Most Popular Books by Bob Layton

""Revival: Lifelines Part 1"" Obadiah Archer is a boy with a special talent and some very unusual parents. Once he escapes their clutches, he embarks on an international adventure that will take him from the sacred halls of a Tibetan monstrary to the filthy underpasses of Los Angeles. And when a mysterious stranger hires him to assassinate the inebriated immortal known as Armstrong, the world''s most mismatched crimfighting duo is born!

That Dirty Yellow Mustard: Part 2 of 4. An eight issue series consisting of two four part stories. ""Internal Conflicts"" - The ""inside story"" of the Bad Eggs'' prehistoric world is revealed! Join the perilous adventures of Colin the Tapeworm as he gets all the inside poop on our cast of demented dinosaurs. It''s a ""worm''s eye-view"" of the Cretaceous Era as Colin passes from one host to another, piecing together a chain of ridiculous events that spell trouble for the rebellious raptors Ript and Claude, and tons of fun for you! So take a peek into a gastro-intestinal world you never knew existed, and hope that you never have the opportunity again! Hey, it doesn''t say ""Number 2"" on the cover for nothing. Featuring a Really Neat Cover that has nothing to do with the story, but Bob made Don draw it anyway!

With the main H.A.R.D. Corps team recovering from injuries, the ""B"" Team attempts to take out Harada. When the three-member strike team ends up out of their league against a team of Eggbreakers, the ""A"" Team comes to the rescue. And, a rookie makes the big leagues.

""Power Play"" The showdown with the machine-controlling villain Ax continues, but with his control of the X-O Manowar armor scrambled can Aric still prevail? Aric will show Ax what he does to bandits and Ken what he does to traitors!

While Carmen struggles to make Hwen corporeal again, Master Darque lures the couple into his latest nefarious plan involving a strong man, a demolitions expert -- and Shadowman!?

At a ski resort in Aspen, Colorado, Carmen and Hwen are stalked by a deadly, protean servant of Master Darque looking for a reservoir of necromantic power to feed on.

Bart must recover from his heart-wrenching betrayal quickly, or the future may just go up in smoke! More consequences of the Simms family''s activities in the forties! And something BIG may be coming to Earth, and it ain''t Orson Welles!

""Crossroads"" Aric''s will to live is tested to its absolute limit as he leads his army of time-tossed barbarians to war against a trans-temporal empire!

To distract her from their marital frustrations, Carmen takes on a consulting job investigating a possessed man. In the mean time, Dr. Mirage''s mother decides now is the perfect time to visit her son. How will Dr. Mirage be able to break the news to his mother that he''s become a phantom?!

It''s H.A.R.D. Corps versus the Armorines, Round 1! When the Armorines lure the team to an abandoned airfield in the swamps outside Miami, the two powerhouses face off.

Tensions run high when the team starts breaking in Maniac''s new replacement. Flatline''s first day back to life in the H.A.R.D. Corps may just be his last when things go disastrously wrong during his first live fire exercise.

King''s Crossing"" Toyo Harada wants to make a deal with the new head of Orb Industries, but nobody told him to expect X-O Manowar! Featuring Peter Stanchek, the Harbinger renegades and the first appearance of Jack Boniface.

""Seed of Destruction - Part 2"" From fitful dreams, Aric wakes to discover the good skin is taking him into the far reaches of space! There Rexo and the last of Aric''s one-time captors lie in wait, desperate to claim the Manowar armor as their own!

With one of their own dead at the hands of one Harada''s Eggbreakers, things are getting desperate for the team when the Harbinger Foundation tracks the team to their base of operations. But it''ll take more than that to keep the H.A.R.D. Corps down as the team goes on an unauthorized excursion to get payback for Maniac!

Ript and Claude, the stars of this title are two ignorant, belly-scratching, lazy, disrespecting reptiles with no manners, no culture, no socially redeeming value whatsoever...so who better than them to instruct the granddaddy ancestor of us all -- the world''s first proto-human? Being mentors to the human race is no picnic, of course, and to our two heroes, this little mammal is one big pain in their sphincters.

The good Doc trashed on Sally Jesse Raphael?! It''s true! In the late 1980s, Bart Simms'' daughter has written a tell-all book about his exploits, and since she''s hated him from birth, it''s probably not going to be good for his reputation! As impostors emerge from the woodwork to claim his name as theirs, Tomorrow is faced with his final battle...the one for his legacy!

The secrecy of Omen Enterprises'' mission starts to take its toll on Gunslinger. Will that distraction prove fatal when the team is sent on a raid to find out what''s on board the secret and heavily armed Harbinger Foundation freighter Toyo Harada is running to countries in the former Eastern Bloc?

Bloodshot''s pursuit of Don Carboni leads to a confrontation with the H.A.R.D. Corps team. Mistaking the nanite-powered Bloodshot for a Harbinger, their mission is to study the ultimate killing machine in action...then capture him! But when Carboni''s ambush pits Bloodshot against impossible odds, the team is forced to intervene.

It''s the finale to ""The Seeds of Destruction"" saga! Aric and Maka will fight to the death-- on the moon! But without the aid of the X-O armor, what chance does Aric have against a killer with blood colder than space? One will fall and one will claim the prize: the seed of Shanhara!

Aric has been set adrift in time to confront again the awesome force of Mothergod! Or has he? The ultimate secrets of the legend of Aric of Dacia revaled in this explosive final issue!

X-O Manowar (1992-1996) #11 ""Alien Whispers: Seed of Destruction Part 1"" Aric dons the good skin for the first time since his return from the past, only to find it changed. The armor''s new form, together with sinister dreams of a golden seed and an alien arena, promise to reveal the true origin of the X-O armor!

""Darque Daze"" It''s Archer VS. Armstrong! Under the influence of a mystical spell, Armstrong embarks on a mission to kill the Eternal Warrior! Desperate to stop Gilad''s assassination, Archer must put his friendship with Armstrong aside and stop his partner by any means necessary. But just how do know you stop an un-killable immortal - and what happens when two of them come to blows?

Prehistory and present day collide as hyper-intelligent dinosaurs ransack Manhattan! With mankind suddenly at the bottom of the food chain, Aric will need to enlist some help to win this fight. But will the combined might of X-O Manowar and his new allies be enough to save New York from these cannibalistic sauroid underground dwellers?

Dr. Mirage and Carmen are pursued by a necromantic parasite created by Master Darque to an explosive confrontation inside an abandoned silver mine. Can Hwen defeat a being of pure necromantic energy -- and stop thinking of Carmen''s ex-husband -- before being eaten alive?

""Retribution: Prologue"" At last, the origin of X-O Manowar revealed! How did Aric of Dacia become a slave to the Spider-Aliens? At what terrible cost was the X-O Manowar armor made? And how did Aric come to find himself in the modern day?

""A Call to Arms"" The Geomancer warns of a grave threat to all of existence! Aric and the Harbinger renegades team up to fight temporal slavers and an army from beyond time and space!

""Takeover"" Aric wakes from centuries of subterranean slumber to return to his corporate kingdom and the era he now calls home. And back in the modern day, Ken schemes to take the X-O armor for himself, while aliens lurk, but soon both will earn that here and now, Aric rules!

Collects Hercules: Twilight of a God #1-4. THE PRINCE OF POWER IS BACK WITH ONE, FINAL ADVENTURE AS ONLY BOB LAYTON CAN TELL IT! Hercules has been the champion of the Andromeda galaxy for over 75 years! But when an attempt to save the capitol city of Port Anteris goes awry, the Lion of Olympus is left incapacitated and needing to be looked after by his Olympic offspring. However, with a sinister plot brewing against his son''s government and the threat of Galactus looming, Hercules-even in his brain-addled state- is the galaxy''s only hope! It''s the long awaited follow-up to Bob Layton''s classic Hercules run!

Unable to control the armor any longer, Aric finds himself lost, his world slipping away. Is this truly the final fate of the armored Visigoth, or is there something more sinister at play that is making him relive his early days as X-O Manowar in strange and vivid dreams?

Archer and his peculiar partner are drafted by Armstrong''s brother, the Eternal Warrior, to fight in war on the far side of time and space! But who and what they find there offers ominous clues about what the future may hold for Archer & Armstrong and the final fate of the Valiant Universe...

Doctor Tomorrow closes out the 70s in a POW camp! After five years of eating bugs, it''s time to hang up the super-threads and make some dough! The Doctor hits Wall Street during the biggest rush since 1929. Knowledge of th future can make Doc rich, but can it save his soul?

We continue Doc''s final battle as he comes face-to-face with the people he''s been dreading to meet ? his creators from the future! Plus, more of Bart''s grandson Jason as he comes one step closer to meeting his destiny.

Dr. Mirage is on the case at...the rodeo?! Called in to investigate a mysterious death, Dr. Mirage and his wife Carmen discover a terrifying evil from the far away streets of Calcutta!

While trying to sort out their shambled home, the Chaos Effect begins and makes Dr. Mirage corporeal again! Could the evil Master Darque be behind this strange phenomenon? Or is the cause something even more terrifying?

In the Golden Age of Hollywood, two studios vie for cinematic supremacy: Gotham Pictures, featuring the successful adventure serials starring Batman, and Arkham Studios, which is determined to shut the serial down at any cost...even murder!

Learn the secrets of Grandmother''s millennia long rule of Japan, the long lost Blood of Heroes, and long untold episode of Unity, in this tale of Shu Sugino...the rebel Rai!

Dr. Mirage saved the world from the Chaos Effect, but at the loss of his restored physical form. Having done it once before can Dr. Mirage now figure out how to make his necromantic energy form physical again?

The conclusion of Doctor Tomorrow''s battle against the Teutonic Knight, the Nazis'' greatest warrior. It''ll take more brains than brawn for the good Doctor to deal with this alien-armored Aryan!

""The Volcano''s coming, the Volcano''s coming!"", echo the words from Ript and Claude this issue, as Panaam collects his debt from our primordial heroes and forces them to spread the word to evacuate the jungle inhabitants to safety. But the rub, as they say, is that due to Ript and Claude''s past behavior, everybody thinks they''re trying to scam them. Jeez, and you thought Chicken Little had it bad.

Meet 2015''s silver screen sensation in waiting -Scott Lang, the astonishing Ant-Man! To save his daughter Cassie''s life, Scott is forced to return to a life of crime, stealing Hank Pym''s original costumed identity. But when his noble intentions win the Avengers'' approval, he takes over as the all-new Ant-Man, full-time! Electronics whiz Scott secures a job with Tony Stark, but the size-changing super hero must save Iron Man after a brutal battle with the Hulk. No shrinking violet, Scott holds his own in astonishing adventures with Spider-Man, the Thing and the Avengers...and when Ant-Man and Hawkeye join forces, somebody'' gonna get it! Collecting Avengers #195 (May 1980) Marvel Comics, Avengers #196 Avengers #181 (Mar 1979) Marvel Comics, Marvel Premiere #47-48, Iron Man (1968) #131-133 and #151, Avengers (1963) #223, Marvel Team-Up (1972) #103.