PS Artbooks Presents: Classic Adventure Comics HC (2021 PS Artbooks) Slipcase Edition comic books

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Collects Son of Sinbad (1950) #1, Secret Missions (1950) #1, The Mask of Dr. Fu Manchu (1951) #1, High Adventure (1957 Red Top) #1, and Great Exploits (1957) #1.

Cover by Joe Kubert.

Classic Adventure Comics is just like those old Saturday morning cinema clubs -there's the Son of Sinbad securing the release of the slave girl and recovering a fortune in gems and jewels in the process. Daring exploits of US foreign agents during the Cold War in Secret Missions, and The Mask of Dr. Fu Manchu, and High Adventure and Great Exploits!

All reproduced completely from cover to cover, featuring some of the best comic book talent including Joe Kubert, Carmine Infantino, Wally Wood, Alvin Hollingsworth, Bernie Krigstein, Frank Borth, Art Peddy, Morris Waldinger and Enrico Bagnoli.

Hardcover (with Slipcase), 184 pages, full color.

Cover price $56.99.

Add to cart Near Mint $27.00

Add to cart Near Mint $27.00

Volume 2 - 1st printing. Collects A Feature Presentation: Black Tarantula (1950) #5, A Feature Presentations: Magazine, Moby Dick (1950) #6, King Solomon's Mines (1951), Jack the Giant Killer (1953), and The Invisible Man #1 (1955).

Just take a look - there's horror and sussense with The Black Tarantula, classic sea-faring action with Moby Dick, jungle quests with the great Allan Quatermain, The New Adventures of Jack the Giant Killer, and an invisible man terrorizes the English countryside! All reproduced completely from cover to cover, just like the original comic, featuring some of the best comic book talent!

Hardcover (with Slipcase), 184 pages, full color.

Cover price $56.99.

Volume 3 - 1st printing. Collects The Hooded Menace (1951 One-Shot), The Unknown Man (1951), Marco Polo (1962 Charlton), Robin Hood (1963 Dell), and Robinson Crusoe (1964 Dell).

Cover by Sam Glanzman.

ust take a look here at Volume 3! It's 1903, ex-soldiers from the Spanish-American war prey on new settlers in the US Northwest! Fast forward to the 1950's and "The Unknown Man" the Underworld Gang Lord who controls the Crime Syndicate. Now all the way back to the middle ages for the adventures of the Venetian merchant and explorer Marco Polo in the court of Kubla Khan! And the legends of Robin Hood and his meeting with Little John and the archery contest that was held to trap him! And finally to the 1600's and the epic adventures of Robinson Crusoe!

Featuring Stories by Leslie Charteris, Louis Ravielli, A.C. Hollingsworth, Sam Glanzman, Charles Nicholas, Vince Alascia, and Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio!

Hardcover (with Slipcase), 184 pages, full color.

Cover price $56.99.

Volume 4 - 1st printing. Collects Voyage to the Deep (1962-1964 Dell) #1-4 and Escape from Devil's Island (1952).

Cover by Sam Glanzman.

Even more Saturday morning picture show classic adventures for you to enjoy with Volume 4, featuring the stunning artwork of the great Sam Glanzman! The Voyage to the Deep series featured the adventures of the submarine Proteus and their adventures and battles pitted against an unknown and powerful alien enemy. Plus you get the bonus addition of Avon's Escape From Devil's Island; set up and framed for murder and robbery, Pierre Gavril is sentenced to twenty years of torture, hard labor, and isolation on Devils Island - and escape is said to be suicide.

Featuring Stories by John McDermott, Sam Glanzman, Everett Raymond Kinstler, Norman Nodel and Vince Alascia.

Hardcover (with Slipcase), 184 pages, full color.

Cover price $56.99.

Volume 5 - 1st printing. Collects Combat (1961-1973 Dell) #1-5.

Cover by Sam Glanzman.

Classic Adventures Volume 5 is back to WWII with a series of remarkable accounts of some of the fiercest battles including "Get the Bismark!" Throughout the vast North Atlantic steamed units of the British Fleet, alone against a powerful German Navy. Their mission was to to fulfill the command. The story of the Japanese attack on the American fleet at "Pearl Habor." The Japanese lost 28 planes, the U.S. half of its Pacific Fleet, all in 120 minutes ! "The Death March of Bataan," a retelling of the brutal death march of Bataan. "Lieutenant John F. Kennedy, USNR." The story of President Kennedy on PT boat #109. The great "Desert Fox" falls before the surging onslaught of British might! And all featuring the stunning artwork of the great Sam Glanzman!

Hardcover (with Slipcase), 184 pages, full color.

Cover price $56.99.

Volume 6 - 1st printing. "Oct/Dec 1952-Oct/Dec 1953" Collects Combat (1961-1973 Dell) #6-10. Classic Adventures returns to WWII with a series of remarkable accounts of some of the fiercest battles including, "Raid on Regensburg." "Action in the Sunda Strait" where as part of an incredible series of victories in 1941 and 1942, the Japanese smash a combined American-British-Dutch-Australian fleet at the Battle of the Java Sea. The only allied surviving ships, U.S.S. Houston and H.M.A.S. Perth, attempt to fight their way southward toward Australia. A remarkable summary of the ferocious jungle combat between soldiers sworn to victory in "Fighting Back in New Guinea"! The raging battle for Monte Cassino against unseen enemy troops retells the history of the bombing of the oldest monastery in Europe, the Abbey of Monte Cassino. And finally the thunder of a thousand bullets and bombs in the blazing "Battle of Midway." All featuring the stunning artwork of the great Sam Glanzman. Hardcover (with Slipcase), 184 pages, full color. Cover price $62.99.

Volume 7 - 1st printing. "May 1953-January 1954!" Collects Dynamite (1953 Comic Media) #1-5. Cover by Pete Morisi. Johnny Dynamite, created by Pete Morisi, was a hard-boiled private detective, known as "The Wild Man from Chicago." Good friends with the D.A. but readily accepted by the underworld-he smoked cigarettes constantly, cursed frequently and had a bad habit of getting shot and beaten by his enemies. But always gave as good as he got; he was an experience and persistent detective taking his cases very personally and killed many of his early foes, claiming they were reaching for a weapon. Myra Benz, who had shot him in the eye, was brazenly killed without any true justification beyond his own sense of justice. Hardcover (with Slipcase), 184 pages, full color. Cover price $62.99.

Add to cart Near Mint $62.99

Volume 8 - 1st printing. "January-September 1954/June 1955!" Collects Dynamite (1953 Comic Media) #6-10. Cover by Pete Morisi. Johnny Dynamite, created by Pete Morisi, was a hard-boiled private detective, known as "The Wild Man from Chicago." Good friends with the D.A. but readily accepted by the underworld, he smoked cigarettes constantly, cursed frequently and had a bad habit of getting shot and beaten by his enemies. But always gave as good as he got; he was an experienced and persistent detective taking his cases very personally and killed many of his early foes, claiming they were reaching for a weapon. Myra Benz, who had shot him in the eye, was brazenly killed without any true justification beyond his own sense of justice. Hardcover (with Slipcase), 184 pages, full color. Cover price $62.99.