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Saddle Justice is the latest EC Archive; Miss, a crime graphic novel Ed Brubaker raves about, is here from France; new issues of Digest Enthusiast and Men’s Adventure Quarterly; Spider-Gwen and JLA Omnibuses; Mighty Marvel $15.99 archives kick off with Spider-Man #1-10 from 1963. Coming: The Complete American Gods, Flash Gordon by Austin Briggs and more. Don’t miss our latest catalog, available for your download now. Print copies will reach you in early to mid July. Cool Alex Niño cover! |
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MEN'S ADVENTURE QUARTERLY Volume 1 No. 2 Recommended. By Robert Deis and Bill Cunningham. This All-Espionage issue celebrates spy stories from vintage men's adventure magazines, illustrated by renowned artists such as Mort Künstler, Vic Prezio, and Walter Popp. The Cover Gallery features some of the wildest in espionage illustration, and the ladies who could become "Jane Bond." Here are dirty dealings and desperate acts of agents of the Cold War Intelligence services who used any means necessary to succeed. Diana Rigg feature. Independently published, 2021....More. Item Code: MENQ02 Magazine, 8x10, 156pg, Text/Partial Color $27.50 |
| Vol 1 is also in stock [MENQ01. $27.50], just in a week or two ago. See the website for more from vintage Men’s Adventure Magazines: Pollen’s Action and Pollen’s Women, Barbarians on Bikes, the Soft Nudes series, Mort Kunstler, and Illustrators Quarterly Special 30. |
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DIGEST ENTHUSIAST 14 JUN 2021 Recommended. Features examine (with lots of pictures): Ed McBain's Mystery Book, Manhunt 1955 part two with rare art by Matt Baker; Startling Mystery Stories; Vanguard Science Fiction; The Dark City; 20 Million Miles to Earth; Wonder Stories; Marvel's own digest, The Haunt of Horror; Terror Detective Story Magazine; plus new fiction. Larque Press, 2021....More. Item Code: DIGE14 Soft Cover, 5x8, 160pg, Text/Partial Color $20.00 |
| Still available: #13 ($20), 11-12 ($18.99 ea), 1, 5, 7, 10 ($10 ea). See them all here. |
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MISS: BETTER LIVING THROUGH CRIME Highly Recommended. By Philippe Thirault, Marc Riou and Mark Vigouroux. "You'll be hard-pressed to find a more compelling example of a great crime story..." -Ed Brubaker, from his forward. The tale of two very unlikely partners in crime set in New York City's Roaring Twenties. Nola is a poor white girl living on the streets who has learned to survive by any means necessary. Slim is a black pimp with a shady history, constantly looking over his shoulder in fear of his own past. Nola and Slim forge a partnership as hired killers. This is actually four complete French albums, 48 pages each, in one massive compilation. Humanoids, 2021....More. Item Code: MISSB Soft Cover, 8x10, 192pg, Full Color |
| See all of our French Graphic Novels (now in English) here. And find more Crime graphic novels here, including highly recommended Ed Brubaker titles. |
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EC ARCHIVES SADDLE JUSTICE Collects Saddle Justice #3-8, 1948-49. Recommended. By Al Feldstein. Collects the complete run of Saddle Justice, the very first EC title by Bill Gaines to break away from M.C. Gaine's Education Comics format! Long before the days of horror and sci-fi, but by many of the same creators. Digitally recolored using the original palette, featuring art by legendary comics talents Johnny Craig, Graham Ingels, Henry Kiefer, Stan Asch, and others! Dark Horse, 2021....More. Item Code: ECASJH Hard Cover, 8x11, 208pg, Full Color |
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GREEN LANTERN JOHN STEWART A Celebration of 50 Years Collects 8 issues from Green Lantern Vols 2, 3, 4 and more. Five decades after his first appearance, this volume collects the greatest moments of the the ground-breaking, fan-favorite black Green Lantern, John Stewart! Created by comic book legends Dennis O'Neil and Neal Adams, John Stewart changed DC's universe. Stewart was DC's first Black superhero, and over the years grew from a back-up player to a main character. Stewart starred in the Green Lantern series for a time and later his own series, Green Lantern: Mosaic, and was featured in other media adaptations including the beloved Justice League cartoon. DC Comics, 2021. ...More. Item Code: GRLJOH Hard Cover, 7x10, 368pg, Full Color |
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ALSO AVAILABLE GREEN LANTERN 80 Years of the Emerald Knight Recommended. By Bill Finger, John Broome, Alan Moore et al. Art by Gil Kane, Dave Cockrum, Dave Gibbons et al. DC celebrates the 80th anniversary of the Emerald Warrior with this new hardcover collection of the best Green Lantern tales across the decades.This new hardcover celebrates the legacy of Green Lantern, from his beginnings as Alan Scott in 1940 to the character's rebirth in 1959 as test pilot Hal Jordan, part of a large network of Green Lanterns that serve justice across the galaxy. Alongside his fellow Green Lanterns from Earth and other planets, Hal Jordan is considered one of the bravest heroes in the DC Universe. Included in this title are some of the greatest Green Lantern tales ever, featuring stories and art by comics' top talents. DC, 2020....More. Item Code: GL80YH Hard Cover, 7x11, 408pg, Full Color |
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SPIDER-GWEN Omnibus Collects Spider-Gwen #1-34 and #1-5, and 12 other titles & issues, 2014-2016. "A character that channels the spirit of the Spider-Man mythos but redefines it for the 21st century." Out of the Spider-Verse, Gwen Stacy swings into action as the Spider-Woman of Earth-65 — a neighborhood like no other! Gwen balances super hero life with being the daughter of a copand playing drums in up-and-coming band, the Mary Janes! And you won’t believe her reality’s versions of the Lizard, the Osborns, Matt Murdock, Captain America, Frank Castle and more! The dimension-hopping Gwen joins a team-up of Spider-Women — and sparks fly when she meets Miles Morales! Marvel, 2021....More. Item Code: SPIGH Hard Cover, 7x11, 1224pg, Full Color |
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FUTURE STATE JUSTICE LEAGUE Collects Future State: Justice League/Justice League Dark #1-2, Future State: Aquaman #1-2, Future State: Flash #1-2, and Future State: Green Lantern #1-2. An all-new Justice League must investigate the mysterious death of their greatest foes — the Legion of Doom! The Justice League Dark emerges from years of hiding to fight the villainous force stalking supernatural heroes and villains alike! John Stewart and his band of abandoned Green Lanterns must hold the line against an invasion of murderous zealots in an uncharted dark sector after their rings have stopped working! Barry Allen battles for the soul of his former Flash partner, Wally West! DC Comics, 2021....More. Item Code: FUTJL Soft Cover, 7x10, 296pg, Full Color |
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JUSTICE LEAGUE The New 52 Omnibus Volume 1 Recommended. Geoff Johns and Jim Lee and their all-new Justice League origin story! Collecting their entire run along with supplemental origin stories of the entire Justice League. In a world where inexperienced superheroes operate under a cloud of suspicion from the public, loner vigilante Batman has stumbled upon a dark evil that threatens to destroy the earth as we know it. Now, faced with a threat far beyond anything he can handle on his own, the Dark Knight must trust an alien, a Scarlet Speedster, an accidental teenage hero, a space cop, an Amazon Princess and an undersea monarch. DC Comics, 2021. ...More. Item Code: JLNEWH Hard Cover, 7x11, 1248pg, Full Color |
| Also see JLA Dark below in Coming. Here’s a link to all the Justice League collections. |
The Beginning of The Marvel Age |
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MIGHTY MARVEL MASTERWORKS THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 1 Collects Amazing Spider-Man #1-10 & Amazing Fantasy #15, 1962-63. Our Highest Recommendation. By Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. Finally: own the first 11 issues of Spider-Man for scarcely $1.50 each! The stories that built the Marvel Universe, now available in an accessible new format the whole family can enjoy! When young Peter Parker gains remarkable abilities from a radioactive spider, he must step up and try to become a hero — while also dealing with the fantastic pressures of an everyday teenager! Marvel, 2021....More. Item Code: MMMA01 Soft Cover, 6x9, 256pg, Full Color $15.99 |
| You can’t order these yet, but here’s the list of the next books in this series, all collecting the very first 1960s Marvel stories in a uniform size and format: Fantastic Four (July), X-Men (Aug), The Avengers (Sept), Thor (Oct), The Incredible Hulk (Nov), Amazing Spider-Man 2 (Nov), Doctor Strange (Feb, 2022), Daredevil (Mar, 2022). All $15.99 ea, appropriate for age 10 and above! |
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INCREDIBLE HULK EPIC COLLECTION 1 MAN OR MONSTER? Collects Incredible Hulk #1-6; Fantastic Four #12, 25-26; Avengers #1-3, 5; Amazing Spider-Man #14; Tales to Astonish #59; Journey into Mystery #112, 1962-63. Our Highest Recommendation. By Stan Lee & Jack Kirby. This is it — the origin and first adventures of ol' Green Skin, including every early cross-over. Dr. Robert Bruce Banner may look like a mild-mannered scientist, but after being caught in a gamma bomb explosion, he became the unstoppable engine of destruction known as the Hulk! Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's atomic update on the Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde paradigm mixed the might of giant monsters with Cold War intrigue and psychological drama. Marvel, 2021....More. Item Code: INCH01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 392pg, Full Color |
| Here’s more Marvel Masterworks and Epic collections. |
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FLASH GORDON DAILIES AUSTIN BRIGGS Volume 1 Radium Mines of Electra Recommended. By Don Moore. Collecting together, for the first time ever, over two-year’s worth of strips from the golden age of newspaper comic strips. Harken back to a bygone era of swashbuckling heroes, science fiction high-adventure, with ray guns, rocket ships, strange monsters, damsels in distress and unbridled heroism! Titan, 2021. Due: Sep. ...More. Item Code: FLD01H Hard Cover, 11x10, 276pg, b&w |
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ALSO AVAILABLE MAC RABOY Master of the Comics The first-ever book on this hugely talented artist. Our Highest Recommendation. By Roger Hill. Introduction by Roy Thomas. Beginning with his WPA etchings during the 1930s, Mac Raboy struggled to survive the Great Depression and eventually found his way into the comics. He perfected his art style on early stories of Dr. Voodoo, Zorro The Mystery Man, Bulletman, Spy Smasher, (all for Fawcett), The Green Lama and, finally, his crowning achievement, Captain Marvel Jr. Raboy went on to illustrate the Flash Gordon Sunday newspaper strip, and left behind a legacy of meticulous perfection. Through extensive research and interviews with son David Raboy, and with several of Mac Raboy's Golden Age assistants, author Roger Hill brings Mac Raboy, the man and the artist, into focus. TwoMorrows, 2019....More. Item Code: MACRAH Hard Cover, 8x11, 160pg, Full Color $39.95 |
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PS ARTBOOKS PRESENTS CLASSIC SCI-FI COMICS Volume 3 Hardcover Recommended. Vintage comic gems: Destination Moon (1951), Vic Torry and his Flying Saucer (1950), When Worlds Collide (1952), The Man from Planet X (1952), and The Green Planet (1962), all reproduced completely from cover to cover - by the cream of 1950's comic book talent. Art by Dick Rockwell, Bob Powell, George Evans, Kurt Schaffenberger, Dick Giordano and Rocco Mastroserio. PS Artbooks, 2021. Due: Sep....More. Item Code: PSSC03H Hard Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color $46.99 |
| Volume 1 is in stock, also $46.99; Vol 2 in HC ($46.99) and Softee ($24.99). See them all here. We just heard that a SC of Vol 3 is due out in Oct. |
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SILVER AGE CLASSICS MYSTERIES OF UNEXPLORED WORLDS Volume 2 Hardcover Collects #6-9, 1957-58. Recommended. Fantasy-supernatural and horror tales and science fiction stories from a roster of writers and artists that includes the truly remarkable one-man creative genius and now late-lamented Steve Ditko, together with Bill Molno, Dick Giordano, Bill Fraccio, Rocco Mastroserio, and Gene Colan. All here, reproduced completely from cover to cover as they should be, just like the original comic! PS Artbooks, 2021. Due: Sep....More. Item Code: SAMUW02H Hard Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color $46.99 |
| Vol 1 is available in SC ($24.99) and HC ($46.99). The SC of Vol 2 is due to come out in October. |
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JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK The New 52 Omnibus |
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DEATHSTROKE By Christopher Priest Omnibus Collects Teen Titans #8-29; Deathstroke #1-50 and five more issues/titles. Art by Carlo Pagulayan. When Slade Wilson is confronted by his own troubled past, he'll be challenged to reinvent himself before he loses everything and everyone in his life. Can Deathstroke be redeemed? ...And if he can, how long will he be able to keep up his hero status? DC Comics, 2021. Due: Sep. ...More. Item Code: DEACPH Hard Cover, 7x11, 1392pg, Full Color |
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BATMAN: THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD Bronze Age Omnibus Volume 3 Collects #157-200, 1980-83. By Mike W. Barr. Art by Ross Andru, Jim Aparo, Rich Bucker et al. Batman's team-up tales of the 1980s, fighting alongside Wonder Woman, Green Arrow, Black Lightning, Superboy, Swamp Thing and others. Batman also takes on or teams up with Kamandi, Ra's Al Ghul, Supergirl, Adam Strange, Sgt. Rock, Hawkman, Black Canary, Blackhawk (in a Golden Age-era story), Zatanna, Guardians of the Galaxy, Green Lantern, The Creeper, The Legion, The Spectre, Metal-Men, Flash and others! DC Comics, 2021. Due: Sep....More. Item Code: BATBB03H Hard Cover, na, 904pg, Full Color |
| Vol 1 collects B&B #74-106, 1967-73 [BATBB01H. $125], Vol 2 #110-156, 1974-79 [BATBB02H]. |
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THE COMPLETE AMERICAN GODS Collects American Gods: Shadows #1-9, American Gods: My Ainsel #1-9, and American Gods: The Moment of the Storm #1-9. By Neil Gaiman and P. Craig Russell. Art by Scott Hampton, P. Craig Russell and Walt Simonson. The complete American Gods comic series, adapted by comics legend P. Craig Russell from the award-winning novel by Neil Gaiman, in a deluxe, oversized collection with slipcase and ribbon. Shadow Moon, fresh out of jail, finds his wife dead, his life in shambles, and nowhere to turn. But a chance meeting with the mysterious Mr. Wednesday thrusts him into the center of a conflict between new and old gods, where the future of human and divine life is at stake. Dark Horse, 2021. Due: Sep....More. Item Code: COMAGH Hard Cover, na, 712pg, Full Color |
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| Here's another batch of 30 items that are going away soon, down to just one, two or three copies left. You can now see the latest 3…2…1 items in a new section on our website, called ALMOST GONE, at the top of the home page, right next to CLOSEOUTS. We are continuously adding to our Imperfect Editions sections as well. |
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WONDERWORKS Science Fiction & Fantasy Art by Michael Whelan Warehouse find, 1979. Highly Recommended. Michael Whelan's first collection of Science Fiction And Fantasy Art. This includes all his early paperback cover art and dust jacket paintings. And all edited by the legendary artist Kelly Freas. Includes a Foreword by Whelan himself, and chapters which cover six subject areas, including the less well-known Horror and Romantic Fantasy! Note: back cover lamination is partly pulled away from the paper. Starblaze, 1979....More. Item Code: WONWRK Soft Cover, 8x11, 120pg, Partial Color $35.00 |
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AMERICAN VENUS The Extraordinary Life of Audrey Munson, Model and Muse Warehouse find, 1999. Recommended. By Diane Rosas and Anita Bourne. Audrey Munson was once called the "The most perfect, most versatile, most famous of American models, whose face and figure have inspired thousands of modern masterpieces of sculpture and painting." It was not an exaggeration. Audrey's career is the classic tale of meteoric rise and tragic downfall — she was "Queen of the Artists' Studios". The consummate professional, she modeled for dozens of civic monuments and was called "America's Venus." At one time, thirty pieces of art based on her poses were housed at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her life as a fine art model was the subject of four controversial silent films in which she starred — mostly nude. Mature Readers. Balcony Press, 1999. Note: slight wear to cover edges....More. Item Code: AVEAM Hard Cover, 8x10, 128pg, Text/b&w $60.00 |
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BASIL WOLVERTON'S POWERHOUSE PEPPER Warehouse find, 1997. Highly Recommended. Eleven "Powerhouse Pepper" strips, three "Supersonic Sammy" stories, and one "Hot-head Hotel" make up the meat of this marvelous tome. See Supersonic Sammy save Stalin. Wonder at Wolverton's wanton winds of wisdom, alliteration antics and able artistry. Peer piously as polite Powerhouse Pepper pounces into peril, pounding his piston-packing punches passionately 'pon noses, necks, napes, nostrils, navels, noggins and knees, all with a chuckle, a wink, and a grin. Fantagraphics, 1997....More. Item Code: BWPHP Soft Cover, 8x10, 98pg, b&w $50.00 |
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| On Tuesday June 22 we sent out Part 1 of our latest sale. Part 2 will go out on June 29th. I’ve reduced prices on 90+ items and added a handful of favorite sale items you might have missed. See all 100+ items right here. If you aren’t signed up for all special e-mailings, you can update your profile right here. |
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Revised and Recommended! I just caught up with several items that came in while I was off on vacation. And I found the descriptions we imported were sadly lacking, if not downright incorrect (as in the case of Heavy Metal). I also added my personal recommendations to several of these. I just hugely revised our description for Famous American Illustrators [FAMAMH. $40, $29.95]. I've also given it My Highest Recommendation. Published in 1997, this is a stunning, beautiful production packed with the best artists from the last 130 years. And now bargain-priced. |
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Also check out these, which I also rewrote: Tales from the Crypt: The Society of Illustrators Exhibit, 2018, now on sale [TALFROM. $30, $19.95]. Star Trek The Next Generation: The Mirror Universe Collection [STNEXM. $39.99, $34.99] Conan: The Songs of the Dead & Other Stories [CONSON. $24.99, $21.99] Heavy Metal #304 and #306 [HM304, HM306. $13.99 ea] Men's Adventure Quarterly #1 [MENQ01. $27.50] ~Bud |
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