Neil Gaiman has teamed with Humble Bundle to launch the Humble Comics Bundle: Neil Gaiman Rarities, which includes a wide array of rare books, anthologies, comic collections and more from early in the international bestselling author’s career.  A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.

Customers for these Humble Bundles can choose how the money is allocated, and they can name their own price for the Bundle.  Customers can pay any amount and receive Adventures in the Dream Trade (essays, poems, lyrics, and original American Gods blog), Gods & Tulips (controversial 1993 speech, an essay on running signings, and a speech on comics), Free Speeches (speeches by Gaiman, Frank Miller, and others), Being An Account of the Life and Death of the Emperor Heliogabolus (24 hour comic, written & drawn by Gaiman), and Angels & Visitations (first collection of prose fiction, nonfiction, and poetry).

Users who pay above the average price ($19.46 as of this writing) receive Ghastly Beyond Belief (Gaiman's rare & never republished second book of oddball quotes), Day of the Dead (fully annotated Babylon 5 script), An Honest Answer & Other Stories (collaboration with Bryan Talbot and Dave McKean), Feeders & Eaters & Other Stories (collaborations with Mark Buckingham, including a comic about Alan Moore), Sweeney Todd & Other Stories (Gaiman's lost, unfinished, never republished graphic novel with Michael Zulli), Neil Dreams (short comics of dreams, by and about Gaiman done by/with Rick Veitch), and the two controversial UK comics anthologies Outrageous Tales From The Old Testament, and Seven Deadly Sins, which also feature contributions from Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, Dave McKean, and Bryan Talbot.

Customers who pay $15 or more will receive all of the above plus Duran Duran (never before republished, rare debut book), Manuscript Found In A Milk Bottle (never before reprinted short story with brand new intro), Love, Fishie (poems by Gaiman and Maddy Gaiman, limited edition of 100), and A Little Gold Book of Ghastly Stuff (out of print and collectible book of short fiction, essays, and poems -- many never before reprinted).

More items will be added mid-promotion on September 16.

The Neil Gaiman Rarities Humble Bundle (linked here in hopes that readers will be generous to the CBLDF) will be available from now until Wednesday, September 23, 2015 at 11 am PST.

ICv2 spoke with Humble Bundle’s Director of Books earlier this year to find out more about the internal workings of the digital platform (see “Interview: Humble Bundle and Comics”).