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2 days ago · Like other comics companies, Timely — generally known as Atlas Comics in the 1950s — followed pop-cultural trends with a variety of genres, including funny animals, Western, horror, war, crime, humor, romance, spy fiction and even medieval adventure, all with varying degrees of success.
6 days ago · While Atlas was one of the few Bronze Age companies to challenge the might of DC and Marvel in the realm of mainstream adventure comics, it paved the way for later companies like Neal Adams’ Continuity Comics, Dark Horse, and even Image to compete with the Big Two.
3 days ago · During the 1950s, Ditko also drew for Atlas Comics, a forerunner of Marvel Comics. He went on to contribute much significant work to Marvel. Ditko was the artist for the first 38 issues of The Amazing Spider-Man, co-creating much of the Spider-Man supporting characters and villains with Stan Lee.
Jun 22, 2024 · The Sub-Mariner experienced a brief revival in the mid-1950s at Atlas Comics, the 1950s iteration of Marvel. Along with Captain America and the original Human Torch, he was revived in Young Men #24. Soon afterward, Sub-Mariner was revived with issues #33–42 (April 1954 – Oct. 1955).
Jun 21, 2024 · Never a company to miss a trend, Atlas began introducing more science fiction elements in the 1950s, and eventually turned Venus’ dating adventures into a straight-out horror anthology. Collected here, 70 years later and for the first time ever, is that swift-changing second half of the 19-issue run.
Jun 29, 2024 · 1. 1950 was the last year publisher Martin Goodman used the name "Timely Comics" to sell his line of comicbooks before changing its' name to Atlas Comics. Marvel Boy was the last character considered a superhero to have their own book until 1961.
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2 days ago · Elektro debuted in an issue of what fans and historians call pre-superhero Marvel comics, published by Marvel's 1950s and early 1960s predecessor, Atlas Comics. Elektro was originally a supercomputer created by scientist Wilbur Poole.
