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This week I am listing a bunch of books, many of which are rare (in fact, MOST of them are not available on Amazon, and several of them aren’t available ANYWHERE.)  Despite the rarity of some of these, I keep my prices reasonable. If one of my offerings has caught your eye, please check out my other listings. (There are more items than just books!) Books, magazines, CDs, and DVDs ship via USPS Media Mail. I will combine shipping for multiple orders to save you even more!

 

 

AMAZING HEROES #186 Fantagraphics December, 1990 – NEAR NEW CONDITION – Text clean, tight, bright, square and solid. In this issue: Interview with Neil Gaiman, interview with Denys Cowan, Deathlok preview. Plus: Perspective - Ten Real Life Super-Villains/customers, Newsline, Coming Distractions, Backstage - Dick Durock interview on Swamp Thing, Cartoon Corner - cartoon-related gifts, Infernal Gall - comic book satire, and why Fred Hembeck doesn't do it anymore, Don Rosa's Cover Gallery - silly time machine covers, Comics in Review, Amazing Readers, The Cartoonist; Strom's Index. Cover art by Denys Cowan. FAIRLY SCARCE. (SEE ALSO MY LISTING FOR ISSUE 185!)

 

 

Amazing Heroes was a magazine about the comic book medium published by American company Fantagraphics Books from 1981 to 1992. Unlike its companion title, The Comics Journal, Amazing Heroes was a hobbyist magazine rather than an analytical journal. It was the most successful super-hero comics fanzine of the 80s. The magazine began as a monthly, then appeared twice a month for many years, and then went monthly again beginning in1989. The magazine ran for 204 issues, folding with its July 1992 issue. The first 13 issues were magazine-sized, while the rest were comic book-sized.

 

 

From 1985 to 1987, the magazine presented The Jack Kirby Award for achievement in comic books, voted on by comic-book professionals and managed by Amazing Heroes managing editor Dave Olbrich. After a dispute in 1987 over who owned them, the Kirby Awards were discontinued. Starting in 1988, the Kirby Award was discontinued and two new awards were created: the Eisner Award managed by Olbrich, and the Fantagraphics-managed Harvey Award.

Amazing Heroes itself won the U.K.'s Eagle Award for Favorite Specialist Comics Publication four years in a row, from 1985 to 1988.