Thursday, April 18, 2013

The Beach Boys Live - The 50th Anniversary Tour

Out May 21, 2013

2012 marked the 50th anniversary of the greatest American band, The Beach Boys. To mark this momentous occasion, the band reunited to tour the country as well as a number of International concerts. The fans were thrilled to see Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston and David Marks on the same stage again, playing all the hits and more. This magical tour is now captured on the 41 track collection, Live-The 50th Anniversary Tour.

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Walt Kelly's Pogo: The Complete Dell Comics Volume 1

Out July 2, 2013

Walt Kelly's Pogo, acknowledged as one of the most important and influential comic strips of all time, first appeared not in newspapers but as a feature in the Dell comic book anthology Animal Comics, in its first issue, in 1942. The complex, multi-layered, character rich world of Pogo and the Okefenokee Swamp started in these early stories. Now, fans of Pogo can experience it all from the beginning with Hermes Press' reprint of the complete Dell Comics Pogo. Volume 1 features all of the Animal Comics Pogo stories together with complete reprints of Pogo's appearances in Dell's Four Color comics. With Hermes Press' complete reprint of the Dell Comics Pogo, admirers of this ground-breaking comic feature can now witness the strip's evolution, in an archival hardcover, digitally reconstructed to perfection.

Terry and the Pirates the George Wunder Years: Volume 1 (1946-1948)

Out July 2, 2013

Now for the first time George Wunder's continuation of Milton Caniff's masterpiece, Terry and the Pirates, the dailies and Sundays, is available! Volume 1 continues the stories of Terry, The Dragon Lady, Connie, Flip Corkin, Hotshot Charlie, and all of the characters immortalized by this ground-breaking classic strip!

Hulk: From the UK Vaults

Out July 9, 2013

In 1979, Marvel UK launched Hulk Comic, a weekly magazine published across the pond that featured all-new stories starring the green goliath, produced by a host of up-and-coming British talent including Dave Gibbons (Watchmen), David Lloyd (V for Vendetta), Steve Dillon (Preacher, WOLVERINE: ORIGINS), John Bolton (CLASSIC X-MEN) and Paul Neary (ULTIMATES)! Bolstered by the popularity of the live action TV show, the Hulk was a hot property on both shores, spawning years of all-original UK-created comic and text stories!

COLLECTING: Smash ! 38; material from Marvel Storybook Annual 1968; material from Hulk Comic 1-6, 9-20, 26-28; Incredible Hulk Annual: Authorised Edition 1980; Hulk Annual 1981-1985; The Super Heroes Annual 1991

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: The Gray Morrow Years Volume 1 (1979-1981)

Out July 19, 2013

With the success of the Buck Rogers TV show the New York Times Syndicate decided to revive the classic Buck Rogers newspaper feature and to give it a contemporary sci-fi treatment. The feature, which was unrelated to the television show, offered the artwork of Gray Morrow with scripts by Jim Lawrence. Volume One offers a full two years of the strip with the black and white dailies and full-color Sundays. This material has never before been offered in its original version.

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Walt Disney's Donald Duck: "Christmas On Bear Mountain" (Vol. 5) (The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library)

Out Nov. 10, 2013

Scrooge McDuck is now such a fixture in the Disney universe that few remember Carl Barks had been writing and drawing Donald Duck stories for half a decade before he cooked up the miserly multiplujillionaire — for what he thought would be a one-time Christmas yarn involving Donald, the nephews, Scrooge in a bearskin, and (inevitably) a couple of real bears. “Christmas on Bear Mountain” is one of Barks’s funniest holiday stories and a true landmark in comics history, and offers a fascinating look at a rough-edged, genuinely nasty character whom Barks would soon soften... Scrooge aside, there’s plenty of fun to be had in this volume. In “Volcano Valley” Donald and the Nephews end up stuck in Volcania, a south-of-the-border country inhabited by sombrero-wearing, siesta-addicted Volcanians. Other long-form adventures include the self-explanatory “Adventure Down Under,” as well as one of Barks’s most atmospheric thrillers, the West Indies-based “Ghost of the Grotto,” which includes a lovely night-time sequence drawn in Barks’s trademark silhouettes and a giantoctopus- vs.-hot-chili-peppers throwdown that climaxes in an explosive splash panel. The book is rounded off with seven of Barks’s hilarious 10-pagers, and as with the previous volumes, Walt Disney’s Donald Duck: Christmas on Bear Mountain has been scanned from crisp vintage art and meticulously colored to match the original printing’s warm, simple hues, and features abundant critical and historical notes penned by some of duckdom’s finest experts. Full color.