Great books that help out great charities

Earlier I mentioned ways you can help out a great comic charity while getting something in return. Here are a couple of ways...

First, Image recently released Liberty Comics, benefiting the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, and it is one of the best values in comics. This full-color comic features a new, never-before-seen story starring The Boys by Garth Ennis and Darick Robinson, and a new Criminal tale by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips! By itself, these two stories would be worth the price of admission, but on top of that you get a Rick Veitch Bratpack story and more never before seen comics by Mark Millar, Darywn Cooke, Art Adams, Sergio Aragones, and more. These are some of the biggest and best names in comics donating their time and talent for a great cause, and at only $3.99! And you can chose between three new, original covers, including a Hellboy cover by Mike Mignola, a Danger Girl cover by J. Scott Campbell, and the newly released Thor cover by Walt Simonson! Wow. And it can't be stressed that in addition to getting all these great original stories, you'd be helping out a great cause, The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, which has been defending our First Amendment rights for more than two decades.

Second, The Hero Intitiative in association with Marvel Comics recently released the Hulk 100 Project. Similar to the Ultimate Spider-Man 100 Project from a couple of years ago, Marvel and the Hero Initiative asked the best artists in comics to donate their time by illustrating a new, original cover to Hulk #1. These covers were then auctioned off to some lucky fans, and this book is a gallery of those covers. For just ten dollars you get 132 pages of all new, never-before-published Hulk covers by such luminaries as Sal Buscema, Ron Garney, Ed McGuinness, Ron Wilson, John Cassaday, Frank Cho, David Finch, Joe Quesada, John Romita Sr., and dozens upon dozens more - indeed, nearly every living prominent artist who has ever drawn the Hulk is in here! Plus, you get a nifty intro by legendary Hulk scribe Peter David and an essay on how Hulk's pants stay on (seriously) by Dr. James Kakalios, author of The Physics of Superheroes. Now thats a great deal for ten bucks, and it helps out The Hero Initiative, the first charity for helping comics creators in need.

A couple of great books that help out a couple of great organizations!

Jeff