Λαβ Στόρυ [Love Story] comic books issue 1

Cover art by John Romita. --But Oh, My Lonely Nights!, pencils by John Buscema, inks by John Romita. Why Did I Lose You, My Love?, pencils by Don Heck, inks by John Romita. We Dare Not Marry!, pencils by John Buscema, inks by John Romita. Suzan Says relationship advice by Suzan Lane Loeb, art by John Romita. 36 pgs. $0.15. Cover price $0.15.

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Written by Francesca Perillo. Art and Cover by Stefano Cardoselli. 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! 28 pages, full color. Rated T Cover price $4.99.

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Written by Francesca Perillo. Art by Stefano Cardoselli. Cover by Nimit Malavia. 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! 28 pages, full color. Rated T Cover price $4.99.

All-Story Cover price $0.20.

All-Story Cover price $0.20.

All-Story Cover price $0.20.

All-Story Cover price $0.20.

1st printing. By Irwin Hasen. Loverboy is the risqué, romantic escapade story of a short bachelor, who adores tall women. The double-breasted suit wearing man-about-town seeks psychiatric insight to his tendencies in this humorous new graphic novel by award winning Dondi cartoonist, Irwin Hasen. Also includes a major biography of the noted cartoonist, and is filled throughout with Hasen's famous humor. Softcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 128 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $19.95.

Story by Winston Gambro. A tale of loss, horror, and overcoming grief. A sentient house falls in love with its architect and sole occupant, but soon the architect falls for someone else and the house seeks vengeance. 24 pages, full color. Cover price $4.99.

1st printing. Written by Doug Murray. Art by Russ Heath. The fates of two soldiers fighting on opposite sides of the most controversial war in modern day history are intertwined with the Vietnamese woman they both love. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 64 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $8.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $3.00

Add to cart Near Mint $3.00

1st printing.

Written by Nicolas Finet. Art and cover by Christopher.

How did a very young messed up woman, a drug addict filled with doubt, become in a few years a planetary icon of rock music?

Janis Joplin went from the shadows to the blinding light of fame in only four records (the last one issued a month and a half after her tragic death). Thanks to a worldwide movement of emancipation which would consecrate for a long time the ideals and modes of alternative lifestyles from counterculture to the flower power generation, Janis, the ugly duckling, gave free rein to her impulses.

Joplin left for San Francisco, the epicenter of cultural innovation, where she lived a freedom of which she would hardly have dared to dream, abandoning herself to all impulses, overcoming without hesitation all the taboos of the time: bisexuality, alcohol, drugs, doing so not only with delight, but with the taste for excess which came naturally from her spontaneous character.

Softcover, 160 pages, full color.

Cover price $24.99.

1st printing. Written byGene Luen Yang. Art and cover by LeUyen Pham. Two graphic novel superstars join forces in this heartwarming rom-com about fate, family, forgiveness, and lion dancing! Valentina Tran used to love Valentine's Day. But when she learns the truth behind her parents' separation, she concludes true love is a lie. A ghoulish visage of Saint Valentine appears and promises to protect Val from heartbreak-but only if she gives up on love. Permanently. Suddenly, cousins Leslie and Jae come roaring into Val's life-literally. They're lion dancers, and during one fateful Lunar New Year performance, the lion they're inside hands Val a paper heart. And in that moment, Val feels... something again. Is that feeling love? Could this be Val's chance to break the family curse? Or is she destined to have a broken heart forever? Softcover, 6-in. x 8 1/2-in., 352 pages, full color. Cover price $17.99.

Art by Ken Battlefield and others. The path to romantic love presents many obstacles to women. A shocked woman realizes she's coming between the man she loves and the woman he's supposed to marry; Seeking wealth, a woman risks a reputation as a gold-digger; A whirlwind romance leaves a woman wondering what might have been. Plus love advice to readers. I Became the Other Woman; Men Gave Me Jewels; Sincerely Yours.....; My Kiss and Run Romance. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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1st printing. Written by Mary Downing Hahn and Scott Peterson. Art and cover by Naomi Franquiz. The graphic novel adaptation of one of master horror storyteller Mary Downing Hahn's spookiest and most popular tales! Travis and his sister, Corey, can't resist a good trick. When they learn that their grandmother's quiet Vermont inn, where they're spending the summer, has a history of ghost sightings, they decide to do a little "haunting" of their own. Before long, their supernatural pranks have tourists flocking to the inn, and business booms. But Travis and Corey soon find out that theirs aren't the only ghosts at Fox Hill Inn. Their thoughtless games have awakened something dangerous, something that should have stayed asleep. Can these siblings lay to rest the restless spirits they've disturbed? Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 160 pages, full color. Cover price $15.99.

Add to cart Near Mint $4.00

1st printing. Written by Mary Downing Hahn and Scott Peterson. Art and cover by Naomi Franquiz. The graphic novel adaptation of one of master horror storyteller Mary Downing Hahn's spookiest and most popular tales! Travis and his sister, Corey, can't resist a good trick. When they learn that their grandmother's quiet Vermont inn, where they're spending the summer, has a history of ghost sightings, they decide to do a little "haunting" of their own. Before long, their supernatural pranks have tourists flocking to the inn, and business booms. But Travis and Corey soon find out that theirs aren't the only ghosts at Fox Hill Inn. Their thoughtless games have awakened something dangerous, something that should have stayed asleep. Can these siblings lay to rest the restless spirits they've disturbed? Hardcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 160 pages, full color. Cover price $24.99.

1st printing. Story and art by Brian Biggs. A strange twist on the old tale of romance with a jarring ending you'll have to read twice to believe. Softcover (Saddle-Stitched/Stapled), 8-in. x 8-in., 32 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $4.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $9.95

Add to cart Near Mint $9.95

1st printing. Collects Grim Leaper (2012 Image) #1-4. Written by Kurtis J. Wiebe. Art and Cover by Aluisio Santos. In death, he finally found something to live for. Lou Collins is caught in a cyclical curse of violent, gruesome deaths and new beginnings in the bodies of strangers. With no clue why, Lou desperately searches for a way to break the curse and cross over peacefully to the other side. Then equally doomed Ella comes along. It's a love story to die for. Collects all four issues and features never before seen sketches, alternate covers and conceptual art by series illustrator ALUISIO C. SANTOS . Softcover, 120 pages, full color. Cover price $14.99.

1st printing. 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.

1st printing. By Irwin Hasen. Loverboy is the risqué, romantic escapade story of a short bachelor, who adores tall women. The double-breasted suit wearing man-about-town seeks psychiatric insight to his tendencies in this humorous new graphic novel by award winning Dondi cartoonist, Irwin Hasen. Also includes a major biography of the noted cartoonist, and is filled throughout with Hasen's famous humor. Hardcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 128 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $29.95.

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Add to cart Very Good $9.20

1st printing. Written by Jack Baxter and Joshua Faudem. Art and cover by Koren Shadmi. Mike's Place was one of the few spots in Tel Aviv where Jews, Christians, and Muslims could hang out peaceably, surrounded by the expats who filled the bar every night. It was a cosmopolitan haven from the conflict, a local gem that many pointed to as a hopeful sign that peace could come to the Middle East after all. In the spring of 2003, filmmakers Jack Baxter and Josh Faudem had just begun making a documentary about the phenomenon of Mike's Place. And then the bar was destroyed in a suicide bombing that took three lives and wounded another fifty people - an attack that changed Jack and Josh's lives forever. Mike's Place is a gripping nonfiction accounting of the lives of a handful of people who came together in hope, then had to find their way together through despair. Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 192 pages, B&W. Cover price $22.99.

1st printing. Story and art by Daniel Clowes. The fan-favorite Eisner Award-winning story, originally serialized in The New York Times Magazine, now collected with 40 pages of new material. Meet Marshall. He's been set up on a blind date with someone named Natalie. Divorced, middle-aged, newly unemployed, with next to no prospects, Marshall isn't exactly a catch. After nearly an hour, when he's long since given up hope, Natalie appears - breathless, apologizing profusely that she went to the wrong place. She's too good to be true: attractive, young, intelligent, and she seems to be seriously engaged with what Marshall has to say. There has to be a catch. And, of course, there is. During the extremely long night that follows, Marshall and Natalie are emotionally tested in ways that two people who just met really should not be. A captivating, bittersweet, and hilarious look at the potential for human connection in an increasingly hopeless world, Mister Wonderful more than lives up to its name. Hardcover (Horizontal Format), 11-in. x 6-in., 80 pages, full oclor. Cover price $19.95.

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1st printing. Story and art by Sarah Leavitt. In April 2020, cartoonist Sarah Leavitt's partner of twenty-two years, Donimo, died with medical assistance after years of severe chronic pain and a rapid decline at the end of her life. About a month after Donimo's death, Sarah began making comics again as a way to deal with her profound sense of grief and loss. The comics started as small sketches but quickly transformed into something totally unfamiliar to her. Abstract images, textures, poetic text, layers of watercolor, ink, and colored pencil-for Sarah, the journey through grief was impossible to convey without bold formal experimentation. She spent two years creating these comics. The result is SOMETHING, NOT NOTHING, an extraordinary book that delicately articulates the vagaries of grief and the sweet remembrances of enduring love. Softcover, 9-in. x 11-in., 144 pages, full color. Cover price $24.95.

Cover by Matt Baker. Stories and art by Matt Baker and Dana Dutch. Remaindered St. John romance comics, collected into a squarebound anthology. Many of these stories feature art by good-girl art legend Matt Baker. This issue features Teen-Age Romances (1949 St. John) #22, #18, and #23. Jane is so eager to get out of her small town, she runs away to Chicago with truck driver Joe, in a story featuring a great "nightlife of Chicago" montage panel by Baker. In another Baker story, Joan finds romance with painter Pierre in Paris, which quickly turns to scandal when she meets his tempestuous ex, Zaza. Susie tells childhood bestie Gloria that "there's a wall of boys around you" now that they're in high school, in a story featuring art by pioneering female comics artist Lily Renee. I Stole My Sister's Boyfriend; Allergic to Love; I Went Wild in Paris; Wrong-Way Romance; I Had to Be Tamed; My Shameful Secret; I Misbehaved; I Scorned Love; I Carried Things Too Far; I Played Hard-to-Get; Deceitful!; I Ran Away With a Truck Driver; I Was a Secret Sweetheart; Remodeled for Romance; I Overstepped the Mark; Weekend Paradise. Other variants exist. 100 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart Very Fine $6.00

1st printing. Stroy and art by Claire Lordon. How do we relate to-and hold-our family's past? Is it through technology? Through spirit? Art, poetry, music? Or is it through the resonances we look for in ourselves? In Artificial, we meet the Kurzweils, a family of creators who are preserving their history through unusual means. At the center is renowned inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, who has long been saving the documents of his deceased father, Fredric, an accomplished conductor and pianist from Vienna who fled the Nazis in 1938. Once, Fred's life was saved by his art: an American benefactor, impressed by Fred's musical genius, sponsored his emigration to the United States. He escaped just one month before Kristallnacht. Now, Fred has returned. Through AI and salvaged writing, Ray is building a chatbot that writes in Fred's voice, and he enlists his daughter, cartoonist Amy Kurzweil, to help him ensure the immortality of their family's fraught inheritance. With Kurzweil's signature humanity and humor, in boundary-pushing, gorgeous handmade drawings, Artificial guides us through nuanced questions about art, memory, and technology, demonstrating that love, a process of focused attention, is what grounds a meaningful life. Hardcover, 8-in. x 10-in., 368 pages, full color. Cover price $38.00.

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1st printing.

Written by Matthew Erman. Art and cover by Emily Pearson.

WEAR YOUR LOVE ON YOUR CHEST

A man, a woman-and their parasites. Marcus has been alone since the loss of his closest friend and has just recently entered into the dating scene, while Laura has drifted in and out of relationships since high school. They meet, they have a great first date, and Marcus almost dies-because the slug-like parasite that everybody carries in this world nearly rejects him, its host. Bonding is a funny, quirky, and honest look at love, in a world where everyone wears their anxiety, not on their sleeves, but on their chest like big ol' leeches.

Hardcover, 208 pages, full color.

Cover price $24.99.

Add to cart Near Mint $6.95

Add to cart Near Mint $6.95

Add to cart Very Fine $5.49

Add to cart Very Fine $5.49

1st printing. Written by MARK RICKETTS. Art by DARIO BRIZUELA. Cover by VINCE LOCKE. How does serial killer Winfield Vickers express his love for Charlotte Ramage? He creates elaborate, life-sized dioramas using real, dead human subjects. Softcover, 144 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $12.95.

1st printing. Story and art by Jason Shiga. Jimmy is a twenty-something geek who lives at home in Oakland, trapped in his own torpidity. When his best girl friend Sara (a girl and a friend, but not a girlfriend) announces she's moving to New York City for a publishing internship, Jimmy is rattled. Then lonely. Then desperate. He screws up his courage, writes Sara a letter about his true feelings for her, and asks her to meet him at the top of the Empire State Building. When he arrives in the city, Jimmy is surprised by how exciting he finds New York - and how heartbreaking: Sara pretends she didn't get his letter and even worse, has a boyfriend! Softcover, 6-in. x 8 1/2-in., 144 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $17.95.

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1st printing. Story and art by Jason Shiga. Jimmy is a twenty-something geek who lives at home in Oakland, trapped in his own torpidity. When his best girl friend Sara (a girl and a friend, but not a girlfriend) announces she's moving to New York City for a publishing internship, Jimmy is rattled. Then lonely. Then desperate. He screws up his courage, writes Sara a letter about his true feelings for her, and asks her to meet him at the top of the Empire State Building. When he arrives in the city, Jimmy is surprised by how exciting he finds New York - and how heartbreaking: Sara pretends she didn't get his letter and even worse, has a boyfriend! Hardcover, 6-in. x 8 1/2-in., 144 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $17.95.

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1st printing. Written by Antony Johnston. Art by Matthew Loux. Nick is a struggling photographer headed down the drain until he spots Chantel, a Latina goddess with a bar tab better suited for a biker club than a stunning beauty. With a little exaggeration from his friends, he's the hottest shutterbug in N.Y.C. and the darling of the fashion world. But does Nick have what it takes to live up to his legend or is he destined to be exposed, losing both his career and his girl in the process? Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 168 pages, B&W. Cover price $14.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $2.65

Add to cart Near Mint $2.65

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Written by PLUS. Art and cover by Sung Jae Park. Seventeen-year-old Joonho Suk just had the best day of his life. He finally got the guts to ask out his big crush, Sae-un, and she said yes!! But after floating home on cloud nine, he found . . . his family packing up to move to Seoul?! Now tossed into a big new city and lovesick for the girl still in Suwon, Joonho runs into weird characters at every turn. First there's the young girl who speaks a strange language and has enormous strength, then a wayward cat causes another-Hanami-to wipe out on her bike! She's okay, but Joonho might not be once her massive grandfather shows up and thinks he's to blame . . . ! Hanami's sweet nature quickly charms Joonho, and he discovers that his new school, including a self-styled blonde Casanova, is already abuzz over his cute Japanese neighbor. But what about Sae-un? And what on earth is the Babe Patrol Research Center?! Discover a completely entertaining read and one of the most popular comics Korea has to offer. Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 208 pages, B&W. Cover price $9.95.

DC/Vertigo Edition - 1st printing. Written by Dean Motter and Judith Dupre. Painted art by Sean Phillips. The Heart of the Beast is a "sensuously painted graphic novel that takes one of the classic characters of horror literature (Frankenstein), and explores the timeless themes of the original work in a way that is both extremely contemporary and newly compelling." Hardcover, 100 pages, full color. Cover price $19.95.

1st printing.

Story and art by Jaime Hernandez.

In Is This How You See Me?, Maggie and Hopey get the band back together - literally. Now middle-aged, they leave their significant others at home and take a weekend road trip to reluctantly attend a punk rock reunion in their old neighborhood. The present is masterfully threaded with a flashback set in 1979, during the very formative stages in Maggie and Hopey's lifelong friendship, as the perceived invincibility of youth is expertly juxtaposed against all of the love, heartbreak, and self-awareness that comes with lives actually lived. The result is no sentimental victory lap, however - this is one of the great writers of literary fiction at the peak of his powers, continuing to scale new heights as an artist.

Hernandez's acclaimed ongoing comics series Love and Rockets has entertained readers for over 35 years, and his beloved characters - Maggie, Hopey, Ray, Doyle, Daffy, Mike Tran, and so many others - have become fully realized literary creations. Is This How You See Me? collects Hernandez's latest interconnected vignettes, serialized over the past four years in Love and Rockets, into a long-form masterpiece for the first time.

Hardcover, 96 pages, B&W. Mature Readers

Cover price $19.99.

Add to cart Very Fine $7.99

1st printing. Story and art by Ari W. North. Sunati and Austen are back in the final volume of their inspirational love story. Sunati and Austen's relationship is growing stronger by the day in this near-future, soft sci-fi graphic novel. Austen is working hard to overcome the limitations of Egan's Syndrome, a very rare condition that rejects body modifications, which is making school difficult. But while Austen is forced to confront her plans for the future, Sunati receives a once-in-a-lifetime job opportunity... on Saturn's moon, Enceladus! Will Austen find her way? And will Sunati leave Austen when she needs her most to follow her own dreams of space exploration? First serialized on the popular app and website WebToon, Always Human is now reformatted for a print edition in partnership with GLAAD. Softcover, 6-in. x 8-in., 288 pages, full color. Cover price $14.99.

Add to cart Near Mint $4.00

Add to cart Very Fine $2.65

1st printing. Story and art by Ari W. North. Sunati and Austen are back in the final volume of their inspirational love story. Sunati and Austen's relationship is growing stronger by the day in this near-future, soft sci-fi graphic novel. Austen is working hard to overcome the limitations of Egan's Syndrome, a very rare condition that rejects body modifications, which is making school difficult. But while Austen is forced to confront her plans for the future, Sunati receives a once-in-a-lifetime job opportunity... on Saturn's moon, Enceladus! Will Austen find her way? And will Sunati leave Austen when she needs her most to follow her own dreams of space exploration? First serialized on the popular app and website WebToon, Always Human is now reformatted for a print edition in partnership with GLAAD. Hardcover, 6-in. x 8-in., 288 pages, full color. Cover price $24.99.