 | The Contract with God Trilogy: Life on Dropsie Avenue (Will Eisner Library) by W Eisner
Buy new: £11.78 / Used from: £9.50 A Contract With God, is the magnum opus of Will Eisner, who was to comic books what Walt Disney was to animation. Rarely do comic books show so much heart. No other artist comes close.
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 | A Land Apart from Time (Dinotopia (HarperCollins)) by James Gurney
Buy used from: £24.83 Dinotopia - one of the most beautiful picture books you will ever read, painting to stagger and amaze, a world entire, and at its heart, a touching story about father and son.
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 | Tintin in Tibet (Tintin) by Herge
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £2.46 Every Tintin book is a work of art - ever noticed every page ends on a cliffhanger? Start here.
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 | The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
Buy new: £10.99 / Used from: £8.99 Maus is a peerless, graphic novel based on the experience of a Jewish Holocaust survivor - a work of art that transcends the form. Read it and weep.
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 | Somewhere Within the Shadows (Blacksad) by Joan Diaz Canales
Buy used from: £39.63 Blacksad - the story of a panther detective finding his ex-lover's killer in an urban jungle. Some of the best anthropomorphic art ever.
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 | The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: v. 2 by Alan Moore
Buy new: £6.26 / Used from: £4.09 Both 'LoEG' are terrific, but the second book is searing and unforgettable; the attack on Mars, Doctor Moreau's creations and the Hyde v.s. Invisible Man showdown. No contest.
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 | Absolute Watchmen by Alan Moore
Buy new: £52.50 The greatest edition of arguably the Greatest Superhero Comic Book of All Time.
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 | Streak of Chalk (ComicsLit) by Miguelanxo Prado
Buy new: £7.69 / Used from: £7.58 Miguelanxo Prado dreams up a summer storm. Breathtaking visual art allied with the most original, surreal yarn for yonks. Don't be denied a slice of Paradise.
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 | The Sandman: Dream Country (The Sandman) by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £5.99 Dream Country, 2 out of 4 stories in this book are among the greatest campfire stories ever told, in book #3 of the cult Sandman series.
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 | Blankets by Craig Thompson
Buy new: £12.99 / Used from: £10.00 Blankets is an autobiographical coming of age story of someone breaking away and breaking through.
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 | 300 by Frank Miller
Buy new: £12.99 / Used from: £7.80 Frank Miller's best - the simply-told history of the 300 Spartans who defended the road to Greece from an invading Persian army. Powerful, unforgetable imagery.
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 | Strangehaven: Conspiracies (Strangehaven volume 3) by Gary Spencer Millidge
Buy new: £6.59 / Used from: £5.92 Great British Weirdness: 'Strangehaven III; Conspiracies' is the best, but the first two must be read to enjoy Conspiracies & Kingdom Come is the stand out story.
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 | Kingdom Come: Absolute Edition (Absolute) by Mark Waid
Buy used from: £30.19 The End-Times for a whole raft of superheroes; Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman, all drawn by industry leviathan Alex Ross.
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 | Palestine by Joe Sacco
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £6.60 The graphic novel as a polemic, political documentary of a people, a place and a troubled time.
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 | V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
Buy new: £10.19 / Used from: £6.99 Another terrific story from Alan Moore, Britain's greatest writer; vivacious, verbose and victorious.
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 | Spiderman (Spider-Man (Marvel Hardcover)) by Jeph Loeb
Buy new: £10.15 / Used from: £9.47 Spiderman classic, hearkening back to a thematically simple time.
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 | 100 Bullets: First Shot, Last Call (100 Bullets) by Brian Azzarello
Buy new: £4.19 / Used from: £4.68 Start at the beginning for the greatest criminal tale in the medium. Makes the Borgias look like the Waltons.
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 | Bone: One volume collection: Vol 1 (Bone Series): 1 (Bone Series) by Jeff Smith
Buy new: £16.43 / Used from: £15.31 The doorstop-sized complete works of Bone - original and iconic, not to be missed.
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 | The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
Buy used from: £0.33 The Hobbit graphic novel, elegantly condensed and beautifully drawn.
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 | We3 by Frank Quitely
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.95 Beautiful and brutal, check 3's famous last words, 'Uh oh' - maybe the most brutal frame in comica. Grant Morrison scripts and Frank Quitely draws. Once seen, never forgotten.
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 | From Hell by Alan Moore
Buy new: £15.99 / Used from: £13.67 Alan Moore's fictional, frightening take on the Ripper slayings, Victorian London and the turning of the century, vividly illustrated by Eddie Campbell.
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 | Batman: The Chalice (Batman) by Chuck Dixon
Buy used from: £3.24 Short and sweet - outstanding artwork by John Van Fleet & a generous cast of villains.
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 | "Commando": True Brit: The Toughest 12 "Commando" Books Ever! by George Low
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £4.74 The classic British comic strip Commando, for many, a childhood nostalgia trip with war stories galore.
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 | Conan: Frost Giant's Daughter and Other Stories v. 1 (Conan (Graphic Novels)): Frost Giant's Daughter and Other Stories v. 1 (Conan (Dark Horse)) by Kurt Busiek
Buy new: £4.42 / Used from: £4.70 New and improved Conan - worth buying solely for 'The Frost Giant's Daughter' artwork.
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 | The "Broons" and "Oor Wullie": The Golden Years: Vol 12 (Annual)
Buy used from: £1.45 Jings! Crivvens! Help ma boab! It's Oor Wullie and the Broons, twa books for the price o' wan! Whit a bargain!
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