Fiction comic books issue 1

Complied by A. J. L. Durie. Frustrated at the lack of cataloging of British versions of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, A. J. L. Durie took it upon himself to research and catalog the magazine's articles. 8-in. x 10-in., 44 pages, Text only. NOTE: Contains incorrect information regarding the American Edition publication dates.

1st printing.

Created by John Carpenter and Sandy King. Written by David J. Schow. Art by Andres Esparza. Cover by Tim Bradstreet. Back Cover by Andres Esparza. Introduction by David J. Schow.

Is it one of those assemble-the-team deals? You bet! The scientist. The murderer. The mercs. The witch. And the half-human visitor from the Underneath. The mission: Recover the most amazing mineral power source ever discovered. The target: Miles beneath the Earth's crust, teeming with monster denizens we haven't seen in centuries.

It's a one-way trip straight to Hell.

Softcover, 112 pages, full color. Mature Readers

Cover price $24.99.

1st printing. Collects Tales of Science Fiction: Redhead (2019 Storm King) #1-5.

Created by John Carpenter and Sandy King. Written by Duane Swierczynski. Art and cover by Jason Felix.

Marnie Young, an executive assistant in San Diego, is a sweet girl who wouldn't hurt a fly. She's also super lonely. But one night, without warning, Marnie has a violent seizure; co-workers recoil in horror as she writhes on the floor. Two days later, Marnie wakes up in a hospital room. As her vision comes into focus, she sees 17 doctors and nurses dead on the floor, blood splattered everywhere. Soon she discovers the shocking truth: Marnie has become lethal, and everyone who comes within three feet of her dies instantly! Which is really going to mess up her dating life (if she had one). Is there a cure?

Softcover, 136 pages, full color.

Cover price $19.99.

1st printing. Collects Tales of Science Fiction: Surviving Nuclear Attack (2019 Storm King) #1-5.

Created by John Carpenter and Sandy King. Written by Joe Harris. Art and cover by Cat Staggs.

As the Cold War widened in the 1950s, military hero, George Kutter and his family trained to be legacy survivors in the event of an atomic exchange with the Soviet Union. Prepared to wait out the aftermath of nuclear war, they were subjected to myriad simulations, scenarios and stresses in hopes of helping salvage something of their family, their country and humanity from the ashes of a conflict with the Russians that never happened. But when a group of hunting buddies stumble upon a seemingly abandoned fallout shelter in the present-day Pennsylvania wilderness, a crash course in Cold War paranoia, propaganda and control awaits.

What was the nature of the secret Archonite initiative? What lengths did the United States go to in order to prepare for all-out war and its aftermath? What did the Kutter Family endure in perpetration for their duty? And if World War III never broke out... why are they still down there?

Written by Joe Harris (Rockstars, The X-Files) with art and covers by Cat Staggs (Crosswinds, Death of Superman), this collection includes all five issues, plus covers, in one beautiful volume!

Softcover, 136 pages, full color.

Cover price $19.99.

1st printing.

Written by David Schow. Art by Andres Esparza, Sergio Martinez, and Janice Chiang. Cover by Tim Bradstreet.

Created by John Carpenter and Sandy King.

At Tattersall Prison, a max-lock for the baddest of the bad, sleepless nights are the norm... until a fireball from the sky turns the night shift into a nightmare - trapping guards and cons on the inside, cops on the outside, and escapees in-between... all of them threatened by a hideous alien invader which needs nice, warm human bodies in which to incubate. From the outside, it looks like a replay of Waco, but from the inside, it's more like Dante's first draft of the Inferno. Psychotic Fraiser Bonner leads an army of convicts with a grudge against lead guard Wayne Jessup, whose crew is marooned inside with no means of exit. Black ops spook Elaine Farris tries to call the shots as captive guards get executed by Bonner. Farris dreads the moment she will have to call in her "expert," Conrad Gant, whose life she destroyed six years earlier. Why? Because Gant knows about the alien interlopers, who use the human form as a chrysalis and shed the envelope of flesh to produce Earth-compatible conquerors... and Gant was hounded into silence by Elaine and her fixers. Now the clock is ticking and there's an invasion to be stopped, as minute by minute, guards perish and alien numbers grow stronger, with the aim of spilling out of the prison cordon and into the rest of the world. It's a hostage situation. It's a battle between species. It's Earth's most serious Standoff.

The Standoff is the third entry in John Carpenter's Tales of Science Fiction, created especially for Storm King's John Carpenter and Sandy King by David J. Schow with the cinematic art team behind VAULT, Andres Esparza and Sergio Martinez. All five issues are collected here to offer a chapter play that's half suspense thriller, and half science fiction fever dream. Whose side would you take? It's time to lock and load for The Standoff... and watch out for those nasty, flying alien bugs every step of the way.

Softcover, 144 pages, full color.

Cover price $19.99.

1st printing.

Written by Duane Swierczynski. Art by Richard P. Clark and Janice Chiang. Cover by Tim Bradstreet.

Created by John Carpenter and Sandy King.

August 1977. Astronomers detect the so-called "WOW" signal: a burst of sound from deep space, near the constellation Sagittarius. The signal is believed to be extraterrestrial in origin. Today. In a desert town one hour north of L.A., Lieutenant Ron Pinkerton watches in horror as law-abiding citizens begin to lose their minds. Then astrophysicist Marisa Stringfellow appears, telling Pinkerton the craziest thing he's ever heard: an alien entity is taking over minds one by one and using their hijacked bodies to create as much mayhem as (in)humanly possible. The tell-tale sign: a violent twitch that means: goodbye, nervous system. Now humanity's last chance lies in the hands of hardboiled cop and a heartbroken scientist... that is, until one of them begins to twitch.

Softcover, 136 pages, full color.

Cover price $19.99.

1st printing.

Edited by Sandy King. Written by James Ninness. Art by Andres Esparza, Sergio Martinez, Janice Chiang, and Tim Bradstreet.

When the moon-bound crew of Gaia stumbles across an enormous alien vessel, more technologically advanced than their own, priorities change. The mystery deepens when the crew discovers the name of the vessel along the hull, written in English: VAULT.

Softcover, 104 pages, full color.

Cover price $9.99.

1st printing.

Created by John Carpenter and Sandy King.

Vortex is the second story in John Carpenter's Tales of Science Fiction! Join us as Dixon and his team come up against Dr. Dole Andersen, a man with a secret so terrible that he threatens to pull us all into Hell with him! Join rescue crews, scientists, investigators, special forces soldiers, families and monsters, sacrifice and chaos. Join us as we face inhuman terror and incredible heroism. Join us in another far-flung adventure set on the edge of a universe under the watchful eye of the Horror Master, John Carpenter, himself! Join us in the Vortex.

Softcover, 256 pages, full color.

Cover price $24.99.

1st printing. Adapted by M.C. Hall. Art by C.E. Richards. In a world of wizards, giants, and dragons, King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table are the Kingdom of Camelot's only defense against the forces of evil. Fighting battles and saving those in need, the Knights of the Round Table can defeat every enemy but one - themselves! Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 72 pages, full color.

Program for the 42nd World Science Fiction Convention in 1984. 192 Pages, B&W.

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1st printing.

By Desirina Boskovich and Jeff Vandermeer.

Science fiction and fantasy reign over popular culture now.

Lost Transmissions is a rich trove of forgotten and unknown, imagined-but-never-finished, and under-appreciated-but-influential works from those imaginative genres, as well as little-known information about well-known properties. Divided into sections on Film & TV, Literature, Art, Music, Fashion, Architecture, and Pop Culture, the book examines Jules Verne's lost novel; AfroFuturism and Space Disco; E.T.'s scary beginnings; William Gibson's never-filmed Aliens sequel; Weezer's never-made space opera; and the 8,000-page metaphysical diary of Philip K. Dick. br>
Hardcover, 9-in. x 7-in., 288 pages, full color.

Cover price $29.99.

Issue #1 - Nov. 1971. Steve Hickman cover. "Wise Guy" by Steve Hickman, four-page comic story. Centerfold by Steve Hickman. Basil Wolverton portfolio of unpublished circa 1929. Berni Wrightson inside back cover. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 24 pages, black and white.

1st printing. Edited by Paula Guran. A new terrifying collection inspired by the master of horror H.P. Lovecraft, The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu brings some of the best established and upcoming writers sharing their best Lovecraftian horror. For the lover of Lovecraft or newcomer to the Cthulhu mythos, this anthology provides an excellent foray into Lovecraft's world of weird fiction. Softcover, 5-in. x 8-in., 512 pages, Text. Cover price $14.95.

Maurice Whitman cover. All stories but "Man O' Mars" reprinted from Planet Comics (1940 Fiction House). Interior reprinted in Man O'Mars (1964 I.W. Reprint) #1. In order of appearance: "Man O' Mars" art by Maurice Gutwirth, further reprinted in Strange Worlds (1990 Malibu) #1 and Men of Mystery Comics (1996- AC Comics) #83; "Life On Other Worlds No. 1: Uranus" art by Murphy Anderson, reprinted from Planet Comics (1940 Fiction House) #50; "Life On Other Worlds No. 2: Saturn, Great Ringed Planet of Mystery" art by Murphy Anderson, reprinted from Planet Comics (1940 Fiction House) #49; "Star Pirate" art by Murphy Anderson, reprinted from Planet Comics (1940 Fiction House) #35; and "Space Rangers" art by Lee Elias, reprinted from Planet Comics (1940 Fiction House) #36. 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

1st printing. Edited by Ben Bova. Featuring stories by Gene Wolfe, Burt K. Filer, Andre Norton, Gordon R. Dickson, Keith Laumer, Anne McCafrey, Robert Silverberg, and Harlan Ellison. Many of the fascinating worlds of science fiction are explored in this collection, which ranges from the high adventure among the stars of Andre Norton's ALL CATS ARE GRAY to a college campus around the turn of the century - the next century, that is - in Harlan Ellison's angry SILENT IN GEHENNA. Includes 8 short stories. Hardcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 216 pages, Text Only.

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Masked: An Awe-Inspiring Anthology of All-Original Superhero Fiction - 1st printing. Edited by Lou Anders. Welcome to the second "Golden Age" of superheroes and heroines! They have come a long way since the Man of Steel was introduced in 1938. This brilliant new collection features original stories and novellas from some of today's most exciting voices in comics, science fiction, and fantasy. Each marvelously inventive tale shows us just how far our classic crusaders have evolved - and how the greatest of heroes are, much like ourselves, all too human. Contributors include Bill Willingham, Stephen Baxter, Peter David, Mike Carey, Paul Cornell, Gail Simone, and many others. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 400 pages, Text Only. Cover price $15.00.

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1st printing. By William J. Widder. Preface by Frank Kelly Freas. "Master Storyteller" is a richly informative and colorful tour of L. Ron Hubbard's extraordinary career as a popular fiction author. This comprehensive chronology of his work is replete with factual and detailed information about his novels and stories and the brilliant art they inspired. It is filled with high-quality reproductions ranging from original covers and inside illustrations by the great artists of the pulp fiction magazines of the '30s, '40s and early '50s to the contemporary fantasy and science fiction art created by modern masters of the field. "Master Storyteller" will draw you back again and again to explore the literary and visual landmarks of the life of a great writer whose works continue to entertain generations of readers of popular fiction. Hardcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 194 pages, full color. Cover price $49.95.

2nd and later printings. By William J. Widder. Preface by Frank Kelly Freas. "Master Storyteller" is a richly informative and colorful tour of L. Ron Hubbard's extraordinary career as a popular fiction author. This comprehensive chronology of his work is replete with factual and detailed information about his novels and stories and the brilliant art they inspired. It is filled with high-quality reproductions ranging from original covers and inside illustrations by the great artists of the pulp fiction magazines of the '30s, '40s and early '50s to the contemporary fantasy and science fiction art created by modern masters of the field. "Master Storyteller" will draw you back again and again to explore the literary and visual landmarks of the life of a great writer whose works continue to entertain generations of readers of popular fiction. Hardcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 194 pages, full color. Cover price $49.95.

1st printing. Delve into a world of imagination populated with giant robots, strange vehicles, alien creatures and other fantastic inventions. For generations artists have created imagery destined for the entertainment of others, and now you can too. Revered science fiction artist and film designer, Doug Chiang, reveals the thought processes and techniques he used working on blockbusters such as the Star Wars prequels, War of the Worlds, Terminator, and Beowulf. You'll learn from Chiang's visionary experience as he shares his design processes, giving expert advice and showcasing the groundbreaking style that has earned his creations a spot in the Brooklyn Museum, Houston Museum of Fine Art and the Tokyo National Museum. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 10-in., 144 pages, full color. Cover price $22.95.

Issue 1 - October 20, 1972. Loose Pages, 8.5" x 11", 8 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.20.

1st printing. Edited By Michael Uslan. Coevr by Murphy Anderson. From the very center of the earth to the farthest edges of space, from the thrills of the near future to the last terror of recorded time, here in one fabulous collection are the best comic-book tales of science fiction ever published. Produced by DC Comics from 1959 to the early 1960's, they are the works of the best and the brightest in the field, writers like Gardner Fox, John Broome and Otto Binder, and fantasy-art greats like Carmine Infantino, Murphy Anderson and Frank Frazetta. From the earliest heart-wrenchers like "Do Not Open till Doomsday" to the most famous thrillers starring Adam Strange, here is a taste of a golden age of science fictions that has not since been equaled in comicdom, a time when there were giants and geniuses in the field. Hardcover, 248 pages, full color.

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1st printing.

Written by Neil Gaiman. Foreword by Marion James.

An outstanding array of selected fiction from the New York Times-bestselling author Neil Gaiman, curated by his readers around the world.

Spanning Gaiman's career to date, A Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction is a A brilliant representation of his groundbreaking, entrancing, endlessly imagination fiction, this captivating volume includes excerpts from each of his five novels for adults - Neverwhere, Stardust, American Gods, Anansi Boys, and The Ocean at the End of the Lane - and nearly fifty of his of short stories.

Impressive in its depth and range, A Neil Gaiman Reader is both an entryway to Gaiman's oeuvre and a literary trove Gaiman fans old and new will return to many times over.

Hardcover, 816 pages, B&W.

Cover price $50.00.

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Issue 1 - February, 1975. Corben cover, formerly Trumpet Magazine. 8.5" x 11", 48 pages, B&W. - Mature Readers - Cover price $2.00.

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First Edition - 1st printing. Edited by Thomas E Hudgeons III. 1985-1986 House of Collectibles price guide with over 25,000 listings for science fiction and fantasy collectibles. Contains an exhaustive array of fantasy and sci-fi related items including lunch boxes, buttons, comic books, original art, household wares, and many other categories. Plus market reviews and collecting advice. Softcover, 5 1/4-in. x 8-in., 572 pages, text only with some black and white photos. Cover price $10.95.

1st printing. By Groff Conklin. Stories by Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, A.E. vanVogt, William Tenn, Lester delRey, H.P. Lovecraft, Ray Bradbury, and others. Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 562 pages, text only. Cover price $24.99.

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approximately 120 pages. 8 1/2 x 11 3/4. Cover price $4.95.

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1st printing. By Bill Schelly. In this fascinating biography, comic book historian Bill Schelly chronicles the life of Otto Binder, from pulp magazine author to writer of Supergirl, Captain Marvel, and Superman. As the originator of the first sentient robot in literature ("I,Robot," published in Amazing Stories in 1939 and predating Isaac Asimov's collection of the same name), Binder's effect on science fiction was profound. Through comic panels, personal letters, and interviews with Binder's own family and friends, Schelly weaves together Binder's professional successes and personal tragedies, including the death of Binder's only daughter and his wife's struggle with mental illness. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 264 pages, PC/B&W. Cover price $19.95.

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1st printing. By Mike Ashley. Whatever you thought about Science Fiction think again, and keep on thinking, because that is what Science Fiction does. Science Fiction prepares us for the future and cope with the present by asking the questions "What if...?" and "Just suppose..." This books takes a look at what Science Fiction has achieved and hopes to achieve. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 144 pages, full color.