Age of Marvels: New Universe – July 2022 Solicitations

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We present to you Age of Marvels: New Universe, a collection of all new fan-made issues on “sale” this month for JULY 2022!

What is “Age of Marvels” and how does it work?

Age of Marvels is a fan fiction universe and solicitation game that has been in existence on the CBR boards for well over a decade! It has gone through several iterations and has survived forum reboots! The way it works is that “plotters” write short solicitations for monthly comic books! Then participants “buy” the books they want to read! The books with the most buys get rewards. Sounds fun, right? So let’s do this! Which of this month's solicits interest and excite you? Let us know by posting which books you'd pick up in the virtual Age of Marvels Store (this solicitation thread). You can pull as many as you'd like, but also consider your "virtual budget" when making your selections, as sales are used to reward our titles and plotters. Registers are open all month and sales are tallied at the end of the month.

Absolutely anyone can make purchases right here in this thread - so please do!.
It’s free and is basically just saying “I’d read this” or “I like this!” So let us know! There has never been a more excelsior time to join the fun!

If you want more information on Age of Marvels or are interested in plotting yourself, please visit us at the Age of Marvels Bullpen Thread.

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Behold! Our monthly archive!
This is the repository of our prior work; a compilation of all the monthly solicitation posts since the forum was reset in 2014.

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Age of Marvels and Next Dawn have an OFFICIAL WIKI!

Now, this month’s solicitations:

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FEAR ITSELF #2
Plot by EXCITER
Written by ALAN MOORE
Art by MIKE MIGNOLA
“NONE BUT THE BRAVE”
“Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
As the world is gripped by Fear Itself, with nations being divvied up amongst the invading Horror Gods, it’s defenders continue to fall before Chthon’s onslaught. Our only hope may lie… with Balder the Brave!
Chthon’s greatest weakness has always been hubris. He recorded all of his spells in the accursed Darkhold. All of them, including the one that could reseal the borders of K’Lay and return the Realms of the Horror Gods back to their eternal prison in the Dark World Tree. That means, to prevail… Balder must obtain the Darkhold. The skull of Malekith tells him that the damnable grimoire is currently in the possession of an ancient lich, Thulsa Doom, and protected by the Darkholders cult (plus who knows how many newly arrived vampires, werewolves, Frankensteins, lagoon creatures, and invisible men) in the ever-dark, subterranean kingdom of Abysmia. To steal and use it, Balder will need mystically inclined help…
Sorcerers are absolutely required. When Earth is invaded by nightmares, who better than the Son of Satan, Damian Hellstrom, and the succubus queen, Shiklah, to answer the call?
Muscle is also a necessity. That will come in the form of the magically empowered unstoppable Juggernaut!
But to truly defeat the Horror Gods, Balder will need to use their own against them. The werewolves already mobilized, bringing Werewolf by Night and his Uncanny Wolfmen into the fold. Blade and Morbius, too, did not wait to take the fight to the vampires. With them in tow, Balder also drafts the one-man amphibious assault team, Manphibian, and his most unpredictable recruit - a Frankensteined composite of severed Deadpool parts known as… ahem… Evil Deadpool!
Can Balder lead this unlikely assemblage - these Brave Midnight Sons - to victory? Or is the mission cursed?
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99


AGENTS OF A.R.C.A.N.A. #43 *Fear Itself Tie-In*
Plot by NX01A
Written by GRANT MORRISON
Art by JEROME OPEÑA
Theme Song: Bobby Pickett - Monster Mash
'INFINITIVE GAUNTLET' Part 6 'MONSTER TRASH'
•DOCTOR STRANGE, Sorcerer Supreme of Earth, isn't willing to trade dozens of innocent human lives to SHUMA-GORATH for information on the mysterious entity collecting Star Stones.
•CLEA, Sorceress Supreme of the Dark Dimension, is.
•As the victrix of the Soulsword fight between MAGIK and WITCHFIRE goes to receive her rightful title as ruler of Limbo, the sentient world beneath her feet shudders. Saprotrophic extensions of K’Lay try to wrest control of the plant part of KATHULOS the Living Planet's plant-animal-mineral gestalt! Will the Queen of Limbo help the assembled Dimensional Lords fight off the Dark World Tree or will she throw in her lot with its darkness?
•MAN-THING searches for toddler BOG BOY after the little tyke teleports through the wood of his crib into the hedge maze outside, beyond the sanctum wards of AGATHA HARKNESS. In the midst of a monstrous invasion, the power of black lagoon Yacuran infuses many Earth creatures who frequent morasses, sumps, and fens. Some of these monsters wouldn't mind getting their hands on a young elemental for their new masters... or for dessert.
32 PGs./ Rated M...$3.99

AGENTS OF FURY #22 **Fear Itself Tie-In**
Plotter: MARVELL2100
Writer: CHRISTOPHER PRIEST
Artist: STEFANO CASELLI
“AGENTS OF FEAR!”
Who's afraid of Howard Stark? Nick Fury should be, especially after he has begun looking into Howards' mysterious return from the dead! Could Stark's return be linked to the rise of the dark god Chthon? Howard would do anything to protect his secrets so it should come as no surprise when he reaches out to another target of Fury, Presidential candidate Sen. Sharon Kelly! Stark proposes an alliance between the two to deal with a common problem as well as him becoming a donor to her campaign. An alliance between Howard and Sen. Kelly poses a major threat to Nick and his team, especially the two closest to the Kelly presidential campaign, Nomad and Diamondback! Meanwhile, Nick meets with Scorpio and Roz, the agents investigating Howard. While they, haven't come up with any new clues about Stark, they have uncovered evidence of something else! Someone has been looking into an old, defunct SHIELD program: The DELTA Project!
32 PGS./Rated T+...$3.99

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AMAZING FANTASY #29
“WHAT IF… THE MARVELOUS LAND OF OZ WAS ON THE PLANET OF THE APES?”
Written by Eric Shanower
Art by Skottie Young
Plot by CaptCleghorn
The Wicked Witch of the West is dead. As a reward for her brave assistance to the Emerald City and the land of Oz as a whole, Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto have been allowed to use the magic ruby slippers to take them home to Kansas. But Oz has another crisis brewing. The Witch of the West had kept a population of flying monkeys under her control and after her death, the monkeys are now free. They also wish to go home.
Far to the East, there is a land where science changed the landscape. Where Oz was shaped and changed by magic, those areas had three species of ape gain intelligence and take control over man. It is there that the monkeys fly and where they ask for help in wrecking vengeance over Oz. The Ape Cities arose when dogs and cats were wiped out and man became mute as Apes took control. A talking girl and her dog certainly attract attention.
The Scarecrow and his newfound intelligence negotiate with the scientific orangutangs.
The Tin Man and his heart seek to gain the trust of the Chimpanzees.
But the greatest challenge may be a Talking Lion with his newfound courage trying to control an army of warlike gorillas.
Can the flying monkeys and their quest for vengeance be halted?
32 pp $2.99 Rated T for teen (13+) audiences

ANNIHILATORS #4 *Fear Itself Tie-In*
Plot by GUANLISHABI
Written by SCOTT SNYDER
Art by GREG CAPULLO
“AGE OF THE LIVING DEAD”
Thanos is on his farm when an alert goes off. He teleports to his secret base and encounters a Zombie Mar-Vell. Their fight is brief as Thanos almost destroys Mar-Vell but the Zombie escapes.
The Mad Titan discovered that the Soul Gem in his keeping has been stolen. And from his monitor, Thanos can see there is a Dark World Tree growing in the heart of the universe.
Nova tries to control his new form as the Anti-Nova when the Nova Corps is called into action. The Dark World Tree has unleashed armies of nightmare into the universe.
Thanos travels in his Space Chair to enlist the help of Gamora, Silver Surfer and Nebula, who are all under attack from a bunch of alien vampires from a vampire planet. Thanos destroyed all vampires with one blast.
The Mad Titan believes one of the Lords of Negative Zone is responsible for this theft.
Meanwhile, in the Negative Zone, an army of the dead from Negation gathers around a planet. A zombie Mar-Vell flies through the army and brings the Soul Gem before his master-Syphonn.
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99

BLACK PANTHER: KING OF WAKANDA! #34 **Fear Itself Tie-In**
Written by MALCOLM JONES
Plot by MARVELL2100
“FEAR AND LOATHING IN WAKANDA!”
While most Wakandans agree that their King did the right thing in dealing with the traitor N'Jadaka, The Desturi believe that T'Challa exceeded his authority when he killed Kilmonger. They wanted him brought before the Wakandan Council to face judgement for his crimes. But they think that T'Challa became judge, jury and executioner and usurped their power. In fact, many of them have been seeking ways to gain more than just political clout. Some have turned to the dark god Chthon for power, not only to deal with T'Challa but the Panther god Bast as well! As The Desturi plot their next moves, another figure with a vendetta against The Panther has been working behind the scenes, secretly supplying tech to Wakandas' enemies! But the threat is much larger than just bringing down Wakanda. A Cabal has formed and they intend to wreak havoc, destruction and death in the lives of T'Challa, Tony Stark, Nick Fury and everyone else connected to them!
32 PGS./Rated Mature Audiences.... $3.99

CAPTAIN AMERICA #43 *Fear Itself Tie-In*
Plot by EXCITER
Written by FRANK MILLER
Art by SEAN GORDON MURPHY
“DARK PLACES”
Steve Rogers continues to be unstuck in time, now thrown farther back than ever before to when the ancient, prehistoric kingdom of Valusia was ruled by fabled Kull the Conqueror. In this long-forgotten age of sword and sorcery, Cap finds himself confronted with a cult from pre-cataclysm Atlantis that had gained possession of the accursed Darkhold, authored by Chthon. They used spells perfected in Dhampiraj to transform one of their own number into the first earthly vampire: Varnae! Can Steve stop the blood-sucking scourge before it begins?
In the current year, the Agents of Allograft failed to harvest body parts from the heroes detained in the Vault - but the attempt did facilitate escape! The original Winter Soldier, Black Widow, Mockingbird, and Bonebreaker are free and picked up by Ulysses S. Archer in his enhanced big rig - but the U.S. 1’s other outlaw passenger, Kraven the Hunter, is already working overtime: there are werewolf invaders aplenty, and Kraven plans on making a new vest from their hides!
Can even the newly liberated “All-Winners Squad” make a difference against the Horror God invasion? The invisible squadron following them says no!
Plus: A Frontlines Op-Ed by Sally Floyd, “Misinformation Itself: No, the Current Captain America hasn’t been Turned into a Werewolf, he Just Hasn’t Shaved Due to a Razor Shortage.”
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99

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DARK INTELLIGENCE #13 ##Fear Itself Tie-In**
Writer: ED BRUBAKER
Artist: STEVE EPTING
Plotter: MARVEL2100
“FEAR THE RED DEATH!”
Yuma AZ: As the death totals increase across the Southwest U.S. and even into Mexico, Jason Strongbow and Monica Chang are no closer to finding out who or what is behind all of the gruesome murders! The ARROW agents know that there is a link to all of the killings, but they can't make it out just yet! However, Jason can't shake the feeling that somehow, he is connected, that that there is something from his past that is tied into all of this! Just then, Monica tells him they have to go, there has been another massacre in a small town along Mexico's Pacific coast! Elsewhere in a faraway location, John Apostle sits alone in a darkened room. Suddenly, an eerie glow fills the room and the dark god Chthon appears. He looks at Apostle and tells him that he is impressed with what he has done and offers him a place by his side if he agrees to serve him. Apostle tells Chthon to leave, he has no need of the dark lord or any other "master". Whatever Chthon is promising, he has no need. He will appear before his true lord and answer for his many sins. But until that time, he will bring as much terror and death to mankind until he breathes his final breathe!
32 PGS./Rated Mature Audiences... $3.99

DEADPOOL #11
Written by CHIP ZDARSKY
Art by JUAN CABAL
Plot by FFJAMIE94
This is it People! The last two issues of this Legendary Deadpool run.
But that doesn't mean we are going to slow down, in fact things are just heating up.
Our Hero finds where the Impossible Man, only to be greeted by Chip and Juan themselves... with an army of Deadpools behind them.
Not only that, but Rob Liefeld and Fabian Nicieza also join the Party.
Here all is revealed... Deadpool, as he is, will die, and a new Deadpool will take his place.
History is made as he prepares himself to go through the door labelled "TFA" which stands for "The Final Adventure"
Yes, Deadpool will literally walk into the next issue to come face to face with the ultimate enemy... Kingconuity.
Also Impossible Man gets a call... from Shield. What is happening here? No one knows... But I'm sure it's not important...
48 PGs/ PARENTAL ADVISORY...$4.99


DEVIANT #6 *Fear Itself Tie-In*
Plot by NX01A
Written by AL EWING
Art by JOSÉ LADRÖNN
Theme Song: SongsOfTheCVLT - Dagon's Chosen: Hymn of the Deep Ones
'REVELATION OF THE ABYSS'
•RANSAK the REJECT is brain dead, his consciousness slain by LUCIAN the BLACKWULF in a battle for dominance.
•The UNI-MIND is peaceful. KARKAS prays for his fallen, foolish friend. SERSI finally awakens, her energy draining link to the Δσ apparently severed. Warlord KRO asks his sometimes lover THENA what they'll find once the Uni-Mind reaches the center of the island. She remembers now, she remembers everything about Ωσ but the knowledge shames her.
•The tall, transparent silver Ψσ encircle ground zero of the Great Experiment which forced Sunken Mu to be chronal locked half a million years ago. Whatever the cosmic energy-spewing entity they worship is, it exists on multiple Lagrangian submanifolds at once so a time dilation field on Earth only slowed down some of its evolution.
•The Deviant ruins surrounding Ωσ reveal the greatest secret of the Eternals: Deviant gene-priests first isolated the cosmic energy that empowered the Eternals, not the Eternals' first leader KRONOS! An accident much like the one which would drastically enhance the Eternals' powers obviously happened on Sunken Mu, an accident Kronos covered up while stealing Deviant knowledge to try to perfect the cosmic energy infusion technique.
•Deviants could have been godlike, beautiful, eternal... but Eternals stole their fire.
•The emotional stability of the Uni-Mind is shattered.
•Meanwhile... DEEP ONES from Yacuran's blackest lagoon Y'ha-nthlei continue their slow march to the heart of Sunken Mu. One of the dimensions touched by Ωσ is that of K’Lay, the Dark World Tree, and the Deep Ones know Ωσ as UBBO-SATHLA, the Unbegotten Source. With everything from the Dark World Tree running free on Earth, Ubbo-Sathla must be free, too!
•Next month: DvX!
32 PGs./ Rated M...$3.99

F² #10
Written by Kieron Gillen
Plot by CaptCleghorn
Art by Jamie McKelvie
“Trial of the Torches! Part 4 – The Defense”
Jennifer Walters, attorney for the F² Foundation, is taking her turn stating her case for the defense. She is surprised by Victor Von Doom declaring himself her co-council. Doom, of course, is licensed to practice law in Latveria. Since Von Doom is on trial with the Torches and the kids, the TVA accepts his “request”, leaving our heroes a bit flummoxed. Can Jenn and the team trust their newly ordained co-counsel? Will Doom throw them under the bus for his own personal benefit, or will his ego urge him to win and show his supremacy?
On the proposed escape attempt with the rest of the team, Reed, Hank, Ben, and company listen to a proposal from the strange “colonizer” Tana Nile about how to get to the TVA. Tana Nile introduces her allies, Bolo, Xemu, and Tiboro. Those three are from a five-dimensional realm and they are a bit … unusual. Tiboro is a sixth dimensional being. Can Ben and Wyatt snap Reed and Hank out of their scientific fanboy gawking to see if this is a workable solution, and if it is, will it work?
32 PGs/ Rated T...$3.99

FEAR ITSELF: EVEN MORE THUNDERBOLTS #2
Written by ALEX DE CAMPI
Plot by H-E-D
Art by TRAVEL FOREMAN
A well timed vacation saved Melissa Gold, aka SONGBIRD, from the mummified menace of Khufu.
But unfortunately, it’s plunged her right into another nightmare:
THE WYOMING CHAIN SAW MASSACRE
Mel thought she would go home to Cheyenne for a weekend in the idyllic pastures of Wyoming.
When she joined up with a group backpacking trip, she thought it would be fun!
Unfortunate complication: Chthon’s nonsense has unleashed a freakish family of cannibals. Most imposing among them is the behemoth known only as FEATHERFACE.
Now, Songbird may only be Melissa’s sobriquet, but Featherface isn’t going to let that deter him.
Can Melissa manage to survive to be the Final Girl?
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99

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FEAR ITSELF: FEAR AND LOATHING IN ALLOGRAFT #2
Writer: WARREN ELLIS (Transmetropolitan)
Artist: RALPH STEADMAN (Rolling Stone)
Gardening Editor: CaptCleghorn
“Reed's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Superhero Gangs!”
The realm of Allograft has opened to the planet. Those who deal fear with their attempts to use science untampered by common decency have a new enemy. His name is Reed Richards and he is not going to stop them, but out do them. It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.
In a land where Gods and Monsters were the goal, Richards wanted angels to serve and build him up. A man who has blown all his options can’t afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has to capitalize on whatever he has left, and he can’t afford to admit — no matter how often he’s reminded of it — that every day of his life takes him farther and farther down a blind alley…
Those angels would seemingly be from Hell. Reed gets them from anywhere he can and brings them to the Edge, giving them power. The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others-the living-are those who pushed their control as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down, or did whatever they had to when it came time to choose between Now and Later. But the edge is still Out there.
40 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99


FEAR ITSELF: THE INSATIABLE HULK #2
Plot by EXCITER
Written by ROBERT KIRKMAN
Art by MATTEO SCALERA
“HULK SMASH TRANSYLVANIA”
The Hulk is now a thrall to the patriarch of the vampire gods, All-Sire Vanthirius. This insatiable Hulk has been commanded to bring Transylvania to heel and force Count Dracula to kneel in both submission and reverence to his kind’s deities: the Ampir. Yet, after centuries as lord of all creatures of the night, the defiant Dracula has become accustomed to bowing to no one! It’s a fang-smashing throw-down as Hulk battles Dracula for vampiric supremacy!
Yet Drac has two very unlikely allies - individuals whom, under normal circumstances, are his mortal enemies: Blade, the Day-Walker, and Morbius, the Living Vampire! Can this trio of acrimonious nosferatu work together to prevent the fall of the entire planet? It’s Morbin’ time!
Meanwhile, another battle rages… inside Hulk’s headspace. The Insatiable Hulk is a vampiric persona, an outside entity currently dominating the great green body. It’s a demonic disease that slyly claimed control after the shock of Vanthirius’ initial bite… but if it wants to retain that control, it’ll have to contend with the mental full house that already exists: Bruce Banner, Savage Hulk, Joe Fixit, and Super Smash Brother!
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99

FEAR ITSELF: TALES OF SUSPENSE #2
CHTHON in “HOMECOMING”
Plot by EXCITER
Written by GEOFF JOHNS
Art by SALVADOR LAROCCA
So many millions of years ago, there was a grand pantheon that came to be known as the Elder Gods. The darkest amongst them, Chthon, cared little for any of his peers. Instead he dedicated his eternal life to esoteric study and research. His primary drive was the pursuit of knowledge and the means to manipulate the natural world, bending it to his will. He became the first sorcerer and essentially discovered black magic.
While Gaea obsessed over her primitive Earthly mammals, Chthon instead explored how to transform them into sundry monsters. This was the root of their rivalry, an acrimonious feud that would last all eternity… until now!
Finally free and with a captive supply of humans that had multiplied exponentially, what new monsters will he create? And who could possibly stop him?
TILDA “BLACK WIDOW” JOHNSON in “POISON WAS THE CURE”
Plot by EXCITER
Written by GEOFF JOHNS
Art by SALVADOR LAROCCA
Her team of would-be Avengers may have fragmented early in the invasion, but the new Black Widow - Tilda Johnson, who you may know better as Deadly Nightshade - has resolved to prove that she can always get the job done. And if the job is to avenge, then she’s gonna do it!
Her go-to tools are biochemistry and engineering. Vampire enemies? Time to unleash chemical weapons with garlic, silver, and wood bases. Frankensteins? Fire and flame power, all the way. Werewolves? Hell, one of her first schemes involved a serum to make werewolves docile and obedient. Tilda intends to prove that her Black Widow is the most venomous of all and establish that she is never, ever going to rescind the mantle!
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99


FEAR ITSELF: THE UNCANNY WOLF-MEN #2
Plot by EXCITER
Written by RICK REMENDER
Art by J. SCOTT CAMPBELL
“DOGFIGHT”
The hunt is on!
Werewolf by Night, Man-Wolf, Wolfsbane, Warwolf and the newly in (relative) control Cap-Wolf (Arkady Rossovich) have coalesced into the “Uncanny Pack”! Their mission? Defeat Alpha Prime of Varúlfur, the werewolf all-father, and claim leadership of an entire Realm of lycanthropes!
But to get to him, they’ll need to establish themselves as worthy. The Ripclaw Pack has been at the forefront of Earth’s invasion. They’ve terrorized Mexico and essentially annexed the country as their hunting grounds: La Tierra de los Lobos! If our heroes can take down Alpha Ripclaw, then they can gain Alpha Prime’s attention. But that’s a task that is easier said than done as every Alpha is the werewolf equivalent of a Norse god and they first have to fight through a werewolf-infested Tijuana to reach their target! ¡Ay, chihuahua!
And who among the Uncanny is Alpha anyway? They all seem to think it’s them!
32 PGs./Rated T+ …$2.99