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DC Comics The Authority Omnibus New Edition
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£85.50
DC Comics Absolute Promethea Book Two 2026 Edition
£68.25
Penguin Random House Group Secret War by Brian Michael Bendis Omnibus
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£56.25
Taschen GmbH Marvel Comics Library. Avengers. Vol. 2. 19651967
Book SynopsisThe AvengersMarvel's dynamic ensemble of super heroesreturn in a second volume of Marvel Age classics. Rediscover the glory years of Avengers legends Stan Lee and Don Heck with epic battles, new characters and the expansion of the Marvel universe in meticulously reproduced, large-format detail over the course of 20 original issues.Also available in a Collector's Edition of 1,000 numbered copies
£110.45
Penguin Random House Group Marvel Televisions Agatha The Art of The Series
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£75.00
Seven Seas Entertainment, LLC KinnPorsche Novel Vol. 1
Book SynopsisThe Thai novel that inspired the hit live-action Boys' Love drama KinnPorsche: The Series!
£15.29
Penguin Random House Group Fantastic Four by Ryan North Vol. 4 Fortune
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£13.49
Marvel Comics House of M Omnibus Companion
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£67.49
Marvel Comics Venom by Al Ewing Vol. 6 Infiltration
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£13.49
Marvel Comics Daredevil by Saladin Ahmed Vol. 2 Hell To Pay
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£19.54
DC Comics Poison Ivy Vol. 5 Human Botany
Book SynopsisPoison Ivy goes All-In for year three of the critically acclaimed series from Hugo Award-winning writer G. Willow Wilson (Wonder Woman) and superstar artist Marcio Takara.The GLAAD award-winning series from writer G. Willow Wilson and artist Marcio Takara returns for year three as part of DC?s ?All In? initiative. Poison Ivy returns to Gotham City to resume her war to restore the balance of the natural world. However, when she unintentionally resurrects an ancient place buried deep within Gotham?s past, it awakens something hungry.Collects: Poison Ivy #25-30
£22.10
Penguin Random House Group Venom Separation Anxiety The King In Purple
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£15.29
Marvel Comics Official Handbook of The Marvel Universe Master
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£67.49
DC Comics Batman Beyond The Animated Series Classics
Book SynopsisWhen fate brings teenager Terry McGinnis into the life of reclusive billionaire Bruce Wayne, the time will come for a new Dark Knight to rise.
£44.00
Marvel Comics Daredevil by Chip Zdarsky Omnibus Vol. 1
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£999.99
Panini Comics Deadpool Assassin
Book SynopsisKilling in the name of...
£12.59
DC Comics Wesley Dodds The Sandman
Book SynopsisWesley Dodd s dream of a better world is now a nightmare, as DC s original Sandman returns in a gripping new noir mystery!
£13.49
Pan Macmillan The Prince and the Pauper
Book SynopsisThe Prince and the Pauper is a classic adventure of mistaken identity set in Tudor London and told with Mark Twain’s trademark humour and concern for social justice.Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition has an afterword by author and journalist Nicolette Jones.Penniless Tom Canty wonders what it would be like to be a prince. Heir to the throne Edward Tudor dreams of a life outside the royal palace walls. When the two boys meet by chance they’re amazed by how similar they look and agree to swap clothes. Dressed in rags, Edward is thrown out onto the streets whilst courtiers have no idea that their prince is a pauper. Will each boy be able to find his way home?Trade ReviewTwain's great virtue as a writer, his genius, was his deliberate refusal of borrowed propriety or scale. The tallest of tales could be fashioned from the most modest of ingredients -- Tim Adams * Guardian *Twain was ahead of his time. He was one of America’s first modern celebrities, an icon of the first age of mass media -- Ben Tarnoff * New Yorker *Twain was surely the American Dickens, however much he would have hated the phrase—and however high a tribute it seems today -- Ellen Moers * New York Review of Books *
£9.49
Seven Seas Entertainment, LLC World End Solte Vol. 3
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£10.79
Marvel Comics SpiderMan 2099 Omnibus Vol. 1
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£113.59
Orion Publishing Co Red at the Bone
Book SynopsisTHE TIMES ''100 BEST SUMMER READS''NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN''S PRIZE 2020''Sublime'' Candice Carty-Williams''An epic in miniature'' Tayari Jones ''A banger'' Ta-Nehisi Coates''Generous and big-hearted'' Brit Bennett ''A true spell of a book'' Ocean Vuong ''A proclamation'' R.O. Kwon''A little masterpiece'' Paula Hawkins''I adored this book'' Elizabeth MacNeal''Pure poetry'' Observer''A sharply focused gem'' Sunday Times''Will remind you why you love reading'' Stylist''Haunting'' Guardian''A wonderful, tragic, inspiring story'' Metro''Prose that sings off the page... Gorgeous'' Mail on Sunday''A nuanced portrait of shifting family relationships'' FinancTrade ReviewONE OF THE BOOKS OF THE YEAR FOR:New York TimesWashington PostTimeUSA TodayO, The Oprah MagazineElleGood HousekeepingEsquireNPRNew York Public Library Library Journal Kirkus BookRiot She Reads The Undefeated Completely sublime and immersive, Red at the Bone will strike you in the heart. Woodson writes the beautiful complication that can be intergenerational relationships with love, and a richness that is breathtaking. * Candice Carty-Williams, bestselling author of QUEENIE *An epic in miniature... As moody, spare, and intense as a Picasso line drawing... This poignant tale of choices and their aftermath, history and its legacy, will resonate with mothers and daughters. * Tayari Jones, Women's Prize-winning author of AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE *Red at the Bone is a beautiful portrait of two families bonded through a teenage pregnancy and later fractured as its members follow their diverging paths. It's a generous, big-hearted novel that explores the pressures ambition and desire place on two young parents, as well as the histories they inherit that continue to shape the family for generations. * Brit Bennett, author of THE VANISHING HALF *A banger -- Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of THE WATER DANCERRed at the Bone glistens with sheer beauty. * Courttia Newland *Profound, moving and consistently unexpected... A book that embraces class, desire, race, gender, ambition and tragedy, all with exemplary subtlety... Red at the Bone is pure poetry. * Observer *Red at the Bone should be on everyone's to-read list. * Stylist (Best New Books for 2020) *A nuanced portrait of shifting family relationships... With passionate precision Woodson paints the aches and pleasures of all kinds of love: parental love, the love of friendship, sexual love... By the end of the novel the nature of [the characters'] wealth seems different than it did at the beginning of the book: as we have come to know its characters and their lives, it is their stories, not their gold, that gleam out from the darkness all around. -- Erica Wagner * Financial Times *Haunting... There is an abundance of angst over class, gender and race subtly woven into this beguilingly slim novel. Woodson frames each chapter from the point of view of a different character, and the result is a narrative about an individual family that takes on communal urgency and power. She shows her readers how elliptical and obsessive human memory is... Black women and their sexuality - what is projected on to it; its weight, beauty and ease - are at the heart of Red at the Bone. Woodson seems to understand that there has never been a way for youth or love or desire to play it safe. A young girl's sexuality is hers to discover, and not her parents', nor her lovers', to assume or take away. It is the mystery that keeps unravelling, like blood, truth and memory. * Guardian *Red at the Bone is less than 200 pages long but manages to cram in the story of one black American family from the start of the 21st century to the end - and from six viewpoints too... The writing is so sensuous and deft, Woodson's characterisation so instantly wrought, that perspective changes and propulsive tumble of years become a cinch to follow... A wonderful, tragic, inspiring story. Sublime. * Metro *A sharply focused gem * Sunday Times *Dazzling... Profoundly moving... with urgent, vital insights into questions of class, gender, race, history, queerness and sex in America. * New York Times Book Review *In prose that sings off the page, Woodson tells their stories and the stories of Iris's parents [...] weaving a spare family saga that marries joy with sadness. Gorgeous. * Mail on Sunday *It is rare to read an American novel that talks so unsqueamishly about class, and the systems - from the well-intentioned to the malignantly racist - that stymie upward mobility in black communities. It is rarer still to read a novel of unpunished maternal reluctance... It is in telling Iris's story - not as one of callous abandonment but of self-protection and queer desire - that Woodson's novel shows its red-raw heart. * TLS *As seductive as a Prince bop, Woodson's follow-up to Another Brooklyn is a move-to-its-own-groove multigenerational saga of racism and an unplanned teen pregnancy that throws together two disparate families. This deceptively slim novel pulses with yearning-for more, for better, for love, and for the chance to write our own stories. * O, The Oprah Magazine *This book is full of passion, pain and the ripples left by the past, all told in a rich language that fizzes off the page. * Good Housekeeping *A beast of a book; a masterclass on pace, characterisation and how a writer can be flexible. You'll find yourself rooting for every character, and hurting for them as well. * Elizabeth Acevedo, Observer *Author Jacqueline Woodson knows how to articulate aches that, for most of us, remain locked in inarticulateness - particularly that very human craving for validation. * Elle *Red at the Bone showed me something I didn't realize I needed in a book: home. Because throughout their trials, tribulations and triumphs, the people in this book were my people... Red at the Bone is a narrative steeped in truth - and, yes, it's painful. But it's also one of healing and hope. * Washington Post *She interrogates class, race and the meaning of family with ease and beauty. * Red *This gorgeous, moving novel is a celebration of three generations of a Black family in Brooklyn, and is a story of love-romantic and familial-and alienation, grief and triumph, disaster and survival... Woodson's language is never less than stunning and powerfully conveys the complications and love present within this family to great, compassionate effect. * Nylon *Jacqueline Woodson begins her powerful new novel audaciously, with the word "But." Well, there are no buts about this writer's talent... There isn't a character in this book you don't come to care about, even when you question their choices... Readers mourning the death of Toni Morrison will find comfort in Sabe's magnificent cadences as she rues her daughter's teen pregnancy, which flies in the face of the lessons her mama ingrained in her from the Tulsa race riots of 1921... With Red at the Bone, Jacqueline Woodson has indeed risen even further into the ranks of great literature. * NPR *One of our most empathetic writers... Lyrical, dreamy, and brimming with compassion for her characters, Woodson explores the forces that divide us and the ties that bind with her signature extremity of feeling. * Esquire *Jacqueline Woodson's Red at the Bone delivers an emotional wallop... Sublime. * Entertainment Weekly *A remarkable, intergenerational harmony of voices. * USA Today *A spectacular novel, one that wrenches us to confront the life-altering and life-pulling and life-subsuming facts of history, of love, of expectations, of status, of parenthood, as only a teenage pregnancy can. * Atlantic *Razor-sharp. * Vanity Fair *It would be tough to find a novel this year as enchanting as Red at the Bone. Woodson takes us through decades of generational dreams in this glistening charm of a book. * Sainsbury's Magazine *Exploring issues of gentrification, sexual identity and class, Red at the Bone is a novel you won't soon forget, one that begs to be discussed. * Popsugar *A remarkable and moving portrait of a family in a changing Brooklyn . . . There's not a single unnecessary word. * Refinery29 *A slim novel with tremendous emotional power. * Real Simple *Woodson interweaves Melody's touching narrative brilliantly with generational stories from her mother Iris, who was pregnant with Melody at the age of 16; her father Aubrey, still remembering the first flush of love; her grandmother Sabe, whose own grandmother survived the historic 1921 Tulsa, Oklahoma massacre in which "white folks tried to kill every living brown body", and her grandfather Po'Boy, who is wasting away from cancer. Their memories and loving glimpses of Melody create a family portrait that transcends the bounds of time. Woodson, a National Book Award winner, writes with fluidity, grace and finesse, pulling the plot tight in the final word. * BBC.com *The latest novel by Jacqueline Woodson is a beautifully written examination not just of the bonds of family, but also of how alone one can feel within it... Woodson paints a portrait of people who can barely remember who they once were, yet live with the echoes of their past selves every day. This lyrical novel makes the reader feel like they are present at a moment both they, and the characters, are attempting to unpack together. * Bust *Woodson famously nails the adolescent voice. But so, too, she burnishes all her characters' perspectives . . . In Woodson, at the height of her powers, readers hear the blues. * Kirkus (starred) *Jacqueline Woodson writes right along the border of poetry and prose: her language is as elliptical and dreamy as poetry, but it's always grounded in story and character, like prose. * Vox *Woodson's beautifully imagined novel explores the ways an unplanned pregnancy changes two families... Woodson's nuanced voice evokes the complexities of race, class, religion, and sexuality in fluid prose and a series of telling details. This is a wise, powerful, and compassionate novel. * Publishers Weekly (starred) *Woodson channels deeply true-feeling characters, all of whom readers will empathize with in turn. In spare, lean prose, she reveals rich histories and moments in swirling eddies, while also leaving many fateful details for readers to divine. * Booklist *The fall's hottest novel. * Town & Country *[Jacqueline Woodson's] books combine unique details of her characters' lives with the sounds, sights and especially music of their surroundings, creating stories that are both deeply personal and remarkably universal....this lyrical, lightly told coming-of-age story is bound to satisfy. * BookPage *Jacqueline Woodson has a gift for finding the perfect sets of details and poetic turns of phrase to make her novels feel epic and expansive. * Pacific Standard *A true spell of a book, Woodson is one of those rare writers who make you feel like you can do anything, should do anything. The story of family and young love are timeless human stories, but through Woodson's sentences, this novel offers us new ways to think and embody our burning world and, perhaps most mercifully, permission to dream - and to change. * Ocean Vuong, author of ON EARTH WE ARE BRIEFLY GORGEOUS *With its abiding interest in the miracle of everyday love, Red at the Bone is a proclamation. * R.O. Kwon, author of The Incendiaries *A little masterpiece, so slight and spare and yet containing so much. Poetic and compassionate and beautifully crafted. * Paula Hawkins *I adored this book. It felt like I was holding my breath the whole way through it. * Elizabeth MacNeal, author of THE DOLL FACTORY *It deals with ambition, desire, race, class and the difficulty of mother-daughter relationships with an impressive lightness of touch. * Louise O' Neill *PRAISE FOR JACQUELINE WOODSONJacqueline Woodson has such an original vision, such a singular voice. * Ann Patchett *Woodson brings the reader so close to her young characters that you can smell the bubble gum on their breath and feel their lips as they brush against your ear. * Tayari Jones, Women's Prize-winning author of AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE *Intense, moving . . . reading more like prose poetry than traditional narrative, the novel unfolds as memory does, in burning flashes, thick with detail. * New York Times *Woodson explores class, race and death with unflinching honesty and emotional depth... She manages to remember what cannot be documented, to suggest what cannot be said. * Washington Post *Woodson writes lyrically about what it means to be a girl in America, and what it means to be black in America. * Huffington Post *One of the quietly great masters of our time. * Kirkus *Woodson does for young black girls what short story master Alice Munro does for poor rural ones: she imbues their everyday lives with significance. * Elle *Woodson makes us want to reach into the mirror she holds up and make the words and the worlds she explores our own. * New York Times Book Review *A gorgeous writer... Lyrical prose, really, really beautiful. * Emma Straub *A master storyteller. * Angela Flournoy *Jacqueline Woodson has a poet's soul and a poet's eye for image and ear for lyrical language... I'll go anywhere she leads me. * Naomi Jackson *Jackie gets how class works for black people - how most of us ar never truly out of the hood. This is the wealth gap as literature. But it never says that. Never didactic. On the contrary, joint goes down smooth and easy . . . [and then] you realise there was nothing easy about it -- Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Rebellion Publishing Ltd. Karl the Viking - Volume Two: The Voyage of the
Book SynopsisIn the second, and concluding, volume of Karl the Viking the brave Briton takes the fight even further abroad than before as he and his band of warriors battle against the rival viking Gefion One-Eye in Africa, become mercenaries in a violent dispute between treacherous Russian tribes, and survive against fantastical and unnatural sea monsters. Karl the Viking is the series which made Don Lawrence's reputation, and it was on this basis that he was hired to revolutionise painted comic art with The Trigan Empire. This volume also contains stories written by Michael Moorcock penned when he was just beginning to create the adventures of Elric.Trade ReviewReviews for Don Lawrence's The Rise and Fall of theTrigan Empire"Vastly influential. Stunning. Dominated the genre of Science-Fiction epics." * The Independent *"Don [Lawrence] painted a comic I loved. It was called the Trigan Empire - two comic pages a week, in the children's magazine "Look and Learn", which even schools who banned comics allowed" -- Neil Gaiman"I love Trigan Empire! It's absolutely epic." -- Duncan Jones (director Source Code, Moon)"Lawrence [is] celebrated for his richly coloured, highly detailed visions of fantastic worlds." * The New York Times *
£21.24
Penguin Random House Group Peach Momokos Demon Saga Demon Wars
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£11.69
DC Comics DCeased War of the Undead Gods
Book SynopsisWhat began as a battle for Earth has become a war for the galaxy in the epic final installment in the massive DCeased storyline!
£999.99
Penguin Random House Group Blade Epic Collection Nightstalkers
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£32.79
DC Comics BatmanSuperman Worlds Finest Vol. 5 Secret
Book SynopsisJoin the World s Finest duo, Batman and Superman, as they adventure throughout the DC Universe, facing down threats of all shapes and sizes assuming they can put their personal differences aside when tempers start to flair!
£18.70
Marvel Comics Infinity
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£38.39
Marvel Black Panther by Christopher Priest Omnibus Vol.
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£83.99
Penguin Random House Group Punisher Max by Aaron Dillon Omnibus New
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£999.99
Marvel Comics Scarlet Witch by Steve Orlando Vol. 2 Magnum Opus
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£15.29
Abrams Doctor Strange The Book of the Vishanti
Book SynopsisDoctor Strange: The Book of the Vishanti is an immersive in-world guide to all things magical in the Marvel Universe. One of the most formidable and powerful items in the Marvel Universe, the sacred Book of the Vishanti contains an infinite number of potent spells, incantations, and lore from fantastic realms. Created thousands of years ago in the ancient city of Babylon to combat demons and those who wield dark magic, this tome has been passed down by the greatest sorcerers of the ages, each adding their own discoveries into its ever-expanding pages. Now in the possession of Doctor Strange, the Sorcerer Supreme and Earth’s foremost protector against mystical threats, the Book of the Vishanti acts as his first line of defense. The greatest source of magical knowledge in our dimension, this is the ultimate collection of spells, history, and personal accounts recorded by practitioners over centuries, including
£18.69
DC Comics Wonder Woman Vol. 3
Book SynopsisWitness the birth of Wonder Woman s daughter! The mysteries surrounding Trinity s origins finally revealed and explored but will the start of a new life mean the end of another one? And where does Wonder Woman s greatest love, Steve Trevor, fit into this new status quo?
£15.29
DC Comics Superman Legacy Box Set
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£57.75
DC Comics Batman Detective Comics The New 52 Omnibus Vol. 1
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£91.20
Penguin Random House Group Miles Morales SpiderMan by Cody Ziglar Vol. 6
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£13.49
Marvel Comics Hulk World War Hulk
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£19.54
Penguin Random House Group Rom Epic Collection The Original Marvel Years
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£37.49
Penguin Random House Group Dracula Blood Hunt
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£16.19
Rebellion Publishing Ltd. Karl the Viking Volume One: The Sword of Eingar
Book SynopsisOriginally serialised in Lion, Karl the Viking is a sweeping historical fantasy story of an orphaned Saxon boy, adopted and raised by the viking Eingar after his raid on Britain. Upon coming of age Karl succeeds Eingar and leads his tribe into battle in Britain against wild tribes of Picts, and re-connects with his old Saxon family, gaining an ally in his cousin Godwulf, and making an enemy of the Earl of Eastumbria.These fast-paced stories were drawn by Don Lawrence shortly before he revolutionised painted comic art with The Trigan Empire, when he was already a master of pen and ink, and his Karl the Viking series was the pinnacle of black and white comic art.Trade ReviewReviews for Don Lawrence's The Rise and Fall of theTrigan Empire"Vastly influential. Stunning. Dominated the genre of Science-Fiction epics." * The Independent *"Don [Lawrence] painted a comic I loved. It was called the Trigan Empire - two comic pages a week, in the children's magazine "Look and Learn", which even schools who banned comics allowed" -- Neil Gaiman"I love Trigan Empire! It's absolutely epic." -- Duncan Jones (director Source Code, Moon)"Lawrence [is] celebrated for his richly coloured, highly detailed visions of fantastic worlds." * The New York Times *
£16.99
Image Comics Astro City Metrobook Volume 5
Book SynopsisStar creators Kurt Busiek, Brent Anderson, Alex Ross and friends bring you more stories that changed how we think about superheroes.Quarrel and Crackerjack have been crimefighters for years, but now face aging and retirement. Former super-criminal Steeljack helps an old lover solve a dangerous mystery. The First Family face peril on a far-flung planet. Plus much more, from dangerous dreams threatening Samaritan, the world’s greatest hero, to a day in the life of a sorcerer’s assistant. Comics legends Kurt Busiek, Brent Anderson, Alex Ross and friends continue to showcase the human within the superhuman. Collects ASTRO CITY Vol. 3 #11-16 & 25-34
£25.59
Simon & Schuster Origins of Marvel Comics
Book SynopsisNow back in print and timed for its 50th anniversary—the landmark book Origins of Marvel Comics by Stan Lee! Originally published in 1974, Origins of Marvel Comics features the first appearance of characters who have dominated the pantheon of Marvel’s modern storytelling mythology—Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, the Hulk, Thor, and Doctor Strange—along with a second Silver Age tale featuring these special heroes, all hand-picked and introduced by the one and only Stan Lee, and serving as an essential showcase for writers and artists such as Stan himself, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, John Romita, and Marie Severin. Whether viewed as a historical artifact that launched an industry of presenting Marvel Comics to a broad audience of fans or a collection of the best in Silver Age comics by many of the greatest creators to ever put pencil to paper, Origins of Marvel Comics highlights both the lasting greatness of these iconic characters
£13.49
Marvel Comics SpiderManDeadpool Modern Era Epic Collection Isnt
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£32.79
Marvel Comics XMen by Gerry Duggan Vol. 5
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£16.19
Marvel Comics Daredevil Born Again Gallery Edition
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£35.99
Penguin Random House Group XFactor The Original XMen Omnibus Vol. 1
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£83.99
Marvel Comics Hulk Maestro by Peter David Omnibus
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£999.99
Penguin Random House Group Micronauts The Original Marvel Years Omnibus Vol.
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Marvel Alpha Flight We Stand
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