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| TABOO #1 |
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1988,
Full-color painted cover
112 pages, b&w
$30 postpaid US;
foreign order $35 postpaid.
Quantities are EXTREMELY limited. |
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FROM STEVE BISSETTE! |
It all started here!
Horrific painted cover by
Bissette, back cover by Rolf Stark; introduction by Clive Barker.
Stories and art by Bissette,
Alan Moore and Bill Wray, Tom Sniegoski and Mike Hoffman, Bernie Mireault,
Jack Butterworth and Cam Kennedy, Chester Brown, Greg Irons, "Kitty Killer
Kids" by S. Clay Wilson, "Scarecrow" by Charles Vess, Eddie Campbell's
first "Pyjama Girl" true-crime tale, and the notorious "Chigger and the
Man" by Keith Giffen & Robert Loren Fleming. |
PLUS: Charles
Burns' seminal "Contagious," honored as one of the top comics narratives
of the decade and precursor to Burns' current series BLACK HOLE;
and the first installment
of Tim Lucas & Mike Hoffman's renowned "Throat Sprockets." |
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| TABOO #2 |
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1989,
Full-color painted cover
144 pages, b&w
QUANTITIES ARE EXTREMELY LIMITED!!
$30 postpaid;
foreign orders $36 postpaid. |
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FEW LEFT--
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Painted cover by John Totleben,
back cover by Charles Lang.
This was the first issue
to truly live up to its title: rejected by production houses, printers,
and binders, banned by Canadian and British customs! |
This most-sought-after
of all TABOOs is also the hardest-to-find due to defective bindings (all
copies shipped with solid bindings, but handle them with care!) and its
collector's stature as the debut showcase of Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's
justifiably famed serialized graphic novel FROM HELL.
Along with the first TWO
installments of FROM HELL (Prologue and Chapter One) and Alan Moore's lovely
two-color FROM HELL inside back cover illustration, this chilling issue
features stories and art by Bissette, Clive Barker, Paul Chadwick, S. Clay
Wilson, Richard Sala, Michael Zulli, Bernie Mireault, Rick Grimes, Tom
Marnick, Mark Askwith and Rick Taylor, and many more. |
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| TABOO #3 |
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1989,
Full-color painted cover
128 pages, b&w
$25 postpaid;
foreign orders $30 postpaid.
Quantities are EXTREMELY limited. |
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Unnerving painted cover
by Michael Zulli, back cover by Simoneda Perica-Uth; full-color inside
covers by Rolf Stark and another FROM HELL portrait by Alan Moore.
FROM HELL continues, along
with Tim Lucas and Mike Hoffman's remarkable "Throat Sprockets" and Rolf
Stark's harrowing "Love in the Afternoon," which inspired (and was featured
in) Stark's subsequent graphic novel RAIN. |
| Also: Moebius,
Rick Grimes, Rick Veitch and Jack Weiner, Glen Dakin and Phil Elliott,
Jim Wheelock's "One Good Trick," Bernie Mireault's "Poker Face," and more.
More customs seizures compromised distribution of this issue, though it's
interesting to note that New Zealand seized and then approved TABOO (for
adults only) after a full assessment of its contents. |
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PLEASE NOTE: Due to the lack of cover lamination,
many copies of this issue suffered some wear on the back
covers.
Orders are accepted and shipped AS IS.
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| TABOO #4 |
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1990,
Full-color painted cover
168 pages, b&w.
$20.00 postpaid. |
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Full-color cover by Moebius
sets off over 160 pages of ground-breaking horror from around the world.
Neil Gaiman and Michael
Zulli propose a new kind of infant formula in "Baby Cakes"...
Elaine Lee and Charles Vess
stage a young girl's mystical "coming of age" in the deep forests of "Morrigan
Tales"...
Mark Askwith and Rick Taylor
carry Little Nemo kicking and screaming into the nightmarish realm of "Davey's
Dream"... |
Tim Lucas and
Steven Blue give a new spin to the Roy Orbison standby "Blue Angel"...
and much, much more!
Special "yellow pages" offer
the first and only English language reprint of the rare Moebius masterpiece
"Eyes of the Cat," written by renowned author and film director Alejandro
Jodorowsky (The Holy Mountain, Santa Sangre), accompanied by exclusive
interviews with the creators, articles on the making of the story, and
Spain's never-before-reprinted underground comix adaptation of Jodorowsky's
midnight movie classic, El Topo. |
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| TABOO #5 |
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1991,
Full-color covers
130 pages, b&w
Just $22 US postpaid, foreign $30,
while the supply lasts.
Quantities are limited. |
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One of the best issues ever,
sandwiched between an eerie painted front cover by Jeff Jones and back
cover by Michael Zulli-- plus full-color interior covers by Melinda Gebbie
(a lovely LOST GIRLS portrait) and Rolf Stark, and a new introduction by
Douglas E. Winter, illustrated by Clive Barker.
Two new series debuted this
issue: Jeff Nicholson's Kafkaesque THROUGH THE HABITRAILS (launched with
three full chapters), and Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie's ambitious full-color
LOST GIRLS. |
Moore and Campbell's
FROM HELL continues; novelist James Ellroy introduces Tom Marnick and Dennis
Ellefson's truly horrific Black Dahlia narrative "39th and Norton"; Michael
Zulli lavishly adapts Ramsey Campbell's terrifying short story "Again";
P.J. Kenyon and S. Clay Wilson's offer a vivid snapshot of depraved love,
obsession, and dire consequences in the aptly-named "This Is Dynamite";
illustrated poetry and verse by Jeff Jones, Michael Price, and Adrian Martinez;
Mark Nelson monsters; more Rick Grimes weirdness; and Matt Howarth's "Baby's
On Fire."
This was the first of four
issues co-published with Tundra Publishing, considerably enhancing TABOO's
already high production and printing standards. This is also when TABOO's
circulation dropped due to ongoing customs busts and the subsequent Canadian
and UK distributors' decision to cease carrying the title. This issue,
too, was seized and passed (for adult readers only) by New Zealand customs. |
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| TABOO #6 |
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1992,
Full-color cover
122 pages
$25 US postpaid,
$30 foreign.
Quantities are VERY limited. |
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Surreal front cover by Cru
Zen and disturbing back cover by Mark Martin frame another fine issue,
featuring Charles Burns' previously-unpublished photo fumetti (and first-ever
comics narrative work) "The Cat Woman Returns." Plus: Neil Gaiman and Nancy
(now Marlene) O'Connor's portrait of domestic bliss "Blood Monster," and
(then) five-year old Holly Gaiman's "Holly's Story," dreamily delineated
by the one and only Michael Zulli; |
| more illness
from Rick Grimes and S. Clay Wilson; Moore and Campbell's FROM HELL, Moore
and Gebbie's LOST GIRLS (two chapters in full color), and Jeff Nicholson's
THROUGH THE HABITRAILS continue.
NOTE: SpiderBaby's small
backstock of this issue is shrink-wrapped with the rare 16-page promotional
"Sweeney Todd Penny Dreadful" by Neil Gaiman and Michael Zulli, a unique
booklet detailing and introducing their (never completed) serialized graphic
novel SWEENEY TODD. This promotional item was initially shipped with pre-ordered
copies ONLY. This is a rare opportunity. Don't hesitate -- order TODAY! |
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| TABOO #7 |
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1992,
Full-color covers
158 pages
$22 US postpaid,
$30 foreign.
Quantities are extremely limited. |
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Jarring Joe Coleman cover
and brain-sizzling Brian Sendelbach back cover bracket this bonanza of
bone-chilling bile.
The first and only installment
of Neil Gaiman and Michael Zulli's SWEENEY TODD highlights this final SpiderBaby/Tundra
issue of TABOO, marking the end of the grand experiment the very year TABOO
won the Eisner Award for Best Anthology (after being nominated three years
in a row). |
Also terminated
prematurely were the ongoing series featured here: Moore and Campbell's
FROM HELL (continued and concluded by Kitchen Sink), Moore and Gebbie's
LOST GIRLS (still lost: reprinted, but as yet uncontinued, by Kitchen Sink),
and Jeff Nicholson's excellent THROUGH THE HABITRAILS (completed and self-published
by Jeff as a graphic novel).
Also in this "monster" issue:
Kenneth Smith's adaptation
of Franz Kafka's "Odradek"; Joe Coleman's "A Good Christian"; Jack Butterworth
and Eric Vincent's "Bad Things"; David Thorpe and Aidan Potts' AFTERLIFE
interlude, "Marquis My Love" (intended as the launch of another series,
which indeed continued in TABOO #9); Rick Grimes, P. Foerster, and more.
NOTE: The remaining SpiderBaby
stock of TABOO #7 is the special pre-order expanded edition featuring Bissette's
24-page 24-Hour-Comic "A Life In Black and White." Due to a completely
inexplicable Tundra marketing scheme, this extra did not appear in 2000
copies of this issue. Get it while you can! |
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