Back Issue Magazine (2003 TwoMorrows) comic books 2011-2013

This issue spotlights 'The Greatest Stories Never Told,' loaded with rare and previously unpublished art! Mike Grell reveals how his 'Savage Empire' strip became DC Comics' The Warlord, Danny Fingeroth and Al Milgrom open the vault to reveal pages from the aborted Fantastic Four graphic novel Fathers and Sons, and we go beyond John Byrne's Last Galactus Story. PLUS: Ramona Fradon recalls what went wrong with the unpublished fifth issue of Marvel's The Cat; Whatever Happened to Warlock #16? Alan Weiss and Jim Starlin reveal the tale of this comic-book cosmic oddity; The Mystery of the Captain America Musical - The Star-Spangled Sentinel...live, on stage?; How the Batman Nearly Stepped Out of the Mainstream and into Independent Comics - Steve Englehart and Marshall Rogers almost took DC's Dark Detective to Mike Friedrich's indy house; Pandora Pann's Lost Adventures - Who closed the lid on this Len Wein/Ross Andru title?; Rejected cover art: Ms. Marvel #4 by John Buscema, Hot Wheels #1 by Alex Toth; The Black Canary Miniseries That Never Took Flight - Greg Weisman blows the whistle on his unpublished collaboration with Mike Sekowsky; The Aquaman Sequel That Wasn't - This anticipated follow-up to the Neal Pozner/Craig Hamilton miniseries was deep-sixed; Batman/Mask (with Clayface) promo image by Dev Madan; Bret Blevins on The Wolf Man - Dark Horse's Universal Monsters one-shots had one conspicuously missing monster; Miracleman Triumphant - Fred Burke, Mike Deodato and Jason Temujin Minor lament this Eclipse Comics casualty. Cover price $7.95.

Back Issue published the final interview ever with the late, great Dave Stevens. Also includes interviews with Peter David, Mike Gold, Luke McDonnell, Mark Verheiden, Howard Chaykin & Denny O'Neil. Also, the film version of Stevens' The Rocketeer is discussed by Danny Bilson and Paul DeMeo. Plus, The Phantom, Indiana Jones, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Dominic Fortune, Sherlock Holmes, and many more. Cover price $7.95.

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Back Issue resurrects 'Dead Heroes'! The man behind the Death of Captain Marvel graphic novel, Jim Starlin, discusses his remarkable career in a lavishly-illustrated exclusive interview. Also, Deadman after Neal Adams, the Jason Todd Robin, the death and resurrection of The Flash and Elektra, and the many deaths of Aunt May! Cover price $7.95.

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Flash back to the early Bronze Age: Relevance in comics, Planet of the Apes, DC Salutes the Bicentennial, Richard Dragon: Kung-Fu Fighter, FOOM, and Amazing World of DC Comics, groundbreaking new formats, Fireside Books' reprints, Fast Willie Jackson, Marvel Comics calendars, Captain Sticky, and a countdown of the Bronze Age's Biggest Events. Featuring interviews with/comments by Howard Chaykin, Gerry Conway, J.M. DeMatteis, Steve Englehart, Dennis O'Neil, Roy Thomas, Jim Salicrup, Jack C. Harris, Neal Adams, Doug Moench & Bert Fitzgerald. Deathlok cover by Rich Buckler & John Beatty. Cover price $7.95.

Back Issue #50 is a special 50th Anniversary issue spotlighting 'Batman in the Bronze Age' with the entire issue in full-color! Denny O'Neil, Neal Adams, and Paul Levitz discuss Batman in the 1970s and beyond in a 'Pro2Pro' roundtable. Also: In Praise of Jim Aparo, Batman's Unsung Creators (David V. Reed, Bob Brown, Ernie Chan, and John Calnan), Joker's Daughter, Batman Family, Nocturna, Untold Legend of the Batman, Batman collected editions, Batman in the early 1980s, and The Dark Knight Returns. Cover price $8.95.

Back Issue #51 is an 'All-Interview Issue'! Continuing from the pages of Alter Ego #103 is Part 2 of an exclusive interview with writer Steve Englehart. Also: 'Pro2Pro' with Walter Simonson & Erik Larsen, Doug Moench & Len Wein, and comics letterers Todd Klein & Janice Chiang; plus John Ostrander and the final interview with longtime DC color artist Adrienne Roy, who passed away in December 2010. Featuring as our cover one of the last Batman illustrations produced by the late Marshall Rogers, Englehart's partner on Detective Comics! Cover price $8.95.

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Back Issue spotlights Mystery Comics of the Bronze Age! All-new interviews with artists Bernie Wrightson, Sergio Aragones, Gerry Talaoc, and DC mystery writer Lore Shoberg - and Mark Evanier and Dan Spiegle discuss Scooby-Doo (Zoinks!). Plus: DC's Horror Hosts and Ghosts, Charlton Comics' chiller anthologies, and damsels of darkness Black Orchid and Madame Xanadu. Featuring a rarely seen House of Mystery painting by Wrightson as the cover! Cover price $8.95.

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Back Issue takes an in-depth look at Walter Simonson's Thor in this 'Gods' issue! And there's more Thor: the Thunder God in the Bronze Age and a Tom DeFalco/Ron Frenz 'Pro2Pro' interview. Plus: Hercules: Prince of Power, Moondragon, Three Ways to End the New Gods Saga, and an exclusive interview with fantasy writer Michael Moorcock. Featuring art and/or commentary by Gerry Conway, Jack Kirby, Bob Layton, and more, with a hammer-swinging Thor cover by Simonson! Plus: Stan Lee, Roy Thomas and Gerry Conway remember their time in Asgard; Hercules in comics - from Marvel's original Hercules to the Radical Comics hit, a survey of the Son of Zeus' appearances; Michael Uslan - the man who has driven everything from the DC Comicmobile to Batman movies discusses his autobiography; Len Wein and Mike Carlin comment on the tapestry of Walt Simonson's Thor. Edited by Michael Eury. Cover price $8.95.

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Now in Full-Color! Back-Issue #54 gives equal time to 'Liberated Ladies,' eyeing the female characters that broke barriers in the Bronze Age: Big Barda, Valkyrie, Ms. Marvel, Phoenix, Savage She-Hulk, and the sword-wielding Starfire. Plus, a 'Pro2Pro' interview with creators Jill Thompson, Gail Simone, and Barbara Kesel. Featuring art and/or commentary by John Byrne, George Perez, Jack Kirby, Mike Vosburg, and more, with a bombastic Big Barda cover by Bruce Timm! Cover price $8.95.

Back-Issue checks in on 'Licensed Comics!' Spotlighting: Twenty years of Star Wars at Dark Horse Comics, Indiana Jones in comics, the adaptation of TV's Man from Atlantis, DC Comics' 1970s Edgar Rice Burroughs backups (John Carter, Pellucidar, Carson of Venus), Marvel's Warlord of Mars, and an interview with Carol Serling, wife of Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling. Cover price $8.95.

Back Issue lets the 'Avengers Assemble,' starring Marvel Comics' mightiest super-team! This issue features: Writer Roger Stern's acclaimed 1980s Avengers run, West Coast Avengers, early Avengers toys, and histories of Hawkeye, Mockingbird, and Wonder Man. Featuring art by and/or commentary from John and Sal Buscema, John Byrne, Brett Breeding, Tom Defalco, Steve Englehart, Bob Hall, Al Milgrom, Tom Morgan, Tom Palmer, Joe Sinnott, and more. With a George Pérez cover spotlighting the Avengers' 'Big Three.' Cover price $8.95.

Back Issue focuses on Jenette Kahn, former president and publisher of DC Comics, as she tells all in a career-spanning, exclusive interview conducted by Robert Greenberger. Also: DC's Dollar Comics and unrealized kids' line (featuring an aborted Sugar and Spike revival), the Wonder Woman Foundation, and the early days of the Vertigo imprint. Cover price $8.95.

Back Issue focuses on 'Justice League of America in the Bronze Age'! Relive the 'Satellite Years' of the '70s and early '80s, featuring Rich Buckler, Steve Englehart, George Pérez, and Len Wein - and a salute to Dick Dillin, JLA artist extraordinaire. Plus the Justice League fans loved to hate: the 'Detroit' team, featuring Gerry Conway, Luke McDonnell, Chuck Patton, and more. Also: Conway and Dan Jurgens go 'Pro2Pro' on writing the JLA, unofficial JLA/Avengers crossovers, and Marvel's JLA, the Squadron Supreme. Plus: The Injustice Gang - these baddies banded together in the Bronze Age to bedevil the League; You Know You're a Justice Leaguer When - a mirthful, MADcap look at the Monitor Duty dudes and dames; Brad Meltzer and Gerry Conway comment on Identity Crisis. Cover by Luke McDonnell and Bill Wray. Cover price $8.95.

Back Issue draws a bead on 'Toon Comics,' with a history of Space Ghost in comics! Plus: Comico's Jonny Quest and Star Blazers, Marvel's Hanna-Barbera line and Dennis the Menace, behind the scenes at animation house Marvel Productions, Ltd., and a 'Greatest Stories Never Told' look at the unpublished Plastic Man comic strip. All-new painted Space Ghost cover by Steve Rude! Featuring Steve Rude, Evan Dorkin, Scott Rosema, Mark Evanier, Scott Shaw!, Paul Kupperberg, Adam Kubert, William Messner-Loebs, Bob Schreck, Diana Schutz, Dan Spiegle, Doug Rice, Phil Foglio & Tim Eldred. Plus: Remembering the late Tony DeZuniga and Ernie Chan; Hanna-Barbera Superheroes at Marvel Comics - Karl Heitmueller takes a hilarious look at what might have been. Cover price $8.95.

Back Issue #60 scares up 'Halloween Heroes and Villains'! Cover-featuring a look back at Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale's chiller Batman: The Long Halloween. Also: the Scarecrow (both the DC and Marvel versions), Solomon Grundy, Man-Wolf, Lord Pumpkin, Rutland, Vermont's Halloween parades, and the Korvac Saga's Dead Avengers! Featuring Tim Sale, Gregory Wright, Mike W. Barr, Alan Davis, Mike Friedrich, Alan Grant, Dennis O'Neil, Jerry Robinson, Scott Edelman, Gerry Conway, James Robinson, Roy Thomas, Tony Isabella, David Anthony Kraft, Dan Slott, David Wenzel, Dan Danko, Steve Englehart & Aaron Lopresti. Batman vs. Scarecrow cover by Tim Sale! Cover price $8.95.

Back Issue #61 takes a big look at 'Tabloids and Treasuries,' spotlighting the Bronze Age's biggest comic books! Including every all-new tabloid from the 1970s, and a checklist of reprint treasury editions. Superman vs. the Amazing Spider-Man, The Bible, Captain America's Bicentennial Battles, The Wizard of Oz, even the Paul Dini/Alex Ross World's Greatest Super-Heroes editions - they're all here! Plus: The comics comeback of Santa and the most famous reindeer of all; a whirlwind tour of the Super Friends tabloid, with Alex Toth art; the Superman vs. Wonder Woman clash that rocked Earth-Two; Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes - the wedding of Lightning Lad and Saturn Girl, comments from Paul Levitz; Superman vs. Muhammad Ali - Neal Adams steps into the remembrance ring; Superman vs. Shazam! The colossal-sized confrontation between the Action Ace and Big Red Cheese; Guest Editorial by Alex Ross. Wraparound painted cover by Alex Ross. Cover price $10.95.

Back Issue shines a light on 'Superman in the Bronze Age'! The Julius Schwartz Superman Dynasty, the Private Life of Curt Swan, the Superman Family, Superman back-up series, an Atomic Skull history, World of Krypton (comics' first miniseries), the Golden Age Superman, the Supermobile, and Alan Moore's 'Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?' With a Superman vs. Bizarro cover by José Luis García-López and Scott Williams! Cover price $8.95.

Back Issue watches the USA's and UK's comics worlds cross over in our 'British Invasion' issue! Featuring a history of Marvel UK, the Beatles in comics, DC's British talent pool of the 1980s, V for Vendetta, Excalibur, Marshal Law, Doctor Who, and a 'Pro2Pro' interview with Peter Milligan and Brendan McCarthy! Detailed contents: The Mighty World of Marvel UK - how the Second Battle of Britain was won, with a bounty of art unseen by most US readers; The Launch of the "Titanic" Format - Marvel UK's ambitious, and sometimes problematic, landscape comics; interview with "Jigsaw" Jim Starlin - exploring some of the superstar artist's earliest (and rarest) covers and art; Comic Book Beatles - The Fab Four in four-color, including the George-Perez-drawn The Beatles Story; Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time - the British TV show that crossed the pond and joined the Marvel lineup; Warrior Magazine and the British Invasion - many of your favorite writers and artists got their start in this anthology series; Eyewitness to the British Invasion - Robert Greenberger's observations of the British talent wave at DC Comics; The Strange Worlds of Peter Milligan and Brendan McCarthy - extraordinary collaborations from out-of-the-ordinary storytellers; Alan Davis' Excalibur - the artist's on again/off again relationship with the "cosmic comedy" X-Men spin-off; This Magazine Is Now Under Marshal Law - deflating and defeating fraggin' superheroes, with Pat Mills and Kevin O'Neill; Travels with V (for Vendetta) - a very personal look at the seminal Alan Moore/David Lloyd shocker. Fold-out triptych cover by Ron Wilson and Dave Hunt of Marvel UK's rare 1970s "Quadra-Poster." Cover price $8.95.

Back Issue looks back at 'Backup Series' of the Bronze Age! Green Lantern, Green Arrow, Black Canary, Metamorpho, Archie Goodwin and Walter Simonson's Manhunter, Martin Pasko and Keith Giffen's Dr. Fate, 'Whatever Happened To...?', Nemesis, Rose and the Thorn, and the Seven Soldiers of Victory! Featuring the work of Cary Burkett, John Calnan, Dick Giordano, Mike Grell, Elliot S! Maggin, Dan Spiegle, and more! Cover price $8.95.

Cover by Kevin Nowlan. Back Issue features the Bronze Age's battling 'B-Teams'! An issue-by-issue overview of the Defenders, plus the Champions, Guardians of the Galaxy, Inhumans, Peter David's X-Factor, Teen Titans West, Legion of Substitute Heroes, and an all-star chatfest of Doom Patrol interviews. Featuring the work of Ross Andru, Sal Buscema, Richard Case, Keith Giffen, Tony Isabella, Paul Kupperberg, Erik Larsen, Steve Lightle, George Pérez, Bob Rozakis, and more! Cover price $8.95.

Back Issue marvels at Team-Ups from the Bronze Age! Examining Marvel Team-Up, Marvel Two-in-One, Super-Villain Team-Up, Chris Claremont and Walter Simonson's X-Men/New Teen Titans, DC Comics Presents, Super-Team Family, Bob Haney and Jim Aparo's Batman of Earth-B(&B), and the Superman/Captain Marvel smackdowns. Plus: The rejected team-ups of The Brave and the Bold - from the Bible to Young Love, an oddball octet of Batman outings; Al Milgrom's Marvel Team-Up cover gallery; the search for Swamp Thing #25 - art collector Jim Arnold's quest for the unpublished Swamp Thing/Hawkman team-up. Cover by Gil Kane and Terry Austin. Cover price $8.95.

Back Issue features 'Heroes Out of Time', featuring a look back at Batman: Gotham by Gaslight, with Mike Mignola, Mark Waid, and Brian Augustyn. Also: Booster Gold with Dan Jurgens; X-Men: Days of Future Past with Chris Claremont; Bill & Ted with Evan Dorkin; an interview with P. Craig Russell; 'Pro2Pro' with Time Masters' Bob Wayne and Lewis Shiner; and star-studded looks at Karate Kid, New Mutants: Asgardian Wars, and Marvel's time-hopping villain, Kang. With a vintage Mignola steampunk Batman cover. Plus: John Workman (Gotham by Gaslight), Art Adams (Asgardian Wars), Art Thibert (Time Masters), Bob Greenberger (Time Masters), Paul Levitz (Karate Kid), Mike W. Barr (Karate Kid), Mike Grell (Karate Kid) and Fabian Nicieza (Bill & Ted). Cover price $8.95.

Back Issue spotlights the Legion of Super-Heroes in the 1970 and 1980s! Featuring: The Legion's rise to prominence in the '70s; the fan-favorite Legion of the '80s; a Paul Levitz interview; the Legion's Honored Dead; the Cosmic Boy miniseries; a Time Trapper history; the New Adventures of Superboy; and a Legion fantasy cover gallery by John Watson. With futuristic faves CARY BATES, DAVE COCKRUM, GERRY CONWAY, ERNIE COLON, KEITH GIFFEN, MIKE GRELL, JIM JANES, PAUL KUPPERBERG, GREG LaROCQUE, STEVE LIGHTLE, KURT SCHAFFENBERGER, JAMES SHERMAN, JOE STATON, CURT SWAN, MARK WAID, BOB ROZAKIS and more! Plus a classic Dave Cockrum cover reimagining Amazing World of DC Comics (1974) #9. Cover price $8.95.

Back Issue #69 celebrates it's Tenth Anniversary by revisiting the 100th, 200th, 300th, 400th, and 500th issues of '70s and '80s favorites: Adventure, Amazing Spider-Man, Avengers, Batman, The Brave & The Bold, Casper, Detective, The Flash, Green Lantern, Showcase, Superman, Thor, Wonder Woman, and more! An all-star lineup includes Jim Aparo, Mike W. Barr, Steve Englehart, Keith Pollard, Mike Sekowsky, Walter Simonson, Joe Staton, and Marv Wolfman. Plus: We close out the Man of Steel's 75th Anniversary with a guest editorial by Larry Tye, author of the critically acclaimed book Superman: The High-Flying History of America's Most Enduring Hero! Cover by Dan Jurgens and Ray McCarthy features ten Bronze Age Justice Leaguers - one for each year of BI! Edited by Michael Eury. Cover price $9.95.