Alter Ego: The Comic Book Artist Collection

Alter Ego Collections

by Roy Thomas

See the material that heralded the return of Roy Thomas' ALTER EGO! This giant trade paperback reprints the ALTER EGO sections from the flip-side of COMIC BOOK ARTIST #1-5, and includes over 30 PAGES OF NEW FEATURES and SUPER-RARE ART by JOE KUBERT, GIL KANE, JACK KIRBY, WALLY WOOD, FRANK ROBBINS, and others, plus a special color ALL-STAR SQUADRON cover by KUBERT! Featuring: A never-before-seen 1999 interview with GIL KANE! Extended coverage of THE INVADERS with art by KIRBY, ROBBINS, and DAVE HOOVER! STEVE DITKO on the creation of Spider-Man! The original synopsis of FANTASTIC FOUR #1- annotated by STAN LEE! The ROY THOMAS/NEAL ADAMS X-MEN, AVENGERS, and CONAN! Scarce art by STEVE DITKO- MICHAEL T. GILBERT- GENE COLAN- DICK GIORDANO- CARMINE INFANTINO- BOB KANE- NORMAN MAURER- MARSHALL ROGERS- ART SPIEGELMAN and others!

Genres: Comics, History, Anthologies

160 pages, Paperback

Published March 1, 2001

About the author

Roy Thomas was the FIRST Editor-in-Chief at Marvel--After Stan Lee stepped down from the position. Roy is a longtime comic book writer and editor. Thomas has written comics for Archie, Charlton, DC, Heroic Publishing, Marvel, and Topps over the years. Thomas currently edits the fanzine Alter Ego for Twomorrow's Publishing. He was Editor for Marvel comics from 1972-1974. He wrote for several titles at Marvel, such as Avengers, Thor, Invaders, Fantastic Four, X-Men, and notably Conan the Barbarian. Thomas is also known for his championing of Golden Age comic-book heroes — particularly the 1940s superhero team the Justice Society of America — and for lengthy writing stints on Marvel's X-Men and Avengers, and DC Comics' All-Star Squadron, among other titles.

Also a legendary creator. Creations include Wolverine, Carol Danvers, Ghost Rider, Vision, Iron Fist, Luke Cage, Valkyrie, Morbius, Doc Samson, and Ultron. Roy has also worked for Archie, Charlton, and DC among others over the years.

Reviews

[David Macpherson · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is good stuff, for comic history weirdos like myself. A lot of this has to deal with the credit of who created Batman and the articles about that are fascinating. Also, Roy Thomas writes nice articles about how he created certain comics and the difficulty of getting one of his comics made into a movie. For freaks who like this kind of thing, this is catnip