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DC in March: Three new Absolute titles, 'Hush II,' Harley Quinn's flatulence

DC has released its March solicitations. Three-you-count-'em Absolute books debut! Apparently they're going to make J'onn J'onzz a lot more alien, which I've always advocated. The Green Lantern Corps could use a little re-imagining, too -- it's an ou

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Marvel in March: 'One World Under Doom,' 'X-Manhunt,' lots of first issues

 A huge number of books are Doom-related in March. But there are also a lot of first issues that aren't. Let's look at those first.

There's FF vs. Godzilla AND Nick Fury vs. Fin Fang Foom. We should call this Natrional Kaiju Month! There's a Thing so

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Shiver SuspenStories

I wasn't going to start a thread for Shiver SuspenStories, but I started one for Epitapths from the Abyss and Cruel Universe so why not? At first I was disappointed that it featured a Christmas-themed cover, until I discovered the whole issue was Chr

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Titan Comics in February

COMICS

CONAN THE BARBARIAN FREE COMIC BOOK DAY 2025

(W) Jim Zub

(A) Ivan Gil

Publisher: Heroic Signatures and Titan Comics

FC, 32pp, Available May 3, 2025 

SCOURGE OF THE SERPENT, the newest epic CONAN event, begins HERE, from fan-favorite writer Jim

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Marvel Comics in February

MARVEL PREVIEWS #39 – FEBRUARY 2025 SHIPPING PRODUCT

ONE WORLD UNDER DOOM #1 (OF 9)

Ryan North (W) • R.B. Silva (A) • Cover by Ben Harvey

VIRGIN VARIANT COVER BY BEN HARVEY • VARIANT COVER BY WILL SLINEY

NEGATIVE SPACE VIRGIN VARIANT COVER BY JOHN

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List for comics shipping week of Dec. 16, 2024

 

MAJOR PUBLISHERS

MARVEL COMICS
ALL NEW VENOM #1 (HUMBERTO RAMOS WRAPAROUND VARIANT, $4.99)
ALLIGATOR LOKI HOLIDAY SPECIAL #1 ($6.99)
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #263 FACSIMILE EDITION ($4.99)
BLOOD HUNT: MARVEL UNIVERSE TP  ($24.99)
BLOOD HUNTERS #5 (OF 5,

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List for comics shipping week of Dec. 9, 2024

MAJOR PUBLISHERS

MARVEL COMICS

ALIEN PARADISO #1 (OF 5, $4.99)

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #63 ($4.99)

BLACK WIDOW & HAWKEYE BROKEN ARROW TP ($17.99)

CAPTAIN AMERICA #117 FACSIMILE EDITION (NEW PRINTING, $4.99)

DAZZLER #4 (OF 4, $3.99)

DEADPOOL TEAM-UP #4 (OF

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Early FF Annuals (#1-6)

Marvel annuals used to be truly special in the early days, but there came a time when someone at Marvel came up with the "neat idea" to monetize them by linking them together in a massive "event" to "force" readers to buy them all. For me, the "gold

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DC Comics solicitations for February 2025

ABSOLUTE BATMAN #5

Written by SCOTT SNYDER

Art and cover by NICK DRAGOTTA

Variant covers by JOËLLE JONES and IAN BERTRAM

1:25 variant cover by NIKOLAS DRAPER-IVEY

1:50 variant cover by CLAY & SETH MANN

$4.99 US | 24 pages | Variant $5.99 US (card sto

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Comics shipping week of Dec. 2, 2024

MAJOR PUBLISHERS

MARVEL COMICS
ALL NEW VENOM #1 ($4.99)
AVENGERS #21 ($3.99)
AVENGERS ASSEMBLE #4 (OF 5, $3.99)
AVENGERS BY JED MACKAY VOL 3: BLOOD HUNT TP ($15.99)
CAPTAIN AMERICA OMNIBUS VOL 3 HC (NEW PTG, $125.00)
CONQUEST 2099 #4 (OF 5, $3.99)
DE

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The Tick

I was in on The Tick from the very beginning, thanks mainly to the fact that the owner of my LCS at the time was convinced it was going to be "the next Cerebus." As it turned oout, it was much more like the next Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, however

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Fish Police

I no longer remember when or why I started reading Fish Police by Steve Moncuse, but I suspect it was around the time he made the leap from Fishwrap Production to Comico, and from black & white to color. He self-published the first 11 issues beginnin

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Fantastic Four Omnibus Vol. 5

There is a certain cachet among fans somewhat older than I being able to say that their first issue of Fantastic Four was #1.

I have always been... pleased that my first issue was #126.

It is also the issue which leads off Fantastic Four Omnibus Vol. 5

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Comics shipping week of Nov. 25, 2024

MAJOR PUBLISHERS

MARVEL COMICS

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #62 ($4.99)

BLADE RED BAND #2 (OF 5, POLYBAGGED, $4.99)

DAZZLER #3 (OF 4, $3.99)

DEADPOOL BY CODY ZIGLAR VOL 1: BLOOD BOND TP ($17.99)

DOCTOR DOOM BY CANTWELL & LARROCA TP ($34.99)

DOCTOR STRANGE BY J

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2025 Free Comic Book Day

The press releases for FCBD 2025 have begun.

 

MARVEL REVEALS ITS 2025 FREE COMIC BOOK DAY TITLES INCLUDING NEW STORIES STARRING THE FANTASTIC FOUR, X-MEN AND MORE

See what Marvel has in store for Free Comic Day 2025! 

New York, NY— November 18, 2024

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Munden's Bar

Earth-J has been out of phase with Cynosure for far too long, but lately I've been doing some time travelling and have discovered that the gateway still exists on the Earth-J of the past. "Munden's Bar" was the back-up feature in most issues of Grimj

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Comics shipping week of Nov. 18, 2024

 TOP PUBLISHERS

MARVEL COMICS

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #262 FACSIMILE EDITION ($4.99)

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN BY ZEB WELLS  VOL 11: GOING GREEN TP ($19.99)

AVENGERS ASSEMBLE #3 (OF 5, $3.99)

CHASM: CURSE OF KAINE #4 (OF 4, $3.99)

DAREDEVIL #15 ($4.99)

DEADPOOL

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Miscellaneous New Universes

I have been living in the late '80s recently (actually I have been commuting back and forth), and it occured to me that I have read almost  the entire First Comics series Crossroads over the course of various discussions. I read issues #1-2 as part o

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Magnus, Robot Fighter

I recently posted about Western Publishing's Dr. Solar, Man of the Atom and Turok, Son of Stone. Here now are my thoughts on the third of the Dell/Gold Key triumvirate, Magnus, Robot Fighter, the best (IMO) of the three. I first became interested in

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Sable, Return of the Hunter

This is the third (following Howard Chaykin's American Flagg! and the Starlin/McDonnell run of Dreadstar) in a series of posts spotlighting less-often-read (by me) runs of three of my favorite series. Whenever I'm  in the mood to read some Jon Sable,

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