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              NOTABLE BOOKS AND COMICS SHIPPING IN MAY 1986

     LOVE AND ROCKETS Book Two reprints the third and fourth issues
     of the popular black and white magazine.  Recommended.  Soft-
     cover, $9.95.  Signed, limited edition hardcover, $30.00.

     WILL EISNER'S NEW YORK will be published in late April.  This
     trade paperback will retail for $10.95 and features vignettes
     of city life.  The work was previously titled 'Big City' and
     was published in the old SPIRIT magazine.

     ELRIC graphic novel by Thomas, Russell, and Gilbert, adapted 
     from Moorcock's novel.  This will reprint the Pacific Comics
     adaption in one volume and will retail for $14.95.

     PRINCE VALIANT Book One by John Cullen Murphy, published by
     Blackthorne.  "The heroic prince has never looked better than
     when drawn by the expert draftsman Murphy."  Am I dreaming, or
     did Hal Foster once draw a page or two of PRINCE VALIANT?

     STAR HAWKS Book Two, by Goulart and Kane, published by Black-
     thorne.  This book continues the exploits of interplanetary
     lawmen Jaxan and Chavez and their sarcastic robot hound, Sniffer.
     Trade $5.95, HC $14.95.  This is enjoyable stuff, and Kane's 
     art is very nice.

     DICK TRACY MONTHLY  by Chet Gould begins this month from Black-
     thorne.  Each issue will be 32 black and white pages for $2.00.

     THE ENCHANTED APPLES OF OZ by Eric Shanower, based on the books
     by Frank Baum.  The story is new, not an adaption, and will be
     priced at $7.95.  From First Books.

     BETTY BOOP Book Two from Blackthorne is $5.95 for trade and 
     $14.95 for hardcover.

     THE COMICS JOURNAL #109 features Howard Chaykin talking about
     Time Squared, his new series of graphic albums from First.  The
     Comics Journal "writes about comics as if they really mattered."
     I highly recommend this to all comic fans.  $2.95 for 100 pages
     from Fantagraphics.  Stop buying six Marvels and pick up TCJ
     instead.

     ADOLESCENT RADIOACTIVE BLACKBELT HAMSTERS in 3-D.  $2.50 from
     Eclipse, written and drawn by Chin and Templeton.  Did anyone
     actually like the first issue of this?  At least the art, by
     Stig's Inferno creator Ty Templeton, will be enjoyable.

     WORLD OF WOOD #1 by Wally Wood with a cover by Dave Stevens.
     Finally, an Eclipse reprint worth reprinting.  $1.75 on baxter.
 
     GARFIELD OUT TO LUNCH - his 12th book.  $5.95 tradepaper.   

     THE FISH POLICE #1 Reprint, $1.50.  This is the latest 'hot' book,
     as speculators continue looking for the next Cerebus or Turtles.
     The prices on the first printing of this and other small press
     comics (SAMURI #1, for instance) seem very artificial to me.  
     
     HOW TO PUBLISH COMICS by Gary Brodsky.  Featuring "How To Publish
     Your First Comic - Starting With Nothing!"; How To Start Your Own
     Publishing Company - With No Money!"; "Distributors - What They Like...
     What They Don't Like"; and "Much, Much More!"  $10.00 from     
     Solson Publications.  S-0-L-S-O-N:  Sol's Son.  Why isn't this man
     applying his superior intellect to High Energy Physics?  

				     -- Steve Richter

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               Science in the Comics, Part One

     "I know what I have to do!  It's dangerous...but by 
     increasing my power levels...and channeling the power
     back into myself...I'll be stronger than EVER!!"
                         
                                     -- Booster Gold