In the golden age of piracy, Captain Kidd, Blackbeard, and Black Bart Roberts, the three most reviled pirates in history, contend for the most sacred prize the world has ever known - the lost Relics of Christ! Their battle stained the seven seas crimson leaving only dead men who would tell no tales. But the dead have a way of speaking without words.

After receiving a mysterious package containing the legendary Holy Grail, Dr. Samuel Cahn, assistant curator of the National Museum of Natural History, finds himself pursued by the undead pirate Blackbeard and his zombie crew. Running for his life and unsure of whom to trust, Samuel flees to the Middle East with his fiancée and bodyguard to end the curse of the Holy Relics once and for all. But nothing is at it appears, and Blackbeard isnt the only one who would move Heaven and Earth to po...

The Battle of the Java Sea: This little known sea battle was overshadowed by Pearl Harbor, The Philippines, Wake Island and other events at the outset of World War II. The Battle of the Java Sea was none the less a critical sea battle. The allies threw together a battle fleet to blunt Japanese expansion into South East Asia, Sumatra and Java. This fleet was comprised mainly of the remnants of the American Asiatic Fleet, The British Far East Fleet and The Dutch East Indies Fleet. ...

Modern Day Slaves is all about slaves around the world that exist today, often hidden from view, living a life of hell. This book will open your eyes to child slaves, prostitution, child soldiers, human trafficking, sweatshops and more. It makes interesting reading and will open your mind to a world that isn't as perfect as you thought it was. We live in the 21st Century, but after this book you'll realize millions of people live like it was the 15th Century.The number of slaves to...

A debut graphic biography that transforms one of the most compelling scientific collaborations into a hilarious series of adventures.Meet Victorian London’s most dynamic duo: Charles Babbage, the unrealized inventor of the computer, and his accomplice, Ada, Countess of Lovelace, the peculiar protoprogrammer and daughter of Lord Byron. When Lovelace translated a description of Babbage’s plans for an enormous mechanical calculating machine in 1842, she added annotati...

Read Sid Jaconson's posts on the Penguin BlogTwo legends of the comic book industry bring to life the story of gore and lust that inspired Dracula.Vlad the man had a devilish streak-a vicious temper, a passion for women, and a thirst for revenge.Vlad the ruler was a true devil-a relentless torturer, a brutal murderer, and a paranoid leader whose megalomania would be his own undoing.Responsible for the merciless deaths of thousands, ...

“Mary” finally appears before Maria, who can’t bring himself to ask about what happened on the night his father died. While Maria is unable to face the truth, “Mary” offers him a deal: if Maria can get Mary to recall the forgotten memories of Mary’s past, “Mary” will reveal how his father died. Meanwhile, Hydra, who has also come to England, has a reunion with the skeleton of “Mary” in an old castle…

Comics luminary Will Eisner takes on literary giant Charles Dickens, in this fascinating retelling of the life of Oliver Twist's Fagin! Imagining Fagin's impoverished childhood in the slums of London and his initiation into the criminal underworld, Eisner's story counters the anti-Semitism of Victorian literature as his gorgeous brushwork creates an evocative portrait of the era.* Now with Eisner's previously unused full-color cover art!* Foreword by Brian Michael ...

On an isolated island, vampire Nobility run a mysterious laboratory, continuously pumping out a white mist which compels the inhabitants of a nearby fishing village to become the vampire's slaves! When the village tries to retaliate, their fighters never return. The vampire hunter known only as D has been sighted on the island, but how did he come to be there, and whose side is he on, and will any mortals survive the brewing conflict?This twenty-fifth volume features seven new illu...

As Sheffield United progress through the rounds of the FA Cup, playing Liverpool, Arsenal and Wolves their players continued to be murdered.The police investigation led by DCI Charlton and her team that includes DS Ball and Ramseyeventually uncover the surreal macabre truth.US Reviewer Omnicomics said,The way the story unfolds makes it difficult to predict. It's not one where halfway through you know who did it, why they did it and how. It's only at the end tha...

An albino girl wanders the sun-scorched back roads of a south Georgia summer, following the bidding of an angel or perhaps only voices in her head, searching out and slaying ancient monsters who have hidden themselves away in the lonely places of the world.* Caitlín R. Kiernan is an International Horror Guild Award–winning author!* A complete collection of the Alabaster prose short stories."Caitlín R. Kiernan is the poet and the bard of the wasted and the l...

Keiichi's appeals to the Child Consultation Center receive an outpouring of support from his classmates and teachers, but still the authorities refuse to intercede. Hinamizawa is a village controlled by three powerful families, and without the support of the Sonozakis-and their fearsome head, Oryou-the Center will not budge. As Keiichi struggles to convince Oryou, Rika feels her dream of living a happy life beyond the summer of 1983 begin to fade away. Does Keiichi have what it takes to ma...