The latest copy of the Diamond "Previews" catalogue,
has a couple of items of interest in it.
Unfortunately, after almost 50 years as a comic book lover and collector, neither of them are from either Marvel Comics
or the venerable DC Comics... heck, the closest
that I come to being interested in a major comic book publisher's wares, is with IDW and Dark Horse!
There are two items, though, that are of special note.
The first one, is a reprinting of the Jim Starlin autobiography, A Life in Words and Pictures, which came and went, so quickly, back in 2010, that I never even saw a copy!
This time around, it is a company called "Aftershock", that came into existence in 2015 and publish a few comic book titles.
Considering the rather high prices, being sought by sellers of the 2010 edition, this is welcome news, at a proposed price of $50 U.S.
The advert above, culled from the pages of the Previews catalogue, is a nostalgic treat.
Way back, in the mid Sixties, I was the recipient of a subscription to the brand new comic book out of Britain,
The Ranger
and within it's pages, I was introduced to the world of the
Trigan Empire,
which was beautifully illustrated by Don Lawrence
and I was swept away by the wonder of it all!
Needless to say, I cannot wait to get my hands on this edition of Illustrators Special!
If anyone is at all interested, in what the rest of my "wants" list, from this latest catalogue:
Dark Horse, Resident Alien: An Alien in New York #2
IDW, John Byrne's X-Men: Artifact Edition
Strangers in Paradise XXV #4
Boom Studios, Coda #1 of 12
Flesk Publishing, Hellboy: Into the Silent Sea - Studio Edition
and finally,
The Book Palace, Illustrator's Magazine #22
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