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Taschen’s Donald Duck Deluxe! The final Den by Corben; DC Finest: Doom Patrol; Brubaker’s Kill or Be Killed; Spider-Man; The Phantom; Mark Nelson signed; Art! Trash! Terror! Strange Cinema; Signed Carl Barks Prints now On Sale. Flash Gordon new GN and Archives; John Lee Hooker; Cursed Pirate Girl; Deadman by Neal Adams, 40% off selected Rare Books. And more! Our brand new catalog is ready for your download, featuring Atlas Artist Al Williamson. |
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DONALD DUCK THE ULTIMATE HISTORY Deluxe Edition |
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ALSO AVAILABLE DONALD DUCK The Ultimate History Highly Recommended. In true Taschen fashion, the end-all book on Donald! Taschen, 2024. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge. ...More. Item Code: DDULTH Hard Cover, 11x16, 564pg, Full Color |
| Here’s more with Donald, Scrooge and the kids, including classics by Carl Barks. Also see the very special Barks Prints sale below. |
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DC FINEST DOOM PATROL The World's Strangest Heroes Collects My Greatest Adventure #80-85, Doom Patrol #86-102, and more 1963-66. Highly Recommended. The earliest days of the endearingly bizarre team — reinvented by Grant Morrison in the late 1980s and adapted in the acclaimed Max original series Doom Patrol — are collected, starting with their debut in 1963’s My Greatest Adventure #80 by Arnold Drake, Bob Haney, and Bruno Premiani. Find out how the Chief, Elasti-Girl, Negative Man, and Robotman first became the World’s Strangest Heroes in the Silver Age’s most offbeat superhero adventures! Fun stories and quite well drawn. DC Comics, 2025....More. Item Code: DCFDP Soft Cover, 7x10, 624pg, Full Color |
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ALSO AVAILABLE DOOM PATROL By Rachel Pollack Omnibus Collects Doom Patrol #64-87, Annual #2, Totems #1, and Vertigo Jam #1, 1993-95. Recommended. Art by Ted McKeever et al. Science-fiction author Rachel Pollack brings her unique and inventive sensibility to DC’s weirdest super-team! This massive hardcover collects her entire Doom Patrol run for the first time. Starting in 1989, Doom Patrol evolved into something truly bizarre — and brilliant — with some of the most unique ideas in fiction given shape. The book was part of a wave of unbridled creativity that helped inspire the creation of DC’s groundbreaking Vertigo imprint, and its impact is still felt today in the HBO Max Doom Patrol original series.DC Comics, 2022. ...More. Item Code: DOOPH Hard Cover, 7x10, 760pg, Full Color |
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Click here for all the DC Finest series now in stock, and here for more Doom Patrol including the new 1980s incarnation. There’s also a Doom Patrol Silver Age Omnibus that collects the stories in DC Finest but more, MGA #80-85 and also #86-121, in hardcover [DOOMPH. |
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KILL OR BE KILLED COMPENDIUM Collects #1-20, 2017-18. Recommended. Afterword by Brubaker. Ed Brubaker's and Sean Phillips' bestselling series is finally collected under one cover. The twisted story of a young man forced to kill bad people, and how he struggles to keep his secret from destroying his life. Grad student Dylan must kill one person who deserves it every month, and the deeper he gets in, the more he realizes how many people there are that deserve it. Catcher in the Rye meets Death Wish in a dark take on the vigilante genre that became a cracked reflection of the world around us. Grit, violence, nudity — and powerful storytelling that Brubaker excels at. .Image Comics, 2025....More. Item Code: KILLBK Soft Cover, 6x10, 600pg, Full Color |
| Here’s more by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, always on our Recommended list. |
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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN Omnibus Volume 6 Collects Amazing Spider-Man #181-205, Spectacular Spider-Man Annual #1, and more 1978-80. Here is the entire creative run of Marv Wolfman, a bevy of rarities from F.O.O.M. Magazine, like profiles on Spider-Man greats Stan Lee and John Romita, complete 1978 Mighty Marvel Comics Calendar starring Spider-Man, letters pages, house ads, original art and, oh yeah, some of the greatest Spider-Man stories. We have Peter Parker’s marriage proposal to Mary Jane (will she say "yes"?!?), debut of the Black Cat, the return of the Burglar, a resurgent Kingpin and a war with the underworld that brings the Punisher back to action. "These are stories that prove why Spider-Man is Marvel’s most enduring icon!" Marvel, 2025. ...More. Item Code: AM06H Hard Cover, 8x11, 792pg, Full Color |
| Click for previous Omnibus volumes and more Spidey. |
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PHANTOM THE COMPLETE NEWSPAPER DAILIES Volume 33 1988-1989 This continues the Sy Barry Years, collecting five more adventures: The Man-Thing, Great Raptor of Rhua, Chasamba, Rex: Prince of Baronkhan, and Massacre at Walker's Table. Reprinted in all its black and white glory. More dramatic adventures of The Phantom, his beautiful wife Diana, and his two children. Hermes, 2024....More. Item Code: PH33H Hard Cover, 12x9, 272pg, b&w $60.00 |
| Vol 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 and 32 are all in stock at $60 each. On sale are volumes 23, 24, 25 and 26, for $39.95 to $45. Click here for more with The Phantom. |
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DEN Volume 5 The Prince of Memories Highly Recommended. Introduction by Christos Gage. Epilogue by Jose Villarrubia. Newly restored pages. An amnesic Den encounters an unexpected woman from his past. Sienna is a medium that takes Den on a memory journey starting at birth, where he will meet old friends and future enemies and get closer to understanding his journey. This final volume of Den connects all four previous parts of the story and takes Den on perhaps his wildest adventure on the floating Island of Heaven, where an idyllic existence hides a horrifying secret. Nudity, violence. Bonus material. Dark Horse, 2025. Adult Material....More. Item Code: DEN05H Hard Cover, 8x11, 120pg, Full Color |
| Volumes 1-4 are in stock, $31.99 to $36.99. Here’s more Corben. |
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BURNT ENDS #0 PREVIEW Signed Signed cover with bonus signed print! Highly Recommended. A collection of superbly drawn short stories by Mark Nelson and a preview of what's to come. Comes with an extra-illustrated (not included in the booklet) print in full color. Signed on both the cover and again on the print. Limited but undisclosed printing, but Mark never prints many of these self-published little gems! Mark Nelson, 2024....More. Item Code: BURENS Comic, 7x10, na, Partial Color $15.00 |
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ALSO AVAILABLE THUNDER HUNTERS Signed Almost Gone! Signed! Highly Recommended. Artist and adventurer J.V. Holbrook has traversed and recorded the natural history of an uncharted planet. Thunder Hunters is the unique cross section of his sketches, journal entries, sequential stories, and portraits of inhabitants and the expansive Vermillion Sands region, a world not unlike Moebius or Berni Wrightson might have created! Mark Nelson's brilliantly imaginative creatures are the highlight here, and his stunning use of color. This highly successful Kickstarter project showcases his attention to detail and love of this newly explored alien domain, revealing a never before seen world of myth, culture, landscape and wildlife. Grazing Dinosaur Press, 2023....More. Item Code: THUNHS Hard Cover, 8x11, 102pg, Partial Color $35.00 |
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ART! TRASH! TERROR! Adventures in Strange Cinema From filmmaker, former Fangoria editor-in-chief, and Corman/Poe author Chris Alexander, a treasure trove of in-depth essays and interviews that celebrate some of the most eccentric and unforgettable movies in cult cinema history. From recognized classics (George A. Romero’s Dawn Of The Dead, David Lynch’s The Elephant Man) to misunderstood masterpieces (Michael Mann’s The Keep, Boris Sagal’s The Omega Man) to unfairly maligned curios (Kostas Karagiannis’ Land Of The Minotaur, Brett Leonard’s Hideaway), the author takes an alternately serious and playful but always personal look at international horror, dark fantasy, and exploitation films. Full color. Headpress, 2025....More. Item Code: ARTTT Soft Cover, 7x10, 452pg, Text/Partial Color |
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FLASH GORDON Volume 1 Collects #1-5. Recommended. Flash Gordon returns in all new adventures in this action-packed and well drawn series from Jeremy Adams (Green Lantern, The Flash) and Will Conrad (Nightwing, King Conan)! Flash awakes on a secret prison planet somewhere in the galaxy. Upon learning that Dale Arden is the target of an assassination plot, he breaks out to make his way across the galaxy to save her. Along the way, he encounters old friends, new threats, and a greater mystery surrounding WHO is pulling the strings of this universe. Nicely done in the wild western themes of the original Flash Gordon by Alex Raymond. Mad Cave Studios, 2025....More. Item Code: FLAS01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 160pg, Full Color $17.99 |
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CURSED PIRATE GIRL Malodious Mutiny 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: CURMM Soft Cover, 7x10, 128pg, Full Color $19.99 |
| Also in stock in hardcover [CURMMH. $29.99]. We also have a neat Pirate Girl figure in stock [RB901. $90] from 1999 and here are more Pirate tales. |
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I, DRAGON Volume 3 The Eternal Life Highly Recommended. By Juan Gimenez. The last installment of this fantasy trilogy full of action and adventure, from the author of The Metabarons! Brilliant artwork by the master illustrator. Made Trofen's revenge draws nearer. After Prince Jorkin disclosed the hidden entrance to Rosentall Castle to their enemies, Made's troops prepare a surprise attack. Meanwhile, within the castle, a secret related to Valka's transformation, fiercely guarded by Madragon, is finally unveiled. Alien Books, 2024....More. Item Code: IDRA03 Soft Cover, 8x11, 64pg, Full Color $12.99 |
| Complete your set of all three volumes, Book 1 and 2 are the same price [IDRA01, 02]. Here is more work by this fine artist, including Overload, La Caste des Metabarons, Leo Roa, and coverage in Heavy Metal and Illustrators Quarterly. |
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ONE BOURBON, ONE SCOTCH, ONE BEER Three Tales of John Lee Hooker Recommended. By Jarrett Williams and Gabe Soria. Art by Kyle Baker, Taylan Kurtulus and Dave Chisholm. Cover by Ho Che Anderson. Spanning several decades of the American experience, three different artists create three tales of Hooker's storied life through the perspective of those who were there with him. Textured and interpretative stories that rise to the lofty creative heights of his music and fall to the gritty reality of trying to thrive in several unforgiving eras. Kyle Baker (Cowboy Wally, Why I Hate Saturn) does an amazing job on the first third of the book, reminding us of Bill Sienkiewicz...it's brilliant work of the singer/songwriter in his youth. Z2 Comics, 2024....More. Item Code: ONEBU Hard Cover, 6x10, 124pg, Full Color $19.99 |
| Here are more artist biographies in graphic novel form, and more on music and record album art. |
Carl Barks Signed Prints – Sale!
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We've just reduced the price of 100 of our longest listed titles by a whopping 40% to make room for new books coming in. The most we’ve ever discounted Rare Books before was 20%—this is a first for us. With very rare exceptions, we have just ONE COPY of each of these in stock, so act now for the best selection. Any that sell out will disappear from the website.
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DEADMAN Omnibus Collects Strange Adventures #205-216, Brave and the Bold #79, 86, 104, 133, Deadman #1-4, and much more, 1967-86. Highly Recommended. Introduced Created by Arnold Drake and Carmine Infantino in 1967, it was nonetheless talented young newcomer Neal Adams that put his stamp on the character with incredible, powerful, and innovative artwork. Deadman was a circus performer known as "Boston" Brand who was murdered while on the high-wire. In the afterlife, his spirit gained the ability to possess the bodies of the living. First so he could discover the identity of his killer and bring him to justice — then, to fight crime and supernatural menaces. Also featuring spectacular art by José Luis García-López, Deadman continues as part of DC’s universe, one of their most unusual heroes (hey, he’s dead! Shades of The Spectre!). DC Comics, 2025. Due: Mar....More. Item Code: DEADMH Hard Cover, 7x11, 944pg, Full Color |
| Here’s more by the master Neal Adams. |
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TERRY AND THE PIRATES The Master Collection Volume 10 1944 Spies, Snakes and Hotshots. Highly Recommended. By Milton Caniff. Terry must solve the riddle, "Who? Who is Madame Shoo-Shoo?" It’s an answer that places him in the clutches of Singh-Singh; his wife, Cheery Blaze; and the Nazi major with whom they do business! Meanwhile, Burma and teenaged orphan Willow Belinda connect with Terry just in time to meet the nosy war correspondent, Dunkan, and the noisy new flyboy, Hotshot Charlie! But the hearts that beat fastest belong to daredevil pilot "Snake" Tumblin and "Big" Jane Allen of the Women’s Army Corps... Clover Press, 2025. Due: Mar....More. Item Code: TERP10H Hard Cover, 164pg, Partial Color $100.00 |
| Volumes 1-9 are all currently still available and in stock. Volume 1 and 13 come together for $120, a special two-volume set. The others are all $100 each like the latest volume. Click here for more Terry and Milton Caniff material. |
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ARKADI AND THE LOST TITAN Recommended. By Caza. Spanning over 500 pages, a masterwork comprised of nine individual books and a prequel created over the course of 20 years. Le monde d’Arkadi was first published as 7 albums, 1989-2004, by Les Humanoïdes in France. The story blends imaginative landscapes with intricate detail, and classic sci-fi adventure with spiritual and metaphysical exploration. It’s Year 10,000 of the Still era, and Earth has stopped moving. Half of the world is plunged into frigid Night, the other is scorched in Day. Nestled in the heart of this everlasting night is Dis, the last fabled domed-city, ruled by artificial intelligence. There live the Chosen, the last biologically pure humans, who are completely reliant for their survival on cyborgs known as Titans. In Twilight, the thin strip of habitable zone at the edge of Day and Night, survives the rest of humanity. In the small village of Accaia, a wandering warrior meets a sorceress and fathers a child, Arkadi. Humanoids, 2025. Due: Mar....More. Item Code: ARKLH Hard Cover, 9x11, 528pg, Full Color |
| Caza also has work in the out of print Pleasurable Passages and Vampires, and we have eight volumes of Pilote, the French magazine where his work appears alongside Druillet, Moebius and others, where all this material was first published before it came out in album form. |
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FLASH GORDON CLASSIC COLLECTION The Complete Sunday Strips Volume 3 1941-1944 Our Highest Recommendation. By Alex Raymond. Flash Gordon is right up there in the Hall of Fame category with Hal Foster's Prince Valiant. And in fact, they were being created at nearly the same time, making the Sunday Page section of newspapers across the country a must-read for youngsters, oldsters, and all the comic artists of the day, who were deeply influenced by Raymond's magnificent artwork and dramatic storytelling. Now this new series collects newly restored pages. In this volume, the battle between Flash and the devious Ming the Merciless reaches its climax — but can Earth’s fearless hero bring everlasting peace to a chaotic planet? Mad Cave Studios, 2025. Due: Mar....More. Item Code: FLAG03H Hard Cover, 11x10, 208pg, Partial Color |
| Volumes 1 and 2 are in stock now, same discounted price. Click here for Dan Barry’s, Mac Raboy’s and Austin Brigg’s Flash Gordon pages. These three talented artists carried on after Alex Raymond moved on to create Rip Kirby, before his untimely death in 1956, at the age of 47. And more with Flash. |
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FARSCAPE BOOK 2 Collects 29 complete issues, five four-issue stories and a one-shot: Red Sky at Morning #1-4, Farscape Compulsions #1-4, etc, 2010-13. Art by Will Sliney. Farscape changed the landscape of science fiction television when it introduced the world to John Crichton and his adventures in uncharted space. The Jim Henson Company provided aliens; creator Rockne S. O’Bannon wrote powerful, continuing adventures of wanted adventurers (and one lone earthman) lost in space. 600 pages of story collecting the second half of the critically acclaimed comic book series and the complete spinoff series. Archaia, 2025. Due: Apr....More. Item Code: FARS02H Hard Cover, 7x10, 688pg, Full Color $59.99 |
| Book 1 collects Farscape #1-4, Farscape Vol. 2 #1-4, and 3 more stories, 2009-11. It is due here March 31 [FARS01H. $59.99]. |
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LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES Five Years Later Omnibus Volume 1 Collects Legion of Super-Heroes #1-39, Annual #1-3, and much more, 1973-93. By Keith Giffin, Tom Bierbaum, Adam Hughes et al. As DC's 30th century super-team, the Legion of Super-Heroes had always stood as a shining example of futuristic optimism—but that changed in 1989 with a new series that brought the timeline forward five years. In this even further future, the United Planets became a darker place, with familiar characters changed and the Earth overtaken by alien invaders—and the team reunited to take on these dangerous new threats. DC Comics, 2025. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge. Due: Apr. ...More. Item Code: LEGF01H Hard Cover, 1424pg, Full Color |
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Our February Clearance Sale email was sent out on Tuesday. Click here to see it on our blog. We have our next two sale groups all discounted and ready.They will become our March and April sale emails. But right now you can see all these --click on Marsale and Aprsale. 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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MIGHTY MARVEL CALENDAR BOOK A Visual History Hurt Highly Recommended. By Chris Ryall. Introduction by Roy Thomas. Seven years of Marvel history — From 1975-81, Marvel created seven consecutive calendars using their top artists...designed and as captivatingly written as any of their comics. Each of these annual calendars — whether they celebrated the Bicentennial (1976) or spotlighted a specific character such as Spider-Man (1978), Hulk (1979), or Doctor Strange (1980), featured heroes and villains across the pantheon of the Marvel Universe — and all shared inspired features: call-outs for birthdays of noted Marvel staff and creators; key moments in Marvel history; special events, famous quotes from fan-favorite issues, and other celebratory mentions. Abrams. 2024. Condition: Bumped corners. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge....More. Item Code: MIGMCHR Hard Cover, 13x13, 272pg, Partial Color |
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THE BIG BOOK OF PEANUTS Hurt Highly Recommended. The final ten years of daily strips from Jan. 1, 1990 through January 2000 from Charles Schulz's half century of Peanuts are presented here complete. Introductory essay and notes about the evolution of the strip in its final decade. 526 pages at six strips per page...hours and hours of wonderful reading for all ages. Snoopy, Linus, Pigpen, Peppermint Patti, Lucy...they're all here in their final episodes. Andrews McMeel, 2024. Condition: Bumped corners. ...More. Item Code: BIGPEHR Hard Cover, 9x12, 544pg, b&w |
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KALI Hurt An original graphic novel. Recommended. Powerful, dynamic graphics highlight this Mad Max style action adventure. We're impressed, it grabs you the moment you open the book. Stabbed in the back, poisoned, and left for dead by her own biker gang, Kali sets off on a one-way road of vengeance across a war-torn desert battlefield, a post-apocalyptic world ruled by a fascist military junta. With an army hot on her trail, Kali will stop at nothing to get her revenge on her betrayers. A nonstop high-octane existential action spectacle from writer Daniel Freedman and artist Robert Sammelin! Extreme violence, minor nudity. Dark Horse, 2022. Condition: Bumped corners....More. Item Code: KALIHR Soft Cover, 8x12, 176pg, Full Color |
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THE COMPLETE LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE Volume 11 Hurt Dailies & Sundays, 1943-45. Recommended. By Harold Gray. In the depths of the Second World War, Harold Gray paints a dark vision of stateside America when Annie's most loyal friends turn out to be a boarding house full of thieves, forgers, and mind readers. The red-garbed orphan sees how petty politicians and their underworld companions can deprive a small town of freedom just as easily as foreign spies, and that a big city can be home to a larger and even more dangerous threat to national security. IDW, 2015. Condition: Bumped corners....More. Item Code: CL11HR Hard Cover, 11x8, 288pg, Partial Color |
| Generally unblemished copies of all hurts are also still available. Click here for exactly 100 titles at 40% and 50% off, now in stock. Quantities are always VERY limited. |
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This week: Tom Strong by Alan Moore, Art Adams et al, set of eight collections! Clyde Caldwell’s Savage Hearts, signed. The Illustrator in America: 1860 to 2000 by Walt Reed (two editions) Saga de Xam, a huge classic French graphic novel from 1967 in the Barbarella tradition. French artist Magnus whose style is much like Burne Hogarth: Milady Nel 3000. Pin-Up: Body Painting and Striking Poses. Milton Caniff’s Rembrandt of the Comic Strip, original edition from 1946. Liberty Meadows: Cover Girl and Good Girl Art, signed by Cho. The classic, Pulp Culture; a rare Simon Bisley’s The Bible; Al Parker; Will Eisner’s Signal from Space and much more… Click here for the Adult Rare Books for this week. 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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Quantities are very low on many titles, less than five copies on over fifteen titles, so act now. 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 News Word continues that Diamond is up for sale and something may be consummated by March or April to satisfy the bankruptcy terms. But meanwhile, we have a new Diamond Previews on hand for March and April new items. We continue to receive weekly shipments. As mentioned before, we don’t buy a lot from Diamond -- this week just two titles. Most of our material comes in direct from publishers like Twomorrows, Fantagraphics, and dozens more, rather than through Diamond. Some titles come from the large book distributors. Random House, for example, ships us all DC, Marvel and Dark Horse titles. Titan and Image come from Simon & Shuster. We’re being contacted by smaller publishers, now including Heavy Metal and FPG, about directly handling their publications which were formerly only available from Diamond. So we do not anticipate any serious interruption in the flow of new books to us and thus to you. ~Bud
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