Best Selling Books by Darwyn Cooke

Darwyn Cooke''s first two Parker books, The Hunter and The Outfit, are collected in a tremendous, special, oversized hardcover edition -- with an additional 65-pages of content -- encased in a beautiful slipcase! Richard Stark''s Parker: The Hunter graphic novel debuted in July 2008 to instantaneous popular and critical acclaim. It made the New York Times bestseller list and won coveted Eisner and Harvey awards. The second graphic novel, The Outfit, was released in 2010 and was met with similar response, and won the 2011 Eisner for Best Writer/Artist. The Hunter and The Outfit tell the story of Parker, Richard Stark''s classic anti-hero, as he returns to New York to settle the score with his wife and partner in crime after they betray him in a heist gone terribly wrong. After evening the field and reclaiming his prize, the Outfit decide to do some score settling of their own... and learn much too late that when you push a man like Parker, it had better be all the way to the grave. Also contains the short stories The Man With the Getaway Face and The Seventh.

A high-octane trip across America, The Score finds Parker assembling the best caper men he can find to knock over his most audacious target yet: an entire town. They scheme, they prepare, and they execute with military precision, unaware that the whole thing is about to blow up in their faces. Long considered a high water mark in the Parker series, this new graphic adaptation brings the original to violent, double-crossing life. Darwyn Cooke, Eisner-Award winning creator of DC: The New Frontier, continues adapting Richard Stark''s genre-defining Parker novels with his signature pulp flair in this third installment. A hard-nosed thief, Parker is Richard Stark''s most famous creation, and Stark, in turn, is the most famous pen name of Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Donald E. Westlake.

In 1940, legendary creator WIll Eisner (A Contract With God) began an amazing new newspaper comic strip, The Spirit, which changed the face of comics forever! Criminologist Denny Colt lets the world believe he is dead in order to continue his war against crime as masked adventurer The Spirit. Now he faces an astonishing cast of criminals and femmes fatales armed only with his wits, and with the help of savvy teenager Ebony White, resourceful girlfriend Ellen Dolan and her father, the hard-asnails Police Commissioner!

This shocking final issue reveals the Minutemen''s darkest secrets!

Laurie Juspeczyk would one day play a pivotal role in the fate of the world in the pages of WATCHMEN, but before then, she was a young girl trying to follow in her mother''s footsteps as one of the world''s greatest crime-fighters„whether she wanted to or not.

Darwyn Cooke brings readers the tale of the Minutemen. Formed in 1939 by Captain Metropolis and Sally Jupiter, the team brought together some of the most well-known crimefighters of the era. But public glitz and glamour only hide the grim and gritty reality behind the masks.

This issue of ROCKETEER ADVENTURES continues to soar with a trio of stories crafted by masterful comics creators. Mark Waid and Chris Weston provide a pulse-pounding story of revenge set to a colorful backdrop of the opening of the Golden Gate Bridge, Lowell Francis and Gene Ha put Cliff through his paces in an-all action extravaganza that has him fighting tooth and nail for his very survival-plus a special guest star! Finally, Darwyn Cooke delivers the goods (as always!) with a tale that we won''t say one word about-it''s too good to even hint at and ruin the surprise! Plus, a pair of pin-ups, BOTH by Geof Darrow-his incredible piece was just too massive to be held to the confines of a single page, so he''s supplying a gorgeous TWO-PAGE pin-up!

The Rocketeer Adventures continued where Dave StevensÍ original masterpiece left off, creating for the first time new stories involving the ace stunt pilot Cliff Secord. This oversized deluxe edition collects all 24 stories by some of the most talented creators in comics.

Post-war America faces a monstrous threat older than Vandal Savage! Will this challenge bring America and its heroes back together or tear them apart? Featuring Green Lantern, The Flash, Martian Manhunter, Aquaman, Wonder Woman, and more!

In the aftermath of World War II, a national threat arises and the Minutemen must prepare for the most important mission of their lives! Meanwhile, as Nite Owl and Mothman continue the search for the child murderer, they soon realize that some secrets are better left buried.

It''s the birth of a whole new breed of super-hero as the careers of the Flash, the Challengers of the Unknown, Black Canary, Martian Manhunter, and the future Green Lantern begin their dazzling ascent. Meanwhile, Batman comes face to face with a mysterious new enemy who will tie them together!

Change sweeps the team as the Comedian is ousted„only to land a new job with Uncle Sam. Plus, Nite Owl finds himself doing the kind of work he never thought he would, and Silhouette gets into a fight that may cost her her life.

Darwyn Cooke''s masterful and multi award-winning series of PARKER graphic novels continues with Slayground! Parker, whose getaway car crashes after a heist, manages to elude capture with his loot by breaking into an amusement park that is closed for the winter. But his presence does not go unnoticed a pair of cops observed the job and its aftermath. But rather than pursue their suspectu0097 they decide to go into business for themselves, with the help of some "business associates." From then on it''s a game of cat and mouse, one played out through closed rides of the abandoned carnivalu0097 a game that slowly starts to favor the mouse.

The climactic finale to the harrowing tale of Superman''s first exposure to Kryptonite is here! Comics superstars Darwyn Cooke and Tim Sale bring the fireworks for an ending you won''t ever forget!

The Minutemen go on their first big mission as a team, but dark secrets already eat at their foundation. How will one member''s past devastate the team''s present?

"DATE KNIGHT" Batman gets shanghaied into a play0date with Catwoman! Plus, Supergirl stars ub "YOUNG LOVE."

Superman vs. a volcano! While the Man of Steel fights Mother Nature to save villagers from fiery doom, he''s missing out on a date with Lois Lane. Who will swoop in to sweep LL off her feet? Don''t miss the next chapter in this story of Superman''s early years from superstar talents Darwyn Cooke and Tim Sale!

Laurie Juspeczyk has made the break from her suffocating mother, the original Silk Spectre, and has taken off for San Francisco„with her first love in tow. She may think she''s ready to be a hero, but does she have the first clue what she''s in for? Or was her mother right all along?

An immense, unstoppable force lands on America''s doorstep, ravaging everything in its path! The DC Universe''s greatest heroes are called into action--but even their combined efforts may be no match for this deadly new foe. Enter: the new champions of the Silver Age!