Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age USA Comics - Volume 1 [Hardcover]

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 280 pages
• Publisher: Marvel; Reprint edition (March 28, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0785124780
• ISBN-13: 978-0785124788
• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 7.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,474,205 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Smashing the Nazi Menace in tights!, September 28, 2007

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Riley0091 (Concord, NH) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age USA Comics - Volume 1 (Hardcover)

"The mightiest army of red-blooded patriots ever assembled under one cover! Gathered together from those halcyon days when comic books were all in color for a dime."

As our troops met the menace of the Axis powers on the land, sea and air, back home the nation's adolescent readers took comfort in the daring exploits of: The Defender (by Al Avison, Al Gabriele, George Klein & Joe Simon), The Whizzer (by Al Avison, Al Gabriele & Howard James), Mr. Liberty (by Phil Sturm, Syd Shores & George Klein), Rockman (by Basil Wolverton, Stan Lee & Charles Nicholas), Young Avenger (by Howard Purcell), Jack Frost (by Stan Lee, Charles Nicholas, Frank Giacoia, Carmine Infantino, Pierce Rice & Louis Cazenueve), Captain Terror (by Mike Suchorsky), Major Liberty (by Syd Shores & George Klein) and Vagabond (by Ed Winiarski.) These were Timely Comics (Marvel Comics' granddad) greatest Nazis-smashers brought to the page by comics' most talented writers and artists of the forties.

Marvel Masterworks: U.S.A. Comics Vol. 1 reprints U.S.A. Comics issues 1-4 in all it's patriotic four-color glory and is a must have for any Marvel comic fan or early comic book enthusiasts who have enjoyed vintage comic collections like Dick Briefer's The Monster of Frankenstein or Monster Masterworks.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The OTHER heroes!, December 31, 2007

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Vittorio Fabi (Fano, Italy) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age USA Comics - Volume 1 (Hardcover)

A very funny cavalcade that share with us the now-almost-forgotten other heroes of Timely-Atlas-Marvel!

A must-have for all the Golden Age fans!

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5.0 out of 5 stars USA #1 is an "all-winner"!, May 12, 2007

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Michael C. Delich "JSA Fanatic" (Kansas City, KS. USA) - See all my reviews
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Like many of the early Timely Comic titles, among them Daring Mystery, USA at first has no regular line-up of strips appearing issue to issue. Many appearances were one-shots. USA Comics was one of those in its earliest days, so the issues presented here give the reader a chance to get a rare peak of what worked for Timely and what didn't. Some heroes were not well written or thought out, but were more or less "a stab in the dark," some catching on, many not. That is what makes this volume a MUST HAVE and MUST READ by the Golden Age comics fan, and by the Marvel reader of today. Every company "had its roots," so to speak, and to appreciate Marvel's heroes of today [for good or bad], one must know of the past and see what has come before. This volume is a great way of doing this....being able to see MORE than just the Torch, Capt. America and the Sub-Mariner, the main-stays for the company down through the years. Seeing is believing, and you'll dig this great tome.