MARVEL COMICS: April 2008 Collected Editions Solicits MONTHLY COMICS OF INTEREST AVENGERS CLASSIC #11 Written by STAN LEE & TOM BELAND Art by DON HECK & JUAN DOE Cover by ART ADAMS The mighty Avengers meet Spider-Man! And the only blurb we can write is "WOWEE!" Also re-introducing the mysterious KANG! Yes, it's another classic spectacular story by Stan Lee with incomparable illustrations by Don Heck...plus an all-new masterpiece from the peerless minds of Tom Beland and Juan Doe! 32 PGS./Rated A ...$2.99 * * * CIVIL WAR CHRONICLES #10 Written by MARK MILLAR & PAUL JENKINS Penciled by STEVE MCNIVEN, ROMAN BACHS & STEVE LIEBER Cover by MICHAEL TURNER Experience CIVIL WAR and its major tie-ins in chronological order! In CIVIL WAR #7, witness the startling battle that will determine the future of the Marvel Universe! And in CIVIL WAR: FRONT LINE #10, the betrayer among the Marvel heroes stands revealed, as war with Atlantis seems inevitable! And Speedball comes face-to-face with his accuser! Collecting CIVIL WAR #7 and CIVIL WAR: FRONT LINE (EMBEDDED/ACCUSED) #10. 72 PGS./Rated T+ ...$4.99 * * * HULK VS. HERCULES: WHEN TITANS CLASH Written by GREG PAK & FRED VAN LENTE Art by LEONARD KIRK Cover by MARKO DJURDJEVIC "32 PAGES!? BAH! HULK NEED BIGGER BOOK! HULK SMASH PUNY BEARD SKIRT MAN!" Calm down, big fella. You're going to need your strength when you go up against the Lion of Olympus, the INCREDIBLE HERCULES! We're bringing you a BRAND NEW story with THE most SMASHING, CRASHING, BASHING, MASHING and LASHING you've EVER witnessed, and THEN we're giving you some of the greatest HULK and HERC stories from yesteryear! BRING ON THE FIGHT! 64 PGS./Parental Advisory ...$3.99 * * * GIANT-SIZE AVENGERS/INVADERS #1 Written by ROY THOMAS Penciled by SAL BUSCEMA, FRANK ROBBINS, ALEX SCHOMBURG, DON RICO, LEE ELIAS & LEE WEEKS Whet your appetite for Alex Ross, Jim Krueger and Steve Sadowski's 12-part AVENGERS/INVADERS maxi-series with these classic tales! Witness the Invaders' first appearance in AVENGERS #71 (1969), as Earth's Mightiest Heroes encounter the wartime Captain America, Human Torch and Sub-Mariner - and experience the story from the Invaders' point of view in INVADERS ANNUAL #1 (1977). Finally, the Invaders thwart a Nazi assassination attempt on President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill in GIANT-SIZE INVADERS #2 (2005). Also featuring in-depth dossiers on both teams and AVENGERS/INVADERS preview pages! 96 PGS./Rated T+ ...$3.99 MASTERWORKS MARVEL MASTERWORKS: CAPTAIN MARVEL VOL. 3 HC Written by JIM STARLIN, MIKE FRIEDRICH, STEVE ENGLEHART, GERRY CONWAY & MARV WOLFMAN Penciled by JIM STARLIN & WAYNE BORING He's back and better than ever - the hero that wouldn't die, Captain Marvel! After a few years in hiatus, mighty Marvel's space-born super hero returned, and under the aegis of writer/artist Jim Starlin, his story would achieve a scale never before imagined! Stripping the Kree Captain down to his very core and forcing him through a gauntlet of past opponents, Starlin then brought to the fore one of Marvel's pre-eminent cosmic menaces for the very first time: the mad Titan, Thanos. With the stage set and the players from unearthly entity Eon to Drax the Destroyer and the mighty Avengers pulled into fray, the good Captain led the fight against Thanos and his Cosmic Cube in a confrontation that would redefine super-hero epics forever! Featuring an introduction by Jim Starlin and an extensive selection of bonuses, this Marvel Masterworks volume is the definitive collection of the creative arc that defined Captain Marvel! Collecting CAPTAIN MARVEL #22-33 and IRON MAN #55. REGULAR EDITION: 288 PGS./Rated A $54.99 VARIANT EDITION: 288 PGS./Rated A $54.99 OVERSIZED HARDCOVERS X-MEN: MESSIAH COMPLEX HC Written by ED BRUBAKER, MIKE CAREY, CRAIG KYLE, CHRIS YOST & PETER DAVID Penciled by MARC SILVESTRI, BILLY TAN, CHRIS BACHALO, HUMBERTO RAMOS & SCOT EATON The biggest event to hit the X-Men in ten years is here! Just when it looked like there was no possibility of a future for mutants, hope arrives. But the X-Men aren't there to meet it - the Marauders and Purifiers beat them to it. Now the race is on to get the first new mutant since HOUSE OF M! Collecting X-MEN MESSIAH COMPLEX one-shot, UNCANNY X-MEN #492-494, X-MEN #205-207, NEW X-MEN #44-46 and X-FACTOR #25-27. 352 PGS./Rated T+ ...$39.99 * * * MARVEL ZOMBIES: DEAD DAYS HC Written by ROBERT KIRKMAN, MARK MILLAR & REGINALD HUDLIN Penciled by SEAN PHILLIPS, GREG LAND, MITCH BREITWEISER & FRANCIS PORTELA Cover by ARTHUR SUYDAM At last - experience the birth of the Marvel Zombies as told by the creative team of the best-selling limited series, and then witness their rise as they attempt to slake their hunger across two universes! First, Kirkman and Phillips pull out all the stops as they reveal the secret story of the day the Marvel Heroes became brain-eating monsters! Next, follow the Marvel Zombies into the pages of Millar and Land's ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR! Reed Richards has used his scientific genius to contact an Earth in a surprisingly familiar parallel dimension - and he's ready to visit! But nothing could have prepared him for the world he's about to enter! And when the zombiefied FF escape from their Baxter Building prison in the wake of Dr. Doom's return, get ready for the deadly debut of the Frightful Four! Finally, get out the hot sauce, True Believer - it's slobberin' time! In Hudlin and Portela's BLACK PANTHER, the mainstream Marvel Universe's New Fantastic Four just made a wrong turn on the dimensional super highway - and they've landed in the middle of Zombie-verse! And if that weren't bad enough, they've parked their butts on that universe's Skrull Planet! If the Black Panther, Storm, the Human Torch and the Thing can't come up with the perfect escape plan, they're going to be the next hors de'ourve for Zombie Galacti and Zombie Skrulls intent of eating the entire universe! Collecting MARVEL ZOMBIES: DEAD DAYS; ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR #21-23 and #30-32, and BLACK PANTHER #28-30. 256 PGS./Parental Advisory ...$29.99 PREMIERE EDITION HARDCOVERS ULTIMATE HULK VS. IRON MAN: ULTIMATE HUMAN PREMIERE HC Written by WARREN ELLIS Penciled by CARY NORD It's the Ultimate war between the Hulk and Iron Man! Desperate for a cure to his dark disease, scientist Bruce Banner begs Tony Stark for a release from the curse of the Hulk! Stark agrees, but in the midst of the experimentation, something goes horribly wrong. And you know what happens next: man and monster collide! Be there as writer Warren Ellis (ULTIMATE GALACTUS) begins his next Ultimate epic - joined by amazing artist Cary Nord (Conan)! Collecting ULTIMATE HUMAN #1-4. 96 PGS./Rated T+ ...$19.99 * * * CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN AMERICA VOL. 2 PREMIERE HC Written by ED BRUBAKER Penciled by STEVE EPTING Covers by ALEX ROSS & STEVE EPTING THE NEW CAPTAIN AMERICA FIGHTS FOR THE HEART OF HIS COUNTRY IN A CITY GONE INSANE! The Red Skull's master plan kicks into motion, and chaos begins to take hold of the US, with only one man to stand in its way - but is he up to the task? Guest-starring the Falcon, Iron Man and the Black Widow! Collecting CAPTAIN AMERICA #31-36. REGULAR EDITION (ROSS COVER): 160 PGS./Rated A $19.99 DIRECT MARKET ONLY VARIANT EDITION (EPTING COVER): 160 PGS./Rated A $19.99 * * * WOLVERINE: THE DEATH OF WOLVERINE PREMIERE HC Written by MARC GUGGENHEIM & JASON AARON Penciled by HOWARD CHAYKIN Following up on plot threads left over from CIVIL WAR: WOLVERINE, this new story promises to take Marvel's feral mutant to the limit - and beyond! With Wolverine reduced to a brain-dead vegetable, you'd think that was the end of Wolverine's adventures - but it's actually just the beginning of Wolverine's greatest challenge yet. Guest-starring Iron Man and Dr. Strange! Plus: Wendell Rayfield is a recently divorced, down-on-his-luck ex-cop who's looking down the business end of a 40 with no hope for the future and with demons from his past still haunting him at every turn. All he has going for him is his new job. A job that involves a very large machine gun, a hole in the ground, a certain hirsute mutant and several thousand bullets. We all know what damage Wolverine can do with his claws, but how dangerous can he really be when all he's able to do is talk? Wendell Rayfield is about to find out. Collecting WOLVERINE #56-61. 160 PGS./Parental Advisory ...$19.99 * * * SHE-HULK: JADED PREMIERE HC Written by PETER DAVID Penciled by SHAWN MOLL Cover by MIKE DEODATO It's a new direction for the lean, green fighting machine as longtime HULK writer Peter David takes the helm of the world's most dangerous lawyer as she takes on the world's most dangerous job. Be here now...or She-Hulk Smash! Collecting SHE-HULK #22-27. 144 PGS./Rated T+ ...$19.99 * * * PUNISHER WAR JOURNAL VOL. 3: HUNTER HUNTED PREMIERE HC Written by MATT FRACTION Penciled by ARIEL OLIVETTI, CORY WALKER, SCOTT WEGENER & HOWARD CHAYKIN The reintroduction of a classic, brutal and bloodthirsty Kraven the Hunter! A bank robbery goes violently wrong - leaving the Rhino on the lam, running from the long arm of the law and, of course, the Punisher. As Frank Castle looks to settle the score with an old foe, the Hunter stalks the same prey, building himself the ultimate menagerie - a living, breathing super-human zoo! Add Spider-Man into this mix as the lone voice of sanity, and you've got chocolate and peanut butter with bullets dipped in it. Delicious! Violent! Explodey! Plus: With WORLD WAR HULK in full swing and New York shut off from the outside world, who's left to protect those left behind? Frank @#$%!@!* Castle, that's who - and he's none too thrilled. As the insatiable Mung the Inconceivable rampages alone through lower Manhattan, Frank and Clarke help a small band of refugees hold back his relentless onslaught. Collecting PUNISHER WAR JOURNAL #12-17. 144 PGS./Rated T+ ...$19.99 * * * ALL-NEW OFFICIAL HANDBOOK OF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE A TO Z VOL. 2 PREMIERE HC Written by JEFF CHRISTIANSEN, MICHAEL HOSKIN, ERIC J. MOREELS, DAVID WILTFONG, RONALD BYRD, SEAN MCQUAID, MARK O'ENGLISH, STUART VANDAL, MIKE FICHERA, MADISON CARTER, JACOB ROUGEMONT, AL SJOERDSMA, KYLE SIMS, CHRIS BIGGS & CHAD ANDERSON Cover by TOM GRUMMETT Continuing the most exciting and comprehensive Marvel handbook ever assembled! This twelve-volume guide to the Marvel Universe features more than 100 huge entries in each tome! This issue - from Blade to the Crooked World! Spotlighting people (Blink, Blob, Bullseye, Cable, Luke Cage, Cannonball, Captain America, Captain Britain, Captain Marvel, Carnage, Amadeus Cho, Citizen V, Colossus), teams (the Brotherhood, Circus of Crime), species (the Brood, Celestials), items (the Cosmic Cube) and more! 240 PGS./Rated T+ ...$24.99 * * * PUNISHER: CIRCLE OF BLOOD PREMIERE HC Written by STEVEN GRANT & JO DUFFY Penciled by MIKE ZECK & MIKE VOSBURG Cover by MIKE ZECK The Punisher's in prison, but he can't complain...now the criminals have nowhere to run! But while he's in gray, his trademark black-and-white look's being used by an army out to wipe out the mob and anyone else in the way! Marvel's vicious veteran vigilante finds out who to kill and who to trust in his original miniseries! Collecting PUNISHER #1-5. REGULAR EDITION: 144 PGS./All Ages $19.99 VARIANT EDITION: MPE CLASSIC HC VOL. 11: 144 PGS./All Ages $19.99 MARVEL DIGESTS MARVEL ADVENTURES SPIDER-MAN VOL. 9: FIERCEST FOES DIGEST Written by FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by CORY HAMSCHER Cover by DAVID NAKAYAMA The all-new, all-ages, all-action fun continues! It's wall-to-wall mayhem in the Mighty Marvel Manner with four original tales of everybody's favorite teenage wall-crawler! Featuring Doctor Octopus, the Green Goblin and Venom! Plus: Will Harry Osborn succumb to his family's evil legacy and don the guise of the Goblin? Collecting MARVEL ADVENTURES SPIDER-MAN #33-36. 96 PGS./All Ages ...$7.99 * * * MARVEL ADVENTURES THE AVENGERS VOL. 5: SOME ASSEMBLING REQUIRED DIGEST Written by JEFF PARKER & TY TEMPLETON Penciled by CAFU, RONAN CLIQUET, CARLOS ALBERTO FERNANDEZ URBANO & STEPHAN MOLNAR Cover by TOM GRUMMETT Facing the foes no single super hero could withstand! When global threats surface, they must contend with the combined might of: Captain America! Storm! Iron Man! The Hulk! Giant-Girl! Wolverine! Spider-Man! It's all-ages action in the Mighty Marvel Manner featuring classic team members Hawkeye, the Vision, Hercules and Quicksilver! Collecting MARVEL ADVENTURES THE AVENGERS #16-19. 96 PGS./All Ages ...$7.99 * * * MARVEL ADVENTURES HULK VOL. 2: DEFENDERS DIGEST Written by PAUL BENJAMIN Penciled by DAVID NAKAYAMA & STEVE SCOTT Cover by JUAN SANTACRUZ The Green Goliath continues to smash his way through his own Marvel Adventures title! See how brilliant scientist Bruce Banner was cursed to transform into the rampaging Hulk! Dr. Strange, the Silver Surfer and Namor all arrive on the scene, concluding in an all-new Defenders team-up adventure! Most important, thrill to the Hulk smashing everything in sight! Collecting MARVEL ADVENTURES HULK #5-8. 96 PGS./All Ages ...$7.99 TRADE PAPERBACKS SECRET INVASION: THE INFILTRATION TPB Written by STAN LEE, BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS, BRIAN REED & DAN SLOTT Penciled by JACK KIRBY, JIM CHEUNG, LEINIL YU, MARK BAGLEY, MICHAEL GAYDOS & DAVID MACK Retrace the roots of THE INFILTRATION all the way back to the beginning of the Marvel Age of Heroes! First, in FANTASTIC FOUR #2 (1962), it's a close encounter of the Skrull kind as four shape-changing aliens pose as Mr. Fantastic, the Invisible Girl, the Thing and the Human Torch in an attempt to destroy the fledgling Fantastic Four! Then, flash-forward to the present day as the SECRET INVASION stands revealed in the pages of NEW AVENGERS: ILLUMINATI, NEW AVENGERS, MIGHTY AVENGERS and AVENGERS: THE INITIATIVE. Conspiracy. Paranoia. Betrayal. Who do you trust? Collecting FANTASTIC FOUR #2, NEW AVENGERS: ILLUMINATI #1 and #5, NEW AVENGERS #31-32 and #38-39, MIGHTY AVENGERS #7, and AVENGERS: THE INITIATIVE ANNUAL #1. 232 PGS./Rated T+ ...$19.99 * * * HULK: PLANET HULK TPB Written by GREG PAK Penciled by CARLO PAGULAYAN, AARON LOPRESTI, GRAY FRANK & TAKESHI MIYAZAWA Cover by LADRÖNN A whole new world of hurt! Betrayed by Earth's heroes and exiled into outer space, the man-monster Hulk has landed on the distant planet Sakaar, ruled by the tyrannical Red King. Sold into slavery, Hulk becomes the Green Scar, the planet's mightiest gladiator - but his new masters get more than they bargained for when he forges a bond of brotherhood with his fellow fighters: crafty insectoid Miek, the horrific Brood, wise rock-man Korg, shadow warrior Hiroim, noble-born rebel Elloe and her loyal guardsman Skee. Together, these gladiators start a revolution that could change their entire world - or destroy it. It's savage sci-fi fantasy by award-winning writer Greg Pak, guest-starring the Silver Surfer! Collecting INCREDIBLE HULK #92-105, PLANET HULK: GLADIATOR GUIDEBOOK, and material from AMAZING FANTASY #15 and GIANT-SIZE HULK #1. 416 PGS./Rated A ...$34.99 * * * FALLEN SON: THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN AMERICA TPB Written by JEPH LOEB Penciled by JOHN CASSADAY, DAVID FINCH, ED MCGUINNESS, JOHN ROMITA JR. & LEINIL FRANCIS YU Where were you when Captain America died? Perhaps you were listening to the radio or reading the morning paper. Maybe you were surfing the web or on the phone with a friend. You were probably shocked, most likely thinking, "How could they? How could this happen to Cap?" And for a moment, you perhaps thought about all the ways the super soldier meant something to you. Something very real, very abiding. FALLEN SON: DEATH OF CAPTAIN AMERICA follows the reaction of the legendary heroes' best friends and closest comrades as they struggle to work through the emotions stirred by the loss of their ally, and the stages of grief that make them confront the part they may have played in that loss. Wolverine. The Avengers. Hawkeye. Spider-Man. Iron Man. All have their own sense of loss, their own levels of grieving. This is their story. This is Cap's story. This is our story. The story of a Fallen Son and the world he helped make a better place. Collecting FALLEN SON: WOLVERINE, FALLEN SON: AVENGERS, FALLEN SON: CAPTAIN AMERICA, FALLEN SON: SPIDER-MAN and FALLEN SON: IRON MAN. 128 PGS./Rated T+ ...$13.99 * * * WHAT IF?: CIVIL WAR TPB Written by DAVID HINE, ED BRUBAKER, KEVIN GREVIOUX, CHRISTOS GAGE, GREG PAK, CHRISTOPHER YOST, JEFF PARKER & PAUL TOBIN Penciled by MARKO DJURDJEVIC, GUSTAVO, HARVEY TOLIBAO, JUAN SANTACRUZ, LARRY STROMAN, CLAYTON HENRY, FRED HEMBECK, LEONARD KIRK & RAFAEL SANDOVAL Marvel once again poses the question, "What If...?" What if Annihilus had not been defeated in the outskirts of our galaxy, and instead had brought his devastating alien armada to Earth? What if Iron Man had lost the Civil War? What If Captain America led all the heroes against the Superhuman Registration Act and Henry Gyrich became head of S.H.I.E.L.D. to take them down? What if the Hulk had landed on a peaceful planet, as the Marvel heroes had intended when they exiled him into space? Or Banner had landed on Sakaar instead of the Hulk? Or the Hulk's warrior bride, Caiera the Oldstrong, had come to Earth seeking vengeance instead of her husband? What if Vulcan had become Phoenix? And finally, what if Spider-Man and Wolverine became the most efficient two-man killing team in the world? Collecting WHAT IF? ANNIHILATION, CIVIL WAR, PLANET HULK, X-MEN and SPIDER-MAN VS. WOLVERINE. 120 PGS./Rated A ...$ 16.99 * * * DAREDEVIL: HELL TO PAY VOL. 2 TPB Written by ED BRUBAKER Penciled by MICHAEL LARK Cover by MARKO DJURDJEVIC Things couldn't be going worse for Matt Murdock. Everything he thought he'd gotten back teeters on the edge of a precipice, ready to shatter all around him, as he fights a battle on both fronts of his life - in the courtroom and on the rooftops of Hell's Kitchen! Collecting DAREDEVIL #100-105. 208 PGS./Rated T+ ...$15.99 * * * BLACK PANTHER: LITTLE GREEN MEN TPB Written by REGINALD HUDLIN Penciled by FRANCIS PORTELA, ANDREA DIVITO & CAFU Cover by BILLY TAN Someone get them a road map! The New Fantastic Four have just taken another wrong turn on the dimensional superhighway - and this time, they've landed in the middle of a gang-war between machine-gun toting Skrulls! It's clobberin' time - in the arena and in the streets, between the Gangsters and Panthers, and between the Fantastic Four and the elusive, malicious Golden Frogs! Gangsta-gangsta! Collecting BLACK PANTHER #31-34. 96 PGS./Rated T+ ...$10.99 * * * AVENGERS: KREE/SKRULL WAR TPB (NEW PRINTING) Written by ROY THOMAS Penciled by NEAL ADAMS, SAL BUSCEMA, & JOHN BUSCEMA Cover by NEAL ADAMS & TOM PALMER Back-to-press and fully restored by popular demand! Caught in the crossfire, Earth has become the staging ground for a conflict of star-spanning proportions! For those eternal intergalactic enemies, the merciless Kree and the shape-changing Skrulls, have gone to war, and our planet is situated on the front lines! Can Earth's Mightiest Heroes, the Avengers, bring about an end to the fighting before humanity becomes a casualty of war? And what good are even a dozen super-powered champions against the vast military machines of two of the great empires of the cosmos? The key to victory lies with the expatriate Kree Captain Mar-Vell and his human host, honorary Avenger Rick Jones! Featuring the trend-setting artwork of Neal Adams, the KREE/SKRULL WAR is universally acknowledged as one of the finest and most important sagas in the Marvel canon. 224 PGS./Rated A ...$24.99 * * * FANTASTIC FOUR: THE BEGINNING OF THE END TPB Written by DWAYNE MCDUFFIE, KARL KESEL & TOM BELAND Penciled by PAUL PELLETIER, TOM GRUMMETT & JUAN DOE Cover by MICHAEL TURNER The original Fantastic Four is together again, just in time to cross paths with a hero who has traveled twenty years into the past in a desperate attempt to save his future from Reed Richards, the madman who is about to change the face of the planet. Oh, and the hero who has come back to save the world? His name is Doctor Doom. Plus: Diablo's back - more dangerous than ever as the potion-toting terrorist declares alchemical warfare on the FF! Making matter worse, the World's Greatest Imaginauts are becoming more and more tired, irritable, delirious...sick! Coincidence...or part of Diablo's nightmarish plan? And finally, Ben Grimm has been keeping a secret from his teammates for years. But when Reed, Sue and Johnny investigate, the mystery brings them to the tropics, face-to-face with an old nemesis and a monstrous creature known as...EL CHUPACABRAS!! All we can say is, "¡¡QUE EL MÍO SEA MARVEL!!" Collecting FANTASTIC FOUR #525-526 and #551-553, and FANTASTIC FOUR: ISLA DE LA MUERTE! * * * PENANCE: RELENTLESS TPB Written by PAUL JENKINS Penciled by PAUL GULACY From the pages of CIVIL WAR: FRONT LINE and THUNDERBOLTS! Once he was a hero, now only a shell of Robbie Baldwin remains. As Penance, he begins a slow descent into madness: the most hated man in America, blamed for the disaster at Stamford, tortured by visions of his failure and obsessed with strange, seemingly meaningless numbers. A relentless pursuit begins... Collecting PENANCE: RELENTLESS #1-5. 120 PGS./Rated T+ ...$13.99 * * * HOWARD THE DUCK: MEDIA DUCKLING TPB Written by TY TEMPLETON & STEVE GERBER Penciled by JUAN BOBILLO, FRANK BRUNNER & ROGER LANGRIDGE Grab your guns and camcorders and start shooting, it's DUCK SEASON! Marvel's favorite furious fowl, Howard, and his faithful friend with benefits, Beverly, begin their journey to destroy the internet, radio and television - courtesy of Ty (SHE-HULK) Templeton and Juan (SHE-HULK) Bobillo. SEE Howard face mighty hunters with mighty guns on MeTube! SEE Beverly in nothing but fig leaves! SEE grown men dressed as bunnies! And who is that giant headed guy taking A.I.M. at our heroes? HINT: It starts with "MODO-" Just when you thought it was safe to read comics again...and Marvel has to do THIS?!? Collecting HOWARD THE DUCK #1-4, HOWARD THE DUCK #1 (1976) and material from CIVIL WAR: CHOOSING SIDES. 128 PGS./Rated A ...$11.99 * * * X-MEN: FIRST CLASS - MUTANT MAYHEM TPB Written by JEFF PARKER Penciled by ROGER CRUZ, KEVIN NOWLAN, PAUL SMITH, MIKE ALLRED, NICK DRAGOTTA & COLLEEN COOVER For millions of years, mankind's place on Earth was unchallenged - until five young people paved the way for a new kind of human! While students at the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters, Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Angel, Beast and Iceman taught the world what it meant to be X-Men. These are the hidden stories of the team that laid the foundation of a mutant dynasty! Featuring Sue Storm, the Fantastic Four's Invisible Girl; a trip to Monster Island; and a road trip...Hank and Bobby-style! Plus: From investigating haunted museums to dealing with lovesick dragon men, no mission is off limits for the original mutant heroes. See some of comics' top cartoonists take on Xavier's five! Collecting X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (2007) #1-5 and X-MEN: FIRST CLASS SPECIAL. 152 PGS./Rated A ...$13.99 * * * X-MEN: EMPEROR VULCAN TPB Written by CHRISTOPHER YOST Penciled by PACO DIAZ Cover by BILLY TAN It's brother versus brother and the outcome could decide the fate of billions. UNCANNY X-MEN: RISE AND FALL OF THE SHI'AR EMPIRE continues here! Vulcan is the Shi'Ar Emperor and Havok is leading the rebellious Starjammers. But who is really right and who is really wrong? Collecting X-MEN: EMPEROR VULCAN #1-5. 120 PGS./Rated T+ ...$13.99 * * * NEW MUTANTS CLASSIC VOL. 3 TPB Written by CHRIS CLAREMONT Penciled by BILL SIENKIEWICZ & BOB MCLEOD The New Mutants face a demon menace and befriend an alien misfit! A rock concert pulls them into the orbit of a multi-galaxy music star, then the team, with Cloak and Dagger, is drawn into a deadly exchange program...of super-powers! Plus: Hellfire Club intrigue and early steps on the path of reformation by Magneto! Action, romance, family reunions and a fairy tale! Anything else? Oh, right, guest-starring the X-Men! Collecting NEW MUTANTS #18-25 and ANNUAL #1. 256 PGS./Rated A ...$24.99 * * * DEADPOOL CLASSIC VOL. 1 TPB Written by FABIAN NICIEZA, ROB LIEFELD, MARK WAID & JOE KELLY Penciled by ROB LIEFELD, JOE MADUREIRA, IAN CHURCHILL, LEE WEEKS, KEN LASHLEY & ED MCGUINNESS He's the Merc with a Mouth, the Assassin with Elan, the Wryest Wisecracker of the Weapon X Program, now in a collection of his earliest sagas! Deadpool, with sidekick Weasel in tow, sets out on a quest for romance, money and mayhem - not necessarily in that order - only to learn he's being hunted by an enemy he killed years before! As if that isn't enough, the Juggernaut crashes into the action, and it's the unstoppable vs. the un-shut-up-able! But all may not be lost if the sultry Siryn can inject a little sanity into the proceedings! Will Deadpool be steered toward a better life by his new heartthrob, or stay the chaotic course he's set for himself? The answer is Yes! Guest-starring the New Mutants, Banshee, Sasquatch and more! Collecting NEW MUTANTS #98, DEADPOOL: THE CIRCLE CHASE #1-4, DEADPOOL (1994) #1-4 and DEADPOOL (1997) #1. 256 PGS./Rated A ...$29.99 * * * DEADPOOL VS. THE MARVEL UNIVERSE TPB Written by FABIAN NICIEZA & REILLY BROWN Penciled by REILLY BROWN Cover by SKOTTIE YOUNG With his best pal gone, Deadpool continues his trek through time and space, spreading friendship and mercenary whoop-&*$ throughout the cosmos. Featuring titanic team-ups with Wolverine, Captain America, Dr. Strange, Brother Voodoo, Ka-Zar and the Fantastic...Eight?! And in the unforgettable series finale, the dreaded Venom Symbiote has multiplied, and made some new friends of the prehistoric variety, giving the Merc with a Mouth his final opportunity to prove himself the ultimate hero - or the ultimate villain! Guest-starring Spider-Man! The Fantastic Four! The Mighty Avengers! And of course, those lovable goons from Agency X! Collecting CABLE & DEADPOOL #43-50. 192 PGS./Rated T+ ...$24.99 ESSENTIALS ESSENTIAL IRON MAN VOL. 3 TPB Written by ARCHIE GOODWIN, MIMI GOLD, ALLYN BRODSKY & GERRY CONWAY Penciled by GEORGE TUSKA, JOHNNY CRAIG, DON HECK & GENE COLAN Shellhead's rogues gallery grows during his first faceoffs with the Controller, Mordecai Midas, Firebrand and Spymaster -- all enemies destined to plague him for years to come! Meanwhile, Tony Stark splits his life among LMD impostors, but will he lose his heart to Madame Masque? Plus: attacks by aliens, androids, organized crime and more! Guest-starring Daredevil, the Avengers and S.H.I.E.L.D.! Collecting IRON MAN #12-38 and DAREDEVIL #73. 592 PGS./All Ages ...$16.99