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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: The Dark Horse Black Friday Sale Arrives

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, The Dark Horse Black Friday sale arrives, plus… Money Shot.

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: The Dynamite sale will be up through the end of the year, but the DC / Marvel cupboard is devoid of Black Friday sales at the moment. If the prices start changing, we’ll do an update. (OK, that would probably warrant a new post, not an update.)

Unannounced Sales

Blacksad  Money Shot  Scarlet

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

Dark Horse appears to have an unannounced Black Friday sale. They have a LOT of their collected editions on sale, but not the newest material and not the single issues.  Here’s a link that will *eventually* get you through their catalog in a very laborious way and with the single issues mixed in. (It’s not perfect, but we’re trying.)

Here are some direct links to various series:

Recommendations? Sure.

Scarlet by Bendis and Alex Maleev is a political thriller about a Portland woman rebelling against a corrupt police department/government. Bendis back in his original pre-capes Thriller mode and it might be having a Long Tail moment right now.

Nexus by Mike Baron & Steve Rude – It looks like a superhero comic, but it’s a science fiction epic about a man appointed as the executioner of mass murderers. A job he doesn’t want and can’t escape.

B.P.R.D. (mostly) by Mike Mignola / John Arcudi / Guy Davis is not as widely read as Hellboy, but it’s the real backbone of the Hellboy universe’s story.

Blacksad by by Juan Diaz Canales / Juanjo Guarnido is very good detective series in the Raymond Chandler tradition… except the characters are anthropomorphic. Nothing “kiddie” about it and the art is as good as it gets.

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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: 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: 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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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Star Wars, Mike Mignola, EC, Octavia Butler

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, Dark Horse issues discounts on Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures, Mike Mignola’s Hellboy-adjacent titles and the EC Archives. Plus, Octavia Butler adaptations.

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: Last week, we were wondering if that carpet bombing of Marvel sales meant we weren’t go to have fresh ones for the rest of the month? Right now, that looks like a real possibility and all the Marvel and Kodansha material from last week is still on sale.

What’s new this week:

Unannounced Sales

Tales From the Crypt  Lobster Johnson  Parable of the Sower

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.

Like horror? The EC Archives (or at least the vast majority of them) are on sale. Must be a coincidence that it lines up with the release of a new volume (The Complete Moon Girl which is not discounted… yet.) This is a good excuse to get a little Wally Wood and Johnny Craig in your life or stalk stock up on Tales From the Crypt ahead of spooky season.

Like Star Wars? Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures is on sale. (Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures Phase III–Echoes of Fear is listed separately. It tried to hide from us and failed.)

Like Mike Mignola and the extended Hellboy universe? A bunch of that seems to be on sale, too:

And the rest of the line-up:

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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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Unannounced Sales on Wolverine, Dark Horse and a few DC titles, too

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, unannounced sales on Wolverine, Dark Horse and a few DC titles, too.

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 note: With the exception of the Kodansha sale that’s going on, all of the usual suspects have unannounced sales this week. If you hadn’t heard, there were some irregularities with the Amazon/Comixology New Releases page this week. We suspect this is a “formal” Wolverine sale and the sale page never got linked to the deals page in the ensuing chaos. If so, this sale probably runs through Monday or a week from Monday. Which is to say, we REALLY don’t know when any of these sales are ending! (And yes, we did turn up some randomly better-priced DC volumes.)

Invisible Killer

Wolverine: Spore  Wolverine: Enemy of the State  

As we type this early on Friday morning, there’s no link yet… but we can see the lowered prices. If an overall sale link becomes available, we’ll update the page.

This is the sale on the “main” Wolverine titles. Let’s start out by listing the various titles involved. This time out, the Epic Collections are on sale, but Wolverine Classic does not. These days, you never know about the Epics and Masterworks from sale to sale… except there aren’t any Wolverine Masterworks. And pay attention, because not every volume in a given series is discounted. (Yes, it’s been that kind of week.)

  • 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 (’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”
  • 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.

So, what’s actually good?

The  original miniseries is 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!

The Krakoan era, while it almost merged with X-Force (kind of like the triangle era Superman line), was quite enjoyable.

“Normal” Unannounced Sales

Hellboy  Martha Washington  Minor Threats

It’s last call for Dark Horse’s “Comic-Con @Home digital sale” and has most of their collected editions discounted, but not the newest material and not the single issues.  Here’s a link that will *eventually* get you through their catalog in a very laborious way and with the single issues mixed in. (It’s not perfect, but we’re trying.) Figure this will be around 50% off, but it might vary a little from book to book. Our understanding is that this will run through August 4th.

Here are some direct links to various series:

Dark Nights: Metal  Titans  Wonder Woman

Also on sale, and we’re not clear on when these will stop being discounted:

Additionally, it looks like most of the Captain America and Deadpool material from recent weeks is still on sale. The Under $5 Page has the lower priced volumes. Go back a couple columns for the links to find the Epic Collections.

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales, SDCC Edition: Deadpool, She-Hulk

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, Marvel deals some discounts on Deadpool and She-Hulk. Plus, the Dark Horse Comic-Con sale marches on.

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 note: For those of you wondering if the Superman sale at the beginning of the month meant that DC was back to offering regular sales: as of Friday afternoon, the answer would appear to be no. We found a couple minor price drops that we’ve thrown into the unannounced section, but the Superman sale currently looks like a one-off corporate synergy promotion. If you’re thinking this is a small number of sales for Comic-Con week, you’re correct. There’s a possibility most of the usual suspects are distracted by all the shenanigans in the Diamond Bankruptcy saga. (Something that doesn’t directly affect you as a digital reader, but is a seismic problem in the print world.)

$20 on Uncle Ben
Deadpool Classics Deadpool by Posehn and Duggan Deadpool by Joe Kelly

The Marvel Deadpool Legacy Sale runs through Monday, 7/28.

Deadpool is… oddly collected. There have been a lot of titles and lot of relaunches. Most of these (except Cable/Deadpool and the Daniel Way era) are absorbed into the Deadpool Classics line of collected editions.  Some, but not all, of the series, have omnibus editions and those are the cheaper way to collect those runs… which means, if you’re a completist and you’re cheap, you’re going to want to be wanting to fill in the Classics volumes around the omnibuses.  And Deadpool Classics V. 1 collects the various miniseries that kicked things off.  In a sense, the easiest way (but perhaps not cheapest – and certainly not the most current) to keep things chronological is to follow the Classics line.

Hey, when was getting Marvel collected editions in the proper order ever easy?

So let’s run down the main titles:

  • Deadpool Classics (’93 – as far as they’ve gotten)
  • Deadpool (’97-’02) – Known as the Joe Kelly era (with Priest and Gail Epic Collections expanding the section)
  • Cable and Deadpool (’04-’08) – Fabian Nicieza / Mark Brooks / Patrick Zircher
  • Deadpool (’08-’12) – The Daniel Way Era
  • Deadpool Team-Up (’09 – ’11) – all sorts of creators for this Deadpool variant on Marvel Two-In-One (and selectively discounted this time)
  • Deadpool Max (’10-’11) – David Lapham / Kyle Baker
  • Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe (’12) – Cullen Bunn / Dalibor Talajic
  • Deadpool (’12-15) – The Brian Posehn and Gerry Duggan Era
  • Deadpool (’15-’17) – Gerry Duggan and many, many artists
  • Despicable Deadpool (’17-’18) – Duggan/Mike Hawthorne
  • Deadpool (’18-’19) – Skottie Young / Nic Klein
  • King Deadpool (’19-’21) – Kelly Thompson / Chris Bachalo
  • Deadpool (’22-’23) – Alyssa Wong / Martin Coccolo
  • Deadpool & Wolverine: WWIII (’24) – Joe Kelly / Adam Kubert
  • Deadpool (’24 – present ) Cody Ziglar / Rogê Antônio

Pick your preferred creator and go to town.

Hulk File Injunction

The Marvel She-Hulk Sale runs through Monday, 7/28.

Sensational She-Hulk   She-Hulk by Dan Slott   She-Hulk

  • The Savage She-Hulk (’80-’82) – mostly by David Anthony Kraft and Mike Vosburg
  • Sensational She-Hulk (’89-’94) – John Byrne, then the unlikely team of Steve Gerber & Bryan Hitch
  • She-Hulk (’04-’05) – Dan Slott / Juan Bobillo
  • She-Hulk (’05 – ’09) – Initially Dan Slott / Juan Bobillo, then Peter David takes over.
  • She-Hulk (’14-’15) – Charles Soule & Javier Pulido in one omnibus
  • She-Hulk (’16-’18) – Mariko Tamaki / Nico Leon in one omnibus
  • She-Hulk (’22-’23) – Rainbow Rowell / Roge Antonio / Luca Maresca

If you’re coming into She-Hulk through the TV show, the legal angle for the character really started getting emphasized with the Dan Slott era and then was followed up on by Charles Soule (who just might be a lawyer in his secret identity). Rainbow Rowell’s also picking up a pretty dedicated following with her current runs.

Unannounced Sales

Hellboy  Martha Washington  Minor Threats

Dark Horse is still  having a “Comic-Con @Home digital sale” and has most of their collected editions discounted, but not the newest material and not the single issues.  Here’s a link that will *eventually* get you through their catalog in a very laborious way and with the single issues mixed in. (It’s not perfect, but we’re trying.) Figure this will be around 50% off, but it might vary a little from book to book. Our understanding is that this will run through August 4th.

Here are some direct links to various series:

Also on sale, and we’re not clear on when these will stop being discounted:

Additionally, it looks like most of the Captain America and Wolverine material from recent weeks is still on sale. The Under $5 Page has the lower priced volumes. Go back a couple columns for the links to find the Epic Collections.

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