No love for Atlas/Seaboard? 0

[iganatz]

Preparing for my first sales thread and as I was putting lots together last night I came across my Atlas/Seaboard books, which I hadn't thought about in a long time.  I love these books (and have most of the #1's in 9.4-9.8) but I never hear anyone talking about them. The story of the company and its founding is almost as cool as the books themselves.  They don't seem to garner any interest though.  The only sales threads that I found here on the boards are filled with the sounds of crickets, receiving either 0 responses or the OP bumping the thread, metaphorically asking "Bueller? Bueller?"

https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/topic/425791-altasseaboard-skywald-tower-runs-for-sale/?tab=comments#comment-10023793

https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/topic/370081-1-atlas-seaboard-registry-set-on-clink/?tab=comments#comment-8640596
https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/topic/374628-1-atlas-seaboard-registry-set-on-clink-part-2/?tab=comments#comment-8754808

https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/topic/376679-1-atlas-seaboard-registry-set-on-comiclink-part-3/?tab=comments#comment-8802038

So I guess I'm going to keep them for myself as they're not salable, either due to the big warehouse find (see board discussion here) or simple apathy.  It makes me sad, because these books are awesome, created by some of the Bronze greats and easy to collect due to the fact that few of the titles ran more than 3-4 issues before the company folded.  For those interested, there's an amazing history and review of every issue here.

And, for your viewing pleasure, featured below are pics of every #1 they published (pulled from the net, not my collection) in their short blaze of glory.  My favorites were Chaykin's Scorpion and the Goodwin/Ditko/Wood Destructor.  What were yours?  Bueller?  Bueller?

 

[Get Marwood & I]

I like this thread.  I spent some time looking at Atlas to see if any of their books got the pence treatment. Didn't find any, but I haven't given up just yet. @iganatz, I salute you. Threads on the more 'obscure' publishers rarely get traffic so don't take it personally. Mention Charlton, King, IW etc and most eyes glaze over. Keep them! Love them! Document them! 

[porcupine48]

Love 'em.Still angry about the Barbarians featuring IronJaw though.Said it was to be continued,and it never was!Searched for ages preinternet...and found out it just never made it to issue two.Grr.

I have all the books posted above.The Vicky I have been told is fairly tough to find,and there is some more love showed to that than the others.

Steve,your search for pence of this got me wondering if they were ever reprinted by Edition Heritage comics.Off to search my big book on the history of the company..as it's written fully in French,i'll be brushing up and thinking in French for DAYS!

[Get Marwood & I]

10 minutes ago, porcupine48 said:

Love 'em.Still angry about the Barbarians featuring IronJaw though.Said it was to be continued,and it never was!Searched for ages preinternet...and found out it just never made it to issue two.Grr.

I have all the books posted above.The Vicky I have been told is fairly tough to find,and there is some more love showed to that than the others.

Steve,your search for pence of this got me wondering if they were ever reprinted by Edition Heritage comics.Off to search my big book on the history of the company..as it's written fully in French,i'll be brushing up and thinking in French for DAYS!

Report back immediately, mon ami 

[Get Marwood & I]

10 minutes ago, porcupine48 said:

Love 'em.Still angry about the Barbarians featuring IronJaw though.Said it was to be continued,and it never was!Searched for ages preinternet...and found out it just never made it to issue two.Grr.

I have all the books posted above.The Vicky I have been told is fairly tough to find,and there is some more love showed to that than the others.

Steve,your search for pence of this got me wondering if they were ever reprinted by Edition Heritage comics.Off to search my big book on the history of the company..as it's written fully in French,i'll be brushing up and thinking in French for DAYS!

Report back immediately, mon ami 

[Get Marwood & I]

Twice.

[porcupine48]

13 minutes ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Report back immediately, mon ami 

ce la prendra plus les temps.je suis un peu rouille a la lecture.

[Get Marwood & I]

2 minutes ago, porcupine48 said:

ce la prendra plus les temps.je suis un peu rouille a la lecture.

Gets ons with its zen. Ze Count, he haff not got all of ze days  

[namisgr]

34 minutes ago, porcupine48 said:

Love 'em.Still angry about the Barbarians featuring IronJaw though.Said it was to be continued,and it never was!Searched for ages preinternet...and found out it just never made it to issue two.Grr.

Edited June 29, 2018 by namisgr

[iganatz]

Aaargh.  Heading to Martinique in a month and didn't understand either of those last two posts.  I might be in trouble.

[Get Marwood & I]

2 minutes ago, iganatz said:

Aaargh.  Heading to Martinique in a month and didn't understand either of those last two posts.  I might be in trouble.

Vot! You do not spake ze Count! Vot is zis world's coming around to! 

[Get Marwood & I]

6 minutes ago, namisgr said:

Nobody is liking ze smart arses vietnamisgr!  

[porcupine48]

22 minutes ago, namisgr said:

 

I looked up the book,maybe it is Andrax i'm thinking of,with the story never concluding?Like I said,it was some time ago.I may even have issue two,but I remember being frustrated that the end of the story was never published.If you have any info,it would be greatly appreciated!

Edit...nevermind,you got me.

Edited June 29, 2018 by porcupine48
je suis mal dans mon tete.

[iganatz]

5 minutes ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Vot! You do not spake ze Count! Vot is zis world's coming around to! 

i can't read French or Transylvanian.  Sometimes English too...

[iganatz]

3 minutes ago, porcupine48 said:

It's been a while,but I don't remember that one...is it left off a continuation as well?

I looked up the book,maybe it is Andrax i'm thinking of,with the story never concluding?Like I said,it was some time ago.I may even have issue two,but I remember being frustrated that the end of the story was never published.If you have any info,it would be greatly appreciated!

According to the article linked in my OP, IronJaw was the only A/S character to appear in 5 stories.  Four IronJaw comics and one issue of The Barbarians (which oddly was published between IronJaw 3 and IronJaw 4 but bore no relation to those stories).  It's in this one-off that the Andrax story appears.  You are correct in remembering a cliffhanger, IronJaw 4 ends in the middle of his expanded origin story.

[iganatz]

http://www.atlasarchives.com/articles/history.html

"Ironjaw #4 gives us the "origin" of the barbarian, and this tale by Gary Friedrich and Pablo Marcos is a somewhat overdone saga of a young minstrel who is tortured and maimed by some jealous thugs. A witch tries to save him at the cost of her own immortality, and she is the one who first gives the young man his new jaw and his new name. Ironjaw was the flagship of the Atlas line, the only character to appear in five stories, but this issue is the last. We will never know the second part of Ironjaw's origin. The Atlas-Seaboard tragedy begins to unfold."

[porcupine48]

1 minute ago, iganatz said:

According to the article linked in my OP, IronJaw was the only A/S character to appear in 5 stories.  Four IronJaw comics and one issue of The Barbarians (which oddly was published between IronJaw 3 and IronJaw 4 but bore no relation to those stories).  It's in this one-off that the Andrax story appears.  You are correct in remembering a cliffhanger, IronJaw 4 ends in the middle of his expanded origin story.

Namisgr caught me not paying attention  It was the 'barbaric adventures' that threw me off..just processed it as Barbarians #2.That and the cliffhanger in IJ#4 had me doubting my memory,as i've read them all.

[iganatz]

3 minutes ago, porcupine48 said:

Namisgr caught me not paying attention  It was the 'barbaric adventures' that threw me off..just processed it as Barbarians #2.That and the cliffhanger in IJ#4 had me doubting my memory,as i've read them all.

P.S. looking at your avatar, really glad I don't have psychomotor epilepsy and in charge of saving the human race from alien microbes.

[iganatz]

Somehow, I missed this one.  Oh, the shame.

[solitude]

I have multiples of all but 3 i think of these never really read em but i have alot of em..was hoping they would garner some heat ...but they just rot on the shelf in boxes...