ARCHIE IS MR. JUSTICE #2 (of 4)
BRAND NEW ARCHIE PREMIUM EVENT LIMITED SERIES! Mr. Justice’s heroic deeds have started to catch attention—for better or for worse! But when he gets entangled with Veronica Lodge, the daughter of the man who’s turning t
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LENORE: THE TIME WAR #1 (OF 3)
(W/A) Roman Dirge
Publisher: Titan Comics
FC, 32pp, $3.99, On Sale January 29, 2025
The much-celebrated return of Roman Dirge’s unique, anarchic and cult classic character LENORE: THE CUTE LITTLE DEAD GIRL in her
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The first Scout series (1985) took place in 1999 (#1-7) and 2002 (#8-24). The second Scout series, War Shamen (1988), took place in 2015 (with a framing device set in 2030) and ended with ɹǝʇɔɐɹɐɥɔ uᴉɐɯ ǝɥʇ ɟo ɥʇɐǝp ǝɥʇ. At that point, Timothy Truman
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DEADPOOL TEAM-UP #3 (OF 5, $3.99)
GHOST RIDER EPIC COLLECT VOL 2: THE SA
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Despite being a life-long G-fan, I didn't buy this series (written by Doug Moench and drawn by Herb Trimpe) when it was new. I did buy the first and last issues years later, but didn't feel the need to collect the series as backissues. When I had the
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BLOOD HUNT TP ($19.99)
CAPTAIN AMERICA MODERN ERA EPIC COLLECTION VOL 2: DEATH OF D TP ($49.99)
CAPTAIN MARVEL
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My version of the "Suicide Squad"
Baserd on its newsstand release date, in another universe, this could have been the last issue of Fantastic Four:
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ALIENS VS AVENGERS #1 2ND PTG ESAD RIBIC VARIANT (OF 4, $7.99)
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #261 FACSIMILE EDITION ($4.99)
AVENGERS ASSEMBLE #2 (OF 5, $3.99)
BLOOD HUNTERS #3 (OF 5, $3.99)
CRYPT OF SHADOWS #1 (ONE-SHOT, $4.99)
DARE
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Before Grimjack, before Starslayer, Timothy Truman worked for TSR on a variety of RPG-related projects, including "Daral of Gondwane" by the great Gardner Fox, surely one of his last stories. Other stories include "Braskan Gambit" and "Starmerchant,"
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Over the course of a long weekend in the '90s, I once watched Lawrence Olivier's movie version of Hamlet, followed by Mel Gibson's, followed by Kenneth Branagh's. Then I read First Comics' Classics Illustrated version. As truncated as it was (to fit
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I've always said that if Marvel had just had Jim Starlin put out a book once a year of all double page spreads of all of Marvel's heroes and villains fighting each other in interesting locales and without bothering with any
Read more…"The past is never dead. It's never even past." -- William Faulkner
Some company named Super7 (or maybe PX, it's unclear) has announced four glow-in-the dark action figures from pre-Code horror comics. Not ongoing characters, mind you -- just single
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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #59 ($4.99)
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FANTASTIC FOUR #26 ($3.99)
FANTASTIC FOUR EPIC COLLECT VOL 1: WORLDS GREATEST COMIC TP
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Warp is the very first series published by the fledgling First Comics. I came to First Comics in a roundabout way: Marvel/Epic's Coyote crossover brought me to Badger, which in turn brought me to Nexus, which in turn brought me to everything else. I'
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"[Mike] Grell created a Celtic barbarian in the time of the Roman Empire who, at the moment of his death, is yanked into a far-flung future where he becomes a space pirate and freedom fighter aboard a star-roving vessel shaped like a Spanish Galleon
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ALIENS WHAT IF TP ($17.99)
CAPTAIN AMERICA OMNIBUS VOL 2 HC (NEW PTG, $100.00)
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DEADPOOL AND WOLVERINE: WWIII TP ($15.99)
FANTASIC FOUR HALLOWEEN TRICK-OR-READ 2024
GET FURY #6 (OF 6, $3.99)
GHOS
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ABSOLUTE BATMAN #3
Written by SCOTT SNYDER
Art and cover by NICK DRAGOTTA
Variant covers by BECKY CLOONAN and GABRIELE DELL'OTTO
1:25 variant cover by RILEY ROSSMO
1:50 variant cover by STEVAN SUBIC
$4.99 US | 24 pages | Variant $5.99 US (card stoc
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ALIEN: PARADISO #1 (OF 5)
STEVE FOXE (W) • EDGAR SALAZAR & PETER NGUYEN (A)
Cover by IBAN COELLO
Variant cover by BEN HARVEY
Variant cover by J. GONZO
Variant cover by ANDREI BRESSAN
WELCOME TO PARADISO
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Alan Moore and Frank Miller get a lot of credit for "reinventing" comics in the 1980s (and deservedly so), but I don't think Howard Chaykin gets enough. I that's because "grim 'n' gritty" is an easy-to-sum-up catchphrase, but the kind of storytelling
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EXCALIBUR OMNIBUS VOL 3 HC ($15
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