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Greetings everyone! Marty here, excited to bring you another great selection of books for every interest in our beloved world of Comics, Fantasy Art, Classic Pulps and Illustration! The "Bud Plant" legacy is alive and well, and we're working hard behind the scenes to bring you more of the good stuff every month! While I have your attention, I also wanted to mention that physical copies of BUD PLANT'S INCREDIBLE CATALOG #80 (my first official issue on staff) will begin mailing out to our current customers in a day or two... meaning you could have your copy before the end of next week, USPS willing! Something to look forward to, indeed! For now, let's get into this week's new releases! |
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Comics & Pulp Reference |
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| BLOOD N THUNDER 2025 Special Edition Special Edition! Highly Recommended. By Ed Hulse, et al. This issue will be of special interest to fans of The Shadow, Doc Savage, and their respective creators. Pulp historian and novelist Will Murray tells the complete story behind “The Golden Vulture,— a Shadow novel originally written by Doc Savage scribe Lester Dent in 1932 but shelved for six years until being revised by Walter B. Gibson, chief chronicler of The Shadow’s exploits. The article is loaded with quotes from correspondence between editor and writer, much of it only recently uncovered. Dent fans will also love “Boiled Eggs,— a 1931 air-war story written by Lester but rejected by its intended market. This exciting unsold yarn, found among Dent’s papers, sees print for the first time here. Murania Press, 2026....More. Item Code: BLOT25 Soft Cover, 7x10, 288pg, Text/b&w $26.95 |
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My knowledge of Pulps and the history of these illustrated mystery and adventure tales for the masses, is meager at best. I know the most iconic characters, and can name off a few of the era's better-known writers, but that's where my knowledge ends. It's mags like Blood 'n' Thunder that really provide the kind of deep-dive information that the aficionados and the pulp-curious (like me) can equally benefit from. If you're a fan, or interested in learning more about the genre, check this one out. Click here for more Pulps & Fiction. |
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BIG BIG OVERSTREET COMIC BOOK PRICE GUIDE 55th Edition Highly Recommended. By Robert Overstreet. The oversized, limited-edition version. Preferred by many dealers and serious collectors, it features the complete data for all comic tiles: pricing, credits, first appearances...everything you'd find in the regular edition. But print size is bigger for easy reading, and the book opens out and lays flat for easier use. This does not include the special articles, ads, or other bonus features. Perfect for those comic book collectors, dealers and historians who are dealing with the all-important data—which is exactly what I do. I always buy both editions, one for the articles and features, the other for day-to-day use looking up all the information. - Bud. Square bound with larger print. Lady Luck cover by John K. Snyder III. Gemstone, 2025. Rush Service and International shipping may require an additional charge....More. Item Code: BIG55 Soft Cover, 9x10, 848pg, Text Only $59.95 |
| After missing their original street date for Comic Con last July, the folks at Gemstone Publishing finally released the 55th edition of the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide! This is the "BIG! BIG!" edition of the industry 'bible,' featuring prices and information in larger type, with no ads or editorial, and a Lady Luck cover by John K. Snyder III. The regular edition, with a Joe Jusko Tarzan cover (an homage to Joe Kubert's cover for the 5th Guide), will be here very soon! |
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UNDERSTANDING COMICS The Invisible Art By Scott McCloud. Praised throughout the cartoon industry by such luminaries as Art Spiegelman, Matt Groening, and Will Eisner, Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics is a seminal examination of comics art: its rich history, surprising technical components, and major cultural significance. Explore the secret world between the panels, through the lines, and within the hidden symbols of a powerful but misunderstood art form. Harper Collins, 1994....More. Item Code: UNDERC Soft Cover, 7x10, 215pg, b&w $28.99 |
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Scott McCloud's brilliant meditation on, and explanation of, the art of the comic book is back in stock. This great book serves as a perfect gateway graphic novel to introduce someone to comics, or simply to enjoy. I Highly Recommend this classic and essential treatise on the artform. We also have a SIGNED 1994 2nd printing with the original cover, different from this later one: RB6280 |
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ALTER EGO #198 Highly Recommended. Edited by Roy Thomas. H.G. PETER was the original artist—and some say the co-creator—of WONDER WOMAN, greatest super-heroine ever! Now, historian ART CLOOS does an in-depth dive into the life and career of one of comics’ most individualistic artists! Plus: WILLIAM MOULTON MARSTON—M.C. GAINES—JOYE MURCHISON—ROBERT KANIGHER, and others who brought the Amazon Princess to life. Also—FCA (Fawcett Collectors of America) and MICHAEL T. GILBERT in Mr. Monster’s Comic Crypt! Featuring an unpublished H.G. PETER Wonder Woman cover! TwoMorrows, 2026....More. Item Code: AE198 Magazine, 8x11, 80pg, Full Color $10.95 |
| Editor Roy Thomas serves up another issue of Alter Ego, jam-packed with the kind of deeply researched and cleanly presented comic book history available nowhere else. This issue reveals the very early years of DC's Wonder Woman and her original artist, H.G. Peter. It's a fascinating look at the genesis of an iconic comics character via the man who first drew her. |
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#197 - Dave Stevens, Michael T. Gilbert & Jack Katz |
#195 - Neal Adams, Greg Hildebrandt & Jules Feiffer |
#192 - John Romita, John Buscema & Trina Robbins |
Click here to see all back issues in stock, and Alter Ego sets in Rare Books |
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Archives & Graphic Novels |
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THE JOKER The Bronze Age Omnibus (New Edition) By Denny O'Neil, Martin Pasko, Elliot Maggin et al. Art by Simonson, Colan, Newton, Aparo, Neal Adams, Chan, Cardy, Staton, & Garcia-Lopez. The Joker's greatest tales from December, 1969, to January 1986, in one massive hardcover. Includes the never-before-published The Joker #10. Collects Batman #251, 260, 286, 291-294, 321, 353, 365-366, 400; The Brave and The Bold #111, 118, 129-130, 141, 191; The Joker #1-10, Detective Comics #475-476, 504, 526, 532, Wonder Woman #280-283, DC Comics Presents #41 and 72 and more! DC Comics, 2026....More. Item Code: JOKBAH Hard Cover, 7x11, 832pg, Full Color |
| The Joker will always be Batman's evil opposite, and these Bronze Age tales feature some of the best stories showcasing his unique brand of cackling villainy. |
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ALSO AVAILABLE DC FINEST BATMAN The Killing Joke and Other Stories Collects Batman #413-422; Detective Comics #580-589; and more, 1987-88. Highly Recommended. DC Finest: Batman: Year One and Two, one of the first DC Finest volumes, collected the initial years of the post-Crisis on Infinite Earths exploits of the Dark Knight. This second collection picks up right where that volume left off, including Killing Joke by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland — one of the most influential Batman stories of all time, and a defining moment in the lives of both The Joker and Barbara Gordon. DC Comics, 2025....More. Item Code: DCFBKJ Soft Cover, 7x10, 608pg, Full Color |
| Click for more Batman, The Joker, and the DC Finest series. |
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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....More. Item Code: SAVOC11H Hard Cover, 8x11, 856pg, Partial Color |
| One of my first introductions to the Bud Plant brand name came from the back cover of Savage Sword of Conan magazine, where Bud ran frequent ads catering to the readers of the epic fantasy mag. It's the truth, By CROM! |
From Issue #118, November 1985 |
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ALSO AVAILABLE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN The Original Comics Omnibus Volume 10 Collects #133-145 & Conan the Reaver GN, 1987. Recommended. Chuck Dixon, Larry Yakata and Don Kraar, and drawn by John Severin, Gary Kwapisz & Ernie Chan et al. Includes the graphic novel, Conan The Reaver, drawn by the legendary John Severin. Covers by Joe Jusko et al. Titan, 2025....More. Item Code: SAVOC10H Hard Cover, 8x11, 516pg, Partial Color |
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ELVIRA IN HORRORLAND Collects #1-5, including a complete cover gallery. Elvira is back, and she's going PSYCHO! The Mistress of the Dark has discovered that films create their own pocket dimensions, and now she's lost in the Multiverse of Movies! Will she find her way home, or is it just a big Hitchcock-tease? Join writer David Avallone (Elvira Meets Vincent Price, Bettie Page: Unbound) and artist Silvia Califano for a comic you shouldn't show mother: she just goes a little mad sometimes. Dynamite, 2026....More. Item Code: ELVHOH Hard Cover, na, 136pg, Full Color $24.99 |
| Another week, another great collection of Elvira comics from Dynamite! This time Elvira enters "Horrorland" and hops through a series of Horror Movie pocket universes... with hilarious results! Alice ain't got nothing on the Mistress of the Dark! |
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ALSO AVAILABLE ELVIRA IN MONSTERLAND Hardcover By David Avalone. Art by Kewber Baal. Vlad the Impaler is back, and he’s raiding the Multiverse of Movies to build a monster army and conquer the world. And only one woman can stop him! Vampirella! But she’s busy in her own books... so it’s up to Elvira, the Mistress of the Dark, and bane of Vlad’s existence, to stop his evil plan! It’s monster movie madness horror from writer David Avallone (Elvira in Horrorland, Bettie Page: Unbound) and artist Kewber Baal (Vampirella, Red Rising, Red Sonja). Dynamite, 2025....More. Item Code: ELVMONH Hard Cover, 7x10, 136pg, Full Color $24.99 |
| Here’s more Elvira with long OP appearances in Femme Fatales, Dave Stevens art and more. |
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RED SONJA Empire of the Damned By Steve Niles. Art by Alessandro Amoruso. After landing in jail following a night of drunken revelry, Red Sonja hears an outlandish story from a fellow inmate. Deep in the mountains lies a dead city in a valley with no name. Abandoned and forgotten, its fields and streets are littered with the bones of two armies, all destroyed by a curse from a warlock who has long since vanished, along with his vast treasure “ untold riches just waiting to be taken. At least that is the legend. But Sonja’s cellmate Morgo has more than a diverting tale “ he’s also got a map that says this legend could well be reality. All they need to do is break out of lockup and hit the road “ which may be easier said than done! Dynamite, 2026....More. Item Code: REDEM Soft Cover, 7x10, 128pg, Full Color $19.99 |
| More great Sword and Sorcery adventure with the She-Devil with A Sword... including a complete cover gallery featuring ALL of the covers. If you know, you know... |
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ALSO AVAILABLE QUEEN SONJA Omnibus Volume 2 Collects #16-30 from 2011-12. By Arvid Nelson and Luke Lieberman. Art by Edgar Salazar et al. The world of Robert E. Howard's Red Sonja continues with the reign of Queen Sonja! The She-Devil with a Sword is now the She-Devil with a Crown, and Heavy is the Crown. As her new kingdom revolts against her rule and rise to Empress, Sonja finds herself the target for plots, schemes and assassination attempts, sending her best captains to infiltrate a suicide cult of fanatical worshipers. And waiting in the wings is Sonja's hated nemesis, Thulsa Doom, who was banished to the stygian darkness by Sonja many years ago. Dynamite, 2026....More. Item Code: QS02 Soft Cover, 7x10, 496pg, Full Color |
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VAMPIRELLA ARCHIVES Volume 4 New Softcover Edition! Collects Vampirella Magazine #22-28 and the 1972 Annual. Recommended. By Steve Englehart, Len Wein, Jose Gonzalez et al. Vintage horror at its best, re-mastered and collected in a fourth volume of the Vampirella Archives! Eight complete issues featuring the Girl from Draculon and a host of things that go bump in the night, as told by some of the most legendary creators in the industry! Collecting Vampirella Magazine #22-28 and the 1972 Annual, these classic issues feature the talents of Steve Englehart, Jose Gonzalez, Esteban Moroto, Len Wein, Doug Moench, and many others. Dynamite, 2026....More. Item Code: VAM04 Soft Cover, 7x10, 397pg, Partial Color |
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Dynamite serves up another softcover collection of the classic Warren Publishing issues of Vampirella Magazine from 1972 — a great period for the series and its brand of sexy horror tales! Click for more Vampirella and Red Sonja. |
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EYRIE MAGAZINE #7-9 Set Signed Signed Art by Mike Hoffman, et al. New and original tales of horror that salute the great mags of the past but also explore new territory with imaginative and thought-provoking tales by famed fantasy artist and comics creator Mike Hoffman and his band of supremely talented artists and writers! Self-published and not available in most outlets. This set includes Eyrie #7-9 along with #7 signed by Hoffman. Hoffman International, 2026....More. Item Code: EYR03P Magazine, 8x11, 40pg ea, b&w $26.95 |
| Speaking of the Warren legacy, creator Mike Hoffman's slyly titled horror mag is back in a collector's set featuring three complete issues. Issue #7 is signed by Hoffman, and includes a signed bookplate. If you dig the classic horror mags of the '70s, Mike is creating a new era in horror mags and fantasy art. |
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SECRETS OF FRAZETTA Techniques and Methods of Mike Hoffman Signed |
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J.R.R. TOLKIEN THE HOBBIT Graphic Novel Revised & Expanded. By J.R.R. Tolkien. Art by David Wenzel. J.R.R. Tolkien’s enchanting prelude to The Lord of the Rings is one of the best-loved books of all time. Carefully abridged and beautifully painted, David Wenzel’s graphic novel has become a bestselling classic in its own right. Harper Collins, 2025....More. Item Code: JRRHOBH Hard Cover, 7x10, 186pg, Full Color $35.00 |
| One of the best adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic fantasy novel, Chuck Dixon and David Wenzell's The Hobbit (originally serialized by Eclipse Comics in 1990) is back in a new revised and expanded edition. Another blast from the past that I heartily recommend to fantasy and Tolkien fans! |
Coming in March |
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| ALLEY OOP IN TV LAND The Complete Sundays 1951-1955 Highly Recommended. Never before collected 1950s adventures still by V.T. Hamlin! Alley Oop's time-traveling adventures continue—in color! 260 Sunday strips are presented in this oversized hardcover, covering 1951 through the end of 1955. Acoustic Learning, 2026. Due: Mar....More. Item Code: ALLETVH Hard Cover, 13x9, 260pg, Full Color $99.99 |
| Since returning to Bud Plant, I've become an Alley Oop convert. Who knew the exploits of a time-traveling caveman and his pet dinosaur could be so darn entertaining? This is all-ages comic strip fun, and while not wholly historically accurate, it still gets some facts across amidst all the antics! |
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| AVAILABLE NOW ALLEY OOP THE ATOMIC AGE The Complete Sundays 1944-1950 Highly Recommended. Alley Oop's time-traveling adventures continue — in color! Dozens of adventures spread over FIVE YEARS, including a a ghostly encounter in old England with Oola sharing the battles, adventures in modern wartime America, a viking Nordic adventure, back to Spartan/Roman times, and far more. 245 Sunday strips are presented in this oversize hardcover. Acoustic Learning, 2025....More. Item Code: ALLEATH Hard Cover, 13x9, 246pg, Full Color $99.99 |
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MIGHTY MARVEL OMNIBUS SALE! |
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| We've got a batch of "Back in Stock" Marvel Omnibuses available this week, all offered at 60% off their original SRP! If you passed on any of these when they were first released, here's your chance to score some of the best at a fraction of the price! We'll be bringing in more bargain-priced Marvel collections in the months to come, so don't miss our weekly e-blasts and our Incredible Catalog for more titles! |
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MARVEL ZOMNIBUS RETURNS Closeout Price! Collects Marvel Zombies #1-4, Marvel Zombies Destroy! #1-5, and much more. Rising from the grave, it's a second Marvel Zomnibus “ featuring a cavalcade of cadaverous carnage, and starring zombified versions of your favorite heroes and villains! Whether on Halloween or Christmas, or at any other time of year, the Marvel Zombies will devour everyone in their path! Thrill as the decapitated zombie Headpool (reluctantly) teams with Deadpool! The undead claim their own realm on the Battleworld of Secret Wars “ and share a nightmarish border clash with an army of Ultrons! Galactus' corpse spells fresh doom for Earth's heroes! The original Zombie, Simon Garth, returns! And... Howard the Duck vs. zombie Nazis?! Marvel, 2023. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge....More. Item Code: MARZOMH Hard Cover, 8x11, 976pg, Full Color |
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WONDER MAN The Early Years Omnibus Closeout Price! Collects Avengers #9 and 22 more issues, dozens more titles, 1964-2007. By Stan Lee, Roy Thomas et al. Art by Don Heck, John Buscema et al. 40 years of his appearances across the Marvel Universe. Simon Williams is imbued with incredible ionic powers by Baron Zemo to become an enemy of the Avengers, but gives his life to save them...and later returns from the grave to join them and then become a founding member of the West Coast Avengers. But he’s never far from drama with his complicated family tree — which includes Vision, Scarlet Witch, Ultron — and his brother, the Grim Reaper! Marvel, 2023. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge....More. Item Code: WONEH Hard Cover, 7x11, 1064pg, Full Color |
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ROM: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus Volume 2 Sienkiewicz Cover Closeout Price! Collects ROM (1979) #30-50 and ANNUAL #1-2, and MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE (1974) #99. By Bill Mantlo, Sal Buscema et al. 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, Mystique and the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, and more! The Spaceknight joins Namor to battle monsters of the deep, and Shang-Chi lends his deadly hands to thwart the Wraiths' black magic! Meanwhile, Rom's human friend Brandy Clark is transformed, and the impending arrival of the dreaded Dweller on the Threshold may spell doom for all! Marvel, 2024....More. Item Code: ROM02HS Hard Cover, 8x11, 664pg, Full Color |
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THE OFFICIAL HANDBOOK OF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE Master Edition Volume 1 Marvel A-L Closeout Price! Collects #1-36, 1991-93. By Len Kamisky. Art by Keith Pollard. Amid the comic book boom of the 1990s, The Official Handbook of The Marvel Universe evolved to meet the collector frenzy, reinvented and presented as shrink-wrapped packs of looseleaf cards, hole-punched to be assembled in dedicated binders (sold separately)! Now these fact-filled profiles are collected in one giant Omnibus. This inaugural volume presents the first half of the Marvel Universe as of 1991-1993, from the Abomination to Lyja the Lazerfist, and the legions of heroes, villains and teams in between! Featuring front, back and side views of all the characters, including icons of the era like Deadpool and Cable. Marvel. 2024....More. Item Code: OFFH01H Hard Cover, 7x11, 888pg, Full Color |
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X-FACTOR By Peter David Omnibus Volume 3 Closeout Price! Collects X-Factor #40-50, #20-232 & 224 (2005). By Peter David. Art by Valentine De Landro. As the world's only mutant detective agency, X-Factor Investigations welcomes all cases - the stranger, the better! And their latest gigs involve gods, vampires, the disappearance of the Invisible Woman and the ever-volatile state of mutant politics - lurching from a literal Utopia to a damaging Schism! But in the wake of a heartbreaking loss, the team has splintered - and Jamie Madrox begins a quest for the answers he needs to feel whole again. What does his future have in store? Meanwhile, Siryn faces the fight of her life, and a traumatized Wolfsbane returns with a baby on the way - only to learn that her ex-boyfriend, Rictor, has a new love! And will a member of X-Factor fall? It's an X-book like no other! Marvel, 2024. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge....More. Item Code: XFAC03H Hard Cover, 8x11, 1160pg, Full Color |
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WOLVERINE Omnibus Volume 5 Closeout Price! Wolverine #76-101, Wolverine: Evilution, Knight of Terra, and much more, 1993-96. By Larry Hama, Howard Chaykin, John Ostrander, Jeph Loeb et al. Art by Adam Kubert, Tomm Coke, Tim Sale et al. Adamantium No More! Wolverine succumbs to the beast within! With his adamantium skeleton gone and his healing factor diminished, Logan slashes his way into a dangerous new era — with claws made of bone! But deadly threats are lining up to put him in his grave — including Lady Deathstrike, Bloodscream, Cyber, Deadpool, Ogun and the Phalanx! And when Wolverine faces a savage rematch with Sabretooth, he'll cross a startling line “ and only one will walk away! Logan's dark path is gradually costing him his humanity. Will his animal side take over completely when he faces the heirs of Apocalypse, Genesis and the Dark Riders? Marvel, 2024. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge....More. Item Code: WOLV05H Hard Cover, 7x11, 1296pg, Full Color |
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BLADE The Early Years Omnibus Closeout Price! Collects Tomb Of Dracula #10, 12-14, 24, 30, 41-43, 45, 51, 53 & 58 and 23 other issues and titles, 1973-77. By Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan et al. For the first time, Blade’s complete early adventures, from his influential role in Tomb of Dracula to his 1970s solo stories and on into his 1983-84 battle against Dracula with Doctor Strange, and a new era of vampire hunting dawns in 1991. Blade hit the comics scene in the 1970s when horror movies were all the rage and Black cinema was introducing bold new action heroes that defied authority. He immediately changed the stakes for Tomb of Dracula, bringing a sense of unstoppable determination as he pursued Deacon Frost, the vampire that killed his mother. And if a few other vampires died along the way, all the better. Marvel, 2023....More. Item Code: BLAEYH Hard Cover, 7x11, 720pg, Full Color |
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We've extended the Rare Books Sale through Monday March 2nd, so you can have the weekend to peruse. EVERY RARE BOOK including the latest new arrivals are discounted 20% off. This includes every category of Rare Books! Click here for our entire Pin-Up category: sets of magazines like Femme Fatales, Penthouse Comix and Penthouse Men’s Adventure, SQP sketchbooks, Scream Queens, Kiss Comix (Spanish) and Playboy Magazine and Playboy Specials. And coffee table books: The Great American Pin-Up, Vargas, Erotic Film Stars, Classic Pin-Up Art of Jack Cole, Gil Elvgren: All His American Pin-Ups, Calendar Girl and much more, including rare back issues of Glamour International. Click below to see all the Rare Books categories and explore titles from Art & Illustration and Comic Book Archives, to Fantasy & Science Fiction and Comic Artists. Act now for the best selection—99% of the time we have just ONE COPY of each. |
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