Shipping. For one book, the Media Mail p&h is $3; add $1 for each additional book. (Overseas, it’s $8 for the first book, plus $3 for each additional book.) Magazine shipping costs are different; see that section. If you’re interested in making a purchase, drop down below (to the very end) where you’ll find my e-mail (or go to the website’s front page), jot me a note, and I’ll give you ordering instructions and hold the book(s) for you for two weeks, pending receipt of your check.

 

All are paperback publications unless otherwise noted.

 

 

NEW ADDITIONS (March 2007—since the last booksale list in January 2006)

 

 

Magazines, $3 each, plus $1 each for Media Mail; overseas, mailing is $4 each

 

Comics Journal, No. 275: interviews with David B., plus the Danish Cartoon Controversy, including reprints of the offending dozen; and the Best Comics of 2005

Comics Journal, No. 279: interviews with Joost Swarte, Johnny Ryan

Comics Journal, No. 280: interviews with Frank Thorne, Carla Speed McNeill

 

The Missing Years, No. 52: reprints of classic strips: Rip Kirby, 1954; Johnny Hazard, 1956; Mandrake the Magician, 1958; Windy and Paddles (aka Jim Hardy), 1940; Terry and the Pirates (Wunder, 1955). Includes 2006 catalog of Spec Publications.

 

Newspaper Comic Strip Reprints

 

Hank Ketcham’s Complete Dennis the Menace, 1953-54; Fantagraphics, introduction by RCH, $12 (and if you specifically ask for it, I’ll autograph the introduction to you)

 

Tina’s Groove, the first Andrews McMeel compilation of the strip about a single young woman who works in a diner, by the incomparable Rina Piccolo; $5

 

Pimp My Lunch (Zits), more of one of the world’s best comic strips by Jim Borgman and Jerry Scott; $5

 

 

Gag Cartoon Reprint

 

The Golden Age of Trash: Cartoons for the Eighties, a 124 8x10-inch page collection of superlative cartoons by the former cartoon editor at The New Yorker, Lee Lorenz; $4

 

 

Graphic Novels

 

The Nameless: Director’s Cut by Joe Pruett and Phil Hester, $7

Brickman Begins by Lew Stringer, $4

Nymph by Frank Thorne; $6

 

Hectic Planet, Book One: Dim Future & Book Two: Checkered Past, Evan Dorkin’s 1998 epic into the future “where robots serve man, man chases woman, and woman breaks up with him”—populated by crazed politicians, Killer robots, psychotic alien mercenaries, rowdy skinheads, angry ex-girlfriends and a planet of drunks. It’s a dim future all right, but somebody’s got to live in it.” Two books, just $6 each.

 

Picture Books

 

One Mandy Morning, cute girl art by Playboy’s Dean Yeagle; $10

 

N.C. Wyeth: The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals; by Douglas Allen, $9

 

 

Book with No Pictures At All

 

Comics as Philosophy, a collection of scholarly essays about comics edited by Jeff McLaughlin; included is my “Describing and Discarding ‘Comics’ as an Impotent Act of Philosophical Rigor,” Amy Kiste Nyberg’s “No Harm in Horror: Ethical Dimensions of the Postwar Comic Book Controversy,” and nine others, including “Plato, Spider-Man and the Meaning of Life,” “Modernity, Race, and the American Superhero,” “The Good Government according to Tintin,”and “Drawn into 9/11: But Where Have All the Superheroes Gone?”, which discusses how superhero comics have responded to 9/11; hardcover, initial price, $45, but this one, my second copy as a contributor, is yours for merely $19.

 

 

Rare and Therefore Wonderful

 

Striptease from Gaslight to Spotlight by Jessica Glasscock; all those old favorites from yesteryear, Tempest Storm et al; $12

Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics (176 9x11-inch page paperback), the scandalous but copiously illustrated and reliably informative tome by Paul Gravett, a genuinely good introduction to the rapidly growing genre; $13

 

Cartooning, Caricature and Animation Made Easy, the classic “how to” volume reprinting two by vintage cartoonist Chuck Thorndike from 1936 and 1937; Dover, 82 8x11-inch pages in paperback, $4

 

Frank Kelly Freas: As He Sees It, a tidy (112 8.5x12-inch pages) retrospective of Freas science fiction illustration with an illustrated text section on “How I Work”; text by Freas and his wife, Laura Brodian Freas. I sat next to Kelly and Laura in Artists Alley at a Sandy Eggo Con years ago, and after noting the prints I had spread out of my lewd cartoon ladies, Kelly told me he got into science fiction illustration because the genre permitted him to draw nearly naked ladies; hardcover, $7

 

Sex, Rock & Optical Illusions (144 9x12-inch pages) by Victor Moscoso, “Master of Psychedelic Posters and Comics,” includes some of his wild comix work; hardcover, $17 (hey—it’s $35 new)

 

Pogo’s Will Be That Was, the 1979 reprint that combines Walt Kelly’s G.O. Fizzickle Pogo and Positively Pogo in 382 6x9-inch pages; $6

 

Joe Miller’s Jests (or the Wits Vade-mecum), a Dover facsimile of the famed “Joe Miller’s Joke Book, “the most famous jest book ever printed and the most influential humor book in English,” first published in 1739; with an introduction by Robert Hutchinson, who regales us with the history of the book and some analysis of the humor, which then transpires in 247 numbered jests; $5

 

Research and Miscellaneous

 

The Standard [Krause] Catalog of Comic Books by the Editors of the Comics Buyer’s Guide; 1^st edition, $10

Legion Companion by Glen Cadigan with an Introduction by Jim Shooter; TwoMorrows, $12

All-Star Companion edited by Roy Thomas; TwoMorrows, $12

 

 

Unrelated to Comics but Still Fascinating

 

Dead Man’s Handle, a Modesty Blaise novel by Peter O’Donnell, and if you haven’t read one of O’Donnell’s novels about Modesty, you don’t know Modesty or understand the bond between her and Willie Garvin; no pictures except the cover, $7

 

British Inn Signs and Their Stories, by Eric R. Delderfield with over 220 illustrations; learn the origin and progress of “sign” language, those picturesque signs at the doors of English inns and pubs. You won’t find the Silent Woman sign here (picture of a woman without a head), but others are just as fascinating; hardcover, $8

 

Fearless Jones, a new mystery by Walter Mosley, a new detective character by the creator of Easy Rawlins; hardcover, $10

 

In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind by Eric R. Kandel, Nobel Prize winner; hardcover, $5

 

Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken; how we all get bamboozled by the Bush Leaguers; hardcover, $5

 

Video, VHS

 

Alfred Hitchcock’s “Marne,” with Sean Connery and Tippi Hedren; $4

 

AND NOW, RESUMING OUR PREVIOUS LISTING, THE LEFT-OVERS FROM THE JANUARY, APRIL AND AUGUST SALES OF LONG AGO

 

NOTE: Prices of books left on this list from before January 2006 have been Reduced Drastically.

 

 

REPRINTS: Comic Strips and Newspaper Panel Cartoons

All Paperback unless Otherwise Noted

 

I Have Tampered with the Divine Plan: Agnes by Tony Cochran, the second collection of strips about the precocious genius with the huge feet; 9x9, $5

Peace, Love and Lattes: A Rudy Park Collection written by Theron Heir and drawn by Darrin Bell, life at a cyber café with occasional glimpses into the political stratosphere; 9x9, $5

It’s a Jungle Gym Out There: A Rugrats Collection, a surprisingly funny and hip strip based upon the Nickelodeon series and produced by a factory—but, as I say, surprisingly good stuff; 9x9, $5

Super Safari: The Tenth Sherman’s Lagoon Collection by Jim Toomey, who proves that sharks and sea turtles and hermit crabs can make meaningful comment on the human condition; 9x9, $5

In Search of Cigarette Holder Man by Garry Trudeau, a battered refugee book from the local library; 9x9, $2

That’s Doctor Sinatra, You Little Bimbo! By Garry Trudeau, a book in the Holt series; 6x8, $2

Old Age Isn’t for Sissies: Lola by Steve Dickenson and Todd Clark; cantankerous old lady humor; 9x9, $4

Dibs on His Clubs: In the Bleachers by Steve Moore, manic sports foolishness in the would-be Larson manner; 5x5, $4

Catch of the Day: 8^th Sherman's Lagoon Collection by Jim Toomey, underwater antics, as usual; 9x9, $4

 

 

GRAPHIC NOVELS & PICTURE BOOKS

 

Cryptozoo Crew, Vol. 1 by Allan Gross and Jerry Carr, humorous adventure in the Batman animated style with Tork Darwykn and his wife Tara, who chase after mysterious wild beasties and, even, plants; 7x10, $4

Boneyard by Richard Moore, a spoof of horror cliches with Michael Paris inheriting a somewhat haunted village; three volumes: Vols. 3 and 4 in the black-and-white 6x10-inch format, $4 each

Deadline by Bill Rosemann and Guy Davis (Marvel), the adventures of a rookie reporter, Katherine Farrell, assigned to cover the “capes,” who discovers a mysterious revenge murder plot by a perhaps deceased judge; 6x10, $4

Bighead by Jeffrey Brown, the usual scratchy-line satire that is so popular with fans; 6x9, $6

 

Sojourn: The Thief’s Tale by Ron Marz, drawn by Greg Land, and inked by Jay Leisten with colors by Justin Ponsor, Chapters 19-24 from the on-going series; extremely attractive art; 6x10, $7

 

Rabbit Head by Rebecca Dart, more magazine that book, an interesting experiment in sequencing pictures for narrative and other illuminating purposes; 8x10, $2

CityMouth by Hunt Emerson, anthropomorphic cities go insane in short pieces by Britain’s reigning madman; 6x9, $2

True Story Swear To God: Chances Are, Tom Beland’s cleanly and expertly rendered tale of his falling in love; 6x10, $7

True Story Swear To God: Mr. Blue Sky, No. 7 in the comic book series by Beland, $1

 

The Fallen, Vol. 2 “Cold Reunion” by David Laaron Clark and David Rankin, “an intoxicating mix of words and pictures” said Skin Two; “visions of a tortured physical world with the dark sensuality of a fleeting dream” sayeth Juxtapoz, and I couldn’t say it better m’self; 9x12, $5

Bad Ideas by Mahfood, Crosland, Chinsang; b&w, $2

 

Never Ending Summer by Allison Cole, b&w, $3

Waterwise by Joel Orff; young love and water, b&w, $5

Black Rust by Chad Michael Ward; spooky pictures (sometimes of barenekidwimmin) and occasional eerie text, $7

Pistolwhip: The Yellow Menace by Jason Hill and Matt Kindt; a strange but entertaining version of noir mystery, $5

XXX Live Nude Girls: Pretty Like a Princess by Laurenn McCubbin and Nikki Coffman, a somewhat misleading title about slices of life, $2

 

Raptors, Vol. 3, by Dufaux and Marini; more vampires taking over the world, $5

House of Java, slice-of-life short stories in hardcover by Mark Murphy, $5

 

Jingle Belle: Dash Away All by Paul Dini illustrated by Jose Garibaldi in the best "animated Batman" manner; $5

Sam Henderson's Magic Whistle: Bigger, Larger and Bigger by Henderson; a wild assortment of the former Spongebob guy's doodles and outrageously comedic "strips," gag cartoons, funny pictures and the like (including some hilariously offensive stuff), some color pages, $4

Like a River by Pierre Wazem; a strange and affecting tale of alienation and reconcilliations, $4

 

Sketchbook 1: Drawn to Beauty by Ray Lago, delicate renderings in pencil and wash of Vampirella, Bettie Page, and Wonder Woman and other, unspecific, beauties; 8x11, $2

 

 

RARE AND THEREFORE WONDERFUL

 

Lady Loverly's Chatter by Mart Reb, a tiny (4x5") jewel of a mildly amusing, mildly risque novel, but its chief attraction, and the thing that inspires the price, are Fritz Willis' delicate pen-and-ink drawings of nekid ladies that illustrate the tale; pages turning brown but not yet brittle; with dust jacket nearly entact; hardcover, $40

 

All Women Are Wolves by Abner Silver, who describes 27 different kinds of female wolf and gets several notables (Earl Carroll, Jimmy Durante, W.C. Handy, even Hildegarde and others) to add their testimonies to the score, illustrated b&w throughout by the incomparable Russell Patterson (hence its attraction); hardcover, with dust jacket, $50

 

Let's Make Mary: Being A Gentleman's Guide to Scientific Seduction in Eight Easy Lessons by Jack Hanley but it's Charles L. McCann's b&w illustrations, his supple linear technique in full-pagers of toothsome wimmin, that makes this a hardcover bargain at merely $5

 

Father of the Bride by Edward Streeter liberally illustrated by the famed Gluyas Williams; hardcover, $6

 

Merry Christmas, Mr. Baxter, another Edwart Streeter novel, this one illustrated by Dorothea Warren Fox, whose quirky filigree lines are a joy; hardcover with dust jacket entact, $5

 

Stark Naked by Norton Juster with the usual outlandish comedic renderings from Arnold Roth that make the book the hilarity that it is; hardcover, first edition, $9

 

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos, “intimately illustrated” by the suicidal Ralph Barton; 1925 hardcover, $10

 

 

All Embarrassed by William Steig, his first book after his classic The Lonely Ones and About People, classic cartoon impressionistic interpretations of the human condition, but not yet abstracted; fist edition, with slightly tattered dust jacket, $8.

 

The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain (“in English then in French, then clawed back into civilized language once more by patient unremunerated toil”), illustrated by F. Strothmann; Dover paperback, 1971; $3

 

COMIC BOOKS

And Reprint Tomes of Same

 

None this time; sorry.

 

 

MAGAZINES

Add Shipping Cost for Media Mail, $1 each; overseas, $4 each

 

Heavy Metal, September 1997, "Aphrodisia" by Serpieri, a Julie Strain gallery, and "Ranx 3: Amen" by Liberatore, Tamburini and Chabat; $5

 

Hell and Back by Frank Miller, No. 8 (of 9); includes RCH pinup, autographed if you so request, just $3

 

Antique Vintage Mag:

Esquire, "Holiday Issue," January 1947, which includes, in addition to the usual array of cartoons by Dedini, Price, Webb, Tobey, etc., twelve calendar girls by J. Frederick Smith (no calendars, though—just the girls); $10

 

 

REFERENCE AND MISCELLANEOUS

Paperback unless Otherwise Noted

 

Legion Companion by Glen Cadigan with an Introduction by Jim Shooter; TwoMorrows, $10

All-Star Companion edited by Roy Thomas; TwoMorrows, $10

 

America’s Humor: From Poor Richard to Doonesbury by Walter Blair and Hamlin Hill; the classic survey from Oxford U. Press in 1978; $3

 

BOOKS THAT DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH COMICS

Except that the illustrator(s), when there is one, is/are often of interest

 

3 Henry Millers: The Intimate Henry Miller, Henry Miller on Writing and The Colossus of Maroussi, by the author of Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn; all three, $4

 

A Pretext for War, James Bamford's minute-by-minute review of 9/11, hardcover, $4

Is Our Children Learning? Paul Begala's "case against George W. Bush,” $2

Dude, Where's My Country by Michael Moore (yes, that Michael Moore), hardcover, $9

 

A Reporter's Life, Walter Cronkite's autobiography; hardcover, $9

Lost in the Horse Latitudes by H. Allen Smith, illustrated by Leo Hersfield (a classic), worn hardcover, $2

The Woman Who Wouldn't Talk, Susan McDougal's recounting of her ordeal at the hands of Ken Starr et al; library discard/sale, hardback, $4

 

Bias by Bernard Goldberg, an expose of how the media distorts the news against conservatives; $3

Out of the Old Rock, tales of the Old West by J. Frank Dobie; hardcover, $6

 

The Real American Cowboy by Jack Weston, who contrasts the real drover with the celluloid version, hardcover, $6

 

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Drop me a note, telling me which books you are interested in, and I’ll tell you whether they're still available and give you ordering instructions and hold the book(s) for you for two weeks, pending receipt of your check.