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Forbidden Worlds Archives HC (2012 Dark Horse) comic books

  • Issue #1-1ST
    Forbidden Worlds Archives HC (2012 Dark Horse) 1-1ST

    Volume 1 - 1st printing. Collects Forbidden Worlds (1952-1967) #1-4. Written by Richard E. Hughes. Art by Al Williamson, Wally Wood, Frank Frazetta, and Ogden Whitney. Introduction by Dan Nadel. Microscopic Roman centurions? Elderly ghosts clobbering gangsters? A haunted vintage of French wine? No conceit is too strange for Forbidden Worlds, the playfully bizarre anthology series that hit newsstands in 1951 and continued for 145 outlandish issues! Hardcover, 264 pages, full color. Cover price $49.99.

  • Issue #2-1ST
    Forbidden Worlds Archives HC (2012 Dark Horse) 2-1ST

    Volume 2 - 1st printing. Collects Forbidden Worlds (1952-1967) #5-8. Written by Richard E. Hughes. Art by Al Williamson, Wally Wood, Frank Frazetta, and Ogden Whitney. Introduction by Dan Nadel. What do a fifty-foot-tall telepathic merman, a typewriter possessed by Satan, and a demented ringmaster who attaches human heads to circus animals have in common? Nothing, perhaps? Well, except that they all appeared in Forbidden Worlds, the weird and wonderful anthology of science fiction and supernatural fantasy that ran from the early 1950s into the late 1960s! Hardcover, 192 pages, full color. Cover price $49.99.

  • Issue #3-1ST
    Forbidden Worlds Archives HC (2012 Dark Horse) 3-1ST

    Volume 3 - 1st printing. Collects Forbidden Worlds (1952) #9-14. Written by Richard E. Hughes. Art by Ken Bald. Introduction by Timothy Truman. Chased by a wax sculpture of Adolf Hitler, cursed by a snake goddess, and forced to marry an oozing swamp monster-life has never been easy for the residents of Forbidden Worlds! Issues #9 through #14 of this wonderfully bizarre 1950s anthology are collected in a deluxe hardcover, which features a new introduction from Timothy Truman (King Conan, Hawkman) and contributions from golden age creators King Ward, Harry Lazarus, Charlie Sultan, Jon Blummer, and others. Hardcover, 224 pages, full color. Cover price $49.99.