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Every issue of Alter Ego is of interest to the JSA fan in some way!

Vol.3 no.1 was produced as Summer 1999. It too had a flipside dual cover - one side for golden age fandom and the other silver age!  The golden age side was a re-creation of the cover of All-Star Comics #36 by Irwin Hasen.

THE GOLDEN AGE section included ?So I Took The Subway And There Was Shelly Mayer!? Irwin Hasen, Golden Age great, is interviewed by Roy Thomas. Which includes some original art from All-Star Comics #39.

This is followed by, "Two Touches Of Venus: Never-before-seen Wonder Woman scripts- for All-Star Comics #12 -plus rare Wonder Woman illos by original artist H.G. Peter."

THE SILVER AGE section included a feature article on the sons and daughters of the JSA - Infinity Inc.  "The Secret Origins of Infinity, Inc. The creation of the JSAers? heirs apparent in 1982--courtesy of Roy Thomas, Jerry Ordway, and Mike Machlan."

I bought my copy as I was passing through town on the way to the races.  I sat in the grandstand on a cold winters day taking more interest in Alter Ego than the action on the track!

Silver Age Section
included...

Fandom?s FAN-tastic Past - from the ?60s to the ?90s!
 

Golden Age Section
included

Interview with Jack Burnley
The Golden Age great talks about Starman and more! [The more includes All-Star pages!]

How Marv Wolfman and Co. Saved (a Bit of) the Golden Age! [Truly fascinating - and previously unpublished All-Star art!]

Kanigher on Kanigher (and Everything Else!) [Lots of unpublished Flash art and some All-Star Comics discussion.]

An All-Star Sensation - Roy Thomas examines curiosities behind the first two Wonder Woman stories! [Need I say more!  Buy it!]

HAWKMAN Section
A candid interview with Golden Age artist Sheldon Moldoff about Hawkman, Batman, Moon Girl? and EC. [Includes All-Star pages!]

Two Conversations with Joe Kubert [how could you resist?  And it includes All-Star Squardon art!]

The Life and Good Times of Gardner F. Fox
Letters and records from the late co-creator of The Flash and Hawkman. [Only gets better doesn't it!]

Remembering Gil Kane
A very personal reminiscence by his friend and collaborator Roy Thomas. [Includes All-Star WESTERN art!  boo hiss!]

Flash Section
A history of Flash Comics by Rich Morrissey [totally enjoyable!]

A candid conversation with Harry Lampert, original artist of ?The Flash.? [Includes All-Star art!]

Robert Kanigher talks about his two versions of ?Rose and Thorn?. [Unpunlished adventures of Jay. Tops it all off!  Buy this magazine!]

"Alter Ego - Volume 3" #5 Summer 2000
editor : Roy Thomas.

Alter Ego © 1999 Roy Thomas.

With the success of Alter Ego in the first five issues of CBA, Roy was able to re-launch the title as a separate publication.  Visit the Alter Ego webpage at Twomorrow's website for information on upcoming issues as well as pages on the back issues with one or two feature articles online! (See links below!)  Keep up the great work Roy!

Vol.3 no.5 was a special JSA issue witha wonderous wrap-around cover. Roy noted...

About our cover: Actually, we're not going to tell you about the marvelous Infantino-Ordway drawing which graces our wraparound cover because we got owner Marty Greim to do that for us on a special guest editorial page in this issue. So just sit back and enjoy a perfect 1948 JSA moment!

Martin is a member of the JSAAA, and a noted fanzine creator/publisher himself.  I had the honour of meeting him in Boston in October 2000 on a holiday to Nth America.  He informed me of a comic fair that was on during my stay and contacted me to arrange a meeting there.  Sometimes things just go right and the unplanned parts of regimented trips turn out to be the treasured highlights!  Martin and the comic fair are one classic example of this.

anyway...  back to AE(3) #4.

Justice Society Section contained...
Together Again for the First Time: The Justice Society of America
A condensed Cook's Tour of all the JSAers - with more rare and unpublished artwork than you can shake a Gravity Rod at!

Shelly Mayer: Origins of The Golden Age
All-Star! Flash Comics! Green Lantern! Wonder Woman! He edited them all, and lived to tell the tale in this classic 1975 interview by Anthony Tollin.

DC vs. The Justice Society
Writer/artist Larry Ivie has his say on the birth of the Silver Age... and what he says may surprise you.

The "Nuclear" Wars
Roy Thomas tells the hidden story behind All-Star Squadron #14 and #16 - plus unpublished Wonder Woman art by the immortal H.G. Peter.

The Gardner Fox Letters, Part IV
Ye Editor had always hoped these letters had been burned, but Gardner Fox saved everything - and who's going to say no to Michael T. Gilbert and Mr. Monster?

So. . . You Want to Collect Fanzines?
Bill Schelly conducts a guided tour of the great fanzines of the 1960s and '70s with lots of great, rare pro art! [An outstanding article on Fanzines. A MUST for any collector/historian - Davo]

the flip side was a special...
Green Lantern Section
The highlight being an...
Interview with Mart Nodell
The artist sheds new light on the creation of The Green Lantern and the Pillsbury Dough Boy.

Contents include:

Roy Thomas on All-Star Squadron and its Golden Age roots  [includes unpublished art work too!]

Bill Schelly on collecting Fanzines [Bill's the Fanzine guru! Worth the cost for this article alone!]

 All Schwartz Comics
 Roy Thomas chats with DC?s great editor Julius Schwartz on his days in the Golden Age.

 Crises on Finite Earths
 Complete with interviews, A/E examines every single JSA-JLA team-up from 1963-85.

 The Many Oaths of The Green Lantern
 Craig Delich on prose & poetry and the sacred oaths of the Emerald Gladiator.

 The Genius Jones Twins
 Will Murray uncovers an unlikely coincidence involving Argosy, Lester Dent, and Mort
 Weisinger.

 The 1964 Comicon?Two Views
 Bill Schelly and Ethan Roberts look at the first bona fide comics convention.

 Corrections to the All-Star Companion

The cover of Comic Cavalcade #6 (Spring 1944)   The first 29 issues of All-American's other anthology title features three of the leading JSAers on the covers. Maybe I'll get around to adding a Comic Cavalcade cover gallery one day.  Alter Ego #12: January 2002 (108 pages) presents Hail, Hail, This Time's the Gang's  Really All Here! Roy Thomas talks to Len Wein and Rich Buckler about All-Star Squadron. Written Off - 9-30-49, Part II: Reconstructing Reinman Focus on a never- before-seen "Green Lantern" story from the 1940s-and more!

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"Alter Ego - Volume 3" Number 14,  April 2002  $5.95 Cover Price editor : roy Thomas. Alter Ego © 2002 Roy Thomas.

Contents:  All the Stars There Are in (Super-hero) Heaven!   The 1970s JSA revival-a guided tour by Conway, Levitz, Estrada, Giffen, Milgrom, & Staton.  Inking Comics the ORDway  Pardon the bad pun! Jerry Ordway on inking/embellishing the early All-Star Squadron.  Welcome to Fandomland  Bill Schelly tells how comic fandom changed his life in the 1960s.  Tributes to Craig Chase and Dan DeCarlo  The All-Star Companions  A page-by-page survey of the original 18 JSAers-with some pretty fantastic artwork!  Where There's a Will  More mystery-solving art from that fabled "lost" 1945 issue of All-Star Comics!  The Gardner Fox Scrapbook  Michael T. Gilbert walks us through stories and scripts of a Golden Age master!  "Who the Hell Hasn't Copied from Somebody?"  A 1970 interview with Lee Elias, 1940s artist of Flash, Sub-Mariner, and Black Cat.

I know it's the opposition, but here are The Invaders portrayed in a JSA-stylised cover! On ya Roy.  Alter Ego #20:  January 2003 (108 pages) presents MORE TITANS OF TIMELY/MARVEL!  Behind a color cover by Marvel artist AL MILGROM, and another composite by KUBERT, NODELL, BECK, BORING, & SCHELLY, there's rare Timely/Marvel art by MIKE SEKOW SKY, BILL EVERETT, SYD SHORES, DAVE BERG, VINCE ALACIA, DAVE GANTZ, CARL BURGOS, and more!Secrets of the INVADERS, the '65 NY Comicon with MURPHY ANDERSON, GIL KANE, BILL FINGER, & others, the Golden Age Timely Bullpen, FCA, MR. MONSTER, more!

ALTER EGO #21 February 2003  headlines THE IGER COMICS KINGDOM of the 1940s-50s and the Golden Age JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA, with two fabulous full-color covers - DAVE STEVENS (Sheena) and IRWIN HASEN (the JSA)! Inside, ROY THOMAS on the JSA and ALL-STAR SQUADRON - featuring scarce art by GIL KANE, JACK KIRBY, ALEX TOTH, JERRY ORDWAY, RICH BUCKLER, MART NODELL, IRWIN HASEN, et al. - including still more UNSEEN ART from an unpublished 1946 All- Star Comics adventure! Also, MICHAEL T. GILBERT concludes the GARDNER FOX scrapbook, with plenty of rarely-seen art, plus there's FCA (Fawcett Collectors of America) with C.C. BECK, MARC SWAYZE, WILL LIEBERSON, KURT SCHAFFENBERGER, and others!

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Golden-Age Timely heroes recreating the cover of All-Star Squadron #1 in Alter Ego #32 January 2004 - 108 pages ALTER EGO #32 presents A GOLDEN AGE ARTIST REUNION, and THE ROOTS OF THE SILVER AGE! Behind colorful new covers by DICK GIORDANO (a cavalcade of 1940s Timely/Marvel heroes) and RON HARRIS, Golden Age Timely artists ALLEN BELLMAN (Human Torch, Patriot, et al.) and SAM BURLOCKOFF are interviewed—including the tale of their joyful reunion after 50 years, brought about in part by A/E!—with tons of rare Timely art by CARL BURGOS, BILL EVERETT, CARL PFEUFER, SYD SHORES, et al.! Plus: MART (Green Lantern) NODELL on his late-1940s years at Timely/Marvel! Fiction House—the Italian Connection, with ENRICO BAGNOLI, one of the "Great Unknowns" of the 1940s! MIKE GOLD on a crucial year in the early Silver Age of Comics—with rare art by SIMON & KIRBY, CURT SWAN, CARMINE INFANTINO, GIL KANE, and others! Also, FCA (Fawcett Collectors of America) with MARC SWAYZE and Fawcett mystery artist IRVIN STEINBERG—ALEX TOTH—BILL SCHELLY on comics fandom—and more!!

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January 2005 - 108 pages ALTER EGO #44 features the JSA—ALL-STAR SQUADRON—INFINITY, INC.! Two Generations of Dynamic DC Heroes and Their Creators! Behind an awesome wrapabout JSA/Squadron/Infinity cover by JERRY ORDWAY, you’ll find the All-Stars of All-Star—and BEYOND! Interviews with All-Star Comics/Hawkman artist JOE KUBERT—JSA/JLA co-creator GARDNER FOX—JLA/JSA artist MURPHY ANDERSON—All-Star Squadron/Infinity, Inc. artist JERRY ORDWAY Plus a surprising discovery—1940s Atom writer ARTHUR ADLER! Rare rare Golden/Silver/Bronze Age art of the JSA, All-Star Squadron, and Infinity, Inc. by ALEX TOTH, MIKE SEKOWSKY, IRWIN HASEN, ARTHUR PEDDY, JOE GALLAGHER, MARTIN NAYDEL, MIKE MACHLAN, RICH BUCKLER, MICHAEL BAIR, et al.! FCA (Fawcett Collectors of America) with MARC SWAYZE, C.C. BECK, and others—MICHAEL T. GILBERT showcases “I Like Ike!” cartoons by BOB KANE, CARMINE INFANTINO, BOB OKSNER, and CHARLIE BIRO— and MORE!

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Alter Ego #45 February 2005 - 100 pages ALTER EGO #45 (100 pages, $5.95) features CREIG FLESSEL, BERT CHRISTMAN, and THE GOLDEN AGE SANDMAN! ALL THIS, AND MICHAEL CHABON, TOO! Behind a brand new full-color Sandman cover, painted by CREIG FLESSEL, there’s: 1930s-40s artist CREIG FLESSEL—one of DC’s earliest illustrators, and artist of the original “Sandman”—interviewed by JIM AMASH about the Golden and Platinum Ages (featuring rare and vintage art by JACK COLE, JOE SHUSTER, SHELLY MAYER, FRED GUARDINEER, CHAD GROTHKOPF, BILL ELY, GILL FOX, and other early comics talents)! 1940s writer/artist/creator BERT CHRISTMAN—in-depth coverage by DAVE ARMSTRONG, with never-before-seen photos and art, from “Sandman” to the Flying Tigers! MICHAEL CHABON, creator of The Escapist and Luna Moth, tells ROY THOMAS about researching his 2000 Pulitzer-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay—with art by WILL EISNER, GIL KANE, JACK KIRBY, DICK AYERS, MART NODELL, and SHELLY MOLDOFF! PLUS: FCA with MARC SWAYZE, C.C. BECK, plus OTTO BINDER’s “lost” Jon Jarl story—MICHAEL T. GILBERT and Mr. Monster’s Comic Crypt—BILL SCHELLY on comics fandom—ALEX TOTH on whatever he feels like talking about—and MORE!!

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ACG Heroes protrayed in the style of All-Star Comics #12 Alter Ego #61 August 2006 - 100 pages Alter Ego #61 uncovers FORBIDDEN ADVENTURES, a full-issue, definitive history of the AMERICAN COMICS GROUP (1946 to 1967)—including its roots in the Golden Age Sangor Art Shop and Ned Pine’s STANDARD/NEDOR comics of the 1940s, as researched and written by MICHAEL VANCE! Behind a dynamic new cover by DICK GIORDANO (featuring Black Terror, Fighting Yank, Miss Masque, Hooded Horseman, Spirit of Frankenstein, John Force – Magic Agent, Nemesis, Magicman, and Herbie the Fat Fury!), there’s great ACG & Standard/Nedor art by MORT MESKIN, JERRY ROBINSON, AL WILLIAMSON, FRANK FRAZETTA, KURT SCHAFFENBERGER, CHIC STONE, JOHN BUSCEMA, SHELLY MOLDOFF, PETE COSTANZA, JOHN ROSENBERGER, OGDEN WHITNEY, et al.—plus startling secrets of ACG’s amazing writer/editor RICHARD HUGHES! PLUS: ACG & Marvel artist AL HARTLEY, interviewed by JIM AMASH! FCA (Fawcett Collectors of America) with MARC SWAYZE—MICHAEL T. GILBERT and Mr. Monster’s Comic Crypt—& MORE! Edited by ROY THOMAS.

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Alter Ego #63 December 2006 - 100 pages Alter Ego #63 remembers comics legend ALEX TOTH in a special tribute issue, feauturing: A full-color cover by TOTH of the Justice Society of America! Never-before-seen TOTH interview by MICHAEL VANCE, where we learn Alex’s views on violence in the media—and everyplace else! Tons of ALEX TOTH art—both published and unpublished—including sketches he sent to friends! See samples of the work of artists TOTH liked: CANIFF, SICKLES, CHRISTMAN, HASEN, COLE, KELLY, BECK, ROBINSON, OKSNER, MAYER, FLESSEL, FOSTER, ROBBINS, CRANE, TUSKA, MESKIN, & others! Plus: Christmas card art by MOLDOFF, MAROTO, and others! FCA (Fawcett Collectors of America) with MARC SWAYZE & a tribute to TOTH—MICHAEL T. GILBERT and Mr. Monster’s Comic Crypt—& MORE! Edited by ROY THOMAS.  All

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