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They messed with the wrong supervillain.
Valentina Belmonte walked away from her supervillain career years ago. Having peaked at the top of the national Most Wanted List, she now lives a quiet life with her husband and daughter, enjoying the Florida sun. Sure, she has to curb her criminal instincts to stay under the radar, but her family is worth it.
Until they're attacked. With her husband-a retired superhero and the closest thing she has to a...
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Publisher
Oni Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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In a graphic novel love letter to 90s action movies, a betrayed assassin wants revenge and a hard drinking former cop wants his job back. For either to get what they want, they're going to have to fight their way through twenty flights of criminals, assassins, drug lords, murderers, yup, even accountants, and... KILL. THEM. ALL.
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Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1968.
Language
English
Description
Clyde McKay leads a group of men to carry out a daredevil raid, but their real mission is to steal a million dollars worth of gold from a Union armory. The men manage to pull off the attack, but Captain Lynch, a counter-espionage agent who has infiltrated the group, imprisons them. Action abounds as they attempt to escape with the gold.
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English
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The Albigensian crusade 1209-1229) by the Catholic Church against the Cathar heretics of southern France is infamous for its brutality. Marked by massacres and acts of appalling cruelty, these deeds are commonly ascribed to the role of religious fanaticism. This book is the first to offer a dedicated military history of the whole Crusade, in so doing it refutes this old view. By telling the story of the Crusade through its dramatic sieges, battles...
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English
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2006" Daniel Chirot is the Job and Gertrud Tamaki Professor of International Studies and professor of sociology at the University of Washington. Clark McCauley is the Rachel C. Hale Professor of Science and Mathematics and codirector of the Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict at Bryn Mawr College, and founding editor of Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict: Pathways toward Terrorism...
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Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Fletcher Hanks was the first great comic book auteur: he wrote, penciled, inked, and lettered all of his own stories. He completed approximately 50 stories between 1939-1941, all unified by a unique artistic vision. Whether it's the superhero Stardust doling out ice cold slabs of poetic justice, or the jungle protectress Fantomah tearing evildoers from limb to ragged limb, contemporary readers are stunned by the pop surrealism and outright violent...
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