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The Lost Art of Kreigh Collins kicks off with the complete Mitzi McCoy—don’t miss this. The JLA meet King Kong and Godzilla; Tankhead; Batman and Robin Adventures; The Phantom; Richard Thompson; Gil Elvgren. Coming: Carl Barks Rarities, World’s Finest Omnibus, a limited edition Berni Wrightson tribute. Also, the 20% off ALL RARE BOOKS sale continues until July 19. Save now, it’ll be quite a while before we do this again! This applies to ALL Rare Books, even new ones just listed this week and to be listed next Wednesday in New Arrivals. See below for more details. |
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MATHIEU BABLET'S THE MIDNIGHT ORDER Recommended. “X-Files meets Men in Black with witches.” Excellent artwork, deluxe metallic gilt cover. Created by artist and author Mathieu Bablet, creator of the celebrated, award-winning Shangri-La, Carbon & Silicon, and Adrastea, The Midnight Order is an action-packed series of interlinked short tales set in a shadowy shared universe of witches, witch-hunters, and a menagerie of unimaginable beasts that roam the world unnoticed. With a team of 13 other writers and artists, Mathieu weaves an intricate tale around Sheridan and Johnson, two of the Order’s best agents. Magnetic Press, 2024....More. Item Code: MIDNO Soft Cover, 8x11, 272pg, Full Color $24.99 |
| Here’s more of the latest graphic novels from France. |
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TANKHEAD Mechanical Encyclopedia Artbook Giant armored vehicles called tankheads clash on the battlefields of the Neverending War. These walking behemoths come in many devastating forms, battling across land, air and sea. From the minds of artist Emerson Tung (Doom Eternal, Warhammer 40K) and writer Tim Popelier, Tankhead is a world-building art book that explores these walking weapons and their conflict-filled history. Udon Entertainment, 2024....More. Item Code: TANKMH Hard Cover, 8x11, 232pg, Full Color |
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ALSO AVAILABLE HIDETAKA TENJINS Artistry of Macross Volume 2 Recommended. Since its small screen debut in 1982, Macross has remained one of most influential anime films of all time. Longtime franchise illustrator Hidetaka Tenjin captures the high-flying action of the series' iconic "variable fighters" like no other artist through his hyper-realistic illustrations for model kits, magazines, promotional materials, and more. This second volume collects Tenjin's illustrations from the Macross Frontier films, Macross Delta TV series & films, and Walküre launch, as well as an archive of his work on video games, novels, animation and more. Impressive technical illustration. Handsome oblong format, hardcover. Udon Entertainment, 2023. ...More. |
| Here is more from Udon Entertainment: The Street Fighter Swimsuit Specials 1 and 2, Legendary Visions: The Art of Genzoman from 2011, The Art of Menage à 3 (Adult), and in Rare Books, Apple Collection 01 from 2008. |
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THE BATMAN AND ROBIN ADVENTURES Omnibus Collects Batman & Robin Adventures #1-25, Annual #1-2, Lost Years #1-5 and more, 1995-98. Recommended. By Paul Dini, Ty Templeton and Hilary J. Bader. Art by Rick Burchett et al. The adventure continues in this follow-up to the four-time Emmy Award-winning Batman: The Animated Series. Batman and Robin must face some of Gotham's most iconic foes in this roller coaster adventure to save Gotham. Here are Two-Face, Poison Ivy, Catwoman, The Riddler, Ra's al Ghul, Harley Quinn and the Joker, all fighting on the other side. DC Comics, 2024. ...More. Item Code: BATRAH Hard Cover, 7x11, 904pg, Full Color |
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ALLEY OOP AND THE DRAGON OF SILENE 1963 V.T. Hamlin Highly Recommended. AAlley Oop must rescue the town of Silene from a rampaging dragon — and win the affections of the beautiful Princess! All in North Africa in the 3rd Century! Then he's off to King Arthur's time, and Alley's riding a horse and jousting and freeing prisoners from a castle. Watch Alley's rise from Cad to King as the irrepressible "Big Charley," as well as his hit making twist as "King Willie" on the radio! Plus it's jealousy time for Oola when a new girl turns up in Moo and finds Alley quite the guy. Acoustic Learning, 2024....More. Item Code: ALLE63 Soft Cover, 11x7, 158pg, b&w $27.50 |
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ALLEY OOP THE ART INVASION 1993 Dave Graue Recommended. Alley's beloved homeland of Moo has been occupied by the warriors of Lem! Nothing can oppose their might... except one clever artist with an unexpected plan! And if that weren't enough, the children of Moo are being kidnapped by Ontok, king of the Longtails! And Oscar Boom time-travels into Moo to find Alley and Oola. Acoustic Learning, 2024....More. Item Code: ALLE93 Soft Cover, 9x8, 106pg, b&w $19.99 |
| Catch up on Alley Oop collections here. |
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THE LOST ART OF KREIGH COLLINS Volume 1 The Complete Mitzi McCoy Our Highest Recommendation. Introduction by Frank M. Young. Afterword by Ed Catto. Pin-up girls, ventriloquists, counterfeiters, arson...the beautiful Mitzi is always in the heart of the action. She's a pilot, and starts her adventures crashing her plane in the Canadian wilderness. The superbly drawn strip lasted for 99 Sundays, and then morphed into Kevin the Bold, set in the same world as Prince Valiant, which ran for nearly two decades! The first eleven weeks of Kevin are also here! Today Collins' work is deeply admired by the few people who know it. Picture This Press, 2018....More. Item Code: LOSK01 Soft Cover, 11x8, 148pg, Partial Color $27.95 |
| Coming next by Kreigh (pronounced KREE) Collins will be several volumes of the long-running Kevin the Bold. This historical adventure is often compared to Prince Valiant, and that’s quite appropriate. Or a cross between Val and Terry and the Pirates? I just picked up several years of these in the original Sunday pages and they are just grand. I’m so pleased these will be finally collected. Stay tuned! |
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PHANTOM THE COMPLETE NEWSPAPER DAILIES Volume 32 1986-1987 By Lee Falk. Art by Sy Barry. Four complete continuities drawn by Sy Barry continue the adventures of The Phantom, Diana, and his two children: "Tarashima Terrorists," "The Snake Goddess," "Zabadabah," and "Ruler of Baronkhan," where a young man set to inherit a kingdom is being targeted for murder by someone, and The Phantom is going to solve the mystery. Hermes, 2024....More. Item Code: PH32H Hard Cover, 12x9, 272pg, b&w $60.00 |
| Here’s previous volumes and more Phantom. |
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RICHARD THOMPSON The Incomplete Art of Why Things Are Highly Recommended. Foreword by Joel Achenbach. Before the incalculable capacity of the Internet to answer nearly any question put to it while allowing a legion of pedants to hold forth without constraint, getting the facts of the matter took some effort. Just before the end of those benighted times there was a Washington Post column entitled “Why Things Are” to which readers could pose everything from child-like queries to stoner hypotheticals in the hope of answers to life’s arcane conundrums. Picture This Press, 2017. ...More. Item Code: RICTHO Soft Cover, 8x8, 346pg, b&w $24.95 |
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ALSO AVAILABLE LOCAL FAUNA The Art of Peter de Sève Hurt Our Highest Recommendation. Peter de Sève’s work spans four decades and various media, from magazines, books, and television commercials to Broadway posters and character designs for animated feature films. He is perhaps best recognized for his many covers for The New Yorker magazine and his character designs for the blockbuster Ice Age franchise (Scrat is a veritable international celebrity). De Sève has also contributed to such films as Finding Nemo, Robots, The Little Prince, and The Grinch, to name only a few. He is currently busy at work on various animated projects in both the United States and Europe. Cernunnos, 2023....More. Item Code: LOCFHSR Hard Cover, 8x11, 288pg, Partial Color |
| We also have as-new copies of Local Fauna that come with a signed bookplate [LOCFHS. $40]. |
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ALSO AVAILABLE CALVIN AND HOBBES Portable Compendium Set Volume 2 Second of a 7-part series, strips 1987-1988. Our Highest Recommendation. 500 more great strips in a new portable format designed to introduce the timeless adventures of a boy and his stuffed tiger to a new generation of readers or allow readers to complete their collection of all ten years of Calvin. Calvin and Hobbes is one of the most popular comic strips of all time. The imaginative world of a boy and his real-only-to-him tiger first appeared in 1985 and was being read in more than 2,400 newspapers when Bill Watterson retired on January 1, 1996. Andrews McMeel, 2024....More. Item Code: CALV02 Soft Cover, 6x9, 288pg, Partial Color $21.99 |
| The of Calvin and Hobbes, Compendium 1 [CALV01. $19.99] is also available. |
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ALSO AVAILABLE MACANUDO Optimism is for the Brave Our Highest Recommendation. You have to check this out — some of the funniest strips since Calvin and Hobbes and Cul de Sac. Brilliant, wildly imaginative, funny! - Bud The second volume in Fantagraphics’ English-language collection of the internationally beloved newspaper strip. Elves, witches, forest monsters, unicorns, children, talking cats and penguins... plus zombies with fitbits, Stephen King’s Christine working as an Uber, and office politics? The bounds of a daily comic strip don’t restrict Macanudo‘s imagination or subjects.With the range of The Far Side, the whimsy of Mutts, and the heart of Calvin & Hobbes, artist Liniers brings his distinctive illustrative line and sensitive watercolors to whatever crosses his mind on a given day. Fantagraphics, 2023....More. Item Code: MACOH Hard Cover, 7x9, 176pg, Full Color |
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PIN-UP GIRLS GIL ELVGREN 2025 Calendar (Orange Circle) Recommended. The very best of Elvgren — these really are many of his finest and most seductive ladies. The best in vintage pin-up (and sometimes humor) from the heyday of the good girl calendars. Here are his superb paintings which have made him the #1 pin-up painter of modern times, even eclipsing Varga. All reproduced oversized and spreading across both calendar pages like a Playboy centerfold. Orange Circle, 2024....More. Item Code: PIG25 12x12, 24pg, Full Color $14.99 |
| Women of Myth and Magic 2025 is also already in stock [WOME25. $15.99]. Click here for past calendars at half price or as low as $3.99, including 2024 titles. And click here for book collections with Gil Elvgren, Vargas, and other pin-up masters. |
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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. |
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CARL BARKS COMIC & STORIES Original Art Edition MGM Volume 2 Edited by Kim Weston. This volume prints 13 complete large, four-tier Carl Barks stories in their original, full-size black-and-white format — one full page of art on each page of the book! These 13 stories of the combined Barney Bear & Benny Burro feature were originally published in Our Gang Comics #11-23, and another volume containing the rest of the stories from Our Gang Comics #24-36 is planned for next year, yielding Barks' Complete MGM art in 3 volumes! This second volume measures 18 inches wide and 26 inches tall and weighs in at about 8 pounds! Looking at these pages as printed in this book is like looking at the pages fresh from the master's drawing board! Kim Weston, 2024. Rush Service and International shipping would require an additional charge. Due: Aug. ...More. Item Code: CARBA02H Hard Cover, 18x26, 108pg, b&w $220.00 |
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ALSO AVAILABLE CARL BARKS COMICS & STORIES Original Art Edition From Dell's Our Gang Comics, 1943-47. Highly Recommended. Edited by Kim Weston. This volume collects nine complete Carl Barks stories in the full size they were originally drawn, in black and white, reproduced from high quality stats made by the original publisher, Dell Comics. There are 2 Happy Hound (Droopy) stories, 3 Benny Burro solo stories, and 4 stories of the combined Barney Bear and Benny Burro feature. These all appeared in Our Gang Comics. The earliest (1943-44) and lesser known stories here were done at the same time Barks was doing stories in Walt Disney's Comics & Stories #38-42 and "The Mummy's Ring" in Four Color #9. Kim Weston, 2023. Rush Service and International shipping would require an additional charge....More. Item Code: CARBAH Hard Cover, 14x20, 108pg, b&w $100.00 |
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In our Rare & Out of Print room we have 13 Carl Barks Library of Donald Duck Sets by Another Rainbow. These have yet to be processed, but email todd@budplant.com if you are interested. We have volumes 1-3, 4-5, and 7-9. Here’s more Carl Barks. |
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THE ART OF DREAMWORKS ANIMATION Celebrating 30 Years By Ramin Zahed and Jerry Beck. Brimming with rare concept art, preproduction designs, and character sketches, this comprehensive collection offers behind-the-scenes access to the DreamWorks archives. Insider anecdotes and perspectives from actors, directors, producers, and artists. Celebrates the studio’s enduring legacy of delivering fully immersive worlds, compelling characters, and great stories that inspire endless possibilities. Abrams, 2024....More. Item Code: ARTDWH Hard Cover, 14x12, 576pg, Partial Color $200.00 |
| Here is more from Dreamworks. |
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BERNIE WRIGHTSON ARTBOOK A Tribute Limted, 650. Recommended. Deluxe hardcover. Written remembrances and original artwork inspired by Bernie's work, from a variety of top comic industry and Hollywood talent, including 30 pieces from Bernie. Contributions from Mike Mignola, Bill Sienkiewicz, Thomas Jane, Tim Bradstreet, Jimmy Palmiotti, Joe Rubenstein, Yannick Paquette, Howard Chaykin, Dan Panosian, Mark Wheatley, Francesco Francavilla, Joe Jusko, Dan Brereton, Patrick Olliffe, Eric Powell, Kyle Hotz, Troy Nixey, Dave Johnson, Todd Stashwick, Ron Marz, Ale Garza, Allen Milgrom, Shannon Eric Denton, Tony Harris, Jason Miller, Jim Valentino, Brett Blevins, Steve Rude, Bob Almond, Kelley Jones, Jeff Johnson, and many more! Massive, 2024. Due: Sept....More. Item Code: BERNWAH Hard Cover, 224pg, Partial Color $45.00 |
| With a limitation of only 650 copies, I will be surprised if this lasts very long. Reserve your copy immediately. Click here for more from Bernie. |
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BATMAN & SUPERMAN WORLD'S FINEST The Silver Age Omnibus Volume 1 Collects Superman #76, 1952 and World's Finest #71-116, 1954- 61. Highly Recommended. By Edmond Hamilton, Jerry Coleman and Bill Finger. Art by Curt Swan and Dick Sprang. Foreword by Mark Waid. Afterword by Jim Amash. Witness Batman and Superman’s first encounter! They had been fighting crime separately for years, but it wasn’t until the historic Superman #76 in 1952 that Superman, the Man of Steel, finally teamed up with Batman himself. That story proved so popular that the two quickly became the main feature in World’s Finest Comics — and the greatest friendship in comics was born. All those first adventures together are gathered for the first time!! DC Comics, 2024. Due: Nov....More. Item Code: BATS01H Hard Cover, 7x11, 632pg, Full Color |
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We also have the original DC Batman World’s Finest Archives in stock, from 2002 and 2007, in Rare Books. [#1: RB978 and #2: RB5114. $75 each]. Now at 20% off, $60 each, until July 19th. Here’s more Omnibus volumes from the Golden Age and Silver Age with Batman, Superman, Supergirl, Wonder Woman, Legion, Green Lantern, JLA and The Teen Titans. |
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AMERICAN COMIC BOOK CHRONICLES 1945-1949 Highly Recommended. By Richard J. Arndt and Kurt F. Mitchell At long last, this 1945-49 volume covers the comic book industry during the aftermath of World War II, when scores of writers and artists returned from foreign battlefields to resume their careers. It was a period when readers began turning away from the escapist entertainment offered by super-heroes in favor of other genres, like the grittier, more brutal crime comics. It was a time when Joe Simon and Jack Kirby created Young Romance, inaugurating a golden age of romance comics. And it was during this five-year period that Timely and National Comics capitalized on the popularity of Westerns, that Bill Gaines plotted a new course for EC Comics in the wake of his father’s death, and that Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster first sued for the rights to Superman. TwoMorrows, 2024. Due: Nov....More. Item Code: ACB08H Hard Cover, 8x11, 288pg, Full Color |
| Still available are the 1970s on sale at $34.95, 1940-44 at $39.95, and the 1950s at $42.50. |
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DEATH OF WOLVERINE Omnibus Collects Wolverine #1-13, 2013-14; Wolverine #1-12, 2014 and much more. By Paul Cornell. Art by Alan Davis et al. Cover by Alex Ross. When Logan loses his healing factor, he must quickly adjust to a very different reality; All of a sudden, the unkillable mutant is all too mortal. And an army of villains and mercenaries is lining up to be the one who puts him in the ground! With a new protective suit, Wolverine joins with old allies including Kitty Pryde, Storm and Nick Fury on a hunt for a cure — but faced with only months to live, he must prepare himself for one final encounter with his greatest foe, Sabretooth.? Marvel, 2024. Due: Nov....More. Item Code: DEAWH Hard Cover, 7x10, 1232pg, Full Color |
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MARVEL MASTERWORKS UNCANNY X-MEN Volume 2 Collects X-Men #101-110, 1976-78. Here is where the X-Men phenom began, back in 1976, with the revival of the discontinued series. Chris Claremont and Dave Cockrum create the All-New and All-Different X-Men...! Jean Grey must emerge from the ashes as the Phoenix. The Juggernaut and Black Tom Cassidy drive Storm, Colossus and Wolverine to the edge. Magneto returns. It’s off to outer space to meet the Shi’ar and the Starjammers. Weapon Alpha's premiere. Marvel, 2024. Due: Nov....More. Item Code: MMUX02H Hard Cover, 7x10, 240pg, Full Color |
| Volume 1 is also available for pre-order. Due September. Here are more re-masterworks with Spidey and the FF. |
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CONAN THE BARBARIAN The Original Comics Omnibus Volume 3 Highly Recommended. By Roy Thomas and John Buscema. Conan joins the Crimson Company, consorts with Belit, pirate queen of the Black Coast to reave across Hyboria's high seas and into the dark depths of its jungles. There, Conan will earn his honored name — Amra — in one of the Cimmerian's greatest epics! Titan, 2024. Due: Nov....More. Item Code: CONOC03H Hard Cover, 7x10, 824pg, Full Color |
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CONAN THE BARBARIAN The Original Comics Omnibus Volume 4 Highly Recommended. Roy Thomas' decade-long original run on Conan the Barbarian ranks as one of the greatest in comic book history, and it was crucial in making Conan an icon known the world over! Roy and artistic collaborator John Buscema bring the saga of Bêlit and her quest for the crown of Asgulun to a conclusion. It's a tale that will forever change Conan's life — and the adventures that follow feature a more savage Conan, fiercer than ever and truly unbound! Plus: sequels to The Hour of the Dragon, an offbeat What If? tale that places Conan in the middle of modern-day New York City and a massive trove of original art, essays and behind-the-scenes material! Mature Readers. Titan, 2024. Due: Nov....More. Item Code: CONOC04H Hard Cover, 7x10, 880pg, Full Color |
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SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN The Original Comics Volume 3 Highly Recommended. Writer Roy Thomas and Conan artist supreme John Buscema are joined by a host of top-tier visual talents — Frank Brunner, Gene Colan, Sal Buscema, Ernie Chan and Carmine Infantino — to tell Conan's most savage tales. This volume's stories range from the young Cimmerian's exploits as a mercenary to his latter days as king of Aquilonia in the iconic "Scarlet Citadel." Anchoring it is Thomas and Buscema's 160-page adaptation of Conan the Buccaneer. Titan, 2024. Due: Nov....More. Item Code: SAVOC03H Hard Cover, 8x11, 912pg, Full Color |
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Once again, Cave Painting: The Art of Budd Root is back in stock. Co-published with Frank Cho, I believe we are just about the only source for this excellent collection. It’s made our annual bestsellers list for several years. [CAVPH. $30]. Click here for more Cavewoman, and here for our adult comics section. | 
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Goners – newly discounted Goners are books we have 3 copies or less of; they have either gone out of print, or are being discontinued. We often leave them at full price since they’ll very often sell out in short order. However, I’ve identified a goodly list, over 300 titles, that have been taking longer to clear out than they should. So I’ve lowered prices, from retail to 40% off, or 50% off, or even 60% or more off if they’ve already been discounted once. Here’s the entire list; act promptly, we may have just one or two copies left of most of these. We just want to clear them out to make way for new items. Code: NRP0724.
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July and August Sale Next week our July Sale list goes out. But you can get a jump on it, and also on the August Sale. Click JULSALE, AUGSALE and act now, supplies are limited. I’ve dropped prices on many PS Artbooks, many Omnibus volumes are now 50% off...
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EC News We’ve cataloged the complete Squa Tront set I mentioned, along with both issues of Kurtzman’s Trump. See them all here.
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Corben goes Out of Print Illustrator's Quarterly #42, the Corben feature issue, has gone out of print. We have 14 copies left as I write this. IQ doesn't always reprint regular issues, so we don't know if we'll see a new printing of this or not. [IQ42. $27.99].
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Toll Free No More With modern technology, very few people need or use Toll Free 800 numbers anymore. Since it is a cost to us and very few customers use it, we are dropping it. ~Bud
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