Pantheon comic books issue 1

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Dynasty tries to find members of the Freedom Machine, past and present (including Sundiver and Blackheart)...because there's a fight coming...in "Comrades in Arms." Script by Bill Willingham. Pencils by Mike Leeke. Inks by Bill Williams. Wraparound cover by Leeke & Willingham. Cover price $2.95.

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Volume 1 - 1st printing. "My Father Bleeds History!"

Story and art by Art Spiegelman.

A unique and powerful tale of a Holocaust survivor seen through the art and words of his son, America's leading avant-garde cartoonist.

Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 160 pages, B&W.

Cover price $14.95.

Add to cart Fine $10.00

Volume 1 - 2nd and later printings. "My Father Bleeds History!"

Story and art by Art Spiegelman.

A unique and powerful tale of a Holocaust survivor seen through the art and words of his son, America's leading avant-garde cartoonist.

Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 160 pages, B&W.

Cover price $16.95.

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Cover by The Sharp Brothers. Created by TV and movie star, MICHAEL CHIKLIS! Earth in the near future is a place where the only gods worshipped are money and power. When black-market artifacts dealer Hamilton Finch stumbles upon a cache of ancient treasures, he does not expect to come face-to-face with Zeus himself! Is it true? Do the gods walk among us? And what event has caused them to show themselves after so many millennia? Cover price $3.99.

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Limited 1 for 10 Virgin Variant Cover by The Sharp Brothers. Created by TV and movie star, MICHAEL CHIKLIS! Earth in the near future is a place where the only gods worshipped are money and power. When black-market artifacts dealer Hamilton Finch stumbles upon a cache of ancient treasures, he does not expect to come face-to-face with Zeus himself! Is it true? Do the gods walk among us? And what event has caused them to show themselves after so many millennia? Cover price $3.99.

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1st printing. By Art Spiegelman. Art Spiegelman's Maus is an undisputed modern classic. Part history, part memoir, all comic, it recounts his father's chilling experiences during the Holocaust, with Jews drawn as wide-eyed mice and Nazis as menacing cats. In 1992, it became the first graphic novel to win a Pulitzer Prize. In MetaMaus, Spiegelman welcomes readers into his world and the thirteen years-long artistic process behind his seminal book. In extensive interviews with the author and his family-including Spiegelman's original conversation with his father, which served as the foundational narrative of Maus-MetaMaus grapples with the original work's most foundational questions: Why write about the Holocaust? Why choose comics as a medium? Why mice? Richly interspersed with excerpts from Spiegelman's own sketchbooks, as well as drawings by Holocaust survivors and archival photographs, MetaMaus is a vivid glimpse into the creative life of an artist, the vital work of a historian, and the birth of a magnum opus. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 304 pages, full color. Cover price $25.00.

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Volume 1 - 2nd and later printings. "The Story of a Childhood!" Story and art by Marjane Satrapi. Persepolis is the funny and tragic memoir of an unforgettable girlhood in contemporary Iran - powerfully brought to life in striking black-and-white comic-strip renderings. The daughter of radical Marxists and the great-ganddaughter of Iran's last emperor, Marjane Satrapi's graphic depiction of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen brings home, with eloquence and force, the contradictions between private and public life in a country plagued by political upheavals. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 168 pages, B&W. Cover price $17.95.

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1st printing. Collects classic Disney comic strips from the 1930s. Hardcover (Horizontal Format), 192 pages, 11-in. x 9 1/2-in., full color. Cover price $39.95.

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2nd and later printings. Collects Persepolis Vol. 1 "The Story of a Childhood" and Vol. 2 "The Story of a Return!" Story and art by Marjane Satrapi. Published to wide acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, she tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects of war with Iraq. The intelligent and outspoken only child of committed Marxists and the great-granddaughter of one of Iran's last emperors, Marjane bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country. Intensely personal, profoundly political, and wholly original, Persepolis is at once a story of growing up and a stunning reminder of the human cost of war and political repression. Softcover, 6-in. x 8 1/2-in., 344 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $24.95.

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NOTE: This graphic novel was adapted into a film in 2024 directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks and Robin Wright.

1st printing. Story and art by Richard McGuire. Richard McGuire's Here is the story of a corner of a room and the events that happened in that space while moving forward and backward in time. The book experiments with formal properties of comics, using multiple panels to convey the different moments in time. A dinosaur from 100,000,000 BCE lumbers by, while a child is playing with a plastic toy that resembles the same dinosaur in the year 1999. Conversations appear to be happening between two people who are centuries apart. Cycles of glaciers transform into marshes, then into forests, then into farmland. A city develops and grows into a suburban sprawl. Here is truly a pioneering comic vision. Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 320 pages, full color. Cover price $35.00.

Add to cart Very Fine $41.00

Volume 1 - 2nd and later printings. "My Father Bleeds History!"

Story and art by Art Spiegelman.

A unique and powerful tale of a Holocaust survivor seen through the art and words of his son, America's leading avant-garde cartoonist.

Hardcover, 160 pages, B&W.

Cover price $18.00.

Add to cart Very Good $32.00

Previews Exclusive Edition (Wraparound Cover) - 1st printing. Includes 11in. x 17-in. SHAZAM insert. By Chip Kidd and Geoff Spear. Art by Alex Ross. Introduction by M. Night Shyamalan. From Kingdom Come through JLA: Liberty and Justice, here are the most beloved characters in the world, as you've never seen them before: brought to life at the hands of one of the most astonishing young artists working in the medium today, Alex Ross! Included herein are the best of his DC Comics drawings and paintings: hundreds of amazing, never-before-seen sketches, limited-edition prints, an inside look at Ross' creative process, an exclusive, original Superman/Batman story written by Chip Kidd and painted by Ross, and an all-new Robin origin story written by Paul Dini. This special Previews Exclusive Edition of Mythology is limited to 4,000 copies, and features a stunning, previously unpublished dust jacket illustration, plus a bonus 11" x 17" insert featuring a retro-styled punch-out SHAZAM toy airplane you can build and fly! Hardcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 272 pages, full color. NOTE: Limited to 4,000 copies. Cover price $35.00.

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1st printing.

Story and art by David Heatley.

David Heatley had an unquestionably troubled and eccentric childhood: father a sexually repressed alcoholic, mother an overworked compulsive overeater.

Then David's parents enter the world of 12-step programs and find a sense of support and community. It seems to help. David, meanwhile, grows up struggling with his own troublesome sexual urges and seeking some way to make sense of it all. Eventually he starts attending meetings too. More and more meetings. Meetings for issues he doesn't have. With stark, sharply drawn art and unflinching honesty, Heatley explores the strange and touching relationships he develops, and the truths about himself and his family he is forced to confront while "working" an ever-increasing number of programs.

Hardcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 416 pages, B&W.

Cover price $26.95.

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1st printing. Story and art by Charles Burns. From the creator of Black Hole, the first volume of an epic masterpiece of graphic fiction in brilliant color! Doug is having a strange night. A weird buzzing noise on the other side of the wall has woken him up, and there, across the room, next to a huge hole torn out of the bricks, sits his beloved cat, Inky, who died years ago. What's going on? Drawing inspiration from such diverse influences as Hergé and William Burroughs, Charles Burns has given us a dazzling spectral fever-dream - and a comic-book masterpiece. Hardcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 56 pages, full color. Cover price $19.95.

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1st printing. Story and art by Craig Thompson. Habibi is a deeply romantic story that explores and celebrates the beauty and cruelty, the complexity and depths of the Islamic world. Craig's stunning artwork is matched by the haunting strories of his characters' lives. Set in a mythical Middle East, at once contemporary and timeless, Habibi is a parable about our relationship to the natural world, about the cultural divide between the First World and the Third World, and about the common heritage of Christianity and Islam. The magic of storytelling allows us to see the fragility embedded in cruelty, to understand how beauty can preserve us from destruction and how love can save us from loss of hope. Hardcover, 672 pages, B&W. Cover price $35.00.

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1st printing. By Ben Katchor. Ben Katchor, a master at twisting mundane commodities into surreal objects of social significance, now takes on the many ways our property influences and reflects cultural values. Here are window-ledge pillows designed expressly for people-watching and a forest of artificial trees for sufferers of hay fever. With cutting wit Katchor reveals a world similar to our own - lives are defined by possessions, consumerism is a kind of spirituality - but also slightly, fabulously askew. Hardcover, 11-in. x 12-in., 160 pages, B&W. Cover price $29.95.

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1st printing. Art Spiegelman defined the graphic novel memoir with his Pulitzer Prize-winning MAUS, which narrated his father's experiences in Auschwitz. Growing up with Holocaust survivor parents, he was taught that no place is truly safe. Spiegelman finally experienced that truth for himself on 9/11, as he and his wife raced to find their daughter, attending her first day of school two blocks away from the World Trade Center. The fragmented nature of the art and text reflect the scattered, painfully vivid thoughts that Spiegelman had both during and after those traumatic moments. The oversized, full-color spreads include panels drawn realistically, drawn MAUS-style (i.e., Spiegelman depicts himself as a mouse), and drawn in the style of early 20th century comics such as the Katzenjammer Kids and Bringing up Father. Those early comics were a comfort to Spiegelman during the terror and paranoia he felt (and still feels) post-9/11, and the book closes with a short history and reprints of those comics, which seem startlingly relevant to the current political situation. Hardcover, 10-in. x 14 1/2-in., 40 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $19.95.

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2nd and later printings. Art Spiegelman defined the graphic novel memoir with his Pulitzer Prize-winning MAUS, which narrated his father's experiences in Auschwitz. Growing up with Holocaust survivor parents, he was taught that no place is truly safe. Spiegelman finally experienced that truth for himself on 9/11, as he and his wife raced to find their daughter, attending her first day of school two blocks away from the World Trade Center. The fragmented nature of the art and text reflect the scattered, painfully vivid thoughts that Spiegelman had both during and after those traumatic moments. The oversized, full-color spreads include panels drawn realistically, drawn MAUS-style (i.e., Spiegelman depicts himself as a mouse), and drawn in the style of early 20th century comics such as the Katzenjammer Kids and Bringing up Father. Those early comics were a comfort to Spiegelman during the terror and paranoia he felt (and still feels) post-9/11, and the book closes with a short history and reprints of those comics, which seem startlingly relevant to the current political situation. Hardcover, 10-in. x 14 1/2-in., 40 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $19.95.

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1st printing. By Ben Katchor. In this long awaited collection of strange and strangely absorbing urban adventures, Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer, takes to the streets to discover a lost metropolis and its residents, summoning up half-forgotten yesterdays and celebrating the surreal substrate of the quotidian. Includes 90 stories, some a single strip, others many pages long never before published. Hardcover (Horizontal Format), 11-in. x 8 1/2-in., 108 pages, B&W. Cover price $22.00.

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1st printing.

Story and art by Chris Ware.

A major graphic novel event more than 16 years in progress.

Rusty Brown is a fully interactive, full-color articulation of the time-space interrelationships of three complete consciousnesses in the first half of a single midwestern American day and the tiny piece of human grit about which they involuntarily orbit. A sprawling, special snowflake accumulation of the biggest themes and the smallest moments of life, Rusty Brown literately and literally aims at nothing less than the coalescence of one half of all of existence into a single museum-quality picture story, expertly arranged to present the most convincingly ineffable and empathetic illusion of experience for both life-curious readers and traditional fans of standard reality.

From childhood to old age, no frozen plotline is left unthawed in the entangled stories of a child who awakens without superpowers, a teen who matures into a paternal despot, a father who stores his emotional regrets on the surface of Mars and a late-middle-aged woman who seeks the love of only one other person on planet Earth.

Hardcover, 11-in. x 17-in., 352 pages, full color.

Cover price $35.00.

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1st printing. Based ont he novel by Philip K. Dick. A haunting graphic version of the best-selling novel, composed entirely of stills from the animated motion picture starring Keanu Reeves, scheduled for release in 2006. Bob Arctor is a dealer of the lethally addictive drug Substance D. Fred is the police agent assigned to tail and eventually bust him. To do so, Fred takes on the identity of a drug dealer named Bob Arctor. And since Substance D - which Arctor takes in massive doses - gradually splits the user's brain into two distinct, combative entities, Fred doesn't realize he is narcing on himself. Hardcover (Horizontal Format), 9-in. x 6-in., 192 pages, full color. Cover price $23.95.

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Story, art and wraparound cover by Walter S. Crane IV. A one-shot guide to the world of Walter Cranes Sheba, Cleopatras cat who has been revived by Egyptian magic. Character profiles of the gods and mortals in Shebas world. Also, a look at some of Cranes earlier strips featuring Sheba. 24 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.

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1st printing. Story and art by Michael Cho. Corinna Park used to have big plans. In college, she imagined writing a best-selling novel and leading the idealized life of an author. After graduation, she moved to a big city and took a job at an advertising agency - just to pay off her student loans. Now she's worked in the same office for five years and the only thing she's written is copy. She feels numbed by the monotony of a life experienced through a series of screens. But whenever she shoplifts a magazine from the corner store near her apartment, she feels a little more alive. Yet Corinna knows there must be something more to life, and she faces the same question as does everyone of her generation: how to find it? Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 96 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $19.95.

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Add to cart FN/VF 7.0 $575.00 or Best Offer View scans Signed and remarked by Matt Groening (splash). Autographed copy sticker on cover. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

1st printing.

Matt Groening (creator of The Simpsons and Futurama) takes a peculiar yet insightful look at the work place reveasling that there are 9 types of bosses, 81 types of employees, how to kill 8 hours without getting fired, and much more!. Collects comic strips from his other creation - Life in Hell. Groening used Life in Hell to explore a wide range of topics about love, sex, work, and death.

Softcover (Saddle-Stitched/Stapled), 9-in. x 9-in., 48 pages, B&W.

Cover price $5.95.

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1st printing. By Marisa Acocella Marchetto. "What happens when a shoe-crazy, lipstick-obsessed, wine-swilling, pasta-slurping, fashion-fanatic, about-to-get-married big-city girl cartoonist with a fabulous life finds a lump in her breast?" That's the question that sets this poignant graphic memoir in motion. In vivid color and with a taboo-breaking sense of humor, Marisa Acocella Marchetto tells the story of her eleven-month, ultimately triumphant bout with breast cancer - from diagnosis to cure, and every challenging step in between. Acclaimed as one of Time.com's top ten graphic novels of the year. Softcover, 8-in. x 8-in., 224 pages. Full Color. Cover price $16.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $27.99

Add to cart Near Mint $27.99

2nd and later printings. Story and art by Marjane Satrapi. For the first time in hardcover, a stunning twentieth anniversary collected edition of "the most original coming-of-age story from the Middle East yet" (People), with a new introduction by the author that examines the Iranian political landscape in the context of global politics. Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed memoir-in-comic-strips. Persepolis is the story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private and public life in a country plagued by political upheaval; of her high school years in Vienna facing the trials of adolescence far from her family; of her homecoming sweet and terrible; and, finally, of her self-imposed exile from her beloved homeland. It is the chronicle of a girlhood and adolescence at once outrageous and familiar, a young life entwined with the history of her country yet filled with the universal trials and joys of growing up. HSoftcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 352 pages, full color. Cover price $28.00.

Add to cart Near Mint $34.99

Add to cart Near Mint $34.99

2nd and later printings. Story and art by Marjane Satrapi. For the first time in hardcover, a stunning twentieth anniversary collected edition of "the most original coming-of-age story from the Middle East yet" (People), with a new introduction by the author that examines the Iranian political landscape in the context of global politics. Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed memoir-in-comic-strips. Persepolis is the story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private and public life in a country plagued by political upheaval; of her high school years in Vienna facing the trials of adolescence far from her family; of her homecomingsweet and terrible; and, finally, of her self-imposed exile from her beloved homeland. It is the chronicle of a girlhood and adolescence at once outrageous and familiar, a young life entwined with the history of her country yet filled with the universal trials and joys of growing up. Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 352 pages, full color. Cover price $35.00.

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Add to cart Near Mint $4.00

1st printing.

Story and art by Riad Sattouf.

The hilarious, heartbreaking, and painfully true life of a girl growing up in Paris, from the author of The Arab of the Future.

Every week, the comic book artist Riad Sattouf has a chat with his friend's 10-year old daughter, Esther. She tells him about her life, her family, her school, her friends, her hopes, her dreams and her fears. And then he creates a one-page comic strip based on what she says.

This book is a collection of 156 of those strips, comprising the first three volumes as they appeared in Europe, spanning Esther's life from age 10 to 12.

Hardcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 168 pages, full color.

Cover price $30.00.

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1st printing.

Story and art by Kristen Radtke.

A gorgeous graphic memoir about loss, love, and confronting grief.

When Kristen Radtke was in college, the sudden death of a beloved uncle and the sight of an abandoned mining town after his funeral marked the beginning moments of a lifelong fascination with ruins and with people and places left behind. Over time, this fascination deepened until it triggered a journey around the world in search of ruined places. She leads us through deserted cities in the American Midwest, an Icelandic town buried in volcanic ash, islands in the Philippines, New York City, and the delicate passageways of the human heart. Along the way, we learn about her family and a rare genetic heart disease that has been passed down through generations, and revisit tragic events in America's past.

Hardcover, 7-in. x 9-in., 288 pages, B&W.

Cover price $29.95.

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1st printing.

Compiled and Designed by Chipp Kidd with Geoff Spear. Introduction by J.J. Abrams.

Thirteen years after his Eisner Award-winning, nationally best-selling Mythology, here is Alex Ross' long-awaited Marvel Comics counterpart, a retrospective celebration of the other half of the comics galaxy that is currently ruling the world: Spider-Man, Iron Man, Captain America, Black Panther, the Avengers, the X-Men, Doctor Strange, the Guardians of the Galaxy, and the Fantastic Four.

Marvelocity includes more than 50 never-been-published sketches, paintings, photographs and working models, and other preparatory art, and a 14-panel portfolio gallery of Marvel's most beloved characters. And Ross has written a new 10-page story pitting Spider-Man against the Sinister Six, the webslinger's most popular villains, that ends with a stunning twist.

Hardcover, 9 1/2-in. x 12-in., 312 pages, PC/PB&W.

Cover price $50.00.

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1st printing. By Hillary Chute. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Art Spiegelman is one of our most influential contemporary artists; it is hard to overstate his effect on postwar American culture. MAUS has shaped the fields of literature, history, and art, and enlivened our collective sense of possibilities for expression. Richly illustrated with images from Art Spiegelman's work, MAUS NOW gathers together many of contemporary culture's leading critics, authors, and academics on the radical achievement and innovation of MAUS more than forty years since its first publication. Hardcover, 432 pages, Text (with B&W Illustrations). Cover price $28.00.

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1st printing. Written by Marc Andreyko. Art by Stephen Molnar. Cover by Sharp Bros. Earth in the near future is a place where the only gods worshipped are money and power. When black-market artifacts dealer Hamilton Finch stumbles upon a cache of ancient treasures, he does not expect to come face-to-face with Zeus himself! Is it true? Do the gods walk among us? And what event has caused them to show themselves after so many millennia? Panteon was created by celebrity actor Michael Chiklis (Fantatsic Four, The Shield)! Softcover, 128 pages, full color. Cover price $19.99.

Add to cart Near Mint $19.99

Add to cart Near Mint $19.99

Volume 1 - 2nd and later printings. "The Story of a Childhood!" Story and art by Marjane Satrapi. Persepolis is the funny and tragic memoir of an unforgettable girlhood in contemporary Iran - powerfully brought to life in striking black-and-white comic-strip renderings. The daughter of radical Marxists and the great-ganddaughter of Iran's last emperor, Marjane Satrapi's graphic depiction of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen brings home, with eloquence and force, the contradictions between private and public life in a country plagued by political upheavals. Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 168 pages, B&W. Cover price $17.95.

Add to cart Very Fine $23.50

1st printing. Based on the Story by Raymond Chandler. Adapted by Arvind Ethan David. Art and cover by Ilias Kyriazis. Foreword by Ben H. Winters. The hard-boiled world of Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler's iconic private eye, comes to vivid life in this brilliant graphic novel adaptation of the classic noir tale. In 1940s Los Angeles, a sour-faced millionaire hires Philip Marlowe, a hard-boiled, harder-drinking detective, to scare off a suspected gold digger who has got her claws into his even wealthier stepson. Marlowe takes the case but quickly discovers that Harriett Huntress isn't just after gold: she's playing a long, cold game of revenge... Marlowe forms an alliance with George, the client's chauffeur-cum-bodyguard-cum-fixer. George is a black, Dartmouth educated veteran with a sniper's skills and his own agenda, and the two uneasy allies find themselves on the wrong end of a brace of hired killers and an enigmatic casino boss... It rapidly becomes clear that Marlowe, sticking his nose where it doesn't belong, is just asking for trouble. But that's the thing. Trouble is his business. Hardcover, 7-in. x 11-in., 128 pages, full color. Cover price $29.00.

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1st printing. Written by Jack Banish and John Jackson Miller. Art and cover by Eduardo Francisco. Revealed here is the never-before-told tale of how the conflict between the gods began-from the assassination of Zeus, to the goddess Hel tricking Thor into attacking her own father Loki, to the death of Ares and the plunging of the Pantheons into all-out war! Collects the three-issue digital series. Softcover, 88 pages, full color. Cover price $14.99.

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First Printing - This book contains a sneak peek of the first two chapters of "Soon I Will be Invincible" by Austin Grossman. 6" x 9", 34 pages.

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1st printing. Story and art by Sydney Padua. A unique take on the unrealized invention of the computer in the 1830s by the eccentric polymath Charles Babbage and his accomplice, the daughter of Lord Byron, Ada, Countess of Lovelace. When Ada translated Babbage's plans for the "Difference Engine," her footnotes contained the first appearance of the general computing theory, 100 years before an actual computer was built. Sydney Padua gives us an alternate reality in which Lovelace and Babbage build the Difference Engine, and then use it to do battle with the American banking system, the publishing industry, their own fears that their project will lose funding, and a villainous street musician who will force the two friends to reevaluate their priorities-"for the sake of both London and science." Hardcover, 320 pages, B&W. Cover price $28.95.

Add to cart Fine $15.50

2nd and later printings. Story and art by Sydney Padua. A unique take on the unrealized invention of the computer in the 1830s by the eccentric polymath Charles Babbage and his accomplice, the daughter of Lord Byron, Ada, Countess of Lovelace. When Ada translated Babbage's plans for the "Difference Engine," her footnotes contained the first appearance of the general computing theory, 100 years before an actual computer was built. Sydney Padua gives us an alternate reality in which Lovelace and Babbage build the Difference Engine, and then use it to do battle with the American banking system, the publishing industry, their own fears that their project will lose funding, and a villainous street musician who will force the two friends to reevaluate their priorities-"for the sake of both London and science." Hardcover, 320 pages, B&W. Cover price $28.95.