Sneak Peeks: Titles Shipping 12.10.08 (Part I)

Courtesy of Marvel, we have some preview pages for titles shipping Thursday, December 10th.

ADAM: LEGEND OF THE BLUE MARVEL #2

COVER BY: MAT BROOME
WRITER: KEVIN GREVIOUX
PENCILS: MAT BROOME
INKS: SEAN P. PARSONS & ALVARO LOPEZ
COLORED BY: JOHN RAUCH
LETTERED BY: DAVE LANPHEAR
EDITOR: TOM BREVOORT

THE STORY:
In the wake of Anti-Man’s devastating attack on New York City, the Mighty Avengers are neutralized, and Iron Man’s on a quest for answers! Who was the Blue Marvel? Why did he disappear over 40 years ago? And…what alarming secrets will Iron Man discover about the U.S. government and his own agency of S.H.I.E.L.D.? There are no easy answers in the story of Marvel’s newest super hero…created by Kevin Grevioux (NEW WARRIORS) and Mat Broome (The End League)!
Rated T+ …$3.99

ASTONISHING X-MEN: GHOST BOXES #2

COVER BY: SIMONE BIANCHI, ANDREA SILVESTRI & SIMONE PERUZZI
WRITER: WARREN ELLIS
PENCILS: CLAYTON CRAIN & KAARE ANDREWS
LETTERER: JOE CARAMAGNA
EDITOR: AXEL ALONSO

THE STORY:
You met Subject X in the pages of ASTONISHING X-MEN. But what was he really doing and who he was doing it for? Find our in the second issue of this special 2-issue tie-in series to Warren Ellis and Simone Bianchi’s opening salvo on Astonishing X-Men! Ghost Boxes is about the real stakes of the Ghost Boxes storyline, and what will happen if the X-Men fail to solve that mystery.
Rated T+ …$3.99

CAPTAIN BRITAIN AND MI13 #8

COVER BY: BRYAN HITCH & BRIAN REBER
WRITER: PAUL CORNELL
PENCILS: LEONARD KIRK
INKS: MICHAEL BAIR WITH JAY LEISTEN AND CRAIG YEUNG
COLORED BY: BRIAN REBER
LETTERED BY: VC – JOE CARAMAGNA
EDITOR: NICK LOWE

THE STORY:
Pete Wisdom couldn’t save John the Skrull. He couldn’t save anyone he cared for. Being in his unit can be fatal. So now all else seems lost, now Plokta’s engine for making Mindless Ones is threatening the world… what will he sacrifice to save the Black Knight? Widescreen horror action with passion, as only Marvel makes it.
Rated T+ …$2.99

PUNISHER: WAR ZONE #1

COVER BY: STEVE DILLON
WRITER: GARTH ENNIS
PENCILS: STEVE DILLON
INKS: STEVE DILLON
COLORED BY: MATT HOLLINGSWORTH
LETTERED BY: VC – RUS WOOTON

THE STORY:
“THE RESURRECTION OF MA GNUCCI,” PART 1
The latest offering from the red-hot Marvel Knights line reunites the seminal creative team of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon for a special, weekly-shipping 6-part limited sequel to their legendary story arc, “Welcome Back, Frank.” It all starts when two mobsters take a trip to the zoo and piss off the wrong monkey. Limbs are lost (the kind you can’t easily replace), vultures are fed (with said appendages), and then things get, like, really crazy. Like back-from-the-dead crazy. That’s right — she’s back and she wants payback. Ma Gnucci. Eighty-five pounds of hairless, armless, legless evil.
Parental Advisory …$3.99

WHAT IF? FALLEN SON #1

COVER BY: ED MCGUINNESS
WRITER: MARC SUMERAK
PENCILS: TREVOR GORING
INKS: TREVOR GORING
COLORED BY: ELIZABETH BREITWEISER
LETTERER: DAVE SHARPE
EDITOR: MARK PANICCIA

THE STORY:
Every man, woman and child in the Marvel Universe remembers where they were the day that Captain America died. But what if the event that forever changed the heart of heroics had never actually happened? And what if the hero that helped define the post-Civil War era had fallen in Cap’s place? Join us for a tale of death, mourning and rebirth as we ask the question on everyone’s mind: “What if Iron Man had died instead of Captain America?” Featuring Part 2 of a special five part back-up story, ‘What if the Runaways Became the Young Avengers?’ In this issue… Iron Lad stands revealed!
Rated T+ …$2.99

WOLVERINE: FLIES TO A SPIDER #1

COVER BY: TIM BRADSTREET
WRITER: GREGG HURWITZ
PENCILS: JEROME OPENA
INKS: JEROME OPENA

THE STORY:
“SWALLOWED THE SPIDER”
It’s New Year’s Eve, and tonight, like every night, they’ve gathered at the road stop saloon called the “Rat Trap.” The Road Dawgs. The meanest, nastiest, most jacked-up biker gang you ever could meet. But tonight there’s a stranger sitting on the stool at the end of the bar. Someone who’s come here to pick a fight. Someone who’s hunting far bigger game than these roughnecks, and knows exactly how to get its attention. Before the stroke of midnight, he’ll get his wish. It’s Wolverine at his fiercest, courtesy of Gregg Hurwitz (PUNISHER) and future star Jerome Opena (Fear Agent).
Parental Advisory …$3.99

X-MEN/SPIDER-MAN #2

COVER BY: MARIO ALBERTI
WRITER: CHRISTOS GAGE
PENCILS: MARIO ALBERTI
INKS: MARIO ALBERTI
COLORED BY: MARIO ALBERTI
LETTERED BY: JARED FLETCHER
EDITOR: STEPHEN WACKER

THE STORY:
The stunningly illustrated mini-series continues! In “Last Hunts and Massacres”, the black-costumed Spidey, still reeling from the events of “Kraven’s Last Hunt”, joins an X-Men team rocked by the Mutant Massacre to face the deadly menace of the Marauders! Wolverine vs. Sabretooth? Check! Storm with a Mohawk? Check! All-out action as only Italian sensation Mario Alberti can deliver? Feast your eyes, true believer!
Rated A …$3.99

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