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Here's our all new October sale with 66 newly reduced titles below and many more unlisted. Click on OCTSALE and SEPTSALE to see the entire listings for the two months. Click here for more Sale Items that will be included in upcoming sale lists. Plus you can see the newest editions to our Closeout section, including bargain Imperfect Editions. Orders in the U.S. over $300 also qualify for FREE SHIPPING. You can always sort sale books by lowest price, highest price, and newest publication date using the filter box after your search, at the top of the listing. We still have over 300 plus books in our special RARE BOOKS SALE List. Click here to see it. |
Holiday 2024
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ALIEN TO ZOMBIE An ABC Book of Monsters and Spooks Signed Signed by Chiarello & Somers! Highly Recommended. Edited by John Fleskes. After a successful caper chasing a gang of disembodied teen ghouls from an abandoned junior high school, paranormal investigator and legendary artist Mark Chiarello found himself stranded in a ghost town just on the outskirts of nowhere along with his wordsmith and fellow ghost-chaser, Kevin Somers. There they took up residence for the night in the creepiest old manor anyone had ever set eyes on. They’d have to take drastic measures if they were to make it to dawn... In a stroke of genius (or perhaps madness), the two swiftly went to work making the ultimate tool to fight fear “ Alien to Zombie: An ABC Book of Monsters and Spooks! Flesk, 2021....More. Item Code: ALIZH Hard Cover, 8x10, 32pg, Full Color |
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ALKEME The Art of Brad Kunkle Deluxe Signed Signed & numbered. Limited special publisher's edition limited to 400. Highly Recommended. After selling out his debut solo exhibition in New York City on opening night in 2010, Brad Kunkle has become internationally known for his unique use of gold and silver leaf in contemporary oil painting. His themes explore intuition and the power of the feminine alongside the natural world and otherworldly scenes. 100 paintings and a dozen studies handpicked by the artist in an oversized format. Flesk, 2022. Out of print. Due to weight or size, Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge. ...More. Item Code: ALKED Hard Cover, 12x12, 320pg, Full Color |
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COVENANT The Art of Allen Williams Hardcover Signed Highly Recommended. Signed & limited, 1500, with 16 extra pages! Allen Williams and Flesk Publications have teamed up to bring you his first art book. We previously handled Allen's sketchbooks and were very impressed. Each of his dark, eerie, skeletal and surreal fantastical characters is accompanied by a line of text, a poem or a brief story that captures their essence — often from mythology. Occasional nudity. Stunning detail and imagination. Flesk, 2021. Out of print....More. Item Code: COVEAWHS Hard Cover, 9x12, 160pg, Partial Color |
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SQUA TRONT #8 Signed First printing. Signed by editor, John Benson! Cover by Jack Davis. Squa Tront is the most famous of the EC fanzines. The main article in this issue is a highly entertaining 24-page transcript of panel discussions from the 1972 EC convention with lots of photos of the talent that made EC great. Other features include the artwork of Al Williamson and a Johnny Craig Cover Gallery. Cover price $3.00. Out of Print. Condition: Fine. Slight soiling on back cover. Jerry Weist, 1978....More. Item Code: SQ08 Magazine, 8x11, 60pg, Text/Partial Color |
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TUKI Fight for Fire Hardcover Signed Signed! Recommended. By Jeff Smith. An all-new series from the creator of Bone. 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 Mother Herd of all Buffalo leads them far north through the dangerous territory of a rival species. Cartoon Books, 2021....More. Item Code: TUKIFHS Hard Cover, 11x9, 144pg, b&w |
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THE GOON #1 Resketched Edition Signed Signed with original sketch! Recommended. Eric Powell is pulling copies of the original Albatross Funnybooks (2019) Goon #1 out of his archives to offer a signed and resketched edition! Eric also promises not to leave any pie stains on it when he scribbles on the cover. A complete stand-alone story, superbly drawn, plus a cool original pen drawing on the cover. Limited supply. Albatross, 2019/21....More. Item Code: GOON01S Comic, 7x10, 24pg, Full Color |
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THE ART OF LOUIS SHABNER Import from England. Recommended. By Stuart Webb. Louis Shabner began his career producing shop window advertising for brands such as Ever Ready, Ovaltine and Chivers jams, amongst others, but is best known for his paintings of sultry sirens. During the 1960s and 1970s his prints and calendars adorned lounge walls up and down the UK. Under the pseudonym Sheldon, Shabner also produced numerous book cover paintings for Pan Books and other publishers. Telos, 2021....More. Item Code: ARTLSH Hard Cover, 9x11, 200pg, Full Color |
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BARRY WINDSOR SMITH'S MONSTERS Highly Recommended. Monsters is the legendary project Barry Windsor-Smith has been working on for over 35 years. A 360-page tour de force of visual storytelling, Monsters' narrative canvas is vast and deep. The year is 1964. Close-mouthed, damaged, innocent, trying to forget a past and looking for a future, it turns out that Bobby Bailey is the perfect candidate for a secret U.S. government experimental program — an unholy genetics program discovered in Nazi Germany during World War II... Fantagraphics, 2021....More. Item Code: BARMH Hard Cover, 8x11, 366pg, Full Color |
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ART RECORD COVERS 40th Anniversary Edition In Francesco Spampinato's unique anthology of artists' record covers, we discover the rhythm of this particular cultural history. The book presents 450 covers and records by visual artists from the 1950s through to today, exploring how modernism, Pop Art, Conceptual Art, postmodernism, and various forms of contemporary art practice have supported the mass distribution of music with defining imagery that swiftly and suggestively evokes our attention. Lengthy anecdotes about the musicians, artists and graphic designers. Taschen, 2021....More. Item Code: ARTRECH Hard Cover, 6x9, 512pg, Full Color |
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BALOOK Hurt Publisher file copy. In the wake of technological breakthroughs, a nine-ton prehistoric Balook is brought to life and befriended by a boy named Thor, but when the growing creature breaks out of his compound, a chaotic romp ensues. Underwood/Miller, 1990. Out of print. Condition: Dust jacket covers slightly scuffed and edgeworn, bumped corner....More. Item Code: BALOHR Hard Cover, 6x10, 198pg, Text/Partial Color |
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HARRY CLARKE HIS GRAPHIC ART Warehouse find, 1983. Highly Recommended. By Nicola Gordon Bowe.The first major book about Harry Clarke and his art, including book illustrations, such as from the seminal Tales of Mystery and Imagination, 1919, by Edgar Allan Poe, which has been reprinted over and over since then. Beautifully illustrated with numerous reproductions of the artist’s work including book illustrations, his very rarely seen stained glass work, and much more lesser known material. H. Keith Burns, 1983. Out of Print....More. Item Code: HCHGAH Hard Cover, 8x12, 160pg, b&w |
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45 YEARS OF 2000 AD ANNIVERSARY ART BOOK Tharg the Mighty has tasked forty-five of Earth's most popular comic and illustration artists to interpret the characters featured in the pages of 2000 AD. Featuring all new work by Francisco Francavilla (Capt. America, Detective Comics), Kelly Jones (Batman, Sandman), Phil Noto (Black Widow, Jonah Hex), Kevin O'Neill (a 2000 AD legend, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen), Michael Allred (Madman, Silver Surfer), Sean Phillips (Reckless, The Fade Out), Colleen Doran (Sandman, A Distant Soil), et al. 2000 AD, 2022....More. Item Code: 45YRH Hard Cover, 8x11, 96 pg, Full Color |
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RANDOLPH CALDECOTT Warehouse Find, 1986. Although Caldecott's children's book illustrations are universally admired, his significance as an artist is not yet fully appreciated. He was one of the first illustrators to break with the dense cross-hatching and shading that characterized the wood-engraved illustrations of the 1860s. Dark atmospheric effects continued to be favored by many artists well into the 1870s and 1880s. Caldecott, in contrast, used wood-engraving in an entirely different way. His drawings employ a minimum of line — mere outlines in many cases — with the emphasis on lively and expressive draftsmanship. Houghton Library, 1986....More. Item Code: RCALD Soft Cover, 7x10, 38pg, b&w |
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SPECTRUM Volume 9 Publisher file copy. The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art. Highly Recommended. Edited by Cathy Fenner and Arnie Fenner. Startling, wry, lyrical, and beguiling, the unrivaled reference to the ever-evolving world of science fiction and fantasy art in all its incarnations. Featuring the work of such award-winning creators as Dave McKean, Michael Whelan, Anita Kunz, Peter de Seve, James Gurney and over 200 more artists from around the globe. Also includes a breezy and biting Year in Review, a profile of the 2002 Grand Master Award recipient Kinuko Y. Craft, and contact information for every artist. The result is a seamless time capsule that will appeal to anyone with a taste for both excellence and the unexpected. Underwood Books, 2002. Out of Print....More. Item Code: SPE09 Soft Cover, 8x11, 176 pg., Full Color |
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THE ART JOURNEY OF LORD GRIS Illustrator and character designer Lord Gris (actually a woman) takes us on a guided tour of her world, where her anime-style characters exude emotion, attitude, mystery, and beauty that can be both bizarre and fragile. Step-by-step tutorials specially commissioned for the book are accompanied by galleries of Lord Gris’s fan favorites, unseen gems, and brand new and exclusive pieces. With a love for digital art and artist-staple pens and pencils, she shares a host of skills and techniques to offer something new to every artist as well as illustration fans. Biography, new introduction by the artist, very early work, inspirations and more. 3dtotal Publishing, 2022....More. Item Code: ARTJLGH Hard Cover, 9x11, 246pg, Full Color |
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THE LIFE & ART OF DAVE COCKRUM Hardcover Limited. Highly Recommended. By Glen Cadigan. Introduction by Alex Ross. From the letters pages of Silver Age comics to his 2021 induction into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame, Dave Cockrum started as a fan but rose to the top of the comic book industry as the artist who reinvented the modern X-Men. Beginning with his childhood obsession with comics and continuing through his years in the Navy, follow the rising star from fandom (where he was one of the “Big Three” fanzine artists) to pro-dom, where he helped revive two struggling comic book franchises: the Legion of Super-Heroes and the X-Men. TwoMorrows, 2022....More. Item Code: LIFDCH Hard Cover, 9x11, 162pg, Text/Partial Color |
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THE PROMISED NEVERLAND ART BOOK WORLD By Kaiu Shirai. A handsome art book featuring Posuka Demizu’s incredible artwork. Creator commentary and interviews, Packed with finished full color paintings, character sketches, and an inside look at one of today’s most popular Shonen Jump manga series. VIZ Media, 2022....More. Item Code: PROMNH Hard Cover, 7x10, 216pg, Full Color |
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CAME THE DAWN AND OTHER STORIES Our Highest Recommendation. Taking its title from one of legendary comic artist Wally Wood's all-time classics, this collection features page after page after page of Wood's astonishingly beautiful brushwork.These tales range from supernatural shockers from the pages of Tales From the Crypt and The Haunt of Fear ("The Living Corpse," "Terror Ride," "Man From the Grave," "Horror in the Freak Tent") to crime thrillers from Crime SuspenStories ("The Assault," "The Whipping"). Fantagraphics, 2022....More. Item Code: CAMEH Hard Cover, 7x10, 208pg, b&w |
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DISNEY MASTERS Volume 19 Mickey Mouse Trapped in the Shadow Dimension By Andrea "Casty" Castellan. In this volume, Scrooge McDuck squares off with "The Terrible, Terrible Triple-Dimensional Beagle Boy''“¦ while in "The World to Come," Mickey and Minnie are headed to far-off Illusitania for royal intrigue, robot war... and a showdown with that dastardly, poetic secret agent, The Rhyming Man! Fantagraphics, 2022....More. Item Code: DM19H Hard Cover, 8x10, 192pg, Full Color |
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SANDMAN BOOK SIX Collects The Sandman Universe #1, Sandman: Overture #1-6, and Sandman: Dream Hunters #1-4, 2009-18. Highly Recommended. By Neil Gaiman. Art by J.H. Williams, P. Craig Russell et al. Overture tells the story from the birth of a galaxy to the moment that Morpheus is captured (the point where the television series begins). Dream Hunters follows a humble young monk and a magical, shape-changing fox finding themselves romantically drawn together. As their love blooms, the fox learns of a devilish plot by a group of demons and a Japanese emperor to steal the monk's life. With the aid of Morpheus, the fox must use all of her cunning and creative thinking to foil this evil scheme and save the man that she loves.. DC Comics, 2023....More. Item Code: SAND06 Soft Cover, 7x10, 168pg, Full Color |
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TALON By James Tynion IV Collects Talon #0-17 and more. By James Tynion IV. Art by Miguel Sepulveda et al. As a performer with Haly's Circus, young Calvin Rose was secretly being raised to be a master assassin — a killing machine called a Talon. The Talons have always served the mysterious Court of Owls, a group of wealthy individuals who will stop at nothing to maintain their grip on power in Gotham. When Rose defects from the Talon's ranks, he is marked for death and spends years using all his training to hide from his former masters. DC Comics, 2022....More. Item Code: TALJT Soft Cover, 7x10, 440pg, Full Color |
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THE OTHER HISTORY OF THE DC UNIVERSE Collects #1-5. Art by Giuseppe Camuncoli and Andrea Cucchi. Academy Award-winning screenwriter John Ridley (12 Years a Slave, Let It Fall) examines the mythology of the DC Universe in this compelling combination of prose and illustration. Reframing iconic moments of DC history and charting a previously unexplored sociopolitical thread as seen through the prism of DC Super Heroes who come from historically disenfranchised groups, John Ridley goes where no other has gone before! DC Comics, 2021....More. Item Code: OTHISH Hard Cover, 9x11, 224pg, Full Color |
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WOLVERINE ORIGIN DELUXE EDITION Collects Wolverine: The Origin #1-6, 2001. By Paul Jenkins and Andy Kubert. For decades, Wolverine’s shadowy past has been shrouded in mystery. But before he was the savage mainstay of the X-Men, before he was a tormented secret agent codenamed Weapon X “ even before he was a barroom brawler in the wilds of Canada “ he was a child. And now, his story will be told. Marvel, 2023....More. Item Code: WOLVOR Soft Cover, 6x10, 248pg, Full Color |
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ANATOMY OF COMICS Highly Recommended. By Damien MacDonald. Very well illustrated, a full-blown museum exhibit in a book — entirely from the original art and fully curated with notes. From Milton Caniff and Hal Foster, to Carl Barks, Moebius, Milo Manara, John Buscema...right across the spectrum. Impressive! This compact history, populated by meta-humans, hybrids, and superheroes, presents imagined fantastical worlds that have attracted generations of devoted fans. This is also a celebration of the characters who have accompanied readers from their first forays into reading through adolescence, and on into adulthood — from Tarzan to Tintin, Little Nemo to Betty Boop, the Fantastic Four to Batman, the Silver Surfer to Sin City, and the underground comics of Robert Crumb. Rizzoli/Flammarion, 2022....More. Item Code: ANATCO Soft Cover, 6x9, 256pg, Partial Color |
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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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75 YEARS OF DC COMICS The Art of Modern Mythmaking Warehouse find, 2010. Recommended. A very handsome, oversized flyer/poster featuring the iconic cover of Superman #21 (1943) by Jack Burnley; on the back is an iconic early Bob Kane Batman image. 15.5 inches tall and 11 inches wide, it folds out to four times that size (in width) with more rare covers inside, and a poster-sized Batman and Robin image. Plus lots of details about the images and the book itself, published as a $200 deluxe volume (this size) by Taschen in 2010, and reprinted in 2017 in smaller size. DC/Taschen, 2010....More. Item Code: 75YDCCOM Flyer/Poster, 11x15, na, b&w |
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TRAILBLAZERS A Tribute to Canada's WWII Comic Creators Limited, 300. Highly Recommended. A very special homage by contemporary artists, celebrating the 80th Anniversary of the first published Canadian comic books and their creators. Canadian wartime comic enthusiast Ivan Kockmarek has edited an anthology of tributes to Canada’s original comic creators by some of the best current creators. Contributors include: Michael Gilbert (on Mr. Monster's creator Fred Kelley, naturally), Ken Steacy, Ho Che Anderson, Dave Sim, James Waley (Orb), Eric Kim, Ronn Sutton (of Dark Horse fame), Ron Kasman et al. North End Books, 2021....More. Item Code: TRAILB Soft Cover, 7x10, 56pg, b&w |
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FRIDAY FOSTER The Sunday Strips Recommended. By Jim Lawrence. Art by Jorge Longaron.The Friday Foster comic strip is the story of a former nightclub "camera bunny" turned photographer's assistant turned fashion model. With an innate inclination to help others and a natural beauty that makes her a magnet for men, Friday often finds herself in some very sticky situations and world-class adventures. Friday was the first mainstream (i.e. nationally syndicated) comic strip starring a black character in the title role, 1970-1974. Packed with extra features, including an interview with Longaron, bio details on writer Lawrence, full details on the 1975 blaxploitation film with an interview with Director Arthur Marks and star Pam Grier. Ablaze, 2020. ...More. Item Code: FRIFH Hard Cover, 9x12, 304pg, Full Color |
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POGO Volume 7 Pockets Full of Pie New Printing. The Complete Comic Strips, Dailies and Sundays, 1961-62. Highly Recommended. By Walt Kelly. Foreword by Sergio Aragones. This volume includes a pig with an ominous resemblance to Nikita Khrushchev and a scruffy goat who looks exactly like Fidel Castro. Other storylines spotlight Kelly's remarkable cast: Pogo Possum, Albert Alligator, Howland Owl, "Churchy" LaFemme, Beauregard Bugleboy, Porky Pine, Miz Ma'm'selle Hepzibah, Deacon Mushrat, and so many others. All 104 Sunday strips from those two years are included, with supplementary features (including comprehensive annotations and index) by comics historians R.C. Harvey, Maggie Thompson, and Mark Evanier. Fantagraphics, 2022....More. Item Code: POG07H Hard Cover, 11x9, 360pg, Partial Color |
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ALTERED CARBON One Life One Death By Richard K. Morgan and Scott Bryan Wilson. Art by Max Fuchs. From the world of the best-selling trilogy of books and the hit Netflix show comes a new chapter in the Altered Carbon universe! In the future, bodies can be changed like clothes, giving life an entirely new meaning — or lack of meaning. Takeshi Kovacs — once a member of the Envoy Corps, the elite, deadly troops of the Interstellar Earth Protectorate — now finds himself imprisoned . . . both in a jail and in an extremely weak body... Dynamite, 2021....More. Item Code: ALTCH Hard Cover, 7x10, 120pg, Full Color |
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BATMAN DETECTIVE COMICS Volume 1 Gotham Nocturne Overture Collects Detective #1062-1065. Recommended. By Ram V. Art by Rafael Albuquerque. Something is terribly wrong with Batman. No matter what tests Bruce takes, nor the numbers he counts, the greatest detective in the world can’t pin down the source of this creeping dread — of his own inner demons and a looming mortality. Meanwhile, real demons roam the shadows as an ancient melody haunts the Gotham night. Who is human, who is demon, who is to tell? As Batman investigates the songs and the demons of Gotham, he is forced to confront the oldest question...whether there has been a demon within him all along...and if so, what does it want...and why hasn’t it taken over yet? DC Comics, 2023....More. Item Code: BATD01H Hard Cover, 7x10, 152pg, Full Color |
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BIKINI ATOLL Almost Gone! Translated from the French graphic novel. Horror, blood and carnage in a no-holds-barred terror tale. By Christophe Bec. Art by Bernard Khattou. Bikini Atoll and its turquoise waters attract tourists and divers from all over the world. This celestial paradise has not only given its name to the world's most famous bathing suit, but it was also used as a nuclear testing ground by the United States for over 40 years. Today the island's unreachable crevasses and impenetrable forests conceal many mysteries and dangers! Take a relaxing weekend trip to Bikini Atoll...if you dare! Some nudity, abundant graphic violence. Clover Press, 2022....More. Item Code: BIKINH Hard Cover, 7x10, 128pg, b&w |
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BLACK ADAM The Justice Society Case Files Collects four special #1 issues from 2022. By Cavan Scott, Bryan Q. Miller. Art by Scot Eaton et al. One of the world’s foremost wielders of magic, Black Adam has been both hero and villain over a life that’s spanned thousands of years. But where does that leave him in the fight for justice? This ties into the film and co-stars Hawkman, Cyclone, Atom Smasher and Dr. Fate. DC Comics, 2023....More. Item Code: BLAJSC Soft Cover, 7x10, 176pg, Full Color |
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BOOTBLACK Recommended. By Mikael. By the author of the critically acclaimed Giant. On the German front, in the spring of 1945: the war leaves only death and destruction in its wake. To escape the horror of the present, Al, an American soldier, the only survivor of his unit, immerses himself in the memories of his New York life. Son of German immigrants, born in the United States, he was not yet ten years old when, in one night, under the approving eyes of anti-immigrant Americans, he lost his parents and his home in a terrible fire. Turning his back on his origins, Al has no choice but to live on the streets; he becomes a Bootblack, a shoe shiner. NBM, 2022....More. Item Code: BOOTBLH Hard Cover, 9x12, 128pg, Full Color |
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CATWOMAN Lonely City Collects #1-4, 2021-22. Highly Recommended. By Cliff Chiang. The world without Batman! Ten years ago, the massacre known as Fools’ Night claimed the lives of Batman, the Joker, Nightwing, and Commissioner Gordon...and sent Selina Kyle, the Catwoman, to prison. A decade later, Gotham has put away costumed heroism and villainy. The new Gotham is cleaner, safer...and a lot less free, under the watchful eye of Mayor Harvey Dent and his Batcops. It’s into this new city that Selina Kyle returns, a changed woman...with her mind on that one last big score: the secrets hidden inside the Batcave! She doesn’t need the money “ she just needs to know...who is “Orpheus?” DC Comics, 2022....More. Item Code: CATLCH Hard Cover, 9x11, 224pg, Full Color |
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DRACULA OF TRANSLYVANIA Hurt Highly Recommended. By Ricardo Delgado. A fresh, bold retelling of the classic Stoker novel with the pace of the modern thriller, written by AND lavished with incredible concept art from one of Hollywood’s leading Conceptual Designers, Ricardo Delgado. 1899 Transylvania bleeds history and evil. Young Solicitor Jonathan Harker braves ghosts, demons, living skeletons, and armies of rats as he encounters Dracula. The demonic, shapeshifting vampire imposes his wrath, malice and vengeance upon an England about to enter the Modern Era, crushing everything in his path. Clover Press, 2021. Condition: Bumped corners. ...More. Item Code: DRACHR Hard Cover, 8x10, 560pg, Full Color |
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FIRST KINGDOM #1 Fourth Printing Publisher File Copy. 4th printing.Story and art by Jack Katz. Foreword by Thomas N. Scortia. Katzs legendary science-fantasy saga is one of the first independent comics, and a work unlike any other. In a post-apocalyptic world, it is foretold that primitive tribesman Darkenmoor found The First Kingdom, but will not survive its rise. Comics and Comix Co., 1975. Out of Print. Mature Readers....More. Item Code: FKCOM01R Comic, 8x11, 32pg, b&w |
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FOOD FIRST COMICS Exploding the Myth of Scarcity First Edition. By Leonard Rifas, Larry Rippee , Steve Leialoha (Illustrator). A vintage Underground comic. San Francisco, CA: Institute for Food and Development Policy, 1982. Comic book depicting food shortages as the result of capitalist manipulation of agriculture and the food supply, rather than true scarcity or overpopulation. Institute for Food and Development Policy, 1982. Out of Print. Condition: Very Fine. ...More. Item Code: WCOM20 Comic, 7x10, 24pg, b&w |
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FRANK THORNE'S RIBIT Hurt Limited, 1000. Out of Print. Recommended. A sexy heroine in the style of Lann, Ghita and Red Sonja — but intended for the regular comics market, so there's plenty of skin but no nudity. Frank Thorne's masterful blend of medieval sorcery and modern science. In another universe Ribit, the warrior woman created by magic, fights the final battle to save her world from the forces of chaos and darkness. First published by Comico in 1989 as Ribit #1-4. New interview with Thorne. Note: The printer left out one page — Hermes printed the page separately, in full color, and it can be slid into proper place. An errata sheet explaining this is also included. Hermes Press, 2019. Out of print. Condition: Very slightly bumped corner, else as new. ...More. Item Code: FRATRHR Hard Cover, 8x10, 144pg, Partial Color |
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HEART OF DARKNESS Highly Recommended. By Joseph Conrad. Adapted by Peter Kuper. Heart of Darkness has unsettled generations of readers with its haunting portrait of evil in the depths of Africa, brought there by the white man and his greed. Francis Ford Coppola’s brilliant re-imagining of Heart of Darkness was Apocalyse Now, set during the Vietnam War, gives you a hint of what is in store for you here. The narrator is hired to pilot a ship up an unexplored river, uncovering the rampant ivory trade, slavery, cruelty and tyranny...portrayed here with acclaimed illustrator Peter Kuper's signature woodblock style. W.W. Norton, 2020....More. Item Code: HEADAH Hard Cover, 6x9, 160pg, b&w |
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JENNY ZERO IN HIS SHADOW Collects #1-4. By David Dwonch, Brockton McKinney et al. Art by Magenta King et al. After washing out as the military’s top Kaiju (monster) killer, Jenny lives the celebutante life with her hotel heiress bestie. But freakish creatures, secret societies, and her father’s legacy now have her wondering if she can sober up — just long enough to save the world! Time to fight some monsters, and even take on a monstrous form herself. It's a fun Godzilla-related story with a modern twist. Dark Horse, 2022....More. Item Code: JENZ Soft Cover, 7x10, 112pg, Full Color |
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NUBIA QUEEN OF THE AMAZONS Recommended. By Stephanie Williams. Art by Alitha Martinez, Vita Ayala et al.After the events of Trial of the Amazons, a new era for these warriors has dawned. Nubia is the new Amazon Queen and embarks on a tour of the modern world. She stood between Man's World and the dangers of Doom's Doorway for centuries. But now a villain from her past is waiting as she leaves the protection of Themyscira. Includes all variant covers. DC Comics, 2022....More. Item Code: NUBQH Hard Cover, 7x10, 152pg, Full Color |
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PEARL OF THE SEA Recommended. All-ages. By Anthony Silverston. Art by Willem Samuel. Young diver Pearl has always felt more comfortable in the sea, as she balances school and providing for her unemployed dad, turning up fish and the rare lost treasure from under the sea. The people in her sleepy South African town, including her dad, let her down, but when a new friend from below the surface—a sea monster named Otto—is taken by poachers, Pearl will fight for his survival and will need some help after all. Attractive and polished animation style, a fun read with lots to enjoy here. Catalyst Press, 2023....More. Item Code: PEARSE Soft Cover, 5x8, 168pg, Full Color |
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PROJECT MK-ULTRA SEX, DRUGS, & THE CIA Volume 1 By Brandon Beckner and Scott Sampila. Art by Stewart Moore. A reality-based graphic novel of San Francisco, 1971. As the Vietnam War rages, the government wages war at home against the hippy counter-culture. High profile drug trials capture headlines. Seymour Phillips, a headstrong journalist eager to prove himself, discovers key information uncovering a vast drug network. A routine interview leads to a sensational accusation that the man accused of trafficking mass quantities of LSD works for the CIA. Clover Press, 2021. Out of print. Mature readers....More. Item Code: PROJ01H Hard Cover, 7x10, 152pg, Full Color |
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RED SONJA Volume 3 Children's Crusade Collects #13-18, 2019. By Mark Russell. Art by Bob Q. Year two of Mark Russell's epic tale kicks off, joined by artist Bob Q (Captain America, Fantastic Four). In this issue: Sonja The Red has won. Now comes the impossible part... Sonja is queen but now must wager everything to save her people. Full page covers for all six issues by Roberto Castro, Pepoy, Linsner, Laming, Bob Q, Diaz, Gorham, Cosplay photo covers and also work by Gedeon and Anwar. Dynamite, 2022....More. Item Code: RED03 Soft Cover, 7x10, 156pg, Full Color |
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SUPERMAN SON OF KAL-EL Volume 1 The Truth Collects #1-6, 2021. Clark Kent's son Jonathan has experienced a lot in his young life. He’s fought evil with Robin, traveled across galaxies with his Kryptonian grandfather, and lived in the future with the Legion of Super-Heroes, who were intent on training him for the day his father could no longer be Superman. There is a hole in the Legion’s history that prevents Jon from knowing exactly when that will happen, but all signs point to it being very soon. DC Comics, 2022....More. Item Code: SUPS01 Hard Cover, 7x10, 160pg, Full Color |
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THE COLLECTED TOPPI Volume 6 Japan Hurt Our Highest Recommendation. The sixth of a seven-volume library: six tales of folklore set in Medieval Japan. Presented in English for the first time since the 1970s and 1980s. Tales of ronin, demons, a retired samurai, the beautiful fox goddess and an unlikely savior, this collection includes "Tanka," "Kimura," "The Return of Ishi," "Sato," "Ogari 1650," and "Momotaro." Toppi is widely considered one of the world’s greatest visionaries in the art of sequential storytelling, with his evocative, detail-oriented pen-and-ink style. Magnetic Press, 2021. Out of print. Condition: We are unable to get perfect copies; these have bumped corners and/or dented cover edges....More. Item Code: COLT06H Hard Cover, 9x12, 144pg, b&w |
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The HELLBOUND Volume 1 By Yeon Sang-Ho. Art by Choi Gyu-Seok. Now a Netflix original series. One day, you will receive a message from an unknown sender. The message will only include your name, the fact that you are going to hell, and the time you have left to live. There is nowhere to run, nowhere to hide — no escape. When the time counts down to zero, supernatural beings manifest to condemn you to hell. Dark Horse, 2022....More. Item Code: HELLB01 Soft Cover, 6x8, 320pg, b&w |
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THE HOLLOWS Artist Sam Kieth and writer Chris Ryall transport you to a dystopian near-future Japan, where spectral, once-human husks prey on the unfortunates who couldn't find salvation in the skyscraper-like trees that now dominate the decimated landscape. A discredited scientist works furiously to find a cure, until a one-eyed orphan girl and her pet, named Urp, force him to rethink everything he knows... Image Comics, 2022....More. Item Code: HOLLO Comic, 7x10, 96pg, Full Color |
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THE JUNCTION Superb animation-style art from renowned animator. Highly Recommended. By Norm Konyu. When a missing child, Lucas Jones, reappears on his uncle’s doorstep in his hometown of Medford after an absence of 12 years, the brief moment of joy is clouded by mystery. Where has he been? Where is his father, who disappeared at the same time? And how is it possible that Lucas is still 11 years old? Unusual impressionistic but very effective art style. Titan, 2022....More. Item Code: JUNCH Hard Cover, 7x10, 176pg, Full Color |
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VAMPIRELLA & RED SONJA 2021 Holiday Special Set Linsner Cover Variants Two-comic set. Both covers by Michael Linsner. Wreck the Halls! Vampirella is hunted (haunted?) by The Spirits of Christmas, hunters whose holiday tradition is to hunt a mythical creature every Christmas Eve! By writer/artist Will Robson (Fantastic Four). Plus: An all-new She-Devil tale, from ongoing Red Sonja architect Mirka Andolfo and a cavalcade of creators! The grim Sonja is not one for ebullient festivities. But her recent "adoption" of the mysterious child Sitha has (temporarily) melted her defenses, just in time for revelry. But will outside forces aiming to prod and pillage put a pause on the party? Dynamite, 2021....More. Item Code: VARHP Comic, 7x10, 32pg ea, Full Color |
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ZAP COMIX NO. 3 Second Printing. This underground classic features cover art by both Rick Griffin and S. Clay Wilson - Tales include, "Wonder Warthog in 'Wonder Blows an Easy One'", "Captain Pissgums and his Pervert Pirates", " Mr. Natural", and more. Illustrated throughout with artwork by R. Crumb, S. Clay Wilson, Rick Griffin and Gilbert Shelton et al. Fifty cent cover price. Apex Novelties, 1969-72. Condition: Very Good. Curled corners and or cover wear. Adult Material....More. Item Code: ZAP03R Comic, 7x10, 48 pg., b&w |
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RETROACTIVE By Ibrahim Moustafa. Temporal agent Tarik Abdelnasser is trapped in a time loop, living and dying over and over again.But before he got stuck, he and his new partner were investigating a radical new adversary who's going back in time and changing events to benefit themselves. Tarik must keep his sanity and find a way to prevent the attack, escape the loop, and return to his own timeline... Humanoids, 2022....More. Item Code: RETROA Soft Cover, 7x10, 136pgs, Full Color |
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ROBIN & BATMAN Collects #1-3, 2021. Handsome hardcover in jacket. Robin is just starting out at the side of Batman, struggling to find his own path from personal tragedy, newly orphaned. The Eisner-winning team of writer Jeff Lemire and artist Dustin Nguyen unite for a three-issue limited-series exploring the beginning of Dick Grayson’s crime-fighting career. DC Comics, 2022....More. Item Code: ROBBAH Hard Cover, 7x10, 144pg, Full Color |
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SAPIENS IMPERIUM By Sam Timel. Art by Jorge Miguel.An oversized graphic novel first published in France. Imprisoned by the thousands in the bowels of an uninhabited moon, they have been erased from official history. All members of the Khelek Dynasty and their allies were banished to the barren caves. Sixty-five years later, their descendants are still captive there. Xinthia has had enough and with the help of a robot warrior turned rebel, she's doing it. Humanoids, 2022....More. Item Code: SAPIH Hard Cover, 9x13, 120pg, Full Color |
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SEASON OF THE BRUJA Volume 1 Recommended. By Aaron Duran. Art by Sara Soler. Excellent art, we like the look of this! Very cool creatures and fine action/magical scenes. Follow our young heroine as she comes into her magical abilities and faces re-emergent threats from the past. From a young age, Althalia knew she would someday be the last of her kind — a bruja, tasked with keeping the power and stories of the ancient ways from fading fully into history. Never alone, Althalia works in a paranormal museum with her friends, a real-life Chupacabra and a were-coyote. Omni Press, 2022....More. Item Code: SEAB01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 128pg, Full Color |
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UNUSUAL TALES Volume 4 Collects Unusual Tales #16-20, 1959-60. Unusual Tales moves beyond the Ditko era (last in #15) but continues the genre stories with art by Matt Baker (a cover and two stories, with Vince Colletta), Dick Giordano, Charles Nicholas, and Don Perlin. Science fiction, horror, suspense, fantasy and the supernatural. "Under Antarctic Ice," "Gravity Grabber," "The Talking Dog," "Thinkee the Thinkatron," "The Time Cap," and "The Unbelievable Stone Man" are just a few of the stories. PS Artbooks, 2022....More. Item Code: SAUT04 Soft Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color |
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ADVENTURES INTO THE UNKNOWN Volume 7 Slipcased Collects #31-36, 1952. Recommended. Art by Edvard Moritz, Art Gates, Al Camy, Lin Streeter, Lou Cameron and Ken Bald. Ah, they were truly the best of times. Forget the rest. Richard Hughes's groundbreaking Adventures Into The Unknown, the world's first horror anthology-title boldly stepped where no comic book had gone before. Stories include "The Faceless Legion," "Beyond the Door of Death," "The Crawling Corpse," "Marie Antoinette," "The Girl Who Died Twice," "The Lair of Lost Souls," "The Man Who Couldn't Die," "Lady of Death," "Artist of Evil," etc. Death is a popular theme, wouldn't you say? PS Artbooks, 2014. Out of print....More. Item Code: ADU07D Hard Cover, 7x10, 288pg, Full Color |
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PRE-CODE CLASSICS VOODOO Volume 1 Collects #1-7, 1952-53. Recommended. Art by Robert Webb, Matt Baker et al. Okay, horror fans, check out the seven blood-soaked and brain-damaged gore-fests that make up the first seven issues of Voodoo, boasting an artist line-up that includes Robert Webb, Matt Baker, and the entire Iger Shop. Here are reprints of two rare Baker South Sea Girl stories as well as Rulah, plus more Baker stories plus the best of the Iger Shop emulating Baker. Some fun and iconic covers on these first issues, including a man stabbed in the face, noted in Overstreet. PS Artbooks, 2018....More. Item Code: PCV01H Hard Cover, 7x10, 256pg, Full Color |
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CHILLING TALES #13 Facsimile Edition & Print Collects #13, 1952. With 11 1/2 x 16 matted print of the cover. Recommended. Kicking off PS Facsimile comics comes a three-issue line-up from the pen of the legendary Matt Fox who also created covers for the pulp Weird Tales. He is well known for a small body of work but each piece unique and totally weird! Plus: The Screaming Skull by Harry Harrison, Spider Hider by pulp illustrator Vincent Napoli and Pursued by Vic Carrabotta. All scans reworked to bring them back as close as possible to the originals, with all ads. PS Artbooks, 2021....More. Item Code: CHIL13 Comic, 7x10, 36pg, Full Color |
| #15 is also on sale for the same price. [CHIL15]. |
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WEIRD HORRORS #6 Facsimile Edition From 1953. Recommended. Another of the wildest covers of the 50s by legendary William Ekgren. Stories by Bob Forgione, Jim McLaughlin, Ed Ashe and Don Perlin. We get an atomic bomb story plus “From Outer Space,” “The Phantom Guillotine,” “Vengeance Trail” and more. Plus an oversized, 8 x 12-1/2 inch (image size) print of the cover on card stock and matted, ready to display. PS Artbooks, 2022....More. Item Code: WEI06 Comic, 7x10, 36pg, Full Color |
| Weird Horrors #7 is also on sale for the same price [WEI07]. |
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SPACEMEN MAGAZINE #3 Facsimile Edition & Print From 1962. With matted oversized print of the cover by Basil Gogos. Robert Silverberg contributes the short story plus The Lost Planet, Girl in the Moon, Life as a Space Cadet and much more. Are People Alive on the Moon?? Nice thick issue, making this a fun collection of early 1960s nostalgia. Warren’s companion title to the ground breaking Famous Monsters, also edited by Forry Ackerman. The best science fiction films with pictures, interviews and synopses of the best films of the 30s, 40s, and 50s. PS Artbooks, 2022....More. Item Code: SPAM03 Magazine, 8x11, 36pg, b&w |
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STRANGE TERRORS #4 Facsimile Edition From 1952. Recommended. Another legendary issue, this time with a wild and strange painted cover by the notorious William Ekgren. Inside we have work by Joe Kubert, Bill Molno, George Tuska and Charle Sultan, another forgotten artist who drew very much like Lou Fine. Comes with an oversized, 8 x 12 1/2 (image size) cover reproduction on card stock and matted. It is ready to display, with an embossed seal identifying the limited status. PS Artbooks, 2022....More. Item Code: ST04 Comic, 7x10, 36pg, Full Color |
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THE SPIDER: CRIME UNLIMITED Collects Fleetway Super Picture Library #2 & 4, 1967. By Jerry Siegel and Donne Avenell. Art by Aldo Marculeta and Giorgio Trevisan. The Spider (not to be confused with the 1930s pulp hero) was an anti-hero created in British comics but written, in part, by Superman-co-creator Jerry Siegel. He is the uncrowned king of the New York underworld, so elusive to the police that he even manages to taunt the Police Commissioner at his retirement party. But Professor Aldo Cummings, a famous but ill-tempered scientist, determined to stop the schemes of the Spider once and for all, invents a ray-machine which will eliminate the evil from a person's personality. Unfortunately, a tragic miscalculation will turn Professor Cummings into the Professor of Power, and he will seek a more direct confrontation with the Spider. Rebellion/2000 AD, 2022....More. Item Code: SPICUH Hard Cover, 7x10, 256pg, b&w |
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THE WILD ADVENTURES OF CTHULHU Volume 2 By Will Murray. Front and back cover paintings and interior vignettes by Eric Lofgren. H. P. Lovecraft’s dark vision of Massachusetts as a seat of cosmic weirdness has fascinated readers for more than a century. Witch-troubled Arkham. Drowned Dunwich. Mystic Kingsport. Fish-fouled Innsmouth. And others even more obscure... Ten new and previously-printed stories explore the forces of Cthulhu and his otherworldly allies. Odyssey Publications, 2022. ...More. Item Code: WILADC02 Soft Cover, 6x9, 246pg, Text/b&w |
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KULL II PORTFOLIO Warehouse find, 1977. Signed by John, numbered & limited, 1500. Highly Recommended. By Marie and John Severin. Contains seven black and white original prints done specifically for this, the first signed & numbered. All of the prints are in an illustrated folder inside an illustrated envelope. Includes certificate of authenticity, numbered and dated. This publisher kicked off the portfolio "boom" in the late 1970s, and this is one of their best efforts, done while John and Marie were doing the Marvel Comics Kull series. Beautiful work. Envelope has the number in pencil, and its corners are lightly bumped, with slight discoloration on the very edges. The portfolio itself is as new. Middle Earth, 1977....More. Item Code: KULL02 11x15, 7 prints, b&w |
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