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It’s Art Books week, all new titles — classic illustration, comic masters, and hip contemporary work. Also: a new issue of Illustrators Quarterly, a vintage signed sketchbook by Juanjo Guarnido (Blacksad), Glenn Fabry, a new Tex, a super deluxe edition of David Wright’s Carol Day and Marvel Covers Artist’s Edition. Coming in July…Shade, Nightwing, Supergirl, Wolverton Spacehawk Part 2 — and Sexy Record Covers from Taschen. Our latest catalog, Greg Hildebrandt cover, just went online last week. Click here for highlights or here to download it right now. Note: customers outside the U.S. will no longer be sent a printed copy. |
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Click here for last week's new items, and here for 2024's Best Sellers! Click here to see ALL New Arrivals, beginning with the latest and going back 30 days.
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THE ART OF KELOGSLOOPS From Sketch to Finish |
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JMB THE UNSEEN ART OF JOHN M BURNS Limited, 500. By John Burns and John Dakins. John M. Burns was one of Britain's, if not the world's, finest continuity artists. In a career spanning over 60 years, he produced vast amounts of work for numerous British weeklies including TV Express, The Hotspur, Boys' World, Diana, Wham!, Lady Penelope, TV Action, Look-in, 2000AD and Judge Dredd Magazine as well as working for publishers in Europe and the USA. Book Palace, 2025. Mature Readers. ...More. Item Code: JMBH Hard Cover, 10x13, 68pg, Partial Color $52.99 |
| Here is more in stock by John M. Burns. |
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AKSELI GALLEN-KALLELA Picturing Finland Finnish painter Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865-1931) was a national hero and international star during his lifetime. He made paintings and graphic works bridging Finnish culture, myth and landscape with influences from artistic centers such as Paris, Berlin, London and Vienna. From ancient mythology to the modern world, Akseli Gallen-Kallela captured Finnish history, nationalism and landscape with a cosmopolitan eye. Walther König, 2025....More. Item Code: AGKPICH Hard Cover, 10x12, 176pg, Full Color $49.95 |
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ONLY WHAT'S NECESSARY 75th Anniversary Edition Charles M. Schulz and The Art of Peanuts Introduction by Chip Kidd and Jeff Kinney. Preface by Jean Schulz. Reproducing the best of the Peanuts newspaper strip, all shot from the original art by award-winning photographer Geoff Spear, Only What’s Necessary also features exclusive, rare, and unpublished original art and developmental work — much of which has never been seen before. Abrams. 2025....More. Item Code: ONLYWH Hard Cover, 8x11, 304pg, Partial Color $29.99 |
| Click here for more Peanuts, including many collections now out of print, boxed sets and more. |
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MARVEL COVERS Artist's Edition New Printing. Collects covers from various Marvel comics from 1968-88. Highly Recommended. By Arthur Adams, John Buscema, et al. An amazing 137 full-size iconic covers entirely from the original artwork, including two fold-outs! A "Best of" selection of gorgeous covers by a veritable who's who of the medium. As many as 14 covers by one artist (Gil Kane), plus work by John Byrne, Dave Cockrum, Gene Colan, Michael Golden, Mike Mignola, Barry Windsor-Smith, Jim Starlin, Mike Zeck and 14 others! IDW, 2025. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge....More. Item Code: MCAEH Hard Cover, 12x17, 144pg, b&w |
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ILLUSTRATORS QUARTERLY #47 Steve Stone Presenting the stunning imagery of British artist Steve Stone, who blends photography and digital art to create worlds of science-fiction and fantasy. Book Palace, 2025....More. Item Code: IQ47 Soft Cover, 9x11, 96pg, Partial Color $30.00 |
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SKETCHY CHARACTERS Artwork of Juanjo Guarnido Signed Signed! Limited, 1000. From the acclaimed artist behind Blacksad, a collection of thirty two commissioned convention sketches. Along with Blacksad and many of the series characters, are also Batman, Star Wars, Porco Rosso, The Shadow, Spider-Man, and other surprises. Big Wow!, 2014....More. Item Code: SKETJGS Soft Cover, 5x8, 32pg, b&w $20.00 |
| ALSO AVAILABLE BLACKSAD They All Fall Down Part One Angouleme 2022 Grand Prix Nominee. Highly Recommended. In this exceptional noir tour de force from writer Juan Díaz Canales and artist Juanjo Guarnido, the hotly anticipated worldwide bestseller returns to American shores after a seven-year hiatus with a brand-new two-part storyline! Following its chart-topping 2021 release in Europe and now translated for English-language readers by the team of Brandon Kander and Diana Schutz, feline private eye John Blacksad tangles with the unions, the mob, and mid-century construction magnate Lewis Solomon, who plans to pave New York City’s green space, come hell or high water. Dark Horse, 2022....More. Item Code: BLATFH Hard Cover, 8x11, 64pg, Full Color $19.99 |
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Here’s Part Two of They All Fall Down and a Blacksad omnibus (three stories) from 2010, just one available [RB6434. $40]. Click here for more signed sketchbooks, including a Dave Stevens signed sketchbook, long, long out of print. Supply is limited. |
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ESSENTIALS Volume 1 Glenn Fabry Premiere Edition By Luke Arnold and Chris "Doc" Wyatt. Art by Glenn Fabry. This special edition is strictly limited to 100 copies with a cover by Glenn Fabry and colorist Jordie Bellaire. 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 his new inter dimensional nemesis: Snuggles. LAB Press, 2025. ...More. Item Code: ESSEN01H Hard Cover, 8x11, 176pg, Full Color $75.00 |
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| ALSO AVAILABLE ILLUSTRATORS QUARTERLY #45 Frankenstein Cover Highly Recommended. Glenn Fabry gets the cover spot, featuring a variant Frankenstein cover (his Slaine cover is sold out). He's one of the seminal artists from 2000AD in the UK, and then became one of favorite cover illustrators for the Vertigo line of comics in the USA. Next: remembering Glen Orbik, who brought back all the thrills and chills from the crime pulp covers of the 1940s into the new millennium — outstanding work!! Howard Chandler Christy, creator of the Christy Girl and many of his rare nudes. And a Gallery of Doc Savage artists: pulp illustrator Baumhofer, James Bama, Ken Barr, Bob Larkin, Boris Vallejo, and Alex Ross. Book Palace, 2024....More. Item Code: IQ45 Soft Cover, 9x11, 96pg, Partial Color $30.00 |
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TEX RELENTLESS Signature Edition By Mauro Boselli. Art by Claudio Villa. The three Logan brothers, each born to a different mother, but all equally dangerous! From Tucson to the deserts of Mexico: among Harry's bandits, Simon's Mescaleros and Manuel's Mexican desperados, Tex hunts them down to avenge the death of his friends... After years of waiting, the masterly book finally arrives, from the legendary "Texone" by Claudio Villa! Epicenter Comics, 2025....More. Item Code: TEXRH Hard Cover, 8x11, 250pg, Full Color $29.99 |
| Click here for more Tex and Zagor collections, excellent westerns collected from two long running and popular series that were created in Italy. |
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| DAVID WRIGHT'S CAROL DAY: LANCE HALLAM Deluxe Edition Limited, 500. 84 complete strips from 1957. Front cover by Brian Bolland. Back cover by David Wright. Recommended. Carol Day is a fashion model, elegant and assured in a world of intrigue, vividly brought to life in this much-acclaimed newspaper strip with multi-layered adult story lines and superbly detailed and atmospheric fine-line artwork. Created by artist David Wright, it was published in the Daily Mail. This handsome, deluxe, limited edition collects what many consider to be her best adventure sequence, the complete Lance Hallam story. Entirely from the original artin the large format full size of the originals!! Slingsby Bros, Ink!, 2023. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge....More. Item Code: DAVCDD Hard Cover, 19x14, 152pg, b&w |
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THE WRITER Mignola Cover Collects #1-4, 2024. Highly Recommended. By Ben Berkowitz, Max Berkowitz, and Josh Gad. Art by Ariel Olivetti. "...like Jack Kirby meets Michael Chabon. It's a smart literary comic with bombastic art and a fast pace that never loses its sense of fun." - Comicbook.com. I agree, the art here is superlative and the story, a fictional account influenced by real life Jewish comic writers such as Jerry Siegel and Will Eisner, who brought to comics with their own mythology and folklore. - Bud. The Writer plunges readers into the captivating world of Stan Siegel, a renowned comic book writer, whose life spirals into a terrifying adventure beyond the confines of reality. Alongside his mother Liz and daughter Izzy, Stan faces an onslaught of Nazis, demons, and mythical creatures drawn from Jewish folklore. As they navigate a landscape steeped in occult mysteries, their quest for answers reveals hidden identities and ignites a high-stakes race against an emerging terror. Dark Horse, 2025....More. Item Code: WRITM Soft Cover, 7x10, 104pg, Full Color $19.99 |
| This is a variant cover by Mike Mignola, further proof that this book is worth your attention. We previously announced it in the regular edition with a very handsome cover by the story artist, Ariel Olivetti [WRITO. $19.99]. |
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Rare Book Highlights—new this week: R. Crumb’s Yum Yum Book (1975); 4 book Connie set by Frank Godwin, the sci-fi episodes; Hollywood Pin-Ups; Torchy by Bill Ward; Cartoon Movie Posters; Mexican Calendar Girls; Complete Peanuts Boxed sets; Polly, Krazy, Bungle Family, Baron Bean and Gumps in Library of American Comics collections; Jules Feiffer’s Explainers; White: A Decade signed by Michael Hussar; and a new selection of Illustration Magazine back issues! Click here to see all 500 plus Rare Books still at 20% Off! Click here to see all 90 plus Rare Books still at 40% Off!
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MARVEL ARCHIVE EDITION AMAZING SPIDER-MAN The Black Costume Year One Gallery Edition Collects Amazing Spider-Man #252-263, 198-85, Facsimile Editions and a Bonus Cover Gallery. By Tom DeFalco. Art by Ron Frenz. In this debut volume, journey back to the mid-80s, a transformative time in Marvel history. Spanning 1984-1985, this collection highlights one of the most pivotal story lines in Spider-Man’s career: the introduction of his mysterious black costume. Marvel, 2025. Due: July....More. Item Code: MAEASH Hard Cover, 488pg, Full Color |
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THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS The Ultimate Visual History By Troy Benjamin and Craig Goldberg. The Real Ghostbusters: A Visual History is the ultimate collector’s dream. This franchise overview combines rare and never-before-seen visuals including conceptual artwork, storyboards, script excerpts, internal memos, packaging art, unseen prototypes, abandoned concepts, and brand-new stunning photography with new and exclusive interviews. Dark Horse, 2025. Due: July....More. Item Code: REALGBH Hard Cover, 248pg, Full Color |
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| THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS The Ultimate Visual History Deluxe Edition By Troy Benjamin and Craig Goldberg. The Real Ghostbusters: A Visual History is the ultimate collector’s dream. This franchise overview combines rare and never-before-seen visuals including conceptual artwork, storyboards, script excerpts, internal memos, packaging art, unseen prototypes, abandoned concepts, and brand-new stunning photography with new and exclusive interviews. Dark Horse, 2025. Due: July....More. Item Code: REALGBD Hard Cover, 248pg, Full Color $109.99 |
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BATMAN WAR GAMES Omnibus Collects Batman Allies Secret Files 2005 #1, Batman #631-634, #642-644, and a whole lot more, 2004-23. The tensions in Gotham's criminal underworld have escalated from rival gang battles to all-out war! With Gotham’s citizens caught in the middle of a hostile conflict, only one hero can be their protector: Batman. To aid him in combat the Dark Knight will need to recruit his former and current allies before Gotham is reduced to ashes. Get the full story that changed Gotham forever in a stunning Omnibus edition. DC Comics, 2025. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge. Due: July. ...More. Item Code: BATWGH Hard Cover, 7x10, 1120pg, Full Color |
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JOHN CONSTANTINE HELLBLAZER By Jamie Delano Omnibus Volume 2 Collects Hellblazer #23-40, #84, #250, Hellblazer Special: Bad Blood #1-4, and much more, 1989-2009. Art by Ron Tiner. Following the initial omnibus collecting Jamie Delano’s groundbreaking Hellblazer work, the second half of the writer’s John Constantine work is back in print in this volume! Volume 2 includes Constantine leaving Britain for what he belives to be a well-deserved vacation — but a twist turns it into a nightmare populated by literary heroes. In “The Family Man,” Constantine trades supernatural intrigue for the all-natural horror lurking inside the worst of humanity! And in a special issue drawn by the legendary Dave McKean, John Constantine meets an alternate reality version of himself who somehow made all the right choices in life! DC Comics, 2025. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge. Due: July. ...More. Item Code: JOHH02H Hard Cover, 7x10, 960pg, Full Color |
| AVAILABLE NOW JOHN CONSTANTINE HELLBLAZER By Jamie Delano Omnibus Volume 1 Collects #1-22, and Annual #1, and more, 1988-89. Recommended. Introduction by Jamie Delano. Foreword by Garth Ennis. Now, fans can revisit — or experience for the first time —Constantine's earliest solo adventures, collecting the first Hellblazer stories from writer Jamie Delano and artists including John Ridgway, Richard Piers Rayner and Stephen R. Bissette. Hellblazer helped usher in DC’s seminal Vertigo label, and stands as the longest-running series of that imprint. Plus a host of extras. DC Comics, 2024. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge. ...More. Item Code: JOHH01H Hard Cover, 7x11, 1128pg, Full Color |
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NIGHTWING By Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo Omnibus Volume 1 Collects Nightwing #78-100, Nightwing 2021 Annual #1, and more, 2016-21. Since Nightwing #78, writer Tom Taylor has helped helm one of the most iconic runs for the fan-favorite hero. From putting the former Robin back in blue to having him set sail on the high seas this bestselling series has gained critical acclaim. Taylor and a team of superstar artists craft a brand new arch-rival for Dick Grayson by the name of Heartless. This ultra-violent masked nemesis armed with a super-weapon captures the hearts right out of citizens' chests. Nightwing, now re-teamed with Barbara Gordon, sets his sights on capturing Heartless while facing his past, present, and future. Get the omnibus that celebrates the legacy of the fan-favorite character.DC Comics, 2025. Due: July....More. Item Code: NIGTT01H Hard Cover, 7x10, 624pg, Full Color |
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SHADE, THE CHANGING MAN By Peter Milligan and Chris Bachalo Omnibus Volume 1 Collects #1-37, 1990-93. Introduction by Peter Milligan. In 1990, Milligan and Bachalo revolutionized comics with Shade, The Changing Man, often considered one of the greatest works of the decade. Sent to Texas from another world, Rac Shade must save the United States from the madness inside all of us. Trapped in the body of a killer, Shade will embark on a road trip across the country to stop the American Scream. With the help of Kathy, whose life was shattered by the killer, and Lenny, a sharp-witted runaway, they might just save the world. DC Comics, 2025. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge. Due: July. ...More. Item Code: SHADC01H Hard Cover, 7x11, 992pg, Full Color |
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SUPERGIRL The New 52 Omnibus Volume 1 Collects Supergirl #0-40, Supergirl Features End #1 and more, 2005-40. By Mike Johnson. Art by Mahmud Asrar. Crashing to earth on an escape pod through turbulence and chaos is the last daughter of Krypton. Unlike her cousin who landed on warm Kansas fields among kindly farmers, this Supergirl first lands on a frozen tundra and is met by immediate threats to her life. She can’t understand how her powers are activated by the yellow sun and to the common person she might pose a threat to the world. Can her cousin, the only other living Kryptonian, Superman, help her become his crime-fighting partner? DC Comics, 2025. Due: July....More. Item Code: SUPGN01H Hard Cover, 7x10, 824pg, Full Color |
| Click for other New 52 collections, and here for more Supergirl, all the way back to her first appearances in the newly published DC Finest (still our favorites, with art by Jim Mooney when she was still a backup feature in Action Comics). |
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BOTH COMING IN JULY CLASSIC SCI-FI COMICS Volume 9 Wolverton Hardcover Collects stories from Spacehawk #17-34, Amazing Man Comics #25-26, and more, 1941-53. Basil Wolverton (July 9, 1909 - December 31, 1978) was born in Central Point, Oregon and later moved to Vancouver, Washington. He worked as a vaudeville performer and a cartoonist and reporter for the Portland News. Wolverton was a master in caricaturing the human face and body and his drawings have elicited a wide range of reactions - - he even described himself as a "Producer of Preposterous Pictures of Peculiar People who Prowl this Perplexing Planet." Preferring to work with pen and ink, Wolverton's lack of artistic schooling gave his drawings an otherworldly appearance. There was no other artist at the time who drew like him! PS Artbooks, 2025. Due: July....More. |
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| This is part 2 of the Wolverton collected, see PSSC07H and 07 for the first collection of Space Patrol and Spacehawk stories. This collects stories from Keen Detective Funnies #18-24 and Target #5-16, 1939-41. We love ‘em all, great clunky early adventures in space! |
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SEXY RECORD COVERS An album cover collection exploring 70 years of surprising, shocking and frankly hilarious nude and provocative art. Sexy covers sold all musical genres, from funk to punk, and the silly German schlager. Comedy albums range from mid-century “stag party” pin-ups to the undeniably raunchy ‘70s sensation, Blowfly. Steamy, seamy and adults only. Taschen, 2025. Mature Readers. Due: July....More. Item Code: SEXYRH Hard Cover, 11x11, 528pg, Full Color $70.00 |
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TERRY AND THE PIRATES The Master Collection Volume 11 1945 Reunion in Indo-China. By Milton Caniff. It’s a new year of reunions, not resolutions — Terry and Pat join forces! They connect with the Dragon Lady — and with Terry’s old flame, Hu Shee! Terry, Hotshot Charlie, and Hu Shee cross paths with swashbuckling pirate Johnny Jingo, in turn joining Terry’s old friend April Kane before a new encounter with Nazi collaborator Papa Pyzon! Papa is exactly who he seems, yet his henchman, Mr. Hutch, may have a different trick up his sleeve. Clover Press, 2025. Due: July....More. Item Code: TERP11H Hard Cover, 11x14, 164pg, Partial Color $100.00 |
| Just volume 12 to go and we’ll have the complete Terry in oversize, high quality volumes. These feature the finest, highest quality reproduction ever using proof pages straight from Caniff’s own files. |
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In early May we'll be sending out our monthly Clearance Sale, but you can get an early start. Click here to see the ninety plus items on sale. We also have our 2025 Calendars still on sale, with a many excellent titles for $5! Plus we still have 46 items in our Flash Sale as we allow our print versions to run their course. 33 items priced at $10 or less!
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No stock items this week, but we have 25 new adult titles added to our Rare & Out of Print section this week.
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