New in Graphic Novels and TPBs: Conan, Dr. Horrible, Mighty Samson, and More
Dark Horse, IDW, and several other publishers have some good graphic novels and trade paperbacks hitting the stores Wednesday, September 1st. Here is a sampling:
Conan: The Newspaper Strips Volume 1
From Dark Horse
TFAW.com Product Description: 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!
* Conan remains one of the most popular licensed comics, with newly created Conan stories and an extensive reprint program, both from Dark Horse!
* Collects daily newspaper strips from September 4, 1978, through April 12, 1981.
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From Dark Horse
TFAW.com Product Description: 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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From Dark Horse
TFAW.com Product Description: Creepy Archives Volume 7 collects a fascinating array of stories from the second great generation of artists and writers in the history of the world’s best illustrated horror magazine. As the 1960s ended and the ’70s began, the original, classic creative lineup for Creepy was eventually infused with a slew of new talent, with phenomenal new contributors like Richard Corben, Ken Kelly, and Nicola Cuti joining the ranks of established greats like Reed Crandall, Frank Frazetta, and Al Williamson. This volume of the Creepy Archives series collects more than two hundred pages of distinctive short horror comics in a gorgeous hardcover format.
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Mighty Samson Archives Volume 1 HC
From Dark Horse
TFAW.com Product Description: In a radioactive, nuclear-ravaged future, Samson is born into a tribe of peaceful yet desperate people struggling to survive in the desolate city of N’Yark. Surrounded by hungry, wild creatures — creatively mutated and brought to life by Thorne and subsequent artists — and the more savage, selfish remnants of humanity, life is precarious at best for the tribe until Samson displays amazing powers. Discovering that young Samson is a mutant himself, his mother trains Samson to value life, and on her deathbed Samson vows “to protect the weak from the powerful, the good from the evil!”
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Yours Truly Jack The Ripper TPB Vol. 01
From IDW
TFAW.com Product Description: Psycho author Robert Bloch’s seminal tale of the Ripper in then-contemporary times was originally published in the Weird Tales pulp magazine in ’43.
Now it’s getting adapted to comics for the first time ever, by acclaimed writer Joe R. Lansdale & John L. Lansdale, and featuring art and colors by Eisner-nominated cartoonist Kevin Colden (Fishtown).
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Tank Girl Royal Escape TPB Vol. 01
From IDW
TFAW.com Product Description: Dayglo & Martin give us a completely new take on Tank Girl-grittier, bloodier, and weirder than ever before. ‘The Royal Escape’ finds Tank Girl and her team stranded on the outskirts of a city they have just destroyed, as an immense and vengeful army approaches. Not recommended for children, the elderly, or wussies.
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