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A Complete Guide to Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel in Print, Film, Television, Comics, Games and Other Media, 1992-2010
This bibliographic guide covers the "Buffyverse"--the fictional worlds of the acclaimed television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003) and its spinoff Angel (1999-2004), as well as the original Buffy feature film of 1992. It is the largest... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$18.99
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For military cartoonists the absurdity of war inspires a laugh-or-cry response and provides an endless source of un-funny amusement.
Cartoons by hundreds of artists-at-arms from more than a dozen countries and spanning two centuries are included in this study--the first to consider such a broad range of military comics.
War and military life are examined through the inside jokes of the men and... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$19.99
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A great deal of scholarship has focused on Joss Whedon's television and film work, which includes Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, The Cabin in the Woods and The Avengers.
But Whedon's work in the world of comics has largely been ignored. He created his own dystopian heroine, Fray, assembled the goofy fannish heroes of Sugarshock, and wrote arcs for Marvel's... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$17.99
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It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a complete guide to over 50 years of superheroes on screen!
This expanded and updated edition of the 2004 award-winning encyclopedia covers important developments in the popular genre; adds new shows such as Heroes and Zoom; includes the latest films featuring icons like Superman, Spiderman and Batman; and covers even more types of superheroes.
Each... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$29.99
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Traditional Themes, Images and Symbols at Play on Screen
Over the last few decades, anime has consistently come into fruitful contact with themes, images and symbols associated with the fairy tale tradition.
This critical text focuses on the ways in which fundamental principles of the fairy tale tradition are deployed, and hence come to manifest themselves narratively and cinematographically, in... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$17.99
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A childhood comic book fan turned comic book retailer, the author soon discovered the prevalence of scams in the world of comics collecting. This book is his tutorial on how to collect wisely and reduce risks. Drawing on skills learned from twenty years with the San Diego Police Department and as a Comic-Con attendee since 1972, he covers in detail the history and culture of collecting comic books... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$15.99
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Essays on Children's Science Fiction Film and Television
Through spaceships, aliens, ray guns and other familiar trappings, science fiction uses the future (and sometimes the past) to comment on current social, cultural and political ideologies; the same is true of science fiction in children's film and television.
This collection of essays analyzes the confluences of science fiction... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$17.99
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From the Golden Age of the 1940s, through the Silver Age of the '60s, up until the early '80s--the end of the Bronze Age.
Included are the earliest series, like American Comics Group's Adventures into the Unknown and Prize Comics' Frankenstein, and the controversial and gory comics of the '40s, such as EC's infamous and influential Tales from the Crypt. The resurgence of monster-horror titles during... [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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For decades, scholars have been making the connection between the design of the superhero story and the mythology of the ancient folktale.
Moving beyond simple comparisons and common explanations, this volume details how the workings of the superhero comics industry and the conventions of the medium have developed a culture like that of traditional epic storytelling.
It chronicles the continuation... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$19.99
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Superheroes have been an integral part of popular society for decades and have given rise to a collective mythology familiar in popular culture worldwide.
Though scholars and fans have recognized and commented on this mythology, its structure has gone largely unexplored. This book provides a model and lexicon for identifying the superhero mythos.
The author examines the myth in several narratives--including... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$18.99
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From the beginning, both Robert Kirkman's comics and AMC's series of The Walking Dead have brought controversy in their presentations of race, gender and sexuality. Critics and fans have contended that the show's identity politics have veered toward the decidedly conservative, offering up traditional understandings of masculinity, femininity, heterosexuality, racial hierarchy and white supremacy. ... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$9.99
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These 15 essays investigate comic books and graphic novels, beginning with the early development of these media. The essays also place the work in a cultural context, addressing theory and terminology, adaptations of comic books, the superhero genre, and comic books and graphic novels that deal with history and nonfiction.
By addressing the topic from a wide range of perspectives, the book offers... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$19.99
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Embiggening the Learning Experience with the Wisdom of Springfield
The object of much debate, attention, and scholarship since it first aired more than 20 years ago, The Simpsons provides excellent, if unexpected, fodder for high school and college lesson plans. After all, laughing students are hardly sleeping students! But The Simpsons also provides a familiar student knowledge... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$19.99
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Director, producer and screenwriter Joss Whedon is a creative force in film, television, comic books and a host of other media. This book provides an authoritative survey of all of Whedon’s work, ranging from his earliest scriptwriting on Roseanne, through his many movie and TV undertakings—Toy Story, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly/Serenity, Dr. Horrible, The Cabin in... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$24.99
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Mention Shaft and most people think of Gordon Parks' seminal 1971 film starring Richard Roundtree in a leather coat, walking the streets of Manhattan to Isaac Hayes' iconic theme music. But the black private dick who inspired the blaxploitation film genre actually made his debut on the printed page as the creation of a white novelist.
Ernest Tidyman was a seasoned journalist down on his luck when... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$15.99
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Toys--those celebrated childhood cohorts and lead actors in children's imaginative play--have a fantastic history of heroism in fiction. From teddy bears that guard sleeping babies to plastic soldiers and cowboys who lay siege to wooden block castles, toys are often the heroes of the stories children inspire authors to tell.
In this collection of new essays, scholars from a range of disciplines... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$15.99
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Resident Evil is a multidimensional as well as multimedia universe: various books, graphic novels, games and movies (the fifth one came out in 2012) all contribute to this enormous universe.
The essays written for this volume will focus on this particular zombie manifestation and its significance in popular culture. The essayists come from very different fields, so it was possible to cover a wide... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$15.99
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Wolverine. Logan. Weapon X. By any name, Marvel Comic's savage, brooding antihero is, in his own words, the best at what he does--killing with gratuitous precision. Paradoxically violent yet humane, the beer-swilling, cigar-smoking mutant with retractable claws is universally misjudged in the Marvel Universe yet esteemed by fans worldwide.
The author explores Wolverine's development from bit character... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$15.99
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A Critical Study of the Graphic Novel and Film
The 2005 James McTeigue and Wachowski Brothers film V for Vendetta represents a postmodern pastiche, a collection of fragments pasted together from the original Moore and Lloyd graphic novel of the same name, along with numerous allusions to literature, history, cinema, music, art, politics, and medicine. Paralleling the graphic novel, the film simultaneously... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$17.99
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Across generations and genres, comics have imagined different views of the future, from unattainable utopias to worrisome dystopias. These presaging narratives can be read as reflections of their authors' (and readers') hopes, fears and beliefs about the present.
This collection of new essays explores the creative processes in comics production that bring plausible futures to the page. The contributors... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$19.99
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One of the most popular comic strips of the 1950s and the first to reference politics of the day, Walt Kelly's Pogo took on Joe McCarthy before the controversial senator was a blip on Edward R. Murrow's radar.
The strip's satire was so biting, it was often relegated to newspaper editorial sections at a time when artists in other media were blacklisted for far less. Pogo was the vanguard of today's... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$19.99
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"Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? . . . The Shadow knows!"
And who knew The Shadow better than his creator, Walter B. Gibson. Relatively few people have heard of Gibson, but many more are familiar with The Shadow having heard the program on the Blue Coal Radio Program in the 1930s and read the Street & Smith Shadow novels. Walter B. Gibson's life and career come out from... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$19.99
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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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Watchmen has been hailed as the quintessential graphic novel and has spawned a body of literary criticism since its 1986 initial appearance in installments.
This work explores the graphic novel's reception in both popular and scholarly arenas and how the conceptual relationship between images and words affects the reading experience.
Other topics include heroism as a stereotype, the hero's journey,... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$17.99
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This volume collects a wide-ranging sample of fresh analyses of Spider-Man. It traverses boundaries of medium, genre, epistemology and discipline in essays both insightful and passionate that move forward the study of one of the world's most beloved characters. The editors have crafted the book for fans, creators and academics alike. Foreword by Tom DeFalco, with poetry and an afterword by Gary Jackson... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$19.99
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This is a story about a secret government agency known as N.S.S which tackles national threats to the country. ... [click here for more] |
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A-Bomb Era Comics splits the atom of sci-fi stories from the Golden and Silver Age of comics. 100 Big Pages Astounding adventures like
*The Earth Conquerors
*What Are You Going To Do With Your Future Joe?
*Nightmare Among The Stars
*The Man Who Stepped Out Of A Cloud
*Sleeping Giant
*Gullible's Travels
*The Scrambler
*Past Haunting
*Nothing... [click here for more] |
Mini-Komix |
$3.00 $0.99
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Aces & Angels has some of the best Golden Age heroes in the history of comics! Starring Captain Midnight, Nyoka the Jungle Girl, Star Pirate, Val Storm, Captain Comet: Space Ranger, Kitty Carson, Mysta of the Moon, Kaanga, Gara the Jungle Man, and Captain Terry Thunder! 100 Big Pages of space sagas, wild west, jungle action, air raiders, undersea terrors, and mystery men!... [click here for more] |
Mini-Komix |
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Action Galore is an international ensemble of thrilling Golden Age comics. There's the Nazi-punching spy Freelance, feisty female reporter Kath King, reckless Orphan of the Storm, courageous Captain Cutlass, the historic Pony Express, and the stunning Starlight. 100 Big Pages of rip-roaring adventures!... [click here for more] |
Mini-Komix |
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This special bundle product contains the following titles. Action Galore (Pulp Adventure Comics) Regular price: $0.99 Bundle price: $0.75 Format: Watermarked PDF Action Galore is an international ensemble of thrilling Golden Age comics. There's the Nazi-punching spy Freelance, feisty female reporter Kath King, reckless Orphan of the Storm, courageous Captain Cutlass,... [click here for more] |
Mini-Komix |
$14.36 $10.90
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Admonishing Stories are dark vintage comics of horror, sci-fi, fantasy, superheroes, and cultism. Vampires escape from The Asylum, Hell Rider begins his crusade, The Joke breaks the atomic age, a gory gardener cuts into Flowering Death, undertakers undermine in Crypts And Graves, The Wild Bunch hits the road, dive into The Secret Files Of Dr. Drew, learn the history of The Vampire Hunters, Of Sudden... [click here for more] |
Mini-Komix |
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Adult Humor is a fancy flock of fantastic funnies from the Forties! Rib ticklers about bathing beauties, lingerie ladies, hula hotties, seductive starlets, beautiful brides, nubile nurses, harem honeypots, spicy showgirls, attractive actresses, burlesque babes, curvy cowgirls, and desirable dancers! 100 Big Pages!... [click here for more] |
Mini-Komix |
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After Hours Funnies is a collection of Golden Age comic strips. The work day is over, and time to paint the town red. Adult humor of cocktail parties, night clubs, burlesque shows, steamy dates, hot honeymoons, and bedtime stories. 100 Big Pages!... [click here for more] |
Mini-Komix |
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Alice: New Adventures In Wonderland are comic stories from the Golden Age. Alice is now a teenager living in America who frequently returns to magical worlds with real flying saucers, hungry giants, witless wizards, wacky weather-makers, crazy candy-makers, rebellious ragdolls, bragging bugs, and all her friends in Wonderland. Plus, solo stories of the Tweedle Twins. 48 pages long, and in color. Collected... [click here for more] |
Mini-Komix |
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All Fun British Funnies is a collection of various Golden Age comic strips from across the pond. This includes faves like The Looney Family, Norman Nib, Ally Sloper, Prof. Crackpot, Boarding House Bertha, Poor Old Pop, Dicky Bither, Iron Boy, Moko the Monk, Richard Richard, Katsmeat, Teapot Tilley, Stoogie, Goosey the Ghost, Bunty's Baby, Super Pork, TNT Tom, Sporty, Tish & Tosh, Molly the Maid,... [click here for more] |
Mini-Komix |
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Altron Boy is an original superhero that ran in Monsters And Heroes magazine created by fan comics star Larry Ivie. The co-creator of THUNDER Agents worked on horror titles like Creepy and Eerie. Mixing in both horror and superheroics, young musician Dave uses his father's gravity-defying Altron Belt to fly to the evil ex-Nazi known as Voltar. The mad scientist has created an entire land of dinosaurs,... [click here for more] |
Mini-Komix |
$0.75
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Anime away with this otaku view on the Arabian Nights. Din is an art school dropout during the ancient days in Arabia, and runs across a feng shui fansubber/dark magician Yen-Sid who employs him to raid an ancient tomb. There, he comes across two genies, Jamie of the Ring, and Jesi of the Milk Bottle. Din uses Jesi's power to woo himself into the graces of fanboy favorite Princess Pantaloon. But Yen-Sid... [click here for more] |
Mini-Komix |
$0.50
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Armed Forces Funnies collects Golden Age comic strips of soldiers in the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines! USO shows, budding bunkmates, silly sailors, merry marches, jolly generals, stymied sarges, and foxy females! 100 Big Pages of military madness!... [click here for more] |
Mini-Komix |
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Put a shrimp on the barbie for the best public domain comics from down under in Aussie Komix! Australia's awesome alumni like Phantom Knight, Grey Domino, Jet Fury, Glamour Girl, Sir Falcon, Konga, Grey Thorne, the Australian version of Catman, and the original Captain Atom! 100 Big Pages!... [click here for more] |
Mini-Komix |
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Australian Comics Collection are funnies from down under. Australia has its own rich history of original comics throughout the Golden and Silver Age. This collection shows off characters like Lieutenant Lew Mason, Alan Grey, Skyman, Hungry Harold, Avian Tempest, Lou Blue, Sir Falcon, Tim Valour, Wacky Potter, Tinker Tim, Silver Flash, plus Bert and Bill. 100 Big Pages of superheroes, aerial adventures,... [click here for more] |
Mini-Komix |
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Babes & Buddies is a Golden Age collection of gals, guys, and gags! Military shenanigans with men and women in the armed forces, plus pretty pinups, and antique adult advertisements! 100 Big Pages of luscious laughter!... [click here for more] |
Mini-Komix |
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Bachelor Comics is for all singles that salivate for good girls from the Golden Age. Foxy farmers' daughters, striptease dancers, gorgeous models, babes on the beach, nubile newlyweds, beauty contestants, curvy gunslingers, harem girls, shining showgirls, hot hula ladies, cocktail cuties, and chorus line sirens! 100 Big Pages!... [click here for more] |
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Beach Bum Funnies makes some waves in this collection of classic comedy comic strips. Take the spring break of a lifetime with bikini babes, tropical tikis, hula hotties, and sexy swimsuit sirens. 100 Big Pages of seaside silliness!... [click here for more] |
Mini-Komix |
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Fight Komix brings you two fisted adventures of action! Get a triple threat from Son of Sinbad, ace reporter Ray Hale, Doctor Graves, the wondrous Wonder Boy, the Kissing Bandit, Baron Von Brummer, the Fear-Feeder, prince of pirates The Hawk, the tiger queen Tygra, and the Ghost Gallery! Gruesome ghouls, jumping jungle girls, crafty criminals, swashbuckling sailors, and stupendous superheroes! 100... [click here for more] |
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Jungle Komix comes back in color for a sizzling safari! Rumble with Rulah the Jungle Goddess, Undercover Girl, Sabu the Elephant Boy, Tangi, Camilla, Serpent Woman, Safari Cary, Nomad Queen, Dagar the Desert Hawk, and more! Plenty of swinging stars from the Golden Age of comics! 100 Big Pages!... [click here for more] |
Mini-Komix |
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This special bundle product contains the following titles. Fast Willie Jackson (70s Black Comics) Regular price: $0.99 Bundle price: $0.75 Format: Watermarked PDF Fast Willie Jackson was a teen comedy from the Bronze Age of Comics, but written for black audiences. Set in Mocity U.S.A., the young man "Fast Willie" Jackson and his friends try to raise awareness for... [click here for more] |
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Black, White & Red Comics are a Golden Age collection of funnies done in only 3 colors! 100 Big Pages of 1-page comic strips featuring jungle queens, cheesecake cuties, office ladies, showgirls, naughty newlyweds, cocktail parties, beach babes, heavenly harems, and sexy starlets!... [click here for more] |
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Be prepared for Blood & Monsters! This collects some of the best in underground comics with gory toons and scary fun! There's three tales from the funny animal land of Gloomstadt by James Street filled of vampires, mad scientists, and Frankensteins. Also included are the Saturday Morning exploits of Monster And The Rockits by Jon Cowen, evil elves ready for the holidays in Seasons Greeting From... [click here for more] |
Mini-Komix |
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Blue Beetle's Girlfriend, Joan Mason is a collection solo adventures of a star reporter for several newspapers during the height of the Golden Age. When the good girl isn't investigating the latest crime, she is dating policeman Dan Garret, the original Blue Beetle. Everything from murders, mysteries, scandals, fiascos, ghosts, and masked menaces get drawn into the troublemaking reporter's capers.... [click here for more] |
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