With every ending comes a new beginning and with the end of summer come the debuts of THE STAND: CAPTAIN TRIPPS and DARK TOWER: TREACHERY, as well as some new stories featuring your favorite Marvel super heroes!
THE STAND: CAPTAIN TRIPS #1
Written by ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SACASA
Penciled & Inked by MIKE PERKINS
Cover by LEE BERMEJO
Variant Cover by MIKE PERKINS
Sketch Variant Cover by LEE BERMEJO
It begins here: the apocalyptic epic battle between good and evil based on the classic bestseller by master of horror Stephen King! On a secret army base in the Californian desert, something has gone horribly, terribly wrong. Something that will send Charlie Campion and his wife and daughter fleeing in the middle of the night. Unfortunately for the Campion family--and the rest of America--they are unaware that all three of them are carrying a deadly cargo: A virus that will spread from person to person like wildfire, triggering a massive wave of disease and death, prefacing humanity's last stand! Be there as writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Secret Invasion:
Fantastic Four) teams with artist Mike Perkins (Captain America) for the first arc in the next great Stephen King event!
32 PGS./ Cardstock Cover/Parental Advisory…$3.99
©2008 Stephen King. All rights reserved. Published by arrangement with The Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group, a division of
Random House, Inc.
This comic series is produced under license from The Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group and Stephen King.
DARK TOWER: TREACHERY #1
Written by ROBIN FURTH & PETER DAVID
Pencils & Cover by JAE LEE & RICHARD ISANOVE
Variant Cover by GABRIELE DELL'OTTO
Sketch Variant Cover by JAE LEE
The ka-tet of Roland, Alain and Cuthbert have returned safely to their home in Gilead. But all is not well. Roland has kept the evil Maerlyn's Grapefruit and has become obsessed with peering into its pinkish depths despite the deadly toll it's taken on his health. And what the young gunslinger sees brings him the darkest of nightmares. Meanwhile, Roland's father has led a posse in search of those who threatened his son's life in Hambry—John Farson and the Big Coffin Hunters. And in this encounter, Stephen Deschain's life may be forfeit.
40 PGS./Cardstock Cover/Parental Advisory…$3.99
©2008 Stephen King. All rights reserved.
MARVEL ILLUSTRATED: THE THREE MUSKETEERS #4
(BASED ON THE NOVEL BY
ALEXANDRE DUMAS)
Adapted by ROY THOMAS
Penciled by HUGO PETRUS
Cover by GERALD PAREL
Cardinal Richelieu's plans to destroy the Queen—the woman who spurned him, move menacingly forward. Then, he attempts to weaken the throne itself by splitting up the King's protectors by offering Musketeer D'Artagnan a position in the Cardinal's own guard. When D'Artagnan refuses, Richelieu plots his death—with poison.
32 PGS./Rated A …$3.99
MARVEL SPOTLIGHT: MARVEL KNIGHTS 10TH ANNIVERSARY
Written by
JOHN RHETT THOMAS
Monkey Variant by Greg Horn
Ten years ago, the Marvel Knights imprint was born. Who knew that the cutting-edge reinventions of characters like
Daredevil,
Black Panther and
Punisher would not only revive those properties, but also serve as the
opening salvo of the reinvention of Marvel Comics?
MARVEL SPOTLIGHT takes a look back at those heady days with mastermind Joe Quesada, plus all the great stuff that has come since — particularly the works that
the ever-evolving line is producing today, with titles
focusing on Captain America,
Iron Man and
Wolverine. Conversations with creators and the opening of artists' sketchbooks will take you behind the scenes of ten years worth of Marvel Knights glory!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99
MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE #15
MARVEL ADVENTURES AVENGERS #15
X-MEN: FIRST CLASS #3
64 PGS./All Ages …$4.99
MARVEL ADVENTURES FANTASTIC FOUR #40
Written by CHRIS ELIOPOULOS
Penciled by RONAN CLIQUET
Cover by CLAYTON HENRY
A secret organization has taken to harvesting the most brilliant brains in the world and they've decided to go for the big enchilada –
Reed Richards. Is this the end of the Fantastic Four? What will Reed Richards do without his brain? Will Iron Man take his spot in the FF? Or have we just lost OUR minds? Check out this issue we had to call "Mind Over Matter!"
32 PGS./All Ages …$2.99
MARVEL ADVENTURES SUPER HEROES #3
Written by PAUL TOBIN
Penciled by ALVIN LEE
Cover by ROGER CRUZ
YOU CAN'T EAT JUST ONCE: The Iron Man of the future comes back in time to help our heroes fight
Kang the Conqueror, who rules the future via a vast fortune acquired though his potato chip company. Yeah – potato chips. But these aren't just run-of-the-mill potato chips, these are nano-temporal-potato chips…engineered so that if you ever eat one, the timestream forces you to eat them again for every single meal, forever. It's Iron Man,
Spider-Man and the
Hulk against an army of past and future warriors, and a bag of potato chips to boot!
32 PGS./All Ages …$2.99
MARVEL MONSTERS POSTER BOOK
Cover by GENE COLAN
Thirty-six posters featuring Marvel's most macabre
monstrosities! Gaze on these blood-curdling images of hideous horror and know fear!
72 PGS./Rated A …$6.99
MARVEL ADVENTURES THE AVENGERS #28
Written by JEFF PARKER &
PAUL TOBIN
Penciled by IG GUARA
Cover by SEAN MURPHY
It's always tough when your parents don't like the girl you're dating, but it's even rougher if you happen to be
Thor, son of
Odin! Worse, Odin sets Thor up on a date with a Frost Giant's daughter! When Thor ditches her to sneak away on a date with
Storm, it's up to rest of the
Avengers to cover for him.
32 PGS./All Ages …$2.99
MARVEL ADVENTURES TWO-IN-ONE #15
MARVEL ADVENTURES FANTASTIC FOUR #33
MARVEL ADVENTURES SPIDER-MAN #41
64 PGS./All Ages …$4.99
HULK CHRONICLES: WORLD WAR HULK #3
Written by GREG PAK
& JEFF PARKER
Penciled by JOHN ROMITA JR.
& LEONDARD KIRK
Cover by JOHN ROMITA JR.
INCREDIBLE HULK #108
WORLD WAR HULK #2
72 PGS./Rated T+ …$4.99
MARVEL ADVENTURES HULK #15
Written by PETER DAVID
Pencils & Cover by JUAN ROMAN CANO SANTACRUZ
The United Nations has tried to for years to bring the nations of the world together, and facilitate peace. The gamma-enhanced super-villain, the Leader, likes that idea—he just thinks the best way to get it is for him to rule the planet! Now it's up to Hulk and his constant companions, teenager
Rick Jones and Monkey the monkey, to save the UN from the big-brained baddie! But can even Hulk smash a whole army of the Leader's squishy pink androids?
32 PGS./All Ages …$2.99
MARVEL ADVENTURES SPIDER-MAN #43
Written by MARC SUMERAK
Penciled by CARLOS FERREIRA
Cover by PATRICK
SCHERBERGER
When Peter Parker's biology class goes on a field trip to a popular aquatic theme park, Pete can't wait for a day full of water, whales and walruses. But our hero never expected to find himself face-to-fin with an Atlantean villain determined to release the park's animal inhabitants back to the freedom of the ocean! Looks like Spidey is in DEEP trouble!
32 PGS./All Ages …$2.99
MARVEL ILLUSTRATED: THE ODYSSEY #1
(BASED ON THE EPIC POEM BY ALEXANDRE DUMAS)
Adapted by ROY THOMAS
Pencils & Cover by GREG
TOCCHINI
Odysseus, one of the great Greek warriors of the Trojan War, has not arrived home. His ship is blown off course by the vengeful sea god Poseidon, thus leading the hero into a series of awesome adventures that form a cornerstone of Western literature. This Homeric epic has been told and retold and now it receives the grand Marvel Illustrated treatment courtesy of classic scribe Roy Thomas (THE ILIAD) and penciler Greg Tocchini (THOR: SON OF ASGARD). It's the greatest voyage in all mythology and it begins here.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
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