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Post by tarkintino on Apr 1, 2024 17:27:48 GMT -5
A thread devoted to discussing/reviewing the Atlas books would actually be a pretty good idea. Talk about what ideas worked and didnt work, any storytelling innovations, etc. It's kind of a forgotten era of Marvel since, aside from Marvel Boy and the short-lived returns of Sub-Mariner, Captain America, and Torch, there were no superheroes (not counting Groot) and they were basically trying everything to stay alive. Not a bad idea at all, if it was an objective historical account, as opposed to agenda-based tales.
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Post by jason on Apr 1, 2024 22:13:22 GMT -5
Well, now that I've proposed it, anyone willing to do a 50s Atlas retrospective? I doubt anyone has a complete collection of titles, but reviewing the ones that may have would still be an interesting topic about Marvel's "lost decade".
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Post by Confessor on Apr 1, 2024 23:03:49 GMT -5
Well, now that I've proposed it, anyone willing to do a 50s Atlas retrospective? I doubt anyone has a complete collection of titles, but reviewing the ones that may have would still be an interesting topic about Marvel's "lost decade". Why not do it yourself? It doesn't even have to be a full, exhaustive review thread, per se; it could just be a more general freewheeling thing, where you maybe examine certain issues? I'm sure the comics in question are available online (not to advocate online comic priracy, of course, but maybe some of them are in the public domain now???)
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Post by berkley on Apr 1, 2024 23:49:55 GMT -5
Well, now that I've proposed it, anyone willing to do a 50s Atlas retrospective? I doubt anyone has a complete collection of titles, but reviewing the ones that may have would still be an interesting topic about Marvel's "lost decade". Why not do it yourself? It doesn't even have to be a full, exhaustive review thread, per se; it could just be a more general freewheeling thing, where you maybe examine certain issues? I'm sure the comics in question are available online (not to advocate online comic piracy, of course, but maybe some of them are in the public domain now???) I'd be interested in reading an 1950s Atlas thread: I know almost nothing about Atlas comics (and BTW, in case anyone's wondering, had no opinion on or even knew there was any controversy over what Stan Lee wrote in the Atlas days), apart from whatever reprints I might have read in various Marvel anthology series in the 1960s and 70s.
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Post by MWGallaher on Apr 2, 2024 8:10:46 GMT -5
I've reviewed sample issues of each of the Atlas jungle comics in my Jungle Gems or Jungle Junk thread: Jungle Action, Jungle Tales, Lorna the Jungle Queen/Girl, and Jann of the Jungle. Recently, I've been sampling some of the Atlas war titles, which are proving to be a lot better than I expected them to be. There's a lot of fascinating stuff in the Atlas era, and interesting trends, such as their tendency to duplicate words in their titles, presumably based on sales response: Journey Into Mystery, Adventure Into Mystery, Mystery Tales; Battle, Battle Action, Battlefield, Battlefront, Battleground, Marines In Battle; Combat, Combat Casey, Combat Kelly, Navy Combat; Marines in Action, Navy Action, Men In Action, Police Action, Jungle Action, War Action.
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Post by MDG on Apr 2, 2024 9:57:21 GMT -5
The Atlas title I'm really curious about is Venus (and I know it's been reprinted) because of the weird twists and turns it took and some wildly bizarre covers.
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Post by Ricky Jackson on Apr 2, 2024 14:00:42 GMT -5
The Atlas title I'm really curious about is Venus (and I know it's been reprinted) because of the weird twists and turns it took and some wildly bizarre covers. I skimmed though it on Marvel Unlimited a few years back. They only have the first nine issues, but just in those the book goes from basically a fantasy/romance/humor mashup to a supernatural/romance/quasi-superhero (with Satan being the main "supervillian") mashup. Pretty good art at times. Looking at the covers to the rest of the series, seems like horror soon becomes the dominant theme, and Bill Everett becomes the main artist. Need to check those out some day
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Post by impulse on Apr 3, 2024 12:18:02 GMT -5
Not for the first time and surely not for the last, I feel like the contents of this entire thread would make for a fascinating Netflix documentary along the lines of "The Toys That Made Us."
What an incredible base of comics related historical knowledge we have here. I remain impressed.
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Post by codystarbuck on Apr 3, 2024 12:35:54 GMT -5
Not for the first time and surely not for the last, I feel like the contents of this entire thread would make for a fascinating Netflix documentary along the lines of "The Toys That Made Us." What an incredible base of comics related historical knowledge we have here. I remain impressed. The Comics That Broke US!
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Post by impulse on Apr 3, 2024 14:46:34 GMT -5
Not for the first time and surely not for the last, I feel like the contents of this entire thread would make for a fascinating Netflix documentary along the lines of "The Toys That Made Us." What an incredible base of comics related historical knowledge we have here. I remain impressed. The Comics That Broke US! The Comics that Made Us MAD!!! And they could of course also cover MAD Magazine.
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Post by commond on Apr 3, 2024 15:29:47 GMT -5
Not for the first time and surely not for the last, I feel like the contents of this entire thread would make for a fascinating Netflix documentary along the lines of "The Toys That Made Us." What an incredible base of comics related historical knowledge we have here. I remain impressed. I'm still waiting for a Marc Maron Stan Lee show.
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