AVENGERS: THE INITIATIVE # 9 The Story:
KILLED IN ACTION (Part 2 of 4)
"The First Casualty"
The Initiative's biggest secret hasn't come back to haunt them, it's come back to KILL THEM! Blood will run, heads will roll, and this time "dead" means DEAD! Say goodbye to at LEAST one regular cast member as KILLED IN ACTION starts racking up its body count. You know, maybe this WASN'T such a good time for TASKMASTER, ANT-MAN, and the new recruits to sign up…
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CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE CHOSEN # 6 50/50 CHAREST COVER The Story:
The twilight of Captain America’s life draws to a close. David Morrell—the best-selling author of First Blood and creator of Rambo—and Mitch Breitweiser (DRAX) bring you to the bittersweet final chapter of this Marvel Knights story in the vein of SPIDER-MAN: REIGN and SILVER SURFER: REQUIEM. Captain America is dying—but with his last gasps of life, he will select his replacement. Can James Newman, a corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps, rise to the challenge and overcome his fear? Can anyone else?
Cardstock Cover/Rated T+ …$3.99
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE CHOSEN # 6 The Story:
The twilight of Captain America’s life draws to a close. David Morrell—the best-selling author of First Blood and creator of Rambo—and Mitch Breitweiser (DRAX) bring you to the bittersweet final chapter of this Marvel Knights story in the vein of SPIDER-MAN: REIGN and SILVER SURFER: REQUIEM. Captain America is dying—but with his last gasps of life, he will select his replacement. Can James Newman, a corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps, rise to the challenge and overcome his fear? Can anyone else?
Cardstock Cover/Rated T+ …$3.99
DAREDEVIL # 104 The Story:
Can Matt Murdock balance the scales of justice and save his wife? Can Daredevil bring peace to the streets of Hell's Kitchen, which are caught in a super-powered gang war? And what is the terrible secret Mr. Fear is hiding? By Brubaker and Lark.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99
FANTASTIC FOUR # 553 The Story:
The unexpected conclusion! When the Fantastic Four meet their future couterparts, they finally learn the astonishing outcome of Reed Richards' secret, post-Civil War plan.
32 PGS./Rated A …$2.99
HOUSE OF M: AVENGERS # 4 The Story:
Conflict threatens to tear apart the Avengers as they must choose whether to join the larger resistance against Magneto, or continue to focus their efforts locally. But they might not get the chance to decide, as the Kingpin and his assassins—Bullseye, Elektra, Gladiator and Typhoid Mary—make their move!
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MARVEL ADVENTURES FANTASTIC FOUR # 32 The Story:
Gather ‘round, lil’ doggies. Ol’ Ben Grimm’s done been hijacked from our time an’ shot back to the Old West, where varmints and vandals ruled the day! Even if Benjy teams up with one of the past’s greatest heroes, STEAM RIDER, can he manage to hightail his way back to the present? Crack that whip!
WHOO-PTCH!
32 PGS./All Ages …$2.99
MARVEL SPOTLIGHT: ULTIMATES 3 # 1 The Story:
One of the hottest comics of the decade is about to get even hotter! Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch have delivered not one, but two epic runs on the Ultimate Universe's greatest heroes, with the triumphant ULTIMATES and ULTIMATES 2 becoming modern day classics. Now they step aside for an unbelievable combo of superstar talent to take over with ULTIMATES 3! Superstar writer Jeph Loeb and the awesome art of Joe Madureira and Christian Lichtner promise to find new ways to define the word Ultimate, and SPOTLIGHT will pull these three titanic talents aside for their take on the new series, as well as a look back at Millar and Hitch's masterpiece. It's Ultimate Spotlight with ULTIMATES 3!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99
MIGHTY AVENGERS # 8 The Story:
It’s the Mighty Avengers versus the New Avengers who have been overtaken by a symbiote virus. So, yeah, it’s Avengers versus Avengers symbiotes!! Janet gets new powers!! And the Mighty Avengers declare war on a foreign country!! All this and Mark Bagley too!!
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NEW AVENGERS ANNUAL # 2 The Story:
Continuing directly from the pages of NEW AVENGERS #37: The Hood's gang of super-criminals takes the fight right to the Avengers’ door!! Its wall-to-wall action and the end of an era for one Avenger and a major defection for another.
This double-sized issue ties into or wraps up threads from Civil War, World War Hulk, both Avengers titles and the upcoming Secret Invasion!! Avengers writer Bendis welcomes rising star Carlo Pagulayan on his Avengers debut...
48 PGS./Rated A …$3.99
RED PROPHET: THE TALES OF ALVIN MAKER # 12 The Story:
The final bloody battle! Following the massacre of the peaceful unarmed Reds of Prophetstown, Ta-Kumsaw has little trouble uniting various Indian tribes into a mighty army with the single-minded goal of either killing the Whites or driving them out of the land. But it is the war chief’s non-Red allies that make him wary as he gears up to face off against Andrew “Old Hickory” Jackson and the American Army.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99
SPIDER-MAN: SWING SHIFT DIRECTOR'S CUT # 1 The Story:
Fan-favorite writer Dan Slott (AVENGERS: THE INITIATIVE; SHE HULK) and Superstar Artist Phil Jimenez (NEW X-MEN; Infinite Crisis) bring you a brand new tale of danger and intrigue starring your favorite web-slinger...a tale that has a direct impact on the world of Spidey in Brand New Day. Get a behind-the-curtain look at one of Spidey’s new creative teams in the special director’s cut edition of this swingin’ adventure!
CARDSTOCK COVER/Rated A …$3.99
SPIDER-MAN: WITH GREAT POWER... # 1 The Story:
After the spider-bite…before the great responsibility! Meet Peter Parker, “Midtown High’s only professional wallflower,” a hapless young nerd suddenly gifted with great power…no strings attached! Happy at home with his Aunt May and Uncle Ben, but plagued by the bullies and mean girls of high school, see what Peter does when the bite of a radioactive spider gives him the strength to take the things he wants. Fame? Money? Fast cars? Girls? This dweeb’s up to his pencilneck in 'em! Surely things can’t suddenly be this easy… It’s a side of Spider-Man’s early life you’ve barely glimpsed, written by David Lapham (Stray Bullets TERROR, INC.) with art by Tony Harris (Ex Machina)!
Cardstock Cover/Rated A …$3.99
THE ZOMBIE: SIMON GARTH # 3 The Story:
We’re no food critics, but we knows what we likes: delicious living flesh! Warm, gushing blood! Organs and brains rich in nutrients! The zombie horde grows bigger, and the odds grow longer for the innocents caught in the eye of the undead storm. But the living dead have problems of their own! Lost in the woods, hunted by very human predators…and the only person who can save them from the living dead and from themselves is…a zombie?
Cardstock Cover/Explicit Content …$3.99
ULTIMATE SECRETS # 1 The Story:
Who are the newest Ultimate X-Men? Does Ultimate Spider-Man have more clones than the regular Spidey? Was Ultimate Thor delusional, or was he really a god? All these questions and more will be answered in the new Ultimate Universe Handbook. And remember - this is the only book guaranteed to give you the Ultimate Six Pack!
48 PGS /CARDSTOCK COVER/Rated T+ …$3.99
ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN # 118 The Story:
It begins here…“Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends!” Things are changing in the young life of Peter Parker: Johnny Storm of the Fantastic Four is now his buddy---and the hot–headed super hero has taken a liking to Peter’s classmate, Liz Allen! But something is horribly wrong with Liz—something that will soon affect the life of every student at Midtown High—including Peter’s ex-girlfriend, Kitty Pryde!
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ULTIMATE X-MEN # 90 The Story:
New series artist Salvador Larroca arrives—as Apocalypse begins! Sinister has been resurrected, the pieces are moving into place, and everything is starting to come together. Can the X-Men prevent the coming of Apocalypse? The story arc that’s been building for a year kicks off here!
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WHAT IF? SPIDER-MAN VS. WOLVERINE # 1 The Story:
Spider-Man is a killer.
In 1987, Peter Parker followed Wolverine to Russia, who was on the trail of a friend working for the KGB. Realizing that the KGB would eventually kill his friend, Wolverine wanted to put her out of her misery. Peter tried to stop him, but accidentally killed the friend instead. Haunted by his actions, Peter fled home into the waiting arms of Mary Jane.
But WHAT IF…Peter never went home? WHAT IF…the Spider never came out of the cold?
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X-MEN: EMPEROR VULCAN # 5 The Story:
The star-shattering conclusion! Everything has been building to this...Polaris versus the Imperial Guard. Marvel Girl versus Gladiator. And finally, brother versus brother. Havok makes his final stand against Vulcan, whose power dwarfs his own. Who will control the M’Kraan Crystal? Will the Shi’Ar Empire break apart, or unite? What is the fate of the Scy’ar Tal? And will any of the X-Men survive to tell the tale? The answers will surprise you.
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MARVEL MASTERWORKS: THE SILVER SURFER VOL. 1 HC (2ND EDITION, 2ND The Story:
Back-to-press and fully restored by popular demand!
The soaring Sentinel of the Spaceways makes a Marvel Masterworks splash with his unmatched solo series. Illustrated by the master of man, menace and motion, the one-and-only John Buscema, and featuring some of Stan Lee’s most inspired and socially-charged scripts of the Silver Age, the adventures of Norrin Radd rank among the definitive tales of all Marveldom!
Not only will you be awed beyond imagination by the Surfer’s origin, you’ll also face alien invasions, be torn down to the depths of hell by the utterly evil Mephisto, struggle against the Stranger, and face galaxy-conquering barbarians set on the destruction of, well, everything! Lest we forget what many consider the most beautifully rendered story in Marvel history: the Surfer’s tête à tête with the mighty Thor!
These double-length stories of drama and despair are a must-have for any and every Marvelite, and to prove we mean it, we’re including the Surfer’s first-ever solo adventure from the pages of Fantastic Four Annual #5 as a bonus!
Collecting SILVER SURFER #1-6 and FANTASTIC FOUR ANNUAL #5.
Rated A …$54.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-1187-0
MARVEL MASTERWORKS: THE SILVER SURFER VOL. 1 HC (VARIANT, 2ND EDITION, 2ND The Story:
Back-to-press and fully restored by popular demand!
The soaring Sentinel of the Spaceways makes a Marvel Masterworks splash with his unmatched solo series. Illustrated by the master of man, menace and motion, the one-and-only John Buscema, and featuring some of Stan Lee’s most inspired and socially-charged scripts of the Silver Age, the adventures of Norrin Radd rank among the definitive tales of all Marveldom!
Not only will you be awed beyond imagination by the Surfer’s origin, you’ll also face alien invasions, be torn down to the depths of hell by the utterly evil Mephisto, struggle against the Stranger, and face galaxy-conquering barbarians set on the destruction of, well, everything! Lest we forget what many consider the most beautifully rendered story in Marvel history: the Surfer’s tête à tête with the mighty Thor!
These double-length stories of drama and despair are a must-have for any and every Marvelite, and to prove we mean it, we’re including the Surfer’s first-ever solo adventure from the pages of Fantastic Four Annual #5 as a bonus!
Collecting SILVER SURFER #1-6 and FANTASTIC FOUR ANNUAL #5.
Rated A …$54.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-1272-3
NEW AVENGERS/TRANSFORMERS The Story:
It’s time to Assemble–and Roll Out! What in the world could unite Earth's Mightiest Heroes and the Autobots? Maybe the Decepticons and Dr. Doom know! War is about to break out on the border between Latveria and Symkaria – unless two unique teams of heroes can unravel a dark mystery…that is, if they don’t destroy each other first! Stuart Moore (WOLVERINE, PUNISHER X-MAS SPECIAL) and Tyler Kirkham (X-MEN: PHOENIX WARSONG) bring together fan-faves like Wolverine, Megatron, Spider-Man and Optimus Prime in this all-new widescreen adventure! Collecting NEW AVENGERS/TRANSFORMERS #1-4.
Rated T+ …$10.99
NEW AVENGERS: ILLUMINATI PREMIERE The Story:
The Illuminati is a secret organization comprised of several of the world’s most powerful heroes: Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme; Black Bolt, king of the Inhumans; Charles Xavier, founder of the X-Men and mutant-rights activist; Reed Richards, founding member of the Fantastic Four; Namor the Sub-Mariner, king of Atlantis; and Iron Man (Tony Stark), founding member of the Avengers. These six men have worked together to mold and shape the status of the superhuman world and the world around it. How and what they have done together has remained a mystery...until now! Writers Brian Michael Bendis (NEW AVENGERS, ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN) and Brian Reed (MS. MARVEL) have joined together with Jim Cheung (YOUNG AVENGERS) to reveal this untold story of the Marvel Universe and how the Illuminati’s actions affect today! Collecting NEW AVENGERS: ILLUMINATI #1-5.
Rated T+ …$19.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-2437-5
UNCANNY X-MEN: RISE & FALL OF THE SHI'AR EMPIRE The Story:
A brand-new era for UNCANNY X-MEN begins here! Fresh off X-MEN: DEADLY GENESIS, Ed Brubaker takes the helm of Marvel’s mighty mutants. Young Guns Reloaded artist Billy Tan and Clayton Henry join Ed for a story that won’t just affect Earth, but will rock the foundations of the entire galaxy! Vulcan is out for revenge and has his sights set on the Shi’Ar Empire! Get ready for the ride of your life! A perfect starting point for any new reader! Collecting UNCANNY X-MEN #475-486.
Rated T+ …$29.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-1800-8
X-MEN: ENDANGERED SPECIES The Story:
With three little words, an entire race was nearly obliterated. Every mutant who dies is one number closer to zero. Now, the Beast races against the clock to save this once-thriving race. Collecting the X-MEN: ENDANGERED SPECIES one-shot and Chapters 1-17.
Rated T+ …$19.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-3012-3
Trim size: oversized
YOUNG AVENGERS The Story:
Collecting the complete first series in one deluxe hardcover!
In SIDEKICKS, in the wake of AVENGERS DISASSEMBLED, a mysterious new group of teen super heroes appears. But who are they? Where did they come from? And what right do they have to call themselves the Young Avengers? And in FAMILY MATTERS, the newly reconfigured Young Avengers prepare to make their public debut—but first they have to face a threat more powerful than Kang the Conqueror, more dangerous than Mr. Hyde and more cunning than the Masters of Evil: their parents. For these brand-new super heroes, fighting super villains is child's play compared to maintaining their alter egos! Plus: The Young Avengers meet a familiar-looking teenage super human who just may be the key to their uncovering the truth about Wiccan’s parentage and secret origin. Meanwhile, Hulkling’s quest to discover the exact nature of his tie to the Avengers is interrupted when the Young Avengers finds themselves at war with one of the oldest and most powerful alien races in the Marvel Universe. And finally, discover the secret history of the Young Avengers when Jessica Jones and Kat Farrell investigate the kids’ origins for a special issue of The Pulse. Who were they and what were their lives like before they met Iron Lad? And what is the future of the team without him?
Collecting YOUNG AVENGERS #1-12 and YOUNG AVENGERS SPECIAL.
RATED T+ ...$29.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-2466-5
