<li>First Printing for each issue.<br>\n</li>\n<li>Each issue is Sealed in an Acid-Free cover.</li>\n<li>Each issue has an acid-free backing board.</li>\n<li>Set of Five issues are sealed as a set for double protection.</li>\n<li>Set is then sealed in a special box that Amazon will deliver within their own shipping box.</li>\n<br> This set of comics, published in 2009 by Marvel Press, and collects all five first printing comic issues of THE STAND 4: HARDCASES, the fourth set in the series. Double-sealed for archival protection, and protected in a special box for shipping.<br><br> ABOUT STAND 4: HARDCASES - The Trashcan Man was spared for a reason. To join the Dark Man Randall Flaggs swelling army and to set the world on fire. It's a dream come true for the pyromaniac, but he has to reach Flaggs compound in Las Vegas first--and, somehow, survive crossing paths with "the Kid," a hardcase who's even crazier and more dangerous than Trashy is! The villains are front-and-center as we cross the mid-point of this epic adaptation of Stephen King's horror masterpiece! <br><br> ABOUT THE STAND SERIES: World Fantasy Award-winning writer Stephen King, and Marvel Comics join forces once again to launch a new ground-breaking comic book series adapted from Kings apocalyptical novel, THE STAND! Acclaimed writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Secret Invasion: Fantastic Four, Angel Revelations) brings the first of several limited series to life in THE STAND!<br><br> The Stand, which is commonly deemed as King's most popular novel, is a story of Biblical proportions; after a government-made virus mows down majority of the human race, the few survivors must band together in order to survive.