We celebrate the month of September with 3 big books from Image Comics, as well as a tie-in to a certain movie franchise sequel nearly 40 years in the making!
Comics included in this shipment:
Plutona #1 – Image Comics
Deadpool vs. Thanos #1 Action Figure Variant – Marvel Comics
Star Wars Journey to Force Awakens Shattered Empire #1 – Marvel Comics
Tokyo Ghost #1 – Image Comics
Head Lopper #1 – Image Comics
THANK YOU for participating in March 2015’s MYSTERY BOX! We’re sending out a record number of boxes this month – our club keeps growing and growing! Exactly how did this month’s comics make the cut? Read below and find out!
Princess Leia #1 by Mark Waid & Terry Dodson: Action Figure Variant – Marvel Comics
Our third Marvel Star Wars book in as many months, and this time we’ve included the awesome Action Figure Variant, which is sold out and already commanding prices of up to $10 in the aftermarket! This Princess Leia series is set to be 5 issues long, and is the perfect companion for the ongoing Star Wars and Darth Vader books.
Descender #1 by Jeff Lemire & Dustin Nguyen – Image Comics
Amazing writing from Jeff Lemire and beautiful water-colored panels from Dustin Nguyen make this book a true work of art! If the first issue is any indication, this is a series that we will be rushing to read each month it’s released. Sony has already optioned the movie rights to this story, which has pushed this issue past the $10 mark online!
Spider-Woman #5 by Dennis Hopeless & Javier Rodriguez – Marvel Comics
This landmark issue of Spider-Woman gives Jessica Drew an all-new hip and updated costume, which was something Marvel needed to do after the controversy of the variant cover from issue #1. The new outfit is already a hit with readers – this issue is sold out and headed for reprints!
Chrononauts #1 by Mark Millar & Sean Murphy – Image Comics
Who doesn’t love a good time travel story, especially when written by one of comics’ most prolific creators Mark Millar! Joined by superstar artist Sean Murphy, this tells the story of the first trip through time, and like the first landing on the moon, this trip will be televised! The announcement of a movie deal for this book with Universal, plus an “optical illusion” on the cover, has pushed this sold-out Sean Murphy cover as high as – wait for it – $30! WOW!
Hellbreak #1 by Cullen Bunn & Brian Churilla – Oni Press
Cullen Bunn, writer for books such as Magneto, Deadpool Kills, and Sixth Gun takes us to Hell and back in this offering from Oni Press. Project Keberos has been developed to break into hell, rescue lost souls, and then break back out. The book promises “thousands of hells” and we can’t wait to see how Brian Churilla visualizes that.
Convergence #0 by Dan Jurgens & Ethan Van Sciver – DC Comics
The end of “The New 52” all begins here. Dan Jurgens gives us this Superman-centric introduction to the event where DC’s universes will collide, giving us a look back at the heroes and villains of DC’s past, present, and future. Convergence will run through the months of April and May before the publisher begins a mini-relaunch in June!
Also, check out this video of Kevin and Ricky talking about our recent Mystery Box picks!
Thanks for being a part of ComicBoxer. April’s mystery box is one that you DO NOT want to miss!
THANK YOU for participating in January 2015’s MYSTERY BOX! Is there any better way to kick off the new year than with awesome new comics? How did this month’s comics make the cut? Read below and find out!
Star Wars #1 by Jason Aaron & John Cassaday – Marvel Comics
Disney’s deal for the Star Wars franchise in 2012 brought the worlds most popular space adventure under the same umbrella as Disney’s other hot property – Marvel Comics. So it was only natural for the comic adaptation of the series to make its return to Marvel Comics in a BIG way. Set in the time between “A New Hope” and “Empire Strikes Back”, this issue has already sold out of its first AND second printings!
Harley Quinn #14 by Jimmy Palmiotti, Amanda Conner, Bruce Timm – DC Comics
Harley Quinn is everywhere right now, having become one of DC Comics’ most popular characters thanks to her appearances in comics, video games, animated shows, and of course the upcoming Suicide Squad movie. Included in this mystery box is the Flash Variant, drawn by none other than Harley Quinn’s co-creator, the legendary Bruce Timm!
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #1 by Ryan North & Erica Henderson: Skottie Young Variant – Marvel Comics
The quirky and upbeat Squirrel Girl, defeater of the likes of Doctor Doom, Wolverine, Deadpool, and Thanos gets her own ongoing series written by Ryan North, who you may know from Adventure Time and Dinosaur Comics. Squirrel Girl may be the most powerful person in the Marvel Universe! Featured here is the Skottie Young variant cover.
Ant-Man #1 by Nick Spencer & Ramon Rosanas: Ed McGuinness “Shrinking” Variant – Marvel Comics
Get ready for the blockbuster Ant-Man movie coming in 2015 starring Paul Rudd and Michael Douglas, by reading up on Scott Lang the successor to Hank Pym’s Ant-Man. This cover is very unique – it’s a “Shrinking Variant” by Ed McGuinness. Each issue is individually numbered, and features Ant-Man in various states of shrinkage! No two covers are alike!
Spider-Verse Team Up #3 by Various & Jamal Campbell: SIGNED – Marvel Comics
Spider-Verse has been capturing the hearts and minds of Spider-Fans since the event started a few months back. So many alternate universe Spideys have been introduced and this is a book that teams a bunch of them up! Up and coming Marvel cover artist Jamal Campbell was nice enough to sign these copies for ComicBoxer. We think you’ll be seeing a lot of him in the near future!
This is also the first month that we’ve filmed an unboxing of one of our mystery boxes. Check it out:
Thanks for being a part of ComicBoxer. There are some major comic releases coming in the month of February and we know you’ll all enjoy next month’s mystery box! Happy New Year, and all the best in 2015!
