Lovers comic books issue 1

Reprint Edition published by Phoenix Press in 1938. Written by Lee Jacquin. Young with beauty like a flame, Leila Saunders plunged headlong into the mad art and love whirl of a Greenwich Village life. But, when she met Clark Wandrup, serious young art instructor, Leila, in angry rebellion against her attraction for him, found herself compelled to take stock of her hectic existence and recognize her sense of values. Softcover Digest, 5" x 7", 128 pages, B&W, text only. Cover price $0.25.

1st printing. New Brunswick,New Jersey, Thursday, September 14, 1922. Reverend Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills take a stroll in the town's park in the evening. Shots are heard. 2 days later, their bodies are found laying on the ground very neatly next to each other with her hand on his thigh, love letters strewn around them, the scarf on her neck covering up the deep bloody slit in it. Reverend Hall, himself married, was in an open secret of an affair with Mrs. Mills, a married woman of his choir. The perfect ingredients for a juicy scandal and fascinating investigation which the nation's press hungrily devours. Alas, no clues or evidence are sufficient to make an indictment stick. Was it suicide? A jealous rival? The case reopens again 4 years later as new information is brought to light, indicting the reverend's wife but she is an upstanding member of her community, denying to the last that her husband had any affair... Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 80 pages, B&W. Cover price $15.99.

1st printing.

By Jonathan Kunz and Elizabeth Pich.

From the creators of the hugely popular Instagram comic War and Peas, this offbeat four-panel comic features a dark, fairy-tale aesthetic and a twist ending each time.

War and Peas: Funny Comics for Dirty Lovers combine twisted humor with a beloved cast of characters including the grim reaper (seen here as an unintentionally lethal man of leisure), a robot in hopelessly in love with his scientist creator, and a promiscuous yet self-assured witch. Unlike most webcomic collections, this one tells a story using dozens of never-before-seen comics to chronicle the lives of several different characters and their follies during life, death, and their glorious reunions in the the afterlife (and the after-afterlife).

Softcover, 160 pages, full color.

Cover price $14.99.