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Coming in May from Fantagraphics: Gil Kane Rarities Volume 1, an exciting collection of American comic artist Gil Kane's more obscure Marvel work from the 1970s and '80s
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Coming in May from Fantagraphics: Gil Kane Rarities Volume 1, an exciting collection of American comic artist Gil Kane's more obscure Marvel work from the 1970s and '80s
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You want to talk great lost comics? Let's talk about J.M. DeMatteis and Liam Sharp's Man-Thing series. It launched in 1997 and was abruptly cancelled after #8, then folded into a relaunched (1998) Strange Tales, along with Werewolf By Night. Then that was truncated to four issues--except only the first two were ever actually published. (The Man-Thing story that was to appear in the fourth issue may or may not have been drawn.) DeMatteis ended up wrapping up some plot threads from it in a 1999 Peter Parker annual that took up from where Strange Tales #4 would have left off. Sigh. And, as you see here, it featured some of the most impressive artwork of Sharp's career, which is not short of impressive artwork. Pretty sure none of it has ever been reprinted, either.
Out this week: Lost Marvels No. 1: Tower of Shadows (Fantagraphics, $34.99):
Fantagraphics’ new line of Lost Marvels collections will bring classic Marvel stories that have never been collected back to shelves as high-end hardcovers. This volume collects the nine-issue run of Tower of Shadows, an anthology series form the 1960s that featured work by Neal Adams, Jim Steranko, Barry Windsor-Smith, John Buscema, Gene Colan, Wally Wood, Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, John Romita, Johnny Craig, Marie Severin, Gerry Conway, Bernie Wrightson and more.
See what else is coming to your local comic shop this week!
Lost Marvels is one of almost 50 titles that'll be available on Free Comic Book Day 2025 on May 3. Read more
A fascinating lacuna in my "reading all the Marvel superhero comics" project that's brought up by this panel from Gambit #12, by Fabian Nicieza, Steve Skroce and Rodney Ramos: a lot of the "Cybercomics" that Marvel published through AOL ca. 2000 appear to be lost altogether. (There are a few that people archived that have turned up here or there, but "The Hunt for the Tomorrow Stone" is not, so far, one of them.) I'd love to know if anybody happens to unearth it.