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Big Deal this week is Vaughn Bode’s Complete Deadbone Erotica. We’re really jazzed about the Anton Seder book shown above, coming in September. Astre from 3dtotal is the nicest book that probably won’t interest everyone, but at least check it out. It’s quite amazing. Plus Philip Jose Farmer’s Time Travel novel; some fine new PS archives and facsimiles; Women of Marvel and much more! Enjoy! |
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| Here’s more by Dan Parsons, three limited edition Tarzan collections and all also signed. |
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ASTRE Volume 1 Limited Deluxe Edition. Highly Recommended. An oversized book format with amazing die-cut pages, tip-in, fold outs, multiple paper types and special finishes — embossing, debossing, cut-outs, removable add-ons — I've never seen such a high quality and unique presentation -Bud. This first issue features incredible cover art by Andrew Hem, exclusive new prints by Canadian artists Audra Auclair and Janice Sung, Swedish artists Chantal Horeis and Feefal (who has 1.1m followers on Instagram), and award-winning Bulgarian artist now living in San Francisco, Eliza Ivanova (her complete smaller sketchbook is bound in!). Each artist will be the focus of an article featuring additional art and insights into their creative minds. 3dtotal Publishing, 2025. ...More. Item Code: ASTR01H Soft Cover, 10x13, 100pg, Full Color $50.00 |
| Here are more fine art books from the prestigious 3dtotal. |
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THE INFERNO An Illuminated Edition Recommended. British linocut artist Sophy Hollington brings her singular vision to Dante Alighieri's magnificent funnel of retribution and suffering. And in that strange upside-down city, abandoned by God, she finds hope and humor amidst the darkness. This vivid and gorgeous edition features Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poetic translation of the landmark Italian poem, alongside a visionary suite of illustrations depicting Hell's vast architecture, an exclusive introduction from the renowned Ukrainian poet Ilya Kaminsky, and an original essay from the Dante scholar Kristina Olson. Beehive Books, 2025....More. Item Code: INFIEH Hard Cover, 9x12, 144pg, Partial Color $100.00 |
| Here are all the editions from Beehive; they all are issued in the same fancy die-cut slipcases and deluxe embossed covers. Pinocchio illustrated by Mike Mignola is on sale [PINOCH. $100, $60] but we have just four copies left at that price. |
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GODZILLA THE FIRST 70 YEARS The Official Illustrated History 1954-2024 By Steve Ryfle and Ed Godziszewski. Foreword by John Carpenter. Exploring every aspect of the creation, design, and evolution of King of the Monsters in Toho Studios' films and TV series from 1954 to the present. A narrative and visual history of Japan’s King of the Monsters. Examines the filmmakers, special-effects wizards, cast members, even the stuntmen inside the monster suit — and an appreciation of the behind-the-scenes artistry involved in bringing Godzilla to cinematic life, then and now. Extensive visuals detail the evolution of kaiju design, as well as profile the creative contribution and SFX developments across seven decades of exceptional film making and innovation. Abrams, 2025....More. Item Code: GODZFH Hard Cover, 10x12, 432pg, Partial Color $75.00 |
| Here’s more Godzilla. |
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VAMPIRELLA TAROT CARDS Back in stock. Recommended. A functioning Tarot card deck that captures the timeless images of the 1969 Vampirella Magazine art in a unique collectible. These cover images helped to define the horror comic genre with master illustrators like Frank Frazetta, Sanjulian, Adam Hughes, Jose Gonzalez, Enric, Esteban Maroto, and Paul Gulacy along with a host of other legendary contributing artists. 78 cards illustrate the major and minor arcana. Illustrated box, with instructions for divining the future. Some nudity. Dynamite, 2021....More. Item Code: VAMTC na, 3x5, na, Full Color $19.99 |
| Here is more tarot, from the Marvel Tarot, Manara (on sale, 6 sets left, and another, four sets left) to The Artist’s Guide to Tarot. |
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FIGHT COMICS Featuring Tiger Girl Volume 2 Hardcover Collects #53-68, 1947-50. Recommended. Art by Matt Baker, Jack Kamen et al. The Tiger Girl, created by Robert Webb, started in Fight #32 but only became the cover feature with #51 — after the run of patriotic WWII covers. Her origin is retold here. Up until #64 all her stories are drawn by the fabulous Matt Baker, master of good-girl art. EC mainstay and Good-Girl artist Jack Kamen and the Iger shop took over after that. She was brought from India to Africa by her father Rajah Vishnu, after the death of her Irish mother. With her whip and her magic tiger ring, which gave her added strength, she protected a lost civilization from outsiders. She became one of Fiction House's longest-lived characters, clearly inspired by the adventures of Sheena Queen of the Jungle. Bondage covers and headlights were common to her stories. PS Artbooks, 2025. ...More. Item Code: FIGTG02H Hard Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color $52.99 |
| Also available in softcover with the same cover, just a different color border. [FIGTG02. $32.99] |
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ALSO AVAILABLE FIGHT COMICS FEATURING TIGER GIRL Volume 1 Hardcover Fight #32-52, 1944-47. Recommended. By Matt Baker, Joe Doolin, Bob Webb, Alex Blum et al. Tiger Girl was one of the longest running Fiction House characters, obviously a take-off of Sheena but boasting artwork by none other than Matt Baker in his prime! Also known as Princess Vishnu, she was brought from India to Africa by her father Rajah Vishnu, after the death of her Irish mother. Using her whip and her tiger ring, which gave her added strength, she fought jungle evil with her companions: Benzali, a tiger, and Abdola, an Indian man. PS Artbooks, 2023. ...More. Item Code: FIGTG01H Hard Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color $52.99 |
| The softcover of this Vol 1 has already gone out of print. |
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POLICE COMICS Volume 2 Collects #4-6, 1941-42. Highly Recommended. By Reed Crandall, Jack Cole, Paul Gustavson et al. More of the very first Plastic Man stories (he only took over the cover with #5), Reed Crandall's superbly drawn Firebrand, the first Phantom Lady, Gustavson's iconic Human Bomb, plus Chic Carter, Steel Kerrigan, The Mouthpiece and more. One of Quality Comics' very best titles. With more work by George Brenner, Fred Guardineer, Al Bryant, Arthur Peddy et al. Superheroes, gumshoes and more heroes battle crime, corruption, and chaos in pre-war New York City. Gripping stories and vibrant 1940s artwork. Police put Plastic Man on the map and lasted into the 1950s. The Spirit came on board with #11 and co-starred with Plas all the way to #102. PS Artbooks, 2025....More. Item Code: POLCOM02 Soft Cover, 7x10, 204pg, Full Color $32.99 |
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ALSO AVAILABLE POLICE COMICS Volume 1 Collects #1-3, 1941. Our Highest Recommendation. Art by Reed Crandall, Jack Cole, Paul Gustavson, George Brenner et al. Police Comics was THE flagship title of Quality Comics. Lasting more than 120 issues, it features the origin and earliest adventures of Plastic Man. With #11 The Spirit was added. Reed Crandall did his finest work on The Firebrand, cover feature on these three issues before they realized Plastic Man was THE hero. The series combined superhero action, crime stories, and detective tales, reflecting the era's diverse storytelling styles. Some of the most notable characters that debuted in Police Comics include Phantom Lady (first incarnation), the Human Bomb, 711, The Mouthpiece, The Swordsman, Eagle Evans...three amazing 64-page issues now collected for the first time. PS Artbooks, 2025....More. Item Code: POLCOM01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 204pg, Full Color $32.99 |
| If just the Plastic Man stories from Police will make you happy, the DC Finest Plastic Man collects all of them from Police Comics #1-36, plus from Plastic Man #1 & 2. This is tops in our 2025 Year to Date Bestsellers. Click here for the entire list. |
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BLACKHAWK Volume 15 Collects #75-79, 1954. Recommended. By Chuck Cuidera, Dick Dillin et al. The fifteenth volume in this popular ongoing series of Quality Comics' Blackhawk. By now Golden Age superheroes and even teams were long gone...but the Blackhawks team rolled right on, flying around the world to battle dictators, crime masterminds, and some of the wildest weapons imaginable: The Flying Cannon, Jet-Propelled Terror, The Destroyer Drill and The Human Bomb! This popular series continues with cold war and commie menaces too! PS Artbooks, 2025....More. Item Code: BLAC15 Soft Cover, 7x10, 180pg, Full Color $32.99 |
| Here are all the previous Blackhawk collections. |
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PHANTOM LADY #22 Facsimile Edition Collects #22, 1949. Recommended. By Matt Baker and Jack Kamen. "The Case of the Robbing Robot," "Olympic Saboteurs," "Joe Noon—Killer," and "The Crime of Roger Caseman." Scripts are attributed to the talented Ruth Roche. The next-to-last Fox issue. Faithfully reproduced with all scans reworked to bring them back as close as possible to the original glossy covers and interiors printed on environmentally friendly matte carbon-based paper. PS Artbooks, 2025....More. Item Code: PHL22 Comic, 7x10, 36pg, Full Color $15.99 |
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PHANTOM LADY #23 Facsimile Edition Collects #23, 1949. Recommended. This A classic bondage cover leads off the final issue of the Fox run, with art by Jack Kamen and the Iger shop. Steamy, violent, good-girl art stories as well as a crime back-up story feature the entire contents, including ad pages, of this 1949 icon. Faithfully reproduced with all scans reworked to bring them back as close as possible to the original. Glossy covers and interiors printed on environmentally friendly matte carbon based paper. PS Artbooks, 2025....More. Item Code: PHL23 Comic, 7x10, 36pg, Full Color $15.99 |
| Click for all the Phantom Lady facsimiles. Every single issue from #13-23 are now available. We also have the 2013 PS hardcover, collecting #18-23 [RB6971. $50] or by special order. The first Phantom Lady incarnation ran in the early Police Comics, see above! She wasn’t quite the Matt Baker sexpot, but she was a good solid crime buster also. |
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TIME'S LAST GIFT Deluxe Signed Hardcover Signed by Bob Eggleton & the four contributors! Limited to just 200 copies. Recommended. By Philip Jose Farmer. The hardcover features a leatherette cover with gold foil stamping and custom printed color end papers, cover by Bob Eggleton — a high quality collectible in the tradition of Meteor House’s prior limited edition hardcovers. Three men and a woman onboard a timeship travel from 2070 AD to 12,000 BC — a journey that could never be repeated! For these anthropologists, it was a once-in-a-million-lifetimes expedition, a chance to study primitive man; but none of them was prepared for what they would discover, or for the impact of their travels in a time that had yet to come. A prequel to Philip Jose Farmer’s Ancient Opar series and a big fan favorite, first published in 1972 in paperback. Meteor House, 2025....More. Item Code: TIMLGH Hard Cover, 6x9, 212pg, Text Only $65.00 |
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TIME'S LAST GIFT Recommended. By Philip Jose Farmer. The hardcover features a leatherette cover with gold foil stamping and custom printed color end papers, cover by Bob Eggleton — a high quality collectible in the tradition of Meteor House’s prior limited edition hardcovers. Three men and a woman onboard a timeship travel from 2070 AD to 12,000 BC — a journey that could never be repeated! For these anthropologists, it was a once-in-a-million-lifetimes expedition, a chance to study primitive man; but none of them was prepared for what they would discover, or for the impact of their travels in a time that had yet to come. A prequel to Philip Jose Farmer’s Ancient Opar series and a big fan favorite, first published in 1972 in paperback. Meteor House, 2025....More. Item Code: TIMLG Soft Cover, 6x9, 212pg, Text Only $23.00 |
| Here are more limited edition Philip Jose Farmer books from Meteor House. |
Hagar... and Alley Oop |
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HAGAR THE HORRIBLE The First 50 Years Recommended. Brian Walker on the history of Hägar plus the story of the (almost) animated movie. It’s time to set sail with the world's mildest marauding Viking, Hägar the Horrible and his hapless (and helpless) sidekick, Lucky Eddie and his long suffering family, his wife Helga and his duck Kveck. A massive 480-page celebration of the first 50 years of Hägar’s quest to put meat, mead and loot on the family table, while doing as little as possible. 1000 daily cartoon strips, including 600 hand-picked by Dik Browne’s son Chris Browne. Titan, 2025....More. Item Code: HAGHH Hard Cover, 9x9, 480pg, b&w |
| We have just three left after filling backorders, but more are on the way. |
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ALLEY OOP AND THE DINOSAUR FROM OUTER SPACE The Complete Sundays 1994-1996 By Dave Graue. Art by Jack Bender. Stories include Murdle's Restaurant, Land of Guzzes, Alley the Grand Wizer, the ill-fated Fish Pool, and of course Dinosaur From Outer Space! Threee complete years of full color Sunday pages. Adventures from the prehistoric times to the future, all thanks to Professor Wonmug's time machine. Acoustic Learning, 2025....More. Item Code: ALLEDINO Soft Cover, 9x8, 160pg, Full Color $34.99 |
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ALLEY OOP AND THE FABULOUS GHOST RACER 1970 Hamlin/Graue Recommended. It goes from 0 to 100 with but a whoosh and a whisper — it's the Fabulous Ghost Racer, with Alley Oop at the wheel! Then, can Ooola thwart the ancient ambitions of King Kingston? And who is... the Gink? Another year of daily strip adventures from the last collaborations between V.T. Hamlin and his assistant and hand-picked successor, Dave Graue. Acoustic Learning, 2025....More. Item Code: ALLE70 Soft Cover, 9x8, 108pg, b&w $19.99 |
| Here are all the available Oop titles. Some are going out of print, watch for the “Almost Gone” note. |
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SUPER VISIBLE The Story of the Women of Marvel Comics Packed with biographies and illustrations from creators, graphical reprints and excerpts of historic Marvel comics, and exclusive interviews from acclaimed directors like Anna Boden and Cate Shortland; lauded writers such as Kelly Sue DeConnick, Eve Ewing, Rainbow Rowell, Nic Stone, G. Willow Wilson, Tini Howard, and Maurene Goo; top artists like Jen Bartel; and influential producer Sana Amanat, an essential read for fans of all ages. A thick, hardcover book in full color. Impressive! Marvel, 2025....More. Item Code: SUPVH Hard Cover, 6x9, 400pg, Text/Partial Color $35.00 |
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ALSO AVAILABLE STAR WARS WOMEN OF THE GALAXY Revised and Expanded. By Amy Ratcliffe. Art by Annie Wu, Betsy Cola, Christina Chung, Eliot Baum et al. Foreword by Kathleen Kennedy. They are heroes and villains, Sith and Jedi, senators and scoundrels, mothers, mercenaries, artists, and pilots. The women of the Star Wars galaxy drive its stories and saga forward at every level. This beautifully illustrated, fully authorized book profiles each and every fascinating Star Wars woman from across films, fiction, comics, animation, and games. Each character is explored through key story beats, fresh insights, and behind-the-scenes details by author Amy Ratcliffe. Chronicle Books, 2025....More. Item Code: STARWOM Soft Cover, 8x10, 284pg, Full Color $29.95 |
2026 Calendars |
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PIN-UP GIRLS GIL ELVGREN 2026 Calendar (Orange Circle) Highly 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. Ladies are caught in some rather precarious situations, or else being unashamedly teasing with little to nothing on. Orange Circle, 2025....More. Item Code: PIG26 na, 12x12, 24pg, Full Color $14.99 |
| Here are more pin-up collections with Elvgren. |
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JAPANESE WOODBLOCKS 2026 Calendar Recommended. Japanese Woodblocks celebrates the exquisite and natural splendor of Japan with one of the country's oldest art forms as featured in these 13 vibrant and technically complex woodblock prints by some of the genre's great masters. From snow-capped mountains to colossal waves, quiet countryside to towering trees and waterfalls, the peaceful and timeless quality of this art will bring tranquility and beauty to each day. Very good choice of images. Orange Circle, 2025....More. Item Code: JW26 na, 12x12, 24pg, Full Color $14.99 |
| Click for more Japanese Woodblock artwork. Here are more new 2026 releases. And here are on-sale calendars from 2025 and before. We just reduced prices on many of these. |
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ANIMALIA & FANTASIA The Magical Worlds & Fantastic Creatures of Professor Anton Seder Limited Edition based on the 1895 Folio Edition. Special pre-publication price for a limited time. Our Highest Recommendation. By Anton Seder. Text by Thomas Negovan. Psychedelic starfish, omniscient owls, sinuous dragons, and bizarre imaginary sea creatures! A nearly unknown German professor of art drew this brilliant, almost mind-boggling portfolio of Art Nouveau-inspired images. The subjects often tip in the realm of fantasy. Every page is worth framing. This is the first time this work has been collected; this deluxe book includes close-up, high-resolution details that allow you to immerse yourself in Seder's beautiful and strange visions of creatures both real and imagined. Due: Sept....More. Item Code: ANIMFH Hard Cover, 10x13, na, Full Color |
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THE ESSENTIAL PEANUTS By Charles Schulz The Greatest Comic Strip of All Time Recommended. By Mark Evanier, Patrick McDonnell et al. Award-winning author Mark Evanier provides insightful and entertaining Peanuts cultural and historical context. An introduction from Patrick (Mutts) McDonnell, a foreword by Jean Schulz, and appreciations and remembrances from key figures in the world of Peanuts make this book unique. Extras include: 8 ready-to-frame prints, 5 vinyl stickers, 8 postcards, an iron-on patch, a full-color comic book, and more! Beautifully designed in a deluxe gift-ready slipcase, this one-of-a-kind full-color hardcover collects more than 700 images, including Schulz’s most iconic comic strips and related ephemera. Abrams, 2025. Due: Oct....More. Item Code: ESSPEH Hardcover, 9x12, 336pg, Full Color $75.00 |
| Here's more Peanuts; in Rare Books we have quite a number of older collections right now. |
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MY FAVORITE THING IS MONSTERS Box Set Winner of 9 prestigious awards for Best Graphic Novel of 2024! Recommended. Taking the form of the fictional graphic diary of ten-year-old self-identifying "monster" Karen Reyes, and set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late '60s Chicago. This series has become a worldwide sensation since Book One announced Emil Ferris as one of fiction's world-class storytellers in 2017 — and 2024's Book Two triumphantly concluded the epic graphic novel. Influenced by B-movie horror, classical painting, and pulp monster magazine iconography, Monsters tells the story of Karen as she tries to solve the murder of her enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor. Fantagraphics, 2025. Due: Oct....More. Item Code: MYFAVTH Hard Cover, 8x11, 828pg, Full Color |
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ART NOUVEAU The Architecture of Modern Life Highly Recommended. This is the first book to expand the scope of Art Nouveau architecture and design beyond its traditional canon, covering 23 countries and featuring newly commissioned photography. With special access to many iconic buildings, including renowned Art Nouveau landmarks rarely open to the public, author Paul Greenhalgh and photographer Pete Huggins together provide an unprecedented visual and scholarly exploration of this widely recognized and beloved style, from Gaudi and Charles Rennie Mackintosh to Mucha and far beyond. Heni, 2025. Due: Oct....More. Item Code: ARTNARH Hard Cover, 10x11, 256pg, Partial Color $49.95 |
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VAUGHN BODE'S COMPLETE DEADBONE EROTICA OMNIBUS Highly Recommended. Collecting for the first time in chronological order, underground comix legend Vaughn Bode’s charmingly risque strips and “Bode's Broads” from Cavalier magazine (“the kind men like”). Originally written and drawn in the 1970s, this volume represents a time capsule in erotic humor as only a master of the form could create it. This beautiful hardbound book also collects Bode’s hard-to-find three-page strips and other rarities: Deadbone, Purple Pictography, etc. With a foreword and additional new art from Vaughn’s son, Mark Bode. Brilliant, sexy, superbly drawn and entirely outrageous work — a treasure for any Bode fan (of which I of course am one) - Bud Image Comics, 2025. Adult Material....More. Item Code: VBCOMDH Hard Cover, 9x12, 264pg, Partial Color $39.99 |
| Due to copies damaged in shipment, we’ve just six copies as I write this, but more are on the way. What a wonderful book! |
Also available this week are two new single girl collections from Metart: Dakota Pink and Young Melissa, Shooting Star. See all of our Metart books here. Rare Books also has some steamy Japanese photo collections new this week, plus Cheryl Ladd, The Corset. |
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TOP MODELS OF METART.COM DAKOTA PINK Stunning Dakota Pink became the 73rd Metart model to join the 50 Club at the end of May 2024. This is reserved for those few elite models who have made 50 or more Metart appearances. The voluptuous Russian beauty debuted at the age of 19 in August 2018, always photographed by Matiss. Matiss is an artist known for his preference to shoot in scenic outdoor locations, and 34 of Dakota’s Metart sets are in alfresco settings. Edition Skylight, 2025. Adult Material....More. Item Code: TOPDPH Hard Cover, 8x9, 128pg, Full Color $35.00 |
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YOUNG MELISSA SHOOTING STAR Melissa loves traveling and life; she is an exceptional model with a perfect body, posing with incredible energy and always in a good mood. All these qualities make her the embodiment of perfection for any good photographer. She is breathtaking, with fresh, natural looks, and an erotic charisma that fascinates the viewer with its magnetism. Melissa is French, born in 1989 in the Haute-Savoie region of the Alps. She started her modeling career very early. Her mother is French and her father Italian, a combination which no doubt enhances Melissa’s captivating natural beauty. She has two careers, one as a model and the other as a dental assistant and secretary at a beauty clinic in Geneva!! Edition Skylight, 2025. Adult Material. ...More. Item Code: YOUMH Hard Cover, 8x10, 128pg, Full Color |
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Berkeley Comic Book Show - Saturday, August 2 |
This goes on several times a year, but we don’t do every show. Our last one was in January. |
New Collection Now Available |
Anne and I have just come across a fine new collection of high-end signed and signed/limited books in the science fiction, fantasy and horror fields—mostly published from the 1990s to the present day. Here's a link to Anne’s brand new e-catalog, just out today She also continues to list comic related books—our Bud’s Art Books customers are steadily discovering she’s a good source for more of the kind of things we offer in our Rare Books section, plus older and rarer material.
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Small Publishers: Attention! |
SCB Distributors is looking for small comics publishers who have been left adrift by Diamond; they are not asking for exclusive distribution. They already handle some publishers in tandem with Lunar. Here is a link to their site. The contact person there is Gabriel Wilmoth: gabriel@scbdistributors.com. ~Bud |
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