COMICS & Graphic Novels
Signed & Numbered Hardcover Issue
Sin City [Signed, Numbered]
First Edition. The graphic novel compilation of the first 13 episodes of this noir tale, which formed the basis of the 2005 film of the same name. This first installment of Sin City is frequently called The Hard Goodbye, to differentiate it from later stories set in the same fictional.....
Price: $500
S/N Copy of Issue 6
Cemetery Dance Presents Grave Tales #6 [Signed, Limited]
First Edition. The sixth issue of Cemetery Dance's horror graphic novel journal. This is one of 100 copies signed by many of the contributors on a tipped-in limitation sheet. First edition (first printing). A fine hardcover copy; no jacket as issued. Copy 99 of 100 signed by the contributors.
Price: $125
S/N Copy of Issue 5
Cemetery Dance Presents Grave Tales #5 [Signed, Limited]
First Edition. The fifth issue of Cemetery Dance's horror graphic novel journal. This is one of 100 copies signed by many of the contributors on a limitation sheet mounted on the inside front cover. First edition (first printing). A fine hardcover copy; no jacket as issued. Copy 96 of 100.....
Price: $100
S/N Copy of Issue 4
Cemetery Dance Presents Grave Tales #4 [Signed, Limited]
First Edition. The fourth issue of Cemetery Dance's horror graphic novel journal. This is one of 100 copies signed by many of the contributors on a limitation sheet mounted on the inside front cover. First edition (first printing). A fine hardcover copy; no jacket as issued. Copy 29 of 100.....
Price: $75
Inscribed with a Drawing
The World of Cartooning with Mike Peters: How Caricatures Develop
First Edition. An introduction to caricatures by a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, "as told to the Left Side of the Brain of Marilyn Jarvis." Peters also drew the Mother Goose and Grimm newspaper comic strip. 127 pages. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback), as issued. This.....
Price: $75
One of 2000 in a Box
Sketchtravel [Numbered Issue]
First Edition. As a charity fundraiser, 72 illustrators around the world drew in a sketchbook. This is a fascimile reproduction of the finish work along with a book of notes from each illustrator, accompanied by a portrait photograph (or drawing) and a facsimile of their signature. A two color print.....
Price: $75
Rhythm: Het stripwerk compleet & chronologisch, 1969–2011
First Edition. A survey of the work on Peter Pontiac, one of the best-known cartoonists in the Netherlands. Now out of print. 368 pages, some in color. First edition (no indication of later printings). A fine copy bound in paper-over-boards; no jacket, as issued.
Price: $100
Still Sealed
The Book of Genesis Illustrated [Signed, Numbered]
First Edition. "A faithful adaptation of the Book of Genesis, noted in part for its racy sexuality... The book reached number one on the New York Times Graphic Novels Bestseller list and was awarded Harvey and Eisner awards."—The Cambridge Companion to the Graphic Novel, p. 54. This is one of.....
Price: $1,000
Scarce Hardcover Issue of a Key 1990s Graphic Novel
V for Vendetta
First hardcover edition. This is the first hardcover issue of Moore and Lloyd's influential graphic novel, published by the Book of the Month Club (the commercially published version was a paperback). This is one of the most significant graphic novels of the 1980s, written beginning in 1981 as a response.....
Price: $500
With a S/N Silkscreen
Honderd Humo Covers, 1972–1992
First Edition. A full-color collection of Meulen's photomontage and cartoon covers for the magazine Humo. This is one of 175 numbered copies (the printed colophon is corrected in pencil from 200 to 175) with an original serigraph (silkscreen) illustration signed and numbered by the artist. Text in Dutch. 212, [9].....
Price: $200
Scarce Signed by the Mexican American Cartoonist
Gordo's Cat
First Edition. A late career collection of comic strips featuring a cat by one of the first Mexican American comic book artists. Gus Arriola's (1917–2008) newspaper comic strip Gordo was syndicated by United Features. With an introduction by Charles Schulz. 128 pages. Roughly 8-1/2 by 11 inches. Black and white.....
Price: $100
Watching the Watchmen
First Edition. A full-color coffee-table book about the making of the Watchmen comic book series. 9-1/4 by 12-1/4 inches. About 250 pages. First edition (with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a very near fine jacket. Signed by Gibbons on the front free endpaper. The signature is.....
Price: $100
Signed by Moore and O'Neill
Black Dossier: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen [Gosh Comics Issue]
First British edition. This is the grail item in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen graphic novel series written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Kevin O'Neill—the British import Knockabout Comics issue purchased from Gosh Comics with the suppressed 7-inch vinyl record, with both the book and the record signed by.....
Price: $850
Les yeux du chat / La déviation [Oeuvres Complètes, Tome 6]
First Edition. The sixth volume in the Complete Moebius series (in French), including La déviation, Rock City, Absoluten Calfeutrail, Ktulu (in full color), Tueur à Gage; and Les yeux du chat, a mostly wordless story written by Jodorowsky. 108 pages. First edition (states "1re Edition: Janvier 1985"). Top of spine.....
Price: $85
Manga Innovator's Nine Years in America, Illustrated
[America Sideways: Cartoon Ramblings] Amerika no yokoppara: Manga mandan
First Edition. An illustrated collection of comical adventures in the United States written and drawn by one of the key figures in the development of modern-day manga, Shishido Sako. Shishido's Supido Taro is widely cited as the first manga to incorporate storytelling techniques from American films, and it was one.....
Price: $3,000
Manga Innovator's Nine Years in America, Illustrated
[America Sideways: Cartoon Ramblings] Amerika no yokoppara: Manga mandan
First Edition. An illustrated collection of comical adventures in the United States written and drawn by one of the key figures in the development of modern-day manga, Shishido Sako. Shishido's Supido Taro is widely cited as the first manga to incorporate storytelling techniques from American films, and it was one.....
Price: $3,000
One of 30 Secret Copies
The Book of Genesis Illustrated [Signed, Roman Numeral]
First Edition. One of Crumb's smallest book limitations, one of thirty copies numbered using Roman numerals, a limitation not recorded on the colophon or in any reference I could locate. Presumably these thirty copies were set aside for the author and perhaps the publisher. Instead of using Arabic numerals on.....
Price: $2,000
Lynd Ward's First Wordless Novel
Gods' Man: A Novel in Woodcuts
First Edition. The American prototype for the graphic novel, a wordless novel consisting of a sequence of black-and-white illustrations reproduced from Lynd Ward's wood engravings. The Library of America edition of this book describes it as "a modern morality play, an allegory of the deadly bargain a striving young artist.....
Price: $400
Printed from the Original Woodblocks
Madman's Drum: A Novel in Woodcuts [Signed, Numbered]
First Edition. Lynd Ward's second wordless novel; this being one of 309 copies printed from the original wood blocks (essentially, this is a bound volume of 128 original wood engravings by Lynd Ward). Like Ward's other proto-graphic novels, he explores social-realist themes here, incorporating that with tropes from 19th century.....
Price: $1,500
With 30 Original Ward Prints
Prelude to a Million Years [Signed, Numbered]
First Edition. One of 920 copies of this wordless short story printed from the original wood blocks (i.e., a series of 30 original prints by Lynd Ward). As with all of Ward's 1930s work, this belongs with other social realist novels of the period. The story follows a sculptor carving.....
Price: $500
Printed from the Original Woodblocks
Song Without Words [Signed, Numbered]
First Edition. The second to last of Ward's "wordless novels"—this more a short story—about motherhood and fascism told in twenty-one original wood engravings (printed from the wood blocks). The story begins with a woman realizing she is pregnant and then thinking of all the horrors in the world of the.....
Price: $750
Inside Moebius Tome 6
First Edition. Volume six of the collected Moebius, issued by the acclaimed artist/cartoonist's own publishing house. Text in French. 124 pages, full color throughout. 6-7/8 by 9-1/2 inches. First edition ("première édition" stated on back cover). A fine copy in illustrated paper over boards. No jacket, as issued.
Price: $100
Inside Moebius Tome 5
First Edition. Volume five of the collected Moebius, issued by the acclaimed artist/cartoonist's own publishing house. Text in French. 124 pages, full color throughout. 6-7/8 by 9-1/2 inches. First edition ("première édition" stated on back cover). A fine copy in illustrated paper over boards. No jacket, as issued.
Price: $100
Signed by Koontz
Trapped
First Edition. A graphic novel based on a Dean Koontz story. Illustrated by Anthony Bilau and adapted by Ed Gorman. The book was simultaneously issued in paperback and this hardcover version. First edition (first printing, hardcover issue, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust.....
Price: $50