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35th Anniversary of Slaine by Simon Bisley. Corben’s new Den: Movovum; Star Wars Tales of the Jedi Omnibus; Garth Ennis’s Hitman Omnibus; Carl Barks from 1945; Dave Cockrum’s X-Men Artist Edition; Star Trek Oral History; Wild Adventures of The Spider; Lackadaisy Volume 2; Stoker’s Dracula by Roy Thomas and Dick Giordano. And LOTS of excellent new PS Artbooks releases. Our latest catalog just may be downloadable by the time you read this. Check the homepage often!
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SLAINE THE HORNED GOD Anniversary Edition |
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AVAILABLE IN SEPTEMBER SLAINE THE HORNED GOD ANNIVERSARY Deluxe Slipcased Newly restored oversized edition, 3-volume set. Celebrate the 35th anniversary of the sword and sorcery adventure that changed 2000 AD. A ground-breaking and industry-altering story. Written by the character's co-creators, Pat Mills and Simon Bisley, and featuring fully-painted art the likes of which had never before been seen in the pages of 2000 AD. "The Horned God" is the definitive Sláine storyline. Its appearance...marked a creative high-point...the work inspired artists for generations with its incredible painted scenes of epic battles evoking the work of Frank Frazetta." 2000 AD, 2024. Due: Sept....More. Item Code: SLAGOH Hard Cover, 208pg, Full Color $109.99 |
| This Deluxe slipcased volume should be here in September. Click here for more by Simon Bisley, including the original Book Four from 1998 [RB3396. $125]. |
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DEN Volume 2 Muvovum Highly Recommended. The latest in a new series of deluxe graphic novels collects Richard Corben’s classic graphic novels. Den and Kath’s bizarre journey in Neverwhere continues as they leave their floating island home for magical stones that can transport them back to Earth. Along the way, trouble arrives as the evil Queen seeks the stones for her own evil purposes, and Den’s friend is kidnapped and imprisoned in the horrific monster country known as Muvovum. Abundant nudity. Dark Horse, 2024. Mature Readers. ...More. Item Code: DEN02H Hard Cover, 8x11, 128pg, Partial Color |
| Here are the other Corben volumes in this new, deluxe series: Den Volume 1 and Murky World. And here is even more Corben. |
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STAR WARS Legends Tales of The Jedi Omnibus Collects Dawn of the Jedi - Force Storm #1-5 and Prisoner of Bogan #1-5 1992-2012 & much, much more! By John Ostrander et al. Art by Jan Duursema et al. Cover by Dave Dorman. The origin and early days of the Jedi! Thousands of years before A New Hope, before lightsabers and hyperspace, a group of beings on a distant planet strive to balance the mysterious Force — until a stranger arrives, and the doors to the galaxy are thrown open! Millennia later, in the wake of the Sith Empire’s reign, two Jedi legends emerge: Nomi Sunrider and Ulic Qel-Droma. Marvel, 2024. ...More. Item Code: SWTAJH Hard Cover, 7x11, 1328pg, Full Color |
| Click here for more Star Wars, from the art of the films to graphic novels and Al Williamson’s wonderful newspaper strips. |
| HITMAN By Garth Ennis and John McCrea Omnibus Volume 1 Collects Hitman #1-33, Annual #1, 1993-97 and much more, 1996-99. New Introduction and Foreword by Ennis and McCrae. Recommended. Surrounded by an odd assortment of friends and allies, the Hitman with a heart must deal with personal conflicts over honor and morals as he makes a living with a gun. But even with the telepathic ability to read his targets' minds, he still finds himself in well over his head when he runs into some of Gotham's most notorious citizens such as the Demon, the Joker, and the Batman himself. To make matters worse, a vindictive mob boss from his past puts a contract out on Tommy. With his friends caught in the crossfire, he must find a way to take out the hired assassin and exact retribution against the mafia head. Lots of Bonus features. This is HUGE. DC Comics, 2024. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge....More. Item Code: HIT01H Hard Cover, 7x11, 1136pg, Full Color |
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WALT DISNEY'S DONALD DUCK Mystery of the Swamp Collects Four Color #62 and WDC&S #53-68, 1945-46 & more. Our Highest Recommendation. Includes Barks's only Mickey Mouse mystery, "Mickey Mouse and Riddle of the Red Hat." Carl Barks's first foray into his signature series of adventures in "lost civilizations'' takes the Ducks deep into the Everglades, where they find themselves bedeviled by the enigmatic Gneezles, who have escaped detection from outsiders since the days of Ponce de León — and want to keep it that way. Then, the fun comes fast and furious as Donald invents a radar detector to track the nephews, the boys open their own detective agency, an ice-skating race, a water-skiing race, the nephews fall into the Grand Canyon (!), and Donald decides to build the largest kite in the world! Fantagraphics, 2024....More. Item Code: WD03H Hard Cover, 7x10, 240pg, Full Color |
| Here’s much more in this series and more by Carl Barks. |
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| GROWING UP IN ALPHABET CITY The Unexpected Letterform Art of Michael Doret Highly Recommended. In this vivid and humorous monograph-meets-memoir, Los Angeles-based lettering supremo Michael Doret (born 1946) shares his top-secret tricks for making mere words into iconic words-as-images for clients such as Disney, Pixar, Time, Kiss, the Knicks and more. With more than 700 images, Alphabet City traces Doret’s influences from 1950s Brooklyn to 2000s LA, showcasing his clever logo, signage and poster projects along the way. It also presents and preserves the pre-digital process of custom lettering — from initial pencil sketches to printer mechanicals to final art (plus some spurned client proposals for good measure!). Letterform Archive Books, 2023....More. Item Code: GROWH Hard Cover, 10x11, 328pg, Partial Color $60.00 |
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ARTISTS' MASTER SERIES Perspective and Depth Art by Mike Hernandez, Devin Elle Kurtz, Nathan Fowkes, Orenji, and Guweiz. No matter what medium you work in, this combination can be the driving force that elevates art from "good" to "world-class." This book takes these fundamentals and pushes them to an advanced level of understanding and application. To achieve this ambitious brief, a select few, hugely popular industry experts reveal how they plan and execute these techniques. 3dtotal Publishing, 2024....More. Item Code: ARTMPDH Hard Cover, 8x12, 304pg, Partial Color $50.00 |
| MARVEL'S AVENGERS The First 60 Years Recommended. Art by Jack Kirby, John Buscema, Wally Wood, George Perez,Carlos Pacheo, Jim Lee, Alex Ross, Mike Dedato, and a host of others. A celebration of the birth and the first 60 years of Marvel’s Avengers, featuring Captain America, Iron Man, the Hulk, Hawkeye, the Vision, Scarlet Witch, Black Panther, Quicksilver, and many more. Explore the history of the Marvel’s premiere super hero team, looking in-depth at their greatest battles, enemies, and unlikeliest allies. Lavishly illustrated with vintage covers and panels. Includes profiles of the the talented creators behind the team’s ongoing adventures. Titan, 2024....More. Item Code: MARAVH Hard Cover, 8x11, 128pg, Full Color $24.99 |
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STAR TREK THE ILLUSTRATED ORAL HISTORY The Original Cast Recommended. From the pages of the official Star Trek Magazine. This lavishly illustrated oral history of the Star Trek phenomenon covers the exploits of the original crew across three seasons of live action television, two seasons of animated adventures, and the six movies. Interview material with all seven regular cast members:William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig, and Nichelle Nichols. This volume also includes contributions from guest stars, writers, and directors. Titan, 2024....More. Item Code: STARIH Hard Cover, 8x11, 96pg, Partial Color $19.99 |
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DAVE COCKRUM'S X-MEN Artist's Edition The groundbreaking and bestselling X-Men artwork from the late 1970s by the stellar team of Chris Claremont and Dave Cockrum. More than 100 pages from Cockrum’s initial run, selections from his return to the series, and an amazing gallery of sketches and covers. See the Giant-Size X-Men #1 cover as the artist originally imagined it! IDW, 2024. Rush Service and International shipping would require an additional charge. ...More. Item Code: DAVXAEH Hard Cover, 12x17, 160pg, b&w $150.00 |
| Click for more Cockrum work. |
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LACKADAISY Volume 2 Highly Recommended. By Tracy Butler. Amazing, gorgeous animation-style art. The second collected edition of the cult classic Eisner Award-nominated webcomic continues the story of the titular Saint Louis, Missouri speakeasy. Gunplay, intrigue, and chaos are the name of the game, as the anthropomorphic cats of Lackadaisy struggle to keep it going under fire. Iron Circus Comics, 2024....More. Item Code: LACKA02 Hard Cover, 10x11, 178pg, Full Color $35.00 |
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ALSO AVAILABLE LACKADAISY Volume 1 Hardcover Highly Recommended. Deluxe Hardcover in Jacket. By Tracy J. Butler. The cult classic, Eisner Award-nominated webcomic, finally available in a handsome collected edition. It’s 1927 and Prohibition is in full effect in St. Louis, Missouri. Organized crime has risen to meet the relentless demand for illicit alcohol. Bootleggers, gangsters, and might-makes-right rule dominate the city’s underworld, fueled by the patrons of speakeasies like Lackadaisy. In the tradition of Blacksad, a delightful anthropomorphic world... The style of the comic is highly detailed, with elegantly attired cartoon characters that resemble styles from animated films of Walt Disney and Don Bluth. The earlier strips are sepia-toned, resembling aged photographs of the 1920s era, while more recent pages can be seen fully colored, often in shades of deep blue. Launched by Butler in July 2006, the comic updates on an irregular basis, with the most recent update published in 2020. Iron Circus Comics, 2024....More. Item Code: LACKA Hard Cover with Dust Jacket, 10x11, 100pg, Two Color $25.00 |
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STOKER'S DRACULA Recommended. This volume from master comics artisans Roy Thomas and Dick Giordano spans more than three decades of work, starting in Marvel’s Dracula Lives! magazine in 1974 and concluding in Stoker’s Dracula in 2005. Thomas and Giordano’s adaptation is presented here in color, brilliantly rendered by June Chung. Experience the greatest comics adaptation of one of literature’s greatest works! Marvel, 2024....More. Item Code: STOKDR Soft Cover, 7x10, 192pg, Full Color |
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GEORGE SAND True Genius, True Woman Recommended. By Séverine Vidal. Art by Kim Consigny. A scrupulously researched and tenderly revealing biography of one of the great pioneering figures of 19th-century French literature. Born in 1804, at a time when women were deprived of their civil rights (along with minors, criminals, and the insane), Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin grew up to defy those norms, both in her life and her writing. Adopting the gender-neutral pen name George Sand, and with a career lasting over forty years as a novelist and playwright, she is best remembered today for the affairs and friendships she enjoyed with men: the composer Chopin; the painter Delacroix; the novelist Balzac. Abrams, 2024....More. Item Code: GEOSA Soft Cover, 7x9, 344pg, b&w $22.99 |
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KATE CAREW America's First Great Woman Cartoonist By Eddie Campbell. Kate Carew was America’s first great woman cartoonist, drawing for newspapers in the first two decades of the 20th century. Her most endearing achievement was her cartoon alter ego “Aunt Kate,” whom she sketched into the proceedings, turning graphic reportage into her personal adventure from San Francisco and New York to London and Paris. She drew Sunday color comics alongside George Herriman, but it was in the idiom of freestanding caricature that she made her mark. She interviewed and sketched many of the famous celebrities of her time including the Wright brothers, who built and flew the world’s first successful airplane; Marconi, who invented wireless radio; Picasso, the most famous painter of the 20th century; the world champion African American heavyweight boxer Jack Johnson; and the leading figures of the suffragette movement in the years before women won the right to vote in the UK (1918) and the US (1920). Fantagraphics, 2024....More. Item Code: KATC Soft Cover, 9x11, 160pg, 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. |
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THE WILD ADVENTURES OF THE SPIDER The Hangman from Hell Recommended. By Will Murray. Cover by Joe DeVito. Back cover by Gary Carbon. All new novel with a rare pulp crossover. When Richard Wentworth discovers a foreign plot to assassinate James Christopher, alias Operator 5, he is rebuffed by the young Intelligence agent and ordered to stay out of official business. Can these two heroes who fight on opposite sides of the law learn to join forces and stave off a planned invasion of the United States of America? Independent, 2024....More. Item Code: WILSHH Hard Cover, 6x9, 300pg, Text/b&w $65.00 |
| Here’s more pulp in the Wild Adventure series by Will Murray. |
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PIRATE TALES Recommended. From Taschen Books! This sweeping anthology recalls the exploits of Long John Silver, Henry Morgan, and others inspired by piracy’s Golden Age. Retelling literary classics, from Robinson Crusoe to The Mysterious Island, alongside captivating illustrations from artists such as Howard Pyle, Frank Schoonover and loads and loads of N. C. Wyeth, this compilation is a visual delight and a pleasure to read. Scene-setting vignettes for each story by the artist Michael Custode were additionally commissioned especially for this volume. Taschen, 2024....More. Item Code: PIRATH Hard Cover, 9x10, 392pg, Partial Color $40.00 |
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AMAZING MAN Volume 1 Hardcover Collects the A-Man stories from #5-18, 1939-41. Highly Recommended. By Bill Everett, Louis and Sam Glanzman. Amazing Man was the second superhero after Superman to have a comic book named after him. The title has become one of the most coveted from obscure publisher Centaur. This collects his lead stories from 14 issues of his 24-issue run. PS Artbooks, 2024. ...More. |
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CLASSIC SCI-FI COMICS Volume 7 Wolverton Hardcover Collects stories from Keen Detective Funnies #18-24 and Target #5-16, 1939-41 & more. Our Highest Recommendation. Collects Wolverton's very earliest and finest work, including the ultra-rare Space Patrol stories from Amazing Mystery Funnies (Centaur, 1939-40) and the legendary Spacehawk from Target Comics (Novelty, 1940-41). Plus the pre-code horror Weird Tales of the Future (1952). Harvey Kurtzman felt "Wolverton never borrowed, never hacked, and he never shortchanged the public — Wolverton was an original." In 1991 Wolverton was posthumously inducted in the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame and in 2000 in the Will Eisner Hall of Fame. PS Artbooks, 2024....More. |
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THE CRIME MACHINE MAGAZINE #1 Facsimile Edition Collects #1, 1972, 68 pages. A 1971 reboot of pre-code Crime Comics from exploitation publisher Skywald. Two tales by Joe Kubert: "Marion Gilmore, Queen of the Waterfront Gangs!" and "Walter Legenza and the Tri-State Gang." Two more from by Gerald McCann: "Brothers in Crime" and "George Krowl and the Big City Murder Mob." Plus, "Baby Face Nelson" by Wally Wood and "Toots Garboli and his Fight Racketeers!" from Syd Shores. PS Artbooks, 2024....More. Item Code: CRIMA01 Comic, 7x10, 68pg, Full Color $22.99 |
| Here are more facsimile comics and replicas from PS. Many older titles are now on sale. |
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BAFFLING MYSTERIES Volume 1 Collects #5-9, 1951-52, (this began with #5). From Mike Sekowsky, Maurice Gutwirth, George Appel, Gene Colan, Jim McLaughlin, Ace Baker, Lou Cameron, Bill Molno, Chic Stone, and Ken Rice and all of 'em from the fifties comes this collection of "Baffling Mysteries." PS Artbooks, 2024....More. Item Code: BAFF01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color $32.99 |
| The hardcover edition of this was published in 2019. We can special order it for you but we don't have any in stock; in fact, Volumes 1-4 in hardcover can all be special ordered. Allow at least eight weeks for delivery, these come from England [PCBM01H, etc. $44.99 ea]. |
| DARK MYSTERIES Volume 1 Collects #1-5, 1951-62. Highly Recommended. How can you go wrong when the first comic kicks off with an eight-pager from Wally Wood ("The Curse of the Sea Witch")? And that's only for starters; there are also tales from Joe Orlando, Lou Cameron, Ed Goldfarb, Bill Fraccio, Bill Molno, Vince Napoli, Pierce Rice, Ernie Bache, Harry Harrison, Hy Fleishman and Doug Wildey. PS Artbooks, 2024....More. Item Code: DAR01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color $32.99 |
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| The hardcover edition of this was published in 2018. We can special order it for you but we don't have any in stock [ PCD01H. $49.99]. Volume 2 in hardcover is on sale right now [ PCD02H. |
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BLACKHAWK Volume 12 Collects #60-64, 1953. Highly Recommended. Reed Crandall! Giant Tanks! Flying Submarines! Commies in hoods! It was the cold war, but the Blackhawks never lacked for cruel dictators, world conquerors, corrupt femme fatales...Every issue was packed with the team's latest white knuckle adventures. PS Artbooks, 2024. ...More. Item Code: BLAC12 Soft Cover, 7x10, 180pg, Full Color $32.99 |
| No hardcovers in this series. All previous issues are in stock and selling briskly for us. All are the same $32.99 price [BLAC01, etc]. Blackhawk is also collected in Military Comics, whose #1 features his origin and the first stories, before he earned his own title in 1946. |
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BULLETMAN Volume 3 Collects #7-9, 3 64-page issues from 1942. Recommended. Bulletman and Bulletgirl are back in this third installment of Bulletman! Continue the story of Jim Barr and Susan Kent in these Golden Age classics by Jack Binder, Dave (Mad Magazine) Berg, Ken Bald and one of the finest writers in comics, Otto Binder. Stories of Nazi menaces, war profiteers, even horror creatures as shown on this book's cover. Includes cool ads for other titles including Captain Marvel and Spy Smasher. PS Artbooks, 2024....More. Item Code: BULL03 Soft Cover, 7x10, 204pg, Full Color $32.99 |
| Also no hardcover planned. Volumes 1 and 2 also collect three 64-68 page issues each, from prime wartime years. Both feature artwork and covers by Mac Raboy, beginning in 1941. |
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Collector Supplies Price Increases Our supplier has informed us of immediate price increases on plastic bags, backing boards and mylar, pretty much across the board. Ironically, just last week I was drawing your attention to our full line of supplies. So…we are maintaining our old prices until midnite on Thursday, August 22nd. After that, prices will be going up on most things from $1 and $2 to as much as $5 on larger, heavier bags and boards. So this is your opportunity to stock up and save right now.
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3…2…1…Gone! We did a special mailing devoted to just our Almost Gone titles, which we have three copies or less on. I just went through the entire list and I lowered prices on over 300 of these. See the special mailing here. And a reminder, if you click on an item and it does NOT link to our website, then it is SOLD OUT. Act now for the best selection. |
Heavy Metal & Classics Illustrated Back issues of Heavy Metal are mostly half price right now, while they last. We also still have many hardcover Classics Illustrated reduced from $12 to $4.95 but they will not be restocked. |
Bud Plant and Hutchison Books Our sister company, complete with its own website, just released three new catalogs. Anne lists much of the same kinds of material we offer here in Rare Books, but right now she’s busy listing a lot of special items from the Bob Foster collection: signed art books and comic sets, books and magazines with sketches, and lots more comics-related material. https://www.budplantandhutchisonbooks.com/. |
Upcoming Shows This Saturday we will be back exhibiting at the Berkeley Vintage Comics Show. But at the last minute, the venue has moved about five blocks from the usual location, and it will now be there for the future: West Campus Gymnasium, 1222 University. Starting in October, a new quarterly vintage comics show is kicking off in Folsom, California. We’ll be there starting October 20. More details soon. In October we’ll also be at OAF-Con and at the Seattle Int’l Antiquarian Book Fair. ~Bud |
Our Catalog and Contact Info We publish a color catalog every two months—if you’ve placed an order in the last 12 months, you will receive it hot off the press. If this is your first order, or if you’d like an extra copy, you can add one to your order: click here. Or call or send us your address and we’ll mail one to you. You can also download it here. Place your order before noon PST, Monday through Friday for SAME DAY shipping (for in-stock items). Note: FREE SHIPPING OVER $300. If your order total is $300 or more and you are in the U.S., we pay the standard shipping cost. Contact us: csr@budsartbooks.com or 530-273-2166 Mon-Fri 9-4 |
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