Atlas Comics Library HC (2023 Fantagraphics) comic books 2026

Volume 8 - 1st printing. "Snafu!" Collects Snafu Vol. 1 (1955) #1-3. Written by Stan Lee. Art by Joe Maneely, Russ Heath, John Severin, Howie Post, and Bill Everett. Cover by Joe Maneely. When Harvey Kurtzman and Bill Gaines launched ECs Mad comic book as a warmly received satirical magazine, a flood of imitators soon filled newsstands, but the first and best to follow in Mads footsteps (coinciding with the second issue of Mad magazine) was Snafu, edited and written by Kurtzmans former boss: Stan The Man Lee! Snafu was packed with Marvel/Atlas top humor creators and, following the Mad playbook, filled pages with ad and news spoofs, alongside film, television, and book parodies like The Blackboard Forest by Russ Heath, Pete Kelseys Booze and Bleed, You Bum! by Joe Maneely, Drugnet by Howie Post, Emily Toasts Etiquette Page by John Severin, and Snafus Lovely Ladies by Bill Everett, with production supervised by Marie Severin. Seen here is some of the most eye-popping work of Maneelys short life, including great Hollywood caricatures done in a wash style. In this new volume in our Atlas Library collaboration with Marvel, Fantagraphics is tickled pink to present for the first time, the complete Snafu collection along with a history of Martin Goodmans humor publications in all genres by editor Dr. Michael J. Vassallo. Hardcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 256 pages, full color. Cover price $39.99.

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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.

Volume 10 - 1st printing. "Sports Action!" By Bernard Krigstein, Joe Maneely, Gene Colan, and Russ Heath. In the summer of 1949, Marvel decided to bring its successful sports pulps to the Atlas comic-book line, launching Sport Stars #1, which became Sports Action with its second issue, the same name as one of his most successful sports pulps of the 1930s. Across fourteen tumultuous issues, the artistic cream of the Timely/Atlas crop (Syd Shores, Joe Maneely, Bill Everett, Bob Powell, Gene Colan, George Tuska, Bernard Krigstein, and others) told biographical stories about sports heroes of the 1930s and 1940s in all the major sports: Knute Rockne (football), Hack Wilson (baseball), Man OWar (horse racing), Herman Sandow (physical culture), Bronco Nagurski (football), Ralph Kiner (baseball), Phil Rizzuto (baseball), Warren Spahn (baseball), Sugar Ray Robinson (boxing), Jackie Robinson (baseball), and Niles Kinnick, the 1939 Heisman Trophy winner of the Iowa Hawkeyes, among a score of others! These never before collected stories add to the historical Timely/Atlas tapestry, providing another window into the variety and breadth of Marvels early history. Hardcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 416 pages, full color. Cover price $54.99.

Volume 11 - 1st printing. "Spy Cases!" By Gene Colan, Russ Heath, Bill Everett. Shortly after launching his mens adventure line of comic books in 1949 (and just before he published his first war title), Atlas publisher Martin Goodman found, in the middle ground between crime and mens adventure, the sneakier, conspiratorial sub-genre of spy comics. The first title was Spy Cases (soon followed by Spy Fighters and Kent Blake of the Secret Service) and the contents were Cold War noir stories, as Doug Grant, Secret Agent, protected Americas interests, fighting commies from behind the Iron Curtain. Led by superlative action/adventure artwork by Al Hartley (later Bill Savage) and supported by Atlas titans including Gene Colan, Bill Everett, Russ Heath, Jerry Robinson and Joe Maneely, America ferrets out sinister threats in thrillers like: The Traitor!, Discs of Death, Frame-Up in Red, and The Case of the Missing B-29! All spy comics had healthy runs and by 1952, the Korean War made its presence felt in every adventure title. Patriotic, but also subtler, darker and more sinister than the familiar costumed hero titles, the spy genre is a little-seen aspect of Marvels deep history. Hardcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 304 pages, full color. Cover price $44.99.