J. C. Vaughn

It doesn’t matter if you’re just starting out or you’re a seasoned collecting: The Overstreet Guide To Collecting Comics offers insights every collector needs to know in order to collect more effectively. In an innovative blend of comic book storytelling and traditional text and images, the team behind The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide leads a deep dive into collecting by genre, creator, publisher, era, lost universes, and more. This book offers insights into understanding grading, buying, selling, forming a good relationship with a dealer, the warning signs a too-good-to-be-true offers, and more. It also gets creators, collectors, show promoters, and dealers to open up about what got them into comics in the first place and what kept them there.

The ground-breaking second volume of The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide To Lost Universes takes a tour through a whole new set of comic book worlds that have come and gone (and sometimes come again): Fawcett’s Marvel Family, Marvel 2099, original Chaos! Comics, Captain Canuck, Badger & Nexus, DNA Agents, Tim Truman’s Scout, BOOM!’s Stan Lee Universe, and others. Every comic listed in this book is pictured, and there are plenty of examples of original comic art as well, making it a hybrid of the Guide and the acclaimed Photo-Journals!

The highly collectible world of lost universes gets a brand-new specially focused edition of The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide that also serves as a Photo-Journal of all the books listed. From in-depth looks at the original Milestone and Valiant to Tower’s T. H. U. N. D. E. R. Agents and Charlton’s superheroes, and from Topp’s Kirbyverse and the MLJ/Archie heroes to Malibu’s Ultraverse and Marvel’s New Universe, this full-color book dives deep into Atlas-Seaboard, Comics Greatest World, Continuity, Defiant, Future Comics, Triumphant and more. Not only is packed with images and prices, but it also includes creator and collector interviews and insights.

For more than a year, the grizzliest murder in the history of the normally sleepy, mid-cities town of Hurst, Texas has gone unsolved. With the case growing colder by the day and desperate for any kind of breakthrough, the victim’s mother turns to private investigators Donovan Bay and Michelle Bentley. They dig in immediately, but the more they dig, the worse the victim looks, the more potential suspects they find, and the deeper the mystery becomes. SECOND WEDNESDAY is the debut novel from veteran graphic novelist J. C. Vaughn (24, Stargate Atlantis, Vampire, PA).

All of American Mythology's Stargate Atlantis comics to date have been leading up to this! The Atlantis team must find a way to stop the out-of-control Ancient, Janus, and his alien army, with the fate of two galaxies on the line! The official comic book continuation of Stargate Atlantis picks up after the events of the television series final episode and thrusts the fan-favorite characters back into a universe on the brink of destruction. This trade collects Stargate Atlantis Hearts & Minds #1-3 and Stargate Atlantis Singularity #1-3. Come with us, Back to Pegasus!

The original 2007 mini-series that put vampires on the Pennsylvania map is finally collected in trade paperback! Dean Marklin never believed in vampires until he was attacked by one. Now he’s more than a believer. He’s kept his day job as a HVAC repairman so he can afford to hunt vampires by night in the normally sleepy Pittsburgh suburb of Dormont (where there is a surprisingly large undead population). Written by Zombie-Proof creator J. C. Vaughn, illustrated by Brendon & Brian Fraim (The Three Stooges), and colored by Mark Wheatley (Breathtaker), this volume includes bonus pages not included in the individual issues and the original short story that inspired the series.

Stargate: Atlantis is back with brand new comic book adventures that pick up right where the acclaimed TV series left off! Comic art legend Greg LaRocque (Flash: The Return of Barry Allen, Web of Spider-Man) and newcomer Scottie Watson join the writing team of Mark L. Haynes & J. C. Vaughn (24, Stargate Universe) to deliver the powerful and long-awaited new tales of John Sheppard, Teyla, Ronon, Rodney McKay and the rest of the beloved characters. After Atlantis is stranded on Earth following the events in the series' cliffhanger ending, what surprising danger threatens them and our whole planet? And while they're on Earth, what new menace enters the scene in the Pegasus galaxy? All will be revealed in this exciting new collection of American Mythology's first two story arcs, StargateAtlantis: Back To Pegasus and Stargate Atlantis: Gateways, the comics that made one review say, “As far as television franchises continuing on in comic books I think this one is definitely the most authentic to the series.”

America’s favorite funnymen are back in all new original stories featuring the classic likenesses and personalities of The Three Stooges! 70 years after the last film featuring Moe, Larry, and Curly we are proud to present hilarious new shorts with all the eye poking, face slapping, and nose pinching goodness of yesteryear. The Stooges influenced generations of comic book creators and now lifelong fans have a chance to contribute to their legacy with these new slapstick adventures. We cram so much Stooge into this new issue that you’ll be nyuk, nyuk, nyuking it up for weeks to come! Timeless comedy returns to comic books with new and classic stories to tickle your funny bone. Collects The Boys Are Back, StoogeAPalooza, Red White & Stooge, and Curse of Frankenstooge stories.

For 20 years Billy Bob Driwahl has known they were coming. His only mistake was letting people find out he knew. Now the people who ostracized him for two decades have turned to him to save them. Can he do it? And what about the zombie Chihuahuas? At the end of the world, the zombie proofing business is thriving. Collects the original three issue mini-series, the one-shot, and more.