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Softcover. UK, PS Art Books, reprint, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Another iconic 52 page facsimile comic book reprinted to match the quality when first produced in 1947. Cover art by Alex Schomburg. The Beasts of Dr. Krafte starring Tygra. The Man-Killer on Mars text story starring Lance Lewis by Edward Hasset. Lance Lewis story. Fighting Yank story, art by Ken Battefield. Jefferson Jones story, art by Hal Sherman. Flash in the Pan text story by Charles S. Strong. The Death Boat starring Don Davis, art by Leonard Sansone. Clean, like new.

Hardcover. San Diego, CA, IDW Publishing, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 334 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color and b&w illustrations by Milton Caniff throughout. Illustrated pastedowns and end papers. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. In the third volume of The Complete Steve Canyon -- reprinting every strip from 1951 and 1952 -- new and old characters are paired off. Breck Nazaire and Dr. Deen Wilderness return. Steve meets the lovely Duchess of Denver and the sadistic Fungo; gets assigned to Eel Island, where he encounters crusty Colonel Index and his not-so-blushing bride; is sent to protect a government secret at Maumee University, only to reconnect with Summer Olson and meet her mysterious friend, Kate Subjekt; and eventually gets caught in the deep woods with Miss Mizzou and Roy Himmerskorn before coming face-to-face yet again with not only Summer, but the Copperhead herself -- Copper Calhoon!

Hardcover. New York, DC Comics, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 478 pages, hardcover. Extensive color illustrations throughout. Illustrated covers. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A collection of comics from the 60s - the early 80s, with numerous stories, several covering Shade and another short lived character of his, Stalker.

Hardcover. New York, DC Comics, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 400 pages, hardcover. Extensive color illustrations throughout. Illustrated cover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Softcover. El Cajon CA, Blackthorne Publishing, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two softcover volumes, 72 pages each, illustrated in b&w. Reprints of the comic strip that featured a investigative reporter and his Indian sidekick, Chief Wahoo. These cover the mid-1940s. Clean, bright copies.

Softcover. New York , Tom Doherty, 1st, 1994 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 287 pages, in excellent condition. A cartoon collection from the master of macabre.

Hardcover. New York , W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY SMALL on half-title page. David Small, a best-selling and highly regarded children's book illustrator, comes forward with this unflinching graphic memoir. Remarkable and intensely dramatic, Stitches tells the story of a fourteen-year-old boy who awakes one day from a supposedly harmless operation to discover that he has been transformed into a virtual mute-a vocal cord removed, his throat slashed and stitched together like a bloody boot. From horror to hope, Small proceeds to graphically portray an almost unbelievable descent into adolescent hell and the difficult road to physical, emotional, and artistic recovery.

Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w cartoons by Frank Modell. Clean, unmarked copy with light wear to dust jacket. Frank Modell was a well known New Yorker cartoonist from 1945 to 1997. He studied at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and illustrated the children's books on "Marvin and Milton".

Softcover. New York , NBM/Eurotica, 3rd pr., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages illustrated in b&w by Crepax. ADULT CONTENT.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 220 pages. Strange & Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko is a coffee table art book tracing Ditko's life and career, his unparalleled stylistic innovations, his strict adherence to his own (and Randian) principles, with lush displays of obscure and popular art from the thousands of pages of comics he's drawn over the last 55 years.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2009, Softcover, 238 pages in color. Over 200 pages of pre-Spiderman, pre-comics code, horror comics by Steve Ditko.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pages. Before Spider-Man, the legendary comic-book artist Steve Ditko drew horror comics that were not yet hobbled by the Comics Code Authority (adopted in Oct. '54). These graphic stories featured bloodshed, dismemberment and the ugly ends of the lives of the twisted inhabitants of Steve Ditko's imagination. Following up on Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko, Blake Bell's 2008 best-selling critical retrospective of Ditko's career, The Best of Steve Ditko Vol. 1 will, for the first time, feature spectacular full-color reprints of every story from those first two years of his career. Beginning with Ditko's very first story, readers will see the initial works of an artist already at a level of craftsmanship that exceeded most of his peers'. The book will also feature editor Bell's insightful historical notes.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagrahics, 1st thus, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed pictorial boards, 202 pages. Book presented in both English and French in a collaboration between Fantagraphics and Editions de l'An 2. Preface by Thierry Smolderen. A. B. Frost born in 1851. An anthology of Frost's works Stuff and Nonsense (1884), The Bull Calf and Other Tales (1892), and Carlo (1913). Comics in B/W. Most have both English and French translations. No DJ (as issued).

Softcover. PS Artbooks, reprint, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 56 pages. High-flying action and jaw-dropping stunts as legendary creators Jack Kirby and Joe Simon create an entirely new non-super character. A daredevil stuntman is embroiled in circus stunts and movie directing, and it's all some of S&K's finest Golden Age work. Killer double-page action spreads akin to their work for Captain America in 1941-42. Features " Killer of the Big-Top," "The House of Madness," and "The Crime on Cauliflower Row," all by S&K. Plus "The Furnished Room" by Bill Draut (part of the Simon and Kirby Studio) and an adventure of Junior Genius by J. Keeler, a back up strip. Sadly, Stuntman came along after the war when superheroes were on the way out...even though he was not super-powered, but had more in common with Batman. He lasted for just two issues, and an ashcan third issue. Then his adventures were reprinted in Thrills of Tomorrow #19 and 20, in 1955. #19 even reused this exact cover in an attempted revival just before the Comics Code.

Hardcover. Seattle WA, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 201 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light edgewear to covers, else a clean, tight copy. Even 60 years after their original release, in an era of explicit horror, EC Comics superstar Graham Ingels's grisly pages retain the power to shock. His loving depictions of the endless corruption of flesh and nature made him the go-to guy for stories involving swamps, maniacs, and dismemberment aEUR" and all three combined to best effect in one of the standouts of this collection of his stories.

Softcover. Santa Rosa CA, Charles M. Schulz Museum, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 55 pages, illustrated throughout. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition.

Softcover. Santa Rosa CA, Charles M. Schulz Museum, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 55 pages, illustrated throughout. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition.

Hardcover. Palo Alto, Sunday Press , 1st, 2007, Hardcover, oversize format 21" x 16". Collected for the first time here are the best of King's early Gasoline Alley Sunday comics, starting from the very first Sunday in 1921, reprinted in the original size and colors. King's innovations in art, layout and storytelling brought a new warmth and style to the medium at the dawn of the Golden Age of newspaper comic strips. If you are interested in the development of this unique American art form, or simply love beautiful comics, this sumptuous volume is a masterpiece in comic art, and a must for your collection. Like McCay, Feininger, Herriman, and others of that era, King was a graphic innovator. His panoramic layouts, themed styling, and whimsical cartoon conceits explored new artistic methods. But he also had a great knowledge of story and character, presented with a warmth and humanity never seen before in comics, and rarely done as well since. He went beyond the gags and slapstick of his contemporaries to create vignettes of genuinely human characters; showing them relating to each other and, particularly in his Sunday comics, to the world around them.

Hardcover. NY, DC Comics, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. These are the stories that catapulted Superman into the spotlight as one of the world's premier heroes of fiction. These volumes feature his earliest adventures in Action Comics when the full extent of his powers was still developing and his foes were often bank robbers and crooked politicians. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. New York , DC Comics, 1st thus, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Reprints early Superman stories in which the Man of Steel deals with corrupt officials, black-marketeers, and costumed villains with occasional help from Lois Lane. Color illustrations.

Hardcover. New York , DC Comics, 1st thus, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Reprints early Superman stories in which the Man of Steel deals with corrupt officials, black-marketeers, and costumed villains with occasional help from Lois Lane. Issues 5-8 of Superman comics. Color illustrations. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. NY, DC Comics, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A collection of classic tales featuring the Man of Steel fighting subversion and sabotage on the home front during World War II, meeting mythic figures like Paul Bunyan and Hercules and foiling villains including the Toyman and the Prankster. Reprints Nos. 25-29 of Superman. This volume also features the first episodes of "Lois Lane, Girl Reporter." Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. NY, Sterling Publishing, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Laminated pictorial boards, 204 pages, non-matching DJ, illustrated endsheets. With an Introduction by Roger Stern. Strips all in color. In the late thirties, when Superman was making his ground-breaking debut in comic books, his legend was simultaneously being propagated in Sunday newspapers.Collected in this deluxe edition are the first three years of the classic Sunday Superman comic strips as written and illustrated by the Man of Steel's creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster.In these timeless tales, the Man of Steel challenges saboteurs and racketeers, saves runaway trains and plummeting planes, defeats giant robots and begins his lifelong rivalry with his greatest nemesis, Lex Luthor.

Hardcover. NY, Sterling Publishing, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, the first 966 b&w daily strips that set the tone for the great superhero.