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Library of American Comics Essentials HC (2012- IDW) comic books 2014-2016

  • Issue #4-1ST
    Library of American Comics Essentials HC (2012- IDW) 4-1ST

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    Volume 4 - 1st printing. "1939: Alley Oop: The First Time Travel Adventure!"

    Story and Art by VT Hamlin.

    In 1939, Vincent Trout Hamlin had been writing and drawing the successful Alley Oop for more than five years. In Alley Oop, Hamlin created a unique concept, marrying his fascination with dinosaurs and prehistoric times to a rollicking style of storytelling and drawing that was simultaneously serious, fantastic, and loaded with slapstick. The series was set in the kingdom of Moo and starred Alley Oop, the club-wielding caveman, his girlfriend Ooola, friends Dinny the dinosaur and Foozy, and more! This volume features Oop's final Moo adventure, followed by his trips to the 20th Century and ancient Greece. Hamlin would send his characters everywhere and everywhen - but the classic Alley Oop begins with the stories contained in this volume.

    Hardcover (Horizontal Format), 11 1/2-in. x 4 1/2-in., 336 pages, B&W.

    Cover price $24.99.

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    $65 LOAC Essentials Volume 4: Alley Oop 1939 - Hardcover By Hamlin, V T - GOOD

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  • Issue #5-1ST
    Library of American Comics Essentials HC (2012- IDW) 5-1ST

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    Volume 5 - 1st printing. "1930: The Bungle Family!"

    Story and Art by Harry J. Tuthill.

    Art Spiegelman called The Bungle Family "the most underrated comic strip in our history." Bill Blackbeard wrote, "There has been nothing like it in comic strips since." Hogan's Alley magazine proclaimed, "The Bungle Family was about as wholly an adult comic strip as the field has ever known." Yet only sporadic examples of Harry J. Tuthill's masterpiece have been available to modern readers. Until now! This volume-collecting the complete 1930 dailies-remedies that situation.

    Hardcover (Horizontal Format), 11 1/2-in. x 4 1/2-in., 336 pages, B&W.

    Cover price $24.99.

  • Issue #6-1ST
    Library of American Comics Essentials HC (2012- IDW) 6-1ST

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    Volume 6 - 1st printing. "1917: Baron Bean!"

    Story and Art by George Herriman.

    The New York Journal of Books says that the first volume of LOAC Essentials (Baron Bean 1916) "sets the standard for archival and reprint quality." The Washington Times writes that it's "beautiful. It showcases Mr. Herriman's developing style and his move toward a combination of absurdity, surrealism, and art deco." Volume Six presents the second year of George Herriman's much-lauded pre-Krazy Kat masterpiece.

    Hardcover (Horizontal Format), 11 1/2-in. x 4 1/2-in., 328 pages, B&W.

    Cover price $29.99.

  • Issue #7-1ST
    Library of American Comics Essentials HC (2012- IDW) 7-1ST

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    Volume 7 - 1st printing. "1929: Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan of the Apes!"

    Story and Art by Hal Foster and Rex Maxon.

    The first 300 daily Tarzan comics ever produced, all in one place! LOAC Essentials brings you all of Hal Foster's first comics work, reproduced from ERB's syndicate proofs. In addition, this book includes "The Return of Tarzan," "Beasts of Tarzan," and "Son of Tarzan," each drawn by Rex Maxon.

    Hardcover (Horizontal Format), 11 1/2-in. x 4 1/2-in., 328 pages, B&W.

    Cover price $29.99.

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    $28 LOAC Essentials Volume 7: Tarzan The Original Dailies - Hardcover - GOOD

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  • Issue #8-1ST
    Library of American Comics Essentials HC (2012- IDW) 8-1ST

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    Volume 8 - 1st printing. "1934: Krazy Kat - King Features Essentials: Book 1!"

    Story and Art by George Herriman.

    Much attention has been paid to Herrriman's Sunday full-page comics, yet it is in the daily Krazy Kat strips that the cartoonist most frankly illustrates many of his major themes, especially the shifting nature of social identity. The 1934 strips reprinted in this book fit anyone's definition of "essential." They show Krazy Kat at top speed, ever-changing, endlessly inventive, with language that sparkles with double meanings and more in lines such as "his malady drills me to my sole." The year includes homages to old jokes and bricks, followed by playful references to sex, drink, and even drugs. The daily Krazy Kat strips are often Herriman's most personal works and standouts in this year include Krazy Kat's attempt to write a memoir and the Kat's quietly waiting for the last leaf of "ottim" to fall (a tender scene that finds echoes in Charles Schulz's drawing Linus admiring the last autumn's leaf stubborn spirit). It could also be argued that the daily is more accessible to the new reader. Herriman biographer Michael Tisserand provides an insightful introduction.

    Hardcover (Horizontal Format), 12-in. x 4-in., 328 pages, B&W.

    Cover price $29.99.

  • Issue #9-1ST
    Library of American Comics Essentials HC (2012- IDW) 9-1ST

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    Volume 9 - 1st printing. "1933: Tyler's Luck - King Features Essentials: Book 2!"

    Written by Lyman Young. Art and cover by Alex Raymond.

    These never-before-collected strips represent an essential transition point that would forever change the direction of adventure comics. Lyman Young's Tim Tyler's Luck was a successful series set in exotic locales before Alex Raymond signed on as Young's assistant. It's in these 1932-1933 strips, as Raymond assumed greater and greater responsibility for the drawing, that he developed the prototypes for Flash Gordon, Dale Arden, and Jungle Jim, and the style for which he became famous a year later.

    Hardcover (Horizontal Format), 12-in. x 4-in., 392 pages, B&W.

    Cover price $29.99.