#atlas comics

[ditkocovered]

Six of Ditko's best splash pages, from his time working on Atlas/Marvel horror and science fiction anthologies in the late fifties and early sixties.

[atomic-chronoscaph]

I Died Too Often! - art by Russ Heath (1953)

[kekwcomics]

STRANGE TALES #61 (Atlas / Chipiden, 1957)

Art: Bill Everett / Stan Goldberg

[thebristolboard]

Classic cover by Bill Everett from Jann of the Jungle #16, published by Atlas Comics, April 1957.

[browsethestacks]

Namora

Art by Sandy Jarrell

[smbhax]

Journey into Mystery #20, December 1954. Cover pencils & inks by Carl Burgos, colors by Stan Goldberg.

Info from @grandcomicsdatabase

[thebestcomicbookpanels]

Some art from Atlas Comics' Devilina, which was a black and white magazine from 1975 that only lasted 2 issues.

[alternateworldcomics]

Marvel Comics on Sale in November, 1954

[bitter1stuff]

Okay, so I'm saving this here because I'm blown away by the choices Michael Fleisher (story) and Al Milgrom (pencils) made. When I write, I try not to plagiarize. For example, I'll take three things from somewhere, change them a bit, and then combine those three pieces into one hopefully original idea. The brazenness here of shock troops upset with someone for owning books and equipping them with flame throwers (Fahrenheit 451), let alone their name being "Thought Police" (1984) is so crazy to me. Was it because they knew the audience was around twelve, so it'd be better to make the baddies something kids might know in order to make the story less complicated? Was it laziness? I'd love to just mash-up pop culture tropes into a story like this.

[pulpsandcomics2]

Fright #1 June 1975

[onlylonelylatino]

"More Than A Wife" by Alex Toth

[bclaymoore]

Atlas Comics (Atlas/Seaboard) has attracted the attention of fans again, after premiering some MEGO toy versions of Atlas characters at New York Comic Con this year.

Because the books were easily and cheaply found in back issue bins when I was growing up, I collected most of their line, despite not having been around when they were published. So I'm one of many creators who's always had a strange itch to rework their characters, and it's hard to say why. The truth is, their books weren't very good, with some notable exceptions (Chaykin's SCORPION topping the list).

But I've always thought characters that were sort of bleh the first time around, without diehard fans, are the most fun to play around with, building on the basics without having to adhere to any real continuity.

In any event, here's a small gallery of some of the more interesting Atlas covers.

[atomic-chronoscaph]

My Girl Pearl - art by Dan DeCarlo (1955)

[kekwcomics]

AMAZING ADVENTURES #2 (Marvel, 1961)

Art: Jack Kirby, Sol Brodsky & Stan Goldberg.

[browsethestacks]

Original Art - Kathy #022 Pg 06 (1963) by Stan Goldberg

From ha.com...

Rockin' Guest-Stars! That big first panel features Connie Francis, Elvis Presley, and Ricky Nelson, three of the biggest recording stars of the early 1960s.

[smbhax]

Journey into Mystery #23, March 1955 (1st month of the Comics Code Authority approval stamp—look how big it was!). Cover pencils & inks by Carl Burgos, colors by Stan Goldberg.

Info from @grandcomicsdatabase