The Atlas Artist Edition Vol. 1: Joe Maneely (The Fantagraphics Atlas Artist Edition)
Joe Maneely was known for his draftsmanship, his versatility, and his speed. He could draw horror, science fiction, war, crime, Mad-style humor, Westerns, and funny animals with equal dexterity. His tactile, chiaroscuro graphic approach to storytelling has made him a legend among the comics cognoscenti, but because he never drew superheroes and his life ended tragically at age 32, he has never been given the attention his short but incandescent career deserves. Until now.As Geoffrey C. Ward wrote in American Heritage, “Maneely’s knowledge of 19th century artifacts was encyclopedic, his rumpled, unshaven cowboys all wore the right hats, swung the right lariats, sat in the right saddles, fired the right model Colts — with every screwhead and trigger guard and notched handle precisely rendered.”And that’s only his Westerns. That tightly focused attention to detail pervades his work in every genre.
The Atlas Artist Edition: Vol. 1 Joe Maneely presents a cornucopia of Maneely’s work for Marvel (then called Atlas) including Westerns (Kid Colt, Black Rider, Ringo Kid, Wyatt Earp, Two-Gun Kid), pre-code horror (“Haunted!”, “The Raving Maniac”, and the classic “Your Name Is Frankenstein”), space opera (Speed Carter), war (Combat Kelly), Mad-style parodies from the pages of Crazy and Riot, cold-war intrigue and paranoia (Yellow Claw), and Maneely’s pride and joy — his Arthurian champion, The Black Knight.
Series editor Dr. Michael J. Vassallo provides expert contextual and historical commentary in a special essay for this volume.
- Éditeur : Fantagraphics Books; 1er édition (16 janvier 2024)
- Langue : Anglais
- Relié : 256 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1683968913
- ISBN-13 : 978-1683968917
Rhôô la vache.
Jim
C’est tentant, mais c’est 75 dollars…
J’hésite.
Tori.
Ouaip, la collection Atlas Comics de Fantagraphics est très intéressante mais les albums sont chers. Le premier volume ci-dessous est déjà sorti, les autres sont à venir :
Mais mais mais…
Dingue !
Heureux que tu nous en parles !!!
Jim
(W) Bill Everett
The Goddess of Love…and SF horror: The eagerly
anticipated single volume collecting the 10 rare
issues of the overstuffed Venus comics!
In the late 1940s, the first half of the Venus series from Marvel
Comics predecessors Timely and Atlas Comics was published as
a lighthearted romance comic about the goddess Venus taking
a job on Earth at a beauty magazine. Never a company to miss
a trend, Atlas began introducing more science fiction elements
in the 1950s, and eventually turned Venus’ dating adventures
into a straight-out horror anthology.
Collected here, 70 years later and for the first time ever, is
that swift-changing second half of the 19-issue run. Future Marvel
stars Bill Everett (seven issues) and Werner Roth (three issues) take Venus to
heights of four-color weirdness and pre-Code horror ghastliness. Everett is given
free rein and seizes the opportunity: writing, drawing, and lettering twenty ghoulish
and goofy masterpieces, including classics like « Hangman’s House, » « The Day Venus
Vanished, » « The House of Terror, » « The Sealed Spectors, » Tidal Wave of Terror," and
the phantasmagorical « Cartoonist’s Calamity! » These stories showcase the brilliant
draftsmanship and storytelling of Everett, one of the giants of the 1940s and '50s
comic book industry. His slick, fluid line rendered at Timely/Atlas, from his seminal
god-child Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner, to the atomic age Marvel Boy, is some
of the finest pre-Code horror this side of E.C.'s Graham Ingels.
Series editor Dr. Michael J. Vassallo assisted in the compilation of Venus for
Marvel 13 years ago, and Fantagraphics is delighted to publish the horror half as
the second title in The Fantagraphics Atlas Comics Library.In Shops: Apr 17, 2024
SRP: $49.99
The Atlas Comics Library 3: In the Days of the Rockets!
In the vein of earlier comics-to-multimedia stars Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon, Atlas Comics launched their own pulp hero in 1951, looking ahead to the futuristic year 2000. Across five issues of Space Squadron (and one of Space Worlds), headline talents including George Tuska, Werner Roth and Allen Bellman (with back-up features by Joe Maneely, Christopher Rule, George Klein and Vern Henkel) showed Captain Jet Dixon and his Space Squadron blasting into action, facing cosmic threats like « The Armada of Death, » « The Space Demons, » « Terror from the Deep, » « The Temptress of Jupiter, » and « The Midnight Horror. »
Come 1953, Hank Chapman and Joe Maneely gazed further into the future, envisioning the distant year 2075 and the adventures of Speed Carter, Spaceman. Scripted throughout by Chapman, Maneely launched and drew the first three issues before handing off one issue each to Mike Sekowsky, George Tuska and Bob Forgione, with back-up features by John Romita, Maneely, and Bill Savage. As other aspects of the Atlas line leaned into the peak of pre-Code horror, the Captain of the Space Sentinels and young cadet Johnny Day battled monstrous aliens with stories including « The Space Trap, » « A Slaughter in Space, » « Die, Spaceman, Die, » and « The Thing in Outer Space. »
Unseen in 70 years, scanned in high resolution, restored to perfection and packaged as one extra-sized, beautiful hardcover volume, In the Days of the Rockets! will open a wormhole to the early cold-war four-color era of futuristic science fantasy.
- Éditeur : Fantagraphics Books; 1er édition (6 août 2024)
- Langue : Anglais
- Relié : 336 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1683969693
- ISBN-13 : 978-1683969693
War Comics 1
Forged in the crucible of the Korean War, and produced by veterans of the Second World War, this volume’s eight issues present the brutality and grimness of armed combat by some of Atlas’ most notable war artists and future comics stars including Gene Colan, Russ Heath, Joe Maneely, Dave Berg, Jay Scott Pike, Mike Sekowsky, Vern Henkel, Allen Bellman, Pete Morisi and Norman Steinberg.
Propaganda abounds from the very first story, published in War Comics #1 in September 1950: « Peril in Korea, » a primer explaining why the USA joined the conflict. Other highlights include Colan’s « The Chips are Down » and « Victory, » Heath’s « Alone » and « No Survivors, » Maneely’s « Stormy Weather, » Henkel’s « Total Destruction, » and Berg’s « The Infantry’s War. »
Originally a trial spun off from the publisher’s « Men’s Adventure » publications, in the nine years to follow, Atlas went on to produce 533 comic book issues with war content, across 34 different titles. War Comics is where it all began – unseen in decades, scanned from the original books, restored and packaged as one large, beautiful hardcover volume.
- Éditeur : Fantagraphics Books (19 novembre 2024)
- Langue : Anglais
- Relié : 180 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1683969685
- ISBN-13 : 978-1683969686
The Atlas Comics Library No. 5: Police Action
Before focusing on tales of justice via superheroes under the Marvel banner, the publisher covered ground-level crime across a range of comics titles and true-crime magazines. Under the Timely imprint from 1947, and Atlas from 1951, up to eleven graphic series including Justice Comics, Official True Crime Cases, All-True Crime, Crime Cases, Crime Can’t Win, Crime Must Lose, and Crime Exposed all muscled each other and competitors for space on the newsstands.
For the first crime-themed volume in Fantagraphics’ ongoing project to restore and resurrect pre-Marvel pulp classics, the Atlas Library has selected a book that debuted as the genre peaked, just before a Senate hearing and the institution of the Comics Code banned the use of the word « Crime » from even appearing in a comic’s title. Escaping that fate, Police Action had a seven-issue run of violent and noir-ish morality plays, pitting the officers of the law against the forces of urban malevolence, and was produced by the cream of the Atlas freelance roster, including Joe Maneely, Robert Q. Sale, Gene Colan, Art Peddy, Mort Lawrence, Werner Roth and Bob Powell.
Rounding the volume off, also presented is a post-Code one-shot, Police Badge #479, a snapshot of the industry’s attempts to adapt to new strictures on the genre: here we view « our boys in blue » in the fight against rank corruption, highlighting the work of Don Heck and Joe Maneely.
- ASIN : B0CWQ5HWDL
- Éditeur : Fantagraphics; 1er édition (25 février 2025)
- Langue : Anglais
- Relié : 254 pages
- ISBN-13 : 979-8875000058
- Poids de l’article : 788 g
- Dimensions : 22.86 x 2.54 x 27.94 cm
The Atlas Comics Library No. 6: Shiver as You Read!
The 1950s boom in horror comics saw Atlas Comics’ entrée into the genre. Beginning in March 1952, Amazing Detective Cases began detailing cases where justice was served in supernatural fashion and beginning in May 1953, the adventures in Men’s Adventures were taken over by ghosts, murderous revenge, and psychological terror. The cream of Atlas’ artistic line-up – including recent EC stars and future Marvel staples - rose to the grisly challenge of the horror genre. Each issue is crammed with four condensed tales of creeping dread, ironic comeuppance, or startling twists, all from a different artist or team.
Among the short, sharp shocks included in this volume are the mini masterpieces « The Eerie Escape » by B. Krigstein, « The Torture Master! » by Russ Heath, The Drowning Witch" by Reed Crandall and « The 3rd Corpse » by Bill Everett. Stories by Gene Colan, John Romita, Joe Sinnott, Dick Ayers, Jim Mooney, Paul Reinman and George Tuska, all of whom remained through the shift to Marvel Comics, additionally fill out these issues, along with Atlas regulars Fred Kida, Mort Lawrence, Mike Sekowsky and Myron Fass. Notably included is the first appearance of « Gorilla Man » by Robert Q. Sale, a character brought back in Marvel’s contemporary Agents of Atlas series, and part of their ongoing continuity.
Collecting Amazing Detective Cases #11-14 and Men’s Adventures #21-26, Shiver As You Read! is a perfect companion to Adventures Into Terror, Venus, and the other titles of the Atlas Comics Library.
- ASIN : B0D97271SR
- Éditeur : Fantagraphics Books; 1er édition (22 avril 2025)
- Langue : Anglais
- Relié : 304 pages
- ISBN-13 : 979-8875000577
John Buscema, Bill Everett, Russ Heath, Ann Brewster, B (Bernard) Krigstein, Dr. Michael J. Vassallo
The Atlas Comics Library No. 7: Girl Comics
On sale date: June 24, 2025
In 1950, a romance comic became an empowering adventure comic for girls at the hands of some of Marvel’s greatest cartoonists!
This new volume in Fantagraphics’ and Marvel’s collaborative Atlas Library presents Girl Comics #1-12, a long unseen subversion of romance comics beautifully designed for a new generation of readers!
In 1950, Timely/Atlas/Marvel took a typical romance title called Girl Comics and turned it into a sister companion to its successful men’s-adventure comics: an empowering girls’-adventure comic! Mystery, adventure and suspense was promised and delivered! At the hands of a stellar artistic line-up, including John Buscema, Mike Sekowsky, Bill Everett, Joe Maneely, Russ Heath, and Bernard Krigstein, Girl Comics evolved from heart-stricken love stories to hair-raising girl-power thrill rides like “The Death Plunge!,” “The House of Shadows!,” “I was a Murderer’s Daughter!,” “They Called me a Spy!,” “The Dead Hands at the Controls,” and “The Dark Hallway.”
This volume also features the story behind the stories, with editor Dr. Michael J. Vassallo’s essays on Marvel publisher Martin Goodman’s enthusiastic relationship with romance comics and magazines at a time when the artform was cementing itself into American youth culture!
Pages
336
Format
Hardback
Color
Full-color.
Dimensions
8.8" × 11.7"
ISBN-13
9798875001079
Stan Lee, John Severin, Bill Everett, Joe Maneely, Dr. Michael J. VassalloThe Atlas Comics Library No. 8: Snafu
On sale date: August 19, 2025
Marvel in a Mad mode! The complete 1955 Snafu magazine collected for the first time, featuring satire by John and Marie Severin, Russ Heath, Joe Maneely, Stan Lee and others in a gorgeous new package!
When Harvey Kurtzman and Bill Gaines launched EC’s Mad comic book as a warmly received satirical magazine, a flood of imitators soon filled newsstands, but the first and best to follow in Mad’s footsteps (coinciding with the second issue of Mad magazine) was Snafu, edited and written by Kurtzman’s former boss: Stan “The Man” Lee!
Snafu was packed with Marvel/Atlas’ top humor creators and, following the Mad playbook, filled pages with ad and news spoofs, alongside film, television, and book parodies like “The Blackboard Forest” by Russ Heath, “Pete Kelsey’s Booze” and “Bleed, You Bum!” by Joe Maneely, “Drugnet” by Howie Post, “Emily Toast’s Etiquette Page” by John Severin, and “Snafu’s Lovely Ladies” by Bill Everett, with production supervised by Marie Severin. Seen here is some of the most eye-popping work of Maneely’s short life, including great Hollywood caricatures done in a wash style.
In this new volume in our Atlas Library collaboration with Marvel, Fantagraphics is tickled pink to present for the first time, the complete Snafu collection along with a history of Martin Goodman’s humor publications in all genres by editor Dr. Michael J. Vassallo.
The Atlas Comics Library No. 8: Snafu is part of the Atlas Comics series.
Pages
256
Format
Hardback
Color
Black-and-white.
Dimensions
8.8" × 11.7"
ISBN-13
9798875001086