Press Release
IDW Publishing and Marvel Comics present their fourth Artist’s Edition together, GIL KANE’S THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: ARTIST’S EDITION.
Collecting Kane’s work on The Amazing Spider-Man issues 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, and 121, these are some of the most memorable and important Spider-Man stories of the era. Included in this volume is the infamous LSD storyline that ran without the Comics Code Authority, the six-arm storyline that also introduced Morbius, the Living Vampire, and the classic of classics, “The Night Gwen Stacy Died.”
“These Spider-Man stories by Gil Kane are the ones my generation grew up on,” said Special Projects Editor Scott Dunbier, “The ones we read and reread until they fell apart. Now we can look at them with a fresh eye and see these stories as we never have before.”
Gil Kane is regarded as one of the defining artists of the Silver Age of Comics, a sequential storyteller of the finest order. Highlights of his 50-plus year career include co-creating the Silver Age Green Lantern and Atom, the groundbreaking His Name is… Savage and Blackmark… plus, of course, his Amazing run on Spider-Man!
What is an Artist’s Edition? Artist’s Editions are printed the same size as the original art. While appearing to be in black & white, each page has been scanned in COLOR to mimic as closely as possible the experience of viewing the actual original art—for example, you are able to clearly see paste-overs, blue pencils in the art, editorial notes, art corrections. Each page is printed the same size as drawn, and the paper selected is as close as possible to the original art board.
GIL KANE’S THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: ARTIST’S EDITION HC (216 pages, B&W, $125) will be in stores November 21st, 2012.
About IDW Publishing
IDW is an award-winning publisher of comic books, graphic novels and trade paperbacks, based in San Diego, California. Renowned for its diverse catalog of licensed and independent titles, IDW publishes some of the most successful and popular titles in the industry, including: Hasbro’s The TRANSFORMERS and G.I. JOE, Paramount’s Star Trek; HBO’s True Blood; the BBC’s DOCTOR WHO; Nickelodeon’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; Toho’s Godzilla; Wizards of the Coasts Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons; and the Eisner-Award winning Locke & Key series, created by best-selling author Joe Hill and artist Gabriel Rodriguez. IDW is also home to the Library of American Comics imprint, which publishes classic comic reprints, and Yoe! Books, a partnership with Yoe! Studio.
IDW’s critically- and fan-acclaimed series are continually moving into new mediums. Currently, Jerry Bruckheimer Films and Disney are creating a feature film based on World War Robot, while Michael Bay‘s Platinum Dunes and Sony are bringing Zombies vs. Robots to film.
About Marvel Entertainment
Marvel Entertainment, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, is one of the world’s most prominent character-based entertainment companies, built on a proven library of over 8,000 characters featured in a variety of media over seventy years. Marvel utilizes its character franchises in entertainment, licensing and publishing. For more information visit www.marvel.com.
