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"The first chapter of the highly acclaimed, Eisner Award-winning superhero saga in deluxe, oversized hardcover format. Collects the first and second volumes of Black Hammer, and Black Hammer: Giant Sized Annual in a deluxe, hardcover, and oversized format with a new cover, sketchbook extras, and more! Mysteriously banished from existence by a multiversal event, the old superheroes of Spiral City now lead simple lives on a bizarre farm from which there...
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"In Elseworlds, heroes are taken from their usual settings and put into strange times and places--some that have existed, or might have existed, and others that can't, couldn't or shouldn't exist. The result: stories that make characters who are as familiar as yesterday seem as fresh as tomorrow. This collection includes a dystopian tale of Metropolis in the throes of a revolution at the hands of the Super-Man, Nosferatu and Diana of Heaven, a world...
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Astro City Metrobook volume 1
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"A hero dreams of flight. An alien spy prepares for invasion. A young man is mentored by a hero with dark secrets. A street criminal discovers a hero's identity. And much, much more. Step into a world of heroes and see them from a whole different perspective. These are the multiple-award-winning stories that began the epic series and changed how we think about superheroes"--Amazon.com.
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"Torn from the Farm and faced with startling revelations about their last ten years, the Black Hammer crew, stripped of their identities, must race to prevent a universal meltdown and make hard sacrifices for the sake of existence itself! Meanwhile, a Lovecraftian teen finds there is a hefty price she must pay to become 'normal.'" --
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"After the stunning events of DC REBIRTH, the world is left without Superman! Luckily, there is another Man of Steel to fill his shoes: the pre-Flashpoint Kal-El! However, can this new Superman protect the world while raising a super-son with his wife, Lois Lane? And should they help their boy use his new and rapidly increasing abilities, or hide them from the world?"--
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Jupiter's Legacy volume 1
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"The superheroes have taken over the world, and only the supervillains can save us from their disastrous mistakes and monumental hubris. Hutch and Chloe have been in hiding with their son, but now they're gathering a team of supervillains to go back to America to retake the White House in the name of all humanity. This is a must-read modern classic!"--Publisher's website
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"This is going to hurt! In a world where costumed heroes soar through the sky and masked vigilantes prowl the night, someone's got to make sure the 'supes' don't get out of line. And someone will! Billy Butcher, Wee Hughie, Mother's Milk, The Frenchman, and The Female are The Boys: A CIA-backed team of very dangerous people, each one dedicated to the struggle against the most dangerous force on Earth - superpower! Some superheroes have to be watched....
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Animal man (The New 52) volume 2
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"Buddy Baker's family is on the run, traveling across the country in an RV to escape the forces of death and decay, otherwise known as The Rot. Evil agents are hunting Buddy's four-year-old daughter Maxine, who has been chosen as the avatar of The Red, the force of animal life"--Page 4 of cover.
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Doom patrol (2016) volume 1
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The atoms are buzzing. Daydreams crowd sentient streets. Generation arsonists unite: this is Doom Patrol and the God of Superheroes is bleeding on the floor. Casey Brinke is a young EMT, working the graveyard shift and dealing with a past so bizarre, she's not sure what's real and what's make-believe. With her partner, Sam Reynolds, by her side, she's about the blaze a path through the darkest alleys and blackest hours of the city. And the people...
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Immortal Hulk volume 11
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Bruce Banner travels from town to town, finding murder, mystery, and tragedy as he goes, and when night falls, the immortal Hulk awakens to smash everything Banner finds, but the hero called Sasquatch is about to risk his life looking for them both.
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God Hates Astronauts follows the story of a group of incompetent, small-minded, super powered narcissists called "The Power Persons Five" who are hired by NASA to stop all farmers from launching themselves into space in homemade rocket ships. Unfortunately for NASA, this goal is scarcely even addressed and the book focuses more on extramarital affairs, bank-robbing owls, big gross swollen heads, ghost cow heads, olde tyme boxers, tigers eating cheeseburgers...
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"After the devastating events of Infinite Frontier, the Crown Prince of Crime flees Gotham for international waters as Jim Gordon hunts him. It's been almost a decade since The Joker has had the spotlight, and with this ... series James Tynion IV brings his iconic voice to [him]"--
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God Hates Astronauts volume 1
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The scourge of astro-farmers has finally gotten out of control! Only a cosmic man with a ghost-cow head, a rhinoceros professor, and an ex-Chicago cop with robot arms can stand in the way of an intergalactic incident with the dreaded King Tiger Eating a Cheeseburger!
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Iron Man volume 1
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"Tony Stark is looking to restart his engine. He's going back to basics, putting away his high-tech toys and high-profile image so he can get his hands dirty again. It's time to put on some old-fashioned metal - and fly! But can Tony really lay that Stark-sized ego down? Life just isn't that simple, something that old friends and frustrating foes are quick to point out. So Iron Man takes the fight back to basics, and back to the streets - facing down...
15) The world of Black Hammer library edition: Vol. 3,Colonel Weird: cosmagog and Barbalien: red planet
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"In Colonel Weird: Cosmagog, sanity-challenged space adventurer Colonel Weird embarks on a strange journey through space and time for something that he's long forgotten with his sanity and life at stake! In Barbalien: Red Planet, the shape-shifting superhero Barbalien struggles to find his place in the world during the AIDS crisis--something made all the more difficult when a Martian enemy from the past follows him to earth to take him back, dead...
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Harvey Dent is dead. Or is he? A gang of thieves thrusts Gotham City into a state of fear when they are mysteriously well-armed with military-grade weapons: flamethrowers, grenade launchers, and even tanks. And this gang claims it is funded by none other than former district attorney Harvey Dent. Balancing his two lives, Bruce Wayne must find the truth by tapping his growing network of agents, including Alfred Pennyworth, Jim Gordon, Waylon "Killer...
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Boys volume 1
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"In a world where costumed heroes soar through the sky and masked vigilantes prowl the night, someone's got to make sure the 'supes' don't get out of line. And someone will! Billy Butcher, Wee Hughie, Mother's Milk, The Frenchman, and The Female are The Boys: A CIA-backed team of very dangerous people, each one dedicated to the struggle against the most dangerous force on Earth - superpower! Some superheroes have to be watched. Some have to be controlled....
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Jupiter's Legacy volume 1
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"By day, they are the world's greatest heroes. By night, they struggle with the same problems as the rest of us, and as the pressure increases on these super-celebrities, one of the team breaks away to become embroiled in the social unrest and political upheaval of America in the 1960s. You've never read a book like Jupiter's Legacy before, now a major Netflix Original series"--Publisher's website
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DCeased volume 1
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"DCeased became a smash horror hit in 2019 by offering a twisted version of the DC Universe infected by the Anti-Life Equation, transforming heroes and villains alike into mindless monsters. DCeased: Hope At World's End, previously only available digitally, expands the world of that original DCeased series by filling in that story's time jump and focusing on characters including Superman, Wonder Woman, Martian Manhunter, Stephanie Brown, Wally West,...
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The Boys volume 1
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"It's been a long time coming. When the Homelander finally sets an army of superheroes against the forces of the United States military, Billy Butcher and The Boys must finish the job they were recruited for: to take every superhero out of the picture. While the battle rages on the White House lawn, Frenchie and the Female are unleashed, Mother's Milk uncovers a terrible secret at Vought-American, and Wee Hughie discovers the senses-shattering truth...
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