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THE ART OF TYLER JACOBSON Highly Recommended. Explore every aspect of this quintessential artist's career, a fantasy illustrator who embraces classic illustration — think John Howe, Brom, James Gurney and Michael Whelan. He's clearly in the same class, even though he's a name new to us. This treasure trove covers works created during Tyler's youth, college thesis work, and magnificent pieces done for clients including Wizards of the Coast, Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Rolling Stone Magazine, Toyota, Men's Journal, Tor Books, Scientific American, Entertainment Weekly, The New Yorker and Sports Illustrated!! Flesk, 2022. Due to weight or size, Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge. ...More. Item Code: ARTTJH Hard Cover, 12x12, 160pg, Full Color |
| Also available signed in a slipcase [ARTTJD. |
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GEORGE GROSS COVERED Hardcover Bonus 18 pages exclusive to this edition. Recommended. George Gross is one of the best known of the pulp cover artists — here we are introduced to his men's adventure magazine covers and art of the '50s and '60s, and paperback covers from the '40s through the '80s. He was a mentor and friend to iconic illustrator Mort Künstler. Gross's artwork helped establish a visual vocabulary for action/adventure and hard-boiled fiction. His imagery continues to inspire and influence, from action paperbacks to the Pulp Fiction movie poster. New Texture, 2022....More. Item Code: GEOGCH Hard Cover, 9x11, 140pg, Full Color |
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VSI WATABOKU ART BOOK Recommended. Artworks by wataboku, the digital artist who continues attracting attention both in Japan and worldwide, with the artist’s illustrations of beautiful, yet somewhat shadowy, shojo girls, rendered with a watercolor touch. This book comprehensively covers wataboku’s work, from works presented at solo exhibitions around the world to more recent works. This book offers a complete archive that condenses five years of evolution since wataboku’s first art book was released. Includes two fold-outs and a inserted postcard sized print. PIE International, 2023. ...More. Item Code: VSIWAT Soft Cover, 8x10, 176pg, Full Color |
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THE ART OF FEEFAL By Linnea Kikuchi. Her spooky-cute style has been a constant throughout her career, amassing legions of dedicated Instagram followers who not only adore her art, but are always keen to know the stories and inspiration behind it. For the first time, Feefal shares the early influences that put her on the path to becoming the professional character designer she is today, including those of her Swedish-Japanese upbringing. In doing so, the ideas behind paintings such as Lamp Shade Lady, Understanding the Hahahaki Disease (a fictional ailment caused by unrequited love) and Momento Mori are explained. Galleries of paintings intertwined with step-by-step tutorials and insights into her creative process. 3dtotal Publishing, 2022. ...More. Item Code: ARTFEH Hard Cover, 9x11, 152pg, Full Color |
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BARREN LANDS BY BRYNN METHENEY Signed Signed! Barren Lands is a humble love letter to the desert, where the author and artist Brynn Metheney was born and raised. She shines light — and wonder — on those deserts, which continue to inspire and surprise her. They include encounters that hinge on disbelief, passed down to her by family members and reclusive locals, about creatures unknown to the public. This is a marvelous look at hidden wonders that only a desert rat with a long history in the region could share. Her words and pictures are secret revelations that blur the lines between fantasy and reality and are sure to entertain anyone with a curious mind. Flesk, 2023....More. Item Code: BARRD Hard Cover, 9x12, 112pg, Full Color |
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THE LIBRARY OF ESOTERICA Astrology 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 |
| Other Esoterica books available include Tarot, Sacred Sites and Plant Magick. |
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KYOSAI The Israel Goldman Collection Recommended. By Koto Sadamura. The Japanese artist Kawanabe Kyosai (1831”“89) saw Japan transform itself from a feudal country into a modern state. The turbulent times in which he lived are reflected in his riotous images, in which skeletons, demons and ghosts rub shoulders with classically rendered ukiyo-e courtesans. Among his most charming and inventive works are his brilliant depictions of animals — crows, frogs and elephants, among many others — which often stand in for political figures of the day. Royal Academy of Arts, 2022....More. Item Code: KYOSIH Hard Cover, 10x12, 192pg, Partial Color |
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THE ART OF ARIEL OLIVETTI Hardcover Highly Recommended. The best artwork from a stunning career in comics in an all-new art book. The first release from imprint Alien Books, from Fairsquare Comics. Ariel Olivetti has worked with American publishers such as Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Dark Horse, BOOM Studios, and more for over 25 years. Olivetti has drawn Batman, Superman, Spider-Man, Venom, Cable, Space Ghost, and others, and here is his best, curated by Olivetti himself, who selected all the sketches, covers and pages, with never-before-seen material and commentaries. Fairsquare Comics, 2023....More. Item Code: ARTAOH Hard Cover, 8x11, Partial Color |
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ARTHUR RACKHAM A Biography Warehouse find, 1990. By James Hamilton. This biography of the artist who illustrated Alice in Wonderland, The Wind in the Willows, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, and dozens of other classic works reviews his personal and professional life, and illuminates his talents as a portrait and landscape painter. Arcade, 1990....More. Item Code: ARTRAH Hard Cover, 9x12, 200pg, Text/Partial Color |
| Arthur Rackham His Life & Work is also available [ARHIS. $34.95]. |
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HISTORY OF PRESS GRAPHICS 1819-1921 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 |
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KWAIDAN & SHADOWINGS Illuminated Edition 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 |
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HENRY HOLIDAY His Stained Glass Windows for Gilded Age New York 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 |
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INTERNATIONAL REALISM 16th International ARC Salon Recommended. Edited by Kara Lysandra Ross and Frederick C. Ross. The latest installment of the International ARC Salon Competition. Over a thousand artworks from the forefront of the 21st Century Realist Art Movement. Winners and finalists in a range of categories: Figurative, Portraiture, Imaginative Realism, Landscape, Animals, Sculpture, Drawing, Still Life, Plein Air. ACC Art Books, 2023....More. Item Code: INTRH Hard Cover, 8x11, 512pg, Full Color |
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THE LOOK AND LEARN PICTORIAL MUSEUM Recommended. The Look and Learn picture library (found online) is one of the world's largest and most diverse collections of illustrations. Its images are regularly used in TV documentaries, films, books and magazines, and for marketing and advertising, museum display, greeting cards, clothing design and merchandise. This explains briefly how the picture library came into being. But the book's purpose is to showcase 5,000 illustrations, chosen from over 500,000. 448 pages of color illustrations, eight to 12 per page. Book Palace, 2022....More. Item Code: LOOKLH Hard Cover, 8x12, 464pg, Partial Color |
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SPIDER-MAN 2099 Omnibus Volume 1 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. Due to weight or size, Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge. ...More. Item Code: SPIOMH Hard Cover, 7x11, 1384pg, Full Color |
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WONDER WOMAN BY BRIAN AZZARELLO & CLIFF CHIANG Omnibus 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 |
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AMERICAN VAMPIRE Omnibus Volume 1 Collects American Vampire #1-27, Survival of the Fittest #1-6, and Lord of Nightmares #1-5, 2010-2012. Art by Rafael Albuquerque. Chronicling the history of a new breed of vampire by Scott Snyder and Stephen King! A fresh look at an old monster — a generational epic showcasing the bloodlust that lay hidden beneath America's most distinctive eras. Cunning, ruthless, and rattlesnake mean, Skinner Sweet is a thoroughly corrupt gunslinger. When European vampires come to the American Old West, they turn Skinner into the very first American vampire. But Skinner becomes something entirely new — a stronger breed of vampire immune to sunlight, who hates every last one of his aristocratic European ancestors. DC Comics, 2022....More. Item Code: AMV01H Hard Cover, 7x11, 984pg, Full Color |
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SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN Omnibus Volume 1 Collects Amazing Spider-Man #698-700 and Superior Spider-Man #1-31, 2013-14. By Dan Slott, DeMatteis, Jen Van Meter et al. Art by Richard Elson, Humberto Ramos, Phil Noto et al. When a dying Doctor Octopus swaps his mind into Peter Parker’s body, he sentences his accursed enemy to oblivion — and sets out to prove that he is the smarter, stronger...Superior Spider-Man! Upgrading Spidey’s costume and arsenal, Doc Oct works wonders for “Peter’s” scientific career — but his much more violent approach to crime fighting doesn’t sit well with the Avengers! The ruthless new Spider-Man battles — and brutalizes — his way through Peter’s rogues’ gallery, including the Hobgoblin, the Black Cat and the Sinister Six. Marvel, 2023....More. Item Code: SUPS01H Hard Cover, 7x11, 960pg, Full Color |
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BLADE The Early Years Omnibus Collects Tomb Of Dracula #10, 12-14, 24, 30, 41-43, 45, 51, 53 & 58 and 23 other issues and titles, 1973-77. By Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan et al. For the first time, Blade’s complete early adventures, from his influential role in Tomb of Dracula to his 1970s solo stories and on into his 1983-84 battle against Dracula with Doctor Strange, and a new era of vampire hunting dawns in 1991. Blade hit the comics scene in the 1970s when horror movies were all the rage and Black cinema was introducing bold new action heroes that defied authority. He immediately changed the stakes for Tomb of Dracula, bringing a sense of unstoppable determination as he pursued Deacon Frost, the vampire that killed his mother. And if a few other vampires died along the way, all the better. Marvel, 2023....More. Item Code: BLAEYH Hard Cover, 7x11, 720pg, Full Color |
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CAPTAIN MARVEL BY KELLY THOMPSON Omnibus Volume 1 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 |
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KARL THE VIKING Volume 1 The Sword of Eingar Recommended. By Ted Cowan. Art by Don Lawrence. Originally serialized in Lion, Karl the Viking is a sweeping historical fantasy story of an orphaned Saxon boy, adopted and raised by the Viking Eingar after his raid on Britain. Upon coming of age Karl succeeds Eingar and leads his tribe into battle in Britain against wild tribes of Picts, and re-connects with his old Saxon family, gaining an ally in his cousin Godwulf, and making an enemy of the Earl of Eastumbria. Fast-paced stories beautifully drawn by Don Lawrence shortly before he revolutionized painted comic art with The Trigan Empire. 2000 AD, 2022....More. Item Code: KAR01 Soft Cover, 8x11, 240pg, b&w |
| Volume 2 The Voyage of the Sea Raiders is also on sale [KAR02. |
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MARVEL MASTERWORKS UNCANNY X-MEN Volume 15 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 |
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MARVEL MASTERWORKS THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN Volume 6 Collecting Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man (1976) #67-79. Art by Al Milgrom et al. Spectacular Spider-Man, the alternate title to Amazing, hits high gear as Bill Mantlo crafts a compelling interwoven series of adventures in his second tenure. Pairing Spidey with the Black Cat as partner and love interest, Mantlo fused the crime drama of the Kingpin with larger-than-life villains like Doctor Octopus. Boomerang is back, Cloak and Dagger wage war on drugs, gangster Silvermane clings to life in a new cyborg body. Then, when Doctor Octopus and the Owl vie to take over New York’s criminal underworld, total war breaks out in the city. Marvel, 2022....More. Item Code: MMSS06H Hard Cover, 7x10, 336pg, Full Color |
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THE BEST OF JOHN BUSCEMA'S ROY ROGERS COMICS Collects John's work from Roy Rogers (Dell) #76-77, 79, 80-81, 85-86, 88; 1954-55. Recommended. By Gaylord DuBois. Exclusively featuring the art of comic great John Buscema, early in his career. 272 pages of action-packed Roy Rogers King of the Cowboys comics, specially selected by Roy's son, Dusty. Six page introduction by L. Allbert with original art reproduced. Well-written stories mostly by Dell's best writer, Gaylord DuBois. Hermes, 2023....More. Item Code: BESRRJH Hard Cover, 8x10, 272pg, Full Color |
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THE PHANTOM The Complete DC Comic Years Volume 2 Second of three volumes. Collects #3-8, 1989. Collecting the action-packed stories of DC Comics' The Phantom, with scripts by Mark Verheiden and pencils and inks by Luke McDonnell; includes introductory essay on Verheiden, a 14-page interview with McDonnell, packed with examples of his Marvel and DC art. Hermes Press, 2022....More. Item Code: PHDC02H Hard Cover, 8x11, 224pg, Full Color |
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THOR EPIC COLLECTION Volume 8 War of the Gods Collects Thor #242-259; Annual #5 and Marvel Spotlight #3, 1975-77. Art by John Buscema and Tony DeZuniga. Cover by Jack Kirby. Writer Len Wein rallies the armies of Asgard, with superb artwork by the master Buscema. When the Time-Twisters seek to destroy Earth, Thor embarks on an adventure with Zarrko the Tomorrow Man. It's a battle through time (with dinosaurs)! Then, Thor fights the Firelord in the jungles of Latin America, and only Jane Foster can save him! The Warriors Three ramble off on a solo adventure, while Thor returns to Asgard to face the one and only Mangog! Marvel, 2023....More. Item Code: THE08 Soft Cover, 7x10, 448pg, Full Color |
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THE WALT DISNEY FILM ARCHIVES The Animated Movies 1921-1968 Highly Recommended. New bargain-priced edition. Edited by Daniel Kothenschulte. Taschen’s first volume of one of the most expansive illustrated publications on Disney animation. 1,500 images take us to the beating heart of the studio’s “Golden Age of Animation.” This landmark volume includes behind-the-scenes photos, story sketches, and cel setups of famous film scenes. It spans each of the major animated features made during Walt’s lifetime, as well as lesser-known short films, episodic musical films, and unfinished projects. Taschen, 2022. Rush Service and International shipping would require an additional charge. ...More. Item Code: WALDFAH Hard Cover, 16x12, 620pg, Partial Color |
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WALT DISNEY UNCLE SCROOGE & DONALD DUCK Bear Mountain Tales 15 complete stories, 1947 to 2017. Highly Recommended. Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the iconic character created by Carl Barks, Scrooge and Donald return to the site of their first meeting! In 1947, Carl Barks's comics story "Christmas on Bear Mountain" didn't just introduce the Scrooge McDuck character — it took Donald, Huey, Dewey, and Louie to Scrooge's Bear Mountain cabin, where beastly bruins made for holiday havoc! In keeping with that memorable debut, Bear Mountain has been the site of countless Duckburg sagas since. This special edition collects Daniel Branca's "Return to Bear Mountain," in which Scrooge engages in a gambit with nasty gnomes; Don Rosa's "The Richest Duck in the World," which features Donald's first visit to the fabled Money Bin; and a crash course with Launchpad McQuack in "New Year's Daze." An unforgettable batch of birthday stories and winter adventures is here! Fantagraphics, 2022....More. Item Code: WDBMH Hard Cover, 8x10, 260pg, Full Color |
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CLASSIC ADVENTURE COMICS Volume 4 Hardcover Collects Voyage to the Deep #1-5, Dell, 1962-64, and Escape from Devil's Island #1, Avon, 1952. Recommended. Art by Sam Glanzman, Everett Raymond Kinstler et al. In Voyage to the Deep, the submarine Proteus has just finished its shakedown run and heads out to explore the Mariana trench; When they reach the trench they not only have to deal with giant sea creatures but an act of terrorism that threatens the entire world. Escape from Devils Island is a pre-code tale focusing on life inside the notorious French penal colony known as Devil's Island. Set up and framed for murder and robbery, Pierre Gavril is sentenced to twenty years of torture, hard labor and isolation on Devils Island — and escape is said to be suicide. PS Artbooks, 2021....More. Item Code: PCAD04H Hard Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color |
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FORBIDDEN WORLDS Volume 17 Collects #101-106, 1962. Highly Recommended. By Richard Hughes. The ACG crew keep producing ever more wild stories of fantasy, sci fi and the supernatural. Artists include Ogden Whitney, Al Wenzel, Emil Gershwin, Pete Costanza, John Rosenberger, Chic Stone, Ruben Moreira, Joe Sinnott, and Harry Lazarus. PS Artbooks, 2021....More. Item Code: FOR17 Soft Cover, 7x10, 256pg, Full Color |
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PRE-CODE CLASSICS THIS MAGAZINE IS HAUNTED Volume 4 Collects #12-16, July 1957 to May 1958. Highly Recommended. By Steve Ditko et al. Another volume, this time from Charlton, who took over this title from Fawcett and brought in Steve Ditko, who contributes as many as two or even three stories to each issue here! And it's amazing work, featuring our host Dr. Haunt. More stuff in the great tradition of the likes of EC Comics and the PS multiple-volume library of Harvey's horror line-up, featuring a dizzying bevy of gnarled and twisted tales. PS Artbooks, 2016. Out of print....More. Item Code: PCTM04H Hard Cover, 7x10, 252pg, Full Color |
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VOODOO Volume 3 Collects #15-19, 1954-55. By Matt Baker, Robert Webb & the Iger Shop. Some wild stuff here. #15 has an opium story; #16 a post-nuclear holocaust world; #17 electric chair tale, #19 has a bondage cover and it reprints two Matt Baker stories from the rare Seven Seas #1 and 5. Don't try to outsmart fate — you might lose your head! Be extra careful of that woman on the road — she may be a murderous vampire! Watch out for that axe-wielding old crone. And don't volunteer to take part in any medical experiments! PS Artbooks, 2022....More. Item Code: PCV03 Soft Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color |
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STRANGE WORLDS Volume 2 Collects #6-9, 1952 and #18, 1954. Highly Recommended. Digitally enhanced and faithfully reproduced, this is a bombshell of a volume, five full issues of Strange World, Avon’s answer to EC’s Weird Science and Weird Fantasy. Fun, fun stories of aliens, robots, space battle, beautiful space girls, the whole kitchen sink of early 1950s sci-fi. Joe Orlando, Wally Wood, Everett Raymond Kinstler, Norman Nodel, Sid Check, Mort Lawrence, Gene Fawcette, Mike Becker, Harry Lazarus, Joe Kubert, and Al Hollingsworth. Five different covers randomly filled. PS Artbooks, 2021....More. Item Code: STW02 Soft Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color |
| Also available in hardcover via special order [STW02H. $48]. Click here for volume 1. |
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CAPTAIN VIDEO Volume 1 Slipcased Limited, 125! Highly Recommended. Captain Video was one of the very first science fiction programs in the early days of television...a long, successful run from 1949 to 1955. It was so hot, Fawcett, the publisher of Captain Marvel, jumped in and put their best talent on an excellent comics series, each featuring a photo cover from the TV show, with outstanding artwork by top EC artist George Evans. Today these are very tough comics to find and expensive when you do; great early space opera! Here is the complete run, six full issues which featured long, satisfying stories, from 12 to a full-issue 21-pages! PS Artbooks, 2013. Out of Print. ...More. Item Code: CAPV01D Hard Cover, 7x10, 288pg, Full Color |
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ADVENTURES INTO THE UNKNOWN Volume 3 Slipcased Limited, 300! Collects #11-15, 1950-51. Recommended. Foreword by Paul Di Filippo. Here is "The Living Ghost," "Double Doom," "The Face in the Moonstone," "Menace from Mars," "The Lost Soul," "The Bride of Anubis," "Kill, Puppets, Kill," "The Affair of Room 1313," and the ongoing "True Ghosts of History" feature—with contributions from Golden Age greats Fred Guardineer, Al Feldstein, Leonard Starr, Edvard Moritz, Ogden Whitney, Ken Bald, Howard Larsen, Al Camy, Charles Sultan, Lin Streeter, and others, including 1950s Tarzan newspaper artist John Celardo! PS Artbooks, 2012. Out of Print....More. Item Code: ADU03D Hard Cover, 7x10, 288pg, Full Color |
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BLUE BOLT WEIRD TALES OF TERROR #110 Facsimile Edition & Print From 1951. With matted oversize print of the cover. Recommended. Another wonderful all-new cover by L.B. Cole. Spacehawk by Basil Wolverton, Blue Bolt (created by Simon & Kirby, here drawn by Alan Mandel) and The Phantom Sub, all from 1942. Superhero Target and the Targeteers from 1946 by Ken Battefield. PS Artbooks’ new facsimile comic range have been faithfully produced with all scans reworked to bring them back as close as possible to the originals. PS Artbooks, 2022....More. Item Code: BB110 Comic, 7x10, 36pg, Full Color |
| Issues 112, 116, 118 & 119 are also on sale for $16.99. [BB112, 116 ect.] |
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GREEN LAMA #3 Facsimile Edition 1945. Highly Recommended. By Mac Raboy, Jerry Robinson, George Roussos, Mort Lawrence et al. Mac Raboy's beautifully drawn Green Lama series, from tiny publisher Spark, features the adventures of Jethro Dumont, the mystical hero with Eastern-inspired powers. He tackles villains and supernatural challenges, all while balancing his dual life as a man of peace and a crime-fighting superhero. PS Artbooks, 2023....More. Item Code: GREL03 Comic, 7x10, 52pg, Full Color |
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PSYCHO MAGAZINE #2 Replica Edition March 1971. From sleaze publisher Skywald, another black-and-white magazine full of horror and suspense. A muck monster and inside The Heap returns in a new incarnation from Chuck McNaughton and Ross Andru! Also featured are the creative talents of Jack Katz, Tom Palmer, Stephen Hickman, Tom Sutton, Chic Stone, and Serg Moren. And all reproduced here completely like the original comic magazine, ads and all. PS Artbooks, 2022. ...More. Item Code: PSY02 Magazine, 7x10, 68pg, b&w |
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PUSH YOUR CREATIVITY Reimagining Fairy Tales Through Illustration Highly Recommended. Edited by Marisa Lewis/3DTotal Publishing. A lavish hardback tome with lavish new takes on fairy tale classics. These characters, their settings, and narratives have taken on a different form, their stories unflinchingly transformed. The infamous darkness that shrouds many fairy tales is left intact, while in others, the weird, wondrous, and even unexpected workaday awaits. Lovingly drawn and painted scenes filled with color and detail make each re-imagining utterly convincing. Accompanied by each artist's preliminary studies and personal narratives, giving a behind-the-scenes glimpse of their creative process. 3dtotal Publishing, 2023. ...More. Item Code: PUSHH Hard Cover, 8x12, 288pg, Full Color |
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SEE YOU AT SAN DIEGO An Oral History of Comic-Con, Fandom, and the Triumph of Geek Culture 400 photos and artworks. Highly Recommended. Forewords by Stan Sakai and Jeff Smith. Afterword by RZA. A comprehensive oral chronicle of the early days of San Diego Comic-Con. Intimate, hilarious, and often-thought provoking stories by Neil Gaiman, Frank Miller, Kevin Smith, Bruce Campbell, Felicia Day, Stan Sakai, Sergio Aragonés, Trina Robbins, the Russo Bros., Tim Seeley, Kevin Eastman, Len Wein, Maggie Thompson, Scott Shaw, Brinke Stevens, Mark Evanier, and sci-fi writers Greg Bear and Gregory Benford, who began attending the show as youngsters. Fantagraphics, 2022....More. Item Code: SEEYO Soft Cover, 8x10, 480pg, Text/Partial Color |
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MAVERIX AND LUNATIX Icons of Underground Comix Highly Recommended. Perverted, Insane, Degenerate, Brilliant. Artist Drew Friedman pays tribute to the great underground comix creators from Z (Zap) to A (Arcade) with 101 wild, highly detailed portraits. Featuring R. Crumb, Gilbert Shelton, S. Clay Wilson, Melinda Gebbie, Art Spiegelman, Vaughn Bode, Trina Robbins, Bill Griffith, Jay Lynch, Sharon Rudahl, Larry Gonick, Rick Veitch, Joyce Farmer, Justin Green, "Grass" Green, George DiCaprio, Diane Noomin, Harvey Pekar, Robert Williams, Howard Cruse, Dan O'Neill, Spain Rodriguez, Shary Flenniken, Richard Corben, and so many others... all of whom helped to reinvent an entire artistic medium and became icons of underground comix. Fantagraphics, 2022....More. Item Code: MAVLH Hard Cover, 9x11, 216pg, b&w |
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DIRTY PICTURES Rebels Revolutionized Art and Invented Comix Hardcover Recommended. By Brian Doherty. Author Brian Doherty weaves together the stories of R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Trina Robbins, Spain Rodriguez, and Harvey Pekar, among many others, detailing the complete narrative history of this movement that came to define “cool.” Via dozens of new interviews and archival research, Doherty chronicles the scenes that sprang up around the country in the 1960s and ‘70s and the rivalries, ideological battles, and conflicts that flourished. Artists’ origins and successes, including Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize winning Maus and the feminist collective Wimmen’s Comix, and through strife, from S. Clay Wilson’s spiral into alcoholism to Disney’s war on the Air Pirates. Concluding with an examination of these creators’ legacies. Abrams, 2022. Out of Print....More. Item Code: DIRPH Hard Cover, 6x9, 448pg, Text Only |
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THE COMPLETE WORLD FAMOUS CREATURES Hardcover Collects #1-4, 1958-59. Oversized Hardcover. Coming at you from the earliest days of monster mania, World Famous Creatures magazine was put together quickly and cheaply to cash in on the popularity of Famous Monsters #1. The title lasted just four issues, which are much sought after by monster magazine collectors. This competitor came closest to FM in terms of content and visuals and even tongue-in-cheek attitude. The issues contain b&w stills from all the classic films (not terribly well reproduced), Forry Ackerman-like puns, and even cut-out monster masks. There is also early John Severin art and several comic book stories in the monster mix! Fantaco Enterprises, 2023....More. Item Code: COMWFCH Hard Cover, 9x11, 288pg, Partial Color |
| Also from publisher Fantaco, Monster Art of Basil Gogos, Famous Monsters Chronicles II and Eerie Publications Portfolio. |
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CINEMA OF SWORDS A History and Guide to Movies About Knights, Pirates, Barbarians, and Vikings. Recommended. By Lawrence Ellsworth. A history and homage to nearly four hundred movies and television shows featuring swashbucklers, knights, pirates, samurai, Vikings, gladiators, outlaw heroes like Zorro and Robin Hood, and anyone else who lives by the blade and solves their problems with the point of a sword. Though swordplay thrives as a mainstay of current pop culture— whether Game of Thrones or Lord of the Rings or Star Wars — swashbuckling was if anything even more ubiquitous during Hollywood’s classic period, from its foundations in the Silent Era up through the savage bursts of fantasy films in the '80s. Applause, 2023....More. Item Code: CINSH Hard Cover, 7x10, 384pg, Text/b&w |
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FLASH GORDON DAILIES AUSTIN BRIGGS Volume 1 Radium Mines of Electra Highly Recommended. First of two volumes. Collecting together, for the first time ever, two years of strips from the golden age. Hand-picked by Alex Raymond, master illustrator Austin Briggs carried on in much the same fine-line style. His action sequences and beautiful women are every bit as good as Raymond's. Here is the original science fiction high-adventure that influenced strips and comic books for decades...with ray guns, rocket ships, strange monsters, damsels in distress, sultry queens of strange lands, and unbridled heroism! Titan, 2021....More. Item Code: FLD01H Hard Cover, 11x10, 276pg, b&w |
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SNOOPY BOXED SET Recommended. By Charles M Schulz. This handsome little boxed set contains three great early Peanuts books just as they first appeared in the 1950-60s. It's the first three-ever collections but also Snoopy-centric, along with Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, Pig-Pen, Schroeder and Woodstock. Snoopy battles to save his beloved doghouse, fantasizes about being a dinosaur and embarks on his epic career as the Phantom Punter, that is when he’s not dancing, avoiding cats or pondering on the vagaries of life. Includes art cards featuring the cover art from the individual books. Snoopy (1955”“1958). Snoopy, Come Home (1955-1962), Sunday's Fun Day, Charlie Brown (1962-1965). Titan, 2022....More. Item Code: SNOOB Soft Cover, 5x8, 128pg ea, b&w |
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COMICS REVUE PRESENTS OCT 2022 Recommended. Reprints classic comic strips from the 1930s to the 1970s. Complete stories in this issue: Buz Sawyer (1970) by Roy Crane, Sir Bagby (1963) by R&D Hackney, and The Phantom (1970-71) by Lee Falk and Sy Barry. 19 pages of full-color Sunday pages and a wealth of B&W features: Flash Gordon (1973) by Dan Barry and Bob Fujitani, Mandrake the Magician by Lee Falk and Phil Davis (1940), Alley Oop (1941) by V. T. Hamlin, Rick O’Shay (1958) by Stan Lynde, Steve Canyon (1977) by Milton Caniff, and more. Manuscript Press, 2022....More. Item Code: CR1022 Soft Cover, 8x10, 128pg, Partial Color |
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MISS FURY JOY DIVISION Maria Laura Sanapo Cover Edition An original graphic novel. Writer Billy Tucci and artists Maria Laura Sanapo and Edu Menna delve into the deep dark secret of the Nazi regime during the Second World War. Through the 1940s, several Nazi concentration camps featured brothels wherein Jewish women were forced to work as prostitutes for soldiers. Miss Fury and her Black Furies have discovered this on an all-female mission of revenge. This is designed to fit perfectly into a continuity gap in the original story line of Miss Fury, in summer, 1944. Dynamite, 2023....More. Item Code: MISJDM Soft Cover, 7x10, 136pg, Full Color |
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RESIDENT ALIEN Omnibus Volume 2 Highly Recommended. Following up the first volume from 2020 and the acclaimed television series, this is a real fan-favorite. Our stranded alien explorer — hiding in plain sight — has been posing as a doctor and solving crimes in a small town in the Pacific Northwest. Harry accidentally exposes himself to investigators and a mysterious arsonist and a stubborn federal agent arrive in town. The local sheriff must decide if he’ll remain loyal to friend Harry, and nurse Asta finally realizes the danger they are both in. Dark Horse, 2023....More. Item Code: RESAL02 Soft Cover, 7x10, 352pg, Full Color |
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LADY DEATH OBLIVION KISS #1 Premiere Edition By Brian Pulido and Mike MacLean. Art by Dheeraj Verma. Lady Death rampages through Hell armed with a new sword, Chaos. The treacherous Hellbourne Elders dispatch Atrocitas, an insane angel/demon hybrid assassin to destroy her. But their epic confrontation proves tragic for Lady Death's beloved steed, Vassago. Rumors of a warlock who can restore Vassago draw Lady Death to the wasteland city Siduri, where lust isn't a sin, but a way of life. Gold foil titles, heavy index stock. Coffin Comics, 2022....More. Item Code: LADOK01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 48pg, Full Color |
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WILL EISNER'S INCREDIBLE FACTS, AMAZING STATISTICS, MONUMENTAL TRIVIA Recommended. Will Eisner wrote, illustrated and published (Poorhouse was his private imprint) this as part of the "Gleeful Guides" series of tongue-in-cheek spoofs. Created prior to his first graphic novel in 1978. The title of this one says it all. An enduring collection of startling-but-true nuggets about health, wealth, life, love, and the pursuit of happiness. Find "answers" to drinking, sex, living, law and order, and eating. Eiland Publications, 1974. Out of print. Condition: Cover may be slightly scuffed....More. Item Code: WEINF Soft Cover, 9x11, 64pg, b&w |
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ARMED WITH MADNESS THE SURREAL LEONORA CARRINGTON Recommended. By Mary M. Talbot, Bryan Talbot. A new perspective on the 1930s Paris art scene from an influential surrealist artist, feminist icon, reluctant muse (to Max Ernst)—heiress, rebel, refugee, often quite the demented soul. Perhaps the last of the great surrealists, Leonora Carrington played many roles in her long and extraordinary life. Exchanging her privileged upbringing in prewar England for the more exciting elite of Paris's 1930s avant-garde, she comes to rub shoulders (and more) with the likes of Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, and Salvador Dali. SelfMadeHero , 2023....More. Item Code: ARMM Hard Cover, 6x9, 144pg, Duotone |
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DAUGHTERS OF SNOW AND CINDERS By Núria Tamarit. A handsome, hardbound, oversized full color graphic novel. Fleeing the fires of her war-torn homeland, a young woman travels to the New World in search of gold to rebuild her life. In this strange, lawless land, Joana encounters friends (the kind Native women Tala and Opa), foes (the cruel gold hunter Matwei and his men), and an unexpected traveling companion who may just be her good luck charm — and amidst the icy reaches of the wilderness, a fearsome fantastical beast lurks in the shadows. Fantagraphics , 2023....More. Item Code: DAUGH Hard Cover, 9x12, 212pg, Full Color |
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WAR BIRDS Art by Steve Parkhouse. When an independent robot soldier makes a unique connection with an injured, flying drone, they flee the warzone they’re in to seek lives of their own. Their military builders want to destroy them, though, while a sympathetic pair of humans tries what they can to free the errant ‘bots from military service! Steve Parkhouse, artist and co-creator of Resident Alien, joins writer Geoffrey D. Wessel in this thrilling tale of friendship and survival. Dark Horse, 2023....More. Item Code: WARBI Soft Cover, 7x10, 104pg, b&w |
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BUSTER AND THE HAUNTED BANJO Signed Signed! Highly Recommended. “Once upon a time a ramblin’, banjo playin’, bag-a-bones by the name of Buster set out to find his fortune, along with a haunted banjo for a partner.” Brian Kesinger’s (Walking Your Octopus) tale of hobo strummer Buster Bones began October 1st 2020 as an improvised story written and illustrated with the engagement of over a quarter million social media followers. By the end of the month, with guidance from Kesinger’s most enthusiastic fans, Buster had become a rags-to-riches success story and bonafide rock star. Baby Tattoo, 2022....More. Item Code: BUSTHS Hard Cover, 7x10, 64pg, Full Color |
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TUKI Fight for Fire Signed Signed! By Jeff Smith. The ancient world was filled with restless and powerful spirits. Two million years ago, new forces began to stir...and everything changed. At the dawn of humanity, during a prolonged period of hardship and drought, three lost children meet a mysterious traveler named Tuki. Together, their search for the Motherherd of all Buffalo leads them far north through the dangerous territory of a rival species called the Habiline. The Habiline hunt and kill anyone found using fire. Tuki's reputation precedes them and soon they find themselves at the center of unwanted attention not only from Habiline warriors, but of gods and giants!! Cartoon Books, 2021....More. Item Code: TUKIFS Soft Cover, 11x9, 144pg, b&w |
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TEXAS JACK Book 1 Highly Recommended. Book 1 of 2. By Pierre Dubois. Art by Dimitri Armand. A circus performer and dime novel hero, Texas Jack is hired by the government to eliminate a dangerous gang in distant Wyoming...he's a crack shot and a gunslinger, but he’s never even seen the Wild West! Fortunately his path will lead him to a real professional: Marshal Sykes. With his three co-stars from the show, they're going to get into some wild action with a group of bloodthirsty murderers. It's a suicide mission he can't turn down. Excellent artwork. Cinebook, 2022....More. Item Code: TEXJ01 Soft Cover, 9x11, 64pg, Full Color |
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HEAVY METAL MAGAZINE #303 Blanche Cover Edited by Tim Seeley. Science fiction, fantasy and horror collide in this issue as Heavy Metal´s serializations and stand-alone stories continue! "Lucy" by Liberatore concludes; here is "Maiden" by Michelle & Bart Sears, "Savage Circus" by Brendan Columbus & Al Barrionuevo, "The Rise" by George C. Romero & Diego Yapur, A new "Vasator & Crunch" story by David Erwin, fan favorite zombies of "Cold Dead War" return...and more. Heavy Metal, 2020. Copies have a slightly bumped corner. Mature readers....More. Item Code: HM303 Magazine, 8x11, 148pg, Full Color |
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HEAVY METAL MAGAZINE #306 Kai Carpenter Cover "Black Beacon" part 1 by Lindsay & Piriz; "Euclid," "Star 69," "Nuclear Romance," "Barracuda," "Au Naturale" by Crowe & Chris Anderson; and "Dream of the Human God." Plus Steve Orlando continues with his "Starward" part 2, Ron Marz' "Swamp God" part 2, Matthew Medney's "Dark Wing" part 6, and Brendan Columbus' "Savage Circus" part 6, also an interview with Kevin Smith. Heavy Metal, 2021. Mature Readers....More. Item Code: HM306 Magazine, 8x11, 148pg, Full Color |
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CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS Hardcover By Jules Verne. Art by Henry C. Kiefer. Phileas Fogg, a rich gentleman, joins some members of his private club in a wager that he cannot travel around the world in eighty days. Immediately he prepares for his departure, along with his servant Passepartout. Little does Fogg know that Inspector Fix, a Scotland Yard detective seeking a bank robber who matches Fogg’s description, is hot on their trail! CCS Books, 2016....More. Item Code: CLAAWDH Hard Cover, 7x10, 52pg, Full Color |
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GRIMM UNIVERSE PRESENTS QUARTERLY The Black Knight Igor Vitorino Cover By Dave Franchini et al. Art by Sergio Arino et al. Magic, swords, and action in one epic story in a stand-alone double-size issue. Lovecraftian monsters and good-girl art. Peyton Parks has been struggling to maintain her dueling lives — public defender by day, sword-wielding armored vigilante by night. She's the Black Knight. Drawing her powers from the Age of Camelot, she battles dark forces in the streets while battling for justice in the courtroom. But her worlds are about to collide when she must defend a woman with links to her own dark past. Zenescope, 2022....More. Item Code: GRIMUB Comic, 7x10, 72pg, Full Color |
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RED AXE OF PELLUCIDAR Hardcover By John Eric Holmes. Cover art by Richard Hescox. Foreword and frontispiece by Christopher West Holmes. Chris West’s deadly prowess with his weapon of choice had earned him the name Red Axe in the Stone Age world of Pellucidar at the Earth’s core. Sentenced to die along with the woman he loved by the merciless Mahars, West fought his way free of the lethal laboratories and ghastly arenas of their underground city. Now he must carve a path for his small band of fugitives through a primordial landscape teeming with monstrous beasts and brutish men bent on their destruction. This was written as a sequel to Holmes' Mahars of Pellucidar (Ace, 1977) but never published. Includes the bonus novella Jason Gridley of Earth: Across the Moons of Mars by Geary Gravel. ERB Inc., 2022....More. Item Code: REDAPH Hard Cover, 6x9, 272pg, Text Only |
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ELRIC OF MELNIBONE The Elric Saga Prose Novel Volume 1 Highly Recommended. Foreword by Neil Gaiman. I723 pages, four complete prose novels, plus full-color endpaper map and interior illustrations. In one of the most well-known and well-loved fantasy epics of the 20th century, Elric is the brooding, albino emperor of the dying Kingdom of Melnibone maintaining a symbiotic existence with his blood-thirsty sword, with a mind of its own. Elric’s amoral cousin Yrkoon sets his eyes on the throne. Elric must face his nefarious cousin in an epic battle for the right to rule. Gallery/Saga Press, 2022....More. Item Code: ELR01H Hard Cover, 6x9, 752pg, Full Color |
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EXOTIC ADVENTURES OF ROBERT SILVERBERG Travel to faraway lands of mystery, danger, and erotic intrigue in stories from a time when the world still held secrets to be uncovered. From safari to bordello, from smugglers' cove to opium den. Award-winning science fiction writer Robert Silverberg moonlighted writing these lost pulp tales. Never before collected since their original 1950s publication, in bold new oversized facsimile re-creations complete with the original artwork. Available in softcover and deluxe expanded hardcover editions that look fresh off the newsstand, circa 1958. Go Exotic...or go home. Nudity, adult situations. New Texture, 2021. Mature Readers....More. Item Code: EXOTA Soft Cover, 8x11, 120pg, Text/Partial Color |
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SYLVIA KRISTEL From Emmanuelle to Chabrol 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 |
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A PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF NUDISM By Richard Battenberg.A revealing peek at those who like to get naked — from the early utopian dreamers of the 1920s to the liberated pleasure-seekers of today. 240 pages about the clothes-free lifestyle with a unique and rare collection of photographs. Nudism or Freikörperkultur as it was known in Germany, was one of the most radical expressions of criticism of civilization in the early twentieth century. It was the collecting tray for those in search of meaning — from nature enthusiasts to socialists up to and including the anti-semetic-racist movement. Over a hundred years of nudist culture in words and pictures, primarily based in the U.K. and Germany. Goliath, 2022. Adult Material....More. Item Code: PHOHH Hard Cover, 5x7, 240pg, b&w |
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