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1) Pulp
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Max Winters, a pulp writer in 1930s New York, finds himself drawn into a story not unlike the tales he churns out at 5 cents a word - tales of a wild west outlaw dispensing justice with a six-gun. But will Max be able to do the same, when pursued by bank robbers, Nazi spies, and enemies from his past? One part thriller, one part meditation on a life of violence, PULP is unlike anything the award-winning team of BRUBAKER and PHILLIPS have ever done....
2) The fade out
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Fade Out volume 1
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Hollywood, 1948 - A noir film stuck in endless reshoots. A writer plagued by nightmares from the war. A movie starlet's suspicious death. Her replacement's suspicious past. And a mogul and his security chief willing to do anything to keep the cameras rolling, as the Red Scare and the blacklist begin to tear the town apart. An epic mystery that is about much more than murder, The Fade Out is the most ambitious graphic novel yet from noir masters Ed...
3) Night fever
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"In Europe on a business trip, Jonathan Webb can't sleep. Instead, he finds himself wandering the night in a strange foreign city, with his new friend, the mysterious and violent Rainer as his guide. Rainer shows Jonathan the hidden world of the night, a world without rules or limits. But when the fun turns dangerous, Jonathan may find himself trapped in the dark... And the question is, what will he do to get home?"--Amazon.com.
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Fade out volume 2
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"Hollywood-1948. A noir film stuck in endless reshoots. A writer plagued by nightmares from the war. An up-and-coming startlet's suspicious death. And a mogul and his security chief who will do anything to keep the cameras rolling before the studio system comes crashing down"--Page 4 of cover.
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Friday volume 2
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When Friday Fitzhugh's best friend and partner Lancelot Jones is murdered, the police of King's Hill are not up to the task of solving the crime, so Friday must pull herself out of her grief and hunt the cold winter night for justice all on her own.
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Fade out volume 3
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A continuation of the series about a movie stuck in endless reshoots, a writer damaged from the war and lost in the bottle, a dead movie star, and the lookalike hired to replace her. Nothing is what it seems in the place where only lies are true.
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Like a true crime podcast crossed with a long-lost diary, Where the Body Was is unlike anything Brubaker and Phillips have ever done, and a must-have for all their avid fans! A boarding house full of druggies. A neglected housewife. A young girl who thinks she's a superhero. A cop who wants to be left alone. And a Private Detective looking for a runaway girl. These stories collide one fateful summer in Where the Body Was, a tale of love and murder...
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Fade out volume 1
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Modern day reporter Nicolas Lash learns of a secret involving an ageless woman who has been on the run since the 1930s, while reporter Hank Raines meets the same woman in 1950s San Francisco.
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"Ellie has always had romantic ideas about drug addicts. Tragic souls drawn to needles and pills have been her obsession ever since the death of her junkie mother. But when Ellie lands in an upscale rehab clinic where nothing is what it seems, she'll find another, more dangerous, kind of romance. From the award-winning team of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips comes a pop and drug culture fueled tale of a young girl seeking darkness ... and what she finds...
10) Reckless
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Reckless (Ed Brubaker) volume 1
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"A former Sixties radical, with the scars to prove it, Ethan is on part repo man, one part private eye, and one part wrecking ball. But when a fugitive from his Weather Underground days reaches our for help, Ethan will have to face the only thing he really fears anymore...his own past" --Page 4 of cover.
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Friday (Graphic novels) volume 1
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Friday Fitzhugh spent her childhood solving crimes and digging up occult secrets with her best friend Lancelot Jones, the smartest boy in the world. But that was the past, now she's in college, starting a new life on her own. Except when Friday comes home for the holidays, she's immediately pulled back into Lance's orbit and finds that something very strange and dangerous is happening in their little New England town.
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Kill or be killed volume 3
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Brubaker and Phillips best-selling series ratchets up the tension and violence as Dylan escalates his assault on the Russian Mafia, putting his secret and the lives of his friends at risk. Both a thriller and a deconstruction of vigilantism, KILL OR BE KILLED is unlike anything this award-winning team has done before.
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Reckless (Ed Brubaker) volume 2
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"It's 1985 and things in Ethan's life are going pretty well ... until a missing woman shows up in the background of an old B-movie, and Ethan is drawn into Hollywood's secret occult underbelly as he hunts for her among the wreckage of the wild days of the '70s."--
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"P.I. Jack Herriman has seen too many dead bodies, but that's the family curse, because his uncle is the most famous crime scene photographer since WeeGee. Reeling from a case gone wrong, Jack tackles a missing persons job that should be easy, but instead leads straight into the secrets and lies of a bizarre sex cult." -- P. [4] of cover.
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Collected Gotham central volume 2
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Collects no. 11-22 of "Gotham Central," in which the Joker turns himself in after randomly killing innocent people, making the police department wonder what his motive really is; problems arise concerning the girl who turns on the Bat-signal; the Huntress gets involved in a series of murders; and Harvey Bullock tries to finish some old business.
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Kill or be killed volume 4
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"In the fourth and final volume of Brubaker and Phillips' bestselling series, our vigilante hero finally comes to the end of his rope. Unsure if there's a demon in his head telling him to kill bad people or if he's just insane, Dylan checks into a mental hospital. But hidden away in the snow-covered countryside, he finds his real-world problems have followed him there...and there may be no way to go back to the life he used to know."--Page 4 of cover...
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Criminal volume 1
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The traditional heist story is turned on its head in COWARD. Leo can plan the perfect score, but only if he can be convinced the job is safe, because Leo is not a shoot-first think-later type of criminal. Leo is a professional, whose biggest desire in life is not to end up exactly where he belongs: in a prison cell.
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"Witness Batman's first encounter with The Joker in this volume collecting the graphic novel Batman: The Man Who Laughs, by Ed Brubaker and Doug Mahnke! This collection also includes Detective Comics #784-786, a murder mystery tale guest-starring Green Lantern Alan Scott."--Provided by publisher.
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Captain America. Bucky Barnes. The Angel. Namor, the Sub-Mariner. Nick Fury. The Human Torch. Toro. The Phantom Bullet. Witness the birth of the Marvel Universe through the eyes of one of its own Golden Age heroes! As the dashing Angel fights crime in the streets of pre-wartime America of the 1930s and '40s, he witnesses the rise of an entire generation of titans - of fiery men, undersea kings and inspiring soldiers. Will these Marvels be enough to...