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Explore the town of Arkham, setting for the beloved Arkham Horror series of tabletop games, in this comprehensive, full-color guide to its people, places and strange goings on…
Witness Arkham like you’re walking its streets, peering into its shadows…
It is the height of the Roaring Twenties. Flappers and young fellas dance the Charleston at raucous jazz clubs gleaming bright with electric lights.... [click here for more] |
Aconyte Books |
$49.95 $39.95
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Stunning art and illustration from the Japanese-inspired fantasy realms of Rokugan, setting for the famed Legend of the Five Rings series of games.
For more than a quarter of a century, Rokugan has provided the setting for one of tabletop gaming’s most beloved sagas, the Legend of the Five Rings. Now, the land of Rokugan, its Imperial rulers and the Great Clans who vie for their favor are set center-stage... [click here for more] |
Aconyte Books |
$29.95
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This special bundle product contains the following titles. Time Corps #1 Regular price: $0.00 Bundle price: $0.00 Format: Watermarked PDF If you are not good enough for Heaven, or bad enough for Hell, where do you go? The Time Corps is where those undetermined souls go before their final destination, and their new job will be to help preserve the Time Line. History... [click here for more] |
Wunderman Comics |
$23.82 $9.00
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Superman is the original superhero, an American icon, and arguably the most famous character in the world--and he's Jewish!
Introduced in June 1938, the Man of Steel was created by two Jewish teens, Jerry Siegel, the son of immigrants from Eastern Europe, and Joe Shuster, an immigrant. They based their hero's origin story on Moses, his strength on Samson, his mission on the golem, and his nebbish... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$45.00 $21.99
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In 1954, the comic book industry instituted the Comics Code, a set of self-regulatory guidelines imposed to placate public concern over gory and horrific comic book content, effectively banning genuine horror comics. Because the Code applied only to color comics, many artists and writers turned to black and white to circumvent the Code's narrow confines.
With the 1964 Creepy #1 from Warren Publishing,... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$19.99
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This is a complete reference work to the history of Batman big screen works, from the 1940s serials through the campy 1960s TV show and film, and up through the series of Warner Bros. summer blockbusters that climaxed with Christopher Nolan's 2012 film The Dark Knight Rises.
Chapters on each Batman feature include extensive film and production credits, a production history, and a critical analysis... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$19.99
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Essential Concepts and Applications
Since the creation of the comic book, there has been a lot of legal conflict and confusion where concepts such as public domain, unincorporated entities and moral rights are involved. As a result, comics creators are frequently concerned about whether they are protecting themselves. There are many questions and no single place to find the answers--that... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$19.99
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Essays on the Epic Graphic Satire of Dave Sim and Gerhard
In December 1977, struggling Canadian comic book artist Dave Sim self-published the first issue of Cerebus the Aardvark, a Conan the Barbarian satire featuring a foul-tempered, sword-wielding creature trapped in a human world.
Over the next 26 years, Sim, and later collaborator Gerhard, produced an epic 6,000-page graphic... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$18.99
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This is the first overview of cartoon art in this important cultural nexus of Asia. The eight essays provide historical and contemporary examinations of cartoons and comics in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam, and sociocultural and political analyses of cartooning in Singapore, Myanmar, and Malaysia.
The collection benefits from hundreds of interviews with Southeast Asia's... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$18.99
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From 1985 to 1995, Mark Gruenwald was the head writer for Captain America. During this decade, Gruenwald wrote some of the most essential stories in Captain America's history and guided the comic through an eventful period of both world history and comic book history.
This book dissects the influence of the world at large on Gruenwald's stories and the subsequent influence of Gruenwald's work on... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$39.95 $17.99
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1920-1960
In this thorough history, the author demonstrates, via the popular literature (primarily pulp magazines and comic books) of the 1920s to about 1960, that the stories therein drew their definitions of heroism and villainy from an overarching, nativist fear of outsiders that had existed before World War I but intensified afterwards. These depictions were transferred to America's "new"... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$15.99
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A Study of Cartoon Camelots on Film and Television
This is an exploration of the potent blend of Arthurian legend, cartoon animation, and cultural and artistic trends from 1933 to the present. In more than 170 theatrical and televised short cartoons, televised series and specials, and feature-length films from The Sword in the Stone to Shrek the Third--all covered in this book--animators... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$15.99
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This book explores the connections between comics and Gothic from four different angles: historical, formal, cultural and textual. It identifies structures, styles and themes drawn from literary gothic traditions and discusses their presence in British and American comics today, with particular attention to the DC Vertigo imprint.
Part One offers an historical approach to British and American comics... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$15.99
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Essays on the Educational Power of Sequential Art
Sequential art combines the visual and the narrative in a way that readers have to interpret the images with the writing. Comics make a good fit with education because students are using a format that provides active engagement.
This collection of essays is a wide-ranging look at current practices using comics and graphic novels in educational settings,... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$15.99
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Ethnographic Essays on a Pop Culture Phenomenon
This collection of 13 new essays employs ethnographic methods to investigate San Diego's Comic-Con International, the largest annual celebration of the popular arts in North America. Working from a common grounding in fan studies, these individual explorations examine a range of cultural practices at an event drawing crowds of nearly... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$15.99
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Created in 1941 by the psychologist William Marston, Wonder Woman would go on to have one of the longest continuous runs of published comic book adventures in the history of the industry. More than 70 years after her debut, Wonder Woman remains a popular culture icon. Throughout the intervening years many comic book creators have had a hand in guiding her story, resulting in different interpretations... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$15.99
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Superhero adventure comics have a long history of commenting upon American public opinion and government policy, and the surge in the popularity of comics since the events of September 11, 2001, ensures their continued relevance.
This critical text examines the seventy-year history of comic book superheroes on film and in comic books and their reflections of the politics of their time.
Superheroes... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$15.99
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For more than 60 years, Captain America was one of Marvel Comics' flagship characters, representing truth, strength, liberty, and justice. The assassination of his alter ego, Steve Rogers, rocked the comic world, leaving numerous questions about his life and death.
This book discusses topics including the representation of Nazi Germany in Captain America Comics from the 1940s to the 1960s; the creation... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$14.99
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This special bundle product contains the following titles. 2000 AD: The Creator Interviews #1 Regular price: $2.99 Bundle price: $1.99 Format: Multiple File Formats Exclusive interviews and career overviews of key comics creators taken from the pages of the Judge Dredd Megazine.
In this first collection Pat Mills, Carlos Ezquerra, Ron Smith and Mick McMahon discuss... [click here for more] |
Rebellion |
$14.95 $9.95
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The thought-provoking, aesthetically pleasing animated films of Hayao Miyazaki attract audiences well beyond the director's native Japan.
Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away were critically acclaimed upon U.S. release, and the earlier My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki's Delivery Service have found popularity with Americans on DVD.
This critical study of Miyazaki's work begins with an analysis of the... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$13.99
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Essays on Virtual Identity, Work and Play
This collection of new essays explores issues of identity, work and play in the virtual world of Second Life (SL). Fourteen women discuss their experiences. Topics include teaching in Second Life, becoming an SL journalist, and using SL as a means to bring human rights to health care; exploring issues of identity and gender such as performing the role of digital... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$13.99
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This special bundle product contains the following titles. Irrational Numbers #0: Addition Regular price: $3.99 Bundle price: $1.43 Format: Watermarked PDF Pythagoras is one of the greatest names in Greek history, an icon in philosophy and mathematics. In his thirties, he took on an apprentice, a former Dacian slave named Zalmoxis, and together they traveled the... [click here for more] |
Wunderman Comics |
$13.94 $5.00
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A significant expansion of the critically acclaimed first edition, Classics Illustrated: A Cultural History, 2d ed., carries the story of the Kanter family's series of comics-style adaptations of literary masterpieces from 1941 into the 21st century.
This book features additional material on the 70-year history of Classics Illustrated and the careers and contributions of such artists as Alex A.... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$12.99
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Ask Not What Your Country Could Do For You. Ask What It Could Do To You.
This is the special omnibus collection of all three books in the Matt Forbeck’s Brave New World Trilogy (and also the first three books in my 12 for ’12 challenge from 2012). That includes:
Matt Forbeck’s Brave New World: Revolution
Matt Forbeck’s Brave New World: Revelation
Matt... [click here for more] |
Full Moon Enterprises |
$12.00
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Take youthful energy. Add in some over-active imagination. Mix in some powdered donuts. Sprinkle it with delusional disorder and you get ... Insane Jane! Will Jane save the day? Will Jane destroy the world? Will she remember to take her medication?
Collects #1 - #4
Note: Intended for readers 15+ ... [click here for more] |
TidalWave Productions |
$11.99
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In Monsters Among Us urban legends are very real and they are being hunted by evil billionaire Solomon Kane. A small group of these mythical beasts including Bigfoot and a chupacabra are now after Kane in order to save others like them including Bigfoot’s own family. The Lizardman, from the swamps of South Carolina, must come clean about a piece of his past in hopes of an ultimate forgiveness and... [click here for more] |
TidalWave Productions |
$11.99
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Growing up we’ve all heard fairy tales and fantasies. Stories of princesses and of creatures unknown to this world. However, is what we see in the storybook really the whole tale? Or, is there so much more to these characters beyond the pages of the book?
In this unique take on some classic well known fairy tales and fantastical creatures, Yosiujima Siu brings you outside the book, and gives... [click here for more] |
Digital Manga |
$10.95
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Captain Midnight returns in this retro-romp through super-hero comics guest starring the greatest golden age Fawcett comics characters! Featuring an original story by DC comics alum, Brian Augustyn (writer of Gotham by Gaslight and JLA: Year One) and the Da Vinci of Golden Age redesign, our own Jay Piscopo (Artist/Creator of Commander X, Thorus, Sea Ghost and much more!)... [click here for more] |
Public Domain Comics |
$10.00
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The Long awaited H.O.R.R.O.R. Agents/Sgt. Frankenstein Super-Spooktacular! Featuring a collection of spooky super-hero adventures by the Da Vinci of Golden Age redesign, our own Jay Piscopo (Artist/Creator of Commander X, Thorus, Sea Ghost and much more!) Starring Sgt. Frankenstein, Captain Occult, Bulldog Denny: Monster Hunter, the Duke of Darkness, Dr. Drew Stalker of the Unknown, Fly-Man,... [click here for more] |
Public Domain Comics |
$10.00
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Alt.Title: 若葉の-少年期- / Wakaba no - Shounen Ki -
Cool, friendly Mariya is the undisputed king of his year! But why does he always hang around with shy and painfully awkward “Mr. Mannequin” Nachi? Can these boys withstand the non-stop judgment of a school filled with jealous rivals and confused classmates?
A New Season of Young Leaves follows every sweet high and lonely low in... [click here for more] |
Digital Manga |
$9.99
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Since he was little, Taisei Fujima has been known as the pretty boy in his town. Being pampered and self-indulgent throughout his life, Taisei has always considered his life perfect. That is, of course, until he met Keita Okachimachi, his former middle school classmate.
Okachimachi is the one stain in Taisei’s otherwise picture-perfect life. So, when Taisei is once again reunited with him, after... [click here for more] |
Digital Manga |
$9.99
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Lost in Infinity
In helping to save San Francisco from eldritch evil, members of the Sentinels, premier hero team of Emerald City, are lost among the infinite dimensions of the multiverse. The rest of their team are on a quest to find them, no matter what it takes.
Aided by the rogue magician Thomas Rhymer and his allies, the mystic Gatekeeper and the Shadow Knights, the heroes must... [click here for more] |
Green Ronin Publishing |
$9.99
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One sunny after-noon, on the campus of their university...
And again, on a rainy evening, at the train station...
Arikawa and Misaki’s paths crossed.
Neither knowing anything about the other person, not even their name...
That was how it all began.
But, little by little, they drew closer to one another, until… ... [click here for more] |
Digital Manga |
$9.99
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Why can’t I stop thinking about him?
Misaki and Arikawa are two men, who are undeniably attracted to each other.
And, when Misaki finds himself unable to control his pent-up feelings any longer, he abruptly heads over to Arikawa’s apartment; where he’s faced with an equally restless Arikawa.
Just what will become of these two’s wavering feelings…? ... [click here for more] |
Digital Manga |
$9.99
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It’s a normal morning in Freedom City, bustling cronut stands and sleepy commuters chugging coffee. A quiet night in a sleepy mountain town. A busy city street in the business district. A normal shopping trip for the first day of school. Life, as you know it…
…superpowered. Toy Boy unleashes an assault of childhood nostalgia. An undying superhero clashes with human-sacrificing death cults. The... [click here for more] |
Green Ronin Publishing |
$9.99
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"The name is RAZOR, EDDIE RAZOR, private eye. The RAZOR hangs in Downtown Postholocaust. Place like this you gotta have y'self an edge."
In the shadowy, dystopian world of Downtown Postholocaust, Eddie Razor is not your average hero. His unique ability to flick–teleporting through the gritty cityscape–is his lifeline in a place where danger lurks around every corner. But Eddie's world turns... [click here for more] |
Android Press |
$9.99
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Concept
To slap a satirical spin on the ludicrous nature of the financial crisis. As Jackie Chan is to Bruce Lee, so "Super Corporate Heroes" is to Alan Moore’s "Watchmen".
Bare Bones Summary
The corruption of ideals.
Synopsis
After powerful companies (and lobbyists) decimate the golden age of non-profit superheroes, new rules are designed and a new generation of superheroes... [click here for more] |
7 Robots, Inc |
$9.99
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One day, Iwai, an ordinary college student, is suddenly offered a part-time job to work as an assistant for the mycologist, Murota, a seemingly moody and unsociable man.
Though things start off a bit rocky, Iwai soon finds that he not only enjoys spending time with Murota and learning about a world previously unknown to him, but he also likes taking care of the man when he neglects to take care... [click here for more] |
Digital Manga |
$9.99
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Legendary super-thief Black Cat takes on some of Marvel's most renowned heroes and mob secrets in this electrifying heist novel from Marvel Heroines. Felicia Hardy always puts her own interests first, but the appearance of a mythical golden apple in New York has everybody with a hint of power scrambling for it. And who's everyone's number one choice to nab it for them?
The Black Cat,... [click here for more] |
Aconyte Books |
$9.95
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This special bundle product contains the following titles. Boogeyman #1 Regular price: $1.99 Bundle price: $0.60 Format: Watermarked PDF A troubled lucha libre wrestler living in a dire post-apocalyptic megapolis under the thumb of a corporate dictator becomes a reluctant, medically enhanced vigilante.... Boogeyman #2 Regular price: $1.99 Bundle... [click here for more] |
Wunderman Comics |
$9.95 $2.99
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S.H.I.E.L.D. is gone, the Avengers have fallen. All that stands in defence of the world are its greatest villains, the Dark Avengers, in this high-octane adventure from the Marvel Untold line. Under Norman Osborn's jurisdiction, the Avengers have been secretly re-formed with a cabal of deadly super villains. This is Osborn's chance to finally put the Green Goblin behind him... [click here for more] |
Aconyte Books |
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Sharp-witted, luck-wrangling mercenary Domino takes on both a dangerous cult and her own dark past, in this explosive introduction to the new series of Marvel prose novels. The job: infiltrate a Chicago conman's cult to liberate some brainwashed twins. For former X-Force operative Domino, that's a flat “no”. Fanatics are bad news. She still suffers from nightmares about Project... [click here for more] |
Aconyte Books |
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Smart-mouthed monster hunter extraordinaire, Elsa Bloodstone isn't easily fazed, but a shocking family revelation sends her down a bloody path, in this witty and action-soaked Marvel Heroines adventure. Elsa Bloodstone just can't catch a break. She's barely finished shutting down a hive of ratmen when a special ops squad turns up guns blazing – and they're shooting at her!
It's nothing a... [click here for more] |
Aconyte Books |
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Marvel's mutant heroes return when a remarkable student rushes to save his family but ends up in a whole heap of trouble, in this gripping Xavier's Institute novel. Victor Borkowski – aka Anole – has adjusted well to life at Xavier's Institute, gaining control over his reptilian mutant powers and the respect of his fellow students.
However, when he discovers that his parents have... [click here for more] |
Aconyte Books |
$9.95
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The world’s greatest heroes must defeat the evil Dormammu and free the planet from his insidious mind control in the ultimate team-up action from Marvel Crisis Protocol.
Dormammu, Lord of the Dark Dimension has almost completed his conquest of Earth, with a stranglehold on the minds of its citizens. Only a few have managed to resist him… To free the world, Doctor Strange must reassemble his Shadow... [click here for more] |
Aconyte Books |
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Two exceptional students face their ultimate test when they answer a call for help, in the first thrilling Xavier's Institute novel, focused on the daring exploits of Marvel's mutant heroes As part of their training at the New Charles Xavier Institute, Triage and Tempus are allowed to attempt their first solo flying mission.
Some way into their mission, they pick up an urgent... [click here for more] |
Aconyte Books |
$9.95
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The Guardians of the Galaxy return to Earth to save the world from Doctor Doom in this exhilarating novelization of the acclaimed Marvel scripted podcast
Star-Lord and Rocket are little older, a little slower, and a lot saltier than they were during their glory days. When they crash land in the desolate Midwest, they soon discover that Earth isn't what it used to be either, thirty years after Doctor... [click here for more] |
Aconyte Books |
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S.H.I.E.L.D. super-spy Bobbi Morse spreads her wings and dives into a brand-new espionage thriller from Marvel Heroines.
S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Bobbi Morse needs to get out of LA. Like, yesterday. With her painful divorce from Hawkeye still being hashed out, Bobbi could do with a new job to take her mind off the mind-numbing mediations. Luckily, an old friend and mentor of Bobbi’s is missing, so a jaunt... [click here for more] |
Aconyte Books |
$9.95
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Moon Knight stars in this brilliant new Marvel gamebook adventure of choice and chance, where only the player can stop an evil ritual which controls the powers of life and death.
When N’Kantu, the Living Mummy, escapes his sarcophagus and steals an artifact that turns swaths of mankind into zombies, Moon Knight steps in to save the day… But is hampered by an eager... [click here for more] |
Aconyte Books |
$9.95
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Super-powered mercenary, Outlaw, is always ready for a fight, but when her own mind is being stolen from her, she'll have to find a new way to defeat the bad guys, in this fast-paced Marvel Heroines adventure. Inez Temple, aka Outlaw, is a key member of Domino's mercenary team, the Posse, but when a job goes sideways Outlaw finds herself on the outside, and in an alarming state.
A... [click here for more] |
Aconyte Books |
$9.95
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