Hardcover. UK, PS Artbooks, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, unpaginated. Color comics from the 1940s, all by Basil Wolverton, featuring Space Patrol and Spacehawk. Clean, like new.
Softcover. NY, DC Comics, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 320 pages. For the first time ever, DC collects the best Wonder Woman tales from the 1950s. In this decade, the Amazon Princess fought for justice against spy rings, robots, hidden societies of evil, supernatural beings, and much more. Plus, a female reporter uncovers Diana's greatest secrets on a trip to Paradise Island. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Chartwell Books, reprint, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color, black and white pictures throughout. Despite the fact that she's famous now, Wonder Woman had humble beginnings among a slew of other female super heroes that had their inception in the 1940s, but were seen very little after then. Created during World War II to foil Axis plots and defeat Nazis, she still fights to this day for truth, honor, and the little guy. Wonder Woman: The War Years (1941-1945) details how she used her super speed, strength, and Golden Lasso of Truth during World War II to bring peace and justice to a turbulent world.
Softcover. Los Angeles, Deborah Caplan & Associates, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover. Black and white comics by Matt Groening. True first edition - stated first printing December 1985 0n copyright page. Measures 12" X 12". Bright, clean copy.
Softcover. Raleigh NC, TwoMorrows Publishing, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 126 pages. Working With Ditko takes a unique and nostalgic journey through comics' Bronze Age, as editor and writer Jack C. Harris recalls his numerous collaborations with legendary comics master Steve Ditko! It features never-before-seen preliminary sketches and pencil art from Harris' tenure working with Ditko on The Creeper, Shade the Changing Man, the Odd Man, the Demon, Wonder Woman, Legion of Super-Heroes, The Fly, and even Ditko's unused redesign for Batman! Plus, it documents their work on numerous independent properties, and offers glimpses of original characters from Ditko's drawing board that have never been viewed by even his most avid fans! This illustrated volume is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to experience the creative comic book process by one of the industry's most revered creators, as seen through the eyes of one of his most frequent collaborators! Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. Norristown, PA, Comico, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 64 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR ON TITLE PAGE. Extensive color illustrations by Mitch O'Connell throughout. 1 out of 2000 copies. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 233 pages. Profusely illustrated with 189 drawings, including 32 in color. Red, black, and white illustrated dust jacket with clear plastic guard. Introduction by Lloyd Goodrich (of New York's Whitney Museum). Dust jacket spine with light fading, previous owner's inscription on half-title page. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus and Young, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Introduction by John Steinbeck. 175 pages of some of Capp's classic comic strips. Some edge wear to front cover, otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages. Celebrates the artistry and graphic design that transformed Joseph Pulitzer's New York World at the turn of the twentieth century, presenting a wide array of cartoons, caricatures, typography, photography, drawings, maps, and other artwork from a variety of legendary illustrators.
Hardcover. New York, Gallery Books , reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Extensive b&w illustrations throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Light edge wear to bottom edge. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy. Whether producing strips, social comment in magazines like Punch or Lilliput, savage caricature of allies and enemies, or a daily chronicle of events at home or abroad, little escaped the cartoonists pen during World War II and they encapsulated the great dramas in a way impossible in prose. This book is divided into chapters covering the war year-by-year, each chapter prefaced with a concise introduction that provides a historical framework for the cartoons of that year. Altogether some 300 cartoons, in color and black and white, have been skillfully blended to produce a unique record of World War II.
Hardcover. New York , Pantheon, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 56 pages, b&w graphic novel drawn by Burns. No dj issued. Fusing the unsettling kitsch of EC horror comics, the storytelling sensibility of Euro-classics like Tintin, and the astute observations about young adults that made Black Hole so engrossing, Burns has turned out a haunting first chapter in what promises to be a spellbinder. The opening pages flip among the various realities of Doug, a young man recovering from a head injury of some kind with only a box of pills and some strawberry Pop-Tarts to speed his recovery. Flashbacks and dreams switch among various scenes: Doug and his hypocrite father; a wild party gone awry when Doug's crush object's crazy (but unseen) boyfriend goes on a rampage; and, most mysteriously, another world--found behind a hole in a brick wall--where dead cats live, worms weep, and a giant hive rules a grim city of deformed creatures. Burns's control of the story is masterful--the recurring imagery make it unclear just which is the reality and which is the dream. His sharply delineated art captures a grotesque yet sympathetic view of kids thrust far beyond a world that they can control or even understand.
Softcover. Milwaukee, Kitchen Sink Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 28 pages including semi-glossy color covers, with b/w interior. Stories include: Cubist Be Bop Comics; Girls Birls Girls strip (where a woman is reduced to legs and vagina); Remember 'Keep on Truckin'?'; The Many Faces of R, Crumb; Fuzzy the Bunny in 'Nut Factory Blues," etc. Stated first printing; conforms to points listed in Kennedy. Saddle stapled comic book. Light shelfwear.
Hardcover. Great Britain, The Observer, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Decorative endpapers. In excellent shape. Binding tight, clean inside and out.
Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 200 pages. This volume covers 1947 through 1949, and includes stories about women from all walks of life from French widows to American teenagers. Simon and Kirby invented the romance comics genre and explored all the flirtations, dalliances, and passions of the young men and women who populated their stories. Get swept away by the sheer delirium that these pages induced so long ago. These comics have been meticulously restored in order to produce one of the most striking and faithful reproductions of 1940s.
Softcover. San Francisco, Apex Novelties, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover with color wraps. 24 pages all written and drawn by R. Crumb. Characters include Pete the Plumber, Mr. Natural, Horny Harriet Hotpants, and Stinko the Clown. Adults only.
Softcover. San Francisco, Apex Novelties, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. .50 cents cover price. Raunchy, raucous comic book from underground commix legend R. Crumb. Staple-bound as issued. Spine edge lightly rubbed, but binding is tight. Cover printed in color, inside in black and white. Inside is tanned throughout, otherwise clean and unmarked. Characters include Pete the Plumber, Mr. Natural, Horny Harriet Hotpants, and Stinko the Clown.
Softcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics, 2nd, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 250 pages. Softcover. Light wear to corners, otheriwse Clean, unmarked copy. Black and white drawings throughout. Spanning the most formative era of his life, from the painful years of adolescence to the fame and fortune of early adulthood, this collection of personal correspondences with two near-lifelong friends sheds light on the artistic development, bitter struggle, and ultimate triumph of the world's greatest living cartoonist.Crumb writes about many key events in his life: the dissolution of his first marriage, the pain of being separated from his first child, his troubles with the IRS, and his obsessions with comics, music and women, most notably his earliest experiences with Aline Kominsky-Crumb, now his wife of over 30 years. An entertaining and revealing look into the mind of a great artist and thinker; this is Crumb's sketchbook of words, featuring scores of rare art, including entire letters drawn in cartoon form.
Softcover. Berkeley, Print Mint, reprint, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 7 x 5", 36 pages including semi-glossy wraparound color covers, with b/w interior. Features: Abracadabra by Crumb & Moscoso; 'The Unsolicited Brochure' with Dumpy & the Grenade Hearted Broccoli by S. Clay Wilson and Robt Williams; Wonder Wart-Hog Takes a Brief Sojurn in Outer Space by Gilbert Shelton with S. Clay Wilson and Robert Williams; Beyond the Exorcist by Spain; and A Bug Story by Moscoso and Crumb. 75 cents red sticker over previous printed price.
Berkeley CA, Print Mint, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 52 pages including semi-glossy color covers and b/w interior. Saddle-stapled wraps, 75 cents cover price. Crumb leads off with "What Gives?", a 10-pager. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. Apex Novelties, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 10 x 6.5, pictorial stapled wraps, covers lightly worn, contents toned but still a nice, sharp copy, with original 50 cent price on cover! R. Crumb, Gilbert Shelton, etc. Includes Mr. Natural.
Softcover. San Francisco, Apex Novelties, 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Soft cover with stapled binding, color covers with b/w internal illustrations, 48 pages. Featuring the work of Robert Crumb, Rick Griffin, Victor Moscoso, S. Clay Wilson. Also introducing Spain Rodriguez and Robert Williams. No copyright statement anywhere.
Softcover. San Francisco, Apex Novelties, 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Soft cover with stapled binding, color covers with b/w internal illustrations, 28 pages. Crumb's contributions include a Mr. Natural episode followed by a "Mr. Natural's Quiz Page"; & a lengthy piece, "The Adventures of Fuzzy the Bunny," which is a collaboration with his brother Charles, a tragic but inspirational figure in Robert's life. Subtitled the "Special Business Executive Issue!" on front cover. Mild wear, rubbing.
San Francisco, Apex Novelties, 2nd pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Standard comic book size and format. 28 pages. Cover art and entire contents by Robert Crumb. Second printing (35 cents cover price, hairline mark removed, interior pages not numbered, yellow ink on upper-left-corner lettering removed).. [24 pp].
Softcover. San Francisco, Apex Novelties, 1st, 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover with illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Rick Griffin and S. Clay Wilson. Contributions by Griffin, Robert Crumb, Victor Moscoso, Wilson, Gilbert Shelton. First edition, first or second printing (50c cover price, first two printings depend on the thickness of the cover stock).
Softcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Softcover with black/white and some color comic strips throughout. Wet soiling residue on bottom of first half of pages, and on bottom page block, otherwise minimal wear on paper wrappers.
Softcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 124 pages. Softcover with black/white and some color comic strips throughout. Clean, tight copy with only light edgewear to paper wrappers.