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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2014 12:18:30 GMT -5
Timely Comics came to an end with Captain America Comics #75. The name then changed to Atlas.
Atlas Comics was a lot of different genres - horror, Westerns, humor, funny-animal, crime, and war comics.
Atlas followed popular trends in TV and movies — westerns, war dramas, monsters, etc.
Ironically Martin Goodman (publisher of Timely/Atlas/Marvel) used the name again in the 1970s, known as Atlas/Seaboard Comics. |
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Post by paulie on Sept 5, 2014 12:33:22 GMT -5
Joe Maneely!
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 5, 2014 12:46:39 GMT -5
Atlas Comics was a lot of different genres - horror, Westerns, humor, funny-animal, crime, and war comics.
Atlas followed popular trends in TV and movies — westerns, war dramas, monsters, etc.
This was true with just about every comics publisher in the 50s. The demise in popularity of superheroes led all of them to search for a genre to drive sales. At one point it was romance comics.I read that in one particular year in the early 50s Romance titles were 33% of the market. Western and Horror had huge amounts of titles for a time. The Korean War spun out many many war books too. Don't forget there was a SF craze as well. Teen humor like Archie was abundant. Atlas did nothing unusual compared to others. They just flooded the newstands more than anyone else until the late 50s |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2014 12:51:42 GMT -5
This was true with just about every comics publisher in the 50s. The demise in popularity of superheroes led all of them to search for a genre to drive sales. At one point it was romance comics.I read that in one particular year in the early 50s Romance titles were 33% of the market. Western and Horror had huge amounts of titles for a time. The Korean War spun out many many war books too. Don't forget there was a SF craze as well. Teen humor like Archie was abundant. Atlas did nothing unusual compared to others. They just flooded the newstands more than anyone else until the late 50s Totally agree. Atlas was extremely prolific in the 50's. Unfortunately today their output gets overlooked because it wasn't heroes. |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Sept 8, 2014 8:46:31 GMT -5
I only own one Atlas book, and I think before CBR went to limbo, I had asked about this comic, and found to be disappointed that there was only one. I bought it many years ago when I had a regular shop I went to. I enjoyed the art and the story. Edit: Though it bears a 1975 printing date, so it may not be the same Atlas you're talking about. |
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Post by DE Sinclair on Sept 8, 2014 15:01:30 GMT -5
I only own one Atlas book, and I think before CBR went to limbo, I had asked about this comic, and found to be disappointed that there was only one. I bought it many years ago when I had a regular shop I went to. I enjoyed the art and the story. Edit: Though it bears a 1975 printing date, so it may not be the same Atlas you're talking about. You're correct, it's not one of the 50's Atlas comics. It's from the aforementioned Atlas/Seaboard line from the 70's. Oddly enough, if you like the character, it was transplanted by it's creator when he moved to Marvel. He gave him a different color scheme and renamed him "Demon Slayer". I know he showed up in the Defenders, but I don't know where else. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2014 9:10:52 GMT -5
Man I would love to get some old Sub mariner atlas comics . But sadly beyond my price range . I do have all the Atlas / Seaboard comic stuff and recently found a couple of mags .
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