Featured New Items GAMAYUN TALES Vol 2 On our Cover Our Highest Recommendation. Alex- ander Utkin’s delightful series continues. REED CRANDALL ILLUSTRATOR OF THE Fresh and modern adaptations of familiar COMICS Signed Slavic (Russian) folktales, teamed with Signed extra-illustrated full bold and beautiful illustrations. Inter-re- color 7x10 bookplate! Now in lated stories refer you back to old tales softcover. Our Highest Rec- in Volume 1, or promise more in what we ommendation. By Roger Hill. hope are additional volumes. Absolutely The special bookplate features a beautifully drawn! All-ages. Nobrow, 2021. painting never before reproduced GAMT02. SC, 6x9, 172pg, FC in full color featuring John Carter, $19.95 $17.95 Dejah Thoris & friends, and Tars Vol 1: GAMT01. $19.95 $17.95 Tarkas going into battle (nudity). From the 1940s to the ‘70s, Reed Crandall brought a unique Moebius and masterful style to American comic art. Using an LAZLO PARKER illustrator’s approach on everything Highly Recommended. This all-new hard- he touched, Crandall gained a rep- cover matches the format as Le Faune de utation as the “artist’s artist” through Mars, 4o Days in the Desert and Le Major. his skillful interpretations of Golden But this is purely an Art of Moebius, collect- Age super-heroes Doll Man, The ing most surreal paintings and drawings. Ray, Firebrand, and Blackhawk (his “Lazlo Parker” is an obscure artist, purely signature character); horror and sci- from Moebius’ imaginings--an expert in fi for the legendary EC Comics line; mechanized and yet organic shapes, a compulsive-obsessive Warren Publishing’s Creepy, Eerie, drawer... Minimal text (intro, afterword and minor captioning) and Blazing Combat; THUNDER all in French. Moebius Productions, 2020. Agents and Edgar Rice Burroughs LAZLH. HC, 6x8, 320pg, PC $50.00 characters; and even Flash Gordon for King Features. TwoMorrows, 2021. THE INCAL REEDCRA. SC, 9x11, 156pg, FC $39.95 Back in print. Collects the 1st six vol- umes of The Incal, 1981-88. Highly Rec- Cover image from National Comics #26 ©1942 ommended. By Alejandro Jodorowsky. Art by Jean Giraud (Moebius). Here is Moebi- TIME TRAVELING WITH YOUR OCTOPUS us at his finest!! John Difool, a detective in Hardcover Signed a degenerate dystopian world, finds his life Our Highest Recommen- turned upside down when he discovers an dation. By Brian Kesinger. ancient, mystical artifact called “The Incal.” Our favorite Victorian beauty Difool’s adventures will bring him into and her pet are back!! A conflict with the galaxy’s greatest warrior, the Metabaron, and lavishly illustrated travelogue will pit him against the awesome powers of the Technopope. through time chronicling the These encounters and many others have Difool fighting for fourth-dimensional journeys of history-hoppers Victoria Pris- not only his very survival but also the survival of the entire mall and her pet land octopus Otto. A plethora of panoramic, universe. And Moebius obviously had a great time with these full-page illustrations (in an oblong, extra-wide hardcover) wild, metaphysical, cosmic drawings. Humanoids, 2020. reveal Victoria and Otto’s heretofore unknown participation INCAH. SC, 8x10, 316pg, FC $29.99 $26.99 in famous and infamous past, present, and future goings-on. Baby Tattoo, 2020. Look for the star symbol. These are TIMTHS. HC, 14x7, 64pg, FC $30.00 items that are deeply discounted from DRESSING YOUR OCTOPUS Hardcover Signed: With the original publisher’s price. Most of ornate metal corner clasps. DREOH. $60.00 these items have been closed out by the publisher and we have limited copies. Buy WALKING YOUR OCTOPUS A Guidebook to the Domesti- cated Cephalopod: Signed bookplate. WALKH. now before they’re gone! $29.95 News & Notes TABLE OF CONTENTS As a big fan of Reed Crandall I was happy to feature Reed’s iconic work on our cover. Artists & Illustration ...................... 4 The bookplate above was from an unfinished painting that Reed meant for his friend Comics & Graphic Novels............. 6 Al Williamson. Jerry Weist sold it to me in 1970. If you bought the hardcover from us, Comic Book Archives ................... 9 we’re happy to send you this bookplate at no charge. Ask for it with your next order. PS Artbooks .................................11 Author Roger Hill also wrote Mac Raboy: Master of the Comics [MACRAH. $39.95]. Comic Strip Collections .............. 13 It too has my Highest Recommendation. It’s a wonderful, informative book. Roger Comic Reference & How-To ........ 13 publishes The EC Fan Addict. Pulp Fiction .................................. 14 The Spectrum Annual has been delayed due to the pandemic and an editor change. Pin-Up & Erotic Art ...................... 15 Two years of the best in fantasy art will be combined into the next edition. Arnie and Nude Photography ...................... 15 Cathy Fenner have returned to co-edit. And they are planning Spectrum Quarterly, an Adult DVDs ................................... 15 upscale, 12x12 magazine in the meantime! Collectors Supplies ..................... 16 Taschen is planning an XXL Frazetta volume in the same oversized format as the pop- Coming Soon ............................... 17 ular History of EC and Masterpieces of Fantasy Art. I’ve been asked to suggest what Rare Books................................... 20 Frazetta comic book work to feature. More news as it comes--I expect we’re looking at Don’t Miss These! ........................ 21 2022 for publication. On Sale....................................... 24 Meanwhile, The History of EC [HISECH. w/ signed bookplate $200] and Fantasy Art Just Arrived .................................. 30 [MASFH. $200/$180] remain available. Taschen has less than 50 copies left of EC. We laid in enough copies, I hope, to last for a while. Key for price line codes FPG has just announced The Art of Enric, the fabled illustrator of Vampirella. He’s HC Hardcover just as good as Sanjulian and Maroto--what is it about Spain that produces such fine HCW Hardcover w/o dustjacket painters? There will be a $50 hardcover and a $275 signed limited edition (195 copies). SC Softcover It should be on our website by the time you read this. PC Partial color FC Full color ERB Inc is very close to releasing the next set of Tarzan editions, volumes 9-12. With B&W Black & white stunning new covers by Joe Jusko and added archival material, these are proving very popular. See page 27 for Volumes 5-8 and our website for the others. F51- Late Spring 2021 Best wishes to you and stay safe out there! ~Bud 2 BudsArtBooks.com ♦ 530-273-2166 Featured New Items THE BLACK CANARY Bird of Prey Lewis Carroll Collects material from Flash Comics #86-88, 90-104; Comic Cavalcade #25; ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND DC Special #3; Adventure Comics #399, By Willy Pogany 418-419; Brave and the Bold #61-62, Hand-Numbered from 126 copies, 1947-72. Our Highest Recommenda- printed on specialty Italian paper. tion. Introduced in 1947 as a supporting Highly Recommended. By Lewis Car- character in Flash Comics, Black Canary roll. Reprints, in slightly larger size, the became an instant hit with readers. She scarce 1929 edition. Artist Willy Pogany earned her own starring feature that estab- had a long and fruitful career, illustrating lished her identity as Dinah Drake, a meek children’s and adventure books, working florist by day who dished out vigilante jus- in Hollywood, and teaching art. This tice by night under the guise of the Black Canary. All of Dinah wonderful new edition collects one of his Drake’s early comic book appearances by Robert Kanigher, scarcest and most desirable books. Near- Gardner Fox, Carmine Infantino, and Murphy Anderson. ly every page is illustrated, and the entire DC Comics, 2021. book is printed in two colors. Pogany’s Alice is delightful. BLACAB. SC, 7x10, 224pg, FC $29.99 $26.99 Inky Parrot Press, 2020. Out of Print. ALICADH. SC, 6x10, 188pg, Text/b&w $90.00 THE RISE AND FALL OF THE TRIGAN EMPIRE Vol 2 THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK Our Highest Recommendation. By An Agony in Eight Fits Mike Butterworth. Art by Don Lawrence Limited to 126 hand-numbered and Ron Embleton. The second thrilling copies, printed on specialty Italian omnibus lost Sci-Fi classic from the art paper. Highly Recommended. By sixties the New York times called “highly Lewis Carroll. Art by Ángel Domínguez. detailed visions of fantastic worlds.” A beautifully illustrated new adaption of Among the distant stars, fractious tribes the famous poem by the author of Alice come together to found a mighty empire in Wonderland. Full color, full-page and that will defend against aggressive king- double-page illustrations throughout. doms, battle alien invaders, and conceive of incredible new Typically categorized as a nonsense technologies. Charting the rise and fall of the Trigan Empire, poem, this was written from 1874 to 1876 where the splendor and savagery of ancient Rome meets jet and borrows the setting, some creatures, and eight port- planes, space technology and aliens. Rebellion, 2020. manteau words from Carroll’s earlier poem “Jabberwocky” RIS02. SC, 8x11, 288pg, PC $24.99 from Through the Looking-Glass (1871). It follows a crew of ten hunting the Snark, which may turn out to be a highly SCI-FI & FANTASY OIL PAINTING MASTERCLASS dangerous Boojum. Inky Parrot Press, 2020. Signed HUNTSN. SC, 6x10, Text/FC $100.00 Signed Color Bookplate! Our Highest Recommendation. By Patrick J. Jones. See page 21 for more Alice. Foreword by Jeff Miracola. This detailed, user-friendly oil painting workbook is a ROY V HUNT A Retrospective companion to Patrick’s Sci-fi & Fantasy Recommended. The work of fan & Oil Painting Techniques, and features semi-pro artist Roy Vernon Hunt (died previously unpublished artworks. A su- 1986). His first published art appeared perlative art book--a how-to by a master in the fanzine The Alchemist in February painter.