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The 1939 creation of the Sub-Mariner for the first issue of Marvel Comics assures Bill Everett a place in history. Co-creating Daredevil, the Man Without Fear, for Marvel Comics in 1964 gave Everett a link to one of the most popular superheroes of the past 50 years. And producing over 400 additional pages of superhero-related work in the very early days of the Golden Age of Comics (1938-42) makes Bill Everett a legend. This book collects over 200 pages of this never-before-reprinted work from titles such as Amazing Mystery Funnies (1938), Amazing-Man Comics (1939), Target Comics (1940), Heroic Comics (1940), and Blue Bolt Comics (1940). These titles feature an endless array of great vintage Everett characters such as Amazing-Man, Hydroman, Skyrocket Steele, Sub-Zero, The Chameleon, and many more, all produced by Everett's shop Funnies, Inc. for such clients as Centaur, Novelty Press, and Eastern Color, and all displaying Everett's brilliant cartooning and energetic storytelling. Edited and compiled by best-selling author and comic-book historian Blake Bell (Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko), Amazing Mysteries: The Bill Everett Archives is a stunning companion to Bell's 2010 critically acclaimed Everett biography and art book, Fire and Water: Bill Everett, The Sub-Mariner and the Birth of Marvel Comics. This volume follows the format of Bell's Steve Ditko Archives series; never-before-reprinted, beautifully restored, full-color stories from one of comic books' greatest visionaries and most accomplished artists. Also includes an introduction by Bell that delves even deeper into Everett's life, fiery personality, and the history of the era. The resultant package enhances Everett's place in history as one of the first and best comic-book creators of all time.

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For fans of comics from the dawn of the comic book era, this book is an indispensable gift...--Jason Sacks Everett's vivid, varied work... emanated from a man who was a lot like his most famous creation: a destructive antihero, always a little angry at the puny humans around him. The stories and artwork are laughably crude by modern standards, although no more so than those in other comic books from the period. But even the earliest ones show trace sof the sleek polish that would become Everett's hallmark. . . a sign that future volumes in the series will be of even greater interest.--Gordon Flagg This volume provides an illuminating look at the artist's numerous attempts at catching Sub--Marineresque lightning in a bottle for a second time... Forgotten sci--fi and superhero creations, as well as forays into westerns, historical retellings, and crime comics, populate this loaded volume... What's exciting for me about this book is watching Everett develop as an artist and storyteller.... What you see here are the glimmers of an artist struggling to comprehend the potential of this relatively new medium.--Chris Mautner

For fans of comics from the dawn of the comic book era, this book is an indispensable gift...--Jason Sacks The stories and artwork are laughably crude by modern standards, although no more so than those in other comic books from the period. But even the earliest ones show trace sof the sleek polish that would become Everett's hallmark. . . a sign that future volumes in the series will be of even greater interest.--Gordon Flagg Everett's vivid, varied work... emanated from a man who was a lot like his most famous creation: a destructive antihero, always a little angry at the puny humans around him. What's exciting for me about this book is watching Everett develop as an artist and storyteller.... What you see here are the glimmers of an artist struggling to comprehend the potential of this relatively new medium.--Chris Mautner This volume provides an illuminating look at the artist's numerous attempts at catching Sub--Marineresque lightning in a bottle for a second time... Forgotten sci--fi and superhero creations, as well as forays into westerns, historical retellings, and crime comics, populate this loaded volume...

For fans of comics from the dawn of the comic book era, this book is an indispensable gift...--Jason Sacks What's exciting for me about this book is watching Everett develop as an artist and storyteller.... What you see here are the glimmers of an artist struggling to comprehend the potential of this relatively new medium.--Chris Mautner The stories and artwork are laughably crude by modern standards, although no more so than those in other comic books from the period. But even the earliest ones show trace sof the sleek polish that would become Everett's hallmark. . . a sign that future volumes in the series will be of even greater interest.--Gordon Flagg This volume provides an illuminating look at the artist's numerous attempts at catching Sub--Marineresque lightning in a bottle for a second time... Forgotten sci--fi and superhero creations, as well as forays into westerns, historical retellings, and crime comics, populate this loaded volume... Everett's vivid, varied work... emanated from a man who was a lot like his most famous creation: a destructive antihero, always a little angry at the puny humans around him.

Everett s vivid, varied work emanated from a man who was a lot like his most famous creation: a destructive antihero, always a little angry at the puny humans around him.

Everett 's vivid, varied work emanated from a man who was a lot like his most famous creation: a destructive antihero, always a little angry at the puny humans around him.

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Blake Bell is the author of Strange & Stranger (a retrospective of Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko); The Secret History of Marvel Comics, Fire & Water: Bill Everett, The Sub-Mariner, and the Birth of Marvel Comics; Amazing Mysteries: The Bill Everett Archives; and Strange Suspense and Unexplored Worlds (two volumes in The Steve Ditko Archives). He lives in Toronto, Ontario, with his son. Bill Everett, the creator of the Sub-Mariner and the co-creator of Daredevil, died in 1973.

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