Author: Newsroom
AUG. 12, 2024, (PORTLAND, OR) — Did you say action-packed?!
The heroes are underway and making the dog days of summer a total comic worth the page flip. Before you get too cozy in your lawn chair, nested under that little umbrella with an ice cold lemonade, get over to your local comic shop!
In partnership with King Features, it’s a Flash Gordon type of new comic book day from Mad Cave Studios!
This exciting Wednesday drop features the inaugural issue with Dan DiDio and Jim Calafiore’s DEFENDERS OF THE EARTH #1, the exciting FLASH GORDON CLASSIC COLLECTION VOL.1, as well as the return of SOUL TAKER #2 from Thomas E. Sniegoski and Jeannine Acheson!
Flash Gordon, The Phantom, Mandrake the Magician and Lothar are united again in this reimagining of the classic animated series, Defenders of the Earth. Picking up with characters and storylines from the original series, Flash confronts Ming in final battle, only to find that even greater threats await him and his teammates as they each must confront ghosts of their past to protect their families and future.
Science fiction’s most enduring icon Flash Gordon returns in a newly-restored edition, collecting his earliest adventures with Dale Arden and Dr. Hans Zarkov on the mysterious planet Mongo. There they’ll encounter strange landscapes, fantastic creatures, otherworldly characters, and the universe’s most diabolical mastermind–Ming the Merciless.
Flash Gordon: Classic Collection Volume 1 reprints all of Alex Raymond’s Sunday strips from January 1, 1934 to April 18, 1937, and includes additional background material and an introduction from Alex Ross.
Amarantha is the last of her kind, the Nehmer, a race that fed upon the life forces of an unsuspecting humanity. She has maintained a comfortable lifestyle for years by trading her blood and hair samples for funds from the mysterious Magnes Corporation. Now, Magnes wants more than blood and hair; they want Amaranatha and will stop at nothing to get her. Normally, this would be her time to run, to disappear…but now it’s about more than her. She’s not ready to leave Rosalie, her only connection to the human world, behind.