Bill Everett's Amazing Man

By Bill Everett

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…

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Feb 27, 2016
• ISBN: 9781329933293

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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

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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.

Introduction

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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