New comics are due to hit the shelves on Wednesday so here’s a look ahead at some of the books we’ll be picking up this week.

Matt C: Turns out this week is going to be, as they say in the business, a 'quiet one'. I have a resounding two titles on my pull-list! She Can Fly #1 sounds like it may offer an interesting spin on the superhero paradigm where a brief display of superpowers ends as quickly at it began, leaving a mystery to be solved. It springs forth from the mind of Christopher Cantwell, one of the guys behind the TV's Halt And Catch Fire (another on the endless list of shows I need to get around to watching). Also on Wednesday is the fourth instalment of The Dead Hand, a contemporary thriller seeped in Cold War paranoia that features some of the best cliffhanger endings of recent times. And that's it. I'm semi-tempted by Amazing Spider-Man #1, but I'm not convinced I need a Spider-Man comic in my life right now. So what else is there? Perhaps it's time to highlight Marvel's excellent True Believers initiative where they reprint some pivotal issues from the Marvel Universe stretching back through the decades, each for the princely sum of $1.00. With the imminent return of the Fantastic Four, the House of Ideas is using the opportunity to put out some FF reprints under the True Believers banner, and this week you can pick up the first ever appearance of Doctor Doom, a face-off between Galactus and the High Evolutionary, a Hulk/Thing smackdown, and a reprint of the original Marvel Two-In-One #1. Bargain prices for pieces of comic book history, generally far cheaper than sourcing the original issues, and a good method of getting younger readers into some classic comic book storytelling too!
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