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Fall 2010 25 Archie Firsts 2 Berserk Volume 34 2 Boris Karloff Tales O Fmystery Archives Volume 3 18 B.P.R.D

Fall 2010 25 Archie Firsts 2 Berserk Volume 34 2 Boris Karloff Tales O Fmystery Archives Volume 3 18 B.P.R.D

FALL 2010 25 ARCHIE FIRSTS 2 VOLUME 34 2 TALES O FMYSTERY ARCHIVES VOLUME 3 18 B.P.R.D. VOLUME 14: KING OF FEAR 9 SEASON 8 VOLUME 7: 2 19 OMNIBUS BOOK 2 10 CHRONICLES OF CONAN VOLUME 20: NIGHT OF THE WOLF AND OTHER STORIES, THE 10 CHRONICLES OF KULL VOLUME 3: SCREAMS IN THE DARK AND OTHER STORIES, THE 19 CITIZEN REX 3 CONAN NEWSPAPER STRIPS VOLUME 1 20 CONAN VOLUME 9: FREE COMPANIONS 20 CREEPY ARCHIVES VOLUME 8 11 DE:TALES 25 DEVIL 3 DR. HORRIBLE 11 DOCTOR , MAN OF THE ATOM VOLUME 1 12 DOCTOR SPEKTOR ARCHIVES VOLUME 1 25 ARCHIVES VOLUME 6 3 EMPOWERED VOLUME 6 4 EVELYN EVELYN 4 ARCHIVES VOLUME 1 26 FRAZETTA ARCHIVES VOLUME 1: WHITE INDIAN 13 VOLUME 13 27 GANTZ VOLUME 14 14 GEAR SCHOOL VOLUME 2 5 GHOST TALKER’S DAYDREAM VOLUME 4 5 GIANT SIZE VOLUME 2 14 GRANDVILLE MON AMOUR 29 GUILD, THE 15 : MASKS AND MONSTERS 6 KING CONAN VOLUME 1 15 LITTLE LULU’S PAL TUBBY VOLUME 1: THE CASTAWAY AND OTHER STORIES 27 LITTLE LULU VOLUME 25: THE BURGLAR-PROOF CLUBHOUSE AND OTHER STORIES 16 MAGIC NIGHT RAYEARTH OMNIBUS EDITION 27 MAGNUS, ROBOT FIGHTER VOLUME 1 6 MICHAEL MOORCOCK’S ELRIC OF MELNIBONE 7 MIGHTY ARCHIVES VOLUME 1 22 MOTEL ART IMPROVEMENT SERVICE 7 NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: THE SHINJ IKARI RAISING PROJECT VOLUME 6 28 NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: THE SHINJ IKARI RAISING PROJECT VOLUME 7 22 OH MY GODDESS! VOLUME 16 8 OH MY GODDESS! VOLUME 36 8 SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN VOLUME 8, THE 23 SAVAGE SWORD OF KULL VOLUME 1, THE 16 SCARY GODMOTHER 28 VOLUME 2: SHEPHERD’S TALE 4 VOLUME 1: THE HARD GOODBYE (3RD EDITION) 5 SIN CITY VOLUME 2: A DAME TO KILL FOR (3RD EDITION) 12 SIN CITY VOLUME 3: THE BIG FAT KILL (3RD EDITION) 13 SIN CITY VOLUME 4: (3RD EDITION) 21 SIN CITY VOLUME 5: (3RD EDITION) 21 SIN CITY VOLUME 6: BOOZE, BROADS, & BULLETS (3RD EDITION) 26 SIN CITY VOLUME 7: (3RD EDITION) 17 VOLUME 2: DEATH’S BLACK RIDERS 29 : THE CLONE WARS—DEADLY HANDS OF SHON-JU 8 STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS—HERO OF THE CONFEDERACY 18 STAR WARS: THE FORCE VOLUME 2 17 STAR WARS OMNIBUS: A LONG TIME AGO…VOLUME 2 28 STAR WARS OMNIBUS: QUINLAN VOS—JEDI IN DARKNESS 23 ARCHIVES: THE JESSE MARSH YEARS VOLUME 7 24 TROUBLEMAKER BOOK 2 (ALEX BARNABY SERIES 4) 24 , SON OF STONE ARCHIVES VOLUME 7 18 UNCLE SILAS: GENETIS 9 VAMPIRE BOY 29 VAMPIRE HUNTER D VOLUME 16: TYRANT’S STARS PARTS 1 AND 2 24 WEDNESDAY CONSPIRACY, THE ISBN: 1-59582-532-0 ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-532-2 BERSERK VOLUME 34 Price: $14.99 (CAN: $18.99, £10.99) Faced with the Kushan emperor’s horrific new form and the Publisher: Dark Horse bloody swath of destruction and spawning demons he leaves in his Writer: Kentaro Miura wake with every step, the soldiers in Griffith’s new Band of the Artist: Kentaro Miura Hawk must assume their true unholy forms to battle the emperor, Size: 5.25 x 7.25 revealing their true faces to the citizens of Midland. How will Page Count: 240 these tormented refugees react when they discover that their Format: Softcover, Black & White Recommended Age: 18+ would-be rescuers are as monstrous as their enemies? And could : , Horror this titanic confrontation threaten to unleash even greater horrors Publication Date: 9/7/2010 upon the human world? Rights: North America KEY SELLING POINTS: • Like a sledge striking anvil, Berserk hammers the sensibilities of readers worldwide, pounding out a steady stream of epic action, gruesome horror, and dark humor that places Berserk among the most respected — and feared — manga series ever published. • Over 500,000 copies of Dark Horse’s Berserk volumes in print! • “Berserk redefines what is considered a well-written manga.” — popcultureshock.com

ISBN: 1-59582-551-7 ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-551-3 BORIS KARLOFF TALES OF MYSTERY Price: $49.99 (CAN: $62.50, £37.99) ARCHIVES VOLUME 3 Publisher: Dark Horse Writer: Paul Newman, Dick Wood A modern gambling cheat is punished by spirits of centuries-old Size: 6.75 x 10.25 playing cards. Three adventurers in pursuit of evil find the greatest Page Count: 240 evil ever spoken, heard, and seen. An enchanted telephone booth Format: Hardcover, Full Color brings success to a simple man, but when greed gets the better of Recommended Age: 14+ him, his good fortune comes to an end. A mirror that reflects an Genre: Fantasy, Horror antique dealer’s heart’s desire does more than just show him what Publication Date: 9/8/2010 he wants. Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery Archives Volume 3 fea- Rights: Worldwide tures , crime, intrigue, horror, and irony, hosted by the renowned actor Boris Karloff and featuring art from some of the finest comics storytellers from the sixties. KEY SELLING POINTS: • Features a new Introduction by the film director, screenwriter, actor, and producer John Landis. • Contains issues #11-16, from September 1965 to December 1966, with more than thirty chilling tales compiled in this new collection!

ISBN: 1-59582-316-6 ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-316-8 CAGES Price: $29.99 (CAN: $37.50, £22.50) Dave McKean’s Cages returns in a beautiful remastered edition! Publisher: Dark Horse Best known for his collaborations with , McKean Writer: Dave McKean defied expectations with his stunning debut as writer and artist in Artist: Dave McKean Size: 8.5 x 10.25 Cages, winner of the for Best Graphic Album. Page Count: 496 Filled with complex characters, intriguing flights of fancy, and all

ORSE Format: Softcover, Black & White the beautiful visuals you’d expect from the director of Recommended Age: 16+ MirrorMask, Cages is McKean’s magnum opus. It chronicles the

H Genre: Fiction, Horror intersecting lives of a painter, a writer, and a musician living in the Publication Date: 9/5/2010 same apartment building, and is a profound rumination on art, Rights: Worldwide God, cats, and the cages we build for ourselves. Out of print for years, Cages is finally available again, painstakingly rescanned from the original art and redesigned from the ground up by McKean. This affordable softcover edition provides more readers ARK than ever the opportunity to experience the that calls “mesmerizing.” D KEY SELLING POINTS: • “One of the most important works of comic art in the last decade.” — • “It is compulsively readable, with a lyrical tone that moves the reader through the rougher, more elusive passages as it strives at the very edge of the form’s limitation.” — Comic Foundry • “The finest comic being created today. Get it and see what heights narrative graphic art can achieve.” — The Fine Print 2 FALL 2010 ISBN: 1-59582-576-2 CONAN: THE NEWSPAPER STRIPS ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-576-6 Price: $34.99 VOLUME 1 (CAN: $43.99, £25.99) Publisher: Dark Horse From September 4, 1978, until April 12, 1981, thousands of read- Writer: , ers across the country thrilled to the daily adventures of everyone’s Artist: , , favorite barbarian, Conan! Now is proud to , others present the Conan newspaper strips collected for the first time in a Size: 12 x 9 handsome hardcover volume. Readers will once again enjoy the Page Count: 280 talents of Roy Thomas, Doug Moench, John Buscema, Ernie Format: Hardcover, Full Color Chan, Alfredo Alcala, Rudy Nebres, Pablo Marcos, Alan Recommended Age: 16+ Kupperberg, and Tom Yeates as they artfully unfold the continuing Genre: Action/Adventure, saga of Conan in these daily comic strips! Fantasy Publication Date: 9/14/2010 KEY SELLING POINTS: • Conan remains one of the most popular licensed comics, with newly created Conan stories and an extensive reprint program, both from Dark Horse.

ISBN: 1-59582-577-0 DR. HORRIBLE ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-577-3 Price: $9.99 Based on the Emmy Award-winning web series Dr. Horrible’s (CAN: $12.50, £7.50) Sing-Along Blog, this collection of stories written by Zack Publisher: Dark Horse Whedon (Deadwood, ) chronicles some of the earliest Writer: Zach Whedon adventures in the lives of archenemies Captain Hammer and Dr. Artist: Eric Canete, Horrible. , Joelle Jones, others This anthology solves many unanswered questions left over from Size: 7 x 10 the show. For instance: What event inspired Dr. Horrible to Page Count: 80 become the world’s greatest criminal mastermind? Why is Penny, Format: Softcover, Full Color the beautiful girl from the Laundromat, still single? How can you, Recommended Age: 14+ the reader, be like blustering do-gooder Captain Hammer? And Genre: Action/Adventure, Humor why is Horrible’s sidekick, Moist, so... um... well, you’ll find out! Publication Date: 9/29/2010 Rights: Worldwide KEY SELLING POINTS: • Based on the Emmy Award-winning web series Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, by , this collection of stories is written by (Deadwood, Fringe). • Features incredible artwork by Eric Canete ( League), Farel Dalrymple (Pop Gun War), Joëlle Jones (You Have Killed Me), and Rugg (Street Angel). • Collects the first issue of Dr. Horrible with all three digital comics from MySpace Dark Horse Presents: “Captain Hammer: Be Like Me!,” “Moist: Humidity Rising,” and “Penny: Keep Your Head Up.” • Includes a never-before-seen sixteen-page story. ISBN: 1-59582-391-3 EMPOWERED VOLUME 6 ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-391-5 Price: $15.99 After a fiery disaster claims the lives of several teammates, cos- (CAN: $19.99, £11.99) tumed crimefighter Empowered stumbles upon an ugly little secret Publisher: Dark Horse of the masks-and-tights business: a growing number of ill-fated Writer: Adam Warren Artist: Adam Warren superheroes have found out the hard way that, while their bodies Size: 6.5 x 9 are still mortal, their superpowers are not. Now, only our down- Page Count: 208 ORSE trodden but doggedly determined heroine can save the (semi) liv- Format: Softcover, Black & White

ing superdead from a very genuine “fate worse than death,” while Recommended Age: 16+ H simultaneously grappling with the challenges of vengefully vaca- Genre: Humor, tioning ninja clans, car-trunk carpet burn, -fantasy- Superhero Adventure league drafts, excessive bedroom chatter, and deals with the devil Publication Date: 9/14/2010 both figurative and literal! All this, plus Emp’s not-so-secret origin Rights: Worldwide is revealed at last! From Adam Warren — writer/artist of the English-language The ARK Dirty Pair comics (the original “Original English-Language

Manga”) and writer of Livewires, Gen13, and : D Hypervelocity — comes Empowered, a kickass long-john lampoon that flies to new heights of hotness and hilarity. KEY SELLING POINTS: • Adam Warren’s work on The Dirty Pair is well known to U.S. comics readers. • Original English-language (OEL) manga is a growing comics culture, and Warren is the first — and best. FALL 2010 3 ISBN: 1-59582-578-9 ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-578-0 EVELYN EVELYN Price: $24.99 (CAN: $31.50, £18.99) Publisher: Dark Horse This remarkable set of twin hardcover books depict the tragic events Writer: , surrounding the extraordinary lives of Evelyn Evelyn, a darling but Webley unfortunate pair of conjoined twins. Including such noteworthy inci- Artist: Cynthia von Buhler dents as: the bizarre circumstances of their birth and subsequent Size: 8 x 7 bereavement; shocking encounters with depraved authoritative fig- Page Count: 160 ures; the acquisition and loss of loyal friends; and the terrible fate of Format: Hardcover, Full Color Elephant Elephant; and concluding with the conjoined sisters’ rise to Recommended Age: 16+ international fame as Internet celebrities, as told by the inimitably Genre: Fiction, Media Tie-In Publication Date: 10/27/2010 eloquent Amanda Palmer and and illustrated in life- Rights: Worldwide like detail and color by Cynthia von Buhler! KEY SELLING POINTS: • World-renowned musicians Amanda Palmer and Jason Webley make their comics debut! • This lavish book set features an insightful introduction by renowned storyteller Neil Gaiman. • Evelyn Evelyn is an elegant set of two hardbound volumes nes- tled within a single slipcover — a perfect gift for any lover of the exquisite, the eccentric, and the grotesque. • Release corresponds with Palmer/Webley music album Evelyn Evelyn.

ISBN: 1-59582-559-2 ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-559-9 FLASH GORDON COMIC BOOK Price: $49.99 (CAN: $62.50, £37.99) ARCHIVES VOLUME 1 Publisher: Dark Horse Writer: , Flash Gordon’s classic era in comic books returns in a new Artist: Paul Norris, Jack Leht, Frank Thorne, others archival collection from Dark Horse! Join the handsome and fear- Size: 6.75 x 10.25 less Flash, his clever and capable companion Dale Arden, and Page Count: 312 eccentric scientist Dr. Zarkov as they face peril and danger in the Carton Qty: 1 wild landscapes of the planet Mongo and go head-to-head with the Format: Hardcover, Full Color villainous despot Ming the Merciless! This archival collection, Recommended Age: 12+ reprinting seven complete comics originally published from 1947 Genre: Action/Adventure, through 1953, makes a fine addition to any comics library. Ray guns, spaceships, and Silver Age storytelling — it’s all here and Publication Date: 9/7/2010 it’s all action! Rights: Worldwide KEY SELLING POINTS: • With beautiful full-color artwork by co-creator Paul Norris and others, Flash Gordon Comic Book Archives Volume 1 blasts-off on an exciting journey of adventure! • Flash Gordon Comic Book Archives Volume 1 collects the earli- est issues of Flash’s adventures in a handsome hardcover format. • Flash Gordon is one of the most enduring and beloved science- fiction heroes in comics, television, and film.

ISBN: 1-59307-293-7 ISBN-13: 978-1-59307-293-3 SIN CITY VOLUME 1: Price: $19.00 (CAN: $23.50, £14.99) THE HARD GOODBYE (3RD EDITION) Publisher: Dark Horse ORSE Writer: The first volume of the crime-comic megahit that introduced the Artist: Frank Miller now-infamous character and spawned a blockbuster film

H Size: 6 x 9 Page Count: 208 returns in a newly redesigned edition, with a brand-new cover by Carton Qty: 42 Frank Miller — some of his art in years! Carton Weight: 29.25 It’s a lousy room in a lousy part of a lousy town. But Marv doesn’t Format: Softcover, Black & White care. There’s an angel in the room. She says her name is Goldie. A Recommended Age: Mature few hours later, Goldie’s dead without a mark on her perfect body, Readers (ages 16 and up) and the cops are coming before anyone but Marv could know she’s ARK Genre: Crime/Mystery been killed. Somebody paid good money for this frame . . . Publication Date: 9/1/2010 With a new look generating more excitement than ever before, this D Rights: Worldwide third edition is the perfect way to attract a whole new generation of readers to Frank Miller’s masterpiece! KEY SELLING POINTS: • Over 380,000 copies in print! • New cover by Frank Miller! • With Miller and co-director Robert Rodriguez gearing up for Sin City 2, this third edition is being released at just the right time! • The Hard Goodbye was the lead story in the Sin City film, star- 4 ring Mickey Rourke as Marv! FALL 2010 ISBN: 1-59307-294-5 SIN CITY VOLUME 2: ISBN-13: 978-1-59307-294-0 Price: $19.00 A DAME TO KILL FOR (3RD EDITION) (CAN: $23.50, £14.99) Publisher: Dark Horse The second volume of Frank Miller’s signature series is now Writer: Frank Miller planned as the lead story in the upcoming Sin City 2! This newly Artist: Frank Miller redesigned edition sports a new cover by Miller — some of his first Size: 6 x 9 Page Count: 208 comics art in years! Carton Qty: 42 Stuck with nothing but a seedy gumshoe job and some demons, Carton Weight: 38.4 Dwight’s thinking of all the ways he’s screwed up and what he’d Format: Softcover, Black & White give for one clear chance to wipe the slate clean, to dig his way out Recommended Age: Mature of the numb gray that is his life. And he’d give anything. Just to Readers (ages 16 and up) feel the fire. One more time. But he can’t let himself lose control Genre: Crime/Mystery again, can’t ever let the monster out. And then Ava calls. Publication Date: 9/1/2010 With a new look generating more excitement than ever before, this Rights: Worldwide third edition is the perfect way to attract a whole new generation of readers to Frank Miller’s masterpiece! KEY SELLING POINTS: • Over 185,000 copies in print! • New cover by Frank Miller! • A Dame to Kill For is planned as the lead story in Sin City 2, to be directed by Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez!

ISBN: 1-59582-260-7 GHOST TALKER’S DAYDREAM ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-260-4 Price: $10.95 VOLUME 4 (CAN: $13.99, £8.50) Publisher: Dark Horse Writer: Saki Okuse If having hallucinations is scary, then seeing them at school would Artist: Sankichi Meguro be terrifying. But when the hallucinations talk back to you, that’s Size: 5 x 7 the kind of fright you’ve come to expect from the world of Ghost Page Count: 216 Talker’s Daydream. Carton Qty: 40 Come join Saiki Misaki, the albino dominatrix necromancer, as she Format: Softcover, Black & White jumps head-first into another supernatural mystery. This time Recommended Age: 18+ around the case becomes more personal, as the power that gives Genre: Manga, Horror Saiki the ability to see and talk to the dead is the very thing terror- Publication Date: 9/14/2010 izing her client. Rights: North America Prepare yourself for an anything-but-typical “speaks to ” manga that will blow you away with beautiful and sensual art cou- pled with a terrifying story. Dark Horse Manga continues to deliv- er top-notch Japanese horror manga at its finest. From writer Saki Okuse (Twilight of the Dark Master) and artist Sankichi Meguro. KEY SELLING POINTS: • “It’s nice to see a horror story that’s just so whacked out, so auda- ciously eccentric that it really could only come from the Japanese manga industry.” — manga.about.com • Each volume of Ghost Talker’s Daydream comes shrink-wrapped and carries an 18+ content advisory.

ISBN: 1-59582-540-1 GIANT SIZE LITTLE LULU VOLUME 2 ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-540-7 Price: $24.99 ORSE Presenting another seventeen laugh-out-loud installments from the (CAN: $31.50, £18.99) beginning of John Stanley and Irving Tripp’s landmark run on Little Publisher: Dark Horse Writer: John Stanley H Lulu, the funniest funnybook of them all! Artist: John Stanley, Irving After a few try-out issues in Dell’s Four Colors, Stanley and Tripp Size: 6 x 9 got the go-ahead to turn Little Lulu into a monthly comic. The duo Page Count: 672 took the opportunity to show that they had only been warming up, Format: Softcover, Black & White producing stories even more ingenious and artwork even more Recommended Age: All Ages

beautiful than their issues. Genre: Humor ARK Publication Date: 9/22/2010 KEY SELLING POINTS: Rights: Worldwide D • Priced at only $24.99 and collecting three more of the earliest, out-of-print volumes of Dark Horse’s accalaimed reprint series, this is the most affordable way to build a library of John Stanley’s masterpiece.

FALL 2010 5 KING CONAN VOLUME 1

ISBN: 1-59307-477-8 Conan is king! Join Conan, King of Aquilonia, his ISBN-13: 978-1-59307-477-7 queen Zenobia, and their son Conn in this comics adap- Price: $17.99 tation of L. Sprague de Camp’s, Lin Carter’s, and Björn (CAN: $22.50, £13.50) Publisher: Dark Horse Nyberg’s stories “The Witch of the Mists,” “Black Writer: Roy Thomas Sphinx of Nebthu,” “Red Moon of Zembabwei,” Artist: John Buscema, Ernie Chan “Shadows in the Skull,” and “The Ring of Rakhamon!” Size: 6.25 x 10.25 Page Count: 192 KEY SELLING POINTS: Format: Softcover, Full Color • Written by master comics scribe Roy Thomas and Recommended Age: 16+ illustrated by the unparalleled John Buscema, King Genre: Action/Adventure, Conan collects issues #1 through #5 of the early Fantasy Publication Date: 9/7/2010 eightties series originally published by Marvel Rights: Worldwide Comics.

MICHAEL MOORCOCK’S ELRIC OF MELNIBONÉ

ISBN: 1-59582-427-8 Michael Moorcock’s brooding albino, Elric of the ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-427-1 Emerald Isle, represents a landmark of sword-and-sor- Price: $29.99 cery fantasy to millions of readers worldwide — with (CAN: $37.50, £22.50) Publisher: Dark Horse Neil Gaiman among them! Heir to a legacy of tens of Writer: Roy Thomas, thousands of years, Elric sees the power of his decadent Neil Gaimen empire waning as the Young Kingdoms of humankind Artist: P. Craig Russell, begin to stir. The 428th sorcerer-emperor to hold the Michael T. Gilbert ruby throne, he is unusually introspective and weak for Size: 7 x 10 his race — a combination that proves too tempting for Page Count: 432 his scheming cousin, Yyrkoon! As Elric is forced to call Format: Softcover, Full Color upon Arioch, Lord of Chaos and Duke of Hell, to rescue Recommended Age: 14+ his beloved Cymoril from Yyrkoon’s clutches, so too Genre: Action/Adventure, Fantasy will fate lead him to Stormbringer — a bloodthirsty ORSE Publication Date: 12/01/2010 magic sword with a mind of its own — and a dimen- Rights: Worldwide sions-spanning encounter with the Four Who Are One. H KEY SELLING POINTS: • Collecting the long-out-of-print comics adaptations of the first two novels in the celebrated Elric sequence — Elric of Melniboné and The Sailor on the Seas of Fate — prefaced by Neil Gaiman and P. ARK Craig Russell’s one-shot, One Life, furnished in early Moorcock. D • World-renowned science-fiction and fantasy grand master Michael Moorcock is best known for his decades-long series chronicling the tales of Elric, an incarnation of his “Eternal Champion.” • Multiple -winner P. Craig Russell has set the standard for adapting prose into comics, and this beloved collaboration with Michael T. Gilbert remains a standout.

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In a radioactive, nuclear-ravaged future, Samson is born ISBN: 1-59582-579-7 into a tribe of peaceful yet desperate people struggling to ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-579-7 survive in the desolate city of N’Yark. Surrounded by hun- Price: $49.99 (CAN: $62.50, £37.99) gry, wild creatures — creatively mutated and brought to Publisher: Dark Horse life by Frank Thorne — and the more savage, selfish rem- Writer: nants of humanity, life is precarious at best for the tribe Artist: Frank Thorne, until Samson displays amazing . Discovering that Size: 7 x 10 young Samson is a mutant himself, his mother trains Page Count: 200 Samson to value life, and on her deathbed Samson vows Format: Hardcover, Full Color “to protect the weak from the powerful, the good from the Recommended Age: 16+ evil!” After being mauled by a vicious beast, Samson is Genre: Science Fiction, later nursed to health by the beautiful Sharmaine, and he Superhero Adventure Publication Date: 9/7/2010 joins her and her scientist father, Mindor, in trying to Rights: Worldwide unveil the powerful secrets of their past while surviving in a future filled with ridiculously transformed animals and hostile barbarians. Want a little Herbie with your Mad ? These apocalyptic tales have more than a little humor mixed in with their themes of destruction and human folly. KEY SELLING POINTS: • Created by writer Otto Binder and legendary artist Frank Thorne, Mighty Samson’s short comic-book career began in 1964 and lasted for only thirty-two issues, but Dark Horse Archives is bringing the exploits of this dar- ing adventurer to modern audiences in a series of classy hardcovers. • Otto Binder is best known for his twelve-year stint on ’ Captain Marvel from 1941 to 1953. During this period he wrote over half the entire saga. He also wrote for Timely (Marvel), MLJ, Quality, DC, and Gold Key. • This volume reprints the first six comic books from the original 1960s Mighty Samson series, with playful and imaginative artwork by Frank Thorne. • Dark Horse is launching brand-new Doctor Solar, Magnus, Turok, and Mighty Samson titles in 2010, with a major marketing campaign that will include promotion of all of the original Gold Key archives like this one. NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: THE SHINJI IKARI RAISING PROJECT VOLUME 6

Shinji is never quite sure whether he’s in a relationship ISBN: 1-59582-580-0 or just some sort of bizarre lab experiment, and he prob- ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-580-3 ably didn’t need yet another cute, mysterious individual Price: $9.99 (CAN: $12.50, £7.50) to arrive in his homeroom. But that’s just what he’s Publisher: Dark Horse going to get in the person of Mana Kirishima. Will she Writer: Osamu Takahashi prove to be a girlfriend of steel... or more of an iron Artist: Osamu Takahashi

maiden? Size: 5.25 x 7.25 ORSE Page Count: 192

KEY SELLING POINTS: Format: Softcover, Black & White H • Since it first hit Japanese TV screens in 1995, the Recommended Age: 14+ multimedia Neon Genesis Evangelion phenomenon Genre: Manga, Humor Publication Date: 9/14/2010 has never faded. The most-talked-about series Rights: North America of the 1990s, its legend only spread further in the last decade with the North American release of the Evangelion series on DVD and its subsequent airing ARK on Adult Swim. Now Evangelion is in full-fledged revival, with a brand-new tetralogy of movies D planned entitled Rebuild of Evangelion — the first film out, 2008’s Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone, became the top-selling DVD release of the year in , and was released in the U.S. from Funimation. • Each volume features bonus color pages, your Evangelion fan art and letters, and special reader giveaways. FALL 2010 7 ISBN: 1-59582-581-9 ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-581-0 OH MY GODDESS! VOLUME 36 Price: $10.99 (CAN: $15.99) Ever since a cosmic phone call led five literal young goddesses — Publisher: Dark Horse Belldandy, Urd, Skuld, and, like occasional vowels, Peorth and Writer: Kosuke Fujishima Lind — to live in college student Keiichi’s residence, his personal Artist: Kosuke Fujishima life has been turned upside down, sideways, and sometimes even Size: 5 x 7 Page Count: 160 into strange dimensions! Format: Softcover, Black & White Things go spectacularly wrong (as expected) when Urd and Recommended Age: 10+ Skuld’s rival schemes to help Megumi through a bad memory end Genre: Manga, Humor up not only making her forget who she is, but making Keiichi and Publication Date: 9/7/2010 the goddesses forget who they are! Rights: North America KEY SELLING POINTS: • Praise for previous volumes of Oh My Goddess!: • “Oh My Goddess! is an eternally charming manga series with magical humor and a big heart.” — activeanime.com • “The art is full of action and humor. An essential read.” — School Library Journal • Winner of the 2009 Kodansha Award for Best General Manga. • Oh My Goddess! is the longest-running manga series in America!

ISBN: 1-59582-582-7 ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-582-7 THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN Price: $19.99 (CAN: $24.99, £14.99) VOLUME 8 Publisher: Dark Horse Writer: Michael Fleisher, The Savage Sword of Conan Volume 8 features some of the most Alan Zelenetz, Jim Owsley, Jim Neal anxiously awaited Conan stories from the Savage Sword era, Artist: , Luke McDonnell, including the two-part “Daughter of the God King” story, in which John Buscema, Ernie Chan Conan is tasked with rescuing a princess from a man who aspires Size: 7 x 10 to godhood; “The Armor of Zulda Thaal,” which is rumored to Page Count: 500 make the man wearing it near invincible; and “The World Beyond Format: Softcover, Black & White the Mists,” where Conan must face his most formidable foe yet: Recommended Age: 16+ himself! Genre: Action/Adventure, Fantasy KEY SELLING POINTS: Publication Date: 9/14/2010 • The Dark Horse Savage Sword of Conan reprint series has Rights: Worldwide proven to be giant-sized, with over 100,000 copies sold! • This volume, which collects The Savage Sword of Conan #85- #93, also includes Conan covers, frontispieces, and pinups from each issue! • For the first time, these classic stories are being collected in a series of omnibus-style books, with over five hundred pages of sword-and-sorcery adventure in each volume — priced at only $19.99!

ISBN: 1-59582-552-5 ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-552-0 STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS — Price: $7.99 (CAN: $9.99) Publisher: Dark Horse HERO OF THE CONFEDERACY Writer: Gilroy, Steven Melching Artist: Brian Koschak, , Anakin Skywalker, Jedi Knight and hero of the Republic, is chal- Michael Wiggam lenged by a fledgling hero of the Confederacy! ORSE Size: 5.25 x 7.5 The Confederacy is being provided with newer and more advanced Page Count: 80 ships from Valahari — a world that has claimed neutrality in the

H Format: Softcover, Full Color Clone Wars. Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi are dis- Recommended Age: 8+ patched to negotiate with the planet’s rulers, but as events unfold Genre: Science Fiction and Anakin is framed for a dishonorable act, diplomacy gives way Publication Date: 9/22/2010 to war! Rights: Worldwide except United Kingdom, Australia, New There are heroes on both sides of the Clone Wars, even if some of those heroes have been manipulated by the Sith. This tragic tale of

ARK Zealand heroism and sacrifice first appeared in issues #10-12 of the comic- book series The Clone Wars. D KEY SELLING POINTS: • Star Wars is enjoying a whole new wave of popularity brought on by the Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series, and Dark Horse has a Star Wars graphic novel for fans from every age group. • Dark Horse sold 100,000 copies of the first four volumes of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars digests. • The Dark Horse series Star Wars: The Clone Wars is designed to be parent friendly, contains standalone stories, and should be a staple of any younger-readers graphic-novel section. 8 FALL 2010 VAMPIRE BOY

Left nameless by his father and sentenced to eternal life ISBN: 1-59582-562-2 by a trick of fate and fortune, the protagonist of Carlos ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-562-9 Trillo and ’s Vampire Boy has spent fifty Price: $24.99 (CAN: $31.50, £18.99) centuries in a body that never ages, locked in an eternal Publisher: Dark Horse struggle with a rival as immortal as he. Writer: Acclaimed writer Carlos Trillo teams with legendary artist Artist: Eduardo Risso Eduardo Risso () to produce a poignantly Size: 6.5 x 9.5 engrossing twist on the classic vampire mythos, now col- Page Count: 480 lected in English for the first time. Format: Softcover, Black & White Recommended Age: 18+ KEY SELLING POINTS: Genre: Horror • Eduardo Risso (born in 1959) is an Argentine comic- Publication Date: 9/29/2010 book artist. In the he is probably best Rights: Worldwide known for his work with writer on the Vertigo title 100 Bullets, while in and Europe he is noted for his collaborations with Ricardo Barreiro and Carlos Trillo. • Eduardo Risso launched into his first work for an American publisher in 1997: two Aliens projects for Dark Horse Comics. The first project (1997) was the two-part Aliens: Resurrection mini-series, which is the comic adaptation of the fourth movie. The second project (1998) was the one-shot Aliens: Wraith. Risso has won four Eisner Awards for his work on 100 Bullets: in 2001, for Best Serialized Story (with Brian Azzarello); twice, in 2002 and 2004, for Best Continuing Series (with Azzarello); and in 2002, for Best Artist. • A compelling and creative departure from traditional vampire tropes. • Collected in English for the first time! • Fantastic value — 480 pages for only $24.99!

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER SEASON EIGHT VOLUME 7: TWILIGHT

Buffy Summers and her Slayer army have suffered ISBN: 1-59582-558-4 heavy losses throughout Season Eight and faced scores ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-558-2 Price: $16.99 of threats new and old, but the one mystery connecting it (CAN: $21.50, £12.99) all has been the identity of the Big Bad Twilight! Publisher: Dark Horse In this penultimate volume of Season Eight, New York Writer: Joss Whedon, Times bestselling novelist and comics writer Brad Meltzer (The Book of Lies, Identity Crisis) joins series Artist: George Jeanty, artist in beginning the buildup to the sea- , Andy Owens, son finale in the story line that finally reveals the identi- Michelle Madsen, Jo Chen ty of Twilight! In the aftermath of the battle with Size: 7 x 10 Twilight’s army, Buffy has developed a host of new pow- Page Count: 160 Format: Softcover, Full Color ers, but when will the other shoe drop, and will it be a Recommended Age: 16+ cute shoe, or an ugly one? Still reeling from the losses of Genre: Superhero Adventure, war, Willow goes looking for missing allies, and discov- Horror ers a horrifying truth about several of the Slayer army’s Publication Date: 10/13/2010

recent ordeals. Adding to the mayhem is the unexpected Rights: Worldwide ORSE return of Angel, in his Season Eight debut!

This volume also features two stories from series creator H and executive producer Joss Whedon! In the Willow one-shot, Whedon and artist Karl Moline reveal for the first time what Buffy’s witchy best friend was up to between Seasons Seven and Eight, with a mind-blowing cameo by a frequently requested character. And in “Turbulence,” Joss spotlights the complicated relation- ARK ship between Buffy and Xander with a conversation that changes it forever. D KEY SELLING POINTS: • Bestselling author Brad Meltzer joins Buffy Season Eight. • Dark Horse has sold over 350,000 of the first five Buffy Season Eight graphic novels. • “Whedon’s dialogue is as snappy as ever, and his plots are hypercompressed and telegraphic.” — Publishers Weekly • “It’s always a good day when Joss Whedon is writing Season Eight.” — Pink Raygun

FALL 2010 9 THE CHRONICLES OF CONAN VOLUME 20: NIGHT OF THE WOLF AND OTHER STORIES

ISBN: 1-59582-584-3 The all-star creative team of writer Michael Fleisher ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-584-1 and artist John Buscema continues its stellar run in The Price: $18.99 Chronicles of Conan Volume 20, with one exciting dif- (CAN: $23.99, £13.99) Publisher: Dark Horse ference — John Buscema not only lends his legendary Writer: Michael Fleisher, artistic touch, but also his own original story ideas and John Buscema plots for several of the issues. Fleisher’s polished dia- Artist: John Buscema, logue makes these stories the ultimate marriage of con- Gary Kwapisz, Ernie Chan, cept and execution. With Gary Kwapisz lending his pencils to one issue and two stunning covers, and Size: 7 x 10 esteemed embellishers Ernie Chan and Steve Leialoha Page Count: 200 inking Buscema, this volume is a can’t miss for Conan Format: Softcover, Full Color fans. Recommended Age: 16+ Genre: Action/Adventure, Conan confronts some of his most difficult challenges Fantasy yet when he faces down a werewolf who is being pro- Publication Date: 10/20/2010 tected by the same tribe that it aims to destroy in “Night Rights: Worldwide of the Wolf,” and he finds a hidden Cimmerian valley filled with the vestiges of an ancient war in “Vale of Death.” The wandering barbarian will also have to keep his wits about him if he is to keep from becoming a stat- ue in a madwoman’s collection in “The Cauldron of Doom!” KEY SELLING POINTS: • This volume collects issues #151-159, now with new colors, an insightful fore- word, and all of the original series covers.

THE CHRONICLES OF KULL VOLUME 3: SCREAMS IN THE DARK AND OTHER STORIES

ISBN: 1-59582-585-1 The Chronicles of Kull Volume 3 collects the last nine ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-585-8 exciting Kull the Destroyer comics, tying up all of the Price: $18.99 loose ends from the previous two volumes and culmi- (CAN: $23.99, £13.99) Publisher: Dark Horse nating in the most important fight of the former Writer: Roy Thomas, Don Glut, Valusian king’s life — the battle for the Topaz throne! Kull will need the help of an enigmatic warrior woman, Artist: John Buscema, Laralei, and an unlikely ally-in-arms, Ridondo the min- Ernie Chan, strel, if he is to conquer a giant extradimensional crea- Size: 7 x 10 ture, three scheming wizards, and the wizard’s skull- Page Count: 224 ORSE headed master and again rule the Purple Kingdom. Don Format: Softcover, Full Color Glut and Ernie Chan bring this epic era to a close and Recommended Age: 16+

H set the stage for what is to come next in exciting fash- Genre: Fantasy, Action/Adventure ion — worthy of the greatest warrior-king to ever come Publication Date: 10/6/2010 out of Atlantis. Rights: Worldwide KEY SELLING POINTS: • The Chronicles of Kull Volume 3: Screams in the ARK Dark and Other Stories reprints Kull the Destroyer #21-#29, the short “The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune” D story from Conan the Barbarian #25, Conan the Barbarian #68, “Beast from ” from Conan Annual #3, and a special cover gallery. • All stories and cover images are presented in all their stunning original colors, digitally cleaned and remas- tered for old fans and new audiences.

10 FALL 2010 DE:TALES

From the company that introduced American audiences ISBN: 1-59582-557-6 to Brazilian twins Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-557-5 (Daytripper, Pixu) comes a new hardcover edition of Price: $19.99 (CAN: $24.99, £14.99) Dark Horse’s out-of-print De:Tales, a collection of the Publisher: Dark Horse twins’ breakthrough short stories! Writer: Gabriel Bà, Fabio Moon After three Eisner Awards and a series of acclaimed Artist: Gabriel Bà, Fabio Moon projects with writers Joss Whedon (Sugarshock), Size: 6 x 9 (), Page Count: 112 (B.P.R.D.: 1947), and (Casanova), Moon Format: Hardcover, and Bá are now among the hottest artists in comics. De: Black & White Tales is the duo’s most personal work to date, present- Recommended Age: 14+ ing their work separately, together, and in tandem — as Genre: Graphic Lit. Publication Date: 10/13/2010 the twins trade off on the roles of writing and illustrat- Rights: Worldwide ing, share those roles, or fly solo. Brimming with all the details of human life, their charming tales move from the urban reality of their home in São Paulo to the mag- ical realism of their Latin American background. Featuring a brand-new cover, Moon and Bá’s seminal and sought-after work is finally back in this handsome hardcover packaging, proving once again that they are a talented pair to watch out for. KEY SELLING POINTS: • Born in Brazil in 1976, twins Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá have won multiple industry awards — including several coveted Eisners between them. De:Tales was nominated for the 2007 Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material. • “A perfect blend of fluid storytelling and contempo- rary style... A+.” — Tom McLean, Variety • “Packed with luscious allegorical imagery...” — blogcritics.org • “De:Tales is a glimpse into the minds and hearts of its artists, and now that I’ve seen the world that Bá and Moon have to offer, I can’t wait to visit it again.” — thefourthrail.com DOCTOR SOLAR, MAN OF THE ATOM VOLUME 1 When industrial sabotage fouls up an experiment in ISBN: 1-59582-586-X atomic energy, nuclear physicist Doctor Phillip Solar ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-586-5 survives the accident — but is forever changed into a Price: $19.99 (CAN: $24.99, £14.99) living atomic reactor capable of astonishing feats! Now Publisher: Dark Horse Doctor Solar uses his miraculous energy-based powers Writer: Paul S. Newman to protect the innocent and to thwart the diabolical Artist: Bob Fujitani, , machinations of a mysterious supercriminal known Richard Powers only as Nuro. Doctor Solar springs to life in this afford- Size: 7 x 10 able new edition that collects “Solar’s Secret,” “The Page Count: 216 Format: Softcover, Full Color

Remote-Control Traitor,” “Vanishing Oceans,” and ORSE other classic stories from the 1960s by comics visionar- Recommended Age: 14+ Genre: Science Fiction,

ies Paul S. Newman, Bob Fujitani, and Frank Bolle. H Superhero Adventure These tales are true atomic-age wonders! Fans of Russ Publication Date: 10/20/2010 Manning, Mac Raboy, and will be Rights: North America delighted with artist Bob Fujitani’s original depiction of this classic hero in all his radioactive glory. This collec- tion also features two rare cover by legendary

science-fiction illustrator Richard Powers. ARK

KEY SELLING POINTS: D • A Dark Horse archival collection — now available in softcover. • This volume collects issues #1-#7 of the original 1960s comic-book series Doctor Solar, Man of the Atom, including all original series covers and the retouched interiors seen in the Dark Horse Archives hardcover. • Seven original Doctor Solar comics for only $19.99! FALL 2010 11 DOCTOR SPEKTOR ARCHIVES VOLUME 1

ISBN: 1-59582-600-9 First appearing in 1972, the adventurous and wily Doctor ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-600-8 Adam Spektor is an occult detective and monster hunter Price: $49.99 (CAN: $57.50) who travels the world over in search of the supernatural, Publisher: Dark Horse Writer: Donald Glut aided by a Native American assistant, Lakota Rainflower. Artist: Investigating everything from rumors of odd, ghostly Size: 7 x 10 occurrences to appearances of strange, deadly creatures, Page Count: 200 Doctor Spektor spends his time in the field putting his life Format: Hardcover, Full Color at risk to save innocents from the sinister and the Recommended Age: 14+ grotesque. Whether conducting occult experiments on cur- Genre: Action/Adventure, Horror ing vampirism or fighting unearthly behemoths, Doctor Publication Date: 10/6/2010 Spektor stalks the forces of evil — to record and investi- Rights: North America gate their existence as well as protect us! As artist Santos said in a 1975 interview, “When you’re dealing with dead warriors and monstrous demons... let me tell you, you’ve got to think weird!” Created by writer Donald Glut and artist , The Occult Files of Doctor Spektor are the chronicles of a strange protector — a character who often breaks the fabled “fourth wall” to address readers directly and narrate a terrifying tale from his impressive files. KEY SELLING POINTS: • This volume reprints the first seven comic books from the original 1970s Doctor Spektor series, with art by the incomparable Jesse Santos. • Dark Horse is launching brand-new Doctor Solar, Magnus, Turok, and Mighty Samson titles in 2010, with a major marketing campaign that will include promotion of all of the original Gold Key archives like this one.

ISBN: 1-59307-295-3 ISBN-13: 978-1-59307-295-7 SIN CITY VOLUME 3: THE BIG FAT KILL Price: $19.00 (CAN: $23.50, £14.99) (3RD EDITION) Publisher: Dark Horse Writer: Frank Miller Artist: Frank Miller One of Sin City’s most fascinatingly conflicted charac- Size: 6 x 9 ters, Dwight, returns in The Big Fat Kill, the third vol- Page Count: 184 ume of Frank Miller’s seminal noir comic and the inspi- Carton Qty: 48 ration for one of the segments of the blockbuster Sin Carton Weight: 39.2 City film! This third edition is newly redesigned and Format: Softcover, Black & White features a brand-new cover by Miller — some of his Recommended Age: first comics art in years! Mature Readers (ages 16 and up) Genre: Crime/Mystery For Dwight, sometimes standing up for his friends Publication Date: 10/1/2010 means killing a whole lot of people. Not for revenge. Rights: Worldwide Not because they deserve it. Not because it’ll make the world a better place. There’s nothing righteous or noble

ORSE about it. Dwight’s gotta kill them because he needs them dead.

H With a new look generating more excitement than ever before, this third edition is the perfect way to attract a whole new generation of readers to Frank Miller’s mas- terpiece! KEY SELLING POINTS: ARK • There are over 168,000 copies of Sin City: The Big Fat Kill in print! D • New cover by Frank Miller! • With Miller and co-director Robert Rodriguez gear- ing up for Sin City 2, this third edition is being released at just the right time! • The Big Fat Kill was one of the stories in the Sin City film, starring Clive Owen as Dwight!

12 FALL 2010 SIN CITY VOLUME 4: THAT YELLOW BASTARD (3RD EDITION)

Frank Miller changes the game in the fourth volume of ISBN: 1-59307-296-1 his signature crime series, introducing the only truly ISBN-13: 978-1-59307-296-4 heroic figure in Sin City’s world of vice, Detective Price: $21.00 (CAN: $25.99, £15.99) Hartigan. A highlight of the series, and the inspiration Publisher: Dark Horse for one of the segments of the blockbuster Sin City film, Writer: Frank Miller That Yellow Bastard returns in a newly redesigned edi- Artist: Frank Miller tion, with a brand-new cover by Miller — some of his Size: 6 x 9 first comics art in years! Page Count: 240 The worst thing to be in Basin City is an honest cop, but Carton Qty: 36 it’s Hartigan’s last day on the job, and he plans to go out Carton Weight: 36 with a bang. Little , age eleven, has Format: Softcover, Partial Color been kidnapped by a psycho who likes to hear children Recommended Age: Mature Readers (ages 16 and up) scream, and Hartigan’s going to find her no matter what Genre: Crime/Mystery it takes. No matter who the psycho’s daddy is. All the Publication Date: 10/1/2010 prison time in the world won’t change that. Hell of a Rights: Worldwide way to start retirement . . . With a new look generating more excitement than ever before, this third edition is the perfect way to attract a whole new generation of readers to Frank Miller’s mas- terpiece! KEY SELLING POINTS: • Over 155,000 copies in print! • New cover by Frank Miller! • With Miller and co-director Robert Rodriguez gear- ing up for Sin City 2, this third edition is being released at just the right time! • That Yellow Bastard was one of the stories in the Sin City film, starring Bruce Willis as Hartigan and Jessica Alba as Nancy!

ISBN: 1-59582-587-8 GANTZ VOLUME 13 ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-587-2 Price: $12.99 . Seriously, can the frantic world of Gantz get (CAN: $16.50, £9.99) any more scary? How about a giant doughboy with Publisher: Dark Horse crazy fangs and a strange outie bellybutton? Yeah, it’s Writer: Hiroya Oku Artist: Hiryoya Oku not just scary; it’s a very strange world for Kei and Size: 5.25 x 7.25 whomever is unlucky enough to die when Gantz is gath- Page Count: 232 ering random people and animals for a new mission. At Format: Softcover, Black & White least this time the Gantz crew have a sweet new Recommended Age: 18+ weapon! It’s an awesome uni-motorcycle thing! And Genre: Manga, one of the characters uses a massive space samurai Action/Adventure sword. It’s Gantz! And it’s totally rad. Publication Date: 10/6/2010 Rights: North America KEY SELLING POINTS:

• A successful and popular anime animated by the pop- ORSE ular Gonzo Studio.

• Gantz has proven to be one of the most popular adult H anime in recent years, with over 190,000 copies sold in the U.S. alone! • Each volume of Gantz comes shrink-wrapped and carries an 18+ content advisory. ARK D

FALL 2010 13 GEAR SCHOOL VOLUME 2

ISBN: 1-59582-602-5 Teresa Gottlieb is back in an all-new adventure! In the ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-602-2 far future, humanity is caught in an endless war against Price: $7.99 an alien menace. The struggle is dominated by giant war (CAN: $9.99, £5.99) Publisher: Dark Horse machines called Gear. Only the best and the brightest Writer: Adam Gallardo are allowed to drive these war machines. The process of Artist: Nuria Peris, elimination begins in junior high. Teresa Gottlieb is a Sergio Sandoval, Estudio Fenix thirteen-year old freshman at the most prestigious mili- Size: 5.25 x 7.5 tary academy in the world. A little while ago she saved Page Count: 96 the school from an alien attack, but at Gear School “a Format: Softcover, Full Color little while ago” is ancient history. Her status as savior Recommended Age: 8+ of the school isn’t cutting her any slack with her teach- Genre: Action/Adventure, ers, her classmates, or the clique that runs the school. Science Fiction Publication Date: 10/13/2010 Now Teresa finds herself caught up in an adventure that Rights: Worldwide has more at stake than the future of the school or even the fate of the planet. It could jeopardize her budding first love! Gear School — when the bell rings, the adventure begins! KEY SELLING POINTS: • Gear School is written by Adam Gallardo (Star Wars: Infinities — ; 100 Girls) and illus- trated by Núria Peris (, Karas).

GRANDVILLE MON AMOUR

ISBN: 1-59582-574-6 Convicted psychotic killer and extremist fanatic ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-574-2 Edward “Mad Dog” Mastock violently escapes the guil- Price: $19.99 (CAN: $24.99) lotine’s blade in the Tower of to once again ter- Publisher: Dark Horse Writer: rorize the Socialist Republic of Britain. But dogging Artist: Bryan Talbot Mastock’s bloody footsteps is his longtime adversary Size: 8 x 11 and , Detective Inspector Archie LeBrock, at Page Count: 108 odds with Scotland Yard and intent on bringing Carton Qty: 1 Mastock’s horrific murder spree to an end, once and for Format: Hardcover, Full Color all. Aided by his friend and colleague Detective Recommended Age: 16+ Roderick Ratzi, LeBrock follows the trail of carnage to Genre: Fantasy Paris, otherwise known as Grandville, the largest city in Publication Date: 10/27/2010 a world dominated by the French Empire that is the

ORSE Rights: North America & Phillippines prime target of Mastock’s sadistic terrorism. Can LeBrock capture the Mad Dog before he can mete out H his final vengeance, or will LeBrock‘s own quest for redemption be dragged to ground by the demons of his past? KEY SELLING POINTS: Talbot is well known worldwide as one of the true

ARK • original voices in graphic fiction. Grandville Mon Amour is the second in a planned

D • series of Grandville graphic novels. • A new edition of the award winning The Tale of One Bad Rat will be published in April 2010. • The world of Grandville is described by Talbot as “like Jules Verne and Sherlock Holmes directed by

14 FALL 2010 HELLBOY: MASKS AND MONSTERS

Mike Mignola teams up with an all-star line of super- ISBN: 1-59582-567-3 hero creators to bring you two incredible ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-567-4 tales! First, Hellboy joins forces with and Price: $17.99 (CAN: $22.50, £13.50) Starman in an adventure that takes them from the Publisher: Dark Horse rooftops of Gotham to the steamy jungles of the Writer: Mike Mignola, Amazon, to rescue the first Starman, Ted Knight, from a secret Nazi organization that plans to use him to res- Artist: Mike Mignola, urrect an elder god. Next, Hellboy travels to Arcadia in Scott Benefiel, Jasen Rodriguez, search of Ghost, a spectral vigilante caught up in a web Pamela Rombo of intrigue orchestrated by an ancient mask. Size: 7 x 10 Page Count: 136 KEY SELLING POINTS: Format: Softcover, Full Color Written by Mike Mignola (Hellboy, B.P.R.D.) and Recommended Age: 16+ • Genre: Superhero Adventure, James Robinson (Starman, JSA), with art by Horror Mignola, Scott Benefiel (JLA, Witchblade), and Publication Date: 10/27/2010 Jasen Rodriguez (Star Wars, The Flash), this collec- Rights: Worldwide tion is a must-have for superhero and horror fans alike. • These two crossover stories have long been out of print, and have never before been collected into the Hellboy trade-paperback line. • Perfect for Marvel and DC fans looking for an entry point into the Hellboy universe.

LITTLE LULU’S PAL TUBBY VOLUME 1: THE CASTAWAY AND OTHER STORIES

From the pages of Little Lulu comes Tubby! ISBN: 1-59582-421-9 The comedic genius of John Stanley couldn’t be con- ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-421-9 tained by one series alone, so in 1952 Lulu’s pal Tubby Price: $15.95 (CAN: $19.99, £11.99) made his solo debut in his own hysterical comic. Filled Publisher: Dark Horse with all the charm and hilarity of Little Lulu, Tubby is a Writer: John Stanley familiar but different delight from comics legend John Artist: John Stanley Stanley. Size: 6 x 9 Dark Horse is proud to present these never-before- Page Count: 224 reprinted gems from comics’ golden age in a new series Format: Softcover, Full Color of paperback collections. Like Dark Horse’s new Little Recommended Age: All Ages Lulu series, Tubby is printed in full color, just as the Genre: Humor comics appeared over fifty years ago. Publication Date: 10/13/2010

Rights: North America ORSE KEY SELLING POINTS: • Reprinting ’s Tubby #1-6 for the first time ever, H in full color! • Published quarterly at first, Tubby included John Stanley’s only published cartooning work of the 1950s. In fact, Stanley was inspired to draw issues #2-9 in their entirety. ARK D

FALL 2010 15 OMNIBUS EDITION

ISBN: 1-59582-588-6 Umi, Hikaru, and Fuu are three schoolgirls out on a ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-588-9 field trip to Tokyo Tower, whisked suddenly away by a Price: $19.99 strange voice and light to Cephiro, a world full of spir- (CAN: $24.99, £14.99) Publisher: Dark Horse its and sorcery. They were summoned here through the Writer: last remaining strength of the Princess Emeraude, who Artist: CLAMP hopes that they are the destined to become the Size: 5.25 x 7.25 magic knights legend says can save her realm! But how Page Count: 640 are a bunch of junior-high-school kids supposed to Format: Softcover, Black & White defeat the dark might of the sinister Lord Zagato... with Recommended Age: 10+ only an exceedingly strange bunny creature named Genre: Manga, Fantasy, Mokona as their guide? Romance Publication Date: 10/6/2010 KEY SELLING POINTS: Rights: United States, United Kingdom, Australia, India, New • An early crossover hit to both female and male audi- Zealand, Saudi Arabia ences, Magic Knight Rayearth was made into both an anime TV and OAV (direct-to-video) series, avail- able in North America through Media Blasters and Manga Entertainment. • Unavailable for over four years, the Magic Knight Rayearth series has sold close to 200,000 copies in the U.S. alone.

SCARY GODMOTHER

ISBN: 1-59582-589-4 It’s Halloween night and it’s up to Scary Godmother to ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-589-6 show one little girl just how much fun spooky can be! Price: $24.99 Meet Hannah Marie, who, with the help of Scary (CAN: $31.50, £18.99) Publisher: Dark Horse Godmother, stands up to her mean-spirited cousin Writer: Jimmy and her fear of monsters on her first Halloween Artist: Jill Thompson adventure with the big kids. Later, Hannah joins forces Size: 9 x 12 with Orson, the vampire boy, to unravel a mystery near Page Count: 192 and dear to their hearts. Some of Scary Godmother’s Format: Hardcover, Full Color closest (and most frightful) pals get in on the fun too, Recommended Age: 8+ including Bugaboo, the Boozle, and Skully Pettibone. Genre: Horror, Action/Adventure Publication Date: 10/27/2010 KEY SELLING POINTS: Rights: Worldwide • Jill Thompson’s Scary Godmother children’s series combines storybook and comics storytelling in ORSE adventures that will excite readers of all ages. Four of Thompson’s Eisner Award-winning, fully H • painted children’s books are collected here, in their entirety, for the first time (Scary Godmother, Revenge of Jimmy, The Mystery Date, and The Boo Flu). This deluxe edition also features some of the earliest concept designs for this haunting and imagi-

ARK native series. • Thompson’s Scary Godmother series resulted in a

D successful stage show and an animated special in 2003 titled Scary Godmother: Halloween Spooktacular. A second computer-animated special, Scary Godmother: The Revenge of Jimmy, premiered on TV in 2005.

16 FALL 2010 SOLOMON KANE VOLUME 2: DEATH’S BLACK RIDERS

In the latest Solomon Kane adventure, writer ISBN: 1-59582-590-8 (Exurbia) and artist Guevara (The ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-590-2 and Tonto) are joined by Juan Ferreyra (Rex Price: $15.99 (CAN: $19.99, £11.99) Mundi) and chapter break illustrator Publisher: Dark Horse ()! Writer: Scott Allie Taking place after the events in Solomon Kane: The Artist: Mario Guevara, Castle of the Devil — but written to stand on its own — Juan Ferreyra, Mike Mignola this new tale delves deep into the horrors scattered Size: 7 x 10 throughout ’s Black Forest and adapts two of Page Count: 128 Robert E. Howard’s most beloved Solomon Kane pieces. Format: Softcover, Full Color When Kane comes across gypsies being terrorized by Recommended Age: 16+ roving bandits, he’s not sure what’s worse — the bandits Genre: Fantasy, Action/Adventure who to rob and rape innocent travelers or the evils Publication Date: 10/19/2010 that spew forth from the forest, intent on killing every Rights: Worldwide man and woman around! With creature designs by Eisner Award-winning artist , this series uses Howard’s “Death’s Black Riders” fragment and “Rattle of Bones” short story as springboards to launch into a suspenseful and terrifying new excursion alongside the passionate Puritan hero. This book also collects the “All the Damned Souls at Sea” Kane comic by Scott Allie, Guy Davis, and Dave Stewart. KEY SELLING POINTS: • Hellboy creator Mike Mignola contributes a new cover to this collection! • “Solomon Kane is a welcome addition to the other excellent Howard properties produced by Dark Horse.” — comicsbulletin.com • “Guevara’s art is the right fit for this series; it’s dark and moody — just like Kane.” — Comics Buyer’s Guide

STAR WARS OMNIBUS: A LONG TIME AGO. . . . VOLUME 2

Collecting issues #28-49, and the first King-Sized ISBN: 1-59582-554-1 Annual, from the Star Wars series that ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-554-4 launched in 1977 (the same year as the first film), this Price: $24.99 (CAN: $31.50) Publisher: Dark Horse second volume of Star Wars Omnibus: A Long Time Writer: Archie Goowin, Ago.... is a must have for any Star Wars fan. , Michael Golden Artist: , KEY SELLING POINTS: , Gene Day,

• Contains the six-issue adaptation of The Empire Mike Vosburg, others ORSE Strikes Back. Size: 6 x 9 Page Count: 480 • Collecting stories from the classic era of the original H Star Wars films featuring the original characters the Format: Softcover, Full Color Recommended Age: 12+ world fell in love with. Genre: Science Fiction Publication Date: 10/20/2010 Rights: Worldwide except Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom ARK D

FALL 2010 17 ISBN: 1-59582-553-3 ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-553-7 STAR WARS: THE FORCE UNLEASHED Price: $10.99 (CAN: $13.99) Publisher: Dark Horse VOLUME 2 Writer: Haden Blackman Artist: Omar Francia Size: 7 x 10 The end of the story in the hugely popular game The Force Page Count: 88 Unleashed left the Star Wars galaxy poised at the brink of civil Format: Softcover, Full Color war. But before that can happen, the Emperor and his apprentice, Recommended Age: 12+ , have another plan already in play. Genre: Science Fiction, The author of the original game, Haden Blackman, returns with a Media Tie-In new story of treachery, deception, and the manipulation of the Publication Date: 10/13/2010 overwhelming power of the Force. Omar Francia, from Star Wars: Rights: Worldwide except Legacy and , is back, providing the amazing art for this Australia, New Zealand, United original graphic novel based on the upcoming LucasArts game. Kingdom KEY SELLING POINTS: • Based on the upcoming LucasArts game. • The first volume of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed sold over 80,000 copies. • Not merely an adaptation of the events in the game, this graph- ic novel expands on the story and ’s role in it.

ISBN: 1-59582-566-5 ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-566-7 UNCLE SILAS: GENETIS Price: $9.99 (CAN: $12.50, £7.50) Silas Mortimer Mulch is an ecological supergenius, with a labora- Publisher: Dark Horse Writer: Dave Follett tory greenhouse holding the keys to countless scientific break- Artist: Dave Follett throughs. But when his niece and nephew, Selena and Tommy, Size: 6 x 9 come to visit Silas and find him missing, his organic computer Page Count: 112 SOFIA tells them that he is lost within the ever-expanding and Format: Softcover, Full Color constantly changing greenhouse. Donning hi-tech greenhouse Recommended Age: 10+ suits, Selena and Tommy must go in after Silas, and are soon con- Genre: Action/Adventure, fronted with astonishing nanotechnology, fungi that act as hard Science Fiction drives of information about the greenhouse, and plants that can Publication Date: 10/19/2010 create duplicates of people they encounter. Rights: Worldwide KEY SELLING POINTS: • Written and illustrated by New Recruits winner David Follett, Uncle Silas is an action- packed hi-biotech adventure for all ages. • Since winning the Bill Mitchell Award in 2000, David Follett has been a regular artist for the Australian newspaper, the Weekend Australian and the Daily Telegraph. His comic strips Harry the Dog-NewsHound and Kookabarry are published weekly in the Sunday Telegraph.

ISBN: 1-59582-564-9 ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-564-3 B.P.R.D. VOLUME 14: Price: $17.99 (CAN: $22.50, £13.50) KING OF FEAR Publisher: Dark Horse ORSE Writer: Mike Mignola, A story that began in the first issue of Hellboy concludes with the

H Artist: Guy Davis, Dave Stewart B.P.R.D. team set to permanently wipe out the subterranean colony Size: 7 x 10 of frog monsters that have been a story-driving plague. With Page Count: 144 Memnan Saa dead, agents Liz and Abe take on the powerful King Format: Softcover, Full Color of Fear — who ultimately reveals that it is, in fact, the B.P.R.D. Recommended Age: 16+ Genre: Horror members themselves who will lead the world to apocalypse, not the supernatural monsters, demons, and colossal squidbots.

ARK Publication Date: 11/24/2010 Rights: Worldwide KEY SELLING POINTS: D • Written by Mike Mignola and John Arcudi, and drawn by 2009 Eisner Award-winner Guy Davis (The Marquis), B.P.R.D.: King of Fear wraps up the Scorched Earth trilogy, which includes The Warning and The Black Goddess. • Since being featured prominently in the two Hellboy motion pic- tures, The B.P.R.D. (Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense) has established a large readership of its own!

18 FALL 2010 CARDCAPTOR SAKURA OMNIBUS BOOK 2

The beautiful new teacher in Sakura’s class, Kaho ISBN: 1-59582-591-6 Mizuki, soon reveals that she’s a shrine maiden with ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-591-9 Price: $19.99 magic powers of her own. But as always, the struggle to (CAN: $24.99, £14.99) capture the Clow cards is woven together with the mys- Publisher: Dark Horse terious — and complicated — threads of love and affec- Writer: CLAMP tion between Sakura and all the people in her life. Will Artist: CLAMP her heart be strong enough as she faces the one who will Size: 5.75 x 8.25 judge her worthiness to master the cards at last? Page Count: 576 Format: Softcover, Black & White KEY SELLING POINTS: Recommended Age: 10+ Genre: Manga, Fantasy • This volume contains sixteen bonus color pages. Publication Date: 11/17/2010 • Cardcaptor Sakura is finally available in omnibus Rights: United States, United form! In the style of the acclaimed recent edition of Kingdom, Australia, India, New CLAMP’s , Dark Horse uses remastered Zealand, Saudi Arabia image files straight from CLAMP (with bonus color pages!) to release Cardcaptor Sakura complete in four omnibus books, each book collecting three vol- umes of the original twelve-volume series. • Cardcaptor Sakura is a shojo saga well known to fans, both through the manga and the anime TV series and movies, released in the U.S. through Geneon. • The Dark Horse CLAMP omnibus editions present a great value — four books for the price of two!

CITIZEN REX

“What compels life without a soul?” Comics legends ISBN: 1-59582-556-8 Gilbert (Palomar, Luba, Speak of the Devil) and Mario ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-556-8 (, Me for the Unknown) Hernandez join forces Price: $19.99 (CAN: $24.99, £14.99) to present a bizarre, sexy view of the future! Publisher: Dark Horse Twenty years ago, the most famous, lifelike robot in the Writer: Mario Hernandez, world was engulfed in scandal, arrested, and deactivat- ed. Since then, an antirobot movement has developed, Artist: Gilbert Hernandez while body modification is in and prosthetic limbs have Size: 6 x 9 become hot black-market items. Stories like these are Page Count: 136 the stock in trade of gossip blogger Sergio Bauntin, Format: Hardcover, whose startling revelations earn him the constant scruti- Black & White ny of both the mob and the city’s mysterious investiga- Recommended Age: 14+ Genre: Science Fiction tors, the Truth Takers. When Sergio catches wind of Publication Date: 11/3/2010 sightings of the long-missing robot celebrity CTZ-RX- Rights: Worldwide 1, all of these interests will collide in violence and ORSE intrigue. This handsome hardcover collection also features a new cover by Gilbert, sketches and behind-the-scenes mate- H rial from Mario, and a special pinup from third Hernandez brother Jaime (Locas, The Education of Hopey Glass)! KEY SELLING POINTS: ARK • Featuring contributions from all three Hernandez

brothers! D • Gilbert has been named a 2009 USA Rasmuson Fellow for literature. • “Comics must be hardwired into the Hernandez fam- ily’s DNA.” — Comicbookresources.com • “I tried to give it the feel of a strange late-night for- eign movie you’re too drunk to remember clearly the next day.” — Mario Hernandez

FALL 2010 19 CONAN VOLUME 9: FREE COMPANIONS

ISBN: 1-59582-592-4 Legendary artist ’s very first sequential ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-592-6 Conan work, along with illustrations by , Price: $17.99 Justin Sweet, and Joseph Michael Linsner, highlight this (CAN: $22.50, £13.50) Publisher: Dark Horse latest collection of stories from Dark Horse’s ongoing Writer: Conan the Cimmerian comic-book series. In his short Artist: Tomas Giorello, career as a mercenary, young Conan has impressed both Timothy Truman, Joe Kubert, Princess Yasmela and military leader Lord Amalric, but Jose Villarrubia an ambitious, rogue prince arrives in Khoraja and blind- Size: 7 x 10 sides Conan out of the comfortable, courtly situation Page Count: 184 he’s found himself in. Not only is Conan’s love affair Carton Qty: 1 with Yasmela going south, but rebel Prince Julion imme- Format: Softcover, Full Color diately challenges Conan’s headstrong impulses and Recommended Age: 16+ Genre: Action/Adventure, military plans, causing a rift between the battered-but- Fantasy proud forces of Khoraja and Amalric’s army of colorful Publication Date: 11/17/2010 mercs. The “Free Companions” and “Kozaki” story arcs are collected here, illustrated by series writer Tim Truman and regular series artist Tomás Giorello, with colors by José Villarrubia. In a special multigenerational piece titled “Home for the Hunt,” Benjamin Truman co- scripts with his father, while sequential art duties are deftly handled by Joe Kubert and Tim Truman. These original tales explore events alluded to in Robert E. Howard’s Conan lore and expand upon existing stories, as a youthful Conan tries to keep his barbarous nature and hot temper in check in order to prove that he can be a leader of men. KEY SELLING POINTS: • “Giorello’s able to handle numerous figures, objects, and events on a single page and keep them from getting lost next to one another. Some of the scenes remind me a lot of collaborations by P. Craig Russell and Lovern Kindzierski, and that’s no small feat.” — comicbookresources.com • “This is Howard’s Conan, reborn, revisited, and made anew, crafted by true disciples of Howard, and the love and passion that both Truman and Giorello have for the character is evident in every panel, every frame and on every page...” — Mass Movement • “Writer Tim Truman is a perfect choice to adapt the oeuvre of Robert E. Howard into comics form.” — Comics Buyer’s Guide

CREEPY ARCHIVES VOLUME 8

ISBN: 1-59582-568-1 Dark Horse’s multiple-award-winning archive editions ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-568-1 of Creepy have arrived at one of the most compelling Price: $49.99 and legendary eras of the horror magazine’s epic run. (CAN: $62.50, £37.99) Publisher: Dark Horse Creepy Archives Volume 8 collects issues #37-#40, Size: 8.5 x 11 which herald the beginning of the more psychedelic and Page Count: 256 strangely spooky stories that came into vile vogue with Format: Hardcover, the onset of the 1970s. This gore-geously designed vol- ORSE Black & White ume highlights work from amazing artists such as Basil Recommended Age: 14+ Gogos, Ernie Colón, Vaughn Bodé, Ken Kelly, and oth- H Genre: Horror ers, and stories written by Nicola Cuti, , Publication Date: 11/3/2010 Doug Moench, and other great monsterminds. Rights: Worldwide KEY SELLING POINTS: • Creepy Archives Volume 1 was awarded the 2009

ARK Award for Best Archival Collection, and has sold more than 14,000 copies to date.

D • Both the Creepy and Eerie Archive series have made numerous appearances on top- ten list of graphic novels. • “Terrifyingly good!” —Cory Doctorow, boingbo- ing.net

20 FALL 2010 SIN CITY VOLUME 5: FAMILY VALUES (3RD EDITION) ISBN: 1-59307-297-X ISBN-13: 978-1-59307-297-1 Frank Miller’s first-ever original graphic novel is one of Price: $14.00 Sin City‘s nastiest yarns to date! Starring fan-favorite (CAN: $16.99, £10.99) characters Dwight and , this newly redesigned edi- Publisher: Dark Horse tion sports a brand-new cover by Miller, some of his Writer: Frank Miller first comics art in years! Artist: Frank Miller There’s a kind of debt you can’t ever pay off, not entire- Size: 6 x 9 Page Count: 128 ly. And that’s the kind of debt Dwight owes Gail. The Carton Qty: 66 girls of Old Town have their own family values, their Carton Weight: 24 own laws, and when someone too dumb to know better Format: Softcover, Black & White breaks them, an example needs to be set. Dwight’s got Recommended Age: Mature his own reasons for taking the job, and deadly little Readers (ages 16 and up) Miho . . . Miho likes to play with them a little first. Genre: Crime/Mystery With a new look generating more excitement than ever Publication Date: 11/1/2010 before, this third edition is the perfect way to attract a Rights: Worldwide whole new generation of readers to Frank Miller’s mas- Selected Previous Volumes: terpiece! Frank Miller’s Sin City Volume 3: KEY SELLING POINTS: The Big Fat Kill (3rd Edition) (ISBN 1-59307-295-3), Frank • Over 165,000 copies in print! Miller’s Sin City Volume 1: The • New cover by Frank Miller! Hard Goodbye (3rd Edition) • With Miller and co-director Robert Rodriguez gear- (ISBN 1-59307-293-7), Frank ing up for Sin City 2, this third edition is being Miller’s Sin City Volume 2: A released at just the right time! Dame to Kill For (3rd Edition) (ISBN 1-59307-294-5), Frank Miller’s Sin City Volume 4: That Yellow Bastard (3rd Edition) (ISBN 1-59307-296-1)

SIN CITY VOLUME 6: BOOZE, BROADS, & BULLETS (3RD EDITION) ISBN: 1-59307-298-8 ISBN-13: 978-1-59307-298-8 The Sin City graphic novels are among the most widely Price: $17.00 acclaimed comics in history, but Frank Miller is also a (CAN: $20.99, £12.99) master of the quick and dirty yarn. Collected in this Publisher: Dark Horse sixth volume of his crime-comic megahit are all of Writer: Frank Miller Miller’s Sin City shorts and one-shots, newly Artist: Frank MIller redesigned with a brand-new cover by Miller, some of Size: 6 x 9 his first comics art in years! Page Count: 160 Carton Qty: 54 Collecting classics like “Just Another Saturday Night” Carton Weight: 26.4 and “Silent Night,” both starring the iconic big lug with Format: Softcover, Black & White a condition, Marv; “The Customer Is Always Right,” Recommended Age: Mature featured in the Sin City film; and “The Babe Wore Red,” Readers (ages 16 and up) ORSE starring Sin City‘s most enduring hero, Dwight, Booze, Genre: Crime/Mystery Broads, and Bullets spans every kind of dark business Publication Date: 11/1/2010 you might encounter on a cold night in Basin City. It’s Rights: Worldwide H sure to scratch your Sin City itch again and again, in just that way that makes you itch for more. Selected Previous Volumes: Frank Miller’s Sin City Volume 3: With Miller and co-director Robert Rodriguez gearing The Big Fat Kill (3rd Edition) up for Sin City 2, this third edition is being released at (ISBN 1-59307-295-3),

just the right time! Frank Miller’s Sin City Volume 1: ARK KEY SELLING POINTS: The Hard Goodbye (3rd Edition) (ISBN 1-59307-293-7), D • Over 129,000 copies in print! Frank Miller’s Sin City Volume 2: • New cover by Frank Miller, with red foil! A Dame to Kill For (3rd Edition) • “The Customer Is Always Right,” included in this (ISBN 1-59307-294-5), volume, was the opener of the Sin City film, starring Frank Miller’s Sin City Volume 4: That Yellow Bastard (3rd Edition) Josh Hartnett as the Salesman! (ISBN 1-59307-296-1), • With a new look generating more excitement than ever before, this third edition is the perfect way to attract a whole new generation of readers to Frank Miller’s masterpiece! FALL 2010 21 MOTEL ART IMPROVEMENT SERVICE

ISBN: 1-59582-550-9 From Jason Little, author of the -winning ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-550-6 Shutterbug Follies, comes another exciting “bubblegum Price: $19.99 noir” graphic novel, originally serialized in the (CAN: $24.99, £14.99) Publisher: Dark Horse acclaimed Bee! Writer: Jason Little Eighteen-year-old Bee has finally saved up enough to Artist: Jason Little embark on her long-planned cross-country bicycle trip. Size: 9 x 6.75 However, she doesn’t make it very far before disaster Page Count: 208 leaves her stranded at a motel. Her hormones surge Format: Hardcover, Full Color when she meets a misunderstood young artist on a mis- Recommended Age: 16+ sion to “upgrade” the banal “artwork” that hangs on the Genre: Literary walls of every motel room. Taking a job there as a Publication Date: 11/24/2010 housekeeper, Bee snoops around in the motel’s dirty Rights: Worldwide laundry and finds herself entangled in a scary drug deal gone dangerously wrong. Featuring gorgeous artwork balancing grit with cute- ness, Motel Art Improvement Service explores crime, young love, and the purpose of art, in a story that’s equal parts thrilling, funny, and sexy. KEY SELLING POINTS: • By Ignatz Award and Xeric Grant winner Jason Little! • “Jason Little is one of the comics world’s most ingen- ious .” — Scott McCloud • “Stylish and graceful, Little’s figures and composi- tions suggest a grimier urban version of Belgian comics master Hergé’s classic Tintin books.” — Publishers Weekly • Read an excerpt at beecomix.com!

OH MY GODDESS! VOLUME 16

ISBN: 1-59582-594-0 Ever since a cosmic phone call brought the literal young ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-594-0 goddess Belldandy into college student Keiichi’s resi- Price: $11.99 (CAN: $15.50) dence, his personal life has been turned upside down, Publisher: Dark Horse Writer: Kosuke Fujishima sideways, and sometimes even into strange dimensions! Artist: Kosuke Fujishima After epic mishaps such as Belldandy and Keiichi’s Size: 5 x 7 hands becoming unable to part, or Skuld’s robot Banpei Page Count: 240 falling in love, what harm could the arrival of a cute Format: Softcover, Black & White young boy at the temple do to its residents? They say Recommended Age: 10+ when disaster strikes, time seems to slow down... the Genre: Manga, Humor problem is, it’s slowing down for everybody — for real! Publication Date: 11/3/2010 KEY SELLING POINTS: • Praise for previous volumes of Oh My Goddess!: “Oh My Goddess! is an eternally charming manga ORSE • series with magical humor and a big heart.” — activeanime.com H • “The art is full of action and humor. An essential read.” — School Library Journal • Winner of the 2009 Kodansha Award for Best General Manga. • Oh My Goddess! is the longest-running manga series

ARK in America! D

22 FALL 2010 THE SAVAGE SWORD OF KULL VOLUME 1

In the tradition of The Savage Sword of Conan and Saga ISBN: 1-59582-593-2 of Solomon Kane collections, Dark Horse presents The ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-593-3 Price: $19.99 Savage Sword of Kull, which is the first of a two-volume (CAN: $24.99, £14.99) set that will collect all of the black-and-white Kull mate- Publisher: Dark Horse rial printed by Marvel in the 1970s through the1990s. Writer: Roy Thomas, This volume breaths new life into classic Kull comic- Steve Englehart, book tales like “Demon in a Silvered Glass” and “The Artist: , Teeth of the Dragon” as well as Robert E. Howard adap- Howard Chaykin, tations like “Kings of the Knight” and “The Mirrors of Barry Windsor-Smith, Tuzun Thune,” and many, many more. Size: 7 x 10 Howard’s characters have always attracted top talent, and Page Count: 375 Format: Softcover, Black & White the creators assembled in this hefty tome are no different. Recommended Age: 16+ Industry heavyweights like Roy Thomas, , Genre: Action/Adventure, and Gerry Conway lend their considerable writing skills Fantasy to the embattled Valusian king — teaming up with the Publication Date: 11/10/2010 artistic talents of Barry Windsor-Smith, Bernie Rights: Worldwide Wrightson, Marie and , and others to bring you some of the most exciting tales of fantastic battles and political intrigue ever committed to paper. KEY SELLING POINTS: • This volume includes stories from #2, The Savage Sword of Conan #2, #3, #9, #23, #34, #42, #43, #55, and #119, Kull and the Barbarians #1, #2, and #3, The Savage Sword of Conan Annual #1, #19, and Bizarre Adventures #26. • The first six volumes of Savage Sword of Conan have combined to sell well over 100,000 copies.

TARZAN ARCHIVES: THE JESSE MARSH YEARS VOLUME 7

Join Tarzan, Jane, Boy, and their animal companions as ISBN: 1-59582-547-9 they encounter new friends, old enemies, and undiscov- ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-547-6 ered lands in the wilds of Africa. In addition to stories Price: $49.99 (CAN: $62.50, £37.99) featuring favorite recurring characters — such as the Publisher: Dark Horse oddball scientist Dr. MacWhirtle, the lion-taming peo- Writer: Gaylord Dubois ple of Cathne, cruel Queen La, and the Waziri warriors Artist: Jesse Marsh — Tarzan meets a group of Texan cowboys out to rope Size: 7 x 10 lions, a filmmaker documenting African wildlife, and Page Count: 224 the marsh-dwelling people of Lutor. Always a help to Format: Hardcover, Full Color his friends, whether they’re man or beast, Tarzan faith- Recommended Age: 12+ fully thwarts the plans of slavers, cannibals, and poach- Genre: Action/Adventure Publication Date: 11/10/2010

ers who would do them harm. ORSE Rights: Worldwide KEY SELLING POINTS: H • Collecting Dell’s Tarzan #33-38 from 1952, and introducing Goliath — the colossal lion Tarzan rais- es to protect the settlers of New Cathne — for the first time. • “I’m enjoying the crap out of these.” — comicsre- porter.com ARK • “With each successive volume of these collections of the DuBois/Marsh era of Tarzan comics, I find the D stories getting more and more fantastic.” — mania.com

FALL 2010 23 ISBN: 1-59582-573-8 ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-573-5 TROUBLEMAKER BOOK 2 Price: $17.99 (CAN: $22.50, £13.50) Publisher: Dark Horse (ALEX BARNABY SERIES 4) Writer: Janet Evanovich, Alex Evanovich There’s no smooth sailing for Alex Barnaby and Sam Hooker in Artist: Joëlle Jones, Andy Owens the second volume of bestselling author Janet Evanovich’s graph- Size: 6 x 9 ic-novel adventure, Troublemaker. Page Count: 112 Barnaby, Hooker, Rosa, Felicia, and Beans the St. Bernard set sail Format: Hardcover, Full Color to the Florida Keys in order to find the wooden body of Baron Recommended Age: 14+ Genre: Crime, Humor Samedi that matches their recently acquired — and stolen — Publication Date: 11/10/2010 wooden hand. But in the world of petro voodoo a hand for a hand Rights: Worldwide and a Baron for a boat is fair play. When the Happy Hooker dis- appears from its mooring in the Keys, Barnaby and Hooker have to find a way back to Miami with the stolen body of Baron Samedi. Ransom notes for the Happy Hooker, a sack of snakes, and a ticked-off chicken, leave only one place safe enough to hide a body... Hooker’s mom’s house — a situation that makes the sack of snakes look like chump change. KEY SELLING POINTS: • Janet Evanovich adds a new chapter to her New York Times best- selling Barnaby series in the graphic-novel format. • The first volume of Janet Evanovich’s Troublemaker saw a first printing of 100,000 copies.

ISBN: 1-59582-565-7 ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-565-0 TUROK, SON OF STONE ARCHIVES Price: $49.99 (CAN: $62.50, £37.99) VOLUME 7 Publisher: Dark Horse Writer: Various Indian braves Turok and Andar are trapped in a lost valley strug- Artist: Alberto Giolitti gling to survive while they search for a way to return to their true Size: 7 x 10 Page Count: 216 home and tribe. But searching only seems to bring them more peril Format: Hardcover, Full Color in this strange place where wonders from earth’s prehistoric past Recommended Age: 12+ thrive: dinosaurs with gaping, hungry jaws, rival tribes of tree- Genre: Action/Adventure dwelling monkey men and underground spider men, poisonous Publication Date: 11/17/2010 fruit that change the nature of peaceful beings, ghosts of dinosaurs Rights: Worldwide long dead, and more! KEY SELLING POINTS: • This volume collects issues #38-43 of Turok, Son of Stone from the run (1964-1965). These classic adven- tures have not been seen since the early 1960s. • “That Dark Horse has brought Turok back in a handsome hard- cover edition is not only a treat for longtime comics readers but also a boon for anyone interested in seeing what these books were about.” — graphicnovelreporter.com

ISBN: 1-59582-563-0 ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-563-6 THE WEDNESDAY CONSPIRACY Price: $19.99

ORSE (CAN: $24.99, £14.99) Publisher: Dark Horse Think you’ve got problems? Meet the patients in Dr. Burton’s Writer: Sergio Bleda Wednesday-afternoon support group: Violet carries a jar full of H Artist: Sergio Bleda demons. can read minds. Akiko talks with her dead parents Size: 7 x 10 through the bathroom mirror. Joe is an exorcist. Brian is pyrokinet- Page Count: 152 ic. And then, of course, there’s Charles. Format: Softcover, Full Color They’ve been thrown together by the luck of the draw, stuck with Recommended Age: 16+ supernatural powers they don’t want and can’t control. But when Genre: Horror ARK Publication Date: 11/10/2010 something begins to pick them off one by one, the surviving mem- bers of the Wednesday Conspiracy find themselves the last, reluctant

D line of defense between the reincarnation of an ancient evil and the fate of the world. KEY SELLING POINTS: • Sergio Bleda (b. 1974, Albacete, Spain) is one of the most bril- liant, fascinating, and versatile young cartoonists to emerge from Spain in the 1990s. • Collected in English for the first time. • Full-color painted art. 24 FALL 2010 ISBN: 1-59582-571-1 ARCHIE FIRSTS ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-571-1 Price: $24.99 Just in time to celebrate the seventieth anniversary of Archie (CAN: $31.50, £18.99) comics, here comes Dark Horse’s Archie Firsts archive! Publisher: Dark Horse Archie Andrews, Betty Cooper, Veronica Lodge, Jughead Jones, Writer: Various Artist: Various Reggie Mantle, and all the other kids at Riverdale High — they’re Size: 7 x 10 more than zany teenagers. They’re the flagship characters for one Page Count: 160 of the most beloved and long-running series in comics history! Format: Hardcover, Full Color This first-ever Archie archive edition is a survey of the first Recommended Age: 8+ appearance of each major character in the Archie universe, made Genre: Humor available at a special low price to appeal to readers from every cor- Publication Date: 12/8/2010 ner of fandom. Whether you found your Archies at the supermar- Rights: Worldwide ket checkout or at the first “real” comic-book shop in your home- town, everyone reads and loves ! KEY SELLING POINTS: • Archie’s first issues, first appearances, and other milestones, collected for the first time in one hardcover volume! • The Archie Firsts archive collect the first Archie story from Pep Comics #1 (1940), all of the Archie stories from Archie #1 (1942), all the Betty and Veronica stories from Betty and Veronica #1 (1950), the first Reggie story from Jackpot Comics #5 (1942), all the Reggie stories from Reggie #1 (1949), and all the Jughead stories from Jughead #1 (1949). • Last August the announcement of Archie’s proposal to Veronica put the long-running comic back in the news when picked up by major media outlets, including The New York Times, CBS, BBC, PRI’s The World, and major newspapers across the globe!

ISBN: 1-59582-596-7 DEVIL ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-596-4 Price: $14.99 Manga artist Torajiro Kishi (Maka-Maka) and blockbuster anime (CAN: $18.99, £10.99) studio (, Paprika, Ninja Scroll) love comics. So Publisher: Dark Horse much so that they’ve decided to publish an original, -style Writer: Torajiro Kishi, comic exclusively with Dark Horse! Enter Devil, a thrilling sci-fi Madhouse Studios Artist: Torajiro Kishi, take on the vampire genre. Madhouse Studios A vampire virus threatens humanity, and it may come down to a Size: 7 x 10 rogue cop and his strait-laced partner to contain the freakishly Page Count: 96 superhuman devils from rampaging across Japan. Why did the Format: Softcover, Full Color government create this virus, and what will result from its perfec- Recommended Age: 16+ tion? And more importantly, have the humans created a being that Genre: Science Fiction will now take the throne at the top of the food chain? Publication Date: 12/29/2010 Rights: Worldwide KEY SELLING POINTS: • Devil is one of the first cases of a Japanese creator making a comic specifically for the American audience, exclusively with Dark Horse.

ISBN: 1-59582-569-X EERIE ARCHIVES VOLUME 6 ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-569-8 ORSE Price: $49.99 Eerie Archives is back and more beastly than ever with a sixth (CAN: $62.50, £37.99) H specter-packed volume! Collecting issues #27-#31 of the leg- Publisher: Dark Horse endary horror magazine, Eerie Archives Volume 6 includes work Writer: Various Artist: Various from such legendary artists as , Vaughn Bodé, Richard Size: 8.75 x 11 Corben, , and others, illustrating stories by some of Page Count: 264 comics’ most beloved writers, including , Nicola Format: Hardcover,

Cuti, and Doug Moench. Pick up one of these lovingly produced Black & White ARK monsters and see why Eerie Archives has made multiple appear- Recommended Age: 14+

ances on the New York Times bestseller list. Genre: Horror D Publication Date: 12/15/2010 KEY SELLING POINTS: • Both the Creepy and Eerie Archive series have made numerous appearances on the New York Times top ten list of graphic nov- els. • “Terrifyingly good!” — Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net • “The brilliant work of the creators is showcased as it deserves to be and the publisher’s presentation of the material is top-notch.” — graphicnovelreporter.com FALL 2010 25 FRANK FRAZETTA ARCHIVES VOLUME 1: WHITE INDIAN

ISBN: 1-59582-597-5 The longest comic-book run of Frank Frazetta’s career! ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-597-1 First appearing as a backup feature in Durango Kid in Price: $49.99 1949, Dan Brand — known as the “White Indian” — is (CAN: $62.50, £37.99) Publisher: Dark Horse a colonial-era city boy whose life is marred by tragedy. Writer: Frank Frazetta When the death of his fiancée sends Brand through the Artist: Frank Frazetta wilderness on a trek to kill her murderer, he also begins Size: 7 x 10 a journey that will transform him into a hardened pio- Page Count: 200 neer survivalist. The powerful sequential work of Frank Format: Hardcover, Full Color Frazetta is in the spotlight in this collection, with all Recommended Age: 14+ interior pages scanned from original comic-book issues Genre: Action/Adventure, and digitally cleaned. As the first White Indian story Western declares, “When our country was young... and the truly Publication Date: 12/8/2010 Rights: Worldwide great Americans were the intrepid pioneers of the back- woods, where the woods were thick and sown with sud- den death... the greatest of the backwoodsmen was Dan Brand!” Join us as a wily pioneer and his sidekick Tipi brave the wilds of the American “New World” and a young cartoonist takes an industry by storm with his powerful talents in the 1940s and 1950s. KEY SELLING POINTS: • This collection reprints all of Frank Frazetta’s White Indian work in an affordable hardcover format. • The Durango Kid comic book introduced Dan Brand, the White Indian, and Tipi, his Indian sidekick. This particular run of stories best illustrates the growing development of Frazetta’s early drawing style.

SIN CITY VOLUME 7: HELL AND BACK (3RD EDITION)

ISBN: 1-59307-299-6 Hell and Back, the final volume of Frank Miller’s sig- ISBN-13: 978-1-59307-299-5 nature series, is the biggest and baddest Sin City of them Price: $30.00 all! This newly redesigned edition features a brand-new (CAN: $36.99, £22.99) Publisher: Dark Horse cover by Miller — some of his first comics art in years! Writer: Frank Miller It’s one of those clear, cool nights that drops in the mid- Artist: Frank Miller dle of summer like a gift from on high. If it weren’t for Size: 6 x 9 the rent, wouldn’t have a care in the world. Page Count: 320 Then he sees Esther, about to throw it all away — and Carton Qty: 24 throw herself off a cliff. Wallace jumps in after her, Carton Weight: 36.8 saves her life, and falls in love, but before he can find Format: Softcover, Black & White out what she was running from, she’s gone again, kid- Recommended Age: Mature napped. But Wallace isn’t the kind to lose his head. He’s Readers (ages 16 and up) Genre: Crime/Mystery calm. Like a monk. Like an executioner. And he’ll find ORSE Publication Date: 12/1/2010 them. Rights: Worldwide With a new look generating more excitement than ever

H before, this third edition is the perfect way to attract a Selected Previous Volumes: whole new generation of readers to Frank Miller’s mas- Frank Miller’s Sin City Volume 3: terpiece! The Big Fat Kill (3rd Edition) (ISBN 1-59307-295-3), KEY SELLING POINTS: Frank Miller’s Sin City Volume 1: Over 105,000 copies in print!

ARK The Hard Goodbye (3rd Edition) • (ISBN 1-59307-293-7), • New cover by Frank Miller! Frank Miller’s Sin City Volume 2: • With Miller and co-director Robert Rodriguez gear- D A Dame to Kill For (3rd Edition) ing up for Sin City 2, this third edition is being (ISBN 1-59307-294-5), released at just the right time! Frank Miller’s Sin City Volume 4: • Hell and Back is planned for a future Sin City film, That Yellow Bastard (3rd Edition) starring Johnny Depp as Wallace! (ISBN 1-59307-296-1),

26 FALL 2010 ISBN: 1-59582-598-3 GANTZ VOLUME 14 ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-598-8 Price: $12.99 A gang of vampire guys — who can grow samurai swords from (CAN: $16.50, £9.99) their very flesh! Once again, Hiroya Oku is pushing the envelope Publisher: Dark Horse with his crazy manga Gantz! Writer: Hiroya Oku And to add to it, these vampire yakuza guys might not even be Artist: Hiroya Oku aliens! This isn’t a mission. These guys seem to know who is Size: 5.25 x 7.25 Page Count: 224 working for Gantz, and are coming after them. On the streets Format: Softcover, Black & White where they work and live. In the daylight. All of a sudden the wall Recommended Age: 18+ between everyday humanity and Gantz’s nighttime, extradimen- Genre: Manga, sional hunts is crumbling. What will Kei and the others do? Can Action/Adventure they regenerate when they’re injured outside of a mission? Find Publication Date: 12/14/2010 out! Rights: Worldwide KEY SELLING POINTS: • Gantz has proven to be one of the most popular adult manga in recent years, with over 190,000 copies sold in the U.S. alone. • Each volume of Gantz comes shrink-wrapped and carries an 18+ content advisory.

LITTLE LULU VOLUME 25: THE BURGLAR-PROOF CLUBHOUSE AND OTHER STORIES

With the wittiest stories, most graceful art, and most effortless pac- ISBN: 1-59582-539-8 ing in the business, cartoon iconoclasts John Stanley and Irving ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-539-1 Tripp set the gold standard for American humor comics in Little Price: $14.99 (CAN: $18.99, £10.99) Lulu. Lulu Moppet, her best friend/nemesis Tubby, and the rest of Publisher: Dark Horse the Main Street gang never run out of new ways into and out of Writer: John Stanley (but mostly into) trouble. This new volume is no exception, filled Artist: John Stanley, Irving cover to cover with mirthful mayhem from a pair of all-time Size: 6 x 9 comics masters. Page Count: 200 Format: Softcover, Full Color KEY SELLING POINTS: Recommended Age: All Ages • The Burglar-Proof Clubhouse continues Dark Horse’s chrono- Genre: Humor logical reprinting of Little Lulu, collecting issues #124-#129 in Publication Date: 12/1/2010 all their original full-color glory! • “Recommended for all libraries; appropriate for young readers, but it will also appeal to adults, both out of nostalgia and for its own charm.” — Steve Raiteri for Library Journal • “[The] original Little Lulu comics... have aged well and retained their charm even after decades.” — San Francisco Book Review

ISBN: 1-59582-599-1 MAGNUS, ROBOT FIGHTER VOLUME 1 ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-599-5 Price: $19.99 In the year 4,000, the human race is threatened by robots bent to (CAN: $24.99, £14.99) enslave mankind, and only one man has the power to fight back — Publisher: Dark Horse Magnus, Robot Fighter! Writer: , These beloved tales of science-adventure first ran in 1963 and Robert Schaefer, Eric Freiwald Artist: Russ Manning ORSE 1964 and have influenced countless writers and artists throughout Size: 7 x 10 the decades. Created by fan-favorite Russ Manning — famous for Page Count: 216 H his spectacular work on the Tarzan newspaper strips of the sixties Format: Softcover, Full Color — Magnus, Robot Fighter was something of his “Tarzan of the Recommended Age: 14+ Future,” and Manning’s run on the series came to be known as a Genre: Science Fiction, classic in science-fiction comics. This volume reprints the first Superhero Adventure seven issues in the original 1960s Magnus, Robot Fighter series, Publication Date: 12/15/2010 Rights: North America with unparalleled art by the legendary Russ Manning, a foreword ARK by , and retouched interiors scanned from the original

comic books. Join Magnus on his quest, as he proclaims, “My task D will not be completed until I have smashed every evil robot that is hurting mankind in body and soul!” KEY SELLING POINTS: • One of Dark Horse’s earliest archival collections is now avail- able in softcover. • Contains Magnus, Robot Fighter issues #1-#7 (1963-1964). • “...[L]ovingly restored and presented, and ready for a place of honor on your shelf. They’re pure ‘60s bliss. Think of them as FALL 2010 the Mad Men of comics.” — asitecalledfred.com 27 ISBN: 1-59582-595-9 ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-595-7 NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: Price: $9.99 (CAN: $12.50, £7.50) THE SHINJI IKARI RAISING PROJECT Publisher: Dark Horse Writer: Osamu Takahashi VOLUME 7 Artist: Osamu Takahashi Size: 5.25 x 7.25 Page Count: 192 You didn’t really think all this raising being inflicted on Shinji by Format: Softcover, Black & White his parents and guardian was without constructive purpose, did Recommended Age: 14+ you... a purpose, perhaps, related to giant robotlike things? As Yui Genre: Manga, Humor deals with the fallout from the Jet Alone affair, her son tries to Publication Date: 12/29/2010 mind his own affairs... but usually just ends up falling. Rights: North America KEY SELLING POINTS: • Since it first hit Japanese TV screens in 1995, the multimedia Neon Genesis Evangelion phenomenon has never faded. The most-talked-about anime series of the 1990s, its legend only spread further in the last decade with the North American release of the Evangelion series on DVD and its subsequent air- ing on Adult Swim. Now Evangelion is in full-fledged revival, with a brand-new tetralogy of movies planned entitled Rebuild of Evangelion - the first film out, 2008’s Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone, became the top-selling DVD release of the year in Japan, and was released in the U.S. from Funimation. • Each volume features bonus color pages, your Evangelion fan art and letters, and special reader giveaways.

ISBN: 1-59582-561-4 ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-561-2 SERENITY: SHEPHERD’S TALE Price: $14.99 (CAN: $18.99, £10.99) Publisher: Dark Horse One of Serenity‘s greatest mysteries is finally revealed in Writer: Zach Whedon Shepherd’s Tale, filling in the life of one of the show’s most Artist: , beloved characters — Shepherd Book! Dave Stewart Who was Book before meeting Mal and the rest of the Serenity Size: 7 x 10 crew, how did he become one of their most trusted allies, and how Page Count: 56 did he find God in a bowl of soup? Answers to these and more Format: Hardcover, Full Color questions about Book’s past are uncovered in this original graphic Recommended Age: 14+ Genre: Science Fiction, novel. A pivotal chapter in the ongoing Serenity saga, Shepherd’s Action/Adventure Tale is also a rollicking, action-packed epic in its own right. Publication Date: 12/14/2010 Rights: Worldwide KEY SELLING POINTS: • “Dark Horse’s Serenity displays the key ingredients of the series in a substantial and entertaining way.” — brokenfrontier.com • Dark Horse has sold over 125,000 copies of the original Serenity trade paperback.

ISBN: 1-59582-555-X ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-555-1 STAR WARS OMNIBUS: Price: $24.99 (CAN: $31.50) Publisher: Dark Horse QUINLAN VOS — JEDI IN DARKNESS ORSE Writer: , Pat Mills Artist: ,

H , Ramon Bachs, Collected here are the early tales of one of the Jedi Order’s most Ray Kryssing beleaguered knights, Quinlan Vos. Size: 6 x 9 From his first appearance as a mind-wiped amnesiac to his tri- Page Count: 504 umphant passage to the rank of Jedi Master, few Jedi had more Format: Softcover, Full Color brushes with the powers of the dark side and the evil of the under- Recommended Age: 12+ world than Quinlan Vos. This volume includes over 120 pages of Genre: Science Fiction ARK Publication Date: 12/29/2010 story that have never been collected, plus the introduction of Jedi Rights: Worldwide except United Aayla Secura — who made the jump from the pages of the comics D Kingdom, Australia, New to appearances in the films Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Zealand Sith. KEY SELLING POINTS: • Landmark Star Wars adventure in a massive 500+ page omnibus! • Contains over 120 pages of previously uncollected material!

28 FALL 2010 ISBN: 1-59582-545-2 STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS — ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-545-2 Price: $7.99 (CAN: $9.99) DEADLY HANDS OF SHON-JU Publisher: Dark Horse Writer: Jeremy Barlow Behind enemy lines, Jedi Knight Aayla Secura’s covert mission is Artist: Matt Fillbach, threatened by an encounter with Shon-Ju — a former Padawan Shawn Fillbach, Ronda Pattison turned cult leader. Shon-Ju claims to be after the same Separatist Size: 5.25 x 7.5 Page Count: 80 that Aayla was sent to capture, but he also has plenty of Carton Qty: 1 reasons to hate the Republic and the Jedi. The Force is with Aayla, Format: Softcover, Full Color but she may need more than her lightsaber against “The Deadly Recommended Age: 8+ Hands of Shon-Ju”! Genre: Science Fiction Publication Date: 12/14/2010 KEY SELLING POINTS: Rights: Worldwide except United • Inspired by the film and television programs The Clone Wars, Kingdom, Australia, New the fun and excitement never stops with these additional Jedi Zealand adventures. • Dark Horse sold 100,000 copies of the first four volumes of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars digests. • The Dark Horse series Star Wars: The Clone Wars is designed to be parent friendly, contains standalone stories, and should be a staple of any younger-reader’s graphic-novel section.

ISBN: 1-59582-549-5 ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-549-0 Price: $12.99 Internet phenomenon The Guild comes to comics, courtesy of (CAN: $16.50, £9.99) series creator, writer, and star Felicia Day (Dr. Horrible’s Sing- Publisher: Dark Horse Along Blog)! Writer: Felica Day Chronicling the hilarious on- and offline lives of a group of Artist: Jim Ruggs, Dan Jackson, Internet role-playing gamers, the Knights of Good, The Guild has Georges Jeanty Size: 6 x 9 become a cult hit, and is the winner of numerous awards from Page Count: 80 SXSW, YouTube, Yahoo, and the Streamys. Now, Day brings the Format: Softcover, Full Color wit and heart of the show to this graphic-novel prequel. In this ori- Recommended Age: 14+ gin tale of the Knights of Good, we learn about Cyd’s life before Genre: Fantasy, Humor joining the guild, how she became Codex, her awful breakup with Publication Date: 12/15/2010 boyfriend Trevor, and how she began to meet the other players Rights: Worldwide who would eventually become her teammates. KEY SELLING POINTS: • This storyline fills in details never before revealed on the web show, making it an essential new chapter for existing fans as well as a perfect jumping-on point for new fans. • See the web series at watchtheguild.com. • The Guild is the winner of SXSW, YouTube, and Yahoo Web Series awards as well as three 2009 Streamy Awards: Best Comedy Web Series, Best Ensemble, and Best Actress for Felicia Day.

ISBN: 1-59582-572-X VAMPIRE HUNTER D VOLUME 16: ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-572-8 Price: $14.99 TYRANT’S STARS PARTS 1 AND 2 (CAN: $18.99, £10.99) Publisher: Dark Horse

Writer: Hideyuki Kikuchi ORSE In this chilling adventure, Vampire Hunter D has been dispatched Artist: Yoshitaka Amano to vanquish the ancient vampiric Noble Count Brohj, guardian of

Size: 5.25 x 7.25 H an ancient buried treasure. But when a mysterious object crashes Page Count: 480 into the earth, destroying half of the northern Frontier, D faces an Format: Softcover, Black & White even more terrifying opponent — the renegade vampire Valcua, Genre: Horror, Science Fiction the Ultimate Noble! Having been exiled to outer space, Valcua Publication Date: 12/22/2010 took his entire kingdom of strange and deadly creatures with him,

and swore that when the time was right they would return to have ARK their revenge. Unfortunately for D, that time is now... KEY SELLING POINTS: D • Dark Horse Books and Publishing are proud to continue presenting the classic novels and stories in the Vampire Hunter D series for the first time to English- speaking fans everywhere. • Features gorgeous black-and-white line illustrations by Yoshitaka Amano as well as a color tip-in illustration.

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