It’s the creme-de-la-creme from the 1996 House of Ideas! Witness Wolverine’s first meeting with Elektra! Captain America and Sharon Carter bid a bitter farewell! Mourn with the web-slinger over a shocking death from the pages of Untold Tales of Spider-Man! Tremble as Onslaught rocks the foundations of the Marvel Universe! Plus more!
Bloodhound #0 – 3
Star rating
2
Rating
other-comics
Year
1997
Genre
other-comics
Runtime
1
Cast
Three issue series.
Catwoman-Vampirella – The Furies
Star rating
2
Rating
dc
Year
1997
Genre
dc
Runtime
1
Cast
Gotham City is plagued by a series of cat related thefts. The police suspect Selina Kyle, the Catwoman, but she is being set up. Serendipitously, Vampirella is in Gotham and they team up to track down the shape shifting thief. They eventually trace the thief back to the lair of Oswald Cobblepot (the Penguin). The thief turns out to be a private investigator called Pantha, who is trying to trace some stolen cat artifacts for her client.
DV8 VS Black Ops #1 – 3
Star rating
2
Rating
other-comics
Year
1997
Genre
other-comics
Runtime
1
Cast
Two teams gone rogue meet in this mini-series that pits the rogue group of Gen-Actives called DV8 against the rogue agents of International Operations called Black Ops.
Deadpool & Cable – Split Second Infinite Comic #3
Star rating
2
Rating
marvel
Year
1997
Genre
marvel
Runtime
1
Cast
Watch Deadpool & Cable go back in time…again…and again…and again- you get the picture. And, find out just who is the mysterious Split-Second!
Deadpool & The Mercs For Money #5
Star rating
2
Rating
marvel
Year
1997
Genre
marvel
Runtime
1
Cast
The final fate of the future Recorder is revealed! Will the forces of good prevail? But more importantly–will the Mercs get their Money?
Doom – The Emperor Returns #1 – 3
Star rating
2
Rating
marvel
Year
1997
Genre
marvel
Runtime
1
Cast
This 3-issue miniseries is a follow up to 2000’s ‘Doom’ and, predictably, stars Dr. Doom.
Essential X-Men
Star rating
2
Rating
marvel
Year
1997
Genre
marvel
Runtime
1
Cast
These phonebook-sized, B&W, value-priced collections contain about 25 issues each of consecutive continuity; picking up from the X-Men’s “relaunch” in 1975’s “Giant-Sized X-Men #1”.
Heroes Reborn – The Return #1 – 4 (1997)
Star rating
2
Rating
marvel
Year
1997
Genre
marvel
Runtime
1
Cast
Franklin Richards has visions of being in a life raft as New York floods, while accompanied by a woman who ominously tells him of choices he must make. He wakes up in the Everglades where the Man-Thing has been watching over him. He inadvertently knocks his ball into the water, and it is snapped up by a hungry alligator. Franklin becomes angry, and using his powers destroys the reptile to retrieve the ball that is so important to him.
JLA #1 – 125 + Annuals
Star rating
2
Rating
dc
Year
1997
Genre
dc
Runtime
1
Cast
In this start to Grant Morrison’s best-selling JLA run, a new super-team convinces the Earth that they’re a force for good. But when the true nature of these impostors comes to light, only Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, the Flash, Green Lantern, and the Martian Manhunter can stop them!
JLA – WildC.A.T.s
Star rating
2
Rating
dc
Year
1997
Genre
dc
Runtime
1
Cast
DC Comics JLA and Image/WildStorm WildCATS crossover from JLA writer Grant Morrison and artist Val Semeiks. Incidentally, this was published a year before DC bought the WildStorm company from Image.
Kingdom Come – Revelations
Star rating
2
Rating
dc
Year
1997
Genre
dc
Runtime
1
Cast
Kingdom Come: Revelations is a compendium to Kingdom Come, co-published by DC and Graphitti Designs in 1997, containing further sketches and developmental artwork from Alex Ross, showing the development of the character designs and the storyline.
Lazarus Churchyard – The Final Cut
Star rating
2
Rating
other-comics
Year
1997
Genre
other-comics
Runtime
1
Cast
This series follows Lazarus Churchyard on his seemingly pointless journey in search of something that can kill him.
Major Bummer #1 – 15
Star rating
2
Rating
dc
Year
1997
Genre
dc
Runtime
1
Cast
Zinnak and Yoof are two alien college students doing a project on superheroes. They develop a superhuman power package and a device to attract trouble. Incompetence sends the powers to Lou Martin, a shiftless lazy kid with no ambition. It was supposed to go to Lewis Martin, a philathropist and lawyer. Other heroes come forward, most more heroic then Lou but with flaws of their own.
Operation Zero Tolerance (Story Arc)
Star rating
2
Rating
marvel
Year
1997
Genre
marvel
Runtime
1
Cast
“Operation: Zero Tolerance” was a crossover storyline that ran through Marvel Comics’ X-Men related titles during 1997. The story followed from the “Onslaught Saga” and focused on individuals, including Bastion and Henry Peter Gyrich, within the United States government and their attempts to use their positions to hunt down all mutants across the country. Within the story, the program is known as “Operation: Zero Tolerance”.
Psylocke & Archangel – Crimson Dawn #1 – 4
Star rating
2
Rating
marvel
Year
1997
Genre
marvel
Runtime
1
Cast
In an alley in New York’s Chinatown, Kuragari murders Proctor Tar, a guardian of the barrier between Earth and the Crimson Dawn. But before Tar dies, he contacts Gomurr the Ancient, the other guardian on this plane. In their Soho loft, Warren Worthington III and Betsy Braddock (Archangel and Psylocke) are at an impasse in their relationship. He tries to get her to open up, but since being mauled by Sabertooth and then cured in the Crimson Dawn, she has lost her sense of self, and doesn’t know what to tell Warren. In the Crimson Dawn, Kuragari assigns his Undercloaks to present a mystic ring to Psylocke. Back on Earth, a visit from Logan helps Warren cope somewhat. At the same time, Psylocke runs a holographic training program, then the Undercloaks appear.
Quantum and Woody (Collection) (1997-2019)
Star rating
2
Rating
other-comics
Year
1997
Genre
other-comics
Runtime
1
Cast
Quantum and Woody is a comic book series co-created by writer Christopher Priest and illustrator Mark Bright. Editor Fabian Nicieza called Priest because he wanted a buddy super-hero book similar to Power Man and Iron Fist. Priest then suggested they use the artist of that series, Mark Bright. Originally reluctant to work on this, Bright suggested they make the white character the comic relief for once. Drawing inspiration from the characters played by Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes in White Men Can’t Jump, they created Quantum & Woody.[1] After Acclaim Entertainment purchased the rights to the Valiant catalog in 1994, Quantum and Woody was introduced to the Valiant Universe. In 2013 Valiant Entertainment began publishing a re-imagined version of the characters written by James Asmus with art by Tom Fowler.
Savant Garde #1 – 7
Star rating
2
Rating
other-comics
Year
1997
Genre
other-comics
Runtime
1
Cast
Following her ill-fated stint with Mr. Majestic’s new WildC.A.T.s, Savant decides to return to her life as an adventurer/archaeologist with her friend Mabel Bligh. Although she prefers to go it alone, circumstances will force her to ally with a wide variety of characters, both familiar and new.
Solar, Man of the Atom – Revelations
Star rating
2
Rating
other-comics
Year
1997
Genre
other-comics
Runtime
1
Cast
Solar, Man of the Atom – Revelations
Strong Guy
Star rating
2
Rating
marvel
Year
1997
Genre
marvel
Runtime
1
Cast
Straight from the pages of X-Factor! Strong Guy’s out of his coma – sounds like it’s time to team up with his ol’ pal Lila Cheney to go on a rip-snorting, galaxy-spanning adventure! Why, you ask? Well, to save the universe from warring alien races, of course!
The Kents #1 – 12
Star rating
2
Rating
dc
Year
1997
Genre
dc
Runtime
1
Cast
12-issue series establishes how the Kents (Superman’s adoptive family) move to Kansas, where Luther Reid murders Silas Kent.
The Lost World – Jurassic Park #1 – 4 (1997)
Star rating
2
Rating
other-comics
Year
1997
Genre
other-comics
Runtime
1
Cast
Four issue movie adaptation mini-series.
Thunderbolts #2
Star rating
2
Rating
marvel
Year
1997
Genre
marvel
Runtime
1
Cast
A group of reformed (are they reformed?) super criminals protect a facet of immense power while hunting down and destroying bizarre, mind-bending threats to the world — What could go wrong? A gut-wrenching battle for leadership; an alien threat; and the Thunderbolts caught red-handed by…well, read our pulse-pounding second issue and find out!
Thunderbolts Vol. 1 #1 – 174 (1997-2012)
Star rating
2
Rating
marvel
Year
1997
Genre
marvel
Runtime
1
Cast
“No one ever said being good would be easy”. The much acclaimed saga of Marvel villains becoming heroes. After 81 issues, the series took a brief hiatus. A few months later, the Thunderbolts returned in the mini-series Avengers/Thunderbolts before returning fully in the ongoing New Thunderbolts series with a new number one. The original numbering however is also visible, making that issue 82 – 99 of the collective Thunderbolts series. The series returned to its original numbering with issue 100 in Thunderbolts (2006). The series had two annuals,Thunderbolts ’97 and Thunderbolts 2000 and an annual-like special in 2001 named Thunderbolts: Life Sentences.
A three part mini series released in 1997, a year after the cancellation of the first Genis-Vell Captain Marvel title. This series was set before Marvel Super-Heroes #12 and chronicled Mar-Vell’s missions before he was sent to Earth. Here we see his first encounters with the characters who would later go on to be some of Mar-Vell’s most infamous enemies: Kree Officer Yon-Rogg, Galactus, the Silver Surfer, the Shi’Ar Imperial Guard, and the Brood.
Verotik Illustrated #1 (1997) (ADULT)
Star rating
2
Rating
other-comics
Year
1997
Genre
other-comics
Runtime
1
Cast
Back with an all new “Jaguar God” tale written by Glenn Danzig. Nobody does it like Bisley and Danzig as they once again take on the mythic Jungle Warriors adventures. Biz fans will be slobbering over this issue. Then Martin Emond joins Danzig in a fantasy tale of “Satanika.” It’s a strange and eerie take on a “Midsumer Nights Dream” as only Verotik could do. Next up is “Akuma-She” by Danzig and Mighten and is the story of a young woman whose quest to be the ultimate in femininity leads to her experimantation with high doses of cosmetic estrogen injections. The results are shall we say…MONSTROUS!!! This marks the first apearance of Akuma-She.
Voodoo #1 – 4 (1997-1998)
Star rating
2
Rating
other-comics
Year
1997
Genre
other-comics
Runtime
1
Cast
The title of this issue comes from Papa Legba, a figure in the belief system of Haitian Vodou or “voodoo”. Although Papa Legba himself appears in the issue, the word “Legba” is never mentioned in the story itself and he is only referred to as “Attibon” and “Papa”.
Wildstorm Spotlight #1 – 4
Star rating
2
Rating
other-comics
Year
1997
Genre
other-comics
Runtime
1
Cast
An anthology series spotlighting various Wildstorm characters.
X-Men – Operation Zero Tolerance (TPB) (1997)
Star rating
2
Rating
marvel
Year
1997
Genre
marvel
Runtime
1
Cast
A rogue faction of the U.S. government, backed by powerful international forces and led by the man known only as Bastion, is about to launch a massive strike against the X-Men. The strike has one goal: the extermination of the entire mutant race. This is the X-Men’s darkest hour.
Дэдпул том 1
Star rating
2
Rating
dc
Year
1997
Genre
dc
Runtime
1
Cast
Звездные Войны: Алая Империя
Star rating
2
Rating
dc
Year
1997
Genre
dc
Runtime
1
Cast
Звездные Войны: Сказания о Джедаях: Крах Империи Ситов
