ND 04-2024

ADVENTURE COMICS #007
Written by DOUG MOENCH
Plot by CAPTCLEGHORN
Art by PAUL GULACY
Doc Savage and Ian Fleming’s James Bond 007 in THE FORTUNES OF HELL, Conclusion
James Bond, Doc Savage, Pat Savage, Pussy Galore, Felix Leiter, and Renny Renwick prepare for an armed assault on Fu Manchu’s Tibetan stronghold. They leave from Doc’s Arctic Fortress of Solitude in early winter, the middle of the far north’s night. They will fly over the Soviet Union, part of Communist China and into Tibet, setting down near Fu’s castle four miles above sea level while avoiding radar and military defenses from multiple sources. With our heroes is Sir Denis Nayland Smith, having ingested the last of Fu Manchu’s Elixir of Life (remember Amazing Fantasy 49’s shock ending?). Smith intends to make this the final showdown.
Smith was correct about the meteorites. There is a radiation from them which has been affecting human tissue for the decades they’ve been on the planet. And that radiation is decaying and is expected to soon drop to insignificant levels. Monk Mayfair and Q have examined the Wold Cottage rock and realized the radiation could be weaponized. The mission is to get the meteorites back, get whatever research exists, and if failing, destroy everything.
Unknown to our heroes, Fu Manchu has already managed to isolate body modifying elements from the meteorites and has progressed in his plans.
80 PGS./ $2.99
AQUAMAN #42
Plot by EXCITER
Written by GEOFF JOHNS
Art by JIM LEE
“WORLD OF WARLORD” part three “COUNTER-OFFENSIVE”
With help from Aquaman and his companions, the lizard-man horde of the foul sorcerer Deimos is pushed back! Shamballah, capital city of Skartaris, is safe once again… and the Warlord of Skartaris, Travis Morgan, personally welcomes his unlikely saviors!
As two outsiders who each came to rule vast and dangerous kingdoms, Aquaman and the Warlord form a fast friendship. Arthur knows that villains like Deimos can’t be left to regroup and strike back harder. He advises that they pursue Deimos’ horde and cut the head off the snake… permanently. The Warlord agrees! Onward, to victory!
But is this course of action exactly what the malevolent lord of chaos, Klarion the Witch Boy, was planning for all along?
Meanwhile, another denizen of the surface world arrives in Shamballah: Tatsu Yamashiro, better known as Katana. Shes got a problem: her legendary sword, the Soultaker, is missing - and she believes it is somewhere in Skartaris! Can Crablad help her find it?
Profile: Crablad
Brine Monk
Specialization: Windwalker
Strength: 10
Agility: 13
Stamina: 17
Intelligence: 10
Equipment: [Fang of Cestus]; [Pincer Tips]; [Exoskeletal Shield]
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
BAT-WING #57
Writer: Malcolm Jones
Artist: Dexter Soy
Plotter: Marvell2100
A (BAT-)WING AND A PRAYER
Kia and an injured Rick Flagg make their way thru the dense jungles of Singapore, barely ahead of the men chasing them. They recently escaped the compound of the kingpin Father Lost, who secretly works for billionaire Lena Killian. Rick tells Kia to go on and leave him behind, he's just slowing her down. She tells him to shut up and keep moving, she is not about to lose another partner again! But Father Lost's killers are getting closer and they have so far to go. Suddenly one of the men gives a yell that he's spotted them and begins firing. Kia thinks, it's only a matter of time before they're either captured or killed and her mind begins to think of David. She hopes that he knows how much she loved him and that she wishes things could have been different. Suddenly, there is more gun fire and more yelling, but this time it sounds like the screams of pain. She looks as tears of relief and joy stream down her face! Father Lost's men are being brutally taken down while others try to flee! Bat-Wing has arrived! Next Issue: Father Lost!
32 PGS./Rated T+...$3.99
CAPTAIN MARVELOUS #10
Plot by NX01A
Written by JAMES TYNION IV
Art by J.H. WILLIAMS III
'NIGHTMARE AT THE MUSEUM'
•With BIZUR-EN-ARRH and SHAMAZO having knocked each other out, EXO the WONDER DOG secures the supermen in absorbium-laced shackles. CAPTAINS MARVELOUS and THUNDER now have to figure out where they came from.
•Fawcett City Museum janitor STANLEY 'STINKY' PRINTWHISTLE lived a life completely dedicated to almost every vice, and greed made him try to steal an ancient whip from museum storage. Now Terror, Cunning, Fierceness, and Cruelty manifest through him!
•HAWKGIRL barely has time to grab her Nth Metal wings and mace before the man now calling himself IBAC attacks her and her grandfather. Ibac has powers like Billy and Malik, and Kendra's always wondered how last long she'd last in a direct confrontation with them. While she goes toe to toe with iniquity incarnate, Professor CYRIL 'SPEED' SAUNDERS pushes worry for his granddaughter aside as he researches the wicked whip wielded by Ibac. He discovers where the savage superman are coming from, even as their source prepares to shoot him in the back!
Super-Police Dossier
IBAC
Name: Stanley 'Stinky' Printwhistle
Powers: •Lash of the Oppressor: An enchanted whip whose touch empowers its wielder while grounding the Living Lightning, forcing the champions of S.H.A.Z.A.M.! to revert to their mortal forms on contact.
•Flight
•Invulnerability
•Superhuman Strength, Cunning, Healing, Speed, Reflexes
•Magic Resistance
•Self Sustenance
•Brimstone Breath
Intelligence: •••••
Strength: •••••••
Speed: •••••
Durability: ••••••
Energy Projection: ••••
Fighting Skills: ••••
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
DETECTIVE COMICS #36
Writer TOM KING
Artist TODD MCFARLANE
Plotter: CaptCleghorn
“JOB FAIR”
Amanda Waller is director of CHECKMATE#’s (it’s NOT a hashtag; it’s a pound sign which is the symbol for mate in chess scorekeeping) Toronto office. Three of her top agents (Hawkgrrl, Atomica, and Carrie Kelley) have vanished and she is short of staffing. She has interviews lined up, but to test the abilities and mannerisms of these prospective agents, they have been requested to meet her at Skydome (always Skydome, dammit, get off my fake lawn) during the opening day game with the Gotham City Knights. The ability to make contact under unusual circumstances is an important skill for agents. Batman gets word of this and travels up to Toronto to see the Gotham City Knights start their season. Yes, he is curious about Waller’s plan.
See Tom King set up CHECKMATE#’s future. Witness Todd McFarlane get another shot at the Toronto Blue Jays. Tolerate CaptCleghorn’s attempts to make baseball a sport that’s cared about in the city that worships ice hockey.
32 PGS./ Rated T for teen readers...$2.99
THE FLASH #57
Plot by EXCITER
Written by ROBERT KIRKMAN
Art by FRANK CHO
“FAMILY TREASON”
The Flash’s mind is racing. After performing a forensic investigation, and meeting with his CIA contact King Faraday, he is left with one inescapable conclusion: Cheetah was killed by Barry’s own maternal grandfather, Mark Thompson! The pieces of a long simmering family mystery have fallen into place! This is what he’s put together….
Barry first learned that his grandfather was a speedster years ago. Thompson worked with Vandal Savage and was instrumental in the creation of Gorilla City in the 1970s, using the Speed Force to accelerate ape evolution (see THE FLASH #8). Thompson was a Cold Warrior known as “Arms Racer” and (foolishly) thought working with Savage’s “Light” could help America defeat the U.S.S.R. When Barry travelled back in time, he met Thompson in his prime - and helped fight the Soviet speedster, Red Streak (see THE FLASH #9). However, Thompson’s misguided alliance with Savage caused a falling out with his own daughter (Barry’s mother), Nora Allen-Thompson.
Nora was a genius biologist, developing a “cure” for the metagene as part of “Operation: Humble Pie” - with the goal of thwarting Savage’s plan to breed and recruit an army of metahumans that could take over everything (see the now classic event HUMANITY FIRST). So Savage ordered Cheetah to kill Nora and frame Barry’s father in the early 90s (see THE FLASH #5, 8). Once Mark found out about Savage’s real plan and Nora’s murder, he sought revenge… but Savage had “speedster kryptonite”: suspendium, and used it to defeat and capture Thompson. Savage imprisoned him in a massive hidden fortress in the Ozarks, where he remained for two decades…
Until the Deicide Squad infiltrated that fortress to steal the suspendium needed to kill the Black Racer (see THE FLASH #53). This allowed Thompson to finally escape! And with Savage dead, his first act was retribution against the woman who killed his daughter… He eliminated the (supposedly reformed) Cheetah! But what is the man now calling himself “PDQ” going to do next?
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
GREEN LANTERN #57
Plot by EXCITER
Written by MARK MILLAR
Art by JOE MADUREIRA
“RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD”
After some much-needed downtime on Earth, where he rekindled his relationship with Carol Ferris and became Mountain Dew’s official spokesman, the vacation is over for Green Lantern Corps Leader Hal Jordan. He finally returns to Oa. It seems, however, that there is no urgency. The universe is in a calm rebuilding phase after everything that happened with Pyra, the Omega Titans, and the Black Racer. It’s quiet… perhaps too quiet?
Case in point: there has been no contact with or sightings of the Dominators in months. As one of the United Planets’ most longstanding and consistent enemies, this is unusual. Typically they are very active… dominating things. Why the silence? What’s going on in Dominion Space that has them so occupied? Jessica Cruz is sent to investigate!
Unbeknownst to the universe at large, during the “Fire From Heaven” event, the Dominators captured the Omega Titan of Evolution. Given their cultural obsession with genetic enhancement, who knows what they’ve done with the knowledge extracted from such a being!
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
JLβ #15
Plot by NX01A
Written by WARREN ELLIS
Art by JEFF SPOKES
'JLα' Part 4 'BURIED ALIVE'
•The true masters of the world aren't happy that HERO CRUZ has begun piecing together that history has been changed. He'll find his way to them soon enough, and that cannot be allowed.
•Meanwhile, at the Fortress of Justice in Slaughter Swamp... BATWOMAN, SUPERWOMAN, and the hidden headquarters' Kryptonian supercomputer process the vague information gleaned from Hero's visions. A Japanese bat-man, a French techno-witch and her night-sighted inventor lover, a mind-walker from Ancient Egypt, a man from the moon, an American man able to vault skyscrapers and lift submarines, and a mysterious leader whose origin...
•Superwoman's mind races. Could it be? Dare LARA LOR-VAN hope to find another survivor of Rao's wrath? She'd only so far encountered her twisted alternate reality son, SUPERBOY-CRIME, and the Maiden of Might couldn't bare the thought of another Kryptonian fallen to evil.
•Her hopes and fears are interrupted by sensor warnings that considerable arcane power is being directed at the Fortress of Justice, effectively sealing it within a pocket dimension! Slaughter Swamp burns under an ultraviolet sun as kryptonite crystalizes all around, and FLAMEBIRD & NIGHTWING's connections to their empowering dimensions are severed. Worse still, there is something lurking in the dark water, and it is very big and very hungry.
JLα Profile
SUPERWOMAN
Name: Lara Lor-Van
Affiliation: JLα, formerly Krypton's Science Council
Powers: •Flight
•Invulnerability
•Superhuman Strength, Healing, Speed, Reflexes, Durabiltiy, Senses
•Heat Vision
•X-Ray Vision
•Frost Breath
Intelligence: •••••
Strength: •••••••
Speed: ••••••
Durability: ••••••
Energy Projection: ••••
Fighting Skills: •••
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
THE NEW GEN-ACTIVES #4
Written by Chrissy Williams
Plot by H-E-D
Art by Lauren Knight
The Manifold Mind of Kay Challis!
The New Gen-Actives are still sore from their fight with the Pacifiers when they’re faced with an new threat to their status quo…
Is a new classmate joining the New Gen-Actives?
When Elena Challis, another old flame of Professor G, arrives with her tau-class Gen-Active daughter Kay… people can’t help but speculate!
At first, Kay seems like an ordinary telekinetic, but soon proves to be so much more.
And she goes by Crazy Jane, thank you very much!
She has a unique mind; infinite alters, each with their own meta human power!
When Professor G attempts to interface with his daughter’s mind, a bizarre psychic backlash instead strands his students within Jane’s mind.
Can they escape back to their own bodies, or are they destined to be assimilated into the manifold mind of Crazy Jane?
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
UNCANNY G-MEN #39
Written by Kieron Gillen
Plot by H-E-D
Art by Caspar Wijngaard
“How Long is Forever?” Part II
*This Story takes place after NEW GEN-ACTIVES #5*
…Twenty Years Hence…
The G-Men, combining their powers, aim to prevent their dark future from coming to pass.
But such a display of power attracts a BELPHOEBE unit!
One by one, they are slain…
…Present Day…
On Dharma’s orders, the EXTREMISTS plan to assassinate Hannibal Martin… but their other leader, Hans Leckter, objects.
After collaborating with his old friend during the Dark Pyra Crisis, he’s grown more sympathetic to Professor G’s dream.
Still, he trusts Dharma’s visions. Hesitantly he goes along with the plan.
But the G-Men know, thanks to future intervention, that Dharma’s plan will create the very dark future the Extremists seek to avert.
These two forces, each seeking the best for their kind, come to blows outside the Pentagon!
In the fight, Leckter strikes down Runaway…
…and is immediately struck down himself by a guilty conscious.
Realizing he’s become the sort of monster he’d sworn to fight, he surrenders himself to the G-Men.
The Extremists realize the day is lost, and retreat. Hannibal Peter Martin’s assassination has been averted!
At Martin’s insistence, Hans Leckter is arrested.
NEXT: THE TRIAL OF THE CENTURY!
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
UNCANNY G-MEN: THE ELOI SAGA #3
(LGY: UNCANNY G-MEN #40)
Written by Kieron Gillen
Plot by H-E-D
Art by Luciano Vecchio
As the Eloi build a new society on Unoka, Rainmaker wonders if she’s succeeded.
Structures, homes, rise.
Communities form; artists, crafters, agriculturalists.
It’s imperfect… but things are looking up.
Still… the world is nervous.
And Rainmaker soon realizes they’re right to be.
Those resistant to her cause of coexistence have made their play. They raise a champion.
DAMOCLES has awakened… will Unoka survive?
Will the world?
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99
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