Dark Horse Comics July 2009 solicitations

Here are highlights from Dark Horse's July 2009 offerings. Click title links to order discounted books from Amazon.



CREEPY #1
Written by Neil Kleid, Joe Harris, Dan Braun and Mike Woods, art by Angelo Torres, Bernie Wrightson and Jason Shawn Alxander, cover by Eric Powell.

What's black and white and clawing its way onto your reading list? It's the newly resurrected Creepy, of course! Now, don't fret, my putrid pets -- these new terror tales are cut from the same cursed cloth as the outlandish originals, telling contemporary horror stories with gorgeously ghoulish art from a lineup that'll make you lose your head! Original Creepy artist Angelo Torres teams up with devilish Dan Braun on "Hell Hound Blues"; Michael Woods and artist Saskia Gutekunst serve up a dose of "Chemical 13"; Neil Kleid and Brian Churilla provide "All the Help You Need" at a weird weight-loss camp; and jaundiced Jason Shawn Alexander brings his phenomenal painting skills to Joe Harris's "The Curse"! Plus Bernie Wrightson, the return of "Loathsome Lore," and more. All this, plus one classic story from Uncle Creepy's dank dungeon, and you've got 48 freakish pages of terror to bring home to mummy!
48 pages, black and white, $4.99, in stores on July 15.


CLASSIC UNCLE SCROOGE CHARACTERS #2: DONALD DUCK
Dark Horse announces a new license with Disney. We're giving one of the comic-book medium's most revered casts of characters the Syroco-style treatment in a new series of statuettes based on Uncle Scrooge stories. Our second offering in this line is Donald Duck!

Packaged in a special litho-printed, full-color tin box with a vintage-style pin-back button and booklet, limited edition of 950 numbered pieces, $49.95, in stores on August 5.


CITIZEN REX #1
Written by Mario Hernandez and Gilbert Hernandez, art by Gilbert Hernandez.

"What compels life without a soul?"

Comics legends Gilbert and Mario Hernandez join forces to present a bizarre, sexy view of the future and what it means to be human. Twenty years ago, the most famous, lifelike robot in the world was engulfed in scandal, arrested, and deactivated. Since then, an anti-robot movement has developed, while body modification is in and prosthetic limbs have become hot, black-market items.

Stories like these are the stock-in-trade of gossip columnist Sergio Bauntin, whose startling revelations earn him the constant scrutiny of both the mob and the city's mysterious investigators, the Truth Takers. When Sergio catches wind of sightings of the long-missing robot celebrity CTZ-RX, all of these interests will collide in violence and intrigue.
24 pages, black and white, $3.50, in stores on July 8.


BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #26
Written by Jane Espenson, pencils by Georges Jeanty, inked by Andy Owens, colored by Michelle Madsen, covers by Jeanty and Jo Chen.

Team Buffy has become all about sneaky in a world where Slayers are now feared and hated, and vampires would rank at the top of a popularity poll. All hands are on deck as Scotland's brand-newest Slayer headquarters comes under attack; but, when things get more than a little fried, Buffy has to punt. There are yaks. Presenting Buffy on the defensive in "Retreat."
40 pages, $2.99, in stores on July 1.


INDIANA JONES ADVENTURES VOLUME 2
Written by Mark Evanier, art by Ethan Beavers.

When sixteenth-century stone carvings of animals start to go missing from museums across the globe, authorities think it's a simple case of burglary. But Indiana Jones and Marcus Brody think otherwise. Legend has it that the statues serve as a key to finding a mysterious ruby, which is said to make its bearer invincible. It's up to Indy to find the statues and the ruby before it falls into the wrong hands!
88 pages, $7.95, in stores on Sept. 23.


TARZAN ARCHIVES: THE JESSE MARSH YEARS VOLUME 3
Written by Gaylord DuBois, art by Jesse Marsh.

The world's first Tarzan comic books are back in print at last! Jesse Marsh remains one of the great, unsung artists of comics history, even though his straightforward realism was admired by such comics legends as Russ Manning and Alex Toth. Marsh's nineteen-year collaboration with writer Gaylord DuBois defined Edgar Rice Burroughs's iconic jungle lord for an entire generation of young readers, and the massive body of work they produced continues to influence comic artists to this day.

Reproducing the now-hard-to-find and pricey issues for fans, this archive series will collect issues #11-#16.
240 pages, $49.95, in stores on Sept. 30.

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