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The Monkees Comic Book Book releases on September 12, 2026. Order yours today!

You thought you knew The Monkees. Then there were the comic books.

At the height of Monkeemania, Davy, Micky, Mike, and Peter escaped television and landed in a medium with an even looser relationship with reality.

The result was The Monkees comic-book series: gloriously strange adventures filled with disguises, spies, sharks, cows, elephants, impossible escapes, fourth-wall-breaking gags, instant changes of scenery, and the kind of logic that makes perfect sense only when The Monkees are involved.

Now that wonderfully peculiar corner of Monkees history has been brought back together in The Monkees Comic Book Book: Reference Book and Price Guide.

The original comics have been carefully digitally restored, reviving their bright colors and exuberant artwork while preserving the character of the originals. But this is more than a trip through vintage panels.

It's also a collector's guide to the series, including a complete price guide to the original comics, background on collecting them, and a timeline placing the comic releases alongside what was happening in the world of The Monkees at the time.

Along the way, you'll also find:

• the story of collecting the original Monkees comics
• an extensive interview with legendary Monkees comic artist Jose Delbo
• a complete price guide for the original issues
• a timeline connecting the comics to the larger Monkees story
• memories and commentary from people connected to The Monkees, comics, television, music, and 1960s pop culture
• a foreword by Peter Noone
• contributions and appearances from Bobby Hart, Butch Patrick, Deana Martin, Bill Mumy, James Lee Stanley, Jon Provost, and many more
• photographs, memorabilia, history, and several delightful detours that could probably happen only in a book about The Monkees

Authors Mark Arnold and Charles F. Rosenay!!! previously teamed up for Not Just Happy Together: The Turtles from A-Z (AM Radio to Zappa), their sprawling guide to the music, history, personalities, and wonderfully tangled universe surrounding The Turtles. Here, they bring that same collector's curiosity to one of the most unusual corners of Monkees history.

This is not an attempt to make The Monkees comic books more dignified than they were.

Quite the opposite.

It's a chance to enjoy them again in all their colorful, corny, chaotic, fourth-wall-demolishing glory while preserving the history around them and giving collectors a practical guide to the originals.

Part restored comic collection, part reference book, part price guide, part pop-culture time machine, The Monkees Comic Book Book is exactly as strange, useful, and specific as its title suggests.

Paperback edition.

Baseball's Greatest Generation releases September 29, 2026. Order yours today. 

Baseball’s greatest generation did more than change the game. It helped change the country. 

Between 1952 and 1960, an extraordinary class of players transformed Major League Baseball. Jackie Robinson, Willie Mays, Henry Aaron, Roberto Clemente, Mickey Mantle, Frank Robinson, Ernie Banks, and their contemporaries rose to greatness as baseball integrated, the Civil Rights Movement gathered force, and Topps baseball cards became a defining part of American childhood.

Veteran journalist and sports-card historian T.S. O’Connell traces those three histories together, pairing each year with a defining player, the struggle for integration beyond the ballpark, and the cards that carried baseball’s new heroes into millions of homes.

For children opening wax packs, Black and White stars appeared on equal pieces of cardboard, measured by the same statistics and worthy of the same admiration. The cards did not end racism. But they helped a generation imagine integration before much of America was prepared to live it.

Featuring O’Connell’s original illustrations and six paintings by baseball artist Charles DeSimone, Baseball’s Greatest Generation tells the story of the players, cards, and cultural transformation that made the 1950s baseball’s most consequential era.

The greatest players had the greatest baseball cards to prove it, and together they helped America see a different future.

Thirtieth Anniversary Edition of the first book to expose the Titanic cover-up.

Over 500 pages, illustrated, thoroughly indexed, with a full color hardcover option, this is the book TITANIC aficionados have been waiting to own for 30 years.

In over 100 years there have been literally thousands of books written on the catastrophic maiden voyage of the RMS TITANIC. And yet, questions, myths, and lies still persist about that fateful night.

• Why was the TITANIC on a route that put her in the most perilous of ice-congested sea lanes? 
• Why did TITANIC choose not to launch regulation distress rockets in her effort to summon help? 
• Why did TITANIC turn away a German ship in favor of a British rescuer?
• How did a fire in the ship’s forward bunkers impact the structural integrity of the ship?
• Above all, how did an impending World War and the deteriorating relationships between Britain, Germany, and the United States—largely over the merchant domination of the world’s shipping lanes—set forth an unbreakable chain of events that put the TITANIC two and a half miles beneath the surface of the North Atlantic, taking her captain, her logbook, and the truth with her? 

As TITANIC: Sinking the Myths meticulously demonstrates, the real root cause of the disaster was greed, multiplied by an imperative schedule, and wrapped up in a conspiracy to cover up White Star’s policy to put profits over the lives of the passengers.

Thirty years ago, in this book’s first edition, Diana Bristow unraveled the myths to give the original, no-stone-unturned account of the events that led up to—and followed—the sinking of the TITANIC. Bristow goes right to the heart and source of the campaign of deception that served only one purpose, to protect J.P. Morgan, the White Star Line, and all their investors from astronomical liability and financial ruin if the captain, crew, or management were found negligent in the events that led to the sinking of the TITANIC. Never before had any researcher ever so deeply studied the rules, laws, regulations, and economic and political factors that ultimately led to the deaths of 1,500 people. 

Bristow’s long-sought-after book, out of print for thirty years, is now presented here in an updated edition.

Once you’ve read TITANIC: Sinking the Myths, you will understand why it’s the first—and last—book you ever need to read about the most infamous maritime disaster in peacetime history.