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  • 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...

    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…

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  • Golden Age Greats Spotlight Volume 7 cover Price: $49.95     ONLY A COUPLE OF COPIES LEFT!! WILL BE A TOTAL SELL-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...

    Golden Age Greats Spotlight Special Volume 7

    Golden Age Greats Spotlight Volume 7 cover Price: $49.95     ONLY A COUPLE OF COPIES LEFT!! WILL BE A TOTAL SELL-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…

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  • 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...

    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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  • 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...

    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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  • 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...

    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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  • 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...

    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…

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  • 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...

    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…

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  • 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...

    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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  • 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...

    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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  • Price: $7.50     LIMITED QUANTITIES!! 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...

    Golden Age Greats 14

    Price: $7.50     LIMITED QUANTITIES!! 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…

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  • Price: $7.50     LOW QUANTITIES!!!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...

    Golden Age Greats 13

    Price: $7.50     LOW QUANTITIES!!!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…

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  • Price: $4.98     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...

    Golden Age Greats 12

    Price: $4.98     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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  • 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...

    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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  • Price: $7.50     LOW QUANTITIES!! 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,...

    Golden Age Greats 10

    Price: $7.50     LOW QUANTITIES!! 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,…

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  • Price: $4.98     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...

    Golden Age Greats 9

    Price: $4.98     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…

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  • Price: $4.98     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,...

    Golden Age Greats 8

    Price: $4.98     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,…

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  • Price: $7.50     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...

    Golden Age Greats 7

    Price: $7.50     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…

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  • Price: $7.50     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...

    Golden Age Greats 6

    Price: $7.50     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…

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  • Price: $5.95     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...

    Golden Age Greats 5

    Price: $5.95     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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  • Price: $4.98     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...

    Golden Age Greats 4

    Price: $4.98     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…

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  • 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...

    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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  • 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...

    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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  • 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...

    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…

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