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Kafka comic books issue 1

  • Issue #1A
    Automatic Kafka (2002) 1A

    WRITTEN BY JOE CASEY; PAINTED ART AND COVER BY ASHLEY WOOD EYE OF THE STORM. In stores July 17. An "Eye of the Storm" debut series. From the strange and powerful minds of Joe Casey (WILDCATS, ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN) and Ashley Wood (Hellspawn, Popbot) comes a brave new look at super-heroes. Where have all the heroes gone? What is Mecha Six VII? What kind of action can you score in Mexico City? Who is Automatic Kafka, and why is he the greatest super-hero of the new age? MATURE READERS Cover price $2.95.

  • Issue #1B
    Automatic Kafka (2002) 1B

    WRITTEN BY JOE CASEY; PAINTED ART AND COVER BY ASHLEY WOOD EYE OF THE STORM. In stores July 17. An "Eye of the Storm" debut series. From the strange and powerful minds of Joe Casey (WILDCATS, ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN) and Ashley Wood (Hellspawn, Popbot) comes a brave new look at super-heroes. Where have all the heroes gone? What is Mecha Six VII? What kind of action can you score in Mexico City? Who is Automatic Kafka, and why is he the greatest super-hero of the new age? For more information, see the feature article. MATURE READERS FC, 32 pg. $2.95 Cover price $2.95.

  • Issue #1-REP
    Kafka GN (2007 Fantagraphics) 1-REP

    Fantagraphics Edition - 2nd and later printings. By David Zane Mairowitz and Robert Crumb. David Zane Mairowitz's brilliant text and the illustrations and comic panels of the world's greatest cartoonist, Robert Crumb (himself no stranger to self-loathing and alienation), help us to understand the essence of Kafka and provide insight beyond the cliché "Kafkaesque,"peering through Kafka's glass wall like no other book before it. The book is a wonderful educational tool for those unfamiliar with Kafka, including a brief but inclusive biography as well as the plots of many of his works, all illustrated by Crumb, making this newly designed edition a must-have for admirers of both Kafka and Crumb. Softcover, 6-in. x 8 1/2-in., 176 pages, B&W. Cover price $16.99.

  • Issue #1
    Kafka (1987) 1

    Story by Steven Seagle. Art by Stefano Gaudiano. Painted cover by Stefano Gaudiano. A moody, Eisner-nominated tale of intrigue. Robert Kafka is forced to leave behind his wife and his quiet existence when his past as a government agent is revealed. Not knowing who to trust, he must rely on his strange mind-control powers to reclaim his life in only six days. Kafka finds out his cover is blown when two different groups tell Kafka they're with the CIA - and one of them must be lying. Sunday; Monday. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.00.

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    $5 Kafka #1 FN; Renegade | Steven Seagle - w/Bag+Board

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  • Issue #1-1ST
    Kafka HC (2013 Image) 1-1ST
    Published Jul 2013 by Image.

    1st printing. Written by Steven T. Seagle. Art and Cover by Stefano Guadiano. A MAN WITH NO PAST HAS SIX DAYS TO RECOVER HIS FUTURE. Dan Hutton lost everything. Adrift in the witness relocation program, Dan is told his new identity has been compromised - by two different groups each claiming to be US agents. Not knowing who to trust, Dan runs - back to the world that took everything he loved. Hardcover, 7 1/2-in. x 11-in., 176 pages, full color. Cover price $29.99.

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    $10 Steven T. Seagle Kafka Graphic Novel Hardcover Image Comics Fine Condition

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  • Issue #1-1ST
    Kafka's Manuscript GN (2025 FB) Fantagraphics Underground 1-1ST


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    1st printing. Story and art by Jason Novak. With a stylistic nod to the wordless novels of Frans Maserell and the expressionist drawings of Franz Kafka himself, Jason Noivak's short graphic novel Kafka's Manuscript begins at the author's deathbed, where he entrusts his friend Max Brod with the task of destroying his unpublished papers. Brod refuses, and what follows is the story of how Kafka's literary legacy escaped Europe under the shadow of fascism. It is a survey of Kafka's paranoid landscape in kinetoscopic monochrome. As a master of deadpan satire, Kafka was as eloquent with both words as he was with what was left unsaid. Kafka's Cartoonist Jason Novak seizes upon the unsaid to comment on Kafka's afterlife, exploring in a new way what countless books about Kafka have previously attempted to explore with words. Every epoch has its conundrums, but the qualities that unite our age with Kafka's are a reminder that some characteristics of a culture are perennial. What better way to capture Kafka's enduring but evasive voice than with pantomime? This book is wordless with pages only on the recto; for the press preview, I removed the blank verso pages. Softcover, 5-in.x 7-in., 132 pages, B&W. Cover price $20.00.

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    $9 Kafka's Manuscript - Paperback, by Novak Jason - Very Good
    $9 Fantagraphics Novels & Comics Kafka's Manuscript EX

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  • Issue #1-1ST
    Kafkaesque Fourteen Stories HC (2018 W.W. Norton) 1-1ST


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    1st printing.

    Story and art by Peter Kuper.

    Long fascinated with the work of Franz Kafka, Peter Kuper began illustrating his stories in 1988. Initially drawn to the master's dark humor, Kuper adapted the stories over the years to plumb their deeper truths. Kuper's style deliberately evokes Lynd Ward and Frans Masereel, contemporaries of Kafka whose wordless novels captured much of the same claustrophobia and mania as Kafka's tales. Longtime lovers of Kafka will appreciate Kuper's innovative interpretations, including "A Hunger Artist," "In The Penal Colony," and "The Burrow." Kafkaesque stands somewhere between adaptation and wholly original creation, going beyond a simple illustration of Kafka's words to become a stunning work of art.

    Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 160 pages, full color.

    Cover price $19.95.