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Hardcover. Acoustic Learning, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy pictorial boards, oblong format. Alley Oop's color time-traveling adventures continue! Come with Alley as he confronts the Ghost of Crummystone Hall, pilots the amazing Perpetual Motion Machine, puts Santa Claus through a weight-loss regimen, befriends an ancient Chinese dragon, and much more! 245 never-before-reprinted strips are presented in this oversize hardcover (9" x 12 1/2 "), covering September 1942 through the end of 1950. Color throughout. Clean, like new. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Andrews McMeel, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glazed boards. Alley Oop's color time-traveling adventures continue! Come with Alley as he crashes into the War in the Pacific, becomes a screen star in Hollywood's Golden Age, and more! 139 never-before-reprinted strips are presented in this oversize hardcover (12' x 16'), covering 1942 through August 1944, featuring a foreword from former Alley Oop writer Carole Bender. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. Acoustic Learning, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 287 pages in b&w and color, 13 X 10". Julius Caesar has been beaten by the Britons and only Alley can come to the rescue, as he dons armor and becomes a warrior! Back in the modern day, Doc Wonmug is targeted by international gangsters! These stories and more are in this big oversized book, presenting two full years of daily strips and 78 color Sundays. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. Princeton WI, Kitchen Sink Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated wrappers, a collection of daily strips of the comic caveman created by Hamlin.

Softcover. Raleigh NC, TwoMorrows, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Softcover, staoled, 80 pages. Issue devoted to Edmond Hamilton, science fiction author. "Writer of Two Worlds" by Glen Cadigan. Iiiustrated in color and b&w. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Lebanon NJ, Vanguard, 2nd Pr., 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 192 pages, illustrated in b&w and color. In his 60-year career, Carmine Infantino practised nearly every job in the field of comics, for a "Who's Who" list of publishers. But Infantino will always be remembered as the personification of DC Comics' Silver Age. Infantino helped to resurrect a dying comics industry in 1956 as the artist who launched the Silver Age with his co-creation, the Flash, and remains the best remembered Flash artist of all-time. Infantino proved one of the all-time, great sci-fi artists with his elegant, cityscaped Adam Strange. The only sci-fi comic to rival the sales of Adam Strange was Star Wars, to which Infantino also contributed. In 1964, Infantino became indispensable to the Batman legacy. He, with editor Julius Schwartz, saved the Caped Crusader's comics from impending cancellation with the "New Look Batman." Infantino also redesigned the Batmobile and with Schwartz, created Batgirl. This is Infantino's own history of comics with co-author J. David Spurlock, through Infantino's experiences, from the industry's primordial, Golden Age, through his artistic achievements, corporate years at DC Comics, and post-corporate years including his animation work, teaching, return as a top artist to DC, and Batman newspaper strip. Foreword by Joe Kubert. Afterword by Jim Steranko. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 295 pages, illustrated in color and b&w, index. Great collection of comic strip art and a history of the art form seen through careers of 16 famous cartoonists: Outcault, Dirks, McKay, Herriman, others. Large, heavy book. Bright, clean copy in a dust jacket.

Softcover. PS Artbooks, reprint, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. A true golden age masterpiece returns! Originally published by Fawcett Comics in 1941, this 100-page giant is now stunningly remade as a facsimile edition by PS Artbooks. Packed with thrilling adventures, America's Greatest Comics #1 features an all-star lineup of iconic heroes, including Captain Marvel, Bulletman, Spy Smasher, and more, battling evil in action-packed tales of courage and justice. With its dynamic stories and classic artwork, this meticulously restored edition captures the spirit of a bygone era. A must-have for collectors and fans of superhero history, this is vintage comic greatness at its finest! Clean copy.

Softcover. PS Artbooks, reprint, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 100 pages in color. A facsimile reprint of the 1940s comic book. The second volume of America's Greatest Comics, brought to readers by Fawcett Publications. Join Captain Marvel, alias Billy Batson as he leads his death-defying team of heroes. His transformation into the mighty hero "Shazam!" enthralls audiences of all ages. Joining him are Spy Smasher, the master of espionage, Bulletman, a flying crime-fighter with super strength, Minute Man, unmatched in speed and agility, and Mr. Scarlet, the crimson-clad avenger. Together, they combat evil in America's Greatest Comics, inspiring generations with their heroic adventures and unwavering pursuit of justice. A whopping 100 pages of pure adventure and fantasy. Clean copy.

Softcover. PS Artbooks, reprint, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 100 pages in color. A facsimile reprint of the 1942 comic book featuring Captain Marvel himself (known today as Shazam) at the height of his popularity. Another Mac Raboy cover plus his 18-page Spy Smasher story! Dive back into the golden age of comics with this wonderful facsimile originally published by Fawcett Comics, newly restored. This 100-page blockbuster features Captain Marvel, Bulletman, Spy Smasher, Mr. Scarlet and Minute-Man in two-fisted wartime stories from 1942. Rediscover the Golden Age magic in all its original glory with Fawcett's top heroes together in one massive comic. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Raleigh NC, TwoMorrows Publishing, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy pictorial boards, 263 pages illustrated in color. This 1945-49 volume covers the comic book industry during the aftermath of World War II, when scores of writers and artists returned from foreign battlefields to resume their careers. It was a period when readers began turning away from the escapist entertainment offered by super-heroes in favor of other genres, like the grittier, more brutal crime comics. It was a time when Joe Simon and Jack Kirby created Young Romance, inaugurating a golden age of romance comics. And it was during this five-year period that Timely and National Comics capitalized on the popularity of Westerns, that Bill Gaines plotted a new course for EC Comics in the wake of his father's death, and that Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster first sued for the rights to Superman. These are just a few of the events chronicled in this exhaustive, full-color hardcover, further documenting the ACBC series' cohesive, linear overview of the entire landscape of comics history! Like new.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 570 pages. An in-depth history of the American comic strip. From the Civil War era art of Thomas Nast, to the moral panic of the 1950's, the 'Super Hero Boom' of the 60's and 70's, to the rise of complex story telling in graphic novel format. 570 pages with Index, 6-1/2" X 9-1/2". Remainder dot on top of text block, otherwise clean.

Softcover. New York , Ballantine Books, 1st thus, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 320 pages, b&w art by R. Crumb, Kevin Brown, Gregory Budgett and others. Clean, bright paperback. The classic collection of the comics that inspired the movie "American "Splendor, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival "American Splendor is the world's first literary comic book. Cleveland native Harvey Pekar is a true American original. A V.A. hospital file clerk and comic book writer, Harvey chronicles the ordinary and mundane in stories both funny and touching. His dead-on eye for the frustrations and minutiae of the workaday world mix in a delicate balance with his insight into personal relationships. Pekar has been compared to Dreiser, Dostoevsky, and Lenny Bruce. But he is truly more than all of them--he is himself. "Mr. Pekar has . . . proven that comics can address the ambiguities of daily living, that like the finest fiction, they can hold a mirror up to life."

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally , 1st Thus, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Black & white cartoons by Gaar Williams. Dust jacket with chipping along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 400 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. The book presents contemporary art comics produced by 75 artists, along with some classic comic strips and other related fine art and historical materials. Brunetti arranges the book to reflect the creative process itself, connecting stories and art to each other in surprising ways: nonlinear, elliptical, sometimes whimsical, even poetic. He emphasizes continuity from piece to piece, weaving themes and motifs throughout the volume. As gorgeously produced as Brunetti's previous anthology of graphic fiction, this book does full justice to the creative work of Art Spiegelman, Chris Ware, Charles Burns, Gary Panter, and the other prominent or emerging comic artists who are currently at work at the cutting edge of their medium.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Eldon Dedini has been one of Playboy's most recognizable full-page gag cartoonists. With a masterful watercolor technique that burlesques a broad range of subjects, from East and West Coast urban and suburban adult-hipster to classical Japanese erotic prints, Dedini's most personal cartoons rely on mythology and legend. They evoke a bucolic sexually-liberated paradise that leaves his readers lingering over the imagery long after the gag registers. The Art of Playboy's Eldon Dedini is the first retrospective collection of his work, and gathers in one volume the most sophisticated, elegant, and funny gag panels of the past six decades.

Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 128 pages illustrated in b&w by the Berenstains. Decorated boards with orange cloth spine. Missing dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Carroll & Graf, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Altogether original, at once searing and amusing, this darkly comic novel confronts Harold Klein, now in his infirm seventies, with a strange malady -- the loss of his "inner voice" -- and introduces him to the steamy world of Internet sex. Inexplicably bereft of the mental faculty that would under normal circumstances keep him from blurting out, uncensored, the first thought that pops into his head, art connoisseur Klein wanders one evening into a pornographic Web site, Angelica's Grotto. An ongoing on-line dialogue, totally without verbal inhibition on Klein's part, eventually brings him face-to-face with the brains behind the grotto, an academic sex researcher named Melissa Bottomley. Harold Klein's erotic odyssey takes him not only through unimagined erogenous zones but also into arcane corners of the art world, as he seeks to meet Melissa's need for funding and she his for sexual gratification. As Klein strives to reconcile new desires with old habits, author Russell Hoban compellingly explores the dark relations between art and pornography, acts virtual and real, culture and politics, revelation and privacy.

Softcover. New York, Faber & Faber, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 342 pages. Softcover. Light edgewear to wrappers otherwise Clean, unmarked copy in very good condition.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 400 pages, color and b&w cartoon art. Brunetti focuses on very recent works by contemporary artists engaged in presenting a world of rapid and unpredictable change. The book presents contemporary art comics produced by 75 artists, along with some classic comic strips and other related fine art and historical materials. Very good in a bright dust jacket.

Softcover. Los Angeles, The 3-D Zone, 1st, 1989, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Rare comic book, stapled softcover. Comics are drawings only, with no text. 3-D glasses are still attached to inside, as issued. Book has slight shelf wear on spine side. 64 pages. Mild waviness to pages.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, The Print Mint, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 8.25 x 10.75", 52 pages, including semi-glossy color cardstock covers, and b/w interior. An anthology comic. Cover art by Robert Crumb. Frosty the Snowman and His Friends, script and art by Robert Crumb; Frosty and friends plot to throw bombs disguised as snowballs at the "Rockerfella" mansion. Fun City In Ba'Dan, script by William Burroughs, art by S. Clay Wilson. As the Mind Reels, script and art by Art Spiegelman; a surreal soap opera. Dollboy, script and art by Bill Griffith; A ventriloquist's dummy is kidnapped. Stalin bio by Spain Rodriguez. The Adventures of Don Carlos Balmori, script and art by Kim Deitch; the story of a Mexican hoaxer. Saddle-stapled wraps.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, Print Mint, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 44 pages. An anthology comic. Cover art by R. Crumb. Sawney Beane bio. Let's Talk Sense About This Here Modern America, script and art by Robert Crumb; Crumb rants about America. Gilbert Shelton's Advanced Motoring Tips. Where Are They Now?, script and art by Kim Deitch; A reporter learns about a practical joker. A Couch in the Sun, script and art by Bill Griffith; biography of Henri Rousseau. Who Killed Lenny Bruce? article, art by Crumb. Goethe's Faust, script and art by Justin Green.

Softcover. Berkeley, Print Mint, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover comic, 8.25 x 10.75", with 52 pages, including semi-glossy color wraps and b/w interior. An anthology comic. Cover art by Jay Lynch. Crybaby's Blues, script and art by Robert Crumb; the harshness of life. Comedia Dell' Zippy starring Zippy The Pinhead, script and art by Bill Griffith; Outlawed clowns put on a show. The Great Ajeeb, Chess Playing Automaton, script and art by Kim Deitch; fake chess playing machine. The Corpse Gobblin' Ogre of Columbite Mountain, script and art by S. Clay Wilson. A Modern Mystery starring Arnold Peck, script and art by Willy Murphy. Some Boxes for the Salvation Army, script and art by Art Spiegelman. The Calvin Coolidge Story, script by Jim Hoberman, art by Kim Deitch. Gotterdammerung, script and art by Spain Rodriguez.