This week's comic shop shipment is slated to include the following new titles. Read on to see what comics-blog commentators and web-savvy comic shops are saying about them (more to be added as they appear), check out our previews at the links, and contact your local shop to confirm availability.
Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Vol. 5: Outwits the Phantom Blot
by Floyd Gottfredson
288-page black & white/color 10.5" x 8.75" hardcover • $34.99
ISBN: 978-1-60699-736-9
"This is primetime Gottfredson, beautiful to look at and fun." -Tom Spurgeon, Comics Reporter
Prince Valiant Vol. 9: 1953-1954
by Hal Foster
120-page full color 10.25" x 14" hardcover • $35.00
ISBN: 978-1-60699-735-2
"Prince Valiant is captivating and countercultural… Fantagraphics has been reissuing the original Prince Valiant strips in hardbound editions-exquisitely drawn tales, stories that celebrate chivalry, adventure, bravery…and gentlemanly romance." –Mark Judge, The Catholic Register