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Adventure Genre

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Books in the Adventure genre:

A Conspiracy of Kings (2010)

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Sophos, heir to the King of Sounis, finds himself a field slave on the estate of his father’s enemy.

Author(s): Megan Whalen Turner
Illustrator(s): Vince Natale

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Moomin Volume 5 (2010)

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After the success of Comet in Moominland and Finn Family Moomintroll, the London Evening News commissioned Tove Jansson to write a comic strip based on the characters.... View More

Author(s): Lars Jansson
Tove Jansson
Illustrator(s): Tove Jansson

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Prince Valiant Volume 2 1939-1940 (2010)

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This second volume includes the strips covering 1939 to 1940. This popular adventure strip, set in the days of King Arthur was written and drawn by Hal Foster from 1937 to 1971. For almost all of the run it was a full-page strip.... View More

Author(s): Hal Foster
Illustrator(s): Hal Foster

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Al Capp’s Li’l Abner The Complete Dailies and Color Sundays Volume Three 1939-1940 (2011)

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This reprinting includes both the daily strips and the color Sunday strips.

Author(s): Al Capp
Illustrator(s): Al Capp
Et al

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The Complete Little Orphan Annie Volume Seven Daily and Sunday Comics 1936-1938 (2011)

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This is the seventh volume in the reprinting of the complete Little Orphan Annie comic strip and includes the daily strips and Sunday strips in color from 1936-1937.

Author(s): Harold Gray
Illustrator(s): Harold Gray

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E. C. Segar’s Popeye Volume 5 (2011)

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This volume reprints the Thimble Theater dailies and color Sunday strips from 1936 to 1937. Popeye the Sailor appeared for the first time in the daily strip on January 17, 1929.

Author(s): E. C. Segar
Illustrator(s): E. C. Segar

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Lost in the Andes Volume 7 (2011)

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The first story in this full color collection by Barks takes the intrepid adventurers to the land of square eggs. For a preview go to Fantagraphics.... View More

Author(s): Carl Barks
Illustrator(s): Carl Barks

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Moomin Volume 6 (2011)

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After the success of Comet in Moominland and Finn Family Moomintroll, the London Evening News commissioned Tove Jansson to write a comic strip based on the characters.... View More

Author(s): Lars Jansson
Illustrator(s): Lars Jansson

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Prince Valiant Volume 3 1941-1942 (2011)

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This third volume includes the strips covering 1941 to 1942. This popular adventure strip, set in the days of King Arthur was written and drawn by Hal Foster from 1937 to 1971. For almost all of the run it was a full page strip.... View More

Author(s): Hal Foster
Illustrator(s): Hal Foster

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Robinson Crusoe (2011)

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First published is 1719, this account of ‘eight and twenty years, all alone on an uninhabited island on the coast of America’ was based on the experiences of Alexander Selkirk, who was marooned on an island in the Pacific Ocean.While most... View More

Author(s): Daniel Defoe
Illustrator(s): George Cruikshank

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Al Capp’s Li’l Abner The Complete Dailies and Color Sundays Volume Five 1943-1944 (2012)

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This reprinting includes both the daily strips and the color Sunday strips.

Author(s): Al Capp
Illustrator(s): Al Capp
Et al

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Al Capp’s Li’l Abner The Complete Dailies and Color Sundays Volume Four 1941-1942 (2012)

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This reprinting includes both the daily strips and the color Sunday strips.

Author(s): Al Capp
Illustrator(s): Al Capp
Et al

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Cheerful: A Picture-Story (2012)

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A young church mouse sets out to see the world.

Author(s): Palmer Brown
Illustrator(s): Palmer Brown

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A Christmas for Shacktown Volume 11 (2012)

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This volume of full color comics by Carl Barks leads off with a classic story of Scrooge’s fortune lost and found again. For a preview go to Fantagraphics.... View More

Author(s): Carl Barks
Illustrator(s): Carl Barks

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The Complete Little Orphan Annie Volume Eight Daily and Sunday Comics 1938-1940 (2012)

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This is the eighth volume in the reprinting of the complete Little Orphan Annie comic strip and includes the daily strips and Sunday strips in color from 1938-1940.

Author(s): Harold Gray
Illustrator(s): Harold Gray

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The Complete Steve Canyon Dailies and Color Sundays Volume 1 1947-1948 (2012)

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This is the first volume in a reprinting of the adventure strip written and drawn by Milton Caniff beginning in 1947 until his death in 1988 and includes the dailies and color Sundays.... View More

Author(s): Milton Caniff
Illustrator(s): Milton Caniff

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E. C. Segar’s Popeye Volume 6 (2012)

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This volume reprints the Thimble Theater dailies and color Sunday strips from 1937 to 1938. Popeye the Sailor appeared for the first time in the daily strip on January 17, 1929.

Author(s): E. C. Segar
Illustrator(s): E. C. Segar

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Moomin Volume 7 (2012)

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After the success of Comet in Moominland and Finn Family Moomintroll, the London Evening News commissioned Tove Jansson to write a comic strip based on the characters.... View More

Author(s): Lars Jansson
Illustrator(s): Lars Jansson

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The Moomins and the Great Flood (2012)

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In this, the very first Moomin book, Moominmamma and Moomintroll search for the missing Moominpappa. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Tove Jansson
Illustrator(s): Tove Jansson

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Only a Poor Old Man Volume 12 (2012)

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In the lead story Uncle Scrooge engages in a battle to the last cent with the Beagle Boys and first reveals why he really needs all that money -- so he can “dive into it like a porpoise, burrow through it like a gopher and throw it up and let i... View More

Author(s): Carl Barks
Illustrator(s): Carl Barks

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