Just read this last night. Very enjoyable. It doesn't take long to read and the "final battle" at the end is brief. Still - it delivers what it promises: An old Universal Studios-type monster "movie." The artwork is, of course, quite breathtaking at times. This is also an instance where the coloring really adds a lot.

If you like old monster movies and Neal Adams, then you should like this book. If you're not a die-hard Adams fan, though, then you'll probably want the soft-cover edition (I think it's about $12.00. The hard cover edition is twice as much!).

Is this new stuff, or reprinted from someplace else?

Reprinted.

It was originally serialized somewhere. I forget where. (There IS a history in the book, but I'm not recalling the exact details.). I think that it's new to most Americans, though. There was a comment about this being the first English language collection of the complete story.

It was from the Continuity series Echo of Future Past. They only had five chapters, however, and I don't think it was completed. It might've been completed overseas, but the collection was impossible to find.
This version is beautifully re-coloured and on pristine paper. The stuff included in the front and back is probably worth the price alone. And I got the hardback!

It also appeared in black and white in the Art Of Neal Adams #2.The Monsters book added some new pages and new coloring.

I wish Neal would let someone do the definitive art book on him, along the lines of the Opus books Fantagraphics put out on Barry Smith's art.

Heya, Frank, was the entire thing in there? I think I have AONA #2, and I don't recall the Monsters stuff at all, except in Echo. Or I might be getting old....

I'm going by memory Darren because I don't have the books anymore but it was either Art Of Neal Adams #2 or Neal Adams Treasury #2.
The whole story was printed in one of those but in it's original form it was only 16 pages and layed out for a different format so when Neal reprinted it in Echo he reformatted it for comics.
Of course the Monsters book adds a number of new pages and made the story better but the black and white made Neal's art look better.

Indeed. The production for the book is tres superior to anything of the vintage of the NA Treasury or the AONA. A fine superior specimen, making Linda think twice about her whole "virtual" comic book theory.

Like fuck it does.

Anyway, here's the book that Bob's talking about:



>> Legendary '70s superhero comic artist Adams has put his version of a classic monster movie into a graphic novel, and the result is an expensively produced storyboard for a hoped-for movie project. The characters—a vampire nobleman, a scientifically created monster, a werewolf—are inspired by the classic Universal horror films, but their designs are different for trademark reasons. A young couple, pursued by a pack of wolves, is saved by a mysterious Prince Vlad and taken to his lonely castle. The rescued man is the nephew of the infamous Baron Frankenstein, so Vlad holds his fiancée hostage to force him to build another monster. The girl almost dies but is instead turned into a werewolf, in a chapter that seems like it was imported from another story altogether. The artistic approach, with pages saturated with computer color, works against the classic style. The pages are busy and full, and readers' eyes will struggle to find a place to rest as a result. Modern layout effects also work against the purple prose (the most frequently used punctuation is the ellipsis) and old-fashioned storytelling style. The book concludes with a selection of Adams's sketches from various horror films and covers from random monster-related comic books he illustrated. <<

http://astore.amazon.com/imwan-20/detail/1887591559

Linda said the "F" word.

It took her three years, though. Do we still need to drink?

i first saw it in glorious black and white in House of Hammer magazine in about 1977.im sure it was also one of those groovy power records things too.
ill maybe post a couple of black and white scans when i get home from work and get into the vaults . . .

What?

Winda's got a fiwfy mouf!

Very impressive recoloring.

A friend gave me this last summer. It was the soft-cover version. Enjoyed it very much.