Media Release -- In ALTER EGO #109 (84 pages with FULL COLOR, $8.95) focuses on the Golden Age Justice Society of America—behind a fabulous cover by GEORGE PÉREZ, never before printed full-size! There's a spotlight on Spectre/Hour-Man creator BERNARD BAILY—startling additions to the 4 volumes of The All-Star Companion—the JSA-style 1940s super-groups that might have been—a gorgeous JSA Color Section—and many surprise features, amid art and artifacts by ORDWAY, INFANTINO, KUBERT, ROBINSON, NODELL, HASEN, MOLDOFF, GIELLA, ASCHMEIER, NAYDEL, BURNLEY, et al.! Plus LEONARD STARR interviewed by JIM AMASH (Part I)—MIKE PEPPE interviewed by DEWEY CASSELL (Part II)—BILL SCHELLY on the "50 Years of Fandom" Celebration in San Diego 2011, FCA, MICHAEL T. GILBERT's Comic Crypt, and MORE! Edited by ROY THOMAS.
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Media Release -- While you're hitting your local comic book store this Saturday for Free Comic Book Day, don't forget: you can download a FREE DIGITAL EDITION of each of our magazines, any day, at www.twomorrows.com.
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Media Release -- Just in time for the team's big-screen debut, BACK ISSUE #56 (84-page FULL-COLOR magazine, $8.95 cover price) lets the "Avengers Assemble," in an issue devoted to the history of Marvel Comics' mightiest super-team! This issue features: Writer ROGER STERN'S acclaimed 1980s Avengers run, West Coast Avengers, early Avengers toys, and histories of Hawkeye, Mockingbird, and Wonder Man. Featuring art by and/or commentary from JOHN and SAL BUSCEMA, JOHN BYRNE, BRETT BREEDING, TOM DeFALCO, STEVE ENGLEHART, BOB HALL, AL MILGROM, TOM MORGAN, TOM PALMER, JOE SINNOTT, and more. With a GEORGE PÉREZ cover spotlighting the Avengers' "Big Three." Edited by MICHAEL EURY.
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Lee & Kirby: The Wonder Years
Mark Alexander
TwoMorrows Publishing
10407 Bedfordtown Drive, Raleigh, NC 27614
9781605490380, $19.95, www.twomorrows.com
Lee & Kirby: The Wonder Years provides a fine special issue documenting the creation and popularity of a new magazine created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, called fantastic Four. Its impact would change the face of the comic book world, and this celebration of the two creators offers a fine survey of their works and achievements. Loaded with black and white comics and illustration, it documents the rise and fall of the Lee and Kirby partnership and its lasting effects on the graphic novel and comic world, and is a 'must' for any collection strong in comic and graphic novel history and culture.
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Media Release -- Take a spring break from boring old school and taxes, and stop by www.twomorrows.com as TwoMorrows Publishing makes their huge selection of award-winning HOW-TO BOOKS, MAGAZINES, and DVDs available at 40% off cover price! That's less than you'll find them anywhere else, but this offer is available THROUGH APRIL 30 ONLY!
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Midwest Book Review
The Quality Companion
Mike Kooiman and Jim Amash
TwoMorrows Publishing
10407 Bedfordtown Dr., Raleigh NC 27614
9781605490373, $31.95, www.twomorrows.com
The Quality Companion provides the first look at the Golden Age publisher whose productions included fine art, memorable characters, and sparked such lasting, modern comic influences as Uncle Sam, Phantom Lady, Plastic Man and others now appearing in DC Comics. It consists of an encyclopedia A-Z character profile of all heroes, reprints in full color several 1940s key stories from rare collector comics, and blends a chronology withy an oral history and discussion of the evolution of major Quality characters. Black and white images accompany discussions of comics teams, creators and individuals in this outstanding survey recommended for any definitive comic history holding.

