Library of American Comics Essentials HC (2012- IDW) comic books 2011-2013
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Published Oct 2012 by IDW Publishing.
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Volume 1 - 1st printing. "George Herriman's Baron Bean: The Complete 1916 Comics!"
Story and Art by George Herriman.
Introducing a new series that will reprint early daily newspaper strips that are essential to the history of comics. Each volume will contain a full year of dailies. By reproducing the strips one per page in an oblong format, it allows us to have the experience of reading the comics one day at a time. The inaugural volume of Library of American Comics Essentials features Baron Bean by one of the greatest of all comic strip stars: George Herriman. The creator of Krazy Kat drew Baron Bean for three years, beginning in 1916.
Hardcover (Horizontal Format), 11 1/2-in. x 4 1/2-in., 328 pages, B&W.
Cover price $19.99. -
Issue #2-1ST
Published Jan 2013 by IDW Publishing.This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
Volume 2 - 1st printing. "Sidney Smith's The Gumps: The Saga of Mary Gold!"
Story and Art by Sidney Smith.
In the late 1910s, Sidney Smith developed a formula of the daily strip that would make The Gumps one of the most popular comics of the 1920s and himself one of the richest cartoonists of his day. By the end of the decade Sidney Smith's The Gumps had secured a huge and loyal audience with a decade of melodrama, adventure, mystery, and comedy. So devoted were his readers, in fact, that they regularly wrote in to offer advice for his characters' love lives and business decisions and they generally treated the characters as friends and family members. In 1928-29, with the launching of what would be his most famous story, "The Saga of Mary Gold," Smith's relationship to his readers would be tested as never before. Its heartbreaking conclusion would change comics forever. Here for the first time since the story made headlines across America in the spring of 1929 we reprint the saga that Hogan's Alley magazine called "One of the Ten Biggest Events in Comics History"-a tale that has lost none of its power to captivate readers in the 21st Century.
Hardcover (Horizontal Format), 11 1/2-in. x 4 1/2-in., 336 pages, B&W.
Cover price $19.99. -
Published Aug 2013 by IDW Publishing.
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Volume 3 - 1st printing. "Polly and her Pals!"
Story and Art by Cliff Sterrett.
By the early 1930s Cliff Sterrett had transformed Polly and Her Pals into the world's premier surrealistic comic strip. Sterrett's Sunday pages (also being published by The Library of American Comics) have long been hailed as individual masterpieces, but his daily strips-due to their rarity-have eluded archivists for the past ninety years. The strips reprinted here-the complete year of 1933 dailies-show Sterrett at his most inventive!
Hardcover (Horizontal Format), 11 1/2-in. x 4 1/2-in., 336 pages, B&W.
Cover price $24.99.
