Get Your Flashlight! Marvel’s Best Comic Book Monsters for Reading Under the Covers
Howling Commandos, zombies, Werewolf by Night, the Man-Thing, and Dracula himself – step into the monstrous side of Marvel with these books.
As always, we know that digital comics are very convenient. But if you see something you absolutely need to own in the meatspace, be sure to head to your local comic book shop!
Werewolf by Night –Marvel Masterworks by Gerry Conway, Len Wein, & More
Born on the night of a full moon, Marvel’s most fearsome horror hero debuts! He may be Jack Russell by day – but when darkness falls, he becomes the Werewolf by Night! Immigrated from Eastern Europe as a small child, 18-year-old Russell soon finds out the hair-raising secret of a family curse that turns all males into werewolves! Now, every month when the moon is full, he must struggle to survive in a world not hospitable to werewolf-kind – and try not to kill anyone in the process! In this first volume, master of the macabre Mike Ploog delivers some of the greatest artwork of his storied career. And these classic tales look better than ever, newly restored for the Marvel Masterworks!
Tomb of Dracula– Marvel Masterworks Collection by Marv Wolfman, Gerry Conway, & More
The Marvel Masterworks cracks open the TOMB OF DRACULA! If there was one title that ushered in the Marvel Age of Horror in the early 1970s, it was TOMB OF DRACULA, the longest-running of those seminal monster classics. TOMB was the title Gene Colan was born to draw, and he and writer Marv Wolfman crafted a legacy of undead action that has become an evergreen of Marvel storytelling. The hunt is on to slay Count Dracula, and the descendants of the Van Helsings are still around to make the kill – or die trying. But a new vampire hunter is on the scene, and his name is Blade! These classics have been newly restored to look better than ever!
Marvel ZombiesOmnibus by Robert Kirkman
On an Earth shockingly similar to the Marvel Universe, an alien virus has infected all of the world’s greatest superheroes into flesh-eating monsters! It took them only hours to destroy life as we know it but what happens when they run out of humans to eat?!? Plus, are you ready for Marvel Zombies Civil War? 40 years have passed and the zombies have come back home after eating just about everything else in the universe. What awaits them back on Earth is beyond anything they could have conceived! Also, the story of the plague first infecting the Marvel Zombie Universe is revealed! Find out who was the first to succumb to the virus, and witness the birth of the Zombified Four!
Man-Thing(1974) by Steve Gerber, Val Mayerik, & More
While guarding the Nexus of All Realties, Marvel’s resident muck-man encounters an overeager duck from Duckworld, and Korrek the Barbarian! Will this unlikely trio be able to save the time stream from the likes of Thog the Nether-Spawn?
Punisher: Franken Castle by Rick Remender, Marjorie Liu, & More
The Punisher is dead, so who, or what, is the giant patchwork monster skulking through the tunnels under New York? Those forgotten by society have a new protector – Franken-Castle.
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