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Busy, busy week! Our Tuesday Sale List has been very popular (see below). Three MAJOR books came in, two with signed bookplates, and the long-anticipated Art of George Wilson. DC Finest: Horror gets our Highest Recommendation. Hogan’s Alley, The Pulpster, Conan, Plastic Man 8, Police 3, Dollman 5, The Spirit 4, Black Canary, Spawn of Venus, Two-Fisted Tales 2, and MUCH more. Plus sad news--the Diamond Previews is no more. Much more in News and Notes. |
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| DC FINEST HORROR The Devil's Doorway Collects stories from House of Secrets #81-85, House of Mystery #180-185. Witching Hour #3-7, Unexpected #113-117 and more, 1969-70. Our Highest Recommendation. By Gerry Conway, Marv Wolfman et al. Art by Berni Wrightson, Neal Adams, Alex Toth, Nick Cardy, Al Williamson, Murphy Anderson, Joe Orlando et al. In 1969 DC began a run of horror, suspense and supernatural stories in their four anthology titles that captivated fans. Their top artists were happy to throw off the shackles of superhero work and create new work that was exciting to read and beautifully drawn. This was not a return to EC but much of it was every bit as good. Young turks like Wrightson and Neal Adams drew superlative covers and stories, while veterans like Alex Toth, Nick Cardy and others reveled in these offbeat, one-off stories. 560 pages of bone-chilling tales. Discover the eerie origins of Abel and his infamous House, witness Johnny Peril’s harrowing encounters, and explore cursed artifacts, haunted mansions, and demonic forces that defy explanation. DC Comics, 2025....More Item Code: DCFHDD Soft Cover, 7x10, 560pg, Full Color |
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| Wow! Another outstanding DC Finest collection. Here are all previous titles in this series. Below we mention the Plastic Man collection—another of our favorites. |
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HOGAN'S ALLEY MAGAZINE #24 Highly Recommended. A fascinating history of Tijuana bibles includes the original LIVE models posing! Why the iconic Barbie failed to hit in comics. The comics career of Laurel and Hardy and Bob Hope’s side gig in comic books. Emancipated female star Flyin' Jenny by Russell Keaton and Marc Swayze. A look at little-known aspects of "Peanuts" and Charles Schulz, an exploration of Thunderboy, the very first black superhero decades before The Black Panther. Who was the first superhero? It was Hugo Hercules by western painter W.H.D. Koerner! Gary Hallgren teams up with Rosanne Barr for a lost comics collaboration. Bull Moose, 2025. Mature Readers. ...More Item Code: HA24 Magazine, 8x11, 144pg, Partial Color $7.50 |
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THE PULPSTER #34 Limited Printing. Highly Recommended. The annual published in conjunction with Pulpcon, here with a new issue. Ninety years ago, Dell Publishing introduced the first pulp magazine featuring a villain as its lead. With its February 1935 number, All-Detective Magazine became Doctor Death. Half a year later, Popular Publications hit the stands with The Mysterious Wu Fang, while Weird Tales debuted Doctor Satan. Later in the decade, Shiwan Khan battled The Shadow in four thrilling adventures. You’ll also find a look at the women who wrote for the science fiction pulps, an article on working girls of the pulps, and an interview with Philip José Farmer, conducted by Darrell Schweitzer. PulpFest, 2025....More Item Code: PULP34 Soft Cover, 8x11, 60pg, Text/Partial Color $25.00 |
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CAESAR'S SPY First published in France in 3 albums, 2020-22. Recommended. By Jean-Pierre Pécau, art by Max Von Fafner. The epic of a spy’s battle to overcome the most notorious ruler of ancient Rome. With a burning for vengeance at the heart of his story, one man will climb the pits of the coliseum to satiate his wrath. During the last days of the republic, this warrior from Gaul links his destiny to Julius Caesar by becoming his spy. When the Gallic mercenary Coax takes a Roman as hostage, demanding ransom for his liberation, he has no idea he has kidnapped the young Caius Julius Caesar. Caesar doesn’t take long to seek revenge when the two men meet again, with Coax imprisoned to be sold as a slave and then as a gladiator. But Coax is offered the opportunity of becoming Caesar’s spy. Violent; occasional nudity. Titan, 2025. Mature Readers. ...More Item Code: CAESPH Hard Cover, 8x11, 192pg, Full Color $24.99 |
| Click here for more of the latest graphic novels from France, now in English editions. |
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BLACK CANARY Best of the Best Collects #1-6. Highly Recommended. By Tom King. Art by Ryan Sook and Dave Stewart. It’s Black Canary versus Lady Shiva to determine who is the single greatest hand-to-hand fighter in the DC Universe! Find out as Eisner Award-winning writer Tom King (Wonder Woman, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow) and Ryan Sook (Legion of Super-Heroes, Seven Soldiers: Zatanna) go six rounds to see if our hero has what it takes to be.the best of the best. Here we find the original Black Canary training her daughter, once mentored by her father, the 1940s Wildcat. Complete self-contained story, in a deluxe hardcover. Packed with fascinating flashbacks with appearances by Batman and Robin. DC Comics, 2025....More Item Code: BLACBH Hard Cover, 7x10, 192pg, Full Color |
| Here s more Black Canary, including the vintage DC Archive [RB3815. $90] with her origin and 1st stories, 1947-72. Great work by Alex Toth and Murphy Anderson! It's as-new condition, published in 2000. |
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DISNEY MASTERS Volume 26 Donald Duck Tales of Andold Wild Duck First published in Italy & elsewhere, 1975-2007. Highly Recommended. By Marco Rota. It’s Donald Duck’s fierce ancestor — played by Donald himself — versus evil medievals in a much-requested miniseries! When Viking raids capture half of Scotland, it’s up to Commander Andold “Wild Duck” Temerary, his super-strong knightly pal Little Bo, and his brainy fiancée Lady Aydis to keep the peace. But with cursed runestones, lurking longboats, and barbarians at the gates, our heroes better grab their swords and shields! Along with four awesome Andold epics — some new to North America! — this Viking-size collection includes modern-day Donald and Uncle Scrooge thrills and spills, including manic McDuck treasure hunts and "Commuter Crisis"...the tale of Duckburg’s most ridiculous rush hour! Fantagraphics, 2025....More Item Code: DM26H Hard Cover, 8x11, 208pg, Full Color |
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CONAN THE BARBARIAN The Original Comics Omnibus Volume 6 Collects Conan the Barbarian #150-171, Conan Annual #8-9, and What If #43, 1983-85. Recommended. In an Omnibus extravaganza that covers the entire run of writer Michael Fleisher's two years, artist John Buscema turns in page after page of iconic artwork, often inked by the great Ernie Chan or Big John himself. Buscema also takes a turn as plotter, helping bring to life a series of exciting stories featuring Conan opposite some of his most deadly foes and an old friend: The scheming Jergal Zadh, the magic-wielding Alhambra, the conniving Baron Vjerzak and Conan's old comrade Fafnir! Plus two mighty Annuals — one pitting Conan against an ancient mystical menace and the other against a god — and a classic issue of What If? that asks the question: what if Conan was stranded in the 20th century? Titan, 2025....More Item Code: CONOC06H Hard Cover, 7x11, 672pg, Full Color |
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THE SPAWN OF VENUS AND OTHER STORIES Our Highest Recommendation. This mouth-watering collection of 26 stories features the finest (and rarest!) science fiction stories Wallace Wood ever drew — more than two dozen! Wood's meticulously detailed, genre-defining brushwork introduces you to breathtaking planetary vistas, terrifying aliens, and sleek rocket ships surging with the power to conquer the stars. Our title story is a rarity that never appeared in any EC comic. Written and drawn for a 3-D comic that was canceled before it could be printed, it's here in easy-on-the-eyes 2-D. Wood's most iconic story, "My World", is a stunning showcase of the preternatural talent and technique he brought to all his stories. Also included are his trilogy of Ray Bradbury adaptations — "Home to Stay," "There Will Come Soft Rains." and "Mars Is Heaven!" — plus "He Walked Among Us," a "what if.?" variation on Bradbury's "The Man" from The Illustrated Man. Fantagraphics, 2025....More Item Code: SPAWVH Hard Cover, 7x10, 248pg, b&w |
| See Coming Items for an upcoming slipcased EC Library set. |
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EC ARCHIVES TWO-FISTED TALES Volume 2 Collects #24-29, 1951-52. Our Highest Recommendation. War stories of Two-Fisted Tales continue with this volume where the destructive force of battle and the true human cost of war are laid bare under celebrated cartoonist Harvey Kurtzman’s watchful eye and steadfast editorship. Brilliant artwork, anti-war themes, battles throughout history. This is the epitome of well-done, thoughtful and powerful stories of men in war, from the Revolutionary War to WWI, WWII and Korea. Wally Wood, John Severin, Jack Davis, John Severin, and more, and includes the Kurtzman classic war story “Corpse on the Imjin!” Dark Horse, 2025....More Item Code: ECTW02 Soft Cover, 8x11, 216pg, Full Color $19.99 |
| Volume 1 is in stock, same price. Click here for many more EC Comics collections, including Tales of Terror: The EC Companion, Harvey Kurtzman: The Man Who Created Mad and much more. |
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THE SPIRIT Volume 4 Hardcover Collects #13-17, 1948-49. Highly Recommended. Art by Will Eisner, Lou Fine, Jack Cole et al. Eisner was back from military duty and created all-new covers — and good ones — for all five of these issues. Inside you'll find more wonderful classic Spirit adventures, four in each issue. Most scripts are by Manly Wade Wellman, since many of these stories were first published in the Spirit weekly during the final years of the war, 1944-45, when Eisner was still in the service. Artists on the stories themselves include Lou Fine and Jack Cole, Eisner's fill-in artists during the war. Back up features include Flatfoot Burns by Al Stahl and Jonesy one-pagers by Bernard Dribble. PS Artbooks, 2025....More |
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POLICE COMICS Volume 3 Collects #7-9, 1942. Our Highest Recommendation. By Jack Cole, Reed Crandall, Paul Gustavson, Al Bryant et al. Quality Comics' premier title. Here are the first Plastic Man stories, plus Crandall's superb Firebrand, Gustavson's Human Bomb, Manhunter, the first incarnation of The Phantom Lady, and more...massive 64-page issues packed with a wide variety of crime-fighting heroes and heroines! Watch Plastic Man bend the rules (and his limbs) to stop criminals, the Human Bomb blast through danger when he takes off his asbestos gloves, and not-quite-so-sexy first Phantom Lady who still strikes fear into the hearts of evildoers. Brimming with dynamic 1940s artwork, some of the best in the comics industry, this softcover edition is a true gem! PS Artbooks, 2025....More Item Code: POLCOM03 Soft Cover, 7x10, 204pg, Full Color $32.99 |
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PLASTIC MAN Volume 8 Collects #31-35, 1951-52. Highly Recommended. Art by Jack Cole, Alex Kotzky, Andre LeBlanc et al. While other superhero titles were long gone by 1951, Jack Cole's unique creation barreled on with even wilder stories. Criminal masterminds like The Radioactive Menace, The Mad Professor, The Porcupine, Mad Wolves and the Hypnotist keep the challenges to our hero's life and limb coming fast. With the growing popularity of horror comics, some stories took on a darker turn while others retained the classic Jack Cole Adrenalin-charged hilarity. PS Artbooks, 2025....More Item Code: PLAM08 Soft Cover, 7x10, 180pg, Full Color $32.99 |
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DOLL MAN Volume 5 Collects #13-15, 1947. Recommended. Art by Al Bryant, Bill Ward, Alex Kotzky et al. Martha, Dollman's shapely girlfriend, finishes her backup career in #13 and then Torchy by Bill Ward begins. Today she may be better known (and more collectible) than Dollman! Classic good girl art by the humor strip that started it all. Plus we have three more 52-page issues packed with Dollman adventures, the first and original diminutive hero. PS Artbooks, 2025....More Item Code: DOLLM05 Soft Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color $32.99 |
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TALES OF THE MYSTERIOUS TRAVELER Volume 3 Collects #11-13, Mysterious Traveler #nn (1948) and Horror from the Tomb, 1954. Recommended. By Steve Ditko, Matt Baker, Bob Powell, et al. Steve Ditko (the Traveler's creator) draws 3 stories and the cover for #11. Then the reins go to Carl Burgos, Rocco Mastroserio, Charles Nicholas, Bill Molno, and a one-off appearance from the great Matt Baker. #13 was the last issue. The bonus issues are the original pre-Ditko Mysterious Traveler #1 (from 1948) and the strange and bizarre pre-code title, Horror from the Tomb #1 (from 1954). Artists for these two issues: Bob Powell, Alan Mandel, George Woodbridge and Angelo Torres (who together draw a great ghastly story in Horror with a Frazetta feel). PS Artbooks, 2025....More Item Code: SATM03 Soft Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color $32.99 |
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TALES OF HORROR Volume 3 Collects Tales of Terror #1, Tales of Horror #11-13 and Black Knight #1, 1952-54. By Ben Brown, Myron Fass, Howard Larsen et al. Toby Press was a small but respectable comics publisher which also used the imprint Minoan; they put out one issue of Tales of Terror, then got hit by a cease-and-desist order from E.C., who had used that title for their annuals. So they started over with Tales of Horror, which ran for 13 issues. Toby may be the only comics publisher to swipe the urbane and cynical stories of John Collier, rather than relying on Poe, Lovecraft, and the like. "Death Flower," "Ghost with a Torch," "The Vampire Goes West," "Giant from the Tomb," "The Final Horror," etc. Also here is their own Black Knight (not be be confused with Marvel's) with a bondage cover and tales of Men of Iron! PS Artbooks, 2025....More Item Code: TALH03 Soft Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color $32.99 |
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CLASSIC HORROR COMICS Volume 10 Hardcover Collects Haunted Thrills #14-18, 1954. Recommended. Art by Robert Webb, Joe Doolin and the Iger Shop. Kamenish art in most issues! In #14 Wanda marries Hubert for his money and betrays him with the chauffeur. When Hubert finds out, he locks her in an ice-cold vault and lets her freeze to death. Just like all the other women who had only married him for his money in "Frigid Fear!" And Jesus Christ himself appears in another story! Jungle hero Jo-Jo is in #15. All the way to the end of the run for Haunted Thrills with issue #18 and "No Place to Go" where Wilbur Cummings, a mild-mannered and harmless man, dies after falling down the stairs. Neither Heaven nor Hell want to admit him, because he didn’t do anything, be it good or evil, so Cummings gets a second chance and is sent back to life! Plus lingerie panels and a skull cover! PS Artbooks, 2025....More |
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BILLY THE KID Volume 1 Hardcover Collects Masked Raider #6-9 and Billy the Kid #9-10, 1957. Recommended. One of Charlton's very best titles from their stable of westerns. For comic books Billy went from outlaw to hero. He made his first appearance in Masked Raider #6 (February 1957). He took over the title with #9 (November 1957) and ran for another 147 issues, competing with Marvel's western titles and surviving nearly all of them! Regular contributors included writer Joe Gill and artists Maurice Whitman, Dick Giordano, Rocke Mastroserio, Bill Molno, and Charles Nicholas. Collected here: his first five complete issues. PS Artbooks, 2025. ...More Item Code: BILK01H Hard Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color $52.99 |
| Also in stock in softcover, which came in a few weeks ago. Covers are the same [BIOLK01. $32.99]. PS is another publisher who is no longer shipping through Diamond Comics. They haven't found a replacement for comic shop distribution, as far as we are aware, which will affect their availability in comic shops. We work directly with PS and get shipments straight from England. |
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THE ART OF GEORGE WILSON Our Highest Recommendation. By Anthony Taylor. What made Dell Comics in general stand out from the competition, and what made many of their superhero and adventure comics so popular were their unique painted covers. And one man was responsible for all of the very best of these. Finally, here is a full-blown artbook of his career and work, with dozens and dozens of covers reproduced from the original paintings!! Wilson's covers harkened back to the era of pulp magazines but updated and more polished...and they were spectacularly eye-catching. He painted hundreds of covers for Classics Illustrated, The Twilight Zone, Ripley's Believe It or Not, Dr. Solar, Magnus Robot Fighter, Turok, Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, and Star Trek, to name but a few. Hermes, 2025....More Item Code: ARTGWH Hard Cover, 9x12, 192pg, Full Color $75.00 |
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| THE PHANTOM THE COMPLETE NEWSPAPER DAILIES Volume 34 1989-1991 8-page Introduction "The Phantom Toy Story." By Lee Falk. Art by Sy Barry. This volume continues the Sy Barry Years! Five complete continuities with The Phantom, Diana, and now their two children: "The Death Threat," "The Master of Eden," "Attack of the Witchmen," "The Valley of the Elephants," and "Zima the Rogue Elephant." Also included are a comprehensive essay and documentary materials. Hermes, 2025....More Item Code: PH34H Hard Cover, 12x9, 264pg, b&w $65.00 |
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| MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN The Complete Dailies Volume 3 1938-1939 Highly Recommended. By Lee Falk (creator of the Phantom). Art by Phil Davis. Long an underrated classic. These early strips feature top-drawer art and imaginative (often fantasy and even science fiction/other worlds) stories that make this a strip worth reading for every serious comics fan - Bud. Eight fine new stories: "Mandrake in Hollywood;" "Sonny the Child Movie Star;" "Mandrake and the Haunted House;" "Blozz the Champion;" "Mandrake in Love;" "Visitors from Space;" "The Deep South;" and "Mandrake in Cockaigne." Outstanding detailed introduction by Erica McNatt details how these stories related to real life in the 1930s during The Golden Age of Detective Fiction as well as The Golden Age of Hollywood.Hermes, 2025....More Item Code: MAND03H Hard Cover, 12x9, 272pg, Partial Color $60.00 |
| Here are Volumes 1 and 2, and more Mandrake collections. He's a regular in Comics Review, but I’m afraid the publisher Manuscript Press may be on hiatus. We have not seen a new issue in some time. See News and Notes for more about Hermes and the current Diamond debacle. |
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New this week: Amra fanzine set, Fred Richardson, Empire by Samuel Delany and Howard Chaykin, Yoshitaka Amano, Charles Bargue and Jean-Leon Gerome, EC Fan-Addict Set reprint, Great Comics, Burne Hogarth’s Golden Age of Tarzan s&n, Mark Schultz Portfolio s&n, Moebius Meneer and Moushe, The Art of Robert McGinnis, MidAmericon Program (Geo. Barr cover), Mickey Mouse set…Plus one adult title, The History of Erotic Art. |
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| THE FRAZETTA GALLERY SERIES WARRIORS Deluxe Edition Slipcased With 8x11 numbered limitation page. Foreword by Simon Bisley. Introduction by Frankie Frazetta. The Frazetta Gallery Series is a curated collection of books that highlight the diverse themes in Frazetta’s work, showcasing his exceptional versatility, power, and emotional intensity. The book series is a fresh new approach to presenting the work of the most important fantasy artist of the 20th Century. The second book in the series, Warriors, features some of Frazetta’s most iconic pieces. As Frankie Frazetta writes in his introduction to Warriors: “These are the gritty, iconic pieces that introduced so many of us to his art for the first time.” Warriors has more pages (72) for more barbarians, monsters, and damsels! These books feature some of the finest printing of Frazetta art ever seen. 2025. Due: Oct....More Item Code: FRAZGWD Hard Cover, 11x15, 88pg, Partial Color $125.00 |
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THE FRAZETTA GALLERY SERIES WARRIORS Foreword by Simon Bisley. Introduction by Frankie Frazetta. The Frazetta Gallery Series is a curated collection of books that highlight the diverse themes in Frazetta’s work, showcasing his exceptional versatility, power, and emotional intensity. The book series is a fresh new approach to presenting the work of the most important fantasy artist of the 20th Century. The second book in the series, Warriors, features some of Frazetta’s most iconic pieces. As Frankie Frazetta writes in his introduction to Warriors: “These are the gritty, iconic pieces that introduced so many of us to his art for the first time.” Warriors has more pages (72) for more barbarians, monsters and damsels! These books feature some of the finest printing of Frazetta art ever seen. 2025. Due: Oct....More |
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ALSO AVAILABLE THE FRAZETTA GALLERY SERIES TERROR Hardcover Limited edition, Poster sized removable pages. Foreword by Frankie Frazetta. Highly Recommended. American Hero Press is launching a new series of curated, themed collector books. The Frazetta Gallery Series features Frazetta masterpieces in oversized, framable gallery format. These books are officially licensed productions from the Frank Frazetta Estate and the Frazetta Art Museum. Each book will be designed and printed to the highest available quality from the best existing files. Additional sketches, prelims and Frazetta photos throughout. Each will be a limited print run of about 3,000. This volume includes 26 collector images and Normanton Brom, Brinkley, and Palumbo essays. American Hero Press, 2024....More Item Code: FRAZGTH Hard Cover, 11x15, 72pg, Full Color $49.95 |
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TURN LOOSE OUR DEATH RAYS AND KILL THEM ALL! Highly Recommended. A gigantic compendium that collects the complete stories written and drawn by the 1940s outsider comic book artist Fletcher Hanks. Hanks wrote, penciled, inked, and lettered all of his own stories. Between 1939 and 1941 he created nearly 50, all unified by a uniquely artistic vision — primitive, bizarre, and singularly idiosyncratic. Whether it’s the superhero Stardust doling out ice cold slabs of poetic justice, or the jungle protectress Fantomah tearing evildoer’s limb from ragged limb, contemporary readers will be stunned by the pop surrealism and unfiltered violent mayhem of Hanks’ work. This new paperback edition brings back into print all of Hanks’ previously published material and is the most complete collection of his work. Fantagrahics, 2025. Due: Nov....More Item Code: TURNL Soft Cover, 8x10, 376pg, Full Color |
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EC ARTISTS LIBRARY Volume 7 Slipcased Set Four books in slipcase, 1000 pages. By Al Feldstein and Harvey Kurtzman. Art by Wallace Wood, Johnny Craig, Feldstein and Kurtzman. Collecting four outstanding volumes in The New York Times best-selling series. The acclaimed EC Comics Artists Library collects the best EC stories in crisp black and white, with plenty of commentary by EC authorities. The Woman Who Loved Life And Other Stories, illustrated by Johnny Craig; Atom Bomb And Other Stories, illustrated by Wallace Wood; Man and Superman and Other Stories, illustrated by Harvey Kurtzman; Terror Train And Other Stories, illustrated by Al Feldstein. Note: These often quickly sell out. Fantagraphics, 2025. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge. Due: Nov....More Item Code: ECAL07H Hard Cover, 7x11, 1036pg, b&w |
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PRINCE VALIANT 19-21 Slipcased Set 1973-78. In volume 19, Prince Valiant is sent to defend the borders against invading barbarians, but it is young Arn who takes center stage as he travels to his homeland and loses his heart to Lydia, daughter of Haakon. In volume 20, Aleta defeats a wizard, then Aleta’s younger sister Helene is gambled away by her husband to a Corsair mercenary, drawing Val and his Singing Sword into a deadly duel. In volume 21, it's election time for the King of Minstrels. Arn and Court Jester Sir Dinadan travel to France to set things right, while Val accompanies the headstrong Gunther of Germany on his quest to recover stolen holy relics and claim a wife in Jerusalem. The mercenary army of a Persian warlord sweeps across the Middle East, forcing Queen Aleta to seek refuge in a hidden utopian city ruled by women. Val competes in tournaments in Marseille and Camelot and reunites with Sir Lancelot, but a tragic death impacts a member of Val's family. Also in this set: Hal Foster’s complete comic-strip adaptation of Franz Werfel’s “The Song of Bernadette” and beautiful color illustrations for the 1930-31 Lucky Bag Naval yearbooks. And: The historical reality behind Prince Valiant’s world!! Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge. Due: Nov....More Item Code: PVS07P Hard Cover, 11x15, 336pg, Full Color |
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NANOCOSMOS JOURNEYS IN ELECTRON SPACE Recommended. A breathtaking tour of the natural world is offered in Nanocosmos, a glorious examination of majestic topographies revealed by powerful scanning electron microscope (SEM) technologies. Nothing like Nanocosmos has ever been seen before. Michael Benson has produced an exhilarating, aesthetically magnificent examination of complex microscopic worlds. The humbling beauty and cosmic immensity of our surrounding universe of planets, stars, and galaxies has inspired humanity since prehistoric times. But what about the vistas at the other end of the size-scale? The tiny worlds here, invisible to our unassisted eyes, are if anything more intricate, complex, and extraordinary than anything so far seen in deep space. An unprecedented examination of natural design at sub-millimeter scales. Abrams, 2025. Due: Nov....More Item Code: NANOH Hard Cover, 11x11, 320pg, Full Color $65.00 |
September Sale |
CLASSIC HORROR COMICS Volume 6 Hardcover |
THE COMPLETE AMERICAN GODS |
JOSEPH STELLA VISIONARY NATURE |
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No new books this week, but we did receive re-stocks on two popular titles, Young Melissa Shooting Star, and Top Models of MetArt Michelle H. Click here to see the newest listings in our Mature Readers section. |
News & Notes |
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Click here for all the details on upcoming shows: OAFCon, LA Rare Books at Union Station, and the Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair. They all take place in late September and into October. Next week I fly to Ohio for the Comics Crossroads Columbus to receive the Tom Spurgeon Award from Columbus College of Art and Design and the Billy Ireland Museum. The Spurgeon Award honors those who have made substantial contributions to the field of comics, but are not primarily cartoonists. The award is named after Tom Spurgeon, a writer, historian, and champion of comic arts who served as CXC’s founding executive director. The award is open to retailers, distributors, journalists, editors, publishers, and others. It should be fun! |
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This Highly Recommended book is finally here, accompanied by an exclusive plate signed by Brian M. Kane. Full details next week; we’re filling advance orders now [PVIM01HS. $49.99]. We have NINE interior scans for your edification! |
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This obscure EC title is finally collected in a handsome and thick hardcover. Grant Geissman, who edited and wrote the essay, created a full color bookplate from a Shelly specialty drawing and has signed just 125 copies. The bookplate should be here on Friday, Sept 12, so we’ll hold any orders until we have it. That means they’ll probably ship Monday. Again, full details next week once the bookplate is in our hands. |
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Our former employee, Marty Grosser, has been the editor of Diamond Previews for these past 37 years, since he moved from Sacramento to Baltimore. He announced today on his Facebook page that Previews is no more (and we assume he is also out of a job). This has been a slow train wreck for some time now. The Diamond bankruptcy is still working its way through the hands of the lawyers and rippling across the industry. Many publishers previously handled by Diamond have found other distributors. See my note below on Hermes, which was one of the last holdouts to stick by Diamond. |
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Hermes is no longer selling their books to Diamond Distributors and is now handled by SCB Distributors. This means that items such as the three new books above, which may have been on customer “pull lists” may not reach customers. Copies ordered by comic shops from Diamond are not going to arrive. Each comic shop will now have to buy these direct from SCB (Hermes does not sell direct to anyone else, including ourselves). Even though SCB has picked up other publishers previously with Diamond, I can’t imagine that every single comic store will be setting up an account with SCB quick enough; some may never set up an account. The old “one stop shop” service that Diamond Previews provided for a great many comic stores is now being covered by a checkerboard of new sources: Lunar, SCB, Random House/Penguin, Alliance (for DC comics) and other distributors. Many comic shops may not have the means or the interest to set up accounts with all these new sources if it's only for a few books. Lunar has clearly taken up a lot of the slack: they handle quite a few of the comic book publishers, such as Image. Fortunately, we have long dealt with all these various sources, so for us it’s a matter of transferring our few final orders from Diamond (as in the case of Hermes and Dynamite) over to the new distributor, from whom we already get other material. |
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We announced this was out of print and we had few left -- but now we’re told PS has more plus we found a second source. So for now, one of the best books in this series DOES remain available. We’re still out of stock as I write this, but more should be here next week. |
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You guys jumped all over this last week when I fetured it. So we blew through our first stock. We have a big batch coming, so reserve a copy with confidence. I didn’t know how good this would be when I placed our first order; that happens every so often. I’m fallible, but you probably knew that. But we do try our best here! [COMIBOH. |
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New Moebius Sketchbook |
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We’re just ordering a new 244-page hardcover of Moebius. More details shortly. |
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Some Overseas Shipping now subject to a surcharge |
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The rates we are being charged continue to go up even while we still use a service that costs much less than the U.S. Post Office or UPS. We are also now shipping nearly all orders Signature Required, which helps us to track them and also is more guarantee they will reach you. But that costs more also. We do our best to keep our rates reasonable for the average order, but we often lose money on specific orders. Our shipping cost goes up disproportionately when an order has very heavy books, such as Omnibus editions and oversized editions. And particularly if these are on sale or discounted Hurt copies, since our shipping rates are based on order dollars, not on order weight. We identify as many of these books with the X SHIPPING tag in the long description. This way you know we may have to ask more than standard costs for shipping. But we don’t do this on every single book. So this is just to make you aware, if you are an overseas customer, we may have to ask you for more than standard shipping rates on any order, but especially on Sale and Hurt Books, so it will not come as a surprise. Some book publishers and retailers choose not to ship overseas at all; others limit which countries they ship to. We continue to make our books available to as many of you as possible. ~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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