Alter Ego (1999 Magazine) comic books 2013

Add to cart Near Mint $5.10

Add to cart Near Mint $5.10

Add to cart Near Mint $5.10

This issue comes polybagged, and includes free 3-D glasses so you can view the art in all its dimensions! Alter Ego takes a red and green look at those sensational stereoscopic comics of the 1950s in a special 3-D issue! There's an in-depth feature assembled and annotated by Ray (3-D) Zone, featuring never-before-revealed secrets of the era! Then prepare yourself, as we reproduce actual 1950s 3-D art by Simon & Kirby, Kubert, Meskin, Powell, Maurer, Nostrand, Swan, Boring, Schwartz, Mooney, Shores, Tuska, and many others! Plus: Joe Kubert and Norman Maurer discuss the origin of 3-D comic books; Mr. Monster's Comic Crypt! Update Edition - Michael T. Gilbert revisits Kanegson, Eisner, Feldstein, and Charles Atlas; Comic Fandom Archive: Of Graphic Stories & Wonderworlds - Bill Schelly interviews Richard Kyle, the man who coined the term "graphic novel"; Fawcett Collectors of America #174 - P.C. Hamerlinck and Roy Thomas present George Evans' Captain Video - part II. Cover price $8.95.

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Not polybagged, and lacks free 3-D glasses. Alter Ego takes a red and green look at those sensational stereoscopic comics of the 1950s in a special 3-D issue! There's an in-depth feature assembled and annotated by Ray (3-D) Zone, featuring never-before-revealed secrets of the era! Then prepare yourself, as we reproduce actual 1950s 3-D art by Simon & Kirby, Kubert, Meskin, Powell, Maurer, Nostrand, Swan, Boring, Schwartz, Mooney, Shores, Tuska, and many others! Plus: Joe Kubert and Norman Maurer discuss the origin of 3-D comic books; Mr. Monster's Comic Crypt! Update Edition - Michael T. Gilbert revisits Kanegson, Eisner, Feldstein, and Charles Atlas; Comic Fandom Archive: Of Graphic Stories & Wonderworlds - Bill Schelly interviews Richard Kyle, the man who coined the term "graphic novel"; Fawcett Collectors of America #174 - P.C. Hamerlinck and Roy Thomas present George Evans' Captain Video - part II. Cover price $8.95.

Alter Ego pays tribute to comics artist Joe Kubert! There's a quartet of interviews with Kubert on the 1940s-1970s career of the legendary artist (and often writer) of Hawkman, Tor, Enemy Ace, Sgt. Rock, Viking Prince, Tarzan, et al.! With added art by Russ Heath, Neal Adams, Murphy Anderson, Sheldon Moldoff, Irv Novick, and others! Plus: A Brief Eulogy for Joe Kubert, Humanitarian - Kevin Brogan's speech posthumously presenting JK the Giordano Humanitarian Award; Mr. Monster's Comic Crypt: The Joe Kubert Sketchbook - Michael T. Gilbert looks at Joe's re-visitations to his characters and concepts of yore; Fawcett Collectors of America #175 - The powerful finale of "The Indestructible Antagonist!" from Captain Video #3. Cover by Daniel James Cox and Joe Kubert. Cover price $8.95.

Alter Ego shines the spotlight on Golden Age artists and friends L.B. Cole & Jay Disbrow - with the latter writing an intimate memoir of his sometime boss! Cole's 1940s Cat-Man covers are classics, as was his work on Magno, Black Cobra, Black Venus, and many other features, while Disbrow drew numerous quirky horror tales for Star and ACG! Art by Bob Fujitani, Charles Quinlan, Irwin Hasen, and more! Plus: A Four-Color Dreamer - Ray Zone's conversation with 1950s comics artist Jay Disbrow; Richard E. Hughes: Life After ACG - Michael Vance continues his look at recently unearthed artifacts of an important writer & editor; Mr. Monster's Comic Crypt: Evil Twins - Michael T. Gilbert on his favorite comic book cliche; Of Graphic Stories & Wonderworlds - Bill Schelly concludes his talk with writer, publisher & bookstore owner Richard Kyle; Fawcett Collectors of America #176 - P.C. Hamerlinck and Roy Thomas host the final chapter from Captain Video #3. Cover price $8.95.

Hey, nifty - The Avengers are (is?) fifty! Alter Ego takes a look at the first-decade secrets of Earth's Mightiest Heroes including Will Murray on the group's behind-the-scenes origin; Roy Thomas on writing the Avengers; plus artifacts by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, the brothers Buscema, George Tuska, Neal Adams, Gene Colan, Rich Buckler, and Steve Englehart! Cover by Don Heck, originally intended for Avengers #37, never before printed in color! Cover price $8.95.

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Alter Ego is an FCA (Fawcett Collectors of America) celebration of the life and art of the late, great Marc Swayze, on what would have been his 100th birthday, marking 119 issues in a row of his being a part of A/E! It includes salutes from past and present, from C.C. Beck and Otto Binder and all the usual SHAZAM! suspects plus Swayze Marvel Family cover art from the 1940s, a special interview with wife June Swayze on Marc and her own singing career, and a full Phantom Eagle story from Wow Comics! Plus: An interview with 1950s Dell/Western and Toby Press comic book artist Mel Keefer; Mr. Monster's Comic Crypt - Michael T. Gilbert showcases the influence of the legendary Harvey Kurtzman on other great talents; Comic Fandom Archive: Spotlight on Bill Schelly - Gary Brown throws a 2011 San Diego Comic-Con spotlight on A/E's associate editor; Sheldon Moldoff's final FCA interview. Cover by Marc Swayze features Mary Marvel, Captain Marvel and Captain Marvel, Jr. from the splash page of Captain Marvel Adventures (1941) #18. Cover price $8.95.

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Alter Ego is a salute to the first series of X-Men (1963 to 1969) behind Jack Kirby's unused cover for issue #10! There's secrets behind the mag's first decade - rare late-'60s Brazilian X-Men stories, a long-lost '60s X-Men 'character sheet' by Stan Lee himself, and Roy Thomas on the 1970s revival that turned into a mutant explosion! With art and artifacts by Lee, Kirby, Roth, Adams, O'Neil, Heck, Friedrich, Drake, and Buscema, plus the story of Marvelmania fan club! Plus: An interview with radio/TV journalist (and short-time comics writer) Ed Silverman; Mr. Monster's Comic Crypt: The Men Who Would Be Kurtzman (Part 2) - Michael T. Gilbert details more of the Mad creator's influence on comic book artists & writers; Comic Fandom Archive: Spotlight on Bill Schelly (Part II) - concluding Bill Schelly's panel at San Diego 2011; Fawcett Collectors of America #179 - P.C. Hamerlinck ushers in Otto Binder, "Red" Mohler, & Captain Marvel Jr. Cover price $8.95.

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The Golden Age Justice Society returns! Their kith and kin talk about JSA creators John B. Wentworth (Johnny Thunder), Len Sansone (The Atom), and Bernard Sachs (who inked Arthur Peddy's pencils on entire issues of All-Star Comics)! Plus rare art by Carmine Infantino, Paul Reinman, Mart Nodell, Stan Aschmeier, Ben Flinton, H.g. Peter, and others! Also: FCA (Fawcett Collectors of America), Michael T. Gilbert in Mr. Monster's Comic Crypt, and more! Detailed contents: John B. Wentworth, All-American Thunderbolt - daughter Rebecca Wentworth tells Richard Arndt about the creator of Johnny Thunder, Sargon the Sorcerer & The Whip; Special Interlude - "The Will of William Wilson"; Splitting the Atom, Three Ways - Mrs. Emily Sokoloff & Maggie Sansone talk to Shaun Clancy about Leonard Sansone -- inker & co-creator of the Atom -- and about co-creators Ben Flinton and Bill O'Connor; "The Life of a Freelancer...Is Always Feast or Famine" - Bernice Sachs-Smollet talks to Richard Arndt about her late husband, artist Bernard Sachs; Comic Fandom Archive: 2 Flashes Meet the Purple Slagheap - Bill Schelly presents Landon Chesney's fandom classic, in color for the first time since 1963; Mr. Monster's Comic Crypt: Now That's A Fan - Michael T. Gilbert looks at the nutty house ads of Golden Age Ace Periodicals; Fawcett Collectors of America #180 - P.C. Hamerlinck with Otto Binder's madcap memoir -- & Captain Marvel's wartime record. Cover homage by Shane Foley to a vintage All-Star image by Irwin Hasen. Cover price $8.95.