The BCW Stackable Storage System!

Comic Book Short House consists of two parts: A two piece reinforced "outer shell" formed from white 275 lb-test cardboard with handles at either side and a Sliding heavey-duty short box (sold seperately or use your own). Each Short House holds approximately 125 comics. And the long hold about 250+ comics.

The Comic Box House Sytem allows you to slide an individual comic box like a file drawer. This combination allows you to stack boxes six high, while still being able to instantly access any one boxes' contents without rearranging stacks of heavy comic boxes.

 

Short Stackable Comic Sleeve $5.99 (+ tax)

Short Stackable Comic Sleeve w/Short Comic Box $8.99 (+ tax)

Long Stackable Comic Sleeve $7.99 (+ tax)

Long Stackable Comic Sleeve w/Short Comic Box $10.99 (+ tax)

(Max 10% Disc for Club Members)

 

 

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Welcome to Dark Tower Comics & Collectibles Online!

We love comics and welcome you to come visit us.

We are a full service comic store with a large selection of new comics, bag and board included at no extra cost, and a huge selection of back issues, trades, and "Dollar" books. We carry approximately 30,000 + "Dollar" Books that are in alphabetical order, bagged and boarded and ready to add to your collection. We also carry action figures, statues and many other comic collectibles. If we do not have the item you are looking for, please ask.

In our store, you will enjoy being part of comic conversations that can only be had in a comic shop. We love comics so much that we record the podcast Around Comics, a podcast all about comics, every other Friday Night in our store. It was created by one of our favorite customers and good friends, Chris Neseman and his partner in crime Brian Salazar. Please Check Around Comics online and come in during one of their recording sessions to meet the creators.

We also offer a Comic Book Pull Service. You tell us what comics you collect on a monthly basis and we will pull them for you and having them waiting at your next visit. You will never have to worry about missing an issue.

Join our Comic Book Pull Service and SAVE UP TO 20% on your comics today.

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NEW RELEASES FOR WEDNESDAY 7-23-08

(List is updated Every Friday Afternoon and comes directly from our invoice. This means that the list below is the most acurate list of books available and all items below ARE coming out that Wednesday)

AMBUSH BUG #1 (of 6) 2.99

1-IN-10 VARIANT (No Pic) 10.00

Writer: Keith Giffen & Robert Loring Fleming
Artist: Giffen & Al Milgrom

The wait is over - everyone's favorite Bug is back, courtesy of the original AMBUSH BUG team of Keith Giffen and Robert Loren Fleming! Cities will be destroyed! Cats and dogs will live in sin! Every unanswered question of the DC Universe will be answered! Live heroes will die and dead heroes will live! Okay, none of that actually happens, but join us anyway for this totally irreverent romp through the DC Universe as only Ambush Bug could give you!

BATMAN GOTHAM AFTER MIDNITE #3 (OF 12) 2.99

BRAVE AND THE BOLD #15 2.99

GREEN LANTERN CORPS #26 2.99

JOKERS ASYLUM SCARECROW #1 2.99

JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #23 2.99

LEGION OF SUPER HEROES #44 2.99

LEGION OF SUPER HEROES #44 VAR ED 10.00

ROBIN #175 RIP 2.99

SPIRIT #19 2.99

SUPERMAN #678 2.99

TRINITY #8 2.99

TWO FACE YEAR ONE #1 (of 2) 5.99
Writer: Mark Sable
Artist: Jesus Saiz & Jimmy Palmiotti

In a time of corruption and greed, the only force keeping Gotham City from collapsing into utter chaos included Assistant District Attorney Harvey Dent, a cop named Jim Gordon, a vigilante known only as Batman - and a mysterious group of untouchable crimefighters working outside the law. Be here to witness the beginning of a legacy, when a meeting between Gotham's Finest and Gotham's Vilest spawn the protectors who will safeguard Gotham's future, as well as the monster who will try to burn it to the ground. Don't miss the start of this exciting 2-part miniseries featuring one of The Dark Knight's most fearsome foes!

 

TRADES

COUNTDOWN TO ADVENTURE TP 17.99

DIANA PRINCE WONDER WOMAN TP VOL 02 19.99

GREEN ARROW BLACK CANARY ROAD TO THE ALTAR TP 17.99

DC KIDS

SUPER FRIENDS #5 2.25

ANGEL REVELATIONS #3 (OF 5) 3.99

ASTONISHING X-MEN #25 BERMEJO VAR 10.00

AVENGERS INITIATIVE #15 SI 2.99

BLACK PANTHER #38 2.99

DAREDEVIL #109 2.99

IMMORTAL IRON FIST #17 2.99

IMMORTAL IRON FIST #17 AJA VAR 10.00

IMMORTAL IRON FIST #17 DRAGON LOGO VAR 25.00

MARVEL COMICS PRESENTS #11 3.99

NEW AVENGERS #43 SI 2.99

NEW WARRIORS #14 SI 2.99

SHE-HULK 2 #31 SI 2.99

SKRULLS ONE-SHOT SI 4.99
Writer: John Rhett Thomas

Ever since the dawning of the Marvel Age of heroes, the Skrulls have been known as scheming, conniving, insidious interlopers in the affairs not just of Earth, but the whole universe. Now, get the Skrulls' side of the story! Who are they, what drives them, and what are their ultimate goals? Who are their heroes, and who are their villains? And what will become of their clash between religion and modernity - manifest in their relentless pursuit of the Earth as the final prize - when it spills over into universal mayhem? SKRULLS! helps answer these questions and gives you the clues to ask even more! Featuring detailed information about the full expanse of Skrull history - including biographical data of classic Skrulls through the ages, reprints of key moments from Skrull history and original material that will help form a deeper understanding of the Skrull race...all from a Skrull perspective. SKRULLS! is 64 pages and no ads full of shape-shifting secrets!

THUNDERBOLTS #122 SI 2.99

ULTIMATE X-MEN #96 2.99

UNCANNY X-MEN #500 MD 3.99

1-in-30 DODSON VARIANT 30.00

1-in-30 TURNER VARIANT 30.00

Writer: Ed Brubaker & Matt Fraction
Artist: Greg Land & Terry Dodson

"SFX", PART 1! Sentinels? What? And Magneto? And is that the Master Mold? What the hell is going on in San Francisco now that the Uncanny X-Men have relocated there? They've got a new Headquarters and a new status quo as the gauntlet is thrown for a new era of mutantkind. It's all here in the double-sized anniversary issue that sets up the plotlines that will be developed over the next year in UNCANNY. And it's all brought to you by the hot writing team of Ed Brubaker & Matt Fraction (Immortal Iron Fist) and fan favorite artists Greg Land (ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR, X-MEN: FREE COMIC BOOK DAY) and Terry Dodson (SPIDER-MAN/BLACK CAT, Wonder Woman). New creators, new home. The future begins now.

WOLVERINE FIRST CLASS #5 2.99

X-MEN LEGACY #214 2.99

 

TRADES

X-MEN TP ENDANGERED SPECIES 19.99

 

BEST SELLING AUTHORS

ANITA BLAKE VH GUILTY PLEASURES HC VOL 02 19.99

 

YOUNG READERS

MARVEL ADVENTURES FANTASTIC FOUR #38 2.99

MARVEL ADVENTURES SUPER HEROES #1 2.99

 

DMZ #33 (MR) 2.99

EXTERMINATORS #30 (MR) 2.99

MADAME XANADU #2 (MR) 2.99

MADAME XANADU #2 VAR ED (MR) 10.00

 

TRADES

ARMY @ LOVE TP VOL 02 GENERATION PWNED 12.99

NUMBER OF THE BEAST #8 (OF 8) 2.99

SECRET HISTORY THE AUTHORITY HAWKSMOOR #5 (OF 6) 2.99

SUPERNATURAL RISING SON #4 (OF 6) 2.99

X-FILES SPECIAL #0 3.99

1-IN-10 VARIANT 10.00 (No Pic)

Writer: Frank Spotnitz
Artist: Brian Denham

The hit motion picture and television franchise returns to comics! With July's release of the brand-new X-Files blockbuster, WildStorm joins Mulder and Scully in a previously untold story from the film's cowriter and producer Frank Spotnitz! Don't miss this supernatural epic so large it will leave you screaming for more!

X-FILES SPECIAL #0 3.99

X-FILES SPECIAL #0 VAR ED

 

TRADES

AUTHORITY PRIME TP 17.99

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA ORIGINS #8 3.50

BLACK SUMMER #7 (MR) 2.99

BROKEN TRINITY #1 2.99

CAPTAIN ACTION FIRST MISSION LAST DAY ONE SHOT 3.99

DAN DARE #7 (OF 7) 5.99

DEAD SPACE #5 (OF 6) 2.99

DOKTOR SLEEPLESS #6 MAD SCIENCE ED (MR) 3.99

ELEPHANTMEN #13 2.99

FALL OF CTHULHU #14 3.99

FUTURAMA COMICS #38 2.99

GLAMOURPUSS #2 3.00

GRAVEL #3 (MR) 3.99

GRIMM FAIRY TALES PIPER #4 (OF 4) 2.99

HACK SLASH ANNUAL SUICIDE GIRLS REG CVR 5.50

HAWAIIAN DICK TP VOL 01 BYRD OF PARADISE 14.99

IMAGE MONSTER PILE UP #1 1.99

INVINCIBLE #51 2.99

LIBERTY COMICS: A CBLDF BENEFIT BOOK ONE-SHOT 3.99
Writer: Ed Brubaker, Darwyn Cooke, Garth Ennis, Mark Evanier & Mark Millar
Artist: Sergio Aragones, Darwyn Cooke, John Paul Leon, Sean Phillips & Darick Robertson

DEFEND YOUR LIBERTY! The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and Image Comics defend your freedom of speech with LIBERTY COMICS, an all-new 32-page, full color comic book crammed cover-to-cover with work by many of today's top creative talents. This mature readers anthology is printed in a high quality format and features all-new stories of THE BOYS and CRIMINAL as well as all-new creations from some of your favorite artists. All proceeds benefit the CBLDF and their efforts to protect your creative rights!

NOCTURNALS CARNIVAL OF BEASTS (ONE-SHOT) 6.99
Writer: Dan Breraton
Artist: Dan Breraton

Celebrate the return of Nocturnals with three rings of savagery in NOCTURNALS: CARNIVAL OF BEASTS. In the fully painted "Beasts", Doc Horror unleashes an inner demon while settling an old score with a viper's nest of disturbed scientists. "The Scrimshaw Crown" follows amphibian girl, Starfish, tracking a haunted sea monster. In "Candy Butchers," Halloween Girl, the Gunwitch and Polychrome encounter toothsome carnies.

PROOF #10 (MR) 2.99

SONIC X #35 2.25

STAR TREK NEW FRONTIER #5 3.99

STAR WARS KNIGHTS OF OLD REPUBLIC #31 2.99

STAR WARS LEGACY #26 2.99

STRAW MEN #1 (OF 12) (MR) 2.99

WAR HEROES #1 2.99

SILVESTRI VARIANT 10.00

B&W VARIANT 20.00

Writer: Mark Millar
Artist: Tony Harris

THE WRITER OF CIVIL WAR, THE ULTIMATES, KICK ASS AND WANTED! THE ARTIST OF STAR MAN, EX MACHINA AND SPIDER-MAN: GREAT POWER! TOGETHER AGAIN FOR THE FIRST TIME! If you've been wondering what comes next after MARK MILLAR's groundbreaking runs on ULTIMATES and ULTIMATES 2, then wonder no more - this is it! The mind that reinvented superheroes for the 21st Century joins forces with one of comicdom's best artists to chart a new courses for superhero action in a series that will definitely be one of the talked about of the year!

WARHAMMER 40K EXTERMINATUS #1 (OF 5) 3.99

WASTELAND #19 (MR) 3.50

YOUNGBLOOD #4 2.99

 

TRADES

AMERICAN FLAGG DEFINITIVE COLL HC 1 49.99

INVINCIBLE HC VOL 02 ULTIMATE COLL 34.99

MADMAN ATOMIC COMICS TP VOL 01 19.99

MAINTENANCE TP VOL 03 9.95

SCUD THE DISPOSABLE ASSASSIN THE WHOLE SHEBANG TP 29.99

THIRTEEN STEPS TP VOL 01 (MR) 15.99

TOO COOL TO BE FORGOTTEN HC 14.95

 

MAGAZINES

FLASH COMPANION SC 26.95

by Keith Dallas

The Flash Companion details the publication histories of the four heroes who have individually earned the right to be declared DC Comics' "Fastest Man Alive" - Jay Garrick, Barry Allen, Wally West, and Bart Allen. With articles about legendary creators Shelly Mayer, Gardner Fox, E.e. Hibbard, Julius Schwartz, Robert Kanigher, John Broome, Ross Andru, Irv Novick, and all new interviews of Harry Lampert, Carmine Infantino, Cary Bates, Alex Saviuk, Mike W. Barr, Marv Wolfman, Mike Baron, Jackson Guice, Mark Waid, Scott Kolins, among others, The Flash Companion recounts the Scarlet Speedster's evolution from the Golden Age to the 21st century. Also featured are "lost covers," never before published commission pieces by Flash artists throughout the decades, a Rogues Gallery detailing The Flash's most famous foes, a tribute to late artist Mike Wieringo by Mark Waid, a look at the speedster's 1990s TV show, and "Flash facts" detailing pivotal moments in Flash history. !

MODERN MASTERS SC VOL 18 JOHN ROMITA JR 14.95

UNCANNY X-MEN 500 ISSUES POSTERBOOK 6.99

 

ACTION FIGURES & OTHER STUFF

CAPTAIN AMERICA SYMBOL NAVY T/S MED, LG, XL & XXL 17.99
Navy shirt with Captain America symbol, 100% cotton, front image.
ELSEWORLDS RED SON BOX SET 49.99

From the wildly successful SUPERMAN: RED SON! What would have happened if Superman's rocket had landed in the former Soviet Union instead of Smallville? The stars of SUPERMAN: RED SON are featured in this box set, which includes a never-before-produced version of Bizarro, and the 48-page Prestige Format comic SUPERMAN: RED SON #1. Packaged in a 4-color window box.

MARVEL HEROCLIX SECRET INVASION BOOSTER PACK 11.99 BOOSTER, 100.00 BRICK, 180.00 CASE
The Skrulls have invaded Earth and the Marvel Universe in Marvel HeroClix: Secret Invasion, heralding a new era for HeroClix by tying into the summer 2008 Marvel Comics storyline! Each five-figure booster contains even more action-packed, 3-D super hero combat than ever before, with randomly inserted, regular-size, giant-size, and even new duo characters! This set brings 60 all-new figures to HeroClix - and some might not be who you think they are! PRODUCT UPDATE (051408): WizKids has announced two special incentives to brick-&-mortar retailers that order qualifying quantities of the Marvel HeroClix: Secret Invasion Booster Pack. Retailers ordering a 20-unit case of the Booster Packs will receive a free Figure Poster, while supplies last. Retailers ordering two cases (40 units) of the Booster Packs will receive one new, high-quality HeroClix countertop display that holds four HeroClix Booster Packs as well as 20 copies of related comics, such as Marvel Comics' Secret Invasion tie-in issues (not included). !