Book 1

“Deadly Class is a solid read for
those who want a combination of Mark Millar's Wanted and Harry Potter
with Garth Ennis's (Preacher) style.” - Library Journal
(Starred)

“A good start to a
wicked series.” --
Booklist

It's 1987. Marcus Lopez
hates school. His grades suck. The jocks are hassling his friends. He can't
focus in class. But the jocks are the children of Joseph Stalin's top assassin,
the teachers are members of an ancient league of assassins, the class he's
failing is "Dismemberment 101," and his crush has a double-digit body count.
Welcome to the most brutal high school on earth, where the world's top crime
families send the next generation of assassins to be trained. Murder is an art.
Killing is a craft. At Kings Dominion School for the Deadly Arts, the dagger in
your back isn't always
metaphorical.

Collecting the first arc
of the most critically acclaimed new series of 2014, by writer Rick Remender
(Black Science, Fear Agent) and rising star artist Wesley Craig
(Batman).


Book 1

Deadly Class Compendium

by Rick Remender

Published 13 February 2024

It's 1987. Marcus Lopez hates school. His grades suck. The jocks are hassling his friends. He can't focus on class. But the jocks are the children of Joseph Stalin's top assassin, the teachers are members of an ancient league of assassins, the class he's failing is "Dismemberment 101," and his crush has a double-digit body count. Welcome to the most brutal high school on earth, where the world's top crime families send the next generation of assassins to be trained. Murder is an art. Killing is a craft. At Kings Dominion School for the Deadly Arts, the dagger in your back isn't always metaphorical.

 

From New York Times-bestselling writer RICK REMENDER (LOW, BLACK SCIENCE) and fan favorite artist Wes Craig (KAYA, Batman) this collects the entire dark, heartfelt, and twistedly humorous story of a group of damaged Gen X teens fighting a system determined to transform them into monsters.  

 

Collects DEADLY CLASS #1-56 and the DEADLY CLASS FCBD one-shot


Book 2

"Craig's artwork once again elevates the piece, giving
a sleek style to the players, and a Tarantinoesque setup to each panel. Bloody
fun." -Booklist

Volume 2 is here! It's 1988 and
Marcus Lopez is getting settled into life at Kings Dominion for the Deadly Arts,
a secret elite school, to train the next generation of assassins and
professional murderers. He has a girl, a circle of friends, and he's learning a
trade: the craft of killing. But his murderous past is about to catch up with
him, and there are a few things about Marcus that even his friends don't know
about - secrets which threaten the lives of everyone at his school. Because
there's a reason Marcus was sought out by the school's shadowy principal Master
Lin, a man who's long had an eye for Marcus' unique talents.

Collecting
Deadlt Class #7-11, and continuing the story of a group of damaged,
deranged, and struggling teenagers living through one of the country's most
vibrant and chilling eras.


Book 3

  • When homeless orphan Marcus Lopez was asked to join a shadowy school
    specializing in training the next generation of the world's deadliest assassins,
    he figured he had nothing left to lose. He was wrong. Now, Marcus and his
    one-time lover Maria are thrown to the wolves when a Mexican Cartel, the family
    of a classmate they were forced to kill, comes gunning for revenge. The true
    costs of the life he's chosen to live are only just dawning on Marcus.
    Incapable of staving off the ravages of love, life, and death, he plunges
    headfirst into a black pit of drugs, sex, and self-destruction. And just when
    things seemingly can't get any worse, Finals Season descends on the school. And
    in this world final exams can be murder!
  • Continuing the cult-hit dark teen drama, writer Rick Remender and artist Wes
    Craig take readers on the darkest road through 1980s San Francisco, and the kids
    that ruled its streets.

Book 4

It's 1988 and Marcus Lopez's first year at Kings
Dominion, the elite academy where damaged teenagers are forged into the world's
deadliest assassins, is coming to a close, and the final exam is
murder...literally. What few friends, what little love Marcus managed to scrape
together become his greatest weakness, as the school descends into chaos. Pass
or Fail, no one survives the Freshman Finals without getting blood on their
hands.

From writer Rick Remender and artist Wes
Craig comes the darkest chapter of DEADLY CLASS yet.



Book 5

It’s morning in America, and a new era of DEADLY CLASS begins here!
The survivors of last arc’s brutal finale barely have time to consider
what they’ve done before a new class of kids arrives at the school, eager
to pick up the bloody mantle.

Collects issues 22-26


Book 6

The Freshman class has gotten a bloody welcome to
Kings Dominion, as the newly empowered student council holds brutal sway over
the hallways and dorms. If you’re not part of the group you’re part
of the body count. Meanwhile, Saya’s own mysterious past comes back to
haunt her, betrayal and subterfuge are around every corner. And far from the
bloodshed are Marcus and Maria, rare survivors of the deadliest school on earth,
harboring dark desires of revenge.


Don’t miss the darkest and most revealing
chapter of RICK REMENDER and WES CRAIG’s smash-hit series DEADLY
CLASS.

Collects
issues 27-31

Book 7

Marcus and Maria have resurfaced, and with
them a whole ocean of bad blood crashes on the shores. Shabnam and the Student
Council are out to put Marcus and Maria in the grave for good this time,
Saya’s maniacal brother Kenji stokes the flames of hatred, and in the
shadows of those flames looms Headmaster Lin, waiting to reward whoever is left
standing with a place by his side—or a sharp knife in the
back.


Rick Remender and Wes Craig unleash the
deadliest year yet on the students of Kings
Dominion.


Collects DEADLY CLASS
#32-36

Book 8

The crew returns to Kings Dominion to discover things
have changed in their absence. The program has changed. Master Lin's schemes
revealed. Betrayal. Mystery. The secret of the catacombs beneath the school. A
reckoning for the corrupt. Our friends try to hold everything together as
Freshman finals loom ever closer...


Rick Remender and Wes Craig’s darkly
humorous look at the 1980s underground comes full
circle.

Collects
DEADLY CLASS #36-40

Book 9

The Sophomore exam draws near as another year comes to a
close in RICK REMENDER and WES CRAIG's smash-hit series.


COLLECTS DEADLY CLASS
#40-44


Books 4-6

Collecting arcs four through six of Rick
Remender and Wes Craig’s ongoing darkly humorous drama about the lives of
‘80s teens training in a secret academy to either become assassins or
stand up and become humans. Presented in deluxe oversized hardcover
format!

Collects DEADLY CLASS
#17-31

Books 1-3

Collecting the first three arcs of RICK REMENDER and WES CRAIG’s dark, violent and twistedly humorous story of a group of damaged teens enrolled in a secret high school, training to become the world’s greatest assassins. Bursting at the seams with sketches, concept art and other extras, this oversized 8x12” hardcover is the ultimate way to experience the 1980s underground.



Collecting DEADLY CLASS #1-16.