Hardcover. Burbank, CA, DC Comics, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. 224 pages illustrated in color. While strip creator Will Eisner was called to serve during World War II, The Spirit was completed by a host of capable assistants, and those strips from January 3 to June 27, 1943 are collected in this volume.

Hardcover. New York, DC Comics, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 218 pages in color. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Will Eisner's classic 1940s crimefighter returns! This second volume finds America about to enter World War II -- and the Spirit facing Fifth Columnists, spies and saboteurs, as well as meeting the series' first great femme fatale, Silk Satin! These highly atmospheric stories, which ran weekly in newspapers, range from humorous to darkly moody.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages illustrated in color. The latest (and possibly last) issue of the greatest magazine devoted to EC comics ever published. Co-edited by Grant Geisman and John Benson, this issue includes previously unpublished interviews with Gene Colan and Russ Heath, a lavishly illustrated critical study of Atlas' Kurtzman-inspired war comics by Benson, a Kurtzman remembrance by R.O. Blechman, an astounding reprint of The Hartford Courant's campaign against "salacious and depraved" comics (i.e., EC), 12 page spread of Jack Davis's Coca-Cola advertising images, and much much more. An essential historical feast for EC fans.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 179 pages. From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a meditation on the deeply Jewish and surprisingly spiritual roots of Stan Lee and Marvel Comics Few artists have had as much of an impact on American popular culture as Stan Lee. The characters he created--Spider-Man and Iron Man, the X-Men and the Fantastic Four--occupy Hollywood's imagination and production schedules, generate billions at the box office, and come as close as anything we have to a shared American mythology. This illuminating biography focuses as much on Lee's ideas as it does on his unlikely rise to stardom. It surveys his cultural and religious upbringing and draws surprising connections between celebrated comic book heroes and the ancient tales of the Bible, the Talmud, and Jewish mysticism. Clean copy.

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.

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.

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. San Diego , IDW Publishing, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 187 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations by Wayne Boring. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

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.

Hardcover. NY, DC Comics, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in in a bright dust jacket., 764 pages. Superman continues to battle social injustice and political corruption, fighting for the common man. No wonder he remains America's favorite hero during World War II. While the Allies fought the Axis powers in Europe and the Pacific, Superman was dealing with threats at home like his old foe Lex Luthor, conman J. Wilbur Wolfingham, and that pesky imp from the fifth dimension, Mister Mxyzptlk! But the Man of Steel isn't the only one capturing the hearts and minds of America, as Lois Lane finally stars in her fist solo adventure and her niece Susan Tompkins makes her debut! These groundbreaking classic stories--which cemented Superman's place as the medium's most enduring hero--are gathered for the first time in this singular, expansive collection! SUPERMAN: THE GOLDEN AGE OMNIBUS VOL. 4 collects all of the Metropolis Wonder's tales from ACTION COMICS #66-85, SUPERMAN #25-33 and WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #11-18 and includes a foreword by legendary comics writer Roy Thomas. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Burbank CA, DC Comics, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. These groundbreaking classic stories--which cemented Superman's place as the medium's most enduring hero--are gathered for the first time in this singular, expansive collection. Collects all the Man of Steel's tales from ACTION COMICS #48-65, SUPERMAN #16-24 and WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #6-10 and includes a foreword by legendary Superman editor Mike Carlin. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. San Diego, CA, IDW Publishing, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 184 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. A tight copy. Edited and designed by Dean Mullaney with an Introduction by Mark Waid, the first book in IDW's The Library of American Comics' Superman Sundays series collects 170 sequential Sunday pages that have never been reprinted. These classic comics, beginning May 9, 1943 and continuing through August 4, 1946, fill another major gap in the Superman mythos.

Hardcover. New York , Random House, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 409 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Remainder mark to bottom edge. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, DC Comics, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, color throughout. Classic Superman stories from the Silver Age are collected together in this brilliant hardcover omnibus. Fans of the Man of Steel won't want to miss this stunning collection of some of the best tales of the 1950's and 1960's! Superman- The Silver Age Omnibus Vol. 1 contains stories from Action Comics #241-265 and Superman #122-137.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 192 pages. The enduring cultural phenomenon of comic book heroes was invented in the late 1930s by a talented and hungry group of artists and writers barely out of their teens, flying by the seat of their pants to create something new, exciting, and above all profitable. The iconography and mythology they created flourishes to this day in comic books, video, movies, fine art, advertising, and practically all other media. Supermen! collects the best and the brightest of this first generation, including Jack Cole, Will Eisner, Bill Everett, Lou Fine, Fletcher Hanks, Jack Kirby, Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, and Basil Wolverton. If the reader is expecting to find an All-American group of altruistic do-gooders, he in for quite a jolt. As Jonathan Lethem writes in his Foreword, "A collection like Supermen! works like a reverse-neutron bomb to assumptions about the birth of the superhero image: it tears down the orderly structures of theory and history and leaves the figures standing in full view, staring back at us in all their defiant disorienting particularity, their blazing strangeness." Beautifully designed and produced in full color, Supermen! contains twenty full-length stories, ten full- sized covers, and a generous selection of vintage promotional ads, and is indispensable to anyone interested in the origins of superheroes and the history of the comic book form.

Hardcover. New York , Random House, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, approximately 150 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Selections from 20 years' of periodical and newspaper cartoons, chiefly caricaturing political figures of the era; with the artist's one-page foreword.

Hardcover. New York , Random House, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, approx. 150 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Selections from 20 years' of periodical and newspaper cartoons, chiefly caricaturing political figures of the era; with the artist's 1-page foreword.

Softcover. Kansas City, Andrews McMeel, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Softcover with light wear to paper wrappers. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Tight copy. Cartoons by Cullum.

Hardcover. London, M Q Publications, 1st, 2006, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Like new. An exclusive collection of drawings that reveal the tender side of R. Crumb. Evocative haunting images of people and places such as Aline, his daughter Sophie, scenes from the village and region he lives in the South of France, Jesse Crumb, his first wife Dana and their son Jesse and of course the Blues musicians he treasures from his 78rpm record collection. Unpaginated, but about 120 pages.

Softcover. Montreal, Drawn and Quarterly, 2nd, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 200 pages. Softcover. Light edgewear to wrappers, Color, Black and white pictures throughout.

Softcover. Milwaukie OR, Dark Horse, 1st, 1994-95, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, the complete set of 4 books, first published in comic book format. Color illustrations by Talbot. All clean, bright copies.

Hardcover. West Plains MO, Russ Cochran, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 5 volumes in a slipcase. The complete run, color covers, inside art in b&w line. All very good. In full color pictorial slipcase replicating the classic EC comic numbers 17 thru 46, each with full color pictorial boards as well as the front cover of each comic issue printed in full color as well.

Hardcover. New York, Bloomsbury USA, 1st US, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 296 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Bloomsbury , 1st US, 2004-07-02, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 296 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Montreal, Drawn and Quarterly, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an acetate dust jacket, 272 pages. A graphic short story collection that ruminates on such topics as nuclear weapons, war, wiretapping, Christopher Columbus, Leo Tolstoy, William Shakespeare and Virginia Woolf. Clean, very good.

Hardcover. London, Titan Books, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 167 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, tight copy. Burne Hogarth is one of the most famous artists in the history of comic strips - at the peak with Alex Raymond (Flash Gordon) and Hal Foster (Prince Valiant). In 1936 he followed Foster on the massively popular Tarzan comic strip, and set a new standard for dynamics and excitement. This is the first of four exclusive volumes that collects Hogarth's entire run, beginning with Tarzan and the Golden City. Restored and reproduced in an oversized format, these editions will finally do justice to one of the most lauded illustrators of all time, whose work has been out of print for more than a decade. Full-color restorations of the newspaper strips, reproduced in the oversized full-page format.

Hardcover. US, Titan Books, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 176 pages, color illustrations. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. THE WORLD-FAMOUS COMIC STRIP, RESTORED AND COLLECTED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ITS ENTIRETY! Following on from Tarzan in the City of Gold and Tarzan Versus The Barbarians, Tarzan Versus The Nazis is the third of four exclusive volumes authorized by the Edgar Rice Burroughs estate, collecting the entire run of the legendary Tarzan comic strip by one of the most influential artists of the 20th Century, Burne Hogarth (with Don Garden).

Hardcover. Dark Horse, 1st, 2005, Hardcover, 200 pages. Few artists can capture visceral action sequences and the dynamic human form like Joe Kubert, and his expressive talents are fully realized in his 1970s Tarzan comics. This beautiful archive collection - with an introduction by Kubert and color restoration based off of Tatjana Wood's original colors - is a must-have for fans of timeless adventure tales and Joe Kubert's undeniable intensity and skill. Beginning with this first volume, Dark Horse's hardcover series reprints Kubert's entire Tarzan work. Join us on these primal adventures, as Tarzan discovers the pleasures and perils of the African wilds... and the many dangers posed by both man and beast! Joe Kubert's Tarzan, Volume One, reprints issues #207 through #214 of the 1970s run, featuring "Origin of the Ape Man" (a bold adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' first Tarzan novel), "Jungle Tales of Tarzan," and other stories inspired by Burroughs' books - all written and drawn by the legendary Joe Kubert!

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 434 pages, b&w illustrations. Like new condition. When we picture the 1950s, we hear the sound of early rock and roll. The Ten-Cent Plague shows how -- years before music -- comics brought on a clash between children and their parents, between prewar and postwar standards. Created by outsiders from the tenements, garish, shameless, and often shocking, comics spoke to young people and provided the guardians of mainstream culture with a big target. Parents, teachers, and complicit kids burned comics in public bonfires. Cities passed laws to outlaw comics. Congress took action with televised hearings that nearly destroyed the careers of hundreds of artists and writers.

Hardcover. London, Max Parrish, 7th pr., 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 128 pages, illustrated in b&w by Ronald Searle. Dust jacket with light soil, price-clipped. Previous owner's inscription on the front fly leaf.

Hardcover. New York, Flying Buttress, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 111 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with color comics throughout. LIght wear to edges.

Hardcover. New York, NBM, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 111 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. First reprint volume of collected Terry and the Pirates color Sunday comic strip. Unmarked, a clean and bright copy.