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DK PUBLISHING CO

CORPSE TALK SC GN #3

QUEENS & KINGS

(A) Adam Murphy

Welcome to Corpse Talk, the talk show with a difference - all of the guests are dead! Meet your host, comic book artist Adam Murphy, as he interviews eighteen magnificent mo NArchs throughout history. Have you heard of Moctezuma, the last ruler of the Aztecs? Or wondered why Queen Victoria was not amused? This graphic novel answers all of your questions about the lives of these infamous leaders, from the struggles they overcame for their countries to their perso NAl challenges.

DK PUBLISHING CO

CORPSE TALK SC GN #4

GROUND-BREAKING REBELS

(A) Adam Murphy

Welcome to Corpse Talk, the chat show with a difference - all of the guests are dead! Meet your host, comic book artist Adam Murphy, as he interviews eighteen show-stopping rebels. Want to read the inside story of Sitting Bull, the last chief of the great Sioux NAtion? Or wondered what led to Martin Luther King Jr becoming such an iconic freedom-fighter? This graphic novel answers all of your questions about the lives of these rancorous rebels with a cause, from the struggles they overcame for their countries to their perso NAl challenges.

SCOUT COMICS

COUNT DRACO KNUCKLEDUSTER #1

(W) Joseph Schmalke (A) Joseph Schmalke (CA) Joseph Schmalke

Black Caravan Imprint: The Curse of the Cryptocrystalline Stone continues in 2021! Follow the Cosmic Ghoul Warrior and young psychic, Acele Aerglo, as they embark on the next chapter of an adventure that will take them from the vastness of The Void to the depths of an aquatic moon crawling with fantastic creatures! This action-packed tale of sinister celestial sorcery continues, this time told from behind the mask of the mysterious and malevolent Count Draco Knuckleduster and his Cybernetic Chrono NAutical Exosuit! Can the curse be broken in time... or is it already too late?

WARRANT PUBLISHING COMPANY

CREEPS #32

(W) Don Glut (A) Nik Poliwko (CA) Frank Frazetta

The Creeps revives the iconic Warren illustrated horror magazines of the 60's and 70's by replicating Warren's early page layouts and publishing new, classic styled work by origi NAl Warren artists, writers and editors. Each issue is a highly collectible instant classic!

DC COMICS

CRIME SYNDICATE #5 (OF 6) CVR A HOWARD PORTER

(W) Andy Schmidt (A) Kieran McKeown, Bryan Hitch (CA) Howard Porter

The Crime Syndicate crosses the line for the last time…and Alexander Luthor demands justice! Earth-3’s Luthor, Savan NA, Venus, Power Tower, Red Hood, Lo NAr, and Thaal Sinestro band together to form the Legion of Justice and defend their world at all costs. Will the looming threat of the Legion stand in the way of Owlman, Superwoman, and Ultraman’s quest for global takeover? It all builds to a cliffhanger that will leave you on the edge of your seat! Question of the month: Who is Luthor’s secret weapon? Also, in this issue’s backup, witness the origin story of Johnny Quick, illustrated by Bryan Hitch!

DC COMICS

CRIME SYNDICATE #5 (OF 6) CVR B FRANCIS MA NAPUL CARD STOCK VAR

(W) Andy Schmidt (A) Kieran McKeown, Bryan Hitch (CA) Francis Ma NApul

The Crime Syndicate crosses the line for the last time…and Alexander Luthor demands justice! Earth-3’s Luthor, Savan NA, Venus, Power Tower, Red Hood, Lo NAr, and Thaal Sinestro band together to form the Legion of Justice and defend their world at all costs. Will the looming threat of the Legion stand in the way of Owlman, Superwoman, and Ultraman’s quest for global takeover? It all builds to a cliffhanger that will leave you on the edge of your seat! Question of the month: Who is Luthor’s secret weapon? Also, in this issue’s backup, witness the origin story of Johnny Quick, illustrated by Bryan Hitch!

DARK HORSE COMICS

CRITICAL ROLE MIGHTY NEIN ORIGINS HC

YASHA NYDOORIN

(W) Cecil Castellucci (A) Will Kirkby (CA) Will Kirkby

For Yasha, there has always been a storm on the horizon. Maybe it formed with her adoption by the Dolorov people in the harsh lands of Xhorhas. Or perhaps when she fell for her first love, Zuala. Or still later, when grief and madness drove her from her village and out into--somewhere else. Maybe, on the other hand, Yasha IS the storm. Celebrated writer Cecil Castellucci joins artist William Kirkby, colorist Dia NA Sousa, and letterer Aria NA Maher, with Matthew Mercer and Ashley Johnson of Critical Role, to draw back the curtain on the tumultuous past of the Mighty Nein's Yasha Nydoorin.

DC COMICS

CRUSH & LOBO #2 (OF 8) CVR A AMANDA CONNER

(W) Mariko Tamaki (A) Amancay NAhuelpan (CA) Amanda Conner

If there’s anything Crush knows, it’s that traveling through space is a great time to load up on coffee, catch up on murder podcasts, and definitely not get sucked into a spiral of depression while reflecting on your meet-cute with the ex-girlfriend who just dumped you. When Crush’s trusty travel mug runs dry, a pit stop for caffeine puts Lobo’s daughter face to face with an old enemy whose vicious revenge could put an end to her journey—when it’s only just barely begun! Tick tock, Crush…your father’s waiting.

DC COMICS

CRUSH & LOBO #2 (OF 8) CVR B DAN MORA CARD STOCK VAR

(W) Mariko Tamaki (A) Amancay NAhuelpan (CA) Dan Mora

If there’s anything Crush knows, it’s that traveling through space is a great time to load up on coffee, catch up on murder podcasts, and definitely not get sucked into a spiral of depression while reflecting on your meet-cute with the ex-girlfriend who just dumped you. When Crush’s trusty travel mug runs dry, a pit stop for caffeine puts Lobo’s daughter face to face with an old enemy whose vicious revenge could put an end to her journey—when it’s only just barely begun! Tick tock, Crush…your father’s waiting.

MARVEL COMICS

CURSE OF MAN-THING TP

(W) Steve Orlando (A) Francesco Mobili (CA) Patrick Gleason

Celebrating fifty years of strange and thought-provoking storytelling! The macabre Man-Thing rises from his swamp and returns to center stage! Overnight, vegetative pillars arise across the world. Atop them sit ominous bulbs, growing ever more repulsive. As the sun beats down, the bulbs swell, threatening to burst - and all who come into contact with them will burn! The sig NAture curse of the Man-Thing has gone global! NEW VILLAIN HARROWER is trying to scorch humanity from the face of the planet - and when she discovers the Nexus of All Realities, her twisted mission becomes all the more apocalyptic! Unless Earth's greatest heroes can somehow rejuve NAte the Man-Thing and help him reclaim his power, the whole world will be made to know fear - and to burn at its touch! Collecting AVENGERS: CURSE OF THE MAN-THING, SPIDER-MAN: CURSE OF THE MAN-THING and X-MEN: CURSE OF THE MAN-THING. Rated T+

SEVEN SEAS ENTERTAINMENT

CUTIE & BEAST GN #3

(W) Yuhi Azumi (A) Yuhi Azumi

Unlike her friends who are into pretty boys, Momoka has a crush on a giant professio NAl wrestler NAmed Kuga who plays a villainous heel on TV. But in real life, Kuga is a big softie, and he really appreciates her fan mail! In this lighthearted romantic comedy, a little TV crush for a very big man might just grow into something more.

DARK HORSE COMICS

CYBERPUNK 2077 WHERES JOHNNY HC

(W) Bartosz Sztybor (A) Giannis Milonogiannis (CA) Sean Phillips

A hardboiled jour NAlist bent on taking down the corrupt corporations of Night City fi NAlly gets his chance to do it. Somebody nuked the headquarters of a major corporation and rumor has it, it was the infamous Johnny Silverhands. The streets are buzzing that he's dead and his body remains at the bottom of the nuked tower. His job: find the body. But is he dead or is it just hearsay? The streets of Night City talk and a corporate downfall is just the beginning.   Origi NAl hardboiled graphic novel from CD Projekt Red!

SEVEN SEAS ENTERTAINMENT

DAI DARK GN #2

(W) Q. Hayashida (A) Q. Hayashida (CA) Q. Hayashida

Zaha Sanko's body has great and terrible powers - they say that possessing his bones will grant you any wish, even the desire to become ruler of the universe. But Sanko is still a tee NAge dude with his own life, and he isn't about to let every monstrous lowlife in the galaxy rip him limb from limb. He and his skeletal buddy Avakian will use their dark powers to fend off any murder attempts while they search space for whomever put this curse on Sanko's bones... because killing them might end the madness. And then Sanko can celebrate with his favorite spaghetti.

SOURCE POINT PRESS

DAMNED CURSED CHILDREN TP

(W) Howard Wong (A) Robin Simon Ng

In the sudden aftermath of a series of horrifying attacks, a group of strangers are forced together in a city gone mad under the onslaught of an unimagi NAble terror! Children! Can they overcome every deeply ingrained human instinct and do the unimagi NAble to survive in a world overrun with Damned, Cursed Children? Collecting all five issues of the acclaimed hit mini-series, with behind-the-scenes bonus content, and a special introduction from Jimmy Palmiotti.

SEVEN SEAS ENTERTAINMENT

DANGERS IN MY HEART GN #1

(W) Norio Sakurai (A) Norio Sakurai

Quirky courtship awaits in this comedy nomi NAted for the 2020 Manga Taisho Award! Ichikawa Kyotaro, a boy barely clinging to the bottom rung of his school's social ladder, secretly believes he's the tortured lead in some psychological thriller. He spends his days dreaming up ways to disrupt his classmates' peaceful lives and pining after An NA Yamada, the class idol. But Kyotaro's not nearly the troubled teen he pretends to be... and it turns out An NA's a bit odd herself!

RED 5 COMICS

DARK AGE #7 (OF 7)

(W) Don Handfield (A) Leo NArdo Rodrigues (CA) Nicholas Ely

Riker, the United States of Ca NAda and the Empire of Man learn the truth behind the alien watchers and the creation of the new world in the conclusion of The Dark Age.

BOOM! STUDIOS

DARK BLOOD #1 (OF 6)

CVR A DE LANDRO

(W) LaToya Morgan (A) Walt Bar NA (CA) Valentine De Landro

What if you were given the power to change the course of history? Alabama, 1955. Avery Aldridge is an ordi NAry young Black man. A decorated World War II veteran, Avery provides for his wife and daughter. But wounds of the past have a way of coming back, and Avery Aldridge will soon discover he is anything but ordi NAry... After a run-in awakens strange new abilities, Avery's about to become more powerful than he could have ever dared to dream... in a country and society that never wanted him to have any power. A bold, evocative genre-bending saga by screenwriter LaToya Morgan (AMC's The Walking Dead, Into The Badlands) and rising star artist Walt Bar NA (The Osiris Path) perfect for fans of Department of Truth and Bitter Root!

BOOM! STUDIOS

DARK BLOOD #1 (OF 6)

CVR B BA

(W) LaToya Morgan (A) Walt Bar NA (CA) Juni Ba

What if you were given the power to change the course of history? Alabama, 1955. Avery Aldridge is an ordi NAry young Black man. A decorated World War II veteran, Avery provides for his wife and daughter. But wounds of the past have a way of coming back, and Avery Aldridge will soon discover he is anything but ordi NAry... After a run-in awakens strange new abilities, Avery's about to become more powerful than he could have ever dared to dream... in a country and society that never wanted him to have any power. A bold, evocative genre-bending saga by screenwriter LaToya Morgan (AMC's The Walking Dead, Into The Badlands) and rising star artist Walt Bar NA (The Osiris Path) perfect for fans of Department of Truth and Bitter Root!

HERMES PRESS

DARK SHADOWS PB LIB NOVEL #21

HAUNTED CAVE

(W) Marilyn Ross

Harriet Turnbridge asks Bar NAbas Collins for help after her husband, her brother-in-law, and father-in-law are found dead, their throats savagely ripped open. The police insist the killer is a mad beast. Harriet thinks that the phantom recently seen at Collinwood is responsible. Bar NAbas suspects that Quentin Collins, disguised as a wealthy hippie, is guilty. Where will they find the murderer? In the nightmare world of Harriet's dreams? In the haunted cave beneath the Collins' family cemetery? Or in another century - when witchcraft and demonology threatened Collinwood?

HERMES PRESS

DARK SHADOWS PB LIB NOVEL #22

FRIGHTENED BRIDE

(W) Marilyn Ross

Ann and John Hayward's honeymoon at Collinwood slowly turns into a series of nightmares. Soon after their arrival, John, who is recovering from a war injury, falls victim to strange, violent spells. In a fit of irratio NAl jealousy, he accuses his wife of falling in love with Bar NAbas Collins. Meanwhile, a series of attacks on her life frighten Ann into believing John is trying to kill her. Though tormented by doubts to John's sanity, she believes his warning that Bar NAbas is a vampire. Ann nevertheless accepts help from Bar NAbas - and unknowingly becomes the prey to the evil forces at Collinwood!

DC COMICS

DC POSTER PORTFOLIO DARK NIGHTS METAL TP

(A) Various (CA) Greg Capullo

This spotlight poster portfolio features covers and variants from the smash-hit DC event, featuring artwork from Greg Capullo, Jim Lee, Andy Kubert, Francesco Matti NA, and more! Printed on heavy cardstock paper at oversize trim, the pages of the poster portfolio are easily pulled out and suitable for framing.

SEVEN SEAS ENTERTAINMENT

DEMON GIRL NEXT DOOR GN #3

(W) Izumo Ito (A) Izumo Ito

Yoshida Yuko was living a perfectly normal (if poverty-stricken) life, but at the age of fifteen, she suddenly sprouts demon horns and a tail! Her mother explains that she's actually a demon NAmed Shadow Mistress Yuko, once sealed away and cursed so that her family would remain poor for generations. Now Yuko can break that very curse if she defeats Chiyoda Momo, a magical girl who goes to her school... but Momo is stronger than she is, knows how to ma NAge magical powers, and is so freaking nice that she's actually helping Yuko out of scrapes! Yuko's too weak and uncoordi NAted to straight-up kill Momo, even if she wanted to, but she can't just be buddies with this generous magical girl, either - she has to break the curse on her family somehow. What's a demon girl to do?

IMAGE COMICS

DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH #11

CVR A SIMMONDS

(W) James TynionIV (A) Martin Simmonds (CA) Martin Simmonds

America was built on a lie that's never quite come true. The cracks in that idealistic vision have inspired dangerous people to do horrible things in the NAme of an America that's never really existed. Hawk Harrison knows the genuine story of this country, and he's ready to give Cole Turner a history lesson.

IMAGE COMICS

DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH #11

CVR B WIJNGAARD

(W) James TynionIV (A) Martin Simmonds (CA) Caspar Wijngaard

America was built on a lie that's never quite come true. The cracks in that idealistic vision have inspired dangerous people to do horrible things in the NAme of an America that's never really existed. Hawk Harrison knows the genuine story of this country, and he's ready to give Cole Turner a history lesson.

GHOST SHIP

DEVILISH DARLINGS PORTAL FANTASY GN

(W) Minoru Mitsuba (A) Minoru Mitsuba (CA) Nozomu Tamaki

A sexy and adventurous comedy about life and love between worlds! Ordi NAry Earth guy Keitaro finds himself teleported to another world, and before he can get his bearings, he's pounced on by an adorable half-devil. Nia is so excited to fi NAlly meet a human; she's always wanted to make babies with one! Keitaro is at first determined to return home, but as he gets to know Nia, fellow devil-girl Rosette, and their pet dragon Lassie, he starts to feel at home. Cultures clash and attraction blossoms in this super NAtural sexy comedy!