Attu, Book 1: The Forbidden Cave

Attu, Book 1: The Forbidden Cave

By Sam Glanzman (4Winds Publishing Group)
ISBN: 0-922173-04-4

Shamefully, Sam Glanzman is one of the least highly-regarded creators in American comics, despite having one of the longest careers and certainly one of the most unique styles. His work, in genres from war to mystery to fantasy to graphic autobiography, is raw, powerful, subtly engaging and irresistibly compelling.

On titles such as Kona, Voyage to the Deep, Jungle Tales of Tarzan, Hercules, Haunted Tank and especially his two graphic novels A Sailor’s Story and Wind, Dreams and Dragons he produced magnificent action-adventure tales that fired the imagination and stirred the blood, selling copies and winning a legion of fans amongst his fellow artists if not from the small but over-vocal fan-press.

In later years he worked with Tim Truman’s 4Winds company, and as well as high profile projects like The Lone Ranger and Jonah Hex, drew the wonderful fantasy volume featured here. Attu is a caveman in Gondwana – the super-continent of 137 million B.C. Known as the Truth Seeker, he troubles the rest of his mountain-dwelling tribe and is banished to the lowlands, a place of giant tigers, terrible beasts and even dinosaurs. He also finds a cave where a beautiful woman sleeps in a tube of clear, warm ice…

An unrepentant fabulist adventure combining pre-history, monsters, super-science and even time-travel, this is a magical slice of old-fashioned comics fun, rendered in stark, savage black and white; a brilliant paean to a bygone style and age. Moreover, it’s still not too late to urge this wonderful graphic master to sort out the next volume…

© 1989 Sam Glanzman. All Rights Reserved.