Preview - July 2006

AVENGERS AND POWER PACK ASSEMBLE! #4 (of 4) - Power Pack has been transported to a dark, sinister world... and their only hope of getting back home lies with some very familiar allies. But even if the kids manage to make it back safely, will they be able to save their world from the same grim fate they’ve just witnessed? Power Pack’s awesome adventure with the Avengers ends here!

CIVIL WAR #3 (of 7 - The battle lines are drawn as the conflict between the Super Hero Registration Initiative and the Underground Resistance fighters explodes in a live fire fight as the future of the Marvel Universe is decided! But before the dust settles, a familiar figure will emerge from a strike of lightning to change the odds--and the sides! Witness teams and families torn apart as the Civil War touches all and the momentous events of last issue changes the world as our heroes understand it!

MARVEL ADVENTURES: AVENGERS #3 - He served alongside Allied Forces in World War Two and serves with the super team The Avengers today-- the legend of Captain America spans generations. Now an evil from his earliest days has come through the ages to exact vengeance on the Captain-- and anyone who might stand with him.

CAPTAIN AMERICA #20 - As the “Twenty-First Century Blitz” rips through the streets of London, Cap comes face-to-face with an enemy he last faced in World War Two. And with Union Jack and Spitfire at his side, he fights to save London from destruction, while the Red Skull makes his move!

NEW AVENGERS #22 - Brian Bendis teams up, for the first time, with comics superstar Leinil Yu to tell the story that no one thought would ever be told. . It’s brother against brother as Luke Cage is forced to take sides in the super hero Civil War!! With a new wife and baby hanging in the balance, what will Cage do?

THUNDERBOLTS #104 - When rogue Marvel heroes are on the loose, who better to hunt them down than people who know what it’s like to be on the lam? The EX-VILLAINS BECOME HERO HUNTERS! And whose hero butt gets served first?

WOLVERINE ORIGINS #4 - Reeling from his brutal battle with Nuke--as well as from having to confront some particularly sordid details of his past-- Logan once again resumes his dogged march toward vengeance...only to discover that the U.S. government isn’t ready to give up just yet. Enter: CAPTAIN AMERICA! Will the Sentinel of Liberty shut Logan down for good...or does he have something else in mind? Also featuring a cameo by the X-MEN! Part 4 (of 5).

CAPTAIN AMERICA: RED MENACE VOL. 1 TPB - Six months ago, Crossbones kidnapped the Red Skull’s daughter, Sin, from a government re-education facility and disappeared into the night. Now, he and this spawn of infinite evil have come to the American Midwest to tear a new hole in A.I.M. – but none of them counted on Cap and S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 13 stumbling into the mix, and everything going wrong! Plus: Cap’s newest enemy, General Aleksander Lukin, the head of one of the most powerful corporations in the world, is attempting to buy a piece of land in Germany, and he won’t take no for an answer. What does he want there? The answer to that can only be found in an untold tale from the war – a story that finds Cap and Bucky fighting alongside Sgt. Fury and the Howling Commandos behind enemy lines, trying to stop the Red Skull from launching a monstrous attack on the Allies unlike anything ever seen before! Collects CAPTAIN AMERICA #15-17 and the CAPTAIN AMERICA 65TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL.

MARVEL MASTERWORKS: CAPTAIN AMERICA VOL. 3 - Mighty Marvel is unfurling a new Masterworks crafted by an incomparable trio of talents—Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Jim Steranko! It’s the best of ’60s Marvel dynamism and design in one Captain America-packed volume!

It’s all set off by four-issue rumble with the Red Skull! When the Nazi ne’er-do-well attachs an H- Bomb fuse to Cap, he has no choice but to serve the Skull or America will suffer nuclear annihilation! Even a healthy thumping on Batroc the Leaper and the Trapster, can’t cure the Man Out of Time’s woes over his lost companion, Bucky. Relive Cap’s amazing origin and learn how he met Bucky Barnes.

If all that calamity from “The King” Kirby wasn’t enough, strap on your psychedelic crash helmet for a course in Steranko! The master of the medium will take you on a ride like none other with Cap vs. the Hulk, the return of Bucky, and the death of Captain America in a battle with Hydra. We don’t need to say it, but we can’t help ourselves—’Nuff Said! Collecting Captain America (Vol. 1) #101-113.