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Paperback. Condizione: New. In the 1950s there was the Cold War and Red Scare!These fears motivated civic organizations and major comic book companies to teamup and create beautifully drawn comic books with clever stories to be passed outin the streets, in union halls, in factories, at state fairs, in schools, inchurches--wherever people gathered. There were titles like "The Man Who StoleYour Vote" (with an evil masked super villain), "If Your Children Could Vote"(with a brave, brash Greta Thurnberg-of-the-time berating the adults), and "YourVote is Vital" (powerfully illustrated by Lee Elias!). The 1960s Civil Rights-era had the NAACPbehind a historically important, engaging comic book "The Street Where You Live"to motivatee blacks to get to the polls (drawn by pioneering black artist TomFeelings). There is historical evidence that this is an unknown Marvel comic!These comic books warned citizens to be onthe alert for political corruption and get out and vote to stop it! These lostand priceless comic books are beautifully restored and reprinted in full in thisfascinating edition. Multiple-Eisner Award winner Craig Yoe provides a revealingintroduction profusely illustrated with photos and rare cartoons.Vote to put sane, progressive people andpolicies in our government! This astonishingly relevant book will entertaininglyshow you why and how! As the caped crusadermight say, "Order now, citizen!".

Paperback. Condizione: New. In the 1950s there was the Cold War and Red Scare!These fears motivated civic organizations and major comic book companies to teamup and create beautifully drawn comic books with clever stories to be passed outin the streets, in union halls, in factories, at state fairs, in schools, inchurches--wherever people gathered. There were titles like "The Man Who StoleYour Vote" (with an evil masked super villain), "If Your Children Could Vote"(with a brave, brash Greta Thurnberg-of-the-time berating the adults), and "YourVote is Vital" (powerfully illustrated by Lee Elias!). The 1960s Civil Rights-era had the NAACPbehind a historically important, engaging comic book "The Street Where You Live"to motivatee blacks to get to the polls (drawn by pioneering black artist TomFeelings). There is historical evidence that this is an unknown Marvel comic!These comic books warned citizens to be onthe alert for political corruption and get out and vote to stop it! These lostand priceless comic books are beautifully restored and reprinted in full in thisfascinating edition. Multiple-Eisner Award winner Craig Yoe provides a revealingintroduction profusely illustrated with photos and rare cartoons.Vote to put sane, progressive people andpolicies in our government! This astonishingly relevant book will entertaininglyshow you why and how! As the caped crusadermight say, "Order now, citizen!".

Paperback. Condizione: New. From Charles Holland, writer/producer of the Black Lightning TV show, and Dwayne Turner, renowned comic book artist and Hollywood storyboard artist, comes this terrifying tale of Sir Lancelot and Merlin in modern day California. The millennia spanning battle between these two members of King Arthur's court attracts the attention of a young witch and a paranormal fighting team known as Section X in a story that brings Hell to Earth.

Paperback. Condizione: New. In Nazi-occupied Budapest, a young woman sees her mother and father brutally murdered by an SS Officer. She escapes with her Grandfather and the help of a Rabbi. Filled with rage and hatred, the Grandfather asks the Rabbi for help and he shows them an ancient box that contains a demon filled with hate and violence. They can have the revenge they want but only by giving up their sense of right and wrong.Horror master, Steve Niles, pairs up with his Criminal Macabre artist, Gyula Nemeth, on this poignant and terrifying tale of a family driven to rage and vengeance.Presented in the signature Clover Press Graphic Novella format!

Paperback. Condizione: New. Steve Niles and Damien Worm have teamed up once again! The team behind the hit comic turned Netflix show, October Faction, have reunited to bring you, The Grievling. Set in a small town in middle America, The Grievling is a tale of death and revenge featuring a young girl who returns from the grave after a bullying incident taken too far leads to her accidental murder. Steve Niles is an American comic book author and novelist, known for works such as 30 Days of Night, Criminal Macabre, Simon Dark, Mystery Society and Batman: Gotham County Line.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Steve Niles and Damien Worm have teamed up once again! The team behind the hit comic turned Netflix show, October Faction, have reunited to bring you, The Grievling. Set in a small town in middle America, The Grievling is a tale of death and revenge featuring a young girl who returns from the grave after a bullying incident taken too far leads to her accidental murder. Steve Niles is an American comic book author and novelist, known for works such as 30 Days of Night, Criminal Macabre, Simon Dark, Mystery Society and Batman: Gotham County Line.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Hardback. Condizione: New. What do you want? I mean, REALLY want? Money? Sex? Power? It's all yours--for a price--in this anthology that recalls the classic horror comics of the past.In one of the most beautiful, most wealthy zip codes in the country lies the sleepy, sun-drenched coastal town of La Jolla, California, and among all of this beauty stands Diablo House. It'll make your dreams come true, if you dare. Surf-bum and host, Riley, invites us into his house of mystery and shares the secrets of the people who let their desires come at the cost of all else.This edition collects eight new prose stories, plus a new installment in the DIABLO HOUSE comic series by Grady Hendrix and Damien Worm.

Hardback. Condizione: New. What do you want? I mean, REALLY want? Money? Sex? Power? It's all yours--for a price--in this anthology that recalls the classic horror comics of the past.In one of the most beautiful, most wealthy zip codes in the country lies the sleepy, sun-drenched coastal town of La Jolla, California, and among all of this beauty stands Diablo House. It'll make your dreams come true, if you dare. Surf-bum and host, Riley, invites us into his house of mystery and shares the secrets of the people who let their desires come at the cost of all else.This edition collects eight new prose stories, plus a new installment in the DIABLO HOUSE comic series by Grady Hendrix and Damien Worm.

Hardback. Condizione: New. 1st.

Hardback. Condizione: New.

Hardback. Condizione: New. 1st.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Tom The Dancing Bug is celebrating its 30thanniversary, and it remains as timely and poignant as ever. Cartoonist and TomThe Dancing Bug creator Ruben Bolling has certainly had plenty of material towork with over the last four years, while winning a Herblock Prize, a Robert F.Kennedy Journalism Award, and being named a Pulitzer Prize Finalist. Into TheTrumpverse features more than 200 cartoons covering the political landscapeduring that time. With a foreword by the legendary Neil Gaiman."Ruben Bolling's craft and commentary are aspowerful and as pointed, as capable of making you laugh while breaking yourheart, as they were when we were all so veryyoung."from Neil Gaiman'sforeword.

Paperback. Condizione: New. The Complete Tom the Dancing Bug, Volume 4: 2003-2006Clover Press's Complete Tom the Dancing Bug program streaks forward with the fourth chronological volume, covering every installment of the award-winning (and two-time Pulitzer Prize Finalist) comic strip, from 2003-2006. This volume includes favorite characters of Tom the Dancing Bug, such as: God-Man, the Omnipotent Superhero; Charley the Australopithecine; Billy Dare, Boy Adventurer; Dinkle, the Un-Lovable Loser; and even the origin of Lucky Ducky. It also includes a special comic Bolling created for Mad Magazine during the covered years: "Educa-Fun."Tom the Dancing Bug is the wildly popular, groundbreaking comic strip that Mark Hamill called "wondrous, whimsical, and witty," and that led Seth Meyers to recently write, "The fact that Tom the bug can keep dancing in this day and age is a testament to Ruben Bolling's skills as a cartoonist!".

Hardback. Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Hardback. Condizione: New. Pete Von Sholly's History of Monsters is a gloriouslook at the phenomenon of monsters as they figure in pop culture as well as fromthe anthropological, psychological and societal angles. This unprecedentedillustrated pageant, presented as an accordion folded hardcover book, shows theactual history of monsters from man's earliest fears of the darkness beyond thefire to today's nightmares to see how these terrors found expression in myth,legend, and entertainment. But whatever the time or medium it's always in theunknown where the monsters lurk and fester and wait. Step into Pete Von Sholly'sHistory of Monsters and experience the story as never before. "This astoundingwork traces the evolution and proliferation of monsters through all humanhistory and many cultures, with over 1,100 different examples intertwined into acolorful, informative and fascinating book on a scale that has never before beenattempted. Take a guided tour through the dark side of legend, myth,superstition, fiction, animation, film, television and even cryptozoology, andmeet every monster that has haunted your nightmares - and quite a few thathaven't (yet) - in this fantastic panorama wrought with the skills of a maturemaster of the genre." - Richard Milner, former editor of Natural Historymagazine and author of Charles R. Knight - The Artist Who Saw Through Time andDarwin's UniverseZ.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Hardback. Condizione: New.

Hardback. Condizione: New. "An inventive, empowered, and thoroughly entertaining twist on aclassic. Gorgeous, provocative, and damn hard to put down." -- Diablo Cody(Oscar winning screenwriter of Juno, Jennifer's Body, and YoungAdult)"I can resist everything except a really clever contemporarytake on The Portrait of Dorian Gray." -- David Baddiel (Best selling Britishcomedian and author of The Parent Agency, and The SecretPurposes)"Incisive, intriguing, wickedly funny. Every bit as clever asit thinks it is." -- Mike Carey (Eisner nominated writer of Unwritten, andLucifer)A contemporary reimaging of the classic Oscar Wilde novel,"The Picture of Dorian Gray," Gray is a supernatural revengethriller about an alluring but violent woman, Dorian Gray, who seeks vengeanceon a cabal of powerful men who wronged her years ago; and of the straight-lacedAfrican American detective with a past of his own, who is tasked with stoppingher.The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde's only novel and oneof the classics of gothic literature, is the tale of the most beautiful man ofhis age, who sells his soul and his conscience in exchange for eternal youth,beauty and power - and who spends his life murdering, raping andcorrupting. All the time in his attic, his picture degrades androts.GRAY takes that basic idea but flips its moral framework and genderarchetypes: our DORIAN GRAY is a Millennial social media princess who driftsthrough the coolest cliques of NYC, breaking hearts and turning heads wherevershe goes. But Dorian has secrets. For one thing, she's a violent criminal.For another, she's an immortal creature of magic, who commits violentburglaries and assaults some of New York's most powerful men. 30years ago, whilst an innocent student, Dorian was sexually assaulted by thesemen. In that moment that she became something both more and less than human. 30years later, but not a day older, she's ready for her revenge. Then Dorianmeets Detective HANK WUTAN, the African-American NYPD detective assigned to stopthese crimes, struggling with his own loyalties as a Black cop in the era ofDefund the Police. Despite the fact that Dorian is his suspect number one, andhe is effectively working for her abusers, they fall for each other,hard.GRAY takes Wilde's classic novel and reinvents it as a taleof cathartic revenge for the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter era, a violentfantasy about how powerful, super-rich white men don't always win, how thepowerless can find justice, and about how a murderous demon and a law-abidingdetective can be soul mates.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Hardback. Condizione: New. Inspired by Oscar Wilde's classic, GRAY tells the story of a dangerous woman on a mission of retribution against a group of powerful and sexually seditious men. In this supernatural revenge thriller and concluding installment from Stoker-Nominated and Audible Best-Selling author Arvin Ethan David, Detective Hank Wutan gets too close to the case as he learns - who is Ms. Dorian Gray? Read more Continue reading Read less REVIEW"Dorian is the hero we need now. You'll fall in love with her as she delivers justice to a modern world that's lost."-Stephany Folsom, Writer of Oscar Winning "Toy Story 4", Showrunner of Brian K. Vaughans "Papergirls""Incisive, intriguing, wickedly funny. Every bit as clever as it thinks it is."-Mike Carey, Eisner nominated writer of "Unwritten", "Lucifer""If you like your comics spicy and your characters vengeful, Gray is a rollicking mystery about gender, power, privilege, and justice, a 21st century updating of Oscar Wilde, with a decidedly #MeToo stance."-Winnie M. Li, Edgar-Nominated Author of Dark Chapter "A contemporary retelling that holds nothing back. Gray is savagely funny, horrifically thrilling and brutally human. A classic story that clearly needs to be told now, putting the present moment in its crosshairs."-Jordan Blum, Creator and Showrunner of Marvel's M.O.D.O.K. Read more Continue reading Read less.

Hardback. Condizione: New. Inspired by Oscar Wilde's classic, GRAY tells the story of a dangerous woman on a mission of retribution against a group of powerful and sexually seditious men. In this supernatural revenge thriller and concluding installment from Stoker-Nominated and Audible Best-Selling author Arvin Ethan David, Detective Hank Wutan gets too close to the case as he learns - who is Ms. Dorian Gray? Read more Continue reading Read less REVIEW"Dorian is the hero we need now. You'll fall in love with her as she delivers justice to a modern world that's lost."-Stephany Folsom, Writer of Oscar Winning "Toy Story 4", Showrunner of Brian K. Vaughans "Papergirls""Incisive, intriguing, wickedly funny. Every bit as clever as it thinks it is."-Mike Carey, Eisner nominated writer of "Unwritten", "Lucifer""If you like your comics spicy and your characters vengeful, Gray is a rollicking mystery about gender, power, privilege, and justice, a 21st century updating of Oscar Wilde, with a decidedly #MeToo stance."-Winnie M. Li, Edgar-Nominated Author of Dark Chapter "A contemporary retelling that holds nothing back. Gray is savagely funny, horrifically thrilling and brutally human. A classic story that clearly needs to be told now, putting the present moment in its crosshairs."-Jordan Blum, Creator and Showrunner of Marvel's M.O.D.O.K. Read more Continue reading Read less.

Hardback. Condizione: New.

Hardback. Condizione: New.

Hardback. Condizione: New. A new edition of the original 1921 OZ book written by Ruth Plumly Thompson. This edition features a new cover and set of interior illustrations by Sara Richard and an afterword by Eisner-Award-winner, Eric Shanower. The Royal Book of Oz is about the Scarecrow's search for his family tree and how it leads to him discovering that he's the long-lost Emperor of the Silver Island. It is significant in that it is the first book in the Oz series written by Ruth Plumly Thompson, who would go on to write an additional 20+ books in the series.

Hardback. Condizione: New.