Paul S. Newman (W), Dick Wood (W), Joe Certa (P),
Al Williamson (P), Bob Jenney (P), Angelo Torres (P), Al McWilliams (P),
Alberto Giolitti (P), and others
On sale Sept 1 FC, 232 pages $49.99 HC,
6 5/8" x 10 3/16"
A modern gambling cheat is punished by spirits of
centuries-old playing cards . . . Three adventurers in pursuit of evil
find the greatest evil ever spoken, heard, and seen . . . An enchanted
telephone booth brings success to a simple man, but when greed gets the
better of him, his good fortune comes to an end . . . A mirror that
reflects an antique dealer’s heart’s desire does more than just show him
what he wants . . . These stories and many, many more are collected
in Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery Archives Volume 3! Tales of suspense,
crime, intrigue, horror, and irony, hosted by the renowned actor Boris
Karloff and featuring art from some of the finest comics storytellers
from the sixties.
Features a new introduction by the film director,
screenwriter, actor, and producer John Landis!
Contains issues
#11–#16, from September 1965 to December 1966.
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THE CHRONICLES OF KULL VOLUME 3: SCREAMS IN THE
DARK AND OTHER STORIES
Roy Thomas (W), Don Glut (W), Steve Englehart (W),
John Buscema (A), Ernie Chan (A), and Howard Chaykin (A)
On sale
Sept 29 FC, 216 pages $18.99 TPB, 7" x 10"
The Chronicles of
Kull Volume 3 collects the last nine exciting Kull the Destroyer
comics, tying up all of the loose ends from the previous two volumes and
culminating in the most important fight of the former Valusian king’s
life—the battle for the Topaz throne and his former crown! Kull will
need the help of an enigmatic warrior woman, Laralei, and an unlikely
ally in arms, Ridondo the minstrel, if he is to conquer a giant
extradimensional creature, three scheming wizards, and the wizard’s
skull-headed master and again rule the Purple Kingdom!
Volume 3
reprints Kull the Destroyer #21-#29, the short story “The Mirrors of
Tuzun Thune” from Conan the Barbarian #25, Conan the Barbarian #68,
“Beast from the Abyss” from Conan Annual #3, and a special cover
gallery.
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CONAN: THE NEWSPAPER STRIPS VOLUME 1
Roy Thomas (W), Doug Moench (W), John Buscema (A),
Ernie Chan (A), Alfredo Alcala (A), Rudy Nebres (A), Pablo Marcos (A),
Alan Kupperberg (A), and Tom Yeates (A)
On sale Sept 8 FC, 280
pages $34.99 HC, 12" x 9"
From September 4, 1978, until April
12, 1981, thousands of readers across the country thrilled to the daily
adventures of everyone’s favorite barbarian, Conan! Now Dark Horse
Comics is proud to present the Conan newspaper strips collected for the
first time in a handsome hardcover volume. Readers will once again enjoy
the talents of Roy Thomas, Doug Moench, John Buscema, Ernie Chan,
Alfredo Alcala, Rudy Nebres, Pablo Marcos, Alan Kupperberg, and Tom
Yeates as they artfully unfold the continuing saga of Conan in these
daily comic strips!
Collects daily newspaper strips from
September 4, 1978, through April 12, 1981.
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DR. HORRIBLE
Zack Whedon (W), Eric Canete (P), Farel Dalrymple
(P), Joëlle Jones (P), Jim Rugg (P), Dan Jackson (C), and Kristian
Donaldson (Cover)
On sale Sept 22 FC, 80 pages $9.99 TPB, 7"
x 10"
Based on the Emmy Award–winning web series Dr. Horrible’s
Sing-Along Blog, this collection of stories written by Zack Whedon
(Deadwood, Fringe) chronicles some of the earliest adventures in the
lives of archenemies Captain Hammer and Dr. Horrible. This anthology
solves many unanswered questions left over from the show. For instance:
What event inspired Dr. Horrible to become the world’s greatest criminal
mastermind? Why is Penny, the beautiful girl from the Laundromat, still
single? How can you, the reader, be like blustering do-gooder Captain
Hammer? And why is Horrible’s sidekick, Moist, so . . . um . . . well,
you’ll find out!
Collects the first issue of Dr. Horrible with all
three digital comics from MySpace Dark Horse Presents.
Includes a
never-before-seen sixteen-page story, about the top secret organization
The Evil League of Evil.
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DOCTOR SPEKTOR ARCHIVES VOLUME 1
Donald Glut (W) and Jesse Santos (A)
On sale
Sept 29 FC, 200 pages $49.99 HC, 7" x 10"
Doctor Adam
Spektor is an occult detective and monster hunter who travels the world
over in search of the supernatural. Investigating everything from
rumors of odd, ghostly occurrences to appearances of strange, deadly
creatures, Doctor Spektor spends his time in the field putting his life
at risk to save innocents from the sinister and the grotesque. Whether
conducting occult experiments on curing vampirism or fighting unearthly
behemoths, Doctor Spektor stalks the forces of evil—to record and
investigate their existence as well as protect us! Created by writer
Donald Glut and artist Dan Spiegle.
This volume reprints the first
seven comic books from the original 1970s Doctor Spektor series, with
art by the incomparable Jesse Santos!
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EMPOWERED VOLUME 6
Adam Warren (W/A)
On sale Sept 8 b&w,
208 pages $15.99 TPB, 6 1/2" x 9"
After a fiery disaster claims
the lives of several teammates, costumed crimefighter Empowered
stumbles upon an ugly little secret of the masks-and-tights business: a
growing number of ill-fated superheroes have found out the hard way
that, while their bodies are still mortal, their superpowers are not . .
. Now, only our downtrodden but doggedly determined heroine can save
the (semi)living superdead from a very genuine “fate worse than death,”
while simultaneously grappling with the challenges of vengefully
vacationing ninja clans, car-trunk carpet burn, superhero-fantasy-league
drafts, excessive bedroom chatter, and deals with the devil both
figurative and literal! All this, plus Emp’s not-so-secret origin is
revealed at last!
* * *
FRANK MILLER’S SIN CITY VOLUME 1: THE HARD
GOODBYE 3RD EDITION
Frank Miller (W/A)
On sale Sept 1 b&w,
208 page $19.00 TPB, 6" x 9"
The first volume of the
crime-comic megahit that introduced the now-infamous Marv and spawned a
blockbuster film returns in a newly redesigned edition, with a brand-new
cover by Frank Miller—some of his first comics art in years! It’s a
lousy room in a lousy part of a lousy town. But Marv doesn’t care.
There’s an angel in the room. She says her name is Goldie. A few hours
later, Goldie’s dead without a mark on her perfect body, and the cops
are coming before anyone but Marv could know she’s been killed. Somebody
paid good money for this frame . . . With a new look generating more
excitement than ever before, this third edition is the perfect way to
attract a whole new generation of readers to Frank Miller’s masterpiece!
New cover by Frank Miller!
* * *
FRANK MILLER’S SIN CITY VOLUME 2: A DAME TO
KILL FOR 3RD EDITION
Frank Miller (W/A)
On sale Sept 15 b&w,
208 page $19.00 TPB, 6" x 9"
The second volume of Frank
Miller’s signature series is now planned as the lead story in the
upcoming Sin City 2! This newly redesigned edition sports a new cover by
Miller— some of his first comics art in years! Stuck with nothing
but a seedy gumshoe job and some demons, Dwight’s thinking of all the
ways he’s screwed up and what he’d give for one clear chance to wipe the
slate clean, to dig his way out of the numb gray hell that is his life.
And he’d give anything. Just to feel the fire. One more time. But he
can’t let himself lose control again, can’t ever let the monster out.
And then Ava calls. With a new look generating more excitement than
ever before, this third edition is the perfect way to attract a whole
new generation of readers to Frank Miller’s masterpiece!
New cover by Frank Miller!
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GIANT SIZE LITTLE LULU VOLUME 2
John Stanley (W/A) and Irving Tripp (A)
On sale
Sept 15 b&w, 672 page $24.99 TPB, 6" x 9"
Presenting
another seventeen laugh-out-loud installments from the beginning of John
Stanley and Irving Tripp’s landmark run on Little Lulu, the funniest
funnybook of them all! After a few try-out issues in Dell’s Four
Color, Stanley and Tripp got the go-ahead to turn Little Lulu into a
monthly comic. The duo took the opportunity to show that they had only
been warming up, producing stories even more ingenious and artwork even
more beautiful than their Four Color issues.
Collecting three more
of the earliest, out-of-print volumes of Dark Horse’s acclaimed reprint
series, this massive 600-page-plus omnibus contains issues #6-#22 of
Little Lulu—featuring Lulu Moppet and her friends in all sorts of
charming, witty fun.
* * *
LITTLE LULU’S PAL TUBBY VOLUME 1: THE CASTAWAY
AND OTHER STORIES
John Stanley (W/A)
On sale Sept 1 FC, 224
page $15.99 TPB, 6" x 9"
From the pages of Little Lulu comes
Tubby! The comedic genius of John Stanley couldn’t be contained by
one series alone, so in 1952 Lulu’s pal Tubby made his solo debut in his
own hysterical comic. Filled with all the charm and hilarity of Little
Lulu, Tubby is a familiar but different delight from comics legend John
Stanley!
Dark Horse is proud to present these never-before-reprinted
gems from comics’ golden age in a new series of paperback collections.
Like Dark Horse’s new Little Lulu series, Tubby is printed in full
color, just as the comics appeared over fifty years ago!
Reprinting
Marge’s Tubby #1–#6 for the first time ever, in full color!
* * *
THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN VOLUME 8
Michael Fleisher (W), Alan Zelenetz (W), Jim
Owsley (W), Jim Neal (W), Gil Kane (A), John Buscema (A), Val Mayerik
(A), Bob Camp (A), and others
On sale Sept 22 b&w, 500 pages $19.99 TPB,
7" x 10"
The Savage Sword of Conan Volume 8 features some of the
most anxiously awaited Conan stories from the Savage Sword era,
including the two-part “Daughter of the God King” story. The skilled
Conan mainstay Michael Fleisher writes all of the Savage Sword of Conan
feature stories in this volume, while exciting newcomers to the world of
Conan—Alan Zelenetz, Jim Owsley, and Jim Neal—pen the backup stories!
The art chores are handled by some of the finest artists to ever draw
Crom’s favored Cimmerian!
This volume, which collects The Savage
Sword of Conan #85-#93, also includes Conan covers, frontispieces, and
pinups from each issue!
* * *
STAR WARS: DARK EMPIRE TRILOGY
Tom Veitch (W), Cam Kennedy (A), and Jim Baikie
(A)
On sale Sept. 29 FC, 352 pages $29.99 HC, 6" x 9"
Collecting
the complete Dark Empire saga—Dark Empire, Dark Empire II, and Empire’s
End—this Star Wars hardcover is a handsome must-have! Six years
after the fall of the Empire in Return of the Jedi, the battle for the
galaxy’s freedom rages on. The Empire has been mysteriously reborn under
an unknown leader, wielding a new weapon of great power. Princess Leia
and Han Solo struggle to hold together the New Republic while the
galaxy’s savior, Luke Skywalker, fights an inner battle as he is drawn
to the dark side, just as his father . . .
* * *
VAMPIRE BOY
Carlos Trillo (W) and Eduardo Risso (A)
On sale
Sept 22 b&w, 480 pages $24.99 TPB, 6 1/2" x 9 1/2"
Left
nameless by his father and sentenced to eternal life by a trick of fate
and fortune, the protagonist of Carlos Trillo and Eduardo Risso’s
Vampire Boy has spent fifty centuries in a body that never ages, locked
in an eternal struggle with a rival as immortal as he. Acclaimed
writer Carlos Trillo teams with legendary artist Eduardo Risso (100
Bullets) to produce a poignantly engrossing twist on the classic vampire
mythos, now collected in English for the first time!
