Fantagraphics is teaming up with Marvel Comics to bring never-before-reprinted stories in a series of new collections, called Lost Marvels. The first volume collects the supernatural stories of The Tower of Shadows.
The new hardcover collection, now available in comic book stores, compiles the entire Tower of Shadows series, originally published in 1969. The original anthology series features superstar creators including Neal Adams, Jim Steranko, Barry Windsor-Smith, John Buscema, Gene Colan, Wally Wood, Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, John Romita, Johnny Craig, Marie Severin, Gerry Conway, and Bernie Wrightson.
The Beat has an exclusive preview of Lost Marvels Vol. 1: Tower of Shadows with pages from Stan Lee, Wally Wood, and Artie Simek’s story, Sanctuary.
“Marvel published a surprising amount of work that fell outside its superhero purview in the ’60s and ’70s and ’80s, most of it never before reprinted, much of it “lost” except in the fading memories of fans who bought it and read it for the first time back then when it was originally published,” said Fantagraphics Publisher Gary Groth. “Exceptional craftsmen and artists were often featured — Barry Windsor-Smith, Steranko, John Buscema, Gene Colan, Neal Adams, Howard Chaykin, and others— and one of the goals of this project is to create a carefully curated record of this somewhat more obscure work that so many comics readers have forgotten or are unfamiliar with. Lost Marvels complements our Atlas reprints which features so many of the best craftsmen from the 1950s.”
Lost Marvels No. 1: Tower of Shadows is available from Fantagraphics now. Lost Marvels No. 2: Howard Chaykin Vol. 1 will be available on July 8, 2025, and Lost Marvels No. 3: Savage Tales will be published in November 2025.
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