What if you were a brilliant scientist – Stephen Hawking-type brilliant – but, also like Hawking, you were in a body that betrayed you?

James Tynion IV and Michael Avon Oeming’s Blue Book – Volume 1 was first published in trade paperback form in September 2023 by Dark Horse Comics. It collected Blue Book #1-5, which in turn collected the series that originally appeared on Tynion’s Substack. Written by Tynion, illustrated and colored by Oeming, and lettered by Aditya Bidikar, it’s a dramatization of the well-known story of the UFO encounter story related by Betty and Barney Hill.

Rook: Exodus #11 is the penultimate one in the second arc and it’s really hard to overstate the frightening elements in it. Rook, Dire Wolf, and the others have had to fight tremendous battles to get this far, and now they’re surrounded by the creepiest creatures and settings the creative team has given us to date. It’s a great issue, one that sets that stage for December’s conclusion.

Fish Police: Hairballs was a European graphic album format (like the Marvel Graphic Novel series) collection of the first four issues of the series, which had originally been published in black and white under Moncuse’s Fishwrap Productions imprint. Cover-dated October 1987, the Comico version presented the first story arc of The Fish Police in color for the first time.

Under a cover by Neal Adams, Limited Collectors’ Edition #25 was originally published by DC Comics, cover-dated December 1974. It featured a selection of early and then-modern tales that showcased the story and stylistic development of the Dark Knight Detective over his first three decades, and those offerings stand up well in this new facsimile edition.

The series tells the story of Ogami Ittō, the Shogun’s executioner, whose wife was killed after giving birth to his son, Daigorō. Framed for disloyalty to the Shogun, he is ordered to take his own life as well as Daigorō’s. He refuses and begins a one-man, one-baby war against those who betrayed him.

Beginning with Captain Britain #1, cover dated October 13, 1976, Marvel Comics did something it had never...

Justice League of America #200, though, was one from those bygone days when an all-star line-up actually meant an all-star line-up. Under a wraparound cover by George Pérez and from a script by Gerry Conway, DC assembled some amazing art contributors, including Pérez and Brett Breeding, Pat Broderick and Terry Austin, Jim Aparo, Dick Giordano, Gil Kane, Carmine Infantino and Frank Giacoia, Brian Bolland, and Joe Kubert.

Whether you know his work from the covers of Marvel’s Savage Sword of Conan magazine, Top Cow’s Tomb Raider graphic novel, his groundbreaking 1992 Marvel Masterpieces trading cards, his recent work on the covers of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan and John Carter of Mars novels, or scores of any other projects, Joe Jusko easily qualifies as one of the preeminent artists working in pop culture today.

For The Avengers #200, a real landmark issue for Marvel when it was released in 1980, Pérez got to once again handle not only The Beast and Wonder Man, but also Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Hawkeye, Ms. Marvel, Scarlet Witch, The Vision, The Wasp, Yellowjacket and Jocasta.