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Hello ToW-Patrol, In case I've caught you unawares, we are currently running our first annual gallimaufry sale, where we are putting up big discounts on excellent items such as the Book Of Ballads HC for 52% off and Ray Bradbury and Dave McKean's The Homecoming HC for $9.99! Anyway, click this link to see the sale! To add to the gallimaufry, we're now selling Frank Miller and Geof Darrow's Big Guy and Rusty The Boy Robot TP for a mere $7.49 through next Thursday! That's 50% off, folks! I also point your attention to a some new entries at our site, each with limited quantities in stock:

Dave McKean Postcard From Barcelona HC - $18.00 By Dave McKean. Limited to 3,000 copies, this new travel book of drawings by Dave McKean is inspired by the streets, people, artists and architecture of the great Catalan city. HC, 6x6

Kent Williams Amalgam: Paintings and Drawings 2002-2007 Signed - $75.00 SIGNED BY KENT WILLIIAMS. Bringing together works from 1992 to present, this is the most comprehensive collection of paintings and drawings by artist Kent Williams to date, all beautifully reproduced in this large 10” x 12” hardcover, with essays by Edward Lucie-Smith (noted art historian and writer on contemporary art) and Julia Morton. Allen Spiegel Fine Arts is proud to present this long awaited monograph. 10 x 12 in., 168 pgs, 130 four-color plates.

X-23 Innocence Lost TP - OOP - $15.99 Out of print! Written by CRAIG KYLE & CHRISTOPHER YOST. Pencils & Cover by BILLY TAN. Now it can be told. The full story behind the origin of X-23 - who she is, where she came from and the exact nature of her relationship to Wolverine. You think you know, but you have no idea! Collects X-23 #1-6. 144 PGS.

Have a great weekend! All the best, Andy

New Releases 9/19 - Graphic Novels

Marvel * Captain America By Ed Brubaker Omnibus Vol 1 HC: $52.49 * Marvel Masterworks Fantastic Four Vol 5 HC - Current Printing: $38.49 * Thunderbolts By Ellis Vol 1 Faith In Monsters Prem HC: $17.49 * Silent War TP: $10.49 * Wolverine Origins Vol 2 Savior TP: $9.79 * Marvel Adventures Spider-Man Vol 7 Digest TP: $4.99 * World War Hulk #4 (Of 5): $3.99 * Terror Inc #2 (Of 5) (Mature Readers): $3.99 DC * 52 Vol 3 TP: $13.99 * Justice Society Of America Vol 1 The Next Age HC: $13.99 * Green Arrow Black Canary For Better Or Worse TP: $10.49 * Dr Thirteen Architecture And Morality TP: $10.49 * Hellblazer The Gift TP (Mature Readers): $10.49 * Texas Chainsaw Massacre TP (Mature Readers): $10.49 * Key To The Kingdom Vol 1 : $6.99 * Moon Child Vol 8 : $6.99 Other * Spawn Collection Vol 4 TP : $23.99 * Nightly News Vol 1 TP : $13.59 * After The Cape Vol 1 How Far To Fall TP : $10.39 * Criminal Macabre Two Red Eyes TP : $10.39 * Banya Explosive Delivery Man Vol 5 TP : $10.39

New Releases 9/19 - Statues

Classic Peanuts Character #9 Marcie - $29.99 Inspired by 'syroco' sculptures that were popular in the 1930s and 40s, the ten new Peanuts statuettes from Dark Horse are designed and manufactured in a style consistent with the earlier figures. This month we feature the ninth statue in the series-Marcie. Produced in a limited edition of hand-numbered copies, the figure is fully painted and ready to display. Each statuette comes carefully packaged in a custom-tooled, full-color, litho-printed tin box. Also included is a small booklet about each character and a vintage-style pinback button of the character.

Naruto Gaara Sand Coffin Statue - $134.99 From the smash-hit anime, Naruto, comes the latest in Toynami's line of Naruto collectible statues! Gaara immobilizes his opponents with the constricting 'Desert Coffin' jutsu! This fully painted statue stands approximately 6 1/2' in height and is limited to 2,000 pieces worldwide!

New Releases Full Description - Graphic Novels

Captain America By Ed Brubaker Omnibus Vol 1 HC - $52.49 Written by ED BRUBAKER. Penciled by STEVE EPTING, MIKE PERKINS, MICHAEL LARK, MARCOS MARTIN & LEE WEEKS. Cover by STEVE EPTING. Collecting Eisner Award-nominated Best Writer Ed Brubaker's first twenty-five landmark issues of Captain America in one titanic tome, plus the Captain America 65th Anniversary Special and Winter Soldier: Winter Kills one-shots! This deluxe hardcover, fat-packed with extras, features the story that stunned readers worldwide and sent shockwaves through the entire Marvel Universe: the death of Captain America! Also including the return of Cap's wartime partner, Bucky Barnes, as the Winter Soldier; the death and life of his greatest enemy, the Red Skull; and the emergences of a new threat, General Aleksander Lukin, the head of one of the most powerful corporations in the world! Collecting CAPTAIN AMERICA #1-25, CAPTAIN AMERICA 65TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL and WINTER SOLDIER: WINTER KILLS.

Marvel Masterworks Fantastic Four Vol 5 HC - Current Printing - $38.49 Written by STAN LEE. Penciled by JACK KIRBY. Cover by JACK KIRBY. Stan 'The Man' called it the 'World's Greatest Comic Magazine' and he wasn't kidding. If Lee and Kirby set the comics world on fire in 1961 with the debut of The Fantastic Four in 1965 they burnt the house down. Releasing an unmatched burst of rapid-fire creativity, they gave birth to the Frightful Four, the Inhumans, Galactus, the Silver Surfer and even pulled off the first super-hero wedding while they were at it, and all in just 11 issues. With incomparable embellishment by Joe Sinnott, guest-appearances by everyone in the Marvel Universe, there's no denying that this is the essential volume for any and every Marvel fan! Collecting FANTASTIC FOUR #41-50 and ANNUAL #3

Thunderbolts By Ellis Vol 1 Faith In Monsters Prem HC - $17.49 Written by WARREN ELLIS, PAUL JENKINS & MARC GUGGENHEIM. Penciled by MIKE DEODATO, STEVE LIEBER, MARC SILVESTRI & LEINIL YU. Cover by MARKO DJURDJEVIC. Venom, lethal protector! The enigmatic Moonstone! Bullseye, the man who never misses! Songbird, mistress of sound! Chen Lu, the Radioactive Man! Swordsman, master of the blade! The mystery man called Penance! And Norman Osborn, the Green Goblin! They're America's newest celebrities, ready to take to the skies at a moment's notice in pursuit of those secret, unregistered superhumans hiding among us! They're the All-New, All-Deadly Thunderbolts -- making the world a safer place for ordinary people one would-be costumed hero at a time! In the wake of Civil War, Warren Ellis and Mike Deodato present a dark and disturbing take on Marvel's Most Wanted, where the line between hero and villain is difficult to find -- if it exists at all! Collecting THUNDERBOLTS #110-115 and DESPERATE MEASURES, and T-Bolts stories from CIVIL WAR: THE INITIATIVE and CHOOSING SIDES.

Silent War TP - $10.49 Written by DAVID HINE. Penciled by FRAZER IRVING. Cover by JOHN WATSON. SON OF M told how Quicksilver stole the precious Terrigen Mists from the Inhumans and how Black Bolt retaliated by declaring war on humanity. Now that war is about to break loose as Gorgon leads a terrorist attack on New York. Old friends become deadly enemies when the Fantastic Four are forced to defend their city against the Inhumans. Collecting SILENT WAR #1-6

Wolverine Origins Vol 2 Savior TP - $9.79 Written by DANIEL WAY. Penciled by STEVE DILLON. Cover by MIKE DEODATO JR. Completely shattered by recent revelations, Logan must now ask himself some hard-almost impossible-questions, such as whether he can continue on his quest...or if he even should. Though he now remembers who he was, the more pressing question becomes who-and what-is he now? Answering these questions will take the help of one of Logan's closest friends and one of his deadliest enemies: Omega Red! Collecting WOLVERINE: ORIGINS #6-10

Marvel Adventures Spider-Man Vol 7 Digest TP - $4.99 Written by CHRIS KIPINIAK. Penciled by PATRICK SCHERBERGER. Cover by PATRICK SCHERBERGER. All-new, all-ages, all-action fun featuring the Circus of Crime, Night Thrasher, Jester and the Green Goblin! Plus: Can the web-slinger survive a close encounter of the Spider-Slayer kind? Collecting MARVEL ADVENTURES SPIDER-MAN #25-28.

World War Hulk #4 (Of 5) - $3.99 Written by GREG PAK. Penciled by JOHN ROMITA JR. Cover by DAVID FINCH. Variant Cover by JOHN ROMITA JR. Everyone GOES! TOO! FAR! in this penultimate chapter of the Mighty Marvel Monsterpiece which is World War Hulk. The Incredible Hulk and his Warbound companions? They go too far! Dr. Strange? He goes WAY too far! Iron Man and Mr. Fantastic? They learn the precise definition of 'too far' as the Hulk delivers his final judgment from his stone throne in the Great Arena!

Terror Inc #2 (Of 5) (Mature Readers) - $3.99 Written by DAVE LAPHAM. Penciled by PATRICK ZIRCHER. Cover by JELENA DJURDJEVIC. Mr. Terror is in over his head-lucky for him, he can rip it off with his bare hands and replace it with a tougher one! This is one private investigator/assassin who's seen and done a lot in his 1,500+ years of life, but the mess he's in now is new to him-someone's made off with his left arm, the enchanted arm of his true love that houses both the curse that keeps him alive, and the soul that keeps him good. As he loses control of his darker impulses, it's only a matter of time until he literally falls to pieces...but someone won't even let him live that long! Now it's a race against the rapidly decomposing clock to find the arm, the people who took it...and the people trying to kill him! Don't miss this brutal, blood-soaked, high-stakes mystery by David Lapham (Stray Bullets) and Patrick Zircher (IRON MAN)!

52 Vol 3 TP - $13.99 Written by Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka and Mark Waid. Breakdowns by Keith Giffen. Art by various. Cover by J.G. Jones. Don't miss the third in a 4-volume collection featuring the year-long story that changed the DCU! 52 VOLUME 3, with a new cover by J.G. Jones, contains the lead stories from 52 WEEKS 14-26, plus commentary on each issue by creators and editors, conceptual drawings, sketch material, thumbnails and more!

Justice Society Of America Vol 1 The Next Age HC - $13.99 Written by Geoff Johns. Art by Dale Eaglesham, Art Thibert and Ruy Jose. Cover by Alex Ross. The world's first super-team returns in this volume collecting the first 4 issues of the all-new JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA series, written by Geoff Johns (52, GREEN LANTERN, ACTION COMICS) with stunning art by Dale Eaglesham (VILLAINS UNITED) & Art Thibert (OUTSIDERS) and a cover by Alex Ross (JUSTICE, KINGDOM COME)! Determined to rebuild the Justice Society, founding members Green Lantern, Flash and Wildcat initiate an unprecedented recruitment program, tracking the bloodlines of heroes across the world and bringing in the new Starman, Damage, Liberty Belle and more! But just as the Society welcomes the rookies into their ranks, an evil force sets out to destroy them. Meet new legacies, solve a mystery stretching into the far future, witness the return of the world's greatest hero and watch another one fall in this fantastic collection! 136 pg, FC.

Green Arrow Black Canary For Better Or Worse TP - $10.49 Written by Dennis O'Neil, Alan Moore, Brad Meltzer and others. Art by Dick Giordano, Klaus Janson, Mike Grell and others. Cover by Alex Ross. Collecting stories from JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #75, ACTION COMICS #428, #434, THE JOKER #4, GREEN LANTERN/GREEN ARROW #94-95, DETECTIVE COMICS #549-550, GREEN ARROW: LONGBOW HUNTERS# 1, GREEN ARROW (VOL.1) #75, #101, GREEN ARROW(VOL.2)# 4-5, #12, #21 and BIRDS OF PREY #88!

Dr Thirteen Architecture And Morality TP - $10.49 Written by Brian Azzarello. Art and cover by Cliff Chiang. Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang join forces to tell the adventures of Dr. Terrence Thirteen, a parapsychologist who disproves reports of supernatural activity. In this story collected from TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED #1-8, Dr. Thirteen rounds up a group of the world's magical beings to prevent strange forces from tearing asunder the very fabric of the past, present, and future!

Hellblazer The Gift TP (Mature Readers) - $10.49 Written by Mike Carey. Art by Leonardo Manco & Frazer Irving. Cover by Tim Bradstreet. Collecting HELLBLAZER #207-215! One of Constantine's blunders proves disastrous for a loved one, forcing him to ally himself with the last person he would choose. The path Constantine finds himself on leads directly to Hell, where he must confront the dread demon Nergal, Constantine's longtime adversary.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre TP (Mature Readers) - $10.49 Written by Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning. Art by Wes Craig. Cover by Lee Bermejo. Collecting six issues of the hit WildStorm series! This never-before-told tale explores the mystery of Travis County and the horrific Hewitt family responsible for 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.' The F.B.I. team sent to investigate the horrors discovers where Leatherface and his sinister family fled in the months following the murders!

Key To The Kingdom Vol 1 - $6.99 Written and illustrated by Kyoko Shitou. CMX A new series debuts from renowned fantasy manga artist Kyoko Shitou! After a king and his eldest son die, the kingdom of Laudere is left without a ruler. Asta, the last surviving member of the royal family, stands in line for the throne. But before he can claim it, he must fulfill a quest: find the legendary 'Key to the Kingdom.' Both ancient beasts and a variety of contenders - including a princess, a dimwitted military captain, and a villainous aristocrat - imperil his journey. Someone will find the Key, but will it be Asta?

Moon Child Vol 8 - $6.99 Written and illustrated by Reiko Shimizu. CMX. The Little Mermaid's daughter, Jimmy, is worried about joining her guardian, Art, on his ballet tour of Russia. She's met the tour's sponsor - who tried to kill her! Even worse, she still can't control her body; if she unexpectedly morphs into her mermaid form and loses the ability to speak to humans, will Art freak out?

Spawn Collection Vol 4 TP - $23.99 Classic TODD MCFARLANE and GREG CAPULLO at the top of their game in both art and story! Spawn, the archetypal anti-hero, features in pivotal confrontations with many classic villains. Complete your Spawn library! Twenty issues of pulse pounding sequentials, containing issues 55-75 of the Spawn comic. COLLECTS SPAWN 55-75.

Nightly News Vol 1 TP - $13.59 story JONATHAN HICKMAN. cover & art JONATHAN HICKMAN. Collecting the critically-acclaimed miniseries from Image Comics. As an act of violence spirals out of control to encompass the entirety of the news media, a cult has emerged from the errors and retractions that have ruined careers, marriages and even lives. Under direction from his cult master, The Hand leads an army of followers committed to revolution, willing to die for their cause. 184 PAGES, FC.

After The Cape Vol 1 How Far To Fall TP - $10.39 created and scripted by HOWARD WONG. plotted by JIM VALENTINO. art by MARCO RUDY and MANNY TREMBLEY. Ethan Falls had it all! He was a respected super-hero, part of a world-renowned team from which he pulled a handsome stipend. He had a beautiful young wife and two loving children. He also had a problem... alcohol. A problem that would cause him to lose everything he held dear. 128 PAGES, B&W.

Criminal Macabre Two Red Eyes TP - $10.39 STEVE NILES (W), KYLE HOTZ (A), MICHELLE MADSEN (C), and TIM BRADSTREET (Cover). Cal McDonald, boozer, druggie, private dick who hangs with dead dudes-welcome to Rock Bottom. Your only friend in the human world is dead, your girlfriend just dumped you and moved to another city, and the district attorney has a chip on his shoulder the size of a Chevy Nova with your name on it. When that chip turns into a nasty case of police brutality, Cal ends up fighting for his life in the intensive care unit and wakes up days later . . . sober. And what's Cal been missing since he went under? Only the most horrifying convergence of sheer monster power ever to emigrate from the old world. Cal McDonald, meet Nosferatu. FC, 104 pages, TPB, 7' x 10'.

Banya Explosive Delivery Man Vol 5 TP - $10.39 KIM YOUNG-OH (W/A). In an exciting volume of nonstop action, the story of Banya: The Explosive Delivery Man comes to an end! Banya races to deliver his most important 'package' ever-the powerful summoner Jiahn-to the aptly named Land of Death. Jiahn must reach her destination before an extraordinary evil is unleashed upon Gaya, but a vicious pack of warriors and monsters, led by the villainous Kamutu, closes in quickly. When Banya regains his memory, will he slip back into the role of a brutal killer and join Kamutu, or will his love for his friends at the Gaya Desert Post Office overcome the pull of a violent, rage-filled past? Kim Young-Oh delivers a brilliantly illustrated climax to this action-packed series. This series is presented in its original Korean format and translated by the mother/son team of Taesoon Kang and Derek Kirk Kim! b&w, 200 pages, TPB, 5' x 7'.

September Advance Orders The September advance order products are now available for preorder (credit cards aren't charged until release): -- September Graphic Novels -- September Statues and Busts Sale Marvel Hardcovers Sale Marvel Trade Paperbacks Sale Top Shelf, Others Sale Dark Horse Sale Statues Free Shipping Free shipping for book orders over $99. Tales of Wonder Gift Certificates Give the gift of Wonder - gift certificates to buy comic book merchandise. Visit our newsletter archive to see the online version of this newsletter.