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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Spider-Man, Avengers, Iron Man, X-Force, Rogue

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, Marvel continues their recent trend of dropping a bundle of discounts toward the top of the month.

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):

A Spider a Day Keeps Doc Ock Away

Amazing Spider-Man  Amazing Spider-Man  Amazing Spider-Man - Kraven's Last Hunt

Marvel’s Amazing Spider-Man Sale runs through Monday, 1/26.

There’s a lot of ground to cover here, so let’s break it down by series.

  • Amazing Spider-Man (1963-98) – The original run before Marvel became quite so obsessed with rebooting titles.
  • Amazing Spider-Man (1998 – 2013) – This run starts out with the controversial J. Michael Straczynski/John Romita, Jr./Mike Deodato, Jr. run, then goes into the excellent Brand New Day era with rotating creative teams and segues into the beginning of the Dan Slott era. (Slott’s written a LOT of Spidey.)
  • Amazing Spider-Man (2014 – 15) – Peter’s back in control and the Slott era continues.
  • Amazing Spider-Man(2015-2018) – It’s a relaunch. (Hey, Spidey’s been relaunched a lot less than Captain Marvel!) This is the end run of the Slott era, culminating in the Red Goblin affair. The “Worldwide Collection” omnibuses are the better buy.
  • Amazing Spider-Man (2018 – 22) – The Nick Spenser era is here, PLUS the 4 volumes of Spider-Man Beyond with Ben Reilly stepping in that take place prior to the next series (and set up portions of it)
  • Amazing Spider-Man (2022 – 25) – The recent Zeb Wells / John Romita, Jr. / Ed McGuinness run. (And then Joe Kelly at the end.)

Recommendations?  Well, first off Amazing Spider-Man doesn’t really have very many BAD periods until the excesses of the Clone Saga (which some would argue are highlights). Oh, some runs are definitely better than others, but there aren’t huge swaths of duds.

You can definitely pick your poison between the $5.99 Masterworks and $6.99 – $8.99 Epic Collections for the original run. The Epics are typically much larger collections for only a buck more, but it depends on which format you started buying and which era you’re interested in. Some stretches are only in Masterworks, some are only in Epic.

Of possible interest, but NOT included in the link for the V.1 of Amazing is the Kraven’s Last Hunt Epic Collection, so we’ll call that one out directly. You get the J.M. DeMatteis/Mike Zeck classic, plus the issues of Amazing around it, plus Spider-Man Vs. Wolverine for about the price of just getting the regular Kraven collection.

And yes, we did enjoy the recently completed Zeb Wells / (mostly) John Romita, Jr. series. It’s a little more somber than we were expecting from Wells, but it largely a good ride. And this is a series that plays the long game resolving subplots. Not everyone agrees with that, but so be it.

Avengers Assemble

Avengers Assemble

The Marvel Avengers Sale runs through Monday, 1/26

And this as pretty much everything.

Let’s start about by breaking down the major series/titles on sale:

The Jonathan Hickman era

Avengers by Jonathan Hickman

The Hickman era is a little complicated, because his Avengers and New Avengers titles run together, so the Avengers by Jonathan Hickman collections are what we’d recommend for a more natural reading experience. Those collect both titles, plus tie-ins… and this is something were reading order counts.

But, this being Marvel collections, it get more complicated. The Avengers/New Avengers material (whichever format you read it in) is just one segment of Hickman’s tale. The story is continued in Avengers: Time Runs Out, which is the real last arc of Avengers and New Avengers. (And it’s in the “by Hickman” omnibuses.)

And all this funnels into Secret Wars, the true endgame of Hickman’s Avengers run… which, of course, is not included in the sale…

The Hickman era really is it’s own beast. A lot of comics talk about having an “epic scale.” This one’s scope is staggering and the sheer size of the scope means it gets better and better as things progress in a way few comics really do. So just know that the entire era is effectively one extended story and it’s a real “in for a penny, in for a pound” thing.

The Jason Aaron era

Avengers

While not necessarily as complex as the Hickman era, there are a few different ways to read it:

Enter Jed MacKay

Avengers

And that brings us to the current Jed MacKay / C.F. Villa Avengers run.

West Coast Avengers

Avengers West Coast

It’s close enough to it’s own franchise, let’s give it a sub-category. (I mean even DC moved to the West Coast. It’s a thing.)

Let’s run down the highlights of the rest of it:

We’re partial to the original Englehart / Milgrim West Cost Avengers. There’s a case to be made for the Byrne run, but that one is a lightning rod for strong opinions.

What’s at the top of the list for recommendations?

For the classic series, there are a lot of good runs. The first Roy Thomas/John Buscema run, particularly around the introduction of The Vision. The Kree-Skrull War. Steve Englehart’s Run. Jim Shooter’s run. Roger Stern’s run, particularly when the team of John Buscema and Tom Palmer return. There is a ton of good stuff to look at. When we factor in price point and page count (some of the newer Epic Collections are a little more expensive), we keep coming back to The Final Threat. Steve Englehart/ Gerry Conway / Jim Shooter / George Perez / John Byrne / John Buscema / Sal Buscema. You get the return of Wonder Man, “The Private War of Doctor Doom,” and “Bride of Ultron” for the major arcs. It’s a nice cross-section of creators and stories for $6.99.  But really, it’s hard to go wrong with the Kree-Skrull War through ~#200, and then pick it up again for Roger Stern, particularly Stern/John Buscema/Tom Palmer. Stick around for Walt Simonson.

We’re also major fans of the Kurt Busiek / George Perez run that begins here. A second golden age that stands up with the best runs.  Avengers Forever, which runs somewhat in parallel with this run, is a great stand-alone adventure.

We also thought the Dan Slott Mighty Avengers run was a fun slice of “traditional” Avengers in the middle of the Bendis “New Avengers” era.

The real under the radar one here is the Gerry Duggan Savage Avengers run. If you’ve had an itch for some classic Defenders, this (of all things) might scratch it. It’s offbeat, fun and the sequence where Conan humiliates/shames Doctor Doom while having dinner with him has to be experienced to be believed.

Let’s face it, there have been a lot of good Avengers runs.

Does Whatever An Iron Can…

Iron Man: The Man Who Killed Tony Stark  Iron Man: Heroes Reborn  Iron Man: Big Iron

The Marvel Iron Man Sale runs through Monday, 1/26

This would be one of those sales where most of the hero’s run is on sale, so we’re going to follow our usual protocol and start out by breaking out the primary titles and volumes. Iron Man isn’t as goofy to follow as, say, Spider-Gwen… but there are “quirks.” Oddly, this time out, titles with a word other than “Invincible” in front of “Iron Man” are omitted. (Infamous, International, etc.) Intentional or the new digital guy is from a film background and unfamiliar with the catalog? We’re not sure.

  • Tales of Suspense – Iron Man debuted here in what was a split book with Captain America for most of the run.
  • Iron Man ’68-’96 – The original solo run in the era before constant relaunch gimmicks

OK, sit tight. The ’98 -’04 run is collected in VERY odd ways and poorly cataloged for browsing.  The truly excellent Kurt Busiek/Sean Chen/Patrick Zircher run lasts from 1-25. We can’t find 15-25 collected? (That entire run should be!)  You can catch 1-14  in cheap omnibus form here.  (No idea why the Mike Grell omnibus isn’t on sale.) You can catch Joe Quesada’s scripting run (26-32) and the Avengers: Disassembled tie-in late in this run in single volumes here. (But get the omnibus version for Busiek.)

  • Iron Man ’04-07 – Best known for launching with the “Extremis” storyline
  • Invincible Iron Man ’08-’12 – The excellent Matt Fraction / Salvador Larroca run. Save some money with the omnibus collecting the first 3 volumes.
  • Iron Man ’12-’14 – The Kieron Gillen run with Greg Land as initial artist
  • Invincible Iron Man ’15-’16 – Brian Bendis and David Marquez/Mike Deodato, Jr. start out with Tony Stark in the armor
  • Invincible Iron Man ’16-’18 – Brian Bendis and Stefano Caselli with Riri Williams/Ironheart filling Tony Stark’s shoes (yes, parallel substitute Iron Man runs)
  • Iron Man ’20-’22 – The Christopher Cantwell / Cafu run.
  • Invincible Iron Man ’22-’24 – Gerry Duggan / Juan Frigeri
  • Iron Man ’24-’25 – Spencer Ackerman / Julius Ohta

So what’s good?  We haven’t read ALL the Iron Man out there, but we’ve read a lot of them.

In our opinion Iron Man starts hitting it’s stride when Archie Goodwin arrives toward the end of the Tales of Suspense run and then is pure gold through issue 28 of the ’68 Iron Man series. Artists for this run include Gene Colan and George Tuska.

The next “all-star” run is #116-157 of the original Iron Man, that’s the David Michelinie / John Romita, Jr. / Bob Layton run that’s most famous for the “Demon in a Bottle” alcoholism arc, but there’s more to the run than just that arc.  The Denny O’Neil / Luke McDonnell run that follows is solid (make sure you get a collection that includes #200!!!), then Michelinie & Layton return for #215-250 with a few artists, including Mark Bright and Jackson Guice… with Layton even switching to penciller, instead of his usual inking post, for parts of it.  This second run is most famous for “Armor Wars” (originally known as Stark Wars). If you want a slightly bigger chunk for the same price, try Iron Man Masterworks V. 13. (Their first run goes through Masterworks V. 15.)

When Heroes Return hits, Kurt Busiek and Sean Chen are pop in for the excellent 1998 run, of which only 1-14 are currently collected.

The ’08 – ’12 run by Matt Fraction and Salvador Larroca is particularly good. You know how modern Marvel titles can get sidetracked by Events? Fraction and Larroca lean into it and produce a lengthy and self-contained arc with Tony Stark on the run and attempting to overwrite his brain to keep everyone’s secrets out of the hands of Norman Osborn. Yes, an honest to goodness great Event tie-in arc. It’s a rare thing.

We were quite happy with the  Christopher Cantwell/Cafu run. Tony Stark chases Korvac into outer space and meditates on the nature of godhood, good intentions and addictions. Lots of character work and action.

You’ve got your choice of Epic or Masterworks here, but the more recent Masterworks can get up to $9.99.

Forced Entry

X-Force X-Force X-Force

The Marvel X-Force Sale runs through Monday, 1/26.

Yes, the mutant black ops team, as originally established by Cable (and morphing out of New Mutants). There absolutely have a been a few incarnations and relaunches over the years. Let’s start out with an overview of that:

  • X-Force ’91-’02 – Originally Rob Liefeld & Fabian Nicieza with Greg Capullo tagging in early on. The first edition, if you will.
    • Counter-X: X-Force – From the period when Warren Ellis was showrunning some of the X-titles, by Ian Edgington & Jorge Lucas
  • Uncanny-Force ’10-’12 – Rick Remender and rotating roster of Raphael Albuquerque, Esad Ribic, Jerome Opena, Billy Tan and Phil Noto
  • Uncanny X-Force ’13-’14 – Sam Humphries / Ron Garney / Dalibor Talajic
  • Deadpool vs. X-Force ’14 – Duane Swierczynski / Pepe Laraz
  • X-Force ’19-’24 – Ben Percy / Joshua Cassara / Robert Gill
  • X-Force ’24-’25 – Geoffrey Thorne / Marcus To

What’s good? Our top pick is the Remender Uncanny-Force. Black ops and a wide ranging, but complete story unit when taken as a whole. We’re also fans of the Ben Percy / Krakoa era X-Force  and recent Geoffrey Thorne / Marcus To X-Force.  If you want something off-beat, start here for the Milligan/Allred run, which is a satire.

You Were Expecting Moulin?

X-Men: Raid On Graymalkin  Mr. and Mrs. X  Rogue

The Marvel Rogue Sale runs through Monday, 1/26.

Quite a lot of random X-titles here, but let’s look at the highlights:

And from the current incarnation:

Unannounced Sales

The Art of Harvey Kurtzman  Money Shot

It seems Dark Horse’s holiday sale is still with us, but we wouldn’t expect it to last very far into next week.

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Marvel and Dark Horse drop a pile of holiday discounts

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, it’s time for Marvel and Dark Horse Holiday sales. Plus, another volume of Calvin and Hobbes.

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: We would remind you that Marvel’s normal December 8-sale spread for the month is still active and annotated here. We’ve got another batch of Marvel sales that are a little over-weighted with single issues – $0.99/$1.49/$1.99 and up. (We’re probably going to ignore most of the single issues over $2.) These are lasting through the beginning of January, which means… after a few months, someone at Marvel seems to have realized they were having a gap week without a sale. We applaud the arrival of a clue.

You’re probably asking “where’s the DC holiday sale?” We wish we could tell you. As of this typing, we’re not seeing any significant movement with DC. It could just be late arriving (as it was for Black Friday). We would caution you not to get your hopes up too high for a $1.99 tpb sale. All things are possible, but DC seems to have been doing a lot of A/B testing on higher prices in recent months. Perhaps we’ll be back with DC in a day or two. We’ll see.

Cobwebs

Ultimate Spider-Man Omnibus Vol. 5  Amazing Spider-Man Modern Era Epic Collection: Big Time  Spider-Man/Deadpool Modern Era Epic Collection: Road Trip

The Marvel Spider-Man Sale runs through Sunday, 1/4.

Lots of $0.99 single issues here, but this is the sale with the most omnibuses in it.

And the $0.99 singles and more conventional collected editions:

Hulk Smash Mistletoe

Incredible Hulk Epic Collection: To Hunt The Hulk  Immortal Hulk  She-Hulk By Rainbow Rowell Omnibus

The Marvel Hulk Sale runs through Sunday, 1/4.

There are fewer titles here than you’d think. It’s mostly single issues. Here are the highlights:

Some Assembly Required

Young Avengers Modern Era Epic Collection: Dark Reign  U.S.Avengers  Avengers: War Across Time

The  Marvel Avenger Sale runs through Sunday, 1/4.

Another one WAY overweighted with single issues. Highlights:

Fore!

Fantastic Four - The Coming of Galactus  Fantastic Four Epic Collection: The Name is Doom  Fantastic Four

The Marvel Fantastic Four Sale runs through Sunday, 1/4.

Ah! Finally a decent selection of Masterworks (and a few Epics). You’ll see some upward drift on the pricing (verily, we are in a fiscal quarter of A/B testing), but the collected editions are going to be better buys than the $0.99 single issues in most cases.

A couple prime cuts of Lee/Kirby goodness at good prices?  Fantastic Four Epic Collection: The Coming Of Galactus and Fantastic Four Epic Collection: The Name Is Doom 

Topmost

The Ultimates  Ultimate Black Panther Ultimate Invasion

The Marvel Ultimate Sale runs through Sunday, 1/4.

That’s right. The current Ultimate Universe:

We’d say Ultimate Spider-Man is the heart of the line and The Ultimates is the world-building engine.

Unannounced Sales

Adventures of Luther Arkwright  Baltimore Omnibus 1  From the World of Minor Threats: Barfly

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

First up, Dark Horse doesn’t quite have a line-wide sale… but it’s close. Here are things we noticed with better pricing:

Recommendations? Sure.

If you’ve never sampled Bryan Talbot’s Adventures of Luther Arkwright, this is a good time. It’s a dimension hopping, psychic spy tale with not a small amount of rebellion in it. It’s also VERY appropriate for a Michael Moorcock introduction, too. A classic of the field.

Minor Threats is popular when it pops up, so if that’s your jam, have a look for fresh volumes in the From the World of Minor Threats link.

The Mignola-verse is quite reliable (and much of it is discounted right now). Something a little under the radar, relative to Hellboy, that we enjoyed quite a bit was Baltimore.  At the end of World War I, the vampire hoards are unleashed and one Lord Henry Baltimore enters into a bitter feud with them. Two omnibuses make for a nice ride.

Also on sale:

It's a Magical World: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

Two modern classics on the list – American Born Chinese and Saga

 

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Another 8 Marvel Sales, Plus Resident Alien and James Tynion IV

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, there are another 8 Marvel sales (besides the holiday sale). Plus, Resident Alien and Mr. Tynion.

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: We’re back on the usual schedule after needing three installments to process that fairly odd “Marvel Holiday Sale” that expires on Monday. Here are the links for that:

That Would Be Suuuuuuuper

Captain America  The Winter Soldier: The Bitter March  Black Widow

The Marvel Super Soldier Sale runs through Monday, 12/29.

Kind of a liberal definition of “super soldier,” relative to Cap, but who are we to question a discount?

It also seems to be mostly avoiding Epic Collections and Masterworks for the original Captain America run.

Captain America highlights

  • Selections from the original run that are discounted:
  • Captain America ’98-’02 – The second Mark Waid / Ron Garney run with some Andy Kubert and Lee Weeks art, too. Smaller volumes here, plus the underrated Dan Jurgens run that followed.
  • Captain America ’04-’11 – The main Winter Soldier/Death of Captain America Ed Brubaker run with Steve Epting, Michael Lark, Mike Perkins and Butch Guice in the artistic rotation. Note: you can pick up chunks of it cheaper in these omnibuses (and the third one includes Reborn… but, of course, is not discounted)
  • Captain America: Reborn – The actual end to the “Death of Captain America” sequence by Ed Brubaker, Bryan Hitch and Butch Guice
  • Captain America ’11-’12 – Brubaker sticks around for a relaunch, post-Death/Reborn
  • Captain America ‘18-’21 – The Ta-Nehisi Coates run with art by Leinil Francis Yu, Adam Kubert, Jason Masters and Leonard Kirk. Save a couple bucks with the 2 omnibuses.
  • Captain America ’23-’25 – J. Michael Straczynski / Jesus Saiz

What’s good here? Since the Englehart material isn’t discounted, Stern/Byrne, Gruenwald, the Waid runs and the Brubaker years are the highlights.

The Winter Soldier

For solo series, the first choice is Winter Soldier by Ed Brubaker, which is Brubaker and Butch Guice in a spin-off.

Also of possible interest:

Black Widow

Let’s walk through the highlights.

There are two Black Widow Epic Collections that collect what were largely guest or co-starring spots (with a couple notable exceptions) through the early 80s.

Black Widow: Marvel Team-Up takes place mostly between those two Epic Collections, strangely enough. It’s primarily Spidey team-ups, including a 4-part Spidey / Black Widow / Nick Fury / Master of Kung Fu serial by Chris Claremont and Sal Buscema.

Marvel Knights Black Widow by Grayson & Rucka: The Complete Collection – the end of the 90s saw Yelana enter the Widow’s world. It’s a trilogy of mini-series from Devin Grayson / Greg Rucka / J.G Jones / Scott Hampton / Igor Kordey,

Flash forward to 2004 and the highlight of a series of miniseries was a pair written by Richard K. Morgan with an art rotation of Bill Sienkiewicz, Sean Phillips and Goran Parlov. Conveniently collected in a single volume. (We hold this sequence in high regard.)

A decade later, the team of Mark Waid & Chris Samnee (a known quantity) did their own Black Widow run. Predictably, another highlight. (Also conveniently collected in a single volume.)

Shortly after that, the Eisner winning Black Widow run of Kelly Thompson and Elena Casagrande kicked off. Yes, we enjoyed this run, too… and were kind of thinking there might be a follow up, but we haven’t seen one yet. One of these days?

West Side Story

Avengers West Coast  Avengers West Coast  Vision and the Scarlet Witch

The Marvel West Coast Avengers Sale runs through Monday, 12/29.

Let’s start with the main one:

We’re partial to the original Englehart / Milgrim West Cost Avengers. There’s a case to be made for the Byrne run, but that one is a lightning rod for strong opinions. Roy & Dann Thomas follow and that run includes a big Ultron story.

The rest of the sale is a mix of the following:

Which is to say: two revivals, some Roger Stern era Avengers that ties in, Denny O’Neil’s excellent final Iron Man arc and the Vision & The Scarlet Witch series that co-launched with West Coast Avengers.

A Mister of Ill Portent

Sins of Sinister  Uncanny X-Men  Uncanny X-Men Masterworks Vol. 16

The Marvel Mister Sinister Sale runs through Monday, 12/29.

A villain sale.

  • X-Men: Cyclops & Phoenix – Past & Future – Scott Lobdell / Peter Milligan / Tom DeFalco / Gene Ha / John Paul Leon / Kyle Hotz; Contains the tale of Sinister’s origin
  • Uncanny X-Men Masterworks Vol. 16 – Chris Claremont /  Louise Simonson / Marc Silvestri / Walt Simonson / Arthur Adams / Rick Leonard; This volume has Sinister stepping out of the shadows for the Inferno event.
  • Uncanny X-Men by Kieron Gillen: The Complete Collection Vol. 1 – Kieron Gillen / Carlos Pacheco / Terry Dodson; Gillen starts doubling down on Sinister and his clones
  • Hellions by Zeb Wells – Zeb Wells / Stephen Segovia; A dark and sometimes hilarious piece of the Krakoa age where Sinister forms his own team of mutants
  • Sins Of Sinister – Kieron Gillen / Al Ewing / Simon Spurrier / Lucas Werneck / Paco Medina / Patch Zircher / Alessandro Vitti; Sinister’s scheme goes awry and he’s caught in an out of (his) control timeline in this superior X-Event

Plenty of mutant books to browse in the link.

We Skipped the TV Version

Inhumans.  Black Bolt   The Origin of the Inhumans

The  Marvel Inhumans Sale runs through Monday, 12/29.

Yeah, sign us up for the “The Inhumans shouldn’t replace the X-Men” party. And yes, Ms. Marvel should have been a mutant the entire time. Notarize it.

With Inhumans comics there is one volume that stands far above the rest: Inhumans by Paul Jenkins and Jae Lee, which was part of the old Marvel Knights imprint when it came out as a 12 issue maxi-series. That’s your gold standard.

For the #2 spot, perhaps the Black Bolt series by Saladin Ahmend and Christian Ward. It’s quite good and the first six issues? Extra special.

There’s nothing wrong with going back to the beginning. Inhumans: The Origin of the Inhumans is a collection of the early Stan Lee & Jack Kirby appearances from Fantastic Four and Thor. It’s also a thick 425 pages.

For something under the radar? Inhumans: Once and Future Kings by Priest and Phil Noto. Inhuman politics from the younger days of Black Bolt and Maximus… plus, Lockjaw comics.

There’s plenty more to browse, but outside of the above, we’ve tended to prefer the Inhumans with the FF.

That Was Cold

Iceman  Iceman  Iceman

The Marvel Iceman Sale runs through Monday,  12/29.

There actually have been some Iceman solo books:

Plenty of assorted X-Men volumes to check out on the sale page.

Fist of Fun

Iron Fist  Power Man and Iron Fist  Immortal Iron Fist

The Marvel Iron Fist Sale runs through Monday, 12/29.

Iron Fist originally had a short-ish run (by the standards of the day) and you can get the entire solo series (Marvel Premiere and Iron Fist) in an Epic Collection. The run is most associated with the team it finished with: an early pairing of Chris Claremont and John Byrne. You may have heard of them. Claremont/Byrne is reliable and you know what you’re getting for the back half of that.

The two books then merged into the longer-running Power Man & Iron Fist. Now here’s something we don’t always say: this one’s in Epic Collections, but not Masterworks format. Claremont & Byrne left shortly thereafter, paving the way for Jo Duffy, who might be most associated with it. Among the creators working on it were Duffy, Denny O’Neil, (a very young) Kurt Busiek, Christopher Priest, Kerry Gammil, Denys Cowan, Greg Larocque and Mark Bright. A stronger lineup than you might have guessed and a comic that remembered to be goofy at times.

It was revived as Heroes for Hire by John Ostrander and Pasqual Ferry in ’97. We also have a soft spot for the David Walker / Sanford Greene Power Man & Iron Fist in ’16.

But the best of the bunch? The Immortal Iron Fist. People are most familiar with the first half of the series, with the celebrated team of Ed Brubaker/Matt Fraction/David Aja. We’re here to tell you that the back half by Duane Swierczynski/Travel Foreman is also pretty darn good. Plus, more Fat Cobra! Don’t sleep on the back half. Good value with those collected editions, too!

Making Out

Ultimate Invasion  The UltimatesVenom

The  Marvel The Maker Sale runs through Monday, 12/29.

This would be the former Reed Richards of the original Ultimate universe, gone bad and adopting the identity of “The Maker.” The Maker Faire will never be the same. (IFYKYK)

The current arc starts with Ultimate Invasion by Jonathan Hickman & Bryan Hitch.

It then spills into the current Ultimate Universe:

Of slightly older vintage, but possible interest:

Hi, Dad

Star Wars: The Rise Of Kylo Ren  Star Wars: Legacy Of Vader - The Reign of Kylo

The Marvel Kylo Ren Sale runs through Monday, 12/29.

Unannounced Sales

Resident Alien  Let This One Be a Devil  American Born Chinese

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

Dark Horse seems to be having a sale on their James Tynion IV titles:

Resident Alien is a comic by Peter Hogan and Steve Parkhose about a stranded alien posing as a doctor and solving murders. It got a little more famous when a TV adaptation hit and a lot more famous when the TV show moved over to Netflix. (And will now be moving over to the USA cable network.) We read the first omnibus a few months back and if your point of reference is the TV show, the comic is a little more mystery-oriented. It’s available in

Also on sale:

American Born Chinese is widely considered a modern classic, btw.

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Marvel Holiday Sale Part 2 – the $0.99 Singles; American Born Chinese

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, we dive deep into those $0.99 single issues from the Marvel Holiday Sale. Plus, American Born Chinese.

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: We’re still going through that Marvel Holiday Sale to make it more digestible for you. We’ll forgive you if you looked at the display and decided it was just a bunch of random issues. The presentation leaves a lot to be desired (though that’s why we’re here). What the bulk of the holiday sales appears to be is $0.99 single issues. Not exclusively from the ’22-’24 time frame, but a lot from there. Some discounted newer issues, too. And some collected editions, which we touched on.

In this installment, we’re consolidating the $0.99 single issue titles. NOW… you might see $1.49 for issue #1 at times. <shrugs> You may also see collected editions of some of these. We’re not quite that far along yet. You may also find that the single issues are sometimes cheaper than a collected edition, especially if the collected edition is only 4-5 issues. We figure this is a big enough chunk of those titles for one sitting. There will be more

Here’s the list of the newly discounted omnibuses / Masterworks / Epic Collections from Monday, btw.

First, the official holiday sale link:

Marvel Holiday Sale – Ends 12/08

Titles With $0.99 Single Issues

Immortal Thor  G.O.D.S.  Marvel Unleashed

Yes, we used to see single issues more often, didn’t we? This is going to be more of a quick and dirty, but we’ll annotate here and there when we think something is particularly good.

Best bets from this batch? Immortal Thor  and G.O.D.S. For something more under the radar and fun? Joe Fixit and Marvel Unleashed

To be continued…

Unannounced Sales

American Born Chinese  Barbaric  Superman The Ultimate Guide

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

American Born Chinese is widely considered a modern classic, btw.

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

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: 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: *Eight* Marvel Sales This Week!

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, Marvel has no less than EIGHT 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 note: Yes, this is a much longer installment than you’re used to seeing mid-year. Marvel dropped eight sales and they’re all running for nearly the entire month. Does this mean there won’t be new Marvel sales the rest of the month? We have no idea. We do think the timing is interesting when Disney operates on an October to September fiscal year, but we’re sure that has nothing to dowith Marvel having a high volume of deal at the fiscal year’s end.

When you click through to see the full sale listing, you’re going to notice a change. Instead of the grid layout that’s been used for a while, the sale defaults back to the standard, single column Amazon search result layout. Yes, it’s less than ideal, but we’ve been down this road before, haven’t we? Where appropriate, we’ll still be dropping links when a series (or at least multiple volumes in a series) is on sale. Somebody has to be organized and that responsibility seems to have fallen on us this week…

Ultimate… Everything?

Ultimate Spider-Man The Ultimates Ultimate Black Panther

The  Marvel Ultimate Universe Sale runs through Monday 9/29.

Yes, this is pretty much EVERYTHING Ultimate – old and new universes. Perhaps it’s less clunky if we break this into segments?

The New Ultimate Universe

The setup for the new Ultimate Universe is Ultimate Invasion by Jonathan Hickman & Bryan Hitch. The original Ultimate Universe was destroyed, but not everyone from that dimension was destroyed. Miles Morales survived and moved over the “616” or main Marvel universe. As did Reed Richards… except the Ultimate Reed Richards went bad and has been calling himself “The Maker.” That’s the setup before Invasion where The Maker escapes captivity, escapes into the multiverse and causes the origins of a new world’s heroes not to happen. Peter Parker is never bitten by a radioactive spider for instance. He’s just a photographer with a family by the time this series hits and this sets up the new line of titles.

Ultimate Spider-Man is a definite contender for the best thing Marvel’s putting out right now and we’re big on Ultimates, too.

Ultimate Spider-Man

Ultimate Spider-Man   Ultimate Comics Spider-Man   Ultimate Comics Spider-Man: Death of Spider-Man Fallout

This is the original Brian Bendis/Mark Bagley Ultimate Spider-Man. The first Ultimate title and (along with Daredevil) what originally made Bendis his reputation at Marvel.  And it’s a good run, too. Afterwards… enter Miles Morales, who’s become celebrated in his own right.

Ultimate X-Men

Ultimate X-Men  Ultimate Comics X-Men

Over on the mutant side of the street, the spread looks like this:

The original Ultimate X-Men run has a very interesting writer rotation. Mark Millar begins and ends it. In between are runs by Brian K. Vaughan (Saga / Y – The Last Man) and Robert Kirkman (Walking Dead). The artist rotation includes Adam Kubert, Andy Kubert, Chris Bachalo, David Finch, Brandon Peterson, Stuart Immonen, Tom Raney and Salvador Larocca… among others.

Ultimate Comics X-Men was written first by Nick Spencer and later Brian Wood. Artists included Paco Medina, Carlo Barberi, Mahmud Asrar and Alvaro Martinez.

The Ultimates, Ultimate FF and the greater Ultimate Universe

Ultimates Ultimate Fantastic Four Ultimate Comics - The Ultimates

There a bit more to the sale, but that’s the bulk of the highlights. What’s good? The Millar/Hitch Ultimates are hugely influential (especially to the film world). Ultimate FF absolutely has it’s moments. Not everybody realizes that the Marvel Zombies debuted in V. 3 (omnibus version) and are not played for laughs.  Now, we don’t often issue “avoid” warnings around here, but there are a couple things here that we’ll advise against. The Orson Scott Card Ultimate Iron Man? Don’t bother. It’s awful. Ultimatum? Nope! That very nearly killed the line. There are MUCH better things to read in this imprint than those two.

Dirty Harry Called. He Wants His Movie Back.
Deadpool Classics Deadpool by Posehn and Duggan Deadpool by Joe Kelly

The Marvel Deadpool Sale runs through Monday, 9/29.

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
  • 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.

Hawkguy

Hawkeye  Hawkeye  Avengers West Coast

The Marvel Hawkeye Sale runs through Monday, 9/29.

It’s been a while since there was a Hawkeye sale. Let’s put the crown jewel up top: Hawkeye by Fraction & Aja: The Saga Of Barton And Bishop. As in Matt Fraction / David Aja. This is a goofy quasi-reinvention of the character (giving him a faithful companion in Pizza Dog, among other things) that probably started being considered a classic before the series even wrapped up.

This transitions into the Clint/Kate Bishop All-New Hawkeye by Jeff Lemire / Ramon Perez (Vol. 1 / Vol. 2 — yes, Marvel tried to continue the collected edition numbering, but let’s call this what it is.)

And then it’s time for Kate to headline the Hawkeye books:

OK… this gets kind of complicated. Kelly Thompson effectively gets custody of Kate and after a solo series, moves her over to West Coast Avengers.

Hawkeye: Private Eye (Thompson / Leonardo Romero / Mike Walsh) covers the first 12 issues of the Kate version of Hawkeye. Hawkeye: Go West (Thompson / Romero / Stefano Caselli) finishes off the Hawkeye run and starts collecting the West Coast Avengers run. Finally Hawkeye: Kate Bishop – Team Spirit (Thompson / The McElroys /Daniele Di Nicuolo / André Lima Araújo) finishes up West Coast Avengers and adds a War of the Realms tie-in.

And then Hawkeye: Freefall (Matthew Rosenberg / Otto Schmidt) brings Clint Barton back into the lead.

Now, if you’re looking for the more traditional representation of Hawkeye:

There’s a bit more here to browse, but we’d call that the highlights. Recommendations?

Hawkeye by Fraction & Aja: The Saga Of Barton And Bishop for the modern take. Avengers West Coast for the traditional take.

Fan out from those starting points.

Crime and Punisher-ment

Punisher: Circle of Blood   Punisher: The Resurrection of Ma Gnucci  Punisher

The Marvel Punisher Sale runs through Monday, 9/29.

First, the “general audience” Punisher:

  • The Punisher ’87-’95 – Note that the first Epic Collection here collects the ’86 Steven Grant/Mike Zeck Circle of Blood mini-series that kicked off the Punisher’s rise to prominence. Yes, Whilce Portacio drew Punisher before X-Men
  • Punisher War Journal ’88-’95 – This volume is notable for the Carl Potts / Jim Lee work. Yes, Jim Lee drew Punisher War Journal before X-Men.
  • Punisher War Zone ’92-’95 – Yes, Frank Castle was holding down three titles/month in the early ’90s! Collected here are a pair of Chuck Dixon tales with John Buscema and Joe Kubert as the respective artists.
  • Punisher War Journal ’06-’09 – Probably best known for Matt Fraction and Ariel Olivetti
  • Punisher ’00 – Garth Ennis / Steve Dillon; Collects the immortal “Welcome Back, Frank”
  • Punisher: The Resurrection of Ma Gnucci (Punisher War Zone) ’08-’09 – Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon team for a sequel to Welcome Back, Frank
  • Punisher ’09-’10 – The Rick Remender run, for which the third volume is Franken-Castle
  • The Punisher ’11-’12 – The Greg Rucka / Marco Checchetto (now more associated with Daredevil) run
  • The Punisher ’14-15 – Nathan Edmondson / Mitch Gerads. Yes, Mitch Gerards as in Mister Miracle and Sheriff of Babylon
  • The Punisher ’16-18 – Starts out with Becky Cloonan / Steve Dillon
  • The Punisher ’18-’19 – Matthew Rosenberg / Szymon Kudranski (not on sale, but included for completeness)
  • Punisher ’22-’23 – Jason Aaron / Jesus Saiz / Paul Azaceta (not on sale, but included for completeness)
  • Punisher War Journal ’22-’23 – Torunn GrØnbekk / Djibril Morissette-Phan
  • Punisher Kills The Marvel Universe – Garth Ennis / Jonathan Maberry / Doug Braithwaite / Goran Parlov

What’s good? Actually, we like the original Marvel Super Action magazine version by Archie Goodwin and Tony DeZuniga, but that’s not on the menu.

Our favorite run of the above is probably the Ennis/Dillon “Welcome Back, Frank.” We also were pretty fond of the Rucka / Checchetto run when it was coming out. It’s also worth going back and seeing where all the fuss started with the Grant/Zeck mini and the Baron/Janson/Portacio ongoing.

Then there’s the Max line. “Mature Readers” Punisher, if you will.

Punisher Max: The Complete Collection is the ’04-’09 run that’s most associated with Garth Ennis returning to the character (with art by Darick Robertson, Leandro Fernendez, Doug Braithwaite and Goran Parlov, among others). This is Ennis doing the serious Punisher, as opposed to the hilarity of Welcome Back, Frank. Mike Benson, Victor Gischler and Jason Aaron pop up at the end of the run.

Then you’ve got PunisherMax, the ’09-’12 relaunch by Jason Aaron/Steve Dillon, where Frank mixes it up with The Kingpin and Bullseye.

And, of course, Ennis will pop back every so often for another tale.

Hocus Pocus

Magik  New Mutants: The Demon Bear Saga

The Marvel Magik Sale runs through Monday, 9/29.

This sale is a largely a volume here and a volume there, so let’s run through some highlights.

If you’re going to get one book, then it’s The Demon Bear Saga.

Corpsman
Nova Classic  Nova by Abnett & Lanning Annihilation

The Marvel Nova Sale runs through Monday, 9/29.

Let’s run down the contents here:

  • Nova (1976-78) – The original Marv Wolfman/John Buscema/Sal Buscema/Carmine Infantino run
  • Nova (2007-10) – The Dan Abnett/Andy Lanning/Paul Pelletier/Kev Walker/Andrea di Vito era – the Complete Collection is the better deal.
  • Nova (2013-15) – Gerry Duggan / Paco Medina was probably the longest tenured creative team of this volume.
  • Nova: Resurrection (2015) – Jeff Loveness / Ramon Perez
  • Nova: The Human Rocket (2015-16) – Sean Ryan / Cory Smith / John Timms

What’s good here?  We’d go with the original run or the DnA run (complete with a space station carved out of a Celestial’s head – yes, the concept predates Avengers Mountain).

Plus, a selection of Annihilation titles:

  • Annihilation – The original Event
  • Annihilation 2099 – Steve Orlando / Dale Eaglesham / Ibraim Roberson / Jose Luis / Pete Woods / Ario Anindito
  • Annihilation: Scourge – Matthew Rosenberg / Dan Abnett / Michael Moreci / Christos N. Gage / Juanan Ramirez / Ibraim Roberson / Paul Davidson / Alberto Jimenez Alburquerque / Diego Olortegui / Manuel Garcia

Seeing Ghosts

Spider-Gwen  Spider-Gwen: Gwenverse  Spider-Gwen The Ghost-Spider

The Marvel Ghost Spider Sale runs through Monday, 9/29.

Ah, the always amusing struggle to balance a character’s movie name with their comics name. Yes, this is really a Spider-Gwen sale.

I Am Not a Number

Spider-Man: Sinister Six  Sinister War

The Marvel Sinister Six Sale runs through Monday 9/29.

This is fairly random selection of titles, most of which feature a member or two of the team that’s a convergence of Spidey’s original villains.

Something in Parabellum?
Deadworld   The Realm    Jazz Age Chronicles

The Caliber Comics Library 50% off Fall Sale runs through Tuesday, 9/30.

There are a few titles here that were notable in the ’80s indie boom.

And plenty of Don Lomax war comics.

Unannounced Sales

Money Shot  Through the Woods

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

Additionally, it looks like most of the Superman 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: Shang-Chi, Red Sonja, The Secret to Superhuman Strength

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, Marvel has discounts on Shang-Chi. Dynamite sliced prices on Red Sonja. Plus, the Secret to Superhuman Strength.

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):

Master of Cheap Fu

Shang-Chi by Gene Luen Yang  Deadly Hands of Kung Fu

Marvel Shang-Chi Sale runs through Monday, 8/31.

Shang-Chi got reconfigured after the film version came out and became more of a fantasy figure than an espionage one with the introduction of the Ten Rings. Gene Yang was writing most of this. (As you may have heard, Yang is a Genius with a MacArthur Foundation grant to prove it, plus some Eisner and Harvey Awards.)

All of his work is collected in Shang-Chi by Gene Luen Yang with Dike Ruan and Marcus To on art.

If you wanted something a little closer to the flavor of the original series, there’s Deadly Hands of Kung Fu: Out Of The Past by Mike Benson / Tan Eng Huat is what you’re looking at in this sale. It also has some material from the 70s Deadly Hands of Kung Fu magazine.

Simply Red

Red Sonja: She-Devil With a Sword  Red Sonja Vol. 1: Queen of Plagues  Red Sonja

Dynamite Red Sonja Sale runs through Monday 9/8.

Let’s run through the highlights first.

  • Red Sonja: She-Devil With a Sword (’05 – ’13) – Mike Carey / Michael Avon Oeming / Eric Trautman / Mel Rubi / Walter Geovani
  • Queen Sonja (’09-’13) – Joshua Ortega / Arvid Nelson / Luke Lieberman / Mel Rubi / Jack Herbert
  • Red Sonja (’13-’15) – Gail Simone / Walter Geovani
  • Red Sonja (’17-’19) – Amy Chu / Erik Burnham / Carlos Gomez
  • Red Sonja (’19-’21) – Mark Russell / Bob Quinn
  • Immortal Red Sonja Vol. 1 – Dan Abnett / Alessandro Miracolo
    • Vol. 2 here (listed w/ the single issues for unknown reasons)

What’s good here? Dynamite’s time with Red Sonja started out strong with Oeming/Carey/Rubi. Gail’s run definitely has it’s fans. We’re also very big fans of the Mark Russell/Bob Quinn run which manages to be a high adventure comic AND a satire of fantasy politics and tropes at the same time. It’s really quite impressive.

Unannounced Sales

ack Kirby: The Epic Life of the King of Comics  Out on the Wire: The Storytelling Secrets of the New Masters of Radio  The Secret to Superhuman Strength

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

Additionally, it looks like most of the Wolverine 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: Venom, Young Avengers, The Superman Sale Returns

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, Marvel has discounts on Venom and Young Avengers while DC’s Superman sale returns.

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):

No, Not Bane’s Juice

Venom by Remender   Venom by Cates   Venom

The Marvel Venom Sale runs through Monday, 8/18.

This is a fairly scattered sale, with multiple formats and a lot of random early miniseries floating around. Browse for a better accounting of the listings.

For the early stuff, the better values are the somewhat scattered Epic Collections.

The early (mostly) Spider-Man appearances can be found in Venom Epic Collection: Symbiosis. That’s largely the David Michelinie / Todd McFarlane / Erik Larsen material.  That’s followed by Venom Epic Collection: Lethal Protector which has a few more villainous appearances and the original Lethal Protector mini. And then Venom Epic Collection: Carnage Unleashed continues the 90s appearances.

Eventually Venom gets his own series:

  • Venom  (2003-4) – The Daniel Way era
  • Venom  (2011-3) – Rick Remender/Tony Moore, then Cullen Bunn/Declan Shalvey
  • Venom (2016-8) – Mike Costa / Tradd Moore / Mark Bagley
  • Venom (2018-21) – Donny Cates / Ryan Stegman
  • Venom (2021-24) – Al Ewing / Ram V / Bryan Hitch
  • Venom War (2024) – Al Ewing / Iban Coello

Let’s talk about the last 12 years or so. The ’11-’13 series is more interesting than you might think. That’s when Flash Thompson has the symbiote and uses it (among other things) to replace the legs his lost in the war. There are some interesting pathos floating around, particularly in the Remender/Moore run.

The Cates/Stegman run is probably the most famous right now. That’s where Venom gets Cosmic and leads into the King In Black Event.

The current Ewing / V / Hitch run, is an evolution and big leap forward from the groundwork laid by Cates. Al Ewing drives the Cosmic elements, which are the most interesting part. Eddie Brock is dead. But he isn’t. He’s separated from his body and he’s bouncing around in time as his son becomes Venom in the present. It’s a much, much stranger take on Venom than most others and really dives into the King in Black mythos and timeline, eventually culminating in Venom War.

Did Anybody Card These Heroes?

Young Avengers  Young Avengers  Avengers: The Children's Crusade

The Marvel Young Avengers Sale runs through Monday, 8/18.

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 seem to come out of nowhere when it dropped. Hulking and Wiccan have gone on to get pretty fully integrated into the Marvel Universe.

A couple notable spin-offs also in the sale:

  • Hawkeye (’16-’18) – Kelly Thompson / Leonardo Romero; Note: this is the Kate Bishop Hawkeye
  • Empyre – Al Ewing / Dan Slott / Valerio Schitti; Wiccan and Hulkling are right at the center of this Event

Superman Returns?

Superman: The Golden Age  Superman: Up in the Sky  Superman Smashes The Klan

The DC Summer of Superman 2025 Sale runs through Sunday 8/31.

“Wait,” you’re asking yourself, “didn’t this sale run last month?” It did! Mostly. This isn’t an exact clone of last month and as we’re eyeballing it, it appears to us that some of the pricing has improved. To the tune of some scattered $2.99 volumes.

Here are the base links:

And a bit of space for the supporting cast of the upcoming film:

What’s good?

We’re huge fans of Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen: Who Killed Jimmy Olsen? – a masterpiece of humor and a good mystery, too.

One of the somewhat rare ’80s reprints that we’ve enjoyed is Superman: The Phantom Zone by Steve Gerber and Gene Colan. This is a very odd, horror-flavored Superman tale as he confronts something unnatural that’s been living in the Phantom Zone… but you weren’t expecting Gerber & Colan to give you the ’50s TV version, were you? Waid also references this series in World’s Finest.

Emperor Joker is a 2000 storyline from Jeph Loeb / Ed McGuinness / Joe Kelly / Doug Mahnke that finds the Joker acquiring godlike powers and remaking the world in his image. Not an Elseworlds, but entertainingly over the top.

Superman Smashes the Klan has Gene Yang and Gurihiru revisiting and revising the original Superman radio show arc, “Clan of the Fiery Cross.” It’s on the YA side of Superman, but has picked up a LOT of good reviews.

Superman: Man of Tomorrow is an very witty collection of tales by Robert Venditti and Paul Pelletier that went under most radars because it was originally serialized digitally.

Superman, the current series by Josh Williamson and Jamal Campbell is also on sale and it’s a good one.

And for something under the radar, the Warworld saga from a couple years back is worth a look. Phillip Kennedy Johnson wrote Action Comics for a spell and there was very little discussion on it. We’ve since had it recommended a couple times and just finished reading it. Severely under-rated and we’d go so far as to call the first two volumes great. The set up is there’s a new Mongul running Warworld. Mongul has been subjugating a lost tribe from Krypton and uses them to lure Superman to Warworld (with The Authority in tow). A trap is sprung and Superman has to lead a rebellion.

Now, you might be saying “haven’t we seen this before on Apokolips?  And the answer is, not exactly. Kennedy Johnson takes a full arc to set this up with signs of portent and excels at creating an atmosphere of foreboding leading into the final act. The characterization is strong and there’s an interesting thread about the problem of leading a revolution when the underclass has never known freedom. (And a bit of political skullduggery in the background.) Several artists tag in and out, but the more prominent ones are Daniel Sampere, Riccardo Federici and Will Conrad.

This storyline is collected across three volumes:

The optional fourth volume to the arc, which takes place in the background during Warlord Rising, is Superman and The Authority by Grant Morrison and Mikel Janin. This is where Superman recruits The Authority for his mission to Warworld… and trust us, this series works better in the greater context of the Warworld arc than it does as a standalone.

“Normal” Unannounced Sales

Daredevil: Fall From Grace  Dramacon  Over My Dead Body

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

Additionally, it looks like most of the Wolverine 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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