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We've just reduced prices on another 70 items that we are clearing out to make room for new material! We've pictured most of the items in this email, but you can click here to see the whole batch of 70 on our site. We still have a HUGE NUMBER of discounted items from our previous August and September sales. We've broken the batches into two sections with the September sale covering titles K-Z. In August we featured titles A-J. In additions to the regular sale items, we have a handful of Flash Sale items that have been deeply discounted for a limited time. Includes Jim Silke, Frank Frazetta, Terry Moore, Donald Duck, Illustrators Quarterly and more. You can always sort sale books by lowest price, highest price, and latest using the filter box after your search. Orders in the U.S. over $300 also qualify for FREE SHIPPING. Thanks for looking! |
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Here are nine popular items with deep discounts. Enjoy these sale prices for a limted time only!! |
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MATA HARI ESCAPES HARDCOVER Signed Signed color bookplate! Recommended. By Jim Silke. A profusely illustrated prose novel presenting a fictionalized adventure of the legendary woman whose beauty captivated and subverted every acquaintance. From a 2021 Kickstarter project, our supply is very limited. "Mata Hari Escapes is a rip-roaring adventure story with the pace of a Saturday serial and the intrigue of a Graham Greene spy story." Nudity. Full color illustrations. Big Wow!, 2021. Out of Print....More. Item Code: MATAHEHS Hard Cover, 6x9, 364pg, Text/Full Color |
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THE OBSCURE CITIES The Return of Captain Nemo Signed Signed (by both creators) full color bookplate numbered from 500. Highly Recommended! The latest entry in the international award-winning graphic novel series from France, The Obscure Cities, by artist François Schuiten and author Benoît Peeters. Here is a love letter to Jules Verne and his iconic character, Captain Nemo, presented as a blend of graphic novel and illustrated narrative. The book also features Benoît Peeters’ history of Jules Verne himself, who settled in Amiens, where a monumental bronze sculpture of the Nauti-Octopus, designed by François Schuiten, will be erected in 2025!! Alaxis, 2023....More. Item Code: OBSCHS Hard Cover, 9x13, 96pg, Partial Color |
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FANTASTIC FOUR FULL CIRCLE Expanded Edition Highly Recommended. An oversized, expanded edition of the award-winning national bestseller, named Graphic Novel of the Year (Reuben Award) by the National Cartoonists Society and the Washington Post, and one of the best graphic novels of the year by The Comics Journal, IGN, Publishers Weekly and others, winner of an Eisner Award for best coloring. 288 pages of new material, including commentary and unpublished preparatory material from Alex Ross. Abrams, 2024....More. Item Code: FFFULH Hard Cover, 10x13, 352pg, Full Color |
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FRANK FRAZETTA An Artists' Tribute Spectacular die-cut cover; full color endpapers. Introduction by Susan Frazetta. Highly Recommended. A selection of incredible artists pay tribute to Frank Frazetta by creating new art (11 art projects) inspired by his work, accompanied by in-depth interviews with members of the Frazetta family. Foreword by Allen Williams; “My Grandpa, Frank” by Sara Frazetta; art features by Peter Meseldžija, Robert Rodgriguez, The Shiflett Brothers, Entei Ryu, Rafael Grassetti, Valentina Remenar, Gustavo Pelissari, Jodie Muir, Daniel Landerman, Anato Finnstark, Jama Jurabaev, et al. 3dtotal, 2024....More. Item Code: FRAATH Hard Cover, 9x11, 248pg, Partial Color |
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ILLUSTRATORS QUARTERLY #44 Antonio Segura Recommended. In this issue: Spanish surrealist pop artist Dulk (Antonio Segura) and his animals in peril (see the cover); back three centuries to the biting satire and acute observation of William Hogarth; the mystical and surreal world of Murugiah; the young Vietnamese artist YinXin He and her phantasmagorical images; will Artificial Intelligence (AI) replace artists with examples?! Plus Russ Manning Gallery of Tarzan and the Beastmaster. Book Palace, 2024....More. Item Code: IQ44 Soft Cover, 9x11, 96pg, Partial Color |
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AFTER HOURS MAGAZINE Facsimile Edition #1 The very first James Warren publication, meant as a Playboy style arts & entertainment with no lack of topless ladies! Published in 1957, one year before Famous Monsters of Filmland #1. This is a very tough magazine to find. This exact facsimile edition features: Bettie Page in a centerfold, a nude Bride to Be, Miss Teree on TV, Soldier of Fortune Photographer, Strange City, 36 Men and a Redhead, East Meets West in Philadelphia (Asian nudes), A Night with a Latin Quarter Girl, plus adult cartoons. This is a one-time new printing. Fantaco Enterprises, 2023. Mature Readers. Out of print....More. Item Code: AFT01 Magazine, 8x11, 48 pg., b&w |
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DONALD DUCK THE ULTIMATE HISTORY Deluxe Edition Limited, 1000, clamshell box, with bonus facsimiles of the storyboard binders for Sea Scouts and a portfolio of eight pieces of concept art from Donald’s South American features. Highly Recommended. In true Taschen fashion, the end-all book on Donald — the largest AND heaviest book we've ever offered, 27 pounds! Nothing succeeds like success, as the saying goes, but in the case of Donald Duck the opposite is true: the candor with which Donald reveals his weaknesses wins our hearts and stays with us forever. Revisit Donald from nine decades in one of the most expansive illustrated publications on the Disney universe. Since 1934, Donald Duck, one of the most published comic book subjects, has been seen in more films than any other Disney character. This volume includes rare animation drawings, vintage comics, behind-the-scenes photographs, charming memorabilia, unfinished film projects, and unpublished artworks by “the Duck Man,” master storyteller Carl Barks. Taschen, 2024. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge. ...More. Item Code: DDULTD Hard Cover, 11x16, 564, Full Color |
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CEREBUS THE AARDVARK #1 Facsimile Signed Signed by Dave Sim! It's the 20th anniversary of the release of Cerebus #300! Read the one that started it all! Beginning in 1977 as a self-published parody of Barry Windsor-Smith's Conan, Dave Sim's Cerebus quickly grew into something much bigger, both artistically and commercially, revealing the untapped potential of the medium and influencing a wave of creators and comics (including Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Todd McFarlane's Spawn, among many others!). Now you can own the remastered and restored edition of the first issue and see how it all began, signed on the cover by Dave. Aardvark Vanaheim, 2024....More. Item Code: CER01S Soft Cover, 7x10, 24pg, Full Color |
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THE REALLY COMPLETE PARADISE TOO By Terry Moore Special Hardcover Signed Signed! Recommended. Before Terry Moore launched his comic book career with Strangers In Paradise, he spent years honing his ideas and artistic chops drawing comic strips. Katchoo, Francine, David and more were all developed in comic strip formats that never saw the light of day until they were finally published in a limited comic book series titled Paradise TOO in 2010 with a tiny print run. There is more, way more than would fit into the original book. Terry continues to draw, draw, draw and the cartoons keep coming! It was decided that it’s time for a new book collecting the best of the original and new work! Abstract Studio, 2024....More. Item Code: RECPHS Hard Cover, 8x11, 344pg, Full Color |
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CREATURES FROM THE SUBCONSCIOUS Signed Signed! Highly Recommended. Denis calls these his “chipboard” drawings. Drawn without pencil prelims or any aforethought, the spontaneous images are created on the unforgiving pulpy surface of chipboard, the stiff backer board on legal pads and similar. They occasionally remind us of R. Crumb's more surreal work and also of Basil Wolverton — high praise indeed. There's nothing normal here. These are all from another dimension of strange creatures, stranger settings, all with some kind of bizarre story behind them...but it's for you to figure out what the heck caused Denis to create each one. Demented? Oh, yes. Tinto Press, 2023....More. Item Code: CREAFHS Hard Cover, 10x10, 170pg, b&w |
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BURNT ENDS #0 PREVIEW Signed Signed cover with bonus signed print! Highly Recommended. A collection of superbly drawn short stories by Mark Nelson and a preview of what's to come. Comes with an extra-illustrated (not included in the booklet) print in full color. Signed on both the cover and again on the print. Limited but undisclosed printing, but Mark never prints many of these self-published little gems! Mark Nelson, 2024....More. Item Code: BURENS Comic, 7x10, 15pg, Partial Color |
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PABLO MARCOS SKETCHBOOK Signed Signed, from 2009. Recommended. Pablo Marcos (born March 31, 1937), is a comic book artist and commercial illustrator best known as one of his home country Peru's leading cartoonists, and for his work on such popular American comics characters as Batman and Conan the Barbarian, particularly during the 1970s. His signature character was Marvel Comics' The Zombie, for which Marcos drew all but one story in the black-and-white horror-comics magazine Tales of the Zombie (1973-1975). More recently he's done Red Sonja for Dynamite and work in Heavy Metal and Frank Frazetta Magazine. At Marvel he inked all the great artists, from John Buscema and Bill Sienkiewicz to John Byrne! Big Wow!, 2009....More. Item Code: PABMS Soft Cover, 5x8, 32pg, Partial Color |
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LOCAL FAUNA The Art of Peter de Sève Signed Signed bookplate! Our Highest Recommendation. Peter de Sève’s work spans four decades and various media, from magazines, books, and television commercials to Broadway posters and character designs for animated feature films. He is perhaps best recognized for his many covers for The New Yorker magazine and his character designs for the blockbuster Ice Age franchise (Scrat is a veritable international celebrity). De Sève has also contributed to such films as Finding Nemo, Robots, The Little Prince, and The Grinch, to name only a few. He is currently busy at work on various animated projects in both the United States and Europe. Cernunnos, 2023....More. Item Code: LOCFHS Hard Cover, 8x11, 288pg, Partial Color |
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THUNDER HUNTERS Signed Signed! Highly Recommended. Artist and adventurer J.V. Holbrook has traversed and recorded the natural history of an uncharted planet. Thunder Hunters is the unique cross section of his sketches, journal entries, sequential stories, and portraits of inhabitants and the expansive Vermillion Sands region, a world not unlike Moebius or Berni Wrightson might have created! Mark Nelson's brilliantly imaginative creatures are the highlight here, and his stunning use of color. This highly successful Kickstarter project showcases his attention to detail and love of this newly explored alien domain, revealing a never before seen world of myth, culture, landscape and wildlife. Grazing Dinosaur Press, 2023....More. Item Code: THUNHS Hard Cover, 8x11, 102pg, Partial Color |
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DROAR 4 Artwork by Justin Sweet Signed Book Signed plus bonus signed color bookplate. Recommended. A rare look at the ideas behind Justin's fantasy artwork. He has done freelance work for various game and book publishers such as National Geographic, Wizards of the Coast, Tor, DelRey and Wandering Star. He's worked on Disney's The Chronicles of Narnia, HBO's Game of Thrones, God of War, Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Avengers: End Game. Justin Sweet, 2022....More. Item Code: DROAS Soft Cover, 8x8, 32pg, Partial Color |
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ALKEME The Art of Brad Kunkle Deluxe Signed Signed & numbered. Limited special publisher's edition limited to 400. Highly Recommended. After selling out his debut solo exhibition in New York City on opening night in 2010, Brad Kunkle has become internationally known for his unique use of gold and silver leaf in contemporary oil painting. His themes explore intuition and the power of the feminine alongside the natural world and otherworldly scenes. 100 paintings and a dozen studies handpicked by the artist in an oversized format. Flesk, 2022. Out of print. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge....More. Item Code: ALKED Hard Cover, 12x12, 320pg, Full Color |
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DER KATZENPRINZ & Other Zemnian Tales Metallic gilt cover, gold page edges. Highly Recommended. By Liam O'Brien. Art by Charlie Borovsky. Three brand new fairy tales from a fantasy source...” translated from the original Zemnian.” Very handsomely illustrated in full color on every page and presented in a deluxe hardcover format capturing the magic of the golden age of children’s illustrated books. Fit to grace any library, from proud young readers to aged fans like ourselves! From the heartwarming Der Katzenprinz to the chilling Waldhexe to the tales of the Flying City, these stories have been faithfully translated “from their original Zemnian tellings” and are beautifully captured in charming art. Insight Editions, 2025....More. Item Code: CRITDH Hard Cover, 6x8, 112pg, Full Color |
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THE DRAWINGS OF EDWIN AUSTIN ABBEY Our Highest Recommendation. By Alice "Bunny" Carter. One of the finest pen & ink artists of his day; this first-ever book focuses on Edwin Austen Abbey's (1852-1911) work in magazines and books. 350 drawings, including an exquisite series done over twenty years for The Comedies of William Shakespeare, followed by a very rare set, The Shakespeare Tragedies. His painstaking devotion to research while securing the appropriate costumes, props and models for his drawings was legendary. He is in the rarefied class of Joseph Clement Coll, Franklin Booth, Arthur Rackham, and Frank Godwin — all masters of the medium— and he was the first in this line of greats. An extensive new essay by Alice A. Carter offers a fresh look at his life and career. Flesk, 2021....More. Item Code: DRAWEA Soft Cover, 6x9, 400pg, b&w |
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FRAZETTA World's Best Comics Cover Artist Slipcased Highly Recommended. Includes 16-page bonus folio and illustrated slipcase. Vanguard’s Definitive Reference series returns with a companion to 2022’s bestselling Frazetta Book Cover Art. While that documented and commented on book cover paintings, now focus is on all his comics and magazine covers: Creepy, Eerie, Mad Magazine, National Lampoon, Marvel's Epic Illustrated, High Times and more. And all his early comic book work: Ghost Rider, Thunda, Tim Holt, Beware, the entire Buck Rogers Famous Funnies run, Buster Crabbe, Straight Arrow, White Indian and his EC cover art. Plus reuses, adaptations and entirely new works, such as Mothman, Satanika, Jaguar God, Space Cowboy and Death Dealer, right up to today. Vanguard, 2023....More. Item Code: FRAZWD Hard Cover, 8x11, 192pg, Full Color |
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FRANZ WACIK Highly Recommended. Franz Wacik (1883-1938) was an extraordinary Austrian talent who also designed for the theater, painted frescoes and murals, and illustrated children’s books. While his startlingly original work is largely unknown today, this volume (primarily composed of Wacik’s work for the satire magazine Die Muskete) will be a revelation for many. Wacik’s expertise encompassed a diverse array of fantastical subjects, including bizarre creatures and fairy tale settings. Illustrated Press, 2023. ...More. Item Code: FRAWAH Hard Cover, 9x12, 224pg, Full Color |
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AFTER CARL BARKS Painting Fine-Art Cartoons in Oils Original Art Edition Limited, 250 copies with an original 9x12 red pencil drawing and color print of "The Hunger" both signed by John Garvin. 260 pages of history, analysis and insight into Carl Barks' paintings, craft, and technique, chronicling artist John Garvin's decades long obsession with the paintings of Carl Barks, the 20th Century's Grand Master of cartoon fine art. 50-page biography of Barks the artist, including documents from the Barks estate; 100 visual diagrams of Barks' fine-art cartoon paintings; 18-page bibliography of Barks' personal reference library; practical painting tips covering Barks' approach to composition, narrative, dynamic symmetry, color theory, painting media and more. Enchanted Images, 2010....More. Item Code: AFTCBD Soft Cover, 9x11, 270pg, Partial Color |
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INNOCENCE AND SEDUCTION The Art of Dan Decarlo New Expanded Edition, 40 more pages. Our Highest Recommendation. DeCarlo fan, friend, and fellow cartoonist Bill Morrison has produced the ultimate book on this remarkable artist, lavishly designed with nearly 350 illustrations. Rare World War II-era cartoons, original Humorama pinups, seldom-seen newspaper strips, examples of his justly famous commercial comics work, and of course, lots and lots of those fabulous DeCarlo ladies! Full color and black-and-white illustrations and photographs throughout. Fantagraphics, 2024. Out of print....More. Item Code: INNSEH Hard Cover, 9x12, 248pg, Partial Color |
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NUCLEUS X Artist Edition Four volumes, three with signed covers, 5 11x17 prints—3 signed—, signed original 9x12 detailed ink drawin,g and a CD. Our Highest Recommendation. NUCLEUS X is a boxed set of four 8x11 inch full color, stunning softcovers (over 200 pages) of the 10th issue of the fanzine that pro-artist Mark Wheatley began publishing back in the 1960s as a young fan. These pages are filled with his own artistic history, tributes to other artists such as Dan Smith and Walter Jardine, full color paintings and illustrated stories, several from Robert E. Howard and E.R. Burroughs novels (Conan, Solomon Kane, Dejah Thoris and John Carter), reviews, and more. The quality of work here is magnificent. - Bud Insight Studios, 2024....More. Item Code: NUCXAS Soft Cover, 9x11, 200pg, Full Color |
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R/EVOLUTION THE ART OF JON FOSTER Hardcover Recommended. Edited by Cathy and Arnie Fenner, and Irene Gallo. Jon Foster creates irresistibly dark demimondes populated by retro robots, Star Wars villains, and creepy goth-inspired creatures that recall the work of James Gurney (Dinotopia), Rick Berry, H. R. Giger, and past masters of the grotesque like Goya. Yet his work is inimitably his own, from the noirish lighting, off-kilter angles, and kinetic sense of movement to his singular technique of starting a project with oils and then scanning it into a computer to add more startling visual effects. Underwood Books, 2006. Out of Print....More. Item Code: REVOH Hard Cover, 9x12, 128pg, Full Color |
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ATLAS COMICS LIBRARY Volume 1 Adventures in Terror Collects #1-8, 1950-52. By Gene Colan, Russ Heath, Basil Wolverton, et al. Our Highest Recommendation. The Fantagraphics Atlas Comics Library is the first attempt to publish a carefully curated line of Atlas titles. This first volume includes a treasure trove of stories drawn by many of the most stylistically accomplished artists of the Golden Age including Joe Maneely, George Tuska, Carl Burgos, Mike Sekowsky, and Joe Sinnott— highlights include Russ Heath’s two-part story "The Brain"; Basil Wolverton's classic "Where Monsters Dwell" from issue #7; Gene Colan's moody "House of Horror" in issue #3; and Don Rico’s wild layouts are on display from #4’s "The Torture Room." Fantagraphics, 2023....More. Item Code: ATL01H Hard Cover, 9x11, 208pg, Full Color |
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ATLAS COMICS LIBRARY Volume 2 Venus #2 Collects Venus #10-19, 1950-52. Our Highest Recommendation. In the late 1940s, Marvel Comics predecessors Timely and Atlas Comics published Venus, a lighthearted romance comic about the goddess of love. Never a company to miss a trend, Atlas introduced science fiction and made her a superhero — then made the title a straight-out horror anthology. Today it's one of the most desirable pre-code titles. Here is the swift-changing second half of the 19-issue run — all the very best issues! Future Marvel stars Bill Everett (seven issues) and Werner Roth (three issues) take Venus to heights of four-color weirdness and pre-Code horror ghastliness. Fantagraphics, 2024....More. Item Code: ATL02H Hard Cover, 9x11, 280pg, Full Color |
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BLACK PANTHER By Reginald Hudlin Omnibus Collects Black Panther #1-41, Annual #1, Black Panther #1-6 and much more, 2005-18. Teaming with superstar artist John Romita Jr., Reginald Hudlin begins by going right back to the start — presenting T'Challa's origin in cinematic scope! The secret history of Wakanda is revealed as Princess Shuri becomes a huge part of the Black Panther mythos! But every king needs a queen, and so T'Challa embarks on his most dangerous quest yet: to marry the love of his life, Storm of the X-Men! The wildest honeymoon ever known takes the newlyweds around the globe and beyond! Stops include Latveria, the Moon, Atlantis and a United States locked in Civil War over the Superhuman Registration Act! But when disaster strikes, Shuri must claim the cowl and fight for Wakanda as the new Black Panther! Marvel, 2024. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge....More. Item Code: BLAPRH Hard Cover, 7x11, 1368pg, Full Color |
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CAPTAIN AMERICA Omnibus Volume 2 Collects Captain America #114-148, 1969-72. Recommended. While the world believes that Steve Rogers is dead, Captain America lives on! Stan Lee, Gene Colan and John Romita Sr. give us a body-swapping encounter with the Red Skull; the first appearance of the Falcon; M.O.D.O.K. returns; Cap sets out on a road trip to explore his and his country’s souls; Bucky returns; Nick Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D. enlist Cap against Hydra; Spider-Man and the Hulk face off against Cap...! Marvel, 2024....More. Item Code: CAP02H Hard Cover, 8x11, 824pg, Full Color |
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SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN The Original Comics Omnibus Volume 2 Collects Savage Sword of Conan #13-28 and Super Special #2, 1976-78. Highly Recommended. The cornerstone of Marvel's black-and-white magazine line offers stories of fiction's most famous barbarian unencumbered by the Comics Code. Ferocious, untamed tales by Roy Thomas and artistic greats including John Buscema and Neal Adams, took full advantage and the results are fine mature work. Multi-part sagas like "The People of the Black Circle" luxuriate in extended tellings, while Buscema's take on "The Tower of the Elephant" and "Worms of the Earth" explores the nuance of all-time Robert E. Howard classics. Plus great painted covers!. Titan, 2024. ...More. Item Code: SAVOC02H Hard Cover, 8x11, 944pg, Full Color |
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CREEPSHOW DELUXE BOOK 1 Collects Creepshow Vol 1 #1-5 and Vol 2 #1-5 plus Creepshow one-shot, 2023-24. Recommended. This deluxe hardcover collection presents every issue of the award-nominated Creepshow comic book series, based on the hit Shudder TV series and advancing the worldwide phenomenon that began with George A. Romero and Stephen King’s iconic 1982 film. Featuring Garth Ennis (The Boys), Becky Cloonan (Punisher), Paul Dini (Batman: The Animated Series), Michael Walsh (The Silver Coin), Saladin Ahmed (Miles Morales: Spider-Man), David & Maria Lapham (Stray Bullets), Erica Henderson (Assassin Nation, Dracula, Motherf**ker), and Francesco Francavilla (Night of the Ghoul, Detective Comics) and L Marlow Francavilla, and more. All introduced by a creepy host who will remind you of EC's very own Crypt-Keeper. Fun stuff!! Image Comics, 2024....More. Item Code: CREPS01H Hard Cover, 7x11, 256pg, Full Color |
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ROBIN HOOD Fleetway Comics Archives Recommended. By Reginald Heade, Jesus Blasco, Fred Holmes, Reg Bunn and Patrick Nicolle. Adventures in Sherwood Forest from the Fleetway Comics Archives, first published in British weekly comics. Here’s the very best complete work from Knockout, Sun, Robin Hood Annual and Thriller Picture Library comics. 14 complete adventures. Book Palace, 2024.<...More. Item Code: ROBHOH Hard Cover, 9x11, 264pg, b&w |
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SEA WOLVES Fleetway Comics Archives Limited, 500. Compiled from 1959-62. Recommended. Well-drawn tales of adventure on the High Seas: Pirates from the Fleetway Comics Archives from Film Fun and Knockout British comics. Captain Kidd by Reg Bunn and Alberto Salinas. Captives of El Dorado by Cecil Doughty and Patrick Nicolle. Mysterious Island by Mike Western. Pirates of Blood River by Mike Western. The Black Pirate by Cecil Doughty. Book Palace, 2024....More. Item Code: SEAWOH Hard Cover, 9x11, 120pg, b&w |
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WALT KELLY'S ADVENTURES OF PETER WHEAT Volume 2 Collects #15-27, 1948-51. Highly Recommended. Walt Kelly's Peter Wheat comics are renowned for their humor and artistic flair, appealing to both children and adults, as well as their incredible scarcity. Never before have they been collected. Between 1948 and 1951, Kelly drew thirty-five issues of The Adventures of Peter Wheat, a sixteen page comic book given away to bakeries to promote Peter Wheat bread. The stories were fairy tales starring Peter Wheat, an elf-sized boy who lived in a hollow tree on the edge of a wheat field where he and the Little Folk battled Dragonel, Queen of the Hornets. Hermes, 2024. ....More. Item Code: WKADP02 Soft Cover, 7x10, 216pg, Full Color |
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THE LOST WORLDS OF GEORGE METZGER Highly Recommended. George Metzger’s underground comics from the 1970s stand out for their captivating combination of high fantasy and science fiction, his prescient views of climate change and political chicanery —and, just when you need it, the right touch of whimsy and imaginative insight. Explore a feudal landscape in steam-powered vehicles, soar the skies in anachronistic airships and hitchhike back to nature with the hippies. It’s all here in George Metzger’s most iconic (and idiosyncratic) comics creations — including two never-before-seen stories rediscovered after missing for decades! Fantagraphics, 2024....More. Item Code: LOSGM Soft Cover, 8x11, 320pg, Partial Color |
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BLACKHAWK Volume 8 Collects #40-43, 1951. Highly Recommended. Four wonderful 52-page issues from Blackhawk's prime era. Robots, beautiful girls in nearly every story (usually bad girls!), Flying Tanks, lost civilizations...wild stuff, with spillover from the horror comics genre at the same time. Every issue boasts one or two stories by the great Reed Crandall plus fun, well-drawn Chop Chop back-up stories by Paul Gustavson. Primo Work. Just these four covers alone are classics! PS Artbooks, 2023....More. Item Code: BLAC08 Soft Cover, 7x10, 208pg, Full Color |
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BLACKHAWK Volume 9 Collects #44-48, 1951-52. Highly Recommended. Art by Reed Crandall, Paul Gustavson and Dick Dillin. These five new Quality Comics' Blackhawk issues show just why this title was so popular and so long-lived. Reed Crandall provides brilliant covers and at least one lead story each issue, showing the same talent he was using at EC just a year or so after these came out. And the stories of our intrepid squad stay fresh and different with bad girls often leading criminal gangs, dictators, and starting to get a touch of horror tales as comics discovered horror in general. Backup Chop Chop stories by the brilliant Paul Gustavson. PS Artbooks, 2023....More. Item Code: BLAC09 Soft Cover, 7x10, 196pg, Full Color |
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BLACKHAWK Volume 10 Collects #49-53, 1952. Highly Recommended Art by Reed Crandall, Paul Gustavson and Dick Dillin. Another five thick issues with wild stories: the first Killer Shark story, invasions, a 12-foot-tall mummy, killers of the Amazon, Hell-diver rockets and much more. Primo cold war and horror and adventure stories from one of the most popular and long-running titles of the Golden Age, which carried right into the Silver Age with many revivals into modern times. PS Artbooks, 2023....More. Item Code: BLAC10 Soft Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color |
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CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT Volume 1 #1-3, 1942. Complete with all ads and bonus back cover “Comix Cards". Recommended. Captain Midnight began as a popular radio program, starred in films, and Fawcett bought the rights to make him one of their premier Golden Age comics. Jack Binder and Joe Millard put together these first three 64-page issues battling the Axis powers. PS Artbooks, 2023....More. Item Code: CAPM01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color |
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THUN'DA KING OF THE CONGO Volume 1 Collects #2-6, 1952-53. Highly Recommended. By Bob Powell. First appearing in comics in 1952 and on film in Columbia Pictures serial "King of the Congo" starring Buster Crabbe, Thun'da was a fictional Tarzan-esque character scripted by Gardner Fox and originally created by artist Frank Frazetta! Thun'da was Roger Drum, a World War II United States Air Force officer who was shot down while flying over a lost civilization, deep in the heart of Africa. Bob Powell took over and did a superb job on #2 through #6, collected here — but Powell's fine work has always been in the shadow of Frazetta's work in issue #1. Powell's at his best here, with Thund'da and his voluptuous girl friend...it's as exciting as the work he did on Cave Girl, which is another under-appreciated title from the same publisher, Magazine Enterprises (ME). PS Artbooks, 2024. ...More. Item Code: THUN01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color |
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MIDNIGHT COMICS Volume 1 Hardcover Collects #1-5, 1957-58. This oddball, post-code title reprinted stories from pre-code horror titles Voodoo, Fantastic Fears, Haunted Thrills and Strange Fantasy, with suitable changes to pass the new code. Behind all-new covers by unknown artists, you'll find classic pre-code stories, retitled and altered, from the Iger Shop, Ken Battefield, and Robert Webb. Also here are one-off stories from Seven Seas #4 and Farrell's own Phantom Lady series, when she was resurrected in 1954, with stories from issues #1 and 2, and from The Flame #5. PS Artbooks, 2023. ...More. Item Code: MIDN01H Hard Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color |
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CAT-MAN #4 Facsimile Edition Sept 1942. Highly Recommended. By Charles Quinlan, Ray Willner, Allen Ulmer, Irwin Hasen et al. Published by Holyoke Publishing in early 1942, this is a shining example of the best of the Golden Age. The series featured the superhero Cat-Man, created by writer and artist Charles M. Quinlan. Today this is a key GA title and issues are snapped up for big bucks. Cat-Man is solo here, Kitten has not yet joined him. A typical anthology title, back up features include the heroes Rag Man, Blaze Baylor, superhero Dr. Diamond, Lucky Landers, Hurricane Harrigan (also by Quinlan), The Deacon (a prison warden!), Lance Rand with an escaped ape story, Devil Dogs (U.S. pilots), and superhero Pied Piper! PS Artbooks, 2025....More. Item Code: CATM04 Comic, 7x10, 68pg, Full Color |
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STUNTMAN #1 Facsimile Edition Highly Recommended. High-flying action and jaw-dropping stunts as legendary creators Jack Kirby and Joe Simon create an entirely new non-super character. A daredevil stuntman is embroiled in circus stunts and movie directing, and it's all some of S&K's finest Golden Age work. Killer double-page action spreads akin to their work for Captain America in 1941-42. PS Artbooks, 2024....More. Item Code: STUN01 Comic, 7x10, 56pg, Full Color |
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COMIC BOOK CREATOR #31 Edited by Jon B. Cooke. The artistry of Graham Nolan! A career-spanning interview with the co-creator of Batman's back-breaking nemesis, Bane, from Graham's Kubert School start to recent Compass Comics titles, including The Chenoo and Alien Alamo! There's also an art gallery of his Monster Island projects, The Phantom newspaper strip, and his Dark Knight Detective collaborations with writer Chuck Dixon! Also spotlighted is "Marvel's Great Folly of 1972," where Stan Lee and the whole blamed Bullpen put on a notorious and near-catastrophic stage production at Carnegie Hall. Then it's Part One of a look at cartoonist Frank Borth, on his Funnies, Inc. beginnings, producing Quality Comics masterpieces, and his friendship with Reed Crandall, and more. Plus a 1974 trade journal article on the DC Comics Production Department and their Famous First Edition treasury editions. And Greg Biga talks with Dan Didio, former DC Comics co-publisher, on his latest endeavor as publisher of Frank Miller's current comics line, Frank Miller Presents, and his creating the new title, Ancient Enemies. Plus the usual excellence from the CBC bullpen! TwoMorrows, 2023....More. Item Code: CBCR31 Magazine, 8x11, 84pg, Full Color |
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BILL THE BOY WONDER Recommended. By Marc Tyler Nobelman. Art by Batman artist Ty Templeton. Every Batman story is marked with the words, “Batman created by Bob Kane.” But that isn’t the whole truth. A struggling writer named Bill Finger was involved from the beginning. Bill helped invent Batman, from concept to costume to character. He dreamed up Batman’s haunting origins and his colorful nemeses. Despite his brilliance, Bill worked in obscurity. It was only after his death that fans went to bat for Bill, calling for acknowledgment that he was co-creator of Batman. Batman artist Ty Templeton brings Marc Tyler Nobleman’s exhaustive research to life in this all-ages picture book. Charlesbridge, 2012....More. Item Code: BILLBWH Hard Cover, 9x11, 48pg, Full Color |
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DAISY GOES TO THE MOON Embossed cover. Recommended. Adapted and illustrated by Rick Geary. In 1919, Victorian author Daisy Ashford (1881-1972) published a book she co-wrote with her parents at 9 years old to great success. None other than J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan) was enchanted by the manuscript — "brimming with the solecisms and malapropisms of infantile naivete, while infused with a keen sense of observation from a lavishing resplendent bygone era." He was instrumental in its publication. Inspired by her imaginative adventure, writer Mathew Klickstein and cartoonist Rick Geary have created a delightful graphic novel, in which little Daisy goes to outer space, visits the cosmic automat, watches TV with a time traveler, and more! Fantagraphics, 2025....More. Item Code: DAISGM Hard Cover, 8x10, 96pg, b&w |
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ALLEY OOP AND THE MONARCHS OF GORP 1990 Dave Graue Recommended. Alley Oop is stranded on the peculiar planet of Gorp, home of crazy crawling creatures and the malevolent Monarchs! Also featuring a quest through a creepy castle to find the origin of the Lost Frankenstank Medallion and a trip to Colorado in 1873 to punch out bears and save a Mountain Man from killers! Reprinting all daily strips from 1990. Acoustic Learning, 2024....More. Item Code: ALLE90 Soft Cover, 9x8, 110pg, b&w |
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A WIZARD OF EARTHSEA A Graphic Novel Recommended. Ursula K. Le Guin’s timeless and revered award-winning novel, reimagined in this "richly expansive" graphic novel by acclaimed artist Fred Fordham, creator of the stunning graphic novel adaptations of To Kill a Mockingbird and Brave New World. Ged was the greatest sorcerer in Earthsea, but in his youth he was the reckless Sparrowhawk. In his hunger for power and knowledge, he tampered with long-held secrets and unleashed a terrible shadow upon the world. 269 fully painted pages! Clarion Books, 2025....More. Item Code: WIZEH Hard Cover, 6x9, 288pg, Full Color |
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DEFENDERS OF THE EARTH Vol 1 Collects #1-4, 2024. By Dan DiDio. Art by Jim Califiore. Flash Gordon, The Phantom, Mandrake the Magician and Lothar are united again in this re-imagining of the classic animated series, starring the three classic heroes created by artist/writer Alex Raymond and by writer Lee Falk in the Golden Age of Sunday Page adventures strips in the 1930s. The new team, Defenders of the Earth, continues the original series; Flash confronts Ming in final battle, only to find that even greater threats await him and his teammates as they each must confront ghosts of their past to protect their families and future. Mad Cave Studios, 2025....More. Item Code: DEFE01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 120pg, Full Color |
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DRACULA A Storybook Portfolio Highly Recommended. By J. H. Williams III. Superbly drawn! A unique exploration of art and story, centered on one of the most famous works in gothic horror. Featuring numerous painted illustrations and accompanying written passages to create a storytelling experience that goes beyond the typical expectations of an art book, making for a potent combination of illustration and prose. Presenting over 150 pages of art and story by J.H. Williams III (The Sandman Overture, Promethea, Batwoman), a multi award-winning New York Times bestseller and the co-creator of Echolands, also from Image Comics. Image Comics, 2024....More. Item Code: DRACSH Hard Cover, 7x11, 160pg, Full Color |
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FLASH GORDON Volume 1 Collects #1-5. Recommended. 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: FLAS01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 160pg, Full Color |
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FRANK MILLER'S PANDORA BOOK Volume 1 Art by Emma Kubert. Annabeth is an endlessly curious fifteen-year-old girl. Unpopular at school, unhappy at home, and struggling to feel like she belongs, everything changes for her when she stumbles across a flower-shaped relic with the power to warp reality. Determined to change her dissatisfying everyday life, Annabeth uses her newfound powers to transform the world around her”and as she does, she sows the seeds of impending chaos in her wake. From legendary creator Frank Miller comes a dark, modern-day fairy tale about a teenage girl searching for a perfect world. But all is not what it seems . . . Abrams, 2024....More. Item Code: FMPAN01H Hard Cover, 7x10, 208pg, Full Color |
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KAFKA'S MANUSCRIPT With a stylistic nod to the wordless novels of Frans Masereel and the expressionist drawings of Franz Kafka himself, Jason Novak’s short (and wordless) graphic novel begins at the author’s deathbed, where he entrusts his friend Max Brod with the task of destroying his unpublished papers. Brod refuses, and what follows is the story of how Kafka’s literary legacy escaped Europe under the shadow of fascism. It is a survey of Kafka’s paranoid landscape in kinetoscopic monochrome. Fantagraphics, 2025....More. Item Code: KAFKM Soft Cover, 5x7, 132pg, b&w |
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LEGION OF SUPER HEROES The Great Darkness Saga Collects Legion #287, 290-294 and Annual #3, 1982-84. The godlike Darkseid emerges in the 30th century with an ingenious plot to finally conquer the universe. Paul Levitz and Keith Giffen's timeless epic! Using his faithful minions to acquire all of the mystic artifacts, Darkseid gains mental control over a race of three billion all-powerful beings. The Legion of Super-Heroes amass their own army of every champion who ever held the status of Legionnaire to stand against the Dark Lord and his invincible soldiers. DC Comics, 2024....More. Item Code: LEGSG Soft Cover, 7x10, 192pg, Full Color |
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SHAME Volume 6 Cradle's End Recommended. By Lovern Kindzierski. Art by John Bolton. Book 6 of 9 in the Eisner-nominated fantasy series with stunning art and beautiful (and not so beautiful) heroines. Hope and Merritt fight their way deeper into Cradle to heal the wound that could allow demons of hell to spew their terror into the world. Shame, trapped and broken into pieces, works to recover her powers and free herself and her evil, sorcerous allies. Will Hope and Merritt stop Shame in time or will the queen of the darkest powers vanquish them all? Renegade Arts Entertainment, 2024. Mature Readers....More. Item Code: SHAM06 Soft Cover, 7x11, 64pg, Full Color |
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VALERIAN AND LAURELINE Where Stories Are Born Highly Recommended. By Pierre Christin. Art by Virginie Augustin. A brand new Valerian and Laureline adventure! A second volume of a spin-off series that pays homage to a legendary series. The Delphs are an artificial species who depend entirely on an extremely rare substance, that not only allows them to live and reproduce, but also fuels their creative talents — for the Delphs are the most sought-after storytellers in the galaxy. They call upon Galaxity to find a new source of it, their own exhausted. But the only available deposit is on 21st century Earth, and the agents on station are still going to high school... Cinebook, 2023....More. Item Code: VALWS Soft Cover, 9x11, 56pg, Full Color |
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WALT DISNEY'S DONALD DUCK VACATION PARADE First published in 2021 in France. Highly Recommended. A comics tribute to Donald’s Golden Age animation career. Donald Duck is driven senseless by Duckburg’s hustle and bustle — and the cure might be a peaceful camping trip in the forest primeval. But...not if his greatest forest foes — Chip 'n' Dale and Humphrey Bear — have their way! A wild adventure for the lone duck, beautifully painted and packed with great gags. Oversized hardcover, bargain priced. Fantagraphics, 2024....More. Item Code: WDVACH Hard Cover, 10x12, 48pg, Full Color |
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WICKED The Graphic Novel Part 1 Recommended. Art by Scott Hampton. Like Dorothy when she crash-landed all those years ago, prepare to be swept into a new and colorful world in this first-ever graphic novel adaptation of Wicked. While the long-running Broadway musical and major motion picture take inspiration from this iconic novel, this is Oz as Gregory Maguire wrote it — a fantastical story with dark edges that explores morality and ambition, love and friendship, and discovering one’s inner power. Very well drawn by the acclaimed Scott Hampton, fully painted. William Morrow Paperbacks, 2025....More. Item Code: WICK01 Soft Cover, 6x9, 176pg, Full Color |
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THE MOON MAID The Centennial Edition Almost Gone! Three book set! Signed by the contributors, numbered & limited to 600. Art by Mark Schultz, Sanjulian, Bob Eggleton, Joe Jusko, J. Allen St. John, Jeffrey Jeff Jones, Frank Frazetta, et al. Special edition of The Moon Maid, The Moon Men, and The Red Hawk trilogy, published for the first time in hardback in three separate volumes. With 20,000 words not found in the 1926 A. C. McClurg first edition. Each book in the set is printed on archival paper, Smyth-sewn, bound in a leather cover, double stamped in gold and wrapped in a newly commissioned, full color dust jacket. The set is housed, with a collector's portfolio of bonus artifacts in facsimile, in a decorated leather clamshell case. 100 illustrations from 20 different artists past and present, including 20 tipped in color plates, 30 full page b&w illustrations and 40 spot b&w illustrations. And one of ERB’s most interesting concepts, a story that takes place over 400 years, on Earth and on the Moon. ERB, Inc., 2023. Out of print....More. Item Code: MOONMH Hard Cover, 6x9, 468pg, Partial Color |
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MITZI GAYNOR Her Life and Career By Peter Shelley. Mitzi Gaynor (1931-2024) was an American actress, singer, dancer and writer. As a child dancer, she performed in the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera Association before being discovered by 20th Century-Fox for the movies. She was in a number of Fox movies and won the coveted role of Nellie Forbush in the film version of South Pacific (1958). In the 1960s, she played in Las Vegas to great success. She followed with a string of television specials while simultaneously performing on stage. In the 2000s, she toured her one-woman show entitled Razzle Dazzle: My Life Behind the Sequins. Full filmography of film and television, index of her and other actors, extensive bibliography. Illustrated with several dozen pictures and film posters. McFarland, 2024....More. Item Code: MITZG Soft Cover, 6x9, 168pg, Text/b&w |
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HALF CENTURY OF NUDES Traditional, Animated, and Stereoscopic Nudes. Recommended. By Byron A. Falk. Falk's favorite photographs, taken over 50 years of capturing beautiful young women. Many lovely nudes in a variety of active (jumping, stretching) and passive poses, indoors and out. Each chapter tackles a decade beginning in the 1950s, and they reflect changes in women's styles and looks. Entirely in full color. Handsome large oblong size, full red cloth with gilt titles and inset photograph. Roxbury, 2000. Mature Readers. Out of print....More. Item Code: HALFCH Hard Cover, 12x11, 228pg, Full Color |
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