SEPTEMBER 2013
Prion ISBN 978-1853759017, 12 September 2013, 144pp, £19.99. [£16.99 from Amazon]
Jackie magazine was the iconic must-have read for all teenage girls in Britain from the 1960s to the 1990s. Covering everything from the latest gossip on the current pop idols to high-street fashions and mixed with comic-strip stories of love and romance, it provided a wealth of advice on makeup trends, understanding relationship with boys and parents and how to choose careers. Whether you wanted to shape up for the summer or wrap up for Christmas, Jackie had it covered. In a bumper-packed, full-colour nostalgia feast, Jackie at 50 celebrates a golden anniversary by taking a walk down memory lane with a compilation of stories, articles, quizzes and practical advice galore from the original Jackie magazines. Along with special articles written by many of the original editors who worked on Jackie, this fun-packed assortment of highlights recalls the days when Donny Osmond and David Cassidy ruled the airwaves, Elton still had his own hair and 10cc was a band and not just a measurement.
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Rebellion ISBN 978-1781081440, 12 September 2013, 96pp, £14.99. [£11.99 from Amazon]
Pat Mills is the creator and first editor of 2000 AD. For the Galaxy's Greatest Comic, he is the writer and co-creator of ABC Warriors, Finn, Flesh, Nemesis the Warlock and Slaine. He also developed Judge Dredd and helped write one of the early Dredd serials, The Cursed Earth. Clint Langley began his 2000 AD career with the fully painted artwork of his co-created series Dinosty and he has also illustrated Judge Dredd, Nemesis The Warlock, Outlaw, Sinister Dexter and Tales of Telguuth. As well as working for 2000 AD, Clint has produced covers for Games Workshop and Marvel publications and is the winner of the 2007 Inquest Gamer Fan Awards for Best Artist.
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Prion ISBN 978-1853759024, 12 September 2013, 88pp, £9.99. [£7.99 from Amazon]
Among other things, Alex Masterley is forced to deal with the political (and financial) fallout of 'austerity Britain', a change at the head of the Bank of England, and a transformation of the banking industry's regulatory body - things can only get better!
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Dark Horse ISBN 978-1616551537, 24 September 2013, 264pp, £18.99. [£12.72 from Amazon]
One of comics' most fruitful collaborations gets its due in this deluxe collection of hard-to-find gems from Peter Milligan (Hellblazer, X-Statix) and Brendan McCarthy (Judge Dredd, The Zaucer of Zilk)! Collecting twenty years' worth of the pair's finest work from Vanguard Illustrated, Strange Days, 2000 AD, and Vertigo, this beautiful hardcover includes art that has been newly touched up by McCarthy and features original commentary by both creators. There is still nothing else like Freakwave, Paradax!, Skin, and Rogan Gosh, and this volume is both the perfect retrospective for fans and the ideal starting place for new readers!
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Bear Alley Books ISBN 978-19070812, 9 September 2013, 208pp, £19.99.
Boys' World is one of the most fondly remembered of all British comics from the 1960s. An Eagle for the new decade, it featured across its centre pages the mighty 'Wrath of the Gods', an epic tale of deities and demons beautifully drawn by Ron Embleton. Readers thrilled to the adventure of 'The Sea Ape', puzzled over the question 'What Is Exhibit X?' and roared at the sporting antics of 'Billy Binns and his Wonderful Specs'.
Giants of science fiction Mike Moorcock and Harry Harrison were both contributors, Harrison writing one of the text story serials as well as adapting his novel Deathworld as 'The Angry Planet'. Harrison also penned the original Brett Million story 'The Ghost World', one of the finest science fiction strips to appear in British comics and complimented by some outstanding artwork by Frank Bellamy. Moorcock's contributions were more esoteric, ranging from numerous episodes of the feature 'Do You Know Your Name?' to essays on lost cities, submarines and volcanoes. Harrison and Moorcock were also among the many writers who contributed short stories to Boys' World, a list that also includes Barrington J. Bayley, Sydney J. Bounds, Wilfred McNeilly, Rex Dolphin, Donne Avenell, Jim Edgar and Tom Tully.
The paper's roster of artists included many of the finest illustrators of the early Sixties, including John M. Burns, Frank Langford, Colin Andrew, Brian Lewis, Frank Humphris, Gerry Embleton, Harry Bishop, James McConnell, Don Lawrence, Roy Cross, Luis Bermejo and Gino D'Antonio.
Boys' World: Ticket to Adventure relates how the paper came into existence at a turbulent time for comics, how its original editor was replaced before the first issue even reached the newsstands and how it eventually folded into the paper it was meant to replace.
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Rebellion ISBN 978-1781081389, 17 September 2013, 304pp, £19.30. [£16.80 from Amazon]
The world didn't seem to need a man like Harry Exton anymore. An ex-soldier and mercenary, Harry was a human-killing machine without a vocation, until an old colleague told him about 'The Game'. The players, known as 'Button Men' are paid to fight to the death in a modern-day gladiatorial contest. Organised by mysterious backers known as 'Voices', the killing game offers bountiful financial reward...
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Phil-Comics ISBN 978-0992663506, 30 September 2013, 76pp, £19.99.
With vintage style paper and matt laminated covers and dust jacket, this book is a genuine collector's item and a real treat to the eye. The Dandy and The Beano comics are British institutions evoking fond memories with their bold, bright front covers familiar to millions of boys and girls. Korky the Cat from The Dandy and Biffo the Bear from The Beano were long-standing front cover stars and firm favourites with readers. The Christmas issues had particularly attractive, stand-alone front covers and are widely collected today. This unique compilation of every Christmas cover from the classic years, 1937 to 1969, of these two great national comic treasures will be relished by collectors, enthusiasts, nostalgia seekers and all those who recall their weekly comic treat! Get into the festive spirit and enjoy vintage festive fun with Christmas puds, slap-up feasts, crackers and jokes galore! You're in for a slap-up treat!
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New Internationalist Books ISBN 978-1780261225, September 2013, 176pp, £9.99. [£7.99 from Amazon]
In his famous history series A History of the English Speaking Peoples Winston Churchill seemed to think that history was about wars and made by great leaders. Fight the Power! begs to differ and instead presents A Visual History of Protest Amongst the English Speaking Peoples.
Today’s occupy movements are part of a long history of struggle. This book visualises key moments in history where ordinary people have risen up and fought governments, corporations, even empires. When the 99% have stood up to combatexploitation and abuse or in pursuit of freedom of action and a better life. In other words, to show times in history, just like today, when people have struggled forward to FIGHT THE POWER!
This comic book covers 14 cases of such struggle over the last 200 years and in several English speaking countries including not just the US and UK but Australia, Canada, South Africa, Ireland, India and Jamaica.Order from Amazon.
Titan Books ISBN 978-1781166987, 27 September 2013, 128pp, £14.99. [£13.28 from Amazon]
DCI Harkers seaside holiday in the Northern British town of Whitby is ruined when he witnesses the murder of a well-known mystery novelist. Bloody murder, a chase across the moors and wry, cutting humor all combine in this love letter to classic British detective TV series. Written by Roger Gibson and illustrated by Vince Danks, Harker takes police investigation to a true heart of darkness.
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Titan Books ISBN 978-1782760177, 10 September 2013, 160pp, £17.99. [£15.50 from Amazon]
From all around the world, the greatest comic talents are given full and free rein to explore the universe, to seek out new life and new civilizations... to boldly go where no one would dare let them go before!
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Rebellion ISBN 978-1781081716, 12 September 2013, 240pp, £30.00. [£19.20 from Amazon]
SPECIAL COLOUR HARDBACK! Termight, a world at the heart of a cruel galactic empire. Located deep in the bowels of the Earth, its inhabitants live in fear of their leader - the diabolically evil Torquemada. Determined to rid the universe of all ‘deviant’ alien life, the Grand Master and his army of Terminators are opposed by legendary alien freedom fighter, Nemesis the Warlock. Credo!
Written by 2000 AD creator Pat Mills (Marshal Law) and featuring the stunning artwork of Kevin O’Neill (League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) and Jesus Redondo (Star Trek: Voyager), this edition collects the fully-coloured Eagle Comics editions altogether for the first time and also includes the very hard to find Nemesis Poster Prog strip, The Tomb of Torquemada.
Also available in a special Termight Edition.
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Titan Books ISBN 978-1781164709, 17 September 2013, 104pp, £14.99. [£10.34 from Amazon]
When three students inadvertently create an opening into our dimension from an alternate universe known as The Twist, they become the focus for the evil death-bitch Razorjack. Maverick cops, Frame and Ross, are assigned a disturbing serial killer case which draws them into what is potentially the final battle between good and evil. Written and illustrated by John Higgins (Watchmen).
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Titan Books ISBN 978-1781166697, 6 September 2013, 192pp, £24.99. [£16.49 from Amazon]
David Wright was one of the leading pin-up artists of the 20th Century. Unlike his American contemporaries Alberto Vargas and Gil Elvgren, the British-born Wright brought a sense of realism to his willowy beauties, who appeared in publications on both sides of the Atlantic, especially during WW2. Now, finally, access has been granted to his archive, and this is the first ever collection of his work.
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Sequart Research & Literacy Organization ISBN 978-1940589022, 4 September 2013, 130pp, £8.37. [£8.06 from Amazon]
In 2010 and 2011, legendary comic-book creator Warren Ellis sat down over several days to film career-spanning interviews for the documentary film Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts. In these extensive interviews, Ellis discusses his life, his work, and his thoughts. He looks back over how his career has evolved, describes his writing process, explores the themes that fascinate him, and details the role technology has played in his work (and in the development of his famous online persona). Only a small fraction of this material made it into the film. This book is a record of these historic interviews, as well as a fascinating portrait of one of comics' greatest writers.
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OCTOBER 2013
Egmont ISBN 978-1405268387, 10 October 2013, 200pp, £14.99. [£11.99 from Amazon]
A unique collection of 100 postcards, each featuring a different girls' comics image from Misty, Tammy and Jinty. From gymnastics and school hijinks to spine-tingling mystery and menace, there's an abundance of classic images in this sturdy gift box. A perfect nostalgia gift for all fans of 1970s girls' comics.
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Egmont ISBN 978-1405268370, 10 October 2013, 200pp, £14.99. [£11.99 from Amazon]
A unique collection of 100 postcards, each featuring a different Battle comics image. From Rat Pack and Major Eazy to Johnny Red and Charley's War, there's an abundance of classic images in a sturdy gift box. A perfect nostalgia gift for all fans of British classic comics.
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Titan Books ISBN 978-0857683014, 29 October 2013, 120pp, £14.99. [£10.34 from Amazon]
In the final explosive volume of never-before-collected comic strip, including for the first time reproductions of strip pages from Joe Colquhoun's original artwork, we finally reach the epic conclusion of Charley's story, and the harrowing final days of World War I. The tenth action-packed volume of Charley's War is rich in the detailed minutiae of the terror-punctuated existence of a Tommy.
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Book Palace Books ISBN 978-1907081194, 10 August 2013, 272pp, £95.00. [hardcover limited edition of 600]
Book Palace Books ISBN 978-1907081200, 10 August 2013, 296pp, £265.00. [leatherbound, limited edition of 120]
In 1962 Frank Bellamy was asked to draw a new Roman epic strip for the Eagle, written by Tom Tully. Bellamy had previously honed his artistic skills on Robin Hood and King Arthur in the Swift (both available from Book Palace Books) and The Happy Warrior, the Story of Winston Churchill, Montgomery of Alamein, Marco Polo and Fraser of Africa also in the Eagle.
At the pinnacle of his artistic skills, this new commission gave him a unique opportunity. The new strip Heros the Spartan was being presented on the centre double page spread of the Eagle. This enormous canvas gave Bellamy a format few comic strip artists ever achieve or even dream of. The double page format enabled Bellamy to create the greatest comic strip adventure ever presented to the public. He excelled himself with revolutionary page and panel design and dramatic ink line work all in glorious colour and his ink lines and colour work on this strip have yet to be equalled by any other artist on any strip.
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Rebellion ISBN 978-1781081754, 10 October 2013, 320pp, £19.99. [£13.39 from Amazon]
Volume 21 in the bestselling series of Judge Dredd's collected cases, from the pages of 2000 AD. Mega-City One: the future metropolis bustling with life and every crime imaginable. Keeping order are the Judges, a stern police force acting as judges, juries and executioners. Toughest of all is Judge Dredd. From encountering another 2000 AD legend – Rogue Trooper – to Dredd's disgrace and arrest, this is another slab of future law enforcement!
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Image Comics ISBN 978-1607066385, 8 October 2013, 360pp, £22.50. [£14.85 from Amazon]
Rian Hughes (Yesterday's Tomorrows, Tales From Beyond Science) has created a unique series of portraits of London's underworld burlesque artists. Collected here are stylish and erotic sketches from life, bold graphic illustrations, and beautiful paintings in an eclectic variety of media and styles.
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Egmont Classic Comics ISBN 978-1405268363, 10 October 2013, 288, £25.00. [£16.25 from Amazon]
Blast off on a thrilling adventure through Thunderbirds comic history! Discover the iconic comic strips that captured the thrill and excitement of the cult TV series, read about the geniuses who created them, and look inside the spectacular Thunderbirds vehicles. With original comic artwork by leading British artists and a F.A.B. selection of Thunderbirds cross-sections, this exciting collection is perfect for Thunderbirds fans everywhere. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...Thunderbirds are Go!
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Titan Books ISBN 978-1782760320, 8 October 2013, 136pp, £9.99. [£7.19 from Amazon]
52 weeks, 52 stories and 312 individuals strips. Each fully originated and self-contained story runs over six days and contains more jokes and silliness than you could shake a left-handed widget plunger at. From tales about home dentistry and bee keeping to battles with Feathers McGraw and out-of-control robotic scarecrows, Wallace and Gromit's lives are anything but normal!
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Rebellion. October 2013, 480ppp, £100. Hardcover, limited edition of 1,000.
Pre-publication ordering began on 1 July 2013 and the print run was sold out by the morning of 4 July.
Rebellion ISBN 978-1781080344, 15 October 2013. 128pp, £13.99. [£11.99 from Amazon]
When the Government's latest crime deterrent, Obmoz goes completely off the rails and starts to destroy everything from the underfunded super team Planetronix to the president himself, who ya gonna call? Not Zombo, because he s dead and not in a zombie-type of dead way, but in a brain-melted-by-laser kinda way! Now the only thing standing between mankind and total annihilation is a male stripper and a well padded pair of underpants! I don't think we re going to make it...
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NOVEMBER 2013
Titan Books ISBN 978-1782760160, 26 November 2013, 120pp, £15.99. [£10.87 from Amazon]
Innovation requires experimentation. A1 has always been a laboratory for creators to experiment. To do or try something new or tell a story in a genre they're not familiar with. To encourage them to break away from corporate creations and unleash their own ideas. A1 is their platform. This is the exciting return of the award-winning graphic anthology series!
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Dynamite Entertainment ISBN 978-1606904206, 13 November 2013, 312pp, £29.99. [£19.49 from Amazon]
The Art of Sean Phillips is a lavish, career-spanning retrospective of the acclaimed artist behind Criminal, Sleeper, Incognito, and Fatale. Sean has personally selected the very best, most interesting examples of his art for inclusion, from comic strips assembled with childhood friends in his bedroom, through his work for British girls' comics and 2000AD, to his role as a key artist in the early years of Vertigo, through his superhero work for Marvel, DC, and WildStorm, and finally from his creator-owned series with Ed Brubaker. Also, the renowned artist has been extensively interviewed, along with many of his key collaborators, for the book's in-depth commentary on his work and career.
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Tate Publishing ISBN 978-1849760560, 7 November 2013, £18.99. [£13.39 from Amazon]
The phenomenal growth of graphic novels and manga and the explosion of comics on the internet and other platforms have given their creators unprecedented freedom to innovate. Many can enjoy widespread acclaim in the art world, literary circles and through their multimedia adaptations. Comics Art takes an international approach by tracing lines of influence around the world to give historical contexts and contemporary perspectives for this huge current interest in the medium. Richly illustrated with many images taken from original artwork and rare artefacts, Comics Art gives a fascinating, accessible guide to some of the special properties of sequential art, such as panels, page layouts, speech balloons and wordless or 'silent' narration. It addresses concerns about how comics perpetuate stereotypes and support the status quo, while assessing their growing significance, notably through autobiography and reportage, as vehicles for provocative voices often silenced in other media. Comics Art also explores the diversity of styles, media and approaches now possible in the medium and exciting developments in digital comics and in comics conceived for galleries and installations.
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Bear Alley Books ISBN 978-190708172-9, November 2013, 90pp, £23.99.
Worlds of Adventure gathers together four never previously reprinted, full-colour strips illustrated by Gino D'Antonio.
In the late 1960s, while he was writing the epic Storia del West in his native Italy, D'Antonio was collaborating with Mike Butterworth to adapt some of literature's most famous adventure stories: 'The Wanderings of Ulysses', 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea', 'Quo Vadis' and 'A Tale of Two Cities'. These tales span history from Greek myth and the gladiatorial circus's of Rome to the French Revolution and an innovatory French tale describing the adventures of Nemo, a 19th century Ulysses wandering the oceans in the wake of the Industrial Revolution.
D'Antonio was a popular artist in England, although his name was known only to the editorial staff and agents through whom he worked. He had been drawing for British comics for over a decade, his first illustrations appearing in 1955 followed by his first strips in 1956. D'Antonio worked for some of Britain's finest comics, including Eagle, Express Weekly and Boys' World, although he will always be remembered for his war comics, drawn for War, Battle, War at Sea and Front Line in 1958-68. Thanks to their constant recycling, they influenced a hugely diverse range of artist, including Dave Gibbons, Mick McMahon and Rufus Dayglo.
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Titan Books ISBN 978-0857685902, 22 November 2013, 272pp, £14.99.
The daring James Bond is back in a definitive bumper edition collecting more of Jim Lawrence's celebrated run in comic strip form! It includes nine of Bond's most thrilling and dangerous missions: Till Death Do Us Part, The Torch-Time Affair, Hot-Shot Nightbird, Ape of Diamonds, When The Wizard Awakes, Sea Dragon, Death Wing, and The Xanadu Connection!
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Book Palace Books ISBN 978-1907081071, 1 November 2013, 140pp, £15.99.
Four of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's greatest stories engagingly adapted into graphic novels by three of the greatest illustrators of our time.
Enjoy Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Sign of Four and Sir Nigel in these black and white comic strip adaptations from the 1960s.
Dinosaurs, Sherlock Holmes and knights in armour add up to a feast of comic strip glory. The definitive adventure strip version of The Sign of Four, The lurking menace of The Hound of the Baskervilles, the rousing action-packed pageantry of Sir Nigel and the visual impact of savage ape-men battling ferocious carnivorous dinosaurs and swooping pterodactyls in The Lost World.
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Aurum Press ISBN 978-1781310779, 7 November 2013, 432pp, £20.00. [£11.02 from Amazon]
For over three decades comics fans and creators have regarded Alan Moore as a titan of the form. With works such as V for Vendetta, Watchmen and From Hell, he has repeatedly staked out new territory, attracting literary plaudits and a mainstream audience far removed from his underground origins. His place in popular culture is now such that major Hollywood players vie to adapt his books for cinema. Yet Moore's journey from the hippie Arts Labs of the 1970s to the bestseller lists was far from preordained. A principled eccentric, who has lived his whole life in one English town, he has been embroiled in fierce feuds with some of the entertainment industry's biggest corporations. And just when he could have made millions ploughing a golden rut he turned instead to performance art, writing erotica, and the occult. Now, as Alan Moore hits sixty, it's time to go in search of this extraordinary gentleman, and follow the peculiar path taken by a writer quite unlike any other.
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Rebellion ISBN 978-1781081631, 12 November 2013, 400pp, £12.34. [£12.32 from Amazon]
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Rebellion ISBN 978-1781081761, 7 November 2013, 192pp, £19.99. [£13.39 from Amazon]
THIRTY YEARS OF MYTH AND LEGEND! Marking 30 years of the Celtic barbarian s adventures, this special anniversary book brings together a sequence of new stories from creator Pat Mills and the biggest artists to have worked on Sláine over the past three decades. This hardback volume also includes The Art of Slaine, a retrospective of Sláine covers and commentary. A great collector's item and not to be missed by fans of great storytelling, art and warp spasms everywhere! Includes and afterword by Graham Linehan.
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DECEMBER 2013
Rebellion ISBN 978-1781081679, 10 December 2013, 224pp, £15.44. [£14.30 from Amazon]
MUTIES OUT! The great Atomic Wars of 2070 created a population of mutants who, due in part to their bizarre (and in most cases grotesque) deformities, have been denied citizenship in Mega-City One. Rejected by the prejudiced ‘norms’ and forcibly kept away from the city by the Judges, the mutants have had no choice but to live in the vast, radioactive wasteland known as the ‘Cursed Earth’. Harboring resentment and hatred against those that have exiled them, bands of mutants now prey on those that stray from behind the city walls – and sometimes even launch all-out attacks in a bid to gain entry to the Big Meg! This action-packed collection features classic encounters between Judge Dredd and mutantkind!
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Number Cruncher by Si Spurrier & P. J. Holden.
Titan Books ISBN 978-1782760047, 31 December 2013, 90pp, £14.99. [£13.51 from Amazon]
Dying young, a brilliant Mathematician enters the afterlife and discovers a way to cheat the terrifying Divine Calculator. He schemes to be endlessly reincarnated within the lifespan of the woman he loves, no matter how often the violent bailiffs of the Karmic Accountancy cut-short each life. It falls to one such agent - the surly Bastard Zane - to put a stop to the time-twisting romance!
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Titan ISBN 978-1782760030, 3 December 2013, 88pp, £14.99. [£10.34 from Amazon]
Tank Girl, Jet Girl, Booga and Barney are back, in a mission to save their favourite little radio store. Everything goes to plan, but somewhere along the line Booga manages to electronically summon a gang of evil counterparts, fronted by the darkest bitch on the planet - ANTI-TANK GIRL. Things are about to get very dark, very bloody, and very stupid.
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Titan Books ISBN 978-1782760207, 17 December 2013, 88pp, £14.99. [£13.45 from Amazon]
There are two worlds in front of our eyes - the world we see, and the one we sense. In these two worlds, we are all two people: we each carry two avatars - one connected to destruction and one connected to creation. That is the way of the universe. But what we don't know is that creation and destruction wage an eternal war for the energy we carry inside us. And it is a war that we are rapidly losing...
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Rebellion ISBN 978-1781081778, 5 December 2013, 320pp, £19.99. [£13.39 from Amazon]
From alien invasions to man-hating dinosaurs, this bumper-sized anthology features a collection of work from industry legends Pat Mills (Marshal Law), Ian Gibson (The Ballad of Halo Jones), Grant Morrison (JLA), Will Simpson (Vamps), Peter Milligan (X-Statix) and Paul Cornell (Dr. Who) amongst many others. This volume collects much sought after stories, many of which have never been collected before. 2000 AD Presents: Sci-Fi Thrillers is an essential purchase for any comics reader!
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