Marvel Comics 12.10 | The All-New Heroes For Hire and an All-New Man Without Fear?

Hell's Kitchen has a new protector when T'Challa takes the reins in Black Panther: The Man Without Fear #513, plus Elektra is just one of the heroes in a series of cryptic images that could mean an all-new Heroes for Hire team, and a new writer joins Matt Fraction on Uncanny X-Men.

Marvel Announces BLACK PANTHER: MAN WITHOUT FEAR!

Marvel is pleased to announce that best-selling author David Liss and the acclaimed artist Francesco Francavilla will be launching the all-new Black Panther: The Man Without Fear this December! The smoke has cleared from the ruins of Shadowland and a new protector of Hell’s Kitchen is on the prowl. His name is T’Challa, the Blank Panther! In a city without Daredevil and a dangerous knew foe called Vlad the Impaler consolidating power in the underworld, the Black Panther must learn to become a new type of hero. Without his riches, his technology, and his kingdom can T’Challa truly be the man without fear? Find out in Black Panther: The Man Without Fear #513!

BLACK PANTHER: THE MAN WITHOUT FEAR #513

Written by DAVID LISS

Penciled by FRANCESCO FRANCAVILLA

Cover by SIMONE BIANCHI

Variant Cover by FRANCESCO FRANCAVILLA

Rated T+ …$2.99

ON SALE IN DECEMBER!

Assassin For Hire

Coming December 2010.

Wingman For Hire

Coming December 2010.

Red-Hot Writer Kieron Gillen Joins Matt Fraction On UNCANNY X-MEN

Marvel is proud to announce that newly-exclusive writer Kieron Gillen (Thor, Generation Hope) will join Eisner-winning, superstar writer Matt Fraction as co-writer on Uncanny X-Men! Beginning with Uncanny X-Men #531, Fraction and Gillen pit the X-Men against what may be their greatest threat yet—the loss of their powers at the hands of the Sublime Corporation, as the malevolent force puts into action its master plan!

"For the last thirty years, Uncanny X-Men has been superhero comics' truest reflection of the age. That's what I have to live up to and take it into the future, trying to write the definitive twenty-teen take on the X-Men,” explained Gillen. “Any less is underselling what the book deserves. Co-writing with Matt seems a worryingly natural development, as we were friends, then were working together creating the five lights for Generation Hope. The exclusive is the proverbial gravy. In the words of Ms. Knowles:’ They liked it. They put a ring on it.’”

Fraction added, “As a writer? This feels like Kieron and I have already been working on the book for several months anyway, what with the ‘Five Lights’ story and cueing up what he needed for Generation Hope, so this is a perfectly natural extension of that. As a reader? There's literally no one else in the world I want to read writing X-Men more than Kieron. He's great. He's dangerously great. And he's dying... Dying TO ENTERTAIN YOU.”

A bold new era for the X-Men begins in December as Matt Fraction and Kieron Gillen join forces in Uncanny X-Men #531!

UNCANNY X-MEN #531

Written by MATT FRACTION & KIERON GILLEN

Penciled by GREG LAND

Cover by GREG LAND

Rated T+ …$3.99

ON-SALE IN DECEMBER

All-New. All-Different

Coming December 2010

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