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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Tales of maddening menace,
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This review is from: Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Menace - Volume 1 (Hardcover)
This comic book was Atlas(Marvel) Comics answer to EC Comics horror comics of the 1950s. The stories were all written by Stan Lee(at first), with art by the best artists working for Atlas. All stories are told by the narrator as if the reader was the main character in the story. For example, the first story in the first issue starts out, "Your name is Lou Briggs... You live in a plain, furnished room in an ordinary apartment house in Upper Manhatten!". Every story ends with a "twist" ending. The artwork is usually excellent, and most of the stories are good, although the comics got worse near the end of the run, after Stan Lee stopped writing. All eleven issues of the comic book are included here, beautifully reproduced. Even the text pages from the comic books(which most readers at the time didn't bother to read) are included. Most of this book is quite enjoyable, if you like old horror comics. I should also mention that Menace featured the first appearances of two characters who were revived by Marvel years later; The Zombie and The Human Robot from Agents Of Atlas.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
If this this was Atlas' answer to the EC horror titles...,
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This review is from: Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Menace - Volume 1 (Hardcover)
...the answer was "We surrender!"
This book was widely billed as Atlas' finest horror title, specially published to compete with the very successful Al Feldstein scripted EC horror titles. The stories were scripted by Stan Lee and the artists were to be the cream of the Atlas crop - Bill Everett, Russ Heath, Joe Maneely, Gene Colan, etc. The results were less than stellar. The art was (and is) all it was supposed to be but the stories were imperceptably different in quality than the other Atlas titles and well below the EC titles. Few stories show any originality and many are childish or just plain silly. The good news is that taken on its own terms, as a reprint of half century old stories and art that the reader might have a more academic than literary interest in, the book works well. The reproduction is superb and the introduction by Dr. Michael Vassallo places the stories in their proper cultural context. I give the book 4 stars for its historical interest but for the reader uninterested in the history looking for entertainment there is little to be had here.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
The art is better than the script,
By Mike McWilliams (LAKE ZURICH, IL, US) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Menace - Volume 1 (Hardcover)
If you want to compare this to the 50's EC titles then EC blows this stuff away. If you want to call this the B-movie version of pre-code horror comics you are right on track.
In this presentation the overall look of the book is great. Most of the splash pages are worthy of a poster.However, some of the stories are way too short. Average 5 pages. Not a lot of room for development and some endings are highly predictable For cool art and cheap thrills this is worth picking up...even if the in depth story telling is lacking.
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