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Show Us Your Atlas Books - Have A Cigar
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rjpb

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My first Atlas. The gloss on this book is outstanding.

 

 

 

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Great looking book, scooter - I really like the artist's name on the smoking MG barrel. :applause:

 

Nice copy, and possibly Maneely's best war cover. Excellent start to an Atlas collection.

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From the pile came Man Comics # 28, last issue of the run, dated September 1953, the final issue of the try-out of Bob Brant and the Trouble-shooters, a kid group à la Crimebuster and Little Wise-Guys. Yup, feels more like a Gleason comics than an Atlas book. Still, I've found these 3 issues tough to find and this is the only one I have so far.

 

Aside from the interesting fact that the middle story is about Lance Brant, Bob's older brother who is a legitimate trouble-shooter working for the government; that it runs in the family since their dad works the U.N. security; or that the final story has a recurring villain from issue # 26, the main attraction is another early mutant appearance in the Atlas / Marvel universe since the villain in this last story is a bug-related mutant who happens to be a high-school student hm This is well-documented elsewhere but I liked reading it first hand.

 

After the cover, I showcase the relevant mutant panels and his powers in action in the final image. (again, sequence of panels has been reconstituted to eliminate fillers) -

 

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[N.B.: there is a running joke that "feathers", the kid in the rightmost panel only says "ugh" except in one panel per story in which he explains everything in a complex and concise manner]

 

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Johnny545

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From the pile came Man Comics # 28, last issue of the run, dated September 1953, the final issue of the try-out of Bob Brant and the Trouble-shooters, a kid group à la Crimebuster and Little Wise-Guys. Yup, feels more like a Gleason comics than an Atlas book. Still, I've found these 3 issues tough to find and this is the only one I have so far.

 

Aside from the interesting fact that the middle story is about Lance Brant, Bob's older brother who is a legitimate trouble-shooter working for the government; that it runs in the family since their dad works the U.N. security; or that the final story has a recurring villain from issue # 26, the main attraction is another early mutant appearance in the Atlas / Marvel universe since the villain in this last story is a bug-related mutant who happens to be a high-school student hm This is well-documented elsewhere but I liked reading it first hand.

 

After the cover, I showcase the relevant mutant panels and his powers in action in the final image. (again, sequence of panels has been reconstituted to eliminate fillers) -

 

ManComics28_zps74a4144d.jpg

 

ManComics28-Mutant_zpsc0d78d08.jpg

 

[N.B.: there is a running joke that "feathers", the kid in the rightmost panel only says "ugh" except in one panel per story in which he explains everything in a complex and concise manner]

 

ManComics28-Bugged_zpsb990ee4a.jpg

 

Awesome, thanks for posting this!

 

Johnny

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Excellent jimbo - that War Adventures 12 is a classic cover.

 

 

I haven't been keeping tabs on my raw Atlas collection - only a small handful of books, but I enjoy them a lot:

 

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I had heard the Combat Casey's are particularly violent..... never read one, however. I love Atlas books, but good PQ is a bear on them. That Spellbound in your group is particularly cool. Those Atlas Sub-mariners are some of my favorite comics ever made. With nearly 5000 different issues published, I have to pick and choose with Atlas..... I find www.atlastales.com to be invaluable when choosing purchases. I keep mine in mylars to read so a great cover with several favorite artists inside is my criteria. I recently come to fully appreciate the range of quality in the war titles.... many artists I'd never heard of are represented and many are quite polished. GOD BLESS...

 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus) (thumbs u

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