Comic books August 1989

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Cover pencils by Norm Dwyer, inks by Jorge Pacheco. Untitled Speed Racer story with Pops, Sparky, Trixie, Spridle, Chim-Chim, Inspector Detector, Satin Turana, Cahill Jones, Elaine Dunhill, Spitfire Morello, Carl Jackson, and Paul Truman, script by Lamar Waldron, pencils by Norm Dwyer, inks by Jim Brozman; Right before a big race originating in Atlanta, Inspector Detector asks Speed to figure out which one of his opponents is actually smuggling a chemical used to process cocaine. Speed Racer centerfold, pencils by Norm Dwyer, inks by Jorge Pacheco. Based on the classic cartoon. 36 pgs. $1.75. Cover price $1.75.

Classic tales of pre-code adventure and passion. Cover art by Darren Goodhart. Article by John Wooley on Spicy pulp characters and their creators, featuring Gail Ford, Dan Turner, and Diana Daw. Doubling For A Moll starring Gail Ford, script and art by Gene Leslie. The Sinister Guest! starring Ray Hale, script and art by Newton Alfred. The Hidden Corpse - Part 1 starring Sally the Sleuth, script and art by Adolphe Barreaux. Diana Daw story, script by Clayton Maxwell, art by Max Plaisted. 36 pgs. $2.25. Cover price $1.95.

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Cover art by Will Eisner. Sammy the Explorer starring the Spirit and Sammy. Willum and the Baron starring Willum and Dick Whittler; Spirit back in the USA. Census '50 starring the Spirit. The Moment of Glory starring the Spirit. Scripts and art by Will Eisner. 36 pgs. $2.00. Cover price $2.00.

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1st printing. By Shane Johnson. Additional color art by Don Ivan Punchatz. For the first time anywhere...here is your guide to the Member Worlds of the United Federation of Planets. Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 10 1/2-in., 160 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $11.95.

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1st printing. By Shane Johnson. Additional color art by Don Ivan Punchatz. For the first time anywhere...here is your guide to the Member Worlds of the United Federation of Planets. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 10 1/2-in., 160 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $11.95.

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Laurence Luckinbill discusses Star Trek V: The Final Frontier; William Shatner interview; director Stuart Gordon discusses Robot Jox; interview with Timothy Dalton on License to Kill; Rick Moranis interview; Tim Burton discusses Batman; William Gibson interview; John Rhys-Davies interview; David Hedison interview; article on Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Cover price $3.95.

Add to cart Fine $6.00

Add to cart Fine $6.00

A double date leads to double trouble for Will and Starman as the Parasite and Rampage arrive in town. Written by Roger Stern, with art by Tom Lyle and Bob Smith. Cover by Lyle. Cover price $1.00.

August 6, 1989. Sunday Comics Section from Stars and Strips Military Newspaper. Strips in this issue include: Beetle Bailey, Hagar, Doonesbury, Apartment 3-G, Hi and Lois, BC, Bloom County, Peanuts, Wizard of Id, Cathy, Prince Valiant, For Better or For Worse, Bob Weber Jr's Comics for Kids, Tank McNamara, Andy Capp, Broomhilda, Henry, Nancy, Spider-Man, Archie, Garfield, Grin and Bear It, Snuffy Smith, Shoe, Calvin and Hobbes, and Blondie. 11" x 15". 16 pages. Color.

August 13, 1989. Sunday Comics Section from Stars and Strips Military Newspaper. Strips in this issue include: Beetle Bailey, Hagar, Doonesbury, Apartment 3-G, Hi and Lois, BC, Peanuts, Wizard of Id, Cathy, Prince Valiant, For Better or For Worse, Bob Weber Jr's Comics for Kids, Tank McNamara, Andy Capp, Broomhilda, Henry, Nancy, Spider-Man, Archie, Garfield, Grin and Bear It, Snuffy Smith, Shoe, Calvin and Hobbes, and Blondie. 11" x 15". 16 pages. Color.

August 20, 1989. Sunday Comics Section from Stars and Strips Military Newspaper. Strips in this issue include: Beetle Bailey, Hagar, Doonesbury, Apartment 3-G, Hi and Lois, BC, Peanuts, Wizard of Id, Cathy, Prince Valiant, For Better or For Worse, Bob Weber Jr's Comics for Kids, Tank McNamara, Andy Capp, Broomhilda, Henry, Nancy, Spider-Man, Archie, Garfield, Grin and Bear It, Snuffy Smith, Shoe, Calvin and Hobbes, and Blondie. 11" x 15". 16 pages. Color.

August 27, 1989. Sunday Comics Section from Stars and Strips Military Newspaper. Strips in this issue include: Beetle Bailey, Hagar, Doonesbury, Apartment 3-G, Hi and Lois, BC, Peanuts, Wizard of Id, Cathy, Prince Valiant, For Better or For Worse, Bob Weber Jr's Comics for Kids, Tank McNamara, Andy Capp, Broomhilda, Henry, Nancy, Spider-Man, Archie, Garfield, Grin and Bear It, Snuffy Smith, Shoe, Calvin and Hobbes, and Blondie. 11" x 15". 16 pages. Color.

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Story: Alan Cowsill and Ian Abbinett. Art: Andrew Currie. Introducing Bor, a new breed of barbarian...The Albona's answer to the wimp factor! Deluxe B&W Format. Cover price $2.00.

Africa Orientale

NOTE: Includes complete game.

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Alan Grant story; Carlos Ezquerra art Cover price $1.50.

Cover by Mark Martin and Brad Foster. Back Cover by J.P. Morgan. "Intergalactic Traveling Salesman" by Doug Potter. "Mini-Man" by Wayne Honath. "Bob Goblin" by David Miller. "Happy Ned" Colin Upton. "Paranoid Man: A Hero for These Troubled Times" by Bob Supina. Additional art and contributions by Colin Upton, Jeffrey Kingman, and Brad Foster. 4 1/4" x 5 1/2", B&W. Cover price $1.50.

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Cover by Karl Kesel. Steel Trap, script by John Ostrander and Kim Yale, art by Grant Miehm, K.S. Wilson, and Kevin Phillips; The Squad is sent to Iran to prevent an execution; Also, Lashina ditches her Duchess disguise and makes her move. Sarge Steel, Amanda Waller, Duchess, Captain Boomerang, Bronze Tiger, Vixen, Ravan, Major Victory, Shade, Big Barda app. 36 pgs., full color. $1.00. Cover price $1.00.

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"By Hook or by Crook!" Story by Jerry Ordway. Art by Kerry Gammill and Dennis Janke. The Man of Steel is horrified to discover that a rash of child abductions in modern day Metropolis may have something to do with a macabre event that took place in 1880 London. Cover price $0.75.

Issue 75. August 22, 1989. Spanish language digest size reprint of World of Smallville (1988) #4. Written by John Byrne and illustrated by Kurt Schaffenberger. Cover by John Byrne. 5.5" x 7.75". 32 pages. Color. NOTE: All text in Spanish.

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Regular Edition - 1st printing. Written by Steve Woron. Art by Steve Woron, Darren Goodhart and Bob Lewis. The year is 4010 AD and the Survivors have awkakened 2,000 years too late to save mankind. Get ready for a sci-fi epic that explores the human nature and man's abilitiy to survive. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 96 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $10.95.

Limited Signed Edition (Signed by Steve Woron) - 1st printing. Written by Steve Woron. Art by Steve Woron, Darren Goodhart and Bob Lewis. The year is 4010 AD and the Survivors have awkakened 2,000 years too late to save mankind. Get ready for a sci-fi epic that explores the human nature and man's abilitiy to survive. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 96 pages, B&W. Mature Readers NOTE: Limited to 500 copies. May or may NOT include print insert. Cover price $15.95.

An anthology series exploring the Turtles world, published in alternate months with the original TMNT title. The Return of Savanti Romero. The time-traveling sorcerer Savanti Romero sends the Turtles into the Cretaceous Era. Story by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird; art by Jim Lawson. Final issue of Volume 1; Volume 2 did not appear until 2004. Black and white; 40 pages. Fantastic wraparound cover by Lawson, with art assists by Ryan Brown and Steven Bissette of Swamp Thing fame. Cover price $1.50. Cover price $1.50.

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Cover art by Barry Blair. Untitled story, script and art by Barry Blair; Gennin and Simon are invited to a merchant's guild meeting to say thank you to them. Bo and Sai search out the Yakuza HQ. Alex and Lee go to the beach. 36 pgs. $1.95. Cover price $1.95.

Down to the River. A mutated leech attacks Raphael and devolves him into an ordinary turtle. Story, art and cover by Rick Veitch of Swamp Thing fame. Black and white; 40 pages. Cover price $1.75. Cover price $1.75.

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Volume 1 - 2nd and later printings. Collects Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1984-1993) #1-3. By Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. Featuring the origin of the heroes in a half-shell and their first fateful duel to the death with the sinister Shredder! Softcover, 124 pages, full color. Cover price $9.95.

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Factories. Story by Ron Fortier. Art by Thomas Tenney. Cover by Konrad Fahrner. A spin-off of the hit movie series, focusing on humanitys battle against the Terminator robot army in the future year of 2031. Tim discovers a baby factory run by nuns underneath the amusement park; the Skynet AI program is revealed. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $1.75.

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Last 75-cent cover price. Cover pencils by Ron Frenz, inks by Joe Sinnott. "War With Wundagore!", script by Tom DeFalco (plot; script) and Ron Frenz (plot), pencils by Ron Frenz, inks by Joe Sinnott (finishes); Thor flies to Wundagore and easily defeats the Knights; Count Tagar is revealed as the mystery man that has been after Thors tissue samples; Mongoose has gone insane, but Count Tagar only wants to bring Hercules and the High Evolutionary back from the Black Galaxy; Thor agrees to help and Eric comes along. Hercules has become one with the Black Galaxy which makes their task all the more difficult. "Let There Be Life!", script by Tom DeFalco, art by Tony DeZuniga; Ulagg performs his task and uses a branch of Yggdrasil to restore life to a lifeless world - Midgard. 36 pgs., full color. $0.75. Cover price $0.75.

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Story by Will Jacobs and Gerard Jones. Art by Chuck Austen and Mike Christian. Cover by Chuck Austen and Gary Martin. An in-joke in comics form. Sidney Mellon, the infamous fanboy/ reviewer for Comics Week and Amazing Heroes, finally gets to write his own comic. The result is a Mary Sue superhero story in which the fight literally gets lost behind the word balloons. The punchline is that Mellon himself was invented by Jacobs and Jones, as a sendup of Comic Book Guys everywhere. 24 pages, B&W. Mature Readers. Cover price $1.95.

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First printing. NOTE: This is a 1st Printing. 1st printings do not have a 2nd or later printing notice in indicia. Written by Ben Edlund. Art by Ben Edlund. Cover by Max Banks. The Tick, Paul and Arthur prepare to battle a million zillion ninjas but end up facing only one. Arthur becomes Tick's sidekick. The Tick pinup by Ben Edlund.44 pgs., B&W. $1.95. Cover price $1.95.

Story, art and cover by Ted Nomura. Sometimes listed as Families of Altered Wars #8. The original, self-published mini-series that established the alternate timeline for the Families of Altered Wars saga. Time travelers interfere with the course of World War II, leading to an alternate 1946, as well as a future in which German female space fighter pilots oppose both an alien invasion and a timeline that should not exist. Unsettling Peace; plus, the design specs for the fighter jets used in the Battle of 2039, including the Cometes, Sagitta, Accipter and Terrafeles. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $3.50.

Cover art by Rurik Tyler (as Madman). "I Learned the Secret of Love," script by Dana Dutch, art by Chuck Miller; Sally takes a chance when she dumps her boring boyfriend Clark for Frank, a sailor, but in spite of everyone else's misgivings, things work out for her; from Teen-Age Diary Secrets #4, September 1949. "I Deceived My Love," art by Rafael Astarita; Mary is an actress filming a movie at an Army base, but when she meets Hal, an officer, she pretends to be in the service herself; When she falls in love, she worries what will happen when he learns the truth; from Realistic Romances #4, February 1952. "Borrowed Love"; Rich orphan girl Carol falls in love with Bruce the gardener in spite of her housekeeper's warnings that he just wants her money; But it's Bruce that discovers that the housekeeper has been gradually poisoning Carol; from Realistic Romances #6, June 1952. "Jilted Sweetheart," art by Rafael Astarita; While on his honeymoon, Pete keeps seeing the ghost of the girl he rejected to marry his rich wife, and the ghost eventually lures him to his death; from Realistic Romances #4, February 1952. "Nightmare Romance!", art by Marion Sitton; Fran falls in love with her new employee Wayde, but he's plotting to take over her business; from Romantic Love #7, September-October 1951. "Deadly Triangle!"; Jane is torn between two men from her past, Danny and Jim, unable to decide between them even though one is a policeman and the other a criminal; from Realistic Romances #2, September-October 1951. Gun Fury ad. 60 pgs., B&W. Cover price $2.95.

It's man vs. machine...in a duel to the death! Plus, introducing the Decepticon Micromasters! Written by Bob Budiansky, with art by Bob Budiansky, Jim Fern and Mike Gustovich. Cover by Jose Delbo and Danny Bulanadi. Cover price $1.00.

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Story and art by Ron Randall. Mercy St. Clair is back! The never-before-told origin of Trekker is revealed in story in which Mercy learns that her mentor has been attacked and vows to track down the would-be assassin. But things get complicated when she discovers the culprit is her former lover! 32 pages, FC. Cover price $2.95.

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UK/British Comic. Cover by John Ridgeway. Mature Readers. B & W comic. "Light Brigade" by Neil Gaiman & Nigel Kitching. "Baccus" by Eddie Campbell. "Shadows" by Mike Collins, Robin Laing, & Pete Martin. "Lowlife" by Gavin Butler & Steve Martin. "St. Swithin's Day" by Grant Morrison and Paul Grist. "Dom Zombi" by Dominic Regan. Cover price $3.50.

Add to cart FN+ 6.5 $3.90

Add to cart Fine $3.60

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Meet super spy and super guy Lester Girls as he saves the world and gets the girl. But he doesn't want adventure, fame, glory and girls. He just wants peace and quiet. In this issue, once again Lester Girls tries to settle down into a normal life in his hometown of Dullsville and once again he has trouble doing that thanks to the C.I.A. who wants the book that his dad left him and the town of Dullsville which wants to take advantage of Lester's fame and Brett Ashley who is struggling with her role in all of this in "The Girls Next Door." Script by Will Jacobs & Gerard Jones and art by Tim Hamilton & Chuck Austen. Cover price $1.95.

Volume 9 #3, Aug. 1989 Cover price $2.50.