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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Atlas_Comics_logo.svg/220px-Atlas_Comics_logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Atlas_Comics_logo.svg/330px-Atlas_Comics_logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Atlas_Comics_logo.svg/440px-Atlas_Comics_logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="449" data-file-height="408" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Company type</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Division_(business)" title="Division (business)">Division</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Industry</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Publishing" title="Publishing">Publishing</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Predecessor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Timely_Comics" title="Timely Comics">Timely Comics</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">November 1951<span class="noprint">; 73 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">November 1951</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founder</th><td class="infobox-data agent"><a href="/wiki/Martin_Goodman_(publisher)" title="Martin Goodman (publisher)">Martin Goodman</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Defunct</th><td class="infobox-data">October 1957<span class="noprint">; 67 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="dtend">October 1957</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Fate</th><td class="infobox-data">Rebranded as <a href="/wiki/Marvel_Comics" title="Marvel Comics">Marvel Comics</a> in 1961</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Successor</th><td class="infobox-data">Marvel Comics</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Key people</div></th><td class="infobox-data agent"><a href="/wiki/Martin_Goodman_(publisher)" title="Martin Goodman (publisher)">Martin Goodman</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Products</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Comic_book" title="Comic book">Comic books</a>, <a href="/wiki/Magazines" class="mw-redirect" title="Magazines">magazines</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Parent_company" class="mw-redirect" title="Parent company">Parent</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Magazine_Management_Co.,_Inc." class="mw-redirect" title="Magazine Management Co., Inc.">Magazine Management Co., Inc.</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Atlas Comics</b> was the 1950s <a href="/wiki/Comic_book" title="Comic book">comic-book</a> <a href="/wiki/Publishing" title="Publishing">publishing</a> label that evolved into <a href="/wiki/Marvel_Comics" title="Marvel Comics">Marvel Comics</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Magazine and <a href="/wiki/Mass_market_paperback" class="mw-redirect" title="Mass market paperback">paperback novel</a> publisher <a href="/wiki/Martin_Goodman_(publisher)" title="Martin Goodman (publisher)">Martin Goodman</a>, whose business strategy involved having a multitude of corporate entities, used Atlas as the umbrella name for his comic-book division during this time. Atlas evolved out of Goodman's 1940s comic-book division, <a href="/wiki/Timely_Comics" title="Timely Comics">Timely Comics</a>, and was located on the 14th floor of the <a href="/wiki/Empire_State_Building" title="Empire State Building">Empire State Building</a>. This company is distinct from the 1970s comic-book company, also founded by Goodman, that is known as <a href="/wiki/Atlas/Seaboard_Comics" title="Atlas/Seaboard Comics">Atlas/Seaboard Comics</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Atlas_Comics_(1950s)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="After_the_Golden_Age">After the Golden Age</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Atlas_Comics_(1950s)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: After the Golden Age"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:YoungMen25.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/64/YoungMen25.jpg/220px-YoungMen25.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="322" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/64/YoungMen25.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="261" data-file-height="382" /></a><figcaption><i>Young Men</i> #25 (Feb. 1954): Cover art by <a href="/wiki/Carl_Burgos" title="Carl Burgos">Carl Burgos</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Note the Atlas globe in the top left corner.</figcaption></figure> <p>Atlas Comics was the successor of <a href="/wiki/Timely_Comics" title="Timely Comics">Timely Comics</a>, the company that <a href="/wiki/Magazine" title="Magazine">magazine</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mass_market_paperback" class="mw-redirect" title="Mass market paperback">paperback novel</a> publisher Martin Goodman founded in 1939, and which had reached the peak of its popularity during the war years with its star characters the <a href="/wiki/Human_Torch_(Golden_Age)" class="mw-redirect" title="Human Torch (Golden Age)">Human Torch</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Namor_the_Sub-Mariner" class="mw-redirect" title="Namor the Sub-Mariner">Sub-Mariner</a> and <a href="/wiki/Captain_America" title="Captain America">Captain America</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The early to mid-1950s found comic books falling out of fashion due to competition from <a href="/wiki/Television" title="Television">television</a> and other media.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Timely largely stopped producing superhero comics with the cancellation of <i><a href="/wiki/Captain_America_Comics" title="Captain America Comics">Captain America Comics</a></i> at issue #75 (<a href="/wiki/Cover-date" class="mw-redirect" title="Cover-date">cover-dated</a> Feb. 1950), by which time the series had already been titled <i>Captain America's Weird Tales</i> for two issues, with the finale featuring only anthological <a href="/wiki/Suspense" title="Suspense">suspense</a> stories and no superheroes.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The company's flagship title, <i><a href="/wiki/Marvel_Mystery_Comics" title="Marvel Mystery Comics">Marvel Mystery Comics</a></i>, starring the Human Torch, had already ended its run with #92 in June 1949,<sup id="cite_ref-gcd-marvelmystery_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gcd-marvelmystery-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as had <i>Sub-Mariner Comics</i> with #32 the same month,<sup id="cite_ref-gcd-GAsubmariner_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gcd-GAsubmariner-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <i>The Human Torch</i> with #35 in March 1949.<sup id="cite_ref-gcd-GAHumanTorch_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gcd-GAHumanTorch-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Timely made one more attempt at superheroes with the publication of <i>Marvel Boy</i> #1-2 (Dec. 1950 - Feb. 1951),<sup id="cite_ref-Brevoort_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brevoort-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 7">: 7 </span></sup> which was retitled <i>Astonishing</i> with issue #3 (April 1951) and continued the <i>Marvel Boy</i> feature through #6 (Oct. 1951).<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the absence of superheroes, Goodman's comic book line expanded into a wide variety of genres, producing <a href="/wiki/Horror_comics" title="Horror comics">horror</a>, <a href="/wiki/Western_comics" title="Western comics">Westerns</a>, <a href="/wiki/Humour" title="Humour">humor</a>, <a href="/wiki/Talking_animals_in_fiction" title="Talking animals in fiction">talking animal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Drama" title="Drama">drama</a>, <a href="/wiki/Crime_fiction" title="Crime fiction">crime</a>, <a href="/wiki/War_comics" title="War comics">war</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jungle" title="Jungle">jungle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Romance_comics" title="Romance comics">romance</a>, <a href="/wiki/Spy_fiction" title="Spy fiction">espionage</a>, <a href="/wiki/Middle_Ages" title="Middle Ages">medieval</a> adventure, <a href="/wiki/Bible_story" class="mw-redirect" title="Bible story">Bible stories</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sport" title="Sport">sports</a> comics. As did other publishers, Atlas also offered comics about <a href="/wiki/Model_(people)" class="mw-redirect" title="Model (people)">models</a> and career women. </p><p>Goodman began using the logo of the Atlas News Company, the newsstand-distribution company he owned, on comics <a href="/wiki/Cover-date" class="mw-redirect" title="Cover-date">cover-dated</a> November 1951, even though another company, Kable News, continued to distribute his comics through the August 1952 issues, with its "K" logo and the logo of the independent distributors' union appearing alongside the Atlas globe.<sup id="cite_ref-gcdatlasglobe_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gcdatlasglobe-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Atlas logo united a line put out by the same publisher, staff and freelancers through 59 shell companies, from Animirth Comics to Zenith Publications.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Soon afterwards, the company rejoined the <a href="/wiki/Association_of_Comics_Magazine_Publishers" title="Association of Comics Magazine Publishers">Association of Comics Magazine Publishers</a> and begin using the "star" logo of ACMP on comics cover-dated between April 1952 and January 1955 on its titles, prior to the establishment of the <a href="/wiki/Comics_Code_Authority" title="Comics Code Authority">Comics Code Authority</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Atlas_interior_logo.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/83/Atlas_interior_logo.jpg/420px-Atlas_interior_logo.jpg" decoding="async" width="420" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/83/Atlas_interior_logo.jpg/630px-Atlas_interior_logo.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/83/Atlas_interior_logo.jpg/840px-Atlas_interior_logo.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1293" data-file-height="77" /></a><figcaption>The logo treatment on a 1954 comic-book page, with "Atlas" as the comics brand</figcaption></figure> <p>Atlas attempted to revive superheroes in <i>Young Men</i> #24-28 (Dec. 1953 - June 1954) with the Human Torch (art by <a href="/wiki/Syd_Shores" title="Syd Shores">Syd Shores</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dick_Ayers" title="Dick Ayers">Dick Ayers</a>, variously), the Sub-Mariner (drawn and most stories written by <a href="/wiki/Bill_Everett" title="Bill Everett">Bill Everett</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Captain_America" title="Captain America">Captain America</a> (writer <a href="/wiki/Stan_Lee" title="Stan Lee">Stan Lee</a>, artist <a href="/wiki/John_Romita_Sr." title="John Romita Sr.">John Romita Sr.</a>). The short-lived revival also included restarts of <i>Sub-Mariner Comics</i> (issues #33-42, April 1954 - Oct. 1955)<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <i>Captain America</i> (#76-78, May-Sept. 1954).<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> All three superheroes also appeared in the final two issues of <i>Men's Adventures</i> (#27-28, May–July 1954).<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Trend-following">Trend-following</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Atlas_Comics_(1950s)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Trend-following"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Astonishing30.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6f/Astonishing30.jpg" decoding="async" width="209" height="299" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="209" data-file-height="299" /></a><figcaption>The pre-<a href="/wiki/Comics_Code" class="mw-redirect" title="Comics Code">Comics Code</a> <i>Astonishing</i> #30 (Feb. 1954): Cover art by <a href="/wiki/Joe_Maneely" title="Joe Maneely">Joe Maneely</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>Goodman's publishing strategy for Atlas involved what he saw as the proven route of following popular trends in TV and <a href="/wiki/Movies" class="mw-redirect" title="Movies">movies</a> — <a href="/wiki/Western_fiction" title="Western fiction">Westerns</a> and war dramas prevailing for a time, <a href="/wiki/Drive-in" title="Drive-in">drive-in</a> <a href="/wiki/Movie" class="mw-redirect" title="Movie">movie</a> monsters another time — and even other comic books, particularly the <a href="/wiki/Entertaining_Comics" class="mw-redirect" title="Entertaining Comics">EC</a> <a href="/wiki/Horror_(genre)" class="mw-redirect" title="Horror (genre)">horror</a> line.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Daniels_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Daniels-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 67–68">: 67–68 </span></sup> As Marvel/Atlas editor-in-chief <a href="/wiki/Stan_Lee" title="Stan Lee">Stan Lee</a> told comic-book historian <a href="/wiki/Les_Daniels" title="Les Daniels">Les Daniels</a>, Goodman "would notice what was selling, and we'd put out a lot of books of that type." Commented Daniels, "The short-term results were lucrative; but while other publishers took the long view and kept their stables of heroes solid, Goodman let his slide."<sup id="cite_ref-Daniels_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Daniels-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 57">: 57 </span></sup> </p><p>While Atlas had some horror titles, such as <i><a href="/wiki/Marvel_Tales_(1949%E2%80%931957)" class="mw-redirect" title="Marvel Tales (1949–1957)">Marvel Tales</a></i>, as far back as 1949, the company increased its output dramatically in the wake of EC's success. Lee recalled, "[I]t was usually based on how the competition was doing. When we found that EC's horror books were doing well, for instance, we published a lot of horror books."<sup id="cite_ref-Daniels_20-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Daniels-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 67–68">: 67–68 </span></sup> Until the early 1960s, when Lee, <a href="/wiki/Jack_Kirby" title="Jack Kirby">Jack Kirby</a> and <a href="/wiki/Steve_Ditko" title="Steve Ditko">Steve Ditko</a> would help revolutionize comic books with the advent of the <a href="/wiki/Fantastic_Four" title="Fantastic Four">Fantastic Four</a> and <a href="/wiki/Spider-Man" title="Spider-Man">Spider-Man</a>, Atlas was content to flood newsstands with profitable, cheaply produced product — often, despite itself, beautifully rendered by talented if low-paid artists.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Atlas "bullpen" had at least five staff writers (officially called editors) besides Lee: <a href="/wiki/Hank_Chapman" title="Hank Chapman">Hank Chapman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paul_S._Newman" title="Paul S. Newman">Paul S. Newman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Don_Rico" title="Don Rico">Don Rico</a>, <a href="/wiki/Carl_Wessler" title="Carl Wessler">Carl Wessler</a>, and, in the teen humor division, future <i><a href="/wiki/Mad_(magazine)" title="Mad (magazine)">Mad</a></i> magazine cartoonist <a href="/wiki/Al_Jaffee" title="Al Jaffee">Al Jaffee</a>. <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Keyes" title="Daniel Keyes">Daniel Keyes</a>, future author of <i><a href="/wiki/Flowers_for_Algernon" title="Flowers for Algernon">Flowers for Algernon</a></i>, was an editor beginning 1952.<sup id="cite_ref-autobiop79-80_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autobiop79-80-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other writers, generally freelance, included <a href="/wiki/Robert_Bernstein_(comics)" title="Robert Bernstein (comics)">Robert Bernstein</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-bernsteingcd_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bernsteingcd-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The artists — some freelance, some on staff — included such veterans as Human Torch creator <a href="/wiki/Carl_Burgos" title="Carl Burgos">Carl Burgos</a><sup id="cite_ref-burgosgcd_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-burgosgcd-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Sub-Mariner creator <a href="/wiki/Bill_Everett" title="Bill Everett">Bill Everett</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-gcd2_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gcd2-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The next generation included the prolific and much-admired <a href="/wiki/Joe_Maneely" title="Joe Maneely">Joe Maneely</a>, who before his death just prior to Marvel's 1960s breakthrough was the company's leading artist,<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> providing many covers and doing work in all genres, most notably on Westerns and on the medieval adventure <i><a href="/wiki/Black_Knight_(Sir_Percy)" title="Black Knight (Sir Percy)">Black Knight</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-gcd-joemaneely_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gcd-joemaneely-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Others included <a href="/wiki/Russ_Heath" title="Russ Heath">Russ Heath</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-heathgcd_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-heathgcd-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Gene_Colan" title="Gene Colan">Gene Colan</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-gcd_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gcd-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the fledgling, highly individualistic <a href="/wiki/Steve_Ditko" title="Steve Ditko">Steve Ditko</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ditkogcd_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ditkogcd-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Some of Atlas' prominent <a href="/wiki/Western_comics" title="Western comics">Western</a> titles, many reprinted in the 1970s, were <i><a href="/wiki/Ringo_Kid" title="Ringo Kid">Ringo Kid</a></i>, with art by Maneely, <a href="/wiki/Fred_Kida" title="Fred Kida">Fred Kida</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_Severin" title="John Severin">John Severin</a>; artist <a href="/wiki/Doug_Wildey" title="Doug Wildey">Doug Wildey</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Outlaw_Kid" title="Outlaw Kid">The Outlaw Kid</a></i>; artist <a href="/wiki/Jack_Keller_(comics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jack Keller (comics)">Jack Keller</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Kid_Colt,_Outlaw" title="Kid Colt, Outlaw">Kid Colt, Outlaw</a></i>; the anthology <i><a href="/wiki/Gunsmoke_Western" title="Gunsmoke Western">Gunsmoke Western</a></i>, starring Kid Colt; and <i><a href="/wiki/Black_Rider_(comics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Black Rider (comics)">Black Rider</a></i>, drawn by Maneely, <a href="/wiki/Syd_Shores" title="Syd Shores">Syd Shores</a> and others.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Humor_and_miscellanea">Humor and miscellanea</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Atlas_Comics_(1950s)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Humor and miscellanea"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:SgtBarneyBarker1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f9/SgtBarneyBarker1.jpg/220px-SgtBarneyBarker1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="335" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f9/SgtBarneyBarker1.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="256" data-file-height="390" /></a><figcaption><i>Sergeant Barney Barker</i> #1 (Feb. 1953), cover art by <a href="/wiki/John_Severin" title="John Severin">John Severin</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>Atlas also published various children's and teen humor titles, including <a href="/wiki/Dan_DeCarlo" title="Dan DeCarlo">Dan DeCarlo</a>'s <i>Homer, the Happy Ghost</i> (a la <i><a href="/wiki/Casper_the_Friendly_Ghost" title="Casper the Friendly Ghost">Casper the Friendly Ghost</a></i>), <i>Homer Hooper</i> (a la <a href="/wiki/Archie_Andrews_(comics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Archie Andrews (comics)">Archie Andrews</a>) and the <a href="/wiki/Joe_Maneely" title="Joe Maneely">Joe Maneely</a>-drawn <i>Melvin the Monster</i> (a la <i><a href="/wiki/Dennis_the_Menace_(U.S.)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dennis the Menace (U.S.)">Dennis the Menace</a></i>). <i>Sergeant Barney Barker</i>, drawn by <a href="/wiki/John_Severin" title="John Severin">John Severin</a>, was Atlas' answer to <i><a href="/wiki/The_Phil_Silvers_Show" title="The Phil Silvers Show">Sgt. Bilko</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-squa36_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-squa36-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>One of the most long-running titles was <i><a href="/wiki/Millie_the_Model" title="Millie the Model">Millie the Model</a></i>, which began as a Timely Comics humor series in 1945 and ran into the 1970s, lasting for 207 issues and launching spinoffs along the way. Created by writer-artist <a href="/wiki/Ruth_Atkinson" title="Ruth Atkinson">Ruth Atkinson</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Manning_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Manning-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 31">: 31 </span></sup> it later became the training ground for <a href="/wiki/Cartoonist" title="Cartoonist">cartoonist</a> DeCarlo — the future creator of <i><a href="/wiki/Josie_and_the_Pussycats_(comic)" class="mw-redirect" title="Josie and the Pussycats (comic)">Josie and the Pussycats</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Sabrina,_the_Teenage_Witch" class="mw-redirect" title="Sabrina, the Teenage Witch">Sabrina, the Teenage Witch</a></i> and other <a href="/wiki/Archie_Comics" title="Archie Comics">Archie Comics</a> characters, and the artist who established Archie Comics’ modern look.<sup id="cite_ref-Manning_33-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Manning-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 31">: 31 </span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> DeCarlo wrote and drew <i>Millie</i> for 10 years.<sup id="cite_ref-decarlogcd_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-decarlogcd-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The high-school series <i><a href="/wiki/Patsy_Walker_(comic_book)" title="Patsy Walker (comic book)">Patsy Walker</a></i>, co-created by Atkinson and writer <a href="/wiki/Otto_Binder" title="Otto Binder">Otto Binder</a> in 1944,<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> featured art by <a href="/wiki/Al_Hartley" title="Al Hartley">Al Hartley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Al_Jaffee" title="Al Jaffee">Al Jaffee</a>, <a href="/wiki/Morris_Weiss" title="Morris Weiss">Morris Weiss</a> and others, and ran until 1967<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It spun off three titles. Patsy herself would be integrated into <a href="/wiki/Marvel_Universe" title="Marvel Universe">Marvel Universe</a> continuity years later as the <a href="/wiki/Supernatural" title="Supernatural">supernatural</a> superheroine <a href="/wiki/Hellcat_(comics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hellcat (comics)">Hellcat</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Atlas' talking animal books featured <a href="/wiki/Cartoonist" title="Cartoonist">cartoonist</a> <a href="/wiki/Ed_Winiarski" title="Ed Winiarski">Ed Winiarski</a>'s trouble-prone <i>Buck Duck</i>, Maneely's mentally suspect <i>Dippy Duck</i>, and <a href="/wiki/Howie_Post" class="mw-redirect" title="Howie Post">Howie Post</a>'s <i>The Monkey and the Bear</i>. Buck and the other animal characters briefly returned in the early 1970s when Marvel published the five-issue reprint title <i>Li'l Pals</i> ("Fun-Filled Animal Antics!").<sup id="cite_ref-lilpalsgcd_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lilpalsgcd-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Miscellaneous titles included the espionage series <i><a href="/wiki/Yellow_Claw_(comics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Yellow Claw (comics)">Yellow Claw</a></i>, with Maneely, Severin, and <a href="/wiki/Jack_Kirby" title="Jack Kirby">Jack Kirby</a> art; the <a href="/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States" title="Native Americans in the United States">Native American</a> hero <i>Red Warrior</i>, with art by <a href="/wiki/Tom_Gill_(comics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tom Gill (comics)">Tom Gill</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-gillgcd_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gillgcd-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the <a href="/wiki/Space_opera" title="Space opera">space opera</a> <i>Space Squadron</i>, written and drawn by future Marvel production executive <a href="/wiki/Sol_Brodsky" title="Sol Brodsky">Sol Brodsky</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-brodskygcd_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-brodskygcd-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <i>Sports Action</i>, initially featuring true-life stories about the likes of <a href="/wiki/George_Gipp" title="George Gipp">George Gipp</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jackie_Robinson" title="Jackie Robinson">Jackie Robinson</a>, and later fictional features of, as one cover headline put it, "Rugged Tales of Danger and Red-Hot Action!".<sup id="cite_ref-sportsactiongcd_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sportsactiongcd-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Staff artist <a href="/wiki/Stan_Goldberg" title="Stan Goldberg">Stan Goldberg</a> recalled in 2005, "I was in the Bullpen with a lot of well-known artists who worked up there at that time. ... The guys ... who actually worked nine-to-five and put in a regular day, and not the freelance guys who'd come in a drop off their work ... were almost a hall of fame group of people. There was <a href="/wiki/John_Severin" title="John Severin">John Severin</a>. <a href="/wiki/Bill_Everett" title="Bill Everett">Bill Everett</a>. <a href="/wiki/Carl_Burgos" title="Carl Burgos">Carl Burgos</a>. There was the all-time great Joe Maneely.... We all worked together, all the colorists and correction guys, the letterers and artists. ... We had a great time".<sup id="cite_ref-goldberg_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-goldberg-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Layoffs">Layoffs</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Atlas_Comics_(1950s)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Layoffs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From 1952 to late 1956, Goodman distributed Atlas' comics to newsstands through his self-owned distributor, the Atlas News Company. He shut down Atlas News Company in 1956 and began newsstand distribution through <a href="/wiki/American_News_Company" title="American News Company">American News Company</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-gcdatlasglobe_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gcdatlasglobe-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Manning_33-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Manning-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 66">: 66 </span></sup> the nation's largest distributor and a virtual <a href="/wiki/Monopoly" title="Monopoly">monopoly</a>, which shortly afterward lost a <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Justice" title="United States Department of Justice">Justice Department</a> <a href="/wiki/Lawsuit" title="Lawsuit">lawsuit</a> and discontinued its business. As comic-book historian <a href="/wiki/Gerard_Jones" title="Gerard Jones">Gerard Jones</a> explains, the company in 1956 </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>...had been found guilty of restraint of trade and ordered to divest itself of the newsstands it owned. Its biggest client, <a href="/wiki/George_Delacorte" class="mw-redirect" title="George Delacorte">George Delacorte</a>, announced he would seek a new distributor for his <a href="/wiki/Dell_Comics" title="Dell Comics">Dell Comics</a> and paperbacks. The owners of American News estimated the effect that would have on their income. Then they looked at the value of the <a href="/wiki/New_Jersey" title="New Jersey">New Jersey</a> real estate where their headquarters sat. They liquidated the company and sold the land. The company ... vanished without a trace in the <a href="/wiki/Suburban" class="mw-redirect" title="Suburban">suburban</a> growth of the 1950s.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This citation requires a reference to the specific page or range of pages in which the material appears. (November 2015)">page needed</span></a></i>]</sup></p></blockquote> <p>The Atlas globe remained on the covers, however, until American News went out of business in June 1957.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With no other options, Goodman turned to the distributor <a href="/wiki/Independent_News" title="Independent News">Independent News</a>, owned by rival <a href="/wiki/National_Periodical_Publications" class="mw-redirect" title="National Periodical Publications">National Periodical Publications</a>, the future <a href="/wiki/DC_Comics" title="DC Comics">DC Comics</a>, which agreed to distribute him on constrained terms that allowed only eight titles per month.<sup id="cite_ref-Manning_33-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Manning-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 66">: 66 </span></sup> The last comic to bear the Atlas globe on the cover was the comic <i>Dippy Duck</i> #1,<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the first to bear the new "Ind." distributors' mark was <i><a href="/wiki/Patsy_Walker_(comic_book)" title="Patsy Walker (comic book)">Patsy Walker</a></i> #73, both <a href="/wiki/Cover-date" class="mw-redirect" title="Cover-date">cover-dated</a> October 1957.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The company was accordingly renamed to Goodman Comics after signing a distribution pact with <a href="/wiki/Independent_News" title="Independent News">Independent News</a>, according to a 1960 trade article.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Stan Lee, in a 1988 interview, recalled that Goodman: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>...had gone with the American News Company. I remember saying to him, 'Gee, why did you do that? I thought that we had a good distribution company.' His answer was like, 'Oh, Stan, you wouldn't understand. It has to do with finance.' I didn't really give a damn, and I went back to doing the comics. [Later,] we were left without a distributor and we couldn't go back to distributing our own books because the fact that Martin quit doing it and went with American News had gotten the wholesalers very angry ... and it would have been impossible for Martin to just say, 'Okay, we'll go back to where we were and distribute our books.' [We had been] turning out 40, 50, 60 books a month, maybe more, and [now] the only company we could get to distribute our books was our closest rival, National [DC] Comics. Suddenly we went ... to either eight or 12 books a month, which was all Independent News Distributors would accept from us.<sup id="cite_ref-Stan_and_Roy_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stan_and_Roy-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>During this retrenchment, according to a fabled industry story, Goodman discovered a closet-full of unused, but paid-for, art, leading him to have virtually the entire staff fired while he used up the inventory. In the interview noted above, Lee, one of the few able to give a firsthand account, told a seemingly self-contradictory version of the downsizing: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>It would never have happened just because he opened a closet door. But I think that I may have been in a little trouble when that happened. We had bought a lot of strips that I didn't think were really all that good, but I paid the artists and writers for them anyway, and I kinda hid them in the closet! And Martin found them and I think he wasn't too happy. If I wasn't satisfied with the work, I wasn't supposed to have paid, but I was never sure it was really the artist's or the writer's fault. But when the job was finished I didn't think that it was anything that I wanted to use. I felt that we could use it in inventory — put it out in other books. Martin, probably rightly so, was a little annoyed because it was his money I was spending.<sup id="cite_ref-Stan_and_Roy_49-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stan_and_Roy-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>In a 2003 interview, <a href="/wiki/Joe_Sinnott" title="Joe Sinnott">Joe Sinnott</a>, one of the company's top artists for more than 50 years, recalled Lee citing the inventory issue as a primary cause. "Stan called me and said, 'Joe, Martin Goodman told me to suspend operations because I have all this artwork in house and have to use it up before I can hire you again.' It turned out to be six months, in my case. He may have called back some of the other artists later, but that's what happened with me."<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pre-superhero_Marvel">Pre-superhero Marvel</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Atlas_Comics_(1950s)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Pre-superhero Marvel"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:StrangeWorlds1_Marvel.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/92/StrangeWorlds1_Marvel.jpg/220px-StrangeWorlds1_Marvel.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="322" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/92/StrangeWorlds1_Marvel.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="261" data-file-height="382" /></a><figcaption><i><a href="/wiki/Strange_Worlds_(Atlas_Comics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Strange Worlds (Atlas Comics)">Strange Worlds</a></i> #1 (Dec. 1958), the first Marvel/Atlas work by artist <a href="/wiki/Jack_Kirby" title="Jack Kirby">Jack Kirby</a> upon his permanent return to the company. Cover art by <a href="/wiki/Penciler" class="mw-redirect" title="Penciler">penciler</a> Kirby and <a href="/wiki/Inker" title="Inker">inker</a> <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Rule" title="Christopher Rule">Christopher Rule</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>Goodman's men's magazines and paperback books were still successful — the comics, except in the early Golden Age, were a relatively small part of the business — and Goodman considered shutting the division down. The details of his decision not to do so are murky. Artist <a href="/wiki/Jack_Kirby" title="Jack Kirby">Jack Kirby</a> — who had amicably split with creative partner <a href="/wiki/Joe_Simon" title="Joe Simon">Joe Simon</a> a few years earlier, and separately lost a lawsuit to a <a href="/wiki/DC_Comics" title="DC Comics">DC Comics</a> editor — was having difficulty finding work. He recalled that in late 1958, </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>I came in [to the Marvel offices] and they were moving out the furniture, they were taking desks out — and I needed the work! ... Stan Lee is sitting on a chair crying. He didn't know what to do, he's sitting on a chair crying — he was still just out of his adolescence [Note: Lee, born Dec. 28, 1922, would actually have been about 36.] I told him to stop crying. I says, 'Go in to Martin and tell him to stop moving the furniture out, and I'll see that the books make money'.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>The interviewer, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Comics_Journal" title="The Comics Journal">The Comics Journal</a></i> publisher <a href="/wiki/Gary_Groth" title="Gary Groth">Gary Groth</a>, later wrote of this interview in general, "Some of Kirby's more extreme statements ... should be taken with a grain of salt...."<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lee, specifically asked about the office-closing anecdote, said, </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>I never remember being there when people were moving out the furniture. If they ever moved the furniture, they did it during the weekend when everybody was home. Jack tended toward hyperbole, just like the time he was quoted as saying that he came in and I was crying and I said, 'Please save the company!' I'm not a crier and I would never have said that. I was very happy that Jack was there and I loved working with him, but I never cried to him. (laughs)<sup id="cite_ref-Stan_and_Roy_49-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stan_and_Roy-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Kirby had previously returned, in late 1956, to freelance on five issues <a href="/wiki/Cover-date" class="mw-redirect" title="Cover-date">cover-dated</a> December 1956 and February 1957,<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but did not stay. Now, beginning with the cover and the seven-page story "I Discovered the Secret of the Flying Saucers" for <i><a href="/wiki/Strange_Worlds_(Atlas_Comics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Strange Worlds (Atlas Comics)">Strange Worlds</a></i> #1 (Dec. 1958), Kirby returned for a 12-year run that would soon help revolutionize comics. While career necessity led Kirby back to publisher Goodman, whom he had left acrimoniously in 1941, Kirby nonetheless helped elevate simple science fiction and giant-monster stories with what comics historian Charles Hatfield called "a vital jab in the ribs by [his] outlandish artistry.<sup id="cite_ref-Hatfield_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hatfield-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 100">: 100 </span></sup> Soon his dynamic work began gracing countless covers and lead stories in the extant <i><a href="/wiki/Strange_Tales" title="Strange Tales">Strange Tales</a></i> and the newly launched <i><a href="/wiki/Amazing_Adventures" title="Amazing Adventures">Amazing Adventures</a></i>, <i>Strange Worlds</i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Tales_of_Suspense" title="Tales of Suspense">Tales of Suspense</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Tales_to_Astonish" title="Tales to Astonish">Tales to Astonish</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/World_of_Fantasy" title="World of Fantasy">World of Fantasy</a></i>. "Offsetting the formulaic nature of the stories was a dash of invigorating absurdity," wrote Hatfield. "The tales had Kirby's energy and, courtesy of Lee, confessional, first-person titles typical of sensation-mongering tabloids and comics, such as, 'I Created Sporr, the Thing That Could Not Die!'"<sup id="cite_ref-Hatfield_54-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hatfield-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 100–101">: 100–101 </span></sup> </p><p>A Kirby science fiction/monster story, usually inked by <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Rule" title="Christopher Rule">Christopher Rule</a> initially, then by <a href="/wiki/Dick_Ayers" title="Dick Ayers">Dick Ayers</a> following Rule's retirement, would generally open each book. This was followed by one or two twist-ending thrillers or sci-fi tales drawn by <a href="/wiki/Don_Heck" title="Don Heck">Don Heck</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paul_Reinman" title="Paul Reinman">Paul Reinman</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Joe_Sinnott" title="Joe Sinnott">Joe Sinnott</a>, all capped by an often-surreal, sometimes self-reflexive short by Lee and artist <a href="/wiki/Steve_Ditko" title="Steve Ditko">Steve Ditko</a>. Lee in 2009 described these "short, five-page filler strips that Steve and I did together", originally "placed in any of our comics that had a few extra pages to fill", as "odd fantasy tales that I'd dream up with <a href="/wiki/O._Henry" title="O. Henry">O. Henry</a>-type endings." Giving an early example of what would later be known as the "<a href="/wiki/Marvel_Method" class="mw-redirect" title="Marvel Method">Marvel Method</a>" of writer-artist collaboration, Lee said, "All I had to do was give Steve a one-line description of the plot and he'd be off and running. He'd take those skeleton outlines I had given him and turn them into classic little works of art that ended up being far cooler than I had any right to expect."<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Don_Heck" title="Don Heck">Don Heck</a>, who worked as an Atlas staff artist from 1954 until the company's retrenchment in 1957 before returning the following year, recalled that the 1958 page rate "was around $20 per page to pencil and ink, I think [rival comic-book publisher] <a href="/wiki/DC_Comics" title="DC Comics">DC</a>'s average was $38. It didn't pick up until 1964-65, and even then it didn't go up all that much — a couple of bucks a page."<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Although for several months in 1949 and 1950 Timely's titles bore a circular logo labeled "Marvel Comic", the first modern comic books so labeled were the science fiction anthology <i><a href="/wiki/Journey_into_Mystery" title="Journey into Mystery">Journey into Mystery</a></i> #69 and the teen humor title <i><a href="/wiki/Patsy_Walker_(comic_book)" title="Patsy Walker (comic book)">Patsy Walker</a></i> #95 (both June 1961), which each showed an "MC" box on its cover.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, collectors routinely refer to the company's comics from the April 1959 cover-dates onward (when they began featuring Jack Kirby artwork on his return to Goodman's company), as <b>pre-superhero Marvel</b>.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Goodman would reuse the name Atlas for the <a href="/wiki/Atlas/Seaboard_Comics" title="Atlas/Seaboard Comics">next comics company he founded</a>, in the 1970s.<sup id="cite_ref-tcj114p97_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tcj114p97-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Atlas_titles_by_type">Atlas titles by type</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Atlas_Comics_(1950s)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Atlas titles by type"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_Timely_and_Atlas_Comics_publications" title="List of Timely and Atlas Comics publications">List of Timely and Atlas Comics publications</a></div> <p>Sources:<sup id="cite_ref-gcdbrandgroup_60-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gcdbrandgroup-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Some titles may be arguably Timely at the earlier end, or Marvel at the later end. Many series took over the numbering from previous series, which are listed. In titles numbered from or into the various <i>All Winners Comics</i>, additional clarifying information is supplied. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Crime">Crime</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Atlas_Comics_(1950s)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Crime"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>All-True Crime</i> #37–52 (Feb. 1948 – Sept. 1952) early issues Timely; <b>continued from</b> Timely Comics' <i>All True Crime Cases</i></li> <li><i>Amazing Detective Cases</i> #3–14 (Nov. 1950 – Sept. 1952) <b>continued from</b> n.a.</li> <li><i>Caught</i> #1–5 (Aug. 1956 – April 1957)</li> <li><i>Crime Can't Win</i> #41–43, 4–12 (Sept. 1950 – Sept. 1952) <b>continued from</b> <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Romance">romance</a> title <i>Cindy Smith</i></li> <li><i>Crime Cases Comics</i> #24–27, 5–12 (Aug. 1950 – July 1952) <b>continued from</b> successive Timely Comics series <i>Li'l Willie Comics</i> and <i>Willie Comics</i></li> <li><i>Crime Exposed</i> vol. 2, #1–14 (Dec. 1950 – June 1952)</li> <li><i>Crime Fighters</i> #11–13 (Sept. 1954 – Jan. 1955) <b>continued from</b> Timely Comics' <i>Crimefighters</i></li> <li><i>Crime Must Lose</i> #4–12 (Oct. 1950 – April 1952) <b>continued from</b> either <i>Sports Action</i> or <i>Blaze the Wonder Collie</i><sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Justice</i> #7–9 (first three issues), then 4–52 (Fall 1947 – March 1955) early issues Timely Comics; <b>continued from</b> Timely title <i>Wacky Duck</i>; <b>continued as</b> <i>Tales of Justice</i> #53–67 (May 1955 – Sept. 1957)</li> <li><i>Kent Blake of the Secret Service</i> #1–14 (May 1951 – July 1953)</li> <li><i>Police Action</i> #1–7 (Jan.–Nov. 1954)</li> <li><i>Police Badge #479</i> #5 (Sept. 1955) <b>continued from</b> <i>Spy Thrillers</i> (espionage title)</li> <li><i>Private Eye</i> #1–8 (Jan. 1951 – March 1952)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Drama">Drama</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Atlas_Comics_(1950s)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Drama"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Man Comics</i> #1–10 (Dec. 1949 – Oct. 1951) <b>continued as</b> <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#War">war</a> title <i>Man Comics</i></li> <li><i>Rugged Action</i> #1–4 (Dec. 1954 – June 1955) <b>continued as</b> Horror/fantasy/science fiction title <i>Strange Stories of Suspense</i></li> <li><i>True Adventures</i> #3 (May 1950) <b>continued from</b> <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Western">Western</a> title <i>True Western</i>; <b>continued as</b> <i>Men's Adventures</i> #4–8 (Aug. 1950 – June 1951) <b>continued as</b> war title <i>Men's Adventures</i></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Espionage">Espionage</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Atlas_Comics_(1950s)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Espionage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Spy Cases</i> #26–28 4–19 (Sept. 1950 – Oct. 1953) <b>continued from</b> Timely Comics' humor title <i>The Kellys</i></li> <li><i>Spy Fighters</i> #1–15 (March 1951 – July 1953)</li> <li><i>Spy Thrillers</i> #1–4 (Nov. 1954 – May 1955) <b>continued as</b> <i>Police Badge</i> #479 (crime title)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Yellow_Claw_(comics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Yellow Claw (comics)">Yellow Claw</a></i> #1–4 (Oct. 1956 – April 1957)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Talking_animal_and_other_children's_comics"><span id="Talking_animal_and_other_children.27s_comics"></span>Talking animal and other children's comics</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Atlas_Comics_(1950s)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Talking animal and other children's comics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Adventures of Homer Ghost</i> #1–2 (Jan.–Aug. 1957)</li> <li><i>Buck Duck</i> #1–4 (June–Dec. 1953)</li> <li><i>Cartoon Kids</i> #1 (no date; 1957)</li> <li><i>Dippy Duck</i> #1 (Oct. 1957)</li> <li><i>Homer, the Happy Ghost</i> #1–22 (March 1955 – Nov. 1958)</li> <li><i>Little Lizzie</i> vol. 2, #1–3 (Sept. 1953 – Jan. 1954) (previous volume: Timely Comics' <i>Little Lizzie</i> #1–5)</li> <li><i>Marvin Mouse</i> #1 (Sept. 1957)</li> <li><i>Melvin the Monster</i> #1–6 (July 1956 – July 1957) <b>continued as</b> <i>Dexter the Demon</i> #7 (Sept. 1957)</li></ul> <dl><dd><b>Note:</b> The above two series not supernatural, but <i>Dennis the Menace</i>–like</dd></dl> <ul><li><i>The Monkey and the Bear</i> #1–3 (Sept. 1953 – Jan. 1954)</li> <li><i>Wonder Duck</i> #1–3 (Sept. 1949 – March 1950) <b>continued as</b> <i>It's a Duck's Life</i> #4–11 (Nov. 1950 – Feb. 1952)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Horror/fantasy/science_fiction"><span id="Horror.2Ffantasy.2Fscience_fiction"></span>Horror/fantasy/science fiction</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Atlas_Comics_(1950s)&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Horror/fantasy/science fiction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Adventure into Mystery</i> #1–8 (May 1956 – July 1957)</li> <li><i>Adventures into Terror</i> #43–44 (first two issues), then #3–31 (Nov. 1950 – May 1954) original numbering <b>continued from</b> Timely Comics' humor tile <i>Joker</i></li> <li><i>Adventures into Weird Worlds</i> #1–30 (Jan. 1952 – June 1954)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Amazing_Adventures" title="Amazing Adventures">Amazing Adventures</a></i> #1–6 (June–Nov. 1961) <b>continued as</b> <i><a href="/wiki/Amazing_Adult_Fantasy" class="mw-redirect" title="Amazing Adult Fantasy">Amazing Adult Fantasy</a></i> #7–14 (Dec. 1961 – July 1962) and Marvel Comics' <i><a href="/wiki/Amazing_Fantasy" title="Amazing Fantasy">Amazing Fantasy</a></i></li> <li><i>Amazing Mysteries</i> #32–35 (May 1949 – Jan. 1950) <b>continued from</b> <i>Sub-Mariner</i>;</li> <li><i>Astonishing</i> #3–63 (April 1951 – Aug. 1957) <b>continued from</b> superhero title <i><a href="/wiki/Marvel_Boy" class="mw-redirect" title="Marvel Boy">Marvel Boy</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Journey_into_Mystery" title="Journey into Mystery">Journey into Mystery</a></i> #1–82 (June 1952 – July 1962) <b>continued as</b> a Marvel Comics superhero title</li> <li><i>Journey into Unknown Worlds</i> #36–59 (Sept. 1950 – Aug. 1957) <b>continued from</b> Timely Comics' <a href="/wiki/Teen_humor_comics" title="Teen humor comics">teen humor</a> series <i>Teen Comics</i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Marvel_Tales_(1949%E2%80%931957)" class="mw-redirect" title="Marvel Tales (1949–1957)">Marvel Tales</a></i> #93–159 (Aug. 1949 – Aug. 1957) <b>continued from</b> Timely Comics' superhero title <i><a href="/wiki/Marvel_Mystery_Comics" title="Marvel Mystery Comics">Marvel Mystery Comics</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Menace_(Atlas_Comics)" title="Menace (Atlas Comics)">Menace</a></i> #1–11 (March 1953 – May 1954)</li> <li><i>Men's Adventures</i> #21–26 (May 1953 – March 1954) <b>continued from</b> <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#War">War</a> title <i>Men's Adventures</i>) <b>continued as</b> superhero title <i>Men's Adventures</i></li> <li><i>Mystery Tales</i> #1–54 (March 1952 – Aug. 1957)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mystic_(Atlas_Comics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mystic (Atlas Comics)">Mystic</a></i> #1–61 (March 1951 – Aug. 1957)</li> <li><i>Space Squadron</i> #1–5 (June 1951 – Feb. 1952) <b>continued as</b> <i>Space Worlds</i> #6 (April 1952)</li> <li><i>Spaceman</i> (cover logo: <i>Speed Carter, Spaceman</i>) #1–6 (Sept. 1953 – June 1954)</li> <li><i>Spellbound</i> (cover logo: <i>Stories to Hold You Spellbound</i>) #1–34 (March 1952 – June 1957)</li> <li><i>Strange Stories of Suspense</i> #5–16 (Oct. 1955 – Aug. 1957) <b>continued from</b> drama title <i>Rugged Action</i>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Strange_Tales" title="Strange Tales">Strange Tales</a></i> #1–100 (June 1951 – Sept. 1962); post-1961 issues Marvel Comics; <b>series continued as</b> a Marvel Comics superhero title</li> <li><i>Strange Tales of the Unusual</i> #1–11 (Dec. 1955 – Aug. 1957)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Strange_Worlds_(Atlas_Comics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Strange Worlds (Atlas Comics)">Strange Worlds</a></i> #1–5 (Dec. 1958 – Aug. 1959)</li> <li><i>Suspense</i> #1–29 (Dec. 1949 – April 1953)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tales_of_Suspense" title="Tales of Suspense">Tales of Suspense</a></i> #1–38 (Jan. 1959 – Feb. 1963); post-1961 issues Marvel Comics; <b>series continued as</b> a Marvel Comics superhero title</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tales_to_Astonish" title="Tales to Astonish">Tales to Astonish</a></i> #1–34 (Jan. 1959 – Aug. 1962); post-1961 issues Marvel Comics; <b>series continued as</b> a Marvel Comics superhero title</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Uncanny_Tales_(comics)" title="Uncanny Tales (comics)">Uncanny Tales</a></i> #1–56 (June 1952 – Sept. 1957)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Venus_(comic_book)" title="Venus (comic book)">Venus</a></i> #1–19 (Aug. 1948 – April 1952) early issues Timely Comics</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/World_of_Fantasy" title="World of Fantasy">World of Fantasy</a></i> #1–19 (May 1956 – Aug. 1959)</li> <li><i>World of Mystery</i> #1–7 (June 1956 – July 1957)</li> <li><i>World of Suspense</i> #1–8 (April 1956 – July 1957)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Humor_(satire)"><span id="Humor_.28satire.29"></span>Humor (satire)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Atlas_Comics_(1950s)&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Humor (satire)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Crazy</i> #1–7 (Dec. 1953 – July 1954)</li> <li><i>Riot</i> #1–6 (April 1954 – June 1956)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Snafu_(magazine)" title="Snafu (magazine)">Snafu</a></i> #1–3 (Nov. 1955 – March 1956)</li> <li><i>Wild</i> #1–5 (Feb. 1954 – Aug. 1954)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Humor_(sitcom)"><span id="Humor_.28sitcom.29"></span>Humor (sitcom)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Atlas_Comics_(1950s)&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Humor (sitcom)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Millie_the_Model" title="Millie the Model">A Date with Millie</a></i> #1–7 (Oct. 1956 – Aug. 1957)</li> <li><i>A Date with Millie</i> vol. 2, #1–7 (Oct. 1959 – Oct. 1960) <b>continued as</b> <i><a href="/wiki/Millie_the_Model" title="Millie the Model">Life With Millie</a></i> #8–20 (Dec. 1960 – Marvel Comics)</li> <li><i>A Date with Patsy</i> #1 (Sept. 1957)</li> <li><i>The Adventures of <a href="/wiki/Pinky_Lee" title="Pinky Lee">Pinky Lee</a></i> #1–5 (July – Dec. 1955)</li> <li><i>Della Vision</i> #1–3 (April – Aug. 1955) <b>continued as</b> romance title <i>Patty Powers</i></li> <li><i>Girls' Life</i> (subtitled "Patsy Walker's Own Magazine for Girls") #1–6 (Jan.–Nov. 1954)</li> <li><i>Hedy of Hollywood Comics</i> #36–50 (Feb, 1950 – Sept. 1952) <b>continued from</b> Timely Comics' <i><a href="/wiki/Young_Allies_(Marvel_Comics)" title="Young Allies (Marvel Comics)">Young Allies</a></i> #1–20, <i><a href="/wiki/All-Winners_Squad" title="All-Winners Squad">All Winners Comics</a></i> #21, and <i>Hedy De Vine Comics</i> #22–35</li> <li><i>Hedy Wolfe</i> (subtitled: "Patsy Walker's Rival"; not to be confused with <i>Hedy of Hollywood</i>) #1 (Aug. 1957)</li> <li><i>Homer Hooper</i> #1–4 (July – Dec. 1953)</li> <li><i>Kathy</i> #1–27 (Oct. 1959 – Marvel Comics)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Millie_the_Model" title="Millie the Model">Millie the Model</a></i> #1–207 (Winter 1945 – Marvel Comics)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/My_Friend_Irma_(entertainment_property)" class="mw-redirect" title="My Friend Irma (entertainment property)">My Friend Irma</a></i> #3–48 (June 1950 – Feb. 1955) <b>continued from</b> Timely Comics' <i>My Diary</i></li> <li><i>My Girl Pearl</i> #1–11 (April 1955 – April 1961)</li> <li><i>Nellie the Nurse</i> #1–36 (1945 – Oct. 1952) early issues Timely Comics)</li> <li><i>Nellie the Nurse</i> vol. 2, #1 (1957)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Patsy_Walker_(comic_book)" title="Patsy Walker (comic book)">Patsy Walker</a></i> #1–99 (Winter 1945 – Feb. 1962); post-1961 issues Marvel Comics</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Patsy_and_Hedy" title="Patsy and Hedy">Patsy and Hedy</a></i> #1–73 (Feb. 1952 – Dec. 1960)</li> <li><i>Patsy and Her Pals</i> #1–29 (May 1953 – Aug. 1957)</li> <li><i>Sergeant Barney Barker</i> #1–2 (Aug. – Dec. 1957) <b>continued as</b> <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#War">War</a> title <i>G.I. Tales</i></li> <li><i>Sherry the Showgirl</i> #1–3 (July. – Dec. 1956) <b>continued as</b> <i>Showgirls</i> #4 (Feb. 1957) and <i>Sherry the Showgirl</i> #5–7 (April – Aug. 1957)</li> <li><i>Showgirls</i> vol. 2, #1–2 (July – Aug. 1957)</li> <li><i>Wendy Parker</i> #1–8 (July 1953 – July 1954)</li> <li><i>Willie the Wiseguy</i> #1 (Sept. 1957)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Jungle">Jungle</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Atlas_Comics_(1950s)&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Jungle"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Jungle_Action" title="Jungle Action">Jungle Action</a></i> #1–6 (Oct. 1954 – Aug. 1955; vol. 2, published in the 1970s)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jungle_Tales" title="Jungle Tales">Jungle Tales</a></i> #1–7 (Sept. 1954 – Sept. 1955) <b>continued as</b> <i><a href="/wiki/Jann_of_the_Jungle" class="mw-redirect" title="Jann of the Jungle">Jann of the Jungle</a></i> #8–17 (Nov. 1955 – June 1957)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lorna,_the_Jungle_Queen" class="mw-redirect" title="Lorna, the Jungle Queen">Lorna, the Jungle Queen</a></i> #1–5 (July 1953 – Feb. 1954) <b>continued as</b> <i>Lorna, the Jungle Girl</i> #6–26 (March 1954 – Aug. 1957)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Medieval_adventure">Medieval adventure</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Atlas_Comics_(1950s)&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Medieval adventure"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Black_Knight_(Sir_Percy)" title="Black Knight (Sir Percy)">Black Knight</a></i> #1–5 (May 1955 – April 1956)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Romance">Romance</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Atlas_Comics_(1950s)&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Romance"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Cindy Smith</i> #39–40 (May–July 1950) <b>continued from</b> Timely Comics' <i>Cindy Comics</i>; <b>continued as</b> <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Crime">Crime</a> title <i>Crime Can't Win</i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Girl_Confessions" class="mw-redirect" title="Girl Confessions">Girl Confessions</a></i> #13–34 (March 1952 – Aug. 1954) <b>continued from</b> <i>Girl Comics</i>. See under final category below,‘’’Miscellaneous’’’.</li> <li><i>Love Adventures</i> #1–12 (Oct. 1949–Aug. 1952; early issues Timely Comics) <b>continued as</b> <i>Actual Confessions</i> #13–14 (Oct.–Dec. 1952)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Love_Romances" title="Love Romances">Love Romances</a></i> #6–106 (May 1949 – July 1963) early issues Timely Comics; <b>continued from</b> Timely's <i>Ideal</i></li> <li><i>Love Tales</i> #36–75 (May 1949 – Sept. 1957) early issues Timely Comics; <b>continued from</b> Timely's superhero comic <i><a href="/wiki/Human_Torch_(Golden_Age)" class="mw-redirect" title="Human Torch (Golden Age)">The Human Torch</a></i> #1–35; see note at ‘’’Superheroes’’’ below.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lovers_(comic_book)" title="Lovers (comic book)">Lovers</a></i> #23–86 (May 1949 – Aug. 1957) early issues Timely; <b>continued from</b> Timely's superhero comic <i><a href="/wiki/Blonde_Phantom" title="Blonde Phantom">Blonde Phantom</a></i></li> <li><i>Meet Miss Bliss</i> #1–4 (May 1955 – Nov. 1955) <b>continued as</b> <i>Stories of Romance</i> #5–13 (March 1956 – Aug. 1957)</li> <li><i>Molly Manton's Romances</i> #1 (Sept. 1949) <ul><li><i>Romances of Molly Manton</i> #2 (Dec. 1949)</li></ul></li> <li><i>My Love Story</i> #1a9 (April 1956 – Aug. 1957)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/My_Own_Romance" title="My Own Romance">My Own Romance</a></i> #4–76 (March 1949 – July 1960) <b>continued from</b> Timely Comics' <i>My Romance</i>; <b>continued as</b> <i>Teen-age Romance</i> #77–86 (Sept. 1960 – March 1962; post-#82 Marvel Comics)</li> <li><i>Patty Powers</i> #4–7 (Oct. 1955 – Oct. 1956) <b>continued from</b> Humor title <i>Della Vision</i></li> <li><i>Secret Story Romances</i> #1–21 (Nov. 1953 – March 1956) <b>continued as</b> <i>True Tales of Love</i> #22–31 (April 1956 – Sept. 1957)</li> <li><i>The Romances of Nurse Helen Grant</i> #1 (Aug. 1957)</li> <li><i>True Secrets</i> #3–40 (March 1950 – Sept. 1956) <b>continued from</b> Timely Comics' <i>Our Love</i></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sports">Sports</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Atlas_Comics_(1950s)&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Sports"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Sports Action</i> #2–14 (Feb. 1950 – Sept. 1952) <b>continued from</b> Timely Comics' <i>Sport Stars</i></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Superheroes">Superheroes</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Atlas_Comics_(1950s)&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Superheroes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Captain_America_(comic_book)" title="Captain America (comic book)">Captain America</a></i> #76–78 (May–Sept. 1954) <b>continued from</b> Timely Comics' <i>Captain America Comics</i> and <i>Captain America's Weird Tales</i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Human_Torch_(Golden_Age)" class="mw-redirect" title="Human Torch (Golden Age)">The Human Torch</a></i> #36–38 (April–Aug. 1954) <b>continued from</b> its Timely Comics run, despite its numbering having been taken over by the <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Romance">Romance</a> title <i>Love Tales</i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Marvel_Boy" class="mw-redirect" title="Marvel Boy">Marvel Boy</a></i> #1–2 (Dec. 1950 – Feb. 1951) <b>continued as</b> Horror title <i>Astonishing</i>, in which Marvel Boy stars from #3–6.</li> <li><i>Men's Adventures</i> #27–28 (May–July 1954) <b>continued from</b> Horror title <i>Men's Adventures</i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sub-Mariner" class="mw-redirect" title="Sub-Mariner">Sub-Mariner</a></i> #33–42 (April 1954 – Oct. 1955) <b>continued from</b> Timely Comics' <i>Sub-Mariner Comics</i></li> <li><i>Young Men</i> #24–28 (Dec. 1953 – June 1954) <b>continued from</b> Misc. title <i>Young Men</i></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="War">War</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Atlas_Comics_(1950s)&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: War"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>3-D Action</i> #1 (Jan. 1954)</li> <li><i>Battle</i> #1–70 (March 1951 – June 1960)</li> <li><i>Battle Action</i> #1–30 (Feb. 1952 – Aug. 1957)</li> <li><i>Battle Ground</i> (first four issues <i>Battle–Ground</i>) #1–20 (Sept. 1954 – Sept.1957)</li> <li><i>Battlefield</i> #1–11 (April 1952 – May 1953)</li> <li><i>Battlefront</i> #1–48 (June 1952 – Aug. 1957)</li> <li><i>Combat</i> #1–11 (June 1952 – April 1953)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Combat_Kelly" title="Combat Kelly">Combat Kelly</a></i> #1–44 (Nov. 1951 – Aug. 1957)</li> <li><i>Commando Adventures</i> #1–2 (June–Aug. 1957)</li> <li><i>Devil-Dog Dugan</i> #1–3 (July–Nov. 1956) <b>continued as</b> <i>Tales of the Marines</i> #4 (Feb. 1957) and <i>Marines at War</i> #5–7 (April–Aug. 1957)</li> <li><i>G.I. Tales</i> #4–6 (Feb.–July 1957) <b>continued from</b> humor title <i>Sergeant Barney Barker</i>)</li> <li><i>Man Comics</i> #11–28 (Dec. 1951 – Sept. 1953) <b>continued from</b> Drama title <i>Man Comics</i>)</li> <li><i>Marines in Action</i> #1–14 (June 1955 – Sept. 1957)</li> <li><i>Marines in Battle</i> #1–25 (Aug. 1954 – Sept. 1958)</li> <li><i>Men in Action</i> #1–9 (April–Dec. 1952) <b>continued as</b> <i>Battle Brady</i> #10–14 (Jan.–June 1953)</li> <li><i>Men's Adventures</i> #9–20 (Aug. 1951 – April 1953) <b>continued from</b> Drama title <i>Men's Adventures</i>; <b>continued as</b> horror title <i>Men's Adventures</i></li> <li><i>Navy Action</i> #1–11 (Aug. 1954 – April 1956); <i>Sailor Sweeney</i> #12–14 (June–Nov. 1956); and <i>Navy Action</i> #15–18 (Jan.–Aug. 1957)</li> <li><i>Navy Combat</i> #1–20 (June 1955 – Oct. 1958)</li> <li><i>Navy Tales</i> #1–4 (Jan.–July 1957)</li> <li><i>War Action</i> #1–14 (April 1952 – June 1953)</li> <li><i>War Adventures</i> #1–13 (Jan. 1952 – Feb. 1953)</li> <li><i>War Combat</i> #1–5 (March–Nov. 1952) <b>continued as</b> <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Combat_Casey&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Combat Casey (page does not exist)">Combat Casey</a></i> #6–34 (Jan. 1953 – July 1957)</li> <li><i>War Comics</i> #1–49 (Dec. 1950 – Sept. 1957)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Western">Western</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Atlas_Comics_(1950s)&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Western"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>3-D Tales of the West</i> #1 (Jan. 1954)</li> <li><i>All Western Winners</i> #2–4 (Winter 1948 – April 1949) <ul><li><b>continued from</b> Timely Comics' <i><a href="/wiki/All_Winners_Comics" title="All Winners Comics">All Winners Comics</a></i> vol. 2, #1;</li> <li><b>continued as</b> <i>Western Winners</i> #5–7 (June 1949 – Dec. 1949)</li> <li><b>continued as</b> <i><a href="/wiki/Black_Rider_(comics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Black Rider (comics)">Black Rider</a></i> #8–27 (March 1950 – March 1955)</li> <li><b>continued as</b> <i><a href="/wiki/Western_Tales_of_Black_Rider" class="mw-redirect" title="Western Tales of Black Rider">Western Tales of Black Rider</a></i> #28–31 (May 1955 – Nov. 1955)</li> <li><b>continued as</b> <i><a href="/wiki/Gunsmoke_Western" title="Gunsmoke Western">Gunsmoke Western</a></i> #32–77 (Dec. 1955 – July 1963)</li></ul></li> <li><i>Annie Oakley</i> #1–11 (Spring–Nov. 1948; June 1955 – June 1956)</li> <li><i>Arizona Kid</i> #1–6 (March 1951 – Jan. 1952)</li> <li><i>Arrowhead</i> #1–4 (April 1954 – Nov. 1954)</li> <li><i>Billy Buckskin Western</i> #1–3 (Nov. 1955 – March 1956) <b>continued as</b> <i>2-Gun Western</i> #4 (May 1956) and <i>Two-Gun Western</i> #5–12 (July 1956 – Sept. 1957) <b>See also</b> <i>Two Gun Western</i></li> <li><i>The Black Rider Rides Again!</i> #1 (Sept. 1957) <b>See also</b> <i><a href="/wiki/Black_Rider_(comics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Black Rider (comics)">Black Rider</a></i>, above</li> <li><i>Frontier Western</i> #1–10 (Feb. 1956 – August 1957)</li> <li><i>The Gunhawk</i> #12–18 (Nov. 1950 – Dec. 1951) <b>continued from</b> successive Timely Comics titles <i>Blaze Carson</i>, <i>Rex Hart</i>, and <i>Whip Wilson</i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Kid_Colt,_Outlaw" title="Kid Colt, Outlaw">Kid Colt, Hero of the West</a></i> #1–2 (Aug.–Oct. 1948) <b>continued as</b> <i><a href="/wiki/Kid_Colt,_Outlaw" title="Kid Colt, Outlaw">Kid Colt, Outlaw</a></i> #3–229 (Dec. 1948 – Marvel Comics)</li> <li><i>The Kid from Dodge City</i> #1–2 (July–Sept. 1957)</li> <li><i>The Kid from Texas</i> #1–2 (July–Aug. 1957)</li> <li><i>Matt Slade, Gunfighter</i> #1–4 (May–Nov. 1956) <b>continued as</b> <i>Kid Slade, Gunfighter</i> #5–8 (Jan.–July 1957)</li> <li><i>Outlaw Fighters</i> #1–5 (Aug. 1954 – April 1955)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Outlaw_Kid" title="Outlaw Kid">The Outlaw Kid</a></i> #1–19 (Sept. 1954 – Sept. 1957)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rawhide_Kid" title="Rawhide Kid">Rawhide Kid</a></i> #1–16, 17–25 (March 1955 – Sept. 1957; Aug. 1960 – Dec. 1961); post-1961 issues Marvel Comics</li> <li><i>Red Warrior</i> #1–6 (Jan.–Dec. 1951)</li> <li><i>Reno Browne, Hollywood's Greatest Cowgirl</i> #50–52 (April–Sept. 1950; <b>continued from</b> Timely Comics' <i>Margie</i>; <b>continued as</b> <i><a href="/wiki/Apache_Kid_(comics)" title="Apache Kid (comics)">The Apache Kid</a></i> #53 (Dec. 1950); <i><a href="/wiki/Apache_Kid_(comics)" title="Apache Kid (comics)">Apache Kid</a></i> #2–19 (Feb. 1951 – Jan. 1952; Dec. 1954 – April 1956) and <i><a href="/wiki/Western_Gunfighters" title="Western Gunfighters">Western Gunfighters</a></i> #20–27 (June 1956 – Aug. 1957)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ringo_Kid" title="Ringo Kid">Ringo Kid Western</a></i> #1–4 (Aug. 1954 – Feb. 1955) <b>continued as</b> <i>Ringo Kid</i> #5–21 (April 1955 – Sept. 1957)</li> <li><i>Six-Gun Western</i> #1–4 (Jan.–July 1957)</li> <li><i>Texas Kid</i> #1–10 (Jan. 1951 – July 1952)</li> <li><i>True Western</i> #1–2 (Dec. 1949 – March 1950) <b>continued as</b> drama title <i>True Adventures</i></li> <li><i>Two-Gun Kid</i> #1–59 (March 1948 – April 1961); early issues Timely Comics</li> <li><i>Two Gun Western</i> #5–14 (Nov. 1950 – June 1952) <b>continued from</b> Timely Comics' Crime title <i>Casey – Crime Photographer</i></li> <li><i>Western Kid</i> #1–17 (Dec. 1954 – Aug. 1957)</li> <li><i>Western Outlaws</i> #1–21 (Feb. 1954 – Aug. 1957)</li> <li><i>Western Outlaws & Sheriffs</i> #60–73 (Dec. 1949 – June 1952) <b>continued from</b> Timely Comics' <i>Best Western</i></li> <li><i>Western Thrillers</i> #1–4 (Nov. 1954 – Feb. 1955) <b>continued as</b> <i>Cowboy Action</i> #5–11 (March 1955 – March 1956) and <i>Quick-Trigger Western</i> #12–19 (May 1956 – Sept. 1957)</li> <li><i>Western Trails</i> #1–2 (May–July 1957)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Wild_Western" title="Wild Western">Wild Western</a></i> #3–57 (September 1948 – September 1957) <b>continued from</b> Timely Comics' <i>Wild West</i>; early issues Timely Comics</li> <li><i>Wyatt Earp</i> #1–29 (Nov. 1955 – June 1960) <b>continued as</b> 1970s Marvel Comics reprint title</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Atlas_Comics_(1950s)&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Miscellaneous"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Bible Tales for Young Folk</i> #1–5 (Aug. 1953 – March 1954)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Girl_Comics" title="Girl Comics">Girl Comics</a></i> #1–12 (Oct. 1949 – Jan. 1952) <b>continued as</b> Romance title <i>Girl Confessions</i>.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Miss_America_Magazine" class="mw-redirect" title="Miss America Magazine">Miss America Magazine</a></i> (renamed <i>Miss America</i> starting with issue #46, July 1952) #1–93 (Jan. 1944 – Nov. 1958; 126 issues with inconsistent volume numbering); <b>note:</b> variously, and at times overlapping, a superhero, romance and humor title.</li> <li><i>World's Greatest Songs</i> #1 (Sept. 1954)</li> <li><i>Young Men</i> #4–23 (June 1950 – Oct. 1953) <b>continued from</b> Timely Comics' <i>Cowboy Romances</i>; <b>note:</b> cover title is <i>Young Men on the Battlefield!</i> #12–20) <b>continued as</b> Superhero title <i>Young Men</i>.</li></ul> <p><b>Note:</b> The romance title <i>Linda Carter, Student Nurse</i> #1–9 (Sept. 1961 – Jan. 1963), sometimes grouped together with Atlas Comics, chronologically falls within Marvel, and all covers have the "MC" box. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Atlas_Comics_(1950s)&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFFleming2010" class="citation web cs1">Fleming, Mike Jr. (2010-09-14). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://deadline.com/2010/09/70s-marvel-rival-atlas-comics-relaunches-65721/">"<span class="cs1-kern-left"></span>'70s Marvel Rival Atlas Comics Relaunches"</a>. <i>Deadline</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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P.O.V. Online (column). Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2004_09_23.html#008970">the original</a> on May 24, 2013. <q>Of more interest today is the artwork in these comics. Goodman did not pay well but ... he usually had work available and his checks always cleared. As a result, just about everyone who worked in the New York comic book talent pool passed through his titles and some of the better artists — men like Bill Everett, Joe Maneely, Russ Heath and Dan DeCarlo — did an awful lot of pages.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Atlas+Without+a+Shrug&rft.pub=P.O.V.+Online+%28column%29&rft.date=2004-09-23&rft.aulast=Evanier&rft.aufirst=Mark&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsfromme.com%2Farchives%2F2004_09_23.html%23008970&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAtlas+Comics+%281950s%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-autobiop79-80-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-autobiop79-80_22-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKeyes1999" class="citation book cs1">Keyes, Daniel (1999). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=PDTD2hPNcjAC&q=%22daniel+Keyes%22+marvel+comics&pg=PA79"><i>Algernon, Charlie, and I: A Writer's Journey</i></a> (1st ed.). <a href="/wiki/Boca_Raton,_Florida" title="Boca Raton, Florida">Boca Raton, Florida</a>: Challcrest Press Books. pp. 79–80. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780547564081" title="Special:BookSources/9780547564081"><bdi>9780547564081</bdi></a><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">February 11,</span> 2017</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Dan+DeCarlo+dead+at+age+of+82%3A+Artist+defined+Archie+Comics+style+for+decades&rft.pub=Comic+Book+Resources&rft.date=2001-12-20&rft.aulast=Yarbrough&rft.aufirst=Beau&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbr.com%2Fdan-decarlo-dead-at-age-of-82-artist-defined-archie-comics-style-for-decades%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAtlas+Comics+%281950s%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-decarlogcd-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-decarlogcd_35-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.comics.org/search.lasso/?sort=chrono&query=Dan+DeCarlo&type=credit">Dan DeCarlo</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Grand_Comics_Database" title="Grand Comics Database">Grand Comics Database</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-36">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.comics.org/issue/3970/"><i>Miss America Magazine</i> #2</a> at the Grand Comics Database.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-37">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.comics.org/series/419/"><i>Patsy Walker</i> (Marvel, 1945 series)</a> at the Grand Comics Database.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-38">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>The Avengers</i> #144 (Feb. 1976)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-lilpalsgcd-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-lilpalsgcd_39-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.comics.org/series/2054/">"<i>Li'l Pals</i>"</a>. Grand Comics Database.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Li%27l+Pals&rft.pub=Grand+Comics+Database&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.comics.org%2Fseries%2F2054%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAtlas+Comics+%281950s%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-gillgcd-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-gillgcd_40-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.comics.org/credit/name/tom%20gill/sort/chrono/">"<i>Tom Gill</i>"</a>. Grand Comics Database.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Tom+Gill&rft.pub=Grand+Comics+Database&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.comics.org%2Fcredit%2Fname%2Ftom%2520gill%2Fsort%2Fchrono%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAtlas+Comics+%281950s%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-brodskygcd-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-brodskygcd_41-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.comics.org/search.lasso/?sort=chrono&query=Sol+Brodsky&type=credit">Sol Brodsky</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Grand_Comics_Database" title="Grand Comics Database">Grand Comics Database</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-sportsactiongcd-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-sportsactiongcd_42-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.comics.org/series/742/">"<i>Sports Action</i>"</a>. Grand Comics Database.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Sports+Action&rft.pub=Grand+Comics+Database&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.comics.org%2Fseries%2F742%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAtlas+Comics+%281950s%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-goldberg-43"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-goldberg_43-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.adelaidecomicsandbooks.com/goldberg.html">"Stan Goldberg interview"</a>. Adelaide Comics and Books. 2005. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071224212030/http://www.adelaidecomicsandbooks.com/goldberg.htm">Archived</a> from the original on December 24, 2007.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Stan+Goldberg+interview&rft.pub=Adelaide+Comics+and+Books&rft.date=2005&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.adelaidecomicsandbooks.com%2Fgoldberg.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAtlas+Comics+%281950s%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-44"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-44">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJones2004" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Gerard_Jones" title="Gerard Jones">Jones, Gerard</a> (2004). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/menoftomorrowgee0000jone"><i>Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book</i></a></span>. New York: Basic Books. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0465036570" title="Special:BookSources/0465036570"><bdi>0465036570</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Men+of+Tomorrow%3A+Geeks%2C+Gangsters%2C+and+the+Birth+of+the+Comic+Book&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Basic+Books&rft.date=2004&rft.isbn=0465036570&rft.aulast=Jones&rft.aufirst=Gerard&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fmenoftomorrowgee0000jone&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAtlas+Comics+%281950s%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-45"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-45">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAshley2005" class="citation book cs1">Ashley, Mike (2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/transformationsv0000ashl/page/191"><i>Transformations: The Story of the Science-fiction Magazines from 1950 to 1970</i></a> (1st ed.). Liverpool: <a href="/wiki/Liverpool_University_Press" title="Liverpool University Press">Liverpool University Press</a>. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/transformationsv0000ashl/page/191">191</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0853237794" title="Special:BookSources/0853237794"><bdi>0853237794</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Transformations%3A+The+Story+of+the+Science-fiction+Magazines+from+1950+to+1970&rft.place=Liverpool&rft.pages=191&rft.edition=1st&rft.pub=Liverpool+University+Press&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=0853237794&rft.aulast=Ashley&rft.aufirst=Mike&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Ftransformationsv0000ashl%2Fpage%2F191&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAtlas+Comics+%281950s%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-46"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-46">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFVassallo2014" class="citation web cs1">Vassallo, Michael J., ed. (March 17, 2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://timely-atlas-comics.blogspot.com/2014/03/martin-goodman-marilyn-monroe-covers.html">"Martin Goodman : The Marilyn Monroe Covers, Articles and Photo Features"</a>. Timely-Atlas-Comics<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">January 3,</span> 2015</span>. <q>Note at the bottom left of the cover is the Atlas globe, this being the latest month the globe will ever appear (Sept/57) as Goodman lost his distributor when ANC (American News Corp.) crashed in April. There is an October cover month with the globe, the comic book <i>Dippy Duck</i> #1, but this is a clerical anomaly as cover proofs show an original Sept/57 date and the issue was on the stands with August and September cover-dated comics.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Martin+Goodman+%3A+The+Marilyn+Monroe+Covers%2C+Articles+and+Photo+Features&rft.pub=Timely-Atlas-Comics&rft.date=2014-03-17&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Ftimely-atlas-comics.blogspot.com%2F2014%2F03%2Fmartin-goodman-marilyn-monroe-covers.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAtlas+Comics+%281950s%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-47"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-47">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFNolan2008" class="citation book cs1">Nolan, Michelle (2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=BtF7BwAAQBAJ&pg=PA18"><i>Love on the Racks: A History of American Romance Comics</i></a>. Jefferson, North Carolina: <a href="/wiki/McFarland_%26_Company" title="McFarland & Company">McFarland & Company</a>. p. 18. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780786435197" title="Special:BookSources/9780786435197"><bdi>9780786435197</bdi></a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">11 February</span> 2017</span>. <q>In fact, the first true 'Marvel Age' comic — the first issue minus the Atlas symbol in the upper-left corner — was <i><a href="/wiki/Patsy_Walker_(comic_book)" title="Patsy Walker (comic book)">Patsy Walker</a></i> #73 (Oct. 1957).</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Love+on+the+Racks%3A+A+History+of+American+Romance+Comics&rft.place=Jefferson%2C+North+Carolina&rft.pages=18&rft.pub=McFarland+%26+Company&rft.date=2008&rft.isbn=9780786435197&rft.aulast=Nolan&rft.aufirst=Michelle&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DBtF7BwAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPA18&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAtlas+Comics+%281950s%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-48"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-48">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://boards.cgccomics.com/topic/259095-which-was-the-first-marvel-comic/">"Which was the first Marvel comic?"</a>. <i>CGC Comic Book Collectors Chat Boards</i>. 2012-08-12<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2024-07-12</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=CGC+Comic+Book+Collectors+Chat+Boards&rft.atitle=Which+was+the+first+Marvel+comic%3F&rft.date=2012-08-12&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fboards.cgccomics.com%2Ftopic%2F259095-which-was-the-first-marvel-comic%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAtlas+Comics+%281950s%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Stan_and_Roy-49"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Stan_and_Roy_49-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Stan_and_Roy_49-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Stan_and_Roy_49-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090218033757/http://www.twomorrows.com/comicbookartist/articles/02stanroy.html">"Stan the Man & Roy the Boy: A Conversation Between Stan Lee and Roy Thomas"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Comic_Book_Artist" title="Comic Book Artist">Comic Book Artist</a></i>. No. 2. Summer 1998. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://twomorrows.com/comicbookartist/articles/02stanroy.html">the original</a> on February 18, 2009.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Comic+Book+Artist&rft.atitle=Stan+the+Man+%26+Roy+the+Boy%3A+A+Conversation+Between+Stan+Lee+and+Roy+Thomas&rft.ssn=summer&rft.issue=2&rft.date=1998&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Ftwomorrows.com%2Fcomicbookartist%2Farticles%2F02stanroy.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAtlas+Comics+%281950s%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-50"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-50">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Joe Sinnot interview: <i>Alter Ego</i> #26 (July 2003), p. 11</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-51"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-51">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGeorge2002" class="citation book cs1">George, Milo (2002). <i>The Comics Journal Volume One: Jack Kirby</i> (1st ed.). Seattle, Washington: Fantagraphics. p. 38. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1560974664" title="Special:BookSources/1560974664"><bdi>1560974664</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Comics+Journal+Volume+One%3A+Jack+Kirby&rft.place=Seattle%2C+Washington&rft.pages=38&rft.edition=1st&rft.pub=Fantagraphics&rft.date=2002&rft.isbn=1560974664&rft.aulast=George&rft.aufirst=Milo&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAtlas+Comics+%281950s%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-52"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-52">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Jack Kirby interview, <i>The Comics Journal Library</i>, p. 19</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-53"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-53">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Astonishing</i> #56 (4 pp.), <i>Strange Tales of the Unusual</i> #7 (4 pp.), <i>Quick-Trigger Western</i> #16 (5 pp.), and <i><a href="/wiki/Yellow_Claw_(comics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Yellow Claw (comics)">Yellow Claw</a></i> #2-3 (19 pp. each)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Hatfield-54"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Hatfield_54-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Hatfield_54-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHatfield2012" class="citation book cs1">Hatfield, Charles (2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=n4rC6z2BLasC&q=%22jack+Kirby%22+%22cusp+of+the+sixties%22&pg=PT111"><i>Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby</i></a>. <a href="/wiki/University_Press_of_Mississippi" title="University Press of Mississippi">University Press of Mississippi</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781617031786" title="Special:BookSources/9781617031786"><bdi>9781617031786</bdi></a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">24 November</span> 2015</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Hand+of+Fire%3A+The+Comics+Art+of+Jack+Kirby&rft.pub=University+Press+of+Mississippi&rft.date=2012&rft.isbn=9781617031786&rft.aulast=Hatfield&rft.aufirst=Charles&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Dn4rC6z2BLasC%26q%3D%2522jack%2BKirby%2522%2B%2522cusp%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bsixties%2522%26pg%3DPT111&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAtlas+Comics+%281950s%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-55"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-55">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFYoe2009" class="citation book cs1">Yoe, Craig (2009). <i>The Art of Ditko</i>. 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Grand Comics Database.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Marvel+%3A+MC+%28Brand%29&rft.pub=Grand+Comics+Database&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.comics.org%2Fbrand%2F36%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAtlas+Comics+%281950s%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-58"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-58">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://comics.lib.msu.edu/rri/prri/presidi.htm">"Pre-Superhero Marvel Comics--Miscellanea"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Michigan_State_University_Libraries" title="Michigan State University Libraries">Michigan State University Libraries</a> Special Collections Division: Reading Room Index to the Comic Art Collection, "Presidio" to "Pre-Superhero". <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110720005231/http://comics.lib.msu.edu/rri/prri/presidi.htm">Archived</a> from the original on July 20, 2011.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Pre-Superhero+Marvel+Comics--Miscellanea&rft.pub=Michigan+State+University+Libraries+Special+Collections+Division%3A+Reading+Room+Index+to+the+Comic+Art+Collection%2C+%22Presidio%22+to+%22Pre-Superhero%22&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fcomics.lib.msu.edu%2Frri%2Fprri%2Fpresidi.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAtlas+Comics+%281950s%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-tcj114p97-59"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-tcj114p97_59-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRovin1987" class="citation news cs1"><a href="/wiki/Jeff_Rovin" title="Jeff Rovin">Rovin, Jeff</a> (February 1987). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.tcj.com/archive-viewer-issue-114/?pid=10167">"How Not to Run a Comic Book Company"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Comics_Journal" title="The Comics Journal">The Comics Journal</a></i>. No. 114. p. 97. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.today/20240525163042/https://www.webcitation.org/64cPeBTYb?url=http://www.tcj.com/archive-viewer-issue-114/%3Fpid=10168">Archived</a> from the original on May 25, 2024.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Comics+Journal&rft.atitle=How+Not+to+Run+a+Comic+Book+Company&rft.issue=114&rft.pages=97&rft.date=1987-02&rft.aulast=Rovin&rft.aufirst=Jeff&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tcj.com%2Farchive-viewer-issue-114%2F%3Fpid%3D10167&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAtlas+Comics+%281950s%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-gcdbrandgroup-60"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-gcdbrandgroup_60-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.comics.org/brand/93/">"Atlas [black & white] (Brand Emblem) 1951 - 1957"</a>. Grand Comics Database.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Atlas+%26%2391%3Bblack+%26+white%26%2393%3B+%28Brand+Emblem%29+1951+-+1957&rft.pub=Grand+Comics+Database&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.comics.org%2Fbrand%2F93%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAtlas+Comics+%281950s%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-61"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-61">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.atlastales.com">"Atlas Tales"</a>. Atlas Tales. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110128150940/http://atlastales.com/">Archived</a> from the original on 28 January 2011<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2010-12-26</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Atlas+Tales&rft.pub=Atlas+Tales&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.atlastales.com&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAtlas+Comics+%281950s%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-62"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-62">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.comics.org/series/729/"><i>Crime Must Lose</i></a> at the Grand Comics Database: "Continuation of numbering remains to be confirmed. Numbering continues from <i>Sports Action</i> (Marvel, 1950 series) #3 [or] ... from <i>Blaze the Wonder Collie</i> (Marvel, 1949 series) #3. Note: <i>Sports Action</i> has a break between #3 and 4 and changes indicia publisher. <i>Blaze the Wonder Collie</i> published only issues #2 and #3. Neither connection is considered solid. ... The exclamation point in the cover title is not part of the title in the indicia."</span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Atlas_Comics_(1950s)&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLeeMair2002" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Stan_Lee" title="Stan Lee">Lee, Stan</a>; Mair, George (2002). <i>Excelsior!: The Amazing Life of Stan Lee</i>. New York: <a href="/wiki/Simon_%26_Schuster#Adult_publishing" title="Simon & Schuster">Fireside Books</a>. p. 22. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0684873052" title="Special:BookSources/0684873052"><bdi>0684873052</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Excelsior%21%3A+The+Amazing+Life+of+Stan+Lee&rft.place=New+York&rft.pages=22&rft.pub=Fireside+Books&rft.date=2002&rft.isbn=0684873052&rft.aulast=Lee&rft.aufirst=Stan&rft.au=Mair%2C+George&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAtlas+Comics+%281950s%29" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLupoffThompson1997" class="citation book cs1">Lupoff, Dick; Thompson, Don (1997). <i><span></span></i>All in Color for a Dime<i><span></span></i> (1st Krause Publications ed.). Iola, WI: Krause. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0873414985" title="Special:BookSources/0873414985"><bdi>0873414985</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=All+in+Color+for+a+Dime&rft.place=Iola%2C+WI&rft.edition=1st+Krause+Publications&rft.pub=Krause&rft.date=1997&rft.isbn=0873414985&rft.aulast=Lupoff&rft.aufirst=Dick&rft.au=Thompson%2C+Don&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAtlas+Comics+%281950s%29" class="Z3988"></span><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This citation requires a reference to the specific page or range of pages in which the material appears. (June 2016)">page needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>Vadeboncoeur, Jim (based on a story uncovered by Brad Elliott). "The Great Atlas Implosion," <i>The Jack Kirby Collector</i> #18 (Jan. 1998), pp. 4–7.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Atlas_Comics_(1950s)&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1;min-width:0}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237033735">@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox{display:none!important}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}</style><div class="side-box side-box-right plainlinks sistersitebox"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/30px-Commons-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/45px-Commons-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/59px-Commons-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="1376" /></span></span></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist">Wikimedia Commons has media related to <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Atlas_Comics" class="extiw" title="commons:Category:Atlas Comics">Atlas Comics</a></span>.</div></div> </div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFNevins" class="citation web cs1"><a href="/wiki/Jess_Nevins" title="Jess Nevins">Nevins, Jess</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.reocities.com/ratmmjess/toc.html">"A Guide to Marvel's Pre-FF #1 Heroes"</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110716083358/http://www.reocities.com/Athens/Olympus/7160/toc.html">Archived</a> from the original on July 16, 2011.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=A+Guide+to+Marvel%27s+Pre-FF+%231+Heroes&rft.aulast=Nevins&rft.aufirst=Jess&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reocities.com%2Fratmmjess%2Ftoc.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAtlas+Comics+%281950s%29" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFVassallo2005" class="citation news cs1">Vassallo, Michael J. 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