Fred Van Lente

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  • Bibliography:
    176 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 2004
  • Latest Book:
    May 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Action Presidents

1 - George Washington! (Feb-2018)
2 - Abraham Lincoln! (Feb-2018)
3 - Theodore Roosevelt! (Jun-2020)
4 - John F. Kennedy! (Jun-2020)

Multi-Author Series List

Assassin's Creed

Assassin's Creed: Templars (Dec-2009)
Assassin's Creed: Templars #4 (Dec-2009)
Assassin's Creed: Templars #3 (Jun-2016)
Assassin's Creed: Templars #5 (Sep-2016)
Assassin's Creed: Templars Volume 1: Black Cross (Dec-2016)
Assassin's Creed: Templars Volume 2: Cross of War (May-2017)

Marvel's Deadpool

Deadpool Team-Up, Volume 1: Good Buddies (Nov-2014)

Marvel's Fantastic Four

Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four - Volume 6: Monsters & Mysteries (Aug-2007)
Fantastic Four and Power Pack: Favorite Son (Jan-2008)

Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy

Guardians of the Galaxy: Telltale Games (Feb-2018)

Marvel's Hulk

Hulk: Broken Worlds (Jul-2009)
Hulk: Season One (Aug-2012)
Hulk: Incredible Origins (Oct-2019)

Marvel's Iron Man

Marvel Universe Iron Man ()
Marvel Universe Iron Man - Comic Reader 1 ()
Marvel Adventures Iron Man - Volume 2: Iron Armory (Feb-2008)
Marvel Adventures Iron Man 1 (Feb-2008)
Marvel Adventures Iron Man: Armored Avenger (Dec-2008)
Ghost of a Chance (Jan-2009)
Pirated! (Jan-2009)
The Simple Life (Jan-2009)
Destructive Reentry (Feb-2009)
Marvel Adventures Iron Man / Spider-Man (Mar-2010)
Iron Man: War of the Iron Men (Dec-2010)
Iron Man: Industrial Revolution (Oct-2011)
Iron Man 2 (Apr-2013)
Marvel-Verse: Iron Man (Nov-2019)

Marvel's Spider-Man

Marvel Adventures: Spider-Man - Volume 6: The Black Costume (May-2007)
Breaking up Is Venomous to Do! (Oct-2007)
Dust-up in Aisle Seven! (Oct-2007)
Fashion Victims! (Oct-2007)
World War G (Oct-2007)
The Amazing Spider-Man: 24/7 (Feb-2010)
Marvel Adventures Iron Man / Spider-Man (Mar-2010)
Spider-Man: Red-Headed Stranger (May-2010)
Spider-Man: The Gauntlet Volume 4 - Juggernaut (Feb-2011)
Spider-Man: The Extremist (May-2011)
Spider-Man: New Ways to Live (Apr-2019)
Spider-Man: The Gauntlet - The Complete Collection Vol. 1 (Jul-2019)

Marvel's The Avengers

Chaos War: Avengers (May-2011)
Marvel's The Avengers: Black Widow Strikes (Sep-2012)
The Avenger's Initiative (Oct-2012)

Marvel's X-Men

Wolverine Comic Reader 1 ()
Wolverine Comic Reader 2 ()
Wolverine: Tales of Weapon X ()
X-Men: Noir (Oct-2009)
Marvel Noir: Wolverine & the X-Men (Mar-2013)

Book List in Order: 176 titles

  • The Silencers

    • For decades, The Silencers have been the superpowered enforcers of New York's Provenzano Crime Family, protecting them from "The Tights." When Cardinal, their fearsome leader, makes plans to retire from a life of crime, a rival syndicate mak...

  • Scorpion: Poison Tomorrow Digest

    Presenting the all-new, all-different Scorpion! After the vicious murder of her adoptive parents, Carmilla Black discovers her biological mother is the top scientist of the worldwide terrorist network A.I.M. Now, to unravel the secrets of her true id...

  • Untold Tales of the New Universe

  • Cowboys and Aliens

    1873. Arizona.

    An era when all a man could count on was his horse and his six-gun, and Indians fought a losing battle with European settlers.

    Until somebody else entered the fight -- an invader who saw all humans as slaves, and was...

  • Watchdogs

    After Sam Garrison and his pregnant wife buy a bargain home, they find the reason it's such a bargain ― the home is in a crime-ridden neighborhood, plagued by gangs and drugs.
    Sam and his neighbor, Mark Buchanan, decide to take the law into the...

  • Marvel Adventures: Spider-Man - Volume 6: The Black Costume

    Marvel's Spider-Man

  • Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four - Volume 6: Monsters & Mysteries

    Marvel's Fantastic Four

  • Breaking up Is Venomous to Do!

    Marvel's Spider-Man

  • Dust-up in Aisle Seven!

    Marvel's Spider-Man



  • Fashion Victims!

    Marvel's Spider-Man

    Who is the mysterious TINKERER, and why is he flooding the city with technologically-enhanced villains? To unplug this threat, Spider-Man needs an upgrade of his own, starting with a new smart stealth BLACK COSTUME! MARVEL AGE introduces new and youn...

  • World War G

    Marvel's Spider-Man

    While Spider-Man tries to get people to recognize him in his new black costume, the Hobgoblin, who broke into the Green Goblin's secret stash of equipment, becomes the newest threat to the city's safety....

  • Fantastic Four and Power Pack: Favorite Son

    Marvel's Fantastic Four

  • Marvel Adventures Iron Man - Volume 2: Iron Armory

    Marvel's Iron Man

    The Armored Avenger blasts through the second arc of his solo title in the critically-acclaimed, best-selling Marvel Adventures line! Tony Stark shows off some of the various incarnations of his armor, including the Deep-Sea Armor and Space Armor as ...

  • Marvel Adventures Iron Man 1

    Marvel's Iron Man

  • Super-Villain Team-Up/M.O.D.O.K.'s 11

    Collects Super-Villain Team-Up/Modok's 11 #1-5. While the heroes are away fighting World War Hulk, the villains can play...M.O.D.O.K., sick of being hunted and hounded by A.I.M., gathers together an eclectic team of Marvel's Most Wanted to pull off ...

  • Hostile Takeover

  • Crypt-Keeping It Real

    The Crypt-Keeper and his fellow Ghoulnatics introduce the wildest, scariest collection of terror-tales yet! Volume 4: Crypt-Keeping It Real travels through time with Jack the Ripper and beyond the grave with Reality Television series producers! Volum...

  • Hero By Design

  • Marvel Adventures Iron Man: Armored Avenger

    Marvel's Iron Man



  • Secrets of New Orleans

    New Orleans in the 1920 s is a city of many faces. The gaiety of Mardi Gras is juxtaposed with the rampant corruption that earned New Orleans the nickname The City That Care Forgot. The genteel decline of the French Quarter, the location of the city ...

  • Yabba Dabba Voodoo

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    Just when you thought "" Tales from the Crypt"" couldn`t get any scarier, the Crypt-Keeper, the Old Witch, and the Vault-Keeper return with four more all-new "" Fear-Y Tales"" to frighten the Bejeezus out of you! A man receives telepathic signals...

  • Ghost of a Chance

    Marvel's Iron Man

    DR. DOOM has captured Pepper, Rhodey and other employees closest to Tony Stark and given him a simple ultimatum -- turn over the one weapon Doom needs to destroy the Fantastic Four in four hours, or his friends' lives are forfeit! Iron Man has to sne...

  • Pirated!

    Marvel's Iron Man

    Avast, ye swabs! COMMANDER KRAKEN and his TECHNO-PIRATES have captured Iron Man, stripped him of his DEEP-SEA ARMOR ... and are attacking HYDROBASE with it! Unarmed and unarmored, can Tony Stark take out Kraken's scurvy crew all by himself? Do pirate...

  • The Simple Life

    Marvel's Iron Man

    Ambushed by the villainess Jolt, his armor ruined, Tony Stark finds himself trapped in an isolated village run by folks who have chosen to live a peaceful, agrarian 19th century existence...without any technology. With Jolt hot on his trail, what's a...

  • Destructive Reentry

    Marvel's Iron Man

    Iron Man dons his SPACE ARMOR to rescue a Stark orbital platform from his old enemy, the LIVING LASER " but during their zero-G battle they unleash an even deadlier threat: the all-new, all-terrifying SWARM! This sentient cloud of nanobots wants to...

  • U-Tomb

    What could possibly be better than the latest collection of fear-filled tales and his fellow GhouLunatics, the Old Witch, and the Vault-Keeper? Well, how about more stories than ever? That's what you get when you combine the thrills and chills of ...

  • Hulk: Broken Worlds

    Marvel's Hulk

  • The Buddy System

    Kitty Pryde describes her first day of classes at the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters, how Professor X found her, and her first mission, accompanying Wolverine to investigate a powerful mutant presence in an isolated town....

  • Citadel

    TO ME, MY X-MEN! You must immediately pursue Wolverine into Canada! He has defected back to ALPHA FLIGHT...and taken Kitty Pryde with him! Spotlight editions are printed on high-quality paper and with reinforced library bindings specifically printed ...



  • The Last Knights of Wundagore: Part One

    Wolverine and Kitty Pryde investigate when they come across a town of animal folk who explain that the town's new men have been disappearing rapidly while strange lights have begun emanating from the peak of Mount Wundagore....

  • The Last Knights of Wundagore: Part Two

    After Wolverine is been dubbed the last knight of Wundagore and loses his animal nature and Kitty Pryde is turned into a cat, they must fight off the legions of the Man-Beast, save the town, and find a way to get back to normal....

  • Little Girls

    Kitty Pryde, Siryn, Amp, and Piotr's sister Illyana explore the basement and run a training program involving robot replicas of evil mutants, but when they leave it running, Logan has to handle matters....

  • Surprise!!

    When Kitty throws Wolverine a surprise party to get on his good side, Sabretooth shows up to dice him into cutlets, putting the love of his life, with whom he is sharing his birthday dinner, in grave danger....

  • X-Men: Noir

    Marvel's X-Men

    Collects X-Men Noir #1-4. The Brotherhood is re-imagined through a Noir prism as Xavier, a discredited shrink sits in a jail cell, wondering what in the world his little refugees from the Xavier School for Exceptionally Wayward Youth are up to now. O...

  • Marvel Zombies 3

    Collects Marvel Zombies 3 #1-4. The ravenous hordes of Marvel Zombies are invading...the Marvel Universe! When the super-undead stumble into the MU from the Man-Thing's Nexus of All Realities, all of Florida is quarantined and the Initiative sends a ...

  • Assassin's Creed: Templars

    Assassin's Creed

    In 1927, Darius Gift, young, handsome, terribly entitled, is given his first mission for the ancient Templar Order, and the chance to clear his tarnished family name. All doesn't quite go to plan when he arrives in Shanghai, however, and his inexp...

  • Assassin's Creed: Templars #4

    Assassin's Creed

    The streets of Shanghai have erupted into utter chaos as Black Cross finally evades the henchmen of Big-Eared Du and heads to the International Settlement to establish just how much trouble the Shanghai Rite is in, and he learns that the corruption g...

  • Flesh And Steel

    In the blink of an eye, young martial artist Magnus has everything taken from him: his father, his wife, his entire life. He's suddenly thrust into a futuristic world he doesn't understand, populated by humans and robots living together in oppression...

  • Uncanny Valley

    Retreating from the mad, mad world of mechanical overlords, Magnus descends into the SubStructure, where a bizarre collection of feral humans called Gophs live free from robot society. Winding up in the Uncanny Valley, a forbidden sex and death club,...



  • The Amazing Spider-Man: 24/7

    Marvel's Spider-Man

    Collects Amazing Spider-Man #589-594. You think your life is hard? Try being Spider-Man 24/7! First shift, your old baddie the Spot returns deadlier than ever! Second shift, you've got to head to the Microverse on an adventure with the Fantastic Fou...

  • Marvel Adventures Iron Man / Spider-Man

    Marvel's Iron Man
    Marvel's Spider-Man

  • Marvel Zombies 4

    Collects Marvel Zombies 4 #1-4. They're nobody's idea of heroes, but they're all that stands between our world and an unstoppable apocalypse! They're the new Midnight Sons, and their quest to track down the undead who escaped from A.R.M.O.R. will lea...

  • Spider-Man: Red-Headed Stranger

    Marvel's Spider-Man

    Collects Amazing Spider-Man #602-605. The Chamelion returns with a terrifying new mission that has Mayor J. Jonah Jameson squarely in his sights! Meanwhile, the Anti-Spider Squad narrows its dragnet around the Wall-Crawler, and Peter Parker gets a b...

  • Marvel Zombies 5

    Collects Marvel Zombies 5 #1-5. MACHINE MAN IS BACK! Zombies of the multiverse, watch your rotting backs! To obtain a cure for the zombie virus for Morbius the Living Vampire, Aaron Stack, Agent of ARMOR, must traverse alternate realities hunting do...

  • Iron Man: War of the Iron Men

    Marvel's Iron Man

    Tony Stark's worst fears are realized when stolen Iron Man technology is used for ethnic cleansing in a civil war-ravaged land. When he defi es U.S. government orders to confront the armored assassins himself, Stark sets off an international con- fla...

  • Spider-Man: The Gauntlet Volume 4 - Juggernaut

    Marvel's Spider-Man

    Collects Amazing Spider-Man #626-629 & #229-230. The web-slinger must face not only the once-unstoppable force of the Juggernaut, but also the cosmic entity that finally was able to stop him! Plus, their famous first confrontation!...

  • Chaos War: Avengers

    Marvel's The Avengers

    The Vision, Captain Mar-Vell. Yellowjacket. Deathcry. Swordsman. Dr. Druid. All lost their lives in the line of duty...or in disgrace. When Earth's Mightiest Heroes are themselves laid low in the carnage of the CHAOS WAR and the graves give up their ...

  • Origins of Marvel Comics

    An all-star lineup of creators brings you the origins of Marvel's greatest heroes! Short, accessible origin stories, all drawn by a roster of the hottest artists. From the Avengers to the X-Men! From Iron Man, Thor, the Fantastic Four and Spider-Man ...

  • Spider-Man: The Extremist

    Marvel's Spider-Man

    As Peter Parker struggles with unemployment, Spider-Man must cope with a vigilante calling himself the Extremist who is attacking Spider-Man's supposed enemies, starting with a television commentator and then aiming for Mayor Jameson....



  • Taskmaster: Unthinkable

    Taskmaster has trained hench-thugs for every terrorist organization and criminal cartel in the Marvel U. So when the rumor starts that he's turned traitor and now works for Steve Rogers, a billion-dollar bounty is put on his head, and every cadre of ...

  • Power Man

    Hey Iron Fist, the new Power Man! From the rubble of a destroyed tenement in Hell's Kitchen, a new hero rises to protect the citizens of New York - for a price! Opposing Daredevil's reign, the brash young vigilante makes himself a target for the veng...

  • Iron Man: Industrial Revolution

    Marvel's Iron Man

    Iron Man loses everything! Tony Stark's life is in a downward spiral. Obadiah Stane has taken his company and his fortune, leaving Stark to live on the streets of Los Angeles. He is even too destitute to fuel his armor, and his fellow heroes have dec...

  • Halo: Blood Line

    Collects Halo: Blood Line #1-5. Based on the Best-Selling X-Box game! Blood Line is the top-secret unconventional warfare unit of the United Nations Space Command's Office of Naval Intelligence, engaging in sabotage and assassination missions deep in...

  • Hulk: Season One

    Marvel's Hulk

    See the beginnings of the green goliath for a new generation! This is the definitive origin of the Hulk -- as well as Betty Ross, now Red She-Hulk; and General “Thunderbolt” Ross, now the avenging Red Hulk! Plus: Gamma Base, Rick Jones and the ...

  • Marvel Zombies Return

    Collects Marvel Zombies Return #1-5. Nothing can withstand the Hunger, the insatiable drive that compels the undead super heroes to devour friends, family, heroes and villains alike. But now, the Marvel Zombies find themselves on a fresh world, ripe ...

  • Marvel's The Avengers: Black Widow Strikes

    Marvel's Black Widow
    Marvel's The Avengers

    A new Black Widow solo adventure from the Marvel Cinematic Universe! Before Natasha assembles with the Avengers Initiative, see her travel back to her homeland to match wits and fists with a deadly admirer in this hard-hitting espionage adventure set...

  • The Avenger's Initiative

    Marvel's The Avengers

    The perfect introduction to Marvel's The Avengers movie! All your favorite characters from the film packed into one digest! Meet the incredible cast of the Avengers Initiative: Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, Black Widow and Hawkeye! The perfe...

  • Archer & Armstrong, Volume 1: The Michelangelo Code

    • It's history in the breaking! After years of meditation and training, 18-year-old Obadiah Archer has been dispatched to New York City to carry out the sacred mission of his family’s sect ― locate and kill the fun-loving, hard-drinking im...

  • Marvel Noir: Wolverine & the X-Men

    Marvel's X-Men

    Charles Xavier, a discredited shrink sitting in jail, wonders if his little refugees from the 'Xavier School for Exceptionally Wayward Youth' are still one step ahead of corrupt police chief Eric Magnus....

  • Iron Man 2

    Marvel's Iron Man

    The Plantman is using the Creeping Doom to end the domination of animals over the Earth, and only Iron Man can stop him in time! Then: Spymaster has seized remote control of Iron Man's armor (with Tony Stark still inside it) and sent him on a rampage...

  • Archer & Armstrong, Volume 2: Wrath of the Eternal Warrior

    • Not even time itself can escape the Eternal Warrior! No one in the Valiant Universe is more terrifying, more dangerous, or more experienced in the art of war than the undying Eternal Warrior. After thousands of years on the battlefield, he's...

  • G.I. Joe (2013-) Vol. 1

    The truth is out: the world knows the G.I. JOE team is real. Now Duke leads his squad directly into the public eye, confronting COBRA on American soil! Fred Van Lente and Steve Kurth lead the charge taking G.I. JOE in a new direction. Collects issues...

  • Pack

  • Substitute

    Cyclops returns to the X-Men! Will Kitty Pryde continue her training with him, or with Wolverine? Scott Summers and Logan duke it out over the right to be her mentor! Spotlight is a division of ABDO Group. Grades 2-6....

  • Hercules

    Hercules battled gods, men and monsters in a lifetime of violence and destruction. Today, Hercules is best known for his 'twelve labours', a series of near-impossible tasks assigned to him as punishment for the killing of his wife and childre...

  • Archer & Armstrong, Volume 3: Far, Faraway

  • G.I. Joe (2013-) Vol. 2

    The Secret History of COBRA! In the aftermath of COBRA's New York attack, BARONESS leads a new up-and-coming officer called SIREN around the world—and into the past! SIREN uncovers the secrets of the previous COBRA COMMANDERs—and comes face...

  • The Mocking Dead, Volume 1

    • A small outbreak can turn into a worldwide apocalypse... but only through a long string of screw-ups! Once actual zombies begin popping up in our world, a lone intelligence analyst realizes real-life events are beginning to mimic the events ...

  • Archer & Armstrong, Volume 4: Sect Civil War

    • Every enemy. Against each other. For centuries, the cloak-and-dagger coalition of conspiracies collectively known as The Sect has worked together to bring silent oppression and undercover tyranny to a world that thought it was free. But, now...

  • Brain Boy, Volume 1

    Ambushed while protecting an important statesman, Matt Price, a.k.a. Brain Boy, finds himself wrapped up in political intrigue that could derail a key United Nations conference and that sets the psychic spy on a collision course with a man whose ment...

  • Conan and the People of the Black Circle

    After an agent of the dreaded Black Seers of Yimsha assassinates the king of Vendhya, his sister Yasmina -- now a queen -- vows revenge! But her plans are derailed when Conan kidnaps her, and soon the Cimmerian has ruthless mercenaries, vengeance-cra...

  • Archer & Armstrong, Volume 5: Mission: Improbable

    • Archer & Armstrong are going to war with Bloodshot and H.A.R.D Corps! (GULP!) That’s right, Valiant’s globe-trotting adventure duo have been targeted for elimination by Project Rising Spirit’s most elite kill crew. Their mission? Assas...

  • Big Trouble in Little China #1

    WHY BOOM! LOVES IT: BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA is one of our favorite cult-classic films because it mashed together '80s action and supernatural fantasy movies with '70s kung-fu flicks. This is the first time any new BIG TROUBLE stories have been o...

  • Big Trouble in Little China #2

    Before, Jack Burton and Wang had to save Wang's kidnapped-bride-to-be. Now, Wang's the one who's been kidnapped and Jack Burton's back in action! Jack and Egg Shen travel through Chinatown's Black Road and the villains Jack faced before have somethin...

  • Big Trouble in Little China #3

    Charging down the Black Road of Hell in the Pork Chop Express, Egg, Pete and ol' Jack Burton are facing off against the mythical past of China. Demon thugs and the bulbous Seven-Faced Widow may stand in their way, but you know what ol' Jack Burton ...

  • Big Trouble in Little China #4

  • The Complete Silencers

    In a city full of superpowered do-gooders, the mob needs above-average enforcers to get away with robbery, murder, and so much more. Enter the Silencers, a lineup of criminals with extraordinary abilities who are more than happy to use lethal force f...

  • Action Philosophers

    This ain't your grandpappy's dusty old philosophy class! It's the philosophy seminar your college ethics professor wished he could teach! It's . . . the definitive tenth-anniversary edition of Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey's award-winning, best-se...

  • Big Trouble in Little China #5

    Jack Burton's strange quest may be over, but it resulted in the return of an old nemesis. Burton, Wang, and friends must split up, for an entire army of assassins is out for their blood. For Jack and Wang, that means one thing: road trip!...

  • Magnus: Robot Fighter, Volume 1: Flesh and Steel

    • In the blink of an eye, young martial artist Magnus has everything taken from him: his father, his wife, his entire life. He's suddenly thrust into a futuristic world he doesn't understand, populated by humans and robots living together in o...

  • Big Trouble in Little China #6

    Jack is always one to know when he's overstayed his welcome. Now it's time to split. Especially after his good pal, Pete the demon, has returned to the service of his original master and tries to take Jack's head off. Wang, Egg, and Jack narrowly esc...

  • Deadpool Team-Up, Volume 1: Good Buddies

    Marvel's Deadpool

    Collects Deadpool Team-Up #899-894. Deadpool shares the spotlight with his closest buddies, and drive them all bonkers in the process. Featuring guest appearances from a roster of Marvel comics all-stars including the Incredible Hercules! Not one, b...

  • Project Black Sky: Secret Files

    In the late 1930s, a covert government agency was established to protect Earth from the potential of extraterrestrial threats. The first on the scene of any reported UFO crash or sighting, these brave men and women were called Project Black Sky, and ...

  • Big Trouble in Little China #7

    The Seven-Faced Widow has been humiliated by Jack Burton but now she has a plan for vengeance! But now it's Egg and Miao Yin who are in the cross hairs! Jack and Wang have their own strange hell to deal with--The Lords of Death are back!...

  • Archer & Armstrong, Volume 6: American Wasteland

    LIVING IT UP AT THE HOTEL CALIFORNIA!

    His whole life, Obadiah Archer has been lied to about his true heritage - but when he and his pal Armstrong arrive in L.A. to meet...

  • Big Trouble in Little China #8

    As Lo Pan's forces bring their terror to the Midnight Road in search of Egg and Miao Yin, Jack Burton looks to end this once and for all. Jack Burton is back, and he has brought an army...sort of. With the Lords of Death on their tail, Jack and Wang ...

  • Brain Boy, Volume 2

    Agent Price's new mission pits him against a doomsday cult leader with a political agenda that poses a direct threat to the president. But a mysterious hive mind has more menacing plans for Brain Boy. He'll have no choice but to go head to head--brai...

  • Big Trouble in Little China #9

    Leading a band of crazy warriors and walking away from another fight with the big bad, Jack Burton has never felt so on top of the world. Unfortunately, Jack is about to find out that when one pillar comes crashing down, another is sure to take its p...

  • Conan Volume 17 Shadows Over Kush

    Writer Fred Van Lente leads the way for the world's most famous barbarian! Conan drinks himself into a stupor of grief while in the troubled city of Shumballa--until a brazen act of thievery against him sends the Cimmerian into a witch-hunt full o...

  • Howtoons

    • The critically acclaimed, best-selling YA series returns with an all-new, sci-fi DIY adventure! Celine and Tuck's parents put them to sleep for centuries to ride out the energy crisis ― but when they awake in the far future and Mom and Dad...

  • Big Trouble in Little China #10

    While Egg and Wong battle for Jack's soul in the streets of Chinatown, Jack must find a way to make secure his own escape and back-stab Lo Pan in the process. When you get stuck in the Hell of No Return and your worst enemy is the only help you got, ...

  • Big Trouble in Little China #11

  • Ivar, Timewalker, Volume 1: Making History

    • From the dawn of the dinosaurs...to the Battle of Trafalgar...to the end of time itself...the first century-spanning adventure of Ivar, Timewalker starts here!
    • At this very moment in Geneva, Switzerland, history is being made. A tho...

  • Big Trouble in Little China #12

  • Big Trouble in Little China #13

    Something weird is going on-Jack is finding his world and his friends have really changed! In Fred Van Lente (Archer & Armstrong) and Joe Eisma's (Morning Glories) love letter to the '80s, Jack's on a mission that will have him face some of the stra...

  • Magnus: Robot Fighter, Volume 2: Uncanny Valley

    • Retreating from the mad, mad world of mechanical overlords, Magnus descends into the SubStructure, where a bizarre collection of feral humans called Gophs live free from robot society. Winding up in the Uncanny Valley, a forbidden sex and de...

  • Big Trouble in Little China #14

    Something weird is going on-Jack is finding his world and his friends have really changed! In Fred Van Lente (Archer & Armstrong) and Joe Eisma's (Morning Glories) love letter to the '80s, Jack's on a mission that will have him face some of the stra...

  • Big Trouble in Little China #15

  • Archer & Armstrong, Volume 7: The One Percent and Other Tales

    • IT ALL ENDS HERE...SERIOUSLY...THIS TIME IT LITERALLY ALL ENDS HERE. (MAYBE?!) A madcap jamboree featuring stories and shenanigans from Fred Van Lente (Ivar, Timewalker), Ray Fawkes (Batman: Eternal), Karl Bollers (Watson and Holmes), John L...

  • Big Trouble in Little China #16

  • Magnus: Robot Fighter, Volume 3

    • Magnus, the martial arts expert and ultimate robot fighter, has reunited with his father, the artificial intelligence known as 1A. Satisfied to have a new purpose in life, Magnus is sent on a mission to free a monstrous creature known as the...

  • Resurrectionists

    Resurrectionists are a select group of people who cannot only remember their past lives, but also become them. Framed architect-turned-thief Jericho Way and his crew of modern-day tomb robbers aren’t born knowing they’ve been trying to ...

  • Resurrectionists: Near Death Experience

    People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them.

    Resurrectionists are a select group of people who can not only remember their past lives, but also become them. Framed architect-turned-thief Jericho Way and his crew of modern-da...

  • Conan Volume 18: The Avenger

    Conan and his allies are thrown into battle against an army of brigands, thieves, and ravagers hailing from all corners of the globe and led by a disgraced prince with pillaging on his mind! Conan enters into an uncertain alliance with this damned ho...

  • Big Trouble in Little China #17

  • Ivar, Timewalker, Volume 2: Breaking History

    A little confused by time travel? Don’t worry, these guys don’t really understand it either. So they’re breaking history!

    With the universe on the brink of destruction, Ivar must turn to his closest relatives " Armstrong and Gilad An...

  • Big Trouble in Little China #18

  • Big Trouble in Little China #19

  • Big Trouble in Little China #20

  • Big Trouble in Little China Vol. 2

    Based on the cult-classic John Carpenter film! With the unintended help of Jack Burton, Lo Pan and the Three Storms have returned! On the run, Jack Burton and Wang Chi must traverse America in the Pork-Chop Express to escape the onslaught of the Wing...

  • Big Trouble in Little China #21

  • Conan, Volume 18: The Damned Horde

    Writer Fred Van Lente takes on the world's most famous barbarian!

    Conan and his allies are thrown into battle against an army of brigands, thieves, and ravagers hailing from all corners of the globe and led by a disgraced prince with pillaging...

  • Big Trouble in Little China #22

  • Ivar, Timewalker, Volume 3: Ending History

    FEATURING CREATION, ANNIHILATION...AND THE DEBUT OF AN ALL-NEW TIMEWALKER!

    As history falls apart around her, only one man can help Neela Sethi save Ivar's life - and time itself - and that man is...Ivar! Wait...what?! Can Neela teach a new Ti...

  • Big Trouble in Little China #23

  • Big Trouble in Little China #24

  • Assassin's Creed: Templars #3

    Assassin's Creed

    In the infamous pleasure tower that dominates the Shanghai nightlife, the Great World, Black Cross battles with the triads that have pursued him through the city night. With time running out, Black Cross has to find the missing information that will ...

  • Big Trouble in Little China #25

    Final issue, featuring every artist from the entire series run! Jack Burton is thrown through time back to the events of the original film, where hell have to work with Winona to make sure everything goes the way it did the first time or risk explodi...

  • Conan Volume 19: Xuthal of the Dusk

    Writer Fred Van Lente takes on the world's most famous barbarian!

    Conan and the former slave girl Natala wander the desert as the only survivors of a vast army. Finally they arrive dying of thirst to the unwelcoming and desolate city of Xuthal...

  • Ivar, Timewalker Deluxe Edition, Book 1

    From the award-winning team that brought you ARCHER & ARMSTRONG comes a centuries-spanning race against the clock! Join New York Times bset-selling writer Fred Van Lente and acclaimed artists Clayton Henry, Francis Portela, and Pere Pérez and find o...

  • Assassin's Creed: Templars #5

    Assassin's Creed

    With the revelation that the puppet master of the corruption in the Shanghai rite is a dangerous political figure, Black Cross is forced to take matters into his own hands as the honor of the Order is at stake. But a moment of distraction could destr...

  • Big Trouble In Little China Vol. 4

    Thrust from 1986 into modern times, Jack Burton faces his strangest adventure yet. His friends are all old and someone sold his truck! With the help of an all-powerful Gracie Law and Wang's excessively snarky daughter, Winona, the hunt is on to recla...

  • Assassin's Creed: Templars Volume 1: Black Cross

    Assassin's Creed

    Based on the popular game series, Assassin's Creed: Templars Volume 1: Black Cross collects the first five issues of a brand new story arc exclusive to Titan Comics.

    Collecting the first arc of the brand new explosive Templars series, from t...

  • Big Trouble in Little China Vol. 5

    Jacks are wild!Jack Burton is a man out of time but with the best intentions. When he finds himself in China for the poker tournament of a lifetime, the reluctant hero must play against the world’s top sorcerers in order to secure the freedom of hi...

  • Conan Volume 20: A Witch Shall be Born

    Writer Fred Van Lente's incredible run on Conan reaches its epic conclusion! Taramis, the beloved queen of Khauran, was born with a twin sister, Salome--but by an ancient doom placed on their bloodline Salome's chest bore a scarlet half-moon birthmar...

  • Generation Zero, Volume 1: We Are the Future

    READY… SET… RIOT!

    Years ago, the children of the experimental strike team known as Generation Zero were taken from their families by Project Rising Spirit, a private weapons contractor, and raised to be psychic soldiers. After years of t...

  • Weird Detective

    The streets of New York have been plagued by a pattern of crimes too weird and bizarre for the average detective. Lurking in the evidence are shadows of loathsome horrors from beyond space and time, seeking to usher in the unimaginable evil o...

  • Big Trouble in Little China Vol. 6

    Jack Burton is thrown back in time where he’ll witness the origins of fan-favorite characters Lo Pan and Egg and the evolution of San Francisco’s Chinatown! JACK IN TIME! After an unfortunate misfire, Egg’s magic sends Jack Burton and Winona ...

  • Assassin's Creed: Templars Volume 2: Cross of War

    Assassin's Creed

    Collects the incredible second arc of the riveting Black Cross saga!


         In the dungeons of Tripoli, a man will have his fortunes changed forever as he becomes an agent of honor for the legendary Templar Order!


    The intro...

  • Ten Dead Comedians

    Fred Van Lente’s brilliant debut is both a savagely funny homage to the Golden Age of Mystery and a thoroughly contemporary show-business satire. As the story opens, nine comedians of various acclaim are summoned to the island retreat of legenda...

  • Comic Book History of Comics: Birth of a Medium

    The inspiring, infuriating, and utterly insane story of comics, graphic novels, and manga is presented in comic book form!

    The award-winning Action Philosophers team of Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey turn their irreverent-but-accurate eye t...

  • Generation Zero, Volume 2: Heroscape

    ZEROES TO HEROES!

    Generation Zero managed to survive their first mission, and now duty has called on them to venture deep inside a perilous dimension only known as the Heroscape to see the world through a new set of eyes! They’ll discover ...

  • Guardians of the Galaxy: Telltale Games

    Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy

    Collects Guardians of the Galaxy Telltale Games #1-5. An all-new prequel to the interactive episodic game MARVEL’S GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: THE TELLTALE SERIES! Cultists have taken over Saturn’s moon Titan, turning it into a proverbial hive of sc...

  • Abraham Lincoln!

    Action Presidents - 2

    Where the history is real and the jokes are fake! The second Action Presidents book is just as fun -- and funny -- as the first. Legendary lumberjack and paramount president Abraham Lincoln practically jumps off the page. Wimpy Kid meets the Wh...

  • George Washington!

    Action Presidents - 1

    The first Action Presidents book will turn even the most reluctant reader into a history buff. George Washington, ultimate founding father and awesome American, practically jumps off the page. We all know that George Washington was our first presi...

  • War Mother

    BECAUSE YOU DEMANDED IT ― WAR MOTHER RETURNS! Out of the pages of 4001 A.D., the breakout hero of the 41st century charges onward in an high-powered tale of tomorrow from New York Times best-selling writer Fred Van Lente (ARCHER & ARMSTRONG) and hi...

  • The Green Hornet '66 Meets The Spirit

    Another challenge for THE GREEN HORNET, his aide KATO, and their rolling arsenal, THE BLACK BEAUTY! On police records a wanted criminal, THE GREEN HORNET is really Britt Reid, owner/publisher of The Daily Sentinel. Reid and Kato have traveled to Cent...

  • Comic Book History of Comics: Comics For All

    The medium is the message! Comics come in many forms, from all around the world. What better way to discover them than through a comic book?

    The bestselling, mind-blowing graphic history of our favorite medium continues--now focusing on specif...

  • The Con Artist

    This illustrated mystery will appeal to comic book fans and anyone who appreciates an unconventional whodunit. Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, seeking sanctuary with other fans and creators -- and maybe to reunite with...

  • Conan Omnibus Volume 7

    Highlighting the illustration of Brian Ching and Guiu Villanova, Conan Omnibus 7: Witchcraft and Warfare offers over 400 story pages of ancient empires, bloodstained steel, and vile magic.

    Award-winning comics writer Fred Van Lente adapts Robe...

  • Spider-Man: New Ways to Live

    Marvel's Spider-Man

    Collecting Amazing Spider-Man (1999) #602-611, Spider-Man: A Chemical Romance, Spider-Man: The Root Of All Annoyance, Amazing Spider-Man Presents: Anti-Venom -- New Ways To Live #1-3, Amazing Spider-Man Presents: Jackpot #1-3, And Material From Web...

  • Spider-Man: The Gauntlet - The Complete Collection Vol. 1

    Marvel's Spider-Man

    Collects Dark Reign: The List -- Amazing Spider-Man, Amazing Spider-Man (1999) #612-626 and Annual #37 and material from Web Of Spider-Man (2009) #2-5. When Spider-Man battles Mysterio, the stakes are far more deadly than just smoke and mirrors! Fi...

  • Hulk: Incredible Origins

    Marvel's Hulk

    Collects Hulk: Season One GN And Incredible Hulk (2011) #1. New York Times Best Seller Fred Van Lente and acclaimed artist Tom Fowler retell the gamma-spawned beginnings of the Green Goliath for a new generation! When Dr. Bruce Banner finds himself a...

  • Psi-Lords Volume 1: Escape Velocity

    Who are the cosmic beings known only as the Psi-Lords? And how will they change the course of the Valiant Universe?

    Four space explorers awake in an otherworldly prison known as the Gyre with no memory of how they got there. Sent by space a...

  • Marvel-Verse: Iron Man

    Marvel's Iron Man

    Collecting Marvel Adventures Iron Man (2007) #1, 7; IRON MAN (1968) #234; IRON MAN (1998) #1. Iron Man is one of the greatest heroes in the Marvel-Verse - and these are some of his most action-packed adventures! When the genius Tony Stark is held cap...

  • John F. Kennedy!

    Action Presidents - 4

    U.S. history comes to life like never before in this full-color graphic novel! We all know that John F. Kennedy was a World War II hero and a pro at giving speeches. But did you also know he survived shark-infested waters, suffered a case of mistaken...

  • Theodore Roosevelt!

    Action Presidents - 3

    U.S. history comes to life like never before in this full-color graphic novel! We all know that Theodore Roosevelt protected the environment and was the cousin of President Franklin Roosevelt. But did you also know that he was the inspiration for the...

  • The Comic Book Story of Basketball: A Fast-Break History of Hops, Hoops, and Alley-Oops

    A fast-break history of basketball--from its humble beginnings to its all-time great players--featuring engaging true tales from the court and vivid, dynamic illustrations.

    Whether it's millionaire pros facing off in an indoor arena full of sc...

  • The Comic Book Story of Basketball: A Fast-Break History of Hoops

    A fast-break history of basketball--from its humble beginnings to its all-time great players--featuring engaging true tales from the court and vivid, dynamic illustrations.Whether it's millionaire pros facing off in an indoor arena full of screaming ...

  • Marvel Vault of Heroes: Iron Man

    High-flying adventure-packed stories for young-readers featuring the Armored Avenger!Who is Iron Man, the world-renowned symbol of mega-conglomerate Stark International? And what terrible secret from his past forces billionaire inventor Tony Stark to...

  • Psi-Lords

    Who are the cosmic beings known only as the Psi-Lords? And how will they change the course of the Valiant Universe?

    Four space explorers awake in an otherworldly prison known as the Gyre with no memory of how they got there. Sent by space ag...

  • Conan Chronicles Epic Collection: Shadows Over Kush

    Four savage tales of Conan! When a case of mistaken identity leaves him accused of sorcery, the Cimmerian finds himself the target of a powerful and deadly witch hunter — but what is the true evil that stalks the shadows of Kush? A quest for le...

  • Conan: The People of the Black Circle and Other Stories

    Savage tales of the iconic barbarian! When an agent of the dreaded Black Seers of Yimsha assassinates the King of Vendhya, the king’s sister Yasmina inherits the throne — and vows vengeance! But her plans against the Black Seers are derai...

  • DIE!namite Vol. 1

    VAMPIRELLA hurtles through space on a Drakulon ship, desperate to uncover a dark mystery...A 100-year-old JOHN CARTER OF MARS grasps for an awful memory just out of reach...PETER CANNON: THUNDERBOLT battles waves of evil he does not understand......

  • Jennifer Blood: Bloodlines

    So...once upon a time, a suburban housewife spent her nights as a mobster-murdering assassin, named JENNIFER BLOOD. Then she died...or did she? Because in the cozy cul-de-sacs of Bountiful, Utah, a noticeable number of normal people have gone missing...

  • DIE! NAMITE NEVER DIES

    The hit series returns, cuz you can't kill a never-ending army of zombies...you can only hope to beat the $%&# out of them! After tragically losing their first Chosen One against the zombie plague, Vampirella, Miss Fury, and what remains of the Proje...

  • Dying Light

    With a lengthy original graphic novel tale serving as a prequel to Dying Light 2 and bonus behind the scenes content from the smash hit video game, Dying Light: Night Generation is an essential companion for fans of the franchise.Set right before...

  • The Silencers: The Definitive Edition

    The critically-acclaimed, hard-boiled super-crime series that launched the careers of writer Fred Van Lente (Marvel Zombies, Archer & Armstrong) and artist Steve Ellis (Only Living Boy, High Moon) is back! This time with never-before-seen story pages...

  • Jennifer Blood Vol. 2: Blood Debt

    A brand-new arc!A mysterious woman staggers into a clinic for criminals and collapses from her injuries! * The crooked head surgeon is convinced that he has JENNIFER BLOOD sedated and under his control and plans to sell the most wanted woman in the w...

  • Die!namite Lives

    The hit series returns, cuz you can't kill a never-ending army of zombies...you can only hope to beat the $%&# out of them! After tragically losing their first Chosen One against the zombie plague, Vampirella, Miss Fury, and what remains of the Proje...

  • Never Sleep

    A Civil War–era historical novel featuring the first female agents in the Pinkerton National Police Agency, who work to foil an assassination attempt on President Lincoln's life.The year is 1861, the eve of Abraham Lincoln's inauguration. For ...

  • X-MEN: X-VERSE - WOLVERINE

    In the uncanny X-Verse, he's the best there is at what he does! Join Wolverine on his wildest adventures! When Professor X tasks Logan with taking new student Kitty Pryde under his wing, neither of them is happy about the arrangement - but they'll ne...

  • Pathfinder Wake the Dead

    New creative team! New party of Iconics! New lands of Golarion to explore! The tantalizing prospect of a rendezvous with a Geb defector in possession of priceless secrets from that undead nation brings a diverse group of adventurers to the Nexian met...

  • Jennifer Blood #1: Battle Diary

    Everybody’s favorite suburban wife, mother, and covert assassin — created by comics author extraordinaire GARTH ENNIS (The Boys, Battlefields, Preacher, The Punisher, Hitman) — returns for an all-new tale of extralegal killing and r...

  • Valiant Hero Universe Origins: Archer & Armstrong

    Dive into ARCHER & ARMSTRONG, ideal for new readers seeking action, humor, and unique friendships. Witness Archer, a skilled martial artist, team up with Armstrong, an immortal rogue, for globe-trotting adventures and secret society battles. This ser...

  • Bloodshot

    The Bourne Identity meets X-Men in Bloodshot, an all-new origin story and a heart-pounding adventure featuring the popular comic book character from Valiant Entertainment.He wakes up in the middle of the woods with chalk-white skin, the ability to he...

  • Road to Resurgence: Eternal TP

    Embark on an epic journey through time with the Anni-Padda clan in Road to Resurgence: Eternal TP. This thrilling collection features the complete storylines from Eternal Warriors Last Ride of the Immortals #1-2, Archer & Armstrong Assassin Natio...

  • Gamemasters: The Comic Book History of Roleplaying Games

    Roleplaying games like Dungeons & Dragons, in which players take the roles of heroes in their own story, have solidly moved from the geek fringes to the mainstream, beloved by celebrities and inspiring hit podcasts and massively successful sales...

  • Murder Kingdom

    You must be this tall…to DIE! Tanith and her best friend are trapped overnight in a fantasy-themed amusement park where someone is killing the employees in the gruesome fashion of the original fairy tales! They have to unravel the mystery befo...

  • The Creeping Doom

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  • Marvel Universe Iron Man

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    Marvel's Iron Man

    It''s all-ages action starring the Golden Avenger! During a surveillance mission at Stark HQ, Iron Man meets his Russian counterpart - the Titanium Man! Then, when the evil Mandarin seeks the key to immortality, Iron Man teams up with fellow Avengers...

  • Marvel Universe Iron Man - Comic Reader 1

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  • Wolverine Comic Reader 1

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    Marvel's X-Men

    Tune in for all-ages Wolverine action in the mighty Marvel manner! Professor X has paired up Kitty Pryde with Wolverine for a mission, and neither of them are happy about it. But unless they learn to work together, neither of them will come back from...

  • Wolverine Comic Reader 2

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    Marvel's X-Men

    Tune in for all-ages Wolverine action in the mighty Marvel manner! In space no one can hear you scream. But can they hear you Snikt? The explosive battle aboard the Skrull battleship between the pesky Super-Skrull and the *ahem* marvelous guest star ...

  • Wolverine: Tales of Weapon X

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    Marvel's X-Men

    Collecting six action-packed tales from Wolverine''s mysterious past! First, join Charles Xavier as he journeys deep into Wolverine''s mind on a quest for answers that will shed new light on one of the darkest periods of Logan''s life - his days in...

  • Slapstick Vol. 1: That's Not Funny

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    Collects Slapstick #1-6. Steve Harmon was an average teenager with an average job as your average clown, living in average New Jersey. But after being zapped by weird and mysterious extradimensional energy, Steve became Slapstick -- a living, breat...

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Fred Van Lente has published 176 books.

The next book by Fred Van Lente, Murder Kingdom, will be published in May 2025.

The first book by Fred Van Lente, The Silencers, was published in December 2004.

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