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| Here's our once-a-year Cyber Monday Sale--a week early so you can look at it at your leisure over the holiday. We've newly discounted a total of 108 items, but we've only room below for 60. Click here for the entire list--there's some great titles in the other 48, but our stock on these is even less. Act now for the best selection. Also below you'll find our all-new Rare Books sale--15% off for a limited time on Happy Thanksgiving from all of us here. Have a wonderful holiday! - Bud |
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For just one week, we are putting 100 of our Rare Books titles on sale at 15% off. Click here for a complete list. |
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THE LIFE & ART OF DAVE COCKRUM Introduction by Alex Ross. Highly Recommended. By Glen Cadigan. From the letters pages of Silver Age comics to his 2021 induction into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame, Dave Cockrum started as a fan but rose to the top of the comic book industry as the artist who reinvented the modern X-Men. Beginning with his childhood obsession with comics and continuing through his years in the Navy, follow the rising star from fandom (where he was one of the "Big Three" fanzine artists) to pro-dom, where he helped revive two struggling comic book franchises: the Legion of Super-Heroes and the X-Men. TwoMorrows, 2022....More. Item Code: LIFDC Soft Cover, 9x11, 162pg, Full Color |
| Here's more Dave Cockrum, from early fan work to X-Men, Avengers and Elvira. |
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RIVALS Gods & Machines The Art of Paul Gerrard. Recommended. You may not know his name but you know his incredible designs. British concept designer Paul Gerrard has created some of the most memorable and celebrated costume and character designs in film and TV. From Hellboy and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to Battle: Los Angeles and Dungeons & Dragons (2023), his surreal sci-fi figures and landscapes have captured the imagination and admiration of movie and art fans worldwide. This stunning art book presents what we all want to know: What is the story behind these otherworldly, phantasmagorical creatures? Schiffer, 2022....More. Item Code: RIVAH Hard Cover, 8x11, 144pgs, Full Color |
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FLEXIBLE The Art of Yo Shimizu Highly Recommended. The first collection of Yo Shimizu's work, featuring 160 breathtakingly beautiful and overwhelmingly fantastic landscapes and characters, body armor and creatures. The book introduces a wide variety of Shimizu’s work to date, from fully-realized digital art to his prelim landscapes, hand-drawn in water color. These latter works remind us of Miyazaki storyboards. A bonus feature on the making of the cover illustration is included with bilingual Japanese and English text, giving readers a glimpse into the techniques that Shimizu uses when drawing. PIE International, 2022....More. Item Code: FLEXAR Soft Cover, 7x10, 192pg, Full Color |
| Here's more Asian art and art books from PIE International. |
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ALKEME The Art of Brad Kunkle Deluxe Signed Signed & numbered. Limited special publisher’s edition limited to 400. Highly Recommended. After selling out his debut solo exhibition in New York City on opening night in 2010, Brad Kunkle has become internationally known for his unique use of gold and silver leaf in contemporary oil painting. His themes explore intuition and the power of the feminine alongside the natural world and otherworldly scenes. 100 paintings and a dozen studies handpicked by the artist in an oversized format. Flesk, 2022. Out of print. ...More. Item Code: ALKED Hard Cover, 12x12, 320pg, Full Color |
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TODD MCFARLANE'S SPIDER-MAN Artist's Edition Recommended. Huge oversized volume. Todd McFarlane’s gorgeous work on Spider-Man was nothing less than groundbreaking. His intense version of the web-slinging wallcrawler took the character to new heights, instilling in the character a sense of energy and vitality rarely seen before. First, in The Amazing Spider-Man, written by David Michelinie, and then in a spin-off series, with both story and art by McFarlane. McFarlane took each character and made them his own — Green Goblin, Hobgoblin, Sandman, the Vulture, the Lizard, plus his classic interpretations of the Incredible Hulk and Wolverine! And let’s not forget his alluring Mary Jane! IDW, 2022. Rush Service and International shipping would require an additional charge. ...More. Item Code: TMSAEH Hard Cover, 17x24, 192pg, Partial Color |
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GORILLAS IN DA MIX Signed Limited, 500. Recommended. A gorilla sketchbook by Emilio Soltero, featuring a variety of styles, with partial net proceeds to benefit animal conservation groups. Contributions by Arthur Adams, Gilbert Hernandez, Peter Kuper, Alex Niño (two full color pieces), Kevin Nowlan and Thomas Yeates (Prince Valiant). With a handsome bookmark illustrating Wanto, age 44, Knoxville Zoo—full color on heavy index stock. Signed on page 3. Sir Press, 2022....More. Item Code: GORILS Soft Cover, 7x10, 64pg, b&w |
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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 na, 9x14, na, Full Color |
| Here's more Edgar Rice Burroughs and artist Mark Wheatley. |
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SCIENCE FICTION ILLUSTRATION The Near Future and Fantasy Worlds Creators' Showcase Recommended. A large-format anthology that introduces 32 contemporary artists and their works depicting near-future and imaginary worlds with a variety of illustration styles and outstanding techniques. Inside you will find a devastated apocalyptic world, a society with advanced science, humans and cities that are a fusion of machines and advanced technology, characters traveling through an infinite universe, novel gadgets with huge potential, and the future that we dream of. PIE International, 2021....More. Item Code: SCIFN Soft Cover, 10x10, 160pgs, Partial Color |
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CAPITOL RECORDS Recommended. By Barney Hoskyns. A huge, oversized, thick coffee table book. From the Beatles to Beck, Sinatra to Sam Smith, a parade of era-defining artists have recorded for Capitol Records, one of Hollywood’s most distinctive labels for 75 years. From its founding year of 1942 to today, with a foreword by Beck, essays by cultural historians and music and architecture critics, as well as hundreds of images from Capitol’s extensive archives. Follow the label’s evolution through pop, rock, country, classical, soul, and jazz. The photographic and musical history includes the label’s most successful, cool, hip, and creative stars, as well as the one-hit wonders who had their all-too-brief moments in the spotlight. Taschen, 2021....More. Item Code: CAPITH Hard Cover, 12x12, 488pg, Partial Color |
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MENU DESIGN IN EUROPE Oversized coffee table volume. Recommended. By Stephen Heller. Editor Jim Heimann’s new book is a feast for the eyes, featuring hundreds of European menus from 1800 to 2000. At once a history of continental cuisine and a sprawling survey of avant-garde graphic styles. The 1891 menu from Paris’s Le Grand Vefour, with its intricate die-cut design, evokes a bustling Belle Epoque bistro, while the 1932 menu from London’s Royal Palace Hotel transports you to the bar at a spirited, Jazz Age nightspot. A mid-century Lasserre restaurant expresses a surrealistic simplicity. A range of stylistic decades is represented, from masterpieces of Art Nouveau and Art Deco to Michelin awarded restaurants of the celebrity chef-era and rarities such as a German military menu from World War II. Taschen, 2022. Rush Service and International shipping would require an additional charge....More. Item Code: MENUH Hard Cover, 10x12, 448pg, Full Color |
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THE R. CRUMB COFFEE TABLE ART BOOK Limited, 1000. Highly Recommended. The R. Crumb Coffee Table Art Book was published in easy-to-find softcover editions and in hard cover by both Kitchen Sink Press (much scarcer) and its large publishing partner Little Brown. But Kitchen Sink alone published this deluxe edition which includes the hard cover housed in a heavy duty illustrated slipcase, with a separate 14-color Serigraph signed & numbered by R. Crumb. The spine is silver foil-stamped Crumb lettering. Kitchen Sink Press, 1997. Condition: Some of our copies have slightly bumped corners....More. Item Code: RCCOFFD Hard Cover, 11x13, 250pg, Partial Color |
| Here's more by R. Crumb, his latest. |
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THE SET-UP The Lost Classic By Joseph Moncure March Written in 1928, The Set-Up is a long narrative poem about the boxing underworld — a hard-boiled tragedy told in syncopated rhyming couplets. March's slightly more famous jazz-age novel is The Wild Party. When the work was first published it made the bestseller list, and in 1949 it was turned into an award-winning film featuring Robert Ryan and Audrey Totter. This reprinting of the original text features dynamic, specially commissioned artwork by Erik Kriek that vividly conveys the story of Pansy, an up-and-coming black prize fighter who takes on all comers, so prolifically illustrated it reads like a graphic novel. Striking artwork. Korero Press, 2022....More. Item Code: SETUH Hard Cover, 6x9, 256pg, Text/b&w |
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THE ART OF THE TALE OF THE PRINCESS KAGUYA Recommended. The making of the film eight years in production, this captures the art of the film from conception to production, and features commentary, interviews, and an in-depth look at the production process. Created by Studio Ghibli’s co-founder Isao Takahata, the untold, magical story of Princess Kaguya. VIZ Media LLC, 2022....More. Item Code: ARTPKH Hard Cover, 9x12, 240pg, Partial Color |
| More Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyasaki—click here. |
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LOS ANGELES Highly Recommended. Peppered with anecdotes, observations and musings on the past two decades, this book is a unique must-have for all those who are interested in cinema and art in general. You see influences of French artist Sylvain Despretz's mentor Mobius here, and lots of amazing fantasy and sci-fi characters and worlds. Sylvain has lived in LA for 20 years bringing to life the visions of Ridley Scott, David Fincher, Andrei Konchalovsky, Mike Newell, Tim Burton and Stanley Kubrick with storyboards, concept art, paintings and illustration. Editions Caurette, 2020....More. Item Code: LOSAH Hard Cover, 9x11, 400pg, Partial Color |
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THE ALPS 1900 A Portrait in Color A massive new XXL art book from Taschen. Recommended. By Agnès Couzy. Through photochromes, photographs, and color postcards of the 19th and 20th centuries, through travel posters and tourist brochures, we cross passes such as the Mont-Cenis, Simplon, Brenner, and St. Gotthard; climb Mont Blanc, the Eiger, the Wetterhorn, and the Dolomites; marvel at crystal-clear lakes in Switzerland, Italy, Bavaria, and Slovenia; explore Tyrol, the Via Mala, and the Engadin; and spend the winter season at grand hotels in Gstaad, Grindelwald, Davos, St. Moritz, and Cortina. Taschen, 2022. Rush Service and International shipping would require an additional charge....More. Item Code: ALPSH Hard Cover, 12x16, 600pg, Full Color |
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CONAN The People of The Black Circle and Other Stories Collects Dark Horse series People of the Black Circle #1-4, 2013; Children of the Sun #1, 2012; Exiles #1; material from Robert E. Howard's Savage Sword #1-4, 6-10, 2010 and more. Recommended. By Michael Avon Oeming, Paul Tobin et al. Art by Sean Phillips, Philip Tan, Aaron Lopresti et al. Savage tales of the iconic barbarian! When an agent of the dreaded Black Seers of Yimsha assassinates the king of Vendhya, the king’s sister Yasmina inherits the throne — and vows vengeance! But her plans against the Black Seers are derailed when she is kidnapped — by Conan?! Before long the Cimmerian has ruthless mercenaries, vengeance-crazed tribesmen, sinister sorcerers and an entire army hard on his heels — and that’s just how he likes it! Plus, Conan’s journeys continue, taking him from the Exiled Lands to Hesterm and beyond. Thieves, demons, warriors and more all await him — and all will fall prey to his savage sword! Marvel, 2021....More. Item Code: CONPB Soft Cover, 7x10, 224pg, Full Color |
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THE MICHAEL MOORCOCK LIBRARY Elric The Bane of The Black Sword Recommended. By Roy Thomas. Art by Mary Mitchell and Mark Pacella. The Bane of the Black Sword is the fifth volume in the saga of Elric, the albino sorcerer who wields the terrible, soul-eating magical sword, Stormbringer. This graphic novel adapts the five novellas of the original novel. The first four stories "Old Wounds", "Three Kings in Darkness", "The King Beneath the Hill" and "Flame Bringers" tell of the continuing, eternal struggle of Elric against the elder gods of chaos and of his true love Zarozinia. Titan, 2022....More. Item Code: MMEBH Hard Cover, 7x10, 170pg, Full Color |
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THE DARK HORSE BOOK OF HORROR Now in softcover. Highly Recommended. Mike Mignola, Hellboy, and a roster of great creators and characters explore the dark corners of the horror genre in thirty-five stories of witchcraft, ghosts, and the risen dead. Originally published in four award-winning anthologies, these stories featured the debut of Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson's Beasts of Burden series, and artwork by Kelley Jones, P. Craig Russell, Gary Gianni. Dark Horse, 2021....More. Item Code: DARHO Soft Cover, 7x10, 304pg, Partial Color |
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PENGUIN CLASSICS MARVEL COLLECTION The Amazing Spider-Man Highly Recommended. Edited by Ben Saunders. This anthology goes back to the original Amazing Spider-Man, with key stories from the first two years from 1962 to 1964. These allegories of adolescence permanently transformed the conventions of the super hero genre by insisting that great power is never just a means to an end, but also a burdensome responsibility. The introduction offers fresh insights into character development and the personalities of his creators. Also included are rarely reprinted non-super hero stories, early letter pages, and supplemental materials shedding light on Stan Lee's and Steve Ditko‘s artistic process. Penguin Classics, 2022....More. Item Code: PCMA Soft Cover, 7x10, 384pg, Full Color |
| We also have in this series Captain America [PCMC. $28] and Black Panther [PCMB. $28]—both almost gone, not on sale. |
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TALON By James Tynion IV Collects Talon #0-17 and more. By James Tynion IV. Art by Miguel Sepulveda et al. As a performer with Haly's Circus, young Calvin Rose was secretly being raised to be a master assassin — a killing machine called a Talon. The Talons have always served the mysterious Court of Owls, a group of wealthy individuals who will stop at nothing to maintain their grip on power in Gotham. When Rose defects from the Talon's ranks, he is marked for death and spends years using all his training to hide from his former masters. DC Comics, 2022....More. Item Code: TALJT Soft Cover, 7x10, 440pg, Full Color |
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THE BEST OF GERRY FINLEY-DAY 45 Years of 2000 AD Art by Dave Gibbons, Alan Davis et al. Introduction by Pat Mills. Dozens of complete stories from 2000 AD, written by the "Galaxy's Greatest" ideas man! From Tammy to The Eagle, Gerry Finley-Day was one of the most prolific comic book writers throughout the 1970s and 80s. His work for 2000 AD in particular was extraordinary and included such beloved strips as future war G.I. Rogue Trooper, the "Great Escape" in space titled Harry 20 on the High Rock, the Star Wars inspired V.C.'s and a gritty 1970s take on the iconic Eagle character Dan Dare. 2000 AD, 2022....More. Item Code: BESGFH Hard Cover, 8x12, 244pg, Full Color |
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THE POE CLAN Volume 2 Massive 500 pages! Handsome embossed cover. By Moto Hagio. In the concluding second volume, an amnesia-stricken Edgar is found alone on a snowy night in England. Separated from his "vampirnella" clan, who feed on the energy of the living and while away the centuries, he struggles to remember his own name. In stories like "Piccadilly, Seven O'Clock," "Edith," and "The Last Will and Testament of Oswald Owens," there are murders, mysteries, seances, and obsessions — and generations of humans whose lives are profoundly affected by a boy who does not age, and his companions: sister Marybelle and Alan Twilight, a 14-year-old from the 1800s. Fantagraphics, 2022....More. Item Code: POEC02H Hard Cover, 7x10, 404pg, b&w |
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STAR TREK THE NEXT GENERATION Mirror Universe Collection Recommended. By Scott and David Tipton. Art by J.K. Woodward, Angel Hernandez, and Carlos Nieto. Go into the alternate "Mirror" universe to meet the cold-blooded crew of the I.S.S. Enterprise and their captain, the ruthless Jean-Luc Picard, and even more ruthless #1, Ryker, in this collection of three complete graphic novels: Mirror Broken, Through the Mirror, and Terra Incognita, which are actually six separate stories! Its continuing mission: to conquer strange new worlds, to enslave new life and new civilizations...! In the other-dimensional Mirror Universe there is no United Federation of Planets, only a cruel Terran Empire, where advancement comes through assassination, brutality is commonplace, and kindness is a weakness. But evil twins are going to encounter their alternates as they break into our own universe.... IDW, 2021....More. Item Code: STNEXM Soft Cover, 7x10, 408pg, Full Color |
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SPACE WAR Volume 1 Collects #1-5, 1959-60. Recommended. Charlton Comics' other-worldly stories from "Abandon Spaceship" to "Exiled to Earth." Featuring the writing talents of the prolific Joe Gill and artists Dick Giordano, Matt Baker, Bill Montes, Bill Molno, Bill Fraccio, Jon D'Agostino, Charles Nicholas and of course Steve Ditko — who does the cover and one story in issues #4 and #5. PS Artbooks, 2022. ...More. Item Code: SASW01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color |
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VOODOO Volume 2 Collects #10-14, 1953-54. By Iger Shop. Zombies take over America! Opium story! Skulls of Doom," "Blood and Barbed Wire," "Torture Garden," "Blood Moon," and "Gallow's Curse..." Blood-soaked, brain-damaged gonzo pre-code stories from this offbeat title from Ajax/Farrell. How about "Tusks of Terror!"? In colonial India, the sadistic Colonel Rankin frames his daughter’s Indian lover for theft and sentences him to death. But Ahmed Rai reincarnates as a wild boar and, well, find out here! PS Artbooks, 2022....More. Item Code: PCV02 Soft Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color |
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CHARACTER DESIGN QUARTERLY #22 Highly Recommended. Interview with this issue's cover artist Max Grecke; Melanie Tikhonova talks about creating interesting characters; Jackie Droujko on the importance of color for striking characters; Animator Eddy Okba talks about his work at Pixar; Joakim Redinger on motion; Daniel Tal creates charming original characters; Tom Bancroft (MerMay) talks about his career; Alexis Austin on portraying emotions; Greg Baldwin on drawing robots; and a gallery of three more creators. 3dtotal Publishing, 2022....More. Item Code: CDQ22 Magazine, 8x11, 104pg, Full Color |
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BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO DRAWING THE FUTURE Recommended. Voyage into a future where droids, hovering buildings, and space vehicles exist with an accessible, entertaining introduction to creating science-fiction concepts with traditional tools. Packed with insightful tips, tutorial projects, and essential art theory simply explained by industry professionals, this exciting volume is the perfect launch pad for your journey forward through time. 3dtotal Publishing, 2022....More. Item Code: BEGDF Soft Cover, 7x9, 180pg, Partial Color |
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CONFESSIONS OF A PUPPETMASTER A Hollywood Memoir of Ghouls, Guts, and Gonzo Filmmaking. By Charles Band and Adam Felber. Zombies, aliens, a little skin, lots of gore — and even more laughs — the cinematic universe of Charles Band is legendary. From the toilet-invading creatures of Ghoulies to the time-travelling bounty hunter in Trancers to the pandemic-crashed Corona Zombies, Band has spent four decades giving B-movie lovers exactly what they love. In Confessions of a Puppetmaster, this congenial master of Grindhouse cinema tells his own story, uncut. Eight pages of photos with stars. Harper Collins, 2021....More. Item Code: CONFPH Hard Cover, 5x10, 288pg, Full Color |
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PHILIP K. DICK'S ELECTRIC DREAMS Volume 1 Ten stories that inspired a BBC television series, each with an introduction by the BBC adapters. Recommended. Though perhaps most famous as a novelist, Philip K. Dick wrote more than one hundred short stories over the course of his career, each as mind-bending and genre-defining as his longer works. Here are ten of the best. In "Autofac," Dick shows us one of the earliest examples (and warnings) in science fiction of self-replicating machines. "Exhibit Piece" and "The Commuter" feature Dick exploring one of his favorite themes: the shifting nature of reality and whether it is even possible to perceive the world as it truly exists. And "The Hanging Stranger" provides a thrilling, dark political allegory as relevant today as it was when Dick wrote it at the height of the Cold War Gollancz, 2017....More. Item Code: PHED01 Soft Cover, 5x8, 224pg, Text Only |
| PKD's A Scanner Darkly graphic novel is on sale too [SCANDH. |
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SHINJUKU An illustrated prose novel written by film director Christopher "mink" Morrison, veteran of Quentin Tarantino and Lawrence Bender’s A Band Apart. This urban mix of action and horror is illustrated by world-famous illustrator Yoshitaka Amano (Final Fantasy, Vampire Hunter D). Daniel Legend, in search of his missing sister Angela, discovers the unreal city within Tokyo: Shinjuku, the nexus of realities, riddled with lowlife crooks and subterranean monsters and three rival yakuza leaders who hold control over every earthly crime. Dark Horse, 2022....More. Item Code: SHINJH Hard Cover, 9x12, 184pg, Partial Color |
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ROBIN & BATMAN Collects #1-3, 2021. Handsome hardcover in jacket. Robin is just starting out at the side of Batman, struggling to find his own path from personal tragedy, newly orphaned. The Eisner-winning team of writer Jeff Lemire and artist Dustin Nguyen unite for a three-issue limited-series exploring the beginning of Dick Grayson’s crime-fighting career. DC Comics, 2022....More. Item Code: ROBBAH Hard Cover, 7x10, 144pg, Full Color |
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THE COMPLETE OMNI An impressive 320 pages collecting issues #1-10. By Devin Grayson and Melody Cooper. Art by Alitha E Martinez, Giovanni Valletta et al. "The Future of Comics" - The Hollywood Reporter. Brilliant doctor Cecelia Cobbina, held in the highest regard by peers and patients alike, is caught in a spontaneous ignition of energy from out of nowhere. She finds herself with the ability to process thoughts at the speed of light, with an intelligence far beyond anything humanity has ever seen. She sets out to find and help other "ignited" people the world over, all in search of cracking the mystery behind their new powers. Humanoids, 2022....More. Item Code: COMOM Soft Cover, 7x10, 320pg, Full Color |
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THE STRANGE DEATH OF ALEX RAYMOND Highly Recommended. Legendary creator Dave Sim is renowned for his groundbreaking Cerebus the Aardvark. Now, Sim brings to life the history of comics' greatest creators, using their own techniques. Equal parts Understanding Comics and From Hell, Strange Death is a head-on collision of ink drawing and spiritual intrigue, pulp comics and movies, history and fiction. The story traces the lives and techniques of Alex Raymond (Flash Gordon, Rip Kirby), Stan Drake (Juliet Jones), Hal Foster (Prince Valiant), and more, dissecting their methods through recreations of their artwork, and highlighting their common inspiration. Living the Line, 2021....More. Item Code: STRANH Hard Cover, 8x12, 320pg, b&w |
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THE BLOOD OF THE IMMORTALS Recommended. By Françoise Ruscak. Adapted from a novel by Laurent Genefort. Art by Francesco Trifogli. What if the key to eternal life were only a few planetary systems away? A motley crew is sent to Verfebro in search of a mystifying elixir — one that runs through the veins of a ferocious local species: the Dracs. The members of the expedition will do anything to uncover the mysteries of life on this planet, no matter the cost. First published in France. Minor nudity. Humanoids, 2022....More. Item Code: BLIMH Hard Cover, 8x10, 120pg, Full Color |
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SEASON OF THE BRUJA Volume 1 Recommended. By Aaron Duran. Art by Sara Soler. Excellent art, we like the look of this! Very cool creatures and fine action/magical scenes. Follow our young heroine as she comes into her magical abilities and faces re-emergent threats from the past. From a young age, Althalia knew she would someday be the last of her kind — a bruja, tasked with keeping the power and stories of the ancient ways from fading fully into history. Never alone, Althalia works in a paranormal museum with her friends, a real-life Chupacabra and a were-coyote. Omni Press, 2022....More. Item Code: SEAB01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 128pg, Full Color |
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DUNE: The Waters of Kanly Collects #1-4, 2022. In the aftermath of the battle of Arrakeen, House Atreides is shattered and war master Gurney Halleck takes refuge with spice smugglers, vowing revenge no matter the cost. Soon, Gurney and the smugglers may have an opportunity to deal a crucial blow to their bitter enemies, but at what cost? Will they be met with certain death, their sacrifices all for nothing? Artist Francesco Mortarino brings the original short story written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson to life. Variant covers by Yoon (4 different), Carnevale, Raul Allen, Sorrentino, Mortarino, and InHyuk Lee. Boom!, 2023....More. Item Code: DUNWH Hard Cover, 7x10, 112pg, Full Color |
| Also on sale is Dune Tales from Arrakeen, and Dune House Atreides Volume 3. See all our Dune titles here. |
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HARVEY KURTZMAN'S JUNGLE BOOK Warehouse find. Third printing from 1989. Highly Recommended. Introduction by Art Spiegelman. We won't mince words. This is simply one of the most influential comic creations of all time. Created in 1959 by MAD-founder Harvey Kurtzman after two crushing failures (Trump and Humbug), Jungle Book was created for paperback book pioneer Ian Ballantine. It was the very first paperback of all original comics and one of the very earliest graphic novels. Four stories, each parodying an element of popular culture: TV shows Peter Gunn and Gunsmoke; the (comics) publishing industry; and the deep south of the 1950s. Goodman Beaver appearance. Kitchen Sink Press, 1989....More. Item Code: HKJUNG Soft Cover, 6x11, 140pg, b&w |
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CRIMINAL MACABRE Spirit of the Demon By Steve Niles (30 Days of Night). Art by Szymon Kudranski. A stand-alone new horror story of supernatural detective Cal McDonald. Cal’s self-imposed retirement must move aside so he can resume his monster-killing career. He’s hunting down a serial-killing priest with a blood-draining knife and on a trail leading him directly to the gates of Hell! Dark, bloody and macabre! Dark Horse, 2022....More. Item Code: CRIMSP Hard Cover, 7x10, 72pg, Full Color |
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FORGOTTEN HOME Recommended. By Erica Schultz. Art by Marika Cresta and Matt Emmons. The entire digital series collected. While investigating a series of child abductions in Montana, the case gets personal for Sheriff's Deputy Lorraine Adalet when her teenage daughter, Joanna, disappears with a friend. Following the clues of otherworldly evidence leads Lorraine back to her long abandoned homeworld of Jannada — far from Earth. Mired in a never-ending war she escaped long ago, Lorraine had hoped to protect Joanna from her own past. Bonus character designs and variant covers. Dark Horse, 2022....More. Item Code: FORGHO Soft Cover, 7x10, 216pg, Full Color |
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AMERICAN GODS Volume 1 Shadows Now in softcover. Collects #1-9. By Neil Gaiman and P. Craig Russell. Art by Scott Hampton, Walt Simonson and Colleen Doran. Shadow Moon gets out of jail only to discover his wife is dead. Defeated, broke, and uncertain where to go from here, he meets the mysterious Mr. Wednesday, who employs him to serve as his bodyguard — thrusting Shadow into a deadly world where ghosts of the past come back from the dead, and a god war is imminent. The Hugo, Bram Stoker, Locus, World Fantasy, and Nebula award-winning novel and hit Starz television series by Neil Gaiman in graphic novel form! Dark Horse, 2023....More. Item Code: AMG01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 264pg, Full Color |
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ZATANNA The Jewel of Gravesend Zatanna's not your typical New Yorker. She walks her giant rabbit on a leather leash down the boardwalk, lives in a colossal architectural wonder known as the Golden Elephant, had her first kiss in the Haunted HellGate ride—and wouldn't have it any other way. But the time for having fun in Luna Park comes to an end when a mystic's quest for a powerful jewel unravels everything Zatanna thought she knew about herself and her beloved neighborhood. Mysteries and magic surround her as she reveals the truth about her family's legacy, and confronts the illusion that has been cast over her entire life. DC Comics, 2022....More. Item Code: ZATJG Soft Cover, 6x9, 208pg, Full Color |
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SCARLET Collects Series I #1-10 and Series II #1-5. Recomended. Brian Michael Bendis, co-creator of Miles Morales, Naomi, and Jessica Jones, teams up with his superstar co-creator and Iron Man and Daredevil collaborator Alex Maleev in this complete omnibus collection of their fearless political thriller set in the seedy underbelly of Portland, Oregon. A young woman becomes a cop and mayor killer after she is pushed to the edge by police brutality, government corruption, and unspeakable crimes. After a mysterious murder and a near-death experience, Scarlet Rue wakes from a coma with her world shattered. Fueled by rage, guilt, and her vision of a better future; she takes the fight to her oppressors, the corrupt police force and their bosses, including the mayor, and becomes a stone cold killer — but of all the right people! At the same time, Scarlet sparks an uprising in this all too real tale of power, corruption, and lies. Dark Horse, 2022....More. Item Code: SCARL Soft Cover, 7x10, 528pg, Full Color |
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CLOAKED Collects #1-4. Recommended. Written by Dark Horse founder Mike Richardson. Art by Jordi Armengol. Twenty-five years ago, a genuine masked crimefighter labled The Reaper came out of nowhere to declare war on crime — very much like the fictional Batman. All of America celebrated the exploits of the black-clad vigilante . . . and then he disappeared. Poof, gone, along with his Batmobile like vehicle and his twin automatics which meted out fatal, vigilante justice to the bad guys. But when down-on-his-luck investigator Jake Stevens is hired to find the long-missing avenger, his inquiries threaten to expose the myth behind the mask. Dark Horse, 2022....More. Item Code: CLOAKE Soft Cover, 7x10, 112pg, Full Color |
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SPACE TRASH Volume 1 By Jenn Woodall. In Jenn Woodall's debut graphic novel series, three teenagers attending school on the moon stumble across an exciting secret that could change the course of their future. In 2115, Earth has been abandoned as a lost cause and mankind has moved on to space colonization. At a decrepit high school on the moon for underprivileged youth live Stab, Yuki and Una. Looks like fun! Oni Press, 2022....More. Item Code: SPAT01 Hard Cover, 9x12, 96pg, Full Color |
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DEGA Volume 1 A crashed ship, a lone survivor...and a monstrous secret hiding in the dark under the world. On a hostile alien planet, a young astronaut searches to harness the power source buried beneath the surface while struggling to hold on to her sanity. A new graphic novel, the first drawn AND written, by Doctor Who, Judge Dredd, and Firefly artist Dan McDaid. Bonus pages with cover concepts and prelim page ideas. Oni Press, 2023....More. Item Code: DEGA01H Hard Cover, 6x9, 58pg, b&w |
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THICK SKINS First published in France. By Serge Le Tendre. Art by Pasquale Frisenda. Thick-Skins are humans genetically modified to work in space without a suit. Lark is a former thick-skinner now turned mercenary, traveling the galaxy training combat soldiers. When he receives an encrypted message from his former clan, he sets out to find them with the help of Windy, beautiful and heavily tattooed girl — an anthropology student. Good solid artwork; violent battles and space travel. Humanoids, 2022....More. Item Code: THISH Hard Cover, 8x10, 104pg, Full Color |
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RETROACTIVE By Ibrahim Moustafa. Temporal agent Tarik Abdelnasser is trapped in a time loop, living and dying over and over again.But before he got stuck, he and his new partner were investigating a radical new adversary who's going back in time and changing events to benefit themselves. Tarik must keep his sanity and find a way to prevent the attack, escape the loop, and return to his own timeline... Humanoids, 2022....More. Item Code: RETROA Soft Cover, 7x10, 136pgs, Full Color |
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THE HEIR BY RB WHITE Signed Signed! Recommended. The long-awaited original graphic novel from RB White! A story of power, deception, and love, Heir begins with a spaceship crash-landing on a remote planet and follows a group of outlaws, including one beautiful pilot who is running the show, blackmailed to help a villain gain full power over the kingdom! Sexy work, fine futuristic technology. White is a Canadian illustrator and comics artist; he has worked in freelance for many years and for many publishers and animation studios, including projects for Universal Studios, Hasbro and Nickelodeon, and has published his work in magazines such as Imagine FX and Fantasy Artist magazine. LLDTJ, 2020....More. Item Code: HEIRRBS Soft Cover, 8x11, 68pg, Partial Color |
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FLUNG OUT OF SPACE A fictional and complex graphic novel portrait of bestselling author Patricia Highsmith, caught up in the longing that would inspire her queer classic, The Price of Salt. Both a love letter to the essential lesbian novel, and an examination of its notorious author. We open with Pat begrudgingly writing low-brow comics, a true story! A drinker, a smoker, and a hater of life, Pat knows she can do better. Her brain churns with images of the great novel she could and should be writing — what will eventually be Strangers on a Train — later adapted into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. Abrams, 2022....More. Item Code: FLUOUT Hard Cover, 7x10, 208pg, Full Color |
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THE STONE GOD AWAKENS 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: STONG Soft Cover, 5x8, 218pg, Text Only |
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AZIMUT First published in France. Highly Recommended. By Wilfrid Lupano. Art by Jean-Baptiste Andreae. A host of quirky characters in a colorful fantasy world with some erotic themes. Lives are turned upside down when the magnetic North pole disappears! The beautiful Manie Ganza, who seems convinced that time is money, daringly robs and outwits the pompous rulers across the land. Add in an intrepid explorer who can't find North, and an aeronaut/talking rabbit duo on a personal quest for love, and you've got a fantasy adventure full of nonsense and excitement! Beautifully detailed and imaginative art. Titan, 2022. Mature Readers....More. Item Code: AZIMH Hard Cover, 8x11, 248pg, Full Color |
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THE LAST MECHANICAL MONSTER Includes 4-page punch-out Robot! Recommended. "Brian picks up the baton left by the Fleischer Studios Superman cartoon in 1941 and finished the story!" This latest graphic novel from Brian Fies (Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow?, A Fire Story) already has a fan base and a considerable history of accomplishment. Initially published online as a webcomic, it was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Digital Comic in both 2014 and 2015. Decades after being imprisoned for threatening his city with an army of giant robots, an elderly scientist reenters society, only to discover he needs help navigating life in the 21st century. Experiencing real kindness and friendship for the first time, his new relationships challenge the inventor’s single-minded devotion for vengeance — just as his plans threaten to spiral out of his control. Abrams, 2022....More. Item Code: LASMEC Hard Cover, 7x11, 192pg, Full Color |
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STAR WARS The High Republic: Trail of Shadows Collects #1-5, 2021. By Daniel José Older. Art by Dave Wachter. One Jedi Master is dead. Another is in a state of complete shock. And Jedi investigator Emerick Caphtor must solve the case before it's too late. The fate of the Jedi, the Hutts, and the Nihil hangs by this tangled thread of lies and deceit. Emerick will need to dive into the darkness, testing himself and his Jedi ideals like never before. And he'll need help. Luckily, lady private eye Sian Holt lives in the shadows. Together, the two will follow the trail wherever it leads — if they can work together, that is! Marvel, 2022....More. Item Code: SWHIGT Soft Cover, 7x10, 120pg, Full Color |
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THE STONE KING Eisner nominated for Best Digital Comic. By Kel McDonald. Art by Tyler Crook. When you become an adult, you have to prove yourself, at least that's how it works for the Stoneport thieves. Ave has decided to illegally harvest healing moss from the Stone King, a mighty giant who roams the lands. Her theft goes even better than she could have dreamed. The biggest gem she's ever seen is her prize. But what she thought would buy her a ticket to adventure and a better life, brings disaster instead. Dark Horse, 2022....More. Item Code: STONK Soft Cover, 7x10, 128pg, Full Color |
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ALICE GUY First Lady of Film Nearly 400 pages! Recommended. By José-Louis Bocquet. Art by Catel Muller. The inspiring story of Alice Guy, the first female movie director in film history, chronicles her contribution to the birth of cinema in France in the late 19th century. In 1895 the Lumière brothers invented the cinematograph. Less than a year later, 23-year-old Alice Guy made The Cabbage Fairy, a 60-second movie, for Léon Gaumont, and would go on to direct more than 300 films before 1922. Her life is a shadow history of early cinema, the chronicle of an art form coming into its own. A free and independent woman who rubbed shoulders with masters such as Georges Méliès and the Lumières, she was the first to define the professions of screenwriter and producer. SelfMadeHero, 2022....More. Item Code: ALIGU Soft Cover, 7x9, 400pg, b&w |
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LEONARD COHEN On a Wire By Philippe Girard.This opens on the last night of his life in 2016. Alone in his final hours, the beloved writer and musician ponders his existence in a series of flashbacks that reveal the ups and downs of a storied career. Already in his thirties, he recorded his first album to widespread international acclaim. He encountered a who’s who of musical luminaries: Lou Reed, Nico, Janis Joplin, Joni Mitchell, and Phil Spector, who held a gun to Cohen’s head during a coke-fueled, all-night recording session. Drawn & Quarterly, 2021. ...More. Item Code: LEONH Hard Cover, 7x9, 120pg, Full Color |
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BLUESMAN By Rob Vollmar. Art by Pablo Callejo. Blues musician Lem Taylor’s harrowing journey starting from juke joints he appears in to fleeing across Arkansas of the late twenties, a black man hunted down for a crime he didn’t commit. A racially intense story presenting a significant aspect of black history, its music, its social injustice. Violent at times, drawn entirely in pen and ink, reproduced in b&w to give the artwork a raw, powerful edge. NBM, 2022....More. Item Code: BLUESM Soft Cover, 6x9, 224pg, b&w |
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CHILLING TALES #17 Facsimile Edition & Print Collects #17, 1953. With 11 1/2 x 16 matted print of the cover. Recommended. By Harry Harrison, Steve Kirkel et al. 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 his quirky comics covers as well as bizarre covers for the venerable pulp Weird Tales. Sir Walter Scott and Edgar Allan Poe adaptations. Comes with a handsome oversized matted print of wild cover. PS Artbooks, 2021....More. Item Code: CHIL17 Comic, 7x10, 36pg, Full Color |
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PSYCHO MAGAZINE #2 Replica Edition March 1971. From sleaze publisher Skywald, another black-and-white magazine full of horror and suspense. A muck monster and inside The Heap returns in a new incarnation from Chuck McNaughton and Ross Andru! Also featured are the creative talents of Jack Katz, Tom Palmer, Stephen Hickman, Tom Sutton, Chic Stone, and Serg Moren. And all reproduced here completely like the original comic magazine, ads and all. PS Artbooks, 2022. ...More. Item Code: PSY02 Magazine, 7x10, 68pg, b&w |
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SPACEMEN MAGAZINE #1 Facsimile Edition & Print From 1961. With matted oversized print of the cover by Basil Gogos. Warren’s companion title to the ground breaking Famous Monsters, also edited by Forry Ackerman. Warren’s companion title to the ground breaking Famous Monsters, also edited by Forry Ackerman. Four years before Creepy got started, here’s a look at the best science fiction films with pictures, interviews and synopses of the best films of the 30s, 40s, and 50s. covers by Basil Gogos. Forry on the set of Riders to the Stars; looks at Battle in Outer Space, 12 to the Moon, When Worlds Collide. Space Smuggler is a short story new to this issue; Monsterama is a parade of creepy creatures from outer space. PS Artbooks, 2022....More. Item Code: SPAM01 Magazine, 8x11, 36pg, b&w |
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