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We sent out our annual Cyber Sale this week—it features 20% off every 3…2…1 Gone item—that is in addition to any discount already applied! See it here. We’re most excited about the Atlas Al Williamson collection coming in January, with our highest recommendation. Meanwhile, in stock now: A new Brereton signed portfolio and a variant with an original drawing, Creepy Archives 9, Hellboy Omnibus 1955-57, three new DC Finest editions, JSA Compendium, Batman the Cult by Wrightson, The Fantasy World of Irwin Allen, PS collections of Doll Man, the final Planet Comics volume, Web of Mystery and Man in Black…and much more. Happy Turkey Day! We’ll be closed Thursday and Friday, but we’ll ship all orders out promptly on Monday, after the holiday weekend. |
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STUDIO GHIBLI Architecture in Animation |
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THE FANTASY WORLD OF IRWIN ALLEN Oversized, massive! Recommended. By Jeff Bond. Foreword by actor Bill Mumy. Take a visual journey through the mind and career of the Master of Disaster, producer of The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, illustrated with over 2,000 exclusive images. This lavish coffee table hardback book is the first and only book of its kind, revealing the mind and career of legendary producer Irwin Allen, the man also behind some of the most popular television programs of the 1960s. It traces Allen from his early days as a Hollywood agent and radio personality to his lengthy stint at 20th Century Fox, where he produced movies such as The Lost World and Five Weeks in a Balloon and the popular television shows Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel and Land of the Giants. Titan, 2024. ...More. Item Code: FANIAH Hard Cover, 11x12, 612pg, Full Color |
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DAN BRERETON NOCTURNALS Mini Portfolio Signed! Limited, 50. 30th Anniversary Portfolio featuring the Nocturnals characters in new drawings. One wonderful group scene, the others with one or two characters. All full color. Five plates in all; one signed. In a full color envelope, signed and numbered from just 50 copies. Dan Brereton, 2024....More. Item Code: DANBN 8x11, 5 plates, Full Color $40.00 |
| Also available with a full-sized original drawing in several colors, on an additional plate [DANBND. $125]. Click here for all of Dan’s books, including the new Phantom Fatale, which also comes with an original drawing in the special edition. |
Comic Book Archives |
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CREEPY ARCHIVES Volume 9 Collects #42-45, 1971-72. Recommended. Features art by Richard Corben, Mike Ploog, Frank Brunner and Tom Sutton, plus an influx of talented Spanish artists such as José Bea, Jaime Brocal, Luis Garcia, Martin Salvador, and Felix Mas, whose work would bring the standard of illustration in comics to new highs. Covers by Ken Kelly, Sanjulian et al. Dark Horse, 2024....More. Item Code: CRE09 Soft Cover, 8x11, 256pg, b&w |
| Here’s Creepy #1-8 and all the Eerie collections to date. |
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HELLBOY AND THE B.P.R.D 1955-1957 Highly Recommended. By Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson. Art by Brian Churilla, Mike Norton, and Shawn Martinbrough. Join the young teen-aged Hellboy and his fellow agents on globe-trotting, horrifying mystery adventures from a fire ghost in a forgotten dinosaur theme park to vengeful demons in Hong Kong, Cold War weapons tests that lead to mutilated monsters in the South Pacific to a forgotten ghost in a NYC potter’s field and more, plus the true story of Hellboy’s turn on the silver screen in Mexican luchador films! Dark Horse, 2024....More. Item Code: HELLB02H Hard Cover, 7x11, 456pg, Full Color |
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CAPTAIN AMERICA Omnibus Volume 3 New printing. Collects Captain America #149-192, and more, 1972-75. By Steve Englehart. Art by Sal Buscema. The early ‘70s were interesting times for America — and adventurous ones for Cap! Featuring more than 40 issues, this oversized omnibus collects writer Steve Englehart and artist Sal Buscema’s iconic run. Cap battles enemies — and allies — including Doctor Faustus, S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Captain America and Bucky of the 1950s. And that’s just the beginning! The Falcon co-stars throughout, and only the combined efforts of Cap, the Falcon, S.H.I.E.L.D. and the X-Men can hope to topple the Secret Empire! Marvel, 2024....More. Item Code: CAP03H Hard Cover, 7x10, 976pg, Full Color |
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JSA COMPENDIUM ONE Collects JSA #-25 and dozens of retro #1 issues. Recommended. Golden Age versions of the original JSA, Green Lantern, The Flash and Wildcat, now working with fellow Golden Age crime-fighters Starman, Black Canary, Hawkgirl, The Atom and the Star-Spangled Kid, in entirely new stories by an all-star team. The original 1940s Justice Society is reimagined in an alternate history of the world's first super-team. A fine retro story based in the 1940s. DC Comics, 2024....More. Item Code: JSACOM Soft Cover, 7x10, 1420pg, Full Color |
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DC FINEST JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA For America and Democracy Collects All-Star Comics #3-12, 1940-42. Highly Recommended. By Gardner Fox. Art by Sheldon Mayer and Jack Burnley. Welcome to DC Finest, a major new publishing initiative presenting comprehensive collections of the most in-demand and celebrated periods in DC Comics history, spanning genres, characters, and eras! Here are collected some of the most fabled comics of the Golden Age—the rare origin and first appearances of the JSA, with all the top DC heroes working together. Includes superlative artwork (each character was in is own story segment, usually drawn by the regular artist on the series, by Sheldon Mayer, Bernard Baily, Martin Nodell, Shelley Moldoff, Cliff Young, and Starman's superlative artist Jack Burnley, who also contributes a cover. DC Comics, 2024....More. Item Code: DCFJSA Soft Cover, 7x10, 608pg, Full Color |
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DC FINEST THE FLASH The Human Thunderbolt Collects Showcase #4, 8, 13-14, and The Flash #105-123, 1956-61. Our Highest Recommendation. By Robert Kanigher and John Broome. Art by Carmine Infantino and Joe Giella, with Joe Kubert. The origin and first SIX years of Barry Allen, the Silver Age Flash and one of DC's very finest titles from the time. Starting with his debut in 1956’s Showcase #4, this is the comic that began the Silver Age and led the new reimagined superheroes, first from DC and then from Marvel in 1961. This collection also includes the first appearances of famous Flash rogues including Captain Cold, Mirror Master, and Gorilla Grodd! DC Comics, 2024....More. Item Code: DCFFLA Hard Cover, 7x10, 640pg, Full Color |
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DC FINEST GREEN LANTERN The Defeat of Green Lantern Collects Green Lantern #19-39, Flash #143, and Brave and The Bold #59, 1963-65. Our Highest Recommendation. By John Broome and Gardner Fox. Art by Gil Kane and Joe Giella. Journey back to the Silver Age with Green Lantern Hal Jordan as he faces a multitude of foes such as Star Sapphire, Doctor Light, the Time Commander, Sinestro, and more, all of whom will test the limits of his willpower. Under editor Julius Schwartz, this title and The Flash were THE best DC was producing in the early 1960s. And the art by Gil Kane is stunning, issue after issue. Not to be missed. DC Comics, 2024....More. Item Code: DCFGRE Soft Cover, 7x10, 600pg, Full Color |
| Our banner up above links to all five releases so far. This is an excellent new seres, well-priced classic reprints. We’ve confirmed additional titles that will be coming out in 2025: Plastic Man (Police #1-36!), Suicide Squad, Doom Patrol, Teen Titans, Batgirl, Peacemaker, Team-Ups, The Gorilla World (Action Comics & more), The Killing Joke, Catwoman: Vengeance and Vindication, Batman Year One and Two, JSA/All Star #13-24, and Metamorpho! |
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DOLL MAN Volume 3 Collects #7-9, 1943-46. Highly Recommended. Art by Al Bryant, Bob Fuji, Bill Ward et al. These issues are a testament to the enduring appeal of Doll Man, offering readers a captivating blend of science fiction, adventure, and heroics in each issue. Dollman was one of the first superheroes to get his own title, while still running as the cover story in Feature Comics. His only ability was to get small but with the same strength as a full grown adult. Stories were lots of fun and in these early issues, very well drawn. This collects three big 64-page issues when Doll Man was published quarterly. PS Artbooks, 2024....More. Item Code: DOLLM03 Soft Cover, 7x10, 164pg, Full Color $32.99 |
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PLANET COMICS Volume 20 Collects #68-73, 1949-52. Highly Recommended. The prime years of Planet continue and conclude in this last volume. Behind some of the best covers in the series by Maurice Whitman are stories of space heroes and heroines and villains on far flung and distant planets. Art by DC's own Murphy Anderson and Jim Mooney (Supergirl), Charles Sultan, Lily Renee (Senorita Rio), Fran Hopper, Joe Doolin, Rudy Palais, and Art Saaf. PS Artbooks, 2024....More. Item Code: PLC20 Soft Cover, 7x10, 216pg, Full Color $32.99 |
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WEB OF MYSTERY Volume 2 Collects #6-10, 1951. Highly Recommended. Master artist Lou Cameron, who at his best compares with Frank Frazetta, is here in every single issue. It's also a tribute to these issues that several of the stories have been reprinted in numerous collections of the best stories from the fifties. Other contributors include Louis Zansky (several stories), Rocke Mastroserio (several stories, inking Lou Cameron), Jim McLaughlin (another fine but under-rated artist, on several stories), Bill Molno (two stories), Chic Stone (yes, two stories by Marvel's inker for Jack Kirby and others) and Ken Rice. PS Artbooks, 2024....More. Item Code: PCW02 Soft Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color $32.99 |
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ADVENTURES INTO THE UNKNOWN Volume 23 Collects #129-133, 1961-62. Recommended. Art by Kurt Schaffenberger, Ogden Whitney, John Forte, Chic Stone, Pete Costanza et al. Robots, invisible trains, angels, aliens, heroes, dinosaurs, monsters, ghosts, wizards and witches. Serious as well as humorous stories mostly penned by the great editor & writer Richard Hughes. Very readable stories (I'm a big fan myself), fun letters pages with surprise writers turning up, and good solid artwork. - Bud PS Artbooks, 2024....More. Item Code: ADU23 Soft Cover, 7x10, 180pg, Full Color $32.99 |
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CLASSIC HORROR COMICS Volume 8 Hardcover Collects Front Page#1 1945; Prize Mystery #1-3, 1955; Man in Black #1, 1957. Recommended. Art by Bob Powell, Joe Kubert, Bob Fujitani et al. Front Page is a Pre-Code anthology from Harvey that contains the origin and first appearance of the Man in Black. This was the only issue of the series. Prize Mystery had stories with an added cash incentive for the lucky 1950s reader solving a murder mystery. Man in Black was the infamous Harvey title with gorgeous art by Bob Powell. This faceless occult avenger tells strange stories, sometimes intervening in person, other times merely letting ironic fate unfold. PS Artbooks, 2024. ...More. |
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| Click here for more Doll Man, Planet, Web of Mystery Vol 1, Adventures into the Unknown, and previous Classic Horror volumes. |
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BATMAN THE CULT Collects #1-4, 1988 and a bonus Wrightson sketch section. Highly Recommended. Deacon Blackfire, a charismatic shaman with roots as old as Gotham City itself, has amassed the city's homeless into an army, one he seemingly uses to fight crime. But Blackfire has a hidden agenda... In 1988, comics legends Jim Starlin (Thanos) and Bernie Wrightson (Swamp Thing) teamed for this four-issue series, one of the most celebrated Batman stories ever. It stands next to classics of its era like Batman: Death in the Family and Batman: The Killing Joke. DC Comics, 2024....More. Item Code: BATCUL Soft Cover, 7x10, 208pg, Full Color $19.99 |
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MASTERPIECE Collects #1-#6, 2023, with Gallery & Sketchbook. Recommended. By Brian Michael Bendis. Art by Alex Maleev. From the Eisner award-winning creators behind Daredevil and Scarlet, an all new crime epic. Emma discovers she is the only daughter of two of the greatest, most charismatic master criminals of all time. The suavest, most liked criminals ever. The criminal’s criminal. The ones that wrote the rulebook. There are movies about them starring the biggest movie stars. Her parents were the authors of the greatest casino robbery of all time, the greatest museum heist of all time, AND they took the world’s most famous billionaire for a cool billion...before they disappeared never to be seen or heard from again. Ghosts. Dark Horse, 2024....More. Item Code: MASTP Soft Cover, 7x10, 176pg, Full Color |
| Here is more work by Brian Michael Bendis, and more by Alex Maleev. |
Al Williamson! Coming in January! |
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ATLAS ARTIST EDITION Volume 2 Al Williamson Complete Stories, 1955-60. Our Highest Recommendation. Becoming a professional comics artist in 1948 at the age of 17, by 21 Al Williamson was so well-regarded he was recruited by EC Comics - the absolute peak of the field in the 1950s, and a team rarely challenged since. After the Comics Code forced EC to reduce their business, Williamson found himself at the door of Atlas Comics, the largest employer of freelancers in the field. Across 1955-57 and 1959-60, Williamson would draw 99 stories for Atlas (both solo and with help by "Fleagle Gang" studio cohorts Angelo Torres and Roy Krenkel, plus Gray Morrow and Ralph Mayo) in mostly western and fantasy genres, with a smattering of war, romance and "jungle girl adventure". Fantagraphics, 2024. Due: Jan....More. Item Code: ATLA02H Hard Cover, 10x13, 448pg, Full Color |
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ALSO AVAILABLE THE ATLAS ARTIST EDITION Volume 1 Joe Maneely Our Highest Recommendation. A cornucopia, 256 pages, of Maneely’s finest! Marvel (then called Atlas) classics including pre-code horror (“Haunted!”, “The Raving Maniac,” and the classic “Your Name Is Frankenstein”), space opera (Speed Carter), war (Combat Kelly), Mad-style parodies of Crazy and Riot, cold-war intrigue, the Fu Manchu swipe (Yellow Claw), Westerns (Kid Colt, Black Rider, Ringo Kid, Wyatt Earp, Two-Gun Kid), and Maneely’s pride and joy — his Arthurian champion, The Black Knight. Fantagraphics, 2023. ...More. Item Code: ATLA01H Hard Cover, 10x13, 256pg, Full Color |
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Funny, it is another company than Marvel doing these...but what a wonderful job they are doing. All get our highest recommendation. These two artist editions join the four Atlas Comics Library collections so far: Adventures in Terror [ATL01H. |
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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. Take an additional 20% off these titles with the coupon GONE24! | ||
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On Monday we sent out our Cyber-Sale with over 1000 items available for our 20% off coupon. Please use coupon code GONE24 to receive 20% off any item in the Almost Gone section of our website. You can see the items here, or click the links below for easier viewing. |
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THE SWAMP THING By Mark Millar and Phil Hester Omnibus Collects #140-171, 1994-96. New introduction by Hester. New afterword by Millar. Before Mark Millar was the superstar writer behind films like Kick-Ass, Wanted, and Kingsman, some of his first high-profile work in comics was more than 30 issues of DC/Vertigo’s Swamp Thing, following the seminal work of writers like Alan Moore and Nancy A. Collins. Millar was joined by Phil Hester, one of the most celebrated artists in comics, also at an early point in his career. Hester subsequently gained renown for his work on Green Arrow, Firebreather, The Irredeemable Ant-Man, and more. DC Comics, 2024. Due: Jan....More. Item Code: SWAMTH Hard Cover, na, 896pg, Full Color |
| Here’s more Swamp Thing by Alan Moore and Wrightson. And check out his predecessor, The Heap....two volumes on sale. |
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THRILLING COMICS Featuring Princess Pantha Volume 1 Hardcover Collects #56-74, 1946-49. Recommended. Covers by Alex Shomburg et al. Art by Ralph Mayo Gene Fawcette, Art Saaf et al. With outstanding art by Ralph Mayo — a jungle girl with a twist. Princess Pantha was a circus-performing wild animal handler, who went to Africa in search of the legendary giant gorilla M’Gana for her act! She disappeared shortly after setting out — so Dane Hunter, a famous explorer, set out to find her. Pantha survived in the jungle, utilizing her animal skills, knowledge of jiu-jitsu and primitive weapons. Together Pantha and Dane remained in the jungle and continued their quest to capture the legendary giant gorilla M’Gana! PS Artbooks, 2024. Due: Jan....More. |
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THE SPIRIT Volume 3 Hardcover Collects #9-12, 1947-48. Recommended. Covers by Will Eisner and Reed Crandall. Art by Eisner, Lou Fine, Jack Cole et al. Many of these stories are from the mid-1940s, when Eisner was in the service. He recruited the talents of Lou Fine, Jack Cole and others to join his studio and draw the Spirit adventures each week; then he came back to draw several covers here, all new work. The Spirit is a fictional masked crime fighter created by cartoonist Will Eisner, who fights crime with the blessing of the city's police commissioner Dolan, an old friend. PS Artbooks, 2024. Due: Jan....More. |
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| Also coming in softcover with variant cover by none other than Reed Crandall! The first two Spirits are both in stock. Here’s more of Eisner and The Spirit. |
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New this week: the scarce Alex Raymond: His Life and Art; a slipcased signed edition of Reynold Brown: A Life in Pictures; 3 different Vargas books; Tim Kirk signed; American Aphrodite Set; more Complete Carl Barks slipcased Librarys; Lady Luck set; Star Trek: The Enterprise Logs; The Stars My Destination signed/limited; Popeye and Krazy Kat Postcard sets; Betty Boop Color Comics; Little Lulu Libraries; Calvo: The Beast is Dead; Simon & Kirby’s Real Love; Gil Kanes paperback 1st of Blackmark; Li’l Abner The Frazetta Years and much more. Rare Books Sale! We just added another 75 titles to our group of 20% off items, bringing the number of Sale Rare Books to over 800! We've separated them by categories below: |
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Donald Duck: The Ultimate History Deluxe Edition from Tashen. We just announced the regular edition [DDULTH.
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EC Comics XL Archives from Taschen Taschen has also announced, coming this Spring, the first XL edition of a series of EC Comics Archives, this one being Weird Science! We’ll have more details for you next week. We’ll be offering the same $20 off discount on these $200 giant-sized edition, same format as the Frazetta, Giger, and the Marvel Comics Library editions.
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Happy Thanksgiving! We hope everyone has a safe and joyous holiday weekend. Thank you for your continued support! ~Bud
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