Peruse Amazing Fantasy Omnibus Prepared By Stan Lee In Physical Edition

the Man who Captured Death, the Man in the Mummy Case and the Man in the Sky, one of Marvel's earliest mutant heroes.
Monsters both microscopic and megalithic like Torr, Sserpo, Monsteroso, and the inimitable Tim Boo Ba, Aliens, genies, angels, ghosts and more, Plus the origins of SpiderMan and Doctor Druid, La raccolta deinumeri di Amazing Adventures/Amazing Adult Fantasy/Amazing Fantasy, usciti nel/, Attraverso i due cambiamenti di registro della rivista, dai "mostri" stile Godzilla e i racconti brevi stile Twlight Zone alla prima apparizione di Spidermann, s'individua l'evoluzione della cultura popolare Usa di quegli anni.
Disegni di Jack Kirby e Steve Ditko, I raccontini di Stan Lee e, appunto, Ditko sono meravigliosi, Conservano un'ingenuità vivace e colorata che affascina perché già moderna, comprendente la consapevolezza del candore perduto che inseguono nella pagina.
These classic stories may not be for everyone but they're chock full of space age monster stories with a scifi bent.
Great stuff. And of course, the last issue id this series introduced the one and only Amazing SpiderMan, so there's that, too.
Mira que los argumentos son de traca y tiran de giros de guión muchas veces previsibles, y que Kirby y Ditko no lo dan todo.
. . pero lo he disfrutado como cuando era un niño, This is a wonderful hardcover collection aboutpages ofreproduced comic books from, Thecomic books were of one series that changed its name three times: Amazing Adventures, Amazing Adult Fantasy "the magazine that respects your intelligence!" is the tagline, and then Amazing Fantasy.
Also they have nothing to do with fantasy or pornography despite the title names, they are all about monsters and Twilight Zone/sci fi stuff.


The only famous comic is Amazing Fantasy, which is the first appearance of Spider Man, This is very cool of course, but I found the "Amazing Adult Fantasy" issues the best, Each issue has five very short stories, and they all have a twist at the end, Sometimes you can predict them but often you cannot, and they are extremely well done, The earlys is captured on every panel with the fashions and vocabulary at the time and the whole experience was very enjoyable.


Finally, this series is Marvel Comics' bridge to their famous superhero age a guy named Doctor Droom is basically Doctor Strange, this one story featured a guy born as a mutant with powers and faced discrimination like the XMen, some of the monsters look like the Thing from the Fantastic Four, and more.
Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, and Jack Kirby some masters at work here and I highly recommend this! What is interesting about this collection is how disappointed you are when the fifteenth and final issue introduces SpiderMan.
Issueswhen the book was titled Amazing Adult Fantasy suggest an intriguing place comics might have gone had their creators not been interested in making a living.
Admittedly, one can sense Lee's well of inspiration running dry toward the end of that run and the transition to superheroic uniformity seems damnably inevitable, hindsight or no.
Estas historietas tienen su aquel, Los monstruos de Kirby, las ideas que después darían lugar a iconos del universo Marvel un primer Doctor Extraño, mutantes, los panteones de dioses de la antigüedad viniendo a nuestro mundo.
. . y, sobre todo, varias de las ilustradas por Ditko, excelente narrador entregado a hacer su versión de los tebeos de la EC para los tiempos del Comic Code.
Entre ellas hay algunas, pocas, muy buenas, plagadas de seres normales enfrentados a los misterios de un universo donde todo es posible.


Mi distancia frente a ellas emerge de las limitaciones de las que parte el guión, Las concesiones para ajustarse a un patrón tan constreñido como la normativa del Code les quitan la gracia y, dentro de su ingenuidad, me cuesta encontrarles su encanto.
Si a esto le sumas que Lee termina muchas de ellas de aquella manera, la sensación que me deja es el de haber leído un cómic más antiguo que clásico.
Beautifully reproduced collection of scifi/horror omnibus sleaze in the EC comics tradition which was all the rage way back in the Fifties, all written Marvellously by Swingin' Stan Lee.
You'll see one gnarly, tweakered looking monster after another, each one looking more deformed and fucked than the one before it like fat plumbers, all with names like Manoo, Torr, Sserpo, Krogg, and of course Monsteroso!

Jack Kirby is totally in his element here, not to be outdone by the mind bending morality plays illustrated by Steve Ditko.
The "Teddy Bear" story by him is unforgettable and bizarrely sweet, The street price isbut etailers sell it foroff, check it out! Love the comic Amazing Fantasy Omnibus's tagline: "The Magazine That Respects Your Intelligence!" I love the work Steve Ditko did in lates and earlys for Marvel's anthology comics: Amazing Fantasy, Journey into Mystery, Strange Tales, Tales of Suspense, Tales to Astonish and some of their lesser known titles.


This volume collects allissues of the comic book mostly known as Amazing Fantasy although only the last issue was actually called that.
Amazing Fantasy started out as Amazing Adventures issuesand was just like Marvel's other anthology titles: the stories drawn by various artists including Ditko and Jack Kirby.
But with issue, the title became Amazing Adult Fantasy with all the stories illustrated by Ditko,

I enjoyed the Marvel Masterworks reprints of the early nonsuperhero stories from Tales to Astonish and Tales of Suspense, and I'm looking forward to the later volumes of Journey into Mystery and Strange Tales where I hope to get a bit more Ditko.


But for sheer volume of Ditko this volume can't be beat, Each Masterworks volume hastoissues usually with no more thantostories drawn by Ditko,

But this volume contains nine issues of nothing but Ditko plus his

stories in first six issues, The only thing better would be a hardback series that collected all of his nonsuperhero Marvel work from that period.

This is a beautifully produced hardcover, Just as nice as sitelinkJack Kirby's The Demon one that I read about the same time, It's got some classic sitelinkJack Kirby monster comics, and it's got the first appearance of SpiderMan, And it's all pretty good, really, But I was going back through these looking for sitelinkKirby monster comics, and while this one delivered a better package than the sitelinkAtlas Era Tales to Astonish that I recently finished up, the sitelinkKirby stories petered out about halfway through, and the stories that were left didn't really hold my interest.
Not that the art almost all of it by sitelinkSteve Ditko was bad, just that the stories were incredibly short two to four pages and not really what I was looking for.


Still, as far as presentation goes, you couldn't ask for much better, If you loved the monster comics from Marvel as a kid then here is the collection for ya, You can't beat Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko art and Stan Lee writing for classics overthetop monster stories, Great reads Recommended Raccoglie l'intera serie mensile coi suoi cambiamenti, di nome e struttura,
Certo sono storielle ingenue, che dopo un poco si ripetono, C'è un certo moralismo di fondo, specie in quelle di Steve Ditko, Però è una gran lettura, piena di fantasia e di idee, I love the Kirby monsters and Ditko atmospherics, Excellent paper quality for the pages, great reproductions. Ditko es la estrella en estosnúmeros reunidos,

Está lleno de moustruos, ciencia ficción y fantasía, Todo lo que era Marvel antes de ser lo que conocemos ahora,

Bueno o Malo Ni una ni otra: Historia, Im not a huge fan of the Omnibus format, I think its a major moneygrab on the part of both Marvel and DC, and I find the books unwieldy and difficult to read.
But occasionally theres a small one that interests me and is on sale on eBay, and thats the case with the Amazing Fantasy Omnibus, a reasonably compact less thanpages compilation of the last of the Marvel monster books.
This collection contains Amazing Adventures, Amazing Adult Fantasy, and Amazing Fantasy, the latter being the mostvalued Marvel comic of all, featuring the debut of the Amazing SpiderMan thats a lot of Amazings!.


The first six issues are just forgettable giant monster tales, in the Marvel manner of the lates/s.
Im not quite sure why they did yet another monster book they were already publishing Journey into Mystery, Strange Tales, Tales of Suspense, and Tales to Astonish.
But Marvel which wasnt quite Marvel at this point in time was restricted to just eight books per month by their distributor owned by DC Comics, which Stan Lee metered out asbimonthly books.
Amazing Adventures, though, debuted as a monthly, and while the Jack Kirby/Dick Ayers monster tales are great to look at and horrible to read, its the Steve Ditko fivepagers that have a totally different feel to them.
Lee recognized this and with issuedevoted the entire book to stories drawn by Ditko, usually four fivepage stories and one threepager in each issue.
Amazing Adult Fantasy,debuting with the Decemberissue, just one month after Fantastic Fourhas a totally different feel to it, unlike any other comic on the newsstands at that time.
These short, punchy stories remind you of the hit TV series, The Twilight Zone, which was airing at the time.
The stories have a kind of EC/OHenry vibe to them, but theyre short and quick to read, unlike ECs very dense but wonderfully drawn tales.
I remember this series fondly from when I was very young we bought every issue off the newsstands as they came out.
As a kid I hated Ditkos art, but now I love it, Looking at the stories in this collection, they look great, pretty much the best Ive ever seen any Marvel reprint look and theyve looked pretty bad in some of the Masterworks volumes.


Each issue of AAF was drawn entirely by Ditko, and included a Contents page and a onepage sneak peek at the next issue.
Eventually, Lee added a letters page, too, But the book was never the hit Lee hoped it to be, and that may be because of the addition of the word “Adult” in the title the tag line for the book was “The magazine that respects your intelligence!”.
I think Lee and Ditko did some of their best work with this series, and the fans who took the time to write in obviously loved it.
But by issuecoverdated September, publisher Martin Goodman was ready to pull the plug, With the success of the Fantastic Four, Lee and Ditko came up with SpiderMan for the final issue now titled simply Amazing Fantasy.
That feature clicked with readers and the word Amazing was carried over to the new Amazing SpiderMan ongoing series in late, with a cover date of March.


This volume also includes all of Amazing Fantasyincluding the nonSpidey backup stories, all the original art for the Spidey story, an introduction by comic artist Steve Bissette which focuses on the giant monster aspect of Amazing Adventuresand some historical perspective on Amazing Adult Fantasyby Ditko expert Blake Bell.
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