By Torsten Adair
The following is a selection of new comics titles due to be published in October 2010. This list is not comprehensive, as there are over 275 books scheduled. These are just the titles which caught my eye. If you would like to browse forthcoming comic strip books at your leisure, click here. Instead, I have selected titles which caught my interest. These are not necessarily titles I will purchase, but which I will definitely look at once they arrive at my local comics shop or bookstore.
Please be advised that publication dates are not set in stone, titles may change, and covers may be altered. Also, your local comics shop might receive copies before your local neighborhood website or library. Clicking on the publisher’s name will link to the publisher’s website, sometimes to the exact title. Clicking the ISBN-13 (also known as the Bookland EAN) will take you to the title as featured on BarnesAndNoble.com . I consider my tastes to be rather eclectic. If you feel I’ve neglected or slighted a title, publisher, or creator, please feel free to mention it in the comments below. Yes, you may promote your own work, but please include the ISBN for easy searching (and shopping!)
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Astro City: The Dark Age Book Two
by Kurt Busiek, Alex Ross (Illustrator), Brent Anderson (Illustrator)
- $ 29.99
- Pub. Date: October 2010
- Publisher: DC Comics
- Format: Hardcover, 240pp
- ISBN-13: 9781401228439
- ISBN: 1401228437
Absolute All Star Superman
by Frank Quitely, Grant Morrison, Neal Adams
- $ 99.99
- Pub. Date: October 2010
- Publisher: DC Comics
- Format: Hardcover, 320pp
- ISBN-13: 9781401229177
- ISBN: 1401229174
Tunes: A Graphic History of Rock ‘n’ Roll
by Vincent Brunner (Editor), Mathias Malzieu (Foreword by)
- $ 24.95
- Pub. Date: October 2010
- Publisher: Rizzoli
- Format: Paperback, 240pp
- ISBN-13: 9780789322005
- ISBN: 0789322005
Che Guevara: A Manga Biography
by Chie Shimano, Kiyoshi Konno
- $ 15.00
- Pub. Date: October 2010
- Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
- Format: Paperback, 192pp
- ISBN-13: 9780143118169
- ISBN: 0143118161
The Peanuts Collection: Treasures from the World’s Most Beloved Comic Strip
by Nat Gertler
- $ 35.00
- Pub. Date: October 2010
- Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
- Format: Hardcover, 64pp
- ISBN-13: 9780316086103
- ISBN: 031608610X
You’ll Never Know Book Two: “Collateral Damage”
by C. Tyler
- $ 24.99
- Pub. Date: October 2010
- Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
- Format: Hardcover, 104pp
- ISBN-13: 9781606994184
- ISBN: 1606994182
Stephen King’s N
by Frederic L’Homme (Text by), Alex Maleev (Illustrator)
- $ 24.99
- Pub. Date: October 2010
- Publisher: Marvel Enterprises, Inc.
- Format: Hardcover, 112pp
- ISBN-13: 9780785134534
- ISBN: 0785134530
- Edition Description: Premiere HC
DC Super Heroes: the Ultimate Pop-up Book
by DC Comics Staff, Matthew Reinhart
- $ 250.00
- Pub. Date: October 2010
- Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
- Format: Other Format, 12pp (Signed and numbered, this special edition also features a cloth slipcase and an exclusive extra pop)
- Age Range: 4 to 12
- ISBN-13: 9780316122375
- ISBN: 0316122378
DC Super Heroes: the Ultimate Pop-up Book
by DC Comics Staff, Matthew Reinhart
- $ 29.99
- Pub. Date: October 2010
- Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
- Format: Other Format, 12pp
- Sales Rank: 101,149
- Age Range: 4 to 12
- ISBN-13: 9780316019989
- ISBN: 0316019984
Star Trek: Leonard McCoy Frontier Doctor
by John Byrne, John Byrne (Artist)
- $ 17.99
- Pub. Date: October 2010
- Publisher: Idea & Design Works, LLC
- Format: Paperback, 104pp
- ISBN-13: 9781600107481
- ISBN: 1600107486
X’ed Out
by Charles Burns
- $ 19.95
- Pub. Date: October 2010
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Format: Hardcover, 56pp
- ISBN-13: 9780307379139
- ISBN: 0307379132
DC Comics Year by Year
by Daniel Wallace, Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff
- $ 50.00
- Pub. Date: October 2010
- Publisher: DK Publishing, Inc.
- Format: Hardcover, 352pp
- Sales Rank: 724,334
- ISBN-13: 9780756667429
- ISBN: 0756667429
Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics
by Hillary L. Chute
- $ 79.50
- Pub. Date: October 2010
- Publisher: Columbia University Press
- Format: Hardcover, 352pp
- Series: Gender and Culture Series
- ISBN-13: 9780231150620
- ISBN: 0231150628
Six Novels in Woodcuts
by Lynd Ward (Illustrator), Art Spiegelman (Editor)
- $ 70.00
- Pub. Date: October 2010
- Publisher: Library of America
- Format: Hardcover, 1408pp
- Sales Rank: 147,911
- ISBN-13: 9781598530827
- ISBN: 1598530828
Power Girl Volume 2: Aliens & Apes
by Justin Gray, Jimmy Palmiotti, Amanda Conner
- $ 17.99
- Pub. Date: October 2010
- Publisher: DC Comics
- Format: Paperback, 144pp
- ISBN-13: 9781401229108
- ISBN: 1401229107
Popeye: Strong to the Finish: The Great Comic Book Tales of Bud Sagendorf
by Bud Sagendorf, Bud Sagendorf (Artist)
- $ 29.99
- Pub. Date: October 2010
- Publisher: Idea & Design Works, LLC
- Format: Hardcover, 176pp
- ISBN-13: 9781600107474
- ISBN: 1600107478
Art of Jim Starlin
by Jim Starlin (Artist), Jim Starlin
- $ 49.99
- Pub. Date: October 2010
- Publisher: Idea & Design Works, LLC
- Format: Hardcover, 312pp
- ISBN-13: 9781600107702
- ISBN: 1600107702
Graphic NYC Presents: Dean Haspiel: The Early Years
by Dean Haspiel (Artist), Dean Haspiel, Christopher Irving
- $ 19.99
- Pub. Date: October 2010
- Publisher: Idea & Design Works, LLC
- Format: Paperback, 192pp
- ISBN-13: 9781600108259
- ISBN: 1600108253
Looney Tunes Treasury: Includes Amazing Interactive Treasures from the Warner Bros. Vault!
by Andrew Farago, Ruth Clampett
- $ 45.00
- Pub. Date: October 2010
- Publisher: Running Press Book Publishers
- Format: Hardcover, 144pp
- ISBN-13: 9780762440443
- ISBN: 0762440449
Blondie, Volume 1
by Chic Young (Artist), Chic Young
- $ 49.99
- Pub. Date: October 2010
- Publisher: Idea & Design Works, LLC
- Format: Hardcover, 280pp
- ISBN-13: 9781600107405
- ISBN: 1600107400
Girl Comics
by Stephanie Buscema, Trina Robbins, Devin Grayson, Ann Nocenti, G. Willow Wilson
- $ 19.99
- Pub. Date: October 2010
- Publisher: Marvel Enterprises, Inc.
- Format: Hardcover, 136pp
- Age Range: Young Adult
- ISBN-13: 9780785147923
- ISBN: 0785147926
The Best American Comics
by Neil Gaiman (Editor), Matt Madden (Editor), Jessica Abel (Editor
- $ 23.00
- Pub. Date: October 2010
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Format: Hardcover, 329pp
- Series: The Best American Series
- ISBN-13: 9780547241777
- ISBN: 0547241771
Fire & Water: Bill Everett, the Sub-Mariner and the Birth of Marvel Comics
by Blake Bell
- $ 39.99
- Pub. Date: October 2010
- Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
- Format: Hardcover, 216pp
- ISBN-13: 9781606991664
- ISBN: 1606991663
From Shadow to Light: The Life & Art of Mort Meskin
by Steven Brower
- $ 39.99
- Pub. Date: October 2010
- Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
- Format: Hardcover, 220pp
- ISBN-13: 9781606993583
- ISBN: 1606993585
Robert Crumb’s Sex Obsessions
by Dian Hanson (Editor), Robert Crumb (Illustrator)
- $ 29.99
- Pub. Date: October 2010
- Publisher: Taschen America, LLC
- Format: Hardcover, 256pp
- Sales Rank: 130,065
- ISBN-13: 9783836516495
- ISBN: 3836516497
- $ 700.00
- Pub. Date: December 2007
- Publisher: Taschen America, LLC
- Format: Hardcover, 258pp
- ISBN-13: 9783822825402
- ISBN: 3822825409
- Edition Description: Limited; Not Appropriate For Children
[From the publisher’s website: “This signed limited edition of 1,000 copies is a work of art in itself, with every part of the book—front and back covers, spine, and introductory pages—created for this project by Robert Crumb. Each book also comes with an art print selected by Mr. Crumb (frame not included).”]
Super-Powered Word Study: Teaching Words and Word Parts through Comics
by James Bucky Carter, Erik Evensen (Illustrator)
- $ 29.99
- Pub. Date: October 2010
- Publisher: Maupin House Publishing
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN-13: 9781934338827
- ISBN: 1934338826
Archie Marries . . .
by Michael Uslan, Bob Smith (Illustrator), Stan Goldberg (Illustrator)
- $ 24.95
- Pub. Date: October 2010
- Publisher: Abrams, Harry N., Inc.
- Format: Hardcover, 208pp
- ISBN-13: 9780810996205
- ISBN: 0810996200
Best Erotic Comics Volume 3: Sweet Meat, Strange Spice
by Greta Christina (Editor)
- $ 19.95
- Pub. Date: October 2010
- Publisher: Last Gasp of San Francisco
- Format: Paperback, 200pp
- ISBN-13: 9780867197365
- ISBN: 0867197366
Drawn and Dangerous: Italian Comics of the 1970s and 1980s
by Simone Castaldi
- $ 40.00
- Pub. Date: August 2010
- Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
- Format: Hardcover, 160pp
- ISBN-13: 9781604737493
- ISBN: 1604737492
Thanks for posting your thoughts, I had forgotten about the Leonard McCoy mini and will probably add that to my Amazon wishlist! JB always brings the goods and can’t wait to see the return of “Next Men” as well.
Well, I try not to comment, since I’ve not seen most of these books. I did read most of the McCoy minis, and Byrne seems ideally suited to the Star Trek universe (likenesses, creating new aliens, designing fantastic architecture, and crafting engaging stories). That these stories take place right before the first motion picture make it even more fun. (Ooops…I used the “F” word!)
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