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Fantagraphics drop out of Free Comic Book Day for 2025 and pulls their Lost Marvels by Howard Chaykin prevue .
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For Free Comic Book Day 2025 , Fantagraphics stated that they would be put out a licensed claim from Marvel Comics , Lost Marvels , previewing their new line of comic strip with content that Marvel might not be as concerned in reprint but Fantagraphics really are . WithHoward Chaykin , Neal AdamsandBarry Windsor Smithin their first two volume .
LOST MARVELSFantagraphics Books(W / A ) VARIOUS ( CA ) Howard ChaykinA preview sampler of Fantagraphics ' fresh lose MARVELS series of seldom or never - collected 1970s Marvel comics . Featuring stories by Howard Chaykin , Neal Adams , Tom Sutton , Roy Thomas , and Barry Windsor - Smith , from the pages of Marvel classics like Tower of Shadows and Marvel Premiere ! Preview Material Rating : Teen
However , it appears that this is no longer the instance , and Fantagraphics has tell Diamond Comic Distributors that they are pulling out of Free Comic Book Day solely . Here is where the itemisation used to be . And there isno combining weight from Lunar Distribution . The thing is … at this stage the strip will have been printed . Will they have a abode elsewhere ? Or will they , like the DC Comics Free Comic Book Day championship of 2020 be ( almost ) completely pulp ? Will this be known as theLost Lost Marvels ? We have strive out to Gary Groth and will update if we get wind more . Until then , here is how those actualLost Marvelsvolumes that will be print are looking …
UPDATE : Eric Reynolds from Fantagraphics baffle in touch to correct me . He says " Contrary to what you write , the funnies were actually not printed yet . If they had been , we would have proceeded as project . But since they were n’t , and given the uncertainty of whether Diamond will even exist number May ( or be able-bodied to devote us for them ) , we made the difficult decision to commit the jade while we could . We may still produce the comic this year , go around FCBD . Things are , as you could probably understand , a spot fluid these day … The decision was made wholly base on the uncertainty of FCBD and had nothing to do with the Los Marvels book series itself , which is otherwise continue as planned ! "
Indeed it is . Here are the itemization for those Scripture so far …
Lost Marvels No. 1: Tower of Shadows Hardcover – March 4, 2025by Neal Adams, Jim Steranko, Barry Windsor-Smith
The never - collect horror anthology serial publication featuring story by Jim Steranko , Neal Adams , Barry Windsor - Smith , Stan Lee , John Buscema , and other Silver Age masters . In 1969 , with its revolutionary superhero bank line well established , Marvel took a chance on the kind of supernatural , EC - way anthology series that had been ban since the geological formation of the Comics Code in the fifties . Tower of Shadows have a staggering array of creative person and writers , including Neal Adams , Jim Steranko , Barry Windsor - Smith , John Buscema , Gene Colan , Wally Wood , Stan Lee , Roy Thomas , John Romita , Johnny Craig , Marie Severin , Gerry Conway , and Bernie Wrightson , to name a few . unblock from the conventions of the superhero adventure , these creators brought their storytelling skills to a more quiet sinister genre , producing atmospheric gems of distorted suspense and sardonic horror . Not only do these nine issues feature Marvel ’s best creators working at their peak , but Tower of Shadows is one of the lost , never - collected Marvels . In the first of a new series of Lost Marvels , Fantagraphics and Marvel bring together force to insert these pages to a new generation of readers and restore this serial to its rightful place in comics history . This gorgeous bulk brings every Tower of Shadows story and cut through to life in lifelike semblance and boast screen background and analysis by comics journalist Michael Dean . Full - color illustrations throughout
Lost Marvels Vol. 2: Howard Chaykin : Dominic Fortune, Monark Moonstalker, and Phantom Eagle – 08 July 2025
This Howard Chaykin - centered solicitation of smartly imaginative scripts and attractively design art sport Dominic Fortune , Monark Starstalker , and Phantom Eagle is part of a series of never or rarely call for Lost Marvels collaboratively produce by Fantagraphics and Marvel Comics ! When Howard Chaykin broke into cartoon strip in the seventies , there was nothing quite like him . His original characters Dominic Fortune and Monark Starstalker took classic mush heroes and ran them through a postmodern liquidizer . Although he sometimes worked with writers like Len Wein and David Michelinie on Dominic Fortune , the type was undeniably an expression of Chaykin ’s unique imagination . This loudness contains retro - scientific discipline - fiction bounteousness huntsman Monark Starstalker ’s debut appearance and all of Chaykin ’s colour - comic - book Dominic Fortune stories , including the character ’s unexpurgated Max series , publish a generation later . discharge the software is the collision between pulp heroism and the devastating , bloody realities of World War I in Chaykin ’s 111 - Thomas Nelson Page collaboration with The Boys writer Garth Ennis on War Is netherworld : The First Flight of the Phantom Eagle . The collection is introduced by author and comics scholar Brannon Costello . $ 39.99 256 Page
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