Arsenal comic books issue 1

Written by Scott Lobdell. Art by Denis Medri. Cover by Howard Porter. These brothers in arms face off against incredible odds while burning their way through the underbelly of the DC Universe - and it's only a matter of time until they get gunned down in return! 32 pages, full color. Rated T Cover price $2.99.

Limited 1 for 25 Retailer Incentive Variant Cover. Written by Scott Lobdell. Art by Denis Medri. Cover by Kenneth Rocafort. These brothers in arms face off against incredible odds while burning their way through the underbelly of the DC Universe - and it's only a matter of time until they get gunned down in return! 32 pages, full color. Rated T Cover price $2.99.

Add to cart Very Fine $4.00

Add to cart Very Fine $4.00

Add to cart Very Fine $4.00

Cover by GREG HORN Rise and Fall: Part 3 of 8 - The Rise of Arsenal: Part 1 of 4 - Written by J.T. KRUL. Art by GERALDO BORGES and MARLO ALQUIZA. In JUSTICE LEAGUE: CRY FOR JUSTICE, Roy Harper lost everything at the hands of Prometheus, barely surviving the brutal severing of his arm. But when he finally awakens from his coma, Roy will find that his dangerous journey into despair is just beginning. Cover price $3.99.

Limited 1 for 25 Variant Cover by MIKE MAYHEW. Rise and Fall: Part 3 of 8 - The Rise of Arsenal: Part 1 of 4 - Written by J.T. KRUL. Art by GERALDO BORGES and MARLO ALQUIZA. In JUSTICE LEAGUE: CRY FOR JUSTICE, Roy Harper lost everything at the hands of Prometheus, barely surviving the brutal severing of his arm. But when he finally awakens from his coma, Roy will find that his dangerous journey into despair is just beginning. Cover price $3.99.

Cover art by Rick Mays. Next Of Kin (Six Degrees Part One), script by Devin Grayson, pencils by Rick Mays, inks by Jason Martin and Karl Story; Vandal Savage tries to kidnap Arsenal's daughter Lian; Arsenal discovers Lian has a rare blood conditions and needs a kidney transplant. 36 pgs. $2.50. Cover price $2.50.

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The Readiness to Die - Written by C.J. Henderson. Art by William Rosado & Prentis Rollins. Cover by William Rosado. Assigned by Sarge Steel to extract a major crime boss from Hong Kong, Arsenal is arrested by authorities who are certain that a mercenary with a checkered, drug-related past is up to no good in their city. Beaten, interrogated and locked into a nightmarish political prison, the very crimelord Roy Harper was assigned to capture arranges a special treat: 40 cc's of pure-grade heroin mainlined into Roy's arm...perhaps the most sadistic torture to inflict upon a former junkie! Plus: Dan Thorsland answers letters from New Teen Titans (1984 2nd Series) New Titans #130. 48 pages, full color. Cover price $2.95.

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by Salvador Vazquez & Sean O'Reilly and Daniel Perez Simon Masiosare is the best mercenary in the business. He recently accepted a mission to steal cockroaches, for inside these bugs a powerful weapon. But Simon realizes that his timing couldn't be worse as a bounty is placed on his head. MATURE THEMES 32pgs, FC (1 of 3)SRP: $2.95 Cover price $2.95.

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B&W Variant Cover. by Salvador Vazquez & Sean O'Reilly and Daniel Perez Simon Masiosare is the best mercenary in the business. He recently accepted a mission to steal cockroaches, for inside these bugs a powerful weapon. But Simon realizes that his timing couldn't be worse as a bounty is placed on his head. MATURE THEMES 32pgs, FC (1 of 3)SRP: $2.95 Cover price $2.95.

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1st printing. Story and art by Teresa Wong. Beginning with her mother's stroke in 2014, Teresa Wong takes us on a moving journey through time and place to locate the beginnings of the disconnection she feels from her parents. Through a series of stories-some epic, like her mother and father's daring escapes from communes during China's Cultural Revolution, and some banal, like her quitting Chinese school to watch Saturday morning cartoons-Wong carefully examines the cultural, historical, language, and personality barriers to intimacy in her family, seeking answers to the questions "Where did I come from?" and "Where are we going?" At the same time, she discovers how storytelling can bridge distances and help make sense of a life. Softcover, 7-in. x 9-in., 240 pages, B&W. Cover price $21.95.

1st printing.

Story and art by Julie Maroh.

In this tender, bittersweet graphic novel, a young woman named Clementine discovers herself and the elusive magic of love when she meets a confident blue-haired girl named Emma: a lesbian love story for the ages that bristles with the energy of youth and rebellion and the eternal light of desire.

First published in French by Belgium's Glénat, the book has won several awards, including the Audience Prize at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, and the live-action, French-language film version of the book, entitled Blue Is the Warmest Color, won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2013.

Softcover, 7-in. x 10-in., 160 pages, PC/B&W. Mature Readers

Cover price $19.95.

Add to cart Very Fine $14.00

2nd and later printings.

Story and art by Julie Maroh.

In this tender, bittersweet graphic novel, a young woman named Clementine discovers herself and the elusive magic of love when she meets a confident blue-haired girl named Emma: a lesbian love story for the ages that bristles with the energy of youth and rebellion and the eternal light of desire.

First published in French by Belgium's Glénat, the book has won several awards, including the Audience Prize at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, and the live-action, French-language film version of the book, entitled Blue Is the Warmest Color, won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2013.

Softcover, 7-in. x 10-in., 160 pages, PC/B&W. Mature Readers

Cover price $19.95.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. "Open for Business!" Collects Red Hood/Arsenal (2015) #1-6 and material from Convergence: Titans (2015 DC) #2.

Written by Scott Lobdell. Art by Denis Medri and Paolo Pantalena. Cover by Howard Porter.

After working for the mysterious Tara Battleworth as on-staff outlaws, Red Hood and Arsenal are branching out as freelance problem solvers, investigators, and butt-kicking specialists. But can they overcome the evil of the organization known as Underbelly?

Softcover, 160 pages, full color. Cover price $14.99.

Add to cart Near Mint $10.00

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.

1st printing. Written by Marcelino Truong and David Homel. Art and cover by Marcelino Truong. 40 MEN AND 12 RIFLES is an expansive, gripping graphic novel set in Indochina in the year leading up to 1954, when the French-held garrison at Dien Bien Phu fell after a four-month battle, leading to the end of the first Indochina war between French forces and Ho Chi Minh's nationalist rebels. Minh (no relation to Ho) is a young man from Hanoi, an aspiring painter who dreams of experiencing la vie bohème in Paris's Latin Quarter. To dissuade him from pursuing an artistic life, his father sends him into the countryside to tend to the family's holdings. He is soon pressed into serving with the Ho Chi Minh rebels, where he becomes a soldier despite repeatedly defying his cadres-ideological Communist commanders with whom he disagrees-becoming both hero and anti-hero in the process. Softcover, 8-in. x 10-in., 296 pages, full color. Cover price $28.95.

1st printing.

Story and art by Philippe Glogowski.

A celebration of soccer club Arsenal's recent history through the touching story of a step-father and -son whose fandom brings them together.

Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 64 pages, full color.

Cover price $19.99.

Add to cart Near Mint $7.00

Add to cart Near Mint $7.00

1st printing. By Matt MacNabb. Learn about the coolest gear used by the Dark Knight. For the first time, the entire scope and history of the Bat arsenal, from the famous cowl, the awesome Batmobile, the catacomb-like Batcave to the tank-like Tumbler is documented in this encyclopedic chronicle. Matt MacNabb unravels the how and why of each significant piece of the Batman toolbox, along with intimate behind the scenes stories and knowledgeable commentary by the people who designed them. Softcover, 7-in. x 9-in., 320 pages, PC. Cover price $32.95.

1st printing. Written by Julie Maroh and David Homel. Art and cover by Julie Maroh. Set in the languid, European-like neighborhoods of Montreal, Body Music is a beautiful and moving meditation on love and desire as expressed in their many different forms - between women, men, and gender non-conformists alike, all varying in age and race. In twenty separate vignettes, Maroh explores the drama inherent in relationships at different stages: the electricity of initial attraction, the elation of falling in love, the trauma of breaking up, the sweet comfort of a long-standing romance. Anyone who's ever been in a relationship will see themselves in these intimate stories tinged with raw emotion. Body Music is an exhilarating and passionate graphic novel about what it means to fall in love, and what it means to be alive. Softcover, 300 pages, full color. Cover price $26.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $3.00

Add to cart Near Mint $3.00

1st printing. Story and art by Reinhard Kleist. This graphic novel reveals life and times of Fidel Castro. The book is narrated by a German journalist named Karl Mertens who is plunged into pre-revolutionary Cuba in the mid-1950s. He first meets with Castro while the latter is hiding in the mountains, then the revolution and his "presidency" that lasts for nearly fifty years. Softcover, 288 pages, B&W. Cover price $22.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $21.00

Add to cart Near Mint $21.00

1st printing. Written by Taha Siddiqui. Art and cover by Hubert Maury. Translated by David Homel. An urgent and compelling graphic memoir about a Pakistani investigative journalist at odds with his fundamentalist family and the Pakistani military that attempts to kidnap him. In Islamabad in 2018, Pakistani investigative journalist Taha Siddiqui is kidnapped at gunpoint and barely escapes being killed. He flees the country on the first plane to France with questions left unanswered: What motivated the attack? Was the tyrannical Pakistani military involved? The Dissident Club is an action-packed graphic memoir about Islamic politics, complex family dynamics, and one man's dedication to truth and principle. Softcover, 8-in.x 11-in., 270 pages, PC. Cover price $27.95.

Add to cart Fine $8.99

Volume 1 - 1st printing. "Unknown Enemy!" Collects El Arsenal (2005) #1-3. Written by Salvador Vasquez. Art by Daniel Perez. Simon Masiosare is the best mercenary in the business and he has recently accepted a mission to steal cockroaches, for inside these simple bugs a powerful biological weapon is kept. However, Simon quickly realizes that his timing couldn't be worse. When he arrives at "Las Tristezas de Tutankhamen" he realizes that a bounty has just been put on his head and every top mercenary is looking for him! Softcover, 104 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $14.95.

1st printing.

Story and art by Lisa Maas.

Forward is a life-affirming LGBTQ graphic novel about two women, both of whom are unable to move "forward" and put the pieces of their lives back together. Still in pain years after a horrible breakup, Rayanne diligently buries herself in her work. Aside from work, she has her cat. And other than her cat, she has her crushes: crushes that she prides herself on being able to resist. Ali is still feeling lost and numb almost a year after the death of her wife. Then one ordinary day something extraordinary happens: she is ambushed by her attraction to another woman that is both invigorating and fantastically inappropriate. Funny, moving, and full of heart, Forward is a novel that explores the parameters of second chances and the tricky emotions of grief, fear, vulnerability, and desire.

Softcover, 9-in.x 12-in., 198 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $18.95.

Add to cart Very Good $12.00

Written by Thomas Waugh; Gay male representation of sexuality has a long history of varied visibility and acceptance, but the 100 or so years of queer life before Stonewall were a period of unprecedented self-identification as well as renewed pressure to hide and suppress the erotic imagery of gay men in western culture. Out/Lines features a resurrection of erotic gay images, once virtually buried and invisible, that circulated in clandestine communities whose sexualized visibility was a potentially devastating risk—a wealth of approximately 200 previously unpublished "obscene" images from the queer pre-Stonewall underground. Drawn mainly from American, German, Italian, and French sources, these images will both broaden and tantalize our view of queer culture with a surprising range of historical styles and motifs. 304pgs b&w 8" x 10" Cover price $19.95.

1st printing. Written by Marcelino Truong and David Homel. Art and cover by Marcelino Truong. In the sequel to Marcelino Truong's graphic memoir, Such a Lovely Little War, young Marcelino and his family move from Saigon to London in order to escape the war following the assassination of South Vietnamese President Diem, for whom Marcelino's diplomat father was a personal interpreter. In London, his father struggles to build a new life for his children and his wife, while for Marco swinging London is an exciting place to be. At the same time, the news from their grandparents in Vietnam grows ever grimmer as the war intensifies and American involvement becomes increasingly muddied. Young Marcelino finds himself torn between embracing the peace-loving anti-war demonstrators and the strong, sentimental bond he feels toward a wounded Vietnam. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 280 pages, full color. Cover price $26.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $4.00

Add to cart Near Mint $4.00

1st printing. Story and art by Julie Maroh. By the author of Blue Is the Warmest Color: a stunning graphic novel on the downfall of a rock legend. "Skandalon," found in the Gospels, refers to a persistent trap or obstacle, such as the one that confounds the mesmerizing, Jim Morrison-like lead character Tazane. He is a true rock icon: passionate, arrogant, selfish, and sometimes violent, the charismatic singer is a beacon for controversy and scandal. But the public that worships him and the media that lavishes attention on him are waiting for him to fall from grace. At times shocking, Skandalon is a powerful and relentless meditation on the high cost of fame, and the demons awaiting anyone who refuses to be wary of them. Softcover, 160 pages, full color. Cover price $21.95.

1st printing. Written by Marcelino Truong and David Homel. Art and cover by Marcelino Truong. This graphic memoir tells the story of the early years of the Vietnam war as seen through the eyes of a young boy named Marco, the son of a Vietnamese diplomat and his French wife. The boy's father works for the South Vietnam embassy in the United States, then the family is called back to Saigon in 1961, where the father becomes Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem's personal interpreter; as the growing conflict between North and South intensifies, so does turmoil within Marco's family, as his mother struggles to grapple with bipolar disorder. Visually powerful and emotionally potent, Such a Lovely Little War is both a large-scale and intimate study of the Vietnam war as seen through the eyes of the Vietnamese: a turbulent national history intertwined with an equally traumatic familial one. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 272 pages, full color. Cover price $26.95.

1st printing. Story and art by Emmanuel Moynot. Suite Française, an extraordinary novel about village life in France just as it was plunged into chaos with the German invasion of 1940, was a publishing sensation ten years ago; Irène Némirovsky completed the two-volume book, part of a planned larger series, in the early 1940s before she was arrested in France and eventually sent to Auschwitz, where she died. This dramatic and stirring graphic novel, translated from the French and faithful to the spirit of Némirovsky's story, focuses on Book 1 in which a disparate group of Paris citizens flees the city ahead of the advancing German troops. However, their orderly plans to escape are eclipsed by the chaos spreading across the country, and their sense of civility and well-being is replaced by a raw desire to survive. Softcover, 216 pages, B&W. Cover price $21.95.

1st printing.

Story and art by Lucas Harari.

Pierre is a young man at a crossroads. He drops out of architecture school and decides to travel to Vals in the Swiss Alps, home to a thermal springs complex located deep inside a mountain. The complex, designed by architect Peter Zumthor, had been the subject of Pierre's thesis. The mountain holds many mysteries; it was said to have a mouth that periodically swallowed people up. Pierre, sketchbook in hand, is drawn to the enigmatic powers of the mountain and its springs, and attempts to uncover the truth behind them in the secret rooms he discovers deep within the complex. But he finds his match in a man named Valeret who is similarly obsessed, and who'd like nothing more than to eliminate his competitor.

Hardcover, 10-in. x 12-in., 152 pages, full color.

Cover price $24.95.