Coming Soon 2012

Hardcover, 128 pages, full color, 7.5" x 10" portrait
$12.99

Tails: Volume 1 by Comeback Kings artist Ethan Young—quirky, funny, and surreal, Tails follows the semi-autobiographical exploits of hapless and hopeless hipster cartoonist Ethan. Ethan uses his comic book creation Crusader Cat to get away from the real world...and things get interesting when his escapist work starts to talk back to him. Poignant, funny, and daring, Tails is an unflinching portrait of a believable character as he starts to fall into the abyss of an unbelievable world, with the results ranging from hilarious to heart-breaking. more

Full color comic books, 32 pages, portrait
$3.99

titles of 2012 with Sparrow and Crowe: The Demoniac of Los Angeles , the spin-off of the successful Wormwood audio drama podcast. The title offers everything: dark mystery, suspenseful plot twists, humor, and non-stop action. Wormwood: A Serialized Mystery debuted in 2007 and ran for three seasons, following the supernatural adventures of Doctor Crowe, a washed-up exorcist haunted by his own demons, and his sardonic Goth girl partner Sparrow. more

10" x 13", Portrait
$ 60

The long anticipated reprint of the entire run of Lee Falk and Ray Moore’s The Phantom full color Sundays begins! Fans of The Ghost Who Walks have waited for years to have a complete series of full size hardcover volumes featuring the complete Phantom Sundays and this is the first book in the series. more

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more of The Phantom

Deluxe Paperback, 144 pages, full color, 9" x 12" portrait
$39.99

In their long-standing mission to excavate rare comics treasures, Hermes Press is reprinting the entirety of legendary artist Gray Morrow's Orion from the pages of Heavy Metal magazine. Orion is Morrow's 1978 sword and sorcery masterpiece about an Errol Flynn-like swashbuckling hero who battles evil on a strange and mystical world. The project has been a mission of Hermes Press's Christopher Irving for a decade, starting from his friendship with Morrow's widow, Pocho Morrow. more

Full color graphic novel, 8.5" x 11", full color, 128 pages, portrait
$29.99

It is 1939, and the world is engulfed in the greatest conflict in history. Hitler, Mussolini, and Tojo are but pawns of the ancient, evil Brotherhood and its hideous leader, Itsu. Only Agent 13 stands between the Brotherhood and world domination and it will take all his fantastic powers, all his mystical knowledge, all his courage to stand against the ancient conspiracy in these final, fateful battles.

Comic book artist extraordinaire Howard Chaykin has created all new original artwork to grace the cover of Hermes Press’ upcoming collection of Agent 13 stories into a deluxe graphic novel. Agent 13, is man-of-mystery, in the mold of The Shadow and Doc Savage, battles the evil Brotherhood and its master, Itsu, in the pre-World War II era. more

Hardcover, 9" x 12", full color, portrait
$49.99

America’s most well-known hard boiled detective, Mike Hammer returns with Hermes Press’ complete archival reprint of the entire continuity, From the Files of… Mike Hammer!

Reprinting all of the dailies and Sunday strips (in digitally reconstructed color) this book will be the final word on this pop culture icon. The strip, which was distributed to newspapers by the Phoenix Features Syndicate ran for only one year, 1953-1954, but what a year it was! The strip is pure Mickey Spillane and was crafted under his watchful eye with art by Ed Robbins. The feature has everything fans of Mike Hammer would expect: Mike, Velda, good girls, bad girls, gun-play and lots of action.

Accompanying the strips are two in-depth essays by noted mystery writer and Mickey Spillane expert Max Allan Collins (Road to Perdition). more

color
$ 49.99

Frank Robbins’ masterpiece, one of the all-time greatest action/adventure newspaper comic strips, Johnny Hazard, returns with Volume Two of the series! Continues the adventures of Johnny Hazard and Brandy picking up the storyline where Volume One 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. more

Also see:
Johnny Hazard: Volume One

Hardcover, all color, 8" x 12" x 1.25"
$ 49.99

Smokey Stover and Spooky the Cat: The Collected Sundays presents a comprehensive overview of one of the most influential humor strips of the 20th Century. If you love Smokey and Spooky and have been waiting for the strip’s most complete collection ever, this is it. Foo! more

Hardcover, full color, 7.5" x 10" x 0.75" portrait
$49.99

One of the greatest spy shows from the 1960s, I Spy, returns with Hermes Press’ new deluxe reprint of all six Gold Key comics’ issues of the feature. Included in this complete reprint are informative essays about the creative team behind the comic book and loads of never-before seen publicity photographs featuring stars Robert Culp and Bill Cosby. Artwork by Al McWilliams (issues #1-5) and Mike Roy (issue #6); scripts by Western Publishing mainstay Paul S. Newman. more

Paperback, 224 pages, all color, 8.5" x 11"
$ 39.99

The first in-depth monograph about the creator of Conan the Barbarian and the inside story about what happened to the character after his creator’s death. Details the complicated history of the legal battles and intricate story of how Howard’s Barbarian made his way from the pulps, to paperback books, to comics books and ultimately to the big screen. Packed with rarely seen photos, documentary materials, pulps covers and interior illustrations, and representative art of this great pop culture icon. Just in time for the release of the new cinematic re-imagining of Conan. more

Hardcover, 320 pages, 10" x 14"
$ 59.99

book and storyboard artist Trevor Goring, together with Joyce Goring, detail the history of film storyboards. more

Paperback, 224 pages, 8" x 11.5"x 1.25"
$ 39.00

Now for the first time read definitive interviews and commentary on the greatest creators of humor comic books: CARL BARKS, WALT KELLY, HARVEY KURTZMAN, FLOYD GOTTFREDSON, JOHN STANLEY and MARGE BUELL. more