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THIS MONTH IN traditional COMIC book COLLECTIONS

Batman ’66: The TV Stories

Batman ‘66: The TV stories (DC Comics): This is really quite cool. DC is collecting a number of Batman stories that assisted to influence or were adapted for the 1966 camp-fest Batman television show under a new cover by Amanda Conner. This includes stories featuring The Joker, The Penguin, The Riddler, Mr. Freeze (actually Mr. Zero), as well as the very first appearance of Batgirl. The stories very first appeared between 1948 as well as 1966. Some are classics that have been often reprinted, however this is the very first time they’ve all been collected together. includes stories from Batman #53, 73, 121, 140, 169, as well as 171, as well as Detective Comics #230, 346, as well as 359. original creators include expense Finger, Gardner Fox, John Broome, Bob Kane/Sheldon Moldoff, Dick Sprang, Carmine Infantino, as well as others. 160-page color softcover. offered in January.

The Chronicles of King Conan volume 7

The Chronicles of King Conan volume 7 (Dark Horse): featuring “Day of Wrath” as well as other stories, which Dark equine neglects to mention in their solicitation, or where the stories were very first published. features work by Don Kraar, Mike Docherty, Judith Hunt, Geof Isherwood, Vince Colletta, as well as others, including a cover by Michael Kaluta. 208-page color softcover. offered in February.

Creepy Archives volume 18

Creepy Archives volume 18 (Dark Horse): Collecting problems #84 with #88 of Warren Publishing’s notorious horror anthology! This age of weird discovers the original magazines organized around themes such as doomed sports scenarios, traditional monsters, Christmas time atrocities, as well as the entrancing world Mars! likewise features remarkable work by Al Williamson, Carmine Infantino, Dick Giordano, Bernie Wrightson, Richard Corben, John Severin, Ernie Chan, Bruce Jones, Steve Englehart, as well as others — in addition to all original fan pages as well as letter columns. 288-page color hardcover. offered in February.

The Demon: From the Darkness

The Demon: From the Darkness (DC Comics): fans will be delighted that DC is lastly reprinting Matt Wagner’s The Demon miniseries, plus an extra problem by Wagner (#22) of the routine series. This 1986 revamp from the designer of Mage as well as Grendel wasn’t truly complied with up on in the DCU, so it’s now a supernatural curiosity. 128-page color softcover. offered in January.

Marvel Masterworks: Captain America volume 7

Marvel Masterworks: Captain America volume 7 (Marvel): In this volume, Cap enters one of his excellent periods as Steve Englehart begins composing the series as well as promptly exposes the tricks behind the 1950s versions of Cap as well as Bucky. (Didn’t they “die” in WWII?) beyond that, this volume is all-action as Cap as well as the Falcon handle Batroc the Leaper, The Stranger, The Scorpion, as well as Mr. Hyde — however that’s just the prelude to a traditional face-off with S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Nick Fury! featuring height Sal Buscema artwork on this traditional Cap run. extra contributions from Gerry Conway, Steve Gerber, as well as John Romita (Sr.). Collects Captain America (1968) #149-159. 248-page color hardcover. offered in March.

Sucker Bait as well as other Stories

Sucker Bait as well as other stories (Fantagraphics): Collecting 25 traditional “Ghastly” Graham Ingels EC Comics stories. You can tell by his nickname that Ingels specialized in the bread as well as butter (and blood as well as organs) horror stories that were the essential of traditional EC Comics from the early 1950s. Here’s a few of the extremely finest from the pages of Tales From the Crypt, Shock Suspen-Stories, vault of Horror, as well as examples of Ingels’ signature “Old Witch” character from Haunt of Fear. plus the normal historical as well as biographical material. 208-page B&W hardcover. suggested by psychiatrists who manipulate their data as well as Senators seeking reelection while trying to save the youth of America. offered in February.

Superman: The guy of Steel volume 8

Superman: The guy of Steel volume 8 (DC Comics): DC hasn’t done one of these in a while, collecting all the Superman books from the John Byrne era. includes action Comics #598-600, Superman #16-18, as well as Adventures of Superman #439-440. guest stars include question Woman, Man-Bat, as well as the introduction of Checkmate. other creators include Roger Stern, Jerry Ordway, George Pérez, Mike Mignola, Ty Templeton, as well as Paul Kupperberg. 240-page color softcover. offered in January.

The very first Kingdom volume 3

The very first Kingdom volume 3 (Titan): third in the series (of six) reprinting the groundbreaking independent legendary series by Jack Katz. great deals of nekkid people inextremely in-depth fantasy settings. mature Themes. 208-page black-and-white hardcover.

PS ARTBOOKS

Harvey Thrillers: Race for the Moon as well as guy in Black

Harvey Thrillers: Race for the Moon as well as guy in Black: Collects Race for the Moon #1-3 from 1958 as well as guy in Black #1-4 from 1957. I believe much of this material is now in public domain. The Jack Kirby material from Race for the Moon was just recently brought back as well as reprinted (just last year) in The Simon & Kirby Library: science Fiction. extra art was by Al Williamson. guy in Black was mostly by Bob Powell; the series contained normally thriller stories with a narrator (the title character). 288-page color hardcover.

Pre-Code Classics: The thing volume 1

Pre-Code Classics: The thing volume 1: Collects The thing #1-9 from 1952. This thing was a horror host, not a huge rocky person or a hand in a box. features art by Dick Giordano as well as pre-Spider-Man Steve Ditko. 356-page color hardcover.

Roy Thomas Presents: traditional Phantom woman volume 3

Roy Thomas Presents: traditional Phantom woman volume 3: Collects stories from All top Comics #8-17, Phantom woman (Farrell Publications) #1-4, as well as question kid #17 as well as 18. featuring art by Matt Baker as well as Carmine Infantino as well as new text pieces by Roy Thomas. 288-page color hardcover.

NOTE: lots of new Deluxe versions as well as TPB versions of previous PS Artbook collections are likewise offered on the web site this month.

THIS MONTH IN traditional COMIC strip COLLECTIONS

Captain simple volume 4

Captain simple volume 4 (Fantagraphics): The fourth (and final) volume in Fantagraphics’ prominent reprints of Roy Crane’s full color Captain simple Sunday pages. Crane abandoned the Sunday strip when the syndicate imposed restrictive formatting policies in 1937, leaving the Sundays to his assistant, Leslie Turner. That enabled Crane to focus on the everyday strip up until 1943, when he left the strip completely as well as produced Buzz Sawyer. before leaving the Sunday strip, Crane concocted a “lost city” storyline, enabling him to draw a few of his preferred things — jungles, tigers, desert islands, as well as lovely women — as well as putting Captain simple as well as laundry Tubbs with some remarkable adventures, all collected here. 144-page huge (10.5 x 14.75) color hardcover.

Jacky’s Diary

Jacky’s Diary (IDW): one more quirky/cult job from IDW. designer Jack Mendelsohn has diverse TV composing credit scores that include Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, The Carol Burnett Show, as well as teen Mutant Ninja Turtles, in addition to co-writing the animated Yellow Submarine film as well as the long-lost Beatles Saturday morning cartoons. prior to that, he contributed gag cartoons to The Saturday evening publish as well as other magazines. He likewise contributed to EC Comics’ Panic and, later, MAD. much of his work was for Saturday morning cartoons, a lot of notably for Hanna-Barbera, Filmation, as well as Jay Ward. In the late 1950s, he produced the Sunday-only comic strip Jacky’s Diary, which ran from 1959 to 1961. It was created to look like the hand-illustrated drawings as well as scrawlings of a little child, going on as well as on about fishing expeditions as well as trips to the circus as well as other childish things. visitors were dumbfounded by it — they either didn’t “get it” as well as believed that the strip was by an actual child, in spite of the truth that it was bylined “by Jacky Mendelsohn, age 32 1/2”, while those who understood it was the work of an adult believed his capabilities hadn’t progressed considering that childhood. Some parents believed it was a function that published drawing by kids, as well as the syndicate was bombarded with refrigerator scrawlings. The strip eventually ended since Sunday-only strips are extremely costly to produce.

Four color #1091

It was reprinted as a Dell Comics one-shot (Four color #1091) in 1960. now IDW is reprinting the entire run of the strip, together with Mendelson’s comments on its creation, as well as including introductions by Mort walker (Beetle Bailey) as well as Mel Lazarus (Mama). 192-page huge (11 x 8.5) color hardcover. This looks cool.

Johnny Hazard: The newspaper Dailies volume 3: 1947-1949

Johnny Hazard: The newspaper Dailies volume 3: 1947-1949 (Hermes Press): If you only understand Frank Robbins’ work from his 1970s marvel as well as DC jobs (The Invaders, Batman), you owe it to yourself to inspect out Robbins’ masterpiece work. The Johnny Hazard newspaper strip was one of the all-time biggest action/adventure, WWII/Cold war newspaper strips of all time. Reproduced completely from original King features press proofs. 288-page B&W (w/color) hardcover.

Leonard Starr’s Mary Perkins On stage volume 12: 1972-1974

Leonard Starr’s Mary Perkins On stage volume 12: 1972-1974 (Classic Comic Press): continuing the total reprinting of this traditional as well as lovely strip by Leonard Starr. volume 14 covers dailies as well as Sunday strips from June 12, 1972, to January 3, 1974. features an introduction by Don McGregor. This is one of the nicest looking strip reprint series available today. 264-page B&W softcover.

LOAC fundamentals volume 4: alley Oop 1939

LOAC fundamentals volume 4: alley Oop 1939 (IDW)/LoAC): This special newspaper-strip-sized style returns for a year’s worth of traditional alley Oop by designer Vincent Trout (V.T.) Hamlin. Hamlin had been composing as well as drawing the strip for a lot more than five years at this point, however a lot of fans as well as historians think about 1939 the point where the “classic” alley Oop begins. It features the last Moo experience in addition to trips to the 20th Century as well as ancient Greece. It showcases Hamlin’s rollicking style of storytelling as well as drawing that was concurrently serious, fantastic, as well as packed with slapstick. 336-page horizontal style (11.5 x 4.25) B&W hardcover.

Rusty Riley volume 1: Dailies 1948-1949

Rusty Riley volume 1: Dailies 1948-1949 (Classic Comics Press): With stunning art by Frank Godwin as well as scripts by Rod Reed, Rusty Riley tells the adventures of a redheaded orphan kid who flees the orphanage with his faithful fox terrier, Flip. Rusty ends up in the Bluegrass region of Kentucky working for a affluent racehorse owner, encountering crooks as well as corruption in the world of equine racing. Rusty’s goals are to ended up being a jockey as well as to look great in the eyes of his new sweetheart Patty Miles, the boss’ daughter. It’s a lovely strip, as well as Godwin checked out the Kentucky area to acquire firsthand recommendation of the area as well as the horses. The strip ended abruptly in 1959 upon Godwin’s death from a heart attack. artist Bob Lubbers stepped in to surface the final two weeks of the storyline. This book likewise features an introduction by Howard Chaykin, an interview with Godwin’s daughter, as well as seldom seen Godwin artwork. 360-page B&W hardcover.

Superman: golden Age Sunday Pages 1943-1946

Superman: golden Age Sunday Pages 1943-1946 (DC/LoAC): beginning the publication of Sunday Superman strips, including 170 pages that have never been reprinted! These traditional comics, beginning may 9, 1943, as well as continuing with August 4, 1946, fill a major space in the Superman mythos. featuring work by Wayne Boring, Jack Burnley, Whitney Ellsworth, Jack Schiff, as well as others. The Sunday Superman strips as well as the B&W dailies contained unique storylines as well as will be released in separate, concurrent series. The very first IDW book of the Superman dailies was gorgeous, as well as the color Sundays must be even a lot more Super! Edited as well as created by Dean Mullaney with an introduction by mark Waid. extremely recommended. 184-page huge (9.25 x 12) color hardcover. offered in January.

BIG BOOKS

Absolute Superman/Batman volume 2

Absolute Superman/Batman volume 2 (DC Comics): Collecting the reality-bending legendary from problems #14-26 by Jeph as well as Sam Loeb as well as great deals o’ artists, including Carlos Pacheco, Ed McGuiness, Tim Sale, Jesus Merino, Ian Churchill, as well as lots of others. Guest-starring alternating versions of Darkseid, Lex Luthor, Superwoman, Kamandi, Sgt. Rock, as well as the Haunted Tank. problem #25 was a star-studded anniversary problem that contained work by Joss Whedon, Brad Meltzer, Jim Lee, John Cassaday, Joe Madureira, as well as others. as well as #26 was plotted by Sam Loeb prior to his death from cancer at the age of 17. Twenty-six writers as well as artists who understood Sam worked to surface this story, contributing their charges as well as royalties for the problem to the Sam Loeb college Scholarship Fund. One would hope there would be great deals of special material included in this book, however none is suggested in the solicitation. These absolute Editions are so much much better when DC really makes the effort to include extra behind-the-scenes material. 336-page huge (8.25 x 12.5) color hardcover. offered in April 2014.

The Muppets Omnibus

The Muppets Omnibus (Marvel): Collecting one of the most cherished recent comic book series (and out just in time for a new Muppets movie!). By all rights, this book must be called Roger Langridge’s total Muppets (since it collects every Muppet story written (and mainly drawn) by Langridge. however that will just have to be a fan nickname for the book, as the Muppets are now a business entity as well as much better understood — as well as rightly so — as Jim Henson’s Muppets. This large book consists of The Muppet show #1-4 miniseries from 2009, The Muppet show Comic book #0-11, The Muppet show Comic Book: The Treasure of Peg-Leg Wilson #1-4, as well as The Muppets #1-4 from 2012. As usual, i