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Comics shipping week of July 22, 2024

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MARVEL COMICS

ANNIHILATION 2099 #4

BLOOD HUNT #3 2ND PTG PEPE LARRAZ VARIANT

CAPTAIN AMERICA #11

DAREDEVIL BY CHIP ZDARSKY OMNIBUS VOL 1 HC

DAREDEVIL: SHADOWLAND OMNIBUS HC

DEADPOOL AND WOLVERINE: WWIII #3

ETERNALS BY KIERON GILLEN TP

FANT

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Captain America by Mark Gruenwald Omnibus

Those of you who read my posts my be surprised to see me writing about this volume, which shipped today. I have had many favorite characters over the years. I have frequently identified the Incredible Hulk as my "first favorite" character, but I coul

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Captain Victory

The story behind Captain Victory and the Galactic Rangers is almost as convoluted as that of Jack Kirby's Hunger Dogs graphic novel. It started out as a screenplay by Jack Kirby and Steve Sherman; when that didn't pan out, it was repurposed as a 17-p

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The Hunger Dogs, Kirby's Way

If you were a fan of Jack Kirby's "Fourth World" titles and then read his "epic conclusion," The Hunger Dogs, chances are you were disappointed. That's largely because DC Comics, in their infinite wisdom, decided to purposefully present the pages wil

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Comics shipping week of July 22, 2024

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MARVEL COMICS

ALIENS: WHAT IF #5

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #258 FACSIMILE EDITION

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: BLOOD HUNT #3

ANNIHILATION 2099 #3

BLOOD HUNT #2 (OF 5) 2ND PTG LEINIL YU VARIANT

BLOOD HUNTERS #4

CAPTAIN AMERICA BY MARK GRUENWALD OMNIBUS

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Squadron Supreme

I just reread the Squadron Supreme maxiseries from 1985-86 and it got me thinking of its ramifications, origins and possible agenda.

I decided to go through their earlier appearances in Avengers, Thor and Defenders and see how they evolved.

I also deci

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Marvel 80 for 80 (Abridged)

Last night I was flippping through Marvel 80 for 80. If tou are unfamiliar with it, it is a book, released in late 2019 for Marvel's 80th anniversary, which chooses a single comic book or story to represent the company for every year of its existance

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Comics shipping week of July 8, 2024

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MARVEL COMICS

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #53

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN EPIC COLLECTION VOL 21: RETURN SINISTER SIX TP

ANNIHILATION 2099 #2

AVENGERS #16

BLACK PANTHER: BLOOD HUNT #1 (OF 3) 2ND PTG BLOOD SOAKED VARIANT

DAREDEVIL #11

DARK X-MEN: MERCY C

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Jack Kirby's Captain America, Ranked

When Jack Kirby returned to Marvel in 1975, his Captain America was not universally well-received. I personally have always felt that some of his stories were better than others, but it never occured to me to rank them... until today. Here, then, are

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Machine Man

In 1976, Marvel entered into an agreement with MGM to produce an adaptation of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey in "Treasury Edition" format. An original ongoing series sprung from that, and Jack Kirby wrote and drew both the adaptation and th

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Absolute Power

I've gotta say, I really liked the Absolute Power Ground Zero Special. I decided to buy this, and the main Absolute Power series (minus the sub-series and the tie-ins) on paper, waiting for the secondary stuff to show up on DCUI. And so far, I'm a fa

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Comics shipping week of July 1, 2024

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MARVEL COMICS

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL #1

ANNIHILATION 2099 #1

AVENGERS BY JED MACKAY TP VOL 02 TWILIGHT DREAMING

BLACK PANTHER BLOOD HUNT #3

BLOOD HUNT #1 (OF 5) 2ND PTG LEINIL YU VARIANT

BLOOD HUNTERS #3

DEADPOOL #1 FACSIMILE EDITIO

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MMW Hulk v18

This volume includes the last appearance of the Incredible Hulk as we had come to know him, specifically (ironically) #271, his 20th anniversary issue. We were told that, with #272, "Hulk will never be the same again!" but I didn't believe it. That w

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MARVEL COMICS PR FOR SEPTEMBER 2024 PART II

MARVEL COMICS PR FOR SEPTEMBER 2024 PART II

 

SPIRITS OF VENGEANCE #1

SABIR PIRZADA (W) • Sean Damien Hill (A) • Cover by Kendrick Lim

KUSHALA VARIANT COVER BY DERRICK CHEW

KUSHALA VIRGIN VARIANT COVER BY DERRICK CHEW

VARIANT COVER BY DECLAN SHALVEY

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Marvel Comics PR for September 2024 Part I

MARVEL PR FOR SEPTEMBER 2024 PART I

 

THE FINAL SHOWDOWN WITH TOMBSTONE BEGINS IN AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #58

Tombstone’s revenge! Spanning multiple issues, Spidey’s most brutal battle begins in AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #58.

Hitting stands in September, the vis

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Comics shipping week of June 24, 2024

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MARVEL COMICS

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #49 2ND PTG JR JR. BLOOD SOAKED VARIANT

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN BLOOD HUNT #1 (OF 3) 2ND PTG BLOOD SOAKED VARIANT

BLACK WIDOW AND HAWKEYE #4

BLOOD HUNT #4

BLOOD HUNT RED BAND #4

CAPTAIN MARVEL BY MARGARET ST

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Titan Comics PR for September 2024

BRAND-NEW CONAN THE BARBARIAN COMIC SERIES TO CROSSOVER ICONIC ROBERT E. HOWARD CHARACTERS!

CONAN, SOLOMON KANE, DARK AGNES FEATURE IN  A NEW 4-PART COMIC SERIES!

Heroic Signatures and Titan Comics are pleased to announce the launch of a new Conan mi

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Archie Comics PR for September

Archie Comics September Solicits/July Previews

THE CURSED LIBRARY: OMEGA

The next thrilling chapter of the Cursed Library saga is here! In ALPHA, Danni and Jinx confronted Lucifer himself—over what was supposed to be a family dinner. But the devil ca

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Comics shipping week of June 19, 2024

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MARVEL COMICS

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #257 FACSIMILE ED

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #52

AVENGERS #14 2ND PTG JOSHUA CASSARA BLOOD SOAKED VARIANT

BLACK PANTHER BLOOD HUNT #2

BLOOD HUNTERS #1 (OF 4) 2ND PTG GREG LAND BLOOD SOAKED VARIANT

CAPTAIN AMERI

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DC Comics PR for September 2024

 

DC Announces a Hard-Boiled Plastic Man Noir From Eisner-Nominated Writer Christopher Cantwell and Artist Alex Lins!

Witness Plastic Man like you’ve never seen him before in Plastic Man No More #1!

What happens when Eel O’Brien’s powers start giving

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