Comic Book comic books issue 1

1st printing. By Liam Burke. In the summer of 2000 X-Men surpassed all box office expectations and ushered in an era of unprecedented production of comic book film adaptations. This trend, now in its second decade, has blossomed into Hollywood's leading genre. From superheroes to Spartan warriors, The Comic Book Film Adaptation offers the first dedicated study to examine how comic books moved from the fringes of popular culture to the center of mainstream film production. It considers the cultural traumas, business demands, and digital possibilities that Hollywood faced at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 384 pages, B&W. Cover price $30.00.

3rd Edition. Fanzine created by Scott Saavedra. 8 1/2" x 5 1/2", 16 pages, B&W. Cover price $1.00.

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One-Shot. 1999. Digest size. Collects portions of the first four issues of "Comic Book Heaven". 5.5" x 8.5". 32 pages. Black and white. Cover price $1.95.

1st Edition - 1st printing. "The First History of Modern Comic Books!" By Will Jacobs and Gerard Jones. This is the first history of modern comic books. From 1956 to the early 1980s, this volume covers it all. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 292 pages, Text (with B&W Chapter Illustrations). Cover price $11.95.

1st Edition - 2nd and later printings. "The First History of Modern Comic Books!" By Will Jacobs and Gerard Jones. This is the first history of modern comic books. From 1956 to the early 1980s, this volume covers it all. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 292 pages, Text (with B&W Chapter Illustrations). Cover price $11.95.

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Revised Edition - 1st printing. "The First History of Modern Comic Books!" By Will Jacobs and Gerard Jones. This is the first history of modern comic books. From 1956 to the mid-1990s, this volume covers it all. Softcover, 416 pages, Text (with B&W Chapter Illustrations). Cover price $19.95.

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Written by Fred Van Lente. Art and Cover by Ryan Dunlavey. The bestselling, mind-blowing graphic history of our favorite medium continues-with the long birth of the Graphic Novel, spanning from1835 Switzerland to the USA today! How French and Belgian comics broke away from the American tradition-and inspired Heavy Metal and a sci-fi comics revolution! Starring: Will Eisner! Moebius! Gil Kane! Herge! Rodolfe Töpffer! 28 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.

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Written by Fred Van Lente. Art and Cover by Ryan Dunlavey. The bestselling, mind-blowing graphic history of our favorite medium continues-with the long birth of the Graphic Novel, spanning from1835 Switzerland to the USA today! How French and Belgian comics broke away from the American tradition-and inspired Heavy Metal and a sci-fi comics revolution! Starring: Will Eisner! Moebius! Gil Kane! Herge! Rodolfe Töpffer! 28 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.

1st printing. By Johnny Ryan. In these 120 raunchy, parody-packed pages, Ryan mocks every kind of comic imaginable. Comic Book Holocaust skewers characters of all types, from newspaper strip icons and alternative favorites to the stars of Manga, sci-fi, kid's, and superhero comics. This hilarious and irreverent sketchbook collection continues the Johnny Ryan brand of gleefully perverse humor! Softcover, 6-in. x 8-in., 128 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $9.95.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. A Comic Book Index to Authors, Illustrators and Characters. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 494 pages, B&W. Cover price $29.95.

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Story and art by Mark Crilley.

On her quest to turn her story into a comic book, Emily visits her comic book shop and local comics convention, where she meets three mentors. Trudy, a high school student working on comics of her own, teaches Emily how to create expressive characters and how art can convey action and suspense.

Madeline, a self-published manga artist, teaches Emily how to use panel composition and layout to tell a story visually and how to develop a comic from script to sketch to finished pages. Sophie, a professional graphic novelist, guides Emily through fine-tuning the details of dialogue, sequence, and pacing to lead readers through the story.

Each lesson builds off the previous information and skills presented, and the sequential art format provides the perfect vehicle for step-by-step instruction.

Softcover, 160 pages, full color. All Ages

Cover price $18.99.

Vanguard Revised Edition - 1st printing. By Joe Simon and Jim Simon. The Comic Book Makers tells the real stories of the Golden Age era, written by a leading participant of the age! Joe Simon tells the compelling, definitive history of the creators. Meet the crime comics editor who would himself be accused of a gruesome murder, the horror artist who was periodically released from a mental hospital in order to meet his publishing deadlines, the famous Senator Estes Kefauver, whose subcommittee investigated comic books as a cause of juvenile delinquency, and dozens of other fascinating personalities! Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 192 pages, PC/PB&W Cover price $19.95.

Cover art by Neal Adams, Back cover sketch of The Shadow by Mike Kaluta. Indexes for Marvel, DC, Timely, and EC comics.8-in. x 11-in. 64 Pages B&W. Cover price $1.00.

1st printing. By Bradford W. Wright. An engaging, illuminating, and provocative history of comic books as both a medium of artistic expression and an industry, Comic Book Nation traces the ways in which comic books have reflected national events and attitudes. This paperback edition features a new postscript scribed by author Wright detailing industry developments in the 1990s as well as a new chapter - "Spider-Man at Ground Zero" - exploring the response of comic book artists to the 9/11 tragedy. Hardcover, 340 pages, Text (with B&W Chapter Illustrations and photos). Cover price $19.95.

1st printing. By Bradford W. Wright. An engaging, illuminating, and provocative history of comic books as both a medium of artistic expression and an industry, Comic Book Nation traces the ways in which comic books have reflected national events and attitudes. This paperback edition features a new postscript scribed by author Wright detailing industry developments in the 1990s as well as a new chapter - "Spider-Man at Ground Zero" - exploring the response of comic book artists to the 9/11 tragedy. Softcover, 352 pages, Text (with B&W Chapter Illustrations and photos). Cover price $19.95.

2nd and later printings. By Bradford W. Wright. An engaging, illuminating, and provocative history of comic books as both a medium of artistic expression and an industry, Comic Book Nation traces the ways in which comic books have reflected national events and attitudes. This paperback edition features a new postscript scribed by author Wright detailing industry developments in the 1990s as well as a new chapter - "Spider-Man at Ground Zero" - exploring the response of comic book artists to the 9/11 tragedy. Softcover, 352 pages, Text (with B&W Chapter Illustrations and photos). Cover price $19.95.

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Comic Book Nerd is Pete Von Sholly's side-splitting parody of the fan press! Experience the magic of such parody publications as Whizzer, the Comics Urinal, Ultra Ego, Comics Buyer's Guise, Bagged Issue!, Comic Book Meatmarket, Scrawl!, Comic Book Artiste, Purviews, and more. This magazine unabashedly pokes fun at the comics industry! (Twomorrows Publishing) (C: 0-1-2) Magazine, 68pgs, FC Cover price $8.95.

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1st printing. By Arnold Roth. From dogs and cats to horses, birds and fish, this book celebrates those wonderful critters that bring joy to your life. Softcover, 8-in. x 9-in., 64 pages, PC/PB&W. All Ages

2nd and later printings. By Arnold Roth. From dogs and cats to horses, birds and fish, this book celebrates those wonderful critters that bring joy to your life. Softcover, 8-in. x 9-in., 64 pages, PC/PB&W. All Ages Cover price $1.69.

1st printing. BY Jackie Estrada. This high-quality hardcover coffee table book offers a unique peek at the comics industry in the 1990s. It features some 600 candid photos of comics creators taken by Jackie Estrada at the San Diego Comic-Con, WonderCon, Chicago ComiCon, APE, SPX, and other shows during the decade, along with commentary and anecdotes about each person. The photos depict not only the big names of the period but also up-and-coming stars early in their careers as well as Golden and Silver Age comic book greats who were still with us. Hardcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 160 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $34.95.

Issue 1. Written by Gary M. Carter. All pricing and related information is used with permission from Overstreet. 8" x 10.75". 56 pages. Black and white. Cover price $4.95.

1st printing. By Karl Stock. The influence of the comic book has never been greater, from movies to streaming and beyond, but the journey comics took from little-regarded kids' magazines to literary prize-winning books and global franchises turned on a highly unusual group of writers and artists. Few would have expected a small gathering of British comic book fans and creators in the early 'seventies to be a global cultural pivot-point, but this was the start of a disparate movement of punks, dropouts and disaffected youths who reinvented a medium and became the imaginative heart of a global success story. Based on years of interviews with a generation of leading writers, artists and editors, Karl Stock reveals the true story of the wild times, passion and determination that helped, hindered and saw the reinvention of comics. Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 500 pages, B&W. Cover price $32.99.

1st printing. Written by Ron Goulart. An Encyclopedic Look at America's Favorite Art Form. With entries on the characters and comics from the beginnings of the form in the 1930's to the present, The Comic Book Reader's Companion offers readers and collectors essential information on the history and development of the American comic book, including when and where the characters first appeared and how they changed over the years, plus concise entries on teh publication history of the titles and series important to the genre. Softcover, 7-in. x 9-in., 198 page, Text (with B&W Illustrations). Cover price $15.00.

1st printing. By Stanley Wiater and Stephen R. Bissetee. Featuring conversations with the Mavericks of the industry. Includes: Basics: What are the new comics? with Scott McCloud and Larry Marder. Roots: The Undergrounds Ascending with Jack Jackson, Richard Corben, Lee marrs, and Howard Cruse. Mavericks and Moguls: Publish or Perish with Denis Kitchen, Dave Sims, Keven Eastman, Peter Laird, Jarvey Pekar, and Joyce Brabner. International Ambassadors: The Worldly Storytellers with Jean "Moebius" Giraud, Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell, Neil Gaiman, and Dave McKean. And, The New Independents: Pass the Ammunition with Frank Miller, Colleen Doran, Rick Veitch, Todd McFarlane, and Will Eisner. Hardcover, 312 pages, Text (with B&W Illustartions and Photos). Cover price $25.00.

Limited Signed Edition - 1st printing. By Stanley Wiater and Stephen R. Bissetee. Featuring conversations with the Mavericks of the industry. Includes: Basics: What are the new comics? with Scott McCloud and Larry Marder. Roots: The Undergrounds Ascending with Jack Jackson, Richard Corben, Lee marrs, and Howard Cruse. Mavericks and Moguls: Publish or Perish with Denis Kitchen, Dave Sims, Keven Eastman, Peter Laird, Jarvey Pekar, and Joyce Brabner. International Ambassadors: The Worldly Storytellers with Jean "Moebius" Giraud, Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell, Neil Gaiman, and Dave McKean. And, The New Independents: Pass the Ammunition with Frank Miller, Colleen Doran, Rick Veitch, Todd McFarlane, and Will Eisner. Hardcover (with Slipcase), 318 pages, Text (with B&W Illustartions and Photos). NOTE: Limited to 750 copies.

NOTE: Signed by Neil Gaiman, Frank Miller, Alan Moore, Dave McKean, Dave Sim, Stanley Wiater, Stephen R. Bissetee, and Will Eisner.

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Written by Alex Irvine. Art and cover by Tomm Coker.

Sequential art steps up to the plate and covers all the bases with this illustrated origin of America's national pastime. Writer Alex Irvine and illustrators Tomm Coker (Black Monday Murders) and C.P. Smith team up to present a complete look at the beginnings (both real and legendary), developments, triumphs, and tragedies of baseball. The Comic Book Story of Baseball spotlights the players, teams, games, and moments that have kept the game so popular for so long. Not only does the book define key terms and explain how the game is played, it also breaks down the cultural impact and significance of the sport in America and overseas.

Softcover, 176 pages, full color.

Cover price $18.99.

1st printing.

Written by Fred Van Lente. Art and cover by Joe Cooper.

Whether it's millionaire pros facing off in an indoor arena full of screaming fans or a lone kid shooting hoops on an outdoor court, basketball is one of the most popular and widely played sports in the world.

The Comic Book Story of Basketball gives you courtside seats to the history of hoops. It chronicles the sport from its beginnings in a YMCA in Massachusetts to its current status as a beloved international game for men and women of all ages. Learn the true stories behind the college game, the street game, the women's game, and the international game, with legendary players and coaches like Dr. J, Michael Jordan, LeBron James, and Steph Curry profiled throughout.

Softcover, 176 pages, full color.

Cover price $19.99.

1st printing.

Edited by RANTZ A. HOSELEY. Cover by JASON "STUNTKID" LEVESQUE.

Over 80 of the best creators from every style and genre, have contributed over 50 stories to this anthology featuring stories inspired by the songs of multi-platinum recording artist, TORI AMOS.

Featuring an introduction by NEIL GAIMAN, with stories by creators such as CARLA SPEED McNEIL, MARK BUCKINGHAM, C.B. CEBULSKI, NIKKI COOK, HOPE LARSON, JOHN NEY REIBER, RYAN KELLY and many, many others, COMIC BOOK TATTOO encapsulates the breadth, depth and beauty of modern comics in this coffee table format book.

Featuring stories by Pia Guerra, John Reppion, Leah Moore, David Mack, Mike Dringenberg, Colleen Doran, Jonathan Hickman, James Owen, Eric Canete, Ted Mckeever, Jock, Antony Johnston, Dame Darcy and over 70 more!

Hardcover, 11 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 480 pages, full color.

Cover price $49.99.

Signed and Numbered by TORI AMOS

1st printing.

Edited by RANTZ A. HOSELEY. Cover by JASON "STUNTKID" LEVESQUE.

Over 80 of the best creators from every style and genre, have contributed over 50 stories to this anthology featuring stories inspired by the songs of multi-platinum recording artist, TORI AMOS.

Featuring an introduction by NEIL GAIMAN, with stories by creators such as CARLA SPEED McNEIL, MARK BUCKINGHAM, C.B. CEBULSKI, NIKKI COOK, HOPE LARSON, JOHN NEY REIBER, RYAN KELLY and many, many others, COMIC BOOK TATTOO encapsulates the breadth, depth and beauty of modern comics in this coffee table format book.

Featuring stories by PIA GUERRA, JOHN REPPION, LEAH MOORE, DAVID MACK, MIKE DRINGENBERG, COLLEEN DORAN, JONATHAN HICKMAN, JAMES OWEN, ERIC CANETE, TED McKEEVER, JOCK, ANTONY JOHNSTON, DAME DARCY and over 70 more!

Hardcover (with Slipcase), 11 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 480 pages, full color.

Cover price $149.99.

Special Edition

1st printing.

The critically-acclaimed, bestselling anthology that has taken the worlds of comics, music, and art by storm. This hardcover special edition, over 80 creators from every style and genre of comics have contributed stories to this stunning book inspired by the music and songs of multi-platinum recording artist Tori Amos.

This special edition of the hardcover comes shrink wrapped in an elegantly designed slipcase with silver accents.

Hardcover (with Slipcase), 11 1/2-in. x 11 1/2-in., 480 pages, full color.

NOTE: "...one of the most ambitious book projects of the year..." - Drew McWeeny, Ain't It Cool News
NOTE: "...this collection transcends fandom." - Sarah Marie, The Austinist
NOTE: "There's absolutely something in here for everyone..." - BUST Magazine

Cover price $75.00.

Issue #1. The Brick Theater presents the first Comic Book Theater Festival.

1st printing. By Chris Ryall and Scott Tipton. Comic books have more than sixty years of history, and this easy-to-follow resource is the key to increasing your knowledge and enjoyment of the myriad of comic-based properties out today. From the comic book's humble beginnings, through the Golden and Silver ages, all the way to today's Hollywood blockbuster comic-based movies, this fun guide gives readers at any level everything they want to know. Softcover, 8-in. x 8-in., 288 pages, full color. Cover price $22.99.

Comic Books and Comic Art/Sam Moskowitz Collection of Science Fiction - Flipbook - 1st printing. Two auction catalogues back to back featuring hundreds of photos and illustrations of art from the worlds of Sci-Fi and Comics. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in. 230 pages, PC/PB&W.

1st Printing - It is safe to say that comic books are not just for kids anymore. As American codes of ethics, aesthetics, and semiotics have evolved, so too has the comic book developed as a genre for presenting the weightier matters of history. Here in a new view of one of literature's former lightweights, the comic book, a medium that once was considered exclusively for juvenile trash literature, is given full-length study as a serious narrative form. Three gifted artists who turned to comic books for expressing sober intent - Jack Jackson, Art Spiegelman, and Harvey Pekar - are credited with it's transformation. They have presented history, autobiography, tragedy, and even the Holocaust in the modes of the conventional comic book - but with a difference. In Jackson's "Los Tejanos and Comanche Moon", in Spiegelman's "Maus: A Survivor's Tale", and in Pekar's "American Splendor" the comics form has been given additional range in tone, style, and subject matter. Here in an appreciation of the serious aims of such creative artists and their acclaimed achievement is a study that takes comics to be dead serious. Softcover, 6" x 9", 164 pages, B&W.

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1st printing. By Shirrel Rhoades. From the development of sequential art storytelling and intellectual properties, to exploring merchandising and the deeper meanings comic book superheroes represent in an evolving society, this insider's guide serves as an invaluable tool to on how the comic industry works, complete with an Afterword by Stan Lee. Softcover, 406 pages, Text (with B&W Chapter Illustrations). Cover price $32.95.

1st printing.

By Shawna Kidman.

Comic books wielded their influence from the margins and in-between spaces of the entertainment business for half a century before moving to the center of mainstream film and television production. This extraordinary history begins at the medium's origin in the 1930s, when comics were a reviled, disorganized, and lowbrow mass medium. Visiting critical moments along the way, Shawna Kidman concludes this revisionist history in the early 2000s, when Hollywood had fully incorporated comic book properties and strategies into its business models. The medium had transformed into the heavily exploited, exceedingly corporate, and highly esteemed art form we know so well today.

Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 336 pages, Text (with B&W photos and illustrations).

Cover price $34.95.

Written by Reg Parlett

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Look! Up in the sky! As superheroes continue to dominate the big screen, Comic Heroes devotes an entire 160-page glossy bookazine to exploring the comics that laid the foundations of the phenomenon. This high-quality guide features a run down of the world's top 100 favourite heroes - as voted for by you! - and celebrates the creators behind them, and the teams that continue to make them popular. With retrospective features from the Comic Heroes archives, plus brand new artist profiles, opinion pieces and detailed character histories, this essential bookazine is the perfect coffee-table companion for dedicated fans of superhero comics. Highlights include: A Batman history, Paul Cornell on Wolverine, Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr. on Kick-Ass, Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo on Zero Year, reboots, Jim Lee, X-Men, 75 years of Superman, Frank Quitely, Carmine Infantino and Joe Simon archive interviews, a guide to Jack Kirby's work, Walt Simonson on Thor, Alan Moore vs Grant Morrison, Spider-Man's origins/stories/enemies, expert tips on how to write and draw comics. Cover price $20.00.

Books & Pictures Publishing Limited. Horizontal Format, Softcover, 5-in x 2 1/2-in, 100 Pages, B&W.

nn (No.10 ) Written by Graham Thompson

1st printing. By Ron Lackmann. During the memorable years when Radio was America's favorite home entertainment medium, the airwaves were permeated with all sorts of programming. There were the daytime dramas of domestic stress and five-day-a-week children's adventure serials. There were even adaptations of great works of the theater and literature. From Archie Andrews to Tom Mix, all radio characters and programs that ever stemmed from a comic book or comic strip in radio's golden age are collected here, for the first time, in an easy-to-read, A through Z book! Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 206 pages, B&W. NOTE: The indicia says 2004, but this book was released 02/2012. Cover price $19.95.

1st printing. Edited by Benjamin Woo and Jeremy Stoll. The Comics World: Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Their Publics is the first collection to explicitly examine the production, circulation, and reception of comics from a social-scientific point of view. Taking the concept of a "comics world"-that is, the collection of people, roles, and institutions that "produce" comics as they are-as its organizing principle, the book asks readers to attend to the contexts that shape how comics move through societies and cultures. Through their research, contributors demonstrate some of the ways that people participate in comics worlds and how the relationships created in these spaces can provide different perspectives on comics and comics studies. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 268 pages, Text only. Cover price $30.00.

1st Edition - 1st printing. Edited by Don Thompson and Dick Lupoff. Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 360 pages, Text (with B&W Chapter Illustartions). Cover price $8.95.

Revised Edition - 1st printing. Edited by Don Thompson and Dick Lupoff. Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 368 pages, Text (with B&W Chapter Illustartions).

1st Printing. Written by Don Thompson, Bill Blackbeard, Dick Lupoff, Donald F. Glut, Maggie Thompson, Dick O'Donnell, Mike Barrier, Juanita Coulson, Camille E. Cazedessus, Jr., Christ Steinbrunner, and Ron Goulart. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 360 Pages, B&W. Cover price $6.95.

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Revised Edition - 1st printing. Edited by Don Thompson and Dick Lupoff. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 368 pages, Text (with B&W and Full Color Chapter Illustartions). Cover price $14.95.

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Add to cart Very Good $4.00

First Printing. From the publishers of Comics Buyer's Guide - the leading monthly price guide about comics - the 2006 Comic Book Checklist & Price Guide is the best #1 tool for helping you track and price your collection! Softcover, 6 1/2 x 10-in, Black and white interior. Cover price $19.99.

1st printing.

Edited by Tom DeFalco.

Packed with exclusive sketches, script pages and essential information on every X-Man, this definitive look at the mighty mutants includes interviews with co-creator Stan Lee, writers Roy Thomas and Chris Claremont, superstar artists John Byrne, Neal Adams, and Alan Davis, and controversial writer Grant Morrison!

Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 256 pages, B&W.

Cover price $17.95.

1st printing. Story and art by Gilbert Hernandez. Comics Dementia collects buried treasures, oddities, and rarities from outposts of the Love and Rockets galaxy by Gilbert Hernandez. Most of these stories haven't been available since the 1990s. Saints, sinners, and the Candidelike Roy mingle in jungles, cocktail lounges, living rooms and outer space. Ditko meets Melville meets Bob Hope-but the party really starts when the Alfred E. Neuman of the Love and Rockets multi-verse, Errata Stigmata, makes her entrance. Softcover, 224 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $19.99.