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Femforce #143 - Fighting Yank #6
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MEN OF MYSTERY #70
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BEST OF WEST #67
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Men of Mystery Spotlight: BLACK TERROR
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GREEN LAMA #0
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GREEN LAMA #1
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Books Shipping May 2008
Men of Mystery Spotlight Special #3
Fox Features: The First Heroic Wave

$24.95, 120 page format, saddle-stitched
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Writer's and Artist's names: Writers include Abner Sundell, Bob Kanigher and Robert Turner; artists include Lou Fine, Arturo Cazenueve, Pierce Rice, Jim Mooney, Al Carreno and Walter Frehm.
Intended Audience: All-ages fans of Golden Age reprint material; art aficionados, comics historians, and fans of classic action, adventure and superhero material of all kinds.
Format: Standard comic book size, super-thick 120-page saddle-stitched format; black & white interiors with full color covers. Includes material previously published in various issues of Men of Mystery comics and Golden Age Greats.
Synopsis: One of the first publishers from comics' Golden Age to extensively use superheroes was FOX FEATURES. This overview of FOX reprints a selection of their best, including GREEN MASK, The FLAME, SAMSON, The LYNX, The EAGLE, The BLACK RIDER, STARDUST, NIGHTBIRD & The DART. Art by Lou Fine, Jim Mooney & others.
Special Notes: Though the reason that their success was not long lasting has never been clear, there is no question that Victor Fox's colorful superhero anthologies SCIENCE, WEIRD, MYSTERY MEN, WONDERWORLD and the rest were highly influential on other publishers of the day, and the comic book market in general. An initial proving ground for seminal talent as well, FOX was an early outlet for future creative giants including Bob Kane, Will Eisner, Joe Simon, Jack Kirby and countless others. Though none of the FOX heroes achieved breakthrough status into the mainstream of pop culture, it's clear that their competitors saw the formula for their own future success in the FOX publications. Though FOX FEATURES is probably best remembered for is sensationalized "headlights" comics of the middle and late-1940's (starring Phantom Lady, Rulah and other "good girl art" icons ), that subject will be fodder for later volumes, as this one concentrates entirely on the companies' earlier (1939-1942) superhero output.

   
MEN OF MYSTERY #71
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Writer's and Artist's Names: Writers include Otto Binder, Bill Woolfolk and Jack Grogan. Artists include Dan Barry, Harry Anderson, Reed Crandall, Kurt Schaffenberger, Bernie Krigstein, and Jack Alderman.
Intended Audience: All-ages fans of Golden Age reprint material, art aficionados, comics historians, and fans of classic action, adventure and superhero material of all kinds.
Format: Standard comic book size, extra-thick 68-page saddle-stitched design; black & white interiors with color covers.
Synopsis: The best of The Golden Age's costumed adventurers- BULLETMAN, IBIS, GOLDEN ARROW, MAJOR MIDNIGHT, KEN SHANNON and- for the first time in Men of Mystery- The HOOD!! All in sharp reprints of actual vintage stories. Artists include: Dan Barry, Bernie Krigstein, Harry Anderson, Kurt Schaffenberger, Reed Crandall, Jack Alderman and others.
Special Notes: This issue is packed with stories originally published by two of the 1940's most successful publishers, Fawcett and Quality. Both were known for the excellent production values and highly-polished art styles in evidence in their books; and with some of the greatest comics artists of all time- Barry, Krigstein, Crandall, Schaffenberger, etc; this excellent compilation certainly demonstrates why.

   
Books Shipping June 2008
FEMFORCE #144
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Writer's and Artist's Names: Writers include Stephanie & Mark Heike, Silvano, Eric Johnson , Eric Lindberg. Artists include Jeff Austin, Mark Heike, Stephanie Heike, Quinton Bedwell, Rock Baker, Javier Lugo and Paul Wills.
Intended Audience: All-ages readers who like Silver-Age style superheroics, as well as fans of classic "good girl "art.
Format: Standard comic book size and format, 44 pages saddle-stitched. Black & white interiors with color covers.
Synopsis: Meet STORMY TEMPEST, visitor from the future: has she come to save The FEMFORCE, or destroy it? Will MS. VICTORY and PARAGON be forced to acknowledge their "son"- AND pay child support? And what does SHE CAT know about the mysterious stranger called PRIDE? Good Girl art, action and intrigue.
Special Notes: This issue brings another long-lived Bill Black creation, STORMY TEMPEST into the FEMFORCE Universe, as a catalyst to the next big-story arc; while the saga of MS. VICTORY'S "cloned without her knowledge" offspring brings her & husband PARAGON in to court to confront the legalities of the situation. And if all that was not enough, this issue also includes ( on the 'back side", in a flip-book format) the 7th smash issue of AC's "underground" comic book sensation, GARGANTARAMA- THE COMIC BOOK. Stories centering around a giant woman theme are the order of the day here, and though inclusion of the Gargantarama flip book has not been mentioned in previous FEMFORCE Previews solicitations, the feature has made FF's 137-142 hot "after market" items among fanatics for this type of material. Writer/creators Eric Johnson and Eric Lindberg really know the genre (and their audience) and have been producing new characters and stories that have taken the GTS community by storm!!

   
Best of the West #68
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Writer's and Artist's Names: Writers include Gardner Fox, Ray Krank and Paul S. Newman. Artists include Dick Ayers, Frank Bolle, Joe Certa John Belfi and Ed Good and others.
Intended Audience: All-ages fans of classic action, adventure and B-Western material of all kinds.
Format: Standard comic book size, 56 pages saddle-stitched. Black & White interiors with full color covers.
Synopsis: NOW 56 PAGES!! More great Western action than ever with 8 feature-length vintage reprints-REDMASK in "Cave of Three Skeletons"! "DURANGO'S Stolen Steed "!! HAUNTED HORSEMAN in "Death By The Flames"!!! MONTE HALE-"The Champion"!!!! "The WHIP Unmasked"!!!!! TWO GUN LIL in "The Kissing Murder" plus ROCKY LANE & BLACK DIAMOND!!!!!
Special Notes: When we asked readers what we could do to make BEST OF THE WEST an even better collection of the finest classic Western comic books ever offered, they said "add more pages", so we did!! Starting with #68, every issue will contain a full 52 interior pages of rootin', tootin' ridin' and shootin' cowboy cavortin', as produced by the greatest creators of Western comics material the medium has ever seen, originally published by Magazine Enterprises, Fawcett, Quality, Dell, Lev Gleason, and other Golden Age publishers renowned for there Western output during the late 1940's and '50's.

   
Books Shipping July 2008
FEMFORCE #145
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Writer's and Artist's Names: Writers include Maura Grundmeyer, Eric Johnson, Mark and Stephanie Heike and Eric Lindberg. Artists include : Quinton Bedwell, Jeff Austin, Rock Baker, Paul Wills and Mark Heike.
Intended Audience: All-ages readers who like Silver-Age style superheroics as well as fans of classic "good girl" art .
Format: Standard comic book size and format, 44 pages, saddle-stitched; black and white interiors with color covers.
Synopsis: The FEMFORCE'S resident giant-sized jungle girl, TARA FREMONT is in the spotlight this issue as she must counter a tragic young villainess with the power to control giant, terrifying plants in "The Daughter of Dr. Green". Plus- more mischief with MARLA ALLISON and mirthful, medieval mayhem with ROWENA.
Special Notes: Talented newcomer Maura Grundmeyer returns to script a feature-length FEMFORCE adventure with a different slant, as the dysfunctional relationship between a botanist and his telekinetic adolescent daughter leads to giant mutant plants on as rampage.
 

   
MEN OF MYSTERY #72
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Writer's and Artist's Names: Writers include Bill Woolfolk, Otto Binder and Steve Douglas. Artists include Ben Thompson, Dan Barry, John Giunta and John Spranger.
Intended Audience: All-ages fans of Golden Age reprint material , art aficionados, comics historians, and fans of classic action, adventure and superhero material of all kinds.
Format: Standard comic book size, extra-thick 68-page saddle-stitched design; black & white interiors with color covers.
Synopsis: 1940's favorite DOLLMAN returns in a classic story titled "DOLL MAN VS THE HAG". Then, it's more full-story reprints starring MAJOR MIDNIGHT and LADY LUCK -plus THREE MORE vintage heroes making their MEN OF MYSTERY debut: HYDROMAN, The RED COMET and The DUKE OF DARKNESS!! The Golden Age lives again here!!
Special Notes: Regular MOM readers seem to respond best to two elements- stories featuring the most popular characters of the 1940's, and those chronicalling the VERY most obscure- and this issue has a good mix of both. Of course DOLLMAN was among the longest- running & most successful costumed superheroes of Quality Comic's Golden Age productions, and he returns this issue- while on the other side of the coin, we present The DUKE OF DARKNESS- a little-known hero (somewhat in the SPECTRE vein ) created & drawn by John Giunta in a very Will-Eisner-influenced style. A weird but well-crafted feature that deserved to have more success. Other first-timers this issue include HYDROMAN, yet another of the water-based superdoers created by the great Bill Everett, (though drawn here by Ben Thompson) and The RED COMET- an interesting mix of costumed superheroics in a futuristic science-fictional setting, originally published in Fiction House Comics' Planet Comics title.

   
Books Shipping August 2008
MEN OF MYSTERY #73
$9.95, 68 page format, saddle-stitched
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Writer's and Artist's Names: Writers include Otto Binder, Ed Herron and Bill Woolfolk. Artists include Carl Pfeufer and others.
Intended Audience: All-ages fans of Golden Age reprint material, art aficionados, comics historians, and fans of classic action, adventure and superhero material of all kinds
Format: Standard comic book size, extra-thick 68-page saddle-stitched design; black & white interiors with color covers.
Synopsis: Top Golden Age publishers FAWCETT and QUALITY are spotlighted with 7 feature-length stories, including MR. SCARLET in "The Loot Of Christopher Murden"; COMMANDO YANK in "Death Rides A Swallow"; IBIS vs."The Moon Menace"; DOLLMAN in "The Black Witch"; SPY SMASHER, MAJOR MIDNIGHT and T-MAN-vintage classics all!!
Special Notes: Another line-up of all-star features from two of the most-successful publishers of the Golden Age of comics, with this issue focusing on the "heavy hitters" from QUALITY and FAWCETT, in more than a half-dozen stories never previously reprinted, and not seen since there original publication in the 1940's.
 

   

 
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