Thursday, March 28, 2019

Roger Hill’s EC Fan-Addict #4, Zoologia, Four cover variations of Detective #1000, Several good new graphic novels and Spectrums on sale!

Roger Hill's EC Fan-Addict #4 is in, with all kinds of fun articles. Zoologia is packed with brilliant, totally unique creature designs. We have four cover variations of the popular Detective #1000 and it's really a sharp issue, even if you haven't read a Batman comic in years.

Several good new graphic novels this week, my favorite is Out of the Blue by Garth Ennis and Keith Burns; I just began reading Mata Hari so jury's out on this but artistically it's good. The Marvel Universe exhibit catalog is a very nice surprise, with lots of cool rarities, interviews and articles by famous folks. And we have four Spectrums in an exclusive sale, they've been tucked away at a publisher warehouse for many years.

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EC FAN-ADDICT #4 FANZINE
Our Highest Recommendation. By Roger Hill. Remember the days of fabulous, high quality fanzines like Squa Tront, filled with fascinating new information about EC artists, and never-before-seen artwork? Well, look no more, long-time fan Roger Hill brings it all back in another great issue. Previously unpublished Wally Wood (from his wartime years), Frank Frazetta (a look at ALL his newspaper strips), a wonderful look at the Art of EC Comics Exhibit's opening night, the REAL story (and Pogo art) behind Wood leaving Mad, the amazing Wood Studio diorama...and much more. Roger Hill, 2019...More.

Item Code: ECF04
Soft Cover, 8x11, 66pg, Partial Color
$20.00

A new issue of this classic zine is a rare event...in this case, three years since the last issue. I love ‘em, and I find most veteran fans do also. Here's the other two available issues. We are one of the very few sources for these.

Click on this to see five pictures I took personally of the Wally Wood Diorama, the subject of one of the articles in this new issue. I first saw this at the OAF show in October 2016, and snapped these. Been showing them to friends ever since. We posted these on Facebook Wednesday and already are getting quite a buzz. Here's a link to us on Facebook.

 
ALSO AVAILABLE
EC FAN-ADDICT #3 FANZINE
Our Highest Recommendation. By Roger Hill. Remember the days of fabulous, high quality fanzines like Squa Tront, filled with fascinating new information about EC artists, and never-before-seen artwork. Well, look no more, long-time fan Roger Hill brings it all back: new information about Max Gaines' death, amazing details about the unsung Sid Check and his work with Frazetta and others, Roy Krenkel memoirs by Angelo Torres and Al Williamson! Roger Hill, 2015...More.

Item Code: ECF03
Soft Cover, 8x11, 71pg, Partial Color
$20.00

 
ALSO AVAILABLE
EC FAN-ADDICT #2 FANZINE
Privately published in 2012. Highly Recommended. By Roger Hill. Publisher Roger Hill was closely associated with legendary EC fanzine Squa Tront--here he carries on that grand tradition. New, previously unseen artwork and new information about the EC talent: entirely new details on artist Sid Check, Frazetta's youth and first work, Al Feldstein on EC's 3D, the rare Buster Crabbe adventure comics, Al Williamson. Roger Hill, 2012...More.

Item Code: ECF02
Soft Cover, 8x11, 70pg, Text/b&w
$20.00

 
ZOOLOGIA The Art of Stan Manoukian
...a mix between aliens from outer space and Cthulhu's spawn. Highly Recommended. By Stan Manoukian. Step into the fantastical world of Stan Manoukian's complex and intricate creatures. In 200 pages, Zoologia immerses the reader in a fantastic bestiary. For ten years, this amazing French illustrator imagined and drew creatures sometimes disturbing, sometimes funny, sometimes cute, sometimes monstrous, but always fascinating. Stan has divided his creations into six chapters, each representing distinct geological terrains and environments: frozen, swampy, dry, wooden, rocky, and twilight. Cernunnos, 2018...More.

Item Code: ZOOLH
Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 9x12, 208pg, Partial Color
$39.95

 

Detective #1000

 
DETECTIVE COMICS 1000
Cover by Jim Lee, Scott Williams & Alex Sinclair. Highly Recommended. By Denny O'Neill, Johns, Bendis, Snyder, Ellis, Peter J. Tomasi et al. Art by Doug Mahnke et al. After 80 years, it's here--the 1,000th issue of Detective Comics, the title that literally defines DC! This 96-page issue is stacked with an unbelievable lineup of talent that will take you on a journey through Batman's past, present and future...plus a sensational epilogue that features the first-ever DC Universe appearance of the deadly Arkham Knight! But who is under the mask? And why do they want Batman dead? The incredible future of Batman adventures begins here! This is outstanding, cover to cover. DC, 2019...More.

Item Code: DETCO
Soft Cover, 7x10, 96pg, Full Color
$9.99

 
DETECTIVE COMICS 1000 Steve Rude 1930S Variant
1930s Variant Cover by Steve Rude. Highly Recommended. By Denny O'Neill, Johns, Bendis, Snyder, Ellis, Peter J. Tomasi et al. Art by Doug Mahnke et al. DC, 2019...More.

Item Code: DETCOSR
Soft Cover, 7x10, 96pg, Full Color
$9.99

 
DETECTIVE COMICS 1000 Bruce Timm 1940S Variant
1940s Variant Cover by Bruce Timm. Highly Recommended. By Denny O'Neill, Johns, Bendis, Snyder, Ellis, Peter J. Tomasi et al. Art by Doug Mahnke et al. DC, 2019...More.

Item Code: DETCOBT
Soft Cover, 7x10, 96pg, Full Color
$9.99

 
DETECTIVE COMICS 1000 Jim Steranko 1960S Variant
1960s Variant Cover by Jim Steranko. Highly Recommended. By Denny O'Neill, Johns, Bendis, Snyder, Ellis, Peter J. Tomasi et al. Art by Doug Mahnke et al. DC, 2019...More.

Item Code: DETCOJS
Soft Cover, 7x10, 96pg, Full Color
$9.99

There will also be a hardcover of the regular edition, due in June, but not yet on our website. All these are probably limited in supply, so act now to avoid missing out. There are other variant covers, but we chose these as our favorites. See more Detective Comics and Batman on the website.

 

Graphic Novels

 
MATA HARI The Untold Story of the Original Femme Fatale
"...visually lush, emotionally rich..." -Kelly Sue DeConnick Recommended. By Emma Beeby. Art by Ariela Kristantina, Pat Masioni et al. Dancer. Courtesan. Spy. Executed by a French firing squad in 1917. Questions are still raised about her conviction. Now, the lesser-known, often tragic story of the woman who claimed she was born a princess, and died a figure of public hatred, told by break-out talent writer Emma Beeby (Judge Dredd), artist Ariela Kristantina (Insexts), drawing on biographies and released MI5 files. We meet Mata Hari in prison as she writes her memoir—part romantic tale of a Javanese princess who performed “sacred” nude dances for Europe's elite, and part real-life saga of a disgraced wife and mother, who has everything she loves taken from her. Berger Books, 2019...More.

Item Code: MATAHA
Soft Cover, 7x10, 128pg, Full Color
$19.99 $17.99

This reminds me of another recent graphic novel: Djinn Volume 1 [DJIN01. $16.99]. Volume 2 is expected in June.

 

NOBODY'S FOOL The Life and Times of Schlitzie the Pinhead
The true story of the inspiration for Zippy the Pinhead. Recommended. By Bill Griffith. "The best graphic novel of the year!” - R. Crumb. The story of Schlitzie’s long career—from Coney Island and the Ringling Bros. Circus to small-town carnivals and big-city sideshows. Schlitzie is best-known for his appearance in the cult classic film Freaks. The making of Freaks and Schlitzie’s role in the film are central here. Bill Griffith has tracked down primary sources and archives throughout the country, including conducting interviews with those who worked with him and had intimate knowledge of his personality, his likes and dislikes, how he responded to being a sideshow “freak,” and much more. Abrams Comic Art, 2019...More.

Item Code: NOBFH
Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 6x10, 248pg, b&w
$24.99


 
OUT OF THE BLUE Volume 1
Highly Recommended. By Garth Ennis. Art by Keith Burns...skies black with flak and enemy fighters, nail-biting low-level action, and the dark humor of men whose lives can be snatched away at any second. The war is almost over, but no one seems to have told the Germans. Royal Air Force pilot Jamie McKenzie is assigned to deadly shipping strikes along the enemy coast.  Flying the Mosquito fighter-bomber against heavily armed targets is dangerous enough--but after incurring the wrath of his commanding officer, Jamie is assigned the most unpopular navigator and the least reliable aircraft. Worse still, the commander's sights are firmly set on Jamie's beautiful young wife, Beth. Aftershock, 2019...More.

Item Code: OUTB01H
Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 9x12, 72pg, Full Color
$19.99 $17.99

For more graphic novels and books about World War II, see our Special Interest/History section online.

 

Comics & Strip Archives

 
DECADES MARVEL IN THE 60'S Spider-Man Meets the Marvel Universe
Highly Recommended. By Stan Lee and Roy Thomas. Art by Steve Ditko, Jack Kirby et al. Celebrate 80 years of Marvel Comics, decade by decade and see how Spider-Man became an icon of the (Web) Swinging Sixties! The ever-sociable wallcrawler helped build the connected Marvel Universe we know and love with these early team-ups (and tussles) with his fellow heroes, beginning with his bid to join the Fantastic Four, friendships with the Human Torch and Daredevil, and his first run-ins with the Hulk, Avengers, X-Men and more! Steve Ditko unites his signature characters, Spider-Man and Doctor Strange! Marvel, 2019...More.

Item Code: DECA60
Soft Cover, 7x10, 256pg, Full Color
$24.99 $21.99

This is the third volume in this series. Decades 1940s features The Human Torch Vs.The Sub-Mariner, Decades 50s features Captain America in all issues of Young Men, Men's Adventures, and his own title #76-78. DECA40, DECA50. $24.99, $21.99

 
CREEPY ARCHIVES Volume 28
Collects #134-139, 1982. Recommended. By Bill DuBay, Archie Goodwin, Al Williamson, Alex Toth et al. A mosaic of morbid mayhem: bloodthirsty bats, cultured cannibals, homicidal honeymooners, murderous mummies, and starving psychopaths! Featuring deadly dramas, contemporary, sword & sorcery and science fiction--by a cavalcade of comics' finest creators--including Rudy Nebres, Sanjulian, Salvador, Auraleon, Peter Hsu, Steve Gan, Val Mayerik and covers by Ken Kelly and Nebres. #137 and #139 are all-reprint Al Williamson and Alex Toth issues. Dark Horse policy is they don't include reprints of stories already done earlier in the Creepy archives series. This is why this collects more issues than we usually see in one book. Dark Horse, 2019...More.

Item Code: CRE28H
Hard Cover, 9x11, 248pg, b&w
$49.99 $39.99

Previous volumes are in stock or can be special ordered. See our website.

 
WALT DISNEY'S DONALD DUCK COMPLETE DAILY NEWSPAPER COMICS Volume 5 1948-1950
Recommended. By Bob Karp. Art by Al Taliaferro. From the Disney Vaults! This fifth volume includes 750 sequential daily comic strips from January 1, 1948, through the middle of 1950 drawn by Al Taliaferro and reproduced from original material in the Disney files! It's time to laugh again with Donald, Daisy, and those impetuous nephews, Huey, Dewey, and Louie. No extended adventures here, these are all daily gags that mostly star the always-unique Donald getting into or out of trouble, regardless of his many foibles. Alberto Becattini's introduction says it well: “In-Jokes and New Jobs."...More.

Item Code: WDDN05H
Hard Cover, 11x9, 272pg, b&w
$39.99 $34.99

All previous volumes remain available from us. Much more Donald Duck (and Scrooge) is on the website.
 
BERSERK DELUXE EDITION Volume 1
Genuine leather binding, massive 700 pages. By Kentaro Miura. Kentaro Miura's Berserk has outraged, horrified, and delighted manga and anime fanatics since 1989, creating an international legion of hardcore devotees and inspiring a TV series, feature films, and video games. And now the badass champion of adult fantasy manga is presented in a deluxe hardcover edition collecting the first three Berserk volumes, with following volumes to come. A demented, pathological, revenge-absorbed Conan-type meets monsters, warriors and seductive witches, and it's torture, slashing battles, ultra violence. Dark Horse, 2019. Mature Readers...More.

Item Code: BER01H
Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 7x10, 696pg, Full Color
$49.99 $39.99

See our website for more manga and manga-related art books.

 

Sheena

 
SHEENA QUEEN OF THE JUNGLE Volume 2
Collects #6-10, 2018 By Marguerite Bennett & Christina Trujillo. Art by Maria Sanapo. The start of a bold new adventure--the forest is beset by a terrible plague that sickens the very jungle, but this deadly evil is not the only danger Sheena must face. A ruthless huntress prowls the forest, seeking a girl with golden hair, and the mark of the jaguar... Are we meeting Sheena's mother, or is this a grand deception by a swarthy jungle woman who may or may not be who she says she is. Sheena's friend, the lovely Lilio, suspects not. And in this modern-day tale, we also encounter a Cthulhu-type creature from an ancient crypt. Bonus: variant covers. Dynamite, 2019...More.

Item Code: SHEQ02
Soft Cover, 7x10, 144pg, Full Color
$19.99 $17.99

Volume 1 is also available, same discounted price [SHEQ01].

 
ALSO AVAILABLE
THE COMPLETE ADVENTURES OF THE JUNGLE QUEEN
1951-54. Recommended. By James Anson Buck and Joseph W. Musgrave. For the first time under one cover, all three tales from the very rare pulp title Stories of Sheena, Queen of the Jungle as well as the story from the final issue of Jungle Stories! All the type has been reset and includes an introduction by Clark J. Holloway. Sheena was giant in the comics, lasting 165 issues in Jumbo, 18 issues of her own title, then on to television and film. But in the pulps? This is it, the entirety of her appearances in pulp fiction! Altus, 2008...More.

Item Code: COMJQ
Soft Cover, 6x9, 214pg, Text Only
$19.95

This is also available in hardcover [COMJQH. $40].

 
ALSO AVAILABLE
FICTION HOUSE FROM PULPS TO PANELS
Our Highest Recommendation. By Mitch Maglio. Art by Matt Baker, Lou Fine et al. From sexy jungle girls to even sexier ray gun toting space women and beyond, Fiction House Comics had it all! Now for the first time the entire history of Fiction House, the leading purveyor of Good Girl art during the Golden Age of Comics, is told in a single volume! Stuffed with breathtaking cover reproductions, original artwork, dozens of cover preliminaries by Joe Doolin (!) and even full length stories. The story of one of the most successful publishers ever, from their pulp origins on, with artwork by Matt Baker, George Tuska, Lou Fine, Bob Lubbers, Murphy Anderson, Lily Renee and many others. IDW, 2017...More.

Item Code: FICHOH
Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 9x11, 300pg, Full Color
$49.99 $39.99

 
ALSO AVAILABLE
IRISH MCCALLA ROYAL PAIR Signed Print
Special Order- takes 1 week! Signed & numbered, 750! By Ron Van Gilder. Irish McCalla played Sheena Queen of the Jungle in the 1950s. Here we have a beautiful image of her in her Sheena garb standing in a tree with a majestic lion. The King and Queen of the Jungle, truly a matched Royal Pair. Signed by both Irish McCalla and artist Ron Van Gilder and numbered to only 750 prints! MOP Pin-Up....More.

Item Code: ROYPRD
32x24, 1 print, Full Color
$125.00 $75.00

We also have PS Artbooks Sheena collections from the 1940s Volumes 1-3, published at $48 to $65, now discounted at $24.99 to $29.99. And click here for more Sheena appearances in other places, including the popular new Yoe collection, Jungle Girls [JUGIH. $29.99, $26.99].

 

Comics Related & More

 
MARVEL UNIVERSE OF SUPER HEROES Museum Exhibit Guide
Highly Recommended. Marvel Comics and Marvel Studios films are not only the enduring voices of the Super Heroes themselves, but also the diverse visions of Marvel's writers, artists, actors and filmmakers. This impressive book spotlights legendary comics creators, up-and-coming talent, editors, executives, artists, art collectors, actors and showrunners, along with articles about the history and power of Marvel fans, with interviews with and articles by the legends and stars: Stan Lee, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Clark Gregg, Joe Quesada, G. Willow Wilson, Roy Thomas (on early fandom), Chris Claremont, Jeph Loeb, Cheo Hodari Coker and James Marsters. ...More.

Item Code: MARVU
Soft Cover, 8x11, 240pg, Text/Partial Color
$34.99 $31.99

 
FIREFLY The Magnificent Nine
By James Lovegrove. An original prose novel tying into the critically acclaimed and much-missed Firefly series from creator Joss Whedon. An old flame of Jayne's, Temperance McCloud, sends a message to Serenity, begging him for help. She lives on the arid, far-flung world of Tethys, and bandits are trying to overrun her town to gain control of their water supply: the only thing standing between its people and dustbowl ruin. Titan, 2019...More.

Item Code: FIRMNH
Hard Cover, 6x10, 332pg, Text Only
$24.95 $21.95

Want more? See other new Firefly and Serenity books on the website.

 
THE COMIC BOOK ARTIST'S WORKBOOK Perspective Signed
Signed bookplate! Recommended. By Dan Cooney. Aspiring comic book artists and storytellers will thoroughly enjoy this book! Seasoned author and art teacher Daniel Cooney shows readers how to draw credible perspective from any point of view for convincing backgrounds, and their relationships with the characters that inhabit them. This instructional book works like a journal filled with exercises for creating scenes in the context of storytelling. Practical demonstrations and interactive workbook grids to complete show readers how to enjoy the process as they develop their drawing mechanics and storytelling "chops." B.E.S., 2019...More.

Item Code: COMAPS
Soft Cover, 9x11, 176pg, Partial Color
$21.99

See more instructional books in our How-To and Reference section, on the website.

 

Spectrum Annuals--on sale

 
SPECTRUM Volume 5
Closeout Price! The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art. Highly Recommended. Edited by Cathy Fenner and Arnie Fenner. Spectrum 5, originally published in 1998 and now in its second edition, celebrates world-class fantasy art in a variety of media. Each work was selected by an award-winning jury of artists, designers, and art directors, and each image includes the size, title, and medium employed. Artists include such masters as Don Maitz, Michael Whelan, Jeffrey Jones, Alex Ross, Barry Windsor-Smith, David Bowers, Greg Spalenka, Kent Williams, Rick Berry, John Jude Palencar, and James Gurney. Underwood, 2009...More.

Item Code: SPE05
Soft Cover, 8x11, 168pg, Full Color
$27.95 $17.95

 
SPECTRUM Volume 9
Closeout Price! The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art. Highly Recommended. Edited by Cathy Fenner and Arnie Fenner. Startling, wry, lyrical, and beguiling, the unrivaled reference to the ever-evolving world of science fiction and fantasy art in all its incarnations. Featuring the work of such award-winning creators as Dave McKean, Michael Whelan, Anita Kunz, Peter de Seve, James Gurney and over 200 more artists from around the globe. Also includes a breezy and biting Year in Review, a profile of the 2002 Grand Master Award recipient Kinuko Y. Craft, and contact information for every artist. The result is a seamless time capsule that will appeal to anyone with a taste for both excellence and the unexpected. Underwood Books, 2002...More.

Item Code: SPE09
Soft Cover, 8x11, 176pg, Full Color
$27.00 $17.95

 
SPECTRUM Volume 11
Closeout Price! The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art. Highly Recommended. Edited by Cathy Fenner and Arnie Fenner. The first and only illustration annual to focus solely on fantastic art, with over 300 artists featured. Divided into seven categories, including one devoted to comics and graphic novels, a feast of disparate visions and artistic imagining, showcasing, among others: John Howe, fantasy illustrator and designer for Lord of the Rings; Peter deSeve, conceptual artist on Finding Nemo; Anita Kunz's work from Rolling Stone; the exquisite acrylics of Michael Whelan; the poignant work of John Jude Palancar; Doug Chiang, design director for Star Wars and creator of Robota; and Jon Foster, also of Star Wars fame. Underwood Books, 2004...More.

Item Code: SPE11
Soft Cover, 8X11, 208pg, Full Color
$29.00 $17.95

 
SPECTRUM Volume 19 Hardcover
Closeout Price! The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art. Highly Recommended. Edited by Cathy and Arnie Fenner. 300 diverse visionary artists, many world-renowned, including Michael Whelan, Donato Giancola, Leo & Diane Dillon, Kinuko Craft, and Peter de SèveJames Gurney (Dinotopia) is the featured Grand Master. Cover is by Brom. Here is the year's finest art, Gold, Silver and Bronze winners plus all carefully chosen runners up, picked by a jury of their peers. With art from books and book covers, graphic novels, video games, films, galleries, three-dimensional (statues, etc.) and advertising, Spectrum is truly an electrifying art book. Underwood Books, 2012...More.

Item Code: SPE19H
Hard Cover, 9x12, 304pg, Full Color
$45.00 $24.95

See our website for more Spectrum back volumes, some in print, some in rare books.

Also see our website for other clearance-priced books from Underwood Books:

Three pulp art collections, all now $9.95 each:

Savage Art [SAVAH], Shameless Art [SHAAH], and Strange Days [STRDH]

Artists Against the War [ARTAGH. $19.95 $9.95]

Sword's Edge: Paintings Inspired by Robert E. Howard [SWOEH. $19.95 $10.95]

Women of Wonder: Celebrating Women Creators of Fantastic Art [WOMOW. $25.00 $12.50]

Middle Earth: Visions of a Modern Myth by Donato Giancola [MIDEH. $25.00 $12.50].

Telling Stories: The Comic Art of Frank Frazetta [TELSH. $49.95, $24.95]

--Also available: Telling Stories Super Deluxe Limited [TELSSD. $500 $250] and Super Deluxe Lettered [TELSSDL. $650 – just three left].

 

Coming in May

 
NORMAN ROCKWELL My Adventures as an Illustrator The Definitive Edition
Recommended. By Tom Rockwell. Art by Norman Rockwell. Edited by Abigail Rockwell. The wit, humanity, and many-sided talent of Norman Rockwell (1894–1978) are on full display in his classic autobiography. Rockwell's New York City boyhood, his apprentice days at the Art Students League, his first fateful visit to the Saturday Evening Post, his adventures abroad, his move to rural Vermont—all are recounted with a mix of sharp observation and self-deprecating humor. Throughout Rockwell invites the reader into his artistic process: he introduces his favorite models, candidly reveals his biggest flops, and documents the creation of a Post cover step by step. Abbeville Press, 2019. Due May. ...More.

Item Code: NRMYH
Hard Cover, 7x9, 536pg, Partial Color
$40.00

Here are more fine exhibit books from the Norman Rockwell Museum examining Everett Raymond Kinstler, Mort Kunstler, Gloria Stoll Karn (pulp romance) and Hanna Barbera Studios.

 
ENDLESS ENIGMA Eight Centuries of Fantastic Art
Lineages of the eerie, the strange and the fantastical: from Blake, Goya and Redon to Borremans, Yuskavage and Marshall. This major new volume explores the ways in which artists have sought to explain their world in terms of an alternate reality, drawn from imagination, the subconscious, poetry, nature, myth and religion. Presenting works from the 12th century to the present day, the book is organized into six themes—Monsters & Demons, Dreams & Temptation, Fragmented Body, Unconscious Gesture, Super Nature and Sense of Place. David Zwirner Books, 2019. Due May. ...More.

Item Code: ENDEH
Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 9x11, 248pg, Full Color
$75.00

 

Coming in September

 
TIMELY'S GREATEST The Golden Age Sub-Mariner by Bill Everett The Pre-War Years Omnibus
Our Highest Recommendation. By Bill Everett. This debut volume celebrates the incomparable adventures of comics' first antihero--some of the finest art and stories to be found in the Golden Age! Bill Everett's Sub-Mariner cut a bold path, defending his undersea kingdom, invading New York City, fighting the Axis powers, and battling both against and alongside the Human Torch! Like his signature character, Everett was an iconoclast ahead of his time. His lush, detailed artwork and engrossing ongoing storylines were unlike anything else of the era! For the first time ever, experience every adventure of Prince Namor from his 1939 debut through Bill Everett's February 1942 induction into the armed services. Marvel, 2019. Due Sept. ...More.

Item Code: TIMGASH
Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 864pg, Partial Color
$150.00 $125.00

 

Rare & Out of Print

Published by Russ Cochran, we have a few of The Complete EC Archives sets still remaining. These include Weird Fantasy, Two-Fisted Tales, Shock Suspenstories, Aces High, Piracy and Psychoanalysis. Also available from Russ are the colorful cover portfolios from Frontline Combat, Weird Fantasy and Two-Fisted Tales.

From the talented biomechanical artist H.R. Giger we have Biomechanics, N.Y. City, and the bargain priced Species.

Fantastic fantasy artist Brom gives us Offerings, from 2001, as well as Darkwerks The Art of Brom, published in 1997.

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News and Notes

 

Sanjulian sold out

Last week this turned out to be the absolute fastest selling book that I ever remember handling. We brought in just under 100 of the soft and hardcover, and the hardcovers were gone in less than 24 hours, by Friday, and the softcovers were gone by Monday. There is a tiny chance we might get a few more, but it's unlikely. The publisher turned down Diamond Comics' order, so besides Kickstarter, we were one of the only sources for the book. I am pleading with the publisher, Steve Morger of Big Wow, to reprint this.


I expect a LOT more people would like to see it. Like other quickly sold out books, The Art of Reed Crandall and Sky Masters: The Complete Sundays, this also deserves to be seen by far more people. Sadly, our newsletter people, who depend on a printed version of this weekly email, missed out entirely on this, since internet folks by default get first shot. Stay tuned, maybe the publisher will make it work for another edition.

~Bud


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Thursday, March 21, 2019

Sanjulian, new Illustration Magazine, Arthur Adams Sketchbook, Justice League, Hogan’s Alley, Detective Comics 80 Years of Batman and more!

Important new books this week: Sanjulian gets my highest recommendation; a new Illustration Magazine; and the long-awaited Arthur Adams Sketchbook. I like the Justice League: The Last Age of Magic, a new Hogan's Alley is always a treat; Detective Comics 80 Years is an unusual and nicely eclectic collection; Promethea brings back one of the all-time beautiful comic series; Vei is another delight, a Swedish graphic novel; and the Marx Brothers meet Dali!

Don't miss the new catalog, Lance cover, now downloadable, pictured down below—printed version in your hands early in April.

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SANJULIAN MASTER OF FANTASY ART Hardcover Signed
Almost Gone! Signed bookplate! Our Highest Recommendation. By Sanjulian. Introduction by Joe Jusko. A stunningly beautiful new art book, done as a Kickstarter project and unlikely to be available in most outlets. To quote from Joe Jusko's introduction:" ...Sanjulian's work has elevated him to my Mount Olympus of fantasy artists. There are many talented painters scaling the cliffs, but it's a mythic summit that very few have ever reached. Frank Frazetta, James Bama, Boris Vallejo and Jeffrey Jones are several whose membership cannot be denied, and Sanjulian unquestionably stands right there amongst them." Collected here is his finest work, including countless private commissions never before collected. Conan, Vampirella, nudes, covers for Creepy, Eerie & Famous Monsters, it just does not stop! Many surprises. Much of this we've never seen before. BIG WOW!, 2019...More.

Item Code: SANJULH
Hard Cover, 9x12, 312pg, Partial Color
$50.00

 
SANJULIAN MASTER OF FANTASY ART Signed
Almost Gone! Signed bookplate! Our Highest Recommendation. A stunningly beautiful new art book, done as a Kickstarter project and unlikely to be available in most outlets. To quote from Joe Jusko's introduction: "...Sanjulian's work has elevated him to my Mount Olympus of fantasy artists. There are many talented painters scaling the cliffs, but it's a mythic summit that very few have ever reached. Frank Frazetta, James Bama, Boris Vallejo and Jeffrey Jones are several whose membership cannot be denied, and Sanjulian unquestionably stands right there amongst them." Collected here is his finest work, including countless private commissions never before collected. Conan, Vampirella, nudes, covers for Creepy, Eerie & Famous Monsters, it just does not stop! Many surprises. Much of this we've never seen before. BIG WOW!, 2019...More.

Item Code: SANJUL
Soft Cover, 9x12, 312pg, Partial Color
$39.99

As mentioned in the description, this Sanjulian book was a Kickstarter project. We didn't know that our initial order was all that we are going to get—thank goodness I ordered up, but now wish I had more. Some copies came in with minor corner dents. But since we can't replace them, we will fill orders with these once the perfect copies are gone. ‘Nuff said.

We are also getting a signed bookplate from the publisher, but it has not arrived yet. We will ship the book out right away, and send the bookplate separately upon arrival.

 
ILLUSTRATION MAGAZINE #63
Highly Recommended. Art by E.M. Jackson, Mario Cooper and Frederic Remington. Featuring the work of E.M. Jackson, known for his many slick magazine illustrations and covers for the Saturday Evening Post as well as illustrated books.  His style was a mix of J.C. Leyendecker, Dean Cornwell and even pulp influence. He was prolific but underappreciated until now. A second feature examines another magazine illustrator, Mario Cooper, known for his watercolor and dye illustrations for fiction featured in Collier's, American Weekly, and other major titles. Finally, "The Demise of the 'Frontier' and the Birth of the 'New West' " looks at early American artists of the Western frontier, focused here on Remington and Charles Russell. Illustrated Press, 2019...More.

Item Code: IL63
Magazine, 9x11, 96pg, Partial Color
$15.00

Editor Dan Zimmer just announced his next book, on pulp illustrator Raphael DeSoto. The new edition of Tom Lovell [TLIH. $44.95], limited to 900 copies, should be here any day now. See our site for back issues of Illustration Magazine and other books from The Illustrated Press.

 

Arthur Adams

 
ARTHUR ADAMS 2018 Sketchbook Signed
Signed! Highly Recommended. When it comes to fine detail AND extraordinary design, no one can match Arthur's fine work. Here is a stunning fantasy Fantastic Four #100 cover with a zillion characters. And his ladies, well, they are quite abundant and as cute as anything. This time around there's lots of them, along with finished pen & ink work on variant covers and never-before-seen commissions. We have a Scooby Doo two-pager, Wolverine, Leia and Star Wars, a new Captain Marvel, X-Men, Weapon X, Power Girl, Batman, Dejah Thoris, a wonderful Groot, and much more. Arthur Adams, 2018. Mature Readers...More.

Item Code: AA18S
Soft Cover, 8x11, 44pg, b&w
$30.00

Arthur's work appears in two Marvel Covers Artists Editions, Guardians of the Galaxy, Vampirella Bust regular and artist proof variant, Red Sonja Bust, Hero Initiative Benefit, Rocketeer High-Flying Adventures, Danger Girl Gallery Edition sc and hc, and more.

See our website for other available convention sketchbooks.

 

Graphic Novels

 
VEI Volume 1
An Original Swedish Graphic Novel, Now in English. Recommended. By Sara B. Elfgren and Karl Johnsson. Very handsomely drawn. In the midst of a bloody battle between giants, Asgardian gods, and humans, deceit and betrayal run wild. One warrior must fight to discover who she can trust and beat the odds to determine the ultimate fate of her people. She trained her whole life to become the strongest warrior of Jotunheim, to become the beloved champion of her gods. But when the time came to finally prove her strength, Vei was cast into the sea by the very god she fought for. Rescued by a Viking ship, Vei returns to Jotunheim, home of the legendary giants. Minor nudity. Insight Comics, 2019...More.

Item Code: VEI01H
Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 9x11, 144pg, Full Color
$24.99

 
GIRAFFES ON HORSEBACK SALAD
By Josh Frank. Art by Manuela Pertega. Surrealism meets Hollywood meets film history in this graphic novel, which turns an unproduced script by Salvador Dali into a fantastic comedy starring Groucho, Chico, and Harpo Marx. But first, the real-life backstory: Giraffes was a Marx Brothers film written by modern art icon Salvador Dali, who'd befriended Harpo. Rejected by MGM, the script was thought lost forever. But author Josh Frank found it, and with comedian Tim Heidecker and Spanish comics creator Manuela Pertega, he's re-created the film as a graphic novel in all its gorgeous full-color, cinematic, surreal glory. Quirk, 2019...More.

Item Code: GIRAH
Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 7x9, 224pg, Partial Color
$29.99 $26.99

 
XERXES The Fall of the House of Darius and the Rise of Alexander
Oversize, oblong size. Recommended. By Frank Miller. This historical epic, set in the world of 300, tells of the upsurge and decline of the Persian King's empire, and the ascent of the Grecian realm through Alexander.Written and illustrated by comics luminary and legend Frank Miller (Sin City, The Dark Knight, 300) and colored by Alex Sinclair (Batman: The Dark Knight III: The Master Race, 300), brings the historical story of Xerxes to the graphic novel audience with grit and visual style! Some nudity, abundant violence! Dark Horse, 2019...More.

Item Code: XERH
Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 13x10, 112pg, Full Color
$30.00 $26.99

See more Frank Miller on our website.

 
THE PRISONER Shattered Visage
By Dean Motter and Mark Askwith. Art by Dean Motter. Set 20 years after the events of the original TV show, this graphic novel follows former secret agent Alice Drake as she is dragged back into her old life following a ship wreck that sees her washed up on the shores of The Village. She discovers that old secrets and old spies never die, meeting an aged Number Six, who is still locked into a decades-old conflict with his old nemesis Number Two for the future of the deserted spy village. Meanwhile, back in London conflicting intelligence agencies fight to gain control of the intelligence mine that is The Village, and the deadly secret lying at its very core. Titan Comics, 2019...More.

Item Code: PRISV
Soft Cover, 7x10, 112pg, Full Color
$24.99 $21.99

 
ALSO AVAILABLE
THE PRISONER Original Art Edition
Recommended. By Jack Kirby and Steve Englehart. Art by Jack Kirby and Gil Kane. Edited by Archie Goodwin. Drawn by two of the true great comic book legends, Jack Kirby and Gil Kane, this is a facsimile collection of a ”long-lost,” unpublished legendary comic book based on the cult classic 1967 British TV show, The Prisoner. The amazing television series was co-created, written, and directed by the star, Patrick McGoohan. This was a well-done but ultimately aborted project, by two of comics‘ top creators at the time. Includes complete script, page breakdowns with original pencilled art, all finished art and all art in pencils. Titan, 2018...More.

Item Code: PRISOAH
Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 13x17, 64pg, b&w
$79.99

 
JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK Volume 1 The Last Age of Magic
Collects Justice League Dark #1-3 and #5-6, 2018-19. By James Tynion IV. Art by Alvaro Martinez and Daniel Sampare. Beautifully drawn, with bonus variant covers and character studies. Wonder Woman. Swamp Thing. Zatanna. Man-Bat. Detective Chimp. Goddess, an elemental, a sorceress, a mad scientist and...a chimpanzee detective. They are a superhero team like no other—led by the Amazon Princess, to fight threats bizarre, magical and dangerous. The mystical gateway known as the Tree of Wonder has opened a door, and something terrifying has come through. This evil entity will turn all of existence upside down. Magic is dying on Earth... DC, 2019...More.

Item Code: JLD01
Soft Cover, 7x10, 160pg, Full Color
$16.99

 
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN STARPORT
An Original Graphic Novel, First Publication. Art by Raya Golden. Law & Order meets Men in Black in this humorous adaptation of an unproduced TV pilot by the author of A Game of Thrones. Ten years ago, representatives from an interstellar collective of 314 alien species landed on Earth, inviting us to become number 315. Now, after seemingly endless delays, the Starport in Chicago is operational, a destination for diplomats, merchants, and tourists alike. Inside, visitors are governed by intergalactic treaty. Outside, the streets belong to Chicago's finest--now facing alien riff-raff! Bantam, 2019...More.

Item Code: GEOSH
Hard Cover, 7x10, 272pg, Full Color
$28.00 $25.00

 
ALSO AVAILABLE
THE MYSTERY KNIGHT A Graphic Novel
Closeout Price! An entirely new graphic novel, never before published. Recommended. By George R.R. Martin, adapted by Ben Avery, art by Mike S. Miller. This full-color graphic novel adapts one of the Dunk and Egg novellas from A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms... a prequel to A Game of Thrones. Westeros is eerily peaceful. King Aerys I sits on the Iron Throne. Yet beneath the surface, tensions linger sixteen years after a failed rebellion. Hedge knight Ser Duncan the Tall and his precocious boy squire, Egg, secretly a Prince of House Targaryen, are nearly starving, riding north for Winterfell. Lured off the Kingsroad by a wedding feast—and an unusually lucrative tournament -- they are soon deep in palace intrigue and a new revolution...and violent death. Bantam Books, 2017...More.

Item Code: MYSKH
Hard Cover, 7x10, 160pg, Full Color
$26.00 $19.95

We have just four left at this price.
 
GOYA The Terrible Sublime
By El Torres. Art by Fran Galán. An original Spanish graphic novel, now in English. From the mind of the terror master El Torres comes a terrifying story that brings readers into the artist's world of madness and dark paintings, populated by recognizable figures like Manuel Godoy and the Duchess of Alba, in cobweb-shrouded palaces with beautiful grotesques living in the shadows. This unique story melds the artist's unique style and vision with the story of a man plagued by unreality, dreadful images of witchcraft and pure evil. He knows that he must not fall into what lurks beyond the dream of reason. Pegasus, 2019...More.

Item Code: GOYAH
Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 8x11, 120pg, Partial Color
$25.95 $23.95

 
THE BRIDGE How The Roeblings Connected Brooklyn to New York
An Original Graphic Novel, First Publication. By Peter J. Tomasi. Art by Sara Duvall. This brings to life the construction of New York City's most iconic landmark--with the incredible triumphs and tragedies that went into building the Brooklyn Bridge. After the accidental death of John Augustus Roebling in 1869, it was up to Roebling's son to complete the massive project. Unfortunately, then HE developed caisson disease, leaving him bedridden. His wife, Emily, deftly assumed a key role in the bridge's construction by becoming her husband's eyes and ears at the work site, skillfully navigating work crews who now had to answer to a woman, contractors, a hostile press, and a greedy city politician. Abrams Comic Art, 2019...More.

Item Code: BRIDG
Soft Cover, 7x9, 202pg, Full Color
$18.99

 
ALSO AVAILABLE
SECRET SUBWAY
Closeout Price! Highly Recommended. By Shana Corey. Art by Red Nose Studio. Using model figures and scenes in stop-motion animation style, a delightful story of creating the first NY subways...or is it? The astonishing true story of NY City's first--and long forgotten--underground train! Way back in 1860, there were no subways, just cobblestone streets. Then Alfred Ely Beach had the idea for a fan-powered train that would travel underground. On February 26, 1870, Beach unveiled his masterpiece—and throngs of visitors took turns swooshing down the track. Schwartz & Wade, 2016...More.

Item Code: SECRH
Hard Cover, 10x10, 40pg, Full Color
$17.99 $8.99

 

Comics Archives/Comics Related

 
DETECTIVE COMICS 80 Years of Batman
Plus Boy Commandos, Manhunter, Batgirl, Batwoman, Crimson Avenger, Air Wave, Slam Bradley... Highly Recommended. Introduction by Dan Didio. A celebration of Detective Comics‘ amazing eight-decade run and Batman's 80 years, with reflections on Detective Comics by Cory Doctorow, Neil Gaiman, Denny O'Neil, Anthony Tollin, and Paul Levitz. This collector's edition also features the very first Batman story; the debuts of classic sidekicks and allies Robin, Batgirl, Batwoman and even Bat-Mite; and the first stories of archvillains Two-Face, the Riddler and Man-Bat. Plus many of the best of the back-up strips as detailed above. DC, 2019...More.

Item Code: DET80H
Hard Cover, 7x11, 416pg, Full Color
$29.99 $26.99

More on Batman from the Golden Age and Silver Age, and Detective Comics, on our website.

 
CAPTAIN MARVEL The Official Special Hardcover
A collector's guide to Marvel Studios' latest box office smash, Captain Marvel, featuring exclusive content showcasing images from the set and much more! Dive into the next phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and explore behind-the-scenes. Discover what makes your favorite characters come to life with features on every major character, exclusive interviews with the cast and crew, and incredible photos from the set. Ace Air Force pilot Carol Danvers becomes one of the universe's most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races. Titan, 2019...More.

Item Code: CAPMARH
Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 8x11, 98pg, Full Color
$19.99 $17.99

We will also have a softcover edition of this, but it's not yet in stock. [CAPMAR. $12.99]. We'll announce it when it comes in.

 
HOGAN'S ALLEY Magazine #22
Packed with features about comics, cartooning and animation. Highly Recommended. Hogan's Alley features a detailed look at the origins of the classic Jonny Quest cartoon, along with rare production artwork by Doug Wildey and Alex Toth. Award-winning author Jean Kilbourne writes about her time working for Li'l Abner creator Al Capp and the aftermath of her unfortunate experience, timelier than ever in the #MeToo era. A roundtable interview with black cartoonists candidly discuss working in the comics industry. Fanny Hillman, a little-known chapter in the career of Sergio Aragones. Also: Betty Brown by Zack Mosely--pharmacist and comics' first female degreed professional, George Booth interviewed, Jerry Lewis in the comics. Bull Moose, 2019...More.

Item Code: HA22
Soft Cover, 8x11, 144pg, b&w
$7.50

 
ALSO AVAILABLE
HOGAN'S ALLEY #5
Closeout Price! Warehouse find, 1998. Highly Recommended. This issue features Krazy Kat, Hal Foster and interviews with Disney legend Marc Davis, Gasoline Alley's Jim Scancarelli and Barry Windsor-Smith, with reproductions of his then-current Freebooters. He talks about storytelling specifically, and constructing the comic book page to best carry the tale forward. Plus much more. The Hal Foster piece examines artist Howard Pyle's influence on Foster in a unique essay. Also Clare Brigg's Real Folks at Home, cartoonists doing advertising, and lots more. Original cover price. Bull Moose, 1998...More.

Item Code: HA05
Soft Cover, 8x11, 144pg, b&w
$5.95 $5.00

 
PROMETHEA The 20th Anniversary Edition Volume 1
Collects #1-12, 1999-2000. Highly Recommended. By Alan Moore. Art by J.H. Wiliams III. One of the finest drawn and written comics of its day, up there with Sandman, in a new deluxe edition. Sophie was just an ordinary college student in a weirdly futuristic New York when her life was forever changed. Researching Promethea, a mythical warrior woman, Sophie receives a cryptic warning to cease her investigations. Ignoring it, she continues her studies and is almost killed by a shadowy creature. But she learns the secret of the beautiful and sensuous Promethea and is herself transformed into a mythical warrior. Her trials have only begun, as she must master the secrets of her predecessors before she is destroyed by Promethea's ancient enemy. Nudity, adult themes. DC, 2019...More.

Item Code: PROM01H
Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 384pg, Full Color
$49.99 $39.99

 
CHAM The Best Comic Strips and Graphic Novelettes 1839-1862
A massive eight pound, oversized volume. Recommended. By David Kunzle. Cham, real name Count Amédée de Noé, a serious rival to Daumier, is a célèbre inconnu, a famous unknown. Two caricaturists dominated the emerging field of the French comic strip from the 1830s onward: Rodolphe Töpffer and the Parisian Cham. The undisputed father of the modern comic strip or graphic novel, Töpffer denigrated his “little follies,” as he called them. Cham, by contrast, quickly became a dominant figure in the French premier magazine of graphic satire, Le Charivari. He engaged full-time in all the major caricature formats then practiced, creating 40 comic strips or graphic novelettes, published in albums and magazine installments. University of Mississippi Press, 2019...More.

Item Code: CHAMH
Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 10x14, 566pg, Text/Partial Color
$90.00

 
DISNEY MASTERS Volume 7 MICKEY MOUSE The Pirates of Tabasco Bay
Collected from WDC&S 1955-57. Highly Recommended. By Carl Fallberg. Art by Paul Murray. Fantagraphics presents Disney Masters — acclaimed artists from around the world working in the grand Walt Disney tradition. Look inside and thrill to a swashbuckling series of travels and travails — from cowboy capers at “Yesterday Ranch” to the head-scratching mystery of “The Vanishing Railroad!” In the title story, Mickey's uncle wants to attract tourists back to his fading seaside resort — and Mickey and Goofy think populating the pier with fierce pirate "actors" is just the way to do it! But when Black Pete and his scurvy crew stage a real pirate raid, our intrepid heroes go from planning the boardwalk to walking the plank! Fantagraphics, 2019...More.

Item Code: DM07H
Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 7x10, 174pg, Full Color
$29.99 $26.99

See our website for other Disney Masters, boxed sets of the same, and more on Mickey, Donald, and Uncle Scrooge.

 

Catwoman

 
CATWOMAN By Jim Balent Book Two
License to Steal! Collects Catwoman #0 and #14-24, Catwoman Annual #2 and Showcase ‘95 #4, 1994-96. Recommended. By Doug Moench, Chuck Dixon, Jo Duffy. Art by Jim Balent. Outstanding, sexy art is featured in this thick collection. Catwoman is captured by a secret government organization and blackmailed into committing an impossible robbery. The world-famous feline burglar must steal an ancient relic located in a small European country or suffer the detonation of a cyanide capsule implanted beneath her skin. Realizing failure (or success) will lead to her death, Catwoman must use her ingenuity to turn the tables against the government agency and save her own life. DC, 2019...More.

Item Code: CATW02
Soft Cover, 7x10, 360pg, Full Color
$29.99 $26.99

 
ALSO AVAILABLE
CATWOMAN By Jim Balent Book One
Collects #1-13, 1993-94. Recommended. By Jo Duffy and Chuck Dixon. Collected for the first time, the very beginning of Catwoman's first ongoing series, drawn by ‘90s superstar artist Jim Balent, and written by comics legends Jo Duffy and Chuck Dixon. By night Selina becomes the world's greatest thief...known as Catwoman. What starts out as a job for Gotham City's newest crime boss, Bane, the man who broke Batman's back, ends up being the start of Selina's journey to becoming more than a thief. It may even turn her into the last thing she ever thought she'd be--a hero. Steamy, sexy artwork--Catwoman has been poured into her skin-tight costume. Meeoowww indeed! DC, 2017...More.

Item Code: CATW01
Soft Cover, 7x10, 328pg, Full Color
$29.99 $26.99

We also have four impressive Catwoman statues, two in stock, one coming, and one special order. She also appears with Harley Quinn as The Gotham City Sirens, and with Batman in The Wedding Album, in The Many Lives of Catwoman, and in a handsome 75 Years Celebration [CAT75H. $39.99, $24.99]. We have only two left at this price. See these and more on our website.

 

Coming in May

 
LA FAUNE DE MARS
Expanded, limited edition, 3000. Recommended. By Moebius. First published in 2011 in a limited edition, now in a larger size and expanded with sixteen new pages in full color. Moebius speaks: "Everyone knows by now that Mars is sterile. Yet still we send at great cost robots equipped with small shovels that stubbornly dig remote arid soil in the hope of finding huddled fossils of ancient bacteria. I found it easier and less costly in terms of technology investment to get hold of a blank book and leave the pen running over the paper at random as if in a dream." Moebius Productions, 2019. Due May. ...More.

Item Code: LAFAH
Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 6x8, 200pg, Full Color
$49.95

 
LE MAJOR
Expanded edition. Limited, 3000. Recommended. By Moebius. Originally published as a limited edition of 1000 copies in 2011. Now larger with 24 additional pages, and eleven illustrations in full color. Le Major is the fourth and final book of the Major Fatal saga and one of the last published works by Moebius. Here we find a pair of desert dwellers, deep in conversation, postulating grand philosophical and theological questions to a monolithic adobe structure which curiously houses Major Grubert inside. Le Major feels at home in the surreal, infinite expanse of Desert “B.” Moebius Productions, 2019. Due May. ...More.

Item Code: LEMAH
Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 8x6, 336pg, Partial Color
$49.95

 
40 DAYS DANS LE DESERT B
New edition. Recommended. By Moebius. Never before collected in hardcover, a new edition of the long out of print Moebius classic. 70 brilliant imagined pages from Moebius' sketchbooks. This expanded edition features a bonus 24 more pages, eight of which are in full color. Import from France. Moebius Productions, 2019. Due May. ...More.

Item Code: 40DAH
Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 10x6, 168pg, Partial Color
$49.95

 
AVAILABLE NOW
THE INCAL Deluxe
Numbered & limited, 1500. Highly Recommended. By Alexandro Jodorowsky. Art by Moebius. An oversized, deluxe slipcased limited edition of the science fiction classic, collecting all six original albums. Bonus material includes an 8-page original out of print Moebius story. John Difool's life in a future world dystopia is turned upside down when he discovers an ancient, mystical artifact: "The Incal." His adventures carry him into conflict with the galaxy's greatest warrior, the Metabaron, and the awesome powers of the Technopope. These encounters and many more make up a tale of comic and cosmic proportions, one of the finest series that Moebius created. Humaniods, 2019. Mature Readers...More.

Item Code: INCAD
Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 9x13, 324pg, Full Color
$125.00 $105.00

 
AVAILABLE NOW
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

Lots more Moebius that is available right now, on our website...from Edena, The Incal, the new inexpensive and adult Angel Claw, Glamour Internationals and the x-rated Histoire D'X (reduced to $300). Also Inside Moebius and the signed Strength of Man Portfolio [STMAN. $250, $200].

 

Rare & Out of Print

Last week's Moebius books went fast, but we were able to dig up another gem in Fusion.

A nine issue set of Heavy Metal magazine with some bonus extras.

Lastly is a 3 volume slipcased set of Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge #1-20. This is set number 3 of the ten volume Complete Carl Barks Library, published by Another Rainbow. We have almost every set, I just bought an original-owner collection.

We also have complete sets of the Gladstone full color comic albums, i.e. Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge, complete with the bonus trading cards. If interested, please email todd@budsartbooks.com.

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John Carter of Mars

Last week we got our links mixed up, and the set of two books did not take you to the set. The two variant books are available individually, and here you can get both, with the coin, and save $20.

The Iliad in Softcover

I also neglected to mention we will have a softcover version of The Iliad [ILIA. $16.99 $15.50] available, but we're still waiting for it to come in. Here is a link to both. The hardcover is [ILIAH. $27.99 $25.99]. I just finished reading this—it's quite the highly detailed work, with good characterization. The story of the final year of the Trojan/Greek Ten Year War, the siege on Troy because Paris walked off with Helen. The portrait of the veteran Odysseus and hot-tempered young Achilles, the two Ajaxes, Helen, Menelaus, Nestor, Patroclus (the doomed), etc. Educational and a fun read.

Sac-Con Report

Pictures and my personal report are now posted on Facebook. I forgot to mention that I had a delightful dinner during Comic Fest in San Diego, with publisher John Fleskes and Mark Schultz. Mark is working on a stand-alone Xenozoic Tales graphic novel but he says it's still about a year and a half away. Look to see some interesting new items coming from Flesk—their latest, Pastoral, is quite a nice book. And the Brom new edition with a new cover, at a new lower price of [ARBRPHS. $29.95] (it was $50), is kind of a sleeper. It sells whenever folks see it at shows we do. Click here for other Brom books in stock.

~Bud


 

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