The Comics comic books issue 1

The Adventures of Colonel Sanders (circa 1970) in "The Not So-Great-Imposter." Published in Canada for the Canadian market by Comic World Productions. Full color, 16 pages, standard comic book dimensions, all newsprint, no cover price.

1st printing. Written byPatricia Lakin. Art and cover by Rob McClurkan. Now beginning readers can learn all about the history of comics, graphic novels, manga, and more in this installment of the nonfiction Level 3 Ready-to-Read series about the history of fun stuff! Do you know how comics, graphic novels, and manga came to be? Or that they have their roots in cave drawings? Did you know that Benjamin Franklin is credited as having the first cartoon in an American newspaper? Ever wonder who put the fun in the Funny Pages? Become a History of Fun Stuff Expert on the funny history of comic strips, graphic novels, manga, and more, and amaze your friends with all you've learned in this fun, fact-filled Level 3 Ready-to-Read! Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 48 pages, full color. A special section at the back of the book includes Common Core-vetted extras on subjects like science, social studies, and math, and there's even a fun quiz so readers can test themselves to see what they've learned! Learning about history has never been so much fun! Cover price $16.99.

1st printing. Written by Patricia Lakin. Art and cover by Rob McClurkan. Now beginning readers can learn all about the history of comics, graphic novels, manga, and more in this installment of the nonfiction Level 3 Ready-to-Read series about the history of fun stuff! Do you know how comics, graphic novels, and manga came to be? Or that they have their roots in cave drawings? Did you know that Benjamin Franklin is credited as having the first cartoon in an American newspaper? Ever wonder who put the fun in the Funny Pages? Become a History of Fun Stuff Expert on the funny history of comic strips, graphic novels, manga, and more, and amaze your friends with all you've learned in this fun, fact-filled Level 3 Ready-to-Read! Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 48 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.

Stories and art by Ham Fisher, Boody Rogers, Frank Tinsley, J. P. McEvoy, John H. Striebel and Alfred Andriola. Collections of classic comic strips from the McNaught Newspaper Syndicate, including Charlie Chan, Joe Palooka and Dixie Dugan. Detective Charlie Chan investigates a mystery; Boxer Joe Palooka visits Boys Town. Sparky Watts; Captain Yank; Dixie Dugan; Joe Palooka; Charlie Chan; Bo the Dog; Hollywood Husband. 60 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

1st printing. Story and art by Zach Hazard Vaupen. Three short stories by Zach Hazard Vaupen centered around themes of emotional and spiritual confusion, cannibalism, suicides, and the reality of God: "The Lonely Autocannibal the Scientist," "Bodhisattva," and "The Real Jesuses." Softcover, 7-in. x 9-in., 44 pages, B&W. Cover price $6.00.

Volume 1 - 1st printing.

Written by Zac Thompson and Lonnie Nadler. Art and by Piotr Kowalski.

From the critically acclaimed writers of The Dregs comes a new horror series about body image, social media, and memory.

When an entrepreneur with a god complex creates a technology that allows two minds to share one body, he doesn't anticipate the degenerative effects of long-term trials.

Come Into Me is a contemporary comment on connected culture and our longing for approval in the digital age. This is a world where technology and flesh become indistinguishable. Prepare yourself for the insane lovechild of The Fly and Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind.

Softcover, 128 pages, full color. Mature Readers

Cover price $16.99.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. "Combustion!"

Written by Arianna Irwin. Art by Francine Delgado.

Fifteen-year-old Kenzie Cook does not have the problems of a normal teenager. Tough classes, bad breakouts, getting a date for the prom? She wishes. Kenzie's little sister is dying of cancer, and her family is barely holding it together under the weight of their grief and pain. Kenzie will do anything to save them all, even visit her estranged Aunt Emmy, a "healer" who claims to cure her patients by making deals with demonic forces. All it will cost is Kenzie's soul. When Aunt Emmy's ceremony goes terribly wrong, Kenzie is turned into something monstrous. Now she must battle her own guilt and anger as she attempts to rediscover her humanity. As Kenzie learns to navigate her new powers and the responsibilities that come with them, she begins to wonder: What is the price of love? Does love make monsters of us all?

Softcover, 8-in. x 10-in., 96 pages, full color. Cover price $16.99.

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.

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.

Add to cart Near Mint $2.65

Add to cart Near Mint $2.65

Written by Shane Berryhill. Art and Cover by Hoyt Silva. NONSTOP. NYC. 1939. Comics creator Jack Levi places his life and career on the line when he begins an affair with the femme fatale lover of his mafia boss publisher. Comic Books Kill! is a crime noir tale of myths, mistresses, and mobsters sure to thrill fans of Kirby, Brubaker, and Phillips. 24 pages, full color. Rated T+ Cover price $4.99.

Add to cart Near Mint $2.65

Add to cart Near Mint $2.65

Written by Shane Berryhill. Art and Cover by Hoyt Silva. NONSTOP. NYC. 1939. Comics creator Jack Levi places his life and career on the line when he begins an affair with the femme fatale lover of his mafia boss publisher. Comic Books Kill! is a crime noir tale of myths, mistresses, and mobsters sure to thrill fans of Kirby, Brubaker, and Phillips. 24 pages, full color. Rated T+ Cover price $4.99.

1st printing. Written by Paul Scoones. First launched in the pages of TV Comic in November 1964, the comic strip version of Doctor Who is just one year younger than the television series on which it is based. This volume chronicles the first 15 years of the Doctor Who comic strip from TV Comic to just before the ongoing strip was launched as a regular feature in Doctor Who Weekly in 1979. During this time more than 200 comic strip stories were published in magazines, comics, and books. Every strip is covered in depth, including plot details, continuity, points of interest, and analysis. Follow the exploits of the Doctor in his first four incarnations alongside John, Gillian, Jamie, Sarah, and Leela as he battles Daleks, Cybermen, Quarks, Kleptons, Trods, Sarracoids and the Ugrakks! Softcover, 5-in. x 8-in., 500 pages, PC/PB&W Cover price $35.95.

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.

Third Printing. Text by Sister Mary Clare. Cover by M. Zimmer. A study of the effects of Comic Books on children less than eleven years old. Used as evidence in "Seduction of the Innocent". Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Near Mint $49.00

1st printing. By Emmanuele Payen and Paul Gravett. Starting in the mid-1960s, comics rapidly evolved into a highly creative art form for a sophisticated readership: in France, the magazine Hara-Kiri provided new terrains for graphical humor, while the adventures of Jean-Claude Forest's Barbarella were published in albums by Éric Losfeld; the launch in Japan of Garo in 1964, an avant-garde monthly, introduced the concept of auteur comics; and the release of Robert Crumb's Zap Comix in 1968 established his reputation as the leader of the underground comics movement in the United States. This major historical survey of the so-called "ninth art" establishes a dialogue between the three leading regions of comic book culture-Europe, Asia, and America-and offers an immersive odyssey through the medium's development over six decades. Hardcover, 10-in. x 13-in., 288 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $60.00.

1st printing.

By Steven Brower.

Comics and modern American advertising exploded into the public conscious at much the same time in the early 20th century. Collected now for the first time, the comics, cartoons and illustrations from the OTHER career of comics creators Jack Davis (Mad), Al Capp (Li'l Abner) John Romita (Spider-Man), Mort Meskin (Sheena), Ross Andru (Spider-Man), Sheldon Moldoff (Batman), Neal Adams (X-Men), Noel Sickles (Scorchy Smith), Stan Drake (Blondie), Joe Simon, (Captain America), Basil Wolverton (Mad), Dik Browne (Hagar the Horrible), Clifford McBride (Napoleon), Hank Ketcham (Dennis the Menace), Lou Fine (The Spirit), Daniel Clowes (Ghost World) and many more.

Softcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 140 pages, full color.

1st Printing - Written by Alan and Laurel Clark. In "Comics: An Illustrated History", collectors and experts Alan and Laurel Clark consider the past, present and future of the comic medium from an international perspective, from Hogarth's prints via the superhero to the graphic novel. Contains over 250 specially commissioned photographs, covers every country with an indigenous comic industry, includes the history of the comic in all of it's forms, and details comic cult figures from Ally Sloper the The Incredible Hulk. Hardcover, 9" x 12", 144 pages, full color. Cover price $14.99.

Updated Edition - 1st printing. "1895-2010!" Written by Jerry Robinson. Art by Walt Kelly, Winsor McCay, Milt Caniff and Hal Foster. From Jerry Robinson, legendary creator of the Joker, seventy-year veteran of the comics industry, and prominent figure in monthly books, daily strips, and comics journalism, comes a comprehensive history of the truly American art form! The Comics is a fully reworked and updated edition of the 1974 classic that chronicles the origins and evolution of comic strips, from prior to the Yellow Kid through today, and highlights the game-changing contributions of such creative luminaries as Milton Caniff, Walt Kelly, Hal Foster, and Winsor McCay, among countless others. A fascinating resource of enduring excellence for fans of the art form, historians, and casual readers alike, this edition has been extensively revisited by Robinson and tells the stories behind the newsprint page. The Comics is an authoritative history of the medium from living legend Jerry Robinson! Other books by Jerry Robinson include the biography Skippy and Percy Crosby and The 1970s: Best Political Cartoons of the Decade. Hardcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 296 pages, full color. Cover price $39.99.

1st printing. Written by Jerry Robinson. Art by Walt Kelly, Winsor McCay, Milt Caniff and Hal Foster. From Jerry Robinson, legendary creator of the Joker and prominent figure in monthly books, daily strips, and comics journalism, comes a comprehensive history of the truly American art form! The Comics chronicles the origins and evolution of comic strips, from prior to the Yellow Kid through today, and highlights the game-changing contributions of such creative luminaries as Milton Caniff, Walt Kelly, Hal Foster, and Winsor McCay, among countless others. A fascinating resource of enduring excellence for fans of the art form, historians, and casual readers alike. The Comics is an authoritative history of the medium from living legend Jerry Robinson! Softcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 256 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $6.95.

1st printing. "1895-2010!" Written by Jerry Robinson. Art by Walt Kelly, Winsor McCay, Milt Caniff and Hal Foster. From Jerry Robinson, legendary creator of the Joker, seventy-year veteran of the comics industry, and prominent figure in monthly books, daily strips, and comics journalism, comes a comprehensive history of the truly American art form! The Comics is a fully reworked and updated edition of the 1974 classic that chronicles the origins and evolution of comic strips, from prior to the Yellow Kid through today, and highlights the game-changing contributions of such creative luminaries as Milton Caniff, Walt Kelly, Hal Foster, and Winsor McCay, among countless others. A fascinating resource of enduring excellence for fans of the art form, historians, and casual readers alike, this edition has been extensively revisited by Robinson and tells the stories behind the newsprint page. The Comics is an authoritative history of the medium from living legend Jerry Robinson! Other books by Jerry Robinson include the biography Skippy and Percy Crosby and The 1970s: Best Political Cartoons of the Decade. Softcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 296 pages, full color. Cover price $24.99.

1st printing. By Reinhold Reitberger and Wolfgang Fuchs. The first detailed history of the comics as art, entertainment, industry, and reflection of our culture, featuring - The Angel, Aquaman, Archie, Barbarella, Batman, Buck Rogers, Captain America, Daredevil, Donald Duck, Flash Gordon, Fritz the Cat, Green Hornet, Iron Man, Little Nemo, Mandrake the Magician, the Phantom, Rin Tin Tin, Silver Surfer, Terry and the Pirates, the Viking Prince, Wonder Woman, the Yellow Kid, Zorro, and many more! Includes over 300 illustrations! Hardcover, 9.5" x 11.5", 264 pages, B&W.

1st printing. By Reinhold Reitberger and Wolfgang Fuchs. The first detailed history of the comics as art, entertainment, industry, and reflection of our culture, featuring - The Angel, Aquaman, Archie, Barbarella, Batman, Buck Rogers, Captain America, Daredevil, Donald Duck, Flash Gordon, Fritz the Cat, Green Hornet, Iron Man, Little Nemo, Mandrake the Magician, the Phantom, Rin Tin Tin, Silver Surfer, Terry and the Pirates, the Viking Prince, Wonder Woman, the Yellow Kid, Zorro, and many more! Includes over 300 illustrations! Hardcover, 9.5" x 11.5", 264 pages, B&W.

Add to cart Fine $11.75

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Cover by Lorenzo Mattotti and Jerry Kramsky.

Edited by Benoit Mitaine, David Roche, and Isabelle Schmitt-Pitiot. Translated by Aarnoud Rommens and David Roche.

Both comics studies and adaptation studies have grown separately over the past twenty years. Yet there are few in-depth studies of comic books and adaptations together. Available for the first time in English, this collection pores over the phenomenon of comic books and adaptation, sifting through comics as both sources and results of adaptation. Essays shed light on the many ways adaptation studies inform research on comic books and content adapted from them. Contributors concentrate on fidelity to the source materials, comparative analysis, forms of media, adaptation and myth, adaptation and intertextuality, as well as adaptation and ideology.

Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 240 pages, Text (with B&W Photos).

Cover price $30.00.

Mail Order Catalog for the "Comics and Comix" store owned and operated by retailing pioneer, Bud Plant. Al Davoren photo cover. 5 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in. Softcover 20 Pages B&W Photo Cover

1st printing.

By Hannah Miodrag.

It has become an axiom in comic studies that "comics is a language, not a genre." But what exactly does that mean, and how is discourse on the form both aided and hindered by thinking of it in linguistic terms?

In Comics and Language, Hannah Miodrag challenges many of the key assumptions about the "grammar" and formal characteristics of comics and offers a more nuanced, theoretical framework that she argues will better serve the field by providing a consistent means for communicating critical theory in the scholarship. She exposes the problems embedded in the ways critics have used ideas of language, literature, structuralism, and semiotics, and sets out a new and more theoretically sound way of understanding how comics communicate.

Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 280 pages, B&W.

Cover price $30.00.

1st printing. Edited by Jonathan Najarian. Contributions by David M. Ball, Scott Bukatman, Hillary Chute, Jean Lee Cole, Louise Kane, Matthew Levay, Andrei Molotiu, Jonathan Najarian, Katherine Roeder, Noa Saunders, Clémence Sfadj, Nick Sturm, Glenn Willmott, and Daniel Worden. The first collection to engage with the fascinating overlap between comics and modernism. Since the early 1990s, cartoonist Art Spiegelman has made the case that comics are the natural inheritor of the aesthetic tradition associated with the modernist movement of the early twentieth century. In recent years, scholars have begun to place greater import on the shared historical circumstances of early comics and literary and artistic modernism. COMICS AND MODERNISM: HISTORY, FORM, AND CULTURE is an interdisciplinary consideration of myriad social, cultural, and aesthetic connections. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 278 pages, Text (with B&W Illustrations and Photos). Cover price $30.00.

1st printing. Written by Thierry Gronesteen. This book is the follow-up to Thierry Groensteen's ground-breaking The System of Comics, in which the leading French-language comics theorist set out to investigate how the medium functions. He now develops that analysis further, using examples from a very wide range of comics, including the work of American artists such as Chris Ware and Robert Crumb. He tests out his theoretical framework by bringing it up against cases that challenge it, such as abstract comics, digital comics and shojo manga, and offers insightful reflections on these innovations! Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 192 pages, Text (with B&W Illustrations). Cover price $55.00.

1st printing. By Thierry Gronesteen. In Thierry Groensteen's The System of Comics, the comics theorist set out to investigate how the medium functions, introducing the principle of iconic solidarity, and showing the systems that underlie the articulation between panels at three levels: page layout, linear sequence, and nonsequential links woven through the comic book as a whole. He now develops that analysis further, using examples from a very wide range of comics, including the work of American artists such as Chris Ware and Robert Crumb. He tests out his theoretical framework by bringing it up against cases that challenge it, such as abstract comics, digital comics, and shoujo manga. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 216 pages, B&W. Cover price $30.00.

1st printing. By Will Eisner. The man, the myth, the legend, Mr. Will Eisner, creator of the Spirit, sits down and helps you learn how to understand and practice the world's most popular art form - the comic book. Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 154 pages, B&W. Cover price $24.95.

Updated Edition - 1st printing.

In Comics and Sequential Art, Will Eisner reveals the basic building blocks and principles of comics, including imagery, the frame, and the application of time, space, and visual forms. With examples from Eisner's own catalog and such masters as H. Foster, R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Milton Caniff, Al Capp, and George Herriman, this book distills the art of graphic storytelling into principles that every comic artist, writer, and filmmaker should know.

Softcover, 8-in. x 10-in., 176 pages, PC/B&W.

Cover price $22.95.

Add to cart Fine $13.75

Updated Edition - 2nd and later printings.

In Comics and Sequential Art, Will Eisner reveals the basic building blocks and principles of comics, including imagery, the frame, and the application of time, space, and visual forms. With examples from Eisner's own catalog and such masters as H. Foster, R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Milton Caniff, Al Capp, and George Herriman, this book distills the art of graphic storytelling into principles that every comic artist, writer, and filmmaker should know.

Softcover, 8-in. x 10-in., 176 pages, PC/B&W.

Cover price $22.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $18.00

1st printing. A wide-ranging survey of how comics have portrayed Southern ways of life, these essays seek to discover what Captain America can reveal about Southern regionalism, and how slave narratives can help us reread Swamp Thing; others examine how creators such as Walt Kelly (Pogo), Howard Cruse (Stuck Rubber Baby), Kyle Baker (Nat Turner), and Josh Neufeld (A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge) draw upon the unique formal properties of the comics to question and revise familiar narratives of race, class, and sexuality. Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 304 pages, B&W. Cover price $55.00.

1st printing. "Stories of American Cartoonists!" By Martin Sheridan. This volume is one of the first books to recount the early days of comic strip history. Sections include The Old Stand-Bys, Married Strips, Adventure Strips, Girl strips, Potpourri, Fantastic Strips, and Panel Strips, with an additional section on animated cartoons. All of the famous strips receive their own chapters, plus many now-obscure strips. Chapters include Flash Gordon, Superman, Tarzan, Buck Rogers, Alley Oop, Popeye, Blondie, The Gumps, Gasoline Alley, Krazy Kat, Little Orphan Annie, Mutt and Jeff, The Katzenjammer Kids, Dick Tracy, Li'l Abner, Terry and the Pirates, Believe It or Not, Grin and Bear It, and many, many more! Each chapter tells about the cartoonist who creates the strip. Hardcover (with Dust Jacket), 6.25-in. x 9.25-in., 304 pages, Text (with B&W illustrations).

NO Dust Jacket - 1st printing. "Stories of American Cartoonists!" By Martin Sheridan. This volume is one of the first books to recount the early days of comic strip history. Sections include The Old Stand-Bys, Married Strips, Adventure Strips, Girl strips, Potpourri, Fantastic Strips, and Panel Strips, with an additional section on animated cartoons. All of the famous strips receive their own chapters, plus many now-obscure strips. Chapters include Flash Gordon, Superman, Tarzan, Buck Rogers, Alley Oop, Popeye, Blondie, The Gumps, Gasoline Alley, Krazy Kat, Little Orphan Annie, Mutt and Jeff, The Katzenjammer Kids, Dick Tracy, Li'l Abner, Terry and the Pirates, Believe It or Not, Grin and Bear It, and many, many more! Each chapter tells about the cartoonist who creates the strip. Hardcover, 6.25-in. x 9.25-in., 304 pages, Text (with B&W illustrations).

1st printing - New and Revised Edition. "Stories of American Cartoonists!" By Martin Sheridan. This volume is one of the first books to recount the early days of comic strip history. Sections include The Old Stand-Bys, Married Strips, Adventure Strips, Girl strips, Potpourri, Fantastic Strips, and Panel Strips, with an additional section on animated cartoons. All of the famous strips receive their own chapters, plus many now-obscure strips. Chapters include Flash Gordon, Superman, Tarzan, Buck Rogers, Alley Oop, Popeye, Blondie, The Gumps, Gasoline Alley, Krazy Kat, Little Orphan Annie, Mutt and Jeff, The Katzenjammer Kids, Dick Tracy, Li'l Abner, Terry and the Pirates, Believe It or Not, Grin and Bear It, and many, many more! Each chapter tells about the cartoonist who creates the strip. Hardcover, 6.25-in. x 9.25-in., 304 pages, Text (with B&W illustrations).

NO Dust Jacket - 1st printing - New and Revised Edition. "Stories of American Cartoonists!" By Martin Sheridan. This volume is one of the first books to recount the early days of comic strip history. Sections include The Old Stand-Bys, Married Strips, Adventure Strips, Girl strips, Potpourri, Fantastic Strips, and Panel Strips, with an additional section on animated cartoons. All of the famous strips receive their own chapters, plus many now-obscure strips. Chapters include Flash Gordon, Superman, Tarzan, Buck Rogers, Alley Oop, Popeye, Blondie, The Gumps, Gasoline Alley, Krazy Kat, Little Orphan Annie, Mutt and Jeff, The Katzenjammer Kids, Dick Tracy, Li'l Abner, Terry and the Pirates, Believe It or Not, Grin and Bear It, and many, many more! Each chapter tells about the cartoonist who creates the strip. Hardcover, 6.25-in. x 9.25-in., 304 pages, Text (with B&W illustrations).

1st printing. By Johnny Ryan. AMERICA'S STUPIDEST SECOND-GRADER IS BACK! Sure, she's smelly and gross, but she's got a heart of gold! This is the third collection of Johnny Ryan's weekly comic strip, Blecky Yuckerella, as seen in the pages of the Vice magazine and elsewhere. Blecky is a four-panel gag strip in the tradition of Underworld, Maakies, and Nancy, but with much more generous portions of bodily fluids and toilet humor. Blecky Yuckerella is the ugliest girl in the second grade, and the only one with three-day stubble. The strip's cast of characters also includes Blecky's Aunt Jiggles, her best friend Wedgie, Insanio the Cat, and many other absurdist goofballs, like Rich Bucksley (millionaire and "high class idiot"), Unitard (the last retarded unicorn), the pregnant babies ("we're guaranteed to blow your mind!"), and Quasimodo Rose (the hunchback porn star). This book collects over 100 strips for the first time, and his unmistakable blend of politically incorrect gags and social satire is as sharp as ever. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 7-in., 104 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $11.99.

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Edited by Kim A. Munson. Cover by Will Eisner.

A comprehensive history of how comics and comic art gained recognition as art. Through essays and interviews, Kim A. Munson's anthology tells the story of the over-thirty-year history of the artists, art critics, collectors, curators, journalists, and academics who championed the serious study of comics, the trends and controversies that produced institutional interest in comics, and the wax and wane and then return of comic art in museums. With over eighty images and thoughtful essays, this anthology shows how exhibitions expanded the public dialogue about comic art and our expectation of "good art."

Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 384 pages, PC/PB&W.

Featuring contributions by Kenneth Baker, Jaqueline Berndt, Albert Boime, John Carlin, Benoit Crucifix, David Deitcher, Michael Dooley, Damian Duffy, M.C. Gaines, Paul Gravett, Diana Green, Karen Green, Doug Harvey, Charles Hatfield, M. Thomas Inge, Leslie Jones, Jonah Kinigstein, Denis Kitchen, John A. Lent, Dwayne McDuffie, Andrei Molotiu, Alvaro de Moya, Kim A. Munson, Cullen Murphy, Gary Panter, Trina Robbins, Rob Salkowitz, Antoine Sausverd, Art Spiegelman, Scott Timberg, Carol Tyler, Brian Walker, Alexi Worth, Joe Wos and Craig Yoe.

Cover price $30.00.

Add to cart Fine $2.65

Add to cart Very Good $2.65

18 different artists showcased. B&W, 32 pages, standard paper stock. Cover price $1.00.

1st printing.

Checklist and price guide. Includes individual listings for tens of thousands of comics covering 1961-1994.

Softcover, 560 pages, B&W.

Cover price $14.95.

Add to cart Very Fine $2.50

5th Edition - 1st printing.

Checklist and price guide. Includes individual listings for more than 86,000 comics. Extensively annotated.

Softcover, 624 pages, B&W.

Cover price $16.95.

7th Edition - 1st printing.

Checklist and price guide. Includes individual listings for more than 86,000 comics. Extensively annotated.

Softcover, 704 pages, B&W.

Cover price $17.95.

Add to cart Fine $5.99

Add to cart Very Good $3.99

1st printing.

Covering over 105,000 comics with over 315,000 prices in three grades of condition, this comprehensive price guide features completely updated prices and revised coverage on older comics titles.!

Softcover, 6 1/2 x 10-in, 840 pagesB&W.

Cover price $19.99.

Add to cart Very Good $4.00

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You'll find listings and prices for more than 125,000 comics. You'll find photos for easy identification and grading of the comics books you've got and those you need. Whether you've been collecting since Peter Parker was first bitten by a radioactive spider and became spider-man - or you've just begun to find out there's more to comic books than a buch of steroid cases pounding each other - or you're filling in holes in your collection: THE 2005 COMIC BOOK CHECKLIST AND PRICE GUIDE 1961-PRESENT is designed to meet your needs!

Softcover, 6 1/2 x 10-in, 792 pagesB&W.

Cover price $19.99.

Add to cart Fine $6.00

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. By Maggie Thompson. With outstanding original super-hero cover art, the 2009 Comic Book Checklist & Price Guide contains details about 125,000 comics issued between 1961 and the present, and identifies cover date, creator information, and near mint prices in each listing. The authorities at Comic Buyer's Guide - the world's longest running magazine about comics - take collectors, dealers, and those driven by interest in comic book heroes showcased in Hollywood flicks, on the ultimate journey of tracking and assessing the value of comic books. Softcover, 840 pages, B&W. Cover price $19.99.

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By Maggie Thompson, Brent Frankenhoff, and Peter Bickford.

No other guide on the market covers the volume of comic book listings and range of era as this does, in an easy-to-use checklist format. Readers can access listings for 130,000 comics, issued since 1961, complete with name, cover date, creator information and near-mint pricing.

Softcover, 840 pages, B&W.

Cover price $19.99.

Add to cart Near Mint $3.00

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1st printing. Edited by Don and Maggie Thompson. A Checklist and run down of a who's who in the industry. Includes a list of influences, dream projects, past and present projects, birthdays, and more! Hardcover, 8 1/-in. x 11-in., 256 pages, Text (with B&W photos). Cover price $16.95.

Bill Blackbeard presents a varied selection of newspaper comic strips in this collection intended for schools. Strips as varied as Little Nemo, Donald Duck, Pogo, Terry and the Pirates, Polly and her Pals, Gasoline Alley and Moon Mullins are included. Horizontal format 10-in. x 8-in., 46 pages, some strips in color, most in black and white.