3 thrilling tales of the Spirit! "The Most Important Meal," "Force of Arms" and "Gossip and Gertrude Granch" are all written by Alan Moore, with art & lettering by Dave Gibbons. Plus: "The Spirit vs. Sam 'Slippery' Eall," a classic Spirit splash page by Will Eisner from November 30, 1947. Also: 3-page feature "The Many Origins of the Spirit" written by Catherine Garnier.

The Spirit returns in an all-new ongoing series! Central City destroys everyone who lives within its borders...so it's a good thing The Spirit already died once! International crime syndicate The Golden Tree wants to help Central City's Octopus consolidate control over the underworld and the Spirit is the kind of mess the Golden Tree was created to clean up. They've offered the Octopus the services of one of their finest assassins to take his breath away for good – and the sight of this killer would get anyone's heart pounding! This issue also features the debut of the eight-page THE SPIRIT: BLACK and WHITE co-feature, showcasing the industry's finest talent. And who better to kick things off than DENNIS O'NEIL and BILL SIENKIEWICZ?

Young TV news journalist Ginger Coffee is abducted ON AIR moments before speaking with a mob informant, prepared to bring down the crime sydicate. The Spirit rushes to save her, as do the police. However, she has made a call to the station and left the line open, and the station is playing the audio on air. Unfortunately for our hero, the kidnapper happens to be watching. It becomes a race: who will get to The Spirit and Ginger first, the Cops or the Mob?

What It Is: The Spire is a mountain of metal and stone that rises from the toxic nowherelands; a city of twisting tunnels, grinding elevators, ancient machinery, and over one million human and non-human residents. Sh?, the only citizen of her species, is Commander of the Watch: responsible for keeping order despite the racist views of those around her. When a string of grisly murders occurs on the eve of the new Baroness's coronation, Sh? is tasked with bringing the killer to justice... and picking apart the wider mysteries tangled around the crime. But the city's new ruler seems sets to usher in a more xenophobic age, and Sh? swiftly finds she has far more than one enemy at her back? Oversized first issue with 28 pages of story!

One of the greatest pulp characters of all time is now re-launched into the 21st century! The world knows Richard Wentworth as a decorated war hero and the son of a wealthy industrialist - but only a few confidants know the truth. As New York City slides into violence and despair, Wentworth has transformed himself into a force of justice as The Spider! With only his wits, his technology, and his pistols to aid him, he fights a one-man man war against crime, but when a mysterious new villain threatens the city with an unspeakable horror, it may be more than even The Spider can handle. How far will a sane man go to restore order to an insane world?

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Jim Corrigan was a tough-as-nails plainclothes cop in the blood-spattered 1930s, until his brutal gangland slaying turned him into the ghostly seeker of vengeance known as the Spectre-- delivering his own form of divine vengeance on the evils of the world.

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When an ambassador is shot, an experimental procedure summons the spirit of his ancestor, a long dead pirate, Captain Skull to his body. Captain Skull begins looting in modern Gateway City before leading The Spectre on a chase through time.

The fan favorite team of writer Paul Jenkins and artist Humberto Ramos reteam for the newest ongoing series starring the Amazing Spider-Man. And the series kicks off with a bang, as Spidey faces off against his deadliest foe, Venom!

Following the success of Spider-Man's original series, The Amazing Spider-Man, Marvel felt the character could support more than one title. This led the company in 1968 to launch a short-lived magazine, the first to bear the Spectacular name. In 1972, Marvel more successfully launched a second Spider-Man ongoing series, Marvel Team-Up, in which he was paired with other Marvel heroes. A third monthly ongoing series, Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man, debuted in 1976.

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The Solution have a safehouse in Arizona that they are going to use to practice against each other. However, a group of Darkurians tracks Outrage down in Arizona and attack the Solution immediately. The battle is heated but the Solution eventually win.

A stylish, political adventure about a pair of hip, clever teens who fool the world into believing they have superpowers. Like X-Men: First Class meets Project Alpha. It is the 1960s. The Russians have the A bomb, the H bomb, and now the most terrifying weapon of all: a pair of psychically superpowered young people. Terrified and desperate, the US top brass scours from coast to coast in search of psychic Americans. Enter Dr. Isobel Santaclara, an eccentric illusionist and grifter who has recruited two teenagers and trained them to trick the US government, the Russians, and the whole world into believing they are dangerous psychics. The Skeptics is a pre-punk period piece, a sort of honest, unfuzzy, non-nostalgic look at the Cold War in DC. Like a cross between Kill Your Boyfriend and Hard Day's Night, but about politics and ethics and how punk rock it is to be the smartest person in the room.

Bloodthirsty Bill Sumter, Filthy Ben Kinney, Will Arcene, Silas "Bitter Ridge" Hedgepeth. Since the very first issue of The Sixth Gun, readers have clamored for more information about General Hume's horsemen. What happened to these cutthroats and killers after their master died? Some seek wealth. Some seek redemption. Some seek to forget the horrors they've wrought. Now this untold story of ne'er-do-wells and cursed six shooters can be revealed!

During the darkest days of the Civil War, wicked cutthroats came into possession of six pistols of otherworldly power. In time, the Sixth Gun-the most dangerous of the weapons-vanished. When the gun surfaces in the hands of an innocent girl, dark forces reawaken. Vile men thought long dead set their sights on retrieving the gun and killing the girl. Only Drake Sinclair, a gunfighter with a shadowy past, stands in their way. The Sixth Gun is a two-fisted adventure set in the mysterious and supernatural corers of the old west.

The year is 1979. Iran has seized American hostages. Columbian drug cartels run rampant. And Le Chic's "Freak Out" dominates the charts. Amid this deeply troubled world, Steve Austin — everyone's favorite Six Million Dollar Man — is America's best hope in its fight against innumerable enemies. When Steve discovers disturbing secrets in OSI's past, he uses his cybernetic upgrades to rebel against the agency... but he'll face plenty of threats, like an enemy cyborg, and lasers, and ninjas!

Donald Wright was a lowly assistant looking for a way to impress his boss when his life was irrevocably changed forever! Now he's the SIRE, a superhero transformed against his will, forced to fight evil by his own alien costume. When an alien energy force begins wreaking havoc on the globe, it's up to the SIRE to uncover the truth behind his costume's origins and save the Earth from a technology mogul hell bent on its destruction!"Truly inspired, the SIRE is the result of pure excitement and magic on the part of its creators." - Ethan Van Sciver"If heroics take a backseat to manipulation, then convention takes a backseat to innovation in The Sire" - Wizard Magazine"The story is solid as Dolce makes the characters three-dimensional. this (is a) well done indy tale of a reluctant super-hero." - Comic Buyers Guide

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THE SHADOW is a character that has lasted through decades on the pages of pulp magazines, over the radio airwaves, thru the silver screen, and in the panels of comic books. Shrouded in mystery, his origins have been explored and hinted at over the years...but never fully revealed. Much is known of Kent Allard/Lamont Cranston's years spent in the Orient and Central America-wherein he gains his powers and purpose...but not how he first developed his persona as the Master of Darkness. Eisner Award-winning author, Matt Wagner is joined by artist Wilfredo Torres in an exhilarating 8-issue limited series that will explore the dynamic events that first drew Cranston back to the States, how he first met his companion and lover, Margo Lane, how he began to assemble his vast network of agents and how he first adopted the famous black hat and cloak as his alter-ego's disguise-all secrets that, up until now...only The Shadow knew!