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The Art of Neal Adams
Art by Neal Adams

The most luxurious book to-date devoted to the legendary Batman and X-Men comic book and Tarzan book-cover artist, Neal Adams.

From his Ben Casey newspaper strips to Creepy magazine work to groundbreaking comic books, Adams' work serves as an inspiration for every illustrator who works in the field to this day. His topflight 60s and '70s Marvel and DC work are perennial sellers in infinite repackaging. Coinciding with the launch of his Continuity Studio, Adams expanded into cutting-edge advertising work, amusement park ride design, magazine illustration, animation, and paperback book covers. Included in this collection are classic and rare works spanning the artist's noted career and a unique selection of Neal's seldom-seen paintings. Fully annotated by the artist.

SIGNED EDITION AVAILABLE
Neal Adams MONSTERS
Story and art by Neal Adams

A Deluxe Slipcased edition is available signed by Adams with a 16-page bonus art portfolio of rare and unpublished works.
For a fan of great art and its integration into great story-telling, comic lover or not, Neal Adams Monsters is a must-have.

Neal Adams, explodes back onto the comic scene with a new hardcover graphic novel, Neal Adams Monsters, featuring the most terrifying supernatural creatures in classic-horror history: The Frankenstein Monster, Count Dracula and the Werewolf. Neal Adams Monsters was rendered oversized to take the penciling and inking chores to the max. The end result is a masterwork which features the dramatic line work and exquisite fine rendering Neal Adams has been canonized for. Thrill to a level of unprecedented detail as a comics grandmaster reveals the story of these infamous horror legends as only he can see them: a horror epic guaranteed to thrill.

Collected into an English-language graphic novel for the first time, this material was originally serialized in Adam's groundbreaking anthology Echo of Future Past. This new edition has digital coloring and effects in a process personally overseen by Adams to conform to his exacting standards for rendering, lighting and form. New pages have been added, new covers as well as a special section of rare paintings, sketches and drawings of monsters that captured his imagination throughout his illustration career.

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The Alluring Art of Margaret Brundage
Queen of Pulp Pin-Up Art
Authors and compilers Stephen D. Korshak and J. David Spurlock

Starting in 1932, Margaret Brundage, wife of leftist revolutionary Slim Brundage, -- who she met at the wildly-bohemian Dil Pickle Club during the Chicago Renaissance -- forever changed the look of Fantasy and Horror with her alluring, sensationalistic covers for the legendary pulp magazine, Weird Tales. Brundage, whose art contemporaries include Virgil Finlay and Hannes Bok, is unique as she was the first female cover artist of the pulp era. Decades before the gothic fetish craze, Brundage's lush, provocative paintings, which frequently featured smoldering, semi-nude young women bearing whips, became a focus of acute attention and controversy. At the very peak of the notorious pulp's classic run, the magazine's appeal was due as much to Brundage's covers as to the stories inside by famous authors H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Bloch and Conan creator, Robert E. Howard. Long before Frazetta, it was Brundage who was the very 1st Conan cover artist. The Alluring Art of Margaret Brundage is the premier book devoted to this noted artist and features all of her Weird Tales and Conan covers.

RARE LIMITED TO ONLY 450 COPIES
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.

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, we expect to make any extra ULTRA slipcases (if any) available to collectors who already purchased the Deluxe edition.

Fantastic Paintings of Frazetta ORIGINAL DELUXE

ORIGINAL DELUXE was $69.95,
sold out in stores,
Rare $150

This is the original (non-ultra) deluxe in LIGHT SLIPCASE — has metallic teal/blue-green border around cover art.)

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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.

RARE
Deluxe Hardcover
with Slipcase and a 16 page bonus section,
The Frazetta Sketchbook I
By J. David Spurlock. Art by Frank Frazetta

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.