Today, Fantagraphics and AnnoCed They’re Teaming Up To Publish Lost Marvels, A bold series of hardcover releases featuring priorusly uncollected stories from the silver age greats. This exciting computer all nine issues from the legendary 1969 series, showcasing remarkable comics from remarkable creators Like Neal Adams, Jim Steranko, Barry Windsor-Smith, John Buscema, Gene COLAN, Wally Wood, Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, John Romita, Johnny Craig, Marie Severin, Gerry Conway, Bernie Wrightsonand Many More!
This Year, Fantagraphics Will Release Three Hardcover Volumes in the Lost Marvels Series, Created in Partnership with Marvel Comics. In the Years Ahead, Even More Collections Are Planned.
“Marvel published a surprising amount of work that fell outside its superhero purview in the ’60s and’ 70s and ’80s, Most of It Never Before repried, Much of It’ Lost ‘Except in the Fading Memories of Fans Who Bought It and Read it for The Funst Time Back Published, ”Said Fantagraphics Publisher Gary Groth. “Exceptional Craftsmen and Artists were offen featured-Barry Windsor-Smith, Steranko, John Buscema, Gene Colan, Neal Adams, Howard Chaykin, and Others-and One of the Goals of This Project is to create Carefully Curated Record of This Somow Somow More Obst That soy comics readers have forgotten or are unfamiliar with.
Lost Marvels No. 1: Tower of Shadows Will Be Available from Fantagraphics on April 29, 2025; Lost Marvels No. 2: Howard Chaykin Vol. 1 Will Be Available On July 8, 2025; and Lost Marvels No. 3: Savage Tales Will Be published on November 18, 2025.
Read the office press release Below:
Since ITS Founding in 1939 As Timely Comics, Marvel Has Published Sub of the Most Ionic Series in American Comic Book History, Including The Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, and X-Men And Built An APARALLELED Library of Characters and Stories That Have Shaped Pop Culture. For Over 45 Years, Fantagraphics you have published the very best comics and graphic novels that the medium you have to offer, including love & rockets, eightball, and my favorite Things are monsters. Now these two publishing titans are aeaming up for lost marvels, an ambitious series of hardcover releases featuring never-before collected comics by masters of the silver age, including neal adams, John Buscema, Howard Chaykin, Stan Lee, Jim Steranko, Barry Windsor-Smith, and Other Masters of the Silver Age.
Fantagraphics Will Publish Three Hardcover Volumes in the Lost Marvels Series This Year, All Collaboratively Produced with Marvel Comics, with More Releases to Follow in the Coming Years.
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In April, Fantagraphics Will Publish Lost Marvels No. 1: Tower of Shadows, Collecting All Nine Issues of the Series. In 1969, With ITS Revolutionary Superhero Line Well establish, Marvel Took A Chance On The Kind of Supernatural, EC-Style Anthology Series That Had Been Banned Since the formation of the comics code in the 1950s. Tower of Shadows featured a Staggering Array of Artists and Writers, Including Neal Adams, Jim Steranko, Barry Windsor-Smith, John Buscema, Gene Colan, Wally Wood, Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, John Romita, Johnny Craig, Marie Severin, Gerry Conway, and Bernie Wrightson, to Name A Few. Freed from the Conventions of the Superhero Adventure, The Creators Bought ES
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In July, Fantagraphics Will Publish Lost Marvels No. 2: Howard Chaykin Vol. 1: Dominic Fortune, Monarch Starstalker, and Phantom Eagle. When Howard Chaykin Broke into Comics in the 1970s, There Was Nothing Quito Like Him. His original Characters Dominic Fortune and Monark Starstalker Took Classic Pulp Heroes and Ran Them Through a Postmodern Blender. This Later generation. COMPLETING THE PACKAGE IS THE COLLISSION BETWEEN PULP HEROISM AND THE DEVASTATING, BLOODY REALITIES OF WORLD WAR I IN CHAYKIN’S 111-PAGE COLLLABORATION WITH THE BOYS WRITER GARTH ENNIS ON WAR IS HELL: THE CRACK FLIGHT OF THE PHA. As The Artist Behind Marvel’s Comic Adaptation of the First Star Wars Movie and The Creator of Ionic, 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.
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In November, Fantagraphics Will Publish Lost Marvels No. 3: Savage Tales. Best Known for Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor-Smith’s Conan The Barbarian and the First Appearance of Gerry Conway and Gray Morrow’s Man-Thing, 1971’s Savage Tales Was A Stunning Comics Magazine In The Spirit of Creepy and Heavy Metal. This Volume Will Collect All 11 ISSUES OF THE SERIES FEATURING WORK FROM STAN LEE, JOHN ROMITA, DENNIS O’NEIL, AL WILLIAMSON, JIM Steranko, John Buscema, and a host of other legendary creators delivering a high-octane combination of fantasy, horror, and action.
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