Comic books 1988 w/ month not specified

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Cover by Frank Bolle and John Severin, plus a photo of Charles Starrett as Durango Kid. Edited by Bill Black. Stories by Bill Black and Gardner Fox. Art by Frank Bolle, Bob Powell, and John Severin. AC Comics reprints classic Western stories that originally appeared in comics from the Golden Age, along with some new ones. An illustrated overview of the classic Western films featuring Charles Starrett as The Durango Kid; A profile of Golden Age Western comics publisher Magazine Enterprises; Classic Western tales featuring Red Mask, Red Hawk and Billy the Kid, the latter illustrated by Marvel and EC artist John Severin. The Durango Kid: The Kid from Broken Gun; Magazine Enterprises… The Best of the West; Red Mask: Stage to Devils Gap!; Red Hawk: The Helpless Warrior!; Billy the Kid: Ambush at Sun-Up. 40 pages, Full Color. Cover price $2.95.

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Cover photos feature movie cowboys Tom Mix, Roy Rogers and Charles Starrett as Durango Kid. Edited by Bill Black. Art by Carl Pfeufer, John Jordan, and John Severin. AC Comics reprints classic Western stories that originally appeared in comics from the Golden Age, along with some new ones. Reprints of classic Tom Mix and Billy the Kid stories, the latter illustrated by Marvel and EC artist John Severin; A look at the classic Roy Rogers Western Trail of Robin Hood, featuring a slew of famous guest stars. Tom Mix: The Seed of Hate; Billy the Kid: The Guilty Gunslinger; Tom Mix: Kidnapped. 32 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $2.95.

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Cover photos feature movie cowboys Tom Mix, Roy Rogers Jr., Gabby Hayes and Lash LaRue. Edited by Bill Black. Stories by Bill Black and Judy Wilson. Art by Carl Pfeufer, John Jordan, Leonard Frank and Tony Sgroi. AC Comics reprints classic Western stories that originally appeared in comics from the Golden Age, along with some new ones. Lash LaRue helps an accused murderer clear his name; Western sidekick Gabby Hayes gets a rare solo adventure; A look at the career of classic Western star Lash LaRue. Lash LaRue: Tainted Justice!; New Horizons for Lash LaRue; The King of the Bullwhip; Tom Mix: Introduction to Disaster; Call Me Dusty; Gabby Hayes: Mule Train. 32 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $3.50.

Cover photo features movie cowboy Sunset Carson. Edited by Bill Black. Stories by Bill Black and Jeane Carson. Art by Jordi Ensign, Mark Heike, and Dick Ayers. AC Comics reprints classic Western stories that originally appeared in comics from the Golden Age, along with some new ones. Classic Western star Sunset Carson is featured in two new stories, one guest-starring The Haunted Horseman; An overview of Sunset Carsons film career, including a letter from his widow; A profile of Western movie prop-man and costumer Bob Brown. The Night of the Rattler; Leonardo of Leather. 48 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $5.00.

Warner Edition - 1st printing. Collects Batman #1, 4, 63, 73,-74, 110, 159, 163, 251, & 321, Detective Comics #168 & 475-476, World's Finest #61 & 88, Brave & the Bold #111, Joker #3, Batman Kellogg's Special, and Batman newspaper strips featuring the Joker. Introduction by Mike Gold. The 'Clown Prince of Crime' is featured in 19 classic tales by such comic book legends as Bob Kane, Carmine Infantino, Jim Aparo, Murphy Anderson, Neal Adams, Marshall Rogers, and Walt Simonson. Softcover, 288 pages, full color. Cover price $14.95.

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Warner Edition - 2nd and later printings. Collects Batman #1, 4, 63, 73,-74, 110, 159, 163, 251, & 321, Detective Comics #168 & 475-476, World's Finest #61 & 88, Brave & the Bold #111, Joker #3, Batman Kellogg's Special, and Batman newspaper strips featuring the Joker. Introduction by Mike Gold. The 'Clown Prince of Crime' is featured in 19 classic tales by such comic book legends as Bob Kane, Carmine Infantino, Jim Aparo, Murphy Anderson, Neal Adams, Marshall Rogers, and Walt Simonson. Softcover, 288 pages, full color. Cover price $14.95.

Music, Comics, and Big Laffs. That Petrol Emotion. The Lime Spiders. Live Skull. Fire Party. Cartoonist Peter Bagge. Thousands of Drooling Vinyl-Crazed Collector Geeks. The Angry Ghost of Elvis Presley. Cover price $2.50.

Love and Rockets - Los Bros Hernandez and the Marvel of the Real. Plus: Swans, Tommy Keene, Dag Nasty, Clive Barker, Chester Brown, Frank & Sammy. Cover price $2.50.

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Music and culture magazine. 1st Appearance of Milk & Cheese. Plus an interview with Bob Burden, the creator of the Flaming Carrot. Also, articles on the band Wire, an interview with the band Naked Raygun and singer/songwriter Daniel Johnston. If that wasn't enough, lots of groovy ads for great rock'n'roll of the era -- Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation, Dinosaur Jr.'s Bug, Shudder to Think, Pixies, Michelle Shocked, Unrest, Jon Spencer's first band whose name we can't say, and more. Says Winter 1988 in indicia, but cover says 1989. Cover price $2.95.

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Cover by Barry Blair. Untitled story, script and art by Barry Blair; Purebreeze and Falcon infiltrate the city to battle the Cardinal. Events here coincide with those in Elflord volume 2 issue 18. 28 pgs., color. $2.00. Cover price $2.00.

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Cover by Barry Blair. Untitled story, script by Barry Blair, pencils by Barry Blair, inks by Barry Blair and Dave Cooper (additional backgrounds); Purebreeze and Falcon infiltrate a Shade training center. 28 pgs., color. $2.00. Cover price $2.00.

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Cover by Barry Blair. Untitled story, script by Barry Blair, pencils by Barry Blair, inks by Barry Blair and Dave Cooper (additional backgrounds); Purebreeze and Falcon spend time in the royal dungeon, where wizard Greylone and his 'necklace' of monkey clan members joins them. Events here coincide with those in Elflord volume 2 issue 20. Story concludes in Elflord volume 2 issue 21. 28 pgs., color. $2.00. Cover price $2.00.

First edition, 1988. Dan Povenmire, before he hit it big creating Phineas and Ferb, working on Family Guy and Rocko's Modern Life, created a newspaper strip at the University of Southern California's Daily Trojan called Second Glance. The name of the strip changed to Life as a Fish. As noted in his introduction, this is the fourth collection of his Daily Trojan strips. Inside see how the strip's name changed, see Leon shrink to the size of red blood cell and his adventures in a body, see Herman the Fish in Antarctica and much, much more. Printed on one side and side-stapled with electrical tape on the spine. One daily strip per page, the book is half an inch thick. Rare self-published book. 3 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., approximately 100 pages, black and white.

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Gyro Force. B&W. Cover price $2.00.

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Gyrotropolis. B&W. Cover price $2.00.

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Gyrobotics. B&W. Cover price $2.00.

1st Printing - Between 1981 and 1987 comedian John Dowie inflicted the contents of this book onto audiences throughout Europe, in the process earning himself a reputation as one of the funniest acts around. Hunt Emerson employs his unique cartooning style to thrash the last vestiges of life from these jaded routines, and the result is Hard to Swallow. 6.5" x 9.5", 80 pages, B&W.

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"History of Harley-Davidson!" Cover price $2.00.

Volume 3 - 1st printing. Stories by Elliot Caplin. Art and cover by Stan Drake. A collection of two storylines of the comic strip that typified the "soap opera strip," written by comic-strip scribe Elliot Caplin. Reprints dailies December 2, 1957 - January 23, 1960. Eve Jones faces conflict with her fiancee Hardy Cole. She owns up to the knowledge that her beauty tends to cause more problems than it solves. Softcover (Horizontal Format), 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 96 pages, B&W. Cover price $8.95.

2nd and later printings. Story and art by David Boswell. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 56 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $4.95.

Spanish Reprint Series. Reprints Cover and Story from Hellblazer (1988) #1. Story by Jamie Delano. Art by John Ridgway Cover by Dave McKean. Full Color. 52 pages.

Marvel Graphic Novel Volume 37 - 1st printing. "Hercules, Prince of Power: Full Circle!"

Story and art by Bob Layton.

This story picks up after the events of Hercules (1982 1st Series Marvel) #1-4 and Hercules (1984 2nd Series Marvel) #1-4.

Softcover, 64 pages, 8 1/4-in. x 11-in., full color.

Cover price $6.95.

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1st Edition - 1st printing. Collects Hercules (1982 1st Series Marvel) #1-4.

Story and art by Bob Layton.

The Lion of Olympus has returned home!

However, the lord of the Olympian gods, Zeus, has decreed a day of silence and peace throughout Mount Olympus. Well, Hercules was never one to sit idly by, and his signature brand of merriment and revelry soon echo throughout the halls. Enraged by his son's arrogance, Zeus banishes the Prince of Power to the one place that might teach even an immortal humility.

Too long has Hercules dwelled among mortals so Zeus sends him out into the void of space. Out here among the countless stars he hopes Hercules will learn the lessons he himself could not teach. Out here Hercules will face his greatest challenge yet when he comes meets the Devourer of Worlds, Galactus!

Softcover, 96 pages, full color.

Cover price $5.95.

1st Printing. By Jim Unger, foreword by Gene Shalit. Sixth collection of the Sunday paper comic strip "Herman". Softcover, 8.5" x 10.5", 208 pages, B&W. Cover price $8.95.

Signed Limited Edition - Limited to 700 copies. Signed by Chuck Austen. Art and Cover by Chuck Austen. 9-in. x 12-in., 12 pages, B&W Cover price $8.95.

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The History of Electronics, "111 Years on Planet Earth!" is a Radio Shack science-related promotional comic with no cover price. Standard 36 page, full color comic with excellent art and story. Catalogue No. 68-2028.

Limited Signed Edition - Signed by George Perez and Marv Wolfman, limited/numbered to 1000 copies.

1st printing. Collects History of the DC Universe (1986) #1-2.

Written by Marv Wolfman. Art by George Pérez and Karl Kesel. Cover by Bill Sienkiewicz. Introduction by Marv Wolfman. Afterword by Frank Miller.

This unique project, which spun out of the universe-changing events of "Crisis On Infinite Earths," tells the entire history of the first super-hero universe in the industry!

It covers everything from he creation of the DCU and goes through the far flung future of the Legion of Super Heroes. Includes almost 30 pages of extra material not in original comics nor the TPB. New material and complete hardcover package produced by Graphitti Designs.

Includes essays and personal reminiscences from Neal Adams, Julius Schwartz, Jerry Siegel, Bob Kane, Joe Kubert, Roy Thomas, Paul Levitz, Len Wein, Jack Kirby, Ramona Fradon & George Perez, plus additional art from Adams, Joe Shuster, Dick Sprang, Kubert, Kurt Schaffenberger, Steve Lightle, Steve Bissette & John Totleben, Kirby & Steve Rude, Fradon, Miller, Trina Robbins & Perez.

Hardcover, 130 pages, full color.

NOTE: Limited to 1,000 copies.

Also: DC characters jam gatefold poster by Sheldon Mayer, Art Adams, Joe Kubert, Jim Mooney, Jim Aparo, Bissette & Totleben, Denys Cowan, P. Craig Russell, Mart Nodell, Joe Staton, Dave Stevens, Bill Sienkiewicz, Kirby & Mike Royer, Keith Giffen, Bret Blevins & Al Williamson, Michael Kaluta, Gene Colan, Lightle, Brian Bolland, Michael T. Gilbert, Jim Starlin, Walt Simonson, Paul Norris, Mike Grell, Mary Wilshire, Andy Kubert, Gil Kane, Schaffenberger, Bob Kane, Curt Swan, Perez, Howard Chaykin, Jan Duursema, Carmine Infantino, Jim Steranko, Gray Morrow, Neal Adams, Murphy Anderson, Dave Gibbons, Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, Dan Spiegle, Frank Thorne, Fradon, Matt Wagner, Ernie Colon, Irwin Hasen, Joe Orlando, Pat Broderick, Steve Rude, Frank McLaughlin, Dick Giordano.

Honeymooners Portfolio boxed set of Honeymooners (1986 Lodestone) #1, Honeymooners (1987 Triad) #1-9. Art and story by various creators. Each issue 6.75" x 10.25", 28 pages, FC.

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Mary Fleener uses her distinctive Picasso-on-acid Cubismo style to adapt early American stories by folklorist Zora Neale Hurston. Includes a biographical page on Hurston and her work recording and adapting African-American folklore and music. Black and white; 28 pages. Mature readers. Cover price $2.50.

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Written and illustrated by Christopher Hart. Sample chapters include Body Language, The Action Line, How to Anthropomorphize Animals, Importance of Black and White and many more. Comprehensive. 8 1/4-in. x 11-in., 144 pages, B&W. Cover price $16.95.

Reprint, 1988. Written by Marcel Feigel, illustrated by Brian Heaton. 7 3/4-in. x 5-in., 80 pages, B&W. Cover price $3.95.

Story and art by Marty Jones. This book is the result of a joint project between the International Baseball Association and the International Softball Federation and made possible through a United States Olympic Committee grant to the Amateur Softball Association, which has worked in conjunction with the IBA and ISF to promote youth baseball and softball around the world. 32 pages, full color.

40 pages Cover price $2.25.

2nd printing. Cover by Robert Crumb. "The Ruff-Tuff Cream-Puffs Take Charge!," script and art by Robert Crumb; The Ruff-Tuff Cream-Puffs, who are sick of liberal wimps, take over the U.S.A. "Uh Oh! He's Back! Who's Back? You'll Find Out!," script and art by Robert Crumb; Mr. Natural literally flies in to meet Flakey Foont for the first time in a decade. "My Troubles With Women - Part II," script and art by Robert Crumb; Crumb goes more in-depth into his psyche with this follow-up story, this time attempting to bring out the root causes of his deviant behavior. "Here He Comes Again!," script and art by Robert Crumb; Mr. Natural visits Flakey again and introduces him to Devil Girl. 36 pgs., B&W. $2.50.

NOTE: Second printing identifiers: $2.50 cover price, white interior paper (not newsprint), measures 9 5/8" (not 10") Cover price $2.50.

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1st Printing. Cover by Robert Crumb. "The Mighty Power Fems Versus the Horrible Homunculi," script by Robert Crumb (as Art Bumm) (plot) and Ari Karumba (script), pencils by Robert Crumb (as Arika Rumbo) (breakdowns) and Bmurc Trebor (pencils), inks by Robert Crumb (as C. Rumbun). "If I Were a King," script and art by Robert Crumb; Crumb imagines that he's king; Anyone the slightest bit familiar with his comics knows what happens next. "The Meeting," script and art by Robert Crumb; Mr. Natural invites Flakey over to his apartment to discuss activism; With Devil Girl on the premises, though, things go awry in a hurry. 36 pgs., B&W. $2.50. Cover price $2.50.

Al Hartley cover. Pencils and script by Hartley. Based on the book "In His Steps", by Charles M. Sheldon. This edition has a 59c cover price. When a dying hitchhiker challenges a small towns beliefs, the townspeople are forced to re-examine their relationships with each other, their culture, and Jesus. The popular Christian slogan What would Jesus do? was pioneered by the Charles Sheldon novel In His Steps, and appears throughout the comic. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.59.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cover by Eastman & Laird (front) and Concrete by Paul Chadwick (back). Print run 4,000. Includes illustrations, comic strip samples, information, and creator bios from 32 creators in the independent comic book field. 4 1/4-in. x 5 1/2-in., 52 pg-B&W. Cover price $1.50.

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"The Degaton Paradox" Continued from Young All Stars Annual (1988) #1, the Infinitors are out to stop Mekanique from exacting her revenge upon the entire world with Degaton at her side. Also: A look at the private life of Wildcat. Written by Roy and Dann Thomas, with art by Lou Manna, Michael Bair, Todd McFarlane, Mike Machlan, Ron Harris, Tony DeZuniga and Jerry Ordway. Deluxe Format. Cover price $2.00.

Contains 15 scenarios for use with the Renegade Legion game. The Fire Eagles are a squadron of the 3021st Interceptor Wing of the Terran Overlord Government. Illustrated. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 56 pages, B&W.

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International Wizard of Oz Club 1988 Membership Directory.

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1st printing. Story and art by Colin Wilson. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 48 pages, full color. Cover price $7.95.

First Edition. Investing in Comics (1988) is a complete investor's guide to collectible comic books by D.W. Howard. The author, Howard - a comic collector since 1959, has written or co-wriiten dozens of articles about comics, science fiction, rare books, and collectibles for Comics Buyer's Guide, Overstreet, various antiques periodicals, and World Coin Magazine. He's obviously very knowledgable and wants to share what he has learned with you. 184 pages, square-bound softcover, Cover price $9.95.