Mark Chiarello
Author
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When high school student Audrey Perez moves to a town that's supposedly home to a haunted mansion, she and a few of her new friends decide to investigate. Audrey is quickly swept up in a macabre mystery and eerie adventure that holds the fate of the Haunted Mansion's 999 happy haunts in the balance. A storm is coming--both literally and figuratively--and it'll be up to Audrey and her friends to save the Mansion--and its ghosts--before it's too late....
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Language
English
Description
"What turns a country boy into the world's greatest hero? Told through the course of four seasons in the Man of Steel's adolescent life, this collection illustrates that it is the person, not the powers, that makes Superman a hero. The catalyst for the "Smallville" television program, Superman for all Seasons is emotional and insightful, humanizing the alien from another planet so that he is not only realistic but also relatable. It also features...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dark Horse Comics, LLC
Language
English
Description
The Hellboy saga begins--with over 300 pages drawn by Mignola! For the first time, Hellboy's complete story is presented in chronological order for the ultimate reading experience. The story jumps from Hellboy's mysterious World War II origin to his 1994 confrontation with the man who summoned him to earth, and the earliest signs of the plague of frogs. Avoiding his supposed fate as the herald of the end of the world, Hellboy continues with the...
Author
Publisher
Aftershock Comics
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Years in the making, this is the true story of writer Peter Calloway's grandfather, Nathaniel Calloway, a Black man who graduated from medical school in the early 1930s. Unable to get work at any Chicago hospital (because he was Black) and unable to secure a loan from a bank to start his own practice (because he was Black), Nathaniel turned to the only other source of money in Prohibition-era Chicago: the Mafia, run by none other than Al Capone.
Author
Series
Hellboy library editions volume 1
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
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Description
Hellboy, when sent to investigate a supernatural mystery, discovers the details of his origins, including the link to Nazi occultists who sought to develop a demonic avatar, and later investigates a murder which leads to Romanian castles, a vampire, and more of Hellboy's past.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The comics adaptation created by Mike Mignola and based on the film from Columbia Pictures (Sony) and Zoetrope Studios returns to print after a decades-long absence. Mike Mignola is one of the most popular comic book artists of the past thirty years, known for such important works as Batman: Gotham by Gaslight, Cosmic Odyssey, and, of course,Hellboy. Considered to be among Mignola's greatest works, Bram Stoker's Dracula was his last project before...
10) Terminal City
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Venture back into Dean Motter and Michael Lark's Terminal City in this oversized library edition! The city has been in decline since a group of celebrated adventurers--Kid Gloves, the boxer; Monty Vickers, the explorer; Eno Orez, the Man of 1,000 faces, and Cosmo Quinn, the human fly--each disappeared into obscurity. Now, a series of strange mysteries brings the four men together once again. with explosive results! This new edition of Motter and...
11) Marshal Law
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Series about a futuristic law official charged with policing super-heroes gone rogue by any means necessary, all while fighting his own self-hatred for being the thing he hates most: a super-hero.
Publisher
IDW
Pub. Date
2013-2014
Language
English
Description
"Jack is back! The hit TV show turned hit comic book returns in this collection of classic Samurai Jack stories. Kicking off with Jack's origin story and continuing through the first of his "Cartoon Network Action Pack" tales, see Jack's first battle with Aku as the events that propel the entire series unfold! It's sword-swinging, fist-pumping, vengeance getting action at its best" --
Series
Superman/Batman omnibus volume 1
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]-
Language
English
Description
"The greatest team-up in comics is now in a new hard cover omnibus collection! The iconic super-heroes unite when longtime Superman enemy Lex Luthor, now president of the United States, accuses Superman of a crime against humanity, and assembles a top-secret team of powerhouse heroes to bring Superman in -- dead or alive. Plus, prepare for the arrival of Supergirl! Batman has discovered something strange on the bottom of Gotham Bay, which leads him...
14) The 'Nam
Author
Publisher
Marvel
Pub. Date
2009-
Language
English
Description
"Don't worry about choosing sides, because this far into the heart of darkness things get pretty gray. Follow Private Ed Marks and his fellow soldiers through a jungle of blood, lies, betrayal, and valor. It's the war that defined a generation, where the heroes may not be super, but they're all too human."--Amazon.com