Marvel
*New Series, Starts October 2012*
*New Series Starting March 2012*
*10 issue series Coming March 2013*
For years the heroes of the Marvel Universe have lived in fear that the artificial intelligence known as Ultron would one day evolve to fulfill its desire to wipe out all organic life and take over the Earth -- that day has arrived. This massive 10-part Marvel Universe-spanning event is brought to you by Eisner award-winning writer Brian Michael Bendis and comics legend Bryan Hitch.
*New Ongoing Series, Starts November 2012*
Marvel NOW! ongoing relaunch. All-New X-Men #1 written by Brian Bendis with art by Stuart Immonen.
*5-Issue mini-series, starts February 2013*
Andy Maguire is back and starring in an Alpha miniseries starting in February, from the creative team of I, Vampire writer Joshua Hale Fialkov and Marvel Universe: Ultimate Spider-Man artist Nuno Plati. The five-issue story sees Alpha moving to Pittsburgh yet Maguire will still have ties to Peter Parker and New York City.
Ongoing
*New series starts July 2013*
AVENGERS A.I. #1
SAM HUMPHRIES (W) • ANDRE LIMA ARAUJO (A)
HARDER. BETTER. FASTER. STRANGER.
• The triumph of Hank Pym turns to tragedy for the human race...an unfathomable Pandora’s Box of destruction!
• When a brave new world is unleashed, only one team of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes can save us from the future – AVENGERS A.I.!
• THE VISION! HANK PYM! VICTOR MANCHA! DOOMBOT! The mysterious ALEXIS! MONICA CHANG, AGENT OF S.H.I.E.L.D.!
• The AGE OF ULTRON is over! The AGE OF A.I. is NOW!
*New Ongoing Series Starting December*
*Ongoing Series
ALL-NEW CREATIVE TEAM WITH ALL-NEW OUTSIZED ADVENTURES!
*One-shot coming May 2013*
THE OPENING SALVO TO THE HOTLY ANTICIPATED AVENGERS/CAPTAIN MARVEL FOUR PART EVENT!
• Can’t keep a good Captain down!
• Vicious echoes of the Avengers’ past are cropping up all over Manhattan…and a grounded Captain Marvel refuses to be left behind.
• Who is the sinister figure behind these incursions and what does it have to do with Carol Danvers’ mysterious condition?
• But is this villain real or just a figment of Captain Marvel’s increasingly deadly imagination?
*New Ongoing Series Starting April 2012*
*New Series - Starts November 2011
This is what you’ve been waiting for! The return of legendary artist Joe Madureira (X-Men, Battle Chasers) and fan-favorite Spidey writer Zeb Wells in a brand new, highly anticipated, monthly Spider-series that teams the wall-crawler up with some of the greatest heroes in the Marvel Universe. In our first issue, Spider-Man and Red Hulk take on a Moloid army during the New York Marathon! Stay safe until November because you’ll want to be here!
*One-shot starts July 2013*
ROY THOMAS & GERRY CONWAY (W)
NEAL ADAMS & MIKE SEKOWSKY (A)
Cover by NEAL ADAMS
• Black Bolt, monarch of the Inhumans, wanders the streets of San Francisco — his memory stolen and his identity forgotten!
• Maximus the Mad has usurped the throne — and Medusa, Gorgon and Karnak are forced to flee the Inhumans’ hidden city!
• What strange new force has wiped Black Bolt’s mind?
• When he’s targeted by criminals, revolutionaries and the mutant called Magneto, will his fellow Inhumans find him in time?
• Guest-starring Thor and the Avengers!
New Series | July 2011
*New Ongoing Series, Starts December 2012*
Cable is back! NOW! with a new X-Force at his side, he must tackle the threats that nobody else can know about. But just who are Cable’s new recruits, and why is his team public enemy number one? Caught red-handed at the scene of a terrorist attack on a major American corporation whose CEO has expressed anti-mutant views, the X-Force is the run, with none other than the Uncanny Avengers in hot pursuit.
*New Ongoing Series, Starts November 2012*
Marvel NOW! ongoing relaunch. Captain America #1 written by Rick Remender with art by John Romita Jr..
Ongoing Series | July 2011
Captain America Teams Up with...
*New Ongoing Series Starting July*
*5 issue mini-series starting December 2012*
• An all new miniseries based on the hit ABC show Castle!
• The Derrick Storm adaptations continue!
• Who is The Fear and what does he want with Derrick Storm?
• Clara Strike returns!
New Ongoing Series | July 2011
*8 issue mini-series starts June 2013*
Lee Weeks (W/A/C)
• A gorgeous new series featuring the greatest talents in comics brings you the rest of the Man Without Fear’s story
• Legendary artist Lee Weeks returns to his favorite hero for “Angels Unaware!”
• A blizzard brings New York to a stand still -- and a young patient lies on death’s door unless Daredevil can get to him in time!
*8 Issue Miniseries Starting In October*
• Revealed at last…how it ends for the Man without Fear!
• In the near future, investigative reporter Ben Urich has one last story to write – what was Matt Murdock’s the final secret?
• A story years in the making brought to you by some of the greatest creators in Daredevil history!
The Thunderbolts are a Marvel Comics superhero team, which consists mostly of former supervillains. The Thunderbolts were first presented as a group of superheroes like the Avengers, both to readers and to the Marvel universe, who became heroes to help protect the world when the Avengers were declared dead after the events of the 1996 "Onslaught" crossover. However the final page of the first issue of their comic book revealed that the Thunderbolts were the Masters of Evil in disguise, a surprise twist carefully guarded by Marvel. Ongoing
*New Ongoing Series, Starts November 2012*
Marvel NOW! ongoing relaunch. Deadpool #1 with the writing team of comedians Brian Posehn and Gerry Duggan and art from Tony Moore (The Walking Dead), the Merc with the Mouth is being positioned once more as a major player in the Marvel Universe.
*4 issue mini-series starts July 2013*
CULLEN BUNN (W) • SALVA ESPIN (A)
Cover by MICHAEL DEL MUNDO
• The final act of the Deadpool Killogy begins!
• Deadpool sets his sites on the ultimate target...himself!
• Contains over 700% of your daily recommended Deadpool!
*4 issue mini-series starting January 2013*
• Deadpool has already killed every hero in the Marvel Universe.
• He isn't through.
• This time...Deadpool's gonna take most famous characters in classic literature!
• YOU NEVER KNEW HOW BADLY YOU NEEDED THIS SERIES!
*5 issue mini-series starts July 2013*
JEFF LINSDAY (W)
DALIBOR TALAJIC (A)
AN ALL-NEW DEXTER ADVENTURE—HIS 1st TIME IN COMIC BOOK FORM—
WRITTEN BY HIS CREATOR, AUTHOR JEFF LINDSAY!
• Dexter Morgan isn’t just Miami’s #1 forensic blood splatter expert...he’s also a serial killer who targets other serial killers!
• In this issue, Dexter faces his worst nightmare: his high school reunion!
• Plus, Dexter faces his other worst nightmare: a former classmate with a secret that could destroy him!
*New Ongoing Series, Starts November 2012*
Marvel NOW! ongoing relaunch. FF #1 written by Matt Fraction with art by Mike Allred.
FF's lineup is certainly the most surprising part of the story. Gone are the Richards kids and their freaky friends. Instead, the Future Foundation team will be lead by Ant-Man, with She-Hulk (Jen type), Medusa the queen of the Inhumans, and Miss Thing.
*New Ongoing Series, Starts November 2012*
Marvel NOW! ongoing relaunch. Fantastic Four #1 written by Matt Fraction with art by Mark Bagley.
This unit is much more than just a team. It's the first family, and we're putting family first. We're taking the family, kids and all, on a field trip. Thanks to the trip format, every issue will be a one-and-done adventure.
*New series, starts February 2013*
From the creative team of writer Cullen Bunn (The Sixth Gun, Venom) and, artist Will Sliney (MacGyver, Farscape). The book stars the unlikely duo of Valkyrie and Misty Knight, and is something of a follow-up to the Fear Itself: The Fearless miniseries, which also starred Valkyrie and featured Bunn as lead writer.
*5 Issue Miniseries Starting August*
• X-Men legend Neal Adams returns to Marvel’s Mutants!
• The secret history of the X-Men...BEFORE Xavier’s team!
• Starring Wolverine & Sabretooth!
*New Series Coming In May*
• Garth Ennis (Punisher MAX, Preacher) and Goran Parlov (Punisher MAX) reunite to bring you the life of Marvel’s hardest soldier like no one else could.
• In the wake of World War II, Fury is fast running out of battles to fight. But the world’s superpowers are gearing up for a new kind of war and they’ll need a man like Fury to win it.
*New Ongoing Series Starting August*
• When Marvel’s premiere thief sets his sights on his biggest score yet, he may just end up over his head. It’s going to take more than just playing cards and southern charm to get out of this one!
•BONUS! Bella Donna is NOT in this issue!
*New series, starts February 2013*
Move over Avengers...the Guardians got this.
Star-Lord. Gamora. Drax. Rocket Raccoon. Groot. ...and the Invincible Iron Man?! Starting with issue #0.1.
The Marvel Universe just got bigger as the legendary cosmic epic returns in the hands of superstar creators Brian Michael Bendis (Avengers, All-New X-Men) and Steve McNiven (Civil War; Old Man Logan).
*New Ongoing Series Starting August*
• The breakout star of this summer’s blockbuster AVENGERS film and self-made hero Hawkeye fights for justice!
• With ex-Young Avenger Kate Bishop by his side, he’s out to prove himself as one of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes!
• Matt Fraction & David Aja (IMMORTAL IRON FIST) reunite to tell the on-going tales of the Arrow-Avenger!
*One-Shot starts July 2013*
MATT FRACTION (W) • JAVIER PULIDO (A/C)
• Go west, young lady! Kate Bishop heads to Los Angeles -- to get away from New York, life, and Clint Barton—but NOT trouble!
• But Madame Masque is hanging out at poolside with the rich and famous as well!
• Who is Kate Bishop? Find out alongside Kate Bishop herself as a wild new status quo comes to HAWKEYE.
*New Ongoing Series, Starts November 2012*
This November, prepare for an all-new definition of incredible as Indestructible Hulk #1 kicks off the all-new ongoing series from the blockbuster creative team of Eisner Award Winning writer Mark Waid superstar artist Leinil Yu!
Hulk - Indestructible force more weapon than man. Banner – smartest man alive. Combined they are the Strongest, Smartest Weapon on the planet! And NOW! the INDESTRUCTIBLE HULK is an Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.!
*New Ongoing Series, Starts November 2012*
Marvel NOW! ongoing relaunch. Iron Man #1 will be hitting November 2012 with the new team of Kieron Gillen and Greg Land.
The story will focus on Tony questioning things about himself and trying to find out exactly how the universe ticks and what it's all about. It will explore Tony and his relationship with women. Heres a complicated guy and he does bad things occasionally without thinking.
*4 issue mini-series, Starts May 2013*
Micheline. Layton. Two voices that defined Iron Man come together to tell the untold story of his most dire hour – Armor Wars 2!
*3 issue mini-series starting January 2013*
• The perfect prelude to the upcoming highly-anticipated Marvel Studios film, Iron Man 3
• As Tony Stark prepares for his next venture, he tasks War Machine with a mission of his own.
• War Machine faces his biggest test as a hero, while Iron Man takes on the Battle of New York!
*One-shot coming May 2013*
• Iron Man meets his match with the Malevolent Melter!
• With technology similar to Iron Man’s, will the Melter bring the downfall of Stark Industries?
• It’s a battle of wits and might with Iron Man and War Machine leading the charge!
• Relive an old battle between Iron Man and the Melter in the classic reprinting of Iron Man #72!
*8 issue mini-series, Starts May 2013*
*4 Issue Miniseries Starting October*
• In MARVEL UNIVERSE VS THE PUNISHER we journeyed through the ruins of our world.
• In the Bram Stoker Award-nominated MARVEL UNIVERSE vs. WOLVERINE we witnessed the fall.
• MARVEL UNIVERSE VS THE AVENGERS is the war. Some worlds can’t be saved. All worlds can be avenged.
*New series starting January 2013*
Morbius....the hunted, haunted fugitive.
Morbius...the dead souled scientist.
Morbius...the Living Vampire.
Somewhere inside Doctor Michael Morbius is a good man who just needs a second chance. After escaping from The Raft in Amazing Spider-Man 699.1, Morbius is scraping desperately through each day trying to carve out a life in a world that has turned its back on him. However his redemption...may be worse than his sin.
*New Miniseries Starting In September*
Who is Nemesis? The first person to take on the name was an electronics billionaire using his fortune to prey on ordinary people from behind a mask. Now, after his death, a new predator will emerge—and this time, readers get a peek behind the curtain for an unflinching look at how it all came to be. From the creative team behind Marvel’s Civil War event.
*New series starting January 2013*
To prevent the collision of our universe with another, the Illuminati, led by the Black Panther, must assemble NOW! It's the most powerful and brilliant team in the Marvel Universe--The Black Panther, Iron Man, Doctor Strange, Black Bolt, Mister Fantastic, Namor the Sub-Mariner and The Beast--against an infinite legion of parallel realities.
*New series, starts February 2013*
The Human Rocket returns!
You’ve followed him through the history making (and changing!) AvX and now the mystery of the all-new Nova are revealed in this breathtaking new ongoing by the best-selling, award winning team of Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness (RED HULK, Avengers X-Sanction).
*Hardcover book coming May 2013*
*5 issue mini-series starting January 2013*
A FIVE-PART, FIVE WEEK PUNISHER EVENT!
• A Special Forces soldier is injured and his family killed in the midst of a mob execution in Central Park, but this isn't Frank Castle. This time it's a young soldier named JAKE NIMAN, but the familiar story puts Frank on the path of punishment!
• As Jake Niman heals from his wounds, why is he growing strangely stronger?
• And who is the mysterious Johnny Nightmare?
• Bullets fly, anarchy reigns, allies become enemies, the Punisher becomes the punished, and no one is safe!!!
