PREVIEWS #353 / FEB18 for APR18 SHIPPING+
DIAMOND PUBLICATIONS
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PREVIEWS #355 APRIL 2018 (Net)
THIS MONTH'S COVER ART: New projects from Top Publishers!
THIS MONTH'S THEME: Manga Month
PREVIEWS is your ultimate guide to comics, graphic novels and pop-culture merchandise available from your local comic book shop... revealed up to 2 months in advance! Read detailed product descriptions and storylines for hundreds comic books and graphic novels from the top comic book publishers; see the coolest toys and pop-culture merchandise on Earth; plus PREVIEWS Exclusive items you'll find nowhere else! It's a great monthly read to find out what's at comic shops! This April issue features items scheduled to ship in June 2018 and beyond. (STL078694)
Catalog, SCSRP: $3.99
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PREVIEWS #355 APRIL 2018 CUSTOMER ORDER FORM (Net)
PREVIEWS makes it easy for you to order every item in the catalog with this separate order form booklet! This April issue features items scheduled to ship in June 2018 and beyond. (STL078695)
Comic-sized, 48pgsSRP: PI
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GAME TRADE MAGAZINE #218 (Net)
Game Trade Magazine, the monthly publication of Alliance Game Distributors, is your guide to what's new in the worlds of gaming! With articles on new and upcoming games, previews, reviews, game-related comics and fiction, self-contained mini-games or game modules, plus product information on upcoming game releases, Game Trade Magazine is your essential guide to gaming today! This April issue features items scheduled to ship in June 2018 and beyond. (STL078691)
MagazineSRP: PI
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DIAMOND BOOKSHELF #26 (Net)
BookShelf Magazine is as a handy print resource for librarians, educators, media specialists, and more! Published by Diamond, this comic-sized magazine is designed to complement the excellent website - - which promotes comic books and graphic novels as educational tools. Whether you are a teacher, educator, or reading specialist seeking to incorporate comics or graphic novels into the classroom; or a librarian or media specialist looking for assistance with graphic novel collection development, BookShelf will provide you with comprehensive information on the latest graphic novel educational news, interviews with leading creators and library/school professionals, new release information formatted specifically for librarians/media specialists, along with useful resources such as GN reviews, core lists and school lesson plans.
Here's what you'll find in print edition of BookShelf #26:
* A front-page feature of Coyotes Volume 1 from Image Comics
* An overview of best-selling graphic novels about myths, legends, and folklore
* A look into the rise of graphic novels on awards lists
* An exploration into how graphic novels can bridge the time between picture books and chapter books
* A sneak peek at an upcoming graphic novel
* Summer 2018 Recommended Reads
* Reviews & Lesson Plans by Professor Katie Monnin
And more! (STL078877)
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PREMIER PUBLISHERS
DARK HORSE COMICS
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XERXES FALL OF HOUSE OF DARIUS #1 (OF 5) (MR)
(W) Frank Miller (CA) Frank Miller
Frank Miller returns to the world of 300 with this sprawling historical epic! Persian King Xerxes sets out to conquer the world to avenge his father Darius's defeat and create an empire unlike anything the world has ever seen . . . Until the hardy Greeks produce a god king of their own, Alexander the Great.
o Frank Miller writes and draws this long-awaited companion to his masterpiece, 300!
o Colored by Alex Sinclair, the colorist for Miller's Dark Knight Master Race, third installment of his Dark Knight Returns master trilogy.
o Deluxe collector format!
o Thirty pages of story! (STL077470)
MATURE THEMES
40pgs, FC (1 of 5)SRP: $5.99
BACKLIST ITEMS
STAR OF THE MONTH
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300 HC
(W/A/CA) Frank Miller
The armies of Persia -- a vast horde greater than any the world has ever known -- are poised to crush Greece, an island of reason and freedom in a sea of madness and tyranny. Standing between Greece and this tidal wave of destruction are a tiny detachment of but three hundred warriors. Frank Miller's epic retelling of history's supreme moment of battlefield valor is finally collected in a glorious hardcover volume in its intended format -- each two-page spread from the original comics is presented as a single undivided page. (STK107010) (STAR10465
ItemSRP: $30.00
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BLACK HAMMER AGE OF DOOM #1 MAIN CVR
(W) Jeff Lemire (A/CA) Dean Ormston
The Eisner Award-winning superhero saga returns! Picking up immediately where we left off-Lucy Weber has become the new Black Hammer and right as she's about to reveal to our heroes how they got stuck on the farm and can escape she vanishes. Now our new Black Hammer finds herself trapped in a gritty world filled with punk rock detectives, emo gods, anthropomorphic humans, absurdist heroes, and many more weirdoes, in a mad world in which there is no escape!
o Winner of the Eisner Award for Best New Series! (STL077472)
SC, 32pgs, FCSRP: $3.99
STARS OF THE MONTH
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BLACK HAMMER TP VOL 01 SECRET ORIGINS
(W) Jeff Lemire (A/CA) Dean Ormston
Once they were heroes. Now, banished from existence by a multiversal crisis, the old champions of Spiral City lead simple lives in a timeless farming town. But as they attempt to free themselves from this strange purgatory, a mysterious stranger works to bring them back into action for one last adventure! Collects issues #1-6 of the series. (STL030439) (NOV160051)
SC, 6x9, 152pgs, FCSRP: $14.99
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BLACK HAMMER TP VOL 02 THE EVENT
(W) Jeff Lemire (A/CA) Dean Ormston
When a visitor from the outside world arrives on the Farm, looking for the Black Hammer and bringing news of Spiral City to its Golden Age heroes, everything changes. Her arrival stirs up old memories and awakens new hope in the marooned heroes and they make a new attempt to escape their strange prison. (STL060170) (AUG170013)
SC, 7x10, 152pgs, FCSRP: $19.99
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DOCTOR STAR & KINGDOM LOST TOMORROWS #2
(W) Jeff Lemire (A/CA) Max Fiumara
Astral crime fighter Doctor Star discovers a sprawling alien city that desperately needs his help to defend itself against a powerful intergalactic space monster!
o Ties directly into the Eisner-Award winning Black Hammer comic books series and is written by main writer Jeff Lemire. (STL078501)
28pgs, FCSRP: $3.99
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ALIENS DUST TO DUST #1 (OF 4) MAIN CVR (MR)
The Trono colony on LV-871 is under attack. Emergency evacuations are ordered. Evac shuttles are taking off. All twelve-year-old Maxon and his mom have to do is make it to the spaceport. Except between them and it are . . . Aliens! A terrifying coming-of-age story by master storyteller Gabriel Hardman.
o Gabriel Hardman storyboarded the films Batman: The Dark Knight Rises, Logan, Dawn of Planet of the Apes, and many others!
o A reexamination of why we fear the Aliens!
o On sale in time for Alien Day (4/26)! (STL077474)
MATURE THEMES
32pgs, B&W (1 of 4)SRP: $3.99
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NEIL GAIMAN STUDY IN EMERALD HC (C: 1-1-2)
(W) Neil Gaiman (A/CA) Shane Oakley
This supernatural mystery set in the world of Sherlock Holmes and Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos features a brilliant detective and his partner as they try to solve a horrific murder.
This complex investigation takes the Baker Street investigators from the slums of Whitechapel all the way to the Queen's Palace as they attempt to find the answers to this bizarre murder of cosmic horror!
From the Hugo, Bram Stoker, Locus, World Fantasy, Nebula Award-winning, and New York Times bestselling writer Neil Gaiman comes this graphic novel adaptation with art by Eisner award winning artist Rafael Albuquerque! (STL077549) (C: 1-1-2) NOTE: Available only in the United States, Canada, and U.S. Territories.
HC, 112pgs, FCSRP: $17.99
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HARLEQUIN VALENTINE HC 2ND ED (C: 1-0-0)
(W) Neil Gaiman (A/CA) John Bolton
The story of the legendary commedia dell'arte has been beautifully redesigned in a new hardbound edition. When a buffoonish Harlequin offers his heart to the beautiful, oblivious Columbine, neither of them is prepared for the charming surprise that awaits them both! (STL053101) (JUN170044) (C: 1-0-0) NOTE: Not available in the U.K. (May Purchase from U.K. Vendor)
HC, 6x9, 40pgs, FCSRP: $12.99
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NEIL GAIMAN FORBIDDEN BRIDES SLAVES DREAD DESIRE HC (C: 1-0-
(W) Neil Gaiman (A/CA) Shane Oakley
A celebrated send-up of gothic literature, beautifully adapted into a dark, brooding, and oddly comical graphic novel. Somewhere in the night, a raven caws, an author’s pen scratches, and thunder claps. The author wants to write nonfiction: stories about frail women in white nightgowns, mysterious bumps in the night, and the undead rising to collect old debts. But he keeps getting interrupted by the everyday annoyances of talking ravens, duels to the death, and his sinister butler. (STL025039) (SEP160035) (C: 1-0-0) NOTE: Not available in the U.K. (May Purchase from U.K. Vendor)
HC, 112pgs, FCSRP: $17.99
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NEIL GAIMAN HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS AT PARTIES HC (C: 1-0-0)
(W) Neil Gaiman (A) Gabriel Ba, Fábio Moon (CA) Fábio Moon
Two teenage boys are in for a tremendous shock when they crash a party where the girls are far more than they appear! From Neil Gaiman — one of the most celebrated authors of our time — and award-winning artists Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá, this sumptuous graphic novel is not to be missed! (STL001158) (FEB160019) (C: 1-0-0) NOTE: Available only in the United States, Canada, and U.S. Territories.
HC, 112pgs, FCSRP: $17.99
STARS OF THE MONTH
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NEIL GAIMAN TROLL BRIDGE HC (C: 1-0-0)
(W) Neil Gaiman (A/CA) Colleen Doran
Young Jack's world was full of ghosts and ghouls, but one monster-a ravenous and hideous troll-would haunt him long into manhood. As the beast sups upon a lifetime of Jack's fear and regret, Jack must find the courage within himself to face the fiend once and for all! (STL011209) (MAY160021) (C: 1-0-0) NOTE: Available only in the United States, Canada, and U.S. Territories.
HC, 64pgs, FCSRP: $14.99
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FACTS IN CASE OF DEPARTURE OF MISS FINCH HC
(W) Neil Gaiman (A/CA) Michael Zulli
Come, come and hear of the strange and terrible tale of Miss Finch, an exacting woman befallen by mystery and abduction deep under the streets of London! New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman delivers another stunning hardcover graphic novel with longtime collaborator Michael Zulli (Creatures of the Night, The Sandman). This is the first comics adaptation of his popular story “The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch,” which saw print only in the U.K. edition of Gaiman’s award-winning work Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions and was recently interpreted for his Speaking in Tongues CD. The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch is a “mostly true story” that combines the author’s trademark magic realism with Zulli’s sumptuous paintings, and has been newly rewritten for this hardcover. Join a group of friends, with the stern Miss Finch in tow, as they enter musty caverns for a subterranean circus spectacle called “The Theatre of Night’s Dreaming.” Come inside, get out of the pounding rain, and witness this strange world of vampires, ringmasters, illusions, and the Cabinet of Wishes Fulfill’d.
• The latest hardcover from New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman (Anansi Boys and The Sandman: Endless Nights), one of the world’s best-loved comics writers!
_Smoke and Mirrors won the 1998 MacMillan Silver PEN Award for Best Short Story Collection. (STK314034) (JUN070038) NOTE: Not available in the U.K. (May Purchase from U.K. Vendor)
HC, 7x10, 56pgs, FCSRP: $13.95
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NEIL GAIMAN AMERICAN GODS MY AINSEL #2 MAIN CVR (C: 1-0-0)
(W) Neil Gaiman, P. Craig Russell (A) P. Craig Russell (CA) Glenn Fabry
The bizarre road trip across America continues as our heroes gather reinforcements for the imminent god war!
Shadow arrives in Lakeside, a small town with more snowdrifts than residents. As he is welcomed by the town's denizens, Shadow becomes more and more drawn into the warmth and safety of his alter ego, Mike Ainsel.
The Hugo, Bram Stoker, Locus, World Fantasy, and Nebula Award-winning novel and hit Starz television series by Neil Gaiman is adapted as a comic series! (STL077462) (C: 1-0-0) NOTE: Available only in the United States, U.S. Territories, Canada, Australia, and the U.K.
32pgs, FCSRP: $3.99
BACKLIST ITEMS
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STAR OF THE MONTH
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O/A NEIL GAIMAN AMERICAN GODS HC VOL 01 SHADOWS (C: 1-0-0)
(W) Neil Gaiman, P. Craig Russell (A) Various (CA) Glenn Fabry
This supernatural American road trip fantasy tells the story of a war between the ancient and modern gods.
Shadow Moon gets out of jail only to discover his wife is dead. Defeated, broke, and uncertain where to go from here, he meets the mysterious Mr. Wednesday, who employs him to serve as his bodyguard-thrusting Shadow into a deadly world where ghosts of the past come back from the dead, and a god war is imminent.
Collecting the first nine issues of the American Gods comic book series, along with art process features, high res scans of original art, layouts, character designs, and variant covers by Becky Cloonan, Skottie Young, Fábio Moon, Dave MCKean, and more!
''An atmospheric, beautifully illustrated take on Gaiman's story.'' -AV CLUB (STL067105) (C: 1-0-0) NOTE: Available only in the United States and Canada.
HC, 7x10, 208pgs, FCSRP: $29.99
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DAVE MCKEAN SHORT FILMS HC (C: 0-1-2)
(W/A/CA) Dave McKean
Best known for his work with Neil Gaiman and his Harvey Award-winning graphic novel Cages, comes this Blu-ray collection of Dave McKean's surreal short films collected in a behind the scenes hardcover book.
Dark Horse proudly presents Dave McKean's short cinema on Blu-Rray included in a 9 1/2" x 11" hardcover book featuring photos, posters, stills, drawings, and more. A must-have for McKean fans!
o Foreword by Michael Sheen! (STL077498) (C: 0-1-2)
SC, 8x11, 496pgs, PCSRP: $24.99
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BLACK DOG DREAMS OF PAUL NASH TP
(W/A/CA) Dave McKean
Best known for his collaborations with Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean defied expectations with his stunning debut as writer and artist in Cages, winner of multiple awards for Best Graphic Album. Dark Horse proudly presents a new original graphic novel by the legendary artist based on the life of Paul Nash, a surrealist painter during World War I. The Dreams of Paul Nash deals with real soldiers' memoirs, and all the stories add up to a moving piece about how war and extreme situations change us and how we deal with the resultant pain-in Nash's case, by turning his landscapes into powerful and fantastical "psychoscapes." (STL013896) (JUN160022)
SC, 120pgs, FCSRP: $24.99
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DAVE MCKEAN CAGES TP 2ND ED
(W/A/CA) Dave McKean
Filled with complex characters, intriguing flights of fancy, and all the beautiful visuals you'd expect from the director of MirrorMask, Cages is Dave McKean's magnum opus. It chronicles the intersecting lives of a painter, a writer, and a musician living in the same apartment building, and is a profound rumination on art, God, cats, and the cages we build for ourselves. (STL013897) (JUN160024)
SC, 8x11, 504pgs, PCSRP: $29.99
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PICTURES THAT TICK TP VOL 01 (CURR PTG)
(W/A/CA) Dave McKean
Pictures That Tick collects Dave McKean’s groundbreaking short comics stories from the 1990s and early 2000s. A true iconoclast, McKean mixes illustration, painting, photography, sculpture, and digital art for a comics experience unlike any other.
Some pieces are poignant, some are silly, but all are beautiful and thought provoking. Each is completely unique, and gathered together they represent a tour-de-force achievement. A perfect companion to McKean’s Cages, Pictures That Tick stretches the boundaries of comics art, and the short-story format allows him to create an even broader artistic vision.
• Previously only available in a limited edition and years out of print, Pictures That Tick is finally widely available in an impeccably designed paperback edition, with a new cover by McKean. (STK645924) (MAR148141)
SC, 9x12, 184pgs, FCSRP: $24.99
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PICTURES THAT TICK TP VOL 02
(W/A/CA) Dave McKean
McKean uses mixed media to take readers on a journey unlike any other: "The Coast Road" follows a desperate wife trying to find her missing husband, whose ghostly image appears in unexpected ways. "Black Holes," written by an anonymous journalist, concerns the politically sensitive true story of Chinese villagers induced by the government to sell their blood, only to be infected with AIDS through poor medical practice. A myriad of personal tales fill the pages of McKean's latest achievement. (STK629426) (MAR140099)
SC, 9x12, 272pgs, FCSRP: $29.99
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HELLBOY COMPLETE SHORT STORIES TP VOL 01 (C: 0-1-2)
(W) Mike Mignola (A) Richard Corben & Various (CA) Mike Mignola
In 1994 Mike Mignola released the first Hellboy series, Seed of Destruction, as Hellboy faced his supposed destiny as Beast of the Apocalypse. Before that, he'd spent fifty years fighting monsters as a somewhat carefree member of the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense. The Complete Short Stories volumes 1 & 2 present those early adventures.
"The Crooked Man" and "Double Feature of Evil," both of which earned Mignola and his legendary collaborator Richard Corben Eisner Awards, are collected with the complete "Hellboy in Mexico" saga, featuring collaborations with Corben, Mick McMahon, Gabriel Ba, and Fabio Moon, as well as one of Mignola's early masterpiece, "The Corpse." This 368-page volume covers Hellboy's adventures from 1947 to 1961. (STL077551) (C: 0-1-2)
SC, 7x10, 160pgs, FCSRP: $24.99
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HELLBOY OMNIBUS TP VOL 02 STRANGE PLACES (C: 0-1-2)
(W/A/CA) Mike Mignola
The four-volume Hellboy Omnibus series along with the two volumes of The Complete Short Stories collect all of Mignola's award-winning Hellboy stories in chronological order for a definitive reading experience. This 416-page volume covers Hellboy's adventures from 1998 to 2005, reprinting Conqueror Worm, Strange Places, Into the Silent Sea, and "The Right Hand of Doom," "Box Full of Evil," and "Being Human" from The Right Hand of Doom and B.P.R.D.: Being Human. (STL077492) (C: 0-1-2)
SC, 416pgs, FCSRP: $24.99
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KOSHCHEI THE DEATHLESS #4 (OF 6)
(W) Mike Mignola (A) Ben Stenbeck (CA) Mike Mignola