Posted By Dan Greenfield on Oct 9, 2015 | 1 comment

Kubert! Kirby! Kanigher! Heath! Severin! Toth!

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We’re huge fans of IDW’s archives series and today they’re announcing a big one, due out in the coming months:

Here’s the official info:

The Best of DC War Artist’s Edition

Robert Kanigher, various (w) • Russ Heath, Jack Kirby, Joe Kubert, John Severin & Alex Toth (a) • Joe Kubert (c)

DC Comics produced some of the very finest war comics ever, and by some of the best artists in the field. This spectacular Artist’s Edition will include an amazing selection of stories by the best of the best: Heath, Kirby, Kubert, Severin, and Toth—a veritable pantheon of classic war artists doing what they do best. As with all Artist’s Editions, these complete stories are scanned from the original art work and reproduced to the exacting standards that has garnered IDW five consecutive Eisner Awards for the Artist’s Edition series. If you are a fan of Classic DC war comics you cannot afford to miss this incredible book!

HC • BW • 160 Pages • 12” x 17” 

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We’ve been doing quite a bit on IDW’s archival work of late. Check out these previous stories:

— IDW prez Greg Goldstein about the Artist’s Editions, with a special eye on what’s to come in the series. (Click here.)

— The FIRST LOOK at Herb Trimpe’s Incredible Hulk Artist’s Edition. (Click here.)

— The FIRST LOOK at Joe Kubert’s The Return of Tarzan Artist’s Edition. (Click here.)

— Goldstein and Craig Yoe discuss the past, present and future of Yoe Books, with the FIRST LOOK at Kelley Jones’ portrait of Don Heck for the forthcoming Horror by Heck. (Click here.)