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Series: Alter Ego Published by: Twomorrows Publishing
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21 Aug 2024
Pre-Order Alter Ego #189 (John Romita Sr Tribute Issue)
Alter Ego is a titanic and well-deserved tribute to the late, great John Romita! Featuring a transcript of a podcast recorded shortly after the Jazzy One’s passing featuring John Romita Jr., Jim Starlin, Steve Englehart, Brian Pulido, Roy Thomas, Jaime Jameson, John Cimino, Steve Houston, and Nile Scala! Plus David Armstrong’s con mini-interview with John Romita-and John Cimino on John’s ten greatest hits! With FCA (Fawcett Collectors of America), Mr. Monster’s Comic Crypt, and more!
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19 Jun 2024
Pre-Order Alter Ego #188 (25th Anniversary At Twomorrows)
Alter Ego #188 is a special double-size (160-page) issue with twin (flip) covers-one for Marvel, one for DC-celebrating 25 years of Alter Ego at TwoMorrows! The Marvel side includes David Armstrong’s Comic-Con mini-interviews with John Buscema, Marie Severin, Jim Mooney, and George Tuska-plus ‘Stan Lee’s Dinner with Alain Resnais,’ as annotated by Sean Howe! On the DC side: Armstrong’s short talks with Carmine Infantino, John Broome, Julius Schwartz, Joe Kubert, & Murphy Anderson-plus a special photo-feature on Gardner Fox, featuring his extended family! All this, plus FCA, Mr. Monster’s Comic Crypt, and more!
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4 Apr 2024
Alter Ego #187
Alter Ego focuses on Edmond Hamilton, one of the great early science-fiction authors-who then went on to an illustrious career at DC Comics, writing Superman, Batman, and especially The Legion of Super-Heroes! Learn all about his encounters with Ray Bradbury, Mort Weisinger, Julius Schwartz, et al-a panoply of titans! Plus FCA (Fawcett Collectors of America), Michael T. Gilbert in Mr. Monster’s Comic Crypt, and more!
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7 Feb 2024
Alter Ego #186
Alter Ego spotlights Angelo Torres, the youngest and last of the fabled EC Comics artists-who went on to a fabulous career as a horror, science-fiction, and humor artist for Timely/Marvel, Warren Publishing, and MAD magazine! This issue features a lushly illustrated retrospective of his still-ongoing career-plus FCA (Fawcett Collectors of America), Michael T. Gilbert in Mr. Monster’s Comic Crypt, and more! Edited by Roy Thomas.
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20 Dec 2023
Alter Ego #185
Alter Ego presents Mark Carlson-Ghost’s stupendous study of the 1940s Novelty Comics Group-with heroes like Blue Bolt, Target and the Targeteers, White Streak, Spacehawk, etc., produced by such Golden Age super-stars as Joe Simon & Jack Kirby, Carl Burgos, Bill Everett, Basil Wolverton, et al. Plus Michael T. Gilbert in Mr. Monster’s Comic Crypt, FCA (Fawcett Collectors of America), and more! Edited by Roy Thomas.
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27 Sep 2023
Alter Ego #184
Known as one of the finest inkers in comics history, the late, great Tom Palmer also was an accomplished penciler and painter, as you’ll see in this special tribute issue featuring an-depth interview with Palmer by Alex Grand and Jim Thompson.
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9 Aug 2023
Discontinued Alter Ego #183
Don’t miss the wall-to-wall coverage of Golden/Silver/Bronze Age legend Irv Novick (artist of Shield, Steel Sterling, Batman, The Flash, and some of the great DC war stories) by John Coates and Dewey Cassell.
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1 Jun 2023
Alter Ego #182
An FCA (Fawcett Collectors of America) special, behind a breathtaking Jerry Ordway cover! It include features on Uncle Marvel and the Fawcett Family (presided over by P.C. Hamerlinck), and a focus on artist Kenneth Landau (illustrator of Commander Battle and The Atomic Sub and many ACG horror stories) and writer Lee Goldsmith, who wrote Golden Age Green Lantern, Flash, and others. Plus Mr. Monster’s Comic Crypt by Michael T. Gilbert, and more!
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14 Apr 2023
Alter Ego #181 (Neal Adams Tribute Issue)
It’s a special Neal Adams issue, paying tribute to one of the giants of the Silver and Bronze Ages of comics!
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15 Feb 2023
Alter Ego #180
The Young All-Stars-the late-1980s successor to All-Star Squadron! Interviews with first artist Brian Murray and last artist Lou Manna-surprising insights by writer/co-creator Roy Thomas-plus a panorama of never-seen Young All-Stars artwork! All-new cover by Brian Murray!
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21 Dec 2022
Alter Ego #179
Celebrating the 61st Anniversary of Fantastic Four #1-‘cause we kinda blew right past its 60th-plus a sagacious salute to Stan Lee’s 100th birthday, with never-before-seen highlights-and to FF #1 and #2 inker George Klein! Spotlight on Sub-Mariner in the Bowery in FF #4-plus sensational secrets behind FF #1 and #3! Also: FCA (Fawcett Collectors of America), Michael T. Gilbert in Mr. Monster’s Comic Crypt, a Jack Kirby cover, and more!
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19 Oct 2022
Discontinued Alter Ego #178
Alter Ego features Golden Age great Emil Gershwin, artist of Starman, Spy Smasher, and ACG horror in a super-length special Mr. Monster’s Comic Crypt by Michael T. Gilbert, plus a Gershwin showcase in Peter Normanton’s From The Tomb, even a few tidbits about relatives George and Ira Gershwin to top it off! Also FCA (Fawcett Collectors of America), and other surprise features! Edited by Roy Thomas.
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28 Sep 2022
Alter Ego #177
Celebration of veteran artist Don Perlin-artist of Werewolf By Night, The Defenders, Ghost Rider, Moon Knight, 1950s horror, and just about every other adventure genre under the four-color sun! Plus Golden Age artist Marcia Snyder-Marvel’s early variant covers-Marvelmania club and fanzine-FCA (Fawcett Collectors of America), Michael T. Gilbert on Cracked Mazagine, et al. Edited by Roy Thomas.
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6 Jul 2022
Discontinued Alter Ego #176
The Shadow! Doc Savage! Red Dragon! Supersnipe! The grandiloquent Golden Age comics of major pulp-magazine publisher Street & Smith, examined in loving detail by Mark Carlson-Ghost! Tons of art by Bob Powell, Howard Nostrand, et al.! Also: Anthony Tollin on ‘The Shadow/Batman Connection’! Bonus features: FCA, Michael T. Gilbert, John Broome, Peter Normanton, and more! Edited by Roy Thomas.
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5 May 2022
Discontinued Alter Ego #175
Spotlighting the artists of Roy Thomas’ 1980s DC series All-Star Squadron! Featuring illuminating interviews with artists Arvell Jones, Richard Howell, and Jerry Ordway, conducted by Richard Arndt! Plus-the Squadron’s final secrets-including an amazing universe of previously unpublished Squadron art, including covers for issues that never existed by pro and amateur artists alike! Also: FCA, Michael T. Gilbert, and more! Wraparound cover by Arvell Jones!
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23 Mar 2022
Discontinued Alter Ego #174
Fabulous FCA Fawcett Collectors of America issue - spearheaded by a feisty and informative article or two by Captain Marvel co-creator C.C. Beck himself - plus a fabulous feature on vintage cards created in Spain and starring The Marvel Family! In addition: Dr. William Foster III interview (conclusion); Michael T. Gilbert on the lost art of comicbook greats; the haunting of John Broome; and more! Cover by C.C. Beck!
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19 Jan 2022
Alter Ego #173
Black super-heroes (and others) in U.S. comicbooks! An awesome overview by comics historian Barry Pearl-from Voodah to Black Panther and beyond! Plus-an in-depth interview with Dr. William Foster III, author of Looking for a Face Like Mine! Showcasing Baker, Graham, McDuffie, Fitzgerald, Hollingsworth, Cowan, Greene, Herriman, Jones, Ormes, Stelfreeze, Barreaux, Stoner, et al.-plus FCA, Michael T. Gilbert, and more! Cover by Kirby, Graham, Tuska, and Colan! Edited by Roy Thomas.
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12 Jan 2022
Discontinued Alter Ego #172
In the 1970s, talented artists from the Philippines were uncrowned kings of the comics-and no one drew more or better than Alfredo Alcala! He’s best known in the U.S. for his dreamscape work on Savage Sword of Conan-but wait’ll you get a look at Voltar, the barbarian hero Alcala created before the Cimmerian came to comics! Richard Arndt interviews his sons Alfred and Christian, where you’ll see the best of the Master’s work for Marvel, DC, Warren-and, perhaps most amazingly of all, from his native Philippines, where Alfredo had his own comicbook named after him!
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2 Sep 2021
Alter Ego #171
Alter Ego features Paul Gustavson-Golden Age artist extraordinaire of The Angel, Fantom of the Fair, The Arrow, The Human Bomb, The Jester, Plastic Man, Alias the Spider, Quicksilver, Rusty Ryan, Midnight, and many more-is the issue’s centerpiece as his son Terry Gustafson (nope, that ‘F’ isn’t a typo!) talks in-depth to Richard Arndt. Lots of lush comic art from Centaur, Timely, and (especially) Quality! Plus-FCA, Michael T. Gilbert, John Broome, and more!
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16 Jun 2021
Alter Ego #170
In AE #170, it finally happens! Jack Kirby showcased cover-to-cover in an issue of Alter Ego-behind a never-before-printed Kirby cover! Will Murray on Kirby’s crucial contributions to the creation of Iron Man-FCA on his Captain Marvel/Mr. Scarlet work at early-’40s Fawcett-special Kirby sections by Michael T. Gilbert & Peter Normanton-Kirby in 1960s fanzines-Stan Lee’s colorful quotes about ‘The King’-Roy Thomas on being a Kirby fan (and occasional foil) from 1946 till today-plus other klassic Kirby sightings!
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21 Apr 2021
Alter Ego #169
Alter Ego shines its spotlight on Groovy Gary Friedrich-co-creator of Marvel’s Ghost Rider! It features an in-depth interview with Roy Thomas on his and Gary’s six-decade friendship in and out of comics; Gary’s wife Jean Friedrich and nephew Robert Higgersom on his later years; and Peter (From the Tomb) Normanton on GF’s horror/mystery comics! With art by Ploog, Trimpe, Romita, The Severins, Ayers, et al.! Plus FCA (Fawcett Collectors of America), Michael T. Gilbert in Mr. Monster’s Comic Crypt, and more! With a Ghost Rider cover by Mike Ploog!
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10 Feb 2021
Alter Ego #168
Alter Ego shows two very different sides of World War II, revealed in Richard Arndt interviews!
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16 Dec 2020
Discontinued Alter Ego #167
Alter Ego #167 is a star-spangled salute to Syd Shores, Golden Age artist of Captain America, the All Winners Squad, Black Rider, Human Torch, The Vision, Black Knight, and Silver Age artist of Red Wolf, Frankenstein, Cracked, Creepy, Eerie, Web of Horror, et al.
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14 Oct 2020
Alter Ego #166
Alter Ego is a Fawcett Collectors of America (FCA) Special, with twin spotlights on Golden/Silver Age artist Kurt Schaffenberger (Captain Marvel, Ibis the Invincible, Marvel Family, Lois Lane) and modern day’s Alex Ross (Marvels, et al.)!
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3 Sep 2020
Alter Ego #165
Alter Ego showcases Martin Goodman, original publisher of Timely/Atlas/Marvel Comics, 1939-1971, with coverage by comics historian Will Murray. With art and artifacts by the likes of Lee, Kirby, Ditko, Romita, Maneely, Buscema, Everett, Burgos, Gustavson, Schomburg, Colan, Adams, Steranko, and many others!
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8 Jul 2020
Discontinued Alter Ego #164
Alter Ego shines the spotlight on Mike Friedrich, the DC and Marvel writer who went on to jumpstart the independent comics movement with Star*Reach! Art by Neal Adams, Gil Kane, Dick Dillin, Irv Novick, John Buscema, Jim Starlin, Howard Chaykin, Frank Brunner, et al.!
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12 Feb 2020
Alter Ego #163
Alter Ego examines the great early days of Dave Cockrum, Legion of Super-Heroes artist and co-developer of the revived mid-1970s X-Men, as revealed in art-filled letters to buddy Paul Allen and augmented by rare, previously unseen illustrations provided by wife Paty Cockrum!
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27 Nov 2019
Alter Ego #162
Has Alter Ego uncovered ‘A Prophecy in Four Colors?’ Will Murray presents an amazing array of possible prototypes of Batman (by artist Frank Foster in 1932!), Wonder Woman (by Star-Spangled Kid artist Hal Sherman), Tarantula (by Air Wave artist Lee Harris), and others! Plus a rare interview with Hal Sherman! Extra: Michael T. Gilbert with still more on artist Pete Morisi, FCA, Bill Schelly, John Broome, and more! Cover by Shane Foley, an all-star homage to Bob Kane, H.G. Peter, and Arthur Peddy!
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6 Nov 2019
Alter Ego #161
Alter Ego is a full-issue tribute to Stan (The Man) Lee and his contributions to comics! Roy Thomas writes on his more than 50-year relationship with Stan-and shares 21st-century e-mails from Stan (with his permission, of course)! Art by Kirby, Ditko, Maneely, Everett, Severin, Romita-plus tributes from pros and fans alike-and special sections on Stan by Michael T. Gilbert, Bill Schelly, and even the FCA! Vintage Galactus cover by Jack Kirby and Vince Colletta!
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29 Aug 2019
Alter Ego #160
Alter Ego #160 is a special issue remembering Steve Ditko! ‘Sturdy Steve’ at Marvel (Spider-Man, Dr. Strange) DC (The Creeper, Hawk & Dove) Warren (Creepy, Eerie) Charlton (Captain Atom, Blue Beetle, The Question)!
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10 Jul 2019
Alter Ego #159
Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt writer/artist Pete Morisi talks about the creative process!
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9 May 2019
Alter Ego #158
Alter Ego is an FCA Fawcett Collectors of America Special! We shine the spotlight on fabled Golden Age writer William Woolfolk (‘the Shakespeare of the Comics’), including an exclusive interview, and his scripting records!
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6 Feb 2019
Alter Ego #157
From 1945 to 1948, just a few years into her 75-year career, the phenomenally popular Wonder Woman had a female scriptwriter: Joye Murchison, assistant to WW co-creator Dr. William Marston!
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9 Jan 2019
Alter Ego #156
All Time Classic Con continued from #148!
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7 Nov 2018
Alter Ego #155
Golden Age great Norman Maurer, artist, writer, editor, and filmmaker, is remembered by his wife Joan Maurer!
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22 Aug 2018
Alter Ego #154
In Alter Ego, Allen Bellman, artist in the original early-1940s Timely/Marvel bullpen, tells Dr. Michael J. Vassallo everything he didn’t discuss in their 2004 interview, with art by Shores, Burgos, Brodsky, Sekowsky, Everett, Pfeufer, Klein, Burlockoff, Jaffee, Fago, et al.
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27 Jun 2018
Discontinued Alter Ego #153
Alter Ego shines the spotlight on the unforgettable Fabulous Flo Steinberg, Marvel’s gal Friday during the Marvel Age of Comics, with anecdotes and essays by the pros and friends who knew and loved her!
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18 Apr 2018
Alter Ego #152
Alter Ego presents Larry Ivie, maybe the most important Silver Age comic book artist/writer you never heard of!
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28 Feb 2018
Alter Ego #151
It’s The Owl! The Eye! Dr. Hypno! Solarman! Fantom of the Fair! These are just some of the fabulous Golden Age heroes drawn by Frank Thomas, whose life and times are celebrated by Mr. Monster’s Comic Crypt’s Michael T. Gilbert!
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20 Dec 2017
Alter Ego #150
Alter Ego lights the candles for Stan Lee’s 95th birthday with a special celebration!
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1 Nov 2017
Alter Ego #149
Showcasing Gil Kane, one of the Silver Age’s greatest artists-with gleaming Golden Age roots in the Simon & Kirby shop!
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16 Aug 2017
Alter Ego #148
Alter Ego is a special issue dedicated to Joe Petrilak’s All-Time Classic New York Comic Book Convention, held in June 2000, with the greatest lineup of Golden & Silver Age talent ever assembled at a single con!
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5 Jul 2017
Alter Ego #147
Few comics writers wrote more stories - or more important ones, with major heroes - than Golden/Silver Age star Otto Binder.
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4 May 2017
Alter Ego #146
Spotlight on Doug Moench in the 1970s, with horror and The Spook for Warren - and even more for Marvel (Master of Kung Fu, Planet of the Apes, Deathlok, Werewolf by Night, Morbius, Moon Knight, Ka-Zar, Weirdworld, etc.)!
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8 Feb 2017
Alter Ego #145
Now 100 pages per bimonthly issue! It’s 40 years to the month after the debut of Marvel’s Star Wars #1, and its writer/editor Roy Thomas tells Richard Arndt the story behind that landmark comic, going way beyond anything published before!
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5 Oct 2016
Alter Ego #143
Don Glut tells Richard Arndt about his early years as an amateur film-maker, rock musician - and comic book writer for Marvel, Warren, and especially Gold Key!
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18 May 2016
Alter Ego #140
Alter Ego is a special issue devoted to Golden Age great Irwin Hasen, who passed away recently at nearly age 97! T
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12 Aug 2015
Alter Ego #134
This issue celebrates Sol Brodsky - one of the most important and underrated artists in comics!
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22 Apr 2015
Alter Ego #132
A Special Crossover Extravaganza!
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20 Aug 2014
Alter Ego #128
Alter Ego #128 focuses on ‘Seducing the Innocent with FREDRIC WERTHAM!’, featuring Carol L. Tilley on the good Doctor’s falsification of his research in the 1950s - and the destruction it wrought on the comics industry!
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23 Jul 2014
Alter Ego #127
Alter Ego #127 uncovers the Will Eisner/’Busy’ Arnold letters! Ken Quattro annotates 1940s exchanges - some humorous, some bitter, many revelatory - between the creator of The Spirit and his Quality Comics publisher/partner!
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2 Jul 2014
Alter Ego #126
Alter Ego is our second big issue on 3-D Comics of the 1950s! (Did you save your glasses from last time?) Ken Quattro looks at the controversy involving Joe Kubert, Norman Maurer, Bill Gaines, and Al Feldstein!
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14 May 2014
Alter Ego #125
Alter Ego #125 telegraphs everything you ever wanted to know about Lee Harris - the artist/creator of the Golden Age Detective Comics super-hero Air Wave - as revealed by son Jonathan Levey to interviewer Richard J. Arndt!
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19 Feb 2014
Alter Ego #123
Alter Ego #123 has a special focus on Denny O’Neil’s Silver Age career through the mid-1970s, from Marvel (Dr. Strange, S.H.I.E.L.D.) to Charlton (Wander, “Children of Doom”) to Dc (Green Lantern/Green Arrow, Batman, The Shadow, Wonder Woman, Superman, Jla), as aided and abetted by the likes of Adams, Kaluta, Sekowsky, Lee, Giordano, Thomas, Schwartz, Aparo, Boyette, Dillin, Swan, Ditko, et al.
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3 Nov 2013
Alter Ego #122
Alter Ego is a final, flag-waving salute to the Comics Buyer’s Guide! There was no CBG #1700 but if there had been, this is what it might’ve looked like! History and remembrances from Alan Light and Murray Bishoff re: the original The Buyer’s Guide for Comics Fandom; Maggie Thompson and Brent Frankenhoff on Cbg; plus ‘final’ columns by Cbg stars Mark Evanier, Tony Isabella, Peter David, Fred Hembeck, John Lustig, and classic art by Don Newton, Mike Vosburg, Jack Kirby, Mike Nasser, and many more!
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28 Apr 2013
Alter Ego #118
Hey, nifty the Avengers are (is?) fifty!
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31 Mar 2013
Alter Ego #117
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! Plus art by Bob Fujitani, Charles Quinlan, Irwin Hasen, and more!
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3 Mar 2013
Alter Ego #116
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.!
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6 Feb 2013
Alter Ego #115 Special 3D Issue
Alter Ego takes a red and green look at those sensational stereoscopic comics of the 1950s in a special 3-D issue!
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