Back Issue! #71 from TwoMorrows Publishing
starts out with a bang with some stunning cover art courtesy of Art Adams. Check out the cool stories and art all about
tryouts, one-shots and one-hit wonders.
Here's what you can
expect:
ONE-HIT WONDERS:
The Bat-Squad
Batman’s small
band of British helpers were seen in a single Brave and Bold issue
ONE-HIT WONDERS:
The Crusader
Hopefully you
didn’t grow too attached to the guest hero in Aquaman #56
FLASHBACK: Ready
for the Marvel Spotlight.
Creators galore
look back at the series that launched several important concepts
FLASHBACK: Marvel
Feature
Home to the
Defenders, Ant-Man, and Thing team-ups
FLASHBACK: Marvel
Premiere
A round-up of
familiar, freaky, and failed features, with numerous creator anecdotes
FLASHBACK:
Strange Tales
The disposable
heroes and throwaway characters of Marvel’s weirdest tryout book
BEYOND CAPES:
221B at DC: Sherlock Holmes at DC Comics
Inspecting the
Bronze Age one-shot you may have missed
FLASHBACK: 1st
Issue Special
It was no
Showcase … nor was it meant to be
BEYOND CAPES:
Dick Tracy
The super-sized
one-shot of 1975 that gave DC its second square-jawed detective
FLASHBACK:
Showcase Presents... Again
The Bronze Age
return of DC’s venerated tryout title
ONE-HIT WONDERS:
Timmy Time
The short
lifespan of this one-time Richie Rich co-star
ONE-HIT WONDERS:
Jason Monarch
This one-shot’s
creator and his creation played the hand they were dealt
ONE-HIT WONDERS:
Swashbuckled and Hornswaggled
Cary Burkett
discusses the all-too-brief career of this Batman partner
WHAT THE--?!:
Marvel’s Offbeat ’80s One-Shots
The No-Prize
Book, The Fumetti Book, and The Generic Comic
FLASHBACK: New
Talent and Bonus Babies
DC’s grooming of
the next generation of comics pros, ’80s style
BACK TALK
Letters on BI
#66, the Team-Ups issue
IN MEMORIAM: NICK
CARDY