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Re-Action Figures: Pre-Code covers become glow-in-the-dark action figures

"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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Comics shipping week of Oct. 7, 2024

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MARVEL COMICS

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #59 ($4.99)

BLADE RED BAND #1 (OF 5, POLYBAGGED, $4.99)

CONQUEST 2099 #1 (OF 5, $4.99)

EXCEPTIONAL X-MEN #2 ($3.99)

FANTASTIC FOUR #26 ($3.99)

FANTASTIC FOUR EPIC COLLECT VOL 1: WORLDS GREATEST COMIC TP

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Warp

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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Starslayer - The Log of the Jolly Roger

"[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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Comics shipping week of Sept. 30, 2024

MARVEL COMICS

ALIENS WHAT IF TP ($17.99)

CAPTAIN AMERICA OMNIBUS VOL 2 HC (NEW PTG, $100.00)

DAREDEVIL #14 ($4.99)

DEADPOOL #7 ($3.99)

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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DC solicitations for December 2024

 

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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Marvel solicitations for December 2024

MARVEL PREVIEWS #37 – DECEMBER 2024 SHIPPING 

 

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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Time² Omnibus

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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Comics shipping week of Sept. 23, 2024

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MARVEL COMICS

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #58 ($4.99)

AVENGERS ANNUAL #1 ($4.99)

CHASM: CURSE OF KAINE #2 ($3.99)

DAREDEVIL: WOMAN WITHOUT FEAR #3 ($3.99)

DEAD X-MEN TP ($17.99)

DEADPOOL TEAM-UP #2 (OF 5, $3.99)

EXCALIBUR OMNIBUS VOL 3 HC ($15

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The Lone Ranger (Dynamite)

I have been in a "Lone Ranger" mood for a while now and have been meaning to read the Dynamite series for some time. John Cassaday provided the cover art, and with his recent passing, this seems like the perfect opportunity to pay him tribute by spot

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Captain America (Cassaday)

Recently I had been reading the Captain America by Mark Gruenwald omnibus specifically to determine why that run didn't appeal to me. Once I found that answer, I lost all interest in the project a dozen or so issues shy of the end of the volume. Wher

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Justice Warriors

This series just didn't click with me the first time I read it (or started to). After an issue or two I decided to set it aside to read sometime when I'm more in the mood, now that I had a better idea of what it was like. Then last week, The Justice

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Avengers Assemble #1 Reactions (SPOILERS!)

First, as is my custom, here are some irrelevant images to provide spoiler space:
 

1. We begin with the Red Skull's daughter, Sin, slaughtering some archaeologists in Germany in order to steal the helmet of Eirda, the Greek goddess of hate.  I would've

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Superman: The Triangle Era Omnibus

Superman: The Triangle Era omnibus ships next week. It comprises Superman #49-64, Adventures of Superman #472-486, Action Comics #659-673 and Superman: The Man of Steel #1-8. It is named for the sequential numbering of the four regular series which a

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Comics shipping week of Sept. 16, 2024

Wonder Woman #13

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MARVEL COMICS
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #260 FACSIMILE EDITION ($4.99)
AVENGERS #18 ($3.99)
DAZZLER #1 (OF 4, $4.99)
DEADPOOL #6 ($3.99)
DEATHLOK 50TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL #1 ($4.99)
GHOST RIDER DANNY KETCH OMNIBUS VOL 1 HC ($

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The Legend of Grimjack

Grimjack remains one of my favorite characters/series despite the fact he hasn't had a regular series since 1991 or a new adventure since 2010. I think more about his entire life has been revealed than has about most other comic book characters who h

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Mapping Out the Multiverse

I've lost count of how many times [DC has] re-discovered the multiverse. Well, first it was 52 parallel universes. Then they discovered those were just the "local" multiverse. 

Last week while I was reading a DC comic book from 2006, I came across DC

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Comics shipping week of Sept. 9, 2024

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MARVEL COMICS

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #57 ($4.99)

AVENGERS ASSEMBLE #1 (of 5, $4.99)

AVENGERS BY BUSIEK & PEREZ OMNIBUS VOL 2 HC (New Printing, $125.00)

BLOOD HUNTERS #2 (of 5, $3.99)

CAPTAIN AMERICA #13 ($4.99)

DAREDEVIL BY SALADIN AHMED V

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Planetary

Interest has been expressed in a Planetary discussion so I guess I'll start one and see where it goes. I have never read it before. I don't plan to do in-depth summaries because those who expressed said interest have, and some have committed to readi

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The DC Comics "All In" and "Absolute" discussion

It begins.

Next month, DC Comics will split in two. When "Absolute Power" comes to an end -- and we have a thread on that HERE -- something happens that creates, for lack of a better term, a new Earth-2. This new parallel universe will be published i

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