New Releases by Justin Gray

As evil spreads across Gotham City, Batman''s allies, including Red Robin, Batwing, and Robin find themselves in a battle coming from all sides. The Court of Owls has shown its hand, and it''s up to the collective effort of these heroes to stop it in this sprawling tale of corruption and violence.

Even when Gotham City was just a one-horse town, crime was rampant—and things only get worse when bounty hunter Jonah Hex comes to town. Amadeus Arkham, a pioneer in criminal psychology, enlists Hex''s special brand of justice to help the Gotham Police Department track down a vicious serial killer! Collects issues #1-6.

This issue features the return of Colin Lorimer''s _UXB_ and Michael T. Gilbert''s _Mr. Monster_! Plus, another Edgar Allan Poe story adapted by Will Eisner Hall of Fame inductee Richard Corben and a new short written by Michael Avon Oeming and illustrated by Victor Santos! Crime noir, horror, fantasy, science fictionthis anthology has it all! The _DHP_ conclusion to Tony Puryear''s _Concrete Park_! 80 pages! No ads!

True-crime writer Phil Stanford tells a gritty tale from Portland''s underbelly as he kicks off _City of Roses_ with artist Patric Reynoldsa new era for the _Crime Does Not Pay_ name! Plus, Richard Corben adapts a spine-tingling story by Edgar Allan Poe! A creator-owned comics celebration! 80 pages! No ads! The return of _Crime Does Not Pay_.

Spotlighting Hawkman and Deadman! This volume collects several hard-to-find stories including tales from HAWKMAN #27, 34 and 36, SOLO #8, DCU HOLIDAY ''09 and STRANGE ADVENTURES #205.

Adam Strange, Starfire and Animal Man: find out what the future holds for these heroes after their space-based adventure in 52! And in the backup, from the pages of COUNTDOWN, it''s a tale of Forerunner. Find out more about this awesome character and her relationship with the Monitors.

The series that inspired the major motion picture! Jonah Hex, a mysterious bounty hunter and thinking man''s killer, was a hero to some and a villain to others-and his name was spoken in whispers. He had no friends but he did have two companions. One was death, and the other: the smell of gun smoke. Jonah Hex has dealt with some wicked, vile people in his time, but never has he met someone who managed to get under his skin quite like the bandit known as Loco. Most bounties don''t upset Hex, but this time, as they say, it''s personal. And a pivotal piece of Hex''s past is revealed in a special stand-alone story. Collets JONAH HEX #61-67.

Even when Gotham City was just a one-horse town, crime was rampant—and things only get worse when bounty hunter Jonah Hex comes to town. Can Amadeus Arkham, a pioneer in criminal psychology, enlist Hex''s special brand of justice to help the Gotham Police Department track down a vicious serial killer?

One of the most feared bounty hunters in the West, Jonah Hex has spent his entire life roaming from town to town searching for his next paycheck and earning it with a fierceness that''s earned him a reputation for being a stern dealer of frontier justice. But behind that hard exterior exists a man who longs for the same comforts as any man - including love. This original graphic novel sets Hex on a collision course with his past and future as he struggles to reconnect with his dying mother and searches for his missing lover Tallulah Black. By the end, the hard-living anti-hero will have to face the truths behind how his upbringing shaped the man he became and decide where to place his fate - in the arms of a woman who cares for him, or in the vast, unforgiving American West he''s come to call home. But can he handle family life? Never, in the history of the character, has a story explored the motivations of Jonah Hex more than this self-contained tale from regular monthly JONAH HEX writers Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray and returning artist Tony De Zuniga, one of Hex''s original co-creators.

Gunsmoke meets Dirty Harry in this series that inspired the major motion picture! In this volume, we learn Hex''s savage origin, and how love played a crucial hand in forming the hard-edged man he is today. Collects JONAH HEX #55-60.

Written by JUSTIN GRAY and JIMMY PALMIOTTI Art and cover by JUAN SANTACRUZ Collecting the acclaimed 6-issue miniseries! Serenity, once humanity''s greatest champion, died defending the world she loved. She left behind more than a legacy of heroism - she left a son. For eight years, Michael has lived on a space station orbiting Earth. Raised by a computer, possessed of strange powers and hypersensitive to light, is Michael at last ready to join the human race? On sale JUNE 8 - 144 pg, FC, $17.99 US

In this volume, Power Girl must contend with Satanna and her animal menagerie, who have returned to avenge her fallen lover, Ultra-Humanite. If that weren''t enough, the alien Vartox has called upon Power Girl to help repopulate his planet

The series that inspired the major motion picture! Featuring guest artists Darwyn Cooke and Billy Tucci. Jonah Hex discovers a secret being kept by Tallulah Black that could change everything Hex is about. But happiness has no place in the life of Jonah Hex, so what kind of tragedy awaits our disfigured gunslinger? Collects JONAH HEX #43, #50-54.

Gunsmoke meets Dirty Harry in this series that inspired the major motion picture! Quentin Turnbull is out for vengeance on the man he believes is responsible for killing his son-and that man is Jonah Hex! Bullets, broads and banditos abound in this 6-part story arc guest-starring El Papagayo, Tallulah Black and the always-charming Batlash! Collects JONAH HEX #44-49.

The series that inspired the major motion picture! Jonah Hex, a mysterious bounty hunter and thinking man''s killer, was a hero to some, and a villain to others-and his name was spoken in whispers. He had no friends but he did have two companions: death and the smell of gun smoke. Collects JONAH HEX #37-42.

The series that inspired the major motion picture! Along with tales pitting Hex against a slew of rough-and-tumble vigilantes, this volume includes a story with art from superstar creator Darwyn Cooke (DC: THE NEW FRONTIER), which drops Hex into the heart of snow-choked Canada on the heels of his latest bounty. Hideously scarred and tougher than dirt, Jonah Hex burned a trail across the Wild West as a bounty hunter and gun for hire, taking on the most dangerous of contracts and leaving in his wake a trail of the dead. Collects JONAH HEX #31-36.

Six-guns blaze again in this new JONAH HEX! This volume features a lost chapter from the end of Hex''s trail, in which he meets his son in an awkward and violent encounter. Collects JONAH HEX #25-30.

This volume of the bloody, hard-hitting series JONAH HEX features the lushly illustrated adventures of Hex as he dodges bullets, rights wrongs and courts death in the Old West. Collects JONAH HEX #19-24.

The enigmatic Healers—aliens sent to Earth to stop the spread of Lady Styx''s infection—have tagged Animal Man as patient zero. Can Starfire save him before they cut him open for dissection? Also, Forerunner''s adventures continue as she runs afoul of the Thanagarian battle fleet.

Mary Marvel''s battle with Eclipso takes her to Paradise Island. Meanwhile, on Earth-51, the Challengers are betrayed by one of their own—just as the Monitors arrive with a score to settle!

The Healers have arrived to ''sterilize'' Earth and stop the contamination that''s plaguing the planet. But what does this mean to Starfire and Animal Man? And in the backup, Forerunner battles magic versions of DCU heroes on the Conjurer''s World.

In this volume collecting stories from SUPERGIRL #10-19 and INFINITE HOLIDAY SPECIAL #1, Supergirl finally adopts a secret identity, joins the super-team the Outsiders, battles Batgirl and begins a relationship with her new boyfriend, Power Boy!

The series that inspired the major motion picture! Jonah Hex dodges bullets, rights wrongs and courts death in this never-before-told origin story-plus other tales of his travels in the Old West. Collects JONAH HEX #13-18.

Starfire''s powers are still in flux, leaving her defenseless against a new evil that''s plaguing Earth! Elsewhere in the Multiverse, in the backup tale, Forerunner faces off against the heroes of a Conjuror''s World that include mystic versions of Batman and Superman.

Super-villains crash the wedding reception of Black Canary and Green Arrow—and the Trickster and Pied Piper are caught in the middle. Meanwhile, at Project Cadmus, Jimmy Olsen mutates and the Challengers arrive on Earth-15!

Another funeral for the Teen Titans and the DCU as a whole as one of the world''s greatest heroes gets laid to rest. Plus, Holly Robinson learns more about the Athenian Women''s Shelter from a surprising source!

Deep within the remote hills of the New Mexico desert, a group of townspeople thought wiped out by the United States government when it began above-ground atomic testing has returned to the now-irradiated land they still claim as their home. Within the eye of this nuclear storm good people will go bad, battle lines will be drawn, and a new family of mutated monstrosities must protect their own at all costs in a mind-boggling orgy of blood and vengeance. The Hills Have Eyes: The Beginning tells for the first time the epic origin story behind Wes Craven''s classic tale of mutant carnage, leading into and bridging the gap between the 2006 remake of The Hills Have Eyes and its sequel, The Hills Have Eyes 2. Written by acclaimed storytellers Jimmy Palmiotti (Painkiller Jane) and Justin Gray (Countdown) with shocking art by John Higgins (Judge Dredd, War Stories), this is mutant mayhem as you''ve never seen it before.

The newly re-powered Mary Marvel starts seeking out pieces of the shattered Rock of Eternity. Jason Todd and Donna Troy discuss what the murderous actions of a Monitor could mean. And Jimmy Olsen runs into an agent of Darkseid!

The bloody Western adventures of Jonah Hex continue in this volume collecting issues #7-12 of the acclaimed series! Hex dodges bullets, rights wrongs and courts death in these lushly illustrated tales!