Thursday, June 16, 2016

Jacky’s Diary, Naked Cartoonist, The Silver Age Flash, Illustrators Quarterly #14, Spider-Man & Stan Lee Treasuries, Elvgren & Grimm’s Boxed Art, Pre-Code & Sale Archives, Otto Binder Revised

The Flash Silver Age Archives is another low-priced edition in the new DC series that now includes Supergirl and Justice League. It's my favorite to date. We created a handsome full color bookplate for a Yoe Studio's labor of love, Jacky's Diary, by Jack Mendelsen. Jack very handsomely inscribed every one! Westerns are making a comeback lately, albeit with a twist--Indeh is a sympathetic novel about the war-chief Geronimo by actor/director Ethan Hawke. The original Ghost Rider and Matt Baker's Canteen Kate, two pre-code standouts, are now on sale. Two kid-friendly books are the Spidey Treasury and Patsy Walker--Hellcat. They look like fun.

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Comic Book Archives  |  Art & Illustration  |  On Sale  |  Coming  |  Pulp Reprints
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Comics & Cartoon Related

 


JACKY'S DIARY Signed -- Signed & inscribed bookplate! 1959-60. Highly Recommended. By Jacky Mendelsohn. Foreword by Mort Walker. The complete run of the hysterically funny and whimsical strip by Jack Mendelsohn, of life from a nine-year-old's point of view--and art to match. Jack moved on and was soon writing for Carol Burnett, Bill Cosby, Mad magazine, and the Beatles movie Yellow Submarine! Includes a fascinating behind-the-scenes intro by Jack, a heartfelt foreword by Beetle Bailey's Mort Walker and by Mama's Mel Lazarus. Each bookplate is not only signed but personally inscribed.....More.

Item Code: JACDHS
$39.99
Publisher IDW
Publish Date 2013
Binding Hard Cover -
No Dustjacket
Dimensions 12x9
# Pages 192pg
Color Full Color
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NAKED CARTOONISTS -- Closeout Price! Highly Recommended. Edited by Gary Groth. Over 70 artists’ nude self-portraits--and funny as all get out. These guys know how to spoof themselves and the world, and it shows. Including Sergio Aragonés, Art Spiegelman, Will Eisner, Charles Schulz, Mort Walker, Scott Adams, Al Jaffee, Ann Telnaes, Jeff Smith, Trina Robbins, Lynn Johnston, Russell Myers... And Jim Borgman, Will Elder, Jules Feiffer, Stan Goldberg, Dan PiraroMorrie Turner, and a fabulously macrabre piece by, you'd just know it, Gahan Wilson. And dozens more....More.

Item Code: NAKEH
$22.99 $9.99
Publisher Fantagraphics
Publish Date 2012
Binding Hard Cover -
No Dustjacket
Dimensions 6x8
# Pages 147
Color Full Color
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OTTO BINDER THE LIFE & WORK OF A COMIC BOOK VISIONARY Signed -- Signed Bookplate by Bill Schelly! New Revised Edition. Our Highest Recommendation. By Bill Schelly. The fascinating career of Otto Binder, from pulps to comics to comics fandom. So many well-known creations and characters: Adam Link; the primary writer on the Golden Age Captain Marvel, Mary Marvel & others; EC stories; Silver Age Supergirl, and Superman comics. He co-created much of the Superman universe, including Smallville; Krypto, Superboy's dog; Supergirl; and the villain Brainiac. Binder is also credited with writing many of the first "Bizarro" storylines for DC Comics.....More.

Item Code: OTTB
$19.95
Publisher North Atlantic Books
Publish Date 2016
Binding Soft Cover
Dimensions 6x9
# Pages 329
Color b&w
 

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HARVEY KURTZMAN The Man Who Created Mad and Revolutionized Humor in America Signed --Signed bookplate by Schelly! Our Highest Recommendation. By Bill Schelly. Foreword by Terry Gilliam. This amazing new biography--642 pages with 250 illustrations, including photos--reveals the true story of Harvey Kurtzman. New interviews with his colleagues Hugh Hefner, Robert Crumb, Jack Davis and others, and revealing new information, including legal battles with Bill Gaines, and details of the McCarthy-era FBI investigation.
Item Code: HARKH
$34.99
Publisher Fantagraphics
Publish Date 2015
Binding Hard Cover
Dimensions 6x9
# Pages 642pg
Color Text/Partial Color
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SUPERGIRL TRADING CARD SET -- Closeout Price! Warehouse find, 1984. Helen Slater stars in the 1984 film, with co-stars Faye Dunaway and Peter O'Toole. From the origin of our heroine to battles on earth, this 44-card sets features peel-and-stick stickers on one side. On the backs of 34 cards are scenes from the film, complete with dialogue and captions. On the back of the last ten cards, a picture that can be formed by putting them all together. Original cards, released in packs but assembled by a dedicated collector (thank you, Jeff Keply)!....More.

Item Code: SUPGC
$7.50
Publish Date 1984
Dimensions 2.5x3.5
# Pages 44 cards
Color Full Color
See our website for current and Silver Age Supergirl collections.
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Graphic Novels

 


ROOK Volume 1 Save Yourself -- Collects #1-4. By W.B. DuBay and Steven Grant. Art by Paul Gulacy. When the greatest monsters of the past and future join forces to conquer all of history, only the time traveling adventurer The Rook can stand in their way! A long-running feature in the Warren Magazines, Eerie, The Rook is back in an all-new series by a verteran artist. Gulacy was strongly influenced by Steranko and it shows nicely here. We also like the cross-over with The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, touches of steampunk, a trip into space--this one's all over time, like Flashman meets Dr. Who!...More.

Item Code: ROOK01
$14.99 $12.99
Publisher Dark Horse
Publish Date 2016
Binding Soft Cover
Dimensions 7x10
# Pages 104pg
Color Full Color
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PATSY WALKER, A.K.A. HELLCAT! Volume 1 Hooked on a Feline -- Collects #1-6. By Kate Leth. Art by Brittney Williams (#1-5) and Natasha Allegri (#6). An all-ages, animation style new heroine joins the Marvel family. Patsy Walker has managed to escape her past (as the long-running Marvel teen & romance title) and here is resurrected as a new young lady heroine. Between trying to make rent and dodging bullets, Patsy barely has time to deal with her mother's exploitative romance comics about Patsy's past resurfacing, much less how they start to interfere with her work and dating life. Manga-style last story....More.

Item Code: PAW01
$17.99 $15.99
Publisher Marvel
Publish Date 2016
Binding Soft Cover
Dimensions 7x10
# Pages 136pg
Color Full Color
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INDEH A Story of Apache Wars -- Recommended. By Ethan Hawke and Greg Ruth. 1872 in the Apache nations, a region torn apart by decades of war. One young warrior loses his family and everything he loves. After having a vision, he convinces Apache leader Cochise to lead an attack against the Mexican village of Azripe. It is this wild display of courage that transforms the young brave Goyakhla into the Native American hero Geronimo. But the war wages on. As they battle their enemies, lose loved ones, and desperately cling to their land and culture, they would utter, "Indeh," or "the dead."....More.

Item Code: INDEHH
$25.00 $21.99
Publisher Grand Central
Publish Date 2016
Binding Hard Cover
Dimensions 8x10
# Pages 232pg
Color b&w
 

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LAW OF THE DESERT BORN Signed -- Closeout Price! Bookplate signed by Thomas Yeates. Highly Recommended. By Louis L'Amour, adapted by Charles Santino. Art by Thomas Yeates. In the finest tradition of (and perhaps somewhat influenced by) the artwork of Russ Heath and John Severin--the first graphic novel adaptation of the work of master storyteller Louis L'Amour explores the borderlands of loyalty and betrayal with the emotional grittiness of a noir thriller. New Mexico, 1887, a land in the midst of the worst drought anyone can remember. Now it explodes into violence, a savage manhunt, and revenge.
Item Code: LAWDH
$25.00 $12.50
Publisher Bantam
Publish Date 2013
ISBN 9780345528124
Binding Hard Cover
Dimensions 8x12
# Pages 152pg
Color b&w
For more western adventure, and in this case highly weird and wild, I highly recommend Dead Rider: Crown of Souls [DEADR. $14.99, your price $12.99].
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The Flash

 


FLASH SILVER AGE Volume 1 -- Showcase #4, 8, 13-14, Flash #105-116, 1956-60. Highly Recommended. By Robert Kanigher and John Broome. Art by Carmine Infantino, Joe Kubert et al. The earliest adventures of the Flash—police scientist Barry Allen--that kicked off the beginning of the Silver Age and became one of DC's most successful--and enjoyable--titles. Wonderful stories, superlative artwork, and today some of the most expensive issues of the period--those Showcase issues are rare! The origin of the Flash and the introductions of the first of his “Rogues Gallery” of super-villains—including Captain Cold, Gorilla Grodd and Weather Wizard, the Pied Piper, Mirror Master and Mr. Element.....More.

Item Code: FSA01
$24.99 $21.99
Publisher DC
Publish Date 2016
Binding Soft Cover
Dimensions 7x10
# Pages 432pg
Color Full Color
 

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FLASH OMNIBUS Volume 1 -- Collects Showcase #4, 8, 13 and 14 and The Flash #105-132. Highly Recommended. By Robert Kanigher and John Broome. Art by Carmine Infantino. This massive title collects the entire run of the first years of the Silver Age adventures of The Flash, just in time for his debut as the star of the new series The Flash on the CW network. Stories include the origin of The Flash, the first appearances of his sidekick, Kid Flash, fellow detective The Elongated Man, and much more. Beginning with the ultra-rare Showcase #4 in 1958, this is killer, great work.
Item Code: FL01H
$99.99 $85.00
Publisher DC
Publish Date 2014
Binding Hard Cover - No Dustjacket
Dimensions 7x11
# Pages 864pg
Color Full Color
I also recommend Flash--A Celebration of 75 Years [FL75H. $39.99, your price $34.99].
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Comic Book Archives

 


STAN LEE MARVEL Treasury Edition -- Huge 11x16 in slipcase. Recommended. By Stan Lee, Tom Defalco et al. Art by Jack Kirby, Joe Maneely, Stan Goldberg, Barry Windsor-Smith. Face Front, True Believers, and treasure this super-sized celebration of milestones in the career of Stan Lee! More than 70 years of stories, featuring dozens of Lee's beloved co-creations--including Spider-Man, Iron Man, the Hulk, the Avengers, Daredevil and Nick Fury--all in his signature style! Plus Golden Age Capt. America and The Black Knight, These astonishing tales of suspense, horror, fantasy, romance, comedy, cowboys, super heroics and more prove beyond doubt that Stan is "The Man!" All in a monstrously huge volume, with pages nearly twice normal size....More.
Item Code: STMTEH
$200.00 $179.00
Publisher Marvel
Publish Date 2016
Binding Hard Cover -
No Dustjacket
Dimensions 11x16
# Pages 816pg
Color Full Color
 

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AMAZING FANTASTIC INCREDIBLE Deluxe Signed --Signed & limted, 2,500! Recommended. By Stan Lee. Art by Colleen Doran, Limited Edition cover by Todd McFarlane. Silver binding, black & silver slipcase, special limitation page signed by Stan. In this first-ever memoir--illustrated in comic book form--Stan Lee tells the story of his life with the same inimitable wit, energy, and offbeat spirit that he has brought to the world of comics.
Item Code: AFID
$250.00
Publisher Touchstone
Publish Date 2015
Binding Hard Cover
Dimensions 7x11
# Pages 192pg
Color Full Color
This is unconfirmed, but I just heard that Stan is planning to stop appearing at shows, as he’s now 92 and maybe, just maybe, slowing down a little. In this case, this limited edition may be a good chance to still score his signature. It’s also available in a trade edition, now on sale:
AMAZING FANTASTIC INCREDIBLE --Closeout Price! Recommended. By Stan Lee. Art by Todd McFarlane and Colleen Doran.From his first Captain America text story in 1941 to working with Ditko and Kirby, from his impoverished childhood in Manhattan to his early days writing comics, through his military training films during World War II and the rise of the Marvel empire in the 1960s to the current resurgence in movies. Small remainder mark.
Item Code: AFIH
$30.00 $14.95
Publisher Touchstone
Publish Date 2015
Condition Small remainder mark.
Binding Hard Cover
Dimensions 7x11
# Pages 192pg
Color Full Color
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SPIDEY MARVEL Volume 1 Treasury Edition -- Collects Spidey #1-3 and Spider-Man #1-2. Recommended. By Robbie Thompson and Brian Michael Bendis. Art by Nick Bradshaw and Sarah Pichelli. Think you know everything about Peter Parker? Think again! Expect action, adventure and hilarity in equal measure as we head back to high school to explore Pete's early days! The recent retro stories combine modern talent with the classic Marvel flavor to present the web-slinging wonder's younger years in spectacular style, now printed in a huge 10"x13" edition just like those old Marvel Treasury series. Two contrasting styles, one more Ditko/Romita, one modern and more in series with a wanna-be kid Spider-Man!....More.
Item Code: SPMTE01
$15.99 $14.50
Publisher Marvel
Publish Date 2016
Binding Soft Cover
Dimensions 10x13
# Pages 112
Color Full Color
Lots more with Spider-Man is is on our website.
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SANDMAN MYSTERY THEATRE Book One The Scorpion -- Collects #1-12, 1993-94. By Matt Wagner. Art by Guy Davis, John Watkiss and R.G. Taylor. The year is 1938, and the world is holding its breath—mesmerized by the onrushing storm that will soon engulf it in World War II. In New York City, one man’s sleep is filled with tormenting visions of the evils that mankind visits upon itself, compelling him to act. And so, by night, Wesley Dodds lays aside the trappings of his inherited wealth to roam the shadows as the Sandman, armed with a tranquilizing gas gun and driven by an unrelenting sense of justice. A retro-style series starring one of DC's first Golden Age heroes.....More.

Item Code: SAMTB
$29.99 $26.99
Publisher Vertigo
Publish Date 2016
Binding Soft Cover
Dimensions 7x10
# Pages 328pg
Color Full Color
We also have a much smaller, sale price previous edition of this, if you just want a taste. It collects only issues #1-4 and runs 111 pages. Sandman Mystery Theatre: The Tarantula [SAMT. $12.99, your price $7.99]. It was published in 2004.
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HANDS OF SHANG-CHI MASTER OF KUNG FU Omnibus Volume 1 -- 1973-76. By Steve Englehart, Doug Moench, Len Wein. Art by Jim Starlin, Paul Gulacy, John Buscema et al. Collected for the first time! Exceptionally nice artwork by Paul Gulacy, here very strongly influenced by Steranko's dynamic style. Wild stuff! Shang-Chi's life takes a major turn when he discovers his father's identity--the villainous Fu Manchu! So begins the epic story of the Master of Kung Fu! On a quest to end the reign of his pernicious patriarch, Shang-Chi pits his deadly hands and furious feet against incredible foes like Tiger-Claw, Razor-Fist, the mysterious Midnight--and even the macabre Man-Thing!....More.

Item Code: SHAN01H
$125.00 $105.00
Publisher Marvel
Publish Date 2016
Binding Hard Cover
Dimensions 7x11
# Pages 696pg
Color Full Color
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EC ARCHIVES Haunt of Fear Volume 3 -- Collects #13-18, 1952. Highly Recommended. By Graham Ingels, Al Fieldstein et al. Delight in fright! This third volume of the EC Comics horror classic The Haunt of Fear collects even more of the unforgettable scares! Featuring art from the timeless talents of Graham Ingles, Johnny Craig, Jack Kamen, Jack Davis, George Evans, Bill Elder, Wally Wood, and Sid Check! Includes a foreword by Cullen Bunn, writer of comics, short stories and novels. Nicely re-colored for excellent clarity and detail, superior to EC's first printings....More.

Item Code: ECH03H
$49.99 $39.99
Publisher Dark Horse
Publish Date 2016
Binding Hard Cover
Dimensions 8x11
# Pages 216pg
Color Full Color
 

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EC ARCHIVES Haunt of Fear Volume 2 -- Collects Haunt of Fear Issues #7-12. Highly Recommended. By Graham Ingels. Jack Davis et al. Fright fans beware! Featuring art from the celebrated talents of Johnny Craig, Graham Ingels, Jack Davis, Jack Kamen, and Joe Orlando! Classics include "The Basket," "Gorilla's Paw," "Ooze in the Cellar," "Till Death Do We Part," "What's Cookin'?" et al.
Item Code: ECH02H
$49.99 $39.99
Publisher Dark Horse
Publish Date 2015
Binding Hard Cover
Dimensions 8x11
# Pages 216pg
Color Full Color
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PRE-CODE CLASSICS THIS MAGAZINE IS HAUNTED Volume 1 -- Collects #1-7, 1951-52. Highly Recommended. By Shelly Moldoff, George Evans, Bernard Bailey et al. Here's another forgotten but highly collected title in the great tradition of EC, this time from Fawcett, home to Capt. Marvel. George Evans is the standout here, doing horror tales just before his work at EC, and it’s truly exceptional. Also here: some great Bob Powell. Fawcett was a step above the average comics publisher and it shows here in their premier horror title, which lasted for two years and then was continued by Charlton, where many classic Ditko stories would appear.....More.

Item Code: PCTM01H
$59.99
Publisher PS Artbooks
Publish Date 2016
Binding Hard Cover -
No Dustjacket
Dimensions 7x10
# Pages 256pg
Color Full Color
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PRE-CODE CLASSICS JOURNEY INTO FEAR Volume 1 -- Collects #1-7, 1951-52. 30 stories. Competing with EC's Tales from the Crypt et al, publisher Superior had the famous "Iger Shop" (who'd done all the Fiction House stories for years) crank out the weirdest, most outré stories they could think up. All in the famous "Jack Kamen-ish" style that they'd learned sold so well, even after Kamen was long gone from their staff! They also figured out skeletons, monsters and pretty girls sold books, so every cover varied that common theme for those early 1950s kids who wanted a good scare.....More.

Item Code: PCJ01H
$59.99
Publisher PS Artbooks
Publish Date 2016
Binding Hard Cover -
No Dustjacket
Dimensions 7x10
# Pages 252pg
Color Full Color
See our website for many more Pre-Code Classics. Many are now on sale in hardcover and limited slipcased editions at $19.95 to $21.95.
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Art & Illustration

 


ILLUSTRATORS QUARTERLY #14 -- Recommended. By Tara McPherson, Joe Jusko, Maurice Leloir, Adam Stower, Mike Zagorski and Fortunino Matania. From classic (Matania, Leloir) to contemporary (Jusko) to avante garde (McPherson, Zagorski), IQ covers the entire spectrum. Excellent feature article on McPherson and her surreal female drawings. And another lengthy article on Tarzan and Dejah Thoris cover artist Joe Jusko. Leloir is of particular interest, a superb French illustrator of that period's equivalent of graphic novels, with stunningly accurate costume. He's best known for the definitive edition of The Three Musketeers in 1893. [I collect his work-Bud].....More.

Item Code: IQ14
$24.99
Publisher Book Palace
Publish Date 2016
Binding Soft Cover
Dimensions 9x11
# Pages 96pg
Color Full Color
See our website for previous issues, and for discounted sets of #1-3 and #4-6 at $45 each.
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GIL ELVGREN PIN-UPS Poster Set -- Handsome Box Set of 16 prints. Recommended. By Gil Elvgren. Transform a blank wall into a personalized display. This set of images has been specially selected from the TASCHEN collection as the most loved, and most interesting, examples of Elvgren’s Pin-Ups, including one rare full nude and several of his all-time favorite images. Sexy ladies all but bursting out of swimsuits, black lace, nighties, or just caught in a compromising expose of garters, nylons and high heels. Large sized, in a sturdy cardboard box, suitable either for framing or as a poster. Mature Readers....More.

Item Code: GILEPB
$19.99
Publisher Taschen
Publish Date 2016
Adult Rating Mature Readers
Dimensions 11x14
Quantity 16 posters
 

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GIL ELVGREN ALL HIS GLAMOROUS AMERICAN PIN-UPS -- Special bargain price. Highly Recommended. By Charles G. Martignette and Louis K. Meisel. Considered the most important pin-up and glamour artist of the 20th century, Elvgren (1914-1980) had a career in advertising and magazine illustration that lasted more than 40 years. Though most of his paintings were created for commercial use, collectors and enthusiasts now consider these works fine art. This presents nearly every pin-up he ever did...for calendars, promotion and commissions. Mature Readers.
Item Code: GILE
$19.99
Publisher Taschen
Publish Date 2013
Adult Rating Mature Readers
Binding Hard Cover
Dimensions 9x12
# Pages 240pg
Color Full Color
 
GIL ELVGREN'S PRIVATE STOCK -- Highly Recommended. Edited by Tony Nourmand. An immensely talented artist who enjoyed a prolific career, Gil Elvgren was a master of the female form and one of the greatest maestros of the illustrated pin-up to have ever lived. For years we've enjoyed his annual calendar collections, his best-selling biography from Taschen, his pin-up work on everything from playing cards to posters. Today his original paintings are the target for high-spending collectors when they are featured in Heritage auctions. But never before have we seen the real-life girls who POSED for these iconic works. Collated here for the first time in Gil Elvgren's Private Stock is Elvgren's personal nude slide collection, previously only known to a handful of niche collectors. Mature Readers.
Item Code: GILPH
$49.95


Publisher RAP
Publish Date 2012
Adult Rating Mature Readers
Binding Hard Cover - No Dustjacket
Dimensions 9x9
# Pages 192pg
Color Full Color
We handle everything available on Gil Elvgren, including prints.
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GRIMMS FAIRY TALES Poster Set -- Handsome Box Set of 16 prints. Recommended. By Kay Nielsen, Herbert Leupin et al. Transform your wall into a personalized display. This set of images has been specially selected from the TASCHEN collection as the most loved, and most interesting, illustrations from Grimm’s Fairy Tales. In a sturdy illustrated cloth-covered box, suitable either for framing or just posting on your wall or bulletin board. Includes several plates each by Kay Nielsen (Hansel and Gretel, Sleeping Beauty c1925) and Herbert Leupin (from 1949). Also Walter Crane (The Frog Prince, 1874), Hanns Anker (Cinderella, 1910),  and Wanda Zeigner-Ebel (Snow White, 1920). Mature Readers....More.

Item Code: GFTPB
$19.99
Publisher Taschen
Publish Date 2016
Adult Rating Mature Readers
Dimensions 11x14
Quantity 16 posters
Grimm’s Fairy Tales are very popular these days. We handle everything from the classic Arthur Rackham illustrated collection to Gris Grimley’s and Camille Rose Garcia’s modern takes on the stories, and the Zenescope mature readers’ graphic novels.
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Now on Sale

 


ORIGINAL GHOST RIDER Volume 1 -- Closeout Price! Highly Recommended. By Gardner Fox and Ray Krank. Art by Dick Ayers and Frank Frazetta. This volume collects the original, first Ghost Rider #1-5 (1950-51) and also his stories from Tim Holt #12-14 (1949-50)--all considered a high point of Dick Ayers' career and some of his wildest, best work. PLUS: Those amazing Frank Frazetta covers, all four of them, among HIS best early work. Fully restored and in full color, Smyth-sewn hardcover with a new introduction by Tony Isabella. Beautifully printed.....More.

Item Code: OGR01H
$49.99 $24.99

Publisher Canton Street
Publish Date 2015
Binding Hard Cover -
No Dustjacket
Dimensions 7x10
# Pages 192pg
Color Full Color
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CANTEEN KATE -- Closeout Price! Highly Recommended. By Matt Baker. Introduction by Bob Burden. Baker honed his skills through the 1940s for several comics publishers, but his tremendous talents came to fruition at St. John Publications, where his realistic style was showcased in western, mystery, and especially romance comics. One quality emerged in whatever Baker drew: his naturalistically gorgeous women. As Burden's intro points out, Baker was the quintessential "Good-Girl" artist others all emulated. St. John's only recurring character was Canteen Kate and Baker drew every adventure of the sexy wartime cutie.....More.

Item Code: CAKAH
$28.99 $12.99
Publisher Canton Street
Publish Date 2013
Binding Hard Cover -
No Dustjacket
Dimensions 8x10
# Pages 160pg
Color Full Color
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Pulp Reprints

 


THE SPIDER MASTER OF MEN #9 -- The Mad Horde and Slaves of the Laughing Death. Recommended. By Norvell Page. Cover art by Raphael de Soto. The pulp era's most bloodthirsty avenger continues his deadly war against crime in two violent pulp novels from early on, 1934, and 1940. In "The Mad Horde," rabid creatures are unleashed upon mill towns to undermine America's vital steel industry. In "Slaves of the Laughing Death," the fiend of 1000 faces known only as Munro returns for a deadly rematch with the Spider, armed with a deadly weapon that causes victims to laugh until they die! "The Web" essay by Will Murray adds detail about each story.....More.

Item Code: SID09
$14.95
Publisher Sanctum
Publish Date 2016
Binding Soft Cover
Dimensions 7x10
# Pages 128pg
Color Text/b&w
 

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PULP COVER GALLERY Volume 5 The Spider, G8, Operator #5 -- Limited & numbered, 300! Recommended. The Spider (118 covers), G8, (110 covers) and Operator #5 (48 covers), 1933-43. The complete collection of every cover from three classic "hero" pulps: The Spider, G8 and his Battle Aces and Operator #5. Full color throughout, bonded leather binding with one of three variant images of classic covers inset. A mix of full page scans, original pulp size, as well as many stilll-large but 4 per page. Brief introduction by Neil Mechem about the cover art and artists, as well as a title checklist with issue number, date, and cover artist where known. Note: This is not a comprehensive book about the pulps, but rather, a visual reference to the complete run of both titles' covers.
Item Code: PCG05H
$150.00
Publisher Girasol
Publish Date 2016
Binding Hard Cover - No Dustjacket
Dimensions 9x11
# Pages 134pg
Color Full Color
The Spider #1-8 are also available at the same price, $14.95 each [SID01, etc]. We also have a new Action Figure and a contemporary Spider collection. See our website for more of The Spider.
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Coming in August

 

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN Ultimate Newspaper Comics Collection 1981-82 Volume 3 -- More than 700 strips. By Stan Lee. Art by Fred Kida and Larry Leiber. New artists offer a new look, but the wall-crawling adventure is as fun as ever! Doctor Octopus and Aunt May a couple? Not if Peter Parker can help it! Mary Jane’s stage debut may be spoiled by―The Assassin! As the campaign for president heats up, millionaire Thurston Thruwell shows us where creatures roam, while Spidey invades Latveria just in time for Dr. Doom and his captured spaceship to show the world where monsters dwell! And that’s just to start! Due Aug....More.

Item Code: ASU03H
$49.99 $39.99
Publisher IDW
Publish Date 2016
Coming Date Aug
Binding Hard Cover
Dimensions 11x9
# Pages 312pg
Color Partial Color
Volumes 1 and 2 are available now at the same price.
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Mature Readers

This week we’ve just one photography collection, and this is so fine-art that I hesitated to pull it out of the regular listing. But since it does feature nudity, here it is. A very unusual collection of shots of swimmers and the amazing texture and light of water, air bubbles, and the freedom of movement in water. Check out Deanna Templeton: The Swimming Pool.

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One of our long time customers, artist Nicolas Uribe, has a Kickstarter program online that you might enjoy checking out. His modern, classical style didn’t seem like a fit with our customer base, but I wanted to share this with you. It’s some fine work.

~Bud

 

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