Get a peek at all the Marvel Illustrated, Marvel Adventures and Soleil books coming your way in February!
THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ #3
Written by ERIC SHANOWER
Pencils & Cover by SKOTTIE YOUNG
The journey of Dorothy, Toto, the Tin Woodman, The Scarecrow and Cowardly Lion along the Yellow Brick Road to the Emerald City of Oz continues peacefully until they encounter the Kalidahs! These fierce creatures with heads of tigers, bodies of bears and sharp claws launch a ferocious attack against the quintet! It will take every resource they can muster for the ragtag bunch to survive this deadly encounter.
32 PGS./All Ages …$3.99
MARVEL ADVENTURES SPIDER-MAN #48
Written by TODD DEZAGO
Penciled by JONBOY MEYERS
Cover by FRANCIS TSAI
FACE FRONT, TRUE BELIEVER! Have you ever heard the expression, "Caught between a rock and a hard place?" No? Really? (jeez, what're they teaching kids in school these days…) Well, that's exactly where Spidey finds himself when he's caught between ELECTRO and a pulverizing pounding from the pugilistic SCORPION!!!
32 PGS./All Ages …$2.99
MARVEL ADVENTURES SUPER HEROES #8
Written by SCOTT GRAY & ROGER LANGRIDGE
Art by CRAIG ROUSSEAU
Cover by CLAYTON HENRY & GURU eFX
In the 1940s, Scrawny teen STEVE ROGERS volunteered for a government experiment that turned his body into the peak of physical perfection…CAPTAIN AMERICA! Cap busted heads during World War II, but then mysteriously disappeared…only to be found decades later, still young and ready to whup up on some bad guys!
We're proud to bring you TWO TALES for the price of one: A present-day story as Cap battles modern malevolence, and a flashback fable featuring Cap in the 40s!
32 PGS./All Ages …$2.99
MARVEL ADVENTURES THE AVENGERS #33
Written by PAUL TOBIN
Penciled by IG GUARA
Cover by ROGER CRUZ
Ka-Zar's in town, and needs the Avengers' help! While
helping the Natural History Museum install a new dinosaur diorama, Ka-Zar decides he should get a driver's license, and the Avengers are pegged to help the lord of the Savage Land learn to drive! As if THAT isn't bad enough (and it IS) the
manical villain Stegron steals a rare dinosaur bone he believes can raise his powers to enormous levels, and he's right! Drive on up to this issue for action x 3 with slugfests, dinosaurs, and driving lessons, in "You're Driving Me Crazy!"
32 PGS./All Ages …$2.99
MARVEL ADVENTURES TWO-IN-ONE #20
MARVEL ADVENTURES HULK #10
MARVEL ADVENTURES SPIDER-MAN #46
64 PGS./All Ages …$4.99
MARVEL ILLUSTRATED: THE ODYSSEY #6
Written by ROY THOMAS
Pencils & Cover by
GREG TOCCHINI
The great warrior Odysseus finally reaches his home Ithaca. Once there, he learns that there are108 suitors for his wife Penelope's hand. Odysseus encounters his son, Telemachus, and together they work out a plan to defeat the suitors unaware the suitors have targeted Telemachus for death.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
MARVEL ILLUSTRATED: KIDNAPPED! #4
Written by ROY THOMAS
Penciled by MARIO GULLY
Cover by GERALD PAREL
Having escaped from the ship he was kidnapped on, David Balfour reaches Scotland with the man he aided, Alan Breck Stewart. But their troubles are just beginning as the duo is pursued by a troop of English redcoats. Worse, David suddenly falls ill with a sickness that may take his very life!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
MARVEL SPOTLIGHT: WAR OF KINGS
Written by JOHN RHETT THOMAS
Since the early '70s, Marvel's cosmic comics have occupied a corner of the Marvel Universe that has provided some of the best and biggest stories the company has ever produced. And now, in the shadow of the twin triumphs of ANNIHILATION and
ANNIHILATION: CONQUEST, and springing directly from the action of SECRET INVASION, comes WAR OF KINGS! As DARK REIGN confounds planet Earth, the Inhumans are on a collision course with the Shi'Ar Empire. Anyone who has been following the action from X-MEN: DEADLY GENESIS through EMPEROR VULCAN knows what's in store for Black Bolt when he squares off against the most powerful mutant among the stars! It all sets up the kind of sweeping cosmic event that will provide some awesome reading pleasure through 2009 — and SPOTLIGHT is here to give you full insider access with the creators and characters behind the event!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99
SOLEIL: YTHAQ - THE FORSAKEN WORLD #3
Written by CHRISTOPHE ARLESTON
Pencils & Cover by
ADRIEN FLOCH
Adaptation by C.B. CEBULSKI
The first-ever English adaptation of the critically acclaimed European science-fiction epic continues! After having survived their space shipwreck and saving Callista and the other passengers, Granite and Navarth turn their attention to keeping themselves and their fellow castaways alive. Setting off to search for food and explore the planet, their quest takes a near-disastrous turn when the monk Feng Tao mysteriously disappears. They're now on their own as they continue to venture through these strange lands, hoping against hope the secrets of survival on Ythaq will be revealed to them.
56 PGS./Mature …$5.99
The Soleil comics may only be sold in English North America: United States, Canada, Mexico and their territories and possessions.
SOLEIL: SCOURGE OF THE GODS #2
Written by VALRIE MANGIN
Pencils & Cover by ALEKSA GAJI
Adaptation by PAUL BENJAMIN
The sci-fi heroic-fantasy hybrid continues! The starships of King Attila and his Huns threaten the Roman Galactic Empire known as the Orbis. As both the daughter of Roman ruler Flavius Aetius, and also the reincarnation of the Hun goddess Kerka, young Flavia Aetia is caught between the two forces. Will she remain true to her lover, Attila? Or will she serve the Orbis despite her father having condemned her to death as a traitor? When the two galactic super powers meet in battle at the ruins of the war-torn planet Sirmium, a young girl will have to decide who she is and where her true loyalties lie.
48 PGS./Mature …$5.99
The Soleil comics may only be sold in English North America: United States, Canada, Mexico and their territories and possessions.
