Monday, April 7, 2014

Back Issue! #72, May



For the best of the best of original comic book art from years gone by be sure pick up each and every issue of Back Issue! from TwoMorrows Publishing.  The Metal Men take center stage and inside readers can expect to see art and read articles listed below:
 
BACK SEAT DRIVER: Editorial by Brainiac 0 

FLASHBACK: Heady Metal: The Metal Men 
Silver Age charm transmutes to Bronze Age seriousness for DC Comics’ robot heroes

INTERVIEW: Charlie Boatner’s Batman/Metal Men Team-Up 
Whatever happened to What’s’ername? We ask the writer … and share Aparo artwork

FLASHBACK: Behold, Their Vision!
Creators from the House of Ideas discuss the Android Avenger

FLASHBACK: The Little Android That Could: A History of the Red Tornado
How “the Justice Society’s pet android” became a Justice Leaguer and solo star

BRING ON THE BAD GUYS: Bad Robot: Mister Atom
The Bronze Age appearances of the World’s Mightiest Mortal’s metal menace

FLASHBACK: Jocasta: The Bride of Ultron
This one-time Avengers hanger-on keeps … hanging on

FLASHBACK: Bronze Steele: Robotman
It’s been a long, strange trip for the Doom Patrol’s Cliff Steele

BEYOND CAPES: Shogun Warriors
The sky-high rise and abrupt fall of three giant robots in comics

FLASHBACK: Stone and Steel: The Story of Cyborg
Victor Stone, from Teen Titans to Justice League and beyond

BRING ON THE BAD GUYS: The Legacy of Brainiac
The “sons” of Superman’s robot foe in the DC Universe

BEYOND CAPES: Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot
The Hard Boiled team of Frank Miller and Geof Darrow and their metal men

BACK TALK Reader comments about BI #67 and more