Showcase Presents: Challengers of the Unknown, Vol. 1 [Paperback]

David Wood (Author), Jack Kirby (Author), Ed Herron (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 544 pages
• Publisher: DC Comics (September 27, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1401210872
• ISBN-13: 978-1401210878
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 1.4 x 10.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #970,950 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unchallenged in quality! Over 540 pages!, October 27, 2006

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Zongo "Media Historian" (Gig Harbor, WA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Showcase Presents: Challengers of the Unknown, Vol. 1 (Paperback)

The line work in this volume of Showcase Presents is fantastic! Kirby's art leaps off the page! I think this volume is in the top five of all the Showcases offered so far. Dc should be commended on the wonderful variety of Showcases! We're getting adventure, horror, Sci-Fi, as well as the expected spandex teams. You can not go wrong with any book in the whole showcase line, but I think this Showcase Presents: Challengers of The Unknown, is a great place to start. Top of the line stories and art throughout, and you can see where some of the ideas for Kirby's later Fantastic Four started!

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Jack Kirby & Wally Wood - What a TEAM!!, November 20, 2006

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Mark Evans "Cloudmover" (Jamaica, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Showcase Presents: Challengers of the Unknown, Vol. 1 (Paperback)

The art in this volume is SPECTACULAR. Specifically, in Challengers Of The Unknown #4, #5, #6, #7 and #8. The legendary Jack Kirby is inked by the EQUALLY legendary Wally Wood (Daredevil, EC Comics, MAD, The Outer Space Spirit and the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents to name a few).

This volume represents the work of two comics masters at the height of their ability showing how it's done! Wally Wood was an acknowledged master of futuristic sf ships and monsters and his control of light an line always brought a certain polish to any book on which he worked. Kirby is, well... Kirby. Kirby helped define the visual language of sequential illustration and his creations and concepts have been the foundation of Marvel Comics since the Silver Age.

To have Kirby partnered with Wood is about as good as it gets!

For the record-
This volume covers 1957- 1961 and reprints Showcase #6 , #7, #11, #12 and Challengers Of The Unknown #1-17

It's Kirby. It's Wood. It's a GREAT read. AND... it's cheap. 'Nuff said.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Challenge yourself and read this awesome collection!!!, May 28, 2007

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Matthew Petersen "Big Fan of Sherlock Holmes,... (Hollywood, Florida United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Showcase Presents: Challengers of the Unknown, Vol. 1 (Paperback)

I love the Challengers of the Unknown!! I have loved this team of classic Kirby characters ever since my dad gave me all his Silver Age comics!! The concept of a group of guys who cheated death and now go out in search of the strange and unknown was just always intriguing to me!!
For the price and the content you just can't beat it!!
I love that DC has finally decided to collect older titles in a cheap, affordable format that ANYONE can get without putting a HUGE dent in their pockets!!
Yes they are in black and white but to me I think that enhances the art work of the penciller and the inker who created these issues!!

Now DC needs to bring on The Metal Men!! ;)