America comic books issue 1

2nd Edition - 1st printing. Story and art by Tom Scioli. American Barbarian is a pop art odyssey from the artist and co-author of Transformers vs. G.I. JOE. A red-white-and-blue-haired hero must defend a post-post-apocalyptic world from the immortal Two-Tank Omen. Hardcover, 256 pages, full color. Cover price $29.99.

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Volume 1, Issue 1 - December, 1925. Very short lived vintage publication produced by The Guild Publishing Company that celebrated the female influence on American Fine Arts. 6" x 9", 64 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Volume 1, Issue 2 - January, 1926. Very short lived vintage publication produced by The Guild Publishing Company that celebrated the female influence on American Fine Arts. 6" x 9", 64 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Volume 1, Issue 3 - February, 1926. Very short lived vintage publication produced by The Guild Publishing Company that celebrated the female influence on American Fine Arts. 6" x 9", 64 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Volume 1, Issue 4 - March, 1926. Very short lived vintage publication produced by The Guild Publishing Company that celebrated the female influence on American Fine Arts. 6" x 9", 64 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Volume 1, Issue 5 - April, 1926. Very short lived vintage publication produced by The Guild Publishing Company that celebrated the female influence on American Fine Arts. 6" x 9", 64 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Volume 1, Issue 6 - May, 1926. Very short lived vintage publication produced by The Guild Publishing Company that celebrated the female influence on American Fine Arts. 6" x 9", 64 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Volume 1, Issue 7 - June, 1926. Very short lived vintage publication produced by The Guild Publishing Company that celebrated the female influence on American Fine Arts. 6" x 9", 64 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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Volume 1, Issue 8 - July, 1926. Carol Dempster Painted Cover. Very short lived vintage publication produced by The Guild Publishing Company that celebrated the female influence on American Fine Arts. This issue's contents: "Beautiful Women in the Fine Arts" by Edward Longstreth, "Laugh Festivals in Summertime" by Roland Hargis, "Kitty's Kisses" by Audrey McMahon, "Countess Maritza" by Caltha Burns, and "His Bride" by Francesca Rambaud. 6" x 9", 64 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Volume 1, Issue 9 - August, 1926. Very short lived vintage publication produced by The Guild Publishing Company that celebrated the female influence on American Fine Arts. 6" x 9", 64 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Volume 1, Issue 10 - September, 1926. Very short lived vintage publication produced by The Guild Publishing Company that celebrated the female influence on American Fine Arts. 6" x 9", 64 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Volume 1, Issue 11 - October, 1926. Very short lived vintage publication produced by The Guild Publishing Company that celebrated the female influence on American Fine Arts. 6" x 9", 64 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Volume 1, Issue 12 - November, 1926. Very short lived vintage publication produced by The Guild Publishing Company that celebrated the female influence on American Fine Arts. 6" x 9", 64 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

1st printing. Story and art by Benjamin Marra. American Blood is a collection of cartoonist Benjamin Marra's (Terror Assaulter) provocative short stories from the past several years. 1980s trash culture and exploito entertainment are filtered through the prism of Marra's brain, producing a nasty brew of revenge, power and passion- all of the things that America celebrates and for which it is scorned. This is the definitive assembling of Marra's most underground work. Softcover, 6-in. x 8 1/2-in., 208 pages, B&W, Mature Readers Cover price $19.99.

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1st printing. Story and art by Gene Yang. A tour-de-force by New York Times-bestselling graphic novelist Gene Luen Yang, American Born Chinese tells the story of three apparently unrelated characters: Jin Wang, who moves to a new neighborhood with his family only to discover that he's the only Chinese-American student at his school; the powerful Monkey King, subject of one of the oldest and greatest tales from Chinese folklore; and Chin-Kee, a personification of the ultimate negative Chinese stereotype, who is ruining his cousin Danny's life with his yearly visits. Their lives and stories come together with an unexpected twist in a twenty-first-century fable that is hilarious, poignant, and action-packed. Softcover, 6-in. x 8 1/2-in., 240 pages, full color. Cover price $14.99.

1st printing. By Gene Yang. Life's not easy for Jin Wang - the only Chinese-American student in his high school. Can Jin balance his life and his heritage without losing sight of who he really is? This action-packed modern fable is the latest book from Xeric-award winning creator Gene Yang; a major work about the Chinese-American experience from an important new talent. "As an Asian- American, this is the book I've been waiting for all my life." - Derek Kirk Kim. Hardcover, 240 pages, full color. Cover price $24.95.

2nd and later printings. By Gene Yang. Life's not easy for Jin Wang - the only Chinese-American student in his high school. Can Jin balance his life and his heritage without losing sight of who he really is? This action-packed modern fable is the latest book from Xeric-award winning creator Gene Yang; a major work about the Chinese-American experience from an important new talent. "As an Asian- American, this is the book I've been waiting for all my life." - Derek Kirk Kim. Hardcover, 240 pages, full color. Cover price $24.95.

Back cover by Sergio Aragones. Art by every famous cartoonist. Comic Strip Movie photos.8 1/2-in. x 11-in. 64 pages B&W.

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Issue #1 - May 1937. "Espionage International" by Fletcher Pratt. Contributions from Albert Payson Terhune, Leonard Nason, Thomas B. Costain, Jack Dempsey and more. Digest, 5.5" x 7.75", 132 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

1st printing. From the Library of Congress - By Margaret E. Wagner. Introduction by Gary W. Gallagher. Presented in 12 thematic sections, this visual history of America's epochal conflict features more than 500 items drawn from the unparalleled collections of the Library of Congress, including Mathew Brady's iconic photographs; period drawings, lithographs, and woodcuts; important manuscripts like the Gettysburg Address; political and theatrical posters; and ephemera like the contents of Lincoln's pockets the night he was assassinated. A running timeline notes an important?or intriguing lesser-known?event for each calendar day, while excerpts from diaries, letters, speeches, postwar memoirs, and other first-person accounts lend immediacy to the informative text. A vivid mix of words and images, The American Civil War: 365 Days captures the drama, the horror, the epic sweep, and the human toll of this unparalleled American clash at arms like no other book before it. Hardcover (Horizontal Format), 9 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 744 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $29.95.

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2nd and later printings. From the Library of Congress - By Margaret E. Wagner. Introduction by Gary W. Gallagher. Presented in 12 thematic sections, this visual history of America's epochal conflict features more than 500 items drawn from the unparalleled collections of the Library of Congress, including Mathew Brady's iconic photographs; period drawings, lithographs, and woodcuts; important manuscripts like the Gettysburg Address; political and theatrical posters; and ephemera like the contents of Lincoln's pockets the night he was assassinated. A running timeline notes an important?or intriguing lesser-known?event for each calendar day, while excerpts from diaries, letters, speeches, postwar memoirs, and other first-person accounts lend immediacy to the informative text. A vivid mix of words and images, The American Civil War: 365 Days captures the drama, the horror, the epic sweep, and the human toll of this unparalleled American clash at arms like no other book before it. Hardcover (Horizontal Format), 9 1/2-in. x 6 1/2-in., 744 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $29.95.

1st printing. Written by Gary Gallagher, Robert Krick, and Stephen Engle. Foreword by James M. McPherson. Undoubtedly the most cataclysmic military struggle of the late nineteenth century, the American Civil War spanned four bloody years of fighting in which over 620,000 American soldiers and sailors lost their lives. From its outbreak at Fort Sumter, South Carolina in April 1861 until its conclusion at the Appomattox Court House, more than 10,000 battles, engagements and skirmishes were recorded across the length and breadth of America. This book explores the political, historical and cultural significance of the American Civil War, examining its impact on the civilians and military personnel caught up in it. Softcover, 328 pages, Text (with B&W photos). Cover price $24.95.

Monthly almanac calendars for 1835 filled with illustrations and stories covering a variety of subjects including comic stories, whims, scraps and oddities. 4-1/2" X 7-1/2". B&W. Standard paper stock. 52 pages.

nn (no.1) 68 pages, Full color.

1st printing. "The 1940s: 1940-1944!"

The American Comic Book Chronicles continues! Kurt Mitchell and editor Roy Thomas composed this volume about the "Golden Age" of the comic book industry, a five-year period that presented the earliest adventures of such iconic super-heroes as Batman, Captain Marvel, Superman, and Wonder Woman. It was a time when America's entry into World War II was presaged by the arrival of such patriotic do-gooders as Will Eisner's Uncle Sam, Harry Shorten and Irv Novick's The Shield, and Joe Simon and Jack Kirby's Captain America. It was when teenage culture found expression in a fumbling red-haired high school student named Archie Andrews. But most of all, the first five years of the 1940s was the age of the "packagers" when studios headed by men like Harry A Chesler, Will Eisner, and Jerry Iger churned out material for a plethora of new comic book companies that published the entire gamut of genres, from funny animal stories to crime tales to jungle sagas to science-fiction adventures. These are just a few of the events chronicled in this exhaustive, full-color hardcover.

Hardcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 288 pages, full color.

Cover price $44.95.

1st printing.

By Jeremy Dauber.

Comics have conquered America.

In American Comics, Columbia professor Jeremy Dauber takes readers through their incredible but little-known history, starting with the Civil War and cartoonist Thomas Nast, creator of the lasting and iconic images of Uncle Sam and Santa Claus; the golden age of newspaper comic strips and the first great superhero boom; the moral panic of the Eisenhower era, the Marvel Comics revolution, and the underground comix movement of the 1960s and '70s; and finally into the twenty-first century, taking in the grim and gritty Dark Knights and Watchmen alongside the brilliant rise of the graphic novel by acclaimed practitioners like Art Spiegelman and Alison Bechdel.

Dauber's story shows not only how comics have changed over the decades but how American politics and culture have changed them.

Hardcover, 6-in.x 9-in., 592 pages, Text Only.

Cover price $35.00.

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1st printing.

By Brett Dakin.

American Daredevil is the story of Lev Gleason, a titan among comic book publishers in 1940s New York who fell victim to two of Cold War America's defining crusades: a nationwide campaign to censor comics, and the paranoia of the Red Scare.

Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 220 pages, B&W.

Cover price $24.99.

1st printing. Collects American Dream (2008 Marvel) #1-5. Written by TOM DEFALCO. Art by TODD NAUCK. Cover by RON FRENZ. As the star-spangled splendor struggles to find a balance between her personal and super-hero lives, a hunt for a missing fiancée unexpectedly leads American Dream into a battle with an unstoppable new super-foe and terrifyingly new kind of terrorist. Softcover, 120 pages, full color. All Ages Cover price $14.99.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. "October 26, 1998 to December 31, 2003" By James Kochalka. Kochalka invented the daily diary comic strip, spawning a grassroots comix movement that swept the globe, and his attempt to document the minutia of his life results in work that explores the full spectrum of human emotions. Drawn with verve and confidence by a cartoonist at the height of his powers, it is ambitious, hilarious, moving, and quite addictive! Book 1 follows the ups and downs of Kochalka's life through five full years of the strip (October 26, 1998 to December 31, 2003), and also includes 32 full-color pages of supplementary comics and other artwork. Hardcover, 9-in. x 9-in., PC/PB&W. Mature Readers

Not numbered - dated September 25, 1974. Cover by John Van Hamersveld. Underground tabloid/newspaper containing some comic strips and illustrations, and a variety of articles ranging from music to politics; 40 pages; b&w. Cover price $0.50.

American Fantasy (1982 1st Series Robert & Nancy Garcia) #001, Conversation with Peter Straub Cover price $2.50.

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Stephen King mini-essay (quarter-page); Gene Wolf, Charles L. Grant; Michael Whelan cover Cover price $4.95.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Collects American Flagg (1983-1988 1st Series) #1-14. Written by HOWARD CHAYKIN. Art by HOWARD CHAYKIN, JAMES SHERMAN, PAT BRODERICK and RICK BURCHETT. Cover by HOWARD CHAYKIN. At last: AMERICAN FLAGG! - created, written and illustrated by HOWARD CHAYKIN and winner of numerous awards and honors, including nine Eagle Awards - available for the first time as a deluxe hardcover collecting the series' first groundbreaking story arc! Plus! Additional cover paintings and promotional pieces by CHAYKIN, a MICHAEL CHABON introduction, an afterword by JIM LEE, and as a special bonus - a brand-new AMERICAN FLAGG! story written and illustrated by HOWARD CHAYKIN exclusively for this edition! Hardcover, 440 pages, full color. Cover price $49.99.

Limited Signed and Numbered Edition (Signed by HOWARD CHAYKIN) - Volume 1 - 1st printing. Collects American Flagg (1983-1988 1st Series) #1-14. Written by HOWARD CHAYKIN. Art by HOWARD CHAYKIN, JAMES SHERMAN, PAT BRODERICK and RICK BURCHETT. Cover by HOWARD CHAYKIN. At last: AMERICAN FLAGG! - created, written and illustrated by HOWARD CHAYKIN and winner of numerous awards and honors, including nine Eagle Awards - available for the first time as a deluxe hardcover collecting the series' first groundbreaking story arc! Plus! Additional cover paintings and promotional pieces by CHAYKIN, a MICHAEL CHABON introduction, an afterword by JIM LEE, and as a special bonus - a brand-new AMERICAN FLAGG! story written and illustrated by HOWARD CHAYKIN exclusively for this edition! Hardcover, 440 pages, full color. Cover price $99.99.

NO DUST JACKET. Volume 1 - 1st printing. Collects American Flagg (1983-1988 1st Series) #1-14. Written by HOWARD CHAYKIN. Art by HOWARD CHAYKIN, JAMES SHERMAN, PAT BRODERICK and RICK BURCHETT. Cover by HOWARD CHAYKIN. At last: AMERICAN FLAGG! - created, written and illustrated by HOWARD CHAYKIN and winner of numerous awards and honors, including nine Eagle Awards - available for the first time as a deluxe hardcover collecting the series' first groundbreaking story arc! Plus! Additional cover paintings and promotional pieces by CHAYKIN, a MICHAEL CHABON introduction, an afterword by JIM LEE, and as a special bonus - a brand-new AMERICAN FLAGG! story written and illustrated by HOWARD CHAYKIN exclusively for this edition! Hardcover, 440 pages, full color. Cover price $49.99.

Signed and numbered by Howard Chaykin - First Comics Graphic Novel Volume 3 - 1st printing. Collects American Flagg (1983-1988 1st Series) #1-6. Story and art by Howard Chaykin. The story takes place in America, circa 2031, a time when the phone company owns the U.S. government and people live in shopping malls and fornicate with reckless abandon. Ex-actor Reuben Flagg, now a "Plexus Ranger," undertakes a mission to thwart weekly gang rampages. American Flagg is equal parts action and social satire. Written and drawn by Howard Chaykin. Includes a special nine-page prelude and an introduction by Michael Moorcock. Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 96 pages, full color. NOTE: Limited to 1,800 copies. Cover price $35.95.

First Comics Graphic Novel #12 - 1st printing. By Howard Chaykin. Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., full color.

First Comics Graphic Novel Volume 20 - 1st printing. Collects American Flagg (1983-1988 1st Series) # 7-9. Story and art by Howard Chaykin. Hardcover, 96 pages, full color.

Signed by Howard Chaykin - First Comics Graphic Novel Volume 20 - 1st printing. Collects American Flagg (1983-1988 1st Series) # 7-9. Story and art by Howard Chaykin. Hardcover, 96 pages, full color. NOTE: Limited to 1,800 copies. Cover price $35.95.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Collects American Flagg (1983-1988 1st Series) #1-6. Story and art by HOWARD CHAYKIN. Created, written and illustrated by HOWARD CHAYKIN and winner of numerous awards and honors, including nine Eagle Awards - now available as a trade paperback collecting the series' first seven issues! Softcover, full color. Cover price $19.99.

Kellogg's promotional giveaway in connection with American Flyer trains. 3 1/2-in, x 7 -in. 16 pages Newsprint full color.

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1st printing. "The Terrible Tale of Sloth Boy!" Written by Steve Niles. Art and cover by Chee. American Freakshow tells the story of the bizarre and cruel life of a carnival freak as he seeks redemption (maybe) and murder (definitely) in a Florida trailer park. Never appearing in comic book form, this is the first original graphic novel written by 30 Days of Night co-creator, Steve Niles. Softcover, 104 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $17.99.

1st printing. Beginning with Let Them Eat Cheesecake, through Second Slice, The Cheesecake Chronicles, American Geisha, and Bettie Page by Olivia, the acclaimed The Art of Olivia series of "night table" art books have set a consistently high standard. For imaginatively conceived and masterly rendered settings and situations, for the lusciousness she brings out in her models, for the pure spirit of revelry infused in all her art, Olivia de Berardinis transcends the "pin-up" genre and joins the great master artist celebrants of the female - Titian, Boucher, Vargas, Olivia! Hardcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 120 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $29.95.

2nd and later printings. Beginning with Let Them Eat Cheesecake, through Second Slice, The Cheesecake Chronicles, American Geisha, and Bettie Page by Olivia, the acclaimed The Art of Olivia series of "night table" art books have set a consistently high standard. For imaginatively conceived and masterly rendered settings and situations, for the lusciousness she brings out in her models, for the pure spirit of revelry infused in all her art, Olivia de Berardinis transcends the "pin-up" genre and joins the great master artist celebrants of the female - Titian, Boucher, Vargas, Olivia! Hardcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 120 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $29.95.

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1st printing. Written by Lauren Diaz Morgan. Art and cover by Lauren Gallegos. Introduced in 1986, AMERICAN GIRL's flagship line of historical characters features 18-inch dolls, books, and accessories that give girls a dramatic understanding of the role women and girls played in shaping our country. This hardcover storybook collection features three AMERICAN GIRL Little Golden Books: MAKING A DIFFERENCE, TIME FOR SCHOOL, and GRANDMAS ARE THE BEST. Hardcover, 7-in. x 8-in., 80 pages, full color. All Ages Cover price $8.99.

Book Club Edition - 1st printing.

By Neil Gaiman.

Shadow is a man with a past. But now he wants nothing more than to live a quiet life with his wife and stay out of trouble. Until he learns that she's been killed in a terrible accident.

Flying home for the funeral, as a violent storm rocks the plane, a strange man in the seat next to him introduces himself.

The man calls himself Mr. Wednesday, and he knows more about Shadow than is possible. He warns Shadow that a far bigger storm is coming. And from that moment on, nothing will ever be the same.

Hardcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 466 pages, Text Only.

10th Anniversary Edition - 1st printing. By Neil Gaiman. The author's preferred text is presented in this 10th Anniversary Edition of the New York Times-bestselling tour-de-force that USA Today called "a powerful, searing force that makes readers confront what is real and what is not." Shadow is a man with a past. But now he wants nothing more than to live a quiet life with his wife and stay out of trouble. Until he learns that she's been killed in a terrible accident. Flying home for the funeral, as a violent storm rocks the plane, a strange man in the seat next to him introduces himself. The man calls himself Mr. Wednesday, and he knows more about Shadow than is possible. He warns Shadow that a far bigger storm is coming. And from that moment on, nothing will ever be the same. Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 480 pages, Text Only. Cover price $26.99.

Add to cart Near Mint $23.00

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The Annotated Edition - 1st printing.

By Neil Gaiman.

Destined to be a treasure for the millions of fans who made Neil Gaiman's American Gods an internationally best-selling phenomenon, this beautifully designed and illustrated collectible edition of Neil Gaiman's revered masterpiece features enlightening and incisive notes throughout by award-winning annotator and editor Leslie S. Klinger.

His trenchant commentary identifies gods and supernatural beings, elucidates key phrases, and shows how Gaiman built his award-winning novel, giving readers unparalleled insight into the story and into Gaiman's creative process and authorial decisions. Carefully chosen illustrations complement and illuminate the narrative.

Hardcover, 8-in. x 10-in., 656 pages, Text Only.

Cover price $50.00.

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Preview Ashcan. Written by Neil Gaiman, art by Scott Hampton. 16 pages, full color.