NEW from Papercutz:

THE HARDY BOYS #4

"Identity Theft" Part One of Three.

Scott LOBDELL & Daniel RENDON, cover by Lea HERNANDEZ

Beginning an all-new direction for the Hardy Boys, reflecting the storylines in the upcoming Simon & Schuster revamped Hardy Boys novels. Who or what is the mysterious organization known as A.T.A.C.? And how are Frank, Joe, and even Fenton Hardy involved? Are the Hardys leaving Bayport forever? How has Laura Hardy’s life changed? Why is Aunt Gertrude acting so strange? Where’s Iola and Callie? Uncover the clues to these questions and more as Frank and Joe take to the skies to crack a diamond-smuggling team of sky-divers and then encounter a young woman whose identity has been stolen – literally! Or at least that’s what a young woman claiming to be Joy Gallagher claims – that another girl is now living her life, with her friends, her family, and in her body! Action, thrills, and lots of mystery!

monthly color comic book, 32pp., $2.95

AND THE PAPERCUTZ GRAPHIC NOVELS BEGIN!!

THE HARDY BOYS

Graphic novel volume 1 "The Ocean of Osyria"

Scott LOBDELL & Lea HERNANDEZ

Collected from the first three Hardy Boys comics, here’s the complete saga of Frank and Joe’s adventure in the war-torn Middle Eastern land of Osyria! After rescuing Jackpot, a kidnapped prize-winning racehorse, Frank and Joe are stunned to return to Bayport and discover that the Department of International Security has arrested their best friend, Chet Morton, for stealing a priceless art treasure! The Hardy Boys decide the only way to clear the friend is to journey to the Middle East and find the Ocean of Osyria themselves! Plus: a preview of "Identity Theft.", their next adventure!

5x 7 ½, 96pp., full color paperback, $7.95, ISBN -59707-001-7

NANCY DREW

Graphic novel volume 1 "The Demon of River Heights "

Stefan PETRUCHA & Sho MURASE

Everyone's favorite girl detective makes her dazzling graphic novel debut! Nancy also makes her debut in a horror film concerning a monstrous River Heights urban legend -- but is it really an urban legend or does the River Heights Demon truly exist? And will Nancy, Bess, and George live long enough to find out? Based on Simon and Schuster's newly re-launched series of NY Times best-selling Nancy Drew novels by Carolyn Keene. Written by Stefan (X-Files, Kolchak) Petrucha, and illustrated by Sho (Sei) Murase.

96pp., 5x71/2, full color paperback, $7.95, ISBN 1-59707-000-9

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AND NOW, FROM NBM:

BONEYARD #17

Richard MOORE

As the gang tries to relax with a friendly game of football, the Feds come to ask for Abbey's help. Seems an unstoppable slasher is killing teens at a lakeside summer camp, and the F.B.I. is running out of agents. Features a wrap-around cover.

Quarterly comic book, B&W, $2.95

WAKE vols 6/7, "Artifice/Q.H.I."

Jean-David MORVAN & Philippe BUCHET

Two stories in one book in a new handy format! In "Artifice", feisty human agent Navee falls on a planet persecuted by a ruling class with little regard for life. She faces her coldest rival ever. In "Q.H.I.", she is given the task of dismantling a ring trafficking in planets but to do so she must retrieve Rib’Wund, a mercenary she worked with already out of a maximum security prison filled with ultra violent inmates! We also get to find out how she got those white bands across her body!

7½ x 10 (revised size from previews), 96pp., full color trade pb, $14.95, ISBN 1-56163-420-4

DUNGEON, volume 2 "The Barbarian Princess"

Lewis TRONDHEIM & Joann SFAR

The next two stories in this tongue-in-cheek Fantasy/Horror series. In the first, Herbert’s fictitious Princess in distress to lure more hapless warriors to the Dungeon turns out to be all too real and quite a handful! In the second, the Dungeon’s Dragon, centerpiece of its defense, is dead, long live the... wait, where will they find the replacement?

6 ½ x 9, 96pp. full color trade pb., $14.95, ISBN 1-56163-421-2



NEW from Eurotica:

BODY BY TAYLOR, Girls and other musings

Kevin TAYLOR

The second art book by Kevin J. Taylor, creator, writer and artist of such books as "Model by Day", "Fang", "Girl" and currently, "Girl-The Second Coming". This art book premieres mostly unpublished works done mainly for himself, and a few commissioned works. Inside are paintings inspired by celebrities, supermodels and...panties. You’ll be amazed at how much sharper his paintings have become!

9 x 12, 80 pp., full color on glossy stock, trade pb., $18.95, ISBN 1-56163-422-0

SIZZLE #25

Sizzle reaches it’s 25th issue and just keeps on rolling! Besides favorites Banana Games, Swarm and Kristina the vampire who sucks more than blood, we also introduce "Pillow Fight" where young chicks mix it up in a dark and mysterious college... The cover should tell ya what to expect!

8 ½ x 11, 48pp., B&W, quarterly magazine, $4.95

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