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Cat-Man facsimiles are here. Three new Illustrators issues. Cowboy hero Tex goes to Patagonia. Crossgen’s Mystic Omnibus. X-Factor, Batman Family, Thor, Twisted Classics and Comics Rebubbled. Also new PS Archives, Mushroom Invasion, Draculina and Bettie Page graphic novels. Plus Eisner Awards and more from Comic-Con. |
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ILLUSTRATORS Warren Magazine The Spanish Artists |
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ILLUSTRATORS SPECIAL #18 THE U.S. WARREN ARTISTS Limited, 1500. Introduction by Guillermo Del Toro. Our Highest Recommendation. By Peter Richardson. This explores the careers of each featured artist, both their Warren and tons of non-Warren work. The ultimate guide to the U.S. artists who made Warren's Creepy, Eerie, Vampirella, 1984 and all the monster mags the best in the business. With the aid of friends, family, fans, historians and the artists themselves, the compelling stories of the talent who worked throughout the golden years of Warren Publishing. Featuring an absolutely stunning roster including Neal Adams, Bernie Wrightson, Richard Corben, Frank Frazetta, Angelo Torres, Basil Gogos, Russ Heath and many, many more. Book Palace, 2024....More. Item Code: ILLUSWH Hard Cover, 9x11, 400pg, Full Color $90.00 |
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I’ve raised this to our highest recommendation. It is massive and it’s a stunningly well done overview of the best in comics and fantasy art over several decades, beginning in the 1950s. After shipping out back orders, we have eight copies left as I write this. More are on the way, but it may be several weeks before we see them. Regardless, reserve your copy now since with this limitation, I’m concerned about how long we will have copies to sell. |
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ILLUSTRATORS QUARTERLY #44 Antonio Segura Recommended. In this issue: Spanish surrealist pop artist Dulk (Antonio Segura) and his animals in peril (see the cover); back three centuries to the biting satire and acute observation of William Hogarth; the mystical and surreal world of Murugiah; the young Vietnamese artist YinXin He and her phantasmagorical images; will Artificial Intelligence (AI) replace artists with examples?! Plus Russ Manning Gallery of Tarzan and the Beastmaster. Book Palace, 2024....More. Item Code: IQ44 Soft Cover, 9x11, 96pg, Partial Color $30.00 |
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TEX PATAGONIA Signature Edition 2 Newly translated from the award-winning Italian series. Highly Recommended. Tex chooses to travel across the world to help an army officer friend in an extremely sensitive mission in South America. The Bolivian army wants to exterminate the native population and Tex is trying to keep both soldiers with better intentions and rebelling natives from killing each other. Tex is the most popular and longest running series of graphic stories in Italy, having begun in 1948. Epicenter Comics, 2024....More. Item Code: TEXPH Hard Cover, 8x11, 272pg, Full Color $29.99 |
| The previous Tex is sold out and we can’t get more. We have one Italian edition by Joe Kubert in Rare Books [RB5383. $35]. It's just Very Good with a cover scratch. Another western series from Italy is Zagor—we have two collections in stock. Zagor and Tex actually did a cross-over story but unfortunately that is sold out also. |
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MYSTIC Omnibus Collects the complete Mystic run #1-43, 2000-2004 and more. By Ron Marz, Brandon Peterson, Aaron Lopresti et al. One of the five flagship titles published by Crossgen using the company's "Sigilverse" shared universe. On a world where society is based upon magic, ultimate power rests in the hands of the last person who wants it: Giselle Villard, professional party girl! Meanwhile, her sister, Genevieve, has devoted her life to one of the seven mystical guilds that preside over the world. But a mysterious event grants Giselle the Sigil — a mark empowering her with uncanny abilities. Giselle's new power puts her at odds with the Guild Masters, her own sister and her world's greatest evil: Animora, a creature of almost limitless power who nearly destroyed Ciress once before... Licensed Publishing, 2024. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge....More. Item Code: MYSTOH Hard Cover, 7x11, 1152pg, Full Color |
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X-FACTOR The Original X-Men Omnibus Volume 1 Collects X-Factor #1-26; Annual #1-2 & much more, c. 1985-86! By Bob Layton, Louise Simonson, Roger Stern et al. Art by Butch Guice, Sal and John Buscema, John Bryne et al. When Jean Grey returns from a watery grave, the original X-Men reunite — as X-Factor! But for Marvel Girl, Cyclops, Beast, Angel and Iceman, things get complicated fast. Ageless villain Apocalypse is here; the chaos of the Mutant Massacre; Angel suffers a grievous injury and will be changed forever! As X-Factor rescues young mutants including Leech, Boom-Boom and Rictor, the Beast undergoes a radical metamorphosis, Iceman battles alongside Thor, tragedy pushes Cyclops to the brink of insanity, and a traitor stalks the team from within! Marvel, 2024. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge. ...More. Item Code: XFAC01H Hard Cover, 8x11, 1224pg, Full Color |
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THE BATMAN FAMILY YEAR ONE Box Set Three books in slipcase. By Scott Beatty and Charles Dixon. Art by Marcos Martin, Javier Pulido, and Scott A. McDaniel. Discover the birth of the Gotham Knights with the early-career adventures of Batgirl, Robin, and Nightwing. This collects the complete series for Batgirl: Year One, Robin: Year One, and a box set exclusive edition of Nightwing: Year One. Witness the birth of legends and the start of journeys that would define the characters forever! DC Comics, 2024....More. Item Code: BATFY Soft Cover, 7x10, 616pg, Full Color |
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MIGHTY MARVEL MASTERWORKS THE MIGHTY THOR Volume 4 When Meet the Immortals Collects Journey Into Mystery #120-125, Annual #1, & Mighty Thor #126-127, 1965-66. Highly Recommended. By Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Batten down the hatches for the first battle between Thor and Hercules! Also the ever-mischievous Loki, everyone’s favorite lunkhead with the always-adaptable power — the Absorbing Man — and the classic "Tales of Asgard" backup feature that recount the myth and legend of Thor and the Asgardians’ early days. Superb artwork, among Kirby's very finest for Marvel, plus fun, different stories with a Norse Gods slant by Lee and Kirby. Marvel, 2024....More. Item Code: MMMT04 Soft Cover, 6x9, 200pg, Full Color $15.99 |
| Vols 1-3 are all in stock, same price. See all the Mighty Marvel Masterworks here. |
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COMICS REBUBBLED Almost Gone! Recommended. By Kim Fuller & Paul Alexander. Art by Bill Everett, Jim Aparo, Pat Boyette, Al Williamson, Joe Sinnott, Mike Sekowsky et al. The first ever edition of a new genre of comics. The authors have taken public domain comics from the 1940's, 50's and 60's, and rewritten the captions and dialogue to create hilarious new stories. Thrill to the adventures of Captain Covid, the world's first socially distanced detective; Laverne, the good blonde gone bad as she ditches her sleazy-rider boyfriend Brandon and kickstarts a new relationship with a handsome shaman; shiver in fear as Frank and Gina find themselves dragged back to the 18th century and discover, to their horror, that there is no 5G phone coverage. Book Palace, 2024. Out of print....More. Item Code: COMREB Soft Cover, 9x11, 88pg, Full Color $18.99 |
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BETTIE PAGE LA DOLCE VITA Collects #1-4. Series covers by Linsner. By Mirka Andolfo et al. Art by Lisa Ferrari et al. Beautiful Bettie has been cast as the lead in a film shooting in Rome, but immdiately thugs try to kidnap her. Why? Well, Bettie happens to be the spitting image of another woman — a woman who's in big trouble. A madcap adventure of mistaken identity and star-crossed love, Italian-style, is the result. Includes five to eight variant covers for each issue. Dynamite, 2024....More. Item Code: BPLADV Soft Cover, 7x10, 104pg, Full Color $17.99 |
| Here are more Bettie Graphic Novels and more. |
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DRACULINA BLOOD SIMPLE Jay Anacleto cover! Collects #1-6 plus 38 variant covers. By Christopher Priest and Michael Sta. Maria. Vampirella's hateful, self-absorbed twin is back in a brand-new collection, and this time she finds that her Vampire Privilege is failing her as Vampirette, her preteen other-self, has become a literal mirror image of the life she could have had — and the person she could have become — if she wasn't, y'know, Draculina. Dynamite, 2024....More. Item Code: DRACB Soft Cover, 7x10, 152pg, Full Color $19.99 |
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UFO MUSHROOM INVASION Originally published in 1976, Shirakawa Marina's UFO Mushroom Invasion is a masterpiece of sci-fi horror. Drawing on his deep knowledge of Japanese folklore and the supernatural, Shirakawa serves up one of manga history's cult classics, an unforgettably creepy entry in the canon of spore-horror. Living the Line, 2024....More. Item Code: UFOM Soft Cover, 6x9, 204pg, Full Color $19.95 |
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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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A TWISTED TALES CLASSICS Boxed Set By Liz Braswell and Jen Calonita. For those who wonder: What if . . .? Here are three all-ages prose stories that beguile readers who dare to ask how the story might end differently, if only one thing changed. Now, for the first time, three fan-favorite tales are packaged together. Straight On Till Morning (What if Wendy first traveled to Never Land with Captain Hook?); Unbirthday (What if Wonderland was in peril and Alice was very, very late?); Go the Distance (What if Meg had to become a Greek god?). Plus an exclusive Twisted Tale poster. Very handsome set, not illustrated except with cover art. Disney Hyperion, 2024. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge....More. Item Code: TWITAT Soft Cover, 6x9, 1344pg, Full Color $32.99 |
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ALSO AVAILABLE DISNEY TWISTED WONDERLAND Volume 1 The Manga Book of Heartslabyul By Yana Toboso and Wakana Hazuki. Art by Sumire Kowono. A very well drawn, unusual new manga tale takes us to alternate dark world of twisted Disney legends and characters! Yu is whisked away to Night Raven College, an arcane academy in the world of Twisted Wonderland. Stranded until he can find a way home, Yu is allowed to stay on campus despite having no magic of his own. But when his new friends (and assorted ghosts and monsters) land him in trouble with the head mage, his fate hinges on bringing together two uncooperative students and a fire-breathing monster cat... VIZ Media, 2023....More. Item Code: DIST01 Soft Cover, 6x8, 198pg, b&w $12.99 |
| Also check out Vol 2-3 [DIST02, 03. $12.99 each]. |
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ALSO AVAILABLE ALICE NEVER AFTER Collects #1-5. Recommended. Superstar writer Dan Panosian (Unkindness of Ravens, Black Tape) and artist Giorgio Spalletta (007: For King & Country) explore the morbid side of escapism in this twisted tale that blurs the line between fantasy and reality. Even if Alice escapes Wonderland and makes it back home, would it even be the home she remembers? Wonderland is her new home, but the mad residents have turned against her. As Alice’s sister Edith and her childhood friend Earl fight for a way to bring her back, Alice has been crowned the new Queen of Hearts! Handsomely drawn. Boom! 2024....More. Item Code: ALICN Soft Cover, 7x10, 128pg, Full Color $19.99 |
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SPACE ADVENTURES Volume 8 Hardcover Collects #37-41, 1960-61. Highly Recommended. Beautiful superhero work created just before Ditko started drawing Spider-Man. Mind-blowing pages of Ditko's masterpiece, Captain Atom. After an atomic accident, Captain Allen Adams of the U.S. Air Force finds himself with new super powers — the iconic space-age superhero created by Joe Gill and Steve Ditko! PS Artbooks, 2024....More. |
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| Here are previous volumes, including the first with Ditko’s Captain Atom. |
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MILITARY COMICS Volume 7 Collects #24-26, 1943-44. Recommended. By William Woolfolk, and Ted Udall. Nice long Blackhawk covers and stories continue, now drawn by John Cassone and Alex (Apartment 3G) Kotzky. Plus Death Patrol by Al Stahl, The Sniper by Vern Henkel, Atlantic Patrol and Secret War News by Fred Guardineer, and P.T. Boat and Private Dogtag. Fine wartime comics from Quality Group. PS Artbooks, 2024....More. Item Code: MILC07 Soft Cover, 7x10, 180pg, Full Color $32.99 |
| Here are Military Volumes 1-6 and also the Blackhawk series. The first Blackhawk came out in 1946, so these Military stories all preceed that first issue. |
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PLASTIC MAN Volume 6 Collects #22-26, 1950. Highly Recommended. Featuring art by the great Jack Cole, firmly locating Plastic Man in the humor super hero genre. Cole at this time was getting even wilder and more imaginative, with beautiful femmes fatales, bizarre villains, and the craziest contortions a man of rubber could go through. It's all Plas here, plus short Woozy backup stories, also by Cole. The best of the Golden Age, right here. PS Artbooks, 2024....More. Item Code: PLAM06 Soft Cover, 7x10, 196pg, Full Color $32.99 |
| Click for Plastic Man Volumes 1-5. Here is more by Jack Cole. |
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BLACK MAGIC Volume 5 Collects Black Magic #18-22, 1952-53. Highly Recommended. No one did pre-code horror, witches, freaks and monsters quite like Simon and Kirby. More great stories produced by the S&K studio, with help from staff artists Mort Meskin, Bob McCarty, and George Roussos. Black Magic was created by S&K, just like they pioneered the romance genre with Young Romance. PS Artbooks, 2024....More. Item Code: BLAM05 Soft Cover, 7x10, 220pg, Full Color $32.99 |
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BLUE BEETLE Volume 2 Collects #4-6, 1940-41. It's primitive artwork, but this was the early days of the Golden Age. Also featuring K-51 Spies at War drawn by Bob Powell, Capt. Savage, Wing Turner. But the emphasis here is on BB by Charles Nicholas, Fox's longest running hero and in fact revived in the 1960s and even a 2023 film! He lasted into the 1950s, was taken over by Charlton and revived a few years later in the 60s, and even DC got involved. PS Artbooks, 2024....More. Item Code: BLUEB02 Soft Cover, 7x10, 208pg, Full Color $32.99 |
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ALSO AVAILABLE THE BLUE BEETLE Volume 1 Collects #1-3, 1940. Highly Recommended. By Charles Nicholas et al. Blue Beetle was revived in the 60s by Charlton and Steve Ditko first, and later by DC Comics. But here we find the original Golden Age creation, who had a long tenure in his own title as well as Wonderworld Comics. Fox Publications had many top talents in their earliest comics — #1 features a Lou Fine cover and multiple stories by Will Eisner (Yarko the Magician) and Bob Powell. Joe Simon drew the cover of #3, just before partnering up with Jack Kirby! With dynamic visuals and a narrative that captures the spirit of a bygone era...the roots of superhero storytelling, where it all began! PS Artbooks, 2024....More. Item Code: BLUEB01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 208pg, Full Color $32.99 |
| Here’s more of the latest from PS Artbooks. More titles just came in that will be in New Arrivals over the next two weeks. |
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CAT-MAN #1 Facsimile Edition From May 1941. Highly Recommended. Charles M. Quinlan's Cat-Man has become one of the key titles of the Golden Age, known for its quirky hero and fun stories. We're thrilled to offer facsimile editions of the first three issues. Typical of this era, Cat-Man is cover-featured with lots of backup strips — 64 pages' worth. Quinlan also draws pilot Hurricane Harrigan and flaming hero Blaze Barton. Allen Ulmer draws crimefighters The Deacon and Dr. Diamond. Ray Willner does Lucky Landor and Rag-Man. PS Artbooks, 2024....More. Item Code: CATM01 Comic, 7x10, 68pg, Full Color $15.99 |
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CAT-MAN #2 Facsimile Edition June 1941. Highly Recommended. Charles M. Quinlan’s Cat-Man has become one of the key titles of the Golden Age, known for its quirky hero and fun stories. We’re thrilled to offer facsimile editions of the first three issues. Typical of this era, Cat-Man is cover-featured with lots of backup strips — 64 pages worth. Quinlan also draws "Hill 49," Hurricane Harrigan (a cowboy in India), The Deacon and flaming hero Blaze Barton. Allen Ulmer draws crimefighter Dr. Diamond. Ray Willner does Lucky Landers, Chute Harmon, Devil Dogs and Rag-Man. PS Artbooks, 2024....More. Item Code: CATM02 Comic, 7x10, 68pg, Full Color $15.99 |
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CAT-MAN #3 Facsimile Edition July 1941. Highly Recommended. Cat-Man takes on Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini in the cover story! Quinlan also draws incendiary hero Blaze Barton and Hurrican Harrigan. Also here is Rag-Man, Dr. Diamond, Lucky Landers, The Deacon, Lance Rand, Devil Dogs (in China), and a new hero, Pied Piper. The Hitler cover makes this a triple threat issue. PS Artbooks, 2024....More. Item Code: CATM03 Comic, 7x10, 68pg, Full Color $15.99 |
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PS is doing a very good job of choosing worthy comics to collect in this series. Cat-Man has been long overdue to be collected! The PS editions of Whiz Comics, Captain Marvel and Master Comics have been well received. We’ll be listing more new titles in the next two weeks — new issues of Whiz, Kirby’s Captain 3D, S&K’s Stuntman, Terry & the Pirates, and two new Phantom Lady titles. Watch Just Arrived. |
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Two new titles from Goliath: Stephen Soell is back with his largest book ever, collecting new work along with his classics Celestial Girls (2015) and Elysium Girls (2017). Here are more of Soell’s books, which we always recommend. Also coming is Stripped Fantasies, a series of strip-tease photos that begin with see-thru lingerie and progress, by a new photographer. Here are more titles from Goliath.
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We added another 65 new arrivals this week, including a variety of erotic art collections. Click here to see the just arrived new Rare Books. |
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We announced this last week. We are only getting 50 copies of the signed/limited edition and 24 are already spoken for. We will stop taking orders at 50. We have no limitation problems with the hardcover and softcover, which are pre-pub discounted at $10 off until October 1.
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20% off selected Rare Books This open-ended mark-down, with no time limit, has proved popular. Here’s the list with still over 300 titles to choose from. Or browse our entire Rare Books inventory by category. New titles posted every Wednesday, a day before this email goes out. Artists & Illustration ~ Comic Strip Collections ~ Comic Reference ~ Comic Book Archives ~ Graphic Novels ~ Photography (18 & over) ~ Pin-Up & Erotic Art (18 & over)
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Bud Plant and Hutchison Books Anne just posted new arrivals and you can browse her website, she’s adding books there each week. We list a lot of the same kind of material as in Rare Books, plus science fiction (we have a new Fredric Brown collection) and fantasy (R.E. Howard, Dunsany, Lovecraft), children’s picture books and vintage illustrated and art books. Get on the mailing list with Anne. info@budplantandhutchisonbooks.com
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San Diego Comic-Con News My memorial to my partner and friend Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. was reprinted in the San Diego Con Souvenir book for 2024. Also in their memorial section were more friends: Roger Hill, Ramona Fradon (Aquaman coming), Allen Spiegel and Trina. Neil Gaiman writes a wonderful tribute to Michael Zulli, (Sandman, Puma Blues). Allen Spiegel was an art fan turned publisher, and helped to get out fine works by Jon Muth, Kent Williams, George Pratt, Phil Hale, David Mack, and Greg Spalenka. Inducted into the Hall of Fame this year are George Tuska, James Warren, Bryan Talbot, Ron Turner (Last Gasp) and Lynn Varley. Eisners! Here are some that went to books and magazines we offer: Best Reality-Based Work: Flung Out of Space, by Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer (Abrams ComicArts) Best Adaptation from Another Medium: Chivalry by Neil Gaiman, adapted by Colleen Doran (Dark Horse) Best U.S. Edition of International Material: Blacksad: They All Fall Down Part 1, by Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido, translation by Diana Schutz and Brandon Kander (Dark Horse) Best U.S. Edition of International Material —Asia: Shuna’s Journey, by Hayao Miyazaki; translation by Alex Dudok de Wit (First Second/Macmillan) Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books: The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta, edited by Dian Hanson (Taschen) Best Writer: James Tynion IV, (BOOM! Studios); (DC), (Image) Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team: Greg Smallwood, The Human Target (DC) Hall of Fame JUDGES’ CHOICES: Jerry Bails, Tony DeZuniga, Justin Green, Bill Griffith, Jay Jackson, Jeffrey Catherine Jones, Jack Katz, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Win Mortimer, Diane Noomin, Gaspar Saladino, Kim Thompson, Garry Trudeau, Mort Walker, Tatjana Wood VOTERS’ CHOICES: Brian Bolland, Anne Nocenti, Tim Sale, Diana Schutz Bill Finger Excellence in Comic Book Writing Award: V.T. Hamlin’s Alley Oop
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