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MARVEL 75TH ANNIVERSARY MAGAZINE #1
Cover by GREG LAND Marvel celebrates its diamond jubilee with a gem of a magazine spanning its entire 75-year history! From its origins in the Golden Age through the rise of the Marvel Age of Comics and beyond, the House of Ideas has introduced a collection of characters unparalleled in pop culture. The MARVEL 75TH ANNIVERSARY MAGAZINE covers it all — Spider-Man, the Avengers, the Defenders and more, and the creators who have chronicled their legendary adventures — with a collection of articles, interviews and insights into each decade’s highlights.
96 PGS./All Ages …FREE*
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Also available for order, a keepsake edition of MARVEL 75TH ANNIVERSARY MAGAZINE #1 – 96 PGS./All Ages …$9.99
Looks like the X-Men were not invited to this party
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY #18
Brian Michael Bendis• Ed McGuinness (A/C)
Original Sin Tie-In!
• You know you want to know how Star-Lord got back from the Cancerverse.
• And didn’t Nova go in there with him? Guess he’s not into the whole “no man left behind” thing.
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
Really hoping that if Kitty was going to show up in this – and this sounds like it is a flashback tale – that they would at least put her on the cover.
UNCANNY X-MEN #25
Brian Michael Bendis
ORIGINAL SIN tie-in!
• Xavier’s greatest secret has been revealed!
• Against such overwhelming power, will the X-Men succeed in holding the line?
• Or will Xavier’s final “gift” to his children be their undoing.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
Here is hoping that Original Sin doesn’t kick Magik off the title. I can’t imagine it would.
UNCANNY AVENGERS #23
RICK REMENDER
• Uncanny Avengers reunited!
• The threat of Kang is over, but what are the repercussions?
• Meet the new faces of the Marvel Universe!
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
Kitty nor Illyana have been seen in the past several issues, but I can only imagine one of the repercussions is Rogue coming back to the world of the living.
ALL-NEW ULTIMATES #6 & 7
MICHEL FIFFE
Issue #7 – GIANNIS MILONOGIANNIS (A)
ISSUE #6 – THE CLIMACTIC CONCLUSION OF “POWER FOR POWER”
• The ULTIMATES’ battle with the SERPENT SKULLS! Fever pitch violence drives this war between the classes & sexes.
• DIAMONDBACK breaks hearts and faces! SCOURGE goes out in a blaze of glory! CROSSBONES fights to the bitter end!
• Will the team quit while they’re ahead? Or will they emerge as something even STRONGER?!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
ISSUE #7 – • SPIDER-MAN, BLACK WIDOW, KITTY, CLOAK & DAGGER barely hold back the carnage of vengeful sewer leaders AGENT CROCK & VERMIN!
• The BENGAL joins the police squad just in time to regulate Scourge’s murderous aftermath!
• Will the hunt for CROSSBONES reveal a deeper, darker secret behind the city’s rampant crime wave?
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
Ooof, I really wished double shipping will stop for this title. Kitty is in the solict for issue seven, so that’s always a good thing!
LEGENDARY STAR-LORD #2
Sam Humphries
• Peter’s captured by a bounty hunter—who may have a strange connection to his past!
• Can Peter and the bounty hunter make amends before he’s fed to a giant alien?
• And who is the mysterious Mr. Knife–and why is he so interested in Star-Lord?
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
Here’s hoping Kitty is at least referenced in this!
NOVA SPECIAL #1
Sean Ryan
CONCLUSION TO THE UNCANNY X-MEN/IRON MAN/NOVA CROSSOVER – “NO END IN SIGHT”
• Nova gets tied up into an adventure with the Uncanny X-Men and Iron Man that takes him half-way across the galaxy.
• See three of the best books at Marvel collide!
40 PGS./Rated T …$4.99
Here’s hoping Magik is still tagging along and the Uncanny X-Men are not just represented by Cyclops.
HULK #5
GERRY DUGGAN
• New writer Gerry Duggan (DEADPOOL) joins superstar artist Mark Bagley on an all new arc!
• HULK is now…………
• BANNER no more???
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
Another “No More Banner” storyline? I feel like this is becoming the go-to story to tell. Glad Bagley is able to flex his artistic muscles with the Hulk.
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY ANNUAL #1
Brian Michael Bendis
• Most days in space aren’t exactly what you’d call normal, but everything seemed to be status quo today.
• That is until a S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier showed up out of nowhere…IN SPACE.
• Sometimes you have to go outside your jurisdiction to take care of business, but this might be stretching it a bit.
40 PGS./Rated T …$4.99
Frank Cho is on art, so one would think that this would be heavy on female characters, but time will tell if Kitty shows up in this. I doubt it, and I may be crazy for even thinking it should still be an option.
ALL-NEW X-MEN #31
BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS
• ICEMAN UNLEASHED! Young Bobby Drake takes to the offensive!
• For someone who’s said she doesn’t find him particularly pleasant to be around, Laura seems to have taken an odd interest in Warren.
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
Man, they really are all about teasing X23 with one of her male guest-stars. Do people not remember her relationship with Hellion? It is possible for her to warm up to someone.
NIGHTCRAWLER #5
Chris Claremont
• Who knew the life of a high school teacher isn’t as glamorous as it’s made out to be?
• Struggling to adjust to everyday life back at the Jean Grey School, Nightcrawler turns to his fellow X-Men for inspiration.
• But when it comes to life with the X-Men, inspiration may just come from the unlikeliest of places!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
I can only imagine this will have a nice Rachel / Kurt moment. Kurt needs to spend a weekend at the New Xavier School.
ALL-NEW DOOP #5 (of 5)
PETER MILLIGAN
• A senior X-Man must find Doop and make him stop the craziness corrupting the real world. But is the little green guy too far gone to listen?
• Someone leaves the X-Men, Doop turns down a marriage proposal, and a reservation is made at the Hall of Hairy Armpits.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
I am going to miss this miniseries once it is over.
X-MEN #18
MARC GUGGENHEIM
• NEW CREATIVE TEAM! And a new mission for the first all-female team of X-MEN…
• S.W.O.R.D. is Earth’s premiere counterterrorism and intelligence agency when it comes to dealing with extraterrestrial threats.
• But when the ferocious Shi’Ar warrior Deathbird lands on their doorstep at the brink of death, S.W.O.R.D. calls in the X-MEN to investigate!
• But are the X-Men equipped to handle the horrific new threat that’s emerged from the edge of space?
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
ooof, another X-Men in space, why do so many writers want to send them off to space? The X-Men have two good outer space stories and we really need to move on from it.
MARVEL 75TH ANNIVERSARY OMNIBUS HC
Written by VARIOUS
Penciled by VARIOUS
In late 1939, the fledgling Timely Comics published MARVEL COMICS #1 — introducing the Human Torch, Sub-Mariner and more to an unsuspecting populace. Seventy-five years later, Marvel Comics has become a world-renowned multimedia empire, home to some of the most recognizable and beloved fictional characters ever known. Now, the cream of the crop is presented in one deluxe, oversized hardcover! That’s right, it’s the best of the best from Marvel’s 75-year publishing history — from the Golden Age to Marvel NOW! — as chosen by you, the loyal fans! So face front, True Believers, and prepare to relive 75 years of greatness as only Mighty Marvel could do it!
1000 PGS./Rated T+ …$99.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-9198-8
Trim size: oversized
I sent my e-mail of my ten picks – Uncanny 129, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 172, 173, 174 and 175. I am sure none will be picked and I’m definitely sure that the book will be largely origin stories that have been printed thousands of times before.
X-MEN: THE ADVENTURES OF CYCLOPS & PHOENIX TPB
Written by SCOTT LOBDELL, JEPH LOEB, JOHN FRANCIS MOORE & TOM DEFALCO
Penciled by GENE HA, PASCAL ALIXE, KYLE HOTZ & MORE
Cover by GENE HA
Join Cyclops and Phoenix on the wildest honeymoon of all time, and learn how young Nathan Summers became the man called Cable! When the newlyweds are pulled 2,000 years into the future, they must raise Cyclops’ son in the shadow of Apocalypse. Can this post-nuclear family overthrow the ancient tyrant and his sadistic protégé, the boy called Stryfe, before Cyclops and Phoenix return to the present? In the aftermath, Nathan meets the mysterious Blaquesmith, falls for the lovely Aliya and seeks out the hidden Askani order — but why are they hailing him as their chosen one? Learn the Askani’s secret origin and their strange connection to Rachel Summers — another time-torn mutant, and Nathan’s long-lost sister! Collecting ADVENTURES OF CYCLOPS & PHOENIX #1-4, ASKANI’SON #1-4, X-MEN: PHOENIX #1-3, X-MEN: BOOKS OF ASKANI and material from MARVEL VALENTINE SPECIAL.
352 PGS./Rated T …$34.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-8833-9
Hmmmm, is Cable coming back to the forefront, sometime soon?
X-MEN: ASGARDIAN WARS TPB (NEW PRINTING)
Written by CHRIS CLAREMONT
Penciled by PAUL SMITH & ARTHUR ADAMS
Cover by ARTHUR ADAMS
The X-Men take on Loki, god of mischief! In the Arctic Circle, Alpha Flight and the X-Men discover a power that could save the world — but are they willing to pay the terrible price? Is Loki truly trying to give Earth a godly boon, or are his motives darker than the heroes dare dream? And when the X-Men incur Loki’s wrath, it’s the novice New Mutants who take the fall…and rise to Asgard! The X-Men ride to the rescue, but what if the New Mutants don’t want to go home? And as Storm falls under Loki’s sway, Magik is ensorcelled by the Enchantress, and Mirage has a fateful encounter with the Valkyrie, can even the mightiest mutants survive the magic of myth? Collecting X-MEN & ALPHA FLIGHT (1995) #1-2, NEW MUTANTS SPECIAL EDITION #1 and X-MEN ANNUAL (1970) #9.
248 PGS./Rated T …$29.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-8872-8
Buy this! Perfect Paul Smith art and the Arthur Adams annuals are simply amazing!
JESSICA JONES: THE PULSE — THE COMPLETE COLLECTION TPB
Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS
Penciled by MARK BAGLEY, BRENT ANDERSON, MICHAEL LARK, MICHAEL GAYDOS & OLIVIER COIPEL
Cover by MIKE MAYHEW
Jessica Jones, breakout star of Brian Michael Bendis’ hit series ALIAS, is back! And the ex-Avenger-turned-private investigator is starting a new chapter in her life — working for The Daily Bugle’s new super-hero section, The Pulse! Jessica’s first assignment: to uncover the identity of a former Bugle reporter’s super-powered murderer! How is Norman Osborn involved? And how will Jessica’s shocking discovery affect the entire Marvel Universe? And when Nick Fury’s Secret War spills over into the streets, it hits Jessica and Luke Cage right where they live! With their lives in shambles, Jessica decides to fight back! Finally, it’s the moment you’ve been waiting for: the birth of Jessica and Luke’s baby, and their wedding day! Guest-starring Spider-Man, Captain America, the New Avengers and more! Collecting PULSE #1-9 and #11-14, and NEW AVENGERS ANNUAL (2006) #1.
360 PGS./Rated T+ …$34.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-9086-8
Last month, I questioned why the Pulse issues were not included in the Alias Omnibus. I reckon an extra 14 issues would have made it a real bear to carry and deal with.
So my official buying list is :
All New Doop 5 $4
Uncanny X-Men 25 $4
All New Ultimates 6 & 7 $8
Legendary Star Lord 2 $4 (though I feel silly ordering it)
Nova Special 1 $5
All New X-Men 31 $4
for a total of $29, which isn’t bad. It should be under $40 and I can do weekly shipping again.
Speaking of which, the other day I got my first shipment from DCBS, All New X-Men 27 and All New Ultimates 2 and they were packed with care and it only took a week to get to me as it went Parcel Post. Not too shabby.
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UPDATE June 4, 2014 –
Right now, seven comics nets me at $17.93.
With Weekly shipping and bags and boards, my grand total is – $38.67 which is well under my $40.00 budget! YAY!
Shadow and Flame with Magik 