Thank you for checking in. This auction/sale is for a Lot of 42 Black Hammer comic by Dark Horse Press. It spans multiple main Black Hammer titles as well as expanded universe debut character titles (Skulldigger & Skeleton Boy, Barbalien, Doctor Star). Lot includes miscellaneous back issues, complete mini and maxi-series, sustained runs, anthology issues, variants, and harder to find issues.
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- Black Hammer 3 for $1 (2019, oversized, reprints early issues for jumping on point)
- Black Hammer #4b (2016, sweet retro variant by Lemire, Abe Slam v. Cthu-Lou, HTF)
- Black Hammer ‘45 #1a, 2a, 2b (Fabry variant), 3b (Cowan variant), 4a (complete set, WW2 story)
- Black Hammer: Age of Doom (2018) #s 1a, 2a, 3b (Cho variant), 4b (Harren variant), 5b (Fabian Moon variant), 6a (sold out), 7a (HTF), 8a (HTF), 9b (Greene variant), 10b (Fiffe variant, HTF)
- Black Hammer: Reborn #2-4 (2019)
- Black Hammer: Visions #1b (Patton Oswalt), 2b (Geoff Johns), #3c (Zdarsky), 4b (Tamaki), 5a (Kelly Thompson & Skulldigger origin), 6b (Cullen Bunn), 7c Shimizu variant), #8b (Scott Snyder) (2021 anthology series, complete set, top talent)
- Barbalien Red Planet #1-3 (2020, 5-issue series, good read)
- Doctor Star #1b (Shalvey variant), 2b (JG Jones variant), 3a, 4b (Annie Wu)
- Skulldigger & Skeleton Boy #1a, #2b Harren variant), 3a, #4b (Dan Johnson variant), #5b (Sam Keith variant), #6a (2019, Lemire/Zonjic, excellent series, complete set)
- The Unbelievable Unteens #3a (2021, Black Hammer X-Men!)
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Special features include scarce and HTF individual first printings & value back issues, first character appearances, sweet variants, complete sets, sustained runs, and plenty more.
Classic/iconic artists and writers are also well represented here, including Jeff Lemire, Geoff Johns, Chip Zdarsky, Kelly Thompson, Scott Snyder, Dave Stewart, Fabian Moon, Rafael Albuquerque, Ray Fawkes, Matt Kindt, and more!
All issues from 2016-2021; each book individually bagged & boarded, many in mylites to give em a little extra pop and protection. It’s a fairly large lot so conditions vary slightly but nothing is beat up or under VF. Most are NM-/NM or better condition—just as you’d find them in the local comic shop on Wednesday.
Get in on the ground floor of Black Hammer and the Hammer/ verse in one big and fast swoop!
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BLACK HAMMER #4b:
2016, HTF/Sold Out; Written by Jeff Lemire. Art by Dean Ormston. Retro Variant Cover by Jeff Lemire. In the forties, Abraham Slam faced such menaces as the psychedelic Florist and the eldritch Cthu-Lou without breaking a sweat. But keeping the heroes of Black Hammer Farm from each other's throats when his girlfriend comes to dinner proves far more perilous! Meanwhile, the Black Hammer's daughter uncovers new clues to the exiled heroes' disappearance! 28 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.
BLACK HAMMER 3 for $1:
2019, Written by Jeff Lemire. Art by Dean Ormston, Dave Stewart, Wilfredo Torres, and David Rubin. Cover by David Rubin. A perfect intro to three great storylines in the Black Hammer-verse for just one dollar! This three-in-one anthology features the first issues of the original Black Hammer run, Sherlock Frankenstein, and Quantum Age, collected together in a discount package! o Perfect introduction to the Black Hammer universe. 76 pages, full color. Cover price $1.00.
BLACK HAMMER ‘45 #1a:
2019, Written by Jeff Lemire and Ray Fawkes. Art by Matt Kindt and Sharlene Kindt. Cover by Matt Kindt. During the Golden Age of superheroes, an elite Air Force crew called the Black Hammer Squadron was formed to fight the Axis powers. With occult threats from the German side, this team must save a family of scientists from the Nazi's, but the mysterious and dangerous Ghost Hunter is hot on their trail. From the World of Black Hammer comes a truly gripping tale of war and intrigue! 28 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.
BLACK HAMMER AGE OF DOOM #1a:
2018, Written by Jeff Lemire. Art and Cover by Dean Ormston. The Eisner Award-winning superhero saga returns! Picking up immediately where we left off-Lucy Weber has become the new Black Hammer and right as she's about to reveal to our heroes how they got stuck on the farm and can escape she vanishes. Now our new Black Hammer finds herself trapped in a gritty world filled with punk rock detectives, emo gods, anthropomorphic humans, absurdist heroes, and many more weirdoes, in a mad world in which there is no escape! o Winner of the Eisner Award for Best New Series! 28 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.
BLACK HAMMER AGE OF DOOM #10b:
2019, HTF, Written by Jeff Lemire. Art by Dean Ormston and Dave Steward. Variant Cover by Michel Fiffe. The Eisner Award-winning superhero saga returns! With the team coming together, Black Hammer, Abe, and company try to figure out what's happened to throw their lives upside down. Lucy, however, receives a call from an unexpected hero, which thrusts their plan into chaos. Black Hammer has been optioned by Legendary Pictures! 28 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.
BLACK HAMMER: VISIONS #1b:
2021, Anthology series w/ new creative team each issue; Written by Patton Oswalt. Art by Dean Kotz. Variant Cover by Evan Dorkin and Sarah Dyer. An exciting reimagination of the Eisner Award-winning Black Hammer series told by guest writers and artists such as Patton Oswalt, Geoff Johns, Mariko Tamaki, Chip Zdarsky, Kelly Thompson, and more of comic's top talents! Patton Oswalt joins artists Dean Kotz and Jason Wordie to explore the life of youthful super heroine Golden Gail on the Black Hammer Farm before the beginning of Black Hammer #1, and her struggle to maintain sanity as a middle-aged woman trapped in the unchanging body of a superpowered grade-schooler. 28 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.
BLACK HAMMER: VISIONS #2b:
2021, Written by Geoff Johns. Art by Scott Kolins. Cover by Kelley Jones. DC superstar Geoff Johns joins the Hammerverse with this creepy tale about a young boy who flees a kidnapper only to find himself trapped in the Cabin of Horrors and face-to-face with the mysterious Madame Dragonfly. 28 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.
BLACK HAMMER: VISIONS #8b:
2021, Written by Scott Snyder. Art by David Rubin. Cover by Patric Reynolds, Luis Nct. In this dueling narrative of two different sins over time, we witness an 1880s origin story of the Black Hammer cult cowboy known as the Horseless Rider and a 1950s southwestern rest home where the staff is immoral and vengeance is waiting in the shadows. 28 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.
BLACK HAMMER REBORN #2b:
2021, Written by Jeff Lemire. Art by Marley Zarcone & Ande Parks. Cover by Marley Zarcone. Lucy Weber, formerly the powerful hero Black Hammer, is struggling to keep her daughter from following the same path of heroism-a battle she's seems destined to lose as the family is confronted with spatial warps, shark monsters, and familiar faces from the past that threaten to bring more violence into their lives than they ever wanted. 28 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.
BARBALIEN RED PLANET #1b:
2020, Written by Tate Brombal and Jeff Lemire. Art by Gabriel Hernandez Walta. VARIANT Cover by Phil Jimenez. A groundbreaking new sci-fi action series in the world of the Eisner Award-winning Black Hammer universe, about prejudice, honor, and identity. Mark Markz has found his place on Earth as both a decorated police officer and as the beloved superhero, Barbalien. But in the midst of the AIDS crisis, hatred from all sides makes balancing these identities seem impossible-especially when a Martian enemy from the past hunts him down to take him back, dead or alive. * Origin Story for Barbalien. 28 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.
SKULLDIGGER & SKELETON BOY #1a:
Dec 2019, Written by Jeff Lemire. Art and Cover by Tonci Zonjic. Spiral City finds itself trapped in a vicious cycle of crime, corruption, and violence. With the heart of the city at stake, a vigilante rises in Skulldigger. However, when the nefarious Grimjim escapes from prison, will Skulldigger and his ward, Skeleton Boy, be enough to save Spiral City? 28 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.
SKULLDIGGER & SKELETON BOY #6a:
2021, Written by Jeff Lemire. Art and Cover by Tonci Zonjic. With dead bodies piling up, and a young boy's future on the line, Skulldigger and Detective Reyes confront the psychopathic Grimjim-and each other-in a final showdown that determines the fate of Spiral City. 28 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.
DOCTOR STAR #1b:
2018, Written by Jeff Lemire. Art by Max Fiumara. Cover by Declan Shalvey and Jordie Bellaire. This dual-narrative story set in the world of the Eisner-Award winning Black Hammer series chronicles the legacy of a Golden-Age superhero. An aged crime fighter desperately wants to reconnect with his estranged son, who he hoped would one day take the mantle of Doctor Star. Over the course of the story we learn his World War II-era origin, how he got his powers, his exciting astral adventures, the formation of some of Black Hammer's greatest heroes, and more in this heartbreaking superhero tale about fathers and sons. 28 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.
THE UNBELIEVABLE UNTEENS #3a:
2021, Written by Jeff Lemire. Art and Cover by Tyler Crook. Unbelievable Unteens comic book artist Jane Ito finds her world flipped upside down after discovering that the heroes from her comics were real and she was one of them. As she and the team of underdog heroes begin to re-assemble, they find out why their memories were wiped, who was behind this evil plot, and what happened to the powerful foe the demonic Whitewraith! 28 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.
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