New York: Pocket Books, Inc., [1964]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Pocket 50059. Collects 92 drawings, over half from the New Yorker magazine.

New York: Pocket Books, Inc., [1965]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Pocket 50062. Collects 90 drawings, the majority from the New Yorker magazine. Many feature The Addams Family.

Kansas City, Missouri: House of Greystoke, [1965]. 269 illustrations by John Coleman Burroughs, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Consists of J.C. Burroughs pen and ink drawings of ERB characters and prints the comic strip "David Innes of Pellucidar: Adventures At the Earth's Core." The first 12 pages were originally published in Hi-Spot comics #2 (1940). The full story was not published. The two six page strips at the end of this book was a re-working of the original strip and never published. All material in black and white.

Np, nd: [1942]. Octavo, pp. [1] 2 [3-4] 5-8 [9-10] 11-14 [15] [16: blank], [Note: two color comic inserts 4 pages and 8 pages], illustrated throughout, printed wrappers. First edition. This is one of the earliest essay's on comic books, an offprint from Print: A Quarterly Journal of Graphic Arts (Summer, 1942). It also includes two four color comic inserts, the first "The Minute Man Answers the Call" with writing credit to Gaines and illustrated by an uncredited Sheldon Moldoff, which is a promotion to buy War Bonds. The second insert is "Picture Stories From the Bible: The Story of Ruth" by Gaines and artist Don Cameron. M. C. Gaines is essentially the father of the modern comic book. In 1933 he devised a saddle stitched newsprint pamphlet which was the precursor of the modern four color comic book. Gaines founded All-American Publications which featured original material including the super-heroes Flash, Hawkman, Green Lantern and Wonder Woman. The financing for All-American came from his partner Jack Leibowitz. Leibowitz was also co-owner of National Allied Publications, the company that would eventually become National-DC comics. The companies were merged in 1944 with Gaines being bought out. Gaines would then go on to establish the E.C. (Educational Comics) line. After Gaines untimely death in 1947, his son Max took over the company and took it in the direction that is well known today of horror and science fiction stories during the 1950s.

[Ann Arbor, MI: Edwin Aprill, Jr., 1966]. Large octavo, pictorial wrappers, stapled. First edition. One of 300 copies printed. Collects THE SPIRIT daily newspaper strips numbers 1-93, 1941-42. Color cover with black and white interior.

[New York]: Avon Books, [1973]. Octavo, cover art by George Wilson, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Avon 15545. The sixth volume in this series.

[New York: DC Comics, 2000]. Small octavo, illustrated by various artists including Gaiman, pictorial boards. First edition.

New York: Cupples & Leon Company, [1929]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The fourth book in this series, collecting the comic strips from 1928.

New York: The World Today, Inc., [1926]. Quarto, pp. [1-9] 10-112, color illustrations by Louis Biedermann, original green cloth, spine panel lettered in gold, color pictorial onlay affixed to front panel, pictorial endpapers. First edition. A story by Jack Lait featuring 1920's comic characters created by George McManus, George Herriman, Frederick Burr Opper, Reuben L. Goldberg, E. C. Segar, Chester Gould, all shown interacting -- at a banquet, the races (a match between Spark Plug and Maud), and at a wedding -- in color drawings (some double page) by Louis Biedermann. Louis Biederman worked as a staff assistant at King Features at this time, filling in when cartoonists went on vacation, inking different cartoonists work and pitching in on the lettering. This allowed Biederman to develop the skill of being able to copy any of the cartoonists at King features and it was he who was assigned the artwork in this book. To write the book, King Features brought in erstwhile Hollywood scriptwriter, playwright and newspaper columnist Jack Lait, who would later co-author "New York Confidential", "Chicago Confidential" and "Washington Confidential". This duo created what was in essence a marketing book about the stable of comic characters at King Features. Though the book itself is not rare, the wraparound dustwrapper containing all the Hearts/King Features characters is scarce.

[Battle Creek, Michigan and London, Canada: Kellogg Company, 1933.]. Octavo, pp. [1-3] 4-31 [32: ad], 22 color illustrations, pictorial wrappers, stapled. First edition. A cereal premium booklet, written by Nowlan and illustrated by Calkins, which introduced young readers to the twenty-fifth century world of Buck Rogers, his associates and his enemies. The newspaper strip ran from 1929 to 1946. It "had many imitators ... but none equaled its influence or ingenuity. It introduced more people to science fiction than any other medium before or since, with the possible exception of the motion picture, 'Star Wars.'" - Survey of Science Fiction Literature, p. 88. This is the first appearance of Buck Rogers in a comic magazine type format. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978). Not in Reginald (1979; 1992).

[New York]: Avon Books, [1974]. Octavo, cover art by George Wilson, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Avon 18184. The tenth volume in this series. Adapted from a story by Lee Falk.

[New York]: Avon Books, [1973]. Octavo, cover art by George Wilson, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Avon 15867. The seventh volume in this series. Adapted from a story by Lee Falk.