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A new Sergio Toppi tops my list this week. And Linsner has a new signed sketchbook at long last. Plus Cult Girls, the beautifully drawn KARMEN, Spawn, a new Spider Wild Adventures, more Underwood File Copies, Carl Barks back in print, Air Warriors and ten more Classics Illustrated on sale. And Serpieri! |
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COLLECTED TOPPI Volume 7 Sharaz De Foreword by Walt Simonson. Two stories in full color. Our Highest Recommendation. An extra-thick volume offers tales inspired by the Arabian Nights by comics master Sergio Toppi, exploring a barbaric society where the supernatural is the only remedy to injustice! Sharaz-de, captive to a cruel and despotic king, must each night spin tales to entertain her master and save her head from the executioner. Her stories are filled with evil spirits, treasures, risk, and danger, but ever at their center is the passions of gods and men. Magnetic Press, 2022....More. Item Code: COLT07H Hard Cover, 9x12, 216pg, Partial Color $29.99 |
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JOSEPH MICHAEL LINSNER DAWN 2020 Sketchbook Signed Signed! Recommended. All new. This 24-page full color sketchbook normally is available at San Diego Comic Con, but due to the cancellation of all shows in 2020, and covid, it's late but available now! Inside is not only Dawn but Wonder Woman, Ghita Dejah Thoris and Game of Thrones beauties. Several full nudes. All previously unpublished. Dynamite, 2021....More. Item Code: DAW20S Soft Cover, 7x10, 24pg, Full Color $30.00 |
| Here's more from Linsner, collections and statues. |
Graphic Novels |
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KARMEN Collects #1-5. Highly Recommended. Spanish writer and artist Guillem March, best known for his work on Batman, Catwoman, and Harley Quinn, takes up his pen for a cutting-edge story about a highly unconventional angel named Karmen and the young woman she takes under her wing when heartbreak strikes too hard. Packed with intriguing twists and metaphysical musings, this gorgeously drawn series brings tenderness, heart, and humor to the delicate and difficult matters of life and death that we all face. Surreal, almost psychedelic artwork that is striking and fabulous, grabbing us instantly. Abundant nudity. Image Comics, 2022. Mature Readers....More. Item Code: KARMH Hard Cover, 8x11, 160pg, Full Color |
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CULT GIRLS Recommended. By Natalie Grand and Nikki Powers. Art by Cassandre Bolan. "This beautifully illustrated graphic novel pertains to any cult. Nicely and clearly written, it's a good, if harrowing story." -Trina Robbins. Based on a true story of Talia and her friends as they struggle with growing suspicions that their faith is a patriarchal religious cult. Written by the wife of comics superfan Alex Grand (comicbookhistorians.com). It's a story of tremendous courage as these four girls free themselves — told through a feminist lens with cautionary humor. Talia discusses the adversity faced as a young female raised in a cult that values its men over its women, and trying to find herself in the midst of severe peer pressure. Rosa talks about how she was forced into a loveless marriage and struggles to find the means to escape. Sandy and Rochelle hope to fade out of their elder's attention while still trying to maintain a successful marriage. These four women were born, raised and married in the cult and they each have a different path out. Note: corners very slightly bumped. Comic Book Historians, 2022....More. Item Code: CULTG Soft Cover, 9x11, 96pg, Full Color $23.99 |
| Also from Alex Grand/Comicbookhistorians.com is Frank Thorne: The Blue Wizard of Comic Arts [FTBLUE. $14.99] Howard Chaykin, Dark Prince of Comics [COMHC. $24.99]. |
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IPHIGENIA IN AULIS King Agamemnon faces the most crushing dilemma of his life. Kill his beloved eldest daughter? Or forfeit victory in the Trojan War? A father's secret plot clashes with a girl's romantic dreams in this chilling classic play from Ancient Greece. And what will his daughter do when she learns this crushing fate, at just 14 years of age, ready for marriage... The powerful drama by Euripides springs to life anew in a fresh adaptation by writer Edward Einhorn and Eisner Award-winning Age of Bronze artist Eric Shanower (Oz graphic novels, Little Nemo: Return to Slumberland). Image Comics, 2022....More. Item Code: IPHIA Soft Cover, 6x9, 136pg, b&w $16.99 |
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NITA HAWES' NIGHTMARE BLOG Volume 1 Collects #1-6. From the team of Image's Eisner-nominated series Killadelphia,a terrifying new horror series created by acclaimed Marvel writer Rodney Barnes and fan-favorite Spawn artist Jason Shawn Alexander. Untold evil lurks the streets of Baltimore, Maryland as the demon Corson surfaces from the underworld. As Gods and Demons clash, humanity's fate hangs in the balance. But paranormal investigator Nita Hawes — a woman with demons of her own — has set out on a quest to root out the evil from her city. Guided by the ghost of her dead brother, she must come to terms with her own past, or else become a victim herself and join her brother in a state worse than death! Image Comics, 2022....More. Item Code: NIT01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 160pg, Full Color $9.99 |
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POP STAR ASSASSIN Volume 1 By Ed Lavallee. Art by Marcelo Basile. The year is 1977. The King is dead, and the world mourns. But.... When a mysterious briefcase turns up in his dressing room, Bruce, a coke-addled Elvis impersonator, finds himself wedged between a Mob boss out to avenge the death of his only son, and a government conspiracy with far-reaching, world-ending ramifications, all in an attempt to discover the true identity of his father's killer. 16-page cover gallery.Behemoth Comics, 2022....More. Item Code: POPS01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 100pg, Full Color $14.99 |
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THE WOMAN IN THE WOODS AND OTHER NORTH AMERICAN STORIES Cautionary Fables and Fairytales Vol 5. Shapeshifters so frightening you shouldn't speak their name. Loup Garrou, trickster rabbits, and spirits — the plains and forests of North America are alive with characters like these in this collection of folklore retold in comics! From Indigenous people of North America: Taino, Navajo, Chickasaw, Metis/Cree, Odawa and more. Eight stories by as many artists. Iron Circus Comics, 2022....More. Item Code: WOMWO Soft Cover, 6x9, 120pg, b&w $15.00 |
| We have three more titles in the Cautionary Fables series. One is on sale at $9.99. |
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KING OF SPIES Collects #1-4, 2021. By Mark Millar. Art by Matteo Scalera. Looking like a bearded and aging Sean Connery as James Bond, this is the story of the world's greatest secret agent. who has just six months to live. Can he make up for a lifetime of bad decisions? He's been propping up an unfair system for over forty years. He has nothing to lose when he turns his guns on everyone who ever made a buck creating the mess we're in right now: Presidents, Popes and prime ministers he knows deserve to die! Image Comics, 2022. Mature readers....More. Item Code: KINSPI Soft Cover, 7x10, 136pg, Full Color $16.99 |
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THE GOOD ASIAN Volume 2 Recommended. Chinese-American detective Edison Hark uncovers the secrets behind the murders terrorizing 1936 Chinatown and their link to his family — but exposing the truth may mean toppling everything he holds dear. Writer Pornsak Pichetshote (Infidel) and artist Alexander Tefenkgi (Outpost Zero) wrap up their Chinatown noir starring the first generation of Americans to come of age under an immigration ban...the Chinese.. Image Comics, 2022....More. Item Code: GOAS02 Soft Cover, 7x10, 176pg, Full Color $17.99 |
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DIE!NAMITE Volume 1 Collects #1-5 & Valentine's Day 2021 Special. By Fred Van Lente and Declan Shalvey. Art by Vincenzo Carratu. Cover by Lucio Parrillo. Vampirella hurtles through space on a Drakulon ship, desperate to uncover a dark mystery...A 100-year-old John Carter of Mars grasps for an awful memory just out of reach...Peter Cannon Thunderbolt battles waves of evil he does not understand...Red Sonja is faced with an impossible choice...Plus a whopping 64 pages of covers & variant covers by a who's who including Arthur Suydam, Kyuyong Eom, Lucio Parrillo, et al, several by each artist. Dynamite, 2022....More. Item Code: DIEN01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 136pg, Full Color $19.99 |
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RED SONJA Age of Chaos By Erik Burnham. Art by Jonathan Lau. Cover by Lucio Parillo. The past meets the present with the future of literally everything at stake! The warrior Red Sonja has a plan to keep freshly killed wizard Kulan Gath from resurrecting himself again — but when the plan backfires, it allows a whole new kind of Chaos to infest the Hyborean Age! Will these new beings be any easier to deal with than Kulan Gath, or has Sonja called a worse evil to her world? Plus 63 pages of covers and variant covers by Parrillo, Hetrick, Lau et al. Dynamite, 2021....More. Item Code: REDSAC Soft Cover, 7x10, 156pg, Full Color $19.99 |
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VAMPIRELLA Seduction of the Innocent Volume 2 Collects #9-14. By Christopher Priest. Art by Ergun Gunduz and Giovanni Timpano. Cover by Lucio Parrillo. Picking up from the end of volume 1, Seduction of The Innocent continues, taking us back to where the series began — the doomed flight of Affirm Air 1969. A warning comes to Vampirella too late as a cadre of her greatest foes execute their plan to destroy the life that she's built for herself on Earth. But who's really behind them? Lilith, or Vampirella's half-brother, Drago? Plus 72 pages of variant covers by Parrillo, Dalton, Castro et al. Dynamite, 2022....More. Item Code: VAMSED02 Soft Cover, 7x10, 156pg, Full Color $19.99 |
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THE STAINLESS STEEL RAT A classic from 2000 AD's first "golden age". Long out of print, the adaptation of Harry Harrison's science-fiction classic by Kelvin Gosnell and Carlos Ezquerra is back in an impressively thick new edition! James Bolivar diGriz, aka "The Stainless Steel Rat", is many things, including a con man, a thief and a member of an elite law-enforcement agency known as the Special Corps. After escaping the corps, the Rat crosses paths with the beautiful but deadly Angelina. Like Jim diGriz she is also a master criminal, albeit a lot more ruthless. They are a match made in hell! And after marrying Angelina, the Rat has to travel through time to stop a master criminal meddling with the past... Rebellion / 2000AD, 2022....More. Item Code: STAST Soft Cover, 8x11, 208pg, Partial Color $24.99 |
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SPAWN THE RECORD BREAKER Collects Spawn #298-301, 2019. By Todd McFarlane and Scott Snyder. Collected together for the first time, the issues that lead up to and include the record-breaking Spawn #301, which went through three printings. This is the story line that changes everything...Including art from industry giants like Greg Capullo, Jason Alexander, Clayton Crain, Jerome Opeña, and Francesco Mattina, as well as a story penciled by Todd McFarlane himself. Image Comics, 2022....More. Item Code: SPAWRB Soft Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color $16.99 |
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AIR WARRIORS WORLD WAR ONE INTERNATIONAL ACES Volume 1 Written and illustrated by Chris Geary. The true exploits of England's Edward "Mick" Mannock, Ireland's George "McIrish" McElroy, and India's Lal "Laddie" Roy. Take to the skies over Europe during World War I as ace fighter pilots engage in battle with primitive machines held together with canvas, wire, wood, and metal. These adventurers, who were drawn to the conflict from as far afield as India, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa, would fight to defend their homeland, fight for national pride, and fight — and die — for personal glory. Caliber Comics, 2022....More. Item Code: AIRWW01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 116pg, b&w $14.99 |
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AIR WARRIORS WORLD WAR ONE INTERNATIONAL ACES Volume 2 Written and illustrated by Chris Geary. Take to the skies over Europe during World War I as ace fighter plane pilots engage in battle with primitive machines that are held together with canvas, wire, wood, and metal. These True exploits of Italy's Francesco Baracca, France's René Fonck, and Belgium's Willy Coppens. Take to the skies over Europe during World War I as ace fighter pilots engage in battle with primitive machines held together with canvas, wire, wood, and metal. These adventurers, who were drawn to the conflict from as far afield as India, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa as well as Europe, would fight to defend their homeland, fight for national pride, and fight for personal glory. Caliber, 2022....More. Item Code: AIRWW02 Soft Cover, 7x10, 120pg, b&w $14.99 |
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AIR WARRIORS WORLD WAR ONE INTERNATIONAL ACES Volume 3 Written and illustrated by Chris Geary. Russia's Aleksandr Kozakov, Austro-Hungary's Godwin Brumowski...and Germany's Manfred Von Richthofen. Based on historical facts and well researched, each individual pilot's story is thrillingly told in this volume series that serves both as an astonishing read and a fitting tribute to courage, audacity and sacrifice; capturing the kinetic mayhem of the dogfight while briskly illuminating life on the ground on and off the base. Each story becomes much more than the number of victories scored, as vital as that might have been to the final outcome of the war. Caliber, 2022. ...More. Item Code: AIRWW03 Soft Cover, 7x10, 120pg, b&w $14.99 |
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AIR WARRIORS WORLD WAR ONE INTERNATIONAL ACES Volume 4 By Chris Geary. True exploits of Canada's William Bishop, South Africa's Andrew Beauchamp-Proctor, Australia's Robert Little, New Zealand's Keith Caldwell, and the United States' Edward Rickenbacker. Fighter plane pilots engage in battle with primitive machines that are held together with canvas, wire, wood, and metal. These adventurers came from as far afield as India, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa to fight to defend their homeland, fight for national pride, and fight — and die — for personal glory. Caliber, 2022....More. Item Code: AIRWW04 Soft Cover, 7x10, 120pg, b&w $14.99 |
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THE SPIDER Scourge of the Scorpion Hardcover Bonus 10,000 word Red Finger vs. Scorpion story and an Afterword. Recommended. By Will Murray. Art by Gary Carbon. Men called the Scorpion the "Deathless One." Rumored to be immortal, he controls the Order of the Purple Eyes, a slave army of criminals who emerge to wreak havoc on mankind during times of social upheaval. His goal: To take over New York City. But how can the Master of Men fight the Cult when his beloved Nita van Sloan has been turned against him while his chief aides lie stricken with incurable lockjaw –– victims of the lethal sting of the Scorpion? Altus, 2022....More. Item Code: SPIDSSH Hard Cover, 7x10, 360pg, Text/b&w $60.00 |
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Also available in softcover sans the bonus pages. [SPIDSS. $24.95]. Also from Will Murray: Fury in Steel, another new Spider adventure. Hardcover with 32-page bonus story starring G-8 [WILSFH. $60], Softcover [WILSF. $24.95]. The Spider: The Doom Legion Hardcover with 42-page bonus features [SPIDLH. $60], Softcover [SPIDL. $24.95, almost gone]. Here's more by Murray, including new Tarzan and Doc Savage novels. And essays on the history of pulps. |
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COMIC BOOK REBELS Signed Almost Gone!Publisher file copy. Signed & limited, 750, Leatherette hardcover embossed in two contrasting metallic colors. Lacks slipcase. Highly Recommended. Interviews with twenty top comic book creators, with chapters examining the new comics, undergrounds, mavericks and moguls, international talent, and the new independents. This handsome jet black deluxe edition is signed by Neil Gaiman, Frank Miller, Alan Moore, Dave McKean, Dave Sim, and authors Stanley Wiater, Stephen R. Bissette and the master himself, Will Eisner. Interviews also feature Scott McCloud, Richard Corben, Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, Harvey Pekar, Eddie Campbell, Colleen Doran, Rick Veitch, Todd McFarlane and others. Our copies LACK the slipcase as issued; we have lowered the price by $100 to compensate. Out of print. Underdwood Books, 1997. Out of print. ...More. Item Code: COMBRS Hard Cover, 6x9, 320pg, b&w $250.00 |
As noted in the description, this was issued with a slipcase BUT these file copies do not include it. We have two copies as I write this WITH a slipcase, with two different item codes: [COMBRD and RB1663. $350. ea]. |
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WOMEN OF WONDER Celebrating Women Creators of Fantastic Art Publisher Edition Hardcover Publisher file copy, Special Hardcover edition for contributors only. Our Highest Recommendation. Edited by Cathy Fenner. Introduction by Lauren Panepinto. From the co-editor of Spectrum, a spotlight on women creators of fantastic art (traditionally seen as a largely male domain, though women have always been active participants) from Kewpie creator Rose O'Neill and pulp illustrator Margaret Brundage to Spectrum Grand Masters Diane Dillon and Kinuko Y. Craft. Also: : Lisbeth Zwerger, Sulamith Wulfing, Marie Severin, Rowena, Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale (last of the Pre-Raphaelite illustrators), Howard Pyle student Elizabeth Shippin Green et al. Underwood Books, 2015. Out of print....More. Item Code: WOMOWH Hard Cover, 9x12, 128pg, Full Color $75.00 |
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BALOOK Slipcased Signed Almost Gone! Publisher file copy. Signed & numbered, 250! By Piers Anthony. Art by Patrick Woodroffe. IIn the wake of technological breakthroughs, a nine-ton prehistoric Balook is brought to life and befriended by a boy named Thor, but when the growing creature breaks out of his compound, a chaotic romp ensues. He was the largest land mammal of prehistoric times. Now computers and genetic engineering have brought one of these magnificent creatures back to life. A moving and suspenseful tale by the noted science fiction author. 30 excellent illustrations, some full page and in partial color. Underwood-Miller, 1990. Out of print. ...More. Item Code: BALOD Hard Cover, 6x10, 198pg, Text/Partial Color $100.00 |
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4 copies available. We have just a couple copies of the trade edition in near fine condition. They have a tiny bit of wear. [BALOH. $35]. We have 20 copies of slightly more worn copies, Balook Hurt, jackets a bit rubbed and edges a bit worn. [BALOHR. $20]. Here’s more Underwood File Copies. Many are in very short supply. |
Barks Back in Print |
Fantagraphics announced new printings of these four books which have been listed as out of print for some time. However…they sent our first order filling it with the ORIGINAL editions, first printings from 2012 to 2021, and instead of $35 each, as announced, they’re still the original prices of $28.99 and $29.99. So…grab them now and save a bit and get first printings. Very limited supply on each. |
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WALT DISNEY'S DONALD DUCK The Pixilated Parrot Collects Four Color #275, 282, 291, 300, 356, Vacation Parade #1 & more. 1950-51. Our Highest Recommendation. Carl Barks delivers another superb collection of clever plot twists, laugh-out-loud comedy, and all-around cartooning brilliance. Donald gives Uncle Scrooge a parrot for his birthday but the feathered troublemaker escapes with the combination to Scrooge's safe holding "ninety tons of money." Then, Donald and the boys are shanghaied by a mysterious stranger, who whisks them off to face perils in the desert in "Ancient Persia," where they uncover a lost city — and its reconstituted inhabitants! And Barks cuts loose from his regular panel designs to deliver one of his finest stories, "Vacation Time" (it has its own Wikipedia page). Fantagraphics, 2015....More. Item Code: WD09H Hard Cover, 7x10, 216pg, Full Color $29.99 |
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WALT DISNEY'S DONALD DUCK A CHRISTMAS FOR SHACKTOWN Collects Four Color #408, 422, WDC&S #135-144, 1951-52. Our Highest Recommendation. This again focuses on the early 1950s, universally considered one of Carl Barks's very peak periods. Originally published in 1951, "A Christmas for Shacktown" is one of Barks's masterpieces: A rare 32-pager that stays within the confines of Duckburg, featuring a storyline in which the Duck family works hard to raise money to throw a Christmas party for the poor children of the city's slums (depicted by Barks with surprisingly Dickensian grittiness), and climaxing in one of the most memorable images Barks ever created, the terrifying bottomless pit that swallows up all of Scrooge's money. Fantagraphics, 2012....More. Item Code: WD11H Hard Cover, 7x10, 240pg, Full Color $28.99 |
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WALT DISNEY'S UNCLE SCROOGE The Seven Cities of Gold Collects Uncle Scrooge #7-12 & 14, 1954-56. Our Highest Recommendation. 28 stories, from one-pagers and ten pagers to epic adventures from the Four Color issues. Uncle Scrooge takes Donald and the nephews on a perilous trek in search of the fabled seven cities of gold! This is the Scrooge story famous for providing Steven Spielberg and George Lucas with inspiration for parts of Raiders of the Lost Ark! James Bond fans might recognize in "The Mysterious Stone Ray" a gimmick that was later used in Goldfinger — Uncle Scrooge's pores fill with gold dust from his money bin. It makes him ill so he goes on vacation, which turns into a rescue mission for a sailor stranded on an island with some very mysterious baddies. Fantagraphics, 2020. ...More. Item Code: WD14H Hard Cover, 7x10, 240pg, Full Color $29.99 |
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WALT DISNEY'S DONALD DUCK The Ghost Sheriff of Last Gasp Collects WDC&S #159-177 & DD Tells About Kites, 1953-55. Our Highest Recommendation. 20 wonderful 10-page stories! Donald and his nephews visit an Old West ghost town that was suddenly abandoned — now it's haunted! Then, Donald is made station master for a tiny out-of-the-way railroad station, but his first delivery is 10,000 baby turkeys; and they're all hungry! And when the Coast Guard announces it found the wreck of a steamship that sank with Uncle Scrooge's gold on board, the race is on to recover it ahead of rivals. Fantagraphics. 2016....More. Item Code: WD15H Hard Cover, 7x10, 240pg, Full Color $29.00 |
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CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED BLACK BEAUTY Hardcover- CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED DAVID COPPERFIELD Hardcover - CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED GREAT EXPECTATIONS Hardcover -
CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED JUNGLE BOOK Hardcover - CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED JULIUS CEASAR Hardcover - CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED LAST DAYS OF POMPEII Hardcover -
CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED MACBETH Hardcover - CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED NICHOLAS NICKLEBY Hardcover - CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED ROMEO & JULIET Hardcover - CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED WUTHERING HEIGHTS Hardcover - Click here to see all the new Classics Illustrated Books entered this week!
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Mature ReadersJust in is SUSAN MEISELAS CARNIVAL STRIPPERS REVISITED, a two-volume set in slipcase. Click here for more nude photography including Queens of Burlesque [QUEEB. $19.95] and of course, Bettie Page. And finally available is the SERPIERA XXX BILINGUAL COLLECTION $49.99 while supply lasts. Click here for all the Serpieri collections and now card sets, in stock now.
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