Search Results: Cartoons/Comics from 100 POCKETS

Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: HarperCollins, 1987. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/None as Issued. First Edition, First Printing. Remainder mark to upper text edge. Text/VG; thumb/finger tip smudges to some 6 ps (mercifully confined to text margins), else Near New. Illustrated (George Booth, 1987) high-gloss boards/NF. DJ/None as Issued. Anthology of food cartoons of eating in these United States --- from greasy spoons, hot dog stands, and fast foods to haute cuisine. Works of celebrated cartoonists George Booth, Roz Chast, Edward Koren, Charles Addams, and those of fifty other artists under one cover.

Tokyo, Japan: Shinchosha, 2005. Chinese Edition, 2005 . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY. Volume 15 in the Angel Heart manga series written and illustrated by Tsukasa Hojo first published 2001 in the Weekly Comic Bunch. Angel Heart is a spinoff from the City Hunter series. The heroine starts life as Glass Heart, a teenage assasin who, after a killing, has a moral crisis and leaps to her death from a building. Brought back to life by a heart transplant from City Hunter's deceased fiancee, she becomes his adopted daughter and takes on the new name of Angel Heart, but will be plagued by a double personality.

New York, NY: Random House, 1982. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. NEW - COLLECTIBLE/None as Issued. NEW & COLLECTIBLE. Stated First Edition, First Printing. Storybook based on the 1982 Columbia Pictures film adaptation of the Broadway musical of 1977. The adventures of Little Orphan Annie, her stray dog Sandy, and her grouchy, lonely billionaire benefactor Oliver Daddy Warbucks, was a syndicated, daily American comic strip created by Harold Gray (1894 - 1968). Gray drew from James Whitcomb Riley's 1885 poem "Little Orphant Annie" (first titled "The Elf Child") of Mary Alice "Allie" Smith, an orphan residing in the Riley home. The comic strip took on socio-political issues such as organized labor, The New Deal and Communism; it begat plays, radio and television shows (Disney), and the outstanding 1977 Broadway Musical. Early film versions are RKO (1932) and Paramount (1938). This volume is illustrated with film stills from Columbia Pictures' 1982… Read More

Mamaroneck, NY: Archie Comics Publications, 2009. Volume #132 . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY. Comics. Periodical published 10 times (excluding May & December) annually. This is No 132, of August, 2009. Issue includes Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, and, Josie & the Pussycats. Riverdale adventures of Archie Andrews and his pals (and, gals), Betty Cooper, Veronica Lodge, Reggie Mantle and Jughead Jones. Oh, yes, in which state is Riverdale? Answer still out!

New York, NY: Scholastic, 1992. First Edition, 23rd Printing . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Bill Watterson (Illustrator). Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated softcover/VG w/light wear to edges, corner tips & surfaces. Comic strips. Anthology of the magical world of Calvin, the 6-year old and his sidekick Hobbes, a cuddly tiger, created by Bill Watterson (1958 -), 1986 winner of Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year. The collection includes cartoons that appeared in Yukon Ho! and Wierdos from Another Planet. Sunday cartoons are in color and full-page. The series was syndicated from 1985 to 1995; Watterson stopped drawing Calvin and Hobbes at the end of 1995

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1952. First Edition, First Pinting . Hard Cover/Stitched. Very Good/No Jacket. Stated First Printing. Text/Near New w/trace soiling. Embossed (Punch) red linen boards/NF w/light corner tip wear & fading to spine. DJ/None. An anthology of merriment. Choice selections from Punch, with American readers in mind, from the British weekly magazine of humour and satire published 1841 to 1992, and again from 1996 to 2002. Strong copy.

New York, NY: Clarkson N. Potter, 1983. First Edition, First Pinting . Soft cover. COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/None as Issued. Simon Bond (author/cartoonist. Stated First Edition. Text/Bright, clean & Near New. Illustrated cover/NF. Another uproarious cartoon collection by master creator who gave us 101 Uses for a Dead Cat, 101 More Uses for a Dead Cat, and Upspeakable Acts. Fine copy of good laughs.

London, UK: Amalgamated Press, 1958. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/Bright & clean w/slight lower left page separation from spine. Illustrated boards/VG w/rubs to edges & surface losses to leading edge. Layout of Alkali City to front endpapers, & that of the Double D Ranch to the rear. PO name to fEP. Consolidation of 1958 monthly issues of an English version, first introduced in Australia, of an American western cowboy. Adventures of Alkali City's tough, fighting sherif Buck Jones and his wonder horse Silver. Courageous and fair minded, needless to say, Buck Jones commands admiration from Red Indians and white folks alike.

New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970. First Edition . Paperback/Stapled. Near Fine/None as Issued. Charles M. Schulz (Author-Illustrator). FRENCH LANGUAGE TEXT. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated soft cover/NF w/light wear to leading edges. French translation of You Need Help, Charlie Brown, issue of 1964. Guide when in need of psychiatric help offered by Lucy ... who else?

Colorado Springs, CO: Century One Press, 1976. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. Paul Busch (Artist). BRAND NEW Copy w/faint sticker shadow to left front of soft cover. Pictorial history of Colorado State. Collection of drawings featured in the weekly series "Colorado Sketchbook" of the Denver Post from 1963 to 1965, supplemented with some new additions by author. 87 illustrations w/hand-written captions, commencing with "The Age of Dinosaurs" through "Teddy Roosevelt" and concluding with the week-long "Mountain & Plain Festival" first celebrated 1895.

Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Crest, 1959. First Fawcett Paperback, First Thus . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Fawcett Crest # k874; published at 40 cents. Text/BRAND NEW. Soft cover/NF w/light wear; trace rubs to upper/lower spine edges, and, small loss to lower back spine edge. Laughs with Dennise the Menace, "born 1931". This edition was especially prepared for Fawcett Publications.

Munchen, Germany: Bassermann, 1902. 1902 Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/None (as Issued). Wilhelm Buch (Author & Illustrator). Text/AS NEW & Bright. 1902 Edition. German language text. Illustrated boards w/line back strap/NF; sound w/light surface wear & Munchen bookshop sticker to lower front. PO name to first title page. . German author & illustrator, Heinrich Christian Wilhelm Busch (1832-1908), was known for his comic illustrated cautionary tales. Cartoons w/verse captions, Die Fromme Helene satirizes religious hypocrisy among the well-to-do. 113 pgs. Die Fromme Helene (The Pious Helene, or, Helen Who Couldn't Help It) satirizes religious hypocrisy among the well-to-do. First published 1872; this is a 1902 printing.

Kansas City, MO: Andrews and McMeel/Universal Press, 1993. First Edition, 4th Printing . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Scott Adams (Author-Cartoonist). Text/As New. Illustrated soft cover/VG w/edge rubs & faint creasings to corners. A Dogbert cartoon. It is acknowledged, in Dogbert's prologue (which needs to be read in full), since time memorial there have been many rules on etiquette, and subsequently, much printed verbage. This volume, however, is unique in not only being fully updated (in line with technological advances (such as the appearance of microwaves) and full of practical guidance. It does address the reader as "the unwashed heathen you really are!" Contents are: 1, Eating & Drinking; 2, Business; 3, Manners & Your Body; 4, Men & Women,; 5, Laughter; 6, Boring People; 7, Parents & Children; 8, Death; 9, Marriage; 10, Telephone; 11, Gifts, Parties & Entertainment; 12, Miscellaneous Etiquette; 13, People Who Are Different; 14, Updated Manners… Read More

Tokyo, Japan: Shueisha Inc, 1984. Chinese Edition, 2005 . Soft cover. NEW - COLLECTIBLE/None as Issued. Akira Toriyama (Author-Illustrator). BRAND NEW & COLLECTIBLE. First published 1984 in Japanese; this is the first Chinese language edition. Text in Pin-yin (Simplied Chinese). Volume 15 of Dragon Ball. Adventures of young monkey-tailed boy Goku and friend, a teenage girl named Bulma, and their quest to find the seven Dragon Balls which summons the dragon Shenlong to grant the user one wish. Inspired by the 16th century Chinese classic novel, Journey to the West (The Monkey). This episode 15 chronicles the "Strongest Under the Heavens" martial arts tournament for which the world's greatest fighters have gathered!

New York, NY: Pantheon, 1982. First American Edition . Paperback. Very Good/None as Issued. William Rankin (Illustrator). Text/NEW & Bright. Softcover/VG w/light edge rubs, and sticker shadow & faint creasing to upper front corner. Strike-out to upper front corner of first title page. A review of ecology --- the study of relations of living organism to their environment, or, the environmental conditions of existence --- be it human or otherwise. A serious discourse presented in a witty, comic format. This now vintage review, considers how we, as man, co-exist w/other life on this Mother Earth. Many ways we have made our lives more agreeable is often at the expense of needs of other beings, animal & botanical, dependent on the very structure of our planet as we extract vast volumes of minerals, diversion of waterways, with climatic change consequences. Man's self-centerness has generated dire, unanticipated consequences for all life. 171 pgs. Rich information; ideal book for… Read More

New York, NY: Hyperion, 1994. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Jane Wagner (Illustrations). Text/BRAND NEW Copy. First Edition, First Printing. Bi-color boards Fine. Dustjacket/Price-clipped, else fine. Whisper of light-brown spotting (acidic paper reaction to upper text block). Philosophical musings and reflections of six-something alter-ego on Laugh-In of Lily Tomlin, the remarkable and thinking Edith Ann.

Düsseldorf: Verlag Eremiten-Presse, 1979. Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Wolfdietrich Schnurre (Author-Illustrator). EX-LIB/UNCIRCULATED. No loan pocket. Text/BRAND NEW. Gray softcover/NF. "A fullfilled life from the posthumous papers of the Higher Administrative Inspector Karl Heinz Krenzke, and edited by Wolf Dietrich Schnurre". Coming of age in Germany. About 80 pages, versos numbered 1 tro 40, cartoon descriptives on the left pages sardonic drawings on the right.pages. Fine copy despite library markings.

Auburn, CA: Rip Off Press, Inc, 1985. Color Edition . Soft Cover/Stapled. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW 3-Volume, full color-set of "The Idiots Abroad". Part One (Freak Bros No 8, 1985); Part Two (Freak Bros No 9, 1985); and Part Three No 10, 1987). Starring, of course, the Freak Brothers, who are not related by blood --- an awesome, threesome of hippies, or "freaks" as the phrase was in the 1970s, from San Francisco --- Phineas Freakears, Fat Freddy Freekowtski, and Freewheelin' Franklin (surname unknown). Devoted to ingesting, or inhaling, large quantities of recreational drugs and always short in respect for authority, they are lazy (in the sense of extreme adversion to work) and rather unreliable. In this adventure, the Brothers are split up in their attempt to travel to Colombia, that land of plenty of cheap dope. However, none reach Bogotá. Fat Freddy becomes entangled with nuclear terrorists in Scotland, disrupts the Internat'l Workers' Day military… Read More

San Jose, CA: Anime Resource Group, 2010. First Edition, First Thus . Soft Cover/Magazine. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY. FanimeCon (also known as Fanime) is an annual anime convention of the Anime Resource Group (ARG). Originally conceived by Aaron Pilgrim, Jay Onda and Dennis Jann as a gathering of local anime clubs in Northern California, the first one was held at California State University, Hayward. This is the issue covers the 2010 convention held in San Jose Convention Center over Memorial Day weekend. Guests of honor include: Keith Burgess; Ryan Gaviga; Daisuke Ishiwatari; Ric Meyers; Haldo Momoi; Toshimichi Mori; Hiroyuki Yamaga; and Mamoru Yokota among others.

Cleveland: World, 1945. First Reprint . Printed grey Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 11 1/4 x 8 7/16. By Author. This first reprint edition was produced by arrangement with the Dial Press. Many of the cartoons were originally published in the New Yorker. The author was chronicler of New York tenement life in the days before the flight to the suburbs (and to airconditioning - with Hoff the windows are always open) put an end to a semi-public way of life. He celebrates the one- and two-bedroom flats, the affections of overweight office workers (male), and their homemaker wives and their nubile daughters, trips to the butcher, Jones Beach, and the Catskills: the jokes are almost always gentle: there's no menace (as in Addams), no snobbery (as in Arno). "Look, Mamma!" says the girl rushing into her parents' bedroom, and showing off an engagement ring, "I'm not a liability any more." 128 pages. Covers are clean and sound; faint glue seepage on EP's; text is strong and… Read More