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The celebrated pre-Code Crime Does Not Pay comics are finally collected into a series of unflinching and uncensored deluxe editions! The infamous Crime Does Not Pay stories, focusing on criminal scum, nefarious mobsters, and urban legends, madeCrime Does Not Pay one of the most popular comics of the 1940s. This series was a favorite target of censors and is partially responsible for the creation of the stifling Comics Code Authority! Revered, influential,...
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Pyromaniacs, murderous thugs, and pinstriped goons wreak havoc in the notorious pre-Code Crime Does Not Pay anthology. This collection--featuring every uncensored page from Crime Does Not Pay issues #50 to #53--is brimming with sharp work by artists George Tuska, Fred Guardineer, Charles Biro, and others! These gruesome tales are topped off with an all-new foreword by crime storytelling all-star Joel Rose (Get Jiro!, Miami Vice, Kill the Poor)! Criminals...
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One of the best-selling comics of the 1940s, Crime Does Not Pay focused on violent mobsters and murderous lowlifes who machine-gunned their way through the urban underworld . . . until justice landed them in the chair! In 1954, the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency targeted this comic series for its graphic violence, eventually leading to the creation of the repressive Comics Code Authority. Issues #30 to #33 of Crime Does Not Pay are...
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It takes much deception, betrayal, and madness to commit a murder. Even more madness to cover up that murder. In this haunting tale we follow the detailed planning involved to rid the world of an Evil Eye. Will the beating of the tell-tale heart reveal the truth to the police? Find out in this striking graphic novel adaptation. Graphic Planet is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO Group. Grades 5-8.
46) The singer's gun
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Everyone Anton Waker grew up with is corrupt. His parents deal in stolen goods and his first career is a partnership venture with his cousin Aria selling forged passports and social security cards to illegal aliens. Anton longs for a less questionable way of living in the world and by his late twenties has reinvented himself as a successful middle manager. Then a routine security check suggests that things are not quite what they appear. And Aria...
48) The deceived
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“Unputdownable.”*
“Brilliant and heart-pounding.”**
“A tightly written page-turner.”***
Brett Battles won rave reviews for his debut novel, The Cleaner, which introduced hero Jonathan Quinn. A freelance operative and professional “cleaner,” Quinn knows better than to get emotionally involved in any of his jobs. But in this superb powerhouse...
“Brilliant and heart-pounding.”**
“A tightly written page-turner.”***
Brett Battles won rave reviews for his debut novel, The Cleaner, which introduced hero Jonathan Quinn. A freelance operative and professional “cleaner,” Quinn knows better than to get emotionally involved in any of his jobs. But in this superb powerhouse...
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"The second storyline from the Eisner-award winning Sex criminals finds the honeymoon to be over for Jon and Suzie. Once the thrill of new lust fades, where do you go? Come along and laff and love with Matt and Chip as they brimp back ceaselessly against the past"--Summary from forbiddenplanet.com.
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"When the world's most powerful mob boss loses his wife and daughters in a terrorist attack funded by one of his rivals, he resolves to turn the tables. Rallying the heads of the globe's top criminal organizations, Vincent Marelli launches a war that may be his last. With the weight of the criminal world on his shoulders, he has only one desire in his heart: to know who ordered the hit that took out his girls"--
52) Persona 4 Vol. 6
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The Midnight Channel returns! Does this mean the authorities haven't caught the TRUE killer? Plus, famed detective Naoto Shirogame becomes the latest teen forced to come face to face with his own Shadow. Based on the popular Persona 4 video game!
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Between one day and the next, inserting itself into reality at midnight, sits the Dark Hour. Few know about this special time that separates humans from the dangerous creatures known as Shadows. It is here that a group of students finds the ability to summon their inner selves - their "Personas" - to do battle with the Shadows before they can consume the minds of humanity.
55) Persona 4 Vol. 8
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The school festivities continue as the gang participates in the Miss Yasogami Contest – a beauty pageant for the girls, and a drag queen competition for the boys! It's a golden opportunity for fun in the latest volume of the Persona 4 manga!
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With the murder case closed and the true killer apprehended, Soji Seta prepares to leave Inaba. But as the full truth about the Midnight Channel is revealed, the Investigation Team discovers they have one final challenge to face. It's the grand finale of the Persona 4 manga!
57) Persona 4 Vol. 9
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The school festivities continue as the gang participates in the Miss Yasogami Contest a beauty pageant for the girls, and a drag queen competition for the boys! Its a golden opportunity for fun in the latest volume of the
59) Persona 4 Vol. 7
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Rise turns the Investigation Team into a music band! …no, really! It's Yosuke on guitar! Yukiko on saxophone! Teddie on bongos! It's a symphonic scheme to help save Junes from financial disaster! Based on the popular Persona 4 video game!
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This supernatural mystery set in the world of Sherlock Holmes and Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos features a brilliant detective and his partner as they try to solve a horrific murder.
The complex investigation takes the Baker Street investigators from the slums of Whitechapel all the way to the Queen's Palace as they attempt to find the answers to this bizarre murder of cosmic horror!
From the Hugo, Bram Stoker, Locus, World Fantasy, Nebula...
The complex investigation takes the Baker Street investigators from the slums of Whitechapel all the way to the Queen's Palace as they attempt to find the answers to this bizarre murder of cosmic horror!
From the Hugo, Bram Stoker, Locus, World Fantasy, Nebula...