Category: Marvel Flip

Quick word before we get into the business. If you want to see all the books we have coming in this Wednesday, go to our ‘New Book Releases’ page on our website, it has a comprehensive list of all the titles we are getting in WITHOUT the inane commentary from me.

Back to the business.

That’s right, Wolverine is finally back and we have a healthy stock for Wednesday. Get them now because they are SOLD OUT at the distributor level. What that means is that we can no longer reorder 1st prints of the book, what we ordered from our distributor is all we are going to get (on rare occasions some might be available, but that’s rare). Why tell you this? Letting you know that something is sold out at the distributor level tells you two things.

1) The book is popular not just at our store, but enough stores ordered it so that Diamond Distribution (the sole distributor of comics) sold out of their stock. All stores will not be able reorder this book.
2) If you are interested, get in now for cover price because sell outs are what drive up the price of a book. Your options is to hunt it down or wait for the 2nd print of the book.

Let’s start with the OTHER #1s out this week. Check out the Dell’Otto Amazing Spider-man Annual #1 variant! This week we see the start of new characters spinning out of the Infinity Wars event with Soldier Supreme #1 (I’m not saying Infinity Warps, that’s silly).

 

Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1 (Cover A Aco), $4.99
Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1 (Cover B Gabriele Dell’Otto)
Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1 (Cover C Dennis Chan Marvel’s Spider-Man Video Game Variant)

Captain America Annual #1 (Cover A Chris Sprouse), $4.99
Captain America Annual #1 (Cover B Kaare Andrews)

Infinity Wars Soldier Supreme #1 (Of 2)(Cover A Humberto Ramos), $3.99
Infinity Wars Soldier Supreme #1 (Of 2)(Cover B Humberto Ramos Design Variant)
Infinity Wars Soldier Supreme #1 (Of 2)(Cover C Adam Kubert)

 

Return Of Wolverine #1 (Of 5)(Cover A Steve McNiven), $4.99
Return Of Wolverine #1 (Of 5)(Cover B Steve McNiven X-Force Costume Variant)
Return Of Wolverine #1 (Of 5)(Cover C Steve McNiven Fang Costume Variant)
Return Of Wolverine #1 (Of 5)(Cover D Steve McNiven Age Of Apocalypse Costume Variant)
Return Of Wolverine #1 (Of 5)(Cover E Steve McNiven Patch Costume Variant)
Return Of Wolverine #1 (Of 5)(Cover F Steve McNiven Weapon X Costume Variant)
Return Of Wolverine #1 (Of 5)(Cover G Steve McNiven Brown & Tan Costume Variant)
Return Of Wolverine #1 (Of 5)(Cover H Steve McNiven Original Wolverine Variant)
Return Of Wolverine #1 (Of 5)(Cover K John Cassaday)
Return Of Wolverine #1 (Of 5)(Cover L Leinil Francis Yu)
Return Of Wolverine #1 (Of 5)(Cover M Skottie Young)
Return Of Wolverine #1 (Of 5)(Cover N John Tyler Christopher)
Return Of Wolverine #1 (Of 5)(Cover O Todd Nauck Party Variant)
Return Of Wolverine #1 (Of 5)(Cover P Steve McNiven Premiere Variant)
Return Of Wolverine #1 (Of 5)(Cover Q Blank Variant)
Return Of Wolverine #1 (Of 5)(Cover R Steve McNiven Age Of Apocalypse Costume Virgin Variant)
Return Of Wolverine #1 (Of 5)(Cover S Steve McNiven Brown & Tan Costume Virgin Variant)
Return Of Wolverine #1 (Of 5)(Cover T Steve McNiven Current Costume Virgin Variant)
Return Of Wolverine #1 (Of 5)(Cover U Steve McNiven Fang Costume Virgin Variant)
Return Of Wolverine #1 (Of 5)(Cover V Steve McNiven Patch Costume Virgin Variant)
Return Of Wolverine #1 (Of 5)(Cover W Steve McNiven Weapon X Costume Virgin Variant)
Return Of Wolverine #1 (Of 5)(Cover X Steve McNiven Original Wolverine Virgin Variant)
Return Of Wolverine #1 (Of 5)(Cover Y Steve McNiven X-Force Costume Virgin Variant)

Now on to the rest of Marvel releases.

Amazing Spider-Man Renew Your Vows #23, $3.99
Avengers #8 (Cover A David Marquez), $3.99
Avengers #8 (Cover B Philip Tan)
Avengers #8 (Cover C Mike McKone Cosmic Ghost Rider Vs Variant)
Doctor Strange #5 (Cover A Javier Garron), $3.99
Doctor Strange #5 (Cover B Julian Totino Tedesco Cosmic Ghost Rider Vs Variant)

Edge of Spider-Geddon, 1 per customer has been the theme with these books. Put the regular series, Spider-Geddon, on your pull list now. Spider-geddon #0 comes out 9/26 and is already sold out at the distributor level! The ‘Edge of’ series have been putting out cool characters that make getting back issues hard to find. They’re also fun stories that don’t screw up the timeline, for some reason.

Edge Of Spider-Geddon #3 (Of 4)(Cover A Tonci Zonjic), $3.99

Extermination #1 (Of 5)(Pepe Larraz 2nd Printing Variant Cover), $4.99
Franklin Richards A Fantastic Year #1, $7.99

NEW STORY ARC! Have you heard how aWeSoMe! Immortal Hulk is, but missed the boat? Now’s the time to jump in as a new story arc called ‘Green Door’ starts here! What is a jump in issue or new story arc? Simply put, you can start reading this issue without having read any of the prior issues and not be lost. We are going to bring back our ‘Jump In Issue’ tags in the store, which will indicate which books start new stories for you to start reading. And these books feature incredible Alex Ross covers!

Immortal Hulk #6 (Cover A Alex Ross), $3.99
Immortal Hulk #6 (Cover B Brent Schoonover Cosmic Ghost Rider Vs Variant)

Life Of Captain Marvel #2 (Of 5)(Carlos Pacheco Lau 2nd Printing Variant Cover), $3.99
Life Of Captain Marvel #3 (Of 5)(Cover A Julian Totino Tedesco), $3.99
Life Of Captain Marvel #3 (Of 5)(Cover B Joe Quesada), AR
Life Of Captain Marvel #3 (Of 5)(Cover C Joe Quesada Virgin Variant)
Mr. And Mrs. X #3 (Cover A Terry Dodson), $3.99
Mr. And Mrs. X #3 (Cover B Phil Noto), AR
Multiple Man #4 (Of 5), $3.99
Spider-Gwen Volume 6 The Life Of Gwen Stacy TP, $15.99

I had to stick in this awesome John Tyler Christopher Squid Head variant for the Star Wars fans out there.

Star Wars #54 (Cover A David Marquez), $3.99
Star Wars #54 (Cover B John Tyler Christopher Action Figure Variant)
Star Wars Lando Double Or Nothing #5 (Of 5)(Cover A W. Scott Forbes), $3.99
Star Wars Legends Epic Collection The Menace Revealed Volume 1 TP, $39.99

Thor #5 (Cover A Esad Ribic), $3.99
Thor #5 (Cover B James Harren Connecting Hammer Variant E), AR
Thor #5 (Cover C Ema Lupacchino Cosmic Ghost Rider Variant), AR
Tony Stark Iron Man #3 (Valerio Schiti 2nd Printing Variant Cover), $3.99

Don’t forget the True Believers titles, which are only $1.00! Marvel usually coincide these with new releases on Netflix and/or movie releases. Pretty cool to be able to get 1st appearances for $1.00 and some of these actually go up in value (I know, I know, that’s not why you buy comics, but it doesn’t hurt to have value to your collection). Check out the Mike Zeck cover, just awesome! Punisher #1 was the first mainstream cover that went above-and-beyond all the other covers out there in eye appeal. Now you have Mattina, Artgerm, etc. putting out awesome covers, but Zeck, to me, was the first artist putting out top notch covers AND he did the interior art!

 

True Believers Marvel Knights 20th Anniversary Iron Fist By Thomas And Kane #1, $1.00
True Believers Marvel Knights 20th Anniversary Power Man And Iron Fist #1, $1.00
True Believers Marvel Knights 20th Anniversary Punisher By Grant And Zeck #1, $1.00
True Believers Marvel Knights 20th Anniversary Punisher The First Appearance #1, $1.00

Venom is sold out at the distributor level, new character, blah blah blah. Same old story for Mr. Cates & Mr. Stegman, just killing this title with tons of cool, dark imagery. This ends the first Donny Cates/Ryan Stegman story arc! (did I mention that issue #7 is also sold out at the distributor level already and it doesn’t come out until mid-October? Put this on your pull if it is not on there already.)

Venom #6 (Cover A Ryan Stegman), $3.99
Venom #6 (Cover B Humberto Ramos Cosmic Ghost Rider Vs Variant), AR
Venom By Daniel Way The Complete Collection TP (New Printing), $34.99
Venom First Host #4 (Of 5)(Cover A Mark Bagley), $3.99
Venom First Host #4 (Of 5)(Cover B Tak Miyazawa), AR
Venom Volume 4 The Nativity TP, $15.99

West Coast Avengers #2 (Cover A Stefano Caselli), $3.99
West Coast Avengers #2 (Cover C Tim Tsang Marvel’s Spider-Man Video Game Variant), AR
X-Men Gold #36 (Cover A Phil Noto), $3.99
X-Men Gold #36 (Cover B Whilce Portacio Final Issue Variant), AR

Welcome to New Comic Day, best day of the week! Just a quick word about our independent month sale! Take advantage of our 25% off all non-Marvel-DC-Image books for the month of September. Please feel free to tell the person checking you out that you are taking advantage of the independent sale! It’s a nice reminder for us at the register AND a chance for us to take a picture of you to put on our Facebook page!

For Marvel, this is a relatively small week with nothing new really surfacing. We’ll start with #1s.

Iceman #1 (Of 5)(Cover A W. Scott Forbes)
Marvel Rising Omega #1 (Cover A Gurihiru)
Marvel Rising Omega #1 (Cover B Helen Chen)
Marvel Rising Omega #1 (Cover C Rian Gonzales Connecting Variant)

 

Amazing Spider-Man #5 (Cover A Ryan Ottley)
Amazing Spider-Man #5 (Cover B Nick Bradshaw Cosmic Ghost Rider Vs Variant)
Amazing Spider-Man #5 (Cover C Daryl Mandryk Marvel’s Spider-Man Video Game Variant)
Champions #24
Daredevil #608
Domino #6
Exiles #8

It seems like it took forever, but Fantastic Four #2 is FINALLY out! We have a number of #1s still in the store, so jump in and enjoy the comeback of Marvel’s first heroes!

 

Fantastic Four #2 (Cover A Esad Ribic)
Fantastic Four #2 (Cover B Skottie Young)
Fantastic Four #2 (Cover C Arthur Adams Connecting Wraparound Variant B)
Fantastic Four #2 (Cover D Tom Raney Cosmic Ghost Rider Vs Variant)

Immortal Hulk #4 (James Bennet 2nd Printing Variant Cover)
Infinity Countdown #5 (Of 5)(Mike Hawthorne 2nd Printing Variant Cover)
Infinity Countdown Companion TP
Infinity Countdown TP

We tons of Infinity, whether it be the Countdown or the current series, we have it. If you haven’t jumped in, but want to, the above-mentioned trades will get you up to speed. For those of you currently reading, #3 comes out Wednesday. This is sold out at the distributor level, so if you want one definitely get it now!

 

Infinity Wars #3 (Of 6)(Cover A Mike Deodato Jr.)
Infinity Wars #3 (Of 6)(Cover B J.G. Jones Promo Variant)
Infinity Wars #3 (Of 6)(Cover C Ron Lim)
Infinity Wars #3 (Of 6)(Cover D Patrick Zircher)
Infinity Wars #3 (Of 6)(Cover E Javier Garron Connecting Variant C)

Journey Into Mystery is back! This looks to delve into the horror genre and features Nick Fury & his Howling Commandos engaging in a mission like they’ve never encountered before. This happens toward the end of WWII.

Journey Into Mystery The Birth Of Krakoa #1 (Cover A Greg Smallwood)
Journey Into Mystery The Birth Of Krakoa #1 (Cover B Ben Caldwell)

Marvel Knights Daredevil By Smith And Quesada Guardian Devi TP
Ms. Marvel #34
Old Man Logan #47
Peter Parker The Spectacular Spider-Man #309
Runaways #13 (Cover A Kris Anka)
True Believers Marvel Knights 20th Anniversary Daredevil And The Defenders #1
True Believers Marvel Knights 20th Anniversary Luke Cage Hero For Hire #1
Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #36

Of course, there’s Venom books! Read up on some Venom history with Planet of the Symbiotes TP!

 

Venom Adventures Digest TP
Venom First Host #3 (Of 5)(Cover A Mark Bagley)
Venom First Host #3 (Of 5)(Cover B Dave Johnson)
Venom Planet Of The Symbiotes TP

Weapon H #7 (Cover A Philip Tan)
Weapon H #7 (Cover B Chris Stevens Cosmic Ghost Rider Vs Variant)
X-23 #4 (Cover A Mike Choi)
X-23 #4 (Cover B Yasmine Putri Cosmic Ghost Rider Vs Variant)
X-Men Blue #35, $3.99

Yes, Star Wars titles! Have you been trade-waiting the Thrawn comics? Here it is!

Star Wars Darth Vader #21 (Cover A Giuseppe Camuncoli & Elia Bonetti)
Star Wars Darth Vader #21 (Cover B Rod Reis Galactic Icon Variant)
Star Wars Darth Vader Dark Lord Of The Sith Volume 3 The Burning Seas TP
Star Wars The Last Jedi Adaptation #6 (Of 6)(Cover A Mahmud Asrar)
Star Wars Thrawn TP

 

First a quick word about damages. Without fail, we always have some damages with our order. Whether it be from the manufacturer or shipping, there is always something damaged. Some weeks are worse than others, there’s nothing we can do about it. Damages take 2 weeks, yes TWO WEEKS to get back to us. 99% of the time they do get replaced, so an exercise in patience is appreciated. “Jason, you must be saying this because something important was damaged this week.” If you are saying this you would be correct. The Web of Venom #1 cover B were all damaged. If you want one, please let us know and we will put it in your box when it gets delivered. On to the business.

The search for Wolverine is over & we have options! (Check out the Keown & Coipel covers below!)

Hunt For Wolverine Dead Ends #1 (Cover A Marco Checchetto), $4.99
Hunt For Wolverine Dead Ends #1 (Cover B Dale Keown)
Hunt For Wolverine Dead Ends #1 (Cover C Olivier Coipel)
Hunt For Wolverine Dead Ends #1 (Cover D Steve McNiven Return Of The Fantastic Four Variant)

 

A few #2s come out this week & hope to continue their solid story lines. If you are NOT reading Extermination and are looking to jump into an X-book for the first time, this might be the series!

• Edge Of Spider-Geddon #2 (Of 4)(Cover A Jake Wyatt), $3.99
  Edge Of Spider-Geddon #2 (Of 4)(Cover B Cully Hamner)
• Extermination #2 (Of 5)(Cover A Mark Brooks), $3.99
  Extermination #2 (Of 5)(Cover B Frank Cho)
  Extermination #2 (Of 5)(Cover C Mike Hawthorne Connecting Variant B)
• X-Men Grand Design Second Genesis #2 (Of 2)(Cover A Ed Piskor), $5.99
  X-Men Grand Design Second Genesis #2 (Of 2)(Cover B Ed Piskor)

  

Venom continues his hot run with a host of new books written by Mike Costa & Donny Cates! They already have a 2nd print of Ve’Nam scheduled.

Venom First Host #1 (Of 5)(Cover A Mark Bagley), $3.99
Web Of Venom Ve’Nam #1 (Cover A Ryan Stegman), $4.99 All of our variants were damaged, UGH! We can reserve one for you when the come back in the shop.

 

Wrapping up the rest of the Marvel books is as follows:

Daredevil Annual #1 (Cover A Shane Davis), $4.99
Daredevil Annual #1 (Cover B Gerardo Zaffino), AR
Deadpool Assassin #6 (Of 6)(Cover A Mark Bagley), $3.99
Deadpool Assassin #6 (Of 6)(Cover B John Tyler Christopher)
Exiles #7, $3.99
Fantastic Four #1 (Facsimile Edition), $3.99
Marvel Two-In-One #9 (Cover A Gerardo Zaffino), $3.99
Marvel Two-In-One #9 (Cover B Alan Davis Return Of The Fantastic Four Variant)
Moon Knight #198, $3.99
Ms. Marvel #33, $3.99
New Mutants Dead Souls #6 (Of 6), $3.99
Runaways #12, $3.99
Star Wars Lando Double Or Nothing #4 (Of 5)(Cover A W. Scott Forbes), $3.99
Star Wars Poe Dameron Annual #2 (Cover A Rod Reis), $4.99
Star Wars Poe Dameron Annual #2 (Cover B Declan Shalvey)
X-23 #3 (Cover A Mike Choi), $3.99
X-23 #3 (Cover B Carlos Pacheco Return Of The Fantastic Four Variant)
X-Men Blue #34, $3.99

I promise pics from the 5 Year Anniversary Party are coming this week!

On to this week’s Marvel books!

A VeNoM book for kids ?!?!?!?! Yes, it’s true! Marvel Super Hero Adventures Inferno #1!

Leading the way is Punisher #1! Matthew Rosenberg is continuing his run with Frank Castle. He’s out of the War Machine armor, but still ready to deal out some of his own brand of justice. This is a great issue to jump in on a new story arc!

Another new #1 is West Coast Avengers! Yes, they’re back & this go around you get BOTH Hawkeyes (Clint & Kate), Fuse, Gwenpool, America Chavez & Kid Omega! Written by Kelly Thompson, this is sure to be a fun ride with Stefano Caselli providing art!

Rounding out the week: Amazing Spider-man #4, Avengers #6, Black Panther #3, Daredevil #607, , Life of Captain Marvel #2, Old Man Hawkeye #8, Sentry #3 (Definitely should be reading this!), Venom #5, & Wakanda Forever Avengers #1.

X-Books for the week: Hunt for Wolverine Mystery in Madripoor #4, Mr. & Mrs. X #2, Old Man Logan #46, X-Men Gold #34, & X-Men Red #7.

Star Wars books being released this week are: Darth Vader #20 & Doctor Aphra #23.

 

Due to the overwhelming volume of AWESOME customers on Saturday, our Point of Sale (POS) broke! We are feverishly working to fix it/get a new one, so please be kind 🙂 This is also why we haven’t created a post-event post yet, but it’s coming!

On to the good news, new comics on Wednesday!

Extermination #1 features a new X-Men event & it looks awesome. It’s already sold out at the distributor level, so grab a copy! (Check out the Larraz 1:25 variant below).

Edge of Spider-Geddon #1 comes out & we all remember what happened w/ the last Edge of release (for those of you who don’t remember, Spider-Gwen made her first appearance)! Cully Hamner variant below (I did not go big on this title, so reserve one if you definitely want one).

A couple annuals with Cable/Deadpool & Astonishing X-Men release & the Infinity War continues with #2. Doctor Strange #4, Deadpool Assassin #5, Hunt for Wolverine Claws of a Killer #4, Multiple Man #3, Thor #4, Weapon H #6, Tony Stark Iron Man #3 & Weapon X #22 all come out Wednesday. Rounding out Wednesday for Marvel is Star Wars Beckett #1 & Poe Dameron #30 hit the shelves.

X-Men Grand Design: Second Genesis #1 – Ed Piskar continues his epic telling of the history of the X-Men! If you haven’t jumped in on this, do so. Whether your are a devoted, casual or new X-Men fan this is an incredible book that is accessible for everyone!

The newly weds, Gambit & Rogue, start their 1st adventure in Mr. & Mrs. X #1. The Fantastic Four True Believers continue to roll out in anticipation of Fantastic Four #1.

The second installments of X-23 & Amazing Spider-Man #2 make their way to the stands. X-23 was a really good first issue, the 2nd should prove to be just as good. Meanwhile, the jury seems to be out on the artwork for Amazing Spider-Man.

HOTLY anticipated books; Venom #4 & (sleeper hit) Sentry #2 drop this week. Venom is a no-brainer, but Sentry slid under the radar on most people’s reading list. Check out this book, Jeff Lemire has started what appears to be another awesome tale!

Infinity Wars Prime #1 (I don’t understand this stuff) kinda begins Infinity Wars? So we had Infinity Countdown, now Infinity Wars Prime only to get to Infinity Wars? Anyway, it’s Deodato art, so it should be awesome AND it’s sold out at the distributor level (check out our up-and-coming podcast #10 if you don’t know what I mean by this).

Rounding out the releases: Champtions #21, Deadpool Assassin #4, Hunt for Wolverine Mystery in Madripoor #3, Old Man Logan #44, Multiple Man #2, X-Men Wakanda #1, Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur #33, X-Men Blue #32, Moon Knight #, Star Wars Doctor Aphra #22, Star Wars Lando Double or Nothing #3.

Marvel titles this week include: Marvel Rising Alpha #1 w/ Ms Marvel & Unbeatable Squirrel Girl!

More Marvel #1’s?!? Thor #1 comes out this week and features Jason Aaron writing & Mike Del Mundo art (w/ help from Christian Ward)! Check out the 1:50 Ribic variant & the 1:25 Ward variant below! Deadpool Assassin #1 also comes out on Wednesday.

The next installment villain books Darth Vader, Thrawn & Venom (yes, we are getting the Sam Kieth & Del Mundo variants for Venom) release in addition to Punisher, X-Men Blue and Marvel Two-in-one (The Thing vs Infamous Iron Man team-up Annual #1).

The 8 year, 6-issue limited series of S.H.I.E.L.D. comes to a close. If you haven’t read this, give it a shot, it’s worth the read and you don’t have to wait 8 years for the series to end!

Finally, the Hunt for Wolverine continues in Admantium Agenda while the Infinity Countdown, well, counts down.

Kieth 1:50 variant                                                           Del Mundo 1:25 variant

   

Ribic 1:50 variant                                                           Ward 1:25 variant

 

 

The Mighty Thor Gates of Valhalla #1 comes out this week and starts a new direction by Jason Aaron and superstar artist, Ramon K. Perez. You’ll also be treated to a Jane Foster tribute by Jason Aaron and rising star, Jen Bartel!

• X-Men #1 The Wedding issue of Kitty and Colossus with a cover by J. Scott Campbell!
• The Hunt for Wolverine continues in The Claws of the Killer #1.
• Quicksilver No Surrender #1 is a wild read, check out our latest podcast to hear a review of the book.

If you don’t have a subscription to Amazing Spider-man yet, I suggest you do it now!

 

Sorry, Amazing Spider-man #797 is sold out 🙁