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Here are two special sales offerings. First off, we are blowing out the last 3...2...1 Gone copies we have. You will get an EXTRA 20% off on each ALMOST GONE ITEM when you go to check out from your shopping cart. Even if it's already on sale, you'll get 20% MORE discount. Enter this COUPON CODE when you check out to get your bonus discount: GONE20. The August Clearance is our second Sale. We've just now marked down nearly 150 titles never before on sale. Sixty are pictured below. Click on these two links to see all the others. For even more sale items, browse our CLOSEOUTS section for many more. The first category is IMPERFECT BOOKS, which are all HALF PRICE. Many of these have never been listed elsewhere because we have just a few of each. Once any title sells out, when you click on it below it will NOT link you to the website listing. Sold out items items are immediately taken off our website. |
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Use coupon code: GONE20 at checkout until August 31st, and take 20% off all items in our ALMOST GONE section on our Website. Any order within the U.S. over $300 will also be shipped postage FREE. |
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VISIONS OF ADVENTURE PORTFOLIO Signed & Limited, 500! Recommended. This high-quality portfolio features the best of Mark Wheatley’s Edgar Rice Burroughs paintings. The custom die-cut illustrated folder holds fifteen extraordinary plates and an additional two-sided artist biography/image information plate. 100lb stock. Six plates are signed and numbered. Bonus John Carter and the Heroes of Barsoom Diorama. ERB, Inc., 2022....More. Item Code: VISAPT 9x14, Full Color |
| We still have a few copies of the Signed & Limited version [VISAPTD. $180, on sale at $120]. |
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KAY NIELSEN An Enchanted Vision 115 color illustrations. Highly Recommended. By Alison Luxner and Meghan Melvin. Kay Nielsen’s luminous interpretations of fairy tales and legends from around the world are among the most celebrated book illustrations of the early 20th century, unsurpassed in their dramatic intensity and intricate detail. This book is the first to put his achievements in the context of a career that took him from studies in Paris to the Copenhagen theater, to galleries in London and New York, to the Walt Disney Studios, presenting fresh insights into his life and work as well as his materials and techniques. Dazzling reproductions of original watercolors and drawings from one of the premier collections of Nielsen’s work invite viewers to enter the enchanted world of an imaginative and supremely gifted artist. MFA Publications, 2021....More. Item Code: KAYNEH Hard Cover, 8x11, 168pg, Full Color |
| East of the Sun and West of the Moon is available via special order [KNEH. $40.00]. |
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DRACULA OF TRANSLYVANIA Signed Signed bookplate, limited to the first 50 copies! Highly Recommended. By Ricardo Delgado. A fresh, bold retelling of the classic Stoker novel with the pace of the modern thriller, written by AND lavished with incredible concept art from one of Hollywood’s leading Conceptual Designers, Ricardo Delgado. 1899 Transylvania bleeds history and evil. Young Solicitor Jonathan Harker braves ghosts, demons, living skeletons, and armies of rats as he encounters Dracula. The demonic, shapeshifting vampire imposes his wrath, malice and vengeance upon an England about to enter the Modern Era, crushing everything in his path. Clover Press, 2021. ...More. Item Code: DRACHS Hard Cover, 8x10, 560pg, Full Color |
| Slightly bumped copies also available—we just lowered the price on these to $19.95 [DRACHR]. |
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ILLUSTRATION ART GALLERY PRESENTS Through the Ages Drawings and Paintings by Peter Jackson Recommended. A major collection of Peter Jackson's stunning historical art. Most active during the 1960s - 1980s, Peter used his superb artistry and wonderful imagination to depict a variety of historic events and characters, including work in The Eagle and Look and Learn, of the Ancients, Roman and Greek History, Medieval, Tudor and Victorian times, and beyond, taking us well into 20th Century Life. The book includes an introduction to his art and career, including the techniques he employs. Scanned directly from the originals. He died in 2003. Book Palace, 2021....More. Item Code: ILLTHH Soft Cover, 9x11, 96pg, Full Color |
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ILLUSTRATORS QUARTERLY SPECIAL #5 The Art of Commando Recommended. By Peter Richardson, Calum Laird et al. Featuring Ian Kennedy, Ken Barr et al. Featuring very good war artwork from the popular British periodical Commando—cover art and interiors, with in-depth features on Ian Kennedy, Neil Roberts, Keith Burns, and Ken Barr. Interviews with its editor and writers, orgins and history. Unique in-depth interview with legendary Commando artist Gordon Livingstone; Step by step revelations from Commando artists on how they create their iconic art; Tales from the Commando HQ and writers' revelations. Book Palace, 2019....More. Item Code: IQS05 Soft Cover, 9x11, 144pg, Partial Color |
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ILLUSTRATORS QUARTERLY #36 Highly Recommended. Thomas Fluharty, one of the usual gang of idiots from MAD magazine during the 1990s, talks about his artwork and shows us his caricatures, including this issue's cover. Arantza Sestayo, Spanish realist and illustrator, is our favorite feature — beautiful women and fairies, Game of Thrones, and Dejah Thoris. Nearly as exciting, for comic fans they examine fine-line illustrator José Luis Salinas and his Cisco Kid, plus never-before-seen color western paintings. Caran d'Ache, the French master of humor and pen & ink, whose work influenced many comic strip artists from the 20th century, is also examined. Book Palace, 2022....More. Item Code: IQ36 Soft Cover, 9x11, 96pg, Partial Color |
| Click here to see other Illustrators Quarterly, and specials. |
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COSMIC-70 The Art of Paul Davidson Recommended. A visual archive of sketches, commissioned artwork and fantasy illustrations from comic book creator Paul Davidson. Paul revisits some of his most popular characters from Moon Knight, Silver Surfer and Conan to Judge Dredd and everything in between. The Newcastle-born artist has spent the past 25 years working as a concept artist for video games and illustrating books for publishers around world. His comic book career began with the creation of Dwarf Lords for Games Workshop’s "Warhammer" in the 90’s. After years of producing storyboards and concept art in the video games industry, Marvel lured him back into comics in 2008 to draw X-Men, Moon Knight and Silver Surfer to name a few. Berserker, 2022....More. Item Code: COSMP Soft Cover, 8x11, 100pg, Full Color |
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IN THE TEMPLE OF THE SELF The Artist's Residence as a Total Work Highly Recommended. Twenty homes and villas of artists are works of art themselves. Starting with the Villa Stuck in Munich — the life’s work of the aristocratic Symbolist Franz von Stuck — this unique volume reveals artist’s houses, living quarters and studios! Includes Lord Leighton, Frederic Church, Alma-Tadema, Tiffany, Monet, Gustave Moreau, Georgia O'Keefe, William Morris’ Red House and ten more amazing places! Oversized, thick art book. Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2022....More. Item Code: INTEMH Hard Cover, 9x12, 376pg, Full Color |
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HI-FRUCTOSE COLLECTED EDITION Volume 1 Under the Counter Culture A compilation of the "best-of-Hi-Fructose" from the first four hard-to-find volumes. Features artists Chris Ware, Ron English, Ragnar, Mark Ryden, Jim Woodring, Tim Biskup, Dave Cooper, Gary Baseman, Joe Ledbetter, Friends With You, Wilfrid Wood, Kurt Halsey, Greg "Craola" Simkins, Invader, Gary Taxali, Alex Pardee, Seen, Leslie Reppeteaux, Brian McCarty, Attaboy, Fawn Gehweiler, Saur Kids. Chris Uphues, Michael Salter, Jeff Soto, Scott Musgrove, Junko Mizuno, Kaiju Big Battel, PShaw!, Jenny Bird, Ray Caesar, Cat Chow, Longo Land, and many more. Cover art by Ray Caesar. Last Gasp, 2021....More. Item Code: HIFRU Soft Cover, 8x11, 256pg, Partial Color |
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BATMAN SPAWN The Classic Collection From 1994. Hardcover. Recommended. For the first time in three decades, this edition of the classic meeting between comics’ caped avengers of the night reprints Batman/Spawn: War Devil #1 by legendary Batman creators Doug Moench, Chuck Dixon, Alan Grant, and Klaus Janson...plus the Spawn/Batman one-shot by Frank Miller and Spawn creator Todd McFarlane, which brings Batman to Spawn’s home turf of New York City! Two heroes with different methods in two very different tales. DC Comics, 2022....More. Item Code: BATSCC Hard Cover, 7x10, 112pg, Full Color |
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SPAWN COMPENDIUM Volume 3 Another well-priced, enormous 1136-page volume! Collects #101-150, 2000-2005. By Todd McFarlane with Brian Holguin. Art by Angel Medina with Dan Miki et al. Another 50 issues of the most successful independent comic book in history. Spawn discovers the true meaning of becoming a Hellspawn and settles on a path of bloody revenge in search of a way back to humanity! Once the soldier Al Simmons, Spawn has enemies on all sides while he navigates a world that thinks him dead, while defending humanity from forces of both Heaven and Hell. Image comics, 2022....More. Item Code: SPAW03 Soft Cover, 7x10, 1136pg, Full Color |
| Six other Spawn titles can be found here. |
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SAVAGE DRAGON The Ultimate Collection Volume 1 Collects The Dragon #1-5 & Savage Dragon #1-8, plus loads of extras, 1982-84! A 30th anniversary spectacular. Image presents, for the first time ever, a massive hardcover collecting the inaugural 5 issue miniseries and first eight issues of the Erik Larsen's groundbreaking Savage Dragon ongoing series, reprinted for the first time in decades, along with all the extras from the first two trade paperback volumes and even more. Image Comics, 2022....More. Item Code: SAVU01H Hard Cover, 8x11, 306pg, Full Color |
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THE GREAT TREASURY CHRISTMAS COMIC BOOK STORIES Highly Recommended. Art by John Stanley, Walt Kelly, and Richard Scarry. Edited by Craig Yoe. This is the perfect gift for Christmas and could become a well-read, treasured family book. Expert Craig Yoe selects stories to delight those from ages 3 to 100! Classic illustrators and cartoonists like Richard Scarry, Walt Kelly, and John Stanley are featured with multiple stories, plus selected works by Golden Age masters Jack Bradbury, Dan Noonan, Klaus Nordling, and Alberto Gioletti. Warm and fuzzy brightly colored comics full of humor, whimsy, and holiday love. IDW, 2018....More. Item Code: GRTR Soft Cover, 7x10, 176 pg., Full Color |
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THE SEEDS Collects #1-4. Recommended. By Ann Nocenti. Art by David Aja. The hotly-anticipated eco-fiction tech thriller-meets-love-story from the award-winning, visionary team of Ann Nocenti (Daredevil, Ruby Falls) and David Aja (Hawkeye, Immortal Iron Fist)! In a broken-down world, a rebellious group of ruthless romantics have fled a tech-obsessed society to create their own...and a few cantankerous aliens have come to harvest the last seeds of a humanity that is fast going to pieces. When one of them falls in love with a human, idealistic journalist Astra stumbles into the story of a lifetime, only to realize that if she reports it, she'll destroy the last hope of a dying planet. Berger Books, 2021....More. Item Code: SEEDS Soft Cover, 7x10, 128pg, b&w |
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FIREFLY BLUE SUN RISING Volume 2 Collects Firefly #23-24 & Firefly: Blue Sun Rising #1. By Greg Pak. Art by Dan McDaid, Lalit Kumar Sharma et al. The stage is set for the final battle as the first ever Firefly event concludes, with Sheriff Mal Reynolds — yeah, he’s still getting used to it too — making a choice that may cost him those he loves most, whether he knows it or not... Shocking losses lead to stunning decisions as Mal and the crew of Serenity must face the consequences of their choices in war against the Blue Sun Corporation. Boom!, 2021....More. Item Code: FIRBS02H Hard Cover, 7x10, 128pg, Full Color |
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FABLES COMPENDIUM ONE Fables #1-41 & more, 2002-2005. Highly Recommended. By Bill Willingham. Art by Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, Lan Medina, James Jean et al. Get lost in the fantastic world, an amazing 1180 pages of it, of Bill Willingham's acclaimed, Eisner Award-winning series. When a savage creature, known only as the Adversary, conquered the lands of legends and fairy tales, the famous inhabitants of folklore were forced into exile. Disguised among the normal citizens of a modern New York, these magical characters created their own peaceful and secret society, which they called Fabletown. But when Snow White's party-girl sister, Rose Red, is apparently murdered, it's up to Fabletown's sheriff — the reformed Big Bad Wolf, Bigby — to find the killer. DC Comics, 2020....More. Item Code: FABL01H Soft Cover, 7x10, 1184pg, Full Color |
| Conpendium Four is also available, on sale. [FABL04H. $59.99, $39.99]. |
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SENSATIONAL WONDER WOMAN Collects #1-7. Recommended. Celebrating Wonder Woman’s 80th anniversary, we go back to WW's roots in fun retro stories. In the first, WW is married, with a husband and child, and no memory of her reality. Doctor Psycho strikes. Plus seven variant covers. Stories by Stephanie Phillips, Andrea Shea, Colleen Doran, Alyssa Wong, Corinna Bechko, Amy Chu, Sina Grace and Sanya Anwar. DC Comics, 2021....More. Item Code: SENWO Soft Cover, 7x10, 152pg, Full Color |
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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 |
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BOOTSIE'S WAR YEARS Forward by Qiana Whitted. Recommended. Bootsie was a liar, a womanizer, a layabout, a scammer, a cheat, and an all around disreputable dude. And one of the best-known and beloved Black syndicated strips ever created. For the first time, 150 "Dark Laughter" cartoons from 1941 through 1946, during which time Bootsie goes from being a draft evader to a draftee, an enlisted man, a serviceman on the ground in Europe, and ultimately to a veteran for the winning side. In these, cartoonist Ollie Harrington’s lively art captures the rich reality of Bootsie’s world while telling tales that are sometimes joyous, sometimes very harsh, like the world itself. About Comics, 2022....More. Item Code: BOOTW Soft Cover, 6x9, 162pg, b&w |
| Bootsie's Big 50s is also on sale [BOOTB. $18, $10] |
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TRAILBLAZERS A Tribute to Canada's WWII Comic Creators Limited, 300. Highly Recommended. A very special homage by contemporary artists, celebrating the 80th Anniversary of the first published Canadian comic books and their creators. Canadian wartime comic enthusiast Ivan Kockmarek has edited an anthology of tributes to Canada’s original comic creators by some of the best current creators. Contributors include: Michael Gilbert (on Mr. Monster's creator Fred Kelley, naturally), Ken Steacy, Ho Che Anderson, Dave Sim, James Waley (Orb), Eric Kim, Ronn Sutton (of Dark Horse fame), Ron Kasman et al. North End Books, 2021....More. Item Code: TRAILB Soft Cover, 7x10, 56pg, b&w |
| Heroes of the Home Front is the history of Canadian Whites and their creators. |
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OVERSTREET COMIC BOOK PRICE GUIDE TO LOST UNIVERSES Ironjaw Cover The highly collectible world of lost universes gets a brand-new specially focused, full-color edition of Overstreet that also serves as a Photo-Journal of all the comics featured. From in-depth looks at the original Milestone and Valiant publishers, to Tower’s T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents and Charlton’s superheroes, and from Topps’ Kirbyverse and the MLJ/Archie heroes (including the Golden Age issues) to Malibu’s Ultraverse and Marvel’s New Universe and more. Gemstone, 2022....More. Item Code: OVERLI Soft Cover, 7x10, 528pg, Partial Color |
| The new 53rd edition Overstreet guides arrived a few weeks ago. All editions are still available, including the Big Big book just in. |
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TEACHING ARTFULLY By Meghan Parker. Introduction by Eisner-award winning Nick Sousanis. Teaching Artfully charmingly chronicles Meghan Parker's explorations as a new art teacher in a public high school. Parker struggles with engaging her students with art and why it's an important part of education. A lesson, in comic-form, we can all learn from. Created as a groundbreaking Master of Arts thesis in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University, Teaching Artfully celebrates the role of the arts and emphasizes the importance of personal connection in education. Clover Press, 2021....More. Item Code: TEACAR Soft Cover, 7x6, 240pg, Full Color |
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HOKUSAI A Graphic Biography Highly Recommended. By Francesco Matteuzzi. Art by Giuseppe Latanza. A revealing and wonderfully visual graphic novel biography of Japan's most famous artist. He's the enigmatic creator of Japanese art's all-time most iconic image — and far more. His intriguing life and pioneering works, details the Edo-era Japan, and how Hokusai forged an image of his country that still resonates across the world today. Laurence King Publishing, 2021....More. Item Code: HOKUH Hard Cover, 7x10, 128pg, Full Color |
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GRAY Volume 1 By Arvind Ethan David. Art by Eugenia Koumaki and Diana Greenhalgh. A graphic novel by the mind behind the Dirk Gently TV show, the Darkness Visible graphic novel, and the Jagged Little Pill Broadway musical, Gray is a reimagined, modern feminist, politically charged update on Oscar Wilde's A Picture of Dorian Gray. Warning, sexual violence. Based on Oscar Wilde's novel, a classic of gothic literature. It's a tale of the most beautiful man of his age, who sells his soul and his conscience in exchange for eternal youth, beauty and power - and who spends his life murdering, raping and corrupting. All the time in his attic, his picture degrades and rots. Clover Press, 2021. Adult Material....More. Item Code: GRAY01H Hard Cover, 9x11, 124pg, Full Color |
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ORIGINS Recommended. Collects #1-6. By Clay McLeod Chapman. Art by Jakub Rebelka. One thousand years after humans have gone extinct and artificial intelligence has taken over the world, a single man is brought back to life — David Adams, the genius whose technology was responsible for the destruction of his species, and who has been given a second chance at life in order to save mankind and undo his biggest mistake. But even with the help of an android girl, his first creation, he may not be enough to reignite the spark of humanity or stop the AI overlords who plan to eliminate the last hope for mankind. Boom!, 2021....More. Item Code: ORIGI Soft Cover, 7x10, 144pg, Full Color |
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VAMPIRELLA / RED SONJA Volume 2 Collects #7-12. By Jordie Bellaire. Art by Drew Moss. New story arc! Perfect jumping-on point! What in the hell are Vampirella and Red Sonja doing in 1920s New York City, what did they do to piss off gangsters, and where are they going next...if they even survive?!?! Variant covers for every issue by Jae Lee, Roberto Castro, Rod Reis, Leonardo Romero, and others, all doing a variant of EVERY cover. Plus cosplay photo covers. Dynamite, 2021....More. Item Code: VARS02 Soft Cover, 7x10, 152pg, Full Color |
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SPACE BASTARDS Volume 1 Tooth & Mail Collects #1-6. By Eric Peterson and Joe Aubrey. Art by Darick Robertson. Introduction by Publisher Mark Waid. From the acclaimed artist of Transmetropolitan and The Boys). In the future, unemployment and job dissatisfaction are sky-high. When you've got nothing left to lose, you join the Intergalactic Postal Service (IPS). Its postal fees are steep — and they go only to whomever ultimately fulfills the delivery, making every run a comically violent free-for-all between the most ruthless mercenaries in the cosmos! Humanoids, 2021....More. Item Code: SPAB01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 216pg, Full Color |
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TOM CLANCY'S THE DIVISION Remission First published in France in 2019. Recommended. Months after a bioweapon attack devastated New York City and provoked a global pandemic, the Division agents are still fighting to bring order, stability, and justice to communities shattered by this catastrophic event. When various factions, vying for power in the wake of the crisis, seek to claim the future of Washington, DC, for themselves, the Division is called to take on these new threats and protect the capital of the United States. The paths of four survivors, once childhood friends, deviate as they find themselves entangled in the vicious civil unrest and we get flashbacks to kinder, gentler times when the four friends were just normal 12-year-olds in a far more sane world. Dark Horse, 2021....More. Item Code: TOMDH Hard Cover, 8x11, 64pg, Full Color |
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TUKI Fight for Fire Hardcover Signed Signed! Recommended. By Jeff Smith. An all-new series from the creator of Bone. The ancient world was filled with restless and powerful spirits. Two million years ago, new forces began to stir...and everything changed. At the dawn of humanity, during a prolonged period of hardship and drought, three lost children meet a mysterious traveler named Tuki. Together, their search for the Mother Herd of all Buffalo leads them far north through the dangerous territory of a rival species. Cartoon Books, 2021....More. Item Code: TUKIFHS Hard Cover, 11x9, 144pg, b&w |
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MUTINY MAGAZINE #1 Cover B Gene Ha Variant Cover by Gene Ha. Recommended. A cutting-edge new magazine devoted to the best in comics. Interview with writers Stephanie Phillips (Wonder Woman, Harley Quinn) and Garth Ennis (about his new project, Marj). Artist Ray-Anthony Height (Star Wars, Luke Cage, Midnight Tiger). Spanish creator Maria Llovet (Faithless). Comics veteran Sal Buscema. Felix the Cat; Marvel's What If? in comics and the Disney channel. Plus SEVEN original comics stories by Eric Herenguel, Ibrahium Moustafa, Mark Stafford, Alex Schumacher, Brandon Thomas et al. FairSquare Comics, 2021....More. Item Code: MUTM01B Magazine, 8x11, 100pg, Full Color |
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MUTINY MAGAZINE #1 Cover C Karen Darboe Variant cover by Karen Darboe. Recommended. A cutting-edge new magazine devoted to the best in comics. Interview with writers Stephanie Phillips (Wonder Woman, Harley Quinn) and Garth Ennis (about his new project, Marj). Artist Ray-Anthony Height (Star Wars, Luke Cage, Midnight Tiger). Spanish creator Maria Llovet (Faithless). Comics veteran Sal Buscema. Felix the Cat; Marvel's What If? in comics and the Disney channel. Plus SEVEN original comics stories by Eric Herenguel, Ibrahium Moustafa, Mark Stafford, Alex Schumacher, Brandon Thomas et al. FairSquare Comics, 2021....More. Item Code: MUTM01C Magazine, 8x11, 100pg, Full Color |
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CHILDREN OF THE WOODS Recommended. A wonderfully creepy story much in the style of Mignola's Hellboy spin-offs, but in the present day. A taste for revenge leads to a monstrous outcome...Young Amber and her friend Quinn pay a heavy price for power and magic as they become the newest children of the demented Black Woods. And no longer human. Featuring art by Joshua Hixson and story from Joe Ciano, Children of the Woods explores the monster within and what is left when that monster finally comes out. Dark Horse, 2022....More. Item Code: CHILW Soft Cover, 7x10, 144pg, Full Color |
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AMBER BLAKE The Complete Collection Collects all three volumes. Recommended. A modern Modesty Blaise! Action and intrigue in this modern sci-fi thriller from supermodel/writer Jade Lagardère and legendary comics artist Butch Guice (Captain America) that shines a light on the dark corner of international human trafficking. Orphaned at the age of 5, Amber was enrolled at the Cleverland Institute, a school for gifted children, where she was promised a bright future. But predators hid in the school's administration and, on the verge of exposing them, Amber found herself fleeing for her life from the very man who took her in. Now a top recruit of a covert agency dead-set on ending slavery in all its forms, she's going to destroy everyone who's ever hurt the people she loves. Heavy Metal, 2022....More. Item Code: AMBEBL Hard Cover, 8x11, 160pg, Full Color |
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AMAZING FANTASY Treasury Edition Collects #1-5, 2021. Recommended. Kaare Andrews (Spider-Man: Reign) presents an all-new vision of the Marvel Universe! Spy-school young Black Widow, a very young, teenaged Spider-Man, and World War II-era Captain America wake up together on an island of intrigue, darkness and amazing fantasy. Are they dead? Are they dreaming? Or have they truly been transported to another fantastical realm? Marvel, 2022....More. Item Code: AMAFA Soft Cover, 9x13, 144pg, Full Color |
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ST. MERCY Collects #1-4. Recommended. Art by Atilio Rojo. A tale of revenge that spans millenia, from ancient Incan times to the 1800's wild west. When Mercedes Oro, a young missionary on the outskirts of a small frontier town, takes in and cares for a dying outlaw, the outlaw's gang repays her by attacking her mission, killing her family, stealing the golden artifacts she swore to protect, and leaving her for dead with a dagger through her heart. Unbeknownst to the gang, the cursed dagger resurrects Mercedes, and she is reborn as St. Mercy, an avenging angel of death. Image Comics, 2022....More. Item Code: STMER Soft Cover, 7x10, 128pg, Full Color |
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LADY DEATH OBLIVION KISS #1 Premiere Edition By Brian Pulido and Mike MacLean. Art by Dheeraj Verma. Lady Death rampages through Hell armed with a new sword, Chaos. The treacherous Hellbourne Elders dispatch Atrocitas, an insane angel/demon hybrid assassin to destroy her. But their epic confrontation proves tragic for Lady Death's beloved steed, Vassago. Rumors of a warlock who can restore Vassago draw Lady Death to the wasteland city Siduri, where lust isn't a sin, but a way of life. Gold foil titles, heavy index stock. Coffin Comics, 2022....More. Item Code: LADOK01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 48pg, Full Color |
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CULT GIRLS Recommended. By Natalie Grand and Nikki Powers. Art by Cassandre Bolan. "This beautifully illustrated graphic novel pertains to any cult. Nicely and clearly written, it's a good, if harrowing story." -Trina Robbins. Based on a true story of Talia and her friends as they struggle with growing suspicions that their faith is a patriarchal religious cult. Written by the wife of comics superfan Alex Grand (comicbookhistorians.com). It's a story of tremendous courage as these four girls free themselves — told through a feminist lens with cautionary humor. Talia discusses the adversity faced as a young female raised in a cult that values its men over its women, and trying to find herself in the midst of severe peer pressure. Rosa talks about how she was forced into a loveless marriage and struggles to find the means to escape. Sandy and Rochelle hope to fade out of their elder’s attention while still trying to maintain a successful marriage. These four women were born, raised and married in the cult and they each have a different path out. Note: corners very slightly bumped. Comic Book Historians, 2022....More. Item Code: CULTG Soft Cover, 9x11, 96pg, Full Color |
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COMIC BOOK HISTORIANS PRESENTS HOWARD CHAYKIN, DARK PRINCE OF COMICS Highly Recommended. By Alex Grand, and Jim Thompson et al. A career-spanning look at Howard Chaykin’s life and controversies. Examines his childhood reading comic books and watching films during the 1960s, training under Gil Kane, Wally Wood, and Neal Adams, early work at Marvel including drawing the first Star Wars comics, DC, Atlas/Seaboard, Byron Preiss, Heavy Metal, and on into American Flagg! for First Comics, right up to today. Comic Book Historians, 2021....More. Item Code: COMHC Soft Cover, 7x10, 110pg, Text/Partial Color |
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FRANK THORNE The Blue Wizard of the Comic Arts Recommended. Comic Book Historians Alex Grand and Jim Thompson provide historical insight into the comic book legend Frank Thorne with essays and a one of a kind interview shortly before his death, discussing his works. Thorne has worked at Dell, Gold Key, and DC Comics. He received an explosion of fan activity in the 1970s and 80s with his comic work centered around strong beautiful female characters like Red Sonja and other famous femmes fatales like Ghita, Lann for Heavy Metal, Ribit for Comico, Danger Rangerette for National Lampoon, and Moonshine McJugs for Playboy. Comic Book Historians, 2021....More. Item Code: FTBLUE Soft Cover, 7x10, 64pg, Text/Partial Color |
| Here are more specialty books from Alex Grand and comicbookhistorians. |
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MOON KNIGHT Volume 2 Collects #7-12, 2021-22 and Devil's Reign. The brilliant new phase of the Moon Knight continues by writer Jed MacKay. How does he fight someone that no one knows? Moon Knight is out for blood, and hits the streets armed with only a name...Zodiac. Marc is soon fighting his way through the super-crime underworld of NYC, looking for answers to a question he’s barely grasped... Marvel, 2022....More. Item Code: MOONK02 Soft Cover, 7x10, 168pg, Full Color |
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THE HOLLOWS Artist Sam Kieth and writer Chris Ryall transport you to a dystopian near-future Japan, where spectral, once-human husks prey on the unfortunates who couldn't find salvation in the skyscraper-like trees that now dominate the decimated landscape. A discredited scientist works furiously to find a cure, until a one-eyed orphan girl and her pet, named Urp, force him to rethink everything he knows... Image Comics, 2022....More. Item Code: HOLLO Comic, 7x10, 96pg, Full Color |
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BUSTER AND THE HAUNTED BANJO Signed Signed! Highly Recommended. "Once upon a time a ramblin’, banjo playin’, bag-a-bones by the name of Buster set out to find his fortune, along with a haunted banjo for a partner." Brian Kesinger’s (Walking Your Octopus) tale of hobo strummer Buster Bones began October 1st 2020 as an improvised story written and illustrated with the engagement of over a quarter million social media followers. By the end of the month, with guidance from Kesinger’s most enthusiastic fans, Buster had become a rags-to-riches success story and bonafide rock star.Baby Tattoo, 2022....More. Item Code: BUSTHS Hard Cover, 7x10, 64pg, Full Color |
| Click here for more wonderful work by Kesinger with his Octopus series. |
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HELLCOP Volume 2 The Sasquatch War Collects #6-10. Strong European style realistic art. Recommended. By Brian Haberlin. Art by Geirrod Van Dyke.A Men in Black for modern times — new technology sends Virgil, new Captain of the Hellcops, down the rabbit hole and into Wonderland — literally. Now he has a whole new world to navigate and a deranged Red Queen to keep contained. When imaginary creatures start to escape the very pages of books they were written on, Virgil must go through the looking glass to keep them from ripping our world apart. Image Comics, 2022....More. Item Code: HELLC02 Soft Cover, 7x10, 144pg, Full Color |
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BREATH OF THE GIANT Highly Recommended. An excellent ages 12-up adventure, first published in France. Legend says a Giant's breath has the power to bring the dead back to life. Young Iris and and sister Sophia have lost their mother, so they journey into the far north of snow and mountains to bring her back. They can count on magic, but above all, they will have to conquer their fears. Fagus also has lost a loved one and is following the girls with seeming ill intent. A powerful story about obsession, hope and overcoming fear and danger. Fairsquare Comics, 2022....More. Item Code: BREAG Soft Cover, 7x9, 148pg, Full Color |
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RESISTANCE UNIVERSE: The Origins368-page omnibus collects The Resistance #1-6 and 7 more one-shots and #1's. An outstanding lineup of artists and a very relevant story, collecting six issues and seven one-shots and first issues. In March 2020, amid Covid-19 lockdowns, AWA launched a bold new universe for the 21st Century with J. Michael Straczynski & Mike Deodato Jr.'s The Resistance, in which "Reborns" gain incredible powers in the wake of a global pandemic. Other creators followed with series such as E-Ratic, Knighted, and The Joneses. Now, for the first time, each of the initial chapters are available in this super-sized collection. Artists, Writers & Artisans, Inc., 2022....More. Item Code: RESUN Soft Cover, 7x10, 368pg, Full Color |
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CARMEN Recommended. Perhaps the most famous opera in history, Georges Bizet's Carmen premiered in 1875 in Paris. The four-act opera, adapted from the novella by Prosper Mérimée, remains "one of the most exciting and popular works in the repertoire." Arizona Opera Company presents Carmen, a tragic tale of a beautiful dancer and her soldier-suitors (and revolutionaries), adapted as a graphic novel by tenor, director, and writer Alek Shrader and illustrated by legendary artist P. Craig Russell and the acclaimed artist Aneke (Bylines in Blood). Powerfully drawn in an oversized format, with excellent artwork. Clover Press, 2023....More. Item Code: CARMH Hard Cover, 9x12, 112pg, Full Color |
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NOIR IS THE NEW BLACK PRESENTS WATSON AND HOLMES Almost Gone! Recommended. By Karl Bollers. Art by Rick Leonardi et al. Harlem, Now. A missing girl case brings together the most famous dynamic duo in the world for the first time — now a pair of smart and fast-action black detectives. Solid artwork and a fast-paced story. Reinventing the classic team from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in a bold diverse way, Watson & Holmes is the newest in the Noir Is The New Black label. New cover by Khary Randolph. 16 bonus pages of character designs, pencil pages, and addition full color art. FairSquare Comics, 2023....More. Item Code: NOIR01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 164pg, Full Color |
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THE HEAP Volume 3 Hardcover 1951-52. Recommended. Edited by Roy Thomas. Art by Ernie Schroeder. 29 more wild, pre-code adventures of the original swamp monster. Almost 20 years before DC's Swamp Thing brought Bernie Wrightson to fan acclaim, The Heap was creeping around towns and highways and righting wrongs, nicely eliminating bad guys (this was before the code) and all without a word of his own. He was the Frankenstein of the swamp, featured in the back pages of Airboy Comics and actually the result of a lost German pilot who was melded in swamp water and vegetation! PS Artbooks, 2013. Out of print....More. Item Code: HEA03H Hard Cover, 7x10, 240pg, Full Color |
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CLASSIC SCI-FI COMICS Volume 5 Fantastic Worlds Collects Fantastic #8-9, 1952; and Fantastic Worlds #5-7, 1952-53. Cover by Alex Toth. Recommended. Art by Murphy Anderson, Alex Toth, John Celardo, Harry Harrison et al. Fantastic was an offbeat pre-code title from tiny Youthful, but the features were big: Captain Science, a sci-fi hero who fought all manner of outer space villains including flying saucers, monster gods, alien spawn, and even domestic traitors. And from Standard's Fantastic Worlds comes Lieutenant Commander Bruce Hunter and Captain Jon Jax, the Space Ace. All reproduced completely from cover to cover, just like the original comics. PS Artbooks, 2022....More. Item Code: PSSC05 Soft Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color |
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SPACE MAN Volume 1 Collects Dell's Space Man #1-4 & Drift Marlo #1, 1962-63. Recommended. By Joe Gill, Ken Fitch et al. Art by Jack Sparling and Tom Cooke. Space Man is rocket ace Ian Stannard who, accompanied by his sidekick, Space Academy student Johnny Mack, blasted off from Cape Canaveral. Their mission, to find and destroy what had prevented Moon exploration for the last decade. After succeeding, they continue to explore the depths of space, along with Ian's girlfriend, pilot Mary Lansing! Drift Marlo ran security at the 1st Strategic Aerospace Division, where he fought sabotage in America's space program from foreign powers. Outstanding painted covers. PS Artbooks, 2021....More. Item Code: SASPM01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color |
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TOR Magazine Collects Tor 3-D #1-2, 1953. Highly Recommended. Tor, the prehistoric warrior, is a loner whose only true friend is his pet monkey, Chee-Chee. Tor, superior to the others in his clan, was instinctively striving for a better way of life. Thanks to the work and obvious love that went into the series, Joe Kubert's very first "creator owned" series, this went on to be a model for man battling monster within the unusual prehistoric-world settings, i.e. Turok, Kona, etc. PS Artbooks, 2021....More. Item Code: TORM Soft Cover, 7x10, 76pg, Full Color |
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CHILLING TALES #15 Facsimile Edition & Print Collects #15, 1953. With 11 1/2 x 16 matted print of the cover. Recommended. By Harry Harrison et al. Starting with a brand new line in pre-code comic books, the indefatigable and even ubiquitous PS Artbooks launches the PS Facsimile Comics imprint, which come with a bonus oversized print of the cover, already matted. Kicking off PS Facsimile comics comes a three-issue line-up from the pen of the legendary Matt Fox of Chilling Tales, well known for bizarre covers for Weird Tales, the pulp. PS Artbooks, 2021....More. Item Code: CHIL15 Comic, 7x10, 36pg, Full Color |
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EERIE COMICS #1 1947 Replica Edition Recommended. It was January 1947 that the first real, indisputable supernatureal horror comic came along: Eerie Comics #1, published by Avon. Behind a striking cover by Rudy Palais lay "The Eyes of the Tiger" by Bob Fuji featuring a pet tiger who gets his first taste for blood, "Dead Man’s Tale" by Jon Small, story of a bottle that gave Myron Morgan wealth and how he died when it was destroyed, and "The Man-Eating Lizards" by Joe Kubert — when a plane goes down in the ocean, the surviving crew members find themselves on an island of giant, man-eating lizards. And "The Strange Case of Henpecked Harry" by Fred Kida, tells how Harry Horton plots the death of his wife, only to be driven mad by the guilt. PS Artbooks, 2022....More. Item Code: ECM01 Magazine, 7x10, 36pg, Full Color |
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NIGHTMARE #1 Replica Edition Recommended. By Don Heck, Norman Nodel, Jack Katz, Bill Everett, Ross Andru, Wally Wood, Mike Esposito, Joe Kubert, and Syd Shores. Skywald's first publication was Nightmare #1 from 1970 and here it is...a black-and-white comic magazine absolutely packed full of horror that would never pass the Comics Code: "The Pollution Monsters," "Master of the Dead," "Dance Macabre," "Orgy of Blood," "A Nightmare Pin-Up," "The Skeletons of Doom," "Help Us to Die," "The Thing from the Sea," "The Creature Within," and "The Deadly Mark of the Beast." PS Artbooks, 2021....More. Item Code: NIGHM Magazine, 7x10, 68pg, b&w |
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NIGHTMARE #2 Replica Edition Cover by Boris Vallejo. Recommended. From February 1971, publisher Skywald's popular horror black-and-white magazine with 68 pages. Bill Everett and Gene Fawcette are here, along with "Children of the Cold Gods" by Ross Andru, "The Phantom of Philip Hawks" by A.C. Hollingsworth, "The Circle of Circe!" by Syd Shores, and "Blood for the Vampire" by Norman Nodel. "Pressed for Time" scripted by Marv Wolfman and penciled by Dan Adkins. All reproduced here completely, like the original comic magazine. PS Artbooks, 2022....More. Item Code: NIGHM02 Magazine, 7x10, 68pg, b&w |
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ZOMBIE JAM By David J. Schow. Art by Bernie Wrightson. David J. Schow’s groundbreaking (heh), genre-bending short stories of the Zombie Apocalypse, before, during, and after. Included is "Jerry’s Kids Meet Wormboy," "probably the single greatest zombie story of all time" in its original, longer, unexpurgated form. The majority of the Wrightson illustrations were originally created between 1999 and 2006. Bernie painted the wraparound cover art and created 8 of the interior illustrations for the hardcover limited edition (776 copies) published by Subterranean Press in 2005. This edition has twice the content of that book, and many more illustrations. Cimarron Street Books, 2020. ...More. Item Code: ZOMJA Soft Cover, 6x9, 260pg, Text/b&w |
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HALLOWEEN NIGHTS Tales of Autumn Fright Signed Signed by Brereton! By James Moore, Christopher Golden, Brereton et al. Cover plus interior b&w plates by Dan Brereton. "...a brilliant and disturbing collection of horror tales by some of today’s finest writers. Chilling, unexpected, and unnerving fun!" It's the Season of the Witch! Fun prose stories where goblins roam, ghosts drift through graveyards, children dressed as monsters beg treats and the Reaper collects his dark harvest. Listen carefully and you can hear the screams, or laughter, through the the rush of leaves scattered by the wind. Rotten Jack Press, 2021....More. Item Code: HALNHS Hard Cover, 6x9, 246pg, Text/b&w |
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THE STONE GOD AWAKENS Signed/Limited Hardcover Signed by Danny Adams and Charles Berlin on an extra-illustrated page! Gold-embossed silver binding with dust jacket. Limited, 150. By Philip Jose Farmer, art by Charles Berlin. Twentieth-century scientist Ulysses Singing Bear had no idea his experiments with atomic stasis would result in a twenty-million-year journey to a world peopled by the descendants of present-day mammals. It is the world of Awina, the cat-woman who impossibly falls in love with Ulysses. It is the planet of the mammoth continent-spanning intelligence — The Tree, whose branches touched the heavens and whose roots clasped hell — who knew that Ulysses, the newly-awakened Stone God, could destroy his reign. Meteor House, 2022....More. Item Code: STONGH Hard Cover, 6x9, 218pg, Text/b&w |
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BARE BONES Volume 7 Summer 2021 Recommended. All-new: Stuart Gordon’s Lovecraft Adaptations; classic genre film comic adaptations from Fawcett, Dell and Gold Key; inside the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood book launch event and roundtable discussion with Stephen R. Bissette, David J. Schow, and others; writer James McKimmey's Dell First Edition paperbacks and Mike Shayne novels. Cimarron Street Books, 2021....More. Item Code: BARE07 Soft Cover, 6x9, 110pg, Text/b&w |
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AUTO EROTICA A Grand Tour Through Classic Car Brochures of the 1960S to 1980S Edited by Johnny Trunk, Damon Murray et al. Motoring in Britain during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, as portrayed in rare ephemeral booklets full of unusual graphic ideas and concepts. Fabulous photography, dazzling color charts, strange foldouts and inspiring styles! Expect fast Fords, the XJS, the TR8, MGs, Minis, Maxis, Renaults, Beemers, VWs, Vivas, Citroëns, DeLoreans and a whole lot more: amazing motorcars from the past, and even some from the future, as you've never seen them before. Fuel, 2021....More. Item Code: AUTOE Soft Cover, 7x9, 240pg, Partial Color |
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NUDISM IN A COLD CLIMATE The Visual Culture of Naturists in Mid 20th Century Britain By Annebella Pollen. This richly illustrated volume examines the idiosyncratic phenomenon of social nudism in mid-20th-century Britain, a nation fabled for its lack of sunshine and its reserved social attitudes. We first encounter the movement at its genesis in the 1920s, when nudism was synonymous with vegetarianism, intellectualism and utopianism. In the postwar era there is a widening landscape of amateur clubs and high-circulation publications and censorship-challenging photographers. Finally, the movement’s redefinition as naturism, its cultural battles and its struggle to survive amid shifts in sexual liberation in the permissive 1960s. Note: Photo reproduction quality varies widely. Atelier Editions, 2021. Mature readers....More. Item Code: NUDCC Soft Cover, 7x9, 224pg, Text/b&w |
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