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Drawing on Your Nightmares Halloween Special (2003 Dark Horse) 0B CGC 9.2 JSA Niles

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Steve Niles Authenticated Autograph. Retailer Incentive Edition.

Label #4735000020

Retailer Incentive Variant Cover by Mike Mignola. Story by Steve Niles and Eric Powell. Art by Ben Templesmith and Eric Powell. The Dark Horse horror line offers up a special bag of tricks for autumn. Following up their smash-hit series Criminal Macabre, Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith present Cal McDonald's latest case, in which the foul-mouthed private dick rubs elbows with undead gangsters in Las Vegas. The Goon creator Eric Powell introduces us to the even seedier side of life in his zombie-infested burg, featuring the Goon's eight-armed, hard-luck poker buddy Spider. Brett Matthews, writer from the Angel TV shows, gives us a twisted taste of the upcoming Tales of the Vampires, the new series of comics written by Joss Whedon and the writers from his TV show. No tricks ? this comic's ALL treats! Full color, 32 pages. $2.99

Frank Miller's Big Damn Sin City HC (2014 Dark Horse) 1-REP VF- 7.5

2nd or later printing. Story and art by Frank Miller. The biggest, baddest Sin City ever is here, just in time for fall's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For! This imposing volume, suitable for home defense, contains all seven of Frank Miller's landmark Sin City yarns! In these tales of Marv, Dwight, Gail, Miho, Hartigan, Nancy, and the Yellow Bastard, no corner of Basin City is left unturned, and no bloody deed is left undone. Written with unmatched intensity and drawn in the starkest black-and-white imaginable, with blood-red bits of color, among others, the Sin City books make up the greatest crime saga in comics history, and Big Damn Sin City is the best way to rediscover the whole darn shootin' match! Hardcover, 8-in. x 12-in., 1,360 pages, PB&W/PC. Mature Readers Cover price $100.00.

Halo Rise of Atriox (2017 Dark Horse) 1 CGC 9.8

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Label #4683192001

Written by Cullen Bunn. Art by Eric Nguyen. Cover by Aleksi Briclot. An anthology based on 2017's Halo Wars 2, the real-time strategy video game from 343 Industries, which introduced a new ruthless villain, Atriox. Atriox, the legendary Brute under the command of the alien collective known as the Covenant, leads a Brute assault against a UNSC military outpost. Wave after wave of Brutes are lost attacking the human outpost defended by a group of UNSC marines, the ruthless Atriox soldiers on. As his comrades fall, Atriox's hatred for the Covenant grows. This five-chapter anthology collects stories by acclaimed comics creators Cullen Bunn, Jody Houser, John Jackson Miller, Alex Irvine, Claire Roe, Josan Gonzalez, Jonathan Wayshak, and Tristan Jones. Ties in to new Halo Wars 2 video game for Xbox One. Released in February 2017. 28 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.

Hellboy Box Full of Evil (1999) 1 CGC 7.0

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Label #4735001001

Written by Mike Mignola. Art by Matt Smith, Mike Mignola and Ryan Sook. Cover by Mike Mignola. A mysterious robbery in an ancient English mansion sets Hellboy and Abe Sapien on the trail of a saint, a warlock, a demon, an arch duke of Hell, and a gun-wielding monkey. The crown of the Beast of the Apocalypse becomes the main prize in a tale perfectly balancing action and occult suspense. Also this issue: Lobster Johnson, Mignola's new 1930s costumed adventurer, makes his debut in "The Killer in My Skull," written by Mignola, penciled by Matt Smith, and inked by Ryan Sook. 32 pages, FC. Cover price $2.95.

Hellboy Seed of Destruction (1994) 2 FN/VF 7.0

Written by Mike Mignola and John Byrne. Art by Mike Mignola. Things continue to get weirder as Hellboy, the World's Greatest Paranormal Investigator, continues his search for clues to the mystery of the lost arctic expedition and the secret behind the strange vampire frog creature he battled in his first issue. The mystery deepens inside the crumbling walls of an ancient mansion where we meet Hellboy's partners, Abe Sapien and Liz Sherman. Also featuring chapter two in the amazing origin of Monkeyman and O'Brien, where Axwell Tiberius comes to the heartbreaking realization that he may never again be able to go home. Story and art by Arthur Adams. 32 pages, FC. Cover price $2.50.

Hellboy The Wild Hunt (2008 Dark Horse) 1B FN Mignola Variant

Limited to 1000 copies! Mike Mignola (W/Cover), Duncan Fegredo (A), and Dave Stewart (C) When ancient giants begin to rise from their graves across England, Hellboy is invited to join a mysterious group called the Wild Hunt and help bring them down. But the hunt leads to betrayal, and Hellboy finds himself up against enemies as angry about what he is as what he's done. 'The fading children of the earth' gather in the shadows, waiting for the promised return of the Queen of Blood, and a chance to once again 'shake the trees, crack mountains, and make the daytime world weep in fear.' o Hot on the heels of the 2008 summer film release Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Mike Mignola and Duncan Fegredo reunite with the follow-up to events set in motion in their 2007 Hellboy miniseries Darkness Calls. Hellboy: The Wild Hunt? © 2008 Mike Mignola. FC, 32 pages Cover price $2.99.

Mayhem (1989 Dark Horse) 1 FN- 5.5

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Cover by Chris Warner. This new series is guaranteed to live up to its title! Each issue contains 3 twelve-page, action-packed stories of Mayhem! John Arcudi and Doug Mahnke (the team from Dark Horse Presents' Homicide) create strange, violent new tales of The Mask; new writer Tim Eldred and artists Harrison Fong and Robert Caracol carry the cast of Mecha into all-out war; and Jerry Prosser and new artist Wayne Tanaka continue the adventures of The Mark as he battles against the fascist regime of the Archon! B&W. Cover price $2.50.

Nexus The Newspaper Strips HC (2020 Dark Horse) 1-1ST FN 6.0

Volume 1 - 1st printing. "The Coming of Gourmando!"

Written by Mike Baron. Art and cover by Steve Rude.

Something long dormant beneath the surface of Ylum comes alive, triggering a visit from the planet-devouring Gourmando and his mysterious ally. With powers far beyond those of even Nexus himself, this unstoppable being banishes Nexus to an unknown realm-and the only way out is to face one's worst fears!

Mike Baron and Steve Rude deliver a new Nexus adventure in this special collection that also includes the newly remastered "Nexus: The Origin" comic and the classic Rude hand-painted Sundra story, "When She was Young."

o At 12 inches by 17 inches, this full-color hardcover is reproduced in the lavish artist's edition format.
o Multiple Eisner Award-winning team!
o "The greatest superhero comic of all time." - Newsarama

Hardcover, 12-in.x 17-in., 184 pages, full color.

Cover price $99.99.

Only the Savage are Left (2026 Dark Horse) 1D CGC 9.8

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Variant Cover D.

Label #4754916001

Limited 1 for 20 Retailer Incentive Variant Cover. (W) Zack Kaplan (A) Stefano Raffaele (CA) David Mack (C) Thiago Rocha A strange virus has spread across the world, transforming its victims into monsters. The only cure is to kill another infected soul. When a nonviolent young man sets out from the safety of his settlement to find his missing true love, he must face the corrupted world of monsters and monster-killers. A dramatic survival adventure that dares to ask what we should stand for in the monster apocalypse.• Hit-making author Zack Kaplan (Kill All Immortals, Port of Earth) and Eisner-nominated illustrator Stefano Raffaele (Detective Comics, Alien vs. Captain America) join forces for a post-apocalyptic action-adventure! • A tale of two lovers fighting for survival in the aftermath of the apocalypse—equal parts harrowing and heartfelt! • Five-issue series. 28 pages, not rated, full color Cover price $4.99.

Original Mysterymen (1999) 1 CGC 9.9

Paper: White

Label #4698813018

Cover by Bob Burden. "Who Are The Mysterymen?"; Essay discussing the history of the Mysterymen, their previous appearances in Flaming Carrot Comics, and an introduction to this mini-series. "Monster in a Shipyard," script by Bob Burden, pencils by Stephen Sadowski, inks by Christian Alamy; Bored and hung over, The Strangler, The Metro Marauder, and The Spleen go over to the shipyard to shoot guns and encounter a monster. 36 pgs., full color. $2.95. Cover price $2.95.

Predator (1989) 1 CGC 7.5 1st Printing

Paper: White

Label #4690703020

First Printing. Written by Mark Verheiden. Art by Chris Warner and Sam de la Rosa. The Predators are back, only this time their hunting ground isn't the tropical jungles of South America--it's the concrete and street jungles of New York City! It's the hottest summer on record, and Detective Schaefer suspects that his brother's disappearance is somehow tied to the wave of gruesome murders plaguing New York! 32 pages, FC. Cover price $2.25.

Robocop vs. Terminator (1992) 1 CGC 9.6

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Label #2074123014

Writer: Frank Miller. Artist: Walter Simonson. Cover Artist: Walter Simonson. Letterer: John Workman. Colorist: Rachelle Menashe. Genre: Science-Fiction, Action/Adventure. In the machine-dominated future of 2029, a human rebel gains access to the Skynet computer's Time Displacement Equipment and sends herself into the past on a desperate mission to kill officer Alex Murphy, a.k.a. RoboCop. But Skynet is onto her plan and dispatches a trio of Terminators to the past as well. The Terminators' mission: protect RoboCop at all costs. Just what the heck is going on here? Cover price $2.50.

Sin City A Dame to Kill For (1993) 1A CGC 9.8 Miller

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Label #4735711004

1st printing - Story and art by Frank Miller. In Sin City, it's easy to hide from the present, but impossible to forget the past. Frank Miller makes a return trip to Sin City and brings eager readers along for the ride. On the way, meet Dwight, a photographer who specializes in hard-to-get shots... the incriminating kind. The kind that lead to messy, expensive divorces. Dwight's doing his best to forget the past, and was doing a pretty good job until the phone rang. Sin City: A Dame to Kill For #1 is another no-holds-barred, chiaroscuro excursion to the favorite city of Frank Miller, winner of the National Cartoonists' Award for Best Comic Book of 1992. This premiere issue features cover-to-cover story and a special mystery guest. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.95.

Sin City That Yellow Bastard (1996) 1 CGC 9.8

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Label #4735711003

Story and art by Frank Miller. Just one hour to go. Hartigan's polishing his badge and working himself up to kissing it good-bye, it and the thirty-odd years of protecting and serving and tears and blood and triumph that it represents. He's thinking about his wife's slow smile, about the thick, fat steaks she's picked up at the butcher's, about the bottle of champagne she's got packed in ice, about sleeping in till ten in the morning and spending sunny afternoons flat on his back. Just one hour to go and he gets word from a stoolie about that one loose end he hasn't tied up, a young girl who's out there, helpless in the hands of a drooling lunatic. Just one hour to go ... and he's gonna go out with a bang. 32 pages, B&W (and Yellow). Cover price $2.95.

Star Wars (2013 Dark Horse) Lucas Draft 0 CGC 9.8

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Label #4743880001

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Written by J. W. Rinzler, Randy Stradley. Art by Mike Mayhew & Various. Cover by Nick Runge. A companion to the eight-issue adaptation of The Star Wars, this is an exclusive peek behind the scenes at the designs that have brought a new-yet incredibly familiar-galaxy to life. Included in this volume are the never-before-seen comics sequences that were used in Dark Horse's pitch to George Lucas! Cover price $3.99.

Star Wars (2013 Dark Horse) Lucas Draft 1A CGC 9.8 Beredo

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Label #4743880002

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Cover by Rain Beredo (W) J. W. Rinzler (A) Mike Mayhew Before Star Wars, there was The Star Wars! This is the authorized adaptation of George Lucas's rough-draft screenplay of what would eventually become a motion picture that would change the world. Annikin Starkiller is the hero . . . Luke Skywalker is a wizened Jedi general . . . Han Solo is a big green alien . . . and the Sith . . . Well, the Sith are still the bad guys. High adventure and derring-do from longer ago, in a galaxy even further away! Cover price $3.99.

Star Wars (2013 Dark Horse) Lucas Draft 2A CGC 9.8

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Label #4743880003

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Cover by Rain Beredo, Nick Runge (W) J. W. Rinzler (A) Mike Mayhew The Empire is poised for an attack on the peaceful world of Aquilae, and only Jedi General Luke Skywalker seems concerned. When King Kayos is killed, Jedi in training Annikin Starkiller is ordered to find Princess Leia, while Skywalker sends his only squadron against the Empire's powerful new battle station! Cover price $3.99.

Star Wars (2013 Dark Horse) Lucas Draft 3 CGC 9.8

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Label #4743880004

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(W) J. W. Rinzler (A) Mike Mayhew (CA) Rain Beredo, Nick Runge A Queen steps down! The Hidden Fortress destroyed! The Imperial army on the march! Annikin Starkiller and Princess Leia rescue two wayward droids in the desert, Darth Vader recruits a famous Knight of the Sith to his army, and a squad of lazersword-wielding Stormtroopers attempt to arrest Jedi General Luke Skywalker! Cover price $3.99.

Star Wars (2013 Dark Horse) Lucas Draft 4 CGC 9.8

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Label #4743880005

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Written by J. W. Rinzler. Art by Mike Mayhew. Cover by Rain Beredo, Nick Runge. General Skywalker and Jedi-in-training Annikin Starkiller have a deadly encounter with mounted Stormtroopers! An encounter with outlaws in a cantina leads to a meeting with smuggler Han Solo! And a Jedi makes the ultimate sacrifice to save one of Princess Leia's younger brothers! Duel in the desert! Cover price $3.99.

Star Wars (2013 Dark Horse) Lucas Draft 5 CGC 9.8

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Label #4743880006

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Written by J. W. Rinzler. Art by Mike Mayhew. Cover by Nick Runge. Remember the scene in Star Wars where the Sith Knight traps General Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Annikin Starkiller, and the alien Han Solo-and they have to fight their way free and steal an Imperial starship? No? That's because this is The Star Wars-based on George Lucas's original rough-draft screenplay! Experience a Star Wars that never was! Official eight-issue adaptation of George Lucas's original rough-draft screenplay for Star Wars! 'Fans of the real Star Wars won't dare miss it, and rightly so; it's also worth checking out for anybody who likes a good space opera.' -Comic Book Resources 'The Star Wars' is a pretty fun sci-fi comic. If I had no prior knowledge about how the story actually turned out, I think I'd be just as interested and invested in how this story ends as I am now.' -ScienceFiction.com © 2013 Lucasfilm Ltd. & ™. All rights reserved. Used under authorization. Text and illustrations for The Star Wars are © 2013 Lucasfilm Ltd. Cover price $3.99.

Star Wars (2013 Dark Horse) Lucas Draft 6 CGC 9.8

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Label #4743880007

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(W) J. W. Rinzler (A) Mike Mayhew (CA) Nick Runge A dogfight with Imperial fighter craft, a dangerous detour through an asteroid field, and a forced evacuation in life-pods land Luke Skywalker and company on Yavin-the planet of the Wookiees! But Princess Leia gets separated from the group, and when slavers capture her, Annikin Starkiller goes all Jedi on them! • First look at the Wookiees! • Official eight-issue adaptation of George Lucas's original rough-draft screenplay for Star Wars! © 2014 Lucasfilm Ltd. & ™. All rights reserved. Used under authorization. Text and illustrations for Star Wars and The Star Wars are © 2013 Lucasfilm Ltd. Cover price $3.99.

Star Wars (2013 Dark Horse) Lucas Draft 7 CGC 9.8

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Label #4743880008

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Written by J. W. Rinzler. Art by Mike Mayhew. Cover by Nick Runge. When Princess Leia falls into the hands of Darth Vader, General Skywalker, Annikin Starkiller, and Han Solo must go on the offensive against the Galactic Empire. But they have a secret weapon on their side-one that the Imperials have vastly underestimated: Wookiees! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.

Star Wars (2013 Dark Horse) Lucas Draft 8 CGC 9.8

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Label #4743880009

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Written by J. W. Rinzler. Art by Mike Mayhew. Cover by Nick Runge. Annikin Starkiller fights Darth Vader and Prince Valorum to save Princess Leia! Luke Skywalker and the Wookiees attack the Empire's Space Fortress! This is the final battle! It's like nothing you've seen before, but it's all Star Wars! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.

Star Wars Clone Wars (2008 Dark Horse) 3 FN 6.0

Henry Gilroy (W), Lucas Marangon (P/Cover), and Dan Parsons (I) Eighty million Togruta from the planet of Kiros have suddenly disappeared! It's up to Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Togruta Padawan Ahsoka Tano to find the lost population . . . A clue leads the Jedi to the Zygerria system: massive slave auctions have been held there in the past, and will be taking place again soon-with the unfortunate Togruta on the auction block! FC, 40 pages Cover price $2.99.

Star Wars Heir to the Empire (1995) 1D VF 8.0 Direct Variant

Direct Edition. Written by Mike Baron. Art by Olivier Vatine and Fred Blanchard. Cover by Mathieu Lauffray. The tyranny has ended. But what will take its place? It is now five years after Return of the Jedi. Leia and Han are married and have shouldered heavy burdens in the government of the New Republic. And Luke Skywalker is the first in a hoped-for new line of Jedi Knights. But thousands of light-years away, the last of the Emperor's warlords, Grand Admiral Thrawn, has taken command of the remains of the Imperial fleet. Thrawn has made two vital discoveries that could destroy the Rebel Alliance's New Republic. The tale that emerges is a towering epic of action, invention, mystery, and a spectacle of galactic scale -- in short, a story that is worthy of the name Star Wars. 32 pages, FC. Cover price $2.95.

Star Wars Legacy (2006) 0A CGC 9.8 Duursema

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Label #3925703003

Written by John Ostrander. Art by Jan Duursema, Dan Parsons, Sean Cooke and Douglas Wheatley. Cover by Jan Duursema. Welcome to the beginning of a grand, new chapter in the Star Wars saga! More than a hundred years have passed since the events in Return of the Jedi and the days of the New Jedi Order. There is a new evil gripping the galaxy, shattering a resurgent Empire and seeking to destroy the last of the Jedi. Even as their power is failing, the Jedi hold to one final hope: the last remaining heir to the Skywalker legacy. It's a brave new galaxy for Star Wars fans, at once familiar and surprising-interplanetary intrigue and adventure on an epic scale; iconic heroes and villains cast in new roles and caught in surprising new situations. Everything you've loved about Star Wars, but nothing you expect! This special 25¢ comic sets the stage for the launch of the new Star Wars: Legacy series, which begins in June! ? Continuing Dark Horse's exciting relaunch of its Star Wars publishing line, celebrating the company's twentieth anniversary. Cover price $0.25.

Starship Down (2020 Dark Horse) 1 CGC 9.8

Paper: White

Label #4750158025

Written by Justin Giampaoli. Art and Cover by Andrea Mutti. A cultural anthropologist consults with US Naval Intelligence to investigate the discovery of an extraterrestrial ship buried under the ice for thousands of years in Siberia. The meddling Russians, Vatican officials, the international media spotlight, and her own insecurities all threaten her efforts to keep the fabric of society from crumbling. 28 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.

Terminator (1990 1st Series Dark Horse) 1 CGC 9.6

Paper: White

Label #1298860007

Written by John Arcudi. Art by Chris Warner and Paul Guinan. This first issue finds us 39 years in the future as humans continue to struggle under the extermination directive of the Machine. The story follows a small band of soldiers with a plan to return to the past- with three new Terminators in hot pursuit! 32 pages, FC. Cover price $2.50.

Vampirella Morning in America (1991) 1 NM 9.4

Written by Kurt Busiek. Art by Louis La Chance and John Nyberg. Cover by Michael Kaluta. 48 pages,B&W. Cover price $3.95.