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Capt. Billy’s Whiz Bang Winter Annual: Pedigree Follies of 1922-23

Captain Billy’s Whiz Bang was the scandalous humor magazine of its day, and this is a reproduction of the 1921-1922 Annual, a quadruple-length dose of everything that made the magazine what it was – the jokes, the poems, the homespun philosophy, salacious articles like “The Passing of ‘Sappho'” or a randy travelogue by the Reverend “Golightly” Morrill. And to make this of special interest for those curious about WhizBang, it leads off with the story of the early days of the magazine.

This is a real look at what your great granddaddy may have laughed at… and with that comes all of the attitudes of the time, with racism, sexism, and antisemitism that you would never find in a mainstream magazine today. This book is not recommended for those with strong sensitivities who cannot view it as a piece of our history.

List Price: $12.99

5.25″ x 7.5″ (13.335 x 19.05 cm)
Black & White on Cream paper
258 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1936404407
ISBN-10: 1936404400
BISAC: History / United States / 20th Century

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Advanced Potion-making

For all your witch and wizard costumes, here’s a prop book to carry around to show that you’re a serious student of your craft!

NOTE: This book is intended purely as a costume accessory. It does not contain any actual potion-making instructions. However, we have filled it with the contents of a book from the 1850s on magic and witchcraft, so there is something to read there if you want – but really, don’t buy it for the contents. Only buy this if you want a prop for part of your costume or display. We here at About Comics don’t want anyone disappointed.

List Price: $6.99

8.5″ x 11″ (21.59 x 27.94 cm)
Black & White on Cream paper
108 pages

ISBN-13: 978-1497399341
ISBN-10: 1497399343
BISAC: Science / Chemistry / General

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Oh Henry!

by Sol Weinstein and Howard Albrecht

When the President of the United States is kidnapped, only one man can save him… but oh, what a man!

Diplomat. Author. Love machine. Henry Kissingherr was the man of the moment, the one to get things done. When his adopted country needs him, this frumpy, overweight Jew does what only this frumpy, overweight Jew can do, taking on the rebels, the radicals, the special interests, the pornographers, and the killers. He’s going to save the day, no matter how many beautiful women he has to seduce to do so!

List Price: $9.99

6″ x 9″ (15.24 x 22.86 cm)
Black & White on Cream paper
128 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1936404414
ISBN-10: 1936404419
BISAC: Fiction / Humorous

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The Oddfather

By Sol Weinstein and Howard Albrecht

Mafia Mia!

You’ll be swept along by this breathless story of the Provolone Family—its lust and lechery, its diabolical enemies, its heart-stopping gang wars and automobile chases—into a world where betrayal is the order of the day and kinky sex the order of the night.

You’ll never forget the members of this illustrious family: Don Guido Provolone, the big cheese himself; Fungi the Fornicator, his eldest son; Carmine the Cretin, his middle son; Nicholas the Sensitive, youngest in the family; and an unbelievable assortment of relatives and hired hands.

Here is an intimate look into the innermost workings of a Mafia menagerie—men of wild appetites and primitive instincts.

Here is the Mafia that the bestselling Godfather legend only hinted at—madness in all its colorful blood and tomato sauce surreality.

If you don’t die laughing (or at least chuckle and smile a lot) the two authors promise to help arrange your upcoming funeral.

List Price: $9.99

6″ x 9″ (15.24 x 22.86 cm)
Black & White on Cream paper
128 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1936404421
ISBN-10: 1936404427
BISAC: Fiction / Humorous

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Jonathan Segal Chicken

By Sol Weinstein and Howard Albrecht

Sure, you know about chicken soup, but do you know about a souped-up chicken?

Jonathan Segal Chicken was just another piece of kosher poultry, but he decided he wanted something more. He wanted to fly, and fly he did, on adventures that take him out into the world… and beyond.

This classic parody from the 1970s is now available again in this newly redesigned edition.

“It is a witty and bitchy book, which amply repays the time and trouble which were once taken with its more serious and less significant forbear.” – The Spectator (UK)

List Price: $9.99

6″ x 9″ (15.24 x 22.86 cm)
Black & White on White paper
128 pages

ISBN-13: 978-1936404438
ISBN-10: 1936404435
BISAC: Humor / Form / Parodies

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You’ll All Be Sorry!

Top comics writer Gail Simone shreds the sacred cows of comics in this first-ever collection of her humorous prose. In this mixture of new stories and classics from her long-running online column, Simone sends up websites, Watchmen, Whiteout, and Wizard, turning her sharp wit on characters, pros, and fans alike. Includes illustrations. Includes over 30 columns, freshly laid out, many with illustrations. Simone is joined by a number of her fellow comics creators, who provide illustrations or offer up their own Condensed Comics Classics. Says Simone: “This is a book that has been long-requested, mainly by myself, but also some random others, mostly demi-people who don’t get out much and don’t understand what real life is about. It collects some of my classic ‘humor’ columns, ‘satirizing’ an ‘industry’ I knew ‘nothing’ about, as well as some columns that just plain ‘sucked.’ I like it and I’m sure you (or others less discerning) will, also! *” * Surety not legally binding. Guarantee of chortles only valid if reader is naked and/or medicated and not in close proximity to Carrot Top. Do not use YABS as a suppository except in extreme emergencies or in high def. YABS is not meant to be a replacement for an iron lung. Any mention of Rob Liefeld is strictly for purposes of hilarity.

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6.68″ x 10.19″ (16.967 x 25.883 cm)
Black & White Bleed on White paper
160 pages

ISBN-13: 978-0979075056
ISBN-10: 097907505X
BISAC: Humor / Form / Parodies

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The Exerciser

by Sol Weinstein and Howard Albrecht

From those classics days of the 1970s comes this hilarious satire.

A STORY OF FAT AND THE DEVIL
This book has it all: the diets, the devil, witch-craft, religion, and one man’s struggle to save his wife from the horrors of her own rapidly in-creasing bulk. Only the most extreme measures will save his beloved wife. Week after week she grows fatter and fatter, without benefit of knife and fork. Who can help her? When all else has failed, he must call in the powerful high priest of physical fitness and sensible eating—Romaine LeLane, The Exerciser!

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6″ x 9″ (15.24 x 22.86 cm)
Black & White on Cream paper
148 pages

ISBN-13: 978-1936404445
ISBN-10: 1936404443
BISAC: Humor / Form / Parodies

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Huck Finn and the Zombie Jim

Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is considered the greatest American novel, but it has long faced two problems in reaching new readers: a distasteful racial slur, and the lack of the sort of genre elements that draw in today’s young readers. Here we offer you the full text of the book, with just a single word change allowing us to bring you exciting passages like:

Strange zombies would stand with their mouths open and look him all over, same as if he was a wonder.

I see it warn’t no use wasting words—you can’t learn a zombie to argue. So I quit.

Children was heeling it ahead of the mob, screaming and trying to get out of the way; and every window along the road was full of women’s heads, and there was zombie boys in every tree…

So Tom turns to the zombie, which was looking wild and distressed, and says, kind of severe: “What do you reckon’s the matter with you, anyway?”

“Good gracious! anybody hurt?”
“No’m. Killed a zombie.”

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6″ x 9″ (15.24 x 22.86 cm)
Black & White on Cream paper
254 pages

ISBN-13: 978-1499359107
ISBN-10: 1499359101
BISAC: Fiction / Literary

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Hollywood Superstars

Written by Mark Evanier

Drawn by Dan Spiegle

Hollywood has a dark side, an underbelly hidden by the bright lights and smooth talkers of the film industry. A stunt master, a struggling actress, and an aspiring stand-up comic may seem like an odd set of investigators, but they’re just what this town needs.

For the first time in one volume, here is the complete run of thrilling stories by the classic Blackhawk and Crossfire team of Mark Evanier and Dan Spiegle! This volume contains all five issues, including the double-length first issue, in glorious black-and-white.

List Price: $9.99

7″ x 10″ (17.78 x 25.4 cm)
Black & White Bleed on White paper
148 pages

ISBN-13: 978-1936404469
ISBN-10: 193640446X
BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels / General

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They Called Him “Sparky”: Friends’ Reminiscences of Charles Schulz

Compiled by David Liverett

with cartoons by Charles M. Schulz

Take an intimate look at one slice of the life of the world’s most beloved cartoonist, Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz.

Through this collection of personal reminiscences and correspondences from Schulz’s fellow members in the Church of God in his days living in St. Paul, Minnesota, you can get a full picture of the man behind the art… the very human, very thoughtful, very spiritual soul who gave the world so much pleasure through his delightful and insightful cartoons. Illustrated with dozens of cartoons that Schulz did for Church Of God publications and drawings created just for friends, this book is full of insight for anyone interested in the career and creativity of this great man.

List Price: $14.95

6″ x 9″ (15.24 x 22.86 cm)
Black & White Bleed on White paper
116 pages

a co-publication of Chinaberry House and About Comics
ISBN-13: 978-0974241098
ISBN-10: 0974241091
BISAC: Biography & Autobiography / Artists, Architects, Photographers

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