Lots of Kirby stuff in the most recently announced Marvel books. The third silver age CAPTAIN AMERICA MASTERWORKS finishes up that Kirby run on the character. The second BLACK PANTHER book finishes up another Kirby run. I’m guessing this new MARVEL’S GREATEST COMICS line, reprinting full books from scans of the original comics, is going to be scattered comics tying in with current stories, not continuing on with FF. Couple of western rerprints in back of new western stories, including the third reprint of the origin of the Rawhide Kid in two months. Plus GALACTIC BOUNTY HUNTERS debuts, with a Kirby cover.
MARVEL MASTERWORKS: CAPTAIN AMERICA VOL. 3
Written by STAN LEE
Penciled by JACK KIRBY & JIM STERANKO
Cover by JIM STERANKO
Just in time for the Fourth of July!
Mighty Marvel is unfurling a new Masterworks crafted by an incomparable trio of talents-Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Jim Steranko! It’s the best of ’60s Marvel dynamism and design in one Captain America-packed volume!
It’s all set off by four-issue rumble with the Red Skull! When the Nazi ne’er-do-well attachs an H- Bomb fuse to Cap, he has no choice but to serve the Skull or America will suffer nuclear annihilation! Even a healthy thumping on Batroc the Leaper and the Trapster, can’t cure the Man Out of Time’s woes over his lost companion, Bucky. Relive Cap’s amazing origin and learn how he met Bucky Barnes.
If all that calamity from “The King” Kirby wasn’t enough, strap on your psychedelic crash helmet for a course in Steranko! The master of the medium will take you on a ride like none other with Cap vs. the Hulk, the return of Bucky, and the death of Captain America in a battle with Hydra. We don’t need to say it, but we can’t help ourselves-‘Nuff Said!
Collecting Captain America (Vol. 1) #101-113.
288 PGS. $49.99
BLACK PANTHER BY JACK KIRBY VOL. 2 TPB
Written by JACK KIRBY & ED HANNIGAN
Penciled by JACK KIRBY & JERRY BINGHAM
Cover by JACK KIRBY
Heroism seems to run in the Black Panther’s family…but which way are the new heroes running? The King’s favorite king returns in some of his earliest solo sagas! Mutated monsters menace the wondrous reign of Wakanda! Captivating Kirby classics not seen in nearly thirty years! Collects BLACK PANTHER #8-13.
112 PGS. $19.99
MARVEL’S GREATEST COMICS: FANTASTIC FOUR #52
Written by STAN LEE
Penciled by JACK KIRBY
Cover by JACK KIRBY
Introducing the sensational Black Panther! In time for the wedding of the century comes this cover-to-cover facsimile of T’Challa’s first appearance from FANTASTIC FOUR #52 (July 1966)! Scanned straight from a printed copy of the original, this keepsake edition includes all story pages, ads and text pieces – reproduced exactly as they appeared 40 years ago this month!
32 PGS. $2.99
MARVEL WESTERNS: WESTERN LEGENDS
Written by JEFF PARKER, KARL KESEL & FRED VAN LENTE
Penciled by TOMM COKER, CARMINE DI GIANDOMENICO & HOMS
Cover by ERIC POWELL
Three all-new tales of the Mighty Marvel West! Do you remember the MAN CALLED HURRICANE? Over a hundred bounty hunters and cowboys looking for revenge do. The “Fastest Man in the West” doesn’t have much of a choice but to face them at once. Question is, does he have enough bullets? By Jeff Parker and Tomm Coker.
RED WOLF is a considered superstition by many, but a group of thugs are about to find out how much is fiction and how much is true. Surviving their challenge is another thing all together for RED WOLF. By Karl Kesel and Carmine Di Giandomenico.
Major Brett Saber is known as the MAN FROM FORT RANGO, hard-nosed leader of a rag-tag group of frontier soldiers. His unruly men are no match for a deadly band of Indians intent on holding their stronghold, but a mythical man-beast poses a deadlier threat to both sides. By Fred Van Lente and Homs.
PLUS: Re-presenting the origin of RAWHIDE KID by Jack “King” Kirby!
48 PGS. $3.99
MARVEL WESTERNS: KID COLT AND THE ARIZONA GIRL
Written by JUSTIN GRAY, JIMMY PALMIOTTI & JIM MCCANN
Art by FEDERICA MANFREDI, JIMMY PALMIOTTI & DAVID WILLAIMS
Cover by ERIC POWELL
When wild west gunfighters with a reputation for shootin’ first and askin’ questions later, Kid Colt and Arizona Annie, take a job escorting a stage coach through dangerous Apache territory, they come upon a town stranger than any the west has seen. It doesn’t take long before Annie and the Kid find themselves in hot water with the locals and runnin’ low on bullets. And that’s when things get really weird!
PLUS: An 8-page story by Jim McCann and David Williams, introducing the woman who is here to tame the Wild West, one engraved invitation at a time – the Philadelphia Philly – and a man who’s lost it all, even his name – the man called Spender.
ALSO re-presenting three classic MARVEL WESTERN tales by two comic legends: “Stagecoach to Shotgun Gap” and “Those Who Live by the Gun” by Jack Kirby and “The Man Who Robbed the Express” by Dick Ayers.
48 PGS. $3.99
JACK KIRBY’S GALACTIC BOUNTY HUNTERS #1
Written by LISA KIRBY & STEVE ROBERTSON
Penciled by MIKE THIBODEAUX
Cover by JACK KIRBY
An All-New series featuring characters and concepts created by Jack “King” Kirby! In this double-sized first issue, meet the Berkleys, your typical suburban California family. But when young Garrett Berkley discovers his parents’ secret-that the science fiction stories his father writes aren’t fiction at all, but autobiography-he’s blasted into a whole new universe of adventure, mystery and danger. Now, Jack Berkley must put down his pen, reassemble his old team, and take up the mantle of being a Galactic Bounty Hunter for one final mission! (1 of 6)
56 PGS. $3.99