Hellboy: The Island #1 (of 2) Dark Horse Comics Release Date: Jun 22, 2006
After more than two years at the bottom of the sea, Hellboy washes up on an island full of sunken ships. This tale of gods and monsters offers the first revelations about some of the great secrets of Hellboy's world. Features a wrap-around cover. Take a look inside!...
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Teen Titans Release Date: Jun 24, 2006
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The Amazing Spiderman “Sins Past” Marvel Release Date: Jun 22, 2005
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Hellboy: The Island #2 (of 2) Dark Horse Comics Release Date: Jun 22, 2005
Though it may cost him his life, Hellboy learns the secret history of the world, the origin of the Ogdru Jahad, and his own right hand. Celebrated writer/artist Mike Mignola concludes the biggest turning point in his Hellboy saga, establishing his character firmly in th...
Preacher Vol. 1: Gone to Texas — New Edition Vertigo Release Date: Feb 5, 2005
Merging with a bizarre spiritual force called Genesis, Preacher Jesse Custer becomes completely disillusioned with the beliefs that he had dedicated his entire life to. Now possessing the power of the word, an ability to make people do whatever he utters, Custer begins ...
Black Panther #1 Marvel Release Date: Mar 10, 2006
The Wakandan super hero is back with Hollywood heavyweight Hudlin (House Party, Boomerang) and fan favorite Romita Jr. (WOLVERINE, AMAZING SPIDER-MAN), teaming up to deliver a new ongoing series that’s sure to excite true believers and the hip hop faithful. The Bl...
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Incredible Hulk Marvel Release Date: Mar 10, 2006
Stalking across the depths of the ocean, dispatching everything from sharks to giant squids, comes the Hulk. As a long-buried episode from Bruce Banner's youth begins to surface with possible ramifications for the future, the Hulk finds himself washed up on a strange is...
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Teen Titans DC Release Date: May 5, 2005
The Insiders, a 4-part crossover between the Teen Titans and Outsiders, begins here, in an issue featuring guest art by Matthew Clark and Mark Farmer! For months, Superboy has been taunted by the secrets of his DNA — that h...
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Outsiders Release Date: Feb 12, 2005
Part 2 of the 4-part "The Insiders" crossover with TEEN TITANS! Secrets are revealed and Indigo's origin is explored as the Outsiders join the Titans for an all-out battle against two of DC's most powerful villains!
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Green Lantern DC Release Date: Feb 5, 2005
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Legion of Super-Heroes DC Release Date: Feb 5, 2005
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Identity Crisis (1 - 7) DC Release Date: Feb 5, 2005
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All Star Superman DC Release Date: Jun 14, 2006
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Nightwing DC Release Date: Jun 14, 2006
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Birds of Prey DC Release Date: Jun 21, 2006
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Jusstice DC Release Date: May 14, 2006
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Robin DC Release Date: Jun 14, 2006
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Supergirl DC Release Date: Jun 14, 2006
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Batman Release Date: Jun 28, 2006
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Blue Beetle DC Release Date: Jun 28, 2006
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Ion DC Release Date: May 31, 2006
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Teen Titans Go! DC Release Date: May 31, 2006
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Superman/Batman DC Release Date: May 31, 2006
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Warlord DC Release Date: May 31, 2006
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Action Comics DC Release Date: May 31, 2006
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52 DC Release Date: May 31, 2006
After the INFINITE CRISIS and before One Year Later, the DCU spent a year without Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. A year in which those heroes were needed more than ever as the fate of the world hung in the balance. Who stood up in their ab...
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JLA: Classified DC Release Date: May 31, 2006
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Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight DC Release Date: May 31, 2006
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JLA: World Without a Justice League DC Release Date: May 31, 2006
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Superman: Cover to Cover DC Release Date: May 31, 2006
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JSA DC Release Date: Jun 7, 2006
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Wonder Woman 1 DC Release Date: Jun 7, 2006
One year after the execution of Maxwell Lord and the earth-shattering events of Infinite Crisis, the DCU is still struggling to come to terms with its most powerful heroine. Is she a martyr or a murderer? A politician or a super hero?
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The All New Atom DC Release Date: Jul 5, 2006
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JSA DC Release Date: Jul 5, 2006
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Loony Tunes Release Date: Jul 5, 2006
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Outsiders DC Release Date: Jul 5, 2006
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Supergirl DC Release Date: Jul 5, 2006
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Omac DC Release Date: Jul 5, 2006
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Green Arrow: Heading into the Light DC Release Date: Jul 5, 2006
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Jonah Hex DC Release Date: Jul 5, 2006
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Justice #6 DC Release Date: Jun 21, 2006
The former supervillains announce their plans for the betterment of humankind! But while they're behaving as saviors to the populace, they strike out as adversaries against their ultimate target–the Justice League!
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Justice Hard Cover Release Date: Sep 13, 2006
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Dracula Vs. Capone Silent Devil Productions Release Date: Aug 31, 2006
1920’s prohibition era Chicago. Al Capone heads the largest, most powerful mafia organization in the country. Business is good – so good that a certain bloodsucker from Transylvania has his sights set on a piece of the pie. Capone must team up with unlikely ...
Justice Hard Cover DC Comics Release Date: Sep 13, 2006
The members of the fabled Justice League of America are about to learn they aren't the only ones who can band together toward a common goal. The greatest criminal masterminds of our time appear to be acting in concert — but with a surpri...
Dracula Vs. Capone Silent Devil Productions Release Date: Aug 31, 2006
1920’s prohibition era Chicago. Al Capone heads the largest, most powerful mafia organization in the country. Business is good – so good that a certain bloodsucker from Transylvania has his sights set on a piece of the pie. Capone must team up with unlikely ...
Infinite Crisis DC Comics Release Date: May 5, 2005
DC Comics' Infinite Crisisseries rippled massive changes through the DC Universe, setting up storylines now being explored in DC's current series 52. To understand this year long event told in real-time...
Superman: For All Seasons DC Release Date: Oct 1, 1999
Jeph Loeb takes us through four seasons in Superman's early life as he discovers his powers, leaves behind his small town life, and begins a crusade to save all in Metropolis....
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Wonder Woman #1 DC Release Date: Jun 7, 2006
One year after the execution of Maxwell Lord and the earth-shattering events of Infinite Crisis, the DCU is still struggling to come to terms with its most powerful heroine. Is she a martyr or a murderer? A politician or a super hero?
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Fell Image Comics Release Date: Sep 15, 2005
Detective Richard Fell is transferred over the bridge from the big city to Snowtown, a feral district whose police roster numbers three-and-a-half people (one detective has no legs). Dumped in this collapsing urban trashzone, Richard Fell is starting a...
Civil War Marvel Comics Release Date: Jun 1, 2006
During a televised raid of a house containing select villains that had recently escaped from the super villain facility at Ryker's Island prison during a massive breakout, the escaped villain Nitro lets off a massive explosion that kills the majority of the New Warri...
Clive Barker’s The Great and Secret Show IDW Publishing Release Date: Mar 15, 2006
It begins here! A 12-part adaptation of master of horror Clive Barker's epic journey into the fantastic, The Great and Secret Show. Adapted by Chris Ryall (Shaun of the Dead) and artist Gabriel Rodriguez (G...
All Star Batman And Robin, The Boy Wonder DC Comics Release Date: Jul 20, 2005
ALL STAR excitement abounds as Frank Miller, Jim Lee and Scott Williams continue their adventurous retelling of the partnership between the Dark Knight and the Boy Wonder! ...
Dream-team creators Joss Whedon (TV’s “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”) and John Cassaday (Planetary, CAPTAIN AMERICA
Powers (volume 2) Icon Release Date: Jul 7, 2004
Homicide Detectives Christian Walker and Deena Pilgrim investigate superpower murders. And with all powers declared illegal, a crime wave has hit the city and hit hard. From the writer of some of your favorite Marvel comics (
You are thousands of years old. You have amazing powers. You have watched civilizations rise and fall-- so why does no one remember any of this? Bestselling Author Neil Gaiman (Marvel: 1602, A...
X-Factor Marvel Comics Release Date: Dec 14, 2005
In the fallout from HOUSE OF M and following last year’s surprise hit film-noir series--MADROX, a new mutant team is forged! X-FACTOR is an investigative mutant agency including ...
Fallen Angel IDW Publishing Release Date: Dec 29, 2005
One of the most critically acclaimed series of 2004 makes the jump to IDW, as new artist J.K. Woodward introduces readers to the enigmatic city of Bete Noire. In its shadows resides the Fallen Angel, whose origin has long been a mystery... until now. Much time has pa...
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2006 Comic-Con Report Release Date: Jul 20, 2006
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Sloth Vertigo Release Date: Jul 6, 2006
From Publishers Weekly-Starred Review.
The much heralded Love & Rockets cartoonist turns in his first original graphic novel and it showcases a creator still making vital work after two decades. The story is of young people too creative, too smart and too passio...
Vampire Loves First Second Books Release Date: May 2, 2006
Meet Ferdinand, a vampire who bites his victims with only one tooth in order to pass as a mosquito, who loves the music of dead folk singers, and who has no end of trouble trying to make sense of his relationships, some living, some not. Vampire Loves
American Born Chinese First Second Books Release Date: Sep 5, 2006
As alienated kids go, Jin Wang is fairly run-of-the-mill: he eats lunch by himself in a corner of the schoolyard, gets picked on by bullies and jocks and develops a sweat-inducing crush on a pretty classmate. And, oh, yes, his parents are from Taiwan. This much-anticipa...
Klezmer First Second Books Release Date: Nov 3, 2006
In The Rabbi's Cat, Sfar showed a knack for slightly tweaked and jokey mystical fables, a talent he updates with a harsher edge in this first volume of a new series about a band of itinerant Klezmer musicians. While Cat reflected its drowsy,...
Sardine in Outer Space 2 First Second Books Release Date: Sep 5, 2006
This time, the evil Supermuscleman has developed a device for controlling children--a brainwashing machine! Its up to Sardine, Little Louie, and Captain Yellow Shoulder to keep him from using it. This installment of twelve more stories is filled with even more strange c...
Missouri Boy First Second Books Release Date: Sep 5, 2006
Myrick (Bright Elegy) shares slices of his own childhood in this graphic memoir: his birth at the moment of his grandmother's death; a magical Fourth of July, lighting firecrackers in a tree in the yard; a boyhood ritual of skinny-dipping in a pond in the woods; his ...
Journey into Mohawk Country First Second Books Release Date: Sep 5, 2006
Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert was only twenty-three when he ventured into Mohawk territory in search of the answers to some pressing questions: Where were all the beaver skins that the Indians should have been shipping down the river?Was the money that should have b...
Kampung Boy First Second Books Release Date: Sep 5, 2006
Kampung Boy is a favorite of millions of readers in Southeast Asia.With masterful economy worthy of Charles Schultz, Lat recounts the life of Mat, a Muslim boy growing up in rural Malaysia in the 1950s: his adventures and mischief-making, fishi...
Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda First Second Books Release Date: May 2, 2006
Deogratias means "thanks be to God," and it's the name of a boy coming of age in Rwanda in 1994. He is just figuring out what it means to be a man, and wrestling with the feelings he harbors toward two sisters, Apollinaria and Benina....
The Lost Colony: The Snodgrass Conspiracy First Second Books Release Date: May 2, 2006
Historical and contemporary American racial, economic, and social issues lie at the heart of this witty, sophisticated, candy-colored adventure, set in a utopian island community. Bertha (Birdy) Snodgrass, preadolescent daughter of the town banker, throws in her lot ...
Hwy. 115 Fantagraphics Books Release Date: Dec 18, 2006
"All the basic elements of David Lynch's film work can be seen in Hwy. 115, without ever sliding into plagiarism...It's not difficult to interpret the gesture of scratching through a thick layer of black to allow the light to shine out as ...
Bosnian Flat Dog Release Date: Nov 22, 2006
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The New Adventures of Jesus: The Second Coming Fantagraphics Books Release Date: Dec 18, 2006
"Stack's New Adventures of Jesus revolutionized the comic book genre, inspired hipsters and hippies around the world, and turned the native of rural Texas into a 1960s-era icon." - Illumination...
The Grave Robber's Daughter Fantagraphics Books Release Date: Jan 29, 2007
"'Gothic humor' sounds like an oxymoron. That's probably why so few comics creators -- Charles Addams, Edward Gorey -- have pulled it off. You can now add Richard Sala to that short list." --Details
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Heartbreak Soup Fantagraphics Books Release Date: Jan 15, 2007
Celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2007, Love & Rockets will finally be released in its most accessible form yet: as a series of compact, thick, affordable, mass-market volumes that present the whole story in perfect chronological ord...
Ghost World Fantagraphics Books Release Date: Apr 1, 2001
Daniel Clowes described the story in Ghost World as the examination of "the lives of two recent high school graduates from the advantaged perch of a constant and (mostly) undetectable eavesdropper, with the shaky detachment of a scientist ...
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Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda First Second Release Date: May 10, 2006
Deogratias is just a boy. Benina is just a girl. Teenagers like teenagers everywhere. Only he is a Hutu, and she is a Tutsi — so say their ID cards. We are in Rwanda in the days leading to a swift and gruesome genocide; the world will watch and do nothing. I...
The Damned Oni Press Release Date: Oct 18, 2006
During the prohibition era, gangsters grew rich on our vices, and rivalries between criminal organizations resulted in open war. But unknown to the masses, a more sinister power controlled the crime cartels, using greed, gluttony, lust, and other sins to fuel a much mor...
Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis DC Release Date: Mar 1, 2006
It’s one year later, and Arthur Curry awakens to find himself underwater, with a mysterious voice guiding him to the site of a fierce battle. Curry aids the monstrous King Shark against a squad of Aurati raiders, and in the aftermath of the battle the two of...
Wonder Woman DC Comics Release Date: Aug 23, 2006
The shocks continue as Wonder Girl confronts the all-new Wonder Woman, challenging the position she's assumed in the DCU. But their battle of wills is cut short when the titanic Giganta arrives on the scene, taking New York City hostage and fo...
Ten years after the Rapture beautiful occultist Bethany Black and her pet runt demon, Bloato, embark on a road trip to the last open gateway to Heaven, in hopes of befriending God and escaping Hell on Earth. A bare-knuckle, action-driven ...
The Fountain DC Vertigo Release Date: Nov 16, 2005
A love story spanning three eras. A Spanish Conquistador ransacks a Mayan kingdom to find the mythical tree of life. A doctor performs feverish research to halt the destruction of cancer in his wife's body. A man travels from the ancient corners of the cosmos with the s...
Popeye, Vol. 1: "I Yam What I Yam" Fantagraphics Books Release Date: Dec 20, 2006
Fantagraphics’ Popeye will collect the complete run of Segar’s Thimble Theatre comic strip (dailies and color Sundays) featuring Popeye, re-establishing Segar as one of the first rank of cartoonists who have elevated the comic strip...
Ghost Rider: Road to Damnation Marvel Knights Release Date: Oct 12, 2005
He’s paying the price for his deal with the Devil – is the Ghost Rider condemned to ride the highways of Hell for all eternity? His saving grace could be in the form of an unlikely ally – an industrious angel with a deal that w...
Astro City: The Dark Age DC/Wildstorm Release Date: Aug 3, 2005
In 1972, two brothers named Royal and Charles Williams lead different lives in Astro City. Charles is a cop and Royal is a small-time hood. Through their eyes we see how the 70's is a time of turmoil in Astro City. People are beginnig to question whether have a lot of s...
Spider-Man: The Other Marvel Release Date: May 11, 2005
The lives of Peter Parker and everyone close to him change forever! Haunted by unsettling dreams. Disturbed by a growing sense of dread. Convinced that people are out to get him. A portrait of someone on the edge of a nervous breakdown? Nah. Simply a typical day for Pet...
Moon Knight Marvel Release Date: Apr 5, 2006
The Fist of Khonshu is back and badder than ever, courtesy of acclaimed novelist Charlie Huston (Caught Stealing, Six Bad Things) and red-hot, fan-favorite artist David Finch (NEW AVNEGERS).
Marc Specter used to talk to God. His god...
Squadron Supreme Marvel MAX Release Date: Mar 22, 2006
It all starts here! The ONGOING, MARVEL KNIGHTS launch of the deadliest super-team around! Hyperion, Nighthawk, Blur, Power Princess, Doctor Spectrum and the rest of the team are joined by a new group of super heroes, as only J. Michael Straczy...
Thunderbolts Marvel Release Date: Jan 10, 2007
“Faith in Monsters” Part 1 of 6
Venom, lethal protector! The enigmatic Moonstone! Bullseye, the man who never misses! Songbird, mistress of sound! Chen Lu, the Radioactive Man! Swordsman, master of the blade! The mys...
The Boys OLD DC/Wildstorm Release Date: Mar 28, 2007
Collecting the first 6 issues of the controversial new series from PREACHER writer Garth Ennis and artist Darick Robertson (TRANSMETROPOLITAN)! Don’t miss this dark, twisted look at superpowers, super-people, and...
Action Comics OLD DC Release Date: Oct 24, 2006
Geoff Johns (INFINITE CRISIS, FLASH) joins forces with Richard Donner (director of Superman: The Movie and Superman II) and artist extraordinaire Adam Kubert (X-Men, Ultimate X-Men) for "Last Son," the tale of a small child from the planet Krypton. Sent by his...
Action Comics DC Release Date: Oct 24, 2006
Geoff Johns (INFINITE CRISIS, FLASH) joins forces with Richard Donner (director of Superman: The Movie and Superman II) and artist extraordinaire Adam Kubert (X-Men, Ultimate X-Men) for "Last Son," the tale of a small child from the planet Krypton. Sent by his...
The Boys DC/Wildstorm Release Date: Mar 28, 2007
Collecting the first 6 issues of the controversial new series from PREACHER writer Garth Ennis and artist Darick Robertson (TRANSMETROPOLITAN)! Don’t miss this dark, twisted look at superpowers, super-people, and...
Ultimate Power Marvel Comics Release Date: Oct 11, 2006
The Fantastic Four’s leader, Reed Richards, has accidentally punched a hole into an adjacent universe in a desperate bid to gain the knowledge he needs to cure his friend Ben Grimm—The Thing. But something has come through the aperture from a realm known as ...
Midnighter DC/Wildstorm Release Date: Nov 1, 2006
The Midnighter, returning from a mission in war-torn Afghanistan, is accosted as he enters the Carrier. Something is terribly wrong; these unseen assailants take him down too easily and then drag him through the teleportation door to an unknown location. After regaining...
newuniversal Release Date: Dec 6, 2006
Planet Earth. Inhabited by six billion people. People leading ordinary lives, coping with everyday struggles. But on a night like any other, the Earth is rocked by the most startling celestial event ever witnessed by the human race. The White E...
Justice Society of America DC Release Date: Dec 20, 2006
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Book of Lost Souls Marvel Comics Release Date: Oct 26, 2006
The destinies of most people are defined early on. Then there are the others – the lost. Those whose numbers aren’t in yet, who could go toward the light or toward the darkness – indeed, who could be tipped one direction or an...
New Avengers Vol. 5: Civil War Marvel Comics Release Date: Mar 14, 2007
The Civil War is on, and no book will be more affected than New Avengers. You think Marvel would never mess with its top-selling book? Wrong! The Avengers are about to go to war over their beliefs, and the shake-up will shock you. Each stand-alone story in this volume i...
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