Spotlighting the latest new series heading our way soon. We will finalize our order numbers for these titles this coming Sunday - with the debut issues due to arrive in as little as three to four weeks time. Place a preorder by messaging MK1 - Email shop@mk1.co.nz Phone 07 8393728 or Facebook Messenger @Mark1Comics or use the MK1 website Chat with us button. More preorder info below.
Along with these new launches we will be placing our final orders for a bunch of new issues and variant covers - the full list of titles being locked down can be viewed at the following links.
- DC Comics https://www.lunardistribution.com/
- Marvel/Indie https://www.previewsworld.com/FinalOrdersDue
(The links above will update each Wednesday with a brand new selection of debut series, continuing comics and variant covers every week).
X-MEN LEGENDS #1 : MARVEL COMICS
(W) Roy Thomas (A) Gerardo Sandoval (CA) Nick Bradshaw
AN ALL-NEW TALE SET BEFORE GIANT-SIZE X-MEN #1!
Before GIANT-SIZE X-MEN brought STORM, WOLVERINE, COLOSSUS, NIGHTCRAWLER and THUNDERBIRD to the team, Roy Thomas redefined the merry mutants in two seminal runs on the book. Now Roy, at long last, returns to the saga of the X-MEN to take us through the period between his run and GSX, for the first time detailing Wolverine's government missions before his recruitment by PROFESSOR X (including unrevealed detail on his battle with the green goliath in HULK #181/182), an untold episode involving BEAST and a host of missing mutants, and the secret behind Wolverine's costume!
Kicking off an all-new volume of X-MEN LEGENDS by a host of legendary creators, this is but the first story in a run of new, in-continuity tales covering the length and breadth of X-Men history from the early eras to fan-favorite latter day sagas!
Face front, True Believers! These are the missing links you've been looking for! MK1 Price $9.50 due at MK1 during the week following 10th of August 2022.
007 #1 CVR A EDWARDS : DYNAMITE (W) Phillip Kennedy Johnson (A) Marco Finnegan (CA) Tommy Lee Edwards
OO7 is back in action! After a high-stakes rescue mission is mysteriously, violently sabotaged, Bond's future at MI6 hangs in the balance. As he awaits his fate, James Bond is urgently contacted by an old flame and mentor: Gwendolyn Gann, formerly Agent OO3, who warns Bond of an existential threat to England and the global balance of power. But before they can meet, OO3 turns up dead, sending Bond on the most personal mission of his career: find Gwendolyn Gann's killers, and expose the shadowy organization known only as "Myrmidon." MK1 Price $9.50 due at MK1 during the week following 3rd of August 2022. 
GHOST RIDER VENGEANCE FOREVER #1 : MARVEL COMICS (W) Ben Percy (A) Juan Jose Ryp (CA) Bjorn Barends
CELEBRATING FIFTY YEARS OF VENGEANCE!
Johnny Blaze, still reeling from his time in Hayden's Falls, seeks the counsel of a seer - named Necro the Tattooist - who uses his needle to bring dark truths to the surface. What follows is not only a wild tour through Ghost Rider's lost history, but also a warning about the future and an examination of the troubling weight of legacy. MK1 Price $11.00 due at MK1 during the week following 10th of August 2022.
BLACK ADAM JUSTICE SOCIETY FILES CYCLONE #1 (ONE SHOT) CVR A KAARE ANDREWS DC COMICS: (W) Cavan Scott, Bryan Q. Miller (A) Maria Laura Sanapo, Marco Santucci (CA) Kaare Andrews
When she was young, Maxine Hunkel dreamed of flying with the Justice Society. Now she finally has the powers and the opportunity…but will she say yes? Guest starring Hawkman on the road to Black Adam! Plus, continuing the Teth-Adam backup story: trouble hits home for Adrianna Tomaz as Intergang mercenaries invade the hallowed halls of her university, on the hunt for the sacred totem she liberated—but what strange metal is the idol made from, and why does Intergang need it so badly? MK1 Price $12.50 due at MK1 during the week following 2nd of August 2022.
DEAD LUCKY #1 CVR A CARLOMAGNO : IMAGE COMICS
(W) Melissa Flores (A/CA) French Carlomagno
SERIES PREMIERE : San Francisco is changing. Tech consortium Morrow is building the city of the future with "peacekeeper" robots looming on every corner-and wherever Morrow isn't, the Salvation gang is.
Bibiana Lopez-Yang is changing too. She came back from Afghanistan with PTSD and the ability to control electrical currents. If she can hold it together, she might be the hero San Francisco needs. But against an enemy this big, it isn't enough to be good. She'll have to be lucky.
From debut writer MELISSA FLORES and superstar art team FRENCH CARLOMAGNO and MATTIA IACONO (RADIANT BLACK) comes the newest book in the MASSIVE-VERSE! MK1 Price $9.50 due at MK1 during the week following 3rd of August 2022.
HARLEY QUINN #18 CVR C RYAN SOOK HOMAGE CARD STOCK VARIANT DC COMICS (W) Stephanie Phillips (A) Georges Duarte (CA) Ryan Sook
One small step for the Gotham villains, one giant leap for clown-kind! That’s right…this fashionably vocal clown is headed to space. Turns out there’s some old experiment left in the JLA moon base, and Luke Fox has put together a team of former villains to help clean up the mess. Sendin’ a buncha villains to the moon…? What could go right? Join me, Killer Frost, Bronze Tiger, Solomon Grundy, and more as we learn to moonwalk and put the X in Task Force XX! MK1 Price $11.00 due at MK1 during the week following 2nd of August 2022.
GOLDEN RAGE #1 (OF 5) CVR A KNIGHT (MR) : IMAGE COMICS
(W) Chrissy Williams (A/CA) Lauren Knight
MINISERIES PREMIERE: In a world where older women who've been deemed useless to society are abandoned on an island, GOLDEN RAGE documents their golden years of making friends, baking dessert, and fighting to the death.
Created by writer CHRISSY WILLIAMS (editor of DIE, THE WICKED + THE DIVINE), artist LAUREN KNIGHT (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), and colorist SOFIE DODGSON (BITTER ROOT, Tank Girl), this is the FIRST ISSUE of a brand-new five-issue miniseries where Battle Royale meets The Golden Girls. MK1 Price $9.50 due at MK1 during the week following 3rd of August 2022.
NEW CHAMPION OF SHAZAM #1 (OF 4) CVR A EVAN DOC SHANER DC COMICS (W) Josie Campbell (A/CA) Evan Doc Shaner
Mary Bromfield has always struggled to determine who she is outside her family…kinda hard to do when you’re all superheroes! Now, after Billy Batson’s heroic sacrifice, the power of Shazam has vanished, and she’s been left powerless. Most heroes would be distraught, but not Mary. It’s finally time for a voyage of self-discovery as she prepares for her freshman year of college and a civilian life. But nothing is ever truly normal for this young hero, because she’s just been chosen as the new champion of Shazam! (At least according to a talking rabbit sent by her estranged brother Billy.) Will she embrace the power? Or will it die along with this world’s hope of survival against the mysterious magical forces waiting to take control? Find out in Mary’s first solo miniseries, brought to you by up-and-coming comics writer Josie Campbell (Future State: Green Lantern) and fan-favorite Shazam artist Evan Doc Shaner (Strange Adventures, Convergence: Shazam!)! MK1 Price $9.50 due at MK1 during the week following 2nd of August 2022.
FRANKENSTEIN NEW WORLD #1 (OF 4) CVR A BERGTING
DARK HORSE COMICS : (W) Mike Mignola, Tom Sniegoski, Christopher Golden (A/CA) Peter Bergting
Safely tucked away inside the hollow earth where humanity survived after Ragna Rok, precocious young Lilja receives visions of a new darkness taking root on the surface. Defying her elders, Lilja awakens the timeless oracle--once known as Frankenstein--to investigate the warnings and, perhaps, even explore the new world above.
Frankenstein: New World, from Mike Mignola, Thomas Sniegoski, Christopher Golden, and artist Peter Bergting, explores a new chapter in the world of Hellboy! MK1 Price $9.50 due at MK1 during the week following 3rd of August 2022
SWORD OF AZRAEL #1 (OF 6) CVR A NIKOLA CIZMESIJA DC COMICS (W) Dan Watters (A/CA) Nikola Cizmesija
THE WARRIOR ANGEL OF ST. DUMAS RETURNS! Jean-Paul Valley does not want to be Azrael ever again. All it has brought him is pain, violence, and misery. He has sequestered himself away at a monastery in Europe to find peace. But when a young woman who claims to have the same System programming that made Jean-Paul into Azrael arrives at the monastery, he won’t have a choice but to don his violent mantle of Azrael once more to protect her from the deadly assassins who wish her harm. From the rising star creative team of Dan Watters (Arkham City: The Order of the World, Lucifer) and Nikola Cižmešija (Batman: Urban Legends, Future State: Gotham) this miniseries will redefine one of the Batman world’s most iconic and fierce characters. MK1 Price $9.50 due at MK1 during the week following 2nd of August 2022.
SURVIVAL STREET #1 (OF 4) CVR A KUSSAINOV
DARK HORSE COMICS : (W) James Asmus, Jim Festante (A/CA) Abylay Kussainov
Survival Street is a unrepentant action satire tearing through a dystopia packed with economic and humanistic cautionary tales.
After an unbridled wave of corporations take over America, the country is left completely deregulated and effectively carved up into feudal states where billionaires and businesses make their own laws. Among the wreckage, mass privatization shuts down public broadcasting, forcing all the beloved "edutainers" out on the down and dirty streets. One group of them stick together, determined to keep helping kids across the country and do it by becoming an A-Team-esque band of mercenaries fighting for (and educating!) kids in the crumbling, corporate war zone of New Best America.
James Asmus is the lead writer and five-time Harvey Award nominee currently writing Rick & Morty: Corporate Assets, Transformers/My Little Pony crossover miniseries, and more! MK1 Price $9.50 due at MK1 during the week following 3rd of August 2022.
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