From Marvel Entertainment
Feb. 21, 2012
Avx: Vs #2 (of 6)
KIERON GILLEN/STEVE MCNIVEN(w)
SALVADOR LARROCA/STEVE MCNIVEN(a)
COVER BY SALVADOR LARROCA
Fight Poster Variant by STEVE MCNIVEN
• The premier tie-in to AVENGERS vs. X-MEN!
• SPIDER-MAN vs. COLOSSUS
• CAPTAIN AMERICA vs. GAMBIT
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99 (EACH)
AVENGERS VS X-MEN #3-4 (of 12)
Issue #3 ED BRUBAKER (W)
ISSUE #4 JONATHAN HICKMAN (w)
JOHN ROMITA JR (a)
CoverS by JIM CHEUNG
Issue #3 Variant cover by J. Scott. Campbell
Issue #3 Variant cover by Sara Pichelli
Issue #4 Variant Cover by Mark Bagley
Issue #4 Variant Cover by Jerome Opeña
Issue #3
• The Avengers and the X-Men scour the Earth searching for the host of the Phoenix!
• Hope takes matters into her own hands!
• And Captain America and Wolverine come to bitter blows!
Issue #4
• All across the globe—in the Savage Land, in Wakanda, in Tabula Rasa and more—Avenger battles X-Man for the fate of the world!
• Hope has a suicide mission to propose to Wolverine!
• While in space, the Avengers’ away team meets the Phoenix head on!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99 (EACH)
AVENGERS #26
BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS (w) • WALT SIMONSON (a/c)
• AVX TIE-IN!
• One of the Avengers must betray the team to fill their destiny with the Phoenix.
• A game-changer for the Avengers franchise...and it is not who you think!
• Comics legend Walt Simonson is back!!
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
UNCANNY X-MEN #12
KIERON GILLEN (w) • GREG LAND (A/C)
• AVX TIE-IN!
• The Avengers and X-Men take their battles world-wide.
• Return to Tabula Rasa!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
WOLVERINE & THE X-MEN #10 & 11
JASON AARON (w) • CHRIS BACHALO (a/c)
• AVX TIE-INS!
• Cyclops comes to the Jean Grey School!
• Will Wolverine’s X-Men join Cyclops against the Avengers?
• ICEMAN vs RED HULK!
32PGS./Rated T …$3.99 (EACH)
NEW AVENGERS #26
BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS (w) • MIKE DEODATO (a/c)
• AVX TIE-IN!
• The secret history of the Phoenix is revealed in K’un Lun’s book of the dead Iron Fists. One of the most important chapters in the AVX story.
• What is Danny Rand’s secret connection to the Phoenix?
32PGS./Rated T …$3.99
SECRET AVENGERS #27
RICK REMENDER (w) • RENATO GUEDES (A)
Cover by ALAN DAVIS
• AVX TIE-IN!
• Captain Marvel reborn to unite all Kree!
• Captain Marvel, The Protector and Ms. Marvel vs The Avengers!
• Who is Minister Marvel and why has he drawn the Phoenix to the Kree homeworld?
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
AVENGERS ACADEMY #29 & 30
CHRISTOS GAGE (w) • TOM GRUMMETT (a)
Covers by GIUSEPPE CAMUNCOLI • AVX TIE-IN!
• Both issues tie-in to AVENGERS VS. X-MEN!
• The Utopia and Gen Hope teens have come to the Academy…as prisoners?
• Sebastian Shaw strikes!
• Guest-starring Wolverine, Hawkeye, Hercules and Captain America!
32 PGS./Rated T …$2.99 (EACH)
X-MEN LEGACY #266 & 267
CHRISTOS GAGE (w) • RAFA SANDOVAL (a)
CoverS by MARK BROOKS • AVX TIE-IN!
“OCCUPY THE JEAN GREY SCHOOL”
• Avengers She-Hulk, Falcon and Moon Knight are tasked with securing the Jean Grey School...
• And Rogue and her team of X-Men aren’t too happy about it!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99 (EACH)
AVENGERS ASSEMBLE #3
BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS (w) • MARK BAGLEY (a/C)
• Avengers versus the Zodiac! But who is behind the Zodiac?
• PLUS! The reappearance of a team of characters you’ve been clamoring for!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
Marvel’s The Avengers: The Avengers Initiative
FRED VAN LENTE (w) • RON LIM (a/C)
• The all-ages, action-packed prequel to the Avengers movie is here!
• Meet the incredible cast of the Avengers Initiative: Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, Black Widow and Hawkeye!
• The perfect introduction to The Avengers movie coming out in May 2012!
32 PGS./ONE-SHOT/Rated T+ …$2.99
HULK SMASH AVENGERS #1 (OF 5)
TOM DEFALCO (w) • RON FRENZ (a)
Cover by LEE WEEKS • A five-part, weekly punch-fest that explores the ever-evolving relationship between the Gamma Goliath and Earth’s Mightiest Heroes!
• Hulk vs. the 60’s-era Avengers: Captain America, Iron Man, Giant-Man, Wasp and Thor!
32 PGS./Rated T …$2.99
HULK SMASH AVENGERS #2 (OF 5)
JOE CASEY (w)
MAX FIUMARA (a)
Cover by LEE WEEKS • Hulk vs. the ‘70s-era Avengers: Iron Man, Wasp, Vision and the Beast!
32 PGS./Rated T …$2.99
HULK SMASH AVENGERS #3 (OF 5)
ROGER STERN (w)
KARL MOLINE (a)
Cover by LEE WEEKS • Hulk vs. the ‘80s-era Avengers: Captain America, Iron Man, Hawkeye, Wasp, Captain Marvel and Thor!
32 PGS./Rated T …$2.99
HULK SMASH AVENGERS #4 (OF 5)
JIM MCCANN (w)
AGUSTIN PADILLA (a)
Cover by LEE WEEKS
• Mr. Fixit Hulk vs. the ‘90s-era West Coast Avengers: Iron Man, Wonder Man, Mockingbird, Tigra and Hawkeye!
32 PGS./Rated T …$2.99
HULK SMASH AVENGERS #5 (OF 5)
FRED VAN LENTE (w)
MICHAEL AVON OEMING (a)
Cover by LEE WEEKS
• Red Hulk vs. the 2000s-era Mighty Avengers…Black Widow, Wonder Man, Ares, Sentry and the Wasp!
32 PGS./Rated T …$2.99
ULTIMATE COMICS SPIDER-MAN #10
BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS (w)
DAVID MARQUEZ (a)
Cover by KAARE ANDREWS
• It’s Prowler vs. Spider-Man! Uncle vs. nephew!
• The superstar team of Brian Michael Bendis and newcomer David Marquez continue Miles Morales’ journey to becoming a hero!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
ULTIMATE COMICS ULTIMATES #10 & 11
SAM HUMPHRIES &
JONATHAN HICKMAN (w)
LUKE ROSS (a)
Cover by KAARE ANDREWS
• New creative team! Rising talent Sam Humphries and superstar artist Luke Ross join writer Jonathan Hickman!
• It’s the beginning of a new era for the United States!
• How do Nick Fury and the Ultimates move forward in the aftermath of the People vs. the Children?
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99 (EACH)
ULTIMATE COMICS X-MEN #11
NICK SPENCER (w)
PACO MEDINA (a)
Cover by KAARE ANDREWS • The Nimrod Fleet continues their brutal massacre of mutants.
• Stryker is reborn.
•The face of the United States is changed forever.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
ULTIMATE COMICS X-MEN #12
NICK SPENCER (w) CARLO BARBERI (a)
Cover by KAARE ANDREWS
• The mysteries of the mutant dead deepen even further.
• A familiar and much feared foe makes an unexpected return.
• What do you know about the last time the world ended?
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
VENOM #17 & 18
RICK REMENDER & CULLEN BUNN (w)
Issue #17 Kev Walker (a)
Issue #18 Lan Medina (a)
CoverS by Mike DelMundo
• Venom faces a gauntlet of doom as the Crime-Master unites Jack O’Lantern, The Human Fly, Toxin and more to destroy Flash Thompson!
• The Crime-Master’s plan is so diabolical, so vile, that it forces Eddie Brock to become a symbiote’s host once more – and takes the war to Flash Thompson’s Family, Betty Brant and even Peter Parker!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99 (EACH)
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: ENDS OF THE EARTH #1
DAN SLOTT, BRIAN CLEVENGER
AND ROB WILLIAMS (W)
THONY SILAS (A)
COVER BY SEBASTAIN FIUMARA
• From one “Ends of the Earth” to the other, Spider-Man isn’t the only hero fighting free the globe from Doctor Octopus’s treacherous tentacles in this extra sized story!
• And the dying doctor has some wicked worldly associates of his own.
• Guest staring: Big Hero Six and Union Jack
32 PGS./ONE-SHOT/Rated T …$3.99
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL #39
BRIAN REED (w)
LEE GARBETT (a/C)
• Spider-Man is stuck in a world where Peter Parker never existed!
• And reality is coming apart!
• Guest staring the Avengers!
48 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
AVENGING SPIDER-MAN #7
KATHERINE iMMONEN (w)
Stuart Immonen (a/C)
• A night out with Spider-Man and She-Hulk!
• All the thwipping and quipping and none of the calories!
• Katherine and Stuart Immonen smash their way into the book so action packed it keeps flying off the shelves...
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #685
DAN SLOTT (w) • HUMBERTO RAMOS (a)
Cover by STEFANO CASELLI
VARIANT Cover by Gabriele DELLOTTO
• Part four of the epic “Ends of the Earth”
• Featuring the World’s Greatest Super Hero: Doctor Octopus!
• Guest staring Black Widow and Silver Sable.
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #686
DAN SLOTT (w) • STEFANO CASELLI (a/C)
VARIANT Cover by Gabriele DELLOTTO
• In this perilously penultimate issue of “Ends of the Earth” Inferno: Earth rages!
• We promised the End of the Earth… and this is it, Jocko!
• Guest staring: a doomed planet.
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
SCARLET SPIDER #5
CHRISTOPHER YOST (w)
NEIL EDWARDS (a)
Cover by RYAN STEGMAN
• A Nuclear Bomb is ticking, ready to devastate Kaine Parker’s new home – it’s a race against time!
• Why has the Scarlet Sentinel’s heroics attracted the ire of the Avengers?!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: PARALLEL LIVES #1
GERRY CONWAY (w)
ALEX SAVIUK (a)
Cover by BOB LARKIN
• He’s Peter Parker: a shy, introverted teen whose life changed forever when a radioactive spider bit him.
• She’s Mary Jane Watson: product of a broken home, concealing her pain with an outgoing party-girl persona.
• They meet, fall in love and get married. This is their story.
• The classic 1989 graphic novel returns!
64 PGS./Rated T+ …$4.99
JOHN CARTER: THE GODS OF MARS #3 (of 5)
SAM HUMPHRIES (w)
RAMON PEREZ (a)
Cover by Julian Totino Tedesco
The epic Edgar Rice Burroughs adaptation continues!
• John Carter and friends have escaped countless deaths, but are they running out of lives!
• Will Carter get to his long lost love before Dejah Thoris is sacrificed?
• Join rising sensations Sam Humphries and Ramon Perez on an incredible journey though the unforgettable worlds of Mars!
32 PGS./All Ages …$2.99
DOROTHY & THE WIZARD IN OZ #6 & 7 (of 8)
ERIC SHANOWER (w)
SKOTTIE YOUNG (a/C)
• What happens when you get to the Land of Oz and you don’t fit in?
• Jim the Cab-horse challenges the Sawhorse to a race—with alarming results.
• Dorothy meets her old friends—the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, the Cowardly Lion, Tik-tok, and more.
• The talking Gump-head is always good for a surprise.
32 PGS./All Ages …$3.99 (EACH)
THE AVENGERS: BLACK WIDOW STRIKES #1&2 (of 3)
FRED VAN LENTE (w) • WELLINTON ALVES, RENATO ARLEM, NEIL EDWARDS, STEVE KURTH, RON LIM & AGUSTIN PADILLA (a)
COVERS BY ADI GRANOV & TBD
• A brand-new Black Widow solo adventure from the Marvel Cinematic Universe!
• Before Natasha assembles with the Avengers Initiative, see her in this hard-hitting espionage adventure set between the events of IRON MAN 2 and MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99 (EACH)
CAPTAIN AMERICA #11 & 12
ED BRUBAKER (w) • PATRICK ZIRCHER (a)
• Patrick Zircher joins Ed Brubaker for “Shock To The System”
• Ex super-villains in Witness Protection murdered!
• The return of an old villain and an old lover!
• Can Cap solve this mystery before he himself becomes a target?
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99 (EACH)
CAPTAIN AMERICA AND HAWKEYE #630
CULLEN BUNN (w)
ALESSANDRO VITTI (a)
Cover by PATRICK ZIRCHER
• All the patriotism and arrows in the world may not be enough to save Cap and Hawkeye from a hive of dino-monstrosities!
• A secret buried beneath the San Andres Mountains begins to unravel.
• All this and—Stegron!
32 PGS./Rated T …$2.99
CAPTAIN AMERICA AND HAWKEYE #631
CULLEN BUNN (w)
ALESSANDRO VITTI (a)
Cover by PATRICK ZIRCHER
• In the depths of an underground city, Stegron’s dream becomes a nightmare!
• Cap “goes Mezozoic” and he’s set his carnivorous sights on Hawkeye!
• And what’s freakier than creepy little kids? Creepy little dinosaur kids!
32 PGS./Rated T …$2.99
WINTER SOLDIER #5
ED BRUBAKER (w) • BUTCH GUICE (a)
Cover by LEE BERMEJO
• Ed Brubaker and Butch Guice bring the Winter Soldier’s first arc to a dramatic ending!
• Can Bucky and the Black Widow prevent war with Latveria?
• Can Bucky stop the Sleepers he himself trained?
• Can this series get any cooler?
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99
THE MIGHTY THOR #14
MATT FRACTION (w) • PEPE LARRAZ (a)
Cover by WALT SIMONSON • How far will Donald Blake go to regain what he’s lost?
• What really happens in your room at night after you fall asleep?
• How can Thor fight a foe that’s not there?
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #516
MATT FRACTION (w) • SALVADOR LARROCA (a/C)
• The mole inside Start Resilient is revealed!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #517
MATT FRACTION (w) • SALVADOR LARROCA (a/C)
• If Tony Stark isn’t Iron Man, then who’s the guy in the suit?
• Zeke Stane digs for he truth
• Spymaster racks up his victims
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
INCREDIBLE HULK 7.1
JASON AARON (w) • JEFTE PALO (a)
COVER BY MICHAEL KOMARCK
• Whatever happened to Bruce Banner…?
• RED SHE-HULK knows, and is NONE TOO PLEASED.
32 PGS./Parental Advisory …$2.99
HULK #51 & 52
JEFF PARKER (w) • CARLO PAGULAYAN (a)
• General Ross is being haunted by ghosts from his past… but WHOSE ghosts are they?
• Red Hulk wants answers, but so do… RAIZO KODO and THE FORGIVEN?!?!
• Does salvation lie in the hands of the LEGION OF MONSTERS?
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99 (EACH)
INCREDIBLE HULK #8
JASON AARON (w)
STEVE DILLON (a)
Cover by MICHAEL KOMARCK
ASM 50TH ANNIVERSARY VARIANT BY TBA
• In order to stay himself, Hulk must STAY ANGRY!
• How does one stay angry? How about going up against THE PUNISHER?
• And if that isn’t enough, the Green Goliath can always take on a murderous drug cartel!
32 PGS./Parental Advisory …$3.99
FANTASTIC FOUR #605.1
JONATHAN HICKMAN (w) • MIKE CHOI (a/C)
“THE FOUR”
• The Secret History of the Fantastic Four
• Everything starts just like you remember...
• It ends like something completely different.
32 PGS./Rated T …$2.99
FANTASTIC FOUR #606
JONATHAN HICKMAN (w) • RON GARNEY (a)
Cover by MIKE CHOI “INERT”
• The Fantastic Four travel to Wakanda
• The Return of Black Panther to the pages of the F4.
• What happens when the world completely runs out of Vibranium?
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99
FF #18
JONATHAN HICKMAN (w) • NICK DRAGOTTA (a)
Cover by MIKE CHOI “SAFARI”
• The kids take their first Field Trip. To Africa!
• Meet the Science Club of Wakanda.
• The Future Foundation gets a brand new member.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99
MARVEL ZOMBIES Destroy! 1 & 2 (of 5)
FRANK MARRAFFINO (w) • MIRCO PIERFEDERICI (a)
Cover by MICHAEL DEL MUNDO • At long last! The BEST-SELLING Marvel Zombies franchise returns!
• A.R.M.O.R. is called upon to rescue a reality where the Nazis won WWII… with ZOMBIES!
• Howard the Duck brings in Nazi-fighter extraordinaire DUM DUM DUGAN and a squadron of fighters known as Ducky’s Dozen!
• SERIOUSLY, YOU GUYS! NAZI ZOMBIES!
32 PGS./Parental Advisory …$3.99 (EACH)
EXILED #1
KIERON GILLEN, DAN ABNETT & ANDY LANNING (w)
CARMINE DI GIANDOMENICO (a)
Cover by STEPHANIE HANS • It’s NEW MUTANTS. It’s JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY. It’s NEW MUTANTS *and* JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY. It’s the New Journey Into Mutant Mystery!
• With a left over “s”.
• A forgotten hero returns, mightier than Thor himself, but will the truth behind his exile consume them all?
32 PGS./ONE-SHOT/Rated T+ …$2.99
EXILED PARTS 2-5
PART ONE
NEW MUTANTS #42
PART TWO
JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #638
PART THREE
NEW MUTANTS #43
PART FOUR
• Gods made mortal, with mutants their only hope for survival!
• Undead cannibals on the loose, San Francisco turned inside out by forbidden magic!
• A thrilling mythological mystery adventure in the Mighty Marvel manner, the most epic crossover of 2012! (Not counting that one where As fight Xs)
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99 (EACH)
Replies
This year is chocked full of Avengers titles but the Hulk Smash Avengers looks neat.
Other thoughts:
Between Civil War (The Return) and Secret Invasion - he was really an Es-Kay-Er-You-El-El!
What happened to T'Challa's marriage that X-wan? Like all these big whoop plot developments, it came in like a lion and left like a meek and shakey lamb
Yes I know but still they did the "Return of Mar-Vell" bit fairly recently in Chaos War: Dead Avengers for it to have any real impact now!
The Panther is still married to Storm. In fact, he was responsible for Storm joining the Avengers and possibly ruining Luke Cage's marriage! :-)