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Lou Fine! Reed Crandall! Blackhawk, The Spirit, Dollman, Ibis the Invincible. The Art of Raide and of Joe Coleman. Facsimile Editions of Cerebus #1 (signed), Black Cobra 1-3 and Avon’s The Saint #3. Penthouse Comics #2, Tezucomi 2, Alley Oop dailies and Sundays, and Black Infinity. Coming: a new edition of the bestselling Sky Masters Full Color Sundays by Kirby and Wood. Enjoy! Our Late Spring catalog with a Rachel and Terry Dodson cover is now available for download. Click here or the image to the right. |
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BLACK CONDOR & THE RAY Volume 1 Hardcover Collects the Black Condor from Crack #1-11 and The Ray from Smash #14-22, both 1940-41. Our Highest Recommendation. Featured here is story after story by the legendary Lou Fine, one of the most impressive and influential artists to ever work in comics. His fluid figures were admired and copied by such greats as Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. In the early 40's, the heyday of the Golden Age, he worked at Quality Comics along with such greats as Reed Crandall, Jack Cole and Will Eisner and in addition to his impressive covers, he worked on such comics as the Black Condor and created The Ray. Also here: Will Eisner, Otto Binder, John Cassone, Charles Sultan, John Belfi and Rudy Palais, all superior artists working on two of Quality's strongest feature characters. PS Artbooks, 2024. ...More. Item Code: BLACR01H Hard Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color $52.99 |
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THE SPIRIT Volume 2 Hardcover Collects #5-8, 1946-47. Highly Recommended. By Will Eisner, Lou Fine and Jack Cole. These stories collected in The Spirit's first comic book series are all from the war years. Eisner had been drafted, so back at home, Lou Fine, Jack Cole and others of the Quality Comics staff were drawing each of the 8-page stories. Writers Manly Wade Wellman and Bill Woolfolk are credited for most of these 1944-45 stories, though Eisner may have also stepped in occasionally. Art was primarily by Quality's two best: Lou Fine (with a simplified style) and Jack Cole, both trying to emulate Eisner rather than their own styles. From straight crime drama and noir to lighthearted adventure, from mystery and horror to comedy and love stories, these often had hybrid elements that twisted genre and reader expectations. PS Artbooks, 2024....More. Item Code: SPIR02H Hard Cover, 7x10, 208pg, Full Color $52.99 |
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THE SPIRIT Volume 2 Collects #5-8, 1946-47. Highly Recommended. By Will Eisner, Lou Fine and Jack Cole. These stories collected in The Spirit's first comic book series are all from the war years. Eisner had been drafted, so back at home, Lou Fine, Jack Cole and others of the Quality Comics staff were drawing each of the 8-page stories. Writers Manly Wade Wellman and Bill Woolfolk are credited for most of these 1944-45 stories. From straight crime drama and noir to lighthearted adventure, from mystery and horror to comedy and love stories, these often had hybrid elements that twisted genre and reader expectations. PS Artbooks, 2024....More. Item Code: SPIR02 Soft Cover, 7x10, 208pg, Full Color $32.99 |
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DOLL MAN Volume 2 Collects #4-6, 1942-43. Highly Recommended. Dollman has been eclipsed in our modern age by Ant-Man from Marvel and The Atom from DC. But in the Golden Age, he was the first and the very best diminutive hero. Quality assigned their best artists to him: Lou Fine, Reed Crandall to his earliest adventures in Feature Comics. His co-stars included the lovely fiancee of his alter ego, Martha, and her scientist father. By force of will, he could shrink to 12 inches high, but retain his full size strength. He was awarded his own 64-page title, and again fine artwork was the norm, by Al Bryant and Rudy Palais in particular. These issues featured many Dollman stories, with just one backup feature, wartime adventurer Dragon, drawn by the stylish Fred Guardineer. PS Artbooks, 2024....More. Item Code: DOLLM02 Soft Cover, 7x10, 204pg, Full Color $32.99 |
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BLACKHAWK Volume 11 Collects #55-59, 1952. Highly Recommended. Reed Crandall is at his prime here, with all the covers and nearly all the stories. Chop Chop stars in the backup feature by Paul Gustafson. Outrageous war weapons are the order of the day, with the iconic War Wheel just the beginning. We also have the lovely "Spider of Delanza," King Cobra returns, Armored Men, Termite Tanks, Slavery in Siberia, "The Red Tomorrow" and the sci-fi tale, "Beachhead on Asteroid X." These are the wild high flying, two-fisted stories that made Blackhawk a bestseller in the 1950s and one of the very, very few hero comics to make it from the Golden Age all the way into the Silver Age without a break. PS Artbooks, 2024....More. Item Code: BLAC11 Soft Cover, 7x10, 180pg, Full Color $32.99 |
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MILITARY COMICS Volume 6 Collects #21-23, 1943. Highly Recommended. By Reed Crandall, et al. Three more 64-page classics from the midst of World War II. Superlative Blackhawk lead-off stories by Crandall, plus lots of backup features like Death Patrol, Destroyer 171, The Sniper (carrying the fight to Hitler himself, in Europe), Private Dogtag, PT Boat and Secret War News (true stories of Naval Flying Aces) — everyone was on the warfront battling Nazis and Japan. PS Artbooks, 2024....More. Item Code: MILC06 Soft Cover, 7x10, 204pg, Full Color $32.99 |
| Click here for Spirit and Dollman Volumes 1 and previous volumes of Blackhawk and Military. We are not aware of any hardcover editions planned for Dollman, Blackhawk or Military volumes. |
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IBIS THE INVINCIBLE Volume 1 Reprints issues #1-3, 1942-45. Recommended. By Mac Raboy et al. Fawcett Comics, the home of Captain Marvel, created their own feature magician: Ibis the Invincible. He began as a long-running backup feature in CM's own Whiz Comics and then graduated to what you see here, his own title, and picked up a lovely companion, Taia. It lasted for six issues from 1942 to 1948. He wields the awe-inspiring power of the Ibistick, a magical artifact that grants him extraordinary abilities. This features artwork by none other than the best at Fawcett, Mac Raboy. Backup strips include work by Dave Berg, Basil Wolverton, Pete Costanza. Writers Otto Binder and William Woolfolk crafted many of the stories here. PS Artbooks, 2024....More. Item Code: IBIS01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 172pg, Full Color $32.99 |
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WEB OF MYSTERY Volume 1 Collects #1-6, 1951. Recommended. Art by Lou Cameron, Gene Colan, Mike Sekowsky et al. Here comes the first volume of Ace Comics' horror title, one that I personally like quite a bit. Artist Lou Cameron is here and Mike Sekowsky, strongly influenced by Alex Toth, my favorite period for him. Stories include "The Vampire's Weird Duel," "Valley of the Mayan Goddess," "The Menace That Stalked Brooding Cunliffe," "Rendevous with the Phantom Gypsies," and "Stalked by a Nameless Dread." Artist Jack Katz puts in an appearance in "Vengeance of the Undead," and there's a great femme fatale tale, "The Lorelei of Loon Lake," "Ghost Ship of the Caribbean," and "The Case of the Beckoning Mummy." PS Artbooks, 2024....More. Item Code: PCW01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 194pg, Full Color $32.99 |
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TALES OF HORROR Volume 1 Collects #1-5, 1952-53. Recommended. Art by Myron Fass, Pete Morisi, A.C. Hollingsworth et al. Toby Press was a small but respectable comics publisher which also used the imprint Minoan; they put out one issue of Tales of Terror, then got hit by a cease-and-desist order from E.C., who had used that title for their annuals (don't worry, that particular issue will be coming later on). Toby dropped that and started over with Tales of Horror, which ran for 13 issues. Toby may be the only comics publisher to swipe the urbane and cynical stories of John Collier, rather than relying on Poe, Lovecraft, and the like. But there's still lots of pre-code horror here, monsters, giant bugs, demons, all the fun themes. PS Artbooks, 2024....More. Item Code: TALH01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color $32.99 |
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GOLDEN HOUR THE ART OF RAIDE Highly Recommended. The debut art book from popular German digital illustrator Raide, now a widely viewed online creator. "As a child, I vividly remember watching animated movies and being pulled into their colorful stories. Spirited Away, Fantasia, Aladdin, and Corpse Bride were some of my favorites..." Professional work includes covers for the popular Percy Jackson books and the School for Good and Evil series. Go behind-the-scenes into the artist’s creative process, including stunning portraits and whimsical scenes. Driven by her passion for character art, Raide has collaborated with big industry names such as Clip Studio Paint, XP-Pen, Huion, and Harper Collins. Fans will also know that Raide creates popular online art courses on Domestika. Here are brand-new tutorials and studies that focus on some of her many artistic strengths, such as lighting and expression, lovely fantasy women and surreal scenes. Very well done. 3dtotal Publishing, 2024. ...More. Item Code: GOLHOH Hard Cover, 9x11, 152pg, Partial Color $50.00 |
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A DOORWAY TO JOE: THE ART OF JOE COLEMAN 150 paintings. Testimonials by fellow artists and creators, Introduction by musician Tom Waits. Over 150 paintings and comprehensively illustrated sections and essays about Coleman's fine art, comics art, music career (as front man of the '70s punk band, The Steel Tips), performance art, and the artist's "Odditorium," a private museum where sideshow objects, wax figures, crime artifacts and works of religious devotion live together to form a dark mirror that reflects the alternative side of the American psyche. Fantagraphics, 2024. Mature Readers. ...More. Item Code: DOORWH Hard Cover, 10x12, 450pg, Full Color |
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ALLEY OOP ROLLERBONING WITH ALLEY OOP The Complete Sundays 1976-1978 Highly Recommended. By Dave Graue. Featuring multiple stories: Guz and the Flying Rocks, Littlebeak and Longbeard, the Great Pipeline, the Outlander invasion, Rollerboning through Moo, and more! Alley and Guz turn green, and then a measles-like disease of red spots makes its way through the kingdom. But Alley discovering the wheel and a go-cart is the highlight this time, as you can see on the cover. Acoustic Learning, 2024....More. Item Code: ALLERB Soft Cover, 9x8, 158pg, Full Color $34.99 |
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ALLEY OOP AND THE HUBOTS OF TALAXIA 1988 Dave Graue Recommended. Lotta Robotta and her people come in from outer space to tap Dinosaur energy for their batteries. Can Alley defeat the inhuman Hubots of Talaxia? Also featuring the quest for the Grand Wizer's beads where Oola is going to save the day. Alley is trapped in a cave-in but Oola comes to his rescue with the help of Dinny. Then we lose Alley into time when he pops up at the lonely island where Redbeard the Pirate has been marooned. And they do NOT get along! Acoustic Learning, 2024....More. Item Code: ALLE88 Soft Cover, 9x8, 106pg, b&w $19.95 |
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BLACK INFINITY Volume 10 Creature Features Recommended. Art by Allen Koszowski. Monsters, aliens, insects and more, including the cinematic forerunners of Ridley Scott's film Alien, plus Jerome Bixby's It: The Terror from Beyond Space, Ib Melchior's and Mario Bava's Planet of the Vampires, Queen of Blood, and John Carpenter's The Thing. Stories and articles inspired by Creature Features movies of yesterday, including Ray Bradbury's "The Fog Horn" and The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms. The Arthur Conan Doyle story that inspired Universal Studios' The Mummy; the history of James Warren's magazine Famous Monsters of Filmland. Dead Letter Press, 2023....More. Item Code: BLAIN10 Soft Cover, 7x9, 234pg, Text/b&w $16.95 |
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TEZUCOMI Volume 2 Art by Joe Kelly, Juan Canales (Blacksad) et al. An anthology celebrating the many popular creations of legendary Osamu Tezuka, considered "The Father of Manga and Anime". Newly illustrated adventures by some of the greatest comic creators from around the world. This 300-page volume contains 9 new stories with creator bios and an historical look at each of the original Tezuka creations that inspired them. Joe Kelly (Deadpool, X-Men), Ken Nimura, Juan Canales (Blacksad), David La Fuente (Ultimate Spider-Man), Kenny Ruiz, Belen Ortega, Victor Santos et al. Magnetic Press, 2024....More. Item Code: TEZ02 Soft Cover, 6x8, 300pg, b&w $24.99 |
| Volume 1 has an entirely different lineup of creators, including Mathieu Bablet and Sourya [TEZ01. $24.99]. |
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PENTHOUSE COMICS Volume 2 Stewart Cover Art by Guillem March et al. Thirty years after the original line debuted, we have new action, thriller, and horror genres, with adult themes of course, much like Heavy Metal but a bit more down to adventures in OUR world. Continues with the four ongoing tales while introducing a fifth, The Dead All Have the Same Skin. Gun Crazy continues with the wild ride of Dolly Sanchez and Lanoya O'Brien, two girls fighting for survival in this violent story in the crossroads of Tarantino and the 80s. Guillem March continues with his incredible artwork on The Dream, a tale about Megan, a Hollywood casting director who attempts to bring out the potential actor hidden deep inside a stripper in the San Francisco suburbs. I Spit On Your Grave is an adaptation of Vernon Sullivan's famous novel about Lee Anderson, whose only goal is to avenge the death of his brother. Miss October continues following a young high-flyer who must find the killer who is murdering women, by each month of the year, before she's next! Penthouse, 2024. Adult Material....More. Item Code: PENT02V Soft Cover, 8x11, 96pg, Full Color $12.99 |
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PENTHOUSE COMICS Volume 2 Leirix Cover Art by Guillem March et al. Thirty years after the original line debuted, we have new action, thriller, and horror genres, with adult themes of course, much like Heavy Metal but a bit more down to adventures in OUR world. Continues with the four ongoing tales while introducing a fifth, The Dead All Have the Same Skin. Gun Crazy continues with the wild ride of Dolly Sanchez and Lanoya O'Brien, two girls fighting for survival in this violent story in the crossroads of Tarantino and the 80s. Guillem March continues with his incredible artwork on The Dream, a tale about Megan, a Hollywood casting director who attempts to bring out the potential actor hidden deep inside a stripper in the San Francisco suburbs. I Spit On Your Grave is an adaptation of Vernon Sullivan's famous novel about Lee Anderson, whose only goal is to avenge the death of his brother. Miss October continues following a young high-flyer who must find the killer who is murdering women, by each month of the year, before she's next! Penthouse, 2024. Adult Material....More. Item Code: PENT02 Soft Cover, 8x11, 96pg, Full Color $9.99 |
| The premium 1-for-10 editions is sold out of #1, but we still have the Scalara Cover [PENT01. $9.99]. Catch up on Heavy Metal here, many are now on sale. |
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ALSO AVAILABLE PENTHOUSE 45TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL Paperback Edition Back in stock. A bestseller. In 2004 Rolling Stone declared Penthouse "The greatest adult magazine in history." From humble beginnings, Penthouse became one of the world's most notorious publications, creating a new style of men's magazine even more daring than Playboy. Celebrating 45 years, this handsome book is a compilation of some of the most beautiful women ever to grace the pages, in several-page pictorials, usually quite explicit. There are even features of two or three women together. 400 color pictures. Preface by model Dyanna Lauren. Edition Skylight, 2018. Adult Material....More. Item Code: PENHG Soft Cover, 7x9, 320pg, Full Color $39.95 |
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CEREBUS THE AARDVARK #1 FACSIMILE Signed Signed by Dave Sim! It's the 20th anniversary of the release of Cerebus #300! Read the one that started it all! Beginning in 1977 as a self-published parody of Barry Windsor-Smith's Conan, Dave Sim's Cerebus quickly grew into something much bigger, both artistically and commercially, revealing the untapped potential of the medium and influencing a wave of creators and comics (including Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Todd McFarlane's Spawn, among many others!). Now you can own the remastered and restored edition of the first issue and see how it all began, signed on the cover by Dave. Aardvark Vanaheim, 2024....More. Item Code: CER01S Soft Cover, 7x10, 24pg, Full Color $30.00 |
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THE SAINT #3 Facsimile Edition From 1947. Recommended. By Leslie Charteris. Art by Allen Ulmer, A.C. Hollingsworth et al. From the notorious Avon, their good-girl/bad-girl template is obvious from the cover alone! Another key issue — the Promise Collection copy of this sold for $4800! "The Saint Rings Wedding Bells," "This Way to Death," "The Saint Swings an Election" and introducing the Saint's sidekick in his own first adventure, Hoppy Uniatz, in "The Light Fantastic". Our two-fisted adventurer, Simon Templar, always ends up in the thick of things, usually with a pretty girl to rescue. PS Artbooks, 2024....More. Item Code: SAIN03 Comic, 7x10, 36pg, Full Color $15.99 |
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BLACK COBRA #1 Facsimile Edition From 1954. By Ken Battlefield. First of the complete 3-issue run in facsimile. A short-lived 1950s hero, crime and commie fighter, who began his career as a back up feature in Captain Flight Comics. In his undercover persona as Black Cobra, FBI operative Steve Drake goes after crooks, Communist spies and traitors. The Cobra in "The Ring of Red Death," "The Vice of Treason," and "Only the Vile Die Young." Art is also from the Iger Studio. PS Artbooks, 2024....More. Item Code: BLCOB01 Comic, 7x10, 36pg, Full Color $15.99 |
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BLACK COBRA #2 Facsimile Edition From 1954-55. Art by Ken Battlefield, Robert Webb et al. From tiny publisher Farrell, 2nd of all three issues published in this short-lived title from just before the Comics Code. Agent Steve Drake of the FBI is tasked with conducting surveillance at a Guatemalan Air Base that appears to be a focal point of interest for a communist espionage network. "The Big Blast," "Trap for Traitors/Grenades for Glory," and "The Mystery of the Falling Corpse". Plus "A Message to Gomez," a back up strip about a adventurous photographer in Cuba. Another iconic 36 page Facsimile Comic Book reprinted to match the original, cover to cover. PS Artbooks, 2024....More. Item Code: BLCOB02 Comic, 7x10, 36pg, Full Color $15.99 |
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BLACK COBRA #3 Facsimile Edition From 1955, Farrell Publishers. Last of the short-lived three-issue run of this uncommon 1950's crime and commie fighter. The Cobra meets Doctor Death and "Danger in Two Volumes." In a backup story by artist Paul Gattuso, Torpedoman, utilizing his jet-powered system, explores the depths and makes a startling discovery: not only a shipwreck, and a dead man, but also a vast fortune in gold that leaves him utterly astonished! "Eagle of the Sea" is another backup attributed to Matt Baker and the Iger Studio, a pirate/tall ships tale. PS Artbooks, 2024....More. Item Code: BLCOB03 Comic, 7x10, 36pg, Full Color $15.99 |
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Here's another batch of 30 items that are going away soon, down to just one, two or three copies left. You can now see the latest 3…2…1 items in a new section on our website, called ALMOST GONE, at the top of the home page, right next to CLOSEOUTS. We are continuously adding to our Imperfect Editions sections as well. |
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SHI #1 30TH ANNIVERSARY Original Art Edition By Billy Tucci and Peter Gutierrez. Art by Billy Tucci and Barry Orkin. The groundbreaking masterwork that launched the "Bad Girl" revolution returns in this premium formatted hardcover edition featuring the "Story of Shi," never-before-published, remastered original artwork and files from the book that started it all, 1994's Shi: Way of the Warrior #1. Crusade Comics, 2024. Due: May....More. Item Code: SHIOAH Hard Cover, 8x12, 112pg, Full Color |
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AVAILABLE NOW SHI BLACK WHITE RED Year Of The Dragon Collected Edition First Edition. By Tom Sniegoski and J.G. Jone. Try as she might, Ana Ishikawa never quite had a normal life. Born in Kyoto, Japan, she was raised as a devout Catholic by her American mother. But her Japanese grandfather trained her in the ways of the sohei, an ancient shadow society that has descended from the great warrior monks of Mt. Hie. Crusade Comics, 1998 Out of Print. Condition: Very Fine. ...More. Item Code: WCOM21 Comic, 7x10, 48 pg., Full Color |
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THE ART OF IAN KENNEDY By Grant Morrison and D. Broadbent. In his first major collection, one of the stalwarts of British comics. Rarely seen original pages and sketches from Kennedy's illustrious career at DC Thomson are represented here in a way they've never been seen before, in a celebration of seventy years of work from the pages of publications as diverse as The Topper to Warlord, Lucky Charm to Starblazer, set out chronologically from 1950s to the present day. DC Thompson, 2024. Due: June....More. Item Code: ARTIKH Hard Cover, 9x13, 160pg, Full Color $65.00 |
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40 YEARS OF SCREAM Archival Collection Not for the nervous! Celebrating 40 years since IPC launched the UK's most iconic "horror" anthology, this single volume collects all of the strips included in the 15-issue run of Scream! Produced "from the depths" of King's Reach Tower by the mysterious "undead" editor Ghastly McNasty, the first issue of Scream! was unleashed on March 24, 1984. More tongue-in-cheek than horrific, the comic was an immediate hit with younger fans as it included a pair of fake vampire fangs attached to the cover and a number of fantastic new strips from such talents as Alan Moore, John Wagner, Jose Ortiz, Cam Kennedy, Tom Tully, Alan Grant, and Eric Bradbury. Rebellion/2000AD Due: July....More. Item Code: SCRACH Hard Cover, 8x11, 464pg, b&w $61.99 |
| Also from Rebellion/2000AD: The Best of Jane Bond, the 2000AD Art of Mick McMahon, the 2000AD Art of Kevin O’Neill, and the Judge Dredd by Mick McMahon Apex Edition. |
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SKY MASTERS OF THE SPACE FORCE: The Complete Sunday Strips in Color New Edition. 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: July....More. Item Code: SKYMH Hard Cover, na, na, Partial Color $55.00 |
| In Rare Books, we have the 1991 edition from Pure Imagination [RB4639. $100] with partial color; two copies of the all black & white Book 1 (Quality Comic Art, 1980) at $50 [RB4641] and $60 [RB4642]. Both are Very Good with minor yellowing and edge wear. |
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SONS OF EL TOPO Omnibus Iconic filmmaker and writer Alejandro Jodorowsky completes his fantastical saga, the sequel to his cult classic film El Topo (1970), alongside illustrator José Ladrönn (The Incal). A bandit without morals or limits... a transformative journey through the west... and his two sons, Cain and Abel. Prepare to be immersed in a surreal and deeply spiritual western, where fate brings the two sons of El Topo to the end of their journey, collected in a premium, hardcover omnibus for the very first time. Boom!, 2024. Due: July....More. Item Code: SONEH Hard Cover, 8x11, 240pg, Full Color |
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The 42nd Street Forever series of Peep Show shorts (this one with 15) hits DVD #60 this week. Click here for back numbers and here for more adult DVDs. In Rare Books we have numerous Men's Digest's from the 50's and 60's listed this week, including Stare, Bold, Gaze and Vue. Click here to see all of the new Adult items in Rare Books. |
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The Roy Thomas - John Buscema - Barry Windsor-Smith Colossal Conan This has been delayed -- it is now scheduled for release in late June or early July. Supply may be limited. We recommend you reserve a copy to be sure and not miss out. The is a Zoop (Kickstarter-like) project with limited printings. We are offering all the variants available, signed editions.
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The Art of Rachel and Terry Dodson Here’s a look at the special plate both artists have signed for us. The book is featured on the cover of our latest catalog—see below. Our exclusive signed bookplate hardcover edition will be limited to 200 copies.
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We’ve lowered most titles to $3.99, including several adult ones. Many are selling out now, as we only have one or two copies left on quite a few. Click here for the remaining titles.
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Heroes Initiative Overstreet Price Guide There will NOT be an Overstreet edition this year from Heroes Initiative. Last year’s, with a Red Sonja exclusive cover by John Tyler Christopher, just went on sale last week from us, at half price. All the other Overstreet editions are also now on sale.
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Jack Katz First Kingdom Documentary I’m doing an interview for this next week. It celebrates the career of Jack Katz (now 96 and still kicking), from his work as a Golden Age artist, through the Atlas years working for Stan Lee as a penciller, to his ten-year, 24 issue epic, The First Kingdom (1974-86)…and beyond. He went on to painting and teaching and more comic book projects, and The First Kingdom has been frequently collected. A book on Jack is due here any day now, which artist Liam Sharp put together with him. |
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To celebrate all this, I’ve pulled out my own publisher copies of several of the back issues I had put aside years ago, including the very first printing (of four) of issue #1, with the painted cover which was dropped in favor a newly colored cover for 2nd printings onward. Watch for these on Free Comic Book Day, starting at the end of April for us, May 4th for the brick-and-mortar comic shops. As always, we will include some free warehouse finds and some vintage titles for sale. |
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We’re down to the last three of my file copies of the signed First Kingdom Portfolio from 1982, limited to 999. I published this, as well as issues #4-24 of the series (my stores Comics & Comix published the first three issues). The portfolio comes with a free copy of the painted cover first printing of issue #1 mentioned above [FKPT. $125]. ~Bud |
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