Mono comic books issue 1

1st printing.

Edited by John Rhett Thomas. Art and cover by Leinil Francis Yu.

From a late '90s run on WOLVERINE to Jonathan Hickman's current X-MEN epic, artist Leinil Francis Yu has drawn it all in a career at Marvel distinguished by his unique style! MARVEL MONOGRAPH: THE ART OF LEINIL FRANCIS YU recounts the full range of his credits - including his milestone work on NEW AVENGERS, CAPTAIN AMERICA, the Ultimate Universe and the high-concept event series SECRET INVASION - and is packed with art, behind-the-scenes materials and insightful commentary!

Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 112 pages, full color. Rated T+

Cover price $24.99.

1st printing.

Edited by John Rhett Thomas. Art and cover by Stuart Immonen.

Award-winning artistic chameleon Stuart Immonen has constantly reinvented himself throughout his 30-year comic book career, establishing himself as one of the industry's finest talents!

Follow Immonen from his early days at Marvel illustrating such titles as THOR and INCREDIBLE HULK; all the way through his visionary collaboration with writer Warren Ellis on cult-favorite NEXTWAVE: AGENTS OF H.A.T.E.; to his superstar status of recent years on books including NEW AVENGERS, ALL-NEW X-MEN, AMAZING SPIDER-MAN and his blockbuster stint on STAR WARS!

Immonen's finest pages and covers are examined in intricate detail in an artist study that is not to be missed!

Softcover, 112 pages, full color. Rated T+

Cover price $19.99.

Add to cart Fine $2.65

Add to cart Fine $2.65

Written by Liam Sharp. Art and Cover by Ben Wolstenholme. 'From the Boer War, through the First and Second World War, the Cold War and beyond, Mono was there...where no one else could go...' The ape-human hybrid secret agent and Queen's assassin, possessed of a deadly prehensile tail and 'the strength of twelve men,' made his debut in the pulps of the 1930s and enjoyed a brief revival in the late 1960s and 70s. But can it be that the fiction is closer to historic fact than was ever previously guessed? Now a series of tales, told in hand-written journals and reported first-hand by those that knew him, reveal Mono as a dual-natured and conflicted adventurer - savage and noble; civilized, but ultimately untamable. 28 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.

Add to cart Very Fine $2.65

Add to cart Very Fine $2.65

Written by Brian Wood. Art and Cover by Sergio Sandoval. Mono undertakes a deadly mission at the behest of Britain's American allies...but what secrets will he find deep in the heart of the Pacific? 28 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Collects Mono (2014 Titan) #1-4 and Mono (2015 Titan) Volume 2 #1-2. Written by Liam Sharp. Art by Ben Wolstenholme. The ape-human hybrid secret agent and Queen's assassin, possessed of a deadly prehensile tail and "the strength of twelve men," made his debut in the pulps of the 1930s and enjoyed a brief revival in the late 1960s and 70s. But can it be that the fiction is closer to historic fact than was ever previously guessed? Now a series of tales, told in hand-written journals and reported first-hand by those that knew him, reveal Mono as a dual-natured and conflicted adventurer - savage and noble; civilized, but ultimately untamable. Hardcover, 192 pages, full color. Cover price $24.99.

Japanese Doujinshi/Art Book. Cover and Art by Icomochi. "Natsume + Aoi". Japanese Language. Slab consignment recording only.

1st printing. Collects Monocyte (2011) #1-4. Written by Menton3 and Kasra Ghanbari. Art and cover by Menton3. Two warring immortal races rule a scarred world where time has no meaning. Death (Azrael) sits impotent, quietly planning his restoration. He summons Monocyte, a forgotten immortal necromancer who long ago chose sleep in his failed quest to die. With a fatal pact sealed, Monoctye strikes out as Azrael's vicious proxy. Hardcover,, 9-in. x 13 -in., 224 pages, full color. Cover price $49.99.

1st printing.

Featuring over 100 color and black & white illustrated studies, Monograph showcases a kinetic array of challenging and energetic compositions in motion culled from the sketchbooks of renowned comic book cover artist and illustrator Glenn Fabry.

Hardcover, 8 1/2-in." x 11-in., 146 pages, full color.

1st printing.

Written by Roberto Recchioni and Mauro Uzzeo. Art and cover by LRNZ. Introduction by Roberto Recchioni.

Sandra and her 2yr old son are driving the safest car ever built, the Monolith. When they are forced to stop in the middle of the empty desert, Sandra accidentally gets locked out of the car. Now, isolated from civilization, she must save her son from a car designed to be an indestructible vault on wheels. The sun is rising, heating the car's sheet metal, and time is running out!

A taught psychological thriller written by famed Italian screenwriter Roberto Recchioni (ORPHANS) and beautifully painted by artist LRNZ (GOLEM). With a wide range of visual styles mirroring the changing psyche of the main character as she deals with her looming dilemma, this book is a cinematic feast for the eyes.

Hardcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 180 pages, full color. Mature Readers

Cover price $29.99.

Add to cart Very Good $7.30

1st printing. By Anders Nilsen. An EXPERIMENTAL COLLECTION OF ART, HUMOR AND PHILOSOPHY. Monologues for Calculating the Density of Black Holes takes up where the artist's first volume, Monologues for the Coming Plague, left off. Like Coming Plague, the Black Holes is a creatively experimental laboratory, comprising a collection of free flowing stream of consciousness gags, strips, and drawings that slowly coalesce into an unexpectedly compelling and complex narrative. The hints of story that came together in Monologues for The Coming Plague are extrapolated and expanded upon and grow to incorporate some of Nilsen's other outré strips from the anthology Mome, two of which are reprinted here in expanded form. The book is an audacious investigation into the rhythms of storytelling, the blurring of media, and an exercise in reconciling contrasts. It is playful, provacative and serious all at once - another tour de force by Anders Nilsen, impeccably and uniquely designed, in black and white and color.What Pedro Vieira de Moura on Ler BD wrote about Nilsen's Coming Plague could apply equally to The Density of Black Holes: "What looks like last minute thoughts or doodles are actually something extremely pure... Monologues' first half feels like a successful game of tetris: each page is like a new 'brick,' which adds a new element of significance to the whole, and after a while we realize a whole new layer of meaning that changes everything we had learned up to that point." Softcover, 5-in. x 8-in., 400 pages, two-color. Mature Readers Cover price $22.99.

Add to cart Fine $7.70

1st printing. Collects Monomyth (2023 Mad Cave) #1-6. Written by David Hazan. Art by Cecillia Lo Valvo and Federico Bertoni. Cover by Juan Doe. Back Cover by Cecillia Lo Valvo. What if the secret school of magic you were chosen for...was trying to kill you? Magic is all but extinct. When the last ailing wizard casts a final desperate spell to summon the descendants of ancient bloodlines to a school for magic now in disrepair...those chosen ones find a horror of the likes they've never experienced. They will have to confront the deepest parts of themselves and defeat each other in order to survive the ordeal. Softcover, 144 pages, full color. Rated T+ Cover price $17.99.

1st printing.

Story and art by Abraham Martinez.

2051. The world's largest company, The Company, has seized power on a planetary scale and runs the world as if it were a business. In a plutocracy, the richer one is, the more powerful one is. The elections have been replaced by general shareholders' meetings where the votes are linked to the number of shares owned by citizens. Government is made up of those who own the most shares and it is the laws of the market that govern everything, creating a strange political system.

In this context, an anonymous citizen becomes compelled to uncover how the world came to this situation, without paying any attention to the official version. He seeks to discover the true history of The Company and to try to understand what are the various interests that are trying to influence his investigation.

Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 144 pages, full color.

Cover price $24.99.

1st printing.

By Tom Weaver.

Poverty row horror films were usually inexpensively (some would say cheaply) produced with writing that ranged from bad to atrocious. Yet these movies with their all-star horror casts (Carradine, Lugosi, Karloff, et al.) and their ape men, mad monsters, devil bats and white zombies still have a loyal audience 50 years after their release.

Essays contain full filmographic data on the 31 horror chillers made by the three studios from 1940 through 1946 and are arranged by year of release. Each entry includes the date of release, length, production credits, cast credits, interview quotes, and a plot synopsis with critical commentary. Filmographies for prominent horror actors and actresses, from John Abbott to George Zucco, are provided in the appendices.

Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 392 pages, Text (with B&W Photos).

Add to cart Near Mint $2.65

Add to cart Very Fine $2.50

1st printing. Written by Catherynne Valente. Art and cover by Annie Wu. The Refrigerator Monologues is a collection of linked stories from the points of view of the wives and girlfriends of superheroes, female heroes, and anyone who's ever been "refrigerated": comic book women who are killed, raped, brainwashed, driven mad, disabled, or had their powers taken so that a male superhero's storyline will progress. In an entirely new and original superhero universe, Valente subversively explores these ideas and themes in the superhero genre, treating them with the same love, gravity, and humor as her fairy tales. After all, superheroes are our new fairy tales and these six women have their own stories to share. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 160 pages, B&W. Cover price $14.99.

1st printing.

Story and art by Shigeru Mizuki.

Shigeru Mizuki-Japan's grand master of yokai comics-adapts one of the most important works of supernatural literature into comic book form. The cultural equivalent of Brothers Grimm's fairy tales, Tono Monogatari is a defining text of Japanese folklore and one of the country's most important works of literature.

This graphic novel was created during the later stage of Mizuki's career, after he had retired from the daily grind of commercial comics to create personal, lasting works of art.

Softcover, 5-in. x 7 1/2-in., 176 pages, B&W.

Cover price $24.95.

1st printing. By Richard Parks. In an ancient Japan where the incursions of gods, ghosts, and demons into the living world is an everyday event, an impoverished nobleman named Yamada no Goji makes his living as a demon hunter for hire. With the occasional assistance of the reprobate exorcist Kenji, whatever the difficulty - ogres, demons, fox-spirits - for a price Yamada will do what needs to be done, even and especially if the solution to the problem isn't as simple as the edge of a sword. Yet, no matter how many monsters he has to face, or how powerful and terrible they may be, the demons Yamada fears the most are his own! Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 336 pages, Text Only. Cover price $14.95.