Best of
Graphic-Novels
1980
The Complete Maus
Art Spiegelman - 1980
By addressing the horror of the Holocaust through cartoons, the author captures the everyday reality of fear and is able to explore the guilt, relief and extraordinary sensation of survival - and how the children of survivors are in their own way affected by the trials of their parents. A contemporary classic of immeasurable significance.
Essential Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 1
Stan Lee - 1980
Learning he had gained great arachnid-like abilities, the timid teenager donned a colorful costume of his own design - seeking fame and fortune as the Amazing Spider-Man! But his Uncle Ben's death - tragedy he could have prevented - taught Peter that with great power there must also come great responsibility...and on that day a legend was born!Volume #1: Reprints Amazing Fantasy #15, Amazing Spider-Man #1-20, and Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1
A Mouse Called Junction
Julia Cunningham - 1980
Discontent with the complete coziness of his life, the littlest and last of a large family of mice leaves home searching for danger.
Beau Peep: Book One
Roger Kettle - 1980
The strip features the misadventures of the eponymous lead character, Beau Peep, an inept and cowardly British man who joins the tough and hardy French Foreign Legion in the deserts of North Africa to escape his terrifying wife Doris back home. There are also numerous insane supporting characters.
Águila Negra, Libro 1 (Colección Clásicos 36; Águila Negra, #1)
Eugenio Zappietro - 1980
After Poland's crushing defeat in a matter of weeks and the annihilation of his division, Corporal Radzigill and seven survivors of the 414th Infantry are able to kidnap a plane from the Germans and fly it to France, where they'll continue the fight before and after Germany also invades that country. They'll adopt as their unit identifier a Polish banner with a black eagle embroidered on it (the Polish eagle is white), whence comes their nickname, The Black Eagles, and will be sent in countless special and dangerous missions by the French.