(Additionally, similar noodling on post-code Sol Brodsky covers also led to a long uncertainty on Brodsky's true style in the late 1950's.) At some point, based on a study of signed pulp illustrations, I deduced that Carl Burgos was the "mystery artist" that contributed to the cover "over" Maneely, although I was hesitant to say "inked", as I knew that no one really inked Joe Maneely, as he basically drew in ink over stick figure-like breakdowns. I'm sure others thought the exact same thing, leading to many incorrect Maneely attributions in early versions of Atlas credit indices. Thirty years ago I came across this cover "signed" by Joe Maneely and like many folks, assumed that while it looked quite odd, Maneely was perhaps using a "hay-like" inking style. Let's start below with a cover I have mentioned before, the classic Spellbound #24 (Oct/55), the post-code cover that provides the ultimate example of Burgosation. We can consider this the " permanent repository for altered Atlas cover comparisons and orphaned Implosion stories." I will continue to add to and update it as new discoveries are made, or brought to my attention. My plan is to leave this blog post open-ended. I'm going to present some of these altered comparisons below, followed by a discussion on orphaned Atlas implosion stories. ***(Australian and New Zealand reprints of Timely/Atlas comic books likewise comprise a different consideration as they often used original Atlas covers and just as often rendered their own covers for their reprints.)*** ***(Canadian reprints of Timely/Atlas comic books are a completely separate element, and the subject of a future article here.)*** Miller & Son and Alan Class of the United Kingdom, and Transworld Features Syndicate, Inc. These early renditions were often statted before being altered and later used by foreign publishers in countries where code restrictions were non-existant. Now, by virtue of the easy online access to foreign reprints of Atlas comics, reprints (as I mentioned above) many of us never realized even existed all the years we collected Atlas titles, the remarkable discovery has begun of the existence of earlier, unaltered or un-Burgosized versions of many of these Atlas covers. But multiple hands on published Atlas covers is "not" what I'm talking about here. The end result are some weird mash-ups and a lot of fun for latter day art spotters to test their abilities. Some of the tinkering could have been necessitated due to comics-code reasons, but frequently it looks like there was no reason at all other than obsessive compulsiveness. Maneely with Colletta, Severin with Maneely, Colletta with Williamson, Brodsky with Burgos, Burgos with "everyone". This often went beyond mere inking as many/most of these covers were already inked by their original artists before Carl Burgos stepped in.Ĭomic book production as it existed will frequently have artists adding to covers by others, and Atlas did this frequently. Several months ago (here) I showed how Burgos had a hand in tinkering with an inordinate amount of these covers, a process I termed " Burgosation". But the vast majority were handled by the six artists I mentioned, many of these artists were associated with staff positions.Īccording to all accounts, Carl Burgos was the unofficial cover editor of the 1950's Atlas line. Some like Jerry Robinson, Carmine Infantino and Harry Anderson, drew 10-20 within a short, limited time frame. Joe Maneely, Bill Everett, Carl Burgos, Sol Brodsky, Russ Heath and John Severin. We're familiar with all of these artists. Atlas cover artwork across all the non-humor, non-romance genres were handled by a handful of artists between the years 19.
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