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We’ve put together the 2024 Bestsellers for you this week, instead of our regular new items email. See News & Notes for the handful of items that came in, which will be listed in their entirety next week. This year we broke up the Bestsellers into separate categories. This offers a broader range of items rather than just a straight top 60 like we did last year. As I do each year, I’ve gone through each title and below the regular description I have added my personal comments. Many of these are my own favorite items. I try to offer some perspective on why it’s done so well as well as more details. Any Bestsellers that sold out are not in the main list, but are listed in my notes below each category. |
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1. ILLUSTRATORS SPECIAL #18 THE U.S. WARREN ARTISTS Limited, 1500. Introduction by Guillermo Del Toro. Our Highest Recommendation. By Peter Richardson. This explores the careers of each featured artist, both their Warren and tons of non-Warren work. The ultimate guide to the U.S. artists who made Warren's Creepy, Eerie, Vampirella, 1984 and all the monster mags the best in the business. With the aid of friends, family, fans, historians and the artists themselves, the compelling stories of the talent who worked throughout the golden years of Warren Publishing. Featuring an absolutely stunning roster including Neal Adams, Bernie Wrightson, Richard Corben, Frank Frazetta, Angelo Torres, Basil Gogos, Russ Heath and many, many more. Book Palace, 2024....More. Item Code: ILLUSWH Hard Cover, 9x11, 400pg, Full Color $90.00 |
| Book Palace has done a number of books now on the Warren artists, both U.S. and Spanish, and they've all been very popular with our customers. Warren used the crème de la crème of fine comics illustrators. |
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2. 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 |
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Progress has been slow on #4—we no longer seriously call this a quarterly—but it will be worth the wait when Arnie gets it finished. We have just 8 copies left of #2 as I write this. We stilll have Spectrum #3 in stock and in fact its on sale at |
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3. 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 |
| This is limited to 1000 and we were SO pleased to get a large reorder in when our first shipment sold out quickly. |
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4. WOMEN OF WONDER Celebrating Women Creators of Fantastic Art Closeout Price! Our Highest Recommendation. Edited by Cathy Fenner. Introduction by Lauren Panepinto. From the co-editor of Spectrum, a spotlight on women creators of fantastic art (traditionally seen as a largely male domain, though women have always been active participants) from Kewpie creator Rose O'Neill and pulp illustrator Margaret Brundage to Spectrum Grand Masters Diane Dillon and Kinuko Y. Craft. Underwood Books, 2015. Out of print....More. Item Code: WOMOW Soft Cover, 9x12, 128pg, Full Color |
| We put this on our year-end flash sale at a mere $5, and it was the magic number. A great book from Underwood. |
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5. MARK SCHULTZ PORTFOLIO Hardcover Signed Signed color bookplate. Limited printing. Our Highest Recommendation. A showcase spanning seven transformative years — 2005 through 2012 — Mark Schultz turned his attention to producing a body of personal works and private commissions, focusing on subjects about which he feels most passionate. Among them are characters and tableaux pulled from mythology, science-fantasy and pulp adventure. Schultz’s Xenozoic world is profusely explored through a series of dynamic compositions with his protagonists, Jack and Hannah, placed in a variety of impossibly dangerous situations. In addition to his self-generated pieces, there are many examples of Schultz’s commercial works done for comics, film and books, as well as renderings of newly discovered dinosaurs. Flesk, 2024....More. Item Code: MSPORTH Hard Cover, 7x10, 432pg, Partial Color $59.95 |
| This is all three versions combined—the super deluxe is sold out. The hardcover and softcover are both available and both signed. |
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6. MIDDLE EARTH Visions of a Modern Myth Signed Closeout Price! Just added, an all-new signed bookplate by Giancola! Highly Recommended. From the brush of Donato Giancola, one of the world's most recognized and lauded fantasy artists, comes a book filled with new illustrations that apply his legendary Renaissance craftsmanship to J. R. R. Tolkien's fantastic Middle-Earth. Dramatic lighting and deft draftsmanship in a photo-realistic style, reminiscent of master painters, explains Donato's popularity. Winner of numerous Hugo and Chesley Awards. This long-awaited, moving, and beautiful voyage through Middle-Earth — a must-have for eager genre readers everywhere — offers a refreshingly new exploration of literature's most beloved fantasy realm with portraits as well as action scenes involving all the characters. Underwood Books, 2010....More. Item Code: MIDEH Hard Cover, 9x13, 78pg, Full Color |
| A second Underwood Books title we put on flash sale, and this even comes with a signed bookplate which Donato generously offered to do when we bought out Underwood's remaining stock. |
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7. THE ART OF ARTHUR ADAMS Signed The first 75 copies sold will include a 8x11 b&w signed plate: ten left. Our Highest Recommendation. The most comprehensive retrospective ever compiled on this celebrated creator. A hand-picked selection of his art spans forty years and highlights a variety of comic-book covers and interior pages from each phase of his career. The pieces showcased here are from major and independent publishers as well as creator-owned projects. Examples cover a chronological display dating from his first samples, while trying to break into the business, to Arthur’s latest cover drawings. Each image is accompanied by personal anecdotes that enhance the visuals. Flesk, 2023....More. Item Code: ARTAA Soft Cover, 9x12, 180pg, b&w $40.00 |
| We included the hardcover publisher edition in our count, but it is sold out. This SC is still available for now, signed. |
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8. ILLUSTRATORS QUARTERLY #43 All Western Our Highest Recommendation. A Wild West special begins with the history of the western pulp art, both covers and inside, featuring luminaries Norman Saunders and Allen Anderson. Then we are treated to a major, lengthy examination of EC & Cracked master John Severin, one of the very finest artists ever to draw authentic western adventure in comics. Here too is Fred Harman (Red Ryder) who was a western character himself, with a long, successful career. And more, in an excellent and unusual issue. Book Palace, 2024....More. Item Code: IQ43 Soft Cover, 9x11, 96pg, Partial Color $30.00 |
| Don't tell us westerns are dead. Some nice genre books have been turning up, and look how well this has done! |
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9. IAIN MCCAIG'S ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE SKETCHBOOK Signed Signed bookplate. Our Highest Recommendation! A high quality hardcover sketchbook, with both full color and two color images throughout. Follow Iain McCaig's amazingly captivating images from the gifted and prolific concept artist who has worked for the top filmmakers, including the Star Wars films Episodes 1-4, ILM and Lucasfilm. In film, McCaig is best known for designing the Star Wars characters Padmé Amidala and Darth Maul and has contributed key designs to many of the films in the Star Wars franchise. Design Studio Press, 2024....More. Item Code: IMONEH Hard Cover, 14x11, 160pg, Partial Color $34.95 |
| This Star Wars creator generously did a new bookplate for us for his two brand new books. See his Smalltown Tales below. |
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10. INNOCENCE AND SEDUCTION The Art of Dan Decarlo Almost Gone! New Expanded Edition, 40 more pages. Our Highest Recommendation. DeCarlo fan, friend, and fellow cartoonist Bill Morrison has produced the ultimate book on this remarkable artist, lavishly designed with nearly 350 illustrations. Rare World War II-era cartoons, original Humorama pinups, seldom-seen newspaper strips, examples of his justly famous commercial comics work, and of course, lots and lots of those fabulous DeCarlo ladies! Full color and black-and-white illustrations and photographs throughout. Fantagraphics, 2024. Out of print....More. Item Code: INNSEH Hard Cover, 9x12, 248pg, Partial Color |
| A new revised edition of the 2016 collection, best ever on DeCarlo. We used his image of Veronica in a Santa Claus outfit for our last 2024 catalog. |
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11. STAR WARS ARCHIVES EPISODES IV-VI 1977-1983 By Paul Duncan. Star Wars exploded onto our cinema screens in 1977, and the world has not been the same since. After watching depressing and cynical movies throughout the early 1970s, audiences enthusiastically embraced the positive energy of the Star Wars universe as they followed moisture farmer Luke Skywalker on his journey through a galaxy far, far away, meeting extraordinary characters like mysterious hermit Obi-Wan Kenobi, space pirates Han Solo and Chewbacca, loyal droids C-3PO and R2-D2, bold Princess Leia and the horrific Darth Vader, servant of the dark, malevolent Emperor. Taschen, 2024....More. Item Code: STARW77H Hard Cover, 13x10, 604pg, Partial Color |
| This is a surprise; interest in Star Wars is still strong. Another good-value Taschen book. |
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12. FRAZETTA World's Best Comics Cover Artist Slipcased Highly Recommended. Includes 16-page bonus folio and illustrated slipcase. Vanguard’s Definitive Reference series returns with a companion to 2022’s bestselling Frazetta Book Cover Art. While that documented and commented on book cover paintings, now focus is on all his comics and magazine covers: Creepy, Eerie, Mad Magazine, National Lampoon, Marvel's Epic Illustrated, High Times and more. And all his early comic book work: Ghost Rider, Thunda, Tim Holt, Beware, the entire Buck Rogers Famous Funnies run, Buster Crabbe, Straight Arrow, White Indian and his EC cover art. Plus reuses, adaptations and entirely new works, such as Mothman, Satanika, Jaguar God, Space Cowboy and Death Dealer, right up to today. Vanguard, 2023....More. Item Code: FRAZWD Hard Cover, 8x11, 192pg, Full Color $74.95 |
| This ranking includes sales of the hardcover version, and both are still available. Click here for more Frazetta. |
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13. ILLUSTRATORS QUARTERLY SPECIAL #14 The Illustrated History of Warren Magazines New printing, revised and expanded with eight more pages. Our Highest Recommendation. This explores and showcases James Warren's highly successful magazines and their artists: Famous Monsters of Filmland, Screen Thrills, Creepy, Eerie, Vampirella, 1984, The Spirit, Comix International and more. Packed with cover art and interior pages by the likes of Corben, Wrightson, Neal Adams, Ditko, Toth, Frazetta, Wood, Severin, Crandall, Infantino, Niño and many, many more. Plus the entire history, the ups and downs, of Warren's empire. Book Palace, 2024....More. Item Code: IQS15 Soft Cover, 9x11, 152pg, Partial Color $45.99 |
| Another Warren special issue—always an appealing topic, as mentioned above. |
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14. THE ROCKETEER The Life and Legacy of Dave Stevens Highly Recommended. The Cartoon Art Museum has assembled a selection of original artwork that spans the breadth of Stevens’s artistic development, from his early days in animation through his career as a storyboard artist through his groundbreaking comic books. This exhibit catalog is based on The Rocketeer: The Life and Legacy of Dave Stevens retrospective celebrating the life and artistry of the legendary creator displayed September 2023 to June 2024. Cartoon Art Museum, 2024....More. Item Code: ROCKL Soft Cover, 8x11, 60pg, Full Color $30.00 |
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15. 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 |
| This is the best deal of all—the $30 bonus-sized issue for $5. Issues #7-12 are also available, also $5 each, which is 75% off of the $20 published price. Our recent flash sale pushed all of these these higher on this list so we are maintaining the sale price for a while. Black & White Images #4 and 5 are also on sale; #3 is nearly gone now, the last few we have are cover price. Earlier issues may be found in our Rare Books. |
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16. INFECTED BY ART Volume 11 Donato Giancola Cover Our Highest Recommendation. With a dust jacket painting by Donato Giancola, Infected by Art Volume 11 once again contains a wonderfully diverse groups of artists selected by their jury panel. 295 artists are represented, with works ranging from traditionally painted to digitally painted, illustrations in pencil, pen and ink or gold leaf, to sculpted works. Contains 340 artworks. Body of Work award goes to Victor Adame. Grand Prize Winners: Colin and Kristine Poole, Victor Adame, Dan Chudzinski, Mariah Tekulve, and Rong Xu. Infected by Art, 2023. Mature Readers. ...More. Item Code: INA11H Hard Cover, 9x11, 328pg, Full Color $39.99 |
| The variant cover by Boris Vallejo & Julie Bell was also a best seller. Both versions are still available, as well as volumes 5-10. |
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17. FRANKLIN BOOTH SILENT SYMPHONY Our Highest Recommendation. The culmination of twenty years of publishing. The entire Flesk team poured months of research and work into making this all-new, freshly designed, 304-page volume that reprises their first book in 2002. This celebrates the life and work of Franklin Booth, who inspired artists from Berni Wrightson to Michael Kaluta. This is THE book on one of the most successful commercial artists of the early 20th century. 365 black and white and 25 color illustrations plus photos and more. Flesk, 2022....More. Item Code: FRABSS Soft Cover, 9x12, 304pg, Partial Color |
| The deluxe version sold out before 2024. This is the most complete book ever done on Booth, who Berni Wrightson listed as inspiration and all the Studio artists admired. |
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18. TELLING STORIES The Comic Art of Frank Frazetta Hardcover Slipcased Closeout Price, now 50% off. Our Highest Recommendation. This offers the complete Thunda and his best romance works, such as "Untamed Love" and "The Wrong Road." Plus combat tales, funny animals, White Indian stories and covers, Ghost Rider covers and much, much more. Some of these stories offer some of his finest pen & ink works, with shapely women, nude statues, and lots of implied lust. Fantasy art's most popular painter was also one of the finest comic book illustrators in the pre-code 1950s. This deluxe collection exhibits the skill of a master craftsman but also provides tantalizing glimpses of where the young artist’s career would ultimately take him, into his iconic paintings of Conan, covers for the Warren mags and famous movie posters for Clint Eastwood, among others. Hardcover in slipcase! This was the ONLY trade edition of this book, never produced in softcover. Underwood Books, 2008. ...More. Item Code: TELSH Hard Cover With Slip Case, 9x12, 192pg, Full Color |
| The very best Underwood Books title we bought from Tim before he passed away; half price on a handsome slipcased volume keeps it on this list every year. |
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19. THE ART OF RACHEL AND TERRY DODSON Hardcover Signed Exclusive two-sided print, signed by both Terry and Rachel, limited to 200, exclusive from us! Our Highest Recommendation. Highlights from this exceptional team’s 25-year career and how their art is created, including 40 of their favorite comic book covers. The pair also share insights into how eight personal pieces were executed, and they break down the making of a two-page Red One sequential comic story. Stages of their creative process — Terry’s pencils, Rachel’s inks and Terry’s colors for each piece. Supporting commentary offers further insight, and two dozen covers are supplemented by Terry’s initial sketches. Flesk, 2024....More. Item Code: ARTRTDH Hard Cover, 9x12, 176pg, Partial Color $59.95 |
| The softcover version was also a best seller, and both are still available. Click here for more Rachel & Terry Dodson. |
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20. THE CHILLINGLY WEIRD ART OF MATT FOX Our Highest Recommendation. Matt Fox (1906-1988) first gained notoriety for his bizarre cover paintings on the pulp magazine Weird Tales from 1943 to 1951. His created ghouls, demons, and grotesqueries of all types, evoking a disquieting horror vibe that no one since has ever matched. He went on into comics and his 1950s cover illustrations, his lone story for Chilling Tales, put them at the top of all pre-code horror comic enthusiasts' want lists. He brought his evocative storytelling skills (and an almost Basil Wolverton-esque ink line) to Atlas/Marvel horror comics of the 1950s and ‘60s as an inker, too! But since Fox never gave an interview, this unique creator remained largely unheralded until now! TwoMorrows. 2023. ...More. Item Code: CHILMHS Hard Cover, 8x11, 128pg, Full Color $29.95 |
| Roger Hill's last published book, on a very deserving but nearly unknown comics and pulp artist! Great stuff! |
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21. ILLUSTRATION MAGAZINE #84 Almost Gone! Our Highest Recommendation. This issue features the work of the legendary N.C. Wyeth, known for his iconic illustrations for the books Treasure Island, Robin Hood, Robinson Crusoe, and so many more. Many images are reproduced from the original paintings. Featured next is the work of Ward Brackett, the Cooper Studios artist best known for his slick magazine illustrations. Book reviews, exhibitions and events, and more round out the issue. Illustrated Press, 2023. Out of print....More. Item Code: IL84 Magazine, 8x11, 80pg, Partial Color $15.00 |
| The final issue as editor Dan Zimmer wrapped up his run. NC Wyeth! Click here for back issues! |
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22. SPECTRUM Volume 19 Hardcover Closeout Price! Our Highest Recommendation. Edited by Cathy and Arnie Fenner. 300 diverse visionary artists, many world-renowned, including Michael Whelan, Donato Giancola, Leo & Diane Dillon, Kinuko Craft, and Peter de Sève. James Gurney (Dinotopia) is the featured Grand Master. Cover is by Brom. Here is the year's finest art, Gold, Silver and Bronze winners plus all carefully chosen runners up, picked by a jury of their peers. With art from books and book covers, graphic novels, video games, films, galleries, three-dimensional (statues, etc.) and advertising, Spectrum is truly an electrifying art book. Underwood Books, 2012. Out of print. ...More. Item Code: SPE19H Hard Cover, 9x12, 304pg, Full Color |
| From 2012, a massive 300-page volume at 2/3's off cover price. Other back volumes are available, most also on sale. |
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23. ILENE MEYER Paintings Drawings Perceptions Deluxe Closeout Price! Publisher file copy. Slipcased. Signed & numbered, 500. Highly Recommended! Edited by Cathy and Arnie Fenner. Ilene Meyer's oil paintings transport viewers through the mists of myths and creation to explore a unique world populated by fantastical creatures and imaginary landscapes — all rendered with clarity and passion. As surreal as Pablo Picasso or Salvador Dali, as evocative as Georgia O'Keeffe, this gallery introduces SF and New Age aficionados to the first full-scale celebration of Meyer's work. Invoking themes of ecology, conservation, culture, and lost civilizations, Meyer's paintings pronounce that all existence is interconnected and that all souls are intertwined. A cultural sensation in Japan and the subject of numerous articles, interviews and even a documentary film, Meyer is perfectly primed to enchant America with her bold, painterly style. Designed and edited by Cathy Fenner and Arnie Fenner, the creators of the Spectrum series, this is the first collection of Ilene Meyer paintings to be published in the U.S. Note: Slight bump to slipcase. Underwood Books, 2004....More. Item Code: ILENED Hard Cover, 9x12, 128pg, Full Color |
| This was a personal favorite of Tim Underwood's, amazing psychedelic colors and detail from a brilliant creator who died far too soon. |
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24. WALLY WOOD FROM WITZEND Complete Collection Slipcased Limited, 750. Includes 16 bonus pages. Our Highest Recommendation. Hall of Fame comics creator Wallace Wood's revolutionary witzend has been called the birth of the pro-zine, underground, independent... but all agree witzend was a mid-'60s milestone event, freedom from censorship with creator rights. Wood kicked it off and invited his artist friends to participate. And he dominated the first few issues with fine all-new work. For the first time ever, ALL of Wood's witzend work: the adventure strip Animan, the sexy Sally Forth, The Rejects, Bucky Ruckus, Pipsqueek Papers, The Wizard King, Snorky, Lunar Tunes, and more. Nudity. Vanguard, 2024. Mature Readers. ...More. Item Code: WALWCCD Hard Cover, 8x11, 176pg, b&w $69.95 |
| Click here for more Wood work. |
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25. SAVAGE ART 20th Century Genre and the Artists that Defined It Hardcover Bargain priced, still 2010 cover price. Highly Recommended! Entirely from the original paintings, with stunning reproduction, full page for each pulp cover. The lurid and violent illustrations which prefigured and helped create the visual language in movie poster art, comic books, and game art. Featuring classic illustration by pulp artists Virgil Finlay, Norman Saunders, H.J. Ward, Harold McCauley, Austin Briggs, Emsh, Harry Parkhurst, Walter Baumhofer, Rafael de Soto, George and Jerome Rozen, Tom Lovell and, of course, Weird Tales legend Margaret Brundage, and others. Underwood Books, 2010. Out of print....More. Item Code: SAVAH Hard Cover, 9x12, 112pg, Full Color $15.00 |
| Wonderful pulp covers all from the original paintings. Underwood published this as a bargain-priced book, still original cover price. |
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26. IAIN MCCAIG'S SMALLTOWN TALES Signed Signed color bookplate. Highly Recommended. 12 illustrated short stories and vignettes. Entirely by artist, author and film maker Iain McCaig, creator of the iconic designs for Darth Maul and Queen Amidala for Star Wars. Two ghosts, Frightwood and Po, are adrift on a petrified park bench in outer space, at the end of the world, telling tales. Meet the Smalltown vampire, the Sirens in the Sound, hear how the Bell-Ringer finds an apprentice and Albert Moon falls in love, and discover the story of the First War of The Worlds.. Titan, 2024....More. Item Code: IMSMH Hard Cover, 8x8, 72pg, Full Color $30.00 |
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27. SHAMELESS ART 20th Century Genre and the Artist That Defined It Bargain priced, still 2010 cover price. Highly Recommended. All from the original art: Rare, completely nude ladies by famous pin-up artists Fritz Willis, Roy Best, Zoe Mozart, Gil Elvgren (who rarely did nudes), Andrew Loomis, Earl Moran, Art Sarnoff, Rolf Armstrong (several), George Petty (one nude, four just-about), Bergey, and of course, Vargas. Suggestive pin-ups by Caldwell Higgins, Bill Randal, Ted Withers, Art Frahm, 11 pieces including one nude and several great Film Fun covers by Enoch Bolles. And much more by lesser-known and unknowns. Underwood Books, 2010. Out of print. Mature Readers. ...More. Item Code: SHAAH Hard Cover, 10x12, 112pg, Full Color $15.00 |
| The companion volume to Savage Art, also collected from original pulp cover paintings, now the sexy images. Should be in every collection! |
Art and Illustration: Our #3 bestseller for the year was the Corben special issue of Illustrator’s Quarterly #42. We still hope that they’ll consider reprinting it. The Illustrators Special on the Warren Spanish Artists sold out, I think for the second time! Again, hoping to see a new printing. Click here to see all 43 Best Sellers in the Art & Illustration category. |
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1. WALT DISNEY'S DONALD DUCK Mystery of the Swamp (Book 3) Collects Four Color #62 and WDC&S #53-68, 1945-46 & more. Our Highest Recommendation. Includes Barks's only Mickey Mouse mystery, "Mickey Mouse and Riddle of the Red Hat." Carl Barks's first foray into his signature series of adventures in "lost civilizations'' takes the Ducks deep into the Everglades, where they find themselves bedeviled by the enigmatic Gneezles, who have escaped detection from outsiders since the days of Ponce de León — and want to keep it that way. Then, the fun comes fast and furious as Donald invents a radar detector to track the nephews, the boys open their own detective agency, an ice-skating race, a water-skiing race, the nephews fall into the Grand Canyon (!), and Donald decides to build the largest kite in the world! Fantagraphics, 2024....More. Item Code: WD03H Hard Cover, 7x10, 240pg, Full Color |
| Fantagraphics began reprinting the later Barks work, and now goes back to the very earliest. Book 2: Frozen Gold came out too late to make the cut here but also was in the top 100. Rare Barks! |
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2. ATLAS COMICS LIBRARY Volume 2 Venus #2 Collects Venus #10-19, 1950-52. Our Highest Recommendation. In the late 1940s, Marvel Comics predecessors Timely and Atlas Comics published Venus, a lighthearted romance comic about the goddess of love. Never a company to miss a trend, Atlas introduced science fiction and made her a superhero — then made the title a straight-out horror anthology. Today it's one of the most desirable pre-code titles. Here is the swift-changing second half of the 19-issue run — all the very best issues! Future Marvel stars Bill Everett (seven issues) and Werner Roth (three issues) take Venus to heights of four-color weirdness and pre-Code horror ghastliness. Fantagraphics, 2024....More. Item Code: ATL02H Hard Cover, 9x11, 280pg, Full Color |
| Last year it was the first Atlas Library here; here's the amazing second volume, filled with mind-bending work by Bill Everett and pre-code horror. Vol 3, In the Days of the Rockets, came In at #7. Coming any day now: Al Williamson! |
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3. BLACKHAWK Volume 11 Collects #55-59, 1952. Highly Recommended. Reed Crandall is at his prime here, with all the covers and nearly all the stories. Chop Chop stars in the backup feature by Paul Gustafson. Outrageous war weapons are the order of the day, with the iconic War Wheel just the beginning. We also have the lovely "Spider of Delanza," King Cobra returns, Armored Men, Termite Tanks, Slavery in Siberia, "The Red Tomorrow" and the sci-fi tale, "Beachhead on Asteroid X." These are the wild high flying, two-fisted stories that made Blackhawk a bestseller in the 1950s and one of the very, very few hero comics to make it from the Golden Age all the way into the Silver Age without a break. PS Artbooks, 2024....More. Item Code: BLAC11 Soft Cover, 7x10, 180pg, Full Color $32.99 |
| Volumes 10&12 were also best sellers. We currently have every one in stock to Volume 14. |
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4. THUN'DA KING OF CONGO #1 Facsimile From 1952. Our Highest Recommendation. Thun'da was a Tarzan-esque character scripted by Gardner Fox and created by artist Frank Frazetta that first appeared in comics in 1952 and later on film in the Columbia Pictures serial King of the Congo starring Buster Crabbe. The legend is Frank did this as a tryout to do the Tarzan newspaper strip. So he just did #1, and artist Bob Powell drew issues #2-6. This lone issue remains a true icon of comics, Frank's one and only full length, cover to cover comic book creation. Reproduction is very sharp. PS Artbooks, 2023....More. Item Code: THUK01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 64pg, Full Color $19.99 |
| The legendary Frazetta solo masterpiece. PS has also collected issues #2 on, with Bob Powell artwork. It is available in HC and SC, and also marked-down hurt copies of both. |
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5. CLASSIC SCI-FI COMICS Volume 7 Wolverton Hardcover Collects stories from Keen Detective Funnies #18-24 and Target #5-16, 1939-41 & more. Our Highest Recommendation. Collects Wolverton's very earliest and finest work, including the ultra-rare Space Patrol stories from Amazing Mystery Funnies (Centaur, 1939-40) and the legendary Spacehawk Target Comics (Novelty, 1940-41). Plus the pre-code horror Weird Tales of the Future (1952). Harvey Kurtzman felt "Wolverton never borrowed, never hacked, and he never shortchanged the public — Wolverton was an original." In 1991 Wolverton was posthumously inducted in the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame and in 2000 in the Will Eisner Hall of Fame. PS Artbooks, 2024....More. Item Code: PSSC07H Hard Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color $52.99 |
| Also available in softcover; A stand-out issue in the run with stunning Bill Everett. |
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6. DOLL MAN Volume 1 Collects Doll Man #1-3, 1941-42. Highly Recommended. By Reed Crandall, Rudy Palais, John Cassone. Created by the legendary Will Eisner (The Spirit). Collecting three beefy, 64-page issues. Beginning with #2, Reed Crandall took over and draws SEVEN different stories! John Cassone, best known for his sexy Black Angel in Air Fighters Comics, takes over in #3 and like Crandall, draws all the Dollman stories. Doll Man — first published by Quality Comics — follows the adventures of Darrel Dane, a scientist who creates a formula to shrink down to a miniature version of himself whilst retaining all of his strength. PS Artbooks, 2023....More. Item Code: DOLLM01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color $32.99 |
| Volume 2 just missed the top 100. Volumes 1-3 currently available. A sleeper title, one of the best of the Golden Age superheroes, with art by Lou Fine, Reed Crandall et al. Inspired DC's The Atom. |
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7. THE BLUE BEETLE Volume 1 Collects #1-3, 1940. Highly Recommended. By Charles Nicholas et al. Blue Beetle was revived in the 60s by Charlton and Steve Ditko first, and later by DC Comics. But here we find the original Golden Age creation, who had a long tenure in his own title as well as Wonderworld Comics. Fox Publications had many top talents in their earliest comics — #1 features a Lou Fine cover and multiple stories by Will Eisner (Yarko the Magician) and Bob Powell. Joe Simon drew the cover of #3, just before partnering up with Jack Kirby! With dynamic visuals and a narrative that captures the spirit of a bygone era...the roots of superhero storytelling, where it all began! PS Artbooks, 2024....More. Item Code: BLUEB01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 208pg, Full Color $32.99 |
| The oddball but long, long-running Fox superhero. Click here for Volume 2. |
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8. BULLETMAN Volume 2 Collects #4-6, 1942. Recommended. By Mac Raboy, Bill Ward, Ed Dobrotka et al. Three fine 64-page issues. This popular Fawcett hero, the cover feature on Master Comics until Captain Marvel Jr. took it over, gains his own bi-monthly title. Join Jim Barr and Susan Kent as they harness the might of science to become Bulletman and Bulletgirl, defending a world teetering on the edge of chaos in the midst of World War II. Raboy provides the cover art (no stories) for #4 and #5, and the excellent artist Charles Sultan draws the cover of #6. Much of the art inside is not attributed (Ward does do a story in each issue). PS Artbooks, 2024....More. Item Code: BULL02 Soft Cover, 7x10, 204pg, Full Color $32.99 |
| Another uncommon and fun Fawcett title. Well drawn. |
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9. CREEPSHOW DELUXE BOOK 1 Collects Creepshow Vol 1 #1-5 and Vol 2 #1-5 plus Creepshow one-shot, 2023-24. Recommended. This deluxe hardcover collection presents every issue of the award-nominated Creepshow comic book series, based on the hit Shudder TV series and advancing the worldwide phenomenon that began with George A. Romero and Stephen King’s iconic 1982 film. Featuring Garth Ennis (The Boys), Becky Cloonan (Punisher), Paul Dini (Batman: The Animated Series), Michael Walsh (The Silver Coin), Saladin Ahmed (Miles Morales: Spider-Man), David & Maria Lapham (Stray Bullets), Erica Henderson (Assassin Nation, Dracula, Motherf**ker), and Francesco Francavilla (Night of the Ghoul, Detective Comics) and L Marlow Francavilla, and more. All introduced by a creepy host who will remind you of EC's very own Crypt-Keeper. Fun stuff!! Image Comics, 2024....More. Item Code: CREPS01H Hard Cover, 7x11, 256pg, Full Color |
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10. CREEPY ARCHIVES Volume 5 Collects #21-25, 1968. Highly Recommended. By Bill Parente. Enter a world of the finest in spine-chilling storytelling from comics legends, with stories by Archie Goodwin and artwork by Steve Ditko, Reed Crandall, Angelo Torres, Alex Toth, Dan Adkins, Pat Boyette, Gray Morrow and more. Horror, homicide, and hauntings that set the stage for many a nightmare. Includes the adaptation of the harrowing H. P. Lovecraft classic "The Rats in the Walls"‚ and "The Immortals" plus a LONG interview with Angelo Torres!! Dark Horse, 2024....More. Item Code: CRE05 Soft Cover, 8x11, 224pg, b&w |
Comic Book Archives: Our #1 bestselling Archive last year was The Complete Web of Horror from Fantagraphics. I gave it my highest recommendation, filled as it is with wonderful work by Berni Wrightson and the young turks, doing non-code comics competing against Warren in the 1970s. We hope to see a new edition of this, it deserves it. Black Condor and The Ray would have made this list, but both editions went out of print upon publication—we couldn’t get a single backorder. As I write this, we have five Hardcovers left [BLACR01H. $52.99]. Plastic Man came in just off the cut-off for this list. Another fine Quality Comics title, entirely by Jack Cole. Click here to see all 19 Best Sellers in the Comic Book Archives category. |
Comic Reference |
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1. EC FAN-ADDICT Volume 6 Our Highest Recommendation. Edited by Roger Hill and Grant Geissman. Art by Al Williamson, Jack Davis, Graham Ingels, et al. This new 136 page, full-color issue is loaded with even more vintage E.C. lore and rare artwork by E.C. artists. Front and back covers by George Evans. Features examine a recently discovered 1954 Williamson/Torres/Frazetta/Krenkel cover to Buster Crabbe #5, Jack Davis’s early 1950s Lucky Star series, a previously unpublished 1967 interview with Dr. Fredric Wertham, Jack Davis and Coca-Cola, a conversation with Graham Ingels featuring — for the first time — all four large and ten smaller-sized Old Witch paintings by Ingels... Note: Slight bump to corner. Fantagraphics, 2024....More. Item Code: ECF06S Soft Cover, 8x11, 136pg, Text/Partial Color $16.00 |
| We're down to our last 29 copies on this, Roger Hill's final issue. Here are Roger’s other fine books on Reed Crandall, Mac Raboy and more of his fine biographical work on artists. |
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2. THE ROCKET'S BLAST and the COMICOLLETOR 3 & 4 SET Closeout Price! Highly Recommended. Covers by Johnny Craig and Mark Schultz. Volume 3 showcases horror comics of the Golden Age, with special emphasis on the classic E.C. Comics pre-code era, Snuff Comics of the Golden Age, a Hal Foster interview, an issue-by-issue examination of EC's Weird Science, an overview of horror comic artist Johnny Craig, and much more. Volume 4 boasts an extensive interview with Mark Schultz, material from the limited edition Conan published by Wandering Star. Additional articles focus on Robert E. Howard, the Silver Age Flash, Steve Ditko's Spider-Man, and the Golden Age art of Reed Crandall. James Van Hise, 2002-03....More. Item Code: ROCBP Soft Cover, 8x11, 128pg ea, Text/b&w |
| Surprise, a couple very cool but quite old issues—there's still life in these well done fanzines! |
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3. ALTER EGO #186 Our Highest Recommendation. Edited by Roy Thomas. EC fans, this is the one you need — that includes me, I can't wait to read this. -Bud. The cover feature spotlights Angelo Torres, the youngest and last surviving EC Comics artist, who went on to a fabulous career as a horror, science-fiction, and humor artist for Atlas/Marvel, Warren, and MAD! Includes 12 newly imagined Panic covers in all genres and more What-If covers of Angelo's for Crypt of Terror, plus tons of his finest Atlas pages! Also My Life with Wally Wood by Ralph Reese and FCA presents Captain Marvel — many time-travel stories. TwoMorrows, 2024....More. Item Code: AE186 Magazine, 8x11, 84pg, Partial Color $10.95 |
| This special issue on Angelo Torres appealed to EC and Warren fans, rightly so. It's outsold regular issues by several times! Issue #187, devoted to sci-fi writer Edmund Hamilton, also made this list! Click here for all backlist in stock. |
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4. HORROR FROM THE CRYPT OF FEAR Volume 14 Highly Recommended. This issue of the "official" EC Horrorzine is dedicated to EC writer, artist and editor Al Feldstein. Steven Ringgenberg shares his Feldstein interviews with us. The issue is filled with highly illustrated articles and interviews, plus many drawings created especially for the issue. Thommy Burns recounts his earliest EC memories and his brother Josh Burns fills us in on the first EC Fan-Addict Club panels at the San Diego Comicon, while editor Bill Leach gives us the scoop on the most recent panel. Jon Gothold comes up with some of EC's most "Good Lord!" moments. Dennis Cunningham, 1960's publisher of Weirdom Illustrated shares the unpublished story "Spoiled Rotten" that was inspired by pre-code EC Comics. Bill Leach, 2023....More. Item Code: HFTC14 Soft Cover, 5.5x8.5, 120pg, Text/Partial Color $15.00 |
| Volume 15 came in at #7 in this category. #17 is also available. |
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5. COMIC BOOK CREATOR #35 Highly Recommended. Edited by Jon B. Cooke. A celebration of quintessential 1970s writer/editor Denny O'Neil, an in-depth look at his life, work, and legacy, focusing on the era of relevant comics — from the fabled Green Lantern/Green Arrow series to the mod, mini-skirted Wonder Woman — that brought comics into the modern age. Also: Penthouse Comix's strange history, a career-spanning interview with Arnold Drake, co-creator of The Doom Patrol and Deadman. TwoMorrows, 2024....More. Item Code: CBCR35 Magazine, 8x11, 84pg, Partial Color $10.95 |
| This special issue on writer Denny O'Neil made the list too. |
Comic Reference: A special issue of Back Issue #150, devoted to 1970s Batman artists would have been #4 on this list. Its is sold out. But #151 also made this list, at #7, devoted to Neil Gaiman. It is still available [BA151. $10.95]. Click here to see all 9 Best Sellers in the Comic Reference category. |
Comic Strips & Graphic Novels |
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1. THE LOST ART OF KREIGH COLLINS Volume 1 The Complete Mitzi McCoy Our Highest Recommendation. Introduction by Frank M. Young. Afterword by Ed Catto. Pin-up girls, ventriloquists, counterfeiters, arson...the beautiful Mitzi is always in the heart of the action. She's a pilot, and starts her adventures crashing her plane in the Canadian wilderness. The superbly drawn strip lasted for 99 Sundays, and then morphed into Kevin the Bold, set in the same world as Prince Valiant, which ran for nearly two decades! The first eleven weeks of Kevin are also here! Today Collins' work is deeply admired by the few people who know it. Picture This Press, 2018....More. Item Code: LOSK01 Soft Cover, 11x8, 148pg, Partial Color $27.95 |
| A wonderful book that we are awaiting a long overdue reorder on. Fingers crossed. |
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2. ALLEY OOP THE FIRST TIME-TRAVEL ADVENTURES 1939-1942 Reprints all dailies from 1939 to 1942. Highly Recommended. Foreword by Michael H. Price, apprentice to V.T. Hamlin! Never before collected: four years of rare Alley Oop Daily Strips! Alley Oop's time-traveling adventures begin! Join Alley as he fights in the Trojan War, joins Ulysses' Odyssey, visits Cleopatra's Egypt, sails the Spanish Main, plunges into World War II, and more! You've seen the Sunday pages; now enjoy the daily strips, all featuring the time-travel stories, from the very beginning. Beautifully restored from 1939-1942 in this oversize and impressively thick hardcover. Acoustic Learning, 2024. Rush Service and International shipping would require an additional charge....More. Item Code: ALLEFTH Hard Cover, 10x13, 424pg, Full Color $99.99 |
| Everyone's favorite Oop adventures, here's the beginning back in 1939. Three more Oop Collections, including Sunday 1942-44, came in just past out cut-off here. See all of the in stock Oop's here. |
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3. PRINCE VALIANT Volume 28 1991-1992. By Hal Foster, John Cullen Murphy and Cullen Murphy. On a quest in the Asian lands of Cathay, Prince Valiant encounters a fire-breathing mechanical dragon and the legendary adventurer Prester John. Armies converge, mountains crumble, and a father and son are reunited. Mordred escapes imprisonment and treacherously stabs Arn, who learns that Maeve is soon to give birth. Val discovers a lost colony and wrestles with a tusked whale off the coast of Greenland, but a spell overcomes the expedition on the Isle of Lost Youth. Plus, Tom Batiuk (Crankshaft, Funky Winkerbean) shares a fanciful comic-strip imagining of the story behind the choosing of Hal Foster's successor. Fantagraphics, 2024....More. Item Code: PV28H Hard Cover, 10x14, 112pg, Full Color |
| The lastest Val volume. We don't keep all the back issues in stock anymore, but many are still available while they last. |
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4. SKY MASTERS OF THE SPACE FORCE The Complete Sunday Strips in Color New Edition, larger size with 16 bonus pages in color. Our Highest Recommendation. By Jack Kirby and Wally Wood. The Sky Masters of the Space Force newspaper strip is one of the most fascinating and obscure works by comics legend Jack Kirby. Created and developed by Kirby with writer Dave Wood at the beginning of 1958 while Kirby was working for National (DC), the Sky Masters daily strip debuted on September 8 of that year. Five months later, on February 8, 1959, the color Sunday strips arrived featuring a totally independent story line from the dailies.The strip narrates, with a realistic approach, the adventures of Major Sky Masters during the early days of space exploration in the late 1950s, just as a new front opened in the Cold War between the U.S. and U.S.S.R.: a frenzied space race. Kirby Museum Press, 2024. Due: Jan....More. Item Code: SKYMH Hard Cover, 10x14, 144pg, Partial Color $55.00 |
| This is a Zoop project and not here yet. It’s a revised updated edition of a brilliant book that sold out several years ago. We're very excited to see it. There have been several Sky Masters reprints over the years—this is head and shoulders superior to all of them. |
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5. RICHARD CORBEN'S TALES FROM THE PLAGUE Limited to 500 copies. Highly Recommended. By Dennis Cunningham. Art by Richard Corben. This is a special edition of Horror from the Crypt of Fear which collects Richard Corben's very first graphic novel done for an obscure fanzine, Weirdom Illustrated, in 1969. Corben was 28 years old and still working at Calvin Productions when he began working on "The Plague" in 1968. Dennis Cunningham was one of the first publishers to use Corben's art in the comic book industry. Bill Leach, 2023....More. Item Code: RCTALE Soft Cover, 5x8, 46pg, b&w $9.95 |
| A special issue of the Horror from the Crypt of Fear—A complete Richard Corben story, his very first ever published. |
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6. DEN Volume 2 Muvovum Highly Recommended. The latest in a new series of deluxe graphic novels collects Richard Corben’s classic graphic novels. Den and Kath’s bizarre journey in Neverwhere continues as they leave their floating island home for magical stones that can transport them back to Earth. Along the way, trouble arrives as the evil Queen seeks the stones for her own evil purposes, and Den’s friend is kidnapped and imprisoned in the horrific monster country known as Muvovum. Abundant nudity. Dark Horse, 2024. Mature Readers. ...More. Item Code: DEN02H Hard Cover, 8x11, 128pg, Partial Color |
| The second of the new Richard Corben Library volumes. See all here. |
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7. STARTLING COMICS #53 Facsimile Edition 1948. Highly Recommended. Inside is a nicely drawn Tygra, a scantily-clad jungle girl with a sci-fi twist this issue by Art Saaf; Catman artist Charles Quinlan in the pirate Sea Eagle, "Return of the Hook"; a superbly drawn Lance Lewis, sci-fi/space hero by Raphael Astarita; a teen strip Jefferson Jones by the talented unknown Mike Suchorsky and a humor strip. All-in-all, a very well drawn, top-tier issue! Schomberg's airbrush covers make this short run of covers highly collectible. PS Artbooks, 2023....More. Item Code: STAW53 Comic, 7x10, 52pg, Full Color $15.99 |
| Our best-selling facsimile edition—Schomberg's classic work. |
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8. WHIZ COMICS #16 Facsimile Edition From April, 1941. Highly Recommended. Art by C. C. Beck, Pete Costanza, Mac Raboy, Charles Sultan et al. Includes Mac Raboy drawing Doctor Voodoo, his first major character before Capt. Marvel Jr! And it's a rare cross-over story, with CM meeting an errant Spy Smasher, "running wild and posing a danger to U.S. defense" before our entry into WWII. A perfect blend of action, intrigue, and character development. Back up stories include Dan Dare, Lance O'Casey, Ibis, Golden Arrow, and Spy Smasher in his own story. PS Artbooks, 2024....More. Item Code: WHIZ16 Comic, 7x10, 68pg, Full Color $15.99 |
| Next best selling facsimile, a wonderful early issue with the original Captain Marvel. Just off this cut-off: Whiz #2 and #24. |
Click here to see all 12 Best Sellers in the Graphic Novel category. Click here to see all 7 Best Sellers in the Comic Strip Collections category. |
Pulps & Pulp Fiction |
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1. PULP MASTERS Closeout Price! Expanded Edition. Recommended. Cover by Jim and Ruth Keegan. An anthology of articles by and about writers and characters of the pulp era. Edited and partly written by the long-time publisher of The Rocket's Blast, James Van Hise. 15 features: Will Murray on the top 25 Shadow novels; an Edd Cartier Shadow portfolio; Modern Pulp Fandom; How I Write by Norvell W. Page; The Spider; The Ambassador from Hell; ERB, Pulp Master; REH: Master of the Dark Fantastic and much more. Well illustrated with lots of original pulp art. Jame Van Hise, 2002....More. Item Code: PULPM Soft Cover, 8x11, 190pg, Text/b&w |
| An excellent pulp overview from James Van Hise, former editor of The Rocket's Blast. On sale now. |
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2. THE FANTASTIC WORLDS OF ROBERT E. HOWARD Closeout Price! Recommended. Hailed by REH fans as a book essential to Howard studies, and originally sold out within a mere months. This 2nd edition is now available direct from the publisher as a special bargain closeout. Edited by James Van Hise (The Rocket's Blast), 21 articles by well-known Robert E. Howard scholars such as Rusty Burke and Morgan Holmes that discuss Howard's writing style and his impact on 20th century fantasy. James Van Hise, 2001....More. Item Code: FANREH Soft Cover, 8x11, 190pg, Text/b&w |
| Another fine effort from Van Hise, also on sale. |
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3. THE SELECTED LETTERS OF PHILIP K DICK 1980-1982 Closeout Price! Publisher file copy. Wrap-around dust jacket art by Ilene Meyer. In this sixth entry in the series of Dick’s letters, the great sci-fi author continues his metaphysical and religious quest initiated by the Valis visions of 1974. In these letters to friends, fans, agents, and other sci-fi writers, Dick speculates on the visionary and archetypal material that intruded into his novels in the latter part of his life, which marked a turning point in his literary career. These intensely personal letters express Dick's deepest thoughts on science fiction, human nature, philosophy, and more. Underwood Books, 2009. Out of print....More. Item Code: SECLET Hard Cover, 7x10, 288pg, Text Only |
| Any cheaper and we'd be giving them away. An Underwood book we put on the Flash Sale. |
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4. THE PULPSTER #33 Almost Gone! Highly Recommended. Three new articles on the Spicy pulps, which hit newsstands — or, maybe, slid under the counters — 90 years ago. Will Murray answers the question "Why Are Pulps So Scarce?" Ed Hulse looks at ashcan editions that Culture Publications used to lock up its titles. Two ERB features look at The Land that Time Forgot trilogy and ERB's strangest creatures. Mike Chomko wraps up his definitive history of comics & pulp publisher Fiction House. And Canadian Pulps, Secret Agent X more! PulpFest, 2024. Out of print....More. Item Code: PULP33 Soft Cover, 8x11, 64pg, Text/Partial Color $17.50 |
| The latest issue of the #1 pulp magazine, published once a year for the Pulp Con. |
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5. BLACK INFINITY Volume 10 Creature Features Recommended. Art by Allen Koszowski. Monsters, aliens, insects and more, including the cinematic forerunners of Ridley Scott's film Alien, plus Jerome Bixby's It: The Terror from Beyond Space, Ib Melchior's and Mario Bava's Planet of the Vampires, Queen of Blood, and John Carpenter's The Thing. Stories and articles inspired by Creature Features movies of yesterday, including Ray Bradbury's "The Fog Horn" and The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms. The Arthur Conan Doyle story that inspired Universal Studios' The Mummy; the history of James Warren's magazine Famous Monsters of Filmland. Dead Letter Press, 2023....More. Item Code: BLAIN10 Soft Cover, 7x9, 234pg, Text/b&w $16.95 |
| A particularly appealing issue in this offbeat series with articles and stories. |
Sketchbooks |
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1. TERRY MOORE AFTER DARK ART BOOK SIGNED Signed. Highly Recommended! A thoughtfully curated collection of sweet and sexy drawings that readers of his titles have been dreaming about for almost thirty years. This book is filled with both fan favorites and brand new black and white images of Terry's beloved characters in their most tender and raucous moments, with even a little full nudity. Lots of pin-up shots and the occasional steamy comics page. Get a behind-the-scenes look at Terry's creative process with personal commentary throughout. Starring Francine and Katchoo from Strangers In Paradise as well as the expanded cast of the Terryverse. Abstract Studios, 2023. Mature Readers....More. Item Code: TERADS Soft Cover, 8x11, 120pg, b&w $29.99 |
| Here’s more by Terry, every edition signed. |
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2. ARTHUR ADAMS DRAWINGS 2022 Sketchbook Signed Almost Gone! Full size 8.5x11, thick collection and signed! Highly Recommended. A portraits special: superheroes and supervillains, all fully finished in ink. Some wonderful pin-ups like the cover image. Wolverine, Swamp Thing, Man-Thing, Godzilla, Two-Face, Rocketeer, The Thing, Thanos, Frankenstein, Black Canary, the ladies from Spider-Man, Batman family, and more characters from X-Men, Star Wars, and more. Wonderful detail, which is an Adams specialty. Arthur Adams, 2022. Out of print....More. Item Code: AA22S Soft Cover, 8x11, 54pg, Partial Color $30.00 |
| This is no longer available from Art: these are the last copies. Act now. Here’s more of Arts work including the out of print Arthur Adams Sampler from 2006. |
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3. WILLIAM STOUT FANTASTIC WOMEN #1 Signed Signed & numbered, 700. Highly Recommended. This special volume contains a selection of Stout drawings of fantastic females created from 1972 to 2000, with a great many nude & topless ladies of great appeal! There's Hannah from Xenozoic Tales, Sheena and jungle queens, Dejah Thoris and ERB heroines, mermaids, girls with beasts, fairies, Wonder Woman, sci-fi heroines... Terra Nova, 2015. Mature Readers....More. Item Code: WSFWD Soft Cover, 9x11, 68pg, b&w $20.00 |
| First in a series from Stout, still a regular seller. Also see his Monsters series, same format, also signed. |
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4. NEAL ADAMS ROWDY AND BEAUTIFUL WOMEN SKETCHBOOK Publisher File Copies from 2005. Highly Recommended. No one draws women like Neal Adams does. Women that are exciting, athletic and powerful — not anime style. Highly detailed, dynamic pencil and pen and ink drawings: SheBat, Black Canary, Ms. Mystic, Talia, Red Sonja, Zatanna, Wonder Woman (spoof with a nude WW), also pin-up and swimsuits cheesecake poses. Continuity, 2005....More. Item Code: NEALRO Soft Cover, 8x11, 50pg, b&w $30.00 |
| The Adams studio in LA turned these up and offered them to us. Click here for the second of these and more of Neal's work. |
Calendars To save space we didn’t include Calendars in the list above, since many are gone now: Elvira was our #1 seller and is sold out. Vintage Sci-fi was #5, and also just sold out. Frazetta was #2; it is almost gone now [FRAZ25. $17.99]. The second title, Frazetta & Burroughs, Masters of Adventure is a deluxe special from the family. It arrived a week before Christmas, which prevented it from making the bestseller list—most of the sales for this will be in January [FRBU25. $40], limited to 1000 in die-cut slipcase. Click here to see all that are still available. |
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We didn’t take up space on these either, but once again, our top sellers are Paperback Book bags and Magazine Bags, and 10” Fold-On dust jacket covers, the most popular size. |
News & Notes |
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As you can see, some of the bestselling items sold out quickly and may or may not be reprinted. Publishers continue to be careful not to overprint, so sometimes that catches up with them and us, and we run out too soon. Fantagraphics has been very conservative on some great items, like both of the last two EC Fan Addicts. These are part of their "fanzine" line, which I’m pleased to see continue, but they do have limited print runs. |
New items this week As mentioned above, since we had so few new items come in for this week’s deadline, we will list them all next week. Here are those new arrivals: GUNCC – Gun Honey Collision Course – We listed the Adam Hughes cover in our December 26 Email, but we neglected to mention this variant cover. It just rolled in this week. It has an impressive cover by Alex Ronald, every bit as good as the Adam Hughes cover! |
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DCFSUPG – DC Finest Supergirl SAVSC01V - THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN Volume 1 Alex Horley Cover $24.99 (We are waiting on good copies of SAVOC01H to come in, our first order came in damaged.) PAUSUH - PAUL SMITH'S UNCANNY X-MEN Artist's Edition $150.00 CRY02 -- CRYPTOLOGY #2 $10.95 BA157 -- BACK ISSUE #157 Keith Griffen Tribute $10.95 CBCR37 -- COMIC BOOK CREATOR #37 Steve Englehart $10.95 |
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Since our room this week is limited, here’s highlights of the new arrivals, including many comic book sets compiled from raw, original-owner copies. These all came from an old friend of mine who passed away, who bought most of these straight off the newsstand and bagged them in sets of 5 or 10, most never read! American Flagg Comics #1-50 set; Lone Wolf & Cub set of 35; Catwoman set of 22; Elvira set of 20; Marvel Star Trek set of 18; Berni Wrightson set of 3; Flash Gordon The Movie (Al Williamson); Howard Chaykin’s Blackhawk set; Marvels set of 5; Batman the Cult set of 4; Promethea Complete Set; Usagi Yojimbo Set; Illustration Magazine – 8 new back issues; Wally Wood’s Thunder Agents Complete set; Shanna the She-Devil signed by Frank Cho; Avengers/JLA Deluxe Collector’s Edition. Also click here to see fifteen new adult titles. |
Upcoming Shows Berkeley Comic Book Show Saturday January 11 San Francisco Rare Books Sat & Sun Feb 2-3 We’ll have lots of cool new things at both shows. Love to see you there, come by and say hello. We may have free passes for the San Francisco show. For more details on both, see our new UPCOMING EVENTS page! There’s also pictures there, details about the new Folsom show, and a short video with us in it, from Folsom last year!! ~Bud |
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