Media Release -- Fans and friends, select Checker Books graphic novels are priced for our Paypal customers at $4 per edition. Look below for a complete listing or visit http://www.checkerbpg.com/ .
For this limited two-week sale, customers who spend $25 or more will get BOTH a free edition of Supreme: The Return Leatherbound AND Winsor McCay's Little Nemo Volume 2 as a gift to our loyal Paypal customers. (Offer excludes shipping) When your place your order simply type "$25 Offer" in the notes.
Thank you for all the years of being great readers. We hope to service our reader base in the future with the exciting new realm of digital comics.
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1. Clive Barker's Hellraiser Vol 1 (0971024928) $4.59(org. $22.95) -
LIMITED QTY
2. Clive Barker's Tapping the Vein *Eisner Award Nominee (0971024936) $4.99(org.$24.95)
"The artwork displayed on each page is beautiful, intense, meaningful, and belongs hanging on a wall in a museum... This story surprised me with its weaving of mythology, legend, and fairy tales... this is still one of the most in-depth and interesting graphic novels I've read."
- Mia Voelker, Paperback Reader
3. A Bit of Madness (0975380893) $4.99 (org. 24.95)
"I highly recommend this graphic novel. The artwork is great, and the story is interesting as well as being a rarity of genre in the graphic novel publishing world. If you are a high fantasy fan, you will enjoy this story..."
- John Ottinger, Grasping For The Wind
4. Flash Gordon Volume 2 (0974166464) $3.99 (org. $19.95)
5. Flash Gordon Volume 6 (1933160284) $3.99 (org. $19.95)
6. Flash Gordon Volume 7 (1933160209) $3.99 (org. $19.95)
7. Alan Moore's Supreme The Return (0971024960) $4.99 (org. $24.95)
8. Alan Moore's Judgment Day (0974166456) $3.39 (org. $ 16.95)
"Moore skillfully toys with superhero conventions...this is a marriage of two qualities usually mutually exclusive in superhero comics, intelligence and fun; Superman should be in stories this satisfying."
- Gordon Flagg, American Library Association (Booklist)
9. Star Trek: The Key Collection Volume 2 (0971024987) $4.59 (org. $22.95)
10. Star Trek: The Key Collection Volume 3 (0975380850) $4.59 (org.$22.95)
11. Star Trek: The Key Collection Volume 4 (1933160128) $4.59 (org. $22.95)
12. Star Trek: The Key Collection Volume 5 (1933160136) $4.59 (org. $22.95)
"Checker Book Publishing has shown that there is no school like the old school. They were smart enough to compile a very old Star Trek series of comics that were first printed in the late sixties..."
- Mark Rollins, Associated Content
13. Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon 1948 (0974166413) $3.79 (org. $18.95)
14. Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon 1949 (097102491X) $3.19 (org. $15.95)
15. Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon 1952 (1933160551) $3.59 (org. $17.95)
"All of Caniff's other powers are on full display here: the sharp draftsmanship, heavy on chiaroscuro; the vivid characterization...the slangy dialogue; the tantalizing way with a storyline. Steve Canyon remains about as satisfying as an adventure strip could be."
- Dennis Drabelle, The Washington Post
16. Early Works of Winsor McCay Volume 3 (0974166499) $3.99 (org. $19.95)
17. Early Works of Winsor McCay Volume 5 (0975380826) $3.99 (org. $19.95)
18. Winsor McCay Editorial Works (1933160497) $3.99 (org. $19.95)
19. Little Nemo in Slumberland Vol 2 (9781933160221) $9.99 (org. $49.99)
"...they retain an uncanny freshness even as they approach the same punch line...Here McCay embraces, if not pioneers, one of the weirdest and unique pleasures of the serial comic: formula. It's the strange poetry of expectations fulfilled again and again, like Charlie Brown missing the football..."
- John Hodgman, The New York Times
20. Winsor McCay's Dream of The Rarebit Fiend (1933160659) $3.99 (org. $19.95)
21. Spooks Vol 2 (9781934692943) $3.79 (org. $18.99)
"...absolutely frightening!"
- George Noory, Coast to Coast AM
22. The Nye Incidents (1934692018) $2.99 (org. $14.99)
"A crack team of creators treat the source material with the respect it deserves... both a faithful adaptation, and an engaging read for both new and established Salvatore fans. Kudos to Andrew Dabb for the adaptation and to Tim Seeley for his vivid pencils!"
- ComicReader.com
23. Forgotten Realms Vol 2 Part 2: Exile (0786939834) $1.59 (org. $7.99)
24. Dick Tracy Vol-1 (0974166421) 3.59 (Org. 17.95)
"Raymond's Wonderful brushed ink illustrations being the characters to like. His work recalls the tradition of magazine illustrations such as Joseph Clement and J. Allen St. John, and is superby composed and executed."
- Publishers Weekly
25. Alan Moore's Supreme the Return (Leather Bound) (0971024952 ) 8.99 (Org. 44.95)
"Moore skillfully toys with superhero conventions… this is a marriage of two qualities usually mutually exclusive in superhero comics, intelligence and fun; Superman should be in stories this satisfying."
– Gordon Flagg, American Library Association (Booklist)
