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Another week, another great batch of books for you to add to your libraries - and mine! Greetings everyone, Marty Grosser here once again singing the praises of our latest and greatest in the best vintage and new comics art! From the Golden Age to the Modern Age, we’ve got something for everyone’s tastes. Also this week: We kick off a 20% discount on ALL Rare Books; 2026 Calendar Sale, and see News and Notes on Bud’s Eisner Award and more about the new owners of Bud’s Art Books. So, without further ado, let’s get into it! |
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| WONDER WOMAN The Silver Age Omnibus Volume 3 Collects #150-177, 1964-68. By Jack Schiff, Henry Boltinoff and Robert Kanigher. Art by Sheldon Moldoff and Ross Andru. Picking up right where Volume 2 left off, stories include “I Married a Monster” and “The Brain Pirate of the Inner World”, battles with Cheetah (her first Silver Age appearance) and Giganta, and Wonder Girl in her first starring role! Also includes the origin retold, a Wonder Woman/Supergirl battle, and an early mention of a comic book shop and comic collecting. DC Comics, 2026....More. Item Code: WWSA03H Hard Cover, 7x11, 760pg, Full Color |
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| More classic ‘60s tales from Jack Schiff, Shelly Moldoff and others, with the first Silver Age appearance of Cheetah and Wonder Girl in her first starring role. Click to see more Wonder Woman offerings. |
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ALSO AVAILABLE WONDER WOMAN THE SILVER AGE Omnibus Volume 2 Collects Wonder Woman #124-149, 1961-64. By Robert Kanigher. Art by Ross Andru and Mike Esposito. Featuring the 2nd and 3rd Wonder Family appearance, with Wonder Girl and Wonder Tot; the last 10 cent issue; the Invisible Plane origin retold; a flying saucer cover. Appearance by quite a few dinosaurs popping up in the modern world; the Mer-Man, out to court WW; Neptune; the Human Iceberg; the 200-foot WW; revealing her identity; the robot WW; The Academy of Super-Villains; Mer-Boy vs Bird-Boy and more. DC Comics, 2023. ...More. Item Code: WWSA02H Hard Cover, 7x11, 704pg, Full Color |
| Volume 1 is also available, same price. |
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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 Comics, 2026....More. Item Code: GAGA01H Hard Cover, 7x11, 792pg, Full Color |
| The Green Arrow was one of the few characters unaffected by the Comics Code Authority, continuing on unscathed unlike some of his contemporaries. This is a fantastic collection of the original stories that began in More Fun Comics #73 and continued on in World’s Finest and Adventure Comics, still years before Jack Kirby would lend his artistry to the character. Golden Age goodness, to be sure! |
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DC FINEST GREEN ARROW The Trail of the Oliver Queen Collects Green Arrow #9-20, Green Arrow Annual #2, The Question Annual #2, and more. By Mike Grell. Art by Ed Hannigan. This acclaimed take on Green Arrow continues in a defining chapter of the Emerald Archer’s evolution. After The Longbow Hunters, Oliver Queen faces consequences he never imagined—from black ops conspiracies and Yakuza assassins to devastating personal losses and one fatal mistake that could destroy everything. DC Comics, 2025....More. Item Code: DCFGAT Soft Cover, 7x10, 640pg, Full Color |
| Another solid run of issues by writer Mike Grell, and featuring the art of Ed Hannigan. DC’s Finest, indeed! |
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Comic Book Archives |
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JIM STARLIN'S BREED Omnibus |
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| This is another great series by Jim Starlin, best known for his work at Marvel, including The Infinity Saga. Breed played out on a different level, cosmically speaking. Starting back in 1994, this dark fantasy series began under Malibu’s “Bravura” imprint, and then 18 years later was completed at Image Comics. It was worth the wait. We have a signed edition available, for those that may not be able to track Jim down at a con appearance. |
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NIGHTMARE Magazine #8 Collects Nightmare Vol.1 #8, 1972. A black-and-white comic magazine absolutely packed full of horror and suspense! And featuring the fantastic combined talents of Vincente Segrelles, Pablo Marcos, Felipe de la Rosa, Ferran Sostres, Danilo Sevilla, Al Hewetson, Syd Shores, Bruce Jones and Chic Stone. And all reproduced here completely like the original comic magazine, it's hard to understand how you ever gonna wake up from this nightmare? But you have to, because if you hang around too long ““ these horror’s will be gone by sunrise! PS Artbooks, 2026....More. Item Code: NIGHM08 Magazine, 7x10, 68pg, b&w $22.99 |
| I was really into Warren’s Creepy and Eerie as a young collector, but I also enjoyed the horror mags from Skywald with their “Horror-Mood” tales and Boris Vallejo covers. Nightmare was a personal favorite of mine (being the first of their titles that I discovered), and these PS Artbooks reprints present the full contents of each issue. I’d like to see these collected into a single volume eventually. |
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BLACK PANTHER: Panther's Prey 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, 2025. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge....More. Item Code: BLPREVH Hard Cover, 7x11, 1272pg, Full Color |
| Classic Black Panther by Jack Kirby and Denys Cowan? Yes, please. This one has a little bit of everything featuring the ruler of Wakanda. |
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JIM APARO'S DC CLASSICS ARTIST'S EDITION By Bob Haney & Michael Fleisher; Art by Aparo. Jim Aparo was one of DC’s most prolific artists through the 1970s and 1980s, especially celebrated for his work on Batman in The Brave and the Bold and Detective Comics, and The Spectre in Adventure Comics. This Artist’s Edition presents more than 175 pages of classic Aparo art from what is regarded as his peak period and features eight complete The Brave and the Bold and The Spectre stories, as well as a selection of classic covers and other pages. Image Comics, 2026....More. Item Code: JIMADCH Hard Cover, 12x17, 214pg, b&w |
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| Still one of my favorite Batman illustrators, this Artist’s Edition also includes Jim’s exceptional work on Michael Fleischer’s very wicked Spectre tales from Adventure Comics. Over 175 covers and interior pages, all shot from the original art. |
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ALSO AVAILABLE SPECTRE — THE WRATH OF THE SPECTRE Omnibus New printing. Our Highest Recommendation. 1966-81. By Gardner Fox & Murphy Anderson, Michael Fleisher & Jim Aparo, Neal Adams 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, in ten issues of his own title, also by Fox and Anderson, and ultimately returned 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!!! DC Comics, 2025....More. Item Code: SPEWRH Hard Cover, 7x11, 680pg, Full Color |
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VAMPIRELLA DARK REFLECTIONS By Tom Sniegoski and Jeannine Acheson. Art by Daniel Maine. Vampirella’s daughter Lilith, now working for the Reality Corporation, has received her first assignment: investigate an anomaly in one of the many threads of the Fabric where the Vampirella of that world has gone eerily silent. Upon reaching this troubled reality, Lilith discovers a world overrun by the spawn of Chaos, and a Vampirella beaten and broken by the forces she has sworn to combat. Now, it’s up to Lilith to save this world from a monstrous evil and to restore Vampirella to the warrior of Order she once had been! Dynamite,...More. Item Code: VAMDARK Soft Cover, 7x10, 144pg, Full Color $19.99 |
| Dynamite has taken the “Girl from Draculon” further and in more directions than Warren Publishing ever did, and this new collection finds the heroine embroiled in another wild mission. Always top-notch art and covers. |
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PINUPOCALYPSE 1 By Andrew Tarusov. Pinupocalypse is a mix of mid-century sci-fi and horror tropes reimagined with a clever twist. Set in 1950's small town America, this satirical adventure pits two stylish pin-up girls against hordes of zombies and aliens. Inspired by Hollywood filmmakers like Ed Wood, Sam Raimi and Edgar Wright, Pinupocalypse is an out-of-this-world story with a Gil Elvgren aesthetic to titillate readers! Massive, 2026....More. Item Code: PINU01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 176pg, Full Color $17.99 |
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PINUPOCALYPSE 1 Variant Cover By Andrew Tarusov. Pinupocalypse is a mix of mid-century sci-fi and horror tropes reimagined with a clever twist. Set in 1950's small town America, this satirical adventure pits two stylish pin-up girls against hordes of zombies and aliens. Inspired by Hollywood filmmakers like Ed Wood, Sam Raimi and Edgar Wright, Pinupocalypse is an out-of-this-world story with a Gil Elvgren aesthetic to titillate readers! Massive, 2026....More. Item Code: PINU01V Soft Cover, 7x10, 176pg, Full Color $19.99 |
| A really fun retro-Sci-Fi/Horror romp featuring some nice Good Girl art from writer/artist Andrew Tarusov. Plus Zombies. Lots of Zombies! |
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DARWYN COOKE'S THE COMPLETE SPIRIT CONNOISSEUR EDITION Recommended. By Darwyn Cooke. With his masterful storytelling and flair for noir style, Darwyn Cooke was uniquely suited to reintroduce Will Eisner’s beloved comics creation, The Spirit, to modern audiences. Now his Spirit comic stories are collected in their entirety for the first time in this oversized hardcover collection, presented within a beautiful slipcase. DC Comics, 2026. Due: Mar....More. Item Code: DARCSH Hard Cover, na, 332pg, Full Color |
| Darwyn Cooke was truly a gifted artist with a unique style and an unmatched retro-sensibility. His run on The Spirit for DC is probably one of my favorites of his works (besides his excellent Parker adaptations). If you’re an open-minded Eisner aficionado, check this one out! |
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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN By Zeb Wells Omnibus Volume 1 From 2022-2023! Recommended. By Zeb Wells. Art by John Romita, Jr., Ed McGuinness et al. Peter Parker is on the outs with the Avengers, the Fantastic Four and even Aunt May in this first omnibus edition collecting Zeb Wells' run on Amazing Spider-Man! But what did Spider-Man do to turn everyone away from him?! Plus, encounters with Doctor Octopus, the Master Planner, and Tombstone... and somebody from Spidey’s past has captured the Sinister Six and is now using them to create the truly terrifying Sinister Adaptoid! And as Peter and Mary Jane's relationship erupts in turmoil, Norman Osborn returns to shake up the status quo! Marvel Comics, 2026. Due: Mar....More. Item Code: AMZW01H Hard Cover, 7x11, 896pg, Full Color |
| Zeb Wells got his start on Adult Swim’s ROBOT CHICKEN as a writer, director and voice actor (and won an Emmy or two for it). These are the first issues of his run on ASM, stories that had readers taking notice. |
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BLACKHAWK 1 HARDCOVER First PS Artbooks Hardcover Edition! From 1941, 1944-1946s! By Will Eisner, Reed Crandall, et al. For the first time ever, this classic material is presented in a premium bookshop edition. Originally published by Quality Comics “ one of the most influential publishers of the Golden Age “ this volume brings together the origins of Blackhawk, from his debut in Military Comics #1 (1941) to his earliest solo adventures in Blackhawk #9-12 (Winter 1944 to Autumn 1946). Illustrated by masters Will Eisner and Reed Crandall, these stories capture the fearless aviator and his squadron at their most dynamic, soaring into battle against wartime threats and larger-than-life villains. A true landmark of Golden Age comics, preserved here with care by PS Artbooks. Due: Mar....More. Item Code: BLAC01H Hard Cover, 7x10, 232pg, Full Color $52.99 |
| Finally offered in hardcover, these are the classic first appearances of Blackhawk and his squadron from Military #1 and Blackhawk #9-12. Eisner, Crandall. both at the top of their game. Click for more Blackhawk volumes, MIlitary Comics and Modern Comics. |
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WHITE INDIAN 1 From 1940-1953! Highly Recommended. By Frank Frazetta & Ray Krank. First introduced as 'Dan Brand and Tipi' in Magazine Enterprises' Charles Starret as the Durango Kid issue #1 from October/November 1949 — the White Indian was created by Frank Frazetta and Ray Krank. The series followed Brand as he hunted for the man who killed his fiancée Lucy on their wedding day, pursuing him westward after laying her to rest. But calamity struck when Brand was attacked and mortally wounded by a bear. Found by Great Eagle and son Tipi of the Catawbas tribe, brand takes refuge with the tribe and learns their ways. A year later, the man who killed Lucy returns... selling guns and rum to the Catawbas’ rival tribes. But Dan... now known as the "White Indian" is ready to claim justice. But at what cost? PS Artbooks, 2026. Due: Mar....More. |
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| This volume pulls together all of Frank Frazetta’s White Indian stories that appeared as back-ups in other series, including the first tale from Durango Kid #1. Early work by the fantasy art legend, you can already see his skills at work in these stories. |
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| MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN The Complete Dailies Volume 3 1938-1939 Hurt Highly Recommended. By Lee Falk (creator of the Phantom). Art by Phil Davis. Long an underrated classic. These early strips feature top-drawer art and imaginative (often fantasy and even science fiction/other worlds) stories that make this a strip worth reading for every serious comics fan - Bud. Eight fine new stories: "Mandrake in Hollywood;" "Sonny the Child Movie Star;" "Mandrake and the Haunted House;" "Blozz the Champion;" "Mandrake in Love;" "Visitors from Space;" "The Deep South;" and "Mandrake in Cockaigne." Outstanding detailed introduction by Erica McNatt details how these stories related to real life in the 1930s during The Golden Age of Detective Fiction as well as The Golden Age of Hollywood. Hermes, 2025. Condition: Bumped corners....More. Item Code: MAND03HR Hard Cover, 12x9, 272pg, Partial Color |
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Don’t let the “hurt” condition bother you, these classic strips from the late ‘30s, featuring the exploits of Mandrake and his companion Lothar, read just fine! (At nearly half the price!) Click here to see all the Imperfect Editions available. |
20% Off on all Rare Books |
THE CARL BARKS LIBRARY OF WALT DISNEY’S DONALD DUCK VIII |
GIL KANE Art And Interviews Signed/Limited |
HEAVY METAL 1988-1991 Set of 10 |
Only for the month of February, 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 Penhouse 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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| BEST OF LUI SEA, SEX & SUN By Jean-Pierre Bourgeois. Five legendary world tours, 6,000 models... Jean-Pierre Bourgeois is the photographer behind hundreds of magazine covers for Lui, Playboy, Zoom, Newlook, Penthouse, and other major men's magazines. Now the photographer's work is chronicled in this 300 page book collecting images created over a 28-year period photographing the world's top models at some of the most breathtaking global locations, from dream palaces on the Riviera to the tropical beaches of the Seychelles, Bahamas, Philippines, and Santo Domingo. Editions Florentin, 2026. Due: March....More. Item Code: BESLUH Hard Cover, 308pg, Partial Color |
| Click here to see the newest arrivals in our Pin-Up & Adult section. |
Calendar Sale! |
ART NOUVEAU JUGENDSTIL 2026 Calendar |
LOVECRAFT ILLUSTRATED By Jason Engle 2026 Calendar |
MIGHTY MARVEL 2026 Calendar |
We have reduced the price of all of our 2026 calendars, except for a few adult tiles, to $3.99. You still have the majority of the year to enjoy these great artists. Quantities are limited, so order soon! Click to see them all. |
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News & Notes |
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Spring Incredible Catalog |
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Currently we're putting the finishing touches on the Spring 2026 edition of BUD PLANT'S INCREDIBLE CATALOG (#80), with a fun cover by Brian Kesinger. We'll be mailing this new issue out to current customers in about a month or so. But you'll also be able to download the .PDF version of the catalog several weeks earlier than the print version is available. Look for the download link's release next week. |
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Comic Book Price Guide |
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We've heard from our friends at Gemstone Publishing that the long-delayed Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide #55 will finally release on February 25th. This volume features a new painted Tarzan cover by Joe Jusko, which honors Joe Kubert's classic Tarzan cover for the 5th Edition of the GUIDE, which celebrated the 100th anniversary of Edgar Rice Burroughs' birth (1875-1975). Volume 5 was also Jusko's first-ever guide purchased! You can order this new edition on our site, available in Softcover (CB55) and Hardcover (CB55H). |
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Our Catalog and Contact Info We publish a color catalog every two months—if you’ve placed an order in the last 12 months, you will receive it hot off the press. If this is your first order, or if you’d like an extra copy, you can add one to your order: click here. Or call or send us your address and we’ll mail one to you. You can also download it here. Place your order before noon PST, Monday through Friday for SAME DAY shipping (for in-stock items). Note: FREE SHIPPING OVER $300. If your order total is $300 or more and you are in the U.S., we pay the standard shipping cost. Contact us: csr@budsartbooks.com or 530-273-2166 Mon-Fri 9-4 |
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