Next Issue Project Explained
| Schedule: | Irregular |
| 1Shot: | Y |
| Titles: | Fantastic Comics #24
Silver Streak Comics #24
Crack Comics #63
Speed Comics #45 |
| Anthology: | y |
| Scifi: | first |
| Superhero: | y |
| Multigenre: | y |
| Publisher: | Image Comics |
| Startmo: | February |
| Startyr: | 2008 |
| Subcat: | Image Comics |
| Sort: | Next Issue Project |
The Next Issue Project is a series of American comic-book anthology one-shots published by Image Comics beginning in February 2008. The multi-title project, edited by Erik Larsen, creator of Savage Dragon, features comic book characters that have fallen into the public domain.[1] [2]
The premise behind the series, according to Larsen, is:
Publication history
Each issue of the Next Issue Project utilizes features from a title published during the 1930s and 1940s period historians and fans call the Golden Age of Comic Books, with similar dimensions and page count, both larger than the modern-day standard. Each issue continues the name and numbering of each title.
The first issue, Fantastic Comics #24 came out in February 2008. It was followed by Silver Streak Comics #24 in December 2009[3] and later Crack Comics #63.
Issues
Fantastic Comics #24
Continuing from Fox Feature Syndicate's Fantastic Comics. This issue was released on February 13, 2008. It contained the following stories:
- Samson, written and illustrated by Erik Larsen
- Flip Falcon, written by Joe Casey and illustrated by Bill Sienkiewicz, with colors by Erik Larsen and lettering by Chris Eliopoulos
- Golden Knight, co-written and illustrated by Thomas Yeates and co-written by Bryan Rutherford, with colors by Erik Larsen
- Yank Wilson, written and illustrated by Andy Kuhn, with lettering by Thomas Mauer
- Space Smith, written and illustrated by Tom Scioli
- Captain Kidd, co-written and illustrated by Jim Rugg and co-written by Brian Maruca
- Professor Fiend, written and illustrated by Fred Hembeck, with colors by Erik Larsen
- Stardust the Super Wizard, written by Joe Keatinge and illustrated by Mike Allred, with colors by Laura Allred and lettering by Van Nunez
- Sub Saunders, written and illustrated by Ashley Wood
- a prose piece featuring Carlton Riggs by B. Clay Moore with illustration by Jason Latour
Silver Streak Comics #24
Continuing from Lev Gleason Publications' Silver Streak Comics. Released in December, 2009. It contained the following stories:
Crack Comics #63
Continuing from Quality Comics' Crack Comics. This issue was released on November 2, 2011. It contained the following stories:
- Captain Triumph, written and penciled by Alan Weiss, inked by Jim Fern, with colors by Lovern Kindzierski and lettering by John Workman
- The Space Legion, written and illustrated by Chris Burnham
- The Clock, written and illustrated by Paul Maybury
- Molly the Model, written and illustrated by Terry Austin
- Alias the Spider, written and illustrated by Adam McGovern and Paolo Leandri, with colors by Dominic Regan
- Spitfire, written and illustrated by Herb Trimpe
- Slap Happy Pappy, written and illustrated by Joe Keatinge
- Hack O'Hara (with a cameo by the Space Legion), written and illustrated by Erik Larsen
- Red Torpedo, written by B. Clay Moore and illustrated by Frank Fosco and Erik Larsen
Speed Comics #45
Advertised in Fantastic Comics #24 but never released, this issue was to continue from Harvey Comics' Speed Comics, and would heave featured Shock Gibson, Captain Freedom and War Nurse on the cover.[4]
Notes and References
- http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=10858 The Golden Age is Back in "The Next Issue Project"
- http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=15624 One Fan's Opinion
- Web site: Josh . Wigler . "Next Issue Project" Returns With "Silver Streak Comics" #24 . . December 14, 2009 . December 16, 2009.
- Larsen . Erik . Erik Larsen . A New Magazine . Advertisement . Fantastic Comics . 24 . January 2008 . Image Comics, Inc. . Berkeley, California . 48.
