For your chance to win one of five free copies of MEGO 8″ SUPERHEROES: WORLD’S GREATEST TOYS!, go to:

http://www.quickstopentertainment.com/2007/12/12/win-a-copy-of-mego-8-inch-superheroes-worlds-greatest-toys/

We’re supplying the goodies for this contest, but hurry to enter!

Our new book on Mego superhero action figures is listed in Whitney Matheson’s Pop Candy blog on USA Today today:

http://blogs.usatoday.com/popcandy/2007/12/these-pop-cultu.html

Congrats to author Benjamin Holcomb for the stellar job he’s done on this critically acclaimed book. Anyone who’s seen it has been floored by its comprehensiveness and design. Just a beautiful book!

Jack Kirby Museum director Rand Hoppe just called to tell me that the IRS finally approved the Museum’s 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status! What does this mean to you, the current or prospective Museum member? Not much directly, but it does mean the Museum doesn’t have to pay taxes on donations and fundraisers, so there’ll be that much more money available to put on displays.

If you haven’t joined, click the link above, and spread the Kirby love!

We’re planning to do an updated “Gold” edition of the Jack Kirby Checklist for 2008, which will include all the additions and corrections we’ve received since we pubished the “Silver” edition back in 1998. So if you noticed something we missed, please email it to Richard Kolkman (who’s done such a great job keeping the checklist updated since he first re-compiled it a decade ago) at:

seriocomics@comcast.net

We particularly need listings of Kirby work that has been published since 1998, whether it’s a reprint, poster, trading cards, etc. So send ’em in soon, and thanks to everyone who’s helped out on this worthwhile project over the years.

…then you’d still be surprised by some of the comments he made during this fascinating interview with the author of our books on Alan Moore, Miracleman, G-Force, Image Comics, and others. Interesting reading, especially for all you folks out there still asking when we’re going to publish Swampmen.

…from PVC Jack Kirby (shown here upon his return from WWII in 1945 at Brighton Beach), and TwoMorrows Publishing. Photo courtesy of the Jack Kirby Estate.

All the hurdles are now cleared with DC Comics, so the Silver Age Sci-Fi Companion is going to press next week, and should be shipping on December 5. Thanks for everyone’s continued patience; it’s a hum-dinger of a book. Special thanks to author Mike W. Barr and designer Jon B. Cooke for their patience and diligence bringing this one to completion!

Howz about this? Our about-to-be-released book Mego 8″ Super-Heroes: World’s Greatest Toys! is currently the #1 book in Amazon.com’s “toy” section! Considering the number of books on Toys that Amazon has listed, this is a pretty remarkable feat, so congrats go out to author/designer Benjamin Holcomb for creating what’s sure to be the definitive resource for collectors of the perennial favorite Mego Super-Hero Action Figures. It should be in stores and shipping from TwoMorrows HQ on November 28, and having seen the sample copies from our printer, I’m 100% confident no one’s going to be disappointed by it!
If you’re curious to see what all the hubbub is about, click here for a free 24-page PDF preview of this full-color, 256-page hardcover book, which retails for $49.95. And if you’re a hardcore Mego fan, click here for our Mego Collector’s Edition, which is a 250-copy Limited Edition of the book, signed by the author, which also includes a full-color promotional Mego postcard, featuring an alternate design for the book’s cover, plus a free 32-page reprint of Mego’s 1972-1982 super-hero catalogs. The special Collector’s edition costs $75, and is ONLY AVAILABLE THROUGH TWOMORROWS! (It’s not sold at Amazon.com or through stores.)

View a Mego preview! (10 MB PDF)

Not to be outdone by his pal Loston Wallace, marvelous Matt Webb produced this spooky Darkseid Halloween tribute to the King of Comics. Nicely carved!

I was just interviewed for the website UnBeige (which covers general magazines) about BrickJournal, our new mag for Lego enthusiasts. You can read it here.