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    Bill Everett's Amazing Man
    Bill Everett's Amazing Man
    Bill Everett's Amazing Man
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    Bill Everett's Amazing Man

    By Bill Everett

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    Reprint of fully restored Amazing-Man Comics #5-11 (1939-1940), with additional information about Bill Everett, the Centaur "Comic Group" and the actual copyright status of the comics. Created by Bill Everett at the very start of his career, John Aman, the Amazing-Man, was the leading hero of Centaur, one of the earliest Golden Age comic book publisher. An orphan raised by enlighted Tibetan monks to achieve ultra-manhood, he truly is John “a-man”, an archetype of human perfection, whose powers are a personal achievement anybody could attain, if given the opportunity to reach its full potential. Neither an alien from another planet nor a mutant with a twisted genetic code, Amazing-man is a human being with a bright and a dark side, like any other…
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateFeb 27, 2016
    ISBN9781329933293
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      Bill Everett's Amazing Man - Bill Everett

      Bill Everett's Amazing-Man

      Credits

      book titleAmazing-Man

      Art & story by Bill Everett & Allen L. Kirby

      Edited by C. Sesselego, E. Civiletti

      Comic book restoration by E. Civiletti, L. Livi

      Additional art by A. G. Ceglia, L. Livi

      Introduction by J. M. Ferragatti

      Designed by Emiliano Civiletti

      Click to email Licorne Prints

      Bill Everett’s Amazing-Man © Licorne Prints (a BMS division)

      licorne@bemystudio.com

      Additional art in this book © Blue Monkey Studio

      Amazing-Man Comics #5-11 are currently in the public domain

      All characters TM and ® 2016 by their respective trademark holders. This is an academic work. Additional Golden Age art, ©, ® and TM appear as historical example for scholarly purposes. All rights reserved. Blue Monkey Studio makes no representation of any rights to said ©, ® and TM.

      The stories, characters and incidents mentioned in this magazine are entirely fictional. the underlying code used to create this epub is internationally protected by law as a literary work. all artwork, videos and sounds are internationally protected as audiovisual work. no part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      Introduction

      Superman is considered by almost all comic book experts the first true super-hero in history. Nevertheless, some characters can be seen as precursors of this genre.

      These usually include Dr. Occult (from Superman’s creators) & The Clock (first masked character). However, when we consider Superman’s publication date (Action Comics #1 - Apr. 1938), we could see that four other characters were very close to it. These are Namor the Submariner (Timely), The Arrow, The Shark & Amazing-Man (Centaur). Namor the Submariner & Amazing-Man were created by the same artist, Bill Everett.

      Everett was a middle-upper class man with a rare

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