PS Artbooks Presents: Classic Adventure Comics HC (2021- PS Artbooks) comic books

Add to cart Very Fine $42.50

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Collects Son of Sinbad (1950) #1, Secret Missions (1950) #1, The Mask of Dr. Fu Manchu (1951) #1, High Adventure (1957 Red Top) #1, and Great Exploits (1957) #1.

Cover by Joe Kubert.

Classic Adventure Comics is just like those old Saturday morning cinema clubs -there's the Son of Sinbad securing the release of the slave girl and recovering a fortune in gems and jewels in the process. Daring exploits of US foreign agents during the Cold War in Secret Missions, and The Mask of Dr. Fu Manchu, and High Adventure and Great Exploits!

All reproduced completely from cover to cover, featuring some of the best comic book talent including Joe Kubert, Carmine Infantino, Wally Wood, Alvin Hollingsworth, Bernie Krigstein, Frank Borth, Art Peddy, Morris Waldinger and Enrico Bagnoli.

Hardcover, 184 pages, full color.

Cover price $46.99.

Add to cart Near Mint $17.00

Volume 3 - 1st printing. Collects The Hooded Menace (1951 One-Shot), The Unknown Man (1951), Marco Polo (1962 Charlton), Robin Hood (1963 Dell), and Robinson Crusoe (1964 Dell).

Cover by Sam Glanzman.

ust take a look here at Volume 3! It's 1903, ex-soldiers from the Spanish-American war prey on new settlers in the US Northwest! Fast forward to the 1950's and "The Unknown Man" the Underworld Gang Lord who controls the Crime Syndicate. Now all the way back to the middle ages for the adventures of the Venetian merchant and explorer Marco Polo in the court of Kubla Khan! And the legends of Robin Hood and his meeting with Little John and the archery contest that was held to trap him! And finally to the 1600's and the epic adventures of Robinson Crusoe!

Featuring Stories by Leslie Charteris, Louis Ravielli, A.C. Hollingsworth, Sam Glanzman, Charles Nicholas, Vince Alascia, and Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio!

Hardcover, 184 pages, full color.

Cover price $46.99.

Add to cart Very Fine $42.50

Volume 6 - 1st printing. "Oct/Dec 1952-Oct/Dec 1953" Collects Combat (1961-1973 Dell) #6-10. Classic Adventures returns to WWII with a series of remarkable accounts of some of the fiercest battles including, "Raid on Regensburg." "Action in the Sunda Strait" where as part of an incredible series of victories in 1941 and 1942, the Japanese smash a combined American-British-Dutch-Australian fleet at the Battle of the Java Sea. The only allied surviving ships, U.S.S. Houston and H.M.A.S. Perth, attempt to fight their way southward toward Australia. A remarkable summary of the ferocious jungle combat between soldiers sworn to victory in "Fighting Back in New Guinea"! The raging battle for Monte Cassino against unseen enemy troops retells the history of the bombing of the oldest monastery in Europe, the Abbey of Monte Cassino. And finally the thunder of a thousand bullets and bombs in the blazing "Battle of Midway." All featuring the stunning artwork of the great Sam Glanzman. Hardcover, 184 pages, full color. Cover price $52.99.