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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| 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. |
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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 |
| 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. |
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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 |
| Here's previous volumes, and more Marvel Conan. |
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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 |
| Michael Allred Madman: Artist Select Edition is available by special order, and is also signed [MAMASH. $125]. |
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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. |
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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 |
| See all available Disney Masters here. |
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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 |
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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 |
| Here's more Suicide Squad. |
Graphic Novels & More |
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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 |
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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]. |
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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]. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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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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 |
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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 |
| 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. |
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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 Click here to see cover scans of all of the books recently added to our Rare & Out of Print section. |
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Mature ReadersThis 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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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. |
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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. ~Bud
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