Roma comic books issue 1

Add to cart VF+ 8.5 $30.00 View scans Staple rust: Slight.

Uncredited romance stories with posed photographs. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 66 pages, black and white. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart Near Mint $2.65

1st printing. Story and art by Snailords. Every relationship has its bumps. For this couple, it's interstellar. From the creator of Snailed and Snailed It comes a sexy supernatural story about being out on your own, finding your dream apartment and discovering that your new place is haunted by a handsome spectral stranger from another dimension. Sure, he can't see you and you can't touch him, but who said every relationship starts out perfectly? Zylith and Zelan have crossed worlds to see each other but they have both crossed meaning they no longer see each other any more! Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 288 pages, full color. Cover price $19.99.

Art by Walter T. Johnson, John Giunta, Ed Waldman and Howard Larsen. Tales of love on the dusty trails of the prairie. Redheaded rodeo cowgirl Sally is torn between straight-arrow Jim and bad-boy Jeff; Gloria decides to teach a lesson to the unwashed cowpoke who wants a wife to go with his new fortune. The lead story was cited in the infamous anti-comics screed Seduction of the Innocent, for an alleged instance of erotic spanking on page 3. But best of all is the painted cover by an unknown artist, reprinted from one of Avons paperbacks. Tangled Love; Heart-Wrangler; Ropin' in a Wild Cowpoke; Two-Gun Lady; Don't Fence Me In. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Fiction by Mary Kay Simmons, Dorothy Eden, Jean Francis Webb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, and Velda Johnston. Several illustrations by James Hilton. 8.5-in. x 10.75-in.; black and white; mostly text; 72 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.50.

1st printing. Art and cover by Guy Colwell. Beginning in 1972, Guy Colwell's Inner City Romance forged new territory for underground comix, portraying stories about prison, black culture, ghetto life, the sex trade and the realities of inner city life. Every issue is included in this collection, as well as many of the highly detailed paintings he created at the same time. Colwell recounts in the accompanying text, his personal journey to artistic maturity forged by radicalism and frustration. Softcover, 200 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $24.99.

Vol. 1, No. 9. December 1948. Fictional romance stories with photo illustrations. 8.5" x 10.75". 82 pages. Black and white. Cover price $0.25.

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Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $175.00 or Best Offer View scans Centerfold detached. Cover loose at both staples. Oxidation. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Cover by L. B. Cole. Romance comics from L. B. Cole's Star Publications. Waitress Betty is torn between steady Phil and bad-boy Chester, who proposes taking her away from her workaday life, but Chester has a dark secret. Celia loves Drew, but when he gets into a fight with her ex Mike, it gets into the papers and causes a scandal that may scuttle their romance. A woman finds herself trying to quit a man, but he's not easy to get over. Also featuring a vintage ad for the Space Patrol Kit. My False Love; Scandal Followed Me!!!; Love Was a Habit. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Jack Sparling, Buford Tune, Frank Engli, Paul McCarthy and Maureen Daly. Kids' comics geared to the concerns of the 1940s teenage girl. An amnesiac is rescued at sea, drifting unconscious in a lifeboat, and decides to call herself Claire Voyant; Maureen Daly's popular syndicated advice column for teenagers; Professor Bunson Burner wants to use his evolution machine to turn Gertie O'Grady into a monkey. Plus Frank Sinatra and Van Johnson pinups. Claire Voyant; Sugar and Spice; Sissy; Dotty Dripple; Rocky the Stone-Age Kid; Gertie O'Grady; The Correct Thing; What Gets You...? 48 pages, Full Color.

Volume 1, Issue 1 - June, 1941. 6.5" x 9.5", 104 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

1st printing. Collects Love Me: A Romance Story (2024 Mad Cave) #1-4. Written by Francesca Perillo. Art and cover by Stefano Cardoselli. Can a robot fall in love? In the bustling streets of New York City, sometime in the far future, robots like JoJo have taken on everyday jobs. Driving a taxi around NYC is all in a day's work for JoJo, but when he meets the mysterious Gilda, it's love at first sight! New York City, sometime in the far future, where robots like JoJo have taken over the tasks humans no longer want to perform...like driving a taxi. JoJo is pretty happy with his lot in life but feels as though something is missing...then he meets Gilda and it's love at first sight. But the course of true love is a bumpy one and JoJo is going to find that out firsthand when he discovers that Gilda is entangled with the mafia that runs his beloved city, and they're very much against this potential union for their own reasons. Watch out, JoJo! Softcover, 112 pages, full color. Cover price $17.99.

Art by George Appel and Ken Battefield. Women admit to secret love. A woman is accused of compromising her virtue, but it's all a big misunderstanding; A bad reputation follows a woman as she tries to start over; A woman winds up in trouble with the law because she loved the wrong man. Plus love advice to readers. My Virtue Was Questioned; They Called Me That Woman; My Fearful Night; My Crime Was Love. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Art book featuring official art from the anime of the same name. Softcover, 8-1/4" x 11-3/4", 144 pages, full color, Japanese language.

Volume 1 - 1st printing.

Written by Wataru Watari. Art and cover by Ponkan 8. Translated by Jennifer Ward.

Hachiman Hikigaya is a cynic. "Youth" is a crock, he believes--a sucker's game, an illusion woven from failure and hypocrisy. But when he turns in an essay for a school assignment espousing this view, he's sentenced to work in the Service Club, an organization dedicated to helping students with problems in their lives! How will Hachiman the Cynic cope with a job that requires--gasp!--optimism?

Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 240 pages, Text (with B&W Chapter Illustrations).

Cover price $14.00.

Add to cart Fine $7.10

1st printing. Collects New Romancer (2015 DC) #1-6. Written by Peter Milligan. Art and cover by Brett Parson. Fired from a cushy job in Silicon Valley, Lexy becomes a coder for New Romancer, an Internet dating app that's seen better days. To create fake profiles, she plunders characteristics from history's most notorious lovers. Using little-known writings by Ada Lovelace, the world's first computer programmer, Lexy pushes the boundaries of coding and accidentally unleashes history's greatest lover: Lord Byron. Online dating meets courtly love in this paranormal rom-com by Vertigo veteran writer Peter Milligan and rising art-star Brett Parson (Tank Girl). Softcover, 144 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $14.99.

1st printing. Collects Oz: Romance in Rags (1996) #1-3.

Written by Stuart Kerr and Ralph Griffith. Art by Bill Bryan. Cover by Bill Bryan and Britt Martin.

A mini-series tale set in the fabled OZ Universe and based on the works of L. Frank Baum.

Returning to the days of the Nome King's rule over the land of OZ, this series reveals the ill-fated love between Scraps the Patchwork Girl, and the Evil King Scarecrow while he is under a wicked spell of the witch Mombie. Although Scraps is one of the Freedom Fighters of OZ, seeking to rid the land of the Nome King's rule, she cannot bear to hear of their plans for her beloved's demise.

Scraps must make a fateful decision on which side to join.

Softcover, 100 pages, B&W.

Cover price $14.99.

Wild Horses and Ornery Gals, pencils by Al Eadeh, inks by John Belfi. Miss Nell of the Medicine Show. Chuck Wagon Jane. Rawhide Cupid text story. The Cowboy and the Debutante, pencils by Leonard Starr. Heart Rustler, art by Jack Kirby. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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Written by El Torres. Art and Cover by Jaime Martinez. The acclaimed book of terror and exorcisms is back in this long-awaited sequel from El Torres and Jaime Martínez. The Devil's work never rests and nun Sister Claire, a child survivor of the Rwandan massacres, will again feel the stifling grip of evil. When the seniors at the nursing home in her care begin to behave strangely, are they demented or possessed? 24 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $3.99.

1st printing. Collects Roman Ritual (2014) #1-4. Written by El Torres. Art by Jaime Martinez and Sandra Molina. Cover by Jaime Martinez. Self-exiled priest John Brennan, a troubled exorcist, is summoned to Rome to stop an ancient evil spreading within the Holy See itself. A revolutionary story about possessions and exorcisms, with ties to the Church's shady past, and a man, almost helpless and alone before the evil that would bring the end of the Catholic Church. Collecting the critically acclaimed four-issue horror miniseries Roman Ritual. Softcover, 112 pages, full color. Cover price $14.99.

Volume 1, Issue 1 - January/February, 1938. 6.75" x 9.75", 114 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

March/April, 1938. 6.75" x 9.75", 114 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

May/June, 1938. 6.75" x 9.75", 114 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

July/August, 1938. 6.75" x 9.75", 114 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.