Digital Books
Your digital second chance
for first rate sold-out books!
ART OF GEORGE TUSKA
A comprehensive look at GEORGE TUSKA’S personal and professional life, including early work at the Eisner-Iger shop, producing controversial crime comics of the 1950s, and his tenure with Marvel and DC Comics, as well as independent publishers. Includes coverage of his work on IRON MAN, X-MEN, HULK, JUSTICE LEAGUE, TEEN TITANS, BATMAN, T.H.U.N.D.E.R. AGENTS, and others, a gallery of commission art and index of his work, original art, photos, sketches, unpublished art, interviews and anecdotes from his peers and fans, plus the very personal and reflective words of George himself! Written by DEWEY CASSELL.
WALLACE WOOD CHECKLIST
The most thorough listing of Wood’s work ever published, taking more than 20 Wood experts over two decades to compile! Lists in exacting detail Woody’s PUBLISHED COMIC WORK, including dates, story titles, page counts, and even documents the assistants who worked with him! Also includes NEWSPAPER, ADVERTISING, and FANZINE WORK, plus a myriad of more obscure Wood pieces such as GUM CARDS, STICKERS, GREETING CARDS, and more! Also included are listings of his UNPUBLISHED WORK, and it’s profusely illustrated throughout with WOOD ARTWORK! (68-page Digital Edition) $3.99
(128-page Digital Edition) $6.99
COMIC BOOK FEVER
GEORGE KHOURY presents a “love letter” to his personal golden age of comics, 1976-1986, covering all the things that made those comics great—the top artists, the coolest stories—even the best ads! Inside are new articles, interviews, and images about the people, places, characters, titles, moments, and good times that inspired and thrilled us in the Bronze Age: NEAL ADAMS, JOHN ROMITA, GEORGE PÉREZ, MARV WOLFMAN, ALAN MOORE, DENNY O’NEIL, JIM STARLIN, JOSÉ LUIS GARCÍA-LÓPEZ, THE HERNANDEZ BROTHERS, THE BUSCEMA BROTHERS, STAN LEE, JACK DAVIS, JACK KIRBY, KEVIN EASTMAN, CHRIS CLAREMONT, GERRY CONWAY, FRANK MILLER—and that’s just for starters. It covers UNCANNY X-MEN, NEW TEEN TITANS, TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES, LOVE AND ROCKETS, CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS, SUPERMAN VS. SPIDER-MAN, ARCHIE COMICS, HARVEY COMICS, KISS, STAR WARS, ROM, HOSTESS CAKE ADS, GRIT(!), and other milestones! Cover and introduction by ALEX ROSS.
REED CRANDALL
ILLUSTRATOR OF THE COMICS
AGE OF TV HEROES
T.H.U.N.D.E.R. AGENTS COMPANION
COMICS GONE APE!
From the 1940s to the ’70s, REED CRANDALL brought a unique and masterful style to comics through his skillful interpretations of Golden Age super-heroes DOLL MAN, THE RAY, and BLACKHAWK (his signature character); horror and sci-fi for the legendary EC Comics line; Warren Publishing’s CREEPY, EERIE, and BLAZING COMBAT; the THUNDER AGENTS and Edgar Rice Burroughs characters; and even FLASH GORDON for King Features. Comic art historian ROGER HILL has compiled a complete and extensive history of Crandall’s life and career, from his early years and major successes, through his tragic decline and passing in 1982. Includes never-before-seen photos, a wealth of rare and unpublished artwork, and insight into one of the true illustrators of the comics.
Examines the history of the live-action television adventures of everyone’s favorite comic book heroes! It features the in-depth stories of the actors and behind-the-scene players that made the classic super-hero television programs we all grew up with. Included are new and exclusive interviews and commentary from ADAM WEST (Batman), LYNDA CARTER (Wonder Woman), PATRICK WARBURTON (The Tick), NICHOLAS HAMMOND (SpiderMan), WILLIAM KATT (The Greatest American Hero), JACK LARSON (The Adventures of Superman), JOHN WESLEY SHIPP (The Flash), JACKSON BOSTWICK (Shazam!), and many more! Written by JASON HOFIUS and GEORGE KHOURY, with a new cover by superstar painter ALEX ROSS!
The definitive book on the history of DYNAMO, NO-MAN, LIGHTNING, ANDOR, THE IRON MAIDEN, and other super-heroes and super-villains created by WALLACE WOOD and company! Included are interviews with Woody’s creative team, as well as the writers and artists involved in the various T-Agents resurrections over the decades, and a detailed examination of the origins and exploits of the characters themselves, including the shocking truth behind the first super-hero to ever be “killed,” MENTHOR! Features reams of artwork, much of it rarely-seen or previous unpublished, including a rare 27-page T-Agents story drawn by PAUL GULACY, unpublished stories by GULACY, PARIS CULLINS, and others, all behind a JERRY ORDWAY cover. Edited by JON B. COOKE.
They may be only one notch below humans on the evolutionary ladder, but gorillas and monkeys have for decades climbed to the top of the comic-book world! This book explores the history of simian superstars like Beppo, BrainiApe, the Gibbon, Gleek, Gorilla Man, Grease Monkey, King Kong, Konga, Mojo Jojo, Sky Ape, and Titano! It’s loaded with rare and classic artwork, cover galleries, and interviews with artists & writers including ARTHUR ADAMS (Monkeyman and O’Brien), FRANK CHO, CARMINE INFANTINO (Detective Chimp, Grodd), JOE KUBERT (Tor, Tarzan), TONY MILLIONAIRE (Sock Monkey), DOUG MOENCH (Planet of the Apes), and BOB OKSNER (Angel and the Ape)! With its cover by ARTHUR ADAMS, you won’t be able to keep your filthy paws off this book! Written by BACK ISSUE’s MICHAEL EURY.
(256-page Digital Edition) $13.99
(192-page Digital Edition) $11.99
(224-page Digital Edition) $11.99
(128-page Digital Edition) $6.99
NICK CARDY: BEHIND THE ART
DICK GIORDANO: CHANGING COMICS, ONE DAY AT A TIME
SECRETS IN THE SHADOWS: GENE COLAN
HERO GETS GIRL! THE LIFE & ART OF KURT SCHAFFENBERGER
(240-page Digital Edition) $12.99
NICK CARDY’S work on DC Comics’ TEEN TITANS and his amazing comics covers are universally hailed as some of the best in the medium’s history, but his COMMERCIAL COMICS INTROSPECTIVE: ILLUSTRATION work is just as highly regarded. Here, Nick has selected dozens PETER BAGGE of his favorite pieces from throughout his From his Seattle studio, Peter Bagge lets career and shows how they came to be. journalist CHRISTOPHER IRVING in on everything from just what was on his mind From reams of preliminary work to Nick’s with his long-running Gen X comic HATE!, detailed commentary, you will gain fasto what’s going on in his head as a political cinating insight into how this great artist works, watching each step as some of his satirist. This book features an assortment of original photography, artwork picked by most memorable images come to life! By Bagge himself, and a look at where Bagge’s ERIC NOLEN-WEATHINGTON and NICK CARDY. work (and mind) is taking him. (128-page Digital Edition) $6.99
6
(128-page Digital Edition) $6.99
MICHAEL EURY’s biography of comics’ most prominent and affable personality! It covers his career as illustrator, inker, and editor—peppered with DICK’S PERSONAL REFLECTIONS—and is illustrated with RARE AND UNSEEN comics, merchandising, and advertising art! Plus: an extensive index of his published work, comments and tributes by NEAL ADAMS, DENNIS O’NEIL, TERRY AUSTIN, PAUL LEVITZ, MARV WOLFMAN, JULIUS SCHWARTZ, JIM APARO and others, a Foreword by NEAL ADAMS, and an Afterword by PAUL LEVITZ!
TOM FIELD’s amazing COLAN retrospective, with rare drawings, photos, and art from his 60-year career, and a comprehensive over-view of Gene’s glory days at Marvel Comics! MARV WOLFMAN, DON McGREGOR and other writers share script samples and anecdotes of their Colan collaborations, while TOM PALMER, STEVE LEIALOHA and others show how they approached inking Colan’s famously nuanced penciled pages! Plus: a NEW PORTFOLIO of never-seen collaborations between Gene and masters such as BYRNE, KALUTA and PÉREZ, and all-new artwork created just for this book!
Illustrated bio of KURT SCHAFFENBERGER, the preeminent Lois Lane artist and important early Captain Marvel artist who brought a touch of humor and whimsy to super-hero comics! Covers KURT’S LIFE AND CAREER from the 1940s to his passing in 2002 (with hundreds of NEVER-SEEN PHOTOS and ILLUSTRATIONS from his files), includes recollections by family, friends and fellow artists such as MURPHY ANDERSON, WILL EISNER, CARMINE INFANTINO, JOE KUBERT, ALEX ROSS and MORT WALKER! Written by MARK VOGER with a Foreword by KEN BALD.
(176-page Digital Edition) $8.99
(192-page Digital Edition) $9.99
(128-page Digital Edition) $6.99
