The long-awaited American Comic Book Chronicles: 1945-1949 ships Monday!See a preview, and order it here!

The American Comic Book Chronicles continues its ambitious series of full-color hardcovers, where TwoMorrows’ top authors document every decade of comic book history from the 1940s to today! At long last, this 1945-49 volume covers the comic book industry during the aftermath of World War II, when scores of writers and artists returned from foreign battlefields to resume their careers. It was a period when readers began turning away from the escapist entertainment offered by super-heroes in favor of other genres, like the grittier, more brutal crime comics. It was a time when Joe Simon and Jack Kirby created Young Romance, inaugurating a golden age of romance comics. And it was during this five-year period that Timely and National Comics capitalized on the popularity of Westerns, that Bill Gaines plotted a new course for EC Comics in the wake of his father’s death, and that Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster first sued for the rights to Superman. These are just a few of the events chronicled in this exhaustive, full-color hardcover, further documenting the ACBC series’ cohesive, linear overview of the entire landscape of comics history! Edited by Keith Dallas and John Wells. Preview the book, and pre-order your copy here!

American Comic Book Chronicles: 1945-1949
Edited by Keith Dallas and John Wells
264-page full-color Hardcover
$49.95 cover price
Diamond Comic Distributors Order Code: JUN242032
ISBN13: 978-1-60549-099-1
Ships Nov. 18 from TwoMorrows Publishing, and at your local comics shop on Nov. 27

Here’s what TwoMorrows Publishing has listed in the latest Diamond Previews catalog! Use the Diamond Order Codes to order at your local comic book shop, or click the covers below to order directly from TwoMorrows! To see FULL listings of all items, CLICK HERE!

October PREVIEWS: PAGES 383–385
NOV241857 BACK ISSUE #158 NEW!
NOV241858 BRICKJOURNAL #89 NEW!
NOV241859 ALTER EGO COLLECTORS ITEM CLASSICS (Softcover)
NOV241860 AMERICAN COMIC BOOK CHRONICLES: The 1970s (Hardcover)
NOV241861 DON HECK: A WORK OF ART (Hardcover)
NOV241862 IT ROSE FROM THE TOMB (Softcover) FINAL COPIES!
NOV241863 MAC RABOY: MASTER OF THE COMICS (Hardcover)
NOV241864 MARVEL COMICS IN THE EARLY 1960s (Softcover)
NOV241865 MODERN MASTERS VOL. 30: PAOLO RIVERA (Softcover)

TwoMorrows will be exhibiting this weekend (October 25-27) at Chiller Theatre Expo in Parsippany, NJ!

We’ll have advance copies of these upcoming January releases:
Cryptology #2
Back Issue #157
Comic Book Creator #37
Jack Kirby Collector #92

Plus copies of Cryptology #1, RetroFan back issues, books, and more. Come see us!

For details on attending, go to http://www.chillertheatre.com

BACK ISSUE #155: This issue is Haunted! House of Mystery, House of Secrets, Unexpected, Marvel’s failed horror anthologies, Haunted Tank, Eerie Publications, House II adaptation, Elvira’s House of Mystery, and more with Neal Adams, Mike W. Barr, Dick Giordano, Sam Glanzman, Robert Kanigher, Joe Orlando, Steranko, Bernie Wrightson, and others. Unused cover by García-López & Wrightson. Edited by Michael Eury. Preview the issue, and order your copy here!

ALTER EGO #190: Mitch Maglio examines vintage JUNGLE COMICS HEROES (Kaänga, Ka-Zar, Sheena, Rulah, Jo-Jo/Congo King, Thun’da, Tarzan) with art by Lou Fine, Will Eisner, Frank Frazetta, Matt Baker, Bob Powell, Alex Schomburg, and others! Plus: the comicbook career of real-life jungle explorers Martin and Osa Johnson, FCA, Mr. Monster’s Comic Crypt, and more! Edited by Roy Thomas. Preview the issue, and order your copy here!

RETROFAN #35: Saturday morning super-hero Space Ghost, plus The Beatles, The Jackson 5ive, and other real rockers in animation! Also: The Addams Family’s John Astin, Mighty Isis co-stars Joanna Pang and Brian Cutler, TV’s The Name of the Game, on the set of Evil Dead II, classic coffee ads, and more! With Mark Arnold, Will Murray, Scott Saavedra, Scott Shaw, Mark Voger & Michael Eury. Preview the issue, and order your copy here!

COMIC BOOK CREATOR #36: Tom Palmer retrospective, career-spanning interview, and tributes compiled by Greg Biga. Lee Marrs chats about assisting on Little Orphan Annie, work for DC’s Plop! and underground Pudge, Girl Blimp! The start of a multi-part look at the life and career of Dan DiDio, part two of our Arnold Drake interview, public service comics produced by students at the Center For Cartoon Studies, & more! Edited by Jon B. Cooke. Preview the issue, and order your copy here!

CRYPTOLOGY #1: The Cryptologist (with editor Peter Normanton) exhumes the best in retro-horror, including the worst 1950s Horror Comics excesses, Killer “B” movies to die for, the creepiest, kookiest horror toys, the House of Usher, Addams Family vs. The Munsters, Bernie Wrightson’s Warren frontispieces, Hammer films, Atlas pre-code covers, and more help from henchmen Will Murray, Mark Voger, Barry Forshaw, Tim Leese, Pete von Sholly, and Steve and Michael Kronenberg! Preview the issue, and order your copy here!

See what TwoMorrows Publishing has listed in the latest Diamond Previews catalog! Use the Diamond Order Codes to order at your local comic book shop, or click the covers below to order directly from TwoMorrows! To see FULL listings of all items, CLICK HERE!

October PREVIEWS: PAGES 376–377
OCT241946 ALTER EGO #192 NEW!
OCT241947 ALTER EGO #188 (double-size 25th anniversary issue)
OCT241948 RETROFAN #37 NEW!
OCT241949 AMERICAN COMIC BOOK CHRONICLES: 1965-1969 (Hardcover) NEW PRINTING!
OCT241950 GROOVY: WHEN FLOWER POWER BLOOMED IN POP CULTURE (Hardcover)
OCT241951 IT CREPT FROM THE TOMB (Softcover) FINAL COPIES!
OCT241952 JACK KIRBY’S DINGBAT LOVE (Hardcover)
OCT241953 MARVEL COMICS IN THE 1980s (Softcover)
OCT241954 WORKING WITH DITKO (Softcover)

JACK KIRBY COLLECTOR #91: 30th Anniversary issue, with Kirby’s Greatest Victories! Jack gets the girl (wife Roz), early hits Captain America and Boy Commandos, surviving WWII, romance comics, Captain Victory and the direct market, his original art battle with Marvel, and finally winning credit! Plus Mark Evanier, a colossal gallery of Kirby’s winningest pencil art, a never-reprinted Simon & Kirby story, and more! Edited by John Morrow. Preview the issue, and order your copy here!

Marvel Comics In The EARLY 1960s: Features scores of handy, easy to reference entries on Marvel Comics’ early 1961-1965 output, when gunfighters traveled the West and monsters roamed the Earth! Includes reviews of key stories from Amazing Fantasy, Tales of Suspense (and Astonish), Strange Tales, Journey Into Mystery, Rawhide Kid, plus issues of Fantastic Four, Avengers, Amazing Spider-Man, and others that weren’t in the previous 1960s edition. Written by Pierre Comtois. Preview the book, and order your copy here!

And today is the LAST DAY of our MICHAEL EURY RETIREMENT SALE! 50% off Back Issue, RetroFan, and books!

30 years ago today (Sept. 5), I hand-mailed 125 free copies of JACK KIRBY COLLECTOR #1 to some of Jack’s most devoted fans. That day, I had no idea my little 16-page, hand-xeroxed/folded/stapled labor of love would evolve into TwoMorrows Publishing, and alter the course of my life.

Today, I’ll be taking my 30th anniversary issue (#91) to our mail house, to be sent to many of those same subscribers who’ve stuck with us for three decades. I’m humbled that they’ve trusted me (with the invaluable help of a legion of wonderful contributors) to document comic book history all these years, and allowed me to make a living doing what I so love.

Thank you, readers. And thank you, Jack Kirby. Everything we’ve accomplished at TwoMorrows is because of the true King of Comics.

John Morrow, publisher

See TJKC #91 here.

And learn TwoMorrows Publishing’s 30-year history in our anniversary book, on sale for just $10 today.

In honor of our longtime pal (and amazing author/editor) MICHAEL EURY‘s official retirement this month, we’re putting all in-stock print copies of his books and magazines at 50% off, September 3–25! (He’s been with TwoMorrows for 22 years, so that’s one sale day for each year he’s been knocking it out of the ballpark with his stellar work!)

Get half-price copies of:
Back Issue magazine (up to #149)
RetroFan magazine (up to #32)
Hero-A-Go-Go (the perfect companion to our new book Zowie!)
The Team-Up Companion

And as a special bonus for his fans, learn his backstory (and how Back Issue and RetroFan came to be) in our World of TwoMorrows anniversary book—on sale now for just $10 (or $9.99 for the digital edition) during this sale!

Happy retirement, Euryman!

See what TwoMorrows Publishing has listed in the September Diamond Previews catalog! For full listings, go here!

SEP242098 BACK ISSUE #157 NEW!
SEP242099 BRICKJOURNAL #88 NEW!
SEP242100 COMIC BOOK CREATOR #37 NEW!
SEP242101 CRYPTOLOGY #2 NEW!
SEP242102 BEST OF SIMON & KIRBY’S MAINLINE COMICS (Hardcover)
SEP242103 JOHN SEVERIN: TWO-FISTED COMIC BOOK ARTIST (Hardcover)
SEP242104 MARVEL COMICS IN THE 1970s EXPANDED EDITION (Softcover)
SEP242105 STAR*REACH COMPANION (Softcover)
SEP242106 ZOWIE: THE TV SUPERHERO CRAZE IN ’60s POP CULTURE (Hardcover)

BACK ISSUE #154: Bronze Age Not-Ready-for-Primetime DC Heroes! Black Canary, Elongated Man, Lilith, Metamorpho, Nubia, Odd Man, Ultraa of Earth-Prime, Vartox, and Jimmy Olsen as Mr. Action! Plus: Jason’s Quest! Featuring Mike W. Barr, Cary Bates, Steve Ditko, Bob Haney, Denny O’Neil, Mike Sekowsky, Mark Waid, and more ready-for-primetime talent. Retro cover by Nick Cardy. Edited by Michael Eury. Preview the issue, and order your copy here!

ALTER EGO #189: John Romita tribute issue! Podcast recollections recorded shortly after the Jazzy One’s passing by John Romita Jr., Jim Starlin, Steve Englehart, Brian Pulido, Roy Thomas, Jaime Jameson, John Cimino, Steve Houston, & Nile Scala; David Armstrong’s mini-interview with Romita; John Romita’s ten greatest hits; plus FCA, Mr. Monster’s Comic Crypt, & more! Edited by Roy Thomas. Preview the issue, and order your copy here!

RETROFAN #34: Take a ride with CHiPs’ Erik Estrada and Larry Wilcox! Plus: an interview with movie Hercules Steve Reeves, Weird-Ohs cartoonist Bill Campbell, Plastic Man on Saturday mornings, Tiny Tim, Remo Williams, the search for a Disney artist, and more! Featuring columns by Andy Mangels, Will Murray, Scott Saavedra, Scott Shaw, and Mark Voger. Edited by Michael Eury. Preview the issue, and order your copy here!