Megaton Archives

by Gary Carlson, Erik Larsen, Erik Larsen (Artist), Rob Liefeld (Artist), Butch Guice (Artist)

Overview

The black and white anthology MEGATON was at the forefront of the independent comics revolution, and from 1981 to 1987 publisher and writer GARY CARLSON helped rewrite comics history!

ERIK LARSEN’s SAVAGE DRAGON and ROB LIEFELD’s YOUNGBLOOD both debuted in MEGATON, prompting LIEFELD to later dub CARLSON “the Grandfather of Image Comics,” and the series was notable for launching the career of a veritable who’s who of artists.

Now, celebrating MEGATON’s 40th anniversary, the original eight issues are collected for the first time ever – in their entirety, in chronological order, and in glorious black and white, scanned from the original art and film negatives used to publish the original comics!

Collects MEGATON #1-8 plus early ads for the series, unpublished art, preliminary character designs, commentary by CARLSON and more!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781534398634
Publisher:	Image Comics
Publication date:	07/04/2023
Pages:	456
Sales rank:	973,016
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 10.10(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	13 - 18 Years

About the Author

Erik Larsen is the Chief Financial Officer at Image Comics. He was an artist for Spider Man, then joined six other talents in the '90s to form Image comics. His character Savage Dragon is one of the longest running creator-owned characters in comic books to date.

Erik Larsen is the Chief Financial Officer at Image Comics. He was an artist for Spider Man, then joined six other talents in the '90s to form Image comics. His character Savage Dragon is one of the longest running creator-owned characters in comic books to date.

Re-imagining New Mutants into X-Force was only the start for industry maverick Rob Liefeld, one of the leaders of the 1990s comics revolution. After introducing both Cable and Deadpool, he launched an even bigger collaboration as one of the founders of Image Comics with his original property Youngblood. In 1996, he participated in Marvel’s controversial multi-title Heroes Reborn event. After collaborating with Alan Moore on revamped Image creations, Liefeld reunited with co-writer Fabian Nicieza on an X-Force miniseries and then revisited Heroes Reborn in Onslaught Reborn with writer Jeph Loeb. Liefeld returned to his most famous co-creation with the graphic novel Deadpool: Bad Blood and introduced a new sensation in Major X.