Upcoming books of interest

[dan bailey]

Oh, wow ... thanks for the heads-up! I didn't know about this at all!

As it happens, just a few hours ago I was trawling eBay in hopes of finding some cheapish BPRD that I don't have (probably about 1/3rd of the various minis). Over the last year or so I've bought 2 lots of the minis via that venue & quite liked them for pretty much the reasons you outline.

For some reason, I'm not quite as enamoured of Hellboy per se & so haven't really mounted any serious searches for his solo titles (all I've read is the first TPB).

[dan bailey]

Upcoming Showcase Presents collections, as listed on Wikipedia --

Feb '09 -- Aquaman vol 3 (Aquaman #s 24-39, Brave and the Bold #73, Jimmy Olsen #115)

April '09 -- Doom Patrol (My Greatest Adventure #s 80-85, Doom Patrol #s 86-97)

Mayi '09 -- Martian Manhunter vol 2 (Detective#s 305-326, House of Secrets #s 143-173)

May '09 00 Super Friends (Super Friends #s 1-24)

July '09 -- Bat Lash (Showcase #76, Bat Lash #s 1-8, Weird Western Tales #s 45-46, 52-53, Jonah Hex #s 51-52)

June '09 Creeper -- (Showcase #73, Beware the Creeper #s 1-6, Brave and the Bold #s 80, 143, 178 Justice League of America #70, Detective s #s 418, 447-448, Joker #3, First Issue Special #7, Adventure#s 445-447, World's Finest #s 249-255, Cancelled Comics Cavalcade #2, Flash #s 318-323)

I'm especially pleased to see those last two, as well as Doom Patrol. Still holding out hope for any number of others, probably most prominently (&, alas, least likely) Tomahawk & Sea Devils ...

[benday-dot]

I'm definitely up for Doom Patrol. I completely skipped out on the previous Archives, hoping for the arrival of the Showcase, and now its coming. Very nice.

And yes the Creeper and Bat Lash sound good as well. I'll just have to figure out how much duplicate material I have from those.

[Aaron King]

Doom Patrol! Bat Lash! You will be mine!

Creeper! ...maybe. How much of it is Ditko?

Aside: Did everyone enjoy the recent Bat Lash mini?

[benday-dot]

Aside: Did everyone enjoy the recent Bat Lash mini?

I did very much. Not only for the exquisite Severin art. But I thought Aragones and Brandvold also did a nice job on the script.

[jam]

Great news about the Creeper showcase!

But that just gets me started on "books I'd like to see". I think DC should do their own version of "Marvel Visionaries". I'd love a Ditko book : Creeper, Hawk and Dove, Shade the Changing Man, Starman ...

And if they are going to reprint material from the infamous Cancelled Comic Cavalcade, then why not do both volumes as a Showcase ....

[prince hal]

Still holding out hope for any number of others, probably most prominently (&, alas, least likely) Tomahawk & Sea Devils ...

Me either. I have a run of Tomahawk from the late 6o's (as in the numbering, not the decade), but I'd love to have as many of those 40s and 50s stories collected as possible. I agree, though, Dan. It probably ain't gonna happen.

And where, oh where is Rex the Wonder Dog???

[Aaron King]

While doing the comic order today, I signed myself up for Fantagraphics's upcoming Boody: The Bizarre World of Boody Rogers and Supermen, their collection of early super-hero comics by Will Eisner, Jack Cole, Basil Wolverton, Fletcher Hanks, and many more. I can't find any pictures of them, and I couldn't find them on the FBI website... but I swear, I'm gettin' 'em.

[Slam_Bradley]

New series reprinting Buck Rogers coming up.



http://www.amazon.com/Buck-Rogers-25...7296855&sr=1-2



http://www.amazon.com/Buck-Rogers-25...ef=pd_sim_b_23

[Slam_Bradley]

This one came out earlier this month. But wanted to put the plug in since Scott is such a big fan.



http://www.amazon.com/Norman-Saunder...ef=pd_sim_b_15

[Slam_Bradley]

Oooooo...new book on Virgil Finlay's art.



http://www.amazon.com/Future-Past-Wo...d_bxgy_b_img_b

[MDG]

I hope the Saunders book has some of the funny stuff he did for Topps. Don't know if I'm in for the Finlay book--already have a couple books on him--but he's definitely worth looking at. His draftsmanship's great, but I'm more fascinated by the concepts and composition in his illustrations.

[Leocomix]

Pogo: The Complete Daily & Sunday Comic Strips, Vol. 1: Through the Wild Blue Wonder by Walt Kelly (Hardcover - Nov 30, 2009)

Skin Deep by Charles Burns (Paperback - Aug 30, 2009)

Fire & Water: Bill Everett, the Sub-mariner, & the Birth of Marvel Comics by Blake Bell (Hardcover - Jul 30, 2009)

The EC Archives: Tales From The Crypt Volume 4 by Bill Gaines, Al Feldstein, Ray Bradbury, and Jack Davis (Hardcover - Jul 12, 2009)

Justice League International Vol. 2 SC by Keith Giffen, J M Dematteis, and Kevin Maguire (Paperback - Jul 7, 2009)

Sandman by Kirby and Simon by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon (Hardcover - Jul 7, 2009) No mention of the content but I guess their 40s and 70s work on the Sandman.

The Creeper volume and the Bat Lash volume will be shorter (296 pages and 240 pages respectively) since all material after 1977 is off limits due to copyrights matters. So the list will change.

[Aaron King]

This one's for Mr. Bailey:

On sale May 12
FC, 256 pages
$49.95
HC, 6 5/8" x 10 3/16"

A circus performer terrorized by mysterious powers from beyond . . . a jade idol of a monkey that carries a curse on a South Pacific island drives a man to the brink of madness . . . an art gallery haunted by paintings that come to life at night . . . a dictator who sees enemies around every corner, but who can't see the threat right before his eyes.

For nearly twenty years, the comic-book series Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery wove stories of intrigue, suspense, and macabre drama. Hosted by renowned actor Boris Karloff, the comic featured contributions from some of comics history's most well-known creators: Alex Toth, Joe Orlando (EC artist and editor), Mike Sekowsky (Justice League of America artist), Frank Thorne, Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez, Arnold Drake, Len Wein (co-creator of Swamp Thing and Wolverine), Al Williamson, Jerry Robinson (creator of the Joker), Dan Spiegle, and many others.

- Originally published by Gold Key and unavailable for three decades, more than thirty spine-chilling stories are compiled in a new collection.

- Features a new introduction by Boris Karloff's daughter Sara Karloff.

[MDG]

This one's for Mr. Bailey:

Wow! I guess the Creepy archives sold OK. I'm surprised that the press release doesn't mention art by Wood and Angelo Torres, but maybethey don't make it into the first volume. (Not surprised that it doesn't mention that a lot of the art is by Joe Certa).