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)

Our Price: £32.99 ($49.49) (€39,59)      

Click for larger cover picture!

You might also be interested in:

The EC Archives: Weird Science Volume 3 Bill Gaines, Al Feldstein, Wally Wood, Al Williamson, Jack Kaman, Will Elder, Joe Orlando. Gemstone, 2008. The reproduction of these volumes is the best ever, ...more...

The Comics Of Fletcher Hanks: I Shall Destroy All Civilized Planets!
Edited by Paul Karasik. Fantagraphics Books, 2007. Welcome to the bizarre world of Fletcher Hanks, Super Wizard of the inkwell. Fletcher Hanks worked for only a few years in the earliest days of the comic book industry (1939-1941). Because he worked in a gutter medium for second-rate publishers on third-rate characters his work has been largely forgotten. But among aficionados he is legendary.

Hanks drew in a variety of genres depicting science-fiction saviours, white women of the jungle, and he-man loggers. Cartoonist Paul Karasik (co-adapter of Paul Auster's City of Glass and co-author of The Ride Together, a Memoir of Autism in the Family) has spent years tracking down these obscure and hard to find stories buried in the back of long-forgotten comic book titles. Karasik has also uncovered a dark secret: why Hanks disappeared from the comics' scene.

This book collects 15 of his best stories in one volume followed by an Afterword, which solves the mystery of "Whatever Happened to Fletcher Hanks," the mysterious cartoonist who created a hailstorm of tales of brutal retribution... and then mysteriously vanished. 122 pages. Soft Cover Full Colour (ISBN-13: 9781560978398)
List Price: £12.99 SAVE £2.00 A truly wonderful collection of Outsider Art, bizarre and compelling. Highly Recommended.

Our Price: £10.99 ($16.49) (€13,19)      

Click for larger cover picture!

Harvey Comics Classics volume One: Casper The Friendly Ghost
Edited by Leslie Cabarga. Dark Horse Books, 2007. It's amazing how many comics fans who grew up admiring Spiderman, Batman, and Nick Fury still retain warm places in their hearts for Casper the Friendly Ghost, who made his first appearance as a star of Paramount's Famous Cartoons in 1947 and entered the comics in 1949. But after five issues, publisher St. John's gave up the title. That's when Harvey Comics stepped in, and where this book begins. Harvey breathed life into Casper, and from the very first issue, the cover designs, stories, and artwork - drawn by the same animators who worked on the cartoons - were a cut above.

Volume 1 contains over 100 of Casper's very best stories, from the beginning of the Harvey series in 1952 through the classic years of the mid-1960s. The art is reproduced from crisp black-and-white printer's proofs and original artwork from the old Harvey archives, along with sixty four pages of color meticulously restored from the original comic books. The book includes a comprehensive introduction by Jerry Beck illustrated with historic memorabilia. 480 pages. Soft Cover Part Colour 7" x 10" (178mm x 254mm) (ISBN-13: 9781593077815)

Our Price: £14.99 ($22.49) (€17,99)      

Click for larger cover picture!

You might also be interested in:

Commando: The Dirty Dozen Edited by, and with an introduction from, George Low. Carlton Publishing, October 2005. The Commando pocket-sized Comic book - from publisher D.C. Thomson - is ...more...	Commando: True Brit Edited by, and with an introduction from, George Low. Carlton Publishing, 2006. The toughest 12 Commando Books ever. The follow-up to the hugely successful first ...more...