Infantino! Buscema! Colan! Stevens! Wein! MORE!
Jon B. Cooke’s Comic Book Creator can always be counted on to bring you ridiculously deep dives into the careers of the industry’s top talents. But Jon and publisher TwoMorrows are stepping it up with six new issues that feature some of the Silver and Bronze Ages’ absolute best, including Carmine Infantino, John Buscema, Gene Colan, Len Wein and Dave Stevens, plus the stalwart Pat Broderick.
The issues 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.)
Dig the official descriptions of the six issues, added to TwoMorrows’ 2025 and 2026 schedules:
COMIC BOOK CREATOR #40
Behind a previously unpublished cover, CBC #40 celebrates the life and art of the great Dave Stevens in a special double-sized issue completely devoted to the late artist! For this deluxe issue, friends, fans, and family share testimonials, photos, and fascinating artifacts, plus a gallery of amazing artwork by the Rocketeer creator, some never before seen. There’s also three interviews with Dave conducted by CBC editor Jon B. Cooke, two Q+A’s with Dave by guest associate editor Steven C. Ringgenberg, and Jeff Gelb’s conversation with the artist recorded during the making of The Rocketeer motion picture. Dave’s sister Jennifer Bawcum shares about her brother in an exclusive chat, and we also interview some of Dave’s closest friends, including Michael W. Kaluta, about their memories of the man. Plus: a conversation with Kelvin Mao, the director of the 2022 film documentary, Dave Stevens: Drawn To Perfection, about making the movie and its recent success on streaming services, which has resulted in an entirely new generation of Dave Stevens fans. And, of course, no such tribute would be complete without a heartfelt salute to America’s sweetheart Bettie Page!
Sale date: Aug. 27, 2025. Click here to pre-order.
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COMIC BOOK CREATOR #41
From his earliest days at DC to creation of Swamp Thing and Wolverine to his subsequent successes, Len Wein is the subject of CBC #41, when we examine in detail the life of a comic book writer, plus look at his editorial stints as Marvel and DC, the latter where he worked with Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons to help facilitate Watchmen. There’s also an interview with Jay Scott Pike about his creation of Dolphin (and co-creating Jann of the Jungle) and his long career as DC romance artist and subsequent gig as pin-up girl artist. Plus: “The Death Of Will Eisner’s P*S”, the sad demise of the Army’s Preventive Maintenance magazine! Part two of our Steve Willis profile! And Shaun Clancy reveals the saga of Adrian Lopez’s Harpoon/Apple Pie humor mags! Featuring a spectacular Frank Cho cover, and edited by Jon B. Cooke!
Sale date: Oct. 22, 2025. Click here to pre-order.
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COMIC BOOK CREATOR #42
CBC #42 features Pat Broderick, in two — count ’em, two! — interviews by CBC editors, where he shares about a varied career bouncing between DC Comics and Marvel, starting as DC junior bullpen contest winner in the early ’70s, hitch as a Continuity Crusty Bunker, unforgettable work on Firestorm, Micronauts, and Captain Marvel, creation of “Creature Commandos,” and life to date as a professional stalwart toiling in and out of the mainstream. Plus we recount the humiliating return of Jack Kirby to Marvel in the ’70s in Ye Ed’s “A King Betrayed.” And speaking of battles, we also present an amazing campaign comic book artifact from the 1940s about a KKK-crushing district attorney, Fighting Lawyer! Additionally, there’s our Paul Buhle profile about one radical academic comics editor you need to know about, as well as the first half of our Shary Flenniken interview about her runaway youth, stint in the Air Pirates, and start with Trots ’n Bonnie at National Lampoon. We include a look at a batch of kinchy super-heroes created in 1972 by Wrightson, Reese, Windsor-Smith, and others for Esquire magazine. There’s also all the usual contributor goodies and Hembeck, too! Edited by Jon B. Cooke.
Sale date: Dec. 17, 2025. Click here to pre-order.
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COMIC BOOK CREATOR #43
“Big” John Buscema basks in the spotlight of CBC #43, with a one-on-one interview with the legendary artist conducted by editor Jon B. Cooke — where the Marvel stalwart reveals the moment when comics broke his heart — plus a in-depth biographical essay on the artist along with a gallery of his fabled behind-the-original-art pages amazing “warm up” artwork. Hearing from those who knew him, we examine the curious life, eclectic career, and tragic fate of prolific ’70s/’80s Marvel scripter Bill Mantlo, co-creator of Rocket Raccoon and Cloak and Dagger. Also, the fascinating, inside tale of Eastern Color Printing, earliest publisher of American comic books, the first collaboration in an occasional series by historian/researcher Shaun Clancy and Jon B. Cooke. There’s also part two of our lively Shary Flenniken interview, creator of Trots ’n’ Bonnie, about her charming cartooning for National Lampoon. And we include Stephen Fears’ interview with the great (and underrated) cartoonist Ric Estrada about his varied career, as well as a look at Bazooka Joe comics… and Hembeck, too!
Sale date: Feb. 25, 2026. Click here to pre-order.
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COMIC BOOK CREATOR #44
The great Flash and “Adam Strange” artist, Carmine Infantino, gets the treatment in CBC #44 with both a comprehensive “Nuff Said” radio interview conducted by Ken Gale and Ed Menje, plus an essay by editor Jon B. Cooke on the artist’s tumultuous stint as DC editorial director and publisher, a period which brought out the absolute best at the company and some of its worst. We also feature an incredible account, R.K. in the U.K., about writer/editor legend Robert Kanigher’s late-in-life love affair with comics fandom in the British Isles… (well, at least his candid 1989 conversations with late Brit fans Steve Whitaker and Tim Bateman!) We also get a peek behind the 50-year history of the greatest comics anthology you know nothing about, World War 3 Illustrated, with founders Peter Kuper and Seth Tobocman, and also examine the work of Dave Cockrum on those “Aurora Comics Scenes” model kit pamphlets of the 1970s. We start Glen Cadigan’s three-part interview with Joe Hill, horror comics writer and certain “Son of King”! Oh, and, of course, Fred Hembeck, natch!
Sale date: April 22, 2026. Click here to pre-order.
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COMIC BOOK CREATOR #45
“Gentleman Gene” is showcased in our Gene Colan: Without A Net headlining feature in CBC #45, featuring the participation of Tom Field as we include a wonderful 75th birthday celebration of the artist at San Diego Comic-Con back in 2001, featuring some special guests. So you think you know the craziest lunatic in comics history? Think again, as we, with the help of onetime employee Mark Wheatley, spotlight gunslinging Myron Fass and his nutty Heavy Metal rip-off, Gasm! There’s also an account of editor Jon B. Cooke’s visit to the ambitious (albeit shortlived) Florida-based comics publisher, all-in-one Crossgen, then at the crossroads and facing collapse. The first portion of the Good Girls cartoonist Carol Lay’s interview is included, where we discuss her jumping between underground, alternative, and mainstream comics. Plus there’s Joe Hill part deux, as well as Shaun Clancy’s brief though absolutely fascinating look at Hillman Periodicals, publisher of Crime Does Not Pay and Airboy. (And, as always, Hembeck is in the house!)
Sale date: June 24, 2026. Click here to pre-order.
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