THIS WEEK'S COMICS WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 3RD 2012

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NEW COMICS (RECOMMENDATIONS IN BOLD)

ACTION COMICS #13 - Krypto returns and Superman encounters the Phantom Stranger! Don't write off Grant Morrison's handling of the new history of Superman!

AGE OF APOCALYPSE #8

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #695 - The Kingpin makes a move against Spider-man while a blast from the past sets his sights on the Kingpin's top hitman, the Hobgoblin! Big things are coming for Spider-man as the countdown to issue #700 begins!

ANIMAL MAN #13 ROTWORLD RED KINGDOM PART 1 - The storyline fans have been waiting for is here! Animal Man and Swamp Thing confront the Rot! Featuring tons of guest-stars!

ARCHIE #637

AVENGERS ACADEMY #38 - The moment fans have asked for is here in this stand alone issue! The Avengers Academy students versus Wolverine's X-men from the Jean Grey School for Mutants...in flag football!

AVENGERS VS X-MEN #12 (OF 12) - The event of the summer wraps up in this extra sized conclusion! After the controversial events of last issue, the power of the Phoenix is unleashed on Earth and it may be more than the Avengers and X-men can handle! Don't miss out on the lead in to the Marvel NOW initiative which begins with Uncanny Avengers #1 next week!

AVX VS #6 (OF 6) - Extended surprise battles from the pages of AvX #12!

AXE COP PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD #3 (OF 3)

BATMAN LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT #1 - Creators like Damon Lindelof and Jeff Lemire put their spin on Batman in original short stories that were previously online only!

BATWING #13 - Batwing takes on a brand new villain and may need help from new heroes!

BEFORE WATCHMEN RORSCHACH #2 (OF 4) (MATURE READERS)

BIONIC WOMAN #5

BLACK KISS II #3 (OF 6) (MR)

BLOODSTRIKE #31

BOYS #71 (MR) - Just one more issue until the series finale!

BROKEN PIECES #4

CHARMED #24 (MR)

CREEPY COMICS #10 - Lovecraft themed short horror stories from Dark Horse Comics!

CROW #4

DANGER CLUB #4

DAREDEVIL END OF DAYS #1 (OF 8) - The story years in the making will finally be in your hands this week! Brian Michael Bendis, Klaus Janson, Bill Sienkiewicz, and David Mack present their vision of Matt Murdock's final story!

DEFENDERS #11 - The Defenders versus the Death Celestials! One more issue until the end!

DETECTIVE COMICS #13 - The Penguin wants Bruce Wayne eliminated in this new story by John "Chew" Layman!

DIAL H #5

DOCTOR WHO VOL 3 #1 - Matt Smith fans rejoice! The Doctor is back in his own ongoing series from IDW by Andy Diggle and Mark Buckingham!

EARTH 2 #5 - Alan Scott, Green Lantern of Earth 2, will have to make a critical decision in order to defeat Grundy!

FAIREST #8 (MR) THE HIDDEN KINGDOM PART 1 - Spotlight on Rapunzel!

FATALE #8 (MR) - The second arc heats up as Josephine's decades spanning plan takes shape! Crime Noir meets supernatural thriller in what will soon be the only ongoing series by Ed Brubaker on the shelves!

FUTURAMA COMICS #63

GALAXY MAN #3

GARFIELD #6

GI COMBAT #5 - As seen in the pages of Justice League Dark and the DC Free Comic Book Day issue, the Black Room holds many amazing and familiar items! Witness now as someone attempts to liberate the Haunted Tank!

GREEN ARROW #13 - Get ready for the Hawkman Wanted storyline starting in Green Arrow next month!

GREEN LANTERN #13 RISE OF THE THIRD ARMY - First there was the Sinestro Corps War, then Blackest Night, now a brand new Green Lantern event that will re-energize fans and excite new ones begins! First they created the Manhunter robots, then the Green Lanterns, now the Guardians of the Universe unleash an unstoppable new power! Copies of Green Lantern Annual #1 reprint will be in stock this week as well! Ties into Green Lantern Corps, Green Lantern New Guardians, and Red Lanterns!

GRIMM FAIRY TALES BAD GIRLS #3 (OF 5) (MR)

GUARDING THE GLOBE #2 - From the pages of Image Comics' Invincible!

HACK SLASH #18 (MR)

HARVEST #3 (OF 5)

HYPERNATURALS #4

LIFE WITH ARCHIE #23

LONE RANGER #10

LOVE AND CAPES WHAT TO EXPECT #3 (OF 6)

MARVEL PREVIEWS OCTOBER 2012 - 120 pages of cover art and information on Marvel Comics releases for December 2012! Make your informed choices for Marvel Now titles now!

MINIMUM CARNAGE ALPHA ONE SHOT - Venom and the Scarlet Spider team up to locate Carnage who has escaped custody and into a new world of trouble!

MUPPETS #4 (OF 4)

NON HUMANS #1 (OF 4) - New from Image Comics! Toy Story meets Blade Runner as a space-born affliction brings inanimate playthings to life!

PATHFINDER #2 - Based on the role playing game!

PLANET OF THE APES CATACLYSM #2

PREVIEWS #289 OCTOBER 2012 - Dark Horse, DC, IDW, Image Comics, Marvel, and every publisher in between set to arrive starting in December 2012! Plus merchandise!

RED SONJA #69

ROAD TO OZ #2 (OF 6)

ROBYN HOOD #1 (OF 5) (MR)

SCOOBY DOO WHERE ARE YOU #26

SMALLVILLE SEASON 11 #6 - The Batman of Gotham clashes with the Superman of Metropolis as Smallville continues in comic book form!

SPACEKNIGHTS #1 (OF 3) - Without their most famous agent, the planet Galador attempts to rebuild the Spaceknights! Reprinting the series from 2000.

STORMWATCH #13 - The Demon Etrigan from Demon Knights awakens in the present day!

SWAMP THING #13 ROTWORLD THE GREEN KINGDOM PART 1 - Swamp Thing and Animal Man take the fight to the Rot in the storyline fans have been anticipating for a year!

SWEET TOOTH #38 (MR)

THIEF OF THIEVES #9

UNCANNY X-FORCE #32 FINAL EXECUTION - The remaining members of X-force confront Daken's new Brotherhood for the fate of Apocalypse as the series nears conclusion!

UNCANNY X-MEN #19 AVENGERS VS X-MEN - What will the role of the X-men be in the wake of AvX #12?

VOLTRON #8

WARLORD OF MARS DEJAH THORIS #16 (MR)

WHITE CLAY ONE SHOT

WORLD'S FINEST #5 - Have Power Girl and the Huntress found the Boom Tube back to Earth 2?


NEW LIMITED EDITION VARIANTS (PRICING DEPENDENT UPON RARITY)

ACTION COMICS #13 BLACK & WHITE VARIANT EDITION

ACTION COMICS #13 VARIANT EDITION

AVENGERS VS X-MEN #12 (OF 12) ADI GRANOV VARIANT EDITION

AVENGERS VS X-MEN #12 (OF 12) ADAM KUBERT VARIANT EDITION

AVENGERS VS X-MEN #12 (OF 12) JEROME OPENA VARIANT EDITION

AVENGERS VS X-MEN #12 (OF 12) JEROME OPENA SKETCH VARIANT EDITION

AVX VS #6 (OF 6) STUART IMMONEN FIGHT POSTER VARIANT EDITION

BATMAN LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT #1 VARIANT EDITION

BEFORE WATCHMEN RORSCHACH #2 (OF 4) (MR) VARIANT EDITION

DAREDEVIL END OF DAYS #1 (OF 8) COLLAGE VARIANT EDITION

DAREDEVIL END OF DAYS #1 (OF 8) DALE KEOWN VARIANT EDITION

DAREDEVIL END OF DAYS #1 (OF 8) DAVID MACK VARIANT EDITION

DETECTIVE COMICS #13 VARIANT EDITION

DOCTOR WHO VOL 3 #1 1 COPY PER EVERY 10 REGULAR COPIES VARIANT EDITION

DOCTOR WHO VOL 3 #1 1 COPY PER EVERY 25 REGULAR COPIES VARIANT EDITION

EARTH 2 #5 VARIANT EDITION

GREEN LANTERN #13 VARIANT EDITION

MINIMUM CARNAGE ALPHA #1 MARK BAGLEY VARIANT EDITION

WORLDS FINEST #5 VARIANT EDITION


NEW TRADE PAPERBACKS, GRAPHIC NOVELS AND HARDCOVERS

30 DAYS OF NIGHT OMNIBUS TP VOL 02

AGE OF APOCALYPSE TP VOL 01 X-TERMINATED - From the pages of Uncanny X-force and Marvel Point One! Issues #1-6 and more!

ARCHIE LOVE SHOWDOWN TP

AVENGERS BRIDE OF ULTRON PREMIERE HC - Avengers #157-166 reprinted in color!

BATMAN THE DARK KNIGHT HC VOL 01 KNIGHT TERRORS - Issues #1-9 of the DC Reluanch Dark Knight series!

BROXO GRAPHIC NOVEL - An orphaned survivor of a barbarian tribe survives on his own against the walking dead until another your warrior arrives in search of a hero!

CARTER FAMILY DON'T FORGET THIS SONG HC

CHARMED TP VOL 03

CHRISTMAS CAROL NIGHT THE THAT CHANGED ELIZA SCROOGE HC - All new graphic novel from Dark Horse Comics putting a new spin on the classic tale!

CRIMINAL DELUXE EDITION HC VOL 02 (MR) - If you're enjoying Fatale, Criminal by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips is the best crime noir series available in years! This is Criminal Bad Night, The Sinners, and Last of the Innocent, plus material previously uncollected in the standard paperbacks!

DEATH THE DELUXE EDITION HC (MR) - Great companion piece for Sandman fans! This is Death The High Cost of Living, Death The Time of Your Life, material from Vertigo Winter's Edge #2 and Sandman Endless Nights, and more all written by Neil Gaiman!

EPIC KILL TP VOL 01 - Issues #1-5 from Image Comics.

GI JOE A REAL AMERICAN HERO TP VOL 05

GRIMM FAIRY TALES PRESENTS JUNGLE BOOK TP (MR)

HELL YEAH TP VOL 01 LAST DAY ON EARTHS

I VAMPIRE TP VOL 01 TAINTED LOVE - The truce that has protected humanity from vampires is over! Now one vampire stands against all others on behalf of humans everywhere! Issues #1-6 of the new DC Relaunch series.

JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA RISE OF ECLIPSO TP - Justice League of America #54-60 and Justice Society of America #43.

MAN-THING OMNIBUS HC - See the early stories of Marvel's muck monster, the Man-Thing! Drawn to strong emotions, the Man-Thing is both a citizen of the Marvel universe and the link that connects tons of bizarre 1970s stories! Astonishing Tales #12-13; Fear #11-18, Man-Thing #1-22, Giant-Size Man-Thing #1-3, Incredible Hulk #197-198; Marvel Team-Up (1972) #68, Marvel Two-In-One #43, Man-Thing #1-11, Dr. Strange #41, Monster Unleashed #5 and #8-9, and Rampaging Hulk #7, and much more!

MARS ATTACKS CLASSICS TP VOL 02

QUEEN SONJA TP VOL 04 SON OF SET

SAILOR TWAIN GRAPHIC NOVEL

SPIDER-MAN NOTHING STOP JUGGERNAUT PREMIERE HC - In order to protect Madame Web, Spider-man must take on the X-men's unstoppable foe the Juggernaut for the first time ever! Guest-starring the Fantastic Four, Avengers, Defenders, and the Black Cat! Amazing Spider-man #224-230.

STAR WARS OMNIBUS CLONE WARS TP VOL 02 ENEMY SIDES

SUPERMAN BATMAN SORCERER KINGS TP - Issues #78-84 written by Cullen "The Sixth Gun" Bunn!

TOLKIEN YEARS OF THE BROTHERS HILDEBRANDT TP - Collecting the beautiful Brothers Hildebrandt paintings of key moments in Middle Earth history from the popular 1970s calendars! 144 pages!

TRIO TP VOL 01 - John Byrne presents his brand new superheroes Rock, Paper, and Scissors!

TWELVE TP VOL 02 - Twelve WWII era mystery men awaken in the present day Marvel universe! While all of them struggle with the modern world and their loss of their old lives, one hero has already been murdered! Who is next and who is behind it all? Concluding the excellent story by JMS and Chris Weston! Issues #7-12!

VOLTRON TP VOL 01 SIXTH PILOT - Explore the surprising origin of King Zarkon and secrets of Voltron! Issues #1-6.

WALKING DEAD COMPENDIUM TP VOL 02 (MR) - Issues #49-96 in one massive volume! Grab the first compendium and this one, then you are ready for the current monthly issues!

WORLD OF WARCRAFT CURSE OF THE WORGEN TP

WRINKLE IN TIME GRAPHIC NOVEL - Hope Larson illustrates the award winning novel by Madeleine L'Engle.

X-MEN BISHOPS CROSSING HC - Witness Bishop's arrival into X-men comics in the never-before-reprinted Uncanny X-men #281-293 and X-men #12-13!


NEW ACTION FIGURES

DOCTOR WHO 2012 ACTION FIGURE WAVE 1


NEW MAGAZINES

CLASSIC MARVEL FIGURE COLLECTOR MAGAZINE #183 OWL

COMIC HEROES MAGAZINE #14

DC SUPERHERO FIGURE COLLECTOR MAGAZINE #117 WONDER GIRL

DR WHO MAGAZINE #451

FAIRIES MAGAZINE #9

FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND #253 WALKING DEAD COLOR EDITION


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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #692 2ND PRINTING

AVENGERS ASSEMBLE #6 - The Guardians of the Galaxy return!

AXE COP PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD #1 (OF 3)

CREEP #1 - The Creep from Dark Horse has sold out multiple times at Acme, copies of #0 are still on hand so you can see what the buzz is about!

GHOST #0

GREEN LANTERN ANNUAL #1 2ND PRINTING RISE OF THE THIRD ARMY PRELUDE - Hal and Sinestro try to prevent the Black Hand from kicking off a second Blackest Night on Earth, while the Guardians of the Universe create a new force to impose their will across the DC Universe! Don't miss it a second time!

HARVEST #1 (OF 5) 2ND PRINTING (MR)

HIT-GIRL #2 (OF 5) 2ND PRINTING (MR)

I VAMPIRE #0

LOBSTER JOHNSON CAPUT MORTUUM ONE SHOT

SCOOBY DOO WHERE ARE YOU #22

SCOOBY DOO WHERE ARE YOU #23

SCOOBY DOO WHERE ARE YOU #24

SCOOBY DOO WHERE ARE YOU #25

STAR WARS DARTH MAUL DEATH SENTENCE #1 (OF 4)


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AMERICAN VAMPIRE TP VOL 01 (MR)

ART OF MARC SILVESTRI SC

BATMAN HC VOL 01 THE COURT OF OWLS - Acme's highest pre-ordered and highest selling monthly series is Batman by Snyder and Capullo! If you are still not on the flagship Batman title, grab this hardcover collecting issues #1-7 and pick #8-12 off the Batman display to get current before the Death of the Family storyline begins in a few weeks!

CAPTAIN AMERICA TP VOL 01 DEATH OF CAPTAIN AMERICA

DARK TOWER OMNIBUS HC SLIPCASE SET

DARKSTALKERS TP VOL 01

DEADPOOL TP VOL 01 SECRET INVASION

DEADPOOL TP VOL 02 DARK REIGN

DMZ TP VOL 01 ON THE GROUND (MR)

DOCTOR WHO CLASSICS OMNIBUS TP VOL 01

DOCTOR WHO CLASSICS OMNIBUS TP VOL 02

DOOM PATROL TP VOL 02 PAINTING THAT ATE PARIS (MR)

DYNAMITE ART OF ALEX ROSS HC

EXTERMINATORS TP VOL 01 BUG BROTHERS (MR)

FABLES TP VOL 02 ANIMAL FARM (MR)

FABLES TP VOL 03 STORYBOOK LOVE (MR)

FATALE TP VOL 01 DEATH CHASES ME (MR)

FLEX MENTALLO MAN OF MUSCLE MYSTERY DELUXE HC (MR) - By Morrison and Quitely!

GHOSTBUSTERS THE OTHER SIDE TP VOL 01

INVINCIBLE IRON MAN HC VOL 01

INVINCIBLE IRON MAN HC VOL 02

INVINCIBLE IRON MAN TP VOL 02 WORLD'S MOST WANTED

JACK OF FABLES TP VOL 05 TURNING PAGES (MR)

MEGA MAN ZX GN VOL 02 (OF 2)

NORTHLANDERS TP VOL 02 THE CROSS AND THE HAMMER (MR)

NORTHLANDERS TP VOL 03 BLOOD IN THE SNOW (MR)

PRIDE OF BAGHDAD HC (MR)

PRIDE OF BAGHDAD SC (MR) - Emotionally charged graphic novel written by Brian K. Vaughan, great for fans who enjoyed We3.

RED WING TP - If you're enjoying Manhattan Projects by Jonathan Hickman, be sure to try his mini series that presented warfare in a world where time travel exists!

SCOTT PILGRIM GN VOL 01 PRECIOUS LITTLE LIFE

SIEGE HC - The Avengers rise up to put and end to Norman Osborn's Dark Reign over the Marvel Universe! By Bendis and Coipel!

STAR WARS KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC TP VOL 04 DAZE

STAR WARS LEGACY TP VOL 05

STAR WARS LONG TIME AGO OMNIBUS TP VOL 01 - Reprinting the Marvel Comics Star Wars issues!

STAR WARS OMNIBUS X-WING ROGUE SQUADRON TP VOL 03

WALKING DEAD TP VOL 01 DAYS GONE BYE

X-BABIES TP STARS REBORN GN - If you're excited about AvX Babies, be sure to check this one by Gregg Schigiel and Jacob Chabot out!

X-MEN AGE OF APOCALYPSE OMNIBUS HC - The complete 1990s epic! Xavier is killed before starting the X-men and the present day is ruled by Apocalypse!

X-MEN FATAL ATTRACTIONS HC - Magneto strikes back in this major 1990s X-men storyline! Wolverine loses his Adamantium, Colossus betrays the X-men, and more!


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