Marvel Comics Previews for 5/23
Welcome to this week’s Marvel Comics preview column. Here you’ll find 3 to 6 page previews from some of this week’s comic book releases. All titles below are scheduled to hit stores on 5/23/12.
Amazing Spider-Man #686
Description: In this perilously penultimate issue of Ends of the Earth, Spider-Man faces down with the diabolical Doctor Octopus! We promised the End of the Earth and this is it!
Story By: Dan Slott
Art By: Stefano Caselli
Cover Price: $3.99
Pages: 32
Captain America #12
Description: Patrick Zircher joins Ed Brubaker for “Shock To The System.” Ex super-villains in Witness Protection murdered! The return of an old villain and an old lover! Can Cap solve this mystery before he himself becomes a target?
Story By: Ed Brubaker
Art By: Patrick Zircher
Cover Price: $3.99
Pages: 32
Captain America & Hawkeye #631
Description: In the depths of an underground city, Stegron’s dream becomes a nightmare! Cap “goes Mezozoic” and he’s set his carnivorous sights on Hawkeye! And what’s freakier than creepy little kids? Creepy little dinosaur kids!
Story By: Cullen Bunn
Art By: Alessandro Vitti & Matteo Buffagni
Cover Price: $2.99
Pages: 32
Dorothy & the Wizard in Oz #7
Description: What happens when you get to the Land of Oz and you don’t fit in? Jim the Cab-horse challenges the Sawhorse to a race—with alarming results. Dorothy meets her old friends—the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, the Cowardly Lion, Tik-tok, and more. The talking Gump-head is always good for a surprise.
Story By: Eric Shanower
Art By: Skottie Young
Cover Price: $3.99
Pages: 32
Deadpool #55
Description: Just who is that under Deadpool’s mask? Guest-starring the Intelligencia!
Story By: Daniel Way
Art By: Shawn Crystal
Cover Price: $2.99
Pages: 32
Hulk #52
Description: General Ross is being haunted by ghosts from his past… but WHOSE ghosts are they? Red Hulk wants answers, but so do… RAIZO KODO and THE FORGIVEN?!?! Does salvation lie in the hands of the LEGION OF MONSTERS?
Story By: Jeff Parker
Art By: Carlo Pagulayan, Jason Paz & Juan Vlasco
Cover Price: $2.99
Pages: 32
Hulk Smash Avengers #4
Description: Mr. Fixit Hulk vs. the ‘90s-era West Coast Avengers: Iron Man, Wonder Man, Mockingbird, Tigra and Hawkeye!
Story By: Jim McCann
Art By: Carlos Padilla & Jaime Mendoza
Cover Price: $2.99
Pages: 32
Journey into Mystery #638
Description: Gods made mortal, with mutants their only hope for survival! Undead cannibals on the loose, San Francisco turned inside out by forbidden magic! A thrilling mythological mystery adventure in the Mighty Marvel manner, the most epic crossover of 2012! (Not counting that one where As fight Xs)
Story By: Kieron Gillen, Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning
Art By: Carmine Di Giandomenico
Cover Price: $2.99
Pages: 32
Marvel Universe: Ultimate Spider-Man #2
Description: From the minds behind the hit TV show, witness the web-slinging adventures of the ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN! An easy errand for Aunt May becomes a maddening misadventure with the Malevolent MOLE MAN! Then, when the Electrifying ELECTRO attacks a StarkTech Expo, can the wily-web-slinger pull the plug on this voltaic villain?!
Story By: Eugene Son
Art By: Ramon Bachs & Raul Fonts
Cover Price: $2.99
Pages: 32
Marvel Zombies Destroy! #2
Description: At long last! The BEST-SELLING Marvel Zombies franchise returns! A.R.M.O.R. is called upon to rescue a reality where the Nazis won WWII… with ZOMBIES! Howard the Duck brings in Nazi-fighter extraordinaire DUM DUM DUGAN and a squadron of fighters known as Ducky’s Dozen! SERIOUSLY, YOU GUYS! NAZI ZOMBIES!
Story By: Frank Marrafino
Art By: Mirco Pierfederici
Cover Price: $3.99
Pages: 32
T
he Mighty Thor #14
Description: How far will Donald Blake go to regain what he’s lost? What really happens in your room at night after you fall asleep? How can Thor fight a foe that’s not there?
Story By: Matt Fraction
Art By: Pepe Larraz
Cover Price: $3.99
Pages: 32
Secret Avengers #27
Description: AVX TIE-IN! Captain Marvel reborn to unite all Kree! Captain Marvel, The Protector and Ms. Marvel vs The Avengers! Who is Minister Marvel and why has he drawn the Phoenix to the Kree homeworld?
Story By: Rick Remender
Art By: Renato Guedes
Cover Price: $3.99
Pages: 32
Ultimate Comics X-Men #12
Description: The mysteries of the mutant dead deepen even further. A familiar and much feared foe makes an unexpected return. What do you know about the last time the world ended?
Story By: Nick Spencer
Art By: Paco Medina, Juan Vlasco & Walden Wong
Cover Price: $3.99
Pages: 32
SOURCE: Comic Book Resources
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