Free Comic Book Day 2024 - Marvel & Fantagraphics Present Atlas Comics Library


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Free Comic Book Day 2024 - Marvel & Fantagraphics Present Atlas Comics Library
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This is a promotional item that is available as part of Free Comic Book Day 2024.

The ultimate Marvel team-up! Fantagraphics' new Atlas Library collaboration with Marvel, presenting classic comics from the pre-Marvel Atlas era, began in the Fall of 2023 and continues in 2024, as evidenced in this 32-page showcase of primo pre-Code gems from the House of Ideas. Included stories represent a range of genres from the series, including Adventures Into Terror and Venus. Included are Stan Lee and Joe Maneely's satire on anti-comics crusader Fredric Wertham, "The Raving Maniac"; Gene Colan's horror story "The Clock Strikes"; Basil Wolverton's horror story "Where Monsters Dwell"; Maneely's gritty war story "Rain"; Maneely's Hank Ketcham parody, "Pascal the Rascal"; and Bill Everett's romantic horror story "The Kiss of Death," starring Atlas heroine Venus.

Rating: Teen

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Free Comic Book Day 2024 - Marvel & Fantagraphics Present Atlas Comics Library
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Fantagraphics Books
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