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  • Issue #3-1ST
    Pre-Code Classics Softee: Dark Mysteries TPB (2024 PS Artbooks) 3-1ST


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    Volume 3 - 1st printing. "March/April-December 1953!" Collects Dark Mysteries (1951-1955) #11-15. The third collection of Dark Mysteries boasts totally tub-thumping yarns from Hy Fleishman, A.C. Hollingsworth, Dick Beck and Jon D'Agostino, plus a whole host of other wacked-out-of-their-grounds luminaries. So buy today and flash back to when comics were... well comics, fer cryin' out loud! Softcover, 184 pages, full color. Cover price $32.99.

  • Issue #2E-1ST
    Pre-Code Classics Softee: Spook TPB (2023 PS Artbooks) 2E-1ST


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    Volume 2 - 1st printing. "January-October 1954!" Features Cover of Spook Comics #30 by Jay Disbrow. Collects Spook (1954) #27-30. Star Comics was run by L.B. Cole, a man who was particularly known for his bold covers featuring bright "poster colors" as he referred to them and striking designs, a typical Star issue would have an eye-catching surreal cover in swirling black and orange and green! Including work from Jay Disbrow, who is especially remembered for his pre-Code horror comic work and has become a cult favorite for his stories filled with demons, ghostly apparitions and other monsters. Softcover, 184 pages, full color. Cover price $32.99.

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    $599 Spook #30 (1954) CGC 4.0, OW To White Pgs, Last Issue - Rare, Pre-Code Horror

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  • Issue #1B-1ST
    Pre-Code Classics Softee: Strange Stories from Another World TPB (2023 PS Artbooks) 1B-1ST


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    Strange Stories from Another World #2 Cover by Norman Saunders

    Volume 1 - 1st printing. "June 1952/August 1952-February 1953!" Collects Unknown World (1952) and Strange Stories from Another World (1952) #2-5.

    Edited by Will Lieberson, V.A. Provisiero, and Al Jetter. Cover by Norman Saunders.

    Ask yourself as you gaze at the magnificently-rendered splash page of "The Serpent Queen" with art by Bob McCarty, from the one-shot anthology Unknown World #1 (1952): "What is the significance of a leashed one-eyed snake in this panel?"

    This title continued with Strange Stories from Another World where from out of the night came the misshapen odious visages! Who were they? These Monsters of the Mind! All featuring those lushly painted covers by Norman Saunders collected together here for you we have all five issues as "chase cover" variants for you to collect! Limited stock availability!

    Featuring Stories by Bill Woolfolk, Bob McCarty, Sheldon Moldoff, Dick Kraus, Ed Waldman, John Martin, Donald Shaw, and Maurice Gutwirth.

    Softcover, 184 pages, full color.

    Cover price $32.99.

  • Issue #1-1ST
    Pre-Code Classics Softee: The Hawk TPB (2024 PS Artbooks) 1-1ST


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    Volume 1 - 1st printing. "Winter 1951 - December 1952/October 1953 - March 1954!" Collects The Hawk (1951-1955 Ziff Davis/St. John) #1-5. Cover by Clarence Doore. The western genre was exploding across television, Saturday morning serials and movies in the 1950's. A trend and an opportunity seized by comic publisher Ziff Davis who introduced the first three adventures of The Hawk, aka "Bob Hardie" Fighting Marshall of the American West in the winter of '51 and with St. John taking over duties in October 1953 with #4 through #12. The Hawk a western hero able to use skill, courageousness and an honorable attitude to thwart lawlessness in the fight for good against evil with a nearly superhuman speed and ability with their six-gun shooter. So saddle up your horse and lasso your very own copy of this comic presented to you just like the original from cover to cover - but don't delay cos The Hawk will have cleaned up this town by sun rise! Featuring Stories by Clarence Doore, Dan Barry, Alex Kotzky, George Tuska, Murphy Anderson, George Olsen, Carmine Infantino, Joe Kubert, and Gil Kane. Softcover, 184 pages, full color. Cover price $32.99.

  • Issue #2-1ST
    Pre-Code Classics Softee: Weird Mysteries TPB (2023 PS Artbooks) 2-1ST


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    Volume 2 - 1st printing. "August-September 1953 to May 1954!" Collects Weird Mysteries (1952 Gillmore) #6-10. Cover by Bernard Baily. Featuring Stories by Basil Wolverton, Hy Fleishman, Frank Frollo, Ross Andru, Charles Stern, Mike Esposito, Jon Smalle, Tony Mortellaro, and Bernard Baily. Just when you thought it was safe to open your PREVIEWS once again, here comes that doyen of depravity PS Artbooks yet again with lots more tales guaranteed to turn your brain into total mush. Hey, maybe Fred Wertham was right... I don't think Stanley Morse was trying to imitate the masters of the shock and horror comics-EC! Oh No! He was trying to outdo them in gore, violence and shock value, certainly by looking at the line-ups in these five comics mags. Read them and weep, culture-lovers... and rest assured there's more where these came from! Softcover, 184 pages, full color. Cover price $32.99.

  • Issue #1-1ST
    Pre-Code Classics: Adventures into Darkness HC (2017 PS Artbooks) 1-1ST

    Volume 1 - 1st printing. "August 1952 to April 1953!" Collects Adventures into Darkness (1952-1954) #5-9. The covers alone are worth the price of admission - Alex Toth, Jerry Grandenetti, plus, for fans of DC's My Greatest Adventure, Ruben Moreira - comics just don't come no better than this, folks. Standard Comics did not believe in #1 issues. They were convinced that comics sold better if they appeared to have been around for a while, and therefore they started all their horror titles with #5, each lasting about ten issues of fairly well-done E.C. imitations. Hardcover, 184 pages, full color. Cover price $44.99.

  • Issue #2-1ST
    Pre-Code Classics: Adventures into Darkness HC (2017 PS Artbooks) 2-1ST

    Volume 2 - 1st printing. "June 1953 to June 1954!" Collects Adventures into Darkness (1952-1954) #10-14. Cover by Alex Toth. The covers alone in this baby are worth the price of admission - Alex Toth, Jerry Grandenetti, plus, for fans of DC's My Greatest Adventure, Ruben Moreira. Comics just don't come no better than this. Standard Comics did not believe in #1 issues. They were convinced that comics sold better if they appeared to have been around for a while, and therefore they started all their horror titles with #5, each lasting about ten issues of fairly well-done E.C. imitations. Hardcover, 184 pages, full color. Cover price $44.99.

  • Issue #1-1ST
    Pre-Code Classics: Beware HC (2018 PS Artbooks) 1-1ST


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    Volume 1 - 1st printing. "January 1953 to January 1954!" Collects Beware (1953-1955 Trojan/Merit) #1-7.

    And here, fresh from the fear-fraught fifties, comes the first seven issues of Trojan's Beware, dragging along a whole bunch of festering corpses by way of an atists repertoire that includes The Stainless Steel Rat himself, the great Harry Harrison, plus Gerald Altman, Vince Napoli, Henry Kiefer, Roy Krenkel, Al Gordon, Leo Hagler, John Forte, William Zeller, Albert Tyler, A.C. Hollingsworth, and Myron Fass. And you thought it couldn't get any better. Pah! Shame on you, Bertram!

    Hardcover, 256 pages, full color. Cover price $59.99.

  • Issue #2-1ST
    Pre-Code Classics: Beware HC (2018 PS Artbooks) 2-1ST


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    Volume 2 - 1st printing. "March 1954 to March 1955!" Collects Beware (1953-1955 Trojan/Merit) #8-14.

    Just when you thought we couldn't do better, here comes another volume of Trojan's Beware, with the very best scribblers and artists in the business... not to mention heaps and heaps of corpses, vampires, and werewolves. So put another yuletime log on the fire and check the door. You thought you'd locked it but now you see it's ajar. Tut tut! Seems you may have a late night guest! Featuring John Belfi, Sid Check, Art Gates, Frank Frazetta, Rudy Palais and Edvard Moritz.

    Hardcover, 256 pages, full color. Cover price $59.99.

  • Issue #3-1ST
    Pre-Code Classics: Eerie HC (2016 PS Artbooks) Slipcase Edition 3-1ST
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    Volume 3 - 1st printing. "April/May 1954 to August/September 1954!" Collects Eerie (1951-1954 Avon Series) #15-17, Eerie (1947 Avon One-Shot), Phantom Witch Doctor (1952), and Night of Mystery (1953). Hey kids, come on! What're ya waitin' for! Moe Marcus, Fred Kida, Wallace Wood, Louis Ravielli, Henry C. Kiefer, and Joe Kubert? Avon's rightly revered Eerie run kicking off in 1951, and you want me to say something that's gonna make you wanna buy this volume? Gimme a break, will ya! Just get your money out and save us all a lot of time. Hardcover (with Slipcase), 252 pages, full color. Cover price $69.99.

  • Issue #1-1ST
    Pre-Code Classics: Fantastic Worlds/Lost Worlds HC (2017 PS Artbooks) 1-1ST

    Volume 1 - 1st printing. "September 1952 to January 1953/October 1952 to December 1952!" Collects Fantastic Worlds (1952) #5-7 and Lost Worlds (1952 Standard) #5-6. Art by Alex Toth, Murphy Anderson and Jack Katz. Marauding winged men, dishy dolls with back-packs and ray guns, blazing interplanetary rocket ships, and grumpy flora and fauna - this one has it all! Outer space as it should be, courtesy of the greatest comic book writers and artists of the 1950's. Be there or be square space-folks! Hardcover, 184 pages, full color. Cover price $44.99.

  • Issue #1-1ST
    Pre-Code Classics: Journey into Fear HC (2016 PS Artbooks) 1-1ST
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    Volume 1 - 1st printing. "May 1951 to May 1952!" Collects Journey into Fear (1951-1954) #1-7. You wanna snapshot of this baby? Check out these two tales. A woman convinces her lover to kill her rich husband. The lover does so by blowing the husband's head off with a gun. After the wife and her lover get married and cash in on the dead man's insurance, the headless corpse of the husband comes back from the dead looking for a new head. And, as if that were not quite enough: Lorna is trained to hate men. She finds a witchcraft book. She begins a crusade of turning men into worms and squishing them. She accidentally squishes the man she loves. She takes poison, as worms come out of the walls to revenge themselves. Hardcover, 252 pages, full color. Cover price $59.99.

  • Issue #3-1ST
    Pre-Code Classics: Journey into Fear HC (2016 PS Artbooks) 3-1ST

    Volume 3 - 1st printing. "September 1953 to September 1954!" Collects Journey into Fear (1951-1954) #15-21. Hey, it's all here, culture-lovers: walking dead folks (loads of 'em)--some of them even still sporting their heads-witches, ghosts, werewolves and enough vampires to go into the second-hand dentures business. Every now and again you come across a bevy of four color frights that seem to have been created just for you. Well, they were created just for us folks here at PS Towers - and, because we loves ya so much, we're sharing 'em wit youse. Sheesh, ya never had it so good, ya big lunks. Hardcover, 252 pages, full color. Cover price $59.99.

  • Issue #2-1ST
    Pre-Code Classics: Journey into Fear HC (2016 PS Artbooks) Slipcase Edition 2-1ST
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    Volume 2 - 1st printing. "July 1952 to July 1953!" Collects Journey into Fear (1951-1954) #8-14. Hey, it's all here, culture-lovers: walking dead folks (loads of 'em), some of them even still sporting their heads, plus witches, ghosts, werewolves, and enough vampires to go into the second-hand dentures business. Hardcover (with Slipcase), 252 pages, full color. Cover price $69.99.

  • Issue #3-1ST
    Pre-Code Classics: Journey into Fear HC (2016 PS Artbooks) Slipcase Edition 3-1ST
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    Volume 3 - 1st printing. "September 1953 to September 1954!" Collects Journey into Fear (1951-1954) #15-21. Hey, it's all here, culture-lovers: walking dead folks (loads of 'em)--some of them even still sporting their heads-witches, ghosts, werewolves and enough vampires to go into the second-hand dentures business. Every now and again you come across a bevy of four color frights that seem to have been created just for you. Well, they were created just for us folks here at PS Towers - and, because we loves ya so much, we're sharing 'em wit youse. Sheesh, ya never had it so good, ya big lunks. Hardcover (with Slipcase), 252 pages, full color. Cover price $69.99.

  • Issue #1-1ST
    Pre-Code Classics: Mysterious Adventure HC (2018 PS Artbooks) 1-1ST


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    Volume 1 - 1st printing. "March 1951 to February 1952!" Collects Mysterious Adventures (1951-1955) #1-6.

    Special Notes: And further proof how much we loves ya, here's the first six-comic volume in the complete series of MYSTERIOUS ADVENTURES, a raft of freaky fables including this cautionary yarn when adventurer David Murstone crashes in the jungle and is severely injured. Jivaro goddess Konocry saves his life by letting him drink from the 'Pool of Eternity' and thus giving him immortality. The Jivaro tribe disagrees with her action and tortures the couple. Since they cannot die, they have to endure eternity as shrunken heads. Hey, bummer, kids! Not gonna look too good on your passport page!

    Featuring the work of Walter Johnson, Ed Goldfarb, A.C. Hollingsworth, Bill Fraccio, Lou Cameron, John D'Agostino, Tony Tallarico, Harry Harrison and Hy Fleishman.

    Hardcover, 216 pages, full color.

    Cover price $49.99.

  • Issue #1-1ST
    Pre-Code Classics: Nightmare HC (2017 PS Artbooks) 1-1ST

    Volume 1 - 1st printing. "December 1953 to August 1954!" Collects Nightmare (1952 Ziff Davis) #3 and Nightmare (1953 St. John) #10-13. St. John was a mid-sized comics publisher with a varied list of titles, and in June 1952 they joined the horror binge with two titles, Strange Terrors and Weird Horrors. Strange Terrors ended after seven issues, to be replaced by Nightmare #3, picking up from the Ziff-Davis series. However, they then combined the title Nightmare with the numbering from Weird Horrors, so that Weird Horrors #9 and Nightmare #3 were followed by Nightmare #10. And after Nightmare #13 the title was changed to Amazing Ghost Stories for its final three issues. Hardcover, 180 pages, full color. Cover price $59.99.

  • Issue #1-1ST
    Pre-Code Classics: Space Detective HC (2015 PS Artbooks) Slipcase Edition 1-1ST
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    1st printing. "July 1951 to July 1952!" Collects Space Detective (1951) #1-4, Attack on Planet Mars (1951), Rocket to the Moon (1951), and Robotmen of the Lost Planet (1952). Just when you thought it was safe to go back into your local comic store, along comes the one-off Space Detective collection, the third volume in Avon's much loved SF anthology series featuring artwork by such top talents as Wallace Wood, Joe Kubert, Everett Raymond Kinstler, Alvin C. Hollingsworth and Charles Sultan. Hardcover (with Slipcase), 288 pages, full color. Cover price $64.99.

  • Issue #2-1ST
    Pre-Code Classics: Strange Terrors HC (2017 PS Artbooks) 2-1ST

    Volume 2 - 1st printing. "January 1953-March 1953!" Collects Strange Terrors (1952 St. John) #6-7. Just when you thought maybe we'd run out of nasty comic books here comes the second volume of Strange Terrors from St. John - bumper 100-page issues #6 and #7. Artists include Albert Tyler, A.C. Hollingsworth, Pete Morisi, Bill Molno. Joe Kubert, Lou Cameron, Bob Forgione, Gus Ricca and Bernard Baily. They're all here-witches, vampires, walking corpses, ghosts, ghouls andgoblins galore. Hardcover, 180 pages, full color. Cover price $44.99.

  • Issue #1-1ST
    Pre-Code Classics: The Crime Clinic HC (2019 PS Artbooks) 1-1ST


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    Volume 1 - 1st printing. "July 1951 to Summer 1952!" Collects Crime Clinic (1951 Ziff Davis) #1-5.

    Ziff Davis's much overlooked Crime Clinic starring Dr. Tom Rogers, Prison Psychiatrist features scribblers and sketchers of a higher calibre than a double holster of .32 Saturday Night Specials, this is where ya go for thrills, spills and kills aplenty. Face it: how can ya fail, with a line up that includes Norman Saunders (dig those painted covers!), Bill Molno, Leonard Starr, Vic Martin, Joe Genovese, John Prentice, Mike Suchorsky, Wally Littman, Irv Novick, Arthur Peddy, Gerald McCann, and Frank Kramer.

    Hardcover, 184 pages, full color.

    Cover price $44.99.

  • Issue #1-1ST
    Pre-Code Classics: The Hawk HC (2024 PS Artbooks) 1-1ST


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    Volume 1 - 1st printing. "Winter 1951 - December 1952/October 1953 - March 1954!" Collects The Hawk (1951-1955 Ziff Davis/St. John) #1-5. Cover by Clarence Doore. The western genre was exploding across television, Saturday morning serials and movies in the 1950's. A trend and an opportunity seized by comic publisher Ziff Davis who introduced the first three adventures of The Hawk, aka "Bob Hardie" Fighting Marshall of the American West in the winter of '51 and with St. John taking over duties in October 1953 with #4 through #12. The Hawk a western hero able to use skill, courageousness and an honorable attitude to thwart lawlessness in the fight for good against evil with a nearly superhuman speed and ability with their six-gun shooter. So saddle up your horse and lasso your very own copy of this comic presented to you just like the original from cover to cover - but don't delay cos The Hawk will have cleaned up this town by sun rise! Featuring Stories by Clarence Doore, Dan Barry, Alex Kotzky, George Tuska, Murphy Anderson, George Olsen, Carmine Infantino, Joe Kubert, and Gil Kane. Hardcover, 184 pages, full color. Cover price $52.99.

  • Issue #1-1ST
    Pre-Code Classics: This Magazine is Haunted HC (2016 PS Artbooks) Slipcase Edition 1-1ST
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    Volume 1 - 1st printing. "October 1951 to October 1952!" Collects This Magazine is Haunted (1951-1954 Fawcett/Charlton) #1-7. Here's another forgotten or bypassed old comicbook in the great tradition of the likes of EC Comics and the PS multiple-volume library of Harvey's horror line-up, featuring a dizzying bevy of gnarled and twisted tales of post-death revenge and retribution. The first seven issues (and more animated corpses than you could shake a stick at) are presented to you for just a tiny fraction of what you would expect to pay for a mint-condition version of just one copy the actual comic... and this intoxicating first volume is in a slipcased edition hardcover! Hardcover (with Slipcase), 256 pages, full color. Cover price $69.99.

  • Issue #1-1ST
    Pre-Code Classics: This Magazine is Haunted HC (2016-2017 PS Artbooks) 1-1ST

    Volume 1 - 1st printing. "October 1951 to October 1952!" Collects This Magazine is Haunted (1951-1954 Fawcett/Charlton) #1-7. Here's another forgotten or bypassed old comicbook in the great tradition of the likes of EC Comics and the PS multiple-volume library of Harvey's horror line-up, featuring a dizzying bevy of gnarled and twisted tales of post-death revenge and retribution. The first seven issues (and more animated corpses than you could shake a stick at) are presented to you for just a tiny fraction of what you would expect to pay for a mint-condition version of just one copy the actual comic... and this intoxicating first volume is in a slipcased edition hardcover! Hardcover, 256 pages, full color. Cover price $59.99.

  • Issue #2-1ST
    Pre-Code Classics: This Magazine is Haunted HC (2016-2017 PS Artbooks) 2-1ST

    Volume 2 - 1st printing. "December 1952 to December 1953!" Collects This Magazine is Haunted (1951-1954 Fawcett/Charlton) #8-14. Here's another forgotten or bypassed old comicbook in the great tradition of the likes of EC Comics and the PS multiple-volume library of Harvey's horror line-up, featuring a dizzying bevy of gnarled and twisted tales of post-death revenge and retribution. The first seven issues (and more animated corpses than you could shake a stick at) are presented to you for just a tiny fraction of what you would expect to pay for a mint-condition version of just one copy the actual comic, and this intoxicating first volume is in hardcover. Hardcover, 256 pages, full color. Cover price $59.99.

  • Issue #3-1ST
    Pre-Code Classics: This Magazine is Haunted HC (2016-2017 PS Artbooks) 3-1ST

    Volume 3 - 1st printing. "February 1954 to November 1954!" Collects This Magazine is Haunted (1951-1954 Fawcett/Charlton) #15-21. Another volume, this time it's from Charlton, of far-out funky fodder from some of the best writers and artists ever to pick up a brush or pound on a tupewriter. More stuff in the great tradition of the likes of EC Comics and the PS multiple-volume library of Harvey's horror line-up, featuring a dizzying bevy of gnarled and twisted tales of post-death revenge and retribution. Don't miss out! Hardcover, 256 pages, full color. Cover price $59.99.

  • Issue #4-1ST
    Pre-Code Classics: This Magazine is Haunted HC (2016-2017 PS Artbooks) 4-1ST

    Volume 4 - 1st printing. "July 1957 to May 1958!" Collects This Magazine is Haunted (1957 Charlton) #12-16. Another volume, this time it's from Charlton, of far-out funky fodder from some of the best writers and artists ever to pick up a brush or pound on a tupewriter. More stuff in the great tradition of the likes of EC Comics and the PS multiple-volume library of Harvey's horror line-up, featuring a dizzying bevy of gnarled and twisted tales of post-death revenge and retribution. Don't miss out! Hardcover, 252 pages, full color. Cover price $59.99.

  • Issue #1-1ST
    Pre-Code Classics: Voodoo HC (2018-2022 PS Artbooks) 1-1ST


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    Volume 1 - 1st printing. "May 1952 to March 1953!" Collects Voodoo (1952-1955 Ajax/Farrell) #1-7.

    Okay, horror fans, check out the seven blood-soaked and brain-damaged gore-fests that make up the first seven issues of Voodoo, boasting an artist line-up that includes Robert Webb, Matt Baker, and the whole furshlugginer Iger Shop.

    Hardcover, 256 pages, full color.

    Cover price $59.99.

  • Issue #1-1ST
    Pre-Code Classics: Weird Mysteries HC (2013 PS Artbooks Slipcase Edition) 1-1ST
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    Volume 1 - 1st printing. Collects Weird Mysteries (1952 Gillmore) #1-6. Written by Richard Chizmar. PS Artbooks once again with a new sideline (namely Pre-Code Classics) and lots more tales guaranteed to turn your brain into total mush. Hey, maybe Fred Wertham was right, certainly by looking at the line-ups in these six comics! Hardcover(Slipcased), 7-in. x 10-in., 240 pages, full color. Cover price $69.99.

  • Issue #2-1ST
    Pre-Code Classics: Weird Mysteries HC (2013 PS Artbooks Slipcase Edition) 2-1ST
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    Volume 2 - 1st printing. "October 1953 to September 1954!" Collects Weird Mysteries (1952 Gillmore) #7-12. Written by Richard Chizmar. Art by Hy Fleishman. Here comes that doyen of depravity PS Artbooks once more with a new sideline, Pre-Code Classics, and lots more tales guaranteed to turn your brain into total mush! Read 'em and weep, culture-lovers and rest assured there's more where these came from! Hardcover(with Slipcase), 7-in. x 10-in., 288 pages, full color. Cover price $64.99.

  • Issue #1-1ST
    Pre-Code Classics: Witchcraft HC (2015 PS Artbooks) Limited Slipcase Edition 1-1ST
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    1st printing. Collects Witchcraft (1952 Avon) #1-6 and Dead Who Walk (1952). Take a look at these covers and see what it was like back in the fabulous far out'n'freaky, fun'n'funky fifties as regards four-color comicbooks. For just one thin dime, you'd get, f'rinstance, number 4 featuring Death boiling a glamorous raven-haired vixen while inside this crazy volume you've got words, inks and pencils from the likes of Mort Meskin, Joe Kubert, Everett Kinstler, Sid Check, Ed Goldfarb and Kelly Freas. You know, makes you feel just like a kid again but I haven't quite finished the other one yet! Soon! Hardcover (with Slipcase), 256 pages, full color. Cover price $69.99.

  • Issue #1-1ST
    Predators Anthology TPB (2011 Accent) 1-1ST

    1st printing. Lions, Tigers, Bears, and more - Oh My! Stalk and be stalked in this suspenseful collection of tales of a predatory nature. Wild beasts, hunters, cave girls and subtle terrors all feature in 25 self contained strips in the latest instalment of Accent UK's quality themed anthology series. Featuring established and emerging creators from around the globe. Softcover, 192 pages, B&W. Cover price $14.99.

  • Issue #1
    Prime Cuts (1987 Fantagraphics) 1

    Painted cover art by Alec Stevens. Introduction by Gary Groth. The Outsider, script by H.P. Lovecraft, art by Alec Stevens; An adaptation of the famous short story about a solitary man weary of darkness who is inexorably drawn to a castle tower. Troubles with Cute Old Refrigerators, script and art by Aline Kominsky-Crumb [as Aline Crumb] and Robert Crumb; The problems with having an old refrigerator as a style item. Blues starring Eddie Campbell, Georgette Maison, and Dave Harwoodcript, script and art by Eddie Campbell. Overheard At America's Lunch Counters, script and art by Susan Catherine; Eleven quotations heard by the author while waitressing. Mr. Hamadryad text story by R.A. Lafferty. Ad for Love & Rockets, art by Gilbert Hernandez. The Confidante, script and art by Dori Seda; Frank is vilified by all the women in town. The Thirteen Fingers, script and art by Richard Sala; A journalist discovers a secret society. Tor Johnson in the Country, script by Johnny Legend, art by Drew Friedman; Tor Johnson takes a trip to the country. Ad for Fantagraphics Books, including The Complete Popeye, Dickie Dare, Prince Valiant and Nemo: The Classics Comics Library, art by7 E.C Segar, Hal Foster, and Milton Caniff. 68 pgs. $3.50. Cover price $3.50.

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    $10 Fantagraphics Books PRIME CUTS Magazine #1 R. Crumb H.P. Lovecraft 1987 FN!

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  • Issue #2
    Prime Cuts (1987 Fantagraphics) 2

    Cover art by Gilbert Hernandez and Robert Crumb. A never-before published illustration Crumb made for one of his journals when he was seventeen. The Sphinx Without a Secret, script by Oscar Wilde, art by Alec Stevens; Lord Murchison is taken with the mysterious Lady Alroy, but doesn't believe her when she denies hiding anything. Hell Fridge, script and art by Mark Marek; A refrigerator that can bring death to any who dare open it. Retirement Village, script and art by Dori Seda; Two senior citizens have an intimate dinner. How I Almost Got Stomped to the "Still of the Night" by the "Five Satins, script and art by Spain Rodriguez; Spain and friends sneak into a rhythm & blues show and try to get closer seats. Clouds, script and art by Mark Martin. UFO, script and art by Alex Toth; Alex Toth questions the wisdom of experts who dismiss what to him are the reality of UFO sightings. The Hidden Face, script and art by Richard Sala; After a falling brick hits him in the face, the story's protagonist suffers a series of misfortunes. Skiff, script by Glenn Dakin, art by Phil Elliott; The narrator talks about Skiff, a guest that was staying over in his family's house. Treasure of the Lost Empire Chapter 2, script and art by Mitch Manzer; A stranger arrives at Rory Randall's place looking for work. 68 pgs. $3.50. Cover price $3.50.

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    $8 Prime Cuts # 2 FN Comic Book Magazine Fantagraphics Books 3 J343
    $15 Prime Cuts #2 FN; Fantagraphics | Robert Crumb Dori Seda - w/Bag+Board

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  • Issue #3
    Prime Cuts (1987 Fantagraphics) 3

    Cover art by Rick Geary. The Abominable Mrs. Pearcey, script and art by Rick Geary; The story details the 1890 Hampstead murder of a housewife and her baby. The Final Curtain, script and art by Kim Deitch; The story of a deceased spirit that takes revenge on a philandering husband. Announcement of the 1987 Jim series from Fantagraphics, script and art by Jim Woodring. Untitled Jim story, script and art by Jim Woodring; Story is about a girl who is driven to a farm to visit her grandparents. Mysteries of the Flesh, script and art by Charles Burns; The first chapter revealing the findings of a theory called "Mysteries of the Flesh" by the narrator. A Night in the Woods text story, script and art by Djuna Barnes. Ad for Centrifugal Bumble-Puppy. Arcade #4, 5, & 6 cover reprints, art by Robert Crumb. R. Crumb's Animal Town Comics, script and art by Robert Crumb; Fritz and his married friends were planning to have a picnic; Unfortunately, the couple's arguing puts a damper on it. Treasure of the Lost Empire Chapter 3, script and art by Mitch Manzer; While Rory takes a swig of the poisoned drink, Buddy may have had a change of heart. But his doubts may have come too late. Ad for Love & Rockets #21 and #22. 68 pgs. $3.50. Cover price $3.50.

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    $12 Prime Cuts # 3 VF Comic Book Magazine Fantagraphics Books 3 J343
    $20 Prime Cuts #3 FN; Fantagraphics | Rick Geary - w/Bag+Board

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  • Issue #3
    Prime Slime Tales (1986) 3

    Roach Wars. Story, art and cover by Rowen and Tony Basilicato. Now Comics takes over the funny animal comic by the Basilicatos, creators of Geriatric Gangrene Jujitsu Gerbils. The swamp critters fight back when the roach invasion threatens to engulf them all. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $1.50.

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    $9 Prime Slime Tales #3 Now Comics Basilicato 1986 FN/VFN

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  • Issue #4
    Prime Slime Tales (1986) 4

    Home Cookin'. Story, art and cover by Rowen and Tony Basilicato. A funny animal comic by the Basilicatos, creators of Geriatric Gangrene Jujitsu Gerbils. A jar of moonshine becomes a much sought-after object. Final issue of the series. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $1.50.

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    $4 Prime Slime Tales #4 DC Comics 1987 FN/VF
    $6 Prime Slime Tales #4 (1987) Now Comic - Cat Family Doc Crock Carlyle - FN

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  • Issue #1-1ST
    Project Cryptid TPB (2024 Ahoy Comics) 1-1ST


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    Volume 1 - 1st printing. Collects Project: Cryptid (2023 Ahoy) #1-6. Written by Mark Russell, Paul Cornell, Alisa Kwitney, Alex Segura, Bryce Ingman, Paul Constant, Henry Barajas, Liana Kangas, Jazzlyn Stone, Melissa F. Olson, Hanna Bahedry, Zander Cannon, Matt Bors, and Mattie Lubchansky. Art by Jordi Perez, P. J. Holden, Mauricet, Steve Bryant, Peter Krause, Saldmee Luce-Antoinette, Ted & Ro, Lane Lloyd, Gene Ha, Daniel Irizarri, and Maki Naro. Cover by Desi Alicea-Aponte. Back Cover by Taki Soma. Introduction by C.C. Johnson Wood. Bigfoot, Yetis, Nessies, Mongolian Death Worms, and more! AHOY presents a deep dive into all things cryptid—legendary, tall tale, and fanciful beasts. An all-star selection of writers including Mark Russell, Matt Bors, Melissa F. Olson, and Alex Segura take us from the depths of Loch Ness to the wilds of the Yetis Himalayan Mountains to the Ohio backroads where the Loveland Frogman lurks. Featuring art by Peter Krause, Taki Soma, Gene Ha, Ted & Ro, and many more. Softcover, 152 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $17.99.

  • Issue #2-1ST
    Project Graphic Short Stories GN (1996 Paradox Press) 2-1ST

    Volume 2 - 1st printing. Written by John Figueroa. Art by Kirk Albert. In seven poignant, interwoven stories, Book Two of The Project continues to trace the decline and fall of the Lincoln Houses, an inner city Housing Project wracked by poverty and neglect, but whose inhabitants have no choice but to carry on. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 96 pages, B&W. Mature Readers. Cover price $5.95.

  • Issue #1-1ST
    Project Romantic HC (2006 AdHouse Books) 1-1ST

    1st printing. Edited by Chris Pitzer. Featuring the talents of the best and brightest of the worlds of independant comics and animation, and storyboard design Project: Romantic is an anthology about love and love stuff. Hardcover, full color. MATURE READERS. NOTE: Limited Edition of 500 copies. Cover price $60.00.

  • Issue #1-1ST
    Proof of Concept GN (2004) 1-1ST

    1st printing. Written by Larry Young. Art by Paul Tucker, Damian Couciero, Steven Sanders, Jeff Johns, Kieron Dwyer and John Flynn. A young clone of Abraham Lincoln discovers the secrets of his past in "Emancipating Lincoln!" Kids find a wormhole and throw in "The Camera!" A reluctant vampire flees mobilized Van Helsing units in the future, out for his blood in "Hemogoblin!" A rag-tag group of time-travellers chase their insane captain through every moment of eternity in "For The Time Being!" Soldiers versus undead monsters in "Zombie Dinosaur!" A Hollywood starlet gets even more famous once she turns invisible, in "The Bod!" Softcover, 136 pages, B&W. Cover price $12.95.

  • Issue #2-1ST
    PS Artbooks Presents: Classic Adventure Comics HC (2021 PS Artbooks) Slipcase Edition 2-1ST

    Volume 2 - 1st printing. Collects A Feature Presentation: Black Tarantula (1950) #5, A Feature Presentations: Magazine, Moby Dick (1950) #6, King Solomon's Mines (1951), Jack the Giant Killer (1953), and The Invisible Man #1 (1955).

    Just take a look - there's horror and sussense with The Black Tarantula, classic sea-faring action with Moby Dick, jungle quests with the great Allan Quatermain, The New Adventures of Jack the Giant Killer, and an invisible man terrorizes the English countryside! All reproduced completely from cover to cover, just like the original comic, featuring some of the best comic book talent!

    Hardcover (with Slipcase), 184 pages, full color.

    Cover price $56.99.

  • Issue #3-1ST
    PS Artbooks Presents: Classic Adventure Comics HC (2021 PS Artbooks) Slipcase Edition 3-1ST


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    Volume 3 - 1st printing. Collects The Hooded Menace (1951 One-Shot), The Unknown Man (1951), Marco Polo (1962 Charlton), Robin Hood (1963 Dell), and Robinson Crusoe (1964 Dell).

    Cover by Sam Glanzman.

    ust take a look here at Volume 3! It's 1903, ex-soldiers from the Spanish-American war prey on new settlers in the US Northwest! Fast forward to the 1950's and "The Unknown Man" the Underworld Gang Lord who controls the Crime Syndicate. Now all the way back to the middle ages for the adventures of the Venetian merchant and explorer Marco Polo in the court of Kubla Khan! And the legends of Robin Hood and his meeting with Little John and the archery contest that was held to trap him! And finally to the 1600's and the epic adventures of Robinson Crusoe!

    Featuring Stories by Leslie Charteris, Louis Ravielli, A.C. Hollingsworth, Sam Glanzman, Charles Nicholas, Vince Alascia, and Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio!

    Hardcover (with Slipcase), 184 pages, full color.

    Cover price $56.99.

  • Issue #3-1ST
    PS Artbooks Presents: Classic Adventure Comics HC (2021- PS Artbooks) 3-1ST


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    Volume 3 - 1st printing. Collects The Hooded Menace (1951 One-Shot), The Unknown Man (1951), Marco Polo (1962 Charlton), Robin Hood (1963 Dell), and Robinson Crusoe (1964 Dell).

    Cover by Sam Glanzman.

    ust take a look here at Volume 3! It's 1903, ex-soldiers from the Spanish-American war prey on new settlers in the US Northwest! Fast forward to the 1950's and "The Unknown Man" the Underworld Gang Lord who controls the Crime Syndicate. Now all the way back to the middle ages for the adventures of the Venetian merchant and explorer Marco Polo in the court of Kubla Khan! And the legends of Robin Hood and his meeting with Little John and the archery contest that was held to trap him! And finally to the 1600's and the epic adventures of Robinson Crusoe!

    Featuring Stories by Leslie Charteris, Louis Ravielli, A.C. Hollingsworth, Sam Glanzman, Charles Nicholas, Vince Alascia, and Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio!

    Hardcover, 184 pages, full color.

    Cover price $46.99.

  • Issue #8-1ST
    PS Artbooks Presents: Classic Horror Comics HC (2022 PS Artbooks) 8-1ST


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    Volume 8 - 1st printing. "1945, May-September 1955, and September 1957!" Collects Front Page Comic Book (1945), Prize Mystery (1955) #1-3, and Man in Black (1957 Harvey) #1. Cover by Bob Fujitani (credited as B. Fuje). Featuring Stories by Bob Fujitani, Joe Kubert, George Roussos, Lou Ferstadt, Eugene E. Hughes, Sal Trapani, and Bob Powell. More horror and suspense for Classic Horror Comics Volume 8! Starting with this little gem-Front Page Comic Book is a Pre-Code anthology from Harvey that contains the origin and first appearance of the Man in Black. This was the only issue of the series. Prize Mystery added a cash incentive for the lucky 1950s reader if they could solve a two-page mystery involving murder. Ironically, solutions to the prize mysteries were to be announced in the issue #4... but, alas it never happened. Man in Black, the faceless occult avenger, tells strange stories, sometimes intervening in person, other times merely letting ironic fate unfold. Reproduced completely from cover to cover as they should be, just like the original comic! Hardcover, 184 pages, full color. Cover price $52.99.

  • Issue #9-1ST
    PS Artbooks Presents: Classic Horror Comics HC (2022 PS Artbooks) 9-1ST


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    Volume 9 - 1st printing. We've unearthed more little horrors! Beginning with Tales of Horror and Terror-Haunted Thrills #12 (November 1953) were practical joker Biff inherits a haunted house in "Death Laughs Last." And from issue #13 (January 1954), "Death Do Us Part," the baboon kills his wife! Quickly followed by Tales of Stalking Terror-woe be to those receiving the deadly invitation... all it said was "Be My Ghost!" in Fantastic Fears #8 (July 1954) and from issue #9 (September 1954), "If a Body Kill a Body," two Scottish highlanders from warring families come back as ghosts to get their revenge! And finally, even more horror and suspense from the Man in Black #2 (1957); a faceless occult avenger tells strange stories, sometimes intervening in person, other times merely letting ironic fate unfold. Hardcover, 184 pages, full color. Cover price $52.99.

  • Issue #8-1ST
    PS Artbooks Presents: Classic Horror Comics HC (2022 PS Artbooks) Limited Slipcase Edition 8-1ST


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    Volume 8 - 1st printing. "1945, May-September 1955, and September 1957!" Collects Front Page Comic Book (1945), Prize Mystery (1955) #1-3, and Man in Black (1957 Harvey) #1. Cover by Bob Fujitani (credited as B. Fuje). Featuring Stories by Bob Fujitani, Joe Kubert, George Roussos, Lou Ferstadt, Eugene E. Hughes, Sal Trapani, and Bob Powell. More horror and suspense for Classic Horror Comics Volume 8! Starting with this little gem-Front Page Comic Book is a Pre-Code anthology from Harvey that contains the origin and first appearance of the Man in Black. This was the only issue of the series. Prize Mystery added a cash incentive for the lucky 1950s reader if they could solve a two-page mystery involving murder. Ironically, solutions to the prize mysteries were to be announced in the issue #4... but, alas it never happened. Man in Black, the faceless occult avenger, tells strange stories, sometimes intervening in person, other times merely letting ironic fate unfold. Reproduced completely from cover to cover as they should be, just like the original comic! Hardcover (with Slipcase), 184 pages, full color. Cover price $62.99.

  • Issue #2-1ST
    PS Artbooks Presents: Classic Science Fiction Comics HC (2020 PS Artbooks) 2-1ST


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    Volume 2 - 1st printing. Collects Captain Rocket (1951) #1, Attack on Planet Mars (1951) #1, Flying Saucers (1950 Avon) #1, Robotmen of the Lost Planet (1952) #1, and Four Color (1942-1962 Dell Series 2) #1253.

    Written by Walter Gibsonand and Ken Fitch. Art by Wally Wood, Vince Alascia, Carmine Infantino, Joe Kubert, Bob Fujitani, Mort Lawrence, Gene Fawcette, Jack Sparling, and John Giunta.

    Just take a look there's Captain Rocket, Attack on Planet Mars, Flying Saucers, Robotmen of the Lost Planet and Space Man!

    All reproduced completely from cover to cover - just like the original comic and absolutely crammed with tales of science fiction, fantasy, horror and suspense created by the absolute cream of 1950's comic book talent including Gene Fawcette, Joe Kubert, Carmine Infantino, Wally Wood and Jack Sparling.

    Don't hang around for too long these beauties they won't be in orbit forever!

    Hardcover, 184 pages, full color.

    Cover price $46.99.

  • Issue #4-1ST
    PS Artbooks Presents: Classic Science Fiction Comics HC (2020 PS Artbooks) 4-1ST


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    Volume 4 - 1st printing. Collects Lost Worlds (1952 Standard) #5-6, Zip Jet (1953) #1-2, and Space Mysteries #1 (1958).

    PS Artbooks presents Classic Sci-Fi Comics Volume 4 including Lost Worlds, Zip Jet and Space Mysteries, all reproduced completely from cover to cover, just like the original comics and absolutely crammed with the cream of 1950's comic book talent including John Celardo, Ross Andru, Jack Katz, Nick Cardy, Alex Toth, Rocco Mastroserio, Art Saaf, Ruben Moreira, Art Pinajian, Al Plastino, Ralph Mayo, Carl Burgos and Russ Heath. Don't hang around for too long; these beauties they won't be in orbit forever!

    Hardcover, 184 pages, full color.

    Cover price $46.99.

  • Issue #5-1ST
    PS Artbooks Presents: Classic Science Fiction Comics HC (2020 PS Artbooks) 5-1ST


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    Volume 5 - 1st printing. Collects Fantastic (1952) #8-9 and Fantastic Worlds (1952) #5-7.

    We've done it again, with another fantastic collection of absolute vintage Sci-Fi comic gems, PS Artbooks presents Classic Sci-Fi Comics Volume 5.

    Fantastic from Youthful featuring Captain Science, aka Gordon Dane, a sci-fi hero who fought all manner of outer space villains including flying saucers, monster gods, alien spawn, and even domestic traitors. And from Pines Fantastic Worlds starring Lieutenant Commander Bruce Hunter and Captain Jon Jax, the Space Ace. All reproduced completely from cover to cover, just like the original comics.

    Featuring Stories by Harry Harrison, Ernie Bache, Henry Kiefer, Vince Napoli, Otto Binder, Murphy Anderson, Jerome Bixby, George Roussos, John Celardo, and Alex Toth.

    Hardcover, 184 pages, full color.

    Cover price $46.99.

  • Issue #8-1ST
    PS Artbooks Presents: Classic Science Fiction Comics HC (2020 PS Artbooks) 8-1ST


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    Volume 8 - 1st printing. "Space Detective!" Lance Lewis, Space Detective, is a scientific genius and using his ray guns, jet pack and a whole host of other high-tech gadgets fights interplanetary aliens and space menaces with the aid of his gorgeous girlfriend, Marna, solving alien mysteries, such as the amoeba men or Martians. With some absolutely iconic covers painted by Alex Schomburg, you'll wanna catch up on Lance's adventures! Plus, in an observatory high in the Andes, Dr. X, master of the mysteries of occult science undertakes the greatest experiment of his career! Ace Buckley and his friend Toni Stark travel through time on a series of high octane adventures and battles! Collects Lance Lewis: Mystery Comics #3-4 (October-December 1944) and Startling Comics #44-53 (March 1947-September 1948), Dr. X and Ace Buckley: Startling Comics #1-10 (June 1940-September 1941). Hardcover, 184 pages, full color. Cover price $52.99.