Classic Comics comic books issue 1

Volume 1 - 1st printing. "April 1957-February 1958!" Collects Midnight (1957) #1-5. Just when you thought it was safe to venture out - we bring you the strangest tales ever told at MIDNIGHT! I mean, c'mon! The original copies of these comics will have been swapped a hundred-fold or sold for pennies when the recess bell sounded in the magical long-ago frightful freakin' fab 'n' fantastic fifties schoolyards. And now you can pick 'em up for peanuts! Go get, 'em folks! I'm getting all wistful so you'll have to excuse me... it starts good and just keeps right on gettin' gooder. But then it's PS Artbooks, you warriors, so get with the program! Hardcover (with Slipcase), 184 pages, full color. Cover price $62.99.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. "1969-1970!" Story and art by Harry Lindfield. Published in the U.S. for the first time! In 1969, six months before the Star Trek TV series premiered in England, British comics readers were introduced to the characters in an original comic-book series. The stories were serialized, generally 2 to 3 pages at a time, in 257 weekly magazines spanning five years and 37 storylines. These extremely rare comics have never been published in the United States. Star Trek fans will quickly note that the comics were not written with strict adherence to Star Trek's core concepts. But it's precisely that "offness" that makes them so eminently readable and deserving of a proper reprinting. They're unique in the annals of Star Trek and fans have gone without them for far too long. Hardcover, 9-in. x 11-in., 244 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $49.99.

1st printing.

Edited by Steve Banes and Craig Yoe. Art by Basil Wolverton, Lin Streeter, Jim McLaughlin, Harry Harrison, Charles Nicholas, King Ward, Jack Katz, Lou Cameron, Art Gates, Myron Fass and Ken Landau. Introduction by Stephen R. Bissette.

Something's out there in the mad, murky depths of the fear-filled, sinister swamp... some... swamp... THING is coming for you! And it's out for mud! The terror team that brought you Zombies, Return of the Zombies, and the petrifyingly popular hit series, Haunted Horror, takes you on an excursion of evil into the dankest, lagooniest corners of your nightmares, and dredge up over 240 pages of icky, drippy, slimy, grimy beasts from the grungy bottom of the Pre-Code comics' bog. Swamp Monsters includes a fascinating introduction by comics legend, acclaimed artist of Swamp Thing, "Swampy" Stephen Bissette!

Hardcover, 144 pages, full color.

Cover price $24.99.

Original Text - 1st printing. Written by Sean Michael Wilson. Art and cover by Declan Shalvey. No one knows for sure if Sweeney Todd actually existed, but this story, taken from a serialization in a penny dreadful from 1846, was the first official record of the terrible crimes committed by the Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Gory? No! What's particularly good about this adaptation is that none of the horror is to be seen - making this a truly wonderful version of a brilliant book. Softcover, 176 pages, full color. Cover price $16.95.

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Volume 1 - 1st printing. "1988-1990!"

Written by Alan Martin. Art by Jamie Hewlett and Tracy Bailey.

30 years ago, Tank Girl was unleashed by Jamie Hewlett (Gorillaz) and Alan Martin, and at last you can enjoy the original Hewlett artwork, collected in full color! Read the seminal, punky strips as the creators wanted them three decades ago, in this prestige edition packed with contemporary covers and rare and unseen artwork!

Hardcover, 144 pages, full color.

NOTE: "A worthy introduction for anyone wondering what all the fuss has been about, and a refreshing update for the true believers who have known all along." - The Brazen Bull

Cover price $24.99.

1st printing. By James Danky and Denis Kitchen. The impact of American underground comix is profound: They galvanized artists both domestically and abroad, forever changed the economics of comic book publishing, and influenced generations of cartoonists, including their predecessors. While the works of Robert Crumb and Art Spiegelman are well-known via the New Yorker, Maus, and retrospective collections, the art of their contemporaries such as Gilbert Shelton, Trina Robbins, Justin Green, Kim Deitch, S. Clay Wilson, and many other seminal cartoonists who came of age in the 1960s is considerably less known. Underground Classics provides the first serious survey of underground comix as art, turning the spotlight on these influential and largely underappreciated artists. Hardcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 144 pages, PC/PB&W. Mature Readers Cover price $29.95.