Duane Swierczynski

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  • Bibliography:
    78 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 2005
  • Latest Book:
    October 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Charlie Hardie

1 - Fun and Games (Jun-2011)
2 - Hell and Gone (Oct-2011)
3 - Point and Shoot (May-2013)

Multi-Author Series List

Birds of Prey (The New 52)

1 - Birds of Prey Vol. 1: Trouble in Mind (Sep-2012)
2 - Birds of Prey Vol. 2: Your Kiss Might Kill (Apr-2013)
3 - Birds of Prey Vol. 3: A Clash of Daggers (Dec-2013)

DC Comics: The New 52

Birds of Prey Vol. 1: Trouble in Mind (Sep-2012)
Birds of Prey Vol. 2: Your Kiss Might Kill (Apr-2013)
Birds of Prey Vol. 3: A Clash of Daggers (Dec-2013)

Marvel's Deadpool

Deadpool vs. X-Force (Nov-2014)
Deadpool: Wade Wilson's War (Nov-2014)
Deadpool Classic, Volume 15: All the Rest (Mar-2016)
Deadpool Minibus 2 (Sep-2016)
Deadpool Classic, Volume 17: Headcanon (Mar-2017)
Deadpool Classic, Volume 18: Deadpool Vs. Marvel (Aug-2017)

Marvel's The Punisher

Punisher: Frank Castle Max - Six Hours to Kill (Sep-2009)
Punisher: Frank Castle Max - Welcome to the Bayou (Dec-2009)

Marvel's X-Men

X-Men: Curse of the Mutants - Mutants vs. Vampires (Mar-2011)
Cable: The Last Hope (Apr-2018)

Book List in Order: 78 titles

  • The Wheelman

    Meet Lennon, a mute Irish getaway driver who has fallen in with the wrong heist team on the wrong day at the wrong bank. Betrayed, his money stolen and his battered carcass left for dead, Lennon is on a one-way mission to find out who is responsible-...

  • Damn Near Dead

    “Some [of the stories] are hilarious; many are sad; all are the kind of stuff that makes Miss Marple look like a Girl Scout.” -- Dick Adler, Chicago Tribune

    An original anthology.

    A collection of twenty-seven original “geezer noi...

  • The Blonde

    The night before a big meeting, Jack Eisley is sitting in an airport bar in Philadelphia, chatting up a pretty young blonde. Sure, Jack has a wife and daughter at home, but this is just a little harmless flirting. Harmless, that is, until the blonde ...

  • Secret Dead Men

    A smart-talking supernatural noir, full of twists and turns, delivered at a whipalong pace about a dead investigative-journalist-turned-soul-collector on the trail of his nemesis " and murderer. Perfect for fans of Ben Aaranovitch and Richard Kadre...

  • Severance Package

    Some days, you could just kill your boss. Guess what? The feeling is mutual in the next thriller by the acclaimed author of The Wheelman and The Blonde.Jamie DeBroux's boss has called a special meeting for all "key personnel" at 9:00 a.m. on a hot Sa...

  • Murder at Wayne Manor

    In the tradition of Quirk's The Crimes of Dr. Watson, this interactive mystery pits a legendary detective--Batman--against a shocking and seemingly inexplicable crime. When a construction crew at Wayne Manor discovers a long-buried corpse, all th...

  • Werewolf by Night: In the Blood

    For 28 days of the month, Jack Russell leads a normal life. He's got a beautiful wife and a baby on the way. He's the picture of happiness. On day 29, however, he turns into an uncontrollable, bloodthirsty monster. But as the saying goes, the best-la...

  • Punisher: Frank Castle Max - Six Hours to Kill

    Marvel's The Punisher

    The Punisher always knew he'd die on the job. But he didn't know he'd have an expiration date. After busting up a slave ring in downtown Philadelphia, Frank Castle has been tricked, trapped, gassed, strapped to a table, and injected with a serum that...

  • Punisher: Frank Castle Max - Welcome to the Bayou

    Marvel's The Punisher



  • Immortal Weapons

    Collects Immortal Weapons #1-5. One volume packed with six thrilling tales of Kung Fu action. Follow Fat Cobra as he uncovers the true story behind his decades of adventure. See the action unfold as Bride of Nine Spiders is forced to confront her pas...

  • Expiration Date

    In this neighborhood, make a wrong turn... ... and you're history. Mickey Wade is a recently-unemployed journalist who lucked into a rent-free apartment--his sick grandfather's place. The only problem: it's in a lousy neighborhood--the one wher...

  • Cable Volume 4: Homecoming

    From the moment Cable jumped into the time stream with the infant "mutant messiah," he's had only one goal: keep Hope alive until she can choose her own destiny. But now, stranded on a planet in its death throes, eating fried rat on a stick for the m...

  • X-Men: Curse of the Mutants - Mutants vs. Vampires

    Marvel's X-Men

    Lock your doors, board up the windows, arm yourselves with stakes and sunlight...and it still won't protect you when the vampires stalking the X-Men set their sights on YOU! The X-Men have their work cut out for them as they're pitted against a terri...

  • Fun and Games

    Charlie Hardie - 1

    The first of three explosive pulp thrillers arriving back-to-back from cult crime fiction sensation and Marvel Comics scribe Duane Swierczynski. Charlie Hardie, an ex-cop still reeling from the revenge killing of his former partner's entire family...

  • Hell and Gone

    Charlie Hardie - 2

    Left for dead after an epic shootout that blew the lid off a billion-dollar conspiracy, ex-cop Charlie Hardie quickly realizes that when you're dealing with The Accident People, things can get worse. Drugged, bound and transported by strange operativ...

  • Infestation 2, Volume 1

    • The endless zombie hordes of Infestation are defeated... but now a greater threat looms in Infestation 2! The balance of magic has been tipped allowing the nightmares of H.P. Lovecraft, the Eldar Gods, to break through their cosmic prison an...

  • Birds of Prey Vol. 1: Trouble in Mind

    Birds of Prey (The New 52) - 1
    DC Comics: The New 52

    One is wanted for a murder she didn't commit. The other is on the run because she knows too much. They are Dinah Laurel Lance and Ev Crawford - a.k.a. Black Canary and Starling - and joining them are the villainous Poison Ivy and the heroic Batgirl a...

  • Godzilla, Volume 1

    Duane Swierczynski and Simon Gane launch this ultimate action-movie blockbuster, ushering in a new era of monster battles. Ex-special forces tough-guy Boxer is a man with a grudge and vows to end the terror of Godzilla, no matter what. He assembles a...

  • Infestation 2: The Complete Series

    • The Elder Gods of H.P. Lovecraft invade the worlds of IDW in Infestation 2! Call of Cthulhu infests 30 Days of Night, Dungeons & Dragons, G.I. Joe, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Transformers. If zombies weren't bad enough, how do you sto...



  • The Immortal Iron Fist, Volume 4: The Mortal Iron Fist

    Collects Immortal Iron Fist #17-20 & Death Queen Special. Think you know everything there is to know about the traditions of the Immortal Iron Fist? If you do, then why's Danny sweating bullets over an inescapable legacy that's haunted the Iron ...

  • Bloodshot, Volume 1: Setting The World On Fire

    • Your name is Angelo Mortalli. Your brother is trapped behind enemy lines and on the verge of ― no. That's not right. Your name is Raymond Garrison. You've retired from the dangers of the field, but a desperate plea from your oldest friend ...

  • Godzilla, Volume 2

    Boxer and his team decide it’s time to turn their sights to the big game -- Godzilla! But, a perfect plan goes awry when a billionaire adventurer gets his hands on Mechagodzilla and the world’s governments have branded them outlaws. Nothing will ...

  • Judge Dredd, Volume 1

    • In the 22nd century, crime runs rampant in Mega-City One, home to over 400-million citizens, robots, criminals, and lunatics. The only line of defense between anarchy and chaos are... the Judges. And Judge Dredd is the toughest of them all. ...

  • Birds of Prey Vol. 2: Your Kiss Might Kill

    Birds of Prey (The New 52) - 2
    DC Comics: The New 52

    Black Canary, Starling, Poison Ivy and Batgirl. Together, as Gotham City's covert ops team, they're taking down the villains other heroes can't touch. They are the Birds of Prey. The Birds face a multitude of threats from outside and in! A dangerous ...

  • Point and Shoot

    Charlie Hardie - 3

    Charlie Hardie finds himself in a steel box, tubes and wires attached to his body, trapped inside a satellite parked in orbit 500 miles above the Earth. He's got a year's supply of food, air, water, and no communication back to Earth, and must comple...

  • Bloodshot, Volume 2: The Rise and the Fall

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    • Bloodshot is finally free of the memories that have haunted him since hisawakening - but now even greater mysteries remain. Who was he before hewas transformed into a walking weapon? And just what purpose did he serve forProject Rising Spiri...

  • Godzilla, Volume 3

    The end is NIGH! Space Godzilla and other interstellar enemies arrive on Earth and they’re here to stay… and destroy humanity! Boxer, with his team decimated, realizes just how in over his head he is. There’s only one possible ally he can turn ...

  • Judge Dredd, Volume 2

    • In "The Long Fail," technology is failing all over Mega-City One, causing blackouts, explosions, radiation leaks, and other nasty surprises. As the city spirals into chaos, Judge Dredd must fight back with no weapon, no ride, and no backup. ...

  • Bloodshot, Volume 3: Harbinger Wars

    • In the deserts outside Las Vegas, Bloodshot has banded together with Project Rising Spirit's most dangerous escapees. But when the Harbinger Wars erupt all around them, can he shape these super-powered children into a force for good ― or a...



  • Harbinger Wars, Volume 1

    • Harbinger Wars, Valiant’s first crossover event, begins here! Two dozen undisciplined, untested, and untrained superhuman children have just escaped from a top-secret research facility and into the world. When Bloodshot, Toyo Harada, and P...

  • Birds of Prey Vol. 3: A Clash of Daggers

    Birds of Prey (The New 52) - 3
    DC Comics: The New 52

    The Birds of Prey lose one member but gain another, all while the team itself is pulled apart by personal demons and a traitor in their midsts. Plus, Mr. Freeze is out of Arkham Asylum and looking for revenge on the Court of Owls! His first target? T...

  • Judge Dredd, Volume 3

    * As chaotic and violent as things can be in Mega-City One, it's all unicorns, ice cream, and rainbows compared to what you'll find beyond the outer walls...in the CURSED EARTH! In the wake of the devastation of "The Long Fail," Dredd is forced to le...

  • X, Volume 1: Big Bad

    "A masked vigilante known only as ""X"" dispenses justice without mercy to the criminals who rule the decaying city of Arcadia. When muckraking blogger Leigh Ferguson snoops down the wrong alley, she gets swept into X''s bloody war with a politically...

  • The Encyclopedia of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List

    In 1949, a crime reporter looking for a way to fill a column published the nation’s ten worst criminals as classified by the FBI: two accused murderers, four escaped convicts, a bank robber, and three “confidence men.” In addition to the stark ...

  • Bloodshot Deluxe Edition, Book 1

    • Your name is Angelo Mortalli. Your brother is trapped behind enemy lines and on the verge of ― no. That’s not right. Your name is Raymond Garrison. You’ve retired from the dangers of the field, but a desperate plea from your oldest fri...

  • Godzilla: History's Greatest Monster

    • Godzilla continues to destroy cities and lives all over the world and ex-special forces tough guy Boxer is a man with a grudge who vows to end the terror of Godzilla -- no matter what! He assembles a top notch team to take him and the othe...

  • Judge Dredd, Volume 4: Thirteen Badges

    • Dredd returns to Mega-City One -- still recovering from the ravages of “The Long Fail” -- only to find the Justice Department under siege! Seems that someone has snuffed 12 Judges in creative and shocking ways!
    ...

  • X, Volume 2: The Dogs of War

    When X attacks the notoriously corrupt narcotics squad known as "The Dogs of War," the manipulative Lt. Setter fights back by pitting him against the last few honest cops in Arcadia... and X's battle escalates into a war for the soul of the city! Col...

  • Immortal Iron Fist: The Complete Collection Volume 2

    Although the Iron Fist's legend is immortal, Danny Rand is definitely not! Why is Danny sweating over an inescapable legacy that has haunted the Iron Fists for centuries? And what is the deeper meaning of Xao's ominous threat? As Danny and the Immort...



  • Two Past Midnight

    A madman is on the loose. His goal: Shock, awe, panic, and hysteria. Can three disparate heroes -- an investigative specter, a psychopathic vigilante, and a time-traveling genius -- put aside their differences to defeat this terror-focused sociopath...

  • Judge Dredd, Volume 5

    • Dredd’s most vicious and unstoppable enemies -- the Dark Judges -- are clawing their way into Mega-City One, determined to transform it into a new city of the dead. But the only thing more horrifying than the Dark Judges’ onslaught a...

  • X, Volume 3: Siege

    Paroled mobster Carmine Tango returns to Arcadia, plunging the stagnant city into darkness and chaos! Meanwhile, a suicidal enforcer turned suicidal maniac is picking off X's targets before he can get to them. While X furiously battles maniacs in the...

  • Black Widow: Kiss or Kill

    Marvel's Black Widow

    Collects Black Widow (2010) #6-8 and Iron Man: Kiss and Kill. A senator is seduced and assassinated, and his journalist son follows the trail to a fatally sexy Soviet agent. This deadly "woman in black" moonlights as a high-class escort to lure power...

  • Deadpool vs. X-Force

    Marvel's Deadpool

    Journey back to the gritty, hyper-detailed days of the 1990s, when two characters debuted who would change the face of comics: Cable and Deadpool! Now, in this new tale, we learn of the pair’s first meeting, as Cable and his nascent X-Force race th...

  • Deadpool: Wade Wilson's War

    Marvel's Deadpool

    Collects Deadpool: Wade Wilson's War #1-4. Want answers about Deadpool? Like why does he refuse to move his weird red-and-black mask? Why does he only answer to the name "Deadpool"? Was hereally part of a black bag special ops team that nobody has e...

  • The Immortal Iron Fist, Volume 5: Escape from the Eighth City

    Collects Immortal Iron Fist 21-27. Danny Rand was not the first Immortal Iron Fist… and he won't be the last! The year - 3099. The place - a distant planet first colonized a millennium ago by the People's Republic of China. Now, a humanity oppresse...

  • Judge Dredd: City Limits

    • In the 22nd Century, crime runs rampant in Mega-City One, home to over 400-million citizens, robots, criminals, and lunatics. The only line of defense between order and chaos are... The Judges.
    • Writer Duane Swiercyznski and artist ...

  • Judge Dredd, Volume 6

    "Judge Anderson is trying to make it back to Mega-City One in ""To Live and Die in Deadworld"" and Judge Dredd must go inside the area formerly known as Sector One to rescue the Chief Justice and the Council of Five in ""Black Light District."""...

  • X, Volume 4: Better Off Dead

    Tango’s gang was a handful, but the Archon and his army, the Chosen, are more powerful than any enemy X has ever faced! Betrayed or abandoned by his allies, X must face Arcadia’s newest threat the old-fashioned way: alone! Collects issues #1...



  • Canary

    It's dangerous enough when an ordinary college girl turns confidential informant. Even more dangerous when she's smarter than the killer, kingpins, and cops who control her. Honors student Sarie Holland is busted by the local police while doing a ...

  • X, Volume 5 Flesh and Blood

    X's former accomplice Leigh Ferguson is shocked to learn that her high school friend has become the latest victim of "the Skin Traders," a mysterious gang of surgically modified thugs stealing slices of flesh from their abductees. Only the resilient ...

  • Judge Dredd, Volume 7: Mega-City Manhunt

    "Dredd has defeated the Dark Judges and broken out of Sector One… only to find himself a fugitive in Judge Cal’s insane surveillance state, with only Anderson in his head helping him survive Cal’s rabid chase, in ""Mega-City Manhunt...

  • Ex-Con, Volume 1: Fading Lights

    • Cody Pomeray had a gift for looking inside a person's soul with just a glance. This ability served him well, as the crook blew through the early 1980s, finding marks and picking them clean. But one fateful night, he targeted the wrong man......

  • X, Volume 6: Marked for Death - Enter The Mark

    The last time the racist dictator known as the Archon came to Arcadia, he mistook X for an old nemesis and beat him to within an inch of his life. Now the Archon is back, along with his actual nemesis, a mysterious figure called the Mark--and their a...

  • Deadpool Classic, Volume 15: All the Rest

    Marvel's Deadpool

    It's the latest and greatest volume in the increasingly flexibly named Deadpool Classic series! The ever-sociable Wade Wilson is back - rubbing shoulders with his bro Cable, laughing it up with his other bro Wolverine and forging an all-new bromance ...

  • Revolver

    Three generations torn apart--by bullets fired fifty years ago. Philadelphia, 1965: Two street cops--one black, one white--are gunned down in a corner bar. One of the fallen officers, Stan Walczak, leaves behind a 12-year-old boy, Jimmy. Philad...

  • Deadpool Minibus 2

    Marvel's Deadpool

    Back up the minibus, it's time for a second trip into the crazy world of the Deadpool limited series, where anything can happen - and probably will! Everything you knew about Deadpool and Cable was wrong - find out why in a time-hopping showdown with...

  • Judge Dredd: City Limits, Volume 2

    "In the 22nd century, crime runs rampant in Mega-City One, home to over 800 million citizens, robots, criminals, and lunatics. The only line of defense between order and chaos are… the Judges. Writer Duane Swierczynski and artist Nelson Dá...

  • Deadpool Classic, Volume 17: Headcanon

    Marvel's Deadpool

    They may be alternate reality Deadpools, but they're still just as Mercy and just as Mouthy! Like the Wade Wilson who was part of an ultra-secret special ops team along with allies named Bullseye, Silver Sable and Domino! But a bloody Mexican massacr...

  • Deadpool Classic, Volume 18: Deadpool Vs. Marvel

    Marvel's Deadpool

    "The Merc with a Mouth takes on Marvel''s greatest heroes and vilest villains! Everything you knew about Deadpool''s first encounter with Cable was wrong - now get the full story! Can X-Force save history from Deadpool? Wade Wilson goes to Infinity a...

  • Cable: The Last Hope

    Marvel's X-Men

    Collects Cable (2008) #1-12, King-Size Cable #1, X-Men: The Times & Life of Lucas Bishop #1-3, X-Men: Future History - The Messiah War Sourcebook. Cable is a man on a mission once again! To protect the first mutant born since M-Day, Cable flees w...

  • Breakneck #1

    A countdown thriller in modern-day Philadelphia, perfect for fans of 24, Homeland and Falling Down. When everyman Joe Hayward confronts his cheating wife, he stumbles on a terrorist plot. With just two hours to save Philly, Joe needs all the help he...

  • Breakneck #2

    Two hours to save Philadelphia! Thrust into a terrorist plot, can Joe save those he loves… even if he needs the secret agent in bed with his wife?A madcap new countdown thriller from Duane Swierczynski (‘Punisher’, ‘Deadpool’)...

  • Breakneck #3

    Joe Hayward isn’t a hero. He isn’t even an anti-hero. But with less than two hours to save Philadelphia from a terrorist plot, there’s no time to be picky!From celebrated crime and comics author Duane Swierczynski (Deadpool, Wheelman)....

  • Breakneck #4

    Joe had just two hours to save Philadelphia… but that was almost two hours ago!The new Hard Case Crime countdown thriller from award-winning author Duane Swierczynski, with a conclusion that may be literally explosive…...

  • B-Squad, Volume 1: Conspiracy in Cambodia

    A mild-mannered consultant is reluctantly forced into a race against the clock as he attempts to thwart a terrorist plot, in this gritty, countdown crime thriller set in modern-day Philadelphia.

    During an angry confrontation at two-bit motel, ...

  • Breakneck

    Two hours to save Philadelphia! Thrust into a terrorist plot, can Joe save those he loves… even if he needs the secret agent in bed with his wife?A madcap new countdown thriller from Duane Swierczynski (‘Punisher’, ‘Deadpool’)...

  • Bloodshot

    Before BLOODSHOT hits the silver screen in 2020, experience the hit series that debuted Valiant's nanite-enhanced commando with this essential standalone volume!

    Killed in action, soldier Ray Garrison is brought back from the dead by Project R...

  • John Carpenter's Tales of Science Fiction: TWITCH

    August 1977. Astronomers detect the so-called “WOW” signal: a burst of sound from deep space, near the constellation Sagittarius. The signal is believed to be extraterrestrial in origin. The next month, the astronomers send a reply. Boy, is that ...

  • Redhead

    Marnie Young, an executive assistant in San Diego, is a sweet girl who wouldn’t hurt a fly. She’s also super lonely. But one night, without warning, Marnie has a violent seizure; co-workers recoil in horror as she writhes on the floor. Two days l...

  • John Carpenter's Tales of Science Fiction: CIVILIANS

    It’s a bright sunny day near the Santa Monica Pier. You’re reading an excellent horror novel (the latest Sutter Cane!) and enjoying some downtime. But suddenly… you’re compelled to stand up. So is everyone else around you. And...

  • California Bear

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER This "fresh, exciting, and brilliantly unpredictable" thriller (James Patterson) from a "great storyteller" (Michael Connelly) follows four unlikely vigilantes who pit themselves against the villain behind California’s cold...

  • Valiant Hero Universe Origins: Bloodshot

    Explore the thrilling world of BLOODSHOT, where the distinction between man and weapon fades. Ray Garrison, a brave soldier, is resurrected by the secretive military contractor, Project Rising Spirit, after falling in battle. Endowed with advanced na...

  • Best of Godzilla, Vol. 2

    All the best monster stories that can fit in one book, with features on Destoroyah, Gigan, Mechagodzilla, and SpaceGodzilla!Find out why Godzilla is the undisputed King of the Monsters with these specially picked comic issues from series such as Godz...

  • Cable Volume 1: Messiah War

    • / Graphic Novel
    • Buy Buy

    Collects Cable #1-5. Messiah CompleX changed the X-Men forever and Cable has been charged with the one mission that could save all of mutantkind - or, if he fails, damn it to extinction. And hot on his trail is a relentless enemy who won't stop until...

  • Cable Volume 2: Waiting for the End of the World

    • / Graphic Novel
    • Buy Buy

    Collects Cable #6-10 & King-Sized Cable. Is Cable ready for his new role as surrogate father to mutantkind’s future Messiah? After leaping into the future with the child, Cable sought refuge from the traitorous X-Man Lucas Bishop in the hidden...

  • Cable Volume 3: Stranded

    • / Graphic Novel
    • Buy Buy

    Collects Cable (2008) #16-21. We open literally one second after the shattering conclusion of Messiah War, and Cable's mission to save mutantkind has never looked more bleak. In fact, you can't even call it a mission anymore... After all he's been th...

  • Tough Guy Ballet

    • / Thriller
    • Buy Buy

Award-Winning Books by Duane Swierczynski

Expiration Date
2011 Anthony Award -- Paperback Original
Fun and Games
2012 Shamus Award -- Paperback Original P.I. Novel


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Duane Swierczynski has published 78 books.

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The first book by Duane Swierczynski, The Wheelman, was published in October 2005.

Yes. Duane Swierczynski has 1 series.
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