Author Archives: Mr. Morrow

Jack Kirby Collector #76 and Back Issue #113 ship today!

Dysfunctional relationships abound in Jack Kirby Collector #76’s “Fathers & Sons” issue! We’ll explore the father/son dynamic, Kirby-style, between Odin/Thor, Zeus/Hercules, Darkseid/Orion, Captain America/Bucky, and others. Also: Conducted the week of Jack’s 1994 passing, there’s a touching unpublished interview with Gil Kane eulogizing his mentor, and heartfelt tributes from a host of Jack’s creative offspring: Bill Mumy, Jimmy Palmiotti, Joe Quesada, Jim Valentino, Todd Mcfarlane, Peter David, Neil Gaiman, Frank Miller, and others. Plus: Mark Evanier and our other regular columnists, the 2018 Kirby Tribute Panel, a complete Golden Age Kirby story, a pencil art gallery featuring prodigal sons (and daughters) from Forever People, New Gods, Thor, Machine Man, and an interview with, and cover inked by, Al Milgrom! Edited by John Morrow.

See a free preview and order the Print Edition (at 15% off with a free digital edition) or Digital Edition only (just $5.95) HERE!

Back Issue #113 celebrates the original Tim Burton Batman movie’s 30th Anniversary, featuring a guest column and interview with Batfilms producer Michael Uslan, an interview with screenwriter SAM HAMM, and a chat with the man who might have been Two-Face: Billy Dee Williams. Plus: 1989: DC Comics’ Year of the Bat, Denny O’Neil and Jerry Ordway’s Batman movie adaptation, Mindy Newell’s Catwoman, Grant Morrison and Dave McKean’s Arkham Asylum, Max Allan Collins’ Batman newspaper strip, and Joey Cavalieri and Joe Staton’s Huntress. Featuring a classic Michael Keaton Batman cover by Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez, with cover design by Michael Kronenberg. Edited by Michael Eury.

See a free preview and order the Print Edition (at 15% off with a free digital edition) or Digital Edition only (just $4.95) HERE!

Eisner Award-nominated Back Issue #112 ships today!

Hunker down in your fallout shelter with Back Issue #112‘s explosive “Nuclear Issue,” starring the Fury of Firestorm! Also: Dr. Manhattan, a Dave Gibbons Marvel UK Hulk interview, villain histories of Radioactive Man and Microwave Man, Bongo’s Radioactive Man and Fallout Boy, and the one-shot wonder, Holo-Man! With Cary Bates, Pat Broderick, Gerry Conway, Steve Englehart, Rafael Kayanan, Bill Morrison, Fabian Nicieza, John Ostrander, Roy Thomas, and more! Featuring a Firestorm cover by Pat Broderick. Edited by Eisner Award nominee Michael Eury.

See a free preview and order the Print Edition (at 15% off with a free digital edition) or Digital Edition only (just $4.95) HERE!

Three 2019 Eisner nominations for TwoMorrows!


It’s not one, not two, but THREE nominations for TwoMorrows, for the 2019 EISNER AWARDS!

A big, big CONGRATULATIONS to our amazing editors and authors who made us look so good this year!

BACK ISSUE magazine, edited by MICHAEL EURY, is nominated for BEST COMICS-RELATED PERIODICAL/JOURNALISM

• For BEST COMICS-RELATED BOOK, we’ve got two noms!

COMIC BOOK IMPLOSION: An Oral History of DC Comics Circa 1978, by KEITH DALLAS and JOHN WELLS

and MIKE GRELL: LIFE IS DRAWING WITHOUT AN ERASER, by DEWEY CASSELL with JEFF MESSER

If you’re a professional in the comics industry, you’re eligible to vote between now and June 14 at: http://www.eisnervote.com/

ALTER EGO #158 ships today!

It’s an FCA [Fawcett Collectors of America] Special that shines the spotlight on fabled Golden Age writer William Woolfolk (“the Shakespeare of the Comics”), including an exclusive interview, and his scripting records! With art by Beck, Schaffenberger, Boring, Bob Kane, Crandall, L.S. Schwartz, Krigstein, Andru, Jack Cole, Fine, Peter, Heath, Plastino, Moldoff, Grandenetti, and more! Plus John Broome, Mr. Monster’s Comic Crypt, Bill Schelly, and the 2017 Star Wars Panelwith Chaykin, Lippincott, and Thomas! Edited by Roy Thomas.

Preview and order at:
http://twomorrows.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=98_55&products_id=1406

IN PREVIEWS NOW: Alter Ego #160 (Ditko), Back Issue #115, new STUF’ SAID edition, and more!

Check out what TwoMorrows Publishing has listed in Diamond’s latest Previews catalog!
All our publications are in the front “Comics & Graphic Novels” section, alphabetically under “TwoMorrows”.

Use the Diamond Order Codes to order at your local comic book shop, or click the covers below to order directly from TwoMorrows at 15% off!
To see FULL listings of all items, CLICK HERE!

PREVIEWS PAGES 389-390:
MAY192000    ALTER EGO #160 NEW!
MAY192001    BACK ISSUE #115 NEW!
MAY192002    BRICKJOURNAL #59 NEW!
MAY192003    KIRBY & LEE: STUF’ SAID (Softcover) NEW EXPANDED SECOND EDITION!
MAY192004    WILL EISNER: A SPIRITED LIFE (Hardcover) NEW LOWER PRICE! $19.99
MAY192005    DON HECK: A WORK OF ART (Hardcover) NEW LOWER PRICE! $14.99
MAY192006    AMERICAN COMIC BOOK CHRONICLES: The 1950s (Hardcover)
MAY192007    MONSTER MASH: The Creepy, Kooky Monster Craze In America, 1957-1972 (Hardcover)

See you next month!

MAG-Nificent Sale Extended thru MAY 1! Color mags $5 each, b&w mags and TJKC tabloids $3 each!

In honor of The World of TwoMorrows (our 25th Anniversary book) reaching over 100% funding on Kickstarter, we’re EXTENDING our MAG-Nificent Sale! Color magazines are only $5 each, and black-&-white mags and Kirby Collector tabloid-size issues are only $3 each! But the sale only lasts through May 1, so hurry to save big!

Our MAG-Nificent Sale includes:

Alter Ego through #105: $3 each and #107-149: $5 each
Back Issue through #51: $3 each and #52-98: $5 each
Comic Book Artist #14, 19: $3 each (final copies!)
Comic Book Creator through #14: $5 each
Draw through #24: $3 each and #25-34: $5 each
RetroFan #1-2: $5 each (try our newest mag!)
Rough Stuff #5, 7, 8: $3 each (final copies!)
Jack Kirby Collector through #60: $3 each (including Tabloid issues!) and #61-72: $5 each
BrickJournal through #49: $5 each

(This sale is on PRINT copies only purchased at our website, but a free digital edition is included with print copies where available. New and upcoming issues, books, and subscriptions aren’t included.)

Who wants a TwoMorrows Magazine Sale?

Pledge to our Kickstarter to make our 25th Anniversary book THE WORLD OF TWOMORROWS a reality, and once we reach 60% funding, I’ll sweeten the pot by offering $5 color mags and $3 B&W mags at our website, through the end of the Kickstarter on April 25!

But the sooner we hit that 60%, the sooner the sale starts and the longer it lasts. So pledge here: bit.ly/WorldOfTwoMorrows

Help fund our 25th Anniversary book, THE WORLD OF TWOMORROWS!

Help us celebrate 25 years of TwoMorrows, by funding our retrospective book THE WORLD OF TWOMORROWS on Kickstarter!

The campaign just went live, so we have till April 25 to reach our goal, and make it a reality. HELP US SPREAD THE WORD!

Pledge as little as $5 to have your name in the book, or as much as $150 to get an exclusive Hardcover edition, plus some limited and one-of-a-kind premiums!

Search for it on Kickstarter.com, or get all the info at: bit.ly/WorldOfTwoMorrows

RetroFan #4 ships today, spotlighting the 1970s Shazam! TV show

Just in time for the big screen rendition, RetroFan #4 spotlights Andy Mangels’ exploration of the Saturday morning live-action Shazam! TV show, featuring interviews with John (Captain Marvel) Davey and Michael (Billy Batson) Gray. Martin Pasko’s Pesky Perspective sets its sting on the Green Hornet in Hollywood! Ernest Farino remembers the magical monster maker Ray Harryhausen! The Oddball World of Scott Shaw time-travels to the long-gone, way-out Santa Monica Pacific Ocean Amusement Park! Plus: the Star Trek Set Tour, interviews with actor Sam J. Jones and Jan and Dean’s Dean Torrence, the British sci-fi TV classic Thunderbirds, Super Collector’s virtual museum of Harvey (Casper, Richie Rich) merchandise, the wild and crazy King Tut fad, and more fun, fab features! Edited by Back Issue magazine’s Michael Eury.

Preview the issue, and pre-order your copy at 15% off here:
bit.ly/RetroFan4

Or subscribe now so you don’t miss an issue:
http://bit.ly/RetroFanSub

You can also find this issue at Amazon.com and at Barnes & Noble stores in April, or at your local comic book shop using Diamond Order Code: DEC182108

Visit TwoMorrows at WonderCon this week (lucky booth #1313)

Stop by TwoMorrows Publishing’s lucky booth #1313 at WonderCon this week!

Just a stone’s throw from Disneyland, come see all the exciting new items we’ll be debuting, with a limited number of copies of:

RetroFan #4 (spotlighting the 1970s Saturday morning live-action Shazam! TV show)

Alter Ego #158 (an FCA [Fawcett Collectors of America] Special)

Back Issue #112 (the “Nuclear Issue”)

Back Issue #113 (celebrating the Tim Burton Batman movie’s 30th Anniversary)

Jack Kirby Collector #76 (the “Fathers & Sons” issue)

PLUS: All black-&-white magazines are only $3! Many books on sale for $5 and $10 (including hardcovers)! Get there early for best selection.

Publisher JOHN MORROW will be at the booth all three days, to share plans for TwoMorrows’ 25th Anniversary celebration this fall! And John will be appearing on the Jack Kirby Tribute Panel on Sunday at 3:00 PM in Room 211.

We hope to see you there, at booth #1313!