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Courtesy of Marvel here are preview pages for Amazing Spider-Man Annual #36, Anita Blake: The Laughing Corpse – Necromancer #3, Marvel Adventures Super Heroes #13, Ms. Marvel #41, Punisher: Frank Castle #72, The Stand: American Nightmares #4, all scheduled to ship next week (7/8/09).

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL #36
COVER BY: Olivier Coipel
WRITER: Marc Guggenheim
PENCILS: Patrick Olliffe
INKS: Patrick Olliffe
LETTERED BY: Virtual Comicraft
THE STORY:
As Peter Parker prepares for the 2nd most important wedding day of his life, a new enemy brutally rises up from Spidey’s past. Plus the introduction of some brand new family members promises to make this a wedding that he wishes never happened! Rated A …$3.99

ANITA BLAKE: THE LAUGHING CORPSE – NECROMANCER #3
COVER BY: Ron Lim
WRITER: Jessica Ruffner
PENCILS: Ron Lim
COLORED BY: Laura Villari
LETTERED BY: Bill Tortolini
THE STORY:
Best-Selling Author Laurell K. Hamilton’s thriller reaches its most shocking chapter yet! Who is Wheelchair Wanda? What dirt does she have on not-so-innocent billionaire Harold Gaynor? That’s what Anita Blake wants to know. And if she’s going to find out, Anita will have to journey to the Tenderloin, St. Louis’ red light district. So it’s a good thing master vampire Jean-Claude’s got her back…right? Mature …$3.99

MARVEL ADVENTURES SUPER HEROES #13
COVER BY: Patrick Scherberger
WRITER: Paul Tobin
PENCILS: Marcelo DiChiara
INKS: Marcelo DiChiara, Raul Fernandez Fonts & Norman Lee
COLORED BY: Chris Sotomayor
LETTERED BY: Dave Sharpe
THE STORY:
Bulldogs are about the best dogs in the world. Everyone knows that. But when the Leader decides to use a robotic bulldog to steal all of SHIELD’s private files, it’s up to She-Hulk, Spider-Man and Tigra to clean up after the dog! All Ages …$2.99

MS. MARVEL #41
COVER BY: Sana Takeda
WRITER: Brian Reed
PENCILS: Sana Takeda
INKS: Luke Ross & Sana Takeda
COLORED BY: Sana Takeda
LETTERED BY: Dave Sharpe
THE STORY:
In MS MARVEL #41, not only does new Ms. Marvel Karla Sofen have to deal with Deadpool, now she’s got the New Avengers coming at her in full force. Prelude to this summer’s epic WAR OF THE MARVELS! Then in MS. MARVEL #42, WAR OF THE MARVELS begins here! Karla Sofen battles for her life in the streets of Los Angeles as an exciting new chapter in the history of Ms. Marvel begins! Guest starring the New Avengers and…someone we can’t tell you about! Rated T …$2.99

PUNISHER: FRANK CASTLE #72
COVER BY: Dave Johnson
WRITER: Victor Gischler
PENCILS: Goran Parlov
INKS: Goran Parlov
COLORED BY: Lee Loughridge
LETTERED BY: VC – Cory Petit
THE STORY:
‘WELCOME TO THE BAYOU,” PART 2 Frank thought he was only passing through the Louisiana Bayou…until he crossed paths with a suspicious family of rednecks and decided to make their business his business. The Geautreauxs are throwing themselves a barbeque with all the fixings – and Frank Castle is the main course. Explicit Content …$3.99

THE STAND:  AMERICAN NIGHTMARES #4
COVER BY: Lee Bermejo
WRITER: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
PENCILS: Mike Perkins
INKS: Mike Perkins
COLORED BY: Laura Martin
LETTERED BY: VC – Rus Wooton
THE STORY:
The penultimate chapter of the second volume based on Stephen King’s horror epic! The survivors of the Captain Trips plague have started to team-up. Stu Redman and Glen Bateman trade origin stories–and horror stories about their mutual nightmares–while Randall Flagg sets out to recruit his first soldier in the ultimate battle between Good and Evil: Lloyd Henreid. But will the starving madman accept the dark man’s offer? And either way, will he or his soul survive? Cardstock Cover/Parental Advisory …$3.99

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Courtesy of Marvel here are preview pages for Ender’s Game: Recruiting Valentine #1, Lockjaw and the Pet Avengers #2, Marvel Adventures Super Heroes #12, Miss America Comics 70th Anniversary Special #1, Pride and Prejudice #3, all scheduled to ship this week (6/10/09).

ENDER’S GAME: RECRUITING VALENTINE #1
COVER BY: Timothy Green II
WRITER: Jake Black
PENCILS: Timothy Green II
INKS: Timothy Green II
COLORED BY: Edward Bola
LETTERED BY: VC – Cory Petit

THE STORY:
Ender Wiggin may be in space learning to fight Formics, but his older siblings Peter and Valentine are saving the world back on Earth. When Valentine learns of an injustice in her school, she wants to fight it. Enter Peter who guides his sister through the process of nonviolent influence, and sets the ball rolling for his plans to one day rule the world. Jake Black, writer of the upcoming Ender’s Game Companion, adds this ALL-NEW NEVER BEFORE TOLD story to the Ender’s Universe. One-Shot/Cardstock Cover/Parental Advisory …$3.99

LOCKJAW AND THE PET AVENGERS #2
COVER BY: Karl Kerschl
WRITER: Chris Eliopoulos
PENCILS: Ig Guara
COLORED BY: CHRIS SOTOMAYOR
LETTERED BY: NATE PIEKOS

THE STORY:
The hunt is on! Earth’s Cuddliest Heroes have ventured deep into the dangerous Savage Land, where ne’er has a house-broken animal escaped! Will the help of Zabu the Saber-Toothed Tiger be enough to save the Pet Avengers’ furry necks, so they can SAVE THE UNIVERSE AS WE KNOW IT?????? Featuring GORGEOUS covers by KARL KERSCHL and NIKO HENRICHON!!! All Ages …$2.99

MARVEL ADVENTURES SUPER HEROES #12
COVER BY: Clayton Henry
WRITER: Scott Gray & Roger Langridge
PENCILS: Matteo Lolli & Craig Rousseau
INKS: Craig Rousseau|Christian Dalla Vecchia
COLORED BY: Chris Sotomayor
LETTERED BY: Dave Sharpe

THE STORY:
Featuring CAPTAIN AMERICA, the Sentinel of Liberty, in the then & now! In the Now, he faces the hyper-technological might of Hydra! In the then, he battles the disgusting (and frankly, ugly) menace of P.R.O.D.O.K.! All Ages …$2.99

MISS AMERICA COMICS 70TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL #1
COVER BY: Dale Eaglesham
WRITER: Jen Van Meter
PENCILS: Andy MacDonald
INKS: Andy MacDonald
COLORED BY: Nick Filardi

THE STORY:
A brand new adventure of one of comics’ original super-heroines! Plus an extra-special classic reprint of one of her original 1940’s adventures. Jen van Meter (Black Lightning) and Andy MacDonald (PUNISHER: WAR JOURNAL) take you back to a time when the fate of the United States rested not only in thousands of men fighting for freedom overseas, but also in the hands of the women back home building the equipment that would keep the country running and winning! So get ready Axis Annie, Vichy Vixen, and…Madame Mauzer! Her name might be Miss America…but she sure ain’t gonna miss a chance to sock evil in the face! (This solicit brought to you by a very tipsy editor!) One-Shot/New and Reprints/Rated A …$3.99

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE #3
COVER BY: Dennis Calero
WRITER: Nancy Hajeski
PENCILS: Hugo Petrus
INKS: Hugo Petrus
LETTERED BY: Dave Sharpe|Dave Sharpe

THE STORY:
The grand adaptation of Jane Austen’s masterpiece continues! The Bennet girls are going boy-crazy in a sea of officers and wealthy businessmen. What’s a lady got to do to find a good man? Brought to you by award-winning writer NANCY BUTLER and fan-favorite HUGO PETRUS! Rated T …$3.99

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CAPTAIN AMERICA THEATER OF WAR: AMERICA FIRST #1
COVER BY: HOWARD CHAYKIN
WRITER: HOWARD CHAYKIN
PENCILS: HOWARD CHAYKIN
INKS: HOWARD CHAYKIN
COLORED BY: STUDIO F – EDGAR DELGADO
In this second installment of a series exploring the storied history of America’s greatest champion, Howard Chaykin pulls back the Iron Curtain on one of Captain America’s wiliest nemeses — Soviet Russia and her never-ending parade of spies, saboteurs, fifth columnists…so many we had to make this story double-sized! Before his role in “The Death of Captain America,” no one was more patriotic than the Cap of the Fifties, even if he does have Steve Rogers’ shoes to fill. Unfortunately, Nick Fury, a newly minted operative of the CIA, isn’t about to let him off the hook that easily. But Cap and Fury better start working together, or they’ll find themselves buried in Reds! PLUS: a bonus reprinting of a classic Cap tale from the fabulous fifties!
One-Shot/Rated A …$4.99

MARVEL ADVENTURES SUPER HEROES #6
COVER BY: CLAYTON HENRY
WRITER: FRED VAN LENTE
PENCILS: MATTEO LOLLI
INKS: CHRISTIAN DALLA VECCHIA
LETTERED BY: NATE PIEKOS
Here he comes, True Believers — the astonishing ANT-MAN! The man with two, count ‘em, TWO super powers! Who is he? How did he get both the ability to shrink to less than an inch tall and speak directly to ants? Why does he use those abilities to aid all mankind? SHUT UP — Don’t answer that! Those are rhetorical questions! Any answers you come up with can’t possibly be as awesome as the real ones … SO BUY THIS COMIC NOW!!!
All Ages …$2.99

MS. MARVEL #34
COVER BY: DAVID YARDIN
WRITER: BRIAN REED
PENCILS: PAULO SIQUEIRA
INKS: AMILTON SANTOS
COLORED BY: CHRIS SOTOMAYOR
LETTERED BY: DAVE SHARPE
Carol Danvers is fighting a one-woman war against the CIA, and her only ally is… Spider-Man?! Spidey stumbles into Carol’s world of international espionage and may not come out in one piece.
Rated T+ …$2.99

NEW AVENGERS #48
COVER BY: BILLY TAN
WRITER: BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS
PENCILS: BILLY TAN
INKS: MATT BANNING
COLORED BY: JUSTIN PONSOR
LETTERED BY: COMICRAFT
The Invasion is over! But who are the New Avengers!??! The first major roster change since the very first issue!! See here who the New Avengers are and what their place in the Dark Reign is!
Rated A …$2.99

PATSY WALKER: HELLCAT #4
COVER BY: STUART IMMONEN
WRITER: KATHRYN IMMONEN
PENCILS: DAVID LAFUENTE
INKS: DAVID LAFUENTE
COLORED BY: JOHN RAUCH
LETTERED BY: DAVE LANPHEAR
Hellcat is still on the case, tracking the missing heir of an Eskimo witch coven. But hot on the trail of Pete the Yeti, whose rocket powered spruce is making her life difficult. But with the aid of a giant magical wolf named Manslayer and a giant talking Mayan calendar made of stone, she just might survive her trek through the last frontier. If she doesn’t drown in a wave of snow bunnies first.
Rated A …$2.99

THOR #12
COVER BY: OLIVIER COIPEL
WRITER: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
PENCILS: OLIVIER COIPEL
INKS: MARK MORALES
COLORED BY: LAURA MARTIN
LETTERED BY: CHRIS ELIOPOULOS
Sinister things are afoot in Asgard. Loki claims to have only the best of intentions, but her manipulations have seated a new prince on the throne, the brave Balder…and her snake’s tongue has planted seeds of doubt in the ears of Asgardians to question the leadership of the mighty Thor. What insidious treachery will the cunning Loki spring on the noble heroes? And what dreaded effect could it have on the innocent townspeople of neighboring Broxton, Oklahoma?
Rated T+ …$2.99

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CAPTAIN AMERICA #44
COVER BY: STEVE EPTING
WRITER: ED BRUBAKER
PENCILS: LUKE ROSS
INKERS: PABLO LAGUNA & RICK MAGYAR
COLORED BY: FRANK D’ARMATA
LETTERED BY: VC – JOE CARAMAGNA
EDITOR: TOM BREVOORT
Part two of this smashing three-parter pits Bucky Barnes, the new Captain America, against his own past as the Winter Soldier, and one of Steve Rogers deadliest foes… as the remnants of the Cold War creep into the states, searching for a secret weapon that only Cap can stop them from getting their hands on. But is that really what’s happening, or is it all a trap? Find out here – by Brubaker and Luke Ross!
Rated T+ …$2.99

INCREDIBLE HERCULES #123
COVER BY: CLAYTON HENRY
WRITER: FRED VAN LENTE & GREG PAK
PENCILS: CLAYTON HENRY
INKS: CLAYTON HENRY
COLORED BY: GURU-EFX
LETTERED BY: VC – JOE CARAMAGNA
“LOVE & WAR (Part 3)”
We know you’ve all been there, guys. We know it stinks. Your best bud gets a new girlfriend, and suddenly you never see him any more. And when you’re Hercules, your BFF is Amadeus Cho, and his new girlfriend is a psychopathic Amazonian princess who wants to destroy the world as we know it with an ancient Atlantean artifact… Well. That really stinks. Guest-Starring Namor the Sub-Mariner!
Rated A …$2.99

MARVEL ADVENTURES SUPER HEROES #5
COVER BY: ROGER CRUZ
WRITER: PAUL TOBIN
PENCILS: JACOPO CAMAGNI
INKS: NORMAN LEE
COLORS: GURU EFX
LETTERED BY: NATE PIEKOS
EDITOR: NATHAN COSBY
A VERY STRANGE DAY: In his MA: Super Heroes debut, Doctor Strange encounters a cosmically powered creature known as a Zakimiya, which has been allowing its newborn babies to feed on the very fabric of reality. Dang! Luckily, Doctor Strange has a plan—recruit a magically souped-up Spider-Man to web shut the holes in the fabric of reality, and then hope the two of them can bluff their way to victory against the all-powerful Zakimiya. Good luck with that!
All Ages …$2.99

MS. MARVEL #33
COVER BY: DAVID YARDIN & RAIN BEREDO
WRITER: BRIAN REED
PENCILS: ADRIANA MELO
INKER: MARIAH BENES
COLORED BY: CHRIS SOTOMAYOR
LETTERED BY: DAVE SHARPE
EDITOR: STEPHEN WACKER
The untold tale of Carol Danver’s days as a secret agent continues! What is Ascension? What is the CIA doing in Afghanistan? And what does all of this have to do the post-Secret Invasion world? Brian Reed (SECRET INVASION: THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN) and Paulo Siqueira (THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN) have all the answers.
Rated T+ …$2.99

THOR: MAN OF WAR #1
COVER BY: MARKO DJURDJEVIC
WRITER: MATT FRACTION
PENCILS: CLAY MANN & PATRICK ZIRCHER
INKS: VICTOR OLAZABA
COLORED BY: PAUL MOUNTS & JUNE CHUNG
LETTERED BY: VC – JOE CARAMAGNA
EDITOR: WARREN SIMONS
For countless millennia, over and again has the mighty, thunderous, impetuous, petulant god Thor raged and rebelled against the leadership of his father and lord, the all-powerful Odin. The capricious tantrums of a selfish titan, spoiled by his own power. But…ODIN HAS HAD ENOUGH! And so as the cycle is repeated in all ages, Thor must ultimately face the fullest wrath of the enraged All-Father! Witness the final and the most epic, earth-shattering, sky-scorching battle ever unleashed by the THOR: AGES OF THUNDER and THOR: REIGN OF BLOOD creative team of Matt Fraction and Patrick Zircher!
One-Shot/Rated T+ …$3.99

ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #128
COVER BY: STUART IMMONEN & RICHARD ISANOVE
WRITER: BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS
PENCILS: STUART IMMONEN
INKS: WADE VON GRAWBADGER
COLORED BY: JUSTIN PONSOR
LETTERED BY: VC – CORY PETIT
EDITOR: MARK PANICCIA
An unwelcome caller pays a visit to the Parker household in the form of Eddie Brock, the former host to the sinister Venom symbiote! Blaming Peter for his loss of the symbiote, Eddie will stop at nothing to regain it. As the situation comes unglued with the untimely arrival of Gwen Stacy, it’s Ultimate Venom versus Ultimate Carnage as War of the Symbiotes comes to its crashing conclusion! Plus: More on the mysterious Beetle and his mission for the “master”!
Rated A …$2.99