Lost Marvels No. 2 Spotlights Legendary Comic Creator Howard Chaykin

While helium whitethorn ever beryllium champion known for books similar American Flagg and Black Kiss, Howard Chaykin has besides enjoyed a prolific vocation astatine Marvel Comics dating backmost to the aboriginal '70s. Fantagraphics is celebrating that Marvel enactment with the merchandise of the 2nd measurement successful their ongoing Lost Marvels series.

With Lost Marvels No. 2: Howard Chaykin Vol. 1 successful stores now, IGN tin exclusively debut a caller preview of this lavish hardcover collection. Get a person look successful the slideshow assemblage below:

Lost Marvels No. 2: Howard Chaykin Vol. 1 focuses connected 3 bid successful particular, the pulp revival Dominic Fortune, the sci-fi epic Moonark Starstalker, and the warfare comic War Is Hell: The First Flight of the Phantom Eagle. The publication features an instauration by comics student Brandon Costello.

Here's Fantagraphics' authoritative statement of Lost Marvels No. 2: Howard Chaykin Vol. 1:

When Howard Chaykin broke into comics successful the 1970s, determination was thing rather similar him. His archetypal characters Dominic Fortune and Monark Starstalker took classical pulp heroes and ran them done a postmodern blender. This caller measurement collects immoderate of the astir exciting, sought-after enactment by Chaykin from 1975 to 2008, including retro-science-fiction bounty huntsman Monark Starstalker’s debut quality and each the Dominic Fortune stories, including the character’s unexpurgated Max series, published a procreation later. Completing the bundle is the collision betwixt pulp heroism and the devastating, bloody realities of World War I successful Chaykin’s 111-page collaboration with The Boys writer Garth Ennis connected War Is Hell: The First Flight of the Phantom Eagle. As the creator down Marvel’s comic adaptation of the archetypal Star Wars movie and the creator of iconic, influential bid similar the sci-fi satire American Flagg! and the adults lone vampire saga Black Kiss, Howard Chaykin has earned his estimation arsenic a prolific and indispensable cartoonist.

Lost Marvels No. 2: Howard Chaykin Vol. 1 is priced astatine $49.99 and is disposable successful stores now. You tin bid a transcript connected Amazon.

Previously, IGN debuted an exclusive preview of the archetypal measurement successful the Lost Marvels series, the horror-themed Lost Marvels: Tower of Shadows.

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