Gold Digger Platinum TPB (2010-2014 AP) comic books 2010-2012

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Story and art by Fred Perry. Three years since since saving Britanny from quasi-space, Gina has settled down (somewhat) as an archaeology professor at Georgia State, focusing her research on the Age of Wonders, some 7-8000 years ago. Despite her best precautions, she and her students face danger in T'uala, a mighty city buried two miles below the Baja Desert, and an adjacent fortress with a 130' siege crossbow! To learn more, they must visit the Library of Time in Shangri-La, where Gina gets a surprise reunion with one of her worst foes. Gina then finds herself in conflict with a trio of competitors over the equipment of the world's first superhero team. Then she and Brianna must team up with a snooty newcomer and his jungle-man friend to stop a three-part death machine before it unleashes a storm that could destroy the world! Softcover, 132 pages, full color. Cover price $14.99.

Volume 2 - 1st printing. Collects Gold Digger (1999 3rd Series) #106-110. Story and art by Fred Perry. The Gold Bricks are gone for good, but you can still go Platinum! Gina Diggers' studies of the Age of Wonders continue to unearth discoveries and danger! Her "grass wizard" student Alena wants to join exploring a site of Myconids-ancient, living fungi-but finds being among the fungus is no walk in the park! Back at Gina's home, two luckless young were-rat thieves plunder a portal device to a treasure trove, but fail to consider what draconic devil owns that hoard. On a school field trip to Civ-Alpha, Gina's niece Tifanny and her best friend Charlie find a giant egg that hatches into an adorable baby Saurian-who might just destroy them all! On her home world of Jade, Gina's mom, Julia, must fight her best friend, who's determined to save Julia from the dangers of her greatest technique. And on a field assignment, Gina's students visit an ancient citadel that was nearly destroyed 7000 years ago by two vengeful attackers-one of whom is still around as a lich, still seeking vengeance! Softcover, 132 pages, full color. Cover price $14.99.

Volume 3 - 1st printing. Collects Gold Digger (1999 3rd Series) #111-115. Story and art by Fred Perry. The Gold Bricks are gone for good, but you can still go Platinum! Air mercenary leader Dark Bird puts the pressure on Gina's friend, top pilot Kevin "Ace" Koss, to hitch up with her sexy top gun, Skippy. Gina's ex-rival, Penny Pincer, has to risk her life in a dogfight with Skippy to win him back-but only after she and Gina smooth some ruffled feathers on a super space fortress in lunar orbit. Then Gina and her student Kylie embarrass Brit' with geekery as they race to save fellow explorer Isaac Elite from a curse four generations old! Softcover, 132 pages, full color. Cover price $14.99.

Volume 4 - 1st printing. Collects Gold Digger (1999 3rd Series) #116-120. Story and art by Fred Perry. The Gold Bricks are gone for good, but you can still go Platinum! On the Astral Rifts, ex-Djinn Madrid battles both the vampire queen Natasha and her own darker side. At the Proving Grounds of Jade, Gar has come with Carla and Luan to master his Shun Leep art...once they beat the Pirate-Ninja Leprechauns that have taken over the testing magics! Meanwhile, G'nolga the Dwarven Weapon-Master is captured by the Orc leader, Serpentus, during a bid to retake her old home from his Orcs. The only one who can save her is her arch-rival, Julia Diggers. Softcover, 132 pages, full color. Cover price $14.99.