Michael Eury

Michael Kronenberg

Michael Eury, the writer/editor of the critically acclaimed The Krypton Companion, and Michael Kronenberg, the designer of the eye-popping Spies, Vixens, and Masters of Kung Fu: The Art of Paul Gulacy, team up to explore the Silver and Bronze Ages of Batman comic books in The Batcave Companion! Two distinct sections of this book examine the Dark Knight’s progression from his campy “New Look” of the mid-1960s to his “creature of the night” reinvention of the 1970s. Features include issue-by-issue indexes, interviews with CARMINE INFANTINO, JOE GIELLA, DENNIS O’NEIL, and NEAL ADAMS, and guest essays by MIKE W. BARR and WILL MURRAY. Contributors include SHELDON MOLDOFF, LEN WEIN, STEVE ENGLEHART, and TERRY AUSTIN, with a special tribute to the late MARSHALL ROGERS. With its incisive introduction by Dennis O’Neil and its iconic cover painting by Neal Adams, The Batcave Companion is a must-have for every comics fan!

The Batcave Companion

Unlock the secrets of the most influential age of Superman's history-when kryptonite came in multiple colors, super-pets scampered across the skies and Brainiac first invaded Earth -- in The Krypton Companion, a behind-the-scenes exploration of the Man of Steel's adventures from 1958 through 1986. Writer/editor Michael Eury explores this classic comics era through all-new interviews with fan-favorite Superman writers and artists; previously unpublished and/or immortal artwork by Curt Swan, Neal Adams, Wayne Boring, Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez, Adam Hughes, Nick Cardy, Jim Mooney and others; Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel's "lost" imaginary story "The Death of Clark Kent;" a roundtable discussion where today's comics pros -- including John Byrne, Alex Ross and Mark Waid -- discuss the Superman of yesteryear and other revealing features! Plus a (last-page) introduction by Bizarro No. 1 (abetted by Seinfeld writer David Mandel) and a super cover by Watchmen's Dave Gibbons!

The Krypton Companion

Commemorating the Justice League of America's 45th anniversary, The Justice League Companion is a comprehensive examination of the Silver Age JLA. Written by Michael Eury (author of the critically acclaimed Captain Action and co-author of The Superhero Book), The Justice League Companion traces the JLA's development, history, imitators, and early fandom through vintage and all-new interviews with the series' creators, an issue-by-issue index of the JLA's 1960-1972 adventures, classic and never-before-published artwork, and other fun and fascinating features!

The Justice League Companion

Welcome to the CAMP AGE, when spies liked their wars cold and their women warm, good guys beat bad guys with a pun and a punch, and Batman shook a mean cape. HERO-A-GO-GO celebrates the camp craze of the Swinging Sixties, when just about everyone—the teens of Riverdale, an ant and a squirrel, even the President of the United States—was a super-hero or a secret agent. Back Issue magazine and former DC Comics editor MICHAEL EURY takes you through that coolest cultural phenomenon with this lively collection of nostalgic essays, histories, and theme song lyrics of classic 1960s characters like Captain Action, Herbie the Fat Fury, Captain Nice, Atom Ant, Scooter, ACG’s Nemesis, Dell’s super-Frankenstein and Dracula, the “split!” Captain Marvel, and others! Featuring interviews with Bill Mumy (Lost in Space), Bob Holiday (It’s a Bird … It’s a Plane … It’s Superman), Ralph Bakshi (The Mighty Heroes, Spider-Man), Dean Torrence (Jan and Dean Meet Batman), Ramona Fradon (Metamorpho), Tony Tallarico (The Great Society Comic Book), Vince Gargiulo (Palisades Park historian), Joe Sinnott (The Beatles comic book), Jose Delbo (The Monkees comic book), and many more!

Campy Comic Books, Crimefighters, & Culture of the Swinging Sixties

Hero-A-Go-Go

Tom DeFalco

Jason Latour

J. Michael Straczynski

Danny Fingeroth

Alan Kupperberg

Fred Hembeck

Barry Dutter

Steve Mellor

Collects What The-?! #20; Ultimate Civil War: Spider-Ham; Spider-Ham 25th Anniversary Special and Spider-Man Annual (2019) #1 - plus the Spider-Ham stories from Marvel Tales (1964) #201-212, #214-219, #223-230, #233, #236-237, #239-240 And #247; What The-?! #3, #18, #22, #24 and #26; and Spider-Verse (2015) #1. Pig out on more anthropomorphic adventures of the Spectacular Spider-Ham! Peter Porker crosses paths with Black Catfish, Crocktor Strange, the Punfisher, Ducktor Doom, Larval Zombies, Raven the Hunter, the Green Gobbler and more - as well as Howard the Duck and Forbush Man! The Infinity Wart causes cosmic chaos, but can Peter handle the power of Captain Zooniverse? And who is Spider-Ham 2099? Plus: Civil War rocks Spider-Ham in a piggy paradise filled with porcine personas from Iron Ham to Wolver-Ham! And when J. Jonah Jackal and Mary Crane are kidnapped, Spider-Ham battles Doctor Octopussycat and the Swinester Six!

The Complete Collection Vol. 2

Peter Porker, The Spectacular Spider-Ham

Life in Edge City has always been tough for Stanley Ipkiss. He's as good-natured and decent as they come, but nice don't pay the bulldog or make points with the ladies. Stanley knows he's destined for greater things, but how to get there? Enter the Mask, an ancient artifact that imbues its wearer with the power to do just about anything one desires — especially if one desires zoot suits, pies, mallets, cartoon bug-eyes, and a penchant for Latin song stylings! Stanley Ipkiss now has the world on a string, but there are many in that world of vastly lesser niceness than Stanley who desire the Mask's power for themselves. With great power comes big trouble... and even bigger laughs!

Adventures of The Mask Omnibus

Presents a history of comic books that feature apes as their main characters, with collections of rare and classic artwork, cover galleries, and interviews with artists and writers.

The Missing Link to Primates in Comics

Comics Gone Ape!

Look who RetroFan #13 found in space: Lost in Space’s Mark Goddard and Marta Kristen, in exclusive interviews. Plus: Dynomutt and Blue Falcon, Hogan’s Heroes’ Bob Crane, a history of Wham-O’s Frisbee, Twilight Zone and other TV sci-fi anthologies, Who Created Archie Andrews?, oddities from the San Diego Zoo, lava lamps, and more fun, fab features! Featuring columns by Ernest Farino, Andy Mangels, Will Murray, Scott Saavedra, and Scott Shaw! Edited by Michael Eury.

RetroFan #13

Mark Verheiden

Adventures of the Mask Omnibus

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.

Back Issue #115

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. Edited by Michael Eury.

Back Issue #121

Gina Renée Misiroglu

Profiles supervillains from comics, film, television, and fiction, and includes trivia and facts about their origins, modus operandi, costumes, weapons, henchmen, and minions.

The Evil Side of Comics and Hollywood

The Supervillain Book

It’s Superhero Stand-Ins, in Back Issue #117! 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. Edited by MICHAEL EURY.

Back Issue #117

Now bi-monthly! RetroFan #10 celebrates fifty years of Shaft—can you dig it? Plus: interviews with Family Affair’s Kathy Garver and The Brady Bunch Variety Hour’s Geri “Fake Jan” Reischl, Ed “Big Daddy” Roth, rare Godzilla merchandise, Spaghetti Westerns, Saturday morning cartoon preview specials, fake presidential candidates, Spider-Man/The Spider parallels, Stuckey’s, and more fun, fab features! Featuring columns by Ernest Farino, Andy Mangels, Will Murray, Scott Saavedra, and Scott Shaw! Edited by Michael Eury.

RetroFan #10

Just in time for Halloween, RetroFan #11 features interviews with Dark Shadows’ Quentin Collins, David Selby, and the niece of movie Frankenstein Glenn Strange, Julie Ann Ream. Plus: Kolchak the Night Stalker, Rod Serling retrospective, Casper the Friendly Ghost, TV’s Adventures of Superman, Superman’s pal Jimmy Olsen, Quisp and Quake cereals, Saturday morning cartoon preview specials, scratch model customs, and more fun, fab features! Featuring columns by Ernest Farino, Andy Mangels, Will Murray, Scott Saavedra, and Scott Shaw! Edited by Michael Eury.

RetroFan #11

RetroFan #7 features a Jaclyn Smith interview, reopens the Charlie’s Angels Casebook, and visits the Guinness World Records’ largest Charlie’s Angels collection. Plus: an exclusive interview with funnyman LARRY STORCH, Captain Action—the original super-hero action figure, The Dick Van Dyke Show, a vintage interview with Jonny Quest creator DOUG WILDEY, a visit to the Land of Oz, the ultra-rare Marvel World superhero playset, and more fun, fab features! Featuring columns by Ernest Farino, Will Murray, Scott Saavedra, and Scott Shaw! Edited by Back Issue magazine’s Michael Eury.

RetroFan #7

BACK ISSUE #95 skulks along with CREATURES OF THE NIGHT! Moon Knight’s DOUG MOENCH and BILL SIENKIEWICZ in a Pro2Pro interview! Plus: Ghost Rider, Night Nurse, Eclipso in the Bronze Age, I…Vampire, and exclusive interviews with Batman writer MIKE W. BARR and Marvel’s Nightcat, JACQUELINE TAVAREZ. Featuring the work of BOB BUDIANSKY, J. M. DeMATTEIS, DAVE SIMONS, ROGER STERN, TOM SUTTON, JEAN THOMAS, and many more. With a retro Moon Knight cover by Sienkiewicz and KLAUS JANSON! Edited by MICHAEL EURY.

Back Issue! #95

Feel the force of our up-close-and-personal interview with MARK HAMILL! Believe it or not, we look back at The Greatest American Hero, with a WILLIAM KATT interview! ANDY MANGELS blasts off with Jason of Star Command! SCOTT SAAVEDRA stops by the Museum of Popular Culture! New columnist WILL MURRAY remembers “The First Time I Met Tarzan.” Plus: Major Matt Mason, Moon Landing Mania, Barney Google and Snuffy Smith at 100 with cartoonist JOHN ROSE, TV Dinners, Celebrity Crushes, and more fun, fab features! Edited by Back Issue magazine’s MICHAEL EURY.

RetroFan #5

Back Issue #114 is busting loose with Black Superheroes of the 1970s, featuring the Bronze Age history of Luke Cage, Hero for Hire! Plus: a retrospective of artist BILLY GRAHAM, Black Panther censorship in the UK, Black Goliath, a TONY ISABELLA interview, Black Lightning After Isabella, the Teen Titans’ Mal Duncan, DON McGREGOR and PAUL GULACY’s Sabre, and… Black Bomber (who?). Featuring CHRIS CLAREMONT, J. M. DeMATTEIS, STEVE ENGLEHART, ROY THOMAS, TREVOR VON EEDEN, and more, under a classic Luke Cage cover by the Irreverent Billy Graham. Edited by MICHAEL EURY.

Back Issue #114

RetroFan #2 is sure to satiate the trick-or-treat cravings of your inner child! We peek into the tombs of TV horror-hosts ZACHERLEY, VAMPIRA, SEYMOUR, MARVIN, and our cover-featured ELVIRA, interviewed by Monster Mash's MARK VOGER! ANDY MANGELS welcomes us to Saturday morning’s Horrible Hall, home of the Groovie Goolies! SCOTT SAAVEDRA tunes in to the creepy, kooky Bewitched, The Addams Family, and The Munsters! The Oddball World of SCOTT SHAW! takes us on a Jurassic lark through the long-buried Dinosaur Land amusement park! Learn the history of Ben Cooper Halloween costumes in an interview with IRA J. COOPER! Super collector TERRY COLLINS shows off his collection of character lunchboxes! Plus: collecting superhero View-Masters; Sindy, the British Barbie; mood rings, and more fun, fab features! Photo cover spotlighting Elvira herself, CASSANDRA PETERSON! Edited by Back Issue magazine’s MICHAEL EURY.

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