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This is the week of heavy hitters! The Conan Colossal Edition is months late, but it was worth the wait -- beautifully done. The five volume Complete Kane is here by Karl Edward Wagner. Superman: The Definitive History is a spectacular deluxe edition. My favorite this week however still has to be the Prince Valiant Illustrator’s Special -- a must-have book for any Val fan. Eric Powell’s new sketchbook is very, very sharp. Then there’s Taschen’s Avengers now at $80, and Best of DC War Artist’s Edition revised with 20 more pages. And there’s even more. Enjoy! |
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CONAN THE BARBARIAN COLOSSAL EDITION John Buscema Cover |
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CONAN THE BARBARIAN COLOSSAL EDITION Barry Windsor-Smith Cover Recommended. Highly Recommended. 190 pages of full-size 12 x 17 scans of the original comic art pages pulled from throughout the original classic run of Conan comics and magazines. Explore the timeless works by legendary Conan artists John Buscema, Barry Windsor-Smith, Gil Kane, and a host of others in the most vivid detail possible! Zoop, 2024. Out of print. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge....More. Item Code: CONCHBWS Hard Cover, 12x17, 190pg, Partial Color $150.00 |
| We announced a Jim Lee cover which is now sold out. We have just ONE copy of the Barry Windsor Smith signed edition [CONCHBWSS. $200], as I write this, and THREE of the unsigned edition above. These were all printed to order on a Zoop solicitation, but although we brought in extras on top of customer advance orders, it was obviously not enough. The Barry Smith was the most popular and advance orders for this and the other variants are shipping to customers this week. Of the Buscema editions, we have just four and six copies as I write this. |
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THE COMPLETE KANE SET Numbered from 500. Highly Recommended. New artwork by Tom Kidd, Patrick J. Jones, Les Edwards, Boco, and Grant Griffin. Created by award-winning author and editor Karl Edward Wagner while he was still attending medical school, the most exciting and intelligent sword & sorcery series ever written is finally given the showcase it deserves with these stunning new illustrated editions from Centipede Press. This set of five hardcovers includes the three main Kane novels — Dark Crusade, Bloodstone, and Darkness Weaves, along with the two volumes of short fiction: Death Angel’s Shadow and Night Winds. The short stories are presented in the long-desired chronological order, with all of the poems, fragments, and later stories. Centipede Press, 2024. ...More. Item Code: COMKANH Hard Cover, 6x9, 1704pg, Text/b&w $550.00 |
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Our supply may be limited on this. Like other Centipede Press books, this may go out of print unexpectedly. Click here for two more books from Centipede: Dreams from the Dark Side: The Art of Allen Koszowski [DREADA. |
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SUPERMAN THE DEFINITIVE HISTORY Enormous XL-sized volume; clothbound hardcover in a deluxe die-cut slipcase. Recommended. By Edward Gross and Robert Greenberger. The most comprehensive book about Superman ever! From Krypton and Smallville to Metropolis and beyond, explore 85 years of Superman’s history in radio, TV, film, animation, computer games, advertising, merchandise and, of course, comics. Unpublished artwork, exclusive interviews, unique bonus inserts, and little-known facts. All-star contributors: Essential interviews and insights from those who have shaped the Man of Steel’s journey — filmmakers, actors, writers, illustrators, and many more. Cast of thousands: Fully explores the entire Superman family including Superboy, Power Girl/Supergirl, the Legion of Super-Pets (Krypto, Streaky, Beppo, Comet, and Fuzzy the Krypto Mouse), Bizarro, and all the Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen comics. Plus, all the key villains: Lex Luthor, Brainiac, Mr. Mxyzptlk, Darkseid, Doomsday, General Zod, etc. Exclusive bonus inserts: Filled with pull-out cards, posters, mini-books, and other interactive ephemera. Never before seen images: Exclusive, unseen treasures from the 85-year history of Superman taken directly from DC and Warner Bros. archives. Insight Editions, 2024. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge....More. Item Code: SUPDEFH Hard Cover, 11x15, 400pg, Partial Color $175.00 |
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ILLUSTRATORS QUARTERLY SPECIAL #19 Prince Valiant Hardcover Our Highest Recommendation. Limited, 1000. Now is your first chance ever to own part of history, delving into the greatest comics strip created by Hal Foster, exploring its origin, the coloring process and showcase samples from original artwork and the color proofs, many scanned at their actual size. Book Palace, 2024....More. Item Code: IQS19H Hard Cover, 9x11, 200pg, Partial Color $53.99 |
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Click here for all Prince Valiant in stock. We are no longer restocking the Fantagraphics series before Vol 25, so act now while many are still in stock, if you are missing earlier issues. We will keep offering the slipcased sets; Set 1 (Vols 1-3, the first six years of Sunday pages [PVS01P. $99.99]) is a special order item. We also have Set 5: Vols 13-15: 1961-1966 [PVS05P. |
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ILLUSTRATORS QUARTERLY #45 Slaine Cover Highly Recommended. Glenn Fabry gets the cover spot, featuring Sláine and Frankenstein cover art. He's one of the seminal artists from 2000AD in the UK, and then became one of favorite cover illustrators for the Vertigo line of comics in the USA. Next: remembering Glen Orbik, who brought back all the thrills and chills from the crime pulp covers of the 1940s into the new millennium — outstanding work!! Howard Chandler Christy, creator of the Christy Girl and many of his rare nudes. And a Gallery of Doc Savage artists: pulp illustrator Baumhofer, James Bama, Ken Barr, Bob Larkin, Boris Vallejo, and Alex Ross. Book Palace, 2024....More. Item Code: IQ45 Soft Cover, 9x11, 96pg, Partial Color $30.00 |
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ERIC POWELL DRAWINGS, SKETCHES & SUCH 2024 Signed Signed! Highly Recommended. An outstanding new collection of art, quite a bit of it in full color. Eric Powell is releasing a new sketchbook for the first time in almost 10 years! This perfect bound 72 page full color collection contains sketches drawings and paintings that have largely never been seen before. We like the variety: there's work from Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Elvira, Universal Monsters, Alien, Godzilla, Conan, nudes and model figure studies, Marvel heroes from Spidey to the FF and Wolverine — even a couple of The Goon to celebrate his 25th Anniversary! Very impressive!! Albatross, 2024....More. Item Code: ERIC24 Soft Cover, 10x8, 72pg, Partial Color $22.00 |
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BEST OF DC WAR New Artist's Edition New Revised Edition. Our Highest Recommendation. First printed in 2016, this edition adds 20 pages and brings this outstanding book back into print. DC Comics produced some of the very finest war comics ever, by some of the best artists in the field: Russ Heath, Jack Kirby, Joe Kubert, John Severin, and Alex Toth — a veritable pantheon of classic war artists doing what they do best. Plus special pencils and never before seen material. IDW, 2024. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge....More. Item Code: BESDCH Hard Cover, 12x17, 180pg, Partial Color $150.00 |
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Also see Artists Against the War, Atlas at War and the new Atlas Comics Library Vol 4 War Comics #1 [ATL04H. |
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SPACE GHOST Volume 1 With Only Ghosts to Comfort Us Mattina Cover Collects #1-6, 2024. Highly Recommended. By David Pepose. Art by Jonathan Lau. Very well drawn return of the classic and beloved TV hero that Alex Toth was deeply involved with. Greed and corruption flourish in the darkness between stars. With the territories of the Galactic Federation spread far and wide across the vastness of space, pirates and hijackers ransack the distant colonies with cruel disregard for the innocent scientists living within them. Yet there is a cosmic vigilante who metes out justice throughout the galaxy, bringing vengeance to those prey upon the defenseless. Some say he is a policeman who has abandoned the strictures of the law. Others say he is a phantom, the sole survivor of a war-torn planet. Dynamite, 2024. ...More. |
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| Also coming in any time now, we’ll have the hardcover edition signed by the author David Pepose [SPAGH01HS. $39.99]. |
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DESOLATION JONES The Biohazard Edition Recommended. From Warren Ellis (Trees, Transmetropolitan, Castlevania) and JH Williams III (Echolands, The Sandman Overture, Batwoman). Los Angeles is an open prison for broken spies. Michael Jones, once an agent for British intelligence before a procedure to make him a better operative left him mentally and physically shattered, survives in LA as a private investigator, eking out a living within the city's ghost community of damaged spooks. If he had any better future to look forward to, he probably wouldn't now be embarking on his newest job: locating the lost pornographic home movies of... Adolf Hitler. Image Comics, 2024....More. Item Code: DESJH Hard Cover, 8x12, 208pg, Full Color |
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MARVEL COMICS LIBRARY AVENGERS Volume 1 1963-1965 Collects #1-20, 1963-65. Highly Recommended. New smaller size edition of the $200 XL volume. Super-hero teams had been around since the 1940s, but Thor, Ant Man, the Wasp, Hulk, and Iron Man broke new ground when they joined forces to form the Avengers in 1963. They not only fought together, they occasionally fought each other! The first 20 stories, never before reproduced so large as in this Hulk-sized volume, include the Silver Age return of Captain America (#4), and the wild original stories of the early team with The Hulk, in and out of the team, Iron Man, Thor, Ant-Man and the Wasp! Plus lots of bonus features, from house ads to staff pictures and anecdotes. Taschen, 2024. Rush Service and International shipping would require an additional charge. ...More. Item Code: MARSAV01H Hard Cover, 9x12, 642pg, Partial Color $80.00 |
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NIGHTMARE ABBEY Volume 7 Recommended. Edited by Tom English. It’s the 7th mammoth volume of this critically-acclaimed horror magazine/book. Restless spirits, haunted places — this issue is heavily illustrated with movie and comics photos. 13 Scariest Christmas horror tales ever by Matt Cowan, EC Comics' Ghoulunatics (The Hideous History of American Horror Comics #4) by John M. Navroth, packed with cover reproductions, Hammer Film's Greatest: The Devil Rides Out by John Llewellyn Probert, illustrations by World Fantasy Award-winner Allen Koszowski, the latest report on Dear Abbey and the Hound from Hell, and 11 terrifying tales by today's top writers. Dead Letter Press, 2024....More. Item Code: NIGA07 Soft Cover, 7x10, 146pg, Text/b&w $16.95 |
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Alley Oop |
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ALLEY OOP AND JULIUS CAESAR 1949-1950 Highly Recommended. By V.T. Hamlin. First Alley and crew have a new adventure in Moo, then they're back in the present and off on a trip to the moon! Next up, Julius Caesar has been beaten by the Britons and only Alley can come to the rescue, as he dons armor and becomes a warrior! Back in the modern day, Doc Wonmug is targeted by international gangsters! These stories and more are in this big oversized book, presenting two full years of daily strips and 78 color Sundays. 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, for three years (1946, '49, '50) , Sunday strips were integrated directly with the daily story lines, so that they were meant to be read continuously. Acoustic Learning, 2024. ...More. Item Code: ALLEJUL Soft Cover, 13x10, 290pg, Partial Color $75.00 |
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ALLEY OOP AND THE ZAN OF ZORON 1998 Graue/Bender Daily strips, 1998. Alley and his friends are captured as specimens for an intergalactic zoo! How will they manage to escape from... the Zan of Zoron? Also featuring the battle to banish the menacing monster Swamp Slug — and that's not all! Acoustic Learning, 2024....More. Item Code: ALLE98 Soft Cover, 9x8, 106pg, b&w $19.99 |
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ALLEY OOP AND THE MAN FROM 2166 1966 Hamlin/Graue Daily strips. 1965. Highly Recommended. Asteroid Icarus is plummeting toward the Earth! Will Alley find the solution to our situation when he discovers... the Man from 2166? Also, Ooola is on an adventure of her own in the old west, but she gets swept away in a balloon by a king who ends up proposing to her. But Alley is not standing by for that, not when the king already has 16 wives, which Oola doesn't know! Classic adventures from the fine period where Hamlin was still on his creation, with Dave Graue helping out before he would eventually take over the series. Acoustic Learning, 2024....More. Item Code: ALLE66 Soft Cover, 11x7, 106pg, b&w $19.99 |
| Click here for the latest Alley Oop releases, including the popular Sunday Page collections. |
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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. | ||
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KING CONAN THE ORIGINAL COMICS Omnibus Volume 1 Collecting #1-19 of King Conan, 1980-83. Recommended. A new era begins with adventures set after Conan has deposed the tyrant Numedides to become ruler of Aquilonia. But Conan on the throne is still Conan. The savage action that made him a pulp and comic book legend fills page after page, while palace intrigue adds a new level of drama with Queen Zenobia and Prince Conn, the heir to the throne, taking prominent roles. Old nemeses like Thoth-Amon return, and mystical prophecy ties Conan to the first king of the realm. Each issue is a double-sized extravaganza with scripts by the godfather of Conan comics, Roy Thomas, along with Doug Moench and Alan Zelenetz, and artwork by John Buscema and rising star (at that time) Marc Silvestri. Titan, 2025. Due: Feb....More. Item Code: KINOC01H Hard Cover, 7x11, 768pg, Full Color |
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WONDER WOMAN THE GOLDEN AGE Omnibus Volume 6 Collects Sensation Comics #105-106, Wonder Woman #48-54, 1951-52. Recommended. By Robert Kanigher. Art by Harry G. Peter. Follow the adventures of Wonder Woman in this stunning collection of her classic adventures! The series enters the 1950s; as other super heroes were falling by the wayside, Wonder Woman, along with Batman and Superman, was among the very few heroes to roll on into the 1950s and beyond. This collects the last stories in her long run in Sensation Comics, which are beginning to more fully develop her character, before major changes in the late 1950s as she morphed into the Silver Age. Issue #49 was used in SOTI, and the one from #50 in Parade of Pleasure. The last pre-code issue would be #72. DC Comics, 2025. Due: Feb....More. Item Code: WWGA06H Hard Cover, na, 704pg, Full Color |
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Volume 5, which collects Wonder Woman #25-47 and Sensation Comics #90-104 (the legendary "All-Girl" issues), is still available [WWGA05H. |
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THE MARVEL COMIC COVERS OF JACK KIRBY Volume 1 1961-1964 Recommended. The Marvel Comics Covers of Jack Kirby collects Kirby’s cover art in a hardcover format. The first volume of this series contains more than 175 classic Kirby covers from 1961 to 1964, including the earliest issues of The Avengers, The Fantastic Four, The Incredible Hulk, Journey into Mystery (Thor), Strange Tales (The Human Torch), Tales to Astonish (Ant-Man), and The X-Men, alongside commentary by multiple contributors. Dark Horse, 2025. Due: Feb....More. Item Code: MARJK01H Hard Cover, 8x13, 184pg, Partial Color |
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THE MAGIC ORDER Library Edition Volume 1 Collects The Magic Order series 1 & 2. From the best-selling, award-winning creator Mark Millar, featuring the artwork of Olivier Coipel and Stuart Immonen. Millarworld and Dark Horse Comics present the first two arcs of the bestselling dark fantasy thriller graphic novel in an oversized hardcover format. Soon to be a Netflix series! Magic meets the Mob in The Magic Order, as magicians sworn to protect our world for generations battle an enemy who's picking them off one by one. Collected together for the first time, this introduces us to The Magic Order, a group of five families of sorcerers, magicians, and wizards. They live among us as our neighbors, friends, and co-workers, but by night they protect us from the forces of darkness... unless the darkness gets them first. Dark Horse, 2024. Mature Readers. Due: Feb....More. Item Code: MAGOL01H Hard Cover, 8x12, 376pg, Full Color |
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HELMUT NEWTON BERLIN, BERLIN By Matthias Harder. Berlin had an indelible influence on Helmut Newton and his photographic work. Many of his iconic images show the fascination he had for the city throughout his remarkable career, from the 1930s to the 21st century: nightcrawlers in uber-cool clubs, nude portraits in the old Berlin guesthouses of his youth, and the Berlin film scene. Featuring Hanna Schygulla and Wim Wenders at the Berlin Wall, John Malkovich and David Bowie. Taschen, 2024. Mature Readers. Due: Jan....More. Item Code: HELNBH Hard Cover, 8x11, 244pg, b&w |
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Rare Books This Week! |
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Four Volume Slipcased Set - 2006 |
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Set of 22 Comics - 1993-1999 |
This week: All new sets of Gemstone EC Comics issues (watch out, these have been popular). Fantasy artist Angus McBride, Witchworks, The Female Nude, Aphrodesia set, Women: A Secret Portfolio, DC Showcase sets of The Flash, Phantom Stranger, Green Arrow and Superman, Walt Kelly’s Our Gang, The Collected Buck Rogers, More Than Human by Ted Sturgeon & Alex Nino, signed by Theodore Sturgeon, and classic DC Archives with Challengers of the Unknown and The Legion of Super-Heroes. Rare Books Sale! We still have just over 70 titles from our newest 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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Comic Archives - Artists & Illustration - Comics Reference |
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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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News & Notes |
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Next Sale! We’re lowering prices on our next two months of Sale lists. You can get an advance look now, right here. Search "Decsale" and "Jansale." We’re also dropping prices on 3...2..1... Gone items and more, some as low as $5. You can find these by doing a search in the Almost Gone section, and then sort by lowest price.
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Flash Sale We’re also working on some more Flash Sale items for one of our December Deals, and for a limited time I’ve dropped the price on Jim Vadeboncoeur’s Images Magazine and Black & White Images Annuals, to just $5 and $7.50, which is up to 75% off the original price. These sell steadily for us, but when Jim moved to Paris he left us all of his remaining inventory...so we have an abundance of copies and can pass on the savings. We’ve never before offered the last issue, #13, for this little...just $5. If there is one issue you want to check out, this is the one, $5 is a steal—cover price is $30. It’s a bonus-sized Kickstarter edition with a wonderful Alphonse Mucha cover, with our Highest Recommendation. This and any other issues would make great Stocking Stuffers too.
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Our latest December Deal is 10% off on any value of Gift Certificate, which we offer in increments of $10 [GIFTC. ~Bud
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