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Mark Waid's The Green Hornet, Volume 1
Mark Waid - 2013
When he finally oversteps his bounds, an innocent man pays a terrible price... and the legend of the Green Hornet may be forever tarnished! From the mind of superstar writer Mark Waid (Kingdom Come) comes a new era for the classic pulp hero!
Stray Bullets: Sunshine & Roses, Vol. 1
David Lapham - 2018
There is no crime book remotely like STRAY BULLETS, and with SUNSHINE & ROSES, the uncompromising EISNER AWARD-WINNING team of DAVID & MARIA LAPHAM take the series to a new high.Collects STRAY BULLETS: SUNSHINE & ROSES #1-8
James Bond: Felix Leiter
James Robinson - 2017
But when the mission takes a turn for the worse, he will discover that there are more deadly schemes afoot in Tokyo and beyond! From a top-notch creative team starring James Robinson (Starman, Red Sonja) and Aaron Campbell (The Shadow, Uncanny) comes the Bond spin-off highlighting 007’s American counterpart, blending spy thrills with the dark alleys and darker deeds of crime fiction!This hardcover collects issues 1-6 of James Bond: Felix Leiter and features strikingly moody artwork, original never-before-seen character sketches, the full script to Issue One, and an interview with writer James Robinson!
The Prisoner Vol. 1: The Uncertainty Machine
Peter Milligan - 2018
Based on the cult classic TV show starring Patrick McGoohan.Return to The Village with a brand-new Number Six as former spy, Breen, takes on the Arch Controller of The Village – a person known only as Number One.Collects The Prisoner #1-4
Revival, Vol. 1: You're Among Friends
Tim Seeley - 2012
Now it's up to Officer Dana Cypress to deal with the media scrutiny, religious zealots, and government quarantine that has come with them. In a town where the living have to learn to deal with those who are supposed to be dead, Officer Cypress must solve a brutal murder, and everyone, alive or undead, is a suspect. The sell-out hit series created by NYT Bestselling author TIM SEELEY and Eisner winning artist MIKE NORTON is collected with bonus material!Collects REVIVAL 1-5 and the FREE COMIC BOOK DAY short story
The Shadow: Year One
Matt Wagner - 2014
Here, for the first time, is unveiled the origin story of how the Master of Men returned to America following his many adventures abroad in the aftermath of World War I. How did Lamont Cranston launch his legendary crusade against crime, assemble his vast network of covert operatives, and meet his lover and companion, Margo Lane? A treat for longtime Shadow fans and a perfect introduction to the character for a whole new generation of readers. Who knows what evil lurks in the heart of men? The Shadow Knows! Collects the complete ten-issue storyline (#1-10) from The Shadow: Year One, including a pin-up gallery of over 50 comic book covers (by top-tier artistic talent including Alex Ross, Matt Wagner, Jason Alexander, Howard Chaykin, and more), plus the complete script to the first chapter.
The Black Monday Murders #1
Jonathan Hickman - 2016
and exactly what kind of people you can buy with it. THE BLACK MONDAY MURDERS is classic occultism where the various schools of magic are actually clandestine banking cartels who control all of society: a secret world where vampire Russian oligarchs, Black popes, enchanted American aristocrats, and hitmen from the International Monetary Fund work together to keep ALL OF US in our proper place.
Arrow Season 2.5
Marc Guggenheim - 2015
1 follows Oliver Queen's story as he battles the Church of Blood, with the fate of Starling City hanging in the balance. Written by show creators Marc Guggenheim and Andrew Kreisberg, this collection features an all-star cast of Oliver's greatest allies and enemies including the Huntress, Black Canary and Deathstroke! Collects ARROW SEASON 2.5 #1-12.
Monstress #1
Marjorie M. Liu - 2015
Steampunk meets Kaiju in this original fantasy epic for mature readers, as young Maika risks everything to control her psychic link with a monster of tremendous power, placing her in the center of a devastating war between human and otherworldly forces.
Normandy Gold
Megan Abbott - 2017
When her younger sister is found at the center of a brutal murder investigation, tough-as-nails Sheriff Normandy Gold is forced to dive headfirst into the seedy world of 1970s prostitution and soon discovers a twisted conspiracy leading right to the White House.
Six-Gun Gorilla
Simon Spurrier - 2014
Good thing your companion is a...Six-Gun Gorilla!Welcome to the Blister -- a bizarre other-world colonized by humans sometime in the 22nd century, which quickly became a hotly-contested source of fertile land and natural resources long ago exhausted on Earth. In this new frontier, a rogue gunslinger and his companion wander across a wilderness in the grips of a civil war, encountering lawlessness, natives, and perversions of civilization in a world at the crossroads between the past and the future. The fact that said gunslinger is a bio-surgically modified silverback gorilla toting a pair of enormous revolvers is neither here nor there. Written by Simon Spurrier (Marvel's X-MEN LEGACY, CROSSED WISH YOU WHERE HERE), drawn by Jeff Stokely (FRAGGLE ROCK, THE REASON FOR DRAGONS),cover by Eisner Award-winning artist Ramirez (A TALE OF SAND, WOLVERINE, THE X-MEN)SIX-GUN GORILLA is a pulpy mash-up of Western weirdness and lo-fi science-fiction unlike anything else!
Doctor Who Series 2 Volume 1: The Ripper
Tony Lee - 2011
The Eleventh Doctor era begins here Join the eleventh incarnation of the Doctor and his latest companions, Amy Pond and her husband Rory Williams, as they travel to the far reaches of space - a planet populated by holograms - and the distant past - where they become embroiled in the Jack the Ripper murders in Victorian London
Sci-Fu
Yehudi Mercado - 2018
Now Wax and his crew must master the intergalactic musical martial art of Sci-Fu to fight the power and save Earth. Word to your mother.
James Bond: Case Files
Kieron Gillen - 2018
by aiming down the sights of an ancient Enfield rifle! From Jody Houser & Jacob Edgar comes Moneypenny: On a ‘routine’ protection mission, Moneypenny discovers a complicated assassination plot that bears a startling resemblance to a terrorist attack from her childhood. Ibrahim Moustafa’s Solstice: 007 travels to Paris, in pursuit of a Russian, but is Bond the hunter, or the hunted? And Declan Shalvey & PJ Holden bring us M: A traumatic event from M’s early days comes back to haunt him, forcing M to return to the scene of a crime… HIS crime.
Capote in Kansas
Ande Parks - 2005
Not an intricately plotted "whodunit" or fiery passionate fury. But dirty, sad, disturbing actions from real people. That's what Truman Capote decided to use for IN COLD BLOOD—his bold experiment in the realm of the non-fiction "novel." Following in that legacy is CAPOTE IN KANSAS, a fictionalized tale of Capote's time in Middle America researching his classic book. Capote's struggles with the town, the betrayal, and his own troubled past make this book a compelling portrait of one of the greatest literary talents of the 20th century.