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Free Comic Book Day is May 4th, and we have 11 titles for you to pick from. Any order gets THREE; over $50 gets you six. One per title, please. Click here to see the complete list along with our underground comix. This week we link to 20 brand new Rare Books with full descriptions. Rare Books mailings will be sent out once a month beginning next week; be sure you are signed up. New this week: Absolute Justice League, Team-Up Companion, Nightmare Abbey, Rock and Roll photos, Freak Brothers, Jack Kamen, Trigan Empire, Becoming Frankenstein Artisan Edition and more! |
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ABSOLUTE JUSTICE LEAGUE The World's Greatest Superheroes Slipcased |
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GRIEVOUS ANGELS, TROUT MASKS AND AMERICAN BEAUTIES 1970s Rock & Roll Photography of Ginny Winn Recommended. In the early 1970s, Ginny Winn was staff photographer for Warner/Reprise Records when its roster included John Cale, Grateful Dead, Van Morrison, Maria Muldaur, Jimmy Webb, Incredible String Band, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Emmylou Harris, Gram Parsons, Captain Beefheart, Alice Cooper, Frank Zappa, Bonnie Raitt, Tim Buckley, Arlo Guthrie, Jackie DeShannon, et al. Here are her amazing improv, behind the scenes pictures of the greats off stage, rehearsing, posing, goofing around...it's very impressive, we like it. All photos are previously unpublished. Fantagraphics, 2024....More. Item Code: GRIEVA Soft Cover, 7x9, 122pg, Full Color |
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THE TEAM-UP COMPANION 1960s-80s. Recommended. Edited by Michael Eury. Now in full color! Team-up comic books of the Silver and Bronze Ages of Comics — DC’s The Brave and the Bold and DC Comics Presents, Marvel’s Marvel Team-Up and Marvel Two-in-One, plus other titles, treasuries, and treats — in a lushly illustrated selection of informative essays, special features, and trivia-loaded issue-by-issue indexes. Go behind the scenes with specially curated and all-new creator recollections from Neal Adams, Jim Aparo, Mike W. Barr, Eliot R. Brown, Nick Cardy, Chris Claremont, Gerry Conway, Steve Englehart, Steve Gerber, Steven Grant, Bob Haney, Tony Isabella, Paul Kupperberg, Paul Levitz, Ralph Macchio, Dennis O’Neil, Martin Pasko, Joe Rubinstein, Roy Thomas, Len Wein, & Marv Wolfman. TwoMorrows, 2022....More. Item Code: TEAMC Soft Cover, 9x11, 272pg, Text/Partial Color |
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NIGHTMARE ABBEY Volume 4 Recommended. Edited by Tom English. Haunted places, tormented souls and the creeping unknown! It's the 4th big book-sized issue of this critically-acclaimed series. Heavily illustrated with photos and art by Allen Koszowski; Paul Finch (Terror Tales) is interviewed; Ian Rogers' new Black Lands novella; "The History of American Horror Comics," part 1; retro movie review; Val Lewton's The Body Snatcher (with Boris Karloff) and 10 terrifying tales by today's top writers. Dead Letter Press, 2024....More. Item Code: NIGA04 Soft Cover, 7x10, 152pg, Text/b&w $16.95 |
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NIGHTMARE ABBEY Volume 5 Recommended. Edited by Tom English. It's the 5th mammoth volume of this critically-acclaimed horror magazine/book. Restless spirits, haunted places — this issue is heavily illustrated with movie and comics photos and includes a new Ramsey Campbell story; a new Ian Rogers' Black Lands story; "The History of American Horror Comics, Part 2: The Pre-Code Plague"; a retro movie review: The City of the Dead; art by World Fantasy Award-winner Allen Koszowski, and 11 terrifying tales by today's top writers. Dead Letter Press, 2024....More. Item Code: NIGA05 Soft Cover, 7x10, 148pg, Text/b&w $16.95 |
| Volumes 1-3 are still $16 each [NIGA 01, 02, 03]. Also from Dead Letter Press: Black Infinity 8, 9 and 10. |
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CAPTAIN AMERICA Omnibus Volume 1 New printing. Collects Tales of Suspense #59-99, Captain America #100-113, 1964-69. Our Highest Recommendation.0Highly Recommended. By Stan Lee and Roy Thomas. Art by Jack Kirby, Jim Steranko et al. Here it is, following Avengers #4, the first FIVE YEARS of new Silver Age Cap, mostly by Lee and Kirby, right up to Roy Thomas coming on board and with the superlative run of Jim Steranko issues, including the death and resurrection of Cap, one of the best sequences EVER. This was a high point of the 60s! Kirby retelling Cap's origin! Villains: the Red Skull, Baron Zemo, M.O.D.O.K., the Super-Adaptoid and many more, as he first joins the Avengers. Over 800 pages! Marvel, 2024....More. Item Code: CAP01H Hard Cover, 8x11, 896pg, Full Color |
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Cap’s Omnibus volumes 3 [CAP03H. We have two bumped copies of the Dan Jurgens Cap Omnibus left at just $40 [CAPADHR. |
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MARVEL MASTERWORKS THE UNCANNY X-MEN Volume 16 Collects Uncanny X-Men #232-243, Annual #12, X-Factor #37-39, 1988-89. Extra large edition. Chris Claremont, the man who made Marvel’s mutants an industry unto themselves, takes the X-Men to hell and back — with legends Marc Silvestri and Walter Simonson behind the art boards! The "Inferno" saga brings together the many threads that Mr. Sinister has been weaving, the machinations of the demon N’astirh and the lives of X-Men past and present. In one of Marvel’s most devastatingly personal epics, the startling secret of Madelyne Pryor is revealed — and the X-Men and X-Factor will face each other for the first time! Marvel, 2024....More. Item Code: MMUX16H Hard Cover, 7x10, 504pg, Full Color |
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MIGHTY MARVEL MASTERWORKS DAREDEVIL Volume 3 Unmasked Collects #22-32, 1966-67. Highly Recommended. Action-packed art by "Gentleman" Gene Colan and sensational stories by Stan Lee. Daredevil goes toe-to-toe with the Tri-Man and Gladiator, laughs it up at Leap Frog, sticks it to Stilt Man before marching through a marathon of the Masked Marauder, Mr. Hyde and Cobra! If even that’s not enough for you, we have guest appearances from Spider-Man, the Mighty Thor and Ka-Zar! And lest we forget Matt Murdock’s swingin’ twin brother Mike Murdock. What—?!? Twin brother?!? Marvel, 2024....More. Item Code: MMMD03 Soft Cover, 6x9, 240pg, Full Color $15.99 |
| 1 & 2 are available, same price. See all the Mighty Marvel editions here, all still $15.99 for ten classic issues in each. |
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THE RISE AND FALL OF THE TRIGAN EMPIRE Volume 5 From Look & Learn, 1975-77. Highly Recommended. By Mike Butterworth. Art by Don Lawrence and Oliver Frey. The Emperor Trigo, his nephew Janno, and the trusted scientist Peric all band together to face off against the threats to the stability of the Trigan Empire — be they frozen superior life forms from an earlier age, or the machinations of Trigo’s own courtiers who are determined to seize control of the government. Fast-paced, beautifully painted comic stories which enthralled readers on original publication. Concludes Don Lawrence's run on the series with more flawlessly painted pages. Rebellion, 2024....More. Item Code: RIS05 Soft Cover, 8x11, 240pg, Full Color $32.95 |
| This concludes Don Lawrence’s incredible run of fully painted pages on this series. Volume 1 is gone; 2-3 are on sale. Click here for more by Don Lawrence. |
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ALSO AVAILABLE ILLUSTRATOR'S QUARTERLY SPECIAL #17 Trigan Empire Artists Highly Recommended. Celebrate all the fabulous artists who drew the iconic Trigan Empire comic strip that first appeared in Ranger and then Look and Learn from 1965 to 1982, a run of 854 issues in total. One of the most fondly remembered British strips ever, with its pseudo retro setting in a world resembling Ancient Rome, but with the advances of science in its weapons and flying vehicles. But it was mainly the absolutely stunning artwork of its initial artist, Don Lawrence, followed up by Ron Embleton, that made it such a fan-favorite. Book Palace, 2024. ...More. Item Code: IQS17 Soft Cover, 9x11, 128pg, Full Color $45.99 |
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FABULOUS FURRY FREAK BROTHERS The 7th Voyage and Other Follies Die-cut cover, color section. Highly Recommended. The hilarity never stops in this fourth collection featuring the Brothers’ convoluted Mexican odyssey and dozens of Fat Freddy’s Cat solo escapades. Fantagraphics, 2024....More. Item Code: FABVH Hard Cover, 8x7, 144pg, Full Color |
| Click here for previous collections, all in matching die-cut cover format.. |
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KAMEN'S KALAMITY AND OTHER STORIES 1950-55. Highly Recommended. Jack Kamen’s stories for The Vault of Horror, Tales From the Crypt, and The Haunt of Fear favored unnerving creepiness over gruesome shock. With his penchant for deft delineations of scheming women, jealous husbands, murderous love triangles, and not-so-innocent children, Kamen’s pen laid down a precise, sure line that brought each story’s shock ending into sharp relief. 27 Kamen favorites, drawn at the peak of his powers, including: "Kamen’s Kalamity," the title story, featuring the "true" origin story of the artist himself! Fantagraphics, 2024....More. Item Code: KAMKH Hard Cover, 7x10, 248pg, b&w |
| Click here for more from EC and also previous collections from Fantagraphics. |
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We just reduced prices on more than 70 items, and you can see them all here. Also check out our February Sale (FEBSALE) and March Sale (MARSALE). So far we only mentioned it in a couple weekly emails. We haven't sent out a full special SALE list since January. You can also click on the SPRING SALE button to see all three of these together, on our home page. |
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BECOMING FRANKENSTEIN Artisan Edition Limited to 150 numbered copies, with a special metal plate illustrated by Cirocco. Highly Recommended. I was very, very impressed with the graphic novel of this which appeared in 2023. Now it comes in a handsome black & white hardcover. Here's what I said about the GN, which is still available ($19.95). Wow, this looks VERY good! Think Mike Ploog at his best, in case you don’t recognize Frank Cirocco. Frank worked in the independents and for Atari and LucasArts, created Alien Legion, and drew Samurai Cat for Marvel along with many fine mainstream covers. Don’t miss this, a new take on the classic with superlative art! - Bud. Victor Frankenstein will stop at nothing, not even murder of his own friends, to get the elements he needs to create his monster....becoming a monster himself, even to his beautiful new wife. 10 Ton Press, 2024....More. Item Code: BECFH Hard Cover, 7x10, 152pg, b&w $45.00 |
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ALSO AVAILABLE BECOMING FRANKENSTEIN Volume 1 Collects all six issues. Highly Recommended. By Mel Smith and Paul H. Birch. Art by Frank Cirocco. Wow, this looks VERY good! Think Mike Ploog at his best, in case you don't recognize Frank Cirocco. Frank worked in the independents and for Atari and LucasArts, created Alien Legion, and drew Samurai Cat for Marvel along with many fine mainstream covers. Don't miss this, a new take on the classic with superlative art! - Bud. Doctor Victor Frankenstein was saved too late from his nightmares. Grave deeds would be committed, ever more daring in his arrogance. It's even worse for those who stood in his path. Herein are the stories of those who suffered and died, with their corpses dissected to help make Victor Frankenstein's dream come true. Collecting all six issues of the hit comic book series Becoming Frankenstein, including unseen artwork from the series. Colors by Cerebus' Gerhard. 10 Ton Press, 2023....More. Item Code: BECF01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 150pg, Full Color $19.99 |
| More Frankenstein — click here. From Dick Briefer’s Golden Age Comics monster, to Mary Shelley’s original novel illustrated by Berni Wrightson. |
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MARK TWAIN'S WAR PRAYER Mark Twain's lambasting of phony, war-mongering patriotism reinterpreted by one of our finest contemporary illustrators. Seymour Chwast brings every aspect of his skills to this interpretation in a montage of primitive, even crude art that tells the sad story of war and death. Drawing, design, typography, type design, pastel painting and computer color all sit alongside each other with Twain's text in pages that expand and pace the original. Fantagraphics, 2024....More. Item Code: MTWARH Hard Cover, 7x9, 104pg, Partial Color |
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ALSO AVAILABLE MARK TWAIN'S THE MAN THAT CORRUPTED HADLEYBURG Recommended. By Wander Antunes. Bankrupt and alone in Europe after a series of bad business deals, Mark Twain has lost his faith in humanity. It is under these conditions he puts pen to paper with the question: Is something incorruptible if it has not been tested? Welcome to Hadleyburg, a small American town that calls itself the “Most Honest in America.” One day, a stranger arrives, telling the townsfolk he wants to reward the person who helped him once. But he has ulterior motives! Having once been wronged by the people of Hadleyburg, he has returned to put their “honesty” to the test. Life Drawn, 2023....More. Item Code: MARTWA Soft Cover, 8x10, 88pg, Full Color $19.99 |
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Click here to see over 20 of our new rare books listing in our usual email format with full descriptions. Including Signed volumes, Carl Barks Library sets, Wally Wood, Howard Terpning and Pin-Ups! Click here to see all of the Just Arrived items in Rare Books. |
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JUDGE DREDD By Brian Bolland Masterpiece Edition Recommended. Acclaimed as one of the greatest artists of his generation for his work on such titles as Camelot 3000 and Batman: The Killing Joke, Brian Bolland’s work on Judge Dredd helped catapult both the series and Bolland himself to international acclaim. Pages from the Judge Dredd epics; The Cursed Earth, The Day the Law Died, The Judge Child Quest, and Bolland’s masterpiece Judge Death Lives. Plus covers ranging from 2000 AD to the Judge Dredd reprints published by Eagle Comics which brought Brian to the attention of American readers — and show off Bolland’s inventiveness and sardonic humor. 2000 AD, 2024. Due: June....More. Item Code: JUDBB Soft Cover, 160pg $39.99 |
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ALSO AVAILABLE IT'S ABOUT TIME A Memoir in Pictures and Words Brian Bolland Closeout Price! Recommended. Foreword by Johnny Vegas. Introduction by Dave Harwood. An epic journey through the life and art of Brian Bolland in a totally unique format that we've never seen before. Told fumetti style, with actual photos (plus some artwork) of Brian from childhood to aspiring artist, marriage, meeting fellow artists, attending shows. This guy was hard-wired to his camera!! A visual journal of Bolland's development as an artist, writer and observer of the world around him, all narrated in the first person by Brian himself. Book Palace Books, 2023....More. Item Code: ITSABH Hard Cover, 7x11, 336pg, Full Color |
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STREET FIGHTER SWIMSUIT SPECIAL COLLECTION Volume 1 Recommended. Art by Reiq, Panzer, Ryan Kinnaird et al. The lovely ladies and lads of Street Fighter take a break from fist fights and tournaments to hit the world's hottest beaches, pools, volleyball courts, and more... Everyone from Chun-Li to Poison to Guile shows off their favorite swimwear, plus guest appearances from the cast of Darkstalkers, Rival Schools, and Final Fight. This hardcover tome gathers four years of Udon's Street Fighter Swimsuit and Pin-up specials in an over-sized art book format, including rare covers and never-before-seen rough concepts. Udon Entertainment, 2024. Mature Readers. Due: June....More. Item Code: STRF01H Hard Cover, 8x12, 136pg, Full Color $39.99 |
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STREET FIGHTER SWIMSUIT SPECIAL COLLECTION Volume 2 Recommended. Art by Reiq et al. The warrior women of Street Fighter are back for another swimwear-filled illustration collection by the artists of Udon. Longtime fan-favorite femmes like Chun-Li, Cammy, and Juri hit the beaches and pools, while joined by newcomers Kimberly, Marisa, Manon, and many more. This oversized hardcover gathers four more years of Udon's Street Fighter pin-up books, including three Swimsuit Specials and the Sci-fi & Fantasy Special. Also showcased are rare variant covers and never-before-seen rough concepts. Udon Entertainment, 2024. Mature Readers. Due: June....More. Item Code: STRF02H Hard Cover, 8x11, 184pg, Full Color |
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ROM The Original Marvel Years Omnibus Volume 2 Collects Rom #30-50, Rom Annual #1-2, Marvel Two-In-One #99, 1982-84. By Bill Mantlo. Art by Sal Buscema. Cover by Bill Sienkiewicz. Locked in an endless struggle with the Dire Wraiths, Rom’s solemn quest to eradicate them from Earth brings him into conflict with the Metal Master and his army of spiders, Mystique and the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, and more. A cosmic epic features Doctor Strange, the In-Betweener, the Living Tribunal...and the human form of Rom?! Has he been freed from his armor at last? Marvel, 2024. Due: June....More. Item Code: ROM02H Hard Cover, 8x11, 664pg, Full Color |
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ALSO AVAILABLE ROM The Original Marvel Years Omnibus Volume 1 Collects Rom #1-29 and more, 1979-82. By Bill Mantlo et al. Art by Sal Buscema, Greg Larocque, Frank Miller et al. Early adventures of the greatest of Spaceknights: Rom. Centuries ago, Rom pledged his life to protect his planet, Galador, from the evil Dire Wraiths. Now, Rom has tracked these vile creatures across the cosmos to Earth, where they have infiltrated the highest levels of power — including S.H.I.E.L.D. Armed with his energy analyzer, only Rom can see the Wraiths' true form and with his neutralizer, he can blast them into Limbo. But what will Earth make of this armored invader? Will Rom's quest be aided or hindered by encounters with the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, Jack of Hearts, Nova, and Power Man and Iron Fist? Marvel, 2023. ...More. Item Code: ROM01H Hard Cover, 8x11, 712pg, Full Color |
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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. |
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ARTISTS' MASTER SERIES Perspective and Depth Art by Mike Hernandez, Devin Elle Kurtz, Nathan Fowkes, Orenji, and Guweiz. As an established authority on art and design with a growing stable of high-calibre artist/authors, 3dtotal Publishing is uniquely placed to produce this new Artists’ Master Series. Launched in 2021 with Artists’ Master Series: Color & Light, and followed up by Artists’ Master Series: Composition & Narrative, the series reaches its third volume with an exciting and considered analysis of the theories of perspective and depth within art. 3dtotal Publishing, 2024. Due: July....More. Item Code: ARTMPDH Hard Cover, 8x12, 304pg, Partial Color $50.00 |
| Don’t miss any titles from 3dtotal. Here’s the latest. |
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THE AVENGER Volume 1 Hardcover Collects The Avenger #1-4, 1955 and The Killers #1, 1947 (L.B. Cole cover). Recommended. A rare 1955 superhero that predates the start of the Silver Age! The Avenger was created by Dick Ayers, Bob Powell, and Gardner Fox. Wealthy scientist Roger Wright became the super-hero—to avenge the death of his brother, tortured and killed by Soviet agents. The Avenger had no powers, but he had his own inventions to fall back on, most notably his VTOL aircraft known as the Starjet and Dissolver pistol. And a lovely assistant! PS Artbooks, 2024. Due: July....More. Item Code: AVEN01H Hard Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color $52.99 |
| This will also be available in softcover with a variant cover [AVEN01. $32.99]. Here are the latest releases from PS Artbooks. |
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New this week is Super Beauties Parade, with over 500 pictures of European and Asian beauties. Click here for more from publisher Goliath. You can also find bargain adult material in Closeouts/pin-up and adult. | 
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EC Fan Addict #6 This will be on sale July 16. Grant Geissman is putting together another bookplate for us, with a facsimile signature for Roger Hill. It’ll be $16. We are not taking orders in advance. All other issues are sold out, but fingers crossed, we hope for a Best Of collection…
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News from Flesk Publishing Coming soon: A new edition of Portfolio by Mark Schultz will collect all his work on five volumes of Carbon plus 160 pages never collected in the Various Drawings or Carbon series…432 pages in all! We expect to have a signed bookplate available with our Hardcover editions. Also coming Elfquest Covers, new editions of J.A.W. Cooper’s Pastoral and Genesis, and Hellboy: Into the Silent Sea Updated Edition. We'll begin taking orders for all these as soon as details are pinned down. Click here for available books from Flesk. ~Bud
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