Back Issue Magazine (2003 TwoMorrows) comic books 2018-2020

A cutthroat Mercs and Anti-heroes issue! Deadpool's first writer Fabian Nicieza in an exclusive interview! Histories of Cable, Taskmaster, Deathstroke the Terminator, the Vigilante and Wild Dog, plus...Archie meets the Punisher! Also: Rough Stuff - grim-and-gritty graphite from Mike Grell, Bernie Wrightson, Mike Zeck and Rob Liefeld! BI Bonus: The Hall of Heroes - visit "the world's only superhero museum"! Featuring Terry Beatty, Joe Casey, Ian Churchill, Max Allan Collins, Christos Gage, Gene Ha, Paul Kupperberg, Batton Lash, David Michelinie, Chuck Patton, Tod Smith, Fred Van Lente, Marv Wolfman and others, under a rollickin' Deadpool vs. Cable cover by Rob Liefeld! Edited by Michael Eury. 78 pages, full color. Cover price $8.95.

An All-Star Editors Issue! With Marv Wolfman, Bob Greenberger, Jim Salicrup, Tom Brevoort, Al Milgrom, Bob Schreck, Dennis O'Neil, Tom DeFalco and more. A Pro2Pro roundtable of past and present editors reveal… 'How I Beat the Dreaded Deadline Doom'! Plus: retrospectives of Archie Goodwin and Mark Gruenwald, a vintage interview with fan-turned-pro E. Nelson Bridwell, a career-spanning interview with Diana Schutz, Allan Asherman revisits DC's '70s editorial department, Marvel Assistant Editors' Month, and a history of the most famous editor in comic books, Perry White! Featuring an unpublished alternate cover of 1981's Captain America #259 by Mike Zeck! 80 pages. Cover price $8.95.

Back Issue is the 'Fourth World After Kirby' issue, exploring the enduring legacy of Jack Kirby's DC characters! The Return(s) of the New Gods, Why Can't Mister Miracle Escape Cancellation?, the Forever People, Mike Mignola's unrealized New Gods animated movie, the Fourth World in Hollywood, and more. With an all-star lineup, including the work of John Byrne, Paris Cullins, J. M. Dematteis, Mark Evanier, Michael Golden, Rick Hoberg, Walter Simonson, and more! Cover by Steve Rude, re-presenting his variant cover for 2015's Convergence #6. Plus: Darkseid - a look inside the mind of the Tyrant of Apokolips; Jack Kirby, Super Powers Toy Designer - The King's designs for a Mister Miracle figure and an unproduced Darkseid playset; Beautiful Dreamer - a superstar-powered lineup of sketches of the Forever People's fetching flower child. Edited by Michael Eury. 80 pages. Full color. Cover price $8.95.

The Bronze Age's greatest fist-fighters bust loose in Back Issue, the Deadly Hands issue! Featuring histories of Iron Fist, Master of Kung Fu, Yang, the Bronze Tiger, Hands of the Dragon, Neal Adams' Armor, Marvel's Deadly Hands of Kung Fu mag, and… Hong Kong Phooey! Plus Muhammad Ali in toons and toys. Featuring JOhn Byrne, Chris Claremont, Steve Englehart, Paul Gulacy, Larry Hama, Doug Moench, Denny O'neil, John Ostrander, Warren Sattler, Jim Starlin, and others. Cover re-presents Earl Norem's painted cover to 1976s Deadly Hands of Kung Fu (1974 Magazine) #29. Edited by Michael Eury. 80 pages. Cover price $8.95.

Cover by Joe Staton. 'Golden Age In Bronze! '70s Justice Society revival with two Pro2Pro interviews: All-Star Squadron's Roy Thomas, Jerry Ordway, and Arvell Jones (with a bonus Rick Hoberg interview), and The Spectre's John Ostrander and Tom Mandrake. Plus: Liberty Legion, Air Wave, Jonni Thunder, Crimson Avenger, and the Spectre revival of '87! Wood, Colan, Conway, Giffen, Giordano, and more! Plus: UnKnown Marvel: Bob Layton's first published work for Marvel - a new rotating department featuring Marvel UK rarities. Also: Rough Stuff: Marvel Two-in-One #20 - a close look at Jack Kirby's cover art for Marvel's Thing/Liberty Legion team-up. Edited by Michael Eury. Full color. 80 pages. Cover price $8.95.

Back Issue jingle-jangles with Archie Comics in the Bronze Age! Archie's '70s and '80s adventures, Stan Goldberg and George Gladir interviews, Archie knock-offs, Archie on TV, and histories of Sabrina the Teenage Witch, That Wilkin Boy, Cheryl Blossom, and Red Circle Comics. Featuring the work of Jack Abel, Jon D'Agostino, Dan DeCarlo, Frank Doyle, Gray Morrow, Dan Parent, Henry Scarpelli, Lou Scheimer, Alex Segura, Alex Toth, and more. 80 pages, part FC/part B&W. Cover price $8.95.

Cover by Eric Shanower. Get ready for the Aquaman movie with this special Aquaman issue! Swim through Bronze Age Aquaman team-ups and merchandise, the post-Crisis Aquaman, Aqualad: From Titan to Tempest, a Black Manta villain history, Peter David and Esteban Maroto's Atlantis Chronicles, and Greatest Stories Never Told looks at the original Aquaman #57 and the unproduced Aquaman animated movie. Bonus article: Elite Comics' rarity, Seadragon! Featuring Jim Aparo, Jim Calafiore, Martin Egeland, Keith Giffen, Dick Giordano, Robert Loren Fleming, Craig Hamilton, Ken Hooper, Dan Jurgens, Shaun Mclaughlin, Curt Swan, and more. 80 pages, full color. Cover price $8.95.

You'll believe a mag can fly as we celebrate the 40th anniversary of Superman: The Movie! Explore the Superman movies' effects on comic books, media, and collectibles with commentary from many of their creators. Plus: Cary Bates discloses his plans for the un-produced Superman V, Elliot S. Maggin's Superman novels, a Carmine Infantino interview from 1975 revealing early plans for the Superman movie, and exclusive interviews with Superman executive producer Ilya Salkind, Jack O'Halloran (Non), Aaron Smolinski (baby Clark), Jeff East (young Clark), and Diane Sherry Case (teenage Lana Lang). 10% of the proceeds from this issue's comic shop orders will be donated to the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation. Christopher Reeve Superman cover by Gary Frank. 80 pages, full color. Cover price $8.95.

Back Issue #110 is a 'Make Mine Marvel' issue, cover-featuring Steve Englehart's 'lost' issues of West Coast Avengers! Plus: Denny O'Neil and Carmine Infantino's Marvel work, a Mark Waid/Ann Nocenti Daredevil Pro2Pro interview, British Bronze Age Marvel fandom, plus histories of Pizzazz Magazine, Speedball, and the anthology Marvel Comics Presents. And go backstage of Marvel Comicon '75 and '76 in a photo- and ephemera-packed retrospective. Featuring Tom DeFalco, Scott Edelman, Terry Kavanagh, Luke McDonnell, Marv Wolfman, and many more merry marching Marvelites! Previously unpublished West Coast Avengers cover by Al Milgrom and Mike Machlan. 80 pages, full color. Cover price $8.95.

Back Issue #111 is the 'Alternate Realities' issue, cover-featuring the 20th anniversary of Alex Ross and Jim Krueger's Marvel Earth X! Plus: What If?, Bronze Age DC Imaginary Stories, Elseworlds, Marvel 2099, and Peter David and George Pérez's senses-shattering Hulk: Future Imperfect. Featuring Tom DeFalco, Chuck Dixon, Peter B. Gillis, Pat Mills, Roy Thomas, and many more! Featuring an Earth X cover by Alex Ross. 80 pages. Cover price $8.95.

Hunker down in your fallout shelter with Back Issue'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. 80 page, full color. Cover price $8.95.

Back Issue celebrates Tim Burton's Batman'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. 80 pages, full color. Cover price $8.95.

Back Issue is busting loose with Black super-heroes of the 1970s, featuring a history of Luke Cage, Hero for Hire! Plus: a retrospective of artist Billy Graham, a Tony Isabella interview, Black Lightning, Black Panther in the UK, Black Goliath, the Teen Titans' Mal and Bumblebee, Don McGregor and Paul Gulacy's Sabre, and… Black Bomber (who?). Featuring Mike W. Barr, Steve Englehart, Roy Thomas, and more, under a classic Luke Cage cover by the Irreverent Billy Graham. 80 pages, full color. Cover price $8.95.

Back Issue #115 blasts off with Sci-Fi Superheroes! In-depth looks at Jim Starlin's Dreadstar and Company, and the dystopian lawman Judge Dredd. Also: Nova, Gerry Conway & Mike Vosburg's Starman, Paul Levitz & Steve Ditko's Starman, Walter Simonson's Justice Peace (from the pages of Thor), and Greg Potter & Gene Colan's Jemm, Son of Saturn. Featuring Mark Bagley, Brian Bolland, Peter David, Tom DeFalco, Ian Gibson, Erik Larsen, Chris Marrinan, Fabian Nicieza, John Wagner, and more. Dreadstar and Company cover by Starlin and Alan Weiss. Edited by Michael Eury. 80 pages, full color. Cover price $8.95.

Back Issue #116 dukes it out with Superheroes vs. Monsters! Monsters in Metropolis, Batman and the Horror Genre, Doug Moench and Kelley Jones' Batman: Vampire, Marvel Scream-Up, Dracula and Godzilla vs. Marvel, DC/Dark Horse Hero/Monster crossovers, and a Baron Blood villain history. Featuring Chris Claremont, Gerry Conway, Chuck Dixon, Dave Gibbons, Mike Grell, Paul Gulacy, Dan Jurgens, Roy Thomas, Marv Wolfman, and more, under a Superman vs. Titano cover by Michael Golden! Edited by Michael Eury. 80 pages, full color. Cover price $8.95.

It's Superhero Stand-Ins, in Back Issue! John Stewart as Green Lantern, James Rhodes as Iron Man, Beta Ray Bill as Thor, Captain America substitute U.S. Agent, new Batman Azrael, and Superman's Hollywood proxy Gregory Reed! Featuring Neal Adams, Cary Bates, Dave Gibbons, Ron Marz, David Michelinie, Dennis O'Neil, Walter Simonson, Roy Thomas, and more, under a Beta Ray Bill Thor cover by Simonson. 80 pages, full color. Cover price $8.95.

Back Issue #118 is a Greatest Stories Never Told issue! Alex Ross' unrealized Fantastic Four reboot, DC: The Lost 1970s (including Joe Simon's Guardian Angel and Gerry Conway and John Calnan's Ninja the Invisible), Frank Thorne's Red Sonja preliminaries, Chris Claremont and Dave Sim's X-Men/Cerebus, Mike Grell's Batman/Jon Sable, Larry Hama's Fury Force, Curt Swan's lost pages from Ed Hannigan's Skull and Bones, Steve Englehart and Trevor Von Eeden's Batman/Mad Hatter, Brian Augustyn and Mike Parobeck's Target, and Paul Kupperberg's insider's look at the ill-fated Impact reboot (with unpublished art by Dave Cockrum, Michael Netzer, and more)! 80 pages, full color. Cover price $9.95.

Eisner Award-winner for 'Best Comics-Related Publication'! Back Issue #119 is a special Guardians of the Galaxy issue! A galaxy of comics stars discuss Marvel's white-hot space team in the Guardians Interviews, including Tom DeFalco, Keith Giffen, Rob Liefeld, Al Milgrom, Mary Skrenes, Roger Stern, Jim Valentino, and more. Plus: Star-Lord and Rocket Raccoon before the Guardians, with Chris Claremont and Mike Mignola. Featuring a Bronze Age Guardians cover by their Copper Age artist, Jim Valentino, inked by Chris Ivy. Edited by Michael Eury. 80 pages. Cover price $9.95.

Back Issue spotlights Heroes of Tomorrow, with a Mon-El hero history, Steve Lightle's Legionnaires, and the controversial Legion of Super-Heroes 'Five Years Later' era. Plus Mike Sekowsky's Manhunter 2070, Mike Grell's Starslayer, Charlton's Space: 1999 tie-in, Paradox, and Mike Baron's unfinished Sonic Disruptors series. Featuring Tom And Mary Bierbaum, John Byrne, Keith Giffen, Val Mayerik, Jason Pearson, Walter Simonson, Tim Truman, Mike Vosburg, Mark Waid, and more. Mon-El and the '80s Legion cover by Steve Lightle. 80 pages, full color. Cover price $9.95.

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. Plus: The Cimmerian invades the ink-splattered realm of newspaper comic strips. Cover by Barry Windsor-Smith. Edited by Michael Eury. 80 pages, full color. Cover price $9.95.

Back Issue celebrates the 40th anniversary of Marv Wolfman and George Pérez's New Teen Titans, featuring a guest editorial by Wolfman and a Pérez tribute and art gallery! Plus: The New Teen Titans' 40 Greatest Moments, the Titans in the media, hero histories of Raven, Starfire, and the Protector, and more! With a never-before-published Pérez Titans cover from 1981. Also: Pro2Pro: George Pérez Farewell - East Coast Comic Con's star-studded tribute retirement panel celebrating the modern master, with Jim Starlin, Ron Lim, Joe Rubinstein, Shannon Lower and Spencer Beck; Pinup: New Teen Titans #1 tribute by Chris Giarrusso - the G-Man and Mini-Marvels artist's homage to Pérez's iconic first issue cover; and Prince Street News - cartoonist Karl Heitmueller, Jr.'s auditions for new Titans, circa 1979. Edited by Michael Eury. 80 pages, full color. Cover price $9.95.

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Cover by Dave Gibbons. Cuddle up with Back Issue, a Superhero Romance issue! The Many Loves of Bruce Wayne and Tony Stark, a Star Sapphire history, Bronze Age superhero weddings, a Tom DeFalco/Roger Stern Johnny Storm/Alicia Pro2Pro interview, Elongated Man and Wife, May-December superhero romances, Supergirl's Secret Marriage, and… the wedding of Aunt May and Doc Ock?? Featuring Mike W. Barr, Cary Bates, Steve Englehart, Bob Layton, Denny O'Neil, and many more creators, under a Green Lantern/Star Sapphire cover by Dave Gibbons. Plus: Cover Gallery: Weird Wedding Tales - these offbeat weddings might swear you off of dating for good; Prince Street News: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - cartoonist Karl Heitmueller, Jr. only has eyes for comicdom's greatest lovers; and Art Gallery: Bronze Age Power Couples. Edited by Michael Eury. 80 pages, full color. Cover price $9.95.

Cover by Rudy Nebres. Horrific Heroes shamble forth in Back Issue! Bronze Age histories of Man-Thing and the Creeper, Atlas/Seaboard's horrifying heroes, and Ghost Rider (Danny Ketch) rides again! Featuring the work of Alan Brennert, Frank Brunner, Gerry Conway, Howard Mackie, Val Mayerik, Roy Thomas, and more. Man-Thing cover by Rudy Nebres. Plus: What the--?!: Harvey Horror...But Not the Kind You Think - the relaxation of the Comics Code led Casper, Richie Rich and friends into chilling directions. Also: Prince Street News: If Monster Heroes Wore Costumes - a cartoon by Karl Heitmueller, Jr. Edited by Michael Eury. 80 pages, full color. Cover price $9.95.