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John Severin: Two-Fisted Comic Book Artist
The definitive biography of one of the most prolific creators in the history of American comics! From a start in 1947 at the Simon & Kirby shop, he co-created the legendary Western strip American Eagle with Will Elder, and became an EC Comics mainstay, working with Harvey Kurtzman on Mad and Two-Fisted Tales. In addition to a 40+ year association with Cracked magazine, his pivotal Marvel Comics work included an extended run inking Herb Trimpe on The Hulk, and teaming with sister Marie Severin to create the classic comics version of King Kull. Throughout his storied career, he freelanced for every major publisher, and remained a workhorse up till his final Dark Horse mini-series at age 90. In...
The John Severin Westerns Featuring American Eagle
John Severin's 1950s Western masterpiece, American Eagle, is collected for the first time in a gorgeous hardcover Fantagraphics edition.
Witchfinder: Lost and Gone Forever #1
In the hellish frontiers of the American Wild West, nineteenth-century occult investigator Edward Grey hunts down a fiendish member of the Heliopic Brotherhood of Ra. What he finds is a town harboring bloodthirsty criminals and terrible supernatural horrors! EC Comics legend John Severin (_Two-Fisted Tales_) rejoins the _Hellboy_ line after his stellar debut in _B.P.R.D.: War on Frogs_! Horror comes to the Wild West! �"The tale itself is interesting, spooky, and, at times, quickens the blood."_Under the Radar_
Code of Honor and Other Stories
"John Severin takes control. When John Severin became editor of Two-Fisted Tales, he expanded the scope of its stories beyond its traditional war stories to head off to far-flung times and places, searching for adventure. This volume collects all those stories --the EC stories that Severin had the most control over. Severin wrote and drew the title story, about an old-fashioned Southern "gentleman" who sees grievance at every turn and regularly challenges those who are less skilled than he is to pistol duels. Is it murder when a man is defending his honor? The other tales range from action and intrigue in the Old West to exploring for a lost city in the jungles of Peru, to facing danger in t...
Marie Severin
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John Severin's Billy the Kid, Volume 1
JOHN SEVERIN'S BILLY THE KID VOLUME 1 Return to those thrilling days of yesteryear when the Old West was wild and when Western comics proliferated the media landscape! Here is Volume 1, a collection of Charlton Comics BILLY THE KID series drawn by one of the industry's greatest illustrators, JOHN SEVERIN. All pages shot from Charlton's original printing sources and recolored by Severin's former editor and collaborator MORT TODD. A thrilling 64 page collection for all cowboy and Severin fans! Also features an article on the artist along with a biographical comic strip by RUSS HEATH plus an original cover gallery! All the pages in JOHN SEVERIN'S BILLY THE KID are shot from Charlton's original printing sources and recolored by Severin's former editor and collaborator MORT TODD. JOHN SEVERIN'S BILLY THE KID Volume 1 is a 64 page color comic bonanza by one of the most prolific writers of the western comics genre JOE GILL with art by the legendary JOHN SEVERIN! BILLY THE KID Volume 2 also available as well as a collected black and white edition!
Squa Tront #13
Five years in the making and meticulously edited by John Benson, Squa Tront returns with a profusion of rare and interesting features from the EC era: the story behind Basil Wolverton's first EC art; Howard Nostrand's last interview; art from the unpublished third issue of Flip; Jack Davis's WWII cartoons; plus EC era art by Wallace Wood, John and Marie Severin, Harvey Kurtzman, and Roy Krenkel. The longest running EC historical magazine and a perfect companion to Fantagraphics' series of EC reprints.
Corpse on the Imjin!
EC reprint series kicks off with war-story masterpieces from the legendary Harvey Kurtzman. The creation of MAD would have been enough to cement Harvey Kurtzman’s reputation as one of the titans of American comics, but Kurtzman also created two other comics landmarks: the scrupulously-researched and superbly-crafted war comics Two-Fisted Tales and Frontline Combat. Here were finally war comics without heroic, cigar-chomping sergeants, wisecracking privates from Brooklyn, or cartoon Nazis and “Japs” to be mowed down by the Yank heroes, but an unflinching look at the horror and madness of combat throughout history.
The Rawhide Kid
Collects The Rawhide Kid #1-4 and material from Two-Gun Kid (1967) #89. The best-dressed gunslinger the Wild West ever knew is back in the saddle again - and this time, he's riding with a posse! That's right, pardners, it's a brand new rip-roaring adventure of the Rawhide Kid! When Wyatt and Morgan Earp are taken hostage by Cristo Pike and his pack of pistoleros, Rawhide has no choice but to put together a posse of the greatest western heroes in the Marvel Universe - to rescue the Earp brothers and bring Pike to justice. Enter: Kid Colt, Doc Holliday, Annie Oakley, Billy the Kid, Red Wolf and the most overrated gun in the West: the Two-Gun Kid! We guarantee the Wild West can't get any wilder. Plus: Rawhide fights alongside Two-Gun and Kid Colt in a classic caper!
Heroes of the Comics
Featuring over 80 full-color portraits of the pioneering legends of American comic books, including publishers, editors and artists from the industry’s birth in the ’30s, through the brilliant artists and writers of behind EC Comics in the ’50s. All lovingly rendered and chosen by Drew Friedman, a cartooning legend in his own right. Featuring subjects popular and obscure, men and women, as well as several pioneering African-American artists. Each subject features a short essay by Friedman, who grew up knowing many of the subjects included (as the son of writer Bruce Jay Friedman), including Stan Lee, Harvey Kurtzman, Will Eisner, Mort Drucker, Al Jaffee, Jack Davis, Will Elder, and Bill Gaines. More names you might recognize: Barks, Crumb, Wood, Wolverton, Frazetta, Siegel & Shuster, Kirby, Cole, Ditko, Werthem… it’s a Hall of Fame of comic book history from the man BoingBoing.com call “America’s greatest living portrait artist!”
