MARVEL COMICS: October 2005 Collected Editions Solicits MONTHLY COMICS SPIDER-MAN FAMILY ONE SHOT Hail, hail the gang's all here! All your favorite folks who don the webs in one book for the FIRST TIME EVER! An old television program that features SPIDER-MAN and ARANA (with guest appearances by SPIDER-HAM and the SPIDER-MOBILE) returns to haunt SPIDER-GIRL in an 8-page original story. Also features MARVEL TAILS STARRING PETER PORKER THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-HAM #1 (November 1983), written by Tom DeFalco and illustrated by Mark Armstrong, in which Captain Americat and Spider-Ham investigate a video-arcade saboteur and run afoul of Hulk Bunny; SPIDER-WOMAN #20 (November 1979), written by Mark Gruenwald and illustrated by Frank Springer, featuring the first meeting between Spider-Woman and Spider-Man; and SPIDER-MAN 2099 #1 (November 1992), written by Peter David and illustrated by Rick Leonardi, where an all-new, all-different web-slinger is born as hot-shot geneticist Miguel O'Hara finds his genetic code merged with that of a spider's! Also features the first Untold Tale of Spider-Man as told by Kurt Busiek & Pat Oliffe! (100 pages, $4.99.) * * * MARVEL MILESTONES: BLADE, MAN-THING & SATANA Written by MARV WOLFMAN, STEVE GERBER & ROY THOMAS Penciled by GENE COLAN, VAL MAYERIK & JOHN ROMITA SR. Cover by GIL KANE His name is...Blade! A box-office phenom is born as the half-human, half-immortal vampire-slayer begins his quest to take back the night in TOMB OF DRACULA #10 (July 1973)! Plus: What evil lurks in the brackish waters of the swamp? See for yourself in ADVENTURE INTO FEAR #16 (September 1973), the story that inspired the MAN-THING movie! And introducing Satana, from VAMPIRE TALES #2 (October 1973). (48 pages, $3.99.) HARDCOVERS POWERS VOL. 1 HC (Resolicited) You asked for it, and now here it is: THE FIRST-EVER POWERS HARDCOVER! But not only is it a hardcover...it's a hardcover collection of the entire first year of POWERS in chronological order! The first three epic POWERS stories, issues #1-11, are presented in order of publication for the very first time -remastered, redesigned and reformatted! Plus all the POWERS bonus features you've come to know and love: sketchwork, scripts, interviews, galleries, original designs and a POWERS collection first - a Best of the Letter Column, Year One! This is where the story begins! A must-have for your comic library! (488 pages, $29.99.) * * * STOKER'S DRACULA: MPE HC Writer: Roy Thomas. Artist: Dick Giordano. Thirty years later, comics legends Roy Thomas and Dick Giordano reunite to complete their unfinished adaptation of Bram Stoker's classic tale of vampire horror, Dracula! Originally serialized in Marvel horror magazines Vampire Tales and Legion of Monsters, their meticulous retelling of Bram Stoker's tale of Gothic horror has been found in the Marvel tombs, and will at last be unleashed upon the daylight! Collects Stoker's Dracula #1-4. (192 pages, black and white, $24.99.) * * * YOUNG AVENGERS VOL. 1: SIDEKICKS MPE HC Writer: Allan Heinberg. Artist: Jim Cheung. In the wake of Avengers Disassembled, a mysterious new group of teen super-heroes appears. But who are they? Where did they come from? And what right do they have to call themselves the Young Avengers? (144 pages, $21.99.) * * * MARVEL VISIONARIES: JOHN ROMITA, JR. HC Celebrating the art of John Romita, Jr., a legend in his own right, on the anniversary of his first work on Amazing Spider-Man! Tony Stark battles alcoholism! Spider-Man battles the Juggernaut through the streets of New York! The dawn of a New Universe! Daredevil and Kingpin celebrate Christmas! The Punisher joins the Mafia! Also featuring the Hulk, Magneto, Professor X, a masterful retelling of Daredevil's origin, and more! Collects stories from Amazing Spider-Man #229-230, #36, Annual #11; Iron Man #128, 256; Uncanny X-Men #183, 309; Star Brand #1; Daredevil #253; Punisher War Zone #1; Daredevil: Man Without Fear #1-2; and Hulk #25 and 34. (360 pages, $29.99.) * * * NYX/X-23 HC Writer: Zeb Wells. Artist: Josh Middleton, Billy Tan, Jonathan Sibal. X-23 Vol. 1: Innocence Lost reveals the full story behind the origin of X-23 - who she is, where she came from and the exact nature of her relationship to Wolverine. You think you know, but you have no idea. In NYX Vol. 1: Wannabe, X-23 joins up with a pack of New York City gutterpunks, the likes of which the Marvel Universe has never seen! The X-Men's dream has always been one of creating hope from despair - in a young mutant's darkest hour Charles Xavier will always be just around the corner, ready with open arms and a helping hand. But Xavier can't be everywhere at once. What becomes of a group of young mutants that have to rely on themselves for everything from food to shelter to love? Wayward angels with dirty faces who, instead of preparing for Magneto's next big assault, must learn to survive in the cold, harsh world of the city that never sleeps. The world of the X-Men is brought to the streets, and the struggle for survival has never been more uncertain…Collects X-23 #1-6 and NYX #1-7. (352 pages, $34.99.) * * * MARVEL MASTERWORKS: MIGHTY THOR VOL. 4 Holy Mjolnir, True Believer! 'Tis time for another monolithic masterpiece of Mighty Thor mania! And how! We lieth not, we're preparing an assaulting assemblage of Asgardian artifacts as only Stan and Jack could articulate them. Featuring the one and only Thunder God in tales that put the cosmic in comics. It all kicks off with a slobbernocker of knock-down, drag-out proportions with the Absorbing Man in the very halls of Asgard! While in the outskirts of outer Mongolia (yes, that far out) a Demon powered by a mystic Norn stone dwells. Thor may be able to handle this mystical miscreant, but how will he fare in a toe-to-toe with the Prince of Power, Hercules- especially when the All-Father Odin has cut the Thunder God's power in half? All we'll say is it's safer than betting on the ponies! It all leads to a battle of epic proportions that takes the Thunder God to the depths of the Underworld itself to fight the legions of Pluto! And lest we forget the titanic Tales of Asgard! Nay, we dare not! Prepare yourself to learn the secrets of Ragnarok and more. Collects Journey Into Mystery #121-125 and Thor (Vol. 1) #126-130. (240 pages, REG = $49.99 / VAR = $54.99.) TRADE PAPERBACKS X-MEN: COMPLETE AGE OF APOCALYPSE BOOK 2 TPB See your favorite mutants through a dark glass as the epic that literally rebuilt the X-Men in eight miniseries and more contnues! Apocalypse has conquered half of humankind and is ready to destroy them all! Magneto and his Amazing X-Men fight to protect humans and mutants alike, only to learn from Bishop (now on his THIRD reality and counting) that his world might need to be unmade! Collects: X-Men: Alpha, Age of Apocalypse: The Chosen, Generation Next #1, Astonishing X-Men Vol. 1 #1, X-Calibre #1, Gambit and the X-Ternals #1-2, Weapon X Vol. 1 #1-2, Amazing X-Men #1-2, Factor X #1-2, and X-Men #1. (376 pages, $29.99.) * * * VISION: YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW TPB Written by Geoff Johns Pencils by Ivan Reis The android Avenger goes solo! His memories downloaded and stolen, a partially amnesiac Vision must seek help from the reluctant granddaughter of his creator, Professor Phineas T. Horton, to defeat a technological terror programmed by the Nazis during WWII to cause fear and death from the skies. Created using technology stolen from Professor Horton, the newly escaped Gremlin will not be denied its mission in the present day - even if it must reprogram and erase the Vision's very humanity in the process! Collects Avengers Icons: The Vision #1-4 - plus "Behold the Vision," the spooky synthezoid's fantastic first appearance from Avengers #57, written by Roy Thomas and penciled by John Buscema! (120 pages, $14.99.) ESSENTIALS ESSENTIAL WEREWOLF BY NIGHT VOL. 1 Written by Gerry Conway, Tony Isabella, Doug Mench, Len Wein and Marv Wolfman Pencils by Mike Ploog, Ross Andru, Gene Colan, Gil Kane and more Whether they came at him in committee, cult or carnival, no nemesis was a match for Marvel's highest-ranking horror hero! With some of the most scintillating supernaturalism served out by the seventies! Guest-starring the hero who goes with everything, Spider-Man! Introducing Topaz of Witches! Plus: the deeds of Dracula, the transformation of Tigra, and the ever-popular MORE! Collects Marvel Spotlight #2-4, Werewolf By Night #1-21, Marvel Team-Up #12, Tomb of Dracula #18, and Giant-Size Creatures #1. (576 pages, $16.99.)