Atlas at War, Resident Alien, Moon Girl plus Howard Pyle, Batgirl, Shazam, Conan, and a Solomon Kane Omnibus.

Our new website launched this week and we survived—we hope you find it a pleasure to navigate and use. My favorites this week are Atlas at War, and Resident Alien. Howard Pyle’s work is a rare treat. Also here: Batgirl, Moon Girl, Shazam, Conan, a huge Solomon Kane Marvel Comics Omnibus, Firefly Deluxe, James Jean Poster Edition, and the "Vintage" 2021 calendars. FREE Jim Silke Sketchbook with any order, see below. The image to the right is one of our favorites. And finally, exciting new Al Williamson and Mark Schultz books from Flesk.

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Comic Book Archives & Graphic Novels

ATLAS AT WAR My Highest Recommendation. Art by Russ Heath, John Severin, Gene Colan, Steve Ditko, Jack Kirby, Syd Shores, Don Heck et al. Edited by Michael J. Vassallo. Fifty hard-hitting stories from Atlas, the company that became Marvel Comics. Each one hand-picked by Vassallo, a comics historian and world-renowned authority on Timely/Atlas. Marvel published more war titles than anyone in the industry, between 1951 and 1960, and were strongly influenced, at their best, by Kurtzman's EC stories. If you think EC and DC were the only publishers doing poignant, powerful and well-drawn war stories, read this and have your head turned around. This is good. Dead Reckoning, 2020....More. Item Code: ATLASWH Hard Cover, 8x11, Full Color $65.00 $59.00

A killer new book from Dead Reckoning/Naval Institute. I really like their books, they are entertaining as well as historically accurate. See them all here.

ALSO AVAILABLE DC GOES TO WAR Our Highest Recommendation. By Robert Kanigher, Garth Ennis et al. Art by Joe Kubert, Russ Heath, Alex Toth, John Severin, Jack Kirby et al. In this new collection, DC is recognizing nearly 80 years of comic book war stories beginning with the origin of Blackhawk in Military #1, 1941, Boy Commandos by S&K in 1942, on to the beginnings of Sgt. Rock, the origin of Enemy Ace, The Losers, The Unknown Soldier, the very first Haunted Tank, and my favorite piece, a graphic novel length War in Heaven, bringing Enemy Ace into World War II and reluctant combat to defend his German homeland, beautifully told and illustrated by Ennis and Russ Heath. Powerful stuff, first page to last. DC Comics, 2020....More. Item Code: DCGOEH Hard Cover, 7x10, 352pg, Full Color $39.99 $34.99

ALSO AVAILABLE THE 10 CENT WAR: Comic Books, Propaganda, and World War II Recommended. Edited by Trischa Goodnow and James J. Kimble. How different types of comic books and characters supplied reasons and means to support the war effort. The contributors demonstrate that, free of government control, how effective these appeals were, while often racist and extreme. The book discusses the role of such major characters as Superman, Wonder Woman, and Uncle Sam along with a host of such minor characters as kid gangs and superhero sidekicks. It even considers novelty and small presses, providing a well-rounded look at the many ways that comic books served as popular propaganda. University Press of Mississippi, 2016....More. Item Code: THCEW Soft Cover, 6x9, 240pg, b&w $30.00

Check out all of the war comics archives and related books on our website. This is a popular genre for us, so we keep a good selection in stock.

RESIDENT ALIEN Omnibus Volume 1 Bargain-priced. Now a SYFY original series. Highly Recommended. Collects the original compilation Volumes 1-3 and extras, 2011-2015. By Peter Hogan. Art by Steve Parkhouse. Living undercover as a semi-retired, small-town doctor, a stranded alien's only hope is to stay off humanity's radar until he can be rescued. When he's pulled into a surprising murder mystery by the small town's desperate mayor and struggling police chief, he realizes how bored he has been, and how much he enjoys this. We really like this, I raced through all three graphic novels in this fine collection. Two more GNs are done, I plan to bring them in also. A truly unique sci-fi adventure tale with heart and humor! Dark Horse, 2020....More. Item Code: RESAL01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 296pg, Full Color $24.99 $21.99

I started this a couple nights ago and could hardly put it down until I finished all three graphic novels it contains. What a great series, different, low-key, well drawn. Good characters. I hope you will check it out. As I mention in the description, there are two more collections (which I will bring in), an ongoing comics series, and this is running now on the SYFY channel.

THE POWER OF SHAZAM! BOOK 1 in the Beginning by Jerry Ordway Collects Power of Shazam #1-12 & more, 1994-96. DC's Captain Marvel make-over, very well-drawn by the talented Jerry Ordway. He nicely captures CM's origin, and brings back Capt. Nazi, Ibis, Bulletman, Mary Marvel, Spy Smasher and Minuteman. Curt Swan puts in a guest artist appearance. Ordway's 1994 CM graphic novel won the Comics Buyer's Guide Fan Award for Favorite Original Graphic Album, and led to the publication of this ongoing Power of Shazam! series, set four years after the graphic novel. DC Comics, 2020....More. Item Code: POWS01H Hard Cover, 7x10, 408pg, Full Color $49.99 $39.99

See more about Shazam and the original Captain Marvel on the site.

FIREFLY Legacy Deluxe Edition Visionary writer & director Joss Whedon’s cult hit TV show Firefly returns in these official sequels, collected for the first time in a single volume. Discover new heists, new adventures and the secret histories of fan-favorite characters, as well as the covert operatives the Blue Gloves. A star-studded group of creators including Joss and Zack Whedon, Chris Samnee, Fábio Moon, Georges Jeanty, Laura Martin, and more take the crew of Serenity on new adventures. Boom!, 2020....More. Item Code: FIRLEH Hard Cover, 7x11, 624pg, Full Color $75.00 $65.00

We have the individual collections that make up this deluxe edition, and several more new Firefly books, including new post-television series novels.

MOON GIRL Collects Moon Girl #1-5, 2011-12. By Tony Trov and Johnny Zito. Art by Rahzzah. In the pulp New York of the 1950s, Moon Girl looks to a life beyond her role as champion of justice and social revolution. However, she is forced back in to action when fanatics, inspired by her adventures, begin enforcing their own brand of justice. It's "Mad Men meets The Dark Knight" in this beautifully hand-painted novel. Moon Girl was originally created by Gardner Fox and Sheldon Moldoff. Red 5 Comics, 2020....More. Item Code: MOONG Soft Cover, 7x10, 140pg, Full Color $17.95 $15.95

BATMAN ADVENTURES BATGIRL A League of Her Own Collects the all-ages Batgirl Adventures #1 and Batman: Gotham Adventures#8-9, 22, and 38. Recommended. By Paul Dini. Art by Bruce Timm et al. In these previously uncollected stories inspired by the hit Batman: The Animated Series, Batgirl swings across the rooftops of Gotham City alongside Batman, Nightwing, and Robin to battle the likes of Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, and Ra's al Ghul. She even finds time to team up with her father, Commissioner Gordon, to catch two escaped convicts. Animation style artwork, nicely done. DC Comics, 2020....More. Item Code: BATGL Soft Cover, 5x8, 152pg, Full Color $9.99

I searched "Batgirl" on our site and got 37 hits. Check all her appearances out, from statues to graphic novels to Archives.

Robert E. Howard Archives

CONAN THE BARBARIAN The Original Marvel Years Epic Collection Volume 1 Collects Conan The Barbarian #1-13, 1970; and material from Chamber of Darkness #4, 1969. By Roy Thomas and John Jakes. Art by Barry Windsor-Smith and Gil Kane. The greatest saga in sword-and-sorcery history begins with the very first Conan series in comics. Conan fights his way through the untamed Hyborian kingdoms, sparing no man, woman or wizard his wrath. His adventures will become legend. Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor-Smith brought Robert E. Howard's iconic creation to four-color life with work that set new standards for comic book storytelling. Plus tons of bonus material. Marvel, 2020....More. Item Code: CONBE01 Hard Cover, 7x10, 352pg, Full Color $34.99 $29.99

SOLOMON KANE The Original Marvel Years Omnibus Recommended. By Robert E. Howard, Roy Thomas et al. He's a weapon of God, stalking the 16th Century! A tall, grim wanderer, roving the Earth to right all its wrongs! Let those who worship the power of evil beware, lest they face...Solomon Kane! He sprang from the mind of Conan the Barbarian creator Robert E. Howard. Kane's complete, classic Marvel adventures are collected in one huge Omnibus! Adaptations of Howard's formative tales plus new chapters by Roy Thomas, Ralph Macchio, Doug Moench, Joe Duffy, John Arcudi et al -- all filled with pirates, cannibals, demons and vampires! Marvel, 2020....More. Item Code: SOLKMH Hard Cover, 7x11, 624pg, Full Color $100.00 $85.00

See all the books available featuring Conan and other works by Robert E. Howard, a click away.

Art Books

HISTORY AND ROMANCE WORKS BY HOWARD PYLE Highly Recommended. From 1998, the companion catalogue to the exhibition at the Brandywine River Museum, home to work by the Wyeth family and the Brandywine artists. This catalogue has two essays, one on Pyle himself, the other on collecting, All from the original artwork, here is work from his first stories of King Arthur, to his iconic pirate tales, from pencil and ink drawings to superlative oil paintings. Brandywine River Museum, 1998....More. Item Code: HISROM Soft Cover, 9x11, Partial Color $30.00

ALSO AVAILABLE THE BOOK OF PIRATES Highly Recommended. By Howard Pyle. Rarely have the exploits of marauding pirates and buccaneers of the Spanish Main been more vividly recounted than in the stories of author and illustrator Howard Pyle. Possessed of a unique talent for recapturing the flavor of bygone eras, Pyle wrote and illustrated these highly readable sagas of the sea wolves who sailed under the dreaded black flag. 80 illustrations: b&w plates and drawings and 16 full color plates. Unabridged new edition of his 1921 Book of Pirates plus 5 additional color plates. Dover, 2020....More. Item Code: BOOKPI Soft Cover, 6x9, 336pg, Text/Partial Color $16.95

You’ll find many more books with Pyle and his students on our website.

DC POSTER PORTFOLIO James Jean 20 Removeable Posters. Highly Recommended. Eisner and Harvey award-winner James Jean showcases his emblematic body of work on cover images from Batgirl, Green Arrow, Batman and his Sandman Overture variant cover. His art defies genres and categories but a fine artist like James Jean strives for excellence in everything he creates and this DC portfolio collection perfectly captures that. DC Comics, 2020....More. Item Code: DCPOJJ Soft Cover, 12x16, 42pg, Full Color $24.99 $21.99

Also available in this series: Stanley "Artgerm" Lau 1 and 2, Jim Lee, Joshua Middleton, and Frank Cho. All are the same discounted price. Also check out the Marvel Portfolio series with Stanley Lau and Joe Quesada [MARPSL, MARPJQ. $50, $42.50 ea].

Dark Shadows

DARK SHADOWS The Complete Paperback Library 5 By Marilyn Ross. The original, classic, Dark Shadows books from the Paperback Library, return with Hermes Press' archival reprint of all 32 titles in the series beginning with the first novel which first saw print in December, 1966. This fifth book is The Curse of Collinwood, where a man who was murdered 100 years ago is now threatening Victoria's life! Hermes, 2020....More. Item Code: DARS05 Soft Cover, 6x9, 144pg, Text Only $14.99

DARK SHADOWS The Complete Paperback Library 6 By Marilyn Ross. The series takes a turn as this entire story is based on Barnabas Collins, the 175-year-old vampire who took television by storm! He comes alive in this novel of gothic suspense. The never-before-told story of the foggy night in 1899 when Barnabas Collins first arrived at Collinwood. Discover the full horror of the real truth about Barnabas – a secret so terrible that it could not be revealed until now . . . Hermes Press, 2020....More. Item Code: DARS06 Soft Cover, 6x9, 144pg, Text Only $14.99

Books 1-4 are available at the same price.

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.

2021 "Vintage" Calendars

VINTAGE WONDER WOMAN 2021 Calendar Recommended. By William Moulton Marston aka Charles Moulton. Art by Harry G. Peter. It's entirely Golden Age this year, with classic and fun covers from 1940s issues of Wonder Woman, Comic Cavalcade (with Green Lantern and The Flash), and her second starring title, Sensation Comics. She's riding into battle on horseback, fighting the Japanese in a rising sun symbolic cover, fighting a leopard from the back of an elephant, tossing around crooks (and gods) and more. Cheetah stars on the September entry.. Spiral bound. Asgard, 2020....More. Item Code: VINW21 Wirebound, 9x13, 24pg, Full Color $16.95

VINTAGE DC COMICS SUPERMAN 2021 Calendar Recommended. You'll experience the many faces of Superman, from a 1940 pin-up in Superman #6, lifting a giant tractor in Action #22 (1940), to Silver Age appearances with Lois Lane (1963), Jimmy Olson (1960), as Superboy (Adventure #266, 1959), and an iconic cover with a giant Brainiac (Action #280, 1960). Plus several iconic Golden Age covers: Action #108 (on the cover of this), #89, #1167 (with Santa), and first meeting The Prankster in 1942. Spiral bound. Asgard, 2020....More. Item Code: VIDS21 Wirebound, 9x13, 24pg, Full Color $16.95

VINTAGE WESTERNS 2021 Calendar Recommended. Here we have Kirk Douglas in The Man from Gun Hill, James Stewart and Racquel Welch in Bandolero, Clint Eastwood in The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, James Stewart in Shenandoah, Burt Lancaster in Vengeance Valley, Elvis Presley in Charro, Patrick Wayne and Yvonne Craig in The Young Land, plus a rare Italian John Wayne/Dean Martin, the 1930 Billy the Kid, 1932's The Golden West, and 1939's Rough Riders Round-Up! Asgard, 2020....More. Item Code: VINWE21 Wirebound, 9x13, 24pg, Full Color $16.95

VINTAGE FLASH 2021 Calendar Highly Recommended. The Fastest Man Alive finally has his own calendar! Last year Supergirl joined Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman and now The Flash is here with large, detachable pages that double as posters. We lead off with All Star Comics #3, 1940, the first JSA appearance, then Flash Comics #1, 1940, All Flash Quarterly, Christmas Comic Cavalcade for 1944, Justice League #1, 1960, and in the comic that started the Silver Age, Showcase #4, 1956. Plus FIVE great Infantino/Anderson covers from the 1960s. Asgard, 2020....More. Item Code: VINF21 Wirebound, 9x13, 24pg, Full Color $16.95

VINTAGE DC COMICS BATMAN 2021 Calendar Recommended. A unique Joker cover leads off this well-chosen collection. We have the new Batmobile in Detective #156, 1950; Batgirl and Batwoman from 1961; our duo in a military jeep in 1942; a great Jerry Robinson airplane cover on Detective #64, 1942; another Joker cover from 1946; acrobatics from a motorcycle sidecar, with a lovely blonde driving, from 1949; and The Flying Batman from 1954. All detachable to become posters. Asgard, 2020....More. Item Code: VINB21 Wirebound, 9x13, 24pg, Full Color $16.95

VINTAGE SCI-FI 2021 Calendar Recommended. Always a bestseller and most popular of all the "Vintage" series. Step outside your Universe! Fantastic, otherworldly, astounding, bizarre pulp covers from 1938 to 1955, from Planet Stories (5), Startling (2), Astonishing, Thrilling Wonder, Fantastic Adventures, and Astounding Science Fiction. Beautiful girls, bug-eyed monsters, handsome heroes with ray guns, aliens, robots...includes work by Kelly Freas, Allan Anderson and Earl Bergey. Asgard, 2020....More. Item Code: VINS21 Wirebound, 9x13, 24pg, Full Color $16.95

VINTAGE DC COMICS 2021 Calendar Highly Recommended. Batman and Robin, The Flash and Green Lantern, Hawkman and Superman, Wonder Woman and the entire DC line (on Big All American #1, 1944) are here for you each month. Commentary by Dr. Arnold Blumberg, who undoubtedly also provides this top-notch collection of iconic covers from World's Finest, Wonder Woman, Detective Comics, Justice League (#1), and a cool late-era Green Lantern from 1948. Asgard, 2020....More. Item Code: VID21 Wirebound, 9x13, 24pg, Full Color $16.95

See all of our 2021 Calendars (that have come in so far) on our website.

Flesk Books Coming in February

XENOZOIC By Mark Schultz Hardcover Signed Publisher Exclusive, very limited supply, Signed Hardcover Edition. Our Highest Recommendation. Imagine Wood, Williamson, & Frazetta all working together on an after-the-apocalypse story in their finest EC Comics styles. Imagine them creating a gorgeous heroine--feisty, daring, voluptuous--and a two-fisted hero to create sexual tension and drama. Imagine good-girl art in the tradition of Dave Stevens, with a modern take on how a stunningly beautiful woman can look. Mark Schultz has channeled all this like no other artist, from the dramatic cities of Alex Raymond to the drama of Prince Valiant. That is Xenozoic Tales and here is every single story to date, all wrapped in a new 2020 cover to celebrate this new printing. Flesk, 2013. Due: Feb....More. Item Code: XENOHS Soft Cover, 9x11, 352pg, b&w $39.95

XENOZOIC By Mark Schultz New printing with a new cover. Our Highest Recommendation. By Mark Schultz. Imagine Wood, Williamson, & Frazetta all working together on an after-the-apocalypse story in their finest EC Comics styles. Imagine them creating a gorgeous heroine--feisty, daring, voluptuous--and a two-fisted hero to create sexual tension and drama. Imagine good-girl art in the tradition of Dave Stevens, with a modern take on how a stunningly beautiful woman can look. Mark Schultz has channeled all this like no other artist, from the dramatic cities of Alex Raymond to the drama of Prince Valiant. That is Xenozoic Tales and here is every single story to date, all wrapped in a new 2020 cover to celebrate this new printing. Flesk, 2013. Due: Feb....More. Item Code: XENO Soft Cover, 9x11, 352pg, b&w $29.95

MARK SCHULTZ CARBON Volume 4 Hardcover Signed Highly Recommended. Signed. Normally only available from Flesk, they are letting us have a limited number of these signed copies, one shot only. Carbon 4 is the latest collection that highlights Mark Schultz’s favorite recent and past works. From the barbaric past to the nightmarish future -- from the ocean’s depths to the farthest planets -- Carbon 4 features Mark Schultz’s most-ambitious works to date! Flesk, 2021. Due: Feb....More. Item Code: MSC04HS Hard Cover, 9x12, 58pg, b&w $39.95

MARK SCHULTZ CARBON Volume 4 Highly Recommended. By Mark Schultz. Carbon 4 is the latest collection that highlights Mark Schultz’s favorite recent and past works. From the barbaric past to the nightmarish future -- from the ocean’s depths to the farthest planets-- Carbon 4 features Mark Schultz’s most-ambitious works to date! Flesk, 2021. Due: Feb....More. Item Code: MSC04 Soft Cover, 9x12, 58pg, b&w $24.95

AL WILLIAMSON STRANGE WORLD ADVENTURES Hardcover Publisher Exclusive Hardcover Edition. Highly Recommended. Normally only available from Flesk, they are letting us have a limited number of these, one shot only. This first compendium in a new series is the perfect introduction to Al Williamson’s work and new, previously unseen work for veteran fans. You will find samples that span his fifty-year career along with anecdotes and historical details salted throughout. Cover art, interior pages, drawings and sketches — plus photographs of Al and his friends posing as reference for his sequential art -- are included. This volume contains a mixture of both his most-obscure and best-known works, all meticulously reproduced from the original art. Featuring over 130 pieces of art. Flesk, 2021. Due: Feb....More. Item Code: ALSTRH Hard Cover, 9x12, 128pg, b&w $39.95

AL WILLIAMSON STRANGE WORLD ADVENTURES Highly Recommended. This first compendium in a new series is the perfect introduction to Al Williamson’s work and new, previously unseen work for veteran fans. You will find samples that span his fifty-year career along with anecdotes and historical details salted throughout. Cover art, interior pages, drawings and sketches — plus photographs of Al and his friends posing as reference for his sequential art -- are included. This volume contains a mixture of both his most-obscure and best-known works, all meticulously reproduced from the original art. Featuring over 130 pieces of art. Flesk, 2021. Due: Feb....More. Item Code: ALSTR Soft Cover, 9x12, 128pg, b&w $29.95

These three new books are coming in February: a new printing of the original Zenozoic Tales by Mark Schultz, with an ALL NEW cover, in both a Publisher Exclusive signed hardcover and a softcover edition. Carbon 4 by Mark Schultz will also be available in a Publisher Exclusive signed hardcover and a softcover. Publisher John Fleskes normally reserves the Publisher Hardcover Edition for himself, but he’s giving us a one-time shot at both signed editions this time. And there will be Al Williamson: Strange World Adventures in hardcover (exclusive only to Diamond and us, not to general book stores) and in an unlimited softcover. Reserve your copy now, at least on the hardcovers, supply will be limited. Click here for more books with Al Williamson and Mark Schultz’s fine work, available now.

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News and Notes

Free Jim Silke Sketchbook! You have until August 31 to get a free copy of this with ANY order of ANY size. Click the link above to add to your order. Thanks to Flesk Publishing for giving them to us, and thanks to you for your support!

New Website Up NOW Well, we finally launched the new website 24 hours ago, as I write this. And it’s performing well. We just have a steep learning curve here, getting used to the new software. As we mentioned, we will need to get everyone’s credit card information again, just once, since that is encrypted so we could not bring that over from our old system. So you may get a call or email from us. The new site has no advanced search, but I’m assured the regular search engine is more robust, and so far it’s working okay for me. I hope you find this an improvement. We are still adding functions to the site, so check back often to see the new changes. We welcome any feedback you care to offer, of course. Other tips about the new site are in our latest catalog, with the Frank Cho/Brandy cover, page 16. Download the catalog with a click, below.

Overstreet Price Guide Due to the virus, this didn’t ship in July. But it is on the way to us for a September 2nd release...all editions, including the Big Big book.

Milo March correction I incorrectly attributed the covers on this new series to Robert McGinnis. McGinnis drew the covers for the re-released series in the 1970s. But the covers for these are from the 1950s digest appearances, and we don’t know who that illustrator was. He reminds me of Robert Maguire but I can’t seem to confirm who did these. ~Bud

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