The new Illustrators Quarterly looks at Mad Magazine artist Mort Drucker. There's a new Valerian, just ahead of the upcoming film. We also have a new DC Bombshells, The Death of Hawkman, Rocketeer High-Flying Adventures, from the 1970s comes Superboy and the Legion of Superheroes, the first Doom Patrol Archives, Superman Golden Age, and French illustrator George Barbier. Enjoy. |
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ILLUSTRATORS QUARTERLY #18 Highly Recommended. With Mort Drucker, Ernesto Garcia Cabral, Katyuli Lloyd, John Watkiss. Included in this issue: Mort Drucker: one of the most iconic US artists, particularly known for MAD magazine. Ernesto Garcia Cabral: legendary talent and a true revolutionary. Puffin Books: the origins of this most successful publisher of children's books. Katyuli Lloyd: one of the hottest young talents making waves across a variety of media. John Watkiss: we reflect on the sad passing of this truly visionary artist. Book Palace, 2016...More. Item Code: IQ18 Magazine, 9x11, 96pg, Full Color $24.99 |
See our website for all back issues. Sets of #1-3 and #4-6 are on sale. The recently published special issue on Spanish illustrators has been very popular, here are full details: |
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ALSO AVAILABLE ILLUSTRATORS QUARTERLY SPECIAL #1 Spanish Artists Highly Recommended. By Diego Cordoba. With Jordi Bernet, Enric, Luis Garcia, Pepe Gonzales, Esteban Maroto, Sanjulian and Josep Toutain. The inside story of the Spanish Studio/Agency (Toutain Studio) that transformed the Warren empire and brought an unprecedented realism into comics! This glorious book from illustrators is lavishly illustrated not only with Warren art, but with other comics projects, foreign publications, special projects, even specialty paintings never before seen. Finally we learn about these amazing talents that took comics by storm in the seventies and challenged U.S. artists with their abundant talent and creativity. Some nudity. Book Palace, 2016. Mature Readers...More. Item Code: IQS01 Magazine, 8x11, 144pg, Partial Color $34.99 |
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PRIMAL The Art of Michael Rechlin Signed Signed with signed postcard! Michael works in Character design/Miniature conceptualization, Illustration, and Merch design specializing in Fantasy & Macabre art. He has worked with Dark Sword Miniatures doing well over 100 miniature concepts for their "Critter Kingdoms" line, was the concept artist for the Scottsdale Mint's Vikings: Gods. Kings. Warriors coin series, worked on "Kings of War" for Mantic Games along with many other projects. Michael Rechlin, 2017...More. Item Code: PRIMS Soft Cover, 6x9, 32pg, Partial Color $20.00 |
Rechlin's previous book is Warfare: Character Designs and Illustrations, published in 2015. We have just three left, each with a large hand-drawn original drawing. [WARFS. $20]. |
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VALERIAN AND LAURELINE Hostages of Ultralum Original edition 1996. By Pierre Christin. Art by J.C. Mézières. Two agents of 24th century Earth patrol space and time to safeguard both the planet's future and its past. The 16th volume of Valerian and Laureline, one of the most influential science-fiction comic series of the past 40 years! Cinebook, 2017...More. Item Code: HOSUL Soft Cover, 8x11, 64pg, Full Color $15.95 |
See our website for more Valerian collections and watch for the upcoming film, coming in July. Directed by Luc Beeson (Fifth Element, Lucy, The Transporter), I think it should be another winner and look forward to seeing it. |
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DC COMICS BOMBSHELLS Volume 4 Queens Collects #19-24, 2017. By Marguerite Bennett. Art by Laura Braga, Mirka Andolfo, and Marguerite Sauvage. The explosive creative team of writer Marguerite Bennett (Batwoman) and artists including Laura Braga (Witchblade), Mirka Andolfo (Ms. Marvel) and Marguerite Sauvage (Faith) bring an all-new chapter in the acclaimed alternate-history saga inspired by the hit DC Collectibles in DC Comics: Bombshells Vol. 4: Queens. DC, 2017...More. Item Code: DCB04 Soft Cover, 7x10, 200pg, Full Color |
All back volumes available, same discounted price. #1 and 2 are We still have these DC Bombshells statues, at publication price of $125 except where noted: Stargirl (on sale at $75), Batwoman (on sale at $99.95), Harley Quinn (on sale at $69), Cheetah, Halloween Batgirl and Raven. |
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ALSO AVAILABLE ART OF DC COMICS BOMBSHELLS Highly Recommended. By Ant Lucia. Reimagined as World War II-era pinup girls, Wonder Woman, Harley Quinn, Supergirl, Poison Ivy and their mates are among the most extraordinary and fun characters in comics today. These gorgeous statues alone have become modern-day classics, inspiring a new comics series and posters, playing cards and special projects. Go behind the scenes on the creation of all this, with lots of previously unpublished drawings, sketches and more. Includes commentary by the creative team. Very well done. DC, 2016...More. Item Code: ARDCBH Hard Cover, 9x12, 200pg, Full Color |
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DAMSELS IN EXCESS Volume 1 By Vince Hernandez. Art by Mirka Andolfo. In the land of the Five Realms, the existence of men has long since been evaporated from the hearts and minds of women. Princess Bethany--ruler of Evanfar, the largest and most prominent kingdom, finds herself at the center of a vast conspiracy that could not only threaten her kingdom-but also her life! Journey to a place where magic is abundant, unicorns and ferrets can command armies, and five women struggle to find balance-and power--in an ever-changing fairy tale world! Aspen MLT, 2017...More. Item Code: DAMS01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 144pg, Full Color $14.99 |
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DEATH OF HAWKMAN By Marc Andreyko. Collected for the first time, the acclaimed miniseries from writer Marc Andreyko (Batwoman, Wonder Woman ‘77) and artist Aaron Lopresti (Wonder Woman), Death of Hawkman—the last great adventure of one of comics' most legendary heroes! DC Comics, 2017...More. Item Code: DEAHA Soft Cover, 7x10, 192pg, Full Color |
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LOST PLANET By Bo Hampton. Somewhere in the dark jungles of the Andes mountains lies a Dimensional Bridge which leads to a violent, medieval world ruled by Magic of the Blackest sort! Fortune hunter Tyler Flynn enlists fellow ex-pats Ambrose Bierce and Amelia Earhart in a desperate attempt to break free from the diabolical orbit of... the Lost Planet. IDW, 2017...More. Item Code: LOSPH Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 7x10, 180pg, b&w |
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SUPERBOY AND THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES Volume 1 By Paul Levitz. Art by Mike Grell. These classic 1970s stories are collected in hardcover for the first time! In stories from Superboy and The Legion of Super-Heroes #234-240 and All-New Collectors' Edition #C-55, the Legion give Superboy a treatment that blocks his memory, try to stop the Worldsmith from terraforming the surface of Braal and witness the wedding of Saturn Girl and Lightning Lad! DC, 2017...More. Item Code: SUPE01H Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 6x8, 312pg, Full Color |
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ROCKETEER HIGH-FLYING ADVENTURES By John Cassaday, John Byrne, Dave Gibbons et al. Art by Alex Ross, John Byrne, Darwyn Cooke et al. The Rocketeer Adventures continued where Dave Stevens' original masterpiece left off, creating for the first time new stories involving the ace stunt pilot Cliff Secord. This oversized deluxe edition collects all 24 stories by some of the most talented creators in comics. IDW, 2017...More. Item Code: ROCHFH Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 7x11, 268pg, Full Color |
See more Rocketeer and work by Dave Stevens on our website. This new low-priced Artisan Edition has been well-received: |
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ALSO AVAILABLE DAVE STEVENS' ROCKETEER Artisan Edition Our Highest Recommendation. Direct Market Exclusive Edition! Each page of art, showing blue pencils and finished b&w inking, has been scanned from Dave Stevens' gorgeous original art. Collecting the entire Rocketeer saga,119 pages and 7 covers, from 1981-94, featuring his iconic, pulp-inspired hero. Down-on-his luck aviator Cliff Secord finds an experimental jetpack, then is pursued by Nazi agents intent on capturing the pack, all while balancing his relationship with his stunning girlfriend Betty (inspired by the real Bettie Page). IDW, 2017...More. Item Code: DSRAE Soft Cover, 8x12, 140pg, b&w |
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DOOM PATROL Silver Age Omnibus Recommended. By Arnold Drake, Bob Haney and Bruno Premiani. Gathering all of the original, offbeat adventures from the 1960s in one massive omnibus collection! This was DC's version of the X-Men--a rag-tag group as heroes. This fast-paced volume introduces The Doom Patrol, led by their wheelchair-bound chief, Niles Calder, three outcasts of society—Negative Man, Elasti-Girl and Robotman—take the qualities that make them freaks and become heroes. The trio would take on bizarre menaces including General Immortus, the Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man and the Brotherhood of Evil! DC, 2017...More. Item Code: DOOMPH Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 7x10, 1080pg, Full Color |
We also have Volume 1 and 2 of the newer series from 1989-90, both with killer cover art by Brian Bolland. Both are being discontinued and we have just 3 and 4 copies [DOP01, DOP02. |
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SUPERMAN THE GOLDEN AGE Volume 3 Collects Action Comics #32-40, Superman #8-11, World's Best Comics #1 and World's Finest Comics #2. By Jerry Siegel. Art by Joe Shuster. In the early 1940s, Superman was a much-needed hero for a nation on the brink of war. The Man of Steel (and the comic book medium) were in their Golden Age, and with each new story, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were continuing to expand and enrich the world of their still-relatively-new creation. In these early adventures, Superman must protect the citizens of Metropolis from a variety of threats ranging from insurance scams and gangsters to spies and saboteurs. Plus, Lex Luthor returns to cement his place as Superman's arch nemesis, with more schemes and gadgets than any other villain facing the Man of Steel! DC, 2017...More. Item Code: SUGA03 Soft Cover, 7x10, 400pg, Full Color |
Volumes 1 and 2 remain available [SUG01, SUG02. |
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ROMANCE OF TRISTAN AND ISEULT Recommended. Dating from the 12th century, this tale of a star-crossed romance between a Cornish knight and an Irish princess is rooted in Celtic legend and French poetry. Tristan's heroic exploits win Iseult as a bride for his uncle, King Mark. But during their sea voyage to Mark's kingdom, Tristan and Iseult unknowingly drink a love potion that arouses their passion for each other and raises irresistible challenges to their loyalty and honor. This stunning edition, featuring a subtle color treatment by noted German illustrator Robert Engels, with illustrations on nearly every page, brings the tale to life with effects similar to those of modern graphic novels.Calla, 2017...More. Item Code: ROMTH Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 9x11, 137pg, Full Color |
See all of our recommended Calla books on the website. |
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GEORGE BARBIER Master of Art Deco Highly Recommended. Text by Hiroshi Unno. George Barbier is today the most famous artist to come out of the heady Art Deco world in France in the 1910-1930 period. His illustrated books are enormously popular. His fashion illustration was spot on. His erotically themed pictures of semi-clad and nude women are some of the finest of the period. But to this day, very little has been written about this. This fine new book is based on an exhibit that originated in Japan, collecting a once-in-a-lifetime abundance of his original artwork. PIE, 2011...More. Item Code: GEOB Soft Cover, 7x10, 296pg, Full Color $35.00 |
Back in stock! In the same series from PIE, all highly recommended: just published, World of Alphonse Mucha, plus Harry Clarke, Beautiful Book Designs from the Middle Ages, A Thousand and One Nights: The Art of Folklore, Avante-Garde Graphics in Russia. All of these are simply gorgeous, well produced books from designer Hiroshi Unno, and published in Japan. |
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MOMENTARY THE ART OF ILYA KUVSHINOV By Ilya Kuvshinov. Ilya Kuvshinov is a Russian illustrator and comic artist based in Japan. In this first book collection of his work, readers can see a fascinating combination of adorable girls with large, manga-influenced eyes, and soulful Japanese landscape illustrations. Momentary features never-before-published finished work and sketches, as well as written commentary (in both Japanese and English) from the artist himself. Comic Art Pie, 2016...More. Item Code: MOMIK Soft Cover, 7x8, 192pg, Full Color $29.95 |
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ILLUSIONS The Art of Magic Posters from the Golden Age of Magic Recommended. By Jacques Ayroles, David Ben, Ersy Contogouris et al. 250 breathtaking posters, most from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, recapture magnificent, large-format chromolithographs that immortalize the magicians and the acts that marked the world of modern magic. Seven author-experts introduce this fabulous array of color and imagery. Poster designers and printers were inspired by all variety of phantasmagoric imagery: devils and demons, skeletons and skulls, cards and rabbits, alluring assistants and symbols of exoticism. 5 Continents, 2017...More. Item Code: ILLMH Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 10x12, 248pg, Full Color $45.00 |
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TOYBOX TIME MACHINE A Catalog of The Coolest Toys Never Made By Marty Baumann. Foreword by Jim Steranko. Recapture an innocent era of boundless commercial creativity in a beautifully illustrated tome featuring some of the greatest toys NEVER made (but wouldn't your world have been a better place if they had been?). A tribute to the unbridled imaginations, madcap design, and illustrative skills of the toy creators who drew inspiration from the robots, movie monsters, comic books, and military men that kids adored, as well as the limitless possibilities of the space age. Showcased in catalogs, comics, trading cards, drug store and department store displays, somehow these geniuses knew what we wanted before we did. Marty Baumann has drawn inspiration from these incredible creators and extrapolated on those outlandish and appealing ideas, developing and illustrating an amazing array of fictional toys that reflect that optimistic era. IDW, 2017...More. Item Code: TOYBH Hard Cover with CD - No Dustjacket, 7x11, 160pg, Full Color |
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KILL HER IF YOU CAN Almost Gone! By Hank Janson. Cover art by Reginald Heade. In the 1940s and 1950s, the Hank Janson novels, with their sleazy covers and no-holds-barred tales, were a guilty pleasure for millions of readers, but incurred the wrath of the establishment! Telos Publishing is delighted to bring selected examples back into print to be enjoyed by long-time fans and new readers alike. Telos Publishing, 2005. Out of Print....More. Item Code: KILHE Soft Cover, 6x8, 162pg, Text Only $18.00 |
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FRAILS CAN BE SO TOUGH Almost Gone! By Hank Janson. Cover art by Reginald Heade. In the 1940s and 1950s, the Hank Janson novels, with their sleazy covers and no-holds-barred tales, were a guilty pleasure for millions of readers, but incurred the wrath of the establishment! Telos Publishing is delighted to bring selected examples back into print to be enjoyed by long-time fans and new readers alike. Telos Publishing, 2004. Out of Print....More. Item Code: FRACA Soft Cover, 6x8, 176pg, Text Only $18.00 |
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KILLER Almost Gone! By Hank Janson. Cover art by Reginald Heade. In the 1940s and 1950s, the Hank Janson novels, with their sleazy covers and no-holds-barred tales, were a guilty pleasure for millions of readers, but incurred the wrath of the establishment! Telos Publishing is delighted to bring selected examples back into print to be enjoyed by long-time fans and new readers alike. Telos Publishing, 2004. Out of Print....More. Item Code: KILLE Soft Cover, 6x8, 150pg, Text Only $18.00 |
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ACCUSED Almost Gone! By Hank Janson. Cover art by Reginald Heade. In the 1940s and 1950s, the Hank Janson novels, with their sleazy covers and no-holds-barred tales, were a guilty pleasure for millions of readers, but incurred the wrath of the establishment! Telos Publishing is delighted to bring selected examples back into print to be enjoyed by long-time fans and new readers alike. Telos Publishing, 2004. Out of Print....More. Item Code: ACCUS Soft Cover, 6x8, 152pg, Text Only $18.00 |
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SKIRTS BRING ME SORROW Almost Gone! By Hank Janson. Cover art by Reginald Heade. In the 1940s and 1950s, the Hank Janson novels, with their sleazy covers and no-holds-barred tales, were a guilty pleasure for millions of readers, but incurred the wrath of the establishment! Telos Publishing is delighted to bring selected examples back into print to be enjoyed by long-time fans and new readers alike. Telos Publishing, 2003. Out of Print....More. Item Code: SKIBR Soft Cover, 6x8, 152pg, Text Only $18.00 |
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SOME LOOK BETTER DEAD Almost Gone! By Hank Janson. Cover art by Reginald Heade. In the 1940s and 1950s, the Hank Janson novels, with their sleazy covers and no-holds-barred tales, were a guilty pleasure for millions of readers, but incurred the wrath of the establishment! Telos Publishing is delighted to bring selected examples back into print to be enjoyed by long-time fans and new readers alike. Telos Publishing, 2003. Out of Print....More. Item Code: SOMLO Soft Cover, 6x8, 112pg, Text Only $18.00 |
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WOMEN HATE TILL DEATH Almost Gone! By Hank Janson. Cover art by Reginald Heade. In the 1940s and 1950s, the Hank Janson novels, with their sleazy covers and no-holds-barred tales, were a guilty pleasure for millions of readers, but incurred the wrath of the establishment! Telos Publishing is delighted to bring selected examples back into print to be enjoyed by long-time fans and new readers alike. Telos Publishing, 2003. Out of Print....More. Item Code: WOMHA Soft Cover, 6x8, 144pg, Text Only $18.00 |
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WHEN DAMES GET TOUGH Almost Gone! By Hank Janson. Cover art by Reginald Heade. In the 1940s and 1950s, the Hank Janson novels, with their sleazy covers and no-holds-barred tales, were a guilty pleasure for millions of readers, but incurred the wrath of the establishment! Telos Publishing is delighted to bring selected examples back into print to be enjoyed by long-time fans and new readers alike. Telos Publishing, 2004. Out of Print....More. Item Code: WHEDA Soft Cover, 6x8, 224pg, Text Only $18.00 |
We listed three more titles last week: Broads Don't Scare Easy, Torment, and Blonde on the Spot - these are in print at $14.95 each. All the titles listed above are being closed out by the publisher in England. We were only able to get a few of each, all under ten copies. So this may be the first and last time we offer these titles. See the Art of Reginald Heade on our website [ARRHH. $49.99]. Also from the same publisher and just published: |
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ALSO AVAILABLE TITILLATION The Vintage Pulp Magazine Pin-Up Art of Peter Driben Recommended. Peter Driben was one of the most prolific cover artists to work on the risqué "girlie pulp" magazines that flourished in the USA between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s. This meticulously-researched, lavishly-illustrated book is a glorious celebration of his work, and an absolutely essential addition to the bookshelves of anyone with a taste for classic pin-up and magazine cover artwork. Import from England. Silk Stockings, Wink, Movie Humor, High Heel, Bedtime Stories, Pep, Snappy, La Paree, Spicy, Eyeful, Flirt, Whisper...he worked for them all. Telos, 2017...More. Item Code: TITIL Soft Cover, 9x11, 190pg, Full Color $39.95 |
Below is a book ABOUT the Hank Janson novels, also sporting a cool Reginald Heade cover. This is in print so our supply is not limited: |
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TRIALS OF HANK JANSON By Steve Holland. Respected researcher and pulp fiction historian Steve Holland gives, for the first time, a comprehensive account of the early 1950s Home Office crackdown on so called ‘obscene' paperbacks – of which the Hank Janson novels were the prime examples. He also presents a full biography of Hank Janson – in reality, a man named Stephen D Frances. Telos Publishing, 2004...More. Item Code: TRIHA Soft Cover, 6x8, 344pg, Partial Color $14.95 |
Mature ReadersNo new items this week. Click on the links below to view more mature items on our website. Nude Photography | Erotic Art | Erotic Films: DVDs | Adult Graphic Novels | All Pin-Up & Adult |
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The Rose City Book Fair in Portland went very well for us. It was the first time we've exhibited there. I got reacquainted with a number of old friends from both the book and the comics world, including Steve Duin. Steve co-wrote Comics Between the Panels with Dark Horse president Mike Richardson a number of years ago and I was one of many fans and pros he interviewed for it. We even worked out a trade for several Golden Age comics. I'm posting some pictures on our Facebook page, and will have a further report when I get back home next week. Next up is a visit with Mr. Monster's Michael Gilbert, who lives in Eugene, Oregon. ~Bud |
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