaching methods. Professor X pairs up green recruit Kitty Pryde with the been-everywhere, done-everything vet Logan, and neither of them are all that happy about it. But unless they learn to work together, neither of them will come back from their first mission together alive! [Written by Fred Van Lente / Penciled by Andrea Di Vito / Cover by Salvador Espin]
The good news: Kitty's managed to figure out Wolverine's birthday and has arranged a surprise candlelight dinner with the love of his life, Mariko Yashida, as his present. The bad news: The reason Wolverine never tells anybody about his birthday is that every year on that date Sabretooth shows up to dice him into cutlets. And Kitty has put Mariko within Sabretooth's grasp! [Written by FRED VAN LENTE / Penciled by ANDREA DI VITO / Cover by LEONARD KIRK]
The Last Knights of Wundagore (Part 1): Wolverine and Kitty Pryde travel to mysterious Mount Wundagore to seek a cure for Logan's bestial rages from the High Evolutionary. But they soon discover they are Earth's last hope against the ravenous hordes of the Evolutionary's most fearsome creation -- the rampaging Man-Beast! [Written by FRED VAN LENTE / Pencils & Cover by SALVADOR ESPIN]
The Last Knights of Wundagore (Part 2): Wolverine has been ""evolved"" out of his berserker instincts...Kitty Pryde has been mutated into a half-cat, half-human creature... And they are all that stands between an unsuspecting Earth and the ravenous hordes of the rampaging MAN-BEAST! [Written by FRED VAN LENTE / Art by SALVA ESPIN / Cover by ALAN DAVIS, MARK FARMER, & PAUL MOUNTS]
"TO ME, MY X-MEN! You must immediately pursue Wolverine into Canada! He has defected back to ALPHA FLIGHT...and taken Kitty Pryde with him!" [Written by FRED VAN LENTE / Penciled by CLAYTON HENRY / Cover by SALVADOR ESPIN]
TONIGHT! On a brand-new ""When Teenage Mutant Girl Sleepovers Turn Deadly"": SIRYN and KITTY PRYDE get into a no-holds-barred throwdown of a catfight over COLOSSUS's love, with WOLVERINE caught in the middle! Available with a Monkey variant cover which is only available in a set of 11 (10 regular covers 1 variant) [Written by Fred Van Lente / Pencils & Cover by Salvador Espin]
The SOVIET SUPER SOLDIERS have kidnapped Kitty's flame Colossus, and she and Wolverine must brave the dangers of Russia's irradiated Forbidden Zone to save him! [Written by Fred Van Lente / Pencils & Cover by Michael Golden]
Kitty Pryde is dead ... and Wolverine holds the Soviet Super-Soldiers responsible! Logan unleashes the most ferocious berserker rampage Russia has ever seen -- is the hero lost to the beast forever? Cover by MICHAEL GOLDEN. [Written by Fred Van Lente / Penciled by Salvador Espin & Steve Cummings]
Flashing claws versus fists of fury! That's right -- Wolverine takes on SHANG-CHI, MASTER OF KUNG-FU! 'Nuff said!
[Written by Fred Van Lente / Penciled by Francis Portela / Cover by Salva Espin]
Though a lycanthrope's bite has turned Wolverine into a true raging beast of the night, he may have at last found peace in his werewolf pack. But when he learns that the focus of the pack's vengeance is Kitty Pryde's father, only Jack Russell, the Werewolf-by-Night, may be able to stop him in time! [Written by Fred Van Lente / Art by Francis Portena / Cover by David Williams & Wil Quintana]
CYCLOPS returns to the X-Men! Will Kitty Pryde continue her training with him, or with Wolverine? Scott Summers and Logan duke it out over the right to be her mentor! [Written by Fred Van Lente / Penciled by Wil Quintana / Cover by David Williams]
Return with us again to the early days of the all-new, all-different, X-Men for all-new solo adventures of Wolverine and Kitty Pryde! The next generation of students has arrived at Xavier's School-Colossus, Storm, Nightcrawler, and the mysterious Wolverine - and with them, new teaching methods. Professor X pairs up green recruit Kitty Pryde with the been-everywhere, done-everything vet Logan - and neither of them is all that happy about it. Collecting WOLVERINE: FIRST CLASS #1-4, plus Wolverine's first appearance from INCREDIBLE HULK #181. [Written by Fred Van Lente / Penciled by Andrea Di Vito / Cover by Salva Espin]
"TO ME, MY X-MEN! You must immediately pursue Wolverine into Canada! He has defected back to ALPHA FLIGHT...and taken Kitty Pryde with him!" Then, the SOVIET SUPER SOLDIERS have kidnapped Kitty's flame Colossus, and she and Wolverine must brave the dangers of Russia's irradiated Forbidden Zone to save him! Collecting WOLVERINE: FIRST CLASS #5-8 - plus learn how Kitty joined the X-Men in UNCANNY X-MEN #139-140 by classic creators Chris Claremont and John Byrne. [Written by Fred Van Lente / Penciled by Clayton Henry / Cover by Salvador Espin]
Written by MARC SUMERAK & FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by MARK ROBINSON, TIM SEELEY, ANDREA DI VITO & GURIHIRU Cover by MICHAEL RYAN Collecting six action-packed tales from Wolverine's mysterious past! First, join Charles Xavier as he journeys deep into Wolverine's mind on a quest for answers that will shed new light on one of the darkest periods of Logan's life - his days in the Weapon X program! It's a brand-new look at the horrifying history of Marvel's most prominent mutant! Next, return to the early days of the all-new, all-different X-Men for new solo adventures of Wolverine and Kitty Pryde. Professor X pairs up green recruit Kitty with the been-everywhere, done-everything vet Logan - and neither of them is all that happy about it. Finally, see what happens when the Power kids go on a field trip to the coolest school on the planet: the Xavier Institute! Collecting WOLVERINE: FIRST CLASS #1-2, WEAPON X: FIRST CLASS #1-3 and WOLVERINE AND POWER PACK #2. 176 pages. /Rated A
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Pencils & Cover by DENNIS CALERO Variant Cover by DENNIS CALERO 'The blue-garbed man of mystery known as The Angel plummeted like a stone out of the blazing firestorm! Death on the street below appeared to be his only destination! 'But suddenly, with a titanic effort, he managed to twist his red cape against the wind! Itself flickering with flame, the glider sent his muscular form hurtling through the windows of an office building's upper stories with a teeth-rattling crash...' 32 pages. Parental Advisory.
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by DENNIS CALERO Cover by DENNIS CALERO ""The coroner""s men flipped the redheaded corpse over so Dukes and Magnus from Homicide could get a better look at her. ""Better"" being a relative term in this case, with the claw marks that slashed her face into a featureless, bloody mask and turned her guts into a butcher shop explosion. But the tattoo -- the simple, encircled ""X"" above the left shoulder blade -- remained intact, and Dukes pointed it out with the toe of his wingtip once Peter the rookie was done heaving up lunch. See this ink?"" he said. ""Means she did time at this reform school upstate, run by this shrink, Xavier..."" Collecting X-MEN NOIR #1-4. 112 pages. /Parental Advisory
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by DENNIS CALERO Cover by DENNIS CALERO The Marvel Universe you know - shot in noir! Peter Magnus is a rookie cop on the beat, unable to outrace the shadow cast by his big-shot cop father. His sister, Wanda, is a socialite in deep ten large to Creole Club proprietor Remy LeBeau - the kind of debt she'll be lucky to pay back with just cash. Their father, Eric Magnus, is chief of detectives, corrupting the Brotherhood of New York's Finest from the inside out. (All under the discretion of Boss Shaw, of course.) Anne-Marie Rankin has a special talent for being whoever you need her to be. And Magnus needs her, the better to get close to Unus is the Untouchable, a mob boss so good at staying alive it's driving his rivals nuts. And Xavier? That discredited shrink sits in a jail cell, wondering what in the world his little refugees from the 'Xavier School for Exceptionally Wayward Youth' are up to now. Other than staying one step ahead of Magnus, that is. But now Jean Grey is dead. And nobody is allowed to care - nobody that counts - because who cares about one of Xavier's dead grifters? It's not like there's an angel out there looking out for what's right. Or is there? Collecting X-MEN NOIR #1-4. 120 pages. Parental Advisory
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Pencils & Cover by DENNIS CALERO Variant Cover by DENNIS CALERO ""The Genosha Bay guards rolled Angel, gagged and shackled to the gurney, into solitary confinement, warden Emma Frost trailing close behind. From the ceiling and every wall bright, hot lights pounded a blinding glare onto the cell's only furnishing, an ominously solitary chair. ""Until you tell me what I want to know,"" Warden Frost said, ""You will never leave this room. Welcome to Project: Wideawake."" 32 pages. /Parental Advisory.
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Pencils & Cover by DENNIS CALERO Variant Cover by DENNIS CALERO """"Herr Wagner, here, started out in the circus before becoming the top second-story man in Europe. """"And don't let Comrade Rasputin's size fool you. It's his artistic talent the Bolsheviks want to ship him to Siberia for-an expert forger of artworks and official documents. """"And Ororo's skills at thievery are so renowned, even at her delicate age, that she is literally worshipped by the footpads of Cairo, if you can believe it. """"These are my all-new, all-different X Men,"" Professor Xavier said."" 32 pages. /Parental Advisory
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Pencils & Cover by DENNIS CALERO Variant Cover by DENNIS CALERO ""In the dark and steamy jungles of Madripoor, the flashing claws of Logan, the blazing bullets of Cyclops, and the dashing fists of the Angel met with wave after wave of beserk headhunters, all willing to protect the secrets of the Temple-Tomb of Cyttorak with their lives! The ancient treasure map of mercenary Cain Marko, with its siren-song of the priceless gigantic ruby of the fabled god-king, had lured them only into the icy claws of Death!"". 32 pages. /Parental Advisory
Written by FRED VAN LENTE with DENNIS CALERO Penciled by DENNIS CALERO with TOM COHEN Cover by DENNIS CALERO ""In the dark and steamy jungles of Madripoor, the flashing claws of Logan, the blazing bullets of Cyclops, and the dashing fists of the Angel met with wave after wave of beserk headhunters, all willing to protect the secrets of the Temple-Tomb of Cyttorak with their lives! The ancient treasure map of mercenary Cain Marko, with its siren-song of the priceless gigantic ruby of the fabled god-king, had lured them only into the icy claws of Death!"" Collecting X-MEN NOIR: MARK OF CAIN #1-4 and WEAPON X NOIR. 128 pages. /Parental Advisory
Written by FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by DENNIS CALERO Cover by DENNIS CALERO Buried deep in the jungles of Madripoor, under the temple of the Juggernaut, is a jewel sought by many: the Crimson Gem of Cyttorak. But it's a team led by Logan, Cyclops and the Angel that will get to it first! Though once they claim the metaphysical power of the gem, how long will they be able to keep it? And what does the sinister Charles Xavier, leader of the gang of young sociopaths, the X-Men, have up his sleeve now that he's been released from Ryker's with Wanda Magnus by his side? Collecting X-MEN NOIR: MARK OF CAIN #1-4. 112 pages. /Parental Advisory
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