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Since the early 1990s, VANGUARD has grown as an acclaimed producer of illustrated, pop culture publications. VANGUARD shifted from periodicals to mostly book publication in the late-90s, shortly before their eight-year affiliation with Random House subsidiary, Watson-Guptill. VANGUARD subjects include, art, fantasy, graphic novels, prints, science fiction, music, mystery, and more. VANGUARD is also known as the world's leading producer of art-book biographies on illustrators & cartoonists including books on such legends as Frazetta, Steranko, Basil Gogos, Neal Adams, Wally Wood, Hal Foster, Margaret Brundage and many more. For the latest news, join Vanguard Productions on FaceBook.

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Your Ticket to Great Entertainment: 
Wally Wood from Witzend
Complete Collection

 Hall of Fame comics creator Wallace Wood's revolutionary, self-published Witzend (often spelled in all lower case) has always been hard to define — the birth of the pro-zine, underground, independent... Whatever you call it, Wood’s Witzend was a mid-'60s milestone event that represented all of the loftiest Fine Art goals of the Underground Movement including art-for-art’s-sake, freedom from censorship, and creator rights. The vast majority of the underground comix movement creators were directly inspired by the EC Comics and Mad work of Wallace Wood and Harvey Kurtzman (as well as psychedelics). Until R. Crumb’s later and eminently notable Zap Comix, no underground had the impact of witzend which combined top-flight comics pros like Wood, Frazetta, Steranko and Ditko side-by-side with up-and-coming Undergrounders like Art Spiegelman (Maus) and Vaughn Bode (Cheech Wizard). 

For the first time ever, this single volume collects all of Wood's own contributions to his groundbreaking publication including Animan, Sally Forth, The Rejects, Bucky Ruckus, Pipsqueek Papers, The Wizard King, Snorky, Lunar Tunes, and more.  All in glorious black and white like the original magazines but on quality art paper and hardbound to last a lifetime.

— Now taking ADVANCE ORDERS —

Expected release: August, 2024

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Frazetta:
World's Best Comics Cover Artist

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Werewolves, Jungle Lords, Vampires, Science-Fiction, Neanderthals, Horrors, Barbarians, Queen Kong, Space Adventures, Demons, Ghoul Queen and more!
Vanguard continues their trademark Definitive Reference series with Frazetta: World's Best Comics Cover Artist. While the prior book by illustration and cartooning historian J. David Spurlock catalogued, documented, and commented on all of Frazetta's book cover art, this new volume focuses on the artist's revolutionary comics magazine and graphic novel cover art, which originally appeared on such publications as Creepy magazine, Ghost Rider, Tales From the Crypt, High Times, Mad magazine, Heavy Metal, Vampirella, National Lampoon, Jaguar God, Famous Funnies, Epic Illustrated, Space Cowboy, Death Dealer and EC Comics' Weird Science-Fantasy

— More HORROR than any other Frazetta book! —

ESTIMATED DELIVERY FEBRUARY 15

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GOGOS MONSTER ART
Vanguard is accepting Orders now for a limited number of the Famous Monster Movie Art of Basil Gogos in both HC & SC.

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Frazetta Book Cover Art:
The Definitive Reference

Hardcover
Size: 8.5 x 11 inches
168 pages
$39.95

Slipcased Deluxe HC
The Slipcased Deluxe edition will feature a 16-page bonus folio comprised of vintage Frazetta frontispiece drawings which, often opened early books Frazetta painted covers for.
Size: 8.5 x 11 inches
184 pages
$69.95

AVAILABLE NOW!

Vanguard follows their award-winning hit Fantastic Paintings of Frazetta book by J. David Spurlock with definitive reference on Frazetta Book Cover Art.

Frazetta is the revolutionary fantasy artist of Conan, King Kong, Death Dealer, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Lord of The Rings and more, whose original art sells for millions. This new Frazetta book follows the award-winning hit, Fantastic Paintings of Frazetta and is similar to Vanguard's earlier Frazetta Definitive Reference book.
But, it is superior in at least one regard. Instead of cataloging Frazetta items with mostly smaller illustrations, this new book is devoted solely to the artist's single, most beloved venue, Book Cover Art. By focusing on this specific area, the book boasts room enough to feature every single one of Frazetta's famous and highly collectable illustrated book covers, beautifully and authentically reproduced at a larger size on a page to itself. All are presented in chronological order which, gives readers a unique ability to follow Frazetta's evolution as an artist. Accompanying text includes commentary, original publication titles, publishers, dates, and rare quotes from the artist himself. For this Definitive Reference to feature the Complete Collection of Frazetta's decades of book cover illustrations, in a single beautifully produced volume, is a dream come true for Frazetta fans, art and book collectors and historians alike.

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Dracula:
The Original Graphic Novel

Hardcover
(horizontal/landscape)
Size: 8" tall, 11" wide, 1"deep.
168 pages • $39.95

• Based on the book by Bram Stoker
• Introduction by famous Dracula actor, Sir Christopher Lee
• Editor with an essay/foreword by J. David Spurlock
• Original editor: Russ Jones (Creepy magazine founding editor)
• Cover by: Frank Frazetta
• Adaptation writer: Otto Binder (EC, Amazing Stories, I Robot, Adam Link, Creepy, co-creator of Supergirl)
• Illustrator: Al McWilliams (Star Trek, Twin Earths, Creepy).

"Forceful and imperative... a lurid but powerful visualization" 
New York Times

Dracula: The Original Graphic Novel
Available Now!

Dracula —both the legendary blood-thirsty vampire and his historic inspiration, Vlad The Impaler— has terrified and fascinated the world via a myriad of films and books ever since Bram Stoker's original 1897 novel. Tales of the vampiric Prince of Darkness have been adapted to every format including a number of graphic novels. But just as Stoker's 1897 novel ever holds its historic place, so too does the original Dracula graphic novel. The premier, 1966 graphic adaptation of Stoker's classic was edited and packaged as a paperback by legendary Creepy magazine founding editor, Russ "Unca' Creepy" Jones.

Creepy launched as a full-sized, uncensored black and white horror comics magazine in 1964. It ran, most-famously adorned with covers by Frank Frazetta, for near 300 issues over two decades, spawning a tsunami of imitators and competing horror magazine lines including from Marvel. From 2008-2019 Dark Horse released a complete library of Creepy Archives hardcovers which often made the New York Times bestseller list.

After leaving Creepy magazine, for the landmark Dracula graphic novel, Jones enlisted Supergirl co-creator/writer Otto Binder and Star Trek, Twin Earths and Creepy artist Alden McWilliams to adapt Stoker's novel. Legendary Dracula actor, Christopher Lee even provides an Introduction!

For Halloween 2021, Vanguard has enlarged, revised, and expanded, this historic but long-out-of print classic in a luxurious hardcover edition with a new historic essay by How To Draw Chiller Monsters author, J. David Spurlock, examples of historically related art by Neal Adams, Gene Colan and a new cover by the most celebrated Creepy artist of all, Frank Frazetta. The package makes a surprisingly tastefully terrifying addition to every library and horror fan's bookshelf.
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Fantastic Paintings of Frazetta
Commentary by J. David Spurlock, Frank Frazetta & Frank Frazetta Jr.

Discover, or return to, the world's greatest heroic fantasy artist, Frank Frazetta in this landmark art collection entitled, Fantastic Paintings of FrazettaThe New York Times said, "Frazetta helped define fantasy heroes like Conan, Tarzan and John Carter of Mars with signature images of strikingly fierce, hard-bodied heroes and bosomy, callipygian damsels" Frazetta took the sex and violence of the pulp fiction of his youth and added even more action, fantasy and potency, but rendered with a panache seldom seen outside of major works of Fine Art. Despite his fantastic subject matter, the quality of Frazetta’s work has not only drawn comparisons to the most brilliant of illustrators, Maxfield Parrish, Frederic Remington, Norman Rockwell, N.C. Wyeth but, even to the most brilliant of fine artists including Rembrandt and Michelangelo and, major Frazetta works sell for millions of dollars, breaking numerous records.
This innovator’s work has not only inspired generations of artists, but also movies and directors including the Conan films, John Carter of Mars, the sensationally successful Lord of the Rings trilogy, Robert Rodriguez’ films including From Dusk Till Dawn, Ralph Bakshi films, the epic, award-winning Game of Thrones series, Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow, Disney’s animated Tarzan films, Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now and George Lucas’ Star Wars series. The Forbes magazine article Schwarzenegger's Sargent led with the line, "Which artist helped make Arnold governor? Frank Frazetta, the Rembrandt of barbarians."

J. David Spurlock started crafting this book by reviving the original million-selling 1970s mass market art book, Fantastic Art of Frank Frazetta. But, he expanded and revised to include twice as many images and, presents them at a much larger coffee-table book size of 10.5 x 14.625”! The collection is brimming with both classic and previously unpublished works of the subjects Frazetta is best remembered for including barbarians, beasts, and buxom beauties. Game of Thrones creator George R. R. Martin said, “Though he bears only a passing resemblance to the Cimmerian as Robert E. Howard described him, Frazetta’s covers of the Conan paperback collections became the definitive picture of the character… still is.” Schwarzenegger said, “I have not been intimidated that often in my life. But when I looked at Frazetta’s paintings, I tell you, it was intimidating.” Game of Thrones, Conan and Aquaman film star Jason Momoa said, “I am a huge Frank Frazetta fan. Both of my parents are painters, so I'd known Frazetta's paintings, that's what I wanted to bring to life.” See the revolutionary art that helped inspire Schwarzenegger, Momoa, the Lord of the Rings films and Game of Thrones: FRAZETTA!

Vanguard presents
Fantastic Paintings of Frazetta ULTRA LIMITED DELUXE

The hit, award-winning Fantastic Paintings of Frazetta Deluxe edition, signed by authors J. David Spurlock and Frank Frazetta Jr., sold out very quickly and is now selling at collectors prices in the rare books market. The publisher's private stash of remaining copies of the Deluxe edition, signed by authors Spurlock and Frazetta Jr., complete with its original lightweight slipcase, are being inserted into a handsome ALL-NEW, unique, heavy slipcase enhanced with gold metallic ink and a gloss lamination, marked ULTRA LIMITED DELUXE.

These rare books —available only here at Vanguard— will be offered at market rates while they last.
Limited-time initial promotion: $200.

Note: The books and new ULTRA slipcase are generally in perfect condition. But, the nature of the included earlier lightweight slipcase makes that light/inner slipcase prone to minor indentations and/or creases so, on these ULTRA rare, out-of-print signed collectors' editions, all sales are as-is and final—no returns.
After we place all remaining DLX into the new ULTRA slipcases, and fill advance orders (around August 1, 2022), we expect to make any extra ULTRA slipcases (if any) available to collectors who already purchased the Deluxe edition.

Frazetta Reg HC
1st Print SOLD OUT Immediately
NEW PRINTING IS
NOW AVAILABLE


$39.95 Regular Hardcover - 120 pages.

Both are 10.5" x 14.6" inches

To clearly differentiate the new printing from the rare 1st edition, we have updated the background color on the covers from dark warm-grey (1st) to a blue-grey on the new.

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Frazetta Regular HC - 2nd printing

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Available in 3 formats.
Deluxe Hardcover with Slipcaseand a 16 page bonus section. Hardcover and Softcover.

Wally Wood Dare-Devil Aces
Art by Wally Wood. Commentary by Thommy Burns, Larry Hama, J. David Spurlock & Rafael Medoff.

Greatest collection ever of Wallace Wood war comics. Spans the Hall of Fame creator’s career from titles like Capt Savage, U.S. Paratroopers, All American Men of War, War & Attack, D-Day, Warfront, Fight The Enemy, Blazing Combat―most have never been collected. Plus two full-length Ditko & Wood Cannon stories, commentary by J. David Spurlock, foreword by GI Joe and The ‘Nam writer Larry Hama and an essay on Wood’s EC war comics by Thommy Burns.
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Wally Wood Dare-Devil Aces
Deluxe Bronze-Foil Slipcased Edition

This Deluxe 1st edition hardcover features a unique bronze metallic slipcase, illustrated endpapers and 16-page BONUS FOLIO, totaling 200 pages,
luxurious, thick coated art stock, laminated covers — a rare gem.
$69.95
FREE SHIPPING
8" X 11". 176 full color pages.
16-pg Bonus Section (cover gallery)
ISBN: 978-1934331798
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Wally Wood Dare-Devil Aces
Hardcover

By J. David Spurlock. Art by Wallace Wood
$39.95
8" X 11". 176 full color pages.
ISBN: 978-1934331781

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Wally Wood Dare-Devil Aces
Softcover

By J. David Spurlock. Art by Wallace Wood
$24.95
8" X11". 176 full color pages.
ISBN: 978-1934331774

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Wally Wood Christmas Book
By Wallace Wood

A charming instant classic for all ages. For the first time ever, years of Hall of Fame creator Wally Wood’s never-published personal Christmas card art plus Wood’s rare Christmas cartoons and comicstrips collected into one precious, little quality book; a gem, sure to be prized by generations of
comics fans and the uninitiated alike. A classic!
$9.95
6.5" x 8". 36 full color on heavy stock.
ISBN: 9781934331804
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Sensuous Frazetta Contents include:
• Paperbacks (Midwood)
• Men's Magazines (Gent, Dude, Cavalcade)
• Romance Comics with original color
• Movie Poster Art (focus on Sensual)
• Commentary by FRANK FRAZETTA

Available in 3 formats.
Deluxe Hardcover with Slipcase
and a 16 page bonus section,
Hardcover and Softcover.

The Sensuous Frazetta
By J. David Spurlock. Art by Frank Frazetta
As much as his famed monsters, beasts and barbarians; from Vampirella toWeird Science, to Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Pellucidar and Dejah Thoris, Princess of Mars; no one is better renowned for exquisite renderings ofexotic women than Frazetta — the World’s greatest Heroic Fantasy artist. But, until now, only the most ardent collectors achieved acquisition of the elusive grail items from the short period of Frazetta’s early-1960s Men’s magazine, and risqué paperback book, illustrations. Often selling for hundreds of dollars each, these rare publications bridged Frazetta’s exodus from traditional comics, to the advent of his now-legendary Conan, and Death Dealer paintings. Expanded, with a chapter of flirtatious Frazetta movie poster art and the most seductive romance comics ever — including the legendary Untamed Love, collected for the first time with its original, vintage color intact; Vanguard continues their official, authorized Vanguard Frazetta Classics line by presenting, the most complete collection ever, of rare, vintage, Sensuous Frazetta.
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The Sensuous Frazetta
Deluxe Hardcover, Slipcase

By J. David Spurlock. Art by Frank Frazetta
$69.95
8" X 11". 192 full color pages.
16-pg Bonus Section (cover gallery)
ISBN: 1-934331-76-7
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The Sensuous Frazetta
Hardcover

By J. David Spurlock. Art by Frank Frazetta
$39.95
8" X 11". 176 full color pages.
ISBN: 1-934331-75-9
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The Sensuous Frazetta
Softcover

By J. David Spurlock. Art by Frank Frazetta
$24.95
8" X11". 176 full color pages.
ISBN: 1-934331-74-0
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Deluxe Hardcover
with Slipcase and a 16 page bonus section,

Hardcover and Softcover are sold out.

The Frazetta Sketchbook II
By J. David Spurlock. Art by Frank Frazetta

Vanguard's original Sketchbook series continues with a follow-up to the best-selling hit, Frazetta Sketchbook Volume I, with more classic and unseen material by the Master of Fantastic Art, including rare Conan, Vampirella, EC, Death Dealer material and more.

In the revolutionary artist's extensive, May 10, 2010 obituary, The New York Times said, "Frazetta helped define comic book (and) fantasy heroes like Conan, Tarzan and John Carter of Mars signature images were of strikingly fierce, hard-bodied heroes and bosomy, callipygian damsels" Frazetta took the sex and violence of the pulp fiction of his youth and added even more action, fantasy and potentcy, but rendered his works with a panache seldom seen outside of Fine Art. Despite his sword-and-sorcery, science-fiction and fantasy subject matter, the quality of the work has not only drawn comparisons to the most brilliant of illustrators, Maxfield Parrish, Frederic Remington, Norman Rockwell, N.C. Wyeth, J. Allen St.John, and Joseph Clement Coll but even to the most brilliant of fine artists including Rembrandt and Michelangelo” and major Frazetta works sell for Fine Art prices. The November 24, 2003 Forbes magazine article Schwarzenegger's Sargent led with the line, "Which artist helped make Arnold governor? Frank Frazetta, the Rembrandt of barbarians."

Vanguard created the comics and fantasy artist sketchbook boom with editions on Al Williamson, Neal Adams, Wally Wood, Jeffrey Jones, John Buscema, John Romita and Alex Horley. Vanguard continues both their original sketchbook series and the Vanguard Frazetta Classics series with The Frazetta Sketchbook which was planned shortly before the icon of fantastic art's passing. The collection is brimming with rare and previously unpublished drawings and painting preliminaries of the subjects Frazetta is best remembered for including barbarians, wild beasts, Tarzan, buxom beauties, monsters and Conan.
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Frank Frazetta Sketchbook II
Hardcover Deluxe Slipcase Edition
By J. David Spurlock. Art by Frank Frazetta
An all-new art collection, companion to 2013’s best-seller. Final pieces are accompanied by never-before-seen preliminary drawings and color studies. Special Tolkien section, life drawings of nudes, personal works, and prelims for the EC classic, “Came the Dawn.”
8.5" X 11", 176 full color pages with bonus slipcase and folio
ISBN: 978-1934331651
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Frank Frazetta Sketchbook II
Hardcover
By J. David Spurlock. Art by Frank Frazetta
$39.95
8.5" X 11". 160 full color pages.
ISBN: 978-1934331668
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Frank Frazetta Sketchbook II
Softcover
By J. David Spurlock. Art by Frank Frazetta
$24.95
8.5" X 11", 160 color pages.
ISBN: 978-1934331675
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Available in
Softcover.

Art of the Dragon:
The Definitive Collection of Contemporary Dragon Paintings
By Patrick Wilshire and J. David Spurlock

Vanguard presents every dragon lover's dream come true, Art of the Dragon: The Definitive Collection of Contemporary Dragon Paintings. This concise yet comprehensive survey by Visions of Never author Patrick Wilshire and How to Draw Chiller Monsters, Werewolves, Vampires, and Zombies author J. David Spurlock presents and examines the ultimate collection of contemporary dragon paintings and provides insights about the foremost dragon-painting fantasy artists including Jeff Easley, Larry Elmore, Clyde Caldwell, Keith Parkinson, Todd Lockwood, Donato Giancola, John Howe, Bob Eggleton, Don Maitz, Stephen Hickman, Boris Vallejo, Julie Bell, Greg Hildebrandt, and record-breaking Hugo Award winner Michael Whelan who, also provides the cover to this long-awaited and breathtaking compendium. This book is dedicated to the memory of the late, great fantasy artist Jeffrey Catherine Jones who passed away May 19, 2011.
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Art of the Dragon:
The Definitive Collection of Contemporary
Dragon Paintings
Softcover Edition
By Patrick Wilshire and J. David Spurlock
$24.95
8.5" x 11". 132 pages.
ISBN: 978-1934331439