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Gilbert Shelton! Love and Rockets is back! Cursed Pirate Girl returns; Red Sonja and Vampi meet Betty and Veronica!?? Sienkiewicz! Green Arrow! Mandrake in the 1930s! Philip Jose Farmer’s Feast Unknown, Mark Waid’s Flash, Mitzi Gaynor, Brian Bolland and more Diamond news.... |
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GIVE ME LIBERTY! A Revised History of The American Revolution |
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| Here’s Shelton’s classic Freak Brothers, now being collected by Fantagraphics — five volumes! And we have some out of print Shelton such as Wonder Wart-Hog and Zap. |
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LIFE DRAWING A Love and Rockets Collection Recommended. Life Drawing showcases Jaime Hernandez’s brilliant talent for character, weaving relationships, rejections, infidelities, and adventures involving: Tonta’s self-involved sisters Vivian, Violet, and Muñeca; her colorful pals Gomez, Judy Fair, and Brown Alice; her mother, the infamous “Black Widow of the Valley”; and of course, the two great loves of Maggie’s life, Ray and Hopey. There’s also a forest spirit, two weddings, some cosplay, a little pole dancing, and page after page of breathtaking comics by the medium’s most wide-eyed romantic. Did we mention the weddings? Nudity, sexual situations. Fantagraphics, 2025. Mature Readers. ...More. Item Code: LIFEDRH Hard Cover, 9x12, 136pg, b&w |
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CURSED PIRATE GIRL Malodious Mutiny Hardcover Gilt embossed cover. Collects Cursed Pirate Girl 2015 Annual and Cursed Pirate Girl: The Devil’s Cave #1. Recommended. More than a decade in the making, the hotly anticipated, beloved swashbuckling saga featuring the unique and unparalleled art and storytelling of Jeremy Bastian is finally here. The fiery journey continues as she and the young Apollonia search for the pirate girl’s father, one of the captains of the dreaded Omerta Seas. If she can escape the Sea King's Palace with The Bright Star, will she be bold enough to enter The Devil's Cave in the hope of bringing her father back? Or will the Devil Jonah and his minions stop her? Archaia, 2025....More. Item Code: CURMMH Hard Cover, 7x10, 128pg, b&w $29.99 |
| Expected any day is the softcover version of this [CURMM. $19.99]. |
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KAFKA'S MANUSCRIPT With a stylistic nod to the wordless novels of Frans Masereel and the expressionist drawings of Franz Kafka himself, Jason Novak’s short (and wordless) graphic novel begins at the author’s deathbed, where he entrusts his friend Max Brod with the task of destroying his unpublished papers. Brod refuses, and what follows is the story of how Kafka’s literary legacy escaped Europe under the shadow of fascism. It is a survey of Kafka’s paranoid landscape in kinetoscopic monochrome. Fantagraphics, 2025....More. Item Code: KAFKM Soft Cover, 5x7, 132pg, b&w $20.00 |
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BACKTRACK Deluxe Edition Collectos #1-10, 2020. Recommended. Guilt weighs heavily on former criminal "wheelman" Alyson Levy, whose personal life is in tatters. That is, until eccentric businessman Casper Quellex makes her an offer: to participate in a cross-country race where the winner can correct a single mistake from their past. The catch? Each leg of the course will have drivers racing through a different period in history, where they will contend with medieval warriors, dinosaurs, natural disasters, and all-out pirate brawls . . . Quellex is determined to make this his most entertaining race of all time! Oni Press, 2025....More. Item Code: BACKTRH Hard Cover, 7x10, 288pg, Full Color |
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RED SONJA AND VAMPIRELLA MEET BETTY AND VERONICA Volume 1 Back in stock. Collects #1-6. By Amy Chu. Art by Maria Sanapo. Mystery, murder, and mayhem descends on Riverdale. Our four comic book women meet for the first time. A string of paranormal, unsolved murders leads Vampirella and her sword-wielding partner Red Sonja to the small, sleepy town where things always seem to happen... There they discover Betty and Veronica, investigative reporters for the high school newspaper, also hot on the trail of the same killer. Plus: an amazing 44 original and variant covers. Dynamite, 2020....More. Item Code: REDSVM01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 152pg, Full Color $19.99 |
| More Archie: 1000-page collection, Sabrina and of course, The Art of Dan DeCarlo, who drew Betty and Veronica for ages. |
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ESSENTIALS Volume 1 Bill Siekiewicz Premiere Edition Art by Bill Sienkiewicz. Written by Luke Arnold (star of Black Sails; writer, The Fetch Phillips novels) and Chris "Doc" Wyatt (producer, Napoleon Dynamite; writer, Ninjago). In Essentials, mathematician Harris Pax predicted the end of the world but failed to prevent it. Now he’s living alone in a bunker and his niece’s favorite toys have started talking to him. The good news? He’s not the world’s sole survivor. The bad news? The other survivors are trapped in alternate realities — imprisoned in imagined worlds full of zombies, robots, mythical creatures, and chaos. And now Harris Pax and an unlikely ally must travel the country on a quest to restore reality, save humanity, and defeat an interdimensional nemesis. Written by Luke Arnold (star of Black Sails; writer, The Fetch Phillips novels) and Chris "Doc" Wyatt (producer, Napoleon Dynamite; writer, Ninjago). This debut graphic novel from The Lab ships in a gold-foil stamped cloth slipcase! The Lab Press, 2025....More. Item Code: ESSE01H Hard Cover, 8x12, 176pg, Full Color |
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DC FINEST GREEN ARROW The Longbow Hunters Collects Green Arrow #1-8, Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters #1-3 and more, 1987-88. Highly Recommended. Art by Grell, Hannigan, Giordano et al. IIn Mike Grell's stunning reinvention of the Green Arrow mythos, Oliver Queen has hung up his bow and quiver to settle down for a peaceful life with Dinah Lance. But when trouble comes calling, he is once again forced to become the Emerald Archer. Seminal stories with additional creators Dick Giordano, Bill Sienkiewicz, Denys Cowan, Ed Hannigan, Klaus Janson. Collects Detective Comics Annual #1, Green Arrow #1-8, Green Arrow Annual #1, The Question #17-18, The Question Annual #1, Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters #1-3. DC Comics, 2025....More. Item Code: DCFGA Soft Cover, 7x10, 544pg, Full Color |
| Here are all of the new DC Finest titles. Many are highly recommended. |
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MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN The Complete Dailies Volume 1 1934-1936 Highly Recommended. Art by Phil Davis. From the creative mind of Lee Falk (The Phantom) comes Mandrake the Magician in equally compelling earliest adventures! Created in 1934 with the story "The Cobra." This first Volume includes four more stories: "The Hawk (Mandrake Meets Narda)," 1934-35, "The Monster of Tanov Pass," 1935, "Saki, the Clay Camel," 1935, and "The Werewolf," 1935""36. Strips from this issue are taken directly from King Feature’s proofs. Included in the volume is a comprehensive essay and documentary materials. Hermes, 2024....More. Item Code: MAND01H Hard Cover, 12x9, 320pg, b&w $60.00 |
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MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN The Complete Dailies Volume 2 1936-1938 Highly Recommended. Art by Phil Davis. This second volume of the series presents six stories: "Return of the Clay Camel"; "The Slave Traders of Tygandi"; "Mandrake in the Lost World": "In the Cobra's Grip"; and "Mandrake in America." Featured are two staple characters in addition to the master magician: Lothar and Princess Narda (princess of the mythical European kingdom Cockaigne). Narda is similar to Flash Gordon’s Dale Arden: beautiful, constantly in need of rescue, and the love interest of our hero. A Prince of the Seven Nations of Africa, Lothar is Mandrake’s devoted servant, friend and companion. He is, "the strongest man in the world," decked out in a fez, shorts, and a leopard shirt. Hermes, 2024....More. Item Code: MAND02H Hard Cover, 12x9, 308pg, b&w $60.00 |
| Here are more Mandrake collections and The Phantom by Lee Falk. |
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SECRETS OF THE NINE Omnibus Hardcover Signed Signed by Eckert, Bellerophon, Klauba, Sardanas and Sippo. Limited to 200. Color jacket, gilt-embossed binding. 570 pages! All three of Philip José Farmer’s Secrets of the Nine novels together. This edition also marks the the first US hardcover publication of Lord of the Trees and The Mad Goblin (the latter having been published in the UK under the title Keepers of the Secrets). A Feast Unknown: The controversial underground classic of blood and lust — for adults only, starring a thinly disguised Tarzan! The Mad Goblin and Lord of the Trees: originally published together in an Ace double edition, these tales follow Grandrith’s and Caliban’s less controversial but no less exciting simultaneous-separate adventures in their desperate battle against the Nine. Meteor House, 2024. Adult Material....More. Item Code: SECNINH Hard Cover, 6x9, 564pg, Text/Partial Color $75.00 |
| Also available in softcover, same cover art and page count [SECNIN. $29]. |
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THE FLASH By Mark Waid Omnibus Volume 2 Collects Flash #0, 92-129, Flash Annual #7-9 and seven more, 1994-97. Art by Wieringo, Jimenez, Marzan and others. Picking up where Vol. 1 leaves off, Wally West has the same super-speed powers as his uncle Barry Allen. Follow Wally's journey toward becoming a true hero. Collecting some of the most iconic tales from Mark Waid's time writing The Flash! This is year four of Waid's incredible decade-long run on the adventures of Wally West. Barry's grandson comes to join the two heroes; but Bart's metabolism means he's aging too fast; Time itself may be destroyed in Zero Hour; Who is Savitar? Brand new introduction by Waid. DC Comics, 2024. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge. ...More. Item Code: FLMW02H Hard Cover, 7x11, 1216pg, Full Color |
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MITZI GAYNOR Her Life and Career By Peter Shelley. Mitzi Gaynor (1931-2024) was an American actress, singer, dancer and writer. As a child dancer, she performed in the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera Association before being discovered by 20th Century-Fox for the movies. She was in a number of Fox movies and won the coveted role of Nellie Forbush in the film version of South Pacific (1958). In the 1960s, she played in Las Vegas to great success. She followed with a string of television specials while simultaneously performing on stage. In the 2000s, she toured her one-woman show entitled Razzle Dazzle: My Life Behind the Sequins. Full filmography of film and television, index of her and other actors, extensive bibliography. Illustrated with several dozen pictures and film posters. McFarland, 2024....More. Item Code: MITZG Soft Cover, 6x9, 168pg, Text/b&w $39.95 |
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ALSO AVAILABLE ONE TOUGH DAME The Life and Career of Diana Rigg Recommended. By Herbie J. Pilato. A sweeping portrait of the revered performer’s life and career. Deemed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1994, Diana Rigg (1938-2020) initially found fame as super sleuth Mrs. Emma Peel in the 1960s BBC/ABC-TV espionage series, The Avengers. A classically trained and multi-award-winning thespian, Rigg is known for her diverse body of work — from her big-screen debut in 1969 as Countess Teresa di Vincenzo, wife of James Bond in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, to her Tony Award-winning, leading role in Medea on Broadway, culminating with her Emmy-nominated portrayal as Lady Olenna Tyrell on the heralded small-screen gem, Game of Thrones. 16-page section of photos plus more. Index. University of Mississippi Press, 2024....More. Item Code: ONETH Hard Cover, 6x9, 224pg, Text/b&w $35.00 |
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IT'S ABOUT TIME A Memoir in Pictures and Words Brian Bolland Signed & Numbered Closeout Price! Signed bookplate by Brian. Limited, 150. Silver Foil page edges. Foreword by Johnny Vegas. Introduction by Dave Harwood. An epic journey through the life and art of Brian Bolland in a totally unique format that we've never seen before. Told fumetti style, with actual photos (plus some artwork) of Brian from childhood to aspiring artist, marriage, meeting fellow artists, attending shows. This guy was hard-wired to his camera!! A visual journal of Bolland's development as an artist, writer and observer of the world around him, all narrated in the first person by Brian himself. Book Palace Books, 2023....More. Item Code: ITSABD Hard Cover, 7x11, 336pg, Partial Color |
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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 the section on our website, called ALMOST GONE, at the top of the home page, right next to CLOSEOUTS. |
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We have our next three sale groups all discounted and ready for your orders.They will become our Jan, Feb and March sale emails. But right now you can see all these --click on Jansale, Febsale and Marsale. If you want to browse through all next-up savings at once, click on nrp0125. We still have 28 items reduced for our recent Flash Sale. Half of these are priced at just $5.00!! |
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TIMELESS MUCHA The Magic of Line This volume reappraises the graphic work of Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) and explores its influence on graphic art since the 1960s. Published in conjunction with a touring exhibition to five leading museums in the US and Mexico, the book provides an opportunity to survey the development of Mucha’s style, which became synonymous with Art Nouveau. It explores how it was rediscovered by later generations of artists, becoming a new artistic idiom for the Psychedelic Art of the 1960s and 1970s as well as a wide range of visual culture from the late 20th century to today, exemplified by American comics, Japanese manga and street murals. Mucha Foundation, 2025. Due: Mar....More. Item Code: TIMMUH Hard Cover, 9x12, 240pg, Full Color $60.00 |
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SEEING IS BELIEVING The Art and Influence of Jean-Leon Gerome Highly Recommended. InIn the 19th century, the art of French painter Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904) offered European audiences an apparently realistic, romantic and intimate view of life in the Middle East, now termed Orientalist style. in 1978 Gérôme’s scintillating painting of a young, unclothed Arab snake charmer appeared on the cover of Edward Said’s Orientalism. This reintroduced the artist’s name to the public. The paintings and drawings by Gérôme featured in this exquisite volume, in addition to examinations of his biography, influences and historical context, present Gérôme as a product of his time, a stylistic pioneer and something of a riddle waiting to be solved. He also headed up his own Atelier or Salon, where young artists, including many major names from America, came to learn under him. Silvana Editoriale, 2025. Due: Mar....More. Item Code: SEEBEL Soft Cover, 9x11, 240pg, Full Color $45.00 |
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DOOM PATROL Silver Age Omnibus New printing. Collects The Doom Patrol #86-121, and more, 1964-68. Highly Recommended. By Arnold Drake and Bob Haney. Art by Bruno Premiani. All of the original, offbeat adventures from the 1960s in one massive omnibus! This was DC's version of the X-Men — a rag-tag group as heroes. This fast-paced volume introduces The Doom Patrol; led by their wheelchair-bound chief, Niles Calder, three outcasts of society — Negative Man, Elasti-Girl and Robotman " use the qualities that make them freaks to become heroes. The trio would take on bizarre menaces including General Immortus, the Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man and the Brotherhood of Evil! Wonderful art by the Italian artist Bruno Premiani, whose work elevated many DC titles well above the average. He co-created The Doom Patrol. DC, 2017. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge. Due: Mar. ...More. Item Code: DOOMPH Hard Cover, 7x10, 1080pg, Full Color |
| See our website for more Doom Patrol, including Comic Book Creator, the Rachael Pollack Omnibus, and The Art of Ramona Fradon, who drew Doom Patrol for several early years. |
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BATMAN By James Tynion IV Omnibus Volume 1 Collects Batman #86-100, Batman Secret Files #3, Batman: The Joker War Zone #1 and much more, 2020. Art by Hugo Petrus. The Joker has spilled his war out onto the streets of Gotham and the city has been reduced to chaos and lawlessness. With his entire fortune turned against him can Batman rally and mobilize his allies before the city he’s sworn to defend is reduced to rubble? Writer James Tynion and Jorge Jimenez craft a brutal and epic tale in one massive omnibus edition. Will this be the Bat-Family’s last battle? DC Comics, 2025. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge. Due: Mar....More. Item Code: BATJT01H Hard Cover, 8x11, 1040pg, Full Color |
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GREEN ARROW ARCHERS QUEST Omnibus Volume 1 Collects Green Lantern #162-164; Green Arrow #1-39 and more, 1983-02. Oliver Queen has recently returned from the dead and like all iconic ghosts he’s looking to get closure on some unfinished business. Packing his bags and hitting the road, Green Arrow will travel cross country with his old apprentice, now known as Arsenal, in search of lost treasures. Alongside encounters with Shade, Solomon Grundy, and Catman, Green Arrow will discover what it means to really live a life worth living. Honoring the Emerald Archer’s past, present, and future, Brad Meltzer, Kevin Smith, and Phil Hester craft a fine new storyline. DC Comics, 2025. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge. Due: Mar. ...More. Item Code: GAARC01H Hard Cover, 7x11, 1128pg, Full Color |
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BATMAN The Golden Age Omnibus Volume 2 New printing. Collects Detective Comics #57-74, Batman #8-15 and World’s Finest #4-9, 1941-43. Highly Recommended. By Bob Kane, Bill Finger, Gardner Fox, Jerry Robinson et al. Prime Golden Age Batman!! Dozens and dozens more stories from the early 1940s in which the Dynamic Duo battle evildoers including the Penguin, the Joker, Two-Face, the Scarecrow and many more. Includes the first Christmas story, covers by Jack Burnley, an "infinity" cover, Catwoman's new costume, the 1st & 2nd Penguin appearance, origin & 1st Two-Face, 1st Tweedledum and Tweedledee, etc. DC, 2025. Due: Mar. ...More. Item Code: BATG02H Hard Cover, 8x11, 768pg, Full Color |
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AVAILABLE NOW BATMAN The Golden Age Omnibus Volume 1 Collects Detective #27-56, Batman #1-7, and the Batman stories from New York World's Fair #2, World's Best #1 and World's Finest #2-3, 1939-41. Highly Recommended. By Bill Finger et al. Art by Bob Kane, Shelly Moldoff et al. Wow! Here is the origin and the first three years of Batman stories. Starting with the lone-wolf Batman, complete with long ears and his .45 automatic, we also get the first appearances of Robin and Commissioner Gordon, Professor Hugo Strange, The Joker, Penguin, Scarecrow and Catwoman! Four-page, detailed introduction by Denny O'Neil. DC Comics, 2023. ...More. Item Code: BATG01H Hard Cover, 7x11, 824pg, Full Color |
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New from Goliath is Hot Bare-Naked Beauties by a long time magazine photographer for Hustler, Cheri and others. Click here to see the latest in nude photography.
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This week: This week we have a wonderful Princess of Mars statue by Frazetta; the excellent Tips from the Top Cartoonists and several important comic history books; Pre-Raphaelite Women; Conan the Phenomenon (with a Frazetta cover). And also a bevy of mature readers works including Jane at War, Unmentionables, Tijuana Bibles, Invasion of the B-Girls, Bathing Beauties, Bombshells, two books on Marilyn Monroe and a Marilyn 3-D collection! And much more. Click here for the Adult listings for this week. Recently we mailed a current list of Rare Books, along with a large list of Adult tiles. Click here to see the email. 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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On Tuesday we sent out a special email advertising our annual calendar sale. Quantities are very low on many titles, so act now. Many have already sold out at full price. We also have a few left at full price since they are down to one or two copies left. We have some hurt copies of three titles, so we knocked them WAY down to just $5 each. These include our annual bestselling Boris & Julie, along with the Batman and Wonder Woman calendars.
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Diamond Comic Distributors Bankruptcy So far things are not looking too good for Diamond. They are on deadline to divest several of their companies: toys, gaming, and Diamond U.K. They are apparently looking for a buyer, a white knight as it were, to buy the comics division which we all know so well. We continue to wish them the best, the industry needs their service of consolidating and offering small and new publishers' material. Marty Grosser, the long time editor of Diamond Previews, worked for Comics & Comix and for me before he moved to Diamond in 1988. Steve Geppi has always been a good friend, since we both became comic distributors the same year, in 1982. To reassure you, our customers, we actually buy very little from Diamond. We always go direct to the publisher on everything that we can. We have relationships that go back decades with folks like Fantagraphics, Twomorrows, Flesk, Book Palace, PS Artbooks, Taschen, Abrams et al. And the big names such as Marvel, DC, Dark Horse and IDW all use book distributors like Random House or Simon and Shuster, and that is where we get all the trades, Omnibus Editions and more. A few of the smaller companies, such as Dynamite, Magnetic and Hermes still use Diamond as their exclusive distributor -- for now, Diamond is still shipping their books regularly to us. If that changes, we should be able to get them direct or from one of the book distributors above. Milton Griepp is an old friend of ours, and the former co-owner of Capital City Distribution. He runs the website icv2 and has written a very good piece on how Diamond got here (much was due to the covid interruption) and where they might go from here. "A Sad Ending to a Long Story, and a New Beginning". I strongly recommend reading it. Milton also has many more informative interviews with industry professionals. He did a several-part interview with me in 2023, about the origins of the comics market, Phil Seuling, and more, in case you haven’t seen that before. Here's a link to it. Bud Plant, a Pioneer of Comics Retail and the Direct Market, Was There at the Start and Keeps on Going 'In 1965, a Teenage Bud Plant Rifled Through a Bin of Comics….' ~Bud
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