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Written by Scott Gray and Roger Langridge. Art by Craig Russeau and Matteo Lolli. Cover by Clayton Henry. Four tales for the price of one! Captain America, living legend of World War II, battles spies in Hollywood and M.O.D.O.K.'s predecessor P.R.O.D.O.K…. but nothing prepares him for spending the next few decades frozen in ice! When he comes to in the present day, Hydra strikes and Cap learns the action hasn't let up-the Marvel Action, that is! Classic Captain America tales from the legendary vault of heroes! All-ages action in the past and present! Reprints Marvel Adventures Super Heroes #8 and #12! 44 pages, full color. Cover price $4.99.

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2nd Edition - Volume 1 - 1st printing. Collects Tales of Suspense (1959-1968) #59-81.

Written by Stan Lee. Art and cover by Jack Kirby.

In 1940, as America prepared for war, a frail young man volunteered for an experiment that transformed him into the premiere physical specimen -- the American Super Soldier!

Steve Rogers then battled the Nazis until a freak mishap placed him in suspended animation for decades. When he awakened, Rogers was truly a man out of time, though no less committed to fighting the evils of this perilous new era!

The Silver-Age revival of America's greatest super hero is chronicled here, including the origin of Captain America and Bucky! The Assassins of Zemo! And the Red Skull strikes!

Hardcover, 272 pages, full color.

Cover price $49.99.

2nd Edition - Volume 1 - 2nd and later printings. Collects Tales of Suspense (1959-1968) #59-81.

Written by Stan Lee. Art and cover by Jack Kirby.

In 1940, as America prepared for war, a frail young man volunteered for an experiment that transformed him into the premiere physical specimen -- the American Super Soldier!

Steve Rogers then battled the Nazis until a freak mishap placed him in suspended animation for decades. When he awakened, Rogers was truly a man out of time, though no less committed to fighting the evils of this perilous new era!

The Silver-Age revival of America's greatest super hero is chronicled here, including the origin of Captain America and Bucky! The Assassins of Zemo! And the Red Skull strikes!

Hardcover, 272 pages, full color.

Cover price $49.99.

1st printing. Text by Matthew K. Manning. The official art book for the movie CAPTAIN AMERICA: TH FIRST AVENGER, the 4th title reissue of the 24-book MARVEL STUDIOS: THE INFINITY SAGA series published as a resized matching set. Hardcover, 240 pages, full color. Cover price $40.00.

1st printing. Text by Marie Javins. The official art book for the movie CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER, the 8th title reissue of the 24-book MARVEL STUDIOS: THE INFINITY SAGA series published as a resized matching set. Hardcover, 11-in. x 9-in., 238 pages, full color. Cover price $40.00.

1st printing. Collects Captain America (196-1996 1st Series) #100 and 255, Captain America: The Fighting Avenger (2011 Marvel), and Marvel Team-Up (1972-1985 1st Series) #13.

Written by Stan Lee, Roger Stern, Brian Clevinger, and Len Wein. Art by Jack Kirby, Syd Shores, John Byrne, Gurihiru, Gil Kane, and Frank Giacoia. Cover by Ron Lim and Jim Lee. Back Cover by John Byrne.

He's the most inspirational hero in the Marvel-Verse! Discover why Steve Rogers is a living legend with some of his most action-packed adventures!

First, flash back in time for a thrilling re-examination of Captain America's incomparable origin story! See frail Steve Rogers become a Super-Soldier, and thrill to his first mission as the Fighting Avenger of World War II!

Plus: The Black Panther and Agent 13 join Cap in battle with one of his greatest foes, Baron Zemo - but is more going on than meets the eye?

And Captain America and Spider-Man team up on a mission for S.H.I.E.L.D.! Can the shield-slinger and the web-slinger stop the stony Grey Gargoyle?

Softcover, 112 pages, full color. AGES 10 & UP

Cover price $9.99.

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2nd and later printings. Collects Captain America (196-1996 1st Series) #100 and 255, Captain America: The Fighting Avenger (2011 Marvel), and Marvel Team-Up (1972-1985 1st Series) #13.

Written by Stan Lee, Roger Stern, Brian Clevinger, and Len Wein. Art by Jack Kirby, Syd Shores, John Byrne, Gurihiru, Gil Kane, and Frank Giacoia. Cover by Ron Lim and Jim Lee. Back Cover by John Byrne.

He's the most inspirational hero in the Marvel-Verse! Discover why Steve Rogers is a living legend with some of his most action-packed adventures!

First, flash back in time for a thrilling re-examination of Captain America's incomparable origin story! See frail Steve Rogers become a Super-Soldier, and thrill to his first mission as the Fighting Avenger of World War II!

Plus: The Black Panther and Agent 13 join Cap in battle with one of his greatest foes, Baron Zemo - but is more going on than meets the eye?

And Captain America and Spider-Man team up on a mission for S.H.I.E.L.D.! Can the shield-slinger and the web-slinger stop the stony Grey Gargoyle?

Softcover, 112 pages, full color. AGES 10 & UP

Cover price $9.99.

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Issue #1 - October 2016. Written by J.C. Vaughn, illustrated by Gene Gonzales. Cover by Michael Avon Oeming. 6 1/2-in. x 10 1/4-in., 48 pages, black and white. Cover price $4.99.

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Written by Patrick Shand. Art and Cover by Rich Bonk. While NASA warns of the potentially devastating consequences of a meteor storm closing in on the planet, it's the horrors that hide inside the falling debris that present the real danger. An unstoppable horde of terrifying space hornets has descended upon Earth and they are going to eat their way through every living thing in their path. This is big screen drive-in grindhouse at its best! Devastating meteor impacts, diabolical alien hordes, and only one person with a chance to end the terror before Earth becomes a hive of swarming death! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.

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Written by Patrick Shand. Art and Cover by Rich Bonk. While NASA warns of the potentially devastating consequences of a meteor storm closing in on the planet, it's the horrors that hide inside the falling debris that present the real danger. An unstoppable horde of terrifying space hornets has descended upon Earth and they are going to eat their way through every living thing in their path. This is big screen drive-in grindhouse at its best! Devastating meteor impacts, diabolical alien hordes, and only one person with a chance to end the terror before Earth becomes a hive of swarming death! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.

Volume 1, Issue 4 - 1961, 8.5" x 11", 76 pages, B&W and color. Men's interest magazine with articles and nude photos. MATURE READERS Cover price $1.25.

1st printing. "Reflections of a Drawing Board Patriot!" By Milton Caniff. Foreword by Jimmy Stewart. Take a stroll through history with one of the most renown cartoonist. Softcover (Horizontal Format), 11-in. x 8 1/2-in., 96 pages, B&W. Cover price $9.95.

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1st printing. Written by Erik Daniel Shein. Art by Jay Fotos and Various. Cover by Jay Fotos. Join the Monsterjunkie teenage family members Crow and Indigo as they confront a town's harsh bullying and find the courage to overcome their harassment by throwing open the gates to their unique home and private sanctuary to their menagerie of protected, exotic and "non existing" legendary creatures. Softcover, 80 pages, full color. Cover price $9.99.

1st printing.

By Megan Margulies.

A finely wrought coming-of-age memoir about the author's relationship with her beloved grandfather Joe Simon, cartoonist and co-creator of Captain America.

The world inside Megan Margulies' parents' tiny Upper West Side one-bedroom apartment was hardly a respite from the chaos outside, with a family of five occupying the 550-square-foot space. Salvation arrived in the form of her grandfather, Daddy Joe, whose midtown studio became a second home to Megan. There, he listened to her woes, fed her Hungry Man frozen dinners, and simply let her be. His living room may have been dominated by the drawing table, notes, and doodles that marked him as Joe Simon the cartoonist. But for Megan, he was always Daddy Joe: an escape from her increasingly hectic home, a nonjudgmental voice whose sense of humor was as dry as his farfel, and a steady presence in a world that felt off balance.

My Captain America offers a tender and sharply observed account of Megan's life with Daddy Joe - and an intimate portrait of the creative genius who gave us one of the most enduring super-heroes of all time.

Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 336 pages, Text (with 8 pages of fll color illustrations and photos, including art by Jack Kirby).

Cover price $27.95.

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1st printing. Story and art by Veronica Agarwal. Introduction by David Bowles. Eisner Award winner Liniers brings his exuberant cartooning style and irrepressible sense of humor to the spooky folktales of his childhood, telling three from across Latin America: the Iara, a mermaid (or a pink dolphin?) who lures young men to her underwater domain in the Amazon basin; La Lechuza, an enormous owl with the face of a woman, who terrorizes people who venture out after dark (a legend found in Mexico, Chile, and Uruguay); and La Luz Mala, a spooky, evanescent light that menaces gauchos and other travelers on the Argentine pampas. Liniers animates these thrilling tales with lighthearted twists. Combined with informative backmatter on their ecological, cultural, and historical background and a bibliography, these old stories will come alive for all young readers. Softcover, 8-in. x 10-in., 48 pages, full color. All Ages Cover price $11.99.

Vol. 1, No. 1. 1960. Men's interest magazine with articles, humor, fiction, and pictorials. Tabloid format folded to magazine size. 8.5" x 11" that unfolds to 11" x 17". 24 pages. Black and white. MATURE. Cover price $0.50.

Vol. 1, No. 2. 1961. Men's interest magazine with articles, humor, fiction, and pictorials. Tabloid format folded to magazine size. 8.5" x 11" that unfolds to 11" x 17". 24 pages. Black and white. MATURE. Cover price $0.50.

Vol. 1, No. 3. 1961. Men's interest magazine with articles, humor, fiction, and pictorials. Tabloid format folded to magazine size. 8.5" x 11" that unfolds to 11" x 17". 24 pages. Black and white. MATURE. Cover price $0.50.

Vol. 1, No. 4. 1961. Men's interest magazine with articles, humor, fiction, and pictorials. Tabloid format folded to magazine size. 8.5" x 11" that unfolds to 11" x 17". 24 pages. Black and white. MATURE. Cover price $0.70.

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1st printing.

By Drew Morton.

Over the past forty years, American film has entered into a formal interaction with the comic book. Such comic book adaptations as Sin City, 300, and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World have adopted components of their source materials' visual style. The screen has been fractured into panels, the photographic has given way to the graphic, and the steady rhythm of cinematic time has evolved into a far more malleable element. In other words, films have begun to look like comics.

Softcover, 6-in.x 9-in., 238 pages, B&W.

Cover price $30.00.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Collects Captain America Comics (1941-1954 Golden Age) #1 and 78 and stories from Tales of Suspense (1959) #59, 63-68, 75-81, and 92-95 and Captain America (1968-1996 1st Series) #110-113.

Series Edited by Ben Saunders. Written by Joe Simon, Jack Kirby, Jim Steranko, and Stan Lee. Art by Jack Kirby, John Romita, Sr., Al Liederman, Chic Stone, Frank Giacoia, Dick Ayers, John Tartaglione, Don Heck, Joe Sinnott, George Tuska, Tom Palmer, and Jim Steranko. Cover by Jack Kirby. Introduction by Ben Saunders. Foreword by Gene Luen Yang.

Illustrated throughout, The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents specially curated comic book anthologies of the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvels transformative and timeless influence on an entire genre of fantasy. A Penguin Classics Marvel Collection Edition

It is impossible to imagine American popular culture without Marvel Comics. For decades, Marvel has published groundbreaking visual narratives that sustain attention on multiple levels: as explorations of the relationship between power and responsibility; as metaphors for the experience of difference and otherness; as meditations on the pain of adolescence and the fluid nature of identity; as examinations of the meaning, and limits, of patriotism; as ironic juxtapositions of the cosmic and the quotidian; as resources for the understanding of political and social history; and as high watermarks in the artistic tradition of American cartooning. For the first time, these classic stories of some of the most iconic super heroes in the history of American comics are Penguin Classics. Debuting in 1941—almost a year before the events of Pearl Harbor— Captain America was initially conceived by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby as a pop culture argument for US intervention in the European war against fascism.

This collection includes his first appearances from 1941 alongside key examples of his first solo stories of the 1960s, in which the newly resurrected hero of World War II struggles to find his place in an unfamiliar world. The transformation of this American icon thus marks a parallel transformation in the nation itself.

The introduction offers insight into the social and political significance of Captain America as a character and a national symbol, while a critical apparatus and appendices shed further light on his creative development.

Hardcover, 400 pages, full color.

Cover price $50.00.

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Written by Todd Livingston and Anne Toole. Art by Bill Glavan. Cover by Jazz dela Cuesta. The first Pink Panther movie debuted in 1963, an amazing 55 years ago, and introduced the world to the coolest animated cat ever, the Pink Panther! Since then we've enjoyed this feisty feline's antics in movies, cartoons, and of course, comic books! Come celebrate this milestone with brand new Pink Panther adventures and hijinks as he confounds The Little Man and tickles your funny bone. 28 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.

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Written by Todd Livingston and Anne Toole. Art and Cover by Bill Glavan. The first Pink Panther movie debuted in 1963, an amazing 55 years ago, and introduced the world to the coolest animated cat ever, the Pink Panther! Since then we've enjoyed this feisty feline's antics in movies, cartoons, and of course, comic books! Come celebrate this milestone with brand new Pink Panther adventures and hijinks as he confounds The Little Man and tickles your funny bone. 28 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.

Limited to 350 copies. Written by Todd Livingston and Anne Toole. Art by Bill Glavan. The first Pink Panther movie debuted in 1963, an amazing 55 years ago, and introduced the world to the coolest animated cat ever, the Pink Panther! Since then we've enjoyed this feisty feline's antics in movies, cartoons, and of course, comic books! Come celebrate this milestone with brand new Pink Panther adventures and hijinks as he confounds The Little Man and tickles your funny bone. 28 pages, full color. Cover price $9.99.

1st printing. By Eric Greene. Foreword by Richard Slotkin. In 1968, PLANET OF THE APES became a megahit movie both in the United States and abroad, inspiring four film sequels, two TV series, and several comic series. The APes films confronted some of the most controversial issues of the time, including Vietnam and the Black Power movement, all the while remaining crowd-pleasing box office hits. Eric Greene uses rare photographs, transcripts, and extensive interviews with the writers, directors, actors, and producers to read the Apes saga as a profoundly American myth. Greene also looks at the attempts of filmmakers like Oliver Stone and James Cameron to remake the myth for the nineties. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 250 pages, Text (with B&W Photos).

2nd and later printings. By Eric Greene. Foreword by Richard Slotkin. In 1968, PLANET OF THE APES became a megahit movie both in the United States and abroad, inspiring four film sequels, two TV series, and several comic series. The APes films confronted some of the most controversial issues of the time, including Vietnam and the Black Power movement, all the while remaining crowd-pleasing box office hits. Eric Greene uses rare photographs, transcripts, and extensive interviews with the writers, directors, actors, and producers to read the Apes saga as a profoundly American myth. Greene also looks at the attempts of filmmakers like Oliver Stone and James Cameron to remake the myth for the nineties. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 250 pages, Text (with B&W Photos).

The Mission - Written by Steve Benintendi. Art by Steven Butler. Religious adventure comic. Mark Chen, brave soldier from the future, is severely wounded in battle. Unable to return to combat duty, he is given a new mission...the most important of his life. He is called on to lead a team from around the globe that will bring to life writings from the past. His young programmers will create virtual reality episodes that will mean life to a new generation. Though PowerMark is yet unaware, an evil villain plots against him and his new "mission"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $2.95.

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Volume 1 - 1st printing. Collects Promethea (1999-2005) #1-6.

Written by Alan Moore. Art by J.H. Williams, III and Mick Gray.

Sophie Bangs is Promethea: a living embodiment of the imagination, 'the dream that waking does not end.' As the signature heroine of Alan Moore's America's Best Comics, Promethea's adventures - Eisner Award-nominated for 'Best Writer,' 'Penciller/Inker Team,' 'Lettering,' 'New Series,' 'Continuing Series,' and 'Single Issue,' - have fueled one of the most remarkable comic-book series in recent memory.

Now the first six issues of the acclaimed series (including Promethea #3, Eisner Award-nominated for Best Single Issue) are collected in Promethea Book One, a hardcover edition topped with a new cover by series artists J.H. Williams, III and Mick Gray.

Hardcover, 174 pages, full color.

Cover price $24.95.

1st printing. Gilbert Shelton cover. Gilbert Shelton, Skip Williamson, Rick Griffin, Tony Bell, Jack Jackson, S. Clay Wilson, Rory Hayes, Frank Stack, Victor Moscoso, and Jay Lynch art. Freak Brothers and Wonder Warthog stories. 6 3/4" x 9 1/2", 44 pages. Cover price $0.50.

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1st printing. By Abraham Riesman. Even if you've never watched a minute of professional wrestling, you are living in Vince McMahon's world. In his four decades as the defining figure of American pro wrestling, McMahon was the man behind Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, John Cena, Dave Bautista, Bret "The Hitman" Hart, and Hulk Hogan, to name just a few of the mega-stars who owe him their careers. For more than twenty-five years, he has also been a performer in his own show, acting as the diabolical "Mr. McMahon" - a figure who may have more in common with the real Vince than he would care to admit. Accessible to anyone, regardless of wrestling knowledge, RINGMASTER is an unauthorized, independent, investigative chronicle of Vince McMahon's origins and rise to supreme power. Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 464 pages, Text. Cover price $29.99.

1st printing. Collects material from Drawn and Quarterly (1994-2003 Drawn and Quarterly) Volume 2 #4-6.

Story and art by Baru.

Road to America collects for the first time in complete form one of the best and most underrated comic "novellas" of the 1990's.

Originally serialized in three separate issues of Drawn and Quarterly, the story is set in Algeria in the late 1950's and early 1960's, during that country's long and bloody struggle to free itself from French colonial rule. Cartoonist Baru brilliantly documents an impoverished boxer's rise to fame amidst the chaos surrounding him and his family, from the slums of his hometown in Algeria to the bright lights of Paris.

Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 48 pages, full color. Mature Readers

Cover price $14.95.

The sinister Snidely Whiplash is once again wreaking havoc upon the kind people of the north! Only Dudley-Do right and his trusted companion, Horse, stand up for common decency in the face of utter chaos. These are some of the best classic Dudley Do-Right stories of all time collected for your reading pleasure. Rocky & Bullwinkle: Best of Dudley Do-Right comes with two cover choices: Main and Limited-Edition Retro Animation covers. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.

Your favorite Canadian Mountie and his Horse are back with classic adventures in this limited-edition Retro Animation cover! Untie this special 350-copy limited edition from the railroad tracks and take it directly to your favorite grading company. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $9.99.

1st printing. By Ronald Searle. During the early 60's, British illustrator Ronald Searle spent several years in the U.S. covering everything from sports to politics, capturing the essence of the American experience through the eyes of a caustic Englishman. Lushly produced and virtually unseen since originally being published in the 1960's, this deluxe coffee-table book will be the most lavish treatment of Searle's work that U.S. audiences have ever seen. Hardcover, 368 pages, full color. Cover price $85.00.

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32 pg ? FC ? $3.50 written by PEDRO ANGOSTO & GARY CARLSON cover & art by CARLOS RODRIGUEZ & ALBERT PUIG It begins as a battle with an unliving Golem who uses the powers of the Round Table of America against them and turns into a nightmare when the omnipotent being known as the Living Archetype launches an assault upon their minds from the demented dimension he calls the Collective Unconscious! Featuring CARLOS RODRIGUEZ, ALBERT PUIG and colorist J.L. RIO ? the art team on the all-new SHADOWHAWK series! Cover price $3.50.

1st printing. Written by Jeff Yang. Art by Gene Luen Yang. Cover Art by Cliff Chiang. This new book expands its horizon to include edgier genres, from hard-boiled pulp to horror, adventure, fantasy, and science fiction. Using this darker range of hues, it seeks to subvert and shatter the hidebound stereotypes that have obscured the Asian image since the earliest days of immigration: the stoic brute, the prodigious brain, the exotic temptress, the inscrutable alien, the devious manipulator. Softcover, 8-in. x 10-in., 208 pages, B&W Cover price $21.95.

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Volume 1, Issue 1 - January, 1963. Vintage men's interest magazine with stories and photographs all aimed at the playboy lifestyle. Softcover Magazine, 8" x 11", 46 pages, B&W. -MATURE READERS- Cover price $0.50.

Volume 1, Issue 2 - February, 1963. Vintage men's interest magazine with stories and photographs all aimed at the playboy lifestyle. Softcover Magazine, 8" x 11", 46 pages, B&W. -MATURE READERS- Cover price $0.50.

Volume 1, Issue 3 - March, 1963. Vintage men's interest magazine with stories and photographs all aimed at the playboy lifestyle. Softcover Magazine, 8" x 11", 46 pages, B&W. -MATURE READERS- Cover price $0.50.

Volume 1, Issue 4 - January, 1964. Vintage men's interest magazine with stories and photographs all aimed at the playboy lifestyle. Softcover Magazine, 8" x 11", 46 pages, B&W. -MATURE READERS- Cover price $0.50.

Vol. 1, No. 1. 1960. June Wilkinson cover. Men's interest magazine with articles, fiction, humor, and nude pictorials. This issue features a 6-page June Wilkinson spread. 8.5" x 11". 66 pages. Black and white. MATURE. Cover price $0.50.

Vol. 1, No. 3. 1961. Men's interest magazine with articles, fiction, humor, and nude pictorials. This issue features a 3-page Diane Weber spread. 8.5" x 11". 66 pages. Black and white. MATURE. Cover price $0.50.

1st printing. By Jordan Raphael and Tom Spurgeon. This book, based on interviews with Stan lee and dozens of his colleagues and contemporaries, as well as extensive archival research, is at once a professional history, an appreciation, and a critical exploration of Stan Lee and his many accomplishments. Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 304 pages, Text (with B&W Photos). Cover price $24.95.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Collects Justice League America (1987-1996) #61-68 and Justice League Spectacular (1992) #1.

Written by Dan Jurgens. Art by Dan Jurgens, Rick Burchett, Jackson Guice and Jose Marzan, Jr. Cover by Dan Jurgens and Ron Randall.

In these 1990s tales, Superman convinces the team to aid his former foe, Maxima, in freeing her homeworld from a tyrant. Then, the JLA must rescue the Elongated Man and Sue Dibny from the Royal Flush Gang.

Softcover, 240 pages, full color.

Cover price $17.99.

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1st printing. By Larry Tye. Legions of fans from Boston to Buenos Aires can recite the story of the child born Kal-El, scion of the doomed planet Krypton, who was rocketed to Earth as an infant, raised by humble Kansas farmers, and rechristened Clark Kent. Known to law-abiders and evildoers alike as Superman, he was destined to become the invincible champion of all that is good and just. Tye takes us back to Superman's birth at the hands of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, his young, nerdy creators. He introduces readers to the cast of characters who spun and sketched the Last Son of Krypton's adventures and played him on the little screen and the big one. Superman's tale is not just the tale of an American hero but a lens through which to see our best selves. Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 448 pages, Text (with 16 pages of B&W and full color photos). Cover price $27.00.

1st printing. By Ian Gordon. After debuting in 1938, Superman soon became an American icon. But why has he maintained his iconic status for nearly 80 years? Superman: Persistence of an American Icon examines the many iterations of the character in comic books, comic strips, radio series, movie serials, feature films, television shows, animation, toys, and collectibles over the past eight decades. Demonstrating how Superman's iconic popularity cannot be attributed to any single creator or text, comics expert Ian Gordon embarks on a deeper consideration of cultural mythmaking as a collective and dynamic process. He also outlines the often contentious relationships between the various parties who have contributed to the Superman mythos. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 200 pages, Text (with B&W Illustrations). Cover price $27.95.

1st printing. Collects Superpatriot: America's Fighting Force (2002) #1-4. Written by ROBERT KIRKMAN. Art by CORY WALKER. Before they created INVINCIBLE together, ROBERT KIRKMAN and CORY WALKER collaborated on this epic miniseries featuring ERIK LARSEN's SUPERPATRIOT. Watch the aging superhero deal with some of his deadliest foes yet in this action-packed miniseries collected here for the first time. Softcover, 136 pages, full color. Cover price $14.99.