Continuum comic books issue 1

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On the Edge. Story, art and cover by Bruce Zick. A new adventure set in the multiple parallel dimensions, or Zones, that overlap with Earth, introduced in the 1992 series. The Zone-hopping warriors once again set the stage for an interzonal adventure. Also includes a guide to the world of the Zone Continuum. 44 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.95.

1st printing. Collects Zone Continuum (1992 1st) #1-2 and Zone Continuum (1994 2nd) #1-2.

Story and art by Bruce Zick.

Revisit The Zone Continuum, Disney animator Bruce Zick's original sci-fi noir opus, with this first-ever collection of the entire four-issue Caliber Press run, with dozens of pieces of bonus material!

Softcover, 128 pages, B&W.

Cover price $14.99.

1st printing.

By Will Brooker.

A work of scholarship and a labor of love.

A historical, detailed, deep analysis of Batman as a cultural icon in America. This isn't a simple polemic or surface-shallow analysis. This is deep stuff-analyzing art styles, histories, individual panels, cultural concepts, and historical documents. plenty of startling revelations and analyses This is a stunningly well-done, intelligent book. It's proof that comics are not throwaway ephemera, but real, vital, analyzable parts of our culture.

Over the sixty years of his existence, Batman has encountered an impressive array of cultural icons and has gradually become one himself. This fascinating book examines what Batman means and has meant to the various audiences, groups and communities who have tried to control and interpret him over the decades. Brooker reveals the struggles over Batman's meaning by shining a light on the cultural issues of the day that impacted on the development of the character. They include: patriotic propaganda of the Second World War; the accusation that Batman was corrupting the youth of America by appearing to promote a homosexual lifestyle to the fans of his comics; Batman becoming a camp, pop culture icon through the ABC TV series of the sixties; fans' interpretation of Batman in response to the comics and the Warner Bros. franchise of films.

Hardcover, 358 pages, Text Only.

Cover price $27.95.

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Story, art and cover by Bruce Zick. An adventure set in multiple parallel dimensions, or Zones, that overlap with Earth. Talon, the protector of Zone 27, learns that his zone is shrinking, which means death for all within…but Professor Platts zone goggles may be the solution. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.95.

1st printing. Approximate Continuum Comics brings American readers the first portion of the "Trondheim autobio trilogy" that also comprises the Eisner-nominated "At Loose Ends" meditation serialized in Mome (which will be released as a graphic novel in 2012) and the ongoing "Little Nothings" series of short slice-of-life stories (three to date from NBM Publishing), as well as the first three chapters serialized in the Nimrod comic book. In Approximate Continuum Comics, Trondheim's typically graceful, confident cartooning shows him wrestling with his own demons (sometimes, in dream sequences, literally) and an often malevolent world, while trying to maintain his rising career as one of Europe's most beloved cartoonists. Softcover, 160 pages, B&W. Cover price $18.99.

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1st printing.

By Will Brooker.

A work of scholarship and a labor of love.

A historical, detailed, deep analysis of Batman as a cultural icon in America. This isn't a simple polemic or surface-shallow analysis. This is deep stuff-analyzing art styles, histories, individual panels, cultural concepts, and historical documents. plenty of startling revelations and analyses This is a stunningly well-done, intelligent book. It's proof that comics are not throwaway ephemera, but real, vital, analyzable parts of our culture.

Over the sixty years of his existence, Batman has encountered an impressive array of cultural icons and has gradually become one himself. This fascinating book examines what Batman means and has meant to the various audiences, groups and communities who have tried to control and interpret him over the decades. Brooker reveals the struggles over Batman's meaning by shining a light on the cultural issues of the day that impacted on the development of the character. They include: patriotic propaganda of the Second World War; the accusation that Batman was corrupting the youth of America by appearing to promote a homosexual lifestyle to the fans of his comics; Batman becoming a camp, pop culture icon through the ABC TV series of the sixties; fans' interpretation of Batman in response to the comics and the Warner Bros. franchise of films.

Softcover, 368 pages, Text Only.

Cover price $19.95.

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1st printng. Written by Steve Snyder. Art by Brian Hailes. After an event dubbed "The Longest Day in History", the world has been left in ruins. After years of searching for new planets to call home, scientists have found a way to make a one-way trip through time. Now, an elite team of soldiers, accompanied with a leading historian, must find a way to go back and save the world from itself. Softcover, 104 pages, full color. Cover price $14.95.

1st printing. "Jews, Comics, and the Creation of the Superhero!" By Danny Fingeroth. Foreword by Stan Lee. Many of the creators of the most famous super-heroes were from Jewish backgrounds, cultural or religious. Disguised as Clark Kent explores how this Jewish consciousness affected the content of the comics and contributed to making characters such as Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, and Wonder Woman into the most familiar popular-culture icons of all time. Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 184 pages, Text Only. Cover price $24.95.

1st printing. "Jews, Comics, and the Creation of the Superhero!" By Danny Fingeroth. Foreword by Stan Lee. Many of the creators of the most famous super-heroes were from Jewish backgrounds, cultural or religious. Disguised as Clark Kent explores how this Jewish consciousness affected the content of the comics and contributed to making characters such as Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, and Wonder Woman into the most familiar popular-culture icons of all time. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 184 pages, Text Only. Cover price $19.95.

1st printing. Edited by Matthew Kapell and William G. Doty. Jacking in to the Matrix Trilogy is the first academic study to offer a coherent overview of The Matrix film trilogy, gathering eleven, original essays that comment on the cultural and religious implications, its place within the cyberworlds of contemporary literature and philosophy, and its portrayals of gender and race, as well as conjectures about the ethical and social consequences of taking either the 'red' or the 'blue' pill. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 320 pages, Text. Cover price $19.95.

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Written by Scott Duvall. Art and Cover by Ralf Singh and Nicolas Chapuis. Part 1 of 4. In the near distant future, genius inventor Ben creates the ultimate drug. No ordinary narcotic, its effects will take Ben on a trip through time in an attempt to uncover the truth behind his father's disappearance twenty years ago. In searching for answers, the past reveals its secrets that the young scientist won't accept, even if it means risking everything he's worked for. Cover price $3.50.

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1st printing. Story and art by Bruce Zick. High atop the New York City skyline, an invisible war has raged for generations. As two nigh-immortal champions brawl for dominance of the ever-shrinking extradimensional Zone 27, the populace below remain oblivious of the cataclysm that could cause their annihilation from the rooftops above! Softcover, 120 pages, full color. Cover price $15.99.