{"product_id":"telling-stories-the-classic-comic-art-of-frank-frazetta-super-deluxe","title":"TELLING STORIES The Classic Comic Art of Frank Frazetta Super Deluxe Numbered","description":"\u003cp\u003eFantasy art's most popular painter was also one of the most popular comic book illustrators during the industry’s golden age. \u003ci\u003eTelling Stories: The Classic Comic Art of Frank Frazetta\u003c\/i\u003e celebrates the rare and largely forgotten stories created five decades ago by this iconic artist. These jungle adventures, true-life tales of heroism, and dreamy love stories not only exhibit the skill of a master craftsman but also provide tantalizing glimpses of where the young artist’s career would ultimately take him.\n\nThis offers the complete \u003cem\u003eThunda\u003c\/em\u003e tales and his best romance works, such as \"Untamed Love\", \"Empty Heart,\" \"A Love of My Own,\" \"The Wrong Road\" and \"Too Late for Love.\" Ironically some of these often dismissed romance stories offer some of his finest works, with shapely women, nude statues, and lots of implied lust. Then we have heroic works, such as war comics from \u003cem\u003eHeroic Comics\u003c\/em\u003e; adventure, with White Indian, the long-running series for ME. We have :\"Squeeze Play,\" complete with a special introduction, his one and only solo-drawn story for EC. Here's Captain Comet, a rare SF story with Al Williamson; Judy of the Jungle, a pre-Thunda Africa adventure; and some of his best and most obscure works from the late 1940s, one, two and three page classics.\n\nAll the stories have been newly colored, giving them each a fresh quality that highlight rather than obscures the art, as the original coloring often did. The long 18-page introduction offers an overview of Frank's comic book work, from his first in \u003cem\u003eTally Ho Comics \u003c\/em\u003eto his rare solo work for the Warren magazines and \u003cem\u003eWitzend\u003c\/em\u003e.It is beautifully illustrated, including from the original black and white pages.\n\n\u003cstrong\u003eThis is an as-new Publisher's File Copy from Underwood Books\u003c\/strong\u003e. This deluxe edition is bound in two kinds of leather, with a gilt-embossed cover. The cloth tray case has a full color image from one of Frank's Buck Rogers covers embossed on the front, and gold-embossed titles around it. A bonus print is included, loose, in a parchment sleeve. It reproduces Frank's only solo-cover for EC, \u003cem\u003eWeird Science Fantasy \u003c\/em\u003e#29. Six copies are left as I write this June 8, 2022; #2 and #6-10. First orders will receive the earliest number.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Underwood Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59639717822750,"sku":"TELSSD","price":299.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/0684\/7006\/files\/product_t_e_telssd-telling-stories-classic-comic-art-frazetta_4.jpg?v=1784473082","url":"https:\/\/shop.budsartbooks.com\/products\/telling-stories-the-classic-comic-art-of-frank-frazetta-super-deluxe","provider":"Bud's Art Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}