Sua madre sta per avere un esaurimento nervoso. Suo padre è appena tornato dall'aldilà. Alcuni terroristi tecnologici vogliono che diventi il loro leader. La Justice League vorrebbe che lui non fosse mai nato. Nemmeno ricevere superpoteri migliorerà la giornata di Jon Kent... e non è nemmeno ora di pranzo!

Gotham City, anno 1961. Questa metropoli, come tutta l'America, sta vivendo un'epoca di transizione. Gli anni del maccartismo, di Ike e di Jack Kerouac infatti presto lasceranno il posto alla rivoluzione sessuale, alle tragedie della guerra in Vietnam e al fermento dei movimenti giovanili. La città si appresta ad attraversare una fase di grande mutamento e gli alfieri di questo ottimismo sono due affascinanti vigilantes in maschera: Batgirl e Robin. Alcuni eventi drammatici però sono alle porte, e questa coppia di giustizieri dovrà fare i conti con il peso delle loro scelte.

Gotham City, anno 1961. Questa metropoli, come tutta l'America, sta vivendo un'epoca di transizione. Gli anni del maccartismo, di Ike e di Jack Kerouac infatti presto lasceranno il posto alla rivoluzione sessuale, alle tragedie della guerra in Vietnam e al fermento dei movimenti giovanili. La città si appresta ad attraversare una fase di grande mutamento e gli alfieri di questo ottimismo sono due affascinanti vigilantes in maschera: Batgirl e Robin! Alcuni eventi drammatici però sono alle porte, e questa coppia di giustizieri dovrà fare i conti con il peso delle loro scelte.

The laugh had vanished... the mocking, sinister laugh that signaled doom for the petty souls whose wrongdoing stained the world. It was gone, lost in the night that echoed it. Now, one by one, his friends and operatives are being ruthlessly murdered. Someone is trying to draw him out. Thirty-five years later, it is time for him to return. The laugh is here again. The Shadow is back! God help the guilty! Written and illustrated by legendary, award-winning comic book creator Howard Chaykin, The Shadow: Blood & Judgment is collected for the first time since 1991! Chaykin's dynamic, visceral style adds a new dimension to The Shadow of the 1980's!

Legendary for what he has done on the page and infamous for what he has said off it, Howard Chaykin ranks among the superstars of modern comics. In The Art of Howard Chaykin, go behind the scenes with the creator whose pioneering works include American Flagg! and Black Kiss, and experience the stories of his life as only he can tell them. Filled with no-holds-barred perspective from his longtime friends and colleagues, and featuring an extensive selection of artwork from throughout his career, including many never-before-published pieces from Chaykin's own archives, The Art of Howard Chaykin takes readers on an in-depth journey from the 1970s to today with one of the medium's great storytellers.

Bucky Barnes is the prisoner of a private war. Fighting for good against consummate evil during WWII, he learned the deadly skills of warfare--only to have these tools exploited by the Soviets' Cold War machine. Memories of his time as a brainwashed assassin haunt him still, never more so than when he dons the star-spangled uniform once worn by Steve Rogers. And just when he thougt he could break free of the chains of his history, he is thrust into a new nightmare: a Russian prison camp housing a handful of his most vicious and revenge-minded Cold War peers. For Bucky, each ponderous minute that ticks by in the gulag brings another new threat to his life. But for his friends--Steve Rogers, Sharon Carter and Black Widow--it is a race against time to undo the wicked conspiracy that has used Bucky's past as the Winter Soldier to trap him in a life of cruelty worse than any he's ever experienced.

COLLECTING: CAPTAIN AMERICA 617-619; and material from 616

Exploding from the pages of New Avengers! It's the tail end of the fabulous fifties. Nick Fury and his newly-minted Avengers team roar into their secret mission, hunting down nazi super villains - men and women relentlessly preparing to unleash hell on a troubled world barely holding on to peace - only to find that the Avengers have what appears to be serious competition in their manhunt for these escaped ubermenschen...when their mission is suddenly compromised by interference from an unlikely source.

COLLECTING: AVENGERS 1959 1-5

1959: under presidential orders, Nick Fury assembles the first Avengers--Victor Creed. Namora. Kraven the Hunter. Dominick Fortune. Silver Sable. Ulysses Bloodstone. Their mission? Stop the rise of the Red Skull's Fourth Reich--or die trying. Present day: Luke Cage's New Avengrs are settling to life at Avengers Mansion. But as the team begins to gel, Norman Osborn's HAMMER is secretly rebuilding. Stopping these bad guys will test the New Avengers with death and Betrayal--and bring a startling revelation regarding Nick Fury and his 1959 Avengers Initiative.

COLLECTING: NEW AVENGERS (2010) #7-13.

Cass Pollack, musicista jazz ed eroinomane, deve nascondersi dalla mafia e dalla polizia dopo essere stato incastrato per il truce omicidio della moglie e del figlio. Alla disperata ricerca di un alibi, rimane invischiato con la prostituta transessuale Dagmar Lane e la sua amante Beverly Grove, ex stella del cinema. Queste decidono di aiutare Pollack a patto che recuperi un film pornografico recentemente riemerso nell'archivio segreto del Vaticano. Originariamente pubblicato nel 1988, Black Kiss è uno dei fumetti più controversi di sempre, con cui la leggenda vivente Howard Chaykin ha illustrato il sesso e la violenza a livelli mai visti prima negli USA. Un tour de force noir ed erotico ora disponibile in edizione restaurata!

Tony Stark is back on his feet with Stark Resilient, a new company dedicated to bringing free, clean energy to the world - and that's just the start. But that kind of bold move naturally attracts enemies - and with a spy planted in his company by rival Justine Hammer, Tony can't afford to make any mistakes. Unfortunately, distractions abound - including a left-wing anarchist cult's theft of Stark technology and the Mandarin's omnipresent shadow - and Tony faces long odds to keep from making those mistakes. Does the corporate saboteur have him right where he wants him? Collecting INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #500, 500.1, ANNUAL #1 and material from #503.

Horror legend Bernie Wrightson's Creepy and Eerie short stories, color illustrations, and frontispieces are finally collected in one deluxe collection! These classic tales from the 1970s and early 1980s include collaborations with fellow superstars and Warren Publishing alumni Bruce Jones, Carmine Infantino, Howard Chaykin, and others, as well as several adaptations and original stories written and drawn by Wrightson during one of the most fruitful periods of his career! The infamous 'Jenifer' is included, as well as Wrightson's fullcolor 'Muck Monster' and adaptations of Poe and Lovecraft classics.

Steve Rogers races against time to uncover the international conspiracy that trapped his ex-partner in a web of intrigue and lies. Meanwhile, Bucky Barnes fights for his life in a Russian Gulag. With everybody gunning for Bucky and Steve fighting the clock, is there any hope for either of these two Super-Soldiers? Collecting CAPTAIN AMERICA (1968) #616-619

'Before the Brotherhood and his greatest battles with the X-Men, there was a man named Erik Magnus. He was working hard, gathering mutants to join his cause. Does the young Magneto have what it takes to build an army?'--P. [4] of cover.

The Mandarin is a collection of lies, stories, myths, and legends. Is he a violent street crook born in a brothel? The scion of an aristocratic dynasty? Was his father a petty criminal or an ambassador? Was his mother a British noblewoman, or maybe a dragon-chasing wastrel lost in the underbelly of the world? He's a murderer, a businessman, an artist, a terrorist, a hero. Also, watch as Iron Man and Thor are pitted against an enemy unlike any they've fought before!

Howard Chaykin's Black Kiss -a hardboiled, erotic tour-de-force - is now available from Dynamite in a remastered hardcover edition! Originally published in 1988, Black Kiss became one of the most controversial North American comics of the late 1980s, with living legend Howard Chaykin amping up the sex and violence to levels never seen before - and still shocking and titillating today! Featuring all 12 issues of the series, overseen by Chaykin and remastered for today's discerning comic book consumer.

John McClane è una recluta alle prese con l'addestramento. Le celebrazioni del 4 luglio diventeranno la sua prima occasione per dimostrare il talento a cacciarsi nei guai che ha già caratterizzato quattro film di successo. Guai e imprevisti che porteranno McClaine a guadagnarsi il distintivo.

The best-dressed gunslinger the Wild West ever knew is back in the saddle again-and this time, he's riding with a posse! That's right, pardners, it's a brand new rip-roaring adventure of the Rawhide Kid! When Wyatt and Morgan Earp are taken hostage by Cristo Pike and his pack of pistoleros, Rawhide has no choice but to put together a posse of the greatest western heroes in the Marvel Universe-to rescue the Earp brothers and bring Pike to justice. Enter: Kid Colt, Doc Holliday, Annie Oakley, Billy the Kid, Red Wolf and the most overrated gun in the West: The Two-Gun Kid! We guarantee the Wild West can't get any wilder.

COLLECTING

The Rawhide Kid #1-4

American's greatest action hero translated into the sequential art form for the first time! Every great action hero got started somewhere: Batman Began. Bond had his Casino Royale. And for John McClane, more than a decade before the first DIE HARD movie, he's just another rookie cop, an East Coast guy working on earning his badge in New York City during 1976's Bicentennial celebration. Too bad for John McClane, nothing's ever that easy. Join legendary industry creator Howard Chaykin on a thrill ride that's rung up over $1 billion in box office worldwide and become the gold standard for classic action! Yippee Ki Yay!

'Back, ye minions of hell—in the name of the Lord and Solomon Kane!' Continuing in the vein of the successful Chronicles of Conan collection series, Dark Horse is expanding its Robert E. Howard reprint line by presenting all of the original 1970s and 1980s Marvel color comic books featuring Solomon Kane in one awesome volume! This graphic novel features the landmark stories 'The Mark of Kane' and 'Fangs of the Gorilla God,' by Roy Thomas and Howard Chaykin, and the entire Sword of Solomon Kane mini-series, by Ralph Macchio and a host of talented artists — including Mike Mignola, Al Williamson, Bret Blevins, John Ridgeway, and others! From the French countryside to the Black Forest in Germany, from England to Africa, follow Robert E. Howard's solemn, driven Puritan, Solomon Kane, as he cuts a path of vengeance across the globe!

AMERICAN FLAGG! - created, written, and illustrated by Howard Chaykin and winner of numerous awards and honors, including nine Eagle Awards - is now available as a trade paperback collecting the series' second seven issues! Collects American Flagg! issues #8-14.

Il volume raccoglie le due miniserie dedicate alla famiglia Del Toro scritte da Howard Chaykin e David Tischman e disegnate da David Hahn.

Aided by Dr. Strange, Wolverine battles an enemy from his past to reconnect with his soul trapped in an otherworldly realm after he is blown to bits by a terrorist bomb explosion.

Continuing the dark and hard hitting graphic novel series, and Barracuda's got a major score to settle with Frank Castle, otherwise known as The Punisher. Colour artwork by Howard Chaykin. Ages: 18+.