
MARVEL APRIL 2009 SOLICITS
Creative Director ORSON SCOTT CARD
Adapted by CHRISTOPHER YOST
Pencils & Cover by PASQUAL FERRY
The first volume of New York Times bestseller Orson Scott Card's sci-fi epic comes to its conclusion! Ender Wiggin has fought his way through countless battles, and risen in the ranks of Battle School... but as his eighth birthday passes, he's losing another battle. Ender has slipped into despair, and the teachers of Battle School know that Ender will be lost to them forever unless they do something. But how do you convince one of the deadliest children in the universe he's not a monster? It all leads to ENDER'S GAME: COMMAND SCHOOL.
32 PGS./Cardstock Cover/Parental Advisory $3.99
(c) 2008 Orson Scott Card. All rights reserved.
Creative Director ORSON SCOTT CARD
Written by MIKE CAREY
Penciled by SEBASTIAN FIUMARA
Cover by TIMOTHY GREEN II
Bean has traded the streets of Rotterdam for an environment that seems even more challenging-Battle School! For the orphan named Bean, Battle School is a continuation of the war for survival that began on the streets of Rotterdam. But there's another war he's being trained to fight - against the alien race known as the Formics. And he now knows that the training includes some blatant lies about both the enemy and the campaign...
32 PGS./Parental Advisory ...$3.99
(c) 2008 Orson Scott Card. All rights reserved.
Written by DENIS BAJRAM
Penciled by DENIS BAJRAM
Cover by DENIS BAJRAM
Adapted by PAUL BENJAMIN
The Earth has been annihilated. Forever. Now the Purgatory Squadron knows who its enemies are, but can they defeat a foe willing to murder twenty billion people? The survivors of the Purgatory Squadron land in a world without hope. Welcome to the worst imaginable future. Welcome to the first universal war.
48 PGS./Mature ...$5.99
Written by CHRISTOPHE ARLESTON
Penciled by ADRIEN FLOCH
Cover by ADRIEN FLOCH
Exclusive US Variant by ADRIEN FLOCH
Adapted by C.B. CEBULSKI
The international best selling series continues... Ythaq is a strange medieval planet where the marooned survivors of a spaceship crash are just trying to survive. The young lieutenant Granite and her friends attempt to join the main group of survivors, but they encounter strange characters that hide from them the mysteries of the planet Ythaq. Discover the truth behind Dhokas, Khengis and Hetzel, and the man with an enormous insect grafted in his back!
56 PGS./Mature ...$5.99
Written by PAUL TOBIN
Penciled by PATRICK SCHERBERGER
Cover by ROGER CRUZ
She predates the birth of man. She manipulates matter at will. She can merge with the shadows. She's Selene, the original vampire, known as the Black Queen, and in her possession is something Dr. Doom desperately needs, but she's not going to give it up without a fight. Luckily for Doom, he's brought along a few friends, like Princess Python, Magneto, and a platoon of Sentinels reprogrammed into Witch-Hunters!
32 PGS./All Ages ...$2.99
Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS
Pencils by BILLY TAN & CHRIS BACHALO
Cover by BILLY TAN
Who is the new Sorcerer Supreme? The entire Marvel Universe hangs in the balance as the Avengers race to help the fallen Doctor Strange battle the forces of the Dark Dimension as they make their earthly power play.
32 PGS./Rated A ...$3.99
Written by DAN SLOTT
Pencils by RAFA SANDOVAL
Cover by KHOI PHAM
"CHASING GHOSTS"
The SCARLET WITCH is back and her brother wants answers! Join QUICKSILVER as he races around the globe, hunting down the MIGHTY AVENGERS! Plus, what's HANK PYM'S problem with MR. FANTASTIC? And what does NORMAN OSBORN have in store for Earth's Mightiest Heroes?
Guest starring QUICKSILVER, and featuring appearances by the YOUNG AVENGERS and the FANTASTIC FOUR.
32 PGS./Rated A ...$2.99
Written by JONATHAN HICKMAN
Penciled by SEAN CHEN
Cover by PASQUAL FERRY
The fallout of Reed's machine results in Sue, Ben and Johnny finding themselves in the middle of a super hero Hyborian-age civil war, while Reed searches for answers to questions that can only be found in alternate timelines. Back on Earth, it's Val and Franklin versus the agents of H.A.M.M.E.R.!
32 PGS./Rated A ...$2.99
Written by JEFF PARKER
Penciled by CARLO PAGULAYAN & GABRIEL HARDMAN
Cover by ADI GRANOV
Variant Cover by ED MCGUINNESS
Wolverine Art Appreciation Variant by TBA
Back in the 1950's our heroes fall deeper into the mystery of the Dragon's Corridor- leading them to Communist plots and two mysteriously familiar bodies on ice. In the present day, a similar trail of intrigue winds back to secret plans of the Atlas Foundation. The Agents look to be building a hellish arsenal for Norman Osborn, and they've just gotten the attention of none other than CAPTAIN AMERICA!
32 PGS./Parental Advisory ...$2.99
Written by KIERON GILLEN
Penciled by DAN BRERETON
Cover by MARKO DJURDJEVIC
SECRET INVASION has ended. The Skrull armies have been routed and destroyed. In the wake of his battle in aid of Thor and Asgard, Beta Ray Bill has departed Earth once more, to bring justice and order to the stars. But when Bill becomes savior of a space-faring alien colony, he'll discover that perhaps - just perhaps -- it's possible to be too much of a hero. Soaring action and adventure starring your favorite horse-faced Demigod of Thunder, by Kieron Gillen (NEW UNIVERSAL: 1959) and Dan Brereton (GOD-SIZED THOR)!
40 PGS./One-Shot/All-New/Rated T+ ...$3.99
Written by C. B. CEBULSKI, DANIEL MERLIN GOODBREY, JONATHON GREEN
& JONATHAN HICKMAN
Penciled by KENNETH ROCAFORT, LOU KANG, FIONA STAPLES & NICHOLAS PITARRA
Cover by KENNETH ROCAFORT
Marvel's premiere all-new anthology continues as WOLVERINE & PUNISHER go toe-to-toe with the deadly Viper on the streets of Madripoor! Meanwhile, in the future, IRON MAN 2020 has problems of his own as his new energy-efficient air transport gets blasted by the mysterious Commodore Q! SUNSPOT and CANNONBALL continue their moviemaking mayhem in MOJOWORLD! And Jonathan Green (Anita Blake: The First Death) and the incredible Fiona Staples give us an untold tale of Spider-Woman's past...and some of California's most horrible vampires!
40 PGS./Rated T+ ...$3.99
Written by JOE AHEARNE
Pencils by STEVE KURTH
Cover by BRYAN HITCH
FROM THE PAGES OF FANTASTIC FOUR: The Hooded Man! Lightwave! Banner! Natalie X! Psionics! Alex Ultron! They're the last six superhumans from a devastated future! They've rescued the remnants of a devastated humanity by relocating them to an artificial planet in the present day! Now they face their greatest challenge-to create a better utopian society! But there are vast forces from across the Marvel Universe who will move against them-plus a threat from their own era they thought they'd left behind! Plus, 8 pages of Director's Cut Extras!
40 PGS./Rated T+...$3.99
Written by MARK MILLAR
Pencils & Cover by BRYAN HITCH
THE MASTERS OF DOOM Part one of four. It begins here! The final storyline of the Millar/Hitch run on FANTASTIC FOUR, culminating all of the plot threads they've set up so far! From across the universe they come, returning to the Earth after a twenty year journey of genocide and sadism. They're the men who tutored Doctor Doom in the ways of villainy-and their re-emergence signals the greatest conflict the Fantastic Four have ever been party to!
32 PGS./Rated T+ ...$2.99
Written by FRED VAN LENTE
Pencils by TBA
Cover by ALEX GARNER
From a world where society as we know it has crumbled and humanity has been irrevocably changed, she comes-the all-new, all-different SAVAGE SHE-HULK! But now, a deadly mission has brought her to current Marvel continuity. What terrible secret does this gamma-irradiated beauty bare? And is she friend or foe, Inhuman or mutant, Avenger, Defender...or Invader? Discover the mysteries surrounding this all-new superstar in the Marvel Universe as we proudly presents the all new SAVAGE SHE-HULK! Plus 8 pages of Director's Cut Extras!
40 PGS./Parental Advisory ...$3.99
Written by JEPH LOEB
Pencils & 50/50 Covers by ED MCGUINNESS
Wolverine Art Appreciation Variant by TBA
Variant Cover by ARTHUR ADAMS
THE DEFENDERS/OFFENDERS WAR! The good news? Hulk's got help on his side in the form of Namor, Doctor Strange, and the Silver Surfer! The bad news? Rulk's got pals of his own. When the original Defenders face off one-on-one with Rulk, Tiger Shark, Baron Mordo, and Terrax, it's anybody's bet who will win... but who exactly is betting on these fights? A smash-, splash-, and cosmic-flash-fest that could ONLY have come from the minds of award-winning superstar writer Jeph Loeb and everybody's favorite Hulk artist Ed McGuinness!
32 PGS./Rated A ...$3.99
Written by FRED VAN LENTE
Penciled by KEV WALKER
Cover by GREG LAND
Variant Cover by ARTHUR SUYDAM
The acclaimed creative team behind MARVEL ZOMBIES 3 returns...with another adventure that takes place in the Marvel U! The vampire. The witch. The werewolf. The muck-monster. The devil. They're nobody's idea of heroes, but they're all that stands between our world and an unstoppable apocalypse! They're the new Midnight Sons, and their quest to track down the undead who escaped from A.R.M.O.R. will lead them around the globe-and right to a cruise ship overrun with undead undersea-dwelling cannibals! Can this monstrous team stop the "red tide" before it unleashes untold horror upon the mainland? Not if the Merc With Only a Mouth has anything to say about it! Yes, writer Fred Van Lente and artist Kev Walker-the guys who made IGN.com say "MARVEL ZOMBIES 3 may actually rank as the best in the series"-are back again, unleashing the flesh-eaters for another roller coaster ride of gore, action, gore, thrills, gore and gore!
32 PGS./Parental Advisory...$3.99
Written by JEFF PARKER
Penciled by SALVADOR ESPIN
Cover by DAVE BULLOCK
Wolverine Art Appreciation Variant by TBA
Heroes are being pulled out of the worlds they know- The Beast. The Witch. Panther. Forge. Polaris. All find themselves in a place out of time with a new mission in life. But something seems to have shifted in the mechanics of the universe, things may not be quite what we remember... But one thing we know for certain- BLINK is BACK!Plus 8 pages of Director's Cut Extras!
40 PGS./Parental Advisory ...$3.99
Written by BRIAN REED
Penciled by ERIC BATTLE
Cover by CHRISTOPHER SHY
2009...meets 2099? Future history has been shattered by events in the present! If you think you know the heroes and villains from Marvel's dark future, writer Brian Reed (SECRET INVASION: CAPTAIN MARVEL) and artist Eric Battle (Batman) say it's time to think again! Get ready for the re-imagined 2099 versions of Spider-Man, Ghost Rider, the X-Men and more! Plus 8 pages of Director's Cut Extras!
40 PGS./Rated T+ ...$3.99
Written by DAN ABNETT & ANDY LANNING
Penciled by WELLINTON ALVES
Cover by BRANDON PETERSON
A WAR OF KING tie-in! Who is Talon? What does he want with the young Earthman that '90s comic junkies know as Chris Powell? What is the shocking truth that connects the hero called Darkhawk not only to the Shi'Ar, but to the larger cosmos? And how does it all lead to a confrontation with Annihilus' forces in the Negative Zone? It's secret-revealing sci-fi action from the creative team that AintItCoolNews.com said has made NOVA "a great, fun book that brings back memories of fun superhero comics I read as a kid"!
32 PGS./Rated T+ ...$3.99
Written by DAN ABNETT & ANDY LANNING
Penciled by PAUL PELLETIER
Cover by BRANDON PETERSON
Variant Cover by TBA
The cosmic heavyweights come out swinging! Black Bolt! Gladiator! The Inhumans! Vulcan! The Starjammers! As Kree outworlds burn, Shi'Ar forces move in for the kill-as first blood goes to Vulcan and the Imperial Guard! Can anything withstand the military juggernaut of Vulcan's Imperium? And are the lines of allegiance drawn as clearly as it first appears? The major players make their big moves as the battle that will reshape the cosmic power structure rages on!
32 PGS./Rated T+ ...$3.99
Written by DAN ABNETT & ANDY LANNING
Penciled by BRAD WALKER
Cover by SALVADOR LARROCA
A WAR OF KINGS tie-in! The guns of the Kree and the Shi'Ar have thundered - and there will hell to pay! Star-Lord's Guardians spring into desperate action in an attempt to stop the planet-shattering battle, but will either side listen? If they don't, the walls of the galaxy will disintegrate! It's more mind-blowing cosmic heroics from the book that made CBR.com rave "if comics were movies, this would be the one people would be talking about all summer!"
32 PGS./Rated T+ ...$2.99
Written by DAN ABNETT & ANDY LANNING
Penciled by ANDREA DIVITO
Cover by DANIEL ACUNA
A WAR OF KINGS tie-in! As the Shi'Ar and the Kree's cataclysmic battle explodes across the cosmos, Richard Rider is forced to fight the one opponent he never wanted to: the ancient power that made him Nova in the first place! Yes, it's time for another of Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning's trademark jaw-dropping plot swerves! Plus: Please welcome new series artist Andrea DiVito (ANNIHILATION) to the book that Aint It Cool News says is packed with "twists and turns, thrills and scares, cool stuff and awesomely jaw-droppingly cool stuff!"
32 PGS./Rated T+ ...$2.99
Written by STEVE GERBER, ROGER STERN, MARY SKRENES & STAN LEE
Penciled by AL MILGROM, HOWARD CHAYKIN & JOHN BUSCEMA
Covers by AL MILGROM & JOHN ROMITA
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times - it was a thousand years from now, where the Guardians of the Galaxy help humanity rebuild after waves of alien invasions! But while Earth's in turmoil, threats rise from two other worlds: one of them living, the other gone mad! See the future's past today! Featuring the introduction of Nikki and the origin of Starhawk! Guest-starring the Silver Surfer! Collecting MARVEL PRESENTS #3-12.
192 PGS./ Rated A ...$24.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-3788-7
Trim size: standard
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: THE POWER OF STARHAWK PREMIERE HC - VARIANT EDITION VOL. 26
192 PGS./ Rated A ...$24.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-3789-4
Written by DAN ABNETT & ANDY LANNING
Penciled by WELLINTON ALVES
Cover by ADI GRANOV
Could it be…the return of the Nova Corps? Will things ever be the same for Richard Rider? What is the Worldmind up to, and what will it mean for the future of the Human Rocket and the Nova Corps itself?! Cosmic fans will not want to miss this status-quo-changing chapter of the series Ain't It Cool News calls "Brilliant. Just brilliant." Also, see how it all began in Nova’s power-packed origin, complete with the classic tale plus a brand new framing sequence. Collecting NOVA #19-22 and NOVA: ORIGIN OF RICHARD RIDER
144 PGS./Rated T+ …$14.99
ISBN 978-0-7851-3188-5
Written by BRIAN REED, JIM MCCANN, C.B. CEBULSKI, STEVEN GRANT, PAUL TOBIN, MARC SUMERAK & KARL BOLLERS
Penciled by PAOLO PANTALENA, PATRICK SPAZIANTE, GUS VASQUEZ, PATRICK SCHERBERGER, TREVOR GORING & JORGE MOLINA
Cover by GIUSEPPE CAMUNCOLI & MARKO DJURDJEVIC
Marvel once again poses the question, "What If...?" What if Iron Man had died instead of Captain America? What if the Scarlet Witch had said “No More Powers” instead of “No More Mutants?” What if Mary Jane was shot instead of Aunt May? What if Dr. Doom kept the Beyonder's power? And finally, what if the Runaways became the Young Avengers? Collecting WHAT IF? CAPTAIN AMERICA: FALLEN SON, SPIDER-MAN: BACK IN BLACK, SECRET WAR, NEWER FF, X-MEN: HOUSE OF M and YOUNG AVENGERS/RUNAWAYS.
152 PGS./Rated T+ …$19.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-3341-4
Written by ROBERT KIRKMAN
Penciled by SEAN PHILLIPS
Cover by ARTHUR SUYDAM
Forty years have passed and the zombies have come back home after eating just about everything else in the universe. Yum yum! What awaits them back on Earth, though, is beyond anything even these shambling monstrosities could have conceived! The Marvel characters that became last year's unexpected smash hit are back and more stomach-churning than ever! Collecting MARVEL ZOMBIES 2 #1-5.
120 PGS./Rated T+ ...$15.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-2546-4
SPIDER-MAN 2099 VOL. 1 TPB
Written by PETER DAVID
Penciled by RICK LEONARDI & KELLEY JONES
Cover by RICK LEONARDI
Venture, the Specialist, the Vulture - the future is full of menaces, but none so vile as a corrupt government and the corporations behind it! A scary future needs a hero who's just as creepy - perhaps a wall-CRAWLER of some kind? See the world of tomorrow and the cast who inhabit it as the Spider-Man of 2099 battles evil in both high and low society in the 2099 imprint's flagship title, written by industry legend Peter David! Collecting SPIDER-MAN 2099 #1-10.
240 PGS./ Rated T+...$29.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-3964-5
Written by DANNY FINGEROTH, STEVEN GRANT, FRANK SPRINGER, JIM SHOOTER, KEN MCDONALD, MIKE CARLIN, LINDA GRANT, BOB DENATALE, ARCHIE GOODWIN & ANN NOCENTI
Penciled by FRANK SPRINGER, MARK BRIGHT, GEOF ISHERWOOD, TOM MORGAN, PAUL CHADWICK, DON PERLIN & AL MILGROM
Cover by JOE JUSKO
No matter how well she handles the Sisterhood of Evil Mutants, Moonstone and Blackout, the Tatterdemalion, and other villains, Alison Blaire never set out to be a super hero just a superstar! But her big film break shatters that dream when she's outed to the public as a mutant, and not even the Beyonder can mend her stricken soul! After a series of adventures with bounty hunters, cults and family secrets, she's ready to start a new life but with the stage, the big screen and the fashion runway all closed to her, what success will she find...in the combat arena? Guest-starring Power Man and Iron Fist, the Inhumans, Millie the Model, and more than half a dozen X-Men! Collecting DAZZLER #22-42, MARVEL GRAPHIC NOVEL #12, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST #1-4 and SECRET WARS II #4.
688 PGS./Rated A ...$19.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-3730-6
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