This batch includes classic Doc Strange reprints, a new Ghost Rider run, a new Joe Kelly project, a big chunk of 90's Spidey, and the intro of a new Asian hero bearing the mantle of Iron Fist.
MIGHTY MMW DOCTOR STRANGE WORLD BEYOND GN TP VOL 01
(W) Stan Lee, More (A) Steve Ditko (CA) Michael Cho
The stories that built the Marvel Universe, from the brilliant minds of legendary creators - now available in an accessible new format the whole family can enjoy! Dr. Stephen Strange is a once-brilliant surgeon whose own failings left his hands in ruins and his career in tatters. He desperately sought a cure, but found so much more instead. Now, Doctor Strange is the Master of the Mystic Arts, Earth's Sorcerer Supreme - mankind's only hope against dark and otherworldly forces! From Strange's wicked rival Baron Mordo to the Dread Dormammu, ruler of the Dark Dimension, prepare to have your horizons widened by the mind-boggling mystic realms on display in these strange tales from Stan Lee and Steve Ditko's spellbinding, visionary run!
Collecting material from STRANGE TALES (1951) #110-111 and #114-141 and AMAZING SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL (1964) #2.
Ages 10 & Up
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Why this caught my eye:
I just love the accessibility and pricing of these reprints Marvel has been putting out, plus those Cho covers are pretty great.
GHOST RIDER #1
W) Ben Percy (A) Cory Smith(CA) Kael Ngu
JOHNNY BLAZE!! Johnny Blaze has the perfect life: a wife and two kids, a job at an auto repair shop and a small-town community that supports him... But Johnny isn't doing well. He has nightmares of monsters when he sleeps. And he sees bloody visions when he's awake. This life is beginning to feel like a prison. And there's a spirit in him that's begging to break out!
Benjamin Percy (WOLVERINE, X-FORCE) and Cory Smith (CONAN THE BARBARIAN, CAPTAIN MARVEL) are going back to basics with the Spirit of Vengeance in this extra-sized first issue!
Rated T+
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Why this caught my eye:
Ghost Rider runs are inconsistent at best, and I'm generally less interested in Johnny Blaze over the other riders. But I like Smith's art and it's always worth checking to see what different writers can bring to the table.
SAVAGE SPIDER-MAN #1
(W) Joe Kelly (A) Gerardo Sandoval (CA) Nick Bradshaw
SPIDER-MAN LIKE YOU'VE NEVER SEEN HIM BEFORE!
Peter Parker finds himself at the middle of the biggest, most wide-ranging adventure he's ever had and out of the gate it has turned him into a SAVAGE BEAST! Forget everything you know about Spider-Man. All rules and regulations are out the door and Peter Parker may never be the same!
Rated T+
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Why this caught my eye:
I love Joe Kelly so always happy to see him on new projects.
CARNAGE EPIC COLLECTION TP BORN IN BLOOD
(W) David Michelinie, More (A) More (A/CA) Mark Bagley
Volume #1 in the Carnage Epic Collections Carnage slashes his way into his own Epic Collection! When the offspring of Eddie Brock's alien symbiote bonds with Brock's psychopathic former cellmate, Cletus Kasady, the result is the most deranged and bloodthirsty foe Spider-Man has ever faced! Against the remorseless killer that is Carnage, Spidey must do the unthinkable and forge an alliance with Venom! But Carnage soon gathers some fiendish friends of his own: Carrion, Demogoblin, Shriek and the evil six-armed Spider-Man Doppelganger! And now a small army of heroes - including Spidey, Captain America, Iron Fist, Black Cat, Cloak and Dagger, Morbius and Venom - must hit the streets in a desperate bid to stop Maximum Carnage!
Collecting AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (1963) #361-363 and #378-380, WEB OF SPIDER-MAN (1985) #101-103, SPIDER-MAN (1990) #35-37, SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN (1976) #201-203 and material from SPIDER-MAN UNLIMITED (1993) #1-2 and AMAZING SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL (1964) #28.
Rated T
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Why this caught my eye:
I haven't read any of this material in a loooooong time and I'm a little afraid to revisit it, but this era of Spidey and Mark Bagely artwork was a formative part of my childhood comic identity and I feel like I owe it to....someone?.....to revisit it.....for some reason? I dunno, but I do appreciate the heftiness of this collection and Marvel does do good work with the Epic volumes.
IRON FIST #1
(W) Alyssa Wong (A) Yg, Michael (CA) Jim Cheung
WHO IS THE NEW IRON FIST?!
• After giving up his power to save the world, DANNY RAND believes he's seen the last of the IRON FIST...
• ...But when DEMONS begin to attack cities around the world, a MYSTERIOUS NEWCOMER in a FAMILIAR MASK appears, hands blazing with the CHI OF SHOU-LAO THE UNDYING!
• Who is this NEW IRON FIST? And does his power really come from the DRAGON OF K'UN-LUN... Or from something far more sinister?
Rated T+
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Why this caught my eye:
About friggin' time.
That's it for this round, we'll check out some DC books in the next installment!