Saturday, November 12, 2011

New Releases (Golden Rage Variant) (Nov 2011)

I'll keep the introduction brief this month. Publishing activities kept me away from this blog and delayed posting of November's new releases, so here they are without further ado.


AC COMICS


CRYPT OF HORROR VOL. 13
GOREFEST SPECIAL!! Homage to Myron Fass’ EERIE PUBLICATIONS! Spotlight on 6 bloody Dick Ayers stories, including his favorite, “I Chopped Off Her Head”; “A Corpse For The Coffin”, “The Hungry Ghoul”, “Witches’ Revenge”, “Swamp Monsters” and “The Corpse”. Also “Cats Of Doom”, “Vampire’s Bride”, “Fiend of the Undead” and more!!

DC COMICS


ACTION COMICS #3
“Superman, Go Home!” In a startling tale only Grant Morrison could bring you, the people of Metropolis turn on their new champion! But why? Plus, shocking secrets from Krypton revealed!


ALL-NEW BATMAN: THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD #13
Batman is seriously injured, so it’s up to a whole team of Robins to stop the League of Assassins! How? The Phantom Stranger reaches through space and time to gather everyone who’s ever been “The Boy Wonder,” but will their combined skills be enough?


BATMAN #3
As Bruce digs deeper into the mystery of the recent owl murders, he soon finds himself face to face with a shocking enemy – an enemy the Wayne family has secretly been at war with for centuries. Be there for the first shots of the war for the soul of Gotham City. Friends will become deadly enemies and secrets will be revealed – revelations that will change the Bat-family forever.


BATMAN & ROBIN #3
As Robin does all he can to keep his own killer instincts at bay, Batman focuses his energies on Nobody, the deadly enigma from Bruce’s past who has arrived in Gotham and is hell bent on forcing him to accept a new world crime fighting view even as he infiltrates the Waynes’ personal lives.


BATMAN: ODYSSEY Vol. 2 #2
Batman’s odyssey has brought him to the underworld, where The League of Assassins has been firmly established for decades! The League is liquidating its enemies to make way for the Sensei to take over his father’s kingdom, and after that, the world itself. But if Batman can’t conquer his inner demons and learn to save lives by taking them, he may forfeit the war to the League!


BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT #3
A wave of fear washes across Gotham City as a mysterious toxin radically alters the bodies of its criminals, sending crazed villains into the streets and stretching the resources of the police department. Can Batman and his vigilante partners follow the clues and uncover the perpetrator’s real identity? And when one fabled hero is stricken by the poison, the trail will point to the mysterious White Rabbit.


BATMAN: THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS HC
In this original graphic novel, Batman meets his foe The Mad Hatter for the very first time—landing The Dark Knight in a Wonderland he could never have imagined, hot on the heels of a white rabbit. But is this strange place real or a hallucination? Robin and Alfred believe he’s deep in delirium—but if that’s the case, how does he manage to resolve several mysteries that have plagued Gotham City for decades...


CATWOMAN #3
Cats hate baths. Cats hate dogs. And cats hate being caught. Catwoman stole from the wrong man, and now he’s got her. He wants his stuff back, he wants answers and he wants blood. Cats had better have nine lives, because Selina Kyle is about to lose one!


DETECTIVE COMICS #3
He makes dolls out of his victims—and he’s tired of being referred to in the media as the Gotham Strangler. His moniker is the Dollmaker, and he and his insane family are going to hunt down Gotham City’s public figures and turn them into the ultimate collectables. As the Dollmaker ups the stakes, Batman finds himself in a race against time—because one of his allies is the Dollmaker’s next target!


GREEN ARROW #3
The Jersey Shore of super villains crashes Seattle to stream Green Arrow’s death over the Internet! It’s the final fight between Green Arrow and Rush: media maven vs. media star! The whole world’s watching on their QPhones and QPads. Why aren’t you? Plus: Queen Industries launches their new initiative—and issues a challenge to the world!


PENGUIN: PAIN AND PREJUDICE #2 (of 5)
Writer Gregg Hurwitz and artist Szymon Kudranski continue their dark examination of the Penguin in PENGUIN: PAIN AND PREJUDICE. The Penguin runs a vast crime empire that’s always one step away from faltering, thanks to the interference of Batman. How can Penguin keep Batman at bay and maintain the power and image that’s become so important to him? And what dark family secrets is the Penguin hiding?


THE SAVAGE HAWKMAN #3
Using his unique gift for deciphering alien symbols, Carter Hall learns the secret knowledge of his new foe, Morphicius, even as his deadly power continues to grow! Unraveling this mystery is Hawkman’s only chance to defeat Morphicius before he becomes unstoppable


SUPERMAN #3
Superman finds himself beset as a TV reporter at the new Daily Planet makes a case that Superman brings Metropolis more harm than good, while a vicious new foe attacks those nearest and dearest to Clark Kent! Who are all these new villains attacking Metropolis lately, and what deadly secret connects them? Superman’s not going to like the answer!


WONDER WOMAN #3
Hippolyta, the queen of the Amazons, has kept a secret from her daughter all her life—and when it’s revealed, Wonder Woman’s life will shatter like brittle clay. The only one more shocked than Diana by this revelation? Bloodthirsty Hera herself—so why is her sinister daughter, Strife, so eager for the truth to be told?

DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT


FLASH GORDON: ZEITGEIST #1
The year is 1934, a time of two-fisted swashbuckling, of fearsome threats and wild adventure—and of ever-growing threats on the horizon.

Three valiant humans—Flash Gordon, Dale Arden and Dr. Hans Zarkov—are plucked from the Earth, traveling to the distant planet Mongo. Their exploits are legendary, battling the machinations and terror schemes of the dreaded emperor Ming, the All-Seeing Ruler of Mongo. But they did not fight alone…


GREEN HORNET #22
In the first issue of an all-new arc that will change Green Hornet forever! New villains arrive on the Century City scene, and an old hero dies. Britt Reid tries to manage a newspaper, fight the gangs of Century City, and figure out his relationship with the new Kato. Meanwhile, a new politician attempts to rise to the top of Century City’s power structure on a simple platform: stopping the Green Hornet’s “Reign of Terror”. Fear, loathing, lust and all-out kung fu action in Outcast, Part One of Six!


KATO ORIGINS VOL. 2: THE HELLFIRE CLUB TPB
From the pages of Green Hornet: Year One comes the solo adventures of Kato! Kato travels to New York, and the infamous Hellfire Club, to sniff out a story for the Sentinel. Kato goes undercover as a Siamese prince to unearth an illegal business collusion from some of the East Coast’s richest families, but when a prominent businessman is murdered in a closed room, everyone becomes a suspect. This looks like a job for a ninja crime fighter!

Kato Origins Volume 2 collects the Hellfire Club story arc, along with a cover gallery and more.


THE LAST PHANTOM #12
What is the Eden Pool? As The Phantom battles to end the war ripping Bengali asunder, Kit Walker finally learns the dark secrets behind the Walkabout Foundation’s role in fomenting discord in the troubled African nation. The Ghost Who Walks began his crusade for justice in the Skull Cave. But his end might come in another subterranean grotto when he meets a woman named… Diana Palmer!


ZORRO RIDES AGAIN #5 (of 12)
Zorro faces a crippling loss! Can he muster enough strength to do what he does best and fight back? The one and only Matt Wagner (MAGE, GRENDEL) is nearing the conclusion to his epic story of Zorro! Find out as Zorro Rides Again in issue #5!

MARVEL COMICS


ALL-WINNERS SQUAD: BAND OF HEROES #6 (of 8)
Guest-starring Captain America, Nick Fury and Loki!
As the mystery of Operation: Firefly comes to light in 2011, the sacrifice of brave heroes who laid their lives on the line in World War II is revealed in all its importance. But the greatest losses are the hardest to tally...what did this top-secret mission cost the nation?

UPDATE: This limited series has apparently been cancelled and issues 6 through 8 won't be published.


AVENGERS 1959 #3 (of 5)
The Avengers fight their way across the South China Sea, while Nick Fury hijacks a jet fighter to rendezvous with the team in Madripoor --where their occult adversaries have a hellish gauntlet awaiting them in the garden district of the capital.


CAPTAIN AMERICA #5
The grand finale of "AMERICAN DREAMERS" is here—Cap faces down an old friend, now a new enemy, but which of them is right in their view of modern America? Only Ed Brubaker and Steve McNiven know the answer!

UPDATE: Issue 4 has been rescheduled for November release (January cover date), while issue six is still solicited for December (February cover). Issue 5 doesn't seem to be the catalog currently on Marvel.com but was originally solicited for November 30th.


CAPTAIN AMERICA & BUCKY #624
The final chapter in Cap and Bucky's first arc is here, completing the retelling of Bucky's early days with a heartbreaking tale of the Winter Soldier and Black Widow in the 1950s, and our secret narrator is finally revealed—as are the things that tie this series to current continuity.


I AM CAPTAIN AMERICA #1
This collection has you covered! Featuring the work of superstar artists such as Marvel Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada, Marko Djurdjevic, Alex Maleev, Skottie Young and Ed McGuinness, these inspiring images depicthardworking, everyday Americans whose service would make Steve Rogers proud.


RED SKULL #5 (of 5)
History, destiny, and tragedy collide, as young Johann Schmidt reaches his apotheosis...and the Third Reich climbs to the regrettable heights of its terrible power. A tremendous evil is unleashed on the world, and humanity will never be the same for it again. A powerful and sobering story of human evil reaches its chilling conclusion.


SIX GUNS #1 & 2
"Don't set them up if you can't take them down!"

Times may have changed since the days of the Old West, but in the war-torn South American state of San Diablo, the law of the gun still holds sway. When former hero-for-hire Maria Vasquez, alias Tarantula, finds herself wanted for murder south of the border, Texas Rangers Division lawman "Tex" Dawson is assigned to bring her in. But they're on a collision course with the outlaw Black Riders biker gang, who plan to make sure she never makes it to trial alive...

Classic Marvel gunslingers Tarantula, Tex Dawson, Black Rider, Matt Slade and the Two-Gun Kid are given a modern-day makeover in this hard-bitten tale of blood and bullets by the DAREDEVIL: REBORN team of Andy Diggle and Davide Gianfelice. Five heroes, six guns...against six hundred!


REPRINT COLLECTIONS AND OTHER ITEMS:
Captain America: Man Out of Time TPB


 
MOONSTONE BOOKS

RETURN OF THE MONSTERS: DOMINO LADY VS MUMMY
A Return of the Originals event!

The Egyptian sorceress Nephthys has promised to build her mummified mistress the perfect mate. Together, they cut a bloody swath across 1930’s Hollywood in search of the last few perfect bodies to harvest to complete the process. The last thing Nepthys or the mummy expected to run across was The Domino Lady, a perfect body that fights back.


As always, please let me know if I’ve overlooked anything.