The Library of American Comics

Tarzan Vol. 1: 1967-1969

by Russ Manning
Edited & Designed by Dean Mullaney.
Foreword by William Stout, Introduction by Henry Franke

In the first panel of Manning's premiere daily, Tarzan says, "Too long have I adventured in strange lands! It is time I returned to the best land of all—home!"

And so, Russ Manning brings the Lord of the Jungle back to his roots. This volume includes more than 650 daily and Sunday strips from December 1967 through October 1969, reproduced from the Edgar Rice Burroughs file copies. In the front of the book are the two Daily adventures: "Tarzan, Jad-Ben-Otho" plus "Tarzan and the Renegade," followed by the initial three Sunday tales: "Tarzan Returns to the Land of the Ant Men," "Tarzan and the Return of Dagga Ramba," and "Korak and the Elephant Girls."

Oversized 11" x 8.5" hardcover-with-dustjacket, 288 pp, $49.99.
ISBN: 978-1-61377-694-0

Flash Gordon and Jungle Jim Vol. 3: 1939-1941

by Alex Raymond
Writing assist by Don Moore. Edited by Dean Mullaney, Designed by Lorraine Turner. Introduction by Bruce Canwell.

This gigantic volume collects every Flash Gordon and Jungle Jim from March 12, 1939 through December 28, 1941. The introductory material includes a discussion of Raymond's art by Joe Kubert and Howard Chaykin and a look at the influence on Raymond of the Clark brothers—Benton and Matt. This volume is the third in a series of four.

Champagne edition 12" x 16" hardcover, 156 pp., $75.00

Little Orphan Annie Vol. 9: 1940-1941

Saints and Cynics
by Harold Gray
Edited & Designed by Dean Mullaney, Essay by Jeet Heer

Axel's back and this time he's not taking any chances! Meanwhile, the lives of gangster Nick Gatt and crusading District Attorney John Tecum become inextricably linked. Plus, Annie crosses paths with the selfish movie star Pete LaPlata, his selfless elderly parents, his discarded wife Peggy, and his neglected son Billy. It's high emotional drama leading into the return of the very much alive "Daddy" Warbucks, now converting his factories for the coming war...all in Volume Nine of The Complete Little Orphan Annie. Including dailies and Sundays from February 29, 1940 through November 23, 1941.

Oversized 11" x 8.5" full color hardcover-with-dustjacket, 296 pp., $49.99.

Steve Canyon Vol 3: 1951-1952

by Milton Caniff
Edited & Designed by Dean Mullaney, Essay by Bruce Canwell.

In the third volume—reprinting every strip from 1951 and 1952—new and old characters are paired off. Breck Nazaire and Dr. Deen Wilderness return. Steve meets the lovely Duchess of Denver and the sadistic Fungo; gets assigned to Eel Island, where he encounters crusty Colonel Index and his not-so-blushing bride; is sent to protect a government secret at Maumee University, only to reconnect with Summer Olson and meet her mysterious friend, Kate Subjekt; and eventually gets caught in the deep woods with Miss Mizzou and Roy Himmerskorn before coming face to face yet again with not only Summer, but the Copperhead herself-Copper Calhoon!

Oversized 11” x 8.5” full-color hardcover-with-dustjacket, 336 pp, $49.99.

Bringing Up Father Vol. 2

Of Cabbages and Kings
by George McManus
Edited by Bruce Canwell, Designed by Dean Mullaney

Maggie and Jiggs are back in "Of Cabbages and Kings," an extravanga that contains dailies and Sundays from 1937 and 1938. The combustible-yet-inseparable couple go to London for the King's coronation. Upon their return, Jiggs decides the only way he'll convince Maggie to move back to the old neighborhood is to lose his fortune. He makes the one outlandish investment after another but each time he only becomes richer. Until he hits on the right formula. For Maggie, the unthinkable happens: it's back to eating boiled cabbage when the wealthy Jiggs goes broke!

Oversized 11" x 10" hardcover-with-dustjacket, 304 pp., $49.99. ISBN 978-1-61377-532-5

LOAC Essentials Vol. 2: The Gumps 1929

by Sidney Smith
Edited and with an Introduction by Jared Gardner. Designed by Dean Mullaney.

In the second decade of the 20th Century Sidney Smith created a formula of melodrama, adventure, mystery, and comedy that made The Gumps one of the country's most popular comics and himself perhaps its richest cartoonist. So devoted were his readers that they regularly wrote in to offer advice for his characters' love lives and business decisions and generally treated the characters as friends and family members.

In 1928-29, with the launching of what would be his most famous story, "The Saga of Mary Gold," Smith's relationship to his readers would be tested as never before. Its heartbreaking conclusion would change comics forever. Here for the first time since the story made headlines across America in the spring of 1929 we reprint the saga that Hogan's Alley magazine called "One of the Ten Biggest Events in Comics History"—a tale that has lost none of its power to captivate readers in the 21st Century.

"What holds The Saga of Mary Gold together more than anything is the inevitable march toward the end. As the reader begins to realize where Mr. Smith is taking us the anticipation builds to the point where you almost want to cry “NO!” out loud….A volume of touching sincerity that reinforces the best of what it meant to be an American in times of turmoil. The reproduction of the art is flawless.…" —New York Journal of Books