Marvel in October 2009: Ultimate Comics & Others

[ENGLISH] Marvel tells us: Marvel in October 2009 Part 3 – Ultimate Comics Spider-Man, Ultimate Comics Avengers, Ultimate Comics Armor Wars, Halo: Helljumper, Dark Tower: The Fall Of Gilead, Punisher: Frank Castle, Kabuki, Strange Tales…

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OZ: THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ HC
Written by ERIC SHANOWER
Penciled by SKOTTIE YOUNG
Cover by SKOTTIE YOUNG
The premiere American fantasy adventure gets the Merry Marvel treatment! Eisner Award-winning writer/artist Eric

Shanower (Age of Bronze) teams up with fan-favorite artist Skottie Young (New X-Men) to bring L. Frank Baum’s

beloved classic to life! When Kansas farm girl Dorothy flies away to the magical Land of Oz, she fatally

flattens a Wicked Witch, liberates a living Scarecrow and is hailed by the Munchkin people as a great

sorceress…but all she really wants to know is: how does she get home? Collecting THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ #1-

8.
208 PGS./All Ages …$29.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-2921-9
Trim size: oversized

PRIDE & PREJUDICE PREMIERE HC
Written by NANCY BUTLER
Penciled by HUGO PETRUS
Cover by SONNY LIEW
“IT is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a

wife…” Tailored from the adored Jane Austen classic, Marvel Comics is proud to present PRIDE AND PREJUDICE! Two

-time Rita Award-Winner Nancy Butler and fan-favorite Hugo Petrus faithfully adapt the whimsical tale of Lizzy

Bennet and her loveable-if-eccentric family, as they navigate through tricky British social circles. Will

Lizzy’s father manage to marry off her five daughters, despite his wife’s incessant nagging? And will Lizzy’s

beautiful sister Jane marry the handsome, wealthy Mr. Bingley, or will his brooding friend Mr. Darcy stand

between their happiness? « This project has been like a dream come true for me as a writer and as a former

graphic designer—not only am I adapting a book I love, I am doing it in the one forum, comics, where words and

pictures carry equal weight. » Nancy Butler, two-time RITA winner and multiple RT Reviewer’s Choice winner in

Regency. Collecting PRIDE & PREJUDICE #1-5.
120 PGS./Rated T+ …$19.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-3915-7
Trim size: standard

HALO: HELLJUMPER #4 (of 5)
Written by Peter David
Pencils & Cover by Eric Nguyen
With an entire Covenant regiment hot on the trail of their comrades, Dutch and Romeo don’t have a lot of

options…the radios are out, so they can’t alert their CO as to what’s behind them, and they don’t have enough

firepower to take the Covenant force out on their own. But… hey, what’s this here? A lightly guarded Covenant

Drop Ship? But who’d be stupid enough to steal a Drop Ship? Two of the UNSC’s finest, perhaps?
32 PGS./17 & Up …$3.99

THE STAND: SOUL SURVIVORS #1 (of 5)
Written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Penciled by Mike Perkins
Cover by Lee Bermejo
Variant Cover by MIKE PERKINS
M-O-O-N spells the start of the third volume of Marvel’s critically acclaimed adaptation of Stephen King’s

horror epic. Nick Andros has hit the road and teamed up with the child-like Tom Cullen. After the horrors of

Captain Trips, a bike trip through Oklahoma and Nebraska sounds like fun, right? Except it’s tornado season,

True Believers, and not everyone Nick and Tom meet is on the side of the angels. Hell hath no fury like Julie

Lawry, another survivor of the plague…
32 PGS./Parental Advisory …$3.99
©2009 Stephen King. All rights reserved. Published by arrangement with The Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group,

a division of Random House, Inc.This graphic novel is produced under license from The Doubleday Broadway

Publishing Group and Stephen King.

DARK TOWER: THE FALL OF GILEAD #6 (of 6)
Written by PETER DAVID & ROBIN FURTH
Pencils & Cover by RICHARD ISANOVE
Variant Cover by TOM RANEY
Sketch Variant by RICHARD ISANOVE
It’s the end of Gilead’s blackest nightmare as Roland and his makeshift army defend the scant remains of the

barony from dread Farson’s men. But is this dark hour mere prelude to greater bloodshed–and betrayals–yet to

come…? The road to BATTLE OF JERICHO HILL begins here!
40 PGS./Parental Advisory…$3.99
©2009 Stephen King. All rights reserved.

PUNISHER NOIR #3 (of 4)
Written by FRANK TIERI
Penciled by PAUL AZACETA
Cover by TIM BRADSTREET
Variant Cover by DENNIS CALERO
“TWO DOWN…”
The Punisher has cut a bloody swath through the organized crime families of prohibition-era New York City and

now they’re starting to fight back.  Does Frank have what it takes to take down Jigsaw and Barracuda?  The real

question is, will there be anything left of him, if he does?
32 PGS./Parental Advisory …$3.99

LUKE CAGE NOIR #3 (of 4)
Written by MIKE BENSON
& ADAM GLASS
Penciled by SHAWN MARTINBROUGH
Cover by TIM BRADSTREET
Variant Cover by DENNIS CALERO
“MOON OVER HARLEM,” PART 3
Luke Cage is finally reunited with his old lover Josephine Ball, but their reunion is bittersweet.  Josephine

has been horribly disfigured, her face cut up with a razor.  She wants Luke to leave and forget about her, about

them.  But Cage can’t forget, and he sure as hell can’t forgive.  Whoever did this is going to pay.  Luke is

finally starting to put all the pieces of the puzzle together, and when he does — blood will run through the

streets of Harlem.  But Cage’s enemies have one last ace up their sleeve.  The question is, will it be enough to

save them from a very angry “power man”?
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

ANITA BLAKE, THE LAUGHING CORPSE – EXECUTIONER #1 (of 5)
Written by Laurell K. Hamilton & Jessica Ruffner
Penciled by Ron Lim
Cover by Harvey Tolibao
Current queen of the book charts and soon to be the star of her own television film, best-selling author Laurell

K. Hamilton’s vampire hunter continues to take comics by storm! As THE LAUGHING CORPSE enters its haunting final

act, Anita Blake thinks she has the deadly voodoo priestess who’s made her life hell dead to rights…but the

necromancer is about to find out her nightmare’s only just begun! Find out why everyone in America is talking

about Anita!
32 PGS./Mature …$3.99

ENDER’S GAME: COMMAND SCHOOL #2 (of 5)
Creative Director
ORSON SCOTT CARD
Written by CHRISTOPHER YOST
Pencils & Cover by PASQUAL FERRY
Dragon Army has been training non-stop for their first battle, and they’re about to get it. But what Ender

doesn’t know is that the deck is stacked against them and everyone is gunning for Ender, from the students to

the teachers.  Even with Bean’s help, can Ender win against unbeatable odds? And Ender’s anger at his teachers

has consequences… murderous consequences.
32 PGS./Parental Advisory …$3.99

ENDER’S SHADOW: COMMAND SCHOOL #2 (of 5)
Creative Director
ORSON SCOTT CARD
Written by MIKE CAREY
Pencils by SEBASTIAN FIUMARA
Cover by TIMOTHY GREEN II
Ender Wiggin’s Dragon army goes from strength to strength, sweeping aside all opposition, with Bean as its

secret weapon.  But will Ender’s strategic genius and Bean’s special tactics unit be enough when Dragon comes up

against Bonzo Madrid’s Salamanders – with the deck stacked before the battle even starts?
32 PGS./Parental Advisory …$3.99

RIFTWAR #5 (of 5)
Written by RAYMOND E. FEIST
Adaptation by BRYAN J. GLASS
Art by RYAN STEGMAN
Cover by JASON CHAN
Every last resource in the Castle Crydee is stretched to the point of breaking as the Midkemians continue to

fend off the onslaught of the Tsurani forces. But a mystery is brewing in Crydee — an insidious plot to

infiltrate the castle’s defenses. And the only thing standing between Crydee and utter defeat? Princess Carline!

Don’t miss the heart-pounding conclusion to Raymond E. Feist’s epic story!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

SPIN ANGELS #3 (of 3)
Written by JEAN-LUC SALA
Pencils & Cover by
PIERRE-MONY CHAN
THE INQUISITION, ONE OF THE MOST UNFATHOMABLE MACHINATIONS OF OPPRESSION IN HISTORY, IS BACK IN THIS EXPLOSIVE

THRILLER THAT CLEVERLY COMBINES ACTION AND RELIGION. The missions for the agents of the Black Office, a secret

offshoot of the Vatican led by Cardinal Marchesi, are getting more and more dangerous. To ensure the protection

of the investigator Sofia d’Agostino there is only one solution: find her a guardian angel. Mafia young gun

Angelo Costanza gets the unenviable assignment. Cardinal Marchesi’s cell is about to obtain a heretical document

that could shake the foundations of the Catholic Church, but the mission turns into carnage. Sofia and Angelo

find themselves face to face with a commando tied to an occult branch of the Vatican and the intrepid Sofia,

Sister Anna and the bombastic Gina must start chasing the Parsifal relic. The angels must defuse the theological

bomb before the Church’s secrets explode into view.
48 PGS./Mature …$5.99

ULTIMATE COMICS AVENGERS #3
Written by MARK MILLAR
Pencils & Cover by CARLOS PACHECO
THE SEARCH FOR STEVE ROGERS CONTINUES!  From the mad minds of MARK MILLAR (ULTIMATES 1 & 2) and CARLOS PACHECO

(X-MEN), Nick Fury assembles a new team of deadly operatives to track down the renegade Captain America! But

what will the Avenger’s resident marksman HAWKEYE have to say about Fury’s tactics and will these new faces make

the cut when the %^&( hits the fan?
32 PGS./Parental Advisory …$3.99

ULTIMATE COMICS ARMOR WARS #2 (of 4)
Written by WARREN ELLIS
Penciled by STEVE KURTH
Cover by BRANDON PETERSON
IRON MAN CRASHES EUROPE! Tony Stark’s frantic pursuit of his stolen Stark tech across the Atlantic gets ugly as

the secrets (and bodies?!) start piling up! The world of industrial espionage gets a repulsor blast to the face

as Stark squares off with a villain unlike anything he’s faced before! Don’t miss this next pulse-pounding

installment from the high-tech team-up of Warren Ellis (ULTIMATE HUMAN) and Steve Kurth (IRON MAN) !
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

ULTIMATE COMICS SPIDER-MAN #3
Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS
Pencils & Cover by DAVID LAFUENTE
The world of Spider-Man is turned upside down!  Friends are enemies and enemies are friends!!  Mysterio is on

the loose and gunning for Spidey big time.  And the Hulk is back!!!?? Plus–and this is a biggie–you’ll never

believe what iconic super hero is moving into Aunt May’s house!!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

MODELS, INC. #3 (of 4)
Written by PAUL TOBIN
Penciled by VICENC VILLAGRASA
Cover by SCOTT CLARK
Zombie Variant by TBA
Millie may not be modeling her prison stripes any more, but she’s in as much hot water as she is in hot fashion!

While the noxious North Norrell continues to hold up Millie as the prime suspect in the mystery of Todd Speers

and Devin Perlman’s murders, Millie’s friends are pulling out all the stops trying to clear her name. All this

and keeping up with fashion week! Of course, someone didn’t tell the sniper aiming for Millie’s head that hot

lead isn’t an in-vogue accessory this season!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

STRANGE TALES #2 (of 3)
Stories and Art by PETER BAGGE, MAX CANNON, JACOB CHABOT, JONATHAN HICKMAN, R. KIKUO Johnson, MATT KINDT,

MICHAEL
KUPPERMAN, TONY MILLIONAIRE & JIM RUGG
Cover by PETER BAGGE
Red Hulk Variant Cover by PETER BAGGE
You won’t believe your senses!! Marvel is proud to present the second issue of this hotly anticipated three

issue anthology showcasing Marvel’s greatest characters re-imagined by the best and brightest talents working in

independent comics today. Don’t miss what’s sure to be one of the most exciting collections of comics short

stories ever produced!!! Every issue stars a stunning array of the best, most exciting cartoonists on the

planet—showcasing the Marvel Heroes as you’ve never seen them before! Featuring the long-awaited Peter Bagge

“Incorrigible Hulk” serialized over all three issues!
48 PGS./Explicit Content …$4.99

PUNISHER: FRANK CASTLE MAX #75
Written by GREGG HURWITZ, CHARLIE HUSTON, PETER MILLIGAN,
THOMAS PICCIRILLI & DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI
Penciled by LAURENCE CAMPELL, TOMM COKER, KEN LASHLEY,
DAS PASTORAS & GORAN PARLOV
Cover by DAVE JOHNSON
Variant Cover by STEVE DILLON
Special double-sized 75th issue!  Several years ago, under a cloudless day in New York’s Central Park, Frank

Castle’s family was slaughtered in a mob crossfire.  On that day, the man known as Frank Castle died and in his

place was born the Punisher, a relentless engine of vengeance.  Five stories take an unflinching look at what

really happened that day, providing a penetrating look into the mass of hard muscle that once was Frank Castle’s

heart.  You won’t look at the Punisher the same way again.  Featuring Charlie Huston and Ken Lashley’s “Smallest

Bit of This”…Peter Milligan and Tomm Coker’s “Father’s Day”…“Gregg Hurwitz and Das Pastoras’ “Gateway” & Thomas

Piccirilli and Laurence Campell’s “Dolls”.
Also featuring an 8-page preview of Jason Aaron and Steve Dillon’s upcoming PUNISHER MAX #1, “The Kingpin.”
48 PGS./Explicit Content …$4.99

DOMINIC FORTUNE #3 (of 4)
Written by HOWARD CHAYKIN
Pencils & Cover by HOWARD CHAYKIN
“THE ‘IT CAN HAPPEN HERE, AND NOW’ RESOLUTION!” PART 3
The 1936 Berlin Olympics had its highs and lows—from Jesse Owens gold medals to Hitler addressing the crowd of

faithful followers and skeptical international visitors—but it’s Dominic Fortune’s action behind the scenes

around town that are the real newsmakers.  Between babysitting his out of control trio of Hollywood hotshots,

run-ins with the Gestapo, to uncovering the truth about the homegrown roots of an international conspiracy to

overthrow the United States government and replace it with a fascist dictatorship, Fortune’s got more than he

can handle…and the night is young.
32 PGS./Explicit Content …$3.99

STARR THE SLAYER #2 (of 5)
Written by DANIEL WAY
Pencils & Cover by RICHARD CORBEN
Starr the Slayer wasn’t the only fictional character that writer Len Carson created back in the day — he also

created Starr’s opposite number, the deceptive and demonic sorcerer Trull.  Using his black magic, Trull has

summoned Carson to the Realm of Zardath and bound him to a human host, making him his slave.  His task?  Destroy

Starr the Slayer! But even with Starr’s creator in his back pocket, Trull has his work cut out for him as Starr

grows stronger by the day, hardening both his body and his mind in the fierce and bloody Zardathian gladiatorial

arena!
32 PGS./Explicit Content …$3.99

CRIMINAL: The Sinners #2
By Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
FROM THE CREATORS OF INCOGNITO — THE AWARD-WINNING CRIME SERIES IS BACK!
One of the most award-winning and acclaimed comics series of the last several years continues – A special

artistic gut punch for longtime fans or those who’ve recently gotten hooked on Brubaker and Phillips hit series

INCOGNITO!
Made men are turning up dead in what appear to be mob-style hits, and since criminals don’t go to the cops for

justice, TRACY LAWLESS has been appointed the defacto “sheriff” of the criminal underworld by his boss,

Crimelord Sebastian Hyde.  But Tracy is the ultimate outsider, and the cons, murderers, and thieves don’t like

or trust him any more than the police do.
CRIMINAL: THE SINNERS #2
40 PGS/Mature Content/No ads…. $3.50

KABUKI: THE ALCHEMY TPB
Written by DAVID MACK
Penciled by DAVID MACK
Cover by DAVID MACK
Collecting all nine issues of the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award-nominated KABUKI: THE

ALCHEMY series from Marvel’s creator-owned Icon imprint! Readers have been waiting to get the newest KABUKI

story in paperback form, and this monster volume delivers with loads of extras – including the never-before-seen

original ending sequence cut from the single issues, new pages of art, a presentation of the original scripts,

remastered pages, new design pages, a commentary by the author, a « best of » letters section and more! A whopping

320 pages, this high-end paperback also features an introduction by Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk.
320 PGS./Rated T+ …$24.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-3250-9
Offered Again: KABUKI: REFLECTIONS #5-15

MARVEL MASTERWORKS: DOCTOR STRANGE VOL. 4 HC
Written by ROY THOMAS, GARDNER FOX, STAN LEE,
BARRY WINDSOR-SMITH & ARCHIE GOODWIN
Penciled by GENE COLAN, BARRY WINDSOR-SMITH,
FRANK BRUNNER, P. CRAIG RUSSELL, JIM STARLIN,
SAM KWESKIN, MARIE SEVERIN, HERB TRIMPE & DON HECK
Cover by BARRY WINDSOR-SMITH
The Master of the Mystic Arts, Dr. Stephen Strange once again descends into to the eldritch depths of adventure

in this amazing collection of Marvel Masterworks! Kicked off by Roy Thomas and the incomparable art team of Gene

Colan and Tom Palmer, the good doctor battles his greatest adversary, the towering cosmic presence of Eternity.

Although his solo series ends, Dr. Strange’s saga against the Undying Ones continues as he teams-up with Sub-

Mariner and the Incredible Hulk in a storyline that lays the seeds for the dynamic Defenders! Then, Stan “The

Man” Lee and Barry Windsor-Smith raise the Sorcerer Supreme to new heights of otherworldly glory in the all-time

classic Marvel Premiere series. Guided by Golden Age great Gardner Fox and a host of up-and-coming art talents

from Frank Brunner to P. Craig Russell, Dr. Strange runs a gauntlet of Lovecraftian horrors from the depths of

the ocean to the monoliths of Stonehenge in pursuit of Shuma-Gorath. After four volumes of Marvel-ous

Masterworks, Doc Strange is just getting started! Collecting
DOCTOR STRANGE #180-183, SUB-MARINER #22, INCREDIBLE

HULK #126, MARVEL FEATURE #1 & MARVEL
PREMIERE #3-8
280 PGS./All Ages …$54.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-3495-4
MARVEL MASTERWORKS: DOCTOR STRANGE VOL. 4 HC — VARIANT EDITION VOL. 130
280 PGS./All Ages …$54.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-3496-1

MARVEL MASTERWORKS:
ATLAS ERA JUNGLE ADVENTURE VOL. 1 HC
Written by DON RICO & VARIOUS
Penciled by WERNER ROTH with JIM MOONEY, JOHN BUSCEMA,
GEORGE TUSKA, SYD SHORES & JIMMY INFANTINO
Cover by CARL BURGOS
LEOPARD-PRINT NEVER LOOKED SO GOOD! Beginning the complete collection of Atlas’ action-packed 1950s jungle

adventure comics, the Marvel Masterworks venture into the oh, so attractive heart of darkness to meet Lorna, the

Jungle Queen! Her jungle-faring father mauled by a lion, the seventeen-year-old Lorna embraces her unexpected

new home – becoming a fierce and stunning girl of the wild and the last word in jungle justice! Trained in the

ways of the African wilderness by her mentor, M’Tuba, Lorna is joined by her ever-helpful monkey companion,

Mikki, and the bold, two-fisted hunter, Greg Knight. From the murky Black Swamp to the Dead Lake, the pre-Code

adventures of Lorna and her cast of characters find them pitted against vicious headhunters, voodoo priestesses,

killer cavemen from the Lost City, and Agu the Giant—a gorilla that could give King Kong a run for his money!

You’ll also enjoy the tale of two Lornas and stalk creatures both strange and fierce as Lorna uncovers all the

mysteries of the jungle. With lush artwork by Werner Roth at his career best, forget it, this is a jungle

adventure from which there’s no coming back. Get ready to go wild with ATLAS ERA JUNGLE ADVENTURES MASTERWORKS!

Collecting LORNA, THE JUNGLE QUEEN #1-5 & LORNA, THE JUNGLE GIRL #6-9
248 PGS./All Ages …$59.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-4190-7
MARVEL MASTERWORKS: ATLAS ERA JUNGLE ADVENTURE VOL. 1 HC — VARIANT EDITION VOL. 131
248 PGS./All Ages …$59.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-4191-4

MARVEL MASTERWORKS: THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN VOL. 3 TPB
Written by STAN LEE
Penciled by STEVE DITKO
Cover by STEVE DITKO & DEAN WHITE
There’s no Spidey like Stan Lee/Steve Ditko Spidey, and the MARVEL MASTERWORKS are here to prove it once again

with another heaping helping of webslinging wonderment! Teenage outcast and king of the wallflowers, Peter

Parker, may have the most amazing powers in the super-hero biz, but good luck coming up with more downsides than

this cat. Not only does his boss, J. Jonah Jameson consider him Public Enemy #1, he’s sending not just one, but

two villains after him—Mac Gargan, the Scorpion, and the vicious Spider-Slayer. And to add insult to injury, the

Human Torch one-ups him against the Beetle and the Circus of Crime offers a whole host of reasons to hate

peanuts. After that anybody’d need therapy, so Spidey hits the couch, and the couch hits right back with a

mysterious foe that’s going to give Parker’s complexes complexes! To make matters worse, the Green Goblin teams

up with the Crime-Master, Aunt May finds a certain red and blue costume, and the Molten Man makes high school

graduation a day to remember in Forest Hills, Queens. Top that off with a classic team-up between Lee and

Ditko’s greatest creations, Spidey and Dr. Strange, and you’ve got yourself a cover-to-cover classic! Collecting

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #20-30 & ANNUAL #2.
272 PGS./All Ages …$24.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-3696-5
MARVEL MASTERWORKS: THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN VOL. 3 TPB — VARIANT EDITION VOL. 10
272 PGS./All Ages …$24.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-3697-2

WOLVERINE: OLD MAN LOGAN HC
Written by MARK MILLAR
Penciled by STEVE MCNIVEN
Covers by STEVE MCNIVEN & MICHAEL TURNER
MARK MILLAR and STEVE MCNIVEN—who last teamed for the monumental CIVIL WAR—bring us the most important WOLVERINE

story of the 21st Century. Nobody knows what happened on the night the heroes fell. All we know is that they

disappeared and evil triumphed and the bad guys have been calling the shots ever since. What happened to

Wolverine is the biggest mystery of all. For 50 years, no one has heard hide nor hair from him…and in his place

stands an old man called Logan. A man concerned only about his family. A man pushed to the brink by the HULK

GANG. A man forced to help an old friend—the blind archer, HAWKEYE—to drive three thousand miles to secure his

family’s safety. Get ready for the ride of your life, Logan. Collecting WOLVERINE #66-72 & WOLVERINE GIANT-SIZE

OLD MAN LOGAN.
208 PGS./Parental Advisory …$34.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-3159-5
Trim size: oversized

WOLVERINE: OLD MAN LOGAN HC TURNER VARIANT
208 PGS./Parental Advisory …$34.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-4268-3

MARVEL ZOMBIES 4 HC
Written by FRED VAN LENTE
Penciled by KEV WALKER
Cover by ARTHUR SUYDAM
The acclaimed creative team behind MARVEL ZOMBIES 3 returns…with another adventure that takes place in the

Marvel U! The vampire. The witch. The werewolf. The muck-monster. The devil.  They’re nobody’s idea of heroes,

but they’re all that stands between our world and an unstoppable apocalypse! They’re the new Midnight Sons, and

their quest to track down the undead who escaped from A.R.M.O.R. will lead them around the globe—and right to a

cruise ship overrun with undead undersea-dwelling cannibals! Can this monstrous team stop the « red tide » before

it unleashes untold horror upon the mainland? Not if the Merc With Only a Mouth has anything to say about it!

Yes, writer Fred Van Lente and artist Kev Walker—the guys who made IGN.com say “MARVEL ZOMBIES 3 may actually

rank as the best in the series”—are back again, unleashing the flesh-eaters for another roller coaster ride of

gore, action, gore, thrills, gore and gore! Collecting MARVEL ZOMBIES 4 #1-4.
112 PGS./Parental Advisory …$19.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-3917-1
Trim size: oversized

TIMESTORM 2009/2099 HC
Written by BRIAN REED
Penciled by ERIC BATTLE
& WESLEY CRAIG
Cover by PAUL RENAUD
2009…meets 2099? Future history has been shattered by events in the present! If you think you know the heroes

and villains from Marvel’s dark future, writer Brian Reed (SECRET INVASION: CAPTAIN MARVEL) and artist Eric

Battle (Batman) say it’s time to think again! Get ready for the re-imagined 2099 versions of Spider-Man, Ghost

Rider, the X-Men and more! Collecting TIMESTORM 2009/2099 #1-4, TIMESTORM 2009/2099: X-MEN and TIMESTORM

2009/2099:
SPIDER-MAN.
144 PGS./Rated T+ …$24.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-3922-5
Trim size: oversized

ANITA BLAKE, VAMPIRE HUNTER: GUILTY PLEASURES –
THE COMPLETE COLLECTION HC
Written by LAURELL K. HAMILTON & JESSICA RUFFNER
Penciled by BRETT BOOTH & RON LIM
Cover by BRETT BOOTH
New York Times bestselling author Laurell. K. Hamilton offers readers a brand-new experience in the world of

Anita Blake! Fusing mythology, werewolves and vampires with a story loaded with mystery, action and romance, the

Anita Blake novels take place in a world where vampires, werewolves and other creatures of nightmare have been

declared legal citizens of the United States. Anita Blake is an “animator” – a profession that involves raising

the dead for a living. She is also known as a fearsome hunter of criminal vampires, and she moonlights by

investigating cases that are far too much for “conventional” police. But as Anita gains the attention of the

vampire masters in her hometown of St. Louis, she also risks revealing an intriguing secret about herself – the

source of her unusual strength and power. Collecting ANITA BLAKE, VAMPIRE HUNTER: GUILTY PLEASURES #1-12.
320 PGS./Parental Advisory …$34.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-4021-4
Trim size: oversized

SPIDER-MAN: AMERICAN SON PREMIERE HC
Written by JOE KELLY
Penciled by PHIL JIMENEZ, PAULO SIQUEIRA, MARCO CHECCHETTO
& DALE EAGLESHAM
Cover by PHIL JIMENEZ
Following immediately on the heels of “24/7”, Spider-Man’s world has become more messed-up and stressful than

ever and the fact that his biggest enemy, is in charge of the world…and the Avengers…is only the icing on a

really dangerous cake. Now faced with hard choices about family and friendship, Spider-Man knows exactly what he

has to do to save the world…it’s time
to take down Norman Osborn. Collecting AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #595-599 and

material from AMAZING SPIDER-MAN EXTRA! #3.
136 PGS./Rated A…$19.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-3870-9

MARVEL 1602: NEW WORLD/FANTASTICK FOUR
PREMIERE HC
Written by GREG PAK & PETER DAVID
Penciled by GREG TOCCHINI & PASCAL ALIXE
Cover by LEINIL FRANCIS YU
America, the New World! When Captain America was thrust back in time, it changed reality as we know it.

Dinosaurs still roam the earth, and the Marvel super heroes we know came to exist 500 years early. Witness David

Bruce Banner and Peter Parquagh become the Hulk and Spider-Man! Then in FANTASTICK FOUR, Doom returns! The Four

from the Fantastik’s greatest enemy has an insidious plan that takes them to the ends of the Earth! Peter David

takes the reins with superstar artist-to-be Pascal Alixe for the spin-off from Neil Gaiman’s 1602. What does

Doom want? Why doesn’t Invisible Woman want to fight him? And what does Shakespeare have to do with it?

Collecting MARVEL 1602: NEW WORLD #1-5 and MARVEL 1602: FANTASTICK FOUR #1-5.
240 PGS./Rated T+ …$24.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-4136-5
Trim size: standard
MARVEL 1602 PREMIERE HC STILL AVAILABLE!
$24.99 (ISBN: 978-0-7851-4135-8)

ULTIMATE WOLVERINE VS. HULK PREMIERE HC
Written by DAMON LINDELOF
Penciled by LEINIL FRANCIS YU
Cover by LEINIL FRANCIS YU
Damon Lindelof, co-creator of the hit TV series Lost teams with superstar artist Leinil Francis Yu to bring

their storytelling magic to a tale that will rock the Ultimate Universe! Dr. Bruce Banner has been presumed dead

since his execution, following his murderous rampage through Manhattan as the Hulk. But when reports start

cropping up of an unidentified creature appearing around the globe, Nick Fury begins to get worried. Not because

Banner can turn from man to unstoppable monster in seconds…but because Banner’s existence is the one secret

that can bring down Fury. Fury turns to the only man he can trust: Wolverine. And he’s only too glad to take

care of Banner—by any means necessary. Collecting ULTIMATE WOLVERINE VS. HULK #1-6.
144 PGS./Rated T+ …$24.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-4013-9
Trim size: standard

WOLVERINE NOIR PREMIERE HC
Written by STUART MOORE
Penciled by C.P. SMITH
Cover by DENNIS CALERO
The Bowery, 1937. Jim Logan, the fiercest knife expert in New York, runs a seedy detective agency called « LOGAN

& LOGAN »…along with his useless, halfwit brother, Dog. They’re the best they are at what they do. But when a

swanky dame named Mariko Yashida struts into the office, she opens up a world of hurt for Logan, forcing him to

revisit his painful, bloody past. Collecting WOLVERINE NOIR #1-4.
120 PGS./Parental Advisory …$19.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-3945-4
Trim size: standard

DARK WOLVERINE VOL. 1: THE PRINCE PREMIERE HC
Written by DANIEL WAY & MARJORIE LIU
Penciled by TOMMY LEE EDWARDS & GIUSEPPI CAMMONCOLI
Cover by LEINIL FRANCIS YU
Wolverine’s son, Daken, has finally emerged from the shadows, stepping out onto the main stage of the Marvel

Universe. As one of Norman Osborn’s Avengers, he has power, access, and an identity that he hates–his father’s.

This new Wolverine doesn’t know how long this will last, but one thing’s for sure: He’s going to have some fun

while it does. Volume also includes “ONE PERCENTER,” the two-part prelude to DARK WOLVERINE by Daniel Way and

Tommy Lee Edwards. Collecting DARK WOLVERINE #75-77 and the backup stories from WOLVERINE #73-74.
120 PGS./Parental Advisory …$24.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-3900-3
Trim size: standard

ANITA BLAKE, VAMPIRE HUNTER:
THE LAUGHING CORPSE BOOK 1 – ANIMATOR TPB
Written by LAURELL K. HAMILTON & JESSICA RUFFNER
Penciled by RON LIM
Cover by RON LIM
Adapting the second novel in Laurell K. Hamilton’s bestselling ANITA BLAKE series! St. Louis is a city of the

damned. The supernatural is commonplace, and the undead enjoy free rein. But whether warm- or cold-blooded, the

laws of man still apply — and nobody dispenses justice better than Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter! This time out, a

child’s parents are gruesomely slaughtered by an unknown entity. With the child missing and time running out for

his safe return, Anita is called in to lend her special expertise as an Animator — one who can raise the bodies

of the dead. But as she pursues the truth behind his abduction, she descends into a maelstrom of voodoo

mysticism and the many dark secrets of her foes, her friends and — inevitably — herself! THE LAUGHING CORPSE

continues the exploration of Hamilton’s inventive universe of vampires, werewolves, zombies and ghouls — and the

brave hunter who tries to keep them all in line! Collecting ANITA BLAKE: THE LAUGHING CORPSE – BOOK ONE #1-5.
120 PGS./Mature …$16.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-3527-2

MARVEL PREVIEWS #73
Each issue of MARVEL PREVIEWS is a comic-book-sized, 120-page, glossy full-color guide to all of Marvel’s

upcoming releases! Marvel Previews also includes special previews of upcoming or sold-out projects.
120 PGS./RATED T+…JUST $1.25!
(or free with a purchase of Diamond’s Previews!)
IN STORES 08/26/2009