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Amazing Fantasy (Adult) Omnibus HC Brereton Variant |  | Authors: Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, Jack Kirby, Don Heck, Paul Reinman
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Category: Book
List Price: $75.00
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 555632
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.5
Dimensions (in): 11.4 x 8 x 1.4
ISBN: 0785128956
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9780785128953
ASIN: 0785128956
Publication Date: September 5, 2007
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Product Description
Across six issues of truly amazing adventures, Lee, Kirby, and Ditko dreamed up a cadre of ten-story tall menaces from Torr to Manoo to the one and only Monsteroso to trash unwitting Earthlings on a month-in and month-out basis. Backed up by weird tales of wax museums, witchcraft, Martians, and the occult master who set the trenchcoat trend in comics, Dr. Druid, it seemed these titanic tales could never be topped. And then Stan Lee and Steve Ditko did just that by launching "The Magazine That Respects Your Intelligence!" An all-new approach for the young comics sophisticate, Amazing Adult Fantasy presented Twilight Zone-tinged tales of otherworldly aliens, time travel, ghosts, atomic nightmares, and maybe even the secret of the universe itself. With story after lushly-illustrated story, Ditko set a new standard for comic book illustration, and Lee raised the bar even higher with his scintillating scripts. And, oh, in the last issue they created some guy named "Spider-Man." Collecting Amazing Adventures #1-6, Amazing Adult Fantasy #7-14 and Amazing Fantasy #15 between two hardcovers 45 years in the making.
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 An early gem November 7, 2007
Jack key (germany)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Stan Lee the man of thousand ideas. Before Stan Lee committed himself to super heroes the variety of his ideas spread from horizon to horizon. This book is evidence for that. Everything was possible. You get crime, monsters, SF, horror, history, mystery, and ... more than you can imagine. Each of these 68 short stories are well worth reading and some of them are classics. For example a story which contains the whole idea of "The Sixth Sense". The genius of Jack Kirby is already there and the innovative drawings from Steve Ditko are eye-popping. The book is oversized and the printing quality is perfect. This outstanding stories printed in this beautiful edition is a gem in any comic book collection. Highly recommend to all comic book fans.
 Good clean fun June 21, 2010
JD (Florida, USA)
These are nice stories. Sure, they're horror, sci-fi and fantasy, but it's about as horrific as watching old Frankenstein, Dracula or King Kong movies. Stan Lee typically worked in a little moral lesson or statement into these stories -- to bravely explore the unknown, to be compassionate to the unfortunate, to venerate the power of the imagination --!
These are good stories to read to kids, or even to enjoy yourself, if you haven't become too cynical. And yes, historically, you can see the influence of the pop culture of the day, and many of the elements which would, in later years, become the building blocks of the early Marvel Univere.
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