One of the greatest visual storytellers in the history of
comics. That was Mort Meskin, famed Golden
Age artist whose name belongs in the first rank of
comics storytellers: Will Eisner, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko.
See for yourself why Meskin earned the admiration
and respect of his peers (as well as contemporary critics
and historians) for his atmospherically charged work,
his masterful use of form and composition to convey
mood and action, his noirish use of light and shadow
to create suspense.
This, the first-ever collection of Meskin’s comics, surveys
his work from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Here, in
just under 200 pages, you’ll discover the artist’s amazing
ability to stamp his own fresh visual imprimatur across a
wide variety of genres: superheroes (The Black Terror,
The Fighting Yank, a never-before published Golden Lad),
adventure (the origin of Sheena, Queen of the Jungle), science
fiction (Tom Corbett, Space Cadet) — plus horror,
kid gangs, crime, Western — even romance!
Rescued from the fading obscurity of old, yellowing
comic books, this deluxe volume meticulously reproduces
his work from the best available sources. At last, Mort Meskin steps into the spotlight and — OUT OF THE
SHADOWS!
Praise for Mort Meskin:
“Deserves to be treasured by all comics fans
and studied by all artists of the medium”
– Rich Clabaugh,
Christian Science Monitor