PREVIEWS #305 (VOL. XXIV #2, FEB14) PREVIEWS PUBLICATIONS PREVIEWS #307 APRIL 2014 THIS MONTH’S COVER ART: New projects from DC and Dark Horse! THIS MONTH’S THEME: Movie Blockbusters! Since 1988, PREVIEWS has been your ultimate source for all of the comics and merchandise to be available from your local comic book shop… revealed up to two months in advance! Hundreds of comics and graphic novels from the best comic publishers; the coolest pop-culture merchandise on Earth; plus PREVIEWS exclusive items available nowhere else! Now more than ever, PREVIEWS is here to show the tales, toys and treasures in your future! This April issue features items scheduled to ship in June 2014 and beyond. Catalog, 8x11, 500+pg, PC $4.50 PREVIEWS #307 CUSTOMER ORDER FORM — APRIL 2014 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 2014 and beyond. 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(STK636780) Magazine, FC PI Spotlight COMICS SECTION PREMIER VENDORS DARK HORSE COMICS FRANK MILLER’S BIG DAMN SIN CITY HC Frank Miller (W/A/Cover) and Lynn Varley (C) On sale June 25 b&w/FC, 1,360 pages $100.00 HC, 8” x 12 3/16” 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! ALSO AVAILABLE 300: THE ART OF THE FILM HC SEP060021 $24.95 300 HC STAR10465 $30.00 ************************************************************************ FRANK MILLER: THE ART OF SIN CITY TP Frank Miller (W/A/Cover) On sale June 25 b&w/FC, 128 pages $25.00 TP, 9” x 12” Frank Miller’s Sin City has set the gold standard for crime comics, both for Miller’s unflinching stories and for his visceral, powerfully charged art. To honor the artist and his groundbreaking work, Dark Horse is proud to return Frank Miller: The Art of Sin City to print, now in an affordable softcover edition. An astonishing look into a master’s process, containing pieces both published and unpublished, and featuring items ranging from preliminary sketches to promotional images, this beautiful artistic showcase holds everything a Sin City fan, or connoisseur of fine art, could ever hope for. SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR HC Frank Miller (W/A/Cover) On sale June 25 b&w, 216 pages $25.00 HC, 7” x 10” Stuck with nothing but a seedy gumshoe job and some demons, Dwight's thinking of all the ways he's screwed up and what he'd give for one clear chance to wipe the slate clean, to dig his way out of the numb gray hell that is his life. And he'd give anything. Just to feel the fire. One more time. But he can't let himself lose control again, can't ever let the monster out. And then Ava calls. THE OCCULTIST VOLUME 2: AT DEATH’S DOOR TP Tim Seeley (W), Mike Norton (A), Allen Passalaqua (C), and Steve Morris (Cover) On sale June 25 FC, 136 pages $16.99 TP, 7” x 10 The Occultist has been tricked into abusing his power over life and death, and now he must face the consequences. He must choose the right path—and decide who his real friends are—so he can confront agents from the realm of the dead that want to claim his soul! Collects The Occultist #1–#5. THE VICTORIES VOLUME 3: POSTHUMAN TP Michael Avon Oeming (W/A/Cover) and Nick Filardi (C) On sale June 11 FC, 136 pages $17.99 TP, 7” x 10” With all the superheroes locked in internment camps and one of the world’s most powerful heroes a mind slave to the mysterious Advisors, who will save us from this shadowy group taking over the world? Collects The Victories #6–#10. BLACKOUT #2 (OF 4) Frank J. Barbiere (W), Randy Stradley (W), Colin Lorimer (A/C), Doug Wheatley (A), and Micah Kaneshiro (Cover) On sale Apr 23 FC, 32 pages $2.99 / Miniseries Scott Travers’s mysterious suit grants him unseen, unlimited access to almost anywhere and may hold the key to his benefactor’s disappearance. But others will do anything—including kill—to possess the suit. Will Scott give up the search and ditch the suit to save his own skin? GHOST #4 Kelly Sue DeConnick (W), Ariel Olivetti (Cover) On sale Apr 2 FC, 32 pages $2.99 / Ongoing While Ghost is out busting Chicago’s scum, her friends discover a eulogy written for Elisa Cameron’s funeral. It speaks of her idyllic childhood . and a tragic loss of innocence! One woman’s quest for justice comes into focus as past and present meld and the hero now known as Ghost is born! CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT #10 Joshua Williamson (W), Fernando Dagnino (A), Ego (C), and Felipe Massafera (Cover) On sale Apr 30 FC, 32 pages $2.99 / Ongoing Captain Midnight’s search for his old sidekick, Chuck Ramsey, comes to an end—but, thanks to the teleporting assassin Helios, the meeting might not be the friendly reunion he expected. One of Captain Midnight’s closest friends is about to die! Can he save them? SKYMAN #4 (OF 4) Joshua Hale Fialkov (W), Manuel Garcia (P), Javier Bergantiño Menor (I), Marta Martinez Garcia (C), and Freddie Williams II and Dan Scott (Cover) On sale Apr 16 FC, 32 pages $2.99 / Miniseries Fighting for his life thousands of feet above the ground, Skyman faces off against the people who made him a hero—and if he fails, he falls! Literally! They tried to make the perfect weapon, but they got a hero instead. And Skyman intends to act like one, even if it costs him his life! TWO PAST MIDNIGHT TP Duane Swierczynski (W), Eduardo Francisco (A), Stefani Rennee (C), and Paolo Rivera (Cover) On sale June 11 FC, 128 pages $9.99 TP, 7” x 10” A madman is on the loose. His goal: Shock, awe, panic, and hysteria. Can three disparate heroes—an investigative specter, a psychopathic vigilante, and a time- traveling genius —put aside their differences to defeat this terror-focused sociopath? Find out what happens when Ghost, X, and Captain Midnight meet up in the first crossover of Dark Horse’s new superhero comics! Collects the Two Past Midnight Dynamics ePlate comics/Dark Horse Digital issues #1–#5. X #12 Duane Swierczynski (W), Eric Nguyen (A), Michelle Madsen (C), and Garry Brown (Cover) On sale Apr 9 FC, 32 pages $2.99 / Ongoing X faces his greatest challenge of the series as four villains—suicidal maniac Deathwish, stargazing supercriminal Carmine Tango, risk-taking assassin Gamble, and a new threat no one suspected—converge on Arcadia’s lone vigilante . but the cruelest stab of all comes from a friend! DARK HORSE PRESENTS #35 Stan Sakai (W/A), Justin Aclin (W), Chad Lambert (W), Dean Motter (W/A/Cover), Mike Richardson (W), Michael T. Gilbert (W/A), Dennis Culver (W/A), Christopher Sebela (W), Darrin Grimwood (W), Brendan McCarthy (W/A), Jamie S. Rich (W), Nicolás Daniel Selma (A), Apri Kusbiantoro (A), Ron Chan (A), Brian Churilla (A), and Brent Schoonover (A) Stan Sakai’s rabbit ronin returns to Dark Horse Presents with a full-color story! Chad Lambert and Apri Kusbiantoro tell another tale of the backstage world behind life in radio! A new chapter in the secret lives of teddy bears is revealed! And long-running serial Integer City comes to its exciting conclusion! Plus, new installments of Cruel Biology, S.H.O.O.T. First, The Deleted, Davey Jones, Mister X, and Mr. Monster! BAD BLOOD #4 (OF 5) Jonathan Maberry (W) and Tyler Crook (A/Cover) On sale Apr 2 FC, 32 pages $3.99 / Miniseries Our heroes finally find the information they need and, with the help of their battle- hardened teacher, they learn the art of fighting vampires. But can they overcome their weaknesses to truly fight the monsters that are after them? Or will they succumb to the battles raging within? JUICE SQUEEZERS #4 (OF 4) David Lapham (W/A/Cover) and Lee Loughridge (C) On sale Apr 2 FC, 32 pages $3.99 / Miniseries The deadliest bug battle in the history of Weeville is imminent when the Juice Squeezers awaken the dormant horde below Valley May Farms! But what secrets hide below the surface? If he can live through the insect onslaught, the newest Squeezer might just find something truly unbelievable! BLOODHOUND VOLUME 2: CROWBAR MEDICINE TP Dan Jolley (W), Leonard Kirk (P), Robin Riggs (I), Moose Baumann (C), and Dave Johnson (Cover) On sale June 18 FC, 160 pages $19.99 TP, 7” x 10” Ex-con and FBI consultant Travis Clevenger doesn’t have superpowers, but he can put a beatdown on anyone who does! When a superhuman tragedy shocks the nation, a rogue scientist announces that he can avert future disasters by granting powers to citizens who pass his personal background check! The ensuing wave of new superhumans sets in! Collects the five-issue miniseries and a story from Dark Horse Presents #23–#25! FURIOUS #4 (OF 5) Bryan J.