EDGAR ALLAN POE'S THE RAVEN AND THE RED DEATH
SANDMAN: OVERTURE #1
OLD CITY BLUES VOL. 02 GN
UZUMAKI 3-IN-1 DELUXE EDITION HC
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TO HELL YOU RIDE HC
page 69, $24.99
PUBLISHER Dark Horse Comics
WRITER Lance Henriksen
ARTIST Tom Mandrake
COVER ARTIST Tom Mandrake
PAGES 136 pages
COLOR Full Color.
Written by horror movie icon, Lance Henriksen! A deadly curse plagues a small Colorado town, melting the flesh from its victims - the violent revenge that four warriors set in motion when their sacred burial grounds were disturbed for the sake of gold miners' greed! One self-destructive hero holds the fate of the town in his hands. Collects the entire miniseries.
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MARVEL KNIGHTS: SPIDER-MAN #1
page M40, $3.99
PUBLISHER Marvel Comics
WRITER Matt Kindt
ARTIST Marco Rudy
COVER ARTIST Marco Rudy
SERIESof 5
PAGES 32 pages.
SPECIAL NOTES Limited Series
From the haunted heights of a mysterious castle to the dizzying depths of the deep seas, the Amazing Spider-Man has to take on not one, not six, not twelve - but ninety-nine of the Marvel Universe's deadliest villains to save the lives of countless innocents! • Matt Kindt (Mind MGMT) and Marco Rudy (Swamp Thing) bring you a defining hour in the life of the webbed wonder in a race against time and a battle against evil.
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BEST OF COMIX BOOK: WHEN MARVEL WENT UNDERGROUND! HC
page 72, $35.00
PUBLISHER Dark Horse Comics
PAGES 184 pages
COLOR B&W & Full Color
SIZE 9” x 12”
FORMAT Graphic Novel
Mainstream meets the Underground in Comix Book! In 1974, Marvel publisher Stan Lee and underground pioneer Denis Kitchen collaborated on a series: Comix Book. Featuring underground comix by Joel Beck, Kim Deitch, Justin Green,Trina, Art Spiegelman (first national appearance of Maus), Skip Williamson, and S. Clay Wilson. This Best Of collects them all! Introduction by Stan Lee. In 1974, Marvel publisher Stan Lee and underground pioneer Denis Kitchen collaborated on a series: Comix Book. Featuring underground comix by Joel Beck, Kim Deitch, Justin Green, Trina Robbins, Art Spiegelman (first national appearance of Maus), Skip Williamson, and S. Clay Wilson, this best-of collects them all! Introduction by Stan Lee. • Hardcover collection reprinting the best of the 1970s series Comix Book!• Introduction by the legendary Stan Lee and foreword by underground pioneer Denis Kitchen!
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EDGAR ALLAN POE'S THE RAVEN AND THE RED DEATH
page 66, $3.99
PUBLISHER Dark Horse Comics
WRITER Richard Corben
ARTIST Richard Corben
COVER ARTIST Richard Corben
PAGES 32 pages
COLOR Full Color.
Richard Corben adapts Poe! Unwelcome and bloodthirsty guests are on the move in these two terrifying Poe stories presented by Eisner Hall of Fame inductee Richard Corben. • Adaptations of The Raven and The Masque of the Red Death by horror comics legend Richard Corben.
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GRINDHOUSE: DOORS OPEN AT MIDNIGHT #1
page 67, $3.99
PUBLISHER Dark Horse Comics
WRITER Alex De Campi
ARTIST Chris Peterson
COVER ARTIST Nolan Woodward
SERIES of 8
PAGES 32 pages
COLOR Full Color.
SPECIAL NOTES Limited Series
Eisner nominee Alex de Campi brings Grindhouse Cinema to comics! Literature: overrated. Morality: expendable. Tonight is right for some over-the-top sex and violence! Bringing the flavor of midnight exploitation flicks to comics, Grindhouse delivers four two-issue gore operas, starting with Bee Vixens from Mars, pitting a one-eyed southern Latina deputy against lusty alien chicks bent on laying eggs in the entire male population! • First issue in a brand-new series of B-movie masterpieces!
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SANDMAN: OVERTURE #1 (COVER A - J.H. WILLIAMS III)
page 142, $4.99
PUBLISHER DC Comics
WRITER Neil Gaiman
ARTIST J. H. Williams
COVER ARTIST J. H. Williams
SERIES of 6
PAGES 36 pages.
COLOR Full Color.
SPECIAL NOTES Mature Content, Limited Series
Twenty-five years since THE SANDMAN changed the landscape of modern comics, Neil Gaiman's legendary series is back! THE SANDMAN: OVERTURE heralds New York Times best-selling writer Neil Gaiman's return to the art form that made him famous, ably abetted by artistic luminary JH Williams III (BATWOMAN, PROMETHEA), whose lush, widescreen images provide an epic scope to The Sandman's origin story. From the birth of a galaxy to the moment that Morpheus is captured, THE SANDMAN: OVERTURE will feature cameo appearances by fan-favorite characters such as The Corinthian, Merv Pumpkinhead and, of course, the Dream King's siblings: Death, Desire, Despair, Delirium, Destruction and Destiny. People have often asked me what happened to Morpheus to make it possible for him to be captured in THE SANDMAN #1, Gaiman said. And now they get to find out. And finding out, they get to learn secrets of the Endless that I've kept to myself for 25 years. Family secrets. And I should warn you: one of the Endless dies on page five. The first issue of this 6-issue, bimonthly miniseries features a stunning double-page interior foldout.
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WITCHING HOUR #1
page 146, $7.99
PUBLISHER DC Comics
WRITER Kelly Sue DeConnick
ARTIST Cliff Chiang
COVER ARTIST Jenny Frison
PAGES 80 pages.
COLOR Full Color.
The secret spell to controlling the universe is contained in this anthology! Also included are nine new supernatural tales by a coven of the best writers and artists VERTIGO could cram into 70 pages. Practice witchcraft with VERTIGO and destroy all men!
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COLONIZED SC
page 174, $17.99
PUBLISHER IDW Publishing
WRITER Chris Ryall
ARTIST Drew Moss
COVER ARTIST Francesco Francavilla
PAGES 104 pages
COLOR Full Color.
FORMAT Graphic Novel
A spaceship crashes into a separatist camp and manages to reanimate the dead! Now, cut off from any military aid, it's Aliens vs. Zombies vs. Militiamen in a carnage-filled tale from the writer/creator of Zombies vs Robots!
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PRETTY DEADLY #1
page 188, $3.50
PUBLISHER Image Comics
WRITER Kelly Sue DeConnick
ARTIST Emma Rios
COVER ARTIST Emma Rios
PAGES 32 pages.
COLOR Full Color.
KELLY SUE DECONNICK (Avengers Assemble, Captain Marvel) & EMMA RÍOS (Dr. Strange, Osborn) reunite to bring you an allnew ongoing series that marries the magical realism of Sandman with the western brutality of Preacher. Death's daughter rides the wind on a horse made of smoke and her face bears the skull marks of her father. Her tale of retribution is as beautifully lush as it is unflinchingly savage.
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CBLDF LIBERTY ANNUAL 2013 (COVER C - CORBEN)
page 208, $4.99
PUBLISHER Image Comics
WRITER Tim Seeley
ARTIST Richard Corben
COVER ARTIST Richard Corben
PAGES 48 pages.
COLOR Full Color.
SPECIAL NOTES Mature Content
FORMAT Comic Book
A Comic Book Legal Defense Fund benefit book! Tales Of Blood & Courage! CBLDF LIBERTY ANNUAL returns with Dark Horse editor-in-chief SCOTT ALLIE pulling together an all-star roster of writers and artists to battle censorship with 48 PAGES OF ALL-NEW stories! TIM SEELEY brings HACK/SLASH back for what might be the most bizarre tale in the series, and legendary creator Richard Corben tells the story of an underground cartoonist bringing back his most famous (and well-endowed) hero. Everyone has a story to tell, but what happens when a story gets taken away from its creator? LIBERTY ANNUAL 2013 looks at the creative costs of censorship, either through the sort of outside interference the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has fought for 27 years, or through more private forms. The Hoax Hunters battle a cable news program for the life of sasquatch, a young punk rock journalist examines Pussy Riot, and MASKS AND MOBSTERS writer JOSH WILLIAMSON answers the question, What If Wertham Were Right? All proceeds from this book benefit the important First Amendment work of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, who've been fighting censorship in comics for over 25 years!
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EXPLORER VOL. 02: LOST ISLANDS SC
page 243, $10.95
PUBLISHER Amulet Books
WRITER Kazu Kibuishi
ARTIST Kazu Kibuishi
COVERARTIST Kazu Kibuishi
PAGES 128 pages.
COLOR Full Color.
The highly anticipated second volume to the critically acclaimed Explorer series, The Lost Islands is a collection of seven all-new stories written and illustrated by an award-winning roster of comics artists, with each story centered around the theme of hidden places. Edited by the New York Times bestselling comics creator Kazu Kibuishi, this graphic anthology includes well-written, beautifully illustrated stories by Kazu (the Amulet series), Jason Caffoe (the Flight series), Raina Telgemeier (Drama and Smile), Dave Roman (the Astronaut Academy series), Jake Parker (the Missile Mouse series), Michel Gagné (The Saga of Rex), Katie and Steven Shanahan (the Flight series), and up-and-coming new artist Chrystin Garland.
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OLD CITY BLUES VOL. 02 GN
page 250, $12.95
PUBLISHER Archaia Entertainment LLC
WRITER Giannis Milonogiannis
ARTIST Giannis Milonogiannis
COVER ARTIST Giannis Milonogiannis
PAGES 200 pages.
COLOR B&W.
SIZE 5x7.5
FORMAT Graphic Novel
The next chapter in the critically acclaimed Old City Blues series! The year is 2048. Southeastern Europe. Built on the ruins of the country once known as Greece, New Athens is a city crawling with life-low-life that is. From mech smugglers and drug dealers, to corrupt politicians and all-too-powerful corporations, the city is at the mercy of high-tech criminals. And it's up to Solano, Thermidor, and the rest of the New Athens Special Police to keep the city in order. This edition collects Private Enemy and the brand-new Prothetic Corpus story arcs.
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BLUE ANGEL GN
page 272, $19.95
PUBLISHER Arsenal Pulp Press
WRITER Julie Maroh
ARTIST Julie Maroh
COVER ARTIST Julie Maroh
In this tender, bittersweet, full-color graphic novel, a young woman named Clementine discovers herself and the elusive magic of love when she meets a confident blue-haired girl named Emma: a lesbian love story for the ages that bristles with the energy of youth and rebellion and the eternal light of desire. First published in French by Belgium's Glénat, the book has won several awards, including the Audience Prize at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, and the live-action, French-language film version of the book, entitled Blue Is the Warmest Color, won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2013.
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OTHER STORIES AND THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON GN
page 292, $18.00
PUBLISHER Conundrum Press
WRITER Dakota McFadzean
ARTIST Dakota McFadzean
COVER ARTIST Dakota McFadzean
PAGES 160 pages.
COLOR B&W.
SIZE 6x7.75
FORMAT Graphic Novel
The wide open prairie, the domestication of garden gnomes, the psychoanalytic breakdown of 8-bit video games; into these and other subjects Dakota McFadzean digs with his pen and brush, unearthing truths that discomfit even as they entertain. This collection of his best work to date mashes cuteness into cruelty, hope into resignation, and life into death, leaving us with one slow-burning ball of phosphorescent comics. - Jason Lutes (Berlin)
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WALT DISNEY'S DONALD DUCK VOL. 04: CHRISMAS ON BEAR MOUNTAIN HC
page 317, $28.99
PUBLISHER Fantagraphics Books
WRITER Carl Barks
ARTIST Carl Barks
COVER ARTIST Carl Barks
PAGES 240 pages.
COLOR Full Color.
SIZE 7.25 x 10
Christmas on Bear Mountain is one of Carl Barks's funniest holiday stories and a true landmark in comics history, featuring as it does the first appearance of multiplujillionaire Scrooge McDuck. Also featured in this volume are a trio of adventures featuring Donald Duck in exotic locales plus seven of Barks's hilarious 10-pagers. As with the previous volumes, Walt Disney's Donald Duck: Christmas on Bear Mountain has been scanned from crisp vintage art and meticulously colored to match the original printing's warm, simple hues, and features abundant critical and historical notes penned by some of duckdom's finest experts.
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SOCK MONKEY TREASURY: A TONY MILLIONAIRE'S SOCK MONKEY COLLECTION HC
page 319, $39.99
PUBLISHER Fantagraphics Books
WRITER Tony Millionaire
ARTIST Tony Millionaire
COVER ARTIST Tony Millionaire
PAGES 344 pages.
COLOR Partial Color.
SIZE 7 x 10
For the first time, all twelve of Tony Millionaire's acclaimed Sock Monkey all-ages comic books are collected under one cover, as well as the full-color graphic novella Uncle Gabby and the full-color illustrated storybook, The Glass Doorknob. Also included is the only full-length Sock Monkeygraphic novel, The Inches Incident. Beloved by adults and children, Sock Monkey harkens back to a time when comics actually were for all ages. B&W with 80 color pages.
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BATTLING BOY VOL. 01 HC GN
page 320, $24.99
PUBLISHER First Second (:01)
WRITER Paul Pope
ARTIST Paul Pope
COVER ARTIST Paul Pope
PAGES 208 pages.
COLOR Full Color.
SIZE 6x9
The new graphic novel from award-winning creator Paul Pope! When Battling Boy's father, a warrior god, drops him on a world infested with bloodthirsty monsters, he leaves his son with nothing but a magic credit card, a trunk full of enchanted tee shirts, and instructions not to come home until he's liberated the planet from its plague of monsters. It's one kid vs an entire world full of monsters. And the monsters don't stand a chance.
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PAUL POPE: ROAD TO BATTLING BOY
page 342, $35.00
PUBLISHER Picturebox
WRITER Paul Pope
ARTIST Paul Pope
COVER ARTIST Paul Pope
PAGES 96 pages.
COLOR Full Color.
SPECIAL NOTES Mature Content
SIZE 9x12
This oversized art book focuses on the last five years of Paul Pope's work, up to and including Battling Boy. Here are full color scans of Pope's original artwork for Battling Boy as well as his BB character and film designs. Half of this deluxe art book, though, is devoted to Pope's brilliant sketchbooks, sexy fashion illustrations, and dozens of other unseen images. Half making-of, half-artist's book, The Road to Battling Boy is an essential look at one of the great cartoonists of our time.
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NEIL THE HORSE: THE COMPLETE COMICS STORIES HC
page 325, $49.90
PUBLISHER Hermes Press
WRITER Katherine Collins
ARTIST Katherine Collins
COVER ARTIST Katherine Collins
PAGES 320 pages.
COLOR Full Color.
SIZE 8x11
Neil the Horse has long been acclaimed as one of the most innovative and charming comic creations of the 1980s. It has often been compared to the best work of Walt Disney; fans of the strip will finally be treated to a comprehensive reprint of this important strip. Now for the first time ever all of the classic Neil the Horse comic books are collected together in the definitive archival edition. Fully authorized by its creator this book is reproduced from the original artwork. Collects issues #1-15 with an historical essay by Trina Robbins and documentary material. Also available in a signed limited edition with 32 pages of extra material and a signed tipped-in plate.
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VINLAND SAGA VOL. 01 GN
page 328, $19.99
PUBLISHER Kodansha Comics
WRITER Makoto Yukimura
ARTIST Makoto Yukimura
COVER ARTIST Makoto Yukimura
PAGES 464 pages.
COLOR B&W.
SIZE 6x8
The epic action manga for fans of Game of Thrones, a story of war, royal intrigue, suspense, and revenge set against the backdrop of the Viking invasions of England. At the turn of the 11th century, the Norse Sea is in the grip of Viking terror. The clever Askeladd leads his small band of mercenaries into London with the aid of the ruthless young Thorfinn, son of a warrior in the dreaded Jomsvikings. But this is an alliance of convenience: Thorfinn has sworn to kill Askeladd one day to avenge his father's death. When a race begins to capture the prince and secure the rights to the throne, personal grudges will clash with the fate of a kingdom in the balance, and blood will be spilled!
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SPECTRAL ENGINE HC GN
page 329, $27.95
PUBLISHER McClelland & Stewart
WRITER Ray Fawkes
ARTIST Ray Fawkes
COVER ARTIST Ray Fawkes
PAGES 176 pages.
A groundbreaking and stunningly illustrated literary graphic novel that weaves together historically documented Canadian ghost stories from across the centuries into a timeless narrative of life, death, and redemption. To catch a glimpse of the Spectral Engine is to face death itself. Decades after the Empress of Ireland, a luxury passenger steamboat, disappears into the dark waters of the St. Lawrence River along with 1,012 souls, the wreck of the ship continues to claim victims. And in a poignant story of urban isolation and the desire for human connection, a young woman discovers that loneliness transcends death. By turns chilling and moving, this breathtaking book is a powerful reminder of the deeply human yearning to be remembered.
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GOLD POLLEN AND OTHER STORIES HC
page 342, $27.50
PUBLISHER Picturebox
WRITER Seiichi Hayashi
ARTIST Seiichi Hayashi
COVER ARTIST Seiichi Hayashi
PAGES 176 pages.
COLOR Full Color.
SPECIAL NOTES Mature Content
SIZE 7.2x10.2
Seiichi Hayashi was a leading figure in the hotbed of avant-garde artistic production of 1960s and early 70s Tokyo. He is best known for his lyrical and experimental manga for Garo, the famous alternative comics magazine. This volume collects a selection of Hayashi's most important manga from this period, including Red Dragonfly (1968), Yamauba's Lullaby (1968), and Gold Pollen (1971). Published here in their original full color, these stories mix traditional Japanese aesthetics with Pop art sensibilities, and range in topic from the legacies of Japanese rightwing nationalism and World War II, to the pervasive influence of America over 1960s Japanese youth culture.
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WORLD MAP ROOM GN
page 342, $19.95
PUBLISHER Picturebox
WRITER Yuichi Yokoyama
ARTIST Yuichi Yokoyama
COVER ARTIST Yuichi Yokoyama
PAGES 180 pages.
COLOR B&W.
SIZE 6.5x8.5
From Eisner Award and L.A. Times Book Prize nominated author Yuichi Yokoyama comes a new graphic novel. Guys visit a city. They watch airplanes departing and arriving at an airport. They go on board a ship and across a river. Finally they arrive at a building as their destination. A man guides them to theworld map room. It seems they have an appointment there, although there is no description about the appointment. They see books on the shelves and have some desultory conversation. Then they go to the courtyard and carry on the conversation. They reach a pond with a sunken ship. The guide starts to explain the ship's history. The book ends.
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PACHYDERME GN
page 345, $19.95
PUBLISHER Selfmadehero
WRITER Frederik Peeters
ARTIST Frederik Peeters
COVER ARTIST Frederik Peeters
PAGES 88 pages.
COLOR Full Color.
SIZE 7x10
This cinematic tale opens surrealistically: with a traffic jam caused by a wounded elephant. Our heroine, Carice, abandons her car and walks trancelike through a wood to visit her husband in the hospital. Along the way she meets a few odd characters, including a blind pig keeper and an alien-looking baby. The surreal encounters do not stop there. The hospital is eerie and foreboding. When Carice's whistling wakes up an apparently dead body in the morgue, she soon realizes that the aged cadaver she's talking to is her future self.
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GRAPHIC CANON BOX SET VOL. 1-3 SC
page 346, $125.00
PUBLISHER Seven Stories Press
WRITER Russ Kick
ARTIST R. Crumb
COVER ARTIST Tadashi Agi
PAGES 1600 pages
COLOR Full Color.
SPECIAL NOTES Mature Content
SIZE 8x11
The classic canon of Western civilization meets the artists and illustrators who have remade reading in the last years of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first century in Russ Kick's magisterial, three-volume, full-color The Graphic Canon, volumes 1, 2, and 3. This special slipcase edition includes all three volumes of the series in an attractively designed slipcase, as well as the three promotional posters created for each volume's release, allowing graphic novel collectors and fans to quickly add this important work to their library.
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FARLAINE THE GOBLIN #2
page 346, $5.00
PUBLISHER Studio Farlaine
WRITER Anonymous
ARTIST Anonymous
COVER ARTIST Anonymous
PAGES 40 pages.
COLOR B&W.
SIZE 11x7.125
Farlaine the Goblin has spent years wandering the very many Oddlands of Wug in search of a forest to call his own. He only has 9 lands left. And to make matters worse, his next stop is The Saltlands, a desolate moebian landscape where few things will grow.
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UZUMAKI 3-IN-1 DELUXE EDITION HC
page 362, $27.99
PUBLISHER Viz Media LLC
WRITER Junji Ito
ARTIST Junji Ito
COVER ARTIST Junji Ito
PAGES 648 pages.
COLOR B&W.
SIZE 5.75 x 8.25
Kurouzu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the world. It manifests itself in everything from seashells and whirlpools in water to the spiral marks on people's bodies, the insane obsessions of Shuichi's father and the voice from the cochlea in our inner ear. As the madness spreads, the inhabitants of Kurouzu-cho are pulled ever deeper into a whirlpool from which there is no return!
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MISS PEREGRINE'S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL
page 368, $20.00
PUBLISHER Yen Press
WRITER Ransom Riggs
ARTIST Cassandra Jean
COVER ARTIST Cassandra Jean
PAGES 240 pages.
COLOR B&W.
A horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow - impossible though it seems - they may still be alive.
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DAVID MACK KABUKI WEARABLE MASK
page 490, $19.99
One of the most acclaimed independent comics of the past fifteen years is David Mack's Kabuki, and with C.S. Moore's Kabuki Wearable Mask you can become the femme fatale for Halloween or other occasions!
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SPACE PIRATE CAPTAIN HARLOCK COMPLETE TV SERIES DVD
page 511, $69.95
FORMAT DVD
RELEASE DATE 09-25-2013
page 69, $24.99
PUBLISHER Dark Horse Comics
WRITER Lance Henriksen
ARTIST Tom Mandrake
COVER ARTIST Tom Mandrake
PAGES 136 pages
COLOR Full Color.
Written by horror movie icon, Lance Henriksen! A deadly curse plagues a small Colorado town, melting the flesh from its victims - the violent revenge that four warriors set in motion when their sacred burial grounds were disturbed for the sake of gold miners' greed! One self-destructive hero holds the fate of the town in his hands. Collects the entire miniseries.
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MARVEL KNIGHTS: SPIDER-MAN #1
page M40, $3.99
PUBLISHER Marvel Comics
WRITER Matt Kindt
ARTIST Marco Rudy
COVER ARTIST Marco Rudy
SERIESof 5
PAGES 32 pages.
SPECIAL NOTES Limited Series
From the haunted heights of a mysterious castle to the dizzying depths of the deep seas, the Amazing Spider-Man has to take on not one, not six, not twelve - but ninety-nine of the Marvel Universe's deadliest villains to save the lives of countless innocents! • Matt Kindt (Mind MGMT) and Marco Rudy (Swamp Thing) bring you a defining hour in the life of the webbed wonder in a race against time and a battle against evil.
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BEST OF COMIX BOOK: WHEN MARVEL WENT UNDERGROUND! HC
page 72, $35.00
PUBLISHER Dark Horse Comics
PAGES 184 pages
COLOR B&W & Full Color
SIZE 9” x 12”
FORMAT Graphic Novel
Mainstream meets the Underground in Comix Book! In 1974, Marvel publisher Stan Lee and underground pioneer Denis Kitchen collaborated on a series: Comix Book. Featuring underground comix by Joel Beck, Kim Deitch, Justin Green,Trina, Art Spiegelman (first national appearance of Maus), Skip Williamson, and S. Clay Wilson. This Best Of collects them all! Introduction by Stan Lee. In 1974, Marvel publisher Stan Lee and underground pioneer Denis Kitchen collaborated on a series: Comix Book. Featuring underground comix by Joel Beck, Kim Deitch, Justin Green, Trina Robbins, Art Spiegelman (first national appearance of Maus), Skip Williamson, and S. Clay Wilson, this best-of collects them all! Introduction by Stan Lee. • Hardcover collection reprinting the best of the 1970s series Comix Book!• Introduction by the legendary Stan Lee and foreword by underground pioneer Denis Kitchen!
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EDGAR ALLAN POE'S THE RAVEN AND THE RED DEATH
page 66, $3.99
PUBLISHER Dark Horse Comics
WRITER Richard Corben
ARTIST Richard Corben
COVER ARTIST Richard Corben
PAGES 32 pages
COLOR Full Color.
Richard Corben adapts Poe! Unwelcome and bloodthirsty guests are on the move in these two terrifying Poe stories presented by Eisner Hall of Fame inductee Richard Corben. • Adaptations of The Raven and The Masque of the Red Death by horror comics legend Richard Corben.
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GRINDHOUSE: DOORS OPEN AT MIDNIGHT #1
page 67, $3.99
PUBLISHER Dark Horse Comics
WRITER Alex De Campi
ARTIST Chris Peterson
COVER ARTIST Nolan Woodward
SERIES of 8
PAGES 32 pages
COLOR Full Color.
SPECIAL NOTES Limited Series
Eisner nominee Alex de Campi brings Grindhouse Cinema to comics! Literature: overrated. Morality: expendable. Tonight is right for some over-the-top sex and violence! Bringing the flavor of midnight exploitation flicks to comics, Grindhouse delivers four two-issue gore operas, starting with Bee Vixens from Mars, pitting a one-eyed southern Latina deputy against lusty alien chicks bent on laying eggs in the entire male population! • First issue in a brand-new series of B-movie masterpieces!
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SANDMAN: OVERTURE #1 (COVER A - J.H. WILLIAMS III)
page 142, $4.99
PUBLISHER DC Comics
WRITER Neil Gaiman
ARTIST J. H. Williams
COVER ARTIST J. H. Williams
SERIES of 6
PAGES 36 pages.
COLOR Full Color.
SPECIAL NOTES Mature Content, Limited Series
Twenty-five years since THE SANDMAN changed the landscape of modern comics, Neil Gaiman's legendary series is back! THE SANDMAN: OVERTURE heralds New York Times best-selling writer Neil Gaiman's return to the art form that made him famous, ably abetted by artistic luminary JH Williams III (BATWOMAN, PROMETHEA), whose lush, widescreen images provide an epic scope to The Sandman's origin story. From the birth of a galaxy to the moment that Morpheus is captured, THE SANDMAN: OVERTURE will feature cameo appearances by fan-favorite characters such as The Corinthian, Merv Pumpkinhead and, of course, the Dream King's siblings: Death, Desire, Despair, Delirium, Destruction and Destiny. People have often asked me what happened to Morpheus to make it possible for him to be captured in THE SANDMAN #1, Gaiman said. And now they get to find out. And finding out, they get to learn secrets of the Endless that I've kept to myself for 25 years. Family secrets. And I should warn you: one of the Endless dies on page five. The first issue of this 6-issue, bimonthly miniseries features a stunning double-page interior foldout.
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WITCHING HOUR #1
page 146, $7.99
PUBLISHER DC Comics
WRITER Kelly Sue DeConnick
ARTIST Cliff Chiang
COVER ARTIST Jenny Frison
PAGES 80 pages.
COLOR Full Color.
The secret spell to controlling the universe is contained in this anthology! Also included are nine new supernatural tales by a coven of the best writers and artists VERTIGO could cram into 70 pages. Practice witchcraft with VERTIGO and destroy all men!
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COLONIZED SC
page 174, $17.99
PUBLISHER IDW Publishing
WRITER Chris Ryall
ARTIST Drew Moss
COVER ARTIST Francesco Francavilla
PAGES 104 pages
COLOR Full Color.
FORMAT Graphic Novel
A spaceship crashes into a separatist camp and manages to reanimate the dead! Now, cut off from any military aid, it's Aliens vs. Zombies vs. Militiamen in a carnage-filled tale from the writer/creator of Zombies vs Robots!
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PRETTY DEADLY #1
page 188, $3.50
PUBLISHER Image Comics
WRITER Kelly Sue DeConnick
ARTIST Emma Rios
COVER ARTIST Emma Rios
PAGES 32 pages.
COLOR Full Color.
KELLY SUE DECONNICK (Avengers Assemble, Captain Marvel) & EMMA RÍOS (Dr. Strange, Osborn) reunite to bring you an allnew ongoing series that marries the magical realism of Sandman with the western brutality of Preacher. Death's daughter rides the wind on a horse made of smoke and her face bears the skull marks of her father. Her tale of retribution is as beautifully lush as it is unflinchingly savage.
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CBLDF LIBERTY ANNUAL 2013 (COVER C - CORBEN)
page 208, $4.99
PUBLISHER Image Comics
WRITER Tim Seeley
ARTIST Richard Corben
COVER ARTIST Richard Corben
PAGES 48 pages.
COLOR Full Color.
SPECIAL NOTES Mature Content
FORMAT Comic Book
A Comic Book Legal Defense Fund benefit book! Tales Of Blood & Courage! CBLDF LIBERTY ANNUAL returns with Dark Horse editor-in-chief SCOTT ALLIE pulling together an all-star roster of writers and artists to battle censorship with 48 PAGES OF ALL-NEW stories! TIM SEELEY brings HACK/SLASH back for what might be the most bizarre tale in the series, and legendary creator Richard Corben tells the story of an underground cartoonist bringing back his most famous (and well-endowed) hero. Everyone has a story to tell, but what happens when a story gets taken away from its creator? LIBERTY ANNUAL 2013 looks at the creative costs of censorship, either through the sort of outside interference the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has fought for 27 years, or through more private forms. The Hoax Hunters battle a cable news program for the life of sasquatch, a young punk rock journalist examines Pussy Riot, and MASKS AND MOBSTERS writer JOSH WILLIAMSON answers the question, What If Wertham Were Right? All proceeds from this book benefit the important First Amendment work of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, who've been fighting censorship in comics for over 25 years!
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EXPLORER VOL. 02: LOST ISLANDS SC
page 243, $10.95
PUBLISHER Amulet Books
WRITER Kazu Kibuishi
ARTIST Kazu Kibuishi
COVERARTIST Kazu Kibuishi
PAGES 128 pages.
COLOR Full Color.
The highly anticipated second volume to the critically acclaimed Explorer series, The Lost Islands is a collection of seven all-new stories written and illustrated by an award-winning roster of comics artists, with each story centered around the theme of hidden places. Edited by the New York Times bestselling comics creator Kazu Kibuishi, this graphic anthology includes well-written, beautifully illustrated stories by Kazu (the Amulet series), Jason Caffoe (the Flight series), Raina Telgemeier (Drama and Smile), Dave Roman (the Astronaut Academy series), Jake Parker (the Missile Mouse series), Michel Gagné (The Saga of Rex), Katie and Steven Shanahan (the Flight series), and up-and-coming new artist Chrystin Garland.
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OLD CITY BLUES VOL. 02 GN
page 250, $12.95
PUBLISHER Archaia Entertainment LLC
WRITER Giannis Milonogiannis
ARTIST Giannis Milonogiannis
COVER ARTIST Giannis Milonogiannis
PAGES 200 pages.
COLOR B&W.
SIZE 5x7.5
FORMAT Graphic Novel
The next chapter in the critically acclaimed Old City Blues series! The year is 2048. Southeastern Europe. Built on the ruins of the country once known as Greece, New Athens is a city crawling with life-low-life that is. From mech smugglers and drug dealers, to corrupt politicians and all-too-powerful corporations, the city is at the mercy of high-tech criminals. And it's up to Solano, Thermidor, and the rest of the New Athens Special Police to keep the city in order. This edition collects Private Enemy and the brand-new Prothetic Corpus story arcs.
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BLUE ANGEL GN
page 272, $19.95
PUBLISHER Arsenal Pulp Press
WRITER Julie Maroh
ARTIST Julie Maroh
COVER ARTIST Julie Maroh
In this tender, bittersweet, full-color graphic novel, a young woman named Clementine discovers herself and the elusive magic of love when she meets a confident blue-haired girl named Emma: a lesbian love story for the ages that bristles with the energy of youth and rebellion and the eternal light of desire. First published in French by Belgium's Glénat, the book has won several awards, including the Audience Prize at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, and the live-action, French-language film version of the book, entitled Blue Is the Warmest Color, won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2013.
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OTHER STORIES AND THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON GN
page 292, $18.00
PUBLISHER Conundrum Press
WRITER Dakota McFadzean
ARTIST Dakota McFadzean
COVER ARTIST Dakota McFadzean
PAGES 160 pages.
COLOR B&W.
SIZE 6x7.75
FORMAT Graphic Novel
The wide open prairie, the domestication of garden gnomes, the psychoanalytic breakdown of 8-bit video games; into these and other subjects Dakota McFadzean digs with his pen and brush, unearthing truths that discomfit even as they entertain. This collection of his best work to date mashes cuteness into cruelty, hope into resignation, and life into death, leaving us with one slow-burning ball of phosphorescent comics. - Jason Lutes (Berlin)
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WALT DISNEY'S DONALD DUCK VOL. 04: CHRISMAS ON BEAR MOUNTAIN HC
page 317, $28.99
PUBLISHER Fantagraphics Books
WRITER Carl Barks
ARTIST Carl Barks
COVER ARTIST Carl Barks
PAGES 240 pages.
COLOR Full Color.
SIZE 7.25 x 10
Christmas on Bear Mountain is one of Carl Barks's funniest holiday stories and a true landmark in comics history, featuring as it does the first appearance of multiplujillionaire Scrooge McDuck. Also featured in this volume are a trio of adventures featuring Donald Duck in exotic locales plus seven of Barks's hilarious 10-pagers. As with the previous volumes, Walt Disney's Donald Duck: Christmas on Bear Mountain has been scanned from crisp vintage art and meticulously colored to match the original printing's warm, simple hues, and features abundant critical and historical notes penned by some of duckdom's finest experts.
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SOCK MONKEY TREASURY: A TONY MILLIONAIRE'S SOCK MONKEY COLLECTION HC
page 319, $39.99
PUBLISHER Fantagraphics Books
WRITER Tony Millionaire
ARTIST Tony Millionaire
COVER ARTIST Tony Millionaire
PAGES 344 pages.
COLOR Partial Color.
SIZE 7 x 10
For the first time, all twelve of Tony Millionaire's acclaimed Sock Monkey all-ages comic books are collected under one cover, as well as the full-color graphic novella Uncle Gabby and the full-color illustrated storybook, The Glass Doorknob. Also included is the only full-length Sock Monkeygraphic novel, The Inches Incident. Beloved by adults and children, Sock Monkey harkens back to a time when comics actually were for all ages. B&W with 80 color pages.
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BATTLING BOY VOL. 01 HC GN
page 320, $24.99
PUBLISHER First Second (:01)
WRITER Paul Pope
ARTIST Paul Pope
COVER ARTIST Paul Pope
PAGES 208 pages.
COLOR Full Color.
SIZE 6x9
The new graphic novel from award-winning creator Paul Pope! When Battling Boy's father, a warrior god, drops him on a world infested with bloodthirsty monsters, he leaves his son with nothing but a magic credit card, a trunk full of enchanted tee shirts, and instructions not to come home until he's liberated the planet from its plague of monsters. It's one kid vs an entire world full of monsters. And the monsters don't stand a chance.
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PAUL POPE: ROAD TO BATTLING BOY
page 342, $35.00
PUBLISHER Picturebox
WRITER Paul Pope
ARTIST Paul Pope
COVER ARTIST Paul Pope
PAGES 96 pages.
COLOR Full Color.
SPECIAL NOTES Mature Content
SIZE 9x12
This oversized art book focuses on the last five years of Paul Pope's work, up to and including Battling Boy. Here are full color scans of Pope's original artwork for Battling Boy as well as his BB character and film designs. Half of this deluxe art book, though, is devoted to Pope's brilliant sketchbooks, sexy fashion illustrations, and dozens of other unseen images. Half making-of, half-artist's book, The Road to Battling Boy is an essential look at one of the great cartoonists of our time.
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NEIL THE HORSE: THE COMPLETE COMICS STORIES HC
page 325, $49.90
PUBLISHER Hermes Press
WRITER Katherine Collins
ARTIST Katherine Collins
COVER ARTIST Katherine Collins
PAGES 320 pages.
COLOR Full Color.
SIZE 8x11
Neil the Horse has long been acclaimed as one of the most innovative and charming comic creations of the 1980s. It has often been compared to the best work of Walt Disney; fans of the strip will finally be treated to a comprehensive reprint of this important strip. Now for the first time ever all of the classic Neil the Horse comic books are collected together in the definitive archival edition. Fully authorized by its creator this book is reproduced from the original artwork. Collects issues #1-15 with an historical essay by Trina Robbins and documentary material. Also available in a signed limited edition with 32 pages of extra material and a signed tipped-in plate.
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VINLAND SAGA VOL. 01 GN
page 328, $19.99
PUBLISHER Kodansha Comics
WRITER Makoto Yukimura
ARTIST Makoto Yukimura
COVER ARTIST Makoto Yukimura
PAGES 464 pages.
COLOR B&W.
SIZE 6x8
The epic action manga for fans of Game of Thrones, a story of war, royal intrigue, suspense, and revenge set against the backdrop of the Viking invasions of England. At the turn of the 11th century, the Norse Sea is in the grip of Viking terror. The clever Askeladd leads his small band of mercenaries into London with the aid of the ruthless young Thorfinn, son of a warrior in the dreaded Jomsvikings. But this is an alliance of convenience: Thorfinn has sworn to kill Askeladd one day to avenge his father's death. When a race begins to capture the prince and secure the rights to the throne, personal grudges will clash with the fate of a kingdom in the balance, and blood will be spilled!
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SPECTRAL ENGINE HC GN
page 329, $27.95
PUBLISHER McClelland & Stewart
WRITER Ray Fawkes
ARTIST Ray Fawkes
COVER ARTIST Ray Fawkes
PAGES 176 pages.
A groundbreaking and stunningly illustrated literary graphic novel that weaves together historically documented Canadian ghost stories from across the centuries into a timeless narrative of life, death, and redemption. To catch a glimpse of the Spectral Engine is to face death itself. Decades after the Empress of Ireland, a luxury passenger steamboat, disappears into the dark waters of the St. Lawrence River along with 1,012 souls, the wreck of the ship continues to claim victims. And in a poignant story of urban isolation and the desire for human connection, a young woman discovers that loneliness transcends death. By turns chilling and moving, this breathtaking book is a powerful reminder of the deeply human yearning to be remembered.
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GOLD POLLEN AND OTHER STORIES HC
page 342, $27.50
PUBLISHER Picturebox
WRITER Seiichi Hayashi
ARTIST Seiichi Hayashi
COVER ARTIST Seiichi Hayashi
PAGES 176 pages.
COLOR Full Color.
SPECIAL NOTES Mature Content
SIZE 7.2x10.2
Seiichi Hayashi was a leading figure in the hotbed of avant-garde artistic production of 1960s and early 70s Tokyo. He is best known for his lyrical and experimental manga for Garo, the famous alternative comics magazine. This volume collects a selection of Hayashi's most important manga from this period, including Red Dragonfly (1968), Yamauba's Lullaby (1968), and Gold Pollen (1971). Published here in their original full color, these stories mix traditional Japanese aesthetics with Pop art sensibilities, and range in topic from the legacies of Japanese rightwing nationalism and World War II, to the pervasive influence of America over 1960s Japanese youth culture.
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WORLD MAP ROOM GN
page 342, $19.95
PUBLISHER Picturebox
WRITER Yuichi Yokoyama
ARTIST Yuichi Yokoyama
COVER ARTIST Yuichi Yokoyama
PAGES 180 pages.
COLOR B&W.
SIZE 6.5x8.5
From Eisner Award and L.A. Times Book Prize nominated author Yuichi Yokoyama comes a new graphic novel. Guys visit a city. They watch airplanes departing and arriving at an airport. They go on board a ship and across a river. Finally they arrive at a building as their destination. A man guides them to theworld map room. It seems they have an appointment there, although there is no description about the appointment. They see books on the shelves and have some desultory conversation. Then they go to the courtyard and carry on the conversation. They reach a pond with a sunken ship. The guide starts to explain the ship's history. The book ends.
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PACHYDERME GN
page 345, $19.95
PUBLISHER Selfmadehero
WRITER Frederik Peeters
ARTIST Frederik Peeters
COVER ARTIST Frederik Peeters
PAGES 88 pages.
COLOR Full Color.
SIZE 7x10
This cinematic tale opens surrealistically: with a traffic jam caused by a wounded elephant. Our heroine, Carice, abandons her car and walks trancelike through a wood to visit her husband in the hospital. Along the way she meets a few odd characters, including a blind pig keeper and an alien-looking baby. The surreal encounters do not stop there. The hospital is eerie and foreboding. When Carice's whistling wakes up an apparently dead body in the morgue, she soon realizes that the aged cadaver she's talking to is her future self.
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GRAPHIC CANON BOX SET VOL. 1-3 SC
page 346, $125.00
PUBLISHER Seven Stories Press
WRITER Russ Kick
ARTIST R. Crumb
COVER ARTIST Tadashi Agi
PAGES 1600 pages
COLOR Full Color.
SPECIAL NOTES Mature Content
SIZE 8x11
The classic canon of Western civilization meets the artists and illustrators who have remade reading in the last years of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first century in Russ Kick's magisterial, three-volume, full-color The Graphic Canon, volumes 1, 2, and 3. This special slipcase edition includes all three volumes of the series in an attractively designed slipcase, as well as the three promotional posters created for each volume's release, allowing graphic novel collectors and fans to quickly add this important work to their library.
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FARLAINE THE GOBLIN #2
page 346, $5.00
PUBLISHER Studio Farlaine
WRITER Anonymous
ARTIST Anonymous
COVER ARTIST Anonymous
PAGES 40 pages.
COLOR B&W.
SIZE 11x7.125
Farlaine the Goblin has spent years wandering the very many Oddlands of Wug in search of a forest to call his own. He only has 9 lands left. And to make matters worse, his next stop is The Saltlands, a desolate moebian landscape where few things will grow.
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UZUMAKI 3-IN-1 DELUXE EDITION HC
page 362, $27.99
PUBLISHER Viz Media LLC
WRITER Junji Ito
ARTIST Junji Ito
COVER ARTIST Junji Ito
PAGES 648 pages.
COLOR B&W.
SIZE 5.75 x 8.25
Kurouzu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the world. It manifests itself in everything from seashells and whirlpools in water to the spiral marks on people's bodies, the insane obsessions of Shuichi's father and the voice from the cochlea in our inner ear. As the madness spreads, the inhabitants of Kurouzu-cho are pulled ever deeper into a whirlpool from which there is no return!
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MISS PEREGRINE'S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL
page 368, $20.00
PUBLISHER Yen Press
WRITER Ransom Riggs
ARTIST Cassandra Jean
COVER ARTIST Cassandra Jean
PAGES 240 pages.
COLOR B&W.
A horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow - impossible though it seems - they may still be alive.
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DAVID MACK KABUKI WEARABLE MASK
page 490, $19.99
One of the most acclaimed independent comics of the past fifteen years is David Mack's Kabuki, and with C.S. Moore's Kabuki Wearable Mask you can become the femme fatale for Halloween or other occasions!
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SPACE PIRATE CAPTAIN HARLOCK COMPLETE TV SERIES DVD
page 511, $69.95
FORMAT DVD
RELEASE DATE 09-25-2013
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Για όσους δεν το γνωρίζουν ήδη, η Diamond Comic Distributors είναι ο μεγαλύτερος προμηθευτής (χονδρέμπορας) των εξειδικευμένων καταστημάτων με κόμικς στα αγγλικά. Μέσα από τον κατάλογο Previews της εν λόγω εταιρείας, τα καταστήματα λιανικής έχουν τη δυνατότητα να προπαραγγείλουν προιόντα που θα κυκλοφορήσουν στην αγορά δύο μήνες αργότερα (σε ορισμένες περιπτώσεις μπορεί και παραπάνω). Ο κατάλογος έχει συνήθως γύρω στις 400 σελίδες και συνοδεύεται από έναν δεύτερο κατάλογο 100 σελίδων αποκλειστικά για τα προϊόντα της Marvel Comics.
Οποιοδήποτε ελληνικό κατάστημα με κόμικς κι αν επισκεφθείτε, θα μπορέσετε είτε να αγοράσετε το συγκεκριμένο κατάλογο (5 ευρώ περίπου) είτε να τον ξεφυλλίσετε στο κατάστημα, και αν βρείτε κάτι που σας ενδιαφέρει να το παραγγείλετε.
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