Collects Bettie Page: Queen of the Nile (1999) #1-3.Written by Jim Silke. Art by Jim Silke and Dave Stevens. Cover by Jim Silke. Introduction by Frank Cho.A low-budget time machine mistakenly transports Bettie to ancient Egypt, where she battles the High Priest of Amon Ra, assorted thugs, and a lovesick mummy twice her size. She wiggles and squirms and bumps and grinds to avoid their evil clutches, but she can't avoid the inevitable: everyone falls in love with her and she manages to frequently lose her clothes.When Bettie falls for none other than Julius Caesar, the Roman general can't decide between Bettie and his main squeeze, Cleopatra!Collecting Jim Silke's outrageous and stunningly illustrated series as well as his hard-to-find 'Bettie Page: Spicy Adventure' - not to mention additional pinup art by Dave Stevens!Softcover, 96 pages, full color. Mature ReadersCover price $12.95.
Volume 19 - 1st printing. "Deathmark and Other Stories!" Collects Conan the Barbarian (1970-1993 Marvel) #143-150. Written by Bruce Jones, Mary Jo Duffy, Michael Fleisher, and Alan Zelenetz. Art by John Buscema, Ernie Chan, Ricardo Villamonte, and Richard Howell.
The Chronicles of Conan Volume 19 collects "Deathmark," which mixes tattoos, severed arms, and a decades-old grudge into a gruesome mystery, and "Tower of Mitra," where a magically endowed beauty, seen in a previous Jones Conan story, returns to help defeat a demonic harpy. Writers Mary Jo Duffy, Alan Zelenetz, and Michael Fleisher also contribute one-shot stories to this collection, which finds Conan facing the Dragon of Solvanthia, numerous witches and wizards, rat demons, bloodthirsty swordsmen, and his own son by a priestess of the Cimmerian wilderness!
Softcover, 200 pages, full color. Cover price $17.99.
