Posted By Dan Greenfield on Mar 23, 2024 | 2 comments

Roy Thomas’ Alter Ego has four issues to take you into summer next year…

Alter Ego’s got a quartet of fancy, newly scheduled issues to inform and entertain you coming in 2025 — with spotlights on Neal Adams, Superman and more.

Dig the official descriptions from Two Morrows, below. Each issue will be available at comics shops and magazine sellers but you can already pre-order them directly from the publisher. Check out the links with each entry. (Precise sale dates are subject to change.)

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ALTER EGO #192

84 Full-Color Pages

If you thought there was a super-hero shortage in comics between All-Star #57 and Showcase #4—Mark Carlson-Ghost says to think again! In Alter Ego #192, witness the mid-1950s super-hero revival featuring The Human Torch, Captain America, Sub-Mariner, Fighting American, The Avenger, Strongman, Nature Boy, Black Cobra, Phantom Lady, The Flame, Samson, Wonder Boy, Tomboy, and Captain Flash—with art by John Romita, John Buscema, Bill Everett, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, Mike Sekowsky, Mort Meskin, Bob Powell, and other comicbook great! Plus Fawcett Collectors of America, Michael T. Gilbert in Mr. Monster’s Comic Crypt, and more! Edited by Roy Thomas.

Sale date: Feb. 19, 2025. Click here to pre-order.

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ALTER EGO #193

84 Full-Color Pages

Alter Ego #193 features “Drawn to Greatness”, the lavishly illustrated story of the Golden and Silver Age Superman artists who followed in Joe Shuster’s boot-steps! It’s an abridgement of the super-rare book by Eddy Zeno—showcasing the likes of Wayne Boring, Paul Cassidy, Fred Ray, Jack Burnley, John Sikela, Leo Nowak, Win Mortimer, and others, with appreciations by Ordway, Kupperberg, Isabella, Jurgens, Waid, Macchio, Neary, Nowlan, Eury, Thomas, and others! Plus Fawcett Collectors of America, Michael T. Gilbert in Mr. Monster’s Comic Crypt, and more! Edited by Roy Thomas.

Sale date: April 23, 2025. Click here to pre-order.

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ALTER EGO #194

84 Full-Color Pages

In Alter Ego #194, Rascally Roy Thomas celebrates 60 years in comics at Marvel, DC, et al.! There’s a career-spanning, surprise-filled interview by Alex Grand, still more early-2000s Spider-Man comic strip e-mails to Roy from Stan Lee, the full secret history of the creation of Wolverine, RT’s 1960s fan-letters to Julius Schwartz, and his top dozen stories compiled by John Cimino! With amazing art by Buscema, Kane, Adams, Windsor-Smith, Colan, Ordway, Buckler, and many others! All this, plus FCA and Mr. Monster’s Comic Crypt, behind a Roy the Boy and Wolverine cover by Tony Gray! Edited by Roy Thomas.

Sale date: June 18, 2025. Click here to pre-order.

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ALTER EGO #195

84 Full-Color Pages

Alter Ego #195 is Neal Adams revisited! Incredible interviews by Alex Grand and Bill Field, as well as Emilio Soltera—and an awesome overview of Neal’s merchandising art for Marvel and DC Comics and in other fields, conducted by James Rosen. Plus a treasure trove of Adams art, as inked by Tom Palmer, Dick Giordano, John Verpoorten, George Roussos, Joe Sinnott, Tony DeZuniga, and others! With Fawcett Collectors of America, Michael T. Gilbert in Mr. Monster’s Comic Crypt, and more! Edited by Roy Thomas.

Sale date: Aug. 20, 2025. Click here to pre-order.

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Not only that, our pals at TwoMorrows would like you to know what else is going on right now:

TwoMorrows is having a 30% off 30th Anniversary Sale, now through March 30!

• Alter Ego #107-185 and Back Issue #101-148 are 30% off!
• Kirby Collector #60-88 and Comic Book Creator #5-32 are 30% off!
• RetroFan #3-30 are 30% off (first time ever discounted)!
• BrickJournal #3-49 are $2.10 each (some digital also!), newer ones 30% off!
• Draw! magazines just $3.50 each (some digital also)!
• 30% off in-stock books (several under $10 each)!
• Modern Masters books just $4.20 each!
• And most items that were already discounted, get an additional 30% off!

You can download their new Catalog Update, listing all the new and upcoming items, here.

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MORE

— CRISIS, GIFFEN Tributes Lead Next Wave of BACK ISSUE Magazines Into 2025. Click here.

— RETROFAN Adds Two Titles to 2025 Line-Up. Click here.