Fantagraphics Republish Misplaced Marvel Comedian, Tower of Shadows, in April

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Fantagraphics republish Misplaced Marvel comedian,Tower of Shadows of their April 2025 solicits, with Neal Adams, Jim Steranko, Barry Windsor-Smith

Fantagraphics is the newest writer to get a Marvel Comics license, this time for delving deep into Marvel’s again catalogue and digging out what they might like to publish however that Marvel itself has little interest in. That features Stan Lee’s Snafu, the Atlas Comics library, and Misplaced Marvels launching for Free Comedian E book Day in Could. However the precise Misplaced Marvel’s first quantity will seem in Fantagraphics’ April 2025 solicits and solicitions, with Tower Of Shadows, with work by Neal Adams, Jim Steranko, Barry Windsor-Smith, John Buscema, Gene Colan, Wally Wooden, Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, John Romita, Johnny Craig, Marie Severin, Gerry Conway, Bernie Wrightson, and extra. It is a part of Fantagraphics’ April 2025 solicits and solicitations, together with a set of Wally Wooden’s science fiction work in Spawn Of Venus, and on the reverse finish, Kayla E’s debut graphic novel Valuable Garbage.

LOST MARVELS HC VOL 01 TOWER OF SHADOWS

FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKSJUL247645(W) Neal Adams, Jim Steranko, Barry Windsor-SmithThe never-collected horror anthology sequence that includes tales by Jim Steranko, Neal Adams, Barry Windsor-Smith, Stan Lee, John Buscema, and different Silver Age masters.In 1969, with its revolutionary superhero line effectively established, Marvel took an opportunity on the sort of supernatural, EC-style anthology sequence that had been banned because the formation of the Comics Code within the Fifties. Tower of Shadows featured a staggering array of artists and writers, together with Neal Adams, Jim Steranko, Barry Windsor-Smith, John Buscema, Gene Colan, Wally Wooden, Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, John Romita, Johnny Craig, Marie Severin, Gerry Conway, and Bernie Wrightson, to call just a few. Free of the conventions of the superhero journey, these creators introduced their storytelling expertise to a extra quietly sinister style, producing atmospheric gems of twisted suspense and sardonic horror.Not solely do these 9 points function Marvel’s finest creators working at their peak, however Tower of Shadows is likely one of the misplaced, never-collected Marvels. Within the first of a brand new sequence of Misplaced Marvels, Fantagraphics and Marvel be part of forces to introduce these pages to a brand new technology of readers and restore this sequence to its rightful place in comics historical past. This attractive quantity brings each Tower of Shadows story and canopy to life in vivid shade and options background and evaluation by comics journalist Michael Dean.In Outlets: 4/30/2025

SPAWN OF VENUS AND OTHER STORIES HC

FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKSJUL247652(W) Wallace Woods, Al Feldstein, Ray BradburyThe final assortment of Wallace Wooden’s most interesting science fiction tales. Consists of Wooden’s “My World,” variations of three classics by Ray Bradbury, a “misplaced” 3-D story – and a narrative rejected by the Comics Code, restored and revealed right here for the primary time.This mouth-watering assortment options the best (and rarest!) science fiction tales Wallace Wooden ever drew – greater than two dozen! Wooden’s meticulously detailed, genre-defining brushwork introduces you to breathtaking planetary vistas, terrifying aliens, and smooth rocket ships surging with the ability to beat the celebrities.Our title story is a rarity that by no means appeared in any EC comedian. Written and drawn for a 3-D comedian that was canceled earlier than it could possibly be printed, we current it right here in easy-on-the-eyes 2-D. Then, Wooden’s most iconic story, “My World” is a shocking showcase of the preternatural expertise and approach he delivered to all his tales. Additionally included are his trilogy of Ray Bradbury variations – “House to Keep,” “There Will Come Mushy Rains…” and “Mars Is Heaven!” – plus “He Walked Amongst Us,” a “what if…?” variation on Bradbury’s “The Man” from The Illustrated Man.However that is not all! An unimaginable science fiction bonus: Al Feldstein wrote many tales of individuals reaching from the past to proper a flawed, however with this quantity, in a twist worthy of one of the best of EC, he does the identical himself! In 1955, the Comics Code rejected the second web page of “You, Rocket” and compelled EC to utterly rewrite and redraw it. When the unique artwork for that rejected web page was rediscovered, one panel was lacking. However Feldstein, in a middle-finger gesture to the Code and its heavy-handed censorship, wrote a brand new panel, restoring “You, Rocket” to what it was at all times meant to be. Sadly, he handed away earlier than his remaining EC writing task was revealed. However right here it’s now, for the primary time wherever. Justice from past the grave.26 tales in all, most scripted by EC legend Al Feldstein, plus in-depth commentary by EC specialists Thommy Burns, Grant Geissman, and Jon Gothold. The Spawn Of Venus And Different Tales is the final word EC Wallace Wooden science fiction assortment.In Outlets: Apr 23, 2025

PRECIOUS RUBBISH HC

FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKSJUL247646(W) Kayla E. (A / CA) Kayla E.A landmark graphic novel debut and groundbreaking work of trauma recollection instructed within the fashion of post-war youngsters’s comics.”If an exorcism can ever be gradual and quiet, then each panel I’ve completed has felt one thing like an exorcism. The gutters give me house to make sense of issues: to attach dots and shut gaps. To recollect.” Kayla E.’s Valuable Garbage is an experimental graphic memoir drawn in a method that references the aesthetics of mid-century youngsters’s comics and tells the story of a childhood formed by maternal emotional dysregulation, rural poverty, and incest. The creator’s childhood is portrayed as a set of short-form comics and gag panels punctuated by interactive parts like paper dolls, satirical ads, video games, and puzzles.Whereas the work is worried with violence and a very Texan model of Pentecostal fanaticism, it’s introduced in a playful visible language with a deadpan humor that elevates the fabric past mere graphic memoir. Valuable Garbage is a landmark work of comics storytelling and graphic drugs.The debut graphic novel from artist Kayla E., Valuable Garbage asks the reader to do the extratextual work of filling out narrative gaps, which mirrors the problem of trauma recollection. The reader is invited to co-labor within the meaning-making course of, an train that facilitates an intimacy (between the creator, the topic, and the reader) that’s without delay horrifying and hilarious.In Outlets: Apr 09, 2025SRP: 0

CABBIE HC

FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKSJUL247639(W) Marti Riera Ferrer (A / CA) Marti Riera FerrerThe countercultural cult Spanish graphic novel The Cabbie, impressed by the social critique of Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver and the fashion of Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy, is full in English for the primary time! Coupling the grand guignol morality of Paul Schrader and Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver with the squashed black-and-white views and grotesque human physiognomy (and humanity) that defines Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy, Mart ‘s The Cabbie (starring the eponymous “hero” recognized solely because the Cabbie) was first revealed in installments in Eighties Spain, a product of a life lived beneath, and popping out of, Franco’s fascist dictatorship. In Quantity One (initially revealed in 2011), the Cabbie’s father’s coffin is stolen in an act of vengeance for the Cabbie’s vigilantism – proper after his mom tells him his inheritance is inside! Cabbie takes to the imply streets in a quest to seek out it. In Volumes Two and Three (each by no means obtainable in English), Cabbie runs the gauntlet of mad science, canine races the place the canines chase people, evil millionaires, presidents, and popes along with each nightmare situation possible. Extremely-violent, extremely profane, and extremely vicious, The Cabbie is full of scummy noir characters exaggerated to absolutely the restrict – and the worst of all of them could be the titular Cabbie, exactly as a result of, not in contrast to Travis Bickle, he sees himself as a power for good. There have been numerous incomplete English editions during the last 4 many years, however that is the definitive Cabbie saga revealed in English for the primary time, full with “extras,” together with a canopy gallery!In Outlets: Apr 30, 2025

HONORIA HC

FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKSJUL247642(W) Janice Shapiro (A / CA) Janice ShapiroHonoria, the daughter of Sara and Gerald Murphy, who invented the literary “summer time on the Riviera” within the Nineteen Twenties, is used to her mother and father’ infinite events with such luminaries as Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, at their splendid home at Cap d’Antibes. When sheltered and unsophisticated Ida visits for a summer time, Honoria turns into each her mentor and tormentor, in addition to her position mannequin and, lastly, her good friend. When Ida is distributed away for the summer time to stick with the Murphys – buddies of her father, but in addition of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald – she travels from New York to France and, unknowingly, into the creative epicenter of 1929. There, she meets their haughty, sullen, and precocious daughter, Honoria, and wonders if she might be buddies with the prettiest woman in the entire world. Within the “excellent inverted world” of adults, considered one of fixed play and leisure – and inebriation, in fact – it is the kids who most acutely understand the pervasive unhappiness effervescent beneath the floor gaiety. Achingly unhappy and effortlessly humorous, stuffed with the sort of youthful sincerity unclouded by pretenses of age, brief story author and cartoonist Janice Shapiro’s debut graphic novel, Honoria, is the complicated story of the schooling of two younger ladies who’ve began shifting slowly into womanhood.In Outlets: Apr 02, 2025

DISNEY MASTERS HC VOL 26 WALT DISNEYS DONALD DUCK TALES ANDO

FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKSJUL247657(W) Marco RotaCharge into Donald Duck’s previous life as his personal Arthurian ancestor: courageous British commander Andold Wild Duck! Outrageous Viking battles lie forward, in beloved comics epics by fan-favorite artist Marco Rota! It is Donald Duck’s fierce ancestor-played by Donald himself-versus evil medievals in a much-requested miniseries! When Viking raids seize half of Scotland, it is as much as Commander Andold “Wild Duck” Temerary, his super-strong knightly pal Little Bo, and his brainy fiancée Girl Aydis to maintain the peace. However with cursed runestones, lurking longboats, and barbarians on the gates, our heroes higher seize their swords and shields! Together with 4 superior Andold epics-some new to North America! -this Viking-size assortment consists of modern-day Donald and Uncle Scrooge thrills and spills, together with manic McDuck treasure hunts and “Commuter Disaster” … the story of Duckburg’s most ridiculous rush hour!In Outlets: Jul 09, 2025

SQUEAK CHATTER BARK TP

FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKSJUL247653(W) Ali Fitzgerald (A / CA) Ali FitzgeraldIn this charming middle-grade graphic novel, 11-year-old Hazel McCrimlisk’s scientist mother and father are kidnapped contained in the ecosphere they reside and work in. Can Hazel and her buddies discover them in time? Hazel and her mother and father reside an idyllic life in a treehouse within the PAW (Excellent Animal Worlds) Biosphere amongst a sequence of ecologically managed environments populated by genetically created and enhanced animals and flora. As scientists working for PAW, along with founder Dr. Henry Nimick, the McCrimlisk’s mission is to create a world that can usher in an period of “good evolution”, populated with animals and crops that may remodel air pollution and different environmental hazards to make the area clear and liveable. However one foggy night time, Hazel’s mother and father are instantly kidnapped. With the assistance of her animal buddies Chimi (a multilingual toucan), Nina (a pet-sized elephant who reveals super-strength), and her human good friend (comics lover and mythology professional) Alex, Hazel tracks clues all through the assorted biodomes and climates uncovering what occurred to her mother and father and main her to… a monster?!?  Creator Ali Fitzgerald charmingly wrote, drew, lettered, and coloured this guide that includes an imaginative setting wealthy with element and an expressive brush-pen fashion with a superb sense of persona and movement. Her colourful, anthropomorphic characters are vibrant and humorous sleuths alongside Hazel as they comply with the clues collectively. Stuffed with puns and hijinks, readers will delight on this thriller with an ecological message.In Outlets: Apr 02, 2025

SKIN HC

FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKSJUL247651(W) Sabien Clement, Mieke VersypThis lyrical graphic novel paints a fascinating portrait of two girls searching for themselves. Feeling adrift after her daughter leaves the nest, Rita makes the audacious transfer to mannequin nude for a reside drawing class. There, she meets Esther, an artist who sees past the superficial and captures individuals’s true essences in her drawings. The 2 join as kindred spirits, and their surprising, but endearing relationship teaches them to simply accept their eccentricities and really feel snug in their very own pores and skin. Pores and skin is the putting debut graphic novel by author Mieke Versyp and illustrator Sabien Clement. On this seamless collaboration, poetic turns of phrase pair with impressionistic watercolors, making a tangible intimacy between phrases and imagery. Eager remark and dynamic artistry mix to inform a young story of the human situation, as playful and devastating as life itself.In Outlets: Apr 09, 2025

FANAGRAPHICS UNDERGROUND SINCEREST FORM OF PARODY (NEW PTG)

FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKSFEB251615(W) Varied (A) VARIOUSA assortment of one of the best of Mad comics in a single, outrageously humorous quantity – now in a brand new and improved printing with an outsized format!When Mad turned a shock hit as a comic book guide in 1953 (after the early points misplaced cash) different comics publishers have been fast to leap onto the bandwagon, ultimately bringing out a dozen imitations with titles like FLIP, WHACK, NUTS, CRAZY, WILD, RIOT, EH, UNSANE, BUGHOUSE, and GET LOST. The Sincerest Type of Parody collects one of the best and the funniest materials from these comics, together with parodies of films (20,000 Leagues Beneath the Sea, From Right here To Eternity), TV exhibits (What’s My Line, The Late Present), comedian strips (Little Orphan Annie, Rex Morgan), novels (I, the Jury), performs (Come Again, Little Sheba), ads (Rheingold Beer, Charles Atlas), basic literature (“The Girl or the Tiger”), and historical past (Pancho Villa). Some did not even strive for parody, however as an alternative revealed odd, goofy, off-the-wall tales.These earnest copiers of Mad realized that Will Elder’s cluttered “hen fats” artwork was a superb a part of Mad’s success, and these pages are densely filled with all kinds of outlandish and weird gags that make for hours of amusing studying. The “parody comics” are uniquely “’50s,” catching the favored tradition zeitgeist via a twin lens: not solely reflecting fifties tradition via parody but in addition being themselves typical examples of that tradition (in a manner that Harvey Kurtzman’s Mad was not).This unprecedented quantity collects over 30 of one of the best of those loopy, undisciplined tales, all reprinted from the unique comics in full shade. Editor John Benson (who wrote the annotations for the primary full Mad reprints and interviewed Mad editor Harvey Kurtzman in depth a number of instances through the years) additionally supplies professional, profusely illustrated commentary and background, together with comparisons of how totally different firms parodied the identical topic. Artists represented embrace Jack Davis, Will Elder, Norman Maurer, Carl Hubbell, William Overgard, Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers, Invoice Everett, Al Hartley, Ross Andru and Mike Esposito, Hy Fleischman, Jay Disbrow, Howard Nostrand, and Bob Powell.Informal comics readers are most likely conversant in the later satirical magazines that continued to be revealed within the ’60s and ’70s, comparable to Cracked and Sick, however the comics collected on this quantity have been imitations of the Mad comedian guide, not the journal, and just about unknown amongst all however essentially the most die-hard collectors.In Outlets: Apr 30, 2025

FANAGRAPHICS UNDERGROUND BEES THE WOMEN WHO ROCKED LITHUANIA

FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKSFEB251616(W) Akvile Maqicduste (A / CA) Akvile MaqicdusteIn 1965, impressed by The Beatles, Lithuanian musician J?rat? Dineikait? based a rock band referred to as The Bees. This spirited ensemble of six girls toured all through the Soviet Union in the course of the ’60s and ’70s – turning heads with their blue denims, mop-tops, and fashionable rock sound. For these girls, taking the stage was without delay an electrifying expression of their artistry and an audacious political act.Primarily based on interviews with J?rat? herself, this graphic novel vividly captures episodes of the group’s lived experiences – from thrilling performances to chilling encounters with the KGB. An genuine portrayal of an enchanting true historical past little recognized exterior of Lithuania, The Beesis tailored with vibrant colours and a charmingly handcrafted fashion by cartoonist Akvil? Magicdusté. This version additionally includes a picture gallery with interval snapshots of the band in motion, plus a playlist of their authentic songs!In Outlets: Apr 23, 2025

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