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My favorite graphic novel this week: an extraordinary new Conan drawn by Roberto De La Torre. The new Frazetta art book. Tim Burton’s films (and Beetlejuice #2!), Mickey’s Craziest Adventures by Trondheim, Gray 2, Modern Design in Japan, Chaykin’s Time2 with the long awaited conclusion. Also more PS Artbooks archives. |
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CONAN THE BARBARIAN 1 BOUND IN BLACK STONE DAN PANOSIAN COVER |
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| The same graphic novel with a variant cover by Stanley Artgerm Lau should be arriving anyday. [CONBB01A. $24.99]. Here’s more of the latest Conan collections. |
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ALSO AVAILABLE ROBERT E HOWARD ART CHRONOLOGY Slipcased Set Contains four volumes. Our Highest Recommendation. This is the definitive illustrated history of all of Howard's publications in the United States. Written and compiled by Michael Tierney, the narrative gives the history of Howard's work and the often legendary artists who visualized it, featuring untold stories, art that hasn't been seen since its release and pieces that were buried in the vaults from the beginning of his publishing history to the present day. Chenault & Gray, 2023. Rush Service and International shipping would require an additional charge....More. Item Code: ROBACH Hard Cover, 9x12, 1600pg, Full Color $350.00 |
| Here’s more from the world of Robert E. Howard, Conan, and Red Sonja. |
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TIM BURTON THE ICONIC FILMMAKER AND HIS WORK By Ian Nathan. A truly international filmmaker, Tim Burton has carved a reputation as one of the world's greatest creative directors. This stunning treasury explores the influences on his development as a filmmaker and assesses how he has captured the fruits of his imagination on screen. Illustrated with many behind the scenes photographs and stunning film stills, chapters analyze the success and style of films such as Beetlejuice, Ed Wood and Mars Attacks!, and examine how Burton breathed new life into well known stories that include Batman, Planet of the Apes, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Alice Through the Looking Glass and Dumbo. White Lion, 2024. ...More. Item Code: TIMBH Hard Cover With Slip Case, 192pg, Partial Color $38.00 |
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THE COMPLETE COMMERCIAL ARTIST MAKING MODERN DESIGN IN JAPAN 1928-1930 Recommended. From 1928 to 1930, Tokyo publisher Ars issued The Complete Commercial Artist: a fully illustrated journal of commercial design for retailer, architects and advertising art directors. Across its 24 issues, volumes were dedicated to topics ranging from posters, packaging, flyers, page layout and typography to neon signage, billboards and shop window displays. The publication’s lead writer, Hamada Masuji, was a passionate advocate for commercial design, and he ensured that its audience included both large manufacturing companies and small businesses, as well as design aficionados in Japan. This generous volume shares hundreds of exuberant and whimsical pages from all 24 issues of the now-rare publication. Letterform Archive Books, 2024. ...More. Item Code: COMCOM Soft Cover, 7x10, 432pg, Full Color $60.00 |
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ALSO AVAILABLE PICTURES OF THE FLOATING WORLD An Introduction to Japanese Prints Slipcased Fanfold printed only on one side, hand-bound, in slipcase with 3 separate prints. Highly Recommended. In this attractive volume, Sarah E. Thompson, curator of Japanese Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, provides a highly readable overview of the cultural and artistic history of ukiyo-e, showcasing 120 exceptional prints from the museum’s world-class collection, by masters including Utamaro, Hokusai, and Hiroshige. She explores each of the principal genres in turn: beauty and fashion, the kabuki theater, landscape, nature, history and literature, and fantasy. Abbeville Press, 2022....More. Item Code: PICFW Hard Cover, 7x9, 176pg, Full Color $36.00 |
| Click here for much more to explore of Japanese art and design, as well as manga. |
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FIGHT COMICS FEATURING TIGER GIRL Volume 1 Hardcover Fight #32-52, 1944-47. Recommended. By Matt Baker, Joe Doolin, Bob Webb, Alex Blum et al. Tiger Girl was one of the longest running Fiction House characters, obviously a take-off of Sheena but boasting artwork by none other than Matt Baker in his prime! Also known as Princess Vishnu, she was brought from India to Africa by her father Rajah Vishnu, after the death of her Irish mother. Using her whip and her tiger ring, which gave her added strength, she fought jungle evil with her companions: Benzali, a tiger, and Abdola, an Indian man. PS Artbooks, 2023. ...More. Item Code: FIGTG01H Hard Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color $52.99 |
| We featured the softcover last week, which is also available [FIGTG01. $32.99]. Now the hardcover is also in stock. |
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ALSO AVAILABLE FIGHT COMICS Featuring Senorita Rio Volume 1 Collects stories from Fight #19-34, 1942-44. Highly Recommended. Art by Nick Cardy, Lily Renee et al. A wonderful wartime series, usually 10 full pages in each issue. This lovely actress-turned-agent was a mainstay in Fight for many years. Created by a true legend in the industry Nick Viscardi, later known better as Nick Cardy, he stayed with the series for eleven adventures. Lily Renée’s first Rio adventure is here and she is most strongly associated with the character, being one of the greatest female comic artists in the history of the business! PS Artbooks, 2022....More. Item Code: FCSR01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color $29.99 |
| Lily Renee’s Senorita Rio was another high point of the Golden Age. This is available in hardcover [FCSR01H. $46.99]. And so is Volume 2 SC [FCSR02. $33.99] and HC [FCSR02H. $46.99], which completes all the stories by Renee, Bob Lubbers and DC’s own Nick Cardy!! |
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ALSO AVAILABLE FICTION HOUSE FROM PULPS TO PANELS Our Highest Recommendation. By Mitch Maglio. Art by Matt Baker, Lou Fine et al. From sexy jungle girls to even sexier ray gun toting space women and beyond, Fiction House Comics had it all! Now for the first time the entire history of Fiction House, the leading purveyor of Good Girl art during the Golden Age of Comics, is told in a single volume! Stuffed with breathtaking cover reproductions, original artwork, dozens of cover preliminaries by Joe Doolin (!) and even full length stories. The story of one of the most successful publishers ever, from their pulp origins on, with artwork by Matt Baker, George Tuska, Lou Fine, Bob Lubbers, Murphy Anderson, Lily Renee and many others. IDW, 2017....More. Item Code: FICHOH Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 9x11, 300 pg, Full Color |
| Click here for more Matt Baker artwork, and for more PS Artbooks from comics publisher Fiction House: Jungle, Planet, Ghost and Rangers, and the first volume collecting issues #1-3 of Fight Comics with Eisner and Lou Fine. HC [GACF01H. 46.99] and SC [GACF01. $24.99]. Both are almost gone. |
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CLASSIC HORROR COMICS Volume 6 Hardcover Collects FantasticComics #10, 1954 and EerieTales #10-12 and #15, 1963-64. By L.B. Cole, Iger Shop, Jay Disbrow, Robert Webb, Ross Andru et al. Fantastic Comics #10 from Ajax offers pre-code horror including "Fate Laughs at Clowns!" Eerie Tales from Super Comics. These are reprints themselves, collecting Golden Age oddities including Spook #27, Purple Claw (horror and weird stories) #11 and 12, Avon's original Eerie #1 from 1951, and Blue Bolt Weird Tales #10 with Wolverton's Spacehawk. All stories are pre-code horror with no Comic Code oversight, even though published in the 1960s. PS Artbooks, 2024....More. Item Code: CLHOR06H Hard Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color $52.99 |
| The Softcover edition with a variant cover is also available [CLHOR06. $32.99]. Here’s previous volumes. |
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STRANGE SUSPENSE STORIES Volume 8 Hardcover Collects #53-57, 1961-62. “Charlton Comics Gives You More!” and Strange Suspense certainly gave you more of the huge roster of creative talents at their disposal, including Bill Molno, Charles Nicholas, Rocco Mastroserio. And, of course, Steve Ditko’s last work is in #53. A strange mix of horror, suspense, science fiction, fantasy and supernatural stories! PS Artbooks, 2024. Due: Mar. ...More. Item Code: PCSS08H Hard Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color $52.99 |
| Also available in Softcover [PCSS08. $32.99]. Click for previous volumes. Click here for the latest PS Archive releases. |
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MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN DAILIES Volume 1 The Cobra Back in Stock. 1934-36. Highly Recommended. By Lee Falk. Art by Phil Davis. The collected daily adventure comic strips of arguably the world's FIRST comic-strip, costumed crime-fighter. Unjustly neglected today, Mandrake ran for decades. And these early strips are outstanding, easily compared to the equally well-drawn and well-told Flash Gordon by Alex Raymond. They are an amazing surprise as soon as you dig into the fantastic adventures. - Bud. - With his muscle-bound side-kick, Lothar, Mandrake sets on in search of high adventure in strange lands, other dimensions and even alien planets! A heady mix of action and drama, and even a few lovely damsels and evil queens in the mix. Condition: Near Fine - Covers may be lightly rubbed. Titan, 2016....More. Item Code: MAMD01H Hard Cover, 11x9, 320pg, b&w $39.99 |
| Here’s two more Mandrake strip collections, both now out of print, plus all his appearances in Comics Revue, which we handle regularly. |
New Frazetta Collection |
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FRAZETTA World's Best Comics Cover Artist Highly Recommended. By J. David Spurlock. Vanguard’s Definitive Reference series returns with a companion to 2022’s bestselling Frazetta Book Cover Art. While that documented and commented on book cover paintings, now focus is on all his comics and magazine covers: Creepy, Eerie, Mad Magazine, National Lampoon, Marvel's Epic Illustrated, High Times and more. And all his early comic book work: Ghost Rider, Thunda, Tim Holt, Beware, the entire Buck Rogers Famous Funnies run, Buster Crabbe, Straight Arrow, White Indian and his EC cover art. Plus reuses, adaptations and entirely new works, such as Mothman, Satanika, Jaguar God, Space Cowboy and Death Dealer, right up to today.Vanguard, 2023. ...More. Item Code: FRAZWH Hard Cover, 8x11, 192pg, Full Color $49.95 |
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FRAZETTA World's Best Comics Cover Artist Slipcased Highly Recommended. Includes 16-page bonus folio and illustrated slipcase. Vanguard’s Definitive Reference series returns with a companion to 2022’s bestselling Frazetta Book Cover Art. While that documented and commented on book cover paintings, now focus is on all his comics and magazine covers: Creepy, Eerie, Mad Magazine, National Lampoon, Marvel's Epic Illustrated, High Times and more. And all his early comic book work: Ghost Rider, Thunda, Tim Holt, Beware, the entire Buck Rogers Famous Funnies run, Buster Crabbe, Straight Arrow, White Indian and his EC cover art. Plus reuses, adaptations and entirely new works, such as Mothman, Satanika, Jaguar God, Space Cowboy and Death Dealer, right up to today. Vanguard, 2023....More. Item Code: FRAZWD Hard Cover, 8x11, 192pg, Full Color $74.95 |
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ALSO AVAILABLE FRAZETTA BOOK COVER ART The Definitive Reference Our Highest Recommendation. By J. David Spurlock. This new book is devoted solely to the artist's single, most beloved venue, Book Cover Art. By focusing on this specific area, the book boasts room enough to feature every single one of Frazetta's famous and highly collectable covers, beautifully and authentically reproduced at a larger size on a page to itself. All, paperbacks from girlie publishers, Ace Burroughs covers, Conans, and far far more, are presented in chronological order, which gives readers a unique ability to follow Frazetta's evolution as an artist. Commentary and rare quotes from the artist himself. Vanguard, 2022. ...More. Item Code: FRAZBCH Hard Cover, 8x11, 168pg, Full Color $39.95 |
| This is the companion book to the new volume, and the deluxe is also available, though we are awaiting a new shipment as I write this [FRAZBCD. $69.95]. |
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ALSO AVAILABLE THE FANTASTIC WORLDS OF FRANK FRAZETTA Limited First Edition, 6000 individually numbered copies. Available from us but now out of print. Our Highest Recommendation. Introduction by Dan Nadel. This monograph is the biggest and most complete ever produced on the artist, done in collaboration with the Frazetta family and with top collectors. Frank Frazetta has reigned as the undisputed lord of fantasy art for 50 years, his fame only growing in the 10 years since his death. With his paintings now breaking auction records, he's long overdue for this ultimate monograph. This has a LOT of material never before seen or rarely seen. Many nudes that Frank just did for himself are here; early work from his youth and early days in comics, Li'l Abner and Thunda pages, early comic book covers — all from his original art. There are also later advertising works never before collected, early paperback covers now show from the paintings. There's also a good bibliography of many of the works originally published as paperback, magazine and book covers. Taschen, 2023. Out of Print. Rush Service and International shipping would require an additional charge....More. Item Code: FANWFH Hard Cover, 12x16, 472pg, Partial Color $200.00 |
We also have only three copies of Icon [FFICON. $125.00], and five copies of the Icon Printer Sample Edition [FFICONP. $125.00]. Here’s much more of Frank’s work, both in print and from our Rare Books section. |
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TIME2 Omnibus Collects American Flagg! Special and the Graphic Novels The Epiphany, The Satisfaction of Black Mariah and new 48-page Hallowed Ground. Graphically experimental, narratively daring, and visually explosive, Howard Chaykin's TIME2 was a work ahead of its time, as he took his premier First Comics hero American Flagg and morphs him into an all new adventure that moves across memory and imagination in a startling world of the future. Now, to commemorate its return more than 35 years later with its long-awaited conclusion... it still is. A powerful woman who's also a sexual predator; a two-fisted hero, once a cop of the future. Here's the story with a long-awaited conclusion. Lots of bonus materials. Adult themes.Image Comics, 2024. Mature Readers....More. Item Code: TIMOH Hard Cover, 7x11, 208pg, Full Color |
| Here’s more from Howard Chaykin. |
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GRAY Volume 2 Art by Eugenia Koumaki and Diana Greenhalgh. "How a murderous demon and a law-abiding detective can be soul mates." Inspired by Oscar Wilde's classic, Gray tells the story of a dangerous woman on a mission of retribution against a group of powerful and sexually seditious men. A supernatural revenge thriller. This is the concluding installment from Stoker-Nominated and Audible Best-Selling author Arvind Ethan David. Detective Hank Wutan gets too close to the case as he learns — who is Ms. Dorian Gray? Adult themes. Clover Press, 2023....More. Item Code: GRAY02H Hard Cover, 7x9, 128pg, Full Color $26.99 |
| Volume 1 completes the story, which concludes in this new volume 2 [GRAY01H. $26.99]. |
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WALT DISNEY'S MICKEY AND DONALD MICKEY'S CRAZIEST ADVENTURES When Peg Leg Pete and the Beagle Boys shrink and steal Scrooge McDuck's Money Bin, Mickey and Donald must track them down across lost cities, ancient lands, under the sea, in the air, and into space?!? In a hilarious satire that will entertain all ages, Mickey's Craziest Adventures introduces its epic tale as if it were a rare 1965 Disney classic, deemed too wild for publication and saved only in fragments but in fact, modern comics masters Lewis Trondheim and Nicolas Keramidas have created an exciting all-new album-length stand-alone Disney thriller, drawn in a kinetic indie-comics style and presented like a classic vintage work, hiding the fact that it's actually shamelessly spoofing Silver Age comics clichés! Fantagraphics, 2024. ...More. Item Code: WDMICCH Hard Cover, 9x12, 48pg, Full Color |
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ALSO AVAILABLE WALT DISNEY DONALD DUCK Donald's Happiest Adventures Recommended. By Lewis Trondheim. Art by Nicolas Kéramidas. When Donald grouses that money will never buy Uncle Scrooge happiness, Scrooge snaps — and sets Donald on a treasure hunt for happiness itself. A terrible task for an unlucky Duck… or is it? With help from Professor Ludwig Von Drake, deep in the cranky kingdom of Brutopia — the impossible may be possible! Presented as a “lost” 1960s Disney story — complete with retro-style color — Donald’s Happiest Adventures bristles with wit in the Carl Barks tradition… and bustles with the whole Disney comics cast, including friends and rivals Gladstone Gander, Mickey Mouse, and Pegleg Pete! Fantagraphics, 2022....More. Item Code: WDHAH Hard Cover, 9x12, 48pg, Full Color $16.99 |
| Here’s more from the Disney Masters of Europe, with new original Mickey, Donald and Scrooge stories. |
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Terror: The Horror Comic Art of Jayme Cortez I was off the week the scans were chosen for this, which is usually my job. And I don’t think we did the book justice. So I have just chosen three more inside scans that I think better represent the book, which I think is an excellent one. It’s every bit as good as the best collections of Italian art in the Sex and Horror series; this happens to be by a Mexican artist, working in the same area of painted covers of horror comics stories. I hope you’ll check it out. Hardcover, 128 pages, full color. [TERRH. $29.99]. |
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