Writer's and Artist's Names: Writers include Mark & Stephanie Heike, Eric Johnson, Eric Lindberg and Rock Baker; artists include Heike, Baker, Jeff Austin, Scott Larson and Manny Mederos. Cover by Mike Machlan.
Intended Audience: All-ages readers who like Silver Age-style superheroics as well as fans of classic "good girl" art.
Format: Standard comic book size and format, 44 pages, saddle-stitched; black & white interiors with color covers.
Synopsis: While NIGHTVEIL tries to rally MS. VICTORY, SYNN and TARA against a terrible interdimensional threat and STORMY TEMPEST plots assassination, a powerless SHE-CAT leads an incursion into a mummy-infested Egyptian tomb, with FIREBEAM and MISS MASQUE in tow. PLUS- giantess adventures with ROWENA and DINOSAUR GIRL.
Special Notes: More major plot threads leading to the big 150th issue unfold here, as the readers begin to learn where a certain missing FF member has been - and why she's been there. Two more new artists join the FEMFORCE family this issue with their first published renditions of the FF beauties- renowned indy comics creator Manny Mederos, and commercial illustrator Scott Larson.   

Writer's and Artist's Names: Writers include Otto Binder, Joe Millard, Abner Sundell and Steve Douglas. Artists include Ben Thompson, Phil Bard, Harry Lucey and Charles Quinlan. Cover by Mike Machlan.
Intended Audience: All-ages fans of Golden Age reprint material, art aficionados, comics historians, and fans of classic action, adventure and superhero material of all kinds.
Format: Standard comic book size, extra-thick 68-pages saddle-stitched design; black & white interiors with color covers.
Synopsis: Another fine selection reprinting Golden Age tales combining the era's most popular features like Fawcett's BULLETMAN in "The Man Who Was Death", MINUTE MAN "Meets Victory Vampire" and SPY SMASHER with examples of ultra-rarities from other publishers including MUSIC MASTER, MAN O' METAL, The BANSHEE, QUEEN OF EVIL and VOLTON.
Special Notes: With seemingly every publisher jumping onto the Golden Age bandwagon these days, be it with revivals of actual 1940's characters or vintage reprints, it's getting harder and harder to find something unique to appeal to those interested in this type of material- but THIS issue boasts a full FOUR features that have not been seen or reprinted anywhere since the early 1940's, in MUSIC MASTER, BANSHEE, QUEEN of EVIL and VOLTON. Interested fans can see some really unique approaches to the superhero genre here.   

Writer's and Artist's Names: Writers include Bill Woolfolk, Robert Turner, Ed Cronin and France Herron; artists include Jim Mooney, Bernie Klein, H. C. Keifer, Paul Gustavson and Reed Crandall.
Intended Audience: All-ages fans of Golden Age reprint material, art aficionados, comics historians, and fans of classic action, adventure and superhero material of all kinds.
Format: Standard comic book size, extra-thick 68-page saddle-stitched design; black & white interiors with color covers.
Synopsis: Quality Comics is back in the spotlight this issue featuring 8 never-before-reprinted stories headlining luminaries like cover star MANHUNTER, JESTER, DOLLMAN, WILDFIRE, T-MAN, QUICKSILVER and THREE Quality stalwarts making their first-ever MOM appearance-The UNKNOWN, RED TORPEDO and MARKSMAN!! Art by Mooney, Gustavson, Klein, Crandall and others !!
Special Notes: The company name of "Quality" was considered appropriate for the Golden Age publishing house spotlighted in this month's issue of Men of Mystery, as publisher Everett M. Arnold refused to hire anybody but the best & most polished artists in the business. Many of comicdom's most prestigious stars came to prominence drawing books for Quality, but some equally-talented individuals among this companies' illustrators are little-remembered today. Men of Mystery #78 showcases three of them. MANHUNTER artist Reed Crandall would be the best-known of the three, likely due to his involvement with the storied EC Comics line of the 1950's. By 1970, he was out of comics completely, and died a few years later. JESTER and QUICKSILVER illustrator Paul Gustavson was extremely prolific, and one of the early "art stars" of comics; drawing dozens of popular features not only for Quality, but at Timely, Centaur, Novelty Press, and a host of other publishers. Unfortunately, he died in the 1950's; long before organized comic fandom existed, hence has never been given his due. Penciler on The UNKNOWN, Bernie Klein was the most tragic of all- a friend, contemporary and peer of greats like Jerry Robinson, Mort Meskin & George Roussos in the earliest days of the comics, he died serving his country in World War II, without amassing a body of work large enough to show how talented he really was.   

Writer's and Artist's Names: Writers include Ray Krank, Paul S. Newman and Gardner Fox; artists include Maxwell Elkan, Jack Abel, John Severin, Will Elder, Frank Bolle and Dick Ayers.
Intended Audience: All-ages fans of classic action, adventure and B-Western material of all kinds.
Format: Standard comic book size, extra-thick 68-page saddle-stitched design; black & white interiors with color covers.
Synopsis: Another EXTRA-LENGTH, 68-page package of vintage Western comic book classics never before reprinted!! All your favorites including The HAUNTED HORSEMAN in "Silent Witness", REDMASK in "Path of Peril"; DURANGO KID, BLACK DIAMOND, and BLACK BULL!! Plus- FIRST-TIME features The CROSS-DRAW KID, MASKED RANGER and SHERIFF SAL!!
Special Notes: This showcase of the very best Western features of the Golden Age continues, this issue bringing readers not only more stories displaying the artwork of the masters of the genre like Dick Ayers, Frank Bolle, John Severin and Will Elder, but introducing THREE features never previously seen in Best of the West- including SHERIFF SAL, one of the rare female Western stars; The MASKED RANGER, seen here in "Mystery of the Masked Ranger"; the character's origin; from Masked Ranger #1. Also, the first appearance of The CROSS-DRAW KID- in the story "Six-Gun Justice", from Western Adventures #1. CROSS-DRAW is illustrated by Maxwell Elkin, a little-heralded artist from comic's early days who was extremely talented and deserving of wider notice. .   

Writer's and Artist's Names: Writers include Mark Heike, Enrico Teodorani and Stephanie Sanderson Heike. Artists include Giampaolo Frizzi, Mark Heike, Aurelio Mazzara, Jeff Austin, Rock Baker, Luigi Giordano, Stephanie Sanderson Heike, Dennis Chacon and Antonio Gerardo Ceglia. Cover by Steph & Mark Heike.
Intended Audience: All-ages readers who like Silver-Age style superheroics as well as fans of classic "good girl" art.
Format: Standard comic book size and format, 44 pages saddle-stitched; black & white interiors with full color covers.
Synopsis: "Nighthunt!!" A string of brutal maulings has MS. VICTORY and SHE-CAT on the trail of PRYDE. But what if she's NOT the perpetrator? While STORMY TEMPEST still remains at large, NIGHTVEIL returns to warn TARA and SYNN about an immanent inter-dimensional invasion, still unaware of the invader's tragic captive.
Special Notes: A trio of talented young Italian pencilers provide artwork on the FF this go-around, Giampaulo Frizzi, Aurelio Mazzara and Luigi Giordano, while the flip-book feature this issue, GARGANTARAMA- THE COMIC BOOK #10 brings continuing installments in the sagas of DINOSAUR GIRL and the medieval giantess ROWENA, plus the return of the towering super heroine known as THREETA- featuring dynamic artwork by new penciling discovery Dennis Chacon.

Writer's and Artist's Names: Writers include Gardner Fox, Ray Krank and William Overgard. Artists include Dick Ayers,William Overgard, Clive Bleek, Frank Bolle and Joe Certa. Cover by Dick Ayers.
Intended Audience: All-ages fans of classic action, adventure and B-Western material of all kinds.
Format: Standard comic book size and format, extra-thick 68-page saddle-stitched design; black & white interiors with full color covers.
Synopsis: 68-page collection of Western reprint classics, including Dick Ayers's HAUNTED HORSEMAN in "The Beautiful Witch", LATIGO KID; William Overgard's BLACK DIAMOND in "Black Diamond Buried Alive!!", DURANGO KID in "Hangman's Law", art by Joe Certa; Frank Bolle's REDMASK in "The Frozen Gold"; MASKED MARVEL in "Murder At Dry Gulch", and more!!   

Writer's and Artist's Names: Writers include Bill Woolfolk, Otto Binder, Toni Blum and France Herron. Artists include Lou Fine, John Spranger, Leonard Franks, Joe Doolin, Charles Quinlan and Phil Bard
Intended Audience: All-ages fans of Golden Age reprint material, art aficionados, comics historians, and fans of classic action, adventure and superhero material of all kinds.
Format: Standard comic book size, extra-thick 68-page saddle-stitched design; black & white interiors with color covers.
Synopsis: DOLLMAN in "Friends Fighting Against Him!"; LADY LUCK; CAT-MAN; MAJOR MIDNIGHT in "Life Of The Shark";The FLAME ( art by LOU FINE!! ); MYSTA and "MR. SCARLET And The Wolfmen Of The West!!". A superb selection of never-before-reprinted superhero stories from FIVE Golden Age Publishers!! Full stories- highest quality.
Special Notes: Another "All-Star" anthology issue, featuring some of the biggest stars and most-long-lasting features from a number of now-defunct Golden Age companies. DOLLMAN ran for 14 years and LADY LUCK was around almost 10 at Quality Comics, 'MIDNIGHT and MR. SCARLET ran 7 years for Fawcett; CAT-MAN and The FLAME ran for the entire existence of (respectively) Holyoke/ Continental Publications and Fox Features (in their original incarnation, anyway), and MYSTA was the star of Fiction House Pubs' Planet Comics for years. No fillers, losers or also-rans in THIS issue of MOM!!

Writer's and Artist's Names: Writers include Bob Kanigher, France Herron, Bob Turner & Abner Sundell. Artists include Will Eisner, Bob Powell, George Tuska, Klaus Nordling, Sam Cooper, Al Carreno, Pierce Rice & Arturo Cazeneuve.
Intended Audience: All-ages fans of Golden Age reprint material, art aficionados, comics historians, and fans of classic action, adventure and superhero material of all kinds.
Format: Standard comic book size, super-thick 104-page saddle-stitched format; black & white interiors with full color covers. It features 86 pages of never-previously-reprinted material, and 18 pages that have been previously presented in other AC reprint books.
Synopsis: Complete facsimile reprint of Fox Feature's #1 issue of Big Three Comics (Fall, 1940) starring The FLAME, BLUE BEETLE and SAMSON- plus 40 additional pages of Fox stories, starring The GREEN MASK, COSMIC CARSON, DR DOOM, MOB-BUSTER ROBINSON, DR. FUNG, and YARKO!! Art by Eisner, Powell, Tuska and others!!
Special Notes: For years, fans of our reprint line have been asking us to produce a full, cover-to-cover recreation of a Golden Age book, including ads, back-ups and filler material, but we have always resisted, choosing instead to stick to our themed-anthology format that allows us to pick from the "best of the best" in terms of what we reprint. Recently, we ran across a copy of the first issue of Fox Feature's "all-star" anthology, Big Three Comics. It was designed as a showcase for three of the four best-selling & most popular superheroes in Fox Features line (circa 1940), The original BLUE BEETLE, The FLAME and SAMSON- so here we had an actual, full Golden Age comic book with nothing BUT "good stuff" in it, so we decided this was the time to accede to those facsimile reprint requests. We're including every interior page (plus the front cover) as seen in Big Three #1. But then we decided, that was NOT enough . Why not add a story featuring Fox's OTHER big star of the era, The GREEN MASK- so HE's here, in a story called "The Devil's Hatchet Men". Then, we thought, why not add in examples of some of the all-time great artists who started in comics with Fox, on characters & features, many that have NEVER been previously reprinted, even by US- so we added in a DR. FUNG story (drawn by Bob Powell) YARKO (by Will Eisner), MOB-BUSTER ROBINSON (by George Tuska), SPARK STEVENS (Klaus Nordling) plus COSMIC CARSON and DR. DOOM, and we had enough vintage Fox material for another huge issue of Golden Age Great Spotlight- so here it is- 11 stories in all (TWO starring The FLAME!!) featuring 10 different characters, including FIVE Fox strips featuring characters that AC has never previously reprinted !!   

Writer's and Artist's Names: Writers include Mark & Stephanie Heike, Eric Lindberg and Rock Baker. Artists include Mark Heike, Rock Baker and Jeff Austin.
Intended Audience: All-ages readers who like Silver Age-style superheroics as well as fans of classic "good girl" art.
Format: Standard comic-book size and format, 44 pages, saddle-stitched; black & white interiors with color covers.
Synopsis: NIGHTVEIL assembles a team of powerful paranormals to battle the inter dimensional OLD DARK GODS, with a disgruntled MS. VICTORY in tow. TARA and SHE-CAT are left behind to foil an assassination attempt by STORMY TEMPEST when the deadly, enigmatic PRYDE joins the fray. Tons of guest-stars this issue!!
Special Notes: Major FEMFORCE plotlines head towards their penultimate this issue, as the FF's cat-and-mouse game with STORMY TEMPEST reaches it's crescendo, dovetailing with the saga of SHE-CAT and her lost super-powers. The Armageddon-like battle between the NIGHTVEIL-led group of heroes and heroines against the demonic OLD DARK GODS will lead to the return of a lost FF great, and in general the stories lead into next issue's historic 150Th volume. In addition, the "flip-book" format second feature to the book, GARGATARAMA- The COMIC BOOK features episodes in the continuing GTS sagas of the gentle medieval giantess ROWENA, WWII-era economy-sized crime fighter DINOSAUR GIRL, and introduces a NEW heroine who battles giant monsters eye-to-eye to save a teaming metropolitan area, the beautiful yet demonic bat-winged giantess known as... INFERNA!!! Fans of super-females in action should love BOTH halves of this book- FEMFORCE #149 and GARGANTARAMA- The COMIC BOOK #12!!!  

Writer's and Artist's Names: Cover art by Mike Machlan; writers include Richard Hughes, Bill Woolfolk, France Herron and Otto Binder ; artists include Bob Fujitani, Leonard Frank, Jack Alderman, Al Bryant, Charles Sultan, Dan Barry, Kurt Schaffenberger, Charles Tomsey, Harry Anderson, Arturo Cazeneuve, Pierce Rice, Bob Webb, George Roussos, Ralph Mayo, Bernie Krigstein, Mike Sekowsky and Joe Certa.
Intended Audience: All-ages fans of Golden Age reprint material, art aficionados, comics historians, and fans of classic action, adventure and superhero material of all kinds.
Format: Standard comic book size; saddle-stitched- SUPER-THICK 116 pages, black & white interiors with color covers. Includes material previously seen in Men Of Mystery Comics #'s 54 and 71.
Synopsis: A Golden Age costumed superhero extravaganza, featuring 13 full stories!! Stars include: The EAGLE, The HOOD, MINUTE MAN, MAJOR MIDNIGHT, SHOCK GIBSON, IBIS, PHANTOM EAGLE, BULLETMAN, GOLDEN ARROW, BLACK TERROR, The TARGET and WONDER BOY!! Art by Fujitani, Barry, Schaffenberger, Krigstein, Sekowsky and more!! Top quality reprints of great vintage classics!!
Special Notes: Golden Age superheroes are "hot " these days- it seems whatever publisher isn't REVIVING them is reprinting the actual stories. Well, the people who did both FIRST, still do it BEST- and that's AC Comics. After 18 years of reprinting these greats of sequential storytelling, we have quite a library of stellar 1940's material, reprinted using our state-of-the-art technology, and this package is an excellent collection of re-edited stories from past efforts; sampled from NINE different now-defunct 1940's publishing houses. The stories in this collection are excellent, representative tales of top-selling star features of their day, like BLACK TERROR, SHOCK GIBSON, The TARGET, BULLETMAN and The EAGLE. True historians and casual readers alike will treasure this collection.