Written by Henry Gilroy. Art by Stephanie Gladden and Jim Massara. Cover by Bill Morrison.
In 1942, Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies animator Tex Avery moved over to MGM studios and created a world of characters that redefined animated insanity. Wolf, Red Hot Riding Hood, Screwball Squirrel, and Droopy oozed with more personality than any of their cookie-cutter contemporaries. Now, more than 50 years later, Dark Horse Comics is proud to bring Avery's multi-dimensional creations of madness to comic books! In this first issue, the Wolf enlists the aid of the Prince of Matchmaking, Cupid, to ensnare the sultry Red Hot Riding Hood in his web of wanton lust! But the Wolf soon discovers Cupid ain't no angel -- 'cause he's got his eyes set on Red, too! All's fair in love and war in "Woo-ful Wolf!" And in "Lovestruck Lumberjacks," Droopy and Spike are hired to build a house for a "beautiful" babe who promises a big bonus to whoever finishes first. Spike does everything he can to outwit Droopy and claim the prize, but he's gonna get more than he bargained for!
32 pages, FC. Cover price $2.50.
Written by STEVE VANCE. Art by PAT BRODERICK & TOM SIMMONS. Cover by GARY GIANNI.
In the heat of the jungles of South America, the natives worship and fear Kuchulkan, the Fire God. But is he a true deity or an elaborate hoax? Doc Savage and his crew have taken a long plane ride to find out, but it may have been a long plane ride to a quick death. Fact or fiction, one thing's for sure: If Kuchulkan doesn't like you...you're going to get burned!
Cover price $2.95.
Written by STEVE VANCE. Art by PAT BRODERICK & TOM SIMMONS. Cover by GARY GIANNI.
In the rain forests of South America, the only thing standing between Doc Savage and his injured teammates is...two giant, fiery snakes! Can the Man of Bronze save himself, let alone his friends?
Cover price $2.95.
Written by MICHAEL KALUTA & JOEL GOSS. Art by STAN MANOUKIAN & VINCE ROUCHER.
Three Shadow adventures in one comic! "Cold Day in Hell" - Four thugs, one crooked sheriff and a million dollars in an abandoned mountain lodge. Enter the Shadow and this cold day starts heating up! "Ceiling Zero" - A madman's demented revenge scheme: kidnap your enemies and hold them hostage in an airplane to nowhere! How can the Shadow save them? "Fate's Free Fall" - A murder disguised as a suicide leads the Shadow after a guilt-racked denizen of the underworld known as the Weasel!
Cover price $2.95.
Written by MICHAEL KALUTA & JOEL GOSS. Art & cover by GARY GIANNI.
There's a long trail of cold stiffs leading to a safe-deposit box in a downtown New York bank. Can The Shadow unlock the mystery before more lives are lost, or will Gotham collapse under a pile of corpses? Barrel's blaze and blood spills in this final issue! Feel the heat!
Cover price $2.95.
Written by Michael Kaluta and Joel Goss. Art by Gary Gianni. Cover by Michael Kaluta.
A monster is haunting the sewers of New York City, lacerating and burning its victims with impunity. The police are certain they'll solve the mystery, but when two patrolmen are killed by the fire-breathing threat, their confidence is shaken! This supernatural killer seems all but unstoppable! Who can the city turn to? The lady evangelist in town to pour oil on troubled waters? The mayor, hosting the navies of the world for a peace conference? The police? When battling a mysterious villain, depend on a mysterious hero -- The Shadow!
32 pages, FC. Cover price $2.95.
Written by Michael Kaluta and Joel Goss. Art by Gary Gianni. Cover by Michael Kaluta.
The time is the lawless '30s, the place is New York City, and justice carries two loaded .44s! The Shadow is faced with a monster who is terrorizing New York, attacking its victims in the sewers, slicing them up and burning them alive! The Shadow must combat this threat, but what can bullets do against a supernatural foe? The Shadow knows!
32 pages, FC. Cover price $2.95.
4-page preview of Concrete: Killer Smile #1 by Paul Chadwick; 3-page interview with Michael Wm. Kaluta and Joel Goss; 2-page Tales of the Mask strip (Part 8) by John Arcudi, Rich Hedden and Jack Pollock; 2-page preview of Ghost Special #1 by Eric Luke, Matt Haley and Tom Simmons; Cover by Bart Sears (from Will to Power #1).
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ERIC POWELL (W/C) and KYLE HOTZ (A)
Billy the Kid having faked his own death is now free to roam America, and start a new life, unhindered by his past crimes and criminal record. Free, that is, until someone discovers his true identity. Fineas Spoule and his band of traveling sideshow performers blackmail the Kid into joining their troupe. These performers are the rarest breed of human oddities and deforms: an alligator man, a dog-face boy, a wild man, a miniature boy, a psychic, a tatooed woman, and Sproule, himself, also known as "The Human Spider." Billy begrudgingly agrees. Spoule, on top of everything else, is something of a treasure hunter. He and his band are set to travel to Europe to steal a priceless artifact from a mysterious scientist, a Dr. Victor Frankensteain; with Billy as their hired gun. Billy the Kid's Old-Timey Oddities is written by Eric Powell (writer/artist of the International Horror Guild award-winner and 2003 Eisner Award-winner, The Goon) and illustrated by Kyle Hotz (fan favorite artist of The Agency and The Hood). This series combines Hotz's quirky macabre visuals and Powell's humorous fast-paced storytelling into an off-beat epic adventure full of interesting characters combining the unlikely genres of spaghetti western and Hammer horror.
Cover price $2.99.
Signed by 7 actors of Stranger Things!
Written by Jody Houser. Art by Stefano Martino and Keith Champagne. Cover by Rafael Albuquerque.
The nostalgia igniting hit Netflix original series comes to comic shelves. Follow Will Byers into a dimension of decay and destruction where he must use his wits and resolve to dodge the pursuit of the Demogorgon and escape the Upside Down.
28 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.
Written by JAMES ROBINSON. Painted art by TEDDY H. KRISTIANSEN. Cover painting by KRISTIANSEN & MATT WAGNER.
Gloria infiltrates the New Orleans Grendel clan, presided over by the deadly Renute, and discovers that some very bad juju is afoot. Meanwhile, deep in the Louisiana bayou, Mantovani and Calhoun are hot on the trail of the mysterious child who holds the key to the Batiaque slayings - only to find Renute's men lying in wait. As if that weren't enough, the fourth Grendel, Bixby, goes on a lunatic rampage, slaughtering everything in his path! Not for children.
Cover price $2.95.
Written by JAMES ROBINSON. Art by TEDDY H. KRISTIANSEN & JAN SOLHEIM. Cover painting by KRISTIANSEN & MATT WAGNER.
In the hellish heat of New Orleans, the devils meet! In pursuit of a killer, private investigator Mantovani teams up with the mysterious Calhoun, a gambler and a Grendel with a mission of his own. Unbeknownst to them, however, the ferocious Dulac is lying in wait! Meanwhile, both Gloria and Bixby have also arrived in New Orleans - ready to pay the devil his due! Not for children.
Cover price $2.95.
Written by Matt Wagner. Art by Bernie E. Mireault, David Mack, Timothy Bradstreet and Paul Chadwick Cover by Matt Wagner.
Impressively rendered in black, white, and blood-red, tales of the doomed Hunter Rose continue with work by some of the industry's top creators. C. Scott Morse (Soulwind), Bernie Mireault (The Jam), Paul Chadwick (Concrete), Tim Bradstreet (Maximum Black), David Mack (Kabuki) and Matt Wagner (Mage: The Hero Defined) bring Grendel back to vibrant, violent life. The Devil never looked so good!
48 pages, B&W (and Red). Cover price $3.95.
By MATT WAGNER, PAT McEOWN and DAVE COOPER. Cover by WAGNER.
Something's in the air, and Susan's mistaken it for love. Having returned to her hometown after a decade absent, she's reunited with Avril, and romance from days past is reawakened. But Susan's town is now run by a gang of punks called Orion's Bastards, and Avril is under their jurisdiction. They're looking to shatter the romance just as they've crushed the once-quaint town. Will they succeed in destroying love's young dream? Or will the blood on their hands be their own? Also in this issue: "Babylon Crash, Part 2." The latest installment of Matt Wagner's fully painted epic, 'Devil Quest,' opens the doors of the Khan's palace, revealing an empire in its last, sordid days. Jupiter III seeks salvation in his quest for the devil, but he may end up finding his destruction instead.
Cover price $2.95.
Volume 2 - 1st printing. Collects Into the Unbeing: Part Two (2025 Dark Horse) #1-4. Written by Zac Thompson. Art and Cover by Hayden Sherman.
For centuries, The UnBeing, a seemingly malevolent corpse, has swallowed all who dare tread near its sprawling mass. Now, the last survivors of a climate science team are trapped inside with only a mysterious humanoid known as The Stranger to guide them out. This incomprehensible Stranger claims to be a 19th-century British explorer. It claims to know the way back to the surface. It claims a new world is on its way. Perhaps if you listen closely, you can hear it breathing. But what is the cost of this new world? And who will be left to live in it? The remaining survivors form a distrustful and desperate team. Together they must journey across impossible landscapes and contend with their own changing biology in order to find their way back home. As their journey into the Unbeing deepens, the series' most disturbing questions are answered...but the answers offer little comfort.
Softcover, 128 pages, full color. Cover price $19.99.
Volume 2 - 1st printing. Collects X (1994-1996) #12-25 and the "Someone to Watch Over Me" story from Dark Horse Extra (1998-2002) #28-31. Written by Steven Grant. Art by Javier Saltares, Chris Warner, Andrew Pepoy, Tim Bradstreet, Frank Miller, and Chris Brunner. Cover by Dave Dorman.
Nothing in Arcadia is what it seems. Beneath its façade of order and industry lies a corrupt brotherhood of criminals, cronies, and cops all drawing from the same tainted well. But there's a wrench in this dirty machine, a leather-clad, one-eyed, one-man wrecking crew bent on tearing down the lie of Arcadia, brick-by-brick. The man known as X cares about only one thing, the rule of law. Unfortunately, that law is X. X Omnibus Volume 2 collects for the first time the audacious, critically-acclaimed Dark Horse series. Violent and morally ambiguous, X walks the thin line between mission and madness and shows that the devil you know may be better, much better, than the devil you don't.
Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 352 pages, full color. Cover price $24.95.
1st printing. Collects Grendel: War Child (1992) #1-10.Written by Matt Wagner. Art by Patrick McEown. Cover by Simon Bisley.The Grendel-Khan, Orion Assante, is dead, leaving his only son as heir, a political pawn for the Khan's widow. The passing of the Khan, the military ruler of the earth, left the world warrior society in fragments, the once-controlled planet shattered into rival clans and apocalyptic zombies. But the Khan left a paladin behind to protect his only son from political ping-pong, a half-man, half-machine weapon of ultimate destruction: Grendel-Prime!Upon kidnapping the rightful heir from his mother's "protection," Prime begins a high-speed chase, ending the lives of many and ultimately deciding the fate of the tattered world.Softcover, 304 pages, full color.Cover price $24.95.
Volume 5 - 1st printing. "Ragnarok!" Collects Massive (2012 Dark Horse) #25-30.Written by Brian Wood. Art by Garry Brown. Cover by John Paul Leon.The Crash was only the beginning. What remains of civilization is being obliterated by a series of cataclysmic events. The truth about Mary's identity, which began as a faint signal, grows louder-and she's seemingly connected to it all. The secret of the Crash and the location of the missing ship The Massive get answered here, in the final arc, Ragnarok!Softcover, 152 pages, full color.NOTE: "Much like DMZ, the glimpses of savagery [in The Massive] are unsettling because this world isn't as divorced from ours as we'd like it to be." - IGNCover price $19.99.
Volume 3 - 1st printing. "Toss the Bones!" Collects Colder: Toss the Bones (2015 Dark Horse) #1-5. Written by Paul Tobin. Art and Cover by Juan Ferreyra.
When Nimble Jack returns to claim Boston's sanity, Declan can only fight him by fulfilling a dark prophecy. With every ounce of effort he uses to hold on to his sanity, his body fails, his sanity crumbles, and he grows . . . colder.
Softcover, 136 pages, full color. Cover price $17.99.
Written by Mark Evanier. Art and Cover by Sergio Aragones.
The Year of Groo marches on, as Groo marches right into Arcadio the Hero. Arcadio's in the protection business, teaching villagers how to protect themselves from dragons . . . but he should be teaching them to protect themselves from Groo!
28 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.
Written by Mark Evanier. Art and Cover by Sergio Aragones.
As the Year of Groo bumbles on, the world's stupidest barbarian and his dog wander into those two sinister witches, Arba and Dakarba . . . who have a scheme to conjure up a giant duplicate of Groo! That means more Groo for your buck!
28 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.
Written by Jody Houser and Jim Zub. Art by Diego Galindo. Cover by E.M. Gist.
Months have passed since Eleven defeated the Mindflayer by closing a gate to the Upside Down-saving her friends and probably the world. Life is rapidly changing for the young group of friends and despite all they have been through they are finding time to play D&D again. This time, new members are joining the party.
28 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.
Collects Zombie World: Champion of the Worms (1997) #1-3. By Mike Mignola and Pat McEown. Cover by Mike Mignola and Pat McEown.
Every year, publishers and movie studios churn out piles of new zombie yarns, but none have rivaled the originality of this tale about a reanimated priest from an ancient cult and the zombie outbreak he creates in order to sacrifice mankind to his dark gods. Dark horror and high adventure mingle as a team of heroes race against an unstoppable evil bent on the end of mankind. Written by Hellboy and B.P.R.D. creator Mike Mignola! Collecting the original three-issue miniseries, plus sketchbook material and updated commentary by Pat McEown, this new edition features a new cover by Mike Mignola and is the perfect package to reintroduce readers to this contemporary horror classic.
Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 80 pages, full color. Cover price $8.95.
Written by Matt Smith. Art by Matt Smith. Cover by Matt Smith. Hellboy travels to Reykjavik, where children are disappearing and a giant beast has been spotted . . . could it be the infamous Yule Cat of Icelandic lore?
Fan-favorite Hellboy artist Matt Smith writes and draws this chilling wintery one-shot! 28 pages, full color.
