Whose side are you on? In the aftermath of the Stamford tragedy, Wolverine makes it his personal mission to take down the man responsible: the explosive Nitro! But as soon as he begins his hunt, Logan discovers that someone else is stalking the same prey: a mysterious trio whose identity, and disturbing mission, will come as a shock! If Logan's unsettled by who these guys are, then just wait until he confronts the man they answer to! And when Wolverine discovers that Nitro's actions are tied to a much larger conspiracy, he won't rest until he's exposed the true culprit. COLLECTING: WOLVERINE 42-48

One of Jack "King" Kirby's most memorable creations is being reissued for the first time in more than thirty years! In the time of King Arthur, power-hungry apprentice sorceror Jason Blood is cursed by the magician Merlin and eternally bound to Etrigan the Demon. Now, in the present day, Blood wants to use his superhuman knowledge, abilities and magic powers to do good - but the same cannot be said of Etrigan. Dare Jason Blood release the monster caged within his very soul, even to fight the good fight? The complete sixteen-issue run of the classic mystical character is collected for the first time in this attractive hardback omnibus edition!

The thrilling conclusion to Chris Claremont's iconic 2000s X-Men run gets the omnibus treatment! Concluding Chris Claremont's most X-Treme series! Kitty Pryde has left super hero life behind, but the same bigotry that killed her loved ones continues to haunt her... and now a mechanical menace has targeted her for death! Meanwhile, when Reverend Stryker returns, the X-Treme team rushes to oppose his anti-mutant fanaticism - but with Lady Deathstrike in the mix, can they protect a strange new community? The X-Treme team faces off against a hostile X-Corp as Rogue and Gambit settle down in California, and Storm makes startling discoveries about herself when she endures brutal combat in a fight-or-die gladiator ring! But who is the mysterious telepath manipulating events from the shadows, and can the X-Treme X-Men rescue an unexpected old friend from his clutches? Collecting: Mekanix (2002) 1-6, X-Treme X-Men (2001) 25-46, X-Women (2010) 1, material from X-Men Unlimited (1993) 39

One of the most challenging writers of '70s Marvel, Steve Gerber's Defenders ranks as a high-water mark of the era. Taking Marvel's famous non-team and mixing in his own unique brand of sharp social commentary, Gerber brought forth stories both action-packed and insightful! We begin with a classic four-part saga featuring the bigoted Sons of the Serpent that brings members past and present together to defend the defenseless. Then, the Guardians of the Galaxy hit the scene and take the Defenders to the year 3015 A.D.! It's an amazing adventure including the debut of Starhawk - and the Guardians of the Galaxy's first appearance too! COLLECTING: Defenders (1972) 22-30, Giant-Size Defenders 5, Marvel Super-Heroes (1967) 18

The search for Tony Stark begins! The former Iron Man has vanished. And, as the mystery of his whereabouts deepens, and some very surprising people from Tony Stark's present, past and future come together to help in the hunt, the time comes to decide - once and for all - who will wield the armor of Iron Man! All the contenders are in position, and now the contest begins...for there can only be one Golden Avenger! But will it be Riri Williams, Tony Stark...or Victor Von Doom?! And what happens when Riri and Victor realize that they must join forces to solve the mystery of Tony's fate? The path to the most startling Iron Man story ever begins here! COLLECTING: INVINCIBLE IRON MAN 593-600

The end of an era for Moon Knight! The landmark, critically acclaimed run of Doug Moench and Bill Sienkiewicz comes to a close as the moon sets on Marc Spector. But first he must survive threats old and new - including the deadly return of Stained Glass Scarlet! The murderous Black Spectre has a killer plan to pin his crimes on Moon Knight, and a rematch looms against the savage Werewolf by Night - but will the Fly prove to be far more than an annoyance for Moon Knight? Then, when Marlene finds herself at the mercy of magic, Marc Spector seeks out a professional: Doctor Strange! And secrets from the past are uncovered as the master of divine illumination Zohar strikes. The dead shall rise - but will Moon Knight meet his final rest? COLLECTING: VOL. 3: MOON KNIGHT (1980) 24-38

"Make Mine Mars" (Science Fiction Adventures 1952) "The Meddlers" (Science Fiction Adventures 1953) "The Events Leading Down to the Tragedy" (F&SF 1958) "The Little Black Bag" (Astounding 1950) "Everybody Knows Joe" (Fantastic Universe 1953) "Time Bum" (Fantastic Stories 1953) "Passion Pills" (original) "Virginia" (Venture 1958) "The Slave" (Science Fiction Adventures 1957) "Kazam Collects" (Stirring Science Stories 1941) "The Last Man Left in the Bar" (Infinity 1947) "The Adventurer" (Space Science Fiction 1953) "The Words of Guru" (Stirring Science Stories 1941) "Shark Ship" (Vanguard 1958) "Two Dooms" (Venture 1958)

This selection from the first ten years of the Evergreen Review gives the full flavor of the energy, savvy, excitement, and gall that characterized the magazine during the days of its publication. It also happens to bring together some of the world’s best writers in one volume, in the company of their peers. Evergreen was more than another literary magazine. Founded by Barney Rossett of Grove Press and publishing from 1957 through 1973 (it now exists as an online only magazine), it was the voice of a movement that helped to change the attitudes and prejudices of the culture at large through the language of art—and succeeded. It was always damn the torpedoes and full speed ahead. Here are original short stories by Samuel Beckett and Jack Kerouac (with his “October in the Railroad Earth” predating the publication of On the Road ); Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” (previously published only as a pamphlet); a selection from Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s A Coney Island of the Mind ; and a passage from Alexander Trocchi’s Cain’s Book . Also included are a fantastic sample of the original and iconic magazine covers which were works of art themselves—a heavily bearded Ginsberg cavorting in a sport coat and Uncle Sam top hat in 1966—and several reprinted comic strips; notably, Michael O’Donoghue’s “The Adventure of Phoebe Zeit-geist.”

The best-selling authors of Every Spy a Prince journey behind the scenes to examine the four-decade evolution of the complex political, strategic, and economic relationship between Israel and the United States.

"Scarified sensibility, subversive intellect, and predatory wit make her a writer like no other I know." -New York Times Book Review The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula , Kathy Acker's debut and the first in this three-novel collection, began as an episodic handmade pamphlet that Acker mailed out to influential writers and artists whose addresses she managed to get her hands on. In the novel, Acker steps into the biography of a Mississippi murderess who falls in love with a famous lawyer, and mixes in fragments from porn, historical romance, pulp fictions, and The Story of O . Collect with her second novel, the dreamy exploration of desire I Dreamt I was a Nymphomaniac , and her third, The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec , Portrait of an Eye is dive into the frenzy of sexual wanting, the search for identity, and the invention of a new literary language. Now with an introduction by Kate Zambreno contextualizing the resurrection of these three early Acker novels, this new edition of Portrait of an Eye reminds us of all there is still to learn from Kathy Acker, a writer and artist whose work "remains radical and uncanny, entirely inimitable, a smash and grab on the history of literature" ( Guardian ).

Call it the Television War. For six weeks in 1991, images of the war in Iraq danced on America's TV sets, and we were led to believe that the GIs fought it by sitting at computer monitors and firing missiles at the Iraqis far, far away. It was a new kind of war, mudless and bloodless - a videogame war. Do not believe it. The real war in Iraq was as hellish as anything in The Red Badge of Courage or The Naked and the Dead - the GIs were wet and cold, uncertain and scared, and yet, through it all, courageous and compassionate, but TV wasn't there to report it. John Sack was with the GIs throughout the war. In America, he lived with the soldiers of Company C as they trained for D-Day in Iraq. He was with them in their homes, their churches, their drinking, dancing, and stripper clubs, and he was still with them as they invaded Iraq in sixty-ton tanks. He was with them at the biggest tank battle in American history - the only reporter who was.

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Sherwood Forest comes alive in this spirited retelling of the mighty battle that launched the friendship between Robin Hood and Little John. The illustrations are lush with the textures and colors of Sherwood Forest, to which readers are transported in this beguiling version of a long-loved tale.--Booklist. Full color.

From Harry Turtledove, the master of alternate history, comes After the Downfall, a novel of magic, epic warfare, and desperate choices. 1945: Russian troops have entered Berlin, and are engaged in a violent orgy of robbery, rape, and revenge. Wehrmacht officer Hasso Pemsel, a career soldier on the losing end of the greatest war in history, flees from a sniper's bullet, finding himself hurled into a mysterious, fantastic world of wizards, dragons, and unicorns. There he allies himself with the blond-haired, blue-eyed Lenelli, and Velona, their goddess in human form, offering them his knowledge of warfare and weaponry in their genocidal struggle against a race of diminutive, swarthy barbarians known as Grenye. But soon, the savagery of the Lenelli begins to eat at Hasso Pemsel's soul, causing him to question everything he has long believed about race and Reich, right and wrong, Ubermenschen and Untermenschen. Hasso Pemsel will learn the difference between following orders... and following his conscience. Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.

When this master storyteller breaks new ground, he does it with a flame-thrower. The first part of this book was originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, sparking both outrage and acclaim. The next two sections, published here for the first time, unravel visions even more dangerous. Both heart-breaking and heart-warming, this is a violent, sexy, no-holds-barred tale of a ferocious soul coming to terms with a brutal, uncompromising world. From the desperate streets of Los Angeles' urban jungle to the greener jungles of Vietnam, from the sanctuary of a Saigon whore house to the heat-scorched follies of Arizona, a disabled veteran discovers that true intimacy is something to be feared as much as cherished. This astonishing work dives headlong into the darkest parts of the heart, coming out again on the far side, to discover the most human of all human adventures. Take this journey and you will never be the same.

The scum of the galaxy are the last hope of humankind . . . Aboard the stolen, renamed starship Endeavor, the Stone Cowboys rocket across the heavens toward a confrontation they cannot avoid . . . and, most likely, will not survive. But first, Jim Endicott must mold the street-hardened gang of thugs and hoodlums into a disciplined commando unit. Once harboring dreams of joining the Space Academy, Endicott has already altered one past using the astonishing powers of Omega. And now the untried captain and his misfit crew must take on a powerful alien race devoted to the obliteration of the human "cancer." With tension, unrest, and mutiny brewing dangerously all around him, Endicott faces the deadliest challenge he has ever known. Because the cutthroats riding the Endeavor into the enemy's turf for a war to the death are the only champions courageous -- and foolhardy -- enough for the mission. And they have nothing in the universe left to lose . . .

ICE AGE--NEW YORK CITY 2650 A.D. UNDERGROUND! By 2300, everyone knew what was happening, and why. The sun and all its planets, as they moved together through the galaxy, had been engulfed by a vast cloud of cosmic debris, and an all but infinite number of dust motes was screening and blocking the sun's radiation from Earth. To the eye, everything still looked the same, but so immense was the cloud that it would take centuries for the solar system to pass entirely through it. Nothing could hold back the ice age. Miles beneath the layer of ice that covered Earth in 2650, men survive in the subterranean cities they built to save themselves as the ice crept with killing cold over all living things. For three hundred years no one has seen the surface or communicated with any other city. Until now. Now the few scientific instruments that remain seem to indicate that the Ice Age may be ending; outside temperatures are reaching a level that may make life possible--though not easy--on the outside. But life in the underground cities is comfortable, and those few who are brave enough to be curious about the unknown frozen world above are suspect; troublemakers. A small party of these 'troublemakers, ' led by Dr. Raymond Barnes, with a few scientists and others who think they might prefer freedom to safety, has been allowed to take the long-unused elevator up through the ice to the outside. But they go more as exiles than as a scientific expedition; they are not expected --and may not be allowed--to return.

IT WAS THE WORST OF TIMES.... Fifteen feet tall, the Entities land in cities across Earth. lgnoring humankind, they wall themselves in impenetrable enclaves, enslaving a few willing collaborators with their telepathic PUSH. Then they plunge humans into a new Dark Age without electricity, allowing us to live -- but no longer as a dominant species. But a few refuse to submit to fate, including the Carmichael family, whose patriarch, an aging colonel devoted to resistance, will inspire a daring new generation of dissidents. United in spirit, these diverse rebels -- an aging hippie, a cold-blooded Muslim assassin, a prodigal son, and a renegade hacker -- will carry on the colonel's legacy as they attempt to kill the mysterious Prime Entity and free the planet.

At last - the answer to the secret that New Frontier fans have been waiting for: the supernatural origins of USS Excalibur's navigator Mark McHenry. Always displaying talents far beyond those of mortal men, McHenry discovers the source of his power reaches back incredibly to ancient Greece - and to specific events from Star Trek: The Original Series.