The Someday Funnies is my very, very favorite item this week. All new work done in the 1970s but never published until this book--from the top comics artists above and underground. And half price. I love it. Also two cool little Ray Bradbury graphic novels, adapting his most famous books. Stan Lee’s autobiographical graphic novel, now on sale. A new entry in the “Soft” series of vintage men’s magazine stories and art, Soft Blondes... And more PS Artbooks at 2/3’s off...slipcased, yet! We still have copies of the Free Comics from last week's Free Comic Book Day offer! Our new catalog just went to the printers but you can browse it now: Download here (only 4 mb). |
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THE SOMEDAY FUNNIES -- Closeout Price! Our Highest Recommendation. Edited by Michel Choquette. Art by Moebius, Barry Windsor-Smith, Jack Kirby, Russ Heath, Vaughn Bode, Jeffrey Jones et al. I'm totally blown away, Imagine a time capsule from 1975, with all the best comics artists doing original strips--packed away until now. Never published.This is it--comic strips created in the early 1970s by world-famous artists and writers such as C. C. Beck, René Goscinny, Harvey Kurtzman, Art Spiegelman, Frank Brunner, Gray Morros, and Gahan Wilson. And written by Archie Goodwin, Steve Englehart and a ton of other creators. All original one and two page--oversized page--strips about the recently past 1960s of drugs, rebellion, music...Mature Readers....More. |
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RAY BRADBURY'S Something Wicked This Way Comes -- Closeout Price! By Ron Wimberly. Cooger and Darks Pandemonium Shadow Show howls into Green Town, Illinois, at three in the morning a week before Halloween. Under its carnival tents is a mirror maze that steals wishes; a carousel that promises eternal life, in exchange for your soul; the Dust Witch, who unerringly foresees your death; and Mr. Dark, the Illustrated Man, who has lived for centuries off the misery of others. Only two boys, Will Halloway and Jim Nightshade, recognize the dark magic at work....More. |
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RAY BRADBURY'S The Martian Chronicles -- Closeout Price! Recommended. By Dennis Calero. Introduction by Ray Bradbury. Fourteen of Bradbury's famous interconnected science-fiction stories! The Earthmen came by the handful, then the hundreds, then the millions. They swept aside the majestic, dying Martian civilization to build their homes, shopping malls, and cities. Mars began as a place of boundless hopes and dreams, a planet to replace an Earth sinking into waste and war. But ultimately, the Earthmen who came to conquer the red-gold planet awoke to discover themselves conquered by Mars....More. |
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AMAZING FANTASTIC INCREDIBLE -- Closeout Price! Recommended. By Stan Lee. Art by Todd McFarlane and Colleen Doran. In this first-ever memoir--illustrated in comic book form by celebrated artist Colleen Doran--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. 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.....More. |
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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. | ||||||||||||||
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APES & BABES -- Recommended. By Frank Cho. From the award-winning creator of Liberty Meadows, Zombie King, and Jungle Girl, this collection showcases Cho's past and present illustrations of the female form and fantastic beasts. Frank remains at the top of the good-girl artists, his sketchbooks and collections among our most popular sellers....More. |
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AL PLASTINO LAST SUPERMAN STANDING -- An Illustrated Biography. Highly Recommended. By Eddy Zeno. Forward by Paul Levitz. With a comics career dating back to 1941, Al Plastino was one of the last surviving penciler/inkers of his era. Laboring uncredited on Superman for two decades (1948-1968), he co-created Supergirl, Brainiac, and the Legion of Super-Heroes, drawing those characters’ first appearances, as well as the first story to feature Kryptonite. His career even included working on classic daily and Sunday newspaper strips like Nancy (emulating Bushmiller's style), Ferd'nand, Joe Palooka, Batman (from 1968-71), and others....More. |
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PLANET COMICS Volume 14 -- Collects #67-73, 1952-53. Highly Recommended. By Joe Doolin, Murphy Anderson, Maurice Whitman et al. The final volume as Planet goes out with new artists, with more EC-like stories, and grittier sci-fi. Plus those fabulous Maurice Whitman covers! Out of this world yarns from the heroes (and heroines!) of the spaceways, then the old regular features give way to independent stories, with even the art showing the influence of Wally Wood and EC's Weird Science and Weird Fantasy! Killer 10-page, profusely illustrated history of sci-fi in comics by Mike Benton and Roy Thomas....More. |
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PRE-CODE CLASSICS AVON'S EERIE Volume 2 -- Collects #8-14, 1952-54. Recommended. By Everett Raymond Kinstler, Joe Kubert, Moe Marcus et al. Seven issues, complete with those cool b&w inside cover contents art by Everett Raymond Kinstler, art by the talents above plus "Master of the Dead," "Help Us to Die," "The White Gorilla," "Satan's Woman Prize," "Only the Dead Live Here" (also by ERK), and lots more. Wood-like art by A.C. Hollingworth, another ERK story, and more. Issue #12 is a special, the entire issue devoted to an adaptation of "Dracula."...More. |
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THE LAST DRAGON -- Recommended. By Jane Yolen. Art by Rebecca Guay. Introduction by Neil Gaiman. Master storyteller Jane Yolen (Owl Moon, Sword of the Rightful King) and celebrated fantasy artist Rebecca Guay (Spectrum, Swamp Thing, Magic: The Gathering) weave a textured and lyrical tale of adventure, homelands, and heroism the hard way. Two hundred years ago, humans drove the dragons from the islands of May. Now, the last of the dragons rises to wreak havoc anew—with only a healer’s daughter and a kite-flying would-be hero standing in its way...More. |
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SENSATION COMICS FEATURING WONDER WOMAN Volume 3 -- Collects #11-17. By Carla Speed Mcneil, Barbara Randall Kesel, Adam Beechen, José Luis García-López et al. Ares, the god of war, fuels civil unrest within Central Africa. The end-bringer Typhon threatens to scorch the earth unless Wonder Woman and Poison Ivy can set aside their mutual animosity. And in front of high-schoolers, Diana must somehow best Superwoman without harming the villain’s unborn child. Cheetah is more lethal to her own family than her arch-nemesis. And a visit to Gotham has the Amazon rescuing the abducted offspring of the mother of monsters, Echidna....More. |
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SENSATION COMICS FEATURING WONDER WOMAN Volume 1 --Collects #1-5, 2014. Highly Recommended. By Gail Simone, Amanda Deibert et al. Art by Ethan Van Sciver, Marcus To, Gilbert Hernandez et al. I like this! Fun stories by a wide variety of artists, in styles from superb classic work (by Marcus To), to a spoof on all the vintage WW artists by Sciver and Marcelo di Chiara, to animated style with Amy Mebberson and retro work by Hernandez (co-starring Mary Marvel and Supergirl!). Wonder Woman stars in her first digital anthology series of all-independent stories! | ||||||||||||
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SENSATION COMICS FEATURING WONDER WOMAN Volume 2 -- Collects #6-10, 2014. By James Tynion. Art by Noelle Stevenson and Ryan Benjamin. Lois Lane! Robot gorillas! Diana and Cheetah battle over a phoenix egg--and its promise of immortality. Then, Diana represents the Justice League on the first space station, harvesting Venusian fuel gases. But her arrival doesn't go smoothly--and then, kaiju attack! Plus a teen-aged Diana visits Man's World. | ||||||||||||
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THE SHADOW #106 -- Room of Doom and The Chest of Chu Chan. Recommended. By Walter Gibson. The Shadow investigates impossible murders in two mysteries dealing with magic. A bizarre "Room of Doom" uncovers the truth behind a "locked room" death. Suicide or murder? And how was the new owner of "The Chest of Chu-Chan" entombed inside his new locked acquisition? Golden Age of Comics Bonus: Iron Munro returns in a 1941 illustrated adventure by comics legend George Tuska!....More. |
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FRAZETTA BERSERKER Print With Canvas Texture -- Highly Recommended. By Frank Frazetta.The retitled cover illustration for the 1960s Conan paperback, Conan the Conqueror. For fans at the time, it was a milestone. Frazetta's previous covers for the Edgar Rice Burroughs Ace paperbacks were amazing, but suddenly with the Conan series his work took on a new dynamic--a new power. One of his most iconic images...in a long career of creating iconic images. Sharp, vivid image with a high degree of color accuracy on premium textured fine art paper with a canvas look and feel.....More.
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FRAZETTA VAMPIRELLA Print With Canvas Texture -- Recommended. By Frank Frazetta. Taken directly from the original 1996 oil painting, this print displays a sharp, vivid image with a high degree of color accuracy on premium heavy textured fine art paper the mimics the effect of archival gloss canvas. Produced by the Frazetta family.....More.
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Our favorite comic book archives publisher has remaindered—put on sale—40 more titles, all covering the Pre-Code Horror period. A few are regular hardcovers, now $19.95 each--but most are slipcased editions published at Quantities on some of these are limited—on several titles, we bought out all that were available, usually 35 copies or less. There are even several Planet Comics volumes—of Vol 7, we have less than 20 copies! Since Planet is a regular seller for us—and the final volume just came out this week (above), once we sell out of these sale-priced copies, we’ll go back to handling them at full price, like we have on some of the other PS Artbooks in the Harvey Horror series. Because there are so many, we’re breaking these up over last week, this week, and the next weeks’ emails. But you can now, or very shortly, see all available titles on our website. And check out all the previous PS collections (sort the results by lowest price first) that are on sale and still available. You’ll get the on-sale softcovers that begin at $9.95, then all the on-sale hardcovers, like The Heap at just $14.95 each, etc. PS only did a handful of titles in softcover—i.e. Phantom Lady and Harvey Horrors titles. None of these new sale books were done in softcover, so they will never be as inexpensive as this again. |
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PLANET COMICS Volume 2 Slipcased -- Closeout Price! Collects #5-8, 1940. Limited, 300! Recommended. By Will Eisner, Lou Fine, Bob Powell, Fletcher Hanks, Charles Quinlan et al. Foreword by Roy Thomas. All the monsters, babes, spaceships and sci-fi elements appeared in these seminal issues, behind cool covers by Will Eisner and Lou Fine. These ultra-rare early issues (#6 is considered "scarce") each get better, as the artists are getting their footing and clearly enjoying themselves. There's even a space superhero here, The Red Comet, and lovely Gale Allen of the Girl's Patrol, bringing equal opportunity to space...More.
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PLANET COMICS Volume 6 Slipcased -- Closeout Price! Collects #21-24, 1942-43. Limited, 300! Highly Recommended. By George Tuska, Raphael Astarita, Graham Ingels, Lee Elias, Nick Cardy et al. Great fun, and issue by issue, better artists, better stories. Also includes artwork by George Tuska (later at Marvel in the 1960s), the outstanding Raphael Astarita, Graham ("Ghastly") Ingels, Lee Elias of Harvey Horror fame, Art Saaf, DC's Nick Cardy, the notorious Al Walker (see Michael Gilbert's bio in Alter Ego magazine), and even the great Rudy Palais, best known for his work in Biro's Crime Does Not Pay....More.
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PLANET COMICS Volume 7 Slipcased -- Closeout Price! Collects #25-29, 1943-44. Limited, 300! Highly Recommended. By Graham Ingels, Lily Renee, Lee Elias, Joe Doolin, Alex Blum, Al Walker et al. EC's notorious Graham Ingels took over "Lost World"--the story of Martians having taken over Earth, with much in parallel with a potential Nazi take-over of the U.S., and their nemesis, the handsome Hunt Bowman and his appealing girlfriend, Lyssa-- with issue #24. Here his artwork and the ever-improving work of his fellow artists gets better every issue. If you read Alter Ego, you'll have seen Mike Gilbert go on about the stylish, amazing artwork of Al Walker--here doing Norge Benson, the one comic-relief story in these otherwise serious (!) adventures.
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PLANET COMICS Volume 8 Slipcased -- Closeout Price! Collects #30-35, 1944-45. Limited, 300! Highly Recommended. By Graham Ingels, Lily Renee, Lee Elias, Joe Doolin, Murphy Anderson et al. When Planet began in 1940, it was ground-breaking but also a bit primitive, as were most comic books then. But it got better and better, taking on important new artists and changing up the strips. The great Murphy Anderson begins his tenure here, and EC's Graham Ingels has also come aboard. Planet Comics remained THE premier sci-fi comic all through the 1940s, translating the traditional pulp-style stories into comic adventures for younger readers as well as soldiers, who delighted in the good-girl art that was the hallmark of this and all the Fiction House titles....More.
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HARVEY HORRORS WITCHES TALES Volume 3 Slipcased -- Closeout Price! Collects #15-21, 1952. Limited, 300! Recommended. By Bob Powell, Rudy Palais, Lee Elias et al. Includes an acid-in-the-face story, "Battle of the Birdmen," "The Shower of Death," "Elixir of Evil," "The Torture Jar," "Art for Death's Sake," "The Fiend from the Nether World," and lots more, 24 stories plus all ad, contents pages, and text stories. Lots of outrageous pre-code horror, great work by Powell and Palais in most every issue...More.
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HARVEY HORRORS BLACK CAT MYSTERY Volume 1 Slipcased -- Closeout Price! Collects #30-35, 1951-52. Highly Recommended. Foreword by Christopher Fowler. On the art side, you have A-1 talent like Bob Powell, Howard Nostrand (who was directed to imitate the EC styles of Jack Davis and Wally Wood!), Warren Kremer, the great Rudy Palais and Lee Elias, who did most of the gruesome covers and many stories. While this begins with #30, this is actually the first six issues of the title. It was previously Black Cat, devoted to the motorcycle-riding heroine who appears here only on the cover of the first issue....More.
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HARVEY HORRORS BLACK CAT MYSTERY Volume 3 Hardcover -- Closeout Price! Collects #42-47, 1953. Recommended. Art by Bob Powell, Howard Nostrand, Warren Kremer, Manny Stallman et al. Includes the classic "Colorama" by Bob Powell, "Lynch Mob" by Howard Nostrand, a "decapitation" cover, and more classic gore. Even some cool sci-fi stories. And LOTS of great work by Powell and Nostrand, from the mature period of their run in this highly collected title. Six great issues, 24 cool stories plus all ads, text stories, contents pages and more...More.
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HARVEY HORRORS CHAMBER OF CHILLS Volume 2 Hardcover -- Closeout Price! Collects #8-13, 1952-53. Highly Recommended. By Bob Powell, Howard Nostrand, Rudy Palais, Manny Stallman, Lee Elias et al. A woman is melted alive...there are decapitation and severed-heads panels, and one of the stories here is cited in Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent. Another five delicious issues of pre-code horror from Harvey! Three more of Bob Powell's best, including the famous "Jelly Death" and "Pit of the Damned". Two by Rudy Palais, including "Formula For Death," one of the most reprinted horror stories EVER....More.
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HARVEY HORRORS CHAMBER OF CHILLS Volume 3 Hardcover -- Closeout Price! Collects #14-19, 1952-53. Recommended. By Bob Powell, Rudy Palais, Al Avison, Howard Nostrand, Lee Elias, Manny Stallman et al. Special feature is a six-page profile of Bob Powell, who in my mind is clearly the finest artist in Harvey's stable during this horror period. And Powell was perfect for horror, as shown here in reproductions of eight pages of original artwork. And stories: "It"," The Spider Man," "The Devil's Necklace," "Nightmare of Doom", "Amnesia," and "Black Passion" are just a few, plus the all-time classic "Terrorvision" by Howard Nostrand.....More.
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HARVEY HORRORS TOMB OF TERROR Volume 2 Slipcased -- Closeout Price! Collects #7-11, 1953. Limited, 300! Recommended. By Lee Elias, Warren Kremer, Rudy Palais, Howard Nostrand, Bob Powell, Jack Sparling et al. Foreword by Jeff Gelb. Prime horror from the peak, with plenty of wonderful stories by the notorious Howard Nostrand, who was actively imitating EC Comics stars Wood and Davis. Stories include Hive!, The Eyeless Ones, Bubble Cauldron Bubble, Big Joke, The Trial (by Manny Stallman), Blood Money, Communist, and 14 more....More.
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HARVEY HORRORS TOMB OF TERROR Volume 2 Hardcover -- Closeout Price! Collects #7-11, 1953. Recommended. By Lee Elias, Warren Kremer, Rudy Palais, Howard Nostrand, Bob Powell, Jack Sparling et al. Foreword by Jeff Gelb. Includes some great original art of his. Jeff Gelb is a long time fan who early in the origins of comics wrote for many iconic fanzines. Special feature on little-known artist John Giunta who was the first collaborator with Frank Frazetta, giving the young Frank his break in 1944!...More.
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HARVEY HORRORS TOMB OF TERROR Volume 3 Slipcased -- Closeout Price! Collects #13-16, 1953-54. Limited, 300! Highly Recommended. By Manny Stallman, Howard Nostrand, Jack Sparling, Bob Powell, Joe Certa, and Sid Check. Special Sci-Fi Issues! Harvey Horrors published 16 issues of the Tomb of Terror in the 1950s. Now for the first time PS Artbooks has collected together every issue in a three volume set, this being the final volume. And this is the very best one, with great stories in every issue by three of Harvey's finest artists: Nostrand, Powell and Check. Best of all, Harvey was adding sci-fi to their mix (not having a separate SF title) so here you'll find a lot of space stories: issues #13-16 are all special sci-fi issues!...More.
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HARVEY HORRORS TOMB OF TERROR Volume 3 Hardcover -- Closeout Price! Collects #12-16, 1953-54. Highly Recommended. Foreword by Pete Von Sholly. By Bob Powell, Howard Nostrand, Lee Elias, Jack Sparling, Sid Check et al. A young Sid Check has two stories here, as he sought to imitate his studio-mate Wally Wood, and there's some Frank Frazetta influence too, who was another buddy of Sid's. Tales worthy of EC, including "Death Sentence." Other sci-fi stories include "The Dead Planet," "Tag...You're It" (Nostrand), "Germ Sequence" and "Out There!" Special introduction from artist Pete Von Sholly and also here is a specially commissioned llustration. Plus a 6-page feature on artist Abe Simon, offering several pages of original artwork....More.
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OUT OF THE NIGHT Volume 1 Slipcased -- Closeout Price! Collects #1-6, 1952-53. Limited, 300! Recommended. By Richard Hughes. Art by Al Williamson, Frank Frazetta, Lou Cameron, Paul Gattuso, Charles Sultan, Harry Lazarus et al. Horror was hot, hot, hot in 1952. Publisher ACG, American Comics Group, started the entire horror trend with Adventures Into the Unknown in 1948. They added Forbidden Worlds in 1950. This was their third horror title. By now the stories were steadily getting more offbeat and complex. And as you can see in the credits line, they were bringing in important new artists. Here are three rare Al Williamson stories, one with Frazetta in collaboration. Plus several stories by Harry Lazarus, who was one of the best ACG artists with an unusual style not terribly unlike "Ghastly" Graham Ingels over at EC....More.
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OUT OF THE NIGHT Volume 3 Slipcased -- Closeout Price! Collects #13-17, 1954. Limited, 300! Recommended. By Richard Hughes. Art by Harry Lazarus, Bob Forgione, Art Gates, George Klein, Bob McCarty et al. Horror and the supernatural from the ACG's short-lived sister title to Forbidden Worlds and Adventures Into the Unknown. Five issues include "The Screaming Skulls," "From the Bottom of the Well," "Allie's End," "Out of the Screen," "Sahara Madness," "Space Scientist," "The Little Furry Things," "The Haunted Piano," etc. 30 stories plus original covers and ads....More.
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Mature ReadersThis week we have the 4th release in the “Soft” series, Soft Blondes in the Claws of Torture Hell. Okay, that’s an extreme title, but this is extreme stuff! The men’s magazines of the 1950s and 60s were channeling the most deviant of the pulp magazines, and offering something that comics could no longer do after the code came in. And boy, did they do it in excess. Bondage, sadism, cult worshippers, Nazis, lost races... Complete stories plus art by slumming top illustrators like historical illustrator Mort Kunstler, pulp and paperback cover artist Rafael DeSoto, and the notable Basil Gogos, who quickly went on to doing Famous Monsters of Filmland covers and work for Creepy and Eerie! The other three books in the series are Soft Brides for the Beast of Blood ($24.95), Soft Flesh and Orgies of Death ($29.95), and Soft Nudes for the Devil's Butcher ($24.95). Nude Photography | Erotic Art | Erotic Films: DVDs | Adult Graphic Novels | All Pin-Up & Adult |
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Some of the Hermes Press sale items from last week are already sold out, in particular Supermarionation. We tried to get more, but it was sold out. We still have the Mike Trimm book about the same British stop-motion TV series. Act now on any of those Hermes Press sale titles from last week’s email. Website Search |
| A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms by George R.R. Martin Now that the new season of Game of Thrones is going, I thought I should remind you of this. It’s a prequel to Game of Thrones, profusely illustrated by Gary Gianni. Gary is a good friend of ours, and he did a specially illustrated bookplate for us and signed just 100 of them, for this edition. We have sold more than 75 copies now, so this will be gone soon. Cover price, including the bookplate. And yes, I’m a big fan of the series. Jon Snow Lives! (Or does he?) Hey, remember Frodo Lives? That’ll date you --Tolkien fans sported that on a button back in the seventies. |
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I’m off for two weeks of vacation, so I won’t have seen Frank Cho’s Apes and Babes since it’s rolling in Wednesday morning, just as I leave town. So I’ll improve the description when I get back, and also the descriptions for next week’s items, which I will be doing on the road without books to refer to. |
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Our next catalog just went to press, so you can download it below. It’s got a wonderful cover from Alex Raymond: An Artistic Journey, from the poster he did for "Captain Blood" starring Errol Flynn and Olivia DeHavilland. It is beautifully detailed, taken from the original artwork. ~Bud
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