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Here are five comics that garner interest from old-school readers.

Comic-Con attendees will get a first chance to get the coming-of-age graphic novel "The Reason for Dragons." (Photo: Archaia)

The Reason for Dragons

Comic-Con attendees with get the first crack at this coming-of-age graphic novel before it's released July 24. Created by writer Chris Northrup and artist Jeff Stokely, the modern fairy tale follows a teen outcast named Wendell who ventures into the local Renaissance fairgrounds and finds a man who is convinced he's Sir Habersham, a medieval knight tasked to slay a dragon in the woods.

The Sandman: Overture

DC Comics' adult imprint Vertigo Comics celebrates its 25 ^th anniversary, and the publisher is giving the best present to fans: the October return of Morpheus and the fantasy world of the seminal comic series The Sandman, by Comic-Con guest of honor Neil Gaiman.

Ash and the Army of Darkness

Influential horror-comic writer Steve Niles ( 30 Days of Night) pens the new adventures of cult-classic character Ash Williams, the chainsawing, time-traveling hero played by Bruce Campbell in director Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead movie series.

Hellboy series

Mike Mignola's big red stone-handed demon antihero celebrates two decades of supernatural adventures with a special panel plus a preview of two comics with a youthful bent: the graphic novel Midnight Circus featuring Hellboy as a little kid, and the children's book Itty Bitty Hellboy.

The Sun Is Sick

Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne has made a career out of crafting way-out-there rock music. So why not bring the trippiness to comics? Coyne is releasing the psychedelic fantasy The Sun Is Sick, first at Comic-Con and then on flaminglips.com.