Golden Age comic books issue 2

Volume 2 - 1st printing. "January 1942-July 1943!" Collects Stories from Prize Comics (1940-1948) #18-32. Cover by Ben Thompson. Doug Danville was a wealthy New York playboy who decided to fight crime. He put on a costume and began his career as K the Unknown. He later changed his costume and became the Black Owl! Doug got involved with Terry Dane, a private investigator and true to comic-book tradition, she greatly admired the Black Owl and belittled Doug Danville for being useless. Nevertheless he continued fighting criminals as the Black Owl, until he enlisted in the Army and handed down his costume to Walt Walters, the father of Yank and Doodle (more of this later). With a whole host of enemies including Chief Skullface, the Fox, Frankenstein, Funnibone, the Green Mummy, the Tiger Lady, the Laughing Head and the Terrible Midge, among others, the Black Owl had plenty to keep him busy and probably had to do overtime during the day time hours! Hardcover, 184 pages, full color. Cover price $32.99.

Volume 2 - 1st printing. "August 1942-April 1944!" Collects Exciting Comics (1940-1949) #21-32. PS Artbooks presents the continuing adventures of The Black Terror, Nemesis of Crime! Bob Benton was a pharmacist working on a tonic to pep people up, who developed "formic ethers" instead, thanks to a comment made by his new assistant Tim Roland inspiring him along a new path. Inhaling the vapors from his discovery granted him superhuman strength, which he used to become the crimefighter the Black Terror, battling hoodlums, saboteurs, and enemy agents in equal measure. Tim, similarly empowered, became his sidekick, together known as the Terror Twins! Hardcover (with Slipcase), 184 pages, full color. Cover price $62.99.

2nd Edition - Volume 2 - 1st printing. Art by Reed Crandall, Louis K. Fine, Will Eisner, Paul Gustavson, Jack Cole, Al Bryant, Chuck Cuidera, Jim Mooney, and more. Featuring adventures with Plastic Man, Phantom Lady, the HUman Bomb, Doll Man, Uncle Sam, the Spirit, Blackhawk, and more! The best book ever focusing on the Quality Comics Group of the 1940's, with full-story vintage reprints of 25 different superheroes, including Black Condor, Captain Triumph, Stormy Foster, Neon, Jester, Wonder Boy, and more! Back in print with 32 additional pages showcasing even more heroes than 2003's original release. Find out why Golden Age Greats Spotlight Volume Two became the fastest-selling trade paperback in AC Comics history - because the legendary Quality Comics Group boasted a bullpen of the greatest artists of the Golden Age, including Will Eisner, Jim Mooney, Reed Crandall, Arthur Peddy, and more! A must-have collection! Softcover, 150 pages, B&W. Cover price $24.95.

NOTE: All Text is in Italian - Volume 2 - 1st printing. By Alberto Becattini. Hardcover, 9 1/2-in. x 12-in., 80 pages, Full Color.

NOTE: All Text is in Italian.

Add to cart Near Mint $41.00

Volume 2 - 1st printing. Collects Human Torch Comics (1940-1949) #5b-8.

Story and art by CARL BURGOS, BILL EVERETT, MICKEY SPILLANE, BASIL WOLVERTON, RAY HOULIHAN, and ART GATES. Cover by ALEX SCHOMBURG.

Marvel presents more Golden Age goodness from 1941-1942. (Yes, folks, odd numbering was not solely the province of modern comic books; the Torch's solo book had two #5s)

This hardcover collection remasters and restores these early adventures featuring two titanic and epic-length battles between the Human Torch and the Sub-Mariner. First, amidst a raging World War, Sub-Mariner declares all-out war on the surface world attacking Hitler, Stalin & Mussolini before he sets his sights on New York City. Only the Human Torch, Toro, Kazar, the Patriot and the Angel stand in his way of total world conquest. Then the most fantastic plot in the history of modern warfare plunges the Human Torch and Sub-Mariner into an epic struggle against each other when the villainous Python hypnotizes Torch into aiding Hitler's cause.

Plus, Torch and Toro face off against the Secret Arsenal, the Legion of Despair and Agent X. Also featuring 'Tubby & Tack,' 'Swoopy the Fearless,' stories by pulp legend Mickey Spillane and Basil Wolverton's 'Peculiar People.'

Hardcover, 266 pages, full color.

Cover price $59.99.

Volume 2 - 1st printing. Collects Marvel Mystery Comics (1939-1949) #5-8. By CARL BURGOS, PAUL GUSTAVSON, BILL EVERETT, AL ANDERS, BEN THOMPSON, and STEVE DAHLMAN. Cover by BILL EVERETT. This hardcover collection remasters and restores these early adventures, some reprinted for the very first time! See the Human Torch join the police force! Witness the execution of the Sub-Mariner! Plus: In the wake of the Sub-Mariner's attack on New York City, the Torch and the Sub-Mariner face off in their historic first meeting! Softcover, 280 pages, full color. Cover price $29.99.

Add to cart Near Mint $99.95

Volume 2 - 1st printing. Collects USA Comics (1941) #5-8.

By SYD SHORES, VINCE ALASCIA, ALEX SCHOMBURG, MIKE SEKOWSKY, BASIL WOLVERTON, and CHIC STONE. Cover by ALEX SCHOMBURG.

Hot on the heels of the explosion of star-spangled super heroes, U.S.A. COMICS presented a wild and wooly selection of patriotic characters fighting for the Red, White and Blue.

From the Victory Boys and the American Avenger to wilder heroes like Roko the Amazing, the Blue Blaze and the Fighting Hobo, U.S.A. was a comics magazine bursting at the seams with crazy concepts. But with the Second World War raging, it became clear there was only one hero who could headline a book titled U.S.A.: Captain America! Backed up by the Destroyer, Marvel Boy and the Whizzer - as well as the adventures of regular joes like Sergeant Dix and Jeep Jones, and true tales of WWII - U.S.A. COMICS was the perfect dose of four-color excitement for the American G.I.!

Sporting some of the most famous covers of comics' Golden Age, the early Captain America issues of U.S.A. are some of the rarest Marvel comics of all time, and they're collected here for the first time ever!

Hardcover, 280 pages, full color.

Cover price $64.99.

Add to cart Near Mint $18.95

Volume 2 - 1st printing. Collects Sensation Comics (1942-1952) #15-24, Wonder Woman (1942-1986 1st Series DC) #4-7 and Comic Cavalcade (1942-1954) #2-5.

Written by William Moulton Marston. Art by Harry G. Peter. Cover by Nick Derington.

The earliest stories of the Amazon Warrior are collected here in WONDER WOMAN: THE GOLDEN AGE VOL. 2, featuring the adventures of Wonder Woman as she tackles corruption, oppression and cruelty in the early days of World War II and battles Paula Von Gunther, Cheetah and other wartime threats.

Softcover, 392 pages, full color.

Cover price $24.99.

Reprint series. Cover by Dave Berg. Reprints material originally published in Weird Comics #14. Featuring The Dart & Ace, The Sorceress of Zoom, The Eagle & Buddy, Doctor Mortal, Marga the Panther Woman, and Blast Bennett. 56 pages, full color.

Add to cart Near Mint $62.99

Volume 2 - 1st printing. "February 1941-January 1942/May-December 1941!" Collects Amazing Man Comics (1939) #20-26 and Stars and Stripes Comics (1941) #2-6. PS Artbooks presents the concluding volume of Amazing Man, the second super-hero after Superman, to have a comic book named after him). Historians credit his creation variously to writer-artist Bill Everett and art director Lloyd Jacquet, although some credit may be due to Grace Everett, who helped with research. In 1914, an orphaned child named John Aman was chosen by the Tibetan Council of Seven and trained to be a superman, both in mental and physical perfection. His powers include super strength, invulnerability and the ability to make himself disappear in a cloud of green vapor. When he turned twenty-five, after his final tests, he is sent into the world to combat crime and injustice, returning to America to become the heroic Amazing Man and his continuing battles with arch-enemy "The Great Question"! Hardcover (with Slipcase), 184 pages, full color. Cover price $62.99.

Add to cart Near Mint $57.00

Volume 2 - 1st printing. "April 1941-February 1942 and June 1941-January 1942!" Collects stories from Crack Comics (1940-1949) #12-21 and Smash Comics (1939-1949 Quality) #23-30. Lou Fine was one of the most impressive and influential artists to ever work in comics. His fluid figures were admired and copied by such greats as Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. In the early 40's, at Quality Comics on such comics as the Black Condor; aka Richard Grey Jr. having lost his parents was raised by giant black condors and after studying his condor foster parents, he learned to fly. He befriended a hermit monk named Father Pierre who convinced him that he should use his unique attributes to do good and so was born the Black Condor. Fine also created The Ray, a reporter named Hubert 'Happy' Terrill who was covering the story of a high-flying "strato-balloon" exploring the upper atmosphere. An electrical storm struck and while closing the outer airlock door, "Happy" got the full brunt of the storm's energy and the unfiltered sunlight giving him his super powers to absorb energy from his surroundings and emit it from his body in any form he chose, also using it to propel himself through the air. Featuring Stories by Will Eisner, John Cassone, Lou Fine, Charles Sultan, Otto Binder, John Belfi, and Rudy Palais. Hardcover (with Slipcase), 184 pages, full color. All Ages Cover price $62.99.

Volume 2 - 1st printing. "December 1944-June 1947!" Collects stories from Fight Comics (1940) #35-50.

Art by Nick Cardy, Lily Renee, and Bob Lubbers. Cover by Lily Renee.

Rita Farrar, aka Señorita Rio, the lovely actress-turned-agent survived in a male- dominated world due to her extraordinary skills, an excellent marksman, extremely athletic, capable of amazing feats and an expert fighter, skilled in jiu-jitsu and fencing battling Axis agents throughout South America - she truly is "The Queen of Spies"!

Señorita Rio was one of the first female and Latin characters to feature on 7 covers of the former all boys club of Fight Comics!

Hardcover, 184 pages, full color.

Cover price $46.99.

Volume 2 - 1st printing. "December 1944-June 1947!" Collects stories from Fight Comics (1940) #35-50.

Art by Nick Cardy, Lily Renee, and Bob Lubbers. Cover by Lily Renee.

Rita Farrar, aka Señorita Rio, the lovely actress-turned-agent survived in a male- dominated world due to her extraordinary skills, an excellent marksman, extremely athletic, capable of amazing feats and an expert fighter, skilled in jiu-jitsu and fencing battling Axis agents throughout South America - she truly is "The Queen of Spies"!

Señorita Rio was one of the first female and Latin characters to feature on 7 covers of the former all boys club of Fight Comics!

Hardcover (with Slipcase), 184 pages, full color.

Cover price $56.99.

Volume 2 - 1st printing. "April-June 1940!" Collects Fight Comics (1940) #4-6.

Cover by Lou Fine.

Featuring Power Man (aka Rip Regan) who is given a "power suit" by his friend and mentor Dr. Austin which gives him super-strength, imperviousness, and enables him to perform superhuman leaps alongside other classic comic heroes from Fiction House such as Shark Brodie, Kinks Mason, Spy Fighter, Chip Collins, Big Red McLane, Kayo Kirby, Oran of the Jungle, and Strut Warren. All masterfully brought to life by Lou Fine, George Tuska, Steve Broder, Leonard Frank, Fred Schwab, Charles Sultan, John Celardo, Fletcher Hanks, Dan Zolnerowich, Bob Powell, and Klaus Nordling.

Hardcover(with Slipcase), 204 pages, full color.

Cover price $56.99.

Volume 2 - 1st printing. "January 1942-July 1943!" Collects Stories from Prize Comics (1940-1948) #18-32. Cover by Ben Thompson. Doug Danville was a wealthy New York playboy who decided to fight crime. He put on a costume and began his career as K the Unknown. He later changed his costume and became the Black Owl! Doug got involved with Terry Dane, a private investigator and true to comic-book tradition, she greatly admired the Black Owl and belittled Doug Danville for being useless. Nevertheless he continued fighting criminals as the Black Owl, until he enlisted in the Army and handed down his costume to Walt Walters, the father of Yank and Doodle (more of this later). With a whole host of enemies including Chief Skullface, the Fox, Frankenstein, Funnibone, the Green Mummy, the Tiger Lady, the Laughing Head and the Terrible Midge, among others, the Black Owl had plenty to keep him busy and probably had to do overtime during the day time hours! Hardcover (with Slipcase), 184 pages, full color. Cover price $62.99.

Volume 2 - 1st printing. "Summer 1946-Spring 1947!" Collects The Spirit (1944-1950 Quality) #5-8. Cover by Will Eisner. The Spirit is a fictional masked crime fighter created by cartoonist Will Eisner, who fights crime with the blessing of the city's police commissioner Dolan, an old friend. Despite the Spirit's origin as detective/criminologist Denny Colt, his real identity was rarely referred to after his first appearance, and for all intents and purposes he was simply "The Spirit." The stories are presented in a wide variety of styles, from straight forward crime drama and noir to lighthearted adventure, from mystery and horror to comedy and love stories, often with hybrid elements that twisted genre and reader expectations. Comic book stories from the 1940s and 1950s may depict some ethnic and racial prejudices that were once commonplace in American culture. Such depictions were wrong then and are wrong today. While not representing the publisher's view of today's society, these stories are printed as they were originally created, because to do otherwise would be the same as claiming these prejudices never existed. Hardcover (with Slipcase), 208 pages, full color. Cover price $62.99.

Volume 2 - 1st printing. In the days before radio, movies, or television, print was the dominant entertainment media. From roughly 1880 through the 1930s (and slightly beyond) a "Golden Age of Illustration" flourished. Newspapers, magazines, and books were covered with beautiful images, and the illustrators who created the brilliant artwork for these publications were superstars. This glorious new book collects the work of over 211 of the greatest illustrators from the period, presenting their masterworks in beautiful full page, full color reproductions-with every iconic image photographed directly from the original artwork. Produced and edited by the publisher of Illustration Magazine, this book is a collection that no fan of classic illustration art will want to miss. Hardcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 224 pages, full color. Cover price $44.95.

Volume 2 - 1st printing.

Written by Cyril Pedrosa and Roxanne Moreil. Art and cover by Cyril Pedrosa.

Tilda began her journey vowing to free her people from suffering - but she has lost her way. Though her attempts to regain her stolen throne have failed, Tilda forces her army to continue waging a futile war without pay or food. She has become what she hated - a heartless ruler. And rebellion brews among the ranks.

To save Tilda from herself, Tankred forges a secret alliance with Hellier, the leader of the populous revolution. With their help, Tilda could win the war. But she'd have to give her power back to her people. Will Tilda see the error of her ways and return to her original path? And can she do so in time to save Bertil from the hangman's noose?

Hardcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 192 pages, full color.

Cover price $29.99.

Kaare Kyle Andrews Cover

1st Edition - Volume 1 - 1st printing. Collects Marvel Comics (1939)#1 and Marvel Mystery Comics (1939-1949) #13-24.

Cover by Kaare Kyle Andrews. Introduction by Roy Thomas.

In 1939, MARVEL COMICS (soon renamed MARVEL MYSTERY COMICS) launched a storytelling revolution that lasted eight decades and ultimately birthed the modern Marvel Universe!

The title's first year was a mix of pulp adventure seeded with the first sparks of the colorful heroes to come - but in its second year, MARVEL MYSTERY followed the path of the fiery Human Torch and the aquatic Sub-Mariner with super heroes galore! Those twin trailblazers were soon joined by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby's Vision, the all-American Patriot and the joyously wild robot Electro. Backed up by boy sleuth Terry Vance, the pre-comics jungle king Ka-Zar and the noir adventurer the Angel, each issue delivered 64 pages of nonstop 1940s action!

Now, relive the glories of the Golden Age in this painstakingly restored, oversized Omnibus edition!

Includes Stories by Carl Burgos, Bill Everett, Joe Simon, Jack Kirby, Paul Gustavson, Ray Gill, Bob Oksner, Ben Thompson, and more!

Hardcover, 832 pages, full color. Rated T

Cover price $150.00.

Alex Schomburg Cover

1st Edition - Volume 1 - 1st printing. Collects Marvel Comics (1939)#1 and Marvel Mystery Comics (1939-1949) #13-24.

Cover by Alex Schomburg. Introduction by Roy Thomas.

In 1939, MARVEL COMICS (soon renamed MARVEL MYSTERY COMICS) launched a storytelling revolution that lasted eight decades and ultimately birthed the modern Marvel Universe!

The title's first year was a mix of pulp adventure seeded with the first sparks of the colorful heroes to come - but in its second year, MARVEL MYSTERY followed the path of the fiery Human Torch and the aquatic Sub-Mariner with super heroes galore! Those twin trailblazers were soon joined by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby's Vision, the all-American Patriot and the joyously wild robot Electro. Backed up by boy sleuth Terry Vance, the pre-comics jungle king Ka-Zar and the noir adventurer the Angel, each issue delivered 64 pages of nonstop 1940s action!

Now, relive the glories of the Golden Age in this painstakingly restored, oversized Omnibus edition!

Includes Stories by Carl Burgos, Bill Everett, Joe Simon, Jack Kirby, Paul Gustavson, Ray Gill, Bob Oksner, Ben Thompson, and more!

Hardcover, 832 pages, full color. Rated T

Cover price $150.00.

Volume 2 - 1st printing. Collects Daring Mystery Comics (1940-1942) #5-8. Written by GEORGE KAPITAN and JOHN COMPTON. Art by JACK KIRBY, JOE SIMON, BILL EVERETT, CARL BURGOS, BEN THOMPSON, STEVE DAHLMAN, GEORGE KLEIN, HARRY SAHLE, LARRY ANTONETTE, ED ROBBINS, MAURICE GUTWIRTH, HARRY DOUGLAS, HENRY FLETCHER, FRED SCHWAB, BUD SAGENDORF, FRANK PRETSCH, and FRANK BORTH. Cover by JACK KIRBY. There's no age like the Golden Age! Timely Comics' second, sensational comic book series started off with an eclectic array of heroes and artistic talents that mixed pulp rawness with the exploding energy of the comic book medium. Now, with a fix on the new field, DARING MYSTERY COMICS brings in the big guns and lets loose! Featuring a who's who of Golden Age talent, these stories are a rollicking ride through the frenetic era that gave birth to America's greatest fictional creation, the super hero. Joe Simon and Jack Kirby bring you the original Marvel Boy, the 31st century space opera of Captain Daring, and the Fiery Mask. Bill Everett, master of the maritime hero, creates The Fin-Robin Hood of the Seas. Carl Burgos's Thunderer debuts as the powerhouse of justice. Ben Thompson unleashes the Blue Diamond, bullet-proof man. Harry Sahle introduces the super heroine Silver Scorpion. And Citizen V battles his way across war-torn Europe for victory! Also featuring Dynaman, Trojak the Tiger Man, K-4 and His Sky Devils, Monako Prince of Magic, Marvex the Super Robot, Breeze Barton, Stuporman, the Flying Flame and Mr. Million, DARING MYSTERY COMICS is a cornucopia of action and adventure! Hardcover, 280 pages, full color. Cover price $59.99.

Add to cart Very Fine $51.00

Volume 2 - 1st printing. Collects Young Allies Comics (1941-1946) #5-8.

Written by STAN LEE. Cover by Alex Schomburg.

If you were a red-blooded American youngster in 1942, there was one adventure you'd love to have - and the Young Allies, comics' first team of kid adventurers, would take you there with a knuckle sandwich straight to the Axis powers!

Bucky, Toro and their gang protect America on the homefront and on the front line in giant 40-plus-page adventures that burst off the page with action and excitement. Traveling across the country and around the globe, the Young Allies fight Hitler's Hollywood infiltrator the Owl, the South American Ambassador of Terror, the North African Nazi Wehrmact and the fiendish Whip. Backed-up by the time-traveling Tommy Tyme and humorous Norman the Doorman, the Golden Age classics in this volume are collected here for the first time in 70 years.

So don't wait a moment longer - reserve your copy today!

Hardcover, 280 pages, full color.

Cover price $64.99.

Add to cart Very Fine $2.65

Add to cart Very Fine $2.65

Written by Philip Kim and Holly Interlandi. Art and Cover by Piotr Kowalski. A half-conscious Hank Barrymore finds himself staring down the barrel of a shotgun at the Conway farm in Oklahoma. It's the only farm still standing in the entire town, which has been cursed by a bereaved mage named Rybach wielding two elemental demon dogs! The Conways' powerful adopted son, Cole, has managed to keep Rybach at bay, but with Hank showing up bearing news about Cole's real parentage, the farm - and Hank with it - could be doomed. 28 pages, full color. Rated T Cover price $3.99.

Volume 2 - 1st printing. "April-June 1940!" Collects Fight Comics (1940) #4-6.

Cover by Will Eisner.

Featuring Power Man (aka Rip Regan) who is given a "power suit" by his friend and mentor Dr. Austin which gives him super-strength, imperviousness, and enables him to perform superhuman leaps alongside other classic comic heroes from Fiction House such as Shark Brodie, Kinks Mason, Spy Fighter, Chip Collins, Big Red McLane, Kayo Kirby, Oran of the Jungle, and Strut Warren. All masterfully brought to life by Lou Fine, George Tuska, Steve Broder, Leonard Frank, Fred Schwab, Charles Sultan, John Celardo, Fletcher Hanks, Dan Zolnerowich, Bob Powell, and Klaus Nordling.

Softcover, 204 pages, full color.

Cover price $26.99.