TwoMorrows August, 2016
Reprints Top-Notch Comics #20; Reprints Zip Comics #1; Reprints Pep #17 and #30; Death of Comet (John Dickering); 1st Appearance of Web (John Raymond); 1st Appearance of Hangman (Robert Dickering); 1st Appearance of Steel Sterling; Oversize; 288 pages; All text except for five Golden Age reprints; Includes 64 pages of color Golden Age reprints; The Complete History of the Archie Comics Super-Heroes from the Golden Age to the Present; Cliff Campbell writing as Harry Shorten
The Black Hood; Steel Sterling: The Man of Steel; The Web: The Black Dragon of Death!!; The Shield: The Strangler; The Hangman: The Origin of the Hangman; Foreword: Heroes Unexpected (text); Introduction: Our Mighty Crusade (text); Prelude: Roots of the MLJ Line (text); Key to the Mighty Heroes of MLJ; MLJ Heroes in the 1930s and ’40s (text); Interlude: The Archie Phenomenon (text); Mighty Comics in the 1950 and ’60s (text); Interlude: Where are the Heroes? (text); 1970’s Red Circle Comics Group (text); Interlude: Mighty Legion of Justice (text); The Red Circle Heroes of the ’80s (text); Interlude: Descent into Darkness (text); The Ill-Fated Spectrum Comics Line (text); Interlude: In the House of Superman (text); Impact Comics of the 1990s (text); Interlude: DC’s Diminishing Impact (text); Between Impact and Archie (text); An MLJ Hero in the Digital Age (text); The Archie Gang Joins the MLJ! (text); Interlude: The Straczynski Effect (text); The Crusaders Return to DC (text); Interlude: Full Circle at DC Comics (text); Red Circle’s Fox and New Crusaders (text); Interlude: Archie’s Monster Makeover (text); Dawning of the Dark Circle (text); Postscript: Those Majestic MLJ Heroes (text); Collecting the Milieu of the MLJ Comics Universe: J.C. Vaughn Interview (text); Learn More about MLJ (text); It’s a Mighty MLJ World (text)
Rik Offenberger, Paul Castiglia, Jon B. Cooke, Cliff Campbell, Harry Shorten, Abner Sundell, J.C. Vaughn
Al Camy, Charles Biro, John Cassone, Irv Novick, George Storm