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WATSON GUPTILL

STAN LEE MASTER CLASS SC

(W) STAN LEE (A) Various (CA) Romita Sr

In STAN LEE's Master Class, comics icon Lee provides aspiring comics artists with the modern tools they need to succeed in the comic book creating world. Focusing on topics like anatomy, perspective, and character design, as well as brand new topics like manga art styles, digital art, and more, this is the next step for those looking to perfect their superhero rendering and create fantastic comics worlds perfect for today's modern comic book audience. With examples from his classic collaborations at Marvel Comics and from today's top comics artists, Lee builds on concepts only touched upon in his previous instructional offerings and provides a pathway for aspiring artists to bring their comic book artwork to professional-quality levels.

MARVEL COMICS

AVENGERS VS FANTASTIC FOUR TP

(W) STAN LEE (A) Jack Kirby (CA) Gil Kane

Earth's Mightiest Heroes and Marvel's First Family share some of their greatest adventures! First, it's the battle of the century: the Hulk vs. the Thing! And it'll take the combined forces of both teams to stop the destruction! Worlds collide again when Ultron-7 crashes Quicksilver and Crystal's wedding! And the Avengers and the Fantastic Four each have roles to play in cosmic encounters with Annihilus and the Skrulls! Then, on a break from the FF, Mister Fantastic and the Invisible Woman join the Avengers for the Super-Nova Saga! The New Avengers and the Fantastic Four face the Kree - but why are Hank Pym and the Mighty Avengers breaking into the Baxter Building?! Collecting FANTASTIC FOUR (1961) #25-26, #150, #255-256 and ANNUAL #19; AVENGERS (1963) #127, #233, #301-303 and ANNUAL #14; NEW AVENGERS GUEST-STARRING THE FANTASTIC FOUR; and MIGHTY AVENGERS (2007) #25-26. Rated T

MARVEL COMICS

FANTASTIC FOUR GRAND DESIGN TP

(W) Tom Scioli (A) Tom Scioli (CA) Tom Scioli

The best-selling GRAND DESIGN format continues with Marvel's First Family! Critically acclaimed cartoonist Tom Scioli re-examines the FF's early days in the "sole-authorship" tradition made famous by Ed Piskor's X-MEN: GRAND DESIGN trilogy! Join the Watcher and witness how it all began for Mister Fantastic, the Invisible Girl, the Human Torch and the Thing! And relive the debuts of the biggest friends and foes in the FF's history - Doctor Doom, the Black Panther, Galactus, the Mole Man, the Inhumans and more - as the fabulous Fantastic Four receive the GRAND DESIGN treatment! Plus: Re-experience the comic book that kick-started the entire Marvel Age of Comics - the legendary first appearance of the FF by STAN LEE and Jack Kirby! Collecting FANTASTIC FOUR: GRAND DESIGN #1-2 and FANTASTIC FOUR (1961) #1. Rated T

TWOMORROWS PUBLISHING

MARVEL COMICS IN THE 1960S SC

(W) Pierre A. Comtois (A) Jack Kirby (CA) Na

After being relegated to the realm of children's literature for the first 25 years of its history, the comic book industry experienced an unexpected flowering in the early 1960s. A celebration of that emergence, Marvel Comics in the 1960s: An Issue-by-Issue Field Guide to a Pop Culture Phenomenon takes the reader from the legendary company's first fumbling beginnings as helmed by savvy editor/writer STAN LEE (aided by such artists as Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko), to the full maturity of its wild, colorful, offbeat grandiosity.

MARVEL COMICS

MARVEL TALES DOCTOR STRANGE #1 #0

(W) STAN LEE (A) Steve Ditko (CA) In-Hyuk Lee

By the hoary hosts of Hoggoth, Doctor Strange works his magic as we celebrate the 80th anniversary of the House of Ideas with the era-spanning MARVEL TALES! This anthology series shines a spotlight on fan-favorite characters, features timeless stories and highlights some of our most impressive talent from the past eight decades. First, the legendary pairing of STAN LEE and Steve Ditko debut the incomparable Stephen Strange as Earth's Sorcerer Supreme in STRANGE TALES (1951) #110! Then, in DOCTOR STRANGE (1968) #169-170, Roy Thomas and Dan Adkins offer their take on Strange's origin - and serve up a rematch with his first foe, the dream-manipulating Nightmare! And the skillful spellcaster called Clea joins the fight against the nefarious Nicodemus, who's out to steal the sorcerer's soul in a memorable tale from MARVEL FANFARE (1982) #5 by Chris Claremont and Marshall Rogers! Rated T

MARVEL COMICS

MODOK TP HEAD TRIPS

(W) STAN LEE (A) Jack Kirby (CA) Sal Buscema

M.O.D.O.K. takes on the Marvel Universe in this heady collection of his greatest hits! A.I.M.'s most bizarre creation, the Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing, has a brain as powerful as it is oversized - and a burning desire for world domination! Watch as M.O.D.O.K. butts heads with Captain America, Iron Man, the Champions, the Hulk and the Fantastic Four - and even takes a bride?! Plus: M.O.D.O.K. gathers a team of villains for the ultimate heist! And on Battleworld, M.O.D.O.K. is the fearsome Merc with the Maw! But what happens when the Avengers are transformed into M.O.D.O.K.s too?! Collecting CAPTAIN AMERICA (1968) #133, INCREDIBLE HULK (1968) #287-290, SUPER-VILLAIN TEAM-UP: M.O.D.O.K.'S 11 #1-5, FANTASTIC FOUR: ATAQUE DEL M.O.D.O.K.!, MARVEL ADVENTURES THE AVENGERS #9, M.O.D.O.K.: ASSASSIN #1-5 and material from TALES OF SUSPENSE (1959) #93-94 and IRON MAN ANNUAL #4. Parental Advisory

MARVEL COMICS

SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN TP LO THIS MONSTER

(W) STAN LEE (A) John RomitaSr (CA) John RomitaSr

Spider-Man swings into a brand-new magazine-sized format - and the results are spectacular! The year is 1968. With John Romita Sr. channeling film noir in his visuals and STAN LEE offering longer stories for a more mature readership, these were Spidey tales like nothing that had come before! In the first issue, told in glorious halftone black and white, things get political as Richard Raleigh bids to be the next mayor of New York - but will his campaign be derailed by a monster running amok in the Big Apple? Then, Lee and Romita go fittingly full-color for the Green Goblin's high-flying return - and deliver a feature-length showdown between Spidey and his archnemesis! Plus: Revisit the origin of Spider-Man - as retold by Stan and his brother, Larry Lieber! Collecting SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN (1968) #1-2. All Ages

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

TRICK OF LIGHT HC NOVEL

(W) STAN LEE

MARVEL COMICS

X-MEN CHILDREN OF ATOM HC BOX SET SLIPCASE

(W) STAN LEE (A) Jack Kirby (CA) Various

The X-Men's complete 1960s-1970s adventures - from their first clash with Magneto through the nightmarish Days of Future Past! Witness Professor X train the original X-Men - Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Angel and Iceman - to protect a world that hates and fears them! Meet classic foes, including the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, the Juggernaut, the Sentinels and more - as well as new recruits Havok and Polaris! Then, the all-new, all-different X-Men arrive to change comics forever! Storm, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Banshee, Sunfire, Thunderbird and Wolverine propel the X-Men to greatness - even if not all of them survive the experience! Watch as Jean Grey is reborn as the Phoenix, the X-Men traverse the globe, Kitty Pryde debuts and mutantkind faces a frightful future as years of epic stories from an array of legendary creators are collected in one truly uncanny box set! Collecting: X-MEN: SILVER AGE VOL. 1 - GIFTED YOUNGSTERS PREMIERE HC (SLIPCASE EDITION) Collecting X-MEN (1963) #1-13, FANTASTIC FOUR (1961) #28 and ANNUAL #3 and material from TALES OF SUSPENSE (1959) #49, STRANGE TALES (1951) #120 and JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY (1952) #109. 400 PGS.   X-MEN: SILVER AGE VOL. 2 - DIVIDED WE FALL PREMIERE HC (SLIPCASE EDITION) Collecting X-MEN (1963) #14-31. 384 PGS.   X-MEN: SILVER AGE VOL. 3 - THE TORCH IS PASSED PREMIERE HC (SLIPCASE EDITION) Collecting X-MEN (1963) #32-48 and AVENGERS (1963) #53. 384 PGS.   X-MEN: SILVER AGE VOL. 4 - TWILIGHT OF THE MUTANTS PREMIERE HC (SLIPCASE EDITION) Collecting X-MEN (1963) #49-66, KA-ZAR (1970) #2-3 and MARVEL TALES (1964) #30. 416 PGS.   X-MEN: THE LOST YEARS PREMIERE HC (SLIPCASE EDITION) Collecting AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (1963) #92; INCREDIBLE HULK (1968) #150, #161, #172 and #180-181; AMAZING ADVENTURES (1970) #11-17; MARVEL TEAM-UP (1972) #4 and #23; AVENGERS (1963) #110-111; CAPTAIN AMERICA (1968) #172-175; DEFENDERS (1972) #15-16; and GIANT-SIZE FANTASTIC FOUR #4. 480 PGS.   X-MEN: BRONZE AGE VOL. 1 - ALL-NEW & ALL-DIFFERENT PREMIERE HC (SLIPCASE EDITION) Collecting GIANT-SIZE X-MEN #1, X-MEN (1963) #94-108, AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (1963) #161-162, MARVEL TEAM-UP (1972) #53 and ANNUAL #1 and IRON FIST (1975) #15. 424 PGS. X-MEN: BRONZE AGE VOL. 2 - MAGNETO TRIUMPHANT PREMIERE HC (SLIPCASE EDITION) Collecting X-MEN (1963) #109-124, X-MEN ANNUAL (1970) #3, MARVEL TEAM-UP (1972) #69-70 and #89, INCREDIBLE HULK ANNUAL #7 and POWER MAN AND IRON FIST (1978) #57. 440 PGS.   X-MEN: BRONZE AGE VOL. 3 - THE FATE OF THE PHOENIX PREMIERE HC (SLIPCASE EDITION) Collecting X-MEN (1963) #125-141, UNCANNY X-MEN (1981) #142-143, X-MEN ANNUAL (1970) #4, MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE (1974) #68 and material from MARVEL TREASURY EDITION #26-27 and MARVEL TEAM-UP (1972) #100. 472 PGS.   X-MEN COMPANION PREMIERE HC (SLIPCASE EDITION) Collecting PHOENIX: THE UNTOLD STORY and material from F.O.O.M. #10 and NOT BRAND ECHH #4 and #8. 200 PGS. X-MEN: CHILDREN OF THE ATOM BOX SET SLIPCASE POSTER (SLIPCASE EDITION) Rated T