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The irony this week, Monsters & Dames 2020 is here but it was the premium for the cancelled Emerald City Show this past March. We're very pleased they still produced it this year, and it's a good one. We have new Carl Barks in the Uncle Scrooge series, a new Breccia collection, Philip K. Dick, a new American Gods, a new Sorolla art book, Stanley Lau gets a second DC Poster Portfolio. Plus part 2 of the Dynamite sale, news and more. |
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MONSTERS & DAMES 2020
Numbered, limited, 750! Highly Recommended. By Aaron Lopresti, Adam Gorham et al. Cover by Mike Mignola. The great convention book for the show that wasn't. Emerald City 2020 was cancelled, but that didn't stop them putting together one of their best collections yet. Check out the incredible variety of original concepts that are created using this title theme, all new here. Includes work by 95 creators, in this 11th annual: Lopresti, Suydam, Bean, Golden, Mignola (cover), Lee, Moy and so many others, veterans as well as newly minted creators. ECCC, 2020. Out of Print....More. Item Code: MNST20H Hard Cover, 9x12, 88pg, Full Color $40.00 |
All previous editions have been declared out of print by Emerald City. As I write this, we have two copies left of 2018 [MNST18H. $35], and five of 2015 [MNST15H. $30]. All others are sold out. Click on the banner above to see all convention sketchbooks in stock now. |
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WALT DISNEY'S UNCLE SCROOGE The Twenty-four Carat Moon
Collects Uncle Scrooge #23-27, 32-33, Donald Duck #71, 79 & 81 & more, 1958-62. Our Highest Recommendation. By Carl Barks. Book 22. Earth's newest moon is made of pure gold and Scrooge wants it! But first he's got to win the greatest gold rush in history. Then, when Scrooge is told his ships are being sunk at sea by a ghost, the ducks come face-to-face with the haunted ship itself. And when Scrooge buys an ancient Spanish galleon, a lost letter on board sets him on a treacherous trail of intrigue, deception, and boobytraps in search of a hidden Incan treasure. All stories by Barks, and most are long adventures with Donald & the kids, too. Always the best! Fantagraphics, 2020...More. Item Code: WD22H Hard Cover, 8x10, 200pg, Full Color $29.99 $26.99 |
Some of these have gone out of print, others we've dropped as sales slowed down, since they date back many years in some cases. We still have Volumes 16, 18 and 19 in stock, and the set 9 & 10. More volumes of WD's Mickey Mouse are in stock, several on sale, and also the Disney Masters series, with stories first published in Europe and now translated into English. See our website for a full list. And find everything we have by Carl Barks (which is a lot more than this Fantagraphics series) by looking on our website. |
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SUPER FRIENDS SATURDAY MORNING COMICS Volume 1
Collects Super Friends #1-26 & more. By E. Nelson Bridwell. Art by Ramona Fradon. From the Hall of Justice come these tales of the Justice League of America, inspired by the hit animated TV series. In these 1970s tales, the entire Justice League of America assembles to battle evil in the form of Queen Hippolyte, the Riddler, the Ocean Monster and many more. These tales are written by DC editor and historian E. Nelson Bridwell with art by classic DC artist Ramona Fradon, best known for her work on Aquaman and Metamorpho. DC Comics, 2020...More. Item Code: SUPF01H Hard Cover, 7x10, 512pg, Full Color $69.99 $59.99 |
DC has collected more of Ramona Fradon's fine work on Aquaman, Wonder Woman and more. See it all on our website, and find out more about her in Alter Ego magazine. For more Alex Toth, that's just a click away also. We have several excellent books about him and of his work at the moment. |
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PERRAMUS The City and Oblivion
By Juan Sasturain. Art by Alberto Breccia. This dark and shadowy graphic novel follows the existential odyssey of a political dissident. When he voluntarily loses his memory, he's dubbed "Perramus" from the brand of his raincoat. During his absurdist travels, he teams up with the gruff Cannelloni; a foreign aviator dubbed "The Enemy;" and the blind author "Borges" (based on the real-life literary figure). This motley crew journeys to outlandish locales and meets wildly eccentric characters -- a director of trailers for films that will never exist; a guerilla band of circus folk, a tin-pot dictator... Fantagraphics, 2020...More. Item Code: PERRH Hard Cover, 9x11, 508pg, b&w $49.99 $39.99 |
We have just one copy of Breccia's Mort Cinder left in stock. |
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SENSATIONAL SHE-HULK By John Byrne Omnibus
Marvel Graphic Novel #18, 1985; Sensational She-Hulk #1-8, 31-46, 48-50, 1989-93 + more. Recommended. After making her a front-and-center star in his acclaimed Fantastic Four run, writer/artist John Byrne took She-Hulk solo, first in a classic graphic novel and then an outrageous ongoing series--which moved between serious and tongue-in-cheek! Byrne's complete adventures are collected in this one giant Omnibus. Jennifer Walters smashes the glass ceiling -- and the fourth wall -- in hilarious fashion! She's targeted by S.H.I.E.L.D.! Battling Spider-Man! Beheaded! Facing Dr. Bong's wrath! On her own Star Truck! And hosting her own Golden Age guest star! Marvel, 2020...More. Item Code: SENSHEH Hard Cover, 7x11, 752pg, Full Color $125.00 $105.00 |
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AMERICAN GODS Volume 3 The Moment of the Storm
Collects American Gods #3 & Moment of the Storm #1-9. By Neil Gaiman & P. Craig Russell. Art by Scott Hampton, with Glenn Fabry & David Mack. The new and old gods agree to meet in the center of America to exchange the body of the old gods' fallen leader--heading towards the inevitable god war in this final arc of the bestselling comic series! "...Touches into the novel's god-war climax, paying off years of comics in one final volume." -Paste Magazine. The Hugo, Bram Stoker, Locus, World Fantasy, and Nebula Award-winning novel and hit Starz television series by Neil Gaiman is adapted as a graphic novel! Dark Horse, 2020...More. Item Code: AMG03H Hard Cover, 7x10, 224pg, Full Color $29.99 $26.99 |
Volumes 1 and 2 are both available, same format, same discounted price. Very reasonable for a very thick hardcover... See much more from Neil Gaiman on our website. |
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COUNT CROWLEY Reluctant Midnight Monster Hunter
Collects #1-4, 2019. Highly Recommended. By David Dastmalchian. Art by Lukas Ketner. Once a rising TV journalist, Jerri Bartman has a serious drinking problem -- brought on by an event only hinted at so far. She has returned to her small Midwest hometown for a serious demotion, replacing the last host (who disappeared) of the local Creature Features. Appearing in full makeup so no one will recognize her, her acerbic commentary, love it or hate it, is captivating viewers...but her new job comes with real-life monsters and a secret, supernatural discovery that threatens life as we know it. Dark Horse, 2020...More. Item Code: COUC Soft Cover, 7x10, 104pg, Full Color $19.99 $17.99 |
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DC POSTER PORTFOLIO Stanley "Artgerm" Lau 2 Highly Recommended. His first collection is far and away the most popular in this series, even outselling Frank Cho's edition. This showcases a wider selection of art by one of the most popular new cover artists in comics today. 20 of his most stunning pieces: 3 of Wonder Woman, 4 Supergirl (one with Superman), Harley and Batman, Mera, 3 of Catwoman, Batgirl, Birds of Prey, old and new Flash, Harley by herself, and several surprises. Stunning work, each on detachable as individual posters. Very heavy cardstock. DC, 2020...More. Item Code: DCPOS02 Soft Cover, 12x16, 42pg, Full Color $24.99 $21.99 |
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ALSO AVAILABLE DC POSTER PORTFOLIO Stanley "Artgerm" Lau Highly Recommended. The first book in an all-new DC series: DC Poster Portfolio. Stanley "Artgerm" Lau showcases his gorgeous art, showing very clearly why he is already one of the most popular cover and good-girl artists in comics. This huge softcover works as an art book or remove the pages to have 20 individual scenes, Artgerm's most memorable DC covers starring Supergirl, Catwoman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Harley, Zatanna, Mera, Powergirl, Harley Quinn, and more! DC, 2019...More. Item Code: DCPOS Soft Cover, 12x16, 42pg, Full Color $24.99 $21.99 |
See our website for this entire series, which now includes Joshua Middleton, Frank Cho and Jim Lee. All are |
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JOAQUIN SOROLLA
The Definitive Monograph on the Spanish Master of Light. Highly Recommended. By Blanca Pons Sorolla. Containing over 300 reproductions of his most important works, Joaquín Sorolla is an essential survey on this popular painter. It includes an in-depth essay by Blanca Pons-Sorolla, as well as an illustrated chronology. This is a brand-new edition of a long unavailable 2005 art book. Starting out as a painter of works intended for the salon and national exhibitions, Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (1863–1923) very soon developed a style of open-air painting of his own which, though not connected stylistically with the Barbizon School, nevertheless pursued the same approach, as a result of which he came to be known as a Spanish impressionist painter. Poligrafa, 2020...More. Item Code: JOASOH Hard Cover, 10x11, 352pg, Text/Full Color $75.00 $65.00 |
Sorolla: Spanish Master of Light [SORSMH. $40] is still available, though we're waiting for a reorder due any day now. By special order, we also have Sorolla and Fashion [SORFH. $85]. |
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CECIL BEATON'S BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS
Elegance, glamour and style. By Robin Muir. Art by Rex Whistler, photography by Cecil Beaton. In 1920s and ‘30s Britain, Cecil Beaton used his camera and his larger-than-life personality to mingle with that flamboyant and rebellious group of artists, writers, socialites and partygoers who became known as the “Bright Young Things.” Famously fictionalized by the likes of Evelyn Waugh. Themed chapters move from Beaton's earliest sitters to his time at Cambridge and as principle society photographer for Vogue and Vanity Fair--over 50 leading figures who sat for Beaton are profiled with the dazzling parties, pageants and balls. National Portriat Gallery, 2020...More. Item Code: CECBH Hard Cover, 10x11, 280pg, Text/Partial Color $49.95 $44.95 |
We're very selective on our photograpy books, but you can find ten more recommended titles in the Photography section on our website. And, of course, there are some 90 different titles in our Erotic Photography section, the latest being Women of the Sun: Bunny Yeager in Mexico [WOSUH. |
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WRAPPERS DELIGHT Recommended. By Jonny Trunk. Compiled by famed nostalgia enthusiast Jonny Trunk (owner of record label Trunk Records) and with a foreword by Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker. Crammed with more than 500 examples of British (and many American) candy-wrapper designs from the 1960s to the 1980s: the amazing collection of John Townsend, who collected candy cigarette boxes, wax gum papers, potato-chip bags, soda cans, rock labels, stamps, transfers, coupons, tickets, badges, cards, stickers and much more. Fuel, 2020...More. Item Code: WRAPDE Soft Cover, 7x9, 240pg, Full Color $32.95 |
This is as pop culture as you can get. If you'd like to see more strange and wacky books like this, take a look online in our Pop Culture section, like this: |
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ALSO AVAILABLE A WORLD WITHOUT REALITY Inside Marvin Glass's Toy Vault! By Bill Paxton. Over 130 toy classics from the 1940's-1980's are profiled with compelling behind-the-scene creation stories of items like Operation, Simon, Lite-Brite, Rock'em Sock'em Robots, Mouse Trap, the Blythe doll, Yakity Yak Teeth, Whoops (fake vomit), the Pie Face game, Toss Across, Hands Down, Mystery Date, Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle and more! This book includes nearly 100 exclusive interviews with first-hand accounts about Marvin, the toys and his wacky studio. Also: 200 original color photographs including rare prototypes. 1,000 additional images. Bill Paxton, 2019...More. Item Code: AWORH Hard Cover, 9x11, 604pg, Text/Partial Color $59.99 $49.99 |
We're down to two hurt copies of this, so here's your last chance on those [AWORHR. |
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EDWARD HOPPER A-Z
By Ulf Küster. The distinctive melancholy found in Edward Hopper's (1882–1967) paintings often leads viewers to wonder about the more intimate details of the artist's life. Where exactly did this master live and work? What influenced him most? Author Ulf Küster pursues these themes, telling us a great deal about the painter and his interests without losing sight of the work itself. Küster takes us through “American landscape,” “Buick,” “Cape Cod,” “Dos Passos,” “Elevated Train,” “Frost,” “Goethe,” “House,” “Illustration” and “Josie” to “Shadow and Sunlight”—and of course the keyword, “Time.” Hatje Cantz, 2020...More. Item Code: EHOPH Hard Cover, 5x8, 56pg, Text/Full Color $20.00 |
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COMICS REVUE PRESENTS JUN 2020
Recommended. By Mac Raboy, Warren Tufts, Gil Kane et al. Complete in this issue: a 1950s Tarzan adventure by John Celardo and Dick van Bruen, and a Mandrake from 1938, "Teiba Castle," by Falk and Phil Davis. 8 pages of full-color Sunday pages including Casey Ruggles by Warren Tufts and Drago by Burne Hogarth. Flash Gordon by Mac Raboy, and early time-travel Alley Oop by V. T. Hamlin. Also here: Flash Gordon by Dan Barry and Bob Fujitani, Gasoline Alley by Dick Moores, Tarzan by Gil Kane, Steve Canyon by Milton Caniff, Buz Sawyer by Roy Crane, Krazy Kat by George Herriman, and more Manuscript Press, 2020...More. Item Code: CR0620 Soft Cover, 8x10, 128pg, Partial Color $19.95 |
See all available back issues online, and catch up with all the series. |
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It's out of stock at the moment, but we also handle Philip K. Dick: A Comics Biography, which is a graphic novel about this famous author's very eclectic life [PHILH. |
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ATHENA
Closeout Price! Collects #1-4, 2010. By Doug Murray. Art by Fabiano Neves. Zeus sends those he loves most to the human world, but with no memory of who they really are and what they can do. The Goddess Athena, shorn of her powers and knowledge, wakes up next to the Parthenon and ends up working for the District Attorney in New York. She finds herself interacting with others very much like her, and when danger threatens, someone out there is watching over her. A unique story that feels new and different.Dynamite, 2010...More. Item Code: ATHE Soft Cover, 7x10, 104pg, Full Color $14.99 $9.99 |
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CHARLIE'S ANGELS Volume 1 The Devil You Know
Closeout Price! Collects #1-5, 2019. By John Layman. Art by Joe Eisma. The Angels are back, baby! -- The original Angels, Jill, Kelly and Sabrina! Travel back to the swingin' 70s, and revisit the butt-kicking, crime-fighting, mold-breaking lady detectives who took 70s TV by storm, ready to do the same to comics 40 years later! Break out your bell-bottoms, feather your hair, and jump back to an era of peanut-farmer presidents, gargantuan gas-guzzlers and foxy female detectives for a globe-trotting adventure that's simply too big and epic for the 70s-era boob tube. Written by elderly Eisner winner and solicitation-writing former-superstar John Layman, and with art by his scrappy but lovable youngster pal, Joe Eisma. This is one graphic novel you DON'T DARE TO MISS! Dynamite, 2019...More. Item Code: CHAR01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 124pg, Full Color $19.99 $12.99 |
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JUNGLE GIRL Season 3
Closeout Price! Recommended. By Frank Cho, Doug Murray. Art by Jack Jadson. The Lost World is doomed! When a tear in the dimensional fabric opens over the forbidden God Mountain, the brave and cunning Jana must rescue her friends Togg and Mike Mize from flaming debris, stampeding dinosaurs, and bloodthirsty tribesmen. And then there's the fearsome otherworldly deities known as The Old Ones... Story and all four covers by Frank Cho, co-writing by the renowned Doug Murray, and excellent art. We like it all! Dynamite, 2016...More. Item Code: JGIR Soft Cover, 7x10, 112pg, Full Color $15.99 $10.99 |
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BETTIE PAGE #2 Model Agent
Closeout Price! Collects Bettie Page #5-8, 2017-18. By David Avallone. Art by Esau Figueroa, Matt Gaudio and Bane Wade. Cover art by Joseph Michael Linsner. You know that thing where your flight back to NYC is interrupted so you can be debriefed at a secret government base, only to find that base under attack by giant radioactive monsters? And you can't get another flight back home until you defeat the giant radioactive monsters? Sucks, right? But our Bettie can handle it. Features all four original covers by Joseph Michael Linsner, and four variant photo covers featuring Bettie herself, plus art covers by J. Bone and Scott Chantler. Dynamite, 2018...More. Item Code: BP02 Soft Cover, 7x10, 112pg, Full Color $17.99 $11.99 |
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BARBARELLA Volume 1 Red Hot Gospel
Closeout Price! Collects #1-4, 2017, and 22 variant covers! Recommended. By Mike Carey. Art by Kenan Yarar and Jorge Fornes. The original 1960s space heroine from France, who was portrayed on screen by a sexy young Jane Fonda, returns in all new adventures. When Barbarella wanders into a war zone, the theocratic rulers of Parosia arrest and imprison her. A prison break is brewing, but now that she knows what the Parosians do to their own citizens Barbarella decides to make this fight her own. This collects the first four issues of her new title, along with 22 different, full page-size variant covers. Dynamite, 2018. Mature Readers...More. Item Code: BAR01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 128pg, Full Color $17.99 $11.99 |
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BARBARELLA Volume 2 Hard Labor
Closeout Price! Collects #5-8. Recommended. By Mike Carey. Art by Kenan Yarar and Donny Hadiwidjaja. Barbarella's quest to repair her ship and be on her way takes a detour to Falladim, where there's a rush on for R.U.S.T. -- Radically Unstable Space-Time! The rarest and most valuable stuff in the universe, even Barbarella can't resist its mighty call. But competition brings out the worst in humans and aliens alike, and the Siren of Space is about to see what the worst really is! Includes 15 variant covers by Michael Kaluta, Butch Guice, Natali Sanders, Brent Schoonover, et al, plus all four covers by Yarar. Dynamite, 2019. Mature Readers...More. Item Code: BAR02 Soft Cover, 7x10, 128pg, Full Color $17.99 $11.99 |
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BARBARELLA Volume 3 Burning Down the House
Closeout Price! Collects #9-12. By Mike Carey. Art by Kenan Yarar. Barbarella has been lied to. Worse, she's been weaponized, and someone's going to answer for that, for sure. (Well, assuming she survives the judgement of the Esseverine sun-giants, and an armada of a thousand ships...). Things are definitely never dull for Barbarella no matter what planet—or galaxy—she is in! This volume wraps up the 1st 2017-2018 mini-series, which featured Barbarella's first new comic book adventures in several decades. First created by Jean-Claude Forrest as a French graphic novel, she became ever better known after actress Jan Fonda starred in the cult film Barbarella (1968). Dynamite, 2019. Mature Readers...More. Item Code: BAR03 Soft Cover, 7x10, 120pg, Full Color $17.99 $11.99 |
Seven more items were listed last week, and six more are coming next week. They are all on our website and available now, click here to see all 20 new sale books. We have a few variant cover sets of the original Bettie Page and Barbarella comics left, most now on sale, see them on our website. I just repriced the Barbarella issues down to $5.99 for 4 issues, a $16 value. We finished our Fantagraphics 3-part sale last week. But if you missed it, you can see all the books here, or in the last three weekly emails. Several books were so popular, such as the Dikto series, we had to quickly go back and get a reorder before we ran out. You can also check in on what's left from previous White Sales: Calla/Dover books, Taschen (adult titles), Images Comics, JVJ Pubs, Sanctum Pulp Reprints, PS Artbooks, 2020 Calendars, Classic Comics Press, TwoMorrows; I usually bring in more than enough copies to last us for some time if I can--sale books like these are among our best long-term sellers. |
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DC HEROES SUPER POWERS COLLECTION Batgirl Maquette Statue
From Tweeterhead. Sideshow and Tweeterhead present the newest edition from the Super Powers Collection of DC Maquettes: Batgirl! Superheroine Batgirl stands in a modern gray sculpted bodysuit at an impressive 16 inches tall, ready to exact swift justice! Tweeterhead, 2019. Due Dec. ...More. Item Code: DCHSB 16" tall, Full Color $279.00 |
This was first announced last year, but was rescheduled due to the pandemic. This is our first listing of it. See more current and coming statues on our website. |
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Double Memory Phil Hale & Rick Berry Signed - $75.00 Double Memory Phil Hale & Rick Berry - $40.00 Wally Wood's Sally Fourth No. 2 - $70.00 Wally Wood's Sally Fourth No. 3 - $60.00 Mahlon Blaine's Nova Venus - $250.00 Mahlon Blaine's Nova Venus Signed & Limited - $750.00 Prince Valiant Scrapbook - $50.00 Michael Whelan's Something in my Eye Poster Book Deluxe - $75.00 Michael Whelan's Something in my Eye Poster Book - $35.00 Pulp Culture - $30.00 Pulp Art - $35.00 All | New Arrivals | Artists & Illustration | Fantasy & Sci-Fi | Illustrated Fiction Comic Book Archives | Comic Strip & Cartoon | Comic Artists | Pin-Up | Erotic Art Click here to add yourself to our Rare & Out of Print mailing list. |
Mature ReadersAfter several weeks of NO new adult items, we have four new videos just in. Two are new in the Peekarama series: Frankie and Johnnie Were Lovers/the Mislayed Genie, and Carnal Highways/Carl Olympics, both double features. We have Justine: A Matter of Innocence which offers a lush new take, with a new young star, on this classic tale of submission and desire. And last up is Hard Soap/Hard Soap, with a bonus film Disco Lady. 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. Click Here to see the most recent Adult email. |
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Overstreet Price Guide Facimile We only were able to get five copies of the hardcover version of the Overstreet Price Guide 1st Edition Facimile. We have one left as I write this. The softcover is still available [OVER01. $16.95] and has been surprisingly popular. See what comics were worth in 1970!
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Fantastic Paintings of Frazetta Update We're expected this either at the end of June or the first of July, so it's running about a month late. Orders have been VERY strong for both the Deluxe, with a variant cover and an extra 16 pages [FANPFD. $69.95] and Hardcover [FANPFH. $39.95]. No softcover edition is currently scheduled, but I imagine there will be one eventually...We've had to up our advance orders on both books. Due to a direct shipment from the printer in China to us, we should be first in the U.S. with copies. See our other Frazetta books available now on the website. |
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I usually take these to shows, and fans snap them up, saying "really, where's the problem with this?" But we are very careful not to send out less than perfect, or at least NEAR perfect as-new copies. But with no shows lately, we put together a bunch of our "slightly dinged or bumped" titles, and here is what we still have available right now, 28 titles. Act now, they sell out with no notice.
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Out of Print Report Gone is the Doc Savage James Bama Multi-pack 2 (sets #1 & 3 still available), Complete Crepax 3 & 4 slipcased set (still available individually), and Frazetta Sketchbook 2 SC (still available in a Deluxe slipcased version). ~Bud |
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