Hurricane and Champion: The Companion Papers to Valiant
This all-new index to these highly collectable British comics - Hurricane and Champion - details the histories of both papers and reveals, some for the first time, the names of many of the creators behind the classic comic strips that filled their pages.

Heavily illustrated throughout, Hurricane and Champion also includes title and creator indexes covering both papers, a gallery of annual covers and has a full-colour cover scanned from original artwork.

In his introduction, Steve Holland describes how Hurricane (1964-65) went through four phases during its lifetime and reveals the many problems faced by Champion (1966) during its brief 15-issue run.

Author: Compiled by Steve Holland
Artist: Various
Publisher: Bear Alley Books, 2012
Number of pages: 48
Format: Soft Cover; Black & White illustrations
Size: 8" x 11" (210mm x 290mm)
ISBN: 9781907081538

Our Price: £12.00 ($18.00) (€13,80)      

Ranger The National Boys' Magazine
Ranger may not have lasted as long as Lion but it was home to some memorable stories and features, including one of comics' finest creations, 'The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire' featuring the artwork of Don Lawrence.

The book's creators' index also includes an astonishing array of famous names, including Frank Hampson, Ron Embleton, John Millar Watt, Mike Hubbard, Jesus Blasco, Colin Merrett, Graham Coton, Francis Marshall, Henry Seabright, Will Nickless and Theo Page.

With stories by talents as diverse as Captain W. E. Johns and John Creasey, Ranger was able to offer boys' some of the best reading material on offer, including Richard Armstrong's Carnegie Medal-winning novel Sea Change; its photos, cutaway drawings and heavily illustrated features covered everything from duels in the sky to exploding islands, from James Bond's DB6 to the Mariner Mars expedition.

Compiled by Steve Holland and David Slinn, this comprehensive tome explores the history and background of the magazine, its contents and its lasting legacy. The book also includes an extensive index to the paper's contents, as well as title and creators' indexes.

To give readers a flavour of the contents, the book also includes the full run of the 'Famous Fighting Aces' feature by Colin Merrett as well as two complete comic strips, 'The Adventures of Macbeth' by Ruggero Giovannini and 'Moby Dick' by Franco Caprioli.

Author: Compiled by Steve Holland and David Slinn
Artist: Various
Publisher: Bear Alley Books, 2013
Number of pages: 162
Format: Soft Cover; Black & White illustrations
Size: 8" x 11" (210mm x 290mm)
ISBN: 9781907081705

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The Fleetway Picture Library Index volume 1: The War Libraries
Compiled by David Roach and Steve Holland. Book Palace Books, August 2007. This is the first in a series of 3 volumes chronicling the full credits of all Fleetway Picture Libraries. This volume lists full writer, artist and cover artist credits for War Picture Library #1 – 2083, Battle Picture Library #1 – 1706, Air Ace Picture Library #1 – 545, War At Sea Picture Library #1 – 36, plus Giant War Picture Library and all the Holiday Specials.

An enormous undertaking that required years of research, this definitive index is an essential purchase for all fans and students of British comics. This indispensable index has over 420 cover illustrations of which 202 are in colour, including 32 colour pages of comic covers and original cover art recently discovered in the IPC warehouse.

In addition there are 60 interior page illustrations and 72 full colour illustrations of original art covers. Also included is an expert detailed essay on the publishing history of these hugely popular comics. 196 pages. Flexi-cover Full Colour 7" x 10" (178mm x 254mm) (ISBN-13: 9780955159626)

Some of the War Library covers from the book

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The Fleetway Picture Library Index volume 2: The Thriller Libraries

Includes an unprecedented number of reproductions of original cover art and interior art pages, never before seen.

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Compiled by David Ashford and Steve Holland. Book Palace Books, 31 March 2011. This eagerly awaited book is the second in a series of 3 volumes chronicling the full credits of all Fleetway Picture Libraries and contains a complete index of artists and writers for Thriller Picture Library, Cowboy Picture Library and Super Detective Library.

Every issue is covered as well as the Robin Hood, Kit Carson and Buck Jones Annuals. Packed with colour illustrations of every cover as well as reproductions of cover and interior original art, by Sep Scott, John Millar Watt, Patrick Nicolle, Alex Raymond, Ron Turner, Derek Eyles, Cecil Doughty, HM Brock, Eric Parker, Carlos Roume, Arturo del Castillo, Jesus Blasco, Ferdinando Tacconi, and many more.

Years of research have gone into producing this definitive, luxurious guide to these legendary British comics - truly a collector's treasure. 284 pages. Flexi-cover Full Colour 7" x 10" (178mm x 254mm) (ISBN-13: 9781907081057)

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Action! Mystery! Thrills!

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When we contemplate a memorable old comic book, the first thing that comes to mind is its cover, and that was no accident. Publishers realized fairly quickly that if they spent a little extra to hire a good cover artist, they could fill the insides with mediocrity and still make a sizable profit — that all it took was a striking cover to entice thousands of kids to fork over their dimes.

Even today, covers drive the collectors’ market. Apart from number-one issues and first appearances, the strength of a comic book’s cover is the first consideration in determining its value. Indeed, it is now common practice to entomb the book between slabs of sealed plastic — with only the cover visible — as if the interior pages’ sole purpose was to provide a place to secure the staples.

In order to locate the best possible examples, collectors from around the world have been enlisted to share their rare and valuable comic books. The scores of cover artists represented include Carl Barks, Charles Biro, Dick Briefer, L.B. Cole, Jack Cole, Reed Crandall, Will Eisner, Bill Everett, Lou Fine, Walt Kelly, Jack Kirby, Mac Raboy, and Alex Schomburg. Every comic book genre will be explored, from superhero to detective to Western to funny animal.

Majestic, iconic, chaotic, or downright weird, a classic comic book cover has an undeniable appeal, and Action! Mystery! Thrills! celebrates in spades this unique cultural icon. The covers are printed full-sized on glossy paper to most faithfully replicate the originals, and arranged chronologically to give the reader a sense of the sweeping trends and stylistic developments throughout the medium’s first decade, as inexorable waves of dazzling imagery battled monthly for newsstand attention. This long-overdue collection also includes extensive historical commentary by editor/designer Greg Sadowski (Four Color Fear, Supermen!).

Author: Greg Sadowski Editor; Ty Templeton (foreword)
Artist: Various
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books, 2011
Number of pages: 208
Format: Soft Cover; Full Colour illustrations
Size: 8" x 10" (200mm x 265mm)
ISBN: 9781606994948

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Lion: King of Picture Story Papers
Recommended.
The second index in Bear Alley's new series charting the history of British comics, Lion King of Picture Story Papers is a massive, 262-page volume covering the story of one of the most popular titles released in the post-Second World War "silver age" of British comics. Launched in 1952, Lion was Amalgamated Press's answer to Eagle, featuring its own space hero, Captain Condor on its cover.

This was one of the company's first adventure story comics and its twenty-two-year history is the story of British adventure strips in the 1950s and 1960s. Over the years Lion starred some of the most popular characters in British comics, including Robot Archie, Paddy Payne, Karl the Viking, Zip Nolan, The Spider, The Spellbinder, Black Max and Adam Eterno. 290 authors and artists are identified in the index which also covers the Lion Annual, Lion Holiday Special and Lion and Valiant Special Extra.

Lavishly illustrated throughout, Lion King of Picture Story Papers includes a lengthy historical introduction, an index to the weekly comic covering comics, text stories and features, contents listings for all 35 Lion Annuals and spin-off annuals, all 17 Lion Holiday Specials and Lion and Valiant Special Extras and includes a title index and creator's index.

Author: Compiled by Steve Holland
Artist: Various
Publisher: Bear Alley Books, 2013
Number of pages: 262
Format: Soft Cover; Black & White illustrations
Size: 8" x 12" (210mm x 297mm)
ISBN: 9781907081675

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America's Great Comic Strip Artists From the Yellow Kid to Peanuts
Recommended.

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Probably the best book ever produced on these great artists. A lavish selection of rare and beautiful comic art by the acknowledged masters of the form.

Sixteen chapters, each devoted to one artist and his work:

RF Outcault (The Yellow Kid and Buster Brown), Rudolph Dirks (Katzenjammer Kids), Frederic B Opper (Happy Hooligan and Gaston), Winsor McCay (Little Nemo), George Herriman (Krazy Kat), EC Segar (Popeye), Cliff Sterrett (Polly and her Pals), Roy Crane (Cpt Easy and Buz Sawyer), Harold Gray (Little Orphan Annie), Hal Foster (Prince Valiant), Alex Raymond (Flash Gordon), Milton Caniff (Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon), Chester Gould (Dick Tracy), Al Capp (Lil Abner), Walt Kelly (Pogo) and Charles Schultz (Peanuts).

Author: Richard Marshall
Publisher: Stewart Tabori Chang
Number of pages: 296
Format: Hard Cover with Dust Wrapper; Full Colour illustrations
Size: 10" x 14" (25cm x 36cm)
ISBN: 1556706464

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Our Price: £13.49 ($20.24) (€15,51)      

Horror Comics Of The 1950s
Various. Nostalgia Press, 1971. Out of Print. Very Fine. A very rare book in such good condition! This classic book from 1971 was the first time a selection of classic EC stories were reprinted in colour in a deluxe format. Some of the best stories from EC by Ray Bradbury, Graham Ingels, Jack Davis, Al Williamson, Frank Frazetta, Wally Wood, Reed Crandell, Bernie Krigstein and many more are presented in large format full colour. 212 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour Dust Jacket

Our Price: £185.00 ($277.50) (€212,75)      

The Pictorial Guide to British 1950's Sci-Fi & Horror Comic Books (Limited Edition)

Author: Compiled by Mike Morley

Artist: Various

Publisher: Ugly Duckling Press, 2012

Number of pages: 288

Format: Soft Cover; Full Colour illustrations.

Spaceships! Monsters! Superheroes! You could find them all in abundance within the action packed pages of comic books filling the bottom shelves of British newsagent’s shops back in the 1950s.

Some were home grown productions and some were reprints of American material but all of them helped to brighten up a rather drab decade suffering from various forms of post war austerity.

Mike Morley takes a nostalgic look at this neglected area of publishing and presents a full colour collector's guide to this fascinating sub-section of our social history. With 288 pages of full colour reproductions of over 1000 British comics covers, this is an essential book for all fans and students of British comic history.

This is a LIMITED EDITION book of only 300 copies, so please do not miss out on this tremendous archive of material before it sells out.

Our Price: £22.00 ($33.00) (€25,30)      

75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking - Super heroes from the Atom to Zatara
Recommended.

Paul Levitz. Taschen, 2010. In 1935, DC Comics founder Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson published New Fun No. 1, the first comic book with all-new, original material -- at a time when comic books were mere repositories for the castoffs of the newspaper strips. What was initially considered to be disposable media for children was well on its way to becoming the mythology of our time -- the 20th century's answer to Atlas or Zorro.

More than 40,000 comic books later, in honor of the publisher's 75th anniversary, here is the single most comprehensive book on DC Comics in an XL edition even Superman might have trouble lifting. More than 2,000 images - covers and interiors, original illustrations, photographs, film stills, and collectibles - are reproduced using the latest technology to bring the story lines, the characters, and their creators to vibrant life as they've never been seen before. Telling the tales behind the tomes is 38-year DC veteran Paul Levitz, whose in-depth essays trace the company's history, from its pulp origins through to the future of digital publishing.

Year-by-year timelines that fold out to nearly four feet and biographies of the legends who built DC make this an invaluable reference for any comic book fan. Hard Cover Part Colour 11" x 16" (290mm x 395mm) (ISBN-13: 9783836519816)

Our Price: £135.00 ($202.50) (€155,25)      

Tintin & Co.

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Tintin & Co. is the perfect book to celebrate Herge's centenary. Michael Farr has written numerous books on Tintin and Herge as well as translating several others into English. His writing style is engaging and easy to read, with several moments of shared humour as readers will recall their favourite moments from the stories.

Illustrations, facts and Herge's early sketches provide a remarkable insight into the fictional world of Tintin and into the real time in which Herge was writing.

As well as covering the main characters - Tintin, Snowy, Captain Haddock, Professor Calculus, Thomson and Thompson and Bianca Castafiore - this book also includes chapters on the Arab princeling Abdullah, chess-loving General Alcazar, the villainous Doctor Mueller, Tintin's mortal enemy Rastapopoulous, the insurance salesman Joylon Wagg who is always turning up at unexpected moments and the orphan Chang.

Author: Michael Farr
Artist: Hergé
Publisher: Egmont, 2007
Number of pages: 132
Format: Hard Cover; Full Colour illustrations
Size: 9" x 12" (235mm x 305mm)
ISBN: 9781405232647

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Our Price: £10.99 ($16.49) (€12,64)      

The Adventures Of Superman Collecting (Limited Edition)
Harry & Amanda Murrah Matetsky. Russ Cochran Ltd, 1988. Out of Print. Near Mint. Deluxe slip cased edition, showcasing an exhaustive collection of Superman related items: toys, cereal premiums, records, lunch boxes - nothing seems to have been missed in this comprehensive study. There are numerous reproductions in colour and B&W, plus a collectables index.

Slip cased, and supplied with original card mailing box. The embossed slip case has minimal rubbing and is VF; book is Near Mint. 216 pages. Hard Cover Part Colour 10" x 13" (25cm x 33cm) ISBN: 0930289315
DELUXE 50th Anniversary edition, NUMBERED 2001 from LIMITED edition of 2500 copies. (SLIPCASE has some minimal rubbing.)

Our Price: £100.80 ($151.20) (€115,92)      

The Comics Since 1945
Brian Walker. Harry N. Abrams, 2002. Large format hard cover edition, which examines the art of the American Comic-strip form from 1945 to date. Lavishly illustrated in B&W and colour with essays on the myriad strip characters and their creators, such as Charles Schultz, Peanuts; Hank Ketchum, Dennis The Menace; Walt Kelly, Bill Watterson, Berke Breathed and many, many more. Fully indexed and referenced. 336 pages. Hard Cover Part Colour 10" x 13" (25cm x 33cm) ISBN: 0810934817

Our Price: £39.99 ($59.99) (€45,99)      

Comix: The Underground Revolution
Dez Skinn, foreword by Denis Kitchen. Quality Communications, 2004. An authoritative look at the underground Comix scene, which rose to prominence in 1967, with the publication of Robert Crumb's Zap Comics. This fully illustrated edition is divided into 9 major chapters, including Heroes Of The Revolution, Grass Roots, Beyond The Page & Long Time Passing. There are features on Tijuana Bibles, Art Spiegelman's Maus, UK undergrounds With input from Trina Robbins and Brit artists Bryan Talbot, Hunt Emerson & Steve Gibson. This is a deluxe hardcover edition with fully annotated checklist to almost 1,000 UK & US Comix. This information includes version produced, publisher, dates, key artists, with numerous thumbnail illustrations. 288 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 9" x 9" (23cm x 23cm) ISBN: 184340186X
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WINTER SALE - GOOD VALUE!

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Great British Fantasy Comic Book Heroes (Limited Edition)

LIMITED EDITION (only 100 copies worldwide)

Phil Clarke, Mike Higgs (Editors). Ugly Duckling Press, 2009. A super-sized hard cover reprinting a plethora of science – fantasy heroes from the lesser known British Comics publishers of the 1940s and 1950s. Most of the original comics are vanishingly scarce and the editors are to be thanked for rescuing these Atom Age heroes from oblivion.

A great fun read for lovers of nostalgia and comics historians alike. This is a very limited edition of just 100 copies. This book will remain, in all probability, the only place one will be able to find these comic stories. 464 pages. Hard Cover Black & White 8½" x 11½" (215mm x 295mm)

Our Price: £75.00 ($112.50) (€86,25)      

MAD Cover to Cover 48 Years, 6 Months & 3 Days of Mad Magazine Covers
Frank Jacobs (commentary). Watson Guptill, 2000. By 'The Usual Gang of Idiots' with a running commentary by Frank Jacobs. Collected here for the first time in one easy to dispose of volume is an inside look at the outside of MAD. Launched in 1952 as a ten cent comic book, MAD transformed three years later to a twenty five cent 'cheap' magazine. Every cover is reproduced here in full colour showcasing the glorious art of Norman Mingo, Kelly Freas, Richard Williams, Mort Drucker, chimpanzee J. Fred Muggs, and Leonardo da Vinci. Including rare never before seen art, photos and sketches from the world's foremost satire magazine. 400 colour and 50 b&w illustrations. 224 pages. Soft Cover Part Colour 8" x 11" (20cm x 28cm) ISBN: 0823016846
List Price: £18.99 SAVE £9.00 Recommended.
MINT & special offer on this popular tome!

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The Man Who Drew Tomorrow: How Frank Hampson Created Dan Dare
Alastair Crompton, additional material by Alan Vince. Who Dares Publishing, 1985. First Edition. Out of Print. Very Fine. In this fascinating chronicle, author Alastair Crompton tells how artist, writer & visionary, Frank Hampson, created one of the most charismatic & enduring science fiction characters of all time. He is of course, Dan Dare - Pilot Of The Future, the full-colour lead strip, of Eagle comic, the classic UK periodical. The story is divided into 13 chapters, which includes The Birth Of Space Travel, Crux Of The Matter, Frank Hampson's Studio At Work, Night & Fog, plus The Long Goodbye. These are illustrated with rare examples of Hampson's art, period photographs, model sheets & the physical models used to bring the concept to creation. If you only get one reference work about Dan Dare & his creator, this has to be it. 1st print, minor scuffing to edges and corners, VF. 216 pages. Soft Cover Part Colour 8" x 10" (20cm x 25cm) ISBN: 0948487011 and ISBN-13: 9780948487019 Highly Recommended.

Our Price: £27.00 ($40.50) (€31,05)      

The Man Who Drew Tomorrow: How Frank Hampson Created Dan Dare
Alastair Crompton, additional material by Alan Vince. Who Dares Publishing, 1985. Very Fine. Author Alastair Crompton tells how artist, writer and visionary, Frank Hampson, created one of the most charismatic and enduring science fiction characters of all time. He is of course, Dan Dare - Pilot Of The Future, the full-colour lead strip, of Eagle comic, the classic UK periodical. The story is divided into 13 chapters, which includes The Birth Of Space Travel, Crux Of The Matter, Frank Hampson's Studio At Work, Night & Fog, plus The Long Goodbye. These are illustrated with rare examples of Hampson's art, period photographs, model sheets & the physical models used to bring the concept to creation. If you only get one reference work about Dan Dare & his creator, this has to be it. 1st print, VF+. 216 pages. Hard Cover Part Colour 8" x 10" (20cm x 25cm) Dust Jacket ISBN: 0948487003 and ISBN-13: 9780948487002
Very rare hard cover edition in excellent condition.

Our Price: £99.00 ($148.50) (€113,85)      

Tomorrow Revisited: A Celebration of the Life and Art of Frank Hampson
Alastair Crompton, Frank Hampson. PS Publishing, December 2010. A full colour illustrated biography of Frank Hampson, with the best of his original artwork finally printed as it was meant to be seen!

The book is crammed with superb examples of Hampson's best work, printed in full colour from original art boards, so you can see all the amazing detail and painstaking backgrounds Hampson was so good at creating.

After he completed 'The Road of Courage', Hampson went on to create seven other strip cartoon characters, intended for Eagle. Now these amazing strips are printed for the first time, together with backgrounds of how they were drawn and some of the intended story-lines. 200+ pages. Hard Cover Full Colour (ISBN-13: 9781848631212)

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Tomorrow Revisited: A Celebration of the Life and Art of Frank Hampson (Deluxe Leatherbound Signed Limited Edition)

A strictly LIMITED edition of only 100 leatherbound copies, each with a unique ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR painted by Don Harley (we have #27 and #35/100 available - see pictures below). Each copy is SIGNED by Alastair Crompton, Peter Hampson, Andrew Skilleter & Don Harley. Complete in Leatherbound Presentation Case with a limited edition print by Andrew Skilleter.

Alastair Crompton, Frank Hampson. PS Publishing, December 2010. A full colour illustrated biography of Frank Hampson, with the best of his original artwork finally printed as it was meant to be seen!

The book is crammed with superb examples of Hampson's best work, printed in full colour from original art boards, so you can see all the amazing detail and painstaking backgrounds Hampson was so good at creating.

After he completed 'The Road of Courage', Hampson went on to create seven other strip cartoon characters, intended for Eagle. Now these amazing strips are printed for the first time, together with backgrounds of how they were drawn and some of the intended story-lines.

This Deluxe Leatherbound Edition features the Certificate of limited availability (100 copies worldwide) and is signed by Alastair Crompton, Peter Hampson, Andrew Skilleter & Don Harley. It also comes with a limited edition print by Andrew Skilleter. 200+ pages. Hard Cover Full Colour (ISBN-13: 9781848631229)

Original Don Harley watercolour (#27)	Original Don Harley watercolour (#35)
Andrew Skilleter print

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Masters Of American Comics
Various contributors, edited by John Carlin, Paul Karasik & Brian Walker. Hammer Museum/ Museum Of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles/ Yale University Press, 2005. Masters Of American Comics is designed to accompany an exhibition, about American Comics greatest creators, commencing November 2005 in Los Angeles, visiting Milwaukee and Newark during 2006 & 2007.

The line up of creative greats is truly impressive, with 15 artists discussed. These include Winsor McCay, Lyonel Feininger, George Herriman, E.C Segar, Frank King, Chester Gould, Milton Caniff, Will Eisner, Art Spiegelman, Charles M. Schulz & Harvey Kurtzman. Many of the accompanying images are taken from the original B&W artwork, but shot in full colour to show all the graduations, tones, blue pencil, erasures & artistic sweat that went into their creation. Many of these will have never been seen, before. There is also an introductory essay from John Carlin, plus explanatory texts to accompany each creator section, index & selected bibliography. For anyone interested in the artists described herein or the illustrated American Comic Strip and its history, this book will prove an irresistible purchase. 328 pages. Hard Cover Part Colour 10" x 13" (25cm x 33cm) (ISBN: 030011317X) Highly Recommended.

Our Price: £35.00 ($52.50) (€40,25)      

The Photo-Journal Guide to Comic Books (2 volumes)
Ernst Gerber, Mary Gerber. Gerber Publishing Company, 1989. First Edition. FIRST EDITION. A two-volume set featuring over 21,000 colour photos of rare comics 1933-1963, with a scarcity index, character, artist and title indexes, plus chapters on grading, values and preservation.

50,000 comics individually catalogued in this luxurious and invaluable book. 1200+ pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 10" x 14" (25cm x 36cm) Dust Jacket ISBN: 0962332801
List Price: £125.00 SAVE £30.00 Highly Recommended.

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The Photo-Journal Guide to Comic Books (2 volumes) (Signed) (Limited Edition)
Compiled by Ernst and Mary Gerber. Gerber Publishing Company, 1989. First Edition. Very Fine. Limited Slipcased Edition of 900 numbered copies. Compiled by Ernst and Mary Gerber. Text and photographs by Ernst Gerber. Deluxe limited Edition. #551 of 900 copies. Two Volumes in Slip Case. Brown padded/bonded leather bindings. Contains 21,760 photographs of the covers of Golden and Silver Age Comic Books printed from 1935 thru 1965. Photographs of complete or near complete sets of Action, Batman, Detective, Flash, Superman, Captain America, Captain Marvel, etc., with a detailed realized 'Relative Value Index' of 50,000 comic books.

Many of the 21,000 photos of comic books are of the only known copies in existence. Printed on high gloss heavy stock paper. Volume 1 contains 10,700 colour illustrations, Volume 2 contains 11,060 colour illustrations in over 800 pages. Both volumes are contained in a brown leatherette slip case. 1200+ pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 10" x 14" (254mm x 356mm) ISBN: 096233281X and ISBN-13: 9780962332814 TWO volumes in SLIPCASE. LIMITED NUMBERED Edition (#551 of 900 copies) SIGNED by Ern

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The Photo-Journal Guide to Marvel Comics (Signed) (Limited Edition)
Ernst Gerber with and introduction by Stan Lee.. Gerber Publishing Company, 1991. First Edition. This is the single-volume limited edition with 16 additional pages of colour photos not featured in the 2 volume trade edition. This book features 17, 700 colour photos of Marvel Comics 1961-1991, with a scarcity index, character, artist and title indexes, plus chapters on grading, values and preservation. Padded leather bound edition contained in a brown leatherette slip case. 362 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 10" x 14" (254mm x 356mm) Dust Jacket ISBN: 0962332887 LIMITED NUMBERED Edition (#1659 of 2500 copies) SIGNED by Ernst W. Gerber and Stan L

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Illustrated Dust Jacket!

Rebel Visions The Underground Comix Revolution 1963 - 1975
Patrick Rosenkranz. Fantagraphics Books, 2002. Every now and again a book comes along that fills an important gap that history has forgotten. In the history of Comics (or Comix), this is such a book. It takes us chronologically from 1963 through 1975, as the burgeoning underground scene got underway. In a second strand the major artists of the period are also studied. There are numerous illustrations from such luminaries as, R. Crumb, Rick Griffin, Jay Lynch, S. Clay Wilson, Roger Brand, Trina Robbins and numerous others. This comprehensive study also includes, bibliography, endnotes & full index. Recommended for Comic historians & fans of the Underground Comix scene, alike. 292 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 9" x 12" (23cm x 30cm) Dust Jacket ISBN: 1560974648

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Superhero Comics Of The Silver Age The Illustrated History
Mike Benton. Taylor Publishing Company, 1991. First Edition. Out of Print. This is the ultimate super-genre history. You will find in this book the first complete listing of all artists who drew the superhero comics, with special checklists of their work during these decades. Features every major superhero, with behind-the-scenes stories of their secret origins. Every superhero comic of the fifties and sixties. A complete chronology of the Silver Age and more than 400 colour photographs. This work is the ultimate word on the comic book heroes of the fifties and sixties. It's a knockout, expertly written and beautifully illustrated. A visual treat for the general reader and the advanced collector. A superb reference. First Printing. 224 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour Dust Jacket ISBN: 0878337466

Our Price: £58.50 ($87.75) (€67,27)      

The World Encyclopedia Of Cartoons
Edited by Maurice Horn. Chelsea House, 1980. First Edition. Out of Print. A real treasure-trove of fun and facts on the whole field of the cartooning arts: animation, syndicated panels, humor, caricature and much more. This is the only encyclopedia of its kind, prepared on a worldwide scale by 22 contributors from a dozen different countries. This is the definitive reference book on one of the most influential and significant art forms of the 20th century. 64 pages of full colour and more than 900 examples of cartoons in black-and-white. Indispensable! First edition, second printing. 676 pages. Hard Cover Part Colour 9¼" x 12¼" (23cm x 32cm) Dust Jacket ISBN: 0877540888

Our Price: £40.00 ($60.00) (€46,00)