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Amazing Fantasy (Adult) Omnibus HC Brereton Variant

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Stan Lee the man of thousand ideas. Before Stan Lee committed himself to super heroes the variety of his ideas spread from horizon to horizon. This book is evidence for that. Everything was possible. You get crime, monsters, SF, horror, history, mystery, and ... more than you can imagine. Each of these 68 short stories are well worth reading and some of them are classics. For example a story which contains the whole idea of "The Sixth Sense". The genius of Jack Kirby is already there and the innovative drawings from Steve Ditko are eye-popping. The book is oversized and the printing quality is perfect. This outstanding stories printed in this beautiful edition is a gem in any comic book collection. Highly recommend to all comic book fans.

These are nice stories. Sure, they're horror, sci-fi and fantasy, but it's about as horrific as watching old Frankenstein, Dracula or King Kong movies. Stan Lee typically worked in a little moral lesson or statement into these stories -- to bravely explore the unknown, to be compassionate to the unfortunate, to venerate the power of the imagination --!

These are good stories to read to kids, or even to enjoy yourself, if you haven't become too cynical. And yes, historically, you can see the influence of the pop culture of the day, and many of the elements which would, in later years, become the building blocks of the early Marvel Univere.