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Classic Harlan Ellison, signed; Senorita Rio by Nick Cardy; Red Scare! New GNs from France. Trent and Lonesome 2. Gun Honey/Sienkiewicz cover. Planet Vol 14, DC Comics Super-Pets, Ghost Rider Epic, The Avengers Mighty Marvel. 3...2...1 items go On Sale. Free Comic Book Day is this week, score yours here! And Happy Birthday to me, Bud. I’m 70 today as I write this (Argh! Choke! Gasp!). Isn’t 70 the new 45? I hope so. Enjoy!! |
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| REPENT HARLEQUIN! SAID THE TICKTOCK MAN Deluxe Signed Signed and numbered, 1000. Slipcase. Publisher file copy. Signed by both Harlan Ellison and illustrator Rick Berry. Deluxe edition celebrating the thirtieth anniversary edition of the classic, award-winning story. The Harlequin is a rebel and anarchist who inhabits a world where conformity and punctuality are top priorities. And the Ticktockman cannot accept the Harlequin's presence in his perfectly ordered world. 1984 themes, classic Ellison. Beautiful production, this is extra tall with a color jacket and gold embossing on the cover. Eight color plates, one double page. Underwood Books, 1997. Out of print. ...More. Item Code: REPHAD Hard Cover, 8x13, 48pg, Full Color $100.00 |
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THE FLY BOOK Signed Signed with a drawing! Highly Recommended. Animator and art director Ted Blackman (Batman: The Animated Series, Gargoyles, Pixar’s The Incredibles, WB Batman Animated movies) has published a wonderful collection of 25 years of Fly gags. Most of it's in full color, and the jokes are really a blast. He's kindly not just signed these, he does a small 2x2 pen&ink in every copy. Ted is also the author of Superzeroes, a superhero spoof. Crotchety Comics, 2022....More. Item Code: FLYBS Soft Cover, 8x8, 90pg, Full Color $12.95 |
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RED SCARE Highly Recommended. By Liam Francis Walsh. A page-turning sci-fi adventure set in 1953, featuring a clever girl who, against all odds, must outsmart bullies, the FBI, and alien invaders after she finds a strange device...that allows her to fly. Wonderfully drawn in a retro animation style, and all taking place in a realistic world of the 1950's cold war. A wonderful heroine who starts out crippled from polio. Excellent characterization. I really enjoyed this and couldn't put it down until I was finished. -Bud Scholastic/Graphix, 2022....More. Item Code: RESCA Soft Cover, 7x9, 240pg, Full Color $14.99 |
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ETHER OMNIBUS Collects the complete series, five issues each of Ether I, II and III plus all covers and bonus content. By Matt Kindt. Art by David RubÃn. From New York Times bestselling Mind MGMT creator Matt Kindt and Black Hammer's David RubÃn comes an inter-dimensional, genre-bending, sci-fi, fantasy, mystery adventure! Inter-dimensional explorer Boone Dias, a brilliant scientist from Earth, enters the magical world of Ether and stumbles onto a great responsibility that takes him through the center of volcanoes, deserts full of living mummies and sphinxes, and a bizarre fairy forest- - all leading toward a final climactic battle for the fate of both worlds. Dark Horse, 2022....More. Item Code: ETHEOM Soft Cover, 7x10, 440pg, Full Color |
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FORGOTTEN HOME Recommended. By Erica Schultz. Art by Marika Cresta and Matt Emmons. The entire digital series collected. While investigating a series of child abductions in Montana, the case gets personal for Sheriff's Deputy Lorraine Adalet when her teenage daughter, Joanna, disappears with a friend. Following the clues of otherworldly evidence leads Lorraine back to her long abandoned homeworld of Jannada — far from Earth. Mired in a never-ending war she escaped long ago, Lorraine had hoped to protect Joanna from her own past. Bonus character designs and variant covers. Dark Horse, 2022....More. Item Code: FORGHO Soft Cover, 7x10, 216pg, Full Color |
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TALON By James Tynion IV Collects Talon #0-17 and more. By James Tynion IV. Art by Miguel Sepulveda et al. As a performer with Haly's Circus, young Calvin Rose was secretly being raised to be a master assassin — a killing machine called a Talon. The Talons have always served the mysterious Court of Owls, a group of wealthy individuals who will stop at nothing to maintain their grip on power in Gotham. When Rose defects from the Talon's ranks, he is marked for death and spends years using all his training to hide from his former masters. DC Comics, 2022....More. Item Code: TALJT Soft Cover, 7x10, 440pg, Full Color |
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LIGHTFALL Volume 2 Shadow of the Bird All Ages. Highly Recommended. By Tim Probert. In the second installment of the award-winning, critically acclaimed Lightfall series, Bea and Cad continue their quest to stop Kest, the mythic bird who stole the sun. Perfect for middle grade fans of Amulet and Avatar the Last Airbender. Cad is very alien creature, a Galdurian, a species thought to be extinct but clearly not. He is much more battle-worthy and skilled than he seems, as young Bea slowly discovers. And extremely lucky. What’s his secret? After a battle that nearly cost them their lives, Bea and Cad awaken in the hidden settlement of the Arsai, mysterious creatures who can glimpse into the future. Harper Collins, 2022....More. Item Code: LIGF02 Soft Cover, 6x8, 256pg, Full Color $12.99 |
| Volume 1 is in stock so you can catch up. [LIFG01. $12.99] – my ten-year-old granddaughter says this was her very favorite story when she was eight. I liked it a lot too, it has heart, I’ll be reading this new release shortly. Click here for more All Ages graphic novels. |
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GUN HONEY Bill Sienkiewicz Cover Collects #1-4. Recommended. By Charles Ardai. Art by Ang Hor Kheng. "The finest kind of pulp noir." -Ed Brubaker. The weapon you need, where you need it, when you need it, she'll get it! They call her Gun Honey. From Edgar Award Winning Writer Charles Ardai, Founder of Hard Case Crime. She thought she was planting a gun for a simple hit. But when it's used in a deadly prison riot, Joanna is forced to work with U.S. Government agent to hunt down the perp, a deadly scarred killer with shadowy past. TV Series now in development. Nudity. Titan Comics, 2022. Mature Readers. ...More. Item Code: GUNHO Soft Cover, 7x10, 192pg, Full Color $17.99 |
| We previously announced [GUNHOV. $17.99] which sports a variant cover by Adam Hughes—it's out of print but we still have copies. This new cover variant just arrived. |
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SUNLIGHT Recommended. Buy Christophe Bec, art by Bernard Khattou. Sunlight tells an agonizing survival story penned by French screenwriter Christophe Bec and illustrated by Bernard Khattou. Three young friends, Kevin, Caro, and Eva, who are passionate about caving, decide to explore the ruins of an abandoned mine. They discover, bathed in the light of dawn, a surreal setting to explore but immediately they take a dizzying fall through a poorly sealed well. Now trapped at the bottom of an abyss, they have only one thing to do: survive while they wait for help. Fear and madness set in, making it impossible to discern reality from illusion. Nudity. Clover Press, 2022. Mature Readers....More. Item Code: SUNLIH Hard Cover, 7x10, 160pg, b&w |
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TRENT Volume 7 Miss Helen By Leo Rodolphe. A taciturn and solitary Mountie. A beautiful, alluring, determined young woman and her shady, mysterious cohorts pull Trent into their network. The savage beauty of the Canadian wilderness. Trent: an authentic western ... up north. Part of a multi-part series starring this stalwart Mountie. Cinebook, 2022. ...More. Item Code: TRENM Soft Cover, 8x11, 48pg, Full Color $11.95 |
| This is volume 7 in the series but the only one translated so far. We’ll offer more as they are done. There’s at least 8 volumes. |
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LONESOME Volume 2 The Ruffians Highly Recommended. By Yves Swolfs. True to his word, Mayor Harper has brought in a Marshall to get rid of "Lonesome", thrown in jail and soon to meet with a deadly "accident.'"But it takes more than that to stop the lone rider in his quest for revenge, and he is soon back on the trail of Markham, the mad preacher. When a band of Ruffians — pro-slavery vigilantes and sworn enemies of Markham — intercept our hero, an unexpected encounter will provide him with an opportunity to learn more about the mysterious figures pulling all the strings—and we learn more about his history, losing his pioneer family and left to be raised by Indians and gifted with visions of past and present when he touches someone. Cinebook, 2020....More. Item Code: LONE02 Soft Cover, 8x11, 56pg, Full Color $13.95 |
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ALSO AVAILABLE LONESOME Volume 1 The Preacher's Trail Highly Recommended. By Yves Swolfs. Kansas, 1861. As tensions rise between the Northern and Southern states, a fanatical, violent preacher leaves a trail of corpses behind him, all the while calling people to take up arms against pro-slavery states. Close on his tail is a lone rider with a strange gift: he can read the past and future of those he touches. In the small town of Holton, a showdown is brewing, but things aren’t as straightforward as they seem... Cinebook, 2021....More. Item Code: LONE01 Soft Cover, 8x11, 56pg, Full Color $13.95 |
| Click here for more of the latest French Graphic Novels translated to English and published here in the U.S. |
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We are in the process of marking down 3…2…1 items that haven’t yet sold out. Some you may have seen before at full price--they are now on sale. Others are new here. We’re marking down about 225 titles, so we’ve split this into three batches. Here’s the first of 75+ titles – gonersale. If you check in on Friday, May 6, we’ll be populating the second 75 for next week – gonersale2. And if you check back in a few more days, we’ll have the final 75 in gonersale3. Markdown titles include Brubakers Criminal Deluxe, Fleetway Picture Library, several PS Art books, Dick Tracy, Phantom Novels, and Dark Shadows. |
PS Artbooks & Senorita Rio |
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FIGHT COMICS Featuring Senorita Rio Volume 1 Collects stories from Fight #19-34, 1942-44. Highly Recommended. Art by Nick Cardy, Lily Renée et al. A wonderful wartime series, usually 10 full pages in each issue. This lovely actress-turned-agent was a mainstay in Fight for many years. Created by a true legend in the industry, Nick Viscardi, later known better as Nick Cardy, he stayed with the series for eleven adventures. Renowned artist Lily Renée’s first Rio adventure is here and she is most strongly associated with the character, being one of the greatest female comic artists in the history of the business! PS Artbooks, 2022. |
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| Here’s the regular issues of Fight Comics. Volume 1 and 2 are available in both hardcover and softcover. These are pre-Senorita Rio, she started in #19. |
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PLANET COMICS Volume 14 Collects #43-46, 1946-47. Highly Recommended. One of Planet's most popular series was Futura, a sexy girl in a future society who is immediately on the run from unknown baddies. Her first four appearances are here. Also wonderful artwork on Star Pirate as well as the double-page feature, Life on Other Worlds, by our favorite Murphy Anderson. Plus all the usual features, including Lost World now drawn by Lily Renee. George Evans is also here! PS Artbooks, 2022....More. Item Code: PLC14 Soft Cover, 7x10, 208pg, Full Color $26.99 |
| All softcover back volumes are in stock, starting at $24.99. |
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ALSO AVAILABLE FICTION HOUSE FROM PULPS TO PANELS Our Highest Recommendation. By Mitch Maglio. Art by Matt Baker, Lou Fine et al. From sexy jungle girls to even sexier ray gun toting space women and beyond, Fiction House Comics had it all! Now for the first time the entire history of Fiction House, the leading purveyor of Good Girl art during the Golden Age of Comics, is told in a single volume! Stuffed with breathtaking cover reproductions, original artwork, dozens of cover preliminaries by Joe Doolin (!) and even full length stories. The story of one of the most successful publishers ever, from their pulp origins on, with artwork by Matt Baker, George Tuska, Lou Fine, Bob Lubbers, Murphy Anderson, Lily Renee and many others. IDW, 2017....More. Item Code: FICHOH Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 9x11, 300 pg, Full Color |
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SILVER AGE CLASSICS: MYSTERIES OF UNEXPLORED WORLDS Volume 4 Collects #16-20, 1960. Fantasy-supernatural, horror and science fiction stories from a roster of writers and artists that includes Dick Giordano, Bill Molno, Bill Fraccio, Bill Montes, Charles Nicholas and of course the truly remarkable one man creative genius Steve Ditko. He has two pages in #17 (not noted in Overstreet), but does the cover and lead story, "The Green Unknown," in #19. Robot stories! "Pirates of Future Time." PS Artbooks, 2022. |
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| Here’s previous Mysteries, and more from Charlton and Steve Ditko. |
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ALLEY OOP Book Two War with Lem - V.T. Hamlin Highly Recommended. By V.T. Hamlin. The complete year of 1934 daily Alley Oop strips, all newly scanned and cleaned from newspaper pages. The Land of Moo, where caveman Alley Oop lives, is attacked by the people of Lem. Alley is blown into neverwhere in a storm, and Dinny ends up in a tree. Oola enlists Dinny to search for Alley. Lots of fun dinosaurs get in on the action. Six episodes in all.Andrews McMeel, 2022....More. Item Code: ALLE02 Soft Cover, 11x9, 111pg, b&w $19.95 |
| Here’s all the latest Alley Oop collections, by Hamlin and Graue. |
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TAILS OF THE SUPER-PETS 1947-1968. By Ramona Fradon, Curt Swan, Jim Mooney et al. In the 1950s and early 1960s, super-pets became the rage at DC Comics. Here are all the first appearances of Krypto the Super-Dog, Streaky the Super-Cat, Plus in this incredible collection: Ace the Bat-Hound, Aquaman's pet octopus, Topo, andSuper-Monkey! Co-starring Supergirl, Superboy, The Legion of Superheros, Wonder Woman, Superman and others. DC Comics, 2022....More. Item Code: TAILSU Soft Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color |
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GHOST RIDER Epic Collection Volume 1 Hell on Wheels Collects Marvel Spotlight (1971) #5-12, Ghost Rider (1973) #1-11, Marvel Team-Up (1972) #15. By Gary Friedrich et al. Art by Mike Ploog et al. The origin and almost three years of stories take the horror hero to Hell to battle Satan, pit him against the tempting Witch-Woman and team him with Daimon Hellstrom, Son of Satan. Written by Gary Friedrich and Tony Isabella and gloriously illustrated by Mike Ploog, Tom Sutton and Jim Mooney. 40 pages of bonus material, covers, house ads and original art. Marvel, 2022....More. Item Code: GHOSR01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 424pg, Full Color |
| We also have a Ghost Rider Masterworks and he’s the cover story in Alter Ego #169. |
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JANE FOSTER The Saga of the Mighty Thor Collects Thor #1-8; Mighty Thor #1-5, 8-11, 13-14; & more, 2014-17. When the Son of Odin is rendered unworthy of lifting Mjolnir, the hammer is claimed—by a Goddess of Thunder! Her battles against Frost Giants, Malekith and the Minotaur prove that she is well worthy of the name Thor! But this new hero is secretly Dr. Jane Foster — and each time she transforms, it worsens the cancer that is killing her! Marvel, 2022....More. Item Code: JANFO Soft Cover, 7x10, 472pg, Full Color |
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MIGHTY MARVEL MASTERWORKS THE AVENGERS Volume 2 Collects Avengers #11-20, 1964-65. Highly Recommended. By Stan Lee et al. Art by Don Heck, Jack Kirby, Wally Wood et al. Brought together to fight the Marvel Universe's biggest menaces, Iron Man, Thor, Giant-Man and the Wasp were heavy hitters — but Marvel heroes don't just fight crime; they live, dream, argue — and even fall out! In an innovative twist that would come to define the Avengers, Stan Lee has the team's original members depart, leaving only Captain America to carry on with new allies: Hawkeye, Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch — all former foes, now conflicted and newly minted heroes. Avengers Reassemble! Marvel, 2022....More. Item Code: MMMAV02 Soft Cover, 6x9, 261pg, Full Color $15.99 |
| Volume 1 is in stock [MMMAV01. $15.99]. Here are all the $15.99 Mighty Masterworks titles. |
Mature Readers
Two new photo books: The Pin-Up Mystery of 1950 reveals a mysterious collection of photos never before collected, with full nudity. And Queens of Burlesque celebrates the big and forgotten names, in and out of costume, from the Murray Korman photo collection. Publisher Asylum has also done Portraits of Erotic Film Stars and Early Photographs of Bettie Page. And Volume 3 of the comedy/adult-sci-fi Money Shot is here. Breakups are hard, but when the replacement is scorching hot…Meanwhile Earth has been overrun with a species not to be tempted by our steamy crew…
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Spring Sale & Free Comic Book Day Click here for our Spring Sale, and here for our Free Comic Book Day giveaways and vintage comics, which was sent out May 3. |
Teaser: Classics Illustrated On Sale We just scored 30 Classic Illustrated editions in hardcover, published by the latest owner of the license, called CCS, who is located in England. We’ve never handled these as hardcovers before, but we offered some of them in softcover when they were published by Jack Lake. We’ll break these up over the next three emails, but you can click here for whatever we have up so far. We’ll start uploading them next week, May 9th or 10th. |
Neal Adams Neal passed away late last week, nearly the same day as James Bama did. We’re all going to miss both men. But for a comic fan like me, Neal was the face of how good comics could be for years and years. His Batman and Deadman, his wonderful covers and work for House of Secrets and House of Mystery, his work for Marvel…all so, so very good. He gave a lot to the comics world, as an innovator and the head of Continuity Studios. Just by coincidence, some of our Free and Vintage comics for Free Comic Book Day are from Neal and Continuity, published in 1990. I was a kid when Deadman first came out. I was a veteran when I finally met Neal at his booth at a San Diego Comic-Con decades later. We spent a good 20 or 30 minutes chatting about comics and setting up at shows. Amazing man. |
The Bud Gathering 2022 Also known as Alberta’s Thank You party. Alberta Severino worked here for more than 30 years and many of you know her from calling us up when she was answering the phone. Well, Alberta put a “gathering” for my family and a bunch of ex- and current employees last weekend. And we had a fine time. Diane was there, who I think hit 14 years here before retiring last year. Two of my kids made it, Philip and Alison (some of you met them at past Comic-Cons before they got careers to keep them away), with their kids. I’m now a grandad three times over. And LaDonna of course and Todd, Harry and Laurie all from our current staff. Past BPCA’ers included Liz, Matthew and Mike B from the very old days, Kate from the REALLY old days (1988). My son’s wife Jenn worked here in 2012 and brought her new baby girl, April, here in a basket. April is ten years old now. Michelle Nolan came down from Bellingham, Washington, on her way to Pulp Con in Chicago. And my old buddy Steve Adamovich’s wife Kathy (aka Cobblestone Books), her daughter Sarah and granddaughter Aurora. And my sisters, Carolyn and Nancy, who both help out here with newsletters and things. Did I forget anyone? Several important folks couldn’t make it. Dave Cowie, my manager for 22 years, now a craft beer brewer, was on his way to Italy. And we missed Joe Douville, who back in 2011-2012 helped morph the old business into what it is today, when we were down to just three of us! ~Bud |
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