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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: The Shadow, Red Rising, Flash Gordon, The Hedge Knight

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, Dynamite kicks off the holiday sale season. Plus, The Black Hammer, Hedge Knight and unannounced sales.

Where did the New Releases and Sale pages go?

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In case you’re having troubles with the new UIX (a LOT of people have been):

Housekeeping: This month’s Marvel sales are still active, but expiring on Monday. Something we found amusing. With Amazon starting it’s Black Friday promotions, you may see some of the Marvel and Kodansha comics marked as “Black Friday Deals.” They’ve been for a couple weeks and will be theoretically gone by the time the true Black Friday rolls around. How did Guns ‘n’ Roses put it… Use Your Illusion?

We are, however, happy to report that Dynamite has stepped up with what we consider the first Holiday Sale.

Starting the Holidays with a Bang

The Shadow  Flash Gordon  Green Hornet Year One

The Dynamite Year End Sale runs through  Wednesday, 12/31.

If this isn’t a line-wide sale, it’s awfully close, so let’s run through some of the interesting things that are less frequently on sale. We trust you can identity Red Sonja and Vampirella on your own after their recent sales.

The Shadow

Dynamite’s always had a feel for the pulp traditions that preceded comic books and they’ve got a bunch of interesting material featuring what was probably the pulp world’s most preeminent dark avenger of the night.

  • The Shadow (’12-’14) – Starts out with Garth Ennis / Aaron Campbell, then Victor Gischler tags in for Ennis,  then Chris Roberson / Giovanni Timpano finish it out
  • The Shadow: Year One – Matt Wagner / Wilfredo Torres; An origin tale
  • The Shadow: Midnight In Moscow – Howard Chaykin; Chaykin returns for a ’50s Cold War tale
  • The Shadow Now – David Liss / Colton Worley; The Shadow returns to NYC in 2015
  • The Shadow: The Death Of Margot Lane – Matt Wagner; Wagner goes deep into the pulps as writer/artist on this one
  • The Shadow: The Last Illusion – Cullen Bunn / Giovanni Timpano; This one might just be our favorite of the bunch. The Shadow crosses paths with the spirit of Harry Houdini as a secret society of illusionists seek to steal Houdini’s “Last Illusion” – an escape from death. We could have done with Bunn/Timpano getting a longer run

And then there’s some collections of pre-Dynamite Shadow material, which is all top notch:

  • The Shadow: Blood & Judgment – Howard Chaykin; Chaykin’s science fiction-tinged, mature reader revival of The Shadow for DC.
  • The Shadow Master Series – Andy Helfer / Bill Sienkiewicz / Kyle Baker / Marshall Rogers / Joe Orlando; Helfer followed up on the Chaykin series with a more subversive set of stories that grew increasingly absurdist with dark, dark humor. Conde Nast was said to have been repulsed by it, but we think it was straight up brilliant. Definitely not the traditional Shadow, but a real gem.
  • The Shadow 1941: Hitler’s Astrologer – Dennis O’Neil / Michael William Kaluta / Russ Heath; The team that originally brought The Shadow to comics at DC, returned in the late ’80s for Marvel Graphic Novel. O’Neil writing. Kaluta inked by Heath. The Shadow turning his .45s on a Nazi plot. What more do you really need to know?

Everything here is recommended.

Flash Gordon

Jeff Parker and Doc Shaner are an excellent pairing if you want a fun book. Flash Gordon Omnibus Vol. 1: The Man From Earth is their Flash Gordon run. Fun, action-forward Science Fantasy with a hearty endorsement.

The Spider

The Spider is a pulp contemporary of The Shadow. To be charitable, a rival publisher’s attempt to get a piece of The Shadow’s audience. To call it a more over-the-top Shadow would accurate as the originals tended to have more flamboyant villains and immense body counts. Novelist David Liss stepped in for a new spin on The Spider that we thought really captured the flavor and spirit of the original. “Terror of the Zombie Queen” is the opening act and that’s pure Spider. The art takes a hit when Colton Worley leaves, but the writing is strong throughout.

The Green Hornet

Technically a radio character that draws on the pulp hero tradition, you have some interesting options here:

  • Green Hornet: Year One – Matt Wagner / Aaron Campbell; This is a 1930s origin story
  • Green Hornet –Mark Waid / Daniel Indro / Ronilson Freire; A tale late in the original Hornet’s continuity as The Green Hornet starts to buy his own hype and it comes back to bite him. A particular favorite, although as we type this, Amazon is showing the wrong preview for V. 2, so keep an eye on that.
  • Green Hornet Omnibus Vol. 1 – Kevin Smith / Phil Hester / Jonathan Lau; Kevin Smith turned his Green Hornet screenplay – a modern affair with the Hornet as a legacy hero – into a comic w/ Lau and then Hester ran with format.

Project Superpowers

Project Superpowers is a little complicated to explain. This is Alex Ross show running a series that’s bringing back classic 40s characters like the original Daredevil, Black Terror, Green Lama and The Fighting Yank. At the time, this is what you read if you wanted a “classic Marvel” feel while Marvel was caught up in the extended “Dark Reign” storyline. Ross does covers, character design, art direction and co-plotting with Jim Krueger. There were a few different artists involved, including Doug Klauba, Stephen Sadowski, Carlos Paul and Edgar Salazar. There were also a few miniseries spinoffs that are collected in that omnibus set. Black Terror was the longest running, but we seem to recall having a jones for the Death Defyin’ Devil.

Quentin Tarrantino

Yes, Quentin Tarantino co-wrote a Django / Zorro crossover with Matt Wagner. It’s true.

Django/Zorro – Quentin Tarantino / Matt Wagner / Esteve Polls

Red Rising

Yes, Howlers, we see you. Pierce Brown’s Red Rising: Sons Of Ares is a 3 volume series by Mr. Brown / Rik Hoskin / Eli Powell / Kewber Baal

Garth Ennis

Mr. Ennis has a following and he’s done a wide range of work for Dynamite. Included in the sale:

Eduardo Risso

Borderline is a post-apocalyptic dystopian SF series Risso was doing with Carlos Trillo in Italy, prior to 100 Bullets. We liked it.

Plenty more to browse, including the usual suspects.

Unannounced Sales

Black Hammer Omnibus  The Hedge Knight  The Secret to Superhuman Strength

As always, we really don’t know how long these will last.

Dark Horse has the world of Black Hammer on sale this week, which probably needs a walk-through.

This would be — we think it’s OK to call it a superhero universe at this point — the indie superhero saga by Jeff Lemire, Dean Ormston and friends. There are a couple branches to how this saga unfurls.

The main Black Hammer series is here and that’s where you should start the journey. But, as with many long running titles, there are a few different editions to it and this is what we think the cheapest (if messy to sort) way to read the series is.

There are currently 9 volumes under the main series + a collection of specials + 2 volumes of “Visions” with guest creators playing in the Black Hammer standbox.

So what you want to do to cheap out is go to the omnibus page first.

The Omnibus and Library Editions are essentially the same thing with a different binding in print. If you stick with the Omnibus version, then you can pick up again with V.5 of the regular editions. Since there are three Library Editions, you’d pick up with V.8 of the regular editions.

Then you’ve got the World of Black Hammer collections, which are solo tales about the various heroes and villains like Barbalien and Sherlock Frankenstein. There are also Library Editions, but the pricing is a little higher per series in that format.

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales – Unannounced Deals on Calvin & Hobbes and Kevin Smith

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, it’s a week for unannounced deals with Calvin & Hobbes leading the way, along with Kevin Smith’s new Dark Horse imprint.

Where did the New Releases and Sale pages go?

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Housekeeping: It might be the calm before the holiday storm. All of last week’s Marvel sales are still active. We also have a few new unannounced sales to tide you over.

Unannounced Sales

The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir  The Days Are Just Packed: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Marvel drops 8 sales + Mark Millar @ Dark Horse

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, Marvel drops another 8 sales: Thanos, Captain Marvel (all of the Marvel Captains), Doctor Doom, Gambit, Dani Moonstar, Marvel 2099, Sabretooth and Echo. Plus, Mark Millar’s Dark Horse titles and other unannounced sales.

Where did the New Releases and Sale pages go?

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The OG Marvel Cosmic Sale
Avengers Vs. Thanos Silver Surfer: The Return of Thanos Infinity Gauntlet

The Marvel Thanos Sale runs through Monday, 11/24.

Thanos has become a saga, at least with the Starlin-driven material.

Avengers Vs. Thanos is a meaty ~470 page collection of the original ’70s appearances that were centered in Captain Marvel and Warlock.  You could make an argument that this is where “cosmic” Marvel was born. (It’s one of a handful of candidates.) Recommended.

And then Thanos was mostly on the shelf for ~13 years until Jim Starlin started writing Silver Surfer (with Ron Lim drawing… oh yes, those two would do some collaborating). Thanos got VERY involved in things, starting with The Return of Thanos and continuing with Thanos Quest and Silver Surfer: The Infinity Gauntlet  (which isn’t included in this particular sale). And yes, the first two volumes absolutely set up the famous The Infinity Gauntlet miniseries (with art by George Perez and Ron Lim).  And both of those are recommended, too.

There were two more Infinity sequels:

And a ton of supporting material.  “Infinity” and Adam Warlock were practically a sub-imprint for a couple years.

And, for good measure, while not really part of the above – Avengers: The Legacy of Thanos by Roger Stern, John Buscema and John Byrne is a highly entertaining tale of Nebula (yes, the Granddaughter of Thanos who’d later be in Guardians of the Galaxy) attempting to conquer the Skrulls.

The most recent big blip on the radar was the Donny Cates / Geoff Shaw Thanos Wins and its spin-off, Cosmic Ghost Rider.

Plenty more of the more recent Thanos appearances if you care to browse. That original Starlin run starting in Captain Marvel? GOOD STUFF!

Not A Big Red Cheese?

Captain Marvel by Jim Starlin Captain Marvel Captain Marvel

The Captain Marvel Sale runs through Monday, 11/24.

Right. This one is a little goofy to define (and the beginning overlaps a bit with Thanos).

First off, the original Kree Captain Mar-Vell as Captain Marvel:

The pinnacle of the Mar-Vell run is the Jim Starlin run and the Steve Englehart / Al Milgrom run that followed it. (Englehart/Milgrom is often lost in the shuffle. Starlin was just a hard act to follow.)

The Starlin material can be grabbed a couple different ways and all but 3 issues of it are also in Avengers Vs. Thanos.

So, if you want to read one of the major starting points for Cosmic Marvel, you have 3 choices for how to pick up the Starlin material (or if you care about duplication of material) and then add Englehart after that.

Carol Danvers as Ms./Captain Marvel:

OK… brace yourselves… this one has a ton of relaunches:

We think that’s the overly complicated chronology, anyway. For recommendations, we’re not really experts on this set of books, but we’re inclined to say go with the current Thompson run. Kelly Sue DeConnick has a very dedicated fanbase, so maybe browse the sample pages there and see if that catches your fancy, too?

Monica Rambeau as Captain Marvel

Currently renamed Photon, Monica’s mostly been an Avengers cast member, so the above is an anthology of Avengers issues and guest appearances. Note: there are plenty of Avengers volumes if you browse the sale page.

Then there’s Mar-Vell’s son Genis:

This one is a Peter David joint, through and through. We did read the ’22 version and enjoyed it. It has a little more going on than you might think at first.

Victor Von Doom Bows Before No Man!

Doctor Doom  Doom Treasury Edition  Doctor Strange & Doctor Doom: Triumph and Torment

The Marvel Doctor Doom Sale runs through Monday, 11/24.

The top dog here is the Doctor Doom series by Christopher Cantwell and Salvador Larroca. Its an instant classic well worth your time. Doom has been framed. For now he’s on the run, but his vengeance will be terrible. Featuring Kang in a highly amusing frenemy role.

Doctor Strange & Doctor Doom: Triumph and Torment by Roger Stern and Mike Mignola has Strange and Doom invading Hell to free Doom’s mother from the clutches of Mephisto.

Also of possible interest – Iron Man: Doomquest collects a famous pair of David Michelinie / Bob Layton tales (w/John Romita, Jr. on the first) that have a time travelling Doom clashing with Iron Man.

Doom Treasury Edition is built around the 2024 Jonathan Hickman / Sanford Greene tale of Doom seeking to end the threat of Galactus and the extreme lengths he must go to in that quest.

Was the original Secret Wars (’84) a Doom series? We could go along with that and the omnibus is included in the sale.

How about the 2015 Jonathan Hickman / Esad Ribic Secret Wars? A big yes to that. It’s honestly more Doom than the Avengers series leading into it.

If you want to scroll through the sale page, there are a ton of individual Fantastic Four volumes Doom turns up in, plus assorted Avengers, Doctor Strange, Iron Man and Spidey. Doom gets around a little.

Bayou Buys

Mr. and Mrs. X   Gambit Classic   Gambit: The Complete Collection

The Marvel Gambit Sale runs through Monday, 11/24.

More cajun than you can throw a card at!

And plenty of X-Men and X-Men adjacent books if you go for browse. Want a thick volume? X-Men Epic Collection: Dissolution & Rebirth is towards the end of the Chris Claremont era. It contains the transition from Marc Silvestri to Jim Lee on art, Psylocke’s transition to ninja, the Reavers and the debut of Gambit.

Was Her Codename a Mirage?

New Mutants: The Demon Bear Saga  New Mutants: Asgardian Wars  New Mutants by Zeb Wells

The Marvel Dani Moonstar sale runs through Monday, 11/24.

Yes, this is the New Mutant formerly known as Mirage for her ability to sling illusions drawn from her opponent’s fears. She’s getting a solo title soon, but she’s primarily been a team player, appearing in things like:

You can browse for more books, but we have specific two volume sequence to start you out with Dani:

  1. New Mutants Epic Collection: The Demon Bear Saga – Chris Claremont / Bill Sienkiewicz / Sal Buscema / Bob McLeod;  Sienkewicz brought out the best in Claremont and his tenure is a great run which starts with “The Demon Bear Saga,” which is both a classic and a consequential tale for Dani
  2. New Mutants Epic Collection: Asgardian Wars – Chris Claremont / Rick Leonardi / Steve Leialoha / Mary Wilshire / Keith Pollard / Butch Guice / Steve Purcell / Arthur Adams / Alan Davis; It’s a shame this doesn’t have X-Men / Alpha Flight, which sets it up, but the Asgardian Wars (drawn by Art Adams) is another classic that changes Dani’s status quo moving forward.

74 Years Away

Spider-Man 2099   Doom 2099   X-Men 2099

The Marvel 2099 Sale runs through Monday, 11/24.

Yes, 2099 was a line for Marvel in ’90s. Spider-Man  2099 was the flagship and longest lasting of the bunch. Peter David wrote it and Rick Leonardi is the artist most associated with it. Mind you, Spidey 2099 has had scrolling revivals over the years including (and currently discounted):

What else was in the line (that’s been collected and is on sale?)

  • Doom 2099 – This collection is the Warren Ellis run with Pat Broderick and Steve Pugh as the main illustrators
  • X-Men 2099 – The beginning arc with John Francis Moore and Ron Lim
  • Deadpool 2099 – What? You don’t remember this? Ha ha! Marvel is slipping in a collection of a few Gerry Duggan / Scott Koblish issues from the ’15 run of Deadpool!
  • Marvel Knights 2099 – Robert Kirkman / Steve Epting
  • Timestorm 2009  – Brian Reed / Eric Battle; 2009 crossover between “regular” Spidey, Wolverine and the 2009 universe
  • Secret Wars 2099 – Peter David / Will Sliney; Yes, Secret Wars had a tie-in for just about everything!

No Ravage 2099 / Punisher 2099 / Ghost Rider 2099 collections to be seen, if you were wondering, but plenty of volumes where the 2099 characters pop in for a storyline. (Especially Deadpool 2099.)

X-Flintstones?

Sabretooth  Sabretooth and the Exiles  Sabretooth: Open Season

The Marvel Sabretooth Sale runs through Monday, 11/24.

There was an excellent Sabretooth sequence recently, written by horror novelist Victor LaVelle.

Sabretooth leads a band of misfits and villains out of imprisonment on Krakoa in an anti-hero sequence before he breaks VERY bad and the situation is resolved in the exceedingly bloody “Sabretooth War” sequence collected in the final two volumes of Ben Percy’s Krakoa-era Wolverine series.

For older material (no, the Iron Fist appearances aren’t here), there’s the 2004 Sabretooth: Open Season by Daniel Way / Bart Sears and a ton of individual Wolverine volumes to sift through.

You Were Expecting a Cardiogram?

Echo

The Marvel Echo Sale runs through Monday, 11/24.

For Echo, what you’re looking for is Echo: The Saga of Maya Lopez, which collects both of her original Daredevil arcs by David Mack (who we don’t see enough of these days).

You can fill in around that with some of the other books listed, but go right to the source with Mack.

Unannounced Sales

Dune  The Magic Order  Nemesis Reloaded

As always, we really don’t know how long these will last.

Dark Horse is having and unannounced sale on their Mark Millar line of comics, including:

And the rest of the likely suspects:

Additionally, it looks like much of the Wolverine, Daredevil and Hulk material from recent weeks is still on sale. The Under $5 Page has the lower priced volumes

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales – Animosity, Bad Dreams, Chainsaw Man

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, it’s an unannounced-heavy week with Animosity, Bad Dreams and Chainsaw Man.

Where did the New Releases and Sale pages go?

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Housekeeping: The week of Halloween is an odd one. We’ve got a few new unannounced books. The Dark Horse horror sale looks like it will probably last until Monday, as will the Kondansha sale. It doesn’t look like all of this month’s batch of Marvel sales have reverted to normal prices yet, but the changes have started. No DC at all. (No, it’s not weird at all if you were expecting a Vertigo sale, but DC seems reluctant to have a sale without a media tie-in.)

Unannounced Sales

Animosity  Bad Dreams in the Night  Chainsaw Man

As always, we really don’t know how long these will last.

The Unannounced Dark Horse Horror/Halloween Sale

Hellboy  Lobster Johnson Witcher Omnibus

Like we said up top, we think this is going to last until Monday-ish:

Additionally, it looks like much of the Wolverine, Daredevil and Hulk material from recent weeks is still on sale. The Under $5 Page has the lower priced volumes

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Dark Horse’s Unannounced Halloween / Horror Sale

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, Dark Horse gets into Spooky Season mode with an unannounced Halloween / Horror sale.

Where did the New Releases and Sale pages go?

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In case you’re having troubles with the new UIX (a LOT of people have been):

Housekeeping:  A reminder that all 8 of Marvel’s sales from a couple weeks ago are still running (see here for the breakdowns).

Unannounced Sales

Hellboy  Lobster Johnson Witcher Omnibus

As always, with no formal announcement, we can’t be positive how long these will last.

We have an unannounced Dark Horse sale on horror, or possibly Halloween. Here are a few things we noticed:

Also on sale:

Do not sleep on Lobster Johnson if you like pulp or fun comics (often simultaneously).

Additionally, it looks some of the Hawkeye and Red Sonja material from recent weeks is still on sale. The Under $5 Page has the lower priced volumes.

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Unannounced Harrow County and Cyberpunk 2077 Sales

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, we dip into the underworld of unannounced sales and find Cyberpunk 2077 and Cullen Bunn’s Dark Horse catalog getting discounts.

Where did the New Releases and Sale pages go?

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In case you’re having troubles with the new UIX (a LOT of people have been):

Housekeeping: This is an unusually slow week for newly discounted sales. All 8 of Marvel’s sales from last week are still running (see here for the breakdowns). We’ve seen a lot of debate over whether DC was going to just be having a sale for the second half of a given month or was only participating in multi-channel event pushes (film releases, Batman Day, etc.). We’re not seeing a DC sale today, so if we had to place a wager, we’d be wagering on event tie-ins only. DC, of course, hasn’t been commenting on this any place we’ve seen.

Unannounced Sales

Cyberpunk 2077  Harrow County Omnibus 1  The Midnite Show

As usual, we’re not sure when these sales are ending, but here’s what we’re seeing:

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  (although only 4 are discounted).

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 also appears to have a Cullen Bunn sale in progress:

Also on sale:

Additionally, it looks like much of the Ultimates, Hawkeye, Nova and Red Sonja material from recent weeks is still on sale. The Under $5 Page has the lower priced volumes.

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Marvel drops 8 sales at once. Dinner is served.

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, Marvel drops a month’s worth at once: 8 sales.

Where did the New Releases and Sale pages go?

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In case you’re having troubles with the new UIX (a LOT of people have been):

Housekeeping: Marvel’s (sort of) month long sales are back in another 8-pack. Is this the new normal? We don’t see this format necessarily continuing through the holidays.

Hulk Is Cheapest There Is

Planet Hulk The Incredible Hulk - And Now the Wolverine  Incredible Hulk

The Marvel Hulk Sale runs through Monday, 10/27.

And what we have here is basically a Hulk Legacy sale, although this is another of those Marvel sales that omits both the Masterworks and the Epic Collections, which really takes a lot of the first series off the discount table.

Let’s run down the various titles.

  • Incredible Hulk (1962 – 1999) The original run and then the long running series that picked up a few years later.
  • Tales to Astonish (1964-68) In between the two Hulk solo runs above, Hulk was splitting Tales to Astonish with Ant-Man/Giant Man and then Namor. A lot of the foundational work was really in this run, with Stan Lee/Steve Ditko responsible for a lot of it. Included for the sake of completeness, for you shall find no discounts here
  • Incredible Hulk (1999-2007) – Best known for the Bruce Jones / Lee Weeks/ Mike Deodato run towards the beginning and the Greg Pak / multi-artist “Planet Hulk” and “World War Hulk” epics at the end… though World War Hulk is at this different link.
  • Hulk (2008-13) This is the Red Hulk run (and the title changes to that after awhile). It starts out with the better known Jeph Loeb/Ed Mc Guiness run and then Jeff Parker takes over with Gabriel Hardman, Dave Eaglesham and Patrick Zircher in the artist rotation.
  • Incredible Hulk by Jason Aaron (2011-12) – Lots of artists rotating through here, Marc Silvestri, Steve Dillon and Carlos Pacheco among them
  • Indestructible Hulk (2012 – 14) – Mark Waid’s the writer with an artist rotation including Leinil Francis Yu, Matteo Scalera and Walt Simonson draws the Thor team-up.
  • Hulk by Waid and Duggan (2014-15) – That would be Mark Waid and Gerry Duggan with Duggan doing the bulk of the run. Mark Bagley is the main artist here.
  • Immortal Hulk (2018-21) – Al Ewing’s masterpiece as the Hulk slides over towards horror and find a green door that leads to Hell. <Included for completeness as this is inexplicably not included in the sale.>
  • Hulk (2021-23) – The Donny Cates / Ryan Ottley run
  • The Incredible Hulk (2023 – present) – Phillip Kennedy Johnson / Nic Klein

For the main series, you can’t go wrong with the Peter David years and the Bill Mantlo era seems to have gained a lot of fans over the years.

The sequence from Planet Hulk to World War Hulk is highly enjoyable.

We’re really enjoying the current run, too. It’s a return to horror, like the Immortal Hulk run, but it feels a bit more like the Bruce Jones run. Banner is on the run, but this time the conspiracy pursuing him is supernatural in nature. Nic Klein is doing ridiculously good work on this title, too.

“I’m the best at what I do and what I do is cheap…”

Wolverine: Spore  Wolverine: Enemy of the State  

The  Marvel Wolverine Sale runs through Monday, 10/27

This is the sale on the “main” Wolverine titles. Let’s start out by listing the various titles involved.

  • Wolverine (’82) – Chris Claremont / Frank Miller / Paul Smith; The miniseries that kicked off the solo stories and an X-Men 2-parter that’s a sort of follow-up
  • Wolverine (’88-’03) – The original ongoing solo title. Yes, it took six years after the mini… it was a different time
  • Wolverine: Weapon X (’91) – Barry Windsor-Smith’s jaw-dropping tale of Wolverine having adamantium transplants forced on him
  • Wolverine (’03-’09) – Greg Rucka / Darick Robertson; Mark Millar / John Romita, Jr.; Jason Aaron/Ron Garney… among others (mostly Millar getting discounts)
  • Wolverine: Origin (’06-’10) – Daniel Way / Steve Dillon
  • Wolverine: Weapon X (’09) – Jason Aaron / Ron Garney
  • Wolverine (’10-’12) – Jason Aaron / Renato Guedes / Ron Garney; “Wolverine Goes to Hell” was not a metaphor
  • Wolverine (’13-’14) – Paul Cornell / Alan Davis
  • Wolverine: Savage Land (’14) – Frank Cho
  • Old Man Logan (’16-’18) – Jeff Lemire / Andrea Sorrentino; While Logan is “dead,” his future dystopian self journeys to the present day. (And it’s actually pretty good, despite the wonky premise.)
  • Return of Wolverine (’18-’19) – Charles Soule / Steve McNiven; “They always come back” <this one may or may not be discounted?>
  • Wolverine (’20-’24) – Ben Percy / Adam Kubert; The Krakoan era Logan. The first link is the “omnibus” page, here’s the individual collections page, which are discounted a little further into the series.
  • Wolverine: Madripoor Knights (’24) – Chris Claremont / Edgar Salazar – Logan, Black Widow and Cap in Madripoor? You know what the callback is.
  • Wolverine: Deep Cut (’24) – Chris Claremont / Edgar Salazar – A retro tale of Wolverine in the Outback from that era of X-Men
  • Wolverine (’24 – present) – Saladin Ahmed / Martin Coccolo
  • Wolverine: Revenge (’24) – Jonathan Hickman / Greg Capullo; An alternate future tale of love and teddy bears. OK… maybe there’s no teddy bears and lots of revenge.

So, what’s actually good?

The  original miniseries is generally regarded as a classic. Wolverine: Weapon X is also generally regarded as a classic.

With the original series, you’re pretty good from the beginning through the end of the Larry Hama run (a bit after #100), though towards the end of that, the X-Events get annoying. We’re particularly fond of the Archie Goodwin / John Byrne arc from #17-23.

Mark Millar did two great runs:

  • Enemy of the State w/ John Romita, JR introduces Gorgan and has Wolverine up against an unholy alliance of the Hand and Hydra
  • Old Man Logan w/ Steve McNiven has an aging Logan trying to keep to himself in a dystopian future when trouble comes looking. Yes, this should sound an awful lot like one of the films!

We also enjoyed Rucka’s ground level run preceding Millar.

The Krakoan era was quite enjoyable with the mild caveat that it sometimes flowed in and out with X-Force like the triangle era Superman titles.

The Once and Future Ultimate Spidey

  Miles Morales: Spider-Man  Miles Morales

The Marvel Miles Morales Sale runs through Monday, 10/27.

Miles, of course, was the second Ultimate Spider-Man, but that world no longer exists and now there’s a new Ultimate Spider-Man and… we wouldn’t want to explain that to somebody walking in off the street.

For the first Brian Bendis/David Marquez/Sara Pichelli run, you’re probably best off with the Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man Ultimate Collection set.

Then pop over to the  ’16-18 Bendis /Pichelli Spider-Man run.

Followed by Spider-Men: Worlds Collide by Brian Michael Bendis / Sara Pichelli / Mark Bagley, which collects Spider-Men and Spider-Men II, the original team-ups between Miles and the 616-Universe Peter Parker. The sequel is post-Secret Wars with Miles transplanted.

And after that wraps, it’s time for Miles Morales by Saladin Ahmed and Javier Garron.

The current series is Miles Morales: Spider-Man by Cody Ziglar and Federico Vicentini. 

The Light of the Silvery Moon

Moon Knight  Moon Knight Epic Collection   Moon Knight

The Marvel Moon Knight Sale runs through Monday, 10/27.

The original Moon Knight run is mostly in Epic Collections, but it’s in two separate links because… well, we shouldn’t be surprised by this, should we?  The first link has two volumes that are not closely related. Bad Moon Rising is the Werewolf by Night appearances through the backups in Hulk Magazine and the first issues of 1980 solo series. The other volume in that link… we’re not as big on. That was later volumes.

You can go here for the rest of the 1980 Moon Knight series, which was the most famous version for quite some time. If you came into the character through the TV series, know that the original Moon Knight was a lot closer to Batman and The Shadow. Oh, sure the werewolf showed up, but most of the mystical things around Konshu were kept in the background and a lot more mysterious. The multiple identities were originally more like the cover identities adopted by the Shadow (and the original series editor, Denny O’Neil, adapted The Shadow for DC). This is where Moon Knight got popular.

If you came in through the TV show, there really isn’t a comic that quite matches that version of the character, but the series did draw on the Jeff Lemire / Greg Smallwood Moon Knight series in which Moon Knight has a run-in with the Egyptian gods and his personalities run amok. It’s also a good run.

We also have been enjoying the Jed MacKay/Alessandro Cappuccio era. Their initial Moon Knight series takes up the unenviable task of rationalizing the various incarnations over the years (and there have been a lot of different takes on the character). Mr. Knight is in therapy for his multiple personality issues. He’s running the Midnight Mission and conduct himself as Konshu’s ambassador… after a fashion, although he’s not really happy with Konshu. And there are vampires. Lots of vampires.

Marvel being Marvel, this was then relaunched as Vengeance Of The Moon Knight with the same creators. Nine issues later, Moon Knight: The Fist of Khonshu launches with Domenico Carbone and Devmalya Pramanik added to the art rotation.

Highlights of the rest:

  • Moon Knight ’89-’94 – Most of this is only collected in omnibus form  for the longest running volume. This is Chuck Dixon/Sal Velluto and then the Terry Kavanaugh years with Gary Kwapisz and James Fry on art. Of possible interest, the second collection also includes a Bruce Jones/Denys Cowan special and a Doug Moench/Art Nichols team-up with Shang Chi.
  • Moon Knight ’10-12 – Brian Bendis / Alex Maleev; Controversial to say the least, this one really leans into Moon Knight’s multiple personality disorder and breaks the character if you prefer the original concept. On the other hand, it’s surprisingly witty and funny. One of the oddest takes on the character.
  • Moon Knight  ’14-’15- Most notable for the style-forward Warren Ellis/Declan Shalvey reworking (introducing the business suit)

The novelist corner, because Marvel has put a couple name novelists on the property:

You Were Expecting Dabney Coleman?

Cloak and Dagger: Shadows and Light  Cloak and Dagger: Lost and Found  Cloak And Dagger: Predator And Prey

The Marvel Cloak and Dagger Sale runs through Monday 10/27.

This feature was one of Bill Mantlo’s babies when he was at Marvel. It spun out of Peter Parker and bounced around a few different titles and relaunches, so let’s try and put the volumes in a reading order, eh?

  • Cloak and Dagger: Shadows and Light – Bill Mantlo / Ed Hannigan / Rick Leonardi; The Peter Parker appearances, first mini and some New Mutants
  • Cloak and Dagger: Lost and Found – Bill Mantlo / Rick Leonardi / Brett Blevins; The second series and the beginning of the Strange Tales run
  • Cloak And Dagger: Predator And Prey – Bill Mantlo / Peter B. Gillis / Terry Austin / Bret Blevins / Larry Alexander /Dan Lawlis /June Brigman / Larry Stroman /Sal Velluto / Mike Vosburg; A bit more Strange Tales, a couple graphic novels and the start of Mutant Misadventures
  • Cloak And Dagger: Agony And Ecstasy– Terry Austin / Steve Gerber / Terry Kavanagh / Peter B. Gillis / Rick Leonardi / Mike Vosburg / Dave Ross / Chris Ivy / Chris Warner; The rest of Mutant Misadventures
  • Cloak and Dagger: Runaways and Reversals – Brian K. Vaughan / Stuart Moore / Nick Spencer / Dan Slott / Takeshi Miyazawa / Adrian Alphona / Mark Brooks / Emma Rios / Matteo Buffagni / Alex Maleev / Peter Gross / Leonard Kirk / Cory Smith; A collection of guest appearances, notably in Runaways
  • Cloak And Dagger – Marvel Digital Original – Dennis Hopeless / Francesco Manna / David Messina; A pair of tales produced for digital

Seeing Red

House of M  Scarlet Witch by James Robinson  Scarlet Witch By Steve Orlando

The Marvel Scarlet Witch Sale runs though Monday, 10/27.

And really, this is sort of the Wanda 2.0 sale. You can tell by the lack of Vision and where it starts.

  • Avengers: Disassembled – Brian Bendis / David Finch; This is essentially the prologue to House of M
  • House of M – Brian Michael Bendis / Olivier Coipel; Wanda has remade the world into her personal alternate reality
  • Scarlet Witch by James Robinson: The Complete Collection (’15-’17) – James Robinson / Vanesa R. Del Rey / Marco Rudy / Steve Dillon
  • The Steve Orlando era – this is another one of those instance where the monthly is constantly relaunched for the Direct Market, but the collected editions are still numbered 1-5. (By all means, get the flippers to buy an extra #1…)
    • V. 1-2 – w/ Sara Pichelli & Lorenzo Tammetta
    • V. 3-5 – w/ Lorenzo Tammetta & Jacopo Camagni; Quicksilver is briefly added as a co-headliner in the serialized version

The Missing Adjective

Spider-Man  Spider-Man: Hobgoblin Lives  Spider-Man: Revenge of the Green Goblin

The Marvel Goblin Sale runs through Monday, 10/27.

Look, all we’re saying is we’ve lived a few places where “Goblin” could mean some very different things depending on the word in front of it. In the case of this sale, the missing word is usually Green/Gold/Red with a little Hobgoblin stirred in for spice. These are basically random volumes with a Goblin in them, but here are some things that stood out to us:

Hornhead

Daredevil  Daredevil Epic Collection  Daredevil by Zdarsky

The Marvel Daredevil Sale runs through Monday, 10/27.

Let’s break this down by series. Like X-Men, Daredevil has had fewer relaunches than some titles.

  • Daredevil ’64-’98 – The original run.
  • Daredevil ’98-11 – The Marvel Knights relaunch. Kevin Smith / Brian Bendis / Ed Brubaker
    • For the Bendis and Brubaker runs, you want the Omnibus section and scroll down for their respective “Ultimate Collections”
  • Daredevil ’11-15 – This was really two volumes with an arbitrary relaunch in the middle, but the excellent run by Mark Waid / Chris Samnee / Paolo Rivera / Javier Rodriguez is a better buy in this 5 volume set that collects both volumes and treats it like the single run it was.
  • Daredevil ’15-’18 – The Charles Soule era with Ron Garney as the main artist.
  • Daredevil ’19-’21 – Chip Zdarsky’s breakout title as a writer. Marco Checcetto is the primary artist.
  • Daredevil: Woman Without Fear ’22 – Zdarsky / Rafael de Latorre; Sort of a bridge title during the Devil’s Reign event, but part of the ongoing plot. Note: this is included in the final DD omnibus for the ’19-’21 run.
  • Daredevil ’22-’23 – Also known as Daredevil & Elektra. The final act to the Zdarsky/Checcetto era; This doesn’t look like it’s actually on sale, which would be silly — it’s the ending to the story.
  • Daredevil ‘23-present – Saladin Ahmed / Aaron Kuder; Picking up after the Zdarsky finale is effectively a “born again” scenario… bit more literally than with Miller.

What’s good here? Honestly, with the exception of the “Shadowlands” Event at the end of the Marvel Knights run, DD has been consistently good to great since Frank Miller showed up. You don’t hear us saying that about every title! We will say that Gene Colan’s return to DD (with Joe Kelly writing) seems to be under the radar these days.  But starting with Miller, just pick a run (Miller / O’Neil / Nocenti / Chichester / Kessel / Kelly / Smith / Bendis / Brubaker / Waid / Soule / Zdarsky / Ahmed) and dig in. Also, you should probably count Bendis and Brubaker as one long run, which is worth it.

Unannounced Sales

Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons    My Hero Academia

As usual, we’re not sure when these sales are ending, but here’s what we’re seeing:

Additionally, it looks like much of the Ultimates, Punisher, Nova and Red Sonja material from recent weeks is still on sale. The Under $5 Page has the lower priced volumes.

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Amazon (at Comixology) Sales: Starhenge, Dynamite Horror, Fantastic Four, Dark Tower

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, Dynamite starts off spooky season with a horror sale and we dig up some unannounced Fantastic Four, Starhenge  and Dark Tower.

Where did the New Releases and Sale pages go?

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In case you’re having troubles with the new UIX (a LOT of people have been):

Housekeeping: It’s been a consistently strange few weeks and this one is no exception. Marvel is now completely missing from the Deals page. Does that mean there’s no Marvel on sales? Certainly not. Not all the expired prices have truly disappeared and we found some odds and ends floating around.

Enter: Spooky Season

Army of Darkness: Ash Saves Obama  Devolution  The Twilight Zone

The Dynamite World of Horror Sale runs through Friday, 10/31.

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.

Unannounced Sales

Starhenge  Fantastic Four: Grand Design Incredible Doom: A Graphic Novel

As usual, we’re not sure when these sales are ending, but here’s what we’re seeing:

Fantastic That Something’s Discounted

Yes, we did find a swatch of Fantastic Four titles quietly discounted:

[Note: The Complete Collection overlaps with Vol. 3 of the Hickman run]

The Unusual Suspects

Of note: Starhenge is Liam Sharp pushing his artistic envelope.

Additionally, it looks like much of the Ultimates, Punisher, Nova and Red Sonja material from recent weeks is still on sale. The Under $5 Page has the lower priced volumes.

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Reckless: Friend of the Devil leads a week of unannounced sales

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, it’s an unannounced week with Reckless, Calvin & Hobbes and Plants Vs. Zombies.

Where did the New Releases and Sale pages go?

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In case you’re having troubles with the new UIX (a LOT of people have been):

Housekeeping: It’s a fairly unusual week. All the multi-week sales are ending on Monday/Tuesday (i.e., it’s last call) and all the new sales are unannounced. Interestingly, the most recent volume in the Reckless series, Friend of the Devil: A Reckless Book, is half-off. We don’t all that many Image sales, these days… but perhaps we’re due for one in the near future?

Unannounced Sales

Friend of the Devil  The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury  Saga

As usual, we’re not sure when these sales are ending, but here’s what we’re seeing:

Additionally, it looks like much of the Red Sonja material from recent weeks is still on sale. The Under $5 Page has the lower priced volumes.

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: The Batman Day Sale, Avatar: the Last Airbender

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, DC returns with a Batman Day sale. Plus, Dark Horse adds discounts on Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Where did the New Releases and Sale pages go?

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In case you’re having troubles with the new UIX (a LOT of people have been):

Housekeeping: Much like last week, Marvel appears to be standing pat with the sales unleashed at the beginning of the month. They’re still hanging around. Meanwhile, DC returns to the fold.

The Dark Day Returns?

Batman: Death of the Family   Batman: Year One  

The DC Batman Day Sale runs through Tuesday, 9/30.

Yes, it ends on a Tuesday. (You were expecting a regular schedule in ’25? No, we didn’t think so.)

This is not quite as expansive as previous Batman Day sales. It’s by no means an across the board discount as we’re used to seeing. Whoever set up the sale seems to have something against Detective Comics, because not much of that is discounted. The thicker volumes are at higher price points, this time around. The “Legends”/”Tales of” volumes that are HC in print are excluded this time around. Hey, it’s not like we’re seeing DC sales every week — but we want to orient you to this new reality before diving in.

(Note: they only have the “deluxe” edition of Long Halloween in the sale and it’s still more expensive than the “regular” edition, so we won’t be linking it. Truth, Justice and the American Way!)

Let’s break down some of the highlights by series/volume.

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

  • Batman (1940-2011)
  • Detective Comics (1939-2011)… OK, for unknown reasons, the original Bat-title only seems to have a couple discounted volumes

Some more pre-New 52 ongoing titles:

  • Batman and the Outsiders  (’83-’87)- Mike W. Barr / Jim Aparo / Alan Davis; not the best pricing, but the normal HC-influenced pricing is up there
  • Batman: Shadow of the Bat – Alan Grant’s title, w/Norm Breyfogle, early on. (Get more of them in Dark Knight Detective/Caped Crusader)
  • Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight – standalone arcs by different creative teams, but consistently good
  • Batman & Robin (’09-’11) – Initially, a Grant Morrison title w/Damian in tow
  • Batman Incorporated (’10-’11) Vol. 1 – Grant Morrison / Yanick Paquette / Chris Burnham
  • Batman: Streets of Gotham – Paul Dini’s in-continuity series w/Dustin Nguyen
  • The Brave & The Bold – Batman team-ups. Bob Haney, Neal Adams and Jim Aparo were notable creators here. Haney/Aparo was the team on a LOT of comics. (Now if we could get a Nemesis collection…)

One-offs of note:

New 52 and forward, your main titles are:

Post-New 52 one-offs:

You say you miss $0.99 single issues? Surprise, they’re back. At least a handful:

There’s a bit more here if you browse the listing, too.

Unannounced Sales

Avatar: The Last Airbender  Tales From the Crypt  Money Shot

As usual, we’re not sure when these sales are ending, but here’s what we’re seeing:

Dark Horse Discounts Present:

There seems to be quite a bit of unannounced discount activity with Dark Horse this week.

Newly discounted:

Carrying over from last week (at least for now):

And the rest of the line-up:

  • Money Shot – Tim Seely / Sarah Beattie / Rebekah Issacs / Caroline Leigh Layne / Gisèle Lagacé; For some reason this isn’t all on the same page, so Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3, Vol. 4

Additionally, it looks like many of the Superman and Red Sonja material from recent weeks is still on sale. The Under $5 Page has the lower priced volumes.

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