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There's No Place Like Home. Story, art and cover by Jim Valentino. Renegade Press (an offshoot of Dave Sim's Aardvark-Vanaheim publishing empire) presents the finale of the Aardvark-Vanaheim series Normalman. A spoof of then-current superhero comics, Normalman is the only being on the planet Levram (spell it backwards) who does NOT have superpowers. In this special, the Countess of Monte Crisco returns, ready to conquer the planet with the Ruby Slippers. The efforts to stop her may doom Levram once and for all. Creator Jim Valentino went on to become one of the founders of Image Comics. Cover features nearly every character who ever appeared in Normalman. Also featuring cameos by fellow Aardvark-Vanaheim characters Wolverine MacAllister (from Journey) and Cerebus. 32 pages, B&W with 3-D effects. Cover price $2.25.

Mature readers. 7-in. x 10.5-in.

A giveaway book.Volume 11 number 2. Nutty News by and for the Squirrel Club, summer edition 1979, purpose of comic was a savings club for children, had puzzles, games and short stories.

Cover by ALINA URUSOV. Written by MARJORIE LIU Penciled by KALMAN ANDRASOFSZKY There's no place like home-just ask young mutant KIDEN NIXON. She's survived the hard streets of Manhattan, and she's built a home-and a family-for herself, with her friends TATIANA, BOBBY SOUL and his LI'L BRO. But with fewer than 200 mutants left on the planet, Kiden's become a target-and when somebody strikes at one of her friends, Kiden's going to find out just how much farther she can fall! Don't miss the breathtaking return of this beloved series, by NEW YORK TIMES best-selling writer MARJORIE LIU (the DIRK & STEELE SERIES) with stunning art by KALMAN ANDRASOFSZKY! Plus-a special behind-the-scenes gallery! 40 PGS./Parental Advisory Cover price $3.99.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Collects Peanuts (2011 Kaboom) #0-4. By Charles M. Schulz. Cover by Vicki Scott. Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, Lucy and the rest of the Peanuts gang's return to comic books is all here in one heart-warming volume. Collecting the first four issues, this trade brings you the perfect balance, with brand-new adventures and classic Sunday strips from Schulz himself. This is one book that will delight old and young fans alike, from the most devoted fans to readers picking up their first comic book. Softcover, 112 pages, full color. All Ages Cover price $13.99.

Volume 2 - 1st printing. Collects Peanuts (2012 Kaboom Volume 2) #1-4. By Charles M. Schulz. Cover by Vicki Scott. Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, Lucy and the rest of the Peanuts gang's return to comic books is all here in one heart-warming volume. Collecting the first four issues, this trade brings you the perfect balance, with brand-new adventures and classic Sunday strips from Schulz himself. This is one book that will delight old and young fans alike, from the most devoted fans to readers picking up their first comic book. Softcover, 112 pages, full color. All Ages Cover price $13.99.

First 35-cent cover price. Cover pencils by Stan Goldberg, inks by Jon D'Agostino. "Fail Safe," Script and pencils by Dick Malmgren, inks by Jon D'Agostino; Archie lets it slip that he's dining with Betty in order to make Veronica jealous; But the wrong ears catch the conversation and the date ends up ruined. "On the Spot," script by Frank Doyle, art by Chic Stone; Chuck tries preying on Maria's superstitious nature as a prank. "Water Boy," script and art by Joe Edwards; Jinx tries to even the score after Charley plays a nasty prank on her. "Smile Guile," script by George Gladir; Mr. Weatherbee handles school mishaps with public calm; In private, it's a different story. "One Horsepower," pencils by Stan Goldberg, inks by Joe Edwards; When Archie borrows a horse and carriage to impress the girls, Reggie sabotages the ride. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.35.

Phineas and Ferb is the official magazine of the hit TV show on the Disney Channel. Like the TV series, this issue follows the two kindhearted suburban stepbrothers as they embark on some grand new project which annoys their controlling sister, Candace, who tries to bust their shenanigans. This issue is jam packed with comics, games, quizzes, a pull-out poster and much more stuff Cover price $4.99.

Phineas and Ferb is the official magazine of the hit TV show on the Disney Channel. Like the TV series, this issue follows the two kindhearted suburban stepbrothers as they embark on some grand new project which annoys their controlling sister, Candace, who tries to bust their shenanigans. This issue is jam packed with comics, games, quizzes, a pull-out poster and much more stuff Cover price $4.99.

Written by Jason Loo. Art by Jason Loo and Meaghan Carter. Cover by Jason Loo. Introducing the all-new Human-Lizard! Did Lucas Barrett give up his mantle as the Human-Lizard? There's an unlikely hero carrying on his legacy - and she might be a better hero than he was! Now Toni DeSanto, formerly an undergrad student at UofT, carries on the fight for street justice and good times as the all-new, all-different Human-Lizard! Will Lucas reclaim his super-identity, or is the new Human-Lizard here to stay? 28 pages, full color. Rated T Cover price $3.99.

Written by Jason Loo. Art by Jason Loo and Meaghan Carter. Cover by Dylan Burnett and Paris Alleyne. INTRODUCING THE ALL-NEW HUMAN-LIZARD! Did Lucas Barrett give up his mantle as the Human-Lizard? There's an unlikely hero carrying on his legacy - and she might be a better hero than he was! Now Toni DeSanto, formerly an undergrad student at UofT, carries on the fight for street justice and good times as the all-new, all-different Human-Lizard! Will Lu-cas reclaim his super-identity, or is the new Human-Lizard NOW here to stay? 28 pages, full color. Rated T Cover price $4.99.

Written by Jason Loo. Art by Jason Loo and Meaghan Carter. Cover by Fernando Ruiz. INTRODUCING THE ALL-NEW HUMAN-LIZARD! Did Lucas Barrett give up his mantle as the Human-Lizard? There's an unlikely hero carrying on his legacy - and she might be a better hero than he was! Now Toni DeSanto, formerly an undergrad student at UofT, carries on the fight for street justice and good times as the all-new, all-different Human-Lizard! Will Lu-cas reclaim his super-identity, or is the new Human-Lizard NOW here to stay? 28 pages, full color. Rated T Cover price $4.99.

Marvel-produced kids magazine in the vein of Dynamite. Behind the scenes of the TV series The Man from Atlantis. A Tarzan adventure by John Buscema, other comics by Mike Lasky and Al Wenzel, and part 2 of the Star Wars comic The Keepers World, by Roy Thomas and Howard Chaykin. Plus puzzles, games, pop culture and…Spider-Man on a skateboard. Full color; 56 pages. Cover price $0.75. Cover price $0.75.

Cover by Warren Kremer. Mischievous Little Audrey has misadventures with her friends Melvin, Tiny and Echo. Audrey finds the perfect hole in the fence to watch a baseball game. Audrey meets rich boy Snobbley and tries to take him down a peg or two. Little Audrey; The Thing in the Storm; If I Were Mother Goose; Now You See Me - Now You Don't; Out Foxed; Party Dress; Acting Up. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.12.

VizKids Edition - Volume 8 - 1st printing. "Gold & Silver!" Written by Hidenori Kusaka. Art by Mato. All your favorite Pokémon game characters jump out of the screen into the pages of this action-packed manga! Red doesn't just want to train Pokémon, he wants to be their friend too. Read along as Red embarks on adventures with Pikachu, Bulbasaur and others that follow storylines from the videogames! Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 224 pages, B&W. All Ages Cover price $7.99.

Cover art by Darick Robertson. Age Of Rebellion, script by Gerard Jones and Len Strazewski, pencils by Darick Robertson, inks by Barbara Kaalberg; Wanted by the law and the military, Rogue Prime fights for teenage rights and tries to get his views out to the public by appearing in an interview with Al Baker. 36 pgs. $1.95. Cover price $1.95.

May 25 ? 16 pg ? BW ? 50¢ written by SCOTT KURTZ art & cover by SCOTT KURTZ The time of the old-guard newspaper comic strip has come to an end. It's time for an all- new, all-different comic strip to bring the funny back to the funny pages. No cynicism, no lasagna and no jokes about fitting into bathing suits. PvP is here to kick the funny pages straight in the groin. This 16-page primer is ONLY 50¢ and a perfect opportunity to try PvP for the first time. Cover price $0.50.

story SCOTT KURTZ art & cover SCOTT KURTZ PvPers ASSEMBLE! Discover the pop-culture phenom that's captured the hearts of hundreds of thousands of online readers. In this issue: Francis' adoration for a popular kid at school has him convinced that he might be gay. Cover price $3.50.

The Rabbit and the Hedgehogs, Raggedy Ann, None-Such Animals # 18: The Geg, Egbert Elephant (art by Dan Noonan), Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, Animal Mother Goose (by Walt Kelly, 4 pages), Count Carrot's Egg, and Billy and Bonny Bee. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Story and art by Marc Hansen. Cover by Joseph Allen and Patrick Williams. New adventures of Ralph Snart, a foul-tempered accountant whose subconscious is the locale of fantastic adventures. Reprints of two previous stories featuring Lil Ralph and his father battling monsters at the beach and on Halloween. 32 pages, Full Color. Mature Readers. Cover price $1.75.

Story, art and cover by Frank Thorne. Part 1 of 4. In a land that is ruled by equal measures of technology and sorcery, the sorceress Sahtee battles the technologically minded Vomick. To assist in the battle she strives to create a mighty female warrior to assist her. But thanks to the……..assistance of her bumbling follower Thog and his pet lizard Ribit, the warrior they create is……..three feet tall. And green. Oh well, back to the drawing board. 32 pages. Full color. Cover price $1.95.

Richie Rich in The Great Skateboard Adventure parts one and two (thieves use silent motorcycle to steal Rich items). Richie Rich in Snow Job (Reggie tries to ruin winter party) and The Prof Saver (with Professor Keenbean). Ad for Harvey Halloween costumes. Hostess Fruit Pies ad with script by Stan Kay and art by Warren Kremer. Cover pencils by Warren Kremer. $0.35. 32 pgs. Cover price $0.35.

The comical misadventures of the richest kid on Earth and his down-to-earth girlfriend, Gloria. Richie's mean cousin Reggie finds that neither bribery nor plagiarism will impress his teacher. Crooks steal the Rich toy prototypes - but they didn't know about the robot prototype. The Coming of the Ice (Cream) Age!; Dig That Kid; Dont Allow Robots to Learn; Themes Pretty Bad; Super-Secret Toys; Glorious Gloria; The Night that Was; Little Dot: Dots Sufficient. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.50.

The adventures of super-rich Richie and his cast of supporting characters. Richie uses his own version of an invisibility cloak to hide Gloria's birthday present, but a half-invisible object isn't invisible at all. Mayda Munny meets her fairy godmother, who grants her a night of niceness. Little Dot accidentally paints the inside of the house in dots without even trying, thanks to a fan and a misplaced bucket of paint. Hee-Haws the Laughing Monster; Seeing Is Not Believing; Reggie: Secret of the Buried Palace; Its All in the Mind; Mayda Munny: Mayda Munnys Nice Spell. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.25.

2nd Printing. Wonder Wart-Hog in "Return From the Planet of the Pigs" by Gilbert Shelton, Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers by Gilbert Shelton, Dealer McDope "In Hawaii" by Dave Sheridan, The Forty Year Old Hippie by Ted Richards, Fat Freddy's Cat by Shelton, plus other comics and stories by Bill Griffith, Fred Schrier, Larry Rippee, and J. Michael Leonard. 7-in. x 10-in., 48 pages, B&W. MATURE READERS. NOTE: 2nd printings of issue 3 have a $1.25 Dollar cover price. Cover price $1.25.

A new creative team, a new school, new friends...there have been a lot of changes in ROBIN just in the last issue, and there's about to be another one as Tim gets a new set of wheels and maybe, just maybe, a new romantic interest in the extra-sized ROBIN #75! Written by Chuck Dixon with art and cover by Pete Woods and Jesse Delperdang, ROBIN #75 finds Tim Drake hatching a new plan to win back at least a fraction of the freedom he's lost since his dad enrolled him at Brentwood Academy. Can Tim pull off his daring scheme involving the headmaster ? and the headmaster's pet dog ? without getting caught? As the details unfold, a mysterious young woman enters the picture; strange doings begin to transpire in an abandoned tower on the schoolgrounds; and Robin picks up a hot new piece of crimefighting equipment: a jazzed-up little skateboard that we just had to call the Redboard! But if you thought learning to use a 'board was hard, wait 'til you see Tim try to learn how in the middle of a battle against a vicious gang of street thugs called the Sk8bratz! ROBIN is an ongoing series edited by Matt Idelson. The 48-page issue #75 arrives in comic-book stores February 16 with a cover price of $2.95 U.S." Cover price $2.95.

Sabrina faces Dellas wrath for doing good; Aunt Hildas surprised when Harvey turns up in the bathtub; Hilda contends with a pushy salesman. Stories and art by Frank Doyle, George Gladir, Stan Goldberg, Dick Malmgren, Dan DeCarlo Jr., and Jon D'Agostino, plus Lil Jinx by Joe Edwards. 32 pages. Cover (featuring a pre-Marty McFly hoverboard) by Goldberg. Cover price $0.35. Cover price $0.35.

36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.12.

5 Dollars, 4 Wheels and a Plaid Shirt to My Name. Story, art and cover by Andi Watson. Slave Labor picks up the mini-comic series of future indy comics legend Andi Watson, which depicts the lives of teens Tofu, Lisa, Reese and their friends in Jam Town. Tofu and his pals get arrested for their skateboard hijinks; the story of the greatest ice hockey fight of all time. 28 pages, B&W. Mature readers. Cover price $2.95.

Written by John Rozum and Frank Strom Art by Paris Cullins, Robert Pope, Andrew Pepoy and Dave Hunt Cover by Joe Staton Daphne leads the gang in rescuing a haunted skate tour! Plus four short tales in which you help the gang solve the mystery! On sale March 9 ? 32 pg, FC, $2.25 US Cover price $2.25.

by Kevin McCarthy & Shawn Martinsbrough Jesse Williams, boy genius, has just been given a gift: a time machine housed in an unlikely place - an MP3 player! Together, Jesse, his sister Nila, and their friend Brooklyn are The Seekers, young heroes who travel through time and space in search of adventure. In the premiere issue Jesse meets Grio, a wise and powerful man from the ancient past with an eye toward the future, and Steven Dark, a modern-day mogul with a soul and an agenda as black as the Armani suits he wears. Dark wants the time machine-or the Seekers dead - whichever works! Cover price $2.99.

by Kevin McCarthy & Shawn Martinbrough In the second pulse-pounding issue of the exciting new ongoing series from the Guardian Line, Brooklyn is trapped in the past during the Revolutionary War. Jesse appeals to the ancient hero Grio for help in rescuing his friend, but has to settle for his sister Nila, who thinks her brother's mp3/time-machine is just a very sophisticated video game! Can they rescue their friend in 'time?' Meanwhile, Grio's nemesis, a demon called Ravenous, finds a way to be reborn in the present and joins forces with the nefarious Steven Dark in an effort to take the mp3 away from our heroes! Cover price $2.99.

(Dark Horse Maverick title) created, written, & illustrated by SERGIO ARAGONÉS A picture may be worth a thousand words, but this latest offering from legendary Mad cartoonist Sergio Aragonés is guaranteed to leave you speechless. Don't bother to adjust the sound ? there is none! Just page after page of the greatest sight gags from the master of the form. It's 25 outrageous spanking new strips, featuring brilliant insights into the funniest aspects of human nature. Like this! On sale June 13 b&w, 24pg (6 of 6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2.99 Cover price $2.99.

Illustrated skateboard adventures. Cover price $2.25.

Cover by Micah Gunnel. By Turner, Gunnell, Gorder, & Sotelo. A unique tale of the human intellect, the heart's desires, and the reason behind your every decision! However, these ?reasons' aren't just in your head, they're real, and they want out! From the butterflies in your stomach to the zany thoughts running through your mind, you won't believe just how influential (and dangerous) these feelings can be. 32pgs, FC Cover price $2.99.

Cover by Micah Gunnell. by Gunnell, Gorder, Sotelo, Mastromauro & Turner You would think that a school pep rally isn't a hotbed of otherworldly action. Think again! While Theo and Kiori try to figure their way out of this latest mess, Dev's about to have the greatest night of his life! But why is Ange so concerned though? And what's up with Theo's hair? All this and more await you as the same creative team of Michael Turner, Frank Mastromauro, Micah Gunnell, Jason Gorder, and Beth Sotelo bring you the next exciting installment of comic's newest hit franchise, Shrugged! 32pgs, FCSRP: $2.99 Cover price $2.99.

Cover by Micah Gunnell (W) Frank Mastromauro (A) Micah Gunnell, Jonathan Marks Aspen's Ten Year Anniversary celebrates the return of SHRUGGED! You think you're prepared, but you're not. You've been decisive in your actions up to this point, but now things have been turned upside down. You feel you've conformed your mindset and are ready to accept what you're about to experience, but you haven't. That's because SHRUGGED is back and ready to blow your mind! Theo and his friends are entering their final year of high school, and even though Ange and Dev are still along for the ride, a host of new characters have joined in on the adventure! But, everything isn't all fun and games this time around as an evil force has also returned and is preparing to silence those voices inside their heads...permanently. If you thought you knew what fear was, you haven't seen anything yet! Created by Michael Turner and Frank Mastromauro, with illustrations by newcomer Jonathan Marks and colorist Beth Sotelo, make sure to listen to the voices inside your head and pick up a copy of SHRUGGED #1 today! Cover price $1.00.

Signed and numbered by writer/creator Frank Mastromauro, artist Jonathan Marks, and colorist Beth Sotelo, limited to 600 with certificate of authenticity from Aspen. Cover by Micah Gunnell (W) Frank Mastromauro (A) Micah Gunnell, Jonathan Marks Aspen's Ten Year Anniversary celebrates the return of SHRUGGED! You think you're prepared, but you're not. You've been decisive in your actions up to this point, but now things have been turned upside down. You feel you've conformed your mindset and are ready to accept what you're about to experience, but you haven't. That's because SHRUGGED is back and ready to blow your mind! Theo and his friends are entering their final year of high school, and even though Ange and Dev are still along for the ride, a host of new characters have joined in on the adventure! But, everything isn't all fun and games this time around as an evil force has also returned and is preparing to silence those voices inside their heads...permanently. If you thought you knew what fear was, you haven't seen anything yet! Created by Michael Turner and Frank Mastromauro, with illustrations by newcomer Jonathan Marks and colorist Beth Sotelo, make sure to listen to the voices inside your head and pick up a copy of SHRUGGED #1 today! Cover price $1.00.