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Jonah Hex volume 9: Counting Corpses
By Justin Gray, Jimmy Palmiotti, Paul Gulacy, Darwyn Cooke, Dick Giordano, Jordi Bernet, Billy Tucci, Dave Stewart, Rob Schwager & Rob Leigh (DC Comics) ISBN: 978-1-4012-2899-6 When Justin Grey...
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Corpse Talk: Ground-Breaking Scientists
By Adam & Lisa Murphy (David Fickling Books) ISBN: 978-1-910989-60-9 The educational power of comic strips has been long understood and acknowledged: if you can make the material memorably...
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The True Death of Billy the Kid
By Rick Geary (NBM) ISBN: 978-1-68112-134-5 Rick Geary is a unique talent in the comic industry not simply because of his style of drawing but especially because of his method of telling tales. For...
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Buz Sawyer: The War in the Pacific
By Roy Crane (Fantagraphics Books) ISBN: 978-1-60699-362-0 (HB) Modern comics evolved from newspaper comic strips, and these pictorial features were until relatively recently utterly ubiquitous and...
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Papyrus volume 1: The Rameses’ Revenge
By Lucien De Gieter, translated by Luke Spear (Cinebook) ISBN: 978-1- 905460-35-9 British and European Comics have always been keener on historical strips than our American cousins, and the...
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The Bluecoats volume 9: El Padre
By Willy Lambil & Raoul Cauvin translated by Jerome Saincantin (Cinebook) ISBN: 978-1-84918-286-7 Les Tuniques Bleues began in 1968; an occasional comedy western strip created by Louis “Salvé”...
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Showcase Presents Jonah Hex volume 1
By John Albano, Arnold Drake, Michael Fleisher, Robert Kanigher, Denny O’Neil, Tony DeZuñiga, Noly Panaligan, Doug Wildey, George Moliterni, José Luis García-López, Gil Kane, Jim Aparo & various...
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Showcase Presents the Losers Volume 1
By Robert Kanigher, Russ Heath, Joe Kubert, Ross Andru & Mike Esposito, John Severin, Ken Barr & various (DC Comics) ISBN: 978-1-4012-3437-9-8 Team-ups are a valuable standby of comics, and...
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Dull Margaret
By Jim Broadbent & DIX (Fantagraphics Books) ISBN: 978-1-68396-098-0 Sequential graphic narrative is arguably the most effective and all-encompassing art form we possess, able to depict the most...
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The Golden Years of Adventure Stories
By various (DC Thomson & Co., Ltd.) ISBN: 978-0851165271 Here’s a wonderful compilation commemorating the truly unique DC Thomson comic experience, concentrating on their many action and adventure...
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Milton Caniff’s America: Reflections of a Drawingboard Patriot
By Milton Caniff, edited by Shel Dorf (Eclipse Books) ISBN: 978-0-913035-25-2 This little rarity (happily still available through assorted online vendors) is a delightful introduction to the...
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Corpse Talk: Queens & Kings and Other Royal Rotters
By Adam & Lisa Murphy (David Fickling Books) ISBN: 978-1-78845-032-4 The educational power of comic strips has been long understood and acknowledged: if you can make the material memorably...
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Hearts and Minds – A Vietnam Love Story
By Doug Murray & Russ Heath (Marvel/Epic Comics) ISBN: 978-0-87135-699-4 I was deeply saddened to hear of the death of Russ Heath last week, so I’m repurposing an old review today to commemorate...
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The Provocative Colette
By Annie Goetzinger, translated by Montana Kane (NBM) ISBN: 978-1-68112-170-3 Publisher NBM have struck a seam of pure gold with their growing line of European-created contemporary arts histories and...
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The Campbells volume 1: Inferno
By Jose Luis Munuera, coloured by Sydas and translated by Emma Wilson (Europe Comics) Digital Edition No ISBN: Arrr! It be International Talk Like a Pirate Day once morrrre, me Hearties! That gives me...
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Pioneers of the New World, Book 1: The Pillory and Book 2: The Great Upheaval
By J. F. Charles (Michel Deligne Co) ISBN: 2-87135-020-5 and 2-87135-021-3 European comics are different. Despite the notable exceptions of Tintin and Asterix, a huge number of classy and wonderful...
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The Other Side
By Jason Aaron, Cameron Stewart with Dave McCaig & various (Image: Vertigo) ISBN: 978-1-53430-222-8 (Image HB) 978-1-4012-1350-3 (Vertigo PB) The Viet Nam conflict scarred the...
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Of Dust and Blood – the Battle at Little Big Horn
By Val Mayerik & Jim Berry & various (NBM) ISBN: 978-1-68112-183-3 Win’s Christmas Gift Recommendation: Potent, Powerful, Unmissable… 9/10 Thanks to the twin miracles of humanity’s love of...
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Rex Generations
By Ted Rechlin (Rextooth Studios) ISBN: 978-1-59512-229-4 Win’s Christmas Gift Recommendation: Marvellous Monster Madness and Science with a Bite… 9/10 I’ve never met a kid who didn’t love dinosaurs,...
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The Great North Wood
By Tim Bird (Avery Hill) ISBN: 978-1-910395-36-3 (PB) Win’s Christmas Gift Recommendation: A Glorious Ramble to Shake Loose the Cerebral Cobwebs… 9/10 Lots of comics, and most forms of fiction, in...
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