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BrowseVintage Comics Fantagraphics is pleased to present collections of the finest comic book art and artists from the pioneering days of comic books in the middle decades of the 20th Century (and scholarly writing thereon). These lovingly-restored, beautifully-designed tomes present the best and most noteworthy work from the era, in genres ranging from superheroes to horror to crime to romance to humor. These books will hone your appreciation of the exciting and groundbreaking stories and artwork from the early days of comic books — not to mention providing a lot of fun reading! 
Action! Mystery! Thrills! Comic Book Covers of the Golden Age 1933-45
A long-overdue celebration of the classic comic book covers that jostled for attention monthly on mid-20th century newsstands. Majestic, iconic, chaotic and sometimes downright weird. A must for anyone with even the passing interest in the Golden Age!
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$29.99 
Amazing Mysteries: The Bill Everett Archives Vol. 1
Bill Everett This book collects over 200 pages of never-before-reprinted, beautifully restored, full-color pre-WWII superhero stories by a founding father of the genre, one of comics’ greatest visionaries and most accomplished artists.
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$39.99 
B. Krigstein Volume 1
This exhaustively researched tome is a giant biography and career retrospective of one of the most important cartoonists in the history of comics. This book also reproduces a generous sampling of art and illustration, plus six complete stories!
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$49.95 ![B. Krigstein: Comics [Sold Out]](http://www.fantagraphics.com/components/com_virtuemart/show_image_in_imgtag.php?filename=bookcover_bkrigc.jpg&newxsize=145&newysize=&fileout= "B. Krigstein: Comics [Sold Out]")
B. Krigstein: Comics [Sold Out]
This magnificent collection reprints 36 full stories from 1949-1956, 15 of them re-colored by Marie Severin. Included are classics from the EC era as well as lesser-known (but equally brilliant) stories from DC, Atlas, Hillman and elsewhere.
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$49.95 ![Blazing Combat [Softcover Ed.]](http://www.fantagraphics.com/components/com_virtuemart/show_image_in_imgtag.php?filename=545acd6603ea0897d6a29f05a1cd932e.jpg&newxsize=145&newysize=&fileout= "Blazing Combat [Softcover Ed.]")
Blazing Combat [Softcover Ed.]
Archie Goodwin & Various Artists The legendary anti-war comic is collected for the first time in its entirety in this softcover volume. Tales from the Revolution through Vietnam, drawn by luminaries like Frazetta, Wood, Severin, Toth and many more.
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$19.99 
Boody. The Bizarre Comics of Boody Rogers
Presenting the first-ever collection of Golden Age comic-book visionary Boody Rogers's wacky, weird, wild and sexy yarns, culled from the pages of such forgotten classics as Babe, Darling of the Hills and Sparky Watts.
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$19.99 
Confessions, Romances, Secrets, and Temptations
John Benson This companion volume to Romance Without Tears explores the background of the romance comics of Archer St. John, including a short biography, interviews with the editors and artists, critical commentary and more.
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$9.95 ![Creeping Death from Neptune: Horror and Science Fiction Comics by Basil Wolverton [Pre-Order]](http://www.fantagraphics.com/components/com_virtuemart/show_image_in_imgtag.php?filename=767506fd05d4d06be1f904d4e4a55754.jpg&newxsize=145&newysize=&fileout= "Creeping Death from Neptune: Horror and Science Fiction Comics by Basil Wolverton [Pre-Order]")
Creeping Death from Neptune: Horror and Science Fiction Comics by Basil Wolverton [Pre-Order]
Greg Sadowski, ed. A robust volume of some of the most intense horror and science-fiction stories of the pre-code era, including Wolverton's iconic space hero Spacehawk, carefully and subtly restored from the original comic books.
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$24.99 
FBI•MINI #15: Toth in Black and White
Alex Toth Two Standard-era Toth stories shot from the original photostats. We think the color comics in Setting the Standard look about as great as they can, but how can you go wrong with an alternate 16 pages of crisp black & white Toth?
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FBI•MINI #16: Coming Attractions
Edited by Greg Sadowski This full-color companion to Action! Mystery! Thrills! Comic Book Covers of the Golden Age 1933-45 reprints 16 terrific "coming attractions" ads for other comic books, including even more of those great covers.
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Fire & Water: Bill Everett, the Sub-Mariner and the Birth of Marvel Comics + From Shadow to Light: The Life & Art of Mort Meskin
Blake Bell/Steven Brower Two 2010 monograph/art books focusing on two of the greatest comics artists of the Golden and Silver ages: Bill Everett, creator of the Sub-Mariner for Marvel Comics, and the influential and unjustly neglected Mort Meskin.
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$51.99 You Save: 35.00% ![Fire & Water: Bill Everett, the Sub-Mariner and the Birth of Marvel Comics [with FREE Signed Bookplate]](http://www.fantagraphics.com/components/com_virtuemart/show_image_in_imgtag.php?filename=4d367ac2e38dc4ff3cbd389d85aae3b0.jpg&newxsize=145&newysize=&fileout= "Fire & Water: Bill Everett, the Sub-Mariner and the Birth of Marvel Comics [with FREE Signed Bookplate]")
Fire & Water: Bill Everett, the Sub-Mariner and the Birth of Marvel Comics [with FREE Signed Bookplate]
Blake Bell From the superhero and horror genre, to romance, crime, and suspense, Bill Everett was a master of the medium — all on display in this biography and art book that ensures Everett’s place at the table of premier comic book virtuosos.
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$39.99 ![Four Color Fear: Forgotten Horror Comics of the 1950s [2nd Printing - Sold Out]](http://www.fantagraphics.com/components/com_virtuemart/show_image_in_imgtag.php?filename=7d2d17af62fc8e84e1f36ad78ab16917.jpg&newxsize=145&newysize=&fileout= "Four Color Fear: Forgotten Horror Comics of the 1950s [2nd Printing - Sold Out]")
Four Color Fear: Forgotten Horror Comics of the 1950s [2nd Printing - Sold Out]
The finest non-EC horror covers and stories of the pre-code era by artist perennials Jack
Cole, Reed Crandall, George Evans, Frank Frazetta, Jack Katz, Al Williamson, Basil Wolverton, and Wallace Wood, collected in a robust and affordable volume.
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$29.99 
From Shadow to Light: The Life & Art of Mort Meskin
Steven Brower A coffee table art book, biography, and critique of one of the 20th century’s most influential and unjustly neglected Golden Age comic book artists.
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$39.99 
I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets
Welcome to the bizarre world of Fletcher Hanks, the mysterious cartoonist who created a hailstorm of tales of brutal retribution from 1939-1941... and then mysteriously vanished. His obscure and hard to find stories are finally collected here.
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$19.95 
Innocence and Seduction: The Art of Dan DeCarlo
This book presents a fitting tribute to the life and art of one of the world's all-time best cartoonists, lavishly designed with over 300 illustrations, including rare cartoons and strips, and of course, lots of those fabulous DeCarlo girls!
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$23.30 You Save: 33.33% ![Man of Rock: A Biography of Joe Kubert [with FREE Signed Bookplate]](http://www.fantagraphics.com/components/com_virtuemart/show_image_in_imgtag.php?filename=c41e2dec1b5f1a41b73ec7e03fda3b84.jpg&newxsize=145&newysize=&fileout= "Man of Rock: A Biography of Joe Kubert [with FREE Signed Bookplate]")
Man of Rock: A Biography of Joe Kubert [with FREE Signed Bookplate]
Bill Schelly This full-bodied biography provides a unique, behind-the-scenes look at the career of one of the most distinctive, dynamic artists in the history of comics.
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$19.99 
Mysterious Traveler: The Steve Ditko Archives Vol. 3
Steve Ditko Over 210 full-color pages of Ditko in his early prime that have never been
properly reprinted until now — thrilling stories of suspense, mystery, haunted houses, and unsuspecting victims.
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$39.99 
Our Gang Vol. 1 (1942-1943)
Walt Kelly This series reprints Walt Kelly's spirited and engaging Our Gang stories (starring the characters from the durable and popular short film series), lovingly restored and printed in their original four-color splendor.
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$12.95 
Our Gang Vol. 2 (1944-1945)
Walt Kelly Of the handful of comics' bona fide geniuses, few could match the versatility of Walt Kelly. This is the second in a series of books reprinting Kelly's Our Gang stories from the 1940s. Cover by Jeff Smith (Bone).
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