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Moon Girl volume 1
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In the pulp New York of the 1950s, Moon Girl looks to a life beyond her role as champion of the counter-culture and social revolution. However, she is forced back in to action when fanatics, inspired by her adventures, begin enforcing their own brand of justice. It's –Mad Men meets The Dark Knight" in this beautifully painted series featured in Red 5 Comics Free Comic Book Day 2011 issue.
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Batman volume 75
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It's all led to this! Bane's minions have taken control of Gotham City and are ruling with an iron fist, and Batman is nowhere to be found. Instead, Flashpoint Batman is patrolling the city, dispensing a violent brand of justice. It's all building to a rebellion among the bad guys who don't want to play along with Bane! Meanwhile, Bruce Wayne is on a quest to regain his fighting spirit.
23) Dead river
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"On the wild western frontier, the three men known as the Jackals stand between the law and the lawless-delivering their own brand of justice with a fast draw, dead aim, and enough bullets to populate Boot Hill. Johnstone Territory. Where Death Rides Hard. Apache renegade Bloody Hand plays a role in each of the Jackals' lives. To bounty hunter Jed Breen, he is man with a price on his head. To retired cavalry segeant Sean Keegan, he is a cellmate after...
24) Altered Visions
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A short-story collection.Meet a post-aocalyptic woman cage fighter, an old woman who holds the key to free will, a woman sheriff who serves up her own brand of justice, and others, in this salute to speculative fiction and strong women. From the Foreword by Lizzy Shannon, Time Twist: "If you're like me you grew up with the Twilight Zone, Amazing Tales, and the original Dr. Who. Classy, complicated, character-driven plot lines. Leading characters that...
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First mountain man series volume 30
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"When logger Decker Galloway sets his sights--and axes and saws--on a lakeshore village inhabited by Norwegian settlers, Preacher and his friend, the warrior Tall Dog, remind the Norwegians of their Viking ancestry and declare war on Galloways' gang of bloodthirsty gunslingers"--Provided by publisher.
26) Spawn: Issue #90
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Spawn volume 90
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Spawn finds three nervous young men in an abandoned house with the body of a dead Asian girl. All three tell different stories about her demise and the events leading up to it, but each of their stories point the fingers at each other. Justice is served when Spawn gives the knife and the opportunity to carry out the sentence to one of them. He then takes the unlucky knife-wielder away to carry out his own brand of justice.
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When Queenies death brings the Doyle empire crashing down, the sisters grow apart, -- each taking a different path in life. Then Sharon's world is shattered when her husband, Monty, dies in mysterious circumstances. But is it an accident or murder? As the Doyle sisters pull together to find out what really happened to Monty they enter a world of drugs, dirty money and clean guns, risking their own safety to deal out their own brand of justice. Because,...
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Acclaimed western storyteller Giles Tippette brings his unique brand of justice and revenge to the Arizona territories...
When a man of few words rides into town, his shirt soaked with blood from the bullet still lodged in his side, the people of Sunshine, Arizona, don't exactly open their doors to the stranger. Saulter's not looking for trouble, just a place to rest up and heal. But Sunshine's not as warm as the name suggests, and neither are the...
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THE ANCIENT LAWMAN is a no-holds-barred tale of blood-spattered action and heart-thumping terror that unites a dubious team of allies:
– A JADED F.B.I. AGENT WITH BLOOD ON HER HANDS
– A SHAKEN SMALL-TOWN SHERIFF OUT OF HIS COMFORT ZONE
– A DEATH-ROW CONVICT PROCLAIMING HIS INNOCENCE
In the sleepy town of TinkerHill Falls, seemingly innocent locals are being brutally executed by a relentless creature hell-bent on dishing out...
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Touching on the themes of the popular FX series Justified featuring U.S. Marshall Raylan Givens, Valdez Is Coming is New York Times bestselling author Elmore Leonard's classic western tale of corruption, justice, and vengeance.
Forced to gun down an innocent man, part-time sheriff Roberto Valdez is nearly killed and run out of town when he seeks justice for the dead man's family. But the same townsfolk who laughed at Valdez's dark skin, mocked...
31) Paid in Blood
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Buckhorn volume 2
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Johnstone Justice. What America Needs Now.
From the bestselling chroniclers of the American West comes a riveting new chapter in the epic Buckhorn saga-the legendary adventures of a young gun-for-hire with Indian blood, a lightning-fast trigger, and his own special brand of justice . . .
When a wealthy cattle baroness hires Joe Buckhorn to track down her son, it sounds like easy money. But when he learns that the boy has run off with a girl-whose...
32) Making a Rapist
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A young girl becomes infatuated with the town's favorite police officer. When he disparages her advances, she fakes a suicide attempt. The officer has no choice but to commit her for her own safety. On the night she was taken from her family, she vowed to take her revenge and with the help of a shady investigator, what she did next landed a good cop behind bars. Now forced to serve a 54-month stretch for crimes he did not commit, ostracized by his...
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In the summer of 1990, Dr. Bill Brockton-a bright, ambitious young forensic scientist-is hired by the University of Tennessee to head, and to raise the profile of, the school's small Anthropology Department. Six months later, the ink on his contract barely dry, Brockton is called to a gruesome crime scene in a rural area to identify a corpse and determine how the woman died. But the case-one of Brockton's first murder investigations in Tennessee-could...
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Home again in Atlanta after years on the Left Coast, crime reporter Samantha Adams finds that the more things change, the more they remain the same. Beau, the boy who broke her heart eons earlier, is more handsome than ever and is now the Medical Examiner. In the South, good manners (and keen protective instincts) prevent folks from saying what they mean, particularly about extramarital "slippin' and slidin'." And backwoods sheriffs still rule their...
35) Repent
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"Bev Pettersen packs a lot of tension into this fast-paced story. Awesome! Five stars!" T.R. Ragan, New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Sometimes the isolated countryside isn't as peaceful as it first appears… Local police aren't very concerned when fourteen-year-old Billy Tanner doesn't show up for his community service at their stable. Tossing a firebomb at a police horse isn't something they can easily forgive. Yet when the boy's...
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Penguin Publishing Group
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Lew Zane gunned down the men who murdered his parents, and their families won’t rest until he’s swinging from the end of a rope. But Lew is ready to stop running and become a husband to Carol Smith and a father to her children …
Wayne Smith took out a price on his wife’s head in the form of an insurance policy. And when he murders Carol and his own children in cold blood, he destroys Lew’s last chance...
Wayne Smith took out a price on his wife’s head in the form of an insurance policy. And when he murders Carol and his own children in cold blood, he destroys Lew’s last chance...
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Weylin McKie is on a mission. A former special ops soldier contracted by the FBI, he endeavors to solve the mystery of girls and young women who have gone missing in Texas. Scant clues lead him to an area of Fort Worth, Texas, known as Jacksboro Highway. This area during Prohibition is wide open, rowdy, and often lawless.
Going undercover, he begins to unravel the plot. Along the way, he often administers his own brand of justice. Racing against...
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Action Comics volume 1
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An instant hit from his first appearance, Superman's popularity has grown through the decades - and today he is known worldwide as the defender of Truth, Justice and the American Way. But his earliest stories reveal a Superman who took no prisoners, made his own laws and gleefully delivered his own brand of justice - even if it meant dangling a crook by the ankle from above the city, or giving a wife-beater a taste of his own medicine. This was a...
39) Christmas Ransom
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Could a second chance at forever become a ransom demand?
Former rodeo star Davy Colt traded his competition spurs for a PI license. But even after years away, he never stopped loving hometown sweetheart Carla Richmond. A robbery and hostage situation at the Lonesome bank leaves the loan officer injured and shattered. With the escaped culprit still at large, Davy will ransom his heart to the hilt to avert a deadly Christmas for Carla and their long-overdue...
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A light-hearted mystery with a twist on the classic gumshoe Max Shadow is no ordinary guy. He sleeps during the day, goes on the prowl at night, and is busy solving cases like any other gumshoe, with one rare exception-he's also a highly trained, bonafide ninja. Not the assassin kind; that's not his style. The gadgets, gizmos, and garb, though? Now, that's more like it. In "Shadow: Ninja Detective," Max scours the rooftops, scoping out his latest...
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