Roy Tho mas ’Co de- DIS appr oved Comics Fan zine SPENNDD A HELLLUVVA HALLOOWWEEENN WITHH THE NON- EC HORROR $ 7.95 COMICS In the USA OF THE FEAARFUL No.97 1950s October 1950s 2010 STARRING: EVERETT • BRIEFER DITKO• MANEELY COLAN • MESKIN CAMERON • HEATH POWELL • KRIGSTEIN COLE • SIMON & KIRBY FUJITANI • DAVIS & MORE! PLUS: Art © 2010 Marvel Characters, Inc. 0 1 5 3 6 7 7 2 8 5 6 2 8 1 Edited by ROY THOMAS The greatest ‘zine of the 1960s is back, ALL-NEW , and focusing on ITAL ITAL ITAL GOLDEN AND SILVER DIGDITION DIGDITION DIGDITION E BLE E BLE E BLE AGE comics and creators with ARTICLES, AVAILA AVAILA AVAILA INTERVIEWS, UNSEEN ART, P.C. Hamerlinck’s FCA (Fawcett Collectors of America, featuring ALTER EGO #82 ALTER EGO #83 ALTER EGO #84 the archives of C.C. BECK and recollections by MLJ ISSUE! Golden Age MLJ index SWORD & SORCERY PART 2! Cover by Unseen JIM APARO cover, STEVE SKEATES Fawcett artist MARCUS SWAYZE ), Michael T. illustrated with vintage images of The ARTHUR SUYDAM, in-depth art-filled look discusses his early comics work, art & arti - Gilbert’s MR. MONSTER , and more! Shield, Hangman, Mr. Justice, Black Hood, at Marvel’s Conan the Barbarian, DC’s facts by ADKINS, APARO, ARAGONÉS, by IRV NOVICK, JACK COLE, CHARLES Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, Dagar the BOYETTE, DITKO, GIORDANO, KANE, 2010 EISNER AWARD Nominee BIRO, MORT MESKIN, GIL KANE, & oth - Invincible, Ironjaw & Wulf, and Arak, Son KELLER, MORISI, ORLANDO, SEKOWSKY, ers—behind a marvelous MLJ-heroes cover of Thunder, plus the never-seen Valda the STONE, THOMAS, WOOD , and the great Best Comics-Related Periodical by BOB McLEOD! Plus interviews with IRV Iron Maiden by TODD McFARLANE! Plus WARREN SAVIN! Plus writer CHARLES NOVICK and JOE EDWARDS, FCA, MR. JOE EDWARDS (Part 2), FCA, MR. SINCLAIR on his partnership with Batman Other issues available, & an ULTIMATE MONSTER, and more! MONSTER , and more! co-creator BILL FINGER, FCA, and more! (100-page magazine) $6.95 US (100-page magazine) $6.95 US (100-page magazine) $6.95 US BUNDLE with all issues at HALF-PRICE ! (Digital edition) $2.95 (Digital edition) $2.95 (Digital edition) $2.95 ITAL DIGDITION E BLE AVAILA ITAN L ITAN L ITAN L ITAL DIEGDITIO DIEGDITIO DIEGDITIO DIGDITION BLE BLE ABLE E BLE AVAILA AVAILA AVAIL AVAILA ALTER EGO #85 ALTER EGO #86 ALTER EGO #87 ALTER EGO #88 ALTER EGO #89 Captain Marvel and Superman’s battles Spotlighting the Frantic Four-Color MAD The sensational 1954-1963 saga of Great First-ever in-depth look at National/DC’s HARVEY COMICS’ PRE-CODE HORROR explored (in cosmic space, candy stories, WANNABES of 1953-55 that copied HAR - Britain’s MARVELMAN (decades before he founder MAJOR MALCOLM WHEELER- MAGS OF THE 1950 s! Interviews with SID and in court, with art by WALLY WOOD, VEY KURTZMAN’S EC smash (see Captain metamorphosed into Miracleman), plus an NICHOLSON, and early editors WHITNEY JACOBSON, WARREN KREMER, and CURT SWAN, and GIL KANE ), an in-depth Marble, Mighty Moose, Drag-ula, Prince interview with writer/artist/co-creator ELLSWORTH, VIN SULLIVAN, and MORT HOWARD NOSTRAND , plus Harvey artist interview with Golden Age great LILY Scallion, and more) with art by SIMON & MICK ANGLO , and rare Marvelman/ WEISINGER, with rare art and artifacts by KEN SELIG talks to JIM AMASH! MR. RENÉE , overview of CENTAUR COMICS KIRBY, KUBERT & MAURER, ANDRU & Miracleman work by ALAN DAVIS, ALAN SIEGEL & SHUSTER, BOB KANE, CREIG MONSTER presents the wit and wisdom (home of BILL EVERETT’s Amazing-Man ESPOSITO, EVERETT, COLAN, and many MOORE, a new RICK VEITCH cover, plus FLESSEL, FRED GUARDINEER, GARDNER (and worse) of DR. FREDRIC WERTHAM , and others), FCA, MR. 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DC’s (NOW WITH 16 COLOR PAGES!) “Earth- (NOW WITH 16 COLOR PAGES!) “Earth- SINNOTT and AYERS —plus STAN LEE, Golden Age artists MARC SWAYZE & Sword of Sorcery by O’NEIL, CHAYKIN, & Two—1961 to 1985!” with rare art by Two Companion, Part II!” More on the 1963- TUSKA, EVERETT, MARTIN GOODMAN, EMILIO SQUEGLIO, and interviews with SIMONSON and Claw by MICHELINIE & INFANTINO, GIL KANE, ANDERSON, 1985 series that changed comics forever! and others! A look at the “Marvel Super- the FAWCETT FAMILY! Plus Part II of “The CHAN, Hercules by GLANZMAN, Dagar DELBO, ANDRU, BUCKLER, APARO, The Huntress, Power Girl, Dr. Fate, Freedom Heroes” TV animation of 1966! 1940s MAD Four-Color Wannabes of the 1950s,” by GLUT & SANTOS, Marvel S&S art by GRANDENETTI, and DILLIN, interview with Fighters, and more, with art by ADAMS, Timely writer and editor LEON LAZARUS more on DR. LAURETTA BENDER and the BUSCEMA, KANE, KAYANAN, WRIGHT - Golden/Silver Age DC editor GEORGE APARO, AYERS, BUCKLER, GIFFEN, INFAN - interviewed by JIM AMASH! Plus FCA, teenage creations of STEVE GERBER, artist SON, et al., and JACK KATZ on his classic KASHDAN, plus MICHAEL T. GILBERT and TINO, KANE, NOVICK, SCHAFFENBERGER, MR. MONSTER, the 1960s fandom cre - JACK KATZ spills Golden Age secrets to First Kingdom! Plus FCA, MR. MONSTER, MR. MONSTER, STEVE GERBER, FCA SIMONSON, STATON, SWAN, TUSKA, our ations of STEVE GERBER, and more! JACK JIM AMASH, and more! New cover by STEVE GERBER ’s fan-creations (part 3), (Fawcett Collectors of America), and a new GEORGE KASHDAN interview Part 2, FCA, KIRBY holiday cover! ORDWAY and SQUEGLIO! and more! Cover by RAFAEL KAYANAN! cover by INFANTINO and AMASH! and more! STATON & GIORDANO cover! 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Bails (founder) Ronn Foss, Biljo White Mike Friedrich Cover Artist Bill Everett Cover Colorist Tom Ziuko With Special Thanks to: Heidi Amash Hurricane Heeran Contents Ger Apeldoorn Heritage Comics Manuel Auad Archives Writer/Editorial: Did Horror Comics Really Follow the Bob Bailey Mike Hoffman Alberto Becattini Mike Howlett “New Trend”? . 2 Blake Bell Dave Hunt Jack Bender Alan Hutchinson The Other Guys . 3 John Benson John Jacobson Lawrence Watt-Evans’ gargoyle’s-eye view of the non-EC horror comics of the 1950s. Mike Benton Glen Johnson Dominic Bongo Michael W. Kaluta Post Office Issues EC Stamps! . 35 Jerry K. Boyd Jack Katz You think A/E never carries news? What Alan Hutchinson has to say will definitely be news to you! Chris Boyko Stan Lee Brian’s Drive-In Dominique Leonard The Hand of Doom . 38 Theater (website) Dennis Lieberson Steve Brower Jim Ludwig Gary Brown’s gripping conversation with one of comics’ greatest stars of the 1950s & ’60s. Chris Brown Bruce Mason Gary Brown Marc Miyake “It’s Important That We Don’t Get Forgotten!” . 42 Frank Brunner Brian K. Morris Jim Amash winds up his epic interview with Golden/Silver age editor & writer George Kashdan. Mike Burkey Dave O’Dell Mike Catron Carlos Pacheco Mr. Monster’s Comic Crypt!: “Clowns! $#%#% Clowns!” . 59 Shaun Clancy Fred Patten Michael T. Gilbert sends in the clowns—the comic book variety, that is! Russ Cochran Bill Pearson Jack Davis John G. Pierce Dwight Decker Ken Quattro Tributes to Howie Post & Marvin Stein . 65 Al Dellinges Gene Reed Michaël Dewally Bob Rozakis re: [comments & corrections] . 68 The Dick Dillin Family Greg Sadowski Betty Dobson Pat Sekowsky FCA (Fawcett Collectors of America) #156 . 73 Walter do Carmo Ronn Sutton P.C. Hamerlinck presents two of Fawcett’s greatest: C.C. Beck & Marc Swayze. Michael Feldman Marc Svensson Shane Foley Desha Swayze On Our Cover: Alter Ego is generally centered around comic book characters and their creators Wendy Gaines Marc Swayze rather than on individual, stand-alone stories—while the latter were the stock and trade of most Janet Gilbert Jeff Taylor 1950s horror comics artist. What’s more, A/E covers which showcase super-heroes usually outsell Golden Age Comic Dann Thomas those that don’t. So we tried to split the difference: Bill Everett’ s macabre splash panel from Menace Book Stories Michael Vance #5 (July 1953), recently reprinted in the hardcover Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Menace , gave the Grand Comics Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. Database Dr. Michael J. Vassallo world a still-enduring horror-hero by introducing the later star of Marvel’s black-&-white mag Tales Walt Grogan Hames Ware of The Zombie , beginning with #1 in 1973.