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41) Eerie
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Comics
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
When publisher Jim Warren created Creepy magazine in 1962, he soon realized he'd hit pay dirt on a gruesome gold mine of great comics storytelling. Under the leadership of editor/writer Archie Goodwin, Warren's hit line of horror comics magazines grew another lurid limb with the introduction of Eerie in 1964, and soon there were two great horror magazines on the rack instead of one. Following in the fetid footsteps of our sinfully successful archive...
42) Space Adventures
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Several of the best artists and story writers from the Golden Age of Comics contributed to Space Adventures, including Jon D'Agostino, Steve Ditko, Dick Giordano, Tony Tallarico and Joe Gill. Gill and Ditko created Atom Man, who appeared in late issues of Space Adventures shortly before they collaborated on Spider-Man. This issue features a fictional trip to the moon a little over a decade before it the dream became a reality.
43) Blue Bolt
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Novelty Press sold the character and rights of Blue Bolt to L. B. Cole, who was the cover artist for the character. Cole and Kramer began Star Publications with the known Blue Bolt character, even continuing the issue numbering where Novelty Press ended, with issue number 102. With increasing demand for horror and occult genres, Star Publications made a shift in Blue Bolt, renaming it Blue Bolt Weird Tales, and later Ghostly Weird Stories. Star Publications...
44) Outer Space
Author
Publisher
Charlton Comics
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Outer Space was actually a rebranding of the horror comic This Magazine is Haunted. The first issue, no. 17, was published in 1958 and included this introduction from the editor, Pat Masulli:↵↵"ATTENTION! This Is The Most Vital Subject of Our Times! Every American . . . Man . . . Woman . . . Child Owes it to His Country And Himself, To Read This Issue!" ↵↵It continues on the first page, "Here, in these pages, we open to you a great new phase...
45) Spook
Author
Publisher
Star Publications
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Spook is an excellent example of the horror-occult genre that was extremely popular during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Comic books pushed the limits of acceptable graphic representation of violence and gore to the point where society blamed comics for widespread juvenile delinquency. The U.S. Senate formed a sub-committee to investigate the influence of horror genre comics, which resulted in the creation of the Comics Code, a form of censorship....
46) Planet Comics
Author
Publisher
Fiction House
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Planet Comics is one of the longest-running Golden Age science fiction comic series. It is considered to be the best of the Fiction House publications and is highly collected and valued. One of the reasons it is so interesting to collectors is the excellent quality of 'good girl art,' a term that refers to beautiful women, often scantily clad, found within the pages of comic books. ↵↵These women often needed saving from a repulsive-looking alien,...
47) Dark Mysteries
Author
Publisher
Story Comics
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Story Comics, a publisher during the Golden Age of comic↵books, was known for its four popular series, Dark Mysteries, Fight Against Crime, Mysterious Adventures and Romantic Hearts. By this time, comic↵books had become relatively mainstream and the illustrations were becoming a↵respected art form. This time period helped to codify the aesthetic and↵vocabulary that remains popular in comic books to this day. ↵↵Story Comics'↵series Dark...
Author
Series
Plants vs. zombies (Graphic novels) volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
The New York Times best selling series is back! Every year as Halloween draws near, strange creatures and weird contraptions start appearing in everyone's lawns in Neighborville. A Neighborville Halloween is weird enough, but Zomboss and his zombie army want to turn the holiday into their own scarier Lawn of Doom celebration! With Zomboss filling everyone's yards with traps and special zombies, Crazy Dave, young genius Patrice, neighborhood daredevil...
49) Jujutsu kaisen
Series
Publisher
Viz Media LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]-
Edition
Shonen Jump Manga edition.
Language
English
Description
Yuji Itadori is resolved to save the world from cursed demons, but he soon learns that the best way to do it is to slowly lose his humanity and become one himself! In a world where demons feed on unsuspecting humans, fragments of the legendary and feared demon Ryoma Sukuna were lost and scattered about. Should any demon consume Sukuna's body parts, the power they gain could destroy the world as we know it. Fortunately, there exists a mysterious school...
50) Crime Mysteries
Author
Publisher
Trojan Magazines
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Crime Mysteries was part of the popular crime genre movement that took off after World War II. The series boasted more gore and horror than its sister series Crime Smashers, and it was tempered with recurring crime-drama characters Sally the Sleuth, Jerry Jasper and Queenie Starr. This issue features "Claws of the Green Girl!" and other stories.
51) Ariol
Author
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
All of Ariol's friends know that he has a big crush on Petula, but no one seems to notice that Bizbilla has her sights on Ariol, including Ariol! While she's waited in the . . . er, wings hoping Ariol will notice her, this sweet little fly has been cooking up a plan. Mister Cantharide, Bizbilla's dad, is an ophthalmologist. An ophthalmologist is the eye doctor. Ariol wears glasses. And it seems he has an appointment coming up! Bizbilla is all abuzz...
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Hiroaki Samura's latest Blade of the Immortal volume finds Manji and Rin recovering from their harrowing escape out of Edo's underground prisons and finally confronting their odd relationship. Doa and Isaku have something important to announce when Anotsu and the Itto-ryu reunite with their missing members, and Habaki Kagimura faces a death sentence! To atone for his failures and sins, Kagimura has one month to destroy Anotsu and his crew -- or Kagimura...
53) Attack!
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Venture into the dramatic adventures of World War II soldiers in the Attack! series from Youthful Magazines. This issue features "Death of a Soldier," "Operation Bullion" and other stories.
54) Shaman Warrior
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Reunited with Batu, her sworn protector, Yaki learns of the events that led Batu to follow and serve her father - the shaman warrior Yarong. How did the toughest Butcher Camp wrestler wind up pledging his life and loyalty to the refined, mystical Yarong? When you're the daughter of the most powerful shaman warrior who's ever lived, it's just the tale you want to hear before you set off to destroy those who murdered your father and have a genocidal...
Author
Publisher
Story Comics
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Story Comics' series Mysterious Adventures is an excellent example of the horror-suspense genre popular during the Golden Age of comics (1930s, '40s and '50s). Story Comics pushed the envelope of what was acceptable in terms of violence and gore and their comics certainly contributed to the eventual founding of the Comics Code Authority in 1954. Full of mysterious tales of the undead and monsters beyond the imagination, the stories are richly illustrated...
Author
Publisher
Star Publications
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Startling Terror Tales is excellent example of the horror genre that was extremely popular during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Comic books pushed the limits of acceptable graphic representation of violence and gore to the point where society blamed comics for widespread juvenile delinquency. The U.S. Senate formed a sub-committee to investigate the influence of horror genre comics, which resulted in the creation of the Comics Code, a form of censorship....
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The incomparable Gil Kane (Green Lantern, Amazing Spider Man, Blackmark) is featured in this special 240-page Chronicles of Conan volume - our thickest offering yet! Joining storyteller J.M. DeMatteis on Conan the Barbarian #127, Gil Kane's short but stellar Conan run in 1981 and 1982 thrust readers into a new era of magical quests, strange creatures and inventive fantasy adventures. In Chronicles of Conan: The Creation Quest and Other Stories, Kane...
58) Odder
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Odder spends her days off the coast of central California, practicing her underwater acrobatics and spinning the quirky stories for which she's known. She's a fearless daredevil, curious to a fault. But when Odder comes face-to-face with a hungry great white shark, her life takes a dramatic turn, one that will challenge everything she believes about herself--and about the humans who hope to save her." --
60) Dance Class
Author
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Julie, Lucie and Alia are best friends who share the same passion: dance! A new year of classes has begun and this year, in addition to their regular ballet and modern dance classes, the three girls are introduced to a new style of dance - African folk! Powered by deep percussion-based music, this style is unlike anything they've ever tried before. While the girls enjoy their new art form, problems at home and in the classroom threaten to cause them...
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