From the September 1953 issue of Menace #7
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Your Name Is Frankenstein!
Quick! Take a peek at that opening splash panel below. Did your eyeballs just pop right outta your skull? That’s Joe Maneely folks, and he was without a doubt one of Atlas Comics best, (and Stan the Man wrote the words so you know it doesn’t get much better than this!) To finish off the month of July with a big scream, this is the first post in a 3 day, 3-part Atlas Monster Trilogy… just ahead: mummies and vampires too, so be on the look out!
From the September 1953 issue of Menace #7
From the September 1953 issue of Menace #7
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Gorgeous art! Maneely balances the fine line between realistic and cartoony perfectly, most of the great Atlas artists were capable of pulling this off flawlessly.
Definitely! I'll have a couple more Atlas examples in the next couple posts from DiPreta and Everett, both perfect examples of exactly what you're talking about.
this ones cool but it always bugs me when people call frankenstiens monster frankenstien when that was the doctors name
You're right of course, but then again "Your Name is the Frankenstein's Monster" doesn't have quite the same ring to it.
smart ass
just kidding......
Anyone notice that the themes in this story - prejudice, intolerance and human superiority, the sorrow of not fitting in, being the odd one out - are the exact same themes that Stan Lee would later develop into the X-Men?
This comic was written in '53 - exactly ten years before the appearance of the first issue of X-Men in '63.
Interesting footnote to the X-Men saga.
Thanks for sharing it.
Frankenstein's Monster--- the ORIGINAL X-MAN!
Believe it or not,the original X-men fought an alien android in X-MEN#40,that was said to have been shelleys inspiration,weird considering that the real monster showed up in the '70's in his own series MONSTER OF FRANKENSTEIN,also I agree this one is a kind of a tearjerker,and you see where concepts like the Hulk and X-men came from,also you may wanna check the wikipedia article for marvels Frankenstein,this story is listed as his first appearence(even though Captain America fought the monster in USA comics#13.)
Thanks for the additional info! It's observations like this that make our blog so much more interesting.
Keep those types of thoughts coming!
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