New Comics Day: Secret Origins of Super-Villains Tabloid Edition; Jack Kirby's Demon; Wally Wood and Jack Davis Panic!, More

New releases that caught our eye this week:

Secret Origins of Super-Villains - Limited Collectors' Edition #C-39 Facsimile Edition

An exact replica of the 1975 tabloid edition — apart from the 15x higher cover price. Includes Golden and Silver-Age reprint stories that tell the origins of the Red Hood, Lex Luthor, Captain Cold, Dr. Sivana and more.

Action Comics #419 Facsimile Edition

Early Bronze-Age Superman, from 1972. Includes a lead story, "The Most Dangerous Man on Earth!" by Cary Bates and Curt Swan, plus backups by E. Nelson Bridwell and Infantino. Plus a classic photo-comics montage cover by Neal Adams. Man, those names bring back some memories...

Daredevil #183 Facsimile Edition

Whoa! That cover is still provides a jolt and, as I remember, so does the story inside. Classic stuff from 1982 by Frank Miller and Klaus Jansson. 

DC Finest: The Demon - The Birth of the Demon!

This one collects Jack Kirby's 1972-1974 on The Demon plus extras and oddities from the mid-to-late 70s and early 80s, including some great stuff illustrated by Michael Golden. Highly recommended.

Includes: The Demon #1-16, written and drawn by Jack “King” Kirby, plus The Batman Family #17, The Brave and the Bold #109 and #137, Detective Comics #482-485, and Wonder Woman #280-282.

Softcover, 536 pages. Available from Bookshop.org (commission helps support Pop Culture Safari!)

The EC Artists' Library: My Gun Is The Jury! And Other Stories

A batch of Wally Wood and Jack Davis-illustrated parody tales from EC's Mad sister title Panic! 

Includes Davis's "My Gun Is the Jury!" "Come Back, Little Street Car!", "A Star Is Corn" and Wood's "African Scream!", "Gone With The Widow," and "20,000 Leaks Under The Sea," plus the previously unpublished"V-Vampires," scripted by Harvey Kurtzman and drawn by Wood.

Hardcover, 280 pages, black-and-white art with historical text pieces. Available from Bookshop.org.

Amazing Spider-Man Classic Newspaper Comics - 1977

A year's worth of Spidey strips by John Romita and Stan Lee. 

160 pages, softcover with slipcase. Available from Bookshop.org.

Dick Tracy Collection - 1941

A year's worth of Dick Tracy strips by Chester Gould. This is the first of a series re-printing his run.

160 pages, softcover with slip case. Available from Bookshop.org.