Untold Tales and Alternate Timelines–New Back to the Future series coming from IDW

Great Scott!

IDW Publishing announced during this year’s San Diego Comic Con a new series spinning off from the classic Back to the Future movies, timed in honor of the series’ 30th anniversary. The original movie creator/screenwriter Bob Gale is behind the new series. Joining Gale in alternate timeline stories are IDW writers John Barber (Transformers) and Erik Burnham (Ghostbusters). The artistic duties will be split between Brent Schoonover (Batman ’66) and Dan Schoening (Ghostbusters). Each subsequent issue will feature rotating artistic teams.

“We’ve subtitled this ‘Untold Tales and Alternate Timelines’ because for years, fans have asked questions about things that happened before the events of the trilogy, in between the events of the trilogy, or in our alternate realities,” said Gale in the IDW news release. “In this series, we’ll finally answer some of those questions, with our focus squarely on the characters everyone loves.”

In the first tale of the debut issue, readers are taken back to 1982 and witness the very first meeting between Marty McFly and Doc Brown. Then the story heads back even farther to 1943 with a younger Doc Brown. This first issue will feature three standard covers, by Schoening, Schoonover, and Amy Mebberson (My Little Pony). Additionally, Back to the Future #1 will join in on Artist’s Edition Month in October with an original art styled cover by Schoening. And all four standard covers form the banner image above. Check out all these great covers for Issues #1 and #2:

And how about this great gatefold cover for Issue #2:

Look for Issue #1 in October with #2 to follow in November 2015, at your local comic book store and at backtothefuture.com, which is offering its own exclusive variant cover.