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DARK HORSE COMICS

COMPLETE ELFQUEST TP #1

ORIGINAL QUEST

(W) Wendy Pini (A) Wendy Pini (CA) Wendy Pini

Discover the legendary ElfQuest! Chief Cutter and the Wolfriders are driven from their forest home by threat of annihilation. As they wander an ever-changing landscape in search of a new home, they are confronted by fearful and vengeful humans, power-hungry trolls, and other mysterious elfin tribes. Alliances are forged, enemies discovered, and savage battles fought in this epic fantasy adventure! Collects ElfQuest #1-#20. o The entire Original Quest in stunning black and white, under one cover! o Winner of the Golden Pen Award from the Young Adult Advisory Committee! o A value-priced 720-page collection! o Celebrate 35 years of ElfQuest!  

DARK HORSE COMICS

COMPLETE ELFQUEST TP #5

(W) Wendy Pini (A) Wendy Pini

The latest collection of the classic fantasy series by Wendy and Richard Pini continues the canonical adventures of the Wolfriders. With Cutter leading his warriors against the human warlord Grohmul Djun, his chief-daughter Ember takes her tribemates far away into unknown lands, where she pits her skills and courage against new threats and unexpected revelations. This fifth volume of the New York Times best-selling series weighs in at a hefty 760 pages. It collects material from Elfquest: Hidden Years #16-29, as well as the entire "Wild Hunt" sequence from Elfquest comics (vol.2). A stunning collection of art and story from Wendy and Richard Pini and others.

DARK HORSE COMICS

COMPLETE ELFQUEST TP #7

(W) Wendy Pini (A) Wendy Pini (CA) Wendy Pini

The Wolfriders embark on their final quest! Generation after generation, for thousands of years, the elves of the World of Two Moons sought refuge from the savagery of their primitive planet. For a while, it seemed they had found it in the legendary Palace of the High Ones. Within, Chief Cutter and his tribe of Wolfriders avoid nature's wrath and the threat of an ever-expanding human population. Yet comfort comes at a price. The seductive magical influence of the Palace may lead to the feral elves' undoing and Cutter realizes he must embark upon the most important quest of all! Collects ElfQuest: The Final Quest volumes 1-4.

MARVEL COMICS

CONAN CHRONICLES EPIC COLLECTION TP BATTLE SHAMLA PASS

(W) Timothy Truman (A) Tomas Giorello (CA) More

Conan leaves his trials behind for a new life - as a mercenary! Presenting all-action adaptations of classic Robert E. Howard tales, plus original adventures of everyone's favorite barbarian! Howard's "Black Colossus" sees Conan face his bloodiest battle yet, when the mercenaries of Amalric clash with the demonic hordes of Natohk! Then, Conan becomes the leader of Princess Yasmela's Khorajan army! But another princess wants Conan for herself - the immortal and vampiric Akivasha! The Cimmerian spends a tumultuous time fighting and looting with the Kozaki, a wild group of fellow mercenaries also known as the Free Companions! Plus, Conan faces pirate politics and a centuries-old mystery in an adaptation of Howard's "Iron Shadows in the Moon"! Collecting CONAN THE CIMMERIAN #8-25. Parental Advisory

MARVEL COMICS

CONAN SERPENT WAR #1 (OF 4)

(W) Jim Zub (A) Scot Eaton (CA) Carlos Pacheco

THE WRATH OF THE SERPENT GOD! WARRIORS ACROSS TIME DEFY THE ELDER GODS! JAMES ALLISON will soon die. But it's not his first death. He's lived many lives, in many places - lives he can recall in vivid detail. But when an Elder God called the WYRM reaches across time to James, an ages-spanning quest begins! The serpent god SET plans to usher in an eternity of darkness, and only the chosen warriors across time and space have a hope of stopping him: CONAN THE BARBARIAN, SOLOMON KANE, DARK AGNES, and the man known as MOON KNIGHT! In an unprecedented comics event, Robert E. Howard's characters join forces along with Marvel's Moon Knight, in an all-new saga built on REH and Marvel lore from across the ages! PARENTAL ADVISORY

MARVEL COMICS

CONAN SERPENT WAR #1 (OF 4)

CAMUNCOLI VIRGIN CONNECTING VAR

(W) Jim Zub (A) Scot Eaton (CA) Giuseppe Camuncoli

THE WRATH OF THE SERPENT GOD! WARRIORS ACROSS TIME DEFY THE ELDER GODS! JAMES ALLISON will soon die. But it's not his first death. He's lived many lives, in many places - lives he can recall in vivid detail. But when an Elder God called the WYRM reaches across time to James, an ages-spanning quest begins! The serpent god SET plans to usher in an eternity of darkness, and only the chosen warriors across time and space have a hope of stopping him: CONAN THE BARBARIAN, SOLOMON KANE, DARK AGNES, and the man known as MOON KNIGHT! In an unprecedented comics event, Robert E. Howard's characters join forces along with Marvel's Moon Knight, in an all-new saga built on REH and Marvel lore from across the ages! PARENTAL ADVISORY

MARVEL COMICS

CONAN SERPENT WAR #2 (OF 4)

(W) Jim Zub (A) Stephen Segovia (CA) Carlos Pacheco

THE WRATH OF THE SERPENT GOD! WARRIORS ACROSS TIME DEFY THE ELDER GODS! JAMES ALLISON will soon die. But it's not his first death. He's lived many lives, in many places - lives he can recall in vivid detail. But when an Elder God called the WYRM reaches across time to James, an ages-spanning quest begins! The serpent god SET plans to usher in an eternity of darkness, and only the chosen warriors across time and space have a hope of stopping him: CONAN THE BARBARIAN, SOLOMON KANE, DARK AGNES, and the man known as MOON KNIGHT! In an unprecedented comics event, Robert E. Howard's characters join forces along with Marvel's Moon Knight, in an all-new saga built on REH and Marvel lore from across the ages! PARENTAL ADVISORY

MARVEL COMICS

CONAN SERPENT WAR #2 (OF 4)

CAMUNCOLI VIRGIN CONNECTING VAR

(W) Jim Zub (A) Stephen Segovia (CA) Giuseppe Camuncoli

THE WRATH OF THE SERPENT GOD! WARRIORS ACROSS TIME DEFY THE ELDER GODS! JAMES ALLISON will soon die. But it's not his first death. He's lived many lives, in many places - lives he can recall in vivid detail. But when an Elder God called the WYRM reaches across time to James, an ages-spanning quest begins! The serpent god SET plans to usher in an eternity of darkness, and only the chosen warriors across time and space have a hope of stopping him: CONAN THE BARBARIAN, SOLOMON KANE, DARK AGNES, and the man known as MOON KNIGHT! In an unprecedented comics event, Robert E. Howard's characters join forces along with Marvel's Moon Knight, in an all-new saga built on REH and Marvel lore from across the ages! PARENTAL ADVISORY

MARVEL COMICS

CONAN THE BARBARIAN #12

(W) Jason Aaron (A) Mahmud A. Asrar (CA) Esad Ribic

THE EPIC CONCLUSION OF "THE LIFE & DEATH OF CONAN"! •  RAZAZEL has risen! •  CONAN has fallen! •  CROM may not care, but you CANNOT miss this issue! •  Plus: The final chapter of the all-new novella "BLACK STARLIGHT"! Parental Advisory

MARVEL COMICS

CONAN TP HOUR OF DRAGON

(W) Roy Thomas (A) Gil Kane (CA) Gil Kane

Presenting Marvel's epic adaptation of Robert E. Howard's sole Conan novel, The Hour of the Dragon, plus its amazing comic book sequels! The evil Xaltotun has returned from the dark ages of Acheron to depose Conan, King of Aquilonia. But while the world thinks him dead, Conan battles his way from dungeon to tower and mounts an all-out war - for upon usurpers, Conan must mete out a savage vengeance! In the process, he encounters Zenobia, the stunning slave woman who will become a key figure in his future. Classic creators Roy Thomas, Gil Kane and John Buscema bring the gripping story of palace intrigue and eldritch horrors to life - and for the first time ever, the complete saga is presented in full color! Collecting GIANT-SIZE CONAN #1-4, SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN (1974) #8 (E STORY) and #10 and CONAN ANNUAL #4-5. Parental Advisory

MARVEL COMICS

CONTAGION TP

(W) Ed Brisson (A) Roge Antonio (CA) Juan Jose Ryp

A tale of terror unlike any the Marvel Universe has ever seen! An evil beyond understanding has arrived on Earth - and now it's poised to overwhelm the planet! A strange substance is taking over heroes and citizens alike - draining them of their life force, stealing their knowledge and abilities - and neither science nor magic can stop it! Where did this horror come from? Can anything destroy it? And who will fall to its awful, overwhelming power? As the dread contagion spreads, it's going to take every one of New York's defenders and protectors to maintain life as we know it! But how many will they lose in the process? Collecting CONTAGION #1-5. Rated T+

ANTARCTIC PRESS

COOKIE & KID #6 (OF 6)

(W) Alex Kosakowski (A) Alex Kosakowski

The Hill King has arrived and demands answers about the human intruder. With the entire kingdom joining the search, Cookie and Mutt can't keep the Kid hidden much monger now. Cookie, Mutt, and Sylva have one last chance to reunite the human with her lost dog, until they discover the Kid is nowhere to be found!

IMAGE COMICS

COPRA #3

(W) Michel Fiffe (A) Michel Fiffe (CA) Michel Fiffe

"TICKING TEETH" In this final showdown between COPRA and their cybernetic opponents, it's out with the old, fallen comrades, and in with the new recruit. Will our team's past nightmares come back to haunt them? And why does a desperate government cult care? You would, too, if your séance sparked an apocalypse.

IDW PUBLISHING

CORTO MALTESE GN #1 (OF 12)

UNDER THE SIGN OF CAPRICORN

(W) Hugo Pratt (A) Hugo Pratt (CA) Hugo Pratt

This book, the first of 12 volumes, launches the definitive English language edition of Hugo Pratt's masterpiece, presented in the original oversized B&W format with new translations made from Pratt's original Italian scripts. Long before the term "graphic novel" entered the popular lexicon-ten years before Will Eisner's A Contract with God-Hugo Pratt pioneered the long-form "drawn literature" story. Corto Maltese set the standard for all adult adventure comics in Europe. By the mid-1970s Corto was the continent's most popular series and Hugo Pratt the world's leading graphic novelist. Hugo Pratt's peripatetic sailor was featured in a series of 29 stories. The adventures of this modern Ulysses are set during the first 30 years of the 20th Century in such exotic locales as Pratt's native Venice, the steppes of Manchuria, the Caribbean islands, the Danakil deserts, the Amazon forests, and the waves of the Pacific. Corto Maltese: Under the Sign of Capricorn collects the first six inter-connected short stories Pratt created in France in the early 1970s: "The Secret of Tristan Bantam," "Rendez-vous in Bahia," "Sureshot Samba," "The Brazilian Eagle," "So Much for Gentlemen of Fortune," and "The Seagull's Fault."

IDW PUBLISHING

CORTO MALTESE GN #2 (OF 12)

BEYOND THE WINDY ISLES

(W) Hugo Pratt (A) Hugo Pratt (CA) Hugo Pratt

The second of twelve volumes presenting the definitive English-language edition of Hugo Pratt's masterpiece in the original oversized B&W format!

IDW PUBLISHING

CORTO MALTESE GN BALLAD OF THE SALTY SEA

(W) Hugo Pratt (A) Hugo Pratt (CA) Hugo Pratt

Celebrate this milestone in the history of graphic novels, winner of the world's first-ever "Best Graphic Novel" award, taking the prize in 1976 at the Angoulême Fesitval. Originally serialized beginning in 1967, this book is universally acknowledged as Hugo Pratt's masterpiece, in which he introduces Corto Maltese to the world. Corto is but one of a strong ensemble cast of characters whose lives permeate the entire 12-book series. It is here that we also meet the young and beautiful Pandora, her brother Cain, the mysterious criminal mastermind Monk, the grim and ferocious Rasputin, Lieutenant Slutter of the German Navy, and the natives Skull and Tarao. The Ballad of the Salty Sea is also hailed as the first example of the literary comic strip. Pratt was inspired by Conrad, Stevenson, and London, but even more directly by Henry de Vere Stacpool's Blue Lagoon, from which the author got the idea of a small island in the Pacific which he named "Escondida."

IDW PUBLISHING

CORTO MALTESE GN GOLDEN HOUSE OF SAMARKAND

(W) Hugo Pratt (A) Hugo Pratt (CA) Hugo Pratt

Corto Maltese sets out on another globetrotting adventure after the discovery of a Byron manuscript in a mosque on the Isle of Rhodes. Set in the years 1921-22, the action soon shifts to Turkey, Azerbaijan, and the Caspian Sea, following the footsteps of the legendary Silk Road, as Corto Maltese searches for the fabled treasure of Alexander the Great. A parade of fascinating characters are introduced, including the Whirling Dervishes, Joseph Stalin (with whom Corto is on a first-name basis), the Hashinin sect of assassins, the Turkish general Enver Pasha, and the return of Venexiana Stevenson and Rasputin (who has just escaped from the dreaded prison known as "The Golden House of Samarkand.")

IDW PUBLISHING

CORTO MALTESE GN IN SIBERIA

(W) Hugo Pratt (A) Hugo Pratt (CA) Hugo Pratt

With this book Hugo Pratt leaves behind the short story form he'd used for 21 interrelated tales and presents a truly epic graphic novel. In the aftermath of the Russian Revolution and the First World War, Corto Maltese is engaged by the Red Lanterns-a Chinese secret society made up entirely of women-to find an armored train laden with gold that belonged to the last Russian Tsar, Nicholas II. They aren't the only ones lusting after the treasure. The adventure, which shifts from the hidden courts of Venice to the mysterious alleys of Hong Kong, from Shanghai to Manchuria and Mongolia to Siberia, also attracts regular and irregular armies, as well as revolutionaries and counter-revolutionaries.

IDW PUBLISHING

CORTO MALTESE GN TANGO

(W) Hugo Pratt (A) Hugo Pratt (CA) Hugo Pratt

In 1923 Buenos Aires, while searching for a missing friend, Corto finds himself locked in a dangerous, yet elegant, game of cat and mouse. Before long, his investigation brings him up against an organized crime syndicate known as the "Warsavia" and their underworld network. Just as Fable of Venice was Pratt's homage to his hometown, Tango is a nod to Buenos Aires, where the cartoonist lived during his earliest creative successes in the late 1940s and 1950s. The atmosphere of the story is steeped in the sensual music of the tango, whose melodies almost seem to emerge from the artwork, with close-ups of the dance steps framed by Pratt with extraordinary effectiveness. The first English-language translation of Hugo Pratt's graphic novel set in Argentina.

IDW PUBLISHING

CORTO MALTESE GN THE ETHIOPIAN

(W) Hugo Pratt (A) Hugo Pratt (CA) Hugo Pratt

When Corto Maltese arrives in the Middle East and Africa in 1918 the shifting sands and loyalties reveal colonial powers still battling for domination over each other and the indigenous people. The desert of Yemen, controlled by the fading Ottoman Empire, is the setting for "In the Name of Allah, the Merciful and Compassionate," where Corto meets Cush, the Danikil warrior with whom he establishes a close yet conflicted relationship. In "The Coup de Grace" the stubborn racism of an English commander of a small fort in British Somaliland leads to conflict with Cush and the Dervish army of Sayyid Mohamed, whom the British call "The Mad Mullah." The action moves to Ethiopia amidst inter-tribal conflict in "...and of Other Romeos and Other Juliets," as Cush introduces Corto to the mysterious and powerful shaman Shamael, who hears the voices of the dead and of devils. German East Africa is the background of "The Leopard-Men of the Rufiji," where Corto is engulfed in a dreamlike atmosphere that reveals how African justice operates outside the constraints of "white" law.

ARCHIE COMIC PUBLICATIONS

COSMO MIGHTY MARTIAN #2 (OF 5)

CVR A YARDLEY

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

BRAND NEW SERIES! Our mighty hero Cosmo experiences a strange vision that could finally lead his team to victory against the vicious Venusian Queen Hesper... or spell peril for him and his friends!

ARCHIE COMIC PUBLICATIONS

COSMO MIGHTY MARTIAN #2 (OF 5)

CVR B FONSECA

(W) Ian Flynn (A) Tracy Yardley (CA) Mauro Fonseca

BRAND NEW SERIES! Our mighty hero Cosmo experiences a strange vision that could finally lead his team to victory against the vicious Venusian Queen Hesper... or spell peril for him and his friends!

ARCHIE COMIC PUBLICATIONS

COSMO MIGHTY MARTIAN #2 (OF 5)

CVR C SKELLY

(W) Ian Flynn (A) Tracy Yardley (CA) Diana Skelly

BRAND NEW SERIES! Our mighty hero Cosmo experiences a strange vision that could finally lead his team to victory against the vicious Venusian Queen Hesper... or spell peril for him and his friends!

DARK HORSE COMICS

COUNT CROWLEY RELUCTANT MONSTER HUNTER #3 (OF 4)

(W) David Dastmalchain (A) Lukas Ketner (CA) Lukas Ketner

Simon Church is fading fast in the city above and Molly is held captive by Dr. Cocteau's gas-men below, but something stirs in the tunnels. How much of the golem is still in the man, or the man in the golem? And can either be enough to stop Dr. Cocteau once he has the artifact he seeks? The end of the adaptation of Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden's hit novel is collected for the first time in this hardcover edition. It features art by series veteran Peter Bergting (The Untamed) and colors by Michelle Madsen (Witchfinder, Crimson Lotus). Collects The Conjurors #1-#4.

MARVEL COMICS

CRAZY TP

(W) Gerry Duggan (A) Don Simpson (CA) David Nakayama

Marvel's most demented humor mascot is back: Obnoxio the Clown! No hero is safe! No comic-book event is sacred! Have we gone Crazy? Yes! And to prove it, we've unsealed the Crazy Vault and rummaged through the hilarious history of the classic funny mag! Witness Obnoxio's unsettling origin and cringe as he takes on the X-Men! Go mean green with Chester Weems, the Teen Hulk! Brace yourself for Retread Funnies, classic Silver Age tales with a twist! Experience the Do-It-Yourself Comic Book! And split your sides with more Marvel mirth! Plus, to top things off, enjoy a gallery of adorable Marvel Meow variant covers! We're Crazy? You're crazy! Collecting CRAZY (2019) #1; OBNOXIO THE CLOWN #1; and material from CRAZY MAGAZINE #9, #20, #22, #28, #31, #39, #42, #57, #59-60, #62-63, #65-66, #68-72, #75-90 and #92-94; plus MARVEL MEOW VARIANTS. Rated T+