Fiction Illustrated comic books issue 1

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1st printing.

Edited by Ed Hulse. Introduction by Richard A. Lupoff. Cover by George Gross, Barye Phillips, and Rudolph Belarski. Back Cover by James Bama and Victor Kalin.

Judge these books by their covers! Get immersed in the definitive visual history of pulp fiction paperbacks from 1940 to 1970.

The Art of Pulp Fiction: An Illustrated History of Vintage Paperbacks chronicles the history of pocket-sized paperbound books designed for mass-market consumption, specifically concentrating on the period from 1940 to 1970. These three decades saw paperbacks eclipse cheap pulp magazines and expensive clothbound books as the most popular delivery vehicle for escapist fiction. To catch the eyes of potential buyers they were adorned with covers that were invariably vibrant, frequently garish, and occasionally lurid. Today the early paperbacks-like the earlier pulps, inexpensively produced and considered disposable by casual readers-are treasured collector's items.

Award-winning editor Ed Hulse (The Art of the Pulps and The Blood 'n' Thunder Guide to Pulp Fiction) comprehensively covers the pulp-fiction paperback's heyday. Hulse writes the individual chapter introductions and the captions, while a team of genre specialists and art aficionados contribute the special features included in each chapter. These focus on particularly important authors, artists, publishers, and sub-genres.

Illustrated with more than 500 memorable covers and original cover paintings. Hulse's extensive captions, meanwhile, offer a running commentary on this significant genre, and also contain many obscure but entertaining factoids. Images used in The Art of Pulp Fiction have been sourced from the largest American paperback collections in private hands, and have been curated with rarity in mind, as well as graphic appeal. Consequently, many covers are reproduced here for the first time since the books were first issued.

With an overall Introduction by Richard A. Lupoff, novelist, essayist, pop-culture historian, and author of The Great American Paperback (2001).

Hardcover, 10-in.x 10-in., 240 pages, full color.

Cover price $49.99.

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1st Printing. Authoritative, decade by decade overviews of every aspect of science fiction, from books to comics, and films to television. Hardcover, 10" x 12", 312 pages, full color. Cover price $39.95.

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1st printing. Collects Shock Illustrated (1955) #1-4.

Written by Daniel Keyes, Robert Bernstein, Jack Oleck, Al Feldstein, John Larner, and Jack Oleck. Art by Jack Kamen, Reed Crandall, George Evans, Al Williamson, Graham Ingels, Graham Ingels, Rudy Nappi, and Frank Frazetta. Cover by Jack Kamen. Introduction by Grant Geissman. Foreword by Steve Niles.

Enjoy the complete run of Shock Illustrated, an innovative "Picto-Fiction" magazine containing illustrated prose stories of switch parties, thrill killers, and more of society's dark underbelly-written and illustrated by Daniel Keyes (Flowers for Algernon), Jack Kamen, Reed Crandall, Graham Ingels, and more!

Includes the lost fourth issue, with pencils from Frank Frazetta and unproduced scripts for issue 5!

Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 248 pages, full color.

Cover price $49.99.

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1st printing.

By Mike Benton.

From the author of The Comic Book in America comes a comprehensive look at the history of sci-fi comics. Complete with a checklist, more than 200 full color photos, and behind-the-scenes stories!

Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 150 pages, full color.

Cover price $24.95.

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1st printing. By William J. Widder. Preface by Frank Kelly Freas. "Master Storyteller" is a richly informative and colorful tour of L. Ron Hubbard's extraordinary career as a popular fiction author. This comprehensive chronology of his work is replete with factual and detailed information about his novels and stories and the brilliant art they inspired. It is filled with high-quality reproductions ranging from original covers and inside illustrations by the great artists of the pulp fiction magazines of the '30s, '40s and early '50s to the contemporary fantasy and science fiction art created by modern masters of the field. "Master Storyteller" will draw you back again and again to explore the literary and visual landmarks of the life of a great writer whose works continue to entertain generations of readers of popular fiction. Hardcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 194 pages, full color. Cover price $49.95.

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approximately 120 pages. 8 1/2 x 11 3/4. Cover price $4.95.