Well, Amazon's advance listings for Showcase Presents for late 2013 didn't pan out too well, since we didn't get a number of the titles that had been listed, including SP Unknown Soldier Vol. 2 and SP House of Secrets Vol. 3. Still, we push on for early 2014. As you can see, there are several that had been announced years ago that appear to be making the publication schedule. We'll start with the last one for 2013 and move on. Who can resist this first one with this cover?
Showcase Presents: Strange Adventures Vol. 2
December 24, 2013
520 pages
These 1950s science fiction tales from STRANGE ADVENTURES #74-93 star weird alien creatures and intrepid space explorers. Stories include “The Metal Spy from Space,” “The Secret of the Man-Ape,” “The Hungry Meteorite,” “The Day Science Ran Wild,” and many more.
Creature Commandos (Not an SP but may be of interest)
January 25, 2014
288 pages
In one of DC's strangest comics ever, a werewolf, a vampire, a gorgon, and Frankenstein's monster fight the German forces during World War II. Originally published in the early 1980s, The Creature Commandos laid the groundwork for recent series like FRANKENSTEIN, AGENT OF S.H.A.D.E.
Collects WEIRD WAR TALES #93, 97, 100, 102, 105, 108-112, 114-119, 121 and 124.
Showcase Presents: Men of War
February 19, 2014
496 pages
These tales of war originally published in the late 1970s star Enemy Ace, DC's German fighter pilot from World War I, and a new war hero: Codename Gravedigger, an African American soldier who goes undercover behind enemy lines.
Collects MEN OF WAR #1-26, the entire series.
Showcase Presents: Jonah Hex Volume 2
March 19, 2014
544 pages
The 1970s adventures of Western bounty hunter Jonah Hex continue in this new, value-priced Showcase edition collecting Jonah Hex #1-22 and Weird Western Tales #34-38.
Showcase Presents: Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew
March 25, 2014
664 pages
These 1980s tails - sorry, tales - of Captain Carrot and the JLA (Justa Lotta Animals) have never been reprinted before. Featuring pun-filled tails - sorry, again, tales - written by comics legend Roy Thomas, with animated illustrations by Scott Shaw, these stories star Captain Carrot, along with his fellow four-legged heroes including the magical Alley-Kat-Abra, super-strong Pig-Iron, stretchable waterfowl Rubberduck, the super-speedster turtle Fastback, and more. Together, they battle the evil of Brother Hood and A.C.R.O.S.T.I.C., Salamandroid, Feline Faust, the Wuz Wolf, and others, plus DC Universe villains Starro and Grodd. This collection also includes the three-part epic saga The Oz-Wonderland War, in which our heroes are caught between the forces of these two magical realms, each of which are illustrated in the style of classic illustrators John R. Neill, W.W. Denslow and others. Collects a story from New Teen Titans #16, plus Captain Carrot and his Amazing Zoo Crew #1-20, and The Oz-Wonderland War #1-3.Showcase Presents: Super Friends Vol. 1
May 27, 2014
448 pages
This new, value priced Showcase Presents collection features tales of TV's Super Friends from the 1970s based on the hit animated TV series "Super Friends." Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, The Flash, Green Lantern, Green Arrow and other heroes battle the evil of The Riddler, the Time Trapper and many other DC Universe villains in these kid-friendly stories.
Collects SUPER FRIENDS #1-34.
Showcase Presents: The Great Disaster featuring the Atomic Knights
June 24, 2014
576 pages
In these stories, a variety of heroes including the Atomic Knights, Kamandi, Hercules and many others must face a post-apocalyptic future brought about by the mysterious "Great Disaster."
Collects stories from STRANGE ADVENTURES #117, 120, 123, 126, 129, 132, 135, 138, 141, 144, 147, 150, 153, 156 and 160, 1st ISSUE SPECIAL #1, HERCULES UNBOUND #1-10, KAMANDI #43-46, WEIRD WAR TALES #22, 23, 30, 32, 40, 42-44, 46-49, 51-53, 64, 68, 69 and 123, HOUSE OF MYSTERY #318, SUPERMAN #295, HOUSE OF SECRETS #86, 95 and 97, THE UNEXPECTED #215 and 221, and AMAZING WORLD OF DC COMICS #12.
Hoy
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It bums me out that there's no sign of SP Superman Volume 5.
I'll believe we'll get Captain Carrot, the Super Friends and the Atomic Knights when I have them in my hands. They've all been solicited before, and they've all been canceled before.
Gotta love that Strange Adventures cover for a Christmas eve release!
(That sounded a lot dirtier than I meant it.)
It seems hopeless at this point but perhaps someday I will see a third volume of Challengers of the Unknown.
The early Kirby material has been reprinted multiple times in a variety of formats, while what I consider the series peak years from the mid-sixties continues to be overlooked.
Atomic Knights will be released shortly after World War III.
Randy Jackson said:
I hope that at least the STRANGE ADVENTURES SP ships when they say it does. I'll cross my fingers for the others--and for more SPs that aren't on that list.
Thanks for finding these, Hoy! Like the others, I'm skeptical of those releases, given those titles' past history and the fact that a bunch of others never showed up that were scheduled. But maybe putting them back on the schedule means they've finally worked out the problems and they really mean it this time.
Since I haven't read virtually any of those stories (except for a few odds and ends and the Super-Friends), I'll be interested in almost all of them to one extent or another. That Atomic Knights one looks kind of wacky. That Captain Carrot book is a monster, but I've never read any of those and I've heard reasonably good things about them, so hopefully it isn't priced so high I pass. Likewise, I'll probably go for the Jonah Hex one, since he has big fans of that era.
I agree that Challs 3 is getting to be an obvious choice, given the other stuff they're producing. I realize they'll expect a dropoff in sales after the Kirby era stuff, but I still think there's enough value in those stories that it would sell as well as Creature Commandos or Men of War. But maybe there's more fans with nostalgia for those titles than for the Challs, which were pretty much an after thought.
Clearly, there's a reason no more Superman Family books are coming along, but I don't know what it is. Even a movie, bad as it was, didn't shake anything loose. I can't believe sales on the previous SP: Superman were THAT bad, but something's holding it up. That line-up is conspicuously missing anything DCU-ish.
-- MSA
I'll get all of them if they really come out. I always felt that The Creature Commandos, a wacky concept to be sure, was under-rated as a series. And I'm curious about Men of War. I have The Atomic Knights HC and the two Super Friends TPBs but I would really like to read all those "Day After Disaster" tales and you could never have too much Super Friends.
Superman Vol 5? Challengers Vol 3? Yes on both counts.
I would also like to see another Brave & Bold, Aquaman, SHAZAM!, Green Lantern (all those Flash back ups collected) and Teen Titans.
Assuming they all come out, I could see myself buying all of these. I enjoyed SP: Strange Adventures 1 and Jonah Hex 1, and the others sound interesting--maybe not great, but interesting.
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