New IDW Spider-man Artists Edition Coming!

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I am copying this from a post on the MMW boards



Thursday at Comic-Con International in San Diego, IDW announced its newest products in the auspicious line: Kil Kane's The Amazing Spider-Man Arist's Edition, which collects 1970s material that's absolutely crucial to the Spidey mythos such as the infamous LSD storyline and "The Night Gwen Stacy Died"; Mark Schult'z Xenozoic Tales Artist's Edition, collecting six issues of the 1980s cult hit adventure series; and a much demanded new edition of Dave Steven's The Rocketeer Artist's Edition, the volume which inaugurated the A.E. series.

Gil Kane's The Amazing Spider-Man Artist's Edition collects the late master's work on The Amazing Spider-Man issues 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, and 121. Among those stories is the memorable LSD story which Marvel published in the 1970s without the Comics Code Authority seal of approval. Kane's work on this story is hugely innovative, and his work on "The Night Gwen Stacy Died" is arguably the most critical Spider-Man tale in the history of Stan Lee and Steve Ditko's superhero. Additionally, this volume comes with the story that introduced Morbius, the Living Vampire.
"These Spider-Man stories by Gil Kane are the ones my generation grew up on," said Special Projects Editor Scott Dunbier, "The ones we read and reread until they fell apart. Now we can look at them with a fresh eye and see these stories as we never have before."

Coming in at 216 pages for $125, Gil Kane's The Amazing Spider-Man Artist's Edition will go on sale in November .

"If Mark Schultz was drawing in the 1950s he would have been very much at home working for EC Comics," said Dunbier.

"I look forward to seeing my pages reproduced at full size with a mixture of both fear and excitement," Schultz said. "Given their excellent track record, I have no doubt that the folks at IDW will do this book up right."

Coming in at 144 pages (including a cover gallery), measuring 14" x 20", Mark Schultz's Xenozoic Tales Artist's Edition is planned for release in June 2013.

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