Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Batman; Spider-Man; Captain America; X-Men; Hellboy

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, DC has a Batman sale, Marvel drops six sales (including a horror one) and Dark Horse adds Hellboy to the mix.

Where did the New Releases and Sale pages go?

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Batman Returns

Batman: The Court of Owls  Detective Comics by Tynion  Detective Comics

The DC Batman in July Sale runs through Monday, 7/20.

Now there’s something you don’t see every day: DC running back to back sales. It’s been awhile.

This is a more abbreviated Bat-sale than others we’ve seen and concentrates more on New 52/Rebirth to present.

Here are the bullets:

  • Batman (’11-’16) – The Scott Snyder/Greg Capullo run
  • Batman (’16-’25) – starts with the Tom King era and the discounts run midway through the Zdarsky run.
  • Batman and Robin (’22 – present) – intially Joshua Williamson / Simone Di Meo
  • Detective Comics (’16-current) – initially James Tynion IV / Eddy Barrows / Alvaro Martinez

What’s under-rated here? We’d say a couple of those Detective runs. The Tynion / Barrows / Martinez run that started that volume of Detective is something of a Batman Family arc. We’re also big fans of the gothic horror arc by Ram V / Rafael Albuquerque / Ivan Reis that starts here.

Super Soldier Sale

Captain America: Secret Empire  Captain America Heroes Return  Captain America

The Marvel Independence Day Sale runs through Monday, 7/27.

Looks like Marvel’s current posting schedule caused them to post the Independence Day sale after the holiday. Nothing like proper planning and being aware of the calendar, eh?

There’s a lot of material to cover here, so we’ll go with the usual format and start by breaking out the major series involved:

So… do you think Captain America gets relaunched enough? The current Chip Zdarsky relaunch isn’t even in the sale (and we enjoy it).

Some recommendations? Absolutely.

For Silver/Bronze Age adventures,  “Captain America Lives Again“ catches the bulk of the early Lee/Kirby run. Jump ahead to “Hero or Hoax,” which you’re getting for the final arc, which begins the superlative Steve Englehart/Sal Buscema era. “The Secret Empire” is the bulk of the Englehart/Buscema run. “The Man Who Sold The United States” wraps up Englehart/Buscema and includes Madbomb, the beginning of Jack Kirby’s return run that is way more timely than it should be in the age of social media outrage.

Jump ahead to “By Dawn’s Early Light,” which you’re looking at for the all too brief Roger Stern / John Byrne run.  The highlight of the J.M. DeMatties / Mike Zeck run is their wrap up with the Red Skull in “Sturm und Drang.”

“The Captain“ is the sequence from the Mark Gruenwald run where Steve Rogers loses the shield and his Captain America identity for a time. That’s the famous one. You might consider backing up a volume for “Justice is Served,” which introduces the Super-Patriot and leads into the more famous sequence a bit.

Once you get past around the middle of the Gruenwald run, your best of the best is anything written by Mark Waid or Ed Brubaker, and know that Brubaker’s first run is basically one long and epic story – and be sure to get Reborn or you’re missing a piece.

But wait… you want more?  Sure.

All-Winners Comics – The Golden Age series that culminates with the All-Winners Squad, the Cap/Torch/Subby/Whizzer/Ms. America group that inspired The Invaders.

Speaking of that, there’s Invaders Classic, which collects the 70s series of the WII adventures of Captain America, Submariner and original Human Torch. (The Whizzer and Ms. America show up towards the end.)

More? How about some Winter Soldier?

Winter Soldier by Ed Brubaker, which is Brubaker and Butch Guice in a spin-off from their classic Cap run.

Also of possible interest:

And a bonus recommendation:

  • 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.

Spooky Season Comes Early?

Immortal Hulk  Tomb of Dracula  Moon Knight

The Marvel Summerween Horror Sale runs through Monday, 7/27.

There’s more than a little horror on sale this week. Marvel’s entry in the trend is collection of mini-sales:

Doctor Strange

Dracula

  • Tomb of Dracula – Marv Wolfman / Gene Colan; One of the best Marvel books of the ’70s

Ghost Rider

Hulk

We really like the Johnson/Klein Hulk and Immortal Hulk was an instant classic.

Moon Knight

The original Moon Knight run is mostly in Epic Collections, but it’s in two separate links because… well, we shouldn’t be surprised by this, should we?  The first link has two volumes that are not closely related. Bad Moon Rising is the Werewolf by Night appearances through the backups in Hulk Magazine and the first issues of 1980 solo series. The other volume in that link… we’re not as big on. That was later volumes.

You can go here for the rest of the 1980 Moon Knight series, which was the most famous version for quite some time. If you came into the character through the TV series, know that the original Moon Knight was a lot closer to Batman and The Shadow. Oh, sure the werewolf showed up, but most of the mystical things around Konshu were kept in the background and a lot more mysterious. The multiple identities were originally more like the cover identities adopted by the Shadow (and the original series editor, Denny O’Neil, adapted The Shadow for DC). This is where Moon Knight got popular. Pity the “main” volume is mysteriously omitted from discounts…

We also have been enjoying the current Jed MacKay/Alessandro Cappuccio Moon Knight series. This one takes up the unenviable task of rationalizing the various incarnations over the years (and there have been a lot of different takes on the character). Mr. Knight is in therapy for his multiple personality issues. He’s running the Midnight Mission and conduct himself as Konshu’s ambassador… after a fashion, although he’s not really happy with Konshu. And there are vampires. Lots of vampires.

Marvel being Marvel, this was then relaunched as Vengeance Of The Moon Knight with the same creators.

The novelist corner:

And the Rest of the Gang

…And Frightened Miss Muffet Away

Amazing Spider-Man Masterworks   Spider-Man Brand New Day Omnibus  Superior Foes of Spider-Man

The Marvel Select Spider-Man Sale runs through Monday, 7/27.

This is a fairly eclectic swatch of volumes from various Spidey runs:

What’s good here?

The Superior Foes of Spider-Man is straight up hilarious and under-rated.

We also think you’re pretty safe with Gerry Conway, Len Wein and the Brand New Day rotation.

Going Down in Flames as a Form of Progression Fantasy

X-Men: The Fate of the Phoenix  Phoenix Rising  Phoenix

The Marvel Phoenix Sale runs through Monday, 7/20.

Jean Grey, if you prefer.

For many, the character is defined by “The Dark Phoenix Saga,” arguably the high point of an already great run by Chris Claremont and John Byrne. Pick up X-Men Epic Collection: The Fate Of The Phoenix and get “Days of Future Past” in the same package.

Then Jean/Phoenix was dead for several years. Phoenix Rising is slightly mislabeled as being an X-Men book. The resurrection of Jean Grey is the birth of X-Factor, which crosses over with Fantastic Four and Avengers for the tale. Which means you get John Byrne, Roger Stern, John Buscema, Bob Layton and Butch Guice all contributing to the tale.

New X-Men is the Grant Morrison run with a fairly sick rotating cast of artists including Frank Quitely, Leinil Francis Yu, Igor Kordey, John Paul Leon, Phil Jimenez, Chris Bachalo and Marc Silvestri. As you’ve doubtless heard, it’s a very good run.

The recent Phoenix series is by Stephanie Phillips / Alessandro Miracolo and is more of a cosmic adventures series.

Some other sale highlights:

Apocalypse Now?

House of X / Powers of X  X-Force  X of Swords

The Marvel Apocalypse Sale runs through Monday, 7/27.

It’s a villain sale, which means the listings are a bit all over the map. Let’s hit some highlights:

What’s good? Not the first thing you’d think of when you hear “Apocalypse,” necessarily, but the Remender Uncanny X-Force run is dark run with a distinctive personality and quite the artist rotation. We think it had emerged from under the radar by the end of the series but it isn’t always discussed today.

Running with the Devil

Devil Dinosaur by Jack Kirby: The Complete Collection  Moon Girl  Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur

The Marvel Devil Dinosaur Sale runs through Monday, 7/27.

If you’re curious about  the original 70s Jack Kirby series, it’s right here.

Then there isn’t just a ton of material until Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur pops up.

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.

Unannounced Sales

Hellboy The Mystery Knight Watership Down

As always, it isn’t clear when the unannounced sales will end.

Dark Horse has Hellboy on sale. (This summer of horror trend is all over the place)

The Dark Horse James Tynion IV / Tiny Onion titles are also still on sale:

Also on sale:

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Comixology (at Amazon) sale): James Tynion IV / Tiny Onion; American Born Chinese

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, Dark Horse puts the James Tynion IV / Tiny Onion catalog on sale. Plus, American Born Chinese.

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Unannounced Sales

Blue Book  Let This One Be a Devil  American Born Chinese

As always, it isn’t clear when the unannounced sales will end.

Dark Horse seems to be having a sale on their James Tynion IV titles:

Three Dark Horse sales from last week also continue:

Also on sale:

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Sin City, Concrete, Dragon Age, Supergirl

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, Dark Horse issues discounts for Sin City, Concrete and Dragon Age.

Where did the New Releases and Sale pages go?

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Unannounced Sales

  Concrete  Sin City: The Hard Goodbye  Dragon Age

As always, it isn’t clear when the unannounced sales will end.

Dark Horse drops three new sales this week:

Also on sale:

Discounts of Steel

Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow  Superman Love and Mercy  Lobo

The DC Summer of Supergirl Sale runs through Monday, 7/6.

We’ll repeat Tuesday’s Supergirl sale, just for giggles.

Supergirl

Something about a film…

First, the one that seems most directly related to the film: Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow by Tom King & Bilquis Evely.

Superman

Lobo

Something about that same film.

  • Lobo (’90) – Alan Grant / Keith Giffen / Simon Bisley

One of the somewhat rare ’80s reprints that we’ve enjoyed is Superman: The Phantom Zone by Steve Gerber and Gene Colan. This is a very odd, horror-flavored Superman tale as he confronts something unnatural that’s been living in the Phantom Zone… but you weren’t expecting Gerber & Colan to give you the ’50s TV version, were you?

Superman Smashes the Klan has Gene Yang and Gurihiru revisiting and revising the original Superman radio show arc, “Clan of the Fiery Cross.” It’s on the YA side of Superman, but has picked up a LOT of good reviews.

Superman, the current series by Josh Williamson and Jamal Campbell is also on sale and it’s a good one.

Lobo by Giffen/Grant/Bisley is really good stuff… as long as you have a dark sense of humor and aren’t easily offended.

Marvel

Invincible Iron Man Omnibus  Rom: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus  Wolverine Omnibus

Marvel seems to be standing pat with the “early” Prime Day Sale they released at the beginning of the month. We anticipate it ending sometime Friday evening, so it may or may not still be up when you’re seeing this. It’s a holiday-level sale with plenty of Omnibuses and Epic Collections. We looked at it more closely here.

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: DC Shows Up For Prime Day w/ Supergirl

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, DC drops a Supergirl sale on Prime Day.

Where did the New Releases and Sale pages go?

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Is DC finally taking part in Prime Day, or is it merely a coincidence and their Supergirl tie-in sale was going to drop on a Tuesday, regardless? If we had to bet, we’d go with the latter… and yet, here we are.

Discounts of Steel

Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow  Superman Love and Mercy  Lobo

The DC Summer of Supergirl Sale runs through Monday, 7/6.

Yes, DC’s having another corporate synergy sale as the movie release is imminent. And if you look at the content, it’s as much a Superman sale as a Supergirl sale. “House of El” and all. The sale prices are a little more “normal” than some of the previous sales, so we’ll take that as a positive.

Let’s break it down:

Supergirl

Something about a film…

First, the one that seems most directly related to the film: Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow by Tom King & Bilquis Evely.

Superman

Lobo

Something about that same film.

  • Lobo (’90) – Alan Grant / Keith Giffen / Simon Bisley

One of the somewhat rare ’80s reprints that we’ve enjoyed is Superman: The Phantom Zone by Steve Gerber and Gene Colan. This is a very odd, horror-flavored Superman tale as he confronts something unnatural that’s been living in the Phantom Zone… but you weren’t expecting Gerber & Colan to give you the ’50s TV version, were you?

Superman Smashes the Klan has Gene Yang and Gurihiru revisiting and revising the original Superman radio show arc, “Clan of the Fiery Cross.” It’s on the YA side of Superman, but has picked up a LOT of good reviews.

Superman, the current series by Josh Williamson and Jamal Campbell is also on sale and it’s a good one.

Lobo by Giffen/Grant/Bisley is really good stuff… as long as you have a dark sense of humor and aren’t easily offended.

Marvel

Invincible Iron Man Omnibus  Rom: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus  Wolverine Omnibus

Marvel seems to be standing pat with the “early” Prime Day Sale they released at the beginning of the month. It’s a holiday-level with plenty of Omnibuses and Epic Collections. We looked at it more closely here.

Unannounced Sales

  Superman The Ultimate Guide Cat's Eye Omnibus Volume 2

As always, it isn’t clear when the unannounced sales will end.

Also on sale:

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Cat’s Eye, Fowl Language, Non-Sequitur

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, everything waits on Prime Day.

Where did the New Releases and Sale pages go?

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It’s the lull before Prime Day. What’s happening then? We don’t know. Possibly nothing.

The first question is whether that Pre-Prime Day Sale we talked about earlier ends on the Monday the 22nd or runs through 26th? We don’t see it lasting longer than that, so we encourage you to have a peek at it over the weekend.

 

Unannounced Sales

  Superman The Ultimate Guide Cat's Eye Omnibus Volume 2

As always, it isn’t clear when the unannounced sales will end.

Looks like there’s still an unannounced sale on Dark Horse’s Cyberpunk 2077. A video game adaptation with an interesting award to its credit.

The first five collections can be found here.

After which, the property went to the album format Dark Horse sometimes uses for titles with a higher bookstore profile, which are listed with the single issues:

There’s also The World of Cyberpunk 2077.

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Iron Man, Punisher, X-Men, Cyberpunk 2077, My Friend Dahmer

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, Marvel drops another 7 sales. Plus, Cyberpunk 2077 and more Calvin and Hobbes.

Where did the New Releases and Sale pages go?

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[Housekeeping]: We’re not sure how long that Marvel early Prime Day sale is running, but check out last week for a rundown.

Does Whatever An Iron Can…

Iron Man: The Man Who Killed Tony Stark  Iron Man: Heroes Reborn  Iron Man: Big Iron

The Marvel Iron Man Sale runs through Monday, 6/29.

This would be one of those sales where most of the hero’s run is on sale, so we’re going to follow our usual protocol and start out by breaking out the primary titles and volumes. Iron Man isn’t as goofy to follow as, say, Spider-Gwen… but there are “quirks.” Oddly, this time out, titles with a word other than “Invincible” in front of “Iron Man” are omitted. (Infamous, International, etc.) Intentional or the new digital guy is from a film background and unfamiliar with the catalog? We’re not sure.

  • Tales of Suspense – Iron Man debuted here in what was a split book with Captain America for most of the run. (The Epic Collections have been redirected to the next link)
  • Iron Man ’68-’96 – The original solo run in the era before constant relaunch gimmicks. This is now the Epic Collection link and all other collections from this run appeared to be floating on Amazon, untethered to a series.

OK, sit tight. The ’98 -’04 run is collected in VERY odd ways and poorly cataloged for browsing.  The truly excellent Kurt Busiek/Sean Chen/Patrick Zircher run lasts from 1-25. We can’t find 15-25 collected? (That entire run should be!)  You can catch 1-14  in cheap omnibus form here.  (No idea why the Mike Grell omnibus isn’t on sale.) You can catch Joe Quesada’s scripting run (26-32) and the Avengers: Disassembled tie-in late in this run in single volumes here. (But get the omnibus version for Busiek.)

  • Iron Man ’04-07 – Best known for launching with the “Extremis” storyline
  • Invincible Iron Man ’08-’12 – The excellent Matt Fraction / Salvador Larroca run. Save some money with the omnibus collecting the first 3 volumes.
  • Iron Man ’12-’14 – The Kieron Gillen run with Greg Land as initial artist
  • Invincible Iron Man ’15-’16 – Brian Bendis and David Marquez/Mike Deodato, Jr. start out with Tony Stark in the armor
  • Invincible Iron Man ’16-’18 – Brian Bendis and Stefano Caselli with Riri Williams/Ironheart filling Tony Stark’s shoes (yes, parallel substitute Iron Man runs)
  • Iron Man ’20-’22 – The Christopher Cantwell / Cafu run.
  • Invincible Iron Man ’22-’24 – Gerry Duggan / Juan Frigeri
  • Iron Man ’24-’25 – Spencer Ackerman / Julius Ohta

So what’s good?  We haven’t read ALL the Iron Man out there, but we’ve read a lot of them.

In our opinion Iron Man starts hitting it’s stride when Archie Goodwin arrives toward the end of the Tales of Suspense run and then is pure gold through issue 28 of the ’68 Iron Man series. Artists for this run include Gene Colan and George Tuska. Iron Man Epic Collection: The Man Who Killed Tony Stark collects most of that.

The next “all-star” run is #116-157 of the original Iron Man, that’s the David Michelinie / John Romita, Jr. / Bob Layton run that’s most famous for the “Demon in a Bottle” alcoholism arc, but there’s more to the run than just that arc.  The Denny O’Neil / Luke McDonnell run that follows is solid (make sure you get a collection that includes #200!!!), then Michelinie & Layton return for #215-250 with a few artists, including Mark Bright and Jackson Guice… with Layton even switching to penciller, instead of his usual inking post, for parts of it.  This second run is most famous for “Armor Wars” (originally known as Stark Wars).

When Heroes Return hits, Kurt Busiek and Sean Chen are pop in for the excellent 1998 run, of which only 1-14 are currently collected.

The ’08 – ’12 run by Matt Fraction and Salvador Larroca is particularly good. You know how modern Marvel titles can get sidetracked by Events? Fraction and Larroca lean into it and produce a lengthy and self-contained arc with Tony Stark on the run and attempting to overwrite his brain to keep everyone’s secrets out of the hands of Norman Osborn. Yes, an honest to goodness great Event tie-in arc. It’s a rare thing.

We were quite happy with the  Christopher Cantwell/Cafu run. Tony Stark chases Korvac into outer space and meditates on the nature of godhood, good intentions and addictions. Lots of character work and action.

Crime and Punisher-ment

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

The Marvel Punisher Sale runs through Monday, 6/29.

Gosh, you’d think Frank Castle had been 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. There’s also an omnibus available.

Ultimate… Everything?

Ultimate Spider-Man The Ultimates Ultimate Black Panther

The  Marvel Ultimate Universe Sale runs through Monday 6/29.

Yes, this is pretty much EVERYTHING Ultimate – old and new universes. Perhaps it’s less clunky if we break this into segments?

The New Ultimate Universe

The setup for the new Ultimate Universe is Ultimate Invasion by Jonathan Hickman & Bryan Hitch. The original Ultimate Universe was destroyed, but not everyone from that dimension was destroyed. Miles Morales survived and moved over the “616” or main Marvel universe. As did Reed Richards… except the Ultimate Reed Richards went bad and has been calling himself “The Maker.” That’s the setup before Invasion where The Maker escapes captivity, escapes into the multiverse and causes the origins of a new world’s heroes not to happen. Peter Parker is never bitten by a radioactive spider for instance. He’s just a photographer with a family by the time this series hits and this sets up the new line of titles.

Ultimate Spider-Man is a definite contender for the best thing Marvel’s putting out right now and we’re big on Ultimates, too.

Ultimate Spider-Man

Ultimate Spider-Man   Ultimate Comics Spider-Man   Ultimate Comics Spider-Man: Death of Spider-Man Fallout

This is the original Brian Bendis/Mark Bagley Ultimate Spider-Man. The first Ultimate title and (along with Daredevil) what originally made Bendis his reputation at Marvel.  And it’s a good run, too. Afterwards… enter Miles Morales, who’s become celebrated in his own right.

Ultimate X-Men

Ultimate X-Men  Ultimate Comics X-Men

Over on the mutant side of the street, the spread looks like this:

The original Ultimate X-Men run has a very interesting writer rotation. Mark Millar begins and ends it. In between are runs by Brian K. Vaughan (Saga / Y – The Last Man) and Robert Kirkman (Walking Dead). The artist rotation includes Adam Kubert, Andy Kubert, Chris Bachalo, David Finch, Brandon Peterson, Stuart Immonen, Tom Raney and Salvador Larocca… among others.

Ultimate Comics X-Men was written first by Nick Spencer and later Brian Wood. Artists included Paco Medina, Carlo Barberi, Mahmud Asrar and Alvaro Martinez.

The Ultimates, Ultimate FF and the greater Ultimate Universe

Ultimates Ultimate Fantastic Four Ultimate Comics - The Ultimates

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.

Red… Like a Valentine

Red Hulk Scorched Earth  Fall of the Hulks - Red Hulk  U.S.Avengers

The Marvel Red Hulk sale runs through Monday 6/29.

The main title is the ’08 – ’13 Hulk series. 17 years after the series launched, we’ll risk the spoiler of the opening arc and say this is where Thunderbolt Ross becomes the Red Hulk. (There’s also an Epic Collection available.)

You might want to add Fall of the Hulks: Red Hulk and read it before you get to issue #18. It’s part of the larger “Fall of the Hulks” event that’s not totally collected in the Hulk series. This is by Jeff Parker and Carlos Rodrigues.

After Loeb leaves, Jeff Parker takes over writing and we actually prefer the Parker take on the character. The artists move around a little (it’s that era of Marvel) but Gabriel Hardman / Patrick Zircher / Dale Eaglesham is a pretty good rotation. (And you should have a look at Zircher’s Solomon Kane over in the recent Savage Sword of Conan.)

The more recent title is Red Hulk by Benjamin Percy &Geoff Shaw.

The Hela You Say…

Thor Modern Epic Collection  Journey Into Mystery  Thor Epic Collection: The Fall Of Asgard

The Marvel Hela Sale runs through Monday, 6/29

Hela as in Marvel’s version of Hel, the Norse goddess of death. What we have here is largely a set of Thor collections (a ton of those between this sale and the Pride sale).

Some highlights:

Living in the Past

X-Factor  X-Force  X-Factor by Peter David

The Marvel X-Men ’97 Sale runs through Monday, 6/29.

This… is perhaps a misnamed sale. X-Men ’97 is a continuation of the ’90s cartoon. In this sale we find everything for the ’24-’25 X-Factor by Mark Russell & Bob Quinn (which we liked) to the first adventures of The New Mutants from the early 80s. It’s worth browsing for your mutant fix.

Also of note:

Kitty’s Name Is Spelled Differently

The Marvel Pride Sale runs through Monday 6/29.

Unusual to see Marvel having a Pride Month sale and DC not. My, how the times are changing.

This is a wide-ranging sale and not everything in it is particularly Pride-centric (like every appearance of Hercules going back to the 60s). There’s a LOT of books here, so take a browse at your leisure. We’ll be pointing out some books that are a little more appropriate for the sale and are good reads.

Unannounced Sales

Cyberpunk 2077 Big City Dreams  My Friend Dahmer Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

As always, it isn’t clear when the unannounced sales will end.

Looks like there’s an unannounced sale on Dark Horse’s Cyberpunk 2077. A video game adaptation with an interesting award to its credit.

The first five collections can be found here.

After which, the property went to the album format Dark Horse sometimes uses for titles with a higher bookstore profile, which are listed with the single issues:

There’s also The World of Cyberpunk 2077.

Masters of the Universe (otherwise known as He-Man) is still on sale.

Also on sale:

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Marvel’s Early Prime Day Omnibus / Epic Collection Sale

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, Marvel hits Prime Day early with plenty of Omnibuses and Epic Collections. Plus, Calvin and Hobbes.

Where did the New Releases and Sale pages go?

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Marvel Celebrates Prime Day Early?

Spectacular Spider-Man By Dematteis & Buscema Omnibus  Avengers Omnibus  Wolverine Omnibus

OK… there’s a page for this sale, but it’s not the Deals page. It appears to be an early Prime Day sale (Prime Day is towards the end of the month). We have no idea at all how long this one is going to last, so this week we’re publishing early! (And you can guess how we were spending our evening.)

Here’s the Marvel Page in question.

[UPDATE: They put a Deals page link up, and it’s even less organized!]

All sorts of interesting things. Omnibuses, Epic Collections and everything in between. Looks like over 800 items. Kind of a June holiday sale, really. You’ll want to browse through it at some point, but let’s try to put some order to Amazon listings chaos:

Omnibuses

Starting at $11.99

Epic Collections

Starting at $5.99

Masterworks

Starting at $5.99

Plenty more comics, including a lot of “regular” collections if you care to browse.

Unannounced Sales

The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury Masters of the Universe: Revelation DC Encyclopedia New Edition

As always, it isn’t clear when the unannounced sales will end.

Masters of the Universe (otherwise known as He-Man)

Dark Horse still has a big block of Brian Bendis titles on sale. Jinxworld, if you prefer. Let’s hit the numbers first:

We encourage you to give the crime/thriller work of Bendis a look. Scarlet has gotten more relevant since it came out and Goldfish is really what got him started. Yes, he got famous doing capes, but he’s a Mamet guy at the end of the day.

Also on sale:

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Brian Bendis / Jinxworld

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, it’s Brian Bendis / Jinxworld getting the discounts.

Where did the New Releases and Sale pages go?

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Unannounced Sales

Scarlet Goldfish Fortune and Glory

As always, it isn’t clear when the unannounced sales will end.

Dark Horse has a big block of Brian Bendis titles on sale. Jinxworld, if you prefer. Let’s hit the numbers first:

We encourage you to give the crime/thriller work of Bendis a look. Scarlet has gotten more relevant since it came out and Goldfish is really what got him started. Yes, he got famous doing capes, but he’s a Mamet guy at the end of the day.

Yes, it’s still going strong, AND it’s still on sale: Groo by Sergio Aragonés and Mark Evanier. Also included:

Also on sale:

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Batman; Marvel Omnibuses and Epic Collections; Groo

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, DC has a Batman sale. Marvel adds some random Omnibuses and Epic Collections to the discount pile. Plus, Groo.

Where did the New Releases and Sale pages go?

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Holy Mixed Bag Batman!

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns  Batman: Knightfall  Tales of the Batman: Archie Goodwin

The Lego Batman Sale runs through Monday, 6/1.

It’s a DC sale, so you might expect it to be a corporate synergy event. And it would appear you’re right as the Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight video game launches.

Not all of these prices are great. We would also hasten to remind you that DC typical drops the recent digital collections to $9.99 after a few months… or to mimic the stylings of Frank Gorshin: “Riddle me this: when is a sale, not a sale?” We’re also not fond of some of the prices on the Tales of the Batman volumes, but will concede some of those $9.99 prices could be the best we’re getting (as we curse the phenomenon of HC pricing for digital). The rest of them… well, judge for yourself.

That being said, here are a few things where we were OK with the prices:

Epics and Omnibi and Marvel, Oh My!

Invincible Iron Man Omnibus  Rom: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus  Power Man and Iron Fist

Marvel has an unnamed sale with no dates attached to it. We’re double-not-sure how long it’s going to last, but there are a few worthwhile things we would draw your attention to:

What’s good?

Invincible Iron Man Omnibus V. 2 will get you the bulk of the Archie Goodwin run, which is where Iron Man really takes off, as far as we’re concerned.

Rom is not always on sale and these licensed books sometimes disappear, so if it’s your jam, consider getting it while available at a better price.

The full run isn’t discounted, but Miracleman Vol. 1: A Dream Of Flying is the beginning of a classic run.

There’s a bit more to the sale than the above, should you care to browse.

Unannounced Sales

Groo Meets Tarzan Groo These Savage Shores

As always, it isn’t clear when the unannounced sales will end.

Yes, it’s still going strong, AND it’s on sale: Groo by Sergio Aragonés and Mark Evanier. Also included:

Dark Horse is still having a sale on their Mark Millar line of comics, AKA Millarworld, including:

For our money, Starlight is way under appreciated. The Hollywood elevator pitch would be along the lines of “Flash Gordon’s retirement isn’t going well.”

Also on sale:

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Comixology (at Amazon) Sales: Millarworld

In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales,  Dark Horse slashes prices on the Millarworld line of comics.

Where did the New Releases and Sale pages go?

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Unannounced Sales

Reborn Library Edition Star Light Vatican City

As always, it isn’t clear when the unannounced sales will end.

Dark Horse is having a sale on their Mark Millar line of comics, AKA Millarworld, including:

For our money, Starlight is way under appreciated. The Hollywood elevator pitch would be along the lines of “Flash Gordon’s retirement isn’t going well.”

Dark Horse is also still having a sale on their Avatar: The Last Airbender line of comics

Also on sale, The Legend of Korra

Also on sale:

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