Howard V. Chaykin
3) Magneto
Author
Series
Publisher
Spotlight
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Before the Brotherhood and his greatest battles with the X-Men, there was a man named Erik Magnus. He was working hard, gathering mutants to join his cause. Does the young Magneto have what it takes to build an army?"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Fritz Leiber ranks among the giants of fantasy and science fiction visionaries, capturing multiple Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards and influencing a generation of writers. And his most renowned creations are the swashbuckling Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories. Collected here are adaptations of some of the finest of these tales. Join the hulking barbarian and the diminutive rogue as they battle swordsmen, necromancers, and flagons of strong...
Author
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019].
Language
English
Description
"Billionaire weapons manufacturer Tony Stark lived a life of wealth and privilege. That all changed when an onsite visit to a war-torn nation went horribly wrong, leaving Tony gravely injured in the hands of dangerous extremists--one a former friend. When asked to build a weapon, Tony instead constructed a mechanized suit of armor and escaped. But the horrors he left behind are coming for retribution, and the only way to stop them is for the carefree...
8) Black kiss
Author
Publisher
Dynamite Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A jazz musician and ex-con framed for the murder of his wife and daughter plummets into a nightmare of sex and death in the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles.
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"With a movie in development from director Steven Spielberg, DC collects this acclaimed 1988 series starring the World War II aviator known as Blackhawk for the first time. Howard Chaykin's 1988 miniseries is collected in book format for the first time. Polish pilot Janos Prohaska - better known as Blackhawk - is on American soil and in trouble. Accused of Communist leanings, he stumbles across a plot to overthrow the U.S. government and bomb New...
Author
Publisher
Boom! Studios
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
More than a decade before the first Die hard movie, John McClane is just another rookie cop, an East Coast guy working on earning his badge in New York City during 1976's bicentennial celebration. Too bad for John McClane, nothing's ever that easy. Join McClane on his first adventure--taking on terrorists during the nation's bicentennial on a hot New York summer day.
12) Bite club
Author
Publisher
DC Comics/Vertigo
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
When the Del Toro patriarch is rubbed out, the members of that family, all of them born blood-suckers, are quick to start vying for new positions at the top of the heap. But the old man had already picked a successor-- his youngest son Leto, who left the family behind to become, of all things, a Catholic priest. Now Leto has to figure out not only who killed his father but also whether he will stay in the church or embrace his new inheritance, all...
Author
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"More than a decade before the first Die hard movie, John McClane is just another rookie cop, an East Coast guy working on earning his badge in New York City during 1976's bicentennial celebration. Too bad for John McClane, nothing's ever that easy. Join McClane on his first adventure-- taking on terrorists during the nation's bicentennial on a hot New York summer day"--From publisher web site.
Author
Series
Publisher
Boom! Studios
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
The Plutonium, once the world's greatest hero and now the most terrifying supervillain, has violently devastated millions of lives. The Plutonian's former teammates, the Paradigm, must rely on a former savage enemy for any possibility of survival.
Author
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"1959. Under presidential orders, Nick Fury assembles the first Avengers: Victor Creed. Namora. Kraven the Hunter. Dominic Fortune. Silver Sable. Ulysses Bloodstone. Their mission? Stop the rise of Red Skull's Fourth Reich--or die trying. Present day. Luke Cage's New Avengers are settling in to life at Avengers Mansion. But as the team begins to gel, Norman Osborn's H.A.M.M.E.R. is secretly rebuilding. Stopping these bad guys will test the New Avengers...
Author
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Description
The original comic adaptation of the greatest space-fantasy film of all is remastered for the modern age! Weeks before George Lucas' first Star Wars film hit theatres, Marvel gave fans their first look at Luke Skywalker, boldly asking: Will he save the galaxy, or destroy it? You may know the answer, but that doesn't spoil the fun of seeing Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope like never before...including scenes that never made the silver screen! When...
Author
Series
Publisher
Marvel Comics
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"Following up on plot threads left over from CIVIL WAR: WOLVERINE, this new story promises to take Marvel's feral mutant to the limit-- and beyond! With Wolverine reduced to a brain-dead vegetable, you'd think that was the end of Wolverine's adventure-- but it's actually just the beginning of Wolverine's greatest challenge yet. Guest-starring Iron Man and Dr. Strange! Plus: Wendell Rayfield is a recently divorced, down-on-his-luck ex-cop who's looking...
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In the 1980s, Simon Cross enjoyed a life of international intrigue as the world's greatest secret agent; today, he's a retiree who splits his time between romancing widows and ruminating on whether the various missions he undertook as a younger man were as much about saving the world as they were maintaining a status quo favorable to those in positions of power. Enter Liberty Nuance, an old flame bearing life-altering news: their fiery fling three...