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Jim Steranko's MEDIASCENE was both a comics fanzine, an advance preview of film and television releases, as well as an aesthetically pleasing and constantly evolving display of art and design, semi-regularly published from roughly 1972 to 1994.


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The first 6 issues were COMIXSCENE from 1972-1973, in 11" X 17" newspaper format, in 2 sections, initially totalling 24 to 36 pages.
https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=19126902



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The title changed to MEDIASCENE for issues 7-40, from Dec 1973- Dec 1979, continuing in an 11 X 17" newspaper format, with a greater focus on mainstream media, but still covering comics. Many of the covers by Steranko, Corben, Adams and others, could double as movie posters.
With 2 great all-pin-up issues in 33 and 40.
https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=21056117



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With issues 41-47 the title changed to PREVUE, July 1980- May 1982, upgrading to a magazine format in a 9" X 12" size, and a further development in design. And increasingly focused on movies, actors and interviews.
https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=171941

From issue 48 untill the end of its run in issue 92, 1982-1994, it kept the same PREVUE title, but moved to a standard 8 X 11" format, with glossy paper and an increasing ratio of color material.
The last 2 issues' covers each have new logos, that make it look like yet another new magazine.



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Add to this his famous STERANKO'S HISTORY OF COMICS, volumes 1 and 2 (1970 and 1972). Which I've savored for over 40 years now.
HISTORY OF COMICS vol 1 focuses on the pulp magazines and newspaper strips such as by Hal Foster and Alex Raymond, from which the comics industry spawned, and the evolution from there to Superman, Batman and the Golden Age of comics from 1938-1945.
HISTORY OF COMICS vol 2 focuses more on the Golden Age superheroes and Fawcett and Quality comics titles. It was projected on the intro pages of both volumes that the series would eventually expand to 6 volumes, roughly covering pre-Code era, post-Code Silver Age 1950's , 1960's and 1970's eras. I wish if Steranko lost interest in concluding this HISTORY OF COMICS series, he'd at least subcontracted it to other writers and overseen its conclusion. But regardless, these two volumes are wonderful to have.
https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=482701

Steranko also did a SUPERGIRLS pin-up calendar, that I've gotten several pages of, but not the complete calendar. While nice, I just didn't feel it's worth spending what it sells for now:
https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=45027032
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Here are the other publications from Steranko's company, Supergraphics:
https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?pl=Supergraphics

I had some of these Supergraphics things for many years, such as the CARTOONISTS AND ARTISTS PORTFOLIO issues, the Steranko collector box, the TALON and STAR TREK posters, as well as the poster versions of Steranko's HISTORY OF COMICS, not realizing that these were published by Supergraphics.
The RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK painted posters by Steranko were later re-published in EPIC ILLUSTRATED 19, in 1983.
http://www.thedrawingsofsteranko.com/raiders.html


Another special Steranko issue not published by Supergraphics, I also love the comic-size TALES FROM THE EDGE # 11 (a k a, on the cover: STERANKO: GRAPHIC PRINCE OF DARKNESS) published in 1998, with an overview of Steranko's life and career, with a lot of work I hadn't previously seen. Edited and published by David Spurlock, but clearly with publication design by Steranko.
https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=156311

Another of my favorites is Steranko's work in THE ILLUSTRATED HARLAN ELLISON (1978), in tpb and hardcover editions, by Byron Preiss. With a 10-page illustrated version of Ellison's " 'Repent, Harlequin', said the Ticktockman" story.
https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?q=illustrated+harlan&pubid=&PubRng=
And also a signed/numbered black-and-white portfolio version, signed by both Steranko and Ellison.
https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=29617568

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