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Hey Kids Comics (2023 Image) Volume 3 comic books

  • Issue #1
    Hey Kids Comics (2023 Image) Volume 3 1

    Story by Howard Chaykin. A generation of artists ashamed of their careers has come to this, scratching out a living entertaining children who wonder why anyone would want to do anything else. With the birth of the comics industry comes the afterbirth, a shadow twin that will sustain and occasionally sabotage it for generations to come... Fandom. 28 pages, full color. Rated M Cover price $3.99.

  • Issue #2
    Hey Kids Comics (2023 Image) Volume 3 2

    Story by Howard Chaykin. With the soon-to-be self-styled greatest generation grudgingly called to war, it's high time for those back on the home front to step up and fill in for the fighting men overseas. But when the work needs writers and artists, and the only bodies available are unambitious halfwit hacks and talentless, overeager fans…will this be what kills the comic book cash cow? 28 pages, full color. Rated M Cover price $3.99.

  • Issue #3
    Hey Kids Comics (2023 Image) Volume 3 3

    Written and Art by Howard Chaykin. Cover by Don Cameron. Threatened by ginned-up moral outrage, the money-minting luster of a decade ago long gone, four-color micro-moguls shoot themselves in the foot to hold on to what's left. Meanwhile, fandom takes hold hard in a generation of young enthusiasts-but with so much of what they love gone with the wind, what's left for them? 28 pages, full color. Rated M Cover price $3.99.

  • Issue #4
    Hey Kids Comics (2023 Image) Volume 3 4

    Written and Art by Howard Chaykin. Cover by Don Cameron. After years of being kept at bay, a new generation finally scales the castle walls, only to discover the hacks have beaten a hasty retreat, leaving nothing behind them but nostalgia. The newcomers arrive with a bill of rights. Management hands them a bill of goods. 28 pages, full color. Rated M Cover price $3.99.

  • Issue #5
    Hey Kids Comics (2023 Image) Volume 3 5

    Written and Art by Howard Chaykin. Cover by Don Cameron. The 1980s births a completely unanticipated commercial and artistic renaissance… …but Editorial has notes. And fans who only yesterday were sneaking time on the school office mimeograph become today's commercial comic book darlings. WTF? 28 pages, full color. Rated M Cover price $3.99.

  • Issue #6
    Hey Kids Comics (2023 Image) Volume 3 6

    Written by Howard Chaykin. Art by Howard Chaykin. Cover by Don Cameron. MINISERIES FINALE Who lives? Who dies? Whose (frequently doubled) voucher gets lost in the mail? HOWARD CHAYKINâ€s three-volume journey through comic book history concludes with one last look at how fandomâ€joyful, toxic, proprietary, take your pickâ€paradigm shifted from captive audience to creative architect in no time flat. And sure, some of it didnâ€t happen. But itâ€s all true. 28 pages, full color. Rated M Cover price $3.99.