Solicitations: December 2020 – Marvel Comics

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King in Black #1 (of 5)

Donny Cates, Ryan Stegman

Darkness reigns!

After a campaign across the galaxy, Knull’s death march arrives to Earth and, worse yet, he hasn’t come alone! With an army of hundreds of thousands of symbiote dragons at his command, the King in Black is a force unlike any Earth’s heroes have ever faced. Eddie Brock, a.k.a. Venom has seen firsthand the chaos that even one of Knull’s symbiotic monsters can wreak – will he survive an encounter with the God of the Abyss himself?

From Donny Cates, Ryan Stegman, JP Mayer, Frank Martin and VC’s Clayton Cowles comes the definitive chapter in their two-year-long Venom saga that changed everything you thought you knew about symbiotes!

In Shops: Dec 02, 2020

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King in Black Handbook #1

Mike O’Sullivan, The Ohotmu Team

As the dark king Knull descends on the Marvel Universe, the Official Handbook turns its focus to all things symbiote with this new collection of profiles!

This issue covers not only symbiote hosts such as Venom (Eddie Brock), Carnage (Cletus Kasady) and Lee Price, but also characters whom symbiotes have affected: Victoria Montesi! Ghost-Spider (Gwen Stacy)! Dylan Brock! Ann Weying!

Plus: a profile of Knull, the King of Black himself! And from the pages of Thor: the All-Black – the first symbiote!

In Shops: Dec 02, 2020

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King in Black: Immortal Hulk #1

Al Ewing, Aaron Kuder

A present for the Hulk!

The Hulk is in a bad place. Half of his alters are dead or missing – including Bruce Banner – and the Leader’s got the rest of him on the ropes. But never let it be said that Joe Fixit doesn’t know how to have a good time – and he’s out to make sure this is the best holiday the Hulk’s ever had. He just has to fight his way through a planet of symbiotes first.

In Shops: Dec 09, 2020

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King in Black: Iron Man / Doom #1

Christopher Cantwell, Salvador Larroca

Iron Man has risked everything to save Eddie Brock, but now he’s left with nothing but guilt. As longtime ‘frenemy’ Doctor Doom shows up with both counselling words and ulterior motives, they’ll be forced to battle an all-too-familiar specter of the holiday season – albeit one now twisted and controlled by the recent invasion of Earth by the symbiote homeworld.

As Iron Man and Doom fight as temporary allies, their unexpected encounter both with each other and a horrifying inversion of yuletide joy may ultimately reveal to them the true meaning of Knull-mas.

In Shops: Dec 30, 2020

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King in Black: Namor #1 (of 5)

Kurt Busiek, Ben Dewey, Jonas Scharf

Spinning out of the King in Black epic comes a dark, chilling story of the birth of Atlantis’s greatest villains.

The players: Namor, Lady Dorma of Atlantis, the outsider Attuma – all still in their teen years – and The Swift Riders, the Atlantean Empire’s greatest heroes. It begins with alliances and possibility, as Attuma’s people may join the Empire… but what lies ahead is tragedy, betrayal, and the unleashing of dangerous, deadly magics.

A deep dive into Marvel history… and the birth of a threat that will only grow in menace across time.

In Shops: Dec 09, 2020

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Black Cat #1

Jed MacKay, C.F. Villa

The Cat in Black is back!

Feeling lucky? Knull’s attack on Earth interrupts the Black Cat’s latest heist, and if you know Felicia, you know that’s a problem. So the Cat and her crew aim to steal something of greatest value to both Knull and Earth’s hope of survival. You’ll have to pick up this issue to find out what!

This issue guest-stars the X-Men, Captain America and Doctor Strange! Do not miss it!!!

In Shops: Dec 16, 2020

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Chris Claremont Anniversary Special #1

Chris Claremont, Brett Booth, More

Celebrate Chris Claremont’s enormous impact on your favourite Marvel comics of the past five decades with an all-new story!

Dani Moonstar is drafted for a mission across time and space for an incredible psychic showdown against the Shadow King – joining forces with characters created and defined by the pen of Chris Claremont!

In Shops: Dec 16, 2020

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Fantastic Four: Road Trip #1

Christopher Cantwell, Filipe Andrade

The Fantastic Four have earned some much-needed time away from the job, and Reed has planned a – well, fantastic – old-fashioned family vacation to the Grand Canyon for some good rest, relaxation and team-bonding time. But Reed’s manic mind can’t quite disengage, and soon an obsessive side experiment he brought with him has all of them experiencing gruesome and terrifying side effects from his strange specimens. As everyone’s bodies begin to horribly go awry on a cellular level, it’s a race to solve their lethal affliction, all while stuck in a remote Arizona cabin with no help for miles.

In Shops: Dec 02, 2020

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Heroes at Home #1

Zeb Wells, Gurihiru

Being stuck inside isn’t easy for anyone, even super heroes!

See how your favourite Marvel characters have coped being cooped up with Heroes at Home!

See how Spider-Man, Hulk, Captain Marvel, Wolverine, Black Panther and Captain America do in Quarantine!

Let Marvel make you smile, courtesy of artists Gurihiru and writer Zeb Wells’ Sunday Funnies!

In Shops: Dec 02, 2020

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King-Size Conan #1

Richard Thomas, Kurt Busiek, Chris Claremont, Kevin Eastman, Steven S. DeKnight, Steve McNiven, Pete Woods, Roberto de la Torre, Kevin Eastman, Jesus Saiz

By Crom, you’ve never seen a celebration like this – marking 50 years of Conan the Barbarian in comics!

Revelations, surprises and savage action prevail in the all-new King-Size Conan!

In 1970, Roy Thomas brought Conan the Barbarian, a creation of author Robert E. Howard, to Marvel Comics. With art by the incomparable Barry Windsor-Smith, Conan the Barbarian #1 introduced the Hyborian Age to a whole new audience, paving the way for decades of comics and Conan’s conquest of pop culture.

Now get ready to celebrate 50 years of Conan with an oversize special spanning the breadth of Conan’s life and times by the most dazzling array of creative talent ever assembled in one book to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth!

Experience Roy Thomas and Steve McNiven’s all-new prelude to that original story from 1970! Thrill to a tale of revenge by Kevin Eastman (co-creator, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), writing and drawing his first Marvel story! Chris Claremont and Roberto de la Torre team up to unveil a turning point in Conan’s career as a mercenary! Kurt Busiek and Pete Woods recount an early brush with sorcerous forces that will shape Conan’s destiny! Conan and Bêlit sail together again for the first time since the 2019 relaunch, with Jesus Saiz illustrating the Marvel Comics maiden voyage of Steven S. DeKnight (Netflix’s Daredevil writer/director/showrunner)!

The perfect introduction for new fans, and an essential adventure for die-hards, this is the can’t-miss Conan comic of the decade!

In Shops: Dec 23, 2020

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Marvel Tales: Knull #1

Donny Cates, Ryan Stegman, Danilo Beyruth, Mark Bagley

Knull, god of the symbiotes, will haunt your nightmares as we celebrate the legacy of the House of Ideas with Marvel Tales! This anthology series shines a spotlight on fan-favorite characters, features timeless stories and highlights some of Marvel’s most impressive talent from the past eight decades.

First, superstar creators Donny Cates and Ryan Stegman introduce Knull in crucial chapters of their sensational reinvention of the Venom mythos! In Venom (2018) #3-4, Venom and Miles Morales stand in the way of a symbiote dragon terrorizing Manhattan – but what connects it to Knull? In Venom: Carnage Born, from Cates and Danilo Beyruth, a deadly cult resurrects the serial killer Carnage as an agent of Knull! And legendary artist Mark Bagley illustrates Venom’s fight for survival in Venom (2018) #25, setting the stage for Knull’s imminent arrival in the epic King in Black!

In Shops: Dec 02, 2020

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M.O.D.O.K.: Head Games #1

Jordan Blum, Patton Oswalt, Scott Hepburn

From Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum, showrunners of the upcoming animated Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K. show on Hulu, comes a journey into the mind of one of the biggest heads in the Marvel Universe!

M.O.D.O.K. is the ruthless and brilliant leader of the terrorist organization AIM, outsmarting heroes and outmaneuvering his cutthroat colleagues gunning for his position… but when he begins to be haunted by memories of a family he never had, it leaves him unsure if he is losing his freakishly-large mind, or if perhaps there is a lot more to this enormous mind… or if there is something more sinister behind these visions.

In Shops: Dec 02, 2020

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S.W.O.R.D. #1

Al Ewing, Valerio Schitti

One giant leap for mutantkind!

The Mutant nation of Krakoa has quickly become a major force on the world stage… but why stop there? Krakoa has relaunched the Sentient World Observation & Response Directorate – a fully independent organization dealing with all things extra-terrestrial on behalf of all of Earth.

Al Ewing and Valerio Schitti, the team behind Empyre, bring us the tale of Mutantkind looking to do for the galaxy what Krakoa did for the planet.

In Shops: Dec 09, 2020

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Ghost Rider Annual #1

Howard Mackie, Javier Saltares

The one you’ve been waiting for – the return of Vengeance!

Michael Badilino was a bad dude in life… and that landed him in hell. But not just any old rung of hell, a layer so deep it’s reserved for those special enemies of hell – one where a former Spirit of Vengeance may suffer for all eternity!

As Lilith’s gambit against Johnny Blaze and Mephisto for the throne of hell heats up, you can bet other players will enter the arena… and Badilino will find a way to ride again as Vengeance!

Fan-favorite Ghost Rider creators Howard Mackie and Javier Saltares return to the saga of the Spirits of Vengeance in an all-new tale as Vengeance brings his own brand of hellfire to the Marvel Universe!

In Shops: Dec 30, 2020