Collected for the first time in chronological order & featuring stories by fan-favorite writer Grant Morrison (BATMAN INC FINAL CRISIS) & the legendary Neil Gaiman (SANDMAN AMERICAN GODS) FAMILY MAN continues the arcane adventures of Vertigos chain-smoking magician John Constantine. In this volume Constantine attempts a vacation after recent events but as usual things dont go as planned. Plus Constantine must uncover the mystery of the murderous Family Man. ...

When Gemma Masters auctions off her uncles signature trench coat she sets off a horrific chain of events in the life of John Constantine. Bleeding apartment walls a flatulent demon a suspicious angel & an old adversary await Constantine as he races to find the coat before it sends him back to Hell! Collects Hellblazer 283-291. ...

Constantine's new wife is less than happy that he's missing a thumb leading him on a quest to find a suitable replacement for his missing digit. While he tries to literally sew himself back together his niece Gemma plots dark revenge against her uncle. Will Constantine be able to fend off his own kin's demonic fury? Collecting issues 276-282. ...

This oversized Hellboy Library" hardcover series continues featuring Mike Mignola & Richard Corbens award-winning Crooked Man story! " Hellboy" has racked up multiple Eisner Awards numerous spinoffs a novel line video games cartoons & two feature films. " Hellboy Library Volume 4" collects two complete trade-paperbacks full of short stories: " The Troll Witch & Other Stories" & " The Crooked Man" as well as an extensive selection of previously unreleased sketches & designs." ...

Hellboy" has racked up multiple Eisner Awards numerous spinoffs a novel line video games cartoons & two feature films. " Hellboy Library Volume 5" collects two complete trade paperbacks: " Darkness Calls" & " The Wild Hunt" the short story " The Mole" as well as an extensive selection of previously unreleased sketches & designs." ...

A murder in a New York wax museum & a missing corpse lead Hellboy into ancient Romanian castles on the trail of a sleeping legend: the original nobleman vampire. Nazi scientists prepare for the return of their occult master & the end of the world & Hellboy confronts his purpose on earth. ...

Since Mike Mignolas Hellboy" first hit the stands in 1993 it has become a cultural sensation racking up a dozen Eisner Awards & inspiring numerous spinoffs
- from a novel line to video games to feature films. Now Dark Horse is pleased to present the comics that started it all collected in deluxe hardcover editions. Sized at a generous 9 x 12 & handsomely bound to match " The Art of Hellboy" each volume contains the equivalent of two full trade paperbacks."
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The exuberant realism & virtuoso technique of Hellenistic sculpture formed the basis of much later European art. Under Alexander & his cosmopolitan successors sculptors enriched the classical Greek repertoire with a whole range of new subjects--hermaphrodites peasants boxers--and new styles-- baroque treatment genre figures individualized portraiture. Professor Smith offers a reappraisal of this entire artistic epoch as a period of innovation demonstrating the variety subtlety & complexity of its styles. Numerous illustrations reveal the skill & inventiveness of the Hellenistic masters who created works of great beauty & expressive power. 387 illus. ...

August 1942. North Africa. The desert war hangs in the balance. When the commander of the Eighth Army General Gott is killed it's clear that foul play is at work. An impenetrable Axis spy circuit is compromising any hope the Allies have of stemming the Nazi tide. Jack Tanner recovering from wounds in a Cairo hospital is astonished to receive a battlefield commission which will propel him into a very different world when he returns to action. Fit once more he finds himself facing the full onslaught of Rommel's latest offensive. In its aftermath Tanner & his trusty sidekick Sykes are recruited to work behind the Axis lines in a desperate attempt to fight back. But the murky world of deceit & murder they find themselves in is a million miles away from the certainties of the battlefield. Somehow they must discover who they can trust in the cat-&-mouse world of counter-espionage before it's too late... ...

General Adolphus knows the Monarchy crackdown is coming. Now he needs to pull together all the resources of the Hellhole colony the ever-expanding shadow-Xayan settlement & his connections with the other Deep Zone worlds. On Sonjeera Diadem Michella Duchenet has collected a huge fleet led by firebrand Commissar Escobar Hallholme son of the man who originally defeated Adolphus. Uniting themselves & pooling their minds the shadow-Xayans send a power surge along the original stringline path that links Hellhole with the Monarchy's hub on Sonjeera. All of the Diadem's battleships are currently approaching on that route & when the mental blast wipes out all the substations the battleships are effectively stranded. But now a bigger threat appears. Three large asteroids come in from the outer reaches of the Candela system. On Hellhole the awakened Xayans finally reveal information that has been hidden even from their own followers. A large group of powerful rogue telemancers split away from the main race-fanatics violent & ruthless. & now that the Xayan civilization is reawakening the rogues have come back to destroy them once & for all. They are coming for Hellhole & this time they will completely destroy it. ...