IDW Artists Editions

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Ah, there's another AE coming out with Alpha Flight!

Marvel Covers: Artist’s Edition HC
John Buscema, George Perez, Neal Adams, Art Adams, Frank Miller, Jack Kirby, Jim Steranko, Jim Starlin & more (a) • Gil Kane (c)
Marvel Comics is the home of some of the greatest and most iconic cover images in the history of comics. This unique Artist's Edition will feature an amazing "Best of" selection of gorgeous covers by a veritable who's who of the medium. From Neal Adams to Art Adams, Frank Miller to Jack Kirby, Jim Steranko to Jim Starlin, there has never been a book like this before and you are not likely to see its ilk again anytime soon!
HC • BW • $75.00 net discount item • 144 Pages • 12” x 17” • ISBN: 978-1-63140-093-3
Bullet points:
What is an Artist’s Edition?
AN ARTIST'S EDITION PRESENTS COMPLETE STORIES WITH EACH PAGE SCANNED FROM THE ACTUAL ORIGINAL ART.
While appearing to be in black & white, each page has been scanned in COLOR to mimic as closely as possible the experience of viewing the actual original art—for example, you are able to clearly see paste-overs, blue pencils in the art, editorial notes, art corrections. Each page is printed the same size as drawn, and the paper selected is as close as possible to the original art board.
Advance-solicited for August release!

Took me a while to find it but reported faithfully by popculturemaven.com

http://www.popculturemaven.com/comic...on-2014-panel/

Scroll down to Marvel Covers Artist Edition to see the cover of UXM #140 with Byrne art (Snowbird and Mac on that cover)

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Ah, there's another AE coming out with Alpha Flight!

Marvel Covers: Artist’s Edition HC

Well this came out today and she's a beaut! The original art for Kevin Nowlan's cover for Alpha Flight #52 is shown too, along with a small inset from that artwork (featuring Guardian) on one of the intro pages.

But there's more: The original art from Terry Austin's cover from Classic X-Men#16 is printed, featuring Weapon Alpha, along with both John Byrne's Uncanny X-Men #139 and #140 cover artwork, on facing pages! But the real gem is the original art for Dave Cockrum's Uncanny X-Men #109. Wow, just wow. You can also find Sasquatch on the original art for Bob Layton's cover for Contest of Champions #1.

This is a real treat for Alpha Flight fans with no fewer than 6 pages (out of 144) of Alpha Flight goodies with some key books included. Nice!

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The variant cover for the Marvel Covers: Artist’s Edition HC came out and it's also a beaut. The new cover can be seen here:

http://www.idwpublishing.com/product...variant-cover/

And here's a pic:



Apparently it's only available at NYCC but luckily they had them right there and I was able to get one!