Overview

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.

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I think Chaykin's art here is some of his best. It's a tale full of historical detail and ordinance, sharply defined characters, where romantic heroism is undercut by the cruel exigencies of survival-and I think it brought out the best in him. His art is confident and fully in service to a story that requires more in the way of acting and body language from its characters than most. I was reminded of the late Steve Dillon, another artist whose work complemented Garth Ennis' writing so well, and vice versa. Highly recommended.-- ""Forces of Geek""

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Best known for characters like his parodic 1980s American Flagg, Marvel's Dominic Fortune, and DC's revisionist Blackhawk -- not to mention his controversial, X-rated Black Kiss and the first 10 issues of Marvel's crowd-pleasing Star Wars series -- writer-artist Howard Chaykin has prodded mainstream comics in challenging directions for more than 50 years, throwing pulp heroes and retro-science fiction into a postmodern blender with generous helpings of politics, sex, and satire.

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