Fiction Illustrated comic books issue 1

Volume 1 - 1st printing. "Schlomo Raven, Public Detective!" Written by Byron Preiss. Art by Tom Sutton. Smarter than Marlowe. Shorter than Spade. Meet Schlomo Raven, Public Detective. Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 128 pages, full color. Cover price $1.00.

Add to cart Very Fine $32.00

1st printing.

Edited by Ed Hulse. Introduction by Richard A. Lupoff. Cover by George Gross, Barye Phillips, and Rudolph Belarski. Back Cover by James Bama and Victor Kalin.

Judge these books by their covers! Get immersed in the definitive visual history of pulp fiction paperbacks from 1940 to 1970.

The Art of Pulp Fiction: An Illustrated History of Vintage Paperbacks chronicles the history of pocket-sized paperbound books designed for mass-market consumption, specifically concentrating on the period from 1940 to 1970. These three decades saw paperbacks eclipse cheap pulp magazines and expensive clothbound books as the most popular delivery vehicle for escapist fiction. To catch the eyes of potential buyers they were adorned with covers that were invariably vibrant, frequently garish, and occasionally lurid. Today the early paperbacks-like the earlier pulps, inexpensively produced and considered disposable by casual readers-are treasured collector's items.

Award-winning editor Ed Hulse (The Art of the Pulps and The Blood 'n' Thunder Guide to Pulp Fiction) comprehensively covers the pulp-fiction paperback's heyday. Hulse writes the individual chapter introductions and the captions, while a team of genre specialists and art aficionados contribute the special features included in each chapter. These focus on particularly important authors, artists, publishers, and sub-genres.

Illustrated with more than 500 memorable covers and original cover paintings. Hulse's extensive captions, meanwhile, offer a running commentary on this significant genre, and also contain many obscure but entertaining factoids. Images used in The Art of Pulp Fiction have been sourced from the largest American paperback collections in private hands, and have been curated with rarity in mind, as well as graphic appeal. Consequently, many covers are reproduced here for the first time since the books were first issued.

With an overall Introduction by Richard A. Lupoff, novelist, essayist, pop-culture historian, and author of The Great American Paperback (2001).

Hardcover, 10-in.x 10-in., 240 pages, full color.

Cover price $49.99.

1st printing.

Edited by Pep Pentangeli.

Beasts of the Blood-Stained Jackboot is a special edition in the popular Pulp Mayhem series that showcases one of the most vivid strands of illustrated pulp, dedicated to tales of Nazi marauders during World War 2.

The 22 stories included here portray Nazis as evil torturers and killers, whose victims were almost invariably scantily-clad, large-breasted female captives. It should be noted that rescuers, and sometimes the victims themselves, nearly always prevail against the threat of these vile monsters of war, who are never glorified but always shown as despicable and sadistic criminals.

Softcover, 8-in.x 11-in., 128 pages, Text (with B&W Chapter Illustrations). Mature Readers

Cover price $24.95.

Cover by Brian Stelfreeze. Stories and art by Max Allan Collins, Terry Beatty, Mike W. Barr, Nicola Cuti, Rick Burchett, Jeff Gelb, Darren Goodhart, Ed Gorman, Wendi Lee, Rick Magyar, William Marden, Richard Pace and Joe Staton. An anthology of illustrated crime fiction. Fiction by Max Allan Collins, Mike W. Barr, and Cuti-Staton; a look at the current (mid-90s) state of crime fiction; a reprint from 1950s Charlton crime comic Johnny Dynamite; a review of Mickey Spillanes Murder Is My Business. Followed by Noir Quarterly (1995). 80 pages, B&W. Mature readers. Cover price $3.95.

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1st Printing. Authoritative, decade by decade overviews of every aspect of science fiction, from books to comics, and films to television. Hardcover, 10" x 12", 312 pages, full color. Cover price $39.95.

1st printing.

Edited by David Pringle.

Alien encounters, bodysnatching plantlife, super-intelligent obelisks, paranoid androids, and an ultra-violent aficionado of Beethoven - there is variety in The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Science Fiction to keep you entertained and intrigued for light years.

Includes Entries for: Alien, Blade Runner, The Terminator, Barbarella, Akira, Star Trek, Star Wars, King Kong, Flash Gordon, Batman, Superman, Planet of the Apes, The Fly, Mad Max, V, Max Headroom, MANTIS, The X-Files, Earth-2, Sliders, The Man from UNCLE, Jurassic Park, and so much more!

Hardcover, 9 1/2-in. x 11-in., 304 pages, PC/PB&W.

1st printing. By James Gunn. Details history of science fiction with each of the chapters covering a historical period and is fully illustrated with relevant illustrations of books, themes and authors. Featuring a foreword by Isaac Asimov. Softcover, 256 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $8.95.

3rd Edition - 1st printing.

By James Gunn.

Alternate Worlds was first published in 1975 and became an instant classic, winning a Hugo Award the next year. This edition brings the history of science fiction up to date with a chapter covering developments over the past forty years, a period that has seen the advent of technologies only imagined in the genre's Golden Age. As a literature of change, science fiction has become increasingly meaningful, presaging dangers to humanity and, as Alvin Toffler wrote, guarding against "the premature arrival of the future." The world has begun to recognize science fiction in myriad ways, incorporating its visions in products, visual media and huge conventions. James Gunn describes its arc from early myth and fancy to today's complex literature, as the world itself was changed by exploration, science and technology.

Softcover, 300 pages, PC/PB&W.

Cover price $49.95.

Add to cart VF/NM 9.0 $48.00 View scans Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

1st printing. Collects Shock Illustrated (1955) #1-4.

Written by Daniel Keyes, Robert Bernstein, Jack Oleck, Al Feldstein, John Larner, and Jack Oleck. Art by Jack Kamen, Reed Crandall, George Evans, Al Williamson, Graham Ingels, Graham Ingels, Rudy Nappi, and Frank Frazetta. Cover by Jack Kamen. Introduction by Grant Geissman. Foreword by Steve Niles.

Enjoy the complete run of Shock Illustrated, an innovative "Picto-Fiction" magazine containing illustrated prose stories of switch parties, thrill killers, and more of society's dark underbelly-written and illustrated by Daniel Keyes (Flowers for Algernon), Jack Kamen, Reed Crandall, Graham Ingels, and more!

Includes the lost fourth issue, with pencils from Frank Frazetta and unproduced scripts for issue 5!

Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 248 pages, full color.

Cover price $49.99.

Fiction Illustrated: Book 3 - 1st printing. Story and art by Jim Steranko. Introduction by Joe Gores. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 128 pages, full color. Cover price $4.95.

1st printing. by Harry Harrison. Birds do it, Bees do it - but do Martians do it? Do Humanoids? Or humans with Humanoids? Harry Harrison answers these questions in GREAT BALLS OF FIRE, a collection of some of the strangest and most exotic science fiction illustrations of sexual behavior. Includes over 150 illustrations, 60 pages in full color. Hardcover, 10-in. x 10-in., 118 pages, PC/PB&W. Mature Readers

1st printing. by Harry Harrison. Birds do it, Bees do it - but do Martians do it? Do Humanoids? Or humans with Humanoids? Harry Harrison answers these questions in GREAT BALLS OF FIRE, a collection of some of the strangest and most exotic science fiction illustrations of sexual behavior. Includes over 150 illustrations, 60 pages in full color. Softcover, 10-in. x 10-in., 118 pages, PC/PB&W. Mature Readers Cover price $7.95.

Add to cart Very Fine $8.00

No polybag. Cover price $4.95.

Polybagged with trading card. Cover price $4.95.

Add to cart Fine $9.00

1st printing.

By Mike Benton.

From the author of The Comic Book in America comes a comprehensive look at the history of sci-fi comics. Complete with a checklist, more than 200 full color photos, and behind-the-scenes stories!

Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 150 pages, full color.

Cover price $24.95.

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1st printing. By William J. Widder. Preface by Frank Kelly Freas. "Master Storyteller" is a richly informative and colorful tour of L. Ron Hubbard's extraordinary career as a popular fiction author. This comprehensive chronology of his work is replete with factual and detailed information about his novels and stories and the brilliant art they inspired. It is filled with high-quality reproductions ranging from original covers and inside illustrations by the great artists of the pulp fiction magazines of the '30s, '40s and early '50s to the contemporary fantasy and science fiction art created by modern masters of the field. "Master Storyteller" will draw you back again and again to explore the literary and visual landmarks of the life of a great writer whose works continue to entertain generations of readers of popular fiction. Hardcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 194 pages, full color. Cover price $49.95.

2nd and later printings. By William J. Widder. Preface by Frank Kelly Freas. "Master Storyteller" is a richly informative and colorful tour of L. Ron Hubbard's extraordinary career as a popular fiction author. This comprehensive chronology of his work is replete with factual and detailed information about his novels and stories and the brilliant art they inspired. It is filled with high-quality reproductions ranging from original covers and inside illustrations by the great artists of the pulp fiction magazines of the '30s, '40s and early '50s to the contemporary fantasy and science fiction art created by modern masters of the field. "Master Storyteller" will draw you back again and again to explore the literary and visual landmarks of the life of a great writer whose works continue to entertain generations of readers of popular fiction. Hardcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 194 pages, full color. Cover price $49.95.

Add to cart Very Good $9.00

approximately 120 pages. 8 1/2 x 11 3/4. Cover price $4.95.

King Kong (remake), Star Trek 2 (movie), Logan's Run, Exorcist II: The Heretic, Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger, TV superheroes, Superman (movie), interview with Gerrit Graham (Demon Seed), and more. 8.5-in. x 11-in.; black and white; 40 newsprint pages. Cover price $2.00.

1st printing. By Brian J. Robb. A gorgeously illustrated history of the literary, film, and arts counterculture, now in paperback! Spinning tales populated with clockwork leviathans, cannon shots to the moon, and coal-fired robots, it charts alternative histories in which the British Empire never fell and the atom remained unsplit. Spectacularly illustrated and international in scope, this comprehensive history explores steampunk's many intricate expressions in fiction, cinema, television, comics, and video games, and traces its evolution into a truly global aesthetic that has made its mark on art, architecture, fashion, and music. Softcover, 9-in. x 11-in., 192 pages, full color. Cover price $22.99.

1st printing.

Edited by David Pringle.

Alien encounters, bodysnatching plantlife, super-intelligent obelisks, paranoid androids, and an ultra-violent aficionado of Beethoven - there is variety in The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Science Fiction to keep you entertained and intrigued for light years.

Includes Entries for: Alien, Blade Runner, The Terminator, Barbarella, Akira, Star Trek, Star Wars, King Kong, Flash Gordon, Batman, Superman, Planet of the Apes, The Fly, Mad Max, V, Max Headroom, MANTIS, The X-Files, Earth-2, Sliders, The Man from UNCLE, Jurassic Park, and so much more!

Softcover, 9 1/2-in. x 11-in., 304 pages, PC/PB&W.

1st printing. By Jeff Vandermeer. This all-new definitive guide to writing imaginative fiction takes a completely novel approach and fully exploits the visual nature of fantasy through original drawings, maps, renderings, and exercises to create a spectacularly beautiful and inspiring object. Employing an accessible, example-rich approach, Wonderbook energizes and motivates while also providing practical, nuts-and-bolts information needed to improve as a writer. Aimed at aspiring and intermediate-level writers, Wonderbook includes helpful sidebars and essays from some of the biggest names in fantasy today, such as George R. R. Martin, Lev Grossman, Neil Gaiman, Michael Moorcock, Catherynne M. Valente, and Karen Joy Fowler. Softcover, 7-in. x 10-in., 352 pages, full color. Cover price $24.95.