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SCHOLASTIC INC.

RIVERDALE NOVEL SC GET OUT OF TOWN

(W) Micol Ostow

When Archie, Betty, Veronica, and Jughead take a road trip, they discover that their small-town problems seem to follow them wherever they go. Archie's on trial for murder, and the evidence is stacked against him. Betty, Veronica, and Jughead all know that Archie is being framed by Hiram Lodge, but how can they prove it? The gang comes up with a last-ditch plan to prove Archie's innocence: They have to go back to the scene of the crime. They have to go back to Shadow Lake. Threats are around every corner deep in the woods at the Lodge family cabin. Will the teens find the evidence they need to clear Archie's name? And MORE importantly, will they make it back to Riverdale alive?

ACME INK

ROCK & ROLL BIOGRAPHIES #14

TESTAMENT

(W) Michael Aushenker (A) Mats Engesten (CA) Mats Engsten

Testament, one of the Bay Area's greatest thrash/metal bands of all time! Take a metal journey as you witness the early origins of the band to today's sonic onslaught of blistering metal! Amazingly drawn by Mats Engsten and Vic Moys with detailed artwork sure to knock your socks off with! The back up is "Spastic Children." As Metallica was blowing up the world in the 80s, a little-known Bay Area drunk band started performing locally. Soon word got out that this punk outfit consisted of members from Metallica and Faith No MORE! They performed for a short time but made a lasting impact on the San Francisco music scene!

LION FORGE

ROLLED AND TOLD #9

(W) Hadeel Al-Massari (A) Ea Denich (CA) Maci Hass

In A Tale of Two Gnomes, venture into an inventor's burrow to save him from his rival and his unsettling and unethical constructs. And if you're looking for a shorter and lower-stakes adventure, your players can play matchmaker with a series of skill tests to help a Gnome Bachelor find love! This issue will also include a guide on physically crafting sets, items, and other materials to bring your campaign to life, a review of dwarven monster hunter Bartha Buart's newest book, and MORE!

MARRS MEDIA INC

RUE MORGUE MAGAZINE #188

Now in its 21st year of publication, Rue Morgue is the leading horror in culture and entertainment brand. Each issue features the latest in the world of horror; from feature interviews, classic retrospectives, trivia and MORE! Plus, the latest film, book, comic book, music, game and toy releases!

IMAGE COMICS

SAVAGE DRAGON #246

(W) Erik Larsen (A) Erik Larsen (CA) Erik Larsen

"RETURN OF THE SCOURGE!" Malcolm Dragon's deadliest foe returns, MORE powerful than ever! Another outstanding achievement from award-winning writer/artist ERIK LARSEN.

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SCIENCE COMICS CARS ENGINES THAT MOVE YOU HC GN

(W) Dan Zettwoch (A) Dan Zettwoch (CA) Dan Zettwoch

Put the pedal to the metal with Science Comics: Cars, the latest volume in First Second's action-packed nonfiction graphic novel series for middle-grade readers! Every volume of Science Comics offers a complete introduction to a particular topic-dinosaurs, coral reefs, the solar system, volcanoes, bats, flying machines, and MORE. These gorgeously illustrated graphic novels offer wildly entertaining views of their subjects. Whether you're a fourth grader doing a natural science unit at school or a thirty year old with a secret passion for airplanes, these books are for you! In this volume, you'll learn where cars came from and how they work. When you pop the hood, what are you looking at? How does gasoline-or electric batteries, or even steam-make a car move? Rev up your motor and take look at the combustible history of the automobile and its explosive effects on our modern lives.

DARK HORSE COMICS

SECRET LOVES OF GEEK GIRLS TP

(W) Margaret Atwood (A) Margaret Atwood

The Secret Loves of Geek Girls is a nonfiction anthology mixing prose, comics, and illustrated stories on the lives and loves of an amazing cast of female creators. Featuring work by Margaret Atwood (The Heart Goes Last), Mariko Tamaki (This One Summer), Trina Robbins (Wonder Woman), Marguerite Bennett (Marvel's A-Force), Noelle Stevenson (Nimona), Marjorie Liu (Monstress), Carla Speed McNeil (Finder), and over fifty MORE creators, it's a compilation of tales told from both sides of the tables: from the fans who love video games, comics, and sci-fi to those that work behind the scenes as creators and industry insiders.

DARK HORSE COMICS

SECRET LOVES OF GEEKS TP

(W) Margaret Atwood (A) Megan Kearney (CA) Becky Cloonan

The follow-up to the smash-hit The Secret Loves of Geek Girls, this brand new anthology features comic and prose stories from cartoonists and professional geeks about their most intimate, heartbreaking, and inspiring tales of love, sex, and dating. This volume includes creators of diverse genders, orientations, and cultural backgrounds. Featuring work by Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale), Gerard Way (Umbrella Academy), Patrick Rothfuss (The Name of the Wind), Dana Simpson (Phoebe and Her Unicorn), Gabby Rivera (America), Hope Larson, (Batgirl), Cecil Castellucci (Soupy Leaves Home), Valentine De Landro (Bitch Planet), Marley Zarcone (Shade), Sfé  R. Monster (Beyond: A queer comics anthology), Amy Chu (Wonder Woman), cover art by Becky Cloonan (Demo), and MORE!

SOURCE POINT PRESS

SHAM #1

(W) Tim Fuller (A) Various

Did you ever wonder what happens when copyrights run out? In this case, it means irreverent cartoonist, Tim Fuller, can take public domain funny books from the 40s and 50s and rewrite them with hilarious results. New stories for you, the hip, cynical reader. (You know who you are.) This issue features a malfunctioning robot out to destroy the human race, a cryptic warning from beyond the grave, a flatulent super duo battles a shady psychic, a lonely astronaut looking for lovin', a time traveler trapped on a strange planet, and MORE!

BOOM! STUDIOS

SMOOTH CRIMINALS #7 (OF 12)

(W) Kurt Lustgarten (A) Leisha Riddel (CA) Audrey Mok

Brenda and Mia, having pulled off the ultimate heist but lost the prize, are pulled back in for one MORE round in the fight for the Net of Indra! It's all or nothing as they take on Mia's arch-nemesis from the 1960s: the nefarious, notorious, ignominious Hatch Leonard.

PAPERCUTZ

SMURFS GN #24

SMURF REPORTER

(W) Peyo (A) Peyo

Now in paperback! Stop the presses! Blue Journalism is coming to the Smurfs Village. When word of mouth stories get distorted being passed along from Smurf to Smurf, Reporter Smurf is on the scene to get the scoop and report the facts! But what happens when the newspaper airs the village's dirty laundry for all to read? One reader is MORE than ready to believe what he sees in print...and his name is Gargamel!

IDW PUBLISHING

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG TP #3

BATTLE FOR ANGEL ISLAND

(W) Ian Flynn (A) Tracy Yardley (CA) Nathalie Fourdraine

Advance solicited for July release! A powerful new foe has set his sights on Angel Island, and Sonic and his friends must defend it at all costs! When Neo Metal Sonic-an evil robot with Sonic's speed, Dr. Eggman's intellect, and an unbreakable mechanical body-conquers the island to grow his power even MORE, Sonic and his friends must team up and take the fight to him. But even with the full power of the Resistance behind him, will Sonic be able to take down Neo Metal Sonic once and for all? Collects Sonic the Hedgehog issues #9-12.

NIPPAN IPS

SPARKLING ART OF CHIKA TAKEI SC

(A) Chika Takei

The first collection from popular Japanese illustrator Chika Takei. Takei's illustrations can be described as fancy, sparklingly cute, and adorably happy. Looking through this book, you'll see they're so much MORE than that. They are real, somewhat nostalgic, and completely original. This first collection features MORE than one hundred of her recent works.

MARVEL COMICS

SPIDER-MAN BY JOHN BYRNE OMNIBUS HC

(W) Bill Mantlo (A) John Byrne (CA) John Byrne

Every Spider-Man story illustrated by the legendary John Byrne, collected in one huge hardcover! Spidey is put through his paces as he teams with the Hulk, the Wasp, Ms. Marvel, Iron Fist, Captain Britain, Man-Thing, Thor, Luke Cage and MORE - and battles Man-Wolf, Doctor Octopus and the Ringer! Revisit chapter one of Spidey's history as the web-slinger faces his most fearsome foes for the first time! And a legend is reborn as Peter Parker returns to the Spider-Man costume, kicking off an amazing run featuring daring drama, fresh faces and classic foes! Collecting MARVEL TEAM-UP (1972) #53-55, #59-70 and #75; AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (1963) #189-190, #206 and ANNUAL #13; PETER PARKER, THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN (1976) #58; SPIDER-MAN: CHAPTER ONE #0-12; AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (1999) #1 (A & C STORIES), #2-11, #12 (A STORY) and #13-18; and MARVEL AUTHENTIX: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1. Rated T

MARVEL COMICS

SPIDER-MAN NOIR COMPLETE COLLECTION TP

(W) David Hine (A) Carmine Di Giandomenico (CA) Patrick Zircher

The hard-boiled adventures of the grittiest web-slinger in the Spider-Verse! In the dark days of the Great Depression, young reporter Peter Parker finds himself forever changed by a spider's bite - and resolves to take on crime and corruption as the urban vigilante called Spider-Man! And there are no shortage of foes - from gangland bosses the Goblin and Crime Master, to pulp-era twists on familiar faces like Kraven, Chameleon, Doctor Octopus and MORE! But will the seductive Felicia Hardy prove friend or foe? Plus: Spider-Man Noir enters the Spider-Verse via an encounter with Mysterio - and shares a spectacular team-up with a six-armed Spidey! And a brand-new video-comic adventure, adapted for print! Collecting SPIDER-MAN NOIR #1-4, SPIDER-MAN NOIR: EYES WITHOUT A FACE #1-4, EDGE OF SPIDER-VERSE #1, SPIDER-GEDDON: SPIDER-MAN NOIR VIDEO COMIC and material from SPIDER-VERSE TEAM-UP #1. Rated T+

MARVEL COMICS

SPIDER-MAN VS MYSTERIO TP

(W) Stan Lee (A) Steve Ditko (CA) John RomitaSr

When Spider-Man battles Mysterio, the stakes are far MORE deadly than just smoke and mirrors! Find out exactly how dangerous the master of illusion can be in this collection of Spidey's greatest showdowns with one of his oldest foes! Relive Quentin Beck's sinister, Steve Ditko-drawn debut - and larger-than-life battles illustrated by John Romita Sr., Ross Andru, Marcos Martin and MORE! Mysterio's mists and mysteries plague Peter Parker in wicked ways, from shrinking him to six inches tall to seemingly summoning all of Spidey's greatest foes! But is it always Beck under the iconic fishbowl helmet - or are there multiple Mysterios? And can even death stop his deceptions?! Collecting AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (1963) #13, #66-67 and #141-142; WEB OF SPIDER-MAN (1985) #90; FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN (2005) #11-13; AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (1999) #618-620; and material from PETER PARKER, THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN (1976) #50-51. Rated T

MARVEL COMICS

STAR WARS DOCTOR APHRA #32

(W) Si Spurrier (A) Wilton Santos (CA) Ashley Witter

UNSPEAKABLE REBEL SUPERWEAPON: Part 1  A NEW ADVENTURE STARTS HERE! •  After a year of close shaves, Doctor CHELLI APHRA is taking it easy and lying low. Probably herding banthas or something. She's smart like that, right? •  NAH, not really. The galaxy's shadiest archaeologist is back doing what she does best: busting into alien temples to steal horrifying weapons for huge profit. She just can't stop herself. •  But plenty of other people could. Powerful factions are watching closely: Rebel and Empire, familiar and strange - all calculating whether Aphra's MORE useful alive... or dead. Rated T

MARVEL COMICS

STAR WARS DOCTOR APHRA TP #5

(W) Si Spurrier (A) Emilio Laiso (CA) Ashley Witter

Doctor Aphra - worst among equals! On the run from the law in a massive alien metropolis, Aphra has ten hours to cross the hostile megacity before the bomb implanted in her throat explodes. And don't forget the pack of bounty hunters and crazed cops that are on her tail. No big deal, right? But there's one MORE wrinkle: Aphra can't stray MORE than a few paces from her companion without activating the bomb's proximity alert and blowing both of them up. And that companion is Triple-Zero - a sadistic, murderous droid who's MORE interested in Aphra's death than in playing nice! With undead hunters, monster trappers and the foulest divisions of the Imperial war machine between Aphra and salvation, is this the end for the galaxy's foremost amoral archaeologist? Collecting STAR WARS: DOCTOR APHRA 26-31, STAR WARS: DOCTOR APHRA ANNUAL 2. Rated T

MARVEL COMICS

STAR WARS ORIG MARVEL YRS #108 GOLDEN VAR #0

(W) Matthew Rosenberg (A) MORE (CA) Michael Golden

THE ALL-NEW NEXT ISSUE TO THE ORIGINAL MARVEL STAR WARS SERIES! A long time ago on a spinner rack far, far away...STAR WARS comics were a LOT different than they are now! With wild and intricately plotted storylines, MARVEL's historic original run introduced an array of unique heroes and villains to play alongside GEORGE LUCAS's incredibly popular science-fantasy characters. In celebration of MARVEL'S 80TH ANNIVERSARY, this Legends-era sequel to legendary comic book writer Archie Goodwin's "Crimson Forever" reunites HAN SOLO, LUKE SKYWALKER, PRINCESS LEIA, CHEWBACCA, C-3PO and R2-D2 with JAXXON, AMAIZA FOXTRAIN, DOMINA TAGGE and VALANCE THE HUNTER in a galaxy-threatening, nostalgic roller coaster! STRAP YOURSELVES IN! Rated T

PRINTERS ROW

STAR WARS SEARCH AND FIND HC

(W) Erin Rose Wage (A) Art Mawhinney

Travel to a galaxy far, far away in Star Wars: Search and Find. Travel across the Star Wars galaxy and explore sixteen illustrated scenes from The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi in this fun, search-and-find collection! Rey, Finn, and Chewbacca are counting on you to stay ahead of Kylo Ren! Think you've defeated the First Order? Hit the hyperdrive and blast to the back of the book for even MORE search-and-find adventures!

MARVEL COMICS

STAR WARS TIE FIGHTER #2 (OF 5)

(W) Jody Houser (A) Roge Antonia (CA) Tommy Lee Edwards

BETRAYAL AMONG THE RANKS! •  The TIE Fighter pilots of SHADOW WING come under fire from what appear to be their fellow IMPERIALS! •  Has the influence of THE REBELLION stretched further than anticipated? •  Or is there something MORE sinister at work? Rated T

HUMANOIDS

STATES OF MIND GN TP

(W) Patrice Guillon (A) Sebastien Samson

In constant flux between the transient euphoria and utter despair of biopolar disorder, Camille attempts to decode her mind and treat her illness.  However, she discovers that the will of the patient is not always enough to cure the ills of the mind, and the only way she can find a semblance of peace is when surrounded and supported, if not understood. It is this compassion which allows her to stay anchored in life, a buoy ebbing and flowing with the ocean. States of Mind's strength is in its unabashed and unapologetic account of the destruction and desolation that the disorder causes, but MORE importantly, the beautiful humanity and compassion that blossom in its wake.

HERO COLLECTOR

STNG USS ENTERPRISE NCC 1701D ILLUS HANDBOOK

(W) Ben Robinson

For the first time ever, the definitive illustrated guide of Captain Picard's Enterprise-D from Star Trek: The Next Generation! The Galaxy-class U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D, presented in MORE detail than ever before. This deluxe hardcover of Captain Picard's Enterprise features the ship's operational history, illustrations of all the key locations including the bridge, main engineering and sickbay, equipment and auxiliary vehicles, plus explanations of the science and technology. With isometric illustrations and technical information from official sources,this book provides an extraordinary reference guide. Also available with a die-cast miniature of the legendary starship!

HERO COLLECTOR

STNG USS ENTERPRISE NCC 1701D ILLUS HANDBOOK W COLLECTIBLE

(W) Ben Robinson

For the first time ever, the definitive illustrated guide of Captain Picard's Enterprise-D from Star Trek: The Next Generation! The Galaxy-class U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D, presented in MORE detail than ever before. This deluxe hardcover of Captain Picard's Enterprise features the ship's operational history, illustrations of all the key locations including the bridge, main engineering and sickbay, equipment and auxiliary vehicles, plus explanations of the science and technology. With isometric illustrations and technical information from official sources,this book provides an extraordinary reference guide. Also available with a die-cast miniature of the legendary starship!

INSIGHT COMICS

STRANGE HIGHWAYS ILLUSTRATED NOVEL HC

(W) Samwise Didier (A) Samwise Didier

Welcome to Texas! After seceding from the oppressive USA, the Lone Star Nation has been reduced to a desolate wasteland full of biker gangs, strip clubs, and run-down towns where justice usually comes in the form of a bullet. Traveling the strange highways of this new Texas, Jo Jo, the former "Feral Kid" in a traveling carnival, comes across an eccentric gallery of freaks and rogues: a young dancer on the run from her depraved father, a messianic head of a biker cult, and a gruesome collection of outcasts, cutthroats, and assassin clowns. Each confrontation brings Jo Jo closer to his ultimate target: the Rambling Man, the sinister ringleader of the dark carnival and the man who wants Jo Jo dead MORE than anyone. Of course, ourse that's just fine with Jo Jo, 'cause he feels the exact same way.