The Secret History of Marvel Comics digs back to the 1930s when Marvel Comics wasn't just a comic-book producing company. Marvel Comics owner Martin Goodman had tentacles into a publishing world that might have made that era’s conservative American parents lynch him on his front porch. Marvel was but a small part of Goodman’s publishing empire, which had begun years before he published his first comic book. Goodman mostly published lurid and sensationalistic story books (known as “pulps”) and magazines, featuring sexually-charged detective and romance short fiction, and celebrity gossip scandal sheets. And artists like Jack Kirby, who was producing Captain America for eight-year-olds, were simultaneously dipping their toes in both ponds. The Secret History of Marvel Comics tells this parallel story of 1930s/40s Marvel Comics sharing offices with those Goodman publications not quite fit for children. The book also features a comprehensive display of the artwork produced for Goodman’s other enterprises by Marvel Comics artists such as Jack Kirby and Joe Simon, Alex Schomburg, Bill Everett, Al Jaffee, and Dan DeCarlo, plus the very best pulp artists in the field, including Norman Saunders, John Walter Scott, Hans Wesso, L.F. Bjorklund, and Marvel Comics #1 cover artist Frank R. Paul. Goodman’s magazines also featured cover stories on celebrities such as Jackie Gleason, Elizabeth Taylor, Liberace, and Sophia Loren, as well as contributions from famous literary and social figures such as Isaac Asimov, Theodore Sturgeon, and L. Ron Hubbard.

As a medieval mercenary, Ezra is always for hire... for the right price. She has accepted a job from a deadly band of thieves led by Barak Bacillus. But before her quest has even begun, she finds herself shackled and held captive on a brigand's ship. She'll need more than her good looks to stay alive...

From the classic movie, the Good, The Bad, and The Ugly! The Man with No Name rides again, this time under the veteran hand of writer Chuck (G.I.Joe) Dixon in a brand-new Dynamite #1! Featuring incredible art by Esteve Polls, and iconic covers by Lone Ranger artist Sergio Cariello, Zorro artist Francesco Francavilla and Wolverine Noir artist Dennis Calero, Dixon tells the tale of "DEAD MAN'S HAND" in a five part arc that continues the strong direction Dynamite's westerns are known for!

Volume 3 of Heroic Publishing's Champions, following Champions Volume 2, and followed by Tales of the Champions.

A Samurai Shogun leads an army against the tyrannical Lord Shinzen with the hopes of putting n end to Shinzen’s dream of conquering Japan. Loyal disciples of the Code of the Samurai, Ashigura’s men fight with a fury and reckless abandon that Shinzen’s warriors will never match.As the battle rages, Ashigura’s brother, Ishida, returns home after a seven year exodus. Disenchanted with the harsh and violent life of a Samurai, Ishida has chosen a different path. He has spent the last third of his life studying and training within the peaceful Order of the mysterious Shoalin Monks; A decision that has turned Ishida’s brother against him.

Tom DeFalco saddles up for a western adventure featuring the classic Marvel western hero. Wanted by the law for killing a man in cold blood, Kid Colt thunders through the Wild West with guns blazing while trying to prove his innocence!

Halloween is upon us. Historically this ancient event has been identified as the day in which the boundary between the living and the dead becomes unstable. It is on this fateful night that we find Beatrice, Molly and Mallory, the pop music group known as Angora Napkin, crossing paths with the wandering dead. That's how they meet Dennis, the zombie boy, who agrees to eradicate all life on Earth. Now, the girls of Angora Napkin must stop the horror they've unwittingly released (and make it to their gig on time)!

Tom DeFalco saddles up for a four-part western adventure featuring the classic Marvel western hero. Wanted by the law for killing a man in cold blood, Kid Colt thunders through the Wild West with guns blazing while trying to prove his innocence.

Normally Ezra is rogue mercenary for hire…but she has just embarked on a quest that becomes a personal mission to exorcise the demons in her closet from a long, long time ago...

What could go wrong?

Two members of Task Force X are back in these all-new adventures! First up: “REVENGE OF KOBRA” by writer Mike W. Barr and artist Philippe Briones. To oppose the terrorist Kobra is to earn his un-dying hatred, and that’s what the samurai Katana did when she killed his beloved Eve. Now Kobra stalks Katana beyond the bounds of the Earth itself, to a supernatural world where he will steal from her everything that she has-including her very soul!And in “SUICIDE SQUAD BLACK,” by writer Jai Nitz and artist Scot Eaton, Sebastian Faust, the U.S. government’s top arcane operative, has gone rogue! To track down America’s most dangerous magician, Amanda Waller assembles a special-ops team unlike any other: an expendable coven of dark-arts experts including El Diablo, Enchantress and Gentleman Ghost. They are Suicide Squad Black, and they will take you to places where even the dead can die!

The acclaimed team of writer Steve Orlando and artist Riley Rossmo (BATMAN/ THE SHADOW, BATMAN: NIGHT OF THE MONSTER MEN) reteam for a reinvention of the Manhunter from Mars in this twisted, unexpected series. Back on Mars, J’onn was about as corrupt as a law officer can be, and when a reckoning comes for his entire society, he’ll get a second chance he doesn’t want or deserve! One shocking murder, and an unexpected fragment of the Mars he lost, will change his life—and the course of the Earth—forever!

This trilogy of short tales illustrated by of one of Europe's greatest comic creators, Loisel, explores the erotic side of rituals and festivals. PUBLICATION IN 1 VOLUME - COMPLETED WORK. In The Offering a curvaceous young nymph is offered as a sacrifice to a mythical monster, only for rescue to come in an unlikely form. The Bonfires of St. John tells the voyeuristic misadventures of a Middle Ages virgin. While The Ceremony is set in Venice at beginning of the 20th century, when a young pregnant woman joins her lover during a mystery laden Venetian masquerade ball.

Super heroes running a female fight club? Unbelievable perhaps, but it's a tale of depravity that will send shockwaves across the globe once the sordid details appear on a podcast uploaded by the True Believers! Who are these counter-culture subversives with strange powers and abilities who have proclaimed themselves 'warriors of the information age'? The True Believers not only speak truth to power, they wield it like a weapon using it to root out lies and deception, cover-ups and conspiracies wherever they find them. Whether it's S.H.I.E.L.D. or the Illuminati, HYDRA or Weapon X, the CIA or the CSA, no target is too big and no one is off-limits-including a wary superhuman community with plenty of its own secrets to hide!

Cleveland. 1935. Eliot Ness, fresh from his legendary Chicago triumph over Al Capone and associates, set his sights on Cleveland. He went on a crusade that matched, and sometimes even surpassed, his past accomplishments. But dismembered body parts started washing up in a concentrated area of Lake Erie Sound. Headless torsos that left no clues to their identity or reason for death. Elliot Ness and his colorful gang of The Unknowns chased this killer through the underbelly of Cleveland for years. As far as the public was concerned, he was never captured. But what really happened is even more shocking.

The entire TidalWave universe comes together for an amazing series that shines the spotlight on the characters that you demanded to see more of! Every member of the superhero group that was introduced in 10th Muse #1 will be featured in this self-entitled series called The Odyssey. The series features many characters that needed extra pages to tell their tales, from Orion the Hunter and Ares, to Judo Girl and Medusa. The Odyssey will feature the hidden gems of TidalWave in their own adventures! Also included in the series is a Who's Who of the TidalWave universe. Several amazing comic book artists are making their mark on the TidalWave universe and we can't wait until you see the amazing new work from industry pros like Norm Breyfogle and Craig Rousseau and talented newcomers such as Sean Murphy, Patrick Blaine and many more!

The Samurai Slasher - Based on the 80s movie that never was, we watch as a somewhat generic group of youths encounter the Samurai Slasher for the very first time on what was meant to be a sordid spring break getaway.The Secret Origins of the Samurai Slasher - From his deathbed, an old man tells the nurse, who is standing vigil, about the legendary Samurai Slasher's origin and the part he played in his resurrection. We get to see the Samurai as he fights to defend a tiny village in feudal Japan.The Exhibition of the Samurai Slasher - The Samurai is exhibited for the general public. It's not long before the Samurai breaks free from his display case 'prison' and gets vengeance against those who imprisoned him.The Decimation of the Samurai Slasher - The Samurai's antics have caught the attention of the army who want to put an end to his menace once and for all.

Meet Billy Black, an 80s hardcore scene refugee who's having a bit of trouble acclimating to modern life. While bludgeoning a band of Burning Man refugees with the skull of Jerry Garcia, Billy inadvertently becomes immersed in an evil Nazi conspiracy to turn the world into mindless hippie zombies in order to usher in the 4th Reich. "Hitler in Jerry Garcia's corpse how can you say no?"-- Warren Ellis.

With these Christmas specials, Bugs will have you ho-hoing and ha-haing!

Trapped 5,000 years out of time, the would-be Egyptian goddess, Isis, must adjust to her new life in 21st Century Los Angeles. Using her mystical staff and some help from a few new friends, Isis will protect those around her from evil that may threaten their world. But how can she protect a world that she doesn't fully understand? Join Isis in her ongoing series debut as she's introduced to the modern world and its new ways of life. But it seems Isis is not the only ancient warrior alive in our time, as she must battle the mummy of Sekhent, upon her awakening from the dead!