Comic books in 'Mona Lisa', graded by CGC

The Elseworlds Annuals, the DC Universe's journey into remote realms of possibility, continue in Renaissance Italy, where Leonardo da Vinci's experiments in creating a flying machine inspire a young apprentice to become an avenging Bat-Man when the artist's model for a very important portrait is kidnapped. Written by Doug Moench, with art by Federico Cueva and Alberto Pez. Cover by Mike Mignola. 68 pages. Cover price $2.95.

1st printing. Story and art by Brian Bolland. This collection of short strips takes readers away from the guns and testosterone, and into a world of wit and whimsy exclusively Bolland's own. Includes a new 20-page The Actress and The Bishop story, along with their other classic adventures, set in a strange suburban idyll. Mr. Mamoulian is Bolland's alter ego; an observer of life in a state of constant bemusement. Hardcover, 112 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $24.99.

Cover art by Jim Balent. The Brooklyn Bridge (I'll Take Manhattan, Part 1 of 6), script by Devin Grayson, pencils by Jim Balent, inks by John Stanisci; Catwoman travels while considering leaving Gotham for good. 36 pgs. $1.99. Cover price $1.99.

Painted cover is a parody of Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa. "Manduck the Magician," script by Harvey Kurtzman, art by Will Elder; Manduck is reduced to using his hypnotic spells to sell snake oil on the street, until he matches spells with Lamont Shadowskeedeeboomboom; Parody of the comic strip Mandrake the Magician. "Movie... Ads!", script by Harvey Kurtzman, art by Wally Wood; The differences between scenes in a movie and the way the movies are advertised. E. C. Fan-Addict Club! ad. "The Countynental!", script by Harvey Kurtzman, art by Jack Davis; Parody of a short-lived 1952 TV show, "The Continental." "Plastic Sam!", script by Harvey Kurtzman, art by Russ Heath; Plastic Sam meets an imitation who is a bank robber; Parody of Plastic Man (Quality, 1943 series). 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Mark Fredrickson. Stories and art by Drew Friedman, Ted Rall, Al Jaffee, Dick DeBartolo, Jeff Kruse, Barry Liebmann, Stan Sinberg, Tim Carvell¸ Desmond Devlin, Hermann Mejia, Scott Maiko, Marc Hempel, Brian Durniak, Corey Pandolph, Teresa Burns Parkhurst, Tom Richmond, Peter Kuper, and Sergio Aragones, plus Fundalini Pages by Scott Bricher, Jeff Kruse, Barry Liebmann, Stan Sinberg, Tim Carvell¸ Desmond Devlin, Hermann Mejia, Scott Maiko, Marc Hempel, Brian McConnachie, Irving Schild, and Teresa Burns Parkhurst. A parody of TV game show Deal or No Deal. Stories by indie cartoonists Ted Rall and Drew Friedman. Mad's look at The Da Vinci Code includes a closer look at The Last Supper (featuring Leonardo Da Vinci art); outtakes from the film; and a "Mona E. Neuman" pull-out poster. Mad's takes on cats, gay parents, and sports. Marginals by Sergio Aragones, and Spy vs. Spy (vs. Spy). The Fundalini Pages; Other Hidden Messages in The Last Supper; The Mad World of... Sports; Dull or Not Dull?; Spy vs. Spy vs. Spy; Mad's All-Too-Human X-Men: The Last Stand Outtakes; Mona E. Neuman; 7 Periods Closer to Death; America's Least Favorite Prom Themes; Having Gay Parents - The Advantages & the Disadvantages; Planet TAD!!!!!; Mad's Clueless Outtakes from The Da Vinci Code; Go Fetch!; A Mad Look at Cats; You Can Write the Next American Idol Single!; Overheard at Anna Nicole Smith's Supreme Court Case; Fold-In. 8.5-in. x 11-in., 52 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $3.99.

Stories and Art by The Usual Gang of Idiots. Cover by Don Martin. The very best of our worst stuff from past issues! In this issue: MAD's Greatest Artists: The Completely MAD Don Martin - a special sneak peek! Plus: Action-packed spoofs of: Terminator 2! Alien! Predator! The Rock! Also: Christmas Carols! And: The Onion! 96 pages. Cover price $4.99.

Cover by Richard Williams. Stories and art by Rick Geary, Al Jaffee, Dick DeBartolo, Bob Bramble, Mike Snider, Steve Greenberg, Sean Eisenporth, Phil Hahn, Andrew J. Schwartzberg, Stan Hart, Dennis Snee, Tom Koch, Tom Cheney, John Caldwell, Desmond Devlin, Monte Wolverton, Richard Williams, George Woodbridge, Rick Tulka, Tom Bunk, Sam Viviano, Angelo Torres, Mort Drucker, Dave Berg, Antonio Prohias, and Sergio Aragones. Mad, a black-and-white magazine for the majority of its run, reprints classic material digitally colorized by Digital Chameleon. Mad's spoofs of The Lion King and Star Trek Voyager, featuring art by Mort Drucker and Angelo Torres. A story illustrated by Victorian Murder's Rick Geary, making this a rare Geary story in full color. 1990s life illustrated in a Norman Rockwell style by Richard Williams. Lighter Side strips by Dave Berg, Marginals by Sergio Aragones, and Spy vs. Spy. Star Blecch Voyeur; If Norman Rockwell Depicted the 90's: Saturday Morning at Doc Fletchers, First Day of School, First Drug Test, Last Parking Space at the Mall; Commemorative Stamps for More Recent Comic Strips; Baseball's Most Important Spring Training Drills; Video Arcade Personalities - Volume I; Strange But True...; Horrifying Cliches; The Lighter Side of Winter; The World's Greatest Thinkers Go to a Baseball Game; Spy Vs. Spy; A Mad Look at Graduations; The Lion's Kin; Dreaded Medical Conditions of Our Times; More Chilling Thoughts; Putting Striking Baseball Players Back to Work; Tricks of the Trade in Local TV News; ; Fold-In. 8.5-in. x 11-in., 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $3.99.

Includes Bonus Don Martin Posters and Paintings. Cover by Don Martin. Stories and art by Don Martin, Al Jaffee, Larry Siegel, Tom Koch, Max Brandel, Dick DeBartolo, Bob Clarke, Frank Jacobs, Antonio Prohias, Jack Rickard, Paul Coker, Jr., Paul Peter Porges, Mort Drucker, Angelo Torres, Arnie Kogen, George Woodbridge, Dave Berg, John Jonik, Lou Silverstone, Stan Hart, Sy Reit, William Garvin, Gilbert Barnhill, Earle Doud, Irving Schild, Norman Mingo, Jack Davis and Sergio Aragones. The Mad Special, later known as the Super Special, reprinted movie spoofs and classic material from the magazine, often accompanied by original stories and attached bonuses in the form of posters, stickers, recordings and comics. Parodies of the classic 1960s movies Easy Rider and Midnight Cowboy, featuring art by Mort Drucker. A Mad look back at the '60s and the changing American lifestyle. Classic Lighter Side strips by Dave Berg, Spy vs. Spy, Marginals by Sergio Aragones, and early Don Martin cartoons. Includes Bonus Don Martin Posters and Paintings, poster-sized prints of Don Martin's spoofs of 1970s lifestyles and classic works of art. The Vampire; The Mad Spotter's Guide to Professional Types; The Mating Call of the Wild; When Special Interest Magazines Review New Movies; A Mad Look at Rapunzel; "Specific Form Answer Letters" There Really Ought To Be; Mad Greeting Cards to Shake Up People You Hate; The Nightmare; Midnight Wowboy; One Night at the Fights; Mad's Updated Modern Day Mother Goose; A Mad Peek Behind the Scenes at a Fancy Restaurant; Ads For Movie Revivals; One Day in a Crash-Pad; The Lighter Side of Worry; The Mad Sex Education Primer; Mad's Guaranteed Effective All-Occasion Non-Slanderous Political Smear Speech; Don Martin Vital Message Posters and Art Depreciation Paintings (bonus insert); Spy Vs. Spy; How to Read a Resort Ad; Those Wonderful Sixties!; You Know You're Really a Bore When...; One Day at the Ocean; The Mad Plan for Combatting the Boredom of Baseball; Mad's Frozen Foods That Fake-Out Fresh; Mad "Minute Nature Study"; The Lighter Side of Summer Resorts; Obituaries for Traditions, Pastimes and Other Dying-Out Landmarks of the American Way of Life; While Hanging Around the Corner; A Mad Look at Birds; Feature By Feature Advertising; Sleazy Riders; Fold-In; The Nightmare. 8.5-in. x 11-in., 80 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.75.

Does NOT Include Don Martin posters or paintings. Cover by Don Martin. Stories and art by Don Martin, Al Jaffee, Larry Siegel, Tom Koch, Max Brandel, Dick DeBartolo, Bob Clarke, Frank Jacobs, Antonio Prohias, Jack Rickard, Paul Coker, Jr., Paul Peter Porges, Mort Drucker, Angelo Torres, Arnie Kogen, George Woodbridge, Dave Berg, John Jonik, Lou Silverstone, Stan Hart, Sy Reit, William Garvin, Gilbert Barnhill, Earle Doud, Irving Schild, Norman Mingo, Jack Davis and Sergio Aragones. The Mad Special, later known as the Super Special, reprinted movie spoofs and classic material from the magazine, often accompanied by original stories and attached bonuses in the form of posters, stickers, recordings and comics. Parodies of the classic 1960s movies Easy Rider and Midnight Cowboy, featuring art by Mort Drucker. A Mad look back at the '60s and the changing American lifestyle. Classic Lighter Side strips by Dave Berg, Spy vs. Spy, Marginals by Sergio Aragones, and early Don Martin cartoons. The Vampire; The Mad Spotter's Guide to Professional Types; The Mating Call of the Wild; When Special Interest Magazines Review New Movies; A Mad Look at Rapunzel; "Specific Form Answer Letters" There Really Ought To Be; Mad Greeting Cards to Shake Up People You Hate; The Nightmare; Midnight Wowboy; One Night at the Fights; Mad's Updated Modern Day Mother Goose; A Mad Peek Behind the Scenes at a Fancy Restaurant; Ads For Movie Revivals; One Day in a Crash-Pad; The Lighter Side of Worry; The Mad Sex Education Primer; Mad's Guaranteed Effective All-Occasion Non-Slanderous Political Smear Speech; Don Martin Vital Message Posters and Art Depreciation Paintings (bonus insert); Spy Vs. Spy; How to Read a Resort Ad; Those Wonderful Sixties!; You Know You're Really a Bore When...; One Day at the Ocean; The Mad Plan for Combating the Boredom of Baseball; Mad's Frozen Foods That Fake-Out Fresh; Mad "Minute Nature Study"; The Lighter Side of Summer Resorts; Obituaries for Traditions, Pastimes and Other Dying-Out Landmarks of the American Way of Life; While Hanging Around the Corner; A Mad Look at Birds; Feature By Feature Advertising; Sleazy Riders; Fold-In; The Nightmare. 8.5-in. x 11-in., 80 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.75.

Best of the Stupid Years #2. Cover by Don Martin. Stories and art by Don Martin, Al Jaffee, Dick DeBartolo, Stan Hart, Mike Snider, Don (Duck) Edwing, John Ficarra, Tom Koch, T.J. Glenn, Dean Fiora, Larry Siegel, Desmond Devlin, Chris Hart, Paul Peter Porges, Frank Jacobs, Rick Meyerowitz, Jack Rickard, Greg Theakston, Harry North, Esq., Sam Viviano, Tom Bunk, Angelo Torres, Mort Drucker, Rick Tulka, Paul Coker, Jr., George Woodbridge, Jack Davis, Antonio Prohias, Dave Berg, and Sergio Aragones. The Mad Super Special reprinted movie spoofs and classic material from the magazine. Mad's parodies of the movies Frankenstein, Judge Dredd and Edward Scissorhands, featuring art by Mort Drucker and Angelo Torres. Mad's takes on bikers, horseback riding, and disc jockeys. Classic cartoons by Don Martin. Lighter Side strips by Dave Berg, Marginals by Sergio Aragones, and Spy vs. Spy. Frankenslime; One Not So Fine Afternoon Downtown; The Mad Cost of Living Index; A Mad Look at Bikers; Spy Vs. Spy; Only in the Middle of the Night...; Exciting New Uses for Miracle Velcro; The Lighter Side of...; What Disc Jockeys Say...and What They Mean; If the Underworld Were Allowed to Advertise; One Fine Day Downtown; A Mad Look at Other Uses for Live Lobsters; Mother Goose Around the World; Judge Dreck; A Mad Look at Horseback Riding; How to Read an Airline Menu; When Not to Use Famous "Pick-Up" Lines; If Advertisers Made Use of Old Masters; Mad Tips on Moving Out and Making It on Your Own; One Day on a Tiny Desert Island; Deadwood Scissorsham; A Mad Guide to Understanding Statistics; Little-Known and Rarely Diagnosed Mad Ailments Contracted at Supermarkets; It's a Mad, Mad World!; Mad's Talking Stamps; One Fine Wednesday in Detroit; Shocking Tell-All Books by TV-Sitcom Characters; Bad, Worse, Downright Horrible!; One Steaming Day in the Congo; Mad's Parental Guide for Safe TV Viewing; Raising Money With Other Forms of Legalized Gambling; A Mad Look at Big-Time TV; One Afternoon in a Large City; Fold-In; One-On-One Night in the Laboratory. 8.5-in. x 11-in., 96 pages, B&W. Cover price $4.99.

Whitman edition. "The ?Moaning Lisa' Mystery" in which Mickey and Goofy investigate the disappearance of a famous painting and "Baby Sitter Jitters." Issue also has Li'l Bad Wolf in "The Girl Friend" and one-page text stories "A Trip to Timbuktu" and "Introducing Mouseketeer Shawnte Northcutte." All comic stories are reprints. Story and art credits: unknown. Cover price $0.30.

Number/month on cover: 90027-708, no month listed. Issue features "The ?Moaning Lisa' Mystery" in which Mickey and Goofy investigate the disappearance of a famous painting and "Baby Sitter Jitters." Issue also has Li'l Bad Wolf in "The Girl Friend" and one-page text stories "A Trip to Timbuktu" and "Introducing Mouseketeer Shawnte Northcutte." All comic stories are reprints. Story and art credits: unknown. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.30.

1st printing. From A to Z all the blood curdling horrors you love to fear. A comprehensive book (circa 1974) about the sci-fi, horror beasts and brutes of Hollywood cinema, television, and comic books. From Dracula to the Wolfman, Godzilla to King Kong, the Blob to Talos, this book covers them all. Comic book fans might like to note that there are also entries for such sci-fi oriented characters as the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk and the villains and beast they fight. Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 120 pages, B&W.

Add to cart CGC 9.6 $85.00 View scans Paper: White Label #4003686008 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.	Add to cart CGC 9.4 $60.00 View scans Paper: White Label #4152640013 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.	Add to cart CGC 9.2 $55.00 View scans Paper: White Label #4030891018 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.	Add to cart CGC 8.0 $75.00 or Best Offer View scans Paper: White Label #3955700006 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.
Add to cart CGC 5.0 $39.99 or Best Offer View scan Paper: Off white to white Label #4333499011 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

"Midnight Means Murder!" Written by Doug Moench. Art by Bill Sienkiewicz. Moon Knight confronts killer whose unorthodox methods may prove to be the masked avenger's undoing. 32 pages, FC. Cover price $0.50.

UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 15p cover price. "Midnight Means Murder!" Written by Doug Moench. Art by Bill Sienkiewicz. Moon Knight confronts killer whose unorthodox methods may prove to be the masked avenger's undoing. 32 pages, FC.

Written by Mike Carey Art and cover by Glenn Fabry. With the enthusiastic assassins Croup and Vandemar on her trail, Door returns to her family home and finds her father's dying secret ? one that could lead her to her true enemy, who has yet to reveal himself. In another part of London Below, Richard faces the terrifying Night's Bridge, where many have tried but few have crossed alive. On sale August 31 ? 3 of 10 ? 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US ? MATURE READERS Cover price $2.99.

Promotional comic for P.F. shoes printed by BF Goodrich. Issue 3, titled "The Magic Shoes and the Missing Masterpiece Mystery". Standard newspaper stock; 6 pages; FC.

Interview with Michael Chabon on Michael Chabon Presents...The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist; 5 pages from Plastic Man #1; 3 pages from Rose & Thorn #1; 3 pages from The Saga of Seven Suns: Veiled Alliances; 3 pages from Robin #121. Flip covers: Plastic Man by Kyle Baker; Wanted by J.G. Jones. 8x11, 480+pg, PC $4.50 Cover price $4.50.

Around the World in 80 Megabytes, Part 1. Story by Rosearik Rikki Simons. Art and cover by Tavisha Wolfgarth. Sci-fi comedy as a hapless teen and his anthropomorphic cat become involved in virtual-reality hijinks. Collin and Catreece explore the virtual-reality world in a hot air balloon, but accidentally unleash the dreaded Puffy Cat computer virus. 24 pages, Full Color. Cover price $2.95.

"Sex to Sexty: Master Piece!" Men's Magazine with adult jokes and cartoons. 64 pages, text, with B&W illustrations Cover price $1.25.

Cover art by Bill Morrison. Bart De Triomphe, script by Jeff Rosenthal, pencils by Phil Ortiz, inks by Tim Bavington; Bart, Milhouse and Krusty go to France. Matt Groening talks about going on talk shows. Citizen Shame, script by Dan Studney and Jim Lincoln, pencils by Bill Morrison, inks by Tim Bavington. 36 pgs. $2.25. Cover price $2.25.

The full-color reprints of the original, groundbreaking issues of MAD continue with this issue, re-presenting MAD #13-15, including the astonishing Plastic Man parody "Plastic Sam!" Among the gems found within: "Prince Violent!", "Robinson Crusoe!", "Manduck the Magician" and "Gasoline Valley!" Written and drawn by the Usual Gang of Idiots. FC, 96 pg. Magazine Format. Cover price $3.99.