Thanks Brian! That is helpful.

And for the interested, I posted a series of quick reviews for the entirety of Engelhart’s CAPTAIN AMERICA run on the GREATEST ENGELHART STORIES EVER TOLD list. Yes, I am that shameless.

You know, I need to constantly remind myself that his name is spelled Englehart, not Engelhart, dammit!

I’m glad to say I have the Celestial Madonna TPB and read parts of the Serpent Crown Saga. I’ll need to get Essential Avengers #4 before I tackle his Avengers run, but it looks great!

Where the heck is COYOTE? The original story in collaboration with Marshall Rogers is fairly masterful storytelling…but those two issues drawn by Steve Leialoha are nothing short of sublime. Those two issues are two of my favorite comic books of all time.

Where the heck is COYOTE? The original story in collaboration with Marshall Rogers is fairly masterful storytelling…but those two issues drawn by Steve Leialoha are nothing short of sublime. Those two issues are two of my favorite comic books of all time.

Fair point! I was just going with the stuff that made the Greatest Stories Ever Told list, but you’re right, Coyote deserves to be mentioned, as well. And now it is! Thanks!

I gather the Celestial Madonna reprint from Marvel does not include her pivotal appearance in Justice League of America #142, or Scorpio Rose #2? ;->

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantis_(Marvel_Comics)#DC_Comics:_Willow

It does not, Mike, but Scorpio Rose #2 IS collected in the Coyote collections!

that’s a lot of really great comics

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There’s an essential with his Hulk run as well.

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There’s an essential with his Hulk run as well.

Fair enough – I’ll add that and the Luke Cage one, too!

Thanks for posting this! I’d love to see more lists along the same lines with slightly less popular creators.

i haven’t read too many entire runs by Steve — some Avengers, some Captain America, some of Vision and Scarlet Witch, and one issue here and there of a bunch of his other books. but i have read the entirety of his Luke Cage run and i personally think it’s his best work.

Are the essentials in color?

No, but the art looks better in the b&w reprints to the colour ones-I’ve owned both.

Extremely sad that Englehart’s AMAZING run on West Coast Avengers is not available in reprints (and hence, I presume, why it was not on your list).
The “Lost In Space-Time” arc was one of the most fun arcs I have ever read in comics. And his entire WCA run is notable due to the fact that, for a good period of time, it actually outsold the flagship Avengers title, which at that time was written by no less than Roger Stern!

Is his Beast run available in an X-Men Essentials? I really enjoyed that run, short though it was.

I second Sam’s comment about the West Coast Avengers. That was a really good period for Avengers fans, with Englehart and Stern writing the two books. It was a sad day when they both left/were pushed to leave.

I’m jazzed that the Vision/Witch series is getting reprinted, soon, though!

Can you clarify what was or was not collected of Englehart’s JLA run? The text currently there is unclear, like some words are missing.

Not Cronin but…

According to Mike’s Amazing World of DC Comics

http://www.dcindexes.com/reprints/reprints.php?series=1234

Exactly one issue has been collected – # 146, in the “Justice League of America Hereby Elects…” Trade.

Yeah, that’s the name of the book. I’m sorry too.

There are also quite a few Englehart stories in the Essentials B&W edition of the old “Super-Villain Team-Up”, which also features several awesome Dr. Doom solo stories by no less than Roy Thomas and Wally Wood!! Talk about sublime. Also included is the one issue I always show people when they ask me “why is Dr. Doom cool?”, which is #12, “Death Duel!”, which is a whole issue of just Doom vs. the Red Skull alone on the moon kicking the crap out of each other, and guess who wins! Written by Bill Mantlo, very nice at by Bob Hall. “Crawling, venomous SLIME!! You DARE mention my physical appearance? You DARE??!” “The Red Skull dares anything, Doom!”

Just wanted to mention, in reference to Englehart’s Luke Cage run, the start of the second part of the Muerte issues. Cage is chained to the bottom of a sewer as the tide comes in and has to escape; of all the tributes & homages to the immortal Spider-Man 33 (Peter pinned below immense machinery as the building floods), this is my favorite.

Does my heart good to see all the interest in Englehart’s works. He’s been one of my favorites since I discovered his West Coast Avengers and Fantastic Four as a kid.

Great writer, and a sad sample of someone the comic industry has been far meaner than it should have.

Is his Beast run available in an X-Men Essentials? I really enjoyed that run, short though it was.

Essential Classic X-Men v3 has the Beast’s solo stuff in Amazing Adventures #11-17 in it. Some of them are also in Essential Avengers v6

In the early 80′s a company called FantaCo produced a series of chronicles, there was a Daredevil, a Fantastic Four and some others, but the best one was on the Avengers…it had a great George Perez cover and featured interviews with various creators and articles on different eras of the Avengers, it also had some great artwork by the likes of Michael Golden and John Byrne. Where am I going with this, well there was a long and comprehensive interview with Steve Englehart, mainly about his classic Avengers run and about his falling out with Marvel(before he returned to write West Coast Avengers etc) it’s a great read for anyone with a love for Englehart’s 70′s Marvel work.