While he may always be best known for books like American Flagg and Black Kiss, Howard Chaykin has also enjoyed a prolific career at Marvel Comics dating back to the early '70s. Fantagraphics is celebrating that Marvel work with the release of the second volume in their ongoing Lost Marvels series.
With Lost Marvels No. 2: Howard Chaykin Vol. 1 in stores now, IGN can exclusively debut a new preview of this lavish hardcover collection. Get a closer look in the slideshow gallery below:
Lost Marvels No. 2: Howard Chaykin Vol. 1 focuses on three series in particular, the pulp revival Dominic Fortune, the sci-fi epic Moonark Starstalker, and the war comic War Is Hell: The First Flight of the Phantom Eagle. The book features an introduction by comics scholar Brandon Costello.
Here's Fantagraphics' official description of Lost Marvels No. 2: Howard Chaykin Vol. 1:
When Howard Chaykin broke into comics in the 1970s, there was nothing quite like him. His original characters Dominic Fortune and Monark Starstalker took classic pulp heroes and ran them through a postmodern blender. This new volume collects some of the most exciting, sought-after work by Chaykin from 1975 to 2008, including retro-science-fiction bounty hunter Monark Starstalker’s debut appearance and all the Dominic Fortune stories, including the character’s unexpurgated Max series, published a generation later. Completing the package is the collision between pulp heroism and the devastating, bloody realities of World War I in Chaykin’s 111-page collaboration with The Boys writer Garth Ennis on War Is Hell: The First Flight of the Phantom Eagle. As the artist behind Marvel’s comic adaptation of the first Star Wars movie and the creator of iconic, influential series like the sci-fi satire American Flagg! and the adults only vampire saga Black Kiss, Howard Chaykin has earned his reputation as a prolific and essential cartoonist.
Lost Marvels No. 2: Howard Chaykin Vol. 1 is priced at $49.99 and is available in stores now. You can order a copy on Amazon.
Previously, IGN debuted an exclusive preview of the first volume in the Lost Marvels series, the horror-themed Lost Marvels: Tower of Shadows.
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