Best Selling Books by Fred Van Lente

“A delightful, educational spin on history—and plenty of jokes,” said School Library Journal. “Sheer joy,” praised Booklist in a starred review. Finalist for the 2019 Excellence in Graphic Literature Award in Middle Grade Nonfiction U.S. history comes to life like never before in this full-color graphic novel! We all know that Abraham Lincoln gave the historic Gettysburg Address and ended the Civil War. But did you also know that he never went to college, was a licensed bartender, and kept important documents in his famous top hat? Wimpy Kid meets the Who Was... series in these hilarious new graphic novels—where the history is real and the jokes are fake—from New York Times bestselling comic book author Fred Van Lente and award-winning cartoonist Ryan Dunlavey. Historically accurate and highly entertaining, Action Presidents’ bold and hilarious comic-style illustration is perfect for curious minds, filled with timelines, maps, charts, and more, readers will keep learning until the last page.

The all-new Geomancer must battle the ?Wrath of the Eternal Warrior.? Throughout all of human history, the sacred lineage of the Geomancers has protected Earth from all who would seek to do it harm. But, now, a new Geomancer has been chosen ? and she?s stuck keeping Archer & Armstrong out of harm?s way! But why has Kay McHenry been selected to wield this exceptional power? And just what is her connection to the Eternal Warrior?s blood vendetta? Only Gilad knows for sure?but he won?t be answering until he?s left Archer & Armstrong bloodied, broken and brutalized by his own fist and steel. Plus: more of the Eternal Warrior?s exploits throughout history revealed!

At the dawn of the 41st century, the future of Earth will be decided in the stars? New York Times best-selling writers Matt Kindt (Mind MGMT), Robert Venditti (X-O Manowar), Jeff Lemire (Descender), and Fred Van Lente (Ivar, Timewalker) and powerhouse artists Clayton Crain (Rai), CAFU (Action Comics), Clayton Henry (Harbinger Wars), and Doug Braithwaite (Armor Hunters) join a cast of comics'' finest for Valiant''s most ambitious crossover event yet ? now in deluxe oversized hardcover format! One hundred years from today, Father ? the benevolent artificial intelligence that governs the island nation of Japan ? will gain sentience. To defend its borders, Father will take drastic action by launching Japan into space?where its people will thrive in isolation, away from the overpopulated and resource-deprived planet below. Over the centuries, as New Japan orbits our increasingly unstable world, it will become a model society ? one built on peace, prosperity? and Father?s control. A thousand years from today, Father will create the first Rai, founding a lineage of technologically enhanced heroes engineered to defend New Japan and sworn to protect it from all enemies. For hundreds of years into the future, the Rai will single-handedly enforce New Japan?s justice well?and serve Father without question. Now, at the dawn of 4001 A.D., the latest Rai is about to inherit the dark truth behind the origin of his kind?and discover the sinister secret at the heart of Father?s existence. For New Japan to live, Earth must die?and as Rai challenges his former master for the first time in more than a millennium, the lone guardian of New Japan will be cast out of his own Father?s kingdom? Exiled from the only realm he?s ever known, Rai now walks the ravaged world of 4001 A.D. in search of forgotten heroes like himself? on a mission to collect the last surviving legends of a broken planet?and to forge a rebellion with the power to bring the most advanced civilization in history crashing back down to Earth. Collecting 4001 A.D. #1?4, RAI #13?16, 4001 A.D.: X-O MANOWAR #1, 4001 A.D.: BLOODSHOT #1, 4001 A.D.: SHADOWMAN #1, and 4001 A.D.: WAR MOTHER #1.

Archer & Armstrong are going to war with Bloodshot and H.A.R.D Corps! (GULP!) That’s right, Valiant’s globetrotting adventure duo have been targeted for elimination by Project Rising Spirit’s most elite kill crew. Their mission? Assassinate the the newly appointed leader of a homegrown fundamentalist terror sect named…Obadiah Archer?! And if they could take out his mentally ill, alcoholic bodyguard who just happens to think he’s a 10,000-year-old immortal, that’d be swell, too! It’s an improbable mission with impossible odds. Do Bloodshot and the steely killers of the H.A.R.D. Corps stand a chance against two conspiracy-smashing heroes that never go down without a fight? Find out right here with the complete collection of the mayhem-soaked “Mission: Improbable” crossover, collecting ARCHER & ARMSTRONG: ARCHER #0, ARCHER & ARMSTRONG #18-19 and BLOODSHOT AND H.A.R.D. CORPS #20-21 by acclaimed writers Fred Van Lente, Christos Gage and Joshua Dysart, and all-star artists Pere Pérez and Tom Raney!

The hit series returns, cuz you can’t kill a never-ending army of zombies…you can only hope to beat the $%&# out of them! After tragically losing their first Chosen One against the zombie plague, Vampirella, Miss Fury, and what remains of the Project Superpowers look for a new savior -- but Ash Williams is an even more reluctant Deadite hunter than usual! This time, the Army of Darkness has ray guns, super powers and a brilliant new general: Evil Sonja, who takes her role of Queen of Hel quite seriously!

Caught in the jaws of the Faraway! General Redacted has laid claim to the greatest secret in a time-lost dimension that?s practically built on ?em. Must be a doozy, huh? Well, it?s big enough that Redacted and his army of alien greys are laying waste to anyone and anything that approaches their occupied lands of the Faraway. Now, it?s down to Archer & Armstrong to run the greatest infiltration/liberation/inebriation mission history has ever known, which would be a cakewalk if its wasn?t for all the UFOs, hostile natives and, of course, the dinosaurs. Yup, could definitely do without those dinosaurs.

Archer and Armstrong! The Eternal Warrior! Ivar, Timewalker! (And a very brief appearance by Faith!) It?s winter at King Arthur?s court in Camelot! The monstrous Green Knight has appeared before the Round Table with no armor, a gigantic axe, and a challenge. He has come to insist that the weaker knights participate in a friendly ?winter?s game? where anyone can strike him once with his axe, but on one condition: That the Green Knight can return the exact blow in one year?s time. King Arthur has agreed to face the mysterious knight himself, but the Round Table?s youthful and most gallant champion, Sir Gilad, takes up the challenge to protect his king. Much to the court?s surprise, the Green Knight doesn?t flinch as his head is struck clean off?only to pick it up himself and warn Gilad that he is fated to receive the same blow before the year is out. Now, Gilad ? the Eternal Warrior ? must solve the mystery of who the Green Knight is before his hour at the axe comes to pass! But first, he?ll need to find some help?in the form of his own immortal brothers ? Armstrong and Ivar ? who shall be united once more! New York Times best-selling writer Fred Van Lente returns to Archer & Armstrong as Eisner Award-winning artist Cary Nord (X-O Manowar) joins in for an oversized, 48-page one shot epic!

Mary-Maria, Archer’s arch-nemesis/love interest/adopted sister, is back and dead-set on taking over the Sect by any means necessary. What better way to seize control of the most secret of secret societies than by unlocking their most secretive of secrets inside the secretest place on Earth? Now, as Mary-Maria sneaks her way inside Area 51 to claim a long-hidden prize, Archer & Armstrong are about to discover the forbidden history that binds America’s blackest black-ops base to the time-lost lands of the Faraway – and wind up fighting their way through each of its tightly guarded mysteries, one punch at a time. Collecting ARCHER & ARMSTRONG #0 and ARCHER & ARMSTRONG #10-13 by New York Times best-selling writer Fred Van Lente (Amazing Spider-Man) and artists Clayton Henry (Incredible Hercules) and Pere Perez (Harbinger Wars), follow Valiant’s conspiracy-busting adventurers from the pages of their saga-smashing zero issue and into their most dangerous mission yet, right here in the next epic volume of the series that IGN calls “the most fun you’ll have in a ‘superhero’ comic”.

In this final issue: The group is betrayed, leading to a massive three-way battle that could spell doom for every one of our heroes! Will any survive? Only one thing is sure — it all ends here! Written by FRED VAN LENTE and featuring incredible art by EMAN CASALLOS and covers by STEVE ELLIS, BIAGIO D’ALESSANDRO, and CASALLOS, Pathfinder: Wake the Dead #5 also includes playable character stats officially sanctioned by the Pathfinder Society!

So…once upon a time, a suburban housewife spent her nights as a mobster-murdering assassin, named JENNIFER BLOOD. Then she died…or did she? Because in the cozy cul-de-sacs of Bountiful, Utah, a noticeable number of normal people have gone missing. And by “normal,” I mean “mobsters under witness protection.” And by “missing,” I mean killed by someone that looks, sounds, and murders a lot like JENNIFER BLOOD… By FRED VAN LENTE (Wolverine) and VINCENZO FEDERICI (Red Sonja)!

Tuck and Celine search the post-energy wasteland for their missing parent--but when they discover they aren''t alone in civilization''s ruins, they''ll need new HowToons projects to protect themselves!

The awe-inspiring, adventure-loving, science-doing series co-created by EAST OF WEST''s NICK DRAGOTTA returns with an all-new story from superstar creators FRED VAN LENTE, TOM FOWLER, and JORDIE BELLAIRE! Tuck and Celine''s parents put their family in suspended animation to ride out the ecological apocalypse-but when the kids wake up to find Mom & Dad are gone, they have to make their way across a brave and terrifying new world to find the ''rents...using only their Howtoons projects to survive!

Living it up at the Hotel California! His whole life, Obadiah Archer has been lied to about his true heritage – but when he and his pal Armstrong arrive in L.A. to meet his real parents, they find them in the clutches of the Church of Retrology! What insidious plans does The Lizard King, the head of the favored religion of the Left Coast’s rich and famous, have for the Valiant Universe’s premier conspiracy busters? And what lurks in the Hollywood Hotel? (Hint: You can check in anytime you like, but you can never leave!) Collecting ARCHER & ARMSTRONG #20-23, start reading here to discover the truth behind dead celebrities and the sacred mysteries at the heart of rock ‘n’ roll as New York Times best-selling writer Fred Van Lente and red-hot artist Pere Pérez unleash an all-new history mystery on Valiant’s foremost conspiracy smashers!

Where the history is real and the jokes are fake! The second Action Presidents book is just as fun—and funny—as the first. Legendary lumberjack and paramount president Abraham Lincoln practically jumps off the page. Wimpy Kid meets the Who Was… series in these hilarious new graphic novels from New York Times bestselling comic book author Fred Van Lente and award-winning cartoonist Ryan Dunlavey. Did you know that Lincoln never went to college, and that he kept important documents in his famous top hat? Even the most reluctant reader won’t be able to put this graphic novel down, and they’ll learn about an American icon along the way. U.S. history comes to life like never before! Historically accurate and highly entertaining, Action Presidents is perfect for curious minds. With timelines, maps, charts, and more, readers will keep learning until the last page. The critics agree that the Action Presidents should not be missed. "A delightful, educational spin on history—and plenty of jokes," said School Library Journal of the first book in the series, George Washington. "Sheer joy," praised Booklist in a starred review.

In this issue: A startling revelation threatens the fragile harmony of our increasingly fractious group, as the true purpose of their quest comes painfully into focus! Written by FRED VAN LENTE, illustrated by EMAN CASALLOS, and featuring stellar cover art by EMAN CASALLOS, STEVE ELLIS and BIAGIO D’ALESSANDRO, Pathfinder: Wake the Dead #4 also includes playable character stats officially sanctioned by the Pathfinder Society!

Ambushed by the villainess Jolt, his armor ruined, Tony Stark finds himself trapped in an isolated village run by folks who have chosen to live a peaceful, agrarian 19th century existence...without any technology. With Jolt hot on his trail, what''s a tech-dependent hero to do? That''s right: hole up in the blacksmith shed and hammer out an all-new suit of STEAM-POWERED ARMOR! Spotlight is a division of the ABDO Group and features library editions of popular fiction titles. Spotlight editions are printed on high-quality paper and with reinforced library bindings specifically printed for the library market. Grades preK-6.

IN ORDER TO SURVIVE, THE NINJETTES MUST DEFEAT EACH OTHER! “Final Girls” continues! Which young lady will win (and by “win,” we mean “not be killed by the other young ladies”)? Find out in this rip-roaring, hyper-violent, senses-shattering penultimate issue!

“A delightful, educational spin on history—and plenty of jokes,” said School Library Journal. “Sheer joy,” praised Booklist in a starred review. Finalist for the 2019 Excellence in Graphic Literature Award in Middle Grade Nonfiction U.S. history comes to life like never before in this full-color graphic novel! We all know that George Washington was our first President and a hero of the American Revolution. But did you also know that he didn’t want to be president, never thought he would fight in a war, and had teeth so bad that he hated to smile? Wimpy Kid meets the Who Was... series in these hilarious new graphic novels—where the history is real and the jokes are fake—from New York Times bestselling comic book author Fred Van Lente and award-winning cartoonist Ryan Dunlavey. Historically accurate and highly entertaining, Action Presidents’ bold and hilarious comic-style illustration is perfect for curious minds, filled with timelines, maps, charts, and more, readers will keep learning until the last page.

"Originally published in single magazine form as Big trouble in Little China no. 13-16"--Indicia.

They?ve infiltrated, assassinated, and overthrown? Now this reformed covert strike team of teenage walking warheads have set their sights on a dangerous new mission: high school! ? In the secretive tech oasis of Rook, Michigan, who can a teenager trust? Not the police? Not the teachers? And definitely not the parents. So when high schooler Keisha Sherman?s boyfriend turns up dead in an accident gone awry, she makes a desperate plea?and Generation Zero have heeded her call! But, with precision-honed military training and a taste for subverting authority, can this squad of high-powered, teenage superhumans infiltrate Rook undetected? Or is their very presence about to draw another of the town?s billion-dollar secrets into the light of day? THE FUTURE OF VALIANT continues as New York Times best-selling writer Fred Van Lente (4001 A.D.: WAR MOTHER) and acclaimed artist Francis Portela (FAITH) launch the most volatile superteam in comics into their first, mind-blowing monthly series!

From the award-winning team that brought you ARCHER & ARMSTRONG, New York Times best-selling creators Fred Van Lente and Clayton Henry continue a centuries-spanning race against the clock! At this very moment in Geneva, Switzerland, history is being made. A thousand meters underground inside the Large Hadron Collider, researcher Neela Sethi is about to discover time travel ? and jeopardize her life in the process. But she doesn?t know that yet. Ten minutes from now, every deadbeat chrononaut, wannabe conqueror, and misguided protector of the time stream will be banging down her door. Good thing that the legendary Ivar, Timewalker, got there first?right? Now it?s down to history?s most jaded, most tempestuous time traveler to stop the worst? of everything that is, was, and will be?before time runs out!

From the New York Times bestselling writer of the Marvel Zombies series comes a gut-splitting (then eating) comedy! A small outbreak can turn into a worldwide apocalypse... but only through a long string of screw-ups. Once actual zombies begin popping up in our world, a lone intelligence analyst realizes real-life events are beginning to mimic the events of a long-lost, Grade-Z, drive-in horror flick. As he races to save humanity with this knowledge, he quickly learns the only thing more dangerous than ravenous walking corpses is the ineptitude of the living!

Every enemy. Against each other. For centuries, the cloak-and-dagger coalition of conspiracies collectively known as The Sect has worked together to bring silent oppression and undercover tyranny to a world that thought it was free. But, now after centuries of profit sharing and uneasy alliances, the factions of The Sect are about to erupt into open conflict?and the only men that can end the insanity are Archer & Armstrong! Too bad they?re fighting for different sides! Why? How? And will either survive? The knockdown, drag-out A&A event of the year starts now ? and no conspirator is safe! Collecting ARCHER & ARMSTRONG #14-17 by New York Times best-selling writer Fred Van Lente (Incredible Hercules) and acclaimed artists Khari Evans (Harbinger) and ChrisCross (Superman/Batman), jump into the series that IGN calls ?a must read? with an all-new adventure pitching Archer & Armstrong into their biggest battle yet!

The hit series returns, cuz you can’t kill a never-ending army of zombies... you can only hope to beat the $%&# out of them! Dynamite’s cross-company zombie crossover returns with even more undead mayhem! Evil Sonja and the Drakulonian sisters Vampirella and Pantha may have turned back the plague on Earth, but what happens when zombies from MARS start to invade?! Hear that cry in the jungle — that’s right, Tarzan has joined the insanity, and the Ape-Man has his hands full with ZOMBIE DINOSAURS in a lost valley! How does this incursion connect to Barsoom?!

No time for GREEN HORNET & KATO and THE SPIRIT to tussle…there’s an army of gangster thugs loyal to KID KRAKEN (who?) determined to stop our heroes from escaping Central City’s World Expo! Can our bickering be-hatted heroes combine forces and survive the most violent of nights?

Archer & Armstrong make their last stand against The Sect high in the Himalayas! Every clan of The Sect has gathered together for the first time in millennia to harness the unthinkable, sanity-shattering destruction of the mythical Book. But one piece is still missing ? and Obadiah Archer has it! If he turns it over, The Sect will give him back his family. If he refuses, the man called Armstrong dies!

Vampirella! Evil Sonja! Pantha! Tarzan! Against soooooooooooooooooooo many zombies! To stop the invasion, they''re going to have to travel to Barsoom to find Issus, the Martian Goddess of Death...but Zombie John Carter and Zombie Dejah Thoris are waiting to stop them!

Are the Psi-Lords real? Or are they just a myth? Get a first glimpse at the world beyond our own! After suffering a dramatic loss, the cosmic Quartet continues on with their mission to honor the memory of a fallen ally. The ultimate enemy revealed!

ALL NEW ARC! ALL-NEW JUMPING-ON POINT! Fight your way through the ?HEROSCAPE?! Generation Zero managed to survive their first mission, and now duty has called on?them to venture deep inside a perilous dimension only known as the Heroscape to see the world through a new set of eyes! They?ll discover their friends? biggest secrets, their enemies? darkest fears, and their town?s sinister connection to this imagination-fueled reality. But just because the Heroscape is imaginary, doesn?t mean it can?t kill you? And, from anime-inflected zombie hordes to psychedelic sci-fi warriors, all of Rook, Michigan?s most deeply buried fantasies are about to come roaring out of your daydreams! Dream big because New York Times best-selling writer Fred Van Lente (IVAR, TIMEWALKER) and acclaimed artists Javier Pulido (Daredevil) and Diego Bernard (X-O MANOWAR) are gearing up for a brand-new jumping-on point that?s going to send Valiant?s temperamental teenage time-bombs blasting out of the suburbs and into their most grisly adventure yet!

Vampirella arrives on Mars but it may be too late for her and Dejah Thoris to save Barsoom...Things go from bad to worse as Earth Project: Zombiepowers spreads the killer virus throughout the globe...and Red Sonja and her mysterious companion may have the key to solving the plague, but first they’ve got to past an army of zombie gorillas. Did we say zombie gorillas? Yes, we said zombie gorillas.

Z Nation: Sea of Death – Part 5! The Empress of the Seas is capsized by a crazed zombie whale, leaving our heroes in the middle of their own zombie-filled Poseidon Adventure. And even if they can free themselves from the upside down ship and stay out of the clutches of the evil Captain and his Crew, they''ll still have to find a way to salvage the Soylent Z and bring it back to the starving survivors at Fort Benning.

It?s a hell of a day in the neighborhood.? The darkness bubbling beneath the miraculous town of Rook, Michigan is beginning to surface. As Generation Zero closes in on the vicious force abducting and killing teenagers, they quickly discover that this self-proclaimed utopia has been hiding a deep and disturbing secret that could destroy them all! But as the truth takes shape, will this reformed strike squad bring their first case to a close peacefully?or with a bang large enough to register on the Rictor scale? The heat is on as New York Times best-selling writer Fred Van Lente (ARCHER & ARMSTRONG) and acclaimed artist Francis Portela (FAITH) light a fire under Valiant?s teenage superteam!

?BREAKING HISTORY? ? PART 3! Assault on Obliv-1! The Anni-Padda brothers prepare a suicide mission at the end of time with Amelia Earhart, the Lurkers, and the angriest Bloodshot nanite of all time. Meanwhile, Neela Sethi is forced to make a dark decision alongside her future self. It?s the last stand of humanity against the Big Crunch as the penultimate issue of BREAKING HISTORY changes our future forever! New York Times best selling writer Fred Van Lente (ARCHER & ARMSTRONG) and Francis Portela (Green Lantern Corps) storm an enemy beachhead at the end of time itself!

THE MOST-WANTED WOMAN IN THE WORLD…FOR SALE? A mysterious woman staggers into a clinic for criminals and collapses from her injuries! The crooked head surgeon realizes that he has JENNIFER BLOOD sedated and under his control and plans to sell her to the highest bidder! But another of his patients is a legendary hitman on his last legs with plans of his own for Blood…and the trauma ward starts to overflow when they team up! Collects Jennifer Blood Volume 2 #6-10, plus a complete cover gallery.

The streets of Shanghai have erupted into utter chaos as Black Cross finally evades the henchmen of Big-Eared Du and heads to the International Settlement to establish just how much trouble the Shanghai Rite is in, and he learns that the corruption goes deeper than he ever could have imagined...