Marvel Noise

Here are some pages from a few titles shipping next week, March 26, 2008. In this final batch we have Mighty Avengers #11, Spider-Man: With Great Power #3, Ultimate Iron Man II #4, Power Pack: Day One #1, Ms. Marvel #25, Ultimate Spider-Man #120, and Marvel Adventures Iron Man #11.

WARNING: There may be some spoilers in the following images.

A big thanks to Marvel for providing these previews.

MIGHTY AVENGERS #11
WRITER: BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS
PENCILS: MARK BAGLEY
INKS: DANNY MIKI with ALLEN MARTINEZ
PAINTED ART: MARKO DJURDJEVIC
Get ready to see an Avengers/Doctor Doom knock-down drag-out! And we promise an ending you’ve never seen in the history of Doom! All this and the Secret Invasion is upon us! Marvel Comics says sayonara to longtime penciler Mark Bagley with this bombastic storyline!
Rated A …$2.99

SPIDER-MAN: WITH GREAT POWER… #3
WRITER: DAVE LAPHAM
PENCILS: TONY HARRIS
INKS: JIM CLARK
AMAZING FANTASY #15 introduced us to Spider-Man…and as it said in those pages, “As his first TV spectacular ends, Peter Parker breathes the first sweet scent of fame and success!” Now for the first time ever, writer Dave Lapham (TERROR, INC.) and artist Tony Harris (Ex Machina) explore the story of Peter’s heady days and sleepless nights living the celebrity life! As a wrestling superstar, show-stopping sensation and major moneymaker, this dweeb’s hit it big! But even before being forced to discover that with great power must come great responsibility, will the ol’ Parker luck rear its ugly head? How could it not?
32 PGS./Cardstock Cover/Rated A …$3.99

ULTIMATE IRON MAN II #4
WRITER: ORSON SCOTT CARD
PENCILS: PASQUAL FERRY
INKS: PASQUAL FERRY
It’s the final issue of the second half of the ultimate origin of Iron Man! Why is Tony Stark clashing with the U.S. government? Who is Whiplash? Nebula award-winning author Orson Scott Card and Pasqual Ferry (ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR) deliver one more thrilling chapter of danger, intrigue and high-tech heroism!
Rated Parental Advisory …$2.99

POWER PACK: DAY ONE #1
WRITER: FRED VAN LENTE
PENCILS: GURIHIRU
INKS: GURIHIRU
Alex, Julie, Jack, and Katie Power are just four regular kids, but in twenty-four hours, they’re going to have to escape alien abduction, learn how to use their bizarre new super powers, rescue their parents from an intergalactic tyrant, and save Earth from total destruction! The origin of Marvel’s premiere kid super-team establishes a new continuity for the Pack!
Rated A …$2.99

MS. MARVEL #25
COVER BY: GREG HORN
WRITER: BRIAN REED
PENCILS: ADRIANA MELO and RON FRENZ
INKS: MARIAH BENES and SAL BUSCEMA
The record-setting 25th issue is here, and it’s super-sized! Is Ms. Marvel on the front lines of the Secret Invasion… or is she part of the invasion?! Brian Reed (CAPTAIN MARVEL) welcomes new series artist Adriana Melo onboard as Ms. Marvel begins her third year of action and adventure!
Rated T+ …$3.99

ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #120
WRITER: BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS
PENCILS: STUART IMMONEN
INKS: WADE VON GRAWBADGER
Guest starring the X-Men! Now that one of Peter Parker’s fellow students has been outted as a mutant, the struggle for their heart and mind is on! Magneto, Master of Magnetism, claims the new mutant as his own, but the X-Men aren’t about to let that stand! It’s a battle royale that rages across the city with the web-slinger caught in the middle! The dream tag-team of Brian Michael Bendis and Stuart Immonen deliver the finale to “Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends!”
Rated A …$2.99

MARVEL ADVENTURES IRON MAN #11
WRITER: FRED VAN LENTE
PENCILS: SCOTT KOBLISH
INKS: SCOTT KOBLISH
The Living Laser is back, and having merged with the aurora borealis, he’s laying waste to the Great White North. Iron Man had better call in the cavalry! Wait, no–the Mounties! No, better yet–Canada’s greatest super heroes, ALPHA FLIGHT!
32 PGS./All Ages …$2.99

Here are some pages from a few titles shipping next week, March 26, 2008. In this second batch we have New Avengers #39, She-Hulk #27, X-Men: First Class #10, World War Hulk Aftersmash: Damage Control #3, Ultimate X-Men #92, Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four #34, and Ultimate Fantastic Four #52.

WARNING: There may be some spoilers in the following images.

A big thanks to Marvel for providing these previews.

NEW AVENGERS #39
WRITER: BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS
ART: DAVID MACK
The Secret Invasion is here! Award-winning artist David Mack brings his amazing talent to NEW AVENGERS to illustrate a major story in the life of Echo! Have the Skrulls infiltrated the Avengers? Is Maya Lopez the only one with proof? Will she live to tell the tale? All this and a major Avengers hook up!
Rated A …$2.99

SHE-HULK #27
WRITER: PETER DAVID
PENCILS: VAL SEMEIKS
INKS: DAVE MEIKIS
She-Hulk’s quest to re-discover her inner hero takes her back to her old law firm and back to face Tony Stark when an innocent bystander from her previous mission finds himself wrongly accused for murder. Can she put the past behind her?
Rated T+ …$2.99

X-MEN: FIRST CLASS #10
WRITER: JEFF PARKER
ART: CRAIG ROUSSEAU
“Hey Cyclops!”
“Huh?”
“Why’re ya so dang boring?”
“I dunno.”
“Well…if we give ya a whole issue of First Class, do you promise to be cool?”
“Ok.”
“Deal!”
32 PGS./Rated A …$2.99

WORLD WAR HULK AFTERSMASH: DAMAGE CONTROL #3
WRITER: DWAYNE MCDUFFIE
PENCILS: SALVADOR ESPIN
INKS: SALVADOR ESPIN
The newly-sentient Chrysler Building is sick of the rat race and planning to leave the city. Can Damage Control convince the Art Deco treasure that New York is its home?
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99

ULTIMATE X-MEN #92
WRITER: ROBERT KIRKMAN
PENCILS: SALVADOR LARROCA
INKS: SALVADOR LARROCA
Hey, on the cover…is that Stryfe and Onslaught? Apocalypse’s endgame is revealed as the beleaguered X-Men mount a last-ditch attack to save the world! Meanwhile, two more monstrous threats rear their ugly heads to ensure the young mutants’ downfall! It’s dark times for the X-Men, courtesy of writer Robert Kirkman (MARVEL ZOMBIES) and new ongoing penciler Salvador Larroca (UNCANNY X-MEN)!
Rated T+ …$2.99

MARVEL ADVENTURES FANTASTIC FOUR #34
WRITER: PAUL TOBIN
PENCILS: DAVID HAHN
INKS: DAVID HAHN
Ahh, Reed Richards. Ever absent-minded. When the Fantastic Four helps to raise money for a block renovation, Reed runs an “I’ll fix anything!” booth, and in between putting booster rockets on mopeds and laser cannons in wristwatches, he sort of, you know, accidentally fixes the Mad Thinker’s android. Oops. Now it’s the Mad Thinker and his Awesome Android versus the Fantastic Four and some toasters. Yeah, I said toasters.
All Ages …$2.99

ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR #52
WRITER: MIKE CAREY
PENCILS: TYLER KIRKHAM
INKS: SAL REGLA
The Thanos saga continues! Last issue saw Mr. Fantastic square off one-on-one with Thanos for the Cosmic Cube – so who now holds the deadly weapon? Why have the Human Torch and Invisible Girl undergone a horrifying transformation? And will the Thing survive his encounter with the never-before-seen third child of Thanos?
32 PGS./Rated A …$2.99

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Here are some pages from a few titles shipping next week, March 26, 2008. In this first batch we have Black Panther #35, Daredevil #106, X-Men: Legacy #209, Wolverine: First Class #1, Ultimate Human #3, Marvel Atlas #2, and New Warriors #10.

WARNING: There may be some spoilers in the following images.

A big thanks to Marvel for providing these previews.

BLACK PANTHER #35
WRITER: REGINALD HUDLIN
PENCILS: CAFU
INKS: FRANCIS PORTELA
BACK TO AFRICA
Out of the frying pan…into the fire! Their fantastic adventures in the interdimensional superhighway complete, the Wakandan Royal couple at last return to Wakanda — only to find home is anything but sweet. With serious strife tearing apart his court, and one of the Panther’s greatest foes waiting to strike, is it too late for T’Challa to regain control of his kingdom?
Rated T+ …$2.99

DAREDEVIL #106
WRITER: ED BRUBAKER
PENCILS: PAUL AZACETA
INKS: PAUL AZACETA
MATT MURDOCK FACES A LONG NIGHT OF THE SOUL!
Reeling from the events of last issue, Matt Murdock struggles to come to grips with all the things we can’t tell you about because they would spoil the ending of the previous arc. Drifting into anger and depression, Daredevil stalks the streets of Hell’s Kitchen, looking for bad guys to take it out on…but is he really just taking it out on himself? By Harvey and Eisner-Winning Best Writer Ed Brubaker and special guest artist Paul Azaceta (CAPTAIN MARVEL, Grounded, Talent)!
Rated T+ …$2.99

X-MEN: LEGACY #209
WRITER: MIKE CAREY
PENCILS: SCOT EATON
INKS: JOHN DELL
MINDSCAPE SEQUENCE ART: BILLY TAN
Xavier and Magneto face-to-face again! With Xavier comatose and Magneto depowered, these old soldiers appear sidelined. But neither man has abandoned his dream. With the future of mutantkind in flux, how far will these men go to reclaim their place as firsts among their people? And what will happen to those who get in their way?
Fresh off their groundbreaking run on Messiah Complex, writer Mike Carey (X-MEN) and artists Scot Eaton (X-FACTOR) and Billy Tan (UNCANNY X-MEN) take on two of mutantkind’s most iconic figures as well as some of the most important moments in X-Men history.
Rated A …$2.99

WOLVERINE: FIRST CLASS #1
WRITER: FRED VAN LENTE
PENCILS: ANDREA DI VITO
INKS: ANDREA DI VITO
Return with us again to the early days of the all-new, all-different, X-Men for all-new solo adventures of Wolverine and Kitty Pryde! The next generation of students has arrived at Xavier’s School–Colossus, Storm, Nightcrawler, and the mysterious Wolverine–and with them, new teaching methods. Professor X pairs up green recruit Kitty Pryde with the been-everywhere, done-everything vet Logan, and neither of them are all that happy about it. But unless they learn to work together, neither of them will come back from their first mission together alive!
Rated A …$2.99

ULTIMATE HUMAN #3
WRITER: WARREN ELLIS
PENCILS: CARY NORD
Continuing the ultimate collision between Iron Man and the Hulk! Who is Peter Wisdom, and what does he want with Tony Stark and Bruce Banner? And why can’t either hero tap into the powers of their alter egos? Be there as Warren Ellis (ULTIMATE GALACTUS) and Cary Nord (Conan) unleash the fireworks at Ironworks!
Rated T+ …$2.99

MARVEL ATLAS #2
WRITERS: MICHAEL HOSKIN, STUART VANDAL, ANTHONY FLAMINI, and ERIC J. MOREELS
ART: ELIOT R. BROWN and VARIOUS
Your only guide to Marvel’s Earth concludes! Antarctica, Africa, the Middle East, and North, Central and South America are highlighted as the Marvel Atlas plans your trip to Wakanda, Atlantis, the Savage Land, Sky Island and the U.S.A. (home of a super hero or two)! Visit the realms of the Black Panther, the Initiative, Omega Flight, the Sub-Mariner, Ka-Zar and more – brought to you in vivid life through the renderings of fan-favorite Eliot R. Brown (PUNISHER ARMORY, IRON MANUAL)!
Rated A …$3.99

NEW WARRIORS #10
WRITER: KEVIN GREVIOUX
PENCILS: PACO MEDINA
INKS: JUAN VLASCO
What is Night Thrasher doing while the New Warriors are trussing up super-villains? Where is he when his teammates are training hard for their next mission? And why is their leader nowhere to be found when the team is evading the clutches of the N.Y.P.D. Costumed Division? Night Thrasher reveals his plan to the New Warriors, but after his frequent disappearances, do they trust him?
Rated T+ …$2.99

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Ghost Rider Rides The Twisted Road To Heaven!

Combine sadistic, gun-toting nurses with evil man-eating ghosts and you get one hell of a day for Ghost Rider! Writer Jason Aaron’s critically acclaimed “Hell To Pay” story continues in Ghost Rider #22, the penultimate chapter of the action packed ride that leads into the stunning return of a character than we can only call the most shocking last page in Ghost Rider history! With gritty art from Roland Boschi and a powerful cover by rising star Marko Djurdjevic, now’s your chance to find out why critics and fans can’t stop raving about Ghost Rider!

“Aaron’s knack for gritty characters and gritty situations shine through,” gushed Jesse Schedeen of IGN.Com. “Artist Roland Boschi draws a mean Ghost Rider to match.”

“This book has got guts,” exclaimed Bryant Frattalone of ComicsBulletin.Com. “Stick around for the ride.”

“Ghost Rider is one book that’ll get your heart racing past the redline in by the last page,” said Andy Serwin of WizardUniverse.Com

With Heaven in his sights and on his tail, Ghost Rider may just need some divine intervention to survive! Don’t miss Ghost Rider #22!

GHOST RIDER #22 (FEB082225)
Written by JASON AARON
Art by ROLAND BOSCHI
Cover by MARKO DJURDJEVIC
Parental Advisory …$2.99
FOC—3/27/08, On-Sale—4/16/08