Lost in the 1950's.... Joe Maneely

Ya'Know, I used to buy into all that Hoo-Ha that was going around, about EC being the only decently produced comics in the 1950's. I didn't know... hell, I was a child of the 70's.... Fifties comics comanded prices far above the couple of quarters I had for Spider-Man or The New Brave and the Bold,a few years went by the wayside... Then slowly I started to aquire some old Atlas, Harvey & St. John comis ..... guess what? .... uh huh.... I WAS AN EC dupe! I started to pick up big lots of Marvel Horror off of ebay in the early days for DIRT CHEAP!Most of the books were just re-printings of the tamer old Atlas Horror & Science Fiction stories. One artist kept on grabbing my attention.... Joe Maneely! I honestly think he is one of the Greatest Under rated Artist in comic Book History! Turns out Maneely was Ol' Stan Lee's Right Hand Man back in the pre-Kirby days. Joe.along with Russ Heath, Bill Everett (& John Severn after EC folded.) Produced some of the best comic art in world. As Good As.... and perhaps Superior in ways to EC! .... there I said it ...To Illustrate the point here are a few Joe Maneely cover scans & a Nice WAR comic for ya.... direct from 1952.... It's Joe Maneely!

Dial Z for ZOMBIE! Bill Everett Art from the 1950's

Bill Everett was a real PRO... in it from the begining with his creation Sub-Mariner in the Late 30 Till his Death in the early 1970's where ironicly enuff he was working on Subby again! But it's his mid to late 1950's work that really grabs me by the eyeballs and compells me to look for more! He was really a top notch inker, on top of his form until his death....that line just kept cool and consistant for his whole career. But Like I said it's that Fifties work that has just a little something special to it, you could tell the guy was really having a ball doing these crazy Horror, War & Science Fiction comics.