Showcase Presents for March 2007

DC announced two weeks ago which Showcase volumes they'll publish in March. Here they are, with quick comments and a slight delay :


SHOWCASE PRESENTS: HAWKMAN VOL. 1 TP
Written by Gardner Fox and Bob Haney
Art by Joe Kubert, Gil Kane, Carmine Infantino and others
Cover by Joe Kubert
In this fantastic volume filled with over 500 pages of classic 1960s stories, Hawkman and Hawkgirl face menaces including the Shadow Thief and Matter Master, and team up with Adam Strange and Aquaman!
Advance-solicited; on sale March 21 • 560 pg, B&W, $16.99 US

Hawkman's fans will be very happy to see this solicited ! For the others, the creative lineup alone warrants giving a look at this book.



SHOWCASE PRESENTS: THE HOUSE OF MYSTERY VOL. 2 TP
Written and illustrated by Various
Cover by Nick Cardy
Do you dare to enter the House of Mystery? This value-priced collection includes stories from HOUSE OF MYSTERY #195-211. These fantastic black-and-white tales of mystery and suspence from the 1970s feature thrilling stories with surprise twist endings that will keep readers on the edges of their seats!
Advance-solicited; on sale March 7 • 552 pg, B&W, $16.99 US

I was so glad to see this ! I'm currently reading volume 1 and loving every minute of it. The creative lineup is rather interesting and the short stories format make for great bedtime reading. Believe me, there's no better closing to a good evening of comic reading than one or two quick ghost stories.

On Sale This Week (11/29)

Essential Man-Thing Vol.1
Whosoever knows fear will see just how much there is to know in this compilation of staggering swamp sagas! Explore the heights of the cosmos and the depths of the soul with the mindless Man-Thing! Guest-starring the Fantastic Four! Ka-Zar! Daredevil! Korrek the Peanut Butter Barbarian! And featuring the first web-footed steps into adventure of Howard the Duck! Collects SAVAGE TALES #1, ASTONISHING TALES #12-13, ADVENTURE INTO FEAR #10-19, MAN-THING #1-14, GIANT-SIZE MAN-THING #1-2, and MONSTERS UNLEASHED #5 and #8-9.

544 PGS./Parental Advisory... $16.99

Ferbuary's Essentials

The new Previews Magazine will show up in comics-shops around next wednesday. As usual, Marvel put out their solicitations on the web a week earlier so we already know which will be the new additions to the Essential line for february :

ESSENTIAL MS. MARVEL VOL. 1 TPB
Written by GERRY CONWAY, CARLA CONWAY, CHRIS CLAREMONT, ARCHIE GOODWIN, JIM SHOOTER & SIMON FURMAN
Penciled by JOHN BUSCEMA, JOE SINNOTT, JIM MOONEY, KEITH POLLARD, SAM GRAINGER,
SAL BUSCEMA, TOM PALMER, FRANK GIACOIA, CARMINE INFANTINO, TONY DEZUNIGA, DAVE COCKRUM, MIKE VOSBURG, MIKE ZECK & MIKE GUSTOVICH
Cover by JOHN ROMITA SR.
Ms. Marvel's current successes are only the latest in a line of earth-shaking adventures that began in her original series, reprinted here in its entirety! New nemeses like Steeplejack and the Doomsday Man vie for the female fury's attention alongside classic criminals like the Scorpion, Tiger Shark and the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants! Featuring Namorita and Vance Astro, later of the New Warriors! Alien intrigue with the Kree and Shi'ar! Supernatural thrills! And the first appearance of the marvelously malicious Mystique! Plus: X-Men alumni including Grotesk and the Lizard People! Guest-starring Captain Mar-Vell and the Avengers!
Collecting MS. MARVEL #1-23 and MARVEL SUPER-HEROES MAGAZINE #10-11.
512 PGS./Rated A ...$16.99
ISBN: 0-7851-2499-3

I'm not surprised to see this book considering Marvel has been pushing the current series A LOT in the past few months. Having not read the issues collected here, I have no idea if this is worth picking up. I've got to say the artists lineup is rather impressing though !

ESSENTIAL PETER PARKER, THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN VOL. 3 TPB
Written by BILL MANTLO, TOM DEFALCO, ROGER STERN, STEVE LEIALOHA, MARV WOLFMAN, TONY ISABELLA, MARIE SEVERIN, RALPH MACCHIO & DAVID KRAFT
Penciled by JIM MOONEY, FRANK SPRINGER, LEE ELIAS, MIKE ESPOSITO, SAL BUSCEMA, CHIC STONE, JOHN ROMITA JR., MIKE ZECK, MARIE SEVERIN, STEVE LEIALOHA, AL GORDON, BRUCE PATTERSON, RICK LEONARDI, LUKE MCDONNELL, JIM SHOOTER, JOHN BYRNE, ED HANNIGAN, RICH BUCKLER, JIM SHERMAN& ALAN WEISS
Cover by FRANK MILLER
"Spectacular" isn't just the title as Spider-Man's college years are augmented by authorial and illustrative excellence! Enemies old and new, recurring and rare, line up to teach the web-slinger plenty - but will he become his own worst enemy as the sinister Spider-Lizard? Robots, killer bees, living hallucinations and more! Guest-starring the Human Torch and the White Tiger! Plus: the surprising first appearance of the hero-hater who'll happen into being the Hobgoblin! Collecting SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN #32-61 and ANNUALS #1-3.
544 PGS./Rated A ...$16.99
ISBN: 0-7851-2501-9


I'm surprised to see a third volume of PPSM being published this early considering Amazing Spider-Man's collections are way behind. Still I'd rather see an Essential PPSM volume than no Spidey volume at all.

On Sale this Week (11/22)

SHOWCASE PRESENTS: THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER VOL. 1

Written by Joe Kubert, Bob Haney, Frank Robbins,
Robert Kanigher, David Michelinie and Archie Goodwin; Art by Kubert, Jack Sparling, Gerry Talaoc and others Cover by Ken Barr

Assuming a wide variety of disguises to battle the Nazis, the Unknown Soldier plunges deep behind enemy lines in this 560-page black-and-white SHOWCASE trade, collecting stories from his first appearance in STAR-SPANGLED WAR STORIES #151 to issue #190.

DC Universe | 560pg. | Color | Softcover | $16.99 US


ESSENTIAL CAPTAIN AMERICA VOL.3
Cap goes up against the usual villainy of AIM, Hydra and the Red Skull – but could the most familiar enemy face be...Bucky’s!? The Falcon becomes Cap’s full-time crime-fighting partner in the wake of this shocker! Gangsters and gorillas! A mysterious Stranger! Nazis, robots and Nazi robots! Featuring the friends and foes of Spider-Man, and the web-slinger himself! Guest-starring Daredevil and the Avengers! Plus: the secret of the 1950s Captain America and Bucky, foreshadowing the first appearance of the man called Nomad! Collects CAPTAIN AMERICA #127-156.
608 PGS./All Ages ... $16.99


Source : marvel.com & dccomics.com