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Hardcover. Seattle WA, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 336 pages, World War II action/adventure from one of the all-time great cartoonists. No dust jacket issued.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Softcover. Light edgewear to wrappers. Black and white pictures throughout.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated glazed boards with black cloth spine. 159 pages illustrated with b&w cartoons poking fun at newlyweds by the Berenstains. Small tan stain to 4 pages at bottom margin. Otherwise clean, very good. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Rosewell GA, Canton Street Press , 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations throughout. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 132 pages, illustrated in color by the strip's creator, Roy Crane. No dj issued. Roy Crane created the first American adventure strip: Wash Tubbs. The character Captain Easy spun off into his own Sunday page in 1933, and Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune: The Complete Sunday Newspaper Strips Vol. 1 collects these full-color strips from that point until 1935. In Volume One, Captain Easy visits a lost city, battles pirates, dons a diving suit in search of treasure; everywhere he goes, he finds beautiful women. Captain Easy not only influenced roles for the likes of Hollywood actors such as Cary Grant or Errol Flynn, he influenced virtually every comics hero who followed him - Gil Kane once said "Superman was Captain Easy; Batman was Captain Easy." Crane combined adventure and humor in a Bigfoot cartooning style: according to comic-strip historian Richard Marschall, Crane "develop[ed] expressive techniques and a whole dictionary of conventions and signs for future comic strip artists. Volume One also features some of the best and rarest Roy Crane art, as well as illustrations from his sketchbooks. It will also contain biographical and critical introductions to Crane and his work.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. In Captain Easy Vol. 2: The Complete Sunday Newspaper Strips, Roy Crane's Soldier of Fortune, Captain Easy, fights for gold in the frozen north, is mistaken for a bandit, protects a formula for artificial diamonds, is stranded on a desert island, visits the tiny Balkan country of Kleptomania, and faces a firing squad. Captain Easy hobnobs with millionaires and bums and beautiful girls (of course), and winds up in the middle of a full-scale war. In short, it's another rousing series of adventure and humor encapsulating the gallantry, derring-do, and rough-and-tumble innocence of a bygone era and a bygone genre, written and drawn with panache, and practically painted in a vibrant spectrum of colors that you have to see to believe.

Hardcover. US, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. In Captain Easy Vol. 2: The Complete Sunday Newspaper Strips, Roy Crane's Soldier of Fortune, Captain Easy, fights for gold in the frozen north, is mistaken for a bandit, protects a formula for artificial diamonds, is stranded on a desert island, visits the tiny Balkan country of Kleptomania, and faces a firing squad. Captain Easy hobnobs with millionaires and bums and beautiful girls (of course), and winds up in the middle of a full-scale war. In short, it's another rousing series of adventure and humor encapsulating the gallantry, derring-do, and rough-and-tumble innocence of a bygone era and a bygone genre, written and drawn with panache, and practically painted in a vibrant spectrum of colors that you have to see to believe.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. The third volume in Fantagraphics' ongoing reprint of Roy Crane's legendary comedy-action series features what many consider the absolute peak of the series: "Temple of the Swinks," in which Wash and Easy discover an ancient temple with statues of an unknown animal called a swink... a real-life specimen of which shows up! In other stories, Wash and Easy sail for Singapore with a cargo of wild animals, crash land a plane on an island inhabited by (inevitably) pirates and (just as inevitably) beautiful women, and sail the South Seas in a schooner whose villainous captain plans to rob them. When they return to America, Wash Tubbs' pet swink draws huge crowds and a reputation for being worth a million dollars. Then Wash and Easy travel to Peru to rescue an American lost in the jungle and, in the cover-featured story, Easy goes deep sea diving in search of a beautiful girl's lost diamond.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 76 pages in color. The first half of Milo Manara's two-volume epic biography of the hot-tempered Italian master painter. It depicts Caravaggio's early years in Rome as he struggles to capture truth on canvas, only to have his art condemned to be burned by the Church. He then is forced to flee the city when he kills a man in righteous fury over the death of a prostitute. Discover the bawdy, swashbuckling life of one of the greatest painters in history through Manara's passionate, personal tribute to his artistic idol, Michelangelo Merisi, whom the world would come to know as Caravaggio.

Hardcover. London, Conway, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 96 pages. During World War II, the British government issued a series of public warnings in the form of witty posters by the brilliant cartoonist Fougasse, a.k.a. Cyril Kenneth Bird. ("Don't forget that walls have ears!" a fashionable woman whispers to a friend, as Hitler's face peers ominously out of the wallpaper.) This illustrated tribute to one of Britain's most popular artists begins with his celebrated WWII posters and continues with his later work for Punch magazine and elsewhere. An important contribution to the history of both cartooning and propaganda, it compares the relative effectiveness of hard-hitting American wartime designs versus Fougasse's light touch.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 100 pages. From the author of Ghost World and Patience. Anchored by the title story, Caricature also includes eight other stories, including "Green Eyeliner," "MCMLXVI," the full-color "Gold Mommy," "Glue Destiny," "Gynecology," "Immortal, Invisible," "Blue Italian Shit," "Like a Weed, Joe," "Black Satin," and more.

Softcover. Prescott AZ, Gladstone/Another Rainbow, reprints, 1992-95, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 softcover books, all illustrated in color by Barks. Title and numbers breakdown: Walt Disney's Comics and Stories No. 2 through 40, (missing only #1) then issue No. 46. Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures #1-4, 6-17, 22. Walt Disney's Gyro Gearloose # 1,3,4,5, & 6. Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge One Pagers #1&2 (complete). All 64 books in like new condition vary from 44 to 68 pages, printed on high quality paper.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 272 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor dust jacket wear. Illustrated with never-before-seen photographs, cartoons, and drawings, Cartoon County brings the postwar American era alive, told through the relationship of a son to his father, an extraordinarily talented and generous man who had been trained by Norman Rockwell. Cartoon County gives us a glimpse into a very special community-and of an America that used to be.

Softcover. Fairfield CT, Cartoonist Profiles, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 82 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Quarterly magazine for cartoon fans, articles, interviews and biographies on cartoonists and their work. Articles on Frank Modell, political cartoonist Carey Orr, Alley Oop, interview with Mort Gerberg, others.

Softcover. Fairfield CT, Cartoonist Profiles, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 98 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Quarterly magazine for cartoon fans, articles, interviews and biographies on cartoonists and their work. Articles on Johnny Hart of B.C. fame, David Hilberman on the Disney strike, Jim Alley editorial cartoonist, Al Capp's early life, Abbie an' Slats, Grim Natwick, Ranan Lurie, others.

Softcover. Fairfield CT, Cartoonist Profiles, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 82 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Quarterly magazine for cartoon fans, articles, interviews and biographies on cartoonists and their work. Articles on the Dallas comic strip, Preston Blair on the animation in Fantasia, Hank Ketcham, editorial cartoonist Duncan Macpherson, Tex Avery, Jay Darling (Ding), Johnny Hart, Grim Natwick, others.

Softcover. Fairfield CT, Cartoonist Profiles, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 82 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Quarterly magazine for cartoon fans, articles, interviews and biographies on cartoonists and their work. Articles on I. Klein, David Low, Jack Markow, Zim autobiography, The Katzenjammer Kids, Rafael deSoto pulp cover artist, Grim Natwick, others.

Softcover. Fairfield CT, Cartoonist Profiles, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 98 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Quarterly magazine for cartoon fans, articles, interviews and biographies on cartoonists and their work. Articles on The Yellow Kid by Outcault, Michael Sporn, Russ Heath of The Lone Ranger strip, Hank Fletcher, Joe Kubert on Winnie Winkle, the Muppet comic strip, others.

Softcover. Fairfield CT, Cartoonist Profiles, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 82 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Quarterly magazine for cartoon fans, articles, interviews and biographies on cartoonists and their work. Articles on Milt Caniff and Chuck Jones birthdays, editorial cartoonist Calvin Grondahl, Fontaine Fox, Don Martin, Clare Briggs, David Wright of the UK strip Carol Day, others.

Softcover. Fairfield CT, Cartoonist Profiles, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 82 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Quarterly magazine for cartoon fans, articles, interviews and biographies on cartoonists and their work. Articles on Bill Mauldin and Pat Oliphant, Dick Wingert, Zim autobiography, animator Nancy Beiman, editorial cartoonist Daniel Fitzpatrick, others.

Softcover. Fairfield CT, Cartoonist Profiles, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 82 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Quarterly magazine for cartoon fans, articles, interviews and biographies on cartoonists and their work. Articles on the annual editorial cartoonist convention, Al Hirschfeld, comic strip balloons by Jack Markow, Karl Hubenthal, British cartoonist Clive Collins, editorial cartoonist Mike Keefe, others.

Softcover. Fairfield CT, Cartoonist Profiles, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 82 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Quarterly magazine for cartoon fans, articles, interviews and biographies on cartoonists and their work. Articles on Moon Mullins by Ferd Johnson (Frank Willard's assistant and successor), illustrator Jared Lee, editorial cartoonist Jack Ohman, Prince Valiant, Hugh Harman animator at Warner Bros., Australian cartoonist Peter Foster, others.

Softcover. Fairfield CT, Cartoonist Profiles, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 82 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Quarterly magazine for cartoon fans, articles, interviews and biographies on cartoonists and their work. Articles on James Swinnerton, Harrison Cady, Broom Hilda by Russell Myers, comic book artist Dick Ayers, Zim autobiography, others.