Harry Mendryk has had some news recently on Joe Simon’s upcoming reprints of S&K studio material from Titan, the first book still a few months away but more books already being added to the plans. And for those able to go to the New York ComiCon next month, Joe Simon will be there doing a panel and signing two limited edition lithographs featuring some sweet S&K art at the Titan booth.
A few other upcoming publications, details below. The Kirby work in the first two YOUNG ALLIES issues is minor, just covers and some splash pages apparently, but stuff that hasn’t really been reprinted before. Softcover Masterworks books continue with AVENGERS v1, an unidentified S&K Captain America story in a back-up to some new stuff. JACK KIRBY QUARTERLY #15 came out a few months ago (more details here), but is distributed to comic shops for the first time with the February 2009 solicitations (FEB094563).
JACK KIRBY QUARTERLY #15
This is the 15th-anniversary special of the original and fully-authorized magazine dedicated to the King of Comics, Jack Kirby! In addition to little-seen artwork, the main focus of this title is the in-depth analysis of various facets of Kirby’s work across the decades, from his crime comics and westerns to his fantasy and superhero work, plus non-comics television and film projects. Contributors include Marv Wolfman, Kevin Eastman, William Stout, Greg Theakston, Peter Laird, Paul Gravett, Paul Gambaccini, and Dez Skinn. This speicial issue includes 18 pages of rare interviews with Jack and Roz Kirby, including one of Jack’s final interviews. (Quality Communications) (C: 0-1-2)
Magazine, 68pgs, B&W $7.95
MARVEL MASTERWORKS: THE AVENGERS VOL. 1 TPB
Written by STAN LEE
Penciled by JACK KIRBY & DON HECK
Pick up the adventures of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes from day one with the MARVEL MASTERWORKS! Comicdom’s greatest assemblage of super heroes burst onto the scene in 1963 as Marvel Comics revolutionized the comic-adventure art form. Gathering together to face the evil Loki, Iron Man, the Incredible Hulk, Ant-Man, the Wasp and the Mighty Thor formed the improbable core of the ever-changing super-team. But it was three issues later when, from the ice of the northern Atlantic, Captain America returned from the frozen depths that the Avengers truly took form. Illustrated by Jack Kirby and Don Heck, and written by Stan “The Man” Lee, you’ll find the first appearances of Kang the Conqueror, Wonder Man, the Space Phantom and Baron Zemo, the debut of the Masters of Evil and the Hulk’s departure from the team and “subsequent team-up with the Sub-Mariner to take down his former comrades. They’re Marvel Masterworks one and all!
Collecting THEAVENGERS #1-10
248 PGS $24.99
MARVEL MASTERWORKS: GOLDEN AGE YOUNG ALLIES VOL. 1 HC
Written by STAN LEE, OTTO BINDER & VARIOUS
Penciled by AL GABRIELE, JACK KIRBY, CHARLES NICHOLASWOTJKOSWKI, JACK ALDERMAN & VARIOUS
Cover by JACK KIRBY
The Young Allies, comics’ very first boy-adventure team, leap into four-color action once more with their debut MARVEL MASTERWORKS volume! Super-hero sidekicks unite when Captain America’s pal, Bucky and his Sentinels of Liberty team up with the Human Torch’s protege, Toro, and take on the Axis! And they won’t waste a second getting down to business. Right from issue #1 they take the fight straight to Berlin and, rest assured, the Red Skull, and even Hitler himself, won’t be walking out of this one without a bloody nose. Next up, the Black Talon returns from the pages of CAPTAIN AMERICA COMICS to terrorize the Young Allies, or maybe that should be the other way around? There are 5th Columnists, Nazis, Imperial generals, spies, and action galore in each of these Timely classics. The Golden Age of Comics packed in cover-to-cover adventure, but there are few that can compare to the massive, 60-pages plus, issue-length adventures of the Young Allies!
Collecting YOUNG ALLIES #1-4
288 PGS $59.99
CAPTAIN AMERICA COMICS #1 70TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL
Written by JAMES ROBINSON
Penciled by MARCOS MARTIN
Cover and Variant Cover by MARCOS MARTIN
Sketch Variant Cover by MARCOS MARTIN
Leading off a series of celebratory specials commemorating Marvel’s 70th Anniversary, James (STARMAN, SUPERMAN) Robinson and Marcos (AMAZING SPIDER-MAN) Martin bring you an untold story of the living legend. In the days before he becomes Captain America, a scrawny kid from Brooklyn named Steve Rogers shows the world that you don’t need a super-soldier serum to be a hero. Plus a classic Captain America tale from the Golden Age by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby.
48 PGS./One-Shot/All-New & Reprints $3.99