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WEEK FOUR PREVIEW

ROUND TWOBATTLE TWO

SECRET WARS: BATTLEWORLD #1-2

DAVID WALKER and DONNY CATES (w)
JJ KIRBY and MARCO TURINI (a)
– BLADE is on the trail of the dreaded Count Drakula, but not if HOWARD THE DUCK has something to say about it! (Spoiler: He Does!)
– Rising star David Walker (SHAFT) and JJ Kirby tell the tale of the Daywalker trapped in a city of ducks!
– The death of his daughter has made gladiator Thaddeus Ross a true WAR MACHINE, but will he ever find vengeance in the ring or become the monster he hates? Donny Cates (BUZZKILL, GHOST FLEET) and Marco Turini (CYBERFORCE) bring the pain and the glory!
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99

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ULTIMATE END #1-2

BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS (w) – MARK BAGLEY (a/C)
THE LAST ULTIMATES STORY BY THE GROUND-BREAKING UNIVERSE’S FOUNDING FATHERS!
– The countdown has begun
– An end of an era
– Who will survive?
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

ROUND ONEBATTLE ELEVEN

YEARS OF FUTURE PAST #1

MARGUERITE BENNETT (w)
MIKE NORTON (a)
Cover by ART ADAMS
– In the dystopian nations of BATTLEWORLD, the mutants of New York City must fight to survive the rule of the Sentinels!
– At their center is Kate Pryde, a heroine tried and tested by war, and mother of the last mutant ever to be born before the purges of the Mutant Control Act!
– With revolution on the wind, the X-Men are not a broken team with nothing left to lose, but a desperate family with more at risk than ever before!
40 PGS./Rated T+ …$4.99

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1602: WITCH HUNTER ANGELA #1

MARGUERITE BENNETT with KIERON GILLEN (w)
STEPHANIE HANS with MARGUERITE SAUVAGE (a)
Cover by STEPHANIE HANS
– In the altered realms of BATTLEWORLD, Angela and Sera are WITCH HUNTERS, the scourges of King James’ England, 1602.
– In a land beset by magic and monstrosity, they seek a new and seductive evil–not witchbreed, but deal-making FAUSTIANS, who bargain with ancient creatures for unnatural power!
– Moral ambiguity? Fancy allusions? Marguerite making the most of that English degree?
– tl;dr — try 1602 WITCH HUNTER ANGELA #1!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

ROUND ONEBATTLE TWELVE

CAPTAIN MARVEL AND THE CAROL CORPS #1

KELLY SUE DECONNICK & KELLY THOMPSON (w)
DAVID LOPEZ (a/C)
– Atten-Hut!  These ladies are the best of the best–and will take you down if you threaten their Captain.
– Welcome to Hala Field, where being a part of the elite Carol Corps, requires guts, guile and a whole lot of grit.  So put on your uniform and get ready for a high-flying Captain Marvel series years in the making.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

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GHOST RACERS #1

FELIPE SMITH (w) – JUAN GEDEON (a)
Cover by FRANCESCO FRANCAVILLA
FURIOUS RACE FROM HELL IN A BLAZING ARENA OF HORROR!!!
– Welcome to the scorching-hot track where cursed souls race at the speed of sin, anything and everything goes and the only rule is no rule–it’s the spectacle known as the GHOST RACES; the most hellish “entertainment” known to BATTLEWORLD!
– 1st place prize: Temporary freedom from the ARENA, but what happens to the unlucky and unholy losers?
– It’s all-out, high-speed warfare among the most bizarre and vicious GHOST RIDERS of the MARVEL UNIVERSE. Expect MANY familiar SKULLS!!
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99

ROUND ONEBATTLE THIRTEEN

MARVEL ZOMBIES #1

SIMON SPURRIER (w) – KEV WALKER (a/C)
Cover by Ken Lashley
– Elsa Bloodstone is stationed on the Shield, burdened with the Sisyphean task of keeping the zombie hordes from rampaging through Battleworld.
– In those moments where she’s not enrapt in the throes of battle, she meditates on her deceased father…how everything he taught her gave her the means to fight the zombies, but all the love he didn’t give her is what motivated the self-destructive actions that landed her on the Wall in the first place.
– But when she sees a human child caught in the middle of the zombieverse, she’ll muster every ounce of determination she has to throw herself into the zombie horde to rescue the girl.
– And once Elsa finds her, she’s going to have to fight her way back out…
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

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MRS DEADPOOL AND THE HOWLING COMMANDOS #1

GERRY DUGGAN (w) – SALVADOR ESPIN (a)
Cover by REILLY BROWN
– She is Shiklah–undisputed Queen of the Monster Metropolis below Manhattan!
– In the world that was, she married Deadpool, the Merc with the Mouth…
– …But nothing on Battleworld is quite as it was.
– Now, she commands the Howling Commandos: Werewolf By Night! Frankenstein’s Monster! The Living Mummy! Man-Thing! And Marcus the Centaur!
– What would her late husband think of that???
32 PGS./Parental Advisory …$3.99