Atlas comics library. No. 2, Vol. 2. Strange stories of the supernatural. Venus.
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Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics Books, 2024.
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Goodlettsville - Adult New | Graphic Series A8813 v.2 | In Transit |
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Published
Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics Books, 2024.
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Comic
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xxi, , 290 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
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English
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Atlas Comics library. No. 2
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"Comprising the last ten issues of Venus, July 1950-April 1952".
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With introduction by Dr. Michael J. Vassallo.
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"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 in particular 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 '50's 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."--Publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Vassallo, M. J. (2024). Atlas comics library (First Fantagraphics Books edition.). Fantagraphics Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Vassallo, Michael J.. 2024. Atlas Comics Library. Fantagraphics Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Vassallo, Michael J.. Atlas Comics Library Fantagraphics Books, 2024.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Vassallo, Michael J.. Atlas Comics Library First Fantagraphics Books edition., Fantagraphics Books, 2024.
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