Collect Them All
by Corinne Duyvis
read by Scott McCormick, Full Cast
Part of the Marvel Prose Novels series
When the Guardians attempt to evacuate a Kree prison planet and end up in a fight for their lives-what else is new?-they discover their old pal Groot is stretched a little thin. Someone is planting stolen branches of the monosyllabic hero and selling the saplings across the galaxy! The search to find Groot's missing pieces forces the Guardians into an alliance with the unscrupulous Collector, but the real problem is more complicated than he wants them to believe. The seller is a kid. And she's got more than a few things in common with Gamora-like green skin and a wild temper. Now with an unruly teen in tow, the Guardians attempt to track down the remaining Groots-and discover an interplanetary conspiracy. War looms on the horizon. It's a race against the Collector, Groot himself, and the entire Kree armada. It's battle as Rocket likes it best. Sit back and watch the destruction as Corinne Duyvis, author of Otherbound and On the Edge of Gone, makes her Marvel debut!
Empire's End
by Diane Duane
read by Piper Goodeve
Part of the Marvel Prose Novels series
Professor X, the X-Men's founder and mentor, and Shi'ar Empress Lilandra have been forced to love each other from afar-he has to remain on Earth to lead the X-Men, and she must stay with the Shi'ar to run the empire. Now, Lilandra must turn to the X-Men for help against a threat to her domain-and possibly the Earth as well.
Shi'ar scientists have learned of a creature that devours galaxies and is heading toward Shi'ar space. Beset by a panicking people and by several assassination attempts, Lilandra calls upon the X-Men for their assistance, for the galaxy-eater will target Earth next-but the price for stopping the galaxy-eater may be higher than the X-Men expect. They must use a device that increases their powers a thousandfold to drive the creature back, a process that could destroy them-or make them insane with power!
The Fate of Dreams
by Devin Grayson
read by Richard Rohan, Full Cast
Part of the Marvel Prose Novels series
Doctor Stephen Strange, the Sorcerer Supreme, has defeated demonic hordes, battled evil wizards, and tirelessly defended our realm against invading interdimensional armies. But when a dangerous dream begins inspiring normal people to act out their darkest ambitions, even Doctor Strange is pushed to his very limits. Working alongside his longtime nemesis, Nightmare, the Sorcerer Supreme must delve into the nightmares, delusions, and desires of an entire planet. To save the Dream Realms, he'll have to give up some illusions of his own-including his heroism. In the fallout, what dreams will haunt the Sorcerer Supreme?
Natural Enemy
by Jason Starr
read by Richard Rohan, Full Cast
Part of the Marvel Prose Novels series
Scott Lang-the Astonishing Ant-Man-has a new life in New York City with his daughter, Cassie. Scott's determined to make it work: Cassie's in a good school, he's got a steady job, and he's finally ready to explore that wide, safe, non-spandexed dating world. But despite his best intentions, Scott just can't stay out of the spotlight-or magnifying glass-and it doesn't take long for his new life to fall apart. When an old partner-in-crime goes to trial, Scott and Cassie are stuck with federal bodyguards. Scott is convinced the protection is unnecessary, but he hasn't calculated in the teenager factor! When trouble finds Cassie, Scott throws caution to the wind and dons the suit. But what is the villain really after?
Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda
by Jesse J. Holland
read by J. D. Jackson, Joy Sunday
Part of the Marvel Prose Novels series
T'Challa faces the gods of his parents. Vampires stalk Shuri and a Dora Milaje in voodoo-laced New Orleans. Erik Killmonger grapples with racism, Russian spies, and his own origins. Here are eighteen brand-new tales of Wakanda, its people, and its legacy. The first mainstream superhero of African descent, the Black Panther has attracted fans of all races and colors who see in the King of Wakanda reflections of themselves. Storytellers from across the African Diaspora-some already literary legends, others rising stars-have created for this collection original works inspired by the world of the Panther. With guest stars including Storm, Monica Rambeau, Namor, and Jericho Drumm, these are stories of yesterday and today, of science and magic, of faith and love. These are the tales of a king and his country. These are the legends whispered in the jungle, myths of the unconquered men and women and the land they love. These are the Tales of Wakanda. This collection features stories by Linda D. Addison, Maurice Broaddus, Christopher Chambers, Milton J. Davis, Tananarive Due, Nikki Giovanni, Harlan James, Danian Jerry, Kyoko M., L.L. McKinney, Temi Oh, Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Glenn Parris, Alex Simmons, Sheree Renée Thomas, Cadwell Turnbull, and Troy L. Wiggins.
Road of Bones
by David Mack
read by Qarie Marshall
Part of the Marvel Prose Novels series
He has a past shrouded in mystery, a skeleton sheathed in indestructible metal, unbreakable claws that can cut through almost anything, and a mutant healing factor that can mend virtually any wound.His friends call him Logan. The X-Men call him Wolverine.While visiting Japan, he is recruited to recover a stolen experimental drug, one that has the potential to be a true miracle cure for all human disease-or a sadistic means of enslaving the world. With every hour bringing mankind closer to tragedy, he embarks on a daring mission to identify the thieves and thwart their terrifying agenda.From the back alleys of Tokyo to the smugglers' coves of Brazil, from the opulent palaces of St. Petersburg to the war-torn villages of Africa, Logan's quest takes him from one deadly setting to the next. But his desperate last stand will test the limits of his abilities-and his courage-like never before.
Guardian Devil
by Kevin Smith
read by Jonathan Feuer, Full Cast
Part of the Marvel Prose Novels series
A scared teenager on the run. An infant child some say is humanity's savior. A former lover whose life is now hobbled by a terrible secret. A law partner accused of a horrible crime. A city being overcome by an inscrutable menace. They need a guardian. Someone to protect them. Someone with faith in them. They need Daredevil.
What Savage Beast
by Peter David
read by Jeffrey Kafer
Part of the Marvel Prose Novels series
Dr. Robert Bruce Banner has led a life of endless struggling: struggling against the rampaging beast within that was spawned in the heart of a gamma bomb explosion; struggling with obsessed army officers like Major William Talbot, dedicated to hunting him down; struggling to provide his wife Betty with something akin to a normal life...a forbidding problem considering that Banner's intellect is presently trapped in the towering, hard-to-miss body of the incredible Hulk. The persecution by the army, combined with Betty's unexpected pregnancy, prompts Bruce to take desperate measures. An experimental operation may hold the key to the cure he has long sought. It is a chance he will gladly take-and one that actually seems to pay off. But the risk may carry with it an unexpectedly high price, especially when the horrific secret of Betty's pregnancy is revealed. It's a price that puts Bruce and Betty's offspring at risk, and plunges the Hulk into the most terrifying and daunting exploit of his life, struggling against his greatest foes to save himself, his family, and his very soul.
Virus
by Alex Irvine
read by James Patrick Cronin
Part of the Marvel Prose Novels series
In the clear blue skies above Long Island, two airplanes collide. Tony Stark watches the scene in horror and wishes he had the technology that is almost within his reach-a new hyperintelligent instant control system that could have given the aircraft advance warning. But Stark, an obsessive, increasingly troubled recluse, doesn't know that his invention has been compromised.In fact, the collision was a carefully crafted hit on Madame Hydra, the final stage in Arnim Zola's plan to seize control of HYDRA and get rid of Iron Man once and for all. The cunning adversary has already infiltrated Stark Industries security to develop a version of the instant control mechanism that will take over the armored suit and turn it against Stark and S.H.I.E.L.D. While Tony races to track down the source of the intrusion, Zola unleashes direly ingenious computer viruses and the ultimate secret weapon: a murderous clone army based on Stark's most trusted friend. A puppet master of self-replicating terror, Zola is plunging a city into a war that threatens to consume all in its wake.
Mayhem in Manhattan
by Len Wein
read by Tristan Wright
Part of the Marvel Prose Novels series
STUPENDOUS! Of course it's stupendous. It's ol' Spidey himself in his first-yes, first-full-length novel.
SINISTER! When a baddie drops out of a sky-high window (Did he jump-heh heh-or was he pushed?), Daily Bugle publisher J. Jonah Jameson wants Spider-Man to take the rap. Has the wall-crawler come to the end of his rope? Does his life hang by a slender thread?
GLOBAL! To swing clear of this one, he's got to snoop on an international oil conference. There's blackmail! Radioactivity! And a welcoming committee of death-dealing arch-villains!
DIABOLICAL! Who's behind it all? Think hard, 'cause we're not telling. But it just might be that too much tendril looms large in Spider's formidable future!
by Stuart Moore
read by Richard Rohan, Full Cast
Part of the Marvel Prose Novels series
Thanos' pursuit of the Infinity Gems has always defined him. But when the Marvel heroes defeat him once again, Thanos' beloved Mistress Death grants him one final chance. Stripped of his powers and his old skin, Thanos embarks on a cosmic walkabout to reassert his power over himself and the Multiverse. Haunted by family-or the semblances of it-the Mad Titan may become something else entirely. Will he maintain his illusions of grandeur, or is this a new path for a lost god? THIS ORIGINAL TALE EXPLORES THE INNER LIFE OF ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL BEINGS IN THE MARVEL UNIVERSE.
Doomgate
by Jeffrey Lang
read by Jeffrey Kafer
Part of the Marvel Prose Novels series
Deep beneath the Empire State University library, a frustrated student finds the lost legacy of ESU's most infamous alumnus. Victor Von Doom's lab notebooks-instructions for how to build a machine that can pierce the veil between Earth and the netherworld-have fallen into the wrong hands. A gate is opened where none should exist, and someone-or something-has invaded our world.The Fantastic Four would be the team to face such a threat...if they could reach one another. Force shields erected around Manhattan by the over-anxious agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. have trapped Reed Richards, Sue Richards, Ben Grimm, and Johnny Storm. All are in danger of succumbing to the pernicious effects of the energies emanating from the dark dimension, forcing the F.F. to seek aid from their greatest enemy, whose nefariously brilliant mind first conceived the Doomgate.
The Armor Trap
by Greg Cox
read by James Patrick Cronin
Part of the Marvel Prose Novels series
When millionaire industrialist and scientist Tony Stark puts on his gleaming high-tech armor, he becomes Iron Man! When Stark is kidnapped, his corporation must turn to another armored hero, and Stark's best friend, War Machine, to fulfill the ransom. And War Machine won't just take orders from kidnappers... Meanwhile, Stark is trapped in a cell with no hope of escape, forced to create a new suit of armor for his captor. Stark must use his genius to navigate a cyber-space maze, defeat a virtual-reality trap, and retrieve his own Iron Man armor. It's Iron Man and War Machine in an all-new high-tech adventure!
The Nature of the Beast
by Dave Stern
read by Seth Podowitz
Part of the Marvel Prose Novels series
He was the best at what he did: a born fighter, a mutant whose uncanny speed and strength, augmented by the best technology money could buy, made him close to unstoppable. He had an indestructible skeleton, cast from the hardest metal on the planet, and razor-sharp claws that could cut through steel like butter.He was Wolverine, a member of the mutant Super Hero group X-Men.Then everything changed.Now, with the adamantium ripped out of his body-with his healing factor reduced to a fraction of what it once was-the man known only as Logan finds himself racing to defeat a deadly conspiracy that threatens all of mutantkind, a conspiracy that stretches across both time and space, from the ice-capped peaks of Tibet to the neon jungles of Las Vegas, from his days as an agent of the Canadian government to his years as a member of the most unusual Super Hero group of all time…Here now is Wolverine, bloodied but unbowed, facing long-forgotten foes from his past-and unexpected challenges from his future...
Liberation Run
by Tess Sharpe
read by Frankie Corzo
Part of the Marvel Prose Novels series
When a mysterious spacecraft comes hurtling toward Earth, Carol Danvers-the hero known as Captain Marvel-narrowly prevents it from crashing and killing its pilot. The young woman, Rhi, is an Inhuman, part of a group who rejected that society's caste system and left for the stars in search of a new life. What they found, however, was imprisonment on a planet ruled by a cruel patriarchy. There, Inhumans are treated like currency, and possession of an Inhuman girl brings a master great power and influence. To refuse means death, and Rhi has risked everything to seek help. Horrified by the picture the young woman paints, Carol pledges to accompany her back to the planet and pulls together a team of heroes to help. Joined by Ant-Man, Mantis, and Amadeus Cho (Brawn), Carol and Rhi set out to free her family, her people, and an entire planet.
Gifted
by Peter David
read by Richard Rohan, Full Cast
Part of the Marvel Prose Novels series
Cyclops and Emma Frost re-form the team with the express purpose of astonishing the world. But when breaking news regarding the mutant gene unexpectedly hits the airwaves, will it derail their new plans before they even get started? As demand for the mutant cure reaches near-riot levels, the X-Men go head-to-head with the enigmatic Ord, with an unexpected ally-and some unexpected adversaries-tipping the scales!
Abominations
by Jason Henderson
read by Jeffrey Kafer
Part of the Marvel Prose Novels series
Dr. Bruce Banner. Emil Blonsky. One a brilliant scientist, the other an agent for the KBG. Both men whose lives were irrevocably altered by gamma radiation-transforming Banner into the incredible Hulk and Blonsky into the deadly Abomination. For years, the two super-strong creatures have clashed. Now they are brought together for their most deadly confrontation yet.
The Abomination has allied himself with the URSA, an organization dedicated to restoring the Soviet Union-but he is using the URSA to further his own mad quest for vengeance on all those who wronged him in life, including the Hulk!
The Hulk must turn to the American intelligence agency SAFE for assistance against his old foe. But since the head of SAFE is one of the Abomination's targets, even that assistance may not be enough...
Operation A.I.M.
by Greg Cox
read by James Patrick Cronin
Part of the Marvel Prose Novels series
MODOK, the Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing, is the product of the corrupt scientists of A.I.M (Advanced Idea Mechanics). Iron Man learns that MODOK has turned his back on his creators, destroying an A.I.M. undersea lab, leaving only one devastated survivor. But MODOK's fearsome plan involves more than taking revenge... Now Iron Man must recruit his fellow heroes War Machine, Captain America, and the Black Panther to help him stop MODOK from gathering the materials he needs to create the ultimate weapon-a weapon that could spell humanity's doom! But MODOK has recruited some help of his own...deadly help!
Femmes Fatales
by Robert Greenberger
read by James Patrick Cronin
Part of the Marvel Prose Novels series
Millionaire industrialist Tony Stark has rejected the lucrative munitions trade that put his company on the map. But he can't just turn away when the antiterror organization known as S.H.I.E.L.D. asks him for help in its battle against the sinister forces of HYDRA. As the next step in its quest for global domination, the international terrorist cabal is plotting to use cutting-edge technology in a devastating attack on New York City. The source of their advanced weaponry: Stark Industries. Against such fearsome firepower, the city's only hope lies with the agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and with the ultimate human weapon: the golden avenger known as Iron Man. But when the man behind the metal mask falls prey to the schemes of two tantalizing temptresses, both as stunning and seductive as they are lethal, a fatal chink in his armor is revealed-a flaw that could lead to his downfall and the city's doom.
Hostile Takeover
by David Liss
read by Pete Cross
Part of the Marvel Prose Novels series
Peter Parker is caught in a complicated web. Working in a cutting-edge laboratory, he's a young scientist who's trying to make a difference. Yet he's constantly burdened by the responsibilities of his second career as the crime-fighting Spider-Man. Wilson Fisk-the so-called Kingpin of Crime-has returned to New York, establishing himself publicly as an altruistic entrepreneur and philanthropist. Spider-Man knows better, but he can't uncover Fisk's scheme, which, if executed, will make the crime lord too big to fail. When a new threat-a deadly doppelganger with Spider-Man's suit and abilities-wreaks havoc in the streets, can the real wall-crawler prove his innocence? With the clock ticking and lives on the line, can Spider-Man stop the brutal rampage of the Blood Spider? Will Spider-Man fall to his fears and foes, or will he rise and be greater?
Everybody Wants to Rule the World
by Dan Abnett
read by Richard Rohan, Full Cast
Part of the Marvel Prose Novels series
Hydra has a synthetic pathogen that will make the entire human race dependent on them for the cure. A.I.M.'s newly developed nanotech compound to enslave humanity is dangerously close to contaminating the world's water supplies. Ultron is poised on the edge of Singularity, Earth's technology at his metallic fingertips. Dormammu has a plan to save the world-by claiming it as his own. The High Evolutionary is rewriting the human genome in a bid to turn humankind into a eugenic slave-race. Everybody wants to rule the world-and only the isolated Avengers can stop them.
Liberty's Torch
by Tony Isabella
read by George Newbern
Part of the Marvel Prose Novels series
Captured by a vicious militia group called Liberty's Torch, Captain America is put on trial for the imagined crimes of America. Forced to defend himself in a hostile courtroom with no hope of a fair trial, the star-spangled Avenger faces his greatest challenge as his ideals are put to the acid test...
Extremis
by Marie Javins
read by Richard Rohan, Full Cast
Part of the Marvel Prose Novels series
A dangerous terrorist has ingested a new techno-organic virus, transforming him into a superhuman killing machine. Now immensely powerful, but driven mad by the virus' effects, the terrorist is seemingly unstoppable. To halt this madman's psychotic rampage, Iron Man must face this dangerous new virus head-on...in a life-or-death battle that will forever alter Stark's calculated balance between man and machine. GraphicAudio® Production.
Venom: Lethal Protector
by James R. Tuck
read by David Bendena
Part of the Marvel Prose Novels series
When Eddie Brock becomes biologically linked to a bizarre alien symbiote, the two share a common goal. At first, they seek to squash their arch-foe Spider-Man. But after repeated attempts, Venom reaches an uneasy truce with the web-spinner. Brock leaves New York and heads west to San Francisco, the city of his birth, eager to put trouble behind him, but trouble has different ideas. Brock commits himself to becoming a defender of the innocent, but he's a six-foot-three-inch, 260 lb. figure with bulging muscles and fangs like a shark. Venom quickly draws attention-first from a furious Spider-Man, who's certain Brock has broken his word, then from a team of armored enemies who set out to kill the Lethal Protector. Venom joins forces with the web-spinner only to face an even deadlier threat: five trained killers, each wearing a symbiotic suit like Brock's. These are the Spawn of Venom, and they're out for blood.
Forever Young
by Stefan Petrucha
read by Richard Rohan, Full Cast
Part of the Marvel Prose Novels series
Hoping to snag some rent-paying photos of his arachnid-like alter ego in action, Peter Parker goes looking for trouble-and finds it in the form of a mysterious, mythical stone tablet coveted by both the Kingpin and the Maggia.Caught in the crosshairs of New York's most nefarious villains, Peter also runs afoul of his friends-and the police! His girlfriend, Gwen Stacy, isn't too happy with him either. And the past comes back to haunt him when the Maggia's assumed-dead leader resurfaces in pursuit of the troublesome tablet. Plus with Aunt May at death's door, has the ol' Parker luck disappeared for good?Based on the classic Stone Tablet Saga, this novel has been adapted and expanded for the present.
Valley of the Lizard
by John Vornholt
read by Tim Paige
Part of the Marvel Prose Novels series
It begins with the murder of a New York socialite. Following the trail of the killers, Spider-Man is soon confronted by one of his oldest, deadliest enemies: the Lizard.
Once a respected scientist, Dr. Curt Connors created a serum that he hoped would regenerate the arm he had lost years before. But the serum did more than regrow his arm-it turned him into the savage, human-hating creature called the Lizard.
Spider-Man pursues the Lizard from the concrete canyons of New York to the lush jungles of Mexico. Once there, he discovers not only that the Lizard is formulating a new plan to wipe out all humans but also that he now has an army of reptilian creatures ready to carry out his orders!
The Gathering of the Sinister Six
by Adam-Troy Castro
read by Tim Paige
Part of the Marvel Prose Novels series
On several occasions, a half-dozen of Spider-Man's greatest enemies have banded together as the Sinister Six. Now, at the behest of a deadly benefactor known only as the Gentleman, the Chameleon has been tasked with assembling a new Sinister Six with the most ambitious scheme yet! Soon, he has recruited the Vulture, freed Electro and Dr. Octopus from prison, and been joined by the Gentleman's mysterious ward, Pity. That only leaves Mysterio, but the master of illusion has a plan of his own. A number of Hollywood people have been targeted for murder, including the cast and crew of Fatal Action 4, the latest acting vehicle for Spider-Man's wife, Mary Jane! Spidey must halt Mysterio's deadly rampage before more lives are claimed. But even that may not be enough to stop the gathering of the Sinister Six!
Requiem
by Jeffrey J. Mariotte
read by Tim Paige
Part of the Marvel Prose Novels series
A previously unknown translation of an ancient grimoire, the Darkhold, has been unearthed by archaeologists in South America. But this chilling discovery will have far-reaching effects. Halfway across the globe, the Darkhold is relentlessly pursued by the Cabal of Scrier, an organization devoted to achieving ultimate power through whatever means necessary. And it is through their actions that a darkness from beyond the grave will return to haunt the Spectacular Spider-Man in the form of one of the most frightening and dangerous foes he's ever encountered...
The Man Without Fear
by Paul Crilley
read by Richard Rohan, Full Cast
Part of the Marvel Prose Novels series
What drives the Man Without Fear? Matt Murdock was raised by a single father, an over-the-hill prizefighter with one last chance to make good-a chance that cost him his life. Taunted and tormented by other children, Matt's life was irrevocably altered after he was blinded by radioactive materials while saving the life of an old man. The payoff? An unbreakable will and a keen intelligence, helping focus the super-senses with which he was blessed during the accident. His story is one of love, pain, disappointment, and strength. In this brand-new adaptation, witness the strange machinations behind the life of one of Marvel's most beloved heroes. GraphicAudio® Production.
Codename Wolverine
by Christopher Golden
read by Seth Podowitz
Part of the Marvel Prose Novels series
Wolverine. Sabretooth. Silver Fox. Wraith. Maverick. Together, they were Team X, the best covert-ops team NATO had to offer. But a mission to retrieve a disk from a pair of Soviet agents proved to be more trouble than they bargained for. A Soviet operative codenamed the Black Widow, a mutant Interpol Officer named Sean Cassidy, and shape-changing freelance spy Mystique were also all after the disk. Years later, Wolverine is a valued member of the uncanny X-Men. The Black Widow defected and became a respected American super hero. Cassidy is Banshee, mentor to the next generation of young mutants. Mystique and Sabretooth are reluctant members of X-Factor, the government strike force. Wraith is still a covert-ops agent. Silver Fox is dead, and Maverick is dying of the Legacy Virus. Each of them is kidnapped, one by one-starting with Sabretooth, by far the deadliest member of the former Team X. Wolverine must find out the terrible secret from that old mission-a secret that has remained hidden for years and could spell death for all of them!
Predator's Smile
by Christopher Golden
read by Dion Graham
Part of the Marvel Prose Novels series
An arsonist's twisted handiwork claims hundreds of lives in the roughest neighborhood in New York-Daredevil's turf. Daredevil digs up the root of the problem and comes up with a ruthless crime boss bent on brutally wrestling control of New York's underworld from the corrupt clutches of the Kingpin of Crime.
The new crime boss's enforcer? The bloodthirsty Bullseye, master assassin with a pathological enmity for Daredevil. Bullseye takes to his work with deadly efficiency, killing his way towards the Man Without Fear.
Daredevil is forced to ask for help from the Kingpin-his deadliest foe-before Bullseye's fatal obsession and an explosive gang war destroy the city he's sworn to protect.
Days of Future Past
by Alex Irvine
read by Richard Rohan, Full Cast
Part of the Marvel Prose Novels series
In a dark and dangerous future, the mutant-hunting machines known as the Sentinels rule America with an iron fist. Almost all mutants and superhumans have been exterminated. Only a handful of imprisoned mutants remain to fight against their oppressive robotic overseers! Now Kate Pryde, former X-Man, must travel back in time and warn her present-day teammates of the coming danger-and hopefully prevent this horrible future from ever taking place!
The Dark Phoenix Saga
by Stuart Moore
read by Nancy Wu
Part of the Marvel Prose Novels series
Piloting a shuttle through a deadly solar flare, Jean Grey saves the X-Men, but is possessed by one of the universe's most powerful forces-the Phoenix. As she adapts to her new powers, the mutant team launches an assault against the clandestine organization known as the Hellfire Club. Once inside, however, Jean is tricked by the villain Mastermind into betraying her teammates. She becomes first the Hellfire Club's Black Queen and then Dark Phoenix, as the power to destroy worlds bursts forth uncontrolled. Shooting into deep space, Jean destroys an entire star system, then encounters a cruiser piloted by the spacefaring race the Shi'ar. When the cruiser is obliterated, the Shi'ar queen decrees that the Phoenix must die. But only the X-Men can hope to stop Dark Phoenix and save Jean Grey.
Paws
by Stefan Petrucha
read by Michael John Casey, Full Cast
Part of the Marvel Prose Novels series
Hey hey, book lovers, take off those big thick glasses-this is Deadpool speaking! Sorry Marvel, somethin' happened to your copy guy. Anyway, this is my first prose novel, and they got this dude Stefan Petrucha to write it. He's good people. He's written novels and comics. But here's the thing: This book is about dogs. Dogs that turn into big nasty monsters. And then I gotta kill 'em. Thing is, I like killing people-the ones that deserve it, anyway-but I won't kill dogs. No way. So that's what we call a character dilemma. What-wait for the paperback? Who said that?! I'll gut you right now... Graphic Audio Production.
Secret Wars
by Alex Irvine
read by Richard Rohan, Full Cast
Part of the Marvel Prose Novels series
The fate of the entire Marvel Universe hangs in the balance as Earth's mightiest heroes face their greatest challenge! Summoned across the stars by the mysterious and unbelievably powerful Beyonder, the Avengers, Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, and the X-Men are set against their deadliest foes on the mysterious planet known as Battleworld-with the winner promised the ultimate prize. But as battle lines are drawn, new alliances are forged, and old enemies clash, one among them is not willing to settle for anything less than godhood. Can even the heroes' combined might prevent Dr. Doom from becoming the most powerful being in the universe? Graphic Audio Production.
Wanted: Dead or Alive
by Craig Shaw Gardner
read by Tim Paige
Part of the Marvel Prose Novels series
Brian Timilty is running for mayor on an anti-superhero ticket, and the amazing Spider-Man is his biggest target. But Timilty is secretly the pawn of Tyler Stewart, a wealthy businessman seeking to take over New York's mobs. To ensure his success, Stewart hires two of Spider-Man's deadliest foes, Electro and the Rhino, and executes a plan guaranteed to keep the wall-crawler from interfering with his grand designs: He frames Spider-Man for a grisly murder! Forced into hiding, Spider-Man must find a way to clear his name without being shot on sight, for he is wanted dead or alive.
Infinity
by James A. Moore
read by Dion Graham
Part of the Marvel Prose Novels series
The Avengers journey into deep space, where they unite the intergalactic races against the Builders-deadly aliens who seek to destroy the known galaxy. While the heroes are gone, Thanos sets his sights on Earth, sending the Black Order to launch the assault. It falls to the other heroes of Earth-the Inhumans, the Black Panther, Namor the Sub-Mariner, Doctor Strange, the X-Men, and more-to defend Attilan, Wakanda, Atlantis, and the rest of the planet. To defeat Thanos, the defending forces will need to deploy a new weapon-one that may be as deadly as the invading force.
War Zone
by Greg Cox
read by George Newbern
Part of the Marvel Prose Novels series
They are the Earth's most revered protectors: Reed Richards, Susan Richards, Ben Grimm, and Johnny Storm-the Fantastic Four. Celebrities around the globe and defenders of mankind, these extraordinary individuals have sworn to confront the perils and challenges facing the modern world and each other, always with unyielding courage, unerring wisdom, and an unshakeable familial bond.But their darkest hour may yet be at hand, as humanity's most frightening threat comes violently from beyond the stars...from the depths of the Negative Zone, a universe in a dimension parallel to our own-one first discovered years ago by Reed Richards himself. And it is this terrifying and deadly menace that will ultimately test the measure and mettle of four heroes sworn to protect the human race at any cost-even their own lives...
Dark Designs
by Stefan Petrucha
read by Richard Rohan
Part of the Marvel Prose Novels series
Captain America has battled soldiers, terrorists, and villains of all kinds. Now he'll face a far more complicated enemy: his own body. When S.H.I.E.L.D. discovers that Cap is harboring an extinction-level pathogen hidden in his cells for decades, Cap's greatest fear is realized: Until the virus can be cured, he'll have to go into deep freeze. But he won't be alone. Years ago, Cap's greatest enemy managed the biggest coup of his career when he implanted his mind into a clone of Steve Rogers' body-virus and all. And Red Skull isn't the sacrificial type. Cap will have to put his archnemesis on ice-without exposing the virus. Can Cap stay alive long enough to capture Red Skull and return to his deepest nightmare? It's a battle for perfect symmetry in this original prose novel!
Against All Enemies
by Alex Irvine
read by Richard Rohan, Full Cast
Part of the Marvel Prose Novels series
The alien shapeshifters called the Chitauri were defeated by the Ultimates in a decisive battle, but suspicious activity leads the Ultimates to believe that not all of the aliens were destroyed in that cataclysmic attack. Stark Industries has developed means of quickly and easily detecting Chitauri DNA, but the federal government refuses to adopt the technology, claiming that if the tech is widely available, the Chitauri will find a way to fool it. Frustrated by the government's seeming unwillingness to protect its own people, Captain America takes matters into his own hands, leaking the technology so that it can be manufactured and distributed throughout the country. His radical actions sow discord among the Ultimates and, within the highest levels of government, raise a troubling question: Could disunity and chaos be playing right into the Chitauri's hands? Meanwhile, Hank Pym, who desperately wants back on the Ultimates team, has been feverishly experimenting with his ants in the hopes of finding his own alternate method of detecting the Chitauri. When he appears to be successful, it could spell doom for the alien menace-but only if the Ultimates can finally set aside their differences long enough to recognize their true enemy.
Who Is the Black Panther?
A Novel of the Marvel Universe
by Jesse J. Holland
read by Ken Jackson, Full Cast
Part of the Marvel Prose Novels series
The African nation of Wakanda stood alone as an unconquerable land filled with incredible technological advancements for ten centuries. T'Challa, the latest in a lineage of warrior-kings, is the Black Panther, endowed with enhanced speed and strength, along with a suit made of the indestructible metal that secured his country's future: Vibranium. Now, outsiders have returned to plunder Wakanda's riches-including its store of the rare metal.Leading this brutal assault is Klaw, an assassin with the blood of T'Challa's father on his hands. Klaw brings with him a powerful army of super-powered mercenaries, all hell-bent on raining death and destruction on this pristine land.Can the Black Panther prevail against such a massive invading force?
Down These Mean Streets
by Keith R. A. DeCandido
read by Tara Sands
Part of the Marvel Prose Novels series
A brand-new designer drug arrives in New York City with the force of a hurricane: Triple X, a potentially lethal combination of ecstasy and gamma radiation that is literally turning users from the shadowy, dank alleys to the glittering, raucous party circuit into living, rampaging nightmares. For high school science teacher Peter Parker, Triple X's onslaught on some of his students and his wife's professional life is as dangerous as it is unexpected. For Peter's secret alter-ego, the costumed crime-fighter known to the world as Spider-Man, the situation quickly accelerates from bad to worse, as the drug's effects run unchecked against law enforcement's and his own valiant efforts to rein in the city-wide chaos. But there is a growing consensus between Spider-Man and the police that, for reasons yet unknown, one of the arachnid's most fearsome enemies may be behind it all as part of a greater scheme to bring the city-and one of its most heroic and hated defenders-to its knees at long last.
Watchers on the Walls
by Christopher L. Bennett
read by Frankie Corzo
Part of the Marvel Prose Novels series
For years, many have believed that the rise of superpowered mutants represents a threat to the survival of ordinary humans. The uncanny X-Men have dedicated their lives to proving that peaceful coexistence is possible. When a refugee spacecraft crashes on Earth, hounded by a warship bent on its destruction, the X-Men race to the rescue-only to learn that it carries beings of an entirely different order whose very existence may jeopardize life as we know it.Now, facing a direct threat to all life on Earth, the X-Men grapple with an impossible moral dilemma-to defend the aliens whose only crime is being born different...or to embrace the methods of those who have long condemned mutantkind, joining forces with their own greatest persecutors to go hunt down their common enemy and end the evolutionary menace, once and for all.
The Baxter Effect
by Dave Stern
read by Natalie Naudus
Part of the Marvel Prose Novels series
The Fantastic Four- the Thing, the Invisible Woman, the Human Torch, and Mr. Fantastic. Together they have used their powers for the betterment of mankind. For years, the world's top scientists have dreamed of creating a quantum computer, a machine that would be infinitely more powerful than any based on the transistor. Now Reed Richards-Mr. Fantastic-has achieved that dream. He has birthed a device capable of creating the unbreakable cipher, predicting the weather, performing calculations, and retrieving knowledge at heretofore unimagined speeds. He has also, unwittingly, created something else. A machine that one of the Fantastic Four's oldest and most powerful adversaries will use against them, will twist to his own destructive, murderous purposes, one that will turn friend against friend, husband against wife, and force Ben Grimm-the Thing-to confront a nightmarish dilemma. A choice between humanity's salvation and the death of the three people he loves most in all the world...
Lifeblood
by Hugh Matthews
read by Seth Podowitz
Part of the Marvel Prose Novels series
Logan has begun to experience memories of time spent serving in the Canadian army during World War II. When he digs deeper he discovers that he was held as a prisoner of war at a concentration camp, and experimented on by a ruthless Nazi scientist determined to unlock the secrets of Logan's mutant healing properties. What Logan doesn't know is that the scientist is still at large, his thirst for immortality unquenched by time. Now that he knows Logan is alive, he'll stop at nothing to finish what he started sixty years earlier...
What Lies Between
by Peter David
read by Natalie Duke
Part of the Marvel Prose Novels series
Reed Richards is brought in on a consult to oversee a privately funded dimension-spanning device...a device that will give wealthy patrons the opportunity to experience interdimensional travel. Never mind that the consortium wants to launch a sweeping endeavor that would be branded as Fantastic Forays, with the world's greatest superhero team receiving a cut of the profits; their brilliant lead scientist, Rachel Hunt, has now discovered a way to safely traverse interspace-the main conduits situated between dimensions-that allows one access to a multitude of realities. And it is this very discovery of these gateways that puts the Fantastic Four on the front lines of a new kind of war, as dark forces gather and conspire to bring about the utter annihilation of all humanity.
Kraven's Last Hunt
by Neil Kleid
read by Richard Rohan, Full Cast
Part of the Marvel Prose Novels series
Born to a rarified breed of Russian aristocracy, Kraven the Hunter had stalked and killed every animal known to man and considered himself the world's best big-game hunter. It was this confidence that brought him to New York years ago, in an obsessive quest to hunt what he considered the city's greatest prey: Spider-Man. But his target eluded him time and again, mocking him at every turn. Now, after years of crushing defeats against the web-slinger, Kraven has hatched one last plan to best Spider-Man. In a stunning instant of shocking violence, Kraven stands finally triumphant over Peter Parker's seemingly dead body. And to prove that he is the hero's master...Kraven will pull on his costume and become him! This GraphicAudio® Production is adapted from the graphic novel by J.M. DeMatteis and Mike Zeck.
Election Day
by Peter David
read by Andrew Eiden
Part of the Marvel Prose Novels series
There's less than one week to go in the run-up to the nation's next general presidential election-a heated political contest pitting the incumbent president against a popular challenger. But all bets are off when a heinous act of domestic terrorism results in a young boy being held hostage before the eyes of America... with the ultimate demands to result in nothing short of changing the face of history. As a nationwide investigation into the boy's possible whereabouts is quickly mobilized, military brass requests that the mutant Wolverine become involved as well-there's simply no one more qualified with the tracking skills and vicious talent necessary to uncover the truth, even as the country threatens to descend into chaos...