Created by: Guy Ritchie Written by: Andy Diggle Art: Mukesh Singh; Cover: John Cassaday
Enhance your experience of Guy Ritchie's Gamekeeper with this special extended edition of Gamekeeper #1! As Brock's past comes back to haunt him, he is sucked into a web of politics, science, money and death... Will his animalistic instincts be enough for him to survive? Go behind-the-scenes and get an exclusive look at the making of Gamekeeper #1, including original script pages from Andy Diggle and artist layouts of key scenes. With a special variant ink cover by John Cassaday, you won't want to miss out on this extraordinary special edition!
Suggested for Mature Readers 32pgs, FC $2.99 Cover price $2.99.
The Summer Event of 2007 begins here! Top Cow Productions is proud to present a sneak preview of FIRST BORN, the highly anticipated three issue limited series debuting in July. Buzz has been steadily building for Top Cow's first comic event in years since it was first announced in Wizard Magazine's 2007 Preview Issue in January. Spinning out of the current events in the monthly WITCHBLADE series, regular series writer Ron Marz (ION, SAMURAI: HEAVEN & EARTH) delivers the story that fans have been asking for since the pivotal Witchblade #100 - the birth of Sara Pezzini's child and the truth behind her mysterious pregnancy! Marz is joined by Croatian painting sensation Stjepan Sejic (THE DARKNESS: LEVEL 1, WITCHBLADE) to deliver the most compelling event of 2007. This First Look introduces new fans to the story leading into FIRST BORN as well as an exclusive early look at the event itself. FIRST BORN is a self-contained fully painted three issue series involving the entirety of the Top Cow Universe. Details of the series have been closely guarded, but one thing is certain... Baby Makes Three.
Cover price $0.25.
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.
Cover by Alex Ross. By Alex Ross, Jim Krueger & Stephen Sadowski
From the dawn of the 20th Century came a new chapter in mankind's history, unleashed during a time of great war and destruction. It was the beginning of the Age of the Superpowers, yet with the closing of the Second World War, this new spark seemingly flickered and died. Until now! This explosive #0 issue features a story crafted by Justice collaborators Alex Ross and Jim Krueger, joined by artists Stephen Sadowksi, Doug Klauba and featuring a final page painted by Ross himself! The story of Superpowers begins here, in the present day with the Fighting Yank, coming to terms with the ghosts of his past and present! Journey to the heights and depths of the Second World War as the story unfolds and come face-to-face with the great forgotten heroes of the ages, and solve the mystery of these legends disappearance after the great war!
Cover price $1.00.
THE LONE RANGER AND BATTLESTAR GALACTICA FREE COMIC BOOK DAY FLIP BOOK: JOHN CASSADAY AND STEPHEN SEGOVIA By Jerwa, Matthews, Segovia, Cariello, White, Fajardo, Bowland and Cassaday.
Dynamite Entertainment is proud to present their first FREE COMIC BOOK DAY comic! Within the pages of the Dynamite FCBD Edition, you'll find two all-new tales from two of our best-seling series: BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: YEAR ONE #0 begins a brand new Battlestar Galactica story from the creative team of Brandon Jerwa and Stephen Segovia! Taking place before the events of the now-class 're-imagined' SCI FI series, Year One presents a 'season zero' that introduces us to the cast and crew of the Battlestar Galactica as they face new challenges and threats, all under the watchful eye of the Cylons! Jerwa and Segovia will be the regular creative team for this series, and issue #0 leads directly into the events of issue #1 and the first story arc. LONE RANGE: THE CREED #0 presents a special Lone Ranger tale which the Lone ranger and Tonto in action as the immortal words of the Lone Ranger's Creed help narrate our story! After the critical and sales success of 2006's Lone Ranger debut, 'the Creed' is an excellent sequel and well as a prequel to the next thrilling installment of Dynamite's Lone Ranger series! PLUS: Dynamite previews of Red Sonja, Painkiller Jane, Highlander and Raise the Dead!
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).
(W) Ken Siu-Chong (A/CA) Panzer.
Between them, Ryu and Chun-Li have faced every relentless rival, villainous despot, and monstrous creature in the Street Fighter universe. Now, for the first time, these two martial arts masters square off in the ultimate fan-service fueled fight! UDON's 100th Street Fighter comic is a celebration filled with clashes, cameos, and conflict!
Rating: Teen
(W/A/CA) Brett Bean.
The lion has gone missing? The king cobra has vanished? Sounds like a job for the Zoo Patrol Squad! Timid Fennlock Fox and outgoing Penny the Pig team up for their first adventure as they look for clues to track down the missing animals in their usually peaceful zoo!
Rating: All-Ages
Reprint Material (W) Garth Ennis (A/CA) Darick Robertson. Billy Butcher, Wee Hughie, Mother's Milk, The Frenchman and The Female are The Boys: a CIA-backed team of very dangerous people, each one dedicated to the struggle against the most lethal force on Earth: superpower. Some superheroes have to be watched. Some have to be controlled. And some of them... sometimes they need to be taken out of the picture. That's when you call in The Boys. Rating: Mature
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New Gene Colan (pencils)/Tom Palmer (inks) cover (which actually illustrates the story in issue 22).
The Coming of... Dr. Strange, script by Roy Thomas, art by Dan Adkins; the origin of Dr. Strange retold; reprinted from Doctor Strange 169, first series. Half-page next issue blurb with accompanying Frank Brunner illustration.
32 pgs. Cover price $0.30. Cover price $0.30.
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Cover art by Frank Brunner (which actually illustrates the story in issue 23). Mind Trip!, script by Marv Wolfman, art by Rudy Nebres
Clea's amnesia & magical rampage continues; Strange battles Clea, & helps cure her of madness implanted by Xander; Apalla, Queen of the Sun, first appears; hints of connection with Clea. The story continues from Doctor Strange Annual 1. Letter to the editor from comics historian Peter Sanderson.
Cover price $0.30.
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Cover pencils by Don Heck and John Romita (alterations), inks by Frank Giacoia and John Romita (alternations). "The Voice of the Wasp," script by Stan Lee, pencils by Don Heck, inks by Frank Giacoia (as Frank Ray)
The winsome Wasp flies to New York to warn that the savage Sub-Mariner is bent on its destruction. Enroute she is trapped by Attuma, Namor's arch-foe, who is himself planning the destruction of the surface-dwellers. Jan notifies the Avengers who arrive - sans Hawkeye - and are roundly beaten; reprinted from The Avengers (1963 series) #26.
36 pgs., full color. $0.25. Cover price $0.25.
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Cover art by Mike Ploog. A Life For a Death!, script by Len Wein, art by Mike Ploog; Jack Russell is forced to try to kill a reclusive millionaire by Luthor Kane, who holds Jack's sister hostage. 36 pgs. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.
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Cover pencils by Gil Kane, inks by John Romita. Comes The Hangman, script by Marv Wolfman, pencils by Gil Kane, inks by Tom Sutton; the Werewolf is captured by the Hangman. 36 pgs. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.
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Marvel Value Stamp. Cover pencils by Gil Kane and John Romita (faces of Werewolf and Dracula), inks by Tom Palmer. Vampires On The Moon!, script by Mike Friedrich, pencils by Don Perlin, inks by Vince Colletta; Jack and Raymond, in their Werewolf forms, fight two vampires on a movie set.
36 pgs. $0.25. Cover price $0.25.
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Cover pencils by Gil Kane, inks by Tom Palmer. "Castle Curse!", script by Doug Moench, pencils by Don Perlin, inks by Sal Trapani
The Werewolf roams the nighttime streets of Monterey when a billboard he passes shimmers into the image of Topaz; She reaches into the beast's psyche for the mind of Jack Russell, pleading for him to rescue her from within his ancestral castle; Memories of Blackgar Island, where Russoff Castle was rebuilt, impel the Werewolf to swim out toward it; He reaches the castle and finds Topaz inside, but she is merely an illusion that fades as a trapdoor opens beneath his feet; At the bottom, he is accosted by a creature covered with silver spikes. "The Visitor" (reprinted from Adventures into Terror #13), pencils by George Roussos; A man is convinced that controlling visitors exist all around him and when he is confronted by mist he goes off his rocker. "The Man Who Went Back!" (reprinted from Journey into Mystery #18), art by Pete Tumlinson; A man is pursued through time by tax collectors. "The Man Who Talked To Rats!" (reprinted from Adventures into Terror #13), art by Manny Stallman; A man comes across a man who talks to rats in an alley and makes a deal with him to kill his uncle so he will inherit his money; The weird guy sends his rats into the estate to chew up the old guy and the nephew both. "The Hands of Death" (reprinted from Adventures into Terror #13), pencils by Don Perlin, inks by Abe Simon; A woman's car breaks down in an area where women have been strangled and she takes shelter in a nearby house; She is admitted by a bundled figure that she abruptly assumes is the strangler.
68 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.50.
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Cover pencils by Gil Kane, inks by John Romita. "The Doctor's Name Is...Samson!," script by Len Wein, pencils by Herb Trimpe, inks by Joe Staton and John Romita
Following his adventure in Scotland, Bruce Banner manages to get cheap fare back to America aboard a the RMS Black Wraith provided that he stay below deck and keep a low profile; However, Banner decides to go up to the deck and think about his current plight; This angers the crew, who are very strict on their rules for Banner's passage; Banner soon realizes why: The crew of this vessel are illegally dumping radioactive waste into the ocean; Furious at being discovered, the crew attacks Banner prompting him to transform into the Hulk once more; The Hulk battles Doc Samson. Some panels redrawn by John Romita Sr.
36 pgs., full color. $0.25. Cover price $0.25.
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Final issue of the series. Cover pencils by Gene Colan, inks by Tom Palmer. Doctor Strange reprints: "The Pincers of Power" (from Strange Tales 140), script by Steve Ditko (plot) and Stan Lee (dialogue), art by Steve Ditko
Dormammu sends Strange, Mordo & The Ancient One to a neutral dimension; He then uses a sleeping potion on the Mindless Ones, so his domain will be temporarily safe and summons rulers of nearby dimensions; Dormammu arrives to challenge Strange in person to battle for total mastery of Earth!; Strange accepts, then Dormammu declares they shall fight using only the "Pincers Of Power" and no other spells or incantations. "Let There Be Victory" (from ST 141), script by Steve Ditko (plot) and Stan Lee (dialogue), art by Steve Ditko; Dormammu consigns Mordo to the Dimension of Demons; Strange declares he is able to continue the fight and manages to best him in combat! Dormammu swears not to attack Earth; Back in The Ancient One's home, Hamir prepares a banquet for Strange & his master; Dormammu banishes Clea to a place where Strange can never find her; The Ancient One assures Strange that there are many who may now be able to help in his search for the girl.
36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.30.
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"Nomad: No More!" Script by Steve Englehart. Pencils by Frank Robbins. Inks by Frank Giacoia. Cover by Gil Kane and Joe Sinnott.
Nomad returns to New York City, and he's frantically searching for the Falcon! However, Steve Rogers can't find him anywhere until he bumps into Redwing! The Falcon's faithful bird guides Nomad to a nearby rooftop...where the Living Legend makes a grisly discovery. The fill-in Captain America, Roscoe Simons, has been murdered -- and the Falcon seriously injured! Steve Rogers is despondent and begins to reconsider his Nomad identity. Is the red, white, and blue avenger on the way back? Cameo appearances by Leila Taylor, Gabe Jones, Peggy Carter, Gamecock, and the Beast.
36 pages. Cover price $0.25.
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Cover art by John Romita. 4000 Holes in Forest Park!, script by Steve Gerber, pencils by Jim Mooney, inks by Sal Trapani
a cult called the Legion of Nihilists gathers around 4000 holes that appear in Forest Park; Son of Satan battles the cult; a hellfire serpent named Kometes appears. The letters page contains Marvel Value Stamp series A # 83 (Dragon Man by Jack Kirby).
36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.25.
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"The Last Banzai!" Fully titled Captain Savage and His Leatherneck Raiders (at least for the first eight issues), this 19-issue series takes place in the Pacific theater of World War II. This first issue finds Savage and his team invading Tarawa. Includes guest appearances by Sgt. Fury and Dum Dum Dugan.
Script by Gary Friedrich, pencils by Dick Ayers, inks by Syd Shores. Cover by Ayers and Shores.
Cover price $0.12.
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Stories by Bob Haney and George Kashdan. Art and Cover by Dick Dillin & Charles Cuidera.
"Operation White Dragon" - In the origin of Chop-Chop, the Blackhawks are sent on a special mission to China to convince a warlord to stop being neutral and join the Allies. They meet a costumed fighter, the White Dragon, who wages a guerilla war on the Japanese before he is betrayed by the warlord. Plus: "Operation White Dragon (Part 2)" - The Japanese capture Liu Huang, who has been fighting as the White Dragon, unknown to his warlord father. He is rescued by the Blackhawks, but his career as the White Dragon is over, due to his "losing face." The Blackhawks lead the rebels to try to oust the Japanese from the city, but Liu Huang insists on going along and must overcome the Blackhawks' objections by proving he belongs. And: Blackhawk Combat Diary story "Death of the Super-Sub" - The Blackhawks go on their first sea-going mission in World War II, to battle a Nazi super-submarine. Also: 1-page Blackie the Blackhawk Mascot story by Henry Boltinoff, where Blackie and a hawk friend catch fish for a man on a life raft. Plus: 1-page ad for G.I. Joe issue of Showcase (1956-1978) #53.
32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.12.
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Cover pencils by Gil Kane, inks by Murphy Anderson. "Ride a Deadly Grenade!", script by Gardner Fox, pencils by Gil Kane, inks by Murphy Anderson
The CIA recruits the Atom to recover an invention in Europe that has been taken by enemy spies. "The Mysterious Swan-Maiden!", script by Gardner Fox, pencils by Gil Kane, inks by Sid Greene; Jean Loring's latest court case concerns a woman who can turn into a swan, but the Atom uncovers the truth behind the transformation. Aquaman/Hawkman ad. Ad for The Untold Stories of Superman! Ad for Batman and Robin's Most Thrilling Mystery Cases!
36 pgs., full color. $0.12. Cover price $0.12.
