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13 short, rambunctious tales about The Weasel Patrol, an unlikely and all-weaselly force of intergalactic troopers. These stories, fun enough for kids and funny enough for adults, originally appearing in anthologies, where they built a loyal fan base. The first time in book form, it contains such tales as "The Intergalactic Crimefighters Convention", "Big Bobâ (TM)s Eat & Fill", and "Roboweasel".

Licensable BearTM is a little fella who just wants to be licensed for products. (It's what most cartoon characters exist for, he's just the only one who's honest about it.) Here are dozens of stories featuring the li'l critter, plus guest cameos from heroes Mister U.S. and Liberty Girl, and the very first comic book appearance by Barack Obama! This volume includes all of the stories from the Licensable BearTM comic book series, plus stories created for Many Happy Returns, Wild About Comics, and Liberty Comics. Plus, there are Licensable BearTM's Intellectual Property Insights columns, Licensable BearTM ads, and even the one-and-only Su-do-Licensable BearTM puzzle.

Israel Bond may seem like a simple-if-sexy salesman for Mother Margolies' Old World Chicken Soup, but when the Holy Land needs his skills - his quickness with a pun, his second-to-none semitic seduction techniques, and (if absolutely necessary) his abilities at actual espionage - then the man known by the code name Oy-Oy-7 (licensed not only to kill, but to say prayers over the corpse) is there to do what needs be done. In a land surrounded by its enemies, Oy-Oy-7 is called on to guard the nation's great benefactor, the generous but odd Lazarus Loxfinger. Is there more to Loxfinger than meets the eye? Bond aims to find out, even if doing so requires sleeping with dozens of exotic beauties! In the mid-1960s, when Playboy was serializing the adventures of the world's most famous superspy, they interspersed them with the rollicking adventures of Israel's most hilarious weapon, Israel Bond. After the book editions of what the Chicago Tribune called "probably the funniest secret agent parodies ever written" had sold over a million copies, they were allowed to fall out of print. Decades later, all four books in the Israel Bond series are now back in new editions!

What do you get when two well-respected actors and long-time musical collaborators team up with an Eisner Award-winning artist to chronicle the life of a dog of vengeance? You get something odd, something edgy, something unique. You get Trypto, the Acid Dog. Born of water, born of fire, born of blood, born of acid, Trypto is unlike other dogs. In this series of offbeat tales, the canine avenger fights against those who would abuse Mother Earth and her creatures. Produced over the course of a decade, the complete run of Trypto stories is brought together for the first time in this 25th anniversary collection.

This is the tale of John Neville, a man of science, born to the staid life of an academic. But when his assistant goes missing, Neville's search for her takes him to places he could never imagine, worlds on the other side of The Gate... worlds of monsters and mysteries, of tyrants in glass towers and nomads in the deserts; worlds where death by bow or blade is always just around the corner. This is the first time this high-adventure comic has been collected into a single volume.

In the years before America was a nation, ships were bringing a steady stream of immigrants to New York. Some were fleeing their homeland, others were seeking their fortune, many arrived in chains. In this quickly growing city, tensions mounted, fires began burning, and accusations flew.By the time it was over, dozens would be dead -- at the hands of the government.This is a tale of desire and hope, of despair and tragedy. Grounding his story in true events, Robert Mayer (author of the acclaimed historical drama The Origin Of Sorrow) brings to life searingly vivid characters, showing how their lives intertwine with each other and with the fears and passions of the day. By humanizing major events and showing the tensions of race and class that drive them, Mayer gives us a novel that is ripped from the headlines of colonial America yet still echoes in the headlines of today.

Before the Guardians of the Galaxy gathered, before Firefly flew, there was: FUSION. Now the graphic novel that launched the series is in book form for the very first time. The Tsunami is a cargo ship. Things get put into her, taken across space, and taken out. There's nothing unusual about that. The crew, now that's another matter. Sure, Captain Indio Tremaine is human, and so is her first mate, the handsome and indestructible gambler Dow Cook. But the rest of the crew are genetic constructs of fur, wings, and claws. Tan, the engineer, is one wily weasel, and that's no metaphor. Together, they are rated "high-risk indy," suited to take on the least likely, most dangerous deliveries. They're the team you want when you have cargo to be delivered and you need things to go right... or when they've already gone wrong. But what if there is no cargo? Then things can go very wrong indeed...

How did a coloring book spend 14 weeks on the New York Times Non-Fiction Best Sellers list The year was 1962. America was in love with the young family in the White House, speaking of them with awe and reverence. Then the JFK Coloring Book was released, and punctured all that. Conceived by publisher Alexander A. Roman, with drawings by Mad Magazine's master caricaturist Mort Drucker and text by his Mad cohort Paul Laikin and Ratfink Room comedian Jackie Kannon, the book used the form of a coloring book supposedly crafted by four year old Caroline Kennedy to poke fun at the whole Kennedy clan, their friends and their fellow players on the political scene, including every one from Frank Sinatra to Jimmy Hoffa. The publication of this unique volume lead off a whole Kennedy comedy stampede, with things like Vaughn Meader's First Family albums coming in its wake. Comedy was replaced by tragedy with JFK's assassination, and the Coloring Book which had once had print runs in the hundreds of thousands disappeared from bookstore shelves, not to return for over half a century. Now the time has come to remember Kennedy and his family not just as tragic figures, but as the way they were and the way we saw them then. As an added bonus, this edition also includes Political Wind-ups, another book full of Drucker caricatures, with text by Roman and Rochelle Davis, taking a look at the political figures of the day (Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Richard Nixon, and many more) and asking a vital question: if this person were a wind-up toy, what would it do when you wound it up? Annotations have been included for both of the books, to educate those who are too young to have lived through the times and to remind those who may no longer remember the details. Since the release of this new edition, the JFK Coloring Book has been discussed on NPR's On The Media and in the pages of the New Republic. It's a book the world is clearly ready for again!

From the mind of Charles M. Schulz, the world's most beloved cartoonist, comes these funny looks at the game of Bridge. The game, the culture, and the very human foibles of those who play it all come under his masterful attention.

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.

Contains annotations, plots, interviews, and scripts by comics scribes Otto Binder, Peter David, Mark Evanier, Bill Mumy & Miguel Ferrier, Judd Winick, and others. Includes illustrated scripts by Mike Baron and Scott McCloud. Features commentary on how to illustrate from comics scripts by artists Larry Lieber and Pop Mhan.

From those classics days of the 1970s comes this hilarious satire.A STORY OF FAT AND THE DEVILThis 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!

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. Published by Combustoica, a prose project of About Comics

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!

All four of Sol Weinstein's classic Israel Bond Oy-Oy-7 spy parodies under one cover for the first time. Loxfinger; Matzohball; On the Secret Service of His Majesty, the Queen; You Only Live Until You Die - thousands of laughs apiece, cheap humor that's even cheaper in bulk!

The Most ADJECTIVE Romance Comics Ever is a great new creative comical comics game! By adding words (an ADJECTIVE here, a NOUN there, perhaps a BODY PART) to the dialog of a classic comic book romance story you haven't seen, you create some of the wackiest comics ever. Each one-to-three page comic book story has plenty of these marked blanks for you to fill in. PLAYING WITH FRIENDS: One player reads off the word type noted in each blank ("Okay, I need an adverb... now a number... now a movie star...") and fills in the answers that the other players call out. In a few minutes, you have a completed story for all to share and enjoy! PLAYING SOLO: In the back of the book, there's a form sheet for each story with all of the word types listed. That way, you can choose your own words without seeing where they go, then copy them into the story to see the hilarious results! (The form is also good for playing with someone else when you have to do so in a quiet environment. By passing the form to your friend to fill out, the other folks in the monastery won't be disturbed... assuming you can suppress the giggles from reading the results.) From the folks who brought you 24 Hour Comics Day and The Blank Comic Book Panelbook.

All good things must come to an end... and few things are gooder than Agent Oy-Oy-7, the hero of the Holy Land. When Israel Bond is drawn to Japan, he finds himself lost in a culture of miniaturized cars, oversized Buddhas, and danger around every tight turn. But what will spell the end of Oy-Oy-7? Will it be the deadly price of his high-stakes game of Monopoly? Will he go at the hands of the villain who got away in one of his earlier, affordable adventures? Might an oversized shellfish cause a doom both untimely and unkosher? Or could it be a fatal seduction by the delectible Miss Kopy Katz, Xerox's learned mistress in the art of reproduction? Does Oy-Oy-7 end with a whimper or a bang? If both, who is whimpering, and who is banging? Read, and find out! About Israel Bond - Oy-Oy-7: In the mid-1960s, when Playboy was serializing the adventures of the world's most famous superspy, they interspersed them with the rollicking tales of Israel's most hilarious weapon, Israel Bond. After the book editions of what the Chicago Tribune called "probably the funniest secret agent parodies ever written" had sold over a million copies, they were allowed to fall out of print. Decades later, all four books in the Israel Bond series are back in new editions!

It's dire times for Israeli intelligence agency M 33 and 1/3. Auntie Sem-Heidt and her sinister agents of TUSH have been killing off Hebrew agents, as part of a devious plan to eradicate Jewish culture at its base. And in the midst of this, turmoil, super agent Israel Bond finds himself stuck with the job of protecting Baldroi LeFagel, the half-arab and all-fabulous new King of Sahd Sakistan. Will the Star of David-lovin' Agent Oy-Oy-7 be willing to handle all of the crosses needed for this assignment (crossing physical boundaries, moral boundaries, and even cross-dressing), or will all this mishugas leave him cross-eyed and just plain cross?ABOUT ISRAEL BOND, AGENT OY-OY-7: In the mid-1960s, when PLAYBOY was serializing the adventures of the world's most famous superspy, they interspersed them with the rollicking tales of Israel's most hilarious weapon, Israel Bond. After the book editions of what the CHICAGO TRIBUNE called "probably the funniest secret agent parodies ever written" had sold over a million copies, they were allowed to fall out of print. Decades later, all four books in the Israel Bond series are back in new editions!

Things are really smoking on the island of El Tiparillo when the Holy Land's superest, secretest agent Israel Bond is called to wield his weaponized mezuzah to save innocent lives and formerly-innocent beautiful lasses in the midst of rebellion. Will he manage to fend off the assassins, the vicious wildlife, and the mysterious Herbie while seducing the island's wide array of fascinating and exotic women... or will it be the other way around? With Soviet spymaster General Bolshyeeyit, the insidious Dr. Nu, Rotten Roger, and "The Man with the Golden Gums" all on his tuchis, things will not be easy for Oy-Oy-7, licensed not only to kill but also to say prayers over the body... In the mid-1960s, when Playboy was serializing the adventures of the world's most famous superspy, they interspersed them with the rollicking tales of Israel's most hilarious weapon, Israel Bond. After the book editions of what the Chicago Tribune called "probably the funniest secret agent parodies ever written" had sold over a million copies, they were allowed to fall out of print. Decades later, all four books in the Israel Bond series are back in new editions!

Dr. Michael Lee, smart and literate, is the chairman of ophthalmology at a major California hospital. He may be up for a Nobel Prize. Without wanting to, he has fallen madly in love with a beautiful young Marine recruiter - who happens to be his son's girlfriend. Worst of all, for 40 years his life has been controlled by a deadly secret - a secret that even he has all wrong.

The Negro Motorist (later, Travelers') Green Book let African Americans now the places they were welcome to stay, eat, and shop. Now in this one volume you can see Green Books from all four decades when it was published, with the 1938, 1947, 1954, and 1963 editions, all enlarged for easier reading.