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Not many new releases this week, but we do have a fine new Superman DC Finest edition, a Capt. Marvel Jr. #1 facsimile, and the Monster Men/Return of Monster Men softcovers. New On Sale we have never-before-handled Omnibus editions, a Loeb/Sale Gallery Edition, and a She-Hulk graphic novel at under half price. Rare Books include art books, DC Archives and Playboy sets. The Cyber Sale offers 20% off on top of already discounted sale items! But it expires Dec 1. Use coupon code: CYBER20 |
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Click here for last week's new items, and here for 2025's Best Sellers! Click here to see ALL New Arrivals, beginning with the latest and going back 30 days.
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| DC FINEST SUPERMAN The Invisible Luthor Our Highest Recommendation. By Jerry Siegel. Art by Joe Shuster and Paul Cassidy. Here are all the 1940-41 earliest adventures from Action Comics #26-40, Superman #6-11, World's Fair #2, World's Best #1 and World's Finest #2-3. Amazing early stories with all kinds of first appearances including some major first-ever moments for his nemesis, Lex Luthor! These are the stories that kicked off the entire world of superheros, and it's a Superman still learning how to use his super powers and balance with a life as reporter Clark Kent. Early encounters with Lois, righting social wrongs...Amazing, great work. DC Comics, 2025....More. Item Code: DCFSIL Soft Cover, 7x10, 600pg, Full Color |
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This excellent new seres of well-priced classic reprints keeps bringing us great titles. Click here to see all the titles we currently have in stock. We’ve confirmed additional titles that will be coming out in 2026: Doom Patrol: Death of the Doom Patrol, Wonder Woman: Enter the Cheetah, Green Arrow: Trial of Oliver Queen, and Batman: The Case of the Chemical Syndicate.
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CAPTAIN MARVEL JR #1 Facsimile Edition From 1942. Highly Recommended. By Otto Binder and Joe Millard. Cover by Raboy, art by Al Carreno. Experience the Golden Age in all its glory with this 64-page, 1942 issue with the origin retold. After his first stories in Master Comics, this Captain Marvel spin-off proved so popular he got his own title right in the middle of the wartime years. Brave newsboy Freddy Freeman's life is saved when Captain Marvel gives him part of his own powers. And here is Captain Nazi, the nemesis of CM Jr., who returns to challenge our young fighter. Classic Mac Raboy cover. PS Artbooks, 2025....More. Item Code: CAPMJ01 Comic, 7x10, 68pg, Full Color $15.99 |
| Here’s more specific Captain Marvel, Whiz and Fawcett editions, and all the facsimile editions in general. |
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RETURN OF WOLVERINE Omnibus John Cassaday Cover Collects Wolverines #1-20, four Hunt for Wolverine series #1-4, Return #1-5, Infinity Watch #1-5 and much more, 2015-19. By Charles Soule, Ray Fawkes, Tom Taylor et al. Art by Alisson Borges, Nick Bradshaw, Butch Guice, and a host of others. Logan is dead — but what will happen to his mortal remains, encased in Adamantium? The battle for control of this valuable artifact has begun, with Mystique, Mister Sinister, Daken, X-23, Sabretooth and Lady Deathstrike among the players in this deadly game! But just as the X-Men finally come to terms with Wolverine’s death, a shocking revelation reopens old wounds — and an epic quest begins across the Marvel Universe. But who will solve the puzzle first? Will it be Daredevil, Misty Knight and their crack squad of investigators? Or Logan’s fellow New Avengers: Iron Man, Spider-Man, Jessica Jones and Luke Cage? Marvel, 2025. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge. ...More. Item Code: RETWOLH Hard Cover, 8x11, 1232pg, Full Color |
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EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS UNIVERSE The Monster Men First published in 1929. New front and back cover by Brian leBlanc. By Edgar Rice Burroughs. On a secluded jungle island in the East Indies festers a horrifying secret. There Professor Maxon has fled with his daughter Virginia following the success of his immoral experiments to subvert the laws of nature and create life. Twelve misshapen, hideous things have risen from Maxon’s vats on the island — but Number Thirteen is almost human. Just how human, the latter will soon discover when he encounters Virginia, who awakens him to a strange new potential. But a treacherous ally and a cutthroat band of pirates have their sights on both Virginia and her father’s treasure...its's up to #13 to rescue them. Bonus Story: “Elmer” by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Rare Original Draft of “The Resurrection of Jimber-Jaw!” ERB Inc., 2025. ...More. Item Code: ERBMM Soft Cover, 6x9, 198pg, Text/b&w $24.95 |
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EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS UNIVERSE Return of the Monster Men By Josh Reynolds. Cover by Brian LeBlanc. Thirteen months after their horrifying experiences in the East Indies, Bulan — the man once known as Townsend J. Harper, Jr. — and his wife Virginia return the isle of terror where their adventures began. In their hearts lies a burning question: What truly happened to Number Thirteen, the soulless monster unleashed from Professor Maxon’s vats? But they are little prepared for the answer, or to confront the shadowy faction of a foreign power that has seized the island hoping to unearth its dread secrets for nefarious purposes. ERB Inc., 2025. ...More. Item Code: ERBRM Soft Cover, 6x9, 324pg, Text/b&w $24.95 |
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These softcovers are finally here. We also have Return in Hardcover, 2 available. Monster Men, 5 available. Discounted hardcover sets: we’re still waiting for more from the publisher to fill advance orders and to have on hand. Soon, we hope!! Here’s more from ERB Inc, from Tarzan and Barsoom to ERB Universe titles. |
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These first five titles we have NEVER before handled. We have a new source for as-new, perfect condition Omnibus Editions and Graphic Novels at big discounts, 50% or more off. |
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JEPH LOEB & TIM SALE DAREDEVIL Gallery Edition Closeout Price! Collects Daredevil: Yellow #1-6, 2001-02, plus special sketchbook section. Highly Recommended. Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale bring their signature style to Marvel's Man Without Fear! Focusing on the events leading up to his costumed debut, Daredevil: Yellow presents a Matt Murdock full of youthful exuberance and unyielding optimism. After the death of his father, Battlin' Jack Murdock, Matt dedicates his life to eradicating crime from the streets of Hell's Kitchen. Witness the birth of Daredevil as a young Murdock trains his body and mind to become a hero! Featuring the Fantastic Four, Electro, the Owl and the Purple Man — but rather than DD's adventures in his original suit, in this saga it's the maturation of Matt as a person and his growing love for Karen Page that take the spotlight! And Tim Sale's art looks better than ever in this oversized Gallery Edition! Marvel, 2023....More. Item Code: JEPHDH Hard Cover, 10x13, 168pg, Full Color |
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We also have just two copies left of Loeb and Sale’s Hulk Gallery Edition [JEPHGH. |
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X-MEN 2099 Omnibus Hildebrandt Cover Closeout Price! Collects X-Men 2099 #1-35, X-Nation #1-6, 2099 Special #1, and much more, 1993-96. In the year 2099, Xi’an Chi Xan wants Meanstreak, Krystalin, Skullfire, Metalhead, Serpentina, Junkpile and Cerebra to help rebuild Charles Xavier’s century-old dream — but lies, betrayal and assassination may tear them down before they start! The gods of the Aesir and demons of the Theatre of Pain — including the sadistic Brimstone Love — are against them. Will the shape-shifting Bloodhawk join the new X-Men’s cause? Halloween Jack offers more tricks than treats, the Free Radicals will Daze and confuse, the Undead rise, and the X-Nation is born! But is Xi’an truly this era’s Professor X? Or will he become the X-Men’s most dangerous enemy? Marvel, 2024. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge....More. Item Code: XMOMHV Hard Cover, 8x11, 1240pg, Full Color |
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ROM The Original Marvel Years Omnibus Volume 2 Zeck Cover Closeout Price! Collects Rom #30-50, Annual #1-2, Marvel Two-In-One #99, 1982-84. By Bill Mantlo with Mark Gruenwald and Steven Grant. Art by Sal Buscema with Pat Broderick, Greg LaRocque and Bob Hall. Cover by Bill Sienkiewicz. Locked in an endless struggle with the Dire Wraiths, Rom’s solemn quest to eradicate them from Earth brings him into conflict with the Metal Master and his army of spiders and Mystique and the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Plus a cosmic epic features Doctor Strange, the In-Betweener, the Living Tribunal...and the human form of Rom?! Has he been freed from his armor at last? The Spaceknight joins Namor to battle monsters of the deep, and Shang-Chi lends his deadly hands to thwart the Wraiths’ black magic. Marvel, 2024....More. Item Code: ROM02HV Hard Cover, 8x11, 664pg, Full Color |
| Click for three more Rom collections, all on sale, including Volumes 1 and 3. |
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SPIDER-MAN 2099 Omnibus Volume 2 Ferry Cover Closeout Price! Collects Spider-Man 2099 #1-12 and #1-25; Captain Marvel #27-30; Superior Spider-Man #17-19; Secret Wars 2099 #1-5 and more, 1999-2015. By Peter David, Dan Slott, Len Wein, and many others. Art by Will Sliney, Rick Leonardi, Crisscross, Marie Severin et al. Cover by Simone Bianchi. Back from the future, it's Miguel O'Hara — the Spider-Man of 2099. But he's become stranded in the present day, when the omnipresent future corporation Alchemax has only just been formed and Miguel has a chance to stop its corruption before it starts! Then all his plans are derailed when the vicious Inheritors attack the Spider-Verse — and by the time Spidey returns to the cusp of the 22nd century, the malicious Maestro has taken charge. To save tomorrow, Miguel will have to visit today all over again. Now, heroes from both eras — including the time-lost Captain America 2099 — must join his fight to prevent the disaster that left 2099 in ruins! Marvel, 2024. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge....More. Item Code: SPIOM02HV Hard Cover, 8x11, 1256pg, Full Color |
| Here are more 2099 collections, from Arana & Spider-Man to Ghost Rider. |
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NEW MUTANTS Omnibus Volume 3 Byrne Cover Closeout Price! Collects #55-85 and 11 more titles/issues, 1987-2008. By Louise Simonson, Chris Claremont et al. Art by Bret Blevins, Terry Austin, Jon Muth, John Byrne, Bo Hampton, et al. Turmoil and tragedy for the New Mutants —Bird-Brain is the team's new feathered friend, but when the New Mutants trace his origins to the freak-filled island of the Ani-Mator, one teammate will not return home. The New Mutants are shattered by grief, but when they're dragged into an outer-space adventure and a revolt in Limbo ignites an Inferno on Earth, the team must ally with X-Factor's wards, the X-Terminators, to repel an army of demons and save Magik's soul! Then, when Hela's evil spell corrupts Mirage's Valkyrie side, the New Mutants travel to Asgard! But can a handful of mortal mutants defeat the Goddess of Death? Marvel, 2023.Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge....More. Item Code: NEWM03HV Hard Cover, 7x11, 1136pg, Full Color |
| Here are more New Mutants, including Bill Sienkiewicz's Mutants and Moon Knights [BSMUT. |
These new sale titles below, we handled before but they are long sold out from us: |
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SHE-HULK By Rainbow Powell Volume 1 Closeout Price! Collects #1-5, 2022. The best character ever is back in her own series and about to glam up the whole Marvel Universe! The Sensational She-Hulk is no longer savage — and now she needs to put her life back together. She’s got a legal career to rebuild, friends to reacquaint herself with (and maybe represent in a court of law), and enemies to...well, she may not want to connect with them, but they are definitely going to connect with her. And Jen is about to be sent down a road she’s never traveled, one that will shake up her life...and possibly the whole Marvel Universe. Variant covers by Stanley Lau, Adam Hughes, and eight others. Marvel, 2022....More. Item Code: SHRR01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 120pg, Full Color |
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SPIDER-GWEN GHOST-SPIDER Omnibus Closeout Price-Never before offered! Collects Gwen Ghost-Spider #1-10, Ghost-Spider #1-10 Gwenom vs. Carnage #1-3, Web Warriors #1-11 and much more, c.2015. By Seanan McGuire and Vita Ayala. Art by Rosi Kampe et al. Gwen Stacy, Spider-Woman returns — as Ghost-Spider! But the inter-dimensional events of Spider-Geddon are about to rock her world, and soon she will face her own evil self: the Gwen Goblin! Meanwhile, Mary Jane’s vision for their band is driving Gwen crazy, her father is pressuring her to return to school, and something sinister stalks the New York City of Gwen’s native Earth-65. So Gwen enrolls in classes in the Marvel Universe instead! Marvel, 2023....More. Item Code: SPIGSH Hard Cover, 8x11, 824pg, Full Color |
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First the Art Books: The Art of Norman Saunders, Movie Poster Books set of 11, Gil Elvgren: All His Pin-Ups, Calendar Girl, Paintings of J. Allen St. John, It Came from Bob’s Basement, Devil’s Advocate: The Art of Coop, and The Book of Tiki. Comics Related Books: Power Rangers Ultimate History, The Celebrated Cases of Dick Tracy, Popeye 60th Anniversary, Photo-Journal Vols 1 & 2. Comics and Archive Sets: Spirit Kitchen Sink Comics set, Powerhouse Pepper set, Archie Archives set and PS Tom Corbett Space Cadet set. DC Archive sets: The Atom, Superman/Supergirl, The Dark Knight, and Hawkman. Playboy Sets: College Girls Nudes, Nude Playmates, Girls of Summer & Winter, Nudes, and 2007 set of 12. |
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THE ART OF DANIEL WARREN JOHNSON Includes 8.5 X 11 bonus print of the paperback black-and-white cover art. This volume showcases the majority of Daniel Warren Johnson’s kinetic career since his start in 2012. There are a multitude of sections covering his favorite comic-book covers and pages, along with rarely seen commissions and personal works, preliminaries and cover thumbnails. Full access was given to his personal sketchbooks, allowing for a deep look at over 200 sketches. Flesk, 2025. Due: Dec....More. Item Code: ARTDWJ Soft Cover, 9x12, 288pg, Partial Color |
| Fiendish Monsters: The Horror Art of Bruce Timm in softcover and hardcover. A brand new collection from Flesk...watch for it in two weeks. Click here for more Flesk titles, including several on sale. |
Cyber20 and November Sale |
ANY GUN CAN PLAY The Essential Guide to Euro-Westerns |
ADVENTURES OF RED SONJA Omnibus Hardcover |
DC VERSUS MARVEL Omnibus |
This week we have TWO separate new sale lists for you. First is our Cyber 20 Sale, which you see up top of this email. That links to books already on sale which with the coupon are now ANOTHER 20% off… Since Monday night we’ve added more than 120 titles to bring the mix to over 400 in all. Take ANOTHER 20% off the sale prices of all Cybersale20 books. Use Coupon Code CYBER20. This is for one week only and expires Dec 1. Secondly, we have our latest Cyber Monday Sale which has 128 ALL NEW items now discounted, while supplies last. Click here for the 60-item email plus links, or search the website and see all 128 with code NOVSALE. This sale went out on Monday and we’re already sold out several titles -- Act now for the best selection. Stocking stuffers anyone? |
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AFTER CARL BARKS Painting Fine-Art Cartoons in Oils Original Art Edition |
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Here is our bi-weekly listing of items that are out of print or discontinued with only a few copies left. Once they are gone... they're gone indefinitely. We are frequently adding blemished copies into our Imperfect Editions section, but often times the small quantity prohibits us from including them in the weekly emails. Check back often to find bargain treasures! |
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Barsoom Volumes #6-8 will be shipping this spring. As always, with new Joe Jusko covers. See more ERB here. |
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The last issue of Rick Norwood’s Comics Revue came out in December of 2024. With Diamond Comics bankruptcy coupled with an illness, Rick is unable to continue his long-running comic strip magazine. We are sad to see it end. Here’s what we have left for you, nine issues, some on sale, plus Rick’s superlative Prince Valiant American Epic (Sunday page size reprints of the first 3 years, 1937-39 [RB2136. $500]. Only one set available. PV pages have never looked so good as in these three fine volumes. Thanks to Rick for so many years of fine books, also including his Alley Oop collections by V.T. Hamlin that remain available. ~Bud |
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