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Thursday, July 29, 2021

Overstreet Price Guide 51, new Peanuts, Terry Moore, Batman/The Maxx, The Ultimates and Air War Stories.

The new Overstreet is here! Also Kona, Terry Moore, Batman/The Maxx, new Peanuts editions, The Mighty Marvel Fantastic Four, The Ultimates, Rebirth of the Comic Strip, and The Phantom. Coming Soon: Basil Gogos variants, The Art of Louis Shabner, and Hank Janson Undercover. Enjoy.

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Overstreet Price Guide 51st Edition- 2021-22

 


BIG BIG COMIC BOOK PRICE GUIDE 51st Edition 2021-22
Highly Recommended. By Richard M. Overstreet. Golden Age Daredevil cover by Buzz. Each year, this oversized, limited edition version sells out faster and faster. This version of the Bible of serious comic book collectors, dealers, and historians features just the pricing from the standard editions of the book, none of the articles, ads, or other features. But it's larger size, with much larger type, and easy to lay open nice and flat. Most dealers and serious users prefer this for fast and easy price and information reference (I do — I always get this for reference and the regular edition, for the articles and as a smaller back up copy). Gemstone Publishing, 2021. ...More.

Item Code: BIG51
Soft Cover, 7x10, 900pg, b&w
$49.50 $44.95
 


COMIC BOOK PRICE GUIDE 51ST EDITION 2021-22 Daredevil/Echo
Highly Recommended. Daredevil/Echo cover by David Mack. By Robert M. Overstreet. The Bible of serious comic book collectors, dealers and historians. In addition to the latest prices, and boy, has there been a lot of upward movement last year...an extensive array of market reports that break down the marketplace's incredible boom during COVID-19. Plus: Hall of Fame inductees Tarpe Mills (Miss Fury) and William Moulton Marston (Wonder Woman); how disabilities have been portrayed in comics, beginning with Daredevil, Dr. Mid-Nite, Professor X and Captain Marvel, Jr.; the War Report offers up news plus neglected books to look for; Dick Tracy's 90th anniversary, and much more. Gemstone, 2021. ...More.

Item Code: CB51D
Soft Cover, 7x10, 1200pg, Partial Color
$29.95
Hardcover Edition: Our supplier Diamond screwed up...our hardcovers were due with this shipment but they didn't come in. It'll be two weeks or so until we see them [CB51DH. $37.50].
 


COMIC BOOK PRICE GUIDE 51ST EDITION 2021-22 Static/Hardware
Highly Recommended. Static/Hardware cover by Denys Cowan & Bill Sienkiewicz. By Bob Overstreet. The Bible of serious comic book collectors, dealers and historians. In addition to the latest prices, and boy, has there been a lot of upward movement last year...an extensive array of market reports that break down the marketplace's incredible boom during COVID-19. Plus: Hall of Fame inductees Tarpe Mills (Miss Fury) and William Moulton Marston (Wonder Woman); how disabilities have been portrayed in comics, beginning with Daredevil, Dr. Mid-Nite, Professor X and Captain Marvel, Jr.; the War Report offers up news plus neglected books to look for; Dick Tracy's 90th anniversary, and much more. Gemstone, 2021. ...More.

Item Code: CB51S
Soft Cover, 7x10, 1200pg, Partial Color
$29.95
Hardcover Edition: In stock now [CB51SH. $37.50].
 


THE OVERSTREET COMIC BOOK PRICE GUIDE 51st Edition Linsner Dawn
Dawn cover by Joseph Michael Linsner, limited to 500. Highly Recommended. By Richard M. Overstreet. The Bible of serious comic book collectors, dealers and historians. In addition to the latest prices, and boy, has there been a lot of upward movement last year...an extensive array of market reports that break down the marketplace's incredible boom during COVID-19. Plus: Hall of Fame inductees Tarpe Mills (Miss Fury) and William Moulton Marston (Wonder Woman); how disabilities have been portrayed in comics, beginning with Daredevil, Dr. Mid-Nite, Professor X and Captain Marvel, Jr.; the War Report offers up news plus neglected books to look for; Dick Tracy's 90th anniversary, and much more.Gemstone Publishing, 2021. Due: Aug. ...More.

Item Code: CB51LH
Hard Cover, 7x10, 1200pg, Partial Color
$37.50
This edition is limited to only 500! There is no softcover edition of this variant.
 


TERRY MOORE 2021 SKETCHBOOK Signed
Signed! Recommended. 106 pages of sketches from 2020 and 2021. Katchoo & Francine from Strangers in Paradise, Sam and Mike from Motor Girl, Casey, Lilith, even the precocious Zoe are here and looking good. Also: six Alphonse Mucha-inspired finished pen & ink pieces, with wonderful Art Nouveau borders, several nudes, many teasing pin-up scenes, and more surprises. Abstract Studios, 2021....More.

Item Code: TM21S
Soft Cover, 7x10, 106pg, b&w
$15.99
Here's more from Terry Moore. All his books are signed.
 

New from France

 


ARTEMISIA
A graphic novel biography of a trailblazing female Barque master artist! By Nathalie Ferlut. Art by Tamia Baudouin. The remarkable true story of Artemisia, beginning with her childhood in Rome in her father's painting studio, to the sexual abuse she experienced at the hands of a tutor and the arduous trial that followed, as well as the highlights of her prolific career in which she received commissions from clients as powerful as the Medici and the English royal family and became the first woman admitted to the prestigious Academy of Arts in Florence! Beehive Books, 2021.  ...More.

Item Code: ARTEM
Hard Cover, 8x10, 100pg, Full Color
$25.00
 


FAREWELL BRINDAVOINE
First time in English. By Tardi. Paris, 1914. In one auspicious night, Lucien Brindavoine's humdrum life is thrown into wild disarray. Out of the blue, a strange old man visits and implores him to go to Istanbul. But a shot is fired through the window and the man is murdered. Thus kicks off a madcap adventure wherein the mild-mannered dilettante races to the Middle East — by boat, plane, and jeep — with cutthroat assassins threatening him at every turn, only to find an iron city in the desert where an eccentric American billionaire will decide his fate. Fantagraphics, 2021....More.

Item Code: FAREH
Hard Cover, 9x12, 64pg, Full Color
$19.99 $17.99

Also from Tardi, Streets of Paris, Streets of Murder in individual volumes 1 & 2 [STRP01H. $29.99, $26.99] and as a slipcased set [STRP01P. $59.99, $49.99]. This set is out of print, we have just seven left.

See more graphic novels translated from their original French appearance here on our website. To see specifically Moebius works, click here.

 

Archives & Replica Editions

 


MIGHTY MARVEL MASTERWORKS Fantastic Four Volume 1
Collects Fantastic Four #1-10, 1961; second in a new series of bargain-priced archives of Marvel's finest early stories. Our Highest Recommendation. While testing an experimental spacecraft, scientist Reed Richards, pilot Ben Grimm and siblings Sue and Johnny Storm were bombarded by mysterious cosmic rays. The rest is history, as they proceed to encounter the likes of (and the first-ever appearances) of Doctor Doom, The Mole Man, the Skrulls, the Puppet Master, and the return of Golden Age hero the Sub-Mariner, who appears in THREE issues, and is competing for the affections of Sue Storm with Reed himself!! Marvel, 2021....More.

Item Code: MMMF01
Soft Cover, 6x9, 256pg, Full Color
$15.99

The first book in this new inexpensive series collects Amazing Fantasy #15 and Spider-Man #1-10 in the same format, same price [MMMA01. $15.99]. Coming soon: The Avengers #1-10, X-Men #1-10, The Incredible Hulk and Thor. All collect the first ten issues of origins and first appearances.

Here are more Fantastic Four collections.

 


BATMAN / THE MAXX ARKHAM DREAMS
Collects issues #1-5, 2018-20. Recommended. The Dark Knight faces the strangest and most bizarre adventure of his career, as he meets comics' strangest and most bizarre hero, The Maxx — all drawn by the Maxx's original creator and artist, Sam Kieth! A devious new doctor at Arkham Asylum is conducting unconventional experiments into the human psyche, and he kicks off a chain reaction of disaster when he experiments on Arkham's newest patient, The Maxx who, with Batman, is going to travel through some of the darkest places imaginable — the twisted minds of Harley Quinn, the Penguin, Killer Croc, and the Joker! IDW/DC Comics, 2021....More.

Item Code: BATMAXH
Hard Cover, 7x10, 144pg, Full Color
$24.99 $21.99
 


THE ULTIMATES By Al Ewing The Complete Collection
Collects Ultimates #1-12, Ultimates 2 #1-9 & 100, Avengers #0, 2015-16. Black Panther! Captain Marvel! Ms. America! Spectrum! Blue Marvel! Together, they form the ultimate super team, finding and fixing problems beyond the limits of the infinite! From cosmic forces lurking on Earth to whatever waits beyond the omniverse, the Ultimates start with the impossible — and take it from there! Their first task: ending the planet-eating threat of Galactus—forever! But spacetime is broken and the Ultimates need to go outside of reality! Excellent artwork. Marvel, 2021....More.

Item Code: ULTIM
Soft Cover, 7x10, 512pg, Full Color
$44.99 $39.99
On our website are more with Ultimates members Captain Marvel and The Black Panther.
 


KONA MONARCH OF MONSTER ISLE Volume 2
Collects Kona #2, 1962. Recommended. Cover & art by Sam Glanzman. One of the weirdest, wildest comics ever published is back! The strange hero known only as Kona befriends Dr. Henry Dodd, his daughter Mary, and his grandchildren Mason and Lily, after this group crashes their army surplus blimp on the prehistoric Pacific island that Kona calls home. Giant animals, monsters and much more! Originally published in 1962, this series has never before been collected. Bio and interview with Glanzman, who states Kona and Attu were his favorite books to illustrate. It's Alive!, 2021. ...More.

Item Code: KONA02
Comic, 7x10, 36pg, Partial Color
$9.99

Variant cover

We also have a variant cover by Steve Bissette and Thomas Yeates. We have the same number of copies and price is the same. [KONA02V. $9.99]. Kona #1 is also available with two different covers.

Kona is also collected in PS Artbooks Silver Age Classics series. Available now are Vol 1 and 2 Hardcover [SAKM01H, SAKM02H. $46.99 each] and so far, just Volume 1 in Softcover [SAKM01. $24.99]. Vol 1 collects the first four issues plus Reptilicus #1, 1961-62; Vol 2 collects #5-8 and Reptilicus #2.

 


AIR WAR STORIES #3
Collects Dell's Air War Stories #3, 1965. Recommended. By Paul S. Newman. Each issue of Air War Stories focuses on aerial war battles, illustrated brilliantly by comic book legend, WW2 vet, and Eisner Award-nominee, Sam Glanzman! This issue features: "Want Out?" (WW1), "I, Bomb" (WW2), "To the End" (Korean War), and "Dead Man's Dream" (WW2). Also included are essays about Sam Glanzman, the original cover, vintage advertisements, and two fact-pages about WWI planes and balloon observers. It's Alive!, 2021....More.

Item Code: AIRW03
Comic, 7x10, 48pg, Partial Color
$9.99
See our website for more Sam Glanzman: Battle for Britain, Pearl Harbor, Hercules Archive, D-Day, and Air War Stories #2. See more Replica Editions on our website.
 

Peanuts Slipcased Sets: Back in Print

 


THE COMPLETE PEANUTS Volume 1 & 2 Slipcased Set 1950-1954
New printing. Highly Recommended. Introductions by Garrison Keillor and Walter Cronkite. The first two and a quarter years of the strip — many of the strips from the series' first two or three years have never been collected before — in large part because they showed a young Schulz working out the kinks in his new strip and include some characterizations and designs that are quite different from the cast we're all familiar with. (Among other things, three major cast members — Schroeder, Lucy, and Linus — initially show up as infants and only "grow" into their final "mature" selves as the months go by. Even Snoopy debuts as a puppy!) Fantagraphics, 2021. ...More.

Item Code: COM01HP
Hard Cover, 9x7, 704pg, b&w
$49.99 $39.99
 


THE COMPLETE PEANUTS Volume 3 & 4 Slipcased Set 1955-1958
New printing. Highly Recommended. Introductions by Matt Groening and Jonathan Franzen. Collecting the third and fourth volumes of The Complete Peanuts (1955-1956 and 1957-1958) in one handsome collector's slipcase designed by the cartoonist Seth. Linus learns to talk, Snoopy begins to explore his eccentricities (including his hilarious first series of impressions), Lucy's unrequited crush on Schroeder. Over half of the strips in this volume have never been printed since their original appearance in newspapers a half-century ago! Fantagraphics, 2021. ...More.

Item Code: COM02HP
Hard Cover, 9x7, 688pg, b&w
$49.99 $39.99
 


THE COMPLETE PEANUTS Volume 11 & 12 Slipcased Set 1971-1974
New printing. Highly Recommended. TTwo hardcovers containing complete strips from the years 1971-1972 and 1973-1974, packed in a sturdy custom box designed especially for this set. 1971-1972: Sally Brown elbows her way to center stage, at least among the humans, and is thus the logical choice for cover girl... and in her honor, the introduction is provided by none other than Broadway, television and film star Kristin (Wicked) Chenoweth, who first rose to Tony-winning fame with her scene-stealing performance as Sally in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. Fantagraphics, 2021. ...More.

Item Code: COM06HP
Hard Cover, 9x7, 688pg, b&w
$59.99 $49.99
 


THE COMPLETE PEANUTS Volume 13 & 14 Slipcased Set 1975-1978
New printing. Recommended. Introductions by Robert Smigel and Alec Baldwin. 1975-1976: Good grief, Charlie Brown, we're halfway there! Snoopy is joined by his wandering brother Spike (from Needles), his beloved sister Belle (from Kansas City), and... did you know he had a nephew? In other beagle news, Snoopy breaks his foot and spends six weeks in a cast, deals with his friend Woodstock's case of the "the vapors," and gets involved in a heated love triangle with Linus over the girl "Truffles." Fantagraphics, 2021. ...More.

Item Code: COM07HP
Hard Cover, 9x7, 688pg, b&w
$49.99 $39.99
 


THE COMPLETE PEANUTS Volume 15 & 16 Slipcased Set 1979-1982
New printing. Recommended. Introductions by Al Roker and Lynn Johnston. Two hardcovers containing complete strips from the years 1979-1980 and 1981-1982, packed in a sturdy custom box designed especially for this set. 1979-1980: Peppermint Patty is wearing corn-rows! Plus, a strange romance...Charles Schulz enters his fourth decade as the greatest cartoonist of his generation, and Peanuts remains as fresh and lively as it ever was. More classic storylines, including the month-long sequence in which an ill Charlie Brown is hospitalized (including a particularly spooky moment when he wonders if he's died and nobody's told him yet), and an especially eventful trek with Snoopy, Woodstock, and the scout troop (now including a little girl bird, Harriet). Fantagraphics, 2021. ...More.

Item Code: COM08HP
Hard Cover, 9x7, 688pg, b&w
$49.99 $39.99
 


THE COMPLETE PEANUTS Volume 17 & 18 Slipcased Set 1983-1986
New printing. 1983-86. Recommended. By Charles Schulz. Charlie Brown becomes a Pelican and Swimsuit Model! Peppermint Patty/Charlie Brown/Marcie romantic triangle. 1980s fun with Malls, Punkers, Killer Bees, and Halley's Comet. Introductions by film and comics critic Leonard Maltin and Patton Oswalt. Strips here are shot and restored from the finest archive copies. Two hardcover volumes in a handsome illustrated slipcase. Fantagraphics, 2021.  ...More.

Item Code: COM09HP
Hard Cover, 9x7, 688pg, b&w
$49.99 $39.99
 


THE COMPLETE PEANUTS Volume 25 & 26 Slipcase Set 1999-2000
New Printing. Recommended. By Charles Schulz. This boxed set collects the final two volumes of one of the world's most popular newspaper comic strips, in a slipcase at a bargain price. The first Peanuts daily appeared October 2, 1950; the first Sunday, January 6, 1952. Diagnosed with cancer, Schulz retired from Peanuts at the end of 1999. He died on February 13, 2000, the day before his last strip was published—having completed 17,897 daily and Sunday strips, each and every one fully written, drawn, and lettered entirely by his own hand — an unmatched achievement in comics. Fantagraphics, 2021....More.

Item Code: COM13HP
Hard Cover, 9x7, 688pg, b&w
$49.99 $39.99
 


ALSO AVAILABLE
PEANUTS The Complete Peanuts 3 & 4 Slipcase Set 1955-1958
Closeout Price! 1955-58. Highly Recommended. By Charles M. Schulz. Introduction by Matt Groening and Jonathan Franzen. This box set collects the paperback editions of the third and fourth volumes in the best-selling and acclaimed series, taking us from the mid- to late 1950s as Linus learns to talk and becomes even more dependent on his security blanket, Snoopy begins to explore his eccentricities, Lucy's unrequited crush on Schroeder takes final shape, and Charlie Brown becomes, well, even more Charlie Brown-ish! With introductions by Matt Groening (The Simpsons) and Jonathan Franzen (The Corrections). Fantagraphics, 2014. Out of print....More.

Item Code: CP02P
Soft Cover, 8x7, 640pg, b&w
$39.99 $19.99

We have only five of these left. Note these are SOFTCOVER. The Back in Print volumes above are in HARDCOVER. Also on sale is the individual volume 3 in softcover [CP03 $22.99, $10.99].

See our website for more Peanuts collections, including the Peanuts Dell Archives of comic book stories, plus books about Charles Schulz and his life.

 

Comic Strips

 


REBIRTH OF THE ENGLISH COMIC STRIP A Kaleidoscope 1847-1870
By David Kunzle. This unique collection enters deep into an era of comics history that has only rarely been touched on. Suddenly in 1847, a new, post-Töpffer comic strip sparks to life in Britain, mostly in periodicals, and especially in Punch, where all the best artists of the period participated: Richard Doyle, John Tenniel, John Leech, George Cruikshank, Charles Keene, and George Du Maurier. University Press of Mississippi, 2021. ...More.

Item Code: REBIH
Hard Cover, 8x11, 500pg, Partial Color
$90.00
Here's more about the history of comics and comics strips.
 


THE PHANTOM The Complete Newspaper Dailies Volume 22 1969-1970
Recommended. By Lee Falk. Art by Sy Barry. Continues the Sy Barry Years. Five complete continuities: "Rex, the Missing Heir," "The Gladiator," "The Missing Daddy," "Luaga's Undercover Tour," "The Heir (Yes)" and "The Mission." Strips from this issue are taken directly from King Feature's proofs. Included in the volume is a comprehensive essay and documentary materials. Hermes Press, 2021. ...More.

Item Code: PH22H
Hard Cover, 12x8, 272 pg, b&w
$60.00
See our website for all Phantom collections: Dailies, Color Sundays, and prose novels.
 

Back in Stock

 


THE COMPLETE LIFE AND TIMES OF SCROOGE MCDUCK Volume 1 & 2 Slipcase Set
New printing. Highly Recommended. By Don Rosa. The complete "Director's Cut" of Uncle Scrooge's life story! First Don Rosa tells how Uncle Scrooge earned his fortune, from his shoe-shining boyhood in Scotland to becoming the richest duck in the world. But he was just getting warmed up! In Volume 2, more secrets from Scrooge's legendary life — seven more stories of the wild west, Australian outback, and the Yukon. Fantagraphics, 2021.  ...More.

Item Code: COML01HP
Hard Cover, 9x11, 478pg, Full Color
$59.99 $49.99
On our website Don Rosa makes a small appearance in Disney Masters Vol 11. But there is more Uncle Scrooge by both Barks and the Disney Masters.
 

Coming in October

 


MONSTER ART OF BASIL GOGOS Hardcover Second Edition Creature Cover
New Printing. Recommended. Limited to 200. Creature from the Black Lagoon cover. This collects rare sketches, drawings and paintings by one of horror's most beloved artists. Compiled and annotated by his wife, Linda Touby; the book gives a unique behind the scenes look at how Basil Gogos created his dazzling images — most famously, covers for Famous Monsters Magazine. Fantaco Enterprises, 2021. Due: Oct....More.

Item Code: MONBGHC
Hard Cover, 8x11, 204pg, Partial Color
$100.00
 


MONSTER ART OF BASIL GOGOS Hardcover Second Edition Wolfman Cover
New Printing. Recommended. Limited to 200. This popular hardcover book collects rare and unfinished sketches, drawings and paintings by one of horror's most beloved artists. Compiled and annotated by his wife Linda Touby, the book gives a unique behind the scenes look at how Basil Gogos created his dazzling images.Fantaco Enterprises, 2021. Due: Oct. ...More.

Item Code: MONBGHW
Hard Cover, 8x11, 204pg, Partial Color
$100.00
Currently available is a third variant cover from 1919, featuring The Bride of Frankenstein [MONBGH. $100] and coming any time now, a 4th variant with Dracula [MONBGH2. $100].
 


AVAILABLE NOW
FAMOUS MONSTERS CHRONICLES II
Recommended. By Tom Skulan, et al. Introduction by Gahan Wilson. A 242-page collection of the cover for nearly every Famous Monsters of Filmland from the Warren years, #1-191, 1958-1983: every issue, every film, every monster. Plus Monster World 1 to 10. Insightful and sometimes unknown backstories and synopses of each and every issue. Reborn by the original publisher, Tom Skulan, intensely researched and edited by Kaz Sanchez. Packed with more features: interview with James Warren, a brand new unpublished cover by Basil Gogos, Basil's final cover painting. Fantaco, 2019....More.

Item Code: FAMM02
Soft Cover, 8x11, 242pg, b&w
$39.95
 

Coming in December from Telos

 


THE ART OF LOUIS SHABNER
Import from England. Recommended. By Stuart Webb. Louis Shabner began his career producing shop window advertising for brands such as Ever Ready, Ovaltine and Chivers jams, amongst others, but is best known for his paintings of sultry sirens. During the 1960s and 1970s his prints and calendars adorned lounge walls up and down the UK. Under the pseudonym Sheldon, Shabner also produced numerous book cover paintings for Pan Books and other publishers. Telos, 2021. Due: Dec. ...More.

Item Code: ARTLSH
Hard Cover, 9x11, 200pg, Full Color
$65.00
 


HANK JANSON UNDER COVER A Visual History
Import from England. Recommended. In this full-colour coffee-table art book, noted researcher Stephen James Walker presents a complete visual history of the Hank Janson crime fiction series, from its inception in 1946 through to the last of the original novels in 1971, and beyond. Showcased within its pages are pristine reproductions of every single cover — including, in full-page size and in better quality than ever seen before, all of the classic Reginald Heade-painted pieces of the 1940s and 1950s. Telos, 2021. Due: Dec. ...More.

Item Code: HANJH
Hard Cover, 9x11, 256pg, Full Color
$65.00
See Telos' previous books on cover artist Reginald Heade and Cover Me: The Cover Art of Pan Books on our website.
 

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

 
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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The Art of Pulp Fiction: An Illustrated History of Vintage Paperbacks

Author Ed Hulse just provided us with NINE wonderful shots of vintage paperback covers included in this coming book. See them all here. Here are companion volumes, The Art of Pulp Horror and The Art of the Pulps. Same discounted price.  

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Thursday, July 22, 2021

Frank Cho’s new book, Bruce Timm’s Naughty and Nice back in print, Dave McKean’s Raptor, Conan, Suicide Squad, PS Replica Editions…

Big week! Here is Frank Cho's new book, Bruce Timm's Naughty and Nice is finally back in print, Dave McKean has a wild new graphic novel all his own, Kent Williams is doing a Beeline illustrated classic, Conan the Cimmerian 2 is here, a signed Madman, P. Craig Russell's final Elric, two (!) Suicide Squad, PS Replica Editions & Archives… Cool off this summer with a good book!

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FRANK CHO Pencil and Ink Hardcover Publisher Edition
Publisher Edition. Limited availability. Highly Recommended. Introduction by Thomas E Sniegoski. This new collection of Frank Cho's personal works focuses primarily on his exceptional pencil and ink drawings, but with several fine full color, finished works too. 120 works from the last two decades, none of it from The Art of Frank Cho. This companion title features his most recent ballpoint-pen women, nudes, sketches and studies of the figure, recent Sherlock Holmes and monster drawings, along with Jungle Queen commissions done over the years. Flesk, 2021. Mature readers. ...More.

Item Code: FRANPEH
Hard Cover, 9x12, 128pg, Partial Color
$39.95
 


FRANK CHO Pencil and Ink
Highly Recommended. Introduction by Thomas E Sniegoski. This new collection of Frank Cho's personal works focuses primarily on his exceptional pencil and ink drawings, but with several fine full color, finished works too. 120 works from the last two decades, none of it from The Art of Frank Cho. This companion title features his most recent ballpoint-pen women, nudes, sketches and studies of the figure, recent Sherlock Holmes and monster drawings, along with Jungle Queen commissions done over the years. Flesk, 2021. Mature readers. ...More.

Item Code: FRANPE
Soft Cover, 9x12, 128pg, Partial Color
$24.95
 


NAUGHTY AND NICE The Good Girl Art of Bruce Timm Publisher Edition
New Edition. Special exclusive Publisher's Hardcover edition, 1500. Highly Recommended. Naughty and Nice presents an extensive survey of Bruce Timm's celebrated “after hours” private works. These tastefully drawn nudes, completed purely for fun, are showcased in this exquisite new release. This volume boasts over 250 full-color or line and pencil images, each one full page. It's all about sexy, nubile girls: partially clothed or fully nude, of almost every conceivable description and temperament. Girls-next-door, seductresses, vampires, girls with guns, teases...Timm blends his animation style with his passion for traditional good-girl art for an approach that is unmistakably all his own.Flesk, 2021. Mature Readers. ...More.

Item Code: NAUNBH
Hard Cover, 9x12, 256pg, Partial Color
$59.95
 


NAUGHTY AND NICE The Good Girl Art of Bruce Timm
New printing. Naughty and Nice presents an extensive survey of Bruce Timm's celebrated “after hours” private works. These tastefully drawn nudes, completed purely for fun, are showcased in this exquisite new release. This volume boasts over 250 full-color or line and pencil images, each one full page. It's all about sexy, nubile girls: partially clothed or fully nude, of almost every conceivable description and temperament. Girls-next-door, seductresses, vampires, girls with guns, teases...Timm blends his animation style with his passion for traditional good-girl art for an approach that is unmistakably all his own. Flesk, 2021. Mature readers. ...More.

Item Code: NAUNB
Soft Cover, 9x12, 256pg, Partial Color
$44.95 $39.95
These were just hand-delivered to us by John Fleskes, so they will not be available through other outlets for some time. All backorders were shipped out July 20. Here's more Flesk collections, and we'll have news on new releases soon. Note: My original description of Naughty and Nice indicated there was new work, but that is incorrect. This is a new printing of the long sold out 2012 edition. It does NOT contain anything from Timm's last release, The Big Tease (2020), now sold out.
 

Omnibus & Archive Volumes

 


KA-ZAR THE SAVAGE Omnibus
Collects #1-34, 1981-84. By Bruce Jones, Gil Kane, Jerry Bingham, Ron Frenz et al. Art by Brent Anderson et al. Ka-zar explores the ancient paradise of Pangea! From shining citadels to the lofty heights of the Aerie, caught between bird-people and pterodons, will Kevin Plunder meet his end or find new love? Things get complicated between Ka-Zar and Shanna the She-Devil. Also here: Spider-Man! A twisted version of Dante's Inferno! The Minotaur, Cerberus...and the demonic Belasco, Alien nightmares, a jungle wedding and more.Marvel, 2021. ...More.

Item Code: KAZAH
Hard Cover, 7x11, 1048pg, Full Color
$125.00 $105.00
Here's more early appearances of Ka-zar, who turned up first in Marvel Comics #1, 1939, and had a long run in the Golden Age also.
 


SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN The Original Marvel Years Omnibus Volume 5
Collects Savage Sword of Conan #61-72, 1981-82. Recommended. New writers Michael Fleisher and Bruce Jones join Conan legend John Buscema to drive the barbarian's black-and-white adventures in new directions! Roy Thomas returns for a locked-door mystery set at sea, with Conan playing the sleuth! Plus: comic art master Alex Toth delivers a stunning Conan art portfolio, and Gil Kane and John Buscema both write and draw barbarian backup features “Chane” and “Bront!” Marvel, 2021. ...More.

Item Code: SAVS05H
Hard Cover, 8x11, 768pg, b&w
$125.00 $105.00
Here's previous volumes, and more Marvel Conan.
 


MADMAN LIBRARY EDITION Volume 1 Signed
Signed bookplate! Highly Recommended. By Michael Allred. This 680-page volume collects Madman's adventures from 1990 to 1996, reprinting “For the Record,” Madman (original series) #1-3, Madman Adventures #1-3, and Madman Comics #1-10, Mike Allred's never-before-published first comics, THEY! Bonus pinups and art by Frank Miller, Jack Kirby, Moebius, Frank Frazetta, and more! Dark Horse, 2021. ...More.

Item Code: MAD01HS
Hard Cover, 8x12, 680pg, Full Color
$99.99 $85.00
Michael Allred Madman: Artist Select Edition is available by special order, and is also signed [MAMASH. $125].
 


THE MOORCOCK LIBRARY Elric Stormbringer
New Foreword by P. Craig Russell. Highly Recommended. Hailed as a modern masterpiece and considered to be Russell's finest work. The critically acclaimed, Eisner Award-winning, complete 7-issue mini-series, adapted and drawn by artist and writer P. Craig Russell, who worked directly with Michael Moorcock on the script. Stormbringer marks the climatic chapter of the epic Elric saga, bringing to a conclusion the story of Elric of Melniboné, wielder of the Runeblade Stormbringer, and his legendary quest for vengeance. Titan, 2021....More.

Item Code: MORELH
Hard Cover, 7x10, 208pg, Full Color
$24.99
Here is more Elric, as well as Moorcock's Chronicles of Hawkmoon.
 


DISNEY MASTERS Volume 17 Mickey Mouse the Man from Altacraz
Collected from Topolino, 1963-83. By Romano Scarpa. In "The Man from Altacraz," Mickey tries to reform musical ex-convict J. Cobalt Bloogle — but another master criminal is using both Bloogle and Mickey to get his hands on a priceless treasure! Then, in "The African Queen," Goofy falls in love with Zenobia, ruler of a lost jungle kingdom— and Mickey's troubles are only getting started! Fantagraphics, 2021. ...More.

Item Code: DM17H
Hard Cover, 8x10, 188pg, Full Color
$29.99 $26.99
See all available Disney Masters here.
 


SUICIDE SQUAD CASE FILES Volume 1
Stories from 1962-2014. By Gerry Conway, John Byrne, Jeph Loeb, Denys Cowan, Dale Keown et al. James Gunn's The Suicide Squad film gathered the weirdest and wildest cast of characters in superhero movie history — from Squad veterans like Harley Quinn and Captain Boomerang to the downright bizarre King Shark and Polka-Dot Man. But every character started right here, in these seminal stories. Debuts and key appearances of Bloodsport, Mongal, Polka-Dot Man, King Shark, Weasel, the Thinker, and Amanda Waller herself, the government agent behind Task Force X. DC Comics, 2021....More.

Item Code: SUI01
Soft Cover, 7x10, 216pg, Full Color
$19.99 $17.99
 


SUICIDE SQUAD CASE FILES Volume 2
Collects Suicide Squad #44, Secret Origins #14, Detective Comics #585, Birds of Prey #58, Batman: Harley Quinn #1, Green Lantern #174, and Booster Gold #1. By John Ostrander, Paul Dini, Gail Simone, Yvel Guichet, David Gibbons, Dan Jurgens et al. The Suicide Squad teams up a strange and untamed cast of characters — ranging from squad veterans like Harley Quinn and Captain Boomerang to the downright peculiar like Savant and the Javelin. Here are the debuts and key appearances of Harley Quinn, Captain Boomerang, Rick Flag, the Ratcatcher, Savant, the Javelin, Blackguard, and more. DC Comics, 2021....More.

Item Code: SUI02
Soft Cover, 7x10, 224pg, Full Color
$19.99 $17.99
Here's more Suicide Squad.
 

Graphic Novels & More

 


DAVE MCKEAN RAPTOR A Sokol Graphic Novel
Recommended. A visual tour-de-force graphic novel and the first creator-owned work from artist and writer Dave McKean (The Sandman). The Raptor, Sokol, flickers between two worlds: a feudal fantastical landscape where he must hunt prey to survive, and Wales in the late 1800s where a writer of supernatural tales mourns the passing of his young wife. He exists between two states, human and hawk. He lives in the twilight between truth and lies, life and death, reality and the imagination. Striking, powerful work from one of the most innovative creators in comics. Dark Horse, 2021. ...More.

Item Code: RAPTO
Soft Cover, 9x12, 128pg, Full Color
$29.99 $26.99
 


DAVE MCKEAN RAPTOR A Sokol Graphic Novel Signed
Signed with an extra illustration. Recommended. Deluxe, oversized hardcover edition with a signed tipped-in illustration — Raptor in large-scale glory. A visual tour-de-force graphic novel and the first creator-owned work from artist and writer Dave McKean (The Sandman). The Raptor, Sokol, flickers between two worlds: a feudal fantastical landscape where he must hunt prey to survive, and Wales in the late 1800s where a writer of supernatural tales mourns the passing of his young wife. He exists between two states, human and hawk. He lives in the twilight between truth and lies, life and death, reality and the imagination. Striking, powerful work from one of the most innovative creators in comics. Dark Horse, 2021. ...More.

Item Code: RAPTOD
Hard Cover, 12x16, 128pg, Full Color
$99.99
McKean also illustrates Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment [CRIMPH. $100]. See more from Beeline below and click here for more McKean work, including a feature in Illustrators Quarterly #15 [IQ15. $24.99].
 


THE CIMMERIAN Volume 2
Recommended. By Sylvain Runberg and Robin Recht. Art by Jae Kwang Park. Robert E. Howard's Cimmerian — Uncensored! Discover the true Conan, unrestrained, violent, and sexual. Read the story as he intended! Two complete stories, "The People of The Black Circle," and an extremely adult "The Frost-Giant's Daughter," with nudity and wild seduction...plus bonus material, including both original prose stories. Mature Readers. Ablaze, 2021....More.

Item Code: CIMM02H
Hard Cover, 7x10, 168pg, Full Color
$24.99
This new adult-oriented series has proved a hit, response to the first volume of Cimmerian caught us by surprise. It's still available [CIMM01. $24.99].
 


FIRST DEGREE A Crime Anthology
Recommended. Translated from the French. Introduction by Bernard Bec. Eisner Award-winners David F. Walker and Michael Lark are joined by an array of international talent for an anthology that puts the spotlight on crime noir in comics form. Thirty authors from all over the globe create a collection of short crime noir stories that celebrates the genre as well as boldly leading it into the future. Bold work, full color, lots of variety, mayhem and murder. Nudity, violence. Mature Readers. Humanoids, 2021....More.

Item Code: FIRSH
Hard Cover, 8x10, 148pg, Partial Color
$27.99
Crime covers a variety of books we handle, but here's some more you might enjoy.
 


COMIC BOOK CREATOR #25
Highly Recommended. Edited by Jon B. Cooke. Comic Book Creator #25 features “The Return of the Storyteller,” and includes an in-depth discussion with the legendary comic book artist and illustrator Barry Windsor-Smith about his mammoth new graphic novel, Monsters, a tour de force decades in the making! They delve into the epic's origin as an Incredible Hulk one-shot back in the mid-1980s and its subsequent evolution into perhaps BWS's magnum opus, a 300 plus page saga about rage, revenge, and forgiveness and more. TwoMorrows, 2021....More.

Item Code: CBCR25
Magazine, 8x11, 80pg, Full Color
$9.95
Six more issues of CBC are still in stock, featuring Eric Powell, Timothy Truman, P. Craig Russell, Joseph Michael Linsner, Wendy Pini, and Steve Rude. $9.95 each.
 

New Archives from PS Artbooks

 


PS ARTBOOKS PRESENTS: REX DEXTER
Reprints Rex Dexter of Mars #1, Fox, 1940. Recommended. Art by Dick Briefer, Claire Moe, Adolphe Barreaux & George Tuska. In 1939, Montague Dexter built a rocket ship for that year's World Fair and to demonstrate that it works, he and his wife took off and flew to Mars. Unfortunately, the ship crashed as soon as it reached the red planet. He spent the next 61 years trying to repair the ship. By that point, he and his wife were far too old to handle the rigors of space travel. But their son Rex was young and fit and he piloted his parent's space ship back home. However, Earth at the turn of the millennium was much more advanced than the world his parents left behind. PS Artbooks, 2021....More.

Item Code: REXDE
Soft Cover, 8x11, 68pg, Full Color
$16.99
 


PS ARTBOOKS PRESENTS: TALES FROM THE TOMB Volume 1 Magazine
Recommended. Art by Frank Springer & Tony Tallarico. Back in the 1950's and 60's, aliens were attacking, ghosts were haunting and monsters lurked everywhere — and comics were there to chronicle the whole series of events! Published by Dell in 1962, with a painted cover by L. B. Cole, this was a 25 cent Dell Giant. All the stories inside this 84-page one-shot are written by John Stanley, who definitely put the "weird" in "weird menace" and showed his talent in genres beyond Little Lulu and Nancy! PS Artbooks, 2021....More.

Item Code: TALFT01
Soft Cover, 7x10, 84pg, Partial Color
$16.99
Here are more PS Replica editions.
 


PS ARTBOOKS PRESENTS: CLASSIC ADVENTURE COMICS Volume 2 Hardcover
Highly Recommended. Art by Wallace Wood, Pete Morisi, Henry Kiefer et al. Collects five rare one-shot comics: Horror and suspense with The Black Tarantula, classic sea-faring action with Moby Dick, H. Rider Haggard's classic King Solomon's Mines, the offbeat New Adventures of Jack the Giant Killer, and a Classics Illustrated competitor's Superior Stories: The Invisible Man. All reproduced completely from cover to cover with original ads and extras. PS Artbooks, 2021. ...More.

Item Code: PCAD02H
Hard Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color
$46.99
 


PS ARTBOOKS SOFTEE: CLASSIC ADVENTURE COMICS Volume 2
Highly Recommended. By Wallace Wood, Pete Morisi et al. Collects five rare one-shot comics: Horror and suspense with The Black Tarantula, classic sea-faring action with Moby Dick, H. Rider Haggard's classic King Solomon's Mines, the offbeat New Adventures of Jack the Giant Killer, and a Classics Illustrated competitor's Superior Stories: The Invisible Man. All reproduced completely from cover to cover with original ads and extras. PS Artbooks, 2021....More.

Item Code: PCAD02
Soft Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color
$24.99
Here's Volume 1, and Volumes 3 and 4 will be coming up later this year. Also available in hardcover editions with different covers, like the two editions of volume 2 above. $46.99 each.
 


PS ARTBOOKS SOFTEE: PLANET COMICS Volume 6
Collects Planet Comics #16-18, 1942. Highly Recommended. Packed with crazy superheroes and villains, read how Flint Baker, Reef Ryan, Crash Parker and our very own fighting feminists Gale Allen and the Girl Squadron battle aliens on far flung and distant planets. Drawn by stalwarts such as Joe Doolin, Al Gabriel and Art Saaf. Also here: The Space Rangers, Star Pirate, Mars God of War, Auro Lord of Jupiter, Crash Parker, and superhero The Red Comet. PS Artbooks, 2021....More.

Item Code: PLC06
Soft Cover, 7x10, 216pg, Full Color
$24.99
Click here for the previous softee Planets, and for hardcovers; Volumes 1 and 3 hardcovers are still nearly half price, but getting very low. Then they'll go back to full retail and special order.
 


PRE-CODE CLASSICS: TOR Volume 1 Hardcover
Collects Tor #1, 3-5, 1953-54 and Naza Stone Age Warrior, 1963. Highly Recommended. By Norman Maurer and Joe Kubert, with Mort Meskin. Joe Kubert's first creator-owned series from the pre-code era. The prehistoric warrior Tor was superior to the others in his clan, with an extra spark of humanity, instinctively striving for a better, more civilized way of life. Thanks to the work and obvious love that went into this series, what might have become a standard adventure strip, with man battling monster within the unusual prehistoric-world settings and situations, was actually elevated to art! PS Artbooks, 2021. ...More.

Item Code: PCTOR01H
Hard Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color
$46.99
Also available in softcover [PCTOR01. $26.99] and in a replica edition that collects both 3-D issues [TORM. $13.99]. PS likes to save up their new releases and ship them all to us in a big batch. They come from England. So we split the latest shipment up, check last week for the others from this latest group. And of course, here's more PS, regular price volumes and we still have some on-sale titles left.
 

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

 
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.
 

Coming in October

 


BATMAN NO MAN'S LAND Omnibus Volume 1
By Dennis O'Neil and Greg Rucka. Art by Dale Eaglesham and Frank Teran. The monumental crossover event that changed Gotham City and the Dark Knight forever, collected in one volume for the first time. After suffering a cataclysmic earthquake, the U.S. government has deemed Gotham City uninhabitable and ordered all citizens to leave. It is now months later and those that have refused to vacate "No Man's Land" live amidst a citywide turf war in which the strongest prey on the weak. Batman and his allies, including the enigmatic new Batgirl, Nightwing, Oracle and Robin, must fight to save Gotham during its darkest hour. DC Comics, 2021. Due: Oct. ...More.

Item Code: BATN01H
Hard Cover, 7x11, 1136pg, Full Color
$125.00 $105.00
 


BATWOMAN By J.H. Williams III Omnibus
Collects Detective #854-863, Batwoman #0-24 and more, 2010-13. Recommended. Ex-military Kate Kane has taken up the identity of Batwoman, leading a one-woman war on Gotham City's evil underbelly. Who or what is stealing children from the barrio, and for what vile purpose? How will Kate handle unsettling revelations about her father, Colonel Jacob Kane? And why is a certain government agency suddenly taking an interest in her? J.H. Williams III's extensive work on Batwoman saw him play both writer and illustrator and it's visually stunning! DC Comics, 2021. Due: Oct....More.

Item Code: BATWOH
Hard Cover, 896pg, Full Color
$99.99 $85.00
This was previously announced way back our catalog in April-May of 2020—but clearly COVID messed with its schedule. It's back on track, so here we go again. And click here for more Batwoman and Batman.
 

Coming in November

 


KWAIDAN & SHADOWINGS Illuminated Edition
Recommended. Painter and multimedia artist Kent Williams depicts the supernatural Japanese stories of Lafcadio Hearn, the wildly popular author of the early 20th century. These stories first appeared in his prose books Kwaidan and Shadowings. Ghost stories, nightmares and strange tales — of possessed forests, of monks tormented by demons and ghosts, of corpse brides, man-eating goblins, and undead samurai. They come to life as never before under Williams' brush. Beehive Books, 2021. Due: Nov. ...More.

Item Code: KWAIH
Hard Cover, 9x12, Full Color
$100.00
Beehive has done a small number of books, and each one is a gem of high quality production values, with new artwork illustrating established classics. Here's more from them.
 
 

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FRANK KELLY FREAS As He Sees It - $65

LIBERTY MEADOWS: Cover Girl Signed - $75

RICHARD CORBEN'S NEVERWHERE: An Illustrated Epic Adventure of Fantasy and Magic - $100

VAUGHN BODE’S EROTICA Hardcover - $100

VAUGHN BODE’S CHEECH WIZARD Hardcover - $150

VAUGHN BODE’S DEADBONE Hardcover - $200

DRAWING WITH PEN AND INK Arthur Guptill - $80

AGE OF INNOCENCE The Romantic Art of Jeffrey Jones Super Deluxe - $175

NAGEL: The Art of Patrick Nagel - $100

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Mature Readers

This week we have two new softcover editions of popular Stefan Soell work. This photographer has created more books that we handle than anyone, and all have previously only been available in hardcover with prices the other side of $50. Now in stock: Modern Urban Girls and Alpengluhn! Here are more books by Soell, and here is all our nude photography section.

Also new this week, a brand new erotic film from 2021: Sweet Prudence and the Erotic Adventures of Bigfoot. You heard it, erotic adventures in the mountains in search of the lost legend. Here's more of our latest adult DVDs.

 

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Tarzan

Tarzan of the Apes Deluxe Signed is going very fast. I've just pulled it from the next catalog because I think it will be gone before then…we have only seven copies left, and the publisher has just 40 left, from the print run of 600. It's only been here in stock for one week!

Its companion volume, A Princess of Mars, is now sold out both from us and from the publisher. Next up: At the Earth's Core, the first novel in the Pellucidar series! We do still have a Michael Kaluta-illustrated Princess, see here.

 

 

We also just realized that the latest four Tarzan editions from ERB Inc, numbers 9-12, were not up on our website. Check them out here in case you missed them, also available at a discount for all four. And here's the previous eight volumes, slowly building a wonderful new Tarzan library with all new covers and bonus archival features in each volume.

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