Coming Up: Marvel's Solid Gold Super Heroes: Captain America, Human Torch, Sub-Mariner, and way beyond!

Out Jan. 28. Pre-order from Amazon now.

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Captain America, Human Torch, Sub-Mariner! PLUS a bountiful bevy of obscure heroes like Blazing Skull, Blonde Phantom, Terror, Sun Girl, Marvel Boy and... the yellow-costumed Whizzer! This stunning, ginormous-format coffee-table book is brought to you by the Yoe Books/IDW titanic team who gave you the rousingly acclaimed Super Weird Heroes books! True Believers, face front as we look back at the pulse-pounding super heroes who are the bodacious bedrock of the Mighty Marvel Universe!

Pop Pic: Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck


New Comics Day: Alex Toth; Creepy Archives; Tomb of Dracula; X-Men Epic Collection

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Alex Toth's significance to comics and animation art cannot be overstated. During his career, he was the comic industry's foremost proponent of modern design and composition. Starting in 1950, his work influenced almost every one of his contemporaries, and has continued to work its magic on the generations that followed. In animation, his 1960s model sheets for Hanna-Barbera are still passed around as swipe sources from animator to young animator in the 21st Century. 

Included are complete stories from the 1950s and beyond, recently discovered color animation storyboards and presentation drawings, sketches and doodles, industrial comics, and individual pages from obscure comics and magazines. It's a treasure trove that makes a fitting companion to the Eisner Award-winning Alex Toth: Genius trilogy.



Collects Creepy magazines #140 to #145.

Supernatural dream team Marv Wolfman, Gene Colan and Al Williamson reopen the Tomb of Dracula in this prestige-format series for Marvel's Epic imprint - collected for the first time! Dracula is dead...but his last living descendant, Frank Drake, is being manipulated by a shadowy occult investigator - who plans to revive the lord of the vampires! But when Dracula comes roaring back to life, can Blade the Vampire Hunter be far behind? The vampire king is once again free to stalk the earth, but the world has changed much in his absence. As Dracula targets Frank's wife Marlene and concocts a gruesome scheme to obtain power via human sacrifice, can Drake, Blade and their ragtag band return him to his eternal grave? Experience Dracula's terrifying return in this lavishly illustrated tale of horror!
COLLECTING: TOMB OF DRACULA (1991) 1-4

Continuing the saga of Marvel's original mutant team, we bring you the most unusual X-Men adventures ever! Pushed undercover by anti-mutant paranoia, Hank McCoy sets off on his own, taking a research job. But his scientific curiosity will curse him forever when an experiment gone wrong turns him into a fanged, furry, blue Beast. Meanwhile, the other X-Men fi nd themselves pursued by a secret adversary that seeks to pick them off one by one. They must join forces with Captain America to save the nation and rescue their mutant comrades. Also featuring the fi rst appearances of Wolverine, the top-secret Weapon X program and Madrox the Multiple Man, an X-Men/Avengers battle against Magneto, and a host of x-tra rare X-Men covers!
COLLECTING: VOL. 4; X-MEN (1963) 67-93, ANNUAL (1970) 1-2; AMAZING ADVENTURES (1970) 11-17; AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (1963) 92; INCREDIBLE HULK (1968) 150, 161, 172, 180-182; MARVEL TEAM-UP (1972) 4, 23; AVENGERS (1963) 110-111; CAPTAIN AMERICA (1968) 172-175; DEFENDERS (1972) 15-16; GIANT-SIZE FANTASTIC FOUR (1974) 4

Coming Up: History of the Marvel Universe Treasury Edition

Out Feb. 25. Pre-order from Amazon now.

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The Marvel Universe is a sprawling, interconnected web of rich history...and now, it's all coming together! Writer Mark Waid and artist Javier Rodriguez chronicle the definitive history of the Marvel Universe from its very beginnings to the modern day - and perhaps beyond! And woven through the moments you know is a brand-new tale featuring previously unknown secrets and shocking revelations, connecting dozens of threads from the Marvel Universe's past and present! From the Big Bang to the twilight of existence, this sweeping saga covers every significant Marvel event and provides fresh looks at the origins of every fan's favorite stories! It's the greatest tale ever told -and a story you've never seen before!

COLLECTING: HISTORY OF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE 1-6


Pop Pic: Tim Conway


Check it out: Stan Lee "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" figure from Hot Toys

Sad this comes so close (maybe a little too close?) to Stan's passing, but it's kinda fun and - like all of the Hot Toys line - looks uncannily realistic. More info here.


Pop Pic: Dave Davies


New Comics Day: Weirdworld

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There's nowhere weirder than Weirdworld - just ask elves Tyndall and Velanna, and their dwarf ally, Mud-Butt! They've already had several adventures in this magical land, but when a powerful wizard turns the trio's lives upside down once again, the troubled troupe are forced to undertake another deadly quest - in search of the magic blade known as the Glorywand! Goblins, dragons and the undead lie in wait as their epic journey across Weirdworld begins - but who is the Dragonmaster of Klarn? Plus, relive Weirdworld's debut and Tyndall's fateful first meeting with Velanna, when the out-worlder elf reluctantly undertakes a deadly mission to track down - and eliminate - the very heart of evil!
COLLECTING: MATERIAL FROM EPIC ILLUSTRATED 9, 11-13; MARVEL SUPER ACTION (1976) 1