Thursday, December 20, 2018

McCay graphic novel, Jodorowsky’s El Topo, Classics Illustrated, Bettie Page, Marvel Omnibus collections, The Phantom and more!

While we've been slammed with orders (thank you), it's finally a little quieter this week for new releases. The McCay graphic novel is worth a look, it's a wild one, and Jodorowsky's El Topo is an outré western that is BEAUTIFULLY drawn. We've got seven new Classics Illustrated, a look at UG artist Jay Lynch, a new Bettie variant comic, three massive Marvel Omnibus collections, a new Alter Ego, and the long awaited and outstanding Don Newton's Complete Phantom. Plus Phantom Newspaper Dailies Vol 14. Have a lovely Christmas, from all of us here!!!

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Graphic Novels

 
MCCAY
Recommended. By Thierry Smolderen. Art by Jean Phillippe Bramanti. McCay is an invented biography chronicling authentic - though only partially true - stories of the life of the future creator of Little Nemo, Winsor McCay, in which McCay's life is enriched by an imaginary encounter with British mathematician and science fiction writer Charles Hinton--who introduces McCay to the the existence of a fourth spatial dimension. And Silas the anarchist, Harry Houdini and William Randolph Hearst. And a murder mystery, perpetrated by a man who should be dead. It's not the bio you might expect, but a fictionalized tale of the artist, from vaudeville worker to newspaper star to animator extraordinaire. Titan Comics, 2018...More.

Item Code: MCCAH
Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 10x13, 232pg, Full Color
$49.99 $39.99

 
SONS OF EL TOPO Volume 1 Cain
Recommended. By Alejandro Jodorowsky. Art by José Ladrönn. El Topo was a bandit without limits, a man with no moral compass, but his journey through the arid west eventually brought him enlightenment. That's the tale in the famous 1970 cult film El Topo. This entirely new sequel continues that story. El Topo abandons his first born son, Cain, and yet had another, Abel, sowing the seeds for this brilliantly drawn new work. Fueled by resentment, and unable to kill his saintly father, the already cursed Cain plans to murder his half-brother, in a tale of magic and mayhem. Violence, nudity. Archaia, 2018...More.

Item Code: SONS01H
Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 9x12, 64pg, Full Color
$19.99 $17.99

 
ALSO AVAILABLE
MOON FACE
By Alejandro Jodorowsky. Art by François Boucq. Wow! A massive, oversized 250-page graphic novel written by the famed French creator of The Metabarons and collaborator with Moebius on The Incal, Angel Claws and Madwoman. The arrival of the mute "wave tamer" Moon Face turns the tiny island of Damanuestra upside down, threatening the oppressive political and religious hierarchies. The multiple award-winning François Boucq (The Bouncer, Magician's Wife) draws an uplifting and surreally satirical tale of strange magic and revolutionary freedom. Humanoids, 2018. Mature Readers...More.

Item Code: MOOFH
Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 9x13, 252pg, Full Color
$39.95

See our website for these collaborations with Jodorowsky and Moebius: Eyes of the Cat, and Madwoman of the Sacret Heart.

 

The Phantom

 
DON NEWTON'S COMPLETE PHANTOM
Collects #67-68, #70-71, #74, 1975-77. Highly Recommended. By Lee Falk. Art by Don Newton. Edited by Daniel Herman. This handsome edition collects all Phantom cover artwork and seven complete stories by Don Newton, considered a highpoint in the long history of the Ghost who Walks. Newton got his start as a fan artist, creating some of the finest-ever covers of the legendary Rocket's Blast. Then he turned pro, and this may be his best-known work. Includes a new interview with his son, photos of the artist, original artwork from Iron Man, World's Finest, Zorro, and many superb cover paintings. Hermes Press, 2018...More.

Item Code: PHDONH
Hard Cover, 8x10, 208pg, Full Color
$50.00 $42.50

 
THE PHANTOM The Complete Newspaper Dailies Volume 14
Seven complete stories. 1956-57 Recommended. By Lee Falk. Art by Wilson McCoy. Included in this volume are seven complete continuities, reprinted for the first time in their entirety: "The Shoplifters," "The Heavyweight Champion,"  "Wambo the Gambler," "The White Princess," "The Valley of No Return," "The Crown Jewels of Corba," and "The Scorpia." Strips from this issue are taken directly from King Feature's proofs. Diana is wooed by a boxer but The Phantom takes him on in the ring. A lovely heiress finds the Phantom in the jungle, to help her find her lost father. And much more. Hermes, 2018...More.

Item Code: PH14H
Hard Cover, 12x8, 272pg, Full Color
$60.00 $54.95

Missing any Phantom? We have more comics and comic strip collections, and original prose novels, on the website.

 

Comic Strip Collections

 
COMICS REVUE PRESENTS DEC 2018
Highly Recommended. By Harry Harrison, Stan Lynde, Wilson McCoy et al. Three complete episodes: three months of a great Rick O'Shay and Hipshot adventure from1976; Steve Roper from 1957, and four months of Mandrake from 1937. Plus continuing strips in America's longest-running magazine of classic comics. Now with Garth by Peter O'Donnell, Flash Gordon by Dan Barry and Mac Raboy (Sundays), Rick O'Shay by Stan LyndeThe Phantom by Lee Falk and Sy Barry from 1962, Buz Sawyer by Roy Crane from 1967, Alley Oop by V. T. Hamlin from 1940, Tarzan by Russ ManningSteve Canyon by Milton Caniff, and Casey Ruggles by Warren Tufts. Even more color this issue. Manuscript Press, 2018...More.

Item Code: CR1218
Soft Cover, 8x10, 128pg, Partial Color
$19.95

See all available back issues here. On sale at half price are two 2016 issues, August and December, and the February 2017 issue  [CR0816, CR1216, CR0217. $19.95, your price $9.95].

 
THE COMPLETE LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE Volume 15
Dailies & Sundays, 1950-51. Recommended. By Harold Gray. It's "Open Season for Trouble" as America's spunkiest kid, "Daddy" Warbucks, Punjab and The Asp battle wily Communist spies, search for a potentially game-changing mineral known as QX-7, contend with small-town cheats, and make a frightful discovery about disappearing patients at a shady rest home. The action ranges from the played-out mining town of Fiasco, where "Daddy" made his first million, to the land of the genii, where Punjab dispatches his enemies. Dailies along with Sunday pages in full color. Introduction "Cold War Warbucks" by Jeet Heer. LAOC, 2018...More.

Item Code: CL15H
Hard Cover, 11x8, 276pg, Partial Color
$49.99 $39.99

See our website for all available previous collections.

 

Underground Comics

 
INK & ANGUISH A Jay Lynch Anthology
Highly Recommended. With Ed Piskor and Patrick Rosenkranz. Jay Lynch was a counterculture Renaissance man whose career as cartoonist, satirist, and archivist spanned over six decades. This book is the definitive anthology of the artist's life as he contributed to the earliest underground comix, designed timeless novelties, and eventually settled down as a painter. Includes all his signature Nard n' Pat stories; selections from comics like Bijou Funnies, Turned-On Cuties and Mineshaft; a sampling of his art for Bazooka Joe, Wacky Packages, and Garbage Pail Kids; and collaborations with Art Spiegelman, Robert Crumb, and Ed Piskor. Fantagraphics, 2018. Adult Material...More.

Item Code: INKAN
Soft Cover, 7x11, 328pg, Partial Color
$39.99 $34.99

 
RADICAL AMERICA KOMIKS
Facsimile of the notorious underground 1969 comic + lots of extras. Recommended. Edited by Gilbert Shelton. Introduction by Paul Buhle. Radical America, a journal affiliated with Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) published a memorable "underground comix" edition in 1969. Its principal artist and editor, Gilbert Shelton, created new Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Wonder Wart-Hog stripsAnd brought to the project his Texas pals Frank Stack and Jack Jaxon, S. Clay Wilson, Rory HayesRick Griffin (one small piece) and Chicago comics innovators Jay Lynch and Skip Williamson. Together they issued a veritable artistic manifesto that retains its rebellious spirit and its rollicking humor. 13-page overview and introduction by Jay Kinney and Buhle. PM Press, 2018...More.

Item Code: RADAK
Soft Cover, 7x10, 64pg, Text/b&w
$14.95

 
ALSO AVAILABLE
DAVE SHERIDAN
Life With Dealer McDope, The Leather Nun And The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers. Highly Recommended. A wonderful and very personal look at the legendary underground cartoonist's tripped-out comic strip hilarity--and short life. He died at just 39. It includes Sheridan's solo comics like Mother's Oats, Dealer McDope, Meef and the infamous Leather Nun, many reprinted for the very first time, and his collaborations with Fred Schrier and Gilbert Shelton (who writes the foreword). He also did record covers, beer labels, and advertisements for more...cough, cough...organic products. And lots of really spaced out, cosmic comic book adventures! Fantagraphics, 2018. Adult Material...More.

Item Code: DAVSH
Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 9x12, 262pg, Partial Color
$35.00

 
ALSO AVAILABLE
THE FABULOUS FURRY FREAK BROTHERS OMNIBUS
Highly Recommended. By Gilbert Shelton. Take a trip with Fat Freddy, Phineas and Freewheelin' Franklin! Beginning in 1968, Shelton's ground-breaking stories set the template for much of the underground comix revolution and here, every story, strip and gag has been collected along with rare promotional items and a short history of the Freak Brothers. These hilarious and deviant stories feature mind-boggling artwork, mostly in b&w, with two large color sections. Knockabout, 2008. Mature Readers...More.

Item Code: FABF
Soft Cover, 7x10, 624pg, Partial Color
$35.00

 
ALSO AVAILABLE
THE SOMEDAY FUNNIES
Closeout Price! Our Highest Recommendation. By Michel Choquette. Art by Moebius, Barry Windsor-Smith, Jack Kirby, Russ Heath, Vaughn Bode, Jeffrey Jones. I'm totally blown away, Imagine a time capsule from 1975, with all the best comics artists doing original strips--packed away until now. Never published.This is it--comic strips created in the early 1970s by world-famous artists and writers such as C. C. Beck, René Goscinny, Harvey Kurtzman, Art Spiegelman, Frank Brunner, Gray Morrow, and Gahan Wilson. And written by Archie Goodwin, Steve Englehart and a ton of other creators. All original one and two page--oversized page--strips about the recently past 1960s of drugs, rebellion, music... Abrams, 2011. Mature Readers. Note: Copies may have slight bump....More.

Item Code: SMEH
Hard Cover, 12x16, 216pg, Full Color
$55.00 $27.50

Looking for more about the underground era? From Crumb‘s latest, his Dream Diary, to his bestselling Bible of Filth, to Zap Comics to S. Clay Wilson‘s ABC (signed, limited and on sale [WILAD. $100, your price $60]. See our website.

 

Comic Book Archives

 
CREEPY ARCHIVES Volume 27
Collects #128-133, 1981. Recommended. By Cuti, DuBay et al. Art by Alfredo Alcala, Corben, Infantino, Nebres, Easely, Neary et al. #132 is an all-Corben issue, cover and all stories. Plus two covers each by Frank Frazetta (reprinted from earlier times) and Jeff Easley. Also work by Rudy Nebres, Luis Bermejo, Bill Draut, Paul Neary, the interesting team of Carmine Infantino & Alcala, Herb Arnold, Pepe Moreno, Martin Salvador, Romeo Tanghal & Alcala and others. Lots of science fiction here, and second generation of appealing art, as many of the Spanish artists and even Filipino artists continue their fine work. Dark Horse, 2018...More.

Item Code: CRE27H
Hard Cover, 9x11, 296pg, b&w
$49.99 $39.99

Be careful, a recent volume sold out upon publication. See back volumes of this, Eerie and Vampirella on our website.

 
MARVEL KNIGHTS Daredevil Yellow, Spider-Man Blue, Hulk Gray, Captain America White Omnibus
Collects Daredevil: Yellow #1-6, Spider-Man: Blue #1-6, Hulk: Gray #1-6, Captain America: White #0-5. Highly Recommended. By Jeph Loeb. Art by Tim Sale. All four retro stories harking back early in each hero's career. Blind acrobat Daredevil was inspired to heroism by the example of his prizefighter father -- but Matt Murdock is a young man in love with Karen Page in a new origin story. Then, Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy want to spend the rest of their lives together -- but first, Spider-Man must run a gauntlet of his greatest foes. No matter how powerful the Incredible Hulk becomes, his heart can still be shattered by Betty Ross -- daughter of his greatest enemy! And Captain America battles beside his best friend Bucky behind enemy lines in World War II! Marvel, 2018...More.

Item Code: MARKH
Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 664pg, Full Color
$100.00 $85.00

 
FANTASTIC FOUR By Waid & Wieringo Omnibus
Collects Fantastic Four Vol 3 #60-70 and 500-524, 2002+; Director's Cut #500. Highly Recommended. By Mark Waid. Art by Mike Wieringo, Mark Buckingham et al. Mark Waid and Mike Wieringo deliver some of the most daring, powerful and sometimes even humorous adventures of Fantastic Four since Stan and Jack's era. Giant bugs! Living equations! Johnny Storm, CEO! Exploding unstable molecules! The secret behind the Yancy Street Gang! And Doctor Doom's plans are truly unthinkable when he kidnaps Franklin! Victor will push the FF beyond their limits -- and when his actions lead to the death of one of their own, they'll storm the gates of Heaven to save their beloved teammate! Plus dozens of bonus extras, from essays by Waid to cover roughs to behind-the-issue talks, plus Stan's original synopsis for...get this...FF #1!!! Marvel, 2018...More.

Item Code: FFWWH
Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 896pg, Full Color
$100.00 $85.00

More Fantastic Four, on the website.

 
MARVEL UNIVERSE By John Byrne Volume 2
Recommended. By John Byrne, Chris Claremont et al, with George Tuska, Steve Ditko & a host of inkers. Legendary creator John Byrne's incredible influence extends to every corner of the Marvel Universe! Here are his full runs on Iron Fist, Star Brand, Marvel Two-In-One and more -- alongside his blockbuster She-Hulk graphic novel, a Daredevil/Ghost Rider crossover, the debut of a Lost Generation of heroes, and a score of rarities, some never before reprinted. Witness Byrne's signature takes on Spider-Man, the Avengers, Black Panther, Hulk, Tigra, Iron Man, the Thing, Red Skull, Magneto and more! Marvel, 2018...More.

Item Code: MUJB02H
Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 7x11, 1296pg, Full Color
$125.00 $105.00

More John Byrne is on the website.

 

New Classics Illustrated

 
CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED #3 Robin Hood
From Classics #7, 1942, redrawn in the fifties. Recommended. By Howard Pyle. Art by Jack Sparling. First done in 1942, Gilberton decided to bring the art up to date and in the 1950s asked Jack Sparling to adapt the classic, and provided a fine new painted cover. But they stayed with the classic Howard Pyle original adaptation, first done by the fabled artist in the late 1880s and still a definitive retelling. Plus a look at the legend of Robin Hood and a timeline. Classic Comic Store, 2016...More.

Item Code: CLA03
Soft Cover, 6x9, 48pg, Full Color
$9.95

 
CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED #16 Moby Dick
From Classics #5, 1942, with new art & cover from the mid-fifties. By Herman Melville. One of the earliest classics in the series, Melville's tale of whaling and one captain's obsession with revenge against the great white whale that took his leg. This version is the redone edition, redrawn by DC Golden Age artist Nodel, with a handsome cover by another Golden Age comics artist. Includes a prose biography of Melville, a timeline, and discussion questions. Classic Comic Store, 2018...More.

Item Code: CLA16
Soft Cover, 6x9, 48pg, Full Color
$9.95

 
CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED #18 The Invisible Man
From Classics #153, 1959. Recommended. By H.G. Wells. Art by Norman Nodel. Painted cover by Geoffrey Biggs. Another true icon in the series, it's amazing that they didn't adapt this incredible story until 1959. Artist Norman Nodel had worked with Classics since 1941, and was also known for his Golden Age titles Supersnipe and his work in True Comics. H. G. Wells' tale of the mad scientist who discovers the secret of invisibility and wields its awesome power to his own selfish ends, doomed by a violent temper to be his own worst enemy. The cover here is one of the all-time great ones in the series, it perfectly captures the mystery of the invisible man, on the run from his crimes. Classic Comic Store, 2016...More.

Item Code: CLA18
Soft Cover, 6x9, 48pg, Full Color
$9.95

 
CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED #19 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
From Classics #19, 1944, this redrawn with new painted cover 1950s. By Mark Twain. Art by Mike Sekowsky and Frank Giacoia Mark Twain's sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, chronicling the adventures of Sawyer's friend, Huck Finn and Jim. One of the roughly 60 titles that were redrawn, with new painted covers, in the mid-1950s, here by DC Comics stalwarts. Sekowky is best known for his work on The Justice League, and Giacoia inked thousands of stories for the likes of Gil Kane (Green Lantern), etc. Mark Twain prose biography. Classic Comic Store, 2016...More.

Item Code: CLA19
Soft Cover, 6x9, 48pg, Full Color
$9.95

 
CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED #21 Treasure Island
Published as Classics #664, 1949. Later cover. Highly Recommended. By Robert Louis Stevenson. Art by Alex A. Blum. Robert Louis Stevenson's great tale of pirates and buried treasure--amazing to think it took Classics almost a decade to adapt this great story, but they did a very good job. It's one of Blum's best works, and this sports the new painted cover done in the 1950s to modernize it. It's also quite good. Plus, text features on Stevenson's life, on his fiction, and a timeline of its adaptions to film and television. Classic Comic Store, 2016...More.

Item Code: CLA21
Soft Cover, 6x9, 48pg, Full Color
$9.95

 
CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED #25 The Three Musketeers
From Classics #1, 1941, this redrawn in the mid-1950s. Highly Recommended. By Alexandre Dumas. Art by George Evans & Reed Crandall. One of the finest Classic comics ever, and the very first one in the series. This is a collaboration of two superb artists, fresh off working for EC Comics, together on a book-length story. It doesn't get much better than this! The exciting tale of D'Artagnan with Athos, Porthos and Aramis, the three heroes of 17th century France, loyal and fearless to a fault. The sequel was also done as a classic, Twenty Years After. Includes a prose biography of Dumas, and the story of his work. This was first published in 1844 and has been a classic ever since. Classic Comic Store, 2010...More.

Item Code: CLA25
Soft Cover, 6x9, 48pg, Full Color
$9.95

 
CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED #26 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
From Classics #47, 1948, with a new mid-1950s cover painting. Recommended. By Jules Verne. Science and adventure are electrifying accomplices in Jules Verne's classic 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. This epic and enduring tale anticipates not just wonders such as electric light and submarine navigation, but the obsession with technology and travel that today so shapes our lives. It is Verne's inspired foresight, combined with his extraordinary talent for storytelling, that continue to make this novel such a compelling read. This is the original 1948 artwork behind a handsome painted cover. Classic Comic Store, 2018...More.

Item Code: CLA26
Soft Cover, 6x9, 48pg, Full Color
$9.95

This is a new batch of books that we haven't offered in many years. These are also new editions, from a publisher in England called Classic Comic Store, a division of Casemate Publishers. We still handle the titles from Jack Lake as well. You can see all available titles by clicking here.

 

And everything else...

 
GRIMM FAIRY TALES 2018 HOLIDAY SPECIAL Alfredo Reyes Cover
By Joe Brusha et al. Art by Brio Murti, Butch Mapa, Marcel Mueller and Moy R. Tis the season to be terrified, as Grimm Fairy Tales returns with another year of holiday horror for the whole family. This issue includes four new bone chilling stories set during the happiest time of the year, by four different creative teams. Pin-Up cover starring Robyn Hood. Zenescope, 2018. Mature Readers...More.

Item Code: GFTH18
Comic, 7x10, 48pg, Full Color
$5.99

See more Zenescope one-shots like this, and their other publications, on our website.

 
ALTER EGO #156
Highly Recommended. Edited by Roy Thomas. More from the All Time Classic New York Comic Convention in 2000. All-star panels from Joe Petrilak's legendary con, showcasing the Golden Age (Cuidera, Hasen, Schwartz [Lew & Alvin], Boltinoff, Lampert, Gill, Flessel), and Silver Age Marvel, DC, & Gold Key (Severin, Sinnott, Ayers, Drake, Anderson, Fradon, Simonson, Green, Bolle, Thomas, et al.), and plenty of rare and unseen art! Plus still more on John BroomeFCA (Fawcett Collectors of America) interviews Dick Lupoff, Mr. Monster's comics crypt presents unseen Larry Ivie work, including unpublished tryout page proposing to revive the 1940s JSA, submitted to Julius Schwartz (they are NICE)! Twomorrows, 2018...More.

Item Code: AE156
Soft Cover, 8x11, 100pg, Full Color
$9.95

We have back issues #148 [AE148. $9.95, your price $4.95] and #150 on up — on the website.

 
ELFIN RHYMES By Norman
Facsimile of the original 1900 edition. Recommended. Art by Carton Moorepark. This charming children's book, written by an anonymous author known only as "Norman," was first published in 1900 and is now extremely rare. It features 11 rhymes that capture the mysterious and sometimes ridiculous world of goblins, witches and fairies. Naughty imps and elves love to play pranks, tease and make mischief on humans, animals and one another. And while few of these fairy tales have a happy ending, all of them offer the reader a moral lesson of sorts. Each verse is accompanied by several drawings by illustrator Carton Moorepark in either one, two or three simple colors. Art Books, 2018...More.

Item Code: ELFRH
Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 7x9, 95pg, Partial Color
$24.95

We also have a few left of a similar facsimile book, from the same publisher, that I particularly like: ABC: An Alphabet by Mrs. Arthur Gaskin [ABCH. $17.99, your price $14.99].

See our other fine facsimile editions, including all the Calla White Sale titles, on the website.

 

Bettie Page

 
BETTIE PAGE #1 BLACK BAG VARIANT (Series 2)
Variant nude photo cover. By David Avallone. Art by David Avallone, Julius Ohta. The brand-new Queen of England has mysteriously vanished, and British Intelligence needs a helping hand from the world's greatest model spy! Can Bettie the First find Elizabeth the Second before the news gets out and panics all of Great Britain? Are UFOs involved? David Avallone (Elvira: Mistress of the Dark) and Julius Ohta (Sherlock Holmes) show you all the stuff they cut out of the The Crown, as Bettie returns in The Princess And The Pinup, a four-part miniseries! Dynamite, 2018...More.

Item Code: BET01V
Soft Cover, 7x10, 32pg, Full Color
$10.00

 
ALSO AVAILABLE
BETTIE PAGE #1 SET (Series 2)
Set of five variant covers--interior is the same--by John Royale, Scott Chantler, David Williams, Julius Ohta and an original photo.. By David Avallone. Art by Julius Ohta. The brand-new Queen of England has mysteriously vanished, and British Intelligence needs a helping hand from the world's greatest model spy! Can Bettie the First find Elizabeth the Second before the news gets out and panics all of Great Britain? Are UFOs involved? David Avallone (Elvira: Mistress of the Dark) and Julius Ohta (Sherlock Holmes) present Bettie's return in "The Princess and The Pinup!" One of the five variant covers is a photograph of Bettie. Dynamite, 2018...More.

Item Code: BET01P
Comic, 7x10, 32pg ea
$19.95

 
ALSO AVAILABLE
BETTIE PAGE The Lost Years
Recommended. By Tori Rodriguez with Ron Brem. Foreword by Tempest Storm. Bettie's beloved sister Goldie, who looks very much like Bettie and was also an aspiring model, carefully stored heaps of incredible family photos, the bulk of which feature Bettie as either the sole subject or part of the shot. Many feature both girls in bikinis, posing at the beach. None of these hundreds of photos has ever been published until now, and few people even knew they existed. Goldie also saved approximately 29 letters from Bettie spanning the years 1949 to 2000, ranging in length from note-size to 18 full pages, which are used here to tell the unknown story, from Bettie herself, of Bettie's “lost years” following her retirement from modeling in 1957. Littlefield, 2018...More.

Item Code: BETLYH
Hard Cover, 9x11, 126pg, Partial Color
$27.95 $24.95

 
ALSO AVAILABLE
BETTIE PAGE Halloween Special One Shot
Highly Recommended. By David Avallone and Leah Williams. Art by Julius Ohta and Fernando Ruiz. Is a Boston artist in contact with godlike space invaders, or is he just nuts? Here is the latest chapter in writer David Avallone's secret diary of Bettie Page! In "Pickman's Supermodel," Bettie finds her own H.P. Lovecraft monsters in a story that is exceptionally well drawn and looks like fun. In between modeling stints for fetish mags, Bettie finds this strange artist, Mr. Pickman, who quickly proves to be a madman on a mission. But our girl is prepared to handle him, though not necessarily the Cthulhu-style monsters he's summoned forth. Dynamite, 2018...More.

Item Code: BPHSP
Comic, 7x10, 40pg, Full Color
$4.99

 
ALSO AVAILABLE
BETTIE PAGE Queen of Curves
Special Order- takes 3-4 weeks! Highly Recommended. By Petra Mason. Foreword by Bunny Yeager. A treasure trove of classic as well as never-before-seen photos of legendary pinup icon Bettie Page, all shot by model-turned-photographer Bunny Yeager. Bunny is credited with capturing Bettie Page's true nature--her flirtatious and playfully erotic side. Culled from Yeager's extensive archive, here are her finest shots, including many nudes, which by all reports is how Bettie was most comfortable. Rizzoli, 2014...More.

Item Code: BPQH
Hard Cover, 9x11, 256pg, Partial Color
$55.00

On our website you'll find the first Bettie comics series, now collected in two trade paperback collections. Plus remaining variant cover sets (the first couple are now sold out). And lots more Bettie, including several Rare and Out of Print editions.

 

Bargain Books

These 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.

 

JACK KIRBY PENCILS AND INKS Artisan Edition [JKPIAEH. $49.99 $29.99].

TIM TYLER'S LUCK 1933 [LOA09H. $29.99 $19.99].

WOW COMICS #1 [WOWC01. $15.00 $9.95].

MARVEL MASTERWORKS AMAZING SPIDER-MAN Volume 18 [MAS18H. $75.00 $45.00].

MARVEL MASTERWORKS AMAZING SPIDER-MAN Volume 19 [MAS19H. $75.00 $45.00].

PRE-CODE CLASSICS NIGHTMARE Volume 1 [PCN01H. $59.99 $39.99].

STEPHEN KING'S CREEPSHOW [SKCREE. $18.00 $10.00].

TAPESTRY The Paintings of Robert McGinnis [TAPEH. $125.00 $89.00].

VIRGIL FINLAY STRANGE SCIENCE [VFSTR. $50.00 $35.00].

WALT DISNEY'S MICKEY MOUSE Volume 9 & 10 Collector's Box Set [WLT05HP. $49.99 $29.99].

GRIS GRIMLY'S Tales from the Brothers Grimm [GGTH. $17.99 $11.99].

WONDER WOMAN A CELEBRATION OF 75 YEARS [WW75H. $39.99 $24.99].

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.

 

Rare & Out of Print

A couple titles this week that collect numerous comic and fantasy artists. The first is The Studio, which collects Jeffrey Jones, Michael Kaluta, Barry Windsor-Smith and Bernie Wrightson.

The second is Infinite Worlds, a warehouse find with over 300 pages of fantastic art by over 100 different artists.

Also a copy of The Art of Jack Kirby is discounted because of the lack of dustjacket.

Lastly, a very cool monster coloring book by Bernie Wrightson, The Monsters Color the Creature Book.

 

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May your Christmas season be filled with joy and light!
Above image from the back cover of The Wally Wood Christmas Book.
 

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