Cross of the cross comic books issue 2

(W) Steve Niles (A) Christopher Mitten (CA) Michelle Madsen, Justin Erickson Cal has always wanted the Feds to focus on vampires, and now they are, one in particular-Eben Olemaun, now on a quest to bring mankind to its knees. But the FBI is up to more than tracking down Eben. Will Cal and Alice figure it out before it kills them both? Cover price $3.99.

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"The Crossroads of Love - Sylvia Crane's Search For Happiness" by Cora Lane Sherman. 1932 serial or "dime" novel published in chapters by the Nielen Publishing Company of Cincinnati, Ohio. Chapter 1 has a color cover, subsequent chapters have salmon colored or black and white covers. Folded pages stapled or with covers glued to first and last page and loose interior pages, text with line illustrations, 6" x 8.75", 36 pages on newsprint. Cover price $0.10.

Volume 2 - 1st printing. "Dragons Wake!" Collects Way of the Rat (2002-2004) #7-12. Written by Chuck Dixon. Art by Jeff Johnson and Tom Ryder. Boon Sai Hong, a.k.a. "The Jade Rat", never aspired to be more than a thief_but that was before the wisecracking monkey known as Po Po dragged him kicking and screaming towards his destiny! Now Boon is after the infamous Book of Hells_but the horror he unleashes may engulf the city of Zhumar in a sea of flames! Softcover, 160 pages, full color. Cover price $15.95.

(W) Mariano Nicieza, Mark Torres (A) Sam Carlin (CA) Jim Steranko Sunburst explodes into Phazer's life and both are ripped from the War of the Independents, through time and space onto an alternate Earth where a race of barbaric primatives fight for survival on a rapidly freezing jungle planet. The mysterious race of Ganndroids, technological robot marvels, reveal themselves, but are they friend or foe? And what is their connection to the worldwide ecological disaster? It will take all their combined powers for Phazer and Sunburst to survive and make it back to the War! Cover price $3.99.

Signed by cover artist and comics legend Jim Steranko! (W) Mariano Nicieza, Mark Torres (A) Sam Carlin (CA) Jim Steranko Sunburst explodes into Phazer's life and both are ripped from the War of the Independents, through time and space onto an alternate Earth where a race of barbaric primatives fight for survival on a rapidly freezing jungle planet. The mysterious race of Ganndroids, technological robot marvels, reveal themselves, but are they friend or foe? And what is their connection to the worldwide ecological disaster? It will take all their combined powers for Phazer and Sunburst to survive and make it back to the War! Cover price $3.99.

Volume 2 - 1st printing, July 2010. Written by Win Scott Eckert. Cover by Mark Maddox. Crossovers is a massive timeline of crossover stories in which characters, situations, or universes are linked together in order to build the Crossover Universe. Lovingly compiled by crossover and Wold Newton expert Win Scott Eckert, Crossovers lists upwards of 2000 crossover stories, with innumerable additional timeline entries which outline the secret history of the land of fiction. With introductions by Kim Newman (Volume 1) and Jess Nevins (Volume 2), each volume is illustrated with over 200 book and magazine covers, and contains appendices covering myriad television crossovers, alternate universes, and Newman's Anno Dracula series. From the mid-Twentieth Century, when The Spider clashed with Mr. Hyde; The Domino Lady worked with The Black Bat, The Avenger, and Airboy; Batman variously teamed up with The Shadow, Captain America, The Spirit, and Sherlock Holmes; Philip Marlowe had a brush with the Deep Ones and later worked with Sam Spade; The Green Hornet crossed paths with The Shadow; Mandrake the Magician attended The Phantom's wedding; Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, the Mummy, the Invisible Man, and the Wolf-Man mashed it up; Tarzan battled the Predators and went to Barsoom; James Bond crossed paths with Doc Savage, The Saint, OSS 117, Derek Flint, and U.N.C.L.E.'s Napoleon Solo; Spider-Man and The Thing had cross-time adventures with Doc Savage; the Nyctalope teamed up with Professor Quatermass; Bulldog Drummond combined forces with Richard Hannay for one last adventure; Nero Wolfe, Ellery Queen, Lord Peter, Perry Mason, and Mike Hammer solved a murder; P.I. Chester Drum collided with shamus Shell Scott; Madame Atomos encountered Kato, U.N.C.L.E.'s Mr. Waverly, and Modesty Blaise; Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin met John Steed and Emma Peel, Fu Manchu, Miss Marple, Simon Templar, and Sherlock Holmes; Number 6 took a brief trip with The Doctor; El Santo faced-off against Dracula; Greatheart Silver was involved in a showdown with all the great pulp heroes; Kolchak ran into Barnabas Collins; the Ghostbusters went up against Cthulhu; and Vampirella teamed up with or fought just about everyone… …To the Twenty-first Century, when Frankenstein's Creature battled Dracula and Mr. Hyde, and traveled to the Lost World; Witchblade and the Darkness joined forces with Vampirella; the worlds of Boston P.I. Spenser, Sheriff Jesse Stone, and detective Sunny Randall came together; Lara Croft, the Tomb Raider, clashed with the Deep Ones; Ash Williams crossed swords with Dracula and Dr. Herbert West; and a modern-day Van Helsing went up against the current incarnation of the Black Coats… …To the far-flung future, when Spock claimed Holmes as an ancestor and Ishmael flew with the wind whales… Win Scott Eckert is the editor of and a contributor to Myths for the Modern Age: Philip Jose Farmer's Wold Newton Universe, a 2007 Locus Awards finalist. He has written numerous short stories for Black Coat Press' Tales of the Shadowmen series, as well as tales for Moonstone Books about The Avenger, The Phantom, Zorro, Captain Midnight, and The Green Hornet. He contributed the Foreword to Philip José Farmer's seminal "fictional biography," Tarzan Alive (Bison Books, 2006), and co-authored with Farmer the Wold Newton novel The Evil In Pemberley House, about Patricia Wildman, the daughter of a certain bronze-skinned pulp hero. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 480 pages, B&W. Cover price $30.95.