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Referred to by comic strip historian Maurice Horn as the
“granddaddy of all costumed superheroes,” The Phantom was
created in 1936 by Lee Falk. The strip hit the funny pages of
newspapers well before the Dark Knight or Superman made their first
appearances and has been acknowledged as an influence on every
“masked man of mystery” since. The Phantom set the standard for
action, adventure, intrigue, and romance in adventure comic strips
and comic books — it has frequently been copied but never
equaled. This exciting 29th volume continues the SY BARRY YEARS!
Reprinted in all its black and white glory, journey with Hermes
Press as we bring you four complete continuities drawn by Sy
himself which continue adventures of The Phantom, Diana, and his
two children: “Gooroo's Jungle,” “The Hostages” “The
Phantom's Vacation,” and “The Return of Gooroo's Mob.” Strips
from this issue are taken directly from King Feature’s proofs.
Included in the volume is a comprehensive essay and documentary
materials.
Frank Robbins’ masterpiece, one of the all-time greatest
action/adventure newspaper comic strips, Johnny Hazard, returns
with Volume ten of the series! Continues the adventures of Johnny
Hazard picking up the storyline where Volume Nine left off. See
more trend-setting artwork by comics legend Frank Robbins in one of
the most important adventure strips ever to grace
newspapers. Reproduced entirely from original King Features
press proofs.
The 1960s comic book adventures of The Phantom return in full,
glorious color! Long out of print and in constant demand these
classic Phantom stories are collected in two hard cover volumes.
Volume Two collects eight stories. The Gold Key comic book version
of the grand-daddy of costumed heroes, the Ghost Who Walks, is
available again, digitally remastered to look better than the
original books. Featuring cover art by famed painter George Wilson
with interior artwork by Bill Lignante and stories by Bill Harris.
Chock of a extras, an in depth introduction by Phantom expert Pete
Klaus accompanied by rare original artwork. This printing will be
limited to 1000 copies.
The Feudist: A Novel of the Pleasant Valley War is both a
traditional Western - tense, authentic, fast-paced - and an
anti-Western that tells the story of what was perhaps the bloodiest
range war in US history, Arizona's 1880s Pleasant Valley War. The
narrator - a small-time rancher named Ben Holcomb who reflects back
on his adolescent experiences - begins the story as a stockboy in
Globe City, Arizona. Bored with his job, he agrees to become an
apprentice cowboy. His journey to his employer's ranch leads him
into a smoldering range war. Over the next year, he rides with a
charismatic trickster; a Texas 'colonel' and his idealist daughter;
a polygamous Mormon elder with a teenaged wife; and a winsome,
mixed-race cowboy who is deeply embroiled in the feud. Though Ben
tries to stay out of the quarreling, he finds himself embroiled as
he stumbles through passionate love, devastating loss, and moral
uncertainty. Herman's attention to historical forces, his spare
style, his self-deprecating narrator, and his authentic characters
give the novel a verisimilitude that transcends the genre Western
and far surpasses Zane Grey's 1922 romance about the Pleasant
Valley War, To the Last Man.
Back in the 1950s during the "Cold War" every new day beckoned the
possibility of the end of the world. Kids grew up in the shadow of
bomb shelters and were treated to daily lessons at school on what
to do in the event of a nuclear attack. Americans were besieged by
constant reminders to police our borders, to carefully watch out
for "foreigners" who might be spies, and to be ever vigilant in
preparing to combat the "red" menace of communism. Comic books of
this era played on these fears with stories of atomic war and world
war III. This new historic reprint looks back at those good ole
days, which can be viewed in the perspective of today's political
climate. This volume reprints the complete runs of Atomic War! and
World War III and can be read merely as great action/adventure
stories, classic "war" comics or as an eerie, unanticipated
commentary on today's tribulations. SPECIAL NOTE: if these
extremely rare books were purchased at your local comic shop they
would cost well over $1000 in low grade condition!
The 1960s comic book adventures of The Phantom return in full,
glorious color! Long out of print and in constant demand these
classic Phantom stories are collected in two hard cover volumes.
Volume One collects eight stories. The Gold Key comic book version
of the grand-daddy of costumed heroes, the Ghost Who Walks, is
available again, digitally remastered to look better than the
original books. Featuring cover art by famed painter George Wilson
with interior artwork by Bill Lignante and stories by Bill Harris.
Chock full of a extras, an in depth introduction by Phantom expert
Ed Rhoades accompanied by rare original artwork. This printing will
be limited to 1000 copies.
Referred to by comic strip historian Maurice Horn as the
“granddaddy of all costumed superheroes,” The Phantom was
created in 1936 by Lee Falk. The strip hit the funny pages of
newspapers well before the Dark Knight or Superman made their first
appearances and has been acknowledged as an influence on every
“masked man of mystery” since. The Phantom set the standard for
action, adventure, intrigue, and romance in adventure comic strips
and comic books - it has frequently been copied but never equaled.
This exciting 28th volume continues the SY BARRY YEARS! Reprinted
in all its black and white glory, journey with Hermes Press as we
bring you five complete continuities drawn by Sy himself: “The
Heirs,” “Jungle Gold,” “The Return of General Bababu,”
“The Tree House,” and “The Poachers.” Strips from this
issue are taken directly from King Feature’s proofs. Included in
the volume is a comprehensive essay and documentary materials.
Volume #27 features one of the most important stories in The
Phantom canon, “The Phantom Wedding” ranked among the best
tales of the Ghost Who Walks ever written. Referred to by comic
strip historian Maurice Horn as the “granddaddy of all costumed
superheroes,” The Phantom was created in 1936 by Lee Falk. The
strip hit the funny pages of newspapers well before the Dark Knight
or Superman made their first appearances and has been acknowledged
as an influence on every “masked man of mystery” since. The
Phantom set the standard for action, adventure, intrigue, and
romance in adventure comic strips and comic books - it has
frequently been copied but never equaled.
In Moby-Dick's wide philosophical musings and central narrative
arch, Daniel Herman finds a philosophy very closely aligned
specifically with the original teachings of Zen Buddhism. In
exploring the likelihood of this hitherto undiscovered influence,
Herman looks at works Melville is either known to have read or that
there is a strong likelihood of his having come across, as well as
offering a more expansive consideration of Moby-Dick from a Zen
Buddhist perspective, as it is expressed in both ancient and modern
teachings. But not only does the book delve deeply into one of the
few aspects of Moby-Dick's construction left unexplored by
scholars, it also conceives of an entirely new way of reading the
greatest of American books-offering critical re-considerations of
many of its most crucial and contentious issues, while focusing on
what Melville has to teach us about coping with adversity,
respecting ideological diversity, and living skillfully in a
fickle, slippery world.
Referred to by comic strip historian Maurice Horn as the
“granddaddy of all costumed superheroes,” The Phantom was
created in 1936 by Lee Falk. The strip hit the funny pages of
newspapers well before the Dark Knight or Superman made their first
appearances and has been acknowledged as an influence on every
“masked man of mystery” since. The Phantom set the standard for
action, adventure, intrigue, and romance in adventure comic strips
and comic books — it has frequently been copied but never
equaled. This exciting 30th volume continues the SY BARRY YEARS!
Reprinted in all its black and white glory, journey with Hermes
Press as we bring you five complete continuities drawn by Sy
himself which continue adventures of The Phantom, Diana, and his
two children: “Queen Karola of Kula-Ku,” “Ughland,”
“Visit to Baron Khan,” “Luck and Wealth,” and “The
Kimberly Diamond.” Also included is a comprehensive essay and
documentary materials.
The original, classic, Dark Shadows books from the Paperback
Library, return with Hermes Press' archival reprint of all 32
titles in the series beginning with the first novel which first saw
print in December, 1966. The sixteenth book in this reprint series
is titled "Barnabas, Quentin and the Mummy's Curse." Each book in
the series was written by William Edward Daniel Ross who used the
pen name Marilyn Ross. When Professor Anthony Collins decides to
catalog his Egyptian relics at Collinwood he brings with him the
mummy of King Rehotip, who "died" over 2000 years ago. Only the
professor knows that Rehotip is really in a state of suspended
animation. One night, the professor brings the mummy to life.
Suddenly a young girl is killed. The police suspect Quentin
Collins. Maggie Evans however, is certain the killer is the mummy
and wants to warn the police. Professor Collins threatens to accuse
Barnabas if she does. Frightened into silence, Maggie lives in
terror, wondering if she will be the next victim.
In this book, Herman argues that Herman Melville may have been
aware of Buddhist thought far earlier than previously considered.
Scholars have long known of Melville's interest in Buddhism in the
final decades of his life (seen in the short poem "Buddha," and
perhaps even the surname of his final protagonist, Billy "Budd").
But as early as 1847, Melville had knowledge of "the grand lama of
Thibet," mentioning him in that year's Omoo. And the five years
directly preceding the composition and publication of Moby-Dick
(1844-1849) coincided with the period during which interest in
Buddhism turned from an obscure curiosity among American
intellectuals to formal research among religious scholars in the
United States. In Moby-Dick's wide philosophical musings and
central narrative arch, Herman finds a philosophy very closely
aligned specifically with the original teachings of Zen Buddhism.
In exploring the likelihood of this hitherto undiscovered
influence, Herman looks at works Melville is either known to have
read or that there is a strong likelihood of his having come
across, as well as offering a more expansive consideration of
Moby-Dick from a Zen Buddhist perspective, as it is expressed in
both ancient and modern teachings. But not only does the book delve
deeply into one of the few aspects of Moby-Dick's construction left
unexplored by scholars, it also conceives of an entirely new way of
reading the greatest of American books-offering critical
re-considerations of many of its most crucial and contentious
issues, while focusing on what Melville has to teach us about
coping with adversity, respecting ideological diversity, and living
skillfully in a fickle, slippery world.
For thousands of years, humans have lived on the sprawling
escarpment in Arizona known as the Mogollon Rim, a stretch that
separates the valleys of central Arizona from the mountains of the
north. A vast portion of this dramatic landscape is the traditional
home of the Dilzhe'e (Tonto Apache) and the Yavapai. Now Daniel
Herman offers a compelling narrative of how--from 1864 to 1934--the
Dilzhe'e and the Yavapai came to central Arizona, how they were
conquered, how they were exiled, how they returned to their
homeland, and how, through these events, they found renewal.
Herman examines the complex, contradictory, and very human
relations between Indians, settlers, and Federal agents in late
nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Arizona--a time that
included Arizona's brutal Indian wars. But while most tribal
histories stay within the borders of the reservation, Herman also
chronicles how Indians who left the reservation helped build a
modern state with dams, hydroelectricity, roads, and bridges. With
thoughtful detail and incisive analysis, Herman discusses the
complex web of interactions between Apache, Yavapai, and Anglos
that surround every aspect of the story.
"Rim Country Exodus" is part of a new movement in Western history
emphasizing survival rather than disappearance. Just as important,
this is one of the first in-depth studies of the West that examines
race as it was lived. Race was formulated, Herman argues, not only
through colonial and scientific discourses, but also through
day-to-day interactions between Indians, agents, and settlers. "Rim
Country Exodus "offers an important new perspective on the making
of the West.
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