Alter Ego Collection Volume 1 - Softcover

Thomas, Roy

9781893905597: Alter Ego Collection Volume 1

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1893905594 ISBN 13: 9781893905597

Publisher: TwoMorrows Publishing, 2006

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Editor Roy Thomas' acclaimed magazine Alter Ego first took the world by storm in the 1960s as the premier 'zine about comics. After abandoning it for a two-decade career as a major writer and editor for Marvel and DC Comics, Roy resurrected it in 1999, and this trade paperback collects the first two issues, plus 30 pages of new material! Behind a new JLA Jam Cover by Joe Kubert, George Perez, Dick Giordano, George Tuska, Nick Cardy, Ramona Fradon & Joe Giella, you'll find: Gil Kane, Julius Schartz & Gardner Fox on the creation of the Silver Age Atom! "The Stan Lee Roast" co-starring Sal Buscema, John Romita, Peter David, Chris Claremont, Jim Shooter, et al.! Michael T. Gilbert on Will Eisner's 1966 Spirit story! Roy Thomas, Jerry Ordway & Mike Machlan on creating Infinity, Inc.! Interviews with Larry Lieber, Irwin Hasen & Jack Burnley! Wonder Woman rarities, with art by H.G. Peter! How Marv Wolfman rescued Golden Age art! Plus Robert Kanigher and Bill Schelly on comics fandom, FCA (Fawcett Collectors of America) with Marc Swayze, C.C. Beck, Mac Raboy & Richard Deane Taylor ― and Kane, Will Eisner, Carmine Infantino, Mike Sekowsky, Murphy Anderson, Dick Dillin, plus all seven of our super-star cover artists!

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In the early 1960s Thomas published Alter Ego, generally considered the first fanzine devoted to comic books. In 1999, after a successful career as a comics writer and editor, he resurrected the title as a no-longer--amateur magazine focusing on superhero comics of the "Golden Age" of the 1940s and the two--decades-later "Silver Age." This volume collects the first two issues of the revival and 30 pages of additional related art. The articles are on such topics as the creation of the golden-age Wonder Woman and of the silver-age Atom and Will Eisner's little-seen 1960s revivals of the Spirit. Other features include the transcript of a 1995 roast of Marvel Comics' Stan Lee, interviews with artist-writer Larry Leiber (Lee's brother) and early Superman and Batman artist Jack Burnley, and Lee's 1947 Writer's Digest article "There's Money in Comics." A hefty dose of nostalgia for longtime comic-book fans and, as interest in comics as an art form grows, valuable documentation of the medium's history. Gordon Flagg
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