The Fool comic books issue 1

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2nd printing, published by Last Gasp. By Ted Richards & Willy Murphy. B&W, 32 pages, standard paper stock. Mature readers. Cover price $1.00.

1st printing. By Bob McCabe. Award-winning film director, animator, and actor Terry Gilliam has been one of the most original, controversial, and successful filmmakers of the last three decades. Since 1969, when he became the only American among the otherwise all-British Monty Python team. Terry Gilliam's work has won plaudits and acclaim for its originality and imagination. His films are renowned for the quality of performances from some of Hollywood's top acting talent, such as Robert de Niro, Brad Pitt, Robin Williams and Johnny Depp. For the first time, this book traces thirty years of the work and art of Terry Gilliam, from his pre-Python days through to the astounding adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, released in 1998. Hardcover, 196 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $49.95.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Collects Dresden Files: Fool Moon (2010 Dynamite) #1-4. Based on the story by Jim Butcher. Adapted by Mark Powers. Art and cover by Chase Conley. Harry Dresden`s life is a mess. His top client (and close friend), Lt. Karrin Murphy, no longer trusts him. Chicago`s underworld and the cops alike think he's mobster Johnny Marcone's supernatural enforcer. And the enigmatic White Council continues to view him with suspicion. If all that weren't enough, a pack of werewolves have unleashed a wave of terror on the Windy City. But as is always the case when it comes to the creatures of the Nevernever, there's far more going on than meets the eye. Before it's all over, Harry will find himself caught between friends, enemies, and arcane forces bent on his destruction. Is it any wonder he can't find a date? Expanding on Book Two of Jim Butcher's New York Times bestselling saga, and featuring writer Mark Powers and artist Chase Conley, Fool Moon collects the first half of the 8-issue series in one volume, complete with bonus material and a cover gallery. Hardcover, 104 pages, full color. Cover price $24.99.

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1st printing. Written by Ryan Schifrin and Richard Lee Byers. Cover by Ken Kelly. The fourth and final chapter in the epic Adventures of Basil & Moebius! The daring duo of scoundrel thieves follow the mysterious and otherworldly Collector to the wildest corners of both time and space in an attempt to stop an age-old alien plot to destroy the fabric of reality! All of their previous encounters and adventures have been leading to this climactic battle! Hardcover, 124 pages, full color. Cover price $18.99.

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Written by James Heffron. Art by James Heffron and Vincente Cifuentes. 40 pages, FC

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Fool for the City - Story by Randy Zimmerman, art by Chris Theisen. 36 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.95.

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Volume 1 - 1st printing. Story and art by Kasumi Yasuda. Translated by Casey Loe. Kamiya is at the end of his rope. His mother is ill, and his job barely pays for her medication, much less food. With few options left, he considers the life-changing process of floromorphosis. Ready to give his body up for a payday, Kamiya is about to explore the limits of society's waning humanity. Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 224 pages, B&W. Teen+ Cover price $14.99.

1st printing. Story and art by Rube Goldberg. Before his incredible inventions captivated the world, Rube Goldberg was one of the most popular comic strip artists in America. Here's the complete run of his first hit comic, Foolish Questions, as expanded and colorized for the pages of the Sunday Chicago Tribune, 1909-1910. Plus a brain-scrambling assortment of the other panels from his daily comics series that originated this wise-cracking classic. Most are printed for the first time in over 100 years. Hardcover, 10-in. x 10-in., 96 pages, full color. Cover price $35.00.

1st Printing - Written and Illustrated by Jack Chaney - Softcover 64 pages B&W Cover price $0.50.

Later Printing - Written and Illustrated by Jack Chaney - Softcover, 4.5" x 6.25", 80 pages, B&W Cover price $0.50.

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Written by Mari "Nezumi" Tokuda with art by Erin "Kuma" DeFilipps. B&W (except for centerfold pin-up), 32 pages, standard paper stock, cardstock cover. Cover price $2.95.

"The Fools Paradise with the Many Adventures There As Seen in the Strange Surprising Peep Show of Professor Wolley Cobble," by Wilhelm Bush. Title on cover is: Walk In! Walk In!! Just About to Begin!!! the Fools Paradise. Anthology of Busch comics, translated into English. 1 crown, 9-7/8 x 7-3/8", printed one side only, gilted green hardcover, hand colored interior.

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Add to cart Near Mint $2.65

1st printing.

Story and art by James Otis Smith.

Aditya's got one week to come up with ten grand for rent. Diane needs a cool condo in a hot neighborhood to boost her Q rating. Paul simply cannot keep it in his pants. Ishmael's keeping a secret from his fellow dance hall revolutionaries. Laila's autobiographical porno has attrracted the Russian mob. And Mr. Chips hates you. Yes, yes he does. Lovers and losers aren't easy to tell apart here, and everyone's a member of their own Gang of Fools.

A vivid look at our dystopian urban future by a rising new talent in comics, James Smith (Apollo), with equal parts contemporary street life and speculative cyberpunk-like techno-consequences in the vein of Black Mirror and Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams.

Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 168 pages, full color.

Cover price $17.99.

1st Edition (Black Eye Books) - 1st printing. Collects Jar of Fools GN (1995 Black Eye) Vol. 1-2. By Jason Lutes. Ernie is an alcoholic stage magician haunted by lost love and his brother's suicide. He's hooked up with his senile mentor in a last ditch effort to sort his life out. Esther is numb with grief, working a dead end job while her heart atrophies. Nathan Lender is a small-time grifter living on his wits and in a car with his twelve-year-old daughter, Claire. These people have run out of escape tricks and when chance brings them together they discover that love can perform miracles. A meditation on love and loss, and magic. Softcover, 6 1/2-in. x 9-in., B&W. Cover price $13.95.

2nd Edition (Drawn & Quarterly) - 1st printing. By Jason Lutes. Ernie is an alcoholic stage magician haunted by lost love and his brother's suicide. He's hooked up with his senile mentor in a last ditch effort to sort his life out. Esther is numb with grief, working a dead end job while her heart atrophies. Nathan Lender is a small-time grifter living on his wits and in a car with his twelve-year-old daughter, Claire. These people have run out of escape tricks and when chance brings them together they discover that love can perform miracles. A meditation on love and loss, and magic. Softcover, 6 1/2-in. x 9-in., B&W. Cover price $14.95.

2nd Edition (Drawn & Quarterly) - 2nd and later printings. By Jason Lutes. Ernie is an alcoholic stage magician haunted by lost love and his brother's suicide. He's hooked up with his senile mentor in a last ditch effort to sort his life out. Esther is numb with grief, working a dead end job while her heart atrophies. Nathan Lender is a small-time grifter living on his wits and in a car with his twelve-year-old daughter, Claire. These people have run out of escape tricks and when chance brings them together they discover that love can perform miracles. A meditation on love and loss, and magic. Softcover, 6 1/2-in. x 9-in., B&W. Cover price $14.95.

3rd Edition (Drawn & Quarterly) - 1st printing. By Jason Lutes. Listed as one of the top 13 graphic novels by The New York Times Book Review, Jason Lutes' groundbreaking book returns in a new, completely re-designed edition, with a new introduction by Sherman Alexie. Ernie is an alcoholic stage magician haunted by lost love and his brother's suicide. He's hooked up with his senile mentor in a last ditch effort to sort his life out. Esther is numb with grief, working a dead end job while her heart atrophies. Nathan Lender is a small-time grifter living on his wits and in a car with his twelve-year-old daughter, Claire. These people have run out of escape tricks and when chance brings them together they discover that love can perform miracles. A meditation on love and loss, and magic. Softcover, 6 1/2-in. x 9-in., 144 pages, B&W. Cover price $16.95.

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Add to cart Near Mint $9.00

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Written by J.M. Clarke. Art and cover by Natsujirushi. The gods chose him. He said no. After his parents died, Alex Roth had one desire: become a wizard. But on his eighteenth birthday, he is Marked by prophecy as one of his kingdom's five Heroes, chosen to fight the Ravener, his land's great enemy. But his brand is 'The Fool', the worst of the marks. Rather than die or serve other Heroes like past Fools, he takes a stand, rejects divine decree... and leaves. With his little sister, his childhood friend, and her cerberus, Alex flees to the world's greatest Wizard academy. university, hoping to research the mystery of the Ravener. There's one small problem-the Mark of the Fool prevents him from learning and casting spells... that is, unless he learns to exploit the hell out of it. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 256 pages, Text (with B&W Chapter Illustrations). Cover price $14.99.

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1st printing.

Story and art by Bill Griffith.

From Bill Griffith, creator of Zippy the Pinhead, comes the first-ever biography of Schlitzie, a major sideshow attraction from the early 1920s to the late 1960s.

Nobody's Fool follows the story of Schlitzie's long career. Today, Schlitzie is most well-known for his appearance in the cult classic Freaks. In researching Schlitzie's life (1901-1971), Griffith has tracked down primary sources and archives throughout the country, including conducting interviews with those who worked with him and had intimate knowledge of his life.

This graphic novel biography provides never-before-revealed details of his life, offering a unique look into his world and restoring dignity to his life by recognizing his contributions to popular culture.

Hardcover, 8-in. x 9-in., 256 pages, B&W.

Cover price $24.99.

1st printing. Written by Sue Coe and Judith Brody. Art by Sue Coe. Sheep Of Fools describes the desperate and cruel economic phenomenon of "live transport" (sheep being transported across oceans to be slaughtered). Illustrated by Sue Coe's powerful images, her true 'yarn' harkens back to the beginning of the "Wool Mart", through which the British refined their Parliamentary system, its rules, and dispersal of power. Hardcover, 10-in. x 10-in., 32 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $14.95.

Ashcan preview for Ship of Fools (1996 Caliber). Cover by Mignola. Michael Avon-Oeming artwork. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", 12 pages, B&W.

1st printing. Story and art by Ignacio Noe. Softcover, 8.5" x 11", 48 pages, full color, Adults Only. Cover price $10.95.

2nd or later printing. Story and art by Ignacio Noe. Softcover, 8.5" x 11", 48 pages, full color, Adults Only. Cover price $10.95.

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First printing. Story by Alex Singer, illustrations by Jayd Aït-Kaci. Vincent Byrde, a grizzled P.I. laboring under a nasty curse, has built his career chasing witches and magicians wherever they may hide. One job, however, eludes him: the frustrating case of Jimmy Wonder, a young up-and-coming spellrunner who always seems to be one step ahead of the law. Vincent is set on bringing Wonder to heel. Wonder is set on being the biggest magician in NYC. Their dance takes a complicated turn when Kitty Lovelace – Jimmys sidekick and main girl–walks out on Wonder and straight into Vincents life. Hardcover, 144 pages. 6 1/4" x 8 1/2". Cover price $24.99.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Story and art by Nicolas Fructus. Hardcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 56 pages, full color. Cover price $15.95.

1st printing. By Michael Alexander Kahn and Richard Samuel West. A lavish coffee table book devoted to the most important political satire and cartoon magazine in American history. Published from 1877 to 1918, Puck was regularly a major political battleground and is credited with single-handedly thwarting the third-term ambitions of Ulysses Grant in 1880 and electing Grover Cleveland to the presidency in 1884. Puck did it with art-lavish, color, full-page and two-page center-spread cartoons. It was the first American magazine to publish color lithographs on a weekly basis and, for nearly forty years, was a training ground and showcase for some of the country's most talented cartoonists, led by its co-founder, Joseph Keppler. This retrospective contains nearly 300 full-color plates. Hardcover (Horizontal Format), 12-in. x 11-in., 328 pages, full color. Cover price $59.99.