New Releases by Dark Horse Comics

Alex Fleming is SpyBoy, but doesn''t know it, until his dormant abilities are starting to surface.

More than a dozen young artists and writers strut their stuff in this hefty collection. These strips are culled from Dark Horse''s on line comics talent search contest. Strip Search represents the best the strips posted. Ages 13+.

Everyone needs a place to scrawl their brilliant ideas before they flit like sugared-up three year olds out of their heads.

Everyone needs a place to scrawl their brilliant ideas before they flit like sugared-up three year olds out of their heads.

Whoa, pardner! What''s this all about? Lunchboxes, beach towels, coasters, and paper dolls in a book catalog? You betcha! We jumped when LPC offered us the opportunity to make our three-dimensional products available to the book market. One of the hottest trends in the comics-specialty market over the last few years has been the creation of products that directly tie-in to comics and graphic novels. Not only can a consumer follow his favorite characters on the page he can carry his lunch (or whatever) in a box bearing those characters. Not only can you sell him a graphic novel but also the accoutrements that allow him to show the world what a discriminating reader he is! Well-known as a publisher of popular licensed and creator-owned books, Dark Horse is fast gaining a reputation for high-quality products based on these properties. And now you can buy these products direct from LPC, your favorite graphic novel distributor! Dark Horse visits the world of the HBO "TM" hit series The Sopranos "TM" to bring you souvenirs from some of the finer establishments in town! We''ve collected coasters from Satriale''s Pork Store, The Bada Bing! Club, Beansies, and the Nuevo Vesuvio restaurant. Each of these coasters is 1/8" thick cork, with full-color laminated tops, 4" square, and packed in a color box. Make sure your customer''s tables are sporting the finest form of protection when the fourth season of The Sopranos "TM" hits the nation''s television screens!

One of America''s genuine cartoon classics, Felix the Cat has delighted and entertained audiences for over eighty years, reaching nearly every corner of the globe in newspaper strips, animated cartoons, toys, games, and comic books, becoming so famous that Felix was chosen as Charles Lindbergh''s mascot for his landmark transatlantic flight as well as being the very first image broadcast over television airwaves! And now, with Felix still appearing in everything from animated cartoons to video games to music CDs, Dark Horse adds Felix the Cat''s Greatest Hits to the playlist, presenting a selection of stories featuring Felix, his friends and foes, and, of course, his Magic Bag of Tricks!

Centuries after Skynet goes into hiding, it awakens only to create invincible Terminators by gene-splicing human tissue with the DNA of Aliens, and Earth''s only chance for survival lies in the hands of the superhunters known as Predators.

For many years, Elisa Cameron journeyed through the darkness of her own lost memories, searching for the perpetrators of her death and the source of her unearthly powers. Each answered question seemed only to unearth more mysteries. But at long last, the veil of deceptions, betrayals, and lies is drawn aside to reveal the stunning reality of Elisa''s existence.

A group of seven children discover devices that transport them to a digital world populated by Digimon monsters.

With Michael Allred''s Madman: The G-Men from Hell series hitting the racks like a polkadot napalm balloon, now comes the atomic dessert, the long-awaited Complete Madman Comics Vol. 3, collecting Madman issues 11-15, including the four-part The Exit of Dr. Boiffard, the epic Madman maelstrom that still has comics readers young and old asking, How do you pronounce Boiffard? Plus: The Truth About Everything And All The Rest, a Madman title so long only a state-of-the-art trade paperback can hold it! Plus: the usual cosmic landfill of guest-artist pinups, galleries, beany copters, giant talking brains, and those cool little hors d''oeuvre swords! All in spectacular Mad-orama color by Laura Allred. You can''t handle the truth!

Aliens are roaming the Tokyo subway system on a future Earth, but when Predators--the galaxy''s most dangerous hunters--descend to stalk them, and a billionaire seeks to glean the secret of eternal life from them, the situation on the ground becomes extremely volatile. Original.

With Luke Skywalker''s help, Jedi novice and rebel agent Jedi Kyle Katarn must save the legendary Valley of the Jedi from Jerec, a dark Jedi who plans to invade the planet where the valley is located.

Follow the further exploits of Mian, Wataru, and Babo in this second Caravan Kidd collection. Can Mian''s android body survive a mold attack? Will she win a wrestling match against the empire''s android agents? Will Babo try to make money off these events? The answers to these questions and more are found in the further adventures of one of comics'' greatest trios.

"This book collects issues 5-15 of the Dark Horse comic book series Godzilla and a short story from A Decade of Dark Horse #4"--Page 4

Star Wars

Amongst the Mayan ruins of the Amazon forest, the Dark Knight of Gotham City is out of his element as he faces an intergalactic infestation of . . . Aliens.

The second part of a science-fiction saga of multinational intrigue, illegal slave-trading and interstellar travel. Caryn Delacroix, wife of corporate mogul Lucien, is unable to tell what is real and what is virtual when she comes face to face with the Predator in the jungles of Earth.

Rumor has it that Paul Church, the Colonel Doctor in charge of the research facility, has been running tests to determine what makes the Aliens tick and that he''s using Colonial Marines as bait. Well, the US Government doesn''t like rumors - they like facts. And so they''ve sent Colonel Doctor Anthony Crespi to investigate.

Famous for his inimitable grotesqueries and his alliterative humor, Basil Wolverton sold his first cartoons at the Vancouver, Washington Farmers'' Market. He was 11 at the time. After an early vaudeville career and several near-misses with newspaper strips, he sold his first stories to America''s Humor in 1926. In 1938, he began comic-book work for Globe with Spacehawks'' and ''Disk-Eyes'' in Circus. This fat little book of classic, one-of-a-kind Basil Wolverton material collects all kinds of stories and strips.''