I got this Willow variant cover because of the artist, we got a couple True Believers issues both Black Widow related, the Age of Khonshu finale happened, Carol started a new arc (this is the arc that connected to that Captain Marvel “The End” one-shot), we met Devil Hulk, Red Skull returned, Kindred made his first big moves against Peter, X of Swords raged, Palpatine punished Vader for failing and almost messing up other plans, Justice League Odyssey ended (this issue should have come out before that JL issues from the week before since that happens after this issue), Hawkman had to live with mortality after untold eons of resurrection, the Outsiders had its final issue, Max and Diana were not enjoying each other’s company, Synmar and Supeman still battled, and The Darkest Knight had cosmic plans in mind.

7 posters below.

Shazam 15 was from Sept 15. The two Ultraman variants were from September 9. Time Lord Victorious 1 was from September 2.

This Shazam run was at its end, Cassie was having Zeus problems, what was left of the JL, JLD and the freshly-returned-to-earth JLO team deal with many many many Starro during Death Metal, we got the finale of Joker War in Batman’s 100th issue, we got a reprinting of Black Widow’s first appearance, Sword Master had its penultimate issue, X of Swords was moving forward (Logan developed a new rival), a civilian picked up Mjonir and Thor was letting him “enjoy” the experience, Miles had to deal with a huge revelation from Ultimatum, Champions got a new run under the Outlawed event, Kamala was on Dum Dum Dugan’s list, ASM got it its 850th issue, and a Doctor Who event was stretching across mediums in Time Lord Victorious.

The FF had a visit from Iceman (Johnny was not amused), the Age of Khonshu still held, the Savage Avengers met Shuma Gorath in a way, Hulk got another special, a classic Giant-size X-Men got a reprinting (but with each page or every other page by a different artist recreating the pages from that issue), Shang-Chi got a new run (to help to promote the movie), the Justice League had a murder mystery to solve, Diana was still dealing with Liar Liar, LoSH got special issue with each page being designed by a different artist (each page was amazing, but a few caught my eye, they’re on my comic panels IG), Wonder Woman 1984 got a tie-in one-shot for the movie, we got a Joker War special, there was a DKDM special called Multiverse’s End (the characters from “Multiversity” had to deal with the Multiverse ending as best as they could), issue 2 of Three Jokers came out, and the penultimate issue of Harley and the Birds of Prey came out.

The other photos are of the next Three Joker’s promotional playing card. Movie next!

We got a reprint of Tales of Suspense 39 (where we first met Tony Stark), Doom was still figuring out his space problem, Jessica Drew visited Wundagore Mountain, younger Maestro was still learning about the new present, Juggernaut got a title, the 22-part X of Swords mutant-related event had begun, Lois was taking on the Invisible Mafia with her family at her side, Flash was finishing business, JLD were having an upside-down time, Babs investigated Batgirl deaths, and we got a Speed Metal DKDM special where all Flash’s ran from The Batman Who Laughs.

It was at this point that these were the first printed Marvel comics since Chadwick Boseman passed away, so Marvel had these banners on their comics for a while. The back cover art change per week I think.

FYI, this is the first post where I’m not using images saved to my laptop from my phone. I’m only using the app to get these photos, so other posts images will display weirdly. So you will certainly have to click them to see the full images. And I can’t move the images within the gallery the way I can when uploading them from a computer so it’s annoying. Oh, well. Just wanted to let y’all know. : )

All of these were late so I bunched them together, the first three all gave us the aftermath of Empyre and would lead directly into what came next. And Hulk had a special.

Got a True Believer’s of, um, I can’t actually remember what “first” was in this issue, I just got that Conan issue because Mephisto was on it, the X-Men were almost upon the X of Swords, all sorts of chaos was happening in Hulk, Vader had some memories to deal with, Iron Man had a new run starting, Norman had some sins that were brought forth, the Teen Titans were dealing with losing Robin, Bruce and Dick had a lot to face in the war, this run of Catwoman got its 25th issue and Selina had some fun, more from Death Metal, and we got the 1000th issue Anniversary for Batman (since his first appeared in Detective Comics 27).

Star teamed up with The Black Order for her last issue, Krakoa had Russian problems, Kamala woke up to a law with her name in it that was against everything she stood for, Peter was not having a good time, we got another Web of Venom issue focusing on the character Wraith, I got CyberPunk 2077 #1 and Bill & Ted are Doomed #1 because it was my birthday and I wanted to see what fun #1’s were dropping on the day, Ra’s was doing well, Carter and Shayera were thrown back in time to their pas JLA selves, Liar Liar was making moves, Zoom was doing well (ah, whoops, the past few comics posts with Flash issues in this arc I’ve said it was Thawne, not Zoom. Oh well. XD), what was left of the JLO tried to connect to Cyborg, this run of Superman got to its 25th issue and introduced Synmar (a crazy strong character from a new species), Nightwing was trying to fight Joker’s influence, and we got another Death Metal special where the Trinity’s plans did not go well at all.

Tim and Stephanie go on a very eventful date, the origin of the Black Mercy is known (at least on earth), Superboy Prime was imprisoned in one of the Wonderlands and then freed, Harley didn’t like Punchline, we got the final issues of Avengers of the Wasteland and Hawkeye: Freefall, Richard wasn’t doing too well in Guardians, neither was Logan, Black Widow got a new run, Miles and co. were dealing with the new laws, Marvel Zombies got a new miniseries, and Empyre ended…though something worse had been making its way to earth.

Gwen’s earth had some interesting versions of Susan and Johnny Storm, Iron Man visited Aero, Iron Man 2020 ended, Empyre continued, Sins rose, the Legion of Superheroes was on trial, Detective Chimp was the only one left, Clark had to get used to people getting used to him post-reveal, Max Lord returned to assist Diana, Damian gave up the Robin persona, Thawne still had control over Barry’s body, Barbara’s brother was stirring up things (he take some getting used to), Jason had Nightwing problems, and the first of the Three Jokers issues dropped.

Got a Joker War poster and 1/3 Three Jokers promotional playing cards.

Carol was having Star problems, we got the last issue of this Ant-man run and the last issue of Jane Foster Valkyrie run, Jessica Drew had dinosaur problems, Moon Knight had taken Mjolnir, Omega Red was coming for Logan, Thor saw his future, we got a prequel run for Future Imperfect via this Maestro miniseries (which is currently on its second run), more Empyre issues and Lords of Empyre issue, the JL had to deal with the Black Mercy, Damian was not popular amongst the Teen Titans, we got a Dark Knights Death Metal guidebook and the Joker war continued.