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Tell Me A Story: 15 Weird Superhero Comic Book Formats

Over their several decades of existence, American superhero comics have had to adapt to changing market conditions and changes in reader habits. Anthologies were more popular in the Golden Age but dwindled away as the Silver Age ended. Early Marvel superhero books incorporated continuing subplots to create super-soap operas, and DC naturally followed suit. Today, even as the individual issue with 20 story pages still dominates as the standard comic book format, many readers wait for collected editions.

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And yet, every now and then there are isolated instances of experimentation in which a publisher bends those dominant formats to either stretch storytelling possibilities or just to attract attention. Never mind the menagerie of 1990s-era cover gimmicks or the modern effects that digital and motion comics can achieve; good old-fashioned print had some surprising tricks. Today, as the “Kamandi Challenge” revives an old DC experiment, we look back (in no particular order) on some odd and unusual ways to present superhero stories.

ROCKIN’ ROUND-ROBIN

If you think creative teams don’t stick around as long as they used to, then you need to consider the round-robin format used in 1985-86’s “DC Challenge” miniseries and currently in use by the “Kamandi Challenge.” Each issue has a different creative team and the only real rule is to end on a cliffhanger for the next team to resolve. Notice that the rules don’t include “tell a coherent story,” because as much fun as the “DC Challenge” teams apparently had on each of their issues, boy-howdy was it hard to follow!

It started with Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Adam Strange and some demons in Mark Evanier and Gene Colan’s “DC Challenge” #1, but before it was over, Nazis had won World War II, Superman had a red sun for a head and the JLA Satellite was full of confused super-people. Nevertheless, the round-robin can stretch the capabilities of both readers and creators, and it truly shows off comics’ limitless potential.

A BIG DELIGHT

Likewise, we include the ubiquitous one-page Hostess Cupcake ads of the 1970s for the only rule they appeared to have: Make sure the product is the star. That was the point, of course; but for readers used to Batman and Daredevil fighting ninjas and serial murderers in their regular books, the ads were a bit jarring to read.

Although they featured even wilder plots than the regular comics (birds stealing the Statue of Liberty, for example) and used ultra-powerful characters like Green Lantern and Captain Mar-Vell, the day was always saved by the timely appearance of Twinkies, Hostess Cupcakes or Fruit Pies. Granted, who among us can resist rich chocolate taste and/or creamy filling. But the ads were so prevalent that, after a while, one got the impression that the Justice League and Avengers could have saved themselves a lot of trouble by stuffing the Anti-Monitor or Thanos full of sweet treats.

COMICS WITHIN COMICS

In the early 1980s, DC previewed new series with 16-page stories bound into the middle of selected single issues. The “Amethyst” preview was in “Legion of Super-Heroes” #294, “All-Star Squadron’s” was in “JLA” #192, and a little series called “New Teen Titans” was first seen in the middle of “DC Comics Presents” #26.

These previews didn’t have anything to do with the titles they appeared in, but later in the decade, “Bonus Book” inserts tied in more closely and featured up-and-coming talent. Today, the format is back, sort of, through “Dark Knight III’s” bound-in mini-comics. Basically they’re backup stories, but since they’re physically in the middle of the issue, you have to get around them in order to finish reading the main story, and then circle back and hope you read everything in the right order. Whatever you do, though, don’t risk your comics’ value (or its staples) by removing the inserts.

HEARD ANY GOOD PICTURES LATELY?

Another staple of the 1970s, Power Records specialized in book-and-record sets where kids could read along with an audio dramatization. Along with superheroes, the label featured sci-fi franchises like “Star Trek” and “Planet of the Apes.” While Power adapted existing issues, like September 1972’s “Fantastic Four” #126, December 1973’s “Captain America” #168 or January 1974’s “Incredible Hulk” #171, Neal Adams’ Continuity Studios also produced original stories for the label.

These included the Batman tales “Stacked Cards” and “Robin Meets Man-Bat” (reprinted in “Batman Illustrated By Neal Adams” volume 3); Superman stories by Cary Bates, Elliott S. Maggin and Ross Andru; and a 1976 Conan adventure by Len Wein, J.M. DeMatteis and John Buscema that was reprinted as November 1980’s “Conan” #116. Although the novelty comes from hearing an actor screech like Man-Bat or roar like the Hulk, we imagine “writing for the record” is a skill set all its own.

NEXUS IN STEREO

Sometimes the soundtrack is part of the main series. “Nexus” was a superhero series set 500 years in the future, initially published under Capital Comics and now owned by Dark Horse. Writer Mike Baron and artist Steve Rude’s independent sci-fi superhero classic started out as a magazine-sized black-and-white comic.

Bound into its third issue was a “flexi-disc” with the “Nexus” theme song (co-written by Baron) and an audio dramatization. An editorial explained the benefits: “The intonation of a character’s voice, background music to set the mood and electrifying sound effects all add new depth and dimension to the printed words and art.” While flexi-discs wouldn’t be in every issue, the editorial promised “next time we do this it’ll be even better.” However, there was never to be a “next time,” unfortunately, as the flexi-disc doesn’t show up in reprints and there weren’t any future issues that came accompanied with flex-discs to enjoy. However, “Nexus” turned out to be memorable enough without the audio accompaniment.

INDEPENDENT VOICES

Although it’s not really a distinct format to pair mainstream, corporate-controlled characters with comics creators from more of an independent background, anthologies like the “Bizarro Comics” and “Strange Tales” series are often both entertaining and illuminating.

“Bizarro” allowed DC to reprint Kyle Baker’s instant-classic “Letitia Lerner, Superman’s Babysitter” and “Strange Tales” gave us Kate Beaton’s take on Rogue and Kraven. Tom Scioli and John Barber’s “Transformers vs. G.I. Joe” series, which merged the superfans’ knowledge with their unique styles and filtered it through a ’70s Jack Kirby lens, is also a good example of combining the best of both worlds. Of course, with the Internet, it’s become easier than ever to find cartoonists’ “unsanctioned” takes on superheroes, but the official sanctioning of a DC or Marvel anthology may sand down some rough edges. Still, the freedom these creators normally enjoy usually transfers pretty well, and we’re all better for it.

NEXTWAVE EXTRAS

Warren Ellis and Stuart Immonen’s 12-issue cult-classic “Nextwave” (2006-07) took shots at a lot of superhero-comics targets, but it also used some memorable gimmicks to grow an audience. Mixed into Fin Fang Foom’s pants-related anger, the filthy half of the Captain’s codename and Machine Man’s contempt for fleshy ones was the “Nextwave” theme. So too were things like issue #5’s “Crayon Butchery Variant.”

Yes, quite a while before adult coloring books became a thing, “Nextwave” encouraged its readers to cast off the shackles of hues imposed from on high and color the issue themselves. Granted, this was a variant, so readers had to make an extra effort to get it. So unsurprisingly, the non-colored version of the issue hasn’t been reprinted in any “Nextwave” collection. As a further incentive, though, Marvel conducted a coloring contest, and the winner’s name (Matthew Keegan, whose entry can be seen here) was forever immortalized in said collections.

EASY LIKE SUNDAY MORNING

The 12-issue weekly “Wednesday Comics” was designed to emulate the classic comics pages of Sunday newspapers, when adventure strips like “Prince Valiant” and “The Phantom” got ample room for their Sunday-continuity installments (Feel free to ask your grandparents for more details.). Each issue of “Wednesday Comics” folded up into a standard 7″ x 10″ comic-book size, but opened into 15 gigantic 14″ x 20″ broadsheet pages.

The features included DC’s A-listers as well as Kyle Baker’s “Hawkman,” Dave Gibbons and Ryan Sook’s “Kamandi” and Paul Pope’s “Adam Strange.” Neil Gaiman and Mike Allred’s “Metamorpho” even did two pages which combined to form the Periodic Table of the Elements. “USA Today” also published John Arcudi and Lee Bermejo’s “Superman” strip. The collected edition is similarly impressive, and includes a “Plastic Man” short feature; but nothing beat the love-of-reading experience from picking up each issue as it came out.

EVENTS PUBLISHED IN REAL TIME

One series which demanded to be read as it came out was 2006-07’s sequel to “Infinite Crisis,” the year-long weekly “52.” Since all of DC’s ongoing superhero comics had gone through a one-year time-jump, only “52” chronicled the missing year. Its brain trust, which included writers Geoff Johns, Mark Waid, Grant Morrison and Greg Rucka, and layout artist Keith Giffen, further imposed a strict real-time rule that each issue would cover one week. The only cliffhanger involved one issue ending at 11:59 p.m. and the next starting at midnight.

The method was popular enough, with some fans reportedly waiting to read each day’s events as they “happened,” meaning a fan on a Tuesday would stop reading on when he or she reached the part of the issue dealing with a Wednesday. There had been real-time comics before (the “Batman: No Man’s Land” epic played out over the course of a year, for example, from January to December 1999), but with elastic timelines a staple of superhero storytelling, “52’s” adherence to its internal rules was both a clever gimmick and a steadying influence on its pacing.

TRIANGLE TIME

Some superheroes are simply too big for one book, but when a hero has multiple comics titles being published, those books don’t necessarily have to flow together. When they do, however, the results can be quite engaging. In the early 1980s, Bat-writer Gerry Conway structured issues of “Batman” and “Detective Comics” so that “Detective” continued “Batman’s” stories, and vice versa. The format ended with 1986’s “Batman” #400, but not long afterwards the three Superman books (“Action Comics,” “Adventures of Superman” and “Superman”) picked it up.

To keep everything straight, the Super-titles put the reading order in a little triangle on each issue’s cover. It lasted about 10 years, before including the addition of a new monthly series (“Man of Steel”), as well as incorporating a new quarterly book (“Man of Tomorrow”) for the months that had five Wednesdays in them. It could be overwhelming at times, but the four series combined to tell some true epics, including the “Death of Superman,” “Funeral For A Friend” and “Return of Superman” story arcs.

PAGE-HOPPING

We’ve already talked about comics within comics, but Walt Simonson’s “Fantastic Four” #352 (May 1991) presented a story within a story, and the “inner” story was out of sync with the “outer” one! The main (“outer”) story involved Doctor Doom, Ben Grimm reverting back to the Thing, and Ben’s girlfriend Sharon Ventura giving up her own career as the Thing in her absence.

Doom had captured the FF and challenged Reed Richards to a duel using time-jumping devices. Their fight, which was waged across increments of minutes and seconds, was the “inner” story, and it unfolded in out-of-sequence vertical panels that ran alongside the in-sequence main story. Readers had to follow the timecodes in both stories in order to keep everything in order, and could check their work with the occasional panel where the two timelines intersected. It was a great use of single-issue real estate and the kind of innovative technique “FF” helped pioneer.

DIAL “R” FOR READER

Created by Dave Wood and Jim Mooney for January 1966’s “House of Mystery” #156, “Dial H For HERO” was one of Silver Age DC’s crazier concepts. It involved a magic “H-Dial” which would turn its owner into a randomly-generated superhero and, more often than not, a one-off character created specifically for the story.

The feature ran until issue #173 (March-April 1968) but was revived in February 1981 via a special insert (remember those?) in “Legion of Super-Heroes” #272. (It then moved to “Adventure Comics” and was a backup in “Superboy.”) This time, writer Marv Wolfman and artist Carmine Infantino’s gimmick was using characters submitted by readers, who both received credit for the idea and had a T-shirt sent to them in exchange for their intellectual property. While it was probably a time-saver for the creative team, no doubt they also wracked their brains trying to figure out how to work Lawnmower Lass, or whomever, into the stories.

THIS COMIC CAN KILL YOU

In “Animal Man,” Grant Morrison famously broke the fourth wall to introduce himself to the main character, Buddy Baker. Over 20 years later, Morrison would revisit the idea of characters addressing the reader directly in his “Multiversity” miniseries, especially in the “Ultra Comics” one-shot, which was an installment about a character named Ultra from the “real world” of Earth-33, who was a comic book come to life.

In other words, “Ultra Comics” was about itself, and by reading the issue, readers participated in the character’s life, including his birth and (very short) career. At the end of the issue, Ultra sacrificed himself by trapping his foe within the pages of the comic, begging readers not to let it out. To that point, “Multiversity” was already pretty meta-textual, so “Ultra Comics” was over the top on a number of levels. Nevertheless, the reader-participation angle gave the miniseries an entirely new dimension.

CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE COMICS

One of the many tools in Ryan North’s utility belt is a knack for choose-your-own-adventure storytelling. Besides his great mostly-prose Shakespeare adaptations (“To Be Or Not To Be” and “Romeo And/Or Juliet”), he’s also written a couple of chooseable-path comics. In November 2012’s “Adventure Time” #10, he and artist Shelli Paroline crafted a labyrinthine tale about the Ice King putting our heroes under the control of a mysterious force (guess who) which got more and more twisted as the issue played out. The ending even depended on the sheer number of options the story eventually encompassed.

More recently, in June 2016’s “Unbeatable Squirrel Girl” #7, North and artist Erica Henderson allowed the reader to guide Squirrel Girl to victory against Quoggoth, Swarm, and/or Doctor Yes, with Galactus himself as your host. Chooseable-path comics aren’t new (see “The Unwritten” #17, for example) but North has brought them back into the limelight and made them a one-man trend.

TITANS SEPARATELY

Superhero comics of the early ’90s get well-deserved attention for the cover-enhancement craze. Therefore, to stand out from all the chromium and foil, DC promoted September 1992’s first issue of “Team Titans” with — wait for it — alternate interiors. That’s right, not only did “Team Titans” #1 feature variant covers for each of the five Titans, each variant also included the 18-page origin of its cover-featured hero.

Accordingly, if you wanted to get the whole story, you had to buy five different issues (all of which were written by Marv Wolfman). That was overkill, since the variants all shared the same 22-page main story; and on top of that, the main story was Part 3 of a Titans-franchise crossover! Those of you doing the math will realize that if you bought all five variants, you got 4 extra copies of Part 3 of the crossover. Needless to say, DC decided to keep the variants on the covers only from then on.

Got a favorite storytelling strategy or comic book gimmick? Tell us in the comments!

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ALL NEW X-MEN TP VOL 04 ALL DIFFERENT

ANGEL CATBIRD HC VOL 03 CATBIRD ROARS

ARCHIE & FRIENDS TP VOL 01 VERONICA PASSPORT

ARCHIE & FRIENDS TP VOL 02 BETTYS DIARY

ARCHIE & FRIENDS TP VOL 05 ARCHIES HAUNTED HOUSE

ARCHIE AMERICANA SER TP VOL 06 BEST OF 40S BOOK 2

ARCHIE AMERICANA SER TP VOL 08 BEST OF 60S BOOK 2

ARCHIE AMERICANA SER TP VOL 11 BEST OF 80S BOOK 2

ARCHIE COMICS FAVORITES FROM THE VAULT TP

ARCHIE COMICS SPECTACULAR FOOD FIGHT TP

ARCHIE COMICS SPECTACULAR FRIENDS FOREVER TP

ARCHIE COMICS SPECTACULAR ITS A DATE TP

ARCHIE COMICS SPECTACULAR PARTY TIME TP

ARCHIE COMICS SPECTACULAR ROCK ON TP

ARCHIE COMICS SPECTACULAR SPORTS TIME TP

ARCHIE COMICS SPECTACULAR SUMMER DAZE TP

ARCHIE GIANT COMICS 75TH ANNIV TP

ARCHIE GIANT COMICS DIGEST TP

ARCHIE GIANT COMICS MEDLEY TP

ARCHIE NEW LOOK SERIES TP VOL 01 B & V BOY TROUBLE

ARCHIE NEW LOOK SERIES TP VOL 05 GOODBYE FOREVER

ARCHIE OBAMA & PALIN IN RIVERDALE TP

ARCHIE ROCKIN THE WORLD TP

ARCHIE TP VOL 01

ARCHIE TP VOL 02

ARCHIES FAVORITE CHRISTMAS COMICS TP

ARIOL SC VOL 04 BEAUTIFUL COW

ARIOL SC VOL 06 NASTY CAT

ARIOL SC VOL 09 TEETH OF THE RABBIT

ART OF BONE HC

ART OF EMILY THE STRANGE HC

ART OF JIM DAVIS GARFIELD REG HC

ASHLEY WOOD ART OF METAL GEAR SOLID SC

AUTHORITY TP VOL 01

AUTHORITY TP VOL 02

AVATAR LAST AIRBENDER PROMISE LIBRARY ED HC

AVATAR LAST AIRBENDER TP VOL 01 PROMISE PART 1

AVATAR LAST AIRBENDER TP VOL 04 SEARCH PART 1

AVATAR LAST AIRBENDER TP VOL 05 SEARCH PART 2

AVENGERS FOUR TP

AVENGERS VS X-MEN TP AVX

BARBIE GN VOL 01

BARBIE STARLIGHT GN VOL 01

BATMAN ARKHAM POISON IVY TP

BATMAN LIL GOTHAM TP VOL 01

BATMAN THE LONG HALLOWEEN TP

BATMAN TP VOL 01 I AM GOTHAM (REBIRTH)

BATMAN TP VOL 01 THE COURT OF OWLS (N52)

BEFORE WATCHMEN NITE OWL DR MANHATTAN TP

BERKELEY BREATHED OUTLAND COMP COLL HC

BEST OF ARCHIE COMICS BETTY & VERONICA TP VOL 01

BEST OF ARCHIE COMICS DLX ED HC VOL 01

BEST OF ARCHIE COMICS TP VOL 02

BEST OF THE THREE STOOGES HC VOL 01

BETTY & VERONICA FAIRY TALES TP

BETTY & VERONICA GIRLS RULE TP

BETTY & VERONICA SHOPPING SPREE TP

BETTY & VERONICAS PRINCESS STORYBOOK TP

BLACK BUTLER GN VOL 07 (NEW PTG)

BLACK BUTLER GN VOL 08 (NEW PTG)

BLACK PANTHER TP BOOK 01 NATION UNDER OUR FEET

BLACK PANTHER TP BOOK 02 NATION UNDER OUR FEET

BLOODBORNE OFFICIAL ARTWORKS SC

BLOODSHOT TP VOL 01 SETTING WORLD ON FIRE

BLOODSHOT USA TP

BLOOM COUNTY TO MARS IMAGINATION OF BERKELEY BREATHED SC

BLUESMAN HC

BOOK OF CHAOS HC (MR)

BOOK OF GRICKLE HC

BUBBLES & GONDOLA HC

BUCK ROGERS IN 25TH CENTURY WESTERN PUB YEARS HC VOL 01

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER WILLOW WONDERLAND TP

CARTHAGO ADVENTURES DLX HC (MR)

CASTAWAYS SC

CINDERELLA SERIAL KILLER PRINCESS TP

CLOCKWORK PLANET GN VOL 02

COLOR YOUR OWN SPIDER-MAN TP

COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO MANGA CLASSICS GN

COURTNEY CRUMRIN GN VOL 01 NIGHT THINGS (SQ1)

CREATURES OF THE NIGHT HC (2nd ED)

CREEPY COMICS TP VOL 01

CREEPY COMICS TP VOL 03 LURKING FATE

CRIMINAL TP VOL 02 LAWLESS (MR)

CRIMINAL TP VOL 03 THE DEAD AND THE DYING (MR)

CRIMINAL TP VOL 04 BAD NIGHT (MR)

DANCE CLASS HC BOX SET VOL 1-4

DARK KNIGHT RETURNS THE LAST CRUSADE DLX ED HC

DARK TOWER GUNSLINGER BORN TP NEW PTG

DAYTRIPPER TP (MR)

DC COMICS BOMBSHELLS TP VOL 01 ENLISTED

DC COMICS DARK HORSE ALIENS TP

DC COMICS DARK HORSE BATMAN VS PREDATOR TP

DC SUPER HERO GIRLS TP VOL 01 FINALS CRISIS

DC SUPER HERO GIRLS TP VOL 02 HITS AND MYTHS

DC SUPER HERO GIRLS TP VOL 03 SUMMER OLYMPUS

DC UNIVERSE REBIRTH DELUXE EDITION HC

DEADLY CLASS TP VOL 02 KIDS OF THE BLACK HOLE (MR)

DEADPOOL BY DANIEL WAY COMPLETE COLL TP VOL 01

DEADPOOL BY DANIEL WAY COMPLETE COLL TP VOL 03

DEADPOOL BY POSEHN AND DUGGAN HC VOL 01

DEADPOOL TP VOL 01 SECRET INVASION

DEADPOOL TP VOL 02 DARK REIGN

DELICIOUS IN DUNGEON GN VOL 01

DIANA PRINCE WONDER WOMAN TP VOL 02

DIANA PRINCE WONDER WOMAN TP VOL 03

DIANA PRINCE WONDER WOMAN TP VOL 04

DISNEY FAIRIES GN BOX SET VOL 13-16

DISNEY FAIRIES GN BOX SET VOL 1-4

DISNEY FAIRIES GN VOL 01 PRILLAS TALENT

DISNEY FAIRIES GN VOL 14 TINKER BELL & BLAZE

DISNEY FAIRIES HC

DIVINITY III HEROES OF THE GLORIOUS STALINVERSE TP

DIVINITY TP

DOOM PATROL TP BOOK 01 (MR)

DOROHEDORO GN VOL 21 (MR)

DRAGON AGE LIBRARY ED HC VOL 01

DRAGONAR ACADEMY GN VOL 12 (MR)

EAST OF WEST TP VOL 01 THE PROMISE

EVELYN EVELYN HC

EVERYONES GETTING MARRIED GN VOL 05 (MR)

FABLES TP VOL 01 LEGENDS IN EXILE NEW ED (MR)

FABLES TP VOL 02 ANIMAL FARM

FACTS I/T CASE O/T DEPARTURE OF MISS FINCH HC

FINAL CRISIS TP NEW EDITION

FINAL INCAL HC (MR)

FRANKEN FRAN OMNIBUS TP VOL 04

FROM HELL TP & FROM HELL COMPANION SC SLIPCASE ED

FUSE TP VOL 04 CONSTANT ORBITAL REVOLUTIONS (MR)

GAMORA MEMENTO MORI TP

GLISTER TP

GODZILLA RULERS OF EARTH TP VOL 02

GODZILLA RULERS OF EARTH TP VOL 03

GOTHAM ACADEMY TP VOL 03 YEARBOOK

HAL JORDAN & THE GLC TP VOL 01 SINESTROS LAW (REBIRTH)

HARLEY QUINN TP VOL 02 JOKER LOVES HARLEY (REBIRTH)

HAWKMAN BY GEOFF JOHNS TP BOOK 01

HELLBOY IN MEXICO TP

HOW TO BUILD DUNGEON BOOK OF DEMON KING GN VOL 01 (MR)

I HATE FAIRYLAND TP VOL 02 FLUFF MY LIFE

IMMORTAL IRON FIST COMPLETE COLLECTION TP VOL 01

INFAMOUS IRON MAN TP VOL 01 INFAMOUS

INJECTION TP VOL 01 (MR)

INJECTION TP VOL 02 (MR)

INVINCIBLE HC VOL 11 ULTIMATE COLL (MR)

JOKER DEATH OF THE FAMILY TP (N52)

JUNGLE BOOK MANGA CLASSICS GN

KAIJUMAX TP SEASON 01

KINGDOM COME 20TH ANNIVERSARY DLX ED HC

LADY MECHANIKA STEAMPUNK COLORING BOOK TP VOL 02

LIFE CHANGING MANGA OF TIDYING UP

LOUVRE COLLECTION CROSS EYED MUTT HC

LOW TP VOL 01 THE DELIRIUM OF HOPE (MR)

LUMBERJANES TP VOL 02

MAD ABOUT TRUMP TP

MASAMUNE KUNS REVENGE GN VOL 05

METABARONS GN VOL 02 (OF 4) AGHNAR AND ODA (MR)

MILES MORALES ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN TP VOL 01 REVIVAL

MILES MORALES ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN ULT COLL TP BOOK 02

MILES MORALES ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN ULT COLL TP BOOK 03

MIRACULOUS TALES OF LADYBUG CAT NOIR TP CLAWS OUT

MIRACULOUS TALES OF LADYBUG CAT NOIR TP VOL 04 AKUMATIZED

MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM THUNDERBOLT GN VOL 03

MONSTER HUNTER FLASH HUNTER GN VOL 08

MS MARVEL TP VOL 01 NO NORMAL

MY LITTLE PONY FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC TP VOL 01

MY LITTLE PONY FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC TP VOL 12

NIGHTWING TP VOL 01 BETTER THAN BATMAN (REBIRTH)

NIGHTWING TP VOL 01 BLUDHAVEN

NOTHING LASTS FOREVER TP (MR)

OCCULTIC NINE LIGHT NOVEL VOL 01

OMEGA MEN THE END IS HERE TP

OUTCAST BY KIRKMAN & AZACETA TP VOL 03 LITTLE LIGHT (MR)

PLEASE TELL ME GALKO CHAN GN VOL 03

PRIDE OF BAGHDAD SC (MR)

PUNKROCKPAPERSCISSORS TP

RE MONSTER GN VOL 01 (MR)

RE MONSTER GN VOL 02 (MR)

RED HOOD & THE OUTLAWS TP VOL 01 DARK TRINITY (REBIRTH)

RUNAWAYS COMPLETE COLLECTION TP VOL 01

SAGA TP VOL 01 (MR)

SAGA TP VOL 02 (MR)

SAGA TP VOL 05 (MR)

SANDMAN OVERTURE TP (MR)

SANDMAN TP VOL 01 PRELUDES & NOCTURNES NEW ED (MR)

SANDMAN TP VOL 03 DREAM COUNTRY NEW ED (MR)

SHOMIN SAMPLE ABDUCTED BY ELITE ALL GIRLS SCHOOL GN VOL 01 (

SIMPSONS COMICS COLOSSAL COMPENDIUM TP VOL 05

SMURFS GN VOL 06 SMURFS & HOWLIBIRD

SMURFS GN VOL 19 JEWEL SMURFER

SMURFS GN VOL 23 CANT SMURF PROGRESS

SMURFS HC VOL 14 BABY SMURF

SMURFS HC VOL 23 CANT SMURF PROGRESS

SO CUTE IT HURTS GN VOL 13 (MR)

SPIDER-GWEN TP VOL 00 MOST WANTED

SPIDER-MAN DEADPOOL TP VOL 02 SIDE PIECES

STAR WARS DARTH VADER HC VOL 01

STAR WARS DARTH VADER TP VOL 01 VADER

STAR WARS DOCTOR APHRA TP VOL 01 APHRA

STAR WARS KANAN TP VOL 02 FIRST BLOOD

STAR WARS MARVEL YRS OMNIBUS HC VOL 01 CHAYKIN COVER

STAR-LORD TP GROUNDED

SUPER FRIENDS HEAD OF THE CLASS TP

SUPERMAN TP VOL 01 SON OF SUPERMAN (REBIRTH)

SUPERMAN WHATEVER HAPPENED TO MAN OF TOMORROW TP

SUPERMAN WONDER WOMAN TP VOL 02 WAR AND PEACE

SWEET TOOTH TP VOL 01 OUT OF THE WOODS (MR)

TEEN TITANS BY GEOFF JOHNS TP BOOK 01

TRANSFORMERS SINS OF WRECKERS TP

TRANSMETROPOLITAN TP VOL 02 LUST FOR LIFE NEW ED (MR)

TRANSMETROPOLITAN TP VOL 05 LONELY CITY NEW ED (MR)

TYSON HESSE DIESEL IGNITION ORIGINAL GN

ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN ULTIMATE COLLECTION TP VOL 01

UNBEATABLE SQUIRREL GIRL TP VOL 02 SQUIRREL YOU KNOW ITS TRU

UNBELIEVABLE GWENPOOL TP VOL 01 BELIEVE IT

UNWRITTEN TP VOL 08 ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLDS (MR)

UNWRITTEN TP VOL 09 THE UNWRITTEN FABLES (MR)

UNWRITTEN TP VOL 10 WAR STORIES (MR)

UNWRITTEN TP VOL 11 (MR)

VALVE PRESENTS SACRIFICE & OTHER STEAM POWERED STORIES HC

VENOM SEPARATION ANXIETY TP NEW PTG

WALKING DEAD HC VOL 03 (MR)

WALKING DEAD TP VOL 17 SOMETHING TO FEAR (MR)

WALKING DEAD TP VOL 18 WHAT COMES AFTER

WATCHMEN TP INTERNATIONAL EDITION NEW ED

WAYWARD TP VOL 02 (MR)

WICKED & DIVINE TP VOL 05 IMPERIAL PHASE I (MR)

WITCHFINDER TP VOL 04 CITY OF THE DEAD

WOLVERINE NOT DEAD YET TP NEW PTG

WOLVERINE OLD MAN LOGAN TP

WOLVERINE ORIGIN COMPLETE COLLECTION HC

WONDER WOMAN CONTAGION TP

XENA WARRIOR PRINCESS CLASSIC YEARS OMNIBUS TP

X-O MANOWAR 2017 TP VOL 01 SOLDIER

Y THE LAST MAN TP BOOK 02 (MR)

ALIEN NOSTROMO HAT REPLICA

BATMAN BLACK & WHITE STATUE NIGHTWING BY JIM LEE

BUDDY CHRIST DASHBOARD STATUE

COMICARE SHORT COMIC BOX

DC COMICS SUPERMAN FLYING SHORT COMIC BOX

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