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WRITTEN BY RICHARD KADREY; ART AND COVER BY THE PANDER BROS. Teens never meant to be born travel through the future world of Neo-L.A. in search of a "Great Escape" as the miniseries continues. After her mind-expanding trip on Accelerate, Marne searches for her partners in crime and delves into the truth about her ghost-in-the-machine boyfriend. But, in a world where everything is for sale, the truth doesn't come cheap, and Marne must undertake a major heist to buy the information she needs from the radiation-scarred High Priests of the digital age. MATURE READERS FC, 32 PG. (2 OF 4) Cover price $2.95.

Volume 3 - 1st printing. "Monkey Tales!" Collects Adventures of Barry Ween 3: Three Monkey Tales (2001) #1-3. Story and art by Judd Winick. In this third hilarious trade paperback Barry Ween's bringing monkeys! He is the world's smartest human being; his "big brain," has a limitless capacity for knowledge, and Barry has no problem putting that knowledge to use. That's pretty cool when you consider the fact that he's only 10 years old. Unfortunately, when you have that kind of smarts, trouble is nearly a foregone conclusion! Giant, talking gorillas from other dimensions; drunken, smelly clans of Bigfeet; and a germ-filled monkey looking to cause the next outbreak - these are things that Barry has come to accept as normal. Compared to such frightening childhood rites of passage as girls and the first school dance, Barry would take all three scenarios without blinking. This trade paperback collects the first three issues of Eisner-nominated creator Judd Winick's mini-series and features the debut of Bezeruul, the giant talking ape! Softcover, 88 pages, B&W. Mature Readers. Cover price $8.95.

Untitled Bob Hope story; A rich young woman thinks Bob is a great modern artist and invites him to her home to be his patron. Teen Dictionary humor page by Mort Drucker. Stories about famous actors of the late fifties and early sixties. 36 pgs. Cover price $0.12.

Written by unknown. Art by unknown. Cover by Owen Fitzgerald? Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis star in a 3-part untitled snake-charmer of a tale! Plus: Tommy untitled back-up story. And: "A Date with Effie" public service announcement by Jack Schiff, Curt Swan & Stan Kaye. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Written by G. Willow Wilson. Art and cover by M.K. Perker. Blythe's first test flight in Clearfleet's new hyperprax plane doesn't go as she planned. Dogged by a strange illness, she arrives at Sky 1 disoriented and off her guard before meeting an old friend who has a secret she is totally unprepared to hear. But is he trustworthy? Blythe may find out too late... 32 pages, full color, MATURE READERS Cover price $2.99.

Edited by Ed Cronin. Stories by Dick Wood and unknown. Art by Tony DiPreta, Bob Fujitani, Harry Sahle, John Cassone, Al Ulmer and unknown. Heroic action stories of war and airborne adventure -- these are Air Fighters Comics! In this issue: Airboy exposes a Japanese spy substituted for a Chinese flier in an untitled story by Dick Wood and Tony DiPreta; Iron Ace flies medical supplies to a group of Americans besieged in the desert by Germans and Japanese in an untitled story; flying fish help Skinny McGinty foil a Japanese attack on San Francisco in an untitled story with art by Tony DiPreta; the second appearance of Baron Von Tundra in an untitled SkyWolf story with art by Bob Fujitani; 2-page text story "Eagles Don't Fail"; Bald Eagle foils a Japanese hypnotism plot in an untitled story with art by Harry Sahle; Black Angel foils a Nazi plot to use machines from the future to build a road across the English Channel in an untitled story with art by John Cassone; and Flying Dutchman discovers a plot by the Nazis to use Japanese suicide bombers in an untitled story with art by Al Ulmer. 64 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

by Matt Busch Cover price $3.50.

THE AMAZON #3 (of 3) Written by Steven T. Seagle , Art by Tim Sale, and Colors by Matt Hollingsworth. Reeling from his experiences in the Amazon jungle, reporter Malcolm Hillard is close to solving the mysteries of a missing American and sabotage at a timber company. What he still can't be sure of is whether the man he saw in the jungle is really the Spirit of the Amazon. But before he can get answers, chaos erupts as 'The Amazon' carries out a final attack on the encroaching forces of industry, and the full wrath of Mother Nature is unleashed. A newly recolored edition of a long-out-of-print series by two of comics' sharpest talents. Featuring more behind-the-scenes extras. Brand new cover by Tim Sale with Dave Stewart. Full color, 32 pages. Cover price $3.50.

Story, art and cover by Dave Cooper. An early adventure in strangeness from Dave Cooper, acclaimed indie cartoonist of Crumple and Weasel. Sylvester and Nygel Splice try to reconcile their radically different personalities with the fact that they share the same body. 32 pages, B&W. Mature readers. Cover price $2.50.

1st printing. Story and art by Lorenzo Mattotti and Jorge Zentner. Following in the wake of Fantagraphics' publication last year of the extraordinary Stigmata and The Raven, Lorenzo Mattotti ups the visual ante with The Crackle Of The Frost, a graphic novel masterpiece of love and loss featuring panel after panel of sumptuous full-color paintings, as if Edward Hopper had suddenly decided to jump into comics. Hardcover, 9-in. x 10-in., 120 pages, full color. Cover price $19.99.

GodHead Act III: Part 1 - Written by Robert Venditti. Art by Francis Portela. Cover by Darwyn Cooke. 'Godhead,' act 3, part 1: Hal Jordan has to enlist the help of one of his greatest foes, Black Hand, or else watch the universe fall before the growing army of the New Gods! But getting Black Hand to help and getting him to help the way you need him to are two very different things. 32 pages, full color. Rated T Cover price $2.99.

On June 4, 2995, the Earth will be destroyed! This issue features this single most cataclysmic event in the future history of the DC Universe. Fans of the original Legionnaires will see the group reborn...fans of the new Legion will watch it continue out among the stars...but everyone will see them evolve as never before. This is no hoax, no dream, no lie, as the real horror springs from the cause of the tragedy. At first it appears that the ruthless Dominators are responsible, but it soon becomes apparent that humanity itself has sealed the fate of the planet as experiments ignite an explosive chain reaction of toxic waste stored for centuries beneath the world's surface. And Earth dies! "Requiem," one of the most critical stories in the long history of the Legion, is written by Keith Giffen, Tom Bierbaum and Mary Bierbaum. It is told in dramatic single-illustration pages by Keith Giffen and Jason Pearson, with inks by Karl Story, and using a narrow column of narrative prose running down the side that tells the tale, as chronicled by the 30th century's Devlin O'Ryan. New Format. Cover price $1.75.

Painted cover art by George Wilson. Tarzan's Ape-English Dictionary, art by Jesse Marsh; Litu to Lus. "Jungle Tales of Tarzan: The Capture of Tarzan," script by Edgar Rice Burroughs (original short story) and Gaylord Du Bois (adaptation), art by Alberto Giolitti; Tarzan saves Tantor from a pit-trap but is captured in the process; Adapted from ERB's "The Capture of Tarzan" in Jungle Tales of Tarzan. "Jungle Tales of Tarzan: The God of Tarzan," script by Edgar Rice Burroughs (original short story) and Gaylord Du Bois (adaptation), art by Alberto Giolitti; A young Tarzan ponders the meaning of the word "God." "A Fine Idea" text story starring Mabu, art by Nat Edson. "The Accuser," script by Gaylord Du Bois, art by Tom Massey; Meru is accused of using black magic to heal the sick. Tarzan's Ape-English Dictionary, art by Jesse Marsh; Mangani to Nene. Number on cover 10012-707 July. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.12.

An anthology of independent and alternative comics. This issue includes stories and art by Mike Diana, Joe Sacco, Mack White, Jean-Marc Reiser, Christine Shields, Aaron Augenblick, Ethan Persoff, David Collier, Peter Kuper, Al Columbia and Michael Kupperman, as well as part seven of The Search for Smilin Ed by Kim Deitch. Black and white with some color pages; 68 pages. Cover by Peter Bagge. Mature Readers. Cover price $4.95.