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We didn’t have quite so many new items this week, so we’ve added Bestsellers from July to now. An extraordinary selection of excellent books have come out in the past several months so I wanted to share them with you in case you’ve overlooked any of them. We have two with signed bookplates: The Complete Moon Girl and EC Fan Addict #7; the lovely new Art of Roy Krenkel; a Mark Schultz Illustrators special; the double-size Dave Stevens Comic Book Creator…and the list goes on. Enjoy! Our new catalog will be ready to upload next week—it features 16 bonus pages including new sale items and a double-sized backlist section. And a cool Dan Brereton cover. Check in early next week to the home page… |
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| SWAYONCE The Mini Artbook By Swayart For the past few years, cover artist Joshua “Sway” Swaby has been very busy. Having done work for Image Comics, Vault Comics, Entertainment Weekly along with variant cover duties several times in short order for Marvel & DC, Sway is now taking matters into his own hands with his new art book showcasing his sketches, commissions and process work. This Zoop publication is is similar to Kickstarter in that it's not distributed through regular channels. Zoop, 2025....More. Item Code: SWAYH Hard Cover, 9x11, 60pg, Partial Color |
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| We handle four other books from Zoop, which is a direct-to-consumer service much like Kickstarter. I expect that these are not distributed through regular channels, such as book stores or comic shops. These include an art book on Mad Magazine creator Bob Fingerman, Comic Book Artist Christian Ward, Kirby & Wood’s Sky Masters, and the Barry-Windsor Smith cover variant of Conan, below: |
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ALSO AVAILABLE CONAN THE BARBARIAN COLOSSAL EDITION Barry Windsor-Smith Cover Highly Recommended. 190 pages of full-size 12 x 17 scans of the original comic art pages from throughout the original classic run of Conan comics and magazines. Explore the timeless works by legendary Conan artists John Buscema, Barry Windsor-Smith, Gil Kane, Alfredo Alcala, Neal Adams, and a host of others in the most vivid detail possible, all from the original artwork: covers, splash pages, interiors and special pieces. Very handsomely done. Nearly out of print; our supply is very limited. Zoop, 2024. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge....More. Item Code: CONCHBWS Hard Cover, 12x17, 190pg, Partial Color $150.00 |
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MYSTICAL WOMEN'S TAROT Reccomended. By Cécile Roumiguière. Art by Benjamin Lacombe. Beautiful artwork in a handsome box. The richly detailed, full-color cards follow the traditional structure of the tarot: 22 major arcana — each a portrait of a powerful woman associated with one of the figures of the tarot, such as the Magician, Justice, the Hanged Man — and 56 minor arcana. We quite like the artwork. Abrams, 2025....More. Item Code: MYSWT 6x9, Full Color $35.00 |
| Click here for four more specialty Tarot Sets (including Marvel Heroes — only 2 left of this), as well as a Taschen book about Tarot. |
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HEAVY METAL MAGAZINE #3 Augustin Alessio Cover AsA new wave of visionary storytelling: Enki Bilal returns with another chapter of his acclaimed "Bug" saga, where the boundaries of reality are twisted by a visionary mind. Sergio Gerasi’s take on "Valentina" invites readers deeper into a world where surrealism and desire collide. "Primeval" by Tim Vigil and David Quinn dives headlong into the darkest corners of fantasy, where primal forces reign. Leah Moore, John Reppion, and Anna Morozova continue their epic run on "Taarna," chronicling the legendary cosmic warrior in battles that shape worlds. Michael Conrad and Ilias Kyriazis pick up the thread of Millstone, a series where myth and fate intertwine in unpredictable ways. Heavy Metal, 2025. Mature Readers. ...More. Item Code: HM03A Magazine, 8x11, 232pg, Partial Color $14.99 |
| This is the last of three variant covers for #3; we advertised the other two earlier when they came in. Here’s more Heavy Metal. Act now while they remain in print, typically magazines like this will sell out, particular the first couple of new issues. |
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DC FINEST EVENTS CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS Part One Collects Crisis on Infinite Earths #1-4, Infinity, Inc. #18-19, and much more, 1984-86. By Marv Wolf et al. Art by George Pérez et al. The multiverse is on the brink of collapse, and only the greatest heroes can stand against the darkness consuming reality. This volume collects the first wave of stories that set the stage for the Crisis on Infinite Earths. From Swamp Thing’s battle to fix his gravest mistake to Batman and Catwoman’s deadly struggles under red skies, these stories delve into the heart of DC’s characters as they fight for survival. DC Comics, 2025. ...More. Item Code: DCFE01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 544pg, Full Color |
| I think DC is nailing it with this series. I’ve put Our Highest Recommendation on several. And customers like these too, nearly all have sold quite well. For good classic reprints, with hundreds of pages, this price point is very good. Click here for the rest of the series. |
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CONAN THE BARBARIAN Volume 1 Bound in Black Stone Hardcover Collects #1-4. Highly Recommended. On the eve of his first major battle, young Conan of Cimmeria pictures a life beyond the borders of his homeland and yearns for adventure undreamt of in his small village. Visions of future allies and unspeakable evils he will encounter come to him, as he makes the choice to take his first fateful step into the Hyborian Age. Featuring an action-packed script by Jim Zub and Guillermo Zubiaga that would make Robert E. Howard proud, and wonderful, outstanding Buscema-inspired artwork by Roberto De La Torre! And Conan teams up with a lovely woman warrior to take on the invading hordes. We really like this! - Bud Titan, 2025....More. Item Code: CONBB01H Hard Cover, 8x12, 144pg, Full Color |
| The softcover edition came out in 2024 and sold well, so they’ve decided this deserves a hardcover edition. Still available in softcover [CONBB01. $17.99] Here’s more in this series. |
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SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN The Original Comics Omnibus Volume 10 Collects #133-145 & Conan the Reaver GN, 1987. Recommended. Chuck Dixon, Larry Yakata and Don Kraar, and drawn by John Severin, Gary Kwapisz & Ernie Chan et al. Includes the graphic novel, Conan The Reaver, drawn by the legendary John Severin. Covers by Joe Jusko et al. Titan, 2025....More. Item Code: SAVOC10H Hard Cover, 8x11, 516pg, Partial Color |
| Click here for previous volumes and more Conan in general. |
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MARVEL MASTERWORKS THE TOMB OF DRACULA Volume 5 Collects Tomb of Dracula #41-55 and Doctor Strange #14, 1976-77. By Marv Wolfman and Steve Englehart. The creative talents of Marv Wolfman, Gene Colan and Tom Palmer made The Tomb of Dracula the must-read comic of the 1970s. Lushly illustrated, beautifully colored and with taut stories that wove together thrilling action with in-depth character subplots, it was everything you could hope for in a comic book. And in this volume so many strands come together: the Doctor Sun saga concludes, Blade finally wreaks vengeance on the man who killed his mother and a resurrected Count Dracula finds an unholy bride who will bear his child. Marvel, 2025....More. Item Code: MMTD05H Hard Cover, 7x10, 328pg, Full Color |
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SWAMP THING By Len Wein and Kelley Jones Deluxe Edition Collects Swamp Thing #94, 100, new series #1-6 and more, 1990-2018. In 2015, Swamp Thing co-creator Len Wein returned to his beloved creation alongside Kelley Jones, the artist of iconic horror comics including Batman & Dracula: Red Rain, for Convergence: Swamp Thing #1-2. This partnership branched into a full six-issue Swamp Thing series, where the Guardian of the Green receives what seemed impossible: a chance to live again as the man he once was. This collection also includes Swamp Thing Winter Special, Wein’s final Swamp Thing story, released posthumously and drawn by Jones. DC Comics, 2025....More. Item Code: SWAMLWH Hard Cover, 7x11, 432pg, Full Color |
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FLASH GORDON CLASSIC COLLECTION The Complete Sunday Strips Volume 5 1951-1953 Highly Recommended. In this volume, a whole new era begins for the space faring adventurer as comics legends Harvey Kurtzman and Dan Barry relaunch the strip! Space prisons, butterfly men, and forest demons — Flash Gordon will take them all on! Superb artwork carries on the tradition of powerful and imaginative storytelling launched in 1934 by Alex Raymond. Frazetta, along with other artists like Al Williamson and Jack Davis, briefly assisted Barry with illustrations during this period. The introduction details these additional artist's contributions. Mad Cave Studios, 2025....More. Item Code: FLAG05H Hard Cover, 11x10, 232pg, Partial Color |
| This is an especially cool volume, with appearances by Frazetta, Harvey Kurtzman and others helping out as Dan Barry takes over the art chores. And he does a fine job — at this time Barry was doing superlative work. Click here for previous volumes and more by Dan Barry and more Flash. |
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FLASH GORDON Volume 1 Deluxe Edition Escape From Planet Death! Collects #1-5, 2025. Features bonus material. By Jeremy Adams. Art by Will Conrad. Flash Gordon returns in all new adventures in this action-packed and well drawn series from Jeremy Adams (Green Lantern, The Flash) and Will Conrad (Nightwing, King Conan)! Flash awakes on a secret prison planet somewhere in the galaxy. Upon learning that Dale Arden is the target of an assassination plot, he breaks out to make his way across the galaxy to save her. Along the way, he encounters old friends, new threats, and a greater mystery surrounding WHO is pulling the strings of this universe. Nicely done in the wild western themes of the original Flash Gordon by Alex Raymond. Mad Cave Studios, 2025....More. Item Code: FGOR01H Hard Cover, 7x10, 160pg, Full Color |
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Set of 16 issues! |
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28 new items this week! Regular titles include Betty Page in Jungleland, Marvel graphic novel sets: Super Boxers, Spider-Man, Death's Head, Raven Banner, Captain Marvel, X-Men & She-Hulk. Also Foom Magazine, Epic Illustrated, The Punisher and The Amazing World of DC Comics. Adult Rare Books: Magazine Sets: Scream Queens, Draculina, Sirens of the Cinema, Tease! & Femme Fatales. |
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BEASTS IN THE CELLAR The Exploitation Film Career of Tony Tenser Limited. First published in 2005, this is the 20th Anniversary re-issue of Beasts in the Cellar, the definitive study of Britain's greatest exploitation film producer! By drawing on exclusive interviews, original production files and private correspondence, John Hamilton pieces together the stories behind the movies that made Tony Tenser the most admired and successful exploitation producer in British cinema. From battles with the censor to studio in-fighting, and from tantrums on set to post-production interference, the cut and thrust of British film making on a budget is revived in detail. Fab Press, 2025. Due: Nov....More. Item Code: BEASCH Hard Cover, 8x11, 304pg, Text/Partial Color $49.95 |
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1. EC FAN ADDICT #7 Signed Almost Gone! 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. Out of print. ...More. Item Code: ECF07S Soft Cover, 8x11, 120pg, Partial Color $16.00 |
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2. FRANK FRAZETTA FINE LINES Our Highest Recommendation. By Sara Frazetta and Arnie Fenner. Frazetta first achieved international prominence with his powerful covers for paperbacks featuring Tarzan, Howard's Conan, and The Death Dealer, but when asked how he was able to create such unforgettable paintings he replied simply, "Drawing is everything." Fine Lines helps to explain why he felt that way with a collection of his most exciting works in pencil, ink, and watercolor. Including many of his influential illustrations from the 1960s and '70s for the fiction of Edgar Rice Burroughs and J.R.R. Tolkien, this beautiful book also features nearly a dozen previously unpublished drawings along with historical essays sharing the stories behind the art. Compiled and edited by Frank's granddaughter Sara Frazetta in collaboration with 2-time World Fantasy Award winner Arnie Fenner, Fine Lines is a celebration of the magical imagination of the Godfather of Fantastic Art. Moderate nudity. Frazetta Girls, 2025. Mature Readers....More. Item Code: FRAFL Soft Cover, 8x12, 84pg, b&w $35.00 |
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3. 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 |
| Click here for previous issues; one is on sale! |
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4. 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 |
| We just recently reduced the price even further on this to 60%off the original price. |
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5. ILLUSTRATORS QUARTERLY #48 Mark Schultz Cover A Almost Gone! Our Highest Recommendation. Featuring the artwork of Mark Schultz, 38 pages of his finest right up to the present day. Amazing, exquisite examples of paintings, pencils, finished inked pieces, including previously unpublished work and a look at the upcoming sequel to Xenozoic!!! Plus a new interview. Next a fine feature on Chris Moore, one of the UK's leading exponents in sci-fi illustration whose previous art books we handled. Get up to date with his work also. Thirdly, from the horror movie posters to VHS and DVD covers, explore the paintings of Graham Humphrey. Book Palace, 2025. Out of print....More. Item Code: IQ48A Soft Cover, 8x11, 96pg, Partial Color $30.00 |
This variant cover has gone out of print but we still have 19 copies available. The alternate is still available as well, [IQ48B. $30]. |
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6. COMIC BOOK CREATOR #40 Dave Stevens Our Highest Recommendation. Behind a previously unpublished cover, this totally awesome issue celebrates the life and art of the great Dave Stevens in a special double-sized issue completely devoted to the late artist! For this deluxe issue, friends, fans, and family share testimonials, photos, and fascinating artifacts, plus a gallery of amazing artwork by the Rocketeer creator, some never before seen. There are also three interviews with Dave conducted by CBC editor Jon B. Cooke, two Q&A’s with Dave by guest associate editor Steven C. Ringgenberg, and Jeff Gelb‘s conversation with the artist recorded during the making of The Rocketeer motion picture. TwoMorrows, 2025....More. Item Code: CBCR40 Magazine, 8x11, 160pg, Full Color $24.95 |
| I love this, it's a double issue, like an entire new book on Dave’s career. |
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7. EC ARCHIVES The Complete Moon Girl Signed Bookplate signed by Grant, limited to 125! Collects #1-8 and Moon Girl stories in other EC titles, 1947-49. Highly Recommended. Edited by Grant Geissman. By Gardner Fox. Art by Sheldon Moldoff and Johnny Craig. The amazing adventures of Claire Lune and Lionel Manning — Moon Girl and the Prince — who together fend off invaders from other planets as well as fight crime. Moon Girl #5 had a story that looked forward to the great horror comics explosion of a few years later: "The Corpse with Will Power", one of two stories credited with starting the trend in horror comics at EC. This was EC Comics' one-and-only attempt at doing a superhero, or rather superheroine. Artist Shelly Moldoff co-created Moon Girl, after he'd long worked at DC Comics drawing Hawkman, The Black Pirate and numerous other adventure heroes. Dark Horse, 2025. ...More. Item Code: ECACMH Hard Cover, 9x11, 368pg, Full Color |
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8. THE FANTASTIC ART OF ROY G KRENKEL Our Highest Recommendation. With nearly five hundred pieces of art, including sixteen foldouts, this is the definitive collection for fans of and newcomers to the virtuoso fantasy artist — curated by Craig Yoe, with a foreword by Sara Frazetta and a preface by Michael Wm. Kaluta. If master draftspersons of the Renaissance were reincarnated to create sword-and-sorcery art of more contemporary times, they would have had Roy Krenkel as their mentor. RGK defined the term "an artist’s artist," and comics artists ardently study his incredible work. Roy filled the pages of the pro-zine/fanzine Amra with his favorite art — collected here are the complete Amra illustrations. Amra was devoted to Robert E. Howard & other sword & sorcery authors and subjects, edited by George Scithers, who also published Roy’s first art book, Cities and Scenes of the Ancient World. Dark Horse, 2025. ...More. Item Code: FANRKH Hard Cover, 7x10, 256pg, b&w $39.99 |
| The deluxe edition ($350) that comes with an original drawing has done VERY well; again, no idea how long these will last; our source says supply is low. |
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9. METAL HURLANT Volume 1 Old Dreams, Young Visions Highly Recommended. Art by Moebius, Philippe Druillet, Caza, Peeters, Gal, Schuiten, Snejbjerg, LeClerc and many, many more. Introduction by publisher Fabrice Giger. A book-sized, 274-page collection! 50 years after the debut of Metal Hurlant in France, the iconic and genre-defining publication is finally coming to the English language, and in bigger and bolder form than ever before: as a quarterly anthology published by Humanoids. Each volume will feature one-of-a-kind, otherworldly, literary experience, expertly curated from archival material from the original '70s and '80s run, along with top A-list and up-and-coming creators from around the globe. Humanoids, 2025....More. Item Code: METH01 Soft Cover, 8x10, 272pg, Full Color |
Volume 2 is now out. |
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10. 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 |
| His previous book almost made the top ten list, Arthur Adams Preliminary Studies Signed [ARTAP. |
Some of my favorites from the rest of the list are Hal Foster's Prince Valiant Sketchbook (with signed bookplate), Bode's Complete Deadbone Erotica, Light and Dark The Art of Lee Elias, The Art of George Wilson and Mike Hoffman's Secrets of Frazetta Signed. Click here to see the top 50 Bestsellers since July 1. |
October Sale! |
BLACKHAWK Volume 1 |
FRAZETTA World’s Best Comics Cover Artist Slipcased |
The Art of Dan Decarlo |
Soon we'll be sending out a special email for our October Sale, but you can take an early look at 70 items that have recently been reduced. Some very popular titles in this batch, including Blackhawk, Frank Frazetta, Dan DeCarlo, Edwin Austin Abbey and more. Click here to see them on our site. You can also view our previous two sales that highlighted a huge batch of over 500 items! We've broken the batches into two sections with the September sale covering titles K-Z, and the August sale covering titles A-J. |
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AFTER HOURS MAGAZINE Facsimile Edition #1 |
ATLAS COMICS LIBRARY Volume 2 Venus #2 |
THE DRAWINGS OF EDWIN AUSTIN ABBEY |
3...2...1...Gone! |
DAVE STEVENS Selected Sketches & Studies Volume 4 Signed |
MARVEL COMICS LIBRARY Fantastic Four Volume 1 1961-1963 XXL |
FIGHT COMICS Featuring Senorita Rio Volume 2 Hardcover |
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