Fred Van Lente

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About Fred Van Lente

Fred Van Lente is the New York Times-bestselling author of comics as varied as Archer & Armstrong (Harvey Award nominee, Best Series), Taskmaster, MODOK's 11, Amazing Spider-Man, Conan the Avenger, Weird Detective, and Cowboys & Aliens (upon which the 2011 movie was based), as well as the novels Ten Dead Comedians and The Con Artist.

Van Lente also specializes in entertaining readers with offbeat histories with the help of his incredibly talented artists. He has written the multiple-award winning Action Philosophers! (American Library Association Best Graphic Novel for Teens), The Comic Book History of Comics, Action Presidents! (all drawn by Ryan Dunlavey), and The Comic Book Story of Basketball with Joe Cooper (Ten Speed September 2020).

He lives in Brooklyn with his wife Crystal Skillman, and some mostly ungrateful cats, and loves hearing from readers at fred.vanlente@gmail.com.

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Iron Man: Legacy (2010-2011) #6 Mar 22, 2016

by Fred Van Lente , Juan Doe , Steve Kurth

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INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION PART 1 The second action-packed story arc begins here! Come back with us to a time when Tony Stark lost his company and his fortune to his greatest enemy, Obadiah Stane. Forced to rebuild a new company from scratch, Tony arrives in a run-down Los Angeles neighborhood and brings the people jobs, hope, and a new beginning- but unbeknownst to Tony, this district is under the iron thumb of the super-villain lords of L.A. - The Pride! The Runaways' super-powered parents will do everything they can to destroy this new enterprise, but this is Tony Stark they're messing with here. And he, and the people he's inspired, won't give up the streets without a fight!

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Iron Man: Legacy (2010-2011) #5 Mar 22, 2016

by Fred Van Lente , Travel Foreman , Steve Kurth

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Iron Man vs. Doctor Doom, as you've never seen it before! "War of the Iron Men" reaches its epic climax! Latveria invades Transia with a Doombot army, and Shellhead only has a hastily formed alliance with Radioactive Man and the Crimson Dynamo to defend against it! Tony Stark learns who betrayed the secrets of his armor to the Transians- and the revelation will change his life.

Iron Man: Legacy (2010-2011) #7 Mar 22, 2016

by Fred Van Lente , Juan Doe , Steve Kurth

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INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION PART 2 The now-destitute Tony Stark begins his climb back to the top of the financial heap by bringing hope to Los Angeles' impoverished Imperio neighborhood, but The Pride, secret masters of L.A., just as desperately want to keep the people in chains. So they've hired the Serpent Society to kill Tony Stark at any cost, and it's a duel to the death between Sidewinder and his squad of snaked-themed super villains! SSSSSS!

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Iron Man: Legacy (2010-2011) #8 Mar 22, 2016

by Fred Van Lente , Juan Doe , Steve Kurth

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INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION PART 3 Caught between the Serpent Society on one side and The Pride on the other in his attempts to remake the impoverished Imperio neighborhood in Los Angeles, Tony Stark makes the daring move to take his case directly to the people themselves- but can anything make them stand up against the super villain masters of L.A.? One thing might, when Iron Man makes an appearance- except at the moment it's Jim Rhodes under the golden mask, and he's not too thrilled with what Tony is doing! Find out why here!

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Iron Man: Legacy (2010-2011) #3 Mar 22, 2016

by Fred Van Lente , Salvador Larroca , Steve Kurth

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The War of the Iron Men escalates, but how! Captured by his enemies, stripped of the Iron Man suit, Tony Stark seems helpless, the way he was back in that cave in Afghanistan all those years ago...but unlike that Tony, this Tony has been taught hand-to-hand combat by Captain America himself! Armor? We don't need no stinking armor! But with an old foe hot on his tail, he might want to rig up a brand-new weapon- and fast!

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Iron Man: Legacy (2010-2011) #2 Mar 22, 2016

by Fred Van Lente , Brandon Peterson , Steve Kurth

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War of the Iron Men! Tony Stark wages a one-man invasion of Transia to hunt down and destroy the renegade Iron Men, setting off an international conflagration that threatens to engulf his friends, his company, and everything he's worked for! All this sets the stage for a jaw-dropping, no-holds-barred, heavy-metal armored slugfest the likes of which you've never seen! When the mysterious source behind the Iron Men is revealed on the last page, you won't believe your eyes...and neither will Tony!

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Shadowland: Power Man (2010) #3 (of 4) Mar 1, 2016

by Fred Van Lente , Mike Perkins , Mahmud A. Asrar

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The Hand has discovered the new Power Man’s secret identity! And for violating their edicts, he, his friends, and his family will now be dragged to Shadowland and put to the knife...unless Luke Cage and Iron Fist can save him in time! But does the new Power Man even want to be saved?

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Shadowland: Power Man (2010) #4 (of 4) Mar 1, 2016

by Fred Van Lente , Mike Perkins , Mahmud A. Asrar , Ray-Anthony Height

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The story concludes! At last: just in time for the final assault on Shadowland, the full truth behind the new Power Man's origin is fully revealed! What is his connection to Bullseye, The Hand, and Luke Cage himself? As Iron Fist and Power Man take on Daredevil, Marvel's latest sensation has a very personal reason for storming the ninja stronghold. But will the final revelation strengthen his newfound partnership with Danny Rand- or cause him to side with the forces of darkness?

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Wolverine: First Class - The Rookie Jan 28, 2016

by Fred Van Lente , Len Wein , Salvador Espin , Andrea Di Vito , Herb Trimpe

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Collects Wolverine: First Class #1-4, Incredible Hulk #181.

Return with us again to the early days of the all-new, all-different, X-Men for all-new solo adventures of Wolverine and Kitty Pryde! The next generation of students has arrived at Xavier's School—Colossus, Storm, Nightcrawler, and the mysterious Wolverine — and with them, new teaching methods. Professor X pairs up green recruit Kitty Pryde with the been-everywhere, done-everything vet Logan — and neither of them is all that happy about it.

Super-Villain Team-Up/M.O.D.O.K.'s 11 (Issues) (5 Book Series)

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M.O.D.O.K. gathers a team of villains together for his most shocking scheme yet!

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Dark Reign: Mister Negative (Issues) (3 Book Series)

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Mr. Negative has carved out a substantial slice of the big apple for himself over the past year. But when the super-villain mastermind The Hood strikes at the heart of Mr. Negative's criminal operations with a whole horde of classic Arachno-Foes (including The Scorcher, Speed Demon, The Squid and the long awaited return of the White Rabbit), Spider-Man is left to clean up the mess between these two violent nemeses.

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Web of Spider-Man (2009-2010) #10 Sep 15, 2015

by Fred Van Lente , Marc Guggenheim , Jelena Kevic Djurdjevic , Sana Takeda , Nick Dragotta

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As the Extremist lays siege on City Hall, can Spider-Man save Mayor Jameson? And what secret of the Amazing Spider-Man is the Extremist preparing to reveal?! Meanwhile, pulled back to New York to put the man who murdered her husband in Jail, JACKPOT finds herself face to face with MR. NEGATIVE -- but will she fight the enigmatic, monochromatic mastermind...or join him?!

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