Marvel Comics April 2010 solicitations

Highlights from Marvel's April offerings:

MARVEL MASTERWORKS: BLACK PANTHER JUNGLE ACTION HC

Written by DON McGREGOR Penciled by RICH BUCKLER, BILLY GRAHAM & GIL KANE Cover by GIL KANE

Collected for the first time ever, the MARVEL MASTERWORKS bring you the ground-breaking, trend-setting Black Panther from JUNGLE ACTION! In 1973 comics' first African super hero took the headlining slot in an ambitious ongoing series, beginning a 13-issue epic unprecedented in its time. Writer Don McGregor teamed with artists Rich Buckler and Billy Graham to tell "Panther's Rage," a story so huge it ranges across the savannah, into the deepest jungles and up to the snow-topped mountains of Wakanda. Over its course McGregor & Co. would define T'Challa, give full depth and life to the Wakandas and their culture, while pitting the Panther against the murderous Erik Killmonger for control of the kingdom. Not one to rest on his laurels, McGregor then set out to raise the bar once again, sending T'Challa to the American South to investigate the murder of Angela Lynne and its connection to the Klan and the history of the Soul Strangler. A challenging storyline by a challenging storyteller, you'll read it and so much more in this much anticipated hardcover classic! Collecting JUNGLE ACTION #6-24.

MARVEL MASTERWORKS: GOLDEN AGE HUMAN TORCH VOL. 3 HC

Written by VARIOUS Penciled by HARRY SAHLE, AL GABRIELE, CARL PFEUFER, ED ROBBINS, BASIL WOLVERTON, RAY HOULIHAN, LARRY ANTONETTE & ART GATES Cover by ALEX SCHOMBURG

From the heart of the Golden Age of Comics, the white-hot hero of the decade, the Human Torch, comes burning at you with another exciting quartet of never before reprinted comic adventures! Between keeping America safe on the homefront and fighting the Axis powers abroad, the Torch and his kid sidekick Toro have their work cut out for them. They'll face Nazi rockets, Gestapo madmen, fifth columnists and more as they fight the good fight for the U.S.A. The action really gets going in the massive, 45-page "Death Dance of the Atlantic" when the Torch and Toro find the Sub-Mariner manning a Nazi U-boat. It's an action-packed dash to capture comics' most tempestuous sometimes-hero and decode the Axis' secret signal system, told in the manner that made Marvel great. Backed up by solo Sub-Mariner tales, along with the boy adventurer Jimmy Jupiter and humor shorts by the likes of Basil Wolverton, every issue is a cornucopia from Marvel's early years. Dig into the Golden Age and dig into history! Collecting HUMAN TORCH #9-12.

Essential Iron Man Volume 4 TPB
ESSENTIAL IRON MAN VOL. 4 TPB
Written by GERRY CONWAY, ROBERT KANIGHER, GARY FRIEDRICH, ROY THOMAS, MIKE FRIEDRICH, BILL EVERETT, JIM STARLIN & STEVE GERBER Penciled by HERB TRIMPE, GEORGE TUSKA, BARRY WINDSOR-SMITH & JIM STARLIN Cover by GIL KANE

The quintessential cosmic saga of the seventies begins here! Part Four of Iron Man's Essential Adventuredom shakes the Marvel Universe with the debut of Drax the Destroyer and his Eternal enemy, Thanos of Titan Ñ with Iron Man in the middle! As if that isn't enough, Mister Kline's drawing Tony Stark into another crisis, while the Black Lama's waiting to start a third! Plus: the Mandarin, the Masked Marauder, Mikas and more menaces! Guest-starring Doctor Strange, the Sub-Mariner and the Avengers! Collecting IRON MAN (1968) #39-61.

Marvel Masterworks: The Silver Surfer Volume 1 TPB
MARVEL MASTERWORKS: THE SILVER SURFER VOL. 1 TPB

Written by STAN LEE Penciled by JOHN BUSCEMA & JACK KIRBY Cover by JOHN BUSCEMA & DEAN WHITE

The soaring Sentinel of the Spaceways makes a MARVEL MASTERWORKS splash with his unmatched solo series. Illustrated by the master of man, menace, and motion, the one-and-only John Buscema, and featuring some of Stan Lee's most inspired and socially-charged scripts of the Silver Age, the adventures of Norrin Radd rank among the definitive tales of all Marveldom! Not only will you be awed beyond imagination by the Surfer's origin, you'll also face alien invasions, be torn down to the depths of hell by the utterly evil Mephisto, struggle against the Stranger, and face galaxy-conquering barbarians set on the destruction of...well, everything! Lest we forget what by many is considered the most beautifully rendered story in Marvel history, the Surfer's encounter with the mighty Thor! These double-length stories of drama and despair are a must-have for any and every Marvelite, and to prove we mean it, we're including the Surfer's first-ever solo adventure from the pages of FANTASTIC FOUR ANNUAL #5 as bonus! Collecting SILVER SURFER #1-6, FANTASTIC FOUR ANNUAL #5 & NOT BRAND ECHH #13.

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