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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.