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You think you've read everything about Hollywood? Think Again!> Follow the adventures of two former members of Roosevelt's Rough Riders cavalry, who arrive in Hollywood in 1913 and find themselves caught in the web of a dangerous new world. As the first Sicilian mobsters make their way to the City of Angels, the two heroes find themselves recruited as mercenaries for> With its action-packed narrative and exciting new historical setting, Sunshi...

It all begins with a generation of artists who view their life's work as dismal failures and a waste of that life...in service to a medium that refuses to die, grinding its way through generation after generation...until it collides with creatives who can't even begin to imagine why anyone would ever want to do anything else. This is the history of comic books, alongside the misbegotten midwife whose growth, whose refusal to truly grow, serves...

Graphically experimental, narratively daring and visually explosive, HowardChaykinâEUR(TM)s Time2 was a work ahead of its time. Now, to commemorate theprojectâEUR(TM)s 35th anniversary with the arrival of its long-awaitedconclusion...it still is. In addition to remastered versions of thelong-out-of-print first two volumes, The Epiphany and The Satisfaction of BlackMariah, the Time2 Omnibus completes the trilogy with the new 48-page volumeHallo...

Digging deeper into the sordid, seedy, and always entertaining lives of the men and women who built the comic book business, volume two of Howard Chaykin's acclaimed Comics a clef tells the story of those who pushed the boundaries of the lowest common denominator - at their peril - and those happy enough to ride the waves others created. Along the way there's exploitation, Blaxploitation, custom toilet paper, death at the dinner table and plen...

HEY KIDS! COMICS! takes its cue from nearly a century of turbulence and triumph, despair and drama in the comics racket. Artists and writers, conmen and clowns, ganefs and gangsters, create the foundations of today’s biggest entertainment business—or at least the tail that wags the dog. Some of it really happened, and the names have been changed to protect the innocent and guilty... ...although in the end, everyone was guilty of something. Col...

An America sundered. An America enraged. An America terrified. An America shattered by greed and racism, violence and fear, nihilism and tragedy ...and that's when everything really goes to hell.

Written by the award-winning comic book creator Howard Chaykin, this story arc is collected for the first time since 1991.

It's New Year's, 1950... the end of a tumultuous decade. Lamont Cranston, the man that the world and the underworld know all too well as The Shadow, has had enough. It's time for the mysterious nemesis of crime to hang up his cloak, his slouch hat, and his twin 45s, and retire from public life.

Written and created by Howard Chaykin. A crime fighter is genetically engineered to be a super-hero -- but when the test goes awry and he doesn't have the super-hero qualities needed, he has to be teamed up with a former CIA agent who is the brains behind the duo. One gets all the glory while one has all the power.

Nearly 25 years ago, Howards Chaykin brought the '80s to a close, and comics to the brink, with his landmark erotic thriller, Black Kiss. Now, after years of anticipation, he's back with Black Kiss II, telling the story behind that legendary story -- like the original, in glorious black and white. And really, now -- does it have to be so dirty?

Joel Breakstone, a GI liberator of Buchenwald and brutally damaged goods, follows a path of vengeance that leads to redemption in a violent journey into his own heart of darkness.