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Volume 19 - 1st printing. "1987-1988!" Story and art by Charles M. Schulz. In this latest volume of Peanuts, romance is in the air: Charlie Brown's flirtatious winking in class sends him to the school nurse, Linus's attempts to woo "Lydia" of the many names are met with mockery - and Peppermint Patty and Marcie's fierce quarrel over which one of them "Charles" likes the best. Other storylines include Snoopy's stay in the hospital for a hockey-related knee injury - until everyone realizes that dogs don't have knees, Patty's campaign to be her school's "May Queen," Sally's rocky career as a playwright, and Snoopy's "kiss-and-tell" book. Plus, fan-favorites Lucy, Rerun, Spike... and Snoopy's feathered Beagle Scouts! THE COMPLETE PEANUTS is the publishing project that launched a renaissance in comic strip publishing and the only place Charles M. Schulz's classic has ever been collected in its entirety. Featuring impeccable production values, each volume of this series features two successive years of newspaper strips (dailies and Sundays), plus bonus material such as celebrity introductions, interviews, and a brief biography of Schulz himself. Softcover (Horizontal Format), 8 1/2-in. x 6-in., 344 pages, PC/PB&W. All Ages Cover price $22.99.

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Volume 20 - 1st printing. "1989-1990!" Story and art by Charles M. Schulz. Introduction by Lemony Snicket. In this volume of The Complete Peanuts, Schulz's iconic comic stripcelebrates its 40th birthday!In our latest paperback volume, welcome a new character to the cast ofPeanuts - Olaf! Snoopy's brother Olaf comes to visit, and, humiliatingly, winds upwinning the "Ugly Dog" contest. In other news, Peppermint Patty is stuck in dreadedsummer school, while all her friends have a blast at camp. Marcie begins to crackunder the pressure of her perfectionism. Lucy continues to showcase her endearingineptitude on the baseball field. Linus ramps up his Great Pumpkin proselytizingwith the "Great Pumpkin Movement," complete with literature to pass out doorto door. And Charlie Brown finally gets a girlfriend - but she thinks his name isBrownie Charles! Also, this season, a new box set collects the latest two volumes(Vols. 19 and 20) of the paperback series.The Complete Peanuts is the publishing project that launched a renaissance incomic strip publishing and the only place Charles M. Schulz's classic has ever beencollected in its entirety. Featuring impeccable production values, each volume ofthis series features two successive years of newspaper strips (dailies and Sundays),plus bonus material such as celebrity introductions, interviews, and a brief biographyof Schulz himself. Softcover (Horizontal Format), 8 1/2-in. x 6-in., 324 pages, PC/PB&W. All Ages Cover price $22.99.

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Volume 21 - 1st printing. "1991-1992!" Story and art by Charles M. Schulz. In our latest paperback volume of The Complete Peanuts, love takes many shapes and shades. Charlie Browns infatuation with the Little Red-Haired Girl is rekindled; Linus fails to impress Lydia; Sally hoorays for Hollywood; Marcie pines for the World War I Flying Ace, who becomes lost in his cups (of root beer); Peppermint Patty and Marcie battle for Charlie Browns affection; and Snoopy is absolutely obsessed… with cookies. Throughout, Schulz makes Peanuts balancing act of heartbreak and wry humor feel effortless — in these his strips of the 90s, his cartooning has never looked more confident, and his sense of humor is unrestrained. The Complete Peanuts is the publishing project that launched a renaissance in comic strip publishing and the only place Charles M. Schulzs classic has ever been collected in its entirety. Featuring impeccable production values, each volume of this series features two successive years of newspaper strips (dailies and Sundays), plus bonus material such as celebrity introductions, interviews, and a brief biography of Schulz himself. Softcover (Horizontal Format), 8 1/2-in. x 6-in., 344 pages, PC/PB&W. All Ages Cover price $22.99.

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1st printing. Foreword by Gary Larson. An Eisner Award-nominee! The first in "MAD's Greatest Artists" Series, this deluxe, two-volume, slipcased special edition includes every single work of Don Martin published in MAD Magazine (1957 to 1987), including a selection of his original sketches and notes, and rare photographs, plus commentary from dozens of his MAD colleagues and other famous fans like Jim Davis and Steven Spielberg. Hardcover (2 Volumes with Slipcase), 10-in. x 13-in., 1,200 pages (Total), full color. Cover price $150.00.

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Buck Rogers newspaper comic strip reprints. Cover price $1.95.

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1st printing. Story and art by Ray Gotto. Introduction by Max Allen Collins. The comic strip adventures of a baseball "Natural!" Meet Cotton Woods, a raw rookie from Lonesome Gap, North Carolina, who wants to take the Big Leagues by storm. He's the 1950's answer to Bo Jackson - good at all sports; a fantasy figure at ease anytime there's a ball to throw, catch or hit! Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 160 pages, B&W. Cover price $14.95.

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1st printing. Story and art by Tom Twomorrow. Return to... tomorrow as Tom Tomorrow's unique and celebrated perspective on American lunacy, This Modern World, returns to shelves! The gang's all here as the war drum of doom signals the encroaching apocalypse that is the 2016 American Presidential race-with special guest The Incredible Trump! Serious, elevated discourse and political correctness need not apply. One thing's for sure, in 2016 Crazy Is The New Normal, and Tom Tomorrow is the only guiding light fit to lead us into that darkness! This softcover volume collects select strips from 2014-2016. Softcover, 8-in. x 8-in., 128 pages, full color. Cover price $19.99.

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2nd and later printings. By Mike Scott. A collection of comic strips aimed at the golf course. Softcover (Horizontal Format), 7-in. x 5-in., 80 pages, B&W.

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1st printing. Story and art by Stephan Pastis. The Pearls Before Swine crew is back in their second collection of cartoons for the middle-grade crowd! Always witty and clever, and sometimes irreverent, Pearls Before Swine's sarcastic take on life appeals to fans of all ages. The troupe of characters is back to entertain with dark humor and off-the-wall puns. Know-it-all Rat is always at the center of the action, accompanied by slow-witted Pig who is innocently oblivious to most of Rat's jabs. Rounded out with high-browed Goat, the mild and vulnerable Zebra, and the hilariously inept Crocs, the cast is ready to provide hours of reading fun. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 224 pages, B&W. Cover price $9.99.

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1st printing. Written by Jim Borgman. Art and cover by Jerry Scott. Current Mood = hanging out with friends, staying up late, eating pizza, playing guitar, procrastinating your homework, being buried in your phone and/or dirty laundry (did we mention eating pizza?). In short, all of the good things about life as a teenager. With this collection of the entire run of 2022 ZITS comic strips, readers can relive their own teenage years as if they were yesterday by living vicariously through teenager Jeremy's adventures with his friends and family. Softcover, 11-in. x 9-in., 208 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $19.99.

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1st printing. Written by Kris Wilson. Art by Matt Melvin. WHY WE LOVE IT: One of the most popular and successful webcomics, like, ever, CYANIDE & HAPPINESS has consistently offered up a humorous look at life-in stick figure form-and we are big fans. The experimental, hilarious voice of CYANIDE & HAPPINESS embodies the spirit of BOOM! Box and we jumped at the chance to collect it. WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT: If you are on the Internet, you've read CYANIDE & HAPPINESS. Generating over a million hits a week, the webcomic is one of the longest-lasting strips out there, and everyone can relate to its hilarious slice-of-life depictions. Since the dawn of man, stick figures have been used as an important device for storytelling. CYANIDE & HAPPINESS has taken this language and mashed it up with Internet culture, bringing us some of the best satire and dark comedy out there. WHAT IT'S ABOUT: PUNCHING ZOO includes a buttload of our favorite comics from the site, 30 brand-new, too-hot-for-the-Internet comics, "The Hot Date" (a choose-your-own-adventure where you decide the story), and a nice forward by Alexis Ohanian, one of the founders of reddit. Softcover (Horizontal Format), 8 1/2-in. x 5 1/2-in., 200 pages, full color. Cover price $14.99.

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1st printing. Story and art by Kris Wilson. What's to Love: Cyanide & Happiness is one of the longest-running, most popular, humor comic strips on the web, easily earning millions of hits per week. With its crudely drawn art and snarky humor, Cyanide & Happiness has touched many a funny bone and is accessible to a legion of fans worldwide. What It Is: Once again, creators Kris Wilson, Rob DenBleyker, and Dave McElfatrick combine some of their best strips and a host of never-before-seen comics into a new, collected book. In the best, sickest tradition, Cyanide & Happiness' simply drawn figures and the wildly inappropriate topics they cover-including cannibalism, murder, and incest-is most reminiscent of South Park, but offers a profane sensibility all its own. Includes the short, Bedtime Stories for Good Children. Softcover (Horizontal Format), 8-in. x 5-in., 200 pages, full color. Cover price $14.99.

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From the Pages of Doctor Who Magazine

1st printing. Written by Alan Moore, Steve Moore, Steve Parkhouse, Alan McKenzie, John Ridgway, Grant Morrison, Andrew Cartmel, Alan Barnes, Adrian Salmon, and Scott Gray. Art by Paul Neary, Steve Dillon, David Lloyd, Mike McMahon, Adolfo , John Ridgway, Tim Perkins, Mike Collins, Steve Pini, Adrian Salmon, Fareed Choudhury, Martin Geraghty, Roger Langridge, Robin Smith, and David A. Roach. Cover by Anthony Lamb. Back Cover by Martin Geraghty and David A. Roach. Humanoids who rejected the weakness of flesh and blood millennia ago, the Cybermen are deadly armored warriors driven by cold logic! Across the stars, they have waged cyber-war on a thousand worlds, eager for more organic beings they can convert into obedient soldiers of the Cyber-Empire! Inside this epic collection, you can discover all of the Doctor's incredible encounters with this unrelenting foe, taken from the pages of Doctor Who Magazine. Featuring stories created by some of the very best British comic artist and writers, this volumes includes a comprehensive appendix featuring contributions and commentary from the artists and writers, plus a wealth of other behind-the scenes details. Contains over 20 comic strip adventures, including digitally remastered classic tales that have never been reprinted. Softcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 380 pages, full color. Cover price $44.99.

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By Stephan Pastis.

You're invited to the most whacked-out party of the year. Bring your togas, your appetite, and your attitude to the first-ever fraternity "zee-ba-cue" by the Da Brudderhood of Zeeba Zeeba Eata. A small cover charge is required, but zebras always get in free. Getting out is a different story...

In this, the fifth collection of the wildly popular Pearls Before Swine comic strip, Stephan Pastis's original creations Rat, Pig, Goat, and Zebra join the sophomoric cast of crocodilian cutthroats in Pastis's funniest work yet.

Softcover, 8-in. x 8-in., 128 pages. B&W. Cover price $12.99.

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1st Printing. Hardcover, 7.5" x 11", 138 pages, full color.

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2nd and later printings. Art and cover by Ken Bald. Introduction by Jeff Thompson. Out of print for five years, the iconic gothic romance vampire television series DARK SHADOWS was so popular and influential that it was adapted in numerous media. In addition to finding its way into 35 Gold Key comic books, DARK SHADOWS was also adapted into one of the most striking comic strips of the 1970s, running for only one year, from March 14, 1971 through March 11, 1972, with stand out, eye-catching artwork by seasoned comic book and comic strip artist Ken Bald. Hermes Press' new archival edition of the strip features all of the dailies and Sundays, in their original half page format, and in full color, rarely seen documentary material, stills from the show that were used in preparation of the strip and more. The final word on this iconic newspaper strip highlighting the most historic and memorial gothic vampire series ever. Hardcover (Horizontal Format), 11-in. x 8 1/2-in., 224 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $60.00.

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1st printing. Story and art by G. B. Trudeau. As Trump returns to the ballot in 2024, this collection of Doonesbury Sunday comics about the former (and possibly future) president will hit just ahead of one of the most significant election cycles in decades. This volume also features the Doonesbury regulars, with Alex and Toggle raising three free-range kids and Mike happily wallowing in grandpahood. Mr. Covid retires, proud to know his wilier, more adaptive descendants will keep taking the fight to the unvaxxed. Joanie thinks Rick's latest story is the best thing he's ever written: too bad it was actually authored by ChatGPT. Roland and Rascal, wading through Ukrainian snowdrifts, blunder into a Meta crack-up. Not even fantasy is making sense, but in Day One Dictator, G.B. Trudeau gives it his best shot yet. Softcover, 8-in. x 9-in., 128 pages, full color. Cover price $19.99.

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Story and art by G. B. Trudeau.

The ultimate Doonesbury package celebrating a half-century of G.B. Trudeau's celebrated comic strip.

This limited-edition deluxe set includes: a USB flash drive with all 50 years of Doonesbury comics, including 26 years of Sunday comics available for the first time in digital format; a searchable calendar archive; character biographies; and a week-by-week description of the strip's contents.

The Dbury@50 User's Guide takes readers through each year of the strip's storied history, with historical trivia, milestone strips, featured storylines and characters, and much more.

Softcover (Spiralbound with pull out character guide, flash drive, and flip-top case), 10-in. x 13-in., 224 pages, PC/PB&W.

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1st printing. By Bill Amend. A collection of FoxTrot comic strips. Softcover, 8.5-in. x 6-in., 128 pages, B&W. Cover price $8.95.

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Cover by Bert Whitman. Stories and art by Bert Whitman, Stan MacGovern and Irwin Hasen. A collection of Whitman's comic strip about female reporter Debbie Dean and her adventures in pursuit of the truth. A little Dutch boy named Peter shows up in Debbie's apartment to get away from his "Uncle Owen" and "Aunt Martha." Debbie investigates, and learns that Peter's father is a famed chemist captured by the Nazis. But why are Owen and Martha trying to get Peter to recite a nursery rhyme about windmills? Debbie Dean; Silly Milly; Mop O'Hare; The Clippers. Final issue of the series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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1st printing. Long before Marilyn, and Madonna, Betty "boop-boop-a-dooped" and wriggled her way into hearts worldwide with her unique mix of wide-eyed innocence and powerful cartoon sensuality. This collection lovely restores the Betty Boop comic strips back to their original glory, in Betty's original Sunday adventures as they appeared in the funny pages of daily newspapers in the 1930's, capturing all the cheeky fun embodied by the character. Hardcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 208 pages, full color. Cover price $39.95.

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Science Cartoons by Tom Gauld.

A dog philosopher questions what it really means to be a "good boy" while playing fetch! A virtual assistant and a robot-cleaner elope! The undiscovered species and the theoretical particle face existential despair! Facebook commenters debunk Darwin's posting of On the Origin of Species! Science vs science fiction! Why are there poodles pouring out of this wormhole? Gauld's Department of Mind-Blowing Theories presents one hundred and fifty comic strips topical and funny enough to engage any layperson with a rudimentary recall of their old science classes as well as those who consider themselves boffins of the contemporary physical and natural world.

Hardcover, 6-in. x 8-in., 160 pages, full color.

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Chester Gould struck a chord when his comic strip idea about the hard-nosed plain-clothes detective Dick Tracy started in the Chicago Tribune and the New York News. After 1931, he devoted his life to drawing the daily Dick Tracy comic. This volume reprints the daily and Sunday strips originally printed 03/12/1940 to 07/13/1940. 88 pages, B&W.

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Chester Gould struck a cord when his comic strip idea about the hard-nosed plain-clothes detective Dick Tracy started in the Chicago Tribune and the New York News. After 1931, he devoted his life to drawing the daily Dick Tracy comic. This volume reprints the daily and Sunday strips originally printed 07/14/1940 to 10/20/1940. 72 pages, B&W.

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Dick Tracy And Scottie of Scotland Yard (Reprint 1983). This comic is published by Dell. 52 pages, black & white, 8.5-in. x 11-in., newsprint, $0.10 cover price. Cover price $0.10.

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Mamma and Jerome. Story, art and cover by Chester Gould. Blackthorne Publishing reprints the original comic-strip adventures of legendary tough cop Dick Tracy and his rogues gallery of freakish enemies. This issue reprints strips from May - June 1940. The brutal Mamma is captured by police after Jerome betrays her. Mamma escapes and swears revenge, tracking him to his hideout with Tracy close on her heels. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.00.

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Yogee Yamma. Story, art and cover by Chester Gould. Blackthorne Publishing reprints the original comic-strip adventures of legendary tough cop Dick Tracy and his rogues gallery of freakish enemies. This issue reprints strips from July-September 1940. Fake guru Yogee Yamma uses mind-control gas to fleece his clients of their fortunes. When Tracy and the police uncover his scheme, he flees to his underground laboratory hideout. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.00.

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Black Pearl. Story, art and cover by Chester Gould. Blackthorne Publishing reprints the original comic-strip adventures of legendary tough cop Dick Tracy and his rogues gallery of freakish enemies. This issue reprints strips from September-October 1940. A bomb scare leads Pat and Tracy to Black Pearl Erad, weapons manufacturer and black-market dealer. When she gets wind of their pursuit, Pearl traps them in a dangerous testing ground for war machines. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.00.

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Deafy Sweetfellow. Story, art and cover by Chester Gould. Blackthorne Publishing reprints the original comic-strip adventures of legendary tough cop Dick Tracy and his rogues gallery of freakish enemies. This issue reprints strips from October-December 1940. Junior Tracy gets a chance at his own case when Deafy Sweetfellow targets Junior's school for his stolen-bicycle ring. But when Junior exposes the plot, he finds himself in danger that only Dick Tracy can get him out of. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.00.

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Krome. Story, art and cover by Chester Gould. Blackthorne Publishing reprints the original comic-strip adventures of legendary tough cop Dick Tracy and his rogues gallery of freakish enemies. This issue reprints the strips from December 2, 1940 - January 23, 1941. The sinister Krome uses modified toys as murder weapons. When Tracy and Pat set off one of his bombs, they are surprised by the killers gang. But it turns out Kromes girlfriend Kitty is just as deadly, to both Tracy and Krome himself. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.00.

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Selbert Depool, Part 1. Story, art and cover by Chester Gould. Blackthorne Publishing reprints the original comic-strip adventures of legendary tough cop Dick Tracy and his rogues gallery of freakish enemies. This issue reprints the strips from January 23 – March 16, 1941. Escaped mental patient Selbert Depool kills his father and hides out in his mothers house. Mrs. Depool hides Selbert from the police and Dick Tracy, but the situation cannot end well. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.00.

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Selbert Depool, Part 2. Story, art and cover by Chester Gould. Blackthorne Publishing reprints the original comic-strip adventures of legendary tough cop Dick Tracy and his rogues gallery of freakish enemies. This issue reprints the strips from March 17 – May 10, 1941. Selbert Depool escapes from his mothers home and hides out, but Tracy is hot on his trail. He tries to hijack a parade float and meets a spectacular finish. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.00.

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Story, art and cover by Chester Gould. Blackthorne Publishing reprints the original comic-strip adventures of legendary tough cop Dick Tracy and his rogues gallery of freakish enemies. This issue reprints the strips from May 11 - June 29, 1941. Gangster Trigger Doom kills a constables daughter, leading the constable to help Tracy track the killer. The chase leads to danger with a raging bull and a showdown with a rival crime lord. Also, reprints of vintage paper dolls featuring Dick Tracy, Junior and Tess Trueheart, along with various outfits. Trigger Doom; The Scrapbook of Chester Gould. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.00.

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Pear-Shape. Story, art and cover by Chester Gould. Blackthorne Publishing reprints the original comic-strip adventures of legendary tough cop Dick Tracy and his rogues gallery of freakish enemies. This issue reprints the strips from July 2-14, 1941 and April 6 – May 21, 1949. After the conclusion of the Trigger Doom storyline, the reprints jump ahead eight years. Jewel thief Pear-Shape sets his sights on a hidden fortune, but an obstinate dog stands in his way. The crooks efforts to get rid of the dog only succeed in attracting the attention of Dick Tracy. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.00.

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Story, art and cover by Chester Gould. Blackthorne Publishing reprints the original comic-strip adventures of legendary tough cop Dick Tracy and his rogues gallery of freakish enemies. This issue reprints the strips from May 22 – July 19, 1949. Mugg the dog helps Tracy and Sam bring Pear-Shape to heel. The Plentys are offered a chance to make Sparkle Plenty a baby model, but when the client turns up dead, B.O. Plenty becomes a suspect. Pear-Shape; Sparkle Plenty. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.00.

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Story, art and cover by Chester Gould. Blackthorne Publishing reprints the original comic-strip adventures of legendary tough cop Dick Tracy and his rogues gallery of freakish enemies. This issue reprints the strips from July 20 – September 17, 1949. Tracy proves B.O. Plenty innocent of murder, But then the real killer, Sketch Paree, comes after Tracy, Sam and bandleader Spike Dyke. Sketch Paree; Spike Dyke. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.00.

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Mousey. Story, art and cover by Chester Gould. Blackthorne Publishing reprints the original comic-strip adventures of legendary tough cop Dick Tracy and his rogues gallery of freakish enemies. This issue reprints the strips from September 18 - November 13, 1949. Tracy saves Spike Dyke from Sketch Paree, and finds a lost child with help from the dog Mugg. Then he faces a more whimsical criminal: Mousey, who uses trained rats to commit her crimes. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.00.

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Dick Tracy Marries Tess Trueheart. Story, art and cover by Chester Gould. Blackthorne Publishing reprints the original comic-strip adventures of legendary tough cop Dick Tracy and his rogues gallery of freakish enemies. This issue reprints the strips from November 14 – December 29, 1949. Mousey tries to go straight, but pulls one more job with her trained rats, and that puts Tracy and Sam on her trail. Then, Tracy finally marries his longtime sweetheart, Tess Trueheart, on Christmas Day 1949. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.00.

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Wormy. Story, art and cover by Chester Gould. Blackthorne Publishing reprints the original comic-strip adventures of legendary tough cop Dick Tracy and his rogues gallery of freakish enemies. This issue reprints the strips from December 30, 1949 - February 25, 1950. While honeymooning with Tess, Tracy encounters fugitive killer Wormy Marrons and his wife. When Tracy goes after the killer, Wormy tries to drag him to death behind his car. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.00.

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Blowtop, Part 1. Story, art and cover by Chester Gould. Blackthorne Publishing reprints the original comic-strip adventures of legendary tough cop Dick Tracy and his rogues gallery of freakish enemies. This issue reprints the strips from February 26 - April 23, 1950. Tracy and Sam track Wormy down at a radio station. Tracy and Tess move into their new house, only to have it blown up by Flattops vengeful brother, Blowtop. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.00.

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Blowtop, Part 2. Story, art and cover by Chester Gould. Blackthorne Publishing reprints the original comic-strip adventures of legendary tough cop Dick Tracy and his rogues gallery of freakish enemies. This issue reprints the strips from April 24 - June 21, 1950. Blowtop kidnaps Junior and puts him in a death-trap, but Mugg the dog saves him. Blowtops gang turns on him, but the thug is rescued by an unlikely party: Dick Tracys friend Vitamin Flintheart. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.00.

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Sparkle Plenty, TV Star. Story, art and cover by Chester Gould. Blackthorne Publishing reprints the original comic-strip adventures of legendary tough cop Dick Tracy and his rogues gallery of freakish enemies. This issue reprints the strips from June 22 - August 19, 1950. Tracy catches up with Blowtop thanks to Vitamins help. Young Sparkle Plenty becomes a TV star, but this attracts unwanted attention from protection racketeer T.V. Wiggles. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.00.

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T.V. Wiggles, Part 1. Story, art and cover by Chester Gould. Blackthorne Publishing reprints the original comic-strip adventures of legendary tough cop Dick Tracy and his rogues gallery of freakish enemies. This issue reprints the strips from August 20 - October 15, 1950. Vitamin Flintheart alerts Tracy to T.V. Wiggles' threats against Sparkle Plenty. Wiggles scuffles with Tracy and gets away, then plots a terrible revenge against Sparkle Plenty. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.00.

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T.V. Wiggles, Part 2. Story, art and cover by Chester Gould. Blackthorne Publishing reprints the original comic-strip adventures of legendary tough cop Dick Tracy and his rogues gallery of freakish enemies. This issue reprints the strips from October 1 - December 13, 1950. When his plan to kill Sparkle Plenty fails, T.V. Wiggles kidnaps her instead. During the inevitable shoot-out with the police, Sparkles father B.O. Plenty is gravely wounded. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.00.

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Dr. Plain. Story, art and cover by Chester Gould. Blackthorne Publishing reprints the original comic-strip adventures of legendary tough cop Dick Tracy and his rogues gallery of freakish enemies. This issue reprints the strips from December 1950 - February 1951. Dr. Plain, a surgeon with a blowtorch instead of an arm, executes a murderous plot against the Forchune family. When Tracy catches up with him, the result is one of the strangest shoot-outs of all time. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.00.

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Empty Williams. Story, art and cover by Chester Gould. Blackthorne Publishing reprints the original comic-strip adventures of legendary tough cop Dick Tracy and his rogues gallery of freakish enemies. This issue reprints the strips from February 10 - April 7, 1951. A truck hijacking gone wrong leads to gang war, just when Tracys wife Tess is about to give birth to their daughter. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.00.

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Bonnie Braids Tracy. Story, art and cover by Chester Gould. Blackthorne Publishing reprints the original comic-strip adventures of legendary tough cop Dick Tracy and his rogues gallery of freakish enemies. This issue reprints the strips from April 8 - June 4, 1951. Tracy pulls Sam out of a death-trap, and tracks Empty Williams down in an abandoned tree house. Tess gives birth to Bonnie Braids. Also featuring a reprint of an ad for a Bonny Braids doll, manufactured by Ideal in 1951. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.00.