This issue: a major revelation from Elijah Snow's past! It's 1933 and Snow floats down-river towards a golden city shrouded by the immense jungle. After encountering a dashing figure, a man raised by animals, Snow meets a brilliant and harmonious people - and one of the great loves of his life...
With The Four momentarily in disarray, Elijah Snow initiates the second part of his comeback plan; to hunt down and discover the truth about Anna Hark, daughter of the criminal genius of the '30s who died in the Adirondacks with the rest of Axel Brass' associates. Her story begins in medieval China and ends in the spires of modern America!
For Elijah Snow, it's time to look at everything Planetary has encountered during the past year and start piecing it all together. What is the Hark Corporation? Why do they sometimes work with the Four? And the biggest question of all: why are the Four currently in Australia, building a giant gun atop Ayers Rock?
You know who The Fourth Man is by now--this is the story of how he was lost. Elijah Snow's story moves into the 1990s, showing the vicious game between The Four and Planetary. This is how it all went horribly wrong. Now Snow is back. And he's not playing any more games...
1919, Germany. A young man in white finds the secret map of the world. It leads him to a famous address in London the year later, where he meets the world's greatest detective...and a less savory member of the open conspiracy meant to improve the world.
Elijah Snow's memory has returned, with a vengeance. Can Jakita and the Drummer stop him before he does something foolish?
Elijah Snow takes time out for a drink with an old friend--John Stone, Agent of S.T.O.R.M. In a small bar where all drinks are poured in the name of the triumphant dead, Elijah begins to understand why he spent those years in the desert...and why he finally came back.
The Four have been collecting...oddities...for years. Now that Planetary has gained control of their sanctuary in Four Voyagers Plaza, Snow is getting his first look at the secrets, lies and death they've brought.
In 1997, the field team went to England, to interrupt one of Dowling's experiments. They interrupted a successful attempt to bring someone back from a fictional reality. That was Ambrose Chase's last mission... and Elijah Snow has never heard of Chase.
The United States dealt with the Red Scare of the 1950s by committing atrocities the Soviet Union only dreamt of. The last of those experiments remain at Science City Zero, and Planetary are ready to dig into the secret files--if they survive the welcoming committee!
Jack Carter is dead. When Jakita drags Elijah and the Drummer to England for his funeral, they find that not every story about Carter comes to the expected conclusion.
In the 1950s, a quartet of astronauts were launched into space on an experimental rocket mission to the Moon. They didn't make it. Neither did the four cosmonauts launched on an identical flight plan. Two different foursomes experienced something remarkable on their fantastic journey, and they're still alive today, doing something so mysterious tha...
Related from the bed of a secret hospital: an even more secret history. Discover the story of Doctor Axel Brass, the forgotten pre-war adventurer who spent fifty years guarding the multiversal door opened by a computer he couldn't shut off. It's an untold story of greatness in America, of jungle kings and covert operators and a daughter in the nigh...
John Wilder, private detective for a huge software company, trod on an ancient artifact discovered beneath the foundations of a bombed-out building belonging to his employers. Seconds later, he was no longer there. This is the tale of where he went!
For twenty years, Hong Kong residents have told stories of a cop who came back from the dead to bring justice--and vengeance--to the streets of his city. Now, after a verified sighting of the spectral policeman with thundering guns, Planetary comes calling, looking to disprove what they feel must be an urban legend. They come looking for a lie, but...
A cult-favorite Japanese author and a ragtag band of his manic fans and sycophants take off for a tiny, secluded island in the disputed territory between Japan and Russia. What secrets lurk on this island that have kept both nations from laying claim to it since World War II? It's up to Planetary to get the author and his cohorts off the island bef...
Jakita Wagner recruits a mysterious 100-year-old man named Elijah Snow to join the Planetary group—archeologists of the unknown. Their first mission: locate the mysterious Doc Brass!
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REUNITING THE ACCLAIMED TEAM OF MARK WAID AND CHRIS SAMNEE! While Bruce Wayne adjusts to the realities of adopting orphan Dick Grayson, a mysterious new crime boss called the General has come to Gotham to claim the city by disrupting and destroying its other mobs. But what is his connection to Two-Face? Batman and his new sidekick, Robin, are out f...
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NEW FRIENDS, NEW ENEMIES! Batman and Alfred have formed a tentative alliance, but the Black Mask has some new friends too...and they're coming to Gotham to wreak absolute havoc. Plus, discover the dark secret that will rock Bruce to his core and make him question everything...
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For fans of THE MOON IS FOLLOWING US and BATTLE CHASERS comes an exclusive new action series from rising star **LUDO LULLABI **(TRANSFORMERS, Battle Chasers) about forgotten heroes, cutthroat food trucks, and saving the world...again. Humanity survived a monstrous threat, but the world isn't better for everyone. Every day Loloi hits the road to del...
BATMAN LEGEND SCOTT SNYDER AND ICONIC ARTIST NICK DRAGOTTA TRANSFORM THE DARK KNIGHT'S TALE FOR THE MODERN AGE! Without the mansion...without the money...without the butler...what's left is the Absolute Dark Knight!
INTO THE NEST OF THE PARADEMON! As the Justice League grapples with the ramifications of the Atom Project, a strange alert brings the team to the jungles of South America...and a horrific discovery. Can the elite Justice League strike force save a village from total slaughter? Plus...the mystery of the Darkseid heir deepens, and dissension in the r...