Upcoming Kirby – Marvel Monsters and OMAC

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More Kirby from the latest DC and Marvel solicitations. OMAC has some great stuff, although of course ends kind of abruptly. Good to see they’re including the Who’s Who page. Hopefully they’ll find some room from some of the other stuff that’s appeared in the fan mags, like some of the concept pages, the two-page spread from one issue which was shrunk, the original final page of #8. About half of the TtA Masterworks is Kirby, all the covers and a dozen stories. AVENGERS CLASSIC this time around will probably have the original Kirby cover, and possibly a pin-up from that issue.


omac.jpgJACK KIRBY’S O.M.A.C.: ONE MAN ARMY CORPS HC
Written by Jack Kirby
Art by Kirby, Mike Royer and D. Bruce Berry
Cover by Kirby & Royer

Witness the early tales of Jack Kirby’s legendary creation O.M.A.C. in this hardcover collecting stories from O.M.A.C. #1-8 (1974-1975) plus artwork from WHO’S WHO! In one of his last major works for DC, Kirby envisions a 1984-inspired dystopia starring corporate nobody Buddy Blank, who is changed by a satellite called Brother Eye into the super-powered O.M.A.C. (One Man Army Corps). Enlisted by the Global Peace Agency, who police the world using pacifistic means, O.M.A.C. battles the forces of conformity in this short-lived but legendary series!

on sale May 21 176 pg, FC, $24.99 US


MARVEL MASTERWORKS: ATLAS ERA TALES TO ASTONISH VOL. 2 HC
Written by STAN LEE, LARRY LIEBER & VARIOUS
Penciled by JACK KIRBY, STEVE DITKO, DON HECK & PAUL REINMAN
Cover by JACK KIRBY

Ready your fallout shelter, check your 4th-dimensional passport, and get ready for a trip into the wild and wooly days of the Atlas Era! The Marvel Masterworks have prepared another heaping helping of towering terrors that eat atom bombs for breakfast and psychological mind-benders of scintillating suspense. Led by Jack “The King” Kirby, there’s a whole passel of monsters from beyond the edge of imagination eager to smash their way into your town. From swamp beasts, terrorizing trees, atomic ants and Gorgilla, the gorilla who’d give King Kong a run for his money. If collateral damage is what your desire, then Groot, Krang, The Blip, Rommbu, Thorr and X, The Thing That Lived, are your best friends and your insurance agent’s worst nightmare. While Kirby tested the tensile strength of newsprint, Steve Ditko challenged readers to look through the pages of comic books and into new dimensions. His parables of suspense and wrenching psychological tension will leave you curled up and screaming for more — whether you like it or not!

Collecting TALES TO ASTONISH #11-20.
272 PGS. $59.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-2913-4


AVENGERS CLASSIC #10
Written by STAN LEE & DWAYNE MCDUFFIE
Penciled by DON HECK & JUAN DOE
Cover by ART ADAMS

This is the big one! The Avengers break up!! Faced with an unstoppable enemy, Earth’s Mightiest Heroes are fragmented and very nearly destroyed in another thrilling Stan Lee/Don Heck yarn from the House of Ideas! Featuring: the incredible, the inconceivable, the incalculable menace of…IMMORTUS! Plus!! All-new Avengers adventures from the incomparable minds of Dwayne McDuffie and Juan Doe!

32 PGS. $2.99

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