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Spider-Man: Wanted: Dead or Alive
Craig Shaw Gardner - 1998
This makes the web-slinger the perfect target for anti-super hero mayoral candidate Brian Timilty. However, Timilty is secretly the pawn of Tyler Stewart, a wealthy businessman seeking to take over New York's crime syndicates. Wanted by police and forced into hiding, Spider-Man must find a way to clear his name without being shot on sight. And that's when Electro and Rhino -- two of his deadliest foes -- arrive on the scene to complicate matters ...
Spider-Man: Down These Mean Streets
Keith R.A. DeCandido - 2005
For high school science teacher Peter Parker, Triple X's onslaught on some of his students and his wife's professional life is as dangerous as it is unexpected. For Peter's secret alter-ego, the costumed crime-fighter known to the world as Spider-Man, the situation quickly accelerates from bad to worse, as the drug's effects run unchecked against law enforcement's and his own valiant efforts to rein in the city-wide chaos. But there is a growing consensus between Spider-Man and the police that, for reasons yet unknown, one of the arachnid's most fearsome enemies may be behind it all as part of a greater scheme to bring the city -- and one of its most heroic and hated defenders -- to its knees at long last...
Spider-Man: Carnage in New York
David Michelinie - 1995
Now, Kasady can transform himself into Carnage, who, along with his lethal living costume, lives for chaos and random acts of senseless, brutal murder! Carnage has been returned to New York in chains, the subject of a daring attempt to reverse the effects of his metamorphosis. When the interference of a deranged scientist causes the experiment to go horribly wrong, Carnage is set loose upon the city once again! It's up to Spider-Man to stop his deadliest foe before he unleases... Carnage in New York.
Wolverine: Election Day
Peter David - 2008
But all bets are off when a heinous act of domestic terrorism results in a young boy being held hostage before the eyes of America...with the ultimate demands to result in nothing short of changing the face of history. As a nationwide investigation into the boy's possible whereabouts is quickly mobilized, military brass requests that the mutant Wolverine become involved as well -- there's simply no one more qualified with the tracking skills and vicious talent necessary to uncover the truth, even as the country threatens to descend into chaos....
Road of Bones
David W. Mack - 2006
A skeleton sheathed in indestructible metal. Unbreakable claws that can cut through almost anything. And a "mutant healing factor" that can mend virtually any wound. His friends call him Logan. The X-Men call him Wolverine. While visiting Japan, Logan is recruited to recover a stolen experimental drug, one that has the potential to be a true miracle cure for all human disease -- or a sadistic means of enslaving the world. With every hour bringing mankind closer to tragedy, Logan embarks on a daring mission to identify the thieves and thwart their terrifying agenda. From the back alleys of Tokyo to the smugglers' coves of Brazil, from the opulent palaces of St. Petersburg to the war-torn villages of Africa, Logan's quest takes him from one deadly setting to the next. But his desperate last stand will test the limits of his abilities -- and his courage -- like never before.
X-Men: Empire's End
Diane Duane - 1997
Beset by panicked people and several assassination attempts, Empress Lilandra must call upon the X-Men for their assistance -- for the galaxy eater will target Earth next. But the price for stopping the creature may be higher than the X-Men expect. They must use a device that increases their powers a thousand-fold to drive the creature back. A process that could destroy them... or make them insane with power! Based on the Marvel characters the X-Men
X-Men: Smoke and Mirrors
Eluki bes Shahar - 1997
Now, ground-breaking research has revealed a method for reversing the genetic mutation responsible for mutant powers--whether the mutant wants it reversed or not.The U.S. government wants to use this procedure to eliminate the so-called "mutant menace" once and for all--but the X-Men soon learn that the true source of the procedure is their old enemy, Sinister! And his agenda is far more complex, and dangerous, than even the X-Men can imagine...
Wolverine: Violent Tendencies
Marc Cerasini - 2007
Now the man known only as Logan has been forever transformed into "Weapon X" -- an unstoppable, indestructible killing machine, a bringer of mayhem with retractable harder-than-diamond-steel claws and the ability to recover from any wound.It has been months since Logan escaped the secret research complex in the Canadian Rockies where he was held captive, breaking through punishing psychological conditioning, slaughtering all those who stood in his way, and fleeing into the wilderness. Now, at the clandestine agency known as Department K, the director of the Weapon X program decides it's time to reclaim the most successful experiment for his group. But before Weapon X is to be brought in, the director opts to present Logan with a few more challenges to see how this modern-day Frankenstein's monster has adapted to its new abilities...and magnifies the intensity of external threat in order to gauge Logan's full potential....
X-Men/Doctor Doom: The Chaos Engine
Steven A. Roman - 2000
Led by their teacher, Professor Charles Xavier, the X-Men are dedicated to protecting humanity from the forces of chaos, hoping to one day rid the world of an even greater darkness?the prejudice that has made them outcasts. Returning from another dimension, the X-Men discover that Earth is now ruled by one of the most notorious tyrants the world has ever known?Doctor Doom. Far more disturbing than the police state in which they find themselves, however, is the fact that some of the world's greatest Super Heroes?including the X-Men's closest friends?have allied themselves with the legendary villain.Searching for answers, hunted by old enemies and former allies, the mutant adventurers face their greatest challenge: deposing an armor-clad madman with an entire world against them.Standing between them and victory, though, is their deadliest enemy?the malevolent Magneto, who has his own plans for dominating the world?
X-Men: The Legacy Quest Trilogy: Book 1
Steve Lyons - 2002
His gamble succeeded. Now his blood is a living serum that can save countless lives. Unfortunately, the Beast is also a prisoner of Selene, the dread Black Queen of the New York branch of the Hellfire Club and she is literally bleeding him dry in order to further her own mad quest for power and wealth. The X-Men, and their uneasy ally, Sebastian Shaw, the mutant Black King of the Hong Kong branch of the Hellfire Club, are locked in a race against time to defeat Selene and free the Beast. But to their shock, they have discovered that Selene has found a way to turn time itself into a weapon against them. Meanwhile, Sebastian Shaw and the mysterious menace known as Mutant X, pursue a different agenda -- one that if it succeeds, will place the Legacy Virus serum in the hands of the most dangerous mutant in the world!
Wolverine: Lifeblood
Matthew Hughes - 2007
When he digs deeper he discovers that he was held as a prisoner of war at a concentration camp, and experimented on by a ruthless Nazi scientist determined to unlock the secrets of Logan's mutant healing properties. What Logan doesn't know is that the scientist is still at large, his thirst for immortality unquenched by time. Now that he knows Logan is alive, he'll stop at nothing to finish what he started sixty years earlier...
Wolverine: The Nature of the Beast
Dave Stern - 2008
He had an indestructible skeleton, cast from the hardest metal on the planet. Razor-sharp claws that could cut through steel like butter.He was Wolverine. Member of the mutant Super Hero group X-Men.Then everything changed.Now, with the adamantium ripped out of his body -- with his healing factor reduced to a fraction of what it once was -- the man known only as Logan finds himself racing to defeat a deadly conspiracy that threatens all of mutantkind, a conspiracy that stretches across both time and space, from the ice-capped peaks of Tibet to the neon jungles of Las Vegas, from his days as an agent of the Canadian government to his years as a member of the most unusual Super Hero group of all time...Here now is Wolverine, bloodied but unbowed, facing long-forgotten foes from out of his past -- and unexpected challenges from his future...
X-Men and The Avengers: Lost and Found
Greg Cox - 1999
The Avengers -- Earth's mightiest heroes, the greatest super-team ever assembled. When the Scarlet Witch of the Avengers and Rogue of the X-Men all disappear under mysterious circumstances, each team's search leads them to more questions than answers.When the X-Men appear to attack a high-security government installation, the Avengers must track down the mutants, and learn the truth behind the abductions before it's too late
The Amazing Spider-Man: Mayhem in Manhattan
Len Wein - 1978
It's ol' Spidey himself in his first - yes, first full-length novel.SINISTER!When a baddie drops out of a sky-high window (Did he jump - heh heh - or was he pushed?), 'Daily Bugle' publisher J. Jonah Jameson wants Spider-Man to take the rap. Has the wall-crawler come to the end of his rope? Does his life hang by a slender thread?GLOBAL!To swing clear of this one, he's got to snoop on an international oil conference. There's blackmail! Radioactivity! And a welcoming committee of death-dealing arch-villains!DIABOLICAL!Who's behind it all? Think hard, 'cause we're not telling. But it just might be that too much tendril looms large in Spider's formidable future!©2019 Dreamscape Media, LLC (P)2019 Dreamscape Media, LLC