Marvel Premiere Classic Library Edition HC (2006-2013 Marvel) comic books 2010

Volume 35 - 1st printing. "X-Men vs. Avengers!" Collects X-Men vs. the Avengers (1987) #1-4 and Uncanny X-Men #9.

Written by ROGER STERN and STAN LEE. Art by MARC SILVESTRI, KEITH POLLARD and JACK KIRBY. Cover by MARC SILVESTRI.

When Magneto's on trial, he needs all the help he can get; he finds it in the remnants of his former fortress, Asteroid M! The X-Men aren't sure what his scheme is, but they're positive they don't want the Avengers and the Soviet Super-Soldiers to find out first! Multi-team warfare with the eyes of the world on all three!

Also featuring the X-Men's fabulous first fight with the Avengers, to keep them from unleashing the legendary Lucifer!

Hardcover, 136 pages, full color.

NOTE: "This is one of the best Magneto stories ever told." - Odinson, Lone Star Archivist

Cover price $19.99.

Add to cart Near Mint $20.00

Add to cart Near Mint $27.00

Mutant Massacre Aftermath

Volume 36 - 1st printing. "X-Men vs. Fantastic Four!" Collects Fantastic Four vs. X-Men (1987) #1-4 and Fantastic Four (1961-1996 1st Series) #28.

Written by CHRIS CLAREMONT and STAN LEE. Art by JON BOGDANOVE and JACK KIRBY. Cover by JON BOGDANOVE.

Old soldiers may fade away, but so do young mutants!

On the verge of disintegration, Kitty Pryde seems resigned to her doom - but the X-Men will do anything to save her, even bargain with a worse doom...DOCTOR Doom! What stunning secret prevents Mister Fantastic and the Fantastic Four from saving the day instead? Is he terrified of failing because his greatest failure, the fateful rocket flight, might have really been his greatest success? Do the answers all come down to wunderkind Franklin Richards?

Plus: the classic tale of the two teams' original face-off in Marvel's early era!

Hardcover, 136 pages, full color.

Cover price $19.99.

Add to cart Near Mint $24.00

Add to cart Near Mint $24.00

Volume 37 - 1st printing. "Thing: Project Pegasus!" Collects Marvel Two in One (1974-1983) #42-43 and 53-58.

Written by RALPH MACCHIO, JOHN BYRNE and MARK GRUENWALD. Art by SAL BUSCEMA, JOHN BYRNE and GEORGE PÉREZ. Cover by George Pérez and Terry Austin.

Project: PEGASUS hires the Ever-Lovin' Blue-Eyed One as a security chief, but what's the point if the place is already filled with super-villains in the first place? Featuring Hercules and Thundra, Deathlok and Dr. Strange, Captains America and Marvel, Man-Thing and...Classic Thing? Plus: action in Olympus and the Nexus, Hollywood and Yancy Street! New identities for THREE super heroes! All this AND Super Hero Poker Night! What a deal!

Hardcover, 160 pages, full color.

NOTE: See Marvel Premiere Classic Library Edition HC Vol. 37 for Variant cover.

Cover price $24.99.

Volume 38 - 1st printing. "Avengers: The Korvac Saga!" Collects Avengers (1963-1996 1st Series) #167-168 and 170-177 and Thor Annual #6.

Written by JIM SHOOTER, DAVID MICHELINIE and BILL MANTLO. Art by GEORGE PÉREZ, SAL BUSCEMA, DAVID WENZEL and TOM MORGAN. Cover by GEORGE PÉREZ and TERRY AUSTIN.

He hails from an unimaginable era: the 31st century.

Fleeing through the timestream from the pursuing team of futuristic defenders known as the Guardians of the Galaxy, Korvac the Machine Man has established a secret presence on present-day Earth in the self-created persona of the mysterious Michael. Through such an unassuming guise, Korvac contemplates the elements of a universe he thirsts to command. Yet despite the subtlety of Michael's machinations, the world's greatest super-team -- the mighty Avengers -- catches wind of his cosmos-conquering scheme, thus drawing the two titanic forces into inevitable conflict.

Hardcover, 240 pages, full color.

Cover price $34.99.

Add to cart Fine $14.00

Volume 39- 1st printing. "Fantastic Four: In Search of Galactus!" Collects Fantastic Four (1961-1996 1st Series) #204-214.

Written by MARV WOLFMAN. Art by KEITH POLLARD, JOE SINNOTT, SAL BUSCEMA and JOHN BYRNE. Cover by Keith Pollard and Frank Giacoia.

One of Marvelous Marv's most astonishing sagas!

The Fantastic Four have been fighting Skrulls since #2 - and, somehow, it just never gets old...unlike the FF themselves! An aging ray has three-quarters of the foursome at death's door, but they'll fight the Skrulls to the finish alongside Nova and the Champions of Xandar - at least until a greater threat rises from the Champions' own ranks! The Sphinx is ready to conquer the world, and Mr. Fantastic knows of only one opponent who can stop him: Galactus, who just wants to DESTROY the world instead! Includes the first appearances of Terrax the Tamer and H.E.R.B.I.E. the robot - but which one will prove the greater threat?

Also featuring Spider-Man, Medusa, S.H.I.E.L.D. and cameos from across the chronicles of history!

Hardcover, 208 pages, full color.

Cover price $29.99.

Volume 40 - 1st printing. "Black Widow Web of Intrigue!" Collects Marvel Fanfare (1982-1992 1st Series) #10-13; Bizarre Adventures (1981 Magazine) #25 and Black Widow: The Coldest War GN (1990).

Written by GEORGE PÉREZ, RALPH MACCHIO and GERRY CONWAY. Art by GEORGE PÉREZ, BOB LAYTON, PAUL GULACY, and GEORGE FREEMAN. Cover by GEORGE PÉREZ. It's been a long lively life for Natasha Romanova - in the Avengers, the Champions, S.H.I.E.L.D. and elsewhere - but could it end with her surrounded by international assassins? Old enemies and new are using her instructor, her mentor and her ex-husband against her - or so it seems - but who and what can be trusted in a spy's landscape of lies? Guest-starring Nick Fury, Jimmy Woo and other espionage experts! Hardcover, 176 pages, full color. NOTE: See Marvel Premiere Classic Library Edition HC Vol. 40 for Variant cover. Cover price $24.99.

Volume 41 - 1st printing. "Iron Man: Iron Monger!" Collects Iron Man (1968-1996 1st Series) #193-200.

Written by DENNY O'NEIL. Art by LUKE MCDONNELL, RICH BUCKLER, SAL BUSCEMA, HERB TRIMPE and MARK BRIGHT. Cover by MARK BRIGHT.

He's lost his armor and his fortune, but not his nerve! Tony Stark's back on his feet after everything Obadiah Stane has thrown at him, but now the bilious billionaire is taking away Stark's friends...one of them forever! The enmity spanning more than thirty issues ends in a steel-plated slugfest from which only one can walk away! Plus: vision quests and extradimensional intrigue! Madame Masque and Thundersword! And the debut of the Scourge of the Underworld!

Guest-starring the West Coast Avengers!

Hardcover, 208 pages, full color.

Cover price $29.99.

Add to cart Near Mint $22.00

Add to cart Near Mint $22.00

Volume 42 - 1st printing. "Iron Man: Deadly Solutions!" Collects Iron Man (1998-2004 3rd Series) #1-7.

Written by KURT BUSIEK and RICHARD HOWELL. Art by SEAN CHEN and PATRICK ZIRCHER. Cover by SEAN CHEN.

Back from the dead (again), Tony Stark's rebuilding his corporation from the ground up -- but enemies old and new remind him his work is never done! With romance, rivalry and robots to keep him busy, can Iron Man still help Avengers teammate Warbird in her match against Stark's own worst enemy...the one in a bottle?

Guest-starring the Black Widow and James Rhodes, a.k.a. War Machine!

Hardcover, 192 pages, full color.

Cover price $24.99.

Volume 43 - 1st printing. "Captain Marvel: The Death of Captain Marvel!" Collects Captain Marvel (1968-1979 1st Series Marvel) #34, Marvel Spotlight (1979-1981 2nd Series) #1-2 and Death of Captain Marvel GN (1982 Marvel).

Written by JIM STARLIN, STEVE ENGLEHART and DOUG MOENCH. Art by JIM STARLIN and PAT BRODERICK. Cover by JIM STARLIN.

Witness the classic and tragic end of one of the greatest heroes of all time, Mar-Vell of the Kree, who became the Earth hero Captain Marvel!

After dozens of battles on Earth and across space, and with the power of his Nega-bands and his all-knowing Cosmic Awareness, can Mar-Vell fare well in his battles with Nitro (the exploding villain who later sparked Marvel's super hero Civil War), the death-defying Stellarax and the seemingly dead Thanos?

Guest-starring Rick Jones, Drax the Destroyer, Starfox and all your favorite Earth heroes!

Hardcover, 128 pages, full color.

Cover price $24.99.

Add to cart Near Mint $22.00

Add to cart Very Fine $17.00

Volume 44 - 1st printing. "West Coast Avengers: Assemble!" Collects West Coast Avengers (1984 Limited Series) #1-4, Iron Man (1968-1996) Annual #7 and Avengers (1963-1996 1st Series) #250 -- plus material from Avengers (1963-1996 1st Series) #239, 243-244 and 246; and Avengers West Coast (1985-1994) #100.

Written by ROGER STERN, ROY THOMAS and BOB HARRAS. Art by BOB HALL, AL MILGROM, DON HUDSON and LUKE MCDONNELL. Cover by BOB HALL.

After operating for years out of New York, the Avengers form a second team -- this time based in California! Fresh off their honeymoon, Hawkeye and Mockingbird -- under the direction of the Vision, chairman of the East Coast Avengers -- gather Tigra, Wonder Man and Iron Man (secretly James Rhodes) to fight the forces no single super hero can withstand! See the team's earliest adventures against the deadly Maelstrom and his Minions! The malevolent Crossfire! Spider-Man foe the Blank! The ionic-powered Goliath (later Atlas of the Thunderbolts)! The all-powerful Graviton! Guest-starring the Shroud, Tony Stark and honorary Avenger Moira Brandon!

Hardcover, 208 pages, full color.

NOTE: See Marvel Premiere Classic Library Edition HC Vol. 44 for Variant cover.

Cover price $29.99.

Add to cart Very Fine $17.00

Volume 45 - 1st printing. "Avengers: The Contest!" Collects Marvel Super Hero Contest of Champions (1982) #1-3, Avengers West Coast Annual #2 and Avengers Annual #16.

Written by BILL MANTLO, MARK GRUENWALD, STEVEN GRANT, STEVE ENGLEHART and TOM DEFALCO. Art by JOHN ROMITA JR, AL MILGROM and BOB HALL. Cover by AL MILGROM.

To return his fellow Elder of the Universe, the Collector, to life, the Grandmaster enters a cosmic wager with Death herself, using Earth heroes as their chess pieces! Heroes from around the world, including several never-before-seen, battle it out for nothing less than the fate of Earth itself in the Contest of Champions! Featuring every Earth hero, circa 1982! Then, Grandmaster causes more problems for the Avengers when he plans to wipe out all life in the universe, and he pits the Avengers of both coasts against each other to claim his prize!

Starring 15 Avengers and special guest star, the Silver Surfer!

Hardcover, 168 pages, full color. NOTE: "Without a doubt, this is one of my all time favorite Avengers stories. It begins in Contest of Champions and escalates into the Avengers Annuals that follow. The House of Ideas treats the readers to some of the best super hero showdowns in the history of comics." - Odinson, Lone Star Comics Archivist

Cover price $24.99.

Volume 46 - 1st printing. "Infinity Gauntlet!" Collects Infinity Gauntlet (1991) #1-6.

Written by JIM STARLIN. Art by GEORGE PÉREZ and RON LIM. Cover by GEORGE PEREZ.

For the dark Titan, Thanos, the Infinity Gauntlet was the Holy Grail, the ultimate prize to be coveted above all else. With it came omnipotence: the absolute control of all aspects of time, space, power, reality, the mind and the soul. The gaining of supreme might meant the beginning of a black nightmare for the entire universe. Now, on the edge of Armageddon and led by the mysterious Adam Warlock, Earth's super heroes join in a desperate attempt to thwart this nihilistic god's insane plunge into galactic self-destruction.

Should the heroes fail, the astral gods of the universe wait to step into the fray. But in such an awesome cosmic conflict will anyone prevail? Will anyone survive?

Hardcover, 256 pages, full color.

Cover price $29.99.

Volume 47 - 1st printing. "Silver Surfer: Rebirth of Thanos!" Infinity Gauntlet: Prelude - Collects Silver Surfer (1987-1998 2nd Series) #34-38, Thanos Quest (1990) #1-2, and the Thanos backup from Logan's Run (1977 Marvel) #6.

Written by JIM STARLIN and SCOTT EDELMAN. Art by RON LIM and MIKE ZECK. Cover by RON LIM.

The quest that led to Infinity Gauntlet begins here! Back from the dead, Thanos is after the power to bring the rest of the universe with him on a return trip! Can the Silver Surfer, Drax the Destroyer and others stop the cosmic iconoclast before he uses reality as a token of his affection for Death?

Special guest-appearance by the Impossible Man!

Hardcover, 224 pages, full color.

Cover price $29.99.

Volume 48 - 1st printing. "X-Men: Mutant Genesis!" Collects X-Men (1991) #1-7.

Written by Chris Claremont, John Byrne and Scott Lobdell. Art and cover by Jim Lee.

New world order.

The Master of Magnetism embarks on a holy crusade to rescue his fellow mutants from the coming genetic conflagration with humanity...regardless of the cost to either side. The newly formed Acolytes, Magneto's devoted disciples, see him as their greatest salvation. Little do they realize their zeal will carry them to the ends of Earth - and above - when Magneto proclaims Asteroid M a haven for mutants everywhere, inciting a state of war between himself and the world's great powers! All that stands in the way of absolute chaos are the mutant heroes known as the X-Men, whose powers and abilities set them apart from a humanity that hates and fears them. And should they survive this confrontation, the villainous Omega Red is waiting in the wings! Product of a covert communist experiment to create a new kind of killing machine, this super-soldiers' slightest touch will kill all those who stand against his mother country.

Hardcover, 208 pages, full color.

Cover price $24.99.

Add to cart Near Mint $22.00

Add to cart Near Mint $22.00

Add to cart Fine $16.00

Volume 49 - 1st printing. "Thor: The Warriors Three!" Collects Marvel Spotlight (1971-1977 1st Series) #30 and Marvel Fanfare (1982-1992 1st Series) #13 and 34-37.

Written by LEN WEIN and ALAN ZELENETZ. Art by JOHN BUSCEMA, JOE SINNOTT and CHARLES VESS. Cover by CHARLES VESS.

Fandral the Dashing, Hogun the Grim, Volstagg the Voluminous: They may not have made it into the mythology books, but they're living legends to this day - and some of their solo sagas are collected here for the first time! The Warriors Three tackle organized crime in Manhattan, then embark on an Asgardian quest that takes them deeper than ever before into peril - and into themselves!

Featuring stories by Alien Legion co-creator Ala Zelenetz!

Hardcover, 144 pages, full color.

Cover price $19.99.

Volume 50 - 1st printing. "Moon Knight: Countdown to Dark!" Collects material from Hulk Magazine (1978-1981 Formerly Rampaging Hulk 1-9) #13-15, 17-18, and 20-21 and Marvel Preview (1975-1981 Magazine) #21.

Written by DOUG MOENCH. Art and cover by BILL SIENKIEWICZ.

Agent Cobra, the Hatchet-Man, Lupinar: only a few of Moon Knight's early enemies, yet some of his deadliest! In these rarely seen sagas, Marc Spector faces down a former fellow spy turned strength-heightened hitman, a serial killer Spector believes to be his brother, and a terrorist claiming to be...Moon Knight!

Featuring Frenchie, Marlene and revelations from Moon Knight's murderous memories!

Guest-starring the Incredible Hulk!

Hardcover, 168 pages, full color.

Cover price $24.99.

Volume 51 - 1st printing. "Avengers: Under Siege!" Collects Avengers (1963-1996 1st Series) #270-277.

Written by Roger Stern. Art by John Buscema and Tom Palmer. Cover by John Buscema.

Home are the heroes, but the villains are waiting for them! Avengers Mansion becomes the site of one of the team's greatest battles when Baron Zemo's Masters of Evil take down Earth's Mightiest Heroes one by one, one seemingly forever!

Plus: an odyssey of Avengers, Alpha Flight and Atlantean civil war!

Guest-starring Ant-Man, Doctor Druid and Paladin, later of Thunderbolts fame!

Softcover, 192 pages, full color.

Cover price $29.99.

Volume 52 - 1st printing. "Marvel Universe: The End!" Collects Marvel Universe: The End (2003) #1-6.

Story and art by JIM STARLIN.

Jim Starlin is back, and this time he destroys everything!

When the immortal Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten gains cosmic powers, his first act is to annihilate the Avengers and the X-Men! The universe is endangered, and Thanos and Dr. Doom may be the world's best chance at survival! Featuring lead roles for Thor, Zeus, Captain Marvel, Dr. Strange, Namor and the Silver Surfer! And Thanos, more powerful than you've ever seen him!

Hardcover, 168 pages, full color.

NOTE: Limited to 804 copies.

Cover price $29.99.

Add to cart Very Fine $21.00

Volume 54 - 1st printing. "Thor: If Asgard Should Perish!" Collects Thor (1962-1996 1st Series) #242-253.

Written by LEN WEIN. Art by JOHN BUSCEMA. Cover byy JACK KIRBY.

To save the very universe, Thor and the Warriors Three travel through time to stop the deadly Time Twisters! Then, it's off to Costa Verde to face the new threat of Firelord-but when Thor gets mind-controlled, only Jane Foster can save the day! And when Mangog storms the gates of Asgard, Thor must rescue his father Odin from Hela herself! Witness the God of Thunder in some of his earliest battles! Featuring the threats of Ulik, Zarrko the Tomorrow Man and more!

Hardcover, 224 pages, full color.

Cover price $24.99.

Volume 55 - 1st printing. "X-Force Cable and the New Mutants!" Collects New Mutants (1983-1991 1st Series) #86-94 and ANNUAL #5.

Written by LOUISE SIMONSON and DWIGHT ZIMMERMAN. Art by ROB LIEFELD andf BOB HALL. Cover by ROB LIEFELD.

For years, the New Mutants have struggled to hone their powers and teamwork in defense of Charles Xavier's dream of peaceful coexistence between humans and mutants. Now, with the arrival of Cable-a mysterious metal-armed, big-gunned, glowing-eyed man from the future-things will never be same...not for the New Mutants, and not for any mutants! Featuring the threats of Stryfe, Nitro, the Vulture, the Skrulls and Sabretooth!

Guest-starring Sunfire and Wolverine!

Hardcover, 264 pages, full color.

Cover price $24.99.