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29 June 2008

British Update -- UK/Aus reprints inc #1 issues of Eerie, Haunt Of Fear, Mystic & Spellbound plus lots of other titles, Boys' World, 1960's Eagle, Victor Summer Specials, Hotspur Complete Year 1975, Whoopee from #1 inc. Summer Specials, June 1968-1971 & Misty

Yet another enormous update for you this week, with #1 issues, Summer Specials and long runs of favourite titles. Details as follows:

*UK/Australian Reprints of Vintage US Comics: A plethora of vintage reprint items from Thorpe & Porter, Miller, Strato, Gordon & Gotch, and others. Highlights are a quartet of Pre-Code horror first issues; Miller’s Mystic, FN+ at £75, and Spellbound, VG/FN at £60; Eerie 1 VG at £70; and the controversial UK Haunt of Fear # 1 (cited in the 1950’s Parliamentary anti-horror comics campaign) in VG/FN at £100. Scans of all of these can be found in our Cover Gallery - go to the catalogue section and click the link. But we don’t stop with a mere four incredibly scarce collector’s items: this week, we also bring you new stock on Adventures Into The Unknown, Black Rider, Captain Midnight, Crime Detective, Frankenstein, Indian Chief, Justice Traps the Guilty, Kid Colt, Lorna the Jungle Girl, The Mummy, Outlaws, Police Comic, Race for the Moon, and the Tales of the Mysterious Traveler Album – several of which are new titles to our catalogue.

*Boys’ Adventure & War Comics: A Big Boys’ Bonanza this week, with four oversized titles updated: Boys’ World, Vol 1 from 1963, (home of 'Billy Binns and his Wonderful Specs', crime-fighting robot 'The Iron Man', and 'Angry Planet', inspired by Harry Harrison’s 'Deathworld' – plus a bunch of educational stuff, but never mind that.) Eagle from Vols 14 & 15 (1963/4, with Heros the Spartan, Keith Watson’s Dan Dare, and featuring the first Eagle/Boys’ World amalgam), Ranger from 1966, with the original run of the classic 'Trigan Empire'; and Victor Summer Specials from the years 1974-1977. Plus, our Complete Year Initiative continues with a complete 1975 Hotspur, starring Red Star Robinson, Scarlet Hawk, Flying Highwayman Nick Jolly, and other latter-day adventure heroes. 52 issues averaging Fine grade.

*Humour Comics & Picture Libraries: Make Whoopee this week! From 1974 onwards, the IPC/Fleetway weekly which was the home to 'Bumpkin Billionaires', 'Sweeney Toddler', 'Scared-Stiff Sam', 'Daisy Jones’ Locket', and the surreal 'Hee Gee And His Nag' (portrait of a marital train-wreck in search of a divorce, with an equine cast). This selection rages from the first issue (sadly in poor grade), and most issues to October 1974, then leaps to 1976 and 1977, including three Summer Specials which we’re unfortunately unable to date. Most of this run is in Fine grade, so now’s your chance to catch up on Frankie Stein's latter-day antics – you know you want to…

*Girls’ Comics and Picture Libraries; Concluding (for the moment) our massive June update, a further 150+ issues of June & School Friend from 1968-1971, the period that saw Sindy (the curiously big-headed fashion doll who was a rival to the US’s Barbie) and her pals join the title for a series of comic-strip adventures; curiously, the comics version didn’t suffer from the same mutant strain of hydrocephaly as their toy counterparts. In addition, this era saw two splendid sci-fi serials; 'Serena from Space' (in which our plucky talisman-hunting heroine was drawn, I would swear, by Dick Giordano), and 'Glory Knight – Time-Travel Courier', unquestionably illustrated by the ineffable John Burns. All this, plus Bessie Bunter, Vanessa From Venus, Mamselle X, and the usual suspects. Plus - Our Friend Of The Mists is back! Yes, we’ve shamefully neglected Misty for a few months, but our over-mascaraed jailbait Goth hostess has returned, bringing us stories of mystery and horror from The Other Side, with 'The Curse of the Cat!', 'Paint It Black', 'The Sentinels' and 'Moonchild'. Merging traditional horror/gothic tropes with a streetwise urban sensibility, and using the predominantly young male 2000 AD stable of artists and writers, Misty raised the game for girls’ comics in terms of quality and presentation, and remains hotly sought-after today. This nice high-grade run, averaging Fine or better, will vanish like the morning mists – so get your orders in sharpish!

And if that's not enough for your budget (and Lord knows it should be!), watch for our next Free Gift Farrago, coming soon!

Posted by Rob | 11:46 a.m. GMT

American Update -- DC Silver/Bronze Complete Sets, Marvel updated, Tarzan/ERB UK & US, Modern Complete Sets

Another choice selection of goodies for you this week as follows:

*DC: Our Complete Set Initiative marches on with three vintage series. The 1960’s Hawkman is a much-loved classic, most issues featuring the superlative artwork of Murphy Anderson. All 27 issues here, averaging a grade of GD, for £100. The 1970’s Jack Kirby series Kobra, introduced a character who became one of the major nemeses of the DC Universe. You can catch up with his early appearances here, all 7 issues of the first run, averaging Fine -. And finally, the four-issue early-70’s run of the Legion of Super-Heroes, reprinting classic nouveau-retro funkiness as we look at the past’s vision of the future ought to be, averaging VG grade. “Pardon me, big-mouth, while I rescue this planet!”

*Marvel: Keeping up to date with our periodic ‘housecleaning’ exercise, we’re pleased to announce that the Marvel section of our Catalogue has been completely updated to reflect sold items, so you can order with confidence - every item listed is in stock as of the time of writing!

*Tarzan/ERB: An extensive upgrade to Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Jungle Lord and his Pals, as we have, on the US side, new stocks of Marvel’s John Carter Warlord Of Mars, the Gold Key and DC Tarzan, Tarzan Family, the rare Dell Tarzan’s Jungle Annuals from the early 1950’s, and Weird Worlds, with John Carter and Pellucidar. And from the UK/Aus side of the divide, (Tarzan being one of the iconic characters who transcends puny national boundaries!) we have new listings for the 1950’s Tarzan Adventures series, and many of the 1970’s fortnightly comics from Top Sellers.

*Modern Comics Complete Sets: This section has now been completely revised and updated following impressive sales, so orders (at least for a little while) can be placed with confidence that everything listed is still in stock. This week, we add Batman: Dark Knight Strikes Again, Battle for Bludhaven, Black Widow, Box Office Poison, Crimson Avenger, Dangerous Times, Darkchylde, Elongated Man, Guardians of Metropolis, Havok & Wolverine: Meltdown, JLA: Year One, Kingdom, Martian Manhunter: American Secrets, Nightside, Omega Flight, Planet of the Apes, Rawhide Kid, 1602, Slapstick, Strange, Suburban Glamour, Tellos, Tank Girl: The Gifting, Ultimate War, and X-Men: True Friends to our selection for folks who are too bone idle – er, I mean, too busy - to hunt down individual issues!

Posted by Rob | 11:33 a.m. GMT

22 June 2008

British Update: Dracula Lives and more Marvel UK, Rupert Annuals, Express/TV Express, Eagles 1950s/60s, long runs of Champ, Crunch & Monster Fun from #1 issues, 1960's Buster inc Complete Year 1968, 1960's June inc Complete Year 1967

Bursting at the seams with delights for you in this week's huge British update, featuring many popular and iconic titles as follows:

*Marvel UK: Many sought-after series refreshed this update, including Avengers, Savage Sword of Conan Monthly, Dr. Who, Dracula Lives (from #12), the short-lived war series Fury, Planet of the Apes (from #8), and early issues of Star Wars Weekly.

*Rupert: Further tales of Nutwood’s First Citizen with new Rupert Annual listings from 1976 to the turn of the century!

*Boys’ Adventure & War Comics: New stock from four decades: from the 1950’s, Express Weekly (later TV Express), home of Wulf the Briton, No Hiding Place, Rex Keene Texas Ranger, and Battleground by Ron Embleton. From the 1950’s and 1960’s, Eagle, showcasing Dan Dare, Blackbow the Cheyenne, Sky Buccaneers, Iron Man, and more. From the 1970’s, the Crunch, an experimental DC Thomson title featuring science-fiction adventure with Starhawk and Arena, tough cop antics with Mantracker, and the ground-breaking Ebony, who (as you might have guessed from the name) was not only not of the Caucasian persuasion, but was a – a – a LADY! (Gasp!) We have many issues of Crunch, from the first to the last, before its merger into Hotspur. (Starhawk and Mantracker made the transfer; Ebony didn’t. Women’s Lib couldn’t overcome the forces of conservatism in boys’ comics!). Finally, from the 1980’s, Champ, one of the last attempts to launch a new boys’ comic, with football saga United, teenage revolt in Kids Rule OK, and supernatural goings on with Mr. Pendragon. Gobbling up the fledgling Spike in its 11th issue (also included in this update), Champ managed a respectable run of just under two years before merging with Victor.

*Humour Comics & Picture Libraries: Buster from the 1960s remains enduringly popular with our punters, and we’ve got most of 1967 – with superhero Thunderbolt and space-critter Galaxus romping through the funnies – plus a Complete Year Set of 1968, which not only saw a merger with the upstart Giggle, but the debut of the sleeper hit Fishboy, who ran almost eight consecutive years, the mass appeal of teenage vealcake amphibious orphans in seaweed loincloths being initially unanticipated. Backing up Buster, the seldom-seen Monster Fun, home of Frankie Stein, X-Ray Specs, Martha’s Monster Make-Up, Kid Kong, and many more. A flop at the time, lasting a mere 73 issues from 1974-1975, the talents of Ken Reid, Leo Baxendale and their colleagues have made Monster Fun a hugely sought collectible, demand exacerbated by the fact that the pull-out inserts are almost always missing from second-hand copies. This particular run features most of the first 35 issues, all complete, but several with detached pull-outs, the centre pages having been removed and assembled into a mini-booklet, which is included with the comic. Copes in this condition are clearly marked in our catalogue listing.

*Girls’ Comics and Picture Libraries; June is bustin’ out all over! (ah, go on, you know we had to do that…) In the month of June, a splendid selection of June from 1965 to 1967, in which the whimsical matron of girls’ weeklies supplied an endless cornucopia of implausibly-empowered young ladies: 'Vanessa from Venus', 'Mimi the Mesmerist', 'Zanna of the Jungle', and not one but two plucky WW II resistance fighters, 'Roxanne, Fighter For France', and 'Mamselle X', appeared – it’s a wonder the Nazis ever got anything done! We are particularly pleased to be able to offer a Complete Year Set of 1967, since June is a little scarcer than her contemporaries – so order soon! You don’t want to miss out on 'Bessie Bunter', 'Lucky’s Living Doll', and 'Gina’s Artful Genie', now do you?

Posted by Rob | 02:06 p.m. GMT

American Update: Justice League, Sugar & Spike, Fantastic Four, Tales Of Suspense, Thor, Archies, Atlas Horror and Modern Complete Sets

Another bumper bundle of new goodies for you this week across the following broad spectrum of categories:

*DC: Two distinguished series augmented this week; Justice league of America, from #138-146, Steve Englehart’s acclaimed run from the 1970’s which redefined the iconic characters for a new generation and which, being poorly or non-distributed in the UK, is especially in demand over here. This run also includes #147 & #148, which aren’t Englehart, but do feature the Legion of Super-Heroes in the annual JSA/JLA get-together, and are ferociously scarce – you know how we Legion fans can be! Our second top-up is for Sugar & Spike, the classic creation of Sheldon Mayer. Allegedly Mayer’s original remit was to do a mischievous little boy ‘toon in imitation of the American Dennis the Menace, and his publishers were bemused by S & S, which is a very different take on the kiddie genre – but given that it ran 98 issues, they made the right decision to publish it! This sequence starts from #54, and ranges from Fair to Very Good in grade.

*Marvel: A cavalcade of Kirby Kreations, with substantial additions to our stocks of Fantastic Four from #65 to the early 100’s, Thor from #135, and Tales of Suspense from #92. Silver Age adventures from the House of Ideas at its pinnacle!

*Archie: More antics with the Lad From Riverdale, in Archie & Me, Archie At Riverdale High, Archie Giant Series Magazine, Archie’s Joke Book, Archie’s Madhouse, Archie’s Pals ‘n’ Gals, and a handful of titles that don’t even begin with the word Archie, to wit; Betty & Me, Betty & Veronica, Jughead, Laugh, Little Archie, Li’l Jinx, Pep, Sabrina the teenage Witch, Suzie, and That Wilkin Boy. Ranging from the 1940’s to the 1970’s, these vintage issues showcase the work of Harry Lucey, Dan deCarlo, Stan Goldberg, Joe Edwards, Samm Schwartz and a constellation of stellar cartoonists on America’s Archie-typical teenager.

*Horror 1940-1959: A plethora (well, a couple of dozen) of Atlas horror, both pre & post-Code, with Adventures Into Weird Worlds Worlds, Journey Into Mystery, Marvel Tales, Mystery Tales, Spellbound, Strange Tales, Strange Tales of the Unusual, and Suspense. This section has also been entirely checked and relisted, so all issues are guaranteed in the store as of this posting. That happy state of affairs will not long endure, however, so get your order in before everyone else does!

*Modern Comics Complete Sets: Still more, following a rapid turnover in stock! From DC, several series of Keith Giffen & Alan Grant’s ‘Main man’, Lobo, with Unamerican Gladiators, Infanticide, A Contract On Gawd, and more, plus compilations of Grant Morrison’s ‘Seven Soldiers’ reinterpretations of Klarion, Zatanna and others. From Marvel, the 1993 Silver Surfer/Warlock mini-series Resurrection, combining two of everyone’s favourite spacefaring whineyholes in one self-pitying package – er, I mean, more awe-inspiring cosmic adventures; the 1996 Iron Fist micro-series, and the complete X-Men 2099 series, 35 issues exploring the future of mutantdom. And from the indie side of the fence, Harvey Pekar’s American Splendour; Unsung Hero, the poignant and underrated Fade from Grace, Rob Zombie’s The Nail, and uproarious cowgirl hi-jinx with a butt-baring elfin lady sheriff in Far West!

Posted by Rob | 01:54 p.m. GMT

13 June 2008

British Update - A cornucopia of Complete Year Sets: Dr. Who, Eagle, Tiger, Bunty, Diana, Judy

A couple of dozen Complete Year Sets this week across a wide range:

*Marvel UK: Our Complete Year Sets grow ever mightier, and this update the Time Lord himself joins up! Dr. Who Magazine, from 1991-2004, in Complete Year Sets, averaging VG/FN, pre-selected for your viewing pleasure! This lively mix of interviews, reviews, comic strips, speculation and outright gossip has entertained fans of the Guy From Gallifrey for almost thirty years, so join the party!

*Boys’ Adventure and War Comics: Continuing our Complete Year Initiative, we have the fateful final years of two long-running and classic British titles, Eagle from 1969 (at the time home to Dan Dare, the Iron Man, the Guinea Pig, and others) when it merged into Lion, and Tiger from 1985 (starring Billy’s Boots, Star Rider, Death Wish and Golden Boy, all of whom made the ‘cut’ into Eagle, and Hot-Shot Hamish, who fell back into Roy of the Rovers). Neither of these constitutes a full calendar year, of course, having been cut off quite early, but they’re all the issues that exist from the years in question! These are backed up by four consecutive years of the modern Eagle, 1988-1991, all complete including mergers (with Battle, Mask, and Wildcat), Christmas issues, the occasional free gift, and the 1991 transition from weekly to monthly.

*Girls’ Comics and Picture Libraries: And our Complete year Cornucopia continues unabated! Bunty sets from 1979 ('Maid to be a Lady', 'Marinda, mystery girl of the Sea' – wonder if she ever hooked up with Buster’s 'Fishboy'? – and 'Mojo, the Milky Way Dog'), 1987 ('School’s Out!' 'Botany Belle' and 'Bird Girl', as well as the most perfunctory merger ever with the short-lived Suzy), and 1989 (with not only the merger with the long-running Nikki, bringing the grim n’ gritty 'Comp' in marked contrast to the staid St. Elmo’s of 'The Four Marys', but also the transition from pulp to slick – 1989 was The Year Everything Changed for Bunty!). A full run of Diana, from 1972, in which our gal switched from safe tame stories of 'Up To Date Kate' and 'Mary Brown’s Schooldays' to full-on pop pin-ups of the glam rock era. And capping it all two years of Judy, 1984 and 1985, with sturdy reliables 'Bobby Dazzler', 'Wee Slavey', and 'Fay Farrell, Student Nurse' (how many years was that girl a student? She’s almost as slow a learner as the Four Marys!) welcoming, in the latter year, refugees from Tracy weekly.

Posted by Rob | 11:22 p.m. GMT

American Update: Golden Age Adventure Comics, Showcase 1st Sea Devils, Dobie Gillis, Modern Complete Sets

A small but select bunch of vintage rarities this week, as well as tons more Modern Sets, as follows:

*DC: Two comics only – but a great pair! (Cue ‘Carry On’ –type swirly whistle-noise) From 1941, Adventure Comics #65 in an exceptional VG+, with flexible off-white pages, featuring the artistry of Jack Burley on Starman, plus Hourman, Manhunter, Sandman and many more. A very faint vertical subscription crease does not break the colour of this cover, which can be seen in our Cover Gallery. From twenty years later, we present Showcase #27, featuring the debut of the Sea Devils, with luminous artwork by the unparalleled Russ Heath. As before, a scan of the cover can be seen in our Cover Gallery – go to the catalogue page and click the link.

*Teen Humour/Funny Girls: Ever heard of a TV show called The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis? Well, neither had we, since it’s obviously one of those rare US series that didn’t penetrate to the UK, but while we can’t comment on the quality of the show, the comic adaptation – released by DC from 1961 – is delightful. Ardent-but-flighty Dobie’s many loves are lavishly illustrated by Bob Oksner (with occasional help from Mort Drucker), and the scripts, we strongly suspect, are by the late great Arnold Drake, so nonsensical hijinx are in ample supply. We have half-a-dozen issues to offer, from #6 to #23 (in which girl readers are invited to send in photos and appear in a future issue – hope they got their skates on, as the book folded a few issues later!)

*Modern Comics Complete Sets: Following rapid sales, we update this category again with more ‘done in one’ packages, including Mark Millar and J.G. Jones’ controversial Wanted, all three DC/Marvel Access crossover series, film tie-ins with Aliens, Indiana Jones and Terminator, a plethora of Marvel’s 2099 line including Doom, Ravage, Punisher, Ghost Rider and more, Batman: The Doom That Came To Gotham, Major Bummer, X-Men: Liberators and New Excalibur, to name but a few.

Posted by Rob | 11:15 p.m. GMT

9 June 2008

British Update: Marvel UK, Fantastic & Terrific, hundreds of new Commandos pre-#1000, Bunty from 1959 and Judy #2 & #4!

We begin this week with some of the choice material promised in last week's Coming Attractions blurb:

*Marvel UK: More listings for the UK House of (slightly second-hand) Ideas, with Mighty World of Marvel, the flagship title, and Spider-Man Comics Weekly from #12 including many in the first 100.

*Power Comics: From Marvel’s first foray into regular sequential British publication, the 1967/68 titles Fantastic and Terrific, bringing us curiously re-edited stories of the Avengers, Dr. Strange, Sub-Mariner, X-Men , Iron Man and more.

*Boys' Adventure & War Picture Libraries: A couple of hundred new to stock issues of the most popular Picture Library - Commando, from the 200's to just over #1000. These 1960s issues are getting harder and harder to find as copies go into personal collections. We anicipate keen interest on this new range and brisk sales, so as well to order quickly. We are pleased to announce that there will be a further Commando update in the near future.

*Girls’ Comics and Picture Libraries: Veteran titles Bunty (from 1959, 2nd year of publication, with The Trail of the Laughing Dolls', 'Sally and Her Seal', and 'The Dancing Life of Moira Kent'), Judy (from 1960, including the second and fourth issues, and starring 'Janie B. Quick', 'Sandra of the Secret Ballet', and 'The Ring that Winks'), and the upwardly-mobile Princess from 1962, featuring 'The Happy Days', 'Alona The Wild One', and a seemingly interminable deluge of ballet and royalty pictures). The cover of Judy #2 (without, alas, the promised free gift of 'Lovely Young Ballet Dancers') may be seen in our Cover Gallery… go to the catalogue section and press on the link supplied for your comfort and convenience.

Posted by Rob | 09:25 a.m. GMT

American Update: Silver Age DC & Modern Complete Sets

*DC: Continuing our programme to keep our website listings as up-to-date as possible, we’re pleased to announce that, as at the time of writing, our DC listing is completely accurate, with all sold items deleted. For the immediate future, you may order with confidence, knowing that listed items are almost certainly in stock. And just to tempt you, we’ve recharged a plethora of titles, both long-running favourites and short-lived obscurities, for your perusal; (deep breath) Action, Adventure, All-Star, Anthro, Atom, Batman, Blackhawk, Brave & Bold, Brother Power the Geek, Challengers of the Unknown, Champion Sports (no, really…), Detective, First issue Special, From Beyond the Unknown, House of Secrets, Justice League of America, Lois Lane, Metamorpho, Prez (including a bargainacious Complete Set!), Secret Six, Secret Society of Super-Villains, Shade the Changing Man, Showcase, Spectre, Stalker, Superboy, Superman Family and World’s Finest! (whew…)

*Modern Comics Complete Sets: Further additions to this popular category, with James Robinson and Paul Smith’s supernatural drama Leave It To Chance, Kurt Busiek and Brent Anderson’s post-modern superhero saga Astro City, spy thrills and cheesecake with Danger Girl, angst-ridden teenage vampire soap with Crimson, and the recent Batman/Lobo Prestige format crossover.

Posted by Rob | 09:16 a.m. GMT

2 June 2008

Coming Attractions

There is no regular stock update this week. Last week was very hectic; as you know, we were closed one day for Peter's funeral and on Friday we had one of our biggest deliveries of new comics stock ever, followed by a weekend of very frantic trading with an enormous amount of customers through the door. Added to that was a lot of time evaluating and buying in some massive collections and that left no opportunity for preparing fresh stock for the website. Never fear though, 'cos there's tons coming.

So we thought we'd give you just a flavour of some of the things you can look forward to in the months ahead:

On the American front, we'll be adding an absolute mountain of new stock to our mainstream DC & Marvel Silver/Bronze Age ranges, filling many gaps in our stock following very strong sales of Silver Age this year and also offering choices of grades and prices in many cases. There'll be many more complete sets of material from the 1960's right through to the present as well as significant updates to our Archie, Tarzan and Mad stock. As always, we have many feelers out for those very special interest collectors' items from the 1940s and 1950s, and you can expect our usual esoteric mix of gems from those decades to continue throughout the year.

Our boxes of British comics awaiting grading and pricing are overflowing. Just some of the things to anticipate are: a staggering selection of UK/Aus reprints, featuring some of the rarest Britsih comics of the 1950s, another exclusive selection of Alan Class Plate Sets, loads of Doctor Who Magazine, a huge range of 1940s/50s Boys' titles such as Adventure, Hornet, Rover, Wizard and more, lots of Roy of the Rovers, hundreds of incoming Commandos including many pre-decimal issues, Buster from the 1960s, bags of Whoopee and other humour titles from the 70s and 80s, and an even bigger escalation of our Big Girls' Bonanza, with many more Bunty & Judy (including early issues), a near-complete run of Mandy, many years of June and more. There will also be very many complete years of British titles added to our range.

And that's just the stuff we know about! One of the joys of this business is never knowing what will be in the collection we'll be offered tomorrow (and bear in mind that we're offered about 30 per week!)

Please note that we are unable to supply details of any of this until items are graded, valued and added to our website, so keep watching this What's New page for details of availability. If you're not on our Website Update Alert List, just send us your email address and tell us what type of thing you're interested in and we'll notify you when anything matching your requirements is added to our stock.

Posted by Rob | 08:44 p.m. GMT

29 May 2008

American Update: New Catalogue Category - Signed, Variant & Rare Editions

*Modern Comics Signed/Variant/Rare Editions: An exciting new category for our online catalogue. Having had success with our Modern Complete Sets, we’re expanding our listing to accommodate rarities, variant, signed/limited editions of other modern titles, and we kick off with a plethora of certificated, glow-in-the-dark, chromium, platinum, or otherwise hard-to-find editions of popular titles including Spider-Man, X-Men, Batman & Spider-Man, Death: The High Cost Of Living, Tomb Raider, and The Blair Witch project, among others. On our index page, the link for this new category may be found at the end of our American section just below Modern Comics Complete Sets.

Posted by Rob | 12:21 a.m. GMT

26 May 2008

British update - Marvel UK inc. Spider-Man, Planet of the Apes, vintage annuals inc. Buffalo Bill, Okay, Robin Hood, Superboy, Superman, Misty and more, tons more Valiant inc. complete years 1966 & 1967

Another huge British update this week, featuring gems from the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s as follows:

*Marvel UK: Substantial additions to our Planet of the Apes stock, with many of the first ten and several issues featuring Ape-Slayer, a re-edited Killraven strip that has to be seen to be disbelieved! Also, extensive updates to Spider-Man Comics Weekly, beginning with 1972’s #7, and further stock for Avengers, Conan (weekly), Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, and the Super-Heroes.

*Annuals: A number of significant editions this update, with the first Buffalo Bill Annual from 1949, the first and second Superboy Annuals, the second Superman Annual, Robin Hood (from 1950’s Thriller Picture Libraries), and several of the 1950’s Okay/Ajax/Adventure compilations, with new Denis McLoughlin work and Quality Comics reprints of Doll Man, Plastic Man and Co. In addition, we have new Kit Carson, Buck Jones, and Misty (including the scarce 1985 edition!) Scans of the 1st Buffalo Bill, the first two Superboys and the second Superman can be viewed by following the links from the catalogue page.

*Boys’ Adventure and War Comics: Another massive update to Valiant, the classic adventure weekly of the 1960’s, with several hundred attractive new copies, averaging Fine condition, added to our inventory. This 1965-1975 sequence has many issues and periods previously unrepresented, and as a special bonus, two Complete Year Sets, from 1966 and 1967, when Valiant was, in the opinion of many, at its peak, with Kelly’s Eye, Steel Claw, Mytek the Mighty, House of Dolmann, and, okay, Captain Hurricane (well, somebody must have liked him…). Valiant remains one of our consistent best sellers in the boys’ adventure line, and we don’t anticipate many of these new additions to be in stock long.

Posted by Rob | 05:08 p.m. GMT

American Update: Modern Reprints, Modern Complete Sets

*Modern Reprints: Further additions to DC’s Archives (Adam Strange Vol. 3), AND Showcase Editions (Challengers of the Unknown Vol 2,Green Lantern Vol 4) as well as Volume 5 of the Batman Chronicles, reprinting every Batman story in full colour and in strict chronological order. Marvel smites back with Thor Masterworks, now up to Volume 7, and two more entries in their handsome oversized hardcover Omnibus Editions: the second volume of Fantastic Four, reprinting 31-60, Annuals 2-4 and the FF spoof from Not Brand Ecch in full colour, and a debut volume for the Hulk, with 1-6 of his original series and much of his Tales to Astonish run included.

*Modern Comics: Our Complete Set project presses onward, with many full runs by prominent creators added to the listing, including the acclaimed Neil Gaiman/Dave McKean Black Orchid from 1988, the controversial and scarce Grant Morrisson/J.G. Jones Marvel Boy, the scarce Citizen V and the V Battalion, Hulk: Future Imperfect by David & Perez, Infinity War, the Last Avengers Story, the DC/Wildstorm Thundercats, the entire 2001 series of Green Arrow, from Kevin Smith, Judd Winick and Brad Meltzer, Lobo/Mask, Tank Girl: The Gifting, Red Sonja Vs. Thulsa Doom (that Doom family doesn’t get along with anybody, do they?) House of M: Avengers, Suburban Glamour, and dozens more, from 1989’s Damage Control to 2007’s Newuniversal and Captain America: The Chosen.

Posted by Rob | 05:01 p.m. GMT

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