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MARVEL COMICS: February 2006 Collected Editions Solicits
MONTHLY COMICS OF INTEREST
MARVEL ROMANCE REDUX: Written by KEITH GIFFEN, JIMMY PALMIOTTI, JOHN LUSTIG & ROGER LANGRIDGE Penciled by JOHN BUSCEMA, JACK KIRBY, GENE COLAN & DICK GIORDANO Cover by KEITH GIFFEN The master of irreverence, Keith Giffen joins forces with LAST KISS genius John Lustig, FIN FANG FOUR's Roger Langridge and jumpin' Jimmy Palmiotti to give some old love songs a new soundtrack. With art by some of the industries greatest, this blast from the past promises not to tug at your heart strings so much as tickle your funny bone. 32 PGS./All Ages ...$2.99
MARVEL MILESTONES: Written by MARV WOLFMAN, STEVE DITKO, TOM DEFALCO, ROGER STERN & STAN LEE Penciled by STEVE DITKO Cover by FRANK MILLER Who - or what - is the Wani? And can Tako Shamara, latest in the line of men trained to combat the creature, stay its wrath? It's a question of honor as the Dragon Lord debuts in MARVEL SPOTLIGHT #5 (March 1980). Plus: A colorful new bouncing, brawling crimebuster bursts forth in in SPEEDBALL #1 (September 1988). Also featuring "The Man in the Sky" from AMAZING ADULT FANTASY #14 (July 1962) - the first Marvel mutant story!? 48 PGS./RATED T+ ...$3.99 MARVEL LEGACY: THE 1960s HANDBOOK Written by JEFF "THE REF" CHRISTIANSEN, "METICULOUS" MICHAEL HOSKIN, "SUREFIRE" SEAN MCQUAID, "ALLEGORICAL" AL SJOERDSMA, "RETRO" RONALD BYRD, "MADCAP" MARK O'ENGLISH, "STALWART" STUART VANDAL, "MYSTICAL" MIKE FICHERA, "BOMBASTIC" BARRY REESE, "EXUBERENT" ERIC MOREELS & "ANTAGONISTIC" ANTHONY FLAMINI Cover by "OUR PAL" SAL BUSCEMA Here it is, True Believers! You knew we'd do it sooner or later! From the Venerable Vaults of Marveldom, it's the Mighty Marvel Handbook -- 1960s style! Just what is the 1960s Handbook, you ask? Imagine a Handbook written at 11:59 p.m. Dec. 31, 1969. The profiles within cover everything published by the hallowed House of Ideas up until that point. So if it's from a comic that has a December 1969 cover date or earlier, you'll find it in this magnificent mag! From the Acrobat to Zota -- with the Avengers, Captain America, Captain Marvel, Daredevil, Dr. Strange, the Fantastic Four, the Hulk, the Silver Surfer, Spider-Man, the Sub-Mariner, Thor and the X-Men as they were in the 1960s, as well as '60s-era characters such as Factor Three, the Beasts of Berlin, Chili, the Infant Terrible, Mogul of the Mystic Mountain, the Painter of 1000 Perils, the Living Brain, Patsy Walker, the Blackie Drago Vulture, the Ringo Kid and more! 64 PGS. NO ADS/RATED T+ ...$4.99 GIANT-SIZE MS. MARVEL #1 Written by BRIAN REED Pencils & Cover by ROB De La TORRE Featuring Classic Reprints by ROY THOMAS, GERRY CONWAY, CHRIS CLAREMONT, GIL KANE, JOHN BUSCEMA & DAVE COCKRUM The female fury fights back! Re-presenting Ms. Marvel's earliest adventures, this Giant-Size issue also includes an all-new, 16-page story written by Brian Reed (SPIDER-WOMAN: ORIGIN). It's your best bet to prepare for Ms. Marvel's new ongoing series from Reed and hot new penciler Rob DeLatorre, hitting stands next month! See how it all began: Exposed to the energies of the alien Psyche-Magnitron, a bold new super heroine is born in CAPTAIN MARVEL #18 (November 1969). Witness the woman warrior's untold secret origin, even as she fights alone against the Scorpion and the Destructor, in MS. MARVEL #1-2 (January-February 1977). And a new era of greatness begins as Ms. Marvel gets new costume, and faces the lethal lizards from below, in MS. MARVEL #20 (October 1978). 96 PGS./T+ SUGGESTED FOR TEENS AND UP ...$4.99 HARDCOVERS SECRET WAR HC Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS Pencils & Cover by GABRIELLE DELL'OTTO Starring Wolverine, Spider-Man, Daredevil, Captain America, Black Widow, Luke Cage and more! Brian Michael Bendis, the most popular and acclaimed writer in comics, reveals the darkest chapter in Marvel Universe history! When Nick Fury discovers a disturbing connection between many of Marvel's deadliest villains, he assembles a ragtag team of the MU's most misunderstood heroes for a secret mission to do what the U.S. government could never allow - eventually leading to a super-powered blowout between a who's who of NYC heroes and mutants! Featuring the American debut of the stunning, fully painted work of Italian artist Gabrielle Dell'otto. Collects SECRET WAR #1-5 and SECRET WAR: FROM THE FILES OF NICK FURY. 256 PGS./RATED T+ ...$29.99
MARVEL MONSTERS HC Written by STEVE NILES, ERIC POWELL, TOM SNEIGOSKI, ROGER LANGRIDGE, MICK GRAY, PETER DAVID, JEFF PARKER & KEITH GIFFEN Penciled by DUNCAN FEGRADO, ERIC POWELL, MARK FARMER, ROGER LANGRIDGE, ARNOLD PANDER, RUSSELL BRAUN & KEITH GIFFEN Cover by ERIC POWELL Marvel's monsters unleashed in four timeless tales by today's hottest creators! In MONSTERS ON THE PROWL, it's the Hulk, the Thing, Giant-Man and the Beast vs. a tidal wave of classic creatures when the Collector inadvertently lets loose Droom, Grogg, Goom, Rombuu, Grattu and more on New York City! In DEVIL DINOSAUR, two young Celestials debate prehistoric Earth's superior life form. But when the ferocity of Devil Dinosaur proves no match for the opposition, a savage from the future is brought back for a battle you thought you'd never see: Hulk vs. Devil Dino! In FIN FANG FOUR, four giant monsters - incarcerated for years for their crimes against humanity - now find themselves shrunk to human size and working at the home of the very people who captured them: the Fantastic Four! Meet Googam, Son of Goom; Elektro; Gorgilla; and Fin Fang Foom! But when Goom's mad plan to rescue his father goes awry, the quartet must put aside their differences and become - the Fin Fang Four! And in WHERE MONSTERS DWELL, witness the terror of Monstrollo, the horror of Manoo and the fright of Bombu! Also collects classic stories from TALES TO ASTONISH #1, JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #62, STRANGE TALES #89 and TALES TO ASTONISH #10 - and the MARVEL MONSTERS: FROM THE FILES OF ULYSSES BLOODSTONE (AND THE MONSTER HUNTERS) handbook!
216 PGS./RATED T+ ...$20.99 MARVEL MASTERWORKS: SGT. FURY VOL. 1 Written by STAN LEE Penciled by JACK KIRBY & DICK AYERS Cover by JACK KIRBY WHA-HOOO! It's time for Marvel's first-ever war Masterworks with tales of Sgt. Nick Fury and his Howlin' Commandos in thick of ol' WWII! And for the icing on the cake, it's a titanic team-up of the mighty talents of Sgt. Stan Lee and Infantryman Jack Kirby! That's a pair storytellers so explosive you better make sure you keep your lid on when you read this one, soldier! Prepare yourself for drama, intrigue, humor and action galore as Fury, Dum Dum Dugan and the rest of the Howlers as they battle more Nazis than you can shake a bayonet at, team-up with Captain America and Bucky, battle the nefarious Baron Strucker and Zemo, and set out to capture Adolf Hitler himself! With a pedigree like that, get off your duff and reserve your copy today, goldbrick! That's an order! Collecting SGT. FURY #1-13 320 PGS./All Ages ...$49.99 VARIANT EDITION:
320 PGS./All Ages ...$54.99 PUNISHER MAX VOL. 2 HC Written by GARTH ENNIS Penciled by DOUGIE BRAITHWAITE & LEANDRO FERNANDEZ Cover by TIM BRADSTREET Locked and loaded with a bevy of bonus material, this deluxe hardcover collects PUNISHER MAX VOL. 3: MOTHER RUSSIA and PUNISHER MAX VOL. 4: UP IS DOWN AND BLACK IS WHITE. In MOTHER RUSSIA, Nicky Fury's got an assignment that needs doing. It's the kind of suicide mission any sane person wouldn't ponder for a second. And there's only one man for the job: the Punisher. Searching for a deadly retrovirus whose sale on the black market could bring the world to its knees, Frank Castle penetrates a Russian nuclear silo...and comes face-to-face with the Mongolian! And in UP IS DOWN AND BLACK IS WHITE, mobster Nicky Cavella finally figures out how you take down the Punisher. How you get under his skin. How you send Frank Castle over the edge. But when Cavella's scheme unleashes a wave of violence that rocks New York to its core, other predators start to come out of the darkness. There are scores to be settled. Blood to be spilled. When the world turns upside-down, will the killing and carnage ever end? Can even the Punisher go too far...? Collects PUNISHER #13-24. 296 PGS./PARENTAL ADVISORY ...$29.99
TRADE PAPERBACKS POWERS VOL. 9: PSYCHOTIC TPB Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS Art & Cover by MICHAEL AVON OEMING Detective Deena Pilgrim is holding a dark secret, one destroying her life at every turn. This collection features each and every life-changing moment that climaxes in the triple-sized 50th-issue anniversary special. No comic book dares go anywhere near where the Eisner Award-winning POWERS has gone with this story. A must have! This gold-standard collection features exclusive behind-the-scenes material, a career-retrospective interview with Bendis and Oeming, and the very special anniversary letter column. 200 PGS./MATURE ...$19.95
ULTIMATE X-MEN VOL. 13: MAGNETIC NORTH TPB Written by BRIAN K. VAUGHAN Pencils & Cover by STUART IMMONEN Emma Frost, Alex Summers and the X-Men's greatest enemy star in an epic new storyline! When teenage mutant Lorna Dane accidentally commits a horrific crime, will the X-Men protect her, or leave her to the fury of S.H.I.E.L.D.? Collects ULTIMATE X-MEN #61-65. 120 PGS./RATED A ...$12.99
HOUSE OF M TPB Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS Pencils & Cover by OLIVIER COIPEL THE MARVEL EVENT OF THE DECADE IS COLLECTED HERE! The Avengers and the X-Men are faced with a common foe that becomes their greatest threat: Wanda Maximoff! The Scarlet Witch is out of control, and the fate of the entire world is in her hands. Will Magneto help his daughter or use her powers to his own benefit? Starring the Astonishing X-Men and the New Avengers! You know how sometimes you hear the phrase: AND NOTHING WILL EVER BE THE SAME AGAIN? Well, this time believe it, buster! NOTHING WILL EVER BE THE SAME AGAIN! Collects HOUSE OF M #1-8 and THE PULSE SPECIAL EDITION. 216 PGS./RATED T+ ...$24.99
HOUSE OF M: FANTASTIC FOUR/IRON MAN TPB Written by GREG PAK & JOHN LAYMAN Penciled by PAT LEE & SCOT EATON Two titanic tales of suspense spinning out of HOUSE OF M! The Fantastic Four as you never could have imagined them! The trusted advisor at Magneto's right hand is almost certainly the second most powerful man in the world. But the question is...will second-best be enough for Victor Von Doom? Plus: Tony Stark is the smartest, most successful Sapien on the planet - the best and brightest of a dying species. Does it bother him that the House of M uses the technology produced by his multi-billion-dollar company to keep Sapiens down? That must be the reason he keeps his most powerful creation a secret - a familiar-looking suit of armor! Collects FANTASTIC FOUR: HOUSE OF M #1-3 and IRON MAN: HOUSE OF M #1-3. 144 PGS./RATED T+ ...$13.99
HOUSE OF M: INCREDIBLE HULK TPB Written by PETER DAVID Penciled by JORGE LUCAS & ADAM KUBERT Cover by ANDY BRASE In the Australian outback, Bruce Banner has found a peace he's never known among a tribe of Aborigines. But when their safety is threatened by a battle between a sect of AIM and the ruling totalitarian mutant government, the Hulk is forced to intervene in a BIG way. A HOUSE OF M tie-in as the aforementioned "House" discovers that there is one mortal in all the world who can stand against it, and he's drawing an incredible line in the sand, setting a stage for an unprecedented showdown. The Hulk like you've never seen him before! Collects INCREDIBLE HULK #83-87. 120 PGS./RATED T+ ...$13.99
HOUSE OF M: MUTOPIA X TPB Written by DAVID HINE Penciled by LAN MEDINA Cover by ANDY PARK Lights, camera, terrorists! Special investigator of human and mutant affairs Ismael Ortega teams up with ordinary cop Lucas Bishop to take down terrorists from the Human Resistance Movement, beginning with a plot to kill hundreds by sabotaging a glamorous movie premiere! Plus: Ismael's daughter, Chamayra, prepares to take part in the Rite of Transcendence, a ritual that unleashes the untapped mutant potential in children! Collects MUTOPIA X #1-5. 120 PGS./RATED T+ ...$13.99 HOUSE OF M: NEW X-MEN TPB Written by NUNZIO DEFILIPPIS & CHRISTINA WEIR Pencils & Cover by AARON LOPRESTI When orders come down that a leader of the human resistance in Japan must be assassinated, S.H.I.E.L.D.'s highly trained Hellions squad is called in to do it. But when a team of future mutant leaders - the New Mutants - find out about this, they must intervene to put an end to a guaranteed disaster of global portions! Collects NEW X-MEN: ACADEMY X #16-19 and selections from SECRETS OF THE HOUSE OF M. 128 PGS./RATED A ...$13.99 HOUSE OF M: SPIDER-MAN TPB Written by MARK WAID & TOM PEYER Pencils & Cover by SALVADOR LARROCA Meet Spider-Man - hero to the people, champion of the weak and oppressed... and World Wrestling Alliance Championship Titleholder?! Peter Parker has it all: respect, fame and the adoration of all. But he also has a deep, destructive secret that he keeps from the world and from his family - one that could well unravel the reality he knows! Collects SPIDER-MAN: HOUSE OF M #1-5. 120 PGS./RATED A ...$13.99
HOUSE OF M: UNCANNY X-MEN TPB Written by CHRIS CLAREMONT Penciled by ALAN DAVIS & CHRIS BACHALO Cover by ALAN DAVIS The return of Captain Britain! Brian Braddock is released from his duties as protector of the Omniverse to deal with a threat of even greater proportions-as if that was even possible! Meanwhile, Pyslocke and Rachel find themselves trapped in a situation with no way out! Collects UNCANNY X-MEN #462-465 and selections from SECRETS OF THE HOUSE OF M. 128 PGS./RATED T+ ...$13.99 HOUSE OF M: WORLD OF M FEATURING WOLVERINE TPB Written by Reginald HUDLIN, ED BRUBAKER, FABIEN NICIEZA, BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS & DANIEL WAY Penciled by TREVOR HAIRSINE, LEE WEEKS, TOM GRUMMETT, PATRICK ZIRCHER, MICHAEL LARK, JAVIER SATARES & MARK TEXEIRA Cover by OLIVIER COIPEL Explore the people and places of the World of M! In BLACK PANTHER, a United Africa - ruled over by Storm and T'Challa - has become an economic powerhouse and a thorn in Magneto's side. When Storm speaks out about the persistence of supremacist notions in the mutant-controlled world, a furious Magneto is determined to stop her at any cost. In CAPTAIN AMERICA, see Steve Rogers move from the '40s to the present day - bearing witness to a changing landscape, and watching as man becomes the minority and mutant the ruler. And in THE PULSE, HOUSE OF M mastermind Brian Michael Bendis peels a shocking layer off the mystery of the Marvel Universe that no AVENGERS fan (old or new) dare miss! Collects WOLVERINE #33-35, BLACK PANTHER #7, CAPTAIN AMERICA #10 and THE PULSE #10. 144 PGS./RATED T+ ...$13.99 NIGHTCRAWLER: THE WINDING WAY TPB Written by ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SACASA Pencils & Cover by DARICK ROBERTSON BAMF! Nightcrawler's back, but for how long?! As a badly injured Kurt lies on the brink of death, moments of his life flash before his eyes. Unfortunately, these memories are not how he remembered. Is his past a lie? Could the sins of his murderous brother be paid for by Nightcrawler? Or is Kurt actually responsible for atrocities even he finds unspeakable?! Collects NIGHTCRAWLER #7-12. 144 PGS./RATED T+ ...$14.99 EXILES VOL. 12: WORLD TOUR BOOK 1 TPB Written by TONY BEDARD Pencils & Cover by PAUL PELLETIER The Exiles return to prime earth, only to find it not so prime anymore. So not only do the Exiles have House of M to deal with, they have to face the most powerful mutant on the planet! Collects EXILES #69-74. 144 PGS./RATED A ...$16.99 MARVEL ROMANCE TPB Written by STAN LEE, GARY FRIEDRICH & MORE Penciled by DICK GIORDANO, JACK KIRBY, GRAY MORROW, SOL BRODSKY & MORE Cover by JACK KIRBY MY LOVE. TEEN-AGE ROMANCE. LOVE ROMANCE. Picking up a theme? The romance genre spanned nearly half a century, and now Marvel's picked some of its best from the sixties and seventies! "It Happened at Woodstock!" "My Heart Broke in Hollywood!" "Love on the Rebound!" Featuring Smart Styles and Heavenly Hairdos with Patsy Walker in a pre-Hellcat tale! Collects LOVE ROMANCE #89 and #101-104; MY LOVE #2, #14, #16 and #18-20; TEEN-AGE ROMANCE #77 and #84; OUR LOVE STORY #5; and PATSY WALKER #119. 176 PGS./All Ages ...$19.99 AVENGERS: GALACTIC STORM VOL. 1 TPB Written by BOB HARRAS, TOM DEFALCO, MARK GRUENWALD, GERARD JONES, LEN KAMINSKI & ROY THOMAS Penciled by GREG CAPULLO, STEVE EPTING, JEFF JOHNSON, STEPHEN B. JONES, RIK LEVINS, DAVE ROSS, PAUL RYAN & RURIK TYLER Cover by STEVE EPTING The Kree are one of the Fantastic Four's oldest enemies; the Shi'ar, one of the X-Men's oldest allies. But it's the Avengers who are caught in the middle when the two alien races wage a war to re-write Marvel's map of the universe! As two-legged WMDs land on Earth, the Avengers end up as alien invaders on wartorn worlds of wonder, both as a unit and individually! Featuring the Imperial Guard! Starforce! Deathbird! Thor vs. Gladiator! Super heroes from three galaxies and more clash in the first half of the story that shook the team to its foundations! Collects CAPTAIN AMERICA #398-399, AVENGERS WEST COAST #80-81, QUASAR #32-33, WONDER MAN #7-8, AVENGERS #345-346, IRON MAN #278 and THOR #445. 280 PGS./RATED T+ ...$29.99 DIGESTS ARANA VOL. 3: NIGHT OF THE HUNTER DIGEST Written by FIONA AVERY Penciled by ROGER CRUZ, FRANCIS PORTELA & JONBOY MEYERS Cover by TAKESHI MIYAZAWA Exactly what happened to Araña's mother before she disappeared all those years ago? Startling new information on her family's past spurs Anya to launch her own personal investigation. Will history be too painful to bear? Meanwhile, the evil Sisterhood of the Wasp hosts a summit of fiends, rogues and villains so big that Araña just might have to crash the party! Hopefully, she can get a few roundhouse kicks in before someone calls the cops! Collects ARANA #7-12. 144 PGS./RATED A ...$7.99
ESSENTIALS ESSENTIAL MOON KNIGHT VOL. 1 TPB Written by DOUG MOENCH, BILL MANTLO, STEVEN GRANT & FRANK MILLER Penciled by DON PERLIN, MIKE ZECK, JIM MOONEY, JIM CRAIG, PABLO MARCUS, GENE COLAN, KEITH POLLARD, BILL SIENKIEWICZ, HERB TRIMPE & MIKE ESPOSITO Cover by BILL SIENKIEWICZ Debuting as both enemy and ally of the Werewolf by Night, Moon Knight's three personalities equaled one eerie adventure after another by Moench, Miller and more! Earning enemies like the brutal Bushman and the macabre Morpheus early in his career, Moon Knight also teamed up with Spider-Man, the Thing, and others against well-known and forgotten villains alike! Spun by Cyclone! Caught by Crossfire! Plus: an early fight with the Purple Man alongside Luke Cage! Featuring Topaz from WITCHES and the original White Tiger! Includes black-and-white stories not reprinted in more than two decades! Collects WEREWOLF BY NIGHT #32-33, MARVEL SPOTLIGHT #28-29, PETER PARKER, SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN #22-23, MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE #52, HULK MAGAZINE #11-15, 17-18 & 20, MARVEL PREVIEW #21, MOON KNIGHT #1-12 and MARVEL TEAM-UP ANNUAL #4. 528 PGS./RATED T+ ...$16.99 ESSENTIAL PETER PARKER, THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN VOL. 2 TPB Written by BILL MANTLO, TOM DEFALCO, ROGER STERN, STEVE LEIALOHA, MARV WOLFMAN, TONY ISABELLA, MARIE SEVERIN, RALPH MACCHIO & DAVID KRAFT Penciled by JIM MOONEY, FRANK SPRINGER, LEE ELIAS, MIKE ESPOSITO, SAL BUSCEMA, CHIC STONE, JOHN ROMITA JR., MIKE ZECK, MARIE SEVERIN, STEVE LEIALOHA, AL GORDON, BRUCE PATTERSON, RICK LEONARDI, LUKE MCDONNELL, JIM SHOOTER, JOHN BYRNE, ED HANNIGAN, RICH BUCKLER, JIM SHERMAN & ALAN WEISS Cover by AL MILGROM "Spectacular" isn't just the title as Spider-Man's college years are augmented by authorial and illustrative excellence! Enemies old and new, recurring and rare, line up to teach the web-slinger plenty -- but will he become his own worst enemy as the sinister Spider-Lizard? Robots, killer bees, living hallucinations and more! Guest-starring the Human Torch and the White Tiger! Plus: the surprising first appearance of the hero-hater who'll happen into being the Hobgoblin! Collects SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN #32-53 and ANNUALS #1-2, and AMAZING SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL #13. 592 PGS./RATED A ...$16.99
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