Comic books in 'Books'

Volume 2 - 1st printing.

Story and art by Asaya Miyanaga.

A light novel series exploring an alternate ending to one of the most influential anime series of all time!

What would have happened if the Human Instrumentality Project - from the final two episodes of the original Neon Genesis Evangelion anime - had never reached fruition? This official light novel series explores just that, allowing Shinji Ikari and the pilots around him to age three years and face a different future. This alternate ending began serialization in Japan a decade ago, and remains the only light novel series for the legendary franchise.

With the original 1990s anime series having its very first streaming release on Netflix in Spring 2019, these light novels are a perfect expansion for fans new and old.

Softcover, 5-in. x 8-in., 280 pages, Text (with B&W Chapter Illustrations).

Cover price $13.99.

Volume 3 - 1st printing.

Story and art by Asaya Miyanaga.

What would have happened if the Human Instrumentality Project, from the final two episodes of the original Neon Genesis Evangelion anime, had never reached fruition?

This official light novel series explores just that, allowing Shinji Ikari and the pilots around him to age three years and face a different future. This alternate ending began serialization in Japan a decade ago, and remains the only light novel series for the legendary franchise. These light novels are a perfect expansion for fans new and old.

Softcover, 5-in. x 8-in., 280 pages, Text (with B&W Chapter Illustrations).

Cover price $13.99.

Volume 4 - 1st printing.

Story and art by Asaya Miyanaga.

What would have happened if the Human Instrumentality Project from the final two episodes of the original Neon Genesis Evangelion anime had never reached fruition?

This official light novel series explores just that, allowing Shinji Ikari and the pilots around him to age three years and face a different future. This alternate ending began serialization in Japan a decade ago, and remains the only light novel series for the legendary franchise.

Softcover, 5-in. x 8-in., 280 pages, Text (with B&W Chapter Illustrations).

Cover price $14.99.

Volume 5 - 1st printing.

Story and art by Asaya Miyanaga.

What would have happened if the Human Instrumentality Project - from the final two episodes of the original Neon Genesis Evangelion anime - had never reached fruition?

Shinji Ikari and the pilots have aged three years and face a different future. This alternate ending began serialization in Japan a decade ago, and remains the only light novel series for the legendary franchise. These light novels are a perfect expansion for fans new and old.

Softcover, 5-in. x 8-in., 280 pages, Text (with B&W Chapter Illustrations).

Cover price $14.99.

1st printing. Edited by Rob Thomas. This collection of essay on the show's first two seasons explores the noir roots of Veronica's blond locks, and the sharp writing and killer plot twists that have catapulted Veronica Mars to the top of smart viewers' must-watch list. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 214 pages, Text Only. Cover price $17.95.

2nd and later printings. Edited by Rob Thomas. This collection of essay on the show's first two seasons explores the noir roots of Veronica's blond locks, and the sharp writing and killer plot twists that have catapulted Veronica Mars to the top of smart viewers' must-watch list. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 214 pages, Text Only. Cover price $17.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $5.00

1st printing.

By Maya Phillips.

From the moment Maya Phillips saw the opening scroll of Star Wars, Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, her childhood changed forever. Her formative years were spent loving not just the Star Wars saga, but superhero cartoons, anime, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Harry Potter, Tolkien, and Doctor Who - to name just a few.

As a critic at large at The New York Times, Phillips has written extensively on theater, poetry, and the latest blockbusters-with her love of some of the most popular and nerdy fandoms informing her career. Now, she analyzes the mark these beloved intellectual properties leave on young and adult minds, and what they teach us about race, gender expression, religion, and more-especially as fandom becomes more and more mainstream.

Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 288 pages, Text.

Cover price $27.99.

Add to cart Near Mint $9.95

Add to cart Very Fine $7.99

Add to cart Very Fine $7.99

1st printing.

By Bill Morrison.

Welcome back to the world of Apple Bonkers, the Flying Glove, and Blue Meanies, where nothing is real... and where readers can test their knowledge of The Beatles while helping the Fab Four and Captain Fred save Pepperland!

The Beatles Nerd Search: Yellow Submarine contains spectacular, colorful art, and challenges fans to find the very deliberate mistakes and continuity errors, as well as hidden song titles, mysteries from the Sea of Time, and more Blue Meanies than you can shake a drumstick at. It's all in the mind, you know...

This volume has been created by comic book artist and writer Bill Morrison, author and illustrator of The Beatles Yellow Submarine authorized graphic novel.

Hardcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 44 pages, full color.

Cover price $14.95.

1st printing.

By Chris Scullion. Foreword By Julian "Jaz" Rignall.

The NES Encyclopedia is the first ever complete reference guide to every game released on the Nintendo Entertainment System, Nintendo's first industry-defining video game system. As well as covering all 714 officially licensed NES games, the book also includes more than 160 unlicensed games released during its lifespan, giving for the first time a definitive history of this important console's full library.

Written by a retro gaming expert with 30 years of gaming experience and a penchant for bad jokes, the NES Encyclopedia promises to be both informative and entertaining.

Hardcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 270 pages, full color.

Cover price $39.95.

1st printing.

By Chris Scullion. Foreword By Julian "Jaz" Rignall.

The NES Encyclopedia is the first ever complete reference guide to every game released on the Nintendo Entertainment System, Nintendo's first industry-defining video game system. As well as covering all 714 officially licensed NES games, the book also includes more than 160 unlicensed games released during its lifespan, giving for the first time a definitive history of this important console's full library.

Written by a retro gaming expert with 30 years of gaming experience and a penchant for bad jokes, the NES Encyclopedia promises to be both informative and entertaining.

Softcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 270 pages, full color.

Cover price $29.95.

1st printing.

Story and art by Mary Man-Kong.

Cuphead and Mugman in their first ever Little Golden Book based on The Cuphead Show!

Cuphead and Mugman may have bitten off more than they can chew when they enter a magical world made entirely of candy. Find out how they get out of a sticky sweet situation in their first ever Little Golden Book. The Cuphead Show! follows the adventures of two lovable brothers through their unique misadventures! Fans of the Netflix animated series, and the popular video game that inspired it, will love this laugh-out loud Little Golden Book.

Hardcover, 6 1/2-in. x 8-in., 24 pages, full color. All Ages

Cover price $5.99.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. "Pleasure Model!"

Written by Christopher Rowley. Art by Justin Norman. Cover by Gregory Manchess.

Presenting Heavy Metal Pulp, a new line of novels combining noir fiction with fantastic art featuring the themes, story lines, and graphic styles of Heavy Metal magazine.

In Pleasure Model, the first book in the Netherworld trilogy, down-and out police detective Rook gets a big break when he's assigned to a bizarre and vicious murder case. The clues are colder than the corpse and the case looks like it'll remain unsolved—until an eyewitness is discovered. But the witness is a Pleasure Model, an illegal gene-grown human. Plesur's only purpose is to provide satisfaction to her owner—in any way. When the murderer targets Plesur in order to eliminate the one witness, Rook takes her into hiding to protect her. Thus begins a descent into the dark world of exotic pleasure mods and their illicit buyers and manufacturers. Rook frantically looks for clues, struggling to stay one stop ahead of those looking to kill them both. But is Rook falling under Plesur's spell….?

Softcover, 5-in. x 8-in., 240 pages, Text (with B&W Chapter Illustrations).

Volume 2 - 1st printing. "The Bloodstained Man!"

Written by Christopher Rowley. Art by Justin Norman. Cover by Gregory Manchess.

Presenting Heavy Metal Pulp, a new line of novels combining noir fiction with fantastic art featuring the theme, story lines, and graphic styles of Heavy Metal magazine.

Following the explosive events of book one, Pleasure Model, Detective Rook Venner, Mistress Julia, and Plesur are on the run from the government troops trying to kill them and from a shadowy group that wants to capture Plesur alive for its own purposes. What secrets have been implanted in Plesur's head—and why are they worth killing for?

Caught between these two powerful rivals, the trio hides out in the lawless New Jersey territory. Betrayed by gang members looking to collect the bounty on Plesur's head, the three are separated, and Rook and Mistress Julia find themselves in mortal danger. Julia, given as a prize to a gang member, finds herself in chains, but not without her own means of fighting back. Rook, forced to fight for his life in the gang's bloodthirsty gladiatorial games, must stay alive long enough to rescue Plesur, but time is running out.

The Bloodstained Man is a fast-paced, adrenaline-filled ride through a future where pleasure has a price, and Plesur holds the key to a secret that could rock the country to its very core.

Softcover, 5-in. x 8-in., 240 pages, Text (with B&W Chapter Illustrations).

Volume 3 - 1st printing. "Money Shot!"

Written by Christopher Rowley. Art by Justin Norman. Cover by Gregory Manchess.

Detective Rook Venner was a successful investigating officer for the Hudson Valley Police Department—until the General Sangacha murder case came across his desk and his world exploded.

Now after being dragged through hell and back, Rook is on the run with Plesur, a Pleasure Model who is the one eyewitness to the murder. Plesur carries a secret in her brain that terrifies the powers-that-be. A secret that they will do anything to destroy—even bring in a Tactical Robotic Regiment to track Rook and Plesur down and annihilate them.

The only choice the two have is to locate the coordinates that were planted in the pleasure mod's head to the isolated mountain ridge where it all began. Deep underground, in a warren of machine halls and ice caves, something so horrific is happening that just knowing three code words is enough to get you killed: Operation Taste Imperative.

Rook and Plesur have no way back and no way out. If they want to survive and have any kind of life together, they must uncover the terrifying secret that lies deep inside the mountain.

Softcover, 5-in. x 8-in., 272 pages, Text (with B&W Chapter Illustrations).

Cover price $11.99.

2nd Edition - 1st printing.

By Neil Gaiman.

Neil Gaiman's darkly hypnotic first novel, Neverwhere, heralded the arrival of a major talent and became a touchstone of urban fantasy.

It is the story of Richard Mayhew, a young London businessman with a good heart and an ordinary life that is changed forever when he discovers a girl bleeding on the sidewalk. He stops to help her, an act of kindness that plunges him into a world he never dreamed existed. Slipping through the cracks of reality, Richard lands in Neverwhere-a London of shadows and darkness, monsters and saints, murderers and angels that exists entirely in a subterranean labyrinth.

Neverwhere is home to Door, the mysterious girl Richard helped in the London Above. If Richard is ever to return to his former life and home, he must join Lady Door's quest to save her world-and may well die trying.

Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 464 pages, Text Only.

Cover price $16.99.

1st printing. Edited by Leslie S. Klinger. Introduction by Neil Gaiman. Cause for international celebration - the most important and complete edition of Dracula in decades. In his first work since his best-selling The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Leslie S. Klinger returns with this spectacular, lavishly illustrated homage to Bram Stoker's Dracula. Traveling through two hundred years of popular culture and myth as well as graveyards and the wilds of Transylvania, Klinger's notes illuminate every aspect of this haunting narrative (including a detailed examination of the original typescript of Dracula, with its shockingly different ending, previously unavailable to scholars). Additionally, Klinger investigates the many subtexts of the original narrative - from masochistic, necrophilic, homoerotic, "dentophilic," and even heterosexual implications of the story to its political, economic, feminist, psychological, and historical threads. Hardcover, 9-in. x 10-in., 614 pages, Text (with B&W Illustrations and Full Color Photos). Cover price $39.95.

1st printing. In this volume, Leslie S. Klinger reanimates Lovecraft with clarity and historical insight, charting the rise of the erstwhile pulp writer, whose rediscovery and reclamation into the literary canon can be compared only to that of Poe or Melville. Klinger collects here twenty-two of Lovecraft's best, most chilling "Arkham" tales, including "The Call of Cthulhu," At the Mountains of Madness, "The Whisperer in Darkness," "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," "The Colour Out of Space," and others. With nearly 300 illustrations, including full-color reproductions of the original artwork and covers from Weird Tales and Astounding Stories, and more than 1,000 annotations, this volume illuminates every dimension of H. P. Lovecraft and stirs the Great Old Ones in their millennia of sleep. Hardcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 864 pages, full color. Cover price $39.95.

1st printing. Written by Alisa Kwitney. Fantasy/romantic fiction/comics author Alisa Kwitney (A Flight of Angels, Moonburn) reveals the secret backstory of Avengers couple Hawkeye and the Black Widow. Under secret orders to assassinate the Widow, the rough-edged marksman finds himself caught up in a violent prison break that releases some of the world's most vicious and powerful criminals. Defying his superiors, Hawkeye joins forces with the sultry Russian spy - and with a mismatched group of personalities that include Spider-Man, Spider-Woman, Luke Cage, Captain America and Iron Man. Unexpected betrayals and shocking revelations will lead the team from Manhattan's top security Raft prison to the untamed jungle of Savage Land in dramatically different take on Brian Michael Bendis' blockbuster Avengers comics debut. Hardcover, 6-in. x 8-in., 272 pages, Text Only. Cover price $24.99.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Featuring Robert B. Parker. Edited by Matthew Bruccoli and Richard Laymon. Softcover, 226 pages, Text (with B&W Chapter Illustrations).

Volume 2 - 1st printing. Featuring Elmore Leonard. Edited by Matthew Bruccoli and Richard Laymon. Softcover, 226 pages, Text (with B&W Chapter Illustrations).

Volume 3 - 1st printing. Featuring Donald E. Westlake. Edited by Matthew Bruccoli and Richard Laymon. Softcover, 226 pages, Text (with B&W Chapter Illustrations).

Volume 4 - 1st printing. Featuring Loren D. Estleman. Edited by Matthew Bruccoli and Richard Laymon. Softcover, 226 pages, Text (with B&W Chapter Illustrations).

Add to cart Very Good $9.99

Volume 5 - 1st printing. Featuring Dashiell Hammett's original story "After the Thin Man!" Edited by Matthew Bruccoli and Richard Laymon. Softcover, 226 pages, Text (with B&W Chapter Illustrations).

Volume 6 - 1st printing. Featuring Dashiell Hammett's original story "After the Thin Man" continued. Edited by Matthew Bruccoli and Richard Laymon. Softcover, 226 pages, Text (with B&W Chapter Illustrations).

Add to cart Very Good $8.70

Volume 7 - 1st printing. Featuring Ed McBain. Edited by Matthew Bruccoli and Richard Laymon. Softcover, 226 pages, Text (with B&W Chapter Illustrations).

Volume 8 - 1st printing. Featuring John D. MacDonald. Edited by Matthew Bruccoli and Richard Laymon. Softcover, 226 pages, Text (with B&W Chapter Illustrations).

1st printing. Edited by Christopher Golden. Max Brooks, Joe Hill, Tad Williams, Kelley Armstrong, John Connolly, and David Liss are among the visceral visionaries offering a slew of terror tales featuring our favorite flesh-eaters - zombies! Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 386 pages, Text Only. Cover price $14.99.

2nd and later printings. Edited by Christopher Golden. Max Brooks, Joe Hill, Tad Williams, Kelley Armstrong, John Connolly, and David Liss are among the visceral visionaries offering a slew of terror tales featuring our favorite flesh-eaters - zombies! Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 386 pages, Text Only. Cover price $14.99.

1967. Volume 2 of the 24 volume set. Covering "Architectural Terms" to "Baroque Art and Architecture". Hardcover with dustjacket. Color illustrations throughout. 8.5" x 11".

1st printing.

By Joseph F Berenato.

Star Trek, with its progressive stance on civil rights, explored not only strange new worlds in the final frontier of space, but also the human condition, revealing the heights to which humans could soar, while exposing the ugliness of racism, sexism, and war. Once deemed a network failure, Trek survived to become one of the most influential franchises of all time. Licensed Star Trek fiction has played no small part in that success. Trek comics have enjoyed almost continuous publication since 1967, spanning more than a thousand issues and storylines to date.

New Life and New Civilizations: Exploring Star Trek Comics examines the long history of Star Trek in the four-color realm, featuring insightful essays from popular Trek comic scribes and novelists, as well as other subject-matter experts.

Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 304 pages, B&W.

Cover price $16.99.