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Home Portfolio Kabuki Vol. 3 Trade Paperback


First Printing

Hardcover and Second & Third Printing
Kabuki: Masks of the Noh Trade Paperback
Credit: Cover artist, writer & co-interior artist
Publisher: Image Comics
Release Dates:
First printing - April 29, 1998
Second printing - September 29, 1999
Third printing - circa 2001
Hardcover (regular and signed & numbered) - January 27, 1999
Prices:
First printing - $10.95
Second & third printing - $12.95
Hardcover - $24.95
Hardcover (signed & numbered) - $39.95
Previews Product Codes:
First printing - JAN980807 / STAR7735 / STAR07735
Second printing - JUN990759 / STAR10213
Third printing - STAR10213
Hardcover - SEP980621 / STAR08795
Hardcover (signed & numbered) - SEP980622 / STAR08796
Related Image:
· Signature page from hardcover
Previews Advertisements:
January 1998
Trade Paperback (first printing)
This prestige format collects All Four Acts of the hard to find Kabuki-Masks of the Noh Series. These issues have never been collected or reprinted and are the early Kabuki books fans are eagerly seeking. This prestige format includes all new extra pages such as: A gallery section with art by David Mack, Terry Moore, Brian Steelfreeze and Dan Brereton, a behind the scenes look at preliminary designs and sketches, a gallery of the original covers, and an introduction. Kabuki's popularity has exploded with David Mack's move to Image and new readers are clamoring for the early storylines. The book delivers - with 30 extra pages of new stuff!
B&W, 128 pages

September 1998
Hardcover
Now archivally collected - the complete series of the hard to find Kabuki-Masks of the Noh series in a deluxe hardcover with a dust jacket cover painted by David Mack. This prestige format includes 30 all new pages such as a gallery section, a behind the scenes look at preliminary designs and sketches, a gallery of original covers and an introduction by Terry Moore.
B&W, 128 pages

September 1998
Hardcover (signed and numbered edition)
Limted to only 500 copies, these Hard Covers are signed and numbered by the author and artist David Mack.
B&W, 128 pages

June 1999
Trade Paperback (second printing)
(W) David Mack (A) Rick Mays
In celebration of the new Scarab Series by David Mack and Rick Mays, we are releasing a brand new and improved edition of the Masks of the Noh Trade Paperback - the series where Rick Mays first drew Scarab and the other Noh Agents. This story has been out of print for a while, having sold through its previous print run. Now it's available again with a new front and back cover with inside folding cover flaps painted by David Mack with a durable matte finish.
[1] This Prestige Format edition collects the entire Masks of the Noh series. These are the early Kabuki issues fans are eagerly seeking. Also included are all-new extra pages such as a Kabuki pinup by Joe Quesada (with whom Mack collaborates on the new Daredevil series), a gallery section with art by David Mack, a behind-the-scenes look at preliminary designs and sketches, a gallery of original covers, and an introduction by Terry Moore who also contributes a Kabuki/Strangers in Paradise page. Kabuki's popularity has exploded with Mack's move to Image and new readers are clamoring for the early storylines. This book delivers with thirty extra pages of new stuff!
7" x 10", 128 pages, b&w
NB: [1] Denotes the paragraph was not included in the Previews catalog

Notes:
· The signed and numbered hardcover edition was sold out at the distributer level in March 2002
· The cover art on the collections was first published as page 22 of Kabuki: Skin Deep #3 and also appeared on a Kabuki shirt, poster #1, print, and page 20 of Kabuki: Metamorphosis #1
· A black and white version of the Kabuki: Masks of the Noh #4 cover appeared on page 1
· A black and white version of the Dynamic Forces Kabuki: Skin Deep #3 cover was included on page 3
· A negative version of the cover from Kabuki: Masks of the Noh #2 appeared on page 4
· Terry Moore's introduction was printed on pages 5-6
· The Kabuki and Strangers in Paradise artwork from page 26 in Kabuki: Masks of the Noh #3 was reprinted on page 7
· A black and white version of the Kabuki: Classics #4 cover was printed on page 128
· Unlike the second printing, the third edition includes a David Mack biography on the inside front cover, a revised back issue list on page 125, a list of various Image trade paperback books on page 127, a list of the first six volumes of the Kabuki series along with contact information and a NohTV.com plug on the inside back cover as well as a summary of the series on the back cover
· A sticker was placed over the UPC box on the back cover of the trade paperback (second printing) because the price of the hardcover ($19.95) was mistakenly printed according to David Mack

Preview Pages:


Issue #1,
Page #12

Issue #2,
Page #19

Issue #4,
Page #9
Additional Preview Pages

Related Links:
Portfolio Kabuki Classics #4
Portfolio Kabuki Vol. 3 #2
Portfolio Kabuki Vol. 4 #3
Portfolio Kabuki Vol. 5 #1
Portfolio Kabuki Vol. 6
Portfolio Posters Kabuki #1
Portfolio Prints Lee's Comics
Portfolio Shirts Skin Deep #3

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