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Gary's life is going nowhere. He lives in public housing with his mother and spends his nights carousing with his friends. But Gary's Uncle Jack has taken a different path of glamor, danger and mystery. When Jack has to get his nephew out of trouble, their lives are going to intersect in a way neither of them could have foreseen. "From the writer of Kick-Ass and the artist of Watchmen comes a collaboration decades in the making! The world's greatest...

"The critically acclaimed Superman: Red Son now collected in a brand new edition! In this vivid tale of Cold War paranoia, the ship carrying the infant who would grow up to become Superman lands in the midst of the 1950s Soviet Union, where he is raised on a collective. As he becomes a symbol to the Soviet people, the world changes drastically from what we know -- bringing Superman into conflict with Batman, Lex Luthor and others. This volume collect...

In a quiet seaside town, a gas station clerk named Huck secretly uses his special gifts to do a good deed each day. When his story leaks, a media firestorm erupts, bringing him uninvited fame. As pieces of Huck's past begin to resurface, it's no longer clear who his friends are-or whose lives may be in danger.

We live in a world where we've never seen a monster, and The Magic Order is the reason we sleep safely in our beds. Magic meets the Mob in The Magic Order, as five families of magicians -- sworn to protect our world for generations -- must battle an enemy who's picking them off one by one. By day, they live among us as our neighbors, friends and co-workers, but by night they are the sorcerers, magicians and wizards that protect us from the forces...

Episodios (números 1 al 12) del primer año de Ultimate X-Men son reunidos en este volumen. "El mundo está al borde de la guerra genética... Magneto y su célula mutante terrorista se preparan para llevar a cabo su amenaza del genocidio del Homo Sapiens. Tan solo cinco adolescentes inseguros y su minusválido mentor podrán prevenir la aniquilación total."-- pages 4 of cover.

Collects volumes one through six of "The Ultimates," which follows the adventures of the government-sponsored band of superheroes, including the Hulk, Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Giant-Man, and the Wasp, as they try to eliminate the perceived threat posed to citizens by Spider-Man, the X-Men, Magneto, the Green Goblin, and others. This fourth collection in the Ultimates line newly re-imagines incarnations of the Hulk, Captain America, Thor,...