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December Deal #3 - New Sale Items and Flash Sale! Here's all-new, all discounted SALE ITEMS--nearly 70 new titles. Included is a special FLASH SALE with 16 items previously on sale but now, for a limited time, super-deeply discounted. Since it's the end of the year, we did a massive house cleaning. We have our next three sale groups all discounted and ready for your orders.They will become our Jan, Feb and March sale emails. But right now you can see all these --click on Jansale, Febsale and Marsale. If you want to browse through all next-up savings at once, click on nrp0125. But this does NOT include the books listed below. We've included many 3...2...1 Gone items in these new listings, which means quantities can be VERY limited...like just 2 or 3 copies on many items. So act now to get the best selection. If an item does NOT link to our website when you click on it below--it is SOLD OUT. |
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SPECTRUM FANTASTIC ART QUARTERLY MAGAZINE #3 Issue print run: 1000. Our Highest Recommendation. A profusely illustrated interview with Brom and Laurie Lee Brom. None of Brom’s work here has appeared in his art books; Laurie shares some of her most recent drop-dead-gorgeous gallery paintings. A lengthy appreciation of Bernie Wrightson covers his entire career, from growing up as a fan in Baltimore to his comics and film work to his collaborations with Stephen King. Frank Frazetta’s glowing opinion of him is featured in a sidebar and David Salcido also shares his memories of adapting Bernie’s "Mementos" painting into a movie — with Wrightson himself starring as the axe-wielding killer! Packed with rare Wrightson artwork. Spectrum/Underwood Books, 2023....More. Item Code: SPEQ03 Soft Cover, 12x12, 88pg, Partial Color |
| Spectrum Quarterly #2 is still available [SPEQ02. $25.00]. Click here for more Spectrum Volumes. |
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LUPENTE Flesk Artist Showcase Hardcover Closeout Price! Publisher Hardcover Edition. Cloth quarter-binding, Gold foil title stamp, Limited to 1000 copies. Highly Recommended. Lupente showcases five outstanding contemporary artists in an elegant and absorbing package. This volume — the first in an ongoing Flesk Artist Showcase series — features Stephanie Law, a fine artist who pulls from dreams and reality to illuminate the boundary between those two worlds; Julia Blattman, a premier visual-development artist working in the animation industry; Karla Ortiz, a concept and fine artist who is renowned for her personal works and her designs for film; Virginie Ropars, one of the most-revered dollmakers today and an inspiration to sculptors around the world; and Erica Williams, also known as “HookieDuke,” who has gained acclaim by mastering a unique, highly intricate style of lines and designs that centers on Nature as its inspiration. Flesk, 2022....More. Item Code: LUPENH Hard Cover, 9x12, 176pg, Partial Color |
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RIVALS Gods & Machines Closeout Price! The Art of Paul Gerrard. Recommended. You may not know his name but you know his incredible designs. British concept designer Paul Gerrard has created some of the most memorable and celebrated costume and character designs in film and TV. From Hellboy and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to Battle: Los Angeles and Dungeons & Dragons (2023), his surreal sci-fi figures and landscapes have captured the imagination and admiration of movie and art fans worldwide. This stunning art book presents what we all want to know: What is the story behind these otherworldly, phantasmagorical creatures? Schiffer, 2022....More. Item Code: RIVAH Hard Cover, 8x11, 144pgs, Full Color |
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HENRY PATRICK RALEIGH The Confident Illustrator Exclusive New Sale Price! Our Highest Recommendation. By Christopher Raleigh. Henry Patrick Raleigh rose from school dropout at age 12 to esteemed Saturday Evening Post illustrator within the span of two decades. During his forty-year career, Raleigh was one of the highest paid newspaper and magazine artists in the United States, creator of iconic World War I propaganda posters, and arguably the most prominent story illustrator of the Jazz Age. This is the first book ever on the artist, and it's beautifully done. It features an abundance of full color work, from crowd and party scenes to wonderful advertising pieces. Auad, 2016....More. Item Code: HENPRH Hard Cover, 9x12, 132pg, Full Color |
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EVERETT RAYMOND KINSTLER Signed Deluxe Closeout Price! Signed & limited, 700! The Artist's Journey through Popular Culture 1942-62. Our Highest Recommendation. By Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. and Everett Raymond Kinstler. Signed by Everett and Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. on a hand-numbered bound-in print. The book comes in a red cloth-bound numbered slipcase with gold-stamped title. Kinstler's work hangs in museums, boardrooms, banks, private collections, The White House, and in the homes of his clients and friends. Before portraiture became his life's work, he spent the 1940s and 1950s honing his craft in comic books: Hawkman for DC's The Flash, Black Hood and Black Terror for Standard, and dozens upon dozens of covers, inside cover contents pages, and stories for those delightfully lurid Avon titles like Eerie, Cowpuncher, Dalton Brothers, Jesse James, Strange Worlds, etc. And illustrating for pulp magazines like The Shadow, Doc Savage and Detective Tales! JVJ, 2005. Out of print....More. Item Code: EVED Hard Cover, 8x11, 244pg, Partial Color |
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IMAGES #13 Closeout Price! Our Highest Recommendation. Edited by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. "A handsomely-selected tasteful mix of the best, well mounted, printed. It has my vote for its long life." That's how Alex Toth described the first issue. Here's Jim: "I scour original source material—magazines and books—from before 1923 for the most beautiful and forgotten images by famous and forgotten illustrators. Using the best technology available today on museum quality stock...I try to give century-old art the benefit of modern reproduction technology and display these artists as they have never been seen before." Vadeboncoeur, 2014. Out of print....More. Item Code: IMA13 Soft Cover, 9x12, 64pg, Full Color |
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IMAGES #7 Closeout Price! Highly Recommended. Edited by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. This special issue features the art and articles of The Studio, which was the premier art magazine of the early 20th century, circa 1890-1925. Many of the brightest stars of the illustration firmament are featured here, including John D. Batten, Frank Brangwyn, Eleanor Brickdale, Maurice Detmold, Russell Flint, Norman Lindsay, Charles Robinson, Byam Shaw, Anders Zorn and many others, including a superb centerfold by Edmund Dulac. Vadeboncoeur, 2003....More. Item Code: IMA07 Soft Cover, 9x12, 40pg, Partial Color |
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IMAGES #9 Closeout Price! Limited, 2,000. Our Highest Recommendation. Edited by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. Expect the unexpected when ImageS does a "Glamour Issue"! Featuring a cover and six pages of paintings by Gustave Mossa (a superb but obscure French Art Nouveau & Symbolist artist) as well as gorgeous illustrations from Edmund Dulac, William Russell Flint, Charles Robinson, Willy Pogany, Coles Phillips, Warwick Goble and Arthur Rackham. Also features theatre magazine covers by Henry Clive and a special look at the pen and ink drawings of Heinrich Kley. Vadeboncoeur, 2007....More. Item Code: IMA09 Soft Cover, 9x12, 40pg, Full Color |
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BLACK & WHITE IMAGES Fifth Annual Collection Closeout Price! Limited, 2,000. Our Highest Recommendation. Edited by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. From the Golden Age of Pen & Ink illustration, 1890-1922. Packed with gorgeous b&w art, featuring the next installment of Herbert Railton's The Haunted House, the earliest known work of Frank C. Papé (1902), all the art from an 1897 L'Image article on Daniel Vierge, and an extended section on Will Crawford. Vadeboncoeur, 2010. Out of print....More. Item Code: IMAA05 Soft Cover, 9x12, 106pg, b&w |
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BLACK & WHITE IMAGES Fourth Annual Collection Closeout Price! Limited, 2,000. Our Highest Recommendation. Edited by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. This fourth b&w annual features over 200 carefully selected works from the Golden Age of pen & ink illustration (1890-1922). Featuring fantastic reproductions of rare, classic art from the likes of Charles Sarka, W.T. Benda, Winsor McCay, Katharine Sturges Dodge, Willy Pogany, Herbert Railton, Rose O'Neill, J.M. Condé, Maynard Dixon, J. Allen St. John (15 pages from his rare pre-ERB fantasy, The Face in the Pool), W.R. Leigh, Gordon Grant and many others. It's a fabulous wealth of the best in pen-and-ink illustration, from fantasy to realism, to drama. Vadeboncoeur, 2008. Out of print....More. Item Code: IMAA04 Soft Cover, 9x12, 108pg, b&w |
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BLACK & WHITE IMAGES Third Annual Collection Closeout Price! Limited, 2,000. Our Highest Recommendation. Edited by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. 200 carefully selected works from the Golden Age of pen & ink illustration (1885-1922). A huge section of Harrison Cady including reproductions from original art. Also features great reproductions of rare, classic art from the likes of Charles Sarka, T.S. Sullivant, Howard Pyle, Kay Nielsen, Frank DuMond, Willy Pogany, Mucha, Herbert Paus and many others. It's a fabulous wealth of the best in pen-and-ink illustration, with the finest quality reproduction possible! Square spine, book format, 2.5 times the size of a normal Images issue. Vadeboncoeur, 2006. Out of print....More. Item Code: IMAA03 Soft Cover, 9x12, 112pg, b&w |
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THE MOON MAID The Centennial Edition Three book set! Signed by the contributors, numbered & limited to 600. Art by Mark Schultz, Sanjulian, Bob Eggleton, Joe Jusko, J. Allen St. John, Jeffrey Jeff Jones, Frank Frazetta, et al. Special edition of The Moon Maid, The Moon Men, and The Red Hawk trilogy, published for the first time in hardback in three separate volumes. With 20,000 words not found in the 1926 A. C. McClurg first edition. Each book in the set is printed on archival paper, Smyth-sewn, bound in a leather cover, double stamped in gold and wrapped in a newly commissioned, full color dust jacket. The set is housed, with a collector's portfolio of bonus artifacts in facsimile, in a decorated leather clamshell case. 100 illustrations from 20 different artists past and present, including 20 tipped in color plates, 30 full page b&w illustrations and 40 spot b&w illustrations. And one of ERB’s most interesting concepts, a story that takes place over 400 years, on Earth and on the Moon. ERB, Inc., 2023....More. Item Code: MOONMH Hard Cover, 6x9, 468pg, Partial Color |
| The companion edition At The Earth's Core is also available. [ATEAD. $299.99]. |
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ALKEME The Art of Brad Kunkle Deluxe Signed Closeout Price! 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. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge....More. Item Code: ALKED Hard Cover, 12x12, 320pg, Full Color |
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ART OF TYLER JACOBSON Slipcased Signed Closeout Price! Publisher's Exclusive Edition with signed bonus page and additional 16 pages. Highly Recommended. Extra pages showcase sketches and preliminaries only found in this publisher-exclusive edition, as well as a slipcase with a new cover painting, red quarter cloth binding and metallic gold titles. Our supply will be limited to our initial order. Explore every aspect of this quintessential artist's career, a fantasy illustrator who embraces classic illustration — think John Howe, Brom, James Gurney and Michael Whelan. He's clearly in the same class, even though he's a name new to us. His clients including Wizards of the Coast, Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Rolling Stone Magazine, Toyota, Men's Journal, Tor Books, Scientific American, Entertainment Weekly, The New Yorker and Sports Illustrated!! Flesk, 2022. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge....More. Item Code: ARTTJD Hard Cover, 12x12, 176pg, Full Color |
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COSMIC-70 The Art of Paul Davidson Closeout Price! Recommended. A visual archive of sketches, commissioned artwork and fantasy illustrations from comic book creator Paul Davidson. Paul revisits some of his most popular characters from Moon Knight, Silver Surfer and Conan to Judge Dredd and everything in between. The Newcastle-born artist has spent the past 25 years working as a concept artist for video games and illustrating books for publishers around world. His comic book career began with the creation of Dwarf Lords for Games Workshop’s “Warhammer” in the 90’s. After years of producing storyboards and concept art in the video games industry, Marvel lured him back into comics in 2008 to draw X-Men, Moon Knight and Silver Surfer to name a few. Berserker, 2022....More. Item Code: COSMP Soft Cover, 8x11, Full Color |
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ILLUSTRATION ART GALLERY PRESENTS Charles Dickens Drawings and Paintings by Ron Embleton Closeout Price! Limited, 600. Recommended. By Peter Richardson. Art by Ron Embleton. The complete collection of Ron Embleton's Dickensian themed artworks. Created during the 1970s, these images covered a variety of themes including characters from the novels of Dickens, children's street games, street vendors, horse-borne transport and Edwardian entertainment. The book includes an introduction to Ron Embleton's art and career, including photographs of the artist in his studio and the techniques he employs. Scanned directly from the originals. Embleton is widely known in the comics world for his steamy Penthouse strip, Oh, Wicked Wanda. Book Palace, 2021....More. Item Code: ILLCDH Soft Cover, 9x11, 96pg, Full Color |
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MARVEL COMICS THE VARIANT COVERS Closeout Price! Highly Recommended. By John Rhett Thomas. Explore the amazing visual history of Marvel Comics variant covers in this first-ever collection. Comprising some of the most sought-after and valuable comics, variant covers have become a tradition in comics publishing. The variant cover phenomenon began in 1986 and was immediately embraced by a devoted legion of fans. This showcases the finest and most famous variants alongside exclusive interviews from artists and industry experts. Featuring abundant fan-favorite characters: Spider-Man, Captain America, Iron Man, Black Panther, the X-Men, and many others. Marvel, 2020....More. Item Code: MARVCOH Hard Cover, 9x12, 216pg, Full Color |
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PS BOOK OF FANTASTIC FICTIONEERS Volume 1 Signed Closeout Price! New Printing. Exclusive color bookplate signed by Von Sholly! An unprecedented, profusely illustrated compendium celebrating over 100 writers and artists behind our rich legacy of fantasy, horror, and science fiction in comic books, literature, and cinema. 75 contributors give us major, original essays—contributors as distinguished as their subjects! For example, Bill Stout writes about L. Frank Baum; Will Murray on John W. Campbell; Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. on Frank Frazetta; Harlan Ellison on Frank Herbert; David Gerrold on Robert Heinlein; Roy Thomas on Robert E. Howard; etc. PS Publishing, 2019....More. Item Code: PSB01H Hard Cover, 6x9, 392pg, Partial Color |
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REAL PHOTO POSTCARDS Pictures from a Changing Nation Closeout Price! Recommended. By Linda Klich and Benjamin Weiss. The ubiquity of photography and social media today makes it hard to imagine a time when it was not possible for ordinary people to take their own pictures and send them with short messages over long distances. But it was revolutionary when the Eastman Kodak Company, in 1903, unveiled a new postcard camera that produced a postcard-size negative that could print directly onto a blank card. Suddenly almost anyone, amateurs and entrepreneurial photographers alike, could take a picture—of neighbors at home and at work, local celebrations and parades, newsworthy disasters, sightseeing trips—and turn it into a postcard. MFA Publications, 2022....More. Item Code: REALPH Hard Cover, 9x10, 304pg, b&w |
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THE ART OF HORROR MOVIES: An Illustrated History Closeout Price! New Revised Edition, first published in 2017. Highly Recommended. Includes more films, rare images, and in-depth explorations to bring this award-winning book completely up to date, cementing its position as the definitive and essential guide to horror movies. Through a series of informative chapters and fascinating sidebars chronologically charting the evolution of horror movies for more than a century, profusely illustrated throughout with over 600 rare and unique images including posters, lobby cards, advertising, promotional items, tie-in books and magazines. Plus wonderful paintings from the original art celebrating horror milestones, actors and actresses. Applause Books, 2022....More. Item Code: ARTHMH Hard Cover, 10x11, 320pg, Full Color |
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THE LOOK AND LEARN PICTORIAL MUSEUM Closeout Price! Recommended. The Look and Learn picture library (found online) is one of the world's largest and most diverse collections of illustrations. Its images are regularly used in TV documentaries, films, books and magazines, and for marketing and advertising, museum display, greeting cards, clothing design and merchandise. This explains briefly how the picture library came into being. But the book's purpose is to showcase 5,000 illustrations, chosen from over 500,000. 448 pages of color illustrations, eight to 12 per page. Book Palace, 2022....More. Item Code: LOOKLH Hard Cover, 8x12, 464pg, Partial Color |
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LIGHT Closeout Price! Recommended. Edited by Kerryn Greenberg. Showcasing more than 100 remarkable artworks from the past 200 years, this beautiful book reveals how the intangibility of light continues to fascinate. In every conceivable media, artists have exploited the contrasts between light and dark, opposed cool and warm colors, drawn on science, and attempted to capture the transient effects of light and its emotional associations. Beginning with the British artist John Martin's Dore-like fantasies, William Blake, and finally J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851), who captured triumphant explosions of light, influencing the French Impressionists. For them, light became the subject itself, as the likes of Claude Monet (1840-1926), Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), Alfred Sisley (1839-99), and others ventured outside to capture the momentary effects of sunlight on canvas. Tate Gallery, 2023....More. Item Code: LIGT Soft Cover, 8x10, 224pg, Partial Color |
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WALT DISNEY UNCLE SCROOGE AND DONALD DUCK THE LAST OF The Last of The Clan Mcduck The Don Rosa Library Volume 4 Closeout Price! The Don Rosa Library 4. Recommended. By Don Rosa. Uncle Scrooge, the world's richest duck, knows exactly where he got every coin he ever earned. And in this fourth book of Duck epics by Don Rosa, that story begins to unfold at last! Relive Scrooge's Scottish boyhood as "Last of the Clan McDuck," then his teenage years as "Master of the Mississippi" on Uncle Pothole's steamboat! Witness Scrooge's first fights with the Beagle Boys and Flintheart Glomgold—and in a bonus "Chapter 0," his earliest meeting with Magica De Spell!Fantagraphics, 2022....More. Item Code: WDU04H Hard Cover, 9x11, 192pg, Full Color |
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CODE OF HONOR AND OTHER STORIES Closeout Price! 30 stories plus lots of bonus material. Our Highest Recommendation. When John Severin became editor of Two-Fisted Tales, he expanded the scope of its stories beyond its traditional war stories to head off to far-flung times and places, searching for adventure. This volume collects all those stories — the EC stories that Severin had the most control over. Tales range from action and intrigue in the Old West to exploring for a lost city in the jungles of Peru, to facing danger in the Khyber Pass, to a Cold War chiller about the "ultimate weapon," to EC's only Vietnam story, "Dien Bien Phu!" Fantagraphics, 2022....More. Item Code: CODEH Hard Cover, 7x10, 248pg, b&w |
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BATMAN SPAWN The Classic Collection Closeout Price! From 1994. Hardcover. Recommended. For the first time in three decades, this edition of the classic meeting between comics’ caped avengers of the night reprints Batman/Spawn: War Devil #1 by legendary Batman creators Doug Moench, Chuck Dixon, Alan Grant, and Klaus Janson...plus the Spawn/Batman one-shot by Frank Miller and Spawn creator Todd McFarlane, which brings Batman to Spawn’s home turf of New York City! Two heroes with different methods in two very different tales. DC Comics, 2022....More. Item Code: BATSCC Hard Cover, 7x10, 112pg, Full Color |
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BATMAN '89 Closeout Price! Collects first 12 chapters of the digital comics series. By Sam Hamm. Art by Joe Quinones. Continuing the adventures of the Dark Knight from Tim Burton's classic movie Batman, Batman '89 pulls on a number of threads left dangling by that film while continuing in the tradition of DC's very successful Batman '66 series. In 1989 moviegoers were amazed at the new vision of the Dark Knight brought to the screen, starring Michael Keaton as Batman and Jack Nicholson as The Joker. Now, in the tradition of DC's very successful Batman '66 series, Batman '89 is set in a truly gothic Gotham City and features colorful villains including The Joker, Two-Face, and many more. DC Comics, 2022....More. Item Code: BAT89H Hard Cover, 7x10, 152pg, Full Color |
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THE BEST MARVEL STORIES BY STAN LEE Omnibus Closeout Price! Highly Recommended. Art by Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, John Buscema, Moebius, Joe Maneely, Wally Wood et al. 70 years of stories featuring Lee & company’s beloved co-creations — including the earliest adventures of Capt. America (1940s), Black Knight (1955), pre-code horror, The Rawhide Kid, Spider-Man, Iron Man, The Hulk, the Avengers, Daredevil, She-Hulk, Dr. Strange, Ant-Man, The X-Men, Thor and Nick Fury — all in his signature, senses-shattering style! These astonishing tales of suspense, horror, fantasy, romance, comedy, cowboys, super heroics and more prove beyond doubt that Stan is “The Man!” Marvel, 2022....More. Item Code: BESMH Hard Cover, 8x11, 896pg, Full Color |
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SPAWN THE RECORD BREAKER Closeout Price! Collects Spawn #298-301, 2019. By Todd McFarlane and Scott Snyder. Collected together for the first time, the issues that lead up to and include the record-breaking Spawn #301, which went through three printings. This is the story line that changes everything...Including art from industry giants like Greg Capullo, Jason Alexander, Clayton Crain, Jerome Opeña, and Francesco Mattina, as well as a story penciled by Todd McFarlane himself. Image Comics, 2022....More. Item Code: SPAWRB Soft Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color |
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ETERNAL WARRIOR CLASSIC Omnibus Volume 1 Closeout Price! Collects Eternal Warrior #1-25 and nine more titles/issues, 1992-94. Prepare for ten thousand years of war as comics legends Jim Shooter (The Avengers, Secret Wars), Barry Windsor-Smith (Monsters, Weapon X), John Dixon (Shadowman) and others come together for the first omnibus collection of Valiant's immortal hero. For a thousand generations, Gilad Anni-Padda has defended the innocent and dealt out justice as the Eternal Warrior — the undying champion of the Geomancers. An unsung veteran of every war ever waged, Gilad's hard-fought quest from the ancient world to modern day Los Angeles will force him to the forefront of the Valiant Universe — and into a brand new kind of battle alongside the likes of Bloodshot, X-O Manowar, and his own long-lost brother, Armstrong. Valiant Entertainment, 2024....More. Item Code: ETERW01H Hard Cover, 8x11, 912pg, Full Color |
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RAT QUEENS Omnibus Collects Volume 1 #1-16, Volume 2 #1-25 and much, much more. Limited, 5,000. By Kurtis J. Wiebe and Ryan Ferrier. Art by Roc Upchurch et al. Collecting the entire journey of the Rat Queens, including never-reprinted short stories, all covers, and sketchbooks from all of the major artists, from wild beginnings as mercenaries to begrudging heroes. Discover what made this award-winning high-fantasy series special. It's cultivated fans all over the world — the comedy, camaraderie, and adventurous spirit all with a modern twist that makes the main cast of Violet, Betty, Hannah, and Dee feel real, characters who you learn to care about. This is a fantasy series like no other, with ten years of adventures in one giant tome. Image Comics, 2023. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge....More. Item Code: RATQH Hard Cover, 7x11, 1224pg, Full Color |
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BLUE BOLT TALES OF TERROR Volume 1 Closeout Price! Collects #108, 110, 112, 116, 118, and 119, 1951-53. Recommended. All covers by L.B. Cole. Art by Basil Wolverton, Wally Wood, Jay Disbrow, Rudy Palais et al. A wild configuration of reprinted and new stories make these true pre-code classics. L.B. Cole turn in more of his wildest covers; Wolverton's Spacehawk comes back from the early 1940s, as does the original Blue Bolt, a superhero created by Simon & Kirby but here by another artist. Wally Wood's "The White Spirit" appears in the final issue, and Disbrow contributes six all-new horror stories. Plus a mashup of more horror, science fiction and super hero (Sub-Zero, Phantom Sub, Target and the Targeteers, Torpedoman) stories. PS Artbooks, 2022....More. Item Code: BLUB01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 216pg, Full Color |
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BRAIN BOY / SPACE PATROL Volume 2 Closeout Price! Collects Brain Boy #4-6, 1963 and Space Patrol #1-2, 1952. Recommended. By Herb Castle. Art by Frank Springer. Brain Boy is a mix of superhero, fantasy, supernatural, horror, suspense, science fiction and spy adventures, drawn by Frank Springer! This classic space opera was drawn almost entirely by EC's Bernie Krigstein with wonderful Norman Saunders painted covers. It's a great early pre-code sci-fi title. PS Artbooks, 2022....More. Item Code: SPABB02 Soft Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color |
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CLASSIC HORROR COMICS Volume 2 Closeout Price! Collects Haunted Thrills #3, & 7; Terrifying Tales #12; Weird Chills #1 & 3, 1952-54. Recommended. The second volume of Classic Horror Comics unearths some more little horrors! Starting with Tales of Horror and Terror in Haunted Thrills #3 and Haunted Thrills #7 where scientist George Norton saves the brain of an executed wife killer, making contact with it to develop it's evil ways? Then Terrifying Tales #12 complete with a classic L.B. Cole cover, where not even Jo-Jo realized what horrors lurked beneath the surface of a crystal clear lake! Finishing our grim journey with Weird Chills #1 where the doctor oversees a blood transfusion between a woman and a zombie! And in Weird Chills #3 we discover the Terror on TV-vampiric monsters take over the studio, attacking the cast and crew, while the audience just think it's all part of the show!PS Artbooks, 2022....More. Item Code: CLHOR02 Soft Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color |
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CLASSIC SCI-FI COMICS Volume 5 Hardcover Closeout Price! Collects Fantastic #8-9, 1952; and Fantastic Worlds #5-7, 1952-53. Recommended. Art by Alex Toth, Murphy Anderson, John Celardo, Harry Harrison et al. Fantastic was an offbeat pre-code title from tiny Youthful, but the features were big: Captain Science, aka Gordon Dane, a sci-fi hero who fought all manner of outer space villains including flying saucers, monster gods, alien spawn, and even domestic traitors. And from Standard's Fantastic Worlds starring Lieutenant Commander Bruce Hunter and Captain Jon Jax, the Space Ace. All reproduced completely from cover to cover, just like the original comics. PS Artbooks, 2022....More. Item Code: PSSC05H Hard Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color |
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PLANET COMICS Volume 3 Hardcover Closeout Price! Collects #9-12, 1940-41. Highly Recommended. By George Tuska, Bob Powell, Nick Cardy, Dick Briefer et al. More 'out of this world' yarns from the heroes (and heroines!) of the spaceways that appeared from Fiction House over a thirteen-year period ending in 1953. They're all here . . . Flint Baker, Reef Ryan, The Space Rangers, Gale Allen, Star Pirate, Auro Lord of Jupiter, Buzz Crandall of the Space Patrol, Mysta of the Moon, the rare super-hero Red Comet, plus many more. This all-time-great sci-fi title was just beginning to hit its stride. PS Artbooks, 2013....More. Item Code: PLC03H Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 7x10, 288pg, Full Color |
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SPACE WAR Volume 4 Hardcover Closeout Price! Collects #16-20, 1962-63. By Joe Gill. A science-fiction feast from Charlton Comics. From “Rescue in Space” to “The Brain Master.” Dick Giordano, Bill Molno, Rocco Mastroserio, and Charles Nicholas artwork. Space War ran from 1959 to 1964, one of several Charlton titles to carry on the traditions begun with EC and DC’s Strange Adventures and Mystery in Space. The quality of material was never too great, but inside the occasional classic cover it gave us new tales of life and death in outer space! PS Artbooks, 2023....More. Item Code: SASW04H Hard Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color |
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SPACEMEN Volume 2 Closeout Price! Collects #4-6 1962-63. PS Artbooks are brings you, in its popular softee format, Forry Ackerman’s companion title to his groundbreaking Famous Monsters film magazine. Devoted to science fiction films, each issue in original size and format together in one volume. The 1937 Flash Gordon serial, Basil Gogos cover, Girl in the Moon, Radar Men from the Moon, Buck Rogers on film, Disc Men, Futuropolis, Donovan's Brain, Spacemen of Distinction and more. Letter page, Jack Davis drawing. PS Artbooks, 2023....More. Item Code: SPAME02 Soft Cover, 8x11, 210pg, b&w |
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SPOOK Volume 2 Closeout Price! Collects Spook #27-30, 1954; and Baily Publication's Spook Comics, 1946. Highly Recommended. Art by Jay Disbrow, John Giunta, L. B. Cole, Rudy Palais, Howard Larson et al.The offbeat publisher Star Comics was run by L.B. Cole, a man who put great faith in bright colors and striking surreal cover designs. Today a great number of these are classics, including the three he contributes here. Inside we are treated to FIVE fun new stories from the eccentric but always fun Jay Disbrow. Plus appearances from jungle goddesses Rulah and Jo-Jo. A cool bonus is Spook one-shot from 1946, with a stunning cover and a Mr. Lucifer story by John Giunta, plus work by Howie Post and the always bizarre Munson Paddock. Five different covers filled at random. PS Artbooks, 2022....More. Item Code: PCS02 Soft Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color |
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STRANGE MYSTERIES Volume 1 Hardcover Closeout Price! Collects #1-5, 1951-52. Recommended. Canadian publisher Superior Comics hired the Iger shop to produce their comics, and here you have a lot of material that looks inspired by the style of Jack Kamen and even more Matt Baker. Imagine Fiction House doing horror, complete with leggy, barely-clothed ladies, and plenty of cleavage. Includes three fun sci-fi stories. In #1's "The Living Corpse" a wife has dreams about a man dead for 10 years, so her husband makes a deal with the devil to bring the corpse back to life. The corpse kidnaps his wife. The husband gets the wife back, but is shot by her. She then loses her soul to the devil. And that's just ONE story! PS Artbooks, 2022....More. Item Code: PCSSM01H Hard Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color |
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STRANGE SUSPENSE STORIES Volume 6 Hardcover Closeout Price! Collects #43-47, 1959-60. Recommended. Cover by Ditko. This Charlton fantasy/sci-fi title boasted work by Steve Ditko, whose moody, individualistic touch came to dominate Charlton's supernatural titles and led to deserved fame over at Marvel. He was Charlton's shining light back here, and at his best in this run. Also here: two stories that seem to be by Matt Baker and perhaps another inker, but uncredited in Overstreet. They're not the best of his work but still a cut above. PS Artbooks, 2023....More. Item Code: PCSS06H Hard Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color |
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THE DEAD WHO WALK Volume 1 Replica Edition Closeout Price! 1952. Art by Tex Blaisdell and Ed Goldfarb. This notorious Avon one-shot features a single long story that is genuinely creepy! Out of the horrible abyss came a ghastly army of the dead! Thirsting for the pleasures of the living, these lost souls wanted human bodies! But a beautiful girl and two brave men dared to defy them... PS Artbooks, 2022....More. Item Code: DEADWW Magazine, 7x10, 38pg, Full Color |
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JOHNNY HAZARD NEWSPAPER DAILIES Volume 8 1956-1957 Closeout Price! Highly Recommended. By Frank Robbins. See more trend-setting artwork by comics legend Frank Robbins in one of the most important adventure strips ever to grace newspapers. Includes the following stories: “Project Heat-Barrier,” “Hazard vs Hawkes,” “The Most Dangerous Man in the World,” “Project Globe,” “The Grand Gizmo,” and “It’s Kismet.” Reproduced entirely from original King Features press proofs. Hermes Press, 2020....More. Item Code: JH08H Hard Cover, 10x6, 288pg, b&w |
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THE PHANTOM The Complete Dailies Volume 25 1974-1975 Closeout Price! Recommended. By Lee Falk. Art by Sy Barry.This continues the Sy Barry years; his excellent work modernized this into a fast-paced adventure narrative! Six complete continuities: "Llongo Luck," "The Normal Life," "The Cave Lands," "Diana in the Deep Woods," "T" and "Hzzz." Strips from this issue are taken directly from King Feature’s proofs. Included in the volume is a comprehensive essay and documentary materials. Hermes, 2022....More. Item Code: PH25H Hard Cover, 12x8, 272pg, b&w |
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THE OVERSTREET COMIC BOOK PRICE GUIDE 53rd Edition Hero Initiative Cover Closeout Price! Limited, 500. Highly Recommended. By Robert M. Overstreet. Acclaimed artist John Tyler Christopher brings Red Sonja to the cover of the exclusive Hero Initiative edition. Celebrate the 60th anniversaries of The Avengers and the Justice League/Justice Society crossovers. It also includes a look at the influential advertising comics of the pioneering R.F. Outcault, creator of The Yellow Kid and Buster Brown, and a spotlight on Frank Frazetta's Death Dealer. Packed with more articles, comics values, artist and writer credits, special issues, key issues and much, much more. Gemstone, 2023. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge....More. Item Code: CB53HH Hard Cover, 7x10, 1280pg, Full Color |
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ANIMAL CASTLE Volume 1 Signed & Limited Closeout Price! Collects #1-5. Tipped-in signature plate, signed by writer and artist, limited to 250. Recommended. By Xavier Dorison. Art by Felix Delep. On the Farm, all animals were equal. In the Castle, some are more equal than others. Forgotten by men, the Animal Castle is ruled with an iron hoof by President Silvio. The bull and its dog militia savor their power, while the other animals are exhausted by work, until the arrival of the mysterious Azelar, a traveling rat who will teach them the secrets of civil disobedience. Ablaze, 2022....More. Item Code: ANIM01D Hard Cover, 7x10, 144pg, Full Color |
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BREATH OF THE GIANT Closeout Price! Highly Recommended. An excellent ages 12-up adventure, first published in France. Legend says a Giant's breath has the power to bring the dead back to life. Young Iris and and sister Sophia have lost their mother, so they journey into the far north of snow and mountains to bring her back. They can count on magic, but above all, they will have to conquer their fears. Fagus also has lost a loved one and is following the girls with seeming ill intent. A powerful story about obsession, hope and overcoming fear and danger. Fairsquare Comics, 2022....More. Item Code: BREAG Soft Cover, 7x9, 148pg, Full Color |
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DEGA Volume 1 Closeout Price! A crashed ship, a lone survivor...and a monstrous secret hiding in the dark under the world. On a hostile alien planet, a young astronaut searches to harness the power source buried beneath the surface while struggling to hold on to her sanity. A new graphic novel, the first drawn AND written, by Doctor Who, Judge Dredd, and Firefly artist Dan McDaid. Bonus pages with cover concepts and prelim page ideas. Oni Press, 2023....More. Item Code: DEGA01H Hard Cover, 6x9, 58pg, b&w |
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LOVECRAFT UNKNOWN Kadath Volume 1 Closeout Price! Collects #1-8, plus cover gallery, bonus material, and original prose story. Recommended. An adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by Guillermo Sanna with art by Florentino Florez, unlike anything you've read before. Randolph Carter, a traveler to dreamland, tries not to wake up before reaching his goal, the elusive Kadath: the home of the gods, a place of fantasy and overflowing imagination. Carter walks through a world full of threats and abominable monsters, but also of palaces, exuberant cities, and geographies that remind man of his insignificant role on the gigantic cosmic chessboard. This includes a wonderful nod to Little Nemo and his own trips to fantasyland, as each chapter is introduced with a Nemo-ish new page. Ablaze, 2023....More. Item Code: LOV01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 200pg, Full Color |
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NORSE MYTHOLOGY Volume 1 Closeout Price! Collects #1-6, 2020-21. Art by Jerry Ordway, Mike Mignola, Jill Thompson et al. #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman and Eisner Award-winning comics legend P. Craig Russell breathe new life into the ancient Norse stories in this comic-book adaptation of Gaiman's popular new novel, Norse Mythology. A series of Norse myths, including the creation of the Nine Worlds, the loss of Odin's eye and source of his knowledge, the crafting of Thor's hammer and the gods' most valuable treasures, the origin of poetry, and Loki's part in the end of all things: Ragnarök. Dark Horse, 2021....More. Item Code: NOR01H Hard Cover, 7x10, 160pg, Full Color |
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ASK FOR MERCY Volume 1 Closeout Price! Collects #1-2, 2018-20. An action-packed and artistically powerful dark fantasy story from Elephantmen creator, Richard Starkings, and breakout talent, Abigail Jill Harding, a World War II fantasy horror story in the tradition of John Carpenter's The Thing and Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman. Mercy is snatched from her own place and time to join a team of monster hunters who are actually monsters themselves, and together they have to take on a pantheon of hideous creatures summoned to our world by Nazis! Collects the first two volumes of this Comixology Originals series. Dark Horse, 2023....More. Item Code: ASKM01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 312pg, Full Color |
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POP STAR ASSASSIN Volume 1 Closeout Price! By Ed Lavallee. Art by Marcelo Basile. The year is 1977. The King is dead, and the world mourns. But.... When a mysterious briefcase turns up in his dressing room, Bruce, a coke-addled Elvis impersonator, finds himself wedged between a Mob boss out to avenge the death of his only son, and a government conspiracy with far-reaching, world-ending ramifications, all in an attempt to discover the true identity of his father's killer. 16-page cover gallery.Behemoth Comics, 2022....More. Item Code: POPS01 Soft Cover, 7x10, Full Color |
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SHINJUKU Closeout Price! An illustrated prose novel written by film director Christopher “mink” Morrison, veteran of Quentin Tarantino and Lawrence Bender’s A Band Apart. This urban mix of action and horror is illustrated by world-famous illustrator Yoshitaka Amano (Final Fantasy, Vampire Hunter D). Daniel Legend, in search of his missing sister Angela, discovers the unreal city within Tokyo: Shinjuku, the nexus of realities, riddled with lowlife crooks and subterranean monsters and three rival yakuza leaders who hold control over every earthly crime. Dark Horse, 2022....More. Item Code: SHINJH Hard Cover, 9x12, 184pg, Partial Color |
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THE GOLEM OF VENICE BEACH Closeout Price! Eisner-award winning artists Michael Allred, Steve Bissette, Jae Lee, Paul Pope, and Bill Sienkiewicz, Nick Pitarra and Vanessa Cardinali team up to create an all-new 152-page epic about the adventures of a 400-year-old Golem. This spans 16th century Europe to the horrors of World War II to modern day Venice Beach, where the Golem becomes entangled in a war between a gang and the police. Clover Press, 2022....More. Item Code: GOLVBH Hard Cover, 8x11, 152pg, Full Color |
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THE NICE HOUSE ON THE LAKE The Deluxe Edition Closeout Price! Collects #1-12. Recommended. With Something Is Killing the Children and The Department of Truth, James Tynion IV has changed the face of horror in modern comics — now get ready for his most ambitious story yet, alongside his Detective Comics partner lvaro Martinez Bueno! Eisner Award Winner 2022 - Best New Series. Eisner Award Nominee 2023 - Best Continuing Series. Eisner Award Nominee 2023 - Best Writer, James Tynion IV. Eisner Award Nominee 2023 - Best Penciller/Inker, Alvaro Martinez Bueno. Eisner Award Nominee 2023 - Best Coloring, Jordie Bellaire. Everyone who was invited to the house knows Walter — well, they know him a little, anyway. Some met him in childhood; some met him months ago. And Walter's always been a little—off. DC Comics, 2023. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge....More. Item Code: NICEDH Hard Cover, 7x11, 160pg, Full Color |
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THICK SKINS Closeout Price! First published in France. By Serge Le Tendre. Art by Pasquale Frisenda. Thick-Skins are humans genetically modified to work in space without a suit. Lark is a former thick-skinner now turned mercenary, traveling the galaxy training combat soldiers. When he receives an encrypted message from his former clan, he sets out to find them with the help of Windy, beautiful and heavily tattooed girl — an anthropology student. Good solid artwork; violent battles and space travel. Humanoids, 2022....More. Item Code: THISH Hard Cover, 8x10, 104pg, Full Color |
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A HISTORY OF MODERN MANGA Closeout Price! How did the manga market reach one billion copies annually in less than half a century? Who are the major players in this incredible expansion? Here are 71 creators examined in detail, year by year, along with the major events and best-known series. New, updated and expanded edition. New details about essential entries in the manga canon, including Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball, Death Note, Naruto, Berserk, and more. Original, full-color illustrations as well as artwork from the featured manga titles. Handsome oversized, full color hardcover. Insight Editions, 2023....More. Item Code: HISMMH Hard Cover, 9x11, 204pg, Partial Color |
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THE POE CLAN Volume 1 Closeout Price! Massive 500 pages! One of the best-selling manga — by one of the most decorated cartoonists in the world — comes to the U.S., starring vampire teens. The Poe Clan: a race of undead that feeds on the energy of the living, whiling away the centuries in a village of roses where time and geography have no meaning. Circumstances lead to a brother and sister, Edgar and Marybelle, being initiated into the clan too young, and therefore doomed to live out eternity forever on the brink of adulthood, until a wooden stake or a silver bullet should cut them down. Fantagraphics, 2019....More. Item Code: POEC01H Hard Cover, 7x10, 512pg, b&w |
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BERSERK DELUXE EDITIONS Volume 13 Closeout Price! Collects #37-39. The Game of Thrones of adult fantasy/horror manga roars toward the finish line in this original oversized serialization format, with updated translations and three fold-out color posters. Guts the Black Swordsman and company reach the island of Skellig in hopes that Elven magic can heal the afflicted mind of Casca, but first they must face the island’s terrifying magical defenses. Dark Horse, 2023. Mature Readers....More. Item Code: BER13H Hard Cover, 7x10, 624pg, b&w |
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MANEATERS Killer Sharks in Men's Adventure Magazines Closeout Price! Men's Adventure Library editors Robert Deis and Wyatt Doyle present a deep dive into long unseen shark-themed pulp fiction and savage full-color illustration art drawn from three decades of classic men's adventure magazines. 14 complete stories with art by Mort Kunstler, Ken Barr, Earl Norem, Robert Stanley, Syd Shores, Ray Johnson and others. Also: commentary and mythbusting by a celebrated panel of contemporary shark experts who separate the stories' fact from fiction. New Texture, 2021....More. Item Code: MANEA Soft Cover, 6x9, 170pg, Text/Partial Color |
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THE SPIDER Scourge of the Scorpion Closeout Price! Recommended. By Will Murray. Art by Gary Carbon. Men called the Scorpion the "Deathless One." Rumored to be immortal, he controls the Order of the Purple Eyes, a slave army of criminals who emerge to wreak havoc on mankind during times of social upheaval. His goal: To take over New York City. But how can the Master of Men fight the Cult when his beloved Nita van Sloan has been turned against him while his chief aides lie stricken with incurable lockjaw -- victims of the lethal sting of the Scorpion? Altus, 2022....More. Item Code: SPIDSS Soft Cover, 7x10, 312pg, Text/b&w |
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WILD ADVENTURES OF THE SPIDER FURY IN STEEL Closeout Price! Highly Recommended. By Will Murray. Cover art by Gary Carbon. When a New York subway station is torn apart by forces so powerful they seem inconceivable, Richard Wentworth, The Spider, springs into action. Prowling the night to intercept the next attack, Wentworth encounters a band of destroyers far different than any who ever challenged him before, a fearless, merciless foe that does not quail before The Spider and sheds his avenging bullets without injury. As a reign of sabotage sweeps across the nation, the Master of Men realizes that an old enemy has returned from the grave. Altus Press, 2021....More. Item Code: WILSF Soft Cover, 6x9, 340pg, Text/b&w |
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BLONDE THE MARILYN STORIES DVD set Closeout Price! Directed by Joyce Chopra, John Patterson, et al.Three-disc boxed DVD set, 4 hours in all, with Goodbye, Norma Jean (biodrama, 1976, starring Misty Rowe); Marilyn And Me (1991 made-for-tv film starring Susan Griffiths, about her (secret or mythical) marriage to filmmaker Robert Slatzer); and Blonde (2001, based on Joyce Carol Oates' "biographical re-imagining" of Marilyn Monroe, starring Poppy Montgomery. Bonus material: Marilyn Documentary, first ever TV appearance, photo gallery, and The Legend of Marilyn Monroe. Film Chest, 2022....More. Item Code: BLOMS 3 Discs, Partial Color |
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GLAMOUR ROAD Color, Fashion, Style, and the Midcentury Automobile Closeout Price! Recommended. By Jeff Stork & Tom Dolle. This highly visual book explores the seldom-told story of how glamour, fashion, design, and styling became the main focus of automotive marketing from the postwar 1940s through the 1970s. With the expansion of the American suburbs after WWII, women suddenly needed cars of their own. Much of the marketing imagery of the period hasn’t been published since it first came out, and this book features some of the best. Beautiful models were as much a part of selling cars as any feature. Schiffer, 2022....More. Item Code: GLAMRH Hard Cover, 12x9, 256pg, Full Color |
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