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Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Heroes #3
Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Heroes, Vol. 3
Bronze dust jacket
259 pages, Hardcover
First published September 24, 2008
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Bill Everett
389 books11 followersWilliam Blake Everett, aka Bill Everett, was a comic book writer-artist best known for creating Namor the Sub-Mariner as well as co-creating Zombie and Daredevil with writer Stan Lee for Marvel Comics. He was a descendant of the poet William Blake and of Richard Everett, founder of Dedham, Massachusetts.
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February 21, 2017
This book collects the brief revival of the Sub-mariner in his own comic from Issues 33-42.
The bulk of the comic stories feature the Sub-mariner. Original artist Bill Everett to draw all the Sub-mariner stories an the art in this book is absolutely superb and a cut above most Silver Age art. The stories are mostly well-written.
In the Silver Age, comic books would become obsessed with telling what Superheroes did during their childhood, ranging from the often weak tales of Aquaman and Wonder Woman to the epic Asgard tales of young Thor and Loki. Everett was ahead of his time in the mid-1950s, from Issue 35-42 we get eight tales looking at adventures of Namor as a child and they're far above the quality of most Silver Age stories. (Though not quite as epic as Thor's.)
The adult stories were mostly fun tales of the Sub-marienr taking on criminals, commies, and an alien here or there. The biggest problem I had with those stories was some of the consistency. For the first half of the book, Sub-mariner was the friend of surface people and tried to thwart his evil Stepbrother's attempts to start trouble. Then the Emperor of Atlantis powers him up and orders him to declare war on the surface people and he does lackadaisically, half-heartedly, and at times a disregard for lives, and then towards the end, the war is dropped. It's weird because the reason this book was kept going while Captain America and Human Torch were cancelled was because they planned on making a TV series out of Sub-mariner. Hard to do that with someone trying to wipe out mankind.
Other than that betrayal of the character and a few stories hindered by the rigid space requirement, the stories were all enjoyable.
The Human Torch appears in three back upstories and they're okay if unremarkable. Probably the best story is in Issue #33 which has the Torch taking on weird alien creatures. The art is really fun on that one. The other two involve a plague outbreak, and an attempt to frame the Human Torch.
After the Torch leaves, the back up feature becomes sea-based and doesn't feature recurring characters. The ones involving people at sea are good, but the four nature comics that center on the struggle of a sea creature features outstanding art and some great action as the they fight for their lives.
The text stories are okay. They're forgettable but will pass a couple minutes and allowed the comic company to ship out a lower rate.
The rare comics reprinted are a joy with solid artwork and enjoyable stories. Recommended for any fan of comic history or Namor.
The bulk of the comic stories feature the Sub-mariner. Original artist Bill Everett to draw all the Sub-mariner stories an the art in this book is absolutely superb and a cut above most Silver Age art. The stories are mostly well-written.
In the Silver Age, comic books would become obsessed with telling what Superheroes did during their childhood, ranging from the often weak tales of Aquaman and Wonder Woman to the epic Asgard tales of young Thor and Loki. Everett was ahead of his time in the mid-1950s, from Issue 35-42 we get eight tales looking at adventures of Namor as a child and they're far above the quality of most Silver Age stories. (Though not quite as epic as Thor's.)
The adult stories were mostly fun tales of the Sub-marienr taking on criminals, commies, and an alien here or there. The biggest problem I had with those stories was some of the consistency. For the first half of the book, Sub-mariner was the friend of surface people and tried to thwart his evil Stepbrother's attempts to start trouble. Then the Emperor of Atlantis powers him up and orders him to declare war on the surface people and he does lackadaisically, half-heartedly, and at times a disregard for lives, and then towards the end, the war is dropped. It's weird because the reason this book was kept going while Captain America and Human Torch were cancelled was because they planned on making a TV series out of Sub-mariner. Hard to do that with someone trying to wipe out mankind.
Other than that betrayal of the character and a few stories hindered by the rigid space requirement, the stories were all enjoyable.
The Human Torch appears in three back upstories and they're okay if unremarkable. Probably the best story is in Issue #33 which has the Torch taking on weird alien creatures. The art is really fun on that one. The other two involve a plague outbreak, and an attempt to frame the Human Torch.
After the Torch leaves, the back up feature becomes sea-based and doesn't feature recurring characters. The ones involving people at sea are good, but the four nature comics that center on the struggle of a sea creature features outstanding art and some great action as the they fight for their lives.
The text stories are okay. They're forgettable but will pass a couple minutes and allowed the comic company to ship out a lower rate.
The rare comics reprinted are a joy with solid artwork and enjoyable stories. Recommended for any fan of comic history or Namor.
July 28, 2024
This reprints Bill Everett's amazing run on the title, and his artwork is amazing and very detail oriented. This book falls under the category of "never in a million years could I afford to buy and/or find all of these issues".
January 21, 2016
Another great collection of rare Golden Age comics. Very interesting reading these early stories. Recommended
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