Stories from the Atlas Comics Library (2024 FCBD)

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.