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Wednesday, 29 May 2024

Manga: orientarsi nel fumetto giapponese

 


 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cinebook Ltd Newsletter 197 - May 2024

 


Dear Reader,

Welcome to a high-octane month of May, full of rip-roaring adventures, exciting motorised pursuits and the howling of engines and canines alike!

First, we have our second volume of Rin Tin Can, and the dumbest and funniest pooch in the Old West returns with a new series of dog-made disasters to unleash on those humans foolish enough to associate with him. This time, the loyal and righteous guardian of law and order ends up being mistaken for a crime boss! Oh, dear …

Next up are Spirou & Fantasio. Follow them as an encounter with a genius Russian scientist and his phenomenal invention sends them from the Champignac countryside to the plains and valleys of China on a rescue mission. Mad science, spy shenanigans, a Marsupilami in fine form … and, yes, even a nice bit of motorised mayhem for good measure – Franquin at his best!

Finally, there’s no shortage of four-wheeled fun and drama in Michel Vaillant – Legendary Races. This time, we find our driver friend preparing to face the Monaco Grand Prix, never an easy prospect, but made all the worse by a string of failures and the ensuing bout of insecurity. Don’t worry, though. Even Michel’s soul-searching moments are mostly excuses for Vincent Dutreuil to give free rein to his talent for capturing the essence of movement and speed. There’s action on the track and off it – what more could anyone ask for?

May with Cinebook – firing on all cylinders!



Michel Vaillant Legendary Races
Vincent Dutreuil & Denis Lapière

A Driver’s Soul

1971, Monaco Grand Prix. Jackie Stewart has a perfect racing weekend. Meanwhile, after a series of setbacks, Michel Vaillant is nursing doubts about his life and his career, and shares them, his feelings, and some of his racing secrets with a journalist … Read more


Rin Tin Can 2
Morris, Xavier Fauche & Jean Léturgie

The Godfather

After inadvertently thwarting a convict’s escape attempt, Rin Tin Can flees the penitentiary and ends up with two sheep herders who are being targeted by wool thieves. The robbers, Giuseppe and Aldo, are actually looking for a specific sheep skin tattooed with a treasure map … Read more


Spirou & Fantasio 21
Franquin, Jidéhem & Greg

The Prisoner of the Buddha

Spirou and Fantasio, paying the Count of Champignac a visit, discover that he is hiding an imposing visitor: a towering Russian genius who has created an anti-gravity ray. Unfortunately, the KGB is already hunting him, because he’s decided he wants to keep his invention secret … Read more


Black Mary 1
The Departed

Black Mary 2
Passage to the Hereafter

Lonesome 4
The Sorcerer’s Domain


North-American readers, to locate a comic book shop near you that stocks or can order these titles and many more, use this handy Read more 

Or, if you're a retailer yourself, please go to: Read more

Saturday, 25 May 2024

Black Tower Comics and Books Ordering -NO International Shipping

 


To make it clear: 

1.  if you order a book from the online store it does not involve international shipping. Books are printed in your region -that's how print on demand works.  

2.  The price of the book should be shown in your own currency.

3.  Obviously your local postal rates apply and there are options for tracked, special delivery and untracked (the least expensive) postage from within your region.

Ordered in your region, printed in your region and delivered by the postal system in your region.  It could not be more simple.

One important thing to note is that third party sellers will state "post free" and that is a lie. You often pay 30-75% more on a book ordered through a third party seller than from the online store. The reason is because the third party seller HAS to buy from the online store and the selling price usually covers two postal payments -0from store to them and then to you.  

People have purchased from third party sellers and not gotten their books or have had to wait over a month for them to arrive. At that point they contact me and it is all very simple: they tried to rob me of a sale and bought a book at a far more expensive price because they read "post free". That is important because if you buy from a third party seller you are removing the small profit I make on a book. Also, ordering from the online store is not just cheaper but, even though it has never happened since I started selling in 2009,  I can actually look into why you have not had your book delivered. Third party seller -your tough luck.

Support the creator and publisher not third party scammers.


I have asked to clarify which countries books can be ordered from as I know someone in Hong Kong and China were interested and it looks like you can order from there. According to the  print company:

We do NOT ship to the following countries/territories:


  • Belarus

  • Region of Crimea

  • Cuba

  • Iran

  • Johnston Island

  • North Korea

  • Russia

  • Saint Pierre Et Miquelon

  • South Sudan

  • Sudan

  • Syria

  • Republic Of Turkmenistan

  • Ukraine

  • Wake Islands

  • Yemen Arab Republic

  • Venezuela

Hope that helps!


Friday, 24 May 2024

European Release Lord Gr’asp and Terroar origins Review #actionfigures #...

Krakos: Mirror Man -A Cruel Game of the Gods




Krakos/Krakos the Egyptian & Art (c)2024 BTCG/B. R. Dilworth

 

Black Tower Super Heroes 4

 


A4
B&W
80pp
£8.00
https://www.lulu.com/shop/terry-hooper/black-tower-super-heroes-no-4-2020/paperback/product-ejq7y4.html?page=1&pageSize=4

Hot off the presses! 

Yes, the fourth issue of BTSH is here and it is so crammed full of eye boggling action that we had to use adamantium staples to keep it all together! 

Kotar, Sabuta along with Tarot and Lady Silvana face the werewolf while the Zero Heroes are in a church surrounded by zombies and what happens to "the other guy" at the end...I'm asking -what happened? 

Jack finds that he could have had a fatal dose, while The Trial continues and the mystery deepens. 

There is more -much much more! 

Blue Saviour is the cover star and a tribute to creator David A. Johnson who brightened up Bath comic marts with his Blue Saviour, Madame Mystery and Enigma comics! 

Black Tower Comics: Tales of Terror 5?

 



Terry Hooper-Scharf, Ben R. Dilworth et al

Pages 75
Binding  Perfect Bound
Interior Black & White
Dimensions A4 (8.27 x 11.69 in / 210 x 297 mm)
£8.00

https://www.lulu.com/shop/terry-hooper/tales-of-terror-5/paperback/product-nvq7mmg.html?page=1&pageSize=4

Once again the library of the Black Tower is opened and its files delved into. Robert Lovett -back from the dead for vengeance?

A mysterious case of two men falling into a strange dimension -the Black Abyss! The Living dead!
Black Tower's two sorcerers Kotar and Sabuta try to intervene in The Deadly Dilemma of Sigismund Benfrigisson!
Oh and there is more and you will sharpen your vampiric fangs, file your lycanthropic claws to razor sharpness to get this one!