Stanton comic books issue 1

1st printing.

Written by Dian Hanson. Art and cover by Eric Stanton.

Tracing the rise of commercial fetish art from its shadowy beginnings in the 1940s to its acceptance in the 1970s, this illustrated biography explores the unconventional life and art of Eric Stanton, a pioneering sexual fantasist who helped shape the movement. With more than 400 rare images and interviews with Stanton's family and closest associates, this biography chronicles the infamous circle of patrons, publishers, and cult icons populating his subterranean world, including Irving Klaw, John Willie, Bettie Page, Steve Ditko, and Gene Bilbrew. It is the untold, secret history of a misunderstood culture, the abuses of government authority, social intolerance, and gangsters. But above all, it is a tale about survival against all odds and an artist who had the courage to stay true to himself.

Hardcover, 288 pages, PC/PB&W. Mature Readers

Cover price $29.99.

Story by Jim MacNaughton. Art by Dave Bamford. Cover by Dave Bamford. A space hero faces betrayal in an early comic by the artists and publisher that eventually became Alpha Productions. The Lance Stanton character later became Wayward Warrior in Wayward Warrior (1987) #1-4, a spoof of gung-ho sci-fi heroes like himself. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $1.50.

Written by James MacNaughton. Cover and Art by David Bamford. Donned in a skin-tight bodysuit and armed with a retractable staff-axe, space soldier Lance Stanton embarks deep into the treacherous wastelands to seek out villainous traitor Philip Freedmon, while facing off against a gang of bedraggled hippie warriors and homicidal robots. Power Comics resurrects this obscure DIY gem from 1989. 40 pages, B&W. Cover price $6.99.

Story and art by Red Eric Stanton. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", 48 pages, B&W, Adults Only.

1st printing. Written by Dian Hanson. art and cover by Eric Stanton. Eric Stanton (1926-1999) was America's premier fetish artist, a man of very particular tastes, as all fetishists are. Stanton made his desires the center of his art, pouring his passions onto the page. Stanton produced paperback book covers, magazine illustrations, comics and even wrestling and smother videos, but what he is best known for is his Stantoons: self-published 16 to 28-page booklets produced between 1982 and his death in 1999. This new hardback edition of The Dominant Wives & Other Stories, brings together the finest of the Stantoons, along with Stanton's most famous series for Irving Klaw: Bound in Leather, parts 1 and 2. Hardcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 576 pages, PC/PB&W. Mature Readers Cover price $19.99.

1st printing. Written by Dian Hanson. art and cover by Eric Stanton. Eric Stanton (1926-1999) was America's premier fetish artist, a man of very particular tastes, as all fetishists are. Stanton made his desires the center of his art, pouring his passions onto the page. Stanton produced paperback book covers, magazine illustrations, comics and even wrestling and smother videos, but what he is best known for is his Stantoons: self-published 16 to 28-page booklets produced between 1982 and his death in 1999. This new hardback edition of The Dominant Wives & Other Stories, brings together the finest of the Stantoons, along with Stanton's most famous series for Irving Klaw: Bound in Leather, parts 1 and 2. Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 576 pages, PC/PB&W. Mature Readers Cover price $14.99.