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

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ON NEWSSTANDS MAY 1958

Meanwhile over at Atlas...

For May, Stan Lee writes:

 

Patsy & Hedy #60 - with Al Hartley art 

Wyatt Earp #19 - 3 stories with Dick Ayers art

GunSmoke Western #48  - 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 #60

Love Romances #77

Marines in Battle #25

My Own Romance #65

Strange Tales #65

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ON NEWSSTANDS MAY 1958

Jack Kirby had so impressed DC Comics with what he'd done with Challengers of the Unknown, that they gave him a character to try and do something with... Green Arrow. Yep, Jack Kirby was doing super hero stories for DC Comics in 1958... in fact, he'd do 11 Green Arrow stories before he went to Marvel... from Adventure Comics #250 (Curt Swan cover).

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On 8/9/2022 at 11:36 PM, Prince Namor said:

ON NEWSSTANDS APRIL 1958

 

For April Stan Lee wrote:

 

Homer the Happy Ghost #21 - art by Dan DeCarlo 

Millie the Model #86 - art by Dan DeCarlo 

Patsy Walker #78 - art by Al Hartley

Two Gun Kid #43 - 3 stories with art by Joe Maneely

Kid Colt Outlaw #80 - 3 stories with art by Jack Keller

 

Atlas released 8 titles in February. The other 3 were:

Navy Combat #19

World of Fantasy #13

Miss America #92

 

Things look pretty bleak for Marvel....

Some trivia - Homer the Happy Ghost #21 has an early post Implosion job. The second story (signed by Stan, art by DeCarlo) has job code T-1. The "T" codes segue into the PHM era for the core fantasy titles.

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On 8/10/2022 at 12:50 PM, Prince Namor said:

ON NEWSSTANDS MAY 1958

Jack Kirby had so impressed DC Comics with what he'd done with Challengers of the Unknown, that they gave him a character to try and do something with... Green Arrow. Yep, Jack Kirby was doing super hero stories for DC Comics in 1958... in fact, he'd do 11 Green Arrow stories before he went to Marvel... from Adventure Comics #250 (Curt Swan cover).

Makes you wonder if the Challengers book was so successful, why bury its creator on a back-up feature, with no hint on the covers that anything was different with that month's Green Arrow segment?  The way Mark Evanier tells the story, the only reason DC gave Green Arrow to Kirby was because previous artist George Papp moved on, creating a gap for Kirby to fill.  Still, you would think with DC's Showcase comic needing new material every other month, it would have been smart to turn Kirby loose to create something equally successful as the Challengers.  Unless Challengers wasn't really that big a hit at the time? Or maybe DC failed to make the connection between the Challengers' success and Kirby's talents?  

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On 8/10/2022 at 6:44 PM, Zonker said:

Makes you wonder if the Challengers book was so successful, why bury its creator on a back-up feature, with no hint on the covers that anything was different with that month's Green Arrow segment?  The way Mark Evanier tells the story, the only reason DC gave Green Arrow to Kirby was because previous artist George Papp moved on, creating a gap for Kirby to fill.  Still, you would think with DC's Showcase comic needing new material every other month, it would have been smart to turn Kirby loose to create something equally successful as the Challengers.  Unless Challengers wasn't really that big a hit at the time? Or maybe DC failed to make the connection between the Challengers' success and Kirby's talents?  

Challengers was enough of a hit to get green lit a year before the Flash got his own series.

The situation for Jack, even before he got into it with Jack Schiff, was that there was a LOT of talent at DC that had been there before him and he never did like the idea of taking someones job away from them. So when Papp stepped down, DC probably saw it as an opportunity to see what he could do with one of their long time established characters (GA actually survived all this time as a back up feature), in a way that wouldn't interfere with COTU. 

Showcase still had plenty of creators trying out new ideas... Space Ranger for two issues, Adam Strange for a few, Rip Hunter....

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ON NEWSSTANDS JUNE 1958

For June Stan Lee wrote:

 

Homer the Happy Ghost #22 - art by Dan DeCarlo FINAL ISSUE

Millie the Model #87 - art by Dan DeCarlo (He still does all but the text story in Millie though...)

Patsy Walker #79 - art by Al Hartley, Stan writes half the stories.

Two Gun Kid #44 - 3 stories with art by Joe Maneely

Kid Colt Outlaw #81 - 2 stories with art by Jack Keller and 1 with art by Joe Maneely

 

Atlas released 8 titles in February. The other 3 were:

Navy Combat #20 FINAL ISSUE

World of Fantasy #14

Miss America #93 FINAL ISSUE

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