Writer's and Artist's Names: Writers include Robert Turner, William Woolfolk, Richard Hughes and Otto Binder; artists include Bob Oksner, Jim Mooney, Harry Anderson, Rudy Palais, Phil Bard, Al Bryant, Red Holmdale, Maurice Gutwirth, George Wilson, and Bob Fujitani.
Intended Audience: All-ages fans of Golden Age superhero reprint material, art aficionados, comics historians, collectors of bookshelf compilations, and fans of classic action, adventure and superhero material of all kinds.
Format: Standard comic book dimensions, but a special NEW 200-plus pages, squarebound bookshelf binding. Black & white interiors with color covers.
Synopsis: ACE COMICS is featured this issue, as this rarely-covered publisher is represented by a complete reprinting of FOUR FAVORITES #3, along with other ACE stories. See MAGNO, VULCAN, The SWORD, RAVEN, LASH LIGHTNING and other forgotten ACE superheroes!! Plus, favorites MISS MASQUE, DOLLMAN, MINUTE MAN and others, in full-story reprints.
Special Notes: Though almost forgotten today, ACE COMICS was an important player in the formative years of the comic book's development. Publisher A. A. Wyn's comic book line was an outgrowth of it's successful line of science-fiction, action and adventure pulp magazines, and Ace remained in the comic book field until 1957. Wyn's publishing enterprise evolved into the Ace Paperback Library, one of the "heavy hitters" in science fiction novels through the 1960's and into the '70's. Beyond corporate logistics, the approach that Ace Comics took with their superhero line in the early 1940's was unique. While Superman, Captain Marvel & The Human Torch were fighting nameless thugs in 7, 9 & 11-page stories, from almost the beginning, Ace ran their "star" costumed character features like MAGNO, LASH LIGHTNING, The FLAG and The UNKNOWN SOLDIER in 20-plus page stories (with even back-ups and fillers running 10-13 pages), pitting them against colorful & outrageous (and often recurring) costumed super-villains, so an ACE comic book from 1941 tends to read much more like a contemporary superhero comic book than most of the early Golden Age material. Future film and TV writer Robert Turner was the architect of much of the storytelling, and Ace's number one artist (in the early days anyway) was his frequent collaborator, Jim Mooney, whose tasteful sense of design shown in many of the Ace heroes and villains. The innovations that Ace used in their comics line would become standard issue at the bigger companies by the modern era, but are almost forgotten today. But, like all new-format issues of MEN OF MYSTERY, this issue features much more material beyond the Ace theme, including frontline vintage features from other defunct publishers including such features as- from Nedor Comics (MISS MASQUE), Quality (DOLLMAN), Fawcett(MINUTE MAN) and much, much more within MEN of MYSTERY #81's 200-plus pages.     

Writer's and Artist's Names: Artists include Bob Powell, Howard Nostrand, Dick Briefer, Steve Ditko, Jack Kamen, Mo Marcus, Gene Fawcette, Wally Wood, Harry Harrison, Dick Ayers and Joe Kubert. Cover by Howard Nostrand.
Format: Standard comic book size; saddle-stitched- ULTRA-THICK 140-page format. Black & white interiors with color covers.
Synopsis: Classic reprints of the grisliest 1950's precode comic book stories, including "River of Blood", "The Vampire Legion", "The Painted Beast", "The Last Man", and more than a dozen more, as drawn by masters of the macabre including Powell, Nostrand, Wood, Fawcette, Ayers, Ditko and Briefer!! 140 pages filled with weird, vintage horror!!.
Special Notes: This second EXTRA-THICK issue of Crypt of Horror boasts work by some of 1950's comicdoms' best artists, including FOUR stories by the great Bob Powell, plus one more by his top protege' (and this issue's cover artist) Howard Nostrand, spooky contributions from EC masters of horror Jack Kamen AND Wally Wood, as well as a tale highlighting the clean, streamlined artwork of Gene Fawcette. In addition to the usual anthology horror stories, this volume of COH showcases two of the 1950's very best horror-related ongoing series, with multiple examples of each. First, Dick Briefer's take on the timeless Mary Shelly creation, with a pair of Frankenstein stories originally published in his Prize Comics title: "The Monster's Mate", and "The Lady And The Monster". Then, it's supernatural surrealities in the Old West with Dick Ayer's Haunted Horseman in "The Ghost of Long John", "Skull House" and "Give The Devil His Due!" No true student of the precode horror comic book movement of the 1950's can be without this book!!     

Writer: Eric Lindberg. Artists: Rock Baker, Jeff Austin, Luis Alonzo, Mark and Stephanie Heike
Format: Standard comic book size, perfect-bound trade paperback, 92 pages; black & white with color covers.
Intended Audience: All-ages fans of light-hearted fantasy with a glamorous, "good girl art" pin-up style focus.
Synopsis: Something different- part comedy, part romance, part fantasy adventure, ALL "good girl art" extravaganza!! The saga of ROWENA, a beautiful, misunderstood giantess in a Medieval neverworld! She battles the pompous knight Sir Hubert, and loses her heart to the normal-sized Cedric. Compiles the entire FEMFORCE #144-150 serial PLUS one new chapter!!
Special Notes: Author-creator Eric Lindberg initially produced a series of ROWENA text stories online that created a substantial following. Brought to life visually through the efforts of the whimsically expressive, yet glamorous artwork of Rock Baker, the comic book version of ROWENA became an increasingly popular serial running within the pages of FEMFORCE over the past two years, despite the fact that its tone and approach is VERY different from the rest of the book. More a lighthearted story of character interplay in a vintage folk-tale type of setting. Despite her towering size, the beautiful ROWENA is a gentle, peace-loving creature, unlike the rest of her human-stomping "Earthborn" brethren. Simply trying to go her own way at peace with her world, she must defend herself from the dragon-slaying knight Sir Hubert (whose respect she begrudgingly earns) and eventually falls in love with Hubert's normal-sized kitchen assistant, Cedric. Through the course of the story, she becomes the oversized defender of the tiny village of Appleton, convinces MOST of her economy-sized family to leave the "tiny humans" alone for awhile, and marries Cedric!! This graphic novel compiles the first 9 episodes of the serial that appeared in the Gargantarama - The Comic Book portion of FEMFORCE over the last two years, PLUS one all-new, never-before-seen story/episode in the saga created especially for this book, plus pin-ups and unused covers, also never previously seen.     

Writer's and Artist's Names: Writers include Len Strazewski, Eric Lindberg, Mark G. Heike, Stephanie Sanderson-Heike, Mauricio Hunt, Eric Johnson, David Watkins. Artists include Jeff Austin, Scott Larson, Rock Baker, Mark Glidden, Adriano Vicente Santos, Jerry Loomis, Giancarlo Caracuzzi, Richard Scott, and Eric Nelson.
Format: Standard comic book size, DOUBLE-THICK 84 page length; black & white interiors with color covers; saddle-stitched WITH a 30-minute, live-action STORMY TEMPEST/FEMFORCE DVD disc included in each copy.
Intended Audience: All-ages fans who like Silver-Age superheroics as well as classic "good girl" art, and video fans of glamorous superheroine action.
Synopsis: While NIGHTVEIL battles multiple demons & SYNNS' powers go haywire, MS. VICTORY must contend with SHE-CATS' romance with her cloned son and learn the secret of a rogue European mercenary. Plus- A new STORMY TEMPEST series by fan-favorite writer Len Strazewski AND a FREE DVD previewing TWO STORMY TEMPEST movies!!
Special Notes: The new SUPER-SIZED , 84-page Femforce series rolls on with even more excitement this issue!! As if a graphic novel's worth of great art & story featuring comicdom's longest-running team of super-powered glamour girls is not enough, (not to mention more of Mauricio Hunt's teen superheoine, Kinetics) one of this issue's backup features is the debut of a new series starring STORMY TEMPEST!! Stormy was a long-ago heroine created by Bill Black during his PARAGON PUBLICATIONS line in the 1970's, who has recently entered Femforce continuity as somewhat of a menace ( FF #'s 144-150), but who will break out in her own solo adventures within the pages of Femforce starting with this issue. The architect of the ST series is none other than popular comics scribe LEN STRAZEWSKI (acclaimed for his writing on The Justice League in the 1990's, among many other features) teaming up here with hot new art discovery Scott Larson for an ongoing serial to appear in every issue of FF. Not only that, but Stormy is moving into other media as well, as every fan who purchases a copy of FF #152 will see. Included in the comic book, at NO extra charge, will be a live-action DVD preview of not one but TWO STORMY TEMPEST films currently in production with creator/writer/publisher/producer Bill Black's Smarty Pants Entertainment; "STORMY TEMPEST: ATTACK OF THE GIANTESS" and "STORMY TEMPEST-PERILS IN THE PAST", as well as other big-as-life movie productions starring NIGHTVEIL, SYNN, BLUE BULLETEER, GARGANTA, NYOKA the JUNGLE GIRL and more, all in stunning live-action. Adding all this to an already jam-packed entertainment package makes FEMFORCE #152 now more than ever- the biggest entertainment value in comics!! And, as always, Femforce #152 will be backed up by it's popular flip-book feature, GARGANTARAMA- THE COMIC BOOK, issue #15 this go-around; as always showcasing the BEST in GTS comic-book features!!