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Dorian Vallejo returns with an impressive, all new coffee table book. Macanudo, the strange comic strip from Argentina, is back in a 3rd collection. Dick Tracy (updated), Donald’s 90th, The Stainless Steel Rat, Persephone, Edward Gorey, Fantastic Four Omnibus 5, Alter Ego and Back Issue magazines. Sergio Aragones returns with the all-new Space Circus, DC Finest collects two more titles, Printopia by Bob Fingerman and Milo Manara presents the life of artist Caravaggio. Plus Coming Items and News and Notes.... |
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MARVEL COMICS LIBRARY SPIDER-MAN Volume 1 1962-1964 |
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The XL $200 edition of this is completely sold out. We still have volume 2 of the XL edition. This is the first of the new "smaller" $80 format releases, which are still 9x12, quite large actually. The 2nd release The Avengers [MARSAV01H. $80] just came in as I wrote this. It’ll be listed next week. We have the XL editions of The Avengers Vol 1 and Vol 2 in stock. I kind of like this large $80 format. These are the size of a big thick Omnibus edition, or perhaps just a bit larger. Here are the other Marvel Comics Library XL editions. Save seriously with our free shipping offer until Dec 10. |
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DORIAN VALLEJO The Collectors Edition Signed Bonus Print. Our Highest Recommendation. Introduction by George Pratt. Dorian Vallejo has been selling copies his book, Drawings Inspired by Life, with an original drawing or painting for years. What he didn't expect is that the original art created for his collector's editions would later become their own independent body of work: this book! It is the collection of all the original artwork Dorian has produced for Drawings! Each one features a young teen-aged or 20-ish girl or woman: pensive, drawing, painting, reading, on a phone or iPad, lounging, eating, dressing, with a small handful of nudes. The book's foreword is written by the artist and illustrator, teacher and friend, George Pratt. Editions Caurette & Spiridon Giannakis, 2023....More. Item Code: DORVHS Hard Cover, 9x11, 416pg, Partial Color $79.95 |
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MACANUDO: THE WAY OF THE PENGUIN 2020-2021. Our Highest Recommendation. Brilliant! A wonderful all-new new 3rd volume! In full color, Liniers (Ricardo Siri)'s hilarious tales of whimsy, fantasy and child characters. Calvin and Hobbes meets The Far Side! Cartoons of the awkwardness of zoom calls, witches frustrated at the Netflix lag on their crystal balls, children reading to cats, penguins imagining the impossibility of alien life, imaginary friends romping in the forest, horror-movie characters looking for friends... Liniers mixes his repertory cast with one-offs. Fantagraphics, 2024....More. Item Code: MACWH Hard Cover, 9x7, 176pg, Full Color |
| Here are the two previous Macanudo collections. We really love these things! So bizarre and funny. |
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THE THEATRICAL ADVENTURES OF EDWARD GOREY Rare Drawings, Scripts, and Stories Written by his friend and collaborator Carol Verburg, this handsome hardcover is filled with annotated scripts, behind-the-scenes anecdotes, and over two hundred images, including archival photos and previously unpublished artwork. It unveils Gorey at work and play, drawing back the curtain on his enigmatic genius, which continues to inspire artists and collectors today. His animated credits for the PBS Mystery! series introduced him to millions of television viewers. In addition to his intricate pen-and-ink drawings and darkly humorous storybooks, Gorey also nurtured a lifelong passion for the performing arts. This volume is the first to showcase his extensive theatrical work, including his transition from designing major productions to crafting original community theater pieces on Cape Cod. Chronicle Books, 2024....More. Item Code: THEADH Hard Cover, 9x11, 256pg, Partial Color |
| Here’s more with Edward Gorey. Both other titles are nearly gone, just a copy or two of each. |
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THE STAINLESS STEEL RAT Color Omnibus By Kelvin Gosnell, Art by Carlos Ezquerra. The 2000 AD adaptation of Harry Harrison's classic science-fiction novels in a new full color omnibus. James Bolivar DiGriz aka "The Stainless Steel Rat" is many things — a con man, a thief, and a member of an elite law-enforcement agency known as the Special Corps. After escaping the corps, DiGriz crosses paths with the beautiful but deadly Angelina who, like Jim DiGriz, is also a master criminal, albeit a lot more ruthless. They must travel through time to stop another master criminal meddling with the past, and overthrow an evil President by promoting The Rat as a candidate... 2000 AD, 2024....More. Item Code: STASTE Soft Cover, 8x11, 208pg, Full Color $33.99 |
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FANTASTIC FOUR Omnibus Volume 5 Collects Fantastic Four #126-163, Giant-Size Fantastic Four #2-4 and more,1972-75. Roy Thomas, Gerry Conway, John Buscema and Rich Buckler continue the FF’s adventures as the Frightful Four launch a surprise attack with their newest member — Thundra — that pushes Reed and Sue to the breaking point! And when Sue leaves the team, an Inhuman joins the FF. Who will it be? Also featuring: Agatha Harkness, world’s creepiest babysitter; Annihilus’ plan to harness the powers of Franklin Richards; the return of the Silver Surfer; Namor’s invasion of New York; a royal wedding...and, of course, Doctor Doom! Plus all four of the FF’s Giant-Size adventures, letters pages and more! Marvel, 2024. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge. ...More. Item Code: FFOM05H Hard Cover, 8x11, 1008pg, Full Color |
| Click here for previous volumes. Volume 1 is coming out in a new edition. |
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ALTER EGO #191 Highly Recommended. A special FCA (Fawcett Collectors Of America) issue! Documenting the influence of Mac Raboy’s Captain Marvel Jr. on the life, career, and look of Elvis Presley, from the 1950s through the cataclysmic concerns of the 1970s! Complete with two photos and two essays, one by Roy himself on a book about the connection! Plus: Comic Jungle - Part II with Yeates, Williamson, Crandall, Morrow, Bagnoli, Giolitti, et al. TwoMorrows, 2024....More. Item Code: AE191 Magazine, 8x11, 84pg, Partial Color $10.95 |
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BACK ISSUE #156 Bernie Wrightson Highly Recommended. Edited by Michael Eury. Bronze Age Graphic Novels! An exploration of the 1980s graphic novels from Marvel, DC, and First Comics. Plus: Conan GNs and DC’s Science Fiction GN series! Featuring Brent Anderson, John Byrne, Howard Chaykin, Chris Claremont, José Luis García-López, Jack Kirby, Don McGregor, Bob McLeod, Bill Sienkiewicz, Jim Starlin, Roy Thomas, Bernie Wrightson, & more. TwoMorrows, 2024....More. Item Code: BA156 Magazine, 8x11, 84pg, Partial Color $10.95 |
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DC FINEST LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES Zap Goes the Legion Collects Action Comics #378-387 and #389-392, Adventure Comics #374-380 and #403 and much, much more, 1968-1974. Recommended. By Jim Shooter and Cary Bates. Art by Win Mortimer, Dave Cockrum, et al. A major new line of DC collected editions begins with the earliest stories starring the Legion of Super-Heroes! This first collection starring the greatest heroes of the 30th century features long out-of-print tales from November 1968 to July 1974, such as War of the Wraith-Mates, The Fatal Five Who Twisted Time, and The Impossible Target, pulled from the pages of Action Comics #378-387 and #389-392, Adventure Comics #374-380 and #403, and Superboy #172-173, #176, #183-184, #188, #190-191, #193, #195, and #197-203. DC Comics, 2024....More. Item Code: DCFLEG Soft Cover, 7x10, 576pg, Full Color |
| Here are more Legion collections, including the facsimile tabloid edition of Superboy and the Legion from 1978, one left. |
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DC FINEST EVENTS Zero Hour Part One Collects Zero Hour: Crisis in Time #3-4, Superman #93 and dozens more issues, 1994. By Dan Jurgens, Jerry Ordway et al. Welcome to DC 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! In 1985, DC Comics dramatically altered comics' original universe with Crisis on Infinite Earths — an unforgettable, defining event in comics history that streamlined the DC Universe continuity. Nine years later, the heroes of the DC Universe found the temporal fabric of their new reality unraveling, and the biggest threat since the Crisis was about to be revealed in Zero Hour: Crisis in Time. DC Comics, 2024....More. Item Code: DCFEVE01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 496pg, Full Color |
| Click here for the previous DC Finest collections. We’re handling them all. Coming up: Plastic Man, collecting the Plas stories from Police 1-30 plus Plastic Man #1 and 2!! That’ll be a keeper indeed. |
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WALT DISNEY'S DONALD DUCK The 90th Anniversary Collection Recommended. Introduction by David Gerstein.In honor of Donald Duck's 90th anniversary, Fantagraphics traces his comics career from 1934 to the present in this massive 368 pages of Ducks! Carl Barks' "Lost in the Andes" and Don Rosa's "Return to Plain Awful" take the Ducks to the legendary land of square eggs — while Romano Scarpa's "Legend of Donald Hood" pits Donald against Scrooge in a feature-length Sherwood Forest spoof! Marco Rota's "Life and Times of Donald Duck" traces our hero from birth — as a wild duck in a nest?! William Van Horn's "The Black Moon" finds outer-space peril threatening Duckburg! Fantagraphics, 2024....More. Item Code: WDDD90H Hard Cover, 8x10, 368pg, Full Color |
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SPACE CIRCUS Signed Signed bookplate! Collects #1-4. All new! Young Todd Cooper has a new dream: Run away and join the Doodah Brothers’ Astral Traveling Entertainment and Fun Brigade, traveling from planet to planet with its incredible cast of Greebles, Flurps, Bearded Plankton, and Klone-Klowns — and avoiding the deadly Sky-Pirates! The hilarious sci-fi misadventure from multiple Eisner winners Sergio Aragonés and Mark Evanier, with colors by Tom Luth, and award-winning lettering by Stan Sakai! Dark Horse, 2024. ...More. Item Code: SPACHS Hard Cover, 8x11, 112pg, Full Color $29.99 |
| We’ve got more by Sergio, click here. |
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CARAVAGGIO: THE PALETTE AND THE SWORD Volume 1 Highly Recommended. The first half of Milo Manara's two-volume, epic biography of the hot-tempered Italian master painter. It depicts Caravaggio's early years in Rome as he struggles to capture truth on canvas, only to have his art condemned to be burned by the Church. He then is forced to flee the city when he kills a man in righteous fury over the death of a prostitute. Nudity. Gold-embossed cover. Oversized. Fanagraphics, 2024. Mature Readers....More. Item Code: CARV01 Soft Cover, 9x12, 64pg, Full Color $19.99 |
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PERSEPHONE Hardcover Junior Library Guild Selection. 25 Best Comic Books of 2018. Recommended. By Loïc Locatelli-Kournwsky. The Greek myth is reborn in a sprawling, high fantasy adventure. Despite being the adopted daughter of a magician, Persephone is just a normal girl, but that’s exactly the problem. So ordinary next to a literal force of nature. Driven by recurring nightmares as well as a budding curiosity, Persephone finds the secrets of her birth to be elusive and well-hidden by everyone around her. A journey to the Underworld will certainly bring the answers she seeks, but an epic adventure isn’t all that awaits her in the depths of Hades... Archaia, 2024....More. Item Code: PERSEH Hard Cover, 7x10, 160pg, Full Color $24.99 |
| Also available in softcover [PERSE. $17.99]. Click here for more fine graphic novels that were first published in France. Innovative and different. |
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DICK TRACY Volume 1 Collects #1-5. Recommended. A new era for the iconic detective starts here, from bestselling and acclaimed authors Alex Segura and Michael Moreci. An all-new, noir-infused chapter in the Tracy legacy kicks off with powerful artwork by Geraldo Borges. In the aftermath of World War II, the country stands frozen — waiting for the other shoe to drop. In The City, a brutal murder draws the attention of rising star detective Dick Tracy, who soon discovers the bloodshed is just the beginning of a complicated web that threatens to ensnare everything he cares about. Man Cave Studios, 2024....More. Item Code: DICT01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 130pg, Full Color $17.99 |
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PRINTOPIA By Bob Fingerman Recommended. Printopia, Bob Fingerman's first all-new graphic novel in over a decade, is a smart, satirical, story set in NYC, featuring a cast of eccentric creators unleashing their visions on the world. Part Ghost World, part acid trip, experience what Matt Groening described as "Brilliantly written... masterfully drawn... funny as hell." Cosmic Lion Productions, 2024....More. Item Code: PRINTOH Hard Cover, 9x13, 102pg, Full Color $25.00 |
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HOUSE OF THE UNHOLY Highly Recommended. By Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips. Two of my favorite storytellers are back in an all-new graphic novel. -Bud In this new tale, an FBI agent from the cult crime beat and a woman with a past linked to the cult Satanic Panic are both drawn into a terrifying hunt for an insane killer hiding in the shadows of the underworld. This story asks: can you ever escape your past, or are all your bad decisions just more ghosts to haunt you, wherever you go? Meet a girl hiding out from her past, and a "nice guy" FBI agent who ends up not only in bed with her, but working with her to uncover an even bigger crime.. Image Comics, 2024. Mature Readers....More. Item Code: HOUSH Hard Cover, 7x10, 144pg, Full Color |
| Here’s more by Ed Brubaker and his artists. |
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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! Valid until December 9th. | ||
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Last week 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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DONALD DUCK THE ULTIMATE HISTORY Deluxe Edition Limited, 1000, clamshell box, with bonus facsimiles of the storyboard binders for Sea Scouts and a portfolio of eight pieces of concept art from Donald’s South American features. Highly Recommended. In true Taschen fashion, the end-all book on Donald! Nothing succeeds like success, as the saying goes, but in the case of Donald Duck the opposite is true: the candor with which Donald reveals his weaknesses wins our hearts and stays with us forever. Revisit Donald from nine decades in one of the most expansive illustrated publications on the Disney universe. Since 1934, Donald Duck, one of the most published comic book subjects, has been seen in more films than any other Disney character. This volume includes rare animation drawings, vintage comics, behind-the-scenes photographs, charming memorabilia, unfinished film projects, and unpublished artworks by "the Duck Man," master storyteller Carl Barks. Clamshell box. Taschen, 2024. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge. Due: Dec. ...More. Item Code: DDULTD Hard Cover, 11x16, 564, Full Color $650.00 |
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ALLEY OOP AND JULIUS CAESAR 1949-1950 Highly Recommended. By V.T. Hamlin. Julius Caesar has been beaten by the Britons and only Alley can come to the rescue! Back in the modern day, Doc Wonmug is targeted by international gangsters, while Oop and Boom plan their first trip to the moon! These stories and more are in this oversized book, presenting two full years of daily strips and 78 color Sundays from 1949 and 1950. As to why these two oversize books are different... ordinarily, Alley Oop daily and Sunday strips were completely separate and unrelated adventures. But, for reasons we'll never know, during those three years (1946, 49, 50) and those three years alone, Sunday strips were integrated directly with the daily story lines, so that they were meant to be read continuously. In 1946 there were ten weeks of integrated Sundays and in 1949/50 there were seventy-eight. Acoustic Learning, 2024. Due: Jan....More. Item Code: ALLEJUL Soft Cover, 11x8, 290pg, Partial Color $75.00 |
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JIMMY! The Comic Art of James Swinnerton Highly Recommended. The definitive collection of comics and illustration from 1892 to 1942 by James Swinnerton, one of the founding fathers of the American comic strip. Jimmy! includes an illustrated biography and essays by co-editor Michael Tisserand and Eddie Campbell. His sgnature strip Little Jimmy began by mixing satire of New York society with stories of rural America. He then took the characters on the road to South America, Mexico, and then settling for many years in Swinnerton’s beloved Southwest. Also included in this book are his early one-shots and series like the rakish Mr. Jack and the anthropomorphic Mt. Ararat, and his 1940s stylized comic of the modern West, Rocky Mason. Fantagraphics, 2024. Due: Jan....More. Item Code: JIMCH Hard Cover, 13x17, 160pg, Full Color |
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BUTTON MAN By Arthur Ranson Apex Edition Recommended. By John Wagner. Button Man is an action-packed thriller, regarded as one of the greatest strips ever to be published in 2000 AD and a high point in the career of artist Arthur Ranson, whose photo-realistic artwork astonished readers. This Apex Edition reprints nearly 200 pages from the first three stories, newly scanned from the original art, printed at the size the pages were drawn, and without the inclusion of the dialogue balloons, to give you a real insight into Arthur Ranson's meticulous work.Rebellion/2000AD, 2024. Due: Jan....More. Item Code: BUTMH Hard Cover, 10x14, 192pg, Partial Color $95.00 |
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AVAILABLE NOW ESSENTIAL JUDGE ANDERSON Satan From 2000 A.D. #1263-1272 and Judge Dredd Magazine, 1993-2001. Recommended. In Mega-City One, citizens live in fear under the iron fist of the Judges’ unyielding rule, but PSI Judge Cassandra Anderson knows it’s a flawed system. Showcasing the stunning work of Arthur Ranson (Button Man, Mazeworld) alongside the rich storytelling of Alan Grant (Judge Dredd, Batman), Anderson grapples with faith and damnation. A chance at eternal life comes at the cost of losing her mind forever, and her pursuit of a just system leads her to investigate a religious cult, and ultimately to engage in a battle of the minds with the most formidable of foes: Satan himself! 2000AD, 2024....More. Item Code: ESSJS Soft Cover, 8x11, 144pg, Full Color $26.99 |
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We have a 3-disc set of Ed Wood’s final pervy films—stuff so bad it’s good, right? And also here is the latest 42nd Street Peep Show release, #61. Click here for the others, and here for all of our adult DVDs.
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Featured new listings this week: Torpedo 1936 set of 7 books (1984-91); Walt Disney’s Comics & Stories set of 22 Gladstone starting with #602; The Sphinx & Alley Oop Signed/Limited from 1991; Heavy Metal Presents Alien The Illustrated Story (1979); two early Robert Williams books; new Complete EC Libraries: Weird Science, Weird Fantasy, and the Complete EC Picto-Fiction; early volumes of Little Orphan Annie (the IDW series); DC’s Showcase Presents sets of World’s Finest, Teen Titans and Wonder Woman. Two statues: Doc Savage (1994) and Draco (from Dragonheart, 1997). 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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Holiday Shipping Deadlines Order before these dates to make sure your gifts arrive in a timely fashion. • West Coast 12/18 • East Coast 12/13 • Rush Service 12/20
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Prince Valiant Artists Special It’s here, came in too late to include this week. Advance orders are shipping now. It gets my highest recommendation. Great work by Hal Foster, Gary Gianni, Thomas Yeates spanning the history of Val… You can still order a copy and get it by Christmas.
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Corben Signed/Limited, Steranko Shadow Paperbacks, Virgil Finlay, Wally Wood, Chesley Bonestell, Bill Stout… Bud Plant & Hutchison Books' new e-catalog will be ready this week, featuring out of print books by all these folks and more. Email Anne Hutchison at info@budplantandhutchisonbooks.com or just go to our sister website: www.budplantandhutchisonbooks.com. Get on her mailing list for monthly (more or less) catalogs, and explore the BP&H website. It's entirely different (and seen by a lot less folks) than the Bud Plant website.
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Comics Revue 2023 issues going away We need room! We’re discontinuing the 2023 issues of the always-recommended Comics Revue. Last chance….
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We’re down to slightly bumped copies of Boris & Julie already; beware as other titles sell out. Here’s the complete list. We didn’t get 12 titles due to a pallet being lost. This means that the last catalog (with the Schultz cover) has several titles, mostly adult and one dinosaurs title, that we cannot get. We’re doing last reorders for a hot few titles right now but from now on, any that sell out will be gone. ~Bud
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20% Off all ALMOST GONE Titles. Coupon code: GONE24 Comic Strip Collections - Artists & Illustration - Comic Archives Calendars - Reference & How-To - Graphic Novels Pulps & Fiction - Statues, Cards & Pop Culture Pin-Up & Erotic Art - Adult Photography & DVD's Over 1000 titles qualify for the 20% Off coupon. The above links have these items broken into various sections for easier viewing. Happy Shopping, and Thank You for your support! |
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