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Atlas Comics 1950s - Atlas titles by genre

This list is incomplete and in progress

Information from Atlas Tales [5] and other references. Some titles may be arguably Timely at the earlier end, or Marvel at the later end.

Atlas Comics 1950s - Crime

• All-True Crime  #26-52 (Feb. 1948 - Sept. 1952; continued from Timely's Official True Crime)
• Amazing Detective Cases  #3-14 (Nov. 1950 - Sept. 1952; continued from n.a.)
• Casey - Crime Photographer  #1-4 (Aug. 1949 - Feb. 1950)
• Caught  #1-5 (Aug. 1956 - April 1957)
• Crime Can't Win  #41-43, 4-12 (Sept. 1950 - Sept. 1952; continued from Romance title Cindy Smith)
• Crime Cases Comics  #24-27, 5-12 (Aug. 1950 - July 1952; continued from Timely's Willie Comics and Li'l Willie Comics)
• Crime Exposed (2nd series, following Timely's) #1-14 (Dec. 1950 - June 1952)
• Crime Fighters  #11-13 (Sept. 1954 - Jan. 1955; continued from Timely's Crimefighters)
• Crime Must Lose!  #4-12 (Oct. 1950 - April 1952; continued from n.a.)

Atlas Comics 1950s - Espionage

• Yellow Claw

Atlas Comics 1950s - Funny-animal and other children's comics

• Buck Duck  #1-4 (June-Dec. 1953)
• Dippy Duck  #1 (Oct. 1957)
• The Monkey and the Bear  #1-3 (Sept. 1953-Jan. 1954)
• Wonder Duck  #1-3 (Sept. 1949-March 1950) continued as

• It's a Duck's Life  #4-11 (Nov. 1950-Feb. 1952)

• Adventures of Homer Ghost  #1-2 (Jan.-Aug. 1957)
• The Adventures Of Pinky Lee  #1-5 (July-Dec. 1955)
• Cartoon Kids  #1 (no date; 1957)
• Homer, the Happy Ghost  #1-22 (March 1955 - Nov. 1958)
• Melvin the Monster * #1-6 (July 1956 - July 1957) continued as

• Dexter the Demon * #7 (Sept. 1967)

Atlas Comics 1950s - Humor - satire

• Crazy  #1-7 (Dec. 1953 - July 1954)
• Riot
• Wild

Atlas Comics 1950s - Humor - sitcom

• Millie the Model  #1-207 (Winter 1945 - Marvel Comics)
• A Date with Millie  #1-7 (Oct. 1956 - Aug. 1957)
• A Date with Millie  Vol. 2, #1-7 (Oct. 1959 - Oct. 1960) continued as

• Life With Millie  #8-20 (Dec. 1960 - Marvel Comics)

• Patsy Walker  #1-99 (Winter 1945 - Marvel Comics)
• Patsy and Hedy  #1-73 (Feb. 1952 -Dec. 1960)
• Patsy and Her Pals''  #1-29 (May 1953 - Aug. 1957)
• A Date with Patsy  #1 (Sept. 1957)

• The Adventures Of Pinky Lee  #1-5 (July-Dec. 1955)
• Sergeant Barney Barker  #1-2 (Aug.-Dec. 1957) continued as War title G.I. Tales

• Sherry the Showgirl  #1-3 (July.-Dec. 1956) continued as

• Showgirls  #4 (Feb. 1957) continued as
• Sherry the Showgirl  #5-7 (April-Aug. 1957)

• Showgirls  Vol. 2, #1-2 (July-Aug. 1957)

Atlas Comics 1950s - Horror/suspense/science fiction

• Adventure Into Mystery  #1-8 (May 1956 - July 1957)
• Adventures into Terror  #43-44, renumbered 3-31 (Nov. 1950 - May 1954) orig. numbering contined from' Timely's Joker)
• Adventures Into Weird Worlds  #1-30 (Jan. 1952 - June 1954)
• Amazing Adventures  #1-6 (June-Nov. 1961) continued as

• Amazing Adult Fantasy  #7-14 (Dec. 1961 - July 1962) continued as Marvel's Amazing Fantasy

• Amazing Mysteries  #32-35 (May 1949 - Jan. 1950; continued from n.a.; one source lists Timely's Sub-Mariner Comics, which had an issue #32, and which numering reportedly continued with Best Romance)
• Astonishing  #3-63 (April 1951 - Aug. 1957; continued from Superhero title Marvel Boy)
• Journey into Mystery
• Journey into Unknown Worlds
• Marvel Tales
• Strange Stories of Suspense
• Strange Tales
• Strange Tales of the Unusual
• Suspense

Atlas Comics 1950s - Jungle

• Jann of the Jungle
• Jungle Action
• Jungle Tales
• Lorna, the Jungle Queen continued as

• Lorna, the Jungle Girl

Atlas Comics 1950s - Romance

• Best Love  #33-36 (Aug. 1949 - April 1950; continued from Timely's Sub-Mariner Comics)
• Cindy Smith  #39-40 (May-July 1950; continued from Timely's Cindy Comics; continued as Crime title Crime Can't Win)
• Love Adventures  #1-12 (Oct. 1949-Aug. 1952) continued as

• Actual Confessions  #13-14 (Oct.-Dec. 1952)

• The Romances of Nurse Helen Grant  #1 (Aug. 1957)

Atlas Comics 1950s - Sports

• Sport Stars  #1 (Nov. 1949) continued as

• Sports Action  #2-14 (Feb. 1950-Sept. 1952)

Atlas Comics 1950s - Superhero

• Captain America  #76-77 (May-Sept. 1954; continued from Timely's Captain America Comics and Captain America's Weird Tales)
• Marvel Boy  #1-2 (Dec. 1950 - Feb. 1951) continued as Horror title Astonishing, in which Marvel Boy stars from #3-6
• Young Men  #24-28 (Dec. 1953 - June 1954; continued from Misc. title Young Men

Atlas Comics 1950s - War

• 3-D Action  #1 (Jan. 1954)
• Battle  #1-70 (March 1951 - June 1960)
• Battle Action  #1-30 (Feb. 1952 - Aug. 1957)
• Battle Ground (first four issues Battle-Ground)  #1-20 (Sept. 1954 - Sept.1957)
• Battlefield  #1-11 (April 1952 - May 1953)
• Battlefront  #1-48 (June 1952 - Aug. 1957)
• Combat  #1-11 (June 1952 - April 1953)
• Combat Kelly  #1-44 (Nov. 1951 - Aug. 1957)
• Commando Adventures  #1-2 (June-Aug. 1957)
• G.I. Tales  #4-6 (Feb.-July 1957; continued from Humor title Sergeant Barney Barker)
• Men in Action  #1-9 (April-Dec. 1952) continued as

• Battle Brady  #10-14 (Jan.-June 1953)

• War Combat  #1-5 (March-Nov. 1952) continued as

• Combat Casey  #6-34 (Jan. 1953 - July 1957)

Atlas Comics 1950s - Western

• 3-D Tales of the West  #1 (Jan. 1954)

• All Western Winners  #2-4 (Winter 1948 - April 1949; continued from Timely's All Winners Comics); continued as

• Western Winners  #5-7 (June 1949 - Dec. 1949) continued as
• Black Rider  #8-27 (March 1950 - March 1955) continued as
• Western Tales of Black Rider  #28-31 (May 1955 - Nov. 1955) continued as
• Gunsmoke Western  #32-77 (Dec. 1955 - July 1963)

• Annie Oakley  #1-11 (Spring-Nov. 1948; June 1955 - June 1956)
• Arizona Kid  #1-6 (March 1951 - Jan. 1952)
• Arrowhead  #1-4 (April 1954 - Nov. 1954)
• Best Western  #58-59 (June 1949 - Aug. 1949; continued from n.a.) continued as

• Western Outlaws & Sheriffs  #60-73 (Dec. 1949 - June 1952)

• Billy Buckskin Western  #1-3 (Nov. 1955 - March 1956) continued as

• 2-Gun Western  #4 (May 1956) continued as
• Two-Gun Western  #5-12 (July 1956 - Sept. 1957)

• The Black Rider Rides Again!  #1 (Sept. 1957) See also Black Rider, above
• Cowboy Romances  #1-3 (Oct. 1949 - March 1950) continued as Misc. title Young Men
• The Gunhawk  #12-18 (Nov. 1950 - Dec. 1951; continued from successive Timely titles Blaze Carson, Rex Hart, and Whip Wilson)
• Kid Colt, Hero of the West  #1-2 (Aug.-Oct. 1948) continued as

• Kid Colt, Outlaw  #3-229 (Dec. 1948 - Marvel Comics)

• The Outlaw Kid  #1-19 (Sept. 1954 - Sept. 1957)
• Rawhide Kid  #1-16 (March 1955 - Dec. 1961)
• Red Warrior  #1-6 (Jan.-Dec. 1951)

• Reno Browne, Hollywood's Greatest Cowgirl  #50-52 (April-Sept. 1950; continued from Timely's Margie) continued as

• The Apache Kid  #53 (Dec. 1950) continued as
• Apache Kid  #2-19 (Feb. 1951 - Jan. 1952; Dec. 1954 - April 1956) continued as
• Western Gunfighters  #20-27 (June 1956 - Aug. 1957)

• Ringo Kid Western  #1-4 (Aug. 1954 - Feb. 1955) continued as

• Ringo Kid  #5-21 (April 1955 - Sept. 1957)

• Western Thrillers  #1-4 (Nov. 1954 - Feb. 1955) continued as

• Cowboy Action  #5-11 (March 1955 - March 1956) continued as
• Quick-Trigger Western  #12-19 (May 1956 - Sept. 1957)

Atlas Comics 1950s - Misc.

• Bible Tales for Young Folk  #1-5 (Aug. 1953 - March 1954)
• Black Knight  #1-5 (May 1955 - April 1956)
• Young Men  ##4-23 (June 1950 - Oct. 1953; as Young Men on the Battlefield!  #12-20) Young Men continues as Superhero title

Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Atlas titles by genre", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki