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The new items are still rolling in. Romita’s Spider-Man Newspaper Strips; Dungeons and Dragons; The Art of Graham Humphreys; a bunch of new PS Archives and facsimile editions, including Doll Man Vol 1. The Best of Red Sonja, Barry Windsor-Smith’s Archer & Armstrong, Mignola’s Fafhrd & the Gray Mouser, Comic Book Creator, Back Issue, Elvira, and Will Murray’s Spicy Zepplin Stories! Happy New Year! |
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NIGHTMARE ON ONE SHEET The Art of Graham Humphreys |
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DUNGEONS & DRAGONS Lore & Legends Recommended. Exclusive interviews and more than 900 pieces of artwork, photography, and advertising. An illustrated guide to Dungeons & Dragons‘ beloved fifth edition told through interviews, artwork, and visual ephemera from the designers, storytellers. When the re-imagined fifth edition of Dungeons & Dragons debuted in the summer of 2014, tabletop role-playing games were on the brink of obsolescence. But within a few short years, D&D found greater success than it had ever enjoyed before, even surpassing its 1980s golden age. How did an analog game nearly a half century old become a star in a digital world? A massive oversized coffee-table volume. Ten Speed Press, 2023. ...More. Item Code: DDLOREH Hard Cover, 9x12, 416pg, Full Color |
| Here are two more D&D items: Art and Arcana: A Visual History [RB1436. $125] and the 2024 Day-to-Day Calendar [DD24. $17.99]. |
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JOHN ROMITA AMAZING SPIDER-MAN DAILY COMIC STRIPS Artist's Edition Recommended. This collects high-resolution scans of the very earliest Amazing Spider-Man daily strips by the two creators most associated with the Web-Slinger, Stan Lee and John Romita. Approximately 300 (!) original daily strips have been scanned, all from 1977 and 1978. The strip debuted on January 3, 1977, and the first two months of the strip are included. Spider-Man’s origin is recapped and it’s a Who’s Who of all your favorite Spidey characters. IDW, 2023. Rush Service and International shipping would require an additional charge....More. Item Code: JRASH Hard Cover, 19x16, 176pg, b&w $150.00 |
| Here are more of the latest Artist’s Editions. And lower-priced Artisan Editions, beginning with the latest releases from Bill Sienkiewicz, Eisner’s The Spirit, Best of EC Stories, Gil Kane’s Spider-Man, etc. Some are on sale. |
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ARCHER & ARMSTRONG REVIVAL Collects #0-12, 1992-93. Recommended. Cover by Frank Miller. From legendary creators Barry Windsor-Smith (Weapon X), Jim Shooter (Secret Wars), Bob Layton (Iron Man), and more comes the first Valiant Classics Collection of the groundbreaking series. Archer is the world's greatest hand-to-hand fighter, an expert marksman, and a seeker of truth and righteousness. Armstrong is an immortal warrior who has reluctantly brawled his way from prehistory to modern times only to realize that the best way to face life's many challenges is to grab a drink. But Armstrong counts as his worst day the one when Archer turned up and decided they were partners — a team chosen by fate to save the world! Valiant, 2023. ...More. Item Code: ARCARM Soft Cover, 7x10, 336pg, Full Color |
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THE BEST OF RED SONJA 1975 on. Foreword by Luke Lieberman. 50th anniversary collection of greatest tales. From her earliest appearances in Marvel Feature and the very first Red Sonja series, created by such defining talents as Roy Thomas, Frank Thorne and Esteban Maroto, to her contemporary epics crafted by Michael Avon Oeming, Gail Simone, and Luke Lieberman with artists Walter Geovanni, Mel Rubi, and Liam Sharp. Dynamite, 2023....More. Item Code: BESTRSH Hard Cover, 7x10, 368pg, Full Color |
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FAFHRD AND THE GRAY MOUSER Omnibus 1973, 1990. Highly Recommended. Fritz Leiber ranks among the giants of fantasy and science fiction visionaries, capturing multiple Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards and influencing a generation of writers. His most renowned creations are the swashbuckling Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories. Here are adaptations of the finest of these tales — including the Hugo and Nebula Award winning "Ill Met in Lankhmar" — by comics legends Howard Chaykin, Mike Mignola, Dennis O’Neil, Al Williamson, and more. Dark Horse, 2023. ...More. Item Code: FAFGM Soft Cover, 7x10, 320pg, Full Color |
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WALT DISNEY'S SILLY SYMPHONIES 1935-1939 Starring Donald Duck and the Big Bad Wolf Revised and Updated. Highly Recommended. The 1930s were the heyday of Disney’s second-ever newspaper comics feature: the full-color weekly Silly Symphonies Sunday pages. Fantagraphics’ latest volume showcases the original Snow White; Donald Duck’s extended run as star of the strip, from his pranks on Goofy to his battles with Mickey’s naughty nephews; and the debut of Donald’s own Huey, Dewey, and Louie, first created for this strip by artist Al Taliaferro! Also: perilous pork pursuits of Zeke the Big Bad Wolf, who with the Three Little Pigs also made his comics debut. Plus dog tales with Pluto — and two tales of Elmer Elephant, one plotted by comics maestros Carl Barks and Walt Kelly! Fantagraphics, 2023....More. Item Code: WDSIL02H Hard Cover, 12x9, 212pg, Full Color |
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X-MEN The Hidden Years Omnibus Collects X-Men: The Hidden Years #1-22, Fantastic Four #102-104 and more, 1999-2001. By Stan Lee. Comic book legend John Byrne bridges the gap between the X-Men’s classic beginnings and all-new, all-different eras where much of the membership underwent dramatic changes! Skillfully woven in between the X-Men’s 1970 cancellation and 1975 revival, here are the previously untold stories of the original team. They search the Savage Land for Magneto. Iceman goes it alone, tragedy strikes Angel, and Beast, Cyclops and Marvel Girl encounter a young mutant named Ororo. The X-Men head into space with the Fantastic Four, Sauron soars again, the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants returns, and the team faces the mysterious group the Promise! Marvel, 2023. ...More. Item Code: XMEH Hard Cover, 7x11, 640pg, Full Color |
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DOCTOR STRANGE EPIC COLLECTION Volume 2: I, Dormammu Collects Strange Tales #147-168, Doctor Strange #169-179 and more, 1966-69. Highly Recommended. Stan Lee, Bill Everett, Marie Severin and Dan Adkins present the second collection of the first Doc Strange stories. Adventures will take him across the cosmos and into new dimensions as he struggles to save Earth from Kaluu, Umar and the judgment of the Living Tribunal. Then, in his own solo series, Doctor Strange gains one of his greatest creative teams of all time: Roy Thomas, Gene Colan and Tom Palmer. This trio of talents will pit the Master of the Mystic arts against Eternity and Dormammu with the lives of Clea and Victoria Bentley hanging in the balance. Marvel, 2023....More. Item Code: DOCST02 Soft Cover, 7x10, 504pg, Full Color |
| Volume 1 is sold out, but here is Vol 3 and 5, plus more Doctor Strange. |
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DOLL MAN Volume 1 Collects Doll Man #1-3, 1941-42. Highly Recommended. By Reed Crandall, Rudy Palais, John Cassone. Created by the legendary Will Eisner (The Spirit). Collecting three beefy, 64-page issues. Beginning with #2, Reed Crandall took over and draws SEVEN different stories! John Cassone, best known for his sexy Black Angel in Air Fighters Comics, takes over in #3 and like Crandall, draws all the Dollman stories. Doll Man — first published by Quality Comics — follows the adventures of Darrel Dane, a scientist who creates a formula to shrink down to a miniature version of himself whilst retaining all of his strength. PS Artbooks, 2023....More. Item Code: DOLLM01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color $32.99 |
| Doll Man joins the previous collections featuring the best from Quality Comics Group in the Golden Age: The Spirit, Blackhawk, Military and Plastic Man. |
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CLASSIC HORROR COMICS Volume 5 Collects #1-4, 1952-53 and Challenge of the Unknown #6, 1950. Highly Recommended. Great Kirby variant cover. As a spin off to the successful Black Magic comics that started a couple of years earlier came this offering — Strange World of Your Dreams, certainly one of the oddest comic anthology series ever created. Its focus on the dream theme gave it a special flavor. The idea of a dream comic came from Mort Meskin, who along with Joe Simon & Jack Kirby drew most of these wild stories. PS Artbooks, 2023. ...More. Item Code: CLHOR05 Soft Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color $32.99 |
| Also available in hardcover [CLHOR05H. $52.99]. Click here for back volumes. |
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SPACE WAR Volume 5 Hardcover Collects #21-25, 1963. By Joe Gill. A 1960s science-fiction feast from Charlton Comics. The Blobs are here to capture minds; The Mercenaries; Strange World; War Mongers; The End of Time; Emerald Moon; Action at Station 4...Behind outstanding covers by Dick Giordano are lots of space adventures by artists Bill Montes, Sal Gentile, Bill Molno, Charles Nicholas, Rocco Mastroserio, and others. PS Artbooks, 2023. ...More. |
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STARTLING COMICS #51 Facsimile Edition 1948. Highly Recommended. Alex Schomberg's airbrush covers make this short run of covers highly collectible. Inside is a nicely drawn Tygra, a scantily-clad jungle girl, probably drawn by Ralph Mayo; Catman artist Charles Quinlan in the pirate Sea Eagle; a superbly drawn Lance Lewis, sci-fi/space hero by Raphael Astarita; a Tygra text story, a teen strip and a humor strip. All-in-all, a very well drawn, top-tier issue! PS Artbooks, 2023....More. Item Code: STAW51 Comic, 7x10, 52pg, Full Color $15.99 |
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STARTLING COMICS #52 Facsimile Edition 1948. Highly Recommended. Schomberg's airbrush covers make this short run of covers highly collectible. Inside is a nicely drawn Tygra, a scantily-clad jungle girl, drawn by Art Saaf; Catman artist Charles Quinlan in the pirate Sea Eagle, "Return of the Hook"; a superbly drawn Lance Lewis, sci-fi/space hero by Raphael Astarita; a teen strip Jefferson Jones by Harold Sherman and a humor strip. All-in-all, another very well drawn, top-tier issue! PS Artbooks, 2023. ...More. Item Code: STAW52 Comic, 7x10, 52pg, Full Color $15.99 |
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STARTLING COMICS #53 Facsimile Edition 1948. Highly Recommended. Inside is a nicely drawn Tygra, a scantily-clad jungle girl with a sci-fi twist this issue by Art Saaf; Catman artist Charles Quinlan in the pirate Sea Eagle, "Return of the Hook"; a superbly drawn Lance Lewis, sci-fi/space hero by Raphael Astarita; a teen strip Jefferson Jones by the talented unknown Mike Suchorsky and a humor strip. All-in-all, a very well drawn, top-tier issue! Schomberg's airbrush covers make this short run of covers highly collectible. PS Artbooks, 2023....More. Item Code: STAW53 Comic, 7x10, 52pg, Full Color $15.99 |
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CRIME CLINIC COMIC #3 Facsimile Edition 1951. Recommended. A painted cover by Norman Saunders kicks off this cool pre-code issue. Inside there is excellent artwork by John Prentice, Al McWilliams, the nearly unknown but outstanding Mike Suchorsky (he did amazing work on Ziff-Davis' G.I. Joe at this same time), and Leonard Starr. A one-pager looks at fingerprinting from a bullet; there's an ad for Little Al of the FBI; the 1952 Lionel Train Catalog; and a text story on "Public Enemy." PS Artbooks, 2023....More. Item Code: CRIC03 Comic, 7x10, 38pg, Full Color $15.99 |
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THE THING #13 Facsimile Edition & Print 1954. With 11 1/2 x 16 matted print of the cover. Cover and art by Steve Ditko. A horror writer searches for inspiration by dabbling with black magic. A kill will offer him trips to the Netherworld. He becomes a famed author, but one day makes a mistake — the murder of his own fiancée. Fully restored cover by the iconic artist Steve Ditko, along with THREE stories inside — a "must have" for all Ditko fans. The previous issue #12 was Ditko's very first comics cover. You can tell he pulled out all the stops here. PS Artbooks, 2023....More. Item Code: THIN13 Comic, 7x10, 36pg, Full Color $23.99 |
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THE THING #14 Facsimile Edition & Print 1954. With 11 1/2 x 16 matted print of the cover. Extreme violence/torture! Cover and four complete stories by Steve Ditko. The demon Rumpelstiltskin wants to get his hands on soft, human skin, to hide the person and create tattoos of the damned. Rumpelstiltskin coaxes a poor miller's daughter into a fatal deal. Wild, early Ditko work on one of the weirdest horror titles of the time — even the title, The Thing, leaves you wondering...Today some of these issue are nearly impossible to find. No self-respecting parent would allow their little ones to have THIS one around. PS Artbooks. 2023....More. Item Code: THIN14 Comic, 7x10, 36pg, Full Color $23.99 |
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THE THING #15 Facsimile Edition & Print Collects #15, 1954. With 11 1/2 x 16 matted print of the cover. By Carl Memling. Art by Steve Ditko. Biologist Norman Thoma breeds an invulnerable super-worm and turns it loose on mankind. Humanity seems to be doomed. Yes, just when you thought it was almost safe to leave your pocketbooks and purses out on the bureau, along comes a new line in pre-Code comic books from those funky far-out folks at PS. Fully restored covers by the iconic artist Steve Ditko, along with many inside pages, make this a "must have" for all comic book fans. PS Artbooks, 2023....More. Item Code: THIN15 Comic, 7x10, 36pg, Full Color $23.99 |
| Here are all available Facsimile Editions from PS. |
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Items are steadily selling from our last December Deal/Year End Sale, especially the Underwood and Auad books from the flash sale. We have decide to extend the special pricing from the flash sale for another week. Click here to see the entire list on our blog. To view the sale items on our website, use search code APRSALE. You can also get the jump on our upcoming new sale items too: use search Codes JANSALE, FEBSALE, MARSALE and NRP0124. The NRP0124 batch has a whopping 410 items newly reduced!
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COMIC BOOK CREATOR #33 Highly Recommended. Edited by Jon B. Cooke. CBC #33 gets trapped in the world Steve Gerber made, as we devote the spotlight to the late, great creator of Howard the Duck in a comprehensive look at his life and creative achievements, from Man Thing to Kiss, Crazy to Thundarr, from Destroyer Duck to an Elf with a Gun! One of Gerber’s most preeminent friends and collaborators was Mary Skrenes, who shares a rare, wildly entertaining, and extensive interview which includes her own writing career at DC in the '70s. TwoMorrows, 2023....More. Item Code: CBCR33 Magazine, 8x11, 84pg, Partial Color $10.95 |
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BACK ISSUE MAGAZINE #149 Highly Recommended. Edited by Michael Eury. We don't stock every issue, but this was a must-have. Re-experience ‘80s Indie Heroes, starring The American, Aztec Ace, Dynamo Joe, Evangeline, Journey, Megaton Man, Trekker, Whisper, and Zot! Featuring interviews with Chuck Dixon, Phil Foglio, Steven Grant, Rich Larson, Scott McCloud, William Messner-Loebs, Doug Moench, Ron Randall, Don Simpson, Mark Verheiden, Chris Warner & more superstar creators. Re-presenting the cover to First Comics’ Whisper #4 by Norm Breyfogle! TwoMorrows, 2023....More. Item Code: BA149 Magazine, 8x11, 84pg, Partial Color $10.95 |
| Still available are the specials on Neal Adams (#143), George Perez (#147) and Adam Strange (#148). |
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SECONDARY SUPERHEROES OF GOLDEN AGE COMICS New lower price. Highly Recommended. By Lou Mougin. When Superman debuted in 1938, he ushered in the superhero—Batman, Wonder Woman, Captain Marvel, Captain America, hundreds of new characters. But what about the many less well-known heroes who lined up to fight crooks, super villains and Hitler? Such as the Shield, the Black Terror, the Golden Age Daredevil, Amazing Man, Cat-Man (and Kitten), Dynamic Man, the Blue Beetle, the Hollywood starlet turned crime fighter The Black Cat? Publisher by publisher, this well-respected author covers in detail 14 offbeat outfits including Centaur, Fox, Prize, Ace, Harvey, Hillman, MLJ, Nedor (Standard), Lev Gleason, etc. Each unique character is examined, even if they made just a solo appearance. McFarland, 2020....More. Item Code: SECSG Soft Cover, 7x10, 438pg, Text/b&w $49.95 |
| We brought this back when we discovered it was now $30 off the original price. The sequel is also here, just out last month: Secondary Action Heroes of Golden Age Comics [SECAC. $55]. Here are more books about comics from publisher McFarland. |
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SPICY ZEPPELIN STORIES Hardcover For decades, this legendary pulp magazine was believed to be a myth. But it was not. Not exactly. Nor was it real. Back in the 1970s, prolific pulp writer Will Murray — who was not yet prolific — undertook the daunting task of writing the entire first issue of this nebulous non-entity of a magazine. Within these pages you will discover the exciting contents of Spicy Zeppelin Stories, Volume 1, Number 1, October, 1936, just as they would have appeared — if only this magazine ever existed. Racy stories and some nudity in the illustrations. Odyssey, 2023. Mature Readers....More. Item Code: SPIZH Hard Cover, 6x9, 248pg, Text Only $60.00 |
| Much more by Will Murray. Explore our pulps section for in and out of print books. |
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THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION AND ITS TOY FIGURINES Recommended. By Luigi Toiati. We take a nostalgic walk through science fiction in all its various forms, and the figurines and brands associated with it. Inspired by film, TV, comics, and books, here are the toys and figures: aliens, monsters and even a few real-life astronauts. Superb photography captures all those tiny figures from games and toys, such as Mystery Space Ship, Giant Martian Landing, Space Adventure, The Spacemen, Star Base etc., as well as the traditional Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers, and of course, lots of great mechanical robots. Pen & Sword Military, 2023....More. Item Code: HISTSFH Hard Cover, 7x10, 528pg, Text/Partial Color $59.95 |
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ELVIRA MEETS VINCENT PRICE By David Avallone. Art by Juan Samu. Elvira returns with all-new adventures with horror film star...well, the ghost of...Vincent Price. His is a spirit with a mission, and only the Mistress of the Dark can help! The Apocalypse is coming, and it's going to be live-streamed for binge-watching, but a long-lost movie can save the world... if only the movie star specter and the horror hostess with the mostest can find it in time! Thrills, chills, and all sorts of terrible puns! And lots of variant covers. Dynamite, 2023....More. Item Code: ELVMV Soft Cover, 7x10, 36pg, Full Color $19.99 |
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PULP MASTERS Closeout Price! Expanded Edition. Recommended. Cover by Jim and Ruth Keegan. An anthology of articles by and about writers and characters of the pulp era. Edited and partly written by the long-time publisher of The Rocket's Blast, James Van Hise. 15 features: Will Murray on the top 25 Shadow novels; an Edd Cartier Shadow portfolio; Modern Pulp Fandom; How I Write by Norvell W. Page; The Spider; The Ambassador from Hell; ERB, Pulp Master; REH: Master of the Dark Fantastic and much more. Well illustrated with lots of original pulp art. Jame Van Hise, 2002....More. Item Code: PULPM Soft Cover, 8x11, 190pg, Text/b&w |
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THE FANTASTIC WORLDS OF ROBERT E. HOWARD Closeout Price! Recommended. Hailed by REH fans as a book essential to Howard studies, and originally sold out within a mere months. This 2nd edition is now available direct from the publisher as a special bargain closeout. Edited by James Van Hise (The Rocket's Blast), 21 articles by well-known Robert E. Howard scholars such as Rusty Burke and Morgan Holmes that discuss Howard's writing style and his impact on 20th century fantasy. James Van Hise, 2001....More. Item Code: FANREH Soft Cover, 8x11, 190pg, Text/b&w |
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THE ROCKET'S BLAST and the COMICOLLETOR 3 & 4 SET Closeout Price! Highly Recommended. Covers by Johnny Craig and Mark Schultz. Volume 3 showcases horror comics of the Golden Age, with special emphasis on the classic E.C. Comics pre-code era, Snuff Comics of the Golden Age, a Hal Foster interview, an issue-by-issue examination of EC's Weird Science, an overview of horror comic artist Johnny Craig, and much more. Volume 4 boasts an extensive interview with Mark Schultz, material from the limited edition Conan published by Wandering Star. Additional articles focus on Robert E. Howard, the Silver Age Flash, Steve Ditko's Spider-Man, and the Golden Age art of Reed Crandall. James Van Hise, 2002-03....More. Item Code: ROCBP Soft Cover, 8x11, 128pg ea, Text/b&w |
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Here's another batch of 30 items that are going away soon, down to just one, two or three copies left. You can now see the latest 3…2…1 items in a new section on our website, called ALMOST GONE, at the top of the home page, right next to CLOSEOUTS. We are continuously adding to our Imperfect Editions sections as well. In preparation for future sales, we have discounted over 350 items! You can get a sneek peek by clicking here, or by using search code NRP0124. |
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