#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]

My Girl Pearl - art by Dan DeCarlo (1955)

[thebristolboard]

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

[kekwcomics]

STRANGE TALES #61 (Atlas / Chipiden, 1957)

Art: Bill Everett / Stan Goldberg

[alternateworldcomics]

Marvel Comics on Sale in November, 1954

[browsethestacks]

Reading Marvel Comics

[pulpsandcomics2]

Fright #1 June 1975

[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.

[thepopculturearchivist]

MARVEL TALES 122, April 1954. Writer unidentified; art by Al Gordon and Joe Kubert. Editor Stan Lee runs some rabid anti-commie stuff in his 1950s comics, but also things like this that anticipate the more obviously liberal Stan of the Marvel Age.

[mediaomnivore]

The first issue of Morlock 2001 is among the Atlas comics in my collection. Atlas was one of the predecessors of Marvel. This particular issue is from 1975.

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[fashioninpaper]

“Linda Carter, Student Nurse” was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist Al Hartley. The comic book fans ran for 9 issues from Sept. 1961–Jan. 1963. Each issue include a paper doll of Linda (no relation to Lynda) and her friends.

[atomic-chronoscaph]

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

[chernobog13]

From Marvel Boy (vol. 1) #1 (December, 1950). Art by Russ Heath.

I always preferred this guy's original superhero name, as opposed to The Uranian, which is what he's called now.

[kekwcomics]

AMAZING ADVENTURES #2 (Marvel, 1961)

Art: Jack Kirby, Sol Brodsky & Stan Goldberg.

[timelyovertime]

Welcome to Timely Over Time

I'm Clocky, & this is a catalog of my attempt to read every single comic put out by Marvel Comics and its predecessors, Timely & Atlas, from the very start with Marvel Comics issue #1 up to whatever they're putting out when you read this. After I got about a hundred issues in, I realized that it would be a good concept for a tumblr, so here we are.

For every issue, I will go over its contents, & discuss whatever sticks out to me as worth talking about, whether that be trivia, something that irks me, or whatever else. I'm going based off of the actual date of publication, as recorded by the only website I could find that has an actual chronological list at all. If any orders are wrong or I miss something, please let me know, I want to do it "right" or I wouldn't be putting myself through this in the first place.

I grew up in a Marvel household, with the 90's cartoons & PS1 games being very formative media, so a lot of Marvel knowledge is second nature to me. But before starting this I had actually only read one American comic book at all, so there is a lot of new ground to cover, & I'm very excited to see most of what lies ahead.

(No mice were paid in the making of this blog.)