Atlas Comics Down Under

Strange Experience 4 is all Atlas, 5 fades off somewhat, so I suspect that issues 1 - 3 inclusive contain Atlas stories. Feel free to go through what you have and cross reference it to this list - let's see what was reprinted. As more information comes to light I'll post it up and update this list. There's still quite a number of Gredown books to be indexed and there's no real rhyme or reason to them, barring the aforementioned Strange Experience issues.

As also previously mentioned, it'd be interesting to see if there were further titles released into the Australian marketplace that were either fully dedicated to Atlas reprints, or unpublished material that has yet to be identified that might be circulating in the covers of books. Until more concrete evidence is unearthed it's all just speculation, but sometimes an educated guess is as good as can be offered.

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Was Yogi Bear gay or not? It's this kind of thing that keeps me wide awake in the middle of the night, clutching at the quilt, drowning in sweat and wishing that the ghosts inside of my head would just flee and leave me be. But they don't, so I instantly turn my thoughts into other realms. On the surface of things he appears to be a normal bear.

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In the historical context of things he's just a cheap copy of Art Carney's Ed Norton actually the Honeymooners was stolen better by Warner Brothers for their cartoon series featuring mice - Ralphy boy and his neighbour Martin. Yogi used to hang around a place called Jellystone National Park and was, for the most part, obsessed by picnic baskets.

Like a demented homeless person he relentlessly stalked people, slept on park benches, probably urinated in public, harassed people and stole whatever food and anything else that he could reach. All the time he was pursued by two people, the first being the anal retentive Ra….

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The article was spawned by Brigid's own experiences and the comments she found on this very blog , focusing on what happened to us, and several others, when we tried to book an apartment in New York. Luckily Brigid took notice of what she read, which verified her own feelings and managed to not get ripped off - good for her! There is speculation that subsequent issues of Planet Of Vampires contain unpublished Atlas material, but this has yet to be verified. Published and reprinted circa The Tarantula contained the following Atlas stories: The cover is based in part on Weird Suspense 1 originally drawn by Dick Giordano.

Pit Of Evil was one of the longest running titles in the Gredown line, but only one issue focused on Atlas, issue 2, which reprinted the bulk of the Devilina stories. This issue features a different cover, however, meaning that two Bog Beast covers exist in Australia. Published Strange Experience 4 contained the following Atlas stories: Published Strange Experience 5 contained the following Atlas stories: Published Strange Experience 7 contained the following Atlas story: Town Tamer Thrilling Adventure Stories 2 This book also contained stories from Charlton and other unidentified publishers.

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Tales of Evil 2 This book also contained stories from Charlton and other unidentified publishers. Tales of Evil 2 This book also contained stories from Charlton. This title also contained several Charlton stories. Voodoo Tales had one of the most adventurous and impressive cover paintings produced for a Gredown comic, featuring, as it did, a massive wrap around painting.

It would appear that, at no point, were the rights to reprint Atlas either put back on the table for an Australian publisher, nor were they considered worthy of exploring. When a study is made of the Atlas material that Gredown reprinted what immediately stands out is that while there may be more Atlas material yet to be discovered. Despite the lack of understanding of Gredown and their publishing practices, it is still feasible that some stories could have seen the light of day at some stage.

Books such as Phoenix, Wulf, Destructor and Scorpion contained enough stories to fill the average sized Gredown anywhere from 48 to 96 pages and with the discovery of titles like The Brute, Ironjaw, Morlock and Tarantula it's very likely that the other series were also reprinted. Atlas books like Devilina, Gothic Romances and Tales of Evil were anthology titles, and as random stories have popped up in Gredown publications from those books it's also likely that other stories were also reprinted.

Gredown also published a limited number of western and war comics which have yet to be fully explored as to their contents. It may never be possible to assemble a complete picture of every title that Gredown released. There are a few sizable collections of Gredown comics in existence, however each contains different titles to the others, with a fair degree of overlapping and as more titles appear on the open market there is a hope that one day the entire line can be documented. Only when this documenting process is finished and all the Gredowns can be accounted for will the full picture become clear.

Until then any collection of Gredown is a work in progress with many mysteries yet to be discovered. In the case of the Skywald and Warren material, the issue numbers of the Australian reprints did not always correlate with the American original. By the s that scope was broadened to include reprinting American comic books via an imprint called Page Publishing, which also published magazines. It began to publish comic books in the mid s and continued until the early s. During its publishing life, Page reprinted comics from companies as diverse as Marvel, Charlton, Skywald and Archie.

I wanted the page back just because I wanted it back, for better stories-and he wanted it because then his company Transworld could sell another page abroad. Transworld did send stats of art to UK publishers which had been altered Zip-A-Tone added, spelling changed and research into Newton Comics shows that stats were also sent to Australia in bulk. At the demise Newton Comics all of the remaining stats and art were thrown into a dumpster due to they being worthless to the company. This was more than likely a common practice for other Australian publishers reprinting non-Australian material.

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Calvert were known for producing some highly interesting comics and mixed original material drawn by Australian Moria Bertram along with material from ACG, Dell and all too few E. Federal Publishing would reprint both Marvel and DC comics, in both colour and black and white, and were one of the last of the major Australian reprint companies, winding up in the mid to late s. Despite the format change, the price of Yaffa did not change. It is also possible that Yaffa sourced their material directly from Marvel, and not Transworld, by the early s as some of their comics featured alternate artwork in the form of covers, and pin-ups consisting of cover art sans logo and cover copy.

As late as he was bringing back new issues for me to read. Other people have told me how, again, on long distance trips, parents would often stop and buy a handful of comics, usually Gredowns, at country service stations and truck stops during the mid s. This article is so well researched and annotated it will be of great help to future comic-book historians, elevating the piece above mere entertainment.

Thank you so much for taking the time and effort necessary in its creation. Sunday, November 29, 1: Sunday, November 29, 4: A superb article that brought back many memories from my childhood. I HAD all of those books! It's the advantage of working in a newsagent through your childhood Sunday, November 29, 5: Regardless, excellent work on the author's part! Friday, December 04, 4: Well that's the Wiki for you - if you do your own homework, speak to the right people and actually write an original piece then they don't consider it valid.

For anything to get into the Wiki it can't be original, they much prefer copies. Friday, December 04, 9: Monday, December 07, 5: Sunday, December 13, 1: Sunday, May 22, 9: I was working for [ Warren Publishing founder] Jim Warren, running his mail-order division, Captain Company, and just starting to edit [the black-and-white horror-comics magazine] Creepy [and] I'd edited comics for DC and Skywald Several weeks after answering the ad, I receive a call from Martin Goodman I was one of several people Martin interviewed, and I got the job because I'd had experience not only in comics but in mail order, the latter of which was to contribute significantly to Seaboard's cash flow.

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Sharing editorial duties on the comics was writer artist Larry Lieber, whom Martin had long wanted to transplant from under the shadow of Larry's brother Larry ended up handling about a quarter of Atlas' output—primarily the police , Western [and] war [comics] , and color anthologies of horror stories. Lieber later became editor of the color comics following Rovin's departure.

Steve Mitchell was the comics' production manager, and John Chilly the black-and-white magazines' art director.

Goodman offered an editorial position to Roy Thomas , who had recently stepped down as Marvel Comics editor-in-chief, but Thomas turned it down, recalling in that, "[I] didn't have any faith in his lasting it out. The field was too shaky for a new publisher.

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When I went there, Martin put out two kinds of books. He was putting out color comics, and he was also going to put out black-and-white comics like Warren and Marvel. Now, I knew nothing about black-and-white comics, right? My only experience was in the color comics.

Jeff Rovin came from Warren, and he knew nothing about color comics. Martin unfortunately put Jeff in charge of all the color comics and put me in charge of the black-and-white books. It was an unfortunate thing, and basically what happened was that Jeff's books didn't turn out so well Martin had to pay high freelance rates, because otherwise nobody would work for a new and unproven company It didn't work out too well, and Jeff finally left angrily or something, and I had to take over all his books. At this point, business was bad, and I tried to do what I could.

One of the things I had to do was to cut rates and tell people they were going to make less money, which was not an enviable position.

A total of 23 comics titles and five comics magazines were published before the company folded in late No title lasted more than four issues. Some reports at the time suggested Goodman was angered that Cadence, the new Marvel owners, had reneged on a promise to keep his son, Charles "Chip" Goodman, as Marvel's editorial director. Marvel and Atlas writer Gary Friedrich recalled: I think he did it to make money and that he thought with Larry in charge and paying good rates that he could do it.