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The Atlas Comics Library No. 3: In the Days of the Rockets!

The Atlas Comics Library No. 3: In the Days of the Rockets!

Maneely, Joe
Chapman, Hank
Sekowsky, Mike

Hardcover

Series: The Fantagraphics Atlas Comics Library

General Graphic Novels

Publisher Price: $49.99

ISBN10: 1683969693
ISBN13: 9781683969693
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Published: Aug 6 2024
Pages: 336
Weight: 3.74
Height: 1.30 Width: 8.60 Depth: 11.50
Language: English
In the vein of earlier comics-to-multimedia stars Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon, Atlas Comics launched their own pulp hero in 1951, looking ahead to the futuristic year 2000. Across five issues of Space Squadron (and one of Space Worlds), headline talents including George Tuska, Werner Roth and Allen Bellman (with back-up features by Joe Maneely, Christopher Rule, George Klein and Vern Henkel) showed Captain Jet Dixon and his Space Squadron blasting into action, facing cosmic threats like The Armada of Death, The Space Demons, Terror from the Deep, The Temptress of Jupiter, and The Midnight Horror.

Come 1953, Hank Chapman and Joe Maneely gazed further into the future, envisioning the distant year 2075 and the adventures of Speed Carter, Spaceman. Scripted throughout by Chapman, Maneely launched and drew the first three issues before handing off one issue each to Mike Sekowsky, George Tuska and Bob Forgione, with back-up features by John Romita, Maneely, and Bill Savage. As other aspects of the Atlas line leaned into the peak of pre-Code horror, the Captain of the Space Sentinels and young cadet Johnny Day battled monstrous aliens with stories including The Space Trap, A Slaughter in Space, Die, Spaceman, Die, and The Thing in Outer Space.

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