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Amazing Spider-Man (1998 2nd Series) 583B.4TH CGC 9.0 Obama Variant 4th Printing

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Fourth Printing.

Label #1253837002

4TH PRINTING - Special Obama Variant Cover! Spidey meets President Barack Obama - Written by MARK WAID. Pencils by BARRY KITSON. Cover by PHIL JIMENEZ. YOU ASKED FOR IT, YOU GOT IT! PETER PARKER ON A DATE! After the revelations of 'Mind on Fire', love is in the air for more than one member of the cast and Pete finally gets some time out with the ladies. (and who better to bring it to you than two men who both had dates as recently as 1987!) Amidst the romance though, forces are gathering that will spell trouble for Peter in the months to come. From Marvel Comics. Also to celebrate the inauguration of Barack Obama, Marvel proudly presents this new printing of Amazing Spider-Man #583 with an all-new bonus story teaming one of the world's most recognizable political figures with the world's greatest super-hero! Written by Zeb Wells with art by Todd Nauck & Frank D'Armata, the new story takes place in Washington, DC on Inauguration Day as one of Spider-Man's oldest foes attempts to thwart the swearing in ceremony of the 44th President of the United States! Rated A Cover price $3.99.

Amazing Spider-Man (1998 2nd Series) 600D CBCS 9.8 Quesada 1:15 Variant

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Quesada Retailer Incentive.

Label #21-25C850D-002

Limited (1 for 15) Wraparound Variant Cover by Joe Quesada. Written by DAN SLOTT, STAN LEE, JOE KELLY, ZEB WELLS, BOB GALE, MARC GUGGENHEIM & MARK WAID. Art by JOHN ROMITA, JR., MARCOS MARTIN, MAX FIUMARA, DEREC DONOVAN (although some press for the issue had it as DEREC AUCOIN instead of DONOVAN), MARIO ALBERTI, COLLEEN DORAN, MITCH BREITWEISER & KLAUS JANSON. Plus, JEPH LOEB, ED BRUBAKER, MATT FRACTION, BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS, MIKE McKONE, ANDY LANNING & JANSON give you the Spider-Man covers you'll never see! The greatest Marvel super hero of all celebrates his 600th issue with the biggest all-original issue of Amazing Spider-Man EVER! This one's got it all! The return of Doctor Octopus, Daredevil, a wedding you never predicted, and the return of one of the most important people in Peter Parker's life in a giant-sized lead story by Dan Slott and John Romita Jr. Doc's back in town, but it's only a prelude to darker days ahead as Spidey unknowingly prepares for a gauntlet he can't even see coming. On top of all that, witness the return of one of Spider-man's creators, Smilin' Stan Lee (along with Masticatin' Marcos Martin) as he presents a story of unbridled passion, drama and angst as Spidey reflects over his many, many years of adventures. But that ain't all...as the rest of the Spidey Web-Heads bring you several short features showcasing some rarely explored aspects of both Spidey and Pete's life, drawn by some of the greatest artists in comics. Plus, several other surprises and NO REPRINTS! 104 pages of goodness brought to you by some of the best creators that have ever worked on Spidey! 104 pages, full color.

Black Panther (2009 Marvel 4th Series) 1D CGC 9.8 2nd Printing

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Second Printing.

Label #3737852006

Second Printing Variant Cover. Dark Reign tie-in - Deadliest of the Species: Part 1 - Written by Reginald Hudlin. Art by Ken Lashley & Paul Neary. "Deadliest of the Species, Part 1." The Black Panther is back...and she's badder than ever. That's right -- she! What happened to T'Challa? Who is the new Black Panther? Find out why the female is the deadliest of the species. 40 PGS./Rated T+ Cover price $3.99.

Dark Avengers (2009 Marvel) 1C CBCS 9.8 Blank Variant

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Blank Variant.

Label #21-4282AF3-011

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Blank Cover Variant. Dark Reign tie-in - Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS Pencils by MIKE DEODATO THE DARK REIGN IS HERE! The start of an explosive new era in the Avengers mythos! Who are the Dark Avengers? Who is the Iron Patriot? The answers will shock you! Brought to you by Brian Michael Bendis and Mike Deodato Jr. 32 PGS./Rated T+ $3.99 On-Sale ? 1/21 Cover price $3.99.

Dark Avengers (2009 Marvel) 8C CGC 9.8 Deodato 70th Frame 1:10 Variant

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Deodato Variant Cover

Label #3928187005

Limited (1 for 10) 70th Frame Variant Cover. Dark Avengers/X-Men Utopia: Part 5 of 6 - Written by MATT FRACTION. Pencils by LUKE ROSS, inks by RICK MAGYAR, MARK PENNINGTON & LUKE ROSS. Cover by MIKE DEODATO. Norman's X-Men, as led by Emma and Namor, are the face of mutant law and order! The X-Men look played out of position as Osborn's dark reign falls over California-- but Scott Summers isn't done yet. The X-Men strike at Norman, at H.A.M.M.E.R., at his fraud X-Men and his sham Avengers all at once! This is the book where, at long last, the Marvel Universe starts to fight back-- and it sets the stage for next month's unbelievable conclusion in Dark Avengers Uncanny X-Men Exodus (2009) #1! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.

Detective Comics (1937 1st Series) 850 VF+ 8.5

Batman: R.I.P: Prologue - The Return of Hush: Part 5 of 5 - Written by Paul Dini Art by Dustin Nguyen & Derek Fridolfs Cover by Dustin Nguyen 'Heart of Hush' concludes in this anniversary double-sized issue! Catwoman's life hangs in the balance during this final battle between Batman and Hush! And the life of Bruce Wayne will never be the same as the confrontation with his childhood friend Tommy Elliot reveals a terrible and shocking secret! ? 48 pg, FC Cover price $3.99.

Detective Comics (1937 1st Series) 854A CGC 9.8 Williams

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Label #3986279019

FIRST PRINTING. Elegy: Part 1 of 4 - Written by Greg Rucka. Art by JH Williams and Cully Hamner. Cover by JH Williams. A new era in the history of DETECTIVE COMICS begins as Batwoman is unleashed on Gotham City! Marked by the blood-red bat, Kate Kane is a soldier fighting her own private war - one that began years ago and haunts her every waking moment. With a script by Greg Rucka and breath-taking art by JH Williams III, you've never seen anything like this! Featuring the debut of a new co-feature starring The Question written by Rucka! Odds against you? Alone and nowhere to turn? Willing to fight, but you don't know how? When you're searching everywhere for an answer, sometimes all you need to do is ask the right Question. Renee Montoya again dons the faceless mask to help those in need, all the while searching for her own answers in this new adventure with art by Cully Hamner (BLUE BEETLE). Retailers please note: This issue will ship with two covers. For every 10 copies of the Standard Edition (with a cover by JH Williams III ), retailers may order one copy of the Variant Edition (with a cover by JG Jones). Please see the Previews Order Form for more information. On sale June 24 ? 40 pg, FC, $3.99 US Cover price $3.99.

Detective Comics (1937 1st Series) 858A CBCS 9.8 Williams

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Label #21-242F872-023

Cover by JH Williams III. GO: Part 1 - Written by Greg Rucka. Art by JH Williams III; co-feature art by Cully Hamner. The shocking and tragic origin story of Batwoman begins here! Young Kate Kane and her family are kidnapped by terrorists, and Kate's life - and the lives of her family - will never be the same! Plus, the mystery behind the villainous Alice is at last revealed! Then, in The Question co-feature, Renee's search for a missing girl comes to a bittersweet end, leaving Renee with more questions and an even bigger mystery for her to solve. As long as she can survive the night, that is... 40 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.

Gotham City Sirens (2009) 1A CBCS 9.8 March

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Label #17-2187C27-004

Cover by Guillem March. Written by Paul Dini Art by Guillem March. This all-new series features the bad girls of Gotham City! Catwoman, Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn are tired of playing by other people's rules regardless of which side of the law they're on. These tough ladies have a new agenda that's all their own, and they'll use any means necessary to pursue it. But can they get along and work as a team? And who will get hurt along the way? Cover price $2.99.

Gotham City Sirens (2009) 2 CGC 9.8

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Label #3759311008

Written by Paul Dini. Art and cover by Guillem March. Tommy Elliott, a.k.a. the villainous mastermind known as Hush, has escaped the confines of Batman's headquarters and is wreaking havoc throughout Gotham City all under the guise of Bruce Wayne. Will the loose assemblage of Catwoman, Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn be enough to stop the madman's rampage? Or are Gotham's femmes fatales doomed to fail before they even begin? 32 pages, full color. Cover price $2.99.

Haunt (2009 Image) 1A CGC 9.8 McFarlane

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Label #4425791025

Cover by TODD MCFARLANE. Written by ROBERT KIRKMAN. Art by GREG CAPULLO, RYAN OTTLEY and TODD McFARLANE. McFARLANE and KIRKMAN'S HAUNT HAS ARRIVED! Daniel Kilgore is dragged into his estranged brother Kurt's secret life of murder and espionage... by his ghost. With no training whatsoever, guided by the spirit of his secret-agent brother, Daniel must now solve his brother's murder and save the world - or die trying! It all starts here, people: Witness the birth of HAUNT! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $2.99.

Haunt (2009 Image) 1A CGC 9.8 McFarlane

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Label #4425791024

Cover by TODD MCFARLANE. Written by ROBERT KIRKMAN. Art by GREG CAPULLO, RYAN OTTLEY and TODD McFARLANE. McFARLANE and KIRKMAN'S HAUNT HAS ARRIVED! Daniel Kilgore is dragged into his estranged brother Kurt's secret life of murder and espionage... by his ghost. With no training whatsoever, guided by the spirit of his secret-agent brother, Daniel must now solve his brother's murder and save the world - or die trying! It all starts here, people: Witness the birth of HAUNT! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $2.99.

House of Mystery Halloween Annual (2009) 1 CGC 9.4

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Label #4399339015

Written by Matthew Sturges, Peter Milligan, Matt Wagner, Bill Willingham and Chris Roberson. Art by Luca Rossi, Giuseppe Camuncoli, Amy Reeder Hadley, Mark Buckingham, Kevin Nowlan, and Mike Allred. Cover by Esao Andrews It's Halloween at The House of Mystery, and that can only mean one thing: the bash of a lifetime! But when Fig discovers a strange mask in the attic, she begins having visions of everywhere the mask has been, and she quickly becomes the life and death of the party. This special 48-page annual contains a framing story by the regular HOUSE OF MYSTERY creative team of writer Matthew Sturges and artists Luca Rossi and Jose Marzan Jr. Also included is a series of short stories from a few regular Vertigo titles including HELLBLAZER by Peter Milligan, Giuseppe Camuncoli and Stefano Landini and MADAME XANADU by Matt Wagner, Amy Reeder Hadley and Richard Friend as well as a special MERV PUMPKINHEAD tale (the first in over 8 years!)by Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham and Kevin Nowlan! In addition, you'll be treated to a yarn spotlighting the upcoming new monthly series I, ZOMBIE by Chris Roberson and Michael Allred! Plus, a Q&A with the creative teams to uncover their scariest Halloween costumes, memories and other sordid tricks and treats as we salute the holiday that has made Vertigo world famous for all things dark and frightening! 48 pages, full color. MATURE READERS. Cover price $4.99.

Hulk (2008 Marvel) 8C CBCS 9.8 Buscema Variant

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Sal Buscema Variant.

Label #20-2ADAAF2-016

Variant Cover by SAL BUSCEMA. Written by JEPH LOEB Penciled by ART ADAMS & FRANK CHO. Looking to make a bombastically brilliant book? Here's what ya do: Have JEPH LOEB whip up two heaping helpings of Hulk. Get ART ADAMS to draw HULK vs. the maximum amount of WENDIGO monsters allowed on paper. Then get FRANK CHO to draw RULK whupping up on the gorgeous LADY LIBERATORS. Put both tales together, call the whole thing HULK #8. Bring to boil and serve. Plus, a tale of the colorful Hulks by Audrey Loeb & Chris Giarrusso. 32 PGS./Rated A Cover price $2.99.

Hulk (2008 Marvel) 15A CBCS 9.6 Churchill

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Label #22-2D520EC-044

Cover by IAN CHURCHILL. CODE RED: Part 2 of 4 - Written by JEPH LOEB. Art by IAN CHURCHILL. The battle you've been waiting for: THE RED HULK VS. WOLVERINE. Plus: Deadpool! Elektra! Punisher! vs. X-Force! Plus: a tale of the colorful Hulks by Audrey Loeb & Dario Brizuela. All this and a shock ending that will have all of Marveldom twittering! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.

Hulk (2008 Marvel) 16A CBCS 9.6 Churchill

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Label #22-2D520EC-046

Cover by Ian Churchill. CODE RED: Part 3 of 4 - Written by JEPH LOEB. Art by IAN CHURCHILL. Rulk, Deadpool, Elektra, Punisher, and Thundra, vs. Wolverine and X-Force: Round 2! Plus, the 2nd appearance of the Red She-Hulk. Plus: a tale of the colorful Hulks by Audrey Loeb & Dario Brizuela. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.

Incredible Hercules (2008 Marvel) 133A CGC 9.6 Albuquerque

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Label #4414089009

Cover by RAFAEL ALBUQUERQUE. The Secret Origin of Amadeus Cho: Part 1 of 3 - Written by GREG PAK and FRED VAN LENTE. Art by RODNEY BUCHEMI. The Secret Origin of AMADEUS CHO begins! Who really killed Amadeus' family? What is his true relation to Hercules? And, most importantly, what is the connection between him and The Twelve's MASTER MIND EXCELLO? Everyone's favorite irascible boy genius is after the answers himself -- but to get them he's going to have to go through his arch-nemesis, PYTHAGORAS DUPREE, the sixth-smartest man on Earth! Story continues in Incredible Hercules #135 - 32 pages, full color. Cover price $2.99.

Invincible Iron Man (2008) 10A CGC 9.8 Larroca

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Label #3758156007

Dark Reign tie-in - World's Most Wanted: Part 3 . In the world-shaking wake of SECRET INVASION, everything has changed. Now a fugitive, Tony Stark initiates the deletion sequence that could save the world, but end his life...while Norman Osborn assumes the reins of power and brings the H.A.M.M.E.R. down. How much trouble are Tony, Pepper, and Maria in? Things go from bad to worse as WORLD'S MOST WANTED continues here! Cover by Salvador Larroca. Written by Matt Franction with art by Salvador Larroca 32 pages/Rated A Cover price $2.99.

Locke and Key (2009 3rd Series) Crown of Shadows 1JETPACK CBCS 9.8 Rodriguez Jetpack Variant

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From the IDW File Copies of Ted Adams and Robbie Robbins. Jetpack Comics Exclusive Variant

Label #20-0B0FAD5-013

Jetpack Comics Exclusive Cover. Prologue: 'The Haunting of Keyhouse.'Written by Joe Hill. Art by Gabriel Rodriguez. Sam Lesser may be dead and gone, but Dodge still has uses for him, and in the first chill days of October, will make contact with him again. The dead know things the living may not, and Sam's restless spirit has had time to discover the thing Dodge wants to know most of all... where to find the key to the black door. The third storyline in the Eisner-nominated series begins here! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.

Spawn (1992 Image) 188 CGC 9.6

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Label #4425746023

Endgame: Part 4 - story TODD McFARLANE & BRIAN HOLGUIN art WHILCE PORTACIO & TODD McFARLANE colors JIN HAN THE ENDGAME CONINUES! Over the past several issues, SPAWN has experience the most dramatic series of twists in its long history. Events that have rocked the status quo and echoed from the heights of Heaven to the pit of Hell. But what does it all mean? A young reporter following an obscure lead thinks he's stumbled upon the answer. As incredible as his suspicions may be, the truth is something far beyond his imagination. Brought to you by TODD McFARLANE, WHILCE PORTACIO and BRIAN HOLGUIN. Cover price $2.95.

Sweet Tooth (2009 DC/Vertigo) 1 VF 8.0

Story, Art and cover by Jeff Lemire. From out of the deep woods and the mind of acclaimed indie cartoonist Jeff Lemire (THE NOBODY, The Essex County Trilogy) comes a new Vertigo monthly ongoing series like no other! After being raised in total isolation, Gus - a boy born with deer-like antlers - is left to survive in an American landscape devastated a decade earlier by an inexplicable pandemic. Even more remarkable is that Gus is part of a rare new breed of human/animal hybrid children who have emerged in its wake, all apparently immune to the infection. Enter Jepperd, a violent, hulking drifter who soon takes in Gus and promises to lead him to 'The Preserve,' a fabled safe-haven for hybrid children. Along the way they'll have to contend with science militias, deadly scavengers, rival bounty hunters, and hybrid worshipping cultists as they fight to make it to safety and solve the mysteries of this deadly new frontier. This bizarre and haunting new series is boldly written and illustrated by Eisner-nominated creator Jeff Lemire and elegantly colored by fellow Eisner nominee Jose Villarubia. A little boy with antlers, a big man with guns, a world without hope32 pages, full color. MATURE READERS. Cover price $1.00.

Tarot Witch of the Black Rose (2000 Broadsword) 58STUDIO CBCS 9.2 SS Balent

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Verified Signature: Jim Balent. Studio Edition. (#284/1000) Dose Not Include COA

Label #24-0058AC1-018

Studio Edition Signed and Numbered by Jim Balent. Limited to 1000 and issued with certificate of authenticity from Broadsword Comics. (W/A) Jim Balent 'Shades of Magick,' Part 4: The Library of Magick. A Dark Entity waits in the Library of Magick for Raven Hex as Tarot's search comes to an end. Surrounded by books of magick as far as the eyes can see, Raven is seduced by the power that lies at her fingertips. But there is a terrible price that must be paid for such knowledge and a sacrifice must be made!

X-Force (2008 3rd Series) 18B CGC 9.8 CHOI 1:10 Variant

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Variant Edition

Label #0166749010

Limited (1 for 10) 70th Frame Variant Cover by JASON LEVESQUE.'NOT FORGOTTEN' Part 2 of 4 - MESSIAH WAR AFTERMATH. Written by CHRISTOPHER YOST and CRAIG KYLE. Art and Cover by MIKE CHOI and SONIA OBACK.. X-23 is missing, and as horrific as her life has been...it's about to get worse. Elixir knows the truth about the mutant messiah. Wolverine confronts Cyclops about his decisions leading up to the War. Wolfsbane's journey back to X-Force begins. Bastion's master plan gets one step closer to fruition. And if all that weren't enough...Seline's forces are on the move. More action and drama than any one comic has a right to have! Part 2 (of 4) 32 PGS./Parental Advisory ...$2.99 Cover price $2.99.