As I mentioned yesterday, this item flew in entirely beneath my radar. But neither the solicitation I posted yesterday (to the "Your Favorite Things of the Year" discussion) nor the back cover copy tells exactly what's inside, and the book is shrinkw
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MARVEL COMICS
ALIENS VS AVENGERS #2 (OF 4, $7.99)
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN BLOOD HUNT TP ($19.99)
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN EPIC COLLECTION VOL 28: WEB LIFE, WEB DEATH TP ($44.99)
AVENGERS #20 ($3.99)
BLOOD HUNTERS #4 (OF 5, $3.99)
CAPTAIN AMERICA
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This is the first post in a projected series of three. Whenever I go back to re-read a particular favorite series of mine, I generally go to the best of the run, which is often the beginning. Many series feature a resurgance in creativity later in th
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BENJAMIN PERCY (W) • JOSHUA CASSARA (A/C)
GALLERY VARIANT COVER BY JOSHUA CASSARA • Variant Cover by GREG CAPULLO
VARIANT COVER BY FRANK MILLER • VIRGIN VARIANT COVER BY FRANK MILLER
VARIANT COVER BY JEROME OPEÑA • VARIANT COVER
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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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MARVEL COMICS
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #60 ($7.99)
CAPTAIN AMERICA #14 ($4.99)
CHASM: CURSE OF KAINE #3 (OF 4, $3.99)
DEADPOOL #6 2ND PTG ROGE ANTONIO VARIANT ($3.99)
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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MARVEL COMICS
ALIEN: ROMULUS ANNUAL #1 ($4.99)
AVENGERS #19 ($3.99)
BLADE RED BAND #1 (OF 5) RED FOIL VAR (POLYBAGGED, $PI)
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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MARVEL COMICS
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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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 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)
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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