Marvel Age comic books issue 3

Written by Joe Caramagna. Art by Various. Cover by TBD • The Collector captures every last hero on Earth! • Only the Hulk remains to save the planet from destruction! • Guest starring Spider-Man! Cover price $2.99.

Volume 3 - 1st printing. Collects Marvel Mystery Comics (1939-1949) #9-12.

Written by JOHN COMPTON, STOCKBRIDGE WINSLOW, and RAY GILL. Art by CARL BURGOS, BILL EVERETT, PAUL GUSTAVSON, STEVE DAHLMAN, BEN THOMPSON, AL ANDERS, IRWIN HASEN, and BOB OSKNER. Cover by ALEX SCHOMBURG.

The wait is over, and the stage is set. t's fire vs. water in the most famous battle of comics' Golden Age! Breaking new ground like none other, MARVEL MYSTERY COMICS, the flagship title of Marvel's earliest days, started a craze that defines super-hero comic books to this day. With hero pitted against hero in a fight to the finish, you'd better place those bets and settle into your seats. 'Cause it's the final round of the Human Torch vs. the Sub-Mariner! Headlined by the lavish, manic and truly amazing Sub-Mariner by Bill Everett and the high-flying Human Torch by Carl Burgos, MARVEL MYSTERY COMICS is a bona-fide treasure trove of Golden Age action and adventure.

The awesome and idiosyncratic Steve Dahlman brings you Electro, the Marvel of the Age, the monster-stomping robot featured today in THE TWELVE, while Paul Gustavson's Angel woos damsels in distress and battles the undead evils of the subterranean realm, and the jungle adventurer, Ka-Zar the Great, protects the Belgian Congo from the threats of the outside world. Also featuring the wild Western tales of the Masked Raider, boy-adventurer Terry Vance and a host of four-color companions -- each painstakingly restored to provide you with the best experience of these truly classic tales.

Hardcover, 272 pages, full color.

Cover price $59.99.

Volume 3 - 1st printing. "On Ice!" Collects Uncanny X-Men (1963-2011 1st Series) #455-461. Written by CHRIS CLAREMONT. Art by ALAN DAVIS. Cover by ALAN DAVIS. High adventure in the Savage Land! The X-Men discover a wondrous and advanced new civilization when they return to the isolated, Antarctic jungle ? but it's none too friendly toward humans...or mutants! And could the X-Men have unintentionally helped them take their first steps toward world domination? Plus: The team gains a highly unexpected new member! Softcover, 168 pages, full color. Cover price $15.99.

1st Edition - Volume 3 - 1st printing. "Omega!" Collects Astonishing X-Men (1995 1st Series) #4, Gambit and the X-Ternals (1995) #3-4, Generation Next (1995) #3-4, Weapon X (1995 1st Series) #3-4, Factor-X (1995) #4, X-Man (1995) #4, X-Calibre (1995) #4, Amazing X-Men (1995) #4, X-Universe (1995) #2, X-Men Omega (1995), and Age of Apocalypse: The Chosen (1996).

Cover by Joe Madureira and Tim Townsend. Back Cover by . Steve Skroce and Bud LaRosa.

The original Age of Apocalypse saga comes to an explosive end as the alternate-universe X-Men's desperate gambles bear fruit!

Gambit recovers the artifact that might end Apocalypse's reign before it began, while Weapon X obtains the means to destroy his kingdom - and Generation Next pays the ultimate price rescuing Illyana Rasputin! But even armed with all the pieces to their puzzle, can the X-Men and their allies storm Apocalypse's stronghold, rescue Magneto, pull off their plan and restore the original Marvel Universe?

Who will live? Who will die? And who will escape the destruction of the Age of Apocalypse?

Softcover, 400 pages, full color.

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Written by Larry Hama, Scott Lobdell, Fabian Nicieza, Jeph Loeb, Warren Ellis, John Francis Moore, Terry Kavanagh, Mark Waid, and Howard Mackie.

Art by Adam Kubert, Chris Bachalo, Salvador Larroca, Steve Skroce, Joe Madureira, Ken Lashley, Andy Kubert, Carlos Pacheco, Roger Cruz, Steve Epting, Terry Dodson, Val Semeiks, Mike Dringenberg, Ian Churchill, Tom Lyle, Tim Sale, Dan Green, Mark Buckingham, Al Milgrom, Bud Larosa, Matt Ryan, Mike Sellers, Tim Townsend, Tom Wegrzyn, Philip Moy, Cam Smith, Robin Riggs, Karl Kesel. Harry Candelario, Scott Hanna, Dan Panosian, Sergio Melia, Bob Wiacek, James Pascoe, and Terry Austin.

Cover price $34.99.

Volume 3 - 1st printing. "Swingtime!" Collects Marvel Age: Spider-Man (2004-2005) #9-12. Written by Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, Todd DeZago, and Mike Raicht. Art by PATRICK SCHERBERGER, LOGAN LUBERA, VALENTINE DE LANDRO, and DEREC AUCOIN. Cover by MICHEAL RYAN. The fledgling wall-crawler reaches a crucial turning point in his young life as the diabolical Doctor Octopus makes his long-awaited return! Plus: the first appearances of the Enforcers and Mysterio! And learn why J. Jonah Jameson really hates Spider-Man! Softcover, 5-in. x 7 1/2-in., 96 pages, full color. ALL AGES Cover price $5.99.

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Volume 3 - 1st printing. "Return of Doom!" Collects Marvel Age: Fantastic Four (2004) #9-12. Plot by STAN LEE and JACK KIRBY. Written by MARC SUMERAK. Art by ALITHA MARTINEZ and JOE DODD. Cover by MAKOTO NAKATSUKA. Marvel Age's First Family is back in four fantastic new adventures. Featuring the return of Dr. Doom and the Prince of Atlantis himself, the Sub-Mariner! Also along for the ride is the Green Goliath, a.k.a. the Hulk, and an invincible alien known as the Impossible Man. Softcover, 5-in. x 7 1/2-in., 96 pages, full color. Cover price $5.99.

Volume 3 - 1st printing. Collects Human Torch Comics (1940-1949) #9-12.

Art by HARRY SAHLE, AL GABRIELE, CARL PFEUFER, ED ROBBINS, BASIL WOLVERTON, RAY HOULIHAN, LARRY ANTONETTE and ART GATES. Cover by ALEX SCHOMBURG.

From the heart of the Golden Age of Comics, the white-hot hero of the decade, the Human Torch, comes burning at you with another exciting quartet of never before reprinted comic adventures!

Between keeping America safe on the homefront and fighting the Axis powers abroad, the Torch and his kid sidekick Toro have their work cut out for them. They'll face Nazi rockets, Gestapo madmen, fifth columnists and more as they fight the good fight for the U.S.A. The action really gets going in the massive, 45-page "Death Dance of the Atlantic" when the Torch and Toro find the Sub-Mariner manning a Nazi U-boat. It's an action-packed dash to capture comics' most tempestuous sometimes-hero and decode the Axis' secret signal system, told in the manner that made Marvel great. Backed up by solo Sub-Mariner tales, along with the boy adventurer Jimmy Jupiter and humor shorts by the likes of Basil Wolverton, every issue is a cornucopia from Marvel's early years.

Dig into the Golden Age and dig into history!

Hardcover, 264 pages, full color.

Cover price $59.99.

Volume 3 - 1st printing. Collects All-Winners Comics (1941-1947) #9-14.

Art by HARRY SAHLE, JIMMY THOMPSON, CARL PFEUFER, BOB OKSNER, GEORGE KLEIN, AL BELLMAN, VINCE ALASCIA, CHAD GROTHKOPF, DON RICO, AL FAGALY, ALEX SCHOMBURG, MIKE SEKOWSKY, ALLEN SIMON and AL GABRIELE. Cover by ALEX SCHOMBURG.

It's the titanic trio of the Timely Big Three - Captain America, the Human Torch and the Sub-Mariner - combined with Golden Age luminaries the Destroyer and the Whizzer in one all-out amazing series! Defending wartime America from Nazi airships, ape-men and anything and everything else the Axis can throw at them, the Human Torch and Toro burn up the comic page like it's still 1943. Captain America and Bucky parachute into adventures from mad scientists to buzz-bombing Nazis.

Meanwhile, the Destroyer stops at nothing - including a battalion of Hitler impersonators - to stop the Nazi threat. And the Pacific Theatre won't be left waiting, not with the Sub-Mariner around! He takes it straight to the Emperor himself and comes back to clean up the docks while he's at it! But before you speed away, don't miss the Whizzer as he races through maddening mazes and thwarts the plans of kidnapping crooks!

It's comic-book adventure at its purest, so reserve your copy today!

Hardcover, 304 pages, full color.

Cover price $59.99.

Volume 3 - 1st printing. Collects Sub-Mariner Comics (1941-1955) #9-12.

Story and art by CARL PFEUFER, GUSTAV SCHROTTER, AL GABRIELE and BASIL WOLVERTON. Cover by ALEX SCHOMBURG.

From the heart of comics' Golden Age, come the adventures of the original anti-hero-Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner!

A brash, proud and quick-tempered figure who bowed before the authority of no man, when the pall of fascism covered the world the Sub-Mariner responded with an unchained fury. Tearing down the Axis powers one battleship at a time, he embodied the fantasy of an America confronted by enemies on two fronts and with ample motivation to smash them both! Backed by the super-hero adventures of The Angel and comedy short-features by the likes of comic genius, Basil Wolverton, you'll find no other Golden Age hero with the wild, powerful and truly anarchic energy of the Sub-Mariner. So get out there and reserve your copy today, True Believer! Collecting SUB-MARINER COMICS

Hardcover, 372 pages, full color.

Cover price $59.99.

Volume 3 - 1st printing. "Last Days!" Collects Loki: Agent of Asgard (2013) #12-17. Written by Al Ewing. Art by Lee Garbett.

He's Loki's older, nastier, vastly more powerful future self. His machinations have cost Loki everything - but who is King Loki? What dread Asgard is he the Agent of? And what evil scheme has he been brewing all this time? Loki began his third life by annihilating the soul of his second - his better, purer self. Now he pays the price. What lie - or truth - will save him now? As the Ten Realms face their last hours, ancient enemies march on Asgardia seeking a final vengeance - including King Loki. It's all-out war in the heavens! And as the Marvel Universe dies, there's time for one last story: the showdown you've been waiting for!

It's Loki versus Loki at the very end of all that is - and only one will take a bow when the curtain falls!

Softcover, 136 pages, full color.

Cover price $17.99.

Volume 3 - 1st printing. Collects Captain America Comics (1941-1954 Golden Age) #9-12.

Written by JOE SIMON, JACK KIRBY and STAN LEE. Art by JOE SIMON, JACK KIRBY, AL AVISON, SYD SHORES, MIKE SEKOWSKY, CHARLES NICHOLAS, JACK ALDERMAN, and CHAD GROTHKOPF. Cover by JOE SIMON and JACK KIRBY.

Mighty Marvel is bringing you another quartet of 64-page action-adventure greats featuring the one-and-only Captain America!

From the personal files of Captain America comes comic-book adventure as only found in the bombastic Golden Age! Cap and Bucky battle the Black Talon, race through a spy ambush, sort out a mountain man feud, shrink down to fight pygmies, and venture to the wind-swept moors on the trail of the Hound of Cardiff Manor in the stories that put Captain America in the minds and into the back pockets of millions of Americans.

Supported by the wartime tales of foreign correspondent "Headline" Hunter, the heroic Hurricane and Father Time, and Stan Lee's cartoon serial the Imp, these stories are pure Golden Age excitement from cover to cover!

Hardcover, 280 pages, full color.

Cover price $59.99.

Volume 3 – 1st printing. Collects Nick Fury Agent of SHIELD (1989-1993 3rd Series) #24-35. Stories by D.G. Chichester, Scott Lobdell and Doug Murray. Art by Jackson Guice, Ernie Stiner, Dave Hoover, M.C. Wyman, Norm Dwyer, Doug Hazlewood, Don Hudson, Jack Torrance and Fred Fredericks. Cover by Jackson Guice. Nick Fury and his poker buddies Thing, Mr. Fantastic and Captain America play for high stakes against the Mandarin - but it could soon be Baron Strucker's Hydra that holds all the cards! When terrorists attack, S.H.I.E.L.D. Central falls. The Avengers and the Fantastic Four join the fight - but after heavy losses, Nick launches a recruitment drive for new agents. Will Wolverine respond? Then, Ol' One-Eye could be about to learn that Infinity isn't forever as he hunts for the Formula that keeps him (relatively) young. Will the search kill both him and the cyborg known as Deathlok? And when a group of villains unleash havoc on the Helicarrier, they threaten an early end to the careers of Ivory, Knock-About, Psi-Borg and Violence - the brand-new Super Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.! Softcover, 288 pages, full color. Cover price $34.99.

Volume 3 - 1st printing. "The Fate of the Phoenix!" Collects Uncanny X-Men (1963-2011 1st Series) #125-143, Uncanny X-Men (1963-2011 1st Series) #4, Marvel Two-in-One (1974-1983 1st Series) #68 and material from Marvel Treasury Edition (1974-1981) #26-27 and Marvel Team-Up (1972-1985 1st Series) #100.

Written by Chris Claremont, JOhn BYrne, Mary Jo Duffy, Scott Edelman, Mark Gruenwald, and Ralph Macchio. Art by John Byrne, Ron Wilson, John ROmita, Jr., Ken Landgraf, Brent Anderson, Bob McLeod, Gene Day, George Perez, and Terry Austin. Cover by Jon Byrne and Terry Austin.

Chris Claremont and John Byrne's legendary run on X-Men hits its crescendo with two of the most important chapters not only in X-Men and Marvel History, but in the History of Comic Books - The Dark Phoenix Saga and Days of Future Past!

Includes team-ups with Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, the Fantastic Four, and a classic, albeit humorous, meeting between Wolverine and Hercules.

Hardcover, 440 pages, full color.

NOTE: This collection was originally available only in the X-Men: Children of the Atom HC Slipcase Box Set (2020 Marvel).

Volume 3 - 1st printing. "The Torch is Passed!" Collects Uncanny X-Men (1963-2011 1st Series) #32-48 and Avengers (1963-1996 1st Series) #53.

Written by Roy Thomas, Gary Friedrich, and Arnold Drake. Art by Werner Roth, Dan Adkins, Ross Andru, Don Heck, George Tuska, John Buscema, John Verpoorten, Vince Colletta, John Tartaglione, and Herb Trimpe. Cover by George Tuska. Back Cover by Don Heck.

The Unstoppable Juggernaut returns with a vengeance! The Children of the Atom meet the Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man! And, Magneto and the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants hit the scene for a battle that culminates in a classic X-Men/Avengers crossover!

Hardcover, 384 pages, full color.

NOTE: This collection was originally available only in the X-Men: Children of the Atom HC Slipcase Box Set (2020 Marvel).