Thursday, June 1, 2023

The art of Yana Bogatch, Cinema of Swords, Syd Hoff, Captain Marvel, EC collections, Uncle Scrooge, Senorita Rio and signed Brom.

Orientalism; the art of Yana Bogatch; Swashbuckling film history; signed Brom; Syd Hoff; Golden Age Captain Marvel comics in facsimile; two new EC collections; Uncle Scrooge; Spidey/Venom; Sgt. Fury 2; a new Valerian; Senorita Rio back in stock; New Rare Books.

And the complete—gasp, choke—Bud Plant/50 Years of the Direct Market Zoom interview!

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PRISM The Art Journey of Cosmic Spectrum
Recommended. By Yana Bogatch aka Cosmic Spectrum. She has self-published a graphic novel and two art books. Now, The art of Yana, aka Cosmic Spectrum, showcases the artist’s entire story and demonstrates the development of her style and career, plus brand new art. Character art and comics being her specialty, this features an array of tips and techniques for drawing anatomy, gesture, and character details, much of it with pretty girls. 3dtotal Publishing, 2023....More.

Item Code: ARTCSH
Hard Cover, 9x11, 152pg, Partial Color
$50.00

There’s much more by Women Artists available now, from their work in Golden Age comics, to animation art at Disney, to classic book illustrators and painters. And here’s more from publisher 3dtotal.
 


ALSO AVAILABLE
LUPENTE Flesk Artist Showcase
Closeout Price! Highly Recommended. Lupente showcases five outstanding contemporary artists in an elegant and absorbing package. This volume — the first in an ongoing Flesk Artist Showcase series — features Stephanie Law, a fine artist who pulls from dreams and reality to illuminate the boundary between those two worlds; Julia Blattman, a premier visual-development artist working in the animation industry; Karla Ortiz, a concept and fine artist who is renowned for her personal works and her designs for film; Virginie Ropars, one of the most-revered dollmakers today and an inspiration to sculptors around the world; and Erica Williams, also known as “HookieDuke,” who has gained acclaim by mastering a unique, highly intricate style of lines and designs that centers on Nature as its inspiration. Flesk, 2022....More.

Item Code: LUPEN
Soft Cover, 9x12, 176pg, Partial Color
$39.95 $24.95
This is a wonderful book, the first volume in a new series from Flesk with each issue collecting several new talents. This is also on sale in the publisher hardcover, limited to 1000 [LUPENH. $60, $39.99].
 


ORIENTAL DREAMS
Highly Recommended. By Claire Maingon and Mathias Ary Jan. Published to accompany an exhibition at the Ary Jan Gallery in Paris in 2022, a handsome oversized coffee table art book. Masterpieces of 19th century Orientalist art, a great many full or double-page, with 300 color reproductions. Starting in the 1840s, a revolution in transportation allowed artists to visit countries from North Africa to the Middle East that had previously been relatively inaccessible. European artists found fascinating, exotic subjects, especially women and warriors, as well as unique architecture, tile design, and even colors and light. Here is work by Delacroix, Decamps, Berchère, Bridgman, Ziem, Gérôme, Corrodi, Dinet, Matisse, Majorelle and many, many others. Editions Norma, 2023. ...More.

Item Code: ORIDH
Hard Cover, 10x12, 352pg, Full Color
$90.00 $85.00
 


CINEMA OF SWORDS
A History and Guide to Movies About Knights, Pirates, Barbarians, and Vikings. Recommended. By Lawrence Ellsworth. A history and homage to nearly four hundred movies and television shows featuring swashbucklers, knights, pirates, samurai, Vikings, gladiators, outlaw heroes like Zorro and Robin Hood, and anyone else who lives by the blade and solves their problems with the point of a sword. Though swordplay thrives as a mainstay of current pop culture— whether Game of Thrones or Lord of the Rings or Star Wars — swashbuckling was if anything even more ubiquitous during Hollywood’s classic period, from its foundations in the Silent Era up through the savage bursts of fantasy films in the '80s. Applause, 2023. ...More.

Item Code: CINSH
Hard Cover, 7x10, 384pg, Text/b&w
$50.00 $45.00
 


SLEWFOOT A Tale of Bewitchery Signed
New Softcover Edition Signed bookplate! Recommended. Art and story by Brom. Eight color plates and 16 half-page b&w chapter headings by Brom. Connecticut, 1666. An ancient spirit awakens in a dark wood. The wildfolk call him Father, slayer, protector. The colonists call him Slewfoot, demon, devil. To Abitha, a recently widowed outcast, alone and vulnerable in her pious village, he is the only one she can turn to for help. Together, they ignite a battle between pagan and Puritan - one that threatens to destroy the entire village, leaving nothing but ashes and bloodshed in their wake. Nightfire, 2023....More.

Item Code: SLEW
Soft Cover, 7x9, 306pg, Text/Partial Color
$19.99
Three of Brom’s art books are in stock in Rare Books, from $45 to $115 (signed). Here’s more Brom in Expose, Spectrum and elsewhere.
 


THE RULING CLAWSS The Socialist Cartoons of Syd Hoff
Recommended. First published in 1933 under a pseudonym, here prominent New Yorker contributor Syd Hoff offers us mordant and marvelously drawn gag comics skewering the rich and powerful with a pointed pen. Scorning what he saw as the complicity and stale yucks of cartooning peers like Peter Arno, Hoff set his sights on the rich and powerful and revealed them for what they were: hilariously inept, deeply selfish, and incredibly dangerous, lampooning police brutality, thin-skinned industrialists, racists, and the looming threat of fascism at home and abroad. New York Review Comics, 2023....More.

Item Code: RULCL
Soft Cover, 7x8, 184pg, b&w
$24.95 $21.95
 

Captain Marvel – Yesterday and Today

 


CAPTAIN MARVEL BY KELLY THOMPSON Omnibus Volume 1
Collects Captain Marvel #1-26; Captain Marvel: The End #1, 2019-2020. Recommended. By Kelly Thompson. Art by Carmen Carnero et al. Carol Danvers has finally returned home after months in space. New York has never looked so good — until a powerful villain turns Roosevelt Island into an apocalyptic wasteland! Now, Carol must assemble a new crew to kick-start a revolution! But soon she goes from Earth’s Mightiest Hero to Public Enemy No. 1 when a new star steals the spotlight! And things go from bad to worse when Captain Marvel is given 24 hours.to kill the Avengers! Marvel, 2023. ...More.

Item Code: CAPKT01H
Hard Cover, 7x11, 736pg, Full Color
$100.00 $90.00
 


CAPTAIN MARVEL Omnibus Volume 1
Branded a traitor for defending the people of Earth, the space-born Kree hero Captain Mar-Vell uses his cosmic powers as our planet’s protector. And the good Captain’s legacy is strong: From his early adventures drawn by Gene Colan to his reinvention by Roy Thomas and Gil Kane to his iconic cosmic awakening under Jim Starlin, each story is presented in oversized glory in this massive Omnibus volume. Marvel, 2022. ...More.

Item Code: CAPTM01H
Hard Cover, 7x11, 888pg, Full Color
$100.00 $90.00
 


CAPTAIN MARVEL ADVENTURES #18 Facsimile Edition
Collects Captain Marvel Adventures #18, 1942. Recommended. Art by C.C Beck, Marc Swayze et al. The origin and first appearance of Mary Marvel, in one of the most desirable issues of the entire 150-issue run. Plus a wonderful painted cover (by Swayze) that includes CM, Jr. Three complete Capt. Marvel stories, plus a backup story of Capt. Kidd, and several 1- and 2-page stories. Mary Marvel went on to become the cover feature of Wow Comics for 50 issues, and star in her own 28-issue title, all during the Golden Age. PS Artbooks, 2023....More.

Item Code: CAPM18
Comic, 7x10, 68pg, Full Color
$15.99
 


CAPTAIN MARVEL JR #4 Facsimile Edition
Issue #4, 1943. Highly Recommended. By Otto Binder. Cover by Mac Raboy. Art by Al Carreno et al. Our young Marvel, a lame newspaper boy until he says the magic words. He battles the invisible Nazi, villain Sabbac and Satan in several disguises, Captain Nippon, Sivana and daughter Beautia, the invisible Count Spector and White Robes — several in their first appearances. Classic all-time great Raboy cover. A great 64-page Golden Age issue. PS Artbooks, 2023....More.

Item Code: CAPMJ04
Comic, 7x10, 68pg, Full Color
$15.99
 


THE MARVEL FAMILY #4 Facsimile Edition
1946. Recommended. By Otto Binder et al. Art by Pete Costanza, C.C. Beck et al. One of the best issues, with three witches going after the entire Marvel family. Then each charcter is featured in an individual adventure: CM, Jr. in "Knife of Jade," Mary in "Don Quixote Rides Again," and Capt. Marvel in a cool story, "Sivana's Vampire". Includes a coupon to join the Capt. Marvel Club, a full page ad for a Mary Marvel schoolgirl dress, and classic Charles Atlas ad. PS Artbooks, 2023....More.

Item Code: CAPMMF04
Comic, 7x10, 36pg, Full Color
$15.99
Here are all the latest PS Artbooks Facsimile Editions. I’m pleased to see these new Capt. Marvel titles. They’re finally doing some of the more scarce, hard-to-find issues; these are all very good.
 

EC Archives

 


EC ARCHIVES Tales From The Crypt Volume 3 Hardcover
Finally available again. Collects #29-34, 1952-53. Our Highest Recommendation. Horror, murder, and the supernatural, 24 classic stories written by Al Feldstein and illustrated by Jack Davis, Graham Ingels, Jack Kamen, George Evans, Joe Orlando, and Marie Severin. Includes Al Williamson's first story at EC which was used in Parade of Pleasure. Jack Kamen, Feldstein and Gaines all appear in a story, while Johnny Craig and Jack Davis draw themselves! Ray Bradbury adaption in #34. Dark Horse, 2023....More.

Item Code: ECTFC03H
Hard Cover, 8x11, 216pg, Full Color
$49.99 $44.99

This is the only hardcover volume currently available. The two new softcover editions of Volumes 1 and 2 are both available [ECTFC01, ECTFC02. $19.99, $17.99 ea].

Also in stock is one copy of Tales from the Crypt The Official Archives, St. Martin’s Press, 1996. Condition Very Good, slight bump to two corners. [RB4185. $85] We also have ONE of the 5-volume Russ Cochran Complete EC Sets here but as yet unlisted. Call Todd if you are interested. It’s the most in-demand of all the sets, our price is $600, postpaid. We just sold the Haunt and Vault sets, but we will be listing ALL the rest of the Complete EC sets in the near future, from a collection NEVER opened, still in the original shipping boxes.

 


THE PLANETOID AND OTHER STORIES by Joe Orlando
Highly Recommended. Joe Orlando became a mainstay at EC, especially on science fiction, and this collects his first two dozen stories, all scripted by Al Feldstein. These serve up classic O. Henry-style shock endings, including a mind-bending time-travel twister in which a man visits the past and (unknowingly) romances his own mother (think about it), a gender-switching look at a future where women are the breadwinners and men are the homemakers, another future where marriages are limited by law to three-year contracts, a good old-fashioned "planets collide" shocker, an animal rights parable, plus lots of rollicking space opera, aliens, and, of course, interplanetary monsters (some of them human). Fantagraphics, 2023....More.

Item Code: PLANOH
Hard Cover, 7x10, 208pg, b&w
$35.00 $31.99
Here more in this series, and more EC Archives.
 

Comic Book Archives

 


THE JODOROWSKY LIBRARY Volume 6
Madwoman of the Sacred Heart, Twisted Tales & The Debt. Recommended. Two of Jodorowsky's most philosophically daring collaborations: the comedic and ironic misadventures of a confused Philosophy professor on the path to spiritual awakening, Madwoman of the Sacred Heart, illustrated by the masterful Mœbius; and what can only be referred to as an exercise in imagination, born from a mutual love of word, image, and mind, Twisted Tales with François Boucq. Plus the "unnerving" short story, The Debt. Some explicit adult sequences. Humanoids, 2023. Adult Material....More.

Item Code: JODL06H
Hard Cover, 8x10, 304pg, Full Color
$39.99 $34.99
This does have some explicit adult content. Volume 1 is sold out; still available are Volumes 2, 4, 5 each $39.99, $34.99 and Volume 3 $49.99, $44.99 [JDL02H, etc].
 


WALT DISNEY'S UNCLE SCROOGE Cave of Ali Baba
1961-2007. Highly Recommended. When Uncle Scrooge. Donald, and the nephews are approached by a wayward archaeologist bearing fragile clay tablets that point the way to Ali Baba’s lost cave, the hunt is on! A rare story started by Carl Barks and completed by internationally acclaimed Duck artist Daan Jippes, never before published in the U.S.: "The Pied Piper of Duckburg." Plus an indestructible Money Bin, and a whole series of shorts with Gyro Gearloose. Fantagraphics, 2023....More.

Item Code: WD28H
Hard Cover, 7x10, 208pg, Full Color
$35.00 $31.99
Click here for all available Complete Barks Libraries.
 


SGT. FURY EPIC COLLECTION Volume 2 Berlin Breakout
Collects Sgt. Fury #20-36 and Annual #1-2, 1965-66. Recommended. By Stan Lee and Roy Thomas. Art by Dick Ayers. Cover by Jack Kirby. World War II adventures, including a mission to protect the Manhattan Project and the atom bomb against Nazi spies and saboteurs, uprooting an undercover agent who is none other than the Red Skull, confronting a traitor in their own ranks, and going mano a mano with Baron Strucker in war-torn France! Also: the origin of Nick Fury’s eyepatch, Dum Dum going it alone behind enemy lines, and the story that spurred the concept for the film Inglorious Basterds! Bonus: 8 pages of original art. Marvel, 2023....More.

Item Code: SGTE02
Soft Cover, 7x10, 416pg, Full Color
$39.99 $35.99
Volume 1 is already sold out. Watch for a new printing. But here’s more fine comics about war, especially World War II.
 


MARVEL MASTERWORKS THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN Volume 1
Collects Amazing Spider-Man #1-10 and Amazing Fantasy #15. Highly Recommended. By popular demand! Back in hardcover, beautifully restored to match the original comics and boasting expanded bonus material! Welcome to Marvel’s reMasterworks! Spidey’s web-slinging adventures from the very beginning. Including: the tragic origin that started it all; the first appearances of the Daily Bugle, J. Jonah Jameson, Doctor Octopus, the Sandman, the Vulture, Electro; and guest appearances by the Fantastic Four. And to top it off, bonuses galore, including the original artwork to Amazing Fantasy #15! Marvel, 2023. ...More.

Item Code: MAS01H
Hard Cover, 7x10, 312pg, Full Color
$75.00 $65.00
Marvel is also issuing the first Fantastic Four in this "Re-Masterworks" series of classics, due at the end of July [MMFF01H. $75, $65]. Click here for all available Marvel Masterworks volumes. We have an entire collection of 200+ volumes that we haven’t cataloged yet, if you are looking for any in particular. Call or email Todd.
 

3...2...1...Gone

Here's another batch of 30 items that are going away soon, down to just one, two or three copies left. You can now see the latest 3…2…1 items in a new section on our website, called ALMOST GONE, at the top of the home page, right next to CLOSEOUTS. We are continuously adding to our Imperfect Editions sections as well.

 

Graphic Novels

 


TAO BANG
First published in France. Highly Recommended. By Olivier Vatine and Daniel Pecqueur. Art by Didier Cassegrain with Fred Blanchard. The lovely Ellora has found her business in freefall since the dragon sheikh Ad Arphax opened a competing brothel nearby. So she sets out with a pirate ruffian Norden to find the Isle of Mermaids, whose siren song should bring in the customers and put her back on top. But the journey is wrought with fantastic dangers, not the least of which is the Amazon pirate Tao Bang — an old acquaintance of Norden's — now in the employ of Ad Arphax...not to mention dragons, monsters, and a fair amount of slapstick stupidity by several players. Magnetic Press, 2023....More.

Item Code: TAOH
Hard Cover, 9x11, 96pg, Full Color
$24.99
In my humble opinion, the best in modern graphic novels are coming from France. Not always, but on the average, these are more different, more far-ranging than we see in the U.S. Click here for all of our French Graphic Novels, always now translated into English.
 


VALERIAN AND LAURELINE Where Stories Are Born
Highly Recommended. By Pierre Christin. Art by Virginie Augustin. A brand new Valerian and Laureline adventure! A second volume of a spin-off series that pays homage to a legendary series. The Delphs are an artificial species who depend entirely on an extremely rare substance, that not only allows them to live and reproduce, but also fuels their creative talents — for the Delphs are the most sought-after storytellers in the galaxy. They call upon Galaxity to find a new source of it, their own exhausted. But the only available deposit is on 21st century Earth, and the agents on station are still going to high school... Cinebook, 2023....More.

Item Code: VALWS
Soft Cover, 9x11, 56pg, Full Color
$13.95
 


ALSO AVAILABLE
VALERIAN The Illustrated Treasury
Closeout Price! Highly Recommended. By Pierre Christin. Director Luc Besson’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets introduced movie audiences to a future populated by weird and wonderful aliens and laced with incredible futuristic technology. Now discover the universe of the original Valerian and Laureline graphic novels, one of the most popular sci-fi series in France. We get a comprehensive overview of the Valerian universe, details on key locations (including Central Point), transport, galactic anomalies, and all the alien races and characters “ friendly and hostile “ and there is a special section on the ever-popular Shingouz. Richly illustrated. Titan, 2017.  ...More.

Item Code: VALEH
Hard Cover, 9x12, 96pg, Full Color
$34.95 $14.95
 


NORTHERN STEELE
Recommended. By Scott Schmidt. Art by Slobodan Jovanovic. Well drawn! In 1897, the world descended upon the frozen hills of the Yukon Territory, mad with gold fever. But little did they know the perils and pitfalls that awaited them. A trail lined with dead horses and stalked by a man-killer, a haunted cave mined by an army of the dead, and an endless swamp teeming with terrible serpents. Enter the legendary Sam Steele of the North-West Mounted Police, master of the wilderness. Outland Entertainment, 2022....More.

Item Code: NORST
Hard Cover, 7x10, 80pg, b&w
$19.99
 


BEREZINA Book 3
Third of three books. Recommended. By Frederic Richaud and Patrick Rambaud. Art by Ivan Gil. September 1812. Napoleon is master of Europe, and strikes at Russia with an army of half a million. He enters Moscow with no resistance, a conqueror at the height of his glory … and everything crumbles. The last volume of a trilogy. The terrible Russian winter has engulfed the retreat, and the Grande Armée is no more. Mercilessly harassed by the fierce Cossacks, a few thousand men only continue to trudge forward, weak, starving, emaciated, leaving a trail of frozen dead behind. Cincebook, 2023....More.

Item Code: BERE03
Soft Cover, 9x11, 72pg, Full Color
$16.95

Volumes 1 and 2 remain in stock at $15.95 each [BERE01, BERE02.] This publisher, Cinebook, is based in England. They specialize in low-priced, newly-translated French graphic novels.

We quite enjoy nearly every book they do, which include Isabellae, Lonesome 1 & 2, XIII Mystery, Miss Endicott 1 & 2, Texas Jack 1 & 2, Islandia, Wanted Lucky Luke, Trent, The Battle 1-3, The Regiment 1-3, and more.

 

Back in stock

 


FIGHT COMICS Featuring Senorita Rio Volume 1
Back in stock. Collects stories from Fight #19-34, 1942-44. Highly Recommended. Art by Nick Cardy, Lily Renee 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. 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....More.

Item Code: FCSR01
Soft Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color
$29.99
 


FIGHT COMICS Featuring Senorita Rio Volume 2
Back in stock. Collects stories from Fight #35-50, 1944-47. Recommended. Art by Lily Renee and Bob Lubbers. Señorita Rio, the lovely actress-turned-agent survives in a male-dominated world due to her extraordinary skills: marksman, athlete, expert fighter, jiu-jitsu and fencing. Throughout the Golden Age she was battling Axis agents all over South America — she truly is “The Queen of Spies”! Señorita Rio was one of the first female and Latin characters to feature on 7 covers of the former all boys club of Fight Comics! PS Artbooks, 2022....More.

Item Code: FCSR02
Soft Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color
$33.99
Volume 3 softcover is in stock at $32.99, and all three are in stock in hardcover at $46.99 and $52.99 for Vol 3. This is one of our most popular series from PS Artbooks.
 


SPIDER-MAN VS VENOM Omnibus
Back in stock. Collects all Venom appearances across the Marvel Universe, starting with Spider-Man #300, 1985 & into the 1990s. Spider-Man meets his deadliest foe when his symbiotic alien black costume takes a new host: Eddie Brock, who hates Spider-Man. Then Venom sires an even more psychopathic offspring: Maximum Carnage! Plus the sinister symbiote sinks his teeth into Wolverine, Ghost Rider, Quasar, Darkhawk and the Avengers, in this complete compendium of Venom’s earliest appearances! Marvel, 2023. ...More.

Item Code: SPIDVH
Hard Cover, 7x11, 1160pg, Full Color
$125.00 $110.00
Here’s more Venom and Spider-Man, including Todd McFarlane’s Spidey Artist’s Edition [TMSAEH. $150].
 
 

Rare & Out of Print

 

Approximately 50 new Rare & Out of Print items listed this week, too many to list here! Click Here to see the cover scans and descriptions, and click here to see all of our Rare Book new arrivals.

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Icv2 Zoom Interview – Complete!

Well, it turns out the link I gave you last week was just the teaser about Phil Seuling and I. Icv2 editor and friend Milton Griepp put up another much longer prose piece with some nice comments from folks in the industry.

At the end of that, you’ll find links to parts 1, 2 and 3 of entire 60-75 minute interview conducted by Dan Gearino (Comic Shop).

My career in comics: Marvel Zombie circa 1964, discovering fandom, DC EC and good-art comics in 1965, early days of the Direct Market, Comics & Comix stores 1972-88, business ups and downs, selling out to Diamond, and much about this very business beginning in 1970 and 53 years later, looking back…

~Bud

 

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Thursday, May 25, 2023

Carl Barks, Will Eisner, John Buscema’s Roy Rogers, Phantom Lady, Punch Comics and a new Toppi!

Carl Barks’ Original Art Edition! The Spirit Artisan Edition! A new Toppi! The long-awaited Best of John Buscema’s Roy Rogers. Facsimile editions of Phantom Lady and Punch Comics. A fun new Poison Ivy, Spider-Man 2099 Omnibus, the latest Blackhawk, Konga and Gorgo volumes from PS. A new Pierced Veil album. Free Comic Book Day issues still available. And more….

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Art Books

 


WILL EISNER'S THE SPIRIT Artisan Edition
“Best of” compilation from IDW’s Spirit Artist’s Editions Vols 1 & 2. Our Highest Recommendation. Introduction by Denis Kitchen.Will Eisner’s work on The Spirit was, in its way, as groundbreaking as Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane. Both artistic achievements rewrote the book on sequential storytelling and had lasting impacts on all that followed them. Featured here are 17 Spirit stories all from Eisner’s peak period, 1946-1950, generally regarded as his best work on The Spirit. And all from the original artwork, with every blemish and correction! When done as an Artist’s Edition, this quickly sold out. This new smaller-sized edition offers another intimate look at this fine and rare material, page by glorious page.IDW, 2023....More.

Item Code: WILSP
Soft Cover, 8x12, 144pg, b&w
$39.99

Here’s more with The Spirit and Will Eisner’s work.
 


CARL BARKS COMICS & STORIES Original Art Edition
From Dell's Our Gang Comics, 1943-47. Highly Recommended. Edited by Kim Weston. This volume collects nine complete Carl Barks stories in the full size they were originally drawn, in black and white, reproduced from high quality stats made by the original publisher, Dell Comics. There are 2 Happy Hound (Droopy) stories, 3 Benny Burro solo stories, and 4 stories of the combined Barney Bear and Benny Burro feature. These all appeared in Our Gang Comics. The earliest (1943-44) and lesser known stories here were done at the same time Barks was doing stories in Walt Disney's Comics & Stories #38-42 and "The Mummy's Ring" in Four Color #9. Kim Weston, 2023. Rush Service and International shipping would require an additional charge....More.

Item Code: CARBAH
Hard Cover, 14x20, 108pg, b&w
$100.00
Click here for all we offer with Carl Barks.
 

Comic Book Archives

 


THE BEST OF JOHN BUSCEMA'S ROY ROGERS COMICS
Collects John's work from Roy Rogers (Dell) #76-77, 79, 80-81, 85-86, 88; 1954-55. Recommended. By Gaylord DuBois. Exclusively featuring the art of comic great John Buscema, early in his career. 272 pages of action-packed Roy Rogers King of the Cowboys comics, specially selected by Roy's son, Dusty. Six page introduction by L. Allbert with original art reproduced. Well-written stories mostly by Dell's best writer, Gaylord DuBois. Hermes, 2023....More.

Item Code: BESRRJH
Hard Cover, 8x10, 272pg, Full Color
$60.00
Here is more with John Buscema. Available now is his Silver Surfer Artisan Edition [JBSSAE. $39.99] and his Marvel Heroes Artist’s Edition [JBMHAEH. $150].
 


THE COLLECTED TOPPI Volume 9 The Old World
Our Highest Recommendation. Widely considered a master of graphic storytelling, Toppi spins tales of mystery and folklore set in Tuscany, Portugal and elsewhere during the age of exploration. Stunning art and unusual, unique subjects and characters. Fables set in Old World Italy, plus a feature-length what-if tale about the New World, Hypothesis 1492, speculating on a history where Christopher Columbus never made it to America. Stories are The Hidden Things, Saint Martin's Cloak, A Tuscan Fable, Roland Will Come, Algarve 1460, and two more, several set in Medieval times. Magnetic Press, 2023....More.

Item Code: COLT09H
Hard Cover, 9x12, 124pg, b&w
$24.99
Here’s what we still have in previous Toppi collections.
 


SPIDER-MAN 2099 Omnibus Volume 1
Art by Rick Leonardi et al. Peter David’s futuristic epic, collected in full. Miguel O’Hara, his DNA rewritten in an attempt to escape his employer Alchemax, has gained amazing powers — and become the new Spider-Man! Menaces new and familiar come calling: Venture, the Specialist, the Vulture, the mysterious Thanatos and more! The possible return of the Asgardian gods unites Miguel with 2099’s other heroes — but who is the Net Prophet? How will Spider-Man react when Doctor Doom conquers America? And what is Miguel’s connection to Venom 2099? Marvel, 2023....More.

Item Code: SPIOMH
Hard Cover, 7x11, 1384pg, Full Color
$150.00 $130.00
The Arana and Spider-Man 2099 prose novel, Dark Tomorrow, was just listed here last week [ARASH. $17.99]. Here’s more of our regular, today-based Spider-Man.
 


POISON IVY Volume 1 The Virtuous Circle
Collects #1-6. Winner, Outstanding Comic Book, GLAAD Media Awards 2023. Recommended. By G. Willow Wilson. Art by Marcio Takara. Pamela Isley has been a living god, a super-villain, an activist, a scientist...and dead. In a new body that she didn’t ask for, Ivy leaves Gotham and sets out to complete her greatest work — a gift to the world that will heal the damage dealt to it...by ending humanity. On her journey to doom humankind, a heartbroken and betrayed Poison Ivy encounters plant assassins and dodges the law in a horror-infused, character-defining epic. Lengthy bonus section with dozens of variant covers, prelim cover sketches and an interview! We like the art — this looks like fun! DC Comics, 2023....More.

Item Code: POIV01H
Hard Cover, 7x11, 200pg, Full Color
$24.99 $21.99
Here’s more Poison Ivy, Harley, and artist Jenny Frison’s DC Portfolio with all the DC girls. Oh, and also the DC Girls Unite Box Set [DCGUN. $39.99, $34.99].
 


MECH CADETS Book 1
Now a Netflix series. Collects #1-12, 2017-19. "...recalls all sorts of classic robot fiction while standing on its own as a wonderfully imaginative and colorful new world." - SyFy Wire. Each year, giant sentient robots from space come to Earth and bond with a new Sky Corps Academy cadet to keep the planet safe. But this time, one mech bonds with Stanford Yu, a young kid working with his mom as a janitor. This is the opportunity of a lifetime for him, but first he’ll have to earn his classmates’ trust and survive an uncompromising enemy—colossal aliens known as the Sharg. Boom!, 2023....More.

Item Code: MECH01
Soft Cover, 7x10, 320pg, Full Color
$24.99 $21.99
 


LEGENDS OF THE PIERCED VEIL Izuna
Recommended. Art by Carita Lupattelli. Mythical tales of bloodshed set in a Feudal Japan that runs rampant with spirits both demonic and heroic — all fighting for the fate of their world, from acclaimed creator Saverio Tenuta. Beautifully drawn series, the 3rd release. Since the dawn of time, the Izuna wolves have been entrusted as guardians against Japan's evil spirits without piercing the veil that keeps the spirit world of the Kami and the human world separate. But when an Izuna cub is born in the shape of a young human girl, the divide between the spirit world and the waking world becomes threatened. Humanoids, 2023....More.

Item Code: LEGIZH
Hard Cover, 8x11, 200pg, Full Color
$29.99 $26.99
Also available in this series: The Scarlet Blades [LEGSBH. $29.99, $26.99].
 

3...2...1...Gone

Here's another batch of 30 items that are going away soon, down to just one, two or three copies left. You can now see the latest 3…2…1 items in a new section on our website, called ALMOST GONE, at the top of the home page, right next to CLOSEOUTS. We are continuously adding to our Imperfect Editions sections as well.

 

New PS Archives

 


BLACKHAWK Volume 6
Collects #31-35, 1950. Highly Recommended. By Reed Crandall, Bill Ward, Paul Gustavson et al. Five more great issues. Females again are everywhere, girls to be rescued as well as evil-plotting Femmes Fatales. Reed Crandall shows his stuff on story after story. But also here is Bill Ward with some classic good-girl art in the best tradition of Torchy. The first three are 32-pagers, then the title went back to 52 pagers for #34 and #35, both with classic Reed Crandall covers. PS Artbooks, 2023....More.

Item Code: BLAC06
Soft Cover, 7x10, 228pg, Full Color
$32.99
PS managed to ship us this before #5, which is still due this month, but it’s not yet up on the website. Volume 2 is available. We have restocks coming in of #1, 3 and 4 but no copies as I write this. They have been massively popular and keep selling out.
 


Item Code: PSSC06H
Hard Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color
$52.99

PS ARTBOOKS PRESENTS: CLASSIC SCI-FI COMICS Volume 6 Hardcover
Strange Planets #1, 15, 18, Atom Age Combat #2,3, 1958-64. Recommended. Science fiction from the pre-code days is collected in this I.W./Super reprint title Strange Planets #1 (1958) with artwork by Wally Wood, Bernie Krigstein, Joe Orlando and Jack Davis. #15 and #16 (1964) are absolutely crammed with the cream of 1950's comic book talent, including Mike Esposito, Hy Rosen, Russ Heath, Gene Colan, Everett Raymond Kinstler, Norman Nodel and Sid Check. And from Fago Magazines, Atom-Age Combat (#2-3, 1959), starring the artistic talents of Dick Ayers.. PS Artbooks, 2023. ...More.

Item Code: PSSC06
Soft Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color
$32.99

Here are other available volumes.
 


Item Code: KONG02H
Hard Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color
$52.99

KONGA Volume 2 Hardcover
Collects #6-10, 1962-63. By Joe Gill. Art by Steve Ditko, Bill Molno and Rocco Mastroserio. More colossal Konga action pencilled by the late, great comic book giant himself, Mr. Steve Ditko. Including "Konga Meets the Creatures From Beyond Space" — after escaping England, Konga ends up on an island fighting flying saucers and aliens from another world! Only then, in "The Land of the Frozen Giants," to battle pre-historic dinosaurs in a lost Antarctic world. Until finally facing his mightiest challenge with "Konga and The Mole Men!" All reproduced completely from cover to cover, just like the original comics! PS Artbooks, 2023. ...More.

Item Code: KONG02
Soft Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color
$32.99

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Item Code: PCSS07H
Hard Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color
$52.99

STRANGE SUSPENSE STORIES Volume 7 Hardcover
Collects #48-52, 1960-61. Recommended. Three issues with Steve Ditko covers and stories, a 4th with one story, including "The Human Powerhouse." Matt Baker gets an attribution with Vince Colletta inks on one of his last stories before he passed away. Also lots of work by Bill Molno and Rocco Mastroserio. Ditko's moody, individualistic touch came to dominate Charlton's supernatural titles just before he jumped to Marvel and the monster titles like Strange Tales, Tales of Suspense and Tales to Astonish, and his own solo work in Amazing Adult Fantasy....all just before creating Spider-Man. PS Artbooks, 2023. ...More.

Item Code: PCSS07
Soft Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color
$32.99

Here are previous volumes.
 


Item Code: STRJ01H
Hard Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color
$52.99

SILVER AGE CLASSICS STRANGE JOURNEY Volume 1 Hardcover
Collects Strange Journey #1-4 and Strange #6, 1957-58. Recommended. Art by the Iger Shop, Henry Kiefer, Ken Battefield et al. "Phantom Express" is an unscheduled horror on a one-way trip to hell! Meet the challenge of a visitor from "A Hole in the Sky"! Surely there can't be many takers for that fateful trip on board the Titanic in "A Voyage Into Forever!" And who would ever want to be a space pilot in the "Whirlpool of Space!" An offbeat title from an offbeat publisher, bridging the gap between pre-code and the superhero revival. PS Artbooks, 2023. ...More.

Item Code: STRJ01
Soft Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color
$32.99

 


Item Code: SAG02
Soft Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color
$32.99

GORGO Volume 2
Collects #6-10. 1962. Recommended. By Joe Gill. Art by Joe Sinnott & Vince Colletta et al. The adventures of Gorgo, the North Atlantic's reigning misunderstood monster, continues, taking the infant Gorgo into a succession of dangerous situations, from battling other giant primitive monsters, to being mind-controlled by mad scientists, and inadvertently preventing World War III! Each issue has cover art and long 19 to 21 page adventures by Sinnott & Colletta, plus short back-up stories. PS Artbooks, 2023. ...More.

COMING IN JUNE
Item Code: SAG02H
Hard Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color
$52.99

Here is Volume 1.
 

Facsimile Editions from PS

 


PUNCH COMICS #9 Facsimile Edition
52 pages, 1944. Recommended. Art by Gus Ricca, George Tuska, et al. Harry A. Chesler produced some of the wildest, offbeat titles of the 1940s and Punch is one. This classic includes Rocketman by future Superman artist Al Plastino; Winsor McCay's son with a new Nemo in Slumberland; a savage Gus Ricca cover of a comic book artist assassinated by his own creations. Plus Spirit wannabe Master Key, Hale the Magician by George Tuska, and Calling All Cars, a violent crime strip....includes every original page, ads and all.. PS Artbooks, 2023....More.

Item Code: PUN09
Comic, 7x10, 52pg, Full Color
$15.99
 


PUNCH COMICS #12 Facsimile Edition
1945, 52 pages. Recommended. Art by Gus Ricca, George Tuska et al. Harry A. Chesler produced some of the wildest, offbeat titles of the 1940s and Punch is one. This classic leads off with one of the most collectible covers of the Golden Age by Gus Ricca. Captain Glory and Master Key are both two-fisted adventurers in the tradition of Eisner's Spirit. Rocketboy does his Rocketeer-style crime fighting. The fine work of George Tuska is back on Hale the Magician, this time in Egypt fighting slavery and Black Magic. PS Artbooks, 2023....More.

Item Code: PUN12
Comic, 7x10, 52pg, Full Color
$15.99
 


PUNCH COMICS #13 Facsimile Edition
1945, 52 pages. Recommended. Art by Gus Ricca, Al Plastino, Ruben Moreira et al. Harry A. Chesler produced some of the wildest, offbeat titles of the 1940s. Rocketman and Rocketgirl, aided by the world's tightest costumes, fight crime this time by future DC artist Reuben Moreira. Gus Ricca draws another classic cover plus the violent free-for-all, The Gay Desperado, inside. Plus Crime on the Run, Johnny on the Spot by Al Plastino, soon to become a prolific artist at DC on Superman, and more strips. Includes every original page, ads and all. PS Artbooks, 2023....More.

Item Code: PUN13
Comic, 7x10, 52pg, Full Color
$15.99
 


PHANTOM LADY #19 Facsimile Edition
1948. Recommended. By Ruth Roche. Art by Matt Baker et al. Continuing the Phantom Lady facsimile comics with a complete cover to cover, ads and all, of #19. Two 10-page Phantom Lady stories, Sudden Death and The Case of the Murderous Model, plus a true crime story narrated by our girl and more. Great Good Girl Art in one of the most collectible comic book titles of the golden age. PS Artbooks, 2023....More.

Item Code: PHL19
Comic, 7x10, 36pg, Full Color
$14.99
 


PHANTOM LADY #20 Facsimile Edition
1948. Recommended. By Ruth Roche. Art by Matt Baker et al. Continuing the Phantom Lady facsimile comics with a complete cover to cover, with ads and all, of #20. There is some question of this being the work of Matt Baker or the Iger shop imitating Baker (and possibly Jack Kamen) but the end result is still wild, Good-Girl art adventure as good as it gets! PS Artbooks, 2023....More.

Item Code: PHL20
Comic, 7x10, 36pg, Full Color
$14.99
 


PHANTOM LADY #21 Facsimile Edition
1949. Recommended. By Ruth Roche. Art by Matt Baker, Jack Kamen et al. Continuing the Phantom Lady facsimile comics with a complete cover to cover, ads and all, reprint of #21. Two 10-page Phantom Lady stories, The Jack-in-the-Box Murders and The Case of the Criminal Chessman plus a true crime story narrated by our girl and more. Great Good Girl Art in one of the most collectible comic book titles of the golden age. PS Artbooks, 2023....More.

Item Code: PHL21
Comic, 7x10, 36pg, Full Color
$14.99
Here are three more Phantom Lady editions, issues #13, 14 and 15 with prints, $23.99 each and the original hardcover collections 1 and 2. Here are all the rest of our facsimile and replica editions from PS and other publishers.
 

Coming in August

 


2000 AD ART OF KEVIN O'NEILL Apex Edition
Art from 1977 through to 2022. From concept sketches of 2000 AD's alien editor Tharg the Mighty to complete episodes of Ro-Busters and A.B.C. Warriors, and previously unseen versions of his Nemesis the Warlock: The Final Conflict pages. Also included are his never before reprinted Metalzoic covers and the entirety of his final sequential work on Bonjo From Beyond The Stars. A deluxe, over-sized Artist's Edition, 160 pages compiled by O'Neill from his own archive, reproducing his original art pages at their actual size. Rebellion/2000AD, 2023. Due: Aug....More.

Item Code: ADAKH
Hard Cover, 160pg, b&w
$155.00
The first Apex Edition by Brian Bolland sold out almost immediately upon publication, but here is more on Bolland.
 


STAR TREK The Art of Neville Page
During a career spanning twenty years, visionary creature designer Neville Page has applied his considerable expertise to the creation and development of the aliens of the Star Trek Universe. From the movies Star Trek (2009) through to Star Trek Beyond (2016), as well as the shows Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Picard, Page’s incredibly detailed and intricate work has yielded some of the franchise’s most memorable characters. Titan, 2023. Due: Aug....More.

Item Code: STARNH
Hard Cover, 192pg, Full Color
$49.99 $44.99
Here’s more on Star Trek.
 


Item Code: CLHOR04H
Hard Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color
$52.99

CLASSIC HORROR COMICS Volume 4 Hardcover
Collects Fantastic Fears #2-3, Haunted Thrills #10-11, & Beware #15, 1953. Beginning with Fantastic Fears and "Fiends From The Crypt" — Chasing a thief named Banco into the Rome sewers, Signor Renzi and his partner, Pietro find Banco with all his body eaten. Then we have Haunted Thrills and "Death At The Mardi Gras"— Marcus Kemp creates a robot duplicate so realistic he gets blamed for the murders it committed. HT #11 features a rare Nazi death-camp story. And finally, even more horror and suspense from Beware #15, all brought to you by those masters of 1950's comics Robert Webb, Myron Fass, Harry Harrison, A.C. Hollingsworth, Marty Elkin, Tony Tallarico and the Iger Shop. PS Artbooks, 2023. Due Aug....More.

Item Code: CLHOR04
Soft Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color
$32.99

See previous releases here.
 

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Richard Corben’s Tales of the Plague

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If it goes up on schedule, I’ll have a link here for an article written from a 60-90 minute zoom interview conducted by Dan Gearino (Comic Shop) just a couple weeks ago. We talk about 50 years in business in the comics world, now almost 60 years as a fan. Milton Griepp asked Dan to interview me after I was nominated for the Eisner Hall of Fame (I didn’t get inducted, though). Milton wrote his very generous piece about my part in the early days of the comics direct market. I quote from that in the editorial in our latest catalog. You can download that below.

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