Monster of Frankenstein Vol. 1, by Gary Friedrich, Doug Moench, Bill Mantlo
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Gothic horror in the macabre Marvelmanner! One of the most terrifying fi gures in all of fi ction lurches into his own 1970s comic book series, collected in color for the very fi rst time. Witness a dramatic retelling of Mary Shelley's literary classic, then follow the Monster in his quest for the last living descendant of his creator, Victor Frankenstein. It's an odyssey that will lead him into a confrontation with Marvel's other groovy ghoulies, Dracula and Werewolf By Night! COLLECTING: FRANKENSTEIN (1973) 1-18; GIANT-SIZE WEREWOLF BY NIGHT 2; MARVEL TEAM-UP (1972) 36-37; MATERIAL FROM MONSTERS UNLEASHED 2, 4-10; LEGION OF MONSTERS (1975) 1
Monster of Frankenstein Vol. 1, by Gary Friedrich, Doug Moench, Bill Mantlo- Amazon Sales Rank: #353070 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-20
- Released on: 2015-10-20
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 10.13" h x .75" w x 6.50" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 536 pages
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful. A Monster Sized Collection of Marvel's 1970's Frankenstein By Stephen Vincent Kempton This Monster Sized Collection runs 536 pages and collects all the Frankenstein stories from Marvel Comics including his solo comic which lasted 18 issues , his 9 stories from the Black & White Monster Magazines plus the appearance in GiantSize Werewolf #2 and Marvel Team-Up #36 and #37. Format wise this looks exactly like one on Marvel's Epic Collections. It has quality color printing on good pulpy paper stock with thick cardboard covers. It even has the extras in the back like Ploog pencils and Magazine painted covers. I don't know exactly why it isn't an Epic Collection, but it could have been quite easily.Art wise this volume features some excellent work from Mike Ploog, John Buscema and Val Mayerick. The writing quality features some of Gary Friedrich best work, followed by some mixed quality from Doug Moench and others.In the early 1970's Roy Thomas became Editor In Chief and introduced a bunch of new comics for Marvel including the launch of a bunch of Monster/Supernatural books. Roy claims he was adapting Dracula with Dick Giordano and wanted to adapt Frankenstein with Michael Ploog. But with a lack of time he handed it over to Gary Friedrich. Friedrich's writing here is some of the best of his career and teamed with the art of Mike Ploog they had great success.The first issue is cover dated January 1972 but it was on sale in late 1971. Friedrich starts the story in 1898 with descendent of the Captain who first discovers the Monster in Shelley's novel Robert Walton the 4th . The first four issues then flash back and forth for the origin of the Monster. This story is a combination of Shelley's Novel , the Classic Universal Films and Gary Friedrich own contributions. It all works pretty good and we get a Monster with intelligence and speach but with an occasional blood thirsty rage. These first four issues are excellent.Issues #5 and #6 are solo stories by Friedrich and Ploog and also equally enjoyable. In the first story the Frankenstein Monster saves a beautiful woman and encounters some werewolves. In the second story a search for The Last Frankenstein leads to an encounter with a Giant Spider. Issue #5 still has the logo of The Monster Of Frankenstein on the cover while #6 it is changed to The Frankenstein Monster.Big John Buscema steps in for the next four issue saga which is a clash with Vampires and specifically Dracula. Maybe a slight down tic but still quality work.Frankenstein #11 is Gary Friedrich's last issue and illustrated by Bob Brown. It seems like a rush job as we meet Victor Frankenstein the last Frankenstein. This almost seems a running gag.With issue #12 Doug Moench takes over with the purpose of changing the Status Quo. First he turns the Monster into the lumbering mentally challenged Creature and secondly he returns the stories to our then current era ( the 70's).After issue #12 we get the nine Black and White stories . In the Frankenstein Essential they are included in the back of the book. Putting them here is an attempt to put them in chronological order of the Monster's Timeline. Some of these stories you must remember appeared at the same time as early issues but they happened in the current Marvel Timeline while the color stories had all been set in the past.The first three are the work of Gary Friedrich and John Buscema. While the remainder are by Doug Moench and Val Mayerick. The Mayerick art resembles Bernie Wrightson. The first seven stories form one long jumbled arc which starts in a circus and features multiple Brain Transplants between the Monster , a Trapeze artist and a mouse. At one point the Monster picks up an unconscious girl and carries here around for a couple of adventures believing she is his girlfriend. Then at some point she regains consciousness and runs away screaming.The final two black and white stories are pretty quirky . One with Frankenstein becoming a secret agent on a speeding train who needs to save the President of the USA. In the last one Frankenstein goes to a costume party and no one realizes it.Next we jump back to the color books with Giant Size Werewolf #2 . This was an experiment with making quarterly double sized companion books. This team up with Werewolf By Night was by Moench and Don Perlin. It is a story about an evil cult and just seems mostly bloated filler.Next up are Frankenstein Monster #13 to #17 by Doug Moench and Val Mayerick this another long rambling arc in which Frankenstein get's a sidekick youth , battles a clone monster, travels to Swiss Alps to meet the Last Frankenstein, Doctor Victoria Frankenstein who restores some of his intellect and gives him the ability to talk again. He also battles a robotic Monster.Bill Mantlo takes over for the last issue Frankenstein Monster #18 and makes a mess of it. The Monster and his Metal Monster (now friend) are attached by dwarves who kill the Metal Monster and lead us to the Last Frankenstein Baroness Veronica Von Frankenstein. Did Mantlo not read the previous issue with The Last Frankenstein Dr. Victoria Frankenstein ? Anyways on that stupid cliff hanger the book is cancelled.But that doesn't end this collection because we get the two part Marvel Team-up from 1975 #32 and #33. This story is from Gerry Conway and Sal Buscema and features and evil mad scientist and a pretty Agent Of Shield. The Man-Wolf is featured in the second half. When last we left The Frankenstein Monster he had limited intellect and speach but here he is as articulate as Peter Parker.The book started out Bi-Monthly. When sales came back on the early issues it went monthly between issues #6 and #8 . But sales soon dropped quickly and the Monster lumbered off with very few appearances since this collection.It is easy to see why the book was cancelled as it seems to loose all direction and the character changes from story to story. I read the first half of the book in a spree of delight in one day. But then I crawled through the back half in a week.Overall Good Art, Excellent Production values and mixed writing. Well worth having in your library.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Highs and Lows for the Monster at Marvel By Dan Pace (feral atom) Collects The Monster of Frankenstein 1-18, Giant-Sized Werewolf 2, Marvel Team-up 36-37, material from Monsters Unleashed 2, 4-10, and Legion of Monsters #1 (1975).Ploog's artwork is excellent on the Frankenstein issues. The overall collection has several highpoints and a few lowpoints. The retelling of Shelley's work is mostly excellent, if a bit labored in the stage setting of the first issue. Ploog excels, especially with the water renderings. I read these issues years ago at my uncle's house. In rereading for the first time since, I was surprised how dark the Comics Code allowed these stories to become. Both of the lead characters commit despicable acts, though we sympathize with the Monster's plight.John Buscema has some rough linework in both the comic and the magazine work, with the black and white work being cleaner, but a bit too simple when contrasted with Mayerik. A few of Buscema's panels look like they were enlarged from smaller images.The Monsters Unleashed work compares favorably to concurrent work on Warren magazines from the 70s. Val Mayerik's artwork was fantastic on the 4-color issues and the black and white magazines. Doug Moench's writing was very good on the magazine issues. The two-parter with Winters was a bit bizarre in that the woman was knocked out for so long, even as the Monster battles the "Freaks", tigers, and the police, but I enjoyed the stories nonetheless. The "spy" story where assassins are on a train with Frankie and a woman was different. I enjoyed this one as well, though the plot sounds very odd as I'm writing it out.The later comic stories go off the deep end. The robot story is especially weird as the robot changes character from one issue to the next.Though this wasn't the best from Marvel's horror in the Bronze Age, I'm ecstatic that Marvel has collected this material. Now if only we could get Chamber of Darkness and Tower of Shadows collected...
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Worthwhile but not the best '70s Marvel horror title By Jim Davis With the relaxation of the comics code in the early 1970s Marvel launched a number of horror themed titles in short order. Many of these titles (Tomb of Dracula, Man Thing, Werewolf by Night) have been recently collected in deluxe hardcover omnibus editions. The present title has had to settle for a trade paperback (and digital) collection. It is easy to see why this was the case.The book starts out very well indeed with a (mostly) faithful adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel. Mike Ploog is in outstanding form pencilling the story. Thereafter, things fall apart quickly as inconsistencies appear. The monster becomes as powerful or as weak as the plot demands. Sophisticated at some places he is suddenly childishly naive at others. Homicidal and vindictive one moment, won't harm a fly the next...The nadir occurs during the Legion of Monsters black and white magazine story arc. Our villain Derek McDowell knows nothing of the "molecular transposer" in one issue but knows all about it in the next. Originally, all this device did was transfer personalities between bodies in classic science fiction tradition. Then that is changed to actually transferring the brains themselves! All in all, very painful to read this mishmash.The stories are also hurt by the lack of supporting characters once the cast of the original novel is dispensed with. Also hurting the series is the jumping around in time period from the late 1700s to the late 1800s to the 1970s. How many times can the frozen in a block of ice plot device be employed?There is some recovery in the last six issues but the damage had already been done and the series ended in mid-story (I don't believe it was ever resolved). The monster also was integrated more closely into the Marvel universe with appearances with Dracula, Werewolf by Night, and Spider-Man.Extras consist of some original art and covers of previous collections.I bought the digital version on Comixology. I was very pleased at how everything looked on the Comixology iPad ap. The book was not available on Kindle for some reason.In conclusion, for the Marvel completist only. The weaknesses of the stories are not entirely the fault of the writers. Frankenstein's monster really doesn't lend himself well to an ongoing series. Story after story about the almost total isolation of his circumstances wears thin very quickly.
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