PS Artbooks Presents: Classic Science Fiction Comics HC (2020 PS Artbooks) comic books 2024

Volume 7 - 1st printing. Basil Wolverton (July 9, 1909 - December 31, 1978) born in Central Point, Oregon and later moved to Vancouver, Washington. He worked as a vaudeville performer and a cartoonist and reporter for the Portland News. Wolverton was a master in caricaturing the human face and body and his drawings have elicited a wide range of reactions; he even described himself as a "Producer of Preposterous Pictures of Peculiar People who Prowl this Perplexing Planet." Preferring to work with pen and ink, Wolverton's lack of artistic schooling gave his drawings an otherworldly appearance. There was no other artist at the time who drew like him! Harvey Kurtzman felt "Wolverton never borrowed, never hacked, and he never shortchanged the public. Wolverton was an original." In 1991 he was posthumously inducted in the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame and in 2000 in the Will Eisner Hall of Fame. Collects Amazing Mystery Funnies featuring Space Patrol (December 1939-September 1940), Target Comics Month featuring Spacehawk (June 1940-June 1941), and Weird Tales of the Future featuring Basil Wolverton (June-September 1952). Hardcover, 184 pages, full color. Cover price $52.99.

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Volume 8 - 1st printing. "Space Detective!" Lance Lewis, Space Detective, is a scientific genius and using his ray guns, jet pack and a whole host of other high-tech gadgets fights interplanetary aliens and space menaces with the aid of his gorgeous girlfriend, Marna, solving alien mysteries, such as the amoeba men or Martians. With some absolutely iconic covers painted by Alex Schomburg, you'll wanna catch up on Lance's adventures! Plus, in an observatory high in the Andes, Dr. X, master of the mysteries of occult science undertakes the greatest experiment of his career! Ace Buckley and his friend Toni Stark travel through time on a series of high octane adventures and battles! Collects Lance Lewis: Mystery Comics #3-4 (October-December 1944) and Startling Comics #44-53 (March 1947-September 1948), Dr. X and Ace Buckley: Startling Comics #1-10 (June 1940-September 1941). Hardcover, 184 pages, full color. Cover price $52.99.