continued from here: There is a great deal that’s in retrospect amusing about the way in which Fleisher and Colon’s Grim Ghost constantly aped the form of Marvel tales of the period without ever convincing as either a viable simulacrum or a compelling new spin. Even where the resurrected Ghost’s “black steed” was concerned, it […]

continued from here There was some logic to Atlas hiring Michael Fleisher to co-create and script two out of its first three newsstand comicbooks. Fleisher was relatively young and, as a newcomer to scripting, had already made a small but distinctive splash with his work on Jonah Hex and The Spectre. In the latter especially, […]

So, Seaboard/Atlas appears to have at first gone out of its way to associate its new line of comics and magazines with Marvel Comics. (See here.) And as discussed here, the initial editorial content from Atlas had insisted that their books would actually outstrip Marvel’s in terms of new ideas and, presumably, storytelling approaches. So […]

If Atlas Comics ever had a clear sense of what we’d today label, with perhaps something of a shudder, a brand identity, then it struggled to transmit whatever that might have been. At first glance, Marvel was the company that Atlas appeared to be modelling itself upon. As I wrote about in yesterday’s post, part […]