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July Contents

• Comic Con is Coming!
• July Movie Madness
• New This Month
• Monthly Giveaway
• Inner Monologue
• Complete June Releases
• Top Stories on idwpublishing.com
• Highlights from RyallTime

Another month, another blockbuster comic-based movie! G.I. JOE: The Rise of Cobra releases just a week after Comic Con, but you don't have to wait that long to find out what happens to your favorite Joe! Check out IDW's G.I. JOE movie adaptation comics, available each week in your local comic book and book stores!

Barack Obama #2
Jeff Mariotte (w) - Tom Morgan (a) - J. Scott Campbell (c)
"The First 100 Days."

We've followed the life and political career of Barack Obama from early childhood up through his historic inauguration as the 44th President of the United States. The stakes have never been so high as President Obama assumes the highest office in the land--and inherits a country in economic turmoil. By the same creative team that brought you Presidential Material: Barack Obama, now in its 5th printing!

Every copy comes polybagged with one of five trading cards featuring the covers from Presidential Material: Barack Obama. Look for randomly inserted sketch cards with hand-drawn Obama sketches by some of your favorite artists, including: Eric Canete, Cully Hamner, Tom Morgan, Brian Stelfreeze, Ben Templesmith, and more!

Complete Chester Gould's Dick Tracy, Vol. 8
Chester Gould (w) - Chester Gould (a) - Chester Gould (c)

Chester Gould hits his stride, as he introduces four of his most grotesque villains: Pruneface, Laffy, Mrs. Pruneface, and Flattop! All while Dick Tracy is subjected to one of the most inventive and bizarre death traps in comics history. Edited and designed by Dean Mullaney, Eisner Award-winner for Terry and the Pirates, and containing all daily and Sunday comic strips from September, 1942 through March, 1944.

Doctor Who #1
Tony Lee (w) - Al Davison (a) - Paul Grist, Al Davison (c)

At long last Doctor Who is an ongoing monthly series! Tony Lee (Doctor Who: The Forgotten), kicks off the time/space-faring series with the two-part "Silver Scream." In chapter one, the Doctor travels to 1920s Hollywood where he befriends Charlie Chaplin and, of course, discovers an alien plot! Lee is joined by Al Davison (The Dreaming) on this first story arc. Covers by Paul Grist and Davison.

G.I. Joe Movie Adaptation #1 (of 4)
Denton J. Tipton (w) - Casey Maloney (a) - Maloney (c)

The smash-hit movie begins here in part one of this special weekly series! You want to know what the characters look like? How they translate to the big screen? What Cobra's evil plans are? Then you MUST BUY THIS BOOK!

The Hunter
Darwyn Cooke (w) - Darwyn Cooke (a & c)

Darwyn Cooke, the Eisner-Award-winning writer/artist of such classics as DC: The New Frontier, Selina's Big Score, and The Spirit, now sets his artistic sights on bringing to life one of the true classics of crime fiction: Richard Stark's Parker. Stark was a pseudonym used by the revered and multi-award-winning author, Donald Westlake.

The Hunter, the first book in the Parker series, is the story of a man who hits New York head-on like a shotgun blast to the chest. Betrayed by the woman he loved and double-crossed by his partner in crime, Parker makes his way cross-country with only one thought burning in his mind-to coldly exact his revenge and reclaim what was taken from him!

Star Trek: Spock: Reflections #1
Scott & David Tipton (w) - David Messina (a & c)

What could drive a man to abandon all he knows and go to live with the Federation's sworn enemy? In the follow-up series to the smash hit Star Trek: Countdown movie prequel, we see for the first time the real motivations behind Spock's decision to live on Romulus, and follow as he looks back on what brought him to this place in his life. From the team that brought you Star Trek: Mirror Images!

World War Robot 2
Ashley Wood (a & c)

Award-winning designer/artist Ashley Wood (Popbot, Zombies vs. Robots) continues the World War between a dwindling band of humans and robots that spans planets in this oversize (one foot long by one foot wide!) epic.

Monthly Give away

Each month, one lucky newsletter subscriber will be our raffle winner and will receive free IDW releases from that month. Our July winner will receive a copy of The Hunter, an adaptation of Richard Stark's iconic crime noir books by Darwyn Cooke.

Congratulations to our June winner, who won ten Transformers IMAX tickets!

Picture illustrated by Steph Stamb

Hi. My name is Tom Waltz and I'm a comic book addict-and since I both edit and write comic books for IDW, that particular addiction tends to come in handy. For those who don't know me, I've been an editor for IDW for nearly 2 1/2 years now. I first came to IDW's attention as a writer when Ted Adams (who now claims he was suffering from temporary insanity at the time) agreed to publish CHILDREN OF THE GRAVE, the creator-owned graphic novel by artist Casey Maloney and yours truly. After that, Editor-in-Chief (and fellow 80's hair band aficionado) Chris Ryall asked if I'd be interested in doing a bit of freelance editing for the Gene Simmons-created Simmons Comics Group imprint at IDW. I was... and did... and have seen my editorial role at IDW evolve dramatically since then. I now handle most of the movie license projects (ASTRO BOY, TERMINATOR: SALVATION, UNDERWORLD, GALAXY QUEST, GHOST BUSTERS, etc.), as well as other special non-niche licensed projects. And, I continue to be allowed to write (maybe Ted's insanity wasn't so temporary after all), including work on GENE SIMMONS ZIPPER, SILENT HILL: SINNER'S REWARD, and FINDING PEACE (with co-creator Nathan St John). I currently have a number of new writing projects in the works, most notably a creator-owned graphic novel AFTER THE FIRE with artist Guiu Vilanova that I swear is the greatest thing since sliced bread AND peanut butter!

Complete List of July Releases

Hights from IDW and RyallTime