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The Modesty Blaise Companion is the big hitter this week, limited to only 500. The Electric State is a handsome, oversized new post-apocalypse illustrated novel. Artist Ron Embleton, best known for his Penthouse strip Oh Wicked Wanda, is examined in a new IQ Special. Comic Book Creator takes a new look at Frank Frazetta. See the ORIGINAL Captain Marvel in the new Shazam: The Golden Age. The complete Piracy is collected in the latest EC Archive. And more! |
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MODESTY BLAISE COMPANION Expanded Edition Signed Signed bookplate! Limited, 500! Recommended. By Lawrence Blackmore. Art by Jim Holdaway, Enric Romero et al. The first edition published in 2005 sold out and now sells for a premium. Here is a new updated edition in a very limited softcover edition. Includes a new introduction and obituary of Peter O'Donnell by Laurence Blackmore, plus these new features not in the first edition: full index of the Titan Book reprints, 9 missing strips not in the Titan Books, three radio play adaptations, Info on the Tarantino DVD “In the Beginning.” Plus everything you could possibly want to know about Modesty, from novels to newspaper strips, full story outlines, 2,000 character descriptions, 1800 illustrations by Jim Holdaway, Enric Romero, John M Burns, Neville Colvin and Patrick Wright. Comes with a special bookplate from 1995 signed by Dick Giordano and Peter O'Donnell. Book Palace, 2019...More. Item Code: MODBC Soft Cover, 8x12, 444pg, b&w $55.00 |
This has gotten lots of advance orders, so that we're importing 20% of the entire run. Act now, we don't know how long this will remain available. See available Modesty Blaise collection on our website, Volumes 21, 24, and 26-30. She also appears in every issue of Comics Revue. |
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THE ELECTRIC STATE Recommended. By Simon Stalenhag. In late 1997, a runaway teenager and her small yellow toy robot travel west through a strange American landscape where the ruins of gigantic battle drones litter the countryside, along with the discarded trash of a high-tech consumerist society addicted to a virtual-reality system. As they approach the edge of the continent, the world outside the car window seems to unravel at an ever faster pace, as if somewhere beyond the horizon, the hollow core of civilization has finally caved in. Skybound Books, 2017...More. Item Code: ELECH Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 11x10, 144pg, Full Color $35.00 |
This is not quite a graphic novel, but it has full page, full color illustrations on almost every page with moderate text. It is similar to the excellent book: |
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ALSO AVAILABLE ABOVE THE TIMBERLINE Signed Signed illustrated bookplate! Highly Recommended. By Gregory Manchess. Fully illustrated with 123 oil paintings! A stunning and cinematic combination of art and novel, wih full color work on every page, not unlike the format of Gurney's Dinotopia. From renowned artist Gregory Manchess comes a lavishly painted novel about the son of a famed polar explorer searching for his stranded father, and a lost city buried under snow in an alternate future. When it started to snow, it didn't stop for 1,500 years. The Pole Shift that ancient climatologists talked about finally came, the topography was ripped apart and the weather of the world was changed—forever. Saga Press, 2017...More. Item Code: ABOTH Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 9x11, 240pg, Full Color $29.99 |
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ILLUSTRATORS QUARTERLY SPECIAL #4 The Art of Ron Embleton Highly Recommended. By Peter Richardson, Gillian Robinson et al. Featuring Ron Embleton. Enjoy Ron Embleton's long and varied career, including illustrations of American History, Dickens novels, Victorian and Edwardian Britain, The Trigan Empire, Aesop's Fables, The Wind in the Willows, Working Horses, his two adult strips for Penthouse, Oh, Wicked Wanda!, Sweet Chastity, Terry and Son (angling strip), children's stories, mythical creatures and more. Book Palace., 2019...More. Item Code: IQS04 Magazine, 9x11, 144pg, Partial Color $34.99 |
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ALSO AVAILABLE ILLUSTRATORS QUARTERLY SPECIAL #3 The Art of Don Lawrence Limited to 1000 copies. Our Highest Recommendation. By Diego Cordoba. Featuring Don Lawrence. From British art magazine Illustrators Quarterly comes a long overdue look at the illustrations and comic strip art of Don Lawrence. He is regarded as one of the truly greats of British comic strip art and there has never been a book devoted to his whole career. The volume has examples of his wonderful illustrations from Look and Learn, Ranger, and Once Upon a Time as well as comic strips Karl the Viking, Olac the Gladiator, better known in the U.S. due to long-ago editions, The Trigan Empire and Storm. Packed with breath-taking western art, adventure art and fantasy art. Book Palace, 2018...More. Item Code: IQS03 Magazine, 9x11, 144pg, Partial Color $34.99 |
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ALSO AVAILABLE ILLUSTRATORS QUARTERLY SPECIAL #2 War is Hell Limited to 1000 copies. Studio Dami and the Italian Artists. Highly Recommended. By Diego Cordoba. With Roy Dami, Giorgio De Gaspari, Gino D'Antonio et al. This is the second illustrators special, devoted to the Italian artists from the Dami agency who drew breathtaking covers and art for British comics in the 1950s to 1970s, particularly War, Battle and Air Ace Picture Library. Nothing before has been written about these highly talented artists and this special is packed with dramatic cover art scanned directly from the originals. Hugo Pratt is here, along with Dell'Orco, Tacconi, Caroselli, Calegari, Biffignandi, D'Antonio, and De Gaspari. Some nudity. Book Palace, 2018. Mature Readers...More. Item Code: IQS02 Magazine, 9x11, 144pg, Partial Color $34.99 |
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ALSO AVAILABLE ILLUSTRATORS QUARTERLY SPECIAL #1 Spanish Artists Highly Recommended. By Diego Cordoba. With Jordi Bernet, Enric, Luis Garcia, Pepe Gonzales, Esteban Maroto, Sanjulian and Josep Toutain. The inside story of the Spanish Studio/Agency (Toutain Studio) that transformed the Warren empire and brought an unprecedented realism into comics! This glorious book from illustrators is lavishly illustrated not only with Warren art, but with other comics projects, foreign publications, special projects, even specialty paintings never before seen. Finally we learn about these amazing talents that took comics by storm in the seventies and challenged U.S. artists with their abundant talent and creativity. Some nudity. Book Palace, 2016. Mature Readers...More. Item Code: IQS01 Magazine, 8x11, 144pg, Partial Color $34.99 |
Regretfully all three of these back volumes are temporarily sold out as I write this, but more are on the way. We'll backorder any for you. See our website for all the Illustrators Quarterly regular issues, and other books from Book Palace: |
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COMIC BOOK CREATOR #19 All-new Tom Grindberg cover! Highly Recommended. Edited by Jon B. Cooke. Comics historian Steve Ringgenberg joins CBC as guest co-editor for this special tribute to the great fantasy artist, Frank Frazetta [1928–2010]! CBC #19 includes a comprehensive, career-spanning interview with the master unseen for 32 years, complemented with innumerable articles on his many achievements: examinations of Frank's Conan work and “Adventures of a Brooklyn Hillbilly”; studies of his White Indian series as well as his public service advertisements; forays into his ace caricaturist material in movie posters and record album covers, and much more! TwoMorrows, 2019. Mature Readers...More. Item Code: CBCR19 Soft Cover, 8x11, 96pg, Full Color $9.95 |
This issue will be hot, with new material on the great Frank Frazetta plus other good features. More recommended issues are on our website. |
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SHAZAM! The Golden Age of the World's Mightiest Mortal Recommended. By Chip Kidd. Photographs by Geoff Spear. Shazam made his debut in Whiz Comics in 1940, and outsold his biggest competitor, Superman, by 14 million copies a month. It wasn't long before a variety of merchandise was licensed—secret decoders, figurines, buttons, paper rockets, tin toys, puzzles, costumes—and a fan club was created to keep up with the demand. These collectibles now sell for outrageous prices on eBay and in comic book stores and conventions. Abrams Comic Art, 2019...More. Item Code: SHAZG Soft Cover, 8x10, 246pg, Partial Color $24.99 |
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COMING IN MARCH SHAZAM! The Golden Age of the World's Mightiest Mortal Icon Heroes presents the Shazam statue! And we still know him as Captain Marvel! Each statue is hand painted, individually numbered, and includes a Certificate of Authenticity. We don't have any artist credit yet to offer you, but it seems to us to be done in the style of Alex Ross. I like it. Looks like the classic Captain Marvel but still in a modern way. Standing approximately 8 3/4" tall, each statue is hand painted, individually numbered, and includes a Certificate of Authenticity. Abrams Comic Art, 2019. Due Mar. ...More. Item Code: DCHSH 9" tall, 246pg, Partial Color $80.00 |
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THE CANADIAN ALTERNATIVE Cartoonists, Comics and Graphic Novels Edited by Dominick GRace and Eric Hoffman. This overview of the history of Canadian comics explores acclaimed as well as unfamiliar artists. Contributors look at the myriad ways that English-language, Francophone, indigenous, and queer Canadian comics and cartoonists pose alternatives to American comics, to dominant perceptions, even to gender and racial categories. University of Mississippi Press, 2018...More. Item Code: CANALT Soft Cover, 6x9, 288pg, Text/b&w $30.00 |
We carry all available books on the history of Canadian comics. See the website. Several are in very, very short supply: Heroes of the Home Front, Brok Windsor, and the first WECA/Canadian Whites Priceguide will all be sold out any time now. |
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THE EC ARCHIVES PIRACY Almost Gone! Collects #1-7, 1954-55. Our Highest Recommendation. Art by Reed Crandall, Wally Wood, Al Williamson et al. Collecting the complete run of the EC Comics cult classic Piracy in new color; featuring stories about the violence and cruelty of the pirates that sailed the seven seas. Across these pages sail plunderers, pillagers, buccaneers, whalers, smugglers, pearl divers, treasure hunters, mutineers, and many more, in brutal tales of life on the water. One of EC's very best New Direction titles, with superb work by this amazing list of creators. Covers by Crandall, Evans, Krigstein and Wood. Dark Horse, 2019. Out of Print....More. Item Code: ECPIH Hard Cover, 8x11, 240pg, Full Color $49.99 |
See all available EC Archives online, beginning with the latest releases. Piracy is already one of the most popular. The other “New Trend” titles like Valor and Aces High, and the “Pre-Trend” War Against Crime have also done very well. We also still have several of the original Russ Cochran Complete EC Sets, which feature the EC art in crisp b&w with color covers, direct from the original art. |
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BLACK PANTHER Epic Collection Volume 2 Revenge of the Black Panther By Jack Kirby, Ed Hannigan et al. Art by Jerry Bingham, John Byrne et al. Behold as the Black Panther sets out on adventures that only his co-creator, Jack Kirby, could conceive! T'Challa will discover the secret of King Solomon's frog, encounter alien races, battle eternal samurai warriors and much, much more. Marvel, 2019...More. Item Code: BPE02 Soft Cover, 7x10, 400pg, Full Color |
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ALSO AVAILABLE BLACK PANTHER Epic Collection Volume 1 Panther's Rage Collects Fantastic Four #52-53 & Jungle Action #6-24, 1966-76. Recommended. By Don McGregor, Rich Buckler, Billy Graham, Gil Kane, Keith Polland et al. In the 1960s, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created an unprecedented string of classic comic book heroes, including the high-tech king of Wakanda, The Black Panther. For his own solo series, Don McGregor strove to meet the same high standard with "Panther's Rage." It was an epic adventure so huge it ranged across the savannah, into the deepest jungles and up snow-topped mountains, to explore and expand the life and culture of Wakanda and their African kingdom in compelling detail. Marvel, 2016...More. Item Code: BPE01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 400pg, Full Color |
Black Panther A Nation Under Our Feet is on closeout and is nearly gone. |
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ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND Closeout Price! Recommended. By Lewis Carroll and Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Art by Arthur B. Frost, Henry Holiday et al. Foreword by Charlie Lovett. A collector’s edition of both of Lewis Carroll’s Alice fantasies: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and the sequel, Through the Looking Glass, plus several other Carroll works such as the epic-length fantasy poem, The Hunting of the Snark. This was published as a book itself in 1876 with illustrations by Henry Holiday, which are all included here. Also: letters, poems and a biography of Carroll. Over 100 black and white illustrations plus a handsome gilt and silver-embossed cover. Art by Sir John Tenniel (and Arthur Rackam, but these alone are poorly reproduced).Flame Tree, 2018...More. Item Code: ALICAH Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 6x9, 480pg |
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THE DIVINE COMEDY Inferno Purgatorio Paradiso Closeout Price! Recommended. By Dante Alighieri. Art by Gustave Doré. Dante's masterpiece of literature is well matched by the peerless art of Gustave Doré. Dante and his guides, Virgil and Beatrice, journey through the cantos in an allegory of the passage of the soul through the Afterlife, Hell that is, with the subtle engraving of Doré's illustrations perfectly complementing the movement from darkness and horror of Hell, through to the light—Paradise Regained. Nicely reproduced. Handsome gilt and silver embossed hardcover. Flame Tree, 2018...More. Item Code: DIVINEH Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 6x9, 432pg |
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CHILLING HORROR SHORT STORIES Closeout Price! Recommended. By H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker et al. A deluxe edition of original and classic short stories, packed with monsters, vampires and a host of weird creatures. Tales of shadows and voices in the dark from the likes of H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Nathaniel Hawthorne and William Hope Hodgson are cast with previously unpublished stories by some of the best writers of horror today. Handsome gold and silver embossed hardcover, thick with plenty of stories. Flame Tree, 2015...More. Item Code: CHILLH Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 6x9, 478pg, Text Only |
See more Flame Tree bargain-priced titles on our website, including The Astounding History of Science Fiction, and the Astounding History of Fantasy & Horror [ASTIFH, ASTIH |
From Taschen: The Complete Krazy Kat, here in June |
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GEORGE HERRIMAN The Complete Krazy Kat in Color 1935-1944 By George Herriman. A color facsimile of the complete pages of George Herriman's Krazy Kat 1935–44. One of the first comics to be considered a work of art, Krazy Kat delights with its detailed characterization and visual-verbal creativity alongside the slapstick shenanigans between Krazy and Ignatz the mouse. This reprint comes with a 100-page illustrated introduction by Alexander Braun. Taschen, 2019. Due June. ...More. Item Code: GEOKKH Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 12x17, 632pg, Partial Color |
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NOW AVAILABLE KRAZY KAT & THE ART OF GEORGE HERRIMAN Closeout Price! Highly Recommended. By Craig Yoe. Art by George Herriman. Appreciation by Bill Watterson. Craig Yoe's passion for the subject and attention to detail result in a highly enjoyable book--a work of art unto itself, here collecting some impossibly rare art by Herriman, much of it having never been printed before anywhere. This isn't just original artwork for Krazy Kat strips. It has page after page of one-of-a-kind, beautifully hand-colored pieces that Herriman did for friends, including birthday cards, framed artworks, and illustrated thank-you's. Plus historic photos, posters, book covers and memorabilia. Abrams, 2011...More. Item Code: KKAOGH Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 9x12, 176pg, Partial Color |
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| NOW AVAILABLE KRAZY KAT 1934 Library of American Comics 8. Highly Recommended. By George Herriman. The year includes homages to old jokes and bricks, followed by playful references to sex, drink, and even drugs. The daily Krazy Kat strips are often Herriman's most personal works and standouts from this year include Krazy Kat's attempt to write a memoir and the Kat's quietly waiting for the last leaf of "ottim" to fall (a tender scene that finds echoes in Charles Schulz's drawing of Linus admiring the last autumn leaf's stubborn spirit). It could also be argued that the daily is more accessible to the new reader. IDW, 2016...More. Item Code: LOA08H Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 12x5, 328pg, b&w |
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NOW AVAILABLE KRAZY George Herriman, A Life in Black and White Now in softcover. By Michael Tisserand. An epic and revelatory biography of Krazy Kat creator George Herriman explores the turbulent time and place from which he emerged—and the deep secret he explored through his art. The creator of the greatest comic strip in history finally gets his due—in an eye-opening biography that lays bare the truth about his art, his heritage, and his life on America's color line. Although fitfully popular with readers of the period, his work has been widely credited with elevating cartoons from daily amusements to anarchic art. Harper, 2016...More. Item Code: KRABW Soft Cover, 6x9, 548pg, Text/b&w |
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AMERICAN COMIC BOOK CHRONICLES The 1940s 1940-1944 By Kurt F. Mitchell and Roy Thomas. Art by Jack Kirby, Joe Simon et al. The American Comic Book Chronicles continues its ambitious series of full-color hardcovers, where TwoMorrows' top authors document every decade of comic book history from the 1940s to today! Kurt Mitchell and editor Roy Thomas composed this volume about the “Golden Age” of the comic book industry, a five-year period that presented the earliest adventures of such iconic super-heroes as Batman, Captain Marvel, Superman, and Wonder Woman. TwoMorrows, 2019. Due June. ...More. Item Code: ACB07H Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 8x11, 288pg, Full Color |
See all the previous volumes on our website, including Bill Schelly on the 1950s. |
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THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU Illuminated Editions Cloth-bound, slipcase. By H.G. Wells. Art by Bill Sienkiewicz. Introduction by Guillermo Del Toro. H.G. Wells' gleefully blasphemous classic sci-fi horror tale of human chimeras and deranged scientific curiosity comes to nightmarish life through the brushwork of the legendary comic creator and graphic artist Bill Sienkiewicz. Beehive, 2019. Due May. ...More. Item Code: ISLAH Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 10x15, 156pg |
On our website you can find more H.G. Wells novels adapted as comics, including two recent French-produced ones I recommend: |
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NOW AVAILABLE WAR OF THE WORLDS Illustrations by Warwick Goble Highly Recommended. By H.G Wells. Illustrated by Warwick Goble. For the first time since their original publication in Pearson's Magazine, Warwick Goble's illustrations appear in this exquisite hardcover clothbound edition. Combining the magazine's original art with the revised text from the story's subsequent publication in book form, with more than fifty of Goble's black-and-white wash illustrations. Calla, 2015...More. Item Code: WARWH Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 7x10, 204pg, b&w |
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BETTIE PAGE Statue By Terry Dodson Artist Proof Limited, 49! Sculpted by Steve Kiwus. Art Terry Dodson. Bettie Page, the "Queen of Pin-ups", has always been known to turn heads and Dynamite Entertainment's playful rendering by Steve Kiwus captures all of the charm that made her a legend. Inspired by the classic artwork of Dave Stevens (creator of The Rocketeer), veteran comic artist, Terry Dodson, chose to pay homage to Stevens with his own rendition of his definitive Bettie Page pose. Dynamite, 2019. Due May. ...More. Item Code: BETTPA 12" tall, Full Color $249.99 |
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JOSEPH MICHAEL LINSNER'S DAWN Statue Artist Proof Limited, 99! Dawn, the goddess of rebirth, has been one of the most enduring characters in independent comics since her creation by artist, Joseph Michael Linsner, in the late 1980s. With sculpting by RVCKVS International, and continued guidance from her creator, Dynamite has spared no detail in bringing this iconic comic book idol to life. Dynamite, 2019. Due May. ...More. Item Code: JOSDAA 12" tall, Full Color $275.00 |
The regular edition is already available at $189.99. See the website for Linsner in a host of other collections. And this excellent collection just recently went on sale: |
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NOW AVAILABLE GIRLS & GODDESSES Closeout Price! The Pin-Up Art of Joseph Michael Linsner. Highly Recommended. By Joseph Michael Linsner. Wow, have we got a bargain for you. Linsner's first art collection, in hardcover, at half price! Well known for his Dawn graphic novels, portfolios, convention books and prints, Linsner has taken his sexy girls one step further in this ode to female beauty. He captures the voluptuous, perfect female form, the goddess among women, much like fellow good-girl illustrator Dave Stevens once did. Beautiful, artfully done pin-ups in an assortment of skin-tight costumes and poses. Luscious curvy beauties and hard bodied heroines as vampires and bad girls! Plus full nudes. Linsner's art is fun and sexy, and these are all superbly finished paintings. Image, 2007. Mature Readers...More. Item Code: GLSH Hard Cover, 9x12, 112pg, Full Color |
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Mature ReadersGil Elvgren's Private Stock. The big item this week has been a steady seller for us since it was first published at the full $49.95 price. It's his original photographs of models, never before collected. And it's now half price, thanks to a pubisher closeout. See other Gil Elvgren on our website. Flight Attendant Scandal is a new adult DVD. Click here for more adult films. And we have two variant covers for a new Cavewoman: Markham's Mansion, nude cover D and E. Click here for all of our Cavewoman titles. 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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