NUMBER 13 #0
Writer: Robert Love, David Walker
Artist: Robert Love
Colorist: Michelle Davies, Diego Simone
Cover Artist: Robert Love
In a postapocalyptic wasteland populated by mutants and
terrorized by flesh-eating ogres, a young amnesiac searches for the answers to
the mystery of his identity. Wandering aimlessly, he comes to the rescue of
Lorna, a young girl who gives him a name: Number 13. Facing danger at every
turn, Number 13 fights to stay alive as his quest to find out who he is leads
to the deadly truth of what he is.
B.P.R.D.: 1948 #2
Writer: Mike Mignola, John Arcudi
Artist: Max Fiumara
Colorist: Dave Stewart
Cover Artist: Dave Johnson
As the battle between the atomic-bred monsters and the
B.P.R.D. rages in the Utah desert, Professor Bruttenholm and the agents
successfully kill one of the beasts and conduct an autopsy with horrifying
results.
BALTIMORE: THE PLAY
Writer: Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden
Artist: Ben Stenbeck
Colorist: Dave Stewart
Cover Artist: Ben Stenbeck
A mad playwright puts on a Grand Guignol featuring actors
that are real vampires. The evil financer of the play makes a bizarre discovery
when he finds out that the playwright is a fraud and the true author is a
disembodied head of a famous American author kept in a glass case.
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER: SPIKE #4
Writer: Victor Gischler
Penciller: Paul Lee
Inker: Andy Owens
Colorist: Cris Peter
Cover Artist: Jenny Frison, Steve Morris
Spike departs from the ruins of Sunnydale—and all those
memories—with a demon who wants desperately to return to her home dimension.
But with the loss of magic, her connection is lost. Spike, ever the hero,
offers to help this mysterious damsel in distress in her journey to find any
remnants of magic that might reconnect her to her world.
DARK HORSE PRESENTS #18
Writer: Carla Speed McNeil, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Jimmy
Palmiotti, Justin Gray, Phil Stanford, Peter Hogan, Joshua Williamson, Colin
Lorimer, Ulises Farinas, Erick Freitas
Artist: Carla Speed McNeil, Colin Lorimer, Ulises
Farinas, Richard Corben, Steve Lieber, tony Akins, Patric Reynolds, Steve
Parkhouse, Victor Ibáñez
Cover Artist: Steve Rude
Captain Midnight strikes! The masked avenger flies into
the twenty-first century courtesy of writer Joshua Williamson (Xenoholics,
Voodoo) and artist Victor Ibáñez (Rat Catcher). The thrills begin again at the
stroke of midnight!
Also, the critically acclaimed Alabaster by Caitlín R.
Kiernan and Steve Lieber continues in the pages of DHP!
EDGAR ALLAN POE’S THE CONQUEROR WORM
Writer: Richard Corben
Artist: Richard Corben
A horrifying adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic by
comics legend, Richard Corben. A betrayed man hunts down his wife and her lover
only to stumble upon a gruesome puppet show based on his life.
THE GOON #43
Writer: Eric Powell
Artist: Eric Powell, Mark Buckingham
Cover Artist: Eric Powell
When Sproule’s Biological Curiosities and Wild West
Extravaganza pulls into town on Halloween, it’s all tricks and little treats
for Goon and company. The cast of Billy the Kid’s Old Timey Oddities guest-star
in this multigenerational mystery.
STAR WARS: AGENT OF THE EMPIRE—HARD TARGETS #2
Writer: John Ostrander
Penciller: Davidé Fabbri
Inker: Christian Dalla Vecchia
Colorist: Wes Dzioba
Cover Artist: Stéphane Roux
Imperial Agent Jahan Cross doesn’t like his assignment or
the politicians he is forced to work with. Yet dealing with all of that is
easier than coming to terms with his growing respect for a boy whose father he
killed—especially when that boy is supposed to be merely a political pawn of
the Empire.
When attackers kidnap the boy, Cross finds himself
turning his back on his mission and putting his life on the line for a “pawn.”
No job is too dangerous for an Agent of the Empire!
ANGEL & FAITH VOLUME 2: DADDY ISSUES TPB
Writer: Christos Gage
Artist: Rebekah Isaacs, Chris Samnee
Colorist: Jordie Bellaire
Cover Artist: Steve Morris
The dark streets of London are increasingly dangerous as
murderers, mystically devoid of emotion, begin to impact the lives of Angel and
Faith. In unraveling this new mystery, the pair follow clues in the Watcher’s
Files to a demon from Giles’s past and a “child” from Angel’s. Then, Drusilla
returns to her homeland and becomes the hot new vampire in the underground
scene! While Angel faces Dru, Faith must deal with issues that reawaken her
inner turmoil—a visit from her deadbeat dad, who’s looking for a favor, and a
troubled Slayer hell bent on revenge. Collects Angel & Faith #6–#10.
CRIME DOES NOT PAY ARCHIVES VOLUME 3 HC
Writer: Dick Wood, Lev Gleason, Milton Kramer
Artist: Alvin Hollingsworth, Charles Biro, Carmine
Infantino, Dick Briefer, Alan Mandel, R.W. Hall, Jack Alderman, Louis Trakis
One of the best-selling comics of the 1940s, Crime Does
Not Pay focused on violent mobsters and murderous lowlifes who machine-gunned
their way through the urban underworld . . . until justice landed them in the
chair! In 1954, the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency targeted this
comic series for its graphic violence, eventually leading to the creation of
the repressive Comics Code Authority. Issues #30 to #33 of Crime Does Not Pay
are finally collected in this deluxe hardcover, which includes “Million Dollar
Robbery”—perhaps the first story in US comics history drawn by an African-American
artist—and features a new introduction by comic-book giant Howard Chaykin
(Marked Man, American Flagg!).
MANARA EROTICA VOLUME 2: KAMA SUTRA AND OTHER STORIES HC
Writer: Milo Manara
Artist: Milo Manara
The first and only comprehensive collection of Manara’s
erotic work!
Comics virtuoso Milo Manara revolutionized comics
erotica, creating deep and sexy tales delivered with unparalleled storytelling
skill. Spanning three decades of the maestro’s work, this breathtaking volume
features two of Manara’s most awe-inspiring painted stories, Kama Sutra and The
Golden Ass, alongside some of his earliest achievements!
MARKED MAN HC
Writer: Howard Chaykin
Artist: Howard Chaykin
Colorist: Jesus Aburto
Cover Artist: Howard Chaykin
To the casual observer, Mark LaFarge has it going on.
He’s got a beautiful wife, cute kids, a McMansion in the South Bay . . . the
guy is the living embodiment of the American dream. But nothing is ever as it
seems. LaFarge is a career criminal who’s never done an honest day’s work in
his life . . . and that life of crime, completely separate from the life he
presents to the world, is about to catch up with him. And there will be blood .
. . a great deal of blood. Collects Marked Man stories from Dark Horse Presents
#1-#8.
