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Our Highest Recommendation goes to two wonderful items just arrived this week: Sanjulian: Master of Fantasy Art and Illustrators Quarterly Special: The Illustrated History of Warren Magazines. If that’s not enough for a Halloween week, we also have The Complete Little Nemo, Miracleman Omnibus, The Man Who Fell to Earth--David Bowie’s landmark film now a graphic novel--Druillet, Lord Gris, and a host of new 2023 calendars. Have a wonderful Halloween next week! |
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SANJULIAN Master of Fantasy Art |
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| For more work by Spanish illustrators, see The Art of Enric, The Art of Luis Garcia and the work of Luis Royo, who has a new calendar for this year. |
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ILLUSTRATORS QUARTERLY SPECIAL #14 The Illustrated History of Warren Magazines Our Highest Recommendation. This explores and showcases the art of James Warren and his highly successful magazines: Famous Monsters of Filmland, Screen Thrills, Creepy, Eerie, Vampirella, 1984, The Spirit, Comix International and even more! This is packed with cover art and interior pages by the likes ofRichard Corben, Bernie Wrightson, Neal Adams, Steve Ditko, Ken Kelly, Alex Toth, Frank Frazetta, Wallace Wood, John Severin, Reed Crandall, Carmine Infantino, Alex Niño and many, many more. Plus the entire history, the ups and downs, of Warren's empire. Book Palace, 2022. More… Item Code: IQS15 Soft Cover, 9x11, 144pg, Partial Color $38.99 |
| The IQ Special #1, devoted to Warren’s Spanish Artists, is currently out of print. |
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WINSOR MCCAY The Complete Little Nemo 700 oversized pages. Our Highest Recommendation. By Winsor McCay. Taschen's $200 edition is now less than half price, collecting the entire run of Nemo in one massive volume, all 549 episodes. McCay was a founding figure in the modern American entertainment industry, above all with his revolutionary comics, which set standards for panel layout and storytelling technique, timing and pacing, and architectural and other detail that left an inestimable influence on subsequent artists, including Robert Crumb and Federico Fellini. Taschen, 2022. Rush Service and International shipping would require an additional charge.. More… Item Code: WINMH Hard Cover, 11x14, 704pg, Full Color $80.00 |
| Also available: Winsor McCay: His Life and Art, Abbeville Press, 1987, condition very good to fine. We have ONE copy [RB26. $75]. And Highly Recommended is Frank Pe’s Little Nemo, all new strips from this fine French illustrator, Magnetic Press, 2021 [FRAPLH. $19.99]. |
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THE ART JOURNEY OF LORD GRIS Illustrator and character designer Lord Gris (actually a woman) takes us on a guided tour of her world, where her anime-style characters exude emotion, attitude, mystery, and beauty that can be both bizarre and fragile. Step-by-step tutorials specially commissioned for the book are accompanied by galleries of Lord Gris's fan favorites, unseen gems, and brand new and exclusive pieces. With a love for digital art and artist-staple pens and pencils, she shares a host of skills and techniques to offer something new to every artist as well as illustration fans. Biography, new introduction by the artist, very early work, inspirations and more. 3dtotal Publishing, 2022. More… Item Code: ARTJLGH Hard Cover, 9x11, 246pg, Full Color $50.00 |
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MIRACLEMAN Omnibus Recommended. By Garry Leach, Alan Davis, John Totleben, Rick Veitch, Chuck Austen and John Ridgway. Middle-aged reporter Michael Moran always knew he was meant for something more. When an unexpected series of events leads him to reclaim his destiny, Miracleman is reborn! But Miracleman's return threatens to unravel Moran's life. The connections to Dr. Emil Gargunza and Project Zarathustra bring with them disturbing revelations and trigger the return of a childhood friend who, beneath his sinister smile, has become something terrifying. Pushing the concept of the super hero to its logical conclusion, Miracleman is nothing short of a revelation. The series reinvented the super hero and 40 years later stands as one of the influential works in the comic book artform. This first-ever Omnibus edition collects Miracleman Books One through Three, complete with a massive trove of covers, original artwork and rare features. Marvel, 2022. More… Item Code: MIRMAH Hard Cover, 7x11, 808pg, Full Color |
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ALSO AVAILABLE MIRACLEMAN The Golden Age By Gaiman & Buckingham Collects #1-6, 2015. Highly Recommended. By Neil Gaiman. Art by Mark Buckingham. Atop Olympus, Miracleman presides over a brave new world forged from London's destruction. It is a world free of war, of famine, of poverty. A world of countless wonders. A world where pilgrims scale Olympus' peak to petition their living god, while miles below the dead return in fantastic android bodies. It is an Age of Miracles -- but is humankind ready for it? Do we even want it? Is there a place for humanity in a world of gods? Plus 30 pages of bonus material. Marvel, 2022. More… Item Code: MIRM01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 192pg, Full Color $19.99 |
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Here’s more from Alan Moore, including his Absolute Swamp Thing Vols 1-3 [ABS01H, etc. |
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FANTASTIC FOUR By John Byrne Omnibus Volume 1 New Printing Collects Fantastic Four #209-218, 220-221, 232-260 & six more titles, 1979-83. Recommended. Not since the days of Lee and Kirby had a creator so perfectly captured the intense mood, cosmic style and classic adventure of Marvel's First Family as when legendary writer/artist John Byrne launched Reed, Sue, Ben and Johnny into fantastic realms of imagination and wonder! From the corners of the globe to the vastness of space to the depths of the Negative Zone, the FF face off against foes old and new, including Dr. Doom, Galactus and Annihilus! Marvel, 2022. More… Item Code: FFJB01H Hard Cover, 7x11, 1096pg, Full Color |
| Here’s more from John Byrne, and more Fantastic Four. |
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PLANET COMICS Volume 16 Collects #51-54, 1947-48. Recommended. More well-drawn sci-fi adventures from Planet's prime period with The Lost World, Futura, Space Rangers, Auro Lord of Jupiter, Mysta of the Moon, and Star Pirate. Art by DC Comics finest, Murphy Anderson, EC's George Evans, the masterful Maurice Whitman, good-girl veteran Matt Baker (two Mysta stories) and more. PS Artbooks, 2022. More… Item Code: PLC16 Soft Cover, 7x10, 208pg, Full Color $32.99 |
| All 15 previous Planet collections are in stock, starting at $24.99. We also have a few remaining hardcover editions, on-sale at $24.99 to $29.99. See our website. |
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COMICS REVUE PRESENTS OCT 2022 Recommended. Reprints classic comic strips from the 1930s to the 1970s. Complete stories in this issue: Buz Sawyer (1970) by Roy Crane, Sir Bagby (1963) by R&D Hackney, and The Phantom (1970-71) by Lee Falk and Sy Barry. 19 pages of full-color Sunday pages and a wealth of B&W features: Flash Gordon (1973) by Dan Barry and Bob Fujitani, Mandrake the Magician by Lee Falk and Phil Davis (1940), Alley Oop (1941) by V. T. Hamlin, Rick O'Shay (1958) by Stan Lynde, Steve Canyon (1977) by Milton Caniff, and more. Manuscript Press, 2022. More… Item Code: CR1022 Soft Cover, 8x10, 128pg, Partial Color $19.95 |
| Click here for previous issues back to 2019. |
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THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH The Official Movie Adaptation By Dan Watters. Art by Dev Pramanik. An all-new, fully-authorized graphic novel adaptation of the cult 1976 movie starring David Bowie and directed by Nicholas Roeg. Includes a 12-page gallery of dozens of never-before-seen photos on the set during making of the movie. Also a 13-page feature with character sketches and showing the development of graphic novel. The film, based on the classic science fiction novel by Walter Trevis, sees an extra-terrestrial called Thomas Jerome Newton (played in the movie by David Bowie) land on Earth in search of water to save his dying home planet. Titan, 2022. Mature Readers.. More… Item Code: MANWH Hard Cover, 8x12, 128pg, Full Color |
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Also available is David Bowie in Comics, which came out from NBM in July [DAVBH. |
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SWORD OF HYPERBOREA Collects #1-4. Hellboy creator Mike Mignola gives us a new tale from the world of Hellboy, cowritten by Rob Williams with Laurence Campbell. A millenium-spanning story of wielders of the sword of Hyperborea. It gives powers to the hero who inherits it to do battle with dark forces of Lovecraftian magnitude. First up is an ancient warrior of the stone age who seems to live almost forever; then a female werewolf in 1916 London who takes on the Helioptic Brotherhood on Germany's side. A record-setting deep sea diver in 1940 takes on creatures in the deep, defending Atlantis from the Nag-unra. Then on to B.P.R.D agent Howards, and finally to a black guitarist who packs the sword in his guitar case, ready for his calling! Dark Horse, 2022. More… Item Code: SWORH Hard Cover, 7x10, 128pg, Full Color |
| Here's two Hellboy graphic novels in the same format and more from Mike Mignola. |
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DRUILLET'S VUZZ By Philippe Druillet. Vuzz is a warrior. A looter who has simple needs in life: to fight, to eat and to make love. Vuzz lives in a world where ruined cities are home to zombies, giant rabbits, and salacious wizards. A world where everything is desolation and uncertainties. A world where Vuzz can ultimately only count on himself. Which suits him just fine. A wordless series of sci-fi stories from early in Phillipe Druillet's career and he provides a new introduction. Handsomely printed in an oversized hardcover. Titan, 2022. More… Item Code: VUZZH Hard Cover, 10x13, 144pg, Full Color |
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Click here for more work by Philippe Druillet: Elric and The Night. He is also in Masterpieces of Fantasy Art and in Metal Hurlant Selected Works. Druillet is also in two Rare Books. I just reduced the prices both: Masters of Comic Book Art, 1978 [RB3063. $50] and Heavy Metal: 25 Years of Classic Covers, 2002 [RB1689. $100]. We have just one of each of these. |
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RETRO PIN-UPS 2023 Calendar (Avonside) Contemporary photographs of contemporary models but recalling the old days with vintage outfits, hair styles and retro settings. No nudity, in fact it's all pretty innocent and in good fun. Lots of teasing poses in nylons and sexy outfits, legs and cleavage, classic pin-up poses. Use this tasteful wall calendar at home or at the office and start a conversation. Avonside, 2022. More… Item Code: RETP23 12x12, 26pg, Full Color $14.99 |
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RETRO PIN-UPS 2023 Calendar (Gifted) Recommended. Our second Retro calendar for this year, but with art rather than photos. A good variety of vintage pin-up illustrators including at least two by Peter Driben, several by Elvgren, at least one Earl Moran and other vintage pin-up artists. Classic 1940s and 1950s vintage cheesecake calendar art. Revealing lingerie, girls caught in compromising poses with nylons and garters exposed, or just posing for the viewer in lingerie or bikinis. Fun, innocent images from a bygone era, upbeat with lots of teasing smiles. Gifted, 2022. Mature Readers.. More… Item Code: RPU23 12x12, 24pg, Full Color $14.99 |
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FANTASY ART 2023 Calendar A new calendar of digital creations: fantasy women in cosplay-style fantasy costumes and otherworldly settings. Amazing closeups of witches, elves, winged fairies and one strange, indescribable woman in an amazing headdress! Designs with erotic overtones but no nudity. Detailed fantasy settings clearly not of this world, including a fire-breathing dragon, a rider on a jungle beast, a witch with a serpent around her shoulders, a unicorn, and more strange creatures. Tasteful for both male and female viewers. Gifted, 2022. More… Item Code: FA23 12x12, 24pg, Full Color $14.99 |
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DINOSAURS 2023 Calendar Recommended. Excellent, realistic paintings of an appealing variety of dinosaurs. Photo-realistic works, reminding us of James Gurney's work in his wonderful Dinotopia. A different, very real dinosaur for each month plus a bonus image. From Pterodactyls flying on leathery wings, to classic T-Rex and horned-backed Stegosaurus and long-necked plant-eaters, they are all here in cool setting and backgrounds. Great for all ages. Bright Day, 2022. More… Item Code: DINO23 12x12, 24pg, Full Color $14.99 |
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The Frazetta Calendar (in two variants) from the Frazetta Girls just rolled in as we were finalizing this week's email, so we'll feature them next week. Click here to see them. We have ALMOST all the 2023 calendars now in stock; Pin-Up Girls by Gil Elvgren is the only one still hanging fire [PIG23. $14.99]. You can see all the 2023 calendars here; they are beginning to sell briskly. Titles sometimes sell out early so be warned. |
Mature ReadersWow, we have a heap of goodies for you this week. First up is The Complete Crepax 7: Erotic Stories Part 1, which is due in November. Next we have two Cavewoman Budd Root Nude covers--He Said, She Said Deux--now available. See more Cavewoman here. |
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| Finally--no less than eight new adult calendars just arrived:
The Female Form 2023 Calendar $14.99 Girls 2023 Calendar $14.99 Erotic Photography 2023 Calendar $14.99 Erotic Lingerie 2023 Calendar $14.99 Lingerie 2023 Calendar (Avonside) $14.99 Lingerie 2023 Calendar (Gifted) $14.99 Booty 2023 Calendar $14.99 Pole Dancers 2023 Calendar $14.99 Asian Babes 2023 Calendar $14.99 |
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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. You must be 18 or older. |
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MAD DREAMS AND MONSTERS The Art of Phil Tippett and the Tippett Studio By Alexandre Poncet and Gilles Penso. Preface by Phil Tippett. From Star Wars to Jurassic Park and RoboCop to Starship Troopers, special effects master Phil Tippett has brought his magic to some of the most iconic films of all time. His unparalleled career in visual effects spans more than 40 years, with two Academy Awards, one BAFTA, and two Emmys. This stunning book, published in a beautiful slipcase, celebrates Tippett's career, from early Super 8 explorations through his groundbreaking work with Industrial Light & Magic, DreamWorks, and beyond. Cameron Books, 2022. Due: Nov.. More… Item Code: MADDH Hard Cover, 13x11, 528pg, Partial Color $175.00 |
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GODZILLA & KONG Cinematic Storyboard Art of Richard Bennett Storyboard art from the blockbuster hits Godzilla vs. Kong, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, and Kong: Skull Island. This features a selection of the best sequences from these three films and "Unused Scenes" reveal the the making of the films with never before seen sequences. Introduction by director Adam Wingard and afterword by Oscar-nominated Production Designer Stefan Dechant. Clover Press, 2022. Due: Nov.. More… Item Code: GODKOH Hard Cover, 12x9, 200pg, Full Color $65.00 |
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SILVER AGE CLASSICS GORGO Volume 1 Hardcover Collects #1-5, 1961-62. Highly Recommended. By Joe Gill. Art by Steve Ditko et al. After a seaquake, a huge lizard-like creature walked out of the ocean and almost destroyed a fishing village in Ireland. Fortunately for the village, the same quake that brought the 65 foot monster to land has also grounded a salvage ship, the crew of which proved up to the task of capturing the beast. The monster, dubbed Gorgo, was really just a youngster and its 200 foot tall mother was coming for him. PS Artbooks. 2022. Due: Nov.. More… Item Code: SAG01H Hard Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color $52.99 |
| There will also be a softcover edition that you can pre-order now, but it is not due until March [SAG01. $32.99] |
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THE GOLEM OF VENICE BEACH Eisner-award winning artists Michael Allred, Steve Bissette, Jae Lee, Paul Pope, and Bill Sienkiewicz, along with Nick Pitarra (co-creator of The Manhattan Projects) and Vanessa Cardinali (Image Comics' Slumber) have teamed up to create an all-new graphic novel, The Golem of Venice Beach. This 152-page epic about the adventures of a 400-year-old Golem spans 16th century Europe to the horrors of World War II to modern day Venice Beach, where the Golem becomes entangled in a war between a gang and the police. Clover Press, 2022. Due Nov.. More… Item Code: GOLVBH Hard Cover, 8x11, 152pg, Full Color $40.00 |
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You’ll find more on The Golem legend in Tales from the Outerverse [TALEFH. |
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THE INCAL Deluxe Edition Highly Recommended. By Alejandro Jodorowsky. Art by Moebius. This oversized deluxe edition promises to be quite special. Its unique, streamlined design offers a luxury, cloth-bound hardcover of Moebius' best known work, The Incal. Extras include gold-foil debossing and a portfolio with two lithograph prints showcasing John Difool's iconic plummet down Suicide Alley. This is all about highlighting Moebius' exceptional artwork and Jodorowsky's wild story -- all housed inside a gorgeous slipcase with never-before-used cover art. Humanoids, 2022. Due: Nov.. More… Item Code: INCD Hard Cover, 316pg, Partial Color |
| Here is another Incal edition plus more by Jodorowsky. |
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THE DELUXE MEGALEX Recommended. An original sci-fi adventure of rebellion against a totalitarian and oppressive world, as imagined by master storyteller Alejandro Jodorowsky (The Incal, Metabarons, Jodorowsky's Dune) with art by the superb Fred Beltran. On city-planet Megalex, a tyrannical order reigns over a population controlled by drug addiction and genetic manipulation. Freedom fighters hide in a primitive and impenetrable forest but are easy prey -- until a clone policeman, known only as Anomaly, is rescued from death by the rebel Adama and learns the truth about the side he's been fighting for. Now the gentle giant has joined the opposition and is eager to help topple his former masters. Nudity and adult themes. Humanoids, 2022. Mature Readers. Due: Nov.. More… Item Code: DMEGH Hard Cover, 9x13, 164pg, Full Color |
| The Technopriests is also illustrated by Fred Beltran, along with Zoran Janjetov. It just came in the door, too late to make this week’s list. See it here for more of Beltran’s fine artwork. |
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BERSERK DELUXE EDITION Volume12 Collects #34-36, including three fold-out color posters. Leather binding, massive 664 pages. By Kentaro Miura. Art by Kentaro Miura. Griffith's new Band of the Hawk assume their unholy forms to battle the monstrous Kushan emperor and his horde of demons, leaving the terrified Midland citizenry to wonder if their rescuers are another horrific curse. Meanwhile, Guts and his companions seek refuge to repair their ship on a small island that is not the safe haven they'd hoped for -- it's a sinister place watched over by an ancient, vengeful god whose power is about to be unleashed! Dark Horse, 2022. Mature Readers. Due: Nov.. More… Item Code: BER12H Hard Cover, 7x10, 664pg, b&w |
| Find the previous volumes here. |
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A CENTURY OF AMERICAN TOY'S & GAMES The Story of Pressman Toy By Jim Pressman and Donna Pressman. From Chinese checkers to the Wheel of Fortune board game -- the story of how one family business shaped the way Americans play. It is a story that reflects the development of the toy industry as a whole -- encompassing the rise of plastics, the emergence of character licensing and TV advertising, and the surprising endurance of the physical board game in our digital age. Abundantly illustrated with new color photography as well as rare archival images, this will be an essential volume for anyone with an interest in the history of play. Abbeville Press, 2022. Due: Nov.. More… Item Code: CENATH Hard Cover, 10x13, 256pg, Partial Color $60.00 |
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AVAILABLE NOW TOYS 100 Years of All-American Toy Ads Massive 528 pages in full color. Recommended. By Jim Heimann and Steven Heller. Decade by decade, eight chapters carry us from 1900 to the 1990s, with wonderful ads for all the best toys. All the favorite characters are here, from Flash Gordon, and Superman watches, to James Bond and Action Heroes. In the world of toy production, the multi-million dollar industry took the advertising of its product seriously, and toy manufacturers inundated customers with their latest product via trade journals. Frisbees, board games, baseball mitts, Hula-Hoops, air rifles, video games, dolls, and miniature trains were all served up to generations of children, cementing forever the memories of playtime. Taschen, 2021. More… Item Code: TOYSH Hard Cover, 8x10, 528pg, Partial Color $40.00 |
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