New Releases by Bob Layton

""A Call to Arms"" The Geomancer warns of a grave threat to all of existence! Aric and the Harbinger renegades team up to fight temporal slavers and an army from beyond time and space!

""Power Play"" The showdown with the machine-controlling villain Ax continues, but with his control of the X-O Manowar armor scrambled can Aric still prevail? Aric will show Ax what he does to bandits and Ken what he does to traitors!

King''s Crossing"" Toyo Harada wants to make a deal with the new head of Orb Industries, but nobody told him to expect X-O Manowar! Featuring Peter Stanchek, the Harbinger renegades and the first appearance of Jack Boniface.

""Retribution: Prologue"" At last, the origin of X-O Manowar revealed! How did Aric of Dacia become a slave to the Spider-Aliens? At what terrible cost was the X-O Manowar armor made? And how did Aric come to find himself in the modern day?

Follows the adventures of Iron Man as he faces criminal industrialist Justin Hammer and his army of super-villains.

Written by Paul Levitz Art by Joe Staton, Bob Layton, Joe Giella and Dave Hunt Cover by Brian Bolland A new volume collecting classic Silver Age Justice Society adventures! This volume - featuring stories from ALL-STAR COMICS #68-74 and ADVENTURE COMICS #461-466 - includes the Justice Society''s battles with the Psycho-Pirate, the immortal Vandal Savage, the Injustice Society and more. Advance-solicited; on sale February 7 - 224 pg, FC, $14.99 US

Iron Man faces his most untouchable foe in criminal industrialist Justin Hammer and his literal army of super-villains! But can the Armored Avenger overcome an even more implacable personal demon, invulnerable to technology or wealth? Collects Iron Man (1968) #120-128.