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AVENGERS & X-MEN: AXIS #7 & 8 (OF 9)
RICK REMENDER
Issue #7 – ADAM KUBERT (A)
Issue #8 – LEINIL FRANCIS YU (A)
Covers by JIM CHEUNG
ACT III: NEW WORLD DISORDER
THIS IS IT! THE BATLE ROYALE OF YOUR DREAMS–THE ASTONISHING AVENGERS VS THE UNCANNY X-MEN FOR THE FATE OF NEW YORK!
32 PGS. (EACH)/Rated T+ …$3.99 (EACH)AVENGERS & X-MEN: AXIS #9 (OF 9)
RICK REMENDER• JIM CHEUNG (A)
Cover by JIM CHEUNG
Looper variant by Paul Renaud
INVERSION VARIANT BY TBA
ACT III: NEW WORLD DISORDER
• Who will live? Who will die? Who will remain inverted? A shocking climax that promises to crack the Marvel Universe to its very core!
• An old foe must claim the mantle of his greatest enemy to save the lives of all he cares for!
• An X-Man’s horrifying fate! An Avenger’s appalling choice! If you read only one comic this century – This is it!
40 PGS./Rated T+ …$4.99
Nice that this event is done by year’s end. So the X-Men appear to be villains in this series. So that’s twice in three years, which is rather disappointing. I wonder if its Cyclops who is experiencing a horrible fate. It would be pretty obvious.
Shame that the final issue is one extra dollar, that’s why they are have two different positions. Marvel really wants all of our Christmas money to be spent on them!
Also, is that Sabretooth dressed as Wolverine? That’s horrible!
COVER BY KEN LASHLEY
AXIS: REVOLUTIONS #3 & 4 (of 4)
Issue #3 – Ray Fawkes & Frank Barbiere
Issue #4 – John Barber & Howard Chaykin
Issue #3 – Tan Eng Huat (A)
Issue #4 – Howard Chaykin & TBA (A)
Covers by KEN LASHLEY
Companion series to AVENGERS & X-MEN: AXIS!
• In the wake of their battle with the Red Skull, the world has been altered: Heroes have gone bad! Villains have gone good! And AXIS REVOLUTIONS brings you tales of these shocking turns…
• She-Hulk breaks the law!
• Sandman reaches out to help a friend…in prison!
• And Kitty Pryde robs a bank??
32 PGS. (EACH)/Rated T+ …$3.99 (EACH)
Kitty Pryde is in three! Awesome! I wonder what her Inversion name will be. Hulk is Kluh and Deadpool is Zenpool. Could she be StealyCat?
I’ve decided to start posting the covers if Kitty is on them. I didn’t do it before as the covers are without the branding and such, so it isn’t what my comic will look like but I might as well. Keeps the blog fresh. perhaps.
AVENGERS WORLD #16
NICK SPENCER & FRANK BARBIERE
MARCO CHECCHETTO (A)
Cover by KALMAN ANDRASOFSZKY
AXIS TIE-IN!
• The Avengers team you never expected explodes into action in “The Availables” Part 2!
• The wrath of the SCARLET WITCH unleashed!
• Doctor Doom’s heroic gambit—will he be redeemed?
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
Doom sure does have a C-List roster of Avengers! Is that Stingray? That may not be fair as he does have Valkyrie and USAgent.
DEADPOOL #38-39
GERRY DUGGAN & BRIAN POSEHN
MIKE HAWTHORNE (A)
Covers by MARK BROOKS
AXIS TIE-IN!
• You heard right—since the events of AXIS inverted him…
• DEADPOOL HAS GONE ZEN!
• HE FOUND PEACE! HE SWORE OFF VIOLENCE!
• So how is he going to help his friends live through the inverted X-Men?!?
32 PGS. (EACH)/Rated T+ …$3.99 (EACH)
I wonder if Kitty will be in this or is it the Jean Grey School who is inverted? Four dollars is too high of a price to take a chance on it.
AMAZING X-MEN #14
CHRIS YOST(W) • Carlo Barberi (A)
COVER BY Kris Anka
AXIS TIE-IN!
• As the events of AXIS reach a boiling point, both X-Men and Avengers find themselves in precarious positions. Not the least of which are Nightcrawler and Mystique—as this tumultuous mother/son combo reaches and a point in their relationship they’ve never faced before!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
Mystique making her first appearance since the big reveal that she’s Mrs. Charles Xavier? This has to be good! Hey, why is Craig Kyle not co-writing with Yost? Did they have a fight?
I’m still waiting for Kurt’s reaction, if he were alive, that his old mentor is now his step-father.
SUPERIOR IRON MAN #3
TOM TAYLOR
Cover by MIKE CHOI
THE LAST TEMPTATION OF MATT MURDOCK
• After the life-changing events of issue #2, MATT MURDOCK is faced with an impossible choice.
• Will DAREDEVIL rebel or will he buy into TONY STARK’S vision?
• Can nothing stop the SUPERIOR IRON MAN’S non-stop party? You’ll be surprised at who wants to crash it!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
I sort of like the idea of Murdock and Stark together, they don’t really have any history together that I can recall.
ANGELA: ASGARD’S ASSASSIN #1
KIERON GILLEN & MARGUERITE BENNETT
PHIL JIMENEZ & STEPHANIE HANS (A)
Cover by STEPHANIE HANS
• All her life, Angela — the finest warrior of Heven — was raised to hate Asgard with every fiber of her being.
• And now Angela knows the truth about her identity: She is Thor’s sister. She is an Asgardian.
• Cast out of her home and wanting nothing to do with Asgard, Angela must now strike out on her own!
• But what does Angela have that both Asgard and Heven want? And why are they so eager to get it?
• Visionary writers Kieron Gillen and Marguerite Bennett team with the legendary art team of Phil Jimenez and Stephanie Hans to finally throw the spotlight onto the Marvel Universe’s most dangerous inhabitant!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
This reminds me of when I was listing off all of the new number ones that I had no interest in. If she hates Asgard so much, how about not even dealing with it. Spider-Man seems to go without having to deal with Asgard, it can’t be that hard.
S.H.I.E.L.D. #1
MARK WAID
Cover by JULIAN TOTINO TEDESCO
• High-tech weapons. High-stakes missions. High-octane adventure! For the men and women of S.H.I.E.L.D., it’s just another day in the field!
• Special Agent Phil Coulson brings together the best and the brightest, the gifted and the elite, normal people and superhumans from across the Marvel Universe on an as-needed basis to confront, combat and curtail dangers beyond the scope of any conventional peace-keeping force!
• Writer Mark Waid (DAREDEVIL) and a rotating crew of mission-specific top flight Marvel artists make you one promise: Every issue: Twenty pages. One mission. Unlimited budget. Unlimited imagination. Six periods. And a helper monkey. Welcome to Level Eight. Welcome to S.H.I.E.L.D.
40 PGS./Rated T+ …$4.99
See upcoming MARVEL MAILERS for details on how to qualify for the S.H.I.E.L.D #1 LAUNCH PARTY!
Plus, details on how to order the MARVEL 2015 CALENDAR!
So many variants! Does this take place in the Proper Marvel Universe? I like the idea of done-in-one issues.
SPIDER-MAN AND THE X-MEN #1
ELLIOTT KALAN
Cover by NICK BRADSHAW
• Meet the Jean Grey Academy’s new guidance counselor: Spider-Man!
• What’s a non-mutant doing at a school for mutants? What secret suspicion has fueled the formation of his special student class?
• And because you demanded it! Sauron and Stegron the Dinosaur Man! The villain team 65 million years in the making! You didn’t demand it? Well somebody did.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
Why couldn’t this series have happened while Kitty was still at the school? That would have made the most sense.
Last time there was a special class, Magneto was secretly running it!
SCARLET SPIDERS #2 (of 3)
MICHAEL COSTA
PACO DIAZ (A)
Cover by DAVID NAKAYAMA
SPIDER-VERSE MARCHES ON!
• As the Scarlet Spiders find themselves even deeper in Jennix’s twisted realm, what friends or foes will they find waiting for them?
• A classic Spider-Man ally makes an appearance, but not in the way you expect… and the Scarlet Spiders might not survive the experience!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
So happy to have the Ben Reilly Scarlet Spider back!
DEATH OF WOLVERINE: LOGAN’S LEGACY #6 & 7 (OF 7)
ISSUE #6 – JAMES TYNION IV
Cover by ALEX GARNER
ISSUE #7 – CHARLES SOULE
Cover by RAFAEL ALBUQUERQUE
ISSUE #6 – • In the wake of the DEATH OF WOLVERINE, Mystique must come to grips with everything she’s done in a lifetime of crime, and the DESTINY laid out before her.
32 PGS./Parental Advisory …$3.99
ISSUE #7 – • It’s all come to this! The heroes and villains closest to Wolverine—Mystique, Daken, Sabretooth, X-23 and Lady Deathstrike—make a monumental decision that will forever alter the Legacy that Logan built years forging. That is, if they survive the threat of the vampiric menace challenging their goals!
32 PGS./Parental Advisory …$3.99
Still confused with the writing of these. The heroes and villains closet to Wolverine . . . yet, the only hero represented is X-23. Where is Kitty? I know she’s in issue two, the X-23 spotlight one, but it just seems bonkers to me.
MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS #1 (of 2)
WILL CORONA PILGRIM
JOE BENNETT (a)
GET READY FOR MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON WITH THIS OFFICIAL ADAPTATION OF THE FIRST BLOCKBUSTER FILM!
• Iron Man! Thor! Captain America! Black Widow! Hawkeye! The Hulk! They’re all here…and so is Loki!
• When the trickster god makes a play for the mighty Tesseract, it’ll take a historic assemblage of heroes to save the day…that is, if they don’t kill each other first!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99
Didn’t Marvel already release this once? Seems so odd to do this as a comic, or at least, two comics. For six dollars, you could rent the movie proper. I wonder how much is cut out to make it fit within 48 pages. Also, why can this comic be three dollars and the majority of others are four dollars? I would buy more comics if they were just a dollar cheaper. Makes me worry once five dollars is the norm. At least at DCBS, they will always be a dollar cheaper, so that should keep me in this expensive hobby for an extra year or so.
AVENGERS #39
JONATHAN HICKMAN
Cover by ALAN DAVIS
IN 5 MONTHS…TIME RUNS OUT!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99NEW AVENGERS #28
JONATHAN HICKMAN
Cover by ALAN DAVIS
IN 5 MONTHS…TIME RUNS OUT!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
Still no interest in this.
AVENGERS NOW!
THE OHOTMU TEAM, LED BY MIKE O’SULLIVAN & JEFF CHRISTIANSEN
Cover by SARA PICHELLI
• The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe is back with 64 pages of all-new profiles!
• Every new member: Angela! Captain Universe (Devoux)! Nightmask (Adam)! The Superior Spider-Man! And more!
• Enemies: The Apocalypse Twins! The Black Order! Magnitron! A.I.M.’s Scientist Supreme, Andrew Forson!
• Allies: Nick Fury! Phil Coulson! Nova (Sam Alexander)! Avengers Underground’s Hazmat!
• The entire Avengers roster makes an appearance thanks to an Update Appendix for every single member!
64 PGS./Rated T+ …$4.99 Handbook
A New handbook! I do love these things. Five dollars is a bit much for just text pieces with a companion piece of art. Hopefully the X-Men get one of these. If I can fit it in my budget, I will try to get this but its an easy thing to cut as well.
LEGENDARY STAR-LORD #6
SAM HUMPHRIES
• Peter desperately attempts to keep a phone date with Kitty while simultaneously getting wrapped up with Mister Knife and his crew!
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
Kitty is in the solict! Let’s hope that he is make that call! Probably on the last page. Probaby a comic full of mentions of Kitty, or at least, thoughts about her.
HAWKEYE VS. DEADPOOL #3 (OF 5)
GERRY DUGGAN
Cover by JAMES HARREN
• The baddest brawlers in Brooklyn continue to tear up the town in the next issue of HAWKEYE VS DEADPOOL!
• So Black Cat’s been brainwashing goons and dressing them as super heroes, huh? Good thing Hawkeye and Deadpool are on the case.
• If they can stop fighting amongst each other, that is.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
Is Black Cat a villain now? When did this happened? Is that why she is so mad at Spider-Man, for something that Doctor Octopus set in motion? Sort of cool now, that I typed that, as Otto and Felicia do have some history together. Her first big lost came at the hands of Doctor Octopus. So was Spider-Man’s, now that I think of it. I’m doing a lot of thinking based off of this solict.
THOR #3
JASON AARON
• Lifting the enchanted hammer Mjolnir has transformed a mysterious woman into an all-new version of the mighty Thor.
• But what happens when she’s separated from that hammer?
• Plus, Frost Giants! ROXXON! And oh yeah, whatever happened to the guy who used to carry that hammer?
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
She just gets the hammer then loses it immediately? That isn’t going to make the ladies happy once news gets out. I’m not happy about it either.
COVER BY MARK BAGLEY
HULK #9
GERRY DUGGAN
AN X-MAN COMETH FOR THE “OMEGA HULK”
• DOC GREEN says “Hello, KITTY!” The PRYDE of the X-MEN guest stars.
• Plus – BRUCE BANNER returns! …But in what shape?
• And – a recently de-powered HULK is placed in mortal danger.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
This is finally happening! Been excited about this for two months and I still have to wait another three!
Nice that Kitty is on two covers this month! Duggan said Magik was suppose to be in this as well. I wonder if it’s an arc or a done-in-one. So excited!
Kitty and Hulk haven’t really interacted much over the years, so this could go in any direction. Maybe she’s checking in on the Hulk now that Wolverine is dead.
It will be nice to read a comic drawn by Mark Bagley again. It has been too long!
ALL-NEW ULTIMATES #11
MICHEL FIFFE
Cover by DAVID NAKAYAMA
HOLO (HEROES ONLY LIVE ONCE)!
• There’s a new crime empress in town! ECSTASY’S her name and she’ll finish the job even GALACTUS couldn’t: kill the ULTIMATES.
• Who’s got the team’s back? Perhaps a private squad made up of renegade cops calling themselves TERROR INC.?
• It’s “eye for an eye” when the ULTIMATES reach bone crunching heights in their battle with TASKMASTER. • Plus the return of CROSSBONES!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
Just one issue this month, that’s pretty good. If the rumor can be believed, should be only one issue to go.
Finally the X-Men section! Nice how it segues from the Ultimate section.
ALL-NEW X-MEN #36
BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS
• The Ultimate face-off you KNEW was bound to happen! All-New X-Men versus the Ultimate X-Men! But when both side are heroes, who can be the victor? And what side does this leave Miles Morales, the Ultimate Spider-Man on?
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
So all of the Ultimate X-Men show up except for Kitty as she’s busy over with the Ultimates. Shoot! and Dang it! Wait, but Spider-Man is there, so if he has time to take off from the Ultimates, Kitty should be able to as well!
UNCANNY X-MEN #29
BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS
• Everything over the last several months has been leading to this—a turning point for the X-Men. And it all revolves around their deceased former mentor and leader, Professor Charles Xavier!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
Of course, nearly everybody is on the cover to this but one Kitty Pryde. What is happening!?! At least Magik showed up. Who would have thought a storyline revolving around a reading of a Will would take so long!
I’m under the impression that the gal to the right of Emma is Rachel and not Kitty.
Alex Ross has done yet another X-Men cover that doesn’t have Kitty Pryde on it, as well. Come on, folks!
UNCANNY X-MEN ANNUAL #1
BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS
VARIANT COVER BY DUSTIN NGUYEN
THE SECRET LIFE OF EVA BELL – Part 1
• Part one of the epic two-part tale of the time-manipulating mutant Eva Bell’s greatest secret.
• Losing control of her powers, Eva disappeared during a training exercise in Tabula Rasa. Reappearing shortly thereafter, she seemed older and far more weathered, but refused to offer an explanation.
• But where did her powers take her? Or maybe the better question is when? And what could she have endured to cause her to keep her story secret from her fellow X-Men?
40 PGS./Rated T+ …$4.99
Been waiting for this for quite some time. Amazing how Tempus hasn’t been used much.
ALL-NEW X-MEN ANNUAL #1
BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS
VARIANT COVER BY DUSTIN NGUYEN
THE SECRET LIFE OF EVA BELL – Part 2
• Part two of Eva Bell’s journey through the ages!
• With limited control over her powers, and even less control over her destinations, Eva had believed herself lost in time.
• But just when she had come to accept this as truth, her world was once again ripped asunder as she is once again sent tumbling through time.
40 PGS./Rated T+ …$4.99
Odd as that All New is losing their annual to tell an Uncanny member’s story. But that’s my old fashion publication ways rearing its head.
I just noticed that these are both five dollars, December is going to be so expensive!
DEADPOOL’S ART OF WAR #3 (OF 4)
PETER DAVID
• You think you know war?
• DEADPOOL DOESN’T.
• Err…by which I mean, Deadpool doesn’t think you know war. Not that Deadpool doesn’t know war.
• Because he does know war, that’s sort of the point. He’s teaching you about war in this series. Sorry for the confusion.
32 PGS./Parental Advisory …$3.99
This is a funny write up!
CYCLOPS #8
JOHN LAYMAN
COVER BY ALEXANDER LOZANO
• The cutthroat space-pirate crew Scott Summers has joined up with is rampaging across space, plundering, and cutting throats. And now Scott is expected to cut throats with them!
• Exactly how far will Scott go to save his skin – and to rescue his captive father?
• At least on the romance front there’s some good news: Scott’s discovered there are other girls in the universe besides Jean Gray.
• But let’s just hope the pirate captain doesn’t discover Scott’s got his eye on his daughter. (Get it? “Eye on his daughter.” That’s a Cyclops joke right there!)
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99[editor’s note: According to Marvel, “Ms. Marvel, Silver Surfer and Iron Fist: The Living Weapon are not in the December solicits, these titles are not cancelled. They will resume in January with new issues.”]
Another fun write up!
I would not have notice that Ms. Marvel, Silver Surfer nor Iron Fist had solcits unless Newsarama’s editor pointed it out.
POWERS #1
BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS
ALL-NEW ONGOING SERIES!
Just in time for the debut of the long-awaited POWERS TV show comes this brand-new number one, a perfect jumping-on point for fans new and old! The Eisner Award-winning POWERS tells the story of homicide detectives Christian Walker and Deena Pilgrim, who are assigned cases specifically involving powers. If a superhero falls dead from the sky or a super villain is found dead in the gutter, it’s up to Walker and Pilgrim to solve the case. But having barely survived the most harrowing case of their careers and discovering government corruption of the highest level, Walker and Pilgrim are now faced with the most difficult decision they’ve ever had to make. Plus: the discovery of a power no one has ever seen before! This issue – double sized for the regular price – will also include an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the making of the POWERS TV show with never-before-seen pictures from the set.
48 PGS./Mature …$3.99
I liked that Who Killed Retro Girl trade. I have to remember to watch Powers once it finally comes to television.
AVENGERS BY KURT BUSIEK & GEORGE PEREZ OMNIBUS VOL. 1 HC
Written by KURT BUSIEK, MARK WAID, JOE EDKIN, JOHN OSTRANDER, ROGER STERN, JOHN FRANCIS MOORE & JERRY ORDWAY
Penciled by GEORGE PEREZ, SEAN CHEN, ANDY KUBERT, DEREC AUCOIN, CARLOS PACHECO, LEONARDO MANCO, JERRY ORDWAY & STUART IMMONEN
Cover by GEORGE PEREZ
Fan-favorite creators Kurt Busiek and George Pérez craft a new era for Earth’s Mightiest Heroes! The Avengers have always defended humanity against the forces of evil. When duty calls, these legendary champions answer, fighting valiantly for justice. But as the Avengers re-form in the wake of a life-changing event, they must face an array of foes like no other: Morgan Le Fay, the Squadron Supreme, the Kree, the Legion of the Unliving, the Thunderbolts, the Wrecking Crew…not to mention facing Kang and Immortus in the Destiny War! But when the merciless Ultron attacks, wiping out an entire nation in his hatred for mankind, the Avengers must live up to their name — if they can! Collecting AVENGERS (1998) #1-23, #0 and #1 ROUGH CUT; IRON MAN (1998) #7; CAPTAIN AMERICA (1998) #8; QUICKSILVER #10; AVENGERS ANNUAL ’98-’99; and AVENGERS FOREVER #1-12.
1184 PGS./Rated T …$125
ISBN: 978-0-7851-9288-6
Trim size: oversized
Oh man, if this was $50, I would be all over this. You should buy this! If it is even . . . Avengers Forever is included in this? I can see why its over a hundred dollars now. 19 issues plus 12 makes 31 issues, that does sound like a great deal. I just wouldn’t pay full price but I love this run so much! Should be two more trades to collect all of the Busiek run.
DEATH OF WOLVERINE HC
Written by CHARLES SOULE
Penciled by STEVE MCNIVEN
Covers by STEVE MCNIVEN & JOE QUESADA
All roads must end somewhere, and every hero’s story eventually comes to a close. For Logan, the century-old mutant known as Wolverine, that time is now. The loss of his healing factor and the traumatic events of “Three Months To Die” have all led to this, the single most important X-Men event of the decade. Through the years, Logan has been a warrior, a hero, a renegade, a savage, a samurai, a teacher — and so much more. Logan has spent decades being the best there is at what he does, but even the best fade away eventually. And now, the X-Men’s greatest hero will play a role he’s never played before in this solemn special event brought to you by industry superstars Charles Soule and Steve McNiven. Collecting DEATH OF WOLVERINE #1-4.
128 PGS./Rated T+ …$24.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-9351-7
Trim size: oversized
$25 seems more like it! Not sure if its worth it just for issue three with Kitty and one page of issue two but who knows, maybe she’s in the fourth issue as well. Maybe she kills him! I doubt it.
DEATH OF WOLVERINE HC QUESADA COVER (DM ONLY)
128 PGS./Rated T+ …$24.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-9711-9
Trim size: oversized
Direct Market Only but who buys variant covers of hard covers?
ALL-NEW X-MEN VOL. 6: THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE PREMIERE HC
Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS
Penciled by STUART IMMONEN & MAHMUD ASRAR
Cover by MAHMUD ASRAR
Dimension-hopping is something of an X-Men rite of passage, and it’s about time the All-New X-Men took the plunge! You don’t always have to travel Miles away to visit a new place…but will the Web in which these time-displaced young X-Men find themselves tangled Ultimately bring about their end? Okay, enough subtlety: The All-New X-Men meet Miles Morales, the Ultimate Spider-Man — and this is a showdown you won’t want to miss! Will either universe ever be the same again? Guest-starring scores of Ultimate characters! Plus: It’s Iceman unleashed as young Bobby Drake takes the offensive! And for someone who’s said she doesn’t find him particularly pleasant to be around, X-23 seems to have taken an odd interest in the highflying Angel. Tune in as yesterday’s X-Men continue to explore the fear-fraught future of the present day! Collecting ALL-NEW X-MEN #31-35.
136 PGS./Rated T …$24.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-5434-1
Trim size: standard
That has to be a record of the trade coming out as the final issue does as well. Actually, issue 36 is out that month so is this a twelve issue event? I wonder why the trade title isn’t Ultimate Adventure Part One? hmmmmmm
SECRET WARS PROSE NOVEL HC
Written by ALEX IRVINE
Adapted from the graphic novel by JIM SHOOTER, MIKE ZECK & BOB LAYTON
Cover by MIKE ZECK
The fate of the entire Marvel Universe hangs in the balance as Earth’s mightiest heroes face their greatest challenge! Summoned across the stars by the mysterious and unbelievably powerful Beyonder, the Avengers, Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four and the X-Men are set against their deadliest foes on the mysterious planet known as Battleworld — with the winner promised the ultimate prize. But as battle lines are drawn, new alliances are forged and old enemies clash, one among them is not willing to settle for anything less than godhood. Can even the heroes’ combined might prevent Dr. Doom from becoming the most powerful being in the universe? Experience Marvel’s first blockbuster mega-event like never before in this new adaptation!
304 PGS./No Rating …$24.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-9100-1
Trim size: standard
At first, I was going to dismiss this but then I remembered Lockheed should be in this. I may have to pay attention to some reviews for that.
X-MEN EPIC COLLECTION: CHILDREN OF THE ATOM TPB
Volume #1 in the X-Men Epic Collections
Written by STAN LEE with ROY THOMAS
Penciled by JACK KIRBY & WERNER ROTH with ALEX TOTH
Cover by JACK KIRBY Billed as “The Strangest Super-Heroes of All!,” the ever-uncanny X-Men blasted onto the comic-book scene in 1963. Now, in this massive Epic Collection, you can feast your eyes as Stan, Jack & Co. lay down the building blocks of comics’ most famous franchise! You’ll experience the beginning of Professor X’s teen team, and their mission for peace and brotherhood between man and mutant; their first battle with arch-foe Magneto; the dynamic debuts of Juggernaut, the Sentinels, Quicksilver, the Scarlet Witch and the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants; and the Golden Age jungle man, Ka-Zar, reinvented for a new era! All this and more Epic X-Men adventures await within! Collecting X-MEN (1963) #1-23.
520 PGS./All Ages …$34.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-8904-6
$35 for the first 23 issues of the X-Men, that sounds like an excellent deal! And in color, I imagine.
LEGENDARY STAR-LORD VOL. 1: FACE IT, I RULE TPB
Written by SAM HUMPHRIES
Penciled by PACO MEDINA & FREDDIE WILLIAMS
Cover by STEVE MCNIVEN
Exploding from the pages of GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY! Peter Quill battles the Badoon, saves an orphanage and still finds time to flirt with the X-Men’s Kitty Pryde — all in a day’s work for the legendary Star-Lord! But when Peter is captured by a bounty hunter with a strange connection to his past, can the two make amends before he’s fed to a giant alien? A Badoon death sentence isn’t exactly Peter’s idea of a good time — luckily, he’s got an ace up his sleeve. But Star-Lord soon encounters the all-powerful Titan responsible for so much mayhem in his life: Thanos! It’s the battle to end all battles, but can Star-Lord possibly get out alive?! If he does, the vicious Mister Knife and the ancient cosmic artifact known as the Black Vortex are waiting. Collecting LEGENDARY STAR-LORD #1-5.
112 PGS./Rated T …$16.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-9159-9
I can vouch for issues one and three as being good. Once again, it is a better deal than if you bought the monthly issues as they came out.
. . .
So here is what I said I was tempted to buy :
AXIS 7 & 8 $4 each
AXIS 9 $5
AXIS Revolution 3 $4
Avengers NOW! $5
Legendary Star Lord 6 $4
Hulk 9 $4
All New X-Men 36 $4
Uncanny X-Men 29 $4
Uncanny X-Men Annual 1 $5
All New X-Men Annual 1 $5
52 dollars! But that’s 11 issues, so that seems decent. Here is hoping that DCBS can knock that down. I’m committed to just doing the one monthly shipment, so that should keep the price down. Also, I just won’t get that Handbook. Its about the Avengers, so who cares.
That will bring it down to $47, so should make the comics around 35 or so (I still don’t know how the math works). I’m sure its 20 percent per issue but percentages is my main weakness in terms of math skills.
I Googled “what is 20 percent of 47” and it states 9.4 so roughly $37.60. The percentage I save is essentially the shipping of it all.
EDIT on 10-8-14 :
I had forgotten to carry All New Ultimates 11 down to my buying list! This should be interesting!
So all 12 comics gets be $30.58 as the subtotal. Let’s see how much single shipping and bags and boards cost me at DCBS.
I know I do this every month but DCBS is pretty awesome!
Bags and Boards $1.44
Standard Shipping $6.95
Brings my total to $38.97! I’m able to add a comic and get the Avengers Handbook – which I’m pretty sure I don’t need. All for under $40, that is outstanding!
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| SUB TOTAL: | $32.02 |
| TAX: | $0.00 |
| SHIPPING: | $6.95** |
| GRAND TOTAL: | $38.97 |
Shouldn’t be too bad this Holiday shipping! Won’t know how it actually works out until November but reviews are already dealyed as it is so stick with me and here’s hoping it isn’t too crazy. But for that price, one really can’t lose!
Shadow and Flame with Magik 