Newsgroups: cmu.misc.market,rec.arts.comics.marketplace
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:34:38 -0500 
From: "David M. Bartlett" <db0s+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Comics & Comics Related stuff

The following comics and comicstrip related books are for sale:  Send email
if interested.


The History of the Comics:  Part 1      Jim Sterenko  (1970)      $10.00

Because of money and copywrite problems, late-60's/early 70's comic book
artist Jim Sterenko (classic Nick Fury, Agent of Shield) only completed
two volumes of a projected six volume history of the comics.  This first 
volume covers:

1) the inspirations for the comic books, ranging from remote ancestors 
like the Greek & Roman legends to the more immediate the newspaper cartoon
strips and pulp fiction of the 20's and 30's.

2) Superman, Batman, Captain America, the original Human Torch and Submariner,
and the various supporting characters that popped up on a consistent basis in
DC and Timely as back-up features in larger books as well as for brief
runs of their own just before and during World War II.

The book is soft-cover, about 18" x 12", with a "newspaper" like format
for it's small type (4 columns to a page), and 84 pages.  It features an
original full-color wrap-around cover featuring various super-heroes and
super-villians from the 30's to the 70's; it is profusely illustrated on
the inside with covers, contemporary panel art and original artwork
drawn for the book, including a full-page Jack Kirby Captain American. 
Though far from scholarly in the boring sense of that word, it is
well-written and loaded with information and insights into the origins
and histories of the characters, as well as the comic book as an
entertainment and art form.

CONAN THE BARBARIAN paperback comics, Vol 1 & 2:                    $1.00 each

Paperback adaptations of the first issues of Conan the Barbarian from Marvel
comics, with art by Barry Windsor Smith (WEAPON X).  Books consist of
full-color
panels from the origina comics broken down to fit on paperback pages,
and each cover 1 thru 3 and 4 thru 6, respectively, of the comic from
the early 1970's.

AMAZING SPIDERMAN:  Crime Campaign     (Paul Kupperberg)            $1.00

Paperback novel from 1979, as Spidey takes on the Kingpin as the latter tries
to rig the Mayoral election in New York City to serve his criminal empire.

Doonesbury:  the Yale Years            Gary Trudeau                 $4.00

The original cartoons published in the Yale student newspaper in the
late 60's/early 70's, which Trudeau used to get his national syndication
deal.
Off-sized paperback.

Tales from the Margaret Mead Taproom   Nicolaus Von Hoffman         $4.00
                                       & Gary Trudeau

A strange and racuous "account" of the Governorship of American Samoa by
Uncle Duke is juxtaposed with observations of what American Samoa was really
like in the mid-1970's.  Trade-sized paperback.

John & Faith Hubley's A Doonesbury Special                          $8.00

In the late 1970's, Trudeau worked with award-winning animator's John &
Faith Hubley to create a half-hour cartoon special for CBS, using the
Doonesbury character's to look at what happened to the idealism of the
1960's and the 1970's drew to a close.  This book contains commentary by
Trudeau himself, plus the entire final script of the show juxtaposed with
rough and finished storyboard art, animation stills, and working notes
for the development of the cartoon.  "Coffee-table" sized softcover.

Bravo for Life's Little Ironies        Doonesbury Cartoon book      $2.00

Paperback sized collection of 1971-72 Doonesbury strips.

Snigglets                Rich Hall                                  $2.00

OVERSTREET PRICE GUIDE:  Vol 14 (1984-1985 edition)                 $3.00

The Comic-Book Book        Ed. Richard Lupoff & Don Thompson        $4.00

A coolection of articles about comicbooks, including articles about EC Horror
comics, the role of women in the comics, jungle heroes, and a dozen others.





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