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Golden Age Greats Spotlight Special Volume 12
Price: $29.95 Now Available!! A second giant volume focusing on the most OUTRAGEOUS “good girl” art in comic book history! Our Golden Age Greats Spotlight Special Volume 8 proved so popular, those outrageous gals are back here in Volume 12 as Outrageous Good Girls Strike Back! It’s another heaping helping of female pulchritude as drawn by the masters of…
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Golden Age Greats Spotlight Special Volume 11
Price: $29.95 Charles Biro is one of the great forgotten geniuses of the early days of comic books. Writer, artist, editor and innovator; his profile cast a heavy shadow over the development of the comic book, even though his involvement in the medium ended by 1956. This important volume of the Golden Age Greats Spotlight series showcases some great…
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Golden Age Greats Spotlight Special Volume 10
Price: $29.95 The great Bob Powell is in the GAG spotlight this issue, as we go cover-to-cover with 23 full-story reprints covering a wide range of genres in which this prolific and versatile artist excelled. See some of the very best examples of his strong storytelling and bold brushwork on Western, romance, jungle, humor, crime, super-hero, war, action/adventure…
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Golden Age Greats Spotlight Special Volume 9
Price: $29.95 This issue of Golden Age Greats Spotlight is dedicated to complete coverage on the Golden Age version of the late, great duo of CAT-MAN and KITTEN!! Originating in Frank W. Temerson’s Crash Comics #4 in 1940, and continuing (after a partial revamp) through a six-year, 33-issue run of his own title published by Holyoke Comics; the Feline…
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Golden Age Greats Spotlight Special Volume 8
Price: $29.95 “Outrageous” Good Girl Art is the focus of the latest issue of AC’s acclaimed GOLDEN AGE GREATS SPOTLIGHT series; Volume 8, available NOW here on the AC Comics web store. It’s 160 pages chock-full of the sultriest, sexiest pin-up style girls ever to appear in comics, with examples spanning four decades of the medium’s history. 22 full…
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Golden Age Greats Spotlight Special Volume 7
Golden Age Greats Spotlight Volume 7 cover Price: $100.00 ONLY ONE COPY LEFT!! WILL BE COMPLETELY SOLD OUT SOON!!Commemorating the 100Th birthday of the greatest movie cowboy of them all and the comic book history of the matinee Western movie stars! Within a breathtaking color photo cover of ROY ROGERS himself, you’ll find a bonanza of great vintage cowboy…
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Golden Age Greats Fine Art Special 1
Price: $0.00 THIS BOOK IS COMPLETELY SOLD OUT AND UNAVAILABLE AT ANY PRICE!! A SPECIAL reprint volume containing ALL the material originally seen in Golden Age Greats #1 AND the long-out-of-print Golden Age Greats #3!!! How about TWO feature-length stories of of Fox Features’ The FLAME, stright out of vintage issues of Wonderworld Comics, and illustrated by the…
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Golden Age Greats Spotlight Volume 6
Price: $29.95 The phenomenal success of the CAPTAIN AMERICA comic book in 1941 spurred a trend towards flag-draped superheroes throughout the industry during the ealy days of World War II. It seems as if every comics outfit suddenly needed to have one, two, three; sometimes more of these red-white-and-blue characters to fill out there line. This volume of…
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Golden Age Great Spotlight Volume 5
Price: $29.95 This issue is devoted to the comic book work of one of comics’ all-time greats, Reed Crandall, in the only cover-to-cover overview of the industries’ first great “realist”. 150 pages in length, with 15 full-story reprints highlighting Crandall’s ultra-detailed renderings in crystal-clear black and white, sampling his work from it’s Golden Age beginnings at the Eisner/Iger…
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Golden Age Greats Spotlight Volume 4 : Big 3 And More
Price: $24.95 Fox Features is once again the focus of this issues’ Golden Age Greats Spotlight, specifically Foxes’ super-hero all-star title, Big Three Comics. Including the cover, this is a full facsimile reprint of the original Big 3 comics, including all stories, ads & text pages, PLUS FIVE more vintage Fox Features stories!! A total of 100 pages in…
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Golden Age Greats Spotlight Volume 3 | Fox Features The First Heroic Wave
Price: $24.95 One of the first Golden Age comic book publishers to invest heavily in the costumed superhero as a lead feature is the focus of this installment in the Golden Age Greats series, as Fox Features is given the GAG treatment. When the first Fox title, Wonder Comics appeared on the stands in early 1939, their were fewer…
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Golden Age Greats Spotlight Volume 2 REVISED SECOND EDITION
Price: $24.95 REVISED SECOND EDITION NOW AVAILABLE, WITH 36 additional pages of material added to the original!! OVER 180 PAGES OF COVERAGE ON EVERETT “BUSY” ARNOLD’S QUALITY COMICS GROUP!! The best – drawn features of comics’ Golden Age came from a company whose name accurately reflected their product- Quality Comics. See indepth coverage on many obscure and rarely-seen…
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Golden Age Greats Spotlight Volume 1
Price: $100.00 LAST COPY IN STOCK!! The most celebrated “good girl art” feature of the Golden Age is featured from cover to cover, The Phantom Lady!! The most complete coverage of this legendary heroine ever seen, with crisp, clear full-story reprints from her various incarnations- Quality Comics of the early 1940′s, Ajax-Farrel of the mid-1950′s, Paragon Pubs of…
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Golden Age Greats 14
Price: $11.95 The Comic Book Jungle!! Jungle adventure characters have been a staple of pop culture entertainment since Tarzan was created, and the comic book medium has had more than it’s share. This awesome volume presents crisp, clean vintage full-story reprints of some of the very best, and gives thumbnail histories and illustrations of ALL the rest! That’s right,…
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Golden Age Greats 13
Price: $9.95 Spotlighting The Artwork Of Jerry Robinson and Mort Meskin! This issue highlights two of the shining talents of the 1940′s and ’50′s- Jerry Robinson and Mort Meskin. Both artists arrived on the budding comic book scene in the late 1930′s, and were soon impacting it heavily, both individually and as a team. Jerry Robinson started out working…
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Golden Age Greats 12
Price: $9.95 Thrilling Science Fiction!!! It’s buxom babes and bug-eyed monsters in vintage action as this volume looks at the S-F stories of the great EC Comics artists and others. Of course, the actual EC stories themselves are readily available in a variety of formats, from Gemstone publications and other sources, so here in GAG #10, we look…
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Golden Age Greats 11
Price: $100.00 THIS BOOK IS ONE COPY AWAY FROM BEING COMPLETELY SOLD OUT!!The definitive history of matinee Western stars and their comic book counterparts, written by the world’s leading authority on Western comics, expert and historian Bill Black. Contains a brief cinema history, and complete publishing history, photos and artwork for EVERY Western movie star who ever had…
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Golden Age Greats 10
Price: $9.95 Heroes Versus Villains!! Some of the most memorable clashes between your favorite Golden Age heroes and their arch-nemesis play out the theme of this issue, as we see some of the most titanic battles in comicdom reprinted straight out of the 1940′s and ’50′s. You’ll see Cat-Man and Kitten against the unstoppable Dr. Macabre, from their last…
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Golden Age Greats 9
Price: $9.95 The Fabulous Femmes of Fiction House. In the 1940′s, the foremost leader among publishers in the “good girl art” genre was Fiction House Publications.This volume is a very representative collection of those way-out, pinup-style blazing tales of high adventure, featuring scantily clad amazons ripped from the pages of Planet Comics, ( Mysta Of The Moon, drawn by…
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Golden Age Greats 8
Price: $9.95 Fighting Females Strike Back!!! By popular demand, a sequel to the smashingly successful Volume 6, see more of the most fascinating costumed heroines of the 1940′s, with tremendous reprint stories like: Nedor’s Miss Masque, in an untitled story drawn by Lin Streeter, from Exciting #52, November, 1946; Senorita Rio, from Fiction House’s Fight Comics # 21, drawn…
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Golden Age Greats 7
Price: $9.95 If you were reading comic books in the early 1950′s, and you wanted quality Western stories that went beyond the pretty photo on the cover, the best place to find them was a small outfit known as Magazine Enterprizes. (M. E. for short.) This issue focuses entirely on the wild-west comics of M. E., with detailed histories…
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Golden Age Greats 6
Price: $9.95 BACK IN STOCK!! LIMITED QUANTITIES!!The Fighting Females” is the theme of this issue, focusing on the careers of some of the most popular costumed heroines of rhe 1940′s, including BLACK CAT, YANKEE GIRL, MISS MASQUE, PHANTOM LADY, BLONDE PHANTOM, MYSTA of the MOON & LORNA, JUNGLE QUEEN. Historical text and overview by Bill Black, plus great full-story…
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Golden Age Greats 5
Price: $11.95 Iron Jaw Versus Crimebuster!! This long-running battle between Charles Biro’s creation C. B. and the arch-foe responsible for his creation is among the most memorable struggles in comics history. This entire volume is devoted to the best stories of their contention, as published in Lev Gleason’s Boy Illustories during comic’s first decade and a half. You’ll…
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Golden Age Greats 4
Price: $9.95 The superheroes of Fawcett Publications are the topic of this volume, entitled “Captain Billy’s Whiz Gang”. Everyone is familiar with The Big Red Cheese, and his Family; here’s a chance to see some of their fellow stars, like: Spy Smasher, in “Hunt For Hitler!”, drawn by Alex Blum, from Spy Smasher #10, January of 1943; Bulletman and…
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Golden Age Greats 3
Price: $75.00 ONLY ONE COPY LEFT!! Spotlighting THE BEST artists of the 1939-1949 period this issue, with Lou Fine drawing Fox Features’ THE FLAME in TWO stories, one reprinted from Wonderworld Comics #7. Then, it’s ESPIONAGE-STARRING THE BLACK X, from Quality Comics Smash Comics, drawn by the great Will Eisner. Then, THE BLACK TERROR (reprinted from Black Terror…
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Golden Age Greats 2
SOLD OUT!! THIS BOOK IS COMPLETELY SOLD OUT AND UNAVAILABLE AT ANY PRICE!!The absolute classic character that epitomizes the “good girl art” style of the 1940′s was Fox Features Phantom Lady, and this volume is entirely devoted to the sultry, raven-haired crimefighter, as rendered by her signature artist, the great Matt Baker. Almost 80 pages of the best…
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Golden Age Greats 1
Price: Sold out THIS BOOK IS COMPLETELY SOLD OUT AND UNAVALABLE AT ANY PRICE!! Golden Age comics and the history of the medium are topics of great interest to the AC Comics editorial staff. While the major comic producers, Marvel and DC have done a laudable job preserving and maintaining much of the material they produced during comic’s…