Atlas Comics Library HC (2023 Fantagraphics) comic books
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Published Nov 2024 by Fantagraphics.$25.00
$25.00
Volume 4 - 1st printing. "War Comics!" Collects War Comics (1950-1957 Atlas) #1-8. Cover by Carl Burgos and Sal Bradsky. Back cover by Al Hartley. Introduction by Dr. Michael J. Vassallo. Continuing Fantagraphics' project to reprint Marvel Comics' 1950s genre titles, this volume compiles the first of what became the industry's largest line of war books. Produced by veterans of WWII, the eight issues here feature future mainstream comics stalwarts such as Gene Colan, Russ Heath, Joe Maneely, and more. Forged in the crucible of the Korean War, and produced by veterans of the Second World War, this volume's eight issues present the brutality and grimness of armed combat by some of Atlas' most notable war artists and future comics stars including Gene Colan, Russ Heath, Joe Maneely, Dave Berg, Jay Scott Pike, Mike Sekowsky, Vern Henkel, Allen Bellman, Pete Morisi and Norman Steinberg. Propaganda abounds from the very first story, published in War Comics #1 in September 1950: "Peril in Korea," a primer explaining why the U.S. joined the conflict. Other highlights include Colan's "The Chips are Down" and "Victory," Heath's "Alone" and "No Survivors," Maneely's "Stormy Weather," Henkel's "Total Destruction," and Berg's "The Infantry's War." Originally a trial spun off from the publisher's "Men's Adventure" publications, in the nine years to follow Atlas went on to produce 533 comic book issues with war content, across 34 different titles. War Comics is where it all began, unseen in decades, scanned from the original books, restored, and packaged as one large, beautiful hardcover volume. Hardcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 180 pages, full color. Cover price $34.99.
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Published Mar 2025 by Fantagraphics.$36.00
$36.00
Volume 5 - 1st printing. "Police Action!" Collects Police Action (1954 Atlas) #1-7 and Police Badge #479 (1955) #5. Featuring tories by Dick Ayers, Mannie Banks, Vic Carrabotta, Tony Dipreta, Bob Forgione, John Forte, Ed Goldfarb, Ed Moline, Seymour Moskowitz, George Olesen, Art Peddy, Bob Powell, Paul Reinman, Robert Q. Sale, and Carl Wessler. Introduction by Dr. Michael J. Vassallo. Before focusing on tales of justice via superheroes under the Marvel banner, the publisher covered groundlevel crime across a range of comics titles and truecrime magazines. Under the Timely imprint from 1947, and Atlas from 1951, up to eleven graphic series including Justice Comics, Official True Crime Cases, AllTrue Crime, Crime Cases, Crime Can't Win, Crime Must Lose, and Crime Exposed all muscled each other and competitors for space on the newsstands.For the first crimethemed volume in Fantagraphics' ongoing project to restore and resurrect preMarvel pulp classics, the Atlas Library has selected a book that debuted as the genre peaked, just before a Senate hearing and the institution of the Comics Code banned the use of the word "Crime" from even appearing in a comic's title. Escaping that fate, Police Action had a sevenissue run of violent and noirish morality plays, pitting the officers of the law against the forces of urban malevolence, and was produced by the cream of the Atlas freelance roster, including Joe Maneely, Robert Q. Sale, Gene Colan, Art Peddy, Mort Lawrence, Werner Roth and Bob Powell.Rounding the volume off, also presented is a postCode oneshot, Police Badge #479, a snapshot of the industry's attempts to adapt to new strictures on the genre: here we view "our boys in blue" in the fight against rank corruption, highlighting the work of Don Heck and Joe Maneely. Hardcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 254 pages, full color. Cover price $44.99.
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Published Apr 2026 by Fantagraphics.$34.95
$34.95
Volume 9 - 1st printing. "Adventures into Weird Worlds!" Collects Adventures Into Weird Worlds (1952-1954 Marvel/Atlas) #1-10. Written by Joe Maneely, Bill Everett, Hank Chapman, Carl Wessler, Stan Lee, Clayton Martin, and Michael Dean. Art by Russ Heath, Sol Brodsky, John Tartaglione, George Tuska, Joe Maneely, Werner Roth, George Klein, Al Hartley, Bill Walton, Harry Lazarus, Bob Fujitani, Tom Gill, Martin Rosenthal (as Martin Rose), Bill LaCava, Bill Everett, Joe Sinnott, Gerald Altman, Dick Ayers, George Roussos, Jim Mooney, Al Fass, Gil Kane, Vic Carrabotta, Christopher Rule, Marty Elkin, Ogden Whitney, Myron Fass, Ben Brown, David Gantz, Tony DiPreta, Hy Rosen, Carmine Infantino, Frank Giacoia, Ben Benulis, Mort Meskin, Bernard Krigstein, Joe Certa, Paul Cooper, and Matt Fox. Cover by Bill Everett. Back Cover by Joe Maneely. Introduction by Dr. Michael J. Vassallo. In the unrestrained days before the Comics Code Authority censored the industry, these stories drawn by the cream of the Atlas crop — Russ Heath, Bill Everett, Joe Maneely, Carmine Infantino, Mort Meskin, George Tuska, Bob Fujitani, Joe Sinnott, and Bernard Krigstein — chilled readers to the bone: Irradiated, postapocalyptic monsters become The Walking Death! A frantic, tiny voice calls out from The Thing in the Bottle! Humanity faces intergalactic doomsday When a World Goes Mad! A cemetery robber tells how I Crawl Through Graves! Satan himself unveils The Pit of Horror, as only Bill Everett could envision it! This is the first of three volumes that will re-present this classic Atlas horror series in its entirety. Adventures dont get any weirder! Hardcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 304 pages, full color. Cover price $44.99.
