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The third of May is FREE COMIC BOOK DAY! And Jon Hook wants to tell you what Elite Comics has in store for its patrons. Following that we have the new releases for the week and an all new, all different Bring ’em Back by Backwards Dave! Mike Sims and the Mighty Marvel Movie Minute!! Current Events with Pat Loika (warning: Secret Invasion spoilers)!!! A voicemail from Carlos Cordova!!!! With a special guest appearance by Aaron C. Macom of SciFi Dig!!!!!

Comics mentioned this week include Avengers: The Initiative, Daredevil, New Avengers, Thor, X-Men: Legacy, Ms. Marvel, Mighty Avengers, Punisher, and Marvel Team-Up.

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Marvel items on sale, 4.30.08

Comics

AVENGERS: THE INITIATIVE #12
COVER BY: STEVE UY
WRITERS: DAN SLOTT & CHRISTOS GAGE
PENCILS and INKS: STEVE UY
“CHANGING OF THE GUARD”
Daddy’s home. IRON MAN comes to Camp Hammond, and he’s NOT happy.
The first year of the Initiative comes to a dramatic close as members are laid to rest, drummed out, declared AWOL, or…awarded their full Hero’s License. See who graduates and find out what super-teams they’ll be assigned to as the NEXT era of the Initiative begins! Plus: as a new 3-D MAN appears, the base is suddenly short one Skrull…but not how you’d think…
Also guest-starring MS. MARVEL!
Rated T+ …$2.99

DAREDEVIL: BLOOD OF THE TARANTULA #1
COVER BY: MARKO DJURDJEVIC
WRITER: ANDE PARKS (from a story idea by ED BRUBAKER and ANDE PARKS)
PENCILS: CHRIS SAMNEE
INKS: CHRIS SAMNEE
“Blood of the Tarantula”
Carlos LaMuerto, a.k.a. Black Tarantula, is finally doing something good with his life. Well, at least it ain’t all bad. Lying low after getting out of prison and wiping out an entire gang, Carlos has become a low-key Robin Hood — cleaning up the neighborhood he used to run as a gang lord. But he’s about to discover that leaving his past behind isn’t as simple as a change of attitude…as ghosts from his former life haunt him, Carlos turns to his friend/adversary, Matt Murdock. Now Black Tarantula and Daredevil must work together to save the streets of Hell’s Kitchen from a powerful new gang from Carlos’ homeland.
Rated T+ …$3.99

GIANT-SIZE AVENGERS/INVADERS #1
COVER BY: SAL BUSCEMA
WRITER: ROY THOMAS
PENCILS: SAL BUSCEMA, FRANK ROBBINS, AL AVISON, ALEX SCHOMBURG, DON RICO, LEE ELIAS, and LEE WEEKS
INKS: SAM GRAINGER, FRANK SPRINGER, AL GABRIELLE, and JESSE DELPERDANG, MIKE PERKINS & LEE WEEKS
Whet your appetite for Alex Ross, Jim Krueger and Steve Sadowski’s 12-part AVENGERS/INVADERS maxi-series with these classic tales! Witness the Invaders’ first appearance in AVENGERS #71 (1969), as Earth’s Mightiest Heroes encounter the wartime Captain America, Human Torch and Sub-Mariner – and experience the story from the Invaders’ point of view in INVADERS ANNUAL #1 (1977). Finally, the Invaders thwart a Nazi assassination attempt on President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill in GIANT-SIZE INVADERS #2 (2005). Also featuring in-depth dossiers on both teams and AVENGERS/INVADERS preview pages!
Rated T+ …$3.99

IMMORTAL IRON FIST #14
COVER BY: KAARE ANDREWS
WRITERS: MATT FRACTION & ED BRUBAKER
PENCILS: TONCI ZONJIC, CLAY MANN, and KANO
INKS: STEFANO GAUDIANO and KANO
This is it, kids–the skull–busting, chest–punching, punch–kicking conclusion to THE SEVEN CAPITAL CITIES OF HEAVEN. Seven practitioners of super kung fu, champing at the bit to bloody each other to a pulp. A rogue Hydra cell, intent on destroying K’un-Lun from Earth, loads its terror train full of explosives and prepares to fire it through a warp in space-time. A schism in the leadership of K’un-Lun threatens to tear the city in two. The original Heroes for Hire, outgunned, outmanned, and out of time somewhere in Tibet. And Davos, the arch-rival of Iron Fist, intent on exploiting all this chaos, wants to assassinate Danny Rand once and for all. When was the last time a comic melted your face off? When was the last time you read THE IMMORTAL IRON FIST?
Rated T+ …$3.99
*The Immortal Iron Fist #14 (FEB082224D, $3.99; FOC 04/10/08) will have art by Tonci Zonjic and Kano, not the originally solicited David Aja.

Marvel Adventures Iron Man #12 $2.99
Marvel Comics Presents Vol 2 #8 $3.99
Marvel Illustrated Moby Dick #3 $2.99

NEW AVENGERS #40
COVER BY: ALEKSI BRICLOT
WRITER: BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS
PENCILS: JIM CHEUNG
INKS: JOHN DELL
SECRET INVASION TIE-IN!
Very special guest artist Jimmy Cheung returns to the pages of New Avengers for this very important tie-in issue. Spinning right off of events in NEW AVENGERS: ILLUMINATI #1, find out exactly how the Skrull empire was able to infiltrate the Marvel Universe and who instigated the invasion and why.
Rated A …$2.99

New Warriors Vol 4 #11 $2.99
Secret Invasion #1 2nd Ptg Leinil Francis Yu Variant Cover $3.99
Order Vol 2 #10 $2.99

THOR: AGES OF THUNDER #1
COVER BY: MARKO DJURDJEVIC
WRITER: MATT FRACTION
PENCILS: PATRICK ZIRCHER and KHARI EVANS
INKS: PATRICK ZIRCHER and VICTOR OLAZABA
As the Mighty Thor reclaims his rightful spot in the Marvel Pantheon, we join Matt Fraction and Patrick Zircher for a special examining the triumphs and tragedies that have befallen the God of Thunder across the eons. As the things he holds dearest are threatened by unimaginable forces of evil, Thor must rise up, again and again, to hold the line against terror and chaos as only the God of Thunder can!
Rated T+ …$3.99

Ultimate Human #4 $2.99
Ultimate X-Men #93 $2.99

X-MEN: LEGACY #210
COVER BY: DAVID FINCH
WRITER: MIKE CAREY
PENCILS: SCOT EATON and GREG LAND
INKS: JOHN DELL & ANDREW HENNESSY and JAY LEISTEN
In the wake of Messiah CompleX, there are no X-Men and mutantkind still lies in ruin. With Magneto depowered and Xavier gravely injured, it seems their reign as the preeminent mutants has ended. But neither of these old soldiers is willing to go gentle into that good night, as Exodus learns when he squares off against Xavier on the psychic plane, with the fate of Professor X’s mind at stake.
Rated A …$2.99

Collections

ALL-NEW OFFICIAL HANDBOOK OF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE A TO Z VOL. 2 PREMIERE HC
COVER BY: TOM GRUMMETT
WRITER: JEFF CHRISTIANSEN, MICHAEL HOSKIN, ERIC J. MOREELS, DAVID WILTFONG, RONALD BYRD, SEAN MCQUAID, MARK O’ENGLISH, STUART VANDAL, MIKE FICHERA, MADISON CARTER, JACOB ROUGEMONT, AL SJOERDSMA, KYLE SIMS, CHRIS BIGGS, and CHAD ANDERSON
Continuing the most exciting and comprehensive Marvel handbook ever assembled! This twelve-volume guide to the Marvel Universe features more than 100 huge entries in each tome! This issue – from Blade to the Crooked World! Spotlighting people (Blink, Blob, Bullseye, Cable, Luke Cage, Cannonball, Captain America, Captain Britain, Captain Marvel, Carnage, Amadeus Cho, Citizen V, Colossus), teams (the Brotherhood, Circus of Crime), species (the Brood, Celestials), items (the Cosmic Cube) and more!
Rated T+ …$24.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-3099-3

BLACK PANTHER: LITTLE GREEN MEN TPB
COVER BY: BILLY TAN
WRITER: REGINALD HUDLIN
PENCILS: ANDREA DIVITO and CAFU
Someone get them a road map! The New Fantastic Four have just taken another wrong turn on the dimensional superhighway – and this time, they’ve landed in the middle of a gang-war between machine-gun toting Skrulls! It’s clobberin’ time – in the arena and in the streets, between the Gangsters and Panthers, and between the Fantastic Four and the elusive, malicious Golden Frogs! Gangsta-gangsta! Collecting BLACK PANTHER #31-34.
Rated T+ …$10.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-2657-7

FANTASTIC FOUR: THE BEGINNING OF THE END TPB
COVER BY: MICHAEL TURNER
WRITERS: DWAYNE MCDUFFIE and KARL KESEL
PENCILS: PAUL PELLETIER and TOM GRUMMETT
The original Fantastic Four is together again, just in time to cross paths with a hero who has traveled twenty years into the past in a desperate attempt to save his future from Reed Richards, the madman who is about to change the face of the planet. Oh, and the hero who has come back to save the world? His name is Doctor Doom. Plus: Diablo’s back – more dangerous than ever as the potion-toting terrorist declares alchemical warfare on the FF! Making matter worse, the World’s Greatest Imaginauts are becoming more and more tired, irritable, delirious…sick! Coincidence…or part of Diablo’s nightmarish plan? Collecting FANTASTIC FOUR #525-526 and #551-553.
Rated A …$12.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-2554-9
*The Fantastic Four TP: Beginning of the End (FEB082304D) will be 120 pages, not 168 pages, and the price will now be $12.99, not $14.99. Also, Fantastic Four: Isla De La Muerte will not be part of the TP’s contents.

KABUKI REFLECTIONS
COVER BY: DAVID MACK
WRITER: DAVID MACK
PENCILS: DAVID MACK
This square-bound art book acts as a tie-in to the DVD documentary on Mack’s work, THE ALCHEMY OF ART: DAVID MACK from Herovideoproductions.com.
REFLECTIONS #10 features details and commentary on never-before-seen art and stories – including Mack’s new children’s book THE SHY CREATURES, handmade books and paintings from the DVD. Also featuring step-by-step art techniques, and loads of art and extras you’ve never seen before. Ever wonder how David Mack does his artwork? How his pages and covers go from sketches and drawings to finished art? How he uses models and figure drawings? It’s all in here with lots of extras!
Rated T+ …$5.99

PENANCE: RELENTLESS TPB
COVER BY: PAUL GULACY
WRITER: PAUL JENKINS
PENCILS: PAUL GULACY
From the pages of CIVIL WAR: FRONT LINE and THUNDERBOLTS! Once he was a hero, now only a shell of Robbie Baldwin remains. As Penance, he begins a slow descent into madness: the most hated man in America, blamed for the disaster at Stamford, tortured by visions of his failure and obsessed with strange, seemingly meaningless numbers. A relentless pursuit begins… Collecting PENANCE: RELENTLESS #1-5.
Rated T+ …$13.99

PUNISHER: CIRCLE OF BLOOD PREMIERE HC (and VARIANT)
COVER BY: MIKE ZECK
WRITER: STEVEN GRANT and JO DUFFY
PENCILS: MIKE ZECK and MIKE VOSBURG
The Punisher’s in prison, but he can’t complain…now the criminals have nowhere to run! But while he’s in gray, his trademark black-and-white look’s being used by an army out to wipe out the mob and anyone else in the way! Marvel’s vicious veteran vigilante finds out who to kill and who to trust in his original miniseries! Collecting PUNISHER #1-5.
Parental Advisory …$19.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-2331-6
*The Punisher Premiere HC: Circle of Blood and Direct Market Variant (FEB082291-2D, $19.99; FOC 03/20/08) will be 176 pages, not the originally solicited 144 pages. Extra content will include original pencils by Mike Zeck, a Punisher Portfolio, original ad for the miniseries, and more.

THOR BY J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI VOL. 1 PREMIERE
COVER BY: OLIVIER COIPEL
WRITER: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
PENCILS: OLIVIER COIPEL
INKS: MARK MORALES
Not a clone! Not a robot! Not an imaginary story! The God of Thunder is officially BACK! You’ve waited for it, you’ve demanded it…and we say thee YEA! The Odinson comes roaring back to life in this highly anticipated saga by red-hot superstars J. Michael Straczynski (AMAZING SPIDER-MAN) and Olivier Coipel (HOUSE OF M)! But how does a god return from Ragnarok? And what place will he find in a world torn by CIVIL WAR? Collecting THOR #1-6.
Rated T+ …$19.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-3011-6
*The Thor by J. Michael Straczynski Premiere HC Vol. 01 (JAN082208D, $19.99; FOC 03/13/08) will have 160 pages, not the originally solicited 144 pages and will have a new cover from that which was originally solicited.

X-MEN: MESSIAH COMPLEX HC
COVER BY: MARC SILVESTRI
WRITERS: ED BRUBAKER, MIKE CAREY, CRAIG KYLE, CHRIS YOST, and PETER DAVID
PENCILS: MARC SILVESTRI, BILLY TAN, CHRIS BACHALO, HUMBERTO RAMOS, and SCOT EATON
The biggest event to hit the X-Men in ten years is here! Just when it looked like there was no possibility of a future for mutants, hope arrives. But the X-Men aren’t there to meet it – the Marauders and Purifiers beat them to it. Now the race is on to get the first new mutant since HOUSE OF M! Collecting X-MEN MESSIAH COMPLEX one-shot, UNCANNY X-MEN #492-494, X-MEN #205-207, NEW X-MEN #44-46 and X-FACTOR #25-27.
Rated T+ …$39.99

Signed/Exclusives Variants

Amazing Spider-Man Vol 2 #555 DF Signed By Chris Bachalo $19.99
Hulk Vol 2 #1 DF Exclusive Dale Keown Variant Cover CGC 9.8 $89.99
Uncanny X-Men #497 Incentive Skrully Variant Cover – [PI]
X-Force Vol 3 #1 Bloody Variant Cover CGC 9.8 $72.99

Joe Quesada Presents An Exclusive Look at Amazing Spider-Man!

The debut of exclusive new pages from Amazing Spider-Man, a full colored lettered preview of Guardians of The Galaxy #1 and reaction to New York Comic Con are all in this week’s installment of MyCup o’ Joe at MySpace Comic Books. And just how will Stan Lee’s impromptu appearance affect Marvel’s Editor in Chief, Joe Quesada? Check out the exclusive video to find out! Joe Q also answers your fan questions and lets you know why you can’t miss Marvel Apes right at http://www.myspace.com/comicbooks!

Want to get in on the action? Head over to http://www.marvel.com/cupojoe and http://www.myspace.com/comicbooks to leave your questions for Joe Q and he’ll answer them each and every Friday!

You wanted it, now you’ve got it! After an overwhelming demand for the sold out issues of X-Force #1-3, Marvel is proud to announce X-Force: Legacy of Vengeance, collecting the first three chapters of this red hot storyline! From the phenomenal writing duo of Christopher Yost and Craig Kyle (New X-Men), featuring, absolutely stunning art by rising star artist Clayton Crain, this X-Men; Divided We Stand tie-in reveals the future of mutantkind! Following the Earth-shattering events of the smash hit Messiah CompleX, Cyclops has put together a brand-new dark-ops team that only he and members Wolverine, X-23, Warpath and Rahne know about. There are lines that the X-Men have sworn never to cross, but the X-Men are no more and some enemies need to be dealt with – permanently. This book has it all: Purifiers, the classic X-villain Bastion, and action that only a team led by Wolverine can bring. All this is wrapped in a new vibrant X-Force cover that you’ll need to see to believe!

Francis Davis of FractalMatter.com says “X-Force is a compelling must read.” and Kevin Powers of Comicsbulletin.com says “Anyone who likes mutants, military operations, Wolverine-esque violence and pure bad-assery is sure to love this title, because you get all of that rolled into one.”

The events in Messiah CompleX shook the X-Men to their core and this special one-shot is a perfect look into how the all-new, all-different X-Force take on their first mission — but will they survive the X-perience? Don’t miss your chance to catch up on these sold-out issues in X-Force: Legacy of Vengeance!

X-FORCE: LEGACY OF VENGEANCE (MAR088081)
Written by CRAIG KYLE & CHRIS YOST
Penciled by CLAYTON CRAIN
Cover by CLAYTON CRAIN
Rated T+…$4.99
FOC—5/08/08, On-Sale—5/28/08

GHOST RIDER #23 (MAR082179)
Written by JASON AARON
Art by ROLAND BOSCHI
Cover by MARKO DJURDJEVIC
Parental Advisory …$2.99
FOC—5/01/08, FOC—5/21/08

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This week doesn’t go exactly as planned, but we’re still gonna do our best to give you something worthwhile. After the new releases, we hear from Mike Sims and the Mighty Marvel Movie Minute. Jay Scars offers up some good and bad with Nova and Annihilation: Conquest, and Moon Knight, Carlos calls in with a voicemail, and our host has another Marvel Tales for you.

Comics

Avengers Invaders Sketchbook, AR

HULK #3 (and FINCH VARIANT)
COVERS BY: ED MCGUINNESS and DAVID FINCH
WRITER: JEPH LOEB
PENCILS: ED MCGUINNESS
INKS: DEXTER VINES
Not a flashback! Not a dream! Together again for the first time! The battle you NEVER thought you’d see — The Hulk Vs. The Abomination! But…wait, we’ve seen that lots of times! Well… No you HAVE NOT. And it isn’t just because superstars Jeph Loeb & Ed McGuinness are bringing it to you for the first time — it’s because if you’ve been reading the Hulk (yes, we know there’s one or two of you), it CAN’T be possible! But it is — AND IN COLOR — LOTS OF THEM! The pulse-pounding, gamma-spawned action adventure continues in Hulk #3!!!
Rated A…$2.99

HULK VS. HERCULES: WHEN TITANS CLASH #1
COVER BY: MARKO DJURDJEVIC
WRITERS: GREG PAK & FRED VAN LENTE
ART: KHOI PHAM, PAUL NEARY, DENNIS CALERO, ERIC NGUYEN, REILLY BROWN, CARLOS CUEVAS, TERRY PALLOT, and CHRIS SOTOMAYOR
“BAH! HULK NEED BIGGER BOOK! HULK SMASH PUNY BEARD SKIRT MAN!”
Calm down, big fella. You’re going to need your strength when you go up against the Lion of Olympus, the INCREDIBLE HERCULES!
We’re bringing you a BRAND NEW story with THE most SMASHING, CRASHING, BASHING, MASHING and LASHING you’ve EVER witnessed, and THEN we’re giving you some of the greatest HULK and HERC stories from yesteryear!
BRING ON THE FIGHT!
Parental Advisory …$3.99

Iron Man Hulk Sampler, AR
Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four #35, $2.99

Marvel Illustrated Picture Dorian Gray #5 (of 6), $2.99


MIGHTY AVENGERS #12
COVER BY: MARKO DJURDJEVIC
WRITER: BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS
PENCILS: ALEX MALEEV
INKS: ALEX MALEEV
SECRET INVASION TIE-IN!
The Eisner-award-winning team of Brian Bendis and Alex Maleev (NEW AVENGERS ILLUMINATI, HALO: UPRISING) reunite to answer the question that has been on every comic fan’s mind for years…WHERE THE HELL HAS NICK FURY BEEN?? Rewinding the clock to Fury’s time in SECRET WAR, follow Fury as he puts together the pieces of his life and starts finding clues to a Secret Invasion that makes him TARGET NUMBER ONE. A major Skrull reveal happens in these pages!
Rated A …$2.99

MS. MARVEL #26
COVER BY: GREG HORN
WRITER: BRIAN REED
PENCILS: ADRIANA MELO
INKS: MARIAH BENES
Out–gunned and on the run! With S.H.I.E.L.D. convinced she’s a Skrull impostor, Ms. Marvel must fight for her identity and her life against her very own Lightning Strike Force! But when the Strike Force has a Ms. Marvel of their own, even Carol can’t be sure she’s Carol anymore! SECRET INVASION: The Infiltration continues here from Brian Reed (Captain Marvel) and Adriana Melo (Witchblade).
Rated T+ …$2.99

New Exiles #5, $2.99
Power Pack Day One #2 (of 4), $2.99
Powers #29
Secret Invasion #1 (of 8)(Blank Cover Convention Variant Edition), $3.99

She-Hulk 2 #28, $2.99


THOR #8
COVER BY: MARKO DJURDJEVIC
WRITER: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
PENCILS: MARKO DJURDJEVIC
INKS: DANNY MIKI and CRIMELAB STUDIOS
The God of Thunder keeps sizzling off the stands! Part two of a two-part arc by writer J. Michael Straczynski (AMAZING SPIDER-MAN) with sumptuous art by DAREDEVIL cover artist Marko Djurdjevic sees the mighty Thor ruling over a newly glorious Asgard and all its people! But what danger has risen on the horizon of its American heartland surroundings? And how will Thor equip himself to face it??
Rated T+ …$2.99

Ultimate Fantastic Four #53, $2.99

Ultimate Spider-Man #121, $2.99


UNCANNY X-MEN #497
COVER BY: MICHAEL CHOI
WRITER: ED BRUBAKER
PENCILS and INKS: MICHAEL CHOI
“DIVIDED WE STAND”
In the wake of Messiah CompleX, there are no X-Men…Something strange is going on in San Francisco and Archangel gets pulled into the middle of it. Can Cyclops and Emma Frost save him and get out alive? And Wolverine, Colossus and Nightcrawler’s road trip takes a turn for the dangerous.
Rated T+ …$2.99

WOLVERINE: FIRST CLASS #2
COVER BY: LEONARD KIRK
WRITER: FRED VAN LENTE
ART: ANDREA DI VITO
The good news: Kitty’s managed to figure out Wolverine’s birthday and has arranged a surprise candlelight dinner with the love of his life, Mariko Yashida, as his present. The bad news: The reason Wolverine never tells anybody about his birthday is that every year on that date Sabretooth shows up to dice him into cutlets. And Kitty has put Mariko within Sabretooth’s grasp!
All Ages …$2.99

X-FORCE #3 (and BLOODY VARIANT)
COVER BY: CLAYTON CRAIN
WRITERS: CHRISTOPHER YOST & CRAIG KYLE
PENCILS, INKS, and COLORS: CLAYTON CRAIN
ANGELS AND DEMONS
As X-Force searches for their missing teammate, Wolfsbane strikes—and she’s not taking any prisoners! But the Purifiers have more than an ace up their sleeve— they’ve got the deck stacked. And when Wolverine, X-23, and Warpath learn the truth behind Risman’s nefarious plan…no one is safe. And no one is guaranteed to get out alive. Part 3 (of 6)
Parental Advisory …$2.99

X-MEN: FIRST CLASS #11
COVER BY: CARLO PAGULAYAN
WRITER: JEFF PARKER
ART: NICK DRAGOTTA and COLLEEN COOVER
Whew, that all-Cyclops issue was a little heavy, huh? Let’s pick things up with a story that makes the X-Men-go-into-the-Professor’s-Head issue look tame. Because our five exceptional students are about to meet the enigmatic MYSTERIO.
Rated A …$2.99

Young Avengers Presents #4 (of 6), $2.99

Collections

AVENGERS: KREE/SKRULL WAR TPB (New Printing)
COVER BY: NEAL ADAMS & TOM PALMER
WRITER: ROY THOMAS
PENCILS: NEAL ADAMS, SAL BUSCEMA, and JOHN BUSCEMA
Back-to-press and fully restored by popular demand!
Caught in the crossfire, Earth has become the staging ground for a conflict of star-spanning proportions! For those eternal intergalactic enemies, the merciless Kree and the shape-changing Skrulls, have gone to war, and our planet is situated on the front lines! Can Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, the Avengers, bring about an end to the fighting before humanity becomes a casualty of war? And what good are even a dozen super-powered champions against the vast military machines of two of the great empires of the cosmos? The key to victory lies with the expatriate Kree Captain Mar-Vell and his human host, honorary Avenger Rick Jones! Featuring the trend-setting artwork of Neal Adams, the KREE/SKRULL WAR is universally acknowledged as one of the finest and most important sagas in the Marvel canon.
Rated A …$24.99

DAREDEVIL: HELL TO PAY VOL. 2 TPB
COVER BY: MARKO DJURDJEVIC
WRITER: ED BRUBAKER
PENCILS: MICHAEL LARK
Things couldn’t be going worse for Matt Murdock. Everything he thought he’d gotten back teeters on the edge of a precipice, ready to shatter all around him, as he fights a battle on both fronts of his life – in the courtroom and on the rooftops of Hell’s Kitchen! Collecting DAREDEVIL #100-105.
Rated T+ …$15.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-2815-1

DEADPOOL CLASSIC VOL. 1 TPB
COVER BY: ROB LIEFELD
WRITERS: FABIAN NICIEZA,ROB LIEFELD, MARK WAID, and JOE KELLY
PENCILS: ROB LIEFELD, JOE MADUREIRA, IAN CHURCHILL, LEE WEEKS, KEN LASHLEY, and ED MCGUINNESS
He’s the Merc with a Mouth, the Assassin with Elan, the Wryest Wisecracker of the Weapon X Program, now in a collection of his earliest sagas! Deadpool, with sidekick Weasel in tow, sets out on a quest for romance, money and mayhem – not necessarily in that order – only to learn he’s being hunted by an enemy he killed years before! As if that isn’t enough, the Juggernaut crashes into the action, and it’s the unstoppable vs. the un-shut-up-able! But all may not be lost if the sultry Siryn can inject a little sanity into the proceedings! Will Deadpool be steered toward a better life by his new heartthrob, or stay the chaotic course he’s set for himself? The answer is Yes! Guest-starring the New Mutants, Banshee, Sasquatch and more! Collecting NEW MUTANTS #98, DEADPOOL: THE CIRCLE CHASE #1-4, DEADPOOL (1994) #1-4 and DEADPOOL (1997) #1.
Rated A …$29.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-3124-3

DEADPOOL VS. THE MARVEL UNIVERSE TPB
COVER BY: SKOTTIE YOUNG
WRITERS: FABIAN NICIEZA and REILLY BROWN
PENCILS: REILLY BROWN
With his best pal gone, Deadpool continues his trek through time and space, spreading friendship and mercenary whoop-&*$ throughout the cosmos. Featuring titanic team-ups with Wolverine, Captain America, Dr. Strange, Brother Voodoo, Ka-Zar and the Fantastic…Eight?! And in the unforgettable series finale, the dreaded Venom Symbiote has multiplied, and made some new friends of the prehistoric variety, giving the Merc with a Mouth his final opportunity to prove himself the ultimate hero – or the ultimate villain! Guest-starring Spider-Man! The Fantastic Four! The Mighty Avengers! And of course, those lovable goons from Agency X! Collecting CABLE & DEADPOOL #43-50.
Rated T+ …$24.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-2524-2

THE INVINCIBLE IRON MAN OMNIBUS VOL. 1 (and MOVIE and GRANOV VARIANTS)
COVERS BY: JACK KIRBY and ADI GRANOV (and IRON MAN MOVIE IMAGE)
WRITERS: STAN LEE, LARRY LIEBER, ROY THOMAS, ROBERT BERNSTEIN, DON RICO, and AL HARTLEY
PENCILS: DON HECK, GENE COLAN, JACK KIRBY, and STEVE DITKO
As the Marvel Age of Comics exploded on the pop-culture scene, super hero after super hero that redefined the genre leaped forth from the imagination of the Marvel Bullpen. Adventurers and innovators, scientists and high-school bookworms, they were amazing men and women with all the failings and foibles of you and me. And there are none that touch both that adventurer ideal and human reality as Tony Stark, the Invincible Iron Man. A jet-setter, playboy, and brilliant scientist, Tony is cut down to Earth when a battlefield explosion rips into his heart. Only by creating the amazing Iron Man armor can he stay alive! Packed with the debonair and debutantes, Cold War monsters and sultry super-spies, the Iron Man Omnibus presents the stories of one of comics’ most intriguing characters from the very beginning! Featuring the first appearances of such classic Marvel characters as the Mandarin, the Black Widow, Hawkeye, the Crimson Dynamo and the Titanium Man in lushly-illustrated stories by “Dazzling” Don Heck, Gene “The Dean” Colan and scripted by no less than Stan “The Man” Lee himself, this is the go-to volume for the Iron Man fan. Including every page, every pinup, and every letters column. Not to mention unused covers, critical essays, and bonuses galore! Collecting TALES OF SUSPENSE #39-83 & TALES TO ASTONISH #82.
All Ages …$99.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-2900-4

X-MEN: EMPEROR VULCAN TPB
COVER BY: BILLY TAN
WRITER: CHRISTOPHER YOST
PENCILS: PACO DIAZ
It’s brother versus brother and the outcome could decide the fate of billions. UNCANNY X-MEN: RISE AND FALL OF THE SHI’AR EMPIRE continues here! Vulcan is the Shi’Ar Emperor and Havok is leading the rebellious Starjammers. But who is really right and who is really wrong? Collecting X-MEN: EMPEROR VULCAN #1-5.
Rated T+ …$13.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-2551-8

Iron Man Hulk Sampler, AR


Marvel is pleased to unveil the new Jim Cheung covers to the hotly-anticipated Marvel: 1985 #1. With one cover featuring the Marvel’s greatest heroes, and another featuring Marvel’s greatest villains, these two covers connect to form a powerful vision of the Marvel Universe! The superstar team of award-winning scribe Mark Millar (Civil War, Fantastic Four) and Tommy Lee Edwards (Bullet Points) present a self-contained, crossover event that brings the Marvel Universe to our world and you can’t afford to miss it in Marvel: 1985 #1!

MARVEL 1985 #1 (of 6) (MAR082192)
MARVEL 1985 #1 (of 6) EDWARDS VARIANT (MAR082193)
Written by MARK MILLAR
Art by TOMMY LEE EDWARDS
50/50 Covers by JIM CHEUNG
Variant Cover by TOMMY LEE EDWARDS
Rated T+ …$3.99
FOC—4/24/08, On-Sale—5/14/08

One of the year’s most anticipated projects, Avengers/Invaders, is almost here, but now you can go behind the scenes with the free Avengers/Invaders Sketchbook, in stores tomorrow! The award winning team behind Project Superpowers, Justice and Earth X — legendary writer/artist Alex Ross and acclaimed scribe Jim Krueger — team with fan-favorite artist Steve Sadowski for a twelve-issue Marvel Comics event, packaged by Dynamite Entertainment, that’ll leave the Avengers forever altered! Now you can get your first look at sketches and colored pages from Avengers/Invaders, along with creator commentary, in this free sketchbook that’ll whet your appetite further before the release of Avengers/Invaders #1.

“Jim and I would like to thank everyone at Marvel and Dynamite Entertainment for helping to put this together to promote the series,” said Alex Ross. “It is one of the most (creatively) satisfying ways to show off what we’re doing.”

And if that weren’t enough, the Mighty Marvel Podcast returns as fan-favorite host (and Marvel Senior Art Director) Jeff Suter interviews Ross, Krueger and Sadowski about their careers and just what they’ve got planned for the Marvel Universe. Check it out at http://www.marvel.com/news/comicstories.1622

The Invaders have traveled to the present time, finding themselves face-to-face with the Avengers…but will they be allies or enemies? The truth arrives in Avengers/Invaders #1, but tomorrow you can get you first peek at the answers in the can’t miss — and FREE — Avengers/Invaders Sketchbook!

AVENGERS/INVADERS SKETCHBOOK
Written by ARUNE SINGH
Cover by ALEX ROSS
Rated T+…FREE!
IN STORES WEDNESDAY!

AVENGERS/INVADERS #1 (of 12)
AVENGERS/INVADERS #1 (of 12) FINCH VARIANT
AVENGERS/INVADERS #1 (of 12) ROSS SKETCH VARIANT
Written by JIM KRUEGER & ALEX ROSS
Penciled by b
Cover by ALEX ROSS
Variant Cover by DAVID FINCH
Rated T+ …$2.99
On-Sale—5/7/08

AVENGERS/INVADERS BY ALEX ROSS POSTER (MAR082284)
24×36 Color Poster…$7.99
FOC—4/24/08, On-Sale—5/21/08

The first new ongoing series spinning out of the red-hot Secret Invasion is almost here — and it’s got a stunning new variant cover by superstar Brandon Peterson! Marvel is pleased to unveil the Captain Britain & The MI-13 #1 Peterson Variant, which joins the equally stunning standard cover from Bryan Hitch in launching the bold new international super team From acclaimed writer Paul Cornell (Wisdom, television’s Doctor Who) and fan-favorite Leonard Kirk (Incredible Hulk). What do the Skrulls want from the UK? And can Captain Britain’s new team stop them?

CAPTAIN BRITAIN AND MI: 13 #1 (MAR082210)
CAPTAIN BRITAIN AND MI: 13 #1 PETERSON VARIANT (FEB088165)
Written by PAUL CORNELL
Penciled by LEONARD KIRK
Cover by BRYAN HITCH
Variant by BRANDON PETERSON Rated T+ …$2.99
FOC—4/24/08. On-Sale—5/14/08

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In 2007, Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born topped sales charts with the release of its first groundbreaking issue, inspired by Stephen King’s renowned Dark Tower novels. Helmed by an all-star creative team including Peter David, Robin Furth, Jae Lee, Richard Isanove and Chris Eliopoulos, Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born #1 ushered in midnight comic store openings, drove many readers to comic stores for the first time and was hailed as a classic by fans & critics alike. Marvel is proud to announce that the follow-up series has done the same, as Dark Tower: The Long Road Home #1 debuted as the #1 comic in March!

“The response to Stephen King’s Dark Tower comic book series has been phenomenal,” says Ruwan Jayatilleke, Vice President of Development, Marvel Entertainment, Inc. Creating compelling graphic fiction such as this is no mean feat. Marvel would like to thank not only the creative team for its inspired efforts and incredible perseverance but also the readers and retailers for supporting this epic series and being so vocal about it!”

“Dark Tower comics represent a creative perfect storm of sorts, and I can’t imagine future installments without every last one of them,” raved Jesse Schedeen of IGN.Com. “Jae Lee’s vision of Mid-World is beautiful and terrifying and ethereal all at once. Richard Isanove continues to prove he might well be the best colorist in the industry.”

Adam Chapman of ComixTreme.Com echoed these sentiments, saying, “I’m immensely intrigued and enjoying this series, and can’t wait for the next issue to see what happens next.”

The action and excitement continue in Dark Tower: The Long Road Home #2, on-sale now, and Dark Tower: The Long Road Home #3, on sale this May! Plus, don’t miss Dark Tower: Treachery #1, arriving in September following the exciting conclusion of The Long Road Home!

Plus, don’t miss Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born Premiere HC, collecting the first sold-out limited series that was a national best-seller and topped critics’ charts as one of the best comics of 2007!

For more on Dark Tower, please visit http://www.stephenking.com and http://www.marvel.com/darktower

THE DARK TOWER: THE LONG ROAD HOME #2 (of 5) (FEB082192)
THE DARK TOWER: THE LONG ROAD HOME #2 (of 5) QUESADAVARIANT (FEB082193)
THE DARK TOWER: THE LONG ROAD HOME #2 (of 5) SKETCH VARIANT (FEB082194)
Written by ROBIN FURTH & PETER DAVID
Art & Cover by JAE LEE & RICHARD ISANOVE
Variant Cover by JOE QUESADA
Sketch Variant by JAE LEE
Cardstock Cover/Parental Advisory…$3.99
On-Sale—NOW!

THE DARK TOWER: THE LONG ROAD HOME #3 (of 5) (MAR082142)
THE DARK TOWER: THE LONG ROAD HOME #3 (of 5) DJURDJEVIC VARIANT (MAR082143)
THE DARK TOWER: THE LONG ROAD HOME #3 (of 5) SKETCH VARIANT (MAR082144)
Written by PETER DAVID & ROBIN FURTH
Pencils & Cover by JAE LEE & RICHARD ISANOVE
Variant Cover by MARKO DJURDJEVIC
Variant Sketch Cover by JAE LEE
Cardstock Cover/Parental Advisory …$3.99
On-Sale—5/7/08

DARK TOWER: THE GUNSLINGER BORN PREMIERE HC (SEP072167)
Written by PETER DAVID & ROBIN FURTH
Penciled by JAE LEE & RICHARD ISANOVE
Cover by JAE LEE & RICHARD ISANOVE
Parental Advisory …$24.99
ON-SALE NOW!

Because you demanded it! Due to overwhelming demand for the sold-out Captain Marvel #4-5 and Ms. Marvel #25, crucial tie-ins to the red-hot Secret Invasion event, Marvel is going back to press with a special one-shot collecting these three acclaimed issues! Captain Marvel/Ms. Marvel: Secret Invasion The Infiltration One-Shot brings you face to face with some of the most shocking moments in Skrull Invasion thus far, written by the acclaimed Brian Reed, featuring the art of fan-favorites Lee Weeks & Adrian Melo, all wrapped up in a gorgeous wraparound cover by Terry Dodson! What is the secret behind Captain Marvel’s return? And is Ms Marvel who — or what — she appears to be?

With Secret Invasion on everyone’s mind, and everywhere from G4 to Entertainment Weekly to The New York Post to The Wall Street Journal, this special one-shot is a perfect look at the secrets that have rocked the Marvel Universe! Don’t miss your chance to catch up on these sold out issues in Captain Marvel/Ms. Marvel: Secret Invasion The Infiltration One-Shot!

CAPTAIN MARVEL/MS MARVEL: SECRET INVASION THE INFILTRATION ONE-SHOT (FEB088173)
Written by BRIAN REED
Penciled by LEE WEEKS & ADRIANA MELO
Cover by TERRY DODSON & LAURA MARTIN
Rated T+…$4.99
FOC—5/1/08, On-Sale—5/21/08