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We have new Flash Sale items, and new arrivals: The Art of Simon & Kirby, two new Conan Omnibuses, Terry & The Pirates Volume 10, The Vision and the Scarlet Witch, and Secret War. June Coming Items, big big Diamond news and coming next week: Kirby’s Sky Masters, ERB’s Artist Edition Pirates of Venus and signed sketchbooks from Dave Stevens, Jim Silke and others! |
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| The publisher has very few of these left. We have 3 copies in stock as I write this, and a few more coming. Act now on this decade-old collection still at the release price. Click here for more by Simon & Kirby. See News and Notes about Kirby’s Skymasters, here next week: |
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AVAILABLE SOON! SKY MASTERS OF THE SPACE FORCE The Complete Sunday Strips in Color New Edition, larger size with 16 bonus pages in color. Our Highest Recommendation. By Jack Kirby and Wally Wood. The Sky Masters of the Space Force newspaper strip is one of the most fascinating and obscure works by comics legend Jack Kirby. Created and developed by Kirby with writer Dave Wood at the beginning of 1958 while Kirby was working for National (DC), the Sky Masters daily strip debuted on September 8 of that year. Five months later, on February 8, 1959, the color Sunday strips arrived featuring a totally independent story line from the dailies.The strip narrates, with a realistic approach, the adventures of Major Sky Masters during the early days of space exploration in the late 1950s, just as a new front opened in the Cold War between the U.S. and U.S.S.R.: a frenzied space race. Kirby Museum Press, 2024. Due: Mar....More. Item Code: SKYMH Hard Cover, 10x14, 144pg, Partial Color $55.00 |
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TERRY AND THE PIRATES The Master Collection Volume 10 1944 Spies, Snakes and Hotshots. Highly Recommended. By Milton Caniff.Terry must solve the riddle, "Who is Madame Shoo-Shoo?” It’s an answer that places him in the clutches of Singh-Singh; his wife, Cheery Blaze; and the Nazi major with whom they do business! Meanwhile, Burma and teen-aged orphan Willow Belinda connect with Terry just in time to meet the nosy war correspondent, Dunkan, and the noisy new flyboy, Hotshot Charlie! But the hearts that beat fastest belong to daredevil pilot “Snake” Tumblin and “Big” Jane Allen of the Women’s Army Corps. Clover Press, 2025. ...More. Item Code: TERP10H Hard Cover, 11x14, 164pg, Partial Color $100.00 |
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Volumes 1 (with Vol 1 and 13 for $120) and 2-9 ($100 each) are all currently in stock. Two volumes to go. Click here for Steve Canyon and quite a few long out of print books by and about Milton Caniff, such as Rembrandt of the Comic Strip (1946, Fine minus [RB6977. $200] and three copies of the very first collection ever published, in 1946: Terry and the Pirates, Random House, 1st edition [RB4066 Fine |
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CONAN THE BARBARIAN The Original Comics Omnibus Volume 4 Highly Recommended. Roy Thomas' decade-long original run on Conan the Barbarian ranks as one of the greatest in comic book history, and it was crucial in making Conan an icon known the world over! Roy and artistic collaborator John Buscema bring the saga of Belit and her quest for the crown of Asgulun to a conclusion. It's a tale that will forever change Conan's life — and the adventures that follow feature a more savage Conan, fiercer than ever and truly unbound! Several dozen pages of bonus material: editorials, house ads, original art, variant covers. Mature Readers. Titan, 2024. ...More. Item Code: CONOC04H Hard Cover, 8x11, 880pg, Full Color |
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SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN The Original Comics Omnibus Volume 4 Recommended. By Roy Thomas. Art by John Buscema, Gil Kane et al. More of the best Conan adventures ever, from the classic long-running Marvel b&w magazine with more mature and longer stories. A four-part epic "Conan The Liberator" sees Conan realize his destiny as he raises an army to overthrow the mad king Numedides. A massive winged monster guards a tower holding a weather-controlling gem; An army of Picts surround Conan. In "The Treasure of Tranicos," Conan matches wits with a band of pirates who'd rather kill each other than share any of the loot — all while the wicked Thoth-Amon stalks them from the shadows. Titan, 2024....More. Item Code: SAVOC04H Hard Cover, 8x11, 976pg, Full Color |
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MARVEL MASTERWORKS VISION AND THE SCARLET WITCH Volume 1 Collects #1-12, West Coast Avengers #2, and more, 1982-92. By Steve Englehart with Mike Barr, Roger McKenzie et al. Art by Richard Howell with Paul Smith, Mike Mignola, John Ridgway et al. A massive 478 pages collecting the adventures of the Avengers icons — Vision and the Scarlet Witch, including not just the 1985 series that went on to inspire WandaVision, but also rare never-before-reprinted stories. With rich storytelling and vibrant artwork, these stories explore themes of love, duty and identity, showcasing the enduring bond between two iconic characters. The Vision’s origins are explored, while the Scarlet Witch expands her powers in new and sometimes shocking ways. Includes 26 bonus pages: Ingelhart interview, house ads, original art and more. Marvel, 2025....More. Item Code: MMVIS01H Hard Cover, 7x10, 488pg, Full Color |
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SECRET WAR By Brian Michael Bendis Omnibus Collects Secret War #1-5, Pulse #6-9, Secret War: From the Files of Nick Fury, 2004-05. By Bendis. Art by Gabriele Dell’Otto, Brent Anderson and Michael Lark.The Darkest Chapter in Marvel Universe History. When Nick Fury discovers a disturbing connection between many of Marvel’s deadliest villains, he assembles a ragtag team of the most misunderstood heroes for a secret mission to do what the U.S. government could never allow — eventually leading to a super-powered blowout between a who’s who of costumed crimefighters! We’re talking Captain America, Daredevil, Spider-Man, Black Widow, Wolverine and more! But as they come under attack by groups of high-tech villains, what is Nick Fury’s secret — and will the heroes find out in time? In the aftermath, Luke Cage is missing, and Jessica Jones will do whatever she can to find him. But who are the mystery men following her? And will her life ever recover from the drama of Secret War? Marvel, 2025. ...More. Item Code: SECWAH Hard Cover, 7x11, 376pg, Full Color |
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COMPLETE CREPAX Volume 9 City Stories Recommended. In this latest collection from Italian comics master Guido Crepax, Valentina embarks on more exotic adventures — some featured in full color — and we’re introduced to a new heroine, Anita, who consumes her home electronics... in a very unusual way! These erotic comics stories, spanning 1974-1991, feature Valentina taking the subway — but what begins as an ordinary trip soon becomes a fantastical journey, with familiar characters cameoing along the way. Then, in a giallo-inspired tale, fashion photographer Valentina’s models keep turning up dead. Could she be the murderer? Fantagraphics, 2025. Adult Material. Due: Apr....More. Item Code: CREP09H Hard Cover, 10x13, 356pg, Partial Color |
| This is coming in April, featuring more of Valentina and a new female lead, Anita, in bold erotic stories. Here’s more Crepax and click here for more adult graphic novels. |
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THE DC UNIVERSE By Steve Ditko Omnibus Collects Beware the Creeper #1-6, Stalker #1-4, World's Finest Comics #249-255, Adventure Comics #467-478, and many, many more, 1968-2011. Highly Recommended. After co-creating Spider-Man and creating Doctor Strange, Ditko moved to DC Comics in 1968, creating two long-lived series: The Creeper and Hawk and Dove! Roughly a decade later, Ditko returned to create even more including Shade, the Changing Man and Stalker — along with contributing to genre anthologies like House of Mystery and Time Warp. This massive volume collects all of his DC work in one oversize volume! This is very cool! DC Comics, 2025. Rush Service and International shipping would require an additional charge. Due: June....More. Item Code: DCUSDH Hard Cover, 1264pg, Full Color |
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SUPERMAN'S PAL JIMMY OLSEN Who Killed Jimmy Olsen? Collects #1-12, 2019-20. By Matt Fraction. Art by Steven Lieber. Jimmy has always had the wildest and kookiest adventures — but none of them have been quite like this. The Daily Planet’s intrepid photographer has found himself faking his own death — merely the first step in untangling an increasingly bizarre web! Jimmy Olsen is dead — long live Jimmy Olsen! Blending modern humor and adventure with the bizarre sensibilities of the Silver Age of comics, Superman and Jimmy explode out of Metropolis to the furthest corners of the DC Universe. DC Comics, 2025. Due: June....More. Item Code: SUPPJH Hard Cover, 376pg, Full Color |
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WONDER WOMAN By Greg Rucka Omnibus Collects Wonder Woman #195-226, Wonder Woman: The Hiketeia #1 and more, 2002-10. Art by Eduardo Rocha Pansica and Nicola Scott.The debut of Eisner Award-winning Greg Rucka’s run. While dealing with what the Amazon world means in the world today, Rucka also delivers on action, sending Diana toe-to-toe with classic foes such as Silver Swan. Read the introduction to this critically acclaimed run in one massive omnibus. DC Comics, 2025. Due: June. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge....More. Item Code: WWGRH Hard Cover, 1040pg, Full Color |
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SUPERMAN The Golden Age Omnibus Volume 1 New printing. Collects Action Comics #1-31, Superman #1-7 and New York World's Fair Comics #1-2, 1938-40. Our Highest Recommendation. By Jerry Siegel. Art by Joe Shuster, with Jack Burnley and Wayne Boring. Foreword and afterword by none other than Jim Steranko. These groundbreaking stories cementing Superman's place as the medium's most enduring hero are gathered for the first time in this massive, expansive collection. This collects every single Superman story from the fabled origin on for three full years...1938 to December, 1940! Here is the original Superman, who began as a heroic crusader who could only leap, not fly, and was operating way outside the law. Police were shooting at him as often as bad guys. And he was not above intimidating, and sometimes summarily dealing out harsh justice as the lone vigilante he was. DC Comics, 2025. Due: June....More. Item Code: SG01H Hard Cover, 8x12, 784pg, Full Color |
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SPECTRE THE WRATH OF THE SPECTRE Omnibus New printing. Highly Recommended. 1966-81. By Gardner Fox & Murphy Anderson, Michael Fleisher & Jim Aparo et al. Originally introduced in 1940 and co-created by Jerry Siegel, co-creator of Superman, the Spectre was a green-caped, white-skinned, all-powerful demi-god who meted out his own version of justice — very grim justice! DC's grim arbiter resurfaced in the 1960s, brought back by the dream-team of Julius Schwartz, Gardner Fox and Murphy Anderson in Showcase in 1966, then in The Brave and the Bold, ten issues of his own title, also by Fox and Anderson, and ultimately to return to the all-powerful 1940s version dark Spectre as reimagined by Fleisher and Aparo in Adventure Comics #431-440. What we have here are ALL of those great Silver Age appearances, collecting Showcase #60-61 and 64 The Brave and the Bold #72, 75, 116, 180, and 199, The Spectre #1-10, Adventure #431-440, DC Comics Presents #29, and Ghosts #97-99. Witness former cop Jim Corrigan dish out ghoulish punishments across the DC Universe! DC Comics, 2025. Due: June....More. Item Code: SPEWRH Hard Cover, 7x11, 680pg, Full Color |
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TOMB RAIDER Colossal Collection Volume 1 Collects #1-24 and #26-34, 1999-03. ArmedThis colossal hardcover volume collects 33 issues of the Top Cow Tomb Raider series and features stories from legendary creators Dan Jurgens, Adam Hughes, Michael Turner, Andy Park, Marc Silvestri, David Finch, and many more! Armed with an encyclopedic knowledge of history, years of experience, and dual pistols, Lara will go to the ends of the earth to preserve the world’s most precious treasures from a shadowy organization intent on her destruction. Dark Horse, 2025. Due: June....More. Item Code: TOMR01H Hard Cover, 888pg, Full Color |
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SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN The Original Comics Omnibus Volume 11 Collects Savage Sword #146-158, The Skull of Set GN and more, 1988-89. Recommended. This 850 page tome includes a story from one of the great collaborations. After years of exceptional work together, Paul Gulacy and Doug Moench turn their collective gaze on Conan in the Marvel Graphic Novel, Conan the Barbarian: The Skull of Set. And we have the run of “Chuck” Dixon as lead story writer with a host of artistic talents including Gary Kwapisz and Ernie Chan! Plus lots of cool bonus material. Titan, 2025. Due: Oct....More. Item Code: SAVOC11H Hard Cover, 8x11, 856pg, Full Color |
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MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE PRESENTS THE THING Omnibus Volume 1 Collects Marvel Feature #11-12, Marvel Two-In-One #1-20, 22-36 and more, 1973-78. Whether it’s heroes looking to team up or villains trying to test their mettle, everybody loves an adventure with the ever-lovin’ blue-eyed Thing! Page after page of action that’s just plain fun. The Thing fights Man-Thing. takes a spin on a back-from-the-future Guardians of the Galaxy spaceship.smashes stuff up in a battle with the towering beast Braggadoom? Plus: the origins of Spider-Woman and an out-of-control Deathlok programmed for assassination. Marvel, 2025. Due: June....More. Item Code: MART01H Hard Cover, 7x11, 888pg, Full Color |
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THE ADVENTURES OF BLAKE & MORTIMER The Complete Collection Volume 1 Recommended. By Edgar P. Jacobs. This first volume brings together the three episodes of our heroes' very first adventure, The Secret of the Swordfish, introducing their nemesis Olrik, their habit of saving the world “¦ and Jacobs's love of airplanes! A renowned physicist and the head of MI5 battle threats to the Empire and solve extraordinary mysteries across the globe. Cinebook, 2025. Due: June....More. Item Code: BLAKM01H Hard Cover, 9x11, 224pg, Full Color $46.99 |
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THE ADVENTURES OF BLAKE & MORTIMER The Complete Collection Volume 2 Recommended. By Edgar P. Jacobs. Here are the most emblematic early adventures: the two-part Mystery of the Great Pyramid, and above all, the incredible Yellow M, an instant classic that propelled its author into the ranks of bande dessinee greats. Graphic quality, narrative rigor, constant dramatic tension, and that touch of the unreal that are the trademark of the series — it's all there. Along with, of course, 40 pages of extra material on the creation of such seminal stories! Cinebooks, 2025. Due: June....More. Item Code: BLAKM02H Hard Cover, 9x11, 224pg, Full Color $46.99 |
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Ok, we give up, we’re doing another round of reductions on several of these. Lots of titles at $5, $7.50, and $12.50, even fancy deluxe/signed editions! We have as few as one copy on a half dozen of these, 2 or 3 of several others (like Olivia)…so act now before the one you wanted sells out! Here are the seven we just reduced further. Frazetta Burroughs Masters of Adventure Vintage Romance Grimm Fairy Tales Z-Rated Luis Royo Dinosaurs Kinuko Click here to see all of our 2025 offerings. |
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PIRATES OF VENUS The Illustrators Edition Limited, 548. Pirates of Venus-The Illustrators Edition is the first novel in the Amtor series and the ninth title in the ERB Limited Edition Collection. This curated set includes a profusely illustrated new edition of Pirates of Venus and a collector's portfolio full of rare replica items all housed in a decorated and illustrated custom leather clamshell case. ERB Inc., 2025. Due: Mar....More. Item Code: PIRVH Hard Cover, 6x9, Partial Color $375.00 |
| As of March 26 these are on the way to us!! If you have not yet spoken for one, let us know now. This is your last chance to get a number that matches with previous volumes you bought. Once they come in, customers who order will get the next available number. Right now we have just four extra copies not spoken for, but we CAN still get more from the publisher, though just for a limited time. Call LaDonna to get your matching number or if you don’t need a specific number, order as usual online or by phone 530 273 2166 9-4 weekdays PST. |
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ALSO AVAILABLE 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 |
| We bought a few too many of this one, even though I think it’s one of the best in the series. It’s THREE separate books, with new cover art, all with bonus material in a beautiful clamshell box. So I’m keeping this at a $50 savings until they are gone. And note: this and Pirates above and any domestic order over $300 is always shipped FREE. |
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ALSO AVAILABLE AT THE EARTH'S CORE Deluxe Signed Closeout Price! Letterpress Edition. Limited & numbered, 648. Highly Recommended. Art by Frazetta, St. John, Sanjulian, Eggleton, Patrick, Stout, Yeates, Jusko, Burian, Grindberg & Jones. ERB Books has issued their next deluxe boxed set, designed to capture the craftsmanship of the past while leading you to experience the adventure of Pellucidar in a fresh new way. The book has been printed letterpress with magnesium plates on a vintage Heidelberg press. Each includes one of the printing plates designed to print one of the pages in the book, a bonus portfolio, 21 color plates, 14 b&w plates, and 35 b&w illustrations by classic as well as contemporary artists. ERB, Inc. 2022. Out of print....More. Item Code: ATEAD Hard Cover, 7x10, 302pg, Partial Color |
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MURDER INC Volume 3 Jagger Rose Hurt Collects #1-6, 2019. This fully fleshed out, all new, alternative crime history is brought to life by Michael Avon Oeming and Taki Soma’s mind-blowing artwork. Discover a world in which the five families of organized crime never lost their stranglehold on the United States. Now, half the country is a smorgasbord of sex and sin ruled by loyalty and “family values” and the rest of the world looks on in awe, rage, or jealousy. Join us as newly “made” Valentine Gallo and Jagger Rose rise through the ranks of the notorious Bonavese family. No spoilers, but Jagger has already proven herself one of the greatest assassins of all time. And, uh, the Pope would like a word. Yeah, that Pope. Dark Horse, 2024. Condition: Bumped corners....More. Item Code: MURI03R Soft Cover, 7x10, 160pg, Full Color |
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JUDGE DREDD By Mick McMahon Apex Edition Hurt Full original art size, from the pages of artwork. Complete stories such as "Frankenstein II," "The Wreath Murders," and "Dream Palace" are published alongside pages from "The Cursed Earth," "The Day the Law Died," "The Judge Child," "The Fink," and "Block Mania." This book ends with a mostly full color section devoted to Mick McMahon's Dredd work from the early 1980s, including the complete "Pinboing Wizard" and several double page spreads from the legendary "The Vampire Effect." Rebellion/2000 AD. Condition: Bumped corners. Rush Service and International shipping would require an additional charge....More. Item Code: JUDRMHR Hard Cover, 14x18, 128pg, Full Color |
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BATTLE ACTION Volume 2 Hurt Recommended. By Garth Ennis, John Wagner et al. Art by Keith Burns, Henry Flint et al. Twelve new stories. Air Ace Johnny Red and Angel of Death Nina Petrova face off against the Nazi invaders, lethal British agent Dredger deals with the abduction of the only person dear to his stony heart, and Major Eazy must lead his men through the Devil’s Garden of El Alamein. There’s action aplenty with British commando Rat Pack, along with Death Squad, their equally deadly German counterparts. And the hellish Arctic Ocean is the setting for HMS Nightshade in a classic tale of war at sea. Rebellion, 2024. Condition: Bumped corners....More. Item Code: BATAC02HR Hard Cover, 9x11, 192pg, Full Color |
| Here is more from Battle Action publisher Rebellion and more Apex Editions on sale, and more in the Murder Inc. series. Click here for all available “hurt” books at 40% ad 50% and more off |
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We just picked up a selection of scarce signed sketchbooks going back to 2002. They’ll be on the website shortly: Dave Stevens, Edwardo Risso, Jim Silke, Pablo Marcos, Juanjo Guardino. Mathiew Lauffray and Tony Dezuniga. Act now, some may be in very short supply. Full listing will be in next week’s email. |
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Alliance Entertainment is said to have won the bid to purchase Diamond Comic Distributors as of this week. They bid quite a bit more than anyone else, which may mean more money to pay off a greater amount to Diamond’s creditors. Our hope is that they will smoothly take over Diamond, keeping much of the staff as-is and continuing to publish Previews. We stepped in and took over both Pacific Comics in 1984 and Alternate Realities distributors in 1987, when each one declared bankruptcy, and that is how it worked for us, with no problems continuing to provide material to their accounts. We, of course, sold out our distribution portion of the business to Diamond in 1988 while we continued this retail portion, that you still see today. We still buy a handful of titles from a few smaller companies distributed by Diamond—so far, we’re still getting our orders filled for the most part. Most of our material comes direct from publishers and from other sources, fortunately, in case there are supply interruptions. |
12 titles: Hulk, Daredevil, Thor, Capt, X-Men, Black Panther have just been reduced to $10.99 from the $15.99 cover price. An Avengers is at $8.99, but only while our stock lasts.12 titles: Hulk, Daredevil, Thor, Capt, X-Men, Black Panther have just been reduced to $10.99 from the $15.99 cover price. An Avengers is at $8.99, but only while our stock lasts. |
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This long-awaited Kickstarter new printing shipped to us last week; we expect to see it by next week. It’s a good one; the first edition sold out very quickly, coming in from Spain, and we could not restock it until this new printing was done. It’s the finest compilation ever of Kirby (and Wally Wood’s) seminal sci-fi syndicated strip from the late 1950s, now revised with 16 more pages in full color. ~Bud |
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