Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Hulk; Spider-Verse; Fangs; Nat Turner

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, lots of Hulk. The Spider-Verse and the Venomverse. Plus Fangs, Kyle Baker’s Nat Turner and Grant Morrison’s New X-Men.

Where did the New Releases and Sale pages go?

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DC Housekeeping

Halfway through May and no new DC sales. One “not quite sale” at the end of April. That’s all there’s been since March. All appearances are that DC has changed their digital strategy and do not wish to offer proper discounts. It doesn’t look like the handful of seemingly random items in the Under $5 Page have been updated… not that we were expecting an update. We’d love to be wrong, but this looks like it’s anything but a short term absence. Perhaps in a couple months if they don’t like their monthly totals, otherwise the question will be whether they return for the holidays the way Image does in the early Fall?

Hulk Is Cheapest There Is

Planet Hulk  Immortal Hulk  Incredible Hulk

The Marvel Hulk Sale runs through Monday, 5/26.

And what we have here is basically a Hulk Legacy sale, although this is another of those Marvel sales that omits both the Masterworks and the Epic Collections, which really takes a lot of the first series off the discount table.

Let’s run down the various titles.

  • Incredible Hulk (1962 – 1999) The original run and then the long running series that picked up a few years later.
  • Tales to Astonish (1964-68) In between the two Hulk solo runs above, Hulk was splitting Tales to Astonish with Ant-Man/Giant Man and then Namor. A lot of the foundational work was really in this run, with Stan Lee/Steve Ditko responsible for a lot of it. Included for the sake of completeness, for you shall find no discounts here
  • Incredible Hulk (1999-2007) – Best known for the Bruce Jones / Lee Weeks/ Mike Deodato run towards the beginning and the Greg Pak / multi-artist “Planet Hulk” and “World War Hulk” epics at the end… though World War Hulk is at this different link.
  • Hulk (2008-13) This is the Red Hulk run (and the title changes to that after awhile). It starts out with the better known Jeph Loeb/Ed Mc Guiness run and then Jeff Parker takes over with Gabriel Hardman, Dave Eaglesham and Patrick Zircher in the artist rotation.
  • Incredible Hulk by Jason Aaron (2011-12) – Lots of artists rotating through here, Marc Silvestri, Steve Dillon and Carlos Pacheco among them
  • Indestructible Hulk (2012 – 14) – Mark Waid’s the writer with an artist rotation including Leinil Francis Yu, Matteo Scalera and Walt Simonson draws the Thor team-up.
  • Hulk by Waid and Duggan (2014-15) – That would be Mark Waid and Gerry Duggan with Duggan doing the bulk of the run. Mark Bagley is the main artist here.
  • Immortal Hulk (2018-21) – Al Ewing’s masterpiece as the Hulk slides over towards horror and find a green door that leads to Hell.
  • Hulk (2021-23) – The Donny Cates / Ryan Ottley run
  • The Incredible Hulk (2023 – present) – Phillip Kennedy Johnson / Nic Klein

For the main series, you can’t go wrong with the Peter David years and the Bill Mantlo era seems to have gained fans over the years.

The sequence from Planet Hulk to World War Hulk is highly enjoyable.

Let’s be real – Immortal Hulk is a masterpiece. Highly recommended with an approach almost like Gerber’s Man-Thing or Moore’s Swamp Thing.

We’re really enjoying the current run, too. It’s a return to horror, like the Immortal Hulk run, but it feels a bit more like the Bruce Jones run. Banner is on the run, but this time the conspiracy pursuing him is supernatural in nature. Nic Klein is doing ridiculously good work on this title, too.

Two Verses

Spider-Verse  Spider-Man Vol. 1: End Of The Spider-Verse  Venomverse

The Marvel Spider-Verse/Venom-Verse Sale runs through Monday, 5/19.

Spider-Verse is basically a celebration of the Spider-Man cast expanding with a lot of Spidey-related characters and then throwing in some Spidey-equivalents from different dimensions. Miles Morales being the most important one, important enough to be ported into the main “616” universe when the Ultimate line was shuttered.

Spider-Verse was the original Spider-Man family event in the comics that formalized much of this. You’re best off getting the omnibus edition that has the entire thing and all the crossovers, else it gets complicated figuring out reading order between the various series-specific collections.  There are a ton of creators working on this, as you might expect, but this is effectively a Dan Slott as show-runner affair. (Which means, yes, Christos Gage is not far behind.)

Edge of the Spider-Verse sets up the eventual sequel.

Spider-Man Vol. 1: End Of The Spider-Verse – Dan Slott / Mark Bagley; is the sequel which claims to end everything as Morlun returns.

And much like you can’t get a child a gift and not expect their sibling to demand one, Venom has his own spin on this:

  • Venomverse – Cullen Bunn / Iban Coello; Enter the venomized heroes
  • Death Of The Venomverse – Cullen Bunn / Gerardo Sandoval; The Carnage symbiote travels the multiverse to kill all Venoms
  • Venomverse Reborn – Anthology of various Venoms across the multiverse

Unannounced Sales

New X-Men  Fangs  Nat Turner

As usual, we’re not 100% sure how long this discounts will stick around.

Additionally, it looks like most of the Star Wars and Thor material from recent weeks is still on sale. The Under $5 Page has the lower priced volumes. Go back a couple columns for the links to find the Epic Collections.

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales – A Pulitzer Prize Winning OGN; Captain Marvel; The Oatmeal

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, we see a deep discount on this year’s Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel… not an everyday occurrence. Plus, Captain Marvel and The Oatmeal.

Where did the New Releases and Sale pages go?

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DC Housekeeping

The topic of DC’s departure from the deals page has been a very pointed topic of conversation in our circles for roughly 6 weeks. Yes, they technically had a Superman sale a couple weeks ago, but it was a decidedly weak offering and we have yet to meet someone familiar with that “sale” who wasn’t irate about the attempt to pass off a $17.99 digital edition of All-Star Superman as a bargain. DC may have created some integrity questions with that stunt.

As we type this, DC has failed to have a formal sale in May and we have not been able to locate any unannounced sales outside of some very random volumes in the $5 & Under section (which may be old listings and/or oversights on DC’s part) and we’ve been seeing those Superman discounts, such as they were, revert back to digital list price. We’re willing to give it one more week before declaring DC has sworn off discounts, but this is now the longest stretch we’ve seen DC abstain and it’s not looking good. They might not want our business.

Not A Big Red Cheese?

Captain Marvel  Captain Marvel  Captain Marvel

The Captain Marvel Sale runs through Monday, 5/12.

This would be the Carol Danvers sale (as opposed to the Mar-Vell sale).

OK… brace yourselves… this one has a ton of relaunches:

We think that’s the overly complicated chronology, anyway. For recommendations, we’re not really experts on this set of books, but we’re inclined to say go with the Thompson run. Kelly Sue DeConnick has a very dedicated fanbase, so maybe browse the sample pages there and see if that catches your fancy, too?

DC Buried Discounts

Batman: Streets of Gotham  Hitman  Justice League: Last Ride

From the $5 & Under section: we’re not sure if these prices are soon to change or not.

Unannounced Sales

Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir  How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You (The Oatmeal Book 2)

As usual, we’re not 100% sure how long this discounts will stick around.

The Marvel “Maybe” Sales

Phases of the Moon Knight

The trend continues. New releases at lower than expected price points and discounted pre-orders. Is this the new normal? We’re not sure, but let’s run them down.

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: The May the Fourth Star Wars Sale(s); Thor; Godzilla; Wool

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, it’s May the Fourth with Star Wars getting discounts at both Marvel and Dark Horse. Marvel also slashes prices on nearly the full run of Thor and unannounced sales ranging from Godzilla to Superman: Son of Kal-El.

Where did the New Releases and Sale pages go?

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Nothing But Star Wars

Star Wars  Darth Vader Star Wars: The High Republic

The Marvel Star Wars May the 4th Sale runs through Monday, 5/12.

First, let’s run through the highlights. These are mostly the current Marvel Star Wars titles, not the Dark Horse or original Marvel runs.

Recommendations? For whatever reason, Darth Vader seems to bring out the best in Marvel. Those first two series with Gillen and Soule, especially. Is it a coincidence Lucasfilm hired Charles Soule as a creative consultant?

Your under the radar title is Kanan. A very solid series from one the Star Wars Rebels producers and we no longer have to introduce Pepe Larraz, do we?

Sturm und Hammer?

Thor - The Wrath of Odin  Thor by Walt Simonson  Thor Road to War of the Realms

Marvel’s Thor Sale runs  through Monday, 5/12.

Pretty much the full Thor line, with the caveat that the Marvel Masterworks volumes are not on sale, which is to say, Epic Collections are your friend.

As per our custom, here’s the breakdown by series/volume:

  • Journey Into Mystery ’52-’66 – The earliest Thor stories from Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
  • The Mighty Thor ’66-’96 – From Lee & Kirby until the relaunches started
  • The Mighty Thor ’96-’04 – The Heroes return Dan Jurgens era, initially with John Romita, Jr.
  • Thor ’07-’11 – Starts with J. Michael Straczynski & Olivier Coipel, ends with Matt Fraction & Pasqual Ferry. Gillen in the middle.
  • The Mighty Thor ’11-’12 – Fraction gets a relaunch with Coipel, Ferry and early Pepe Larraz
  • The Jason Aaron era ’12-’19 – It’s a LOT easer to look at the omnibuses across all the relaunches here
  • Thor ’20 to ’23 – The Donny Cates run with Nic Klein as the primary artist; Torunn GrØnbekk tags in towards the end while Cates was recovering from his accident (and filled in well, we might add).
  • Immortal Thor (’23 – current) – Al Ewing / Martin Coccolo;

If your point of reference for Thor is the last film, you want the Jason Aaron era. The God Butcher is the first arc. If you go with that set of omnibuses, Jane Foster picks up the hammer in V.2. We don’t think that starting with the first Jane Foster issues (and slimmer volumes) is a great jumping on point. It’s a saga and you’ll get a lot more out of it if you start at the beginning of Aaron’s run.

Past that, we’re all about the Walt Simonson Thor. It’s probably the most influential run since early days and it’s great. You’ll want the Thor Visionaries: Walter Simonson set that starts here. (The Thor by Walter Simonson version of the reprints seems to be missing the final volume, or at least the last few issues. *sigh* These things happen.)

We also like to go back to the original Lee/Kirby. Not too early. We’d say stay closer to where it changed from Journey Into Mystery to Thor. The first year of JIM was a little rough. The Wrath of Odin  Epic Collection is a good chunk of prime Lee/Kirby Thor and also features the first time Jane Foster was elevated to godhood, since it turns out to now be foreshadowing.

Something under the radar? Ignore this being marketed as a kid’s comic – Roger Langridge and Chris Samnee had a short run on Thor: The Mighty Avenger that was just a good Thor comic, full stop. And you might expect that from those two.

If you want to move in the opposite direction, Thor: Vikings is a seriously violent Marvel MAX title from Garth Ennis and Glenn Fabry that has Viking zombies invading Manhattan. (No, not Fleet Week. That’s different.)

We also have naught but love for the current Immortal Thor run.

Unannounced Sales

Star Wars: Tales from the Rancor Pit  Barbaric  Wool

First, the Dark Horse Star Wars section sticks around for May the Fourth.

And some more likely suspects:

The Marvel “Maybe” Sales

Fantastic Four Vs. Galactus  Kid Venom  Phases of the Moon Knight

The trend continues. New releases at lower than expected price points and discounted pre-orders. Is this the new normal? We’re not sure, but let’s run them down.

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Thunderbolts; Alien; Star Wars; Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, Marvel has discounts on Thunderbolts and Aliens. Dark Horse drops the prices on their current Star Wars line, and we talk a little about Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees.

Where did the New Releases and Sale pages go?

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Thunder. Thunder. Thunderca… Whoops, Wrong Series!

Thunderbolts  Winter Soldier  Taskmaster

The Marvel Thunderbolts Sale runs through Monday, 5/19.

Since the character mix in the film is a little different than the mix in the comics, we’re going to break this down by character…

The Thunderbolts have been through several iterations since they began in ’97, originally having been the Masters of Evil laying the groundwork for nefarious deeds. Judging by the previews, the film will be a little different from the comic.

Thunderbolts

The original series was written by Kurt Busiek and drawn by Mark Bagley. Eventually Fabian Nicieza tagged in as writer and Patrick Zircher became the lead artist a bit after that. Alas, these volumes jump around a bit after issue #50. The  omnibus editions are more complete, but aren’t on sale right now.

New Thunderbolts was the ’04-’06 relaunch, and yes, it’s included in the third omnibus of the original. Fabian Nicieza/Tom Grummett is the creative team, here.

This then turns back into (no adjective) Thunderbolts for ’06-’12, starting Nicieza/Grummett and then including runs by Warren Ellis / Mike Deodato and Jeff Parker/Kev Walker/Declan Shalvey

Thunderbolts relaunched for ’12-’14 with Daniel Way and then Charles Soule writing it. The artist rotation included Steve Dillon and Phil Noto.

Jim Zub and Jon Malin were behind the ’16-’17 Thunderbolts run.

’20 saw King in Black: Thunderbolts by Matthew Rosenberg/Gerry Duggan/Juan E. Ferreyra/Luke Ross.

’22 saw Thunderbolts: Back on Target by Jim Zub and Sean Izaakse.

The most recent volume in the sale is Thunderbolts: Worldstrike by Colin Kelly / Jackson Lanzing / Geraldo Borges.

With Thunderbolts, we feel pretty strongly you need to read the first sequence or two and get a flavor for the concept before jumping into the later evolutions.

Winter Soldier

The originating storyline runs in the 2004 series of Captain America by Ed Brubaker and a rotating squad of artists including Steve Epting, Michael Lark, Butch Guice and Mike Perkins. There are a couple omnibuses available, but this doesn’t really have a definitive larger collection like, say, the Hickman Avengers era. We’d probably point you to the Captain America Modern Era Epic Collection: The Winter Soldier volume. It’s a couple bucks more, but it gives you #1-19 straight through and that’s a very good run.

For solo series, the first choice is Winter Soldier by Ed Brubaker, which is Brubaker and Butch Guice in a spin-off.

Also of possible interest:

Taskmaster

    • Taskmaster: Anything You Can Do… – <all sorts of creators>; Taskmaster’s early villain appearances fighting the Avengers, Spidey, Daredevil, etc.
    • Taskmaster: The Rubicon Trigger – Jed MacKay / Alessandro Vitti; A very funny adventure finds Taskmaster blackmailed into doing a job for Nick Fury. Should he refuse, the Black Widow will likely hunt him down and kill him.

 U.S. Agent

    • Captain America Epic Collection: The Captain – Mark Gruenwald / Kieron Dwyer; The famous arc where former Super Patriot and soon-to-be U.S. Agent John Walker assumes the mantle of Captain America
    • U.S. Agent: American Zealot – Christopher Priest / Georges Jeanty; In something of a deadpan political satire, John Walker develops some issues with his handlers when sent to a small town threatened by a corporate entity… if only the optics matched reality. Smart, but you figured that with Priest involved.

The Sentry

The Sentry is a character that is not always used well in the comics. We’d stick to the original Paul Jenkins / Jae Lee series and the Paul Jenkins / John Romita, Jr. sequel.

Not of this Earth

The Marvel Aliens & Predators Sale runs through Monday, 4/28.

Alien  Aliens: What If...?  Aliens

It’s probably best to divide this into the Marvel section and the Dark Horse section.

On the Marvel side of the fence, we are big fans of the Philip Kennedy Johnson Alien sequence (V.1 & 2 here; then V. 3 here — yeah, we know… comics publishers need to work on the meta data) with Salvador Larroca, followed by Julius Ohta; is essentially one winding tale of Weyland-Yutani Corporation conspiracies that starts out with hiding a few of those eggs that couldn’t possibly get out of control, moves on to interstellar pioneers and religion, then comes back to the living conditions of rogue androids. Effective slow burn storytelling.

Also on the Marvel side:

  • Declan Shalvey’s Alien run
    • V.1 w/ Andrea Broccardo
    • V.2 w/Danny Earls
  • Aliens: What If…? –Paul Reiser /Leon Reiser / Adam F. Goldberg / Hans Rodionoff / Brian Volk-Weiss / Guiu Vilanova – Yes, that Paul Reiser (and son, and friends) returns to explore what would happen if his Aliens villain, Carter Burke, had survived the film

From the original Dark Horse material:

A Note on This One

Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees

“Amazon Book Sale: Limited time savings of up to 75% on select titles” – unknown duration.

This extra-eclectic sale appears to be intact for the time being and we should probably talk about Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees by Patrick Horvath. That was on this week’s reading list and it’s a very unusual book that lives up to the hype.

The elevator pitch is “Richard Scarry’s Dexter.” Which is to say, it’s drawn in an extra cute style reminiscent of children’s book legend Richard Scarry. A little more detail and fully rendered, but very Scarry. It (mostly) takes place in a happy little town, like the Scarry books. Except one of the residents is a serial killer who is alarmed when another serial killer turns up in town and goes on a very messy and public spree.

Hovarth even manages to get pacing and narrative style that’s similar to those children’s books… until it’s time to whip out the blood and swearing. This is from the Mouse Guard school of “it looks like a kid’s book until you get a little further in.” Is it a parody? Perhaps. It’s embracing the tradition more than mocking it, so we’d probably go with ironic pastiche.

This one isn’t going to be for everyone, but if that setup sounds appealing, you’ll probably love this. Excellence of execution and all. And we do mean execution. We hereby affirm the hype.

The discount could be better, but we just don’t see many discounts coming out of IDW these days.

Unannounced Sales

Star Wars: Tales from the Rancor Pit   Brandon Sanderson's Dark One  You Are Home

First, a Dark Horse Star Wars section. (May the Fourth is coming.)

And some more likely suspects:

The Marvel “Maybe” Sales

Deadpool Team-Up  Fantastic Four Vs. Galactus  Kid Venom

The trend continues. New releases at lower than expected price points and discounted pre-orders. Is this the new normal? We’re not sure, but let’s run them down.

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Avengers, Ultimate Universe, Superior Spider-Man, Superman, Elfquest

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, Marvel has the Avengers, Superior Spider-Man and the Ultimate Universe in individual sales, and then a 700 item sale that’s a bit more random. DC has a Superman sale… sort of. Plus, Elfquest and Murder on the Orient Express.

Where did the New Releases and Sale pages go?

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DC is Back… Sort Of

Superman: Red Son  Superman: Warworld Rising  Superman

The DC Superman Day 2025 Sale runs through Monday, 4/28.

These are not the DC prices we’ve been seeing since December. This is more in line with the apparent new pricing system we discussed last week (in fact, we’re pretty sure at least some of these prices were in place last week). Newer volumes are mostly around $8.99. Older volumes are lower.

Things at favorable price points:

The (mostly Action Comics-based) Superman: Warworld saga by Phillip Kennedy Johnson / Daniel Sampere / Riccardo Federici from a few years back:

We enjoyed that arc, which is quite a bit darker than Superman normally goes.

  • Superman: Ending Battle – Geoff Johns / Joe Casey / Joe Kelly / Mike Schultz / Pasqual Ferry; The Manchester Black saga
  • Superman: Braniac – Geoff Johns / Gary Frank; The ’08 reset of Brainiac and Kandor
  • Superman: Red Son – Mark Millar / Dave Johnson / Killian Plunkett; An Elseworlds that posits “What If baby Kal-El’s rocket landed in the Soviet Union?”

The current series is here, but note the price. Pay attention to all the prices here, actually.

And a note on that All-Star Superman listing: $17.99? Just say no. That’s ridiculous. First off, it’s a great example of the fallacy of basing digital discounts off a hardcover print list price. Second off, we suspect this is part of a pricing experiment and they want to see how many people are paying ZERO attention when something appears in a sale listing. One might wonder how they would describe their customers if this is something they want to test?

If you really have a (J’onn) jones for All-Star Superman, get the $8.83 version. (Yes, that’s a weird price, but that’s what it shows up as for us.) Or get the “Compact” edition in print for $9.29. We’ve got your Truth, Justice and the Cheap Way right here.

Avengers Assemble

Avengers Assemble

The Marvel Avengers Sale runs through Monday, 4/28

And this as pretty much everything except the Masterworks editions. (Hey, don’t look at us… we think that’s a strange omission, too.)

Let’s start about by breaking down the major series/titles on sale:

The Jonathan Hickman era

Avengers by Jonathan Hickman

The Hickman era is a little complicated, because his Avengers and New Avengers titles run together, so the Avengers by Jonathan Hickman collections are what we’d recommend for a more natural reading experience. Those collect both titles, plus tie-ins… and this is something were reading order counts.

But, this being Marvel collections, it get more complicated. The Avengers/New Avengers material (whichever format you read it in) is just one segment of Hickman’s tale. The story is continued in Avengers: Time Runs Out, which is the real last arc of Avengers and New Avengers. (And it’s in the “by Hickman” omnibuses.)

And all this funnels into Secret Wars, the true endgame of Hickman’s Avengers run… which, of course, is not included in the sale… but it is in Doctor Doom sale, this week only. (Stranger and stranger.)

The Hickman era really is it’s own beast. A lot of comics talk about having an “epic scale.” This one’s scope is staggering and the sheer size of the scope means it gets better and better as things progress in a way few comics really do. So just know that the entire era is effectively one extended story and it’s a real “in for a penny, in for a pound” thing.

The Jason Aaron era

Avengers

While not necessarily as complex as the Hickman era, there are a few different ways to read it:

Enter Jed MacKay

Avengers

And that brings us to the current Jed MacKay / C.F. Villa Avengers run.

What’s at the top of the list for recommendations?

For the classic series, there are a lot of good runs. The first Roy Thomas/John Buscema run, particularly around the introduction of The Vision. The Kree-Skrull War. Steve Englehart’s Run. Jim Shooter’s run. Roger Stern’s run, particularly when the team of John Buscema and Tom Palmer return. There is a ton of good stuff to look at. When we factor in price point and page count (some of the newer Epic Collections are a little more expensive), we keep coming back to The Final Threat. Steve Englehart/ Gerry Conway / Jim Shooter / George Perez / John Byrne / John Buscema / Sal Buscema. You get the return of Wonder Man, “The Private War of Doctor Doom,” and “Bride of Ultron” for the major arcs. It’s a nice cross-section of creators and stories for $6.99.  But really, it’s hard to go wrong with the Kree-Skrull War through ~#200, and then pick it up again for Roger Stern, particularly Stern/John Buscema/Tom Palmer. Stick around for Walt Simonson.

We’re also major fans of the Kurt Busiek / George Perez run that begins here. A second golden age that stands up with the best runs.

Let’s face it, there have been a lot of good Avengers runs.

Ultimate… Ultimate?

Ultimates Ultimate Fantastic Four Ultimate Comics - The Ultimates

The  Marvel Ultimate Universe Sale runs through Monday 4/21.

Yes, it’s the greater original Ultimate Universe… just without Spidey and X-Men.

There a bit more to the sale, but that’s the bulk of the highlights. What’s good? The Millar/Hitch Ultimates are hugely influential (especially to the film world). Ultimate FF absolutely has it’s moments. Not everybody realizes that the Marvel Zombies debuted in V. 3 (omnibus version) and are not played for laughs.  Now, we don’t often issue “avoid” warnings around here, but there are a couple things here that we’ll advise against. The Orson Scott Card Ultimate Iron Man? Don’t bother. It’s awful. Ultimatum? Nope! That very nearly killed the line. There are MUCH better things to read in this imprint than those two.

Superiority Complex

Superior Spider-Man Superior Spider-Man Companion Superior Spider-Man

The Marvel Superior Spider-Man Sale runs through Monday, 4/21.

Yes, that would be the run when Doctor Octopus took over Peter Parker’s body. One of the greatest moments of “wait… this is actually good” in recent history. (Everyone we knew winced at the high concept, but the execution was on the money!)

The primary Superior Spider-Man series by Dan Slott and Ryan Stegman is best packaged in the 2-volume Complete collection, that also includes the “Dying Wish” arc that sets up the run.

Superior Spider-Man Companion gets you the first 12 issues of Superior Spider-Man Team-Up and some tie-in issues.

Superior Spider-Man (’18-’19) is the Christos Gage / Mike Hawthorne revival that returns Otto Octavious to his Spidey persona.

And for something a little different? The absolutely hilarious Superior Foes of Spider-Man by Nick Spencer & Steve Lieber. Boomerang tries to organize a gang of Spidey’s b-list foes and make a big score. Things… do not go as intended. Think an even more absurd Dortmunder novel with super villains and you won’t be far off.

A New Sale Page?

Fall of the House of X  G.O.D.S.  Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees

“Amazon Book Sale: Limited time savings of up to 75% on select titles” – unknown duration.

Don’t expect 75% off too many things here. Some of the discounts are decidedly slight… and yes, there are some odd price points.

Of particular interest:

Interesting, but the discount is slight… then again, you don’t see IDW discounted much, these days:

If you like single issues there are a ton of Ablaze titles, including their own take on Conan which have enjoyed from time to time.

Hidden *Marvel* Sales

Darth Vader  Miracleman Wolverine

You might miss the “Marvel Up To 60% Off Sale” because it looks like an ad.

A quick and dirty list of things we found in it. Yes, some of this feels like the May the Fourth Be With You sale is early. No clue how long it lasts, but it appears to have 702 items in it, so perhaps worth a browse over the weekend. Also, Miracleman gets a discount less often than other titles…

Unannounced Sales

Elfquest  Money Shot  Murder on the Orient Express

The Marvel “Maybe” Sales

Fantastic Four  Ultimate Black Panther  Deadpool Team-Up

The trend continues. New releases at lower than expected price points and discounted pre-orders. Is this the new normal? We’re not sure, but let’s run them down.

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Something’s Going On With DC’s Prices

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, there seem to be some changes in DC’s digital pricing.

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DC’s Unannounced Price Changes

Batman by Ed Brubaker  Green Lantern  Wonder Woman by Gail Simone

We’ve been hearing quite a bit from people wondering why DC hasn’t had a sale listed on the Deals page in a couple weeks. We’d been wondering that, too. Looking into it, it seems like DC may be changing their digital pricing structure on older collections (their backlist, if you prefer industry jargon). What we’re about to say is based on our observations on pricing on the afternoon of 4/11/25. These things do have a way of changing.

It appears that DC may be in the process of changing the list price for backlist “regular” collections to $9.99 across the board. What’s old enough to be considered backlist? It appears to be something like 6 or 7 months. Not all prices have changed, so this may still be working it’s way through the Amazon database. Some of the omnibus editions are also $9.99, some are higher.

If DC is in the middle of a price restructuring, it would not be unusual for them to pause sales until all the new prices have populated out. Which is not to say there aren’t some larger discounts floating around. We’re seeing lots of seemingly random $3.99-$6.99 price points across all sorts of titles… but not always full runs.

Let’s go on a quick tour, shall we?

That’s not an exhaustive trip through the DC backlist, just a few things we typed in and found lower prices. If there was a backlist volume you were interested in, now might not be a bad time to check on it. Hopefully this stabilizes soon and we get back to having a better idea what’s a sale and what a normal price. It’s also possible those $9.99 prices are someone’s idea of a sale. In the meantime, something’s going on, we’re just not 100% sure what it is.

Marvel

Marvel did not have a new sale this week. See below for the continuing ones.

(More) Unannounced Sales

Be Everything At Once  Mom's Cancer

The Marvel “Maybe” Sales

X-Factor  Fantastic Four  Ultimate Black Panther

The trend continues. New releases at lower than expected price points and discounted pre-orders. Is this the new normal? We’re not sure, but let’s run them down.

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Blood Hunt, Guardians of the Galaxy, Ms. Marvel, Groo

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, Marvel issues discounts for Blood Hunt, Guardians of the Galaxy and Ms. Marvel. Plus, Groo.

Where did the New Releases and Sale pages go?

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A Protein Drink

Blood Hunt  Tomb of Dracula  Greenberg the Vampire

The Marvel Blood Hunt Sale runs through Monday, 4/14.

Yes, that would be last year’s big Vampires take over Event. Indeed, there are all sorts of vampire titles in this sale if you want to have a browse.

For the actual event, we’d point you at:

There are more tie-ins, but that should get you the core. We’re a little puzzled they didn’t include Moon Knight, which was setting up elements of this for a LONG time, or the more recent Bryan Hill Blade series in the sale.

For the other vampire titles, the cream of the crop are:

Tomb of Dracula was one of the high water marks for horror titles in the ’70s and the longest running of the set that also included Man-Thing and Swamp Thing.

Greenberg falls into the category of “and now for something completely different…”

Groot? Groot Groot.

Guardians of the Galaxy: Tomorrow's Avengers   Guardians of the Galaxy Omnibus  Guardians of the Galaxy

The Marvel Guardians of the Galaxy Legacy Sale runs through Monday, 4/14.

Let’s break this into incarnations.

Original Guardians of the Galaxy

  • Guardians of the Galaxy: Tomorrow’s Avengers – First volume is the original appearance through their Marvel Presents solo run; Second volume is 70s guest star appearances, particularly in Avengers.
  • Guardians of the Galaxy (’90-’95) – Best known for the very fun Jim Valentino run (i.e. the first 3 volumes here); This is strangely not included in the sale, but we list it for the sake of completeness… and because we liked the Valentino run

New GoG (The DnA cast or movie version if you must)

What’s good here?  Well, we’ve always liked the original. Particularly the Steve Gerber bits. We also loved the recent Al Ewing / Juan Cabal run. And if you like the current incarnation, you should probably go back to the source with the DnA run. We’d also be remiss if we didn’t point out that Kev Walker did an amazing job on the art with the most recent run.

No Love for the Dinosaur?

Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur   Moon Girl: Endangered Species Moon Girl

The Marvel Moon Girl Sale runs though Monday, 4/7.

Oh, no! Devil Dinosaur got cancelled right out of the sale’s name!

This is a lower volume sale than others and simple to handle:

These larger page count editions of the Amy Reeder / Brandon Montclare / Natacha Bustos main series are the better buy.

Moon Girl: Endangered Species is a collection of team-up issues outside the main title.

Moon Girl And Devil Dinosaur: Menace On Wheels is the ’22-23 series from Jordan Ifueko & Alba Glez

Something in Parabellum?
Deadworld   The Realm    Jazz Age Chronicles

The Caliber Comics Library 50% off Spring Sale runs through Wednesday, 4/30.

There are a few titles here that were notable in the ’80s indie boom.

And plenty of Don Lomax war comics.

But if you want something a little more recent, Ageless might be of interest. It’s written by Torunn GrØnbekk, who’s been recently been writing Venom, with art by San Espina.

Unannounced Sales

Aristotle  Groo Snug

The Marvel “Maybe” Sales

Spider-Man: Black Suit & Blood  Venom War  X-Factor

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: $1.99 Batman; Civil War; Ms. Marvel; Avatar: The Last Airbender

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, DC has a massive Batman sale. Marvel slashes prices on Civil War and Ms. Marvel. Plus, Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Where did the New Releases and Sale pages go?

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Did Somebody Say $1.99 Batman?

The DC Batman Anniversary Sale runs through Monday, 3/31.

And this is to say most, not quite all, of the Batman material is discounted. Some, not all of it, is even at $1.99 (cheap).

Let’s break down some of the highlights by series/volume.

Batman Special Batman: The War of Jokes and Riddles  Batman '89

Prefer the 90s Event era where the Batman family of books crossed over?  Most of those collections are $1.99 – $2.99. Here’s a cheat sheet for that (we have a soft spot for No Man’s Land):

If you’re curious about the original Jeph Loeb / Jim Lee Hush, it’s $2.99

As always, our highest recommendation for Tales of the Batman: Steve Englehart. All of Englehart’s Batman in one volume. Mostly Marshall Rogers art with a side of Walt Simonson. Great stuff.

Also of note, we think this is the first time: Detective Comics Vol. 4: Gotham Nocturne Intermezzo: Batman, Outlaw has been discounted. That would be the penultimate installment of Ram V’s epic, horror-tinged Bat-saga we’ve been enjoying. This time with art by Jason Shawn Alexander and Liam Sharp.

Plenty more here and worth a weekend browse.

A Polite Disagreement Among Capes

Civil War  Civil War: Front Line V. 1  Civil War: Wolverine

The Marvel Civil War Sale runs through Monday, 3/31.

One of these days, Marvel is going to quit leaving money on the table and give Civil War the treatment it gives something like Hickman’s Avengers saga or Aaron’s Thor saga: an edition (or series of additions) that integrate the main parts in reading order. After all these years, it’s still piecemeal.

So here’s our take on it:

Civil War the main mini-series by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven – is the action movie version of the story.

Civil War: Front Line – written by Paul Jenkins with art by Ramon Bachs, Steve Lieber and Lee Weeks – is about WHY the Civil War is happening as Ben Urich tries to get to the bottom of things. This title is much more of the Event’s actual plot and motivations than the more famous flagship series and Marvel really need to have a collection that integrates the two.

There are obviously a lot of tie-in books here. You can dip in where you feel like, but Civil War: Wolverine by Marc Guggenheim and Humberto Ramos is a little more relevant than most and has Logan (hellbent on vengeance) tracking down the people responsible for the Stamford incident.

Yes, there is a lot more to the story than the main Millar/McNiven book, it’s just not really emphasized.

Kamala Sale

Ms. Marvel  Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant

The  Ms. Marvel Sale runs through Monday 3/31.

Thank goodness they’re not calling this “The Marvel Ms. Marvel Sale!” This would be Ms. Marvel as in Kamala Khan, not the current Captain Marvel, Carol Danvers. Is there a movie coming out? Hmm…  Let’s break this down by volume, since there have been relaunches.

  • Ms. Marvel ’14-15 – The original run with G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona as the primary artist
  • Ms. Marvel ’15-’19 – How silly is this relaunch? The collected edition number doesn’t even reset! It’s still Wilson and Alphona, although the artist rotate a bit as it goes on.
  • Magnificent Ms. Marvel ’91-’21 – Relaunched after Wilson’s departure, this is written by Saladin Ahmed with Minkyu Jung and Joey Vazquez as the lead artists
  • Ms. Marvel: Beyond the Limit – The recent mini-series by Samira Ahmed and Andrés Genolet.
  • Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant – Iman Vellani / Sabir Pirzada / Carlos Gomez; Yes, that’s right, the actress who plays Ms. Marvel is co-writing this with the show’s supervising producer

Recommendations? We thought Ms. Marvel was at its best early in the run, before it got too integrated into the Marvel universe, but that’s just us.  Definitely start with Wilson’s run, though.  It made quite the mainstream splash.

Unannounced Sales

Avatar: The Last Airbender The Innkeeper Chronicles: Clean Sweep  When Sharks Attack With Kindness

The Marvel “Maybe” Sales

X-Force   Spider-Man: Black Suit & Blood  Venom War

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales – The Punisher; The Flash; Jessica Jones; The Witcher

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, DC has all their Flash collections at a discount. Marvel slashes prices on The Punisher and Jessica Jones. Plus, The Witcher and Rube Goldberg.

Where did the New Releases and Sale pages go?

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Crime and Punisher-ment

Punisher: Circle of Blood   Punisher: The Resurrection of Ma Gnucci  Punisher

The Marvel Punisher Sale runs through Monday, 3/31.

Gosh, you’d think Frank Castle was on streaming or something…

First, the “general audience” Punisher:

  • The Punisher ’87-’95 – Note that the first Epic Collection here collects the ’86 Steven Grant/Mike Zeck Circle of Blood mini-series that kicked off the Punisher’s rise to prominence. Yes, Whilce Portacio drew Punisher before X-Men
  • Punisher War Journal ’88-’95 – This volume is notable for the Carl Potts / Jim Lee work. Yes, Jim Lee drew Punisher War Journal before X-Men.
  • Punisher War Zone ’92-’95 – Yes, Frank Castle was holding down three titles/month in the early ’90s! Collected here are a pair of Chuck Dixon tales with John Buscema and Joe Kubert as the respective artists.
  • Punisher War Journal ’06-’09 – Probably best known for Matt Fraction and Ariel Olivetti
  • Punisher ’00 – Garth Ennis / Steve Dillon; Collects the immortal “Welcome Back, Frank”
  • Punisher: The Resurrection of Ma Gnucci (Punisher War Zone) ’08-’09 – Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon team for a sequel to Welcome Back, Frank
  • Punisher ’09-’10 – The Rick Remender run, for which the third volume is Franken-Castle
  • The Punisher ’11-’12 – The Greg Rucka / Marco Checchetto (now more associated with Daredevil) run
  • The Punisher ’14-15 – Nathan Edmondson / Mitch Gerads. Yes, Mitch Gerards as in Mister Miracle and Sheriff of Babylon
  • The Punisher ’16-18 – Starts out with Becky Cloonan / Steve Dillon
  • The Punisher ’18-’19 – Matthew Rosenberg / Szymon Kudranski
  • Punisher ’22-’23 – Jason Aaron / Jesus Saiz / Paul Azaceta
  • Punisher War Journal ’22-’23 – Torunn GrØnbekk / Djibril Morissette-Phan

What’s good? Actually, we like the original Marvel Super Action magazine version by Archie Goodwin and Tony DeZuniga, but that’s not on the menu.

Our favorite run of the above is probably the Ennis/Dillon “Welcome Back, Frank.” We also were pretty fond of the Rucka / Checchetto run when it was coming out. It’s also worth going back and seeing where all the fuss started with the Grant/Zeck mini and the Baron/Janson/Portacio ongoing.

Then there’s the Max line. “Mature Readers” Punisher, if you will.

Punisher Max: The Complete Collection is the ’04-’09 run that’s most associated with Garth Ennis returning to the character (with art by Darick Robertson, Leandro Fernendez, Doug Braithwaite and Goran Parlov, among others). This is Ennis doing the serious Punisher, as opposed to the hilarity of Welcome Back, Frank. Mike Benson, Victor Gischler and Jason Aaron pop up at the end of the run.

Then you’ve got PunisherMax, the ’09-’12 relaunch by Jason Aaron/Steve Dillon, where Frank mixes it up with The Kingpin and Bullseye.

You Said You Had a Jones?

Alias  The Pulse  Jessica Jones

The Marvel Jessica Jones Sale runs through Monday,  3/24.

Hmm… Daredevil, Punisher and Jessica Jones sales at the same time? Might there be a pattern?

Here’s what we’re looking at:

  • Alias ’01 – ’03-Brian Bendis / Michael Gaydos
  • The Pulse ’04 – ’05 – Brian Bendis / Michael Gaydos / Mark Bagley; Jessica gets a job at the Daily Bugle
  • Jessica Jones ’16 – ’17 – Brian Bendis / Michael Gaydos; Netflix = series revival by the original creators
  • The Defenders ’17 – ’18 – Brian Bendis / David Marquez; Daredevil, Iron First, Luke Cage and Jessica Jones… Netflix influences reach far
  • Jessica Jones ’18 – Kelly Thompson / Mattia de Iulis; Collections of the digital original comics

Alias is the original and very dark. The Pulse is a more mainstream superhero title, if a little quirky. Jessica Jones is back to basics. Yes, Bendis was in charge of the character when he was at Marvel.

The Fastest Trench Coat Alive

The Flash: The Silver Age  The Flash   The Flash

The DC Flash Sale runs through Monday, 3/24.

It’s like a Marvel Legacy Sale at DC. Let’s start out with a breakdown by series:

  • The Flash ’59 – ’85 – The original run, with a big gap between ’66 and ’79
  • The Flash ’87 – ’09 – Wally West’s original run
  • Flash & Green Lantern: The Brave & The Bold ’99 – ’00 – Mark Waid / Tom Peyer / Barry Kitson; Tales of Barry Allen & Hal Jordan teaming up early in their careers
  • Flash: The Fastest Man Alive ’06 – ’07 – Danny Bilson / Paul Demeo / Mark Waid / Ken Lashley; Bart Allen takes up the mantle of Flash
  • The Flash: Rebirth ’09 – ’10 – Geoff Johns / Ethan Van Sciver; Barry Allen returns
  • Flashpoint ’11 – Geoff Johns / Andy Kubert; Flash breaks the timeline
  • The Flash ’11 – ’16 – Francis Manapul & Brian Buccellato, then Robert Venditti / Van Jensen / Brett Booth
  • The Flash ’16 – ’23 – Josh Williamson / Carmine Di Giandomenico / Howard Porter / Scott Kolins; then Jeremy Adams / Will Conrad
  • Jay Garrick: The Flash – ’23 – Jeremy Adams / Diego Olortegui
  • The Flash ’23 – present – Si Spurrier / Mike Deodato / Ramon Perez; Cosmic horrors haunt the Speed Force

What’s good? Depends what you’re looking for that early ’59-’66 run is considered a classic of the Silver Age. We’re pretty happy with the current Spurrier run. Josh Williamson‘s run has plenty of fans.

We’d probably direct you to the original Wally West run, though, and some specific runs, all of which have favorable pricing at the moment.

  • The Flash: Savage Velocity – The first 18 issues includes the Mike Baron / Jackson Guice run and the beginning of William Messner-Loebs/Greg LaRocque run. Wally West takes over, plus Chunk, Kilg%re, Vandal Savage and Kapitalist Kouriers
  • The Mark Waid era – 8 omnibi starting here. “The Return of Barry Allen” is the most famous arc (Book 2). The Speed Force debuts in Book 3. Mike Wieringo is probably the artist most associated with this era, but Greg LaRocuqe, Salvador Larocca, Oscar Jimenez and Paul Ryan were also part of it
  • The Grant Morrison / Mark Millar / Paul Ryan run – yes, Morrison & Millar used to write together. That would past tense.
  • The Geoff Johns era – Six omnibi starting here. (OK, the first 5 are his original Wally West run and the sixth is Reborn and the Barry Allen material that followed.) The Wally West run is drawn by Scott Kolins and Howard Porter. This is what Johns was doing right before he broke big with Green Lantern. If you like the Flash Rouges Gallery, this run is all about the Rogues.

The Bite

Vampirella  Vampirella: Year One Sacred Six

The Dynamite Christopher Priest Vampirella Sale runs through Monday, 3/31.

Christopher Priest has been on Vampirella for around 6 years now, which is quite a run in the current comics scene. Glancing at his bibliography, he may have written more comics in the Vampirella family than the Black Panther family. If not, he’ll probably pass T’Challa and company by the end of the year?

Unannounced Sales

The Art of Rube Goldberg  Witcher

The Marvel “Maybe” Sales

Ultimate Spider-Man  Phoenix  X-Force

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Spider-Man; Elektra; Hellboy; Red Sonja

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, Marvel has discounts on pretty much the full run(s) of Amazing Spider-Man, plus Elektra. Dynamite slashes prices on Red Sonja crossovers. While Hellboy is blowing up on Hulu, that should be on sale, too… right?

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A Spider a Day Keeps Doc Ock Away

Amazing Spider-Man  Amazing Spider-Man  Amazing Spider-Man - Kraven's Last Hunt

Marvel’s Spider-Man Legacy Sale runs through Monday, 3/24.

There’s a lot of ground to cover here, so let’s break it down by series.

  • Amazing Spider-Man (1963-98) – The original run before Marvel became quite so obsessed with rebooting titles.
  • Amazing Spider-Man (1998 – 2013) – This run starts out with the controversial J. Michael Straczynski/John Romita, Jr./Mike Deodato, Jr. run, then goes into the excellent Brand New Day era with rotating creative teams and segues into the beginning of the Dan Slott era. (Slott’s written a LOT of Spidey.)
  • Superior Spider-Man – Possibly the high point of the Dan Slott era – Doc Ock takes over Peter’s body and life. Surprise, it’s not part of the sale this week (so maybe look for a Superior Spidey sale next week? See: the Elektra sale below this listing)
  • Amazing Spider-Man (2014 – 15) – Peter’s back in control and the Slott era continues.
  • Amazing Spider-Man(2015-2018) – It’s a relaunch. (Hey, Spidey’s been relaunched a lot less than Captain Marvel!) This is the end run of the Slott era, culminating in the Red Goblin affair. The “Worldwide Collection” omnibuses are the better buy.
  • Amazing Spider-Man (2018 – 22) – The Nick Spenser era is here, PLUS the 4 volumes of Spider-Man Beyond with Ben Reilly stepping in that take place prior to the next series (and set up portions of it)
  • Amazing Spider-Man (2022-Present) – The current Zeb Wells / John Romita, Jr. / Ed McGuinness run.

Recommendations?  Well, first off Amazing Spider-Man doesn’t really have very many BAD periods until the excesses of the Clone Saga (which some would argue are highlights). Oh, some runs are definitely better than others, but there aren’t huge swaths of duds.

You can definitely pick your poison between the $5.99 Masterworks and $6.99 Epic Collections for the original run (although a few Epic’s run a little higher). The Epics are typically much larger collections for only a buck more, but it depends on which format you started buying and which era you’re interested in. Some stretches are only in Masterworks, some are only in Epic.

Of possible interest, since there’s a sequel mini-series out, but NOT included in the link for the V.1 of Amazing is the Kraven’s Last Hunt Epic Collection, so we’ll call that one out directly. You get the J.M. DeMatteis/Mike Zeck classic, plus the issues of Amazing around it, plus Spider-Man Vs. Wolverine for about the price of just getting the regular Kraven collection.

And yes, we did enjoy the recently completed Zeb Wells / (mostly) John Romita, Jr. series. It’s a little more somber than we were expecting from Wells, but it largely a good ride. And this is a series that plays the long game resolving subplots.

A Daredevil Omission Explained

Daredevil & Elektra  Elektra Assassin  Elektra

Marvel Elektra & Kingpin Sale runs through Monday, 3/17.

Remember last week when we were scratching our head about why someone would leave out Daredevil & Elektra from the Daredevil Sale, since it’s the final act of the Zdarsky run?

They were saving it for this week’s sale, but it’s only on sale this week (the DD sale is through the end of the month), so if you want to see how the Zdarsky / Checchetto era ends while it’s discounted, you want to do that now.

Past that, this is really more of an Elektra sale. Elektra highlights over the years:

  • Elektra: Assassin  (’86)– Frank Miller / Bill Sienkiewicz; Originally published under the Epic imprint (to keep it FAR away from the comics code), this is a wild, over-the-top tale of Elektra and a rogue SHIELD agent trying to stop a conspiracy by The Beast (the demon worshipped by the ninjas of The Hand, not the X-Man) from capturing the US presidency through demonic possession. Widely considered a classic and Sienkiewicz gets to really cut loose.
  • Elektra (’96 – ’98) – Peter Milligan / Larry Hama / Mike Deodato, Jr.
  • Elektra (’01 – ’04) – Greg Rucka / Chuck Austen (drawing, not writing) / Joe Bennett / Carlo Pagulayan / Carlos Meglia / Greg Horn

Crossing Over

Red Sonja / Tarzan  Mars Attacks Red Sonja Red Sonja & Vampirella Meet Betty & Veronica.jpg

The Dynamite Red Sonja X-Over Sale runs through Thursday, 3/20.

This would be Red Sonja crossing over with other characters, some obvious and some less intuitive. Some highlights in order of increasingly raised eyebrow:

Unannounced Sales

Hellboy  The Hobbit  The Secret History of Wonder Woman

The Marvel “Maybe” Sales

X-Men  Ultimate Spider-Man  Phoenix

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