Adventure comic books issue 18

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Written by PAUL TOBIN. Art by ROBERTO DI SALVO, MATTEO LOLLI, TERRY PALLOT & VICTOR OLAZABA. Cover by ALE GARZA. THE GREEN GOBLIN IS BACK! And thanks to an ordering mix-up at the Terrible Tinkerer's machine shop, the Green Goblin is a thousand time more dangerous than ever with an ANTI-MATTER PUMPKIN BOMB! Now...unless Spider-Man can put an end to the Goblin's crime spree, every time the crazy villain reaches into his bag of tricks, he might throw a pitch that will be New York City's last! Then, Spidey tangles with the malevolent mistress of mayhem, Madam Masque! Cover price $2.99.

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Cover art by Carl Barks. "Vacation Time," script and art by Carl Barks; While on a wilderness vacation, Donald attempts to photograph a buck; he and the nephews survive a forest fire caused by a careless camper; reprinted from Walt Disney's Vacation Parade (Dell, 1950 series) #1. Barks and the Bending Panel article by Donald Ault; A discussion of Barks narrative techniques in "Vacation Time." "Camp Counselor," art by Carl Barks; Donald acts as camp counselor to the nephews scout troop; reprinted from Walt Disney's Vacation Parade (Dell, 1950 series) #1. "Jungle Hi-jinks," art by Carl Barks; Donald and the nephews visit Africa to win a film contest; reprinted from Walt Disney's Summer Fun (Dell, 1959 series) #2. Originally distributed sealed with a trading card insert. Trading card may or may not be present. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 64 pages, full color. Cover price $9.95.

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Written by PAUL TOBIN. Art by IG GUARA. Cover by NIKO HENRICHON. The Avengers assemble with two new team members, one a cocky rookie with cosmic powers, and another the world's most talented secret agent. But will even the combined powers of the Mighty Avengers be a match for the ghost of an old world giant that's been terrorizing Britain? It's a new Avengers versus the Old World, with the life of an entire village at stake! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $2.99.

Written by Landry Quinn Walker and Matthew K. Manning. Art by Paulina Ganucheau and Dario Brizuela. Cover by Dario Brizuela. The conclusion to New Animated Adventures first two-part adventure! Will the Turtles be able to escape the grasp of Stockmanfly?? It may all be up to none other than Casey Jones! 28 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.

Written by Landry Quinn Walker and Matthew K. Manning. Art by Paulina Ganucheau and Dario Brizuela. Cover by Jeffrey Cruz. The conclusion to New Animated Adventures first two-part adventure! Will the Turtles be able to escape the grasp of Stockmanfly?? It may all be up to none other than Casey Jones! 28 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.

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Giveaway/promotional comic distributed at Shoney's and other restaurants across the US (regular listings are for Shoney's copies; other restaurants will have variant designations). Each issue includes a kids' menu, games, puzzles, and activities. Published by Paragon Products. Full color, 7-in x 10-in.

JB's Edition. Giveaway/promotional comic distributed at Shoney's and other restaurants across the US (regular listings are for Shoney's copies; other restaurants will have variant designations). Each issue includes a kids' menu, games, puzzles, and activities. Published by Paragon Products. Full color, 7-in x 10-in.

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Written by FRED VAN LENTE Penciled by JAMES CORDEIRO Featuring Iron Man! It's a mystery only the Armored Avenger can solve: When Stark China's operations vanish out of thin air, Iron Man must uncover who - or WHAT - is responsible for strong holding his team of scientists. His worst fears may be imagined when he discovers they are being held against their will to build an invention with one purpose: DESTRUCTION. Note: This issue reprints the contents of MARVEL ADVENTURES IRON MAN #2. Cover price $2.99.

Written by Scott Nickel, Steve Foxe, Ryan Cady, and Daniela Vicoso. Art by Walter Pax, Meg Omac, Jorge Monlongo, and Daniela Vicoso. Cover by Derek Laufman. Finn and Jake have way too much stuff! Turns out that years of looting dungeons and adventuring adds up. Time for the biggest yard sale in all of Ooo! 28 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.

Limited 1 for 10 Retailer Incentive Variant Cover. Written by Scott Nickel, Steve Foxe, Ryan Cady, and Daniela Vicoso. Art by Walter Pax, Meg Omac, Jorge Monlongo, and Daniela Vicoso. Cover by Natalie Dombois. Finn and Jake have way too much stuff! Turns out that years of looting dungeons and adventuring adds up. Time for the biggest yard sale in all of Ooo! 28 pages, full color.

Written by Scott Nickel, Steve Foxe, Ryan Cady, and Daniela Vicoso. Art by Walter Pax, Meg Omac, Jorge Monlongo, and Daniela Vicoso. Cover by Luca Pizarri. Finn and Jake have way too much stuff! Turns out that years of looting dungeons and adventuring adds up. Time for the biggest yard sale in all of Ooo! 28 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.

Edited by Stan Lee. Cover by Bill Everett. Stories by Myron Fass, Jack Abel, Robert McCarty, Chuck Winter, and John Buscema. These tales of horror, sci-fi, and suspense will take you on Adventures into Alien Worlds! 36 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Canadian edition. Part 2 of 2. At last! The devastating secret of Abner Ravenwood revealed! But not before Indy and Marion travel through a mystic city! Is it paradise...or is it certain death? High adventure and spine tingling suspense in "The City of Yesterday's Forever!" Written by David Michelinie, with art by Herb Trimpe, Vince Colletta, Danny Bulanadi and Ernie Chan. Cover by Herb Trimpe and Jack Abel. Cover price $0.75.

Cover by Ken Bald. Edited by Richard E. Hughes. Art by Ed Moritz, Charlie Tomsey, King Ward and Pete Riss. Tales of romance from legendary early independent comics publisher ACG. A skier nobly saves her romantic rival from an avalanche; Jinny finds herself with suitors aplenty after she runs a kissing booth; Advice on getting a second date. The Love Trail; Love Will Out!; The Many Kisses; Man-Bait; Columnist's Romance; Come-on Girl!; As Long As I Lived!; The Second Date! 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Frank Brunner. Written by Wilson Hill and Various. Art by Rob Jones & Dick Giordano and Various. The Adventures of Chrissie Claus! Santa's little elfin granddaughter is back for the holidays in an all-new adventure! And this time, Chrissie Claus is teaming up with Sigma-Chi, Master of Claus Fu, against the power of Sigma's wicked daddy Cernunnos, the sinister Anti-Claus! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $3.25.

Cover art by Bob Oksner. Fun in France Part 1, art by Bob Oksner; A carnival balloon ride carries Dean and Jerry to France. Hollywood HA-Lights humor half-pager by Harry Lampert. Fun in France Part 2; Dean and Jerry disguise themselves as artists. Honey in Hollywood half-pager by Henry Boltinoff. Hands Up--Tips to Teens fact two-pager by Graham Place. Know Your Country public service announcement starring Superboy, script by Jack Schiff, art by Win Mortimer. Fun in France Part 3. Radio Beams humor half-pager by Harry Lampert. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 18 - 1st printing. "November 1958-April 1959!" Collects Adventures into the Unknown (1948-1967 ACG) #102-107.

Cover by Ogden Whitney.

The latest version of this fondly remembered title, containing weird tales of the Past, Present and Future, brought to you by the usual ACG crew of Ogden Whitney, Kurt Schaffenberger, et al!

Featuring Stories by Paul Reinman, John Forte, John Rosenberger, Richard Hughes, Ogden Whitney, Harry Lazarus, Emil Gershwin, Jonathan Burns, Leo Morey, James R. Thompson, Bob Standish, Brad Everson, Dick Beck, Curt Carpenter, Peter Abbott, Kermit Lundgren, Al Williamson, Frederick Masters, Al Wenzel, Kurato Osari, Jon Diehl, and John Buscema.

Softcover, 216 pages, full color.

Cover price $24.99.

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A Western adventure comic that turns the notorious real-life outlaw into a folk hero wandering the Old West. The cover says it best: "To speak out against the Brand Brothers was to stake out a claim for yourself on Boot Hill...Vicious sidewinders who'd as soon drygulch a man as drink a second cup of coffee..." They don't write 'em like that anymore. After a young kid takes a shot at him, Billy gets involved in protecting his beautiful widowed mother from the outlaws who killed her husband for his gold mine. Mitzy Malloy, a female Marine, thinks a military training film will be her big break into showbiz, but the subject is camouflage. The Brand Brothers; Dead Mans Gold; Mitzi Malloy: The Best Film on Camouflage; There Is a Man; Gunsmoke Justice. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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#18. Volume 5, Issue 2. Collects the entire story from G-8 and His Battle Aces, in facsimile format. Story: "The Death Monsters" - Originally published - March 1935 Only a fiendishly brilliant scientist like Herr Doktor Krueger could create these monsters. Only men who laughed at death could dare defy their poison coils. The things marched along the Front, nightmare creatures whose tentacles crushed any planes that came within their reach. What were they? How could G-8 and his sky buddies fight them-destroy them before they threatened the entire world with destruction? Softcover, 112 pages, Text (with B&W Chapter Illustrations). Cover price $9.95.

Volume 18, 1st Printing - "River of Fear" by Leslie T. White. Softcover, 5" x 7.5", 128 pages, B&W, text only. Cover price $0.25.

Cover art by Jack Sparling. Lionel trains ad. The Panther Man, pencils by Al Williamson, inks by Frank Frazetta; Long Claw, a man-killing black panther, died years before and lives again. The Lead Reckoning starring John Wayne; an in-coming train carries a murderer. The Ugly Duckling Bandit, pencils by Al Williamson, inks by Frank Frazetta. Ten-Gallon Allen humor page by Leon Winik (as Win). 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

"Tracy Took a Drink!" (art by George Tuska), "Vampire by Night," "He's Trying to Kill Me" (art by Ed Win), "Headache" (script by Stan Lee, art by Joe Maneely), "They'll Never Get Me" (art by Pete Tumlinson), and a two-page text story, "The Plantmen." Cover price $0.10.

Stories by Gary S. Carlson. Art by Ron C. Williams, Frank Fosco, Rob & Joe Sharp, and Jeff Weigel. Cover by Ron C. Williams. Journey into the past with these two Ultiman stories. In The Fury of Fausts Four, our hero fails to save a moon-bound rocket from blowing up due to a magical interruption. The four occupants lay dying and sell their souls to a demon for revenge against Ultiman. In return, they receive amazing powers and become some of the Ultimate Human Beings most dangerous enemies! The Visible Man, the Wisp, Vesuvius, and the Glob. Next up, Ultramans toddler daughter gains his amazing powers from a chunk of Ultranium, the radioactive meteor that originally gave Chris Kelly his own powers, which are now at low ebb. How do you stop the worlds most powerful baby – especially when shes angry? Full Color. 36 pages. Cover price $4.95.

The Hero Games Quarterly. In this issue: A Review of Champions: The Computer Game; The House That Jack Built - A Big Champions Setting/Scenario; Hack Writing - A None-too-serious Martial Art; Paloman: The Cursed King by Aaron Allston; The Black Pearl - An Empire Club Setting. Cover by George Perez. Cover price $3.00.

Promotional comic featuring stories, nautical facts, games and puzzles. Standard size comic, full color, 16-pages, all newsprint, no cover price.

Volume 18 - 1st printing. "The Oath of the Five Lords!" Written by Yves Sente. Art and cover by Andre Juillart. Death in the present re-awakens a dark time in Blake's past. 1919. Colonel Lawrence - Lawrence of Arabia - has an unpleasant meeting with an MI5 agent who confiscates his manuscript of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom. 35 years later, Oxford is shaken by a series of burglaries at the Ashmolean Museum, at the same time as Blake learns of the death of an old friend. The captain begins an investigation, while Mortimer looks into the thefts. What dark connection does all of this have with Lawrence or Blake's own past? Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 72 pages, full color. Cover price $15.95.

Stories by Oren Arnold and John Iverson. 8" x 11", 64 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

#18 "Voyage of The Mayflower." Promotional comic featuring stories, nautical facts, games and puzzles. Standard size comic, full color, 16-pages, all newsprint, no cover price.

Volume 18 - 1st printing. "The Flame Master!" Art by John Fleming Gould. Painted cover by John Newton Howitt. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 96 pages, Text (with B&W Chapter Illustrations). NOTE: Limited to 1,000 copies. Cover price $10.00.

Collects Marvel Adventures Hulk (2007) #8 and Marvel Adventures Spider-Man (2005) #44. Written by Paul Benjamin and Marc Sumerak. Art by David Nakayama and Jonboy Meyers. Cover by Juan Santacruz. Hulk! Dr. Strange! Silver Surfer! The Sub-Mariner! For the first time ever in Marvel Adventures, the Defenders assemble! But can they stop arguing with each other long enough to save the world? If the monstrous Nameless One gets his way, the Defenders' first mission together could be their last! Plus, all Peter Parker wanted to do was catch a movie with some friends...but NO! Instead, he's got to save the city from a legion of lizards set loose by the sinister Serpent Society! And if that wasn't enough, one of his oldest foes is ready to rampage through the streets of NYC, all Godzilla-style! Sometimes being a super hero really bites -- with big pointy fangs! 64 pages, full color. All Ages. Cover price $4.99.

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The world's mightiest mouse combines funny-animal antics with superhero adventure as he fights for mice everywhere. When mice build a submarine out of a barrel, cats plan to capture both the sub and its crew. The discovery of gold leads to nothing but trouble. MM goes searching for a missing reporter at Loch Ness, and meets Murgatroyd the Monster. Chesty: Cellar Door Surprise; The Lure of Gold; Farmer Gray; Terry Bears: The Mighty Moose; A Barrel of Trouble; Little Roquefort; Dimwit: Doc Dimwit; Heckle & Jeckle; Murgatroyd, The Monster; Dinky. Final issue of the series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Written by Richard Hughes. Art by John Rosenberger. Cover by Ogden Whitney. Reprints Adventures into the Unknown (1948 ACG) #105. 68 pages, B&W.

This is Magazine is a companion series to Doctor Who (1979-Present Marvel UK) Magazine. Each issue may feature posters, fact-files, previews, reviews, behind the scenes features, questions and answers, interviews, quizzes, puzzles, activities, fan letters, pictures and artwork.

Some issues also include comic strip adventures!

Slick full color cover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 34 pages, full color. All Ages

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Volume 18 - 1st printing. "Ruby and Sapphire: Part 4 of 8!" Written by Hidenori Kusaka. Art by Satoshi Yamamoto. Ruby arrives in Verdanturf Town ready to participate in his first Hoenn region Pokemon Contest. It looks like his dream of becoming the Pokemon Contest Champion is finally back on track! But soon he gets sidetracked yet again when he is asked to rescue a Trainer from a Rusturf Tunnel collapse. Could Team Magma be behind this latest unnatural disaster...? Then, both Ruby and Sapphire begin a losing streak... Meanwhile, the Hoenn Gym Leaders can't agree... Which group is evil? Team Magma or Team Aqua...or both?! Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 208 pages, B&W. All Ages NOTE: These are Japanese manga-style GNs and are meant to be read right-to-left. Cover price $9.99.

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May 1972; whole number #18. Science fiction stories: "The Crystal Planetoids" by Stanton A. Coblentz, "Into the Caves of Mars" by Festus Pragnell, "Moons of Death" by David V. Reed, "Robots Can't Lie" by Robert Leslie Bellem, "Other Worlds" by Walton Blodgett, and "Voice From the Void" by Harl Vincent. Cover by James B. Settles. 5.25-in. x 7.5-in.; black and white; 128 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.60.

Story, art and cover by Walt Kelly. Peter Wheat is the inch-high hero of the Wheat Field, where he lives with his insect friends. The giveaway comics were created for a national bread consortium by comics genius Walt Kelly, artist of Pogo. Dragonel disguises herself as a Hornet Knight to infiltrate the Wheat Field Castle. She succeeds in letting the Wheat Field warriors into the castle, but Peter and Beetle are captured. The Grand Wizard forces Peter to joust a Knight, but Peter doesn't know the Knight is a disguised Dragonel. 16 pages, Full Color.

UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 6p cover price. Cover by John Romita Sr. First appearance of Killraven in "The War of the Worlds!", script by Roy Thomas (Plot), Neal Adams (Plot), and Gerry Conway (Script), pencils by Neal Adams (pp 1-11) and Howard Chaykin (pp 12-20), inks by Frank Chiaramonte; New York City, 2018 AD. Killraven fights his way through a subway tunnel against a gang led by Scrapper; He enters an empty Grand Central Station to find the Keeper, who unleashes a few mutants against him; Killraven blasts a hole in the Keeper's wall, thus emptying his weapon; While the Keeper shoots at him, he throws a sharp piece of machinery and impales his enemy; Astonishingly, the man thanks him and tells him a story about 1901, when Martians invaded Earth; Inspired by the H.G. Wells novel. Article by Roy Thomas describing the creative process that led to the book. 36 pgs, full color.