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[N e r V]

11 minutes ago, adamstrange said:

Maneely added figures to covers on many occasions and probably did other "fixes" at Stan Lee's direction.  Burgos was art director and laid out covers for a few years.  Heath told me this in a visit to his place back in the 90s.  When you see an awkward cover design but pencils & inks by Heath, it's most likely based on a Burgos layout.

The Adv Into Terror and Adv into WW look like all Everett (design, pencils & inks), though it's possible there might be some small changes by Burgos.

Stan Lee or so I’ve been told by a number of people who worked for Marvel and the others was a great editor on knowing what to put out as his track record proves but just as Martin Goodman was over the top with his numbering system Lee used ever tool in the box for comic production. I think the early studio systems that produced comics for the publishers influenced Lee as an editor for his career. The other publishers may have done the same things but Lee seemed to do them more often at least. I’m in the camp that despite what you may think of him as a creator he had his pulse on the markets early on and was a better editor than most. Everything that made Stan Lee great at Marvel in the silver age began as he settled in after war service. Atlas was his training ground that set him up later with the exception of Martin’s lame distribution deal that caused a pause at Marvel. The Marvel way was already beginning before the 1960’s superhero revival even if no one knew it then…

[buttock]

10 hours ago, N e r V said:

They have Anderson on #32 as artist and inker. It’s probably difficult at best guessing who  a unsigned artist is let alone trying to see who inked something. Two examples of people guessing on Everett inks over Burgos I’m posting below. Remember these are guesses. Also even when a work is signed it doesn’t mean another artist didn’t have a hand in things.

 

cover / 1 page(report information)

Pencils

Bill Everett ; Carl Burgos (see notes)

Inks

Bill Everett; Carl Burgos (see notes)

Colors

Stan Goldberg

Letters

?

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Genre

horror-suspense

Indexer Notes 

Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg. Previous indexers credited both Bill Everett and Carl Burgos as possible artists, but Nick Caputo suspects Burgos may have only provided some corrections.

 

cover / 1 page(report information)

--script

?

Pencils

Carl Burgos ?

Inks

Bill Everett ?

Colors

Stan Goldberg

Letters

?

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Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

Man who has injected himself with hypodermic needle is torn in half.

Indexer Notes 

Cover has nothing to do with inside story with same name. Shows Independent Distributor logo. Shows ACMP (American Comic Magazine Publishers) Seal of Approval.

Credit information supplied by www.atlastales.com.

Colors: Stan Goldberg states himself.

 

 

This link shows several of the alterations that Burgos did to Maneely and Everett covers for Atlas.  The unedited cover can, on occasion, be found on a foreign edition so you can see the difference between the two.  Although some cases appear to be done for code reasons, often it just looks like Burgos was doodling on these covers while he was on the phone.  I can't see why he would make the alterations.  The Timely-Atlas facebook group has new additions from time to time as they're discovered. 

http://timely-atlas-comics.blogspot.com/2016/10/atlas-errata-cover-alterations-and.html

[N e r V]

Getting back on topic I’m going to share a couple of stories I like from the last issue of Amazing Detective. The first is with a Bill Benulis pencils guess and 
Jack Abel inks guess as creators.

 

 

The next one up has a Hank Chapman -script signed and
George Roussos pencils guess and
Jack Abel inks guess.

Although I’ve always felt the Atlas books could keep up with EC comics in the art department when at their best their stories are what lagged behind. They did however get a few clever ones in at times. 
 

Lessons learned from the above? Keep your hands to yourself and choose your words wisely…

 

[Jayman]

Here’s a more simplistic Anderson cover and yet the people are nicely detailed.

[RICK STARR]

This one is one of my favs.

 

 

 

 

[Jayman]

6 hours ago, RICK STARR said:

This one is one of my favs.

 

Such a great book! Tough to find in general let alone in grade. I would like to know who got their signals crossed on the cover though. Was it the colorist thinking it looked like a werewolf and chose brown or the typesetter thinking it was a vampire? 

[Dr. Love]

love this heath

[fifties]

5 hours ago, Jayman said:

I would like to know who got their signals crossed on the cover though. Was it the colorist thinking it looked like a werewolf and chose brown or the typesetter thinking it was a vampire? 

Never noticed that discrepancy until you pointed it out.  The editor would have been the one who blew it, as that's definitely a Werewolf pictured.

[fifties]

27 minutes ago, Dr. Love said:

love this heath

By the time this issue was published, they were obviously feeling the heat of the approaching code restrictions, so no more terrifying covers.  Regardless, this one has some good horror stories within.

[RICK STARR]

9 minutes ago, fifties said:

By the time this issue was published, they were obviously feeling the heat of the approaching code restrictions, so no more terrifying covers.  Regardless, this one has some good horror stories within.

They followed up with this one. "The monster who came to dinner" was really watering down the horror genre books by this time.

Also, another Harry Anderson cover.

 

[Jayman]

10 minutes ago, RICK STARR said:

They followed up with this one. "The monster who came to dinner" was really watering down the horror genre books by this time.

Also, another Harry Anderson cover.

 

Watered down yes, but the people in this cover with all their varied expressions makes this cover for me more than the glob monster! 

[Jayman]

40 minutes ago, fifties said:

Never noticed that discrepancy until you pointed it out.  The editor would have been the one who blew it, as that's definitely a Werewolf pictured.

Well either way the -script was in and the interior story was titled “The Werewolf Takes a Wife”. I’ll blame it on the cover paste up guy! I don’t have this issue sadly so I had to check the Atlas Tales site.

 

Edited May 9, 2021 by Jayman

[N e r V]

On 5/9/2021 at 12:04 PM, Dr. Love said:

love this heath

You know this issue was on my “to get” list for a long time. Kept seeing VG or maybe VG+ copies forever but wanted one a little nicer. That finally happened now with this copy. This type of cover is why I love the Atlas books even when they went post code. Growing up watching Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, One Step Beyond, etc. I love the Atlas strange fantasy/science fiction theme covers. Time travel, parallel dimensions…great stuff! My new copy…

[Dr. Love]

2 hours ago, N e r V said:

You know this issue was on my “to get” list for a long time. Kept seeing VG or maybe VG+ copies forever but wanted one a little nicer. That finally happened now with this copy. This type of cover is why I love the Atlas books even when they went post code. Growing up watching Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, One Step Beyond, etc. I love the Atlas strange fantasy/science fiction theme covers. Time travel, parallel dimensions…great stuff! My new copy…

 

Totally, couldn't agree more, love this trippy head stuff

 

[N e r V]

Need to crack open my Twilight Zone and Outer Limits Blu-ray’s now…

 

[catrick339]

On 5/9/2021 at 3:49 PM, RICK STARR said:

They followed up with this one. "The monster who came to dinner" was really watering down the horror genre books by this time.

Also, another Harry Anderson cover.

 

Looks like me  at my In-Laws.

[mikeyc67]

Some Westerns arrived today

 

[jimjum12]

Finally took a deep breath and submitted an offer on this one... which was accepted. These guys, Charm_City, have a few other higher grade(...for Atlas) left. This is *ahem* no longer one of them. A badazz Everett war cover can't be dallied with. GOD BLESS....

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

Edited May 12, 2021 by jimjum12

[buttock]

12 minutes ago, jimjum12 said:

Finally took a deep breath and submitted an offer on this one... which was accepted. This guys, Charm_City, have a few other higher grade(...for Atlas) left. This is *ahem* no longer one of them. A badazz Everett war cover can't be dallied with. GOD BLESS....

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

Well done Jim.  That's such an amazing effort by Everett when he was at his peak.  He had evolved from his cartoony phase to his hyper-realistic phase, and to get that on a cover where he has work both above and below the surface of the water...   I mean look at the waves, the bubbles, the sub...

[PopKulture]

45 minutes ago, mikeyc67 said:

Some Westerns arrived today

 

Super sweet books! It looks like you’re almost complete on the Matt/Kid Slade! Congrats!