A new Prince Valiant is always cause for celebration, two more years near the end of Foster's run. The story of Bell Features, wartime comics publisher of the “Canadian Whites” is here at last. And we have Miyazaki, Yoe's Super Patriotic Heroes, a new Corto Maltese, Batman, the JLA, a new Star Hawks collection, new Classics Illustrated and 2019 Calendars. Plus a new Tarzan novel, and two very limited Tarzan dust wrappers, one with the same Frazetta art as our latest catalog's cover. If you haven't received our latest catalog yet...with the Tarzan by Frazetta cover...add one free to your order, or download it here. |
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PRINCE VALIANT Volume 17 Sunday Pages, 1969-70. Our Highest Recommendation. By Hal Foster. Foreword by Brian M. Kane with Kim Thompson. After his long sojourn in the Mediterranean, Prince Valiant is back in Britain, where he takes on a new, intricate mission on behalf of King Arthur. Here, Valiant finds himself in the middle of a conflict between Saxon settlers and violent Viking raiders. Gawain's return journey to Camelot is fraught with misadventure as he is beset by jealous romantic rivals, a marriage-minded widow and a thieving sorcerer. Young Galan goes on a hunt to capture the fabled unicorn, and Arn, after losing his horse in a Welsh bog, is enslaved and held for ransom. Fantagraphics, 2018...More. Item Code: PV17H Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 10x14, 112pg, Full Color |
Volume 5 is currently out of print. Volumes 3 and 4 are still discounted at $23.99 each, Volumes 1, 2, and 6-16 are all Volume 1-3 in slipcase is also discounted [PVS01P |
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ALSO AVAILABLE PRINCE VALIANT Volume 2 1938 X-LG Closeout Price! Original newspaper size. Highly Recommended. By Hal Foster. Edited by Rick Norwood. Original publisher copies. The first and still only way to read these magnificent pages in the full, original size. Three volumes were published by Norwood, who continues to publish Comics Revue. The first and third volumes are sold out, but this one full year is still available. A full year of Hal Foster's immaculately researched and impeccably drawn Sunday comic strip, reproduced in full color on giant 17 x 22 100 lb. acid-free paper. Manuscript Press, 1984...More. Item Code: PV02SC Soft Cover, 17x22, 59pg, Full Color |
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ALSO AVAILABLE THE PRINCE VALIANT PAGE Our Highest Recommendation. By Gary Gianni. Foreword by Mike Mignola. Modern illustration master Gianni opens the vaults to his work on the legendary Prince Valiant Sunday Page, written by Mark Schultz. Gianni assumed the helm of the strip after John Cullen Murphy but far too few fans have seen his several years of pages, let alone the amazing work behind the published pages...until now. Every aspect of the new era of the strip is covered here, with a particular focus on Gianni's preliminary sketches and production methods. Flesk, 2008...More. Item Code: PVPH Hard Cover, 9x12, 112pg, Text/Partial Color |
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HEROES OF THE HOME FRONT Bell Features Artists of WWII Deluxe Signed Limited to 110 signed copies in slipcase. Highly Recommended. By Ivan Kocmarek. Forewords by Gerald Lazare and John Bell. Signed by Gerald Lazare and author Ivan Kocmarek. Foil-stamped slipcase. A massive 300+ page book including 150 full-page reproductions of original art pages, plus backstories and special interviews with the artists. Canada banned American comics during the Second World War, precipitating an explosion of homegrown comics from young publishers and creators. One of these was Bell Features, and it put out comics touting the exploits of heroes like Nelvana of the Northern Lights, the first Canadian super-heroine who preceeded even Wonder Woman. And Johnny Canuck, Speed Savage, The Brain, Nitro, The Dreamer, Doc Stearne (yes, of Mr. Monster fame), and Super Commando. 2018...More. Item Code: HERHFD Hard Cover, 9x12, 330pg, Partial Color $100.00 |
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HEROES OF THE HOME FRONT Bell Features Artists of WWII Limited to just 340 copies, slipcased. Highly Recommended. By Ivan Kocmarek. Forewords by Gerald Lazare and John Bell. Canada banned American comics during the Second World War, precipitaing an explosion of homegrown comics from young publishers and creators. One of these was Bell Features, and it put out comics touting the exploits of heroes like Nelvana of the Northern Lights, the first Canadian super-heroine who preceeded even Wonder Woman. And Johnny Canuck, Speed Savage, The Brain, Nitro, The Dreamer, Doc Stearne (yes, of Mr. Monster fame), and Super Commando. A massive 300-page book including 150 full-page reproductions of original art pages, plus backstories and special interviews with the artists. 2018...More. Item Code: HERHFH Hard Cover, 9x12, 330pg, Partial Color $75.00 |
As I write this, the trade edition is virtually out of print. We had wanted to bring in more, but the publisher is reserving the balance of the run to provide to Canadian libraries. We have just 1 in stock, and 6 more coming any day now. That's it. With the Deluxe Edition we have 12 in stock, and I don't know if we can get any more. The total printing of the two editions together was just 450 copies. |
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ALSO AVAILABLE WECA COMIC PRICE GUIDE Canadian Comics of WWII Not covered in the Overstreet Price Guide. Entirely new. Highly Recommended. By Ivan Kocmarek et al. Over four years in the making, at last a one-stop reference for approximately 780 ORIGINAL all-new comic books printed in Canada between 1941 and 1946, only a handful of which have ever appeared in Overstreet. Plus—scads of information about first appearances, writer and artist credits, crossovers, key issues, Hitler, Tojo etc. appearances, significant villains, variants. Plus pricing based on known sales and auctions on these mostly, but not all, scarce comics. “This information has never really been compiled anywhere before and that's what makes this book valuable...” North End Books, 2018...More. Item Code: WECPG Soft Cover, 6x9, 64pg, Partial Color $19.95 |
See our website for all available collections of Canadian White comics. IDW's edition of Nelvana has gone out of print--we have just one copy left [NELVH. $39.99]. Still available are Johnny Canuck, hurt at $12.95 [JOCAHR] and new at $24.95 [JOCAH]; Wow Comics #1 [WOW01. $15]; Polka Dot Pirate/Dime Comics [DOLDP. $10]; and Brok Windsor, my favorite after Nelvana, [BROKH. $24.95]. |
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MIYAZAKIWORLD A Life in Art By Susan Napier. Art by Hayao Miyazaki. The story of filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki's life and work, including his significant impact on Japan and the world. Yale, 2018...More. Item Code: MIYAH Hard Cover, 6x8, 344pg, Partial Color $30.00 |
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SUPER PATRIOTIC HEROES Written by Craig Yoe, Will Eisner et al. During World War II, a legion of star-spangled, flag-draped superheroes fought to defeat the forces of evil. Rediscover them now, when we need them most! This book paints a compelling history and presents the exciting, full comic book stories. IDW, 2018...More. Item Code: SUPATH Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 9x11, 224pg, Full Color |
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ALSO AVAILABLE SUPER WEIRD HEROES Volume 1 Outrageous But Real! Our Highest Recommendation. By Fletcher Hanks, Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, John Buscema, George Tuska et al. Edited by Craig Yoe. The first superhero book from Yoe Books! 320 pages, thick as a brick, bargained-priced, filled with tons of rare, full-color, never-before-reprinted complete stories--plus Craig Yoe's own synopsis of each one's strange career or lack thereof! Here's The Hand (yes, he's a giant hand), The Eye (you got it--he's a huuuge eye), The Bouncer (a super-hero-in-a-skirt), Rainbow Boy, Boomerang (he defeats Nazi hordes with a little boomerang), Kangaroo Man (he's even weirder than you think--his fighting partner is a talking kangaroo!). IDW, 2016...More. Item Code: SWH01H Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 9x11, 320pg, Full Color |
See all of our Yoe! books on the website, including all the Weird Love collections, Chilling Horror series, and Lou Cameron's Unsleeping Dead, which I highly recommend. A second Super Weird Heroes collection is also due in any day now. |
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BATMAN THE CAPED CRUSADER Volume 1 By Jim Starlin, Mike Baron et al. Art by Jim Aparo, Ross Andru et al. Gotham City has endured much through its dark, twisted history, and even the cosmic changes wrought by the Crisis on Infinite Earths couldn't give the town a fresh start--the grime is in its DNA. The Crisis did, though, allow for the reintroduction of familiar foes, albeit with a fresh take on the Caped Crusader featuring a back-to-basics approach to crime-fighting. DC, 2018...More. Item Code: BATC01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 320pg, Full Color |
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WALT DISNEY'S COMICS AND STORIES VAULT Volume 1 By Carl Barks, Merrill De Maris, Gil Turner et al. Art by Walt Kelly, Bob Grant et al. Celebrate three generations of Uncle Walt's flagship comic book--with legendary tales of Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, and everyone from Oswald the Lucky Rabbit to Ludwig Von Drake! IDW, 2018...More. Item Code: WDCV01H Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 7x10, 288pg, Full Color |
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CORTO MALTESE Volume 8 Tango By Hugo Pratt. Just as Fable of Venice was Hugo Pratt's homage to his hometown, Tango is a nod to Buenos Aires, where the cartoonist lived during his earliest creative successes in the late 1940s and 1950s. The atmosphere of the story is steeped in the sensual music of the tango, whose melodies almost seem to emerge from the artwork, with close-ups of the dance steps framed by Pratt with extraordinary effectiveness. The first English-language translation of Hugo Pratt's graphic novel set in Argentina. IDW, 2018...More. Item Code: CORU08 Soft Cover, 9x11, 60pg, b&w |
Find all previous collections on our website. |
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JUSTICE LEAGUE 100 GREATEST MOMENTS Highlights from the History of the World's Greatest Super Heroes By Robert Greenberger. In the hands of dozens of writers and artists, DC Comics Justice League of America (JLA) has experienced moments that can be intensely personal or of great cosmic importance. The comic's ability to shift in tone has always kept the team interesting and reflects the changing tastes among the readers and the times when each moment occurred. The Justice League, the team also known as the Worlds Greatest Super-Heroes, have flowered and foundered, seen their ranks swell and shrink, and risen and fallen in sales popularity, but remaining a fixture in pop cultures for decades. Chartwell Books, 2018...More. Item Code: JLGMH Hard Cover, 9x11, 312pg, Full Color $24.99 |
See more on The Justice League on the website, including several Omnibus Collections and The Art of the Film. |
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STAR HAWKS Volume 3 1979-1981 By Archie Goodwin, Roger McKenzie. Art by Gil Kane. This classic 1970s science-fiction newspaper strip predates Star Wars—and nearly 40 years after its debut, Star Hawks remains fresh and exciting for new generations of sci-fi and fantasy fans. This third volume concludes the series, collecting more than 500 strips drawn by Gil Kane, written by Archie Goodwin, and set in the "Barnum System" that series creator Ron Goulart also used in several of his novels. The Library of American Comics edition reproduces the daily strips two per page and each Sunday strip on its own page so readers can relish Gil Kane's incredible achievement. IDW, 2018...More. Item Code: STARH03H Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 9x6, 328pg, b&w |
Both previous volumes are still available at the same discounted price. |
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Ordering any Frazetta item, such as this, entitles you to a free copy of the Frank Frazetta Icon Book Brochure [FFIB. $00]. Just add it to your order. |
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TARZAN AND THE DARK HEART OF TIME By Philip Jose Farmer. Tarzan's beloved mate, Jane, has been kidnapped, and the furious ape-man will let nothing stand in the way of rescuing her--not even a sinister safari whose target is Tarzan himself. With fierce Masai trackers leading the chase, a trio of white hunters are hellbent on capturing the Jungle Lord. But as the pursuers, and their uncanny half-human tracker, close in from behind, Tarzan races toward even greater danger ahead. Meteor House, 2018...More. Item Code: TARDA Soft Cover, 6x9, 246pg, Text Only $20.00 |
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TARZAN AND THE DARK HEART OF TIME HARDCOVER By Philip Jose Farmer. Tarzan's beloved mate, Jane, has been kidnapped, and the furious ape-man will let nothing stand in the way of rescuing her--not even a sinister safari whose target is Tarzan himself. With fierce Masai trackers leading the chase, a trio of white hunters are hellbent on capturing the Jungle Lord. But as the pursuers, and their uncanny half-human tracker, close in from behind, Tarzan races toward even greater danger ahead. Meteor House, 2018...More. Item Code: TARDAH Hard Cover, 6x9, 246pg, Text Only $35.00 |
See all the other latest Tarzan, John Carter and Dejah Thoris, and more ERB-related books on our website. |
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CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED #52 The Hound of The Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle. Art by Louis Zansky. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colorful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger readers. This edition also includes a biography of Arthur Conan Doyle and study questions, which can be used both in the classroom and at home to further engage the reader in the story. CCS, 2018...More. Item Code: CLA52 Soft Cover, 6x9, 48pg, Full Color $9.95 |
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CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED #56 All Quiet on The Western Front By Maria Remarque Erich. Art by Maurice del Bourgo. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colorful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger readers. This edition also includes a biography of Erich Maria Remarque, theme discussions and study questions, which can be used both in the classroom and at home to further engage the reader in the story. CCS, 2018...More. Item Code: CLA56 Soft Cover, 6x9, 48pg, Full Color $9.95 |
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CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED #67 WILD BILL HICKOK Art by Sal Trapani and Medio Iorio. The life story of James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok, the famous lawman, gunfighter and gambler of the Old West. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colorful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger readers. This edition also includes theme discussions and study questions, which can be used both in the classroom and at home to further engage the reader in the story. CCS Books, 2017...More. Item Code: CLA67 Soft Cover, 6x9, 48pg, Full Color $9.95 |
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CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED #68 DANIEL BOONE By John Bakeless. Art by Alex A. Blum. The life story of Daniel Boone, American explorer, pioneer and frontiersman and one of the first folk heroes of the United States. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colorful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger readers. This edition also includes a biography of John Bakeless, theme discussions and study questions, which can be used both in the classroom and at home to further engage the reader in the story. CCS Books, 2017...More. Item Code: CLA68 Soft Cover, 6x9, 48pg, Full Color $9.95 |
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CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED #69 JOAN OF ARC Adapted by Samuel Willinsky. Art by Henry C. Kiefer. The story of the great heroine of France, Joan of Arc, also known as “The Maid of Orléans”. Born a peasant girl in Domrémy, France in 1412, during the Hundred Years’ War, Joan began to hear celestial voices as a teenager. It was these voices which she claimed guided her in battle against the English, until her capture and fateful trial for heresy. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colorful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger readers. This edition also includes theme discussions and study questions, which can be used both in the classroom and at home to further engage the reader in the story. CC Books, 2017...More. Item Code: CLA69 Soft Cover, 6x9, 48pg, Full Color $9.95 |
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CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED #70 THE SONG OF HIAWATHA By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Art by Alex A. Blum. Longfellow's epic poem of the legendary Native American hero, Hiawatha and his love, Minnehaha, as he performs many brave and magical deeds. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colorful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger readers. This edition also includes a biography of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, theme discussions and study questions, which can be used both in the classroom and at home to further engage the reader in the story. CC Books, 2017...More. Item Code: CLA70 Soft Cover, 6x9, 48pg, Full Color $9.95 |
Previously we have been offering Classics Comics published by Jack Lake in Canada. Another publisher entirely has evidently secured the rights to publish as Classics Illustrated. We compared the lists and we are bringing in titles that we have not offered before. We will be bringing in five to six new titles each month for the next five months, 32 in all. This is the first group of titles. See all our other Classics titles on our website. Now in softcover, at a new lower price, is this highly recommended history: |
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ALSO AVAILABLE CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED A Cultural History Second Edition Major revised edition, with 100 more pages! Now in softcover. Our Highest Recommendation. By William B. Jones. A significant expansion of the critically acclaimed first edition, and now in a lower-priced softcover. Over 100 more pages expand on the 70-year history of Classics Illustrated and the careers and contributions of such artists as Alex A. Blum, George Evans, Henry C. Kiefer, Gray Morrow, Rudolph Palais, and Louis Zansky. Enhancing this lively account are new interviews and correspondence with editor Helene Lecar, publicist Eleanor Lidofsky, artists Mort Kunstler and Lou Cameron, and the founder's grandson John "Buzz" Kanter. McFarland, 2017...More. Item Code: CLAI Soft Cover, 9x11, 382pg, Partial Color $35.00 |
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PIN-UP GIRLS GIL ELVGREN 2019 Calendar |
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WINGS OF ANGELS 2019 Calendar By Michael Malak. Known for vintage 1940's style glamour photography, photographer Michael Malek has combined classic beauty with some of the most recognizable aircraft of World War ll. As a tribute to pinup art and WWII aviation, Malek has created a look back to an era when sexy meant curves and curls, when pinups provided servicemen with sweetly seductive reminders of home. It’s all about lingerie, nylons and high heels. A meticulous process has gone into every photograph to give it an authentic vintage look. Zebra, 2018...More. Item Code: WA19 12x12, 24pg, Full Color $15.99 |
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GREG HILDEBRANDT AMERICAN BEAUTIES 2019 Calendar Highly Recommended. By Greg Hildebrandt. World renowned artist Greg Hildebrandt has created over 75 original pinup paintings as part of his American Beauties series. Both fun and sexy, American Beauties combines vintage pinup glamour with iconic American themes. American Beauties 2019 has spacious grids with international holidays and moon phases. Nearly unclad ladies in homages to sci-fi, night clubs, pulp covers, private detective novels, burlesque, even roller-skating drive-in waitresses. Great fun. Zebra, 2018...More. Item Code: GH19 12x12, 24pg, Full Color $15.99 |
See all other 2019 Calendars on our website. More are coming in every week. |
Bargain BooksThese books are generally very low in stock, as few as two or three copies--too few to list in our regular clearance sale. This may be your last chance at this special price. Don't miss out, act now.
CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED #48 David Copperfield [CI48. ALADDIN AND HIS WONDERFUL LAMP, IN RHYME By Thomas Mackenzie [ALDH. THE SPIDER/SMILODON [SPSMM. DEADPOOL MINIBUS Volume 2 [DEP02H. JOHN STANLEY GIVING LIFE TO LITTLE LULU Signed [JSGIVHS. MICHELANGELO Complete Works [MICCWH. ARCHIE'S SUNDAY FINEST [ASF01H. SANDMAN MYSTERY THEATRE The Tarantula [SAMT. 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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Rare & Out of Print
We have 8 new titles from Modesty Blaise creator Peter O'Donnell, including a softcover of comic strips, and 6 hardcover novels. Modesty Blaise the Xanadu Talisman Modesty Blaise Dead Man's Handle Modesty Blaise The Silver Mistress Modesty Blaise Dead Man's Handle (paperback) Modesty Blaise The Black Pearl and The Vikings (comic strips) We also have three fine art books, Alphonse Maria Mucha, The Enchanted World of Jessie M. King, and a collection of 40 classic artists in Forty Illustrators and How They Work.
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Mature ReadersWe have a very unusual new graphic novel this week: Minky Woodcock: The Girl Who Handcuffed Houdini. Well, Minky is also the girl getting tied up, sans clothing, in this unusual and fairly explicit erotic graphic novel offering an alternate look at Houdini's weird world. Next from one of our favorite editors, Hiroshi Unno, comes a book, Dark & Fetish Art, unlike any of his other fine collections. This is his first compilation (published in Japan) of erotic art, and it's rich with amazing work from yesterday. And back in stock at a sale price is the Fantagraphics book Sexytime: "1970s trash cinema movie posters the likes of which have never been collected between hard covers before. B-Movie Bikers, beatniks, disturbed artists, witchcraft, familial dysfunction, evil corporations, lost girls..." And we have two new DVDs: Liquid Assets, starring Samatha Fox, Sharon Kane, and Lisa B. And Showdown: Back in the Saddle Again!, starring Gina Carerra, Sharon Mitchell, and Shanna McCollough. 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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