New Releases by Steve Englehart

Collects Captain America (1968) #180-200 And Marvel Treasury Special: Captain America's Bicentenntial Battles. Steve Rogers has renounced his role as Captain America! While the Falcon fights on, Rogers wrestles with his place in the world - and becomes Nomad, a man without a country! But in his new identity, can he overcome the power of Madame Hydra and the mystical Serpent Crown? And the Red Skull's return forces our hero to make a choice! Then, Cap co-creator Jack Kirby is back - pulling triple duty as writer, artist and editor! This is Kirby unleashed! In an intricate storyline that slowly built toward America's Bicentennial, Kirby's classic "Madbomb" saga featured an aristocratic conspiracy seeking to seize control of the country! Plus: Experience Kirby's BICENTENNIAL BATTLES, an eighty page masterpiece that encompasses American history from the Revolution through the Old West to both World Wars!

Collects Avengers (1963) #129-135, Giant-Size Avengers #2-4 and material from FOOM #12. Prepare yourself for one of the greatest sagas in Avengers history: the Celestial Madonna! Throughout his AVENGERS run, writer Steve Englehart slowly built the mysterious Mantis into one of the ''70s most intriguing characters. Here, her tale reaches its cosmic climax in a series of adventures spanning space and time! The action begins when Kang the Conqueror arrives on the scene - and before it''s over Hawkeye will return; an Avenger will die; the Legion of the Unliving shall rise; and Kang, Rama-Tut and Immortus will have time-twisted you in two! And that''s just for starters, as this volume presents the origin of the Vision and the android Avenger''s wedding to the Scarlet Witch!

Go back into the night with the first deluxe edition hardcover of the classic series that debuted the bestselling Valiant hero! Jack Boniface nearly died one night?attacked by something out of a nightmare. By fateful chance, he escaped. But since that terrifying experience something has changed. Now, when darkness falls, a feeling comes over him, the urge to cast out the evil that would defile the night. Demons in the dark, beware the vigilante known as... Shadowman. From Valiant legends Bob Hall (Squadron Supreme), Jim Shooter (Secret Wars), David Lapham (Stray Bullets), Steve Englehart (Detective Comics), and more comes the first omnibus collection of the series Comic Bulletin calls ""a real classic"". Collecting SHADOWMAN (1992) #0?24, THE SECOND LIFE OF DOCTOR MIRAGE #5, SECRET WEAPONS (1993) #1?2, and DARQUE PASSAGES (1994), along with 20+ pages of rarely seen art and extras!

In these moody tales from the 1970s, Batman faces his own lonely existence while struggling against one of his earliest foes, Dr. Hugo Strange. This run also includes the renowned "Joker Fish" story line, in which the Clown Prince of Crime comes up with his most off-the-wall scheme ever, along with the 2005 miniseries in which The Joker runs for office with the slogan "Vote for me or I'll kill you!" Collects Detective Comics #439 and #469-476, Batman #311, Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #109-111, Legends of the DC Universe #26-27, Batman: Dark Detective #1-6, and a story from Batman Chronicles #19.

Collects Marvel Adventures: Avengers (2006) #21, Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #86, Daredevil (1964) #99, Avengers (1963) #111, Black Widow & the Marvel Girls (2009) #1. Black Widow is one of the Marvel-Verse’s greatest heroes - and these are her most thrilling adventures! When the Crimson Dynamo invades Avengers Tower, a certain superspy is on his trail! Spider-Man must beware the Black Widow in the classic tale that introduced Natasha Romanoff’s most iconic costume! Then, the Widow is torn between her heroic partnership with Daredevil and a place in the ranks of the Avengers! Plus: Before there was a Black Widow, there was the Red Room - a brutal KGB training ground! Now a deadly mission casts Natasha’s mind back to her escape from the Red Room - and the unlikely ally who assisted her!

In the aftermath of Jack Kirby''s epic run on Mister Miracle, writers Steve Englehart and Steve Gerber cemented Mister Miracle''s lore in the DC Universe forever! Mister Miracle returns after a three-year absence, but so do the villains of Apokolips, and Scott Free attempts to escape something no one has been able to: death. Collects Mister Miracle #19-25, The Brave and The Bold #112, #128 and #138, and DC Comics Presents #12.

For the first time, these 1970s tales are collected in paperback as Swamp Thing encounters a scientist bent on destroying the minds of world leaders, an old-age home whose inhabitants use black magic to regain their youth, and an alien whose voyage across the cosmos has driven him insane. Collects Swamp Thing #14-24, The Brave and the Bold #122 and #176, DC Comics Presents #8, and Challengers of the Unknown #81-87. Includes never-before-collected issues, and the surviving script and art pages from the previously unpublished Swamp Thing #25!

Collects Amazing Adventures (1970) #11-17; Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #92; Incredible Hulk (1968) #150, #161, #172 And #180-182; Marvel Team-Up (1972) #4 And #23; Avengers (1963) #110-111; Captain America (1968) #172-175; Defenders (1972) #15-16; And Giant-Size Fantastic Four #4. Continuing the saga of Marvel’s original mutant team! Hank McCoy sets off on his own, taking a research job — but his scientific curiosity will curse him forever when an experiment gone wrong transforms him into a fanged, furry Beast! Meanwhile, the other X-Men find themselves pursued by a secret adversary that seeks to pick them off one by one. They must join forces with Captain America to save the nation and rescue their mutant comrades! Also featuring the first appearances of Wolverine and Madrox the Multiple Man, an X-Men/Avengers battle against Magneto and a host of rare covers!

ÒTHE MASTER PLAN OF DR. PHOSPHORUS!Ó Batman confronts Dr. Phosphorus at the new Gotham City offshore nuclear power plant.

Collects Amazing Adventures #11-17, Incredible Hulk #150 and 161, Amazing Spider-Man #92, Marvel Team-Up (1972) #4. Continuing the story of Marvel''s original mutant adventurers, the MARVEL MASTERWORKS brings you the rarest X-Men appearances collected together! When the merry mutants hit the skids, they don''t buckle under - they hit the road, and you''re riding shotgun. So sit back and get ready for a set of stories that rock the X-Men world to this day! Pushed undercover by mutant paranoia run amok, the Beast sets off on his own, taking a genetic research job with the Brand Corporation. But Hank McCoy''s scientific curiosity will come to curse him forever as an experiment gone horribly wrong turns him truly into a beast. Fanged, covered in head-to-toe fur, hunched over and driven to bouts of furious bloodlust, McCoy must struggle to retain his humanity as he struggles against the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, Quasimodo the Living Computer, Juggernaut, the mutant Mimic and the emerging menace of the Secret Empire that seeks to rend the X-Men asunder. Meanwhile, you''ll see Havok and Polaris head to the desert Southwest - but somehow excitement doesn''t stray far when the green-haired magnetic mutant encounters the green goliath himself, the Incredible Hulk! Iceman engages in aerial battle with someone who might not call him "friend," the Amazing Spider-Man - but all is forgiven when the combined X-Men team-up to aid the wall-crawler against the living vampire, Morbius!

Collects Avengers (1963) #28, 139; Avengers Academy #7 and material from Tales to Astonish (1959) #49, Marvel Double Feature: Avengers/Giant-Man #379-382. When the job’s too big for Ant-Man to handle, it’s time for Hank Pym to become Giant-Man! But being a larger-than-life-size super hero comes with equally large problems — like when Hank rejoins the Avengers to free the Wasp from the Collector’s clutches, but gets stuck as a 10-foot-tall Goliath! Or when his latest alter ego, Yellowjacket, must go large to stop archfoe the Whirlwind! Then, Hank and his fellow Goliath, the size-changing Bill Foster, have big plans — that’s Project B.I.G. plans — to solve world hunger using Pym Particles! And finally, to save his Avengers Academy students from an overgrown Absorbing Man, Giant-Man must come out of super hero retirement! You’ll love Hank “High-Pockets” Pym — he’s a hero to look up to!

Collects Avengers (1963) #115-128, Giant-Size (1974) #1, Defenders (1972) #8-11, Captain Marvel (1968) #33, Fantastic Four (1961) #150. The Avengers battle the Defenders in comics’ first great crossover battle royale! It’s hero against hero in the sensational summer hit of 1973: Cap vs. Namor! Thor vs. Hulk! It’s the original, and there’s never been another one like it. All this, plus the origin of Mantis; an all-hands-on-deck battle with the Zodiac; the Avengers vs. Thanos and the Cosmic Cube; a Giant-Size adventure alongside Golden Age heroes Miss America and the Whizzer; the wedding of Quicksilver and Crystal; the return of Ultron; and an increasingly tense love triangle between the Scarlet Witch, the Vision and Mantis! And as an added bonus feature, rare Avengers pinups, profiles and more from the pages of the ’70s fanzine FOOM!

The Green Lantern Corps, now only made up of Hal Jordan, John Stewart, Arisia, Katma Tui, Ch’p, Salakk and Kilowog, have made Earth their new home. Now the Green Lanterns must battle cosmic threats while dealing with the national politics of the United States and the Soviet Union! Plus, the alien members of the Corps are eager to explore their new home and learn all about strange new human customs! GREEN LANTERN CORPS: BEWARE THEIR POWER VOL. 1 collects for the first time ever GREEN LANTERN CORPS #207-215 and GREEN LANTERN CORPS ANNUAL #2-3, from the veteran Green Lantern creative team of Steve Englehart, Joe Staton and Mark Farmer!

“A TALE OF TWO SATELLITES!” A series of conflicts between Wonder Woman and her fellow team members comes to a head when the Amazon Princess decides to quit the Justice League of America!

“NO ONE ESCAPES THE MANHUNTERS!” Green Lantern is charged with the crime of the destruction of a planet and the powerful automatons known as the Manhunters plan to see that he is held accountable. Can the Justice League save their friend from the oldest law enforcement in the universe, and more importantly...should they?

“NO WORLD ESCAPES THE MANHUNTERS!” The Manhunters’ true origins are revealed. The revelation will change what we know about the origin of the Green Lantern Corps. forever!

The God of Thunder takes on The Strongest One There Is as two Marvel Universe heavyweights clash! A rivalry for the ages begins shortly after Hulk quits the Avengers, with a test of strength between former teammates! Things escalate when the jade giant recruits powerful allies of his own, paving the way for Thor vs. Hulk to be the main event of an Avengers/Defenders War! Hammer meets fist again and again, including a journey to Hel and back, and blockbuster bouts between the Odinson and the Red Hulk! It's god against monster, in the Mightiest Marvel Manner of all! COLLECTING: AVENGERS (1963) #3, SUBMARINER (1968) #35, DEFENDERS (1972) #10, INCREDIBLE HULK (1968) #255 AND #440, THOR (1966) #385 AND #489, HULK (2008) #5-6, WHAT IF? (1977) #45; MATERIAL FROM JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY (1952) #112, INCREDIBLE HULK ANNUAL 2001, HULK (2008) #26.

CollectsÿAvengers (1963) #124-125, #129-135; Captain Marvel (1968) #33; Giant-Size Avengers #2-4; Avengers: Celestial Quest #1-8. Follow the fateful saga of the Avenger named Mantis - a tale three decades in the telling! It all begins with the revelations of the Star-Stalker, and soon drags Earth''s Mightiest Heroes into a cosmic clash between Captain Marvel and Thanos! But when Kang comes to the present day in search of the Celestial Madonna, Mantis'' life is forever altered! In one of the greatest Avengers epics ever told, the besotted Swordsman will go to great lengths to save the woman he loves. Wedding bells will chime, and Mantis will embrace her destiny!

Batman witnesses a couple get shot in front of their child! This 100-page issue contains backup stories featuring the Atom, Hawkman, Manhunted, Doctor Fate and Kid Eternity.

Leap into the adventures of the dynamic Defenders, comics'' greatest non-team! Bonded in a mutual mission are the mightiest misfits in the Marvel U.: the Incredible Hulk, the Sub-Mariner and the Silver Surfer. But these warriors three don''t rest on bylaws and butlers; they - along with the Master of the Mystic Arts, Dr. Strange, and the defiant Valkyrie - come together only in moments of utmost crisis. Facing enemies from across the incomprehensible divide, the Defenders square off against Dormammu; the Nameless One; the Enchantress; and a dark menace from Dr. Strange''s past, the sorcerer Cyrus Black. It''s not just baddies they do battle with, though. In a prelude to the epic Avengers/Defenders War, Hulk, Namor and the Silver Surfer go head-to-head with the mighty Avengers in a fight that pits hero against hero like none other! Collecting SUB-MARINER #34-35, MARVEL FEATURE #1-3 and THE DEFENDERS #1-6.

It's Lost meets The Land That Time Forgot when an airplane and all its passengers are transported to a strange world inhabited by dinosaurs, primitives and aliens! But for one man, this journey into prehistory is a chance to seize his destiny...and become the hero he always wanted to be! In our world, Vietnam veteran Jim Scully is a wanted man, accused of his own brother's murder. But, in this wild new land, he becomes...Skull the Slayer! Collects Skull the Slayer #1-8, Marvel Two-In-One #35-36.

Collects Marvel Preview #4, 11, 14-15, 18 (Star-Lord stories); Marvel Super Special #10 (Star-Lord story); Marvel Spotlight (1979) #6-7; Marvel Premiere #61; Star-Lord (1996) #1-3. Star-Lord's sensational seventies sci-fi sagas are collected in one volume! After aliens killed Peter Quill's mother, he became an astronaut, hoping to find the killers and take revenge...until a fateful encounter with the Master of the Sun unlocked Quill's true destiny! Now, as the intergalactic policeman Star-Lord, Quill faces alien slavers, space pirates, world-destroying ships, ancient space arks, vengeful beast-men, winged cloud-riders, symbiotic planetoids and more! ÿ

In this new collection of 1980s Green Lantern adventures, John Stewart clashes with Guy Gardner to see who will be the Green Lantern of Earth. And while Stewart battles Harbinger during the Crisis on Infinite Earths, Gardner recruits enemies of theGreen Lantern Corps to stand against an evil that could destroy the entire universe—including The Shark, Hector Hammond, Sonar, Goldface and more! As the two factions fight each other—John Stewart and the Green Lantern Corps vs. Guy Gardner and thevillains—a fallen Lantern''s ring finds Hal Jordan, who reclaims his place in the Corps. Collects GREEN LANTERN #194-200.

A deluxe hardcover collecting Shadowman?s legendary first appearance in the original Valiant Universe ? featuring classic work by Steve Ditko, Steve Englehart, Bob Hall, David Lapham, Jim Shooter and more! Jack Boniface nearly died one night ? attacked by something out of a nightmare. But since that terrifying experience something has changed. Now, when darkness falls, a feeling comes over him, an urge to destroy the demons that would defile the New Orleans night. Wild, reckless, and hell-bent on eliminating evil in all its forms, Jack is now his city?s new protector ? the nocturnal avenger simply called Shadowman. This Valiant Masters volume collects SHADOWMAN (1992) #0-7 and material from DARQUE PASSAGES (1994) #1.

A deluxe hardcover collecting Shadowman’s legendary first appearance in the original Valiant Universe – featuring classic work by Steve Ditko, Steve Englehart, Bob Hall, David Lapham, Jim Shooter and more! Jack Boniface nearly died one night – attacked by something out of a nightmare. But since that terrifying experience something has changed. Now, when darkness falls, a feeling comes over him, an urge to destroy the demons that would defile the New Orleans night. Wild, reckless, and hell-bent on eliminating evil in all its forms, Jack is now his city’s new protector – the nocturnal avenger simply called Shadowman. This Valiant Masters volume collects SHADOWMAN (1992) #0-7 and material from DARQUE PASSAGES (1994) #1.

Discovering a Necklace plot to destabilize the U.S. government by using a demonic entity''s powers to reawaken terrorist fears, Max August tests his magickal resources and the abilities of companions Pam and Vee to save tens of thousands of spectators in a domed stadium.

Night after night, Jack Boniface puts his heart and soul into his music, and, night after night, the people of the French Quarter come out to watch him play. But after one of the evening''s deadlier dwellers attacks him and leaves him for dead, Jack discovers a strange compulsion to put on a mask and take the streets as Shadowman!

The Necklace has been around for centuries, and when Max learns that two members are attending a Burning Man like festival in the Southwest, he and his girlfriend Pam see a chance to strike their next blow for freedom.

Max August, an ageless man, and Dr. Pamela Blackwell attempt to prevent genocide by learning some real-world magick.

A magickal novel by comics legend Steve Englehart in which an ex-Army DJ is recruited by a legendary alchemist to fight a cabal that is using magick as a weapon of mass destruction. Max August was a point man when he served during the Vietnam War, the guy who had to lead his patrol through dangers he couldn''t possibly anticipate. Now he''s a disc jockey, at one with the music and his faithful audience . . . until the day when he is swept into a battle invisible to all but the participants. For nearly five centuries, Cornelius Agrippa has fought against an evil that has threatened to corrupt and destroy everything good and untainted in the world. Now, Max has joined the battle. It wasn''t his idea to fight a demonic entity that can become anything it wants: an undying monster or the most desirable woman in the world. Max has been chosen by fate to fight those who would use magick to destroy freedom and wreak havoc on an unsuspecting world. Along with Agrippa and Valerie Drake, a beautiful, talented singer, Max is the only hope of the free world. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.