Best of
Comics

1986

Daredevil: Born Again


Frank Miller - 1986
    At stake - one man's immortal, indestructible soul.

Watchmen #1: At Midnight, All The Agents....


Alan Moore - 1986
    Watchmen Chapter 1 of 12: At Midnight, All The Agents...

Daredevil: Born Again


Frank Miller - 1986
    "And I -- I have shown him... that a man without hope is a man without fear." The definitive Daredevil tale! Karen Page, Matt Murdock's former lover, has traded away the Man Without Fear's secret identity for a drug fix. Now, Daredevil must find strength as the Kingpin of Crime wastes no time taking him down as low as a human can get.

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns


Frank Miller - 1986
    Together with inker Klaus Janson and colorist Lynn Varley, writer/artist Frank Miller completely reinvents the legend of Batman in his saga of a near-future Gotham City gone to rot, ten years after the Dark Knight's retirement. Crime runs rampant in the streets, and the man who was Batman is still tortured by the memories of his parents' murders. As civil society crumbles around him, Bruce Wayne's long-suppressed vigilante side finally breaks free of its self-imposed shackles. The Dark Knight returns in a blaze of fury, taking on a whole new generation of criminals and matching their level of violence. He is soon joined by this generation's Robin—a girl named Carrie Kelley, who proves to be just as invaluable as her predecessors.But can Batman and Robin deal with the threat posed by their deadliest enemies, after years of incarceration have made them into perfect psychopaths? And more important, can anyone survive the coming fallout of an undeclared war between the superpowers—or a clash of what were once the world's greatest superheroes?Over fifteen years after its debut, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns remains an undisputed classic and one of the most influential stories ever told in the comics medium.Collecting Batman: The Dark Knight Returns #1-4

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns #1


Frank Miller - 1986
    Frank Miller completely reinvents the legend of Batman in his saga of a near-future Gotham City gone to rot, ten years after the Dark Knight’s retirement.

Absolute Swamp Thing by Alan Moore, Vol. 2


Alan Moore - 1986
    comic book industry with the revitalization of the horror comic book Swamp Thing. His deconstruction of the classic monster stretched the creative boundaries of the medium and became one of the most spectacular series in comic book history.With modern-day issues explored against a backdrop of horror, Swamp Thing's stories became commentaries on environmental, political and social issues, unflinching in their relevance. Includes the story The Anatomy Lesson, a haunting origin story that reshapes Swamp Thing mythology with terrifying revelations that begin a journey of discovery and adventure that will take him across the stars and beyond. Author Alan Moore and illustrators Stephen Bissette, John Totleben, Rick Veitch, Shawn McManus, Ron Randall and Dan Day join together to rise from the swamps in slipcased hardcover edition, Absolute Swamp Thing by Alan Moore Vol. 2. This collects Saga of the Swamp Thing #35-49 with brand-new coloring.

Everything in the World


Lynda Barry - 1986
    The outrageous humor of cult favorite and syndicated cartoonist Lynda Barry--one of the world's "shrewdest chroniclers of sex, love and romance" (Mother Jones).

Love & Rockets: Heartbreak Soup


Gilbert Hernández - 1986
    Love and Rockets is a body of work routinely praised for its realism, complexity, subtlety and ethnic authenticity. It was the first comic series to give a voice to minorities and women in the medium's then 50-year history. One of the hidden treasures of our impoverished culture. --The Nation

New York: The Big City


Will Eisner - 1986
    Before the Lower East Side was cool, there was the grit and grime of Avenue C, a world filled with street musicians, overflowing sewers, and peeping toms, all recalled in Eisner’s unforgettable style.

The Gabriel Set-Up


Peter O'Donnell - 1986
    With her trusted right-hand man, Willie Garvin, no job is too big, no threat too great!

The Biggest Tongue in Tunisia: And Other Drawings


B. Kliban - 1986
    Drawings

Any Similarity to Persons Living or Dead is Purely Coincidental


Drew Friedman - 1986
    is a collection of Drew Friedman’s earliest comic strips and illustrations, featuring his most obsessively stippled black-and-white panels and his most hilarious wise-guy takes on the stars and demi-stars and never-quite-stars of that swamp we like to call showbiz.In these strips, many of them written by his brother Josh Alan Friedman (both are sons of the legendary Bruce Jay Friedman: humor genes will tell!), the artist works out his obsession with such celebrities as Jim Nabors, Frank Sinatra Jr., Joe Franklin, Bob Hope, Andy Griffith... and Ed Wood, Jr. film star Tor Johnson, whom Friedman actually catapulted back into some sort of semi-fame when these strips were first published in the 1980s.Friedman is the kind of pop-culture aficionado whose Three Stooges worship is focused not on Moe, Larry or Curly but on Shemp (whose unmistakable mug graces the new cover of this edition), and whose teasing adoration can often be mistaken for mockery or contempt. But who but a worshipful fan would lavish quite so many dots on the loving delineation of these greats’ every pimple and wrinkle?

Grendel: Devil by the Deed


Matt Wagner - 1986
    This collection brings to life one of the most popular alternative comic characters.

Zippy: Pindemonium


Bill Griffith - 1986
    Zippy is a work of GENIUS in a way which is hard to describe because he is unlike any other cartoon character, beautifully drawn, and the dialogue is brilliant.

Love and Rockets #16


Jaime Hernández - 1986
    

Herman Treasury 5


Jim Unger - 1986
    Cartoons offer a humorous look at hunters, doctors, thieves, fishermen, job applicants, UFOs, zoos, marriage, cavemen, prisoners, pets, beginning drivers, musicians, waitresses, weddings, and dentists.

Between The Eyes


Ralph Steadman - 1986
    

Comics and Stories


Geof Darrow - 1986
    

Love and Rockets #17


Jaime Hernández - 1986
    Locos" by Jaime"The Way Things're Going" starring Jesusby Gilbert"Rocket Rhodes" starring Rocky and Fumbleby Jaime"Duck Feet" Part OneA Heartbreak Soup Storyby Gilbert

Et Franquin créa la gaffe : entretiens avec Numa Sadoul


Numa Sadoul - 1986
    The book is centred around a series of long interviews with Franquin, recorded over the course of several days in 1985. It is illustrated with excerpts from the works discussed, as well as Franquin's sketchbooks, early publications and unreleased material.

Squadron Supreme Omnibus


Mark Gruenwald - 1986
    Collects Squadron Supreme (1985 1st Series) #1-12, Captain America (1968-1996 1st Series) #314, and Squadron Supreme: Death of a Universe Graphic Novel (1989).

Hagar the Horrible: Roman Holiday #20


Dik Browne - 1986
    

She-Ra, Princess of Power


John Grant - 1986
    

Batman #392


Doug Moench - 1986
    Batman and Catwoman try to go on a date, but there's no rest for their relationship as Gotham City crime keeps interrupting their night of romance.

Asterix and the Romans - Asterix the Legionary/Asterix and the Chieftain's Shield/The Mansions of the the Gods/Asterix in Belgium


René Goscinny - 1986
    

Gore Shriek #1


Stephen R. Bissette - 1986
    Bissette, who also contributed stories to each issue. Besides Bissette, other Gore Shriek creators of note included Greg Capullo, Bruce Spaulding Fuller, Eric Stanway and Gurchain Singh. Gore Shriek volume I ran for three years (1986 - '89), and is still fondly remembered by horror fans as one of the top comics in that genre.

Phantom-The Vindictive Ghost ( Indrajal Comics Vol 23 No 3 )


Lee Falk - 1986
    Indrajal Comics Vol 23 No 3

Love and Rockets #18


Jaime Hernández - 1986
    "Duck Feet" Part TwoA Heartbreak Soup Storyby Gilbert"8:01 am - 11:15 pm" A Locas Tambien storyby Jaime

Years Of Wrath: A Cartoon History, 1932 1945


David Low - 1986
    

Phantom-The Missing Trophy ( Indrajal Comics Vol 23 No 14 )


Lee Falk - 1986
    Indrajal Comics Vol 23 No 14

Storytime 2


Dom Orejudos - Etienne - 1986
    1. Subway Savages - Two subway delinquents take on young businessman Mark and leave him used and abused on the floor of the car. 2. Sailor Beware - American sailors Cal and Jake are drugged, pillaged and sold into slavery to a desert Sultan.

Who's Who #11 January 1986 (The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe, Volume XI)


Len Wein - 1986
    

Destroy!!


Scott McCloud - 1986
    PARENTS BEWARE! This Comic-Book is exactly what you think it is! 32 pages of meaningless, overblown violence, mayhem and destruction! (Plus one Naughty Word)

Phantom-The Sparks of Betrayal Part I ( Indrajal Comics Vol 23 No 35 )


Lee Falk - 1986
    Indrajal Comics Vol 23 No 35

Phantom-The Sparks of Betrayal Part III ( Indrajal Comics Vol 23 No 37 )


Lee Falk - 1986
    Indrajal Comics Vol 23 No 37

Phantom-The Sparks of Betrayal Part II ( Indrajal Comics Vol 23 No 36 )


Lee Falk - 1986
    Indrajal Comics Vol 23 No 36

Jonny Quest #2 (1986)


William Messner-Loebs - 1986
    All we know is this: in the episode titled "Mystery of the Lizard Men" the intelligence personnel charged with protecting Dr. Quest and Jonny mention that Jonny's mother died. In "Jonny's Golden Quest," that movie's makers attempted to answer that question, but in the opinion of many, handled it very poorly, involving Dr. Zin in her death.Now, in issue #2, COMICO gives their version of what happened, and, at the same time, tell how Race Bannon became assigned to the scientist and his son.

Peanuts Trivia and Reference Book


Monte Schulz - 1986
    Each question is answered by a comic strip, so there's great reading along the way.

Into the Wolves' Lair: The Fall of the Fourth Reich


Takao Saito - 1986
    

Cartoon History Of Rock And Roll


Serge Dutfoy - 1986
    

Bourbon Thret


Geof Darrow - 1986
    Ballonstrips.

Mad about the Buoy


MAD Magazine - 1986
    

Mandrake-House Of Horrors ( Indrajal Comics Vol 23 No 13 )


Lee Falk - 1986
    Indrajal Comics Vol 23 No 13

Mandrake-The Killer Breed Part II ( Indrajal Comics Vol 23 No 30 )


Lee Falk - 1986
    Indrajal Comics Vol 23 No 30

Mandrake-The Killer Breed Part I ( Indrajal Comics Vol 23 No 29 )


Lee Falk - 1986
    Indrajal Comics Vol 23 No 29

Phantom-The Shrouded Mystery ( Indrajal Comics Vol 23 No 27 )


Lee Falk - 1986
    Indrajal Comics Vol 23 No 27

Just Another Coverup (Snoopy Snaps, #4)


Charles M. Schulz - 1986
    

Get Physical, Snoopy! (I'm Not Your Sweet Babboo!, Vol III)


Charles M. Schulz - 1986
    Cartoons feature Snoopy leading a foreign legion troop, writing a novel, and visiting a sleep disorder center, cousin Spike hitchhiking with a cactus friend, and Peppermint Patty hiding from D minuses.

The Best of Hi and Lois


Mort Walker - 1986
    Hi, Lois, Chip, Dot, Ditto, and Trixie (sitting in her sunbeam) have tracked the daily life of the baby boomers and their folks, from the trials and pleasures of good old family life to the passing fancies of the day--coonskin caps to video games. Readers, who once followed the strip from Chip and Dot's angle, as kids, now see things more from Hi and Lois's point of view, as parents shepherding their own families along. For 32 years two of the great comic-strip masters of our time--Mort "Beetle Bailey" Walker and Dik "Hagar the Horrible" Browne--have worked together to make this one of the most enduringly popular and widely read strips. It appears in over 1,000 newspapers daily, and is one of the half dozen most popular strips in the world."The Best of Hi and Lois" is truly the ultimate collection. With close to 300 daily strips and more than 80 Sunday pages from 1954 to present, plus special drawings and a behind-the-scenes look at how the strip is created, it forms an affectionately funny retrospective on four different decades of American family life."Hi and Lois" is the result of a classic collaboration between Mort Walker, who writes the strip, and Dik Browne, who draws it. "The Best of Hi and Lois" completes a trilogy that presents the best of their work.

Hagar: Pillage Idiot (Hagar The Horrible)


Dik Browne - 1986
    

Bizarro


Dan Piraro - 1986
    country cowboys and city slickers, astronauts and suburbanites, break dancers and board chairmen all examined in weird and wonderful ways through the C"fractured lens' of Bizarro. A strip for the counter culture in all of us."-- "Vancouver Sun

Rock Toons : A Cartoon History of the First 30 Years of Rock 'n' Roll


Serge Dutfoy - 1986
    size - with 103 very colorful cartoon pages. Starts with 1954 Doris Day, Sinatra, Dean Martin then to Fats Domino, Chuch Berry and onto Folk Rock, Country Rock, Disco and onto the Elvis and The Beatles, Michael Jackson & everyone in between. The First 30 Years of Rock n' Roll - The Music That Changed the world!

The Apex Treasury Of Underground Comics


Susan Goodrick - 1986
    Various underground comics from the 1960s and 1970s from Bijou

The Chronicles of Judge Dredd #2


John Wagner - 1986
    Contains the Following stories:Aggro Dome, The Return of Rico, Red Christmas, Return to Mega-City, Firebug, Monkey Business at the Charles Darwin Block

The Ditko Collection Vol. II: 1973-1976


Steve Ditko - 1986
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