New Releases by Richard E. Hughes

Reprints of issues 10 and 11 of the golden age comic book Startling Comics with the first two stories of Fighting Yank.

What do a fifty-foot-tall telepathic merman, a typewriter possessed by Satan, and a demented ringmaster who attaches human heads to circus animals have in common? Nothing, perhaps? Well, except that they all appeared in Forbidden Worlds, the weird and wonderful anthology of science fiction and supernatural fantasy that ran from the early 1950s into the late 1960s. Issues #5 through #8 of this enchanting and bizarre series are collected in a deluxe archival hardcover, which features a foreword by comics historian Dan Nadel (Art Out of Time), early art by Al Williamson and Roy Krenkel, and more demons, robots, and Atomic Age thrills than you can cram through an interdimensional portal!

Make way for the Fat Fury! The unlikeliest superhero of all time makes his mark in this new Dark Horse archival series. Coming from the strange, wry imaginations of classic comics scribe Richard Hughes and artist Ogden Whitney, Herbie Popnecker looks like a plump lump, but with his collection of supernatural lollipops, there is pretty much nothing that he can''t do.

Unlikely superhero Herbie Popnecker, whose father doesn''t believe in him, uses his collection of supernatural lollipops to battle monsters, bend time and space, and defeat Fidel Castro.

Vietnam, 1965: US Army Private First Class Tom Cargill seemed like most soldiers to the men in his squad, but little did they know that he was, in truth, an immortal! More than two hundred years old, the son of the alchemist and sorcerer Cagliostro, Tom Cargill was the most powerful magician in the world. When Red Chinese soldiers threatened American lives in Vietnam, Cargill donned a mask and costume to battle evil as the supernatural superhero Magicman! Whether overseas at war or in the homeland against mad scientists and alien invaders from outer space, Magicman used his powers to fight for justice wherever evil and terror reigned!