On Comics

comicbookcovers:

House Of Mystery #147, December 1964, cover by Joe Certa

To the people putting this out, this was a good comic while Marvel’s output at the time was ugly crap.

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70sscifiart:

Philippe Druillet

Druillet. ‘Nuff said!

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The glories of imperialism and the price it costs both the colonized and the colonizers…

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Very old time fan favorite.

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I’m a sucker for Kinstler’s art.

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Colan back when he inked his pencils as opposed to a little later when he pretty much ignored his own rendering. He was like his own Vinnie Colletta.

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Archie writer and artists try to do a horror story like DC and Marvel were doing and… they didn’t pull it off. If could have worked if they used Archie characters IMO.

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Hey, kid, no need for ultra-violence. You’re (somehow given that daddy was only a doctor) obscenely wealthy.

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Atlas 2.0!

Martin Goodman sold Marvel to a wannabe conglomerate. Allegedly, he had an agreement that would retain his son as publisher(!). His relevant experience was being the boss’ kid and beyond that not much, none good.

So Goodman started Atlas 2.0 as his revenge against Marvel: Paid a shit ton more than Marvel and DC, attracted, like everyone to do at least something.

And then problems followed.

The color line was edited by someone with ambitions greater than crappy copying of Marvel books – see those covers and trade dress.

So some of the books were too good – Chaykin’s Scorpio being so good that Chaykin recycled the concept for Dominic Fortune.

So the editor was replaced by Goodman’s distant in-law and Stan Lee’s brother Larry (who also drew all the Marvelous covers here) who did as the boss directed.

All to avail. All the books – the entire line –tanked. As I recollect, there was only one good book in Atlas 2.2; written by Dave Kraft, he recycled the character while at Marvel.

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