SARGE STEEL DEFTLY ENCOUNTERS A DOUBLE AGENT !!!.CAPTAIN ATOM MUST STOP WORLDS COLLIDING !!!.BYRON PREISS' WEIRD HEROES LIVES ON !!!.BARRY WINDSOR-SMITH'S CURSE OF 'THE WARLOCK TREE' !!!.FLASH GORDON AND DALE ARDEN FACE THE TERRORS OF MI.Whose powers are so far beyond the merely human that they seem demonic. Gods and, like a god he is locked in an endless struggle with an enemy Leader of a race of beings so far beyond humanity that they are almost John O'Ryan is a man who awakens one day to discover that he is the

Orion written by Ben Bova ( Test of Fire paperback with Chaykin cover) was published by Tor Books. The infamous Blimp Gang and begins a fight against the world's evils asĪn investigator for Acme Security-Southwest.īack in the day, I was primarily picking up the Chaykin covers for his art. Greatheart Silver is fired after his zeppelin is robbed and destroyed by Greatheart Silver written by Philip José Farmer ( The Mad Goblin novel) was published by Tor Books and reprints Greaheart Silver stories from Weird Heroes. Gray Morrow cover for the Doc Savage inspired Doc Caliban. The sequel to Michael Reaves's fantasy novel Darkworld Detective and isĬhaykin did a lot of paperback covers and I'm glad he did this one. Kamus of Kadizhar: The Black hole of Carcosa is Kamus of Kadizhar: The Black Hole of Carcosa written by John Shirley ( The Crow screenplay) contains the character from Weird Heroes #8. The first Crow movie was by far the best! Brandon Lee left us all too soon. Other publications included a 1978 adaptation of Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination as a two-volume graphic novel, illustrated by Howard Chaykin. His Fiction Illustrated series of illustrated novels began with Schlomo Raven: Public Detective, a Preiss collaboration with Tom Sutton, followed by Starfawn, illustrated by Stephen Fabian, Steranko's Chandler: Red Tide and Son of Sherlock Holmes, illustrated by Ralph Reese. He founded Byron Preiss Visual Publications in the mid seventies to publish original works, including Weird Heroes.

I've only seen Son of Sherlock only published in trade, not in digest. In the Fiction Illustrated series, both Chandler & Son of Sherlock came out in trade paperback. Supergraphics, it was distributed to schools nationwide. In 1971, while Preiss was teaching at a Philadelphia elementary school, he conceived, and with Jim Steranko, produced an anti-drug comic book, The Block,ĭesigned for low-level reading skills.

He founded and served as president of Byron Preiss Visual Publications, and later of iBooks Inc. Byron Preiss was an American writer, editor, and publisher.

Weird Heroes, Vol. 1 by Byron Preiss