Lost Marvels No. 2: Howard Chaykin Vol. 1: Dominic Fortune, Monark Starstalker, and Phantom Eagle is in stores today, and we’ve got an exclusive look inside the new Fantagraphics book! Per the name, the series of three volumes brings together lost looks at classic Marvel Comics… In this case, the work of Howard Chaykin.
“Bringing together stories from Howard Chaykin’s early and later Marvel Comics days, Lost Marvels: Howard Chaykin showcases essential work from the career of a groundbreaking artist acclaimed for his formal innovations and narrative sophistication,” comics scholar Brandon Costello writes in his introduction to the book.
This book follows the release of Lost Marvels No. 1: Tower of Shadows, and will be followed up with Lost Marvels No. 3: Savage Tales of the 1980s.
Lost Marvels No. 2: Howard Chaykin Vol. 1: Dominic Fortune, Monark Starstalker, and Phantom Eagle Preview
Check out five pages and the cover from the August 13, 2025 publishing issue here! Click the thumbnails for a larger version:
Lost Marvels No. 2: Howard Chaykin Vol. 1: Dominic Fortune, Monark Starstalker, and Phantom Eagle Official Synopsis:
When Howard Chaykin broke into comics in the 1970s, there was nothing quite like him. His original characters Dominic Fortune and Monark Starstalker took classic pulp heroes and ran them through a postmodern blender. This new volume collects some of the most exciting, sought-after work by Chaykin from 1975 to 2008, including retro-science-fiction bounty hunter Monark Starstalker’s debut appearance and all the Dominic Fortune stories, including the character’s unexpurgated Max series, published a generation later. Completing the package is the collision between pulp heroism and the devastating, bloody realities of World War I in Chaykin’s 111-page collaboration with The Boys writer Garth Ennis on War Is Hell: The First Flight of the Phantom Eagle. As the artist behind Marvel’s comic adaptation of the first Star Wars movie and the creator of iconic, influential series like the sci-fi satire American Flagg! and the adults only vampire saga Black Kiss, Howard Chaykin has earned his reputation as a prolific and essential cartoonist.
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