Den comic books issue 1

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Art and Cover by Hank Ketch. Promotional coloring book centered around dental hygiene. 5" X 7". 20 pages. B&W.

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First Printing - 1937. Considered the most detailed single-volume encyclopaedia of London and an invaluable period guide to places, institutions and infrastructure. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.5" x 8", 772 pages, B&W - text with 16 pages of photographs.

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In honor of twenty years in Japan's graphic design community, the character designer for Blue Submarine No. 6 and Last Exile Range Murata has released his fourth art book, and his first ever translated into English. Futurelog collects all of this comics work from the ROBOT anthology (UDON) as well as all of his covers for Kairakuten magazine (FAKKU).

Collecting more than 300 pieces of artwork from his many manga, light novel and doujinshi oeuvre Murata's Futurelog records an acclaimed career in character design.

Softcover (with Dust Jacket), 9-in. x 12-in., 280 pages, full color.

Cover price $59.99.

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Story an dart by Nobuyuki Fukumoto.

One day, ne'er-do-well Kaiji Itou's shiftless existence is suddenly rattled by a visit from the yakuza. Burdened by debt and resentment, he is coerced into gambling his worthless life. As the stakes grow higher and the games become increasingly more bizarre, Kaiji must take his future in his hands!

Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 544 pages, B&W.

Cover price $21.95.

Three one-act plays by Arthur L. Kaser. 4.75" x 7.25", 28 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.50.

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Story and art by Panpanya.

Beloved indie manga artist panpanya discovers the wonders of the Guyabano fruit and the Philippines!

A trip to Tokyo's Asian market district, Ameyokocho, leads the protrag on a trip to hunt down the mysterious guyabano fruit! Little does the protrag and their crew know that their curiosity will take them on a wild and mouth-watering trip to the Philippines!

Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 201 pages, B&W.

Cover price $13.95.

1st printing. By Darryl Cunningham. Is climate change real? Evolution: Fact or fiction? Was the moon landing a hoax? Does homeopathy work? Is hydro-fracking really safe? In How to Fake a Moon Landing Darryl Cunningham takes on these and other hot-button topics by using critical thinking to illustrate that facts really do matter, revealing the manipulation, by both the left and the right, of documented information. Cunningham's easy-to-follow narrative allows readers to draw their own conclusions as he presents his research and sources via comic book storytelling! Hardcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 176 pages, full color. Cover price $16.95.

Volume 1 - 1st Printing. Cover by Hank Ketcham. Stories and art by Hank Ketcham. A hardcover collection of Hank Ketcham's Dennis the Menace one-panel comic strip. Mr. Wilson wants to know what Dennis has been doing with his car while he's been sick. Dennis gets busted naked in the back yard birdbath. Dennis accidentally insults a visitor by telling him what his Dad said about him. The back cover features a Dennis cartoon in the many languages that the strip was translated into by 1958. 6-in.x 9-in., 112 pages, B&W. Cover price $1.00.

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Story and art by Shuzo Oshimi. Translated by Sheldon Drzka.

Yesterday college dropout Isao Komori was killing time playing video games and hitting up the convenience store. Today, he finds himself in the body of a popular and well-composed high school girl! How did this happen? What of the young lady whose body he now possesses? And how will he return them to their former selves.

From Shuzo Oshimi, the best-selling author of Flowers of Evil and Happiness, comes a coming-of-age tale with a sci-fi twist.

Softcover, 5-in. x 8-in., 192 pages, B&W. Mature Readers

Cover price $12.95.

Jetsons Space Travel Fun Book (1992 Denney's) #6, one of six non-comic children's promotional activity books from Denny's Resturants. Puzzles, activities, games, but no comic book material. Color cover, B&W newsprint interior, digest-sized, 100 pages counting covers.

1st printing. Collects LCD: Kieron Dwyer's Lowest Comic Denominator (1999) #0-3.

Story and art by Kieron Dwyer.

Collects all four existing issues of KIERON DWYER's underground cult classic adult humor series.

Taking its cues from classic humor comics and magazines like MAD, National Lampoon, and underground comix legends like Robert Crumb, LCD: LOWEST COMIC DENOMINATOR is a hilarious antidote to political correctness featuring art and stories by KIERON DWYER, TONY MOORE, HILARY BARTA, BILL WRAY, MIKE MANLEY, and JOHNNY RYAN, et al.

Includes a foreword by one of LCD's earliest fans and supporters, GARTH ENNIS, creator of Preacher and The Boys.

Softcover, 176 pages, B&W.

Cover price $17.99.

1st printing. By M. Martin McCarey-Laird. The story of the greatest writer of the Pulp Era... Softcover, 5-in. x 8-in., 106 pages, text only. Cover price $11.95.

American Dental Association Promo. Illustrated picture booklet. Art by Merryweather. 6-in. x 5-in. 16 Pages, duotone color.

Limited Edition 50th Anniversary Scary Special cover by Steve Ditko, limited to 175 copies. Edited by Ed Konick (credited as Abernathy Farquad). Art by Steve Ditko and others. Publisher Dennis Druktenis of "Scary Monsters" fame reprints this classic 1960s monster mag from Charlton Comics. This 50th anniversary edition includes the entire contents of the original,  along with a new introduction, and was printed in a limited edition. This issue features the 3-pager "K,"  a bizarre story about a monster who creates a man, with early art (and a cover) by comics legend Steve Ditko, on the verge of the creation of Spider-Man. Konga; K; Saint George and the 7 Curses; Reptilicus; The Truth About Monsters; Black Sunday; Coffin Capers; Ghoul Giggles; Monster Cards; Rock and Roll in Monsterland. 8-in. x 11-in., 68 pages, B&W. Cover price $25.00.

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1st printing. By Hank Ketcham. This engaging memoir from Hank Ketcham has Dennis the Menace tell his own colorful story, from when he was about "five-ana-half" and first picked up the "magic pencil." This book not only traces the humorous adventures of Hank Ketcham, it also offers a special insight into the life and times of the half-pint "Menace." Go behind the scenes of Dennis' world with backgrounds for all major characters, (including their genealogies). Plus, enjoy official model sheets, private sketches, and more. Hardcover, 9-in. x 9-in. 256 pages, B&W.

NO Dust Jacket - 1st printing. By Hank Ketcham. This engaging memoir from Hank Ketcham has Dennis the Menace tell his own colorful story, from when he was about "five-ana-half" and first picked up the "magic pencil." This book not only traces the humorous adventures of Hank Ketcham, it also offers a special insight into the life and times of the half-pint "Menace." Go behind the scenes of Dennis' world with backgrounds for all major characters, (including their genealogies). Plus, enjoy official model sheets, private sketches, and more. Hardcover, 9-in. x 9-in. 256 pages, B&W.

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Story and art by Hank Ketcham.

This engaging memoir from Hank Ketcham has Dennis the Menace tell his own colorful story, from when he was about "five-ana-half" and first picked up the "magic pencil." This book not only traces the humorous adventures of Hank Ketcham, it also offers a special insight into the life and times of the half-pint "Menace." Go behind the scenes of Dennis' world with backgrounds for all major characters, (including their genealogies).

Plus, enjoy official model sheets, private sketches, and more.

Softcover, 9-in. x 9-in. 230 pages, B&W.

Cover price $19.95.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Based on the Original Story by Hajime Vatate and Voshiyuki Tomino. Adapted by Takayuki Yanase. Art and cover by Uroaki Sabishi. Translated by Jason Moses. Mobile Suit Design by Yutaka Izubuchi. The legend of Armuro Ray and Char Aznable continues in a new adaptation of Tomino's ground-breaking film. Their first battle changed the tone of the One Year War. Their last battle could be believed as the end of that war. Now more than a dozen years later, Aznable has emerged to lead a Neo Zeon and Amuro is ready to confront his rival once again. Created twenty-five years after Yoshiyuki Tomino's original novels, Beltorchika's Children is an alternative telling of the legendary film. Softcover, 6-in. x 8-in., 194 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $12.95.

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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.

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Art and cover by R. Crumb.

Mr. Natural, that fly-by-night guru (or is he a genuine mystic?) is back! Sometimes profound, sometimes muddling, R. Crumb's most famous character offers glimpses into his private world, insights, and observations of modern life in this new set of 24 postcards! Guest appearances by Devil Girl and devotee Flakey Foont. Mail 'em to friends... Petition the President... Impress girls... Or save 'em in mint condition. They're less than .50 cents each!

Softcover, 6 1/2-in. x 4-in., 24 postcards, full color (on one side).

Cover price $11.95.

1st printing. By Denis Kitchen, Neil Gaiman, Charles Brownstein, and John Lind. A well-known personality in the comics world, Denis Kitchen has worn many hats: publisher, founder of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, and literary and art agent. But his career as a pioneering underground comix artist has been overdue for rediscovery-until now! The Oddly Compelling Art of Denis Kitchen, the long-awaited collection of Kitchen's comics, covers, and illustrations, brings Kitchen the artist to the forefront. A comprehensive career overview, this compendium includes approximately two hundred illustrations, most unseen since their original publication in the late '60s and early '70s, and many from regional publications not seen even by serious comix fans. Featuring an introduction by Neil Gaiman, and an expansive, career-spanning essay by CBLDF executive director Charles Brownstein, The Oddly Compelling Art is both a fond look back for underground comix aficionados and an excellent introduction for new fans of Kitchen's body of work! Designed by John Lind, winner of an American Graphic Design Award for his work on Underground Classics. Hardcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 200 pages, full color. NOTE: "I think "oddly compelling" is a very good title for a book of Denis Kitchen's work, and describes it very well." - R. Crumb Cover price $34.99.

1st printing. By Mark Arnold. Comic book and animation historian Mark Arnold covers Dennis the Menace history from its origins through the television series, the playground, and the merchandise. Includes biographies of creator Hank Ketcham and the people behind the scenes, Al Wiseman, Fred Toole, Owen Fitzgerald, Frank Hill, Bill Williams, Lee Holley, Bob Bugg, Ron Ferdinand, and Marcus Hamilton, as well as background on Mort Walker, Charles M. Schulz, Jay North, Gloria Henry, Herbert Anderson, Joseph Kearns, Gale Gordon, Walter Matthau, Don Rickles, Joan Plowright, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, George Kennedy, Betty White, Robert Wagner, and Louise Fletcher. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 710 pages, B&W. Cover price $34.95.

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Written by Michael Sweater. Art and cove rby Josue Cruz.

There's no knight braver than Sparky Muttson! (Except maybe his enthusiastic and very cute apprentice, Pugsly.) They're ready for their first adventure together, and while this quest might not turn out exactly how they expected, Sparky and Pugsly have the chops to make it through-no bones about it!

Softcover, 7-in. x 11-in., 48 pages, full color.

Cover price $12.99.

Robert E. Howard poetry published in an numbered edition of 600. Illustrations by Tom Foster. 5.5" x 8.5", 36 pages, B&W.

1st printing. Collects Rocketeer in the Den of Thieves (2023 IDW) #1-4. Written by Stephen Mooney. Art by David Messina. Cover by Gabriel Rodriguez. The Rocketeer is grounded! After Cliff and Betty's adventures in Europe-with Cliff losing the Great Race but saving the day-he and Betty return home with a busted jet pack but a fixed relationship! They're as happy as they've ever been... but paradise doesn't last long! An elite band of Nazis, foiled in the past by their attempts to construct their own jet packs, decide on a new tactic: kidnapping the only person who can enable them to create their very own fleet of Rocketeers-Cliff's beloved friend and mentor Peevy! Cliff and Betty must smuggle themselves into Berlin alongside mysterious allies in order to save Peevy. But first, they'll have to overcome Hitler's war machine. Softcover, 112 pages, full color. Cover price $17.99.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. "Double Life!"

Written by Emilie Alibert and Denis Lapière. Art and cover by Valerie Vernay.

Twenty-one-year-old Rose just wants to be left alone. But Rose has a secret: she has the ability to split herself in two. Her spirit can leave her body and wander around freely, going into apartments and watching people live their lives. When her father, a private detective working on a financial political scandal, is murdered, Rose takes it upon herself to find the man responsible. Each volume of the series presents a new part of her investigation, as Rose gets ever closer to discovering the truth in this story filled with mystery, romanticism, and supernatural twists.

Softcover, 48 pages, full color.

Cover price $14.99.

10.5" x 13.5", 4 pages, B&W Cover price $0.25.

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Features two stories by Dennis Fujitake. "The Pearl" Cycle of light, in the fifth Ig Rad at the rim of the forbidden zone! and "A Better Choice" Time: Distant Future. Situation: The final world conflict has reduced the earth's population to a mere three! Two men and one woman! Consequence: Obvious! 16 pages, B&W

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1st printing. "Careering through space, Crash Carew, Daredevil of the Stratosphere and Billy, his boy assistant, are becoming bothered. Ice is forming over their planet-rocket, the Marlin. Will the Marlin nose-dive into the Ice Planet? Will the evil ice-batmen have their wicked way? Will this dynamic duo face a frozen fate?" Travel back in time to a more innocent future, the Comic Book world of the 40s and 50s, when all a boy or girl needed was a silver sixpence to buy hours' worth of wonder and the wonderful world of tomorrow! Softcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 96 pages, PC/PB&W.

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Mike Halblieb script. Keith Quinn art. Garrett Berner color. Cover price $2.95.

Issue #1 - 2003. Written and drawn by Denver Brubaker. 5 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 32 pages, black and white. Cover price $1.50.

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By Simon Brew.

TV Geek recounts the fascinating stories of cult-classic series, reveals the nerdy Easter eggs hidden in TV show sets, and demonstrates the awe-inspiring power of fandom, which has even been known to raise TV series from the dead. Subjects include: How the live-action Star Wars TV show fell apart; The logistics and history of the crossover episode; The underrated geeky TV shows of the 1980s; The hidden details of Game of Thrones; The Walking Dead and the power of fandom; and much more. TV Geek provides an insightful look at the fascinating history, facts and anecdotes behind the greatest (and not-so-great) shows.

This is the ultimate, nerdy television guide for TV geeks everywhere.

Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 240 pages, full color.

Cover price $19.99.

Robert E. Howard story published in an unnumbered edition of 1500. Illustrations by Stephen Fabian. 5.5" x 8.5", 26 pages, B&W.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Story and art by Kengo Hanazawa. Translated by Sheldon Drzka. After World War II, Allied Command in Japan developed a new agency to help manage terrorism and violence within the Pacific region. The agency was staffed with ninja and they were initially tasked to handle domestic affairs. Eventually that program grew to its current form, managing 20,000 ninja across a range of domestic and international affairs. One of those ninja happens to be Kudo. The 17-year-old high school loser is now poised to be the next line of defense against a potential surge in foreign assassins invading Tokyo. Softcover, 6-in. x 8-in., 192 pages, B&W. Cover price $12.95.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Story and art by Akili. Translated by Moll Rabbitt. Ichika's life has taken a sudden turn. Her grandmother has passed away, so as family and friends come from far and wide to pay their respects, she finds herself in the spotlight as many of these old faces have taken an interest in her youth. As a fourteen-year-old Ichika could be dating. She could be participating in extra-curricular activities. She could be looking to her future. But she hasn't done any of that. All of that will change, when a young guest who she does not recognize visits her home. Aria seems to know quite a bit about her family and property, and while she may be there to say goodbye, she may have found her way into Ichika's heart. Softcover, 5-in. x 8-in., 160 pages, B&W. Cover price $12.95.

1st printing. By Hank Ketcham. Watch out - America's #1 little demon is again at large! Hardcover, 4-in.x 7-in., 112 pages, B&W. All Ages Cover price $1.00.

Edited by Ed Konick (credited as Raoul Kasatrovich). Publisher Dennis Druktenis of "Scary Monsters" fame reprints this classic 1960s monster mag from Charlton Comics. This 50th anniversary edition includes the entire contents of the original, along with a new introduction. This issue features Werewolves and Vampires, a one-shot special companion to Charlton's monster mags of the '60s, Mad Monsters (1962) and Horror Monsters (1961). This special focuses on werewolves and vampires in cinema, story and folklore. Panorama; The Casebook of Dr. Baji; Lycanthropy Illustrated; Don't Cry Wolf; I Was a Teenage Werewolf; The Wayward Werewolf (a poem); Night of Horror; The Undead Illustrated; Ode to a Vampire (a poem); Ghouls and Gags; Bela Lugosi's Original Dracula; Curse of the Werewolf; Pinups; Coffin Capers; Ghoul Giggles. 8-in. x 11-in., 68 pages, B&W. Cover price $25.00.

1st printing. Edited by Alex Chun and Jacob Covey. Although best known as one of the greatest syndicated cartoonists of the 20th Century, Dennis the Menace creator Henry "Hank" Ketcham also spent nearly a decade as a gag cartoonist for major New York magazines like the Colliers and the Saturday Evening Post. In these gag cartoons, which were primarily published between 1942 and 1950, one can already see the endearing troublemaker that would become the protagonist in his long-running strip. (In fact, Ketcham in his Dennis the Menace cartoons, reused some of the gags and images almost verbatim.) Collected for the first time are hundreds of Ketcham's long forgotten magazine cartoons. Together, they provide a rare glimpse into what would later become one the most beloved comics to grace the comics pages! Softcover, 7 1/2-in. x 5 1/2-in. (horizontal format), 176 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $19.95.