Golden Age Classics Softee: Amazing Man TPB (2024 PS Artbooks) comic books

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Volume 1 - 1st printing. "September 1939-January 1941!" Collects Amazing Man Comics (1939) #5-18. Stories by Bill Everett, Louis Glanzman, Sam Glanzman, Carl Burgos, Paul Gustavson, John F. Kolb, Frank Thomas, Tarpe Mills, A.L. Kirby, Martin Filchock, Robert Louis Golden, Harold Hughes, John Giunta, Malcolm Kildale, and David C. Cooke. Cover by Bill Everett. Amazing Man was the second superhero after Superman to have a comic book named after him. Historians credit his creation variously to writer-artist Bill Everett and art director Lloyd Jacquet, founder of The Funnies Inc., although some credit may be due to Grace Everett, who helped with research. In 1914, an orphaned child named John Aman was chosen by the Tibetan Council of Seven and trained to be a superman, both in mental and physical perfection. His powers include super strength, invulnerability and the ability to make himself disappear in a cloud of green vapour. When he turned twenty-five, after his final tests, he is sent into the world to combat crime and injustice, returning to America to become the heroic Amazing Man. Softcover, 184 pages, full color. Cover price $32.99.