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    GVN Exclusive: Preview Pages For Lost Marvels No. 3 – Savage Tales of the 1980s

    Cover of a comic book collection titled "Savage Tales of the 1980s," featuring several black and white comic panels around the title text.

    In the mid-1980s, editor Larry Hama assembled some of Marvel’s top artists and writers for a 13-month project that produced gritty, intense, and darkly humorous adventure stories. These tales explored various themes, including gangster noir, historical battlefields, the perilous Old West, and post-apocalyptic futures, all featured in “Savage Tales.” This oversized anthology series stood out from anything else at the time, giving legends like John Severin, John Buscema, Herb Trimpe, and many more the chance to work on exciting, unique projects alongside a new generation of talent. Now, Marvel and Fantagraphics are reviving their acclaimed Lost Marvels line with Lost Marvels No. 3: Savage Tales of the 1980s,” collecting all 8 issues of the magazine’s run, back in print for the first time since 1986.

    “Lost Marvels No. 3: Savage Tales of the 1980s,” showcases some of the most striking work from artists like John Severin, John Buscema, Sam Glanzman, Val Mayerik, Ron Wagner, Gray Morrow, Wayne Vansant, Herb Trimpe, Michael Golden, Joe Jusko, Mary Wilshire, Arthur Suydam, Will Jungkuntz, Vincent Waller, and Ken Steacy. Alongside writers such as Chuck Dixon, Bill Wray, Don Kraar, Robert Kanigher, Denny O’Neil, Doug Murray, and Archie Goodwin. This collection features stories that have been unseen for nearly four decades. Featured stories include Severin and Dixon’s “By Rail to Vladivostock,” Murray and Golden’s “The Nam, 1967,” Glanzman’s “Of War and Peace: The Trinity,” Jungkuntz’s Blood & Gutz series, and Trimpe’s Skywarriors series, all topped off with a heartfelt remembrance by Larry Hama.

    Now, thanks to the good folks at Fantagraphics and Marvel, we are proud to offer this exclusive first look at some of the pages from this exciting collection:

    A comic book cover titled "Savage Tales" shows a serious-looking soldier with a gun and a nurse holding medical supplies, set against a backdrop of military equipment. A German soldier on a motorcycle is thrown off after hitting a wire stretched across a forest path; comic-style black and white illustration with narration and dialogue. A soldier crawls near a motorcycle, then fires a machine gun at advancing figures, who return fire and hit him as he runs. A black-and-white comic page depicts soldiers on motorcycles exchanging papers and discussing partisans, with action scenes and dialogue about delivering documents. A black-and-white comic page shows soldiers in combat, discussing risks of capture; one injured soldier is rescued as gunfire erupts in the final panels. A black and white comic page shows a soldier in combat, firing a machine gun, dodging bullets, and planning to destroy papers to keep them from the enemy. A soldier eats while another searches bodies and finds papers; they discuss requisitions and troop movements as the scene ends with "The End" in a war setting.

    Fantagraphics and Marvel’s “Lost Marvels No. 3: Savage Tales of the 1980s” comes to book and comic stores on February 17.

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