Mat Johnson

Marvel's Spider-Man

Amazing Spider-Man: The Daily Bugle (Aug-2020)

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  Drop
  

  • Feb-2002
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  A passionate and original new voice of the African-American literary tradition.

  Chris Jones has a gift for creating desire-a result of his own passionate desire to be anywhere but where he is, to be anyone but himself. Sick of the constrain...

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  Hunting in Harlem
  

  • May-2003
  • / Suspense
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  Horizon Realty is bringing Harlem back to its Renaissance. With the help of Cedric, Bobby, and Horus-three ex-cons trying to forge a new life-Horizon clears out the rubble and the rabble, filling once-dilapidated brownstones with black professiona...

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  Hellblazer - Papa Midnight
  

  • Apr-2006
  • / Science Fiction
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  The King of Voodoo has a long history, but where did it all begin? Reaching back to the beginnings of American slavery, Hellblazer: Papa Midnite follows the story of the curse that made Midnite immortal, from its origin in 1712 through the New York S...

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  Incognegro
  

  • Jun-2009
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  Writer Mat Johnson (HELLBLAZER: PAPA MIDNITE), winner of the prestigious Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for fiction, constructs a fearless graphic novel that is both a page-turning mystery and a disturbing exploration of race and self-image in America, ...

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  Pym
  

  • Mar-2011
  • / Literary
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  A comic journey into the ultimate land of whiteness by an unlikely band of African American adventurers Recently canned professor of American literature Chris Jaynes is obsessed with The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Edgar Allan Poe...

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  Dark Rain: A New Orleans Story
  

  • Aug-2011
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  In the days after Hurricane Katrina, two men who fell through society's cracks travel to evacuate New Orleans to pull off the bank heist of a lifetime. Up against the clock and eluding armed competitors, the men find themselves in the middle of one o...

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  Right State
  

  • Aug-2012
  • / Mystery
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  Just in time for the fall election, this race-against-time political thriller follows an ex Special Forces commando who goes undercover with a militia group that's plotting to assassinate the second African-American President of the U.S. In the we...

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  Loving Day
  

  • Jun-2015
  • / Historical
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  From the author of the critically beloved PYM (“Imagine Kurt Vonnegut having a beer with Ralph Ellison and Jules Verne.” -- Vanity Fair) comes a ruthlessly comic and moving tale of a man discovering a lost daughter, confronting an elusive ghost, ...

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  Incognegro: A Graphic Mystery
  

  • Feb-2018
  • / General Fiction
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  This tenth anniversary edition of the acclaimed and fearless graphic novel features enhanced toned art, an afterword by Mat Johnson, character sketches, and other additional material.In the early 20th Century, when lynchings were commonplace througho...

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  Incognegro: Renaissance
  

  • Oct-2018
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  A page-turning thriller of racial divide, Incognegro: Renaissance explores segregation, secrets and self-image as our race-bending protagonist penetrates a world where he feels stranger than ever before.When a black writer is found dead at a scanda...

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  Amazing Spider-Man: The Daily Bugle
  

  • Aug-2020
  • / General Fiction
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  Marvel's Spider-Man
  

  The journalist must speak truth to power -whether or not it's wielded responsibly. Helmed by Peter Parker's mentor, Robbie Robertson, the Daily Bugle staff is at last chasing stories that matter. And in a city under Mayor Wilson Fisk, keeping the pub...

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  Invisible Things
  

  • Jul-2022
  • / Science Fiction
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  A sharp allegorical novel about a hidden human civilization, a crucial election, and a mysterious invisible force that must not be named, by one of our most imaginative comic novelists LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS O...

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Award-Winning Books by Mat Johnson

Hunting in Harlem
2004 Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award -- Fiction