I hope you’re ready for this update folks. Starting with the titles schedules the last several weeks and their new expected on sale dates:
Best Of Alex Toth & John Buscema’s Roy Rogers Comics HC (TBD)
Blackhawk: Blood And Iron HC (2/12)
Black Panther Book 7 Intergalactic Empire Of Wakanda Part Three TP (1/29)
Complete Chester Gould Dick Tracy Vol. 27 HC (1/15)
Daniel Clowes: Fantagraphics Studio Edition HC (2/12)
Ditko Shrugged HC (4/1)
EC: Kurtzman – Man And Superman HC (1/29)
Ed Piskor: The Fantagraphics Studio Edition HC (1/22)
Gladys Parker: A Life In Comics And A Passion For Fashion HC (TBD)
Injustice: Gods Among Us Year Five Complete Collection TP (1/8)
Isola Vol. 2 TP (2/19)
Jack Kirby’s Dingbat Love TP (1/8)
Johnny Hazard Sundays Archive 1944-1946 Full-Size Tabloid HC (TBD)
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol IV: The Tempest HC (1/8)
Outpost Zero Vol. 3 The Only Living Things TP (1/15)
Phantom: Art Of The Ghost Who Walks HC (TBD)
Phantom Complete Dailies Vol. 18 1962-1964 HC (4/1)
Pogo Complete Syndicated Strips Vol. 6 HC/Vol. 5 & 6 Box Set (1/15)
Sandman: Overture Gallery Edition HC (2/26)
Star Wars Artisan Edition TP (1/29)
Witchblade Vol. 3 TP (3/4)
Wonder Woman – The Golden Age Vol. 4 Omnibus HC (3/18)
Two Hermes Press titles, Walt Kelly’s Peter Wheat – The Complete Series Vol. 2 HC/TP, and Birth Of A Beetle: The Magazine Cartoon Of Mort Walker HC, have been running late with no scheduled release date from Diamond in months. Amazon has them listed as coming July 7, so I’m putting them on our release schedule for Wednesday July 8.
Some other book moving up and down the calendar:
Captain America By Coates Vol. 3 Legend Of Steve Rogers TP (3/11-3/25)
Dawn Of X Vol. 1 TP (2/19-2/12)
Fantastic Four: Grand Design TP (1/1-1/15)
Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Vol. 2 Hostile Takeovers TP (1/1-1/29)
Justice League International Book One: Born Again TP (1/15-1/22)
Steranko Is…Revolutionary King-Size HC (4/29-5/6)
Swamp Thing By Nancy A. Collins Omnibus HC (1/22-4/1)
Super Friends: Saturday Morning Comics, Vol. 1, Legends Of The Dark Knight: Steve Englehart, Batman: The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 8 HC, and Aquaman: The Silver Age Omnibus HC have been cancelled by DC since last we spoke, and all three are expected to be re-solicited. Cancelled, not to be re-solicited: Damage Vol. 3 TP, and the new editions of Harley Quinn And The Gotham City Sirens Omnibus HC and Sgt. Rock: The Lost Battalion TP. Then there are those titles that got cancelled, with the material expected to return in different formats: Absolute Fables Vol. 1 HC (Omnibus line, I guess?), Legion Of Super-Heroes: The Road To Legion TP, and Man Of Steel By John Byrne Vol. 1 Omnibus HC. That last one stings.
Also from the “that’s a shame” department: Marvel Monograph TP: The Art of Stuart Immonen has been cancelled. Dude leaves Marvel and look what happens!
The new edition of Batman: Arkham Asylum was incorrectly solicited as a hardcover. It is actually a trade paperback.
DC’s Tales From The Dark Multiverse HC will now also contain the “inspirational” issues that relate to the various one-shots: Batman #497, Superman #75, Blackest Night #1, Infinite Crisis #1
and Tales of the Teen Titans Annual #3. The price is going up only five bucks, though, from $29.99 to $34.99.
Avengers vs. Fantastic Four TP, which came out on 12/4, had slightly different contents than solicited: Fantastic Four (1961) #25-#26, #150, #255-#256; Fantastic Four Annual (1963) #19; Avengers (1963) #127, #233, #301-#303; Avengers Annual (1967) #14; New Avengers Custom #676: Army & Air Force (2005); and Mighty Avengers (2007) #25-#26.
Champions by Jim Zub Vol. 2: Give and Take TP (also released 12/4) had tweaked contents: Champions (2019) #7-#10 and Nova (2015) #1.
Fantastic Four: Grand Design TP has added Fantastic Four #51 to its contents, because why not.
Oz Complete Collection Vol. 1: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz/The Marvelous Land of Oz GN TP will no longer contain the Wonderful Wizard of Oz Sketchbook, alas. Perhaps in a future volume?
The Captain America story from Marvel’s Free Comic Book Day 2018 offering has been added to the contents of Captain America By Ta-Nehisi Coates Vol. 1 HC. Similarly, the 2019 FCBD offering has been added to Absolute Carnage TP, and the price of that is being raised from $24.99 to $29.99.
Speaking of Marvel’s hit event, Amazing Spider-Man By Nick Spencer Vol. 6 TP will now carry the subtitle Absolute Carnage.
It looks like Marvel has a brain fart and solicited what will be the contents of Thor By Jason Aaron Vol. 3 HC as the contents for Vol. 4. The contents will actually be Thor (2018) #1-11, and be $34.99 instead of the solicited $39.99.
All-New Ghost Rider (2014) #1 has been added to the contents of Avengers By Jason Aaron Vol. 5 Challenge Of The Ghost Riders TP, apparently with no price change.
Star Wars – Doctor Aphra Vol. 7 Rogue’s End TP will now contain material (presumably featuring the character) from Star Wars: Empire Ascendant one-shot. That raises the price from $15.99 to $17.99.
Here’s a complicated one: Fantastic Four Vol. 4 Point of Origin TP has been retitled Fantastic Four Vol. 4 The Thing vs The Immortal Hulk TP and now contains Fantastic Four (2018) #12-#13, and the Fantastic Four: 4 Yancy Street and Fantastic Four: Negative Zone one-shots. The book will now be 120 pages, not 152 pages; and will be $15.99, not $19.99. All this, I’d guess, to get the popular Immortal Hulk into the title of an FF trade. Not that it’s a bad idea, mind you.
Black Hammer/Justice League: Hammer of Justice HC was incorrectly solicited at a price of $19.99. Its correct price is $29.99.
And a few other new prices:
Aquaman Vol. 2 Amnesty HC ($29.99-$24.99)
Black Cat Vol. 1 Grand Theft Marvel TP ($17.99-$15.99)
Dead Eyes Vol. 1 TP ($9.99-$14.99)
Captain America By Coates Vol. 3 Legend Of Steve Rogers TP ($17.99-$19.99)
Infinity Wars TP ($19.99-$34.99)
Iron Man: The End TP (new printing; $15.99-$17.99)
Johnny Hazard Sundays Archive 1944-1946 Full-Size Tabloid HC ($78-$80)
Steranko Is…Revolutionary King-Size HC ($100-$125)
Wonder Woman – The Golden Age Vol. 4 Omnibus HC ($125-$150)