Illustration Magazine Issue One reprint
Dan Zimmer. Dan Zimmer, 2008. This “Director's Cut” reprint of the long out-of-print first issue has been completely redesigned and features new artwork and no advertising. Printed square bound it features articles on the work of Haddon H. Sunblom (his famous Santa Coca-Cola paintings are the cover feature), James Avati and Jack Faragasso. This is a beautiful, educational, and scholarly magazine devoted to the history of American illustration art.

Published quarterly and printed in full colour, each issue features the highest quality printing, photography and colour reproductions of original art available anywhere.

For those with an interest in popular culture, commercial art and design, publishing history, comic books, paperbacks, pulp magazines, or collecting original art. 64 pages. Soft Cover Full Colour 8" x 11" (215mm x 280mm)

More Illustration magazines from the UK (Guineapiguana) and from the USA (Dan Zimmer).

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Masters of Fun & Thrills: The British Comic Artists Vol. 1 (Signed)
Norman Wright & David Ashford. Norman Wright, 2008. This is an essential publication for fans and students of British Comics. In this first volume renowned comics historians David Ashford and Norman Wright have assembled fourteen in-depth studies of great British comic strip artists, featuring their biographies and offering prime examples of their artwork.

This volume traces the careers of Geoff Campion, Roland Davies, Ron Embleton, Derek Eyles, David Law, Hugh McNeil, John Millar Watt, Patrick Nicolle, Eric Parker, Reg Perrott, Ken Reid, Septimus Scott, Ron Turner and Dudley Watkins. These artists were the greats behind such titles as Beano, Dandy, Comet and Thriller Picture Library amongst many others.

They worked on characters as diverse as Dennis the Menace, Desperate Dan, Robin Hood and Buffalo Bill as well as many other humorous or adventure serials, be they historical, science fiction or western. This volume is destined to be an essential reference work for years to come. Includes 8 pages of colour featuring some original art plus photographs of the artists. 214 pages. Soft Cover Part Colour 6" x 8" (150mm x 210mm)
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Initial copies will be available signed by the authors while stocks last.

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James Bond 007: Polestar
Ian Fleming, Jim Lawrence, Yaroslav Horak & John McLusky. Titan Books, 2008. This bumper action-packed volume collects ultra rare Bond stories that have not been seen since their original syndication: Flittermouse, The Scent of Danger, Snake Goddess, Double Eagle and Polestar.

Plus a new introduction by Bond girl Valerie Leon (The Spy Who Loved Me), features on Ian Fleming's home Golden Eye and a look at the rarely seen Bond Zig Zag comics series, not to be missed! 120 pages. Soft Cover Black & White 9" x 12" (220mm x 296mm) (ISBN-13: 9781845767174)

We have other James Bond collected Newspaper Strips in this absorbing series.

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Crikey! # 6
Edited by Brian M Clark. Sequential Media Publications, 2008. Crikey continues to be a great value fun read about the heyday of British Comics. Issue six is devoted to the incredibly prolific publisher DC Thomson and quite rightly Dennis the Menace is the cover star. He sums up the mischievous fun that permeates the magazine.

Inside there are features on both well known and lesser known titles from Beano, Dandy and Victor on the one hand to Sparky and Spellbound on the other.

The issue is rounded out with a look at the free gifts that tempted potential purchasers of Dandy and Beano, a feature on Black Bob (the highland's answer to Lassie in case you were wondering) and a lively letters column. 52 pages. Soft Cover Part Colour 8" x 12" (210mm x 297mm)

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Monkey Subdues the White-Bone Demon
Translator Wang Hsing-pei, art Chao Hung-pen and Chien Hsiao-tai. Dust Jacket drawn by Joost Swarte. Real Free Press, 1971. Out of Print. The travels of the Chinese Monk Hsuang Tsang - aided and abetted by Monkey, Pigsy and Sandy - have been popular in China since the 7th Century A.D. Of course they inspired the famous cult TV programme during the 1970s.

In 1971 Amsterdam's Real Free Press decided to celebrate its fifth birthday by publishing a bi-lingual Dutch-English edition of this work which was drawn by the two Chinese artists Chao Hung-pen and Chien Hsiao-tai to commemorate the 1,300 anniversary of the death of the man who brought Buddhist philosophy to China.

This edition features their wonderful intricate line work presented as a single panel per page with the text running at the bottom like a children's storybook. The dust jacket is drawn in traditional style by the great Joost Swarte. 110 pages. Soft Cover Black & White 7" x 10" (172mm x 245mm) Dust Jacket
Rare out of print warehouse find.

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Elemental 3: The World's Best Autodesk Art
Daniel Wade editor. Ballistic Publishing, 2008. Elemental 3 showcases the finest digital art from the world's best 3D visualisation and animation artists using Autodesk software. Elemental 3 provides a snapshot of premium artwork in the categories of Architecture (Public & Residential), Architecture Interior (Public & Residential), Architecture Reconstruction, Environment, Characters, Creatures, Robotic / Cyborg, Transport, Production Design, Still Life and Abstract. 192 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 9" x 12" (229mm x 305mm) (ISBN-13: 9781921002533)

See also Elemental 1 and Elemental 2, the earlier volumes in this fascinating series as well as other outstanding books from Ballistic dedicated to stunning digital art!

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Absolute Ronin
Frank Miller. Titan Books, 2008. From Frank Miller, multi-talented winning creator of the comics "300", "Sin City", "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns" and director of "Sin City" and the forthcoming "The Spirit", comes the classic story of a feud that knows no boundaries - not even death.

A dishonoured, masterless 13th-century samurai finds himself reborn in a corrupt and disillusioned 21st-century New York City, with one final chance for redemption. His quest will take him through betrayal, passion and murder, to a final showdown with his nemesis, the ancient demon Agat - to save the soul of a dying civilisation!

Now presented in an oversized, slip cased hardback, packed with sketches, fold-out pages and more, this is the ultimate edition of one of comics' finest tales! 328 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 7" x 10" (170mm x 258mm) (ISBN-13: 9781845769598)
Hard Cover with slipcase.

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Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko
Blake Bell. Fantagraphics Books, 2008. Steve Ditko is best known as the co-creator, with Stan Lee, of Spider-Man, Dr. Strange, and other classic Marvel and DC characters. But, in the context of Steve Ditko's 50-year career in comics, his creative involvement with Spider-Man is merely the tip of the iceberg.

This is a coffee table art book tracing Ditko's life and career, his unparalleled stylistic innovations, and his strict adherence to his philosophical principles, with lush displays of obscure and popular art from the thousands of pages of comics he's drawn over the last 55 years. 220 pages. Hard Cover Part Colour 9" x 12" (235mm x 315mm) (ISBN-13: 9781560979210)

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Comics and Sequential Art: Principles and Practices from the Legendary Cartoonist
Will Eisner. Norton, 2008. The classic drawing textbook, revised and enhanced for a new generation. Based on Will Eisner's legendary course at New York's School of Visual Arts, this guide has inspired generations of artists, students, teachers and fans. In "Comics and Sequential Art", Eisner reveals the basic building blocks and principles of comics, including imagery, the frame, and the application of time, space and visual forms.

With examples from Eisner's own catalogue and such masters as R. Crumb, the book distils the art of graphic storytelling into principles that every comic artist, writer and filmmaker should know. 164 pages. Soft Cover Black & White 8" x 10" (200mm x 250mm) (ISBN-13: 9780393331264)

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d'artiste: Digital Painting 2 - Digital Artists Master Class
Daniel Wade (Editor). Ballistics Publishing, 2008. Digital Painting 2 is the sixth book in the d'artiste Digital Artists Master Class series. It features the artwork and techniques of Master Artists: Daniel Dociu, Melanie Delon, Don Seegmiller and Marta Dahlig. In addition to painting techniques, Digital Painting 2 shows each artist's overall approach from sketch to finished painting. The book also features a hugely talented invited artist gallery chosen personally by the Master Artists. 208 pages. Soft Cover Full Colour 9" x 12" (225mm x 305mm) (ISBN-13: 9781921002571)
Complete with Slipcase.

See also d'artiste: Digital Painting (1), the first volume in this series, as well as other outstanding books from Ballistic dedicated to stunning digital art!

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Creepy Archives Volume 1
Shawna Gore (Editor). Dark Horse Books, 2008. Gather up your wooden stakes, your blood-covered hatchets, and all the skeletons in the darkest depths of your closet, and prepare for a horrifying adventure into the darkest corners of comics history. Dark Horse Comics further corners the market on high quality horror storytelling with one of the most anticipated releases of the decade, a hardcover archive collection of legendary Creepy Magazine.

This groundbreaking material turned the world of graphic storytelling on its head in the early 1960s, as phenomenal young artists like Bernie Wrightson and Neal Adams reached new artistic heights with their fascinating explorations of classic and modern horror stories.

Brilliant, classic Creepy stories from 1964-1966 raised from the dead after twenty-five years. Featuring work by such comics luminaries and former EC Comics greats as Joe Orlando, Al Williamson, Alex Toth, and Frank Frazetta. The magazine was edited and sometimes written by Archie Goodwin.

Archive editions of Creepy will be the cornerstone of any comic-book library. Volume One reprints the first five terrifying issues of the magazine's original run, reprinted in the original magazine size! 232 pages. Hard Cover Black & White 8½" x 11" (215mm x 279mm) (ISBN-13: 9781593079734)

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Necronomicon 2
H R Giger. Gallery Morpheus. Over 200 of Giger's paintings in full colour. Also included are sketches and photos of his work. Volume 2 of 2. Hard Cover Full Colour 12" x 17" (30cm x 43cm)

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Illustration, issue 16 Summer 2008
Edited by Ruth Prickett. Guineapiguana Publications, Summer 2008. The advent and development of photography has often been heralded as a threat to the continued use of illustration in newspapers and advertising, yet the reports of illustration's death seem to be much exaggerated. For example, while the work of the artists who recorded the events of war in the first half of the 20th century is enthusiastically collected and used by modern historians, who would have predicted that illustrators would still have a role to play in documenting 21st-century conflicts?

This issue looks at the past 100 years of illustrators at war. We start with the famous and less well-known names who brought home events at the front in the first world war. We then find out about Edward Bawden's first-hand experiences of life with the Marsh Arabs of Iraq at the end of the second world war, while he served as an official war artist.

Then we fast-forward to the 21st century and hear from a modern war artist who has worked with Canadian and US soldiers in recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. He tells us what illustration can still offer that photography cannot and why it remains an important method of recording major historical events.

Back on home turf, we talk to Christopher Wormell about his widely varied work that encompasses everything from wood-engravings of idyllic rural scenes to bold linocuts of animals and watercolour images for his own children's books.

We then travel to Chennai to explore the work of Tara Publishing, which is using illustration to give new life and a fresh audience to traditional Indian art forms. Back then to Italy to examine a remarkable collection of European periodicals and publisher's archives as well as the extravagant deluxe creations of an Italian fine press. 52 pages. Soft Cover Full Colour 8" x 12" (203mm x 305mm) Recommended.

More Illustration magazines from the UK (Guineapiguana) and from the USA (Dan Zimmer).

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Exposé 6: Finest Digital Art in the Known Universe
Over 250 artists, edited by Daniel Wade & Paul Hellard. Ballistic Publishing, 2008. Celebrate the World's finest new digital art. Exposé 6 is our latest Digital Art Yearbook featuring 'the best of the best'. With 334 inspiring images prepared by 257 artists from 43 countries, you will discover the very best work across 20 different categories. Judged by industry leaders, Exposé 6 is a truly international collection. 224 pages. Soft Cover Full Colour 9" x 12" (229mm x 305mm) (ISBN-13: 9781921002502)

See also Exposé 1 to Exposé 5, the earlier volumes in this fascinating series as well as other outstanding books from Ballistic dedicated to stunning digital art!

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Mark Schultz Various Drawings volume 3
Mark Schultz, foreword by Michael Ryan. Flesk Publications, 2008. This third volume of the ongoing Various Drawings series focuses on Mark Schultz's most recent works and unpublished art. Showcasing only his best in this annual collection, he demonstrates a continued ability to refine his craft through a variety of formats: private commissions, illustrations, comics material, and rare sketchbook art.

New this year is a sixteen-page colour section, featuring colour roughs for his paintings and tinted experiments. The drawings include new pieces featuring Xenozoic Tales favorites Jack Tenrec and Hannah Dundee, plus a selection of recent comic book covers. Also included are preliminaries for his upcoming Storms at Sea storybook, unpublished brush and ink roughs for book illustration assignments, and more—65 pieces of art rendered variously in pencil, Wolff pencil, and brush and ink.

The Various Drawings series continues to present Schultz's otherwise unseen privately commissioned works, and, as usual, includes a spectacular gatefold centrepiece. 48 pages. Soft Cover Part Colour 8½" x 11" (215mm x 279mm) (ISBN-13: 9781933865027)

We also have the SIGNED LIMITED DELUXE HARDCOVER edition of this book with bound-in Plate!

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Frank Frazetta Icon Newly revised & expanded edition
Edited by Cathy & Arnie Fleener, illustrated by Frank Frazetta. Underwood Books, 2003. The definitive book on the grand master of comic book art just got better! Icon not only features all the paintings that made Frank Frazetta famous but has now been expanded to include 32 additional pages.

New material includes paintings of Woody Allen, and Peter Sellers, concepts of Clint Eastwood for the movie poster to The Gauntlet, original concepts for the Conan book cover paintings and character drawings for the Braodway production of L'il Abner. A decisive look at one the World's most influential fantasy artists. 200 colour illustrations. 176 pages. Soft Cover Full Colour 9" x 12" (23cm x 30cm) ISBN: 1887424717 Highly Recommended.

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Bolero (Deluxe Edition) (Signed) (Limited Edition)
Milo Manara. Edizioni Di, 1999. A new erotic look at dress and custom through the ages by the master of the art of the erotic female, Manara. Presented as a continuous Bayeaux-like tapestry this is another best seller from Manara. 44 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 11" x 9" (279mm x 229mm)
Extremely rare LIMITED edition (number 153 of 299 copies), SIGNED by Manara. Complete with die-cut card slipcase.

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Doctor Who: The World Shapers
John Ridgway, Grant Morrison, Jamie Delano. Panini, 2008. More thrilling adventures with the Sixth Doctor. These incredible escapades take our heroes from a world invaded by the Cybermen to a planet obsessed by (*gasp*) jazz! Includes the stories Exodus,Revelation! Genesis!, Nature of the Beast, Time Bomb, Salad Daze, Changes, Profits of Doom! The Gift and The World Shapers. 186 pages. Soft Cover Black & White 8½" x 11½" (215mm x 291mm) (ISBN-13: 9781905239870)

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The Prince Valiant Page (Deluxe) (Signed) (Limited Edition)
Gary Gianni, foreword by Mike Mignola, introduction by Robert Wagner.. Flesk Publications, 2008. This is the first book collecting Gary Gianni's work on Prince Valiant. This book gives a well-rounded informative look at both Gianni's rendition of the Prince Valiant Sunday strip and his own working procedures. After 25 years as a professional illustrator, Gianni describes his new role as an assistant to John Cullen Murphy (who assisted Hal Foster--Prince Valiant's creator). Upon Murphy's retirement, Gianni became the third artist in the 70-year history of the feature.

It continues with in-depth knowledge of the strip's creative process (i.e., receiving the script, photographing models, making preliminary drawings and pencil roughs, then concluding with the finished illustrations). Supporting artwork includes collaborations between Murphy and Gianni, whose entertaining, insightful text reveals his methods and working relationships with Murphy and current Prince Valiant writer, Mark Schultz.

Most reproductions are direct from the original artwork, rendered with archival quality, and displayed in museum catalogue format. Gianni's originals are delineated using brush and pen to create tones and variations often lost in the pure black and white reproduction methods characteristically employed in newspapers and comics. Gianni's work has never been reproduced in this manner before. This book includes three gatefolds of Prince Valiant strips in colour to showcase the finished works. 112 pages. Hard Cover Part Colour 9" x 12" (229mm x 305mm) Dust Jacket (ISBN-13: 9781933865058)
DELUXE NUMBERED edition (1000 copies) SIGNED by Gianni, complete in gold-embossed slipcase with an extra deluxe signed and numbered Plate.

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Steve Rude Artist in Motion
Steve Rude & John Fleskes. Flesk Publications, 2008. For over two decades, Steve Rude has galvanized the art world as a comic magazine artist and illustrator. This book explores Rude's versatility in several subjects and mediums. Chapters cover his comics and illustration work, private commissions, animation material, life-drawings, and an elaborate sketchbook section.

Numerous finished paintings - many published for the first time - are accompanied by preliminary work, such as sketches, colour roughs, and use of reference materials. In addition there is a “how-to” segment, which shows a painting project from start to finish.

Artist in Motion shows Rude's artistic processes in their entirety and will serve as both an art book and an inspirational guide for aspiring students. Rude explains his techniques for the layman to better understand this contemporary master's artistic processes. A biography and exclusive interviews delve into Rude's philosophy and approach to art. By studying the works of such masters as Andrew Loomis, John Gannam, Harry Anderson, Jack Kirby, and Russ Manning, Rude continues to perfect his talent. The result is an artist with the discipline and training of the grand illustrators from the 1930s to 1950s.

Colour cover with dust jacket, over 300 illustrations and sketches and nearly three dozen photographs featured. 208 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 9" x 12" (240mm x 310mm) Dust Jacket (ISBN-13: 9781933865065)

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Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 10
Written by John Wagner & Alan Grant, Art by Kevin O'Neill, Cam Kennedy, Ian Gibson et al. Rebellion, 2008. Mega-City One: the future metropolis bustling with life and every crime imaginable. Keeping order are the Judges, a stern police force acting as judge, jury and executioner. Toughest of all is Judge Dredd. He is the law and these are his stories.

Volume 10 in this exciting, best-selling series collects together more classic Dredd from the pages of 2000 AD, including The Art of Kenny Who? and Block Rite! A highly collectible, best-selling series reprinting Dredd's earliest cases. 368 pages. Soft Cover Black & White 7½" x 10" (190mm x 254mm) (ISBN-13: 9781905437689)

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The Vadeboncoeur Collection Of Images: Issue Ten
Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.. Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. Publishing, 2008. This issue Jim experiments with a landscape format for the magazine, still the same dimensions, in order to better reproduce more wonderful images from illustration's Golden Age.

Featured artists include Frank Brangwyn, Edmund Dulac, Henry Reuterdahl, Howard Pyle and John Bauer. All in gloriously reproduced full colour. There is also a black and white section, the Ink-Spot feature, on the work of Charles Dana Gibson. 40 pages. Soft Cover Part Colour 12" x 9" (305mm x 229mm) (ISBN-13: 9771543931304) Recommended.

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Harold Gray, Jeet Heer (commentary). IDW Publishing, 2008. When Oliver Warbucks first sees a strange little mop-headed girl in his mansion, he exclaims: "What th — Say - whose kid are you?" "I'm nobody's kid, Mr. Warbucks," she sheepishly replies. "I'm just an orphan Mrs. Warbucks took on trial."

So begins one of the most endearing, enduring relationships in the history of American comic strips—the relationship between Little Orphan Annie and "Daddy" Warbucks.

This sequence, which hasn't seen print since its initial 1924 newspaper appearance, is among the many treasures to be found in "Will Tomorrow Ever Come.

The Complete Little Orphan Annie is the second series to be released under IDW's The Library of American Comics imprint, edited and designed by Dean Mullaney.

Dick Tracy, Terry & the Pirates and Little Orphan Annie were the crown jewels of the world famous New York News-Chicago Tribune comics section.

Volume One contains more than 1,000 daily comics in nine complete stories, from the very first strip in August 1924 through October 1927.

In the pages of "Will Tomorrow Ever Come?" readers will discover how Annie escapes the orphanage and is ultimately adopted by "Daddy;" how she finds that loveable mutt Sandy and rescues him from being tortured; how she meets the Silos, who become recurring characters throughout the series; how she joins the circus and first encounters Pee Wee the elephant; and how, broke and alone, she hits the road on a succession of dangerous yet spiritually uplifting adventures.

"Harold Gray's Little Orphan Annie is one of the great American comic strips," adds comics historian Jeet Heer, who is writing an extensive Harold Gray biographical essay that will run continuously through the series. "With Dickensian imagination and gusto, Gray put his spunky orphan through a world of trouble. We should all be glad to see Annie again in her truest incarnation." The text will be illustrated with rare photographs and background material.

Since its premiere in August 1924, Little Orphan Annie has become a cultural icon—in both her red-headed, blank-eyed appearance, and as the embodiment of American individuality and self-reliance. The serious tone running throughout "Will Tomorrow Ever Come?" will broaden and enrich the character for those readers who know Little Orphan Annie only from the Broadway musical and subsequent film treatments.

Harold Gray was born in 1894 in Kankee, Illinois, and began his cartooning career as an assistant to Sydney Smith, creator of the famously successful strip, The Gumps. Gray wrote and illustrated Little Orphan Annie from 1924 until his death in 1968. 386 pages. Hard Cover Black & White 11" x 8½" (279mm x 215mm) (ISBN-13: 9781600101403)

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Tales From The Clerks (Signed) (Limited Edition)
CONTAINS ADULT MATERIAL. Kevin Smith et al. View Askew / Graphitti Designs, 2006. They're back! The two greatest slackers in cinematic history return to shake things up Mooby-style in this absolutely massive "Clerks" graphic novel collection! No customer is safe from the foul-mouthed sniping of Dante and Randall, the New Jersey layabouts who lament their lot in life through deliberations on sex, death, and pop culture. Will they ever escape from their dead-end professions?

This super-sized volume contains the original comics smash hit "Clerks"; Jay and Silent Bob's shenanigans in "Chasing Dogma" and "Bluntman & Chronic"; as well as two stories exclusive to this book, 'Walt Flanagan's Dog' and the Clerks II movie tie-in, 'Where's the Beef'! 400 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 7" x 10½" (178mm x 266mm) (ISBN-13: 9780936211855)
NUMBERED 344 from LIMITED edition of 500 copies, SIGNED by Kevin Smith.

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Prince Valiant Sunday Pages 1956
Hal Foster. Pacific Comics Club, 1979. Near Mint. This rare oversized soft cover contains lovely sharp reproductions in glowing colour of all the Sunday Pages from 01/01/56 to 30/12/56, being numbers 986 – 1038.

Very minor shelf ware. This is a warehouse find! 60 pages. Soft Cover Full Colour 10" x 13" (245mm x 340mm)

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Spaceship Away Part 15 - Summer 2008
Edited by Rod Barzilay. Spaceship Away/ Rod Barzilay, Summer 2008. This stylish mix of top quality full colour strips & informative texts maintains its superlative quality & will be an essential purchase for all fans of the original Eagle Comic & the 1950s science fiction hero, Dan Dare.

Continues the new Dan Dare adventure Green Nemesis and Hal Starr by Sydney Jordan plus other exciting features, including Arthur C Clarke's connection to the series and memories of the early studio days by Greta Tomlinson who worked closely with Frank Hampson. 44 pages. Soft Cover Full Colour 8" x 11½" (203mm x 291mm)

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Robert E. Howard. Bison Books, 2005. Robert E. Howard turned to writing comic and dialect Western tales only late in his career, but he found an immediate and continuously successful market for them, and they are in many respects his most accomplished and polished works.

The sixteen tales collected here are some of the best of his stories, featuring Breckinridge Elkins, Pike Bearfield, and Buckner J. Grimes—three inimitable characters who lead well-intentioned lives of perpetual confusion, mischance, and outright catastrophe. Fifteen of the stories were published between 1934 and 1937 in Action Stories, Argosy, or Cowboy Stories; the other remained unpublished for more than thirty years.

Many of these stories were rewritten for book publication and have never been reprinted in their original form. They are reminiscent of traditional southwestern tall tales, told in dialect, featuring larger-than-life characters, swift action, broad satire, and wry humor. 256 pages. Soft Cover Black & White 5" x 8" (127mm x 203mm) (ISBN-13: 9780803273542)

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American Flagg! (Limited Hardcover Edition)
CONTAINS ADULT MATERIAL. Howard Chaykin. Titan Books, October 2008. American Flagg! Stands alongside Watchmen and Batman: The Dark Knight Returns as one of the most popular comics visions of the 1980s. This is the first time that Plexus Ranger Reuben Flagg's adventures have been collected.

Flagg must tackle an America blighted by a biased and oppressive media, dubious 'wars', widespread political corruption and environmental disaster – sounds somehow familiar, doesn't it? 376 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 7" x 10" (170mm x 258mm) (ISBN-13: 9781845761028)

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Bernet Limited edition (Signed) (Limited Edition)
Illustrator Jordi Bernet, editor Manuel Auad. Auad Publishing, 2003. First Edition. Out of Print. A celebration of the life and art of Jordi Bernet. Born in 1944, Bernet has been drawing since childhood, & comes from a family of artists.

His most famous creation is probably Torpedo but there is much more on offer. Bernet's style is clean, hard-edged & leavened with humour. This is a hardcover edition, which features images of nudity. 238 pages. Hard Cover Black & White 9" x 11" (229mm x 279mm) ISBN: 0966938135
This is the very rare First Print Deluxe Edition, SIGNED by Jordi Bernet and NUMBERED 99 of only 200 copies worldwide.

Our Price: £65.00 ($130.00) (€84,50)      

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The Chronicles of Conan volume 15 The Corridor of Mullah-Kajar and Other Stories
J M DeMatteis, Roy Thomas, John Buscema and others. Dark Horse Books, 2008. Following a legendary writer like Roy Thomas is no easy task, but J.M. DeMatteis (Justice League, Spider Man: Kraven's Last Hunt, Moonshadow) found himself doing just that when he collaborated with writer Len Wein on Conan #116-and then became the book's new regular writer with Conan #118! Dark Horse's latest Chronicles of Conan collects six issues from the regular series run, as well as the second Conan King-Size Annual.

Readers will marvel at the strange new landscapes, creatures, and magical foes that DeMatteis brought to the series, while still getting a Roy Thomas fix with his "Phoenix on the Sword" adaptation from Conan Annual #2.

This volume collects Conan the Barbarian issues #116 to #121 and Conan Annual #2. Beautifully re-mastered in breathtaking new colour! 192 pages. Soft Cover Full Colour 7" x 10" (178mm x 254mm) (ISBN-13: 9781593079710) Highly Recommended.

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Dreams and Other Stories (Ehé-Catl #4)
Winsor McCay. Real Free Press, 1976. Out of Print. A wonderful collection of strips and illustrations from comic's pioneer Winsor McCay. As the editorial in this issues says, “Before Surrealism, before Dada, there was Winsor McCay.” Considered by many to be the first true comic strip artist, McCay was clearly influenced by the Art Nouveau movement. He created the first successful animated cartoon with Gertie the Dinosaur (around 1909 to 1913 depending on who you believe).

It's difficult to comprehend now, but while already tremendously successful with Little Nemo he simultaneously produced his other masterpiece, Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend under the alias “Silas”. He once commented on his success by saying “I never thought about the money I would receive for my drawings. I simply drew and drew.” This collection highlights this attitude.

There are several political cartoons that show a very sharp sense of humour as well as many examples of his whimsy with Rarebit Fiend, Little Nemo, Little Sammy Sneeze, Hungry Henrietta and others. 48 pages. Soft Cover Black & White 8½" x 11½" (215mm x 291mm)

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The 1970s Scrapbook
Compiled by Robert Opie. New Cavendish Books, 2004. The 1970s was an age of change. In addition to the Queen's Silver Jubilee, there was the anarchic Punk movement, of the same time. It was also the age of flared trousers, wide lapelled suits, stack-heeled boots, the pop group ABBA, the best selling Star Wars franchise and Glam Rock.

These and many other evocative items, are captured here, in a series of double page spreads of intricate complexity. There are tins, cards, posters, advertising, newspapers, Comics, board games, posters and illustrations. A fascinating look into a bygone era, as part of a Scrapbook series from author Robert Opie & New Cavendish books. 60 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 11" x 15" (28cm x 38cm) ISBN: 1954795407

More of the fabulous Scrapbook series with a scrapbook for each decade from the 1910s to the 1970s as well as a book for each of the Victorian and Edwardian ages!

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Dan Dare
Garth Ennis, Gary Erskine. Virgin Comics, 2008. Groundbreaking comics writer Garth Ennis brings the classic Dan Dare back to life in a bold, new series! Dan Dare was once a hero. He brokered peace with alien races, pushed the frontiers of space, and saved the planet from total annihilation... repeatedly. But now, his Space Fleet has disbanded, the United Nations has crumbled, his friends scattered to the solar winds.

Britain is once again the world power, but Dare, disillusioned and disappointed in his once-precious home country, has quietly retired. But there's troubling mustering in Deep Space. The H.M.S Achilles is picking up strange signals when, suddenly, an enormous fleet of hostile ships ambushes the destroyer. As the crew struggles to stay alive, they realize with horror that the hostiles have brought a weapon of unimaginable power.

Dan Dare, pilot of the future, has been called out of retirement! Virgin Comics is compiling the first three issues of the landmark Dan Dare, written by Garth Ennis, into a Special Hardcover Edition. 80 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 8" x 12" (203mm x 305mm) (ISBN-13: 9780981520025)

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In the Shadow of No Towers
Art Spiegelman. Penguin / Viking, 2004. Cartoonist Spiegelman presents a highly personalized, political, and confessional diary of his experience of September 11 and its aftermath. In 10 large-scale pages of original, hard hitting material (composed from September 11, 2001 to August 31, 2003), two essays, and 10 old comic strip reproductions from the early 20th century, he expresses his feelings of dislocation, grief, anxiety, and outrage over the horror of the attacks -- and the subsequent 'hijacking' of the event by the Bush administration to serve what he believes is a misguided and immoral political agenda. Readers who agree with Spiegelman's point of view will marvel at the brilliance of his images and the wit and accuracy of his commentary. Others, no doubt, will be jolted by his candor and, perhaps, be challenged to reexamine their position. 38 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 10" x 14" (25cm x 36cm) ISBN: 0670915416
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