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    •Project: New Man #1 – Dave Davison is the subject of Project: New Man, a partly secret joint venture of the U.S. Government and the Fortress Foundation, a private sector non-profit philanthropic organization dedicated to public defense and scientific research. Dave has the dual role of being part of the research project and at the same time being groomed by the Government as a public protector in the Five Lakes Megalopolis area. Dave has a dark past which he hoped was dead and buried but in his first public adventure he confronts his past and an old partner head on in “The Mall Massacres”. Legacy Comics 1991 Black and White 32 page Independent Comic: Project: New Man #1is FREE to read in this very Web Browser!



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    •Project: New Man #2 – His actual identity is as much a mystery as what drives him. He calls himself Ebenezer Baal, and he is The Haunted Man but he intends for misery to have company as he in turn haunts Dave Davison a.k.a New Man. We find out in this origin tale Dave was not always a hero, and it seems his past is easily as shady as the criminals he now pursues! Co-Starring The Thunder Hawks! The backup story from Legacy Comics 1991 Black and White 64 page Independent Comic: Humants #1! FREE to read in this very Web Browser!



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    •Project: New Man #3– Dave Davison A.K.A New Man goes out for a morning jog only to return to the Moriah Building under a full scale attack from Cyber-Tech! Also featuring Bearcat, and the Thunder Hawks! Featuring lots of never before published material! 32 action packed pages FREE to read in this very Web Browser!



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    •Project: New Man #4– We tie up a lot of loose ends in this issue as The Haunted Man concludes. We find out the true identity of Ebeneezer Baal, see Bearcat in action again, see the abduction of Fawn and Nick, Cyber-Tech escapes plus a special secret surprise guest-star! Yeah! This one has it all! Featuring lots of never before published and some ALL-NEW material! 32 action packed pages FREE to read in this very Web Browser!



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    •Humants #1 – High crime rates, higher gas prices, inflation and garbage strikes, are one thing but the recent unnatural storms have the residents Five Lakes Megalopolis rattled. Then the appearance of unusual individuals wielding supernatural powers precede the coming of a walking, flying nightmare! His name is Megeddon, Dark Lord of the Hecati and his chief servant, the powerhouse called Devastax! Krystal McKliston is an investigative reporter looking into these mysteries as she learns there are “Humants Among Us!”The lead story from Legacy Comics 1991 Black and White 64 page Independent Comic: Humants #1! FREE to read in this very Web Browser!



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    •Humants #2– The Herald, Magistar, and Man Ark must enter into deadly battle with Megeddon, the Dark Lord of the Hecati and his chief servant, the powerhouse called Devastax! Their goal: no less than total world destruction! Krystal McCliston, investigative reporter, tries to capture the action on video while dodging falling debris. She later comfronts a new villain: The Tower! Janeta Rosebud meets Omni Spawn and things will never again be the same! The lead story from Legacy Comics 1992 Black and White 48 page Independent Comic: Humants #2! FREE to read in this very Web Browser!



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    •Humants #3– Omnispawn ushers in yet another Humant: The Savage Chaosta! Also having survived their first encounter with the evil Dark Lord Mageddon, the Khosmotic Warriors have banded together and rented an old warehouse to use as a headquarters and training facility. Featuring lots of never before published material! 32 action packed pages FREE to read in this very Web Browser!



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    •Humants #4– This issue features the all out war between the Humants and the Renegade Humants! It's action from cover to cover as Freazie White, Jr. writes and does finished pencils over Mark Poe's layouts and we introduce a new inker, Paul Schulze! Featuring lots of never before published material! 32 action packed pages FREE to read in this very Web Browser!



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    •Humants #5– What happens when you try to administer first aid to an unconscious Humant? Well, in the case of Chaosta things could get pretty scary when she wakes up and thinks she is still battling the Renegade Humants! Man Ark and Sojourner find a lot of trouble for their efforts! Plus: Much More by Freazie White, Jr. new inker, Anthony Grayand Billy Leavell with Letters and Edits! PLUS: An offbeat Bearcat backup tale! By Mark Poe, Freazie White, Jr., Mark Alan Lester and Billy Leavell! Featuring lots of never before published material! 32 action packed pages FREE to read in this very Web Browser!



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    •Mega Tales #1– Tess is a young lady who is a living tesseract. She comes from another dimension and in our dimension she can teleport herself or just about anything else just about any where. She manifests the power in a number of ways other than teleportation and she has a cute little 4th dimensional dog with a very high I.Q. named Nostradamus. In short: we are 3D beings, Tess and Nostradamus are 4D beings.Plus: Much More by Greg Legat writer/creator, Mark Poe with pencils, letters and colors! and J. Adam Walters handling inking embellishment. Featuring never before published material! 32 action packed pages FREE to read in this very Web Browser!



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Happy Independence Day!

Wednesday, July 4th, 2018

Welcome to July 4th’s Mega Comics Group Updates!

We Want You

to Have a Great

Independence Day!

Uncle Sam
Have a great Fourth of July! It’s without doubt the Summers biggest and hottest holiday. We hope you are among the fortunates who got off the whole week. Some of us have to settle for being off the one day in the middle. Oh well, it’s not so bad. It’s like having a weekend in the middle of the work week… almost! Time to enjoy some time with family or friends or fireworks or food or fun activities or all of the above! Have fun but be safe! CU Friday!

Fair Use reference to intellectual property of other companies are intended for historical and informational accuracy only. Mega Comics Group™ or Mega Graphics, LLC™ does not represent or have any relationship to any other company or entity or their intellectual property unless otherwise clearly noted. Mega Tales™ and © 2010 Mega Graphics LLC, unless otherwise noted herein.  Project: New Man™ and  Humants™ and © 2010 Freazie White, Jr. D.B.A. Legacy Comics. Tess, the Living Tesseract™ and © Stephen Greg Legat and Mark Poe. All rights reserved. Mega Graphics LLC, licensor.
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More Man of Steel • Mega Tales #1 Second Printing Problem

Friday, July 6th, 2018

Welcome to Friday’s Mega Comics Group Updates!

More On The Man Of Steel Reboot

Man of SteelReboot #2When is a reboot not a reboot? When the reboot actually started 2 years ago! DC Comics announced a New Era with the release of the 2018 Man of Steel mini series which just wrapped up Wednesday. We all thought this was another new beginning but actually they are picking up on the Superman from 2016’s Rebirth Reboot of the whole DC Universe. So what’s new, you might ask as we did? Well, as near as we have been able to figure out, it’s mostly the fact that the series has a new writer by the name of Brian Michael Bendis.   Bendis is the award winning comics creator, who just happens to be one of the most successful writers who also, for the last 20 years or so, worked mainly for Marvel Comics. Brian’s books have ranked near the top of the nationwide comic and graphic novel sales charts for most of that time period. Most of that time he lead  a renaissance for Marvel’s Avengers titles. He has been instrumental in bringing you the New Avengers,  Avengers, Mighty Avengers and Dark Avengers. He has also been the primary source for such fan fav projects as  Avengers Versus X-Men, House Of M, Secret War, Secret Invasion, and Siege. This is no small coo which DC publishers Dan DiDio and Jim Lee have pulled off. But don’t get us wrong, this isn’t the only newness of the new Superman line up. There are new characters, new villains and more or less a new direction for the Man of Steel as the mini series by the same name has established.

Most Mega Minions rate it at least an 8 on a scale of 10. We would have given it a 10 but we thought the plot could have been a little tighter and one of the main plot threads, the Metropolis Fire Attacks did not even get close to a resolution. We are sure that was meant as a dangling plot thread to be picked up in the Superman titles but come on, DC! A six issue mini-series which will also be a collected trade paperback should have some closure. Don’t ya think?

We gave you the premise for #1 last week but here it is again ALONG WITH the plot synopsis for each issue: 

“Man of Steel (2018) #1  – A new era begins for Superman as a threat from his earliest origins reemerges to destroy the Last Son of Krypton. As Superman struggles to come to grips with what has happened to his wife and son, he must also face a new threat that’s determined to burn down Metropolis.
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Man of Steel (2018) #2  – With an arsonist loose in Metropolis, Superman’s powers are almost useless in finding the culprit. And back at the Daily Planet, everyone wants to know what’s going on with Lois Lane. How can Clark hold on to the secret of what happened to Lois and Jon much longer? 

Man of Steel (2018) #3  – The merciless killer and zealot calling himself Rogol Zaar has searched the cosmos for Superman-and when he reaches the Fortress of Solitude, his actions will cut Superman to the core.

Man of Steel (2018) #4  – Rogol Zaar has committed a string of atrocities across the cosmos that have led him to the Fortress of Solitude-and now Superman and Supergirl plan to crush his schemes! But are even two Kryptonians enough to stop his sinister machinations? 

Man of Steel (2018) #5  – Beaten by Rogol Zaar, his city burning at the hands of an unknown arsonist and the secret of what happened to Lois and Jon drawing closer to revelation-even Superman feels powerless against all that stands before him.

Man of Steel (2018) #6  – The fate of Lois Lane and Jon Kent is revealed! Metropolis’ survival hangs in the balance! And Superman must somehow put an end to Rogol Zaar’s rampage! It’s do-or-die time for the Man of Steel in the final chapter of this explosive miniseries!”  (Source: Comixology.com)

Man of Steel (2018) #1-6 – Page Count 24,  Print and Digital formats available. Release Date May 30, 2018, Age Rating 12+ Only.

If you want to save a little money wait until October and buy the collected edition:

Man of SteelReboot #6“Man of Steel (2018) Collected Trade Paperback  Collects issues #1-6 and stories from DC Nation #0. – Genre-defining author Brian Michael Bendis makes his triumphant debut writing Superman in Man of Steel!

In the aftermath of Dark Nights: Metal, the Man of Steel has been challenged like never before. As he faces his greatest challenge to date, the status quo for Superman will be changed forever! With an all-star team of illustrators including Ivan Reis, Evan “Doc” Shaner, Ryan Sook, Kevin Maguire, Adam Hughes and Jason Fabok, Bendis takes us back to the roots of the Man of Steel and questions the very foundations set 80 years ago by Joe Siegel and Jerry Shuster!

Brian Michael Bendis, the scribe behind some of the greatest comics of all time, including Ultimate Spider-Man, New Avengers and Daredevil, dives headlong into the DC Universe in this precursor to his debuts on both Superman and Action Comics.” (Source: Comixology.com)

MCG Turns Ten!We got our first printed copies of Mega Tales # 1 (2nd Printing)! We got our copies back Saturday, unfortunately there was a mix up at the printer and the cover was wrong. So back to the proverbial printing drawing board. (Groan!) Oh well, maybe we won’t have to wait another month or more like we just did since the book was just on the presses. Unfortunately, as of this writing the new digital downloadable issue is not available either. We think the IndyPlanet and Ka-Blam staff may be off this week for Independence Day, like a lot of folks, since they have not responded to our inquiries as of yet. So we wait… again. Hang in there, web wayfarers!

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Humants #2 Anniversary IssueRemember, we have digital comics of our own at IndyPlanet and DriveThru Comics RIGHT NOW! You can still download Project: NewMan #1 and Humants # 1 for absolutely FREE! Project: NewMan # 2 and Humants # 2 can be downloaded now, for immediate gratification, for a mere 99¢ each! And if you want actual hard copy prints the Indyplanet will sale those to you for only $2.99 each! And we also have Mega Tales #1, our only full color book thus far, for only $3.99 each, featuring the debut of the other long ago project Mark and Greg Legat did called Tess, The Living Tesseract. Although, as of this writing, IndyPlanet still doesn’t have the second printing of Mega Tales #1 in the online store yet. They still have the first printing. If you want that get it and we’ll do a 48 or 72 hour FREE digital edition giveaway of the second printing once they get it up. That way you will have both! Whattadeal!

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What are you waiting for? Go grab some Mega Comics Group / Legacy Comics goodness  right now! Check out the cover link above and to the right here which will take you to Indy Planet. Here’s the link if you had rather go to DriveThru Comics.

CU Next Week!

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Remembering Steve Ditko, Co-Creator of Spider-Man and Much More!

Friday, July 13th, 2018

Welcome to Friday’s Mega Comics Group Updates!

It is with great sadness we have learned of another of Marvel Comics founding father’s passing. Steve Ditko died Friday, June 29, 2018 at the age of 90. As far as it is known, he never married and had no surviving children at the time of his death. He did have a nephew named after him. We mourn his loss with his family and the rest of fandom and at the same time we want to give tribute to his lifetime of accomplishment. He will never be forgotten.

We will start with his bio from the fine folks at Wikipedia and include several of our favorite Ditko drawings and photos.

Steve Ditko 1927–2018

Co-Creator of Spider-Man

Steve Ditko

Stephen J. Ditko was born November 2, 1927 and passed away on June 29, 2018. He was an American comics artist and writer best known as the artist and co-creator, with Stan Lee, of the Marvel Comics superheroes Spider-Man and Doctor Strange.

Ditko studied under Batman artist Jerry Robinson at the Cartoonist and Illustrators School in New York City. He began his professional career in 1953, working in the studio of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, beginning as an inker and coming under the influence of artist Mort Meskin. During this time, he then began his long association with Charlton Comics, where he did work in the genres of science fiction, horror, and mystery. He also co-created the superhero Captain Atom in 1960.

Spidey PosterDuring the 1950s, Ditko also drew for Atlas Comics, a forerunner of Marvel Comics. He went on to contribute much significant work to Marvel. In 1966, after being the exclusive artist on The Amazing Spider-Man and the “Doctor Strange” feature in Strange Tales, Ditko left Marvel for reasons he never specified.

Ditko continued to work for Charlton and also DC Comics, including a revamp of the long-running character the Blue Beetle, and creating or co-creating the Question, the Creeper, Shade the Changing Man, and Hawk and Dove. Ditko also began contributing to small independent publishers, where he created Mr. A, a hero reflecting the influence of Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism. Ditko largely declined to give interviews, saying he preferred to communicate through his work.

Dr. Strange PosterDitko was inducted into the comics industry’s Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1990, and into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 1994.

Ditko learned that his idol, Batman artist Jerry Robinson, who was teaching at the Cartoonists and Illustrators School (later the School of Visual Arts) in New York City. Moving there in 1950, he enrolled in the art school under the G.I. Bill. Robinson found the young student “a very hard worker who really focused on his drawing” and someone who “could work well with other writers as well as write his own stories and create his own characters”, and he helped Ditko acquire a scholarship for the following year.”He was in my class for two years, four or five days a week, five hours a night. It was very intense.” Robinson, who invited artists and editors to speak with his class, once brought in Stan Lee, then editor of Marvel Comics’ 1950s precursor Atlas Comics and, “I think that was when Stan first saw Steve’s work.”

Ditko began professionally illustrating comic books in early 1953, drawing writer Bruce Hamilton’s science-fiction story “Stretching Things” for the Key Publications imprint Stanmor Publications, which sold the story to Ajax/Farrell, where it finally found publication in Fantastic Fears #5 (cover-dated Feb. 1954). Ditko’s first published work was his second professional story, the six-page “Paper Romance” in Daring Love #1 (Oct. 1953),published by the Key imprint Gillmor Magazines.

Early Horror Comics WorkShortly afterward, Ditko found work at the studio of writer-artists Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, who had created Captain America and other characters. Beginning as an inker on backgrounds, Ditko was soon working with and learning from Mort Meskin, an artist whose work he had long admired. “Meskin was fabulous,” Ditko once recalled. “I couldn’t believe the ease with which he drew: strong compositions, loose pencils, yet complete; detail without clutter. I loved his stuff”.[12] Ditko’s known assistant work includes aiding inker Meskin on the Jack Kirby pencil work of Harvey Comics’ Captain 3-D #1 (Dec. 1953). For his own third published story, Ditko penciled and inked the six-page “A Hole in His Head” in Black Magic vol. 4, #3 (Dec. 1953), published by Simon & Kirby’s Crestwood Publications imprint Prize Comics.

Ditko then began a long association with the Derby, Connecticut publisher Charlton Comics, a low-budget division of a company best known for song-lyric magazines. Beginning with the cover of The Thing! #12 (Feb. 1954) and the eight-page vampire story “Cinderella” in that issue, Ditko would continue to work intermittently for Charlton until the company’s demise in 1986, producing science fiction, horror and mystery stories, as well as co-creating Captain Atom, with writer Joe Gill, in Space Adventures #33 (March 1960). He first went on hiatus from the company, and comics altogether, in mid-1954, when he contracted tuberculosis and returned to his parents’ home in Johnstown to recuperate.

Marvel Days

Marvel Days

After he recovered and moved back to New York City in late 1955, Ditko began drawing for Atlas Comics, the 1950s precursor of Marvel Comics, beginning with the four-page “There’ll Be Some Changes Made” in Journey into Mystery #33 (April 1956); this debut tale would be reprinted in Marvel’s Curse of the Weird #4 (March 1994). Ditko would go on to contribute a large number of stories, many considered classic, to Atlas/Marvel’s Strange Tales and the newly launched Amazing Adventures, Strange Worlds, Tales of Suspense and Tales to Astonish, issues of which would typically open with a Kirby-drawn monster story, followed by one or two twist-ending thrillers or sci-fi tales drawn by Don Heck, Paul Reinman, or Joe Sinnott, all capped by an often-surreal, sometimes self-reflexive short by Ditko and writer-editor Stan Lee.

These Lee-Ditko short stories proved so popular that Amazing Adventures was reformatted to feature such stories exclusively beginning with issue #7 (Dec. 1961), when the comic was rechristened Amazing Adult Fantasy, a name intended to reflect its more “sophisticated” nature, as likewise the new tagline “The magazine that respects your intelligence”. Lee in 2009 described these “short, five-page filler strips that Steve and I did together”, originally “placed in any of our comics that had a few extra pages to fill”, as “odd fantasy tales that I’d dream up with O. Henry-type endings.” Giving an early example of what would later be known as the “Marvel Method” of writer-artist collaboration, Lee said, “All I had to do was give Steve a one-line description of the plot and he’d be off and running. He’d take those skeleton outlines I had given him and turn them into classic little works of art that ended up being far cooler than I had any right to expect.”

The Creation of Spider-Man

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The original cover for Amazing Fantasy #15 by Steve Ditko. The published AM #15 cover, which is pictured below, was drawn by Kirby and inked by Ditko.

After Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Stan Lee obtained permission from publisher Martin Goodman to create a new “ordinary teen” superhero named “Spider-Man”, Lee originally approached his leading artist, Jack Kirby. Kirby told Lee about his own 1950s character conception, variously called the Silver Spider and Spiderman, in which an orphaned boy finds a magic ring that gives him super powers. Comics historian Greg Theakston says Lee and Kirby “immediately sat down for a story conference” and Lee afterward directed Kirby to flesh out the character and draw some pages. “A day or two later”, Kirby showed Lee the first six pages, and, as Lee recalled, “I hated the way he was doing it. Not that he did it badly — it just wasn’t the character I wanted; it was too heroic”.

Lee turned to Ditko, who developed a visual motif Lee found satisfactory, although Lee would later replace Ditko’s original cover with one penciled by Kirby. Ditko said, “The Spider-Man pages Stan showed me were nothing like the (eventually) published character. In fact, the only drawings of Spider-Man were on the splash [i.e., page 1] and at the end [where] Kirby had the guy leaping at you with a web gun… Anyway, the first five pages took place in the home, and the kid finds a ring and turns into Spider-Man.”

Kirby & Ditko AM #15 Cover

The iconic AM #15 cover by Kirby and Ditko which introduced the world to Spider-Man!

Ditko also recalled that, “One of the first things I did was to work up a costume. A vital, visual part of the character. I had to know how he looked … before I did any breakdowns. For example: A clinging power so he wouldn’t have hard shoes or boots, a hidden wrist-shooter versus a web gun and holster, etc. … I wasn’t sure Stan would like the idea of covering the character’s face but I did it because it hid an obviously boyish face. It would also add mystery to the character….”

Much earlier, in a rare contemporaneous account, Ditko described his and Lee’s contributions in a mail interview with Gary Martin published in Comic Fan #2 (Summer 1965): “Stan Lee thought the name up. I did costume, web gimmick on wrist & spider signal”. He added he would continue drawing Spider-Man “if nothing better comes along.” That same year, he expressed to the fanzine Voice of Comicdom, regarding a poll of “Best Liked” fan-created comics, “It seems a shame, since comics themselves have so little variety of stories and styles that you would deliberately restrict your own creative efforts to professional comics[‘] shallow range. What is ‘Best Liked’ by most readers is what they are most familiar in seeing and any policy based on readers likes has to end up with a lot of look-a-like (sic) strips. You have a great opportunity to show everyone a whole new range of ideas, unlimited types of stories and styles—why FLUB it!”

Peter Parker A.K.A. Spider-ManFrom 1958 to either 1966, or 1968  (accounts differ), Ditko shared a Manhattan studio at 43rd Street and Eighth Avenue with noted fetish artist Eric Stanton, an art-school classmate. When either artist was under deadline pressure, it was not uncommon for them to pitch in and help the other with his assignment.  Ditko biographer Blake Bell, without citing sources, said, “At one time in history, Ditko denied ever touching Stanton’s work, even though Stanton himself said they would each dabble in each other’s art; mainly spot-inking”,  and the introduction to one book of Stanton’s work says, “Eric Stanton drew his pictures in India ink, and they were then hand-coloured by Ditko”.  In a 1988 interview with Theakston, Stanton recalled that although his contribution to Spider-Man was “almost nil”, he and Ditko had “worked on storyboards together and I added a few ideas. But the whole thing was created by Steve on his own… I think I added the business about the webs coming out of his hands”.

Daredevil Vs.Spider-ManSpider-Man debuted in Amazing Fantasy #15 (Aug. 1962), the final issue of that science-fiction/fantasy anthology series. When the issue proved to be a top seller, Spider-Man was given his own series, The Amazing Spider-Man.  Lee and Ditko’s collaboration on the series saw the creation of many of the character’s best known antagonists including Doctor Octopus in issue #3 (July 1963);  the Sandman in #4 (Sept. 1963);  the Lizard in #6 (Nov. 1963);  Electro in #9 (March 1964);  and the Green Goblin in #14 (July 1964).  Ditko eventually demanded credit for the plotting he was contributing under the Marvel Method. Lee concurred, and starting with #25 (June 1965), Ditko received plot credit for the stories. 

One of the most celebrated issues of the Lee-Ditko run is #33 (Feb. 1966), the third part of the story arc “If This Be My Destiny…!”, and featuring the dramatic scene of Spider-Man, through force of will and thoughts of family, escaping from being pinned by heavy machinery. Comics historian Les Daniels noted, “Steve Ditko squeezes every ounce of anguish out of Spider-Man’s predicament, complete with visions of the uncle he failed and the Amazing # 33 Milestoneaunt he has sworn to save.” Peter David observed, “After his origin, this two-page sequence from Amazing Spider-Man #33 is perhaps the best-loved sequence from the Stan Lee/Steve Ditko era.”  Steve Saffel stated the “full page Ditko image from The Amazing Spider-Man #33 is one of the most powerful ever to appear in the series and influenced writers and artists for many years to come.”  Matthew K. Manning wrote that “Ditko’s illustrations for the first few pages of this Lee story included what would become one of the most iconic scenes in Spider-Man’s history.”  The story was chosen as #15 in the 100 Greatest Marvels of All Time poll of Marvel’s readers in 2001. Editor Robert Greenberger wrote in his introduction to the story, “These first five pages are a modern-day equivalent to Shakespeare as Parker’s soliloquy sets the stage for his next action. And with dramatic pacing and storytelling, Ditko delivers one of the great sequences in all comics.”

Spider-Man and Doctor StrangeMore at Marvel

After drawing the final issue of The Incredible Hulk (#6, March 1963), Ditko created the supernatural hero Doctor Strange, in Strange Tales #110 (July 1963). Ditko and Lee shortly thereafter relaunched a Hulk series as a short feature in the anthology Tales to Astonish, beginning with issue #60 (Oct. 1964). Ditko, inked by George Roussos, penciled the feature through #67 (May 1965). Ditko designed the Hulk’s primary antagonist, the Leader, in #62 (Dec. 1964).

Ditko also penciled the Iron Man feature in Tales of Suspense #47–49 (Nov. 1963 – Jan. 1964), with various inkers. The first of these debuted the initial version of Iron Man’s modern red-and-golden armor, though whether Ditko or cover-penciler and principal character designer Jack Kirby designed the costume is uncertain.

Dr Strange Original CostumeThough often overshadowed by his Amazing Spider-Man work, Ditko’s “Doctor Strange” artwork has been equally acclaimed, for its surrealistic mystical landscapes and increasingly psychedelic visuals that helped make the feature a favorite of college students. “People who read ‘Doctor Strange’ thought people at Marvel must be heads [i.e. drug users],” recalled then-associate editor and former Doctor Strange writer Roy Thomas in 1971, “because they had had similar experiences high on mushrooms. But … I don’t use hallucinogens, nor do I think any artists do.”

Eventually Lee & Ditko would take Strange into ever-more-abstract realms. In an epic 17-issue story arc in Strange Tales #130–146 (March 1965 – July 1966), Lee and Ditko introduced the cosmic character Eternity, who personified the universe and was depicted as a silhouette whose outlines are filled with the cosmos. As historian Bradford W. Wright describes,

The cartoonist and fine artist Seth in 2003 described Ditko’s style as “oddball” for mainstream comics. Whereas Kirby’s stuff clearly appealed to a boy’s sensibility because there was so much raw power, Ditko’s work was really delicate and cartoony. There was a sense of design to it. You can always recognize anything that Ditko designed because it’s always flowery. There is a lot of embroidered detail in the art, which is almost psychedelic.”

Lee Vs DitkoWhichever feature he drew, Ditko’s idiosyncratic, cleanly detailed, instantly recognizable art style, emphasizing mood and anxiety, found great favor with readers. The character of Spider-Man and his troubled personal life meshed well with Ditko’s own interests, which Lee eventually acknowledged by giving the artist plotting credits on the latter part of their 38-issue run. But after four years on the title, Ditko left Marvel; he and Lee had not been on speaking terms for some time, with art and editorial changes handled through intermediaries. The details of the rift remain uncertain, even to Lee, who confessed in 2003, “I never really knew Steve on a personal level.” Ditko later claimed it was Lee who broke off contact and disputed the long-held belief  that the disagreement was over the true identity of the Green Goblin: “Stan never knew what he was getting in my Spider-Man stories and covers until after [production manager] Sol Brodsky took the material from me … so there couldn’t have been any disagreement or agreement, no exchanges … no problems between us concerning the Green Goblin or anything else from before issue #25 to my final issues”.  Spider-Man successor artist John Romita, in a 2010 deposition, recalled that Lee and Ditko “ended up not being able to work together because they disagreed on almost everything, cultural, social, historically, everything, they disagreed on characters….” Ditko Legacyy

A friendly farewell was given to Ditko in the “Bullpen Bulletins” of comics cover-dated July 1966, including Fantastic Four #52: “Steve recently told us he was leaving for personal reasons. After all these years, we’re sorry to see him go, and we wish the talented guy success with his future endeavors.”

Regardless, said Lee in 2007, “Quite a few years ago I met him up at the Marvel offices when I was last in New York. And we spoke; he’s a hell of a nice guy and it was very pleasant. … I haven’t heard from him since that meeting.”

Return to Charlton and Days at DC

The Creeper #2Back at Charlton—where the page rate was low but creators were allowed greater freedom—Ditko worked on such characters as the Blue Beetle (1967–1968), the Question (1967–1968), and Captain Atom (1965–1967), returning to the character he’d co-created in 1960. In addition, in 1966 and 1967, he drew 16 stories, most of them written by Archie Goodwin, for Warren Publishing’s horror-comic magazines Creepy and Eerie, generally using an ink-wash technique.

In 1967, Ditko gave his Objectivist ideas ultimate expression in the form of Mr. A, published in Wally Wood’s independent title witzend# 3. Ditko’s hard line against criminals was controversial and he continued to produce Mr. A stories and one-pagers until the end of the 1970s. Ditko returned to Mr. A in 2000 and in 2009.

Blue Bettle #3Ditko created a panoply of  DC Comics characters, including: the Creeper; Hawk and Dove; Stalker; the Odd Man; Shade, the Changing Man and another version of Starman.

Ditko moved to DC Comics in 1968, where he co-created the Creeper in Showcase#73 (April 1968) with Don Segall, under editor Murray Boltinoff. DC Comics writer and executive Paul Levitz observed that Ditko’s art on the Creeper stories made “them look unlike anything else being published by DC at the time.” Ditko co-created the team Hawk and Dove in Showcase #75 (June 1968), with writer Steve Skeates. Around this time, he penciled the lead story, written and inked by Wally Wood, in Wood’s early mature-audience, independent-comics publication Heroes, Inc. Presents Cannon (1969).

Ditko’s stay at DC was short—he would work on all six issues of the Creeper’s own title, Beware the Creeper (June 1968 – April 1969), though leaving midway through the final one—and the reasons for his departure uncertain. But while at DC, Ditko recommended Charlton staffer Dick Giordano to the company, who would go on to become a top DC penciller, inker, editor, and ultimately, in 1981, the managing editor.

From this time up through the mid-1970s, Ditko worked exclusively for Charlton and various small press/independent publishers. Frank McLaughlin, Charlton’s art director during this period, describes Ditko as living “in a local hotel in Derby for a while. He was a very happy-go-lucky guy with a great sense of humor at that time, and always supplied the [female] color separators with candy and other little gifts”

The Final ChapterFor Charlton in 1974 he did Liberty Belle backup stories in E-Man and conceived Killjoy. Ditko produced much work for Charlton’s science-fiction and horror titles, as well as for former Marvel publisher Martin Goodman’s start-up line Atlas/Seaboard Comics, where he co-created the superhero the Destructor with writer Archie Goodwin, and penciled all four issues of the namesake series (Feb.–Aug. 1975), the first two of which were inked by Wally Wood. Ditko worked on the second and third issues of Tiger-Man and the third issue of Morlock 2001, with Bernie Wrightson inking. (Source: Wikipedia.com)

Steve Ditko was not done. He went to and fro from Marvel to DC and also did work for several independent comics companies from he remainder of his years. There was no slowing down for Ditko until 1998 when he officially retired. But he still did work now and then for many publishers. Several books of his collected stories have been published. Mr. Ditko racked up numerous awards from 1962 all the way up to 2015. He will be missed but his work will remain to inspire and entertain many more generations.

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The Destructor

Mark’s Remarks

I remember when Jack Kirby died, this is a whole lot like that. I don’t remember as much about Ditko’s run on Spider-Man because he was not at Marvel as long Kirby and I was pretty young at that time. I remember more of John Romita’s work on Spidey first hand, however my first exposure to the character was The Amazing Spider-Man animated cartoon on TV in the late ’60’s and that was based more on the Ditko era Spider-Man.

The Destructor

I did read a lot of the reprints of Ditko’s Spidey work. I do remember seeing some of Ditko’s work at DC and Charlton in the late ’60’ws and early ’70’s. The Creeper at first glance was a little… well… creepy but I liked the character. I really never understood why it did not do better than it did in sales. But that period of DC history and comics history in general was the beginning the decline in sales. Many titles only lasted a few issues before they were canceled without a reason given.

The Destructor #1 ArtMy favorite Ditko character, post Spider-Man, was the Destructor! This book was also short lived as were all the Atlas/Seaboard Comics of the early ’70’s which were put forth by Marvel’s founding publisher, Martin Goodman after he had sold Marvel. I think Chip Goodman was listed as publisher but Martin was the real power behind it. Atlas lured several of the best writers and artists away form Marvel and DC to launch their new comics line. It had a lot of promise but Martin did not have the patience or the operating capital to continue, so it folded about 4-5 issues into each series. Some say there were a lot of distribution problems as well, and I can attest to having a hard time finding the books at the newsstand at that time. This was long before Comic Book Shops. But I digress, The Destructor was an Archie Goodman/Steve Ditko/Wally Wood production. It may have been the  flagship title of the Atlas Line. It sure seemed that way to me at the time.

The Destructor #1The Destructor had similarities to Spider-Man, Daredevil and Batman. The Destructor was the alter-ego of a common street hood who reformed after witnessing the death of his father at the hands of the gang of crooks he was part of. His dad was a scientist who created a formula that would give any man enhanced senses of animal like prowess. Ditko really put the emphasis of the art on how sensitive the Destructor’s powers were. One thing the Destructor had that set him apart from all other heroes was the ability to heal from injuries rapidly, although as Ditko presented it, no less painfully. He was in a lot of ways a prototype for Wolverine who Marvel would capitalize on later.

By issue 4 the Destructor discovered a new power to emit explosive blasts from his clenched fists. He also sported a darker costume which was probably Ditkos natural tendency to always improve the look and design of anything he worked on. There was no explanation for the costume change in the story. Design was always a key contribution of Ditko’s work. He was the original designer of the corner box cover symbols on Marvel’s covers beginning with the May 1963 issues of the Marvel Comics line. He contributed a lot to the look and design of the covers.

The Destructor #4 Nook Look and PowerIf you get a chance to snatch up the 4 issues of The Destructor, take it! These books date back to 1974. They don’t have much collectable value, last I checked, just some good reading material. The stories are by Archie Goodwin and Gerry Conway. Pencils are by Ditko and inks by Wally Wood on the first 2 issues. The 3rd issue doesn’t list an inker, so Ditko may have done it himself although it looks like he might have had assistance from Frank Giacoia. The last issue was inked by Al Milgrom. Most of the covers were by Stan Lee’s brother Larry Lieber, doing his Kirby imitation, which I always liked.

Another founding father of Marvel has gone on to his reward. We will miss Steve Ditko and we will always treasure the great stories and art left behind. Rest in peace, Mr. Ditko.

– Mark

 

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Ditko Cover Gallery

Click the small image to open a new window with a larger image. Close the window to return here. Rinse. Repeat. 😉

Ditko Blue Beetle

Ditko Creeper

Ditko Creeper

Ditko Destructor 2

Ditko Destructor 3

Hawk & Dove

Ditko Destructor 2

Ditko Destructor 3

Hawk & Dove

Ditko Secret City

Ditko Shade

Ditko Stalker

Ditko The Question

Ditko Amazing 701

Ditko Blue Beetle 6

Ditko Machine Man 14

Ditko Machine Man 10

Ditko House of Mystery

Ditko The Thing

Ditko Stalker 3

Ditko Secret City 4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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MCG Turns Ten!Ka-Blam has graciously offered to reprint Mega Tales # 1 (2nd Printing) after the goof on the pMT #1 Anniversary Issuerevious print run’s cover! It was not entirely their fault, but a low resolution jpeg got mixed in with the print revolution files which caused the book to have a fuzzy cover. The rest of the pages looked great! We appreciate Ka-Blam taking the responsibly and reprinting the issues at their expense. That’s not something many company’s will do these days even when it’s their fault. This mistake was not totally on them, but Ka-Blam was gracious enough to bite the bullet and re-do the work. Our hat’s off to them!

Mega Tales #1 Anniversary EditionStill they have yet to put up the new downloadable version. BUT we now have the brand, spanking, new 2nd printing, MCG 10th Anniversary Edition available for immediate download now at DriveThru Comics! And as we promised this one is FREE for the next week! Yes! You read correctly. No charge for instant gratification! Hee-Yah! Go get it before El Marko finds our and makes us put a price tag on it! No, we don’t have printed copies of our books available yet from DriveThru but those will be soon forthcoming!

Humants #1 Anniversary IssueRemember, we have more digital comics  at IndyPlanet as well as DriveThru Comics RIGHT NOW! You can still download Project: NewMan #1 and Humants # 1 for absolutely FREE! Project: NewMan # 2 and Humants # 2 can be downloaded now, for immediate gratification, for a mere 99¢ each! And if you want actual hard copy prints, then Indyplanet will sell those to you for only $2.99 each! And we also have Mega Tales #1, our only full color book thus far, for only $3.99 each, featuring the debut of the other long ago project Mark and Greg Legat did called Tess, The Living Tesseract.

What are you waiting for? Go grab some Mega Comics Group goodness  right now! Check out the cover link above which will take you to Indy Planet. Here’s the link if you had rather go to DriveThru Comics.

CU Next Week!

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Ant-Man & The Wasp • Stan Lee’s WorkForce • Alpha-Omega at the San Diego Comics Con

Friday, July 20th, 2018

Welcome to Friday’s Mega Comics Group Updates!

MCG Turns Ten!

Ant-Man and the Wasp!

Need we say more? Well, okay, here’s more…

Ant-Man and the Wasp is a 2018 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics characters Scott Lang / Ant-Man and Hope van Dyne / Wasp. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the sequel to 2015’s Ant-Man, and the twentieth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film is directed by Peyton Reed and written by the writing teams of Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers, and Paul Rudd, Andrew Barrer, and Gabriel Ferrari. It stars Rudd as Lang and Evangeline Lilly as Van Dyne, alongside Michael Peña, Walton Goggins, Bobby Cannavale, Judy Greer, Tip “T.I.” Harris, David Dastmalchian, Hannah John-Kamen, Abby Ryder Fortson, Randall Park, Michelle Pfeiffer, Laurence Fishburne, and Michael Douglas. In Ant-Man and the Wasp, the titular pair work with Hank Pym to retrieve Janet van Dyne from the quantum realm. (Source: wikpedia.com)

Stan Lee's Workforce

Stan Lee is at it again…

You know Stan Lee as the creator of iconic comicbook characters like Spider-Man, Iron Man, and the Hulk, to name only a few. He has been known for decades as the extraordinary mind who created superhero characters on paper that have since stood the test of time and permeated the pop culture landscape.

But what would happen if Stan was surrounded by superheroes in his every day life? Stan Lee’s POW! Entertainment is proud to introduce Stan as the star of his own superhero story, coming to TheRealStanLee.com this week!

Stan Lee’s Work Force will revolve around the place where Stan feels most at home: his office. However, what may appear on the surface as a regular company with ordinary employees is anything but, since Stan leads a team who are as “super” as any of his own creations. The series follows the fantastical adventures Stan and his superhero staff embark on from 9-5, as an ordinary day at the office can entail meeting a publishing deadline… or dealing with an inter-dimensional monster attack.

The comedic episodic novel will debut right here, starting tomorrow, July 17th, with new chapters being released every Tuesday and Thursday. Be sure to tune in tomorrow to meet the members of Stan Lee’s Work Force and follow along with their hilarious escapades!

Who else is ready to witness an original Stan Lee universe come to life? Remember to check back tomorrow for the debut of Stan Lee’s Work Force and don’t forget to SHARE this on Facebook!

(Source: www.therealstanlee.com)

San Diego Comics Con!It’s That Time Again:

San Diego Comic Con International

July 19-22, 2018

(Preview Night: July 18)

Wed., July 18:

6:00–9:00 PM

Thur.–Sat., July 19–21:

9:30 AM–7:00 PM*

Sun., July 22:

9:30 AM–5:00 PM

*Programming continues after 7:00 PM

Get more info at: Comic-con.com  Also check out: conventionscene.com

Alpha-Omega at the San Diego Comics-Con

The CHRISTIAN COMIC ARTS SOCIETY is honored to partner with Brentwood Studios & the Aetherlight MMO to deliver top talent, projects, and compelling events open to all Comic-Con attendees.

The Christian Comic Arts Society will be hosting three events as part of the official Comic-Con programming and will exhibit throughout the convention in the Small Press area #P-08. Courtesy of Brentwood Studios and Tyndale House Publishers, Con attendees will receive a copy of book one in “The Delusion   ”Young Adult novel series by Laura Gallier available at the CCAS events while supplies last.

The A-O Comic-Con events include:

Friday 07/20/2018, 8:30-10:00 pm, Christian Comic Arts Society Mixer in Room 26AB

Featured: Bryan Mero (Spirit Knight), Tim Cleary (Aetherlight MMO), Dan Lynch (“BibleForce”), Eric Jansen(Foursquare Mission Press), Geoff Strout (Faithful Creative), moderators Scott A. Shuford (FrontGate Media) and Joe Queen (Geeky Guys for God) and more.  Join the Christian Comic Arts Society as they partner again with Geeky Guys for God for the 10th annual mixer. This is an opportunity for Christian professionals, fans, artists, and writers to intermingle, socialize and network.  There will be a trivia game and prizes will be awarded to those attendees who know their geek trivia.

Saturday 07/21/2018, 7:00-8:00 pm, Spiritual Themes in Comics in Room 4

Featured: David Walker (Luke Cage), B. David Walters (Electropunk), Tim Cleary (Aetherlight MMO), Travis Hanson (Beanleaf Press), Buzz Dixon (Serenity), Jessica Tseang (Comic Book Historian) and Kyle Keene (Moderator). With spiritual themes central to comic book related movies such as “Black Panther” and “Wonder Woman” and animated movies like Pixar’s “Coco”, panelists will explore how the spiritual themes central to these stories reflect the reality of the spiritual beliefs of the cultures featured.  They will also explore how spiritual depictions in movies, comic books, fantasy, and science fiction impact the society. Always a lively discussion, this will mark the 21st year that the Christian Comic Arts Society has hosted the Spiritual Themes in Comics panel at San Diego.

Sunday 07/22/2017, 10:00-11:00 am, Christian Comic Arts Society in Room 28DE

Featured: Sergio Cariello (Action Bible), Scott Zambelli (Topps – Transformers), Jackson Fong (Baptist Church), Carmi Greene (actress), and Ralph Miley (CCAS President). Join the Christian Comic Arts Society along with Geeks4God, and Geeky Guys for God as we celebrate the Open Meeting of the CCAS on Sunday morning.  Christian professionals in the entertainment industry will discuss their faith and how it influences them in their professions, their decisions, and the creative process.

Also, as in years past, CCAS will be featuring book signings and giveaways throughout the weekend at their booth, #P-08.

For more information on the Comic-Con International: San Diego, go to http://www.comic-con.org.

ABOUT CHRISTIAN COMIC ARTS SOCIETY

Christian Comic Arts Society (CCAS) was formed in 1984 to locate and link Christians interested or active in the comic book/graphic novel medium. CCAS sponsors comic industry activities at various comic conventions across the country, and Alpha Omega, the APA of Christian comics.  The goal and purpose of CCAS is to support Christian professionals, hopefuls and enthusiasts within the Comic Book and related industries by providing opportunities for: 1. The sharing of the Christian message and our Christian faith, primarily within and through the comic book industry and art form. 2. Mentoring, training, friendship and networking. 3. The collaboration on and creation of visual storytelling. The CCAS is governed by a volunteer board which includes Ralph Miley (New Creation,) Holly Knevelbaard (Illustrator,) Clint D. Johnson (“FaithWalker”,) Luis Serrano (“Samson The Nazirite”,) and Scott A. Shuford (FrontGate Media) along with numerous volunteers from the comic industry and the Church. For more information on the Christian Comic Arts Society, go to www.ChristianComicArts.com, Facebook.com/ChristianComicArts, or Twitter.com/ChristianComics.

ABOUT BRENTWOOD STUDIOS

Started in 2008 by former VeggieTales executives, Brentwood Studios partners with producers and content owners to develop new ideas, and manage brands that kids love and parents appreciate. Leveraging experience, creative, and strategic thinking, Brentwood Studios works with our partners to create new products and advance licensing, strategic alliances, distribution, sales, and marketing. Brentwood is led by Bob Starnes, Brock Starnes and Dan Lynch who joined the team in 2016. Dan most recently served as Publisher and Founder at B&H Kids, a division of Lifeway and prior as VP/Publisher for TommyNelson. Brentwood Studios is based in Franklin, Tennessee. http://www.brentwoodstudios.net

(Source: ChristianComicArts.com)

Alpha-Omega #200 Available on Amazon!


Alpha-Omega #2
We forgot to mention the past 2 or 3 post that the big 200th issue of the Alpha-Omega APA-zine is finally finished and available to the general public! Get yours here: Amazon.com. (370 pages, B&W, $25)

The official synopsis:

An anthology featuring the work of past and present members of the Amateur Press Association of the Christian Comic Art Society, this special milestone issue of the Alpha-Omega APA-zine is a celebration of the past, present and future of Christian comics movement.

Edited by Ralph Miley and Kevin Yong, this anthology mixes “best of” reprints from Alpha-Omega’s long history with new original content from creators Billy Leavell, Mark Poe, John Pierce, Carl Borg, Roland Mann, G. Raymond Eddy, Bud Rogers, Eric Jansen, David Davis, Bob Wierdsma, Lee McIntosh, Brent Giles, Josh Burns, Jesse Hamm, Frank Humphris, Rob Marsh, Ken Leach, Henry Chmielefski, Michael Monasmith, and Robert Flores; with special guest artwork from Gary Shipman, Christine Kerrick, Sergio Cariello, Steven Butler, James Babcock, AND MORE!

Join us for a look back spanning over three decades and two-hundred issues of Christian comics fandom! Featuring essays, artwork, fiction, non-fiction, and a collection of comic short stories including Don Ensign’s “Golden Protector”, Ralph Miley’s “Images Past”, Billy Leavell’s “Ray Rockett”, John Pierce’s “Jonni Star”, Eric Jansen’s “Paraman”, Larry Blake’s “Nightstar”, Kurt Kolka’s “The Cardinal”, and a reprint of the full-length serial adventure, “The AO Challenge”. Also featuring special memorial tributes to the legacy of departed Christian comic artists Luisa Felix, Monte Wilson, and Don Ensign. (Source: ChristianComicArts.com)

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MCG Celebrates 2 Anniversaries with Printed Editions

MCG Turns Ten!

Ka-Blam has graciously offered to reprint Mega Tales # 1 (2nd Printing) after the goof on the pMT #1 Anniversary Issuerevious print run’s cover! It was not entirely their fault, but a low resolution jpeg got mixed in with the print revolution files which caused the book to have a fuzzy cover. The rest of the pages looked great! We appreciate Ka-Blam taking the responsibly and reprinting the issues at their expense. That’s not something many company’s will do these days even when it’s their fault. This mistake was not totally on them, but Ka-Blam was gracious enough to bite the bullet and re-do the work. Our hat’s off to them!

Mega Tales #1 Anniversary EditionStill they have yet to put up the new downloadable version. BUT we now have the brand, spanking, new 2nd printing, MCG 10th Anniversary Edition available for immediate download now at DriveThru Comics! And as we promised this one is FREE for the next week! Yes! You read correctly. No charge for instant gratification! Hee-Yah! Go get it before El Marko finds our and makes us put a price tag on it! No, we don’t have printed copies of our books available yet from DriveThru but those will be soon forthcoming! SATURDAY IS THE FINAL DAY OF THE FREE OFFER! HURRY! Don’t miss out!

Project: NewMan #2 Anniversary IssueRemember, we have more digital comics  at IndyPlanet as well as DriveThru Comics RIGHT NOW! You can still download Project: NewMan #1 and Humants # 1 for absolutely FREE! Project: NewMan # 2 and Humants # 2 can be downloaded now, for immediate gratification, for a mere 99¢ each! And if you want actual hard copy prints, then Indyplanet will sell those to you for only $2.99 each! And we also have Mega Tales #1, our only full color book thus far, for only $3.99 each, featuring the debut of the other long ago project Mark and Greg Legat did called Tess, The Living Tesseract.

What are you waiting for? Go grab some Mega Comics Group goodness  right now! Check out the cover link above which will take you to Indy Planet. Here’s the link if you had rather go to DriveThru Comics.

CU Next Week!

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Mega Comics Group T-shirts and More!

Friday, July 27th, 2018

Welcome to Friday’s Mega Comics Group Updates!


Alpha-Omega #2

T-shirts and More!

We have had soooooo much going on this week! There have been site updates, art work and the main thing, we have launched our own, online T-shirt and apparel store! So we have had a large part of the week getting the store built and adding designs so you can go to it and purchase the items you want.

This is a SpreadShirt store! That means it’s easy to browse, find what you want and even customize it from apparel colors, to ink color to adding your own personal message with the stores Virtual Designer App  to be printed right along with the art work.

These designs we have uploaded include covers for our titles, Project: New Man, Humants and Mega Tales. We added just those few plus a MegaComicsGroup.com Logo Shirt, just in case you want to proudly display your choice in online reading material! That’s not all we’ll have, that’s just all we’ve had time to put together this week. We’ll be adding more in just a few days.

In addition to our comics related merchandise you will find many of Mark Poe’s cartoon and mascot designs as well. In actuality, even though we claim it as our own, this store is actually the Mega Graphics LLC T-shirt Store, so there will be far more available than Mega Comics Merchandise. Keep checking back and see how it grows! See for yourself at: The Mega Graphics T-shirt Store.

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Alpha-Omega #200 Available on Amazon!


Alpha-Omega #2
Don’t forget, like we did, that the big 200th issue of the Alpha-Omega APA-zine is finally finished and available to the general public! You can get your own printed copy at: Amazon.com. (370 pages, B&W, $25)

Edited by Ralph Miley and Kevin Yong, this anthology mixes “best of” reprints from Alpha-Omega’s long history with new original content from creators Billy Leavell, Mark Poe, John Pierce, Carl Borg, Roland Mann, G. Raymond Eddy, Bud Rogers, Eric Jansen, David Davis, Bob Wierdsma, Lee McIntosh, Brent Giles, Josh Burns, Jesse Hamm, Frank Humphris, Rob Marsh, Ken Leach, Henry Chmielefski, Michael Monasmith, and Robert Flores; with special guest artwork from Gary Shipman, Christine Kerrick, Sergio Cariello, Steven Butler, James Babcock, AND MORE!

Join us for a look back spanning over three decades and two-hundred issues of Christian comics fandom! Featuring essays, artwork, fiction, non-fiction, and a collection of comic short stories including Don Ensign’s “Golden Protector”, Ralph Miley’s “Images Past”, Billy Leavell’s “Ray Rockett”, John Pierce’s “Jonni Star”, Eric Jansen’s “Paraman”, Larry Blake’s “Nightstar”, Kurt Kolka’s “The Cardinal”, and a reprint of the full-length serial adventure, “The AO Challenge”. Also featuring special memorial tributes to the legacy of departed Christian comic artists Luisa Felix, Monte Wilson, and Don Ensign.

(Source: ChristianComicArts.com)

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MCG Celebrates 2 Anniversaries with Printed Editions

Mega Tales #1 Anniversary Editionhas the new downloadable version of Mega Tales # 1. That’s the brand, spanking, new 2nd printing, MCG 10th Anniversary Edition available for immediate download now at DriveThru Comics!

MT #1 Anniversary Issue  Remember, we have more digital comics  at IndyPlanet as well as DriveThru Comics RIGHT NOW! You can still download Project: NewMan #1 and Humants # 1 for absolutely FREE! Project: NewMan # 2 and Humants # 2 can be downloaded now, for immediate gratification, for a mere 99¢ each! And if you want actual hard copy prints, then Indyplanet will sell those to you for only $2.99 each! And we also have Mega Tales #1, our only full color book thus far, for only $3.99 each, featuring the debut of the other long ago project Mark and Greg Legat did called Tess, The Living Tesseract.

Project: NewMan #2 Anniversary IssueWhat are you waiting for? Go grab some Mega Comics Group goodness  right now! Check out the cover link above which will take you to Indy Planet. Here’s the link if you had rather go to DriveThru Comics.

The Wrap up!

Well, we just ran out of time this week so we won’t keep you any longer. But check back next week when we’ll be talking about…. well… whatever comes into our knobby little heads in between now and then! You’ve been warned! 😉 Have a good one!

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