Howard Chaykin

When Howard Chaykin broke into comics in the 1970s, there was nothing quite like him. His original characters Dominic Fortune and Monark Starstalker took classic pulp heroes and ran them through a postmodern blender. This new volume contains retro-science-fiction bounty hunter Monark Starstalker''s debut appearance and all Chaykin''s color-comic-book Dominic Fortune stories, including the character''s unexpurgated Max series, published a generation later. Completing the package is the collision between pulp heroism and the devastating, bloody realities of World War I in Chaykin''s 111-page collaboration with The Boys writer Garth Ennis on War Is Hell: The First Flight of the Phantom Eagle. The collection is introduced by author and comics scholar Brannon Costello. This second title in Fantagraphics'' Lost Marvels series collects some of the most exciting, sought-after work by Howard Chaykin from 1975 to 2008.

Píše se rok 1961. Je to období přechodu mezi padesátými léty – dekádou Ikea, mccarthismu či Jacka Kerouaca – a úsvitem sexuální revoluce, války ve Vietnamu i ód hippies na LSD. Stejně jako celá Amerika i Gotham se třásl nedočkavostí při pomyšlení na slibované světlé zítřky... Temnotu nadcházejících dní si tehdy nikdo nedokázal představit – ani Batgirl a Robin, dva maskovaní ochránci města. Pro ně tahle divoká jízda brzy skončí... příští zastávkou je totiž smrt! Howard Chaykin a Dan Brereton vám představují příběh BATMAN: V ŽÁRU SMRTI, nominovaný na Eisnerovu cenu. Sebrané vydání obsahuje V ŽÁRU SMRTI (sešity č. 1–3) a V ŽÁRU SMRTI ‘62 spolu s dosud nepublikovanými pohledy do zákulisí Breretonovy kresby a Chaykinovou zbrusu novou předmluvou.

The year is 1961. A time of transition between the Fifties--the decade of Ike, McCarthyism and Jake Kerouac--and the dawn of the Sexual Revolution, the Vietnam War and turning on, tuning in and dropping out. Like the rest of the USA, Gotham City is filled with giddy optimism. And no one could know that the dark days lay ahead--especially her two masked defenders Batgirl and Robin. For them, the joyride was about to end ... and the last stop was death! From Howard Chaykin and Dan Brereton comes the Eisner-Nominated Batman: Thrillkiller, collecting Thrillkiller #1-3 and Thrillkiller '62, along with never before published behind the scenes artwork and an introduction by Howard Chaykin.