www.86thfloor.com     PREVIEWS VOL. XVIII #5 May 2008  

Independent Comic Publishers
(Companies beginning with M)

MAERKLE PRESS

LOVE AND CAPES #7
by Thomas Zahler
If you missed the Free Comic Book Day Edition, here's your chance to get it again, featuring a special new "Major Might" cover. When last we left them, the Crusader was going to propose to his girlfriend Abby over Christmas. Sounds easy, right? Too bad nothing's ever easy when you're a super-hero! Check out comicdom's favorite super couple in the latest all new installment of the super-hero situation comedy!
32pgs, FC SRP: $3.95

MARC HANSEN STUFF

RALPH SNART ADVENTURES #1
by Marc Hansen
Ralph becomes world famous as the internet sensation The Drunken Fool. Ripe fodder for the Paparazzi, as a naked Ralph turns ugly and gets even. After a stint in the state pen, a reformed Ralph Snart now hates beer! (C: 0-1-2)
24pgs, B&W SRP: $2.95

METALLIC ROSE COMICS

HOVERBOY (ONE-SHOT)
by Ty Templeton, Marcus Moore & Steve Molnar
The greatest hero of the Twentieth Century is back! Hoverboy, the Republican super-hero, and star of comics, films, cartoons and toys, is returning to the media that spawned him, in an all-new adventure by Eisner Award winning writer/artist Ty Templeton (Howard the Duck, The Exterminators, The Simpsons) and Steve Molnar (Avengers Adventures). With special appearances by George Bush, John McCain, and his Republican All-Stars, this is the Hoverboy comic to own! (C: 0-1-2)
36pgs, FC SRP: $3.99

MIRAGE STUDIOS

TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES #47
by Jake Black & Jim Lawson
"The Secret Origins of the Super Turtles." Enter an alternate dimension to discover how the super hero Turtles (featured in TMNT Volume Four #7) came to be! Alien invaders must be stopped, and can Dr. Shreddarius' army of Terrorkinetics prevent certain doom? More importantly, just whose side are they on? A titanic Turtles tale featuring an epic battle between good and evil that harkens back to the stunning Silver Age of super heroes! 'Nuff said, pilgrims!
32pgs, B&W SRP: $3.25

TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES #48
by Jack Black & Jim Lawson
"The Decider." A brutal crime wave wrecks havoc upon the streets of Springfield, Massachusetts and all evidence points to the perpetrators as being mutant turtles! Leo, Don, Raph, Mike, Casey Jones, and Master Splinter struggle to solve the vicious robberies and find the real mastermind behind them before the TMNT are revealed by the local media!
32pgs, B&W SRP: $3.25

MOONSTONE

KOLCHAK TALES: NIGHT STALKER OF THE LIVING DEAD #3
by Christopher Mills & Tim Hamilton
This is it, Kolchak fans! One more small town that thought "it couldn't happen here" is overrun with the animated corpses of men — and pigs? Hey, zombies are zombies, and they're everywhere! Carl Kolchak just wants to finish his story before lunch, especially since he's on the menu! Just what is the terrible secret behind this little farm town? (C: 0-1-2)
32pgs, FC (3 of 3) SRP: $3.99

WYATT EARP VS. THE CISCO KID
by Chuck Dixon, Kody, Villagran & J.
There are two sides to every story, and for the first time Moonstone shows them both, with two different perspectives on the same Wild West story! They called them gunslingers when these mythic men rode the west over a century ago. Movies and dime novels gave them white hats and black hats, but the truth lies somewhere in between. On October 27th, 1880, Wyatt Earp arrested William "Curly Bill" Brocious for shooting the Tombstone town Marshall. But on the way to trial, some tell of a dangerous encounter with a mysterious outlaw called the Cisco Kid. Did the paths of these two legendary gunslingers cross somewhere in the southwest? If so, whose side of the story should we believe? Myth meets history in this fanastic Western showdown! Writer Chuck Dixon is joined by artist Enrique Villagran on Wyatt Earp vs. The Cisco Kid, and on The Cisco Kid vs. Wyatt Earp writer Len Kody and artist EricJ join Dixon. This titanic tale can only be told in two specials, and Wyatt vs Cisco and Cisco vs Wyatt will ship on the same day! (C: 0-1-2)
WYATT EARP VS THE CISCO KID—32pgs, FC SRP: $3.99
THE CISCO KID VS WYATT EARP—32pgs, FC SRP: $3.99

WYATT EARP VS THE CISCO KID SIGNED & NUMBERED FLIPBOOK HC
by Chuck Dixon, Len Kody, Enrique Villagran & EricJ
Both parts of the Wyatt Earp vs. The Cisco Kid storyline are collected in this limited edition flipbook! Get both perspectives on this titanic western from writer Chuck Dixon as history meets myth in the Old West! Limited to 100 copies, this harcover flipbook is autographed by co-writer Len Kody and artist ErikJ! (C: 0-1-2)
HC, 7x10, 64pgs, FC SRP: $39.99

WILD WEST TRIPLE FEATURE TP
by Chuck Dixon, Dennis Calera & Steve Buccellato
It's a Moonstone Wild West event, as three western legends star in three complete tales! Wyatt Earp is the town's new Marshall, and it doesn't take him long to get on the bad side of brutal cowboys used to doing things the outlaw way — and now only Doc Holliday and the Masterson brothers stand between Wyatt and a marker on his head! Belle Starr recounters her life's story. From debutante to debaucher, she's a woman driven to the outlaw life by too much hunger and too many bad men. She is forced to face her personal demon, and either fight it or die trying! The Cisco Kid is chasing the Brujera on a road that leads straight into a trap set by a Texas Ranger and his cunning Indian partner. But the road to fire and brimstone is full of distractions, from a mysterious and alluring woman, to the father of his murdered girlfriend — a powerful Shaman who will step from the fires of the abyss to stake his own claim on Cisco's life!
SC, 240pgs, B&W SRP: $23.95

WYATT EARP: THE JUSTICE RIDERS TP
by Richard Dean Starr & Dan Doughtery
Wyatt Earp, Geronimo, Belle Starr, Annie Oakley, and The Cisco Kid! This wide-vision graphic novel teams up these five legendary characters for the first time anywhere! Wyatt Earp — a deliberate man whose word is his bond, finds himself paying back an old debt, but his sense of duty might just cost him his life! Geronimo — this proud warrior wants to right a terrible wrong, at any price! Belle Starr — a rough-and-tumble outlaw, hell-bent on finding her lost fiancé! Annie Oakley — the men she’s after are about to learn a bloody lesson from one of history’s deadliest shots! And the Cisco Kid — he’s riding with Wyatt Earp’s band of immortals to exact a final, terrible revenge! Featuring an introduction by Wyatt Earp himself, the actor who portrayed Billy Claibourne in the classic film Tombstone, and a namesake of the legendary lawman! Choose either the Book Market Edition with a cover by Dennis Calero, or the Direct Market Edition cover by Dan Dougherty. (C: 0-1-2)
DIRECT MARKET EDITION—96pgs, B&W SRP: $12.95
BOOK MARKET EDITION—96pgs, B&W SRP: $12.95

JESSE JAMES VS MACHINE GUN KELLY: DUST 2 DUST (ONE-SHOT)
by Alex Ness, Michael May & Joel Vollmer
Jesse James has survived an assassin's bullet and the long arm of the law. Now, a deranged man of the cloth, people are paying attention to his fervent fire and brimstone! Born under a bad sign, outlaw Machine Gun Kelly steamrolls into town, a scorched earch in his wake, and he's ready to slash and burn for kicks. The incendiary-thermite of two psychopaths in one small neighborhood only lights the fuse to an explosive conflagaration — and one blazing holy war, where there are no laws, just Old Testament fiery curses! See who's left standing when the dust clears! (C: 0-1-2)
32pgs, B&W SRP: $3.50

STARS OF THE MONTH

THE CISCO KID VOLUME 1: HELL'S GATES TP
by Jim Duffy & Jerry DeCaire
O'Henry's tragic anti-hero, The Cisco Kid looks for meaning in a squalid life of crime and violence, as the dark secret he harbors eats away at his soul like a jagged tooth demon. While he's busy drinking his problems away, a gang of outlaws take a sharp dislike to him, and steal the only thing he's got worth having — a locket with the picture of the woman who haunts his every step. Cisco tracks them, and discovers that they're part of a larger outfit that shanghais defenseless Mexican women and children to sell to the highest bidder. Hot after these thugs as well is Pancho, who has family at the kidnappers’ compound he must free! The two, motivated by very different instincts, form an uneasy truce to scrape this band of outlaw scum off the face of the old west! (FEB052971)
SC, 7x10, 96pgs, B&W SRP: $10.95

GERONIMO: THE LAST APACHE WARRIOR GN
by Eric Griffin & Chaz Truog
As two armies surround Geronimo and his small band of fighters, he offers them what little solace he can. He tells them the tale of his first war party, and also of the trials he has faced for the love of a woman. Between these places of love and death, his warriors are informed of what it is truly to be a man, and of what devotion it will take to win the great battle that awaits them in the morning.
MATURE THEMES
SC, 7x10, 64pgs, B&W SRP: $7.95

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