Hundreds of titles! Matt Baker! Bob Lubbers! Phantom Lady! Black Cat! MORE! PLUS: A 13 COVERS gallery!
There has never been a better time to be into comics history. There are so many ways to read old issues in so many formats, whether you’re talking omnibi, Epic Collections, DC Finest, high-end books, you name it.
It’s no secret that my favorite is the Facsimile Edition, a cover-to-cover reprint that allows you to experience a comic book in its original context.
So, when I hear about a project like this, it blows my mind: A California-based outfit called Pixelmon Media is launching a Kickstarter campaign March 17 that will give you the opportunity to purchase up to almost 500 Facsimile Editions of the most sought-after “Good Girl” comics of the Golden Age.
We’re talking artists like Matt Baker and Bob Lubbers, as well as famed titles like Phantom Lady, Planet Comics and tons more. Here’s the launch page for the appropriately named The Golden Age Good Girl Comic Book Facsimile Collection to get you pumped up.
The beauty of these — besides the art itself — is, like all Facsimile Editions, the opportunity to see inside classic issues that these days are typically slabbed and stored away.
For me to list all the available issues and their tiers would be something of all a fool’s errand, so again, click the Kickstarter link for the full rundown. Boiling it down, though, there are tiers highlighting Baker, Lubbers, Phantom Lady, horror, crime, jungle girls and romance books. There’s also a complete Harvey Black Cat Comics run.
Adding to the campaign’s luster is that so many of these issues are exceedingly scarce, such as Phantom Lady #16, #17, #19 and #23; Startling Comics #49; Startling Terror Tales #11; Seas Comics #4; Blue Beetle (Fox) #54; Eerie Comics (Avon 1947) #1; Underworld Crime #7; Cinderella Love #25, #29, and #26; All-Top Comics #16; Planet Comics #15; All-Pictures All-True Love Story #1; and the unnumbered 1950 Diary Secrets, from Superior.
(As a bonus, backers in the first 48 hours will be able to acquire a Facsimile Edition of the hard-to-find 1944 Speed Comics #35, from Harvey, with its especially lurid cover featuring Black Cat and Captain Freedom.)
Alex Schomburg
“True beauty personified is these Golden Age Good Girl Facsimile covers,” said Omar Spahi, CEO of Pixelmon Media. “We’re bringing our backers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to own these classics without having to pay Golden Age back-issue comic book prices. We’re really excited to share it.”
Now, the kicker to the Kickstarter: While not Golden Age prices, the tiers are not inexpensive, with the lowest at $149, featuring 10 of the most famous Good Girl books of them all. Tiers go as high as $1,499, depending on the category and the number of issues included. Again, check out the full list here.
Pixelmon says it has already prepared every cover image in the Kickstarter as a finished, print-ready file, and promises to have every interior finished before the end of the 30-day campaign, allowing for quick delivery.
“To prove it, go check out our Discord server, where we’re going to be showing the receipts for the curious,” Spahi said. “Join, there’s going to be an amazing community we’re building there.”
For a taste, here are 13 COVERS:
Matt Baker
Bob Lubbers (possibly with Will Eisner)
Baker
Lou Fine
Baker
Schomburg
Edd Ashe
Baker
Fine
Artist unidentified
Joe Simon
Bob Fujitani
Baker
For clarity’s sake, the books will not be Golden Age dimensions. They will be Modern Age like most Facsimiles — 6.625 inches x 10.25 inches — so they can be easily stored in the typical long box.
It’s also important to note that these Facsimiles will not be available anywhere else and will only be printed to order. There will be no overprint.
The campaign, again, begins March 17.
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MORE
— 13 COVERS: A Gorgeous MATT BAKER Birthday Celebration. Click here.
— 13 GREAT ILLUSTRATIONS: The ‘Good Girl’ Art of BOB LUBBERS. Click here.
