Comic Books

Arizona, USA: Another Rainbow Publishing, 1986. Red pictorial bd, pp 214. Tight and clean copy. Overweight. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Roma: Il Messaggero / Editrice Comic Art / The Walt Disney Company Italia, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Four custom bound volumes. Quarter gray cloth over marbled boards, red leather labels to spine lettered in gold. In 1989-90 the Roman newspaper Il Messaggero published a weekly insert featuring classic Mickey Mouse stories from the 1930s to the 1950s. The set includes more than 90 stories by Gottfredson with more than 1,500 pages in color and b&w. The condition of the set is fine. Each volume has an anti-theft sticker to rear pastedown endpaper and there are two pages with a short tear. In the Italian language. ; Folio.

DC Comics, 1990. First Edition. Paperback. The illustrated stiff-card portfolio folder is in a very good condition, with some creasing and edge nicks evident. All the prints are in a fine and clean condition. Overall, this unique collection remains particlularly well-preserved overall. Further scans, images etc. and additional bibliographical material available on request. ; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 0 pages; SIGNED by George Perez on the front of the folder. Desc.: Portfolio folder (42 x 27cm) of 13 b/w prints (39 x 26cm). Subjects: George Perez -- Comic book art -- Comics -- DC Comics -- Batman -- New Titans.

Park Forest: Ken Pierce, 1981., 1981. First edition. First U.S. edition. Volume 1 contains the stories TOP TRAITOR and THE VIKINGS. Volume 2 contains the stories THE MIND OF MRS. DRAKE and UNCLE HAPPY. Volume 3 contains the stories THE JERICHO CAPER, THE KILLING GROUND, and BAD SUKI. These are the first three volumes in the series of Modesty Blaise comic strips, all illustrated by Jim Holdaway. Fine in stiff pictorial wrappers.

Pelc, Ant., Lev Haas, and Holobrádek. RP karikatury. Prague: Redakce Rudého práva, 1947. First Edition, First Printing. Oblong Octavo (8 1/8 x 5 3/4 inches; 208 x 145 mm), 75, [5] pages, in wrappers (soft cover).A rare book of cartoons published by the Czech Communist Party newspaper, Rudé právo. Antonin Pelc and Lev Haas drew the cartoons, which are pro-Communist, anti-Nazi, anti-American, and anti-Western alliance. Holobrádek (a pseudonym) supplied short verses to accompany each cartoon. The book appeared in 1947, a year before the Communist seizure of power in Czechoslovakia. Oddly, the cover features a cartoon by Pelc that misspells the name of Klement Gottwald, the Communist leader (it shows only one "t" in Gottwald). A sign displayed in the cartoon reads (translating from the Czech): "The construction of a two-year plan is carried out by Gotwald and others." That's a fair representation of the sometimes heavy-handed propaganda in the book, which depicts American businessmen as fat… Read More

**Steve Gianakos, portfolio print - OUT OF PRINT --acceptable condition, black covers, worn scuffed , on black back, middle of the book there is some glue separation -while the glue is still maintaining itself, the inside printed illustrations are actually in pretty good condition it's just the covers & The Binding to have suffered ... originally limited to 750 copies of which 26 are lettered and signed printed by profile press July 1981.... 750 copies printed by Z Press...Steve Gianakos is an American Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1938. Lives and works in New York US and Chania, Crete GR. Work - has followed a path very different from that of his older brother Cristos. While studying industrial design at Pratt Institute, he began to make sculpture, then graphic work, drawings, all influenced by Pop art -featuring a playful quality full of sardonic twists. Two years after graduating from Pratt, he began to show in-group exhibitions, in 1969 had his first solo exhibition at Fischbach… Read More

Rantoul, IL: AVATAR, 2016. Graphic Novels. Illus. by BURROWS, JACEN. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover - 3 Book Set - All 1st. Prints - New in Illustrated Boards / No DJ as issued - Providence Act 1 Hard Cover edition that contains Providence issues #1-4, and all the backmatter, which is limited to 6,666 copies. Providence Acts 2 & 3 feature issues 5-12 - All three books comprise the complete 12 issue story arc - "Alan Moore's quintessential horror series has set the standard for a terrifying reinvention of the works of H.P. Lovecraft"....

New York: DC Comics, 1998. First Edition thus, First Printing. Hardcover. Quarto. 10.5 x 7 inches. 240 pp. Fine / Fine. First volume in the Wonder Woman Archives series of the hardcover DC Archive Editions. Reprints of classic Golden Age of Comics stories of Wonder Woman from issues of All-Star Comics, Sensation Comics, and Wonder Woman. All covers by H.G. Peter. Foreword by Judy Collins. Textured red leatherette on board, with gold stamping. Dust jacket now in protective archival cover.

New York: Dell (No. 1, 1959). Comic book in very good condition. Pages are toned, but not brittle. Clean and unmarked. Spine is solid but has a bit of a lean. 1" vertical closed tear at bottom of spine connecting to front cover; the tear continues through page 5. Cover colors are bright. Front cover has a vertical crease the length of the spine from use. Front top corner a bit soft. Top corner of the back cover is creased. (See our photos for condition.) B/W ABOUT THE BOOK: Little Lulu is a comic strip created in 1935 by Marjorie Henderson Buell. The character, Lulu Moppet, debuted in The Saturday Evening Post on February 23, 1935, in a single panel, appearing as a flower girl at a wedding and mischievously strewing the aisle with banana peels. Little Lulu replaced Carl Anderson's Henry, which had been picked up for distribution by King Features Syndicate. The Little Lulu panel continued to run weekly in The Saturday Evening Post until December 30, 1944. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Marjorie Henderson Buell… Read More

IDW, 2014. Near Fine. Binding and text block are tight, bright, crisp, and clean with no ownership marks. Binding shows faint shelf wear on bottom edges. DJ is unclipped, shows minor shelf wear, and has a tear and small creases at the lower back corner. Otherwise appears unopened / unread and "as new." Photo is of the copy we have at Barbed Wire Books.

New York: First Second, 2017. Signed on the front-free endpaper with a large drawing of Cass Elliott by Penelope Bagieu. Additionally inscribed: For Jen! Thank you very much! First edition / First printing. Laminated illustrated boards. Fine in fine dust jacket. Winner of the 2018 Harvey Award for Best European Comic. Bagieu also won a 2019 Eisner Award.

Seattle, WA: Fantagraphics Books, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Cover shows very minor rubbing at corners and along spine edges. DJ has two faint sticker shadows on the back. Else As New. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.

San Diego, CA: IDW Publishing, 2017. Hardcover. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Dust jacket has tears along top and bottom edges as well as minor creasing; small dents on back; overall shelf and handling wear. Binding and textblock are pristine. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.

San Francisco, CA: Vix Media, 2018. First Edition thus. First Printing, stated. Hardcover. Near Fine. Minor shelf and handling wear to cover, including very light rubbing to all corners, else Fine / As New. Photo is of the copy here at Barbed Wire Books.

San Diego, CA: IDW Publishing, 2014. First Printing. First Edition. Hardcover. As New. Newspaper article laid in. Photo is of the copy here at Barbed Wire Books.