Quite a bit in the future, but keep an eye out for more info on the 2010 release THE ART OF THE SIMON & KIRBY STUDIO from Abrams, reprinting some as yet unspecified work from the original artwork. Should be a great companion to the books Simon is releasing through Titan next year.
Coming out of the UK later this summer is JACK KIRBY QUARTERLY #15 (for those confused by the numbering, I don’t think #13 and #14 were ever widely distributed outside the UK. See comments for clarification on numbering). Copies can be pre-ordered now via ebay, and it will reportedly be available through comic shops via the usual distribution channels, but not for several months after it’s available for mail order.
Details below, many scans of interior pages at the links.
GET IT FIRST!
Early orders are now being taken for this landmark title, available late August
From the originating publishers of Warrior, Comics International, Halls of Horror, Comix: The Underground Revolution, Miracleman, V for Vendetta and lots of other fine stuff, comes the 15th anniversary special of the world’s first-ever magazine devoted to the work of the King of Comics: Jack Kirby.
Chrissie Harper’s Jack Kirby Quarterly #15 is a special 68-page full-sized magazine, overviewing the entire 60+ year career of the master of US comicbooks, with contributions and insight from top comics creators and specialist journalists including Kevin Eastman, Mark Evanier, Paul Gambaccini, Paul Gravett, Nigel Kitching, Peter Laird, Bob McLeod, John Morrow, Dez Skinn, William Stout, Greg Theakston and Marv Wolfman.
** Cover art by Jack Kirby and Bob McLeod
** Turtle Power! Kevin Eastman’s memories of Jack, plus Kirby’s version of TMNT
** Big Jack’s Pack: William Stout recalls one of Jack’s lesser-known art jobs
** The King of Comics and the King of Horror: Would ya believe: Kirby’s version of Dr. Phibes?!
** Opening Shots: A brief 1993 Kirby interview on Topps Comics and beyond
** Tune In, Man! Kris Brownlow looks at Kirby, drugs and hippie culture
** Kirby’s Mob: Nick Caputo dissects the crime classic In the Days of the Mob
** “I Always Tried To Do My Best”: The ULTIMATE Kirby interview, 12 fact-packed pages!
** A Final Chat: One of Kirby’s last ever interviews, January 20th 1994
** Life After Jack: Jack’s widow, Roz, speaks after Kirby’s passing in April 1994
** San Diego 1995: Convention memories with Roz, August 1995, plus a superb photo gallery
** Battle for a 3-D World: 1982 stunner by Kirby and Mike Royer (glasses not needed!)
** Twice-Told Tale: Paul Gravett investigates Lee & Kirby’s Western, Rawhide Kid
** Drag Your Battered Bones: Mike Hill’s subjective, in-depth analysis of New Gods #8
** Heroic Grandeur: Fabio P. Barbieri assesses Kirby’s place in 20th Century art
** Undiscovered Particles: James Romberger plunges into Kirby’s psychedelic interzone
** Not Quite Definitive: Karen Hellman finds DC’s Fourth World Omnibus series flawed
** He Still Rules: Marv Wolfman talks about Jack and their almost-collaboration
** Fantastic Four #1 Inker: Not-So-New News! The George Klein theory’s an old one, as Mike Lake explains
** Life and Truth: Tim Bateman reviews the philosophy of Mister Miracle #9
** London Tales: The April 2008 “Live From Kirby Plaza” event at the Institute of Contemporary Arts
** Cult Horror: Chrissie Harper examines the depths of 1983’s Silver Star #2
** Sez Dez – A Legend Hits Lucca: The return of comicdom’s best-loved column!
** Finishing School: Illustrated essay with Nigel Kitching on inking our back cover
… and even more. Hour upon hour of fascinating reading, with lots of rarely seen Kirby artwork.
This is early and of course publishing plans change, especially dates, but take a look at these books that popped up on Amazon:
Joe Simon: The Man Behind the Comics: The Illustrated Autobiography of Joe Simon (Hardcover)
The Best of the Simon and Kirby Studio (Hardcover)
Nice fat books (listed at 256 and 288 pages, respectively), safe to say these should be the Kirby publishing events of 2009.
Major Kirby release in the latest solicitations is a complete run of THE DEMON, the first time any of those stories has been reprinted except for #1 in a digest almost 30 years ago. Over at Marvel THE ETERNALS gets completed in the softcover format, FF #108, in all its cobbled together glory, shows up amidst the post-Kirby work in the Masterworks format, and i plead ignorance on why a story from TALES TO ASTONISH #13 would be in the ANNIHILATION CLASSIC hardcover. There were two Kirby stories in that issue, “I Challenged Groot” and “I Found the Abominable Snowman”. I figure Groot (an alien tree-man) is the most likely to somehow tie into recent Marvel cosmic comics, but I could be wrong.
JACK KIRBY’S THE DEMON OMNIBUS HC
Written by Jack Kirby
Art and cover by Jack Kirby & Mike Royer
One of Jack “King” Kirby’s most memorable creations returns in this title collecting the entire, original 16-issue series from the early 1970s! Part man, part elemental fury, Etrigan the Demon was bound to Jason Blood by Merlin to defend Camelot, only to become a demonologist in the modern-day DC Universe.
on sale November 19 – 384 pg, $49.99 US
ETERNALS BY JACK KIRBY BOOK 2 TPB
Written by JACK KIRBY
Penciled by JACK KIRBY
Cover by JACK KIRBY
A time of titans, terror and time travel – as only the King could conceive! Imagine a race of immortal beings possessed of seemingly limitless superhuman abilities including energy projection, strength and flight. Once worshipped as gods, this fantastic group left Earth to explore the stars after warring with the Greek, Roman and Norse pantheons for supremacy over mankind. In 1976, Jack Kirby introduced what was to be his final great Marvel Comics creation: the Eternals! With nearly four decades of experience creating iconic characters, Kirby stretched his imagination to the limit for his last tale. Looking beyond the familiar ground of super heroes, Kirby crafted a cosmic epic that took comic-book fans on a spectacular adventure every month. Since Kirby’s groundbreaking work, the Eternals and their malevolent counterparts, the Deviants have become vital parts of the Marvel Universe. Awarding-winning creators such as Neil Gaiman have revisited the concept, finding new levels of meaning in Kirby’s visionary work. Now, for the first time, Marvel proudly presents the entire ETERNALS series in two softcover volumes – further proof that Jack Kirby was truly the King. Collecting ETERNALS #12-19 and ANNUAL 1.
188 PGS. $24.99
MARVEL MASTERWORKS: THE FANTASTIC FOUR VOL. 11
Written by STAN LEE with ARCHIE GOODWIN
Penciled by JOHN BUSCEMA with JOHN ROMITA & JACK KIRBY
Cover by JOHN BUSCEMA
The World’s Greatest Comic Magazine marches forward with a new great artist, Big John Buscema, and the same great man – Stan “The Man,” ‘natch – in A fresh set of epic adventures as only mighty Marvel can make ’em! It all begins when Johnny Storm’s ladylove, Crystal, must leave the polluted human world for the Inhumans’ sanctuary, but within her lies the secret solution to freeing the Thing from his rocky prison. Then, as Benjamin Grimm emerges with the power to change into the Thing at will, Reed Richards must descend into the dark of the Negative Zone to face entropic Annihilus and the mysterious Janus, the Nega-Man. But what good is controlling your powers, when you’re losing control of your mind? The Thing goes on a rampage and New York City better look out because it can only end in the biggest, the baddest, the best fist-pounding, building-toppling, earth-shaking slobbernocker in Marvel history! The ever-lovin’, blue-eyed Thing goes toe-to-toe with the gamma-powered goliath, the Incredible Hulk, and only one will walk out alive. That’s not all, though! Before the FF collect themselves, the all-powerful Over-Mind descends on the planet Earth – and you know it ain’t gonna be good for real-estate values when the Watcher shows up, too. It’s a menace so great that even the evil Doctor Doom joins forces with the FF, so reserve your copy today, True Believer – there’s plenty more classics to come! Collecting FANTASTIC FOUR #105-116.
272 PGS $54.99
ANNIHILATION CLASSIC HC
Written by TODD DEZAGO, LARRY LIEBER, MARV WOLFMAN, MARK GRUENWALD, BILL MANTLO, DOUG MOENCH, SCOTT EDELMAN & ROY THOMAS
Penciled by DEREC AUCOIN, JACK KIRBY, JOHN BUSCEMA, JOE SINNOTT, PAUL RYAN, MIKE MIGNOLA, TOM SUTTON, MIKE ZECK & GIL KANE
Cover by JOHN BUSCEMA, PAUL RYAN, GIL KANE & MIKE MIGNOLA
Space may be a vacuum, but Annihilation didn’t pull its heroes out of nowhere! Journey through time, space and continuity with the sensational space saga’s stars! The re-making of Adam Warlock and the first look at his nemesis Thanos! See the origin of Nova and the origin of Quasar, while Bug watches the origins of >tik< EVERYBODY! Monsters, mammals and more! Collecting BUG #1, TALES TO ASTONISH #13, NOVA #1, QUASAR #1, ROCKET RACCOON #1-4, MARVEL SPOTLIGHT #6, LOGAN'S RUN #6 and MARVEL PREMIERE #1.
232 PGS. $29.99
Greg Theakston has a biography of Kirby coming out in a few months. Direct ordering info will no doubt be up soon at the Pure Imagination site, or you can order it from your comic retailer (Previews June 2008, page 340, JUN084168). And some great TwoMorrows stuff is solicited as well.
JACK MAGIC TP
by Greg Theakston & Jack Kirby
The long-awaited biography of Jack Kirby, The King of Comics! Written by Greg Theakston, Jack’s workmate and personal historian, it’s a detailed study of Kirby’s life and career. Included are extensive quotes from Kirby, Joe Simon, Will Eisner, and many more. Profusely illustrated with classic art and family photos.
Softcover, 160pgs, B&W $25.00
THE COLLECTED JACK KIRBY COLLECTOR Volume 6
Edited by John Morrow
As Jack Kirby continues to garner worldwide acclaim as comics’ greatest creator, this sixth trade paperback reprints issues #23-26 of The Jack Kirby Collector, the critically acclaimed magazine about Kirby’s life and career. Included are issues spotlighting Jack’s ‘Greatest Battles,’ ‘Gods,’ and a special issue spotlighting Kirby’s Golden Age work with Joe Simon, from co-creating Captain America to pioneering Romance comics and beyond! There are several rare interviews with Kirby himself, plus new ones with comics pros Denny O’Neil, Jim Shooter, John Severin, and Walter Simonson! Plus: see a complete ten-page unpublished Kirby story! Jack’s awe-inspiring original pencils to Fantastic Four #49 (from the first appearance of the Silver Surfer)! A gallery of Kirby’s original concept paintings for the Fourth World characters! An analysis comparing Kirby’s margin notes to Stan Lee’s dialogue on classic Marvel comics! And a new special section with over 30 pieces of Kirby art never before published, including Jack’s un-inked pencils from The Fourth World, The Demon, Kamandi, Eternals, Captain America, Black Panther, and more! With page after page of rare Kirby art (much in its original pencil form), and an amazing 1960s Kirby Silver Surfer cover, it’s an unprecedented tribute to the most prolific creator in comics history: Jack ‘King’ Kirby!
Softcover, 288pgs, B&W $29.95
THE JACK KIRBY COLLECTOR #51
It’s a bombastic “Everything Goes” issue in Jack Kirby Collector, spotlighting a wealth of great submissions that couldn’t be pigeonholed into a regular “theme” issue! The issue leads off with a rare interview with Jack Kirby himself, followed by new interviews with two of the hottest artists in comics, Jim Lee and Adam Hughes, discussing Kirby’s influence on their work! In addition to numerous articles on all things Jack, there’s also Mark Evanier’s regular column about his former boss, two huge Kirby pencil art galleries, two color unpublished Kirby covers, and more!
Tabloid, 84pgs, B&W $9.95
It’s taken about three years, but here’s another set of four issues of the S&K series. Some of the material is previously unreprinted, but I don’t think that stuff was drawn by Kirby. How has Marvel restoration of golden age material been recently? I recall some of the first few Masterworks books going back to the 1940s had reports of spotty reproduction.
MARVEL MASTERWORKS: GOLDEN AGE CAPTAIN AMERICA VOL. 2 HC
Written by JOE SIMON & JACK KIRBY with STAN LEE
Penciled by JOE SIMON & JACK KIRBY with CHARLES NICHOLAS,AL AVISON & AL GABRIELE
Cover by JOE SIMON & JACK KIRBY
From the heart of comics’ Golden Age come the earliest adventures of the greatest patriot to grace the four-color page: Captain America! Created on the eve of America’s entry into World War II, these stories are full of jaw-busting battles against the Nazi menace, mad scientists, crazed carnivals and mysteries at the ballpark that could only come from Joe Simon and Jack Kirby – two of the medium’s greatest visionaries! But there’s more to enjoy than just the adventures of Cap and Bucky; you’ll also meet Stan Lee’s wartime correspondent, “Headline” Hunter; the mighty Hurricane; Father Time; and Tuk, Cave Boy – and enjoy house ads, Sentinel of Liberty updates and puzzle pages in these complete and fully restored collections of the rarest hits from the Marvel archives!
Collecting CAPTAIN AMERICA COMICS #5-8.
280 PGS. $59.99
ISBN:978-0-7851-2228-9
TwoMorrows isn’t resting after the impending KIRBY FIVE-OH! Three more books you’ll be want to add to your bookshelf by the end of the summer. The interview with Joe Simon in the latest ALTER EGO is also reportedly excellent.
Jack Kirby Checklist Gold Edition
128 page trade paperback
The most thorough listing of Jack “King” Kirby’s work ever published! Building on the 1998 “Silver Edition”, this new, fully-updated, definitive Gold Edition compiles an additional decade’s worth of corrections and additions by top historians, in a new Trade Paperback format with premium paper for archival durability. It lists in exacting detail every published comic featuring Kirby’s work, including dates, story titles, page counts, and inkers. It even cross-references reprints, to help collectors locate less-expensive versions of key Kirby issues, and includes an extensive bibliography listing books, periodicals, portfolios, fanzines, posters, and other obscure pieces with Kirby’s art, plus a detailed list of Jack’s unpublished work as well. BONUS: Now includes a complete listing of the over 5000-page archive of Kirby’s personal pencil art photocopies. And scattered throughout are dozens of examples of rare and unseen Kirby art, making this a must-have item for serious Kirby collectors and eBay shoppers!
ISBN-13: 978-1-605490-05-2
ISBN-10: 1-605490-05-9
Collected Jack Kirby Collector – Volume 6
288 page Trade Paperback – Edited by John Morrow
As Jack Kirby continues to garner worldwide acclaim as comics’ greatest creator, this sixth trade paperback reprints issues #23-26 of The Jack Kirby Collector, the critically acclaimed magazine about Kirby’s life and career. Included are issues spotlighting Jack’s “Greatest Battles,” “Gods,” and a special issue spotlighting Kirby’s Golden Age work with Joe Simon, from co-creating Captain America to pioneering Romance comics and beyond! There are several rare interviews with Kirby himself, plus new ones with comics pros Denny O’Neil, Jim Shooter, John Severin, and Walter Simonson! PLUS: see a complete ten-page unpublished Kirby story! Jack’s awe-inspiring original pencils to FANTASTIC FOUR #49 (from the first appearance of the Silver Surfer)! A gallery of Kirby’s original concept paintings for the Fourth World characters! An analysis comparing Kirby’s margin notes to Stan Lee’s dialogue on classic Marvel comics! And a NEW special section with over 30 pieces of Kirby art never before published, including Jack’s uninked pencils from The Fourth World, The Demon, Kamandi, Eternals, Captain America, Black Panther, and more! With page after page of rare Kirby art (much in its original pencil form), and an amazing 1960s Kirby Silver Surfer cover, it’s an unprecedented tribute to the most prolific creator in comics history: Jack “King” Kirby! Edited by John Morrow.
ISBN-13: 978-1-605490-03-8
ISBN-10: 1-605490-03-2
Jack Kirby Collector 51
Summer 2008 – 84 pages – Tabloid Format
Edited by John Morrow.
It’s a bombastic “Everything Goes” issue in JACK KIRBY COLLECTOR #51 (84-page tabloid magazine, $9.95), as we spotlight a wealth of great submissions that couldn’t be pigeonholed into a regular “theme” issue! The issue leads off with a rare interview with JACK KIRBY himself, followed by new interviews with two of the hottest artists in comics, JIM LEE and ADAM HUGHES, discussing how Kirby influenced them! And in addition to numerous articles on all things Jack, there’s Mark Evanier’s regular column about his former boss, two huge Kirby pencil art galleries, a complete Golden Age Kirby story, two COLOR UNPUBLISHED KIRBY COVERS, and more!
A bunch of Kirby from various eras represented in the upcoming books below. Early Silver Age with some classic monsters (and some Sgt. Fury covers), a few stories with the Hulk from a bit later, late Silver Age with the recent “Lost Adventure” packaged with some other stuff (I’m not sure of the page count of the other material, so no idea if they’ll be including the Kirby pencils, John Morrow article and reprint of #108), some 1970s stuff with the first half of the ETERNALS series and a few pages of later stuff used in the GALACTIC BOUNTY HUNTERS book, now in paperback.
FANTASTIC FOUR: LOST ADVENTURES BY STAN LEE PREMIERE HC
Written by STAN LEE
Penciled by JOHN ROMITA JR. & JACK KIRBY
Covers by JOHN ROMITA JR. & JACK KIRBY
The comic-book equivalent of a lost Beatles track! Together, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby produced 102 consecutive issues of FANTASTIC FOUR. But there was a 103rd story they’d begun in 1970, but never finished – until now! Working from copies of Jack’s penciled pages, Stan Lee and Joe Sinnott reunited to complete the work they started almost four decades ago! Plus: The legendary writer and Fantastic Four co-creator joins forces with artist John Romita Jr. to tell his final story of the team that started the Marvel Age! Collecting FANTASTIC FOUR: THE LOST ADVENTURE and THE LAST FANTASTIC FOUR STORY, plus rare Stan stories from FANTASTIC FOUR #296 and #543.
176 PGS./Rated A …$24.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-3097-0
JACK KIRBY’S GALACTIC BOUNTY HUNTERS VOL. 1 TPB
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! 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! Collecting JACK KIRBY’S GALACTIC BOUNTY HUNTERS #1-6.
256 PGS./Rated T+ …$19.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-2629-4
MARVEL MASTERWORKS: ATLAS ERA TALES OF SUSPENSE VOL. 2 HC
Written by STAN LEE, LARRY LIEBER & VARIOUS
Penciled by JACK KIRBY, STEVE DITKO, DON HECK,
PAUL REINMAN & REED CRANDALL
Cover by JACK KIRBY
It seems you just can’t scare the love of a good 80-foot thing from another dimension out of a Marvel Masterworks fan. We’re not one to argue with anyone whose postal code reads “Unknownable Beyond” – so with regrets to the mailman, prepare your post office box for the likes of Sporr, Gor-Kill, Elektro, the Colossus, Metallo and Kraa the Unhuman! This collection from the beyond is full of more amazing monster firsts than Masterworks we’ve yet imagined, and there’s no evidence better than the first-ever father/son space-monster invasion. Yes, it’s none other than the fan-favorite Goom, and Googam, Son of Goom! Complemented by tales of thrilling suspense and sci-fi from Marvel Founding Fathers Steve Ditko and Don Heck, there’s a something for anyone and everyone looking for a break from the bounds of reality in TALES OF SUSPENSE! Collecting TALES OF SUSPENSE #11-20.
272 PGS./All Ages …$59.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-2959-2
MARVEL MASTERWORKS: SGT. FURY VOL. 2 HC
Written by STAN LEE
Penciled by DICK AYERS
Cover by JACK KIRBY
Get off your duff, goldbrick, and get ready for another k-ration of the adventures of Nick Fury and his Howling Commandos! From the heart of the Marvel Age Stan Lee and Darlin’ Dick Ayers bring you an assortment of WWII adventures that define the “War comic for people who hate war comics!” That means it’s for you AND everybody else, bunky! Fury and his crack squadron tackle the Axis powers across both the European and Pacific theatres – over land and under sea, from scorching sands of North Africa to the darkest jungles of Burma, there’s no order too tall for the Howlers! They’ll square off against Baron Strucker and his cadre of Nazi commandos, the Blitzkrieg Squad; meet the young Hans Rooten for the first time; and before you finish turning these pages, one will fall in the line of duty, forever changing the life of Nick Fury. To top it off, we’re including the first SGT. FURY ANNUAL, featuring a rare adventure of the Howlers in the Korean War and the story of Fury’s promotion to Second Looie! Collecting SGT. FURY #14-23 & ANNUAL #1
240 PGS./All Ages …$54.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-2928-8
ETERNALS BY JACK KIRBY BOOK 1 TPB
Written by JACK KIRBY
Penciled by JACK KIRBY
Covers by JACK KIRBY
Jack Kirby reveals a secret history of heroes and horrors as humanity’s cousins, the Eternals and the Deviants, vie to inherit the Earth! It’s a time of titans, terror and time travel as only the King could conceive – collected across two softcover volumes! Collecting ETERNALS #1-11.
208 PGS./All Ages …$24.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-3313-1
HULK VS. THE MARVEL UNIVERSE TPB
Written by STAN LEE, ROGER MCKENZIE, BILL MANTLO, PETER DAVID & HOWARD MACKIE
Penciled by JACK KIRBY, MARIE SEVERIN, FRANK MILLER, SAL BUSCEMA, TODD MCFARLANE, JOHN ROMITA JR. & JORGE LUCAS
Cover by JOHN ROMITA JR.
Before WORLD WAR HULK, before PLANET HULK, the Green Goliath spent years fighting the finest the Marvel Universe has to offer! Hulk vs. the Thing! Hulk vs. Thor! Hulk vs. the Silver Surfer, Wolverine and more! Whether facing a tag-team match from the Fantastic Four and the Avengers or going one-and-one against Spider-Man and Daredevil, the Incredible Hulk’s the strongest one there is no matter who his opponents are! Also featuring the X-Men, S.H.I.E.L.D. and Fin Fang Foom! Collecting FANTASTIC FOUR #25-26, JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #112, TALES TO ASTONISH #92-93, DAREDEVIL #163, INCREDIBLE HULK #300 AND #340, PETER PARKER: SPIDER-MAN #14; and HULK VS. FIN FANG FOOM #1.
200 PGS./All Ages …$24.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-3129-8
Catching up on a few recently announced upcoming Kirby publications. The upcoming seventh MARVEL MASTERWORKS for Thor brings them one book from finishing Kirby’s run, which I think will pretty much wrap up Kirby’s silver age super-hero stuff at Marvel in that format. The KAMANDI one-shot is a nice cheap sampler of the series for those unfamiliar and unwilling to dip your toes at hardcover prices (and #29, not yet reprinted elsewhere, is a great little story, and a favourite of many people). There’s a big storyline in Marvel about Skrulls, hence the reprint of FF #2 in a book of more recent stuff. The TwoMorrows Free Comic Book Day sampler should be a good look at their various magazines, and a few more Kirby covers should be included in the final two issues of AVENGERS CLASSIC (and, I usually don’t comment on the non-Kirby contents of these books, but an Avengers story by Bob Burden? Woo!).
MARVEL MASTERWORKS: THE MIGHTY THOR VOL. 7 HC
Written by STAN LEE
Penciled by JACK KIRBY
Cover by JACK KIRBY
The epic saga of the God of Thunder continues as the Marvel Masterworks present another volume of Mighty Thor masterpieces by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby! And there’s no holds barred from these masters of storytelling from page one: The evil Loki, God of Mischief, has created a dilemma of Asgardian proportions (natch!). Only with the medical skill of his guise as Dr. Donald Blake can Thor save the life of the lovely Lady Sif, but only with the power of Thor can he keep Loki at bay!
Meanwhile, in the darkened depths, a threat greater than any Thor has ever before faced rises when the malignant Mangog threatens to unsheathe the Odinsword and bring Ragnarok upon the Norse gods. It’s a tale considered by many to be Lee and Kirby’s most-pulse pounding Asgardian epic. Need we say more?
We do! Because with Stan and Jack, there’s always more amazing revelations around the corner. Like the startling secret hidden from Donald Blake, and a galaxy-spanning adventure that includes the origin of Galactus and a melee that pits Thor and Ego the Living Planet up against the infamous world devourer! Collecting THOR #153-162
224 PGS./All Ages …$54.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-2924-0
COUNTDOWN SPECIAL: KAMANDI, THE LAST BOY ON EARTH 80-PAGE GIANT
Written by Jack Kirby
Art by Kirby, Mike Royer and D. Bruce Berry
Cover by Ryan Sook
Collecting stories from KAMANDI: LAST BOY ON EARTH #1, #10 and #29, written and illustrated by Jack Kirby!
On sale April 2 – 80 pg, FC, $4.99 US
COMICS GO HOLLYWOOD—FCBD 2008 EDITION
TwoMorrows Publishing presents Comics Go Hollywood, unveiling secrets behind your favorite on-screen heroes! Our regular magazine editors have assembled this special 32-page behind-the-scenes guide, where you’ll learn what’s involved in taking a character from the comics page to the big screen! It includes: Storyboards from DC’s animated hit The New Frontier (courtesy of Draw! Magazine)! Jeph Loeb on writing for both Marvel Comics and the Heroes TV show (courtesy of Write Now! magazine)! Details on the unseen X-Men movie (courtesy of Alter Ego magazine)! A history of The Joker from his 1940s origins to his upcoming appearance in The Dark Knight (courtesy of Back-Issue Magazine)! And a look at Marvel Universe co-creator Jack Kirby’s Hollywood career, with extensive Kirby art!
SECRET INVASION: THE INFILTRATION TPB
Written by STAN LEE, BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS, BRIAN REED & DAN SLOTT
Penciled by JACK KIRBY, JIM CHEUNG, LEINIL YU, MARK BAGLEY, MICHAEL GAYDOS & DAVID MACK
Cover by LEINIL YU
Retrace the roots of THE INFILTRATION all the way back to the beginning of the Marvel Age of Heroes! First, in FANTASTIC FOUR #2 (1962), it’s a close encounter of the Skrull kind as four shape-changing aliens pose as Mr. Fantastic, the Invisible Girl, the Thing and the Human Torch in an attempt to destroy the fledgling Fantastic Four! Then, flash-forward to the present day as the SECRET INVASION stands revealed in the pages of NEW AVENGERS: ILLUMINATI, NEW AVENGERS, MIGHTY AVENGERS and AVENGERS: THE INITIATIVE. Conspiracy. Paranoia. Betrayal. Who do you trust? Collecting FANTASTIC FOUR #2, NEW AVENGERS: ILLUMINATI #1 and #5, NEW AVENGERS #31-32 and #38-39, MIGHTY AVENGERS #7, and AVENGERS: THE INITIATIVE ANNUAL #1.
232 PGS./Rated T+ …$19.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-3231-8
AVENGERS CLASSIC #11
Written by STAN LEE & TOM BELAND
Penciled by DON HECK & JUAN DOE
Cover by ART ADAMS
The mighty Avengers meet Spider-Man! And the only blurb we can write is “WOWEE!” Also re-introducing the mysterious KANG! Yes, it’s another classic spectacular story by Stan Lee with incomparable illustrations by Don Heck…plus an all-new masterpiece from the peerless minds of Tom Beland and Juan Doe!
32 PGS./Rated A …$2.99
AVENGERS CLASSIC #12
Written by STAN LEE & BOB BURDEN
Art by DON HECK & JUAN DOE
Cover by ART ADAMS
“THIS HOSTAGE EARTH!” In which the mighty Avengers battle to save their beloved planet from a fate so deadly that none but the macabre Mole Man could have devised it! A timeless Marvel tale of most compelling excellence by Stan Lee and Don Heck! PLUS! An astonishing all-new Avengers adventure chockablock with madcap mayhem from masters of mirth Bob Burden (Flaming Carrot Comics) and Juan Doe (FANTASTIC FOUR: ¡ISLA DE LA MUERTE!)!! And MORE all-new material in this double-sized final issue!
48 PGS./Rated A …$3.99
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.
JACK 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