This coming year Cortex Challenge will feature two new versions for all the family to play easy & exciting brain games together Both of these new games offer 8 brand new challenges to have fun testing the sense of touch powers of observation coordination logic reasoning & imagination Cortex Challenge puts every kind of intelligence to the test at any age! Make up your own games by mixing up the boxes! Fun quick & easy to play! ...

Challenge your brain in a fun game that tests your thinking memory & speed skills Compete with other players in 9 different challenges which will make you use all your brain power touch tests duplicates logical series mazes colour puzzles & more Big brain party game
Includes: nine new challenges Comes with six limited edition 3D brains to track your score Train your brain with challenges based around patterns logical series mazes colour puzzles & more For 2 to 6 players 15 minutes play time Ages 8 & up
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Nominated for both the Eisner & Harvey Awards for Best Foreign Language Publication! With this book Pratt leaves behind the short story form he’d used for twenty-one interrelated tales & presents a truly epic graphic novel In the aftermath of the Russian Revolution & the First World War Corto Maltese is engaged by the Red Lanterns—a Chinese secret society made up entirely of women—to find an armored train laden with gold that belonged to the last Russian Tsar Nicholas II They aren’t the only ones lusting after the treasure The adventure which shifts from the hidden courts of Venice to the mysterious alleys of Hong Kong from Shanghai to Manchuria & Mongolia to Siberia also attracts regular & irregular armies as well as revolutionaries & counter-revolutionaries The sweeping plot allows Pratt to fully investigate the complicated & competing motivations of his cast that

Includes:: the return of Rasputin & the introduction of the cold & dangerous Duchess Marina Seminova the enigmatic warriorspy named Shanghai-Lil & historical figures such as the “ Mad Baron” Roman Ungern-Sternberg a Russian general who who sees himself as the modern-day Genghis Khan!

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The second volume in the definitive English language edition of Hugo Pratt&s masterpiece Corto Maltese presented in the original oversized B&W format & with new translations made from Pratt&s original Italian scripts " Mushroom Heads" begins in Maracaibo Venezuela where Corto Maltese & Professor Steiner lead an expedition on the trail of the legendary El Dorado financed by the antiquarian Levi Colombia In " Banana Conga" Corto has his first & nearly fatal encounter with the beautiful yet dangerous mercenary Venexiana Stevenson Within this framework of adventure Hugo Pratt weaves themes dealing with the exploitation of indigenous people the noble struggle to gain freedom & independence & how cowardice can poison men of all classes The action set in 1917 takes Corto Maltese from the Mosquito Coast to Barbados to a deadly struggle among Jivaro head-hunters in the Peruvian Amazon More from this Author Corto Maltes 5 Fabula de Venecia Fable of Venice Mid-Winter Morning&s Dream Corto Maltese the Early Years Corto Maltese Under the Sign of Capricorn Corto Maltes 6 Las Lejanas Islas Del Viento Corto Maltes 6 Remote islands of the wind ...

In this third volume in the definitive English language edition of Hugo Pratt’s masterpiece the action moves from South America to Europe against the backdrop of the First World War In these six stories Pratt further explores such complicated themes as patriotism & greed revolution & opportunism & betrayal & seduction Events take Corto from a small island in the Venetian lagoon where he comes face to face with a beautiful blonde spy to Stonehenge & an adventure with Merlin Morgana & Puck Along the way he meets Ernest Hemingway & future billionaire Aristotle Onassis Irish revolutionary Banshee O’ Danann the legendary Red Baron & an intense cast of characters who weave in & out of a series of labyrinthine plots & counter-plots ...

" An Italian comics masterpiece is coming to America in a big way this year Under the Sign of Capricorn "
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In 1923 Buenos Aires while searching for a missing friend Corto finds himself locked in a dangerous yet elegant game of cat & mouse His investigation brings him up against an organized crime syndicate known as the " Warsavia" crooked police officials small-time crooks investigative journalists a worldwide prostitution ring &--manipulating the events from above--the far-reaching arm of the Argentine oligarchy Guiding his way through this labyrinth of deceit & intrigue is an old acquaintance from a long ago Patagonian escapade the legendary outlaw Butch Cassidy who with the Sundance Kid headed the notorious Wild Bunch & has been presumed dead for two decades! Just as Fable of Venice was Pratt&s homage to his hometown Tango is a nod to Buenos Aires where the cartoonist lived during his earliest creative successes in the late 1940s & 1950s The atmosphere of the story is steeped in the sensual music of the tango whose melodies almost seem to emerge from the artwork with close-ups of the dance steps framed by Pratt with extraordinary effectiveness The first English-language translation of Hugo Pratt&s graphic novel set in Argentina About the Author Hugo Pratt (1927-1995) is considered one of the great graphic novelists in the history of the medium His strips graphic works & watercolors have been exhibited at the Grand Palais in Paris & the Vittoriano in Rome & a landmark show in 2011 at the Pinacotheque in Paris drew 215000 visitors hailing Pratt as "the inventor of the literary comic strip" ...

Corto Maltese sets out on another globetrotting adventure after the discovery of a Byron manuscript in a mosque on the isle of Rhodes Set in the years 1921-22 the action leaps from Turkey to Azerbaijan & to the Caspian Sea tracing the path of the legendary Silk Road as Corto hunts for the fabled treasure of Alexander the Great A parade of interesting characters ensues including the Whirling Dervishes Joseph Stalin (with whom Corto is on a first-name basis) the Hashinin sect of assassins the Turkish general Enver Pasha & the return of Venexiana Stevenson & the witch-tongued Rasputin (who has just escaped from the dreaded prison known as " The Golden House of Samarkand") Pratt further explores the theme of dual personality as Corto tries to evade his doppelganger the Turkish revolutionary Timur Chevket always mindful of his mother&s warning that coming face to face with his look-alike would mean disaster About the Author Hugo Pratt (1927-1995) is considered one of the great graphic novelists in the history of the medium His strips graphic works & watercolors have been exhibited at the Grand Palais in Paris & the Vittoriano in Rome & a landmark show in 2011 at the Pinacotheque in Paris drew 215000 visitors hailing Pratt as "the inventor of the literary comic strip" ...

Corto Maltese enters the crossroads of magic & the occult astrology & history religion & mythology in the first English-language translation of Pratt&s award-winning book Visiting the writer Hermann Hesse while researching alchemists with his old friend Professor Steiner Corto drinks from the "source of the Alchemy Rose" & becomes immersed in a surreal & dreamlike adventure that involves Klingsor the quest for the Holy Grail Death the Devil & the Sandman among others This complexly plotted graphic novel was among Hugo Pratt&s most philosophical ruminations on the imagination About the Author Hugo Pratt (1927-1995) is considered one of the great graphic novelists in the history of the medium His strips graphic works & watercolors have been exhibited at the Grand Palais in Paris & the Vittoriano in Rome & a landmark show in 2011 at the Pinacotheque in Paris drew 215000 visitors hailing Pratt as "the inventor of the literary comic strip" ...

This easy to build plastic model kit of the legendary Corvette C3 features a design that was characterized by amply curved winds & a sleek side profile Single piece fully detailed bodywork Rotating wheels Authentic decal set ...