DAVE COCKRUM X-MEN ARTIFACT ED HC
(W) Chris Claremont (A) DAVE COCKRUM (CA) DAVE COCKRUM
By 1975 the X-Men had been relegated to reprint status for a number of years, and the title was not a safe bet to become one of the most popular comic book franchises of all time-but with the launch that year of GIANT SIZE X-MEN #1, by Len Wein and DAVE COCKRUM, that is precisely what happened! DAVE COCKRUM was the artist and architect of this newly revamped team, and he co-created Storm, Colossus, and, perhaps most notably, Nightcrawler. After the runaway success of Giant Size X-Men #1, the title began producing all-new stories with X-Men #94... and the rest is the stuff comic book dreams are made of! This Artifact Edition contains more than 100 pages from Cockrum's initial run on X-Men, as well as some pages when the artist returned later for a second run on the characters several years later. As with all Artist's Edition style books from IDW Publishing (which have so far won six Eisner Awards), the pages presented were all scanned from Cockrum's actual original art and are printed at the same size they were drawn, mimicking the look and feel of the artist's hand-drawn work. As an added bonus, there is a gallery section featuring covers, sketches, and a few surprises-this is an art book MADE for fans of DAVE COCKRUM's X-Men art!
BACK ISSUE #118
(W) Various (A) Various (CA) Rich Buckler; John Beatty
Back Issue #118 is a Greatest Stories Never Told issue! Alex Ross' unrealized Fantastic Four reboot, DC: The Lost 1970s (including Joe Simon's Guardian Angel and Gerry Conway and John Calnan's Ninja the Invisible), Frank Thorne's Red Sonja preliminaries, Chris Claremont and Dave Sim's X-Men/Cerebus, Mike Grell's Batman/Jon Sable, Larry Hama's Fury Force, Curt Swan's lost pages from Ed Hannigan's Skull and Bones, Steve Englehart and Trevor Von Eeden's Batman/Mad Hatter, Brian Augustyn and Mike Parobeck's Target, and Paul Kupperberg's insider's look at the ill-fated Impact reboot (with unpublished art by DAVE COCKRUM, Michael Netzer, and more)!
STAR TREK MOTION PICTURE FACSIMILE ED #0
(W) Marv Wolfman (A) DAVE COCKRUM (CA) Bob Larkin
An alien presence of enormous power enters Federation space, destroying three powerful Klingon cruisers and neutralizing everything in its path. As it heads toward Earth, Admiral James T. Kirk returns to the helm of an upgraded U.S.S. Enterprise and sets course to meet the aggressor head-on. This spectacular adaptation, featuring work by industry legends Marv Wolfman, DAVE COCKRUM, and Klaus Janson, boldly re-presented in its original form!