Alter Ego (2025)

#193 features “Drawn to Greatness”, the lavishly illustrated story of the Golden and Silver Age Superman artists who followed in Joe Shuster’s boot-steps! It's an abridgement of the super-rare book by Eddy Zeno—showcasing the likes of Wayne Boring, Paul Cassidy, Fred Ray, Jack Burnley, John Sikela, Leo Nowak, Win Mortimer, and others, with appreciations by Ordway, Kupperberg, Isabella, Jurgens, Waid, Macchio, Neary, Nowlan, Eury, Thomas, and others! Plus Fawcett Collectors of America, Michael T. Gilbert in Mr. Monster's Comic Crypt, and more!

Rascally Roy Thomas celebrates 60 years in comics at Marvel, DC, et al.! There's a career-spanning, surprise-filled interview by Alex Grand, still more early-2000s Spider-Man comic strip e-mails to Roy from Stan Lee, the full secret history of the creation of Wolverine, RT's 1960s fan-letters to Julius Schwartz, and his top dozen stories compiled by John Cimino! With amazing art by Buscema, Kane, Adams, Windsor-Smith, Colan, Ordway, Buckler, and many others! All this, plus FCA and Mr. Monster's Comic Crypt, behind a Roy the Boy and Wolverine cover by Tony Gray!

Neal Adams revisited! Incredible interviews by Alex Grand and Bill Field, as well as Emilio Soltero—and an awesome overview of Neal’s merchandising art for Marvel and DC Comics and in other fields, conducted by James Rosen! Plus a treasure trove of Adams art, as inked by Tom Palmer, Dick Giordano, John Verpoorten, George Roussos, Joe Sinnott, Tony DeZuniga, and others! With Fawcett Collectors of America, Michael T. Gilbert in Mr. Monster's Comic Crypt, and more!

Concluding our presentation of EDDY ZENO’s book on the early SUPERMAN artists begun in Alter Ego #193—with a focus on style-setting WAYNE BORING and classic cover illustrator WINSLOW MORTIMER! Featuring a fabulous previously unprinted cover by BORING! Also—FCA (Fawcett Collectors of America) and MICHAEL T. GILBERT in Mr. Monster’s Comic Crypt! Edited by ROY THOMAS.

Alter Ego #197 presents the incredible inside story of HILLMAN PUBLISHING—1940 to 1953—by MARK CARLSON-GHOST! Thrill to the adventures of AIRBOY—aviatrix VALKYRIE—THE HEAP—SKYWOLF, et al.! With classic art by KIDA, SCHROEDER, LEAV, INFANTINO, ZOLNEROWICH, and some of comics’ finest artists! Plus FCA (Fawcett Collectors of America) and MICHAEL T. GILBERT visits Mr. Monster’s Comic Crypt! Featuring a stunning Valkyrie/Airboy cover by DAVE STEVENS! Edited by ROY THOMAS.

H.G. PETER was the original artist—and some say the co-creator—of WONDER WOMAN, greatest super-heroine ever! Now, historian ART CLOOS does an in-depth dive into the life and career of one of comics’ most individualistic artists! Plus: WILLIAM MOULTON MARSTON—M.C. GAINES—JOYE MURCHISON—ROBERT KANIGHER, and others who brought the Amazon Princess to life. Also—FCA (Fawcett Collectors of America) and MICHAEL T. GILBERT in Mr. Monster’s Comic Crypt! Featuring an unpublished H.G. Peter Wonder Woman cover! Edited by ROY THOMAS.

P.C. HAMERLINCK reveals the secret—often bitter—early-1970s combat by correspondence between SHAZAM! artist (and Captain Marvel co-creator) C.C. BECK and DC editor JULIUS SCHWARTZ! It’ll take more than one magic word to avoid a head-on collision between these two titanic talents! Plus, more FCA (Fawcett Collectors of America), MICHAEL T. GILBERT in Mr. Monster’s Comic Crypt, and more! With an unused SHAZAM cover by C.C. BECK! Edited by ROY THOMAS.