Next Issue Project
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| image | Next Issue Project 1 cvr.jpg |
| caption | |
| 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 |
| endmo | |
| endyr | |
| subcat | Image Comics |
| sort | Next Issue Project |
| :: |
|image = Next Issue Project 1 cvr.jpg |caption = |alt = |schedule = Irregular |1shot = Y |titles = Fantastic Comics #24 Silver Streak Comics #24 Crack Comics #63 Speed Comics #45 |lang = |Anthology = y |SciFi = first |Superhero = y |multigenre = y |publisher = Image Comics |startmo = February |startyr = 2008 |endmo = |endyr = |issues = |main_char_team = |writers = |artists = |pencillers = |inkers = |letterers = |colorists = |editors = |creative_team_month = |creative_team_year = |creators = |nonUS = |reprint = |relang = |TPB = |ISBN = |subcat = Image Comics |altcat = |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.
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 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:
- Daredevil, written and illustrated by Erik Larsen
- Silver Streak, written and illustrated by Paul Grist, with colors by Erik Larsen
- Kelly the Cop, written and illustrated by Joe Keatinge, with colors by Erik Larsen
- The Claw, written and illustrated by Michael T. Gilbert
- Captain Battle, written by Steve Horton and illustrated by Alan Weiss, with colors by Derek Muthart and lettering by John Lowe
''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.
Notes
References
References
- [http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=10858 The Golden Age is Back in "The Next Issue Project"], [[Comic Book Resources]], July 20, 2007
- [http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=15624 One Fan's Opinion], by [[Erik Larsen]], [[Comic Book Resources]], August 4, 2007
- Larsen, Eric. [http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=28602 ''Crack Comics'' "#63" press release], Comic Book Resources (Sept. 30, 2010).
- Wigler, Josh. (December 14, 2009). ""Next Issue Project" Returns With "Silver Streak Comics" #24". [[Comic Book Resources]].
- (January 2008). "A New Magazine". Image Comics, Inc..
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