Previews #322 (vol. XXV #7, jul15)

From classics like "The Tortoise and the Hare" and "The Grasshopper and the Ants" to obscure gems like "The Frogs Who Desired a King," Fable Comics has something to offer every reader. Twenty-eight fables from different cultures and traditions are wonderfully adapted and illustrated in comics format by twenty-six different cartoonists. Edited by New York Times-bestselling Fairy Tale Comics' Chris Duffy, this jacketed hardcover is a beautiful gift and an instant classic. (STK680579) (C: 0-1-0)

HC, 7.5 x10, 128pgs, FC SRP: $19.99
STARS OF THE MONTH
NURSERY RHYME COMICS: 50 TIMELESS RHYMES HC

(W) Roz Chast, Gene Luen Yang (A) Roz Chast

Featuring 50 classic nursery rhymes illustrated and interpreted in comics form by fifty of today's preeminent cartoonists and illustrators! From New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast's "There Was a Crooked Man" to Bad Kitty author Nick Bruel's "Three Little Kittens" to Gene Yang's "Pata-Cake," this collection will put a grin on your face and keep it there. Each rhyme is one to three pages long, and simply paneled and lettered to ensure that the experience is completely accessible for the youngest of readers. (STK450040) (AUG111068)

HC, 7.5 x10, 128pgs, FC SRP: $18.99
FAIRY TALE COMICS HC

(W) Chris Duffy (A) Jonathon London & Various

From favorites like "Puss in Boots" and "Goldilocks" to obscure gems like "The Boy Who Drew Cats," Fairy Tale Comics has something to offer every reader. Seventeen fairy tales are wonderfully adapted and illustrated in comics format by seventeen different cartoonists, including Raina Telgemeier ("Rapunzel"), Brett Helquist ("Rumpelstiltskin"), David Mazzucchelli ("Give Me the Shudders"), the Hernandez Brothers ("Hansel and Gretel" and "Snow White"), and more. (STK617752) (JUL131155)

HC, 7.5 x10, 128pgs, FC SRP: $19.99
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LITTLE ROBOT GN

(W/A/CA) Ben Hatke

When a little girl finds an adorable robot in the woods, she presses a button and accidentally activates him for the first time. Now, she finally has a friend. But the big, bad robots are coming to collect the little guy for nefarious purposes, and it's all up to a five-year-old armed only with a wrench and a fierce loyalty to her mechanical friend to save the day! (STK680555) (C: 0-1-0)

HC, 7x9, 144pgs, FC SRP: $16.99
STARS OF THE MONTH
ZITA THE SPACEGIRL GN'S

(W/A/CA) Ben Hatke

When Zita's best friend disappears in a puff of smoke, she doesn't even think before dashing after him. To her surprise, she finds herself on a planet she's never seen before. Alien chickens and insecure robots are weird enough as new experiences go, but Zita is more shocked to find herself cast in the role of an intergalactic hero. It looks like there's nothing for her to do but don a cape and officially become: Zita the Spacegirl! (STK649644)

The debut volume in the new graphic novel series by Gene Luen Yang! Welcome to Stately Academy, a school which is just crawling with mysteries to be solved! The founder of the school left many clues and puzzles to challenge his enterprising students. Using their wits and their growing prowess with coding, Hopper and her friend Eni are going to solve the mystery of Stately Academy no matter what it takes! Available in softcover and hardcover editions. (STK680560) (C: 0-1-0)

The Stratford Zoo looks like a normal zoo ... until the gates shut at night. That's when the animals come out of their cages to stage elaborate performances of Shakespeare's greatest works. They might not be the most accomplished thespians, but they've got what counts: heart. Also fangs, feathers, scales, and tails. And this time they're presenting Shakespeare's classic Romeo and Juliet! Available in softcover and hardcover editions. (STK680577) (C: 1-0-0) NOTE: Not available in the U.K. (May Purchase from U.K. Vendor)

The Stratford Zoo looks like a normal zoo — until the gates shut at night! That's when the animals come out of their cages to stage elaborate performances of Shakespeare's greatest works. They might not be the most accomplished thespians, but they've got what counts: heart. Also fangs, feathers, scales, and tails. Macbeth, Shakespeare's greatest tragedy, has never been so funny as when it's performed by the animals of Stratford Zoo! (STK648376) (C: 1-0-0) NOTE: Not available in the U.K. (May Purchase from U.K. Vendor)

SC, 7x10, 80pgs, PC SRP: $12.99
GRYPHONS AREN'T SO GREAT PICTURE BOOK HC

(W/A/CA) Andrew Arnold & Various

The Knight's best friend is her horse, Edward. They go everywhere together and do everything together! But when the Knight gets a gryphon, suddenly all she talks about is how awesome her new pet is. Edward can't help it-he's jealous! But the gryphon turns out to be more of a peril than a pet, and it's Edward who comes to the rescue in the end. It turns out that gryphons aren't so great... but Edward sure is! (STK680558) (C: 0-1-0) NOTE: Not available in the U.K. (May Purchase from U.K. Vendor)

HC, 8x8, 40pgs, FC SRP: $14.99
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O/A SLEEPLESS KNIGHT PICTURE BOOK HC

(W/A/CA) Andrew Arnold & Various

Your favorite characters from Adventures in Cartooning are back in this adorable paper-over-board picture book! The Knight can't wait for her first camping trip! She and her horse Edward pack everything they need — including her beloved Teddy — and head out into the woods. But when it's time for bed, Teddy is nowhere to be found! A helpful racoon thinks this "Teddy" sounds familiar and sends the Knight off to a cave, but that's no teddy bear in that cave. That's a real bear! (STK666798) NOTE: Not available in the U.K. (May Purchase from U.K. Vendor)

HC, 8x8, 40pgs, FC SRP: $14.99
FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS
HIP HOP FAMILY TREE #2

by Ed Piskor

$3.99 / Comic / 32 pgs / FC / 6.5 x 10

Hip Hop jumps from the streets into the record business in this issue documenting the first rap songs on wax by acts like the Sugarhill Gang, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious five and Kurtis Blow. Discover the secrets that took place to make Hip Hop culture the global phenomenon that it grew into.

by Steve Ditko; Edited by Blake Bell

$39.99 / HC / 220 pgs / FC / 7.25 x 10.5

In this fifth volume of the Steve Ditko Archives, the legendary cocreator of Spider-Man and Doctor Strange sets his pen to some disturbing flights of fancy involving mermaids, mad scientists, alien invasions, exotic locales, and much more. Fantagraphics’s meticulous full-color restoration gives these chilling Cold War–era yarns (many of which have seen print in more than half a century) a startling clarity. Story titles in this 220-page volume include “The Man Who Couldn’t Die, ” “Valley Of Eternity,” “The Statues That Came To Life,” “Inside The Crystal Globe,” “Mystery From Mars,” and “Doorway Into Tomorrow.”

by Benjamin Marra

$14.99 / SC / 116 pgs / FC / 6.625 x 10.25

Cartoonist Benjamin Marra brilliantly satirizes America’s recent obsession with justice and its disinterest in consequences. Terror Assaulter must defeat Terror at all costs, diverting only for steamy dates with hot chicks. Nothing is spared in this searing and hilarious indictment of American foreign policy over the last decade, whether it be neocon philosophy, the state of American masculinity and sexuality or male power fantasy in escapist entertainment.

by Carl Barks

$29.99 / HC / 228 pgs / FC / 7.5 x 10.25

When Donald offers tricks instead of treats for Halloween, Witch Hazel (first appearance) conjures a trick or two of her own — in a legendary story that restores nine lost pages! Then, Donald hypnotizes Uncle Scrooge — or does he? Plus, one of Barks’s favorites, “Omelet,” Donald’s misadventures as a chicken farmer. Sixteen stories of all-around comic book excellence, each meticulously restored and newly colored.

by Stan Sakai

$75.00 / SC / 1160 pgs / BW with 24 pages color / 6.875 x 10.5

Now In Paperback! Usagi Yojimbo is one of the most iconic modern comics characters and a perennial favorite amongst comics fans. Stan Sakai chronicles the action-packed wanderings of a masterless samurai in feudal Japan as told with funny-animals. This slipcase set collects the first ten years with over 1,000 pages of story along with extras including a gallery of 50 covers, preparatory sketches, two stories co-starring the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the rare “How I Draw Usagi Yojimbo” strip plus introductions by Stan Sakai and Stan Lee and a careerspanning interview with Sakai.

by Jack Kamen and Al Feldstein

$29.99 / HC / 208 pgs / BW / 7.25 x 10.25

Jack Kamen’s precise, clean style was perfect for tales of men and women who act on the base instincts behind their glamorous façades. Enter the twisted world of Kamen’s crime capers with stories like “Forty Whacks”, “Contract for Death”, “The Neat Job!”, “Just Desserts!” plus 20 more tales of tension as only EC could do them! Like every book in the Fantagraphics EC Artists’ Library, Forty Whacks and Other Stories also features essays and notes by EC experts on these superbly crafted, classic masterpieces.

by Liz Suburbia

$29.99 / SC / 312 pgs / BW / 6.5 x 9.5

This debut coming-of-age graphic novel, filled with teen loves and fights and parties, is a summer vacation-style bacchanalia set against the threat of a big reckoning that everyone believes is coming. Suburbia’s punk-infused comics and cartooning talent have drawn favorable comparisons to Brandon Graham (King City) and Jaime

Hernandez (Love and Rockets).
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MEGAHEX (NEW PRINTING)

by Simon Hanselmann

$29.99 JUL141215

Megg the witch, Mogg the cat, their friend Owl, and Werewolf Jones struggle unsuccessfully with their depression, drug use, sexuality, poverty, lack of ambition, and their complex feelings about each other. It’s a comedy!

by Jaime Hernandez

$18.99 JAN141209

The first of three volumes collecting the Love and Rockets stories of spunky Maggie, her brash best friend and sometimes lover Hopey, and their friends. These are the earliest, punkiest, most heavily sci-fi stories.

by Jaime Hernandez

$18.99 APR111032

In this batch of “Locas” stories from Love and Rockets Vol. II, an older and wiser Maggie faces down her demons, Hopey transitions from tending bar to tending schoolkids, and Ray tussles with the volatile bombshell Vivian.

by Steve Ditko

$28.99 MAR141167

Before Spider-Man and Dr. Strange, Ditko conjured horrors at his drawing table. Collecting over 200 spectacular full-color pages of pre-Code work from his first 2 years in the industry, edited by Blake Bell. Now in paperback!

by Joe Sacco

$19.95 STAR14887

Sacco spent five months in Bosnia in 1996, immersing himself in the human side of life during wartime, researching stories that are rarely found in conventional news coverage, emerging with this astonishing first-person account.

by Steve Ditko

$39.99 APR131133

The best in the Ditko Archives series yet, with extra oomph to his creepy yarns and a veritable explosion of ingenuity in his layouts. Over 200 meticulously restored full-color pages of Ditko in his early prime.

by Wally Wood

$28.99 APR121089

Suspense and crime shockers by a comics grandmaster. Collecting all 26 Wood-drawn horror and crime stories — including the full baker’s dozen of EC’s most courageous and politically charged dramas.

by Steve Ditko; Edited by Blake Bell

$39.99 NOV110991

Over 210 full-color pages of Ditko in his early prime that have never been properly reprinted until now — thrilling stories of suspense, mystery, haunted houses, and unsuspecting victims.

by Steve Ditko; Edited by Blake Bell

$39.99 MAR083707

The first critical retrospective of the work of the reclusive Spider- Man co-creator traces his life and career, his stylistic innovations, and his philosophical principles, in a lushly-illustrated coffee-table book.

by Steve Ditko; Edited by Blake Bell

$39.99 JUN101001

More than 200 pages’ worth of never-before-collected horror and science-fiction stories from the early career of a comics great, beautifully presented in a stunning hardcover volume. Introduction by series editor Blake Bell.

by Jack Davis

$28.99 OCT121084

Good Lord! Choke! The complete Jack Davis-illustrated Tales from the Crypt stories collected in one convenient, gore-drenched package! The quintessential American horror comic drawn by its quintessential artist.

by Ben Catmull

$22.99 MAY131146

This gorgeous, coffee-table art book is a compendium of imaginary haunted houses, along with the stories and rumors of who haunts them, and why. Evocative and macabre, with a touch of humor.

For four and a half decades only one publication has brought collectors and dealers the prices of back issue comic books, market reports from the experts, and the history of our medium. This year, The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide celebrates with new prices, new feature articles, new additions to the Overstreet Hall of Fame, and more. Anniversaries the Guide marks this year include Captain Marvel at 75, Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. at 50, the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents at 50, Wonder Girl at 50, and Captain Canuck at 40. Available this year with four covers in softcover and hardcover editions: a Captain America & Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. cover by Greg Land, a Superman cover by Joe Schuster, a Bloodshot & X-O Manowar cover by Cary Nord, or a Captain Action cover by Paul Gulacy. (STK672009) (C: 0-1-0)

Overstreet's Comic Book Marketplace Yearbook 2014-2015 features a special look a Batman's 75th anniversary ranging from the first year he spent without Robin to Gotham By Gaslight, and from his Silver Age revamp to DC's "New 52." The spotlight also falls on the 60th anniversary of Simon & Kirby's Fighting American, the 45th anniversary of Vampirella, 40th anniversary of Wolverine, the 30th anniversary of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and the 20th anniversary of Billy Tucci's Shi. CBM expands to look at the comic art market as well as the back issue market. From the publishers of The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide. Available with three covers — Shi/Painkiller Jane, X-O Manowar, or Luna. (STK648590)

How do you collect comics? How do you care for them? Grade them? Sell them? How do you turn your comics hobby into a job in the industry? Who have been the greatest comic creators? The Overstreet Guide to Collecting Comics offers answers and insights into these questions and more facing new collectors and experienced enthusiasts alike. Available with a Spider-Man cover by Joe Jusko and a second printing Valiant cover with X-O Manowar, Ninjak, and Shadowman. (STK475729)

The market for original comic art has never been more compelling, and now a resurgent animation art market is commanding attention as well. If those areas of collecting seem daunting, The Overstreet Guide To Collecting Comic & Animation Art is a great place to start. The second book in Overstreet's new "How To" series offers the terminology you need to know along with the expertise of seasoned collectors and dealers who will help you get to know what to look for and how to look for it. Silver Surfer #1 recreation cover by renowned painter Joe Jusko. (STK619804) (AUG131333)

SC, 7x10, 128pgs, FC SRP: $12.95
THE OVERSTREET GUIDE TO GRADING COMICS SC

(W) Robert M. Overstreet (A) Various

This third book in Overstreet's new "How To" line teaches you the importance of condition (a factor that is often the key to real collectability) and how to grade accurately. The Overstreet Guide To Grading Comics includes the 10-point grading system, as well as exhaustive descriptions of Primary and Split Grades, examples of each grade with more than 200 full-color images in all, articles on storage, preservation, and restoration, a look at the independent, third-party grading companies, and much more! (STK653494) (SEP141457)

SC, 7x10, 360pgs, FC SRP: $24.95
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GRAPHIC INDIA PTE. LTD
GRANT MORRISON'S 18 DAYS #3

(W) Grant Morrison & Various (A) Francesco Biagini (CA) Jeevan Kang

The newest epic from the mind of legendary creator Grant Morrison continues with a look back at the birth of the villainous King Duryodhana. The Queen has been with child for two years, there have been ill omens witnessed across the kingdom of Hastinapur. Meanwhile the blind King Dhrit awaits the birth of his son, who he believes is prophesied to change the fate of the world. (STK681598)

Darius Mistry and Amos Golem, Paranormal Investigators for Hire, are (reluctantly) called in by the police commissioner when his daughter has her soul stolen by a syndicate of soul smugglers. To recover her soul and stop the smuggling ring, Darius and Amos have to venture into an underworld of supernatural crime, children's television, and monster wrestling! (STK681602)

32pgs, FC (3 of 5) SRP: $2.99
THE SADHU: BIRTH OF THE WARRIOR #3

(W) Chuck Dixon & Various (A) Edison George (CA) Dan Panosian

The relaunch of the acclaimed comic-book series The Sadhu continues. It's been years since James Jensen, formerly a British soldier, disappeared into the deep forest to live with the powerful mystics called Sadhus. Townsend, the corrupt officer who murdered James's family, now runs a flourishing criminal empire. The two face each other once more when James, now imbued with supernatural powers by the sadhus, returns to avenge his dead family. (STK681603)

MATURE THEMES

32pgs, FC (3 of 6) SRP: $2.99

Straight from the Free Comic Book Day release and based on the animated shorts seen on Angry Birds ToonsTV with over 30 Million views worldwide, Chakra the Invincible is the latest superhero from legendary creator, Stan Lee. In this issue Raju begins to explore his new-found powers with his mentor Dr. Singh while the sinister industrialist Shatru Seth searches for any trace of Dr. Singh and his missing suit. Also in this issue, an exciting backup story based on the Chakra animated shorts. (STK681604)

32pgs, FC SRP: $2.99
GRAPHIX
AMULET BOOK 3: THE CLOUD SEARCHERS HC

(W/A/CA) Kazu Kibuishi

Kazu Kibuishi's #1 New York Times-bestselling graphic novel series continues! Emily, Navin, and their crew of resistance fighters charter an airship and set off in search of the lost city of Cielis. There they hope to find help from the Guardian Council's powerful Stonekeepers. It's a mission that Alledia's survival depends on, and time is running out. Emily's got to find Cielis before the Elf King finds her. (STK680791)

HC, 6x9, 208pgs, FC SRP: $24.99
AMULET BOOK 4: THE LAST COUNCIL HC

(W/A/CA) Kazu Kibuishi

Kazu Kibuishi's #1 New York Times-bestselling graphic novel series continues! Emily and her friends think they'll find the help they need in Cielis, but something isn't right. Streets that were once busy are deserted, and the townspeople who are left live in fear. Emily is escorted to the Academy, where she's expected to compete for a spot on the Guardian Council, a group of the most powerful Stonekeepers. But as the number of competitors gets smaller and smaller, an awful secret is slowly uncovered, a secret that, if left buried, means the certain destruction of everything Emily fights for. (STK680803)

HC, 6x9, 224pgs, FC SRP: $24.99