By her own admission, Typhoid Mary is "a love-maker and a man-hater." She is a psychotic, schizophrenic predator who will use her gallery of multiple personalities for one single-minded purpose: to seduce, dominate, and ultimately execute her prey.

Witness the beautifully violent return of the world's deadliest assassin! A life spent in silent pain has led Elektra to the precipice of despair. As she prepares to shed her past, everything you know about her will change as Elektra hits levels no other Marvel character can touch! Now, Elektra braves the dangers of Monster Island - and the psychotic killer Bloody Lips - in her search for the elusive assassin known as Cape Crow! But the hunt becomes murkier when the hit is revealed as more than it seems...and this might be one quest Elektra's not prepared for. Will Marvel's deadliest femme fatale defeat Cape Crow and collect the biggest bounty of her career? Or will she do what she's never done before - protect the mark, and help the hardened killer and his son escape? COLLECTING: ELEKTRA 1-5

"Immerse yourself in the world of Marvel's most dangerous assassin! Acclaimed writer Greg Rucka takes Elektra Natchios - a woman trained in the ninja arts by both the Chaste and the Hand, the epitome of purest good and foulest evil - on a soul-searching joruney into her own mind. Taken hostage by a deadly adversry, Elektra is forced to confront her murderous past and realize she must change or die. But first, she needs to discover the shocking truth about who has set out to destroy her career - and why! A shaken Elektra decides to amend her murderous ways - but will she be able to reach out for help, and find a life beyond killing and death?" -- P. [4] of cover.

The Hand - few names have ever instilled such terror in the very soul of the Marvel Universe! Elektra witnesses a mystic ceremony that leads her to the never-before-revealed origin of the Hand, the world's most deadly assassins! In feudal Japan, a single murder fuels one young samurai's struggle for dominance - a struggle that will lead to the inception of this immortal ninja clan. And when a foreign merchant sends his beautiful daughter to learn the ways of the warrior, a cycle is set in motion that will change the Marvel Universe...forever! Collecting Elektra: The Hand #1-5.

The sexy star of the "Daredevil" movie steals the spotlight in this new volume about the world's ultimate assassin. Illustrations.

It's an undisputed fact: Elektra Natchios is the best assassin in the Marvel Universe! And a murderers' row of all-star Marvel creators are here to present the proof, in glorious black and white...with lashings of blood! Trained by both the vicious Hand and the benevolent Chaste, Elektra walks the line between good and evil -- with style! And now, a dozen astonishing tales set throughout her long and lethal life illustrate her fighting skills, ninja training and sheer determination! Prepare to see Elektra in a whole new light...and on the larger-than-life pages of a Treasury Edition!

Matt Murdock - desperate to see Elektra Natchios again - makes an attempt to contact this mysterious young woman, putting himself squarely in the crosshairs of the biggest crime boss in New York City! Award-winning writer Mike Carey and original Ultimate Daredevil & Elektra artist Salvador Larroca team up for the blockbuster follow-up to the smash-first series!

Elektra is a ninja, a martial arts master, and a highly paid assassin. Once Matt Murdock's college girlfriend, her service as the Kingpin's personal bodyguard put her in brutal conflict with her former lover, nearly killing Daredevil in the process. Now, fan-favorite creator Frank Miller ushers his awesome assassin through good and evil and life and death and rebirth and more, in this defi nitive collection of the character's most memorable solo adventures. First, following a fatal duel with Bullseye, Elektra is seemingly dead and buried. COLLECTING: ELEKTRA: ASSASSIN 1-8, ELEKTRA LIVES AGAIN, BIZARRE ADVENTURES 28, WHAT IF? 35

She's the deadliest woman in the world - and she's never been in worse shape. Broken, beaten and tortured by alien scientists, Elektra stumbles to freedom in the aftermath of the Skrull invasion. Now she struggles and fights to stay alive, and clear her name for atrocities committed by an imposter.

Elektra, once the world's deadliest assassin, has vowed to stop killing, having witnessed the damage her murders bring to the lives of innocent people. Now The Hand, the secret ninja society that trained here, wants to eliminate her. Elektra must defeat them or die herself, but how can someone who has given up killing stop foes who will not stop until they are dead?