New Joe Maneely Artist Edition Resurrects Stan Lee Horror Stories
“The Atlas Artist Edition Vol. 1: Joe Maneely” is the latest addition to the publisher’s Marvel Atlas Comic Library series, which plans to release five volumes a year. The collection launched in 2023 with “Adventures Into Terror Vol. 1,” featuring stories by Gene Colan, Basil Wolverton, Don Rico, George Tuska, Carl Burgos, Mike Sekowsky, and Maneely.
Our exclusive preview is of “Back From The Dead” by Stan Lee and Maneely. The story, originally printed in “Suspense” #24 by Atlas Comics in 1952, features a man who suddenly dies, only to find himself in Hell. Fantagraphics’ fully restored reprinting presents the Golden Age tale in what the publisher describes as “a lush, lavish, full-color, oversize” presentation.
As Dr. Michael J. Vassallo says in the new collection’s introduction, it’s a shame readers didn’t get to see more of Maneely’s work due to his untimely passing. “Maneely never had that second act, and in the 1950s, he was considered more accomplished than even that talented quartet [of Gene Colan, Steve Ditko, John Romita, and John Buscema],” Vassallo writes. “It’s hard to say how comic-book history might have been different if Joe Maneely had lived, but, unquestionably, whatever he would have done would have been wonderful.”
Fantagraphics/Joe Maneely
Fantagraphics/Joe Maneely
Fantagraphics/Joe Maneely
Fantagraphics/Joe Maneely
“The Atlas Artist Edition Vol. 1: Joe Maneely” is the latest addition to the publisher’s Marvel Atlas Comic Library series, which plans to release five volumes a year. The collection launched in 2023 with “Adventures Into Terror Vol. 1,” featuring stories by Gene Colan, Basil Wolverton, Don Rico, George Tuska, Carl Burgos, Mike Sekowsky, and Maneely.
Our exclusive preview is of “Back From The Dead” by Stan Lee and Maneely. The story, originally printed in “Suspense” #24 by Atlas Comics in 1952, features a man who suddenly dies, only to find himself in Hell. Fantagraphics’ fully restored reprinting presents the Golden Age tale in what the publisher describes as “a lush, lavish, full-color, oversize” presentation.
As Dr. Michael J. Vassallo says in the new collection’s introduction, it’s a shame readers didn’t get to see more of Maneely’s work due to his untimely passing. “Maneely never had that second act, and in the 1950s, he was considered more accomplished than even that talented quartet [of Gene Colan, Steve Ditko, John Romita, and John Buscema],” Vassallo writes. “It’s hard to say how comic-book history might have been different if Joe Maneely had lived, but, unquestionably, whatever he would have done would have been wonderful.”
Fantagraphics/Joe Maneely
Fantagraphics/Joe Maneely
Fantagraphics/Joe Maneely
Fantagraphics/Joe Maneely
Fantagraphics/Joe Maneely
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