Elvis Presley was more than just The King of Rock 'n' Roll, he was also a comics fan, and there is photographic evidence to prove it: Craig Yoe's Archie: A Celebration of America's Favorite Teenager opens up to a photo of Presley reading a comic book while on tour in 1956. He told a roomful of Jaycees (hardly what you'd think of as a comics-friendly audience) that "When I was a child, I was a dreamer. I read comic books and I was the hero of the comic book." He had a stack of Captain Marvel Jr. comics in his attic. And, come to think of it, that whole thing with the jumpsuits and the capes and the lightning-bolt logo... was Elvis cosplaying?

Maybe so, according to a new book, Graphic Elvis, which celebrates The King's love of comics and gives the editors an excuse to commission some totally boss Elvis fanart from the likes of Paul Pope and Greg Horn.

The book will be published by Liquid Comics (the successor company to Sir Richard Branson and Deepak Chopra's Virgin Comics), with a special limited edition due out in time for the holidays, a mass-market edition to be released in April 2012, and an iPad edition sometime after that.