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Michael_Eury

Real Name: Michael Eury
Gender: Male
Location: Concord, North Carolina (United States)

Joined: Mar 19th, 2007
Last Visit: Sep 10th, 2009

User Tags: back issue, comics gone ape, editor, historian, krypton companion, supervillain book, writer

For some grade-schoolers, the peculiar sight of a slightly paunchy masked man in tights might signal a future on an analyst’s couch. For me, I was lured into the world of super-hero comics. That man was Adam West, TV’s Batman, and when my impressionable li’l eyes first caught glimpse of his campy Caped Crusader on our clunky Motorola, I begged my dad to buy me a Batman comic book on his way home from work the next day. I’ve been reading comics ever since.

A review I wrote of Joel Eisner’s 1986 The Official Batman Batbook for the long-defunct fan-mag Amazing Heroes (which was edited at the time by Mark Waid) led to my writing and editing for several different publishers. Career highlights—and oddities—include writing “Peter Porker: The Spectacular Spider-Ham” for Marvel Tales; editing for Comico (Elementals and The Maze Agency), DC (Legion of Super-Heroes and the looseleaf Who’s Who), and Dark Horse (Ghost, Batman vs. Predator II, and The Mask); and writing lots of animation-based comics, including Adventures of the Mask and Looney Tunes.

I dropped out of comics in the late 1990s, but in 2002 stuck a toe back into the waters when TwoMorrows published my book Captain Action: The Original Super-Hero Action Figure. Currently, I’m the editor of BACK ISSUE magazine—Scoop e-newsletter’s “#1 Publication About Comics for 2006”—am an advisor to The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide, and have produced at least one comics-related book a year since Captain Action. While my dad’s no longer around to buy my comics for me, I think from his heavenly perch he’s gotta be proud that I’ve taken my childhood passion and built from it a career as a pop-culture historian.

Michael_Eury's Comic Galleries

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Captain Action

Now available: a revised, full-color hardcover edition of my book Captain Action: The Original Super-Hero Action Figure! Includes new discoveries about Ideal Toy products that were planned but not produced.

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action figure, batman, gil kane, jim shooter, murphy anderson, silver age, spider-man, super-hero, superman

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Back Issue

BACK ISSUE celebrates comic books of the 1970s, 1980s, and today through a variety of recurring (and rotating) departments. Edited by Michael Eury.

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1970s, 1980s, back issue, twomorrows

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The Batcave Companion

Now available from TwoMorrows: The Batcave Companion, a comprehensive guide to "New Look" and Bronze Age Batman comics. Batman TM & (C) DC Comics.

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adam west, batman, bronze age, marshall rogers, neal adams, silver age

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The Krypton Companion - Silver/Bronze Age Superman

The Krypton Companion unlocks the secrets of Superman’s Silver and Bronze Ages, the days when kryptonite came in multiple colors and super-pets scampered across the skies! Superman (C) DC Comics.

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back issue, bronze age, dc comics, krypton companion, silver age, superman, twomorrows

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The Supervillain Book

Bad guys from the Abomination to Zurg are profiled in The Supervillain Book, which I co-produced with Gina Misiroglu and guest contributors--including Stan Lee (who wrote the foreword)! Cover art (C) Mike Allred.

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back issue, comics, history, superhero, supervillain

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Comics Gone Ape!

Since the Golden Age, comics books have been filled with a barrel of monkey and gorilla characters ... and I've gathered 'em together in my book! Find it at TwoMorrows.com or Amazon.com!

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back issue, comics, gorillas, monkeys

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