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Alter Ego comic books issue 49

  • Issue #49
    Alter Ego (1999 Magazine) 49

    spotlights CARL BURGOS and his fumin' HUMAN TORCH, plus other hot topics from the Timely/Marvel Age! We lead off with a fantastic new painting by MARK SPARACIO, from a never-before-seen 1941 layout by CARL BURGOS?of the Torches giving Hitler a hotfoot! CARL BURGOS?creator of Iron Skull, The Thunderer, White Streak, the 1966 Captain Marvel?and, oh yeah, The Human Torch?is revealed at last in the first-ever interview with his daughter SUE BURGOS?conducted by JIM AMASH, and featuring art by BURGOS?BILL EVERETT?ED ASCHE?JIMMY THOMPSON?MIKE SEKOWSKY?DICK AYERS?et al.! A dozen-plus fierily fabulous unused, previously-unpublished 1941 cover layouts almost certainly by CARL BURGOS and other Timely titans?including Human Torch and Sub-Mariner in battle! TOM LAMMERS on the 1957 Atlas Implosion?GER APELDOORN on a villainous Human Torch by artist MANNY STALLMAN?plus the one-and-only flare-up of The Blue Flame! Also, a Fawcett Collectors of America (FCA) section with MARC SWAYZE and BILL BLACK?BILL SCHELLY on comics fandom?MICHAEL T. GILBERT and MR. MONSTER?and MORE!! (Twomorrows Publishing) Magazine, 8x11, 100pgs, B&WSRP: $5.95 Cover price $5.95.