Thursday, December 28, 2023

Haunt of Fear and Eerie softcovers, Toppi, The Hulk, Green Lama by Mac Raboy, Flesk art books, and signed Carl Barks Lithos!

Surprises include two brand new art books from Flesk Publishing, never before announced and here first. Also new Haunt of Fear and Eerie softcovers, Toppi, The Hulk, Green Lama by Mac Raboy, Airboy and The Hawk kick off new Archives series, plus new Plastic Man and Blackhawk, Gorgo and more.

Also a cache of signed, limited edition Carl Barks Litho Prints from 1990-92! And our Christmas Card with art by Dan Brereton with a staff picture.

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New From Flesk

 


GILT By J.A.W. Cooper Signed
Signed! Highly Recommended. This fifth collection of drawings and paintings by the illustrator and fine artist J.A.W. Cooper. It documents Cooper’s personal struggle through guilt, mourning and, finally, acceptance as the artist lost and then refound a love for their craft after taking a two-year hiatus. Through imagery revolving around the cycles of life and death, seasons, joy and pain, Cooper explores the relationship between making art and an unhealthy reliance on it for self-worth and identity. Flesk, 2023....More.

Item Code: GILTD
Hard Cover, 9x12, 176pg, Partial Color
$79.95

Also available in a regular unsigned edition without the jacket and special binding [GILTH. $49.95].

Cooper also appears in Spectrum 25 HC [SPE25HR $45, $19.95] and SC [SPE25HR. $35, $14.95]. Here are more Spectrum annuals and Quarterlies.

 


BARREN LANDS BY BRYNN METHENEY Signed
Signed! Barren Lands is a humble love letter to the desert, where the author and artist Brynn Metheney was born and raised. She shines light — and wonder — on those deserts, which continue to inspire and surprise her. They include encounters that hinge on disbelief, passed down to her by family members and reclusive locals, about creatures unknown to the public. This is a marvelous look at hidden wonders that only a desert rat with a long history in the region could share. Her words and pictures are secret revelations that blur the lines between fantasy and reality and are sure to entertain anyone with a curious mind. Flesk, 2023....More.

Item Code: BARRD
Hard Cover, 9x12, 112pg, Full Color
$49.95 $44.95
Neither of these Flesk books were previously announced. Other outlets will not have them for some time. We’ll be sold out of the hardcover Arthur Adams in just a few days now—all advance orders were shipped out by December 22nd. Here’s the softcover, plus more from Flesk.
 

More New This Week

 


THE PEN AND INK DRAWINGS OF TONY DITERLIZZI Signed
Signed! Highly Recommended! Since his meteoric debut as an illustrator for Dungeons & Dragons to a decades-long career as a bestselling author and illustrator of children's books, Tony DiTerlizzi has continued to sketch his favorite fantasy subjects. Wizards, gnomes, and all manner of monsters fill over 100 pages spanning thirty years from Tony's early art samples for TSR (then publishers of Dungeons & Dragons) to dozens of fantastic New Yorker covers, to pieces rendered over a live stream during the recent pandemic. 2023. ...More.

Item Code: PENTS
Soft Cover, 8x11, 128pg, b&w
$30.00
 


THE COLLECTED TOPPI Volume 10 The Future Perfect
Highly Recommended. A collection of tales by master illustrator and storyteller Sergio Toppi speculating about the future through the legendary author's unique visual lens. Rogue AIs, post climate-change wastelands, addiction to technology and VR — these decades-old works were far ahead of their time, seeming almost prophetic today. Magnetic Press, 2023....More.

Item Code: COLT10H
Hard Cover, 9x12, 122pg, b&w
$24.99
Here are all previous volumes that are still available.
 


EC ARCHIVES HAUNT OF FEAR Volume 3
Collects #13-18. Highly Recommendefd. Now in value-priced softcover format, the third volume of the EC Archives collection of The Haunt of Fear conjures a trove of unforgettable masterful EC nightmares, featuring stories by Al Feldstein and William Gaines, and art by Graham Ingels, Jack Kamen, Jack Davis, Johnny Craig, Sid Check, George Evans, and others. Includes adaptations of the Ray Bradbury stories "The Coffin!" and "The Black Ferris!" Dark Horse, 2023....More.

Item Code: ECAHF03
Soft Cover, 8x11, 216pg, Full Color
$19.99
Here are the first two volumes, and more EC Archives in softcover.
 


EERIE ARCHIVES Volume 3
Collects #11-15. Highly Recommended. Foreword by Gail Simone.Eerie magazine was one of the finest horror comics magazines ever published, and the original issues are expensive and hard to find. Eerie Archives Volume 3 presents another collection of fearful fables in a value-priced softcover format by a host of comics greats, including Archie Goodwin, Neal Adams, Alex Toth, Reed Crandall, Jeffrey Jones, Joe Orlando, Angelo Torres, and more. Includes adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe’s "The Telltale Heart" and "Masque of the Red Death." Dark Horse, 2023.  ...More.

Item Code: EER03
Soft Cover, 8x11, 256pg, Full Color
$24.99 $21.99
Here are the first two Eerie softcovers, same discounted price, plus Creepy 1-4 [CRE01, etc. $24.99, $21.99 ea] and more from Warren Publishing.
 


THE INCREDIBLE HULK Omnibus Volume 2
Collects Incredible Hulk #103-134 and Annual #1, 1968-70. Art by Marie Severin, Frank Giacoia et al. The Hulk encounters the Inhumans, the Sandman, the Sub-Mariner, The Thing and the entire Savage Land. And when the Leader returns, all bets are off as iconic Hulk artist Herb Trimpe — who makes his debut in this volume — and writers Stan Lee and Roy Thomas pull out all the stops. Featuring the original series’ letters pages and a host of bonus material, including the covers from the 1970s Hulk reprint Marvel Super-Heroes. Marvel, 2023. ...More.

Item Code: INCH02H
Hard Cover, 8x11, 832pg, Full Color
$100.00 $90.00
Volume 1 collects the first Incredible Hulk series from 1961, #1-6 and his appearances in Tales to Astonish #59-99 and more. Special Order item [INCH01H. $100].
 


NEW MUTANTS Omnibus Volume 3
Collects #55-85 and 11 more titles/issues, 1987-2008. By Louise Simonson, Chris Claremont et al. Art by Bret Blevins, Terry Austin, Jon Muth, John Byrne, Bo Hampton, et al.Turmoil and tragedy for the New Mutants! Bird-Brain is the team’s new feathered friend, but when the New Mutants trace his origins to the freak-filled island of the Ani-Mator, one teammate will not return home! The New Mutants are shattered by grief, but when they’re dragged into an outer-space adventure and a revolt in Limbo ignites an Inferno on Earth, the team must ally with X-Factor’s wards, the X-Terminators, to repel an army of demons and save Magik’s soul! Then, when Hela’s evil spell corrupts Mirage’s Valkyrie side, the New Mutants travel to Asgard! But can a handful of mortal mutants defeat the Goddess of Death? Marvel, 2023. ...More.

Item Code: NEWM03H
Hard Cover, 7x11, 1136pg, Full Color
$125.00 $110.00
Volume 1 is sold out; vol 2 is on sale, while supply lasts [NEWM02H. $125, $75]. Here’s more Mutants!
 


SPY VS SPY Omnibus
Highly Recommended. By Antonio Prohias. Since the 1960s, "Spy vs. Spy" has been one of the most popular features in MAD Magazine. The diabolical duo of double-crosses and deceit (one dressed in black, the other in white) have continued to one-up each other “ til death do they part. Includes esssays, interviews, rare sketches and lots more bonus material. And strips all full sized. DC Comics, 2023. ...More.

Item Code: SPYVH
Hard Cover, 9x12, 400pg, b&w
$75.00 $65.00
 

PS Artbooks Facsimile Editions

 


GREEN LAMA #3 Facsimile Edition
1945. Highly Recommended. By Mac Raboy, Jerry Robinson, George Roussos, Mort Lawrence et al. Mac Raboy's beautifully drawn Green Lama series, from tiny publisher Spark, features the adventures of Jethro Dumont, the mystical hero with Eastern-inspired powers. He tackles villains and supernatural challenges, all while balancing his dual life as a man of peace and a crime-fighting superhero. PS Artbooks, 2023....More.

Item Code: GREL03
Comic, 7x10, 52pg, Full Color
$15.99
 


GREEN LAMA #6 Facsimile Edition
1945. Highly Recommended. By Mac Raboy, Jerry Robinson, George Roussos and Mort Lawrence. Another fine issue, this time with an iconic and highly collectible swastika cover (and lead story) again by master Mac Raboy. From tiny publisher Spark, this features the adventures of Jethro Dumont, the mystical hero with Eastern-inspired powers. Regular back up features include Boy Champions, Rick Masters, Lieut. Hercules, Angus Mac Erc and more. PS Artbooks, 2023....More.

Item Code: GREL06
Comic, 7x10, 36pg, Full Color
$15.99
 


GREEN LAMA #7 Facsimile Edition
1946. By Mac Raboy, Jerry Robinson and George Roussos. Another fine issue, this time with a classic Christmas cover (and lead story, both drawn with craft-tint) again by master Mac Raboy. From tiny publisher Spark, this features the adventures of Jethro Dumont, the mystical hero with Eastern-inspired powers. Regular back up features include Boy Champions, Rick Masters, Lieut. Hercules, Angus Mac Erc and more by a superior line-up of artists. Final issue. PS Artbooks, 2023....More.

Item Code: GREL07
Comic, 7x10, 36pg, Full Color
$15.99
 


ROCKETMAN #1 Facsimile Edition
1952. Blast off into an unforgettable adventure with Rocketman, an offbeat pre-code one-shot from Farrell Publications! Follow the incredible journey of daring astronaut Jack McCallister. With unwavering courage and a state-of-the-art rocket suit, McCallister rockets into the cosmos to face cosmic threats and unearth the secrets of the universe. PS Artbooks, 2023....More.

Item Code: ROCM01
Comic, 7x10, 36pg, Full Color
$15.99
Here are the latest PS Artbooks Facsimile Editions. We just got a new group and will have more over the next two weeks. You can watch for them in New Arrivals on the home page of the website.
 

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.

In preparation for future sales, we have discounted over 350 items! You can get a sneek peek by clicking here, or by using search code NRP0124.

 

PS Archives

 


AIRBOY Volume 1
Collects Vol 3 #1-2, 4-5, 1946. Recommended. By Fred Kida, Tony DiPreta, Maurice Whitman, et al.Airboy began in Air Fighters Comics but took over the title as publisher Hillman saw how popular he was. Back-up strips include Sky Wolf and The Flying Dutchman, who also started out in Airfighters. And here is the very first appearance of The Heap! Fun stories with his plane that flaps its wings, and an assortment of monsters and dictators, even sci-fi stories. PS Artbooks, 2023....More.

Item Code: AIRB01
Soft Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color
$32.99
We’re not aware of a hardcover edition of this yet, if there will be one.
 


Item Code: THAWK01H
Hard Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color
$52.99

THE HAWK Volume 1 Hardcover
Collects #1-5, 1951-54. Superb painted covers. Highly Recommended. Art by Murphy Anderson, Joe Kubert, Dan Barry et al. This could be the best drawn of all the early 1950s westerns. Cowboys were exploding across television, Saturday morning serials, and movies. A trend was seized upon by top-tier publisher Ziff-Davis who introduced The Hawk, "Fighting Marshall of the American West." With skill, courage, an honorable attitude, and nearly superhuman speed and ability with his six-shooter. PS artbooks, 2024. ...More.

Item Code: THAWK01
Soft Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color
$32.99

 


PLASTIC MAN Volume 5
Collects #17-21, 1949-50. Highly Recommended. Featuring art by the great Jack Cole. Even as super hero comics were losing steam, Plastic Man continued as a solidly popular title, still filled with charming, funny, and brilliantly imaginative artwork and stories by the master Jack Cole. PS Artbooks, 2023....More.

Item Code: PLAM05
Soft Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color
$32.99
Volumes 1-4 are all available as I write this, $32.99 each. Here’s more by Jack Cole.
 


BLACKHAWK Volume 10
Collects #49-53, 1952. Highly Recommended Art by Reed Crandall, Paul Gustavson and Dick Dillin. Another five thick issues with wild stories: the first Killer Shark story, invasions, a 12-foot-tall mummy, killers of the Amazon, Hell-diver rockets and much more. Primo cold war and horror and adventure stories from one of the most popular and long-running titles of the Golden Age, which carried right into the Silver Age with many revivals into modern times. PS Artbooks, 2023....More.

Item Code: BLAC10
Soft Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color
$32.99
Every previous volume is currently in stock, Vol 1-9 [BLAC01, etc. $32.99 ea]. Also now available are 5 volumes of Military Comics, beginning in 1941, with Blackhawk’s origin and first stories. Volumes 1-5 [MILC01, etc. $32.99 each].
 


WEIRD TERROR Volume 3
Collects #11-13 and Weird Chills #1 and 3, 1954. Recommended. Art by Basil Wolverton, Don Heck, Rudy Palais, Pete Morisi et al. Over-the-top horror, with monsters, murderers, decapitation and end-of-the-world (by atomic bomb) stories. Plus a blood transfusion cover and bondage covers by Bernard Baily. Also witches, ghosts, werewolves and enough vampires to go into the second-hand dentures business! Highly collected, wild issues from Comic Media and Key Publications. PS Artbooks, 2023....More.

Item Code: PCWT03
Soft Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color
$32.99
Hardcover volumes are not available. Here are previous softcover volumes 1 and 2 [PCWT01, 02. $32.99 ea].
 


HAND OF FATE Volume 1
Collects #8-12 (actually #1-5),1951-52. Recommended. By Lou Cameron, Mike Sekowsky, Ken Rice et al. I consider Ace a good step above most of the EC competitors. They offered offbeat stories tied together by the character "Fate," who provided narration. It's all about the living and the dead (and the undead), as well as getting what you shouldn't wish for, and the inevitable figure of death himself. This veritable sleeper from the Ace stable also includes work by Jim McLaughlin, Maurice Gutwirth, George Appel, Louis Zansky, Bill Molno, and Marvel's own Chic Stone. Cameron and McLaughlin were doing work worthy of EC in quality, especially in the later issues. PS Artbooks, 2023....More.

Item Code: PCHF01
Soft Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color
$32.99
Volumes 1, 2 and 4 are available in hardcover as a special order item [PCHF01H, etc. $44.99]. These began in 2018. Volume 3 hardcover is available now. We anticipate further softcover editions soon.
 


Item Code: MIDM01H
Hard Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color
$52.99

MIDNIGHT MYSTERY Volume 1 Hardcover
Collects #1-5, 1961. Recommended. Supernatural and science fiction from ACG, many scripted by the brilliant editor and writer Richard Hughes and drawn by talents including Kurt Schaffenberger, John Rosenberger, John Forte, Ogden Whitney, Tom Hickey, Paul Reinman, Ed Moritz and Pete Costanza. Sister magazine to Adventures into the Unknown and Forbidden Worlds. PS Artbooks, 2023....More.

Item Code: MIDM01
Soft Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color
$32.99

 


Item Code: SAG04H
Hard Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color
$52.99

GORGO Volume 4 Hardcover
Collects #16-20, 1963-64. Recommended. Art by Dick Giordano, Steve Ditko et al.After a seaquake, a huge lizard-like creature from prehistoric times walked into the comics world and was an immediate hit. This Godzilla wanna-be was just a kid though, and usually seems to just go after the bad guys and the bad monsters, protecting the weak and the good folks in his life. Wonderful Silver Age classics. PS Artbooks, 2023....More.

Item Code: SAG04
Soft Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color
$32.99

Here are previous volumes of Gorgo.
 


Item Code: SPIR01
Soft Cover, 7x10, 208pg, Full Color
$32.99

THE SPIRIT Volume 1
Collects #1-4, 1944-46. Highly Recommended. Will Eisner helped to created many of the seminal heroes for Quality Comics, then left to create The Spirit for the newspapers — his masterpiece of story and art. So of course Quality began collecting the 8-page stories. Here they are as they first appeared in issues #1-4 of the very first Spirit comic books. The stories are presented in a wide variety of styles, from straight forward crime drama and noir to lighthearted adventure, from mystery and horror to comedy and love stories, often with hybrid elements that twisted genre and reader expectations. PS Artbooks, 2023....More.

Item Code: SPIR01H
Hard Cover, 7x10, 208pg, Full Color
$52.99

The hardcover of this arrived a few weeks ago [SPIR01H. $52.99], kicking off this new series that is reprinting the Quality Group comic books, which in turn were collecting the Sunday sections (but not in any particular order).

The DC series below collects, for the first and so far only time, the Sunday sections in order, beginning with the very first in June. 1940. I’ve just reduced the price on this set of the first 16 volumes, 1940-48:

 


ALSO AVAILABLE
SPIRIT ARCHIVES Volumes 1-16 SET
By Will Eisner. The first 16 volumes set. These are priced all over the map on the internet, depending on how scarce they are, from a low of $25 to a high of, get this, $1500 for one volume. There are a few out there in the $60, 75 to $150 range due to scarcity. This set collects Eisner's fabled Spirit stories, from 1940 to 1948. Collecting all of these in the originals is still next to impossible...I've been after them myself for 50 years now, and still don't have them all. DC Comics, 2000-2005. Out of Print. Condition: Very Fine/As New. Rush Service and International shipping would require an additional charge....More.

Item Code: RB2026
Hard Cover, 7x10, Various, Full Color
$1350.00 $1100.00
Click here for more of The Spirit and other works by Will Eisner.
 

Signed by Carl Barks

 


CARL BARKS VISITOR FROM UNDERGROUND LITHOGRAPH Signed
Signed & numbered from 595 copies. 8x10 matted print. Lithograph print by Carl Barks on acid-free paper. Visitor From Underground was Another Rainbow's first Carl Barks money bin lithograph — large-size or miniature — in eight years when it was released in 1991. It was an instant success and quickly sold out. It was also the only miniature money bin litho. In The Fine Art of Walt Disney's Donald Duck by Carl Barks, a slip-cased coffee table book, Barks historian Barbara Boatner wrote "Worse than the Beagle Boys are little varmints that nibble thousand-dollar bills or squirrel away round, shiny objects ... but Scrooge's helpers are too tired from a long day in the south forty to even notice an intruder." Another Rainbow. 1991....More.

Item Code: CBVIS
8x10, Full Color
$300.00
 


CARL BARKS GIFTS FOR SHACKTOWN LITHOGRAPH Signed
Signed & numbered from 595 copies. 8x10 matted print. Lithograph print by Carl Barks on acid-free paper. Donald Duck, dressed as Santa Claus, rings a bell signaling good cheer as he rides a toy train. Huey, Dewey, and Louie play Santa's tiny helpers, and they tote a giant sack full of toys for the unfortunate children of Shacktown. This was the third miniature lithograph issued by Another Rainbow. Another Rainbow, 1991....More.

Item Code: CBGIF
8x10, Full Color
$300.00
 


CARL BARKS A HOT DEFENSE LITHOGRAPH Signed
Signed & numbered from 595 copies. 8x10 matted print. Lithograph print by Carl Barks on acid-free paper. "A Hot Defense" is the first in a series of miniature Carl Barks lithographs issued alternately with Another Rainbow's regular large series. It has been produced in eleven continuous-tone colors, picturing Donald Duck battling well-fortified nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie. Another Rainbow, 1990....More.

Item Code: CBAHO
8x10, Full Color
$300.00
 


CARL BARKS ALWAYS ANOTHER RAINBOW LITHOGRAPH Signed
Signed & numbered from 595 copies. 8x10 matted print. Lithograph print by Carl Barks on acid-free paper. Young Scrooge McDuck works the gold fields of the Klondike in this fourth miniature lithograph by Another Rainbow. The print has an overall size of 11 x 13.5 with an image area of 8 x 10 inches. Includes Certificate of Authenticity. Another Rainbow, 1992. ...More.

Item Code: CBALW
8x10, Full Color
$300.00

Save $200 and get matching numbers when you buy all four prints together in the Barks Print Set [CBLITP. $1,200, $1,000]. Shipping is free in the U.S. on all these since the order meets our $300 minimum for free shipping.

Click here for more Carl Barks. We have as yet unlisted Complete Carl Barks sets, as well as their full color softcover series, both from Another Rainbow. Inquire.

 

December Deals - Year End Sale!

Our final December Deal features sixty newly discounted items, including many Omnibus volumes. We also have a Flash Sale--these were already discounted from Auad Publishing and Underwood Books--we've reduced the prices even more, but only for three more days. Flash Sale prices expire on midnight Jan 1.

Huge Sale!

In preparation for future sales, we have discounted over 350 items! You can get a sneek peek by clicking here, or by using search code NRP0124.

 

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We sent out 1000 Christmas Cards enclosed with orders in December, until they ran out. In case you missed getting one, here it is. Our sincerest thanks to our good friend Dan Brereton for allowing us to use his cool paintings!

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