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Each issue of EC Fan-Addict sells out and the new one is going fast. Also this week—a cool new Ernie Bushmiller Nancy book, Eerie Vol 6, Crime Suspenstories Vol 2, three new Alley Oops, Dark Tides of Mars, The Art of Aleksi Briciot, Batman/Catwoman and Noir Burlesque. Plus more EC Comics news and from Humanoids, Jodorowsky’s Sons of El Topo. Download our spanking new Summer Catalog right now—the cover is a super homage to Frazetta’s Death Dealer. |
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MULTIVERSE The Art of Aleksi Briclot |
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Nancy is Back! |
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THE NANCY SHOW Celebrating The Art of Ernie Bushmiller Oversized. Highly Recommended. A companion catalogue of original art, memorabilia, and more from "The Nancy Show," a 2024 exhibition honoring Ernie Bushmiller at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. This book includes reproductions from the museum show, including over 100 pieces of original artwork, with special bonus material. Fantagraphics, 2024....More… Item Code: NANSHO SC, 12x9, 152pg, PC $22.99 |
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ALSO AVAILABLE THREE ROCKS The Story of Ernie Bushmiller The Man Who Created Nancy Highly Recommended. From Bill Griffith, creator of Zippy the Pinhead and Nobody's Fool, comes Three Rocks, a graphic novel biography of cartoonist Ernie Bushmiller, creator of the iconic comic strip Nancy. But this graphic novel is about more than a single comic book artist. It is the story of this American art form, tracing its inception back to 1895 with the Yellow Kid, the creation of Nancy in 1933, and all the strips that followed, including Peanuts and The Far Side. When Bushmiller died in 1982, Nancy was running in almost 900 daily newspapers -- a number few syndicated cartoonists ever achieve. Abrams ComicArts, 2023....More… Item Code: THREH HC, 7x10, 272pg, b&w $24.99 |
| In Rare Books, we have one copy of The Best of Ernie Bushmiller, signed and inscribed by co-author Brian Walker, from 1988. Fine minus condition. [RB2091. $100]. An aborted Nancy film is detailed in Hogan’s Alley #23 from 2021-- along with a fine piece on Frazetta’s work on Li’l Abner and a Bob Fuji profile [HA23. $7.50]. |
Comic Book Archives & Graphic Novels |
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NOIR BURLESQUE By Enrico Marini. An atmospheric, violent crime caper set in 1950s New York, with everything from femme fatales to double-crosses. A heist gone wrong forces Slick to do a job for his employer, Rex, to repay the debt he owes. But Slick is in love with Caprice, Rex's ex-call girl wife-turned-burlesque legend and Rex also has the only way for Slick to avenge his murdered father. Titan, 2023....More… Item Code: NOIRBH HC, 8x11, 228pg, FC |
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BATMAN/CATWOMAN The Gotham War Collects Batman/Catwoman: The Gotham War, Batman #137-138, Catwoman #57-58: and more, 2023. By Chip Zdarsky, Tini Howard and Matthew Rosenberg. Art by Mike Hawthorne, Jimenez, et al. A coordinated effort in Gotham City has led to a reduction in violent crime, but at what cost? Villains scatter as their lives begin to crumble under a new regime. And as Batman recovers from his epic battle through the Multiverse, one name runs through his mind. One name at the heart of this new, safer Gotham: Catwoman. 23 pages of covers and variant covers. DC Comics, 2024....More… Item Code: BATCGH HC, 7x10, 272pg, FC |
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EERIE ARCHIVES Vol 6 Collects #28-31, 1970. Recommended. Frightening fables from creators Tom Sutton, Ken Kelly, Richard Corben, Dan Adkins, Pat Boyette, Doug Moench, Basil Gogos, Carlos Garzon, Nicola Cuti, and more. Also includes an in-depth interview with longtime Warren Publishing scribe Doug Moench. Dark Horse, 2024. ...More… Item Code: EER06 SC, 8x11, 248pg, FC |
| Here are back issues, and also click here for Creepy. |
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EC ARCHIVES CRIME SUSPENSTORIES Vol 2 Collects #7-12, 1951-52. Highly Recommended. Before the dark days of the Comics Code, no publication presented the no-holds-barred portrayal of the dark side of criminality quite like EC. Featuring intense dramas of villainy, treachery, and love gone bad by comics giants Al Feldstein (writer), Johnny Craig, Graham Ingels, Jack Davis, and Jack Kamen. Dark Horse, 2024....More… Item Code: ECC02 SC, 8x11, 216pg, FC $19.99 |
| Volume 1 is also in stock. Here are all of the EC Archives, inexpensive softcovers plus several hardcovers. |
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ROM The Original Marvel Years Omnibus Vol 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 and Mystique and the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Plus 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....More… Item Code: ROM02H HC, 8x11, 664pg, FC |
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ALSO AVAILABLE ROM The Original Marvel Years Omnibus Vol 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 HC, 8x11, 712pg, FC |
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ALLEY OOP MEETS FANG 1989 Dave Graue Daily strips, 1989. Recommended. Alley Oop finds a new pal -- a baby T.Rex named Fang, who joins with Alley who's rescuing his friends from the dungeons of Lem. Also featuring the conclusion of Redbeard's Island, with Alley as a pirate captain... and the first-ever Moovian County Fair! Acoustic Learning, 2024....More… Item Code: ALLE89 SC, 9x8, 106pg, b&w $19.99 |
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ALLEY OOP THE BEAST OF THE WOODS 1992 Dave Graue Daily strips, 1992. Recommended. Welcome new artist Jack Bender for a new era of Alley Oop! Alley must rescue a medieval town being terrorized by a mysterious lurking creature -- who turns out to be an alien's pet, and our flying saucer boys want him back. Next Alley takes an airborne outing to protect the U.S. Air Mail in the early 1900's from sabotage. Tribute to Bender's career by former Alley Oop writer Carole Bender. Acoustic Learning, 2024....More… Item Code: ALLE92 SC, 9x8, 110pg, b&w $19.99 |
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ALLEY OOP AGAINST THE OUTLANDERS The Complete Sundays 1979-1981 Recommended. By Dave Graue. Alley goes on a pterdactyl ride and comes down hard in a new kingdom..with no memory of who he is. And little green men turn up in Moo and create all kinds of havoc for our stone age cast. Plus lots of fascinating new dinos are turning up and becoming pets, of questionable value. Acoustic Learning, 2024....More… Item Code: ALLEAO SC, 9x8, 156pg, FC $34.99 |
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ALSO AVAILABLE ALLEY OOP THE FIRST TIME-TRAVEL ADVENTURES 1939-1942 Reprints all dailies from 1939 to 1942. Highly Recommended. Foreword by Michael H. Price, apprentice to V.T. Hamlin! Never before collected: four years of rare Alley Oop Daily Strips! Alley Oop's time-traveling adventures begin! Join Alley as he fights in the Trojan War, joins Ulysses' Odyssey, visits Cleopatra's Egypt, sails the Spanish Main, plunges into World War II, and more! You've seen the Sunday pages; now enjoy the daily strips, all featuring the time-travel stories, from the very beginning. Beautifully restored from 1939-1942 in this oversize and impressively thick hardcover. Acoustic Learning, 2024....More… Item Code: ALLEFTH HC, 10x13, 424pg, FC $99.99 |
| Here’s lots more Alley Oop, including the bestselling V.T. Hamlin Sundays from the early days. |
Barsoom before John Carter |
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DARK TIDES OF MARS Hardcover Book #13 in the Wild Adventures of Edgar Rice Burroughs Series. By Chris L Adams. Art by Douglas Klauba. Barsoom is dying, its atmosphere thinning with each passing year, the seas that once flourished upon its surface dried up eons ago. When warrior-scientist Dat Voga is asked to become Helium's ambassador to distant cities that may provide a desperate chance at life for the people of Barsoom, he leaps at the opportunity. But a madman seeks to hasten the Red Planet's doom -- and Dat Voga is hurled headlong upon an odyssey across Time itself! ERB Inc., 2023. ...More… Item Code: DARTMH HC, 6x9, 288pg, Text/b&w $36.95 |
| Also available in a softcover edition [DARTM. $21.95]. Click here for more Edgar Rice Burroughs, from Tarzan and Mars, to The Moon Maid! |
EC Lives! |
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EC FAN ADDICT Vol 6 Signed Bookplate Limited to 250, signed by Grant Geissman. Our Highest Recommendation. Edited by Roger Hill and Grant Geissman. Art by Al Williamson, Jack Davis, Graham Ingels, et al. This new 136 page, full-color issue is loaded with even more vintage E.C. lore and rare artwork by E.C. artists. Front and back covers by George Evans. Features examine a recently discovered 1954 Williamson/Torres/Frazetta/Krenkel cover to Buster Crabbe #5, Jack Davis's early 1950s Lucky Star series, a previously unpublished 1967 interview with Dr. Fredric Wertham, Jack Davis and Coca-Cola, a conversation with Graham Ingels featuring -- for the first time -- all four large and ten smaller-sized Old Witch paintings by Ingels... Fantagraphics, 2024....More… Item Code: ECF06S SC, 8x11, 136pg, Text/PC $16.00 |
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As I write this, we are down to our last 100 copies with bookplates -- orders poured in as soon as the EC online community got wind of it, just two weeks ago. Order immediately if you want the bookplate; once gone, we’ll send out copies without the bookplate. We have 100 of these but cannot get more--it’s sold out from Fantagraphics, just like #5. More from Roger Hill: |
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ALSO AVAILABLE REED CRANDALL ILLUSTRATOR OF THE COMICS Signed Signed extra-illustrated full color 7x10 bookplate! Now in softcover. Our Highest Recommendation. By Roger Hill. The special bookplate features a painting never before reproduced in full color featuring John Carter, Dejah Thoris & friends, and Tars Tarkas going into battle (nudity). From the 1940s to the '70s, Reed Crandall brought a unique and masterful style to American comic art. Using an illustrator's approach on everything he touched, Crandall gained a reputation as the "artist's artist" through his skillful interpretations of Golden Age super-heroes Doll Man, The Ray, Firebrand, and Blackhawk (his signature character); horror and sci-fi for the legendary EC Comics line; Warren Publishing's Creepy, Eerie, and Blazing Combat; THUNDER Agents and Edgar Rice Burroughs characters; and even Flash Gordon for King Features. TwoMorrows, 2021. ...More… Item Code: REEDCRA SC, 9x11, 156pg, FC $39.95 |
| This bookplate was signed by Roger in 2021 when this appeared in softcover. We have one copy of the hardcover from 2017, which immediately sold out [RB3052. $200]. |
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ALSO AVAILABLE MAC RABOY Master of the Comics The first-ever book on this hugely talented artist. Our Highest Recommendation. By Roger Hill. Introduction by Roy Thomas. Beginning with his WPA etchings during the 1930s, Mac Raboy struggled to survive the Great Depression and eventually found his way into the comics. He perfected his art style on early stories of Dr. Voodoo, Zorro The Mystery Man, Bulletman, Spy Smasher, (all for Fawcett), The Green Lama and, finally, his crowning achievement, Captain Marvel Jr. Raboy went on to illustrate the Flash Gordon Sunday newspaper strip, and left behind a legacy of meticulous perfection. Through extensive research and interviews with son David Raboy, and with several of Mac Raboy's Golden Age assistants, author Roger Hill brings Mac Raboy, the man and the artist, into focus. TwoMorrows, 2019....More… Item Code: MACRAH HC, 8x11, 160pg, FC $39.95 |
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ALSO AVAILABLE THE CHILLINGLY WEIRD ART OF MATT FOX Our Highest Recommendation. Matt Fox (1906-1988) first gained notoriety for his bizarre cover paintings on the pulp magazine Weird Tales from 1943 to 1951. His created ghouls, demons, and grotesqueries of all types, evoking a disquieting horror vibe that no one since has ever matched. He went on into comics and his 1950s cover illustrations, his lone story for Chilling Tales, put them at the top of all pre-code horror comic enthusiasts' want lists. He brought his evocative storytelling skills (and an almost Basil Wolverton-esque ink line) to Atlas/Marvel horror comics of the 1950s and '60s as an inker, too! But since Fox never gave an interview, this unique creator remained largely unheralded until now! TwoMorrows. 2023. ...More… Item Code: CHILMHS HC, 8x11, 128pg, FC $29.95 |
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ALSO AVAILABLE TOPS The Complete Collection of Charles Biro's Visionary 1949 Comic Book Series Collects Tops #1-2, 1949. Oversized 11x14. Our Highest Recommendation. The extremely rare two-issue adult comics experiment created by Charles Biro and Lev Gleason Publishing in 1949. Some of the best craftsmen working in comics at that time drew these pulpy, sexy, and melodramatic stories: Dan Barry, George Tuska, Reed Crandall (pre-EC crime tales), Bob Fuji et al. Also articles by Dashiell Hammet and actor Melvyn Douglas. Profusely illustrated and informative Introduction by editor and historian Michael T. Gilbert (with Bill Spicer) and a whopping 27 beautifully illustrated Biographical & End Notes by Gilbert and Roger Hill! Fantagraphics, 2022. ...More… Item Code: TOPSH HC, 11x14, 216pg, FC |
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Here’s a link to Tributes to Roger. For more EC Comics material, click here. We have a complete set of Squa Tront that will be listed in Rare Books by next week. Several issues are also now in stock, signed by editor John Benson…Squa Tront and Roger’s EC Fan-Addict are truly companion publications, filled with inside stories and newly discovered artwork by the EC creators. Roger worked with Jerry Weist on the early issues of Squa Tront. Also don’t miss Bill Leach’s fine EC ‘zine, Horror from the Crypt of Fear. We have four issues in stock: #14 – Al Feldstein interview by Steve Ringgenberg, Thommy Burns, EC panels at San Diego Comic Con… [HFTC14. $15] #15 – Biggest issue yet, 138 pages, 58 in color: George Evans, Wertham, Graham Ingels tribute cover [HFTC15. $17.50] #16 – Special Issue – Richard Corben’s Tales of the Plague [RCTALE. $9.95]. Limited to 500 #17 – The EC Checklist, every issue, every credit, even giveaways and Picture Stories from the Bible, American History and World History… [HFTC17. $15]. |
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ALSO AVAILABLE THE HISTORY OF EC COMICS Signed 2020 Bestseller #2. Limited to 5000. From the leading authority on EC. Huge oversized volume. Our Highest Recommendation. By Grant Geissman. With exclusive 8x11 full color bookplate drawn by Angelo Torres, and signed by the author. Taschen presents the full, fascinating story of this fabled company, written and designed by EC-expert Grant Geissman. Even the most die-hard EC Fan-Addicts will find something new within these pages, with the Gaines family archives providing over 100 rarities that have never seen print. Cover images are reproduced from Gaines file copies. 1,000 illustrations include the rarest and most notorious covers, interior pages and panels, rare photos, vintage original artwork, and some of the most celebrated stories ever to be printed in four colors. Taschen, 2020. Rush Service and International shipping would require an additional charge....More… Item Code: HISECH HC, 16x11, 596pg, FC $200.00 |
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THE ART OF HOWARD CHAYKIN Back in stock. Highly Recommended. By Robert Greenberger. Legendary for what he has done on the page and infamous for what he has said off it, Howard Chaykin ranks among the superstars of modern comics. Go behind the scenes with American Flagg! and Black Kiss, and experience the stories of his life as only he can tell them. Filled with no-holds-barred perspective from his longtime friends and colleagues, and featuring an extensive selection of artwork from throughout his career, including many never-before-published pieces from Chaykin's own archives, an in-depth journey from the 1970s to today with one of the medium's great storytellers. Dynamite, 2012. Mature Readers....More… Item Code: ARTHCH HC, 9x12, 200pg, PC |
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THE ART OF RAMONA FRADON Back in stock. Highly Recommended. By Sarah Lit and Hannah Gorfinkel. For the first time the definitive retrospective of Ramona Fradon's career. Packed with classic artwork along with never-before-seen sketches. Interview by Howard Chaykin. Fradon talks about her artistic career, accomplishments, and creations -- from her early days at DC in the 1950's with Aquaman, Metal Men, Metamorpho and Doom Patrol, to her later work on Marvel's The Cat and Fantastic Four and DC's Plastic Man, Freedom Fighters, Super Friends, and more! Dynamite, 2014....More… Item Code: ARTRFH HC, 9x12, 144pg, PC |
| Here’s more work by both artists, Fradon and Chaykin. |
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Sons of El Topo is here from Humanoids, by Jodorowsky and the outstanding artist José Ladrönn (The Incal). It’s essentially a wild, surreal and violent western. But due to depictions of nudity and rape, we’re listing it here in the adult section. Click here for much more by Jodorowsky, including his collaborations with Moebius. The Jodorowsky Library Volumes 2-6 are also all in stock. Volumes 2, 4, 5 and 6 are Going away are 42nd Street Forever #54, 56-58. Very few left. See all our adult DVDs here. We sent out our latest Mature Readers email on Tuesday. Click here if you missed it, and click here to sign up for future mailings. |
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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 have a Summer Clearance Sale coming soon, but you can get a first glance now. Click here to see over 70 newly reduced items, or enter JUNSALE in the seach field on the homepage. |
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GIANT ROBOT Thirty Years of Defining Asian-American Pop Culture A deluxe hardcover that celebrates the pop culture phenomenon, the fan magazine Giant Robot. Los Angeles, 1994. Two Asian-American punk rockers staple together the zine of their dreams featuring Sumo, Hong Kong Cinema and Osamu Tezuka. From the margins of alternative culture, Giant Robot burst into the mainstream with over 60,000 copies in circulation annually at its peak. Drawn and Quarterly, 2024. Due: Oct....More… Item Code: GIANRH HC, 8x11, 464pg, FC |
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FANTASTIC FOUR FULL CIRCLE Expanded Edition Recommended. An oversized, expanded edition of the award-winning national bestseller, named Graphic Novel of the Year by the National Cartoonists Society and the Washington Post, with 288 pages of new material, including commentary and unpublished preparatory material from Alex Ross. Abrams, 2024. Due: Oct....More… Item Code: FFFULH HC, 10x13, 352pg, FC $65.00 |
| We have just two left of the original hardcover from 2022 [FFFULLH. $24.95]. |
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JOHN CONSTANTINE HELLBLAZER By Jamie Delano Omnibus Vol 1 Collects #1-22, and Annual #1, 1988-89 and more. Recommended. Introduction by Jamie Delano. Foreword by Garth Ennis. Now, fans can revisit -- or experience for the first time --his earliest solo adventures, collecting the first Hellblazer stories from writer Jamie Delano and artists including John Ridgway, Richard Piers Rayner, Stephen R. Bissette, and more. Hellblazer helped usher in DC's seminal Vertigo label, and stands as the longest-running series of that imprint -- and now the earliest stories of that era are available in the omnibus format, alongside a host of extras. DC Comics, 2024. Due: Oct....More… Item Code: JOHH01H HC, 1128pg, FC |
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THE FLASH By Mark Waid Omnibus Vol 2 1994-96. Picking up where The Flash by Mark Waid Omnibus Vol. 1 leaves off, Wally West has the same super-speed powers as his uncle Barry Allen, a.k.a. the Flash! Follow Wally's journey toward becoming a true hero. Collecting some of the most iconic tales from Mark Waid's time writing The Flash! DC Comics, 2024. Due: Oct....More… Item Code: FLMW02H HC, 1216pg, FC |
| Vol 1 is in stock now, collecting issues #62-91 and Annual #4-6 from 1992-94 [FLMW01H. $150, $125]. Art by Greg LarRocque, Mike Wieringo and Carmine Infantino. |
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WANTED & BIG GAME Library Edition Collects Wanted, 2003-04 and Big Game, 2023. By Mark Millar. Art by JG Jones. The graphic novel from Millarworld, and its sequel set twenty years later, collected together for the first time! Action thriller Wanted was the first book and the starting point for an entire universe of comic books and movies. Big Game is the sequel, set twenty years after the original and bringing together over twenty franchises for the first time, from Kick-Ass and Hit-Girl to The Ambassadors and The Magic Order. Dark Horse, 2024. Mature Readers. Due: Oct....More… Item Code: WANBGH HC, 360pg, FC |
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THE BIG BOOK OF PEANUTS Highly Recommended. The final ten years of daily strips from Jan. 1, 1990 through January 2000 from Charles Schulz's half century of Peanuts are presented here complete. Introductory essay and notes about the evolution of the strip in its final decade. Andrews McMeel, 2024. Due: Oct....More… Item Code: BIGPEH HC, 9x12, 544pg, b&w |
| We have much more Peanuts in stock: A Golden Celebration, The Peanuts Collection, Boxed set, Artist’s Edition, Complete Peanuts 1979-82, Peanuts Every Sunday 1996-2000 and 1990s slipcased sets. Also The Big Book of Peanuts. |
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2014 - #62 of 1150 |
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Rare Books Tip - Dwayne now posts the new Rare Books to the website every Wednesday by 4pm PST. You can see all new listings a full day before we link to them in the Thursday evening email. Dwayne’s now cataloging vintage statues, such as Shi above the Tex Avery wolf below—see several in this week’s list and watch for more in the next few weeks. Some are as-new, some have defects and are seriously marked down. Most/all are in original boxes. Go to the home page and scroll down to Just Arrived--Rare & Out of Print. Look at the first several screens, or click on the RARE & OUT OF PRINT main section for more per page. We post around 60 new titles a week. |
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Our summer sale email went out earlier this week. If you missed it, click here to see it on our blog. Don’t miss the previous Rare Books list the week before. All new items, sales, and rare books newsletters are posted on our blog. ~Bud
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