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CHECKER ANNOUNCES ITS 2007 FALL LINEUP!
Hart! McCay! Outcault! Edginton and Land!

Checker Book Publishing Group, the comics and graphic novel reprint
specialist, announces its exciting 2007 Fall lineup guaranteed to
satisfy any comics fan.

Beginning in August, Checker releases Johnny Hart's GrowinGold with
B.C.: A 50 Year Celebration. Produced with the complete cooperation
of the Hart family, this was the last project Johnny Hart worked on
before his untimely death earlier this year. Johnny Hart's GrowinGold
with B.C. features more than 500 strips from over 50 years of
syndication - personally selected by Hart, himself. The artist also
provided the original cover art and never-before-seen concept art from
the strip's beginnings in the 1950's.

The early groundbreaking days of comic strips aren't forgotten by
Checker when Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland, Volume 2 by
Winsor McCay and R.F. Outcault's Yellow Kid (with Pore Lil Mose) by
R.F. Outcault are released in October.

Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland, Volume 2 continues the
amazing adventures of Little Nemo. This gorgeous book, in a keepsake
hardcover limited edition, features full color adventures of Little
Nemo in Slumberland from 1909-1914, and the previously never fully
collected 1924-1926 run, with a preponderance presented in full color.

R.F. Outcault's Yellow Kid (with Pore Lil Mose) Widely considered to
be the first comic strip in America, "The Yellow Kid" was drawn by R.
F. Outcault for the powerful Pulitzer and Hearst newspapers from 1895
until 1898. The "Kid's" popularity rose to previously unheard of
heights and is believed to be the first character to be widely
merchandised. Collected here is the entire run of Outcault's strip,
including early precursor cartoons and the later strips "Huckleberry
Volunteers" and "Casey's Corner" featuring the Yellow Kid. Also
several pieces of never before collected Outcault art. Each image is
accompanied by painstakingly researched annotations explaining the
cartoon's context as it relates to the politics and social atmosphere
of the era.

Also featured is the largest collection of the ultra-rare "Pore Li'l
Mose" strips ever published. Dating from the "New York Herald" of
1900-1902, "Mose" is possibly the very first depiction of an African-
American title character in American comics. Although the strip would
be considered largely offensive by today's standards, as comics
historians and antiquarian book dealers have discovered, "Mose" is
symbolic of an looming social change, evidence of a new sensitivity of
public opinion. The last time this strip was collected was in 1904.

Additionally, Checker adds to its trade paperback collection of the
ever-popular CrossGen properties, with an October release of Sojourn,
Volume 6- The Berserker's Tale, which collects issues 31-34 and the
rare Prequel issue, written by Ian Edginton and drawn by fan favorite
Greg Land, with Lewis LaRosa, Tom Derenick and Cliff Richards. Arwyn
and her companions visit amazing new places on the journey to
Skarnheim and throughout the Five Kingdoms with the prequel detailing
Mordath's fall and resurrection. Fans still clamor for this classic
good versus evil, choice versus fate storyline.

The Checker Book Publishing Group, in Dayton, Ohio, is committed to
publishing dormant, unpublished, and under-published serial comics and
cartooning in affordable editions.

Johnny Hart's GrowinGold with B.C.
By Johnny Hart
$19.95, Paperback, 9"x9"
ISBN-10: 1-933160-68-3
ISBN-13: 978-1-933160-68-9

Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland, Volume 2
By Winsor McCay
$49.95, Hardcover, 9"x12",
ISBN-10: 1-933160-22-5
ISBN-13: 978-1-933160-22-1

R.F. Outcault's Yellow Kid (With Pore Lil Mose)
By R.F. Outcault
$49.95, Hardcover, Landscape, Annotated, 12.5" x 9"
Count: 240 pages, full color
ISBN-10: 1-933160-69-1,
ISBN-13: 978-1933160-69-6

Sojourn, Volume 6- The Berserker's Tale
By Ian Edginton and Greg Land, et al,
$17.95, Paperback, 6.75"x 10.25",
ISBN-10: 1-933160-72-1
ISBN-13: 978-1-933160-72-6