Big week for Edgar Rice Burroughs: The 100-Year Chronology, a new graphic novel with dozens of ERB heroes together, and the next G&D/ERB Inc. facsimile edition, Savage Pellucidar. Plus: The Art of Haddon Sundblom, Green Lantern/Green Arrow: Hard Driving Heroes, Movie Poster Art, Mean Girls, Jim Lee and more. |
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EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS 100 YEAR ART CHRONOLOGY Slipcase Set Standard Edition. Our Highest Recommendation. Four volumes present an illustrative history of all Burroughs' publications in the United States (and some from the U.K.). Written and compiled by Michael Tierney, the narrative gives the history of Burroughs' work and the often legendary artists who visualized it, featuring untold stories, art that hasn't been seen since its release, and pieces that were buried in the vaults from the beginning of his publishing history to the present day. Pulps, books, paintings, prints, comics...it's all here. Chenault & Gray, 2018...More. Item Code: ERB100D Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 9x12, 1224pg, Partial Color $250.00 |
Not yet in but expected very shortly is the leather edition of this set. As mentioned in detail last week, the publisher has raised the price on the leather edition to $400 and says he is probably sold out. However, we still have copies, and will honor the pre-pub $299 price while supply lasts, or until July 1, when the price will become $400 on any remaining copies. The regular edition should remain available for a little while; he has 300+ left at last estimate. |
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ROCKABILLY PSYCHOBILLY AN ART ANTHOLOGY Recommended. By Jamie Kendall. A visual road trip from Route 66 to Route 666, this rockin' collection of more than 600 artworks presents the unapologetically fun and undeniably cool spirit of rockabilly and psychobilly. The 55 artists featured here represent a global subculture and are some of today's best lowbrow and cartoon artists, the de facto styles of the genre. Whether you're burning for nostalgia or learning more about the phenomenon, this massive collection covers the twisted art of modern rockabilly culture. Schiffer, 2018...More. Item Code: ROCPH Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 9x11, 208pg, Full Color |
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ALSO AVAILABLE GREG "CRAOLA" SIMKINS Recommended. This new monograph traces the development of the artist, from a kid playing with crayons to the present day. From his early addiction to comic books and cartoons, to his obsession with animals and discovery of fine art through the works of Dali, John James Audubon, Caravaggio and more. In some cases, preliminary sketches can be found alongside finished works providing a glimpse into the artistic process and evolution of a piece. Other creations stand alone, masterpieces of artwork as narrative. Zero, 2017...More. Item Code: GREGH Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 11x11, 156pg, Full Color |
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ALSO AVAILABLE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE THE ART OF COOP This full-color art book collects Coop's first decade of work: rock album cover art and posters, paintings, prints and an amazing diversity of cool Coop stuff. Chances are good you've seen one of his devils, devil-girls, hotrods or monsters on posters, T-shirts, stickers, skate boards, Zippo lighters, computer fonts, and in about a million other places. Coming from the school of Ed "Big Daddy" Roth and Robert Williams, Coop portrays seductive, voluptuous women, often nude or topless, plus devils and their consorts, hotrods, monsters and robots. Includes a fair number of images with explicit sexual themes. Aperient Press, 2006. Out of Print. Adult Material...More. Item Code: DEVADH Hard Cover, 10x10, 208pg, Full Color $39.95 |
This Coop book has gone out of print, we have only three copies left. See more Lowbrow work on our website, from an out of print signed Malicious Resplendence by Robert Williams signed & limited to 500 [RB323. $200] to Eric Joyner's Robotic Existentialism. |
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SEPARATE CINEMA The First 100 Years of Black Poster Art Closeout Price! Back in stock. Highly Recommended. By John Duke Kisch. This magnificent volume is a celebration of the first 100 years of black film poster art. A visual feast, these images recount the diverse and historic journey of the black film industry from the earliest days of Hollywood to present day. Accompanied by insightful accompanying text, a foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and an afterword by acclaimed film director Spike Lee. Reel Art, 2014...More. Item Code: SEPCINH Hard Cover, 10x12, 320pg, Full Color |
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ALSO AVAILABLE ART OF HAMMER Posters From the Archive of Hammer Films Revised and updated edition. Recommended. By Marcus Hearn. Hammer Films were almost as well known for the way in which they sold their films as for the films themselves. The Art of Hammer is the first ever collection of the company's iconic movie posters, and is a celebration of movie art at its best. This large format, lavish hardback is now fully updated and brings together hundreds of rare posters from around the world, featuring Hammer's greatest films, from famous ones to sleazy soft-core with lots of nudity. They covered the full spectrum of horror. Titan, 2016. Mature Readers...More. Item Code: ARHAMH Hard Cover, 10x13, 200pg, Full Color |
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ALSO AVAILABLE VOLUPTUOUS TERRORS 120 Horror & Sci-Fi Film Posters from Italy Recommended. Edited by G.H. Janus. 120 film posters by a wide range of acclaimed Italian artists, created for both indigenous and foreign-language (some U.S.) film productions. Classic science fiction and pulp horror in full-color, full-page reproductions showcasing exploitation horror films unique to Italy. From the post-war period through to the 1980s, compositions almost invariably included curvaceous female figures in jeopardy, juxtaposed with the iconography of fantasy and terror. Minor nudity, major violence. Deicide Press, 2017. Mature Readers...More. Item Code: VOLTE Soft Cover, 8x11, 128pg, Full Color |
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ALSO AVAILABLE POSTERSPY Alternative Movie Poster Collection Highly Recommended. By Frédéric Claquin and Jack Woodhams. Long before the advent of social networks, the first, and sometimes only, visual contact you may have had with a movie was its poster. To return to this enlightened approach and escape the hard selling marketing campaigns of today's releases, this book pays tribute to the artists who celebrate the era when cinematographic posters made us dream. Contemporary work of 58 different artists from the PosterSpy art community, one of the most influential groups devoted to alternative posters. Nearly 300 posters cover a diverse range of genres and eras, from pop culture favorites like Star Wars and Goonies to the Wes Anderson filmography to horror and sci-fi classics. Schiffer, 2018...More. Item Code: POSTEH Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 9x11, 240pg, Full Color |
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ALSO AVAILABLE FILM POSTERS OF THE RUSSIAN AVANTE-GARDE Warehouse find, 1995. Recommended. Russian film posters of the 1920s and 1930s bear witness to the artistic creativity of the former Soviet Union in the years before Soviet Realism became the official art doctrine under Stalin. This book represents a survey of these works, displaying a unique avante-garde style that proved influential on the rest of fthe world. Strangely surreal and odd juxtopositions of people, architecture, even abstract designs with influences of Art Deco and sometimes Dali-style strangeness. Taschen, 1995...More. Item Code: FPRA Hard Cover, 10x13, 320pg, Full Color $24.95 |
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ALSO AVAILABLE ART OF THE B-MOVIE POSTER Edited by Adam Newell. Introduction by Pete Tombs. Over 1,000 of the best examples of exploitation, grindhouse, and pulp film poster design, in English and foreign languages. Low-budget films from the 1940s, 50s, 60s, and 70s. The book celebrates this tradition with sections divided into “moral panic” films, action, horror, sci-fi, and of course, sex, each introduced with short essays by genre experts such as Kim Newman, Eric Schaefer, Simon Sheridan, Vern, and author Stephen Jones, winner of the Horror Writer's Association 2015 Bram Stoker Award for Non-Fiction. Ginko Press, 2016...More. Item Code: ARBMH Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 10x11, 320pg, Full Color $39.95 |
We also have Graphic Thrills—two volumes of x-rated movie posters. And more poster art in general, such as Beautiful Macabre, World War I and WWII, Big O Poster Artists, Masters of the Poster, and Just Teasing: The Dave Stevens Poster Book—on our website. |
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GREEN LANTERN GREEN ARROW Hard Traveling Heroes Collects Green Lantern/Green Arrow #76-87, 89; Flash #217-219, 226, 1970-74. Highly Recommended. By Denny O'Neil. Art by Neal Adams. Green Lantern/Hal Jordan and Oliver Queen/Green Arrow teamed up in the early 1970s to travel across America and into the stars, too. With the help of The Black Canary, John Stewart and others, they discover the reality of menaces of a different kind: racism, poverty, drugs and other social ills! This is the seminal "relevancy" comic that upset the comics code (Speedy becomes a junkie) and led the way for comics to become more relevant to the world we live in. Gorgeous artwork by Neal Adams, probably the highpoint of his long and amazing career. Incredible work! DC, 2018...More. Item Code: GLGAH Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 7x10, 368pg, Full Color |
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ALSO AVAILABLE GREEN LANTERN The Silver Age Omnibus Volume 2 Collects #36-75, 1965-70. Our Highest Recommendation. By John Broome. Art by Gil Kane, with Sid Greene and Murphy Anderson. An amazing five more years of the original Green Lantern/Hal Jordan stories. The three big DC Silver Age hits--and fan favorite series--in the early sixties were The Flash, Adam Strange in Mystery in Space...and GL. These are the tales that established Hal Jordan as the greatest member of the Green Lantern Corps and offered fans brilliant storytelling. This was the thinking fan's series. Cross-overs with the Golden Age Green Lantern, plus first appearances of Sinestro, Evil Star, Black Hand, Dr. Polaris, Star Sapphire and more. DC, 2017...More. Item Code: GRL02H Hard Cover, 7x11, 1000pg, Full Color |
Find more Green Lantern on our website, including The Silver Age Omnibus Volume 1. |
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EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS' Heroes and Heroines Unite Greatest Adventure By Bill Willingham. Art by Cezar Razek. Tarzan, Jane and Meriem Clayton, John Carter and Dejah Thoris, Korak The Killer, Jason Gridley, Billy Byrne, Bridge, The Oskaloosa Kid, Barney and Victoria Custer, Jim Stone, Townsend Harper, Virginia Maxon, Johnny La Fitte, The Rider, Shannon Burke, Ulysses Paxton--all the ERB characters together! Tarzan and Jason Gridley have assembled a crew of the greatest adventurers their world has to offer. Aboard the Martian sky ship Venture, they've set off in pursuit of a powerful gemstone called the Eye of Judgment, that can selectively kill anyone, on any planet. Dynamic Forces, 2018...More. Item Code: ERBGAH Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 7x10, 248pg, Full Color |
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LUISA NOW AND THEN Highly Recommended. By Carole Maurel. Adapted by Mariko Tamaki. At 32, Luisa encounters her 15-year-old self in this sensitive, bold story about self-acceptance and sexuality. What would your teen-age self think of what you've become? Louisa is still disappointingly single, running through a series of failed boyfriends. She's a professional photographer, but has left behind her dream to become a renowned one. In order to help her younger self, she must finally face herself and her past. When she is attracted to a female neighbor, things become even more complicated... Insightful and funny, this is a feel-good coming-of-age story. First published in France in 2016, it takes place in Paris and her hometown near Chartres. Humanoids, 2018...More. Item Code: LUISN Soft Cover, 8x10, 272pg, Full Color $29.95 |
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ALSO AVAILABLE SECRET LOVES OF GEEK GIRLS Signed Closeout Price! Illustrated bookplate signed by editor & contributor Hope Nicholson. Recommended. By Margaret Atwood, Marjorie Liu, Mariko Tamaki, et al. A non-fiction anthology mixing prose, comics, and illustrated stories on the lives and loves of an amazing cast of female comics creators. Featuring work by Margaret Atwood (The Heart Goes Last), Mariko Tamaki (This One Summer), Trina Robbins (Wonder Woman), Marguerite Bennett (Marvel's A-Force), Noelle Stevenson (Nimona Marjorie Liu & Monstress), Carla Speed McNeil (Finder), and over fifty more creators. Delightfully funny, revealing, naive, poignant tales of love and the comics nerd (girl). Dark Horse, 2016...More. Item Code: SECLS Soft Cover, 6x9, 280pg, Full Color |
We have just seven copies left at this price, which includes a signed bookplate. |
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ALSO AVAILABLE CALAMITY JANE The Calamitous Life of Martha Jane Cannary 1852-1903 Recommended. By Christian Perrissin. Art by Mathieu Blanchin. In a lively cartoonish style that reminds us of Dan O'Neill and underground comics! Return to the down-and-dirty days of the wild West where the living wasn't so easy... especially for women. Martha Jane Cannary was a bona fide frontierswoman, a professional scout, a drunk, and sometime whore, doing whatever it took to stay alive in those hardscrabble days. Writer Christian Perrissin (El Niño, Cape Horn) joins forces with Alph-Art-winning artist Matthieu Blanchin to tackle the legend of this formidable prairie girl and her daring life alongside the likes of Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hickok. In English for the first time ever. IDW, 2017. Mature Readers...More. Item Code: CALJH Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 8x10, 368pg, Duotone |
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MEAN GIRLS CLUB PINK DAWN By Ryan Heshka. A retro-style new graphic novel by the noted pop-surrealist illustrator. The Mean Girls are out for blood in this timely revenge fantasy that speaks to our deepest desires for awful, corrupt men to get what's coming to ‘em! Filled with more mayhem than you can shake a stiletto at, get ready for a chaotic, bloody ride. The Mean Girls Club has been laying waste to the town for years, and Mayor Schlomo is hell-bent on their destruction. He has other plans for the town's young women... brainwashing and sexual servitude. Nobrow, 2018...More. Item Code: MEANH Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 8x10, 101pg, Tritone |
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ALSO AVAILABLE FATALES The Art of Ryan Heshka Art by Ryan Heshka. Inspired by nostalgia for the old science fiction pulp art and superheroes of the golden-age, Ryan Heshka is recognized in the US and internationally for building an impressive singular work where giant robots compete with mean girls. Monitoring and cheered by a large fan base, here is the first monograph of his incredible and unique work. Some nudity. Demon girls in masks, femme fatales, naked threatened good girls and naked bad girls abound in this very strong homage to super hero and sci-fi pop culture. Cernunnos, 2017. Mature Readers...More. Item Code: FARHH Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 9x11, 288pg, Full Color |
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THE ART OF HADDON SUNDBLOM Limited, 900. Our Highest Recommendation. Haddon Sundblom (1899-1976) was Coke's most prolific artist, painting subjects that ranged from bathing beauties to soda-fountain scenes. They are actively collected today. During his peak period in the 1940s, he produced half of all Coke's advertising art. Sundblom is recognized as a major influence on many well known pin-up artists, such as Gil Elvgren, Edward Runci, Joyce Ballantyne, Art Frahm, and Harry Ekman. In the mid-1930s, he began to paint pin-ups and glamour pieces for calendars. Sundblom's last assignment, in 1972, was a cover painting for Playboy's Christmas issue. Illustrated Press, 2018. Due Sept. ...More. Item Code: ARTHSH Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 9x12, 224pg, Full Color $44.95 |
See News and Notes below for more about Sundblom. |
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SAVAGE PELLUCIDAR Bob Eggleton Cover Slipcased Signed Signed & numbered! Highly Recommended. By Edgar Rice Burroughs. Art by Frazetta, Joe Jusko, Takebe et al. ERB's seventh and final novel in the series is for the first time published by ERB Inc. and G&D in a signed/numbered set (#1-248), with different dust jackets, bindings (red & blue, matching the other 1930s/40s era ERB Inc and G&D cloth & color), and front/end matter, plus a new Foreword by Richard Lupoff and Preface by Phillip R. Burger. This "ERB Edition" has Bob Eggleton's original cover painting on the jacket, and the Thomas Grindberg cover featured on the jacket of the other version. Burroughs Inc., 2018. Due Sept. ...More. Item Code: SAVPEH Hard Cover, Partial Color $120.00 |
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SAVAGE PELLUCIDAR Thomas Grindberg Cover Slipcased Signed Signed & numbered! Highly Recommended. By Edgar Rice Burroughs. Art by Thomas Grindberg, Frazetta, Joe Jusko et al. ERB's seventh and final novel in the series is for the first time published by ERB Inc. and G&D in a Signed/Numbered Set (#1-248) - with different dust jackets, bindings (red & blue, matching the 1930s/42s ERB Inc. and G&D books in cloth and color), and front/end matter -- and a new Foreword by Richard Lupoff and Preface by Phillip R. Burger. This "ERB Edition" has Thomas Grindberg's original cover painting on the jacket, and the Bob Eggleton cover, featured on the jacket of the other version. Burroughs Inc., 2018. Due Sept. ...More. Item Code: SAVPGH Hard Cover, Partial Color $120.00 |
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ALSO AVAILABLE BACK TO THE STONE AGE EGGLETON COVER Slipcased Limited, 350. Recommended. By Edgar Rice Burroughs. Cover by Bob Eggleton, art by John Coleman Burroughs. The first new authentic Grosset & Dunlap edition in 75 years. Printed letterpress from the original printing plates in an edition of 350, with a wrap-round cover by Bob Eggleston, a fold-out 15x20 inch color map of Pellucidar, black cloth slipcase, color endpapers and 8 newly colored plates, belly band, and die cut color bookmark. After the events in Tarzan at the Earth's Core, the great dirigible 0-220 sailed back out of Pellucidar through the polar opening. But they left behind one long-lost member of the original crew who'd sailed in with Jason Gridley and Tarzan to the rescue of David Innes. That man was Lieutenant von Horst, and this is the story of his adventures! Grosset & Dunlap, 2015...More. Item Code: BACSEH Hard Cover, 5x8, 318pg, Text/Full Color $150.00 |
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ALSO AVAILABLE LAND OF TERROR Original Cover Slipcased Signed Signed & numbered, 200! Highly Recommended. By Edgar Rice Burroughs. Art by Bob Eggleton, John Coleman Burroughs, Frazetta, Krenkel and Jusko. ERB’s sixth novel in the Pellucidar series is for the first time reprinted by ERB Inc. and G&D – in two beautiful editions with different bindings, different dust jackets, a limitation signed and numbered page, and die-cut bookmark. This "Grosset & Dunlap Edition" has Bob Eggleton's wonderful new wrap-around painting on the jacket, and the original John Coleman Burroughs cover from 1944 as a double-fold-out frontispiece, sans type. Plus 13 color illustrations including two by Frazetta, one a fold out, a Joe Jusko fold-out, and 7 newly colored Roy Krenkel drawings. Also, 27 chapter headings, never used, drawn by Coleman Burroughs for the 1944 edition. Burroughs Inc., 2018...More. Item Code: LANTEH Hard Cover, 5x8, 324pg, Text/Full Color $120.00 |
The “original edition” variants, with covers by John Coleman Burroughs, are also available. Land of Terror is nearly out of print. For now you can get all of these releases, making up a handsome set. |
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JIM LEE DC LEGENDS Artifact Edition This Artifact Edition will focus on the last 25 years of Jim Lee's storied career, showcasing his rendition of Batman and Superman, placing his own unique stamp on each character. As with all Artifact Editions, each page will be scanned from the original art, offering a unique look at the creative process of one of the most popular and creative artists working in the field. Additionally, there will be examples of WildC.A.T.s and other pre-DC work. IDW, 2018. Due Oct. ...More. Item Code: JLDCAEH Soft Cover, 12x17, 144pg, b&w $125.00 |
Jim Lee appears in more than a dozen other collections, from Wonder Woman to a coloring book and Artists Edition. See them on our website. |
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AMERICAN COMIC BOOK CHRONICLES The 1990s Recommended. By Keith Dallas and Jason Sacks. This ambitious series covers every decade of comic book history from the 1940s to today. Here are all the pivotal moments and behind-the-scenes details of the Bill Clinton years! The 1990s was the decade when Marvel Comics sold 8.1 million copies of an issue of the X-Men, saw its superstar creators form their own company, Image, cloned Spider-Man...and went bankrupt. It was when Superman died, Batman had his back broken, and the runaway success of Neil Gaiman's Sandman led to DC Comics' Vertigo line of adult comic books. TwoMorrows, 2018. Due Oct. ...More. Item Code: ACB06H Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 8x11, 288pg, Full Color |
We don't have the previous releases in stock, except for one, but we can special order any of them for you. Available are the 1950s, the 1960s (in two parts), 1970s and 1980s (1980's will be reprinting in Oct). |
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ART OF FEMINISM Images That Shaped The Fight For Equality 1857-2017 By Helena Reckitt. Featuring more than 350 works of art, illustration, photography, performance, and graphic design—along with essays examining the legacy of the radical canon—this rich volume showcases the vibrancy of the feminist aesthetic over the last 150 years. Since its inception in the 19th century, the women's movement has harnessed the power of images to transmit messages of social change and equality. From posters of the Suffrage Atelier in France in the 19th century, through the radical art of Judy Chicago and Carrie Mae Weems, to the cutting-edge work of Sethembile Msezane and Andrea Bowers. Chronicle, 2018. Due Oct. ...More. Item Code: ARTFH Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 11x10, 272pg, Full Color |
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MARVEL MASTERWORKS Invincible Iron Man Volume 11 Collects Iron Man #82-94, 1968; Annual #3-4, 1970. By Len Wein, Bill Mantlo et al. Art by George Tuska, Herb Trimpe et al. Tony Stark is one of the Marvel Universe's most advanced minds and experienced inventors - but those talents are about to be turned against him, shaking him to his core! Looking to exploit Stark Industries tech, the Red Ghost kidnaps Tony. In the melee, Happy Hogan dons the Iron Man armor, but suffers severe injuries - leading to a dangerous procedure that will once again turn him into the monstrous Freak! Meanwhile, NYPD Detective Michael O'Brien begins an investigation aiming to nail Tony for the death of O'Brien's brother, the Guardsman. Add to that the threats of the Blood Brothers, the Controller, the Melter, M.O.D.O.K., and a new incarnation of the Molecule Man - Iron Man must defend himself from all corners before he loses everything! Marvel, 2018. Due Oct. ...More. Item Code: MMIM11H Hard Cover, 7x10, 328pg, Full Color |
Volumes 9 and 10 are still available. And we have just three sets left of the Iron Man Poker Deck Cards from 2015 [IMPC. $5.99]. |
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TOMB OF DRACULA OMNIBUS Volume 1 By Marv Wolfman, Gerry Conway et al. Art by Gene Colan, Mike Ploog et al. He rose from the grave in 1972, ushering in an Age of Horror like nothing seen before or since! Now behold the Prince of Darkness' first encounters with his most implacable enemies of the era, including legendary Blade the Vampire Hunter! With ghosts, mutants, mad scientists and more! Plus a tour of the Lord of the Vampires' earlier U.S. activities, with such stops as the Pool of Blood and the Devil's Heart! Featuring Werewolf by Night and Lilith, Daughter of Dracula! Marvel, 2018. Due Oct. ...More. Item Code: TOMB01H Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 784pg, Full Color |
The Complete Tomb of Dracula is in stock now—it's softcover, collects TOD #1-15 instead of #1-21, and Dracula Lives! #1-4, with about 150 less pages. [TOMB01. |
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ALSO AVAILABLE GENE COLAN TOMB OF DRACULA Artist's Edition Collects #25, 28, 36, 27, 46 and 48, plus more. Recommended. By Marv Wolfman. Art by Gene Colan. Tomb of Dracula by Wolfman, Colan and Tom Palmer has long been considered one of the best Marvel Comics of the 1970s. Colan's atmospheric artwork was the perfect companion to Wolfman's dark and foreboding stories, creating a classic series. Besides the five complete stories, this features 12 pages of unpublished original pencils from #70-72, plus the pencilled cover of #65, along with another 25 pages of covers, splash pages and story pages from various issues #3 to 70. IDW, 2017...More. Item Code: GCTAEH Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 12x17, 144pg, b&w $125.00 |
Bargain BooksThese 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.
VAMPIRELLA Volume 1 Our Lady of Shadows [VAMI01. VAMPIRELLA Volume 2 God Save the Queen [VAMI02. CLASSICS BOMBER COMICS Volume 1 [CBC1. CLASSICS BOMBER COMICS Volume 2 [CBC2. CLASSICS BOMBER COMICS Volume 4 [CBC4. CLASSICS SPITFIRE COMICS Volume 2 [CSC2. HOW COMICS WORK [HOWCW. ANT-MAN Playing Cards [AMPC. JOAN OF ARC [JOARH. MR. TWEE DEEDLE RAGGEDY ANN'S SPRIGHTLY COUSIN [MRTH. AMAZING WORLD OF CARMINE INFANTINO [AMAH. 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). To get on our email list for Sales & Specials, click here. |
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For fantasy art fans we have The Reality of a Dreamer Volume II by Gil Bruvel, including a signed copy. We also added a couple more volumes of the Spectrum series to our offerings. Click here to see all the Spectrum volumes available. Two outstanding titles from comic artists, Jack Cole and Plastic Man, and The Art of Al Williamson. Also one of the first ever graphic novels, Gil Kane's Blackmark from 1971. Lastly a collection of classic artists in Visions of Adventure: N.C. Wyeth and the Brandywine Artists. All | New Arrivals | Artists & Illustration | Fantasy & Sci-Fi | Illustrated Fiction Comic Book Archives | Comic Strip & Cartoon | Comic Artists | Pin-Up | Erotic Art Click here to add yourself to our Rare & Out of Print mailing list. |
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Mature ReadersWe normally don't begin listing next year's calendars until July or August. But the first one out this year is special, so I'm including it here. It is Lorenzo Sperlonga Wings 2018-2019, which comes signed on the cover. This is also an 18-month calendar, so you can start using it July 1st, 2018. Also from this artist: Steampunk Dolls and Femme Fatales signed — out of print, almost gone. [STPS. $29.95]. Published by Heavy Metal, 2013. We have just four copies left. Signed by Lorenzo Sperlonga and his wife, model Anastasia Pierce. Queens: The Pin-Up Art of Lorenzo Sperlonga signed. 2017. Softcover: [QUEES. $29.95]. Hardcover: [QUEEHS. $39.95] Here are a few Mature items from our Bargain Book section: ART OF PINTURERO [ARPIN. BIG BUTT BOOK 3D [BG3BH. BONNIE & CLAUDIA [BONC. Nude Photography | Erotic Art | Erotic Films: DVDs | Adult Graphic Novels | All Pin-Up & Adult Click here to add yourself to our Adult's Only mailing list. |
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Here’s some more about this important book, which is noted above in the coming section. We encourage advance orders on these, because Illustrated Press does sell out their books, sometimes unexpectedly. I just learned that Jon Whitcomb is gone, and we went through our last copies just last week. |
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| Here’s a link to their other books that are still available: Coby Whitmore (just published), Harry Anderson, Edwin Giorgy, Bernie Fuchs, Dean Cornwell (2nd printing), Reynold Brown (2nd printing, greatly revised and expanded), Shannon Stirnweis, and Masters of American Illustration. Masterworks from the Golden Age of Illustration 3 is on sale, $44.95, your price $29.95. We have 14 left at this price. Volumes 1 and 2 are out of print. |
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| The Illustrated Press just shipped us their newest release on Coby Whitmore, on top of the Art of Harry Anderson—the cover feature on our latest catalog. Now they have announced their next title covering Haddon Sundblom. He’s best known as THE Coca-Cola illustrator of the 1940s and 50s—his pretty sun-bathing girls and his classic Santa were indelible images in their day and beyond. He also established the Sundblom Studio, where many fine artists worked and prospered. He had a 35-year relationship with Coke, at one time producing virtually half of all of their widespread advertising. |
According to Roger T. Reed, president of the New York gallery Illustration House, “Sundblom gets pigeonholed as the painter of Coca-Cola Santa Clauses, but this trivializes his central place in twentieth century advertising art. More than any artist including Norman Rockwell, Sundblom defined the American Dream in pictures, proved by his work for virtually the entire Fortune 500.” |
Just as Sundblom had benefited from his early studio apprenticeship, he is credited with developing the next generation of commercial artists. His various studios were a training ground for up-and-coming illustrators who wanted to learn at the foot of a true master. |
| Always generous with his staff and modest about his impact on the industry, Sundblom’s circle of influence extended to hundreds of artists. Creating famous advertising campaigns, glamorous pin-up girls and noted brand characters, his apprentices went on to join agencies or start studios of their own throughout the country. |
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This arrived the day after I left town for the Portland Rose City Book Fair this week, June 16-17. So rather than list it as a new item this week, I’m just mentioning it here. We already listed it as a coming item just recently. I want to see it first so I can edit and write a new description—it’s not often we get a new book on an important artist like Sorolla. So I’ll do that when I’m back. ~Bud |
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