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AVENGERS WEST COAST EPIC COLLECTION: LOST IN SPACE-TIME [NEW PRINTING] Paperback – 26 December 2023
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- Print length488 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherMarvel
- Publication date26 December 2023
- Dimensions16.81 x 1.93 x 25.86 cm
- ISBN-101302950584
- ISBN-13978-1302950583
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From a start at short-lived Atlas/Seaboard, Danny Fingeroth moved to Marvel to edit multiple Spider-Man titles; and write for Avengers, Dazzler and What If? During the 1990s, he scripted all fifty issues of Darkhawk, as well as Spider-Man's Deadly Foes and Lethal Foes miniseries. Leaving Marvel in 1995, he became Virtual Comics' editor in chief, and then Visionary Media's senior vice president for creative production; he has also taught comic-book writing courses at select universities. In the prose field, he has written several nonfiction books about the comic-book field, as well as children's books on noted actors.
Al Milgrom, A.K.A. "Editori-Al," is renowned as writer, editor, penciler and inker - and held most of those positions on Spectacular Spider-Man. He also contributed to SSM's sibling Amazing Spider-Man. He pencilled West Coast Avengers for four years and inked X-Factor for eight. His artwork has also appeared in Avengers, Captain America, Thor and most X-titles, including the classic Kitty Pryde and Wolverine. As editor, he oversaw Marvel's Epic imprint and the sixty-issue run of Marvel Fanfare, where his satirical self-portraits made his face as recognizable as any super hero's mask. At DC, he co-created Firestorm the Nuclear Man with Gerry Conway.
Formerly a regular artist on Solo Avengers, as well as West Coast, Mark Bright is noted for working with writer Christopher Priest on Falcon, Power Man and Iron Fist, Quantum and Woody and other titles. He has also drawn Marvel's incarnation of G.I. Joe and several DC flagship characters in Action Comics Weekly, Batman and Green Lantern.
Steve Ditko (1927 - 2018) began his comics career in the anthologies of the 1950s, where his unique style and perspective quickly earned recognition and respect. Recruited to join Stan Lee's Atlas Comics, later Marvel, in 1958, his nuances contrasted well with Jack Kirby's bombast. In 1962, in the pages of Amazing Fantasy, Ditko and Lee brought to life Peter Parker, the Amazing Spider-Man, changing the industry forever. Leaving Marvel in 1966, he drew Blue Beetle and Captain Atom for Charlton, Creeper and Shade the Changing Man for DC, and his independent effort Mr. A. Ditko returned to Marvel during the late 1970s and remained for much of the 1980s, co-creating Speedball, Squirrel Girl and other characters who would prove of unexpected importance in Marvel's later years.
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- Publisher : Marvel (26 December 2023)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 488 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1302950584
- ISBN-13 : 978-1302950583
- Dimensions : 16.81 x 1.93 x 25.86 cm
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About the author
Born in Indianapolis, he went to Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. He studied Psychology because people fascinated him, but in getting his B.A. he learned that psychology didn't describe real people, so he became a writer.
Living the Young Creator's life in New York, he got to be drinking buddies with an editorial assistant at Marvel Comics. One night the e.a. called to say he was going on vacation for six weeks; would Steve like to fill in for him on staff? Steve would, and once in the door at what was then a very small operation, he got a shot at writing a comic. It was a failing series called Captain America -- but six months later it had become Marvel's leading seller, and Steve had all the work he could handle. He became Marvel's lead writer, adding The Hulk, The Avengers, Thor, Dr. Strange, and half a dozen other series. Then he was hired away by DC Comics to be their lead writer and revamp their core characters (Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, and Green Lantern). He did, but also wrote a solo Batman series that readers dubbed the "definitive" version and broke the long-standing barrier between comics readers and the mass market. All comics films since Batman in 1989 stem from that.
After Batman he traveled around Europe for a year and wrote his first novel, The Point Man. Since then he's designed video games for Atari, Activision, Electronic Arts, and others. He's written animation for Street Fighter and G.I. Joe. He's written mid-grade books for Avon, including the DNAgers series, and Countdown to Flight, a biography of the Wright brothers selected by NASA as the basis for their school programs on the invention of the aeroplane. And he's written more comics, like Fantastic Four and Silver Surfer, which led to the San Diego Comic-Con calling him "comics' most successful writer, having had more hits with more characters at more companies than anyone else in comics history." He created The Night Man, which became a live-action television series.
Most recently, The Point Man has engendered a series of novels from Tor, beginning with The Long Man.
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Although Hawkeye remains the leader of the WACOs, the 17 issues collected here revolve largely around three characters - Tigra, Hank Pym and Mockingbird. In a continuation from the first volume, Tigra continues to be torn between her human and animalistic sides, going to drastic lengths to resolve the situation; it's an arc that reaches its conclusion here - in typically bombastic Marvel style, it involves a demonic city of cat-people as much as it does Tigra's inner struggle.
Hank Pym's arc is a bravura roller-coaster of emotional turmoil as, at his lowest ebb, he considers suicide. The issue in which he readies himself to carry this out is stunningly effective as he puts his effects in order and makes peace with the people in his life one more time; it feels like a natural progression of everything he had been through in the main Avengers book, and is extremely well handled.
Finally, Mockingbird's storyline, involving a trip to the old west and the mysterious Phantom Rider, is no less intense, seeing Bobbi put through hell in a plot that would have dramatic consequences for her and her place in the team. These three character foci form the backbone around which this volume's adventures are structured, including their continuing battle against Master Pandemonium and the titular trip through time and space, a plotline that only becomes more impressive and exciting as it goes on, splitting into more and more concurrent time periods.
Together with two annual issues crossing the book over with the 'main' Avengers, this is a pretty packed book. Extras include a promotional story from the Marvel Age annual, unused cover art, two pages of original art by Steve Ditko and Mark Bright, and the cover to the first two AWC omnibus volumes, the Family Ties hardcover, the Sins of the Past hardcover, and the Lost in Space-Time hardcover. A great collection that really shows off the West Coast team to their best effect.