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SpongeBob comics volume 2
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A collection of superhero-themed SpongeBob SquarePants comics includes the reunion of the Aquatic Adventurers and SpongeBob's turn as the Super Bubble Sponge.
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Francisco Scaramanga is a hit man who is known by the golden gun and gold bullets he uses on his targets. James receives a message supposedly from Scaramanga saying that he is his next target. So M decides to relieve Bond of his duties until the danger has been neutralized. James feels that the mission he was on is of the utmost urgency and decides to go find Scaramanga himself. He thinks he found him only to discovers that Scaramanga is not after...
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Miracleman volume 4
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Atop Olympus, Miracleman presides over a brave new world forged from London's destruction. It is a world free of war, of famine, of poverty. A world of countless wonders. A world where pilgrims scale Olympus's peak to petition their living god while, miles below, the dead return in fantastic android bodies. It is an Golden Age--but is humanity ready for utopia?
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In 1958, long before he created and hosted Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, the most dynamic rock-and-roll series in television history, before he developed The Monkees and created The Archies, Don Kirshner was a 23-year-old kid with just a dream in his pocket. Five years later he was the prince of pop music. He did it by building Aldon Music, a song publishing firm, from scratch. This is about how he did it – with teenage discoveries Bobby Darin, Carole...
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If Hollywood had a superhero throne, Spider-Man would be perched upon it. As the most popular superhero in the world, the web-slinger plays a pivotal role in three of the six highest-grossing film franchises in history: the Marvel Cinematic Universe; the Avengers quadrilogy; and the Spider-Man movies themselves.
Spidey has come a long way since Marvel guru Stan Lee first concocted him in 1962, but until now his cinematic journey has not been fully...
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"In 1963, Marvel had hit after hit, bringing new characters to a public ready for heroes with feet of clay--none that struck both that heroic ideal and human reality like Iron Man! A jet-setter, playboy and brilliant scientist, Tony Stark's life changed forever when a battlefield explosion ripped into his heart. Only his Iron Man armor could keep him alive! Stan Lee and Don Heck built the foundation that would turn Iron Man into a global icon. Now,...
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China, Later Tang Dynasty, 10th Century. On the eve of the Chong Yang Festival, golden flowers fill the Imperial Palace. The Emperor returns unexpectedly with his second son, Prince Jai. His pretext is to celebrate the holiday with his family, but given the chilled relations between the Emperor and the ailing Empress, this seems disingenuous. For many years, the Empress and Crown Prince Wan, her stepson, have had an illicit liaison. Feeling trapped,...
32) Next
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Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him. He can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underwent as a child and the interest of the government and medical establishment in his power, he lies low in Vegas under an assumed name. There, he performs cheap tricks and lives off small-time gambling "winnings." But when a terrorist group threatens to detonate a nuclear device in Los Angeles, government...
35) British noir
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They met in the dark: During WW2, a Royal Navy Commander stumbles upon a murdered woman and discovers a network of Nazi spies and Fifth-Columnists.
The October man: Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash, is the chief suspect in a murder hunt after a young woman that he has just recently met is found dead on the local common, and he has no alibi for the time she was killed.
Snowbound: A British Army vet exposes a plot...