New Releases by Michael Fleisher

A scientist and his wife become victims of a tropical disease when they withhold knowledge of a possible cure from the natives in the interest of recording the disease’s progress.

An explorer of the Amazon is abducted by the bee people she wishes to study and is made their queen. A stranger from out of town gets on the wrong train to go to a business meeting and is told that he must wait until the following day for another train. He sees workmen setting up a $50,000 lottery booth in the center of town and asks the ticket seller if he can buy a ticket.

A retired train engineer who has built his own train set by hand invites a hobo to stay with him and help run the trains after the hobo helps him with a technical problem. After a toy maker offers $100,000 for the set and is refused, the hobo murders the old man and attempts to hide the body so that he can claim the money.

"Originally introduced in More Fun Comics #42 in 1940 and co-created by Jerry Siegel, co-creator of Superman, the Spectre is a green-caped, white-skinned figure who metes out justice in the name of heaven. [He] resurfaced in the 1960s for all-new--and sometimes controversial--stories demonstrating the true power of his vengeance"--

A cranky ghost in an old house makes friends with a young boy until the kid meets a girl and loses interest in the ghost.

Two carnival owners come across an old man and a group of dwarfs, and they threaten to harm the old man unless the dwarfs perform for their show. What they don’t know is that the old man and dwarfs are a pack of vampires.

Collects Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #213-223 and Annual #15. New York City has always been a defining element in Spider-Man’s world, but it’s going to drive him crazy — if it doesn’t kill him first. From an NYC Marathon assassination plot to Peter Parker’s paper-thin apartment walls, and from a merged Hydro-Man/Sandman menace to running into his ex-girlfriend’s new beau, Biff Rifkin, the City That Never Sleeps just won’t give Spidey a break! And the hits keep coming when Peter Parker is accused of causing a prison break — and thrown in the slammer himself! Also featuring Moon Knight, a team-up with Sub-Mariner against the Frightful Four and the Aunt May solo “adventure” you demanded! And it’s all topped off with an iconic Dennis O’Neil/Frank Miller Annual pitting Spider-Man and the Punisher against Doc Ock!

A Hollywood director who murdered a scriptwriter 35 years ago overhears his wife and her lawyer plotting to replace his new premiere with a film that the lawyer had produced reenacting the murder in order to convince the director that his victim has returned from the grave seeking revenge. When he enters the projection booth to confront them, the film strangles him. It turns out the lawyer did not have time to substitute the film after all, and both he and the wife were in the audience.

Collects Incredible Hulk (1962) #6; Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #31-33; Daredevil (1964) #162; Incredible Hulk (1968) #249; And Material From Tales To Astonish (1959) #26 And #42; Amazing Adult Fantasy #7, #10 And #12-14; Strange Tales (1951) #94, #97, #110, #115, #126-127 And #146; Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #1 And Annual #1; Tales Of Suspense (1959) #48; Speedball #1 And Marvel Super-Heroes (1990) #8. Celebrate the career of a true Marvel Visionary! Best known as the co-creator of the amazing Spider-Man, Steve Ditko illustrated Spidey''s adventures for four years and introduced dozens of classic villains. But even as he infused Spider-Man''s world with grounded realism, Ditko took readers on mind-bending romps through twisted and mystical realms with another massively popular co-creation, Doctor Strange! Plus, Ditko''s unmatched creative vision is on full display with the debuts of Squirrel Girl and Speedball - and scores of rarely seen fantasy and sci-fi work from Marvel''s Atlas Era!

A crooked hockey player is discovered by his coach, who demands his resignation. The player pretends to agree but puts a bomb on the team’s airplane, killing all aboard. He joins a new team, and the night before a big game he gets a phone call for midnight practice. He gets out on the ice, only to be confronted by skeletons. They kill him and prop up his skeleton in front of the goal.

“THE WITCH DOCTOR’S MAGIC CLOAK.” A man steals a magic cloak from a witch doctor that has the power to re-grow limbs that have been torn off in animal attacks. In revenge, the witch doctor wraps the man in the cloak and generates various appendages, all sprouting from different locations on his body.

ÒMURDER ON THE MYSTERY SHIP!Ó When asylum-bound former horror star Basil Karlo reads of an International Horror Film Exposition on the luxury ship Varania III, he is enraged at not having been invited. Killing his nurse, he escapes and makes his way to the ship. Clayface, one of KarloÕs most famous horror movie creations, attempts to kill some party guests and fights Batman.

ÒTHE CRIME DOCTOR CALLS AT MIDNIGHT!Ó Batman has his hands full, as there is someone new helping the criminals of Gotham City, and his name is the Crime Doctor.

Collects Giant-Size Werewolf #5; Werewolf By Night (1972) #31-43; Marvel Premiere #28; Spider-Woman (1978) #6, #19 And #32; Marvel Team-Up (1972) #93; Ghost Rider (1973) #55; Moon Knight (1980) #29 (A Story) And #30; And Material From Marvel Premiere #59. Complete your collection of the classic adventures of Marvelu0092s legendary lycanthrope! But can even Jack Russell survive when he battles the silver-clad stalker known as Moon Knight? There are plenty more candidates lining up to wrestle the Werewolf u0097 including Hangman, Brother Voodoo, Iron Man and Fire-Eyes, the man with the gaze of doom! But will Spider-Woman be a friend or a fearsome foe? Jack has faced super heroes and supernatural threats; now he and Spider-Man u0097 and Ghost Rider, too u0097 will learn that no villain is more vile than Tatterdemalion! Plus: Witness the savage rematch between Moon Knight and the Werewolf!

“THE DOOMSDAY TRAPEZE.” A circus performer goes to deadly lengths to be the star attraction. “THE ALCHEMIST.” In which the local anti-wizardry league decides to get rid of all alchemists! Plus, “THE HONOR OF FRANCE.”

“A SLAY RIDE WITH SANTA.” A man using his Santa Claus act commits evil and heinous crimes. “FEATHERTOP.” A chilling new adaptation of the Nathaniel Hawthorne story in which a scarecrow is transformed into a person! Plus, “THE DEMON HORN.”

“REQUIEM FOR A GUNFIGHTER!” The corpse of Jonah Hex is discovered, and a college professor tracks down Hex''s last wife, Tall Bird. “THE SECRET ORIGIN OF BLACK CONDOR.” Richard Grey Jr. is orphaned as a baby and taken in by a giant condor that brings him to its nest, where he learns how to fly!

“EXILES.” Dan Maddox tells the story of growing up with the Warlord, Travis Morgan, before he crashed in Skartaris! “THE SECRET ORIGIN OF THE GOLDEN AGE HOURMAN.” Rick Tyler recounts his origin as he writes a letter to his son. Plus, “’MAZING MAN.”

For the first time, DC Comics collects the moody Batman stories drawn by comics legend Don Newton! In these tales, Batman revisits the site of his origin story in ''The Curse of Crime Alley,'' takes on Maxie Zeus, a crime lord who believes himself to be a god, and wages an epic war on the League of Assassins.

Two stories in one! First, Batman takes on the Electrocutioner! Then, someone''s after Commissioner Gordon''s files!

What terrors lurk within the final volume of the Vampirella Archives? The incomparable horror hostess offers you a guided tour of the Warren Publishing library, presenting the era''s greatest anthology of horror and science fiction by such comics luminaries as Bill DuBay, Gonzalo Mayo, Rich Margopoulos, Jose Gonzalez, Luis Bermejo, Nicola Cuti, Bruce Jones, and many more. This edition of Vampirella Archives collects Vampirella Magazine #104-112, and features a wealth of bonus materials from a bygone era, including the "Feary Tales" feature on urban legends, the monthly "Scarlet Letters" column, "Vampi''s Vault" of creator biographies and literary reviews, and intact vintage advertisements.

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"This volume collects Conan the Barbarian issues 224-232, originally published by Marvel Comics."--Title page verso.

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Collects Star Wars (1977) #68-85, Star Wars Annual (1979) #3, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1983) #1-4. In stories set shortly before and after the galaxy''s transition to the New Republic in the Return of the Jedi motion picture, Luke Skywalker and the Rebels battle the oppressive Empire. Join Luke, Princess Leia, Han Solo, Boba Fett, and many more classic-era characters in these tales of daring, action, heroism and friendship!