Four Color Fear: Forgotten Horror Comics of the 1950s
10 best books like Four Color Fear: Forgotten Horror Comics of the 1950s (Greg Sadowski): Abandoned Cars, In the Dark: A Horror Anthology, Creepy Archives, Vol. 1, You Shall Die by Your Own Evil Creation!, Essential Doctor Strange, Vol. 1, Pogo: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips, Vol. 1: Through the Wild Blue Wonder, 75 Years Of DC Comics. The Art of Modern Mythmaking, Art Out of Time: Unknown Comics Visionaries, 1900-1969, The Best American Comics 2008, The Best American Comics 2007
| Author | Tim Lane |
| ISBN | 1560979186 |
Graphic shorts in a Jim Thompson vein. Abandoned Cars is Tim Lane's first collection of graphic short stories, noir-ish narratives that are united by their exploration of the great American mythological drama by way of the desperate and haunted characters that populate its pages. Lane's characters...
In the Dark: A Horror Anthology
| Author | Rachel Autumn Deering |
| ISBN | 1613779348 |
As a backer of this anthology collection on Kickstarter, I may well be biased, but this is a generally excellent collection of 24 short horror stories told by a mixture of familiar and new names in the horror comics field, separated by dated adverts that evoke feelings of yesteryear when comics like Tales...
| Author | Shawna Gore |
| ISBN | 1593079737 |
Gather up your wooden stakes, your blood-covered hatchets, and all the skeletons in the darkest depths of your closet, and prepare for a horrifying adventure into the darkest corners of comics history. Dark Horse Comics further corners the market on high quality horror storytelling with one of the...
| Author | Fletcher Hanks |
| ISBN | 1606991604 |
Fletcher Hanks was the first great comic book auteur. That is, hewrote, penciled, inked, and lettered all of his own stories. Hecompleted an astonishing 48 stories in three years from 1939-1941. As aone-man-cartooning-band, his work packs the wallop of a unique andunified artistic vision. He was...
Essential Doctor Strange, Vol. 1
| Author | Stan Lee |
| ISBN | 0785123164 |
I am going to commit the comic book equivalent of sacrilege and admit that I find Stan Lee almost unreadable. No one needs to be reminded of all the characters Lee co-created and the massive impact they have had on popular culture. Having acknowledged that, I need to point out that Lee wrote some of the clunkiest...
| Author | Walt Kelly |
| ISBN | 1560978694 |
Kelly sure came out swinging right from the beginning. Though there are limitations and repetition here (Albert manages to swallow or seem to swallow quite a number of other creatures, for instance), the strip's greatness is evident pretty much from the jump. The art's expressive, complex, detailed,...
75 Years Of DC Comics. The Art of Modern Mythmaking
Super heroes from the Atom to Zatara: 75 years of DC Comics
In 1935, DC Comics founder Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson published New Fun No. 1, the first comic book with all-new, original material—at a time when comic books were mere repositories for the castoffs of the newspaper strips....
| Author | Dan Nadel |
| ISBN | 0810958384 |
Most of these are simply not interesting to read. This is especially true when many of the comics are not printed so that the writing is reasonable. Also some of the art is designed in a way so that the writing is hard to read even when zoomed in.
But a couple are real gems. . . . In particular, "Herbie."...
| Author | Lynda Barry |
| ISBN | 0618989765 |
This newest edition to the Best American Series--"A genuine salute to comics" (Houston Chronicle)--returns with a set of both established and up-and-coming contributors. Editor Lynda Barry and and brand new series editors Jessica Abel and Matt Madden--acclaimed cartoonists in their own right--...
| Author | Chris Ware |
| ISBN | 0618718761 |
While The Best American Comics of 2006 had an admittedly liberal-bias (not so much a problem for me) the comics ran the gamut from conventional to wildly experimental narrative in a variety of artistic forms, so nebulous that it was difficult to categorize some of them as styles. There was fiction and...
| Author | Yuichi Yokoyama |
| ISBN | 0982632711 |
A group of friends is attempting to enter a garden just beyond a wall. When they succeed, the garden they finally enter is no Eden, but rather a massive landscape of machines, geometric forms and all manner of nonorganic objects. In Japanese comic-book artist Yuichi Yokoyama's newest and longest (at...
Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus, Vol. 4
| Author | Jack Kirby |
| ISBN | 1401215831 |
After co-creating comic book heroes including The Fantastic Four and The Hulk, legendary writer/artist Jack Kirby came to DC Comics in 1970 to write and illustrate four interlocking series known collectively as The Fourth World. Now, for the first time, DC collects these four series -- The New Gods,...
The Horror! The Horror!: Comic Books the Government Didn't Want You to Read!
| Author | Jim Trombetta |
| ISBN | 0810955954 |
The Horror! The Horror! uncovers a rare treasury of some of the most important and neglected stories in American literature—the pre-Code horror comics of the 1950s. These outrageous comic book images, censored by Congress in an infamous televised U.S. Senate subcommittee investigating juvenile...
Creepy Presents: Bernie Wrightson
| Author | Bernie Wrightson |
| ISBN | 1595828095 |
Horror legend Bernie Wrightson's Creepy and Eerie short stories, color illustrations, and frontispieces are finally collected in one deluxe collection! These classic tales from the 1970s and early 1980s include collaborations with fellow superstars and Warren Publishing alumni Bruce Jones,...
Mail-Order Mysteries: Real Stuff from Old Comic Book Ads
Rediscover your sense of wonder!Generations of comic book readers remember the tantalizing promises of vintage novelty advertisements that offered authentic laser-gun plans, x-ray specs, and even 7-foot-tall monsters (with glow-in-the-dark eyes!). But what would you really get if you entrusted...
Beta Testing the Apocalypse
| Author | Tom Kaczynski |
| ISBN | 1606995413 |
It would be easy to call Tom Kaczynski the J.G. Ballard of comics. Like Ballard, Kaczynski s comics riff on dystopian modernity, bleak man-made landscapes and the psychological effects of technological, social or environmental developments.Yet while Kaczynski shares many of Ballard s obsessions,...
The Complete Peanuts, 1950-1954
| Author | Charles M. Schulz |
| ISBN | 1560976322 |
A boxed set of the first two volumes, just in time for the holidays, designed by the Award-winning graphic novelist, Seth! Ships shrinkwrapped. The first volume, The Complete Peanuts 1950-1952, covers the first two and a quarter years of the strip (October 1950 through December 1952), and will be of...
Rachel Rising, Volume 7: Dust to Dust
Can Lilith save the world? Will Rachel rise again?
"Woman is the only creature in nature that hunts down its hunters and devours the prey alive." --Abraham Miller
"I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people."--Isaac Newton
Well, I finally...
Walt Disney's Donald Duck: Lost in the Andes
| Author | Carl Barks |
| ISBN | 1606994743 |
Carl Barks Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge comics are considered among the greatest artistic and storytelling achievements in the history of the medium. After serving a stint at the Walt Disney studios as an in-betweener and a gag-man, Barks began drawing the comic book adventures of Donald Duck in 1942....
| Author | Robin Bougie |
| ISBN | 1903254450 |
The best of the first twelve, long-out-of-print issues of the celebrated underground smash magazine Cinema Sewer. A mind-melting compilation of gonzo writing, illustration and comics about the most insane, sexy, awkward, cheesy, hilarious, upsetting and jaw-dropping movies in the history of...
Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko
| Author | Blake Bell |
| ISBN | 1560979216 |
The first critical retrospective of the co-creator of Spider-man, Strange and Stranger grants an inside look into the workings and artistic life of this unusual man. Bell successfully argues Ditko's place within the pantheon of great artists while at the same time presenting the many shortcomings...
