IDW Publishing Previews for July 29th.

This week, IDW Publishing releases Shrinking Man #1, which adapts the seminal 1956 science fiction tale, and the Thunder Agents 50th Anniversary Special, as well as new installments of Jem & the Holograms, Donald Duck, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Transformers, Skylanders, and more.

Official previews:

Donald Duck #3

Giorgio Pezzin (w) • Giorgio Cavazzano (a & c)

“The Siege of Nothing Atoll”—when an island-dwelling mad scientist sics his super-weapons on Scrooge’s Money Bin, it’s up to Donald to take the bad guy down!

FC • 40 pages • $3.99

Bullet points:

• Duck comics legend Giorgio Cavazzano brings us one of his most legendary thrillers—for the first time in the USA!
• Continues this beloved series’ legacy numbering at #370.
• 40 action-packed pages for only $3.99!
• “Disney Legacy” Fantasyland 60^th Anniversary cover by Amy Mebberson!

Ghostbusters: Get Real #2 (of 4)

Erik Burnham (w) • Dan Schoening (a & c)

THEY’RE ALL REAL NOW! While the boys in gray meet the boys in brown, blue, green and tan, Proteus hunts through the multiverse for his quarry… and finds something Extreme. (Was that too subtle a hint?)

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points:

• Part of EC Comics cover month! Homage cover by Doc Shaner!

Jem and the Holograms #5

Kelly Thompson (w) • Sophie Campbell (a & c)

A disaster at the HOLOGRAMS’ first live show nearly ends JEM’s music career before it starts! Now KIMBER learns who’s behind the dangerous “accident”… and she’s out for revenge.

FC • 32 pages • $ 3.99

Bullet points:

• How far will the Holograms go to succeed?
• And what will the Misfits do to stop them?!
• Variant cover by Stephanie Hans!

The Maxx: Maxximized, Vol. 4

Sam Kieth, William Messner-Loebs (w) • Sam Kieth (a & c)

Volume 4 continues the re-presentation of Sam Kieth’s and William Messner-Loeb’s groundbreaking series, The Maxx, with all new colors by Ronda Pattison. Collects issues #13–18 in this oversized hardcover. 

HC • FC • $24.99 • 152 pages • 7” x 11” • ISBN: 978-1-63140-323-1

 

Punky Brewster, Vol. 1

Joelle Sellner (w) • Lesley Vamos (a & c)

The beloved TV series returns in this heartwarming, lushly illustrated story of a brand new family made from persistence, pluck, and Punky Power!

TPB • FC • $12.99 • 112 pages • ISBN: 978-1-63140-314-9

The Shrinking Man #1 (of 4)—SPOTLIGHT

Ted Adams (w) • Mark Torres (a & c)

Richard Matheson’s exploration of shrinking manhood is brought to vivid life in this comic-book adaptation! Scott Carey, reducing 1/7” per day, faces tension big and small as his body continues to shrink away…

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points:

• Richard Matheson’s beloved suspense novel brought to life by IDW’s CEO & Publisher Ted Adams and artist Mark “ZvR” Torres!
• Part of EC Comics cover month! Homage cover by Mark Torres!
• One of Five Featured First issues in July! One every week!

Skylanders #11: Light in the Dark Part 2 (of 2)

Ron Marz, David A. Rodriguez (w) • Fico Ossio (a & c)

New characters, New elements! Skylanders: A Light in the Dark concludes as we build up to next issue’s Season Finale! Featuring art by David Baldeón (Nova)!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points:

• Skylanders: Light in the Dark concludes!

T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents 50^th Anniversary Special—CERTIFIED COOL

Various (w) • Wally Wood, Dan Adkins, Steve Ditko, Gary Leach, George Tuska, and more (a) • Dan Adkins (c)

A half-century celebration of Brown & Wood’s T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents! 64 pages of classic stories, rarely seen commissions, pin-ups, covers, and other rarities.

FC • 64 pages • $7.99

Bullet points:

• Part of EC Comics cover month! Homage cover by Andrew Pepoy!
• 64 pages in square-bound, prestige format!

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #48

Tom Waltz, Kevin Eastman (w) • Cory Smith (a) • Mateus Santolouco, Eastman (c)

The Turtles take the fight to Baxter Stockman as both Karai and Shredder plan their final moves!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points:

• Unstoppable Action!
• Part of EC Comics cover month! Homage cover by Ryan Browne!
• Variant cover by David Lafuente!

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Animated, Vol. 6: Vengeance is Mine

Various (w & a & c)

Re-live the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon action in this young reader volume that adapts the episodes from Season Two, “The Return of Tiger Claw” and “Vengeance is Mine,” and reveal amazing secrets about Karai!

TPB • FC • $7.99 • 136 pages • 5” x 7” • ISBN: 978-1-63140-342-2

Bullet points:

• Sensational screen-grab action from the top-rated show!

 

Transformers: Combiner Hunters Special one-shot

Mairghread Scott (w) • Sara Pitre-Durocher (a) • Casey W. Coller (c)

COMBINER WARS FALLOUT! Because you demanded it—WINDBLADE and CHROMIA team up with ARCEE to put an end to the menace of the COMBINER WARS—but will they end each other first?!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points:

• For the first time—a one shot adventure featuring three fan-favorite female TRANSFORMERS!
• Revealed within—Hasbro’s FAN-BUILT COMBINER, as voted on by TRANSFORMERS fans around the world!
• Variant Cover by James Biggie!

Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye #43

James Roberts (w) • Alex Milne (a & c)

Three years into their quest, and the crew of the Lost Light were starting to think that the universe held no more nasty surprises. And then a planet started chasing them.

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points:

• Introducing CYCLONUS’ new holomatter avatar!
• The Lost Light’s quest takes its quirky heroes deep into space—outer- and personal- space!
• Variant Cover by James Biggie!

Transformers: Windblade #5

Mairghread Scott (w) • Corin Howell (a) • Priscilla Tramontano (c)

RACE AGAINST THE LIGHT! On VELOCITRON, racing isn’t a sport—it’s a matter of life and death! WINDBLADE and BLURR put the pedal to the metal to save CYBERTRON—and their own lives.

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points:

• Space race!
• BLUR and WINDBLADE together, to decide the fate of CYBERTRON’s new interstellar alliance!
• Variant Cover by James Biggie!

WEIRD Love #8

Various (w & a) • Lee Elias (c)

WARNING! CLOWN ALERT! This issue of the guilty pleasure, Weird Love, contains an especially creepy story of CLOWN LOVE in the story “The Love She Didn’t Want” (and who WOULD?!). Plus more bizarre romance classics by the same people that bring you Haunted Horror!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

X-9: Secret Agent Corrigan, Vol. 6

George Evans (w & a & c)

The best-selling series continues! Famed EC artist George Evans had periodically ghosted for Al Williamson on Secret Agent Corrigan and in 1980 Williamson and writer Archie Goodwin passed the strip to Evans permanently. Evans wrote and drew the strip for sixteen years until he and Phil Corrigan retired together in 1996. Evans had a long and illustrious career, from Fiction House and Fawcett to EC, where he worked along his friends Frank Frazetta and Al Williamson. This volume reprints the first Secret Agent Corriganstrips by Evans — more than 750 rarely-seen dailies from February 1980 to August 1982! It’s a must-have for all fans of adventure strips!

HC • BW • $49.99 • 276 pages • 11” x 10” • ISBN: 978-1-63140-419-1

 

The X-Files Annual 2015—SPOTLIGHT

Michael Raicht (w) • Kevin VanHook (a) • Russell Walks (c)

Each year on the anniversary of his sister’s abduction, Mulder investigates the mysterious disappearance of a child in an effort to bring others peace. This year’s search takes him to the high school reunion of a teen who disappeared in an abandoned house with friends who would go on to start their very own ghost-hunting show.

FC • 48 pages • $7.99

Bullet points:

• The X-Files returns next month with the premiere of Season 11!

The X-Files: Trust No One

Kevin J. Anderson, Tim Lebbon, Max Allan Collins, Heather Graham, Brian Keene, Peter Clines, Ray Garton, Stefan Petrucha, Gayle Lynds and John Sheldon, Aaron Rosenberg, Keith R.A. DeCandido, Paul Crilley, W.D. Gaglian and David Benton, Timothy Deal and Gini Loch (w) • N/A (a) • Paul Shipper (c)

We all want to believe. The truth is still out there. The X-FILES have been reopened. Series creator Chris Carter has authorized new investigations into the weird, the strange, and the mysterious. New York Times Bestseller and multiple Bram Stoker Award® winner Jonathan Maberry brings together some of today’s top storytellers for a series of anthologies featuring all-new case-files. Scully and Mulder continue their journey into darkness as they face aliens, monsters, shadow governments, and twisted conspiracies.

TPB • B&W • $19.99 • 360 pages • 6” x 9” • ISBN: 978-1-63140-278-4

Bullet points:

• Prose collection!
• Featuring best-selling authors such as Kevin J. Anderson, Max Allan Collins and Tim Lebbon!