Gahan Wilson, noted Playboy cartoonist with a taste for the macabre, adapts several stories by 19th-century author Ambrose Bierce, the poor mans Mark Twain. The Devils Dictionary features cynical definitions, such as Love – a temporary insanity curable by marriage. Also, The Boarded Window, An Imperfect Conflagration, and the poem Dead.
52 pages. Cover price $3.95. Cover price $3.95.
Set during the tumultuous years following Napoleon's exile from France, The Count of Monte Cristo remains one of the most thrilling adventure stories of all time. The popular melodrama - Edmond Dantes' betrayal, his captivity, his discovery of a hidden treasure, and his painstakingly wrought revenge - is a masterpiece of suspense, intrigue and romance. Dan Spiegle's dramatic illustrations evoke the excitement of this irresistible tale, and convey the turbulence of life in Alexander Dumas' 19th century France.
Adaptation/script by Steven Grant, art by Dan Spiegle. Cover by Pat Boyette. 47 pages. Cover price $3.75.
Artist Jeffrey Busch adapts Rudyard Kiplings The Jungle Books. First Comics Classics Illustrated was noted for its faithful adaptations of literary works by top-notch artists.
52 pages. Cover price $3.95. Cover price $3.95.
Cover by Jerry Ordway. As Rainbow and Jay try to figure out their feelings toward each other, Jay has nightmares about his previous relationships, all of which Rainbow can see in "Jay Endicott, This Is Your Sex Life."
Script by Mark Evanier and art by Dan Spiegle. Issue also has "Text Page" by Mark Evanier. Cover price $1.25.
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Tales of fantasy and Celtic mythology, drawn and published by Charles Vess.
Top-notch writers include Sharyn McCrumb, Neil Gaiman, and Robert Walton, with an illustrated text story by Terri Windling.
Cover by Vess. Black and white; 36 pages. Cover price $2.95.
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writer & layouts: ROB MORAN pencils & inks: JAMES DEVLIN color: TOM SMITH cover: CHRISTIAN GOSSETT or ROB MORAN
Twenty years in the future, the world is reeling from an outbreak of vampirism. A new Red Army cuts a bloody swathe across Europe and claims its own sovereign nation: a Blood Nation. Now, Captain Ethan Cutter must lead an elite special forces unit to infiltrate the Blood Nation to stop the vampire horde from being unleashed again upon humanity
Cover price $2.99.
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Cover pencils by Steve Ditko, inks by Rudy Nebres.
The Strange New World of the Fly, script and art by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby; orphan Tommy Troy stumbles across some hoods hassling Mr. Creacher, the superintendent of the orphanage who's been stealing money from the orphanage to pay his gambling debts. The Master of Junk-Ri-La, script and art by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby; the Fly meets a man who creates weapons and inventions out of junk in order to pull off his crime capers. Come into My Parlor, script and art by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby; the Fly meets the Spider, also known as Spider Spry. One of Our Skyscrapers Is Missing starring the Fly, pencils by Al Williamson, inks by Angelo Torres. Discovers His Buzz-Gun starring the Fly, script and art by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby.
36 pgs. $1.50. Cover price $1.50.
Story, Art and Cover by Jason Lutes. The newest issue of one of the most popular comic book series in recent years is here!
While Kurt Severing is away in Leipzig reporting on the charge of treason brought against his editor, Marthe is introduced to the decadent nightlife of Berlin's leisure class, where the Cocoa Kids have an encounter with the great Josephine Baker. Meanwhile, down on the streets, Pavel the Jewish beggar takes the homeless Silvia Braun under his wing and begins to educate her in the ways of the city's underworld.
28 pages, B&W. Mature Readers. Cover price $3.95.
Cover by Jason Lutes. Untitled story, script and art by Jason Lutes
Nervous confrontations mark the first few days after the stunning, violent climax of Berlin Book One; In the streets, the clubs, the committee halls, and in the press, people are looking for reasons why the police opened fire on a peaceful demonstration of socialist workers; Some are just looking for someone to blame; It is a dark and tense city that the American Jazz band the Cocoa Nut Kids enter for their first European tour.
28 pgs., B&W. $3.50. Cover price $3.50.
Cover by Jason Lutes. Untitled story, script and art by Jason Lutes
This story revolves around the Mayday march; unfortunately, it ends in tragedy.
28 pgs., B&W. $2.95. Cover price $2.95.
Cover by Jason Lutes. Untitled story, script and art by Jason Lutes
In the last weeks of the winter of 1929, tensions escalate between the Communists, National Socialists, and Berlin police. Gudrun Braun becomes more deeply involved with Otto the Communist and agrees to march in the upcoming May Day demonstration; Having overcome his writers' block, Kurt returns to the typewriter with renewed energy and intent; Meanwhile, Marthe learns the truth about Anna's romantic interest in her and must confront her own conflicted feelings, which are complicated by her entanglement in the life of Pola, the artists' model.
28 pgs., B&W. $2.95. Cover price $2.95.
Cover by Jason Lutes. Untitled story, script and art by Jason Lutes
Its winter in Berlin;The two burgeoning movements of the time are examined here: the National Socialists continue their expansion "underground" and on the opposite side, thousands gather to hear a fiery speech by the Bolshevik leader.
28 pgs., B&W. $2.95. Cover price $2.95.
Cover by Jason Lutes. Untitled story, script and art by Jason Lutes
It is now December: in a scene foreshadowing a greater tragedy, a Jewish family openly celebrates Hanukkah; Elsewhere throughout the city, Christmas carols are sung in the streets and Kurt and Marthe spend their first night together; Marthe has to find a job.
28 pgs., B&W. $2.95. Cover price $2.95.
Cover by Jason Lutes. Untitled story, script and art by Jason Lutes
The time is October 1928, and Kurt Severing is witness to an event where the seething animosity between the fascists and the "reds" violently erupts; set during the years of the Weimar Republic of Germany.
28 pgs., B&W. $2.50. Cover price $2.50.
Cover by Jason Lutes. Untitled story, script and art by Jason Lutes
The time is October 1928, and Kurt Severing is witness to an event where the seething animosity between the fascists and the "reds" violently erupts; set during the years of the Weimar Republic of Germany.
28 pgs., B&W. $2.50. Cover price $2.50.
Cover by Jason Lutes. Untitled story, script and art by Jason Lutes; Artists, journalists, communists, fascists, police, poets, lovers and workers cross paths while they dance the decadent city of Berlin into the arms of growing fascism; Life is not a cabaret for the denizens of Europe's fascinating city of stones; set during the years of the Weimar Republic of Germany.
28 pgs., B&W. $2.50. Cover price $2.50.
Cover by Jason Lutes. Untitled story, script and art by Jason Lutes; Artists, journalists, communists, fascists, police, poets, lovers and workers cross paths while they dance the decadent city of Berlin into the arms of growing fascism; Life is not a cabaret for the denizens of Europe's fascinating city of stones; set during the years of the Weimar Republic of Germany.
28 pgs., B&W. $2.50. Cover price $2.50.
