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Werewolf by Night (1972) #39-41
Marvel Horror Omnnibus
Marvel's creepiest characters put the "super" into supernatural in this titanic tome of terror! A veritable who's who of horror, this Omnibus collects the complete 1970s adventures of the Zombie, Brother Voodoo, the Living Mummy, It the Living Colossus, the Golem, Gabriel: Devil Hunter, the Scarecrow and Modred the Mystic - including hair-raising encounters with Werewolf by Night, Doctor Strange, the Hulk, the Thing, the Avengers and more! Read it if you dare! COLLECTING: STRANGE TALES (1951) 169-174, 176-177; SUPERNATURAL THRILLERS 5, 7-15; ASTONISHING TALES (1970) 21-24; DEAD OF NIGHT 11; MARVEL SPOTLIGHT (1971) 26; MARVEL CHILLERS 1-2; MARVEL TEAM-UP (1972) 24; WEREWOLF BY NIGHT (1972) 39-41; MARVEL TWO-INONE (1974) 11, 18, 33, 41, 95; DOCTOR STRANGE (1974) 48; INCREDIBLE HULK (1968) 244; FANTASTIC FOUR (1961) 222-223; AVENGERS (1963) 185-187; MATERIAL FROM ZOMBIE (1973) 1-10; HAUNT OF HORROR (1974) 2-5; MONSTERS UNLEASHED (1973) 11; BIZARRE ADVENTURES 33; MENACE 5; MOON KNIGHT (1980) 21; TALES OF SUSPENSE (1959) 14, 20; STRANGE TALES (1951) 74, 89
1328 pages, Hardcover
Published September 3, 2019
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Steve Gerber
638 books66 followersSteve Gerber graduated from the University of Missouri with a degree in communications and took a job in advertising. To keep himself sane, he wrote bizarre short stories such as "Elves Against Hitler," "Conversion in a Terminal Subway," and "...And the Birds Hummed Dirges!" He noticed acquaintance Roy Thomas working at Marvel, and Thomas sent him Marvel's standard writing test, dialoguing Daredevil art. He was soon made a regular on Daredevil and Sub-Mariner, and the newly created Man-Thing, the latter of which pegged him as having a strong personal style--intellectual, introspective, and literary. In one issue, he introduced an anthropomorphic duck into a horror fantasy, because he wanted something weird and incongruous, and Thomas made the character, named for Gerber's childhood friend Howard, fall to his apparent death in the following issue. Fans were outraged, and the character was revived in a new and deeply personal series. Gerber said in interview that the joke of Howard the Duck is that "there is no joke." The series was existential and dealt with the necessities of life, such as finding employment to pay the rent. Such unusual fare for comicbooks also informed his writing on The Defenders. Other works included Morbius, the Lving Vampire, The Son of Satan, Tales of the Zombie, The Living Mummy, Marvel Two-in-One, Guardians of the Galaxy, Shanna the She-Devil, and Crazy Magazine for Marvel, and Mister Miracle, Metal Men,
The Phantom Zone
, and The Immortal Doctor Fate for DC. Gerber eventually lost a lawsuit for control of Howard the Duck when he was defending artist Gene Colan's claim of delayed paychecks for the series, which was less important to him personally because he had a staff job and Colan did not.
He left comics for animation in the early 1980s, working mainly with Ruby-Spears, creating Thundarr the Barbarian with Alex Toth and Jack Kirby and episodes of The Puppy's Further Adventures, and Marvel Productions, where he was story editor on multiple Marvel series including Dungeons & Dragons, G.I. Joe, and The Transformers. He continued to dabble in comics, mainly for Eclipse, including the graphic novel Stewart the Rat, the two-part horror story "Role Model: Caring, Sharing, and Helping Others," and the seven-issue Destroyer Duck with Jack Kirby, which began as a fundraiser for Gerber's lawsuit.
In the early 1990s, he returned to Marvel with Foolkiller, a ten-issue limited series featuring a new version of a villain he had used in The Man-Thing and Omega the Unknown, who communicated with a previous version of the character through internet bulletin boards. An early internet adopter himself, he wrote two chapters of BBSs for Dummies with Beth Woods Slick, with whom he also wrote the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Contagion." During this period, he also wrote The Sensational She-Hulk and Cloak and Dagger for Marvel, Cybernary and WildC.A.T.s for Image, and Sludge and Exiles for the writer-driven Malibu Ultraverse, and Nevada for DC's mature readers Vertigo line.
In 2002, he returned to the Howard the Duck character for Marvel's mature readers MAX line, and for DC created Hard Time with Mary Skrenes, with whom he had co-created the cult hit Omega the Unknown for Marvel. Their ending for Omega the Unknown remains a secret that Skrenes plans to take to the grave if Marvel refuses to publish it. Suffering from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis ("idiopathic" meaning of unknown origin despite having been a heavy smoker much of his life), he was on a waiting list for a double lung transplant. His final work was the Doctor Fate story arc, "More Pain Comics," for DC Comics'
He left comics for animation in the early 1980s, working mainly with Ruby-Spears, creating Thundarr the Barbarian with Alex Toth and Jack Kirby and episodes of The Puppy's Further Adventures, and Marvel Productions, where he was story editor on multiple Marvel series including Dungeons & Dragons, G.I. Joe, and The Transformers. He continued to dabble in comics, mainly for Eclipse, including the graphic novel Stewart the Rat, the two-part horror story "Role Model: Caring, Sharing, and Helping Others," and the seven-issue Destroyer Duck with Jack Kirby, which began as a fundraiser for Gerber's lawsuit.
In the early 1990s, he returned to Marvel with Foolkiller, a ten-issue limited series featuring a new version of a villain he had used in The Man-Thing and Omega the Unknown, who communicated with a previous version of the character through internet bulletin boards. An early internet adopter himself, he wrote two chapters of BBSs for Dummies with Beth Woods Slick, with whom he also wrote the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Contagion." During this period, he also wrote The Sensational She-Hulk and Cloak and Dagger for Marvel, Cybernary and WildC.A.T.s for Image, and Sludge and Exiles for the writer-driven Malibu Ultraverse, and Nevada for DC's mature readers Vertigo line.
In 2002, he returned to the Howard the Duck character for Marvel's mature readers MAX line, and for DC created Hard Time with Mary Skrenes, with whom he had co-created the cult hit Omega the Unknown for Marvel. Their ending for Omega the Unknown remains a secret that Skrenes plans to take to the grave if Marvel refuses to publish it. Suffering from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis ("idiopathic" meaning of unknown origin despite having been a heavy smoker much of his life), he was on a waiting list for a double lung transplant. His final work was the Doctor Fate story arc, "More Pain Comics," for DC Comics'
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Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews
April 8, 2020
Easily one of the greatest Omnibus Marvel as to date yet published. This one belongs in the home of every Marvel fan. Sublime perfection.
April 12, 2021
not everything in here is ✭✭✭✭✭, but the classic simon garth run is ✭✭✭✭✭ enough to cover the whole omnibus
March 28, 2024
(Zero spoiler review) 4.25/5
This is what I'm talking about! Hailing from a time when artists actually put pencil to paper and the idea of insulting and debasing your reading audience was an alien and intolerable concept, Marvel Horror omnibus gives us a rather hefty and hella good smattering of comic book gold. This is one chunky boy, clocking in at a whopping 1300+ pages, and I loved (almost) every second of it.
The list of contributors who routinely blew my socks off would be too long to mention, but the sheer joy seeing people at the top of their craft, with no hidden prerogative or alternate agenda beyond telling a great story with some kickass art to boot, was just so damn refreshing. Of course it shouldn't be. It should be the most normal thing in the world. Persons in the business of entertaining people set out to, and achieve their goal of entertainment. It's a shocking concept to be sure, but the proof is in the reading, and the looking, of course. And it sure is one hell of a looker.
Yes, about two thirds of the way through, it does get a wee bit too cheesy with some silver age silliness, that is about as scary as a modern superhero comic... No wait, that doesn't work. Modern superhero books are terrifying, just not in the way you might imagine.
The highlight is undoubtedly the black and white start and finish to the book, with The Living Zombie and Gabriel, Devil Hunter being just the right mix of scary, silly and sexy.
It's out of print, and not exactly a bargain on the secondary market, although if you can track one down, or access the stories in some other form, I would strongly recommend checking it out. 4.25/5
OmniBen.
This is what I'm talking about! Hailing from a time when artists actually put pencil to paper and the idea of insulting and debasing your reading audience was an alien and intolerable concept, Marvel Horror omnibus gives us a rather hefty and hella good smattering of comic book gold. This is one chunky boy, clocking in at a whopping 1300+ pages, and I loved (almost) every second of it.
The list of contributors who routinely blew my socks off would be too long to mention, but the sheer joy seeing people at the top of their craft, with no hidden prerogative or alternate agenda beyond telling a great story with some kickass art to boot, was just so damn refreshing. Of course it shouldn't be. It should be the most normal thing in the world. Persons in the business of entertaining people set out to, and achieve their goal of entertainment. It's a shocking concept to be sure, but the proof is in the reading, and the looking, of course. And it sure is one hell of a looker.
Yes, about two thirds of the way through, it does get a wee bit too cheesy with some silver age silliness, that is about as scary as a modern superhero comic... No wait, that doesn't work. Modern superhero books are terrifying, just not in the way you might imagine.
The highlight is undoubtedly the black and white start and finish to the book, with The Living Zombie and Gabriel, Devil Hunter being just the right mix of scary, silly and sexy.
It's out of print, and not exactly a bargain on the secondary market, although if you can track one down, or access the stories in some other form, I would strongly recommend checking it out. 4.25/5
OmniBen.
May 27, 2024
Some really good and bad ideas make up this Omnibus. On the good side, the collections for the Zombie, Living Mummy, and Gabriel Devil-Hunter are enough justification to buy this book. Brother Voodoo is great, but every story here has been featured in his own Marvel Masterworks.
Other characters It, the Living Colossus and Golem are mediocre stories that were created in the silver age and brought back in the bronze to sell comics, then were promptly forgotten. Scarecrow doesn’t make any sense.
I would really have preferred they reprinted the entire runs of some of these comics and mags. Keep all the stories, don’t cut out the less popular stories. Much like when they printed the Deadly Hands of Kung Fu, with all the articles and features. It would be nice to see all of Haunt of Horrors, Supernatural Thrillers and Monsters Unleashed. But either rights issues or sales figures will probably keep Marvel from ever doing that.
Other characters It, the Living Colossus and Golem are mediocre stories that were created in the silver age and brought back in the bronze to sell comics, then were promptly forgotten. Scarecrow doesn’t make any sense.
I would really have preferred they reprinted the entire runs of some of these comics and mags. Keep all the stories, don’t cut out the less popular stories. Much like when they printed the Deadly Hands of Kung Fu, with all the articles and features. It would be nice to see all of Haunt of Horrors, Supernatural Thrillers and Monsters Unleashed. But either rights issues or sales figures will probably keep Marvel from ever doing that.
September 24, 2023
Not a fan of these 1,300+ page books, but it's the only way to get this material reprinted in color.
Tales Of the Zombie is the highlight here.
Tales Of the Zombie is the highlight here.
August 8, 2024
Seventies horror-
Marvel mediocrity!
Tigra always next.
Marvel mediocrity!
Tigra always next.
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