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Exciting week! The new Mark Schultz collection is in stock and it’s just amazing: 400+ pages of brilliant work. Dan Brereton gives us a new collection fresh off his Kickstarter campaign, available nowhere else. The new Den Library, new Calvin & Hobbes set, Ghost Rider 2099, Red Sonja Black, White & Red, Origins of Marvel, Peanuts, wonderful new ERB Mars volumes and much more. Enjoy! |
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Click here for last week's new items. Click here to see ALL New Arrivals, beginning with the latest and going back 30 days.
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DEN Volume 4 Dreams and Alarums |
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| Here are the other three Corben Library editions, in matching deluxe bindings. Click here for more out of print Corben collections, including some signed. |
New from Dan Brereton |
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PHANTOM FATALE Pulp and Pulchritude By Dan Brereton with Original Drawing Signed with a multi-color original full page drawing. Highly Recommended. In the two years since the release of Dan’s last book By the Blade, Dan's been hard at work on new covers and commissions. Phantom Fatale gathers a colorful spectrum of spooky monster gals, dangerous femmes, monsters and more! We like the variety of work, all full page, fully-painted new pieces. Available so far only from Dan's Kickstarter campaign and from us. Big Wow!, 2024. ...More. Item Code: PULFHD Hard Cover, 8x11, 132pg, Full Color $100.00 |
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PHANTOM FATALE Pulp and Pulchritude By Dan Brereton Signed Signed! Highly Recommended. In the two years since the release of Dan’s last book By the Blade, Dan's been hard at work on new covers and commissions. Phantom Fatale gathers a colorful spectrum of spooky monster gals, dangerous femmes, monsters and more! We like the variety of work, all full page, fully-painted new pieces. Available so far only from Dan's Kickstarter campaign and from us. Big Wow!, 2024. Big Wow!, 2024. ...More. Item Code: PULFHS Hard Cover, 8x11, 132pg, Full Color $35.00 |
| Click here for all of Dan’s books; every one is signed, and most have deluxe editions with an extra unique full page drawing in at least two colors. |
Mark Schultz: Portfolio |
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MARK SCHULTZ PORTFOLIO Hardcover Signed ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOFTCOVER |
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| The limited signed edition ($75) is sold out — customers bought out our allotment of 50 copies. Both remaining editions are now in stock. Fleskes may go back to print on the softcover, he had to allocate copies to his own book distributor, but it will not be immediately. Here’s more from Mark, including out of print collections. |
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VIOLA The Art of Senbon Umishima This collection features original artworks that are uniquely Senbon Umishima‘s, including illustrations from the artist’s first collection A Bouquet of a Thousand Flowers, the manga The Stories, and more. The works are divided into two parts: one part features illustrations and one part showcases short manga. Also included are acclaimed commercial works such as illustrations for Suzume and the Chair, the official spin-off picture book prequel to the film Suzume, which was also a big hit overseas. Sometimes colorful, sometimes chic, Senbon Umishima's ability to draw various styles and compositions creates a dynamic sensibility that is impressive. PIE International, 2024. ...More. Item Code: VIOLS Soft Cover, 7x10, 226pg, Full Color $39.99 |
| Here is more Japanese-inspired art for movie sets, characters, beautiful girls and more. |
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WALT DISNEY TREASURES Personal Art and Artifacts from The Walt Disney Family Museum Walt Disney Treasures: Personal Art and Artifacts from The Walt Disney Family Museum chronicles the legacy of the legendary American artist, storyteller, filmmaker, and visionary through iconic objects that represent his life and career. Through historical research, firsthand accounts, and Walt’s own words, readers will uncover the most treasured artifacts that tell the story of Walt Disney and his family, as well as the significance of each item to Walt’s personal and professional life. With more than 250 images from the collection and galleries of The Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco and the Disney family archives—some never seen by the public—readers will experience Walt’s story like never before. Weldon Owen, 2024....More. Item Code: WDTREH Hard Cover, 10x12, 232pg, Partial Color |
| More of the latest Disney collections. |
Archives & Omnibus Volumes |
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ALLEY OOP IN SPARTA 1991 Dave Graue Daily strips, 1991. Alley Oop helps protect a government witness-by sending her back to the dinosaurs in prehistoric Moo! What will happen when the mob's enforcers invade the time laboratory and force Doc Wonmug to give her up? How in the world do they all get transported-to ancient Sparta!? Acoustic Learning, 2024....More. Item Code: ALLE91 Soft Cover, 9x8, 106pg, b&w $19.99 |
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ALLEY OOP AND THE FIRE GODDESS 1996 Dave Graue Daily strips, 1996. By Dave Graue and Jack Bender. It’s quest after quest for Alley Oop as he hunts the yellow-beaked blackwing, seeks the elusive star fendle, and dines on alien fast food — all before being captured by the minions of the strange and powerful Fire Goddess! Acoustic Learning, 2024....More. Item Code: ALLE96 Soft Cover, 9x8, 106pg, b&w $19.99 |
| Here’s all Dave’s collections, and all of V.T. Hamlin’s, so far. |
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ORIGINS OF MARVEL COMICS Hardcover Item Code: ORIMCH
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| Stan Lee’s original classic is available again, curated by the man himself with his comments about each origin tale. Also available in softcover, without the new cover jacket or special features.[ORIMC. $21.99]. |
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EERIE ARCHIVES Volume 8 Collects #37-41. By Doug Moench, Don Glut, Sanjulian et al. Dare to gaze into the Eerie archives for a full dose of vintage horror! Collecting Eerie magazine #37-41, this is loaded with the kind of gory, mind-bending stories that established the horror comic renaissance. Stories of the fantastic, sinister and otherworldly are rendered by great artists like Ernie Colon, Mike Ploog, Dave Cockrum, Esteban Maroto and many others. Prepare to get scared! Dark Horse, 2024....More. Item Code: EER08 Soft Cover, 9x11, 312pg, b&w |
| Same discounted price: Eerie Volumes 1-7, and Creepy too. |
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RED SONJA BLACK, WHITE, RED Volume 1 Signed Signed by Gail Simone. Collects #1-4. Cover by Philip Tan. By Kurt Busiek, Gail Simone et al. The comics industry's top writers and artists pen 12 tales. Sonja's journeys take her through key moments of her long life, across the Hyborian Age, and against many foes and challenges, while creators also push the artistic boundaries of the medium through their storytelling. Dynamite, 2023. ...More. Item Code: REDB01HS Hard Cover, 7x10, 136pg, Full Color $49.99 |
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THE BIG BOOK OF PEANUTS Highly Recommended. The final ten years of daily strips from Jan. 1, 1990 through January 2000 from Charles Schulz's half century of Peanuts are presented here complete. Introductory essay and notes about the evolution of the strip in its final decade. Andrews McMeel, 2024. ...More. Item Code: BIGPEH Hard Cover, 9x12, 544pg, b&w |
| Here are more Peanuts collections. |
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JOHN CONSTANTINE HELLBLAZER By Jamie Delano Omnibus Volume 1 Collects #1-22, and Annual #1, and more, 1988-89. Recommended. Introduction by Jamie Delano. Foreword by Garth Ennis. Now, fans can revisit — or experience for the first time —his earliest solo adventures, collecting the first Hellblazer stories from writer Jamie Delano and artists including John Ridgway, Richard Piers Rayner, Stephen R. Bissette, and more. Hellblazer helped usher in DC’s seminal Vertigo label, and stands as the longest-running series of that imprint — and now the earliest stories of that era are available in the omnibus format, alongside a host of extras. DC Comics, 2024. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge. ...More. Item Code: JOHH01H Hard Cover, 7x11, 1128pg, Full Color |
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MARVEL MASTERWORKS MAN-THING Volume 1 Collects Man-Thing #1, Fear #10, 11-19 and more, 1972-74. Art by Val Mayerik. From the fetid of the swamps of the south comes the Man-Thing! The brilliant Dr. Ted Sallis’ progress on a new Super-Solider Serum gained the envious attention of A.I.M. One untested injection and a hot-pursuit car crash into the swamp later, Sallis is forever changed. He is now the Man-Thing, a lumbering creature with the searing power to burn those who know fear! Marvel, 2024. ...More. Item Code: MMMT01H Hard Cover, 7x10, 320pg, Full Color |
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GHOST RIDER 2099 Omnibus Collects #1-25, 1994-96. By Chris Bachalo, Peter Gross, et al.Between Neuromancer and The Matrix, there was Ghost Rider 2099: a dark cyberpunk take on Marvel’s biker from beyond the grave! When the consciousness of Zero Cochrane, a murdered computer hacker, is downloaded into the body of an unstoppable cybernetic warbot, sparks fly — and Cochrane’s killers become his first targets for vengeance! Marvel, 2024. ...More. Item Code: GHORIH Hard Cover, 8x11, 632pg, Full Color |
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CALVIN AND HOBBES PORTABLE COMPENDIUM SET Volume 3 The third set of books collecting Bill Watterson's timeless Calvin and Hobbes comics in a new portable format designed to introduce the timeless adventures of a boy and his stuffed tiger to a new generation of readers. Featuring nearly 500 comics presented chronologically from June 1988 to November 1989. Andrew McMeel, 2024....More. Item Code: CALV03 Soft Cover, 6x9, 288pg, Partial Color $21.99 |
| Sets 1 and 2 are in matching slipcased sets. |
Graphic Novels |
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MEDUSA A superhero graphic novel with a mythological twist by Eisner-nominated artist Tony Parker (God of War and Mass Effect). Everything you know about Medusa is a lie. Forever cursed to be remembered as a monster, this ageless yet very mortal hero has spent millennia saving humanity from the horrors of legend. But now, today, in Scotland, she has met a foe that makes even the gods hide in fear. Armed with unwavering resolve, will the mighty Medusa be able to save mankind one last time? Dark Horse, 2024....More. Item Code: MEDSA Soft Cover, 7x10, 88pg, Full Color $19.99 |
| I’m super-impressed with the art on this, and it’s a spin-off of the Greek mythology, complete with gods and such. But this time Medusa is a man, and apparently a good guy! Very wild stuff. |
3...2...1...Gone! |
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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| Bud's October Clearance Sale! | |
We recently sent out our latest clearance sale with over 100 items newly reduced. You can see the email on our blog, or you can search OCTSALE to see the full list of items that were put on sale this month. Click on AUGSALE and SEPTSALE to see the entire listings for the previous 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. |
Pulp & Pop Culture |
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KORAK AT THE EARTH'S CORE Hardcover Includes bonus trading card while supplies last. By Win Scott Eckert. Cover by E. M. Gist. A brand-new Arc in the groundbreaking ERB Universe series launches and includes bonus novella: "Pellucidar: Dawn of the Deathslayer" by Christopher Paul Carey. Korak the Killer, jungle-raised son of Tarzan of the Apes, sets off with his ape friend Akut into the wilds of the prehistoric world at the Earth’s core to rescue his daughter Suzanne Clayton, who has gone missing in the mysterious Land of Awful Shadow. ERB Inc., 2024. ...More. Item Code: KORATH Hard Cover, 6x9, 274pg, Text Only $36.95 |
| Also available in softcover, we listed it last week [KORAT. $21.95]. |
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GIANT ROBOT Thirty Years of Defining Asian-American Pop Culture A deluxe hardcover that celebrates the pop culture phenomenon, the fan magazine Giant Robot. Los Angeles, 1994. Two Asian-American punk rockers staple together the zine of their dreams featuring Sumo, Hong Kong Cinema and Osamu Tezuka. From the margins of alternative culture, Giant Robot burst into the mainstream with over 60,000 copies in circulation annually at its peak. Drawn and Quarterly, 2024. ...More. Item Code: GIANRH Hard Cover, 8x11, 464pg, Full Color |
| This isn’t quite what we thought it was when we ordered it; it’s more pure youngster pop culture, Japan-style, which only touches on films and art. |
Mature Readers |
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JOHN WILLIE A Bizarre Life By Jane Garrett. With his iconic art and the groundbreaking content of his Bizarre magazine, John Willie is perhaps the person most responsible for introducing fetish style to the mainstream. Illustrated with examples of John’s work, this in-depth exploration shines the spotlight on the man behind the drawings of buxom beauties and the photographs of expertly executed erotic bondage. Ahead of his time, John's influences can still be seen in the worlds of art and fashion, and he was an advocate for freedom of expression in dress, gender identity, and sexuality—issues that are still hotly debated today. Drawing heavily from John’s extensive interactions with researchers at the Kinsey Institute, Garrett provides a close-up portrait of the artist whose ideas have fed the erotic fantasies of generations of people. Schiffer, 2024. Mature Readers....More. Item Code: JOHWIH Hard Cover, 6x9, 176pg, Partial Color |
The Adventures of Sweet Gwendoline by John Willie was first collected from the pages of John Willie’s Bizarre in 1974, and revised and reprinted in 1999. This introduced comics fandom to the somewhat alternate universe of bondage comics, first serialized in the late 1940s and looking an awful lot like a risque Fiction House comic! The series had nudity and bd/sm suggestiveness, but all in all it was amazingly innocent — more suggestive than explicit. We sold hundreds of copies of Gwen over several decades. The man behind Gwen was was John Willie, who not only drew the vintage Golden Age-era stories and how-to bondage illustrations, but was also renowned for glamorous bondage photography done during his "Hollywood" period. Glamour International covered some of this, but the issues are long out of print; Taschen collected Willie's fetish magazine, Bizarre in a handsome slipcased set —that’s out of print also. But, finally, we have a complete first-ever biography of this creative and pioneering individual, including his photography work with models —all consenting and still with an innocence of a bygone era. John Willie: A Bizarre Life! |
Mature Readers - Coming in November |
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COMPLETE CREPAX 7 & 8 Slipcased Set The latest box set of the bestselling Crepax series is devoted to the artist’s comics adaptations of the erotic literary canon including Georges Bataille’s Story of the Eye and the groundbreaking BDSM Story of O by Pauline Réage. Adult Material. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge. Due: Nov....More. Item Code: CREP04P Hard Cover, 13x10, 592pg, b&w $150.00 |
We’ve had the Complete Crepax 7 and 8 available individually for some time. Now Fantagraphics has put them together as a set; we’re making it a special order item (takes 3-4 weeks) since we imagine most customers already bought the individual volumes. But if you haven’t and you’d like the set, it will be available in a special slipcase in November. $150. |
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| BARSOOM SAGA BOOKS 1-3 Set By Edgar Rice Buroughs. For the first time ever, the Edgar Rice Burroughs Authorized Library presents the complete literary works of the Master of Adventure in uniform hardcover editions. Published by the company founded by Mr. Burroughs in 1923, each volume of the Authorized Library is packed with extras and rarities not to be found in any other edition. From cover art and frontispieces by legendary artist Joe Jusko to forewords and afterwords by today’s authorities and luminaries to a treasure trove of bonus materials mined from the company’s extensive archives in Tarzana, California, the Edgar Rice Burroughs Authorized Library will take you on a journey of wonder and imagination you will never forget. ERB Inc., 2024. Due: Dec....More. Item Code: BARS01P Hard Cover, 6x9, Text/b&w |
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BARSOOM SAGA Volume 1 A Princess of Mars By Edgar Rice Burroughs. Cover and frontispiece by Joe Jusko. Mysteriously projected to Mars, Captain John Carter of Virginia finds himself a captive of the savage Tharks, four-armed green Martian warriors roving the dead sea bottoms. Among them he meets one who will change his life forever—the incomparable Dejah Thoris, regal princess of the nation of Helium, captured while on a scientific mission to study the dwindling atmosphere of dying Barsoom. With the steel of his sword and the strength of his earthly muscles, John Carter will stop at nothing to free the woman who has captured his heart, even as she spurns his love. But winning liberty will be only the first challenge for the Earthman when fate throws Dejah Thoris into the clutches of Helium’s greatest enemy. ERB Inc., 2024. Due: Dec....More. Item Code: BARS01H Hard Cover, 6x9, Text/b&w $36.95 |
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BARSOOM SAGA Volume 2 The Gods of Mars By Edgar Rice Buroughs. Cover and frontispiece by Joe Jusko. After ten long years stranded on Earth, John Carter returns once again to Barsoom. But this time, he finds himself fighting for his life in the Valley Dor—the presumed Martian paradise that is in reality a violent hellscape, where legions of blood-thirsty Plant Men and four-armed great apes reward with bitter death believers who take the final pilgrimage down the sacred River Iss. Reunited with Tars Tarkas, his loyal green Martian friend, John Carter runs awry into the hands of the Holy Therns, the ancient cult that in secret rules all Barsoom. But even the Therns themselves fall victim to the ruthless pirates of the First Born—and somewhere among these myriad adversaries lies John Carter’s beloved Dejah Thoris, waiting without hope beyond his reach. ERB Inc., 2024. Due: Dec....More. Item Code: BARS02H Hard Cover, 6x9, Text/b&w $36.95 |
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BARSOOM SAGA Volume 3 The Warlord of Mars By Edgar Rice Burroughs. Cover and frontispiece by Joe Jusko. Long has John Carter waited for the revolving door of the devious Temple of the Sun to open, not knowing whether his beloved Dejah Thoris lives or has perished upon the other side. But before the door can open, the princess is spirited away by a conspiracy of her husband’s deadliest enemies. The trail leads from the steaming swamps of Kaol and Ptarth to the frigid Carrion Caves lying beyond the ice barrier that fringes the far north. There, in the domed cities of the Yellow Men, John Carter must confront the cruel Jeddak of Okar and solve the mystery of why no outsider has ever returned from the tyrant’s kingdom—or he and Dejah Thoris will meet the same deadly fate themselves. ERB Inc., 2024. Due: Dec....More. Item Code: BARS03H Hard Cover, 6x9, Text/b&w $36.95 |
| We offer the new Tarzan volumes in discounted sets of four. These have proved much more popular with customers who prefer it to buying the individual volumes. So we’re doing this again with the new John Carter of Mars series; Save more than 10% with the set. Once again, with new covers by Joe Jusko and lots of additional bonus material. |
Rare Books This Week! |
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Gemstone Reprints!! This week we have more than a dozen EC Comic sets from Gemstone. Valor, Panic, Aces High, Crime Suspenstories and many more. Also many books on Erotica, Nude Photography, How-To and Classic Illustrations. Click here to see all 69 new listings for this week. Most have only one in stock, so if you see something you like, grab it fast! Rare Books Sale! – our 20% off special on more than 300 titles is still available. Click here for the latest list of 292 titles, and our first offering, with more than 300 titles still available.
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News & Notes |
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More Flesk News Flesk’s Arthur Adams Sketchbook is scheduled for December. Watch for details. Another Al Williamson collection is coming, but with a full schedule already for 2025, we won’t see it until 2026. But meanwhile, Fantagraphics has announced the next Atlas Artist collection will be 400+ pages with ALL of Al Williamson’s work for Atlas…that’s going to be GREAT. Details soon.
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Free Joe Jusko Trading Cards We have a few boxes of miscellaneous trading cards from sets we made years ago. Among them were Joe Jusko’s Edgar Rice Burroughs Fantasy Art Collection, so we decided to make a few card sets and include them with the recent Art of the 1992 Marvel Masterpieces collections. 15 cards ship with the hardcover, 25 cards ship with the signed & numbered slipcased volume, while supplies last. Cards are chosen at random. The card backs have informative text for each Tarzan image, plus classic Burroughs illustrations by such artists as Frank Frazetta, Boris Vallejo, Neal Adams, Roy Krenkel and J. Allen St. John.
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Anne and I are in Seattle as I write this on Wednesday night. Tomorrow we setup and the show opens Saturday and Sunday. So I haven’t had a chance to closely review all the new books above — I’ll edit the descriptions and add recommendations when I get home.
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Folsom Comics Show Report |
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We set up at the local vintage comics show in Folsom last Sunday, and did reasonably well. Attendance was light, and he didn’t sell all the tables out…but it was his first-ever show. So he (Lanvin Peets, son of A-1 Comics’ Brian Peets) gave all the dealers lots of extra space and boy, did we use it. Here’s our layout, this is all us. The vintage Playboys, pulps and comics on the back left, our traditional art books & things on our wood racks. On the table in front: a set of Steranko’s Comic Scene and Media Scene, more comics, and boxes of $1 Comics. That’s Anne behind the table and our one-time employee Peter Quinones in the Dr. Strange t-shirt! The next Folsom show will be March 20. ~Bud |
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