His name is Wally West and he was the Fastest Man Alive. That is, until the Multiverse was rewritten without him or his family in it. Wally returned and tried to make it work, but the damage was done. Spinning out of the events of Heroes in Crisis, follow the man who called himself Flash on an adventure to find redemption in a cosmos that has fought so hard to destroy him.

Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu, demonstrates his martial arts prowess across the Marvel Universe! There's Hellfire in Hong Kong as Shang-Chi lends his deadly hands to the X-Men's cause in battle with Sebastian Shaw and the Kingpin! Then, he and Wolverine join Iron Fist and the Heroes for Hire, tackling pirates on the high seas off Madripoor! But when Mister Negative exploits the chaos of Shadowland, Shang-Chi and Spider-Man must stop the villain's Inner Demons from adding Hell's Kitchen to his criminal empire! Plus, when Arnim Zola threatens Earth, only Shang-Chi, Steve Rogers and Black Widow stand between us and oblivion! And when the Master of Kung Fu joins the Avengers, he shows exactly why he's one of Earth's Mightiest Heroes!

COLLECTING: X-MEN (1991) 62-64, HEROES FOR HIRE (1997) 18-19, SHADOWLAND: SPIDER-MAN (2010) 1, SECRET AVENGERS (2010) 18,AVENGERS (2012) 11

EARNEST GLECKMAN is a good kid with exceptional grades in his senior year at college...his only quirk is the rock band he sings in every Saturday night. He enjoys the rock esthetic and "dressing the role" if not acting like a nihilistic punk. All that is changed when he is mortally wounded, he discovers he must "pay down his new lease on life" by serving as a part time fixer for a death cult as EVIL ERNIE. The polar opposite of EARNEST. ERNIE is vicious and cruel and sadistic as he employs all manner of torture or murder (or oft-times both!) against his targets. EARNEST is stable, good, focused. ERNIE is a chaotic, evil, anarchist.

In 1996, the hottest creators of the day teamed up to reimagine and reinvigorate Marvel’s greatest heroes. The Avengers and Fantastic Four were reborn with bold new looks on a brave new world, their origins re-envisioned with a raw vitality and contemporary sensibility! Industrialist Tony Stark has donned experimental armor, becoming the heroic Iron Man — but he wasn’t the first. Haunted by memories of his friend Rebel O’Reilly, killed during testing of the armor, can Tony handle the threat of the Hulk? When Doctor Doom targets Iron Man, painful ghosts of the past re-emerge. And Tony will need to channel every ounce of inventiveness he has if he hopes to stop Galactus!

Collects Iron Man (1996) #1-12; Avengers (1996) #6, 12; Fantastic Four (1996) #12; Captain America (1996) #12; material from Heroes Reborn (1996) #1/2; Captain America (1996) #6.

The Green Hornet and Kato have met their fair share of villains over the years, but when an alien infant crashes to Earth, the two heroes must keep him safe from a whole new type of nemesis. Are they prepared to take on a series of dark and deadly enemies willing to stop at nothing and do whatever it takes to save the child?

No sooner has Batman's former sidekick, Jason Todd, put his past as the Red Hood behind him than he finds himself cornered by a pair of modern day outlaws: Green Arrow's rejected sidekick Arsenal, the damaged soldier of fortune, and the alien Starfire, a former prisoner of intergalactic war who won't be chained again. As a loner, Jason has absolutely no interest in this motley crew of outlaws. So what's he going to do when they choose the Red Hood as their leader?

For the complete collector, comes the highly anticipated second volume in The Darkness Compendium series! This volume picks up where the first one left off, as Jackie Estacado, bearer of The Darkness, returns from Hell itself to gain revenge on his former mob family for the death of his one true love, Jenny. It contains the seminal run by Paul Jenkins and Dale Keown which inspired The Darkness video game, along with story arcs by noted authors including David Lapham (Stray Bullets), Scott Lobdell (X-Men), and Ron Marz (Artifacts), and the first twenty-five issues of Phil Hester's revolutionary relaunch of the series to coincide with The Darkness video game. Join Jackie as he goes from resurrected assassin to mob boss to drug kingpin to bagman for an ancient demon! The Darkness Compendium Volume 2 collects The Darkness Volume 2 #1-24, The Darkness Volume 3 #1-10, and the "Legacy Numbering" issues #75-89 for a total of 50 complete issues collected into one deluxe hard cover volume.