June 2009 - 100 pages

ALTER EGO 86 asks “WHAT HATH KURTZMAN WROUGHT?”  as it examines those Frantic Four-Color MAD Wannabes of 1953-55—the era when everybody was copying HARVEY KURTZMAN’s new EC smash!  See Captain Marble—Mighty Moose—Drag-ula—“I Love Loosely”—Prince Scallion—Flush Jordan, et al.—lavishly illustrated by SIMON & KIRBY, KUBERT & MAURER, ANDRU & ESPOSITO, BILL EVERETT, GENE COLAN, CARL BURGOS, RUSS HEATH, JOE MANEELY, L.B. COLE, BOB POWELL, DICK AYERS, WILLIAM OVERGARD, HOWARD NOSTRAND, DICK GIORDANO, & many others!  Plus Part I of a talk with Golden/Silver Age artist FRANK BOLLE (Red Mask, Crimebuster, Dr. Solar)— MICHAEL T. GILBERT and Mr. Monster—FCA (Fawcett Collectors of America), and more! Edited by Roy Thomas.

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