Lost Marvels No. 2: Howard Chaykin Vol. 1: Dominic Fortune, Monark Starstalker, and Phantom Eagle

Lost Marvels No. 2: Howard Chaykin Vol. 1: Dominic Fortune, Monark Starstalker, and Phantom Eagle

Collected as part of our new Lost Marvels series, collaboratively produced with Marvel Comics, this new Howard Chaykin-centered volume of smartly imaginative scripts and beautifully designed art features Dominic Fortune, Monark Starstalker, and Phantom Eagle! 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. Full-color illustrations throughout "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 "While he may always be best known for books like American Flagg and Black Kiss , Howard Chaykin has also enjoyed a prolific career at Marvel Comics dating back to the early '70s. Fantagraphics is celebrating that Marvel work with the release of the second volume in their ongoing Lost Marvels series." ― IGN "This new Howard Chaykin-centered volume is bursting at the seams with smartly imaginative scripts and beautifully designed art featuring Dominic Fortune, Monark Starstalker, and Phantom Eagle!" ― Geek Vibes Nation "These stories span from 1975 to 2008 and show how Chaykin never really stopped pissing off the right people." ― Boing Boing "It blows my mind that Fantagraphics is reprinting Marvel Max era content. Never thought that would happen, but I'm glad they are... This is a really great collection. Absolutely love the way it looks." ― Taylor Talks Comics "I’m happy that these interesting, gritty books have been collected by Fantagraphics. Howard Chaykin has had ups and downs (just ask him), but he’s been a constant source of idiosyncratic interest in the American comic scene. I’m glad to see his work, from any era, making it into a prestigious collection" ― Cinema Sentries "I can’t get enough of Fantagraphics’ Lost Marvels hardcover graphic novels! This series of graphic novels is collecting notable works by seminal talents at Marvel Comics that have never been collected before." ― Comic Watch 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.