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Our new catalog (Animalia cover) will be uploadable by next week. Check the Don’t Miss These sections for special Sale Books that we have marked down. There are several more below. EC Fan Addict is the big book for us this week. I don’t know how Fantagraphics is keeping it so reasonable at just $16! We also finally have the very first Carl Barks work ever done for Dell Comics, beginning his several decades as The Good Duck Artist. A very impressive Lovecraft boxed set collects all of his work; The Moon Prince is a massive, full color all-ages adventure with a nod to Winsor McCay and Jules Verne. Master Sketchbooks from 3dtotal deserves your attention, with many of our favorite artists therein. Enjoy! |
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| MASTER SKETCHBOOKS Legendary Artists of The Entertainment Industry Reveal Their Secrets Oversized full color hardcover. Embossed cover, heavy jacket and special endpapers. Highly Recommended. By John Howe, Terryl Whitlatch, Wayne Barlow et al. Also featuring: Vincent Di Fate, Tony DiTerlizzi, James Gurney, Sandro Cleuzo, David Colman, Dave McKean, and Darrell Warner. These artists that have created legendary concepts, designs, and creatures for hugely popular movies, books, and video games each give us their own eye-catching chapter, including sketches, development images, and finished pieces alongside written advice, thoughts, and insights into their unique creative process. Packed with wonderful art for any art fan, or for the aspiring artist too. 3dtotal Publishing, 2025. ...More. Item Code: MASSKH Hard Cover, 10x13, 288pg, Partial Color $50.00 |
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WALT DISNEY'S DONALD DUCK Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold (Book 1) Collects Four Color #9, 29, WDC&S #31-33 & 35-36, Large Feature Book #7 and much more. Our Highest Recommendation. Volume 1 in The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library is, naturally, filled with firsts: Barks’s first comic book story (starring Pluto), the first Donald Duck story created for an American comic book (and also the first to see Donald and his nephews go on a treasure hunt), Barks’s first Donald 10-pager, Barks’s first truly solo Donald Duck story, and Barks’s first solo longer-form Donald Duck adventure (“The Mummy’s Ring”). With more than 200 pages of story and art, each meticulously restored and newly colored, and the insightful story notes by an international panel of Barks experts, this long-awaited collection of stories makes clear what generations of Disney fans have always known: Carl Barks's work as The Good Duck Artist is some of the greatest American cartooning in the history of comic books. Fantagraphics, 2025....More. Item Code: WD01H Hard Cover, 7x10, 240pg, Full Color |
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THE H.P. LOVECRAFT EXPERIENCE Deluxe Box Set Three Volumes, pamphlet and ephemera all in a clamshell box; Lovecraft’s complete fiction. A complete novel, four novellas, 53 short stories, and prose poems, edited by one of the world's preeminent Lovecraft scholars, S.T. Joshi. Introduction and an original Reader's Guide to HPL's fiction by Sean Branney and Andrew Leman, founders of the HPL Historical Society. Plus exclusive collectible ephemera from Lovecraft’s fictional Miskatonic University. Housed in a 3-D sculpted case made to resemble Cthulhu's visage. A premium collector’s set, nearly 4 inches deep. The sculpted cover is outstanding!. Weldon Owen, 2025. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge. ...More. Item Code: HPLEX Hard Cover, 10x12, 1188pg, Full Color |
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MANGA A New History of Japanese Comics The immensely popular art form of manga, or Japanese comics, has made its mark across global pop culture, influencing film, visual art, video games, and more. This book is the first to tell the history of comics in Japan as a single, continuous story, focusing on manga as multipanel cartoons that show stories rather than narrate them. Eike Exner traces these cartoons’ gradual evolution from the 1890s until today, culminating in manga’s explosion in global popularity in the 2000s and the current shift from print periodicals to digital media and smartphone apps. Yale University Press, 2025....More. Item Code: MANNEH Hard Cover, 7x10, 256pg, Partial Color $37.50 |
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NOSE ART OF THE 5TH AIR FORCE Pinups and More 1942-1947 By David Vincent. This massive volume includes more than 1,150 vintage images of WWII aircraft nose art. The artwork appears on American planes in the Pacific theater, specifically from the US 5th Air Force. Readers will see all kinds of aircraft, from bombers to fighters and cargo planes, often with their pilots and crews. The artists range from amateurs to professionals, and the subjects include both the famous female "pin-ups" and many steamy nudes, to militaristic or animal designs. Primarily in b&w but with lengthy captions detailing the history of the artwork's origins, plane history and crews. Sometimes these are the sole images ever found. Many of the fliers and planes, of course, didn't make it through the war. Schiffer, 2025....More. Item Code: NOSAH Hard Cover, 9x12, 432pg, Partial Color |
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THE MOON PRINCE Recommended. By Kevin Fraser Mutch. Mistreated for being mixed-race and forced into hard labor at a workhouse in West Hoboken, New Jersey, young Max and Molly are ordinary orphans — or so they think. That is, until a wise old man hears their last name: M’Chawi. Rattled by this realization, he sends them off on a journey that will uncover the secret behind their mystic lineage and give them purpose and power far from home — on the Moon! They encounter the Moon’s fantastic inhabitants: the Sky Pirates and their merciless Queen Melissa; the Groos, blue primates and genius mechanics; their robot protector, Moma Machina; and a kingdom of singing spiders giant enough to eat a man."Equal parts Jules Verne, Huck Finn, and Bone...a star-spanning, page-turning epic for the ages." Fantagraphics, 2025....More. Item Code: MOONP Soft Cover, 8x9, 448pg, Full Color |
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THE WOMAN WITH FIFTY FACES Maria Lani & The Greatest Art Heist That Never Was By Jonathan Lackman. Art by Zachary J. Pinson. On April 7, 1928, Maria Lani blew into Paris claiming to be a famous German actress and proceeded to seduce the cultural elite with her undeniable charisma and strangely enticing enigmatic aura. She persuaded fifty artists — Pierre Bonnard, Marc Chagall, André Derain, Henri Matisse, Georges-Henri Rouault, Fernand Léger and Suzanne Valadon among them — to immortalize her in paintings and sculptures, which would appear as an important plot device in a forthcoming film. Unveiled as an exhibition in New York, the art works traveled to Chicago, London, Berlin, Rotterdam, and Paris. But, in 1931, as legend eventually had it, she and her husband Max Abramowicz vanished without a trace, and so did the art. The film was never made. The Woman With Fifty Faces is about uncovering as much of the truth about Maria Lani as possible. Fantagraphics, 2025....More. Item Code: WOMFFH Hard Cover, 8x13, 232pg, b&w |
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DC FINEST JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA The Return Collects Justice League of America #241-261, Annual #3, Infinity, Inc. #19, 1985-87. Art by Todd McFarlane, McDonnell, Tuska and Wray. Encompassing Gerry Conway’s epic run on Justice League of America through the 1980s, this 582-page volume weaves a story of the Justice League facing off against some of their greatest foes, including Amazo and the Brotherhood of Evil! In the 1980s, the JLA did one of its most radical lineup revamps ever by making members of Zatanna, Vixen, Elongated Man, Vibe, Syptsy and Steel. And Adam Strange has a bit part here, along with the first DC Silver Age hero, the Martian Manhunter. And they were centered in Detroit no less! Along with artists Luke McDonnell, George Tuska and Bill Wray, writer Conway created different stories, conflicts and new experiences for these heroes previously overshadowed by their more mainstream counterparts. It was a new era for the Justice League. DC Comics, 2025....More. Item Code: DCFJLR Soft Cover, 7x10, 584pg, Full Color |
| This is a nice companion to the previous JLA release, The Bridge Between Earths. Also I strongly recommended the two DC Finest Justice Society collections with great 1940s stories. The entire DC Finest series is catching on, I think they are very good values (all are over 500 pages!) and well-chosen, fun material. |
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DC THE NEW FRONTIER DC Compact Comics Edition Collects The New Frontier #1-6 and JLA/NF Special #1, 2004 & 2008. First in the new DC Compact Comics series. Highly Recommended. By Eisner Award-winning Darwyn Cooke with coloring by Dave Stewart. Welcome to the DC Universe in 1950s America — a land of promise and paranoia, of glittering cities and segregated slums, of dizzying scientific progress and simmering Cold War conflict. A land without the Justice League. Or so it seems. The masked mystery men who fought for freedom in the Second World War have been outlawed. The soldiers and spies who conducted top-secret missions into the unknown now work in the shadows. And those icons who do still fight on — Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman — operate under hidden agendas and dueling ideologies. DC Comics, 2025....More. Item Code: DCNEWF Soft Cover, 6x8, 416pg, Full Color $9.99 |
First in a new series of low-priced stand-alone collections. This one is an alternate history of the 1950s when superheroes are OUT and it’s great fun. |
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ALLEY OOP AND THE MAD MOD MECHANICAL MAN 1971 Hamlin/Graue The entire 1971 Daily Strips. Recommended. By Dave Graue and V.T. Hamlin. TA mysterious dome turns up in Moo and it's populated by strange aliens with spots...from a distant planet. Alley and Oola are taken prisoner. A mechanical pteradactyl has our heroes flying around Moo with Oscar Boom. The professor adopts a mechanical man with a mind of his own. Crooks in their own time machine first try to rip off the Professor, but Alley cuts them down to size...and they escape in their time machine...back to Moo. Gonna be trouble there! Acoustic Learning, 2025....More. Item Code: ALLE71 Soft Cover, 9x8, 106pg, b&w $19.99 |
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Back in Stock! ALLEY OOP Book Two War with Lem 1934 V.T. Hamlin Highly Recommended. By V.T. Hamlin. The complete year of 1934 daily Alley Oop strips, all newly scanned and cleaned from newspaper pages. The Land of Moo, where caveman Alley Oop lives, is attacked by the people of Lem. Alley is blown into neverwhere in a storm, and Dinny ends up in a tree. Oola enlists Dinny to search for Alley. Lots of fun dinosaurs get in on the action. Six episodes in all include Umpa's Dino, King Oop, Guz V. Oop, The War with Lem, Wootie's Engagement, and Moo War II. Acoustic Learning, 2022....More. Item Code: ALLE02 Soft Cover, 11x8, 111pg, b&w $19.95 |
| We thought we’d sold out this volume, only the second collecting Hamlin’s first stories...But we just scored more copies of this 2022 release. Click for more Alley Oop. |
EC Lives! With Signed Bookplate limited to 250 |
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EC FAN ADDICT #7 Signed Color Bookplate signed by Roger (in facsimile) and by Grant, limited to 250! Our Highest Recommendation. Edited by Grant Geissman and the late Roger Hill. This 120-page issue (bargain priced at $16) features a portfolio of pre-EC art by Jack Davis, an interview with the legendary publisher of the 1960s and 1970s prozine (and first-generation EC fan) Bill Spicer, a portfolio of Gary Arlington’s “What If?” EC covers released as part of his 1970s Nickel Library series, an article on collecting Humbug/Harvey Kurtzman-related collectibles, a 1958 interview with Kurtzman conducted by John Benson and Larry Ivie, another installment of "The EC Collector," an interview with the notorious Dr. Fredric Wertham about his final book, The World of Fanzines: A Special Form of Communication, a vintage 1967 visit with Frank Frazetta, and much more! Fantagraphics, 2025. ...More. Item Code: ECF07S Soft Cover, 8x11, 120pg, Partial Color $16.00 |
| I can’t believe it, but we actually have 21 copies of issue #6—this has been out of print for a seriously long time now. They do have a small bump to one corner, so we put them aside for last. The signed bookplates for #6 are, I’m afraid, long gone. |
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ALSO AVAILABLE EC FAN-ADDICT Volume 6 Almost Gone! Our Highest Recommendation. Edited by Roger Hill and Grant Geissman. Art by Al Williamson, Jack Davis, Graham Ingels, et al. This new 136 page, full-color issue is loaded with even more vintage E.C. lore and rare artwork by E.C. artists. Front and back covers by George Evans. Features examine a recently discovered 1954 Williamson/Torres/Frazetta/Krenkel cover to Buster Crabbe #5, Jack Davis’s early 1950s Lucky Star series, a previously unpublished 1967 interview with Dr. Fredric Wertham, Jack Davis and Coca-Cola, a conversation with Graham Ingels featuring — for the first time — all four large and ten smaller-sized Old Witch paintings by Ingels... Note: Slight bump to corner. Fantagraphics, 2024. Out of print....More. Item Code: ECF06S Soft Cover, 8x11, 136pg, Text/Partial Color $16.00 |
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ALSO AVAILABLE HORROR FROM THE CRYPT OF FEAR Volume 18 Highly Recommended. Art by XNO, Monte Wolverton, Angelo Torres, et al. All new, extra large, perfect bound, wrap around cover. Celebrate the 31st Anniversary of HFTCOF....a history of this classic EC zine. Bill Gaines' only File Copy of Vault #12 by Thommy Burns. GhouLunatic Galleries by Paul Wee, Al Feldstein and Bill Stout. The history of Dennis Cunningham's horror zine Weirdom that published the first Richard Corben work. Shock SuspenStories issue by issue. Picto-Fiction examined by the late Roger Hill. A History of Horror by Lou Russo. The EC Giveaway comics by Thommy Burns. The wedding of Nuemanstein by Ken Hooper. 1982 EC Dimension Convention photo album by Bill Leach. Bill Leach, 2025....More. Item Code: HFTC18 Soft Cover, 5x9, 124pg, Partial Color $15.00 |
Previous to beginning EC Fan Addict, Roger Hill was intimately involved in all other things EC. He was there with his lifelong friend Jerry Weist to unveil the Gaines File Copies. Before that, Jerry and Roger started and co-edited the legendary EC Zine Squa Tront. John Benson, who took it over from them, sold us his last box of back issues and signed each one for us. Click here for the listing. |
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HOKUSAI An Artists' Tribute Recommended. The featured artists, including the hugely popular Kelogsloops, Canadian artist Janice Sung, and Norwegian fantasy artist Mona Finden, have created thoughtful re-imaginings of drawings from Hokusai's The Great Picture Book of Everything. They share insights into the inspiration that Hokusai has provided them. Choosing works such as Palm Tree and Myna Bird and Daoist Master Zhou Sheng ascends a cloud-ladder to the moon, the contributors explain their creative choices, show development images, and display the final exclusive piece in their individual project chapter. They apply their own style and approach, while staying true to the original narrative and composition of Hokusai's drawing. Ingram, 2025. Due: Oct....More. Item Code: HOKATH Hard Cover, 9x10, 288pg, Full Color $50.00 |
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PAINTING The Worlds of Studio Ghibli Highly Recommended. This book celebrates the background art that creates the worlds of Studio Ghibli's films, offering 844 representative pieces handpicked from the thousands of backgrounds created for each feature film. Art director Yoji Takeshige supervised the selection, which includes art from each of Studio Ghibli's twenty-seven films, from Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) to The Boy and the Heron (2023). PIE, 2025. Due: Oct....More. Item Code: PAINWH Hard Cover, 9x12, 568pg, Full Color $170.00 |
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WALT DISNEY'S SILLY SYMPHONIES COLLECTOR'S BOX SET Two volume set in slipcase. Highly Recommended. Bucky Bug & Donald Duck and Donald Duck & Big Bad Wolf. Book 1: 1932-1935: Bucky Bug, Donald Duck's debut, Robber Kitten, Cookieland, Penguin Island; Book 2 carries on from 1935-39 with the debut of Huey, Louie and Dewey, the Big Bad Wolf and Three Little Pigs, Pluto, Elmer Elephant. In 1932 Disney kicked off their second-ever original comic strip, the full-color weekly Silly Symphonies, and with it came the debut of Bucky Bug, a daring, rhyming, mischievous squirt whose escapades took him from brutal birds of prey to the terrifying trenches of the Great Flyburg War! Fantagraphics, 2025. Due: Oct....More. Item Code: WDSILP Hard Cover, 12x9, 424pg, Full Color |
| Both individual books are also in stock, one at $5 off at $34.99, the other at $10 off at $29.99. |
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BLADE RUNNER 2029 The Complete Series Omnibus Collects - Blade Runner 2029: Reunion, Echoes, and Redemption, 2021-22. By Mike Green and Mike Johnson. Art by Andres Guinaldo. Cover by DaNi. An in-canon graphic novel series set in the world of Blade Runner — co-written by Michael Green, the co-screenwriter of Blade Runner 2049. Blade Runner and detective Aahna "Ash" Ashina continues her journey from the crime-ridden streets of Los Angeles to the promised land of the Off-World Colonies and back home again as she uncovers a terrible secret and a desperate conspiracy that forces her to confront her own hatred for Replicants — the synthetic humans that she hunts with such vengeance! Titan, 2025. Due: Oct....More. Item Code: BLADCH Hard Cover, 8x12, 336pg, Full Color |
| Here is more Blade Runner: the scarce Sketchbook from 1982 [RB5220. $225], with work by Syd Mead. I just reduced the price. More with Blade Runner is to be found in the books Film Architecture, two issues of Mead’s own Studio Image, and in The Movie Art of Syd Mead. |
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BLACK CAT COMICS Volume 2 Hardcover Collects #5-8, 1947. Highly Recommended. By Lee Elias, Simon & Kirby, Bob Powell et al. Hollywood stuntwoman-turned-crimefighter Linda Turner — better known as the fearless Black Cat — battles gangsters, spies, and sinister villains using her acrobatic skills, sharp wit, and unstoppable determination. A true treasure from 1940s comic book history, this volume is a must-have for fans of vintage superheroes, good girl art and all-around fun comics! #5 & 6 feature The Scarlet Arrow; #6 has the origin of The Red Demon; #7 features The Vagabond Prince by S&K who are also in #5 and 6. Kerry Drake, the syndicated detective, begins in #8 besides starring in his own title. PS Artbooks, 2025. Due: Oct....More. Item Code: BLACC02H Hard Cover, 7x10, 208pg, Full Color $52.99 |
| The softcover is also expected to arrive in October [BLACC02. $32.99]. Volume 1 and Volume 3, previously announced, are both scheduled to come in in October. |
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FRIDAY The Complete Series Deluxe Edition Collects #1-3. 2021-24. By Ed Brubaker and Marcos Martin. Friday Fitzhugh spent her childhood solving crimes and digging up occult secrets with her best friend Lancelot Jones, the smartest boy in the world. But that was the past, now she's in college, starting a new life on her own. Except when Friday comes home for the holidays, she's immediately pulled back into Lance's orbit and finds that something very strange and dangerous is happening in their little New England town...It's literally the Christmas vacation from Hell and neither of them may survive to see the New Year. Image Comics, 2025. Due: Nov....More. Item Code: FRIDH Hard Cover, 7x10, 368pg, Full Color |
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JONAH HEX ALL-STAR WESTERN Omnibus Collects All-Star Western (DC The New 52) #0-34, 2011-2014. By James Palmiotti and Justin Gray, Art by Justin Norman. Jonah Hex and Amadeus Arkham team up in an expansive collection of Old West-version stories in an 1880s Gotham City — when Gotham was just a one-horse town. But crime was rampant and things only get worse when bounty hunter Jonah Hex comes to town. Can Amadeus Arkham, a pioneer in criminal psychology, enlist Hex's special brand of justice to help the Gotham Police Department track down the latest villains? DC Comics, 2025. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge. Due: Nov....More. Item Code: JONAH Hard Cover, 7x10, 1064pg, Full Color |
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THE HOUSE OF MYSTERY The Bronze Age Omnibus Volume 1 New edition. Collects #174-200, 1968-72. Highly Recommended. Edited by Joe Orlando. Art by Berni Wrightson, Alex Toth, Wally Wood et al. New 2018 introduction by Michael Uslan. As one of the most celebrated anthology titles of the Bronze Age of comics, The House of Mystery cemented its iconic status in the 1970s under the transformative leadership of editor Joe Orlando, whose impeccable instincts yielded a cornucopia of devilish delights in every intriguing issue. It was a training ground for up-and-coming new creators Neal Adams, doing fabulous covers and stories, and lots of work by Michael Wm. Kaluta and Berni Wrightson. It was also a place for veteran artists to have some fun doing offbeat stories with no superhero in sight. DC, 2025. Due Nov....More. Item Code: HOMB01H Hard Cover, 7x10, 792pg, Full Color |
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ALSO AVAILABLE HOUSE OF MYSTERY The Bronze Age Omnibus Volume 3 Collects #227-254, 1974-77. Highly Recommended. One of the most celebrated anthology titles of the Bronze Age of comics, House of Mystery earned its iconic status in the early 1970s under the skillful hands of editor Joe Orlando, late of EC comics, whose uncanny aptitude for the fearsome and the frightful brought forth a sumptuous smorgasbord of arcane amusements in every enchanting installment. Plus a brilliant array of top artists, up-and-coming newbies, Filipino masters and veterans: Neal Adams, Wrightson, Toth, Ditko, Wood, Kaluta, Don Newton.... DC Comics, 2022. ...More. Item Code: HOMB03H Hard Cover, 7x11, 912pg, Full Color |
| We have just two copies of this but as far as we know it is still in print and we can order more. Volume 2 is currently sold out. |
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We’re back this week with an astonishing 91 all new titles: Nick Cardy Wit-Lash, Life of Jack Kirby Vol 2, Jack Davis Sketchbook of Untold Spooky Stories, Cartoon Animation signed; Arnold Friberg: Passion of a Modern Master, Super Heroines signed, White Cloud Worlds signed, Medusa by Chris Achilleos (3 copies), Weird Love, Cereal Box Bonanza. Plus Victorian Watercolors, Inspiring Reform: Boston’s Arts and Crafts Movement, Art and Illustration of Walter Crane and much much more in comics history and vintage illustration art. |
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ARTHUR ADAMS PRELIMINARY STUDIES Signed Closeout Price! Signed! Highly Recommended. Amazing and fascinating blue pencil preliminaries — only a few of these have ever been seen on Arthur's Instagram page. But this is how he works out his final drawings and figures — so John Fleskes began with a big stack of originals and culled it down to this cool little book, which is small but quite thick! 224 page 5 x 7.5 inches. There are action scenes, heroines in motion, closeups — all variety of images as Art works out what will go onto his final pencil and inked work. Flesk, 2025....More. Item Code: ARTAP Soft Cover, 5x7, 224pg, Partial Color |
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ART OF PIN-UP 40th Anniversary Edition Closeout Price! Highly Recommended. Edited by Dian Hanson. With Vargas, Elvgren, Petty, Mozert, Moran etc. Based on the formidably sized $200 Art of Pin-up, this new compact edition gathers everything in the larger edition: 100 artists plus in-depth showcases of the top 10. The reproduction quality of the paintings, pastels, and preparatory sketches that follow — largely sourced from the original art — invites the viewer to trace the brushstrokes, while the exquisite period calendars, vintage prints, and original model photos document the artists’ creative process. Taschen, 2024....More. Item Code: ARTOPAH Hard Cover, 6x8, 512pg, Full Color |
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TELLING STORIES The Comic Art of Frank Frazetta Hardcover Slipcased Closeout Price, now 60% off!! Save $30. Our Highest Recommendation. This offers the complete Thunda and his best romance works, such as "Untamed Love" and "The Wrong Road." Plus combat tales, funny animals, White Indian stories and covers, Ghost Rider covers and much, much more. Some of these stories offer some of his finest pen & ink works, with shapely women, nude statues, and lots of implied lust. Fantasy art's most popular painter was also one of the finest comic book illustrators in the pre-code 1950s. This deluxe collection exhibits the skill of a master craftsman but also provides tantalizing glimpses of where the young artist’s career would ultimately take him, into his iconic paintings of Conan, covers for the Warren mags and famous movie posters for Clint Eastwood, among others. Hardcover in slipcase! This was the ONLY trade edition of this book, never produced in softcover. Underwood Books, 2008. Out of print....More. Item Code: TELSH Hard Cover With Slip Case, 9x12, 192pg, Full Color |
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MIDDLE EARTH Visions of a Modern Myth Closeout Price! Highly Recommended. From the brush of Donato Giancola, one of the world's most recognized and lauded fantasy artists, comes a book filled with new illustrations that apply his legendary Renaissance craftsmanship to J. R. R. Tolkien's fantastic Middle-Earth. Dramatic lighting and deft draftsmanship in a photo-realistic style, reminiscent of master painters, explains Donato's popularity. Winner of numerous Hugo and Chesley Awards. This long-awaited, moving, and beautiful voyage through Middle-Earth — a must-have for eager genre readers everywhere — offers a refreshingly new exploration of literature's most beloved fantasy realm with portraits as well as action scenes involving all the characters. Underwood Books, 2010. Out of print....More. Item Code: MIDEH Hard Cover, 9x13, 78pg, Full Color |
| We ran out of our signed bookplates for this, so I’ve reduced the price again. Here’s more from Middle Earth, and a few art collections including art by the award-winning Donato Giancola. |
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WOMEN OF WONDER Celebrating Women Creators of Fantastic Art Closeout Price! Our Highest Recommendation. Edited by Cathy Fenner. Introduction by Lauren Panepinto. From the co-editor of Spectrum, a spotlight on women creators of fantastic art (traditionally seen as a largely male domain, though women have always been active participants) from Kewpie creator Rose O'Neill and pulp illustrator Margaret Brundage to Spectrum Grand Masters Diane Dillon and Kinuko Y. Craft. Underwood Books, 2015. Out of print....More. Item Code: WOMOW Soft Cover, 9x12, 128pg, Full Color |
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In anticipation of selling the business, I’m letting go of some of the older titles that only sell every so often and I should not still be keeping on hand. Watch the latest GONE listings and click here for last chance at some choice books, most reduced in price. I’m working my way through the backstock again next week to find more of these for you. |
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Lost Marvels Vol 2: Dominic Fortune, Monark Starstalker, Phantom Eagle |
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This arrived this week but most of our copies had a bumped corner. More are on the way, and you can reserve a copy. Here’s an excellent review of Lost Marvels 1 and 2 I just found online: ‘Strange Bedfellows’ — Marvel and Fantagraphics Team Up for New Archival Line By Rob Salkowwitz for Publishers Weekly.com |
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The first title to hit the shelves is Tower of Shadows, collecting most of the stories from a short-lived horror/fantasy anthology published in the early 1970s, featuring some of the best artists of that era. The series came out as the Comic Code loosened restrictions on certain horror and supernatural content that had been in effect since the days of EC Comics in the 1950s, and shortly after Marvel had obtained newsstand distribution that allowed it to dramatically expand its lineup. The stories followed predictable genre formulas and were often used as tryouts for young writers like Gerry Conway and Len Wein, who went on to better things, but the artwork was truly the star. The first issue features one of the final Marvel stories by Jim Steranko, and is one of his most polished and formally innovative works. Other stories were drawn by a virtual who’s who of top American comic artists of the era including Neal Adams, John Buscema, Gene Colan, Barry Windsor-Smith, and Bernie Wrightson, plus old EC stalwarts like Johnny Craig, Marrie Severin, and Wally Wood. The art is reproduced from files provided by Marvel, using original color schemes. The deep blacks preserve the quality of the linework and the color pops nicely on the non-gloss white paper. Fantagraphics’ production is definitely the best of the licensed archival Marvel work currently in the market, without the problems that occur when trying to simulate the cheap and distressed look of the comic pages too closely, or else recoloring and "remastering" the work in ways that destroy the original atmosphere. It’s a fine line, but Fantagraphics, which has specialized in this kind of work for over 40 years, knows how to navigate it. Dean said a collection of early work by Howard Chaykin is next. Prior to, or contemporary with, Chaykin’s breakthrough on Marvel’s adaptation of Star Wars, he did a handful of stories featuring his trademark swashbuckling adventurers like Dominic Fortune and Monarch Moonstalker, as well as work on lesser-known Marvel characters like Phantom Eagle and Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD. Fantagraphics recently announced the preview of this book slated for Free Comic Book Day has been canceled due to uncertainty around FCBD sponsor Diamond Distribution, which has entered bankruptcy. The full edition is still being published as scheduled. Subsequent Lost Marvels volumes will include material like the 1980s run of Savage Tales, stories from Marvel science fiction titles like Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction, and action/war material like Doug Murray and Michael Golden’s The ’Nam. Dean hopes to collect Chamber of Darkness, the companion title to Tower of Shadows, featuring a similar mix of horror and fantasy. Groth also says that Fantagraphics is working with Marvel on a deluxe two-volume set featuring all the Marvel work of artist Barry Windsor-Smith (exclusive of his run on Conan the Barbarian), comprising nearly 900 pages over several decades. Fantagraphics published Windsor-Smith’s monumental graphic novel Monsters in 2021, which began as a story for Marvel. |
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I’m more than half way through this and I’m really enjoying it. The author has nicely captured Robert E. Howard’s style. King Conan made a promise to a fellow prisoner when he was a youth in a slave quarry, and now it’s time to fulfill that promise—to save the man’s family, now slaves themselves. But three very different people, two sorcerors and one thoroughly nasty warrior, are all eager to see Conan die by their hand…they’re working together with their own powers as well as dark magic to stop him in his quest, far from his kingdom and only accompanied by a band of roving musicians, once warriors themselves who gave up the life to become storytellers…. Check it out. |
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Animalia and Fantasia - Pre-pub savings |
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Because our print catalog will be in your hands most likely after publication of this, we’ve listed it at full post-publication price there. But for now, we will still honor the pre-pub price on both editions, which will save you $30 and $50. If you read my full description of this, you’ll understand why I’m very pleased to see this rare 1895 portfolio finally available. The catalog cover—I mentioned above it should be uploadable next week—is actually from a plate from my own copy of this. Act now if you’d like to reserve a copy and save quite a bit. I think you’ll be pleased. -Bud |
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Our Catalog and Contact Info We publish a color catalog every two months—if you’ve placed an order in the last 12 months, you will receive it hot off the press. If this is your first order, or if you’d like an extra copy, you can add one to your order: click here. Or call or send us your address and we’ll mail one to you. You can also download it here. Place your order before noon PST, Monday through Friday for SAME DAY shipping (for in-stock items). Note: FREE SHIPPING OVER $300. If your order total is $300 or more and you are in the U.S., we pay the standard shipping cost. Contact us: csr@budsartbooks.com or 530-273-2166 Mon-Fri 9-4 |
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