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We are currently processing over 50 titles newly on sale. Most of these we've been out of for quite a long time —as much as years; a few were on sale before, but most are fresh newly discounted titles. Many are in slipcases, if that was the only way we could get them (we don’t usually stock the slipcased editions). Watch for them as they continue to be processed over the next two weeks. You can click here to see all of the newly discounted editions. Sale Part 2 will go out Tuesday, Sept 20. We’ve added Replica Editions to fill out this list; these are not on sale, but deserve your attention. For more titles like this, search "facsimile" on our home page. Thanks for looking. |
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CAPTAIN FLASH WITH THE TORMENTED Slipcased Limited, 125! Collects Capt. Flash #1-4 & The Tormented #1-2, 1954-55. Recommended. By Carl Wessler. Art by Mike Sekowsky, Mike Roy, Bill Ely et al. The last new super-hero of the Golden Age—or the first super-hero of the Silver Age? You decide! A scientist receives a terrific dosage of radiation—and suddenly finds himself charged with super-strength! Sound familiar? Follow Captain Flash and his young ally Ricky as they battle the Iron Mask, the Mirror Man, the Black Knight, the Invaders and more, in this 4-issue from Sterling Comics! Plus Tomboy—a masked teen-aged super-heroine, her origin drawn by the fabulous Mort Meskin! Bonus! The two-issue run of Sterling's short-lived The Tormented from 1954. PS Artbooks, 2014. Out of print....More. Item Code: CAFLD Hard Cover, 7x10, 240pg, Full Color |
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PRE-CODE CLASSICS TOM CORBETT SPACE CADET Volume 1 Limited, 1700! Collects #1-7, 1952-54, including the first three Four-Colors. Highly Recommended. By Alden McWilliams, John Lehti, Frank Thorne et al. Al McWilliams went on to draw Twin Earths, the long-running space strip—here he shows his incredible skill with fully painted covers, some of the best of the 1950s. He also does the inside art for the first two issues. One of the great Dell titles of the early 1950s, complete with stills and notes from the wildly popular television show that this is based on. Much like DC's Tommy Tomorrow, a clean-cut young team of spacemen tackling adventures on other worlds: space pirates, lost races, and even a spaceship graveyard. Fun stuff! Incredibly great painted covers throughout. PS Artbooks, 2017. Out of print....More. Item Code: PCTCSC01H Hard Cover, 7x10, 252pg, Full Color |
| See more Tom Corbett Space Cadet here, and our Silver Age Classics; Space Man. |
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PRE-CODE CLASSICS AMAZING ADVENTURES Volume 1 Collects #1-6, 1950-52. Highly Recommended. Art by Murphy Anderson, Jerry Siegel, Wally Wood et al. Oh, boy, we got an out'n'out doozy for you this time, with the six 1950's issues of Ziff Davis' Amazing Adventures, brim full with work from the likes of Murphy Anderson, Jerry Siegel (editor/writer), Ogden Whitney, Wally Wood, Norman Saunders, Ross Andru, and a host of other talented writers and artists. I could say more, like how #2 contains "The Steel Monster," a kickass riff on Ted Sturgeon's "Killdozer" yarn from 1944 (also homaged by Marvel some 20 years later). PS Artbooks, 2016. Out of print. ...More. Item Code: PCAA01H Hard Cover, 7x10, 216pg, Full Color |
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PRE-CODE CLASSICS BEWARE Volume 2 Hardcover Collects #8-14, 1954-55. Recommended. Art by Sid Check, Frazetta, Jay Disbrow, Myron Fass and Harry Harrison. Frazetta puts in a rare appearance, collaborating with Sid Check on an amazing cover. There are also stories of "a heart torn out," "blood drainage" and that's only what Overstreet is pointing out. One of the weirder titles of the time, as the filled newsstands meant publishers had to outdo the competition with bloodier, darker, stranger stories of horror. Sid Check provides two exceptional stories here and also Jay Disbrow, who is clunky but always fun. PS Artbooks, 2018. Out of print....More. Item Code: PCB02H Hard Cover, 7x10, 256pg, Full Color |
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PRE-CODE CLASSICS DARK MYSTERIES Volume 2 Collects #7-12, 1952-53. Recommended. Art by Harry Harrison, A. C. Hollingsworth, Hy Fleishman, Doug Wildey et al. Some of the weirdest and most esoteric stories and covers of the time. Skeletons, anyone? They loved them on every cover. And busty, Wally Wood-ish ladies—on the covers and inside, too. Dismemberment, hypo blood drainage, cannibalism, witch burning, severed heads...even a horror witch hostess clearly stolen from EC. And that's all noted in Overstreet! As shown on the cover here, artist Hy Fleishman was obviously influenced by Wood and he has plenty here. Also so does Hollingsworth, also a Woody clone. PS Artbooks, 2018. Out of print....More. Item Code: PCD02H Hard Cover, 7x10, 216pg, Full Color |
| Volume Three is also available by special order [PCD03H. $54.99]. |
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PRE-CODE CLASSICS AVON'S EERIE Volume 1 Collects #1-7, 1951-52. Recommended. By Wally Wood, Joe Kubert, Joe Orlando et al. Avon remains a fan favorite company for their top drawer artists, sexy covers, and wild stories. Along with Strange Worlds, Eerie was their mainstay title, starting in 1951 and lasting until #17, in 1954. Before moving to EC, Wally Wood was the premier artist, working with studio-mate Joe Orlando, regularly on the covers and in most issues. PS Artbooks, 2016. Out of print....More. Item Code: PCE01H Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 7x10, 252pg, Full Color |
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PRE-CODE CLASSICS AVON'S EERIE Volume 2 Collects #8-14, 1952-54. Recommended. By Everett Raymond Kinstler, Joe Kubert, Moe Marcus et al. Seven issues, complete with those cool b&w inside cover contents art by Everett Raymond Kinstler, art by the talents above plus "Master of the Dead," "Help Us to Die," "The White Gorilla," "Satan's Woman Prize," "Only the Dead Live Here" (also by ERK), and lots more. Wood-like art by A.C. Hollingworth, another ERK story, and more. Issue #12 is a special, the entire issue devoted to an adaptation of "Dracula." PS Artbooks, 2016. Out of print....More. Item Code: PCE02H Hard Cover, 7x10, 252pg, Full Color |
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PRE-CODE CLASSICS AVON'S EERIE Volume 3 Collects #15-17, 1954 plus 3 one-shots. Recommended. By Wally Wood, Joe Kubert, Joe Orlando, Kinstler et al. This third volume completes the run—the last three issues actually reprint Eerie #1 & #2 with Wood; and #3 by Wood, Orlando & Kubert. The bonus issues are way cool...Phantom Witch Doctor, 1952, with Everett Raymond Kinstler cover & art; Night of Mystery, 1953, with Kinstler & Hollingsworth; and Eerie Comics, 1947, the first-ever Horror Comic, with Kubert and Fujitani. PS Artbooks, 2016....More. Item Code: PCE03H Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 7x10, 232pg, Full Color |
| Click here for the 1959 magazine replica [ETM01. $11.99]. Also available are the Eerie Achives series from Dark Horse. |
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PRE-CODE CLASSICS THE UNSEEN Volume 1 Collects #5-10 (#1-5), 1952-53. Highly Recommended. By Alex Toth, Nick Cardy, John Fawcette, Mike Sekowsky, John Celardo, Jack Katz, Mike Esposito & Ross Andru et al. It was the 1950's — the Atomic Age, the Cold War, and just before the Space Race. But nothing could match the imagination, the surprise, and the chilling-of-your-spine like the great horror comics of yesteryear. Some of the best non-EC horror stories came out of tiny publisher Standard, whose all-star artist Alex Toth set a high standard for his fellows. Both Mike Ross (Mike Esposito and Ross Andru) and Mike Sekowsky offer multiple wonderful Toth-style stories, inspired by the master. Jack Katz does his over-the-top thing. PS Artbooks, 2017. Out of print....More. Item Code: PCEUN01H Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 7x10, 216pg, Full Color |
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PRE-CODE CLASSICS THE UNSEEN Volume 2 Collects The Unseen #11-15 & Who Is Next? #5, 1953-54. Recommended. By Alex Toth, Nicky Cardy, George Tuska, Gene Fawcette et al. It was the 1950's “ the Atomic Age, the Cold War, and just before the Space Race. Comics books were the education, the entertainment, and, according to some, the downfall of America. What a great time! We loved to be scared — still do, it seems — from the comfort of our own home, secure in the knowledge that there's no real danger (or so we think). Final issues of this excellent series from Standard, along with Who Is Next?, a suspense one-shot featuring a town terrorized by a serial killer. PS Artbooks, 2018....More. Item Code: PCEUN02H Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 7x10, 216pg, Full Color |
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PRE-CODE CLASSICS GHOST COMICS Volume 2 Collects #8-11 & Monster #1-2, 1953-54. Recommended. By Maurice Whitman, Johnny Bell, Bill Benulis, Jerry Grandenetti et al. Collected together for the very first time, this often unfairly forgotten 11-strong series boasts some of the most magnificent covers of any of the EC wannabes. Fiction House ALWAYS featured long-legged, lovely ladies on every cover and in nearly every story! One of these forgotten masters is Maurice Whitman, doing fabulous covers here. Monster is a delightful but short-lived Fiction House title, just two issues. PS Artbooks, 2016....More. Item Code: PCGS02H Hard Cover, 7x10, 256pg, Full Color |
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PRE-CODE CLASSICS GHOSTLY WEIRD STORIES Volume 1 Collects #120-124, 1953-54. Recommended. Art by Jay Disbrow, L. B. Cole, Jack Kamen et al. The great Jay Disbrow (who died in 2017) is featured memorably in this often overlooked and certainly unsung gem, appearing within wonderfully weird covers by L.B. Cole and alongside EC stalwart Jack Kamen (jungle and horror comics reprinted from pre-EC days). Disbrow does his wildest sci-fi and horror, and Cole provides killer covers that have become classics. The balance are reprinted stories from Fox titles, including three Jo-Jo's and a Rulah story, The Mask from Capt. Flight, and Torpedo Man, an unusual aquatic hero drawn by the great Rudy Palais. PS Artbooks, 2017. Out of print....More. Item Code: PCGW01H Hard Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color |
| Click here for Silver Age Ghostly Tales and softee's. |
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PRE-CODE CLASSICS JOURNEY INTO FEAR Volume 1 Slipcased Out of print. Collects #1-7, 1951-52. 30 stories. Competing with EC's Tales from the Crypt et al, publisher Superior had the famous "Iger Shop" (who'd done all the Fiction House stories for years) crank out the weirdest, most outré stories they could think up. All in the famous "Jack Kamen-ish" style that they'd learned sold so well, even after Kamen was long gone from their staff! They also figured out skeletons, monsters and pretty girls sold books, so every cover varied that common theme for those early 1950s kids who wanted a good scare. PS Artbooks, 2016....More. Item Code: PCJ01D Hard Cover, 7x10, 252pg, Full Color |
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PRE-CODE CLASSICS JOURNEY INTO FEAR Volume 3 Collects #15-21, 1953-54. Recommended. By the Iger Shop. Hey, it's all here, culture-lovers: walking dead folks (loads of 'em), some of them even still sporting their heads, plus witches, ghosts, werewolves, and enough vampires to go into the second-hand dentures business. Headlight covers, Kamen-ish artwork from the Iger Shop artists. A woman convinces her lover to kill her rich husband. The lover does so by blowing the husband's head off. But the headless corpse of the husband comes back looking for a new head ("Your Head For Mine"). PS Artbooks, 2016. Out of print....More. Item Code: PCJ03H Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 7x10, 252pg, Full Color |
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PRE-CODE CLASSICS LARS OF MARS/CRUSADER FROM MARS/EERIE ADVENTURES Our Highest Recommendation. Collects Lars of Mars #10-11, 1951; Crusader from Mars #1-2, 1952, and Eerie Adventures #1, Winter 1951. Written by Jerry Siegel and drawn by Murphy Anderson, it's the prototype of Adam Strange, complete with jet-pack (and a look-alike for Captain Comet)—this is the real McCoy. Anderson was by this time a master of science fiction, having honed his skills in Planet Comics and already the principal artist for DC's Strange Adventures and Mystery In Space. Publisher Ziff-Davis had deep pockets and could hire the best, and these are three of their classics. Wonderful pulp-style painted covers by Allen Anderson, the #1 cover artist for the Planet Stories pulps! PS Artbooks, 2017....More. Item Code: PCLMH Hard Cover, 7x10, 216pg, Full Color |
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PRE-CODE CLASSICS NIGHTMARE Volume 1 Limited, 300! Collects #3, 1953 and #10-13, 1953-54. Recommended. By Kinstler, Kubert, Toth, Murphy Anderson, Colan, Matt Baker et al. Artists include Everett Raymond Kinstler, Joe Kubert, Alex Toth, Murphy Anderson, Gene Colan, Bernie Krigstein, Matt Baker (doing a horror cover, no less!), George Tuska and Bob Powell (2 stories). Here are adaptations of Poe's "Hop-Frog" and "The Black Cat," a Kubert bondage cover, and a cannibalism story! St. John was a mid-sized comics publisher with a varied list of titles, best known for above average material but especially for the superb romance comics by Matt Baker. In June 1952 they joined the horror binge with this short run title. PS Artbooks, 2017. Out of print....More. Item Code: PCN01H Hard Cover, 7x10, 180pg, Full Color |
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PRE-CODE CLASSICS OUT OF THE SHADOWS Volume 1 Limited, 1,700! Collects #5-10, 1952-53. Highly Recommended. By Alex Toth, Reed Crandall, George Tuska, Grandenetti, Andru, et al. For a minor title, this has an all-star line-up of artists! Standard Comics did not believe in #1 issues—they started all their horror titles with #5. But what titles—these were above-average in both art and story, and good, solid storytelling. Their titles included The Unseen, Adventures into Darkness & and this— each lasted just ten issues or so. All well done E.C. imitations. Alex Toth is brilliant here; Reed Crandall does two stories (noted in his new bio), Jack Katz (The First Kingdom) is bizarre and fun. PS Artbooks, 2017. Out of print....More. Item Code: PCOS01H Hard Cover, 7x10, 180pg, Full Color |
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PRE-CODE CLASSICS STRANGE SUSPENSE STORIES Collects #1-5, 1952-53. Highly Recommended. Art by George Evans, Bob Powell, Bernard Baily, Mike Sekowsky et al. Fawcett had the budget to hire the best, so when they started their horror, fantasy and sci-fi comics, you got some of the best material outside of EC. George Evans is doing work here as good as anything at EC. Bernard Baily, whose horror work is held in high esteem these days, does at least one cover and some stories. Bob Powell is giving it his usual 100%. Written with more plot and better dialogue, these are not the blood and gore that the other publishers depended upon. This is an exceptional pre-code title. PS Artbooks, 2019. Out of print....More. Item Code: PCSS01BH Hard Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color |
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PRE-CODE CLASSICS STRANGE TERRORS Volume 1 Collects #1-5, 1952. Recommended. By Joe Kubert, Rafael Astarita, Paul Gattuso et al. Another exceptional title from the innovative publisher St. John. Artists include Don Perlin, Rafael Astarita, Paul Gattuso, Ralph Mayo, George Meyerriecks, Bob Forgione, Joe Kubert, George Tuska and William Ekgren, whose bizarre surreal covers are now key collectible books from the pre-code days. They're all here — witches, vampires, walking corpses, ghosts, ghouls and goblins galore. With above average artwork. PS Artbooks, 2017....More. Item Code: PCST01H Hard Cover, 7x10, 180pg, Full Color |
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PRE-CODE CLASSICS THIS MAGAZINE IS HAUNTED Volume 4 Collects #12-16, July 1957 to May 1958. Highly Recommended. By Steve Ditko et al. Another volume, this time from Charlton, who took over this title from Fawcett and brought in Steve Ditko, who contributes as many as two or even three stories to each issue here! And it's amazing work, featuring our host Dr. Haunt. More stuff in the great tradition of the likes of EC Comics and the PS multiple-volume library of Harvey's horror line-up, featuring a dizzying bevy of gnarled and twisted tales. PS Artbooks, 2016. Out of print....More. Item Code: PCTM04H Hard Cover, 7x10, 252pg, Full Color |
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PRE-CODE CLASSICS VOODOO Volume 1 Collects #1-7, 1952-53. Recommended. Art by Robert Webb, Matt Baker et al. Okay, horror fans, check out the seven blood-soaked and brain-damaged gore-fests that make up the first seven issues of Voodoo, boasting an artist line-up that includes Robert Webb, Matt Baker, and the entire Iger Shop. Here are reprints of two rare Baker South Sea Girl stories as well as Rulah, plus more Baker stories plus the best of the Iger Shop emulating Baker. Some fun and iconic covers on these first issues, including a man stabbed in the face, noted in Overstreet. PS Artbooks, 2018....More. Item Code: PCV01H Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 7x10, 256pg, Full Color |
| More volumes of Voodoo available here. |
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PRE-CODE CLASSICS WEIRD ADVENTURES THRILLERS Volume 1 Collects Weird Adventures #1, 1951, and Weird Thrillers #1-5, 1951-1952. Highly Recommended. By Frank Giacola, Alex Toth, Murphy Anderson, Sy Barry et al. Sporting what must surely be one of the finest (albeit short) runs of painted covers, Ziff Davis's Weird Thrillers and the one-shot (numbered 10, go figure) Weird Adventures remain one of the field's most overlooked entries. Until now. Here also are Gene Colan, Bob Powell, George Tuska, Bill Everett and Joe Kubert! These issues are in a class by themselves, as well as being some great sci-fi, fantasy and horror. And, oh, the covers...each one is a gem. PS Artbooks, 2016....More. Item Code: PCWAT01H Hard Cover, 7x10, 216pg, Full Color |
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PRE-CODE CLASSICS WEIRD TERROR Volume 2 Collects #8-13, 1953-54. Recommended. By Don Heck, Rudy Palais, Marty Elkin, Bill Discount et al. From an offbeat publisher and highlighted by iconic Don Heck covers which are now highly collectible. Wild and crazed stories of walking dead folks (loads of 'em)—some of them even still sporting their heads—witches, ghosts, werewolves and enough vampires to go into the second-hand dentures business. Rudy Palais delivers some wonderfully outré stories of evil femmes fatales, and there's even a cool Atom-Bomb story, "Day of Doom." PS Artbooks, 2017....More. Item Code: PCWT02H Hard Cover, 7x10, 252pg, Full Color |
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SILVER AGE CLASSICS: OUTER SPACE Volume 2 Collects #22-25,1959 and Space War #1, 1959. By Steve Ditko, Carl Burgos, Maurice Whitman, Matt Baker, et al. Charlton Comics couldn't get the best artists, but they get a "B" for effort here. The companion title that kicked off after the success of Space Adventures. Rocco Mastroserio (on the cover of this collection), Pat Masulli, Charles Nicholas, Paul Reinman, Dick Giordano et al, plus the always fine Al Williamson does one story. Check out Spaceman, Machine Men of Mars, Unwanted World, The Incredible Giants, A Visit to Venus, Planet of No Return, Abandon Spaceship and much more. PS Artbooks, 2019. Out of print....More. Item Code: SAOS02H Hard Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color |
| Volume One is also available [SAOS01H. $45.99]. |
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SILVER AGE CLASSICS: OUT OF THIS WORLD Volume 2 Collects #7-10, 1958. Recommended. Art by Steve Ditko, Maurice Whitman, Fred Kida, Sal Trapani et al. Innovative science fiction comics didn't end with EC”EC was doing wonderful work, ACG the occasional story, but Charlton was a hotbed of sci-fi and fantasy, spear-headed by the great Steve Ditko. It might seem a poor man's EC, but led by wonderful covers and lots of stories by Ditko, today this is a stand-out title. Additional artists include Bill Molno, Charles Nicholas, Dick Malmgren, Rocco Mastroserio, Paul Reinman and even Gene Colan. Numbers 7 and 8 were 68-page, fifteen-cent issues—together they boast SIX Ditko stories and two covers. PS Artbooks, 2017. Out of print....More. Item Code: SAOW02H Hard Cover, 7x10, 216pg, Full Color |
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SILVER AGE CLASSICS: OUT OF THIS WORLD Volume 3 Collects #11-16, 1959. Highly Recommended. By Vince Alascia, Steve Ditko, Matt Baker et al. Back in the post-EC days of the mid-to-late 1950's and early '60's, there was really only one place to go for your SF fix when you'd exhausted DC's output for that month: Out of this World, which would of course become synonymous with the work of Steve Ditko. Here we have three stories by him in #11 alone, plus more work in #12 and 16, and three gorgeous covers. Backup stories by Paul Reinman, Alascia, Mastroserio and the other regular Charlton artists. PS Artbooks, 2018. Out of print....More. Item Code: SAOW03H Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 7x10, 216pg, Full Color |
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ANARCHO DICTATOR OF DEATH Collects Comics Novel #1, 1947. Highly Recommended. By Otto Binder. Art by Al Carreno. A long, book-length story published by Fawcett as a one-shot comic. This stars Radar the "International Policeman." Radar was a undercover spy, with some extraordinary powers...the star of a long-running back-up feature in the pages of Master Comics, beginning in 1944. This is an unusual book, both for story length and subject matter, so soon after the defeat of Hitler and the Nazis. Were Fawcett and the noted author taking a stand on dictators to come? Radar travels the world battling Anarcho and his deadly minions, much like a Shadow pulp story. PS Artbooks, 2020....More. Item Code: ANARM Soft Cover, 7x10, 52pg, Full Color $13.99 |
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PHANTOM LADY #13 Facsimile Edition & Print 1947. With 11 1/2 x 16 inch matted print of the cover. Recommended. This scarce first issue launches the PS Facsimile Comics imprint. Includes a bonus oversized, matted print of the cover. The first appearance of legendary Matt Baker’s Phantom Lady. This issue includes "Knights of the Crooked Cross," and Blue Beetle stars in a back-up story, "The Mummy Who Never Died." Guide price in Overstreet runs $500 to $10,000. PS Artbooks, 2022....More. Item Code: PHL13 Comic, 7x10, 32pg, Full Color $23.99 |
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PHANTOM LADY #14 Facsimile Edition & Print 1947. With 11 1/2 x 16 inch matted print of the cover. Recommended. Scarce second issue of legendary artist Matt Baker’s sexiest heroine in comics. Next in the new PS Facsimile Comics imprint series. Includes a bonus oversized, matted print of the cover. Three complete stories: "Scoundrels and Scandals," "The Condemned Venus," and "A Shroud for the Bride." Overstreet value of the original issue: $300 to $5300. PS Artbooks, 2022....More. Item Code: PHL14 Comic, 7x10, 32pg, Full Color $23.99 |
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PHANTOM LADY #15 Facsimile Edition & Print 1947. With 11 1/2 x 16 matted print of the cover. Recommended. Kicking off PS Facsimile Comics comes a three-issue line-up from the pen of the legendary Matt Baker. This is the first of several iconic covers by Baker, in the most sexually daring stories of the Golden Age. This issue includes “An Army of Waking Dead," "The Meanest Crook in the World," and "Red Rain." PS Artbooks, 2022....More. Item Code: PHL15 Comic, 7x10, 32pg, Full Color $23.99 |
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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 Magazine, 7x10, 84pg, Partial Color $16.99 |
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FANTASTIC GIANTS Facsimile Edition Highly Recommended. In September 1966, the biggest monsters on the comic stands were Gorgo and Konga! Originally published by Charlton, this one shot, all-Ditko Monster Special is reproduced on high quality paper in a special facsimile edition. Featuring Steve Ditko art and Joe Gill's Gorgo and Konga movie adaptations plus two more Ditko classics, "The Mountain Monster" and "The Help of Hogar." Fantaco Enterprises, 2021....More. Item Code: FANTG Soft Cover, 7x10, 68pg, Full Color $12.95 |
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HORROR FROM THE TOMB #1 Replica Edition With all ads #1, 1954. Highly Recommended. This is publisher Premier's only entry into the pre-Code horror field, and boy is it a doozy! People melted down for their bones, be-headings, all the things Wertham was so aghast over! It's the only issue in the series killed by the distributor's (Kable News) President, George B. Davis, after he saw the issue. And it's got great art: George Woodbridge, Sid Check & Angelo Torres collaborate on a story worthy of Williamson & Wood: "Granma Gruesome's Dead Time Story." PS Artbooks, 2021....More. Item Code: HORFT01 Magazine, 7x10, 36pg, Full Color $16.99 |
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PSYCHO MAGAZINE #1 Replica Edition Recommended. By Roger Elwood and Gardner Fox. Skywald's Psycho #1, published in January 1971, is a black-and-white comic magazine absolutely packed full of horror and suspense. If you're brave enough take a peek, we've got "The Skin And Bones Syndrome" by Gray Morrow; "The Glistening Death" and "I Painted Only Terror!" by Norman Nodel; "The Thing in the Mirror" by Raymond Everett Kinstler; "The Steps in the Cellar!" by Alan Weiss; "..And Then There's Cicero!" by Paul Reinman; "Anatomical Monster" by Alvin Hollingsworth; and more! PS Artbooks, 2022....More. Item Code: PSY01 Magazine, 7x10, 68pg, b&w $18.99 |
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NIGHTMARE #1 Replica Edition Recommended. By Don Heck, Norman Nodel, Jack Katz, Bill Everett, Ross Andru, Wally Wood, Mike Esposito, Joe Kubert, and Syd Shores. Skywald's first publication was Nightmare #1 from 1970 and here it is...a black-and-white comic magazine absolutely packed full of horror that would never pass the Comics Code: "The Pollution Monsters," "Master of the Dead," "Dance Macabre," "Orgy of Blood," "A Nightmare Pin-Up," "The Skeletons of Doom," "Help Us to Die," "The Thing from the Sea," "The Creature Within," and "The Deadly Mark of the Beast." PS Artbooks, 2021....More. Item Code: NIGHM Magazine, 7x10, 68pg, b&w $18.99 |
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SCREAM MAGAZINE #1 August 1973, 68 page issue. Recommended. Skywald's new #1 issue, according to editor Al Hewetson's introduction, was in response to readers' opinions in this companion magazine to Nightmare and Psycho. "The Strange Painting Of Jay Crumb," a spoof on underground cartoonists Jay Lynch & Robert Crumb by Felipe de la Rosa; "The Comics Macabre," by Hewetson and Maelo Cintron featured characters based on Seduction of the Innocent author Fredric Wertham and Comics Code Authority president Len Darvin! Plus a host of Spanish artists including Vincente Segrelles, Jossep Gual et al. PS Artbooks, 2022....More. Item Code: SCRE01 Magazine, 7x10, 68pg, b&w $18.99 |
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CHILLING TALES #13 Facsimile Edition & Print Collects #13, 1952. With 11 1/2 x 16 matted print of the cover. Recommended. Kicking off PS Facsimile comics comes a three-issue line-up from the pen of the legendary Matt Fox who also created covers for the pulp Weird Tales. He is well known for a small body of work but each piece unique and totally weird! Plus: The Screaming Skull by Harry Harrison, Spider Hider by pulp illustrator Vincent Napoli and Pursued by Vic Carrabotta. All scans reworked to bring them back as close as possible to the originals, with all ads. PS Artbooks, 2021....More. Item Code: CHIL13 Comic, 7x10, 36pg, Full Color $23.99 |
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CHILLING TALES #15 Facsimile Edition & Print Collects #15, 1953. With 11 1/2 x 16 matted print of the cover. Recommended. By Harry Harrison et al. Starting with a brand new line in pre-code comic books, the indefatigable and even ubiquitous PS Artbooks launches the PS Facsimile Comics imprint, which come with a bonus oversized print of the cover, already matted. Kicking off PS Facsimile comics comes a three-issue line-up from the pen of the legendary Matt Fox of Chilling Tales, well known for bizarre covers for Weird Tales, the pulp. PS Artbooks, 2021....More. Item Code: CHIL15 Comic, 7x10, 36pg, Full Color $23.99 |
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CHILLING TALES #17 Facsimile Edition & Print Collects #17, 1953. With 11 1/2 x 16 matted print of the cover. Recommended. By Harry Harrison, Steve Kirkel et al. Kicking off PS Facsimile comics comes a three-issue line-up from the pen of the legendary Matt Fox of Chilling Tales, well known for his quirky comics covers as well as bizarre covers for the venerable pulp Weird Tales. Sir Walter Scott and Edgar Allan Poe adaptations. Comes with a handsome oversized matted print of wild cover. PS Artbooks, 2021....More. Item Code: CHIL17 Comic, 7x10, 36pg, Full Color $23.99 |
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CHILDREN OF DOOM Collects Charlton Premiere #2, 1967. Written by Denny O'Neil, and drawn by the late great Pat Boyette. A full length story with a unique blend of full color and black and white pages. Holocaust, space and time traveling, mutants...a compelling story, especially given the period it was produced in and the audience (kids?) it was aimed at. A rather obvious Dr. Strangelove reference as the world faces an uncertain future in the age of the Atom Bomb. PS Artbooks, 2022....More. Item Code: CHILDO Magazine, 7x10, 36pg, b&w $16.99 |
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SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN Facsimile Edition #1 From 1976, the first issue of the 2nd Spidey title. By Gerry Conway, Sal Buscema and Mike Esposito. By the mid-1970s, Spidey fans could thrill to their favorite hero's escapades in "Amazing Spider-Man", his high-octane encounters with other super-types in "Marvel Team-Up," his all-ages adventures in "Spidey Super Stories" and reprints of classic stories in "Marvel Tales" — and still it wasn't enough! Such was the clamor that a second solo title debuted with a focus on the man beneath the mask: the always popular Peter Parker! But fear not, there's plenty of costumed action in this frantic first issue, co-starring the deadly Tarantula. Marvel, 2022. ...More. Item Code: SPECS01 Comic, 7x10, 32pg, Full Color $3.99 |
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KONA MONARCH OF MONSTER ISLE Volume 2 Replica Edition 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 |
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