Atlas Era Strange Tales 1 (Marvel Masterworks)

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Michael J. Vassallo

MARVEL COMICS

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Marvel Enterprises

Written by STAN LEE. Art by BILL EVERETT, GENE COLAN, JOE SINNOTT, BERNIE KRIGSTEIN, JOE MANEELY, JERRY ROBINSON, JIM MOONEY, GEORGE TUSKA, PAUL REINMAN, HARRY ANDERSON, TONY DIPRETA, ED WINIARKSI, SAM KWESKIN, and DICK BRIEFER. Cover by HARRY ANDERSON. Published in February of 2009, Hardcover, 272 pages, full color. Cover price $59.99. If you want additional books, I ship as many books as you want for a low flat fee.

Marvel Masterworks Presents Atlas Era Strange Tales 2 (Strange Tales, 11-20)

In 1953 horror comics were king and Atlas editor-in-chief, Stan Lee, launched a new title to make a bid for the throne—and that title was MENACE! Backed by the best of the best in his art stable—Bill Everett, Russ Heath, Joe Maneely, Gene Colan, John Romita, Joe Sinnott, George Tuska—Stan’s new title became a high-water mark for pre-Code horror. Chock full of page after page of werewolves, vampires, zombies, ghosts, ghouls, double-dealing women and stone-cold killers with a sense of morality as dark as the ink on the page, MENACE lived up to its name—and how! It also showed hints of the Mighty Marvel future to come with running editorial commentary by Stan, reader contests, and characters like the infamous Zombie by Stan and Bill Everett, who would become the Marvel Age’s own killer zombie, Simon Garth. MENACE is a must-have for all aficionados of comics’ rollicking pre-Code days and the perfect entry point for readers looking to take their first adventure into the Atlas

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Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Battlefield 1

Rico, Don

Chapman, Hank

The Secret History of Marvel Comics: Jack Kirby and the Moonlighting Artists at Martin Goodman's Empire digs back to the 1930s when Marvel Comics wasn't just a comic-book producing company. Marvel was but a small part of owner Martin Goodman's publishing empire, which had begun years before he published his first comic book. Goodman mostly published lurid and sensationalist story books (known as pulps) and magazines, featuring sexually charged detective and romance short fiction and celebrity gossip scandal sheets. Artists like Jack Kirby, who was producing Captain America for eight-year-olds, were dipping their toes in both ponds. The Secret History of Marvel Comics tells this parallel story of 1930s/40s Marvel Comics sharing offices with those Goodman publications not quite fit for children.

The Secret History Of Marvel Comics: Jack Kirby and the Moonlighting Artists at Martin

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