Overview

For 13 months in the mid-1980s, Marvel assembled some of its strongest artists and writers to tell gritty, harrowing, and blackly humorous adventure stories ranging from gangster noir to historical battlefields to the deadly old West to post-apocalyptic futures. Unseen for nearly 40 years, here is some of the most shocking work of artists John Severin, John Buscema, Sam Glanzman, Val Mayerik, Ron Wagner, Gray Morrow, Wayne Vansant, Herb Trimpe, Michael Golden, Joe Jusko, Mary Wilshire, Arthur Suydam, Will Jungkuntz, Vincent Waller, and Ken Steacy, and writers Chuck Dixon, Bill Wray, Don Kraar, Robert Kanigher, Denny O'Neil, Doug Murray, and Archie Goodwin. Stories include Severin and Dixon's ""By Rail to Vladivostock,"" Murray and Golden's ""The Nam, 1967,"" Glanzman's ""Of War and Peace: The Trinity,"" Jungkuntz's Blood & Gutz series, and Trimpe's Skywarriors series. Savage Tales of the 1980s reprints all 8 issues of the magazine's run, the first time they have seen print since 1986 - nearly 40 years ago! They are reproduced in facsimile format, including color covers.

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A great overview of working cartoonists, some really fun pages... and Joe Maneely makes it all worthwhile. A fun book!-- ""Rave Sensation"" As pure entertainment, the Speed Carter stories are [fun]: action packed, dynamic, and violent. Joe Maneely's art has energy and a scrubby, almost underground feel to it.-- ""Cinema Sentries""

"A great overview of working cartoonists, some really fun pages... and Joe Maneely makes it all worthwhile. A fun book!-- ""Rave Sensation"""

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Joe Maneely (1926-1958) blazed a trail through Marvel's 1950s comic books that is unsurpassed in both quantity and quality. Maneely was revered as a lightning-fast talent, and he launched most of Marvel's character features during that time, excelling at every genre -- westerns, horror, humor, and war. He is best remembered today for his signature character, The Black Knight. Maneely's career was tragically cut short in June 1958 when, at the age of 32, he accidentally fell between the cars of a moving commuter train. Hank Chapman (1915-1973) wrote steadily for a variety of comics publishers between 1940 and 1967, usually uncredited, but he has been identified as the author of several hundred stories. In the 1940s, he worked on the serialized battles between The Human Torch and The Sub-Mariner in Marvel Mystery Comics. He was also an editor at Fox Comics from 1949 to 1953, but is most known for his war stories while on staff at Atlas in the 1950s and at DC in the '50s and '60s. In addition to Atlas titles like Battle, Battlefront, Combat Casey, and War Action, Chapman wrote for a variety of genres, including horror (Adventures Into Terror), Westerns, crime, and romance. Beginning in 1955, Chapman is estimated to have written more than a hundred war stories for DC titles like Our Army at War and G.I. Combat. Mike Sekowsky (1923-1989) was a prolific workman of the Silver Age of comics, notably co-creating the Justice League of America for DC in 1960, and having a run as writer/artist on Wonder Woman. But he began at Timely, drawing everything from Ziggy Pig and Silly Seal to The Human Torch and The Sub-Mariner. He had a rapid, distinctive style and racked up a large number of mostly unsigned credits over a couple of decades, making him possibly the most prolific penciler at Timely. During the Atlas era, Sekowsky drew stories for Apache Kid, Marvel Tales, My Own Romance, Crime Must Lose!, Black Rider, Adventures Into Terror, Mystic, Journey Into Unknown Worlds, Love Adventures, True Secrets, Men in Action, Strange Tales, Battle, Patsy and Her Pals, Crazy, and many more. Alongside this prolific 1950s output, Sekowsky did ghost work on daily strips including Sherlock Holmes and Flash Gordon. He shifted to animation work in the 1970s, designing characters for Hanna-Barbera cartoons, including Scooby Doo and Super Friends. Dr. Michael J. Vassallo is a noted historian on Marvel's early pulp, Timely and Atlas periods. A Manhattan dentist, he spends his free time attempting to bring recognition to artistic creators of the 1940's and 1950's. He has also written introductions to 20 Timely and Atlas Masterworks volumes, dissecting the credits for posterity and providing historical context, as well as writing the detailed captions to the first 210 pages of Taschen's 75 Years of Marvel coffee table book. He lives in Westchester County, New York.

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