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| Below are sixty newly discounted items, including Omnibus volumes. And links to many more titles. We've included several all-new Imperfect Books and a link to the entire Imperfect (Hurt) section, most at 50% off. Hurt Omnibus volumes are 40% off because they are so costly to ship, being extra heavy. There's also an outstanding selection of graphic novels and some surprises, such as The Trigan Empire series, Character Design Magazine, The Berserk series, two Spawn Compendiums and even EC's Shock Suspense! Orders in the U.S. over $300 also qualify for FREE SHIPPING. If you are looking to pad your order up to save on shipping, here's our 2023 Bestsellers and New Arrivals. To view all this week's sale items, use search code JANSALE. You can also get the jump on our upcoming new sale items too: use search codes , FEBSALE, MARSALE, NRP0124 and NRP0224. Sort sale books by lowest price, highest price, and newest publication date using the filter box after your search, at the top of the listing. |
Artists & Illustration |
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THE ART OF PASCAL CAMPION Recommended. Illustrator Pascal Campion shares his professional journey, galleries of work, and narrative-influenced tutorials with charming art inspired by family life. It was after graduating in 2000 from the Arts Decoratifs de Strasbourg, France, with a diploma in Narrative Illustration, Pascal’s brother built him a computer. This was a new tool for Pascal and a digital artist was born. Commercial art, animation, games, concept design, visual development and more have supplied Pascal with unique experience and skills to share with 3dtotal readers. 3dtotal Publishing, 2022....More. Item Code: ARTPCH Hard Cover, 9x11, 152pg, Full Color |
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RAW MATERIAL Volume 2 By Eliza Ivanova Hardcover Signed Hardcover Edition with Signed bookplate. The second & final book of the series — art from 2017 to 2021, while Eliza was also working in the film industry as an animator at Pixar. Wonderful drawings of different techniques and subject matter, from nude studies to fantasy characters and creatures that she has experimented with throughout the years. Two fold-outs. Powerful work in both b&w and full color. Some nudity. Eliza Ivanova, 2022. Mature Readers....More. Item Code: RAW02HS Hard Cover, 8x8, 200pg, Partial Color |
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THE LIBRARY OF ESOTERICA Witchcraft New from Taschen. Recommended. This visual chronicle is the first of its kind, a deep dive into the complex symbologies behind witchcraft traditions, explored through the history of art. The witch has played muse to great artists throughout time, from the dark seductions of de Goya and Albrecht Dürer to the elegant paean to the magical feminine as re-imagined by the Surrealist circle of Remedios Varo, Leonora Carrington, and Leonor Fini. This surveys her many incarnations as she shape-shifts through the centuries: mother, nymph, crone — seductress and destroyer. Profusely illustrated with a wide range of artwork from Victorian era to today. Nudity. Taschen, 2021. Mature Readers....More. Item Code: LIBESH Hard Cover, 7x10, 520pg, Full Color |
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ILLUSTRATION MAGAZINE #57 Highly Recommended. Art by Earl Mayan, Peter Stevens, and W. E. Hill. The spectacular art of Earl Mayan, best known for his photographically detailed slick magazine illustrations of the 1950s. Written by the artist's daughter, the profile presents a behind the scenes look at the creation of his finest illustrations, as well as dozens of reproductions of his original paintings, drawings, and rare reference photographs. The second feature examines the link between William Faulkner's paperbacks and the influential and widely imitated cover art of James Avati. And James Witek explores the graphics used in marketing bubblegum cards through the decades. Illustrated Press, 2017....More. Item Code: IL57 Magazine, 9x11, 80pg, Full Color |
| Also on sale are #59 and #69, but we have just five of each. |
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CHARACTER DESIGN QUARTERLY #20 Highly Recommended. By Kenneth Anderson, Hyuna Lee, Sara Paz, Taraneh Karimi et al. We just discovered this fascinating and impressive magazine and are very impressed. -Bud CDQ is a lively, creative magazine bringing inspiration, expert insights, and leading techniques from professional illustrators, artists, and character art enthusiasts worldwide. Each issue provides detailed tutorials on creating diverse characters, enabling you to explore the processes and decision making that go into creating amazing characters. Widely loved illustrator Eva Balloon brings her unique style to this issue's cover design, and she also provides an in-depth tutorial to show us how she creates her art. 3dtotal Publishing, 2022....More. Item Code: CDQ20 Magazine, 8x11, 104pg, Partial Color |
| I really like this magazine but it hasn't appealed enough to customers. Here's more issues and more on sale, such as #24.. |
Archives & Omnibus Volumes |
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THE NEW TEEN TITANS Omnibus Volume 1 In 1980, writer Marv Wolfman and artists George Pérez and Romeo Tanghal introduced this team of former sidekicks, now on their own with their former mentors nowhere in sight (well, mostly). Robin, Kid Flash, Wonder Girl, Cyborg, Changeling, Raven and Starfire — young heroes with great powers and strong personalities who learn their way in the world through the strength of their friendship and adventures. This collects the team’s debut in DC Comics Presents #26, plus the first twenty issues of their monthly series AND the four-issue mini-series, Tales of the Teen Titans. DC Comics, 2022...More. Item Code: NEWT01H Hard Cover, 7x11, 688pg, Full Color |
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WONDER WOMAN GEORGE PEREZ Omnibus Volume 1 New printing. Collects Wonder Woman #1-24 (1987-89) and Wonder Woman Annual #1. Recommended. One of the most popular artists working in comics over the last 30 years, George Pérez's resume contains a who's-who of the most popular characters in comics, from his co-creation of The New Teen Titans in the 80s to Crisis On Infinite Earths. This omnibus collects the first two years of his revolutionary run on Wonder Woman in premium format, where he reinvented our Amazon and brought her character up to date and into far greater popularity. With co-writer Len Wein and inker Bruce Patterson, Perez went on to craft's Wonder Woman's stories for years. DC, 2022. ...More. Item Code: WWOM01H Hard Cover, 8x11, 640pg, Full Color |
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STAR WARS War of The Bounty Hunters Omnibus Collects dozens of issues across dozens of titles, c.2019-20. By Charles Soule, Greg Pak et al. Art by Lucas Pizzari, Steve McNiven et al. All-out war engulfs the Star Wars galaxy! Notorious bounty hunter Boba Fett has finally landed his greatest prize — Han Solo, frozen in carbonite. But Solo is about to become one highly sought-after smuggler! The rebels want their friend back, the Empire seeks revenge on one of its greatest enemies, and other bounty hunters have their eyes on a big payday — but what moves will the Crimson Dawn crime syndicate make? Featuring Darth Vader, Jabba the Hutt, Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa, Valance, Doctor Aphra and more in all new stories. Marvel, 2022....More. Item Code: SWWARH Hard Cover, 7x11, 864pg, Full Color |
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MARVEL MASTERWORKS WEREWOLF BY NIGHT Volume 1 Collects Marvel Spotlight #2-4, 1971; Werewolf by Night #1-8, 1972; Marvel Team-Up #12, 1972. Recommended. By Gerry Conway and Len Wein. Here is the series that kicked off Marvel’s 1970s horror boom, and now is part of the film universe too. Master of the macabre Mike Ploog delivers some of the greatest artwork of his storied career. Marvel’s most fearsome horror hero debuts. Jack Russell by day, but Werewolf by Night! Immigrated from Eastern Europe as a small child, 18-year-old Russell finds out the hair-raising secret of a family curse that turns all males into werewolves! Marvel, 2022....More. Item Code: MMW01H Hard Cover, 7x10, 280pg, Full Color |
| Also on sale: Spider-Woman, Black Panther, Team-Up, FF, Daredevil and X-Men,click here. |
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FANTASTIC FOUR Epic Collection Volume 8 Annihilus Revealed Fantastic Four enters a new era as Roy Thomas and Gerry Conway take the reins. Thomas begins where it all began — with the Mole Man. This time he's paired with Kala, Queen of the Netherworld, and topped off with a retelling of the FF’s origin. The Human Torch’s relationship with Crystal runs head on into Quicksilver. The Frightful Four launch a surprise attack. Medusa will become the FF’s newest member. Then, it’s into the Negative Zone for the origin of Annihilus.Marvel, 2022....More. Item Code: FFE08 Soft Cover, 7x10, 504pg, Full Color |
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OBLIVION SONG Compendium Collects #1-36, 2018-2020. By Robert Kirkman. Art by Lorenzo De Felici and Annalisa Leoni The entire series, collected for the first time. A decade ago, 300,000 citizens of Philadelphia suddenly were whisked away into an apocalyptic hellscape called Oblivion. The government made every attempt to recover them, but failed. But Nathan Cole won't give up. He makes daily trips, risking his life to try and rescue those still living in the strange neverworld. Image Comics, 2023....More. Item Code: OBLSC Soft Cover, 7x10, 824pg, Full Color |
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SPAWN COMPENDIUM Volume 1 Hurt Collects #1-50, 1992-96. Recommended. A Whopping 1136 pages of Spawn! Todd McFarlane unleashed Spawn in 1992, creating the most successful independent comic book in history. Add in collaborations with industry giants Alan Moore, Frank Miller, Tony Daniel, and Grant Morrison, and SPAWN's future as a legend was sealed. Collected now in full color, McFarlane's hyper-detailed artwork comes to life like never before. Relive all the excitement of everyone's favorite anti-hero with this new collection; get ready for hours and hours of Spawn action. Image Comics, 2021. Condition: Bumped corners. ...More. Item Code: SPAW01R Soft Cover, 7x10, 1136pg, 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 |
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THE RISE AND FALL OF THE TRIGAN EMPIRE Volume 1 Third printing. Our Highest Recommendation. By Mike Butterworth. Art by Don Lawrence. The first of a four-volume series collecting the landmark 1960s science fiction series which rivaled Game of Thrones in popularity in England, and was the precursor to every mythic sci-fi adventure to come! Now in a bargain-priced format, an amazing 300 full color pages, collecting the ground breaking fully painted artwork by the legendary Don Lawrence. Among distant stars, fractious tribes come together to wage war against aggressive kingdoms, battle alien invaders, and conceive of incredible new technologies. Rebellion, 2020....More. Item Code: RIS01 Soft Cover, 8x11, 304pg, Partial Color |
| Volumes 2-4 are also on sale, 2-3 at $17.50 and 4 at $19.99. |
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EC ARCHIVES Shock Suspenstories Volume 1 Collects #1-6, 1952-53. Our Highest Recommendation. This inexpensive new softcover collects the titanic artistic talents of Al Feldstein, Jack Kamen, Jack Davis, Joe Orlando, Graham Ingles and Wally Wood. Cross-race marriage, bigotry, black hangings and the KKK, EC used Shock to introduce readers to real life horrors, alongside sci-fi (a story in every issue), crime, and their regular tales. Always with a surprise, snap ending! Dark Horse, 2021....More. Item Code: ECS01 Soft Cover, 8x11, 216pg, Full Color |
| Here are more EC Archives, but this is the only one on sale. They are already bargains! |
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BERSERK DELUXE EDITION Volume 2 Genuine leather binding, massive 700 pages. Recommended. By Kentaro Miura. Now celebrating its thirtieth anniversary, the entire Berserk series is being released in handsome oversized bookshelf format, each collecting three volumes of the original manga. Young Guts is hardened into a warrior of fearsome prowess and fearless will, drawing the attention of the charismatic Griffith, commander of the elite mercenary legion, the Band of the Hawk. This crossroad will take Guts to fame and glory...and to damnation! Berserk has cast its enormous shadow for three decades, garnering legions of fans and inspiring TV series, feature films, and video games. Minor nudity. Dark Horse, 2019. Mature Readers....More. Item Code: BER02H Hard Cover, 7x10, 704pg, Full Color|b&w |
| Same discounted price: Vols 4, 5, 7-11, but only one or two of each left. |
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SPACE WAR Volume 3 Hardcover Collects #11-15, 1961-62. By Joe Gill. Charlton Comics' very own sci fi title with "The Invaders!" to "The Seeds from Space." This ten-cent era title offers two-fisted space adventures by Bill Molno, Rocco Mastroserio, and Charles Nicholas. PS Artbooks. 2022....More. Item Code: SASW03H Hard Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color |
| The softcover is available [SASW03. $32.99]. Here's more in the series. |
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SILVER AGE CLASSICS: UNUSUAL TALES Volume 4 Hardcover Collects Unusual Tales #16-20, 1959-60. Unusual Tales moves beyond the Ditko era (last in #15) but continues the genre stories with art by Matt Baker (a cover and two stories, with Vince Colletta), Dick Giordano, Charles Nicholas, and Don Perlin. Science fiction, horror, suspense, fantasy and the supernatural. "Under Antarctic Ice," "Gravity Grabber," "The Talking Dog," "Thinkee the Thinkatron," "The Time Cap," and "The Unbelievable Stone Man" are just a few of the stories. PS Artbooks, 2022....More. Item Code: SAUT04H Hard Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color |
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UNUSUAL TALES Volume 4 Collects Unusual Tales #16-20, 1959-60. Unusual Tales moves beyond the Ditko era (last in #15) but continues the genre stories with art by Matt Baker (a cover and two stories, with Vince Colletta), Dick Giordano, Charles Nicholas, and Don Perlin. Science fiction, horror, suspense, fantasy and the supernatural. "Under Antarctic Ice," "Gravity Grabber," "The Talking Dog," "Thinkee the Thinkatron," "The Time Cap," and "The Unbelievable Stone Man" are just a few of the stories. PS Artbooks, 2022....More. Item Code: SAUT04 Soft Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color |
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CLASSIC ADVENTURE COMICS Volume 5 Hardcover Collects Combat #1-5, 1961-62. Variant John F. Kennedy cover. Recommended. Remarkable accounts of some of the fiercest battles in World War II: “Get the Bismark!” “Pearl Harbor.” “The Death March of Bataan.” “Lt. John F. Kennedy, USNR,” the story of President Kennedy on PT Boat #109. The great “Desert Fox” falls before the surging onslaught of British might! And all featuring the stunning artwork of the great Sam Glanzman! “Pearl Harbor” recounts how the Japanese lost 28 planes, while the U.S. lost half of its entire Pacific Fleet, all in 120 minutes. PS Artbooks, 2022....More. Item Code: PCAD05H Hard Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color |
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FRIDAY FOSTER The Sunday Strips Recommended. By Jim Lawrence. Art by Jorge Longaron.The Friday Foster comic strip is the story of a former nightclub "camera bunny" turned photographer's assistant turned fashion model. With an innate inclination to help others and a natural beauty that makes her a magnet for men, Friday often finds herself in some very sticky situations and world-class adventures. Friday was the first mainstream (i.e. nationally syndicated) comic strip starring a black character in the title role, 1970-1974. Packed with extra features, including an interview with Longaron, bio details on writer Lawrence, full details on the 1975 blaxploitation film with an interview with Director Arthur Marks and star Pam Grier. Ablaze, 2020. ...More. Item Code: FRIFH Hard Cover, 9x12, 304pg, Full Color |
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PEANUTS EVERY SUNDAY 1996-2000 Recommended. As the 50-year run of Peanuts concludes, all the classic characters are present, as is the brightest star of the strip, Snoopy. This final volume highlights Snoopy's fantastical stint as the World Famous Patriot Soldier at Valley Forge, the emergence of fan-favorite character Rerun Van Pelt, and Charles M. Schulz's heartfelt farewell letter to his fans. Fantagraphics, 2022....More. Item Code: PES10H Hard Cover, 13x9, 264pg, Full Color |
| The 1990s Every Sunday Slipcase set is also on sale, and also 1950-54. See all of our Peanuts collections here. |
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POGO Volume 7 Pockets Full of Pie New Printing. The Complete Comic Strips, Dailies and Sundays, 1961-62. Highly Recommended. By Walt Kelly. Foreword by Sergio Aragones. This volume includes a pig with an ominous resemblance to Nikita Khrushchev and a scruffy goat who looks exactly like Fidel Castro. Other storylines spotlight Kelly's remarkable cast: Pogo Possum, Albert Alligator, Howland Owl, "Churchy" LaFemme, Beauregard Bugleboy, Porky Pine, Miz Ma'm'selle Hepzibah, Deacon Mushrat, and so many others. All 104 Sunday strips from those two years are included, with supplementary features (including comprehensive annotations and index) by comics historians R.C. Harvey, Maggie Thompson, and Mark Evanier. Fantagraphics, 2022....More. Item Code: POG07H Hard Cover, 11x9, 360pg, Partial Color |
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THE DELUXE MEGALEX Recommended. An original sci-fi adventure of rebellion against a totalitarian and oppressive world, as imagined by master storyteller Jodorowsky (The Incal, Metabarons, Jodorowsky's Dune) with art by the superb Fred Beltran, whose work reminds us of Brian Bolland going photo-realistic. It's very good. On city-planet Megalex, a tyrannical order reigns over a population controlled by drug addiction and genetic manipulation. Freedom fighters are easy prey — until a clone policeman, known only as Anomaly, is rescued from death by the beautiful and sexy rebel Adama and learns the truth about the side he's been fighting for. Now the gentle giant has joined the opposition and is eager to help topple his former masters. Nudity and adult themes. Humanoids, 2022. Mature Readers....More. Item Code: DMEGH Hard Cover, 9x13, 164pg, Full Color |
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ARMED WITH MADNESS THE SURREAL LEONORA CARRINGTON Recommended. By Mary M. Talbot, Bryan Talbot. A new perspective on the 1930s Paris art scene from an influential surrealist artist, feminist icon, reluctant muse (to Max Ernst)—heiress, rebel, refugee, often quite the demented soul. Perhaps the last of the great surrealists, Leonora Carrington played many roles in her long and extraordinary life. Exchanging her privileged upbringing in prewar England for the more exciting elite of Paris's 1930s avant-garde, she comes to rub shoulders (and more) with the likes of Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, and Salvador Dali. SelfMadeHero , 2023....More. Item Code: ARMM Hard Cover, 6x9, 144pg, Duotone |
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ADVENTUREMAN Volume 2 A Fairy Tale of New York Collects #5-9. Highly Recommended. By Matt Fraction. Art by Terry Dodson et al.Brilliant artwork and a gorgeous heroine. What happens after the end of the world? For Claire Connell, it means inheriting the legacy of legendary pulp hero Adventureman. Now, Claire's learning that fighting Adventureman's fights means she's the one who must face Adventureman's foes, past AND present...Claire struggles to adapt to memories not solely her own and a world that seems to be changing as much as she has... Image Comics, 2022....More. Item Code: ADVM02H Hard Cover, 10x13, 168pg, Full Color |
| A major Art-of book on Terry Dodson is coming this Spring from Flesk. Vol 1 is nearly gone [ADV01H. $24.99]. |
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BATMAN '89 Collects first 12 chapters of the digital comics series. By Sam Hamm. Art by Joe Quinones. Continuing the adventures of the Dark Knight from Tim Burton's classic movie Batman, Batman '89 pulls on a number of threads left dangling by that film while continuing in the tradition of DC's very successful Batman '66 series. In 1989 moviegoers were amazed at the new vision of the Dark Knight brought to the screen, starring Michael Keaton as Batman and Jack Nicholson as The Joker. Now, in the tradition of DC's very successful Batman '66 series, Batman '89 is set in a truly gothic Gotham City and features colorful villains including The Joker, Two-Face, and many more. DC Comics, 2022....More. Item Code: BAT89H Hard Cover, 7x10, 152pg, Full Color |
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FANTASTIC FOUR Full Circle Alex Ross Hardcover Highly Recommended. By Alex Ross!The first-ever complete graphic novel written and illustrated by acclaimed artist Alex Ross, who revisits a classic Stan Lee-Jack Kirby story (into the Negative Zone) from the 1960s and introduces the story line for a new generation of readers. With bold, vivid colors and his trademark visual storytelling, Ross takes Marvel's first team of super heroes to places only he can illustrate. Abrams ComicArts, 2022....More. Item Code: FFFULLH Hard Cover, 8x11, 64pg, Full Color |
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MICKEY MOUSE ZOMBIE COFFEE Our Highest Recommendation. I love this! It's the old Mickey in a 1930s-style adventure told in a daily comic strip format but in full, rich, warm colors. -Bud. Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Horace Horsecollar, and Clarabelle Cow go camping to forget the Great Depression. But when they return to Mouseton, they find shady real-estate developer Rock Fuller destroying it to build a golf course... with the help of an army of "zombies," transformed from normal citizens with a magic drink! What does Mickey's old enemy Pegleg Pete have to do with this evil scheme... and can Mickey trip it up? Fantagraphics, 2022....More. Item Code: MMZOMH Hard Cover, 12x9, 80pg, Full Color |
| Here's more Mickey Mouse new stories from Europe, in the Disney Masters series. More are on sale. |
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NUBIA QUEEN OF THE AMAZONS Recommended. By Stephanie Williams. Art by Alitha Martinez, Vita Ayala et al.After the events of Trial of the Amazons, a new era for these warriors has dawned. Nubia is the new Amazon Queen and embarks on a tour of the modern world. She stood between Man's World and the dangers of Doom's Doorway for centuries. But now a villain from her past is waiting as she leaves the protection of Themyscira. Includes all variant covers. DC Comics, 2022....More. Item Code: NUBQH Hard Cover, 7x10, 152pg, Full Color |
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GEORGE'S RUN: A WRITER'S JOURNEY THROUGH THE TWILIGHT ZONE By Henry Chamberlain. The life of sci-fi and screen writer George Clayton Johnson in a new graphic novel. George broke into Hollywood in a big way when he co-wrote the screenplay for Ocean’s Eleven. More legendary works followed, including Logan’s Run and classic scripts for shows like The Twilight Zone and Star Trek. In the meantime, he forged friendships with some of the era’s most visionary science fiction writers, including Ray Bradbury, Theodore Sturgeon, Richard Matheson, and Rod Serling. Rutgers University Press, 2023....More. Item Code: GEORUN Soft Cover, 6x9, 264pg, Duotone |
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HEART OF DARKNESS Highly Recommended. By Joseph Conrad. Adapted by Peter Kuper. Heart of Darkness has unsettled generations of readers with its haunting portrait of evil in the depths of Africa, brought there by the white man and his greed. Francis Ford Coppola’s brilliant re-imagining of Heart of Darkness was Apocalyse Now, set during the Vietnam War, gives you a hint of what is in store for you here. The narrator is hired to pilot a ship up an unexplored river, uncovering the rampant ivory trade, slavery, cruelty and tyranny...portrayed here with acclaimed illustrator Peter Kuper's signature woodblock style. W.W. Norton, 2020....More. Item Code: HEADAH Hard Cover, 6x9, 160pg, b&w |
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THE BLACK BESTIARY A Phantasmagoria of Monsters and Myths from the Philippines By Budjette Tan and David Hontiveros. Art by Kajo Baldisimo and Bow Guerrero. The Black Bestiary adds to the list of powerful and fearsome supernatural creatures we met in The Lost Journal of Alejandro Pardo. You'll come face-to-face with The Bungisngis —You've heard of the Cyclops; this is a Cyclops on steroids! The Tahamaling —Never hunt in the forest without permission from these maidens! The Tiktik — Part avian, part human, part something else. These terrifying creatures feed on the unborn. And many more creatures of horrifying aspect and predilection! Tuttle, 2022....More. Item Code: BLABEH Hard Cover, 7x9, 128pg, Full Color |
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BLACK ADAM The Justice Society Case Files Collects four special #1 issues from 2022. By Cavan Scott, Bryan Q. Miller. Art by Scot Eaton et al. One of the world’s foremost wielders of magic, Black Adam has been both hero and villain over a life that’s spanned thousands of years. But where does that leave him in the fight for justice? This ties into the film and co-stars Hawkman, Cyclone, Atom Smasher and Dr. Fate. DC Comics, 2023....More. Item Code: BLAJSC Soft Cover, 7x10, 176pg, Full Color |
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KING CONAN Collects #1-6, 2022. Very well drawn. Recommended. Creators Jason Aaron and Mahmud Asrar return to the saga of Conan, to present the Barbarian’s last stand at the edge of the world! And together they take the Cimmerian further than has ever been revealed in any media to date, a grizzled bearded giant who can still take on younger warriors or demons from hell! As Robert E. Howard posited, when King Conan of Aquilonia grows restless on the throne, he sails west, toward land and adventure unknown. Now, see the first step of that fateful journey...Marvel, 2022....More. Item Code: KINCO Soft Cover, 7x10, 144pg, Full Color |
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THE MYTHOLOGY CLASS Where Philippine Legends Become Reality Nearly 350 pages! Winner of the National Book graphic novel award, 2000. Immerse yourself in a high-stakes fantasy adventure set in the Philippines! This Philippine National Book Award winner fuses traditional myth and magic with contemporary action. Borrowing elements from The Lord of the Rings and The Phantom Tollbooth, author and creator Arnold Arre reinvents age-old Filipino fables, constructing a rich world of fantasy and adventure for a new generation. Tuttle, 2022....More. Item Code: MYTCP Soft Cover, 7x10, 368pg, b&w |
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RED SONJA Volume 3 Children's Crusade Collects #13-18, 2019. By Mark Russell. Art by Bob Q. Year two of Mark Russell's epic tale kicks off, joined by artist Bob Q (Captain America, Fantastic Four). In this issue: Sonja The Red has won. Now comes the impossible part... Sonja is queen but now must wager everything to save her people. Full page covers for all six issues by Roberto Castro, Pepoy, Linsner, Laming, Bob Q, Diaz, Gorham, Cosplay photo covers and also work by Gedeon and Anwar. Dynamite, 2022....More. Item Code: RED03 Soft Cover, 7x10, 156pg, Full Color |
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TALLI, DAUGHTER OF THE MOON Volume 1 An epic adventure from French-Laotian cartoonist Sourya evokes the best of manga and bandes dessinées in one sweeping narrative. Talli is a Summoner: a nearly extinct people, hunted by those who fear their mysterious powers. After her home castle is sacked, she escapes in the chaos with the help of the noble (some might say too noble) knight Sir Alan. Oni Press, 2022....More. Item Code: TALD01 Soft Cover, 6x8, 168pg, b&w |
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WE HAVE DEMONS Collects #1-3. Recommended. By Scott Snyder. Art by Greg Capullo. Lam Lyle, a lovely young woman of science, dismissed stories of the conflict between angel and demon-kind. But when she discovers she is being raised by demons and is saved by a hulking, benevolent demon named Gus — her father's former partner — everything changes. Our feisty and attractive heroine turns out to have powers she never knew she had and she is thrust into a climactic war of good and evil that goes back to the beginning of time. Good artwork and supporting characters, nasty well-depicted demons.... Dark Horse, 2022....More. Item Code: WEHAV Soft Cover, 7x10, 200pg, Full Color |
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PEARL OF THE SEA Recommended. All-ages. By Anthony Silverston. Art by Willem Samuel. Young diver Pearl has always felt more comfortable in the sea, as she balances school and providing for her unemployed dad, turning up fish and the rare lost treasure from under the sea. The people in her sleepy South African town, including her dad, let her down, but when a new friend from below the surface—a sea monster named Otto—is taken by poachers, Pearl will fight for his survival and will need some help after all. Attractive and polished animation style, a fun read with lots to enjoy here. Catalyst Press, 2023....More. Item Code: PEARSE Soft Cover, 5x8, 168pg, Full Color |
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40 SECONDS Collects #1-5, 2020-21. Recommended. By Jeremy Haun. Art by Christopher Mitten.I haven’t had a chance to read this yet, but it looks fascinating. - Bud. A science fiction/fantasy adventure about a brave team of science explorers traveling through a series of alien gateways to answer a distress call a galaxy away. They find themselves jumping across the universe through strange and beautiful landscapes only to be hunted by a vast, inexplicably unstoppable and dangerous horde. I really like the artwork and the alien landscapes. Good action/adventure! Dark Horse, 2022....More. Item Code: 40SEC Soft Cover, 7x10, 120pg, Full Color |
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BIRDKING Volume 1 Escape From Feather Hill Recommended. From the creators of Raiders, Daniel Freedman and CROM, comes an original dark fantasy graphic novel of epic adventure and magic, drawn in a colorful, animation-like style but ruthless and bloody! Bianca, a teenage apprentice to a blacksmith, is forced to flee her homeland and seek out Atlas, a fabled land of light ruled by "the clean god." She is joined by a mysterious guardian spirit known only as the "BirdKing". Together they will have to overcome dozens of enemies to reach Atlas and along the way, unravel the mystery of the BirdKing and their ancestral connection. Dark Horse, 2022....More. Item Code: BIRK01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 160pg, Full Color |
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BYLINES IN BLOOD The near future. Politicians invent their own facts, and independent newspapers no longer exist. The very concept of truth has died. In this world, private detectives serve as ronin, searching out the hard truths that people are desperate to keep hidden. The best of these PIs is Satya — when she's not drinking, anyway — a former journalist turned hard-assed gumshoe. But Satya's former editor has been murdered and the trail points toward the highest bastions of power. To find justice for her friend, she'll have to put everything — and everyone — she knows at risk. A prophetic neo-noir thriller with unexpected twists at every turn. Aftershock Comics, 2023....More. Item Code: BYLBL Soft Cover, 7x10, 120pg, Full Color |
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COVER Volume 1 Collects #1-6. By Brian Michael Bendis. Art and new cover by David Mack. Mack's avant-garde art highlights this true story. The intelligence community figures out that the traveling band of social misfits who make comic books are an exact match to the profiles of candidates recruited for intelligence and counterintelligence gathering. A well-known comics creator is recruited by the agency to live a double life as a spy. And convention season is upon us! What could go wrong? Dark Horse, 2022....More. Item Code: COVE01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 176pg, Full Color |
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EVITA The Life and Work of Eva Peron The Alberto Brecchia Library Vol 6. Originally published in 1970, writer Hector Germán Oesterheld and the father and son illustration team of Alberto and Enrique Breccia intended Evita to be the follow-up to the successful and controversial 1969 graphic biography Life of Che. But the script was taken away from him and depoliticized by another writer and the book sank like a stone. In 2002, a restored, revised, and updated version of Evita, featuring Oesterheld's original script, which takes a uniquely symbolic approach to her life and career, was finally published in Argentina. Here it is in English for the first time. Fantagraphics, 2023....More. Item Code: EVITH Hard Cover, 9x12, 72pg, b&w |
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LAST FLIGHT OUT Collects #1-6, 2021-22. With less than 24 hours before the last ark leaves a dying Earth, Dr. Ben Caewood’s daughter Sara has gone missing. Finally, the critically-acclaimed series about a father and daughter trying to reconcile at the end of the world is collected. From Marc Guggenheim (Arrow, X-Men) and Eduardo Ferigato (Radiant Black). Bonus material. Dark Horse, 2022....More. Item Code: LASFL Soft Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color |
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WAR BIRDS Art by Steve Parkhouse. When an independent robot soldier makes a unique connection with an injured, flying drone, they flee the warzone they’re in to seek lives of their own. Their military builders want to destroy them, though, while a sympathetic pair of humans tries what they can to free the errant ‘bots from military service! Steve Parkhouse, artist and co-creator of Resident Alien, joins writer Geoffrey D. Wessel in this thrilling tale of friendship and survival. Dark Horse, 2023....More. Item Code: WARBI Soft Cover, 7x10, 104pg, b&w |
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THE CALL OF CTHULHU A Mystery in Three Parts Featuring over one hundred pencil drawings plus color! Our Highest Recommendation. By H.P. Lovecraft. Art by Gary Gianni. This is quite a unique fusion of cinematic design, graphic novel and illustrated book. Over a hundred finished pencil drawings with occasional color pieces enhance and bring to life the work of two visionaries — H.P. Lovecraft and Gary Gianni — in an extraordinary feat of storytelling and art, with art on nearly every page, worked carefully into the text. Written in 1928, Cthulhu defined the ancient gods as dark creatures who came from the stars and ruled the world before mankind. Flesk, 2021....More. Item Code: CALCT Soft Cover, 7x9, 112pg, Partial Color |
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MUTINY MAGAZINE #3 Marcus Williams Cover Bill Sienkiewicz interview. Recommended. These are looking better and better every issue. In-depth interviews, features and original creator owned comic stories! Return of the No Future series (by Eder Messias & Fabrice Sapolsky), a long conversation with comic book heavyweight Jason Aaron (Avengers, Conan, Southern Bastards), with the Miranda Brothers, and with Kelly Thompson, top Marvel Comics writer for ten years now. Plus a bold new creator owned story from Djibril Morissette Phan called "The Eternal Winter", a never seen before tale from Eisner nominated and Glyph Awards winning series Watson & Holmes drawn by Rick Leonardi, a legendary French hero Photonik published in the US for the first time ever, comics from Russia and Ukraine, and so much more! Fairsquare Comics, 2022....More. Item Code: MUTM03A Magazine, 8x11, 100pg, Full Color |
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NOTTINGHAM Volume 1 The King's Ransom Recommended. By Vincent Brugeas and Emmanuel Herzet. Art by Benoit Dellac. The story of Robin Hood is universally known, but no one really knows who was the legendary enemy of the Sheriff of Nottingham. What if brigand and sheriff were one and the same? The first volume of a new take on the myth. It's 1192. Richard, King of England, hasn’t returned from the Crusades and rumours say he may be dead. John Lackland begins moving his pieces to claim the throne, counting on the support — and money — of the kingdom’s sheriffs. Deep inside Sherwood Forest, young Saxon Lady Marion tries to convince a family of outlaws to join her in fighting the prince, with the help of a mysterious man in a hood — none other than the Sheriff of Nottingham himself! Cinebook, 2022....More. Item Code: NOT01 Soft Cover, 8x11, 56pg, Full Color |
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THE REGIMENT The True Story of the SAS Book 3 Recommended. By Vincent Brugeas. Art by Thomas Legrain. Despite the heroic efforts of L Detachment, the unit’s victories haven’t managed to stop the advance of the German war machine. Soon, Rommel is at the gates of Egypt, and losses mount among David Stirling and Paddy Mayne’s men — some crueler than others. In the end, they will have to reinvent themselves and give everything to push back the Desert Fox and earn their name at last: The Special Air Service! Cinebook, 2021....More. Item Code: REG03 Soft Cover, 8x11, 64pg, Full Color |
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WANTED LUCKY LUKE All-new take on the legendary series. Highly Recommended. By Matthieu Bonhomme. Luke happens upon a lone wagon beset by Apache raiders. A quick fight later, Luke is surprised to find that the occupants of the wagon are three lovely, spirited, and straight-shooting young women! Three sisters on their way to start a new life, who all find the lonesome cowboy ... quite interesting. But what's this WANTED poster they are showing to Luke...of him, wanted for murder? Cinebook, 2022....More. Item Code: WANTLL Soft Cover, 8x11, 68pg, Full Color |
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HASHMAN By Alex Grand and Joshua Berman. Art by Charbak Dipta. Based on a series of interviews with eye witnesses, court reports, and newspaper articles carefully used to construct an authentic and visually visceral ride through the life of a well connected cannabis pioneer. Joey Berkowitz has a complicated past, extending through East Coast mobs, the psychedelic 60s, the New York celebrity drug culture, Berkeley Peace movement, the Paris riots, Altamont, Woodstock, laundering money in Southeast Asia, and sitting meditation courses in Tibet. Join Joey as he manages to escape prosecution time and time again by the seat of his pants, ultimately becoming a noteworthy shrink in Seattle where he manages to find himself a central figure in the worldwide cannabis legalization scene as its most notorious authorizing doc, dispensary financier, and industry stalwart. Comic Book Historians, 2023....More. Item Code: HASHM Soft Cover, 7x10, 128pg, Full Color |
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GRIMM TALES OF TERROR QUARTERLY Rise of Cthulhu Alfredo Reyes Cover By George Brusha. Art by Julius Abrera, LaManno, Mariani and Uezu. For millennia it has slept while the Grimm Universe grew around it. Remembered only in myth and legend, its name has been whispered throughout time...Cthulhu. It is evil incarnate and its awakening foretells the end of mankind. The beginning of the end of the Grimm Universe is here...Dread Cthulhu's slumber is over. Keres, the beautiful Goddess of Death, can bend men to her will (and insatiable lust) while she plots to bring Cthulhu back into the world in part one of a new adventure. Zenescope, 2022....More. Item Code: GRIMRT Comic, 7x10, 40pg, Full Color |
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A CENTURY OF AMERICAN TOYS & GAMES The Story of Pressman Toy By Jim Pressman and Donna Pressman. When Jack Pressman went into business as a manufacturer of basic playthings like lead soldiers and toy xylophones in 1922, he could scarcely have imagined that his small venture would become one of the iconic American toy companies. The firm scored its first megahit in the 1920s, when it popularized Chinese Checkers, and it went on to introduce enduring favorites like Rummikub and Tri-Ominos. Today the Pressman Toy Corporation remains well known for its line of classic board games in eye-catching red boxes, as well as games based on popular TV shows. Abbeville Press, 2022....More. Item Code: CENATH Hard Cover, 10x13, 256pg, Partial Color |
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THE ART OF RON LESSER Volume 1 Deadly Dames and Sexy Sirens Hardcover Hurt Highly Recommended. By Robert Deis, Bill Cunningham and J. Kingston Pierce. In the late 1950s, while studying with the legendary art teacher Frank J. Reilly at the Art Students League in New York City, Ron Lesser embarked on a long career as one of America’s top illustration artists. Over the next four decades, his artwork was used for thousands of paperback book covers, movie posters, magazines, and advertisements. The focus of this volume, first in a series, is on the first leg of his career — paperback covers, movie posters, magazines, and ads between 1959 and 1979 that featured images of “dangerous dames,” “sexy sirens,” and other beautiful women. Subtropic Productions, 2023.Condition: Bumped corners....More. Item Code: ARTRL01HR Hard Cover, 8x11, 146pg, Full Color |
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DRACULA OF TRANSLYVANIA Hurt 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. Condition: Bumped corners. ...More. Item Code: DRACHR Hard Cover, 8x10, 560pg, Full Color |
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EERIE PUBLICATIONS THE COMPLETE COVERS The Whole Bloody Mess Expanded Edition Hurt Revised edition with 20 additional pages. Cover by Bill Alexander. Edited by Mike Howlett.Brand new second printing of this popular book that quickly sold out. Every Eerie Publications horror cover is reproduced in full color and in chronological order. These were the off-brand, sleaze magazines of horror stories, competing with Warren’s Creepy and Eerie by being even more gory and out there, often beyond the boundaries of good taste. With the promise of torture and gore, those covers burned themselves into the brain of everyone who saw them. Fantaco Enterprises, 2023. Condition: Slight bump to corner. ...More. Item Code: EERPEHR Hard Cover, 8x11, 270pg, Partial Color |
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CREATURES FROM THE SUBCONSCIOUS Hurt Highly Recommended. Underground comix pioneer Denis Kitchen offers us a coffee table art book collecting his unique surrealistic drawings. The wide variety of imaginary sea life, giant insects, skeletal remains, puzzling monsters, and deformed humans defy any simple categorization. Introduction by Peter Poplaski, foreword by Kitchen. This deluxe edition reproduces more than 160 oddly compelling images by a creative genius. Tinto Press, 2023. Condition: Bumped corners. ...More. Item Code: CREAFHSR Hard Cover, 10x10, 170pg, b&w |
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SAP HUNTERS Hurt Highly Recommended. Newly translated from the French. By Laurent Genefort and Alexandre Ristorcelli. All is not right within the branches of the sacred World Tree. Towering huge, its life-giving sap sustains the many divided clans living within it... until the Chasm Strider clan’s diviner, the humble young man Pierig, discovers the Tree’s sap has become infected. Before he can warn his clan, he is violently captured by another clan, the Sap Hunters. These warriors demand he use his special divining skills to track the source of the corruption. And they are led by the young and beautiful Riva, a tough leader who turns out to be attracted to Pierig even while she pushes everyone relentlessly on their journey to the roots of World Tree. Nudity, adult situations. Very well drawn, and excellent dialogue. A real page-turner of story. Humanoids, 2023. Mature Readers. Condition: Bumped corners. ...More. Item Code: SAPHHR Hard Cover, 10x12, 120pg, Full Color |
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