Let’s take a quick look to see what’s arrived in the mail here at the Geek Compound.
The Complete Green Lama Volume 2: Featuring the Art of Mac Raboy
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Dark Horse Archives completes the entire Green Lama series with this second high-quality hardcover – collecting the final four issues of a Golden Age classic! The emerald-clad freedom fighter returns to mete out further justice courtesy of famed artist Mac Raboy and writer/editor Joseph Greene! And, while this 1940s anthology series is best known for its eponymous Buddhist superhero, it featured an astonishing variety of short comics and prose pieces. Daring do-gooders the Boy Champions, Merlin-powered Lieutenant Hercules, flying ace Rick Masters, and the mischievous sprite Angus McErc together show off the creative experimentation that caught fire in the wake of Action Comics #1!
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This vein-chilling second volume showcases work by some of the best artists to ever work in the comics medium, including Alex Toth, Gray Morrow, Reed Crandall, John Severin, and others. Each archive volume of Creepy is packed with stories (usually up to eight short stories were featured in every issue!) running the gamut of gruesome subject matter, from reimagined horror classics such as "The Cask of Amontillado," to spectacularly mind-twisting shorts such as "The Thing in the Pit," or the macabre maritime yarn "Drink Deep."
I’ve been eagerly awaiting this book. I devoted part of the October "Nexus Graphica" to the Warren magazines and listed the first volume among my ten best graphic novels of the year.
From my review of Volume One:
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| This hardcover compilation of the first six issues of the legendary horror magazine features amazing work from Frank Frazetta, Jack Davis, Joe Orlando, Al Williamson, Alex Toth, Gray Morrow, Angelo Torres, and Roy Krenkel. The volume, produced in the same oversized dimensions of the original magazine, includes the original color covers, advertisements, and letters pages. The Creepy Archives Volume 1 provides tantalizing insight into some of the finest horror ever produced. |
Highly Recommended!