Most Popular Books by Tom DeFalco

Enter the world of your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man! Ever since he was bitten by a radioactive spider and transformed into the amazing Spider-Man Peter Parker has been astounding comic-book fans with his breathtaking acrobatics as well as his batles against a host of villians such as the Green Goblin Doctor Octopus the Rhino and Venom. Spider-Man: The Ultimate Guide brings you everything you ever wanted to know about the wall-crawler including the thrilling events and personalities that have shaped the life of one of the world's best-known comic-book characters. Spider-Man and all related Marvel characters(tm) and © 2001 Marvel Characters Inc. All Rights Reserved. Spider-Man is one of the most easily recognizable comic book characters in the world today and the Spider-Man comics are some of the most popular titles within this highly competitive market. Having been published for nearly 40 years, Spider-Man has a loyal and fanatical following. The release of a major feature film in May 2002 will trigger an enormous level of interest in Spider-Man and related licensed products. The book will feature never-before-seen artworks which Marvel have speciallycommissioned for this title. The book features a foreword by Stan Lee, one of the founders of Marvel Comics and regarded by many as the father figure of modern comics.

Collects Cable (1993) #34-35, Incredible Hulk (1968) #444-445, Wolverine (1988) #104, X-Factor (1986) #125-126, Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #415, Green Goblin (1995) #12, Spider-Man (1990) #72, X-Man (1995) #18-19, X-Force (1991) #57-58, X-Men (1991) #55, Uncanny X-Men (1981) #336, Iron Man (1968) #332. The shocking saga continues as Onslaught’s unnerving origin is revealed! How can the X-Men defeat a threat that strikes from their very heart? As X-Factor battles Havok to save Beast, X-Force defends X-Man from the manipulative Mister Sinister! And Cable and Storm must reckon with Onslaught’s most incredible pawn of all: the Hulk! But can the X-Men, Avengers and Fantastic Four find a way to free Franklin Richards from the deadly Onslaught’s grasp? Plus: As Sentinels take Manhattan, the shock waves are felt by the teenage Tony Stark; the new Spider-Man, Ben Reilly; and the heroic Green Goblin!

Collects Fantastic Four (1961) #347-361 And Annual #24 And Material From Marvel Holiday Special #1. The Fantastic Four, like never before! With Reed, Sue, Ben and Johnny out of commission, a new FF comes together: Spider-Man, Wolverine, Ghost Rider and the Hulk! But what monstrous threat could bring these heroes together? And how are the Mole Man and the Skrulls involved? Maybe the real FF can help figure all that out! Then, the one, true Doom returns — and a time-jumping battle for the ages with Mister Fantastic ensues! Did we say time? Uh-oh, better hope nobody tells the Time Variance Authority! The Thing battles the Wrecker before a fantastic new era begins — and a stunning revelation rocks the marriage of Johnny Storm and Alicia Masters! Plus: The New Warriors, the Guardians of the Galaxy and a Miracle on Yancy Street!

Collects What If? (1989) #105, Spider-Girl (1998) #1-15, #1/2 and Annual ’99. What if Peter Parker and Mary Jane had a daughter? The ever-amazing answer is she’d be May “Mayday” Parker — A.K.A. Spider-Girl! Spinning out of the pages of WHAT IF? into her very own universe, the teenage Mayday inherits spider-powers and dons her retired father’s red-and-blues! Now follow her adventures from the beginning as Mayday learns about Spider-Man’s legacy and wrestles with whether to follow in his footsteps! She’ll face threats old and new — from the Venom symbiote and Kaine to Crazy Eight and the Dragon King — and meet incredible faces from the future Marvel Universe including Darkdevil, Wild Thing, the Fantastic Five and the newest roster of the mighty Avengers! Discover a friendly neighborhood hero for a new generation!

Collects Speedball #1-10 And material from Amazing Spider-Man Annual #22, Marvel Age Annual #4, Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #14 And #56 And Marvel Super-Heroes (1990) #1-2 And #5-6. Few creators have left their mark like the inimitable Steve Ditko. His unmistakable creative vision brought the world the Amazing Spider-Man, Doctor Strange — and, in 1988, Speedball! Together with writers Roger Stern, Tom DeFalco and Jo Duffy, Ditko crafted the adventures of Robbie Baldwin, a high school student with strange other-dimensional powers that create an energetic kinetic field, transforming him into Speedball! In the classic Ditko style, Baldwin’s life is complicated — his father is a district attorney with no love for costumed vigilantes, and there is serious marital strife between Robbie’s parents. This complete collection brings together every Steve Ditko tale of the future New Warriors superstar for the first time!

Collects Thor (1966) #401-418, Annual #14. To spare a life, Thor makes the ultimate sacrifice! With the fate of his friend Eric Masterson in the balance, Thor steps in - and finds himself bonded to mortal form once again! But which deadly foe will bring about such dire straits - could it be Quicksand? The maniacal Mongoose? A new Executioner? Or, as an untethered Asgard drifts into the Negative Zone, Annihilus? As a new Thor era begins, another legendary hero returns - zounds, it's Hercules! But it will take the might of two godly friends, plus She-Hulk, to face not one but two Dooms! In another heavyweight bout, Thor takes on the Juggernaut - with the New Warriors lending a hand! Plus, the High Evolutionary! Doctor Strange! The Thing! Tales of Asgard! Beta Ray Bill! And Ulik joins the Wrecking Crew!

Collects Incredible Hulk: Last Call (2019) #1, Avengers: Loki Unleashed (2019) #1, Thor: The Worthy (2019) #1, Captain America & The Invaders: Bahamas Triangle (2019) #1. Legendary storytellers tell new tales featuring classic heroes! Peter David and Dale Keown reunite with their signature icon! Bruce Banner is tired of life and about to lose all hope until a miracle occurs: a fight worthy of the Incredible Hulk! In the wake of his classic saga of the siege of Avengers Mansion, Roger Stern reassembles Earth’s Mightiest Heroes to face their oldest foe, Loki — with all reality at stake! Walter Simonson and more Thor favorites make new myths with the Odinson, Beta Ray Bill, Thunderstrike and Sif! And Roy Thomas returns to World War II with the Invaders: Captain America, Namor, the Sub-Mariner, and the original Human Torch!

Collects Marvel Tails #1 and Peter Porker, The Spectacular Spider-Ham #1-17. Go whole hog with the Spectacular Spider-Ham’s animal antics! What started as a porcine parody one-shot soon became a hilarious ongoing series full of anthropomorphized adventurers! Peter Porker is a photographer for J. Jonah Jackal’s Daily Beagle — but when danger strikes, he fights crime alongside hirsute heroes such as Hulk Bunny, Captain Americat and the Fantastic Fur! Can Spider-Ham triumph over fearsome foes like Ducktor Doom, Bull-Frog, the King-Pig and the Bee-yonder — while keeping the young Beagle Brigadiers out of trouble and still managing to bring home the bacon? Plus: Thrr, Dog of Thunder stars in “Tails of Arfgard”! Here comes Deerdevil, Mammal Without Fear! Nick Furry, Agent of S.H.E.E.P.! Goose Rider! The invincible Iron Mouse! Croak and Badger! The astonishing Ant-Ant! And more zoological puns!

Collects Ant-Man: Season One, Ant-Man (2015) #1. Legendary writer Tom DeFalco and acclaimed artist Horacio Domingues bring you the origin of Ant-Man! Hank Pym has had a life full of adventure and success, failure and humiliation. He’s been known by many names, and played many parts: scientist, super hero, flawed husband. What demons drive a man like Hank Pym? And how did he begin his heroic career? Discover the story of the man behind the myth, and the fears and paranoia that propel him to great heights — and dark depths! Plus: Hank’s successor as Ant-Man, Scott Lang, steps into the spotlight in ANT-MAN (2015) #1! He’s never exactly been the world’s best super hero — heck, most people don’t even think he’s been the best Ant-Man. But when Lang gets a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, it may be the start of an astonishing future!

Collects Guardians of the Galaxy (1990) 1-7, Guardians of the Galaxy Annual #1, Fantastic Four Annual #24, Thor Annual #16 and Silver Surfer Annual #4. Thrill to the exploits of the greatest heroes of the 31st century, the original Guardians of the Galaxy! Join telekinetic Vance Astro, alien archer Yondu, flame-haired Mercurian Nikki, superstrong Jovian Charlie-27, crystalline Plutonian Martinex, the mysterious Starhawk and his wife Aleta as they undertake a quest to find the long-lost shield of Captain America - a mission that pits them against Iron Man's twisted legacy, the marauding alien cyborgs called the Stark, as well as the intergalactic thieves known as Force! Plus, the Guardians confront the devil's daughter, Malevolence - and battle across time alongside the Fantastic Four, Silver Surfer, Dr. Strange and the 26th century's Thor, Dargo Ktor, against the mad god known as Korvac!

Former NYPD detective Sam Hill knows what happens when you cross the mob. He knows the risks, danger and thrill – and, most importantly, how to deal with the criminal underworld. So when he’s hired by the gorgeous widow of a murdered millionaire, he’ll have to play every angle to make sure he doesn’t end up at the bottom of the Hudson River.

Collects X-Men (1991) #27-30 and Annual #2, X-Men Unlimited (1993) #3, Uncanny X-Men (1963) #308-310 and Annual #18, X-Men: The Wedding Album, and What If? (1989) #60. These are tense times for the X-Men. The Legacy virus, which has already killed many mutants both friend and foe, threatens to become a worldwide epidemic. Professor X has captured Sabretooth and locked him in the mansion basement, hoping to eventually cure his raging bloodlust. But amid the darkness, a ray of light shines - as longtime lovebirds Cyclops and Phoenix announce their engagement! The X-Men and their extended family come together to celebrate the union of mutantdom's most star-crossed couple - but will this joyous occasion revitalize the X-Men, and provide them with new hope and a new direction for the future? Or will the looming darkness still consume them all?

Revision of the Oct. 1998 issue of Spider-Girl.

Collects Marvel Two-In-One (1974) #37-46 and Annual #2-3, and Avengers Annual #7. Our latest Masterworks offers you two heroes for the price of one! Yes, it's MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE, starring the world's most endearing pile of rocks, the Ever-Lovin' Blue-Eyed Thing! And his adventures begin - behind bars?! The Thing has been declared a public nuisance (and not just on Yancy Street), and it'll take the skills of both Matt Murdock and Daredevil to set him free! This marvelous Masterwork also features the debut of Project PEGASUS, the reality-bending Cosmic Cube, an army of android Visions, the Black Panther and Brother Voodoo vs. a zombie-vampire, Hercules, Captain Marvel - and a bruising Thing vs. Hulk battle! And it's all topped off with Jim Starlin's famous two-part cosmic epic pitting the Avengers and the Thing vs. Thanos and his Infinity Gems!

In the Battleworld zone known as Spider-Island, Peter Parker has lost - and the Spider Queen has turned Manhattan into an island of arachnid madness! With Spider-Man defeated and captive, does Flash Thompson - A.K.A. Venom - stand a chance? Venom and his squad of monstrous heroes wage all-out war on the Queen, but to reclaim a Manhattan completely overrun by her spider-army, Venom will need a little help from his friend. (Which friend? We'll give you a hint: thwip!) Venom and his allies take the fight straight to the Queen, but one among them will have to make the ultimate sacrifice! Plus: Mayday Parker and her amazing Spider-Family are back as we visit the MC2 patch of Battleworld!

Collects Avengers (1963) #195-196, 223; Marvel Team-Up (1972) #103, 146; Thing (1983) 26; Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #308; Iron Man (1968) #254; Daredevil (1964) #292-293; Deadpool (1997) #2; Hawkeye: Earth’s Mightiest Marksman (1998) #1; Avengers (1998) #26; Captain America (1998) #44; material from Captain America Annual (1971) #11. He’s the skull-faced villain who can copy any action he sees — whether it’s Spider-Man’s agility, Daredevil’s fighting moves or Captain America’s skills with a shield! That makes Taskmaster more than a match for anyone — even the Avengers! And to make matters worse, Taskmaster runs a training school for villainous henchmen! With the sweetest moves around and an army of thugs eager for extra credit, watch as Taskmaster clashes with a who’s who of the Marvel Universe — including Spidey, Cap, Daredevil, Iron Man, Falcon, Hawkeye, Ant-Man, the Thing and Deadpool! Can any of them take him to task?

Follows the adventures of Mayday Parker who has developed Spider-powers and has taken to crime fighting, following in her father's footsteps.

Archie in “ARCHIE, Clod of Thunder!”— Get ready for entertainment in this hilarious superhero parody by comics legend Tom DeFalco! “Master of the Storm” Archie resides in Allgood, an honorable city over the Rainbow Bridge, where the food is plentiful, the girls are heavenly, and everything is absolutely… boring! Turns out that being an immortal warrior isn’t as fun as people might think. When Archie finds himself in trouble, thanks to a prank of his brother Reggie the Wicked, his father banishes Archie to Planet Earth—to the town of Riverdale, USA to be exact! Will Archie be able to dutifully serve out his punishment? Or will he find life on Earth to be just the excitement he was looking for?

Collects All Select Comics #1, All Winners Comics #1, Usa Comics #1 Marvel Mystery Comics #1, Captain America Comics #1, Mystic Comics #1, Young Allies Comics #1, Miss America Comics #1, Sub-Mariner Comics #1, Human Torch Comics #1 And Daring Mystery Comics #1. Presenting 11 celebratory specials commemorating 70 years of Marvel! Watch a scrawny kid from Brooklyn named Steve Rogers show the world that you don't need a super-soldier serum to be a hero. And it's the year 1940, and thanks to policewoman Betty Dean, the young Namor the Sub-Mariner has momentarily halted his jihad against the surface world. Find out if the Human Torch can learn to tap into the human side of the Torch, or must he sacrifice himself to save the people he has sworn to protect? All this plus much, much more! Collecting all the 70th anniversary specials!

"Robbing Arch and His Merry Band of Teens" Part 1 Archie and the gang must save Lord Lodge and Princess Veronica from the evil clutches of the Mad Duke of Doom and his fiendish jester, Chester, in an action-packed Robin Hood-inspired tale! Join Maid Betty, Juggie O'Dare, Reggie the Red and Robbing Archie in their quest to save the Kingdom!

As a part of the acclaimed DC Comics—The New 52 event, this second volume of Superboy ties directly into the New York Times best seller TEEN TITANS storyline "The Culling" featuring the Teen Titans and the Legion of Super-Heroes! When the organization known as N.O.W.H.E.R.E. captures Superboy, the Teen Titans, and the Legion of Super-Heroes and pits the young heroes against each other to weed out the weak, it will take everything Superboy has to save himself and his new friends from eachother. But the ruthless Harvest won't give up easily leading to one of the young heroes making the ultimate sacrifice for the others.

Découvrez les origines des Avengers, de Wolverine et d'Ant-Man à travers des Graphic Novels signés par les plus grands auteurs de la Maison des Idées. Peter David, Tom DeFalco, Ben Acker, Ben Blacker, Salva Espin, Andrea Di Vito et Horacio Domingues vous dévoilent les débuts de plusieurs héros majeurs de Marvel.

Robbing Arch,' Part Two. The trap has been set! The medieval adventures continue as Arch and his Merry Band of Teens attempt to rescue Princess Veronica from the clutches of the Duke of Doom and the fiendish jester, Chester! But has Robbing Arch just made himself a date with the Hangman?

A five-part punch-fest that explores how the relationship between the Gamma Goliath and Earth's Mightiest Heroes has evolved through the decades! First, Hulk takes on his former teammates, the original 1960s Avengers! Then, he clashes with the Avengers of the 1970s and 1980s! As Mr. Fixit, the cunning Gray Hulk battles the 1990s West Coast Avengers. And finally, the Red Hulk faces off against the 2000s' Mighty Avengers! Collecting HULK SMASH AVENGERS #1-5.

An unexpected day off from school turns into the adventure of a lifetime! When a flying saucer crash-lands in Riverdale, Archie and Jughead come face-to-face with the one and only Cosmo the Merry Martian! His now-damaged space ship is threatening to make him late for a very important meeting at the Diner at the Center of the Universe—and without Cosmo there, the fate of the entire galaxy could be at risk! Archie is prepared to save the day, and you can bet that if a diner’s involved, Jughead’s on board! Get ready for intergalactic adventure and classic Archie Comics characters galore in an out-of-this-world story by comics great Tom DeFalco!

Archie in “Summer Daze!” – Archie proclaims this will be the “greatest summer of all!” However, after a water skiing accident, a hang gliding mishap, and a run in with Mr. Lodge, it just may end up being the worst! And that’s just day one! Can his vacation be salvaged or is Archie in for a bummer of a summer? Find out in this special summer-themed issue with extra summer fun packed into 48 pages wrapped in an eye popping cover!

Collects Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #263-270, Amazing Spider-Man Annual (1964) #19, Web of Spider-Man (1985) #1, 6, material from The Official Marvel Index to The Amazing Spider-Man (1985) #1-9. Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz's fan-favorite AMAZING SPIDER-MAN run continues! As a creative team, they were cooking and making it look easy - and these classic stories will show you how it's done. First, make that new costume an alien that wants to take over your life! Then, add in the introduction of the mercenary Silver Sable, a little bit of Kingpin, and some conflict between Peter and Aunt May! Next, send a former herald of Galactus on a mission to pound Peter Parker into pulp. It's a fight that defines the never-say-die attitude that makes Spidey a hero for the ages! Voila - Marvel Masterworks one and all! Also featuring the Amazing Spider-Kid, Frog-Man and the Toad, and a host of bonus material!

Revision of the Nov. 1998 issue of Spider-Girl.