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.

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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)

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Harvey Comics Classics volume Two: Richie Rich The Poor Little Rich Boy
Edited by Leslie Cabarga, created by Sid Jacobson and Warren Kremer. Dark Horse Books, 2007. Move over Uncle Scrooge! The richest character in comic book history is about to get his due. Harvey Comics' original creation Richie Rich, the Poor Little Rich Boy, represented the fantasies of every comic book-loving kid growing up in the 1960s and 70s. This mega compilation of the essential Richie collects his earliest and most substantial stories for the first time ever. Created by Sid Jacobson and Warren Kremer as a back-up feature Little Dot comics in 1953, Richie Rich went on to become Harvey's biggest moneymaker, appearing in over fifty different spinoff titles over the next forty years. In addition to the magnificent comic art of Warren Kremer, Richie was also drawn by animation great Steve Muffatti and comics legend Ernie Colon.

Contains over one hundred of the very best of The Poor Little Rich Boy, from the beginning of the series in 1953 through the classic years of the mid-1960s. Editor/designer Leslie Cabarga has reproduced the classic comics 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 book pages. The book also includes a comprehensive introduction by Jerry Beck. 480 pages. Soft Cover Part Colour 7" x 10" (178mm x 254mm) (ISBN-13: 9781593078485)

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