From Marvel Comics
Oct. 21, 2012
MARVEL COMICS SOLICITATIONS
FOR JANUARY 2012: MARVEL UNIVERSE TITLES
GREG PAK & FRED VAN LENTE (W)
DALE EAGLESHAM (C)
COVER BY CARLO PAGULAYAN
VARIANT COVER BY
LEINIL FRANCIS YU
• THE FINAL ISSUE!
• The big showdown between Alpha Flight and the Master of the World!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99
MARK WAID (W) • EMMA RIOS (A)
COVER BY HUMBERTO RAMOS
VARIANT COVER BY LEE BERMEJO
• Spider-Man and Daredevil team up – Part One!
• When Black Cat is arrested, Matt Murdock is the only lawyer who will touch her (her case… we mean).
• The next great love triangle of the Marvel Universe begins!
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
DAN SLOTT (W) • HUMBERTO RAMOS (A)
COVER BY MICHAEL DEL MUNDO
VENOM VARIANT COVER BY TBA
• NEW YORK CITY IS DESTROYED BECAUSE OF SPIDER-MAN!
• A glimpse of the future leaves Spider-Man with 12 hours to figure out how to stop it from happening.
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
GREG PAK (W) • MIKE MCKONE (A/C)
• Cyclops teams up with alternate versions of your favorite X-Men
• What is the identity of the villain Saviour?!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS (W) • RENATO GUEDES (A)
COVER BY DANIEL ACUÑA
VENOM VARIANT COVER BY TBA
• Storm is now an Avenger!
• How can the Avengers battle the combined forces of Hydra, AIM, the Hand, and H.A.M.M.E.R. under
the leadership of Norman Osborn?
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
HOWARD CHAYKIN (W/A/C)
• NICK FURY and his 1950s AVENGERS in a final confrontation with the AGENTS OF ICON!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99
CHRISTOS GAGE (W) • TOM GRUMMETT (A)
COVER BY RODIN ESQUEJO
• X-23 and the all-new White Tiger go wild…but why?
• Who is the killer hiding amidst the newly expanded student body and their new campus?
• Welcome new artist Tom Grummett (INCREDIBLE HULKS)!
32 PGS./Rated T…$2.99
BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS (W) • GABRIELE DELL’OTTO (A/C)
• Simon Williams and his Revengers believe the Avengers’ time is up and they’ve taken the fight right to the Avengers’ front door.
• From the creative team behind SECRET WAR.
48 PGS./One-Shot/Rated T …$4.99
JAN VAN METER (W) WITH JIM MCCANN (W)
ROGER ROBINSON (A) WITH CLAYTON HENRY (A)
COVER BY JOHN TYLER CHRISTOPHER
MOVIE VARIANT ALSO AVAILABLE
• Hawkeye’s racing against time to clear the Avengers’ names!
• In his last-ditch effort to save his friends, Hawkeye must team with the very man he’s been charged with capturing!
• Meanwhile, the Avengers Academy vs. The West Coast Avengers!
40 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
AVENGERS: THE CHILDREN’S CRUSADE #9 (OF 9)
ALLAN HEINBERG (W) • JIM CHEUNG(A/C)
• The big climax that sets the stage big time for what is to come in 2012!
• Deaths and departures!
• The funeral of an Avenger.
• The final fate of the Scarlet Witch.
• A new lineup and a new direction for the Young Avengers.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
AVENGERS: X-SANCTION #2 (OF 4)
JEPH LOEB (W) • ED MCGUINNESS (A/C)
VARIANT COVER BY LEINIL FRANCIS YU
VARIANT COVER BY STEPHEN PLATT
• Cable toe-to-toe with Iron Man as his mission of annihilation continues!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 50TH ANNIVERSARY VARIANT BY TBA
• The HOTTEST book of the Fall continues!
• Red Hulk is dead!
• Only Spider-Man stands in the way of the Subterranean invasion of Manhattan!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
CHRISTOPHER YOST WITH MATT FRACTION & CULLEN BUNN (W)
SCOT EATON (A)
COVER BY CARLO PAGULAYAN
• Deadpool joins the hunt for Marcus Johnson!
• The greatest secret in the Marvel Universe begins to unravel.
• Taskmaster knows more than he’s saying…and Marcus Johnson wants answers!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99
BLACK PANTHER: THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN ALIVE #528
DAVID LISS (W)
SHAWN MARTINBROUGH (A)
COVER BY FRANCESCO FRANCAVILLA
• Kingpin vs. T’Challa for the fate of Hell’s Kitchen and Wakanda!
• Guest-starring: Lady Bullseye! Typhoid Mary! Falcon! Luke Cage!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99
ED BRUBAKER (W) •ALAN DAVIS (A/C)
VENOM VARIANT COVER BY TBA
• Cap struggles to find his faith while the new Hydra makes their first deadly moves.
• Best-selling Cap writer Ed Brubaker and superstar artist Alan Davis bring you action-packed espionage in the Mighty Marvel Manner!
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
ED BRUBAKER & JAMES ASMUS (W)
FRANCESCO FRANCAVILLA (A/C)
• Captain America battles Bucky Barnes!
• Who is this uncanny twin to Cap’s first sidekick, and where did he come from?
• The deadly legacy of the original Human Torch and the mad android Adam II revealed!
32 PGS./Rated T …$2.99
ZEB WELLS (W) • CLAYTON CRAIN (A/C)
• THE AVENGERS HAVE FALLEN TO CARNAGE!
• Only Spider-Man remains – but can he stop Carnage before the United States Government make
a devil’s pact…with symbiotes?!
• Zeb Wells & Clayton Crain continue one town’s fight to survive madness in POPULATION: DIE!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
DAKEN: DARK WOLVERINE #19 & #20
ROB WILLIAMS (W)
MATTEO BUFFAGNI (A - ISSUE #19) & ALESSANDRO VITTI (A - ISSUE #20)
COVERS BY GIUSEPPE CAMUNCOLI
ISSUE #19
• The conclusion of the Claws Killer saga!
• Daken has his final battle with the villainous Marcus Roston!
• Guest starring the Runaways!
ISSUE #20
• The Kingpin of L.A. revealed!
• A standalone issue featuring Daken and FBI agent Donna Kiel
• Can Daken be redeemed?
32 PGS.(each)/Parental Advisory …$2.99 (each)
MARK WAID (W) • KANO (A)
COVER BY PAOLO RIVERA
VARIANT COVER BY LEE BERMEJO
• Spider-Man and Daredevil team up – Part two!
• Picking up where ASM #677 left off, the next great love triangle of the Marvel Universe continues!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99
DANIEL WAY (W) • SALVADOR ESPIN (A)
COVER BY RYAN STEGMAN
• The conclusion of EVIL DEADPOOL!
• Guest-starring Captain America!
• Surprise ending, kicking off next month’s “DEAD” storyline!
32 PGS./Parental Advisory …$2.99
DEADPOOL #49.1
DANIEL WAY (W) • JOHN MCCREA (A)
COVER BY RYAN STEGMAN
• Get caught up before “DEAD” launches next month!
32 PGS./Parental Advisory …$2.99
MATT FRACTION (W) • TERRY DODSON (A/C)
VENOM VARIANT COVER BY TBA
VARIANT COVER BY TBA
I AM A DEFENDER VARIANT ALSO AVAILABLE
• First mission – first fatality?
• What is the secret of Wundagore Mountain?
• The Defenders vs. the Breaker of Worlds!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
DEFENDERS: TOURNAMENT OF HEROES #1
DAVID ANTHONY KRAFT (W)
SAL BUSCEMA & DON PERLIN (A)
COVER BY JOHN ROMITA JR.
• Who wants to be a Defender for a Day?
• When the gregarious Dollar Bill takes out an ad for new Defenders, heroes from all walks of life heed the call!
• The real Defenders are swamped — but they might just need all the extra muscle to defeat the hordes of villains that have come out of the woodwork!
• Collecting DEFENDERS (1972) #62-65.
72 PGS./One-Shot/Rated T+ …$5.99
JONATHAN HICKMAN (W) • BARRY KITSON (A)
COVER BY MIKE CHOI
VENOM VARIANT COVER BY TBA
• FOREVER PART 3
• The Kree Empire vs. the Annihilation Wave … with Earth’s heroes in the middle!
• Galactus returns to judge the world!
32 PGS./Rated T …$2.99
FEAR ITSELF: THE FEARLESS #6 & #7 (OF 12)
CULLEN BUNN WITH MATT FRACTION & CHRIS YOST (W)
MARK BAGLEY & PAUL PELLETIER (A)
COVERS BY ARTHUR ADAMS
• Guest-starring the Avengers!
• Wolverine vs. Crossbones!
• Battle for the hammers on Project Pegasus!
32 PGS. (each)/Rated T+ …$2.99 (each)
JONATHAN HICKMAN (W) • JUAN BOBILLO (A)
COVER BY MIKE CHOI
VENOM VARIANT COVER BY TBA
• ALL HOPE LIES IN DOOM, PART 3
• Find out why “All Hope Lies in Doom”!
32 PGS./Rated T …$2.99
JAMES ASMUS (W) • TIMOTHY GREEN III (A)
• Sebastian Shaw publicly returns to Utopia setting off old grudges and new divisions between
the X-Men!
• Generation Hope clash with a gang of mutant villains living on the island!
• Romance blossoms between Marvel’s most unlikely couple!
32 PGS./Rated T …$2.99
ROB WILLIAMS (W) • LEE GARBETT (A)
COVER BY MATT CLARK
• GUEST STARRING HAWKEYE!
• Ghost Rider, Hawkeye and Johnny Blaze face the twin furies Steel Wind and Steel Vengeance.
• Can Alejandra learn to control the hellish power of the Spirit of Vengeance or will the whole planet
be consumed in a cleansing firestorm?
32 PGS./Parental Advisory …$2.99
GHOST RIDER: CYCLE OF VENGEANCE #1
GARY FRIEDRICH, HOWARD MACKIE & DANIEL WAY (W)
MIKE PLOOG & JAVIER SALTARES (A)
COVER BY LEINIL FRANCIS YU
• The demonic debuts of the original Ghost Rider, Johnny Blaze, and his grim successor, Dan Ketch!
• Johnny reclaims the power of his birthright — just in time to face down Hell itself!
• Collecting MARVEL SPOTLIGHT (1971) #5, GHOST RIDER (1990) #1 and GHOST RIDER (2006) #1.
96 PGS./One-Shot/Rated T+ …$5.99
JEFF PARKER (W) • ELENA CASAGRANDE (A)
COVER BY CARLO PAGULAYAN
• RED SHE-HULK shows up to confront big daddy!
• The return of the villainous villainess, ZERO/ONE!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99
JASON AARON (W) • WHILCE PORTACIO (A)
COVER BY LEINIL FRANCIS YU
VENOM VARIANT COVER BY TBA
• The fight everyone’s been waiting for: HULK VS. BANNER!
• Banner unleashes an army of Hulked-out monsters!
32 PGS./Parental Advisory …$3 .99
MATT FRACTION (W) • SALVADOR LARROCA (A/C)
VENOM VARIANT COVER BY TBA
• Can Tony Stark be trusted to pilot the Iron Man?
• The wave of super villain attacks by reinvented classic rogues continues!
• Bethany Cabe on the hunt for Spymaster!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
COVER BY STEPHANIE HANS
VENOM VARIANT COVER BY TBA
• The Son of Satan guest-stars!
• Fallout from Fear Itself leaves thousands trapped in deadly fever dreams around the world.
• Why is it Loki’s fault? Again.
• And Leah of Hel discovers the wonder and consequence of milkshakes…
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99
DENNIS HOPELESS (W)
JUAN DOE (A/C)
• Elsa Bloodstone and the Legion discover the true monster!
• The world is at stake as the team faces an unkillable enemy!
• Horror, humor, heart, blood, and guts!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
SKOTTIE YOUNG (W)
CLAY MANN (A/C)
• Magneto faces off against his clone Joseph (yes, the one from the 90’s) and an all new Brotherhood!
32 PGS./Parental Advisory …$2.99
MATT FRACTION (W) • PASQUAL FERRY (A/C)
VENOM VARIANT COVER BY TBA
• TANARUS VS. HEIMDALL!
• THOR struggles to free himself before the DEMOGORGE consumes him and a starship full of other fallen gods!
• What did Loki and the Surfer find in the desert and how can it help a god no one can remember?
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS (W) • ALEX MALEEV (A/C)
• MOON KNIGHT throws down with the KINGPIN OF LOS ANGELES!
• The Battle for LA’s Soul claims a life – one that will be felt throughout the Marvel U, all the way to Avengers Tower!
• Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev continue the adventures of Marvel’s Psyche-Splitting Superstar!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS (W) • MIKE DEODATO (A/C)
VENOM VARIANT COVER BY TBA
• The New Avengers vs. the Dark Avengers!
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
ALSO AVAILABLE
NEW AVENGERS ANNUAL #1
SECOND PRINTING VARIANT
ORDER USING THIS CODE: JUL118236
DAN ABNETT & ANDY LANNING (W) • DAVID LÓPEZ (A)
COVER BY JORGE MOLINA
• Final chapter of the arc guest starring BLINK!
• The New Mutants and Blink face off against the Diskhord, the chaos-sowing metal band!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99
GREG RUCKA (W) • MICHAEL LARK (A/C)
• One long ago night, as the Punisher battled Daredevil, one cop’s life was forever changed
32 PGS./Parental Advisory …$2.99
CHRISTOPHER YOST (W) • RYAN STEGMAN (A/C)
VARIANT COVER BY RYAN STEGMAN
VARIANT COVER BY MARK BAGLEY
VENOM VARIANT COVER BY TBA
BLANK VARIANT COVER ALSO AVAILABLE
• Spinning out of Spider-Island, The Secrets of the Brand New Scarlet Spider stand revealed in 40 Pages!!
•Who is the new webbed wonder – and why has he come to face corruption in Houston, Texas?
40 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
ISSUE #21 WARREN ELLIS (W) • STUART IMMONEN (A)
#21 COVER BY JOHN CASSADAY
VENOM VARIANT COVER BY TBA
SAVE THE WORLD.
• SOMETHING IS DANGEROUSLY AWRY IN THE OFFICE
OF NATIONAL EMERGENCY (O*N*E)…
32 PGS./RATED T+ …$3.99
ISSUE #21.1 RICK REMENDER (W) • PATCH ZIRCHER (A/C)
• CAPTAIN AMERICA AND HAWKEYE UNDERTAKE A
MISSION TO THE RED LIGHT NATION, A COUNTRY RUN BY CRIMINALS FOR CRIMINALS!
• RICK REMENDER TAKES OVER AS THE NEW REGULAR SERIES WRITER WITH THIS INTRODUCTORY POINT ONE ISSUE.
32 PGS./RATED T+ …$2.99
ANDY DIGGLE (W)
DAVIDE GIANFELICE (A)
COVER BY BUTCH GUICE
• Gunslingers close in on Tarantula, the renegade femme fatale!
• Powerful forces conspire to bring war to San Diablo…
• Only one misfit band of guns can prevent it… if they don’t kill each other first!
32 PGS./Parental Advisory …$2.99
ROB RODI (W) • STEPHEN SEGOVIA (A/C)
• Thor invades Lemuria, home to the entire Deviant race!
• It’s Deviant vs. Deviant for the fate of their future, and ours!
• And the return of Gilgamesh, the Forgotten One!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
JEFF PARKER (W) • MATTHEW SOUTHWORTH (A)
COVER BY KEV WALKER
• Luke Cage takes center stage with the ‘Bolts still at large!
• With the Raft still a shambles, Luke finds himself a prisoner of Mr. Fear!
• Meanwhile, Songbird discovers a vital clue to catching the FugitiveThunderbolts!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99
THUNDERBOLTS #169
JEFF PARKER (W) • KEV WALKER (A)
COVER BY JOHN TYLER CHRISTOPHER
• Still on the lamb through time the Thunderbolts go medieval on King Arthur and his court!
• The Ghost gets ready to make his move as the chase through the past continues!
• Kev Walker returns!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99
RICK REMENDER (W) • BILLY TAN (A)
COVER BY MIKE DEODATO
• Return to the Age of Apocalypse as the AOA X-Men make their final stand against Weapon X!
• Introducing new Age of Apocalypse super hero team The X-Terminated!
• The stage is set for Age of Apocalypse #1, the new ongoing series set in the Age of Apocalypse!
32 PGS./Parental Advisory …$2.99
UNCANNY X-FORCE #20
RICK REMENDER (W) • GREG TOCCHINI (A)
COVER BY LEINIL YU
VARIANT COVER BY TBA
• The TRIAL OF FANTOMEX begins! Part 1 of 4
• The X-FORCE team journey to OTHERWORLD!
• Guest starring CAPTAIN BRITAIN and the CAPTAIN BRITAIN CORPS!
32 PGS./Parental Advisory …$3.99
KEIRON GILLEN (W) • BRANDON PETERSON (A/C)
• GUEST ARTIST BRANDON PETERSON!
• The Phalanx return for a special one-shot issue of UNCANNY X-MEN.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
UNCANNY X-MEN #5
KIERON GILLEN (W) • GREG LAND (A/C)
• NEW ARC! Spinning out of events of UNCANNY X-FORCE.
• The X-Men investigate a new Marvel Universe area
called TABULA RASA!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
RICK REMENDER (W) • LAN MEDINA (A)
COVER BY TONY MOORE
VENOM VARIANT COVER BY TBA
• Pushed to his limits, Venom goes head to head with Jack O’Lantern!
• The Arch-foes fight through Vegas brings them face-to-Face – with Toxin?!
• Meanwhile, the Red Hulk closes in on public enemy number one – Venom!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99
NICK SPENCER (W)
BECKY CLOONNA (A)
COVER BY SEBASTIAN FIUMARA
• Victor Von Doom faces the perils of Hell!
• Doom suffers no demon gladly!
• As he enters the deepest fiery pits, how is the boy changed forever?
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99
ANDY LANNING (W)
RENATO ARLEM (A)
COVER BY RODOLFO MIGLIARI
• It’s a twisty and vicious super criminal clash as two of the nastiest crews go to war!
• Has Misty Knight finally gone bad?
• Featuring cult faves like Avalanche, Shocker, Tiger Shark and Scourge!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99
JASON AARON (W) • ADAM KUBERT (A/C)
VARIANT COVER BY JIM CHEUNG
WRAPAROUND VARIANT COVER BY GEOF DARROW
BLANK VARIANT COVER ALSO AVAILABLE
• EXTRA-SIZED 300th ISSUE EVENT!
• An all-new, soon-to-be-classic Wolverine story starts here!
• Wolverine travels to Tokyo to confront his most dangerous enemy yet.
• And a new Silver Samurai rises to take his place…along with Wolverine’s daughter!
56 PGS./Parental Advisory …$4.99
JASON AARON (W) • NICK BRADSHAW (A/C)
• Two new students join the school. Who could it be?
• The future comes back to haunt the school.
• And who is PREGNANT?!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
WOLVERINE AND THE X-MEN ALPHA & OMEGA #1 (OF 5)
BRIAN WOOD (W) • MARK BROOKS & ROLAND BOSCHI (A)
COVER BY MARK BROOKS
• DEBUT ISSUE BY BEST-SELLING AUTHOR BRIAN WOOD (DMZ, Demo, DV8, Northlanders)
• It’s Wolverine versus Kid Omega for dominance of the Jean Grey School.
• Wolverine will discover that the hardest prison to escape can be his own mind.
32 PGS./Parental Advisory …$3.99
WOLVERINE, PUNISHER & GHOST RIDER: OFFICIAL INDEX TO THE MARVEL UNIVERSE #6
VARIOUS (W)
• Watch history unfold as Marvel’s official chronicles continue! Synopses for dozens of comics — covering heroes, villains, teams and equipment, and providing vital chronological and behind the-scenes information!
64 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
MARJORIE LIU (W)
PHIL NOTO (A)
KALMAN ANDRASOFSZKY (c)
• Guest-starring Jubilee!
• X-23 goes back to Utopia to decide once and
for all what side she falls on in the Regenesis
32 PGS./Parental Advisory …$2.99
SIMON SPURRIER (W)
PAUL DAVIDSON (A)
COVER BY RODIN ESQUEJO
• The X-Club races the clock to stop a mutagenic eco-disaster!
• Danger turns on her fellow X-Men! But why?
• Also featuring: A telepathic starfish, a holographic lesson in seduction, and flashbacks to events in AVENGERS history that are key pieces to solving the mystery of who’s behind it all…
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99
PETER DAVID (W) • EMANUELA LUPACCHINO (A)
COVER BY DAVID YARDIN
VARIANT COVER BY NICK BRADSHAW
• REGENESIS tie-in, guest-starring Wolverine!
• The team is shattered by recent events, including the death of a key member in #227.
• The highly-publicized return of two fan-favorite classic X-Factor characters: HAVOK & POLARS!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99
VICTOR GISCHLER (W) • WILL CONRAD (A)
COVER BY ADI GRANOV
VENOM VARIANT COVER BY TBA
• The pulse-pounding conclusion to “Machines of War”!
• The fate of an oppressed people in the hands of
War Machine and the X-Men!
• So many Sentinels they blot out the sky!
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
CHRISTOS GAGE (W) • DAVID BALDEON (A)
COVER BY MARK BROOKS
ISSUE #261 VENOM VARIANT COVER BY TBA
• REGENESIS tie-in! A new creative team and a new status quo for X-MEN: LEGACY…
• Rogue, Gambit, Iceman, Frenzy and Rachel Summers take up their posts as teachers and protectors of Wolverine’s School...just in time to defend it from invading N’Garai demons!
• AND IN ISSUE #261, classic X-Villain EXODUS returns! And he intends to mend the divide between the X-Men …by any means necessary.
32 PGS. (each) /Rated T+ …$2.99 (each)
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