The complete Marvel Masterpieces painted trading-card art from the rare 2016 Upper Deck set is collected for the first time, featuring Marvel's most famous heroes and villains, beautifully illustrated by the incomparable Joe Jusko! Joe Jusko's paintings for the 1992 Marvel Masterpieces trading card collection are credited with launching the '90s trading card boom. In 2016, Upper Deck returned the Masterpieces series to its roots with an all-new set of Jusko cards. The full set of paintings is collected here, all 132 from the set, including the hard-to-find premium cards. Each piece of art is presented at actual size and has been scanned by the artist to ensure the highest quality reproduction. Each card is accompanied by its preliminary sketch, as well as commentary from the artist himself. Art fans not only get the full magnitude of Joe's talent, in great detail, but insight into his thought process behind each piece. A must-have not only for Marvel fans, but for fans of fantastic art as well. And as an incredible bonus, Joe has painted 10 brand-new pieces exclusively for this book!

Back in print! This book offers readers and fans a chance to witness Joe Jusko''s immense and phenomenal career from the past 25 years, offering glimpses of previously never-before-seen material from his files and sketchbooks, his enormously popular comic work, covers and illustrations from his book publishing career, as well as beautifully reproduced images of his personal favorites and insights into his life and creative process.

Rick Remender's Punisher mega-arc is collected into one oversized volume! Frank Castle has dedicated his life to hunting down and killing evil men. So when Norman Osborn becomes the head of US security, the Punisher sets about taking Osborn down. But when his assassination attempt fails, Frank finds himself in Osborn's crosshairs. The Hood resurrects several longdead super villains and sends them against Frank ... but it is the twisted son of Wolverine who manages to kill the Punisher. With his remains stitched back together, the Punisher is reborn as the terrifying Franken-Castle! COLLECTING: PUNISHER 1-16, ANNUAL 1; DARK REIGN: THE LIST - PUNISHER; FRANKEN-CASTLE 17-21; DARK WOLVERINE 88-89; PUNISHER: IN THE BLOOD 1-5

A comprehensive art book on the work of Mike Ploog. This oversize 9" x 12", 320-page retrospective covers every aspect of Ploog's career, from his earliest days of working with "Leatherneck Magazine," while still a young man serving in the Marines, to his extremely popular work in comics and film, right up through his latest work on "Goliath." "THE ART OF PLOOG" reproduces, quite literally, hundreds of pieces of art, as well as commentary by the likes of Ralph Bakshi, John Carpenter, Frank Oz, Roy Thomas, and the master himself; Mike Ploog.You will find Ploog's best known artwork contained in this book. Included is work he did for Marvel comics (on titles such as "Frankenstein," "Ghost Rider," "Man-Thing," "Planet of the Apes," and "Werewolf By Night"), as well as a wide range of his film work on animated features (such as "Lord of the Rings," "Shrek," and "Wizards") and live-action features (including "Little Shop of Horrors," "John Carpenter's THE THING," and "X-MEN"). The book also contains many of his most popular paintings; paintings that were created for his own fantasy art trading card series; as well as paintings he worked on for the collectible card games "Guardians" and "Magic the Gathering," most of which have never been reproduced larger than trading card size. This is the ultimate collection spanning Ploog's entire career.

The history of painters in comics goes back to the dawn of pulp magazine covers. From "The Shadow" and "The Spider" to "The Black Bat" and so many other characters, painter's works have graced the covers of comics and pulps, which have influenced many artists over the decades. This deluxe coffeetable art book, edited and overseen by Alex Ross — one of the comic industry's most recognized painters, whose expertise has helped guide and define its contents — is the most important, most comprehensive prestige hardcover retrospective of the history of painters in comics, of all time.

"One million years ago, young caveman Tor fought to survive alone in a perilous world. Driven into exile by his own people, Tor embarked on a quest that took him deep inside a mysterious mountain where man fought beast for dominance over the changing worl