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Two Spectrums are back in stock, Alter Ego does a rare combo collection, new Alley Oop, British Romance Comics, Metabarons 4, a new Creepshow, Parker Girls signed by Terry Moore. And a batch of new PS Artbooks replicas of L.B. Cole covers for Blue Bolt Weird Tales, and the scarce horror title Weird Tales of the Future. |
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ALTER EGO COLLECTORS' ITEM CLASSICS Our Highest Recommendation. By overwhelming demand, Roy Thomas has compiled all the material on the founders of the Marvel Bullpen from three sold-out issues — plus over 30 new pages of content! There’s the Steve Ditko issue (#160 with a rare ’60s Ditko interview by Richard Howell, biographical notes by Nick Caputo, and Ditko tributes)! The Stan Lee issue (#161 with Roy Thomas on his 50+ year relationship with Stan, art by Kirby, Ditko, Maneely, Everett, Severin, & Romita). And the Jack Kirby issue (#170 with Will Murray on Kirby’s contributions to Iron Man’s creation, Jack’s Captain Marvel/Mr. Scarlet Fawcett work, Kirby in 1960s fanzines, plus Stan Lee and Roy Thomas on Jack).TwoMorrows, 2023....More. Item Code: AECIC Soft Cover, 8x11, 256pg, Text/Partial Color |
| Here’s all available back issues of Alter Ego. |
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| ALLEY OOP AND THE TIGER TAIL TRANSPLANT 1955 V.T. Hamlin Reprints 1955 dailies. Highly Recommended. Kidnappers from the 20th century raid Moo to steal King Guz for an unspeakable biological experiment! Other stories include a prehistoric fishing trip gone wrong and Ooola’s adventure with the legendary Helen of Troy, one of our very favorite sequences. Oola packs a .45 and doesn’t take sh*t from anyone!! She’s a pistol! Acoustic Learning, 2022....More. Item Code: ALLE55 Soft Cover, 11x7, 158pg, b&w $27.50 |
| Click here for all the V.T. Hamlin collections, and Dave Graue’s Oop. |
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A VERY BRITISH AFFAIR The Best of Classic Romance Comics Foreword by Trina Robbins.Curated by Eisner-nominated historian and artist David Roach, here is the stratospheric rise of romance comics in postwar Britain with a selection of the greatest stories. Featuring an eclectic mix of artists from Spain, Italy, and the UK, this collection unearths the sensual art and emotional writing which delighted generations of comics readers. Featuring over 50 comics stories — many of which have never been reprinted before. Rebellion, 2023....More. Item Code: AVERBH Hard Cover, 9x12, 224pg, Partial Color |
| Here’s more collections dealing with Romance, from Jack Kirby’s War and Romance, to Marvel’s 1961 collections with their last teen and romance issues. |
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MARVEL MASTERWORKS UNCANNY X-MEN Volume 15 Collects Uncanny X-Men #220-231, Avengers vs. X-Men #1-4 & more, circa 1997. Marc Silvestri’s legacy as an X-Men artist begins here. He defined a new era of mutant drama; The X-Men vs. Avengers mini-series. Next, Alan Davis draws an epic Annual introducing Horde. Then writer Chris Claremont returns for a run of legendary stories. The iconic "Fall of the Mutants" story line changed everything for the X-Men. With many team members missing and presumed dead, mutant kind regroups in Australia, becoming targets of the mysterious Reavers— Marvel, 2023. ...More. Item Code: MMUX15H Hard Cover, 7x10, 520pg, Full Color |
| Here are more in this series, and click here for all in stock Masterworks. |
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BERSERK DELUXE EDITIONS Volume 13 Collects #37-39. The Game of Thrones of adult fantasy/horror manga roars toward the finish line in this original oversized serialization format, with updated translations and three fold-out color posters. Guts the Black Swordsman and company reach the island of Skellig in hopes that Elven magic can heal the afflicted mind of Casca, but first they must face the island’s terrifying magical defenses. Dark Horse, 2023. Mature Readers. ...More. Item Code: BER13H Hard Cover, 7x10, 624pg, b&w |
| Click here for all back volumes, plus sister series in matching bindings, Hellsing. |
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THE METABARON BOOK 4 The Bastard & The Proto-Guardianess In this new and long-awaited installment of the classic Incal spin-off series, writer Jerry Frissen and artist Pete Woods put the Metabaron through his greatest challenge yet. This long-awaited fourth installment focuses on the greatest warrior the universe has ever known, the very last Metabaron No Name, and his fight against his own legacy. Humanoids, 2023. ...More. Item Code: META04H Hard Cover, 9x13, 112pg, Full Color |
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CREEPSHOW Volume 1 Collects #1-5. By Paul Dini, Chris Burnham, Erica Henderson, Francisco Francavilla, Kyle Starks, Jorge Corona, David Lapham et al. Inspired by EC Comics, a homage by Stephen King and Berni Wrightson, Creepshow returns with an all-new anthology tied into the hit Shudder TV series. An all-star roster of comics creators offers a very high level of accomplished art here. Image Comics, 2023....More. Item Code: CREPS01 Soft Cover, 6x10, 128pg, Full Color $14.99 |
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PARKER GIRLS Volume 1 Dead Quiet Signed Signed! Collecting #1-5. Recommended. A new spin-off of Strangers in Paradise, the Parker Girls are clandestine operatives who are pulling the retired Katchoo back into a new adventure. An accountant for billionaire Zackary May embezzles $10 million dollars and loses it to a Parker Girl, setting off a chain of events that have Tambi and her team investigating murder and international espionage. To get really close to May though, Tambi will need the help of the only girl he ever loved... Katchoo. Will she come out of retirement to help stop a power-hungry billionaire? Find out in this exciting new series from creator Terry Moore! Abstract Studios, 2023....More. Item Code: PARG01S Soft Cover, 7x10, 106pg, b&w $16.99 |
| Here’s more signed books from Terry Moore, sketches and graphic novels. |
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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. |
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WEIRD TALES OF THE FUTURE #5 Facsimile Edition & Print From 1953. Comes with a matted oversize print of the cover. Recommended. Pre-Code tales of science fiction and horror from Stanley Morse Publications. After being abducted by aliens, a man returns to Earth to find civilization destroyed. During a mountain-climbing trip, a man plots revenge against the friend who's sleeping with his wife. A woman decides to free herself from her domineering sister once and for all. PS Artbooks, 2022....More. Item Code: WEIT05 Comic, 7x10, 36pg, Full Color $23.99 |
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WEIRD TALES OF THE FUTURE #6 Facsimile Edition & Print From 1953. Comes with a matted oversize print of the cover, a classic by Bernard Baily. Recommended. One of the wildest pre-Code horror titles with a mix of science fiction too! Stanley Morse Publications gives us humans in the near-perfect society of 2053 set out to eliminate disease. A scientist who manages to shrink down in size is accidentally swallowed by a colleague. Spacefaring hero Jumpin' Jupiter by Basil Wolverton. Classic alien-abduction cover by Bernard Baily. PS Artbooks, 2022....More. Item Code: WEIT06 Comic, 7x10, 36pg, Full Color $23.99 |
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WEIRD TALES OF THE FUTURE #8 Facsimile Edition & Print From 1953. Comes with a matted oversize print of the cover, a gory heart-ripped-out classic by Bernard Baily. Recommended. By Hy Fleishman, Frank Frollo, Nick Frank, Loffredo, Walter Palais, and Mike Esposito. Futuristic science fiction with gore and horror. Host of The Ghoul Teacher, and a Graham Ingels swipe, the entire issue is actually a reprint of Weird Mysteries #1 from 1952, behind a brand new cover. "High Voltage" (art by Hy Fleishman), "The Planet Eaters," "Death Takes a Holiday" (art by Nick Frank), "A Stone's Throw From Eternity," "The Spirits From Outer Space!" PS Artbooks, 2022....More. Item Code: WEIT08 Comic, 7x10, 36pg, Full Color $23.99 |
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BLUE BOLT WEIRD TALES OF TERROR #108 Facsimile Edition & Print From 1951. Comes with a matted oversize print of the cover. Recommended. Behind a classic, all new cover by L.B. Cole, is a strange mix of reprints from the earliest issues of Blue Bolt. We have the superhero Blue Bolt first created by Simon & Kirby, pre-dating even Captain America #1. The wonderful sci-fi series Spacehawk by Basil Wolverton. And PS Artbooks’ new facsimile comic range has been faithfully produced with all scans reworked to bring them back as close as possible to the originals. PS Artbooks, 2022....More. Item Code: BB108 Comic, 7x10, 36pg, Full Color $23.99 |
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BLUE BOLT WEIRD TALES OF TERROR #110 Facsimile Edition & Print From 1951. Comes with a matted oversize print of the cover. Recommended. Another wonderful all-new cover by L.B. Cole. Spacehawk by Basil Wolverton, Blue Bolt (created by Simon & Kirby, here drawn by Alan Mandel) and The Phantom Sub, all from 1942. Superhero Target and the Targeteers from 1946 by Ken Battefield. PS Artbooks’ new facsimile comic range have been faithfully produced with all scans reworked to bring them back as close as possible to the originals. PS Artbooks, 2022....More. Item Code: BB110 Comic, 7x10, 36pg, Full Color $23.99 |
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BLUE BOLT WEIRD TALES OF TERROR #112 Facsimile Edition & Print From 1952. Comes with a matted oversize print of the cover. Highly Recommended. A wild new cover by L.B. Cole, another classic. Two great all-new stories "The Beast from Below" and "The Thing from Beyond" by classic outsider artist Jay Disbrow. Torpedoman and a second story, "The Weird Ape Howls" by Rudy Palais from 1945 and 1947, "Strange Tale of the Sea Monster." Wild stuff!! PS Artbooks, 2022....More. Item Code: BB112 Comic, 7x10, 36pg, Full Color $23.99 |
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BLUE BOLT WEIRD TALES OF TERROR #116 Facsimile Edition & Print From 1952. Comes with a matted oversize print of the cover. Recommended. Another riveting L.B. Cole cover, combining war and horror themes. Inside we have a new story, "The Ghostly Guardians" by the great Jay Disbrow and an eclectic mix of reprints: a superhero Blue Bolt drawn by Dan Barry from 1943, and a unknown artist draws Jungle Jo, a Rulah-style jungle man from a 1950 Fox publication. Plus other short features. PS Artbooks, 2022....More. Item Code: BB116 Comic, 7x10, 36pg, Full Color $23.99 |
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BLUE BOLT WEIRD TALES OF TERROR #119 Facsimile Edition & Print From 1953. Comes with a matted oversize print of the cover. Recommended. Art by Rudy Palais and L. B. Cole. L.B. Cole’s covers for this run get weirder and weirder, and this may just be the most demonic. Whoa! "Demons of Docar," another wild new story by Jay Disbrow. "Die a Weird Death" reprinted from Rocket Ship X from 1951. And another Jungle Jo reprint from 1948, "Weird City." Jo was the male counterpart to Rulah and Sheena from publisher Fox, but with his busty assistant Tanee offering sex appeal to readers. PS Artbooks, 2022....More. Item Code: BB119 Comic, 7x10, 36pg, Full Color $23.99 |
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PHANTOM LADY #18 Facsimile Edition & Print From 1948. Comes with a matted oversize print of the cover. Recommended. Continuing the Phantom Lady facsimile comics comes this issue with a classic cover and two 10-page stories by the legendary good-girl artist Matt Baker: “Ghosts, Galleons and Gold” and “The Fat Connoisseur.” PS is collecting every Phantom Lady story from the Fox Features Syndicate series in these facsimile editions.PS Artbooks, 2022....More. Item Code: PHL18 Comic, 7x10, 36pg, Full Color $23.99 |
| Click here for previous Phantom Lady Replicas, collecting issues #13, 14 and 15, at the same $23.99. We also still offer both hardcover Phantom Lady collections as special order items [PHL01H , PLH02H. $48 each]. Also click here for more replica editions. |
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We have a new Cavewoman this week, Markham's Mansion, with two nude variant covers. Click here for Root’s other covers, and here for Cave Paintings: The Art of Budd Root which is still available [CAVPH. $30]. |
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PUSH YOUR CREATIVITY Reimagining Fairy Tales Through Illustration A lavish hardback tome, containing 288 pages populated by characters who started life known to children and adults around the world. However, these characters, their settings, and narratives, have taken on a different form, their stories unflinchingly transformed. The infamous darkness that shrouds many fairy tales is left intact, while in others, the weird, wondrous, and even unexpected workaday awaits.3dtotal Publishing, 2023. Due: Apr....More. Item Code: PUSHH Hard Cover, na, 288pg, Full Color $50.00 |
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ART OF METAL Five Decades of Heavy Metal Album Covers, Posters, T-Shirts, and More By Martin Popoff.From the colorful, outlandish, yet sophisticated use of visuals for album artwork and posters, to the immediately recognizable logos of such bands as Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Motörhead, Metallica, Slayer, and a host of others across many subgenres, there’s a close-knit relationship between the music and the images that have come to represent the songs, anthems, and sheer nature of the beast. Schiffer, 2023. Due: Apr....More. Item Code: ARTMETH Hard Cover, 10x11, 240pg, Full Color $45.00 |
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| THE ART OF PINK FLOYD THE WALL Recommended. A sumptuously illustrated book collecting Gerald Scarfe's iconic work for Pink Floyd. First The Wall was an album, then it was a stage show, a film — now there will be the definitive book, a work of art in its own right. Large, landscape-format, presented in a stunning slipcase designed by Scarfe. Packed with photos, drawings and designs which incorporate the iconic imagery of The Wall alongside new and previously unseen material. Little Brown, 2023. Due: May....More. Item Code: ARTPFWH Hard Cover, 11x15, 288pg, Full Color |
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CONAN THE BARBARIAN The Original Comics Omnibus Volume 1 Highly Recommended. Writer Roy Thomas and artist Barry Windsor-Smith brought Robert E. Howard’s iconic creation to four-color life with work that set new standards for comic book storytelling. This oversized Omnibus begins an historic series of collections of the original 1970 Conan the Barbarian comic book series with each issue painstakingly restored to match the majesty of the original editions. In these early exploits, a young Conan ventures from his homeland for the first time, honing his skills as a thief, mercenary, pirate and above all, warrior! 776 pages of the very first Conan comics ever. Titan, 2023. Due: Jun....More. Item Code: CONOC01H Hard Cover, na, 776pg, Full Color |
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OUT OF MY HEAD The Imaginary Creatures of Josep Baque The incredible story of a World War II-era police officer in Barcelona…In his private time he created 1500 imaginary creatures and told not a soul about them. In this first-ever critical biography of Baqué, art historian Brian Chidester reflects on the artist and his creation through the prism of 20th century art, the Franco dictatorship in Spain (1939–75), and the few correlative records in Baqué’s personal archive. Fantagraphics, 2023. Due: Jun....More. Item Code: OUTOMH Hard Cover, 10x5, 528pg, Full Color |
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THE DEFENDERS Omnibus Volume 2 Complete in this Omnibus, Steve Gerber's definitive Defenders run. Using this unlikely cast of misfits, Gerber turned Marvel's "non-team" into a locus of innovation by deconstructing genre conventions and adding a healthy dose of absurdity. From the Elf With a Gun to Bambi and the Bozos, each storyline is a challenging critique of the era's culture.Marvel, 2023. Due: July....More. Item Code: DEFE02H Hard Cover, na, 704pg, Full Color |
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Fantastic Worlds of Frazetta Limited The Deluxe Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta finally arrived this week. Most backorders will be shipping out today via UPS. All copies that we received are spoken for except one, as I write this. But we were able to order eight more copies, which will be here in two or three weeks, if you want to make sure to get a copy. Our last order of the regular $200 edition is still en route to us, here in mid-April. It is out of print, and Amazon is no longer offering it. |
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Upcoming Shows We will be exhibiting at the Sacramento Book Fair this week, March 25th, with lots of half price hurt books, a good batch of vintage comic books, children’s and illustrated books. We hope to see you there, we’re back in our old spot. We will be back exhibiting in Portland, Oregon at the Rose City show in June and Berkeley, California at the comic show there in August. ~Bud |
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