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Who dares survive the Space-Loop?! Trapped as the planet Earth whips through history at lightning speed, Ivar and Neela must confront their feelings for one another ? and Neela finds herself about to make a fateful decision that may save history forever ? but cost her own life! New York Times best-selling writer Fred Van Lente (ARCHER & ARMSTRONG) and Harvey Award-nominated artist Pere P?rez (UNITY) bring you one step closer to ?ENDING HISTORY?!

No one in the Valiant Universe is more dangerous or more experienced in the art of war than the undying Eternal Warrior. After thousands of years on the battlefield, he?s a master of strategy and weaponry, an unrelenting force of nature capable of dismantling entire armies with little effort and less conscience. His brother Armstrong, on the other hand, likes to read poetry and drink beer. Maybe that?s why they had such a bad falling out? But now ? after years apart ? the Eternal Warrior has a new mission: destroy young Obadiah Archer, Armstrong?s best-est new buddy and teammate in the war against The Sect. And, like it or not, Valiant?s history-smashing adventure duo are about to feel the brunt of the Eternal Warrior?s fist and steel. Collecting ARCHER & ARMSTRONG #5-9 by New York Times best-selling author Fred Van Lente (Amazing Spider-Man) and critically acclaimed artist Emanuela Lupacchino (X-Factor), the second volume of the series that IGN calls ?hilarious and action packed? slams into high gear with a savage manhunt straight through the heart of the Valiant Universe.

Caught in the jaws of the Faraway! General Redacted has laid claim to the greatest secret in a time-lost dimension that?s practically built on ?em. Must be a doozy, huh? Well, it?s big enough that Redacted and his army of alien greys are laying waste to anyone and anything that approaches their occupied lands of the Faraway. Now, it?s down to Archer & Armstrong to run the greatest infiltration/liberation/inebriation mission history has ever known, which would be a cakewalk if its wasn?t for all the UFOs, hostile natives and, of course, the dinosaurs. Yup, could definitely do without those dinosaurs.

Living it up at the Hotel California! His whole life, Obadiah Archer has been lied to about his true heritage – but when he and his pal Armstrong arrive in L.A. to meet his real parents, they find them in the clutches of the Church of Retrology! What insidious plans does The Lizard King, the head of the favored religion of the Left Coast’s rich and famous, have for the Valiant Universe’s premier conspiracy busters? And what lurks in the Hollywood Hotel? (Hint: You can check in anytime you like, but you can never leave!) Collecting ARCHER & ARMSTRONG #20-23, start reading here to discover the truth behind dead celebrities and the sacred mysteries at the heart of rock ‘n’ roll as New York Times best-selling writer Fred Van Lente and red-hot artist Pere Pérez unleash an all-new history mystery on Valiant’s foremost conspiracy smashers!

“A delightful, educational spin on history—and plenty of jokes,” said School Library Journal. “Sheer joy,” praised Booklist in a starred review. Finalist for the 2019 Excellence in Graphic Literature Award in Middle Grade Nonfiction U.S. history comes to life like never before in this full-color graphic novel! We all know that Abraham Lincoln gave the historic Gettysburg Address and ended the Civil War. But did you also know that he never went to college, was a licensed bartender, and kept important documents in his famous top hat? Wimpy Kid meets the Who Was... series in these hilarious new graphic novels—where the history is real and the jokes are fake—from New York Times bestselling comic book author Fred Van Lente and award-winning cartoonist Ryan Dunlavey. Historically accurate and highly entertaining, Action Presidents’ bold and hilarious comic-style illustration is perfect for curious minds, filled with timelines, maps, charts, and more, readers will keep learning until the last page.

ALL NEW ARC! ALL-NEW JUMPING-ON POINT! Fight your way through the ?HEROSCAPE?! Generation Zero managed to survive their first mission, and now duty has called on?them to venture deep inside a perilous dimension only known as the Heroscape to see the world through a new set of eyes! They?ll discover their friends? biggest secrets, their enemies? darkest fears, and their town?s sinister connection to this imagination-fueled reality. But just because the Heroscape is imaginary, doesn?t mean it can?t kill you? And, from anime-inflected zombie hordes to psychedelic sci-fi warriors, all of Rook, Michigan?s most deeply buried fantasies are about to come roaring out of your daydreams! Dream big because New York Times best-selling writer Fred Van Lente (IVAR, TIMEWALKER) and acclaimed artists Javier Pulido (Daredevil) and Diego Bernard (X-O MANOWAR) are gearing up for a brand-new jumping-on point that?s going to send Valiant?s temperamental teenage time-bombs blasting out of the suburbs and into their most grisly adventure yet!

"Originally published in single magazine form as The Delinquents #1-4"--Indicia.

This oversized hardcover is jam-packed with gorgeous artwork and captivating stories from today''s heavy hitters in both mainstream and indie comics. Greg Pak and Tom Raney deliver a poignant tale of police officer returning to duty thanks to a

Archer & Armstrong are going to war with Bloodshot and H.A.R.D Corps! (GULP!) That’s right, Valiant’s globetrotting adventure duo have been targeted for elimination by Project Rising Spirit’s most elite kill crew. Their mission? Assassinate the the newly appointed leader of a homegrown fundamentalist terror sect named…Obadiah Archer?! And if they could take out his mentally ill, alcoholic bodyguard who just happens to think he’s a 10,000-year-old immortal, that’d be swell, too! It’s an improbable mission with impossible odds. Do Bloodshot and the steely killers of the H.A.R.D. Corps stand a chance against two conspiracy-smashing heroes that never go down without a fight? Find out right here with the complete collection of the mayhem-soaked “Mission: Improbable” crossover, collecting ARCHER & ARMSTRONG: ARCHER #0, ARCHER & ARMSTRONG #18-19 and BLOODSHOT AND H.A.R.D. CORPS #20-21 by acclaimed writers Fred Van Lente, Christos Gage and Joshua Dysart, and all-star artists Pere Pérez and Tom Raney!

Spider-Man leaves his new black suit with Dr. Reed of the Fantastic Four for some tests, but the Human Torch lets it escape from the lab, leading to the creation of Venom.

In this final issue: The group is betrayed, leading to a massive three-way battle that could spell doom for every one of our heroes! Will any survive? Only one thing is sure — it all ends here! Written by FRED VAN LENTE and featuring incredible art by EMAN CASALLOS and covers by STEVE ELLIS, BIAGIO D’ALESSANDRO, and CASALLOS, Pathfinder: Wake the Dead #5 also includes playable character stats officially sanctioned by the Pathfinder Society!

THE BASILISK: It can''t be stopped. It can no longer be contained. It thinks it''s God. And it wants to murder everyone. With Magnus out of commission, who can step up and defeat the undefeatable? (Spoiler: No one)

The all-new Geomancer must battle the ?Wrath of the Eternal Warrior.? Throughout all of human history, the sacred lineage of the Geomancers has protected Earth from all who would seek to do it harm. But, now, a new Geomancer has been chosen ? and she?s stuck keeping Archer & Armstrong out of harm?s way! But why has Kay McHenry been selected to wield this exceptional power? And just what is her connection to the Eternal Warrior?s blood vendetta? Only Gilad knows for sure?but he won?t be answering until he?s left Archer & Armstrong bloodied, broken and brutalized by his own fist and steel. Plus: more of the Eternal Warrior?s exploits throughout history revealed!

Tuck and Celine search the post-energy wasteland for their missing parent--but when they discover they aren''t alone in civilization''s ruins, they''ll need new HowToons projects to protect themselves!

Collects Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #663-676, Amazing Spider-Man: Infested #1, Free Comic Book Day 2011 (Spider-Man) And Spider-Island: Deadly Foes #1. Dan Slott’s Spider-Man revolution continues! Eddie Brock is back and trying to live the life of a hero as Anti-Venom. But even as Eddie and Spidey tentatively team up to take down Mr. Negative, they must figure out whether the returned Wraith is friend or foe! Then: Welcome to Spider-Island, where a million New Yorkers suddenly possess Spider-Man’s powers! Can Spidey play world-saving super hero while the Big Apple gets eaten alive from the inside out? And what secret scheme does the Jackal have up his sleeve? Plus: Even as Dr. Octopus and his Sinister Six face the Intelligencia, the Vulture returns — with a band of ruffians who plan to rob, terrorize and kill anyone who gets in their way!

The streets of Shanghai have erupted into utter chaos as Black Cross finally evades the henchmen of Big-Eared Du and heads to the International Settlement to establish just how much trouble the Shanghai Rite is in, and he learns that the corruption goes deeper than he ever could have imagined...

Collecting Marvel Adventures Spider-Man (2005) #21, #24 And #35; And Marvel Universe Ultimate Spider-Man #16 And #19. When Spider-Man gets himself a cool new black-and-white costume, it must mean that olu0092 Parker luck is finally turning, right? Wrong! In the ultimate fashion nightmare, the costume is alive u0097 and it doesnu0092t want to come off! If Peter can somehow get out of the black and back into the red-and-blues, the poor shunned symbiote will bear a grudge. And when it finds Eddie Brock, no fan of Spider-Man himself, the terrifying Venom is born! Heu0092s destined to be the wall-crawleru0092s deadliest villain u0097 but if that doesnu0092t work out, heu0092ll be Spideyu0092s sidekick instead! Itu0092s hard to work out which is worse! Plus: A rivalry for the ages is born when the Venom symbiote bonds with Peteru0092s best pal, Harry Osborn!

From the award-winning team that brought you ARCHER & ARMSTRONG, New York Times best-selling creators Fred Van Lente and Clayton Henry continue a centuries-spanning race against the clock! At this very moment in Geneva, Switzerland, history is being made. A thousand meters underground inside the Large Hadron Collider, researcher Neela Sethi is about to discover time travel ? and jeopardize her life in the process. But she doesn?t know that yet. Ten minutes from now, every deadbeat chrononaut, wannabe conqueror, and misguided protector of the time stream will be banging down her door. Good thing that the legendary Ivar, Timewalker, got there first?right? Now it?s down to history?s most jaded, most tempestuous time traveler to stop the worst? of everything that is, was, and will be?before time runs out!

It’s history in the breaking! After years of meditation and training, 18-year-old Obadiah Archer has been dispatched to New York City to carry out the sacred mission of his family’s sect – locate and kill the fun-loving, hard-drinking immortal known as Armstrong! But as this naive teenage assassin stalks his prey, he’ll soon find that both hunter and hunted are just pawns in a centuries-old conspiracy that stretches from the catacombs beneath Wall Street to the heights of the Himalayas. And Archer & Armstrong will have to work together if the future is to stand any chance of surviving the past’s greatest threat! From the New York Times best-selling creative team of writer Fred Van Lente (Marvel Zombies) and Clayton Henry (Incredible Herc), this volume collects ARCHER & ARMSTRONG #1-4!

The awe-inspiring, adventure-loving, science-doing series co-created by EAST OF WEST''s NICK DRAGOTTA returns with an all-new story from superstar creators FRED VAN LENTE, TOM FOWLER, and JORDIE BELLAIRE! Tuck and Celine''s parents put their family in suspended animation to ride out the ecological apocalypse-but when the kids wake up to find Mom & Dad are gone, they have to make their way across a brave and terrifying new world to find the ''rents...using only their Howtoons projects to survive!

Where the history is real and the jokes are fake! The second Action Presidents book is just as fun—and funny—as the first. Legendary lumberjack and paramount president Abraham Lincoln practically jumps off the page. Wimpy Kid meets the Who Was… series in these hilarious new graphic novels from New York Times bestselling comic book author Fred Van Lente and award-winning cartoonist Ryan Dunlavey. Did you know that Lincoln never went to college, and that he kept important documents in his famous top hat? Even the most reluctant reader won’t be able to put this graphic novel down, and they’ll learn about an American icon along the way. U.S. history comes to life like never before! Historically accurate and highly entertaining, Action Presidents is perfect for curious minds. With timelines, maps, charts, and more, readers will keep learning until the last page. The critics agree that the Action Presidents should not be missed. "A delightful, educational spin on history—and plenty of jokes," said School Library Journal of the first book in the series, George Washington. "Sheer joy," praised Booklist in a starred review.

Ambushed by the villainess Jolt, his armor ruined, Tony Stark finds himself trapped in an isolated village run by folks who have chosen to live a peaceful, agrarian 19th century existence...without any technology. With Jolt hot on his trail, what''s a tech-dependent hero to do? That''s right: hole up in the blacksmith shed and hammer out an all-new suit of STEAM-POWERED ARMOR! Spotlight is a division of the ABDO Group and features library editions of popular fiction titles. Spotlight editions are printed on high-quality paper and with reinforced library bindings specifically printed for the library market. Grades preK-6.

The hit series returns, cuz you can’t kill a never-ending army of zombies... you can only hope to beat the $%&# out of them! Dynamite’s cross-company zombie crossover returns with even more undead mayhem! Evil Sonja and the Drakulonian sisters Vampirella and Pantha may have turned back the plague on Earth, but what happens when zombies from MARS start to invade?! Hear that cry in the jungle — that’s right, Tarzan has joined the insanity, and the Ape-Man has his hands full with ZOMBIE DINOSAURS in a lost valley! How does this incursion connect to Barsoom?!

Zeros to heroes! Generation Zero managed to survive their first mission, and now duty has called on them to venture deep inside a perilous dimension only known as the Heroscape to see the world through a new set of eyes! They?ll discover their friends? biggest secrets, their enemies? darkest fears, and their town?s sinister connection to this imagination-fueled reality. But just because the Heroscape is imaginary, doesn?t mean it can?t kill you? And, from anime-inflected zombie hordes to psychedelic sci-fi warriors, all of Rook, Michigan?s most deeply buried fantasies are about to come roaring out of your daydreams! Dream big because New York Times best-selling writer Fred Van Lente (IVAR, TIMEWALKER) and acclaimed artists Diego Bernard (X-O MANOWAR) and Javier Pulido (Daredevil) and are gearing up to send Valiant?s temperamental teenage time-bombs blasting out of the suburbs and into their most grisly adventure yet! Collecting GENERATION ZERO #6?9.

After Wolverine is been dubbed the last knight of Wundagore and loses his animal nature and Kitty Pryde is turned into a cat, they must fight off the legions of the Man-Beast, save the town, and find a way to get back to normal.

From the New York Times bestselling writer of the Marvel Zombies series comes a gut-splitting (then eating) comedy! A small outbreak can turn into a worldwide apocalypse... but only through a long string of screw-ups. Once actual zombies begin popping up in our world, a lone intelligence analyst realizes real-life events are beginning to mimic the events of a long-lost, Grade-Z, drive-in horror flick. As he races to save humanity with this knowledge, he quickly learns the only thing more dangerous than ravenous walking corpses is the ineptitude of the living!

Every enemy. Against each other. For centuries, the cloak-and-dagger coalition of conspiracies collectively known as The Sect has worked together to bring silent oppression and undercover tyranny to a world that thought it was free. But, now after centuries of profit sharing and uneasy alliances, the factions of The Sect are about to erupt into open conflict?and the only men that can end the insanity are Archer & Armstrong! Too bad they?re fighting for different sides! Why? How? And will either survive? The knockdown, drag-out A&A event of the year starts now ? and no conspirator is safe! Collecting ARCHER & ARMSTRONG #14-17 by New York Times best-selling writer Fred Van Lente (Incredible Hercules) and acclaimed artists Khari Evans (Harbinger) and ChrisCross (Superman/Batman), jump into the series that IGN calls ?a must read? with an all-new adventure pitching Archer & Armstrong into their biggest battle yet!

We live for destruction! Generation Zero has finally pinpointed the silent evil that has infiltrated Rook High School?but it?s not going down without a fight! Now, every corner of this idyllic techtown is about to become a war zone as Cronus, Telic, Animalia, and Cloud hit back with the force of four walking hydrogen bombs and show the world why this one group of reformed commandos aren?t just dangerous? They?re disorderly! Generation Zero''s first field mission is about to come crashing down...but not before New York Times best-selling writer Fred Van Lente (ARCHER & ARMSTRONG) and breakout artist Francis Portela (FAITH) send them hurtling toward their next target!

They?ve infiltrated, assassinated, and overthrown? Now this reformed covert strike team of teenage walking warheads have set their sights on a dangerous new mission: high school! ? In the secretive tech oasis of Rook, Michigan, who can a teenager trust? Not the police? Not the teachers? And definitely not the parents. So when high schooler Keisha Sherman?s boyfriend turns up dead in an accident gone awry, she makes a desperate plea?and Generation Zero have heeded her call! But, with precision-honed military training and a taste for subverting authority, can this squad of high-powered, teenage superhumans infiltrate Rook undetected? Or is their very presence about to draw another of the town?s billion-dollar secrets into the light of day? THE FUTURE OF VALIANT continues as New York Times best-selling writer Fred Van Lente (4001 A.D.: WAR MOTHER) and acclaimed artist Francis Portela (FAITH) launch the most volatile superteam in comics into their first, mind-blowing monthly series!

Zeroes to heroes! Generation Zero?s mind-bending journey through the HeroScape?a strange dimension where the world is filtered through any person?s perspective?reaches its final stop! But even if they can escape the deadly apparitions of Rook?s collective conscience, can they stop the strange threats and mysteries that can?t seem to leave their new hometown alone? Take cover, because Valiant?s paramilitary prodigies are about to enter the greatest mission of their violent careers?and when the dust settles, their final fates will be no fantasy!

"Originally published in single magazine form as Big trouble in little China no. 21-25"--Indicia.

Z Nation: Sea of Death – Part 5! The Empress of the Seas is capsized by a crazed zombie whale, leaving our heroes in the middle of their own zombie-filled Poseidon Adventure. And even if they can free themselves from the upside down ship and stay out of the clutches of the evil Captain and his Crew, they''ll still have to find a way to salvage the Soylent Z and bring it back to the starving survivors at Fort Benning.

Fast times for Valiant?s volatile teenage strike squad!? Generation Zero came to Rook, Michigan to investigate a strange death...and the clues have led them into the halls of an even stranger high school! But only one person knows what really happened to Keisha Sherman?s tragically deceased boyfriend: Rook High?s reigning queen bee! Now, this reformed squad of walking warheads will have to forgo their usual military tactics...and wage a psychic infiltration into the mind of Rook?s most popular teenager! But, as they experience the truth through her eyes, what even darker revelations might spill forth about a town where murder, deception, and deceit lurk behind every picket fence? Out of the pages of HARBINGER WARS, Project Rising Spirit''s tempestuous team of super-powered radicals is about to get slayed by the bell ? courtesy of New York Times best-selling writer Fred Van Lente (IVAR, TIMEWALKER) and red-hot artists Derek Charm (Jughead) and Francis Portela (FAITH)!

A brand-new arc and jumping-on point, ""BLOOD DEBT,"" begins here! A mysterious woman staggers into a clinic for criminals and collapses from her injuries! * The crooked head surgeon is convinced that he has JENNIFER BLOOD sedated and under his control and plans to sell the most wanted woman in the world to the highest bidder! But another of his patients is a legendary hit man on his last legs with other plans for Blood--and the trauma ward starts to overflow when they team up!

IT ALL ENDS HERE...SERIOUSLY...THIS TIME IT LITERALLY ALL ENDS HERE. (MAYBE?!) Be here front and center as the original creative team of Fred Van Lente and Clayton Henry lead off a 48-page A&A hollapalooza honoring Valiant?s most dysfunctional duo! Plus: the of? cial Archer & Armstrong drinking game! Armstrong?s ? rst drink! A very special Timewalker adventure! And much more! Featuring a who?s who of funnybook madcappery with all-new stories and shenanigans from Donny Cates (Buzzkill), Shawn Crystal (Deadpool), Ray Fawkes (Batman: Eternal), Justin Jordan (Dead Body Road), Barry Kitson (Empire), Michael Walsh (Secret Avengers), and many, many more!