2/15/13

Phantom Lady, New Heap,
New Adventures into the Unknown,
Mad and Rocketeer Artists Editions, and Frank R. Paul


The Phantom Lady Volume 1 - English publisher PS Art Books presents the very first top drawer, complete collection of the most famous--and infamous--good girl of the Golden Age. But instead of starting with the Matt Baker issues, they've gone back and presented the first 23 appearances by the first Phantom Lady, as published as a regular feature in Police Comics, home of Plastic Man and The Spirit. This gal was also a whole lot of lady, and featured art by some fine talent, including Joe Kubert and Frank Borth.

Previously announced as containing just the first THREE Fox comics issues, this actually includes the first FIVE issues. It's time for PRIME Matt Baker and the most cleavage ever seen in a comic. And leg art... and sultry poses and lingerie shots, you name it, The Phantom Lady delivered in spades. Excellent long illustrated introduction by Roy Thomas.

Highly Recommended.

Item Code: PHL01H
Your price: $48.00
       
 
Also from PS Art Books just this week:
  
The Heap Volume 2 -- with a new infinity cover by Frank Brunner! Forbidden Worlds Volume 2, with two stories by Al Williamson and Roy Krenkel (pre-EC) plus art by many more Golden Age talents (This is the PS edition with FIVE stories; the Dark Horse series contains 4 stories per volume and so far only Volume 1 has been released).

Item Code: HEA02H
Your price: $48.00    











Item Code: FOR02H
Your price: $48.00

Also here is: 

Adventures Into the Unknown Volume 3 -. Five more big 52-page issues from 1950-51, the pioneering horror comics title that started the entire pre-code horror trend. And also, Witches Tales Volume 2, with superb horror by Bob Powell, Lee Elias, Rudy Palais and others. Great skeleton and bondage covers, over the top horror and excess!


Item Code: ADU03H
Your price: $48.00









Item Code: HHW02H
Your price: $48.00

All back volumes are also available, priced at $48 each. These are imported from England. The Phantom Lady is limited to 1700 copies.

Frank R. Paul: The Dean of Science Fiction Illustration by Jerry Weist -- I will be first to admit I never considered myself a big fan of Paul's work. As Robert Weinberg writes here "...Paul wasn't the first artist to specialize in science fiction, nor was he the best. Still, without question, he was the most important. More than any other illustrator, he was responsible for the early popularity and growth of the science fiction field...[if] Gernsback was the father of modern science fiction, then Frank R. Paul was the heart and soul..."

But I'm now won over. Jerry Weist, owner of the Boston comic store Million Year Picnic, creator of the first major comic book auctions via Sotheby's, editor of EC fanzine Squa Tront, is better qualified than just about anyone to talk about Paul. Jerry loved SF, collected it (and comics) avidly, and also collected original art by Paul. This book not only shows the originality and creativity of the pioneer, but it also collects together more Paul than anywhere ever before. All 328 magazine, pulp and digest covers are here in full color in a cool "illustrated" bibliography of his work. Here too is more original art, both covers and interior art, than ever before collected.

Jerry (and editors Roger Hill and Glynn Crain) make the case of just how important and talented Paul is. And I'm won over. This is a great book, filled with quintessential aliens and robots, space ships and alien worlds, space war and asteroids and, man, just get a copy. I couldn't put this down.

Highly Recommended.

Item Code: FRPH
Published at $29.99
On Sale! Save $5!
Your price: $24.99

Mad Artist's Edition and Dave Stevens The Rocketeer Artists Edition (second printing)-- They didn't really both arrive this week, but our source who shall remain unnamed sent us just two copies of our rather large order, two weeks ago. With no explanation about more copies. Fortunately IDW was there to take care of us and now we have enough copies of both books to satisfy early orders. But these remain unavailable from that same distributor source, so how long these will be in print is anyone's guess. The second printing of the Wally Wood EC Stories quite suddenly sold out once again--our favorite book in this series. The upcoming Will Eisner The Spirit looks to be a smash and we are again crossing our fingers we can get all we've ordered. So please, act now to avoid missing out. These Artist's Edition are true collector's items, and I don't use that word lightly.




Item Code: MADAEH
Price: $175.00

 Item Code: RCKAH
Price: $135.00



Here are all available and coming editions, which you can reserve in advance. Be warned, these will be listed in our upcoming color Update which will be mailed to our entire mailing list. That may result in some titles selling out. As our email and Newletter customers, you have first chance to secure your copy or copies.

Dan Brereton the Goddess and the Monster -- We liked Dan's Sirens collection so much, we decided to bring back this 2010 collection published by Image. It's packed with wonderful full color paintings of monsters and lovely bad girls. Dan's also created a special deluxe edition by drawing a nicely detailed picture of Bride of Frankenstein, and tipping it into the regular edition. He's signed both the print and the book itself, again. These are literally done to order and only available from Dan himself, if you catch him at a show, and from us.

The regular edition ( with signed bookplate DAGHS $29.99 ) is also nearly available, it should be here shortly after you read this.

Item Code: DAGHD
Your price: $85.00

Comic Book Chronicles Volume 1: 1960-64-- This set will eventually encompass eight volumes, scheduled into Spring of 2015. This is the first, tackling that hallowed period where all the modern comics got their start or restart. Marvel's rise from the ashes of the 1950s, DC's resurrection of The Flash, Green Lantern and the creation of the Justice League. Mad Magazine, Archie heroes, Charlton and Steve Ditko...profusely illustrated, here's the year by year history of one of the most creative periods in comics.

Coming in early May is Volume 2: The 1980s. You can reserve your copy now ( ACB02H ). Published at $41.95, your price will be $35.95. Next will be the 1950s in the summer of 2013, the 1970s in the Fall, and so on. From Twomorrows.


Recommended.

Item Code: ACB01H
Published at $39.95
On Sale! Save $6!
Your price: $33.95

Brothers of the Spear Volume 2-- by Gaylord Dubois, with art by Russ Manning - At last, 28 more excellent adventures in this long, serialized special feature that ran in the back pages of Tarzan comics in the 1950s. The first volume was so popular it has now sold out in TWO printings.








Highly Recommended.

Item Code: BOS02H
Published at $49.99
On Sale! Save $10!
Your price: $39.99

The Phantom: The Complete Gold Key Issues Volume 2-- Seminal new stories in the mid-1960s, which carried on the fine tradition of the Ghost Who Walks. Behind gorgeous painted covers, young comic fans found new, modern adventures of this fabled masked hero that first appeared in the 1930s.

Hermes Press has now collected The Phantom Dailies, Sundays, and collections of the King comics, Charlton Comics and more. Click here for all our Phantom collections.


 Item Code: PHT02H
Published at $49.99
On Sale! Save $10!
Your price: $39.99 

A Fine Line: Scratchboard Illustrations by Scott McKowen - This is another favorite book of mine that has been in search of a larger audience. Like woodcuts, scratchboard is a fascinating medium that offers drama and power that is difficult to capture in other mediums. And McKowen also is a brilliant innovator, creating jaw-dropping work that has been featured on the covers of major magazines and in national ad campaigns. Here is his first collection and it's a good one. Now on sale, at a price I hope that will entice you to give this outstanding book a try.


 Highly Recommended.

Item Code: FINLH
Published at $49.95
On Sale! Save $30!
Your price: $19.95

500 Essential Cult Books - This is a real strange volume and a fun one too. In almost 400 pages you will find hours and hours of fascinating reading. This takes on the very best, the infamous, the essential, the beloved and the startling. From early hardcover first editions, to paperback originals, here are those books that are still sought after and read by generation after generation. Full details and pictures of each, from Atlas Shrugged to A Clockwork Orange, Fahrenheit 451 to On the Road, Mein Kamph. Philip K. Dick, Huxley, Kafka, Matheson, Hammett, Cain, Hubbard, Dante, and The Tibetan Book of the Dead! I have to take one of these home myself.



Recommended.

Item Code: 500CB
Published at $17.95
On Sale! Save $8!
Your price: $9.95

Hideout in the Sun Deluxe 2-DVD Set - The very first film by legendary sexploitation pioneer Doris Wishman. Two bank robbers are headed for Cuba, but get waylaid (literally) in a Miami nudist colony. They try to blend in, but it's tough to remain cool and calm with so many naked, nubile bodies bouncing around. Now one of our boys is falling for a lovely vixen and the other is determined to silence the lovebirds and hit the high seas. Includes special interviews and lots of features. 240 minutes long.

Item Code: HIDVD
Your price: $19.95






Click here for a full list of our latest adult and cult DVDs, like Climb It, Tarzan; Busty Maids; Sleazy 70s Stags; Wild, Nude and Natural; Busty Southern Belles; Nude Naughty Naked Nurses. Plus classics like Pornomation #1-3, The Story of O, Uschi Digard, and Vampire Sisters.

News and Notes

Fair warning...the sale-priced books we featured last week all remain available as I write this--but some just barely. Several will not last more than another week or two. Fire and Water: Bill Everett is already in short supply. Several of the Marvel Masterworks including Journey Into Mystery, Tales to Astonish and Tales of Suspense, as well as the Atlas Era with our signed John Romita bookplate, are almost gone. We cannot get more of these at these special prices. Click here to see last week's email on our blog.

- Bud

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