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Info: Your browser does not accept cookies. If you want to put products into your cart and purchase them you need to enable cookies. 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! 
Four Color Fear: Forgotten Horror Comics of the 1950s
The finest non-EC horror covers and stories of the pre-code era by Cole, Crandall, Evans, Frazetta, Katz, Williamson, Wolverton, Wood, etc. Sold out, but available digitally from comiXology.
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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 ![Heroic Tales: The Bill Everett Archives Vol. 2 [Pre-Order]](http://www.fantagraphics.com/components/com_virtuemart/show_image_in_imgtag.php?filename=0c3e9b5d50ec30ad7831e06fa0233d68.jpg&newxsize=145&newysize=&fileout= "Heroic Tales: The Bill Everett Archives Vol. 2 [Pre-Order]")
Heroic Tales: The Bill Everett Archives Vol. 2 [Pre-Order]
Bill Everett Another 200+ pages of never-before-reprinted, beautifully restored, full-color stories by one of comics’ greatest visionaries and most accomplished artists, including rare early-1950s romance work.
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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 ![Impossible Tales: The Steve Ditko Archives Vol. 4 [Pre-Order]](http://www.fantagraphics.com/components/com_virtuemart/show_image_in_imgtag.php?filename=c4b46271a93d8fce80042ceb031838c6.jpg&newxsize=145&newysize=&fileout= "Impossible Tales: The Steve Ditko Archives Vol. 4 [Pre-Order]")
Impossible Tales: The Steve Ditko Archives Vol. 4 [Pre-Order]
Steve Ditko; Blake Bell, ed. The best in the Ditko Archives series yet, with extra oomph to his creepy yarns and a veritable explosion of ingenuity in his layouts. Over 200 meticulously restored full-color pages of Ditko in his early prime.
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$39.99 
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% ![Jack Davis's Tales from the Crypt [Halloween 2012]](http://www.fantagraphics.com/components/com_virtuemart/show_image_in_imgtag.php?filename=67bf8dd7e0caed7e18b3a18eca8c83b3.jpg&newxsize=145&newysize=&fileout= "Jack Davis's Tales from the Crypt [Halloween 2012]")
Jack Davis's Tales from the Crypt [Halloween 2012]
Jack Davis & Al Feldstein Four spine-tingling, hair-standing, blood-curdling tales of terror from the pages of EC Comics! FREE for Halloween 2012 at participating comic shops or with qualifying mail-order purchase (click for details):
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Man of Rock: A Biography of Joe Kubert
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 
Messages in a Bottle: Comic Book Stories by B. Krigstein
Ed. by Greg Sadowski The very best of the artist's genre-spanning work, from his earliest creative rumblings in the 1940s, through his glory days at EC, to his final daring experiments in the '50s, with historical notes and bonus artwork.
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$35.00 
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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$12.95 
Our Gang Vol. 3 (1945-1946)
Walt Kelly In our third volume of all-ages adventures, Kelly begins to hit his stride by relying more on original ideas than following the MGM scripts. The mainstay offbeat personas are joined by other whimsical characters in these witty tales.
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$14.99 
Our Gang Vol. 4 (1946-1947)
Walt Kelly Froggie and the Gang ship out with Professor Gravy on his showboat for an engagement downriver, which results in a series of action-packed adventures involving fisticuffs, gunfire, fireworks, and horse thieves. Plus more great stories!
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$14.99 ![Our Gang Vols. 1-3 Pack [Postage-Paid]](http://www.fantagraphics.com/components/com_virtuemart/show_image_in_imgtag.php?filename=4b2a86ed85909074729d7801cc82bbb3.jpg&newxsize=145&newysize=&fileout= "Our Gang Vols. 1-3 Pack [Postage-Paid]")
Our Gang Vols. 1-3 Pack [Postage-Paid]
Walt Kelly The first 3 volumes of spirited, engaging all-ages adventures starring the classic "Little Rascals" characters (and some original creations) as adapted by the beloved Pogo creator, together at one low, postage-paid price.
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$40.00 
Out of the Shadows
Mort Meskin The first collection of this unjustly overlooked Golden Age great gathers his best stories, showcasing his artistic mastery in every genre he worked in. Designed and edited by Meskin biographer Steven Brower.
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$26.99 
Setting the Standard: Comics by Alex Toth 1952-1954
Greg Sadowski, ed. A massive anthology collecting one of the medium's indispensable masters. The entirety of Toth's influential body of work for Standard Comics from 1952-1954, lovingly restored and collected in one substantial volume.
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$39.99 
Spacehawk
Basil Wolverton Spacehawk had but one mission in life: to protect the innocent throughout the Solar System, and to punish the guilty. Every story from Spacehawk’s intergalactic debut in 1940 to his final, Nazi-crushing adventure in 1942.
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$39.99 ![Spacehawk [Halloween ComicFest 2012]](http://www.fantagraphics.com/components/com_virtuemart/show_image_in_imgtag.php?filename=7749a8b0483057dfd07beb57c7604e1b.jpg&newxsize=145&newysize=&fileout= "Spacehawk [Halloween ComicFest 2012]")
Spacehawk [Halloween ComicFest 2012]
Basil Wolverton Available for Halloween 2012 exclusively at participating comic shops! Featuring a complete space-faring, monster-jammed Spacehawk story and some fun Spacehawk surprises we cooked up.
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Squa Tront #10
The legendary EC fan magazine is back with an interview with Al Feldstein; a 1978 panel discussion with Wally Wood, Bernie Krigstein and Harvey Kurtzman; a conversation between Kurtzman, Al Jaffee and Arnold Roth; rare art, and much more!
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