Best Selling Books by Fred van Lente

The team behind IDW’S Comic Book History of Comics returns with a brand-new series! From Aardman to Zoetrope, Disney to Miyasaki, Hanna-Barbera to Pixar, and everything in between! In this issue: Sound comes to cartoons, and Walt Disney takes the world by storm with Mickey Mouse, Silly Symphonies, and Snow White! A whole slew of icons are created, from the Fleischers’ Betty Boop to Warner Brothers’ Looney Tunes stars! But it''s not all fun and laughter for the animation workforce, whose strikes brings the industry to its knees!

Who are the cosmic beings known only as the Psi-Lords? And how will they change the course of the Valiant Universe? Four space explorers awake in an otherworldly prison known as the Gyre with no memory of how they got there. Sent by space agencies from across the Earth and gifted with strange new celestial powers, these spacefarers will have to work together to survive. And out in these star-flung reaches, they?ll have nothing but their wits to guide them. That, and a mysterious voice in their heads that tells them if they want to escape and find their way home there is one thing they must do? Find the Psi-Lords. New York Times bestselling writer Fred Van Lente (IVAR, TIMEWALKER; GENERATION ZERO) and stunning artist Renato Guedes (SHADOWMAN) team up for a brand-new, galaxy-bending adventure! Collecting PSI-LORDS #1?8.

Mit dem Bestseller MARVEL ZOMBIES schuf "The Walking Dead"-Erfinder Robert Kirkman ein äußerst lebendiges untotes Faulfleisch-Franchise. Das trifft nun auf die offizielle Marvel-Kontinuität, wenn Machine Man sowie der lebende Vampir Morbius und seine Legion of Monsters eine Invasion der gefräßigen Marvel-Zombies verhindern müssen. Zum ersten Mal in einem Band!

The team behind IDW’S Comic Book History of Comics returns with a brand-new series! From Aardman to Zoetrope, Disney to Miyasaki, Hanna-Barbera to Pixar, and everything in between! Part One: Silent...but Deadly (Funny!) shows how the animated cartoon began with the first movies under the lawsuit-happy watch of Thomas Edison… cartoonist Winsor McCay shows how ''toons can make you feel as well as laugh… the Fleischer Brothers revolutionize the technology of animation… and an obscure filmmaker from Kansas City named Walt Disney gets his first big break! The perfect companion piece to CBHoC, the Comic Book History of Animation focuses on the filmmakers and beloved characters of the past century and a half, and is essential for fans of the medium and “toon newbies” alike.

Living it up at the Hotel California! Dead celebrities, an extra-dimensional hotel, the truth about The Doors?and that was all in our first issue! Fred Van Lente?s ground-breaking run continues as Archer & Armstrong face off against their greatest foe, The Lizard King, as the fate of reality itself hangs in the balance!

Are you near-death experienced? Framed architect-turned-thief Jericho Way has discovered he''s a Resurrectionist**,** one of a select group of people who can not only remember their past lives, but _become_ them. Two groups are now after his servicesthe Sojourn corporation, which wants to exploit his powers for mysterious purposes, and a motley crew of modern-day tomb robbers who have been trying to pull the same impossible heist for 3,000 yearsand if Jericho joins them, he may steal back his own future! * A new creator-owned ongoing comic series. * Art by rising stars Maurizio Rosenzweig (_Clown Fatale_) and Moreno Dinisio (_Dead Body Road_)!

Fred Van Lente and Guiu VilanovaÈs new series is an H. P. Lovecraft inspired take on a murder mystery.ðu0094Infinite Comix Det. Sebastian Greene fights for his life against an Innsmouth monster! And Det. Sana Fayez is hot on GreeneÈs trail, closer and closer to discovering his secret identity but hounded by fish-faced Mafiosi. Will they be able to survive long enough to stop the Juice Box Killer? Fred Van LenteÈs newest original comic series!

Dennis Calero delves into the bloody world of corporate mergers in _The Suit_a real cutthroat businessman! Ken Pisani and Arturo Lauria bring their Geekie Award�winning political sci-fi drama _Colonus_ to the pages of _DHP_! And Brent Schoonover gets down and dirty with the Burial Brothers, featuring colors by Jordie Bellaire! Plus, new chapters of Fred Van Lente and Guiu Vilanova''s _Weird Detective_, Brendan McCarthy''s _Dream Gang,_ and Mike Grell''s _Tarzan_! If you are a fan of independent comics, there is simply no reason not to be reading this.� Infinite Comix

“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 Theodore Roosevelt protected the environment and was the cousin of President Franklin Roosevelt. But did you also know that he was the inspiration for the teddy bear, wrote adventure books, and once gave a speech with a gunshot wound in his chest? 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.

The cosmic Quartet begins to master their jaw-dropping powers and unlock deeper meanings to their newfound abilities! Dangerous aliens have targeted the Quartet, and they?ll stop at nothing until they?ve eliminated the team. Plus, the lost history of the Psi-Lords revealed?!

**CELEBRATING A HALF-CENTURY OF TERROR!** It''s Uncle Creepy''s golden anniversary, and his loathsome legacy lives on in this milestone of macabre monstrosity! Prepare for putrid productions from Fred Van Lente (_Conan the Avenger_), Corinna Bechko (_Star Wars: Legacy_), Peter Bagge (_Bat Boy_), Art Baltazar (_Itty Bitty Hellboy_), and a horrible host of sinister surprises! Don''t miss out! * New stories from fan-favorite writers Fred Van Lente and Corinna Bechko! * Anniversary cover by Dustin Nguyen revealed soon! * Itty Bitty Uncle Creepy and Cousin Eerie frontispiece by Art Baltazar!

Ambushed while protecting an important statesman, Matt Price, a.k.a. Brain Boy, finds himself wrapped up in political intrigue that could derail a key United Nations conference and that sets the psychic spy on a collision course with a man whose mental powers rival his own! Collects Brain Boy #0–#3. * New York Times bestseller Fred Van Lente (Archer & Armstrong). • Art by R. B. Silva (Superboy, Jimmy Olsen), and Freddie Williams II (Green Arrow, Captain Atom)!

?BREAKING HISTORY? IS ALL OVER! It all comes down to this! Ivar and his brothers ? Gilad, the Eternal Warrior, and Armstrong ? have led a suicide mission to rescue Neela Sethi and time itself. Now, as Oblivi-1 grows in power and threatens to destroy the very universe, they?ll make their last, dire, final move to save history. Will they do it? Well, the arc ain?t called ?Saving History? now is it?! New York Times best-selling writer Fred Van Lente (ARCHER & ARMSTRONG) and rising star Francis Portela (The Flash) team up to tear down the walls of time!

Ambushed while protecting an important foreign dignitary, Matt Price, a.k.a. Brain Boy, finds himself wrapped up in political intrigue. An assassination plot that could derail a key United Nations conference sets Brain Boy on a collision course with a man whose mental powers rival his own! Get ready for a psychic smackdown over the streets of New York City! * Written by New York Times best-selling author Fred Van Lente (_Archer and Armstrong, G.I. Joe_) with art by R. B. Silva (_Superboy, Jimmy Olsen_)! 

Gory fairy-tale murders continue to plague the Storybook Kingdom amusement park, but Prince Prince Charming (yes, his name is Prince) and his Queen’s Guard (a.k.a. park security) care more about covering up the slayings than solving them. Defying her bosses, Princess-Detective Tanith ventures into the Spooky Forest to solve the mystery, only to find herself in a life-or-death encounter with the masked killer in the bowels of Dracula’s Castle!

Highlighting the illustration of Brian Ching and Guiu Villanova, Conan Omnibus 7: Witchcraft and Warfare offers over 400 story pages of ancient empires, bloodstained steel, and vile magic. Award-winning comics writer Fred Van Lente adapts Robert E. Howard''s "Xuthal of the Dusk" and "A Witch Shall Be Born." To heal his broken heart, Conan travels to the desert kingdoms to peddle his sword arm and seek treasure. But there will be little time for mourning when the barbarian warrior encounters his nemesis, the Stygian necromancer Thoth-Amon!

In a battle between two telepaths, any bystander is a potential ally . . . or a potential enemy! Matt Price, code name Brain Boy, must defeat a mad mental giant but he''ll have to survive a mob of mind-controlled New Yorkers to do it! * _New York Times_ best selling author Fred Van Lente (_Archer and Armstrong_, _G.I. Joe_) ,with action-packed art by R.B. Silva and Rob Lean (_Superboy_)." "It''s big and explosive and it''s the inking that really stands out . . . The art team [is] firing on all cylinders.�Newsarama 

Collects Amazing Spider-Man #634-637. Kraven the Hunter died with a violent, misbegotten honor, stalking his greatest prey - Spider-Man. Now, two women claiming to be his wife and daughter have weakened Spider-Man through the Gauntlet while they prepare to attempt an unholy resurrection.

In this issue: ANIME! ANIME! ANIME! How Japan conquered the world with a multipronged assault of giant robots, psychic bikers, and sailor moons! But Japan''s greatest animator, Hayao Miyazaki, rejects fantasies of power—and teaches everyone how to appreciate the power of fantasy! Also: Everyone remembers the smash-hit Pixar Image Computer that was in every household throughout the 1980s, right? No? Oh, right. It was a huge failure. But maybe you heard of the ground-breaking animation studio it spawned instead?

Time is almost up! Ivar has been keeping a secret from his partner-in-time, Neela, this whole time, and once she learns the truth their relationship will be history! Literally! Join New York Times best-selling creators Fred Van Lente & Clayton Henry for the epoch shattering conclusion of our first (time)arc!

Monströse 250 Seiten um Robert "The Walking Dead"Kirkmans Marvel-Zombies in deutscher Erstveröffentlichung! Diesmal wird nicht nur die Squadron Supreme zum Untoten-Problem. Howard the Duck, Dum Dum Dugan u.a. müssen zudem in einer Alternativwelt kämpfen, in der Nazi-Zombiesden Zweiten Weltkrieg gewonnen haben ...

Agent Price''s new mission pits him against a doomsday cult leader with a political agenda that poses a direct threat to the president. But a mysterious hive mind has more menacing plans for Brain Boy. He''ll have no choice but to go head to headbrain to brainwith the mysterious Men from G.E.S.T.A.L.T.! * Fred Van Lente (_Archer & Armstrong_) and Freddie Williams II (_Green Arrow_, _Captain Atom_) team up again! * A great jumping-on point for new readers! * Pick up _Brain Boy_ Volume 1: _Psy vs. Psy_ now, then start this new series arc!

You must be this tall…to DIE! Once upon a time, in a strange land called Florida, a masked psycho starts murdering cast members of the Storybook Kingdom theme park in ways identical to the gory original Grimms’ Fairy Tales. Princess-turned-detective Tanith is the only person who can unmask the killer before she and her friends are all Dying Unhappily Never After! Toon-themed terror from six-time New York Times bestselling writer Fred Van Lente (Marvel Zombies), artist Chris Panda (Chocklit Shoppe of Horrors: Night Shift, Rom: First Strike), and letterer Becca Carey (Radiant Black, Golden Rage).

When the United States Secret Service needs to stop an assassination before the killer''s even decided to buy a gun, they call the world''s most powerful telepath: Matt Price, a.k.a. Brain Boy. But when the secret agent that can read anyone''s mind finds that a powerful psychic network has been hidden from him, Brain Boy begins to wonder whether he knows everything or nothing at all! * Written by _New York Times_ best-selling author Fred Van Lente (_Archer and Armstrong_, _G.I. Joe_) with art by R. B. Silva (_Superboy_, _Jimmy Olsen_)! 

Collects Marvel Zombies 4 #1-4. They''re nobody''s idea of heroes, but they''re all that stands between our world and an unstoppable apocalypse! They''re the new Midnight Sons, and their quest to track down the undead who escaped from A.R.M.O.R. will lead them around the globe and right to a cruise ship overrun with undead undersea-dwelling cannibals!

"Collecting a treasure trove of Conan one-shots, short stories, and miniseries from the finest creators in all of graphic fiction. With nearly 700 pages of clashing swords, malefic wizardy, and forgotten kingdoms--The Conan Reader is a vast, priceless hoard ripe for the taking!"--

Collects Marvel Zombies 5 #1-5. MACHINE MAN IS BACK! Zombies of the multiverse, watch your rotting backs! To obtain a cure for the zombie virus for Morbius the Living Vampire, Aaron Stack, Agent of ARMOR, must traverse alternate realities hunting down the plague in all its myriad forms...with a most unusual (but somehow oddly appropriate) partner! First up: in the Alterniverse known as "The Territory," the Old West never died. But when the greatest gunslingers of Marveldom - Two-Gun Kid, Phantom Rider, Kid Colt, and many others - rise from their graves in Boot Hill, the stage is set for a High Noon showdown with flesh-eating outlaws the likes of which you''ve never seen! Also featuring a trip to Camelot to battle the original Black Knight!

So…once upon a time, a suburban housewife spent her nights as a mobster-murdering assassin, named JENNIFER BLOOD. Then she died…or did she? Because in the cozy cul-de-sacs of Bountiful, Utah, a noticeable number of normal people have gone missing. And by “normal,” I mean “mobsters under witness protection.” And by “missing,” I mean killed by someone that looks, sounds, and murders a lot like JENNIFER BLOOD… By FRED VAN LENTE (Wolverine) and VINCENZO FEDERICI (Red Sonja)!

Back on the scene again after taking some time off to be dead, the unstoppable killing machine known as JENNIFER BLOOD has found herself a whole new class of scumbags to target. But wait, what’s she doing helping a vicious Nazi biker gang rob a bank? Has the world gone crazy? Or is this all part of Jennifer’s master plan to take them down? In any case, there’s definitely a whole lot of violence on the way! Court reporter FRED VAN LENTE (Marvel Zombies) and sketch artist ROBERT CAREY (The Outsiders) bring you the official transcript of the ensuing mayhem in Jennifer Blood: Battle Diary # 3 — embellished with artfully arranged mugshots from CAREY, JOSEPH MICHAEL LINSNER, and LESLEY “LEIRIX” LI!

Another issue of 2012''s best anthologyanother collection of amazing comics, natch! Premiering this issue: Dan Jolley and Leonard Kirk''s supervillain tracker Clev is back out of prison to help the FBI hunt an invisible killer, Fred Van Lente and Freddie Williams II delve into a world of psychic espionage in _Brain Boy_, and Peter Hogan and Phil Winslade pull you into another magical dimension with _King''s Road_. * Dan Jolley''s _Bloodhound_ comes to Dark Horse! Dark Horse''s prestigious anthology series . . . showcases emerging talent alongside some of the greatest writers, artists and cartoonists comics has to offer, as well as promising new and underground talents.�ComicsAlliance

In this climactic issue, the Volk and the Crooked Cross gangs have gotten hold of Jennifer Blood’s Battle Diary and figured out that she’s been playing them against each other this whole time. Now they’ve got her cornered and marked for death — just the way she likes it! Forensics expert FRED VAN LENTE (Marvel Zombies) and crime scene photographer ROBERT CAREY (The Outsiders) deliver a comprehensive postmortem in Jennifer Blood: Battle Diary #5 — featuring additional image analyses from CAREY, JOSEPH MICHAEL LINSNER, and LESLEY “LEIRIX” LI!

Collects Incredible Hulk (2000) #106-112, Incredible Hercules #113-120 And Hulk Vs. Hercules: When Titans Collide; And Material From Giant-Size Hulk (2006) #1, Amazing Fantasy (2004) #15 And Incredible Hulk (2000) #100. Smashing out of the events of WORLD WAR HULK, the legendary Hercules takes center stage! Young genius Amadeus Cho recruits Hercules to help the Hulk — but when the dust settles, Herc and Cho find themselves outlaws! And the situation is further inflamed by Cho’s grudge against S.H.I.E.L.D. and Herc’s feud with his estranged half-brother, Ares, god of war! Then, the Greek Goliath assembles the godliest super-team ever to take on the deities of the invading Skrulls! Prepare for the pantheon-pounding premiere of…the God Squad! But who among them is a traitor? Plus: Untold tales of Hercules vs. Hulk — and Hulk vs. the Champions! And the excellent origin of Amadeus Cho!

Collects Slapstick #1-6. Steve Harmon was an average teenager with an average job as your average clown, living in average New Jersey. But after being zapped by weird and mysterious extradimensional energy, Steve became Slapstick u0097 a living, breathing cartoon character! Now, after joining u0097 and then quitting u0097 Deadpoolu0092s Mercs for Money, Slapstick is striking out on his own! Sure, heu0092s gotta move back in with his parents, but he gets to team up with the Amazing Spider-Man and meet adorable (but deadly) little minotaurs, so thereu0092s that! And when he embarks on a very personal mission, Slapstick will have to work with far stranger allies u0097 like the War D.O.G.S., Americau0092s Best Friends! But can these patriotic pups help Steve get to Dimension Ecch, where a throne of games awaits him?

A perfect jumping-on point as Magnus: Robot Fighter begins an all-new story arc! Having finally reunited with his robotic father, Magnus has new purpose in life. But that doesn''t really matter if "dad" starts him off on a suicide mission! It''s Magnus: Agent of 1A!

?BREAKING HISTORY? ? PART 2! THREE BROTHERS VS THE FUTURE! With the universe on the brink of destruction, Ivar must turn to his closest relatives ? Armstrong and Gilad Anni-Padda ? to save Neela Sethi from the machinations of the Prometheans! The problem? These three guys couldn?t be further apart. Time doesn?t heal all wounds as the assault on Oblivi-1 begins! Fred Van Lente (ARCHER & ARMSTRONG) and Francis Portela (Green Lantern Corps) continue this time-shattering comics event!

Though her signature combination of psychological manipulation and brutal violence, Jennifer Blood has the Volk white supremacist prison gang and the Crooked Cross biker fanatics tearing at each other’s throats. But now that she has provided the spark to light the flames, the resulting conflagration may be too big to contain — and threatens to consume everyone Jennifer cares about! Trusted reporters FRED VAN LENTE (Marvel Zombies) and ROBERT CAREY (The Outsiders) deliver all the details in Jennifer Blood: Battle Diary #4 — featuring additional coverage from CAREY, JOSEPH MICHAEL LINSNER, and LESLEY “LEIRIX” LI!