Press Release Before Fredric Wertham wrote The Seduction of the Innocent (SOTI), before the Kefauver Hearings, and before the infamous Comics Code, comic book racks at local drug stores and newsstands boasted a plethora of delights highlighted by the good girl adventures of the comic book version of Brenda Starr. These four-color wonders displayed all the finer things loved by comic books buyers: good girls, bondage, a little torture, and other exciting things, which adults thought would corrupt the morals of young and impressionable readers (Brenda Starr cover art was even used as an example in SOTI). Now for the…
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Press Release Terry and the Pirates: the George Wunder Years: Volume One 1946-1948; ISBN# 978-1-61345-041-3; now for the first time George Wunder’s first two years of the Terry dailies and Sundays continuing the stories and characters immortalized by Milton Caniff; 9 x 12 inches, landscape format; deluxe hardcover; black and white and color; dust jacket, printed laminated cover and end leaves, fully digitally restored; historical essay; $60.
Press Release Famous Monsters of Filmland, one of the most famous periodicals in the fan world, and Hermes Press premier art book publisher, proudly announce their partnership at Comic-Con. Hermes Press will now create, design, market and sell an entire line of art books which highlight the history of Famous Monsters of Filmland.
Last week we learned of Howard Chaykin’s Buck Rogers project, and now we get a giant sized poster that is worth of the Art Appreciation Moment of the Day.
Press Release The San Diego International Comic-Con, one of the largest comic book convention, where artists and writers from across the world gather in hopes of having their dreams come true- to have their work published and make a name for themselves. For three talented people, this dream came true.
Hermes Press has announces that Katharine Leigh Scott will be signing at the company booth (#1821) to promote the release of Dark Shadows: Return to Collinwood.
Press Release BUCK ROGERS the first, best, original Sci-Fi hero is back in an all-new comic book series from Hermes Press with art and stories by Howard Chaykin.
Press Release Hermes Press, home of classic archival comic strip reprints including Buck Rogers, The Phantom, Roy Rogers, Brenda Starr, Milton Caniff’s Male Call, Frank Robbins’ Johnny Hazard, and Smokey Stover now adds America’s most iconic hard-boiled detective, Mickey Spillane’s From the Files of… Mike Hammer.
Press Release Hermes Press, pop art book publisher of such classic comic strip and comic book reprints as Buck Rogers, The Phantom, Brenda Starr, and Dark Shadows is sponsoring the 2012 Pittsburgh Comicon, Western Pennsylvania’s premier venue for popular culture. Since Hermes Press is the region’s only comic book and strip publisher “it seemed perfect that we should sponsor this show,” observed publisher Daniel Herman. Herman continued that, “we’ve been publishing pop culture art books and classic comic book and strip reprints for over a decade and it just seemed to make sense for us to show everybody in our…
Press Release The big screen version of Dark Shadows will arrive on May 11 and the perfect companions to revisit the original, classic Dark Shadows TV show are here now from Hermes Press! In anticipation of the new film Hermes Press is releasing Dark Shadows: The Best of the Original Series ISBN 978-1-61345-016-1 ($49.99 full color, 336 page, the best twelve original Dark Shadows comic book stories) with art by Joe Certa and stories by D. J. Arneson and Arnold Drake together with the illustrated novella Dark Shadows Interrupted Voyage authored by D. J. Arneson with art by Joe Certa…
Press Release Alissa Ross, a senior graphic designer at Hermes Press, has been appointed Publicity Director at the company, one of the industry’s leading pop culture art book publishers.
Press Release Brenda Starr is back! Brenda Starr, the world’s most famous fictional reporter and a role model to scores of aspiring female journalists, whose run in syndicated newspapers officially ended on January 2, 2011, is available again, now in a deluxe full color hardcover book from Hermes Press.
Press Release In preparing the library edition of fantasy cartoonist Gray Morrow’s long-lost adult masterpiece Orion, from the pages of Heavy Metal magazine, Hermes Press has decided to include Morrow’s other distinctive creator-owned book: Edge of Chaos, originally published in 1983 by Pacific Comics.
Press Release I SPY, the groundbreaking espionage show, finds it next mission at Hermes Press. I SPY: The Complete Series reprints all six issues of the Gold Key comics, with stories by the prolific Paul S. Newman and art by Alden McWilliams for the first five issues, and Mike Roy for the sixth.