Thursday, March 26, 2020

Men’s Adventure Magazines, a new Mort Kunstler, the Art of Pernille Orum, Wonder Woman, P. Craig Russell and Johnny Hazard: The Sundays!

Another solid week of new items. I especially like Eva: Men's Adventure Supermodel, the new Mort Kunstler, the Art of Pernille Orum, the Wonder Woman Golden Age Omnibus, and DC's Wanted, which offers a wonderful selection of offbeat Golden Age stories. Just Imagine: Stan Lee Creating the DC Universe is fun and very different. Comic Book Creator offers a great look at P. Craig Russell with a specially created new cover. And Johnny Hazard: The Sundays is full Sunday page size, with bonus material and text features by Roy Thomas and Howard Chaykin.

Coronavirus Update: We are working with smaller staff, just two or, at the most, three of us in the warehouse at any one time. But we are getting all the orders out on time, and business remains busy even in this time of stress. The rest of our staff is trading off warehouse days or working at home. See more in News and Notes, below.

Thanks so very much for your continued support. You are always welcome to check in with us—as always, we are here Mon-Fri, 9am-4pm, PST. The next catalog (Mucha cover, below) mailed out this week and will be in your hands in early April. Download it here.

My very best wishes to you. Stay safe and keep enjoying our wonderful world of art and comics. -Bud

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Men's Adventure Magazines

 
EVA: Men's Adventure Supermodel Hardcover
Variant cover and 72 extra pages. Highly Recommended. By Eva Lynd. Edited by Robert Deis and Wyatt Doyle. Model. Pin-up. Actress. Singer. Writer. Royalty. Blonde Swedish countess Eva Lynd's multi-faceted career touches every aspect of 20th century popular culture. A model for leading illustration artists and top glamour and pin-up photographers of the era, she also appeared with some of the biggest names in entertainment on both the big and small screens. So much more than a pretty face, in this lavishly illustrated volume drawn from her personal archives, Eva Lynd shares her story in her own words and pictures. New Texture, 2019...More.

Item Code: EVAMH
Hard Cover, 8x11, 186pg, Partial Color
$45.95

 
EVA: Men's Adventure Supermodel
Abridged edition, concentrating on her "sweat" mag modeling. Recommended. By Eva Lynd. Edited by Robert Deis and Wyatt Doyle. Model. Pin-up. Actress. Singer. Writer. Royalty. Blonde Swedish countess Eva Lynd's multi-faceted career touches every aspect of 20th century popular culture. A model for leading illustration artists and top glamour and pin-up photographers, cover-featured on true detective and men's magazines, a model for the "sweat" mags for both covers and stories, she also appeared in well-known films and television series. This lavishly illustrated volume drawn from her personal archives, Eva Lynd shares her story in her own words and pictures. New Texture, 2019...More.

Item Code: EVAM
Soft Cover, 8x11, 116pg, Partial Color
$24.95

 
MORT KUNSTLER The Godfather of Pulp Fiction Illustrators
Highly Recommended. Edited by Robert Deis and Wyatt Doyle. Known today as "America's Artist" for his popular and much admired historical paintings, it was in the wild world of men's adventure magazine illustration that Mort Künstler honed his ability to present large-scale action while never losing sight of essential details, much like fellow atists James Bama and Norman Saunders.  It led to a mastery of capturing conflict in paint--both the spectacle, and the human cost. An unequaled selection of Künstler's finest pieces. From the explosive intensity of battles on the sea and in the air, to taut, face-to-face showdowns and animal attacks, and of course the sexy ladies...every page explodes with action, color, and artistry. New Texture, 2019...More.

Item Code: MORKGH
Hard Cover, 9x12, 136pg, Full Color
$39.95

 
ALSO AVAILABLE
MORT KÜNSTLER The Art of Adventure
Recommended. Exclusive companion catalog to the Norman Rockwell Museum exhibition Mort Künstler: The Art of Adventure. It's a thin little guy, but features dozens of rare full color and black and white images from the acclaimed illustrator's entire career -- from classic pulp magazines to documenting the Civil War. Includes exhibition checklist, introduction by Deputy Director and Chief Curator Stephanie Haboush Plunkett, with two essays. Norman Rockwell Museum, 2015...More.

Item Code: MORK
Soft Cover, 8x10, 20pg, Text/Full Color
$15.00

Click here for all the other New Texture titles. They specialize in quality art books based on the 1950s and 1960s Men's Adventure Magazines art (and now models). These include Pollen's Women [POLLWH. $39.95] and I Watched Them Eat Me Alive: Killer Creatures in Men's Adventure Magazines in hardcover [IWATH. $24.95] and softcover [IWAT. $14.95]. And also this:

 
ALSO AVAILABLE
BARBARIANS ON BIKES
Closeout Price! Recommended. Edited by Robert Deis and Wyatt Doyle. "Sex Rampage of the Cycle Savages" ... "Big Mama's Killer Cycle Army" ... "Cross-Country Blast With 'Satan's Riders'" ... "Cycle Queens of Violence" ... The headlines in classic men's pulp adventure magazines sure could paint a picture ... and so could the masters of pulp art who illustrated them! Three decades of vintage pulp magazine covers and interiors, from the 1950s through the early 1970s, most unseen since their original publication. A unique archive of biker covers and interior illustrations at their most savage, with history and context. New Texture, 2016. Mature Readers...More.

Item Code: BARBB
Soft Cover, 8x11, 112pg, Partial Color
$19.95 $14.95

Also available in hardcover [BARBBH. $39.95].

 
ALSO AVAILABLE
SOFT NUDES FOR THE DEVIL'S BUTCHER
Fiction, Features and Art from Classic Men's Adventure Magazines. Edited by Pep Pentangeli. Men's adventure magazines were a form of pulp publishing that flourished in 1950s and 1960s America, pandering to young men with luridly illustrated stories of war, sleaze and savagery...and lots and lots of naked or nearly naked women, threatened with unspeakable cruelties. Here are those stories and that artwork, often by creators who went on to illustrious careers. Deicide, 2014. Mature Readers...More.

Item Code: SOFN
Soft Cover, 8x11, 208pg, Partial Color
$29.95

Also in this series, from publisher Deicide, is Soft Brides for the Beast of Blood [SOFB] and Soft Blondes in the Claws of Hell [SOFBC]. $29.95 each.

For more Men's Adventure art, see:

Illustration Magazine #67 with an article on Sam Pollen [IL67. $15].

The Art of Raphael DeSoto [ARTRDH. $44.95] – Highly Recommended

The Art of Robert McGinnis [ARRMH. $34.95, $29.95] – Our Highest Recommendation

Reynold Brown: A Life in Pictures [REYBH. $49.95] – Our Highest Recommendation

Cult Magazines – we have one copy, published in 2009 at $34.95 and long out of print [CULTM. $49.95]

 

Art Books

 
THE ART OF PERNILLE ORUM
Art book or how-to? It's both. Highly Recommended. Delve inside this beautifully presented artist showcase filled with the works and useful advice from popular visual artist Pernille Orum. Pernille is well known and respected in the animation industry, having worked for clients such as Disney Publishing, Nickelodeon Jr., Mattel, and DreamWorks, and she was the Lead Character Designer on Warner Brothers' DC Superhero Girls. In this uniquely colorful and vibrant volume, Pernille shares her artwork over the years, from earliest drawings to her latest work. Lots of cute girls and pin-up style. 3D Publishing, 2020...More.

Item Code: SPARH
Hard Cover, 9x10, 152pg,
$34.99

 
ALSO AVAILABLE
I MOVED TO LOS ANGELES TO WORK IN ANIMATION
Highly Recommended. By Natalie Nourigat. When artist Tally Nourigat left her life in Portland to move to Los Angeles and pursue a job in animation, she realized that despite her research, nothing truly prepared her for the wild world that awaited in the studios of Southern California. From grinding on storyboard test after storyboard test to getting a job at a major studio to searching for an apartment in...the Valley...this autobiographical how-to graphic novel explores the highest highs and lowest lows of pursuing a dream in animation. Boom! Box, 2019...More.

Item Code: IMOVE
Soft Cover, 6x9, 96pg, Full Color
$9.99

 
ART NOUVEAU
Highly Recommended. By Uta Hasekamp. Art Nouveau was a phenomenon with many faces. Between 1890 and 1910, artists developed a variety of styles from the plant-like forms of the Belgian-French Art Nouveau to the ornamentation of the Viennese Secession. They were all striving to create a new, modern style and pursued a comprehensive renewal of art and, in some countries, also a renewed national identity. This shows the gorgeous buildings, interior design, objects, sculptures, posters, and graphic design that beautifully embraced this movement. Konemann, 2019...More.

Item Code: ARTNO
Soft Cover, 8x10, 264pg, Full Color
$15.95

 
THE ART OF CUPHEAD
Recommended. Get transported back to the golden age of 1930s animation with an art book celebrating the acclaimed "run & gun"  game*, Cuphead! Gaming tie-in aside, this is like looking closely at a new, undiscovered Max Fleisher or Ub Iwerks (both are noted as direct inspiration) cartoon from the 1930s. Relive the most cherished and challenging moments of Cuphead and Mugman's adventure to reclaim their souls from The Devil! See the early concepts and production work creating of Cuphead's characters, bosses, stages and more, including never-before-seen content from the upcoming downloadable add-ons. Dark Horse, 2020...More.

Item Code: ARTCUPH
Hard Cover, 9x11, 264pg, Partial Color
$39.99 $34.99

The Art of Cuphead Deluxe signed & limited edition is due to arrive any day [ARTCUPD. $99.00 $85.00].
 
ALSO AVAILABLE
WALT DISNEY'S ULTIMATE INVENTOR The Genius of Ub Iwerks
Recommended. By Don Iwerks and Leonard Maltin. Gorgeous never-before-published photographs, many of technical equipment and sets, and fascinating personal memories celebrate the half-a-century career of Disney Legend Ub Iwerks, a self-taught animator who became the first to animate Mickey and Minnie Mouse in Steamboat Willie. But he went on to become an exceptional draftsman, prolific innovator, and all-around technical genius. He directly collaborated with Walt to create some of the most loved moments throughout film and theme parks, using animatronics and specialty 360 degree cameras! Disney Editions, 2019...More.

Item Code: WDULTH
Hard Cover, 9x13, 224pg, Partial Color
$60.00 $49.99

See our website for much more from the world of Animation.

 

Comic Book Archives

 
JOHNNY HAZARD THE SUNDAYS Full Size 1944-1947
Limited, 1000. Highly Recommended. By Frank Robbins. For the last six years Hermes Press has been reprinting the daily version of Frank Robbins' masterpiece, Johnny Hazard. Now after scouring collections all over the world for a set of the color tabloid Sundays, Hermes Press presents an archival, full size reprint of these exciting Sunday stories -- 133 Sundays in sequence. Plus 26 pages of special features, from character original art, full size, to a look at Robbin's work at DC and at Marvel Comics by Roy Thomas, and a Foreword, "A Look at One of the Great," by Howard Chaykin. Hermes Press, 2020...More.

Item Code: JHSH
Hard Cover, 12x17, 160pg, Full Color
$80.00 $69.95

Volumes 4-7 of the complete Newspaper Dailies are still available [JH04H, etc. $50, $42.50 ea].

 

Cover B: Pile of Baddies

Cover A: Deviant Bar Scene

Variant Cover: Naked Green Girl

KEVIN EASTMAN'S TOTALLY TWISTED TALES
By Kevin Eastman and Simon Bisley. A hell bent for leather collection! Ripped from yesterday's nastiest headlines! A dark look at the depth of twisted human depravity! As well as a Completely Awesome Collection of Totally Twisted Tales from the clinically insane minds of Kevin Eastman and Simon Bisley!  Three full length stories featuring guys, girls, monsters, mutants, superheroes, slackers and lowlifes -- as well as one VERY fast rat! "Very Angry Seven," "Thump 'n Guts," and "Biz and Buzz." Clover Press, 2020...More.

Soft Cover, 7x10, 96pg, Full Color

Cover B: Pile of Baddies Item Code: KEVTB $12.99

Cover A: Deviant Bar Scene Item Code: KEVTA $12.99

Variant Cover: Naked Green Girl Item Code: KEVTV $16.99

The variant edition is only available to us in conjunction with ordering covers A & B. We may be unable to restock this edition when it's gone. We have eight copies right now.
 
ALSO AVAILABLE
THE ART OF SIMON BISLEY Signed
Signed & limited, 1110/2000. By Simon Bisley. Simon Bisley is a British comics artist best known for his 1990s work on ABC Warriors, Lobo and Sláine. His style, reliant on paints, acrylics, inks and multiple-media, was strongly influenced by Frank Frazetta, Gustav Klimt, Salvador Dali, William Turner and Richard Corben. He also took inspiration from rock album covers and graffiti as well as traditional comics art. In turn he and his work have inspired various forms in media, including the Beast in the 2006 Doctor Who episode "The Satan Pit", and Simon Pegg's character graphic artist Tim Bisley on the Channel 4 sitcom Spaced. Heavy Metal, 2000. Out of Print.. Fine in fine Unclipped dustjacket....More.

Item Code: RB1046
Hard Cover, 9x12, 96pg, Full Color
$200.00

See our website for more Bisley, including several editions of Thicker Than Blood: Painted Edition [THBB. $9.99] and Pencil Edition [THBPL. $9.95].

 
COMPLETE WITCHBLADE Volume 1
Collects Witchblade #1-19, The Darkness #9 & 10, Tales of The Witchblade #1/2 & 3, 1995-97. By Warren Ellis et al. Art by Michael Turner et al. This first collection of the bestselling series created by Marc Silvestri, David Wohl, Brian Haberlin, and Michael Turner equips streetwise cop Sara Pezzini with the mysterious Witchblade, a weapon of prehistoric origin and untold power. As the artifact's bearer, Sara goes toe to toe with a Machiavellian industrialist, supernatural serial killers, and far worse, as the supernatural underworld of New York alters the course of her destiny forever. Image Comics, 2020...More.

Item Code: CWIT01
Soft Cover, 7x10, 624pg, Full Color
$29.99 $26.99

 
BATTLE STATIONS By Hugo Pratt
By Donne Avenell. Art by Hugo Pratt. Two brothers of differing rank have to make extraordinary sacrifices in the line of the toughest duty. A true story of courage under fire; a of a blistering World War II naval battle. Illustrated by Hugo Pratt, one of the world's most renowned comic book artists. This marks the beginning of the Treasury of British Comics mission to return all of Pratt's UK work to print. This has never before been collected. First published in War at Sea Picture Library, 1963. Introduction by Ben Smith. Rebellion, 2019...More.

Item Code: BATSTH
Hard Cover, 7x10, 64pg, b&w
$19.99

Hugo Pratt's Corto Maltese is being reprinted in its entirety, and we have all 11 volumes in stock (at various prices, based on length). Also available is a stand-alone adventure, The Man From the Great North [MANGH. $24.99, $21.99].

 

New DC Archives

 
DC'S WANTED The World's Most Dangerous Super Villains
A very unusual collection of golden age stories. Highly Recommended. By Jerry Siegel, Jack Kirby et al. Art by Nick Cardy, Joe Kubert et al. The DC heroes' most notorious foes, from the famous to the forgotten. The Signalman, the PuppeteerClock King, the Joker, the Mist, Captain Cold, the Ghost, Solomon Grundy...25 wild baddies in all. Origin stories from vintage 1940s comics: Action Comics #57 & 69; Adventures Comics #72 & 77; All-American Comics #77; Batman #25, 84 & 112; Doll Man Quarterly #15; Flash Comics #86, 90 & 100; Kid Eternity #15; More Fun Comics #65, 73, & 76; Sensation Comics #66 & 71; and more, plus stories from the Silver Age, too. DC Comics, 2020...More.

Item Code: DCWWMH
Hard Cover, 7x10, 256pg, Full Color
$39.99 $34.99

 
JUST IMAGINE STAN LEE CREATING THE DC UNIVERSE Book One
From 2001-2002. Recommended. Art by Joe Kubert, Jim Lee, John Buscema, Dave Gibbons, Kevin Maguire & Jerry Ordway. Stan Lee, the writer who co-created Marvel's greatest super heroes, reimagines DC's greatest heroes in these unusual and startling new takes on DC heroes. Batman is now a black man, imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. And now re-created as a man out for revenge. Watch Stan take on Green Lantern, JLA, Wonder Woman, Superman and The Flash, all as if this was a new origin/#1 issue for each. Packed with bonus pages of thumbnails (by Kubert) and first character studies many contributors. DC Comics, 2020...More.

Item Code: JUST01
Soft Cover, 7x10, 352pg, Full Color
$34.99 $29.99

 
MISTER MIRACLE By Steve Englehart and Steve Gerber
Miracle Miracle #19-25 + four more stories, 1974-79. Recommended. Art by Marshall Rogers, Michael Golden et al. Mister Miracle returns after a three-year absence, but so do the villains of Apokolips. In the aftermath of the New Gods saga, Mister Miracle After Kirby focuses on Scott Free's attempt to escape something no one has been able to: death. With excellent artwork and inspired storytelling by the young turks: Englehart, Steve Gerber and Bob Haney. Art by Marshall Rogers stands out here, but we also have a host of others: Jim Aparo, Mike Golden, Russ Heath and others. DC Comics, 2020...More.

Item Code: MISMH
Hard Cover, 7x10, 216pg, Full Color
$39.99 $34.99

On our website you will find two more Mister Miracle collections, one on sale, and Kirby's Mister Miracle Artist's Edition [JKMAEH. $150].

 
BATMAN TALES OF THE DEMON
Classic & Iconic stories from 1971-78. Highly Recommended. By Dennis O' Neil. Art by Neal Adams et al. During a secret meeting Batman's informant is assassinated--his final words to find a person called Darkk. When he confronts Darkk, Batman is assaulted, leaving him unconscious, and finds himself in a dungeon--unmasked. There he meets the Daughter of the Demon, Talia, who jump-starts his journey to find the League of Assassins and its founder, the notorious Ra's al Ghul. Collects the earliest Ra's al Ghul stories. Michael Golden, Don Newton, Irv Novick, Bob Brown and Dick Giordano also contribute. DC Comics, 2020...More.

Item Code: BATTDH
Hard Cover, 7x10, 232pg, Full Color
$49.99 $42.50

 
WONDER WOMAN The Cheetah
Recommended. By Greg Rucka, Geoff Johns et al Art by Drew Johnson Tony Daniel, Kevin Maguire et al. DC collects the first appearance of Cheetah (from Wonder Woman #6, 1943) and ten more modern tales, from 1980 to 2015. Her most exciting tales are here in a single volume, written by top comics writers also including George Pérez, Gerry Conway, Mark Waid and John Ostrander. With abundant appearances by Wonder Woman, and guest shots with Superman and The Flash, among others. Includes a complete guide to her history at DC. Lots of good action and excellent art. DC Comics, 2020...More.

Item Code: WWCHE
Soft Cover, 7x10, 216pg, Full Color
$19.99 $17.99

 
WONDER WOMAN The Golden Age Omnibus Volume 4
Sensation Comics #49-69, Wonder Woman #16-25, and Comics Cavalcade #14-22, 1947-49. Highly Recommended. By Joye Murchison. Art by Harry G. Peter. More than 600 pages of never-before-collected stories. In these tales, Wonder Woman and the Holiday Girls accidentally land on the planet Mercury, where they are taken prisoner by a race of giantesses; Professor Chemico plans to melt the polar ice caps, threatening the existence of the snow people who live there; Wonder Woman is shrunk to microscopic size; and MUCH more! Wild stories written by Joyce Murchison and others, like little else in comics at the time! Featuring a plethora of strange villains, from The Cheeta, the origin, first and second appearance of The Huntress, and Solomon Grundy. DC, 2020...More.

Item Code: WWGA04H
Hard Cover, 7x11, 816pg, Full Color
$150.00 $125.00

We have only one copy of this in stock as I write this, but I expect more next week (March 31). Also available are Volumes 1 and 2 [WWGA01H, WWGA02H. $75, $65 each] and Volume 3 [WWGA03H. $125, $105]. See our website for many other Wonder Woman collections and statues. And the new WW t-shirt, just in last week.

 

Comic Books - Milestone Issues

 
VAMPIRELLA #1 Variant Gabriel Rodriguez Cover
Limited. By Christopher Priest. Art by Ergun Gunduz. From Dynamite and Clover Press. With bonus 8-page gallery of favorite Vampi variant edition art. This exclusive variant for the brand-new series, Vampirella: Seduction Of The Innocent, features cover art from the Eisner Award Winning artist and co-creator of  Locke & KeyGabriel Rodríguez. To celebrate her gold anniversary, Dynamite is launching a brand-new, ongoing series by Christopher Priest (Black Panther, Deathstroke, Quantum & Woody, Justice League) and European artist Ergün Gündüz (Tales of the Great War, Taxi Tales). Clover Press, 2020...More.

Item Code: VAM01V
Comic, 7x10, 24pg, Full Color
$10.00

 The replica editions of Vampirella #1 [VAMP01], 2 [VAMR02], and 3 [VAMR03], from 1969, have been very popular. They are just $6.99 each. It don't know how long they'll stay available. For the next one, they are skipping ahead to #30!

 

Alex Ross Cover

IMMORTAL HULK 33
By Al Ewing. Art by Joe Bennett. Celebrating 750 issues of the Incredible Hulk! An all-new story in the tradition of the first tales of The Hulk from the sixties, with Bruce Banner unleashing the Hulk's might against..well, you'll see. Features several killer double page scenes, mixed with very surreal second plot, with an entirely different art style (kind of Moebius-like) that dovetails into the primary story in a very cool way. Something is wrong. Very wrong. And the Hulks wants out, now, from this surreal landscape. Marvel, 2020...More.

Alex Ross Cover Item Code: IMMH33

Joe Bennett Cover
Item Code:
IMMH33V

Comic, 7x10, 54pg, Full Color
$5.99

Joe Bennett Cover

Click here for the latest Milestone Issues and variants for Wonder Woman #750 (8 different), Detective Comics #1000 (3 variants plus a hardcover), and Action Comics #1000 (SC and HC).

 

Graphic Novels & More

 
COFFIN BOUND Volume 1 Happy Ashes
Collects #1-4, 2019. Recommended. By Dan Watters. Art by Dani. Izzy Tyburn has promised the world that if it won't have her in it, it'll have nothing of her at all. Chased by an unstoppable killer, she's retreading her life, leaving nothing behind but burned rubber, ash, and the sun-scorched bones of those who get in her way. Ride shotgun on an existential road trip through the tangle of a blood-splattered life. "If you like Dan Watters' work on Lucifer, this is even weirder..." -Neil Gaiman. "A damned joy." -Warren Ellis. "Fresh concepts and characters pop up on almost every page." Violence, nudity. Image Comics, 2020...More.

Item Code: COFB01
Soft Cover, 7x10, 144pg, Full Color
$16.99 $15.50

 
AN ENOLA HOLMES MYSTERY 3 The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets
Based on the novel by Nancy Springer. Recommended. By Serena Blasco. Can Enola crack her latest case and find a missing Dr. Watson before her famous older brother, Sherlock? The adventures continue in these graphic novel adaptations of Nancy Springer's mystery series. Enola is still hiding from Sherlock and her other brother Mycroft, who want to place her in a boarding school since their mother's disappearance. Looking for a new disguise, she finds just what she needs in a theatrical costume shop. This time, no old woman or ingenious girl will do as she transforms herself into an elegant and refined lady. IDW, 2020...More.

Item Code: ENOL03H
Hard Cover, 9x11, 64pg, Full Color
$14.99

Volumes 1 [ENOLH] and 2 [ENOLLH] are in stock at the same $14.99 price. See more graphic novels from French creators in our special section.

 
STEPHEN KING'S DARK TOWER The Drawing of the Three 1 The Prisoner
Art by Piotr Kowalski and Nick Filardi. “The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.” Now, in the first in the graphic novel series adaptation of Stephen King's The Dark Tower, originally published by Marvel Comics in single-issue form and creatively overseen by Stephen King himself, the full story of Roland's saga continues. Roland is the last of his kind, a “gunslinger” charged with protecting whatever goodness and light remains in his world—a world that “moved on,” as they say. Gallery, 2020...More.

Item Code: STEV01H
Hard Cover, 7x10, 128pg, Full Color
$24.99 $21.99

 
ALSO AVAILABLE
STEPHEN KING'S CYCLE OF THE WEREWOLF
New edition of the 1983 classic. Highly Recommended. Art by Bernie Wrightson. Terror began in January by the light of the full moon... Twelve color plates and twelve b&w double-page plates offer the perfect collaboration between Berni Wrightson and horror master Stephen King! Twelve chapters, twelve months, carry you from the first scream that came from the snowbound railwayman who felt the werewolf's fangs ripping at his throat. The next month there was a scream of ecstatic agony from the woman attacked in her cozy bedroom. And we have ten more months to go! Gallery 13, 2019...More.

Item Code: SKCYC
Soft Cover, 6x9, 128pg, Partial Color
$18.00

 
COMIC BOOK CREATOR #22
All-new P. Craig Russell cover, and it's great! Highly Recommended. Edited by Jon B. Cooke. Travel to the studio of P. Craig Russell, whose career stretches from Killraven and Elric, to his Oscar Wilde adaptations and The Sandman, to collaborations with Neil Gaiman on American Gods. A career-spanning, intimate interview (complete with photos and a gallery of PCR's finest artwork). Next, almost completely unknown work of Frank Quitely, on the walls of a Radisson hotel in Scotland! Jeff Gelb says goodbye to writer Bill Schelly, CBC visits the great Joe Sinnott. TwoMorrows, 2020. Mature Readers...More.

Item Code: CBCR22
Magazine, 8x11, 84pg, Full Color
$9.95

We have several issues of Comic Book Creator still in stock, back to #6, but they do sell out. For more comics history, also see Alter Ego and/or our comics reference section on the home page.

 

3...2...1...Gone

 
Here's another batch of 50 items that are going away soon, down to just one, two or three copies left. Click here to see the previous groups listed in December 2019, January 2020, February and March.
 

Rare & Out of Print

 
 

For The Boys The Racy Pin-Ups of World War II - $50.00

N.C. Wyeth The Collected Paintings, Illustrations, and Murals - $70.00

Mike Ploog Original Art from Tom Sawyer - price reduced! $350.00

More Out of Print books by R. Crumb!!

The Complete Fritz the Cat - $80.00

The Apex Treasury of Underground Comics - $75.00

The Complete Record Cover Collection - $30.00

Eat It - A Cookbook by Dana Crumb & Shery Cohen - $85.00

The Life and Death of Fritz the Cat - $35.00

The Book of Mr. Natural - $60.00

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Mature Readers

No new items this week, but we do have a few new listings in our Rare and Out of Print section.

FHM Women - $60.00

Glamour International 20 Doki Doki Zasshi - $35.00

Boob Mania - $40.00

1950s Glamour 20th Century Pin-Ups - $40.00

1960s Glamour 20th Century Pin-Ups - $50.00

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News and Notes

 

The Big News

Diamond Comic Distributors will stop shipping new product after April 1, until this crisis is over. That's terrible news for comic shops and for publishers both. However, the good news for you is we buy very, very little any more from Diamond—as few as two to four titles a week. We have always done our best to work directly with publishers or with distributors in the book industry. This means we will still be getting all of our archives and graphic novels from publishers including Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, IDW, Humanoids, Titan and others. As you know, we handle very few actual comics, which will be stopped by this move. So I do not forsee much interruption to our inflow of coming items and material.

Diamond does intend to keep filling reorders for older material, so we will be able keep those items we buy from them in stock.

Flesk Publishing

has also shut down for now, so we'll have to wait along with everyone else for reorders as well as new books from him. Again, bookstore distributor Ingram's handles some of his books, so we can still get those. CAV, one of our adult DVD distributors, is also closed. But so far, everyone else is shipping products to us.


Sanctum News

The Shadow #145 has gone out of print. We got restocks of the final issues, #150 and #151, which were sold out for a week or two. We're waiting for more #149, we have just 4 #148 but more on the way, #147 is in stock, but we are waiting on more #146! These last issues have sold exceptionally well, much better than regular issues. Unfortunately Sanctum, with their move to a new printer, has been slow to ship out our reorders. A few of the on-sale issues, #1-115 have sold out, as have a couple of the Doc Savage issues. We don't have very deep stock of any of these, so I recommend that you act now for the best selection. See all of our Sanctum pulp reprints here.

~Bud

 

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