Time marches on and there’s been a LOT of literary water under the bridge since last I updated this list of my books in print. Well, once again, we here at Townburg Central have you covered!

The following titles can now be purchased on the Amazon Marketplace and, in most cases, there’s FREE shipping if you’re a Prime customer! Some are also available at Barnes & Noble.com. Still more can be found at Walmart.com. And, lest we forget… Book A Million. I’ve included handy links for your pleasure…

SUPER DUPER TALES features classic all-ages adventures of some of George Broderick, Jr.’s most beloved characters in FULL COLOR. This large collected edition contains Gold/Silver Age style stories with The Mighty Wotizzit?!, Fearless Frog, The Lavender Dot, The Family Joules and other fun-tastic creations from the mind and pen of the self-styles “Most Beloved Character In American Folklore”. These adventures are some of the best from the comic book series Holy Cow Comics.

SUPER DUPER FUNNIES is the second volume of all-ages comics featuring more of George Broderick, Jr.’s most beloved characters in FULL COLOR. This large collected edition contains Gold/Silver Age style stories with Cap’n Hoagie, Atomic Bear, The Turducken, Captain Awesomesauce, The Family Joules and other fun-tastic creations of the self-styles “Most Beloved Character In American Folklore”. These adventures are some of the best from the anthology comic book series Holy Cow Comics, designed to tickle the funny bone of even the most dour villainous wretch!

SUPER DUPER COMICS & STORIES is the third volume of all-ages comics featuring more of George Broderick, Jr.’s most beloved characters in FULL COLOR. This large collected edition contains Gold/Silver Age style stories with U.S. Male, The Turducken, Captain Awesomesauce, Bingo The Wonder Dog, The Awful Lawfuls, Ant Boy, Dumb Bass, The Porkypine Pals, Minnie & Maxie and other fun-tastic PSA ads and How To Draw creations of the self-styles “Most Beloved Character In American Folklore”. These humorous short stories and strips are some of the best from the anthology comic book series Holy Cow Comics, sure to bring a smile to the faces of young and old alike!

SUPER DUPER ADVENTURES — The fourth and final volume of the Super Duper anthology series is here! Follow the exploits of Mayhem, Inc in two full length adventures. Heroes who have banded together for the greater good, they’ve never met a problem they couldn’t make worse… with their fists! And marvel at the solo exploits of Strongarm Armstrong in a serialized story in print for the very first time! Lastly, chuckle along with the Winter Wonderland excitement at the North Pole with Happy Holliday and Vinnie The Blue-Rumped Caribou (cousin to the red-nosed one). It’s fun, fun, fun ’til Daddy takes the T-Bird away! Discover why cartoonist George Broderick, Jr. is fast becoming “One of the most beloved characters in American folklore”!

HOLLY JOLLY CHRISTMAS COMICS — It’s the most wonderful book of the year! Harkening back to the Golden Age of comics, where every year saw the release of new festive Christmas comics for everyone to enjoy, comes HOLLY JOLLY CHRISTMAS COMICS… an eclectic mix of stories, puzzles and games suitable for children of all ages and recommended for the kid in every one of us. Lose yourself in these festive yuletide antic created by “one of the most beloved characters in American folklore”, George Broderick, Jr. It’s Christmas! Wooo!! Go CRAAAAAZY!

THE QUACK QUACK DIARIES — He’s a very small duck in a very BIG world! Dick & Jane books were never like this… but, probably SHOULD have been! See Quack Quack lay an egg, join the army, get possessed, go to prison, get a job, write a novel, contend with The Raven, The Santa Claus Bandit, a bout of amnesia, some Martians, a run for mayor and the triumphant return of Cap’n Quack! Our boy Quack Quack even goes * shudder * streaking! Then, our fine feathered fowl fellow goes to college, joins the football team, becomes BMOC, graduates and goes on a job search, exploring careers as a cab driver, secret agent, graphic novelist and an independent filmmaker! Duck, Quack Quack, duck!

THE BIG BOOK OF CHRISTMAS EVE presents the adventures of a holiday crusader and her Sugar Plum Fairy helpers, Holly, Noel and Carol, as they strive to bring joy, peace and Christmas cheer to the modern world, sorely in need of it. This edition is a collection of the Christmas Eve comic book adventures culled from the past thirteen years. Featured in this volume are Eve’s origin and her first battle with arch foe, the legendary Black Peter… as told by Ol’ Tannenbaum, the official talking Christmas Tree. Visit with soon-to-be favorite holiday characters, Randolph The Green-Nosed Reindeer, Tinselbottom The Elf and special guest star, Santa Claus!  Then, Eve stars in three seasonal sagas, battling the monstrous Elfinstein and contending with three out-of-work spirits in “Old Familiar Haunts”, dealing with thermostatic extremes in “Squawkin’ In A Winter Wonderland”… and learning the value of new beginnings in “What Are You Doing New Year, New Years Eve”. Then comes a bevvy of springtime tales featuring Christmas Eve, Holly, Noel and Carol, The Easter Bunny, Christmas Boy and an assortment of Mother Goose favorites… oh, and Leprechauns… did we mention the Leprechauns..?  Finally, When Ol’ Number Nine, The Ornament Express, arrives at the Christmas Village depot without engineer Choo Choo Charlie Fruitcake or conductor Lucius J. Poinsettia and minus all the ornaments that the towns all along the line have collected for Santa, Christmas Eve and the Sugar Plum Fairies, Holly, Noel and Carol, are thrust into the midst of one of the most puzzling mysteries in their heroic holiday careers! Can Eve and the girls overcome The Ripper, The Nog and the U-Buy Bandits and solve their mysterious conundrum? And what role does Station Master Gus Greensleeves play in all the skullduggery..? Holiday hijinks that are sure to become treasured traditions for young and old alike! This 196 page hard cover will also be available through the Ingram catalogue for inclusion in your finer bookstores and libraries!

THE GREAT BIG BOOK OF CHRISTMAS LEGENDS — The legends of Christmas are many and vary from culture to culture. Some are much beloved and last throughout the ages, carried from generation to generation. Others are quickly forgotten and lost to the timeless mists of obscurity. This book contains modern interpretations of some of the more well known of the holiday traditions in comic strip form — The Christmas Pickle of Germanic origins, The Christmas Goat from the Scandinavian folk tales and the Christmas Spider from Austria. Also included is the all-new story of the Christmas Dinosaurs because, let’s face it, legends have to start somewhere!

SCINTILLATING TALES #1 — Presenting the latest anthology from George Broderick, Jr., featuring all-new tales of some of his most beloved characters in print for the very first time! Follow the unfathomable adventures of Unbelievable Man and his boy pal, Jigs Jameson as they contend with several menaces simultaneously. Thrill to the exploits of The Masked Man of Mettle, Courageous Man and his partner, Spunky — The Effervescent Prepubescent! Blast off with super spry Sci-Fi guy, Coz McCloud: Deep Space Thrill Seeker and scratch your head over the antics of The Neighborhood Watch, kid heroes who try to save the universe through sandlot sports! Discover why cartoonist George Broderick, Jr. is fast becoming “One of the most beloved characters in American folklore”!

SCINTILLATING TALES #2 — Presenting the newest anthology from George Broderick, Jr., featuring all-new tales of some of his most beloved characters in print for the very first time! Follow the unfathomable adventures of Unbelievable Man and his boy pal, Jigs Jameson as they explore Unbelievable Man’s “secret” headquarters. Thrill to the exploits of Thunder Ape as he contends with a bionic shark! Hold your breath for the underwater adventures of Seahorse Man and his sidekick, Red Snapper! Marvel at the detective skills of The Turducken and the flailing fists of Captain Angry: The Bloody Knuckles Of Justice… and wrack your brains over the befuddled antics of the time traveling Senor Moment! Discover why cartoonist George Broderick, Jr. continues to be “One of the most beloved characters in American folklore”!

MAYHEM, INC. 80 PAGE GINORMOUS — They never met a problem they couldn’t make worse… with their FISTS! The lovable lads of Mayhem, Inc., Crimefighter Dude, Strongarm Armstrong, Twinkletoes, The Rampaging Caribou. Li’l Elvis, The Red Herring, Alaka Sam, The Ribbon, Columbus, Jr. and Go-Go Rilla, star in their first full-length cosmic epic! See them, along with guest stars U.S. Male, Coz McCloud and Hero Zero of G-Force contend with sinister space villains Warlord Zyx, Thorque from Thagge and Old McDonald The Space Farmer as they vie for the Celestial Gewgaw. It’s cosmic hijinks as you like it!

THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF UNBELIEVABLE MAN — In his own book at last, direct from the pages of Scintillating Tales comes Unbelievable Man! Join the Middle-Aged Manhunter and his friends, Jigs Jameson, Rhoda Byke and The Sovereigns Of Justice in this collection of his greatest adventures! Visit the Unbelievable Man-Cave, Discover the dark secret of the Unbelievable Rival. See Jigs Jameson trapped in the Sunday Funnies! Stare in awe at the mighty Oozebeck! And explore the literary history of Unbelievable Man from his debut in the Fabulous Forties up through his resurgence in popularity in the new Millennium! 108 pages of belly laughs and blazing action… and, oh, those Cyber Gophers!

COURAGEOUS MAN: The Web Adventures, vol. 1 — Courageous Man: The Web Adventures series collects all of The Masked Man of Mettle’s web strips for the first time in this 25th Anniversary three volume compilation. Courageous Man Adventures is a throwback to the early days of the Silver Age of comics (with a 21st Century sensibility) when men were men, villains were vile and caption boxes were unwieldy enough to cripple a charging bull elephant – the African ones, of course, not those runty Indian jobbies. Yes, evoking images of the sanitized, code-approved 50’s and early 60’s is what Courageous Man is all about! All-ages fun in the classic mold… Huzzah! But, bring your thesauruses, because in Townburg City, they don’t accept American Express, and they don’t suffer monosyllabic Millennial wastrels! Volume one includes these courageous adventures: Six Blocks To Doomsday, The Man of 1000 Punches, The Giant Robot Gorilla Mystery Of McCall’s Lake, Courageous Man’s Fashion Faux Pas and Impressive Man’s Minimum Wage Adventure, guest starring The Dour Dynamo, Impressive Man!

COURAGEOUS MAN: The Web Adventures, vol. 2 — This second volume of COURAGEOUS MAN: THE WEB ADVENTURES finds our masked man of mettle hero and the effervescent prepubescent, SPUNKY, in more danger and dire peril than ever before as they run afoul of Mob Boss Johnnie Turgid, Racketeer Lincoln Hedpenney, Signor Bombacelli, The Gnat and The Felonious Monk! Can they prevail with just their hammering fists, quick wits and the aid of ever-faithful manservant, STEDFAST? Oh, and ASTOUND DOG, of course! And did we mention Spunky’s evil twin, SCRAPPY? Huzzah!

COURAGEOUS MAN: The Web Adventures, vol. 3 — This third volume of COURAGEOUS MAN: THE WEB ADVENTURES finds our masked man of mettle hero and the effervescent prepubescent, SPUNKY, in continuing peril at the hands of old foes Signor Bombacelli and the Felonious Monk and several new dastards in their ever-growing rogue’s gallery… but, fear not! This time around, the Derring-Duo has a cohort of other sovereigns of justice to help them out! Guest Stars include Chris Yambar’s Mr. Beat and The Fire-Breathing Pope, Flamenco Hombre — The Courageous Man of Mexico, and the curvaceous Sassy! Then, join The Townburg Titan as he explores the state of the comics market as it stands today and find out why many feel “comics are dead”!

MR. CRANKY PANTS PLANTS A GARDEN — Mr. Cranky Pants! The Walking Scar! The Human Trellis! The Secret Truckdriver! Dragonface! Five powerful superheroes who have banded together to fight crime, evil, injustice and the perils of everyday life! Join the fabulous five as they deal with the musclebound misanthrope, Mr. Cranky Pants, as he endeavors to satisfy his need for fresh fruits and vegetables by planting his own garden!

DRAGONFACE VISITS THE DENTIST — Dragonface! Mr. Cranky Pants! The Walking Scar! The Human Trellis! The Secret Truckdriver! Five powerful superheroes who have banded together to fight crime, evil, injustice and the perils of everyday life! Join the fabulous five as they rally around the unattractive avenger, Dragonface, as he struggles with a chipped tooth and a great reluctance to visit the dentist!

THE WALKING SCAR LEARNS TO DANCE — Dragonface! Mr. Cranky Pants! The Walking Scar! The Human Trellis! The Secret Truckdriver! Five powerful superheroes who have banded together to fight crime, evil, injustice and the perils of everyday life! This third volume in the Super Duper series shines the spotlight on The Walking Scar… the dance spotlight! When the United Nations plans a banquet in their honor, it’s up to the Mighty Super Dupers to teach their walking compatriot how to dance in an effort to avoid public embarrassment in front of the Security Council. It’s a promenade of two-steps, box steps and missteps when The Walking Scar learns to dance.

MISTER BUNDLES VERSUS THE MARTIANS — This is a comic novel in the grand old, 1950’s illustration style! When the evil Martians attack Earth with their super terrible weapons, bent on conquest just to get a better view of the sun, they are able to vanquish ALL opposition… except for Mister Bundles! Join nine year old Joey, his big brother, Kirk and the twisted bundle of rags that’s destined to save us all from those sinister alien conquerors… even the Mighty Super Dupers!.

THE BALLAD OF THE LAVENDER DOT — The Ballad Of The Lavender Dot is a tale of mystery, intrigue, action and a heaping helping of Iambic Pentameter! So, remember… don’t do the crime if you can’t stand the rhyme! The Ballad Of The Lavender Dot is the latest storybook from “one of the most beloved characters in American folklore”, George Broderick, Jr.

BABY SUZIE IS A SCAMP! — Children play and pretend all day and get into all kinds of mischief. But no one gets into the kind of mischief Baby Suzie gets into! Snack time, coloring time, even a trip to the zoo are opportunities for friskiness. Find out why her antics have everyone saying, “Baby Suzie is a scamp”!

CHRISTMAS EVE AND THE GOLDEN GARLAND OF ZEUS — The First Lady Of Yuletide Cheer in her very first prose novel! Watch the champion of Christmas and her Sugar Plum Fairy companions, Holly, Noel and Carol, as they chase a treacherous yeti named Charlie through the mystical realms of “The Fade”, a cornucopia of kingdoms outside of time, in an effort to recover Santa’s stolen Golden Garland, a festive holiday swag that gives him free passage through the darker kingdoms of The Fade. Meet many historical and legendary characters as you’ve never seen them before… and, oh, those druids!

And, of course, ALL these fine publications are available directly from me at conventions… a rare treat, indeed! Shop ’til you drop or your Mom makes you stop! Please and thank you!