Tuesday, July 30, 2024

3...2...1...Gone Sale!

3...2...1...Gone!
 

3...2...1 Gone Books is a category for books we are nearly out of. They cannot or will not be restocked. We have just 3 copies or less of these, so we move them to this category so that you know they’re nearly gone, in case you want one.

Many sell out each week in our weekly email. But others are still available and we need room! So I just marked down prices on 360 titles. Items at retail or close to retail are now one third to 40% off. Books already on sale were marked down even further, some to as little as 25% of cover price.

At the end of each category we have a link to more 3...2...1 books in that category--so you don't have to sift through over 300 items. Although you are welcome to!

Click here [NRP0724] for the complete list of these new 3...2...1 Closeouts.

Summer 2024
Bud's Incredible Catalog

 

Artists & Illustration

 


FRANK MILLER'S DAREDEVIL Artist's Edition
Closeout Price! Recommended. By Roger McKenzie. Frank Miller helped redefine sequential storytelling in the early 1980s. His style, influenced by Will Eisner’s The Spirit, was new and exciting. One of his earliest Daredevil issues featured the introduction of Elektra and was the first issue Miller wrote. This features pages from Miller’s earliest beginnings on Daredevil (issues #159, 163, 165), as well as the glory days when Miller began writing the character as well as drawing it, including #168 (first Elektra), as well as his continuing run on issues #169, 171, 172, 174-181 (#181 being the oversized classic "Death of Elektra"), followed by pages from issues #184-191 ( Miller’s final issue). Includes 20 covers. IDW, 2023. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge. ...More.

Item Code: FMDARH
Hard Cover, 12x17, 144pg, b&w
$150.00 $120.00
 


MIRAGE ART QUEST OF ALEX NINO Volume 2 with Original Drawing
Closeout Price! Signed and limited, 500, with an original pen & ink drawing, each unique. Our Highest Recommendation. A fabulous new oversized art book, mostly in full color, with 5 gatefolds of new artwork. Much never seen before art work in a wide variety of styles and media. Contents in this book are Niño’s artwork from the past 20 years, a companion to his 2008 volume 1, which is long out of print. Amazing fantasy images of other worlds, monsters, nymphs, creatures and stunning alien landscapes. Alex Niño, 2019....More.

Item Code: MIRAGD
Hard Cover, 10x13, 200pg, Partial Color
$250.00 $175.00
 


KWAIDAN & SHADOWINGS Illuminated Edition
Closeout Price! Bonus 9x12 print with gold inks. Recommended. Painter and multimedia artist Kent Williams depicts the supernatural Japanese stories of Lafcadio Hearn, the wildly popular author of the early 20th century. These stories first appeared in his prose books Kwaidan and Shadowings. Ghost stories, nightmares and strange tales — of possessed forests, of monks tormented by demons and ghosts, of corpse brides, man-eating goblins, and undead samurai. They come to life as never before under Williams' brush. Beehive Books, 2021. ...More.

Item Code: KWAIH
Hard Cover, 9x12, 168pg, Full Color
$100.00 $60.00
 


FRANK FRAZETTA ICON
Closeout Price! Publisher file copy, 2003, first revised edition. Edited by Cathy and Arnie Fenner. This softcover edition (the hardcover was published in 1998) contains 32 new pages of additional, never-before-published art and photos. New material includes paintings of Woody Allen and Peter Sellers; concepts of Clint Eastwood for the movie poster of The Gauntlet; original concepts for the Conan book cover paintings; and character drawings for the Broadway production of Li'l Abner. There was just one printing of this revised softcover edition. Underwood, 2003. Out of print. Condition: Very Fine. Our copies are mostly still in shrink wrap or remnants of shrink wrap....More.

Item Code: FFICON
Soft Cover, 9x12, 208pg, Full Color
$125.00 $100.00
 


FRANK FRAZETTA ICON Printer Sample
Closeout Price! Publisher file copy, 2003. 1st Revised Edition. Edited by Cathy and Arnie Fenner. "Printer's Sample" is stamped on the blank endpaper. This softcover edition (the hardcover was published in 1998) contains 32 new pages of additional, never-before-published art and photos. New material includes paintings of Woody Allen and Peter Sellers; concepts of Clint Eastwood for the movie poster to The Gauntlet; original concepts for the Conan book cover paintings; and character drawings for the Broadway production of Li'l Abner. There was just one printing of this revised softcover edition. Underwood, 2003. Out of print. Condition: Fine/Fine . Just a hint of wear to tips....More.

Item Code: FFICONP
Soft Cover, 9x12, 208pg, Full Color
$125.00 $80.00
 


HENRY HOLIDAY His Stained Glass Windows for Gilded Age New York
Closeout Price! Recommended. By George B. Bryant. Henry Holiday (1839-1927) counted figures such as Lewis Carroll, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, and Emmeline Pankhurst as his friends. Most significantly, he was unquestionably one of the greatest stained-glass artists of the Victorian-Edwardian period, yet his considerable achievements have not received the recognition that they deserve. He was also a Victorian painter and illustrator of Carroll's Hunting of the Snark. Lund Humphries, 2023....More.

Item Code: HENRH
Hard Cover, 10x11, 328pg, Full Color
$99.99 $59.99
 


COVER TREASURE The Life and Art of Margaret Armstrong
Closeout Price! 700 color images includes every known cover design. Our Highest Recommendation. By Lowell Thing.The Golden Age of American Publishers'Decorated Cloth Book Covers. Among the hundreds of artists who designed these covers, one stood above the rest. Scribner’s, Putnam’s, and Dodd Mead were among the publishers vying for the talents of Margaret Armstrong. Her inventive, elegant, and beautifully colored designs and lettering were self-identifying; they hardly needed the tiny monogram that she often added to her designs. During her career, she would design over 300 book covers and decorate the pages of many books with her drawings. Black Dome Press, 2022....More.

Item Code: COVTH
Hard Cover, 9x11, 456pg, Full Color
$75.00 $45.00
 


HISTORY OF PRESS GRAPHICS 1819-1921
Closeout Price! This collection covers a broad range of news graphics and political and satirical cartoons. Alongside the works of renowned artists such as Jean Cocteau, Juan Gris, and Käthe Kollwitz, the most famous illustrators of the time are also well represented. Thomas Nast, Honoré Daumier, Gustave Doré, and the numerous relatively unknown press graphic artists, the so-called “special artists,” whose work is rediscovered here. Taschen, 2023....More.

Item Code: HISPGH
Hard Cover, 10x15, 604pg, Partial Color
$80.00 $60.00
 


PS BOOK OF FANTASTIC FICTIONEERS Volume 1 Signed
Closeout Price! New Printing. Exclusive color bookplate signed by Von Sholly! An unprecedented, profusely illustrated compendium celebrating over 100 writers and artists behind our rich legacy of fantasy, horror, and science fiction in comic books, literature, and cinema. 75 contributors give us major, original essays—contributors as distinguished as their subjects! For example, Bill Stout writes about L. Frank Baum; Will Murray on John W. Campbell; Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. on Frank Frazetta; Harlan Ellison on Frank Herbert; David Gerrold on Robert Heinlein; Roy Thomas on Robert E. Howard; etc. PS Publishing, 2019.  ...More.

Item Code: PSB01H
Hard Cover, 6x9, 392pg, Partial Color
$69.00 $49.00
Volume Two is also available, [PSB02H.$69, $49].
 


CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT Signed with Drawing
Closeout Price! Signed with an original drawing! Highly Recommended. A bewitching new art book by illustrator and comics creator Dan Brereton. A deluxe hardcover edition, presented in spectral color, featuring an extensive collection of haunting new artwork, consisting of 136 pages, a "Virgin" dustcover with wrap-around art —no titles— and full color illustrated endsheets. And...illustrations, pin-ups, drawings and sketches, featuring a line-up of majestic monster gals, noble brutes and pulpish heroes, most of this entirely new work. Dan Brereton, 2021....More.

Item Code: CHILHD
Hard Cover, 9x12, 136pg, Full Color
$100.00 $75.00
 


LIBRARY OF ESOTERICA Astrology
Closeout Price! Edited by Jessica Hundley. This vibrant visual history of Western astrology is the first ever compendium of its kind, exploring the symbolic meaning behind more than 400 images, from Egyptian temples and illuminated manuscripts to contemporary art from across the globe. Works by artists from Mucha and Hilma Klint to Arpita Singh and Manzel Bowman are sequenced to mirror the spin of the planets and the wheel of the zodiac. New interviews with astrologers Robert Hand, Jessica Lanyadoo, and Mecca Woods. Taschen, 2023....More.

Item Code: LIBEAH
Hard Cover, 7x10, 520pg, Full Color
$40.00 $30.00
 


SHELL ART & ADVERTISING
Closeout Price! Shell Motor Oil's finest promotions. Recommended. By Scott Anthony, Oliver Green, Nicky Penny and Margaret Timmers. A beautifully designed and illustrated book, with material taken from Shell Oil's remarkable archives from its origins up to the 1960's. Shell has a well-established reputation for this artistic heritage, particularly from its 1930's heyday, but this is the first publication to present and describe it comprehensively. Examinations of the historical, political, and social contexts of Shell's art and advertising enable the authors to assess the work's broader cultural significance. Lund Humphries, 2020....More.

Item Code: SHELAH
Hard Cover, 10 x11, 208pg, Full Color
$79.99 $49.99
 


POLLEN IN PRINT 1955-1959
Closeout Price! The Art of Samson Pollen. Edited by Robert Deis and Wyatt Doyle. This is the latest release from the acclaimed Men's Adventure Library, chronologically collecting the complete men's adventure magazine (aka MAM) illustrations by the great Samson Pollen, artist behind the wildly popular books Pollen's Women and Pollen's Action. While those earlier collections presented original artwork drawn from the cream of the artist's personal holdings, Pollen in Print steps out of one archive and into another, digging into the astonishing vintage magazine collection of the book’s co-editor Robert Deis, to assemble a complete chronological presentation of Pollen's work as it was first seen in the printed pages of the magazines the work was created for. New Texture, 2022....More.

Item Code: POLLPH
Hard Cover, 11x9, 140pg, Partial Color
$39.95 $29.95
Pollen's Women is also available, [POLLWH. $39.95].
 


SKY CAPTAIN AND THE ART OF TOMORROW Deluxe Edition
Closeout Price! Limited, 1000. By Kevin Conran. Already a brisk seller! The 2004 film featured groundbreaking special effects and techniques that would change the way movies were made. And it's now attaining cult status. The real story behind the film began many years earlier and here are behind-the-scenes stories marking the movie's unique journey to the screen. It embraced the look and feel of the old serials even as it pushed the boundaries of modern film making technology. Deluxe edition with leather grain cover, gold foil logo, slipcase, mini-poster, letter w/ envelope, membership card, 8x10 art print and embroidered patch! Dynamite, 2022. Condition: May have one or two minor dents to slipcase corners....More.

Item Code: SKYCH
Hard Cover, 9x12, 272pg, Full Color
$99.99 $59.99
Click here to see all 46 titles in the Artists & Illustration category.
 

Comic Book Archives

 


DARK NIGHTS METAL Omnibus
Closeout Price! Collects dozens of issues and titles, 2017-19. By Scott Snyder. Art by Greg Capullo. The entire Dark Nights Metal saga. Batman has uncovered one of the lost mysteries of the universe...one that could destroy the very fabric of the DC Universe! He’ll wage war against diabolical Dark Knights across the multiverse and come face-to-face with The Batman Who Laughs. The Dark Multiverse is revealed in all its devastating danger. Can Batman and his allies save the Multiverse from total darkness? DC Comics, 2022....More.

Item Code: DARNMH
Hard Cover, 7x11, 760pg, Full Color
$150.00 $90.00
 


CAPTAIN MARVEL By Kelly Sue DeConnick Omnibus
Closeout Price! Collects Captain Marvel #1-17, Avengers Assemble #16-19, Captain Marvel #1-15 & 7 more, 2012-14. Higher, Further, Faster, More! She’s been an ace pilot, an Avenger, a cosmic warrior. Now, Carol Danvers has a new name and a new mission, the latest and greatest Captain Marvel. A dramatic decision sends her to the stars — right into the middle of an intergalactic war! Plus a new romance at home and challenges ahead, adventures alongside Spider-Man and the Avengers...and who are the Carol Corps? Very well drawn. Includes bonus variant covers and other material. Marvel, 2022....More.

Item Code: CAPKSDH
Hard Cover, 8x11, 976pg, Full Color
$125.00 $75.00
 


CAPTAIN MARVEL BY KELLY THOMPSON Omnibus Volume 1
Closeout Price! Collects Captain Marvel #1-26; Captain Marvel: The End #1, 2019-2020. Recommended. By Kelly Thompson. Art by Carmen Carnero et al. Carol Danvers has finally returned home after months in space. New York has never looked so good — until a powerful villain turns Roosevelt Island into an apocalyptic wasteland! Now, Carol must assemble a new crew to kick-start a revolution! But soon she goes from Earth’s Mightiest Hero to Public Enemy No. 1 when a new star steals the spotlight! And things go from bad to worse when Captain Marvel is given 24 hours...to kill the Avengers! Marvel, 2023....More.

Item Code: CAPKT01H
Hard Cover, 7x11, 736pg, Full Color
$100.00 $60.00
 


MARVEL MASTERWORKS UNCANNY X-MEN Volume 15
Closeout Price! Collects Uncanny X-Men #220-231, Avengers vs. X-Men #1-4 & more, circa 1997. Marc Silvestri’s legacy as an X-Men artist begins here. He defined a new era of mutant drama; The X-Men vs. Avengers mini-series. Next, Alan Davis draws an epic Annual introducing Horde. Then writer Chris Claremont returns for a run of legendary stories. The iconic "Fall of the Mutants" story line changed everything for the X-Men. With many team members missing and presumed dead, mutant kind regroups in Australia, becoming targets of the mysterious Reavers... Marvel, 2023. ...More.

Item Code: MMUX15H
Hard Cover, 7x10, 520pg, Full Color
$100.00 $60.00
 


NEW MUTANTS Omnibus Volume 2
Closeout Price! By Chris Claremont, Louise Simonson et al. Art by Mary Wilshire, Rick Leonardi et al. The New Mutants take a road trip to Asgard — with the trickster god Loki guiding them to all the wrong places! Then, it’s back to class under a new schoolmaster: Magneto! The former villain has sworn to atone for his crimes — but winning the New Mutants' trust won’t be easy. As the team contends with their rivals the Hellions, they’ll face death and rebirth, a mutant massacre, a twisted future timeline, a rebellion in Limbo and much more! Why have Sunspot and Warlock run away to join the Fallen Angels? Chris Claremont’s foundational run concludes here! Marvel, 2022....More.

Item Code: NEWM02H
Hard Cover, 7x11, 1240pg, Full Color
$125.00 $62.50
 


MADMAN Library Edition Volume 2
Closeout Price! Collects Madman Comics #11-20 & much, much more. Highly Recommended. 600 pages of the wildest superhero ever, taking us into surreal realms. Deluxe oversized hardcover. Also collects spinoffs and crossovers: Superman/Madman crossover, Powers/Madman one-shot by Brian Michael Bendis and drawn by Michel Avon Oeming. This six-volume Madman universe library collects all of Allred's award-winning work in selected reading order! Dark Horse, 2021....More.

Item Code: MAD02H
Hard Cover, 8x12, 576pg, Full Color
$99.99 $49.99
 


DAREDEVIL By Brubaker & Lark Omnibus Volume 1
Closeout Price! Collects Daredevil #82-105 (1998 series), 2006-2008. Recommended. Nominated for THREE Eisner Awards: Best Continuing Series, Best Writer, and Best Penciler-Inker Team! Longtime Daredevil fans will will recognize this classic work by the critically acclaimed, award-winning creative team of Ed Brubaker and artists Michael Lark & Stefano Gaudiano, who leave their mark on one of comics'most enduring characters! For the past few years, Matt Murdock’s life has been teetering on the edge of destruction. Now, pushed beyond the limit, people he calls friends are deserting him, and Hell’s Kitchen is slipping out of control. How far will Daredevil go to get back what is his? Marvel, 2022....More.

Item Code: DARE01H
Hard Cover, 7x10, 608pg, Full Color
$100.00 $60.00
 


CAPTAIN AMERICA BY TA-NEHISI COATES Omnibus
Closeout Price! Collects Captain America #1-30, 2018 & more. Art by Leinil Yu et al. Cover by Alex Ross. In the aftermath of Hydra’s brief takeover of the nation, Cap is a figure of controversy — and a new enemy is rising. Steve Rogers takes on the manipulative Power Elite. Does Cap still have some allies in his corner? Framed for a crime he did not commit, Steve is forced underground — but will come out fighting. And can Cap marshal his forces in time to face the reborn Red Skull? Additional writing by Anthony Falcone. Marvel, 2023....More.

Item Code: CAPTCH
Hard Cover, 7x11, 696pg, Full Color
$100.00 $60.00
 


ABSOLUTE WONDER WOMAN Gods and Mortals
Closeout Price! Collects Wonder Woman #1-14 and more, 1987-88. Recommended. More than four decades after making her debut in All Star Comics #8, the World's Greatest Heroine was comprehensively re-imagined in 1986 by legendary comics creator George Pérez — and this new incarnation of DC Comics' fabled Amazon Princess quickly rose to unprecedented levels of popular and critical acclaim. In collaboration with co-writer Len Wein, Pérez crafted a new origin and went on to craft Wonder Woman's adventures for many years. DC Comics, 2021....More.

Item Code: ABWWGH
Hard Cover, 8x12, 376pg, Full Color
$125.00 $75.00
 


WONDER WOMAN BY BRIAN AZZARELLO & CLIFF CHIANG Omnibus
Closeout Price! New Printing. Wonder Woman #0-35, 23.1, and Secret Origins #6, 2011-14. Recommended. The entire run of writer Brian Azzarello (100 Bullets) and artist Cliff Chiang's (Paper Girls) bold new storyline, taking our Amazon back to her origins and immersing us in Greek mythology and the gods. Raised as a daughter by the Queen of the Amazons, formed from clay to give the childless queen the daughter she dreamed of, she is an outsider and outcast. "The most focused, confident, and consistent title of the New 52." -The A.V. Club DC, 2023....More.

Item Code: WWBAH
Hard Cover, 7x10, 928pg, Full Color
$150.00 $99.99
 


SPIDER-MAN 2099 Omnibus Volume 1
Closeout Price! Art by Rick Leonardi et al. Peter David’s futuristic epic, collected in full. Miguel O’Hara, his DNA rewritten in an attempt to escape his employer Alchemax, has gained amazing powers — and become the new Spider-Man! Menaces new and familiar come calling: Venture, the Specialist, the Vulture, the mysterious Thanatos and more! The possible return of the Asgardian gods unites Miguel with 2099’s other heroes — but who is the Net Prophet? How will Spider-Man react when Doctor Doom conquers America? And what is Miguel’s connection to Venom 2099? Marvel, 2023....More.

Item Code: SPIOMH
Hard Cover, 7x11, 1384pg, Full Color
$150.00 $99.99
 


SPIDER-MAN VS VENOM Omnibus
Closeout Price! Back in stock. Collects all Venom appearances across the Marvel Universe, starting with Spider-Man #300, 1985 & into the 1990s. Spider-Man meets his deadliest foe when his symbiotic alien black costume takes a new host: Eddie Brock, who hates Spider-Man. Then Venom sires an even more psychopathic offspring: Maximum Carnage! Plus the sinister symbiote sinks his teeth into Wolverine, Ghost Rider, Quasar, Darkhawk and the Avengers, in this complete compendium of Venom’s earliest appearances! Marvel, 2023....More.

Item Code: SPIDVH
Hard Cover, 7x11, 1160pg, Full Color
$125.00 $75.00
 


STRANGE SUSPENSE STORIES Volume 7 Hardcover
Closeout Price! Collects #48-52, 1960-61. Recommended. Three issues with Steve Ditko covers and stories, a 4th with one story, including "The Human Powerhouse." Matt Baker gets an attribution with Vince Colletta inks on one of his last stories before he passed away. Also lots of work by Bill Molno and Rocco Mastroserio. Ditko's moody, individualistic touch came to dominate Charlton's supernatural titles just before he jumped to Marvel and the monster titles like Strange Tales, Tales of Suspense and Tales to Astonish, and his own solo work in Amazing Adult Fantasy....all just before creating Spider-Man. PS Artbooks, 2023. ...More.

Item Code: PCSS07H
Hard Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color
$52.99 $39.99
 


CLASSIC SCI-FI COMICS Volume 3 Hardcover
Closeout Price! Our Highest Recommendation. Vintage comic gems: three full length pre-code comics adapted from 1951-52 sci-fi films: When Worlds Collide (outstanding art by EC's own George Evans and Al Williamson!!), The Man from Planet X (gorgeous work by the fine Superman artist Kurt Schaffenberger), and Destination Moon (by Dick Rockwell). Plus Vic Torry and his Flying Saucer (more gorgeous artwork, a 1950 one-shot by Bob Powell), and The Green Planet (1962). All are reproduced completely from cover to cover. PS Artbooks, 2021....More.

Item Code: PSSC03H
Hard Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color
$46.99 $36.99
More sale priced PS Artbooks can be seen here.
 


SUPERMAN / BATMAN Omnibus Volume 2
Closeout Price! Collects Superman/Batman #44-87; Superman/Batman Annual #3-5, 2008-2010. Writers Michael Green and Mike Johnson (Supergirl) and artist Rags Morales (Identity Crisis) bring you one of the darkest struggles Superman and Batman have ever faced. First they attempt to rid the world of all traces of Kryptonite. Then they encounter li'l versions of themselves from an alternate universe, confront an extraterrestrial warrior who aims to wipe out all Kryptonians, and much more. Massive collection! DC Comics, 2021....More.

Item Code: SUPBAT02H
Hard Cover, 7x11, 1232pg, Full Color
$125.00 $62.50
 


THOR By Matt Fraction Omnibus
Closeout Price! Collects Thor #615-621, 2007; The Mighty Thor #1-22; Fear Itself #1-7, 2011-12 and much more, 2007-11. Art by Oliver Coipel, Pasqukal Ferry, Stuart Immonen and Pepe Larraz. Matt Fraction’s complete saga of Thor — from triumphs and tragedies of ages past, to a bold new heroic era! Asgard is the target of a dark, destructive force from another reality. When Thor and Sif dive deep into the heart of the fractured World Tree, what they find attracts the attention of the Silver Surfer...and in his wake follows Galactus! But the most horrifying threat of all is the Serpent — who will make the Son of Odin, and the whole Marvel Universe, know fear! Thor is fated to die...but can a team-up with young Loki stave off disaster, or will everything burn? Marvel, 2022....More.

Item Code: THORMFH
Hard Cover, 7x11, 1352pg, Full Color
$125.00 $62.50
 


CONAN THE BARBARIAN The Original Marvel Years Omnibus Volume 7
Closeout Price! Collects Conan the Barbarian #172-194 & Annual #10-11, 1985-87. Art by John Buscema, Val Semeiks and Ernie Chan. He was the writer that would put Black Panther back on the map of popularity in the late ‘90s, but in the ‘80s, Christopher Priest was editing — and writing — Conan. This collects the first half of Priest’s run, as he assembles a cast of engaging supporting characters around Conan, including the haunted Tetra and the courageous Captain Delmuro, sending them in pursuit of treasure held by the wicked thief, Keiv. Priest also introduces one of the great super-villains in Conan's mythos — the Devourer of Souls. Marvel, 2022....More.

Item Code: CONB07H
Hard Cover, 7x11, 680pg, Full Color
$125.00 $62.50
 


DOCTOR STRANGE Omnibus Volume 1
Closeout Price! Collects material from Strange Tales #110-111, 114-146 & Amazing Spider-Man Annual #2, 1963-66. Our Highest Recommendation. From Doctor Strange’s eerie Greenwich Village home, Stan Lee and Steve Ditko created new dimensions and otherworldly terrors unlike anything seen before in comics. Here’s the origin story and the first years of adventures. Experience the debut of iconic characters including Baron Mordo, Eternity, Dormammu and the Mindless Ones — as well as Strange’s faithful servant Wong, and the mystic mistress Clea! Marvel, 2021....More.

Item Code: DRST01H
Hard Cover, 7x11, 456pg, Full Color
$75.00 $45.00
 


SPIDER-GWEN GHOST-SPIDER Omnibus
Closeout Price! Collects Gwen Ghost-Spider #1-10, Ghost-Spider #1-10 Gwenom vs. Carnage #1-3, Web Warriors #1-11 and much more, c.2015. By Seanan McGuire and Vita Ayala. Art by Rosi Kampe et al. Gwen Stacy, Spider-Woman returns...as Ghost-Spider! But the inter-dimensional events of Spider-Geddon are about to rock her world, and soon she will face her own evil self: the Gwen Goblin! Meanwhile, Mary Jane’s vision for their band is driving Gwen crazy, her father is pressuring her to return to school, and something sinister stalks the New York City of Gwen’s native Earth-65. So Gwen enrolls in classes in the Marvel Universe instead! Marvel, 2023....More.

Item Code: SPIGSH
Hard Cover, 8x11, 824pg, Full Color
$100.00 $60.00
 


MADMAN Library Edition Volume 3
Closeout Price! Collects The Atomics #1-15, 2000-01 and the graphic novel Red Rocket 7. Recommended. Laura and Michael Allred take on superhero team antics, music pop culture, and zany sci fi fun! This five-volume Madman universe omnibus library edition series collects all of Allred’s award-winning Madman universe stories in selected reading order. The Red Rocket 7 graphic novel was a compilation of Red Rocket 7 #1-7, 1997-98. Dark Horse, 2022....More.

Item Code: MAD03H
Hard Cover, 8x12, 680pg, Full Color
$99.99 $59.99
 


SHAZAM! THE WORLD'S MIGHTIEST MORTAL Volume 3
Closeout Price! Collects World's Finest #253-270, 272-282, & Adventure #491-492, 1978-82. Recommended. By E. Nelson Bridwell, art by Kurt Schaffenberger and Don Newton. In 1973 DC brought back one of the most beloved superheroes of all time: Captain Marvel. But since Marvel had snagged the CM name, he had to be renamed Shazam. It was the return of the most popular superhero of the 1940s — at one time, he was even outselling Superman. Alongside Superman and Batman, the World's Mightiest Mortal is back in his own unique stories, with unique villains......including Satan! DC Comics, 2021. ...More.

Item Code: SHAZ03H
Hard Cover, 7x10, 336pg, Full Color
$49.99 $29.99
 


BLACK ADAM Box Set
Closeout Price! 3-book boxed set. By Geoff Johns. Art by Gary Frank. Thousands of years before Billy Batson became a magically-empowered hero, the wizard Shazam selected another champion. But his power corrupted Black Adam. Exiled by Shazam, he has now returned to the modern day in comics as well as in the new film. A frequent enemy to Earth’s heroes, Black Adam firmly believes he is the right person to lead humanity and any action he takes is necessary for the greater good. Three volumes: JSA: Black Reign, Shazam Vol 1 and Black Adam: Rise and Fall of an Empire. DC Comics, 2022....More.

Item Code: BLADA
Soft Cover, 7x10, 696pg, Full Color
$51.00 $29.99
 


THE SAVAGE SHE-HULK Omnibus
Closeout Price! Collects Savage She-Hulk #1-25; Marvel Two-in-One #88, 1980-82. By David Anthony Kraft (with a 4-page introduction). Art by Mike Vosburg, John Buscema et al. The complete original adventures of She-Hulk in one massive Omnibus. When criminal defense attorney Jennifer Walters is shot by a mob hitman, her cousin saves her life with a blood transfusion — that cousin is Bruce Banner and his gamma-irradiated blood turns her into the Savage She-Hulk! Suddenly, she’s a mean, green lawyering machine, and criminals the world over had better watch out. Conflict rages not just between She-Hulk and the many super-powered enemies in store, but between Jennifer Walters and She-Hulk! Marvel, 2022....More.

Item Code: SAVSHH
Hard Cover, 7x11, 648pg, Full Color
$100.00 $49.00
 


BLACK PANTHER By Christopher Priest Omnibus Volume 1
Closeout Price! Collects Black Panther #1-33, 1998-2000 & more. By Christopher Priest. Art by Mark Texeira, Vince Evans, Joe Jusko, and Mike Manley. T’Challa is the man with a plan as the Black Panther is reinvented in this brilliantly sharp and witty political satire! Prepare to see the king of Wakanda through new eyes: those of U.S. government attaché Everett K. Ross! When a new regime stages a coup in Wakanda, T’Challa finds himself an enemy of the state! The Black Panther is always two or three steps ahead — but with foes like Mephisto, Malice, Klaw and Killmonger against him, will T’Challa’s cool head and intricate maneuvers be enough to free his nation without alienating his allies and destabilizing the world? Marvel, 2022....More.

Item Code: BLPA01H
Hard Cover, 7x11, 840pg, Full Color
$100.00 $49.00
Click here for the rest of the Almost Gone Archives. Over 100 titles!
 

Comic Strip Collections & Reference

 


THE ART OF DUCKTALES Deluxe Slipcased
Closeout Price! By Ken Plume. This deluxe edition offers a slipcase, gold-gilded book, an exclusive DuckTales Guidebook with expanded versions of the interviews with the crew and cast, and a finely-crafted replica of Scrooge’s Number One Dime! Scrooge McDuck and nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie are back, celebrating the 2017 remake of the series from Disney Television Animation. Find out about the making of DuckTales and read stories from the developers and cast covering every episode from all three seasons, and details on every character. Dark Horse, 2022....More.

Item Code: ARTDUD
Hard Cover, 9x13, 200pg, Partial Color
$99.99 $59.99
 


CONFABULATION An Anecdotal Autobiography By Dave Gibbons
Closeout Price! Highly Recommended. This comprehensive, in-depth, and personal journey through the eyes of one of the world’s most famous comics creators, Dave Gibbons, spans his earliest years copying Superman and Batman comics as a kid, to co-creating the bestselling graphic novel of all-time, Watchmen, and beyond. Presented alphabetically, with informally written anecdotes that can be read from cover-to-cover or simply dipped into, Gibbons reveals unseen comics'pitches, life as the first Comics Laureate, and going from being a fanzine artist to infiltrating DC Comics in the 1970s. Dark Horse, 2023....More.

Item Code: CONFABH
Hard Cover, 9x12, 256pg, Partial Color
$49.99 $34.99
 


PRINCE VALIANT Volume 1 1937 X-LG
Closeout Price! Our Highest Recommendation. By Hal Foster. Edited by Rick Norwood. The first and still only way to read these magnificent pages in the full, original size. Three volumes were published by Norwood, who continues to publish Comics Revue. The first year, 1937, with 47 seminal pages of Young Val's youth in the fens of England, as a young squire and aspiring to become a knight in King Arthur's circle. A bonus section reproduces Foster's personal Christmas cards over several pages. Full color giant 17" x 22" size on 100 lb. acid-free paper. Reproduced from black and white proofs and then re-colored to match the originals. Manuscript Press, 1982. Out of Print. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge....More.

Item Code: PV01SC
Soft Cover, 17x22, 55pg, Full Color
$300.00 $225.00
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GROSS EXAGGERATIONS The Meshuga Comic Strips of Milt Gross
Closeout Price! Oversized Newspaper Page size. Recommended. Presenting a comprehensive collection of the major newspaper Sunday pages Milt Gross: Nize Baby, Count Screwloose, and Dave's Delicatessen, along with other comic strips and offerings from his popular books and magazines. The king of "screwball" comic strips, Milt Gross worked in movies and animation, wrote humorous poetry and illustrated novels, and, most prolifically, comic strips. Beginning in the 1920s, his comics were born of the Yiddish humor in vaudeville and expanded to lampooning all the foibles and fallacies of American life. Sunday Pages, 2020....More.

Item Code: GROEXH
Hard Cover, 13x16, 144pg, Partial Color
$85.00 $49.00
 


SUNDAYS WITH WALT AND SKEEZIX
Closeout Price! Back in stock. Our Highest Recommendation. Frank King's innovations in art, layout and storytelling brought a new warmth and style to the medium at the dawn of the Golden Age of newspaper comic strips. If you are interested in the development of this unique American art form, or simply love beautiful comics, this sumptuous volume is a masterpiece in comic art, and a must for your collection. Sunday Press, 2007. Rush Service and International shipping would require an additional charge....More.

Item Code: SUNWH
Hard Cover, 19x24, 96pg, Full Color
$79.00 $49.00
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Comics & Graphic Novels

 


ANIMAL CASTLE Volume 1 Signed & Limited
Closeout Price! Collects #1-5. Tipped-in signature plate, signed by writer and artist, limited to 250. Recommended. By Xavier Dorison. Art by Felix Delep. On the Farm, all animals were equal. In the Castle, some are more equal than others. Forgotten by men, the Animal Castle is ruled with an iron hoof by President Silvio. The bull and its dog militia savor their power, while the other animals are exhausted by work, until the arrival of the mysterious Azelar, a traveling rat who will teach them the secrets of civil disobedience. Ablaze, 2022....More.

Item Code: ANIM01D
Hard Cover, 7x10, 144pg, Full Color
$99.00 $49.00
 


BATMAN BLACK AND WHITE Box Set
Closeout Price! Collects Batman Black & White #1-5 and Gotham Knights. Five softcovers in slipcase. Highly Recommended. Presented in stark black-and-white tones that all too easily represent Batman's worldview comes this collection of the Dark Knight Detective's hardboiled adventures: Batman: Black and White and Gotham Knights series. Box set with all five volumes of the Batman: Black and White collection! Contains work by some of comics' top talent! DC Comics, 2022....More.

Item Code: BATBLW
Soft Cover, 7x10, 1280pg, b&w
$105.00 $65.00
 


SEVEN TO ETERNITY
Closeout Price! Massive 544-pages packed with bonus material. By Rick Remender, Jerome Opena and Matt Hollingsworth. The entire Seven to Eternity epic. The God of Whispers has spread an omnipresent paranoia to every corner of the kingdom of Zhal; his spies hide in every hall spreading mistrust and fear. Adam Osidis, a dying knight from a disgraced house, must choose either to join a hopeless band of magic users in their desperate bid to rid their world of the evil god, or to accept the god's promise to give him everything his heart desires. Image Comics, 2022....More.

Item Code: SEVETH
Hard Cover, 8x12, 544pg, Full Color
$59.99 $36.99
 


THE INCAL BLACK & WHITE
Closeout Price! Oversized, massive collection, 318 pages. Collects all six volumes, 1981-88. Recommended. The sci-fi masterpiece by Mœbius and Jodorowsky about the tribulations of the shabby detective John Difool as he searches for the precious and coveted Incal — released for the first time ever in English in this oversized, black & white special edition. Difool’s adventures will bring him into conflict with the galaxy’s greatest warrior, the Metabaron, and will pit him against the awesome powers of the Technopope. Occasional nudity. Humanoids, 2022....More.

Item Code: INCBH
Hard Cover, 9x13, 320pg, b&w
$99.99 $59.99
 


THE FEW AND CURSED Crows of Mana'Olana
Closeout Price! Recommended. By Felipe Cagno. Art by Fabiano Neves. The Few and Cursed is a supernatural post-apocalyptic alternate-history western, collecting SIX highly popular issues, each more successful on Kickstarter. Mana'Olana is a small town in the Honolulu Mountains, where a bedtime story about giant Crows that kidnap children originated. It turns out the Crows aren't exactly fiction. Enter the tough and mysterious Redhead, a Curse Chaser looking to help those in need, for the right price — water. Because 90% of the water on the planet disappeared over night! Humankind has learned to adapt at any cost, and water has become the currency of the world. It's no wonder evil has blossomed in ways that were previously unimaginable. Clover Press, 2021....More.

Item Code: FEWCH
Hard Cover, 7x10, 232pg, Full Color
$45.00 $27.00
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Pulps & Pulp Fiction

 


JESUS ON MARS Hardcover
Closeout Price! Signed by Keith Howell and Tracy Knight! Leatherette cover, gold foil stamping, custom endsheets. Limited, 125. By Philip José Farmer. Art by Keith Howell. Introduction by Tracy Knight. Richard Orme, Canadian astronaut and former Olympian, is confused. As the captured leader of Earth’s first expedition to Mars, he is eager to learn just what game his Martian "hosts" are playing. The man in the golden orb that floats above their subterranean cities — is he really the historical Jesus? And if this "Jesus" returns to Earth, will history repeat itself? Orme does not know who to turn to in this strange, hollowed-out planet; not the alien and technologically advanced Krsh teachers, not the descendants of Jewish settlers on Mars, not the man they call Jesus, not even the beautiful Martian whose dangerous love so kindles his desires. . . Meteor House, 2023....More.

Item Code: JESMH
Hard Cover, 5x8, 320pg, Text Only
$60.00 $37.50
 


TARZAN Battle for Pellucidar Hardcover
Almost Gone! By Win Scott Eckert. Cover art by Chris Peuler. The groundbreaking Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe series continues. Tarzan of the Apes, Jason Gridley, and the crew of the airship O-220 return to Pellucidar, the world at the Earth’s core, on a wartime mission to stop the Nazis from obtaining a powerful superweapon. The murderous adversaries partner with the Mahars — Pellucidar’s routed reptilian overlords — and Tarzan's adventurous granddaughter Suzanne goes missing on a reconnaissance mission. Our Jungle Lord has his hands full. Plus an all-new 48-page novelette, Victory Harben in The Land That Time Forgot. Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc., 2020....More.

Item Code: TARBPH
Hard Cover, 6x9, 286pg, Text Only
$34.95 $24.95
 


JOHN CARTER OF MARS: Gods of the Forgotten Hardcover
Closeout Price! Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe. By Geary Gravel. Cover art by Chris Peuler. The death of a friend spurs the Warlord of Mars to investigate a series of perplexing mysteries in the forbidding icy northern reaches. The enigma deepens as he journeys to the treasure city of Gathol with his spirited daughter Tara and an unexpected stowaway. An insidious conspiracy reaches from his early years on the Red Planet back into the the ancient past and now threatens the existence of all life on Barsoom. ERB, Inc., 2021....More.

Item Code: ERBJCH
Hard Cover, 6x9, 402pg, Text Only
$36.95 $24.95
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Statues & Fun Stuff

 


JOSEPH MICHAEL LINSNER DAWN BUST
Closeout Price! Numbered & limited, 705. By Joseph Michael Linsner. Dawn, the goddess of rebirth, celebrates 30 years with an all-new two-statue set featuring one of Dynamite's most exciting crossovers with Vampirella. Each of the 7.5 inch high resin busts are hand painted and placed on an elegant "book" base. Both statues together, create a complete, thematic set based on the idea of "balance between heart and mind". These strictly limited resin collectibles are hand numbered and only 705 will ever be made. Dynamite, 2022....More.

Item Code: JMLDAW
7.5" tall, Full Color
$139.99 $65.00
 


RED SONJA 45TH ANNIVERSARY Statue Berzerker Variant
Closeout Price! Limited Blood Splatter Edition, 250. By Frank Thorne. Few artists can capture Red Sonja's strength and power like Frank Thorne! For decades, Thorne rendered some of her most iconic comic covers, and Dynamite welcomes the 45th anniversary of Red Sonja with this deluxe, commemorative statue based on Thorne's striking cover for 1976's Red Sonja #4. Frank just passed away in March, 2021. Dynamite, 2020....More.

Item Code: REDSBV
13" tall, Full Color
$295.00 $149.00
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Pin-Up & Erotic Art

 


SYLVIA KRISTEL From Emmanuelle to Chabrol
Closeout Price! By Jeremy Richey. An enormous fancy art book that gives a in-depth film-to-film guide to erotic, action and horror film actress Sylvia Kristel's 1970s movies, including the first 3 Emmanuelle movies. A trailblazing figure in film, this Netherlands native became one of the biggest stars in the world as Emmanuelle in 1974. Kristel also appeared in over 20 films between 1973 and 1981 featuring exceptional work with some of the greatest directors in film history including Walerian Borowczyk, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Roger Vadim and Claude Chabrol. Abundant nudity. Cult Epics, 2022. Mature Readers....More.

Item Code: SYLKH
Hard Cover, 10x12, 352pg, Text/Partial Color
$79.95 $59.95
 


THE COMPLETE CREPAX Volume 6 Dangerous Liaisons
Almost Gone! Art by Guido Crepax. Spanning work from 1977-1989, here is the beautiful Valentina. She is a music, art, and fashion-loving Milanese photographer, who ages in real time. During the course of her sensual, surreal, and domestic adventures, she travels all over the globe. First, she saves Effi, a German heiress, from kidnappers, and they become lovers. Then she has an affair with Bruno, a young cellist. We follow our heroine into middle-aged home life with her longtime partner, Phil, with whom she has a grown son, Mattia. Collects Venus in Furs and The Memoirs of Casanova. Fantagraphics, 2020. Adult Material....More.

Item Code: CREP06H
Hard Cover, 10x14, 416pg, b&w
$85.00 $49.00
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