A happy 10th anniversary to this blog, Timely-Atlas-Comics, launched a decade ago on December 26, 2010, with my long interview with Timely's Marion Sitton!
10 years? Is that even possible? When I began this, I wanted a place to compile and discuss all the history and data pertaining to the long publishing career of Martin Goodman, focusing, naturally, on his Timely and Atlas line of comics books, and expanding into all his ancillary publishing lines and formats. About mid-way through the decade I made a decision to use the blog to really just write about "anything" I was interested in, so the topics veered to Peanuts in Comic Books, general comics history, the long history of the New York Daily News and Sunday Comics (and individual creators), science fiction, Jazz, historical events, keeping almost all of them tenuously connected to comics in some capacity. The end result are, as of ongoing updates, 70 posts and about 846,000 page views. [10/11/22 update - 1,002,975 page views] Lengths of posts varied depending on how I felt at the time and how much time I actually had. They could be brief spasms of data to all-encompassing career retrospectives utilizing hundreds of scans!
I don't want to make this a long post. It's just a celebration of a decade's worth of my own interests and obsessions. I'll outline below what I've covered and then, to make it easy for anyone interested, provide clickable links to all the posts, as blogger doesn't seem to provide a full listing on the right side, and the result is older posts have to be searched out, buried under month/year designations.
Timely/Atlas Comics creators:
- Marion Sitton
- Bill Everett
- Louise Altson
- Gene Colan
- Jerry Robinson
- Joe Simon
- Allen Bellman
- Carmine Infantino
- Stan Goldberg
- Augie Scotto
- Carl Burgos
- Jack Kirby
- Stan Lee
- Joe Maneely
- Vince Fago
- Sy Grudko
Others:
- Fredric Wertham
- Flo Steinberg
- Charles H. King
- Art Tatum
- Joseph Kugelmass
- Jackie Gleason
- Marilyn Monroe
- Personal Overview
- 1962-63 NYC Newspaper Strike
- Closer Than We Think!
- Davy Crockett (Jack Kirby)
- 40th Anniversary of the 1978 NYC Newspaper Strike
- 100th Anniversary of the New York Daily News
- 100th Anniversary of Harold Teen by Carl Ed
- 50th Anniversary of the 1969 Miracle Mets
- 65th Anniversary of the 1955 Brooklyn Dodger World Series Victory
- 100th Anniversary of Winnie Winkle by Martin Branner
- Thimble Theatre (1919-1920) by E.C. Segar
- 20th Anniversary of 9/11
And all the rest...
- Peanuts in Comics
- Atlas Erratta
- Goodman Crime Digests
- Goodman Painted Cover Detective Magazines
- Best Love
- Complete Mystery
- Amazing Detective Cases
- Pearl Harbor
- D-Day
- USA Comics
- Venus
- Girl Comics
- Menace
- Pulp Exhibition
- History of Atlas War Comics
- Secret History of Marvel Comics
- Atlas At War
- Secret History of Marvel Comics - Extended Ch. 1 End Notes (Earliest Goodman pulp history)
The Posts (70)
- Marion Sitton - The Interview
- Marion Sitton - The Comic Strips and Panels
- Marion Sitton - The Timely Years
- Marion Sitton - Avon, Close-Up, Fawcett, Fox, Hillman & Quality
- Marion Sitton - The Atlas Years
- Marion Sitton - The World's Greatest Crayon Artist
- Marion Sitton - The Commissions
- Amazing Detective Cases
- Complete Mystery
- Frederic Wertham, Censorship, and the Timely Anti-Wertham Editorials (Part 1)
- Frederic Wertham, Censorship, and the Timely Anti-Wertham Editorials (Part 2)
- Bill Everett - The Timely Romance Stories
- Bill Everett - The Atlas Romance Stories
- Louise Altson (1910-2010)
- Gene Colan (1926-2011) - The Timely Years
- Surprise Announcement - The Secret History of Marvel Comics
- Best Western
- Jerry Robinson & Joe Simon
- USA Comics Vol 2 Golden-Age Masterworks
- Peanuts - A Comic Book History
- Allen Bellman - The Interview
- Pulp Art Exhibition at Syracuse University NYC Lubin House
- Jerry Robinson (1922-2011) - The Timely Years
- Marion Sitton (1920-2012)
- Carmine Infantino (1925-2013) - The Timely Years
- A History of Atlas War Comics (1950-1960)
- Art Tatum (1909-1956) - The World's Greatest Jazz Pianist
- Noel Sickles (1910-1982) - The Writer's Digest Illustrations
- Venus Vol 1 Atlas Era Masterworks, Issues #1-9
- Girl Comics #1-12 (Oct/49 - Jan/52)
- Menace #1-11 (Mar/53 - May/54)
- Martin Goodman - The Marilyn Monroe Covers, Articles and Photo Features
- Martin Goodman - The Crime Digest Paperbacks
- Stan Goldberg (1932-2014)
- "Adventures in Time and Space" - A Classic Science Fiction Anthology
- Martin Goodman - The True-Crime Detective Magazine Covers
- The First "Stag" and the Original Kugelmass Episode
- Tales From the New York Daily News Sunday Comics #1
- "We're Back!" - The 1962-1963 NYC Newspaper Strike and the Return of the Sunday Comics
- Best Love - A Pulp? A Comic? It's Both!
- Happy 100th Birthday to "The Great One," Jackie Gleason
- Augie Scotto (1926-2016)
- Happy 100th Birthday to Carl Burgos
- Allen Bellman - The Brooklyn Eagle (1938-1940)
- Atlas Errata - Cover Alterations and Unpublished Implosion Inventory
- "A Date Which Will Live in Infamy" - December 7, 1941
- "Fabulous" Flo Steinberg - (1939-2017)
- Happy 100th Birthday to Jack Kirby - The Timely Years
- Charles H. King (1934-2017)
- "We Wish You a Maneely Christmas and a Happy New Year!"
- Jack Kirby is Where You Find it! - Tales from the New York Sunday News Comics
- "Closer Than We Think!" by Arthur Radebaugh - Tales From the New York Sunday News Comics
- 40th Anniversary of the 1978 NYC Newspaper Strike and the Interim Strike Newspapers
- Stan Lee (1922-2018) - The Timely Years
- "We Wish You a Fago Christmas and a Happy New Year!"
- Happy 100th Anniversary to "Harold Teen" by Carl Ed
- 75th Anniversary of D-Day - 3 Atlas War Stories
- Happy 100th Anniversary to the New York Daily News
- Happy 50th Anniversary to the 1969 "Miracle Mets!"
- Allen Bellman (1924-2020)
- Allen Bellman - Timely Revisted, 2018 Interview
- "Atlas at War" - The Interviews
- This is Next Year! - The Brooklyn Dodgers Win the 1955 World Series
- Happy 100th Anniversary to "Winnie Winkle."
- Happy 10th Anniversary to this Blog, Timely-Atlas-Comics!!!!
- Sy Grudko (1927-2011)
- Sy Grudko - The Timely/Atlas Years
- Thimble Theatre (1919-1920) by Elzie Segar
- September 11, 2001 - The New York Daily News
- Secret History of Marvel Comics - Extended Ch. 1 End Notes
And to all of the readers who have supported this blog, a big Thank You!
