COMICS: Highlights From Marvel's October 2012 Solicitations

• THIS IS IT! The greatest era of the Marvel Universe starts here! From the ashes of AvX an all-new, all-different Avengers assemble!
• Captain America begins his quest to create a sanctioned Avengers unit comprised of Avengers and X-Men, humans and mutants working together – so why is Professor Xavier’s dream more at risk than ever?
• The first attack of the most loathsome villain in history will quake the Marvel Universe forever!
• The funeral of one of Marvel’s greatest heroes!

UNCANNY AVENGERS #1
RICK REMENDER (W) • JOHN CASSADAY (A&C)

• The final explosive arc for long-term Avengers writer Brian Michael Bendis.
• While the Avengers deal with the fallout from AVX, Tony Stark intercepts the signal…a signal that may lead the Avengers into the arms of one of their dearest friends…or their greatest enemies.

AVENGERS #31
BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS (W) • BRANDON PETERSON (A&C)

• The Avengers follow the signal trail to one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in Avengers history…and a shocking reveal that will leave the internet abuzz!

AVENGERS #32
BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS (W) • MIKE MAYHEW (A)
Cover BY BRANDON PETERSON

• The final explosive arc for long-time Avengers writer Brian Michael Bendis.
• Now that the New Avengers have sacrificed all they had to fight the Phoenix, many are asking hard questions: Is it time for New Avengers to call it quits?
• Meanwhile, one of the New Avengers deadliest foes hatches his elaborate plot for revenge!

NEW AVENGERS #31
BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS (W) • MICHAEL GAYDOS (A)
Cover BY MIKE DEODATO

• The New Avengers are thrown into disarray as one of their deadliest enemies has returned.
• Many hard and permanent choices need to be made in this final arc of the New Avengers saga.

NEW AVENGERS #32
BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS (W) • CARLOS PACHECO (A)
Cover BY MIKE DEODATO

• The explosive conclusion to the Avengers’ cosmic odyssey!
• Will the Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy be able to stop Thanos from his quest to make Earth the throne world of his new empire?
• The explosive fallout of the storyline will change one of the Avengers’ lives forever as a brand-new Marvel initiative spins out of this bombastic series.

AVENGERS ASSEMBLE #8
Brian Michael Bendis (W) • Mark Bagley (A&C)

• Dark times are coming for Peter Parker and change is closer than you even fear.
• As we aim headlong to ASM #700, The Kingpin ‘s latest plan turns one of Spider-Man’s greatest strengths against him.
• Hobgoblin is back…but his days may be numbered as the past sharpens its blades.
• GOBLINS GO TO WAR...and Peter Parker is caught dead-center!

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #695 & 696
DAN SLOTT & CHRISTOS GAGE (W) • GIUSEPPE CAMUNCOLI (A)
Cover BY STEVE MCNIVEN

• This month - guest-starring Wolverine!

WINTER SOLDIER #12
ED BRUBAKER (W)
BUTCH GUICE (A)
Cover BY STEVE EPTING

• Steve Epting returns for the grand finale of Ed Brubaker’s EPIC RUN on Captain America, and the end of an era!

CAPTAIN AMERICA #19
ED BRUBAKER (W) • STEVE EPTING (A&C)

• After all the blood and thunder that’s rocked the nine realms someone has to pay.
• It will probably be Thor – the only Asgardian brave enough to face…THE DOOM RING.
• Who dares judge a god? Just wait and see who shows up…

THE MIGHTY THOR #22
MATT FRACTION (W) • BARRY KITSON (A)
Cover by PASQUAL FERRY

• Kieron Gillen bids farewell to the cast of JIM!
• “Why Did Loki Do It? No One Knows.” Until now.
• The critically acclaimed epic reaches its climax as Loki’s future and past collide and nothing will ever be the same again. No, really. We mean it this time. Stop looking at us like that.

JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #645
Kieron Gillen (W) • STEPHANIE HANS (A&C)

• HULK: UNITED concludes!!!
• HULK VS. DOOM-BOTS!!! EEEE-NUFFZZAID-00011001010BOOM!

INCREDIBLE HULK #15
JASON AARON (W) • JEFTE PALO (A)
Cover BY ED McGUINNESS

• Who lives? Who dies? Who wins? Who loses?
• More importantly: what’s next for Tony Stark and Iron Man? You won’t believe it until you read it!

INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #527
MATT FRACTION (W) • SALVADOR LARROCA (A&C)

• Jonathan Hickman’s groundbreaking run comes to an end in this climactic issue!

FANTASTIC FOUR #611
JONATHAN HICKMAN (W) • RYAN STEGMAN (A&C)

• Jonathan Hickman wraps up his tenure as Old Franklin teaches Young Franklin “How To Be A God!”

FF #23
JONATHAN HICKMAN (W) • NICK DRAGOTTA (A)
Cover BY KALMAN ANDROSOFZSKY

• The streets of New York run red with blood!
• Matt’s mind unravels as the Coyote creates chaos!

DAREDEVIL #19
MARK WAID (W) • CHRIS SAMNEE (A)
Cover BY PAOLO RIVERA

• The fallout of AVX is here!
• We can’t tell you anything without spoiling AVX!

UNCANNY X-MEN #20
KIERON GILLEN (W) • CARLOS PACHECO (A&C)

• Last issue, Magneto made Rogue a daunting offer. In this FINAL ISSUE of X-MEN: LEGACY, Rogue faces the repercussions of her decision!

X-MEN LEGACY #275
CHRISTOS GAGE (W) • DAVID BALDEON (A)
Cover by MARK BROOKS

• Your favorite X-Man done the way you wanted to see him – in a no-holds-barred MAX series!
• Written by award-winning crime novelist Jason Starr (PUNISHER MAX, The Chill)
• In modern-day Tokyo, Logan gets pulled into a terrorist’s plot...or was he the target all along?
• A new look at Wolverine’s past!

WOLVERINE: MAX #1
JASON STARR (w) • CONNOR WILLUMSON (a)
Cover by JOCK

Mindy finally gets an ultimatum: No more Hit-Girl or else. But when danger lands on her doorstep, Hit-Girl may face her biggest challenge yet: not spilling blood on the living room carpet. Meanwhile, Red Mist lives out his Bruce Wayne fantasy abroad. A limited edition variant by Geof Darrow will be released for this issue.

HIT-GIRL #4
MARK MILLAR • JOHN ROMITA JR.