Written by Eric Luke. Art by H.M. Baker and Bob Wiacek. Cover by Brian Apthorp and Gary Martin.
Dr. October, Joe Yimbo, Snake-Eyes, Hunger, and MacReady -- five evil men with a single, horrible goal: To end Ghost's ectoplasmic existence forever! And if they can't destroy her, they'll at least take down a big piece of Arcadia, which will get them X-actly the wrong kind of attention!
32 pages, FC. Cover price $2.50.
Written by Eric Luke. Art by George Dove and Bernard Kolle. Cover by H.M. Baker.
Ghost is neck deep in the worst kind of terror when she awakens to find herself trapped in Hell! She's being clawed and pawed by the legions of the damned. She has no idea how she got there, and no idea how to get out. For all her power, for all her will, does Ghost stand a chance in Hell?
32 pages, FC. Cover price $2.50.
Written by Eric Luke. Art by Scott Benefiel and Jasen Rodriguez. Cover by Adam Hughes.
It's Halloween in Arcadia, except here they call it Hell Night. Tonight, Ghost takes a paranormal bus ride right out of an ectoplasmic version of Speed. Her final destination is the old "underground city" beneath Arcadia, where all of Ghost's past enemies are waiting to pounce: Snake Eyes, Hunger, MacCready and Joe Yimbo! And they've all been gathered courtesy of the mysterious Dr. October. For Ghost, Hell Night is a gauntlet of deadly tricks. For the readers, it's all Ghostly treats!
32 pages, FC. Cover price $2.50.
Hunting the Heroes Tie-In - Written by Eric Luke. Art by Terry Dodson, Lee Moder, Gary Martin and Ande Park. Cover by Adam Hughes.
All Elisa Cameron wants is a decent job, an average apartment . . . a normal life. But what she has is a paranormal life! Elisa Cameron is Ghost, and if she survives her run-in with a legion of paranormal ghost hunters she'll still have to duck the deadly devices of The Predator!
32 pages, FC. Cover price $2.50.
Guest-starring Barb wire. Written by Eric Luke. Art and cover by Matt Haley and Tom Simmons.
One tough dame deserves another! This month, you'll get the confrontation you've been waiting for when the enigmatic Ghost meets the bounty-hunting Barb Wire! Barb's been sent to Arcadia on a bounty, but she's gonna get more than she bargained for! Is there enough room in any city for these two gun-toting women? Find out in Ghost #4!
32 pages, FC. Cover price $2.50.
Written by Eric Luke. Art by Adam Hughes, Casey Jones, Paul Guinan, Colleen Doran and Tom Grummett. Cover by Adam Hughes.
There is one battle you cannot win, a battle in which you become your own worst enemy. In this third and concluding chapter of "Arcadia Nocturne," Ghost's demonic new adversary, Cameron Nemo, ushers her on a treacherous, deadly journey... inside herself. It's a brief glimpse at the past of the mysterious Ghost... a glimpse she may not survive!
32 pages, FC. Cover price $2.50.
Cover by SCOTT TOLSON.
Spike Lee hit the motion-picture industry like a jackhammer with such films as She's Gotta Have It, Jungle Fever, and Do the Right Thing. Now he's come to tear apart the facade of the comics medium with this all-new miniseries.
Rapped in a poem or wrapped around a brick, messages can come in many different packages. One of those packages is COLORS IN BLACK. Sixteen artists of various races have come together to deliver their messages about the state of racial relations today. The result is a mix of stories that approach the subject from every angle conceivable.
In these pages, all sides of the issue are examined. You will be energized, you will be frightened, you will get angry...and you will be enlightened. The revolution will not be televised...it will be illustrated.
Cover price $2.95.
Written by Bob Fingerman. Art and cover by Tommy Lee Edwards.
We've seen the world slowly eroding under the grip of the zombie plague, but what happens when the infestation hits New York City? It begins with rats and snow, and results in the death of the greatest city in the world, all in less than a week. Bob Fingerman, chronicler of the lighter side of Manhattan in his acclaimed Minimum Wage, teams with Gemini Blood and Moon Knight artist Tommy Lee Edwards to present the grittiest, darkest version of New York City since Taxi Driver and Last Exit to Brooklyn, replete with hordes of flesh-eating corpses.
32 pages, FC. Cover price $2.95.
Written by Michael Moorcock & P. Craig Russell. Art and Cover by P. Craig Russell.
His final spell worked. Elric vanquished the Lords of Chaos. But now he is weak, and at the mercy of Jagreen Lern. Hoisted atop the villain's sailing vessel, Elric is being kept just this side of death. Why go to all the trouble? "Because I want you to witness for yourself the defeat of the South," Lern gloats. "I want you to know that what you sought to avert will come to pass." So continues P. Craig Russell's adaptation of Elric: Stormbringer, the grand story of the final battle between Law and Chaos.
Co-published with Topps Comics. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $2.95.
Art cover variant. PLANET OF THE APES #2 (OF 3) ART COVER by IAN EDGINTON, PACO MEDINA, and JUAN VLASCO; cover by J. SCOTT CAMPBELL
Taking place after astronaut Leo Davidson's adventure on the ape world, the anti-human forces of Shiva's ape army seek to exterminate the integrated human and ape resistance led by the chimp leader, Seneca, and the human, Esau. Meanwhile, a double-agent walks a dangerous line, working for the ape army while smuggling arms and provisions to the rebels. When this agent is exposed, secrets are revealed that force both sides into a race against time for the ultimate weapon in the war...and for the chance to rule the Planet of the Apes!
FC, 32pg Cover price $2.99.
Written by Peter Ford and Michael Eury. Art by Chris Sprouse and Tim Hamilton.
Having left Catalyst: Agents of Change and Golden City to work for the United States government, Frank Wells, the nearly-unstoppable hero known as Titan, undertakes his first mission for the Feds: the dismantling of a group of superpowered teens called The Inhibitors, who blindly answer to a charismatic leader. But demons from Titan's past interfere, possibly making his first mission for the government his last...!
FC. Cover price $3.95.
Written by Mark Verheiden. Art by Ron Randall. Cover by Denis Beauvais.
One false move and you're history! Max Walker walks the beat of the Time Enforcement Commission, but when he goes to the past to stop a time travelling criminal he finds that someone has ripped the space-time continuum to pieces and he no longer belongs in his own future. Walker has a last-ditch plan that just might repair the damage but he has to face his own personal nightmare to literally save his life!
FC. Cover price $2.50.
Written by BRIAN PULIDO. Pencils by LEONARDO JIMENEZ. Cover by GREG CAPULLO.
Rack & Pain go toe-to-toe with the all-new and improved Pile-powered Morgue in a battle to the death! Meanwhile, Web informs the galaxy of the latest death stats as he is also about to increase his own power base by becoming one with the Media-Net itself! Things are looking pretty grim for the fate of our favorite assassins even with the help of the rightful heir to the Pile's throne, Jenna, at their sides! This is the ultimate slug-fest you've been waiting for...even Rack's pooch Fang gets into the act!
Cover price $2.50.
Written by BRIAN PULIDO. Pencils by LEONARDO JIMENEZ. Cover by GREG CAPULLO.
Rack & Pain convince their only ally, Jenna, to postpone her Remlack Thurmo Bomb attack and spill the beans on Web for setting them up and putting them at the top of their boss-man's death-wish list. Now, Morgue, in a newly reconstructed endo-skeleton body chassis energized by the power of the Pile itself, is on a rampage and Rack & Pain have to stay a step ahead of him.
Their mission: to get Web and clear their reputations as the finest hit men in the galaxy. This means not only clear-cutting a path through Morgue's army, but also editing a few thousand lives out of Web's Media-troops. The entire plan goes down the toilet when Morgue catches up to Rack & Pain and beats them mercilessly in page after page of wholesale destruction.
Cover price $2.50.
Written by BRIAN PULIDO. Pencils by LEONARDO JIMENEZ. Cover by GREG CAPULLO.
After returning from a routine kill, Rack & Pain are caught in the troubled net of the ratings-hungry Web when they realize they've been set up to deliver their boss's own brother as a trophy. With boss-man, Morgue, furious with revenge, they begin to make plans to clear their "good" names. But first they've got to stay alive! The only way to do that is to fight every man, woman and alien on "The Pile," and in the rest of the star system.
Cover price $2.50.
Story and art by Vincent Giarrano.
Spirit-warriors Redblade and Vena want a toe-to-toe battle with their enemy, the demon Engetsu. What they get is a knock-down drag-out with the mighty Tull, half of whose dual-spirit identity Engetsu has enslaved! Non-stop superhero action from beginning to end.
32 pages, FC. Cover price $2.50.
Story and art by Vincent Giarrano.
Spirit-warriors Redblade and Vena want a toe-to-toe battle with their enemy, the demon Engetsu. What they get is a knock-down drag-out with the mighty Tull, half of whose dual-spirit identity Engetsu has enslaved! Non-stop superhero action from beginning to end.
32 pages, FC. Cover price $2.50.
Written by DAS PETROU. Art & cover by JOHN WATKIS.
All agreements achieved in the talks between Church and State are in serious danger of being abandoned. The religious extremists attempt to seize power as the secret order of the Rosy Cross steps aside in the battle for England and Cardinal Mayhew shows his true faith in the cross.
Cover price $2.50.
Written by DAS PETROU. Art & cover by JOHN WATKIS.
Thousands are dying within the Great Wall of London as the plague really begins to bite. Meanwhile, Barnett and Waterhouse are independently pursuing their quest to uncover the truth behind the ten "missing" priests. There's also a glimpse of the Secret Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross, seen performing in their Inner Sanctum...and Maurice Waterhouse is found. Finally, is the Pope really going to be assassinated? Or will he die a natural death?
Cover price $2.50.
Cover by Dan Brereton, Stan Manoukian and Vince Roucher.
Giant-sized flip-book issue! Featuring 48 fat pages and: * Dan Brereton's The Nocturnals! * Tarzan and Shadow artists Stan & Vince debut their high-paced, ultraviolent "Metalfer"! * An all-new Starship Troopers story by Jan Strnad and Tommy Lee Edwards !
Rich Hedden tells the tale of Snipe, a monster hunter in Hollywood, where the true beasts come in the hundreds! * Jeff DeMos and Scott Gillis return to tell the tale of a man obsessed with circles in "A Hole in the Head." * Two covers -- one by Dan Brereton and one by Stan & Vince! Plus new strips by Diana Schutz, Bernie Mireault, & Rupert Bottenberg and Steven Weissman
B&W. Cover price $3.95.
Cover by Peter Snejbjerg .
Old ladies with sharp objects are bad, especially in the world of The Lords of Misrule. Urban legends become real nightmares, courtesy of John Tomlinson and Peter Snejbjerg (who provides this issue's gruesome cover). Speaking of bad dreams, Trout's has gotten free, and he's just about to catch up with it. But what happens when you look in the face of your own terror? "Trout" is by Canadian artist Troy Nixey.
"Jack Zero," the new strip by Arnold Pander and European performance artist Zero Boy continues as Jack meets Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill Hickock, Annie Oakley, and the love of his life, Rose Barclay. Hanging with these dangerous folk starts the Jack Zero legend, the stuff pulps are made of. Finally, in the first part of "Imago," writer John Arcudi and artist Brian O'Connell look at the difference between two generations of superheroes, as nobility clashes with grim and gritty.
B&W. Cover price $2.95.
Cover by Al Williamson.
Variety is the spice of life, and nothing is spicier than DHP! First up, a delectable dish from Mark Schultz and Al Williamson. "One Last Job" is a short tale about an interplanetary bounty hunter who's ready to quit for the joys of love, but can't seem to keep himself from chasing just one more big score. Our second course is a healthy helping of The Lords of Misrule, currently enjoying its own DH miniseries. Taking urban legends and standing them on end, John Tomlinson and Peter Snejbjerg have brewed up a prequel that will keep you up all night.
This is followed by the tantalizing continuation of "Trout," Troy Nixey's surrealistic journey. Trout is in search of evil that escaped him when he wasn't paying attention, and he may end up uncovering more secrets than he was planning for. Finally, Evan Dorkin (Milk & Cheese) offers his famous "Hectic Planet" dessert. A love lost is the worst thing in the world, especially when it has gone and died without telling you. Be careful, because mourning can be explosive. Topping it all off is a crisp afterdinner mint, a one-page tale about the intuitive power of friends and coping with loss. "Gather Ye Rosebuds" is by Bob Schreck, Casey Jones, and Monty Sheldon.
Oh, and don't forget our appetizer, a scrumptious cover by Al Williamson based on an idea he had when he was twelve, later sketched out when he was nineteen, and now finally finished, at an age where Al's far too charming to have to disclose how old he really is.
B&W. Cover price $2.95.
Cover by Arthur Adams and Evan Dorkin.
Monkeyman and O'Brien make their return to these pages with an all-new serial by Legend cartoonist Arthur Adams! Our daring duo butts heads with Gorhemoth, the living garbage heap. Meanwhile, the only monster on Evan Dorkin's "Hectic Planet" is that twisted creature called love, and Halby is suffering at its hands!
In the final chapter of "Trypto the Acid Dog" by Bill Mumy, Miguel Ferrer, and Steve Leialoha, the faithful canine saves his boy and family from the hands of evil; and in their last chapter, Dr. Spin and Spin Girl save comic books as we know them, ensuring future employment for their creators, Gordon Rennie and Roger Langridge.
B&W. Cover price $2.95.
Cover by Frank Miller and Roger Langridge.
DHP continues to mix it up this month, and it's all decked out in its new flip-book format! Frank Miller provides a cover featuring the return of John Arcudi's misfit detective The Creep! Arcudi is joined by Firearm artist Brian O'Connell for a story that proves that pain, unlike beauty, is not just skin deep.
Also, Roger Langridge and Gordon Rennie bring us a hilarious send-up of classic silver-age superhero comics in "Dr. Spin," and Bill Mumy, Miguel Ferrer, and Steve Leialoha present the third chapter of "Trypto the Acid Dog," in which the caped canine escapes the gladiator pit, only to find his family has moved to another town. Finally, the conclusion of Ed Brubaker's "Lowlife" trilogy cuts another insightful slice off the mass psychosis of modern society.
B&W. Cover price $2.95.
