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| Welcome to our once-a-year Calendar Sale! With the exception of just a few titles we’re down to one or two left, we have marked all these down to half price. And we created a special category of slightly imperfect titles—and they are good ones—just $5 each! Signed & collectible titles are 40% off. The adult calendars are not below, click here to see them. Quantities are VERY limited, act now for the best selection. We're doing this earlier than usual, so you still have 11 months of use for every title. See the end of this email for a link to our 2024 Bestsellers list and the latest book closeouts. |
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TOLKIEN 2025 Calendar Highly Recommended. Gorgeous illustrations by John Howe, notes about every painting and an insightful introduction by Brian Sibley. The official Tolkien calendar is eagerly anticipated by Tolkien fans all over the world. Previous editions have become highly desired collector’s items. An essential for Middle-Earth fans. Harper-Collins, 2024....More. Item Code: TOLK25 12x12, 24pg, Full Color |
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COSMIC PROPORTIONS Posters from NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program 2025 Calendar Highly Recommended. A planet whose cobalt-blue clouds are laced with glass. Atmospheres of howling, supersonic winds. Gamma rays that shine a million trillion times brighter than the Sun. Plus film-inspired posters from NASA’s Galaxy of Horrors series: The Roasted Planet, Rains of Terror, Zombie Worlds, Devoured by Gravity...! Pomegranate, 2024. ...More. Item Code: CP25 12x13, 24pg, Full Color |
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DRAGONS BY CIRUELO 2025 Calendar Recommended. Dragons and the myths and mysteries surrounding them are brought spectacularly into the limelight by painter Ciruelo Cabral, who has specialized in dragon and fantasy paintings for several decades. His oil paintings have been collected in seven books, most of which we have handled. He has been a guest at San Diego Comic-Con and is from Argentina but currently lives in Spain. Sellers, 2025....More. Item Code: DRAGC25 12x12, 24pg, Full Color |
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WOMEN OF MYTH AND MAGIC Kinuko Craft 2025 Calendar Highly Recommended. Women have inspired great literature, poetry, and, above all, magnificent works of art. Among contemporary artists depicting ladies of legend, none shines brighter than Kinuko Y. Craft. In this elegant calendar, Craft presents twelve opulent and richly detailed portraits of enchantresses, goddesses, and fairy tale princesses, each weaving a spell of breathtaking feminine beauty. Amber Lotus, 2024. Out of print....More. Item Code: WOME25 12x12, 24pg, Full Color |
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DINOSAURS THE ART OF SERGEY KRASOVSKIY 2025 Calendar Recommended. Ukrainian paleoartist Sergey Krasovskiy is one of the leaders in his field, incorporating the latest discoveries into his paintings. Giving shape to prehistoric beasts that no human eyes will ever see is an inspired art form that takes a unique combination of science and imagination. Check out Edmarka rex, Palacanthus foxii, Giganotosaurus, Spectrovenator ragei, Diabloceratops, Weihenvenator albati and other amazing monsters! Pomegranate, 2024....More. Item Code: DINS25 12x13, 24pg, Full Color |
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DREAMS OF EDO 2025 Calendar Recommended. Some of Japan’s most exquisite art exists in the form of hanging scrolls and folding screens, from the 18th to the 20th century. Japanese scrolls — usually made of silk or paper decorated with ink, gold leaf, and mineral pigments — may feature portraits or scenes from myth, Buddhist texts, everyday life, or the natural world, as in the delightful images reproduced here. Pomegranate, 2024. ...More. Item Code: DRE25 12x13, 24pg, Full Color |
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HAIKU JAPANESE ART AND POETRY 2025 Calendar Recommended. Drawings by Yoshimoto, Hasue, Koitsu, Shoson, Shizuo, Benji, Eijiro, Shinsui, Shoto, Sozan et al., 1928-1950s. Twelve haiku paired with reproductions of exquisite Japanese woodcuts. Each poem is rendered in Japanese calligraphy, Romaji transliteration, and English translation. The roots of Japanese haiku reach back over 1,000 years. In this poetic form, as in life, there is a pause, a shift, in which the poet celebrates sensory awareness of the season, perhaps suggested by the scent of plum blossoms or the silence of snow-covered tree limbs. Pomegranate, 2024....More. Item Code: HAIK25 12x13, 24pg, Full Color |
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MARVEL BY THOMAS KINKADE STUDIOS 2025 Calendar 25 Marvel characters appear in elaborate and lush painted scenes by Thomas Kinkade Studios in a new Marvel collaboration. Each month features characters, places, and stories such as Battle for Wakanda, Captain Marvel — Dawn of a New Day, Iron Man, X-Men, Doctor Strange vs. The Dark Despot, and Deadpool — Snow Day. Harry Abrams, 2024....More. Item Code: MTK25 Calendar, 12x12, 24pg, Full Color |
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INTERNATIONAL MOVIE POSTERS 2025 Calendar Twelve movie posters featuring classic American Movies: The Philadelphia Story, Streetcar Named Desire, Marilyn Monroe in Niagara, Gene Kelly in Singing in the Rain and An American in Paris, Harold and Maude, Rear Window, Audrey Hepburn, Marlene Dietrich, Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, and more. 16-month calendar with international holidays and the holidays of the most important world religions. Tushita, 2024....More. Item Code: IMP25 Calendar, 12x12, 24pg, Full Color |
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ART NOUVEAU 2025 Calendar Recommended. Well-chosen images, some not often seen in print and even ones new to us and we know this area well. From Jugend, legendary 1890s posters and other rare sources. Eugene Grasset and other top designers. This beautiful Art Nouveau Calendar is printed on thick glossy paper with plenty of space for personal notes and birthdays, plus important holidays. Tushita, 2024....More. Item Code: ARTN25 Calendar, 12x12, 24pg, Full Color |
Signed Calendars |
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THE ART OF OMAR RAYYAN 2025 Calendar Signed Signed! Highly Recommended. An new selection of fine fantasy work by one of today's finest illustrators. Omar's oil paintings, depicting classic fantasy stories and his own fantastic scenes, are unparalleled. We love his rich colors and his unique perspective, windows to another world! His illustrated Goblin Market is a masterpiece and this is more stunning work in the same imaginative vein. 12 unique images. Omar is signing all of our copies on the cover. Omar Rayyan, 2024....More. Item Code: AOR25 Calendar, 12x12, 24pg, Full Color |
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CHARLES VESS NEVERLAND 2025 Calendar Signed Signed & Limited. Highly Recommended! The limited edition Neverland calendar features high resolution artwork revolving around the story of Peter Pan, which Charles recently produced as a high-end, limited edition from Conversation Tree Press (we could not carry it as they don't wholesale their limited editions but Anne bought one for herself and it's gorgeous). The calendar combines art from book illustrations and theatre productions. It measures a generous 11x17 inches in size and is printed on heavy weight recycled paper, spiral-bound with 12 beautiful illustrations. Charles Vess, 2024....More. Item Code: CV25 Wirebound, 11x17, 24pg, Full Color |
Oversized Vintage Calendars |
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RETRO PARKS & PIN-UPS 2025 Calendar Oversized with perforated design to become 11x14 prints. Highly Recommended. The majestic splendor of U.S. National Parks is made even more beautiful with the addition of larger-than-life pin-up girls!! A lovely collection of vintage travel posters from the 1940s and 1950s, photo-shopped along with mid-century pinup art of ladies hundreds of feet high, dominating each scene! Each month, a different park is taken over by a glamorous lady making herself at home. Unique and fun, with art by Varga, Enoch Bolles and others. Asgard Press, 2024....More. Item Code: REPP25 Wirebound, 11x15, 24pg, Full Color |
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ZODIAC PINUPS 2025 Calendar Oversized perforated, 11x14 removable prints. Recommended. By Vargas, Moran et al. Classic 1940s and 50s pin-ups by the biggest names, now tied into Zodiac imagery for every month. Includes a horoscope for each sign. Each month displays an original collage art print showcasing vintage pinup illustrations, antique engravings, and word art. The star signs are visually explained in each collage using elements that illustrate each sign’s characteristics. Asgard Press, 2024....More. Item Code: ZODP25 Wirebound, 11x15, 24pg, Full Color |
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VINTAGE SUPERHEROES 2025 Calendar Oversized perforated, 11x14 removable prints. Highly Recommended. A very well curated collection of classic comic book covers from the Golden Age of Comics. Cat-Man, Blue Beetle, Phantom Lady, Black Terror (Exciting), Bulletman (Master), Miss Fury, Steel Sterling (Zip), Moon Girl, Dollman, Ibis, and Whiz Comics with Captain Marvel. Bonus images from the inside of each comic appear on each month’s grid page and in-depth commentary detailing the contents and history of each issue. Asgard Press, 2024....More. Item Code: VINSH25 Wirebound, 11x15, 28pg, Full Color |
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VINTAGE HORROR COMICS 2025 Calendar Oversized perforated, 11x14 removable prints. Highly Recommended. An amazing selection of the wildest and most shocking pre-code horror covers. The Black Cat radiation cover just set a new high in the Roger Hill Heritage auction. Here also is a brain removal cover from Weird Mysteries, a steamy bondage cover from Fiction House's Ghost, monsters and beast-men from Chamber of Chills, Tomb of Horror, Eerie, Witches Tales, Haunted Thrills, Out of the Shadows... These issues embraced the macabre and pushed the boundaries of good taste, featuring chilling tales of supernatural beings, monsters, and gruesome scenarios. Asgard, 2024....More. Item Code: VINHC25 Wirebound, 11x15, 24pg, Full Color |
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VINTAGE MONSTERS 2025 Calendar Oversized with perforated design to become 11x14 prints. Recommended. From The Curse of Frankenstein to House of Dracula, King Kong to Karloff's The Mummy and Godzilla (Japanese release), these classic posters showcase the monsters of classic cinema from the 1930s to the 1950s. These movies became cultural icons, showcasing groundbreaking special effects and exploring fears and anxieties in an entertaining and thrilling way. Asgard Press, 2024....More. Item Code: VINM25 Wirebound, 11x15, 24pg, Full Color |
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VINTAGE PULP WESTERNS 2025 Calendar Oversized with perforated design to become 11x14 prints. Recommended. Spicy Western, Action, Exciting Western, Riders of the Range, Rio Kid, Range Riders...once again, we are impressed by the excellent selection of classic pulp covers. Last year this surprised us as one of our best sellers. As a pulp collector myself, I can attest these are dynamic, action-packed well-drawn examples with feisty gun-toting ladies as well as damsels in distress, and heroic gun-totin' cowboys and lawmen! - Bud Asgard Press, 2024....More. Item Code: VINPW25 Wirebound, 11x15, 24pg, Full Color |
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VINTAGE PULP HORROR 2025 Calendar Oversized with perforated design to become 11x14 prints. Highly Recommended. With blooming interest in pulp art, the perfect year-long presentation of rare, strange and weird covers. A very well curated selection including two by Margaret Brundage for Weird Tales, steamy Spicy Mystery (2), Strange Stories (2), Dr. Death, Eerie (2) and Mystery Tales. Covers announce the works by H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Clark Aston Smith, Edmond Hamilton and others. A great selection of little-seen covers! Asgard, 2024....More. Item Code: VINPH25 Wirebound, 11x15, 24pg, Full Color |
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PIN-UP GIRLS GIL ELVGREN 2025 Calendar (Orange Circle) Recommended. The very best of Elvgren — these really are many of his finest and most seductive ladies. The best in vintage pin-up (and sometimes humor) from the heyday of the good girl calendars. Here are his superb paintings which have made him the #1 pin-up painter of modern times, even eclipsing Varga. All reproduced oversized and spreading across both calendar pages like a Playboy centerfold. Orange Circle, 2024....More. Item Code: PIG25 12x12, 24pg, Full Color |
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GRIMM FAIRY TALES 2025 Calendar Recommended. A cool specialty calendar from Zenescope. Celebrating the lasting impact of their flagship comic book series, the Grimm title, 12 memorable Zenescope covers from the last two decades, plus a bonus centerfold by Dawn McTeigue. All ages images but all nonetheless sexy, voluptuous heroines and bad girls. Zenescope, 2024....More. Item Code: GFT25 12x12, 24pg, Full Color |
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Z-RATED 2025 Calendar For years, Zenescope's NSFW covers have been the holy grail among die-hard Zenescope enthusiasts, and many of these are on display here. Featuring artists Eric Basaldua, John Royle, Elias Chatzoudis, and Paul Green, who contributes his own art to the collection with a bonus topless centerfold. This is their first adult calendar of this type.Zenescope, 2024. Mature Readers....More. Item Code: ZR25 12x12, 24pg, Full Color |
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FRANK FRAZETTA 2025 Calendar Highly Recommended. Conan, Death Dealer, Egyptian Queen, Savage Pellucidar, Silver Warrior... This is the best of the best, Frank's finest paintings, which include, in our opinion, two of his very finest Conan book covers, including his very first Lancer paperback cover for Conan. Breathtaking and vivid artwork that defined the genre. Condition: Slightly bumped corners. Dateworks, 2024. Out of print. ...More. Item Code: FRAZ25 Calendar, 12x12, 28pg, Full Color |
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FRAZETTA & BURROUGHS MASTERS OF ADVENTURE 2025 Calendar Limited & numbered from 1000. Handsome illustrated slipcase with die-cut close. Recommended. Frazetta Girls, in collaboration with Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc., presents the Masters of Adventure 2025 Wall Calendar. This limited edition calendar, strictly limited to just 1,000 copies, features a 12-month spread showcasing 12 favorite Frank Frazetta book covers inspired by the legendary works of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Monster Men, Savage Pellucidar, The Mad King, the Lost Continent, John Carter of Mars and more, a very good selection of classics reproduced from the original paintings, sans any type or titles. ERB Inc., 2024. Note: We will send out mint copies first then copies will have a slight bump to the corner....More. Item Code: FRBU25 12x12, 24pg, Full Color |
Deep Discount - $5 Calendars |
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BORIS VALLEJO & JULIE BELL Fantasy 2025 Calendar Recommended. All new every year. Step into an enchanted world swirling with dark forces, creatures that inspire awe and astonishment, and fierce men and women who rule over it all. Warriors fend off gargantuan enemies. Intergalactic explorers embark on unimaginable adventures. A witch summons her netherworld love. Bonus centerfold. Condition: Slightly bumped corners. Workman, 2024....More. Item Code: BVJB25 Calendar, 12x12, 28pg, Full Color |
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BATMAN 2025 Calendar Powerful, dark painted images of Batman from the film, all by the same artist, who's not identified but who is quite good. One calendar page for each month of 2025, as well as the last four months of 2024. Each monthly calendar spread features enough room to mark important dates or write down reminder notes. Condition: Slightly bumped corners. Dateworks, 2024. Out of print....More. Item Code: BAT25 Calendar, 12x12, 28pg, Full Color |
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WONDER WOMAN 2025 Calendar Recommended. Very good variety of fine paintings and drawing of WW, from a variety of artists and what I expect are DC comics covers, sans text, including work by Adam Hughes and possibly J. Scott Campbell and Arthur Adams. You can play identify the artist as I am now! Dateworks, 2024. Out of print....More. Item Code: WW25 Calendar, 12x12, 28pg, Full Color |
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MARVEL CLASSIC BLACK LIGHT POSTERS 2025 Calendar Almost Gone! 11x14 poster-size. Recommended. Deluxe boxed calendar featuring 12 black-light images from legendary and highly collectible 1971 posters. Spider-Man, Captain America, Thor, Dr. Strange, the Hulk and others are here by Jack Kirby, John Romita Sr., Gene Colan, and others. Printed in fluorescent inks on high-quality paper with a perforated grid to transform the images into 12 easily frameable 11 x 14-inch art prints. Harry Abrams, 2024....More. Item Code: MARV25 Calendar, 11x17, 24pg, Full Color $26.99 |
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THE ART OF OLIVIA Featuring Bettie Page 2025 Calendar Almost Gone! Highly Recommended. Art by Olivia De Berardinis. A year's worth of delectable pinups to enliven your existence, including brand new works and TWO, not one but two images on each opened set of pages. Featuring cheesecake queen Bettie Page and a host of international models. Each gatefold opens up to include a second girl worked around the month's dates. No full nudity but darn close—it doesn't get any sexier than this! Always one of our bestselling calendars, Olivia is the leading pin-up artist today. Ozone, 2024. Mature Readers....More. Item Code: OLI25 Calendar, 12x12, 24pg, Full Color $17.99 |
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VINTAGE ROMANCE COMICS 2025 Calendar Almost Gone! Oversized perforated, 11x14 removable prints. Highly Recommended. Daring Love! Hi-School Romance! Teen-Age Secrets! Wartime Romance! Wild stories plus superb cover art by Matt Baker, John Prentice, Lee Elias, Charles Biro et al. A neglected genre for decades, romance comics are finally coming into their own with new histories and vastly increased demand for the wildest but even the more mundane titles. Here's a fine selection of covers, steamy and suggestive, and cool and classic. Asgard, 2024....More. Item Code: VINRC25 Wirebound, 11x15, 24pg, Full Color $24.95 |
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THE FANTASY ART OF LUIS ROYO 2025 Calendar Almost Gone! Recommended. Each month unveils a new, breathtaking scene of apocalyptic landscapes and mystical beautiful women in revealing costumes and warrior gear. Renowned for his distinctive style, Luis Royo's illustrations bring to life bold and enigmatic women set against the backdrop of dark fantasy worlds. Sellers, 2024....More. Item Code: LR25 12x12, 24pg, Full Color $16.99 |
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PRE-RAPHAELITES 2025 Calendar Almost Gone! Recommended. Exquisitely detailed paintings by the most renowned artists of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood movement, with several works each by Rossetti and by J.W. Waterhouse, in our opinion the finest of the PRB artists. Includes Lady Godiva nude on horseback, the drowned Ophelia, and images from the poetry of Christina Rossetti's poems such as Goblin Market. Minor nudity. Tushita, 2024....More. Item Code: PRE25 Calendar, 12x12, 24pg, Full Color $16.95 |
Prior Years & Collectible Calendars |
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ASIAN BABES 2024 Calendar Twelve months of sultry Asian models, many with gorgeous natural outdoor backdrops. Modern girls, very international and contemporary. Tasteful, no explicit nudity, lots of smiles and very appealing young women with that extra exotic flair. Good variety of poses, from closeups to full body shots, all dressed in sultry, revealing swimsuits or lingerie. Bright Day, 2023....More. Item Code: AB24 12x12, 24pg, Full Color |
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SWIMSUIT 2024 Calendar Recommended. The most beautiful young women, posed on beaches in the brilliant sun and in the briefest of latest swimsuit fashions. You can't NOT look at these perfect bodies, tastefully covered and yet enough to drive any man slightly crazy. International settings and a nice variety of women from the world over. Bright Day, 2023....More. Item Code: SWIM24 12x12, 24pg, Full Color |
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MARVEL VALUE STAMPS 2024 DAY TO DAY Calendar Recommended. This 2024 daily desk calendar showcases the original, highly collected Marvel Value Stamps, first published in 1974, and also all of the related art and advertising from one of the most inspired comic book promotional campaigns of all time. 300 images of super heroes and super villains from the acclaimed 1974 AND 1975 sets, plus later reissues and other related ephemera. Plus a brief history by former Marvel editor-in-chief Roy Thomas. Abrams, 2023....More. Item Code: MARV24 Calendar, 5x4, 24pg, Full Color |
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DAN BRERETON'S NOCTURNALS OCTOBER EPOCH 2023 Calendar Signed Signed! Highly Recommended. This unique 13-month calendar frames the year as it should, beginning and ending with the most important month of the year—OCTOBER! Featuring significant holidays, and MORE IMPORTANTLY, all the horror-themed dates they could think of: author birthdays, classic horror movie release dates, and many more monstrous events! Includes November-December 2023 also! The Nocturnals and more monsters and creatures star in Dan’s very first calendar, signed on the cover. Nakatomi, 2022....More. Item Code: DB23 12x12, 26pg, Full Color |
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ZENESCOPE Featuring The Art of Paul Green 2024 Calendar Highly Recommended. Huge, impressive format (11x17 oblong) that doubles as a poster book or art portfolio. Zenescope is known for visually stunning artwork. Now for the first time one of their top talents, Paul Green, presents a wonderful art collection, with images on the front AND BACK of every page. Paul's work will remind you of J. Scott Campbell, it's polished and impressive, featuring beautiful Zenescope girls in hot outfits. And they are cosplaying in spoof ads for pop culture's most iconic cereals! It's great Good Girl art, all in fun. Zenescope, 2023....More. Item Code: ZENE24 Wirebound, 17x11, 24pg, Full Color |
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BORIS VALLEJO & JULIE BELL Fantasy 2024 Calendar Highly Recommended. Step into an enchanted world swirling with dark forces, creatures that inspire awe and astonishment, and fierce men and women who rule over it all. Twelve beautiful full-color paintings, nearly all featuring beautiful, powerful women. Plus a bonus centerfold, from premier fantasy artists Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell. Each composition is accompanied by a dramatic caption that fuels the fantasy, plus musings from the artists revealing the history behind the pieces and their artistic process. Workman, 2023....More. Item Code: BVJB24 Calendar, 12x12, 28pg, Full Color |
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ALEX ROSS MARVEL MURAL 2024 Six Foot Calendar Recommended. Unfolding to 6 ft. wide x 2 ft. tall, this oversized wall calendar features a mural of 35 Marvel Comics Super Heroes painted by renowned comics artist Alex Ross, from Angel to Wolverine. Alex Ross is one of the most respected and influential artists working in comics. Originally commissioned for Marvel’s New York City offices, the mural presents the Marvel Super Heroes painted in the award-winning, breathtaking style that made Ross famous. Abrams, 2023....More. Item Code: ARM24 72x24, 24pg, Full Color |
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