COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Savage Tales 1 Universal
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Grade:
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9.6
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Certification #:
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1012304001
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Owner:
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Rune
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
My favorite book - a second copy came around and I could not help myself, but to buy another copy of this amazing book (especially since the colors of this copy are amazing and deep - and white really shines bright and unfaded). The camera flash caused some reflections in the lower right quadrant of the front cover, but the quality still shines through.
Furthermore this book is quite special and was published in May 1971 together with Conan the Barbarian #5. Especially the story "The Frost Giant's Daugher" in this book was drawn by Barry Smith showing a topless girl, but when this story was reprinted in Conan the Barbarian #16 the breasts were covered. So this is the pure original and uncensored adult version. Also the first ever story about the Man-Thing is utterly fantastic - the story is well-written and the art of the drawings continue to amaze. I guess there was some strong magic in the 1970'ties that we have somehow forgotten - maybe due to atmosphere in that decade influenced by the Vietnam War, anxiety for World War 3 that maybe did create an urge for strong-spirited, but not always good-looking, male figures like Conan and the Man-Thing.
Wikipedia provides this introduction to the Man-Thing:
"The Man-Thing is a fictional character, a monster in publications from Marvel Comics. Created by writers Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, and Gerry Conway and artist Gray Morrow, the character first appeared in Savage Tales #1 (May 1971), and went on to be featured in various titles and in his own series, including Adventure into Fear, which introduced the character Howard the Duck.
Steve Gerber's 39-issue run on the series[1] is a cult classic that was influential on such writers as Neil Gaiman,[2] who would later write for Swamp Thing.
Man-Thing is a large, slow-moving, empathic, humanoid creature living in the Florida Everglades near the Seminole reservation".
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-Thing
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