Crisis on Infinite Earth 's 40th Anniversary Retrospective, celebrating the Marv Wolfman/George Pérez magnum opus! A pre- Crisis tour of DC's multiple Earths, an analysis of Crisis and its crossovers, the Crisis Death List, post- Crisis DC retro projects, a guest editorial by Marv Wolfman, and more! Featuring Mike W. Barr, Steve Englehart, Robert Greenberger, Paul Levitz, Elliot S! Maggin, Doug Moench, Jerry Ordway, Roy Thomas, Mark Waid, and more! Re-presenting the cover of Crisis on Infinite Earths Index #1 by Pérez. Edited by Roger Ash and Michael Eury.

Greetings, creep culturists! For my debut issue, I, the Cryptologist (with the help of From the Tomb editor Peter Normanton), have exhumed the worst Horror Comics excesses of the 1950s, Killer "B" movies to die for, and the creepiest, kookiest toys that crossed your boney little fingers as a child! But wait... do you dare enter the House of Usher , or choose sides in the skirmish between the Addams Family and The Munsters ?! Can you stand to gaze at Warren magazine frontispieces by this issue's cover artist Bernie Wrightson, or spend some Hammer Time with that studio's most frightening films? And if Atlas pre-code covers or terrifying science-fiction are more than you can take, stay away!

The American Comic Book Chronicles 1945-49 volume covers the comic book industry during the aftermath of World War II, when scores of writers and artists returned from foreign battlefields to resume their careers. It was a period when readers began turning away from the escapist entertainment offered by super-heroes in favor of other genres, like the grittier, more brutal crime comics. It was a time when Joe Simon and Jack Kirby created Young Romance , inaugurating a golden age of romance comics. And it was during this five-year period that Timely and National Comics capitalized on the popularity of Westerns, that Bill Gaines plotted a new course for EC Comics in the wake of his father's death, and that Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster first sued for the rights to Superman.