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SA 1 VE WHE5% O N YO TwoMorrows RDE U ONL R 2016 CATALOG UPDATE #1 INE! FEVER (author of The Extraordinary Works of and Kimota: The Companion ) presents a “love letter” to his personal golden age of , 1976-1986, covering all the things that made those comics great—the top artists, the coolest stories, and even the best ads! Remember the days when every comic book captured your imagination, and took you to new and exciting places? When you didn’t apologize for loving the comic books and creators that gave you bliss? COMIC BOOK FEVER captures that era, when comics offered all different genres to any kid with a pocketful of coins, at local establishments from 7-Elevens to your local drug store. Inside this full-color hardcover are new articles, interviews, and images about the people, places, characters, titles, moments, and good times that inspired and thrilled us in the Bronze Age: , JOHN ROMITA, GEORGE PÉREZ, , ALAN MOORE, DENNY O’NEIL, , JOSÉ LUIS GARCÍA-LÓPEZ, THE HERNANDEZ BROTHERS, THE BUSCEMA BROTHERS, , DAVIS, , , , , —and that’s just for starters. It covers the phenoms that delighted Baby Boomers, , and beyond: UNCANNY X-MEN, NEW TEEN , TEENAGE TURTLES , LOVE AND ROCKETS, CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS, VS. SPIDER-MAN, , , KISS, , ROM, HOSTESS CAKE ADS, GRIT(!), and other milestones! So take a trip back in time to re-experience those epic stories, and feel the heat of COMIC BOOK FEVER once again! With cover art and introduction by . (240-page FULL-COLOR HARDCOVER ) $39.95 • (Digital Edition) $12.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60549-063-2 • SHIPS JUNE 2016! GO TO www.twomorrows.com FOR A FREE PREVIEW!

AL PLASTINO: LAST SUPERMAN STANDING

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was one of the last surviving penciler/ of his era. Laboring uncredited on SUPERMAN for two n w

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KRYPTONITE . He was called upon to help maintain the DC Comics house-style by redrawing other p s e r

artists’ Superman heads, most notoriously on JACK KIRBY’S series, much to his cha - r i e

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PALOOKA, , and others. With a Foreword by , this book (by EDDY ZENO , & author of : A LIFE IN COMICS ) was completed just weeks before Al’s recent passing. In T

these pages, the artist remembers both his struggles and triumphs in the world of comics, cartooning and s r e t

beyond. A near-century of insights shared by Al, his family, and contemporaries , c a r

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JERRY ORDWAY, AND —paint a layered portrait of Plastino’s life and career. And a l twomorrows.com wealth of illustrations show just how influential a figure he is in the . A FOR A FREE PREVIEW! (112-page ) $17.95 • (Digital Edition) $5.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60549-066-3 • SHIPS APRIL 2016!

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BACK ISSUE #84 BACK ISSUE #85 BACK ISSUE #86 BACK ISSUE #87 BACK ISSUE #88 “Supergirl in the Bronze Age!” Her 1970s “Christmas in the Bronze Age!” Go behind “Marvel Bronze Age Giants and Reprints!” “Batman AND Superman!” Bronze Age “Comics Magazines of the ’70s and ’80s!” and 1980s adventures, including her in the scenes of comics’ best holiday tales of the In-depth exploration of Marvel’s GIANT-SIZE World’s Finest, Super Sons, Batman/ Superman From to , KIRBY ’s Crisis on Infinite Earths and her many rebirths. 1970s through the early 1990s! And we series, plus indexes galore of Marvel reprint /Partner Swap, Jimmy Olsen and Lois “Speak-Out Series,” EISNER ’s Spirit magazine, Plus: an ALAN BRENNERT interview, behind revisit Merchandise Catalogs of the titles, Marvel digests and Fireside Books edi - Lane go solo, Superman/Radio Shack give - Unpublished , MICHAEL USLAN the scenes of the Supergirl movie starring late ’70s! Featuring work by , tions, and the last days of the “Old” X-Men! aways, and JLA #200’s “A League Divided” on magazine you didn’t see, plus HELEN SLATER , Who is ?, and CHRIS CLAREMONT, JOSÉ LUIS GARCÍA- Featuring work by , ROSS (as a nod to Batman v. Superman) ! Featuring B&Ws from Atlas/Seaboard, Charlton, Skywald, more. With , ELLIOT LÓPEZ, , the KUBERT STUDIO, ANDRU, , , work by , RICH BUCKLER, and Warren. Featuring work by NEAL ADAMS, MAGGIN, MARV WOLFMAN, plus a Supergirl DENNY O’NEIL, STEVE PURCELL, JOHN GERRY CONWAY, , STAN GERRY CONWAY, JACK KIRBY, GEORGE JOHN BOLTON, , DOUG jam cover recreation of ADVENTURE ROMITA, JR., and more. Cover by MARIE LEE, WERNER ROTH, ROY THOMAS, and PÉREZ, JIM STARLIN, and more. Cover by MOENCH, EARL NOREM, ROY THOMAS, COMICS #397! SEVERIN and ! more. Cover by JOHN ROMITA, SR.! ! and more. Cover by ! (84 FULL-COLOR pages) $8.95 (84 FULL-COLOR pages) $8.95 (100 FULL-COLOR pages) $9.95 (84 FULL-COLOR pages) $8.95 (84 FULL-COLOR pages) $8.95 (Digital Edition) $3.95 (Digital Edition) $3.95 (Digital Edition) $4.95 (Digital Edition) $3.95 • Ships March 2016 (Digital Edition) $3.95 • Ships April 2016

COMIC BOOK CREATOR #9 COMIC BOOK CREATOR #10 COMIC BOOK CREATOR #11 COMIC BOOK CREATOR #12 COMIC BOOK CREATOR #13 on his comics career (from The Broadway sci-fi epic examined! Retrospective on , co-creator of JACK KIRBY ’s mid-life work examined, MICHAEL W. KALUTA feature interview E-Man, to co-creating The , and Interviews with art director NEAL ADAMS , the modern and , and from and at Marvel in covering his early fans days THE SHADOW, his current stint on the Dick Tracy comic director STUART (Reanimator) GORDON , early progenitor of the . Kane the middle ’60s to the Fourth World at DC , the STUDIO , and strip), plus we the lost treasure playwright LENNY KLEINFELD , stage man - cover newly-inked by , (including the real-life background drama cover work! Plus talks GODS OF MOUNT OLYMPUS drawn by ager DAVID GORDON , and a look at plus remembrances from friends, fans, and that unfolded during that tumultuous era)! about her 65+ years in the comic book Joe! Plus, Part One of our interview with Warp’s 1980s series! Plus: collaborators, and a Kane art gallery. Also, Plus a career-spanning interview with business on , , the late , why JOHN an interview with PETER (Hate!) BAGGE , our RICH BUCKLER interview conclusion, a pioneer HOWARD SUPER-FRIENDS, and SPONGEBOB! Also ROMITA, JR. is the best our RICH BUCKLER interview Part One, look at the “greatest in the history of CRUSE , the extraordinary and JAY LYNCH reveals the WACKY PACK working, we quiz about GIANT WHAM-O COMICS , and the con - mankind,” MINESHAFT , and Part One of graphic novelist of the award-winning MEN who created the Topps trading cards the days of Marvel horror, plus HEMBECK! clusion of our STAN GOLDBERG interview! our interview! Stuck Rubber Baby! Cover by ! that influenced an entire generation! (84-page FULL-COLOR magazine) $8.95 (84-page FULL-COLOR magazine) $8.95 (84-page FULL-COLOR magazine) $8.95 (84-page FULL-COLOR magazine) $8.95 (84-page FULL-COLOR magazine) $8.95 (Digital Edition) $3.95 (Digital Edition) $3.95 (Digital Edition) $3.95 (Digital Edition) $3.95 • Ships May 2016 (Digital Edition) $3.95 • Ships Aug. 2016 ALTER EGO #140 ALTER EGO #141 ALTER EGO #142 ALTER EGO #143 ALTER EGO #144 Golden Age great spotlight, From to , we cover the DAVID SIEGEL talks to RICHARD ARNDT DON GLUT discusses his early years as MARK CARLSON documents 1940s-50s adapted from DAN MAKARA ’s docu - career of artist RICH BUCKLER: Fantastic about how, from 1991-2005, he brought comic book writer for Marvel, Warren, and ACE COMICS (with super-heroes mentary on Hasen, the 1940s artist of the Four, The , Black Panther, Ka-Zar, the greatest artists of to Gold Key, with art by SANTOS, MAROTO, & Davey, Lash Lightning, The Raven, Society, Green Lantern, Wonder , Morbius, a zillion Marvel covers— the San Diego Comic-Con! With art and CHAN, NEBRES, KUPPERBERG, TUSKA, Unknown Soldier, Captain Courageous, Woman, Wildcat, Holyoke’s Cat-Man, and Batman, , and other DC stars— artifacts by FRADON, GIELLA, MOLDOFF, TRIMPE, , and others! Also, , and others)! Art by KURTZMAN, numerous other classic heroes—and, for 30 Creepy and horror—and that’s just in LAMPERT, CUIDERA, FLESSEL, NORRIS, and ROY THOMAS on MOONEY, BERG, L.B. COLE, PALAIS, and years, the artist of the famous the first half of the 1970s! Plus Mr. SULLIVAN, NOVICK, SCHAFFENBERGER, the 1970s professional Academy of Comic more. Plus: RICHARD ARNDT ’s interview newspaper strip! Bonus art by his buddies Monster, BILL SCHELLY, FCA, and comics GROTHKOPF, and others! Plus how writer Book Arts, founded by STAN LEE and with BILL HARRIS (1960s-70s editor of , , CARMINE expert HAMES WARE on fabulous Golden got to the Con, Mr. CARMINE INFANTINO! Plus Mr. Monster, Gold Key and King Comics), FCA, Comic INFANTINO, and SHELLY MAYER! Age artist RAFAEL ASTARITA! Monster’s Comic Crypt, FCA, and more! FCA, BILL SCHELLY , and more! Crypt, and Comic Archive. (84-page FULL-COLOR magazine) $8.95 (84-page FULL-COLOR magazine) $8.95 (84-page FULL-COLOR magazine) $8.95 (84-page FULL-COLOR magazine) $8.95 (84-page FULL-COLOR magazine) $8.95 (Digital Edition) $3.95 • Ships May 2016 (Digital Edition) $3.95 • Ships July 2016 (Digital Edition) $3.95 • Ships Aug. 2016 (Digital Edition) $3.95 • Ships Oct. 2016 (Digital Edition) $3.95 • Ships Dec. 2016

BACK ISSUE #89 BACK ISSUE #90 BACK ISSUE #91 BACK ISSUE #92 BACK ISSUE #93 “Bronze Age Adaptations!” The Shadow, “Eighties Ladies!” MILLER & SIENKIEWICZ ’s “All-Jerks Issue!” , in the “Bronze Age Halloween!” The “All-Captains Issue!” Bronze Age histories of : Son of , Galactica, The : Assassin, , Captain Marvel Bronze Age, J. Jonah Jameson, revival of 1982, Swamp Thing in Hollywood, ! (Captain Marvel) and Captain Mar- Black Hole, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Worlds (), Lady Quark, DAN Thompson, DC’s Biggest Blowhards, the team-ups, KUPPERBERG & Vell, Captain Carrot, Captain and the Unknown, and Marvel’s 1980s movie adapta - MISHKIN ’s , WILLIAM , Obnoxio the , and Archie’s MIGNOLA ’s miniseries, Losers, Captain Universe, and Captain Victory tions. Plus: PAUL KUPPERBERG surveys prose MESSNER-LOEBS and ’s “pal” Reggie Mantle! Featuring the work of DC’s The Witching Hour, the Living Mummy, and the Galactic . Featuring C. C. adaptations of comics! With work by JACK Jezebel Jade, Somerset Holmes, and a look (-jerks) RICH BUCKLER, , and an index of Marvel’s 1970s’ horror BECK, , JACK KIRBY, KIRBY, DENNY O’NEIL, , back at Marvel’s ! Featuring the , , KEITH anthologies! Featuring the work of RICH ELLIOT S. MAGGIN, , DON MICHAEL W. KALUTA, , work of , JOHN ROMITA JR., GIFFEN, , and many BUCKLER, , , NEWTON, , SCOTT SHAW!, MICHAEL USLAN, and sporting an alternate , and many more, plus a previ - more. Cover-featuring KEVIN MAGUIRE ’s , MICHAEL USLAN, TOM JIM STARLIN, ROY THOMAS, and more. Kaluta cover produced for DC’s Shadow series! ously unpublished cover by SIENKIEWICZ. iconic Batman/Guy Gardner “One Punch”! YEATES, and many more. Cover by YEATES. Cover painting by DAVE COCKRUM! (84 FULL-COLOR pages) $8.95 (84 FULL-COLOR pages) $8.95 (84 FULL-COLOR pages) $8.95 (84 FULL-COLOR pages) $8.95 (84 FULL-COLOR pages) $8.95 (Digital Edition) $3.95 • Ships June 2016 (Digital Edition) $3.95 • Ships July 2016 (Digital Edition) $3.95 • Ships Aug. 2016 (Digital Edition) $3.95 • Ships Sept. 2016 (Digital Edition) $3.95 • Ships Nov. 2016

COMIC BOOK CREATOR #14 DRAW! #31 DRAW! #32 KIRBY COLLECTOR #67 KIRBY COLLECTOR #68 Comprehensive interview, How-to demos & interviews with Philadelphia Super-star DC penciler HOWARD PORTER UP-CLOSE & PERSONAL! Kirby interviews KEY KIRBY CHARACTERS! We go decade- from early years as Marvel to present- artists JG JONES (52, , Wanted, demos his creative process, and you weren’t aware of, photos and recollec - by-decade to examine pivotal characters day greatness at DC depicting BATMAN, Batman and ) and KHOI PHAM (The discusses everything from storyboarding to tions from fans who saw him in person, Jack created throughout his career (includ - , and SWAMP THING (chockful Mighty Avengers, The Astonishing Spider- penciling as he gives a breakdown of his personal anecdotes from Jack’s fellow pros, ing some that might surprise you)! Plus of rarely-seen artwork)! Plus Man, The Mighty World of Marvel), JAMAR working methods. Plus there’s Crusty Critic LEE and KIRBY cameos in comics, MARK there’s a look at what would’ve happened examines the nefarious legacy of Batman NICHOLAS reviews of art supplies, JERRY JAMAR NICHOLAS reviewing art supplies, EVANIER and other regular columnists, and if Kirby had never left for co-creator in an investigation ORDWAY demos the “ORD-way” of draw - showing the Ord-Way of more! Don’t let the photo cover you; DC, how Jack’s work has been repackaged into tragic and rapacious greed. We ing, and Comic Art Bootcamp by MIKE doing comics, and Comic Art Bootcamp this issue is chockfull of rare Kirby pencil over the decades, and also look at RAINA TELGEMEIER and her MANLEY and BRET BLEVINS ! JG Jones lessons with BRET BLEVINS and Draw! editor art, from Roz Kirby’s private sketchbook, other regular columnists, and galleries of magnificent army of devotees, and more! cover! Mature readers only. MIKE MANLEY ! Mature readers only. and Jack’s most personal comics stories! unseen Kirby pencil art! (84-page FULL-COLOR magazine) $8.95 (84-page FULL-COLOR magazine) $8.95 (84-page FULL-COLOR magazine) $8.95 (100-page FULL-COLOR mag) $10.95 (100-page FULL-COLOR mag) $10.95 (Digital Edition) $3.95 • Ships Nov. 2016 (Digital Edition) $3.95 (Digital Edition) $3.95 • Summer 2016 (Digital Edition) $4.95 • Ships Spring 2016 (Digital Edition) $4.95 • Summer 2016 MONSTER MASH The Creepy, Kooky Monster Craze In America, 1957-1972 Time-trip back to the frightening era of 1957-1972 , when stomped into the American mainstream! Once Frankenstein and fiends infiltrated TV in 1957, an of monster magazines, toys, games, trading cards, and comic books crashed upon an unsuspecting public. This profusely illustrated full-color hardcover covers that creepy, kooky Monster . s Craze through features on Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine, the #1 hit “Monster Mash,” ’s model kits, TV r e n

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JONATHAN FRID (Dark Shadows), GEORGE BARRIS (monster car customizer), ED “BIG DADDY” ROTH (Rat Fink), BOBBY p s e r

(BORIS) PICKETT (Monster Mash singer/songwriter) and others, with a Foreword by TV horror host ZACHERLEY , the “Cool r i Ghoul.” Written by MARK VOGER (author of “The Dark Age”). e h t

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