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Marvel Comics Digest #2Marvel Comics' best-selling heroes are back in the ever-popular digest format! This second issue spotlights the blockbuster superhero team
The Avengers! This is a can't-miss collector's item that will only be printed once!
Script: Various
Art: Various
Cover: John Cassaday, Laura Martin
On Sale Date: 8/2
224-page, full color comic
$6.99 U.S.
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Chilling Adventures of Sabrina #8"WITCH-WAR" Part Two, "Burnt Offerings": Edward Spellman, trapped in Harvey's body, has been reunited with Sabrina, and is ready to enact his dark agenda!
Script: Roberto Aguire-Sacasa
Art: Robert Hack, Jack Morelli
Cover: Robert Hack
Variant Cover: Matthew Southworth
On Sale Date: 8/16
32-page, full color comic
$3.99 U.S.
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Archie #23BRAND NEW STORY ARC! The fallout continues! One life has been destroyed, another family has been torn apart—and only the kids of Riverdale High can save their town from imploding!
Script: Mark Waid
Art: Audrey Mok, Kelly Fitzpatrick, Jack Morelli
Cover: Thomas Pitilli
Variant Cover: Greg Smallwood
On Sale Date: 8/23
32-page, full color comic
$3.99 U.S.
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Archie Vol. 4 (TR)The fourth volume of the ARCHIE series features the headline-making comic event "OVER THE EDGE," where the lives of Archie and his friends are forever changed. Collects Archie issues 18–22.
Script: Mark Waid
Art: Pete Woods, Jack Morelli
Cover: Pete Woods
ISBN-13: 978-1-68255-970-3
$14.99/$16.99CAN
6 5/8 x 10 3/16" TR
136 pp, Full Color
Direct Market On-Sale Date: 8/23
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Josie And The Pussycats #9The Pussycats and their various musical allies and friends must unite to save the kidnapped Archies! Don't miss the stunning finale to "FASTER, PUSSYCATS: DRIFT, DRIFT"!
Script: Marguerite Bennett, Cameron DeOrdio
Art: Audrey Mok, Kelly Fitzpatrick, Jack Morelli
Cover: Audrey Mok
Variant Cover: Javier Pulido
On Sale Date: 8/23
32-page, full color comic
$3.99 U.S.
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Riverdale #5Set in the same universe as the hit CW series, this issue gives us a peek into what makes Riverdale High hot-shots Reggie Mantle and Josie McCoy tick. Reggie's used to getting what he wants, and sets his romantic sights on the lead singer of the Pussycats. But when Josie turns him down, just how far will Reggie go to convince her he's worth an audition?
Script: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa & Various
Art: Thomas Pitilli, Andre Szymanowicz, Janice Chiang
Cover: Francesco Francavilla
Variant Cover: Matthew Dow Smith
On Sale Date: 8/9
32-page, full color comic
$3.99 U.S.
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All-New Classic Archie: Your Pal, Archie! #2Classic-style Archie makes his return in this ALL-NEW, ALL-AGES comic! Now that Archie's won the lottery, how will his life change? ALSO: Something's wrong with Reggie. He's being nice to EVERYBODY...
Script: Ty Templeton
Art: Dan Parent, Ty Templeton, Jack Morelli
Cover: Dan Parent
Variant Cover: Les McClaine
On Sale Date: 8/30
32-page, full color comic
$3.99 U.S.
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Archie Comics Double Digest #281IT'S BACK TO SCHOOL for our DOUBLE DIGESTS! In the BRAND NEW story "It's All Relative," Archie's Uncle Roy is a business success story—despite never finishing high school! He decides to go back and get his diploma at Riverdale High, and puts a cramp in Archie's style!
Script: Dan Parent
Art: Pat and Tim Kennedy
Cover: Pat and Tim Kennedy
On Sale Date: 8/9
160-page, full color comic
$4.99 U.S.
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Archie Giant Comics Treat (TR)You're in for a TREAT with this collection of 480 pages of iconic Archie tales in one amazing volume!
Script: Various
Art: Various
Cover: Various
ISBN-13: 978-1-68255-952-9
$7.99/$9.99 CAN
4 7/8 x 6 9/16" TR
480 pp, Full Color
Direct Market On-Sale Date: 8/16
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Archie's Big Book, Vol. 1: Magic, Music & Mischief (TR)Good things come in threes, and this is a triple threat of MAGIC, MUSIC & MISCHIEF! This collection of classic stories features three amazing series: Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Josie and the Pussycats and Little Archie!
Script: Various
Art: Various
Cover: Dan DeCarlo, Bob Bolling
ISBN-13: 978-1-68255-982-6
$19.99/$21.99CAN
6 5/8 x 10 3/16" TR
304 pp, Full Color
Direct Market On-Sale Date: 8/9
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Archie's Funhouse Back to School Annual #27IT'S BACK TO SCHOOL for our DOUBLE DIGESTS! In the ALL-NEW story "How Shocking," one of Dilton's lab experiments goes awry (thanks to Archie), and things get REALLY weird!
Script: Dan Parent
Art: Bill Galvan
Cover: Pat and Tim Kennedy
On Sale Date: 8/2
192-page, full color comic
$5.99 U.S.
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The Best of Josie and The Pussycats (TR)Get out your long tails and ears for hats, this graphic novel that collects over 400 pages of the BEST and most ROCKIN Josie and the Pussycats stories!
Script: Various
Art: Various
Cover: Dan DeCarlo
ISBN-13 978-1-68255-930-7
$9.99/$11.99CAN
5 1/4 x 7 1/2" TR
416 pp, Full Color
Direct Market On-Sale Date: 8/23
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B&V Friends Fall Annual #255IT'S BACK TO SCHOOL for our DOUBLE DIGESTS! In the BRAND NEW story "Don't TEST My Patience," Veronica gets the highest score on the student aptitude test—but has there been some tampering with the results?
Script: Dan Parent
Art: Dan Parent
Cover: Pat and Tim Kennedy
Ship Date: 8/9
On Sale Date: 8/23
192-page, full color comic
$5.99 U.S.
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Jughead With Archie Comics Annual #27IT'S BACK TO SCHOOL for our DOUBLE DIGESTS! In the ALL-NEW story "You BROKE it, You BOUGHT IT," Archie breaks Riverdale High's prestigious football trophy, so it's up to him and Jughead to fix it before anyone notices!
Script: Dan Parent
Art: Dan Parent
Cover: Bill Galvan
On Sale Date: 8/30
192-page, full color comic
$5.99 U.S.
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World Of Archie Jumbo Comics Digest #71IT'S BACK TO SCHOOL for our DOUBLE DIGESTS! In the BRAND NEW story "Hitting a SOUR Note," Archie's musicianship lands him the opportunity to go to a private music school. When he realizes that his skills are not up to par with his peers, is it too late to go back to RHS?
Script: Dan Parent
Art: Dan Parent
Cover: Bill Galvan
On Sale Date: 8/16
256-page, full color comic
$6.99 U.S.
And that goes for the even smaller independent publishers (like Chapterhouse Comics, which publishes the print versions of Die Kitty Die) even more so. Support small press publishing efforts. ACP is teetering on the very edge of being a small press publisher (if not for the digests).
See, here's the thing we need to take into account... it's been a couple of years now since we've seen a new story written or drawn by anyone but Dan Parent. Now all of a sudden we see one credited as written by Dan, but drawn by an artist who we haven't seen a new story from in a couple of years -- Bill Galvan. Now, it's possible they may just have overlooked that one somehow when they were clearing the inventory of already paid-for work, but I don't think so. Notice that for the last six months, all of the digests released in any given month follow some kind of theme. In this round of solicitations the digest theme is "Back-To-School", which is as good an excuse as any for a story starring Dilton Doily. That indicates to me that Dan wrote a bunch of themed back-to-school stories for the digests, and drew all of them but one. Maybe he needed some help, because he's busy working on DIE KITTY DIE, YOUR PAL ARCHIE, plus the usual 5-page digest stories and covers... and he didn't draw the covers this month either. They may be old covers they just found that hadn't been used yet, but even so... I think that "How Shocking" 5-pager is a for-real, newly-commissioned art job by Bill Galvan. Either that or the credit is a typo... :(
Now that I stop to consider it, I just realized that Dan Parent is now solely responsible for defining an entire genre of comics all by himself. He's currently being published in NINE different titles, and doing the writing, art and covers for all of them:
1. ARCHIE COMICS DOUBLE DIGEST
2. ARCHIE'S FUNHOUSE DOUBLE DIGEST
3. BETTY & VERONICA DOUBLE DIGEST
4. B & V FRIENDS DOUBLE DIGEST
5. JUGHEAD & ARCHIE DOUBLE DIGEST
6. WORLD OF ARCHIE DOUBLE DIGEST
7. LIFE WITH KEVIN (digital only)
8. YOUR PAL ARCHIE
9. DIE KITTY DIE (AstroComix/Chapterhouse)
-- plus he still has a boatload of Kickstarter commissions to draw for the last DKD campaign. You could say he's "kind of busy" ... Now granted, none of those titles are monthly, and only a few of them have more than 5 pages + cover that he's responsible for. But even so, over the last year or so he's drawn 240 pages of digest stories plus 48 covers, 4 issues of LIFE WITH KEVIN plus covers, and 8 issues of DIE KITTY DIE plus covers (and is still working on Summer and Winter Specials for DKD).
The only character on that cover I don't recognize is the little girl with brown hair and a topknot wearing a purple swimsuit on a purple raft... actually, she looks a lot like Jellybean!
It's pretty obvious from his numerous parodies of them (DKD has more than a few) that Dan loves the Harvey Comics characters.
...I bought the Spidey one, and I migh :smiley6600: t very well buy this'n...But what's with this " collector's item " sh*t*? (Feeling Vertigo-esque ;) .) Are we really going back to the Nineties in this way, here? :knuppel2: :2funny: :( This sort of thing was maybe cute on vintage Stan Lee house ad copy, but NOW? ??? ??? :tickedoff: ? Reprint titles are generally of pretty minimum collectibility, anyway...Yeah, anyhows...AS IF there'd be enuff demanx for a 2nd printing! :idiot2: ;D
...Each are more-or-less 50-50 divided between classic-era (Um. Pre-the late 80s/" grim & grittyy/kick-ass " setting in.) and, yes, kid's line - Adventures - reprints from this century, I believe.