Modern Comics comic books issue 1

1st printing

1st printing. Written by Scott McDaniel. Art by Scott McDaniel and Andy Owens. Bank Information Technology expert Evan Adonis works at the nexus of the bank's communications and data networks. Discovering executive corruption, lies, and abuse, Adonis suffers threats and retaliation. In the internally corrupt world of modern banking, the I.T. expert is both the most powerful asset and the most hunted liability. Reader Pack features Volume 1 TPB plus one random Blackbox variant. Softcover, 112 pages, B&W. Cover price $14.99.

Written by Aaron Cantwell, illustrated by Sean Fitzgibbon. 6 1/2-in. x 10 1/4-in., 36 pages, black and white. Cover price $2.75.

1st printing. Written by Jared Gardner and Ian Gordon. Art and cover by Charles M. Schulz. An unparalleled gathering of research devoted to one of the world's most influential comic strips. The Comics of Charles Schulz collects new essays on the work of the creator of the immensely popular Peanuts comic strip. Despite Schulz's celebrity, few scholarly books on his work and career have been published. This collection serves as a foundation for future study not only of Charles Schulz (1922-2000) but, more broadly, of the understudied medium of newspaper comics. Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 192 pages, B&W. Cover price $65.00.

1st printing.

By Thierry Gronesteen and Aaron Miller.

In The Expanding Art of Comics: Ten Modern Masterpieces, prominent scholar Thierry Groensteen offers a distinct perspective on important evolutions in comics since the 1960s through close readings of ten seminal works.

He covers over half a century of comics production, sampling a single work from the sixties (Ballad of the Salt Sea by Hugo Pratt), seventies (The Airtight Garage of Jerry Cornelius by Moebius), eighties (Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons), and nineties (Epileptic by David B.). Then this remarkable critic and scholar delves into recent masterpieces, such as Building Stories by Chris Ware.

Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 252 pages, Text (with B&W Illustrations and photos).

Cover price $30.00.

1st printing. Edited by Jonathan Najarian. Contributions by David M. Ball, Scott Bukatman, Hillary Chute, Jean Lee Cole, Louise Kane, Matthew Levay, Andrei Molotiu, Jonathan Najarian, Katherine Roeder, Noa Saunders, Clémence Sfadj, Nick Sturm, Glenn Willmott, and Daniel Worden. The first collection to engage with the fascinating overlap between comics and modernism. Since the early 1990s, cartoonist Art Spiegelman has made the case that comics are the natural inheritor of the aesthetic tradition associated with the modernist movement of the early twentieth century. In recent years, scholars have begun to place greater import on the shared historical circumstances of early comics and literary and artistic modernism. COMICS AND MODERNISM: HISTORY, FORM, AND CULTURE is an interdisciplinary consideration of myriad social, cultural, and aesthetic connections. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 278 pages, Text (with B&W Illustrations and Photos). Cover price $30.00.

1st printing.

Written by Jared Gardner and Ian Gordon. Art and cover by Charles M. Schulz.

An unparalleled gathering of research devoted to one of the world's most influential comic strips, The Comics of Charles Schulz collects new essays on the work of the creator of the immensely popular Peanuts comic strip. Despite Schulz's celebrity, few scholarly books on his work and career have been published. This collection serves as a foundation for future study not only of Charles Schulz (1922-2000) but, more broadly, of the understudied medium of newspaper comics.

Softcover, 6-in.x 9-in., 234 pages, B&W. Cover price $25.00.

1st printing. Do you remember The Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen? The "polybagged premium" craze? The Death of Superman? Renegade superheroes Spawn, Pitt, Bloodshot and Cyberforce? When so-called "good guys" (read: vigilantes) spilled blood by the gallon? If you love the comic books of the '80s, '90s and '00s, read all about the sometimes glorious, sometimes gory era of comics known as "The Dark Age!" Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 168 pages, B&W. Cover price $19.95.

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1st printing.

By Thierry Gronesteen and Aaron Miller.

In The Expanding Art of Comics: Ten Modern Masterpieces prominent scholar Thierry Groensteen offers a distinct perspective on important evolutions in comics since the 1960s through close readings of ten seminal works.

He covers over half a century of comics production, sampling a single work from the sixties (Ballad of the Salt Sea by Hugo Pratt), seventies (The Airtight Garage of Jerry Cornelius by Moebius), eighties (Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons), and nineties (Epileptic by David B.). Then this remarkable critic, scholar, and author of The System of Comics and Comics and Narration delves into recent masterpieces, such as Building Stories by Chris Ware. Plus: Fun Home by Alison Bechdel; Pretending is Lying by Dominique Goblet; The Arrival by Shaun Tan; Habibi by Craig Thompson; and The Grand Narrative: Alpha, Beta by Jens Harder.

Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 240 pages, B&W.

Cover price $65.00.

Gay Comics #1 is a real oddity, a 7c cover-priced comic published in 1955 by Modern Store Publications, 45 West 45th Street, NY, NY. May have been distributed at this unique retail price, but likely also distributed by retailers as a giveaway. Three stories in this issue: Teepee Tim, the Indian Boy, Witch Hazel (not the one in Little Lulu!), Hare-Brained Tortoise. 36-pages, full color, slick cover with standard newsprint interior, 5-1/8-in. x 7-in., 7c cover price, Comics Code approved. Contains numerous ads for child-related national brands such as U.S. Keds shoes, Wheaties, Tootsie Roll, Bazooka Bubble Gum, Baby Ruth Candy, and Nabisco Wheat Honeys, to name a few. NOTE: The three titles are know to have been produced in this series are: Gay Comics #1, Pop Comics #1 and Whee Comics #1. Others may have been produced although we think it unlikely. Cover price $0.10.

1st printing. First Nations culture is living, vibrant, and evolving, and generations of Indigenous kids have grown up with pop culture creeping inexorably into their lives. From gaming to social media, pirate radio to garage bands, Star Trek to D&D, and missed connections at the pow wow, Indigenous culture is so much more than how it's usually portrayed. Indignerds is here to celebrate those stories! Featuring an all-Indigenous creative team, Indignerds is an exhilarating anthology collecting 11 stories about Indigenous people balancing traditional ways of knowing with modern pop culture. Includes work by Alina Pete, PJ Underwood, Kameron White, Rhael McGregor, and many more! Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 120 pages, full color. Cover price $20.00.

" Scales" Written by Lewis Shiner, art by Carlos Kastro. "Soul in the Hole" written by Joe Preston, art by Ian O'Keefe. "Seeds" story and art by D. Cameron Johnson. "Zoo" written by Mark London, art by John LeCour. "Untitled" by Roger Cuevas, art by Morgan. 48 pages, B&W. Cover price $3.25.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. "Nov. 1945 - Feb. 1946!" Collects Modern Comics (1945-1950) #44-46. Stories and art by Gil Fox, Al Stahl, Harry Sahle, and Bernard Dibble. Cover by Al Bryant. Following on from the classic Military Comics series, Modern Comics brings back all your favorite heroes. Join Blackhawk and gang as they continue their daring escapades in land, sea and air! Softcover, 180 pages, full color. Cover price $32.99.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Collects Rocko's Modern Afterlife (2019 KaBoom) #1-4.

Written by Ryan Ferrier. Art by Ian McGinty. Cover by Jorge Monlongo.

Rocko returns in this new limited series from writer Anthony Burch (Borderlands 2) and Mattia Di Meo (Ben 10: For Science!) for a spooky look at everyone's favorite wallaby!

Something is turning the good people of O-Town into mindless zombies and Rocko wants nothing to do with it. He barricades himself and Spunky in their home and is determined to outlast the hoards outside. But desperate times calls for desperate measures when Rocko's best friend Heffer becomes infected, Rocko will have to risk it all to save his friends and his city.

Softcover, 112 pages, full oclor.

Cover price $14.99.