Because
of continued slow mail delivery nationwide, we want to do our part to
ensure all mail-in votes arrive in time for this year’s election.
So TwoMorrows will NOT be shipping through the US Postal Service between October 26-November 3 (Election Day). Orders placed during that time will be shipped after the election, so please get your orders in this week. (All subscription copies of our new magazines are already in the mail.)
Thanks for your understanding, and please share this message, to help ease the burden on our overworked postal employees!
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Monster Mash – RETRO MONSTER POP CULTURE! Time-trip back to the frightening era of 1957-1972, when monsters infiltrated America in monster magazines, toys, games, trading cards, and comic books. This profusely illustrated full-color hardcover covers that creepy, kooky craze through features on Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine, the #1 hit “Monster Mash,” Aurora’s model kits, TV shows (Shock Theatre, The Addams Family, The Munsters, and Dark Shadows), “Mars Attacks” trading cards, Eerie Publications, Planet of the Apes, and more! It features interviews with monster creators, publishers, and TV stars, with a Foreword by TV horror host Zacherley, the “Cool Ghoul.”
It Crept From The Tomb – “BEST OF” THE UK’S TOP HORROR MAG! The new “best of” collection of From The Tomb (the UK’s top mag on horror comics) digs up atomic comics lost to the Cold War, rarely seen/censored British horror comics, the early art of Richard Corben, Good Girls of a bygone age, Tom Sutton, Don Heck, Lou Morales, Al Eadeh, Bruce Jones’ Alien Worlds, HP Lovecraft in Heavy Metal, and more from Atlas, Charlton, Comic Media, DC, EC, Harvey, House of Hammer, Kitchen Sink, Last Gasp, Pacific, Skywald, Warren, and others!
RetroFan #2 is sure to satiate the trick-or-treat cravings of your inner child! We peek into the tombs of TV horror-hosts ZACHERLEY, VAMPIRA, SEYMOUR, MARVIN, and our cover-featured ELVIRA, interviewed by Monster Mash’s MARK VOGER! ANDY MANGELS welcomes us to Saturday morning’s Horrible Hall, home of the Groovie Goolies! SCOTT SAAVEDRA tunes in to the creepy, kooky Bewitched, The Addams Family, and The Munsters! The Oddball World of SCOTT SHAW! takes us on a Jurassic lark through the long-buried Dinosaur Land amusement park! Learn the history of Ben Cooper Halloween costumes in an interview with IRA J. COOPER! Super collector TERRY COLLINS shows off his collection of character lunchboxes! Plus: collecting superhero View-Masters; Sindy, the British Barbie; mood rings, and more fun, fab features! Photo cover spotlighting Elvira herself, CASSANDRA PETERSON! Edited by Back Issue magazine’s MICHAEL EURY.
In RetroFan #6, tune in to the retro line-up of MeTV, with crazy creepster SVENGOOLIE! Meet Eddie Munster himself, BUTCH PATRICK! ANDY MANGELS calls on the original Saturday Morning Ghost Busters, with BOB BURNS! The Oddball World of SCOTT SHAW! uncovers the nutty Naugas! Plus: ERNEST FARINO’s “I Was a Teenage James Bond,” SCOTT SAAVEDRA’s “My Letters to Famous People,” the Archie-Dobie Gillis connection by WILL MURRAY, the Pinball Hall of Fame, Alien action figures, the Rubik’s Cube fad, and more fun, fab features! Edited by Back Issue magazine’s MICHAEL EURY.
Just in time for Halloween, RetroFan #11 features interviews with Dark Shadows’ Quentin Collins, David Selby, and the niece of movie Frankenstein Glenn Strange, Julie Ann Ream. Plus: Kolchak the Night Stalker, Rod Serling retrospective, Casper the Friendly Ghost, TV’s Adventures of Superman, Superman’s pal Jimmy Olsen, Quisp and Quake cereals, Saturday morning cartoon preview specials, scratch model customs, and more fun, fab features! Featuring columns by Ernest Farino, Andy Mangels, Will Murray, Scott Saavedra, and Scott Shaw! Edited by Michael Eury.
It’s a Fawcett Collectors of America (FCA) Special, with spotlights on Kurt Schaffenberger (Captain Marvel, Ibis the Invincible, Marvel Family, Lois Lane), and Alex Ross on his awesome painting of the super-heroes influenced by the original Captain Marvel! Plus Michael T. Gilbert’s “Mr. Monster’s Comic Crypt” on Superman editor Mort Weisinger, John Broome, and more! Cover by Schaffenberger! And as always, edited by Roy Thomas! Click here to preview the issue and order!
Two new issues are shipping today! BACK ISSUE #122 celebrates the 40th Anniversary of Wolfman & Pérez’s NEW TEEN TITANS! And JACK KIRBY COLLECTOR #79 looks at Kirby’s place in “The Big Picture!“ Get ’em both today
Our first new releases since the Pandemic are now shipping! And back issues are 40% off through Labor Day (ends Sept. 8)! Download our free digital catalog here!
Back Issue #121 is our Conan and the Barbarians issue, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor-Smith’s Conan #1! The Bronze Age Barbarian Boom, Top 50 Marvel Conan stories, Marvel’s Not-Quite Conans (from Kull to Skull), Arak–Son of Thunder, Warlord action figures, Gray Morrow’s Edge of Chaos, and Conan the Barbarian at Dark Horse Comics. Joining Roy Thomas are Kurt Busiek, Ernie Colon, Chuck Dixon, Mike Grell, Ron Randall, Dann Thomas, Timothy Truman, Marv Wolfman, and many more. Featuring the never-before-published alternate cover for Marvel’s Conan #9, from 1971. Edited by Michael Eury. Preview the issue, and order your copy here!
Alter Ego #165 showcases Martin Goodman, original publisher of Timely/Atlas/Marvel Comics, 1939-1971—with coverage by comics historian Will Murray. With art and artifacts by the likes of Lee, Kirby, Ditko, Romita, Maneely, Buscema, Everett, Burgos, Gustavson, Schomburg, Colan, Adams, Steranko, and many others! Plus FCA (Fawcett Collectors of America)—Michael T. Gilbert in Mr. Monster’s Comic Crypt with still more on Pete Morisi—John Broome—and plenty of other stuff! Cover painting by Drew Friedman! Edited by Roy Thomas. Preview the issue, and order your copy here!
Comic Book Creator #23 showcases a remarkable and revealing interview with comics pioneer and the artist extraordinaire of ElfQuest, Wendy Pini, about her difficult early years and escape to a creative life through fantasy fiction, adventure cartoons, Marvel Comics, and dance. We also talk to Richard Pini, ElfQuest co-creator, about their nearly 48-year marriage and their even-older creative partnership! Delayed from last issue, we present the final segment of our interview with Craig Yoe, as we visit his New York abode to talk about his work on The Muppets and friendship with legendary Jim Henson, his career-changing book, The Art of Mickey Mouse, and current Yoe Books imprint. We also talk with Larry Koster, onetime Gil Kane boyhood friend and business partner, about publishing His Name Is… Savage and other adventures with the raconteur comic book artist. Plus Michael Aushenker chats with the great Pablo Marcos about his awesome Marvel horror work and so much more! And the wonderful Fred Hembeck rounds things up! Edited by Jon B. Cooke. Preview the issue, and order your copy here!
RetroFan #10 (now bi-monthly!) celebrates fifty years of Shaft—can you dig it? Plus: interviews with Family Affair’s Kathy Garver and The Brady Bunch Variety Hour’s Geri “Fake Jan” Reischl, Ed “Big Daddy” Roth, rare Godzillamerchandise, Spaghetti Westerns, Saturday morning cartoon preview specials, fake presidential candidates, Spider-Man/The Spider parallels, Stuckey’s, and more fun, fab features! Featuring columns by Ernest Farino, Andy Mangels, Will Murray, Scott Saavedra, and Scott Shaw! Edited by Michael Eury. Preview the issue, and order your copy here!
BrickJournal #63, the magazine for Lego® enthusiasts, goes under the sea to visit Ryan Van Duzor’s Coral Reef, sails over to Hawaii to visit the many creations of Colin Hemmen’s Brickiverse, and then flies to Hollywood to take a look at John Klapheke’s scenes from the Indiana Jones movies! Plus: “AFOLs” by cartoonist Greg Hyland, step-by-step “You Can Build It” instructions by Christopher Deck, BrickNerd’s DIY Fan Art with Tommy Williamson, Minifigure Customization with Jared K. Burks, and more! Edited by Joe Meno. Preview the issue, and order your copy here!
John Morrow (publisher, Jack Kirby Collector editor) moderates a discussion about how the pandemic is changing the way TwoMorrows Publishing produces its books and magazines, its current challenges, and updates on release schedules and new projects. Featured are Jon B. Cooke (Comic Book Creator magazine), Mike Manley (Draw! magazine), Keith Dallas (American Comic Book Chronicles series), and Eric Nolen-Weathington (Modern Masters series).
Joe Sinnott just passed away at age 93. An amazing man with amazing longevity, both in life, and in his comics career.
I first met Joe in person in 1996, not long after starting the Jack Kirby Collector. I was exhibiting at the Ramapo Comic Convention in New York, held in a school gymnasium, and the staff there sat me next to Joe. I was dumbfounded to be next to this creator I’d admired so much for most of my life, and didn’t know what to say. Joe, in his usual easygoing manner, immediately put me at ease, and drew me into conversation. He and his lovely wife Betty were delightful that entire show, and I believe she took the photo here (or else my wife Pam did).
We corresponded by phone and mail quite a bit over the years, and it was always a joy to open one of his letters, and see his beautiful handwriting—every bit as meticulous as his inking. We published a biography of Joe titled Brush Strokes With Greatness, and he was always appreciative of that, and of the times I featured his art or interviews in the Jack Kirby Collector (which, of course, should’ve been—and was—the other way around; I was blessed to have the association with HIM!).
We got to see each other a few more times in person at the New York Comic-Con and San Diego. But one of the nicest moments I had involving Joe, was in late 2017, when out of the blue, a card arrived in my mailbox, containing a hand-drawn image of Thor and the Thing, congratulating me on the Inkpot Award I’d received that year at Comic-Con. That’s the kind of person Joe Sinnott was: Deep in his faith in God, overflowing with kindness for others, and just one of the nicest people you would ever meet. He was a genuinely great human being, and I will really, really miss him.
I’m excited to announce that my book Jack Kirby’s Dingbat Love was nominated for a 2020 Eisner Award for “Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books.”
Most comics shops are still closed, but you can pre-order these upcoming items directly from TwoMorrows Publishing! And in case your local comics shop is taking pre-orders, we’re including the Previews codes for the last two editions. To see FULL listings of all items, CLICK HERE!
April-May PREVIEWS pages 369-370: APR202113 COMIC BOOK CREATOR #24 NEW! APR202120 DC DUO BUNDLE (Flash and Hawkman Companions bundled together!) NEW! APR202114 ALTER EGO #163 APR202115 BACK ISSUE #118 APR202116 JACK KIRBY COLLECTOR #78 (Standard Edition) APR202117 JACK KIRBY COLLECTOR #78 (Deluxe Edition) APR202118 RETROFAN MAGAZINE #8 APR202119 AMERICAN COMIC BOOK CHRONICLES: The 1980s (Hardcover) APR202121 MODERN MASTERS: PAOLO RIVERA (Softcover)
March PREVIEWS pages 376-377: MAR202166 RETROFAN MAGAZINE #10 NEW! MAR202167 ALTER EGO #165 NEW! MAR202168 BACK ISSUE #121 NEW! MAR202169 BRICKJOURNAL #63 NEW! MAR202170 MARIE SEVERIN: THE MIRTHFUL MISTRESS OF COMICS (Softcover) MAR202171 COMIC BOOK CREATOR #21 MAR202172 AMERICAN COMIC BOOK CHRONICLES: 1965-1969 (Hardcover) MAR202173 HERO-A-GO-GO (Softcover) MAR202175 MONSTER MASH (Hardcover)
You’ve probably heard that Diamond Comic Distributors is temporarily closed, leaving small publishers with no way to get our publications to comics shops. But for TwoMorrows, it’s much more complicated than that.
Comic Book Creator #22 and Jack Kirby Collector #78 had just arrived in stores, and four more magazines and our Anniversary book were on the way to Diamond, when they closed unexpectedly. Diamond is not paying us for any of those titles, at least for the near future.
Then, our distributor for Barnes & Noble also closed without warning, just before our next issues were about to go on sale. So we have taken a huge loss having to pay for printing and shipping tens of thousands of copies that:
• Diamond didn’t send to stores
• Diamond did send to stores, but isn’t paying us for
• We’re having to dispose of, since Barnes & Noble won’t sell out-of-date magazines when they reopen.
Until our distributors reopen, mail order and digital sales are TwoMorrows’ lifeline, to ensure we stay in business. We have bills to pay on all those existing publications, and to keep funding upcoming ones, so we can go to press as soon as Diamond reopens.
So if you’re able to help, please:
1) Purchase our World of TwoMorrows anniversary book, which is available now in Softcover, Ultra-Limited Hardcover, and Digital Editions. If you’ve loved the material we’ve produced for the last quarter-century, learn how we managed it all those years!
2) Download our new 2020 Digital Catalog at this link, and order some books and mags online. We’re continuing our 40% Off Magazine Sale, and we’re fully operational (my wife Pam and I are packing and shipping all the orders due to North Carolina’s stay-at-home mandate). If you have trouble ordering online, we’re happy to take your order by phone.
3) Pre-order copies of Alter Ego #164, Back Issue #120, BrickJournal #62, and RetroFan #9, all of which will be shipping by mail in the next 3-4 weeks. And since BrickJournal #62 (and #63) and RetroFan #9 (and #10) will not be sold at Barnes & Noble, now is the perfect time to…
4) Subscribe or renew your current subscriptions! The next issues of all six of our magazines are ready to go to press as soon as our distributors reopen, so we’ll be back on a regular release schedule after that.
In 1994, I founded TwoMorrows Publishing with the publication of The Jack Kirby Collector #1. I didn’t start out by selling through comics shops or bookstores—only by mail order and subscriptions. And I’m prepared to keep working that way indefinitely, regardless of when stores and distributors reopen. So stay safe, and together, we’ll keep the World of TwoMorrows spinning for another 25 years!
Best regards, John Morrow, publisher
TwoMorrows Publishing
919-449-0344
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