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SHIPMENT LIST FOR WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27th, 2011

***MARVEL COMICS***
AGE OF X UNIVERSE #2
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #659 BIG
ANITA BLAKE CIRCUS OF DAMNED INGENUE #3
ASTONISHING SPIDER-MAN WOLVERINE ANOTHER FINE MESS #1
AVENGERS #12.1
CAPTAIN AMERICA #617 REGULAR & LIMITED THOR HOLLYWOOD VARIANT EDITIONS
DEADPOOL #36
FF #2 REGULAR & MULTIPLE LIMITED VARIANT EDITIONS
INCREDIBLE HULKS #627 REGULAR & LIMITED VARIANT EDITIONS
MIGHTY THOR #1 REGULAR & BLANK & LIMITED VARIANT EDITIONS
NAMOR FIRST MUTANT #9
NEW MUTANTS #24
ORSON SCOTT CARDS SPEAKER FOR DEAD #4
OSBORN #5
POWER MAN AND IRON FIST #4
RUSE #2
SECRET AVENGERS #12 REGULAR & LIMITED THOR HOLLYWOOD VARIANT EDITIONS
SECRET AVENGERS #12.1
SPIDER-GIRL #6 BIG
SPIDER-MAN #13
THOR ASGARDS AVENGER #1
THUNDERSTRIKE #5
TOMB OF DRACULA PRESENTS THRONE OF BLOOD #1
ULTIMATE X-MEN #1 MARVELS GREATEST COMICS
UNCANNY X-MEN #536
VENOM #2
X-23 #9 REGULAR & LIMITED THOR GOES HOLLYWOOD VARIANT EDITIONS
X-MEN #10 REGULAR & MULTIPLE LIMITED VARIANT EDITIONS

***DC COMICS***

ACTION COMICS #900 REGULAR & MULTIPLE LIMITED VARIANT EDITIONS
AMERICAN VAMPIRE #14
BATMAN INCORPORATED #5 REGULAR & LIMITED VARIANT EDITIONS
BRIGHTEST DAY #24 REGULAR & LIMITED VARIANT EDITIONS
DETECTIVE COMICS #876
FLASH #11 FLASHPOINT -- REGULAR & LIMITED VARIANT EDITIONS
GREEN ARROW #11 BRIGHTEST DAY -- REGULAR & LIMITED VARIANT EDITIONS
GREEN LANTERN EMERALD WARRIORS #9 WAR OF GL -- REG & LIMITED VAR EDITIONS
INFAMOUS #4
JUSTICE LEAGUE GENERATION LOST #24 REGULAR & LIMITED VARIANT EDITIONS
JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA #50 REGULAR & LIMITED VARIANT EDITIONS
NEW YORK FIVE #4
SCALPED #48
WONDER WOMAN #610 REGULAR & LIMITED VARIANT EDITIONS
XOMBI #2

***INDEPENDENT COMICS***

AMORY WARS KEEPING SECRETS OF SILENT EARTH 3 #10
ANGEL #44 REGULAR & LIMITED VARIANT EDITIONS
ARCHIE #620
BART SIMPSON COMICS #59
BETTY & VERONICA #253
CAVEWOMAN SNOW #1
CONAN ROAD OF KINGS #4
DANGER GIRL ARMY OF DARKNESS #1 REGULAR & LIMITED VARIANT EDITIONS
DOCTOR SOLAR MAN OF ATOM #6
DOCTOR WHO ONGOING VOL. 2 #4
EARP SAINTS FOR SINNERS #3
ECHOES #5
GODZILLA KINGDOM OF MONSTERS #2 REGULAR & LIMITED VARIANT EDITIONS
GORE #2
HAUNT #15
IMAGE FIRSTS ELEPHANTMEN #1
IMAGE FIRSTS WALKING DEAD #1 NEW PRINTING
INCORRUPTIBLE #17
KATO ORIGINS #8
KING CONAN SCARLET CITADEL #3
KNIGHTS OF THE DINNER TABLE #173
LOCKE & KEY KEYS TO THE KINGDOM #6
MARINEMAN #5
MEDITERRANEA #3
MONSTER HUNTERS SURVIVAL GUIDE #4
PLANET OF THE APES #1 REGULAR & LIMITED VARIANT EDITIONS
RASL #10
STAN LEE TRAVELER #6
STAR WARS DARTH VADER & LOST COMMAND #4
STAR WARS LEGACY WAR #5
STRANGE CASE OF MR. HYDE #1
TRANSFORMERS 3 MOVIE PREQUEL FOUNDATION #3
TRUE TAINTED BLOOD #3 REGULAR & LIMITED VARIANT EDITIONS
TUROK SON OF STONE #2
WALKING DEAD #84
WALKING DEAD WEEKLY #17
WALT DISNEYS COMICS & STORIES #718
WARLORD OF MARS #6 REGULAR & MULTIPLE LIMITED VARIANT EDITIONS

***MISCELLANEOUS***

DOCTOR SOLAR MAN OF THE ATOM VOL. 1 TPB
ESSENTIAL X-MEN VOL. 6 TPB NEW EDITION
FAMOUS MONSTERS UNDERGROUND #1
FLASH REBIRTH TPB
INVINCIBLE VOL. 14 VILTRUMITE TPB
LIFE WITH ARCHIE MARRIED LIFE #9 MAY 2011
MAD MAGAZINE #509
MARVEL SELECT THOR MOVIE ACTION FIGURE
MARVEL SELECT THOR MOVIE LOKI ACTION FIGURE
PREVIEWS #272 MAY 2011
SHADOW DOUBLE NOVEL VOL. 48
SHOWCASE PRESENTS GREEN LANTERN VOL. 5 TPB
STAR WARS INSIDER #125
THOR OFFICIAL INDEX TO MARVEL UNIVERSE TPB
UNDYING MONSTERS MAGAZINE #1
X-MEN GOD LOVES MAN KILLS TPB NEW PRINTING

SHIPMENT LIST FOR WEDNESDAY, April 20th, 2011

***MARVEL COMICS***
AGE OF X ALPHA #1 2nd PRINT VARIANT
AVENGERS #12
AVENGERS ACADEMY #12
DEADPOOLMAX #7
FEAR ITSELF SINS PAST #1
GENERATION HOPE #6
HALO FALL OF REACH COVENANT #1
HULK #32
INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #503 FEAR -- REGULAR & LIMITED THOR VAR EDS
IRON MAN 2.0 #4
MARVEL BACKLIST READING CHRONOLOGY #1
SIGIL #2
SILVER SURFER #3
SKAAR KING OF SAVAGE LAND #2
SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN #1000
THOR MARVELS GREATEST COMICS #7
THUNDERBOLTS #156
UNCANNY X-FORCE #8
VENOM #1 2nd PRINT QUESADA VARIANT
WOLVERINE #8 REGULAR & LIMITED THOR HOLLYWOOD VARIANT EDITION
WOLVERINE & JUBILEE #4
X-FACTOR #218

***DC COMICS***

ACTION COMICS #899
BATMAN #709
DC COMICS PRESENTS LEGION SUPER HEROES DAMNED #1
DC COMICS PRESENTS NINJA BOY #1
DC UNIVERSE ONLINE LEGENDS #6
DMZ #64
FABLES #104
GOTHAM CITY SIRENS #22
GREEN LANTERN #65 REGULAR & LIMITED VARIANT EDITIONS
GREEN LANTERN CORPS #65 REGULAR & LIMITED VARIANT EDITIONS
HELLBLAZER #278
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #56 REGULAR & LIMITED VARIANT EDITION
LEGION OF SUPER HEROES #12
POWER GIRL #23
SPIRIT #13
SUPERGIRL #63
SUPERMAN BATMAN #83
TEEN TITANS #94
TINY TITANS #39
YOUNG JUSTICE #2
ZATANNA #12

***INDEPENDENT COMICS***

ABATTOIR #4
ARCHIE AND FRIENDS #154
BOONDOCK SAINTS MOB WAR #1
DARK HORSE PRESENTS #1
DARKWING DUCK #11
DAYS MISSING KESTUS #5
DOCTOR WHO FAIRYTALE LIFE #1
DUNGEONS & DRAGONS DARK SUN #4 REGULAR & LIMITED VARIANT EDS
DUNGEONS & DRAGONS #6 REGULAR & LIMITED VARIANT EDITIONS
G.I. JOE A REAL AMERICAN HERO #165
GOLD DIGGER #128
GREEN HORNET #15
GREEN HORNET STRIKES #7
INVINCIBLE #79
JERICHO SEASON 3 #5
KILL SHAKESPEARE #10
LAST PHANTOM #6
MASS EFFECT EVOLUTION #4 REGULAR & LIMITED VARIANT EDITIONS
MICKEY MOUSE #307
PATRICIA BRIGGS MERCY THOMPSON MOON CALLED #5
RED SONJA BREAK THE SKIN ONE SHOT #1
RYDER ON THE STORM #3
SIMPSONS COMICS #177
SIXTH GUN #11
SONIC UNIVERSE #27
STAN LEE SOLDIER ZERO #7
SUPER DINOSAUR #1
TRANSFORMERS HEART OF DARKNESS #2
TWILIGHT GUARDIAN #4
VICTORIAN SECRET LADIES OF STEAMPUNK ONE SHOT #1
WALKING DEAD WEEKLY #16
ZOMBIES VS. ROBOTS UNDERCITY #1

***MISCELLANEOUS***

COMICS REVUE PRESENTS APRIL 2011
ESSENTIAL THOR VOL. 5 TPB
G FAN #95

SHIPMENT LIST FOR WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13th, 2011

***MARVEL COMICS***
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #658 BIG Ð REGULAR & LIMITED THOR GOES TO HOLLYWOOD VARIANT EDITIONS
BLACK PANTHER MAN WITHOUT FEAR #517 REGULAR & LIMITED THOR HOLLYWOOD VARIANT EDITIONS
CAPTAIN AMERICA FIGHTING AVENGERS #1
CARNAGE #4
CASANOVA GULA #4
DAKEN DARK WOLVERINE #8
DARK TOWER GUNSLINGER LITTLE SISTERS ELURIA #5
DEADPOOL #35
FANTASTIC FOUR #588 2nd PRINT DAVIS VARIANT
FORMIC WARS BURNING EARTH #4
HAWKEYE: BLIND SPOT #3
HOUSE OF M #1 MARVELS GREATEST COMICS
INCREDIBLE HULKS #626
IRON MAN 2.0 #3
JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #622 FEAR ITSELF Ð REGULAR & MULITPLE LIMITED VARIANT EDITIONS
NEW AVENGERS #11 REGULAR & LIMITED THOR GOES TO HOLLYWOOD VARIANT EDITIONS
NEW MUTANTS #22 2nd PRINT KURTH VARIANT
ONSLAUGHT UNLEASHED #3
PUNISHERMAX #12
SECRET WARRIORS #26
SHIELD INFINITY ONE SHOT #1
SKAAR KING OF SAVAGE LAND #1 LIMITED TAN VARIANT EDITION
STEVE ROGERS SUPER SOLDIER ANNUAL #1
SUPER HEROES #13
THOR WHOSOEVER WIELDS THIS HAMMER #1
ULTIMATE AVENGERS VS. NEW ULTIMATES #3
ULTIMATE COMICS SPIDER-MAN #157 DEATH SPIDER-MAN Ð REGULAR & LIMTIED MCGUINNES VARIANT
EDS
ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR #1 MARVELS GREATEST COMICS
UNCANNY X-FORCE #7 REGULAR & LIMTED THOR GOES HOLLYWOOD VARIANT EDITIONS
UNCANNY X-MEN #535 REGULAR & LIMTED THOR GOES HOLLYWOOD VARIANT EDITIONS
WOLVERINE BEST THERE IS CONTAGION #1
X-MEN LEGACY #245 2nd PRINT MANN VARIANT
X-MEN LEGACY #247 AGE X Ð REGULAR & LIMTED THOR GOES HOLLYWOOD VARIANT EDITIONS

***DC COMICS***

ADVENTURE COMICS #525
ALL NEW BATMAN THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD #6
BATGIRL #20
BATMAN AND ROBIN #22 REGULAR & LIMITED VARIANT EDITIONS
BATMAN ODYSSEY #4
BIRDS OF PREY #11
BOOSTER GOLD #43
CINDERELLA FABLES ARE FOREVER #3
DC COMICS PRESENTS BATMAN ARKHAM #1
DOC SAVAGE #13
FLASH #10 FLASHPOINT Ð REGULAR & LIMITED VARIANT EDITIONS
INFAMOUS #3
JUSTICE LEAGUE GENERATION LOST #23 BRIGHTEST DAY Ð REGULAR & LIMITED VARIANT EDITIONS
NORTHLANDERS #39
OUTSIDERS #38
REBELS #27
RED ROBIN #22
SUPERBOY #6 DOOMSDAY
SUPERMAN #710 REGULAR & LIMITED VARIANT EDITIONS
THUNDER AGENTS #6
TITANS #34
UNWRITTEN #24

***INDEPENDENT COMICS***

DEAN KOONTZ NEVERMORE #1
DEATH OF ZORRO #2
DONALD DUCK #365
FARSCAPE #18
FRAGGLE ROCK VOL. 2 #3
G.I. JOE COBRA #1 100 PENNY PRESS EDITION
G.I. JOE VOL. 2 #0
GOLD DIGGER #127
GRIMM FAIRY TALES #58
HELLBOY BUSTER OAKLEY GETS HIS WISH ONE SHOT #1
INDIE COMICS MAGAZINE #2
JOHN BYRNE NEXT MEN #5
LADIES OF THE NIGHT ONE SHOT #1
LADY DEATH #4 REGULAR & LIMITED ART DECO VARIANT EDITIONS
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD #4
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD 2001 ANNUAL
RED SONJA REVENGE OF THE GODS #2
ROBERT JORDAN WHEEL OF TIME EYE OF THE WORLD #9
SPAWN #206
SPIKE #7
SPONGEBOB COMICS #2
STAN LEE STARBORN #5
STAR TREK COUNTDOWN #1 100 PENNY PRESS EDITION
TRANSFORMERS ONGOING #18 REGULAR & LIMITED VARIANT EDITIONS
TRANSFORMERS RISING STORM #3
WALKING DEAD SURVIVORS GUIDE #1
WALKING DEAD WEEKLY #15
WARLORD OF MARS DEJAH THORIS #2 REGULAR & MULTIPLE LIMITED VARIANT EDITIONS

***MISCELLANEOUS***

BETTY & VERNOICA FRIENDS DOUBLE DIGEST #213
BATMAN SYMBOL 3-D T-SHIRT XL & XXL
COMICS BUYERS GUIDE #1677 MAY 2011
JACK KIRBY COLLECTOR #56
KUNG FU PANDA 2 MOVIE PREQUEL TPB
STEPHEN KINGS N TPB

SHIPMENT LIST FOR WEDNESDAY, April 6th, 2011

***MARVEL COMICS***
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL #38
ANNIHILATORS #2
AVENGERS CHILDRENS CRUSADE #5
AVENGERS THOR CAPTAIN AMERICA OFFICIAL INDEX MARVEL UNIVERSE #12
CAPTAIN AMERICA HAIL HYDRA #4
CARNAGE #3 2nd PRINT CRAIN VARIANT
DEADPOOL FAMILY #1
EMMA #2
FEAR ITSELF #1 REGULAR & BLANK & MULTIPLE LIMITED VARIANT COVERS
FEAR ITSELF HOME FRONT #1
FEAR ITSELF SPOTLIGHT FEAR #1
FEAR ITSELF WEARING SPANDEX IN PUBLIC #NONE
HERC #1
HEROES FOR HIRE #5 REGULAR & MULTIPLE LIMITED VARIANT EDITIONS
MARVEL ZOMBIES SUPREME #3
OZMA OF OZ #5
SKAAR KING OF SAVAGE LAND #1 REGULAR & MULIPLE LIMITED VARIANT EDITIONS
SPIDER-MAN POWER COMES RESPONSIBILITY #1
THUNDERBOLTS FROM MARVEL VAULT #1
ULTIMATE COMICS CAPTAIN AMERICA #4
UNANNY X-MEN #534.1
WOLVERINE BEST THERE IS #5 REGULAR & LIMITED THOR GOES TO HOLLYWOOD VARIANT EDITIONS

***DC COMICS***

BATMAN BEYOND #4
BRIGHTEST DAY #23 REGULAR & LIMITED VARIANT EDITIONS
DC UNIVERSE ONLINE LEGENDS #5
DOOM PATROL #21
FIRST WAVE SPECIAL #1 REGULAR & LIMITED VARIANT EDITIONS
FREEDOM FIGHTERS #8
HOUSE OF MYSTERY #36
IZOMBIE #12
JLA 80 PAGE GIANT 2011 #1
JONAH HEX #66
JSA ALL STARS #17
LOONEY TUNES #197
SCOOBY DOO WHERE ARE YOU? #8
SECRET SIX #32
SUPERMAN BATMAN ANNUAL #5
SWEETH TOOTH #20
VERTIGO RESURRECTED HELLBLAZER BAD BLOOD #1
WEIRD WORLDS #4

***INDEPENDENT COMICS***

ABYSS FAMILY ISSUES #2
BETTY #191
BOYS #53
BPRD DEAD REMEMBERED #1
BRING THE THUNDER #4
CHARISMAGIC #1
CHEW #18
CHIP N DALE RESCUE RANGERS #5
CONAN LEGACY FRAZETTA COVER #7
DOCTOR WHO CLASSICS SERIES 4 #3 SEVENTH DOCTOR
DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS #5 REGULAR & LIMITED VARIANT EDITIONS
FALLEN ANGEL RETURN OF THE SON #3
GLAMOURPUSS #18
GREEN HORNET AFTERMATH #1
INFESTATION #2 REGULAR & LIMITED VARIANT EDITINOS
IRON SIEGE #3
IRREDEEMABLE #24
JIM BUTCHER DRESDEN FILES FOOL MOON #1
JURASSIC PARK DEVILS IN THE DESERT #4
LET ME IN CROSSROADS #4
LOVE AND CAPES EVER AFTER #3
MADMEN NEW GIANT SIZE SUPER GINCHY SPECIAL ONE SHOT #1
MEMOIR #3
RAISE THE DEAD II #4
SOLOMAN KAN RED SHADOWS #1 REGULAR & LIMITED VARIANT EDITIONS
UNCLE SCROOGE #402
USAGI YOJIMBO #136
WALKING DEAD WEEKLY #14
WITCHFINDER LOST & GONE FOREVER #3

***MISCELLANEOUS***

CHAOS WAR TPB
DC BLACKEST NIGHT FIGURE COLLECTOR MAGAZINE #2 ATTROCITUS
DOCTOR WHO INSIDER MAGAZINE #1
ESSENTAIL X-MEN VOL. 5 NEW EDITION
FABLES VOL.15 ROSE RED TPB
MARVEL SUPER STARS MAGAZINE #2
MARVEL ZOMBIES 5 TPB
OUTLAW PRINCE TPB

Force Majeure: Priarie Bay #1 Wild Stars: The Book of Circles cover

The WILD STARS go digital!

Beginning with Force Majeure: Prairie Bay #1, I've made all of the Wild Stars comics available in Digital Format. They're available to read online, or for downloading, at:

www.mydigitalcomics.com

To read more about the special features of the expanded digital version of Wild Stars: The Book of Circles graphic novel, check out the new Hidden Wild Stars page!



Tarzan Large Feature #5 Tarzan Single Series #20
I've started a new section on the History of Comics. For the initial overview of how comics are made, start here.


Tarzan of the Apes is the first subject. Tarzan is a character who has been an integral part of the comics industry since the very beginning of the artform.



Click here for the full history of Tarzan of the Comics!







Walt Disney's Comics & Stories #1 Uncle Scrooge #1

Walt Disney and The Good Duck Artist


The next Comics History page is devoted to the legendary Carl Barks.

Carl Barks was always one of my favorite storytellers, being both an exceptional artist and extraordinary storyteller. It was a rare combination.

If you'd like a quick tour of the career of the man who, because he worked in an age before printed credits, was known as The Good Duck Artist, all you have to do is click this link: Disney Ducks!

Walt Disney Comics & Stories and Uncle Scrooge and the images on both sides are TM and (C) by Walt Disney Co.

Destination Comics!








Both
Collector's Edition and The Comic Book Store were a Destination Comics! feature location in issue #1664 (April 2010) of the Comics Buyer's Guide magazine.










I've added a new section to try and dispell a common misconception about the comic book industry.

Comic Book Store owners always get a bad rap, as the public perception is that we're all like the rude, Simpson's Comic Book Store Guy, laziing around, and surrounded by nothing but food and big stacks of Super-Hero comics.

Like a Super-Hero, my other hobbies involve a mask and breathing apparatus, specialized training that includes rescue, dangerous activities and encounters with deadly animals, plus travel around the world to exotic locations, including a trip down the road to a lost civilization.

These are the incredible, but true adventures of a masked Comic Book Store Guy:

Check out the new Dive Log.

Swimming in liquid topaz

New page in the Bonus section.

We've all heard of Good Luck Charms.
Here are my experiences in surviving an extremely potent Bad Luck Charm.
Decades ago I read a comment by award-winnning science-fiction and fantasy writer Michael Moorcock, who refered to writing as an act of exorcism.
This is my exorcism:
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Nothing here to do with publishing or such. This page is a community service where I share, for the benfit of others, my experiences in dealing with lightning, felled trees and insurance companies. Even included a recent tornado experience.


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What's new with the Wild Stars?

Now available for order is the 25th Anniversary Edition of Wild Stars: The Book of Circles -- Recalibrated! See the New Millennium section for more details.

Or... check out the free preview of Volume 3 issue #4 presented in it's entirety!

Ask your favorite book or comics dealer to order it:

ISBN #978-0-9748403-1-4

Or follow this link to purchase the Wild Stars on Amazon.com!

If you want to be reading the story in the next five minutes, all of my comics and the 25th Anniversary collection are also available in Digital Format. To read online, or after downloading, simply follow this link to my page at: www.mydigitalcomics.com

To read more about the special features of the expanded digital version of Wild Stars: The Book of Circles graphic novel, check out the new Hidden Wild Stars page!

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For even more of the story behind the Wild Stars story, check out the Wild Stars Production Notes!

Still haven't had enough Wild Stars?

Check out the Bonus Section!

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