Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan: The Complete Joe Kubert Years Omnibus
Joe Kubert’s work on Tarzan has long been a favorite among fans the legendary creator. Now, you can read all these great stories in Dark Horse’s Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan: The Complete Joe Kubert Years Omnibus! Robert Greenberger tell you what you’ll find in this impressive volume!
Joe Kubert: Creator & Mentor
X-O Manowar #6
Fighting American
Beau with Lora Innes
by Roger Ash
My love affair with comics fluctuates. I’ve loved comics since I started reading them in the mid-to-late 1970s, and that’s one of the big reasons I’ve been a part of the comics industry for the past 20 plus years. However, as in any relationship, there are times I like comics more than at other times. Currently, I’m on a big upswing. I’m enjoying reading comics now more than I have in a long time. I’ve recently written about how much I’m enjoying the Marvel cosmic books, currently represented by The Thanos Imperative, and Jonathan Hickman’s writing on Fantastic Four (and in extremely cool news, he’ll be joined by artist Steve Epting on FF #583). So, I thought I’d share with you a couple other books that I’m loving right now – Boom’s Muppet Show and DC’s DC Universe Legacies.
By Wayne Markley
Over the last 60 years, Joe Kubert has been one of the steadiest, and arguably greatest, artists of all time. His work has spanned everything from Hawkman and the Flash in the 1940s to his own caveman creation Tor, (which he still revisits as recently as two years ago) to perhaps the work he is best know for, Sgt. Rock. It also includes almost every other DC war hero ever created to Tarzan in the 1970s to his most recent work, Dong Xoai. I would highly recommend all of his work and I am going to review a handful of his prodigious output in this column.
by Wayne Markley
DC Comics has a far-reaching and broad library of old comics and stories dating back to the 1930s. Over the years, outside of the major characters (Superman, Batman, etc.), they have not done a great deal with a host of great little known characters. Recently that has changed and, this time, I thought we would take a look at some of the upcoming releases of these blasts from the past.
by Robert Greenberger
Comic books were floundering as the 1950s hit their midpoint. The popular genres of romance, war, and western were selling okay, but nothing was a major hit. The horror comics of the day were gutted by the just-instituted Comics Code Authority and while DC was squeaky clean in that regard, they too were scrambling to find something to spark sales.
When staff editor Robert Kanigher suggested an anthology of heroes from the past – a Roman gladiator, a Knight of the round table, and a Viking. His notion was that movies were gaining some traction from stories set in those eras while research of the day was proving that Vikings arrived in America long before Columbus, so they were somewhat topical. Willing to gamble on Kanigher’s notion, Irwin Donenfeld approved the book, entitled The Brave and the Bold. For the first fifteen issues, the three features – the Golden Gladiator, the Silent Knight, and the Viking Prince would share the 26 pages every other month.
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