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MARVEL COMICS

Enders Game First Series (5 issues)
Christopher Yost Pencils by Pasqual Ferry
There’s a war coming. The same aliens who almost destroyed Earth once are coming back to get the whole job done this time. But we aren’t going to just sit and die. The international military is taking our best and brightest to mold them into the finest military minds ever--and they’re taking them young. 8-year-old Ender Wiggin is the best they’ve ever found. Can he save the Earth? Can he survive Battle School and the game that they will force him to play?

Anita Blake Laughing Corpse (5 issues)
LAURELL K. HAMILTON Adapted by JESSICA RUFFNER Pencils by RON LIM
What would you do for a million dollars? Would you resurrect a two and one half century old corpse? Harold Gaynor poses just that question to Animator and part-time vampire hunter, Anita Blake... Plus, some crime scenes are even too horrible for a vampire slayer… and the worse they are, the more questions they raise.

Ultimate Captain America Annual (one shot)
JEPH LOEB Pencils by JOHN ROMITA, JR.
It's the Ultimate Road Trip of the Year! The HULK and Zarda " a.k.a.
Power Princess from the Squadron Supreme " team-up for the most wild cross-country smash-and-grab you can imagine! Guest-starring Captain America! Join the red-hot team of Jeph Loeb (HULK) and Marko Djurdjevic (THOR) as the mayhem breaks out as only it can in the Ultimate Universe!

Ultimate Hulk Annual (one shot)
JEPH LOEB Pencils by MARKO DJURDJEVIC & ED MCGUINNESS Cover by BRANDON PETERSON
It's the Ultimate Road Trip of the Year! The HULK and Zarda " a.k.a.
Power Princess from the Squadron Supreme " team-up for the most wild cross-country smash-and-grab you can imagine! Guest-starring Captain America! Join the red-hot team of Jeph Loeb (HULK) and Marko Djurdjevic (THOR) as the mayhem breaks out as only it can in the Ultimate Universe!

Cap America Theater of War Op. Zero pt. (one shot)
Daniel& Charles Knauf Pencils by Mitch Breitweiser
The 1st in a series of specials covering the length and breadth of the larger-than-life legend of Cap. 1st up, it’s ‘44, and wouldn't you know it? Them Nazis have managed to crack the secrets of electromagnetic physics…yeah, that's right: apples may fall down in the free world, but schnitzels are falling up in the skies over a mysterious lab in Poland. With Robots!

Ghost Rider Danny Ketch (5 issues)
Simon Spurrier Penciled by Javier Saltares
You’ve heard the news by now. He’s been away, he’s been down to rock bottom; but he’s back. Dan Ketch reborn: a stranger, darker figure. So what happened, Dannyboy? Where did it all go wrong? Tying-into Jason Aaron’s stunning take on the Ghost Rider mythos, Javier & Simon present a tormented fall into the deepest pits of the soul.

Monster Size Hulk (one shot)
Jeff Parker Pencils by TBA
It’s a knock-down, drag-out fight between the Gammapowered Hulk, and the original science project gone wrong, the lightning-born Frankenstein’s
Monster! The science-spawned beast of the Victorian Age meets the modern
menace of the Nuclear Age, and when these monsters mash, forget the torches and pitchforks… just run! Guest starring a hoary host of Marvel’s scariest creatures!

Marvel Zombies 3  (4 issues)
Fred Van Lente Penciled by Kev Walker
The ravenous hordes of MZ are invading ... The real MU! That's right, a non-stop in-continuity gorefest with major implications for at least 1 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 plague. Time is 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’s eaten.

Thor The Truth of History (one shot)
Script, Pencils and Cover by ALAN DAVIS
Legendary writer-artist Alan Davis (FANTASTIC FOUR: THE END) sends Thor on one of his most epic adventures in history! The God of Thunder and his fellow Asgardians visit Midgard’s ancient Egypt…and leave behind a startling legacy that will change our world forever in this one-shot!

Astonishing X-Men Ghost Boxes (2 issues)
Warren Ellis Pencils by Alan Davis & Adi Granov
You met Subject X in the pages of Astonishing X-Men! But what was he really doing and who he was doing it for? Find out in this essential 2-issue tie-in series to Ellis & Bianchi’s opening salvo on Ast. X-Men! Ghost Boxes is about the choices that man made and could have made, and the ripples they cause. Ghost Boxes is about the real stakes of the Ghost Box storyline, and what will happen if the X-Men fail to solve the mystery. U will not get this unless U check box!

X-Men Original Sin (one shot)
Mike Carey& Daniel Way Penciled by Mike Deodato & Scot Eaton "ORIGINAL SIN" pt 1. What is the secret reason Wolvie joined the X-Men? The X-Men event of the fall begins in this one-shot! Xavier has been a master of his own mind and others. Now the tables are turned, and as Logan struggles to rescue his son, Daken, from the evil and darkness that have consumed him, Prof. X comes face-to-face with the most terrifying secret of all.

Wolverine Manifest Destiny (4 issues)
Jason Aaron Penciled by Stephen Segovia
The X-Men have arrived in San Fran--but Wolvie finds he’s left more than his heart there! Something happened in Chinatown more than 50 years ago… something that the people there still have not forgotten. And now Logan finds himself a marked man, pursued by fighters from every dojo in town--not to
mention the mystical warriors of the criminal Triad and their merciless leader… who just happens to be Logan's ex-girlfriend. Guess you shoulda stayed in New York, huh bub?

X-Men Worlds Apart (4 issues)
Christopher Yost Penciled by Diogenes Neves
Over the course of her life, STORM has been many things: A thief. A goddess. An X-Man. A Wife. A Queen. But not until now have these roles come into conflict. When a mutant commits a mysterious murder in Wakanda, Storm takes it upon herself to investigate. And what she discovers will force her into a position where she must choose: Will she stand with the X-Men or with her
husband?

Giant Size X-Men First Class (one shot)
Jeff Parker & Roger Langridge Penciled by Mike Cho, Roger Langridge, Nick Kilislian, Dean Haspiel, David Williams & J. Parker
Just in time for Halloween, The Beast starts conducting investigations into his own "X" files around the world! Are there aliens among us- or things even weirder? Featuring special guest-star artists and classic material too!

Marvel Spotlight Ultimatum (one shot)
by John Rhett Thomas
"For what they've done...they must pay the Ultimate price..."Spingboarding from Ultimates 3 and Ultimate Power, Loeb & Finch's Ultimatum is a 6-part series that will change the Ultimate Universe in ways as definitively as the Marvel Universe's Civil War or the X-Men's Messiah Complex. MS checks in with the series' principal creators and takes readers inside the universe that changed the rules!


MARVEL TRADE PAPERBACKS

SECRET WARS OMNIBUS
collects #1-12 & MORE, $100
MMW ATLAS ERA JIM V.1 HC
collects #1-10, $60
MMW X-MEN V. 7 HC
collects #67-80 LOTS MORE, $55
CIVIL WAR HC
collects #1-7 & MORE $40
HALO UPRISING HC
collects #1-4 & SPOTLIGHT, $25
HULK VOL 1 RED HULK HC
collects #1-6 & WOLVIE #50, $25
IMM IRON FIST V.3 HC
collects #7,15,16 & MORE, $25
INC HERCULES SI HC
collects #116-120, $20
MI ILLIAD HC
collects #1-8, $25
MS. MARVEL V. 5 SI HC
collects #25-30, $20
OHanDBooK MARVEL U A-Z V.5 HC
collects VARIOUS, $25
SKY DOLL HC
collects #1-3, $25
SPIDEY GREAT POWER HC
collects #1-5, $20
WAR IS HELL P. EAGLE HC
collects #1-5, $25
HOH LOVECRAFT HC
collects #1-3, $20
X-FORCE V. 1 HC
collects #1-6, $20
MI MAN IN IRON MASK TPB
collects #1-6, $13
M ADVS AVENGERS V.7 DIGEST
collects #24-27, $9
ULT FF V. 11 TPB
collects #54-57, $13
ULT X-MEN V. 19 TPB
collects #94-97, $13
MARVEL ZOMBIES TPB
collects #1-5, $16
MIGHTY AVENGERS V. 2 TPB
collects #7-11, $25
SPIDEY BND V. 1 TPB
collects #546-551 & MORE, $20
X-MEN MESSIAH COMP TPB
collects #1-13 &MORE, $30
ANN CONQUEST BK 1 TPB
collects A LOT, $25
YOUNG AVENGERS PRESENTS TPB
collects #1-6, $17
DAREDEVIL CRUEL & UNUSUAL TP
collects #106-110, $15
AMERCIAN DREAM TPB
collects #1-5, $15
IRON MAN DRAGON SEED SAGA TP
collects #270-275, $17
SPIDEY A NEW GOBLIN TPB
collects #176-180, $15
WEAPON OMEGA TPB
collects MCP #1-12 & MORE, $13
LAST DEFENDERS TPB
collects #1-6, $16
PUNISHER MAX V. 10 TPB
collects #55-60, $17
PUNISHER MAX 1ST TO LAST TP
collects ONE SHOTS, $16
ESS MARVEL HORROR V.2 TPB
collects A SUPER TON, $17


DC COMICS

Final Crisis Submit (one shot)
Grant Morrison Art by Matthew Clark
In a world overrun by Darkseid's Anti-Life Equation and his relentless storm troopers, do you choose to SUBMIT? As the lines between Super Hero and Super-Villain become blurred, the ultimate odd couple of Black Lightning and Tattoo Man, in what could be their final adventure, battle against the odds to
save a family from the great darkness.

Final Crisis Resist (one shot)
Greg Rucka & Eric Trautmann Art Ryan Sook
In a world overrun by Darkseid's Anti-Life Equation and his relentless storm troopers, do you choose to RESIST? The world's only hope for survival depends on one-time JLA mascot Snapper Carr, Mr. Terrific, and Checkmate.
With the aid of the villainous Cheetah, Snapper must rally the various factions of Checkmate and awaken an evil from a Crisis past. Could this actually be the end?

Final Crisis Rage of the Red Lanterns (one shot)
Geoff Johns Art by Shane Davis
The prelude to "The Blackest Night" begins here! They come from a place of great anger and hatred. They are the Red Lanterns and they will have their revenge against the greatest Green Lantern - Sinestro. That is, unless the Guardians have theirs first.

Superman Batman Vs Vamps and Wolves (6 issues)
Kevin VanHook Art by Tom Mandrake
A man is killed by a mysterious creature - his body drained of blood. A woman is savagely attacked by a ferocious beast - her jugular ripped out. Bat wings flutter across the moon and the howl of a wolf echoes through the streets,
for the creatures of the night have risen from the grave, and humanity's only salvation is the combined might of Superman & Batman. Blood will run red!

Vixen Return of the Lion (5 issues)
G. Willow Wilson Art by Cafu
On a mission against the mega-mobsters of Intergang, the Justice League makes a stunning discovery revealing the truth behind the death of Vixen's mother. Long ago, poachers were fingered in her murder, but stunning proof
arrives exposing the identity of her real killer! And the man responsible is still alive, making a vicious play for power in the homeland Vixen left years ago.

Terror Titans (6 issues)
Sean McKeever Art Joe Bennett
Clock King hatches a plan for his team of teenage legacy villains, as well as their deadly new member - the Teen Titans' own Ravager! But if he's to succeed, Clock King must first stabilize the underground metahuman gladiator arena known as the Dark Side Club! Join McKeever and Bennett for a journey into the darkest, coldest and most brutal corners of the teen psyche!

DCU Halloween 2008 (one shot)
Written by Mark Verheiden, Mike Johnson, Brian Reed and others Art by Trevor Hairsine, Duncan Rouleau and others
The Horror! The Horror! Could this be the final Halloween for the DCU? Evil has won, and there are no treats! Witness tales of terror featuring Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Titans, El Diablo, Faust and others by past, present and future DC greats.

Superman New Krypton Special (one shot)
Geoff Johns, James Robinson and Sterling Gates Art Gary Frank, Renato Guedes & Pete Woods
A "Sightings" issue! "New Krypton" Part 1 of 9! The entire Superman
franchise writing team joins forces, with art by Pete Woods and others, to formally launch the Superman event years in the making! While the current threat of Brainiac may have been forestalled in AC #870, the repercussions will be felt for a long, long time. Superman's greatest victory has lead to his happiest day - and his saddest.

Supes’ Pal Jimmy Olsen Special (one shot)
James Robinson Art by Jesus Merino
Jimmy Olsen doggedly investigates the mystery surrounding Superman's newest foe, Atlas! But the secrets behind the titan of yore lead Olsen across the country and into great danger as he must survive attacks by none other than Codename: Assassin! And just as Jimmy is getting to the truth, he finds himself in the Midwest and seeking the aide of a hero long thought dead. This story leads directly into SUPERMAN: NEW KRYPTON SPECIAL #1!

Ferrymen (5 issues)
Marc Andreyko Art by Jonathan Wayshak
Who are The Ferrymen? If you mix the deadliest qualities of Blackwater operatives, skip tracers and expert trackers, you might have an idea. And Gideon Thorne is the best Ferryman out there. In the exclusive employ of the sinister entrepreneur Mr. Webster, Gideon always gets his man, no matter the obstacle.

Top Ten Season Two (4 issues)
Written by Zander Cannon Art by Gene Ha
A new season dawns in the science-city of Neopolis! A new commissioner, along with some new rules, comes to Precinct 10, as Slipstream Phoenix, a rookie cop with an ugly secret, fights for respect among his new peers. Meanwhile, Shock-Headed Peter and the Dust Devil investigate a mysterious,
ancient drug dealer, and a very public multiple homicide sets Captain Jetman and Lieutenant Peregrine scrambling for answers.

Gears of War (on–going)
Joshua Ortega Art by Liam Sharp
The best-selling video game franchise arrives in comic books stores with a blast - one month before the debut of the new Xbox 360 game! The opening 6-issue arc of this new ongoing bridges the end of the first GoW game and the start of the 2nd one, following the brutal adventures of Marcus Fenix and Delta Squad in the battle against the Locust! What happened after the Lightmass Bombing and how did the Locust react to this devastating weapon?

Unknown Soldier (on-going)
Joshua Dysart Art by Alberto Ponticelli
Welcome to Northern Uganda. In 2002, it's a place where tourists are hacked to death with machetes, 12-year-olds with AK-47s wage war, and celebrities futilely try to get people to care. Moses Lwanga is a pacifist doctor caught at the center. But when his life is threatened, Moses suddenly realizes he knows
how to kill all too well. What is this voice telling him the only way to fix what's wrong with the country is by slaughtering those responsible? And what is Moses' connection to another past bandage-wrapped warrior?


DC TRADE PAPERBACKS

BATMAN PRIVATE CASEBOOK HC
collects #840-845, $20
BATMAN G. UNDERGROUND TP
collects #1-9, $20
BATMAN RULES ENGAGE TP
collects BATMAN CON #1-6, $20
BATMAN EGO & OTHERS TPB
collects DARWYN COOKE stories, $18
JLA AVENGERS TPB
collects #1-4, $20
BATLASH TPB
collects #1-6, $18
CDOWN TO FINAL CRISIS V.4 TP
collects #12-1, $20
GREEN LANTERN CORPS RING TP
collects #19,20, 23-26, $15
GREEN LANTERN WANTED HC
collects #14-20, $20
GREEN LANTERN SECRET ORIGIN HC
collects #29-35, $20
ROBIN VIOLENT TENDENCIES TPB
collects #170-174 & SPECIAL, $18
SUPERMAN BATMAN VENGANCE TPB
collects #20-25, $13
TEEN TITANS ON THE CLOCK TPB
collects #55-61, $15
SHOWCASE SUPERGIRL V.2 TPB
collects #283-321, $17
SHOWCASE SGT. ROCK V. 2 TPB
Collects #118-148, $17
SPIRIT V.1 TPB
collects #1-6, $20
SHOWCASE BLACKHAWK V.1 TP
collects #108-127, $17
SPIRIT ARCHIVES V.26 HC
collects MORE SPIRIT, $60
GEN 13 V. 3 15 MINUTES TPB
collects #14-20, $15
EXTERMINATORS V. 5 TPB
collects #24-30, $15
FABLES V.11 TPB
collects #70-75, $18
KILL YOUR BOYFRIEND TPB
Collects NEW PRINTING, $6
SLOTH TP
collects OGN!, $15


INDEPENDENT COMICS

Hellboy in the Chapel of Moloch #1 (1 shot)
Mike Mignola and Dave Stewart
On the heels of the second Hellboy feature film, legendary artist and Hellboy creator Mike Mignola returns to the drawing table for this standalone adventure of the world’s greatest paranormal detective! Hellboy investigates an ancient chapel in Eastern Europe where an artist compelled by something
more sinister than any muse has sequestered himself to complete his “life’s work.”

Blade of The Immortal vol. 20 (OGN)
By Hiroaki Samura.
The continuing tales of Manji and Rin. This picks up after the final issue #131.
This is the only place to get new stories! Several old teams are reunited, a mind-blowing battle quickly starts and races us through most of this astonishing volume, and an old villain finally sees some pointed retribution at the hands of one of his prisoners! Let the breakout battle in the "Demon Lair" begin!

Savage #1 (4 issues)
BY STEVE NILES, JEFF FRANK & DANIEL WICKLINE ART MIKE MAYHEW
Peter is a shoe salesman desperate for a life transformation. Sam is a hunter of things that would scare the hell out of lesser men. These two will collide in the middle of an epic battle between vicious werewolves and the legendary Big Foot. And that’s just the beginning…

Soulfire Shadow Magic #0 (3 issues)
By Vince Hernandez & Sana Takeda
Discover the early years of Soulfire's heroine Grace in this all-new mini-series! At the precipice of the age of magic and wonderment, one young couple attempts to hold onto true love while the world around them is torn apart by the threads of war.

Last Reign Kings of War #1 (5 issues)
By Walt Becker, Michael Alan Nelson & Lui Antonio
Director Walt Becker (Van Wilder, Wild Hogs) comes to BOOM! in a big way with his sci-fi/fantasy tale of knights in a post-apocalyptic future! The world has been twisted into a rusting and forgotten dystopia - and a new type of knight rises from the ashes to make order out of chaos!

Black Terror #1 (on-going)
By Jim Krueger & Mike Lilly
This new series is the foundation to the storylines building out of Project Superpowers, and will lead directly into Project Superpowers 2! Who are the Super-Patriots? Who are the "Inheritors"? And how does Captain Future fit into all
this?

Garth Ennis Battlefields Night Witches #1 (3 issues)
By Garth Ennis & Russ Braun
1942. As the German army smashes into Russia and the defenders of the Motherland retreat in disarray, a new bomber squadron arrives at a Russian airbase. Its crews will fly flimsy wooden biplanes on lethal night missions over
the German lines, risking fiery death as they fling themselves against the invaders - but for these pilots, the consequences of capture will be even worse. For the pilots of the 599th Night Bomber Regiment are women! In the deadly skies, amidst the carnage of war, they will become a legend known, to friend and foe alike, as the Night Witches.

GI Joe A New Beginning #0 (on-going?)
Larry Hama (w) Robert Atkins (a)
G.I. Joe has a new base of operations! IDW Publishing is proud to present an all-new era for the legendary Joe team. This specially priced introductory issue re-introduces the G.I. JOE vs. COBRA conflict for today's world, as presided over by G.I. JOE commanding officer, writer Larry Hama. Special $.99 zero issue guaranteed to make Jimmy Hayes poop his pants with happiness!

Ghostbusters The Otherside #1 (4 issues)
Keith Champagne (w) Andy Smith (a)
Egon! Ray! Winston! Peter! The original Ghostbusters
return! When the Ghostbusters capture a group of ghostly crooks, they unknowingly run afoul of a gang comprised of the spirits of some of America's most legendary gangsters. Dead or alive, the mafia knows exactly how to deal with a problem like the Ghostbusters: rub 'em out! Wow 2 Jimmy books in a row? Did he die and go to heaven?

Grant Morrison’s Doctor Who #1 (2 issues)
Grant Morrison (w) John Ridgway, Bryan Hitch (a) Robert Hack (c)
Industry legend Grant Morrison (Final Crisis) penned a number of Doctor Who comics in the late '80s, and this two-issue series collects them all-and in color for the first time! This issue includes stories featuring the Sixth Doctor (as portrayed by Colin Baker) and the Seventh Doctor (as portrayed by Sylvester McCoy).

City Of Dust #1 (4 issues?)
By Steve Niles & Zid
This chilling vision of the future unveils a world where the police patrol for crimes of the imagination. Religious beliefs, along with false heroes, idols, or gods, are
illegal. Detective Khrome doesn't enforce Imagination, he works Homicide. That's where the action is, and he's seen it all before. But criminals evolve, and the world is forever changing. When a killing spree hits his city sector, he finds himself face-to-face with killers born of grim reality with Old World superstition - and everything is not as it seems.

Yeti Vs. Vampire #1 (one shot?)
By Miles Gunter & Kelsey Shannon
Brain-eating steroid monks; psycho werewolf punks; severed, screaming heads on fire; point-blank napalm strikes - and that's just the first 12 pages! Get ready for breakneck horror action like you've never seen before! Special $.99 issue!


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