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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Clayface; DC Halloween Sale; Cyberpunk 2077

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, DC discounts Clayface while having a Halloween sale. Plus, Cyberpunk 2077.

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There Must Be a Movie

Legends of the Dark Knight Norm Breyfogle   Detective Comics by Tynion  Batman by Brian K. Vaughn

The DC Clayface Sale runs through Monday, 11/2.

How much are Clayface comic appearances going to resemble the film? Based on the trailer, we have our doubts. That said, a block of mostly recent Clayface appearances are on sale. We’ll nod at three things:

  • Legends of the Dark Knight: Norm Breyfogle Vol. 1 – Alan Grant / Norm Breyfogle – Yes, we’d prefer it be a couple bucks less, but this one has a stooopid regular price and it’s the beginning of the excellent Grant/Breyfogle collaboration, which includes “The Mud Pack” as the different Clayfaces converge
  •  Detective Comics (’16) – The opening James Tynion IV / Eddy Barrows / Alvaro Martinez run features a reformed Clayface
  • Batman by Brian K. Vaughn – Brian K. Vaughan / Scott Kolins / Scott McDaniel / Rick Burchett; Here the Clayface draw is actually from Wonder Woman. We presume we don’t have to list Vaughn’s credentials

Trick or Stabby Stabby

Nice House on the Lake  Blackest Night  Night Force

The DC Super-villains/Halloween Sale runs through Sunday, 11/1.

Yes, a Sunday ending is unusual but they’re a little more in tune with the notion of a Halloween sale actually running on Halloween than Marvel is.

Quite the eclectic mix with this one. We’ll also reiterate the standing advice that not every $9.99 price tag is necessarily a real sale, but for the right volume, it’s not necessarily a bad price. It just better have AT LEAST 10-12 issues in it.

There’s a lot more here, but some highlights:

Unannounced Sales

Cyberpunk 2077 Cyberpunk 2077 Big City Dreams Nemesis Reloaded

As always, it isn’t clear when the unannounced sales will end.

Looks like there’s an unannounced sale on Dark Horse’s Cyberpunk 2077. A video game adaptation with an interesting award to its credit.

The first five collections can be found here. The Omnibus here, should you prefer that format.

After which, the property went to the album format Dark Horse sometimes uses for titles with a higher bookstore profile, which are listed with the single issues:

Dark Horse is still having a sale on their Mark Millar line of comics, AKA Millarworld, including:

For our money, Starlight is way under appreciated. The Hollywood elevator pitch would be along the lines of “Flash Gordon’s retirement isn’t going well.”

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: The Millarverse

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, Dark Horse drop discounts on the Millarverse line of comics.

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Unannounced Sales

Reborn Library Edition Star Light Vatican City

As always, it isn’t clear when the unannounced sales will end.

Dark Horse is having a sale on their Mark Millar line of comics, AKA Millarworld, including:

For our money, Starlight is way under appreciated. The Hollywood elevator pitch would be along the lines of “Flash Gordon’s retirement isn’t going well.”

Critical Role from Dark Horse is also on sale. That would be the comics based on the campaigns from the popular web series about Dungeons & Dragons campaigns… and this will take a moment to explain.

There’s an omnibus format that’s a little better value and a “regular”  collected edition sale. There are some OGNs/albums filed under the single issue format. (Hey, don’t look at us.)

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Marvel’s Halloween Sale, The Vision, Young Avengers, Flight

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, Marvel rolls out their Halloween sale. Marvel also discounts, Young Avengers, Vision, Nova and “Event” comics. Plus, Flight and XCom.

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Trick or Cheap

Immortal Hulk  Tomb of Dracula  Ghost Rider

The Marvel Halloween Sale  runs through Monday 10/26.

When we make fun of Marvel’s sale schedule as being on autopilot and braindead, a Halloween sale that runs through the 26th only is right up there. Real Works of Genius territory. Also, Gerber’s Man-Thing is curiously absent from the Halloween Sale. We hope the intern wasn’t in charge?

This is, to an extent, a sale of sales:

Hulk

Yes, The Hulk has been a horror character in recent years and they’ve also been at or near the top of the various Hulk runs.

  • Immortal Hulk – Al Ewing / Joe Bennett; A stone cold classic
  • Incredible Hulk – Phillip Kennedy Johnson / Nic Klein; The recent return to horror

Tomb of Dracula / Blade

It’s not clear you can call Tomb of Dracula an under-the-radar 70s classic anymore, since it’s gotten a fair amount of exposure since the Essentials line (finally) collected it ~20 years ago, but now it’s in color reprints. One note, though – you need to give the series six or seven issues to get moving. There were some false starts until Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan were paired up… but after they’ve got a couple issues under their belt, this one really takes off.

Blade: Black & White is a collection of… that’s right, the black & white adventures over the years and is built around some magazine appearances in Vampire Tales and Marvel Preview. Wolfman and Chris Claremont are the primary writers for that period. Colan and Tony DeZuniga are the primary artists.

If you’re looking for something has resembles the film franchise a bit more, there’s Blade: The Complete Collection by Marc Guggenheim (with Howard Chaykin as artist).

For something completely out of left field, J.M. DeMatteis, Steve Leialoha and Mark Badger present Greenberg the Vampire. He tries to avoid drinking blood, loves his Mama and occasionally has writer’s block. No Dracula or Blade, but we’ll indulge.

Ghost Rider

Marvel Monsters

Spider-Woman

  • Spider-Woman – Mark Gruenwald / Michael Fleisher / Chris Claremont / Carmen Infantino / Steve Leialoha; Probably in here for the Werewolf appearances, nonetheless, 70s/80s Spider-Woman was a deeply strange book.

There’s quite a bit more in the sale, just not runs. Werewolf by Night shows up in a lot of Moon Knight titles. Dracula shows up all over the place, too.

What isn’t an Event These Days?

One World Under Doom  Imperial  Civil War [Marvel Premier Collection]

The Select Marvel Universe Events Sale runs through Monday, 10/26.

There is a LOT more to this sale with Event tie-in books, so we’re going to hit the Event highlights and maybe a more relevant tie-in book or two. (Not all tie-ins are created equal.)

You’d Think There Was a TV Show…

Vision and the Scarlet Witch   Avengers West Coast  The Vision

The Marvel Vision Sale runs through Monday, 10/26.

Quite a bit here.

The value buy here is Vision & The Scarlet Witch: The Saga of Wanda and Vision. It’s a sort of faux-Epic Edition, clocking in at 467 pages and including the wedding of Wanda and Vision from Giant-Size Avengers #4, the ’82 Bill Mantlo/Rick Leonardi mini-series and the ’85 Steve Englehart/Richard Howell 12-parter.

Vision: The Complete Series – Tom King / Gabriel Hernandez Walta. After his split with Wanda, The Vision moves to the suburbs with a synthezoid wife and two synthezoid kids in tow? What could go wrong? Plenty, as his new world slowly unravels. Probably the best early King book.

Avengers Epic Collection: Behold… The Vision – starts out with the classic two-part debut of The Vision (ending in “Evan an Android Can Cry). This volume is essentially the middle third of the Roy Thomas run. John Buscema / Barry Windsor Smith / Gene Colan / Sal Buscema era. Plenty of Ultron and the debuts of the Squadron Sinister and Invaders towards the end.

Avengers: Absolute Vision – Book One and Book Two – Roger Stern / Al Milgrom / Bob Hall; contain a long arc (that mostly executes in the second volume) where the Vision goes slightly mad and tries to take over the world’s computers.

Avengers West Coast Epic Collection: Vision Quest has Wanda’s original heel-turn in John Byrne’s run that was an influence on the earlier TV show. (It also has the end of the Englehart run and that counts for something, too.)

Which is also to say there are a lot of the original Avengers and West Coast Avengers volumes on sale.

Avengers Inc.: Action, Mystery, Adventure by Al Ewing / Leonard Kirk is absolutely wonderful and the endcap to a trilogy along with Ant-Man: Ant-Iversary and Wasp: Small Worlds (which is not on sale).

Did Anybody Card These Heroes?

Young Avengers  Young Avengers  Avengers: The Children's Crusade

The Marvel Young Avengers Sale runs through Monday, 10/26.

We can sum this sale up succinctly. You’re looking at three volumes:

The creator names are even in the title(s)!

Seriously, though: the Heinberg/Cheung original series was a buzz book that seemed to come out of nowhere when it dropped. Hulking and Wiccan have gone on to get pretty fully integrated into the Marvel Universe.

A few related titles also in the sale:

Pee Wee? Is That You?

Nova  Champions  Champions Classic: The Complete Collection

The Marvel Nova (Sam Alexander) Sale runs through Monday 10/26.

This would be the kid version of Nova that debuted a few years back, for which we have:

The solo titles

  • Nova (’13-’15) – Jeph Loeb / Zeb Wells / Gerry Duggan / Ed McGuinness / Paco Medina / Carlo Barberi / David Baldeon / Federico Santagati / John Timms
  • Nova (’15-’16) – Sean Ryan / Cory Smith / John Timms
  • Nova (’16-’17) -Jeff Loveness / Ramon Perez

The Team Book

  • Champions (’16-’18) – Mark Waid / Jeremy Whitley / Jim Zub / Humberto Ramos / Jesús Saiz / Javier Piña / Paco Diaz / Sean Izaakse / Kevin Libranda

The 70s team with the same name

Unannounced Sales

Critical Role Fangs Flight

As always, it isn’t clear when the unannounced sales will end.

Critical Role from Dark Horse is currently on sale. That would be the comics based on the campaigns from the popular web series about Dungeons & Dragons campaigns… and this will take a moment to explain.

There’s an omnibus format that’s a little better value and a “regular”  collected edition sale. There are some OGNs/albums filed under the single issue format. (Hey, don’t look at us.)

Dark Horse still has discounts to their Star Wars line of comics:

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Prime Day Edition

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, we’re making a special Tuesday appearance for Prime Day.

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We’re popping in to have a look at the Prime Day short term comics offerings and we’ll be back at the usual time for this week’s “normal” sales.

The Prime Sale

Helen of Wyndhorn  Invisible Kingdom  The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

The Prime Day sale on Kindle (digital) comics is here.

Yes, that’s a lot less than Marvel had last time around, but there are some interesting bits.

Helen of Wyndhorn by Tom King / Bilquis Evely / Matheus Lopes is a ’25 Eisner winner and is actually sitting on our to be read pile right now. We know Tom King is pretty high on the reading list for .cheap readers (and it’s not like Lanterns is lowering his profile).

Invisible Kingdom Volume 1  by G. Willow Wilson / Christian Ward is really part 1 of 3, but we enjoyed this SF conspiracy about the religion teaming up with corporate business to hatch nefarious plans.

The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes also pops up here and we’re raising at eyebrow. Not at the strip. We don’t trust people who don’t like Calvin & Hobbes. No, we’re raising an eyebrow at this having actually been on an unlisted sale for a couple of weeks.

If you wanted to explore <shudder> Printed Comics, there’s a wider selection today. And here’s the link if you were specifically looking for Marvel in print.

Unannounced Sales

Star Wars: Tales from the Rancor Pit Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures Star Wars Hyperspace Stories

As always, it isn’t clear when the unannounced sales will end.

Dark Horse has applied discounts to their Star Wars line of comics:

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Star Wars; Dynamite’s Halloween Sale

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, Dynamite has a Halloween sale and Dark Horse discounts their Star Wars line.

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Enter: Spooky Season

Army of Darkness: Ash Saves Obama  Devolution  The Twilight Zone

The Dynamite Halloween Sale runs through Sunday, 11/1.

Dynamite does quite a bit of horror and ’tis the season. Let’s have a look at some highlights:

Yes, there’s some variety to the horror and some new creations in the mix. We would also note that a certain Mr. Straczynski was a story editor on the 80s revival of The Twilight Zone.

We’ve been meaning to continue on with the Priest Vampirella run. The first volume was interesting.

Something Might Be Up at DC

Crisis on Infinite Earths  Legion of Super Heroes The Great Darkness Saga  Swamp Thing

There’s no formal sale up that we’re seeing, but we’re also noticing a flurry of price changes at DC. Some of it’s the usual 5% fluctations common to Amazon. Some of it is volumes dropping from $12.99 to $9.99, which is also normal. But a few of the larger volumes (more than 6 issues collected) have also been dropping.  Examples:

Might be nothing, might be another pricing experiment (DC sure seems to love these since they hired new digital people), might be ramping up for a new sale next week. Hard to say, but keep your eyes open. $9.99 isn’t a great price for those sorts of books, but it’s better than they’re often priced.

Unannounced Sales

Star Wars: Tales from the Rancor Pit Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures Star Wars Hyperspace Stories

As always, it isn’t clear when the unannounced sales will end.

Dark Horse has applied discounts to their Star Wars line of comics:

Dark Horse is still having a sale on Frank Miller’s Sin City, Miller’s hugely influential hardboiled series.

Dark Horse is also still having a sale on Geoff Darrow’s Shaolin Cowboy. Darrow is very nearly a genre unto himself and if you want extra detail in your art and double the action, he might be your huckleberry.

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Sin City; Shaolin Cowboy

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, Dark Horse offers discounts on Frank Miller’s Sin City and Geoff Darrow’s Shaolin Cowboy.

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Unannounced Sales

Sin City: The Hard Goodbye  Shaolin Cowboy  The Hedge Knight

As always, it isn’t clear when the unannounced sales will end.

Dark Horse is having a sale on Frank Miller’s Sin City, Miller’s hugely influential hardboiled series.

Dark Horse is also having a sale on Geoff Darrow’s Shaolin Cowboy. Darrow is very nearly a genre unto himself and if you want extra detail in your art and double the action, he might be your huckleberry.

Dark Horse is still having a Masters of the Universe sale:

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Batman Day

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, DC throws out some discounts for Batman Day. Plus, Masters of the Universe.

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Day of the Fledermaus

Absolute Batman Batman and Robin: Year One Batman: Birth of the Demon

The DC Batman Day 2026 Sale runs through Monday, 9/28.

Back to back DC sales again. As is the case these days, the pricing is a little all over the map with some $4.99s that are good deals and some $9.99s that are less so. Let’s hit the highlights first

Your classic / pre-New 52 material is largely going to be in:

New 52 and forward, you’re looking at:

What’s good? Well, that should be fairly obvious. Beyond the obvious, for $4.99/volume, we’re big fans of the 5-volume “Gotham Nocturne” sequence in Detective by Ram V, Rafael Albuquerque and Ivan Reis on the main story. It’s an odd gothic horror take on Batman and it floated our boat. That starts here.

You also can’t go wrong rooting through the original Batman and Detective Comics for the Alan Grant / Norm Breyfogle volumes. We wish they were a little lower than $7.99, but that’s good stuff and we thought it aged just fine.

   Masters of the Universe: Revelation He-Man Newspaper Comic Strip  The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

As always, it isn’t clear when the unannounced sales will end.

Dark Horse is having a Masters of the Universe sale:

Dark Horse is still having an Avatar: The Last Airbender sale:

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Marvel Omnibuses and Epics; Avatar: The Last Airbender

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, Marvel drops a new sale with Omnibuses, Epic Collections and Masterworks. Plus, Avatar: The Last Airbender.

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Did Somebody Say “Omnibus?”

Planet Hulk Omnibus  Miracleman Omnibus  X-Men Epic Collection: The Sentinels Live

The Marvel Digital Comics Sale runs through Monday, 9/18.

Marvel has a quick-hitter sale with some of the formats you folks like: Omnibus, Complete Collections and a handful of Masterworks, too.

Let’s break it down by format:

Omnibus

Epic Collections

  • X-Factor – We have particular fondness for the Simonson(es) and Peter David eras
  • X-Men – The original run through the Uncanny years. Pay close attention to the $2.99 volumes, that’s a FANTASTIC deal

Masterworks

Marvel Premiere Editions

Normally, we make fun of digital pricing getting based on a special format like HC. With the Premiere Editions, it ends up being a better deal.

Complete / Ultimate Collections

“Normal” Collections

 

Unannounced Sales

Avatar: The Last Airbender  Lafcadio Hearn's "The Faceless Ghost" and Other Macabre Tales from Japan  The Hedge Knight

As always, it isn’t clear when the unannounced sales will end.

Dark Horse is having an Avatar: The Last Airbender sale:

Dark Horse still has a manga sale going on. Some titles we noticed:

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Stranger Things

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, Stranger Things finds some discounts.

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Unannounced Sales

Stranger Things  Hellboy: Emerald Hell  Monstress

As always, it isn’t clear when the unannounced sales will end.

Dark Horse has the Stranger Things line of graphic novels on sale, also in  Omnibus editions

Dark Horse has Hellboy on sale. (This summer of horror trend is all over the place)

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: The Witcher; Doonesbury

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, Dark Horse has discounts on The Witcher. Plus, Doonesbury.

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Unannounced Sales

Witcher Omnibus  Witcher  A Doonesbury Retrospective

As always, it isn’t clear when the unannounced sales will end.

Dark Horse has dropped a Witcher sale:

Dark Horse still has a Creepy / Eerie sale going on.

Creepy was the first one and is available in both archive  format and “Creepy Presents” volumes spotlighting individual artists (Alex Toth, Bernie Wrightson, Richard Corben, Steve Ditko).

Eerie was the companion series. By halfway through it’s run, it had evolved into something a little different with multi-part stories and characters who returned, the breakout character being The Rook (a time traveler with some western elements baked in). It’s also available in archive format and “Eerie Presents” for collecting individual features (El Cid and Hunter).

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