Our favorite this week: Japanese artist Posuka Demizu. Neal Adams' Vintage Sketchbook preludes all the new sketchbooks we will bring back for you from Comic-Con. Art Spiegleman presents a fine book on 20th century cartoonist, Art Young. Alfred Kubin and Franz Von Stuck in Dover collections. The Complete Klimt gets bargain-priced from Taschen. Harry Clarke's Fairy Tales is beautifully reprinted from Calla. Also The Lone Ranger Meets The Green Hornet, Star Wars, Lovecraft, and a wonderful new Barks' Uncle Scrooge. And our new Bargain Books section begins this week. |
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NEAL ADAMS VINTAGE SKETCHBOOK Signed Signed! Recommended. Rarely seen layouts, pencils and images from Neal's "vintage" era at DC and Marvel. Also included are drawings from outside of comics, such as his Ben Casey newspaper strips and special advertising 1-page comics that are very cool (Chip Martin, College Reporter; Capitol Tapeman). Included is the original Man-Bat design, Ms Mystic, a superb Tarzan prelim, Superboy, The Avengers... Along with Ra's Al Ghul, Man-Bat is one of the most recognizable characters Neal ever created. Continuity Studios, 2017...More. Item Code: NEAVS Soft Cover, 8x11, 32pg, b&w $30.00 |
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ALSO AVAILABLE NEAL ADAMS 2016 Sketchbook Signed Signed! Recommended. Full page commission pieces: Batman, Harley Quinn, The Shadow, The Vision & The Scarlet Witch, Aquaman, Green Lantern, even Bruce Springsteen and other unusual specialty pieces, some highly detailed. An inside look at the never-seen drawings that Neal does as special requests from fans at shows. If this is like last year's book, it has a very small print run. Neal Adams, 2016...More. Item Code: NEA16D Soft Cover, 8x11, 32pg, b&w $25.00 |
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ALSO AVAILABLE NEAL ADAMS 2015 Sketchbook Signed Almost Gone! Signed! Recommended. This leads off with a wonderful cover of Tarzan battling a mounted knight. Inside are pencils and finished inked drawings of Spawn, Vampirella, Green Arrow, Batman, The Joker, characters from Game of Thrones, The Vision and Scarlet Witch, Deadman, Spectre, Predator vs. Tarzan, The Spirit, Thor vs. Hercules, etc. Most of these are from commissioned drawings. Neal Adams, 2015...More. Item Code: NEA15D Soft Cover, 8x11, 32pg, b&w |
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ALSO AVAILABLE SEVEN KINGDOMS SKETCHBOOK Signed with Drawing Signed & limited, 750! Our Highest Recommendation. By Gary Gianni. Gianni's self-published collection of sketches for the George R.R. Martin bestselling novel, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. Three color prelims and 120 pencil drawings, many preliminary drawings that were never used, others changed and developed into the book's illustrations. Gary has generously done a very small pencil drawing in each of our copies. Full page as well as multiple images of swordfights, characters, encampments, a wedding, a diminutive female archer, royalty, and much more. Hieronymus Press, 2016...More. Item Code: SEVKS Soft Cover, 9x12, 68pg, b&w $20.00 |
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ALSO AVAILABLE MONSTERS & DAMES 2017 Limited & numbered, 1000! Highly Recommended. Cover by Terry and Rachel Dodson. The biggest art book ever for the show, featuring over 88 pieces of stunning Monsters & Dames artwork, all done exclusively as a fund raiser for the Emerald City Comic-con, and available only from ourselves. Limited to 1000 individually numbered copies, a full-color, 9x12 inch hardcover art book featuring contributions from guests and artists including Ben Templesmith, Brett Bean, Geof Darrow & Dave Stewart, Gerhard, Elias Chatzoudis et al. ECCC, 2017...More. Item Code: MNST17H Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 9x12, 88pg, Full Color $35.00 |
It's San Diego Comic-Con time, and we will be coming back with a bunch of cool new sketchbooks that we will start listing as soon as we can, with your July 28th or August 4th email. There will be a new Mandy for sure! These guys below also got the jump on things and we already have their new ones, previously announced: |
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ART OF POSUKA DEMIZU Highly Recommended. We really, really like this. Stunning fantasy/sci-fi artwork, often starring a lovely young manga-style girl. Posuka Demizu is a rising star whose new title, The Promised Neverland, created with co-author Kaiu Shirai, is currently running in the popular manga magazine Weekly Shonen Jump. This first collection of Posuka's work features outstanding art from his career AND new illustrations created especially for this edition. Vibrant characters and brilliant compositions rendered in his characteristically precise style. PIE, 2016...More. Item Code: ARTPD Soft Cover with Dustjacket, 7x9, 192pg, Full Color $29.95 |
Here's a guy we should be seeing in the Spectrum annual. We like this so much, I held copies back from taking them to San Diego so we could satisfy orders from this email. We may have a short wait for more copies from the U.S. distributor, once our initial stock sells out. |
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TO LAUGH THAT WE MAY NOT WEEP The Life & Times of Art Young Highly Recommended. By Art Young, Art Spiegelman and Frank Young. Edited by Glenn Bray. To Laugh That We May Weep is a long-awaited tribute to one of the great lost cartoonists whose work is as relevant in the 21st century as it was in its own time. A sweeping career retrospective, reprinting —often for the first time in 60 or 70 years— over 800 of Young's timeless, charming, and devastating cartoons and illustrations, many reproduced from original artwork, to create a fresh new portrait of this towering figure in the worlds of cartooning and politics. With essays by Art Spiegelman, Justin Green, Art Young biographer Marc Moorash, Anthony Mourek, and Glenn Bray, with a biographical overview of Young's life and work by Frank M. Young. Fantagraphics, 2017...More. Item Code: TOLAUH Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 10x12, 320pg, Partial Color |
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OF MENUS AND MYTHOLOGY Late Nineteenth-Century Print Graphics Recommended. By Franz Von Stuck. This early collection of graphic designs by German artist Franz von Stuck (1863–1928) features images intended for menu cards, wine lists, and other food service applications. Although produced for commercial use, the artist's excellent draftsmanship, clean graphic designs, and imaginative use of mythological subjects signal his later development as a leader of the Symbolist movement. Cherubs abound, but we also have some lovely mermaids, centaurs, and conventional men and women. Dover, 2017...More. Item Code: OFMEN Soft Cover, 8x11, 112pg, b&w $16.95 |
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LIFE AND ART OF ALFRED KUBIN New Introduction by Gregor Sebba. By Alfred Kubin. The pen-and-ink drawings featured in this compilation include grotesques from his "Dance of Death" sequence, which employs a Renaissance theme to reflect the artist's interpretation of modern society and its rapid changes, as well as illustrations from his phantasmagorical novel The Other Side, which portrays a dream kingdom dedicated to the rejection of progress. Blending vision and technical mastery, Kubin's art offers fascinating glimpses into a hallucinatory dream world. Dover, 2017...More. Item Code: LIFAK Soft Cover, 8x11, 82pg, Text/b&w $17.95 |
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BOOK OF MIRACLES (New Edition) Recommended. By Till-Holger Borchert and Joshua P. Waterman. This just surfaced a few years ago, one of the most spectacular new discoveries in Renaissance art. A nearly complete one-of-a-kind illustrated manuscript, circa 1550, first published ast a deluxe $200 edition. Large-format illustrations in gouache and watercolor depict wondrous and eerie celestial phenomena, conflagrations, floods, and catastrophes and occurrences: the creation of the world, the Old Testament, ancient tradition, and medieval chronicles. Also contemporary phenomona amd illustrations of the visionary Book of Revelation, picturing the end of the world! Taschen, 2017...More. Item Code: BOMIRH Hard Cover, 9x13, 292pg, Full Color |
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GUSTAV KLIMT The Complete Paintings (New Edition) Highly Recommended. By Tobias G. Natter. From bargain-publisher Taschen, "The Prince of Decadence" in a whole new light and a ground-breaking monograph. His complete paintings, all known letter correspondence--some 300 letters--and new photographs of the Stoclet Frieze. Oversized 10" x 14"--the most massive book ever on one of the most popular artists of all time. First published in a deluxe $200 edition and now at a bargain price. Klimt's work crossed over from Art Nouveau to Modernism. His sensual images of women are timeless even while highly ornate and surrounded with Symbolist details and backgrounds. Some nudity. Taschen, 2017...More. Item Code: GKCPH Hard Cover, 11x16, 676pg, Full Color |
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ALSO AVAILABLE GUSTAV KLIMT Art Nouveau & The Vienna Secessionists Closeout Price! Highly Recommended. By Michael Kerrigan. New from Flame Tree (Alphons Mucha, Art Nouveau), another bargain-priced, rich and innovative collection. Klimt is renowned as a quintessential artist of the Art Nouveau movement, but he was only one of a number of Viennese artists who created their own style of Art Nouveau--and this showcases their work, too. Flame Tree, 2015...More. Item Code: GUSKH Hard Cover, 12x11, 192pg, Full Color |
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THE LONE RANGER & GREEN HORNET Champions of Justice Collects issues #1-5, 2017. Recommended. By Michael Uslan. Art by Giovanni Timpano. A tale of super-heroics and family that has taken eighty years to be told, uncovering The Lone Ranger's familial link to the emergence of The Green Hornet, where the story kicks off in 1936! What is the blood connection that unites two masked heroes, separated by generations? An aged Lone Ranger and Tonto work with the Green Hornet and Kato on a new case, while flashbacks to the LR's younger days show how this mystery all got started. Handsomely drawn in a kind of Neal Adams style, this looks like a fun read. Dynamite, 2017...More. Item Code: LONRG Soft Cover, 6x10, 148pg, Full Color |
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FLASH GORDON Kings Cross Collects issues #1-5, 2017. By Jeff Parker and Jesse Hamm. Art by Jesse Hamm. Join intrepid reporter Dale Arden, eccentric scientist Dr. Zarkov, Mandrake the Magician, two iterations of The Phantom (one a young woman), Jungle Jim, and the time lost hero Prince Valiant in the wildest of adventures as Ming the Merciless wants to claim Earth as the crown jewel of his empire. His latest scheme? Teleporting a continent from his home world of Mongo into the Pacific Ocean, thereby unleashing its monstrous beasts into our seas and causing catastrophic tidal waves to devastate our naval defenses! It's up to Flash Gordon, the fearless daredevil who has unraveled the tyrant's previous schemes at every turn, to once again rally his friends in defense of the Earth. Dynamite, 2017...More. Item Code: FGKC Soft Cover, 7x10, 128pg, Full Color |
See our website for all things Flash Gordon, including all the Alex Raymond collections. We just this week listed the signed/limited Harvey Kurtzman/Dan Barry/Frank Frazetta Flash Gordon [Kitchen Sink, 1988. RB130. $250] in our Rare Books category. |
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HP LOVECRAFT'S WORLDS Volume 1 The Lurking Fear and Other Tales By Steven Philip Jones. Art by Octavio Cariello. Four stories adapted to comics: "The Lurking Fear" -- Arthur explores a sinkhole where bodies are found, savagely torn apart as if by wild animals. "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" shows that the power of the mind is a mysterious thing when a researcher finds that he and a criminal patient are somehow linked. "The Tomb" -- Jervas Dudley, who is convinced ghosts exist, visits the site where his ancestors perished 200 years ago. "The Alchemist"-- for 600 years the male descendants of the Chabrillane family have all inexplicably perished on their 32nd birthday. Now, the last Count is turning 32. Caliber, 2017...More. Item Code: HPLW01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 24pg, b&w $14.99 |
We have several more graphic novel adaptations of HPL stories on the website, as well as prose collections including this bargain: |
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ALSO AVAILABLE THE COMPLETE FICTION OF HP LOVECRAFT At last--Bargain-Priced! Highly Recommended. HPL's sole novel, four novellas, and fifty-three short stories. Written between 1917 and 1935, Lovecraft's trademark fantastical creatures, supernatural thrills, and science-fiction, that have influenced writers and filmmakers, including Stephen King, Alan Moore, Guillermo del Toro, and Neil Gaiman. Includes The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, "The Call of Cthulhu," "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath," "At the Mountains of Madness," "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," "The Color Out of Space," "The Dunwich Horror," and many more hair-raising tales. Chartwell, 2014...More. Item Code: CFHPH Hard Cover, 7x10, 1102pg, Text Only $14.99 |
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WALT DISNEY'S UNCLE SCROOGE Volume 12 The Lost Crown of Genghis Khan Collects Uncle Scrooge #13-18, 31, 33, Donald Duck #51 et al. 1956-61. Our Highest Recommendation. By Carl Barks. Here are many of Barks' most beloved long adventure stories. Worried an earthquake might swallow his money bin, Scrooge discovers an underground civilization: the Terries and Fermies. Then, Scrooge shanghais Donald and the kids to the Himalayas to help him recover “The Lost Crown of Genghis Kahn.” And when Scrooge is hypnotized to go back in time and learn the location of a pirate's buried treasure, he thinks he's got a clear shot. Sure he does. 21 great stories. Fantagraphics, 2017...More. Item Code: WD12H Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 7x10, 226pg, Full Color |
See the website for more Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck collections, all by Carl Barks. |
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STAR WARS LEGENDS EPIC COLLECTION Volume 2 Collecting: Star Wars #24-38, Annual 1; Star Wars Weeklu (UK) 94-99, 104-115, 1979-80. Recommended. By Mary Jo Duffy, Archie Goodwin, Michael Golden, and Chris Claremont. Art by Carmine Infantino, Mike Vosburg, Golden et al. Marvel's original exploration of the Star Wars galaxy continues! Luke and Leia are trapped in a siege at Yavin! Obi-Wan Kenobi fights alone! Cyborgs clash when Darth Vader takes on bounty hunter Beilert Valance! And Han and Chewie answer the question, "Whatever happened to Jabba?" Lightsabers clash, there's thunder in the stars, and a red queen rises as the Dark Lord of the Sith finally discovers the identity of the young Jedi who destroyed the Death Star! Includes the rarely seen Star Wars Weekly serial in black and white, as first published in the U.K. Prepare for a Skywalker showdown setting the stage for The Empire Strikes Back! Marvel, 2017...More. Item Code: SWLE02 Soft Cover, 7x10, 448pg, Full Color |
Volume 1 is available at the same discounted price. |
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ALSO AVAILABLE STAR WARS Epic Collection Infinities Closeout Price! Play "What if?" with the original trilogy in a series of tales exploring the endless possibilities of Star Wars. How would A New Hope have gone if Luke Skywalker missed the target in his attack on the Death Star? What would have become of the Rebel Alliance if Luke perished in the icy wastelands of Hoth during The Empire Strikes Back? What if Return of the Jedi's rescue of Han Solo had gone badly wrong? Marvel, 2015...More. Item Code: SWLE Soft Cover, 7x10, 504pg, Full Color |
We have just five copies left at this discounted price. |
Illustrated Books, Pulp Reprints |
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FAIRY TALES BY Hans Christian Andersen Superb facsimile of the original and scarce 1916 edition. Highly Recommended. Art by Harry Clarke. This beautifully designed treasury gathers Hans Christian Andersen's most beloved fairy tales in a gilt-stamped, hardcover volume, abundantly illustrated with full-color and black-and-white images by Golden Age master Harry Clarke. Offering such classics as "The Snow Queen," "The Nightingale," and "The Wild Swan," this masterful collection showcases Clarke's peerless artistry as he highlights the mythic and uncanny qualities of Andersen's timeless stories.This was Clarke's first illustrated book. Calla, 2017...More. Item Code: FATAHH Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 7x10, 320pg, Text/Partial Color |
We're bringing back into stock Harry Clarke: An Imaginative Genius [HACL. $39.95] which is part of the handsome series by Hiroshi Unno, produced in Japan. But we won't have more until October and we'll re-announce it then. The latest by Unno is World of Mucha: Journey to Two Fairylands [WORMU. $39.95]. |
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THE SHADOW #119 |
We're still keeping all issues from #1-4, 7-10, and #80 on in stock. We have a few left of other issues, see the website for availability. Also available are Shadow Super-Packs, Annuals, and graphic novels. |
Bargain BooksThis week we start a new regular feature here, with ten new super-discounted books every week. These books are low in stock, and may have already been marked down once. I've marked them down even further just for this listing, to clear them out to make way for new items. First come, first served. Adventures Of Superman Gil Kane [ADSGH. $39.99, your price $10.00]. We are working now on a new Summer Sale which will go out as a special email as soon as we finish. You can see all of our discounted items on the website, under Closeouts at the end of each category (such as Artists and Illustration, Comics Related, etc). |
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BERNIE WRIGHTSON Artifact Edition Cover A Recommended. Bernie Wrightson began his career in the late 1960s, just barely out of his teens, and within a decade rose to prominence as the preeminent horror artist of his generation. This loving tribute to comics' Master of the Macabre will showcase Wrightson's ground breaking work in the DC Comics Mystery books and his legendary artistic turn on Swamp Thing. Additionally, a number of rarely seen and completely (until now) unseen treasures have been assembled here. IDW, 2017. Due Oct. ...More. Item Code: BWAEHA Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 12x17, 144pg, b&w $125.00 |
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BERNIE WRIGHTSON Artifact Edition Cover B Recommended. Bernie Wrightson began his career in the late 1960s, just barely out of his teens, and within a decade rose to prominence as the preeminent horror artist of his generation. This loving tribute to comics' Master of the Macabre will showcase Wrightson's ground breaking work in the DC Comics Mystery books and his legendary artistic turn on Swamp Thing. Additionally, a number of rarely seen and completely (until now) unseen treasures have been assembled here. IDW, 2017. Due Oct. ...More. Item Code: BWAEHB Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 12x17, 144pg, b&w $125.00 |
See our website for all available collections of Bernie's work. |
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SILVER AGE CLASSICS OUT OF THIS WORLD Volume 1 Collects #1-6, 1956-57. Recommended. By Steve Ditko, Vince Alascia et al. Back in the post-EC days of the mid-to-late 1950's and early '60's, Charlton was doing some darned good comics, thanks to ex-EC artists but most especially to Steve Ditko, before he made the move to Marvel. Beginning with issue #3, this was all Steve Ditko, cover to cover, through #6. And now this first volume in PS's Silver Age Classics sets out to reprint the whole run, all 16 issues, the way it should be done. Just take a look at those covers, comic book fans! Classic, gorgeous Ditko! PS Artbooks, 2017. Due Nov. ...More. Item Code: SAOW01H Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 7x10, 216pg, Full Color $49.99 |
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STAR TREK CLASSIC UK COMICS Volume 3 1972-1979 By Jack Sutter. Art by John Stokes, Frank Bellamy, John Canning, and Jim Baikie. Never-before-reprinted comics that originally appeared in weekly British magazines beginning in 1969. These are the U.K. voyages of the starship Enterprise—and, now, at last, fans everywhere can experience them. This third volume reprints all comics from 1972 to 1979 and concludes the series that presents the complete Star Trek UK comics. Bonus material includes various one-shots and annuals, as well as strips created for various merchandise and toys. IDW, 2017. Due Sept. ...More. Item Code: STC03H Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 8x11, 24opg, Full Color |
See the website for the previous collections, both at the same discounted price. And more Star Trek, like the Newspaper Comics, the Gold Key Archives, 50 Artist 50 Years (on sale), Behind the Scenes Card collection (on sale for $5), the Gold Key 100-Page Spectacular [STTRG. $7.99] and Harlan Ellison's classic City on the Edge of Forever. |
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WONDER WOMAN MOVIE WONDER WOMAN PX Statue |
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JUSTICE LEAGUE MOVIE WONDER WOMAN Statue Celebrate Wonder Woman's 75th anniversary with this special-edition Justice League movie statue. Created in the likeness of the incredible actress Gal Gadot, be sure to lasso this statue in time for the November 2017 theatrical release of Justice League! DC, 2017. Due Nov. ...More. Item Code: JLMWW 13" tall, Full Color $150.00 |
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Rare & Out of PrintWe have a few copies of the fun fanzine Witzend, produced by Wally Wood in the 60's. The most complete collection of Robert Williams in Malicious Resplendence, The Magic Pen by Joseph Clement Coll, and our first batch of Glamour International magazines. If there is a particular one you want that is not here, please call, as we have many that have not yet been listed. All | New Arrivals | Artists & Illustration | Fantasy & Sci-Fi | Illustrated Fiction Comic Book Archives | Comic Strip & Cartoon | Comic Artists | Pin-Up | Erotic Art |
Mature ReadersLaure: The Uncensored Erotic Odyssey DVD is written and directed by Emmanuelle Arsan. Her tantalizing memoir, Emmanuelle, shocked the world and its infamous film adaptation changed X-rated cinema forever. Now the real Emmanuelle brings her own lush vision of total sexual abandon to the screen, and co-stars with the “succulent” Annie Belle. Coming in September is a new bargain-priced Sorayama: Complete Masterworks. I think it's a lower priced, and smaller sized version of the $90 Sorayama XL Masterworks that came out in 2014, but it may be at least partially different and have some newer material. We won't know until we review it. Nude Photography | Erotic Art | Erotic Films: DVDs | Adult Graphic Novels | All Pin-Up & Adult |
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Sam Glanzman |
In the last few years he’d done some wonderful new work about those war experiences, and we’ve been pleased to handle each new collection. Here is a good Wikipedia entry about his career. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Glanzman Below are the collections currently available from us: Red Range by Joe Lansale and Sam Glanzman is on the way to us as I write this. The Deluxe signed is $60 and is now on our site. The $17.99 softcover will be online as soon as it arrives. Sam signed the deluxe copies before he passed away. Drew Ford also is working on Voyage to the Deep by Sam. Watch for more information on this, it is still in production. |
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