The Atlas Comics Library No. 3: In the Days of the Rockets!

Expanding Fantagraphics' project to reprint Marvel Comics' 1950s genre titles, this volume blasts off to space opera adventure.

Publisher Marketing: As pure entertainment, the Speed Carter stories are [fun]: action packed, dynamic, and violent. Joe Maneely's art has energy and a scrubby, almost underground feel to it.-- "Cinema Sentries" Brief Description : "In the vein of earlier comics-to-multimedia stars Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon, and the current TV-to-film-to-comics Captain Video, Atlas Comics launched [its] own pulp hero in 1951, looking ahead to the futuristic year 2000. Across five issues of Space Squadron (and one of Space Worlds), headline talents including George Tuska, Werner Roth and Allen Bellman (with back-up features by Joe Maneely, Christopher Rule, George Klein and Vern Henkel) showed Captain Jet Dixon and his Space Squadron blasting into action, facing cosmic threats like 'The Armada of Death,' 'The Space Demons,' 'Terror from the Deep,' 'The Temptress of Jupiter,' and 'The Midnight Horror.' Come 1953, Hank Chapman and Joe Maneely gazed further into the future, envisioning the distant year 2075 and the adventures of Speed Carter, Spaceman" Review Quotes : A great overview of working cartoonists, some really fun pages... and Joe Maneely makes it all worthwhile. A fun book!-- "Rave Sensation" Review Quotes : I love what they're doing here. I really believe in this line of comics. I love Golden Age stuff and they're really picking out the best of the best to present in the best way possible.-- "Back Corner Comics" Publisher Marketing : In the vein of earlier comics-to-multimedia stars Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon, Atlas Comics launched their own pulp hero in 1951, looking ahead to the futuristic year 2000. Across five issues of Space Squadron (and one of Space Worlds ), headline talents including George Tuska, Werner Roth and Allen Bellman (with back-up features by Joe Maneely, Christopher Rule, George Klein and Vern Henkel) showed Captain Jet Dixon and his Space Squadron blasting into action, facing cosmic threats like "The Armada of Death," "The Space Demons," "Terror from the Deep," "The Temptress of Jupiter," and "The Midnight Horror."

Format: Hardcover | Pages: 336 | Publication Date: 2024-08-06