Before introducing the modern version of The Sandman, Neil Gaiman wrote this dark tale that reinvented a strange DC Comics super hero in the Vertigo mold. Featuring spectacular art by Gaiman's frequent collaborator, DaveMcKean, BLACK ORCHID. After being viciously murdered, Susan Linden is reborn fully grown as the Black Orchid, a hybrid of plant and human, destined to avenge her own death. Now, as this demigoddessattempts to reconcile human memory and botanical origins, she must untangle the webs of deception and secrets that led to her death. Beginning in the cold streets of a heartless metropolis and ending in the Amazon rainforest, this book takes thereader on a journey through secrets, suffering and self-rediscovery.

THE KING OF THE INHUMANS' FIRST SOLO SERIES! Black Bolt imprisoned! But by who? And where exactly? The answers to both will shock you! But to learn those answers, Black Bolt must first win a fight to the death with a fellow inmate — The Absorbing Man! Award-winning science fiction writer Saladin Ahmed (Throne of the Crescent Moon) crafts a story as trippy as it is action-packed, with truly mind-bending art from the one and only Christian Ward!

Millions of fans have climbed aboard the “wildest ride in the wilderness”, and now Marvel hurtles you through the mists of time to reveal the never-before-told saga of how the dangerous gold mine of Big Thunder Mountain became the haunted legend it is today! Malevolent mine owner Barnabas T. Bullion is determined to shelter his teen daughter Abigail from the dangers of the Wild West, but this brave young hero has other ideas, which include robbing her own father’s mine as a masked bandit! Earthquakes! Floods! Dynamite-chewing goats! Can the denizens of Rainbow Ridge survive the clash between mankind’s greed and nature’s fury? And what is the protective power that dwells deep within the mysterious mountain?

Continous from Beyond the Grave (1975).

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Tag-Team Wrestling...Inter-Galactic Style.

77 pages! DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT is proud to be the new home for the next series of Garth Ennis' "war" books, all under the "Battlefields" header! Late summer, 1942. As the German army smashes deep into Soviet Russia and the defenders of the Motherland retreat in disarray, a new bomber squadron arrives at a Russian forward airbase. Its crews will fly flimsy wooden biplanes on lethal night missions over German lines, risking fiery death as they fling themselves against the invader- but for these pilots, the consequences of capture will be even worse. For the pilots of the 599th Night Bomber Regiment are women. In the deadly skies of the Eastern front, they will become a legend- known, to friend and foe alike, as the Night Witches. Featuring issues 1-3 of the Night Witches series!

This kick-off to the 12-part ''Bruce Wayne: Murderer?'' storyline is a one-shot you can't afford to miss! When Batman responds to a series of crimes, little does he know that a crime is also occurring in the one place in the world he considers safe--his home!

After a brief declaration of her love, Bruce denies her. He tells her of his crime fighting, and how there is no room for love in his life. With that she realizes that while the Dancer was scarred on the outside. Bruce is scarred within, and so he needs his mask as well.

The popular BATMAN creative team that produced the popular BATMAN & DRACULA: RED RAIN and BATMAN: BLOODSTORM reunite for a haunting 4-issue Prestige Elseworlds miniseries that pits an all- too-human Dark Knight against supernatural villains who are blends of classic horror characters and Batman's familiar gallery of foes. Written by Doug Moench, with chilling, stylized art by Kelley Jones and John Beatty, HAUNTED GOTHAM finds a very mortal Bruce Wayne in a Gotham City that has become an isolated hunting ground, cut off from the rest of the world by evil, unearthly beings who prey on humanity. Trained from birth to combat the dark forces, only Wayne can hope to prevail against an army of twisted creatures that includes werewolf assassins, ghosts, demons, zombies, and a patchwork Joker (wearing the head of Bruce Wayne's father) among its members. But to gain the power he needs, must Batman sacrifice his parents' souls?

Batman: Gotham Nights was a four-issue limited series that began in March 1992 and ended in June 1992. It followed the daily lives of Gotham citizens.

Batman investigates the death of a man whose daughter claims that the crime was committed by aliens. His search for answers brings him first to Franklin Selly(known as "The Kook") and later to Area 51.

Nightwing and Robin guest-star in a one-shot that finds that the only event that can pull the Dark Knight away from "No Man's Land" is the DAY OF JUDGMENT! While Batman's outside Gotham, dead gangsters are rising from their graves and trying to take back their old territories. It's up to Robin and Nightwing to hold down the fort and rescue several of Oracle's operatives who've crossed paths with the gang. The battle lines are drawn between good and evil in Gotham, with Oracle herself caught in the middle.

It's the late 1930s and daring industrialist Bruce Wayne masquerades as the Batman at night, fighting against crooked politicians and racist secret societies. The media spins his existence into an entire legion of Batmen, red threats against the American way of life. Along the way, Bruce is aided by his faithful butler Alfred Pennyworth as he is drawn into a web of blackmail and deceit involving beautiful film star Kitty Grimalkin, and uncovers a plot that might set off a world war.

Batman and Wildcat become aware of a secret fight club when Killer Croc kills an imitation Wildcat.

Now Batman must choose between the souls of every person in Gotham... and his own.

Collects Detective Comics #790-796 and Robin #126-128 and is considered a Prelude to War Games. A gifted pop star goes missing and Leslie Thompkins, the most significant woman in Bruce Wayne's life, disappears. Batman is pulled into an all-out war for the section of Gotham City known as The Hill, but is stretched to the limit by different threats and distress within his circle of friends. And when Tim Drake gives up his Robin identity after his father discovers his secret, Batman gets an unanticipated and unwanted replacement in the form of Spoiler!

In Robin, Dick Grayson recuperates from the deaths of his parents, and with Batman, has to face Two-face and Mad hatter!

The co-creators of Bane make a triumphant return to the character, with a twelve-issue series that will push him to the limit! Bane is seeking to create a global criminal empire with the help of his original gang, Bird, Trogg, and Zombie. The Man Who Broke The Bat moves beyond Gotham to find new cities to conquer and new enemies to crush. He won't stop until he stands at the top of the world of crime! For Bane, it's all about CONQUEST.

A surprising miniseries that may be comics' first super-powered romantic comedy! After three years of a tumultuous marriage, Edgar and Mallory Bulson have decided to throw in the towel. That was the plan anyway, until a mysterious meteor bathed the battling couple in extraterrestrial energies...energies that gave them super-powers! Will their newfound abilities be enough to make their marriage work?