Lost Marvels: Tower of Shadows Resurrects a Forgotten Marvel Horror Series

Fantagraphics is kicking disconnected a caller bid of "Lost Marvels" hardcovers that purpose to reprint immoderate of the lesser-known and forgotten titles successful Marvel's immense backmost catalog. This caller enactment debuts with Lost Marvels No. 1: Tower of Shadows, collecting the full fearfulness anthology bid successful 1 handsome volume.

With the publication successful stores now, IGN tin exclusively debut a caller preview of Lost Marvels No. 1: Tower of Shadows, featuring a classical communicative from Stan Lee and John Buscema. Check it retired successful the slideshow assemblage below:

Tower of Shadows is simply a short-lived anthology bid from 1969, notable for being Marvel's archetypal effort astatine an EC Comics-style fearfulness task since the advent of the Comics Code Authority. The bid featured enactment from a fig of Marvel luminaries, including Neal Adams, Jim Steranko, Barry Windsor-Smith, John Buscema, Gene Colan, Wally Wood, Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, John Romita, Johnny Craig, Marie Severin, Gerry Conway, and Bernie Wrightson.

Fantagraphics has truthful acold revealed 2 much volumes successful the Lost Marvels series. Lost Marvels No. 2: Howard Chaykin Vol. 1: Dominic Fortune, Monark Starstalker, and Phantom Eagle volition cod galore of Chaykin's subject and sci-fi stories ranging from 1975 to 2008. Lost Marvels No. 3: Savage Tales volition cod the full pulp anthology series, which was notable for featuring Conan the Barbarian stories and the archetypal quality of Man-Thing.

“Marvel published a astonishing magnitude of enactment that fell extracurricular its superhero purview successful the '60s and '70s and '80s, astir of it ne'er earlier reprinted, overmuch of it "lost" but successful the fading memories of fans who bought it and work it for the archetypal clip backmost past erstwhile it was primitively published,” said Fantagraphics Publisher Gary Groth successful a statement. “Exceptional craftsmen and artists were often featured — Barry Windsor-Smith, Steranko, John Buscema, Gene Colan, Neal Adams, Howard Chaykin, and others— and 1 of the goals of this task is to make a cautiously curated grounds of this somewhat much obscure enactment that truthful galore comics readers person forgotten oregon are unfamiliar with. Lost Marvels complements our Atlas reprints which features truthful galore of the champion craftsmen from the 1950s.”

Lost Marvels No. 1: Tower of Shadows is present disposable bookstores and comic shops. Lost Marvels No. 2: Howard Chaykin Vol. 1: Dominic Fortune, Monark Starstalker, and Phantom Eagle volition beryllium released connected July 8, followed by Lost Marvels No. 3: Savage Tales successful November 2025.

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