Stan, Jack, and Steve - The 1950's. (1958) The Path of History 2 2

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Welcome back to the most popular thread in Comics General!

1958 would be an important year, because of a series of unforeseen events that would start in motion a chain of events that would change the history of comics forever!

 

 

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ON NEWSSTANDS DECEMBER 1957

In December, I saw that Joe Maneely would do TWO stories for DC - he'd follow that up with 2 more in January of 1958, and FOUR for Charlton (!!!) in January of 1958. That's 8 stories in two months, coinciding with the Atlas Implosion. If there's ANY artist that Stan would've looked out for, you'd have thought it would be Joe Maneely. But Joe had to have seen the much higher page rate being paid at DC Comics, and the availability of work available elsewhere and figured Atlas wasn't on very solid ground. This might be another example of Goodman threatening to close the comics division down and Stan understanding his friend's need to make ends meet elsewhere. 

Whatever the reason, he sure delivered...

House of Mystery #71 (Bill Ely cover)

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ON NEWSSTANDS DECEMBER 1957

Tales of the Unexpected #22 (Jack Kirby cover!) Joe Maneely 6 page story. 

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ON NEWSSTANDS JANUARY 1958

Joe Maneely - House of Mystery #72 (Ruben Moreira cover)

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ON NEWSSTANDS JANUARY 1958

Joe Maneely - House of Secrets #9 (Ruben Moreira cover)

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ON NEWSSTANDS JANUARY 1958

Joe Maneely - Cowboy Western #67 (Ruben Moreira cover) - LAST ISSUE

Maneely actually did 5 stories (22 pages) for this issue. I'm not going to show them all, but here's the lead story he did...

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ON NEWSSTANDS JANUARY 1958

Joe Maneely - Rocky Lane’s Blackjack #22 (Maurice Whitman cover) for Chalrton

Two Stories, Nine Pages...

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ON NEWSSTANDS JANUARY 1958

Joe Maneely also did for Charlton in January, a story in Six Gun Heroes #45, and a story in Wyatt Earp Frontier Marshall #20.

Total that's 13 stories in 2 months outside of Atlas....

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ON NEWSSTANDS JANUARY 1958

Jack Kirby writes, pencils and inks a story for Alarming Tales #4, featuring a Joe Simon cover and a Joe Simon index page.

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ON NEWSSTANDS JANUARY 1958

Jack Kirby and Joe Simon also do the cover and interior ad for Race for the Moon #1 (Harvey Comics). The stories inside feature art by Bob Powell. Jack would take over the book with #2 and 3...

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ON NEWSSTANDS JANUARY 1958

Jack Kirby writes, pencils and inks a story for House of Mystery #72 (Ruben Moreira cover).

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ON NEWSSTANDS JANUARY 1958

Jack Kirby pencils and inks the 8 page lead story for My Greatest Adventure #20 (Bob Brown cover).

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ON NEWSSTANDS JANUARY 1958

Jack Kirby pencils and inks the 6 page cover story for Tales of the Unexpected #23 (Ruben Moreira cover).

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ON NEWSSTANDS JANUARY 1958

Meanwhile over at Atlas...

For January, Stan Lee writes:

 

Patsy & Hedy #58 - 4 stories with Al Hartley art 

Wyatt Earp #17 - 4 stories with Dick Ayers art

GunSmoke Western #46  - 2 stories, one with Dick Ayers art and the other with Jack Keller art

 

Atlas released 8 titles in November. The other 5 were:

Battle #58

Love Romances #75

Marines in Battle #23

My Own Romance #63

Strange Tales #63

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ON NEWSSTANDS JANUARY 1958

Steve Ditko pencils and inks 4 stories for Charlton's Strange Suspense Stories #36 (Maurice Whitman cover).

Story ONE

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ON NEWSSTANDS JANUARY 1958

Steve Ditko pencils and inks 4 stories for Charlton's Strange Suspense Stories #36 (Maurice Whitman cover).

Story TWO

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ON NEWSSTANDS JANUARY 1958

Steve Ditko pencils and inks 4 stories for Charlton's Strange Suspense Stories #36 (Maurice Whitman cover).

Story THREE

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ON NEWSSTANDS JANUARY 1958

Steve Ditko pencils and inks 4 stories for Charlton's Strange Suspense Stories #36 (Maurice Whitman cover).

Story FOUR

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ON NEWSSTANDS JANUARY 1958

Steve Ditko also pencils and inks 3 stories for Charlton's Tales of the Mysterious Traveler #7 (Maurice Whitman cover).

Story ONE

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ON NEWSSTANDS JANUARY 1958

Steve Ditko also pencils and inks 3 stories for Charlton's Tales of the Mysterious Traveler #7 (Maurice Whitman cover).

Story TWO