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The second oversized Frazetta Gallery books are here, highlighting Conan and other warriors. Lost Marvels 3 collects the never-before-collected 1980s Savage Tales run. Plus Iron Man, Conan, New History of DC by Mark Waid, Gotham by Gaslight Compact Edition, DC Finest on The Doom Patrol. And Metal Hurlant #3. Don’t miss our 2025 Bestsellers, it's an awesome list and most of them are still available! If you don’t have a print version of our new catalog, download it here or ask for one with your order. |
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| DC FINEST THE DOOM PATROL DEATH OF THE DOOM PATROL Collects Showcase #94-96, Doom Patrol #103-121, and stories from Superman Family #191-193, 1966-79. Highly Recommended. By Arnold Drake, art by Bruno Premiani, Ross Andru et al. When the world’s strangest heroes face their deadliest enemy yet, only one choice remains: sacrifice themselves to save the world. The only series ever with a definitive finale (and the deaths of the heroes!). Then, a decade later, the one survivor remakes an all new, all different Doom Patrol! Starting with their origin and very first stories: battles with General Immortus and the Brotherhood of Evil, Dr. Death, The Black Vulture, Celsius' first appearance, and ending up with "The Gravity War" in Superman Family #193. These oddball heroes were sometimes considered DC's answer to The Fantastic Four...misfit heroes and heroines who didn't fit in (also much like the early X-Men) but trying to do the right things using their strange powers. DC, 2025....More. Item Code: DCFDPD Soft Cover, 7x10, 575pg, Full Color |
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| Click here for the latest DC Finest releases. I love this new series, they are bargain priced for all that they deliver. And the choice of what they are collecting is outstanding. |
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NEW HISTORY OF THE DC UNIVERSE Collects The New History of the DC Universe #1-4. By Mark Waid. Art by Jerry Ordway, Todd Nauck, Mike Allred and Dan Jurgens. In celebration of 90 years of DC, super fan and writer Mark Waid turns back time to the very beginning of the DC Universe in a four-issue miniseries drawn by some of DC’s greatest artists and told by the newest chronicler of time, Barry Allen, the Flash! In our debut issue, Barry takes us from the very birth of the DC Universe to the rise of the Justice Society. The Golden Age of heroes begins here! DC, 2025....More. Item Code: NEWHIH Hard Cover, 7x10, 216pg, Full Color |
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LOST MARVELS 3 Savage Tales of the 1980'S Recommended. All eight issues of the long-out-of-print, tough-minded 1980s run of Savage Tales. For 13 months in the mid-1980s, Marvel assembled some of its strongest artists and writers to tell gritty, harrowing, and darkly humorous adventure stories ranging from gangster noir to historical battlefields to the deadly old West to post-apocalyptic futures. Unseen for nearly 40 years, by artists John Severin, John Buscema, Sam Glanzman, Val Mayerik, Ron Wagner, Gray Morrow, Michael Golden, Joe Jusko, Arthur Suydam, and Ken Steacy, and writers Chuck Dixon, Robert Kanigher, Denny O’Neil, Doug Murray, and Archie Goodwin. Fantagraphics, 2025....More. Item Code: LOST03H Hard Cover, 9x12, 544pg, b&w |
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ALSO AVAILABLE LOST MARVELS Volume 1 Tower of Shadows Collects the NEW material from #1-9, 1969-71. Our Highest Recommendation. By Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, Gerry Conway, Len Wein et al. In 1969, with its revolutionary superhero line well established, Marvel took a chance on the kind of supernatural, EC-style anthology series that had been banned since the formation of the Comics Code in the 1950s. Tower of Shadows began featuring entirely new stories with a staggering array of artists: Neal Adams, Jim Steranko, Barry Windsor-Smith, John Buscema, Berni Wrightson, Wally Wood, John Romita, Johnny Craig, Tom Sutton and others. Atmospheric gems of twisted suspense and sardonic horror. Fantagraphics, 2025....More. Item Code: LOST01H Hard Cover, 9x12, 176pg, Full Color $34.99 |
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ALSO AVAILABLE LOST MARVELS Volume 2 Dominic Fortune, Monark Starstalker, Phantom Eagle Recommended. When Howard Chaykin broke into comics in the 1970s, there was nothing quite like him. His original characters Dominic Fortune and Monark Starstalker took classic pulp heroes and ran them through a postmodern blender. This new volume contains retro-science-fiction bounty hunter Monark Starstalker’s debut appearance and all Chaykin’s color-comic-book Dominic Fortune stories, including the character’s unexpurgated Max series, published a generation later. Completing the package is the collision between pulp heroism and the devastating, bloody realities of World War I in Chaykin’s 111-page collaboration with The Boys writer Garth Ennis on War Is Hell: The First Flight of the Phantom Eagle. Fantagraphics, 2025....More. Item Code: LOST02H Hard Cover, 9x12, 256pg, Full Color |
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IRON MAN ARMOR WARS Omnibus Mark Bright Cover Collects Iron Man #219-232, 258-266; Armor Wars #1-4 & more, 1987-2013. By Bob Layton and David Michelinie. Art by Mark Bright and Layton. They stole his technology and now it’s war! There are an abundance of tech-based villains in the Marvel Universe: The Beetle, Stilt Man, Titanium Man, Controller, Crimson Dynamo and more use super-advanced weapons and armor to commit their crimes. Tony Stark just found out that his Iron Man technology has been stolen and could be the foundation for the suits these villains use — and he’s not happy about it! Marvel, 2025. ...More. Item Code: IMARMH Hard Cover, 7x11, 768pg, Full Color |
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CONAN THE BARBARIAN 6 A Nest of Serpents Collects Conan the Barbarian #21-24 . Recommended. A new Conan tale of high adventure. The Great Serpent’s influence twists and turns, pulling Conan into deadly coils as the Cimmerian and his allies are lured into Stygia... And what they find on this journey will make their blood run cold. Masterfully crafted by the critically-acclaimed team of Jim Zub and Fernando Dagnino — fans of Robert E. Howard’s legendary hero are in for a treat. The triumphant new era of Conan continues. Titan, 2026....More. Item Code: CONBB06 Soft Cover, 7x10, 112pg, Full Color $17.99 |
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BATMAN GOTHAM BY GASLIGHT DC COMPACT COMICS EDITION New Compact Comics series. Collects Batman: Gotham by Gaslight #1 and Batman: Master of the Future #1, 1989-91. Highly Recommended. Introduction by Robert Bloch. By Brian Augustyn. Illustrated by Mike Mignola, P. Craig Russell and Eduardo Barreto. Step into the shadows of Victorian Gotham where the Dark Knight confronts Jack the Ripper and a mad prophet in this genre-defining Elseworlds classic. Before Elseworlds became a staple of DC storytelling, there was Gotham by Gaslight. This groundbreaking tale transports Batman to the streets of late 19th-century Gotham — with its dark, atmospheric visuals and gripping narrative, this story redefined the boundaries of Batman’s world. The saga continues with Master of the Future, a thrilling sequel where Batman contends with a deranged prophet seeking to halt Gotham’s evolution into the 20th century. Both stories deliver a unique blend of gothic aesthetics and superhero intrigue. DC, 2025....More. Item Code: BATGG Soft Cover, 5x8, 120pg, Full Color $9.99 |
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ALLEY OOP IN THE RAPTOR 500 2021-22 Lemon & Sayers By Jonathan Lemon and Joey Alison Sayers. A bonanza of Alley Oop adventures! 164 pages of wacky travels in time, and space, and dimensions beyond! Join our explorers Alley, Oola and the Professor as they investigate the microscopic universe, visit a strange Utopia with a dark secret, rev up into a raptor race, blast off to the Moon, solve a murder mystery — and much more! Includes a preface from writer Joey Alison Sayers and an introduction by artist Jonathan Lemon. Reprinting all daily comic strips from 2021 and 2022. Acoustic Learning, 2025....More. Item Code: ALLE21 Soft Cover, 9x11, 157pg, b&w $19.95 |
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ALL AMERICAN ADS OF THE 30S A huge volume packed with 640 pages of amazing art and photos. Highly Recommended. By Jim Heimann. Step (or jitterbug) into the dazzling world of 1930s American advertising, where bold promises, slick design, and more than a touch of wishful thinking kept the country dreaming through the Great Depression. While wallets tightened, creativity soared; glossy magazine pages teemed with cheerful, colorful ads selling everything from beauty creams to Hawaiian vacations, all wrapped in an air of optimism that defied the hard times. Art Deco and Streamlined style was everywhere. Taschen produced a series of books on this theme but this one is one of our very favorites, one of the best, and obviously they thought so also, since this is the only one in the series that they just brought back into print! -Bud. Taschen 2025....More. Item Code: ALL30H Hard Cover, 8x10, 640pg, Full Color $40.00 |
| Here is more on vintage advertising from the Golden Age of Illustration. |
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METAL HURLANT Volume 3 The Monster Within Recommended. By Moebius, Palacios, Enki Bilal, Mezieres, Salvador Sanz et al. Inside this 272-page monster of a tome: an interview with writer/director/producer Brian Yuzna (Society, Bride of Re-Animator, Return of the Living Dead 3), a study of Noël Carroll’s taxonomy of monsters, a brief walk through the enduring legacy of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, and 25 tales of magnificent monstrosity from these terrifyingly talented creators of comics past, present, and future. The Songs of Maldoror by Spaniard Antonio Palacios (from 1982) is a high point, along with the wonderful Moebius work...! Humanoids, 2025....More. Item Code: METH03 Soft Cover, 8x10, 272pg, Partial Color $29.99 |
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The Frazetta Gallery |
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THE FRAZETTA GALLERY SERIES WARRIORS Recommended. Foreword by Simon Bisley. Introduction by Frankie Frazetta. The Frazetta Gallery Series is a curated collection of books that highlight the diverse themes in Frazetta’s work, showcasing his exceptional versatility, power, and emotional intensity. The book series is a fresh new approach to presenting the work of the most important fantasy artist of the 20th Century. The second book in the series, Warriors, features some of Frazetta’s most iconic pieces. As Frankie Frazetta writes in his introduction to Warriors: "These are the gritty, iconic pieces that introduced so many of us to his art for the first time." Warriors has more pages (72) for more barbarians, monsters and damsels! These books feature some of the finest printing of Frazetta art ever seen. American Hero Press, 2025. ...More. Item Code: FRAZGW Soft Cover, 11x15, 72pgs, Full Color $34.95 |
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THE FRAZETTA GALLERY SERIES WARRIORS Hardcover Recommended. Foreword by Simon Bisley. Introduction by Frankie Frazetta. The Frazetta Gallery Series is a curated collection of books that highlight the diverse themes in Frazetta’s work, showcasing his exceptional versatility, power, and emotional intensity. The book series is a fresh new approach to presenting the work of the most important fantasy artist of the 20th Century. The second book in the series, Warriors, features some of Frazetta’s most iconic pieces. As Frankie Frazetta writes in his introduction to Warriors: "These are the gritty, iconic pieces that introduced so many of us to his art for the first time." Warriors has more pages (72) for more barbarians, monsters and damsels! These books feature some of the finest printing of Frazetta art ever seen. American Hero Press, 2025. ...More. Item Code: FRAZGWH Hard Cover, 11x15, 80pg, Full Color $54.95 |
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THE FRAZETTA GALLERY SERIES WARRIORS Deluxe Edition Slipcased Limited to 500, numbered limitation page, oversized 8x11 hologram of a Conan painting, 5 bookmarks and a bookplate. Recommended. Foreword by Simon Bisley. Introduction by Frankie Frazetta. The Frazetta Gallery Series is a curated collection of books that highlight the diverse themes in Frazetta’s work, showcasing his exceptional versatility, power, and emotional intensity. The book series is a fresh new approach to presenting the work of the most important fantasy artist of the 20th Century. The second book in the series, Warriors, features some of Frazetta’s most iconic pieces. As Frankie Frazetta writes in his introduction to Warriors: "These are the gritty, iconic pieces that introduced so many of us to his art for the first time." Warriors has more pages (72) for more barbarians, monsters and damsels! These books feature some of the finest printing of Frazetta art ever seen. American Hero Press, 2025. ...More. Item Code: FRAZGWD Hard Cover, 11x15, 88pg, Full Color $125.00 |
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ALSO AVAILABLE THE FRAZETTA GALLERY SERIES TERROR Limited edition, Poster size removeable pages. Recommended. Foreword by Frankie Frazetta. American Hero Press is launching a new series of curated, themed collector books. The Frazetta Gallery Series features Frazetta masterpieces in oversized, framable gallery format. These books are officially licensed productions from the Frank Frazetta Estate and the Frazetta Art Museum. Each book will be designed and printed to the highest available quality from the best existing files. Additional sketches, prelims and Frazetta photos throughout. Each will be a limited print run of about 3,000. This volume includes 26 collector images and Normanton Brom, Brinkley, and Palumbo essays. American Hero Press, 2024....More. Item Code: FRAZGT Soft Cover, 11x15, 56pg, Full Color $29.95 |
| Click here for the hardcover ($49.95) and Deluxe, also limited to 500 [FRAZGTD. $150]. Here is more new Frazetta work. |
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GREEN ARROW The Golden Age Omnibus Volume 1 New Printing. Collects More Fun #73-107, World's Finest #7-28, Adventure #103-117, & much more (1941-47). Recommended. By Mort Weisinger, et al. Art by George Papp, Cliff Young, Maurice Del Bourgo et al. For the first time, DC collects the early 1940s tales that introduced the crime-fighting archer known as Green Arrow. In these original adventures, millionaire industrialist Oliver Queen battles crime with the help of his young ward, Speedy, taking on corruption and crime in Star City, including villains like Bull’s-Eye, the Voice, the Skylark and many more. Green Arrow was one of the few DC characters to keep going after the Golden Age of Comics. His longevity was due to the influence of creator Mort Weisinger, who kept him as a back-up feature to the headlining Superboy. DC, 2026. Due: February....More. Item Code: GAGA01H Hard Cover, 7x11, 792pg, Full Color |
| Here’s more in the Silver and Golden Age Omnibus volumes: Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, Batman, Superman, Simon & Kirby et al. |
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BLACK PANTHER REVENGE OF THE BLACK PANTHER OMNIBUS Collects: Black Panther #1-15, Marvel Two-in-One #40-41 & much more, 1970-1993. Jack Kirby sets the King of Wakanda on an epic quest to discover the startling secret of King Solomon’s Frog that sees him encounter alien races, battle eternal samurai warriors and more! Then brace yourself for an epic battle between the Black Panther, the Avengers and Ulysses Klaw. T’Challa returns to the American South to root out the evil Soul Strangler’s cult! And things get personal as the Panther’s search for his long-lost mother leads him on a brutal hunt like no other set against the violence of South African apartheid. Back in Wakanda, the winged menace called Solomon Prey swears vengeance on the king! Plus: The Panther prowls in a series of rarely seen tales! Marvel, 2026. Due: Feb. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge....More. Item Code: BLPREVH Hard Cover, 7x11, 1272pg, Full Color |
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MARVEL FANFARE OMNIBUS Volume 2 Jim Starlin Cover Collects: Marvel Fanfare #20-40, 1985-88. Highly Recommended. The innovative Direct Market-only title, Marvel Fanfare, gave the greatest talents of the comic book industry the opportunity to make unique and defining statements on Marvel’s characters. And they didn't hold back! This time we are treated to indelible adventures by writer/artist Jim Starlin that harken back to the Marvel classics of Steve Ditko; Alan Zelenetz and Charles Vess' absolutely stunning four-part masterpiece starring the Warriors Three; Doug Moench, Mike Ploog and Pat Broderick's wonderful Weirdworld; John Byrne's experimental all-splash page Hulk story; and fully painted Iron Man extravaganzas by Ken Steacy. Marvel, 2026. Due: Feb....More. Item Code: MARVF02H Hard Cover, 7x10, 784pg, Full Color |
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Last week we did a special email detailing our top 100 Bestselling—we featured 50 with my new comments on each, plus #50-100 with no comments. You can see that here. We promised you an Adult Bestseller list but things have been very busy here and we didn’t get to the full numbered listing with my comments, but plan to have them for you next week. But you can click here for the list sans details! |
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Speaking of adult items, we’ve just gotten permission from the publisher to drop the price on this offbeat title. Also, click here for 3 more books by Leslie Cabarga, including his very popular Topless Summer Love Girls [TOPLS. $32.99], still cover price, from 2010. We restocked it last year and it became one of our 2025 Bestsellers. |
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WILD GIRL: WILHEMINA OF THE RIVER BOTTOM Signed Closeout Price! Signed! 1st orders will include a full color oversized bookmark, while supply last! Recommended. Leslie Cabarga resurrects this legend from obscurity in eight hand drawn and photo-fummetti stories, spanning the years 1897-2027. Wilhemina the wild waif, abandoned in various far-away forests by random negligent moms, and one totally screwy mad scientist, grows to adulthood never having seen another human being — or clothing! That is, until her bucolic, idyllic, idiosyncratic, existence hurls this savage daughter into the modern world. Cabarga has drawn four comics stories spoofing such classics as The Yellow Kid, Betty Boop, Anime, and 60s psychedelic European comics, with four “fumetti” or photo-comics. They include a spurious 1924 German silent film, an improbable 1960s TV sitcom, an alleged documentary, and a sci-fi fantasy about a Wild Female Cyborg called Wilderella who conquers the world in her “birthday suit!” Iconoclassics, 2025. Mature Readers....More. Item Code: WILGHS Hard Cover, 10x11, 176pg, Partial Color |
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#1 is Art of Daniel Warren Johnson! Portfolio by Mark Schultz was #2, Fiendish Monsters: The Horror Art of Bruce Timm was #3, Xenozoic by Schultz #4, Franklin Booth #5. Xenozoic and Booth are both out of print, but click here for more Schultz work. #6 was Tran Nguyen Spectres, his new book. Arthur Adams was #8 but that’s out of print; #9 was Naughty and Nice by Bruce Timm, also out of print; #10 was the new edition of Tran Nguyen’s artbook, Ambedo. Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide Latest ship date is Feb 25, according to Gemstone. Its’s six months late and counting….You can reserve your copy now. |
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Meanwhile, the companion XXL Weird Science is still available with a signed bookplate [ECLWS01H. Also available is Grant’s latest book, EC Comics: The New Trend 1950-54 [ECCNEWH. $30]. This is a new take on EC’s prime period and includes EVERY COVER from the New Trench era, reproduced from Gaines File copies! ~Bud |
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