Eisner comic books issue 1

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Classic Eisner stories reprinted alongside new material. Cover art by Will Eisner. "Izzy the Cockroach and the Meaning of Life," script and art by Will Eisner; An old man faces the loss of his job. "Escapee," script and art by Will Eisner; A mother talks her son into coming for dinner. "Mr. Midnight," script and art by Will Eisner; The introduction of Mr. Midnight. "Queen Rana," art by Bob Powell; An immortal queen plunders jungle safaris for gold. 16-page Shop Talk Neal Adams Interview with art, conducted by Will Eisner. "On the Top Floor, Back, Lived God," script and art by Will Eisner; A rabbi takes care of his ailing wife. 8 1/2 in. x 11 in. 64 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $2.95.

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Reprints the Golden Age occult hero, Mr. Mystic with art by Bob Powell. Five untitled stories from 1940, each five pages in length. Also in this issue, a one page biography of Powell (borm Stanislaus Pulowski) written by Eclipse co-publishers Cat Yronwode and Dean Mullaney. Standard comic format, black and white interior. Cover price $2.50.

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Stories by Will Eisner and Jules Feiffer. Art by Eisner and John Spranger. Cover by Eisner. Reprints of Eisners early experiments with 3-D comics in The Spirit. Includes A River of Crime, The Vortex, Blood of the Earth, and The Spirit Vanishes. 32 pages, B&W with Red and Green 3-D Effects. Indica says Will Eisner's 3-D Classics Featuring The Spirt; has 3-D glasses. Cover price $2.00.

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Stories by Will Eisner and Jules Feiffer. Art by Eisner and John Spranger. Cover by Eisner. Reprints of Eisners early experiments with 3-D comics in The Spirit. Includes A River of Crime, The Vortex, Blood of the Earth, and The Spirit Vanishes. 32 pages, B&W with Red and Green 3-D Effects. Indica says Will Eisner's 3-D Classics Featuring The Spirt; does not have 3-D glasses. Cover price $2.00.

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Stories, Art and Cover by Will Eisner. Colors by Klaus Janson. Pre-Spirit stories of John Law by Will Eisner. Featuring: The early life of John Law and his enemy/lover Sand Saref in "Meet John Law"; Nubbin the Shoeshine Boy story "The Strange, Ghastly Affair of the Half Dead Mr. Lox"; and John Law in "Ratt Gutt"! Plus: 2-page article "The Coach's Bench"; unfinished cover to the unpublished "Adventures of Nubbin the Shoeshine Boy"; unpublished splash page for Sunday Comics; unpublished cover for "John Law Detective"; and four Spirit splash pages that adapted the unpublished John Law stories. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $1.50.

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Expanded Edition - 2nd and later printings. By Will Eisner. This is the best single book on how to tell a story with words and pictures, by the master of the form and the father of the graphic novel. Legendary comics creator Will Eisner turns a fine eye toward the principles of graphic storytelling in this extraordinary work, based on his popular Sequential Art course at New York's School of Visual Art. One of the most insightful and dynamic examinations of the comic art form to date! Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 164 pages, B&W. Cover price $22.99.

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Volume 1 - 1st printing. Signed Limited Edition - Includes a Will Eisner tip-in signature plate - Limited to 100 copies. Story and art by Will Eisner. Will Eisner's work on The Spirit was, in its way, as groundbreaking as Orson Welles' Citizen Kane. Both artistic achievements rewrote the book on sequential storytelling, and had lasting impacts on all that followed them. 17 classic stories are collected in this volume, each being scanned from the original art, and all stories from the post-war years of 1946-1950--generally regarded as Eisner's best period on the Spirit. Stories include April Fool, Li'l Adam, War Bride, Taxes and the Spirit, and Eisner's personal favorite, The Story of Gerhard Shnobble, as well as a dozen more. Hardcover, 15-in. x 22-in., 144 pages, B&W.

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1st printing. "A Memory!" By Will Eisner. Dark Horse is proud to present the newest graphic novel by Will Eisner, one of comics' pioneers and inarguably the medium's first "maverick" creator! Last Day in Vietnam is Eisner's memoir of stories about soldiers who are engaged not only in the daily hostilities of war but also in larger, more personal combat. During Eisner's years in the military, and particularly during the many field trips he made for P.S. Magazine, he observed camp life at close range. Some of the stories in this novel are comical, some heartrending, some frightening, yet all display the incredible insight into humanity characteristic of Eisner's entire oeuvre. The first edition of this graphic novel will feature a full-color cover painted by the artist, with a matte and spot-gloss finish, interior cover flaps, and special sepia-colored ink printed on high-quality antique paper. Softcover, 8 1/2-in.x 11-in., 80 pages, full color. Cover price $10.95.

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DC Edition

1st printing. By Will Eisner. What if mankind became aware that there is life on another planet somewhere out in the universe? What would happen here on Earth? Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 128 pages, B&W. Cover price $12.95.

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DC Edition - 1st printing. Story and art by Will Eisner. Master storyteller Will Eisner tells four stories set in New York City filled with love, loss, hope, and wonder. Hardcover, 112 pages, B&W. Cover price $29.95.

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DC Edition - 1st printing. Story and art by Will Eisner. Autobiographical Novel of Will Eisner's life in the 1920-30's. Eisner's most overtly autobiographical work: a reflection on how the anti-Semitism of America in the 1920s and '30s shapes a young man's developing personality and life. It is also a touching family history told through flashbacks as a young man heads for basic training immediately after the beginning of World War II. Softcover, 8-in. x 10-in., 208 pages, B&W. Cover price $14.95.

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1st printing. Written by Stephen Weiner. Art and cover by Dan Mazur. Explore the life of Will Eisner, one of the most influential artists in the history of comics through the most appropriate medium: a graphic novel! From his immigrant roots and childhood in New York, starting his own comics studio and business, and the creation and publication of his beloved comic, The Spirit, through popularizing the term "graphic novel" as the result of trying to convince a general trade publisher to publish the groundbreaking A Contract with God, you'll follow along in Eisner's life journey. With the most prestigious comics awards named after him, Will Eisner is forever celebrated not only in what he created but his unerring belief in comics' capacity to be better, to reach higher, to be a full art form in its own right. Includes an afterword by Jeff Smith (Bone, RASL, Tüki)! Hardcover, 6 1/2-in. x 9 1/2-in., 296 pages, full color. Cover price $29.99.

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1st printing. Text by Catherine Yronwode. Art by Will Eisner. Featuring classic adventures and covers of the Spirit by Will Eisner. Includes a look at some of Eisner's other works to date. Hardcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 110 pages, full color. Cover price $13.95.

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1st printing. Written by N.C. Christopher Couch and Stephen Weiner. Art and cover by Will Eisner . Will Eisner's career spans the entire history of American comic books, from his formative days in the 1930s into the 1940s when he revolutionized narrative sequential art with his internationally famed series The Spirit, to the 1970s when he created the contemporary graphic novel form with A CONTRACT WITH GOD, to the present! THE WILL EISNER COMPANION is a comprehensive, critical overview of the work of this legendary writer/artist, and is now available in softcover! Divided into two sections - his Spirit work and his graphic novels - this authorized companion features critical and historical essays by noted comics historians N.C. Christopher Couch and Stephen Weiner, as well as alphabetical indexes relating to all aspects and characters in his oeuvre. This volume also includes a chronology, a bibliography and suggested reading lists, as well as an introduction by Dennis O'Neil. THE WILL EISNER COMPANION is a must-have celebration for new fans as well as old. Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 176 pages, B&W. Cover price $19.95.

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Will Eisner's one-eyed detective is back in a brand-new four-part series by award-winning creator, Gary Chaloner. The heat in Crossroads begins to rise as John Law and Nubbin face off against mobsters, movie stars and monsters. This series will mark an important change in Law's life, as he moves closer to learning the truth behind his father's death... with tragic consequences in this very first issue. Co-starring Nubbin, the Shoeshine Boy, Enzo 'The Angel' D'Angelo, Lady Luck, Mr. Mystic, and featuring the debut of Melba, Private Eye-ful!-a Texas cactus with city-bloomed thorns! Best of all, every issue will feature a full 28 pages of story and art from Chaloner. Cover price $3.99.

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Cover art by Will Eisner. Rube Rooky Climbs Up From the Pit, art by Will Eisner; origin of Rube and his game against the Badgers. Ok, How Would You Play It?/First Aid on the Ball Field article. Rube Rooky Heads Down the Home Stretch, art by Will Eisner; Lana Lash gets Rube into trouble and fined before the big game of the Badgers vs Iron City Nine. Buddy Hassett tells you To Choose a Batting Order article. The Sunday Ride of Babe Herman Dogers vs Braves, script by Jules Feiffer, art by Jerry Grandenetti; The story of a remarkable 1926 game between the Boston Braves and Brooklyn Dodgers. Back cover ad for the next issue of Baseball Comics. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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1st printing. By Will Eisner. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is a book written one hundred years ago. It has been represented over the decades as a blue print for Jewish world domination. In truth, though, it has long been exposed as an utter fraud, and one of the most successful anti-Semitic myths in history. Eisner takes on the whole history of the wretched book and once again pushes the medium for all its worth. The result is a compelling page turner of a graphic novel, one destined to win awards and accolades inside the comics field, the general book trade, and elsewhere. Hardcover, 150 pages, B&W. Cover price $19.95.

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1st printing. Will Eisner, the creator of The Spirit and the "Father" of the graphic novel, will be honored with the first major exhibition of his work in May at the Museum of Cartoon and Comic Art (MoCCA). The exhibition was assembled with Will's cooperation, and the catalog for the exhibition serves as a retrospective art book surveying Eisner's entire career. It includes work from many of his graphic novels, plus rare unpublished art, and a preview of his newest book, The Plot: The True History of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Forward by DC Comics President & Publisher, Paul Levitz. Softcover, 76 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $24.95.

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1st printing. By Paul Levitz. Will Eisner (1917-2005) is universally considered the master of comics storytelling, and is best known for his iconic comic strip The Spirit and for his seminal work A Contract With God. Since then, Eisner went on to write and illustrate over twenty award-winning graphic novels. Will Eisner: Champion of the Graphic Novel by noted historian Paul Levitz celebrates Eisner by including not only unpublished and rare art, photographs, letters, and sketches from the archives, but original interviews with creators such as Jules Feiffer, Art Spiegelman, Scott McCloud, Jeff Smith, and Neil Gaiman, all of whom knew and were inspired by Eisner. Hardcover, 11-in. x 10-in., 224 pages, full color. Cover price $40.00.

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1st printing.

This series offers a look at the moment when an artist finally found their path. That when they were not only getting published, but what was being published was starting to look pretty good. What you will see here is not the artists best work, rather, what had shortly led up to it.

Formative artists trying to figure out exactly what they wanted from comic art. Will Eisner (subject).

Softcover, 8-in. x 10 1/2-in., 160 pages, B&W.

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Pourhouse Press Edition - 1st printing. By Will Eisner and friends. Graphic Storytelling undertakes to discuss the principles of conveying stories and narration with the sophisticated combination of text and imagery. While the comic book medium is the main focus, Graphic Storytelling also recognizes the influence of film and electronic dissemination. Softcover, 164 pages, B&W. Cover price $22.99.

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This 1978 Baronet hardcover edition was limited to 1500 copies, all signed and numbered by Will Eisner. "A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories!" Story and art by Will Eisner. A revolutionary novel, A Contract With God re-creates the neighborhood of Will Eisner's youth through a quartet of four interwoven stories, each expressing the joy, exuberance, tragedy, and drama of life on the mythical Dropsie Avenue of the Bronx. A Contract With God is a monumental achievement, a must in the library of any graphic novel fan. Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 188 pages, B&W.

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W.W. Norton Edition - 2nd and later printings.

Story and art by Will Eisner.

A revolutionary novel, A Contract With God re-creates the neighborhood of Will Eisner's youth through a quartet of four interwoven stories, each expressing the joy, exuberance, tragedy, and drama of life on the mythical Dropsie Avenue of the Bronx. A Contract With God is a monumental achievement, a must in the library of any graphic novel fan.

Softcover, 184 pages, B&W.

Cover price $16.95.

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W.W. Norton Edition - 1st printing. By Will Eisner. Will Eisner's pen cuts an expansive swath through all aspects of the human condition. A Family Matter starts close to home, following a family as it gathers to observe the ninetieth birthday of its patriarch. While they must decide how best to provide for him, he ends up making a crucial choice of his own. Softcover, 72 pages, B&W. Cover price $15.95.

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Print on Demand Edition

Print on the Demand Edition - By Will Eisner. In this classic graphic novel, Will Eisner's pen cuts an expansive swath through all aspects of the human condition. A FAMILY MATTER starts close to home, following a family as it gathers to observe the ninetieth birthday of its patriarch. While they must decide how best to provide for him, he ends up making a crucial choice of his own. Softcover, 80 pages, B&W. Cover price $30.00.

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Updated Edition - 2nd and later printings.

In Comics and Sequential Art, Will Eisner reveals the basic building blocks and principles of comics, including imagery, the frame, and the application of time, space, and visual forms. With examples from Eisner's own catalog and such masters as H. Foster, R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Milton Caniff, Al Capp, and George Herriman, this book distills the art of graphic storytelling into principles that every comic artist, writer, and filmmaker should know.

Softcover, 8-in. x 10-in., 176 pages, PC/B&W.

Cover price $22.95.

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W.W. Norton Edition - 1st printing. In DROPSIE AVENUE: THE NEIGHBORHOOD, Eisner graphically traces the social trajectory of this mythic avenue over four centuries, creating a sweeping panorama of the city and its waves of new residents, whose stories present an unending "story of life, death, and resurrection." Softcover, 8-in. x 10-in., 172 pages, B&W. Cover price $16.95.

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Print on Demand Edition - In DROPSIE AVENUE: THE NEIGHBORHOOD, Eisner graphically traces the social trajectory of this mythic avenue over four centuries, creating a sweeping panorama of the city and its waves of new residents, whose stories present an unending "story of life, death, and resurrection." Softcover, 176 pages, B&W.

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Kitchen Sink Edition - 1st printing. Story and art by Will Eisner. Invisible People is a haunting trio of stories about life's forgotten shut-ins in the tradition of Kafka, Gogol, and Melville. Softcover, 120 pages, B&W. Cover price $9.95.

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W.W. Norton Edition - 1st printing. Story and art by Will Eisner. Invisible People is a haunting trio of stories about life's forgotten shut-ins in the tradition of Kafka, Gogol, and Melville. Softcover, 120 pages, B&W. Cover price $17.95.

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Print on Demand Edition

Print on Demand Edition - Story and art by Will Eisner. INVISIBLE PEOPLE is a haunting trio of stories about life's forgotten shut-ins in the tradition of Kafka, Gogol, and Melville. Softcover, 116 pages, B&W.

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1st printing. Based on the stolry by Miguel de Cervantes. Adapted by Will Eisner. Introduction to Don Quixote. Will Eisner continues his series of adaptations of classic tales with this humorous rendition of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote. Quixote was quite a gentleman, man of honor and idealist, even if he was a couple of cards short of a complete deck... attacking windmills as the enemy. It is his selflessness and gallantry that makes the "Man of La Mancha" a legend as retold to us by his faithful friend and servant, Sancho Panza. A touching story in beautiful color. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 32 pages, full color. Cover price $8.95.

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1st printing. Based on the stolry by Miguel de Cervantes. Adapted by Will Eisner. Introduction to Don Quixote. Will Eisner continues his series of adaptations of classic tales with this humorous rendition of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote. Quixote was quite a gentleman, man of honor and idealist, even if he was a couple of cards short of a complete deck... attacking windmills as the enemy. It is his selflessness and gallantry that makes the "Man of La Mancha" a legend as retold to us by his faithful friend and servant, Sancho Panza. A touching story in beautiful color. Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 32 pages, full color. Cover price $15.95.

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1st printing. Written by Will Eisner and Denis Kitchen. Art and cover by Will Eisner. Unearthed in a collection of pre-WWII newspaper printing plates, the mid-1930s comic strips Uncle Otto and Harry Karry represent the earliest known cartooning of the great comics and sequential art pioneer Will Eisner. In these never-before-seen strips you see the young Eisner's imagination expanding, as he experiments with the possibilities of serialized storytelling and works through his numerous influences. Contextualized with an exhaustive introduction by Denis Kitchen, these comics document the genesis of one of the most iconic and brilliant cartoonists of all time. Hardcover (Horizontal Format), 11-in. x 7-in., 72 pages, B&W. Cover price $24.99.

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DC Edition - 1st printing. Story and art by Will Eisner. Master storyteller Will Eisner tells four stories set in New York City filled with love, loss, hope, and wonder. Softcover, 112 pages, B&W. Cover price $12.95.

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W.W. Norton Edition - 1st printing. Story and art by Will Eisner. No illustrator evoked the melancholy duskiness of New York City as expressively as Eisner, who knew the city from the bottom up. Before the Lower East Side was cool, there was the grit and grime of Avenue C, a world filled with street musicians, overflowing sewers, and peeping toms, all recalled in Eisner's unforgettable style in New York: The Big City. Softcover, 138 pages, B&W. Cover price $17.95.

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Print on Demand Edition

Print on Demand Edition - Story and art by Will Eisner. No illustrator evoked the melancholy duskiness of New York City as expressively as Eisner, who knew the city from the bottom up. Before the Lower East Side was cool, there was the grit and grime of Avenue C, a world filled with street musicians, overflowing sewers, and peeping toms, all recalled in Eisner's unforgettable style in NEW YORK: THE BIG CITY. Softcover, 140 pages, B&W.

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1st printing. Based on the story by the Grimm Brothers. Adapted by Will Eisner. There once lived a fair and popular prince who was transformed by the spiteful wizard into a frog. The only way he could become his handsome self again was to be kissed by a princess out of true love, which the frog-prince actually succeeds, albeit with great difficulty, in pulling off! Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 32 pages, full color. All Ages Cover price $15.95.

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W.W. Norton Edition - 1st printing. Story and art by Will Eisner. Touching on prejudice, assimilation, and anti-Semitism, this sweeping historical novel takes readers from New York in the eighteenth century to Vienna before World War I, and finally to America during the depression and World War II. Softcover, 208 pages, B&W. Cover price $17.95.

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1st printing. By Michael Schumacher. Will Eisner: A Dreamer's Life in Comics delves beneath Eisner's public persona to draw connections between his life and his art. Eisner's career spanned a remarkable eight decades, from the dawn of comics' Golden Age in the late 1930s to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Schumacher's extensive research and interviews create a detailed portrait of Eisner the man and Eisner the artist. Hardcover, 358 pages, Text (with B&W photos and illustartions - includes 16 full color pages). Cover price $28.00.

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1st printing. Story and art by WILL EISNER. This beautiful treasury collects the legendary creator Will Eisner's first major work from 1936-1938. Hardcover, 10 1/2-in. x 14 1/2-in., 128 pages, B&W. Cover price $25.00.

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1st printing. Story and art by WILL EISNER. In 1936, a 20-year-old artist using the name Willis B. Rensie jump-started the comic-book medium. Writing and illustrating an action-packed weekly serial called "Hawks of the Seas" -a pirate adventure series set in the 18th-century Caribbean-the artist created one dynamic strip after another, honing his storytelling craft and shaping the comics medium with each one. That artist was none other than comics' grand master Will Eisner! From 1936 to 1938, Eisner's "Hawks of the Seas" weekly stories were translated into several different languages and distributed all over the world, and now they're collected here in this handsome hardcover edition. The stories themselves stand the test of time, as thrilling and exciting as they were almost 70 years ago. Featuring an introduction by comics veteran Al Williamson and a new foreword by Eisner himself. Hardcover, 128 pages, B&W. Cover price $19.95.