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Post by chaykinstevens on Feb 6, 2021 19:19:20 GMT -5
December brought the other initial titles: The Brute (Fleisher & Sekowsky), Morlock 2001 (Fleisher/Al Milgrom), Planet of Vampires (Larry Hama/Pat Broderick), Police Action ("Sam Lomax:" Russ Jones/Mike Sekowski & "Requiem for a Champ:" Mike Ploog & Frank Springer), Savage Combat Tales (Archie Goodwin/Al McWilliams/Jack Sparling ) Tales of Evil (Russ Jones/Jerry Grandinetti/Mike Sekowski), Targitt (John D'Agostino/Ric Meyers/Howard Nostrand), Weird Suspense (Fleisher/Pat Boyette), and Western Action (Larry Lieber/Doug Wildey & Steves Skeates/Jack Abel). What did D'Agostino do on Targitt #1? The splash page said "Duffy, Rovin, Meyers and Nostrand" but didn't specify their roles. Was Duffy a pseudonym for D'Agostino? GCD credits the writing to Ric Meyers and the lettering to John Dufy [sic]. Whoever wrote the "What's Happening With Atlas" hype page seemed to think the creative team would be Meyers and Dan Adkins.
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 6, 2021 19:34:59 GMT -5
December brought the other initial titles: The Brute (Fleisher & Sekowsky), Morlock 2001 (Fleisher/Al Milgrom), Planet of Vampires (Larry Hama/Pat Broderick), Police Action ("Sam Lomax:" Russ Jones/Mike Sekowski & "Requiem for a Champ:" Mike Ploog & Frank Springer), Savage Combat Tales (Archie Goodwin/Al McWilliams/Jack Sparling ) Tales of Evil (Russ Jones/Jerry Grandinetti/Mike Sekowski), Targitt (John D'Agostino/Ric Meyers/Howard Nostrand), Weird Suspense (Fleisher/Pat Boyette), and Western Action (Larry Lieber/Doug Wildey & Steves Skeates/Jack Abel). What did D'Agostino do on Targitt #1? The splash page said "Duffy, Rovin, Meyers and Nostrand" but didn't specify their roles. Was Duffy a pseudonym for D'Agostino? GCD credits the writing to Ric Meyers and the lettering to John Dufy [sic]. Whoever wrote the "What's Happening With Atlas" hype page seemed to think the creative team would be Meyers and Dan Adkins. Mike's Amazing World listed D'Agostino with plot; that is where I pulled up release dates and checked who did which book. Not sure of their source. I don't have a physical copy anymore and didn't feel like hauling out my disc of the Atlas books to check credits.
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Post by antoine on Feb 8, 2021 12:00:33 GMT -5
All I have, and all I've read so far, are the first two issues of The Scorpion, basically Chaykin's beta version of Dominic Fortune. They're actually pretty good. I've also heard - and mrp seems to confirm this - that Rich Buckler's Demon Hunter is pretty good (by the way, it's Devil Slayer who's a tweaked version of Demon Hunter, not Gabriel - who's a non-costume wearing exorcist). Good luck collecting all of Atlas/Seaboard's output, by the way; I've read online that most collectors who embark on this mission get confounded by the company's sole teen title, Vicki. All of the stories are just reprints from a short-lived series published by Tower Comics in the mid-1960s called Tippy Teen (with some of the names changed, obviously), but they're apparently quite rare in the wild, so when issues do appear on the market they sometimes command 3-digit prices. I started picking them up for 1$ or less a few years ago just for fun. I'm only missing a few but I stoped looking since the movie rumours, the prices went up, too expensive for me. I've never seen a single Vicky nor any of their magazines with my own eyes... Most of their books are fun/good. Was never really disappointed by any of them.
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Post by mikelmidnight on Feb 8, 2021 12:39:13 GMT -5
These are the titles worth checking out. By January, Rovin had quit. (he said the breaking point was a moment of frustration where he embedded a T-square into a wall). The Goodmans are immediately wanting changes; but, they have no sales figures yet. Goodman doesn't like Chaykin's work on Scorpion and wants it changed. Alex Toth is contacted and starts reworking things. Chaykin sees Toth's work for the third issue in the office, after delivering his second. He quits and goes to Marvel and pitches Dominic Fortune.
This was reworked as The Vanguard, and remains one of my favorite Toth stories. If they were going to dump Chaykin anyway it's such a shame we didn't get this instead of the lame Spider-Man pastiche.
pangolinbasement.blogspot.com/2014/09/toth-hot-stuff-04-vanguard-atlasseabord.html
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 8, 2021 13:09:21 GMT -5
I did a short review of Chaykin's The Scorpion in my "Gone Too Soon" thread. It was a book of diminishing returns. The first issue was quite a good pulp story. The second was not as good, but clearly hampered by Chaykin not having time to get it done by himself. The third was a complete change of direction with new creators and is an absolute bust.
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 8, 2021 22:56:48 GMT -5
I did a short review of Chaykin's The Scorpion in my "Gone Too Soon" thread. It was a book of diminishing returns. The first issue was quite a good pulp story. The second was not as good, but clearly hampered by Chaykin not having time to get it done by himself. The third was a complete change of direction with new creators and is an absolute bust. I reread his part of the interview and he answers some questions about all of the inkers; but, doesn't really talk about writing it. Toth has a piece that talked about how little time he had to submit something (10 days?) and Goodman still shot it down.
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