As a full moon looms and distant Halloween howls chill the air, what higher strategy to have fun the creepiest time of the yr than Fantagraphics‘ newest haunting endeavor: reprints of Marvel Comics’ Fifties style titles below a brand new Atlas assortment. The preliminary providing on this sequence gathers the primary eight problems with the pre-Code horror sequence, Adventures Into Terror, into a stunning hardbound quantity.
Atlas holds a particular place amongst aficionados of the style, producing extra horror titles and points by far, than anybody within the trade. Whereas the standard of EC’s six horror/sci-fi titles was unsurpassed with their elite cadre of expertise, Atlas was the equal of the B-movies studio, churning out anyplace from 8 to 12 completely different horror titles a month, giving a wider array of artists, together with a number of the greatest craftsmen of the period, an opportunity to showcase their skills: as well as to these already talked about, future volumes will embrace Invoice Everett, John Romita, Bernie Krigstein, Jerry Robinson, Harry Anderson, and Matt Fox. Tales from Marvel’s Atlas line have barely been reprinted.
The Fantagraphics Atlas Comics Library is the primary try to publish a rigorously curated line of Atlas titles. Our first quantity, Adventures Into Terror, features a treasure trove of tales drawn by lots of the most stylistically achieved artists of the Golden Age together with George Tuska, Carl Burgos, Mike Sekowsky, Joe Maneely, and Joe Sinnott. Highlights embrace Russ Heath’s two-part story “The Mind” from concern #4 and “Return of the Mind” from concern #6; Basil Wolverton’s traditional “The place Monsters Dwell” from concern #7; Gene Colan’s moody “Home of Horror” in concern #3; and Don Rico’s wild layouts are on show from #4’s “The Torture Room.” The tales are written firmly within the custom of the pulpy, perverse, borderline deranged model that introduced Fredric Wertham, the US Senate Sub-Committee, and public opinion down like a sledgehammer on comics within the early ’50s.
Fantagraphics was type sufficient to offer Boing Boing with an entire excerpt from the ebook, Gene Colan’s “Home of Horror.”
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