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Editor Roy Thomas' acclaimed magazine "Alter Ego" first took the world by storm in the 1960s as the premier 'zine about comics. After abandoning it for a two-decade career as a major writer and editor for "Marvel" and "DC Comics", Roy resurrected it in 1999, and this trade paperback collects the first two issues, plus 30 pages of new material! Behind a new "JLA Jam Cover" by Joe Kubert, George Perez, Dick Giordano, George Tuska, Nick Cardy, Ramona Fradon & Joe Giella, you'll find: Gil Kane, Julius Schartz & Gardner Fox on the creation of the Silver Age Atom; "The Stan Lee Roast" co-starring Sal Buscema, John Romita, Peter David, Chris Claremont, Jim Shooter, et al; Michael T. Gilbert on Will Eisner's 1966 "Spirit" story; Roy Thomas, Jerry Ordway & Mike Machlan on creating "Infinity, Incorporated"; interviews with Larry Lieber, Irwin Hasen & Jack Burnley; "Wonder Woman" rarities, with art by H.G. Peter; how Marv Wolfman rescued Golden Age art; and, Robert Kanigher and Bill Schelly on comics fandom, FCA (Fawcett Collectors of America) with Marc Swayze, C.C.Beck, Mac Raboy & Richard Deane Taylor - and Kane, Will Eisner, Carmine Infantino, Mike Sekowsky, Murphy Anderson, Dick Dillin, plus all seven of our super-star cover artists! |