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As the Cold War widened in the 1950s, military hero George Kutter and his family trained to be legacy survivors in the event of an atomic exchange with the Soviet Union. Prepared to wait out the aftermath of nuclear war, they were subjected to myriad simulations, scenarios and stresses in hopes of helping salvage something of their family, their country and humanity from the ashes of a conflict with the Russians that never happened.
2) Hell
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Is it one of those assemble-the-team deals? YOU BET! The scientist. The murderer. The mercs. The witch. And the half-human visitor from the Underneath. The mission: Recover the most amazing mineral power source ever discovered. The target: Miles beneath the Earth's crust, teeming with monster denizens we haven't seen in centuries. It's a one-way trip straight to HELL.
3) Civilians
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It's 2022. We all know the world has lost its collective mind. But not quite like this... with random strangers teaming up to commit bizarre acts of violence and self-destruction, from the Santa Monica Pier to the 101 Freeway to a posh Beverly Hills mall. Our only hope lies with four strangers - all of whom have had devastating encounters with this phenomenon - who team up in search of answers.
4) Vortex 2.0
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In the decades following the loss of the space station Benson, a new kind of life has been forged even further into the Veil Nebula aboard a new type of habitat: The Barringer. But a connection back to Jake Dixon, the man who sacrificed everything to stop a nameless horror reaching Earth, now pulls back those few survivors and an all-new crew to face fresh monsters and familiar terror.
5) Twitch
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August 1977. Astronomers detect the so-called "WOW" signal: a burst of sound from deep space, near the constellation Sagittarius. The signal is believed to be extraterrestrial in origin. The next month, the astronomers send a reply. Boy, is that a huge mistake. Because more than four decades later, the alien intelligence has sent an invasion force of exactly one photon―and it's the kind of microscopic threat we could have never seen coming…
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6) Vortex
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With all communication lost from a mining asteroid, space station Benson dispatches a rescue ship to investigate. What the team discovers threatens not only to overwhelm and destroy them, but could ultimately threaten all life on Earth.
7) The Standoff
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At Tattersall Prison, a max-lock for the baddest of the bad, sleepless nights are the norm... until a fireball from the sky turns the night shift into a nightmare - trapping guards and cons on the inside, cops on the outside, and escapees in-between... all of them threatened by a hideous alien invader which needs nice, warm human bodies in which to incubate. From the outside, it looks like a replay of Waco, but from the inside, it's more like Dante's...
8) Vault
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When the moon-bound crew of Gaia stumbles across an enormous alien vessel, more technologically advanced than their own, priorities change. The mystery deepens when the crew discovers the name of the vessel along the hull... written in English: VAULT.
9) Redhead
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Marnie Young is a sweet girl who wouldn't hurt a fly. But one night, without warning, she has a violent seizure. Two days later, she wakes up in a hospital room. As her vision comes into focus, she sees 17 doctors and nurses dead on the floor, blood everywhere. Soon she discovers the shocking truth: Marnie has become lethal, and everyone who comes within three feet of her dies instantly!
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Storm King Comics, a division of Storm King Productions, Inc
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2018.
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"When the moon-bound crew of Gaia stumbles across an enormous alien vessel, more technologically advanced than their own, priorities change. The mystery deepens when the crew discovers the name of the vessel along the hull, written in English: Vault. Vault is the first book of John Carpenter's Tales of Science Fiction ongoing anthology series."--Page 4 of cover
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Storm King Comics
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[2020]
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As the Cold War widened in the 1950s, military hero George Kutter and his family trained to be legacy survivors in the event of an atomic exchange with the Soviet Union. Prepared to wait out the aftermath of nuclear war, they were subjected to myriad simu
12) The standoff
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Storm King Productions
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2019.
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Tattersall Prison. Max lock. The baddest of the bad. Until something from the night sky crashes into the complex, rapping cons and guards on the inside, cops on the outside, and escapees between. All of them threatened by a hideous invader who needs to take over nice, warm human bodies. It's a hostage situation. It's a battle between species. It's Earth's most serious standoff.
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