Ron Embleton's Wulf the Briton: The Complete Adventures (Limited Edition)

DELUXE HARDCOVER EDITION LIMITED TO 400 COPIES WORLDWIDE
*** Coming Soon ***

Ron Embleton. Book Palace Books, due late 2010. First Edition. At last … all of Ron Embleton's Wulf the Briton stories - from Express Weekly and the Annuals - in large format, gloriously reproduced in colour to the highest standard.

Wulf the Briton was without doubt Ron Embleton's comic masterpiece after he took over the strip - which was a single page cover feature on Express Weekly - in 1957.

The workload that Embleton undertook with Wulf was formidable. In comparison to Frank Hampson, who had a studio and assistants to help meet the weekly Dan Dare deadlines, Embleton just had himself to draw, letter and paint the feature. However Embleton was unfazed by such considerations and within a few months he was also writing the strip and steering it in a much more historically credible direction, as well as adding an extra page to the strip!

Deluxe hard cover NUMBERED edition limited to 400 copies worldwide. 352 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 11" x 14" (270mm x 360mm) (ISBN-13: 9781907081132)

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Storm The Collection Part 10: The Return of the Red Prince / The Von Neumann Machine (Limited Edition)

FREE Limited Edition Storm PRINT by Don Lawrence with this book!

Don Lawrence, Martin Lodewijk. Don Lawrence Collection (DLC), August 2010. The entire Storm series from 1982 to 2003 is collected as 12 LIMITED EDITION deluxe hardbacks in English containing all 23 stories drawn by Don Lawrence.

Each book has a leatherette cover with Gold stamped artwork and a bound-in ribbon bookmark, and is superbly printed on 150gm coated paper. With over 100 pages in glorious colour and new film separations with new lettering.

The print run is LIMITED to just 500 copies in English for each volume. This volume includes the stories "The Return of the Red Prince" from 1990 and "The Von Neumann Machine" from 1993. The album contains also a well illustrated Storm-dossier entitled "The Search for Storm" part 10. 106 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 9" x 13" (240mm x 340mm) Dust Jacket (ISBN-13: 9789088860607)

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Our Price: £69.99 ($104.99) (€76,99)      

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Storm The Collection Part 11: The Genesis Formula/ The Armageddon Traveller (Limited Edition)

FREE Limited Edition Storm PRINT by Don Lawrence with this book!

Don Lawrence, Martin Lodewijk. Don Lawrence Collection (DLC), August 2010. The entire Storm series from 1982 to 2003 is collected as 12 LIMITED EDITION deluxe hardbacks in English containing all 23 stories drawn by Don Lawrence.

Each book has a leatherette cover with Gold stamped artwork and a bound-in ribbon bookmark, and is superbly printed on 150gm coated paper. With over 100 pages in glorious colour and new film separations with new lettering.

The print run is LIMITED to just 500 copies in English for each volume. This volume includes the stories "The Genesis Formula" from 1995 and "The Armageddon Traveller" from 2001. The album contains also a well illustrated Storm-dossier entitled "The Search for Storm" part 11. 106 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 9" x 13" (240mm x 340mm) Dust Jacket (ISBN-13: 9789088860652)

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Storm The Collection Part 12: Commander Grek / The Big Picture (Limited Edition)

FREE Limited Edition Storm PRINT by Don Lawrence with this book!

Don Lawrence, Martin Lodewijk. Don Lawrence Collection (DLC), August 2010. The entire Storm series from 1982 to 2003 is collected as 12 LIMITED EDITION deluxe hardbacks in English containing all 23 stories drawn by Don Lawrence.

Each book has a leatherette cover with Gold stamped artwork and a bound-in ribbon bookmark, and is superbly printed on 150gm coated paper. With over 100 pages in glorious colour and new film separations with new lettering.

The print run is LIMITED to just 500 copies in English for each volume. This volume includes the stories "Commander Grek" from 1982 and Storm -The Big Picture. This file counts 42 pages and gives an overview of Storm in the press, Storm expositions, the status of Storm in the modern comic scene and a portfolio. The album includes also a well illustrated Storm-dossier entitled "The Search for Storm" part 12. 94 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 9" x 13" (240mm x 340mm) Dust Jacket (ISBN-13: 9789088860621)

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Storm: Complete 12 volume SET (Limited Edition)
Don Lawrence, Martin Lodewijk. Don Lawrence Collection (DLC), 2008 - 2010. First Edition. Out of Print.

FABULOUS OFFER - GET 12 VOLUMES FOR THE PRICE OF 10 !!!
Save over £140 (150 euros or $220) with this full set of the 12 Storm volumes and the twelve limited edition Storm prints (total for 12 volumes bought separately would be £839.88).

The complete set of TWELVE volumes in the complete Storm saga in ENGLISH. All the legendary adventures in this unique DELUXE 12 volume set containing all the Storm stories from 1982 - 2003, illustrated by the late Don Lawrence - 23 stories and more than 1000 pages of glorious colour artwork in total.

Each book contains approx 100 pages and is printed in large format on 150gsm coated paper and comes complete with a full colour leatherette bound hard cover, a slipcase, and a full colour print.

An extremely LIMITED edition of just 500 copies per volume in English, the books are published in conjunction with foreign language editions.

The Don Lawrence Collection has access to the original pages with high resolution scanning to maintain superb print quality. For the missing originals, the Dutch publisher's original films are being used. Fully digitized, the colours of the artwork are presented to their best effect. All the stories are re-edited and each book has its own unique dossier. Hard Cover Full Colour 9" x 13" (240mm x 340mm) Highly Recommended.

THE COMPLETE STORM SET ...
Storm 1: The Deep World / The Last Fighter	Storm 2: The People of the Plains / The Green Hell	Storm 3: The Battle for Earth / The Secret of the Nitron Rays	Storm 4: The Legend of Yggdrasil / City of the Damned
Storm 5: The Creeping Death	Storm 6: The Labyrinth of Death / The Seven of Aromater	Storm 7: The Slayer of Eriban / The Hounds of Marduk	Storm 8: The Living Planet / Vandaahl the Destroyer
Storm 9: The Twisted World / The Robots of Danderzei	Storm 10: The Return of the Red Prince / The Von Neumann Machine	Storm 11: The Genesis Formula / The Armageddon Traveller	Storm 12: Commander Grek / The Big Picture

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Dave Stevens' The Rocketeer: Artist's Edition (Limited Edition)

Special Edition limited to just 300 copies Worldwide.

Dave Stevens. IDW Publishing. Out of Print. A very special book honoring the work of this esteemed creator. Dave Stevens' The Rocketeer: Artist's Edition is a mammoth hardcover book printed in glorious black and white. Nearly every page in The Rocketeer has been scanned in color from Stevens' original art to ensure the best possible reproduction and highest degree of accuracy.

Printed on uncoated stock and at the same size as the original art, Dave Stevens' The Rocketeer: Artist's Edition is the next best thing to holding the actual art by Dave Stevens. 136 pages. Hard Cover Black & White 12" x 17" (305mm x 432mm) (ISBN-13: 9781600108334)

Our Price: £150.00 ($225.00) (€165,00)      

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40 days dans le Desert B
Highly Recommended.

Jean Giraud Moebius. Stardom, 2008. Out of Print. Very Fine. Finally available again, this recent collection of science fiction images by Moebius was a complete sell-out on first publication. The landscape format book contains over 70 images unique to this volume created by the master of the fantastic. Although this is a French edition, there is no text making this a universally popular collection! 4th Edition. 144 pages. Soft Cover Black & White 10" x 7" (25cm x 18cm) (ISBN-13: 9782908766400)

Our Price: £22.00 ($33.00) (€24,20)      

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Desk
Claire Wendling, with an introduction in French by Mike Mignola. Delacourt, 2006. Long unavailable, this superb sketchbook of Claire Wendling's art has now been reprinted in a brand new edition. Soft cover and spiral bound, this book showcases the expert pencil sketches of humans and animals. 58 pages. Soft Cover Black & White 9" x 9" (229mm x 229mm) ISBN: 2756006734

Our Price: £19.99 ($29.99) (€21,99)      

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Complete Conan of Cimmeria Volume 3 (1935) Remarqued Leatherbound Edition (Signed) (Limited Edition)

REMARQUED LEATHERBOUND EDITION Limited to 50 SIGNED NUMBERED copies worldwide. Each copy has personal unique Hand-drawn sketch by Greg drawn on the bound-in Signature Plate plus a SIGNED NUMBERED Portfolio of 14 plates enclosed in special red foil blocked folder.

Robert E Howard, illustrated by Gregory Manchess. Wandering Star/Book Palace Books, February 2010. A VERY RARE opportunity to own an extremely limited edition of the Complete Conan of Cimmeria Volume 3. Greg Manchess has personally remarqued 50 leatherbound copies with a different unique hand-drawn in sketch on the signed and numbered Signature Plate that is bound-in to the book.

Each book is numbered R1/50 - 50/50 and most of this edition was given away to contributors to the series, but we have less than 25 copies available for sale to the public of this rarest edition.

The finest craftsman, artists and designers have produced a masterpiece that promises to be at the heart of all good book collections.

This is the third book in a three volume set that covers all the Conan stories, textually restored and meticulously researched by Howard scholar Patrice Louinet. Conan was the blueprint for the entire sword and sorcery genre.

Profusely illustrated with 13 colour paintings and 52 tonal paintings specially commissioned from award-winning artist Gregory Manchess. Gilt edged book complete in Slipcase with embossed color plate and dust jacket. Signed and numbered by Gregory Manchess.

Contains the following stories: The Servants of Bit-Yakin, Beyond the Black River, The Black Stranger, The Man-Eaters of Zamboula and Red Nails. Plus over 200 pages of never-before-seen material straight from the Robert E Howard archives: synopses, plot outlines, characters, initial drafts, original ideas -- everything Conan's creator ever wrote about the greatest barbarian adventurer of all time! 416 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 7" x 10" (172mm x 245mm) ISBN: 1907081046

Examples of Signature Plates remarqued by Greg Manchess

Our Price: £600.00 ($900.00) (€660,00)      

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Sur L'Etoile (Signed) (Limited Edition)

Book is Number 154 from a Limited edition of 750. Book and Print both SIGNED by Moebius.Tray case is slightly dirty but contents, including book, in excellent condition

Moebius. Aedena, 1985. This is the rare limited edition of a book published in 1985. The book comes in a tray case with a signed limited edition print plus a sketch book and a book mark. Both the print and the book are signed and numbered by Moebius #154/750. The book was originally commission by the Citroen car company. Beautifully designed and produced. 40 pages plus sketchbook.

Tray case is slightly dirty but contents, including book, in perfect condition. 40+ pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 9" x 12" (240mm x 300mm) ISBN: 2905035099

Our Price: £195.00 ($292.50) (€214,50)      

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Illustration (UK magazine), issue 24 Summer 2010
Recommended.

Edited by Ruth Prickett. Guineapiguana Publications, Summer 2010. The Euro may be struggling and governments full of doom and gloom about cut backs, but as summer arrives we aim to raise the spirits with a splash of glorious colour when we celebrate the work of Brian Wildsmith. As he passes his 80th birthday, he tells us about his award-winning ABC and why it had such a revolutionary effect on the world of children's publishing in the still austere atmosphere of the early 1960s. Of course, the British have always had a reputation for remaining steadfastly pessimistic when times are good, but unnervingly cheery when things (as they always predicted) go wrong, so we investigate this mix of cynicism and “mustn't grumble” mockery when we learn about Tate's summer exhibition, “Rude Britannia”.

We ask the curator whether there really is such a thing as a British sense of humour and, if so, what defines it. Humour was never far from the surface in the art of Edward Bawden and we learn more about what amused,intrigued and excited this polymath artist when his executor guides us through the scrapbooks he collected throughout his life. Odd juxtapositions of photos, sketches, labels, swatches and designs are carefully arranged and overlaid to create unexpected insights, baffling contrasts and flashes of laughter. These make the books both artistic gems and a fascinating glimpse into Bawden's mind and thoughts.

Then we're off to the seaside with two very different artists who have both created entire alphabets based on the sea. We examine the results and discuss the nature of illustrated alphabets and the challenges they present, and ask why both artists are sure that they are a form of illustration. Nostalgic armchair travellers can enjoy a taste of an Italian childhood when we examine the illustrative legacy of the remarkable Giornalino della Domenica or contemplate a pizza in the company of murals by Lizzie Mary Cullen for Zizzi. (ISSN: 1745-5588) 48 pages. Soft Cover Full Colour 8" x 12" (203mm x 305mm)

More Illustration magazines from the UK (Guineapiguana).

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Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip Book 5
Tove Jansson. Drawn & Quarterly, 2010. Moomin Book Five: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip features the final strips drawn by Tove Jansson and written by her brother Lars for the London Evening News, before Lars took over both the art and the writing. The first "Moomin Winter" returns with more unwanted guests than in Book One, especially the curious and secret-spilling Nibling, sending the Moomin household into a tizzy of secrecy and closed doors.

In "Moomin Under Sail," the Moomins find themselves without a new adventure until Too-Ticky's compass gives them the idea to build a boat and head to sea.

Finally we meet the Fuddler's heart, and his bumbling drives her straight into the arms of Dr. Hatter, the local psychiatrist. Delightfully quirky, the Moomin family does not fare well under the gaze of someone trained in correcting odd behaviour. 88 pages. Hard Cover Black & White 9" x 12" (220mm x 305mm) (ISBN-13: 9781897299944)

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George Herriman's Krazy Kat: A Celebration of Sundays 1909 - 1944

Includes an uncut set of 12 postcards.

Highly Recommended.

Edited by Patrick McDonnell & Peter Maresca. Sunday Press, July 2010. The further in years (and now a century!) that we get away from the early newspaper comics, the more they look like fine art prints. Like Hiroshige with his woodblocks, and Toulouse-Lautrec with his lithographs, these early cartoonists were masters of their craft. In this Krazy Kat collection we can truly see the beauty of Herriman's penline, the mastery of his drawing, the powerful impact of his design, and his brave use of colour.

The Sunday comic page is where the daily strip artist gets to play. Herriman used this additional space as a place to improvise and explore. The early Herriman Sundays are in black and white and are filled with intricate details, more elaborate penwork, and long, involved stories. In 1935, colour was introduced. In response, Herriman surprised us with art that became bolder, more sculptural, and with big open spaces. The blacks became heavier, the layouts more graphic, and the stories sparser (going from sonnets to haikus). Each decade of Krazy Kats has its own feeling and look, and is impressive in its own way. Collected here are, in my opinion, the best of the best.

A simply stunning collection printed at full size for the very first time since publication. A book all serious fans of comics and newspaper strips will love to have on their bookshelves. Krazy Kat, Ignatz Mouse and Officer Pupp, “pow” “zip” unrequited love and more brick hurling than you thought possible! 160 pages. Hard Cover Part Colour 14" x 17" (356mm x 432mm) (ISBN-13: 9780976888581)

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The Complete Torpedo Volume 2
Sanchez Abuli, Jordi Bernet. IDW Publishing, 2010. The continuing adventures of Luca Torelli, a cold-hearted gangster in the 1930s, and those in his merciless orbit. Abuli portrays the characters with humor and poignancy, and Jimmy Palmiotti's translations provide a true sense of New York in the 1930s. Jordi Bernet's art, of course, is lovely, but Torpedo is Bernet's masterpiece - the closest the graphic novel medium has ever come to The Godfather. 144 pages. Hard Cover Black & White 9" x 11" (220mm x 285mm) (ISBN-13: 9781600106149)

Our Price: £18.99 ($28.49) (€20,89)      

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Crikey! #15
Edited by Glen B Fleming and Tony Ingram. Sequential Media Publications, 2010. Issue 15 of Crikey! is dominated by two people who have recently passed away but left an indelible mark on the British Comics scene. Peter O'Donnell had a writing career spanning over 65 years and is of course most famous for Modesty Blaise. John Hicklenton meanwhile had been a mainstay of 2000AD with his fan favourite work on Judge Dredd and Nemesis. Pat Mills takes a look at the career of the artist who died just 42 years of age.

On a more upbeat front there is an interview with cartoonist Peter Maddock's and a history of Captain Hurricane. Martin Jones takes a look at Darkies Mob and Tony Ingram continues his look at the 1980s revival of The Eagle. 52 pages. Soft Cover Full Colour 8" x 12" (203mm x 305mm)

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Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune Volume 1 1933 – 1935
Roy Crane. Fantagraphics Books, 2010. Roy Crane is one of America's greatest cartoonists and here is his gorgeous adventure strip Captain Easy. Crane created the first American adventure strip — even before Hal Foster's Tarzan and Prince Valiant, before Milton Caniff's Terry and the Pirates, before Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon — and quickly established himself as a master of the comic strip. Begun in 1924 under the eponymous title Wash Tubbs, within four months it moved from a gag-a-day strip about a girl-crazy young grocery store clerk to an adventure strip when Wash Tubbs embarks on a treasure hunt. Captain Easy was introduced in 1929 and began starring in his own Sunday page in 1933, which begins our first volume of Captain Easy.

The first of six volumes contains the earliest Sunday pages from 1933 to 1935. In his first adventure, Captain Easy visits a lost city, battles pirates, dons a deep-sea diving suit to explore a sunken ruin in search of treasure, and everywhere he goes, he finds beautiful women — a lost princess, a pirate queen, a savage woman in need of “taming.” A romantic adventurer from a less politically correct age, Captain Easy is a Soldier of Fortune whose bravery and daring are exceeded only by his Southern gallantry.

Crane created the template for the adventure strip, combining adventure and humor in a Bigfoot cartooning style that perfectly conveyed the tongue-in-cheek tone and light-hearted thrills that kept readers on the edge of their seats.

Crane's Captain Easy influenced virtually every cartoonist who followed him — from Chester Gould (Dick Tracy) to Milton Caniff (Terry and the Pirates) — and even Hollywood's adventure movies starring the likes of Cary Grant or Errol Flynn adopted Crane's tone of two-fisted, good-natured derring-do. Citing Crane's influence on comics, the artist Gil Kane once said, “Superman was Captain Easy; Batman was Captain Easy.” The first volume of Captain Easy also features a selection of Crane's original color guides, a biographical and critical introduction to Crane and his work by comics scholar Jeet Heer illustrated with rare Crane art, a preface by series editor Rick Norwood, and a foreword written by Charles M. Schulz for the 1974 Luna Press Wash Tubbs collection. 144 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 11" x 15" (270mm x 380mm) (ISBN-13: 9781606991619)

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Blazing Combat
Archie Goodwin author/editor, Frank Frazetta, Wally Wood, Alex Toth et al art. Fantagraphics Books, 2009. For the first time ever, the Legendary anti-war comic collected in its entirety. Written by Archie Goodwin and drawn by such luminaries as Frank Frazetta, Wally Wood, John Severin, Alex Toth, Al Williamson, Russ Heath, Reed Crandall, and Gene Colan, Blazing Combat was originally published by independent comics publisher James Warren in 1965 and '66. Following in the tradition of Harvey Kurtzman's Two-Fisted Tales and Frontline Combat, Goodwin's stories reflected the human realities and personal costs of war rather than exploiting the clichés of the traditional men's adventure genre. They were among the best comics stories about war ever published.

Blazing Combat ended after its fourth issue when military post exchanges refused to sell the title due to their perception that it was an anti-war comic. Their hostility was fueled by the depiction of the then-current Vietnam War, especially a story entitled “Landscape,” which follows the thoughts of a simple Vietnamese peasant rice-farmer who pays the ultimate price simply for living where he does — and which was considered anti-war agitprop by the more hawkish members of the business community.

Writer Archie Goodwin and the original publisher James Warren discuss the death of Blazing Combat and market censorship as well as the creative gestation of the series in exclusive interviews. 208 pages. Soft Cover Black & White 8" x 10" (203mm x 254mm) (ISBN-13: 9781606993668)

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The Comics
Coulton Waugh. Mississippi, 1991. The first major book ever written about comic strips. First published in 1947 this reprint has already sold very well. Long regarded as an excellent discerning work. Hard Cover Part Colour (ISBN-13: 9780878054985)

Our Price: £29.95 ($44.93) (€32,95)      

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Rip Kirby The First Modern Detective Complete Comic Strips 1948-1951
Alex Raymond, introduction by Howard Chaykin. IDW Publishing, 2010. While investigating crimes on both sides of the Atlantic, the urbane detective encounters beautiful and conniving women, menacing men, jewel thieves, pickpockets, ex-Nazis, rich debutantes, spoiled heirs, kleptomaniac mothers, small town gossips, a fake Yogi named "The Great You," his recurring nemesis - the Mangler - and more than a murder or two.

Meanwhile, the tension builds in his love triangle with Honey Dorian and Pagan Lee. The second volume of Alex Raymond's modernist classic Rip Kirby contains nearly three years of strips, from December 6, 1948 through September 22, 1951, all drawn in Raymond's incredibly lush style. Edited and designed by Eisner Award-winner Dean Mullaney, with a biographical and historical essay by Brian Walker, and an introduction by Howard Chaykin. 320 pages. Hard Cover Black & White 11" x 10" (290mm x 265mm) (ISBN-13: 9781600105821)

Our Price: £37.99 ($56.99) (€41,79)      

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Modesty Blaise: Death In Slow Motion
Recommended.

Peter O'Donnell & Neville Colvin. Titan Books, 2010. Modesty's first trip in a hot-air balloon turns out to be more eventful than she'd hoped in The Balloonatic; the interception of a disturbing video tape leads to a demented kidnapper in Death in Slow Motion; and in The Alternative Man, a friend's sinister past causes Modesty problems whilst vacationing on a tropical island! 104 pages. Soft Cover Black & White 9" x 12" (229mm x 305mm) (ISBN-13: 9781848561083)

We also have many more Modesty collected newspaper strips and Modesty Blaise stories from the pen of Peter O'Donnell.

Our Price: £11.99 ($17.99) (€13,19)      

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Dan Dare Volume 1 Pilot of the Future
Frank Hampson (artist), Mike Higgs (compiler). Hawk Books, 1987. Out of Print. Mint. The classic original facsimile reproduction of the very first Dan Dare story, devised and illustrated by Frank Hampson, as it originally appeared in the Eagle magazine Vol.1 No.1 (April 1950) to Vol.2 No.25 (September 1951). Hard Cover Full Colour 10" x 14" (25cm x 36cm) ISBN: 0948248459

More Dan Dare, including rare Hawk editions!

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COLLECTION OF FRANK BELLAMY BOOKS: Robin Hood + King Arthur + Story of World War I

FREE ROBIN HOOD BOOK WHEN BOUGHT WITH FRANK BELLAMY'S KING ARTHUR AND FRANK BELLAMY'S STORY OF WORLD WAR ONE !!!

This is the TRIPLE set of matt laminated sewn flexicover books published by Book Palace Books featuring the art of Frank Bellamy:
   * Frank Bellamy's Robin Hood: The Complete Adventures;
   * Frank Bellamy's King Arthur and His Knights: The Complete Adventures;
   * Frank Bellamy's Story of World War One.

Each book is Soft Cover Part Colour 9" x 12" (220mm x 297mm). Book Palace Books, 2009 & 2010. First Editions. Total 362 pages over the 3 books.

Total RRP when sold separately is normally £55.

Our Price: £39.00 ($58.50) (€42,90)      

Triple set of Frank Bellamy books!!!

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The Chronicles of Kull volume 2: The Hell Beneath Atlantis
Roy Thomas, Doug Moench, Marie Severin, Mike Ploog and others. Dark Horse Books, 2010. The exciting second volume of The Chronicles of Kull, which completes the Kull the Conqueror run with #10 - written by Gerry Conway and drawn by Marie Severin - and launches Kull the Destroyer, featuring the creative talents of such esteemed creators as Roy Thomas, Mike Ploog, Alfredo Alcala, and Ed Hannigan!

This action-packed tome details Kull's surprising exile from Valusia and his return to Atlantis, where he faces the deadly Kraken, winged demons, and the god of flame and frost! In these uncertain times for the former King of Valusia, Kull finds allies among enemies and fiends whom he would once have called friends! 204 pages. Soft Cover Full Colour 7" x 10" (170mm x 260mm) (ISBN-13: 9781595824394)

Our Price: £13.99 ($20.99) (€15,39)      

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Crikey! #14
Edited by Glen B Fleming and Tony Ingram. Sequential Media Publications, 2010. Crikey! Issue 14 offers up another choice selection celebrating the broad scope of British Comics. Features this time around include an interview with Bryan Talbot covering his career from the early days with Chester P Hackenbush through to the recent treat Grandville.

Also this issue there is a look at the much loved Alfred Bestall years on Rupert and Maurice Dodd's ever popular newspaper strip The Perishers. Mr. Talbot crops up again with an amusing an informative three page illustrated potted history of British Comics.

Davis Slinn gives an insight as to what it was like to read The Eagle as a youth in the 1950s. Tony Ingram looks at the 1980s re-launch of the Eagle and the history of Marvel U.K. continues. Lew Stringer and a letter column round out the issue. 52 pages. Soft Cover Full Colour 8" x 12" (203mm x 305mm)

More in the fascinating new Crikey! series

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It Was The War Of The Trenches
Jacques Tardi. Fantagraphics Books, 2010. World War I, that awful, gaping wound in the history of Europe, has long been an obsession of Jacques Tardi's. (His very first —rejected— comics story dealt with the subject, as does his most recent work, the two-volume Putain de Guerre.) But It Was the War of the trenches is Tardi's defining, masterful statement on the subject, a graphic novel that can stand shoulder to shoulder with Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front and Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms.

Tardi is not interested in the national politics, the strategies, or the battles. Like Remarque, he focuses on the day to day of the grunts in the trenches, and, with icy, controlled fury and disgust, with sardonic yet deeply sympathetic narration, he brings that existence alive as no one has before or since. Yet he also delves deeply into the underlying causes of the war, the madness, the cynical political exploitation of patriotism. And in a final, heartbreaking coda, Tardi grimly itemizes the ghastly human cost of the war, and lays out the future 20th century conflicts, all of which seem to spring from this global burst of insanity.

Trenches features some of Tardi's most stunning artwork. Rendered in an inhabitually lush illustrative style, inspired both by abundant photographic documentation and classic American war comics, augmented by a sophisticated, gorgeous use of Craftint tones, Trenches is somehow simultaneously atypical and a perfect encapsulation of Tardi's mature style. It is the indisputable centerpiece of Tardi's oeuvre.

It Was the War of the Trenches has been an object of fascination for North American publishers: RAW published a chapter in the early 1980s, and Drawn and Quarterly magazine serialized a few more in the 1990s. But only a small fraction of Trenches has ever been made available to the English speaking public (in now out of print publications); the Fantagraphics edition, the third in an ongoing collection of the works of this great master, finally remedies this situation. 118 pages. Hard Cover Black & White 8" x 11" (210mm x 275mm) (ISBN-13: 9781606993538)

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Classic Bible Stories
Frank Hampson, Marcus Morris et al. Titan Books, 2010. Jesus: The Road of Courage tells the wonderful true-life story of Jesus of Nazareth from the Nativity to his epiphany and baptism, his subsequent life as the Messiah, through to his crucifixion, death and resurrection as Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

Written by the Reverend Marcu Morris and meticulously researched and beautifully illustrated by Frank Hampson and his assistant Joan Porter.

Mark The Youngest Disciple recounts the life story of John Mark – the first Pope, writer of the second gospel and founder of the first Christian church. In this tale of his youth, Mark experiences first hand the power of love of Jesus that leads him to become his youngest apostle.

Written by Chad Varah, founder of The Samaritans and illustrated bu renowned artist and architect Giorgio Bellavitis. 112 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 9" x 12" (230mm x 305mm) (ISBN-13: 9781848565258)

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Périples Secrets (Secret Journeys)
Hugo Pratt, Patrizia Zanotti, Thierry Thomas. Casterman, 2009. This is the BEST book ever produced about Hugo Pratt. A huge book of over 400 pages and over 1½ inches (almost 4cm) thick! Produced in France and Italy, the text is in English, French and Italian.

This is the second of two volumes covering his whole career and concentrates on ALL his watercolour paintings and took 10 years to research.

The most magnificent reproductions in full colour of all his beautiful watercolours from 1965 to 1995, plus a detailed biography. For all fans of Pratt and Corto Maltese.

The first volume, Périples Imaginaires, is still available in soft cover. 416 pages. Soft Cover Full Colour 11½" x 12" (291mm x 305mm) (ISBN-13: 9782203010499)
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Illustration (USA magazine) issue number twenty nine
Highly Recommended.

Dan Zimmer, Editor. The Illustrated Press, 2010. In this special issue Dan Zimmer hosts a tribute to a long time favourite pulp artist Hugh J. Ward who is given an excellent in depth biography by the ever reliable David Saunders. Saunders has gathered the collection of H. J. Ward original art, rare photographs and mint copies of printer's proofs to illustrate this biography that contains contributions from the artist's family. Ward was known for his lurid, violent and sexy covers for a whole host of western pulps and perhaps most notoriously for several of the highly collected “Spicy” titles featuring assorted alluring damsels in distress and stages of undress. Again - a must for fans of hard-boiled pop culture.

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. 96 pages. Soft Cover Full Colour 8" x 11" (203mm x 279mm)

More Illustration magazines from the USA (Dan Zimmer), including the special reprints of the first 3 issues.

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Dames, Dolls & Gun Molls: The Art of Robert A. Maguire
Jim Silke. Dark Horse Books, 2009. In the course of his long and illustrious career, renowned illustrator/painter Robert A. Maguire created gorgeous cover images for more than a thousand books and worked for virtually every mainstream publisher in the U.S.

Best known for his incomparably sexy "femme fatale" images for pulp paperbacks in the 1950s and 1960s, Maguire built a long and legendary career showcasing character portraits that were iconic and beautiful, painting subjects that felt simultaneously real and sensually compelling.

Art historian and living pin-up legend Jim Silke casts his curatorial eye toward Maguire's long and fascinating career in his first art collection/artist biography, Dames, Dolls, and Gun Molls. With a keen eye for criticism and his trademark style and wit, Silke explores the legacy of an artist whose work is known by millions the world over. 112 pages. Soft Cover Full Colour 9" x 12" (230mm x 305mm) (ISBN-13: 9781595822727)

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The Rocketeer: The Complete Deluxe Slipcased Edition

Deluxe slipcased edition.

Dave Stevens. IDW Publishing, 2009. The phenomenally popular Rocketeer by the legendary Dave Stevens is collected in its entirety for the first time as an oversized hardcover, in a beautiful slipcase, with hundreds of never-before-seen Rocketeer drawings and preliminaries by Dave Stevens!

This impressive collection combines The Rocketeer and The Rocketeer: Cliff's New York Adventure into a single volume, completely re-colored, as per Dave Stevens' wishes, by renowned colorist Laura Martin. The best possible reproduction and the highest production values will ensure that this is the definitive Rocketeer collection.

Additionally, hundreds of drawings, sketches, and preliminaries by Dave Stevens, nearly all published here for the very first time, make this a very special book. 248 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 8" x 13" (210mm x 320mm) (ISBN-13: 9781600105371)

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Major Thrills Adventure Book
Gary Gianni. Flesk, 2009. A striking collection of Gianni's diversity of art. This collection covers illustrations from his whole career in newspapers, magazines, books, comics and sketch material. 32 pages. Soft Cover Black & White 9" x 12" (220mm x 300mm) (ISBN-13: 9781933865188)

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Complete Conan of Cimmeria Volume 3 (1935) (Signed Limited Edition)

SIGNED NUMBERED EDITION LIMITED to 1000 copies worldwide in an Embossed Slipcase.

Robert E Howard, illustrated by Gregory Manchess. Wandering Star/Book Palace Books, February 2010. The superb DELUXE SIGNED LIMITED edition, equal to the very best in illustrated classics. The finest craftsman, artists and designers have produced a masterpiece that promises to be at the heart of all good book collections.

This is the third book in a three volume set that covers all the Conan stories, textually restored and meticulously researched by Howard scholar Patrice Louinet. Conan was the blueprint for the entire sword and sorcery genre.

Profusely illustrated with 13 colour paintings and 52 tonal paintings specially commissioned from award-winning artist Gregory Manchess. Gilt edged book complete in Slipcase with embossed color plate and dust jacket. Signed and numbered by Gregory Manchess.

Contains the following stories: The Servants of Bit-Yakin, Beyond the Black River, The Black Stranger, The Man-Eaters of Zamboula and Red Nails. Plus over 200 pages of never-before-seen material straight from the Robert E Howard archives: synopses, plot outlines, characters, initial drafts, original ideas -- everything Conan's creator ever wrote about the greatest barbarian adventurer of all time! 416 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 7" x 9" (172mm x 224mm) Dust Jacket (ISBN-13: 9780955159664)

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Complete Conan of Cimmeria Volume 3 (1935) Artists Edition (Signed Limited Edition)

The Artists Edition is LIMITED to 100 SIGNED NUMBERED copies worldwide in an Embossed Slipcase accompanied by an exclusive PORTFOLIO of 10 plates (colour tip in print, cover colour print plus 8 prints of preliminary sketches) enclosed in a special red foil blocked folder.

Conan Color Plate from the Portfolio	Conan Plate from the Portfolio

Robert E Howard, illustrated by Gregory Manchess. Wandering Star/Book Palace Books, February 2010. The superb DELUXE SIGNED LIMITED edition, equal to the very best in illustrated classics. The finest craftsman, artists and designers have produced a masterpiece that promises to be at the heart of all good book collections.

This is the third book in a three volume set that covers all the Conan stories, textually restored and meticulously researched by Howard scholar Patrice Louinet. Conan was the blueprint for the entire sword and sorcery genre.

Profusely illustrated with 13 colour paintings and 52 tonal paintings specially commissioned from award-winning artist Gregory Manchess. Gilt edged book complete in Slipcase with embossed color plate and dust jacket. Signed and numbered by Gregory Manchess.

Contains the following stories: The Servants of Bit-Yakin, Beyond the Black River, The Black Stranger, The Man-Eaters of Zamboula and Red Nails. Plus over 200 pages of never-before-seen material straight from the Robert E Howard archives: synopses, plot outlines, characters, initial drafts, original ideas -- everything Conan's creator ever wrote about the greatest barbarian adventurer of all time! 416 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 7" x 9" (172mm x 224mm) Dust Jacket (ISBN-13: 9781907081019)

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Complete Conan of Cimmeria Volume 3 (1935) Leatherbound (Signed Limited Edition)

The Leather Edition is LIMITED to 100 SIGNED NUMBERED copies worldwide in an Embossed Slipcase accompanied by an exclusive PORTFOLIO of 14 plates (colour tip in print, cover colour print plus 12 prints of preliminary sketches) enclosed in a special red foil blocked folder.

Conan Color Plate from the Portfolio	Conan Plate from the Portfolio

Robert E Howard, illustrated by Gregory Manchess. Wandering Star/Book Palace Books, February 2010. The highly collectable LEATHERBOUND SIGNED LIMITED edition, equal to the very best in illustrated classics. The finest craftsman, artists and designers have produced a masterpiece that promises to be at the heart of all good book collections.

This is the third book in a three volume set that covers all the Conan stories, textually restored and meticulously researched by Howard scholar Patrice Louinet. Conan was the blueprint for the entire sword and sorcery genre.

Profusely illustrated with 13 colour paintings and 52 tonal paintings specially commissioned from award-winning artist Gregory Manchess. Gilt edged book complete in Slipcase with embossed color plate and dust jacket. Signed and numbered by Gregory Manchess.

Contains the following stories: The Servants of Bit-Yakin, Beyond the Black River, The Black Stranger, The Man-Eaters of Zamboula and Red Nails. Plus over 200 pages of never-before-seen material straight from the Robert E Howard archives: synopses, plot outlines, characters, initial drafts, original ideas -- everything Conan's creator ever wrote about the greatest barbarian adventurer of all time! 416 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 7" x 9" (172mm x 224mm) (ISBN-13: 9780955159671)

Our Price: £325.00 ($487.50) (€357,50)      

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Frank Bellamy's Complete Swift Stories Deluxe Leather Edition (Signed Limited Edition)

Includes the complete Robin Hood, King Arthur, and Swiss Family Robinson adventures!!

Deluxe Leatherbound Edition of 200 copies, signed by Steve Holland, complete in embossed red leather slipcase. With bonus Limited edition Robin Hood print.

Michael Butterworth, Frank Bellamy, edited by Steve Holland, introduction by Dave Gibbons. Book Palace Books, February 2010.

This book brings together every strip and illustration produced by Frank Bellamy for the classic British children's comic Swift, Frank Bellamy's Swift contains the complete adventures “Robin Hood”, “King Arthur and His Knights” and “Swiss Family Robinson”, plus his contributions to other strips (“The Fleet Family”, “Paul English”) and the Swift Annual.

As a bonus, the book is issued with a Limited edition Robin Hood print. 380 pages. Hard Cover Part Colour 9" x 12" (220mm x 297mm) (ISBN-13: 9781907081026)

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The Story of World War One (Signed) (Limited Edition)

Hard Cover Numbered Limited edition of 175 copies, signed by Steve Holland and Norman Boyd. With exclusive print.

Michael Butterworth, Frank Bellamy, edited by Steve Holland, text by Norman Boyd. Book Palace Books, February 2010. First Edition. For the first time ever, Michael Butterworth's epic series of articles recounting the history of the First World War collected from the pages of Look and Learn, where it was fully illustrated each week by the incomparable Frank Bellamy. From the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand through the desperate battles fought at Gallipoli, Verdun, the Somme and Passchendaele.

The story is told in a series of beautifully illustrated episodes that are suitable for children. This book is a testament to the the greatness of this famous British strip and the artists who drew it. 110 works of original art beautifully reproduced. 112 pages. Hard Cover Part Colour 9" x 12" (220mm x 297mm) (ISBN-13: 9781907081033)

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Little Nemo in Slumberland - Many More Splendid Sundays (Volume 2)

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Winsor McCay, edited by Peter Maresca. Sunday Press Books, 2009. Presenting 110 more great pages from all 3 incarnations of Little Nemo: 1906-1911, 1911-1914, and 1924-1927, including pages never before reprinted.

One of the most difficult things about publishing our first Little Nemo in Slumberland volume was trying to limit the selection to only 100 Sunday pages for the Centennial edition. In fact, we couldn't, so we ended up with 109 pages. One of the best things about that book's unequivocal and unanticipated success is the opportunity to restore and reprint another volume of Splendid Sundays, a volume to include some of those other wonderful pages.

The newspaper pages presented here include two incredible adventures from the first Little Nemo series (1905 - 1911) and a sampler of the best Sunday pages from the other two incarnations of Winsor McCay's timeless classic. In the Land of Wonderful Dreams was published from 1911 - 1914 and Little Nemo in Slumberland ran again from 1924 - 1927. The total series spans over twenty years and contains nearly 500 pages. Once again, we had to choose: this time we selected 120 Sundays.

When dealing with a collection of material this old, there are always wide variations among pages in the printing inks, color separation, and paper quality. These differences become magnified because of the time span of the work, different newspapers, and changing print processes. Restoration is a complex effort as we strive for continuity and a common appearance of these strips through the years.

As with previous Sunday Press titles, our goal is to recreate the experience of reading the Sunday comic pages as they originally appeared a century ago. Most of the natural flaws that appeared in the original form, such as off-register colors, ink smudges and paper imperfections, can still be seen. Those imperfections that have come about through time or neglect: stains, tears, and excessive yellowing have been digitally repaired. The paper for this book is uncoated woodfree, selected to duplicate the way colors appeared on newsprint, but without newsprint's ephemeral characteristics.

The result is another opportunity to enjoy Little Nemo in Slumberland as it was intended to be seen. 128 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 16" x 21" (41cm x 53cm) ISBN: 0976888556

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Vadeboncoeur Black & White Images Fifth Annual Collection 1890 - 1922
Compiled by Jim Vadeboncoeur. Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr., 2008. A wonderful new collection that contains more than 200 illustrations from the turn of the 20th Century from the pens and brushes of the finest artists of the day. Includes rare work from William Ladd Taylor, Frederic Dorr Steele, Frederick Richardson and Helen Stratton amongst many others. 106 pages. Soft Cover Black & White 9" x 12" (23cm x 30cm) (ISBN-13: 9780972469753)

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“…And Their Memory was a Bitter Tree” (Signed) (Limited Edition)

Ultra Deluxe LEATHERBOUND box-slipcased edition LIMITED to just 100 copies worldwide. Signed by Brom.

Robert E. Howard, illustrated by Frank Frazetta and Brom. Black Bart, 2008. Robert Ervin Howard (1906-1936) wrote over three hundred stories of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, boxing, western, and detective fiction, all packed with raw power and unbridled emotion and ranks among the greatest writers of action and adventure. He is best known for having created the character Conan the Cimmerian, a literary icon whose pop-culture imprint can only be compared to such characters as Tarzan of the Apes, Count Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, and James Bond.

This book collects nine of Howard's most electrifying Conan adventures. Featuring warring armies, devilish creatures, beautiful women, and haunted jungles – all wonderfully illustrated in colour by Frank Frazetta and Brom. 416 pages. Hard Cover Part Colour 7" x 10" (180mm x 255mm) (ISBN-13: 9781599290409)

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El Borak and other Desert Adventures
Robert E Howard, illustrated by Tim Bradstreet and Jim & Ruth Keegan. Del Rey, 2010. Robert E. Howard is famous for creating such immortal heroes as Conan the Cimmerian, Solomon Kane, and Bran Mak Morn. Less well-known but equally extraordinary are his non-fantasy adventure stories set in the Middle East and featuring such two-fisted heroes as Francis Xavier Gordon - known as “El Borak” - Kirby O'Donnell, and Steve Clarney. This trio of hard-fighting Americans, civilized men with more than a touch of the primordial in their veins, marked a new direction for Howard's writing, and new territory for his genius to conquer.

The wily Texan El Borak, a hardened fighter who stalks the sandscapes of Afghanistan like a vengeful wolf, is rivaled among Howard's creations only by Conan himself. In such classic tales as “The Daughter of Erlik Khan,” “Three-Bladed Doom,” and “Sons of the Hawk,” Howard proves himself once again a master of action, and with plenty of eerie atmosphere his plotting becomes tighter and twistier than ever, resulting in stories worthy of comparison to Jack London and Rudyard Kipling.

Every fan of Robert E. Howard and aficionados of great adventure writing will want to own this rugged collection of the best of Howard's desert tales, lavishly illustrated by award-winning artists Tim Bradstreet and Jim & Ruth Keegan. 592 pages. Soft Cover Black & White 6" x 9" (155mm x 235mm) (ISBN-13: 9780345505453)

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The Barry Windsor-Smith Archives: Conan volume 1
Roy Thomas & Barry Windsor Smith. Dark Horse Books, 2010. In 1970, Barry Windsor-Smith burst onto the comic-book scene with his dynamic portrayal of Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian, altering the course of the blue-eyed Cimmerian forever, and cementing himself as one of the greatest artists to touch pencil to paper.

Nearly forty years later, Dark Horse Comics, in the tradition of the Dark Horse Archives collections, reprints Barry Windsor-Smith's entire run on Marvel's Conan the Barbarian in two fine hardcover volumes!

The first volume of The Barry Windsor-Smith Conan Archives includes such classic tales as "Rogues in the House" and "The Tower of the Elephant," written by Roy Thomas and fully illustrated by Barry Windsor-Smith - now presented as they were intended, in their stunning original colour!

These stores originally appeared in Marvel Comic's Conan the Barbarian issues 1 to 11. A handsome library edition from Dark Horse Books. 270 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 7" x 10" (178mm x 254mm) (ISBN-13: 9781595824417)

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Creepy Archives Volume 5
Shawna Gore (Editor), featuring Reed Crandell, Steve Ditko, Basil Gogos, Jerry Grandenetti et al. Dark Horse Books, 2010. Enter a world of the finest in scary storytelling and dazzling artwork! Creepy Archives Volume 5 continues the critically acclaimed series that throws back the dusty curtain on a treasure trove of amazing comics art and brilliantly blood-chilling stories.

From the gorgeously painted full-color covers to the exquisite black-and-white interiors, this groundbreaking archival series resurrects some of the finest graphic storytelling ever printed. From "The Rats in the Walls" to "It That Lurks," these are infamous tales to chill the blood. 230 pages. Hard Cover Black & White 8½" x 11" (215mm x 279mm) (ISBN-13: 9781595823533)

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The Art of Herge Inventor of Tintin 1907 – 1939 volume 2
Philippe Goddin, Hergé. Last Gasp, 2009. The second in a three-volume series, this is a selection of Herge's outstanding and often unpublished drawings, showing the diversity of his work and offering the reader a view of the range of his talent. Georges Remi, better known as Herge, the creator of Tintin & Snowy, was born a century ago. He left an exceptional legacy, the center of which was Tintin, but also included much other work.

This second volume of The Art of Herge covers the years 1937 to 1945. The period illustrated is fascinating on a number of counts, marking the maturity of Herge, the creator and artist. In 1937 Herge was only 30, but he had already laid down enough markers to lay claim to his future territory -- the strip cartoon. It was during this period that he began to render the Adventures of Tintin in color. The period covered in this volume was also marked by global political tensions and mounting dangers that boiled over into the Second World War.

From his childhood onward, Herge produced a vast number of drawings. The Art of Herge, Inventor of Tintin presents them all in chronological order, with many high quality reproductions, each accompanied by concise commentary allowing us a closer look into Herge's daily routine, and by extension, his thoughts. 208 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 9" x 12" (225mm x 305mm) (ISBN-13: 9780867197242)

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The Definitive Prince Valiant Companion
Compiled by Brian M. Kane; Artists: Hal Foster, John Cullen Murphy and Gary Gianni. Fantagraphics Books, 2009. Compiled by award-winning Foster biographer Brian M. Kane, THE DEFINITVE PRINCE VALIANT COMPANION beautifully showcases the careers of artists Hal Foster, John Cullen Murphy and Gary Gianni. In addition to updating the original version's story synopsis section with over 30 years of material, the companion also contains rare and new articles. Also included is a never-before-reprinted newspaper feature from 1949, Foster's final interview conducted by Arn Saba, an extensive interview with John Cullen Murphy and a new interview with the current creative team. 160 pages. Soft Cover Part Colour 8" x 11" (215mm x 280mm) (ISBN-13: 9781606993057)

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Tintin and Alph-Art
Hergé. Little Brown, 2007. This book gives a unique insight into the work Herge had done on the last Tintin book before his death. At the end, Tintin is about to be cast into a living sculpture by a mysterious enemy - one last cliffhanger for the world's best loved journalist. 64 pages. Soft Cover Full Colour 9" x 12" (220mm x 295mm) (ISBN-13: 9780316003759)

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West Coast Blues
Jacques Tardi. Fantagraphics, 2009. A savage Noir thriller --- George Gerfaut, aimless young executive and desultory family man, witnesses a murder and finds himself sucked into a spiral of violence involving an exiled war criminal and two hired assassins. Adapting to the exigencies of his new life on the run with shocking ease, Gerfaut abandons his comfortable middle-class life for several months (including a sojourn in the countryside after an attempt to ride the rails turns spectacularly bad) until, joined with a new ally, he finally returns to settle all accounts... with brutal, bloody interest.

Originally released in 2005, West Coast Blues (Le Petit bleu de la côte ouest) is Tardi's adaptation of a popular 1976 novel by the French crime writer Jean-Patrick Manchette. (The novel had been previously adapted to film under the more literal title Trois hommes à abattre, and was released in English by the San Francisco-based publisher City Lights under the English version of the same title, 3 to Kill.)

Tardi's late-period, looser style infuses Manchette's dark story with a seething, malevolent energy; he doesn't shy away from the frequently grisly goings-on, while maintaining (particularly in the old-married-couple-style bickering of the two killers who are tracking Gerfaut) the mordant wit that characterizes his best work. This is the kind of graphic novel that Quentin Tarantino would love, and a double shot of Scotch for any fan of unrelenting, uncompromising crime fiction. 80 pages. Hard Cover Black & White 7" x 11" (190mm x 270mm) (ISBN-13: 9781606992951)

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The Art of Ditko
Craig Yoe, Steve Ditko. IDW Publishing / Yoe Books, 2009. Steve Ditko, the co-creator of Spiderman and Dr. Strange, remains an enigma, though this book draws us closer to the artist and gives us a better understanding of his amazing work. Introducing the very best of rare and striking Steve Ditko comic book stories and original art, this large format beautifully showcases Ditko's work, with many reproductions of original art pieces by the master comic book artist.

A beautifully designed, large format retrospective on the art and influence of Steve Ditko. Comics legend Stan Lee provides a glowing introduction, while P. Craig Russell, John Romita, and Jerry Robinson each offer their own insights into this enigmatic and incredible creator. In addition to these one of a kind essays, the book also introduces fans to the very best of Ditko's rare and striking work. Contains 28 rare stories. This is the first book from IDW's new imprint Yoe Books, and is edited and designed by Craig Yoe. 206 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 10" x 13" (250mm x 320mm) (ISBN-13: 9781600105425)

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The Art of Osamu Tezuka: God of Manga

Complete in vinyl jacket with padded slipcase and DVD.

Helen McCarthy, Osamu Tezuka. Abrams Comic Arts, 2009. Osamu Tezuka has often been called “the god of manga” and “the Walt Disney of Japan,” but he was far more than that. Tezuka was Walt Disney, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Tim Burton, and Carl Sagan all rolled into one incredibly prolific creator, changing the face of Japanese culture forever. Best known for Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion, Tezuka was instrumental in developing Japanese animation and modern manga comics.

The Art of Osamu Tezuka is the first authorized biography celebrating his work and life and featuring over 300 images—many of which have never been seen outside of Japan. With text by respected manga expert Helen McCarthy, The Art of Osamu Tezuka: God of Manga pays tribute to the work of an artist, writer, animator, doctor, entrepreneur, and traveler whose curious mind spawned dozens of animated films, and over 170,000 pages of comics art in one astonishingly creative lifetime.

The Art of Osamu Tezuka: God of Manga also includes an exclusive 45-minute DVD documentary covering Tezuka’s prolific career, from his early manga characters to his later animation work. The package is out of the ordinary as well. It is a hardcover with an inlay and a vinyl jacket plus padded slipcase and DVD. 272 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 9" x 13" (235mm x 320mm) (ISBN-13: 9780810982499)

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Charley's War vol 6: Underground and Over the Top
Pat Mills & Joe Colquhoun. Titan Books, 2009. Renowned UK comics writer Pat Mills ("Marshal Law", "Slaine") and legendary artist Joe Colquhoun ("Johnny Red") continue the thrilling, humorous and horrifying story of World War One soldier Charley Bourne.

Charley's unit, under the brutal and thoughtless command of the vile Snell, are detailed to join the 'clay-kickers' in a dangerous plan to mine under the German lines...and then comes Charley's first, terrifying charge 'over the top'! Rich in the detailed minutiae of the terror-punctuated existence of a Tommy, this sixth volume of 'Charley's War' features a brand new introduction and director's commentary by Pat Mills, plus exclusive bonus content. 112 pages. Hard Cover Black & White 9" x 12" (225mm x 310mm) (ISBN-13: 9781845767976)

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The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume One: Crimson Shadows (Limited Edition)

Hardcover Slipcase edition Limited to only 750 copies worldwide.

Robert E. Howard, introduction by Rusty Burke, illustrations Jim & Ruth Keegan.. Subterranean Press, 2009. One of the most famous and influential pulp authors of the twentieth century - known as the man who invented the sword-and-sorcery genre including his iconic hero Conan the Cimmerian - Howard also wrote horror tales, desert adventures, detective yarns, epic poetry, and more.

This spectacular volume, gorgeously illustrated by Jim and Ruth Keegan, includes some of his best and most popular works. Inside, readers will discover (or rediscover) such gems as 'The Shadow Kingdom', featuring Kull of Atlantis and considered by many to be the first sword-and-sorcery story; 'The Fightin'est Pair', part of one of Howard's most successful series, chronicling the travails of Steve Costigan, a merchant seaman with fists of steel and a head of wood; 'The Grey God Passes', a haunting tale about the passing of an age, told against the backdrop of Irish history and legend; 'Worms of the Earth', a brooding narrative featuring Bran Mak Morn (about which H. P. Lovecraft said, 'Few readers will ever forget the hideous and compelling power of this macabre masterpiece'); a historical poem relating a momentous battle between Cimbri and the legions of Rome; and 'Sharp's Gun Serenade', one of the last and funniest of the Breckinridge Elkins tales.

These thrilling, eerie, compelling, swashbuckling stories and poems have been restored to their original form, presented just as the author intended. There is little doubt that after more than seven decades the voice of Robert E. Howard continues to resonate with readers around the world.

This is the Hard Cover slipcase limited edition, only 750 copies worldwide. Includes unique colour plates. 504 pages. Hard Cover Part Colour 6" x 9" (152mm x 229mm) (ISBN-13: 9781596062634)

More graphic novels and stories from RE Howard, including Conan, Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn and Kull.

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Rip Kirby The First Modern Detective Complete Comic Strips 1946-1948
Alex Raymond. IDW Publishing, 2009. The first in IDW’s new series reprinting 30 months of daily continuity in their gorgeously presented Library of American Comics. Created by Alex Raymond when he was deactivated from the Marines after World War II, Rip Kirby was a fresh approach to the genre, a departure from the prevailing hard-boiled style of detective fiction. Rip Kirby was urbane and cerebral, and used scientific methods as often as he used his fists when solving crimes and mysteries.

Edited and designed by Eisner Award-winner Dean Mullaney, the strips are reproduced from pristine syndicate proofs that will allow readers to see, for the first time, the luxurious detail of Raymond's brushwork. Includes a biographical and historic essay by Brian Walker, and an introduction by Raymond biographer and authority Tom Roberts.

An ideal companion to Tom Roberts’ recent biography Alex Raymond: His Life and Art. 320 pages. Hard Cover Black & White 11" x 10" (290mm x 265mm) (ISBN-13: 9781600104848)

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The Chronicles Of Conan volume 18 Isle of the Dead and other stories
Bruce Jones, John Buscema, Marc Silvestri and others. Dark Horse Comics, 2009. Taking over writing duties on Conan the Barbarian in the early 1980s, Bruce Jones brought his humor and horror sensibilities -- as well as his knack for telling great short stories -- to the title, invigorating John Buscema, who returned to work on the series with Conan #136. In this volume, these two comic-book titans lead Conan on a thrilling tour of Hyboria -- from the monster-infested Bossonian Marshes to the hideous slave markets of Belthem -- as Conan encounters strange, supernatural foes, beguiling women, and overconfident rulers.

Stories like 'The River of Death', 'Titan's Gambit', and the two-part 'Spider Isle' adventure are meticulously restored and recolored, and Jones and Buscema are joined by such talents as Ernie Chan, Mark Silvestri, Val Mayerik, Alfredo Alcala, and others.

This volume collects Conan the Barbarian issues #135 to #142, including all original series covers. 204 pages. Soft Cover Full Colour 7" x 10" (170mm x 255mm) (ISBN-13: 9781595823823)

More Conan tales from RE Howard

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The Completely MAD Don Martin (Boxed Set)

Two Volume Boxed Set.

Don Martin. Running Press, September 2007. The book that no sane person can live without. The first round in a projected series of MAD's Greatest Artists features the greatest of them all. This deluxe two-volume slipcase edition features every single piece of artwork that the late great Don Martin drew for MAD Magazine throughout his career spanning more than thirty years. Includes appreciations of Martin from fellow cartoonists Gary Larson, Matt Groening and others.

A great stylist, Don Martin was loved by his millions of readers for his weird characters and even weirder sound effects, the 'hinged feet' is my personal favourite motif of his. Complete with full color slipcase. 1200 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 10" x 13" (254mm x 330mm) (ISBN-13: 9780762430505)

List Price: £80.00 SAVE £40 - BARGAIN PRICE! Highly Recommended.
Two Volume Boxed Set.

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The Chronicles of Solomon Kane
Roy Thomas, Ralph Macchio, Howard Chaykin, Bret Blevins, and others. Dark Horse Books, 2009. Continuing in the vein of the successful Chronicles of Conan collection series, Dark Horse is expanding its Robert E. Howard reprint line by presenting all of the original 1970s and 1980s Marvel colour comic books featuring Solomon Kane in one awesome volume! This trade paperback features the landmark stories 'The Mark of Kane' and 'Fangs of the Gorilla God' by Roy Thomas and Howard Chaykin, and the entire Sword of Solomon Kane mini-series, by Ralph Macchio and a host of talented artists -- including Mike Mignola, Al Williamson, Bret Blevins, John Ridgeway, and others! From the French countryside to the Black Forest in Germany, from England to Africa -- follow Robert E. Howard’s solemn, driven Puritan, Solomon Kane, as he cuts a path of vengeance across the globe!

This beautiful 200-page tome includes meticulously re-coloured Kane adventures from Marvel Premiere #33 and #34, and the entire six-issue Sword of Solomon Kane series from the mid-1980s. 204 pages. Soft Cover Full Colour 7" x 10" (170mm x 260mm) (ISBN-13: 9781595824103)

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The Robert E. Howard Chronicles

THREE VOLUMES in Slipcase!

Roy Thomas, Barry Windsor-Smith, Howard Chaykin, Marie and John Severin et al. Dark Horse Books, 2009. For the first time, Robert E. Howard’s most-celebrated creations are together in one handsome collection! Experience all of Howard’s most exciting tales as told by the industry’s finest creators -- including Roy Thomas, Barry Windsor-Smith, Howard Chaykin, Mike Mignola, the Severins, and more! Featuring the latest in colouring technology, the re-mastered comics are a perfect introduction to the Robert E. Howard universe and a refreshing refurbishment of these timeless yarns for the collector who already owns the classic comics from the 1970s and 80s!

The Chronicles of Conan Volume 1 reprints issues #1 through #8 of the original Marvel comic-book series and includes the classic 'Tower of the Elephant' tale and the work of the incomparable Barry Windsor-Smith!

The Chronicles of Solomon Kane collects every colour appearance of Solomon Kane from his years at Marvel: Marvel Premiere issues #33 and #34 and the six-issue miniseries The Sword of Solomon Kane.

The Chronicles of Kull Volume 1 features the work of Bernie Wrightson and includes Monsters on the Prowl #16, Creatures on the Loose! #10, and the first nine issues of Kull the Conqueror! 584 pages. Soft Cover Full Colour 7" x 10" (170mm x 260mm) (ISBN-13: 9781595824073)

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The Trigan Empire: Complete 12 volume SET (Limited Edition)
Don Lawrence, Mike Butterworth. Don Lawrence Collection (DLC), January 2009. First Edition. Out of Print.

FABULOUS OFFER - GET 12 VOLUMES FOR THE PRICE OF 10 !!!
Save over £140 (150 euros or $220) with this full set of the 12 Trigan volumes and the twelve limited edition Trigan prints (total for 12 volumes bought separately would be £839.88).

The complete set of TWELVE volumes in the complete Trigan Empire saga in ENGLISH. All the legendary adventures of Trigo, Janno, Perik and Bragg presented in this unique DELUXE 12 volume set containing all the Trigan stories illustrated by the late Don Lawrence - over 40 stories and more than 950 pages of glorious colour artwork in total.

Each book contains approx 100 pages and is printed in large format on 150gsm coated paper and comes complete with a full colour leatherette bound hard cover, a slipcase, and a full colour print.

An extremely LIMITED edition of just 500 copies per volume in English, the books are published in conjunction with foreign language editions.

The Don Lawrence Collection has access to over 750 original pages with high resolution scanning to maintain superb print quality. For the missing originals, the Dutch publisher's original films are being used. Fully digitized, the colours of the artwork are presented to their best effect. All the stories are re-edited and each book has its own unique dossier. Hard Cover Full Colour 9" x 13" (240mm x 340mm) Highly Recommended.

THE COMPLETE TRIGAN SET ...
Trigan 1: Invaders from Gallas	Trigan 2: Revolution in Zabriz	Trigan 3: Reign of Thara	Trigan 4: Three Princes
Trigan 5: Red Death	Trigan 6: Puppet Emperor	Trigan 7: Rallu Invasion	Trigan 8: Prisoner of Zerss
Trigan 9: Curse of King Yutta	Trigan 10: House of the Five Moons	Trigan 11: Sunworshippers	Trigan 12: Green Smog

Our Price: £699.00 ($1,048.50) (€814,00)      

The Fleetway Picture Library Index volume 1: The War Libraries (Signed)
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. Soft Cover Part Colour 7" x 10" (178mm x 254mm) (ISBN-13: 9780955159626)
Signed by authors Steve Holland and David Roach.

Some of the War Library covers from the book

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The James Bond Omnibus
Adapted by Anthony Hern, Peter O'Donnell & Henry Gammidge from the novels by Ian Flemming. Art by John McLusky. Titan Books, 2009. A spiffy omnibus edition repackaging from Titan Books. Presents some of Bond's earliest and best adventures that later went on to international success in the cinema. The stories include Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, Moonraker, Diamonds are Forever, From Russia with Love, Dr. No, Goldfinger, From A View to a Kill, For Your Eyes Only and Thunderball.

John McLusky's powerful and moody art brings the terse stories to life. Introduction by Sir Roger Moore KBE. 304 pages. Soft Cover Black & White 8" x 9" (197mm x 240mm) (ISBN-13: 9781848563643)
Flexibound cover.

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

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Pirates Predators of the Seas: An Illustrated History
Angus Konstam with Roger Michael Kean. Thalmus Publishing, 2007. From prehistory to the 21st century, whenever trade takes to the sea, the predators are close behind. This new, authoritative history details the derring-do of pirates through the ages, analysing our fascination with the men – and some women – who were, after all, vicious criminals. Packed with illustrations, this volume is the essential companion for every armchair swashbuckler. 240 pages. Hard Cover Part Colour 9" x 10" (220mm x 250mm) (ISBN-13: 9781902886183)
List Price: £16.95 SAVE £6.96

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The Absolute V For Vendetta
Alan Moore and David Lloyd. Vertigo, 2009. "V for Vendetta" cemented Alan Moore's reputation as comics' foremost writer, and now returns in a gorgeous, oversized Absolute edition with new material! Originally published in 1990, "V for Vendetta" is a frightening and powerful story about the loss of freedom and individuality set in a totalitarian England. Written against a background of third-term Thatcherism and tabloid rants against minorities, this is a work of startling clarity...everything that comics weren't supposed to be.

With new material including never-before-reprinted silent art pages, an expanded sketchbook, the original series back cover art, and the recolouring of the 2005 deluxe hardback edition - this is the ultimate edition of a modern comic masterpiece. 396 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 8½" x 13" (215mm x 330mm) (ISBN-13: 9781401223618)

Our Price: £75.00 ($112.50) (€82,50)      

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De Ballade Van De Zilte Zee (Ballad of the Salt Sea)
Hugo Pratt. Casterman, 1979. Dutch language edition of Pratt's famous stories set in the South Seas A Corto Maltese adventure. Exemplary art as usual. Rare volume. Highly recommended for the beautiful black and white art even if you don't read the language. Note English version out of print for several years. Book is in as new condition. 170 pages. Soft Cover Black & White 8½" x 11½" (215mm x 291mm) ISBN: 9030399791

Our Price: £15.00 ($22.50) (€16,50)      

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Eerie Archives Volume Two
Shawna Gore Editor. Dark Horse Books, 2009. When publisher Jim Warren created Creepy magazine in 1962, he soon realized he'd hit pay dirt on a gruesome gold mine of great comics storytelling. Under the leadership of editor/writer Archie Goodwin, Warren's hit line of horror-comics magazines grew another lurid limb with the introduction of Eerie in 1964, and soon there were two great horror magazines on the rack instead of one. Following in the fetid footsteps of our sinfully successful archive library of Creepy, Dark Horse is also proudly publishing its Eerie equivalent -- keeping chilling stories and incredible artwork in the family!

Includes astonishing artwork and classic stories from such comics' legends as Gene Colan, Steve Ditko, Gray Morrow, Neal Adams, and Frank Frazetta!

Reprints classic Eerie stories from issues 6-10 originally published from 1966 to 1967. 240 pages. Hard Cover Black & White 8½" x 11" (215mm x 279mm) (ISBN-13: 9781595823151)

More Warren Archives series, including Eerie, Creepy and Blazing Combat.

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Roger Hane: Art, Times and Tragedy (Limited Edition)

Deluxe hard cover edition with slipcase and a 16-page bonus portfolio. Limited to just 500 copies worldwide.

R.C. Hunsickler, Roger Hane (artist), Milton Glaser (foreword). Vanguard Productions, 2009. Near-300 pages of art and biography on the star illustrator of The Chronicles of Narnia, Clapton's Goodbye Cream album, Carlos Castaneda's Separate Reality, and more. Roger Hane revived American illustration toward the fantastic and surreal. Two weeks after being named Artist of the Year, Hane was senselessly murdered. At the time his art graced the covers of New York and Fortune magazines.

Foremost American designer, Milton Glaser, who provides the foreword for this tome, said Hane was the best illustrator in America. In this impressive compendium, award-winning visual arts and media producer and friend of Roger Hane, Robert C. Hunsicker, expands upon the great illustrator's career and tragic demise. 272 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 12" x 11" (300mm x 270mm) (ISBN-13: 9781934331248)

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War Picture Library Collection #3: Up and at ‘Em!
Steve Holland (Editor). Prion Books, 2009. Fix bayonets! Stand by to go over the top with the third volume of ten complete blood-and-glory combat stories from the War Picture Library. This selection takes you from the mud and thunder of the trenches to the sweat and suffering of the jungle in a series of adrenalin-fuelled picture stories that represent the cream of War's 25 years' of publishing.

To display the amazing comic-book art to its best advantage, each adventure is reproduced here 25 per cent larger than in the original War Picture Library editions, drawing you even further into the action.

Whether you are a seasoned campaigner, or whether this is your first experience of War, "Up And At 'Em!" will have you marching shoulder to shoulder and dodging bullets with some of the toughest fighting men ever to storm the pages of a comic book. 656 pages. Soft Cover Black & White 7" x 9" (178mm x 229mm) (ISBN-13: 9781853756986)

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The Modesty Blaise Companion (Super Deluxe GOLD edition) (Signed) (Limited Edition)

GOLD edition, given only to contributors to the book. Only 26 copies of this GOLD lettered edition exist. We have one for sale, lettered 'V'.

Lawrence Blackmore (original works by Peter O'Donnell). Book Palace Books, 30 March 2006. This is the GOLD edition which was never sold to the public and was only given to contributors to the book. Only 26 copies of this GOLD Lettered edition exist. We have one for sale, lettered 'U'. THE most highly collectable Modesty Blaise book EVER!!!

Many years in the making, everything you could possibly want to know about Peter O'Donnell's classic creation, Modesty Blaise, from novels to newspaper strips, with full story outlines, over 2,000 character descriptions, over 1800 illustrations by Jim Holdaway, Enric Romero, John M Burns, Neville Colvin and Patrick Wright, plus the original Souvenir Press book covers. Includes 'In the Beginning' origin story, the first ever newspaper strip story by Jim Holdaway, never before printed in the UK.

With the book comes a fabulous CD Rom containing “The Modesty Blaise Companion Companion” with comprehensive information for each strip story including artist, strip numbering, frame analysis, original Evening Standard publication dates, cast lists (over 2200 entries), location settings (over 1500 entries), plus much more.

Only 426 copies were printed (400 numbered & 26 lettered), split between two editions: the SUPER DELUXE LIMITED edition of 100 NUMBERED copies (plus 26 Lettered copies), and the DELUXE LIMITED edition of 300 NUMBERED copies. An essential book for all Modesty Blaise admirers, sure to be a collectors treasure in years to come. The author attests that there will no other other editions of this book printed (paperback or hardcover.) 436 pages. Hard Cover Part Colour 10" x 12" (254mm x 297mm) ISBN: 095515961X and ISBN-13: 9780955159619

Our Price: £395.00 ($592.50) (€434,50)      

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EC Weird Fantasy Portfolio #3
Al Feldstein, William M Gaines, Harvey Kurtzman. Russ Cochran, 1973. First Edition. Out of Print. Near Mint. We offer here an uncommon reprinting of five EC stories, as reproduced from the artist's original B&W illustrations. These are reprinted in large format on archival quality Bristol paper. The reproduction size & quality is exceptional, as expected from publisher Russ Cochran.

This is EC Portfolio number 3 of the six produced in all. There are also four original covers, two science fiction & two horror, especially coloured by EC's former colour editor Marie Severin.

The stories are 'With All The Trappings!' by Graham Ingels, '50 Girls 50' by Al Williamson & Frank Frazetta, 'Mars Is Heaven' by Wally Wood from a Ray Bradbury story, 'Ace!' by John Severin & Al Feldstein's ' Spawn Of Venus.' The stories were written or adapted by EC editor Al Feldstein, publisher William M. Gaines & editor Harvey Kurtzman. 40 pages. Soft Cover Part Colour 11" x 16" (28cm x 41cm) Highly Recommended.

Our Price: £65.00 ($97.50) (€71,50)      

The Daltons In The Blizzard: A Lucky Luke Adventure #15
Morris & Goscinny. Cinebook, 2009. The Daltons escape from a Texas jail and head up to Canada. Lucky Luke is called intoget them back in jail. He and Rintincan, his second faithful companion after jolly jumper, follow them all the way to Canada, where Captain Winston Pendergast offers his help. 48 pages. Soft Cover Full Colour 9" x 11" (229mm x 279mm) (ISBN-13: 9781905460762)

More of Lucky Luke's laconic adventures!

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The Incal 2
Jodorowsky & Moebius. Titan Books, 1988. Fair. UK badged edition of the Epic Comics series that brought Moebius an increased fan base in the USA. Jodorowsky weaves a complex Science Fiction story that starts with a small seemingly insignificant event and unfolds to become a tale of Epic (ahem) proportions.

Moebius' work is beautifully detailed yet showing his strong sense of design. A rollicking adventure and then some. Contains volumes three and four of the original French series.

A good reading copy of this long out of print edition. Some scuffing to covers and marked spine stress. Insides clean and supple, a better copy than it looks. 96 pages. Soft Cover Full Colour 8½" x 11" (215mm x 279mm) ISBN: 185286107X

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The Best of British Comic Art
Alan Clark. Boxtree, 1989. Out of Print. This is a celebration of the work of six of Britain's finest comic artists. Their names may not be familiar, but everyone will recognise the subjects they drew: Laurel and Hardy (G.W. Wakefield), Tiger Tim and Teddy Tail (H. S. Foxwell), Keyhole Kate and Hungry Horace (Allan Morley), Desperate Dan and Lord Snooty (Dudley Watkins), Fudge the Elf and Jonah (Ken Reid) and Charlie Chaplin (Bertie Brown) are but a few of the comic characters they created. Their work appeared in titles such as Film Fun, The Rainbow, Dandy, Beano, Funny Wonder, Comic Cuts Tiger Tim's Weekly and a host of others. Profusely illustrated in b&w and colour. Perfect condition. 144 pages. Hard Cover Part Colour 8" x 11" (20cm x 28cm) Dust Jacket ISBN: 1852832649

Our Price: £25.00 ($37.50) (€27,50)      

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Karl the Viking The Collection (deluxe 4 volume set) (Signed) (Limited Edition)
Don Lawrence, Jorg de Vos (cover art), introduced by Steve Holland. Don Lawrence Collection (DLC), October 2008. The Complete Don Lawrence Karl the Viking in four deluxe bound hard cover volumes enclosed in a beautiful collectors box and strictly numbered from 1 - 400. Each set comes with a full colour art print by Don Lawrence and Jorg de Vos signed by Jorg de Vos. A collectors dream come true!

Karl the Viking The Collection reprints for the first time ever all 18 Karl the Viking stories published between 1961 and 1968 in Lion. All books are printed in black & white and colour on 150 gram deluxe paper stock, with partial leatherette full colour covers and 130 pages each. As a bonus, each volume has a chapter about The Saga of Karl the Viking written by Steve Holland.

Stories are: The Sword of Eingar, The Long Voyage to Oxaca, Selgor the Wolf, The False God, The Powers of Helvud, El Sarid the Merciless, Gefion One-Eye, The Island of the Monsters, The Magician of the Swamp, The Fallen Meteorite, The Fortress of Death, The Voyage of the Sea Raiders, The Quest of the Long Ships, The Curse of the Claw, The Monster of the Swamp, The Ghost of the Tideless Sea, The Swamp of Fear, The Hammer of Thor. The ISBNs of each of the four volumes are 9789088860324, 9789088860348, 9789088860362 and 9789088860386. 520 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 9" x 13" (240mm x 340mm) Highly Recommended.
Deluxe 4 Volume Set LIMITED to 400 English language sets worldwide. Complete with NUMBERED art print SIGNED by Jorg de Vos.

Our Price: £159.99 ($239.99) (€192,50)      

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