Most Popular Books by Richard E. Hughes

Reprints of issues 10 and 11 of the golden age comic book Startling Comics with the first two stories of Fighting Yank.

Chased by a wax sculpture of Adolf Hitler, cursed by a snake goddess, and forced to marry an oozing swamp monster -- life has never been easy for the residents of Forbidden Worlds! Issues #9 through #14 of this wonderfully bizarre 1950s anthology of sci-fi, fantasy, and supernatural horror are collected in a deluxe hardcover, which features a new foreword from Timothy Truman (King Conan, Hawken) and contributions from Golden Age creators King Ward, Harry Lazarus, Charlie Sultan, Jon Blummer, and others. When a skeleton is driving your subway car, you know you''re on your way to Forbidden Worlds!

Microscopic Roman centurions? Elderly ghosts clobbering gangsters? A haunted vintage of French wine? No conceit is too strange for Forbidden Worlds, the playfully bizarre anthology series that hit newsstands in 1951 and continued for 145 outlandish issues! Comic-book giants Al Williamson, Wally Wood, Frank Frazetta, and Ogden Whitney helped to illustrate these pre-Comics Code gems! Issues #1 to #4 of the rare and fascinating Forbidden Worlds are now gathered into an archival hardcover, featuring the first in a series of introductory essays by comic-book historian and connoisseur of the obscure, Dan Nadel (Art Out of Time: Unknown Comics Visionaries, 1900-1969)!

What do a fifty-foot-tall telepathic merman, a typewriter possessed by Satan, and a demented ringmaster who attaches human heads to circus animals have in common? Nothing, perhaps? Well, except that they all appeared in Forbidden Worlds, the weird and wonderful anthology of science fiction and supernatural fantasy that ran from the early 1950s into the late 1960s. Issues #5 through #8 of this enchanting and bizarre series are collected in a deluxe archival hardcover, which features a foreword by comics historian Dan Nadel (Art Out of Time), early art by Al Williamson and Roy Krenkel, and more demons, robots, and Atomic Age thrills than you can cram through an interdimensional portal!

Unlikely superhero Herbie Popnecker, whose father doesn''t believe in him, uses his collection of supernatural lollipops to battle monsters, bend time and space, and defeat Fidel Castro.

Vietnam, 1965: US Army Private First Class Tom Cargill seemed like most soldiers to the men in his squad, but little did they know that he was, in truth, an immortal! More than two hundred years old, the son of the alchemist and sorcerer Cagliostro, Tom Cargill was the most powerful magician in the world. When Red Chinese soldiers threatened American lives in Vietnam, Cargill donned a mask and costume to battle evil as the supernatural superhero Magicman! Whether overseas at war or in the homeland against mad scientists and alien invaders from outer space, Magicman used his powers to fight for justice wherever evil and terror reigned!