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AVENGERS CONTEST TP

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(W) Various (A) John Romita & Various (CA) John Romita

"I am the Grandmaster! Never, in a thousand games on a thousand worlds, have I quit the table ere the game was through!" Marvel's first miniseries, an event so big it required every hero Earth has! Time and again, the Grandmaster sets heroes against heroes in cosmic games with billions of lives at stake! Daredevil vs. Iron Fist! Captain America vs. Mockingbird! Iron Man vs. She-Hulk! Black Knight vs. Moon Knight! Wolverine vs. Black Panther! Thor vs. Wonder Man! Plus: Bucky, Mar-Vell, Dracula, Drax, the Green Goblin, the Red Guardian and so many more! Collecting CONTEST OF CHAMPIONS #1-3, WEST COAST AVENGERS ANNUAL #2 and AVENGERS ANNUAL (1967) #16.

DEADPOOL MAX PREM HC SECOND CUT

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(W) David Lapham (A/CA) Kyle Baker

David Lapham (Stray Bullets, Young Liars) and Eisner Award-winner Kyle Baker (TRUTH: RED WHITE AND BLACK, Plastic Man) unleash their own special brand of crazy as DEADPOOL MAX returns! Deadpool and Bob try to stop a shadowy government conspiracy - and totally futz it up. Now, accused of killing a quarter of a million people, they are the world's most wanted terrorists - and Deadpool's ex-girlfriend Crazy Inez is on their tail! Find out how the puzzle pieces fit together as Deadpool, Hydra Bob, Cable and Taskmaster team up to take down the shadow group that's running the country. Plus: Deadpool and Bob spend their holiday break faking their own deaths, breaking into CIA headquarters, hunting down Internet-porn-peddling jihadists and causing a riot in an insane asylum! Collecting DEADPOOL MAX 2 #1-6 and DEADPOOL MAX X-MAS SPECIAL.

GENERATION HOPE END OF A GENERATION TP

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(W) James Asmus (A) Ibraim Roberson & Various (CA) Ibraim Roberson

Meet the newest member of Generation Hope: Sebastian Shaw?! When Hope and company investigate an unaccounted-for mutant reading in Pakistan, they come across a full-grown mutant with no memory being used as a weapon. They see a mutant in trouble and help - not realizing they're rescuing one of the X-Men's deadliest foes! Plus: Generation Hope clashes with a gang of mutant villains living on Utopia, and romance blossoms between Marvel's most unlikely couple! Then, as Zero reveals his true colors, a battle breaks out on Utopia as the lights rebel against their leader! What will be the final fate of Generation Hope? Collecting GENERATION HOPE #13-17.

MARVEL UNIVERSE VS WOLVERINE TP

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(W) Jonathan Maberry (A) Laurence Campbell (CA) Michael William Kaluta

MARVEL UNIVERSE VS. THE PUNISHER showed you the ruins of our world. Now, witness the fall. New York Times bestseller Jonathan Maberry reveals the dark and terrible events that take us from the outbreak of a deadly plague to the beginning of the last war for planet Earth. A dreadful disease begins transforming everyone - human and superhuman - into savage, nearly mindless cannibal predators. Who will protect humanity? Who will make a stand against the endless slaughter? Who has the courage to make the hardest of hard choices? One word: SNIKT! Collecting MARVEL UNIVERSE VS. WOLVERINE #1-4. 

MOON KNIGHT BY BENDIS AND MALEEV PREM HC VOL 02

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(W) Brian Michael Bendis (A/CA) Alex Maleev

Moon Knight throws down with the Kingpin of Los Angeles! But the battle for LA's soul claims a life - one that will be felt throughout the Marvel Universe! And once LA's Kingpin pushes him over the edge, Moon Knight succumbs to the abyss of his new multiple personalities. What force on Earth can bring him back from the brink? Enter: the Avengers! But after all he's been through, will there be anything left of the one-man Avenger to save? Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev continue the adventures of Marvel's psyche-splitting superstar! Collecting MOON KNIGHT (2011) #8-12.  

NEW AVENGERS BY BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS PREM HC VOL 03

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(W) Brian Michael Bendis (A) Neal Adams, Mike Deodato (CA) Mike Deodato

The New Avengers are about to face their biggest threat: the revitalized, resurrected and rejuvenated H.A.M.M.E.R. - led by none other than Norman Osborn! What insanity is Osborn about to unleash on the world? And can the Avengers stop his master plan when Osborn unleashes a new squad of Dark Avengers?! Get ready for old-school blockbuster action as the New Avengers' new lineup charges into action! And wait until you find out who's behind the Dark Avengers' masks! (Actually, wait until the Avengers find out!) As the blistering battle rages, an Avenger leaves the team in defeat, a Dark Avenger just might become a New Avenger, and not everyone makes it out alive! Collecting NEW AVENGERS (2010) #16.1 and #17-23. 

NEW MUTANTS CLASSIC TP VOL 07

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(W) Chris Claremont (A) Various (CA) Bret Blevins

The New Mutants fast-forward to the world of tomorrow, and it ain't pretty! Join Cannonball, Cypher, Karma, Magik and the rest of the best that young mutantkind has to offer as they face evil future versions of themselves, mutant-hunting Sentinels, a rebellion in Limbo, the Hellfire Club and their teenage Hellions, and more! Guest-starring Professor X, the Starjammers, Emma Frost and the infuriating Impossible Man! Collecting NEW MUTANTS (1983) #48-54 and ANNUAL #3. 

WOLVERINE AND BLACK CAT CLAWS 2 TP

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(W) Various (A/CA) Joseph Michael Linsner

This all-new tale of action, intrigue and razor-sharp appendages picks up right where the first CLAWS left off! Two of Marvel's most beloved and be-clawed heroes -  Wolverine and Black Cat -  have barely had time to catch their breath from defeating the villainous mastermind Arcade and his sidekick White Rabbit when the two evil schemers find an escape from their exile in the Savage Land...and an entryway into revenge! Watch the fur fly as these four fight it out in a no-holds-barred adventure guest starring Killraven, freedom fighter from a Martian-dominated future! Collecting WOLVERINE & BLACK CAT: CLAWS 2 #1-3 and KILLRAVEN (2001) #1.