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13th Son: Worse Thing Waiting ...... 44 Oh My Goddess! Volume 3 ...... 30 Aeon Flux ...... 21 Old Boy Volume 1 ...... 50 The Artist Within ...... 43 Path of the Assassin Volume 1 ...... 31 B.P.R.D.: The Black Flame ...... 39 Penny Arcade Volume 2: Epic Legends Volume 12 ...... 32 of the Magic Sword Kings ...... 49 BMWFilms.com Presents The Hire ...... 20 Pete Von Sholly’s Cannon God Exaxxion Stage 5 ...... 55 Extremely Weird Stories ...... 42 The Comics: An Illustrated History of Reiko the Zombie Shop Volume 3 ...... 26 Art ...... 43 Revelations ...... 44 Conan and the Demons of Khitai ...... 36 Reload Conan Volume 3: The Tower Volume 1 ...... 53 of the Elephant and Other Stories ...... 37 Scary Book Volume 2: Insects ...... 18 Concrete Volume 5: School Zone Volume 2 ...... 35 Think Like a Mountain ...... 20 Omnibus: Concrete Volume 6: Strange Armor . . . . . 41 -Wing Rogue Squadron Volume 1 . . . . . 23 Volume 2 ...... 26 Star Wars: Adventures Ctrl-Alt-Del Volume 3...... 46 Volume 6 ...... 48 De:Tales ...... 38 Star Wars: Clone Wars Dreadlful Ed ...... 24 Volume 9—Endgame ...... 48 Eden: It’s an Endless World! Volume 3 . . . 18 Star Wars: Honor and Duty ...... 22 Eden: It’s an Endless World! Volume 4 . . . 50 Sudden Gravity ...... 38 Emily the Strange Volume 1 ...... 45 Tarzan: The Years Volume 3 . . 36 Go Girl!: Robots Gone Wild! ...... 55 Maximum Volume 9 ...... 19 Archive ...... 27 Trigun Maximum Volume 10 ...... 53 Anime Manga ...... 19 Usagi : Volume 20 ’s Dream Corridor Glimpses of Death ...... 40 Volume 2 ...... 42 What’s Michael? Volume 11: Harlequin Pink: Bachelor Prince ...... 29 Planet of the Cats ...... 52 Harlequin Violet: Blind Date ...... 28 Jack Hightower ...... 35 Jackson 500 Volume 2 ...... 24 Ju-On Volume 2 ...... 30 SELECTED BACKLIST ...... 47 Archive Books ...... 62 Corpse Delivery Service ...... 51 Conan ...... 64 Volume 4: ...... 65 Retribution Part 2 ...... 32 ...... 56-57 Little Lulu: All Dressed Up ...... 25 Manga Extravaganza ...... 58-61 Little Lulu: April Fools ...... 41 ...... 63 Lullabies from Hell ...... 17 Mail Volume 1 ...... 54 Museum of Terror Volume 1 ...... 33 • DARK HORSE TITLES ARE NOT AVAILABLE Nexus Archives Volume 3 ...... 25 THROUGH DIAMOND BOOK DISTRIBUTORS UK. Octopus Girl Volume 2 ...... 34

Dark Horse Books Oh My Goddess! Volume 24 ...... 52

16 SUMMER 2006 LULLABIES FROM HELL ISBN: 1-59307-538-3 Price: $9.95 U.S./ $14.50 CAN. Publisher: Dark Horse Books Writer: Hideshi Hino Artist: Hideshi Hino 1 Size: 5 /8" x 7 ¼" Page Count: 232 Format: softcover trade paperback, black and white Recommended Age: 14+ Genre: Manga, Horror Rights: Worldwide Carton Quantity: 22 Publication Date: May 2006

MARKETING PLAN: • $10,000 marketing budget • National review attention • Special focus on “Horror Manga” in comic and book trade and consumer advertising • Representation at national book trade and comics shows • Internet promotions on websites

Welcome to one of the most disturbing minds of Japanese manga! Hideshi Hino has long been considered a master of the horror manga genre since his coming out in the late seventies. And the four stories in Lullabies from Hell will show you how demented the man can be.

The self-titled first story introduces you to the author himself, a horror quasi-biography of sorts. The second story tells of Hino’s having willed his pregnant wife into birthing a horrible, planet- devastating reptile baby that eats puppies and children! And you can imagine how the stories progress from there. Lullabies from Hell might make sleeping a bit of a challenge!

KEY SELLING POINTS: • Hideshi Hino is a horror manga genius in , with over 400 best-selling books. • Lullabies from Hell has been translated into English for the first time. • Published in the original, unretouched Japanese format! Dark Horse Books

SUMMER 2006 17 EDEN: IT’S AN ENDLESS WORLD! VOLUME 3 ISBN: 1-59307-529-4 The most action-filled Eden yet! In this shocking volume, Price: $12.95 U.S./ $18.50 CAN. character revelations and intense battlefield decisions Publisher: Dark Horse Books Writer: Hiroki Endo punctuate a rollercoaster, book-length conflict. With Artist: Hiroki Endo new, cyber-augmented Propater villains (the Aeon sol- Size: 5" x 7" diers) making a vicious debut, the mysterious Colonel Page Count: 224 tries to keep his ragtag group of freedom fighters alive. Format: softcover trade paperback, black and white Kenji cuts a path through armored soldiers, and Cherubim Recommended Age: 18+ and Sophia suffer serious setbacks. Kachua and Wycliffe Other Works by Author: make their way through secret Incan tunnels, not knowing Short Pieces Volumes 1 & 2 what horrors lie in the daylight. If you thought that the Genre: Manga Rights: U.S. + Canada previous Eden volume had a cliffhanger ending, you’ll Carton Quantity: 22 be blown away by the final pages of this thrilling ride! Publication Date: May 2006 Hiroki Endo’s Eden is a garden of violence, pathos, and philosophy, where endearing heroes face a constant struggle for survival and violent surprises wait around every corner!

KEY SELLING POINTS: • From the pages of Afternoon, the same manga anthol- ogy that brought us Blade of the Immortal and Oh My Goddess! • Each volume comes shrink-wrapped and carries an 18+ content advisory.

SCARY BOOK VOLUME 2: INSECTS ISBN: 1-59307-486-7 returns with the second frightening volume Price: $13.95 U.S./ $19.99 CAN. of his Scary Book anthology series. In “Butterfly Grave,” Publisher: Dark Horse Books Writer: Kazuo Umezu a book-length feature story, ever since the mysterious Artist: Kazuo Umezu and untimely of her mother when she was still an 1 Size: 5 /8" x 7 ¼" infant, Megumi has had an inexplicable, devastating Page Count: 232 phobia of butterflies. Upon visiting her mother’s grave Format: softcover trade paperback, black and white years after her death, Megumi begins being haunted by Recommended Age: 14+ a black butterfly that only she can see and which seem- Genre: Manga, Horror ingly causes waves of destruction and misery to Megumi’s Rights: Worldwide family and friends wherever it appears. But when Megumi’s Carton Quantity: 22 Publication Date: May 2006 father decides to remarry, Megumi begins to fear that her new mother is turning into the very thing she dreads most. ALSO AVAILABLE: Scary Book Volume 1, KEY SELLING POINTS: 1-59307-476-X, $13.95 • Scary Book creator, Kazuo Umezu, is known as the “ of Japan,” with several of his stories being adapted to film. Dark Horse Books

18 SUMMER 2006 HAIBANE RENMEI ANIME MANGA VOLUME 1 In a long-forgotten walled town, humans coexist with ISBN: 1-59307-520-0 the Haibane, angelic beings of unknown origin. Rakka Price: $14.95 U.S./ $21.50 CAN. Publisher: Dark Horse Books becomes the newest Haibane after she awakens from a Writer/Artist: Based on the strange dream and finds herself hatching from a massive anime created by Yoshitoshi Abe cocoon. With no memories of her previous life, Rakka and the produced by struggles to adjust to her new surrounding; however, Size: 5" x 7" burning questions remain in the back of her mind. What Page Count: 160 are Haibane and what is their purpose? What lies be- Format: softcover trade yond the town walls? Thus Rakka begins her wistful paperback, black and white journey of self-discovery and wonderment. Recommended Age: 8+ Other Works by Author: Trigun manga; Gungrave The Haibane Renmei anime manga is a full-color adap- Genre: Manga, Science tation of Yoshitoshi Abe’s fantastic anime series, Fiction, Fantasy presented in the “non-westernized” manga format for a Rights: U.S. + Canada + UK + IRE + AUS + NZ + SA fun, Japanese-style reading experience! Carton Quantity: 60 Publication Date: May 2006 KEY SELLING POINTS: • Created by Yoshitoshi Abe, creator of NieA Under 7, ALSO AVAILABLE: Gungrave Anime Manga, Serial Experiment Lain, and DVDs. 1-59307-378-X, $14.95

Hellsing Anime Manga, 1-59307-393-3, $14.95

Trigun Anime Manga Volume 1, 1-59307-105-1, $14.95

TRIGUN MAXIMUM VOLUME 9 This is the story of Nicholas Wolfwood and ISBN: 1-59307-527-8 Livio, two boys for whom friendship was brief, Price: $9.95 U.S./ $14.50 CAN. Publisher: Dark Horse Books but still burned deep into their boyhood con- and Publishing sciences. But those bits and pieces, though full Writer: of light, are mere shadows to these men of Artist: Yasuhiro Nightow 1 guns and blood and violence. Size: 5 ¼" x 7 /8" Page Count: 200 Format: softcover trade Yes, in this volume of Trigun, our hero Vash takes a bit paperback, black and white of a rest, and he certainly deserves one. So, now we’ll Recommended Age: 14+ study a boyhood relationship, one that, in this very Genre: Manga, Action/ Adventure, , volume, just might come to a destructive and angry end. Though, it may be a bit tough for either one of Rights: U.S. + Canada + UK these “friends” to knock each other off. They both Carton Quantity: 26 have secrets up their sleeves, and Livio, well he might Publication Date: May 2006 even have an extra sleeve!

As always, published in the ever-popular non-westernized format, with Yasuhiro Nightow’s commentary in the back and the comical original black-and-white covers printed on the inside.

KEY SELLING POINTS: Dark Horse Books • Presented in a fashion directly approved by Nightow himself, Trigun Maximum is so authentic that . . . well, it can hardly be more so. Includes facetious in- ner cover art and Nightow’s hilarious back-page commentary, as always.

SUMMER 2006 19 BMWFILMS.COM PRESENTS THE HIRE ISBN: 1-59307-183-3 The legendary series of short “webisodes” featured A- Price: $17.95 U.S./ $25.50 CAN. list directors such as John Woo and telling Publisher: Dark Horse Books tales of The Hire—an enigmatic driver and the passen- Writer: , Bruce Campbell, , Kurt gers that need his transportation and protection. Now, Busiek, and Steven Grant some of the biggest names in comics bring The Hire to Artist: Matt Wagner, Francisco Dark Horse! Ruiz Velasco, Kilian Plunkett, and Claude St. Aubin Size: 7" x 10" Matt Wagner (Grendel) tells a story of a spoiled party- Page Count: 96 girl and her high-speed hunters; Bruce Campbell (Evil Format: softcover trade Dead) and Kilian Plunket (: Red Son) team paperback, full color the Driver with a schoolteacher with unfortunate mob Recommended Age: 12+ Genre: Action/Adventure, connections; Mark Waid () and Claude Fiction St. Aubin (Dominion) tell the tale of a geeky bureaucrat Rights: U.S. with a valuable secret; and (Conan) and Carton Quantity: 74 Steven Grant (Badlands) with Francisco Ruiz Velasco Publication Date: May 2006 (Lone Wolf 2100) relate the story of a millionaire businessman facing a very hostile takeover.

KEY SELLING POINTS: • Featuring the talents of award-winning creators Matt Wagner, Kilian Plunket, Mark Waid, Kurt Busiek, and Evil Dead star Bruce Campbell!

CONCRETE VOLUME 5: THINK LIKE A MOUNTAIN ISBN: 1-59307-559-6 Celebrity has its benefits . . . and its costs. Due to his Price: $12.95 U.S./ $18.50 CAN. status as the world’s most unusual travel writer—being a Publisher: Dark Horse Books Writer: thousand pounds of walking, talking rock will do that— Artist: Paul Chadwick Concrete is approached by a group of radical eco-warriors Size: 6" x 9" to see firsthand and write about their efforts to save old- Page Count: 208 growth forest. What begins as a lark soon turns into a Format: softcover trade paperback, black and white harrowing struggle, and Concrete must decide whether Recommended Age: 14+ to dispassionately observe or to join these people who Other Works by Author: would risk anything, even life itself, to save the planet. Autobiographix; World Below Genre: Action/Adventure, Science Fiction Called “the best comic being published by anyone, any- Rights: Worldwide where,” Paul Chadwick’s critically acclaimed Concrete Carton Quantity: 24 is at once rousing fantasy and grounded reality, as Publication Date: May 2006 thought-provoking and challenging as it is entertaining. ALSO AVAILABLE: Think Like a Mountain collects the 1996 Parents’ Choice Concrete Volume 1: Depths, Award-winning series along with bonus short stories, 1-59307-343-7, $12.95 some collected for the first time.

Concrete Volume 2: Heights, 1-59307-420-4, $12.95 KEY SELLING POINTS: • “A well-researched, thought-provoking, and evenhanded Concrete Volume 3: examination of the controversial world of eco- Creature, extremism.” —John Layman, San Diego Union-Tribune 1-59307-464-6, $12.95 • This value-priced volume collects Think Like a Mountain; Dark Horse Books Concrete Volume 4: Killer Smile, short stories: “Like Disneyland, Only Toxic,” “Stay 1-59307-469-7, $12.95 Tuned for Pearl Harbor,” “A Billion Conscious Deci- sions,” “Objects of Value,” “Steel Rain,” various “A Concrete: The Human Dilemma, 1-59307-462-X, $14.95 Sky of Heads” stories.

20 SUMMER 2006 AEON FLUX ISBN: 1-59307-528-6 Price: $12.95 U.S./ $18.50 CAN. Publisher: Dark Horse Books Writer: Mike Kennedy Artist: Timothy Green II Size: 7" x 10" Page Count: 96 Format: softcover trade paperback, full color Recommended Age: 14+ Other Works by Author: Lone Wolf 2100; Superman: Infinite City Genre: Science Fiction Rights: Worldwide Carton Quantity: 74 Publication Date: May 2006

MARKETING PLAN: • $20,000 marketing budget • Features in pop culture and genre magazines • National review attention • Representation at national book trade and comic shows • Custom publishing tie-in with DVD release • Internet promotions on movie, comic, and entertainment websites

Four hundred years in the future, the last of Humanity will live behind the protective walls of Bregna, an idyllic utopia built to shelter them from the deadly jungle growing beyond. Life in Bregna is perfect, or as perfect as the government can make the people believe. But not every- one is fooled by their mood-altering propaganda—a small band of freedom fighters wish to see things change, and they just might manage to pull off this impossible dream with the help of their top secret agent, the sexy, deadly Aeon Flux. As Bregnan authorities prepare a new weap- on to use against the jungle pounding at their walls, Aeon prepares to turn their plans against them. But this time she is not alone—she has been instructed to train a new agent, a fiery young woman named Sithandra, who may not be all that she appears . . .

KEY SELLING POINTS: • Miniseries bridges original MTV/Liquid Television series with Paramount/MTV smash movie. • Movie available on DVD Spring 2006. • An all-new adventure that reintroduces Aeon Flux to fans and captures the interest of newcomers.

• Fast-paced and intriguing conceptual science fiction. Dark Horse Books

SUMMER 2006 21 STAR WARS: HONOR AND DUTY ISBN: 1-59307-546-4 Price: $12.95 U.S./ $18.50 CAN. Publisher: Dark Horse Books Writer: John Ostrander Artist: C. P. Smith, Luke Ross, Jasen Rodriguez, and Steve Firchow Size: 7" x 10" Page Count: 96 Format: softcover trade paperback, full color Recommended Age: 12+ Other Works by Author: Star Wars: Clone Wars Volumes 1-6, 8; Star Wars: The Rite of Passage; Star Wars: The Stark Hyperspace War; Star Wars: Twilight Genre: Action/Adventure, Science Fiction Rights: WW-UK-NZ Carton Quantity: 74 Publication Date: May 2006

MARKETING PLAN: • $15,000 marketing budget • National review attention • Representation at national book trade and comics shows • Increased consumer advertising for DH 20th anniversary in 2006 • Representation at national book trade shows • Internet promotions on starwars. com and science fiction websites

Watch the fall of the Republic through the eyes of Sagoro Autem—Senate Guard, mercenary, prisoner, Clone Wars hero, and Imperial target—in a story that spans from before the Clone Wars to the first mission of Darth Vader!

Young Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker—his even younger Padawan— protect a senator from assassination attempts that threaten to silence his crucial swing vote. Joining the Jedi in their mission is Autem, loyal Senate Guard. Yet, as Obi-Wan and Anakin fend off a league of master assassins, Autem discovers a link between the killers that will change his own life forever—a secret he will not be able to face until the Clone Wars have come and gone, and he finds himself on the run from the new Emperor’s enforcer, Darth Vader!

KEY SELLING POINTS: • Learn ultimate fates of characters not seen since the Clone Wars! Dark Horse Books

22 SUMMER 2006 STAR WARS OMNIBUS: X-WING ROGUE SQUADRON VOLUME 1 ISBN: 1-59307-572-3 Price: $24.95 U.S./ $35.50 CAN. Publisher: Dark Horse Books Writer: Haden Blackman, Michael Stackpole, , , and Peet Janes Artist: Tomás Giorello, Allen Nunis, Edvin Biukovic, John Nadeau, , Arthur Adams, Steve Crespo, Rodolfo Damaggio, Doug Mahnke, Stan and Vince Size: 7" x 10" Page Count: 296 Format: softcover trade paperback, full color Recommended Age: 12+ Genre: Action/Adventure, Science Fiction Rights: WW-UK-NZ Carton Quantity: 32 Publication Date: May 2006

MARKETING PLAN: • $10,000 marketing budget • National review attention • Representation at national book trade and comics shows • Increased consumer advertising for DH 20th anniversary in 2006 • Internet promotions on starwars.com and science fiction websites

The greatest starfighters of the Rebel Alliance become the defenders of a New Republic in this massive collection of stories featuring Wedge Antilles, hero of the Battle of Endor, and his team of ace pilots known throughout the galaxy as Rogue Squadron!

Meet the Rogues for the first time and learn the fate of the galaxy immediately after the events of Return of the Jedi as the Rebellion’s best pilots battle remnants of the Empire wherever its ugly agenda of fear and domination appears. Along with the critically acclaimed X-Wing Rogue Squadron: The Phantom Affair this jam-packed volume contains tons of material never-before-collected!

KEY SELLING POINTS: • One of the most popular storylines in the Star Wars Expanded Universe starts here! • Collects three great X-Wing stories, almost three hundred pages, for the low price of $24.95! Dark Horse Books

SUMMER 2006 23 DREADFUL ED ISBN: 1-59307-575-8 Poor Ed! What’s a normal kid like him doing in a place Price: $8.95 U.S./ $12.99 CAN. like Nocturnia? He’s supposed to be the heir to the throne Publisher: Dark Horse Books Writer: Andrew Cosby of his dastardly dad—otherwise known as the Boogeyman Artist: Illustrated by Troy Nixey himself, Silas Grimm! But Ed just isn’t cut out for the Size: 8" x 10 ¼" work. Quiet, gentle, and altogether unspooky, it appears Page Count: 32 to everyone that Ed will never have what it takes to rule Format: hardcover, full color Recommended Age: 8+ the land of nightmares and dark deeds. Other Works by Author: Damn Nation Rather than giving up on his only heir, Silas ships Ed off Genre: Humor, Fiction to fright school, hoping his woefully un-strange little boy Rights: Worldwide Carton Quantity: 60 will learn the skills befitting of the next Boogeyman. In- Publication Date: June 2006 stead, Ed ends up learning something about himself that will shock everyone—everyone, that is except the mother who switched him at birth!

This beautifully illustrated hardcover book will be an in- stant favorite for anyone who loves fanciful kids’ stories with a delightful dark edge.

KEY SELLING POINTS: • From Damn Nation creator Andrew Cosby, best known for his work on UPN’s Haunted and the Sci-Fi Network original series Eureka.

THE JACKSON 500 VOLUME TWO ISBN: 1-59307-533-2 Continuing where he left off with The Jackson 500, Price: $14.95 U.S./ $21.50 CAN. Volume One, Tim Biskup’s latest fine-art collection Publisher: Dark Horse Books Artist: Tim Biskup contains paintings 101 to 200 in a series of five hundred Size: 5" x 5" business card-sized paintings, reproduced at actual size. Page Count: 112 Acting as a kind of workshop for new ideas, the tiny Format: hardcover, full color paintings in The Jackson 500, Volume Two, are sponta- Recommended Age: All Ages Other Works by Author: neous compositions that contain the buds of many of 100 Paintings; Jackson 500 Biskup’s recurring characters, themes, and color theories. Volume 1 Genre: Art/Lowbrow With a fondness for mid-century graphic design, Japanese Rights: Worldwide Carton Quantity: 84 monsters, chaos, and smoking dinosaurs, Tim Biskup Publication Date: June 2006 has honed an infectious style. His surreal, dense, colorful paintings evoke Paul Klee, James Flora, and Hieronymus ALSO AVAILABLE: Bosch, as well as animation pioneers like Ward Kimbal, Jackson 500 Volume 1, 1-59307-355-0, $14.95 , and Mary Blair.

Tim Biskup’s 100 Paintings, KEY SELLING POINTS: 1-59307-051-9, $14.95 • “Tim Biskup is the most prolific and productive artist I know, a hundred fold. He is a living idea factory . . .” —Gary Baseman • “Tim Biskup is a genius. His creations are stunning. His breathtaking, amusing style nods grinningly to pop cultural graphics of the past, while simultaneously

Dark Horse Books forging brand new artistic ground. With each new piece, Biskup further defines himself as a master of his craft.” —JJ Abrams (Creator of and Lost) • “With a seemingly unlimited imagination and a hipness quotient off the Richter scale, Tim Biskup is the undis- puted King of Kartoon Kool.” —Todd Schorr

24 SUMMER 2006 LITTLE LULU: ALL DRESSED UP Put the “funny” back in “funny books” with this latest ISBN: 1-59307-534-0 volume of Dark Horse’s Little Lulu paperback library Price: $9.95 U.S./ $14.50 CAN. Publisher: Dark Horse Books collecting the classic comic-book series perfect for all ages! Writer: John Stanley Artist: John Stanley and Like all great “comics for kids,” be it Charles Shultz Irving Tripp Peanuts, Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes, or Carl Size: 6" x 9" Page Count: 200 Bark’s Scrooge McDuck, these stories by John Stanley Format: softcover trade and Irving Tripp are legendary for their ability to delight paperback, black and white both children and adults alike with their wit, insight, and Recommended Age: All Ages outright hilarity. Witness two of the medium’s masters at Genre: Humor Rights: Worldwide the very pinnacle of their talent and skill in these gut- Carton Quantity: 40 busting stories featuring the smart and sassy, generous Publication Date: June 2006 and gregarious, absolutely one-of-a-kind eight-year-old Lulu Moppet and her loveable cast of neighborhood ALSO AVAILABLE: Little Lulu: Lulu Goes Shopping, troublemakers! 1-59307-270-8, $9.95

KEY SELLING POINTS: Little Lulu: Lulu Takes a Trip, • “Little Lulu was one of my favorite comics as a kid. 1-59307-317-8, $9.95 Simple enough for kids to enjoy, but hip enough to Little Lulu: My Dinner With Lulu, make grown-ups laugh out loud, it’s one of the great 1-59307-318-6, $9.95 unsung comics.” —, creator of American Splendor Little Lulu: Sunday Afternoon, 1-59307-345-3, $9.95 • “These little gems are timeless models of wry humor and unsurpassed comic timing . . . Like Peanuts and Little Lulu: In the Doghouse, Calvin and Hobbes, they create an entire kids’ universe 1-59307-345-3, $9.95 of secret clubhouses, favorite soda fountain hangouts, Little Lulu: Letters to Santa, and fantastic menaces.” —Publishers Weekly 1-59307-386-0, $9.95

NEXUS ARCHIVES VOLUME 3 Wracked by inescapable, visceral nightmares of the ISBN: 1-59307-495-6 grave misdeeds of his next targets, the executioner Nexus Price: $49.95 U.S./ $70.99 CAN. Publisher: Dark Horse Books turns to the only solution he can—a life-threatening pro- Writer: Mike Baron cedure that places an implant in his brain! This implant Artist: will prevent the dreams that Horatio has endured for Size: 7" x 10 ½" years, but at what price? His behavior changes, and the Page Count: 216 Format: hardcover, full color ensuing emotional isolation pushes Sundra and her Recommended Age: 12+ booming solar sailcraft business back to Mars. Spy Ursula Other Works by Author: X. X. Imada resurfaces with Horatio’s twin daughters, Punisher; The Flash; Badger and Clonezone the Hilariator is up to his usual mischief Genre: Action/Adventure, Science Fiction and misadventures! This collection also features a story Rights: Worldwide about the Hammer, Judah Maccabee, illustrated by the Carton Quantity: 22 famed Oz artist Eric Shanower. Publication Date: June 2006

KEY SELLING POINTS: • A multiple -winning series that defined the careers of acclaimed creators Steve Rude and Mike Baron, Nexus is a modern classic not to be missed! • Printed on high-quality paper stock, and features a new painted cover by Steve Rude. • Collects issues #12-18 from Volume 3 () Dark Horse Books • “Space Opera at its finest . . . the Baron/Rude team sur- passes anything they have done separately, and Nexus is a masterwork derserving the archive treatment.” —Publishers Weekly

SUMMER 2006 25 CRYING FREEMAN VOLUME 2 ISBN: 1-59307-488-3 Crying Freeman, the deadliest assassin of the 108 Dragons Price: $14.95 U.S./ $21.50 CAN. clan of the Chinese mafia has taken a bride, and she has Publisher: Dark Horse Books Writer: Kazuo Koike passed the harsh tests of the Dragons and been given a Artist: new name, Fu Ching Lan, “Tiger Orchid.” And despite 1 Size: 5 /8" x 7 ¼" Freeman’s Japanese heritage, he has been chosen to be- Page Count: 400 come the eventual leader of the Dragons. But someone Format: softcover trade paperback, black and white inside the Dragons wants Freeman dead, and Tiger Orchid Recommended Age: 18+ should make a fine hostage to draw Freeman into the Other Works by Author: open . . . where a monstrous killer awaits! ; Samurai Executioner; Lady Snowblood Genre: Manga, Crime Written by manga legend Kazuo Koike, creator of Lone Rights: U.S. + Canada + Wolf and Cub and Samurai Executioner, and illustrated AUS + UK by the acclaimed Ryoichi Ikegami, Crying Freeman is Carton Quantity: 42 manga at its most adult: intensely violent, morally Publication Date: June 2006 ambiguous, boldly erotic. Presented in its original right- to-left reading orientation.

KEY SELLING POINTS: • Long out-of-print in America, the Dark Horse edition of Crying Freeman is the first English translation of the title in the original Japanese format! • From the writer of Lone Wolf and Cub, Lady Snow- blood, and Samurai Executioner! • Each volume of Crying Freeman comes shrink-wrapped and carries an 18+ content advisory.

REIKO THE ZOMBIE SHOP VOLUME 3 ISBN: 1-59307-535-9 The battle between Reiko and her twin sister, Riruka, Price: $12.95 U.S./ $18.50 CAN. who is bent on controlling the world with a slave-army of Publisher: Dark Horse Books zombies, reaches a blood-dimmed crescendo. Twins they Writer: Rei Mikamoto Artist: Rei Mikamoto may be, and while related by blood, there aren’t two peo- Size: 5" x 7" ple out for each other’s throats more than Reiko and Page Count: 192 Riruka. Only one of the two will be left standing in this Format: softcover trade ultimate gore-soaked splatter showdown! paperback, black and white Recommended Age: 16+ Genre: Manga, Horror, Humor KEY SELLING POINTS: Rights: Worldwide • Part Sixth Sense and part Evil Dead–the ultra-violent, Carton Quantity: 28 Publication Date: June 2006 comical, and disturbing manga Reiko the Zombie Shop has been resurrected stateside and translated ALSO AVAILABLE: into English in its original format for the first time. Reiko the Zombie Shop Volume 1, Don’t miss out on the series that took Japanese read- 1-59307-413-1, $12.95 ers by the throat and made them scream for more! Reiko the Zombie Shop Volume 2, 1-59307-459-X, $12.95 Dark Horse Books

26 SUMMER 2006 GUNGRAVE ARCHIVE ISBN: 1-59307-522-7 Price: $19.95 U.S./ $14.50 CAN. Publisher: Dark Horse Books Writer/Artist: Based on a game created by Yasuhiro Nightow, Created by Softbank Editorial Division Size: 8 ¼" x 12" Page Count: 256 Format: softcover trade paperback, full color Recommended Age: 14+ Genre: Manga, Rights: U.S. + EUR + AUS + NZ + SA Carton Quantity: 27 Publication Date: June 2006

ALSO AVAILABLE: See our complete Trigun relist on page 60.

Gungrave Anime Manga, 1-59307-378-X, $14.95

MARKETING PLAN: • $15,000 marketing budget • National review attention • Representation at national book trade and comics shows • Internet promotions on anime and manga websites

First a hit first-person-shooter video game in Japan, Gungrave moved overseas to become an American Playstation 2 favorite as well before finally making the move to become a popular anime in both countries. Dark Horse is proud to bring America the works of Yasuhiro Nightow, and the artbook Gungrave Archives offers a new piece of the manga master’s growing portfolio of works.

And Nightow’s additions are only a part of the wide range of materials in this special, double- size artbook set. Already available as separate, untranslated books, Archives brings both volumes together completely translated, at a more reasonable price, in equally high-quality binding, and featuring two pull-out posters! And completely unavailable in either book—photographs of an exclusive Grave figure, custom made by famed figure modeler Takayuki Takeda! This is the only chance to see this model, as it will never see production. Also included is a short interview with Takeda about his challenges creating the exclusive custom figure.

KEY SELLING POINTS: Dark Horse Books • Based on the “Gungrave” and “Gungrave O.D.” Playstation 2 games popularized in Japan. • Features Nightow’s signature style, sketches from him, production sketches and interviews from the staff, settings drafts and notes, storyboards from anime, and lots of other extras. • Now a popular television anime in Japan, distributed on DVD in America by Geneon.

SUMMER 2006 27 HARLEQUIN PINK: ISBN: 1-59307-536-7 THE BACHELOR PRINCE Price: $9.95 U.S./ $14.50 CAN. Publisher: Dark Horse Books Writer: Debbie Macomber Artist: Misao Hoshiai 1 Size: 5 /8" x 7 ¼" Page Count: 200 Format: softcover trade paperback, pink and white Recommended Age: 12+ Genre: Manga, Romance Rights: U.S. + CAN + AUS + UK Carton Quantity: 20 Publication Date: June 2006

MARKETING PLAN: • $10,000 marketing budget • National review attention • Representation at national book trade and comics shows • Internet promotions on anime and manga websites • Internet promotions on harlequin.com

Prince Stefano was a man most girls could only dream of meeting. And now the very hand- some—and very eligible—bachelor had come to America in search of the girl he would someday make his bride!

Hope Jordan’s prince had finally come—but there is no happy ending in sight. Her royal suitor needs a wealthy wife to save his country from ruin, but Hope has nothing to offer Stefano ex- cept her love. Hope Jordan was the first woman to capture Stefano’s soul, but will he give up his kingdom for her love?

KEY SELLING POINTS: • Printed in beautiful deep-pink ink! Dark Horse is the first American manga publisher to use single-color inks in lieu of black—an authentically Japanese touch that no other publishers have offered! Dark Horse Books • Harlequin Ginger Blossom’s “pink” line is color-coded to denote its purely romantic material. Intended for anyone who delights in the sweet side of romance!

28 SUMMER 2006 HARLEQUIN VIOLET: ISBN: 1-59307-537-5 BLIND DATE Price: $9.95 U.S./ $14.50 CAN. Publisher: Dark Horse Books Writer: Emma Darcy Artist: Mihoko Hirose 1 Size: 5 /8" x 7 ¼" Page Count: 200 Format: softcover trade paperback, violet and white Recommended Age: 16+ Genre: Manga, Romance Rights: U.S. + CAN + AUS + UK Carton Quantity: 20 Publication Date: June 2006

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Catherine knew her sister meant well, but a blind date with a famous, handsome tycoon was not exactly what she needed. Zack Freeman was equally annoyed when his best friend defied him to leave work behind for a moment and have a little fun. When they met, Catherine saw desire in Zack’s eyes, and it was clear he found her irresistible. Both were surprised to find their blind date turn into one unforgettable night with consequences that would change both their lives!

KEY SELLING POINTS: • Printed in gorgeous deep-purple ink! Dark Horse is the first American manga publisher to use single-color inks in lieu of black—an authentically Japanese touch that no other publishers have offered! • Harlequin Ginger Blossom’s “violet” line is color-coded to denote its more sensual material. Not intended for younger readers, our “violet” books embody sophisticated romance for readers looking for something a little sexier than the rest! Dark Horse Books

SUMMER 2006 29 JU-ON VOLUME 2 ISBN: 1-59307-531-6 The bloody and vengeful grudge of Ju-On returns in Price: $9.95 U.S./ $14.50 CAN. this manga sensation from Japan! The landmark hor- Publisher: Dark Horse Books Writer/Artist: Originally ror film franchise is captured in comics form, opening written by Takashi Shimizu. on a gruesome and tantalizing series of images from Manga adaptation by Meimu an operating room—a lightning storm, gory medical 1 Size: 5 /8" x 7 ¼" instruments, and a single witness to the scene and Page Count: 136 Format: softcover trade whatever lies on the table. paperback, black and white Recommended Age: 14+ Cut to peaceful scenes of everyday life that are taking Other Works by Author: place in and around a familiar apartment complex. But The Ring volumes 0, 2, and 4 Genre: Manga, Horror what eerie presence sits just below the surface, itching to Rights: U.S. and Canada manifest itself and take out its deep-seated rage on inno- Carton Quantity: 60 cents? What could have caused such hatred, and why is Publication Date: June 2006 the spirit terrorizing again? The chilling answer to these ALSO AVAILABLE: questions is found in the pages of Ju-On Volume 2. Ju-On Volume 1: Video Side, 1-59307-481-6, $9.95 KEY SELLING POINTS:

Ju-On 2 © Meimu 2003,© ju-on 2 Film Partners 2003 • The manga adaptation of the horror movie that took Japan by storm—in English for the first time! • From the artist of The Ring Volumes 0, 2, and 4!

OH MY GODDESS! VOLUME 3 ISBN: 1-59307-539-1 Ever since a cosmic phone call brought the literal young Price: $10.95 U.S./ $15.99 CAN. goddess Belldandy into college student Keiichi’s resi- Publisher: Dark Horse Books dence, his personal life has been turned upside down, Writer: Kosuke Fujishima Artist: Kosuke Fujishima sideways, and sometimes even into strange dimensions! 1 3 Size: 5 /8" x 7 /16" Page Count: 192 No sooner has Belldandy’s bored big sister Urd descend- Format: softcover trade ed than she tries to alleviate her boredom by shoving Bell paperback, black and white Recommended Age: 8+ and Keiichi together, preferably by spells and Other Works by Author: sorcery gone horribly wrong. Of course, good intentions Oh My Goddess! Colors; from Belldandy don’t necessarily lead to better results, You’re Under Arrest! as she creates a simple scheme to help him study for an Genre: Manga, Humor Rights: U.S. + Canada exam that involves setting loose on campus a dim-witted, Carton Quantity: 28 cross-dressing clone of Keiichi! Then, a Nekomi Motor Publication Date: June 2006 Club recruitment drive nets him the unwelcome figure of a would-be romantic rival—and not from the usual pack of greasy anthropoids Keiichi hangs out with. This guy drives a Ferrari!

KEY SELLING POINTS: • Oh My Goddess! is the manga that inspired the brand-new anime TV series from . • Dark Horse is proud to present the early stories of

Dark Horse Books Oh My Goddess!—now in the much-requested cheap- er, Japanese-reading right-to-left format!

30 SUMMER 2006 PATH OF THE ASSASSIN VOLUME 1 ISBN: 1-59307-502-2 Price: $13.95 U.S./ $19.99 CAN. Publisher: Dark Horse Books Writer: Kazuo Koike Artist: Size: 4" x 6" Page Count: 320 Format: softcover trade paperback, black and white Recommended Age: 18+ Other Works by Author: Lone Wolf & Cub; Samurai Executioner; Crying Freeman Genre: Manga, Samuari Adventure Rights: Worldwide ENG Carton Quantity: 36 Publication Date: July 2006

ALSO AVAILABLE: See our complete Kazuo Koike relist on pages 56-57.

MARKETING PLAN: • $10,000 marketing budget • National review attention • Special focus on “Horror Manga” in comics and book trade and consumer advertising • Representation at national book trade and comics shows • Internet promotions on anime and manga websites

Path of the Assassin, called Hanzo no Mon in Japan, is the story of Hattori Hanzo, the fabled master ninja whose duty was to protect Tokugawa Ieyasu. Ieyasu was the shogun who would unite Japan into one great nation. But before he could do that, he had to grow up and learn how to love the ladies!

As the secret caretaker of such an influential future leader, not only does Hanzo use vast and varied ninja talents, but in living closely with Ieyasu, he forms a close friendship with the young shogun.

KEY SELLING POINTS: • Path of the Assassin is a worthy and entertaining addition to the Koike and Kojima samurai manga library. • Published in the original Japanese format and unretouched which keeps the art intact. • This is a fifteen-volume story starring the legendary swordmaker and Kill Bill reference Hanzo Hattori. • Sales of Dark Horse editions of Koike-penned titles is approaching 750,000 copies! Dark Horse Books • Each volume comes shrink-wrapped and carries an 18+ content advisory.

SUMMER 2006 31 BERSERK VOLUME 12 ISBN: 1-59307-484-0 The Band of the Hawks’ rescue of their leader, Price: $13.95 U.S./ $19.99 CAN. Griffith, has brought them no ease. Broken Publisher: Dark Horse Books beyond healing, a frail ghost of his former and Digital Manga Publishing Writer: Kentaro Miura glory, Griffith is now more an object of pity Artist: Kentaro Miura than a man, and the Hawks, who’ve grimly 1 Size: 5 /8" x 7 ¼" hung together under duress and death during his ab- Page Count: 232 sence, are now on the verge of splintering to the winds. Format: softcover trade paperback, black and white But Griffith’s dreams and ambitions, built on the bodies Recommended Age: 18+ of his troops and the countless enemies they have slain, Genre: Manga, Fantasy, Horror have not gone unnoticed in the spirit realm, and though Rights: U.S. + Canada Griffith has nowhere to go as a man, he may yet have a Carton Quantity: 22 Publication Date: July 2006 future . . . a future borne on jet-black wings in the company of the demon lords of the Godhand!

KEY SELLING POINTS: • Each volume of Berserk comes shrink-wrapped and carries an 18+ content advisory. • The first volumes of Berserk have sold over 125,000 copies! • Created by Kentaro Miura, Berserk is a manic manga massacre, a brute-force free-for-all of action, horror, and grim humor that inspired the wildly popular anime series.

LADY SNOWBLOOD VOLUME 4: RETRIBUTION PART 2 ISBN: 1-59307-532-4 As samurai were losing their bearings in a time of change, Price: $14.95 U.S./ $21.50 CAN. Yuki brought back the demonic spirit of vengeance. And Publisher: Dark Horse Books Writer: Kazuo Koike the good part about this last volume of Lady Snowblood Artist: Kazuo Kamimura is that she saved her most hated targets for last. Yet, in 1 Size: 5 /8" x 7 ¼" the midst of a maelstrom of sex and violence, the reader Page Count: 288 will still catch a few glimpses of warmth and human Format: softcover trade paperback, black and white compassion. That’s because Kazuo Koike, the creator of Recommended Age: 18+ the popular Lone Wolf and Cub manga, knows how to Other Works by Author: build around good characters, and Lady Snowblood is Lone Wolf and Cub; Samurai certainly no exception. See how it all ends in Volume 4, Executioner; Crying Freeman Genre: Crime, Manga the second part of “Retribution.” Rights: Worldwide English Carton Quantity: 18 KEY SELLING POINTS: Publication Date: July 2006 • From Kazuo Koike, writer of Lone Wolf and Cub, ALSO AVAILABLE: Crying Freeman, and Samurai Executioner. See our complete Kazuo Koike • Sales of Dark Horse books authored by Kazuo Koike relist on pages 56-57. are approaching three-quarters of a million copies! • Lady Snowblood is published in the authentic Japanese format. • Each volume of Lady Snowblood comes shrink-wrapped Dark Horse Books and carries an 18+ content advisory.

32 SUMMER 2006 MUSEUM OF TERROR VOLUME 1 ISBN: 1-59307-542-1 Price: $13.95 U.S./ $19.99 CAN. Publisher: Dark Horse Books Writer: Junji Ito Artist: Junji Ito 1 Size: 5 /8" x 7 ¼" Page Count: 376 Format: softcover trade paperback, black and white Recommended Age: 16+ Other Works by Author: Tomie; Voices in the Dark; and more Genre: Manga, Horror Rights: Worldwide Carton Quantity: 14 Publication Date: July 2006

MARKETING PLAN: •$10,000 marketing budget • National review attention • Special focus on “Horror Manga” in comics and book trade and consumer advertising • Representation at national book trade shows • Internet promotions on anime and manga websites

Dark Horse Comics is very proud to present Museum of Terror, a series of horror stories by Japan’s foremost creator of horror manga. Full of compelling and charming characters and re- lationships, and featuring some of the finest comics art available, Junji Ito has seen his works translated into successful films in Japan.

Ito’s , the thrilling and grotesque manga and film, have already found success in America, and now we present “Tomie,” the first story in this fantastic series. “Tomie” is the story of an eternally youthful and beautiful high school girl, whose admirers are obsessed to the point of murdering her. But to their horror, she is reincarnated over and over. “Tomie” also be- came a popular film in Japan, and now it launches Dark Horse’s series of Ito’s horrific works, Museum of Terror.

KEY SELLING POINTS: • Junji Ito is Japan’s foremost horror manga artist.

• With “Tomie,” Ito won the Umezu Prize, the manga equivilent of the Oscar. Dark Horse Books • Seven movies and five “made-for-TV” specials have been produced from Ito’s works. • Museum of Terror is an anthology of Junji Ito’s best. • Millions of copies of Ito’s books have been sold worldwide.

SUMMER 2006 33 OCTOPUS GIRL VOLUME 2 ISBN: 1-59307-540-5 Price: $12.95 U.S./ $18.50 CAN. Publisher: Dark Horse Books Writer: Toru Yamazaki Artist: Toru Yamazaki Size: 4 ½" x 7" Page Count: 192 Format: softcover trade paperback, black and white Recommended Age: 18+ Genre: Manga, Humor, Horror Rights: U.S. + Canada + UK + AUS + NZ Carton Quantity: 28 Publication Date: July 2006

Now that she has control over her transformations, Takako is happy to be known as the “Octopus Girl!” Being able to change herself into a teenage head with octopus tentacles allows her to discover horrors in the ocean as well as in Japan. Octopus Girl and Sakae (a wicked girl with the body of a moray eel) face satanic cults, pregnancy, death-trap elevators, violent family strife, and their own backbiting rivalry! Cutting a crass, comical niche into modern horror manga, Toru Yamazaki’s Octopus Girl serves up the most disgusting dishes of heartbreak and revenge found on land or at sea, and these shocking vignettes will hypnotize fans of the macabre and the absurd!

KEY SELLING POINTS: • Toru Yamazaki made a big, bloody splash in the mid-1990s when his outrageous Octopus Girl horror stories debuted. This talented and twisted manga artist has found recent popularity in different fields, as a major Japanese television personality and a recording artist. Be prepared to be mind-boggled with his second, sassy manga collection, as the delightfully disturbing

Dark Horse Books Octopus Girl, volume two, is finally presented in English. • Each volume comes shrink-wrapped and carries an 18+ content advisory.

34 SUMMER 2006 SCHOOL ZONE VOLUME 2 In an ordinary elementary school, there exist thirteen ISBN: 1-59307-433-6 ghost stories. One afternoon, when all the students are Price: $12.95 U.S./ $18.50 CAN. Publisher: Dark Horse Books sent home from school early, one student tells the others Writer: Kanako Inuki that a human head was found in the school elevator. The Artist: Kanako Inuki kids begin to believe that the scary stories about their Size: 5" x 7" school are horribly real! Many students begin to experience Page Count: 192 Format: softcover trade strange and terrible encounters with the supernatural, and paperback, black and white coming to school now becomes a struggle for survival. Recommended Age: 14+ Other Works by Author: KEY SELLING POINTS: The Disfigured Woman Genre: Manga, Horror • School Zone is a journey into terror brought to you by Rights: U.S. + Canada + UK + the Queen of Horror Manga, Kanako Inuki, in English AUS + NZ for the first time ever! Carton Quantity: 28 • A must for fans of manga horror. Publication Date: July 2006 ALSO AVAILABLE: School Zone Volume 1, 1-59307-432-8, $12.95

JACK HIGHTOWER Secret agent Jack Hightower was at the height of his ISBN: 1-59307-392-5 career when something BIG happened. Now the world- Price: $14.95 U.S./$18.50 CAN. class uber-operative and infamous ladies man is seeing Publisher: Dark Horse Books Writer: Will Vinton and things from a whole new perspective . . . a very, very Andrew Wiese different perspective, to say the least. Artist: Fabio Laguna Size: 7" x 10" Tall, daring, and handsome, Jack had it all—a stellar ca- Page Count: 136 Format: softcover trade reer, beautiful women, and more power and influence paperback, full color than he could shake a supermodel at. But despite it all, Recommended Age: 12+ Jack longed for one thing that eluded him—the capture Genre: Action/Adventure, Humor of his long-time archnemesis, Dr. Litigious Savant. On Rights: Worldwide Carton Quantity: 52 the fateful night when Jack’s dream of cornering the elu- Publication Date: July 2006 sive Savant is realized, things go terribly, dreadfully wrong, and Jack gets cut down to size by one of the doctor’s insidious inventions . . . the size of your aver- age action figure, to be exact.

KEY SELLING POINTS: • Written with hilarious verve by Oscar award-winning animator Will Vinton and his longtime writing partner Andrew Wiese. Dark Horse Books

SUMMER 2006 35 CONAN AND THE DEMONS OF KHITAI ISBN: 1-59307-543-X King Conan travels to the far-eastern land of Khitai, only Price: $12.95 U.S./ $18.50 CAN. to run afoul of an evil sorcerer and his demonic retainers Publisher: Dark Horse Books in this tale of silent shadow-warriors and ghostly monsters. Writer: Yoshida Artist: Paul Lee and Pat Lee Size: 7" x 10" Set many years in the future from the award-winning Page Count: 96 ongoing series, Conan and the Demons of Khitai marks Format: softcover trade Conan’s first appearance as King in Dark Horse’s best- paperback, full color Recommended Age: 16+ selling comics revival of the legendary fantasy hero. Genre: Action/Adventure When King Conan receives an invitation from the Eastern Rights: Worldwide kingdom of Khitai to open trade in precious jewels Carton Quantity: 42 and spices, he decides that he will travel into this long- Publication Date: July 2006 mysterious land. Yet to do so is perilous, as those who have requested his company may have far more devious intentions, and beasts unseen by Western eyes lurk amidst the shadows.

KEY SELLING POINTS: • Written by über-scribe Akira Yoshida (X-Men/Fantastic Four; : Soultaker; : The Hand) and pictures by the exquisite Paul Lee (; Buffy: The Vampire Slayer; Sam & Twitch), this hand- some volume is topped off with a cover by the oft- imitated but never surpassed Pat Lee (Transformers, Darkminds, Warlands).

TARZAN: THE JOE KUBERT YEARS VOLUME 3 ISBN: 1-59307-417-4 Writing, drawing, and editing a monthly Tarzan comic- Price: $49.95 U.S./ $70.99 CAN. book series in the 1970s, Joe Kubert was able to illustrate Publisher: Dark Horse Books Writer: Joe Kubert the adventures of his childhood hero and produce some of Artist: Joe Kubert the most inspiring pages of his career. Size: 6 ¼" x 10 ¼" is proud to present this final collection in a series of Joe Page Count: 216 Kubert’s complete Tarzan comics. Joe Kubert’s Tarzan Format: hardcover, full color Recommended Age: 12+ Volume Three features an incredible, four-part adaptation Other Works by Author: of ’ 1934 adventure novel, Tarzan Sgt. Rock; Enemy Ace; Tarzan; and the Lion Man. Tarzan attempts to protect two beautiful Tor; Hawkman; Fax from Sarajevo actresses and a Hollywood production crew from the many (Dark Horse); Yossel (ibooks) graphic novels dangers lurking in Africa’s jungles . . . and from a deranged Genre: Action/Adventure geneticist who calls himself “God.” This volume also in- Rights: Worldwide cludes six pages of Kubert’s original Tarzan notes and Carton Quantity: 20 thumbnails from the early 1970s, the Tarzan stories “Moon Publication Date: July 2006 Beast,” “The Magic Herb,” and “Ice Jungle,” and a Korak, ALSO AVAILABLE: Son of Tarzan, tale, “Leap into Death,” which was inked Tarzan:The Joe Kubert Years by . Volume 1, 1-59307-404-2, $49.95 KEY SELLING POINTS: Tarzan: The Joe Kubert Years • Introduction by Joe Kubert! Volume 2, • This volume features six pages of Joe Kubert’s original 1-59307-416-6, $49.95 Dark Horse Books Tarzan notes and thumbnails from the early 1970s! • A great reference tome for students of comic art and the human form in action! • Represents a key period in Kubert’s career, when he was juggling roles as Tarzan’s editor, writer, and artist.

36 SUMMER 2006 CONAN VOLUME 3: THE TOWER OF THE ELEPHANT AND OTHER STORIES ISBN: 1-59307-547-2 Price: $15.95 U.S./ $22.95 CAN. Publisher: Dark Horse Books Writer: Kurt Busiek Artist: Cary Nord and Michael Wm. Kaluta Size: 7" x 10" Page Count: 168 Format: softcover trade paperback, full color Recommended Age: 16+ Genre: Action/Adventure Rights: Worldwide Carton Quantity: 44 Publication Date: July 2006

ALSO AVAILABLE: See our complete Conan relist on page 64.

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Eisner award-winning writer Kurt Busiek (JLA/Avengers, Astro City), Eisner award-nominated artist Cary Nord (Daredevil), and Eisner award-winning color artist Dave Stewart (Ultimate Fantastic Four; DC: The New Frontier) continue their groundbreaking run on Dark Horse’s best-selling Conan series with an adaptation of one of Robert E. Howard’s greatest Conan tales, “The Tower of the Elephant”!

Fed up with both civilization and mysticism, Conan travels to the infamous City of Thieves to take out his frustrations. When a bar fight uncovers the legend of the impregnable Tower of the Elephant, he becomes determined to rob it, setting out on a quest unlike any he’s undertaken— one that will involve new comrades, sudden death, horrifying creatures, and gruesome unsettling fates for both gods and men.

KEY SELLING POINTS:

• Busiek and Nord—with a special appearance by legendary illustrator Michael Wm. Kaluta Dark Horse Books (Books of Magic, Lucifer)—chronicle a seminal adventure in Conan’s life. • The first two editions of the original Dark Horse Conan series have sold over 30,000 copies!

SUMMER 2006 37 SUDDEN GRAVITY ISBN: 1-59307-565-0 Built on a site of great and forgotten power, the mam- Price: $10.95 U.S./ $15.99 CAN. moth Bentham International Hospital was to be the very Publisher: Dark Horse Books definition of modern medical science at its best. But over Writer: Ruth Artist: Greg Ruth the years, the spectres and dark secrets of the Hospital Size: 6" x 9" began to bore away at its heart, leaving its foundations Page Count: 144 cracked and vulnerable to the oldest of horrors and night- Format: softcover trade mares. When a prominent Commissioner of the City’s paperback, black and white Recommended Age: 14+ Housing and Urban Development Department is brought Genre: Horror to the Panopticon for evaluation after murdering her Rights: Worldwide family, the haunted secrets of the hospital begin to un- Carton Quantity: 48 ravel, leaving no one untouched. Julius, the prosthetic Publication Date: July 2006 boy in room 13 is waking up. The black eggs are found. The lines between the patients and the doctors is blurring. This is where the end begins. Every cure is paid with a curse and every sin is birthed anew as the once brilliant light of modern medicine forsakes the world for the shadows it can no longer hide.

KEY SELLING POINTS: • Greg Ruth is the acclaimed artist on Freaks of the Heart- land and several issues of Dark Horse�s Conan series.

DE: TALES It is in our nature to be fascinated by identical twins. We ISBN: 1-59307-485-9 watch them whenever possible, captivated by mirror im- Price: $14.95 U.S./ $21.50 CAN. ages interacting, moving independently of one another, and Publisher: Dark Horse Books yet sharing the same mannerisms and speech patterns. Writer: Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá Artist: Fábio Moon and Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá are Brazilian twins who Gabriel Bá share an award-winning talent for comics and an abiding Size: 6" x 9" love of the medium. Following in the wake of brothers Page Count: 112 Format: softcover trade Gilbert & and Tomer & Asaf Hanuka, paperback, black and white Moon & Bá bring their considerable skills to Dark Horse Recommended Age: 16+ in De:Tales, their first major American release! Other Works by Author: AutobioGraphix from Dark Horse, and in Ursula and Smoke and This collection of short stories features the pair working Guns from AiT/Planet Lar. together, in tandem, or separately—trading off on the Genre: Fantasy, Fiction, roles of writing and illustrating, sharing those roles, or Non-fiction flying solo. Brimming with all the details of human life, Rights: Worldwide Carton Quantity: 75 their charming tales move from the urban reality of Publication Date: July 2006 their home in São Paulo to the magical realism of their Latin American background, living up to the twins’ critical acclaim and proving that they are a talented pair to watch for.

KEY SELLING POINTS: • Praise for the work of Moon and Bá:

Dark Horse Books “ . . . A perfect blend of fluid storytelling and contempo- rary style . . . A+.” —Tom McLean, Variety “Packed with luscious allegorical imagery . . . ” —Blogcritics.org

38 SUMMER 2006 B.P.R.D.: THE BLACK FLAME ISBN: 1-59307-550-2 Price: $17.95 U.S./ $25.50 CAN. Publisher: Dark Horse Books Writer: , John Arcudi Artist: Size: 7" x 10" Page Count: 168 Format: softcover trade paperback, full color Recommended Age: 16+ Other Works by Author: various titles Genre: Horror, Action/ Adventure Rights: Worldwide Carton Quantity: 44 Publication Date: July 2006

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The Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense faces its worst tragedy ever as the war against the plague of frogs reaches a devastating new level. Heralded by a bizarre villain from the B.P.R.D.’s past, an ancient -god marches across the American heartland portend- ing an end to the reign of men, and leaving a permanent mark on the Bureau.

Hellboy-creator Mike Mignola continues his collaboration with artist Guy Davis and co-writer John Arcudi to unravel a tale that will leave the earth shaken and the B.P.R.D. shattered. This collection includes a sketchbook section chronicling Guy Davis’s creation of the abominations unleashed in The Black Flame.

The B.P.R.D. is changed forever in this story revealing secret names, visions and dreams, a Nazi madman, and the death of a beloved agent.

KEY SELLING POINTS: • Written by award-winning Hellboy creator Mike Mignola, who also provides cover art. • Dark Horse has sold over 50,000 copies of Mike Mignola's B.P.R.D! Dark Horse Books

SUMMER 2006 39 USAGI YOJIMBO VOLUME 20: GLIMPSES OF DEATH ISBN: 1-59307-549-9 Price: $15.95 U.S./ $22.99 CAN. Publisher: Dark Horse Books Writer: Artist: Stan Sakai Size: 6" x 9" Page Count: 184 Format: softcover trade paperback, black and white Recommended Age: 10+ Genre: Action/Adventure Rights: Worldwide Carton Quantity: 41 Publication Date: July 2006

ALSO AVAILABLE: See our complete Usagi Yojimbo relist on page 63.

MARKETING PLAN: • National review attention • Increased consumer advertising for DH 20th anniversary in 2006 • Representation at national book trade and comics shows • Internet promotions on comics and fantasy websites

Wandering ronin Usagi Yojimbo is alone once again, having emerged from his travels with young Jotaro. His brief respite from danger was not destined to last long, for adventure in feudal Japan waits for no one! In this volume of the internationally acclaimed series, master storyteller Stan Sakai treats readers to intriguing tales of Usagi on his own and catches up with a bevy of fan-favorite characters—“whodunit” maestro Inspector Ishida has another puzzling mystery to solve, bounty hunters Gen and Stray Dog are each on the tail of the possessed swordswoman Inazuma, bodyguard Tomoe has a new political rival in Lord Noriyuki’s court, and Priest Sanshobo’s temple is plagued by a vile demon! Throughout these stories we follow Usagi as he is roped into a covert smuggling operation, escorts a cantankerous old woman through dangerous territory, assists an inventor with a visionary flying machine, and once again encounters a vengeful young samurai.

KEY SELLING POINTS: Dark Horse Books • Featuring a rare short story starring Katsuichi and young Usagi which has never seen print in the Usagi comics series! • Stan Sakai has won multiple Eisner Awards, a 2004 Young Adult Library Services Associa- tion award, a Parents’ Choice Award, a “Lifetime Achievement” , and the pres- tigious National Cartoonists Society Division Reuben Award.

40 SUMMER 2006 LITTLE LULU: APRIL FOOLS Learn why generations of readers have considered Little ISBN: 1-59307-557-X Lulu one of smartest, cutest, and funniest comics ever to Price: $9.95 U.S./ $14.50 CAN. Publisher: Dark Horse Books hit the shelves in the newest volume of Dark Horse’s on- Writer: John Stanley going effort to collect this seminal all-ages classic in a Artist: John Stanley and library of affordable trade paperbacks. Irving Tripp Size: 6" x 9" Page Count: 200 Lulu Moppet is the true-blue daughter of Main Street Format: softcover trade America, clever and sweet, mischievous and generous, paperback, black and white an eight-year-old hero for anyone who ever wanted to Recommended Age: All Ages bring home a gorilla, scare the pants off of , and Genre: Humor Rights: Worldwide outwit every grownup in sight. In this volume, comics Carton Quantity: 40 geniuses John Stanley and Irving Tripp are at their very Publication Date: best, crafting tales guaranteed to thrill kids just as much August 2006 as they crack up their parents. ALSO AVAILABLE: Little Lulu: Lulu Goes Shopping, KEY SELLING POINTS: 1-59307-270-8, $9.95 • When Dell first published Little Lulu’s funny-book ad- ventures they were immediate bestsellers, no one had Little Lulu: Lulu Takes a Trip, 1-59307-317-8, $9.95 ever seen such wit and grace between the comics pages. Now, relive that magic with this whopping collection Little Lulu: My Dinner With Lulu, of tales filled with truth, laughs, and a grand old time! 1-59307-318-6, $9.95 • “Little Lulu was one of my favorite comics as a kid. Little Lulu: Sunday Afternoon, Simple enough for kids to enjoy, but hip enough to 1-59307-345-3, $9.95 make grownups laugh out loud, it’s one of the great unsung comics.” Little Lulu: In the Doghouse, —Harvey Pekar, creator of American Splendor 1-59307-346-1, $9.95 • “These little gems are timeless models of wry humor Little Lulu: Letters to Santa, and unsurpassed comic timing . . . Like Peanuts and 1-59307-386-0, $9.95 Calvin and Hobbes, they create an entire kids’ universe of secret clubhouses, favorite soda fountain hangouts, Little Lulu: Late for School, 1-59307-453-0, $9.95 and fantastic menaces.” —Publishers Weekly

CONCRETE VOLUME 6: STRANGE ARMOR A troubled man seeking spiritual renewal in the wilderness ISBN: 1-59307-560-X experiences a wholly unexpected rebirth—as a walking Price: $12.95 U.S./ $18.50 CAN. Publisher: Dark Horse Books monolith, half a ton of animate stone able to perform Writer: Paul Chadwick astonishing feats of strength and endurance but forever Artist: Paul Chadwick denied many of life’s fundamental pleasures. As Con- Size: 6" x 9" crete, Ronald Lithgow becomes an overnight celebrity Page Count: 192 Format: softcover trade and the focus of dark government operatives desperate paperback, black and white to keep the secret of his metamorphosis from the public. Recommended Age: 14+ Concrete must struggle with the loss of his humanity Other Works by Author: while discovering, perhaps for the first time, what it Autobiographix; World Below Genre: Action/Adventure, truly means to be human. Science Fiction Rights: Worldwide KEY SELLING POINTS: Carton Quantity: 50 • “A powerful, emotional story . . . If you’re not reading Publication Date: August 2006 Concrete, you should be.” —Sci-Fi Universe

• Paul Chadwick’s award-winning Concrete has been Dark Horse Books called “the best comic being published by anyone, anywhere,” and Strange Armor is the definitive origin story of one of the most original and moving charac- ters in all of graphic fiction.

SUMMER 2006 41 PETE VON SHOLLY’S EXTREMELY WEIRD STORIES ISBN: 1-59307-554-5 Tired of ordinary weird stories? What you need are some Price: $14.95 U.S./ $21.50 CAN. Extremely Weird Stories—and we’re here to tell you Publisher: Dark Horse Books Writer: Pete Von Sholly just where to find them! Artist: Pete Von Sholly Size: 7" x 10" Experience horror, babes, and laughs! See monsters Page Count: 96 from beyond the grave and before the dawn of history! Format: softcover trade paperback, full color See Scottish Lakes, black magic, and psychotic pseudo- Recommended Age: 18+ scientists! Musty museums, virtual video vermin, and Other Works by Author: foul fables! See “things” that crawl and claw from the Morbid; Morbid Volume 2; pages of putrid pulps and under the covers of creepy Sergenstein Genre: Horror, Humor, comics! See stuff you’ll hope never sees you! Science Fiction Rights: Worldwide Don’t miss Pete Von Sholly’s Extremely Weird Stories! Carton Quantity: 74 It’s just what the mad doctor ordered! SPREAD THE Publication Date: August 2006 WEIRD!

ALSO AVAILABLE: KEY SELLING POINTS: Pete Von Sholly's Morbid Volume 1, • Pete Von Sholly is also the author of the acclaimed 1-59307-028-4, $14.95 Morbid, Morbid Volume 2, and Sergenstein. Pete Von Sholly's Morbid Volume 2, 1-59307-289-9, $14.95 HARLAN ELLISON’S DREAM CORRIDOR VOLUME 2 ISBN: 1-59307-494-8 Ever wonder what it would be like to walk into some- Price: $19.95 U.S./ $28.50 CAN. one else’s mind and have a look around? Well, what if Publisher: Dark Horse Books that person happened to be a brilliant storyteller whose Writer: Harlan Ellison, Gerard Jones, Mark Waid, Steve Niles, imagination has captivated millions of readers over the John Ostrander, , Elliot past five decades? In the award-winning anthology Harlan S. Maggin, and Ellison’s Dream Corridor, we have had both the privilege Artist: Eric Shanower, Neal and peril of rooting around in the eponymous fellow’s Adams, Paul Chadwick, Steve Rude, , Rags Morales, noggin to see what makes him tick—and what engross- Jay Lynch, , Richard ing stories have been hidden away in the cracks and Corben, , Bret Blevins, crevices of his gray matter. , Rafael Navarro, and Eduardo Barreto Size: 7" x 10" The words of world-renowned science-fiction author Page Count: 152 Harlan Ellison are once again translated onto the page Format: softcover trade by top comics creators, including Paul Chadwick, Neal paperback, full color Adams, Steve Rude, Gene Colan, Steve Niles, Gerard Recommended Age: 14+ Genre: Fantasy, Fiction, Jones, , and the legendary Oz illustrator Science Fiction Eric Shanower. Most of these stories have never before Rights: Worldwide seen print! Carton Quantity: 48 Publication Date: August 2006 KEY SELLING POINTS: • Collecting the final stories from the landmark fiction ALSO AVAILABLE: series Harlan Ellison’s Dream Corridor—with gobs Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor Volume 1, of new material! 1-56971-210-7, $18.95 • “. . . a masterful storyteller whose goal is to leave you with a bittersweet taste—like a jalapeño-laced cinna-

Dark Horse Books mon bear.” —Playboy • Featuring the stellar talents of on the cover, this collection includes the very last work done by the late artist Curt Swan and can stand alone or fit neatly as a companion to the first volume.

42 SUMMER 2006 THE COMICS: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF COMIC STRIP ART While there are many debates about when the medium ISBN: 1-59307-562-6 of words married with pictures first evolved into what Price: $24.95 U.S./ $35.50 CAN. Publisher: Dark Horse Books we know today as comics—be it in nascent prehistoric Writer: paintings in the caves of France or the more traditional Size: 9" x 12" illustrated adventures of such characters as the Katzen- Page Count: 296 jammer Kids which first appeared at the end of the nine- Format: trade paperback, black and white teenth century—virtually everyone born in the last one Recommended Age: All ages hundred years has read or seen a comic strip at one time Genre: Comics History, in their lives. In an exhaustive historical overview that Non-fiction captures the magic and innovation of this incredibly Rights: Worldwide Carton Quantity: 8 vibrant art form Jerry Robinson, comics historian, Publication Date: award-winning comics artist, and co-creator of the pop- August 2006 ular villain The Joker, takes us on a journey from the beginning of the comic strip industry to the present day in The Comics. Originally published in the early 1970s, this volume has been revised and updated to include commentary on the last thirty years of comics history: from Mutt & Jeff to Calvin & Hobbes, from George Herrimann’s Krazy and Ignatz to Patrick McDonnell’s Mutts, Jerry Robinson brings the history of this great industry alive for a new generation.

KEY SELLING POINTS: • As co-creator of The Joker and a seminal figure in the history of comics, Jerry Robinson is uniquely qualified to present this history of the comic strip medium. • With awareness of comics and interest in comics his- tory among the general population at an all-time high, this book should be well-received by fans and novices alike. THE ARTIST WITHIN The culmination of more than fifteen years of photogra- ISBN: 1-59307-561-8 phy by renowned photographer Greg Preston, this book Price: $39.95 U.S./ $56.99 CAN. is a living history of the men and women who have Publisher: Dark Horse Books Writer: Greg Preston shaped the imaginations of countless millions of people Size: 12 ½" x 11 ½" around the world through their work in the fields of ani- Page Count: 216 mated cartoons, comic books, comic strips, and editorial Format: hardcover, black cartooning. The list of more than two hundred artists in- and white Recommended Age: All ages cludes such luminaries as Frank Miller, , Genre: Comics History Joe Barbera, , , Moebius, Walter Rights: Worldwide and , and many more, all in photographs Carton Quantity: 8 exclusive and shot expressly for this book. Publication Date: August 2006 KEY SELLING POINTS: • This book provides a unique insider look at the women and men who create this uniquely American artform. • Presenting a unique glimpse into the creative mind through never-before allowed access to the artists’ Dark Horse Books studios, many of these pictures have never been pub- lished before, and capture several creators who have passed away, making this book an invaluable resource and window into the history of comics, animation and popular culture.

SUMMER 2006 43 13TH SON: WORSE THING WAITING ISBN: 1-59307-551-0 Born to a young woman driven to insanity and black Price: $12.95 U.S./ $18.50 CAN. magic by the deaths of her previous children, the 13th Publisher: Dark Horse Books Son is a creature like nothing this world has seen be- Writer: Artist: Kelley Jones fore. Humans are not his target. It’s the other monsters Size: 7" x 10" who walk this world—the wendigo, werewolves, Page Count: 96 ghouls, zombies, and vampires—who live in fear of Format: softcover trade his enormous and terrifying powers. And what those paperback, full color Recommended Age: 14+ powers are setting into motion is a horror beyond your Other Works by Author: deepest, darkest nightmares. Grendel: Red, White, and Black (artist); Kelley Jones’ The Hammer: One Big Lie; Last Train to KEY SELLING POINTS: Deadsville: A Cal McDonald • Discover the wondrous terror of this monster battle! Mystery (artist); ZombieWorld: • Kelley Jones has received acclaim for his work on titles Winter’s Dregs (artist) like Aliens, Matt Wagner’s Grendel; Last Train to Genre: Horror Rights: Worldwide Deadsville: A Cal McDonald Mystery; and his own Carton Quantity: 74 creation, The Hammer. Publication Date: August 2006

REVELATIONS ISBN: 1-59307-239-2 From Paul Jenkins and , the best-selling Price: $17.95 U.S./ $25.50 CAN. creative team behind Marvel’s Spectacular Spider-Man, Publisher: Dark Horse Books comes an occult murder mystery set in the unlikeliest of Writer: Paul Jenkins Artist: Humberto Ramos places—The Vatican. Size: 7" x 10" Page Count: 168 When the Cardinal next in line to succeed the ailing Pope Format: softcover trade turns up dead, Scotland Yard’s finest detective, Charlie paperback, full color Recommended Age: 14+ Northern, finds himself on a plane to Rome with little Genre: Horror, Crime, Fiction more than a full pack of cigarettes. With the help of a Rights: Worldwide priest, a coroner, and one beautiful lawyer, Northern must Carton Quantity: 34 uncover the facts in a place legendary for keeping its se- Publication Date: August 2006 crets. There are forces at work in The Holy See that would see the truth remain hidden—forces ancient and dark, with a power not seen in this world for millennia, and an agenda that will leave Northern’s world more shattered than he could have ever foreseen.

KEY SELLING POINTS: • Don’t miss out as one of the hottest creative teams in comics craft a supernatural thriller in the tradition of The Exorcist and The Da Vinci Code! Dark Horse Books

44 SUMMER 2006 EMILY THE STRANGE VOLUME 1 ISBN: 1-59307-573-1 Price: $19.95 U.S./ $28.50 CAN. Publisher: Dark Horse Books Writer: Cosmic Debris Artist: Cosmic Debris Size: 7" x 10" Page Count: 160 Format: softcover trade paperback, black and white with red Recommended Age: 14+ Genre: Fantasy, Horror Rights: Worldwide Carton Quantity: 46 Publication Date: August 2006

MARKETING PLAN: • $20,000 marketing budget • National review attention • Increased consumer advertising for DH 20th anniversary in 2006 • Representation at national book trade and comics shows • Internet promotion on Emily’s website • Internet promotions on comics and fantasy websites

Emily the Strange is not your ordinary thirteen-year-old girl—she’s got a razor-sharp wit as dark as her jet-black hair, a posse of moody black cats, and famous friends in very odd places! She’s got a broodingly unique way of experiencing the world, and you’re invited along for the ride. Legions of fans worldwide have joined forces to make Emily a pop-culture phenomenon.

KEY SELLING POINTS: • This volume collects the first three issues of the Dark Horse Emily comics series—“The Boring Issue,” “The Lost Issue,” and “The Dark Issue” and includes one brand spankin’ new story that you’ve never seen before! • Dark Horse also offers a line of Emily products including candles, candy bars, and a Zippo® lighter. • Twentieth Century Fox has acquired the rights to turn everyone’s favorite anti-hero into a live-action event motion picture. Dark Horse Books

SUMMER 2006 45 CTRL + ALT + DEL VOLUME 3 ISBN: 1-59307-358-5 Price: $14.95 U.S./ $21.50 CAN. Publisher: Dark Horse Books Writer: Tim Buckley Artist: Tim Buckley Size: 6" x 9" Page Count: 192 Format: softcover trade paperback, full color Recommended Age: 14+ Genre: Humor Rights: Worldwide Carton Quantity: 48 Publication Date: August 2006

MARKETING PLAN: • $25,000 marketing budget • National review attention • Representation at national book trade and comics shows • Internet marketing campaign- aimed at web comics fans

CTRL+ALT+DEL is coming to Dark Horse!

The web comic that’s a favorite of gamers and robots everywhere comes to Dark Horse in July! Ethan and Lucas are gamers. To say that they are hardcore gamers would be both redun- dant and an understatement. If you looked up “video game addict” in the dictionary . . . well, you wouldn’t find anything. It’s not in there. But if it was, Ethan’s picture would almost cer- tainly accompany it. His roommate Lucas is a slacker at heart, and is always more than ready to choose a game of Halo 2 deathmatch over anything productive. Together, along with their friends Zeke, the sentient robot XBox console, Scott, the paranoid Linux fanatic, and Lilah, the gamer girl most geeks dream about, they get into a series of “adventures,” which is a code- word for “mishaps involving fire and/or electricity accompanied by sudden and inexplicable incidents of extreme violence.”

KEY SELLING POINTS:

Dark Horse Books • One of the most popular comics on the web, receiving over 100,000 hits per day! • Fans of Sci-Fi or Fantasy will love the numerous parodies of films like Star Wars, , and Lord of the Rings. • This is volume 3 in a series that collects the popular web comic.

46 SUMMER 2006 KING KONG ISBN: 1-59307-472-7 Price: $12.95 U.S./ $18.50 CAN. Publisher: Dark Horse Books Writer: Christian Gossett Artist: Dustin Weaver and Size: 7" x 10" Page Count: 96 Format: softcover trade paperback, full color Recommended Age: 12+ Other Works by Author: Red Star Genre: Action/Adventure, Fantasy Rights: WW-JAP Carton Quantity: 74 Publication Date: August 2006

MARKETING PLAN: • $20,000 marketing budget • National review attention • Representation at national book trade and comics shows • Custom publishing tie-in with DVD release • Internet promotions on movie, comics, and entertainment websites

One of the biggest motion pictures events of all time explodes off the comics page in this epic adaptation of Peter Jackson’s King Kong!

Director Carl Denham has one chance to make the film of his dreams—hire an unknown ac- tress, kidnap his writer, and board a tramp freighter for the mysterious Island of the Skull. But when hostile natives capture actress Ann Darrow, Denham and his crew will face horrors from giant spiders to bloodthirsty dinosaurs to get her back. Yet, nothing can prepare them for the revelation of the mighty wonder in whose clutches Ann truly remains—King Kong!

KEY SELLING POINTS: • King Kong was a huge holiday 2005 blockbuster starring Jack Black, Adrian Brody, and Naomi Watts. • Award-winning director Peter Jackson has garnered praise and legions of fans from the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

• 75 years later, Kong is still an iconic symbol. Dark Horse Books • Series will appeal to fans of the original 1933 film classic. • Over 275 books featuring Kong are currently in print.

SUMMER 2006 47 STAR WARS: CLONE WARS ADVENTURES VOLUME 6 ISBN: 1-59307-567-7 Four more thrilling tales of planets in peril and Jedi in Price: $6.95 U.S./ $9.99 CAN. jeopardy! The Clone Wars grind through the galaxy, Publisher: Dark Horse Books Writer: Haden Blackman, shaking every system to its core and testing loyalties on Thomas Andrews, and The both sides of the conflict. The last days of the Jedi are at Fillbach Brothers hand, but if their Order is to fall, they’re going down Artist: The Fillbach Brothers, swinging! Presenting another round of lightning-paced, Stewart McKenny, and various Size: 5 ¼" X 7 ½" action-packed, all-ages Star Wars goodness, all told in Page Count: 96 the same stripped-down stylization as ’s Format: softcover trade micro-series. paperback, full color Recommended Age: 8+ Genre: Action/Adventure, KEY SELLING POINTS: Science Fiction • The Clone Wars Adventures series are a top seller, and Rights: WW-UK-NZ very kid-friendly, perfect for younger readers Carton Quantity: 96 • The stories contained in this book are based on the Publication Date: August 2006 popular Cartoon Network micro-series and the same visual sensibilities and exciting, stripped- ALSO AVAILABLE: down style. Volume 1, 1-59307-243-0, • Currently, there are over 100,000 copies of Star Wars: $6.95 Clone Wars Adventures in print! Volume 2, 1-59307-271-6, $6.95

Volume 3, 1-59307-307-0, $6.95

STAR WARS: CLONE WARS VOLUME 9—ENDGAME ISBN: 1-59307-553-7 Witness the untold stories of the Jedi who took a last Price: $17.95 U.S./ $25.50 CAN. stand against Emperor Palpatine in the moments during, Publisher: Dark Horse Books and immediately after, the events in Revenge of the Sith! Writer: John Ostrander and Welles Hartley Watch Darth Vader undertake a Jedi “purge” of his own Artist: , Doug in the hunt for Obi-Wan Kenobi! Wheatley, Dan Parsons, Brad Anderson, Chris Chuckry, and In the jungles of the Wookiee homeworld Kashyyyk, Tomás Giorello Size: 7" x 10" Quinlan Vos wages a battle of impossible odds against Page Count: 144 his own troops to protect his loved ones. On the icy Outer Format: softcover trade Rim world of Toola, Jedi Master Kai Huddora takes a paperback, full color terrified Padawan into his charge after her own master Recommended Age: 12+ Genre: Action/Adventure, falls to Order 66. Amidst the forests of New Plymto, Das Science Fiction Jennir finds himself in league with a band of rebels he’d Rights: WW-UK-NZ led attacks against only days before. Not all Jedi are scat- Carton Quantity: 50 tered across the galaxy however, and soon, a brave few Publication Date: August 2006 will plot to topple Sith rule—by setting a trap for the newly unveiled Darth Vader!

KEY SELLING POINTS: • This volume proves that while the Clone Wars have end-

Dark Horse Books ed, the fight for the fate of the Jedi has just begun! • Sales of the Dark Horse Star Wars: Clone Wars graphic novels are approaching 200,000!

48 SUMMER 2006 PENNY ARCADE VOLUME 2: EPIC LEGENDS OF THE MAGIC SWORD KINGS ISBN: 1-59307-541-3 Price: $12.95 U.S./ $18.50 CAN. Publisher: Dark Horse Books Writer: Jerry Holkins Artist: Mike Krahulik Size: 7" x 9" Page Count: 168 Format: softcover trade paperback, full color Recommended Age: 14+ Genre: Humor Rights: Worldwide Carton Quantity: 34 Publication Date: August 2006

ALSO AVAILABLE: Penny Arcade Volume 1: Attack of the Bacon Robots, 1-59307-444-1, $12.95

MARKETING PLAN: • $25,000 marketing budget • National review attention • Representation at national book trade and comics shows • Internet promotion on authors’ website • Internet marketing campaign- aimed at web comics fans

Verily, the heroes of Penny Arcade return in the second volume of valiant chivalric deeds of brave heroism, heroic gallantry, and gallant bravery! Forsooth! Sir Gabe and Sir Tycho return in Epic Legends of the Magic Sword Kings!

Collecting all the Penny Arcade strips posted online from 2001 and 2002, Volume 2 includes creator commentary, a sketchbook section, and an introduction from somebody sort of famous! If you haven’t heard of Penny Arcade, the most popular online comic ever, it might not be too late to salvage whatever reputation you have and get in on the fun all the cool people have been having. We won’t tell anyone.

KEY SELLING POINTS:

• Fans of Star Wars, Sci-Fi, video games, and cartoons like South Park, Family Guy, or Sea Dark Horse Books Lab 2021 will appreciate the humor in Penny Arcade.

SUMMER 2006 49 EDEN: IT’S AN ENDLESS WORLD! VOLUME 4 ISBN: 1-59307-544-8 Exploring the origin of Kenji, the knife-wielding, Jap- Price: $12.95 U.S./ $18.50 CAN. anese freedom fighter, Hiroki Endo takes us back in Publisher: Dark Horse Books Writer: Hiroki Endo time to witness the brutal events that shaped this war- Artist: Hiroki Endo rior’s spirit. In Kenji’s present, he fights in one of the Size: 5" x 7" most intense hand-to-hand combat sequences in post- Page Count: 208 apocalyptic literature! With the world reeling from the Format: softcover trade paperback, black and white aftereffects of a brutal, widespread virus, civilization is Recommended Age: 18+ torn between the laws and ways of the old world and a Other Works by Author: new order where cybernetic implants are commonplace Short Pieces volumes 1 & 2 and “might means right.” Elijah and his comrades-in-arms Genre: Manga Rights: U.S. + Canada attempt to cross the Andes Mountains, with Propater’s Carton Quantity: 24 gruesome Aeon soldiers and armored troops hot on Publication Date: their heels! Graphic, , and philosophical, August 2006 Eden is a place where endearing heroes face a constant struggle for survival and violent surprises wait around every corner!

KEY SELLING POINTS: • Often compared to ’s Akira in both artistic execution and storytelling scope, Hiroki Endo’s deep and beautiful Eden series is finally available in English! • Each volume comes shrink-wrapped and carries an 18+ content advisory.

OLD BOY VOLUME 1 ISBN: 1-59307-568-5 Ten years ago, they took him. He doesn’t know who. Price: $12.95 U.S./ $18.50 CAN. For ten years he has been confined in a private prison. Publisher: Dark Horse Books He doesn’t know why. For ten years his only contact Writer: Garon Tsuchiya Artist: Nobuaki Minegishi with the outside world has been a television set and the 1 Size: 5 /8" x 7 ¼" voice of his jailers. In time, he lost himself . . . changed Page Count: 208 . . . transformed himself into something else . . . some- Format: softcover trade thing hard . . . something lethal. Suddenly one day, his paperback, black and white Recommended Age: 18+ incarceration ends, again without explanation. He is se- Genre: Manga, Crime dated, stuffed inside a trunk, and dumped in a park. Rights: U.S. + Canada + UK When he awakes, he is free to reclaim what’s left of his Carton Quantity: 26 life . . . and what’s left is revenge. Publication Date: August 2006 KEY SELLING POINTS: MARKETING PLAN: • Old Boy is an intense, bare-knuckled urban thriller in • $25,000 marketing budget • National review attention the tradition of Pulp Fiction and Payback and is the • Representation at national book manga that inspired the critically acclaimed 2003 film. trade and comics shows • The Oldboy film, directed by Park Chan-Wook, was • Internet marketing campaign- awarded the Grand Jury prize at the 2004 Cannes aimed at web comics fans Film Festival. • Original Japanese format. Dark Horse Books • Translated into English for the first time. • Each volume comes shrink-wrapped and carries an 18+ content advisory.

50 SUMMER 2006 THE KUROSAGI CORPSE DELIVERY SERVICE VOLUME 1 ISBN: 1-59307-555-3 Price: $10.95 U.S./ $15.99 CAN. Publisher: Dark Horse Books Writer: Eiji Ohtsuka Artist: Housui Yamazaki Size: 5" x 7" Page Count: 208 Format: softcover trade paperback, black and white Recommended Age: 18+ Other Works by Author: Madara (5-volume series released in English through CMX during 2005), MPD Psycho (notorious 10-volume series made into Japanese TV show, released in Japan and France only, to date) Genre: Manga, Horror Rights: U.S. + Canada + UK Carton Quantity: 24 Publication Date: August 2006

MARKETING PLAN: • $10,000 marketing budget • National review attention • Special focus on “Horror Manga” in comics and book trade and consumer advertising • Representation at national book trade and comics shows • Internet promotions on anime and manga websites

Your body is their business! Five young students at a Buddhist university, three guys and two girls, find little call for their job skills in today’s . . . among the living, that is! But all that stuff in college they were told would never pay off—you know, channeling, dowsing, ESP— gives them a direct line to the dead . . . the dead who are still trapped in their corpses and can’t move on to the next reincarnation.

The five form the Kurosagi (“Black Heron”—their ominous bird logo) Corpse Delivery Service: whether suicide, murder, accident, or illness, they’ll carry your body wherever it needs to go to free your soul! The kids from Kurosagi can smell a customer a mile away—it’s a good thing one of the girls majored in embalming!

KEY SELLING POINTS: • From the writer of the notorious MPD Psycho and one of the hottest new young artists in Japan, The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service is like Scooby-Doo meets Se7en. Dark Horse Books • The Kurosagi live-action film is tenatively scheduled for U.S. release in 2007. • Each volume comes shrink-wrapped and carries an 18+ content advisory.

SUMMER 2006 51 WHAT’S MICHAEL? VOLUME 11: PLANET OF THE CATS ISBN: 1-59307-525-1 Described as “Japan’s version of Garfield, Heathcliff, Price: $9.95 U.S./ $14.50 CAN. and Krazy Kat all rolled into one,” Makoto Kobayashi’s Publisher: Dark Horse Books Writer: Makoto Kobayashi What’s Michael? mixes slice-of-life cat reality with Artist: Makoto Kobayashi out-of-this-world cat fantasy into one tasty dish of Size: 6" x 9" laughter that even cat haters will find delicious. This, Page Count: 104 the final volume of the collected series, includes the Format: softcover trade paperback, black and white What’s Michael? epic, “The Planet of the Cats,” a sci-fi Recommended Age: 8+ feline farce that will put you into comedy orbit! Genre: Manga, Humor Rights: U.S. and Canada Carton Quantity: 104 KEY SELLING POINTS: Publication Date: May 2006 • “What’s Michael? is a delightful blend of fantasy and reality-based characters. The storytelling is wonder- fully clear and concise, and the stories, themselves, are just plain fun.” —Stan Sakai, creator of Usagi Yojimbo • “Sometimes fanciful, sometimes very well observed, and always humorous.” —Library Journal

OH MY GODDESS! VOLUME 24 ISBN: 1-59307-545-6 Ever since a cosmic phone call brought the four literal Price: $10.95 U.S./ $15.99 CAN. young goddesses Belldandy, Urd, Skuld—and, like an Publisher: Dark Horse Books occasional vowel, Peorth—to live in college student Writer: Kosuke Fujishima Artist: Kosuke Fujishima Keiichi’s residence, his personal life has been turned 1 3 Size: 5 /8" by 7 /16" upside down, sideways, and sometimes even into Page Count: 176 strange dimensions! Format: softcover trade paperback, black and white Recommended Age: 10+ As the Parent-Child Showdown between Keiichi and his Other Works by Author: fa—um, “Keima-san,” races its way along the night Oh My Goddess! Colors; roads of the Inokuradai Circuit, his —uh, “Takano- You’re Under Arrest! san,” passes the time by whupping the Goddesses at Genre: Manga, Humor Rights: U.S. and Canada mahjong. But does she realize what they really are? Carton Quantity: 26 Then, cry “Roadtrip!” and let Chihiro’s Mini Cooper Publication Date: slip into gear, as she, Bell, and Keiichi hit the highway to August 2006 a hot springs. But the vacation from drama is brief—and readers are advised to prepare for the advent of . . . the Fifth Goddess!

KEY SELLING POINTS: • Collection also features a new installment in the Dark Horse Books Adventures of the Mini-Goddesses! years after the original collection!

52 SUMMER 2006 SAIYUKI RELOAD ANIME MANGA VOLUME 1 Humans and ghosts live together peacefully in the world ISBN: 1-59307-521-9 of Saiyuki Reload, but that peace has suddenly been Price: $14.95 U.S./ $21.50 CAN. shattered. The ghosts have lost their selves and started Publisher: Dark Horse Books Writer/Artist: Based on the to attack humans. It all seems related to an evil experi- manga created by Kazuya ment aimed at reviving Gyumao, a powerful ghost who Minekura has been sealed for 500 years. Now it’s up to the Sanzo Size: 5" x 7" group, powerful fighting priests, to stop the experiment, Page Count: 160 Format: softcover trade traveling through a world gone crazy. paperback, full color Recommended Age: 16+ KEY SELLING POINTS: Other Works by Author: Trigun manga; Gungrave • Based on the popular manga by Kazuya Minekura, the Genre: Manga, Action/ Saiyuki Reload anime is a fan-favorite! Now it comes Adventure, Humor, Fantasy to you in full-color trade paperback from Dark Horse Rights: U.S. + Canada + UK, Manga. Features the first six episodes of the hit series IRE + AUS + NZ + SA Carton Quantity: 84 in the fun “non-westernized” format! Publication Date: • Series has been equally popular as a , August 2006 magazine, website, and anime. One of the hottest titles in Japan and the U.S.—with fans steadily building ALSO AVAILABLE: Gungrave Anime Manga, since 1995. 1-59307-378-X, $14.95 • Amateur fan circles host Saiyuki events—some devot- ed to certain characters or couplings of characters— Anime Manga, complete with contests. 1-59307-393-3, $14.95 • Kazuya Minekura is the white-hot, Monkey King writer! Trigun Anime Manga Volume 1, 1-59307-105-1, $14.95

Trigun Anime Manga Volume 2, 1-59307-313-5, $14.95

TRIGUN MAXIMUM VOLUME 10 If ever there was an intense volume of Trigun, ISBN: 1-59307-556-1 “Wolfwood” would at least be its equal. Since Price: $9.95 U.S./ $14.50 CAN. the day Vash spotted his decimated soul in the Publisher: Dark Horse Books and Digital Manga Publishing middle of the desert, Nicholas Wolfwood has Writer/Artist: Yasuhiro become a favorite of fans. A man of the cloth Nightow Size: 5" x 7" with a tortured soul and a past full of bullets, the protec- tor of our story’s hero, Wolfwood might just be reaching Page Count: 240 Format: softcover trade the end of his pew. paperback, black and white Recommended Age: 16+ Ironically, the past has come back to attack him. And by Other Works by Author: that we mean that Livio, the young man Nicholas once Trigun manga Genre: Manga, Action/ befriended. Livio is more than a match for Wolfwood, Adventure, Western, Science having been trained by the same master, Chapel. And Fiction now the master and both disciples meet in a deadly face- Rights: U.S. + Canada + UK off, and only one man will survive. Carton Quantity: 28 Publication Date: August 2006 But readers are in for more than just one surprise in this climactic volume of Trigun.

KEY SELLING POINTS: Dark Horse Books • Presented in a fashion directly approved by Nightow him- self, Trigun Maximum is so authentic that . . . well, it can hardly be more so. Includes facetious inner cover art and Nightow’s hilarious back page commentary, as always.

SUMMER 2006 53 MAIL VOLUME 1 ISBN: 1-59307-566-9 Price: $10.95 U.S./ $15.99 CAN. Publisher: Dark Horse Books Writer: Housui Yamazaki Artist: Housui Yamazaki Size: 5" x 7" Page Count: 208 Format: softcover trade paperback, black and white Recommended Age: 18+ Other Works by Author: Manga version of The Blair Witch Project 2 and : Before The One-Year War Genre: Manga, Horror Rights: U.S. and Canada Carton Quantity: 56 Publication Date: August 2006

MARKETING PLAN: • $10,000 marketing budget • National review attention • Special focus on “Horror Manga” in comic and book trade and consumer advertising • Representation at national book trade and comics shows • Internet promotions on anime and manga websites

Private detective Reiji Akiba has a theory about those awkward moments and weird coinci- dences we all encounter in life. They are actually encounters with the dead—their way of send- ing us a message. But you may not want to open such strange mail from beyond—not unless you can see the ghostly attachment, like Akiba can. And not unless you carry a gun that can kill what isn’t alive, like Akiba’s aptly named Kagutsuchi, “the tool between God and earth” . . . digging a divine grave to lay to rest the evil dead.

Volume 1 of Mail opens with a model’s photo shoot at what was a lovely riverside. But some- one’s thrown their trash away here: human bones. When the negatives in the darkroom reveal hidden horror, it’s time for the magazine to hire Akiba. The answers lie in the secret basement of a shunned house . . . but they don’t lie peacefully!

KEY SELLING POINTS: • Mail was recently made into a live-action Japanese horror movie starring Chiaki Kuriyama—

Dark Horse Books “Go-Go Yubari” from Kill Bill. • With Mail and Corpse Delivery Service, Dark Horse introduces to the U.S. market one of the hottest up-and-coming new artists in Japan, Housui Yamazaki. These two books are Yamazaki’s debut in the American market. • Each volume comes shrink-wrapped and carries an 18+ content advisory.

54 SUMMER 2006 CANNON GOD EXAXXION STAGE 5 Life has started to look up for Hoichi Kano. Sure, he’s ISBN: 1-59307-571-5 Earth’s only hope of resisting an insidious coloni- Price: $15.95 U.S./ $22.99 CAN. Publisher: Dark Horse Books zation-slash-invasion. Sure, he’s had to deal with the Writer: Kenichi Sonoda fact that every time he uses his super-powered gunsuit Artist: Kenichi Sonoda or the mighty robot Exaxxion to fight them he puts the Size: 5 ¾" x 8 ¼" lives of everyone he loves in danger. But every high Page Count: 208 Format: softcover trade school student has issues, right? Now, Hoichi is kicking paperback, black and white butt and taking names, and it looks like he has the Recommended Age: 16+ Riofaldians on the run. He’s got the girl, the guns, Other Works by Author: and his father—a depraved, eccentric genius who Genre: Manga, Science Fiction commands a war room full of voluptuous androids— Rights: U.S. and Canada on his side. What more could a hero need? But in the Carton Quantity: 32 shadow of a tenuous cease-fire a battle still rages, Publication Date: June 2006 with both sides desperate to win the support of the masses—both Human and Riofaldian alike! With so much propagandized mud being slung, will anyone know who the true enemies are at the end of the day? And will anyone notice just how close the Riofaldians are to breaking through the Kano family’s defenses?

KEY SELLING POINTS: • From Gunsmith Cats creator Kenichi Sonoda comes Can- non God Exaxxion, a sexy sci-fi thrill ride jam-packed with action, drama, and a healthy dose of naughtiness!

GO GIRL! ROBOTS GONE WILD Two feature-length stories in one volume! Video games ISBN: 1-59307-409-3 can get too realistic, as the flying teenager, GoGirl! Price: $14.95 U.S./ $21.50 CAN. discovers in “Prisoners of the Machine,” when she and Publisher: Dark Horse Books Writer: her friends find themselves trapped inside a computer, Artist: Anne Timmons menaced by giant anime-robots! And in “Double Size: 6" x 9" Trouble,” GoGirl!’s arch-enemies create a robot that Page Count: 184 looks just like her, except that it has the mind of a Format: softcover trade paperback, black and white master criminal! How can our heroine convince the Recommended Age: 8+ cops that she didn’t rob that bank, when everyone saw Other Works by Author: her do it? Plus, GoGirl!’s sidekick, Haseena, tired of The Great Women Cartoonists; always being rescued by the flying teen, takes up From Girls to Grrlz: A History of Women’s Comics from Teens to sleuthing herself in “Haseena Ross, Girl Detective.” Zines; and The Great Women Superheroes KEY SELLING POINTS: Genre: Manga, Superhero Adventure • Superhero adventure great for all ages! Rights: Worldwide Carton Quantity: 35 Publication Date: August 2006

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SUMMER 2006 55 56 Dark Horse Books Backlist basis ofthehitfilms toaworldoffanswhowerehungryformorestoriesfromthe Cart Assassin series, garnering widespread critical acclaim for his screenwriting abilities, and presenting the epic manga fiction, poetry, and screenplays. Starting in 1972, Koike adapted popular written movies; produced magazine; golf a founded programs; television hosted has Koike Freemanmanga, -67-8- 30g otoe 4 " gs1+ ihsU A WEG $9.95 RightsUS&CANWWENG Ages16+ 4"x6" softcover 320pg 1-56971-588-2 -67-8- 30g otoe 4 " gs1+ ihsU A WEG $9.95 RightsUS&CANWWENG Ages16+ 4"x6" softcover 320pg 1-56971-589-0 of the comics medium. Aside from co-creating and writing the incredibly successful incredibly the writing and co-creating from Aside medium. comics the of Widely respected as a powerful writer of graphic fiction, Kazuo Koike has spent a lifetime reaching beyond the bounds by KazuoKoike andGosekiKojima LONE WOLFANDCUB -67-8- 30g otoe 4 " gs1+ ihsU A WEG $9.95 RightsUS&CANWWENG Ages16+ 4"x6" $9.95 softcover RightsUS&CANWWENG Ages16+ 320pg 1-56971-585-8 4"x6" $9.95 LONE WOLFANDCUBVOL.13:THEMOONIN EAST, softcover THESUNINWEST RightsUS&CANWWENG 304pg Ages16+ 1-56971-513-0 $9.95 4"x6" LONE WOLFANDCUBVOL.12:SHATTERED STONES RightsUS&CANWWENG softcover 320pg Ages16+ 1-56971-512-2 $9.95 4"x6" LONE WOLFANDCUBVOL.11:TALISMAN RightsUS&CANWWENG softcover OFHADES Ages16+ 320pg 1-56971-511-4 $9.95 4"x6" LONE WOLFANDCUBVOL.10:HOSTAGE RightsUS&CANWWENG softcover CHILD Ages16+ 304pg 1-56971-510-6 $9.95 4"x6" LONE WOLFANDCUBVOL.9:ECHOOFTHEASSASSIN RightsUS&CANWWENG softcover Ages16+ 304pg 1-56971-509-2 $9.95 4"x6" LONE WOLFANDCUBVOL.8:CHAINSOFDEATH RightsUS&CANWWENG softcover Ages16+ 320pg 1-56971-508-4 $9.95 4"x6" LONE WOLFANDCUBVOL.7:CLOUDDRAGON,WINDTIGER RightsUS&CANWWENG softcover Ages16+ 288pg 1-56971-507-6 4"x6" $9.95 LONE WOLFANDCUBVOL.6:LANTERNSFORTHEDEAD softcover RightsUS&CANWWENG 288pg Ages16+ 1-56971-506-8 $9.95 4"x6" LONE WOLFANDCUBVOL.5:BLACKWIND RightsUS&CANWWENG softcover Ages16+ 304pg 1-56971-505-X $9.95 4"x6" LONE WOLFANDCUBVOL.4:THEBELLWARDEN RightsUS&CANWWENG softcover Ages16+ 304pg 1-56971-504-1 $9.95 4"x6" LONE WOLFANDCUBVOL.3:THEFLUTEOFFALLEN TIGER RightsUS&CANWWENG softcover Ages16+ 302pg 1-56971-503-3 4"x6" LONE WOLFANDCUBVOL.2:THEGATELESS softcover BARRIER 296pg 1-56971-502-5 LONE WOLFANDCUBVOL.1:THEASSASSIN’SROAD -67-9- 30g otoe 4 " gs1+ ihsU A WEG $9.95 RightsUS&CANWWENG Ages16+ 4"x6" softcover 320pg 1-56971-590-4 LONE WOLFANDCUBVOL. 18:THETWILIGHTOFKUROKUWA $9.95 LONE WOLFANDCUBVOL. 17:THEWILLOFFANG RightsUS&CANWWENG Ages16+ 4"x6" LONE WOLFANDCUBVOL.16:THEGATEWAY softcover INTOWINTER 352pg 1-56971-587-4 LONE WOLFANDCUBVOL.15:BROTHERSOFTHEGRASS LONE WOLFANDCUBVOL.14:DAY OFTHEDEMONS -67-8- 30g otoe 4 " gs1+ ihsU A WEG $9.95 RightsUS&CANWWENG Ages16+ 4"x6" softcover 320pg 1-56971-586-6 KAZUO KOIKE Lone Wolf and Cub into a series of six films, The Baby

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