Comics Spotlight #2 – Crime Comics
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Scheduled to go on sale next week,
this issue of Comics Spotlight is an enthusiastic overview of the world
of crime comics past and present, including interviews with Will Eisner, Frank
Miller, Don McGregor, Ed Brubaker, Greg Rucka, Bill Rosemann, Marc Andreyko and
others. It also includes a retrospective on the career of Charles Biro and some
insight into Dr. Fredric Wrentham’s Seduction of the Innocent. This issue
is offered with two covers, one by Tales of the Cherokee creator Gene
Gonzales, featuring Detectives, Inc., and another by artist Claude St.
Aubin, featuring a variety of popular crime comics characters.
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