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Post by mh on Oct 30, 2013 9:33:11 GMT -6
i like weird suspense featuring the tarantula -- i'm a pat boyette nut, and the character is pretty cool. like spiderman if peter parker got way too much radiation & was an 18th century nobleman! i haven't really seen phoenix or grim ghost, but they look interesting. enjoy their blatant hulk ripoff 'the brute'. but jezus he's ugly! he makes man-thing look like a poster boy. but my favorite is probably tiger-man! he could've been a decent character if they'd used him more wisely. and i just found out he first appeared in a b&w comic called thrilling adventures in a story called tiger-man vs the flesh peddlers -- yahoooweee!!! very exciting! please enjoy it
bronzeageofblogs.blogspot.com/2009/07/tiger-man.html
(link to scans of tiger-man #1)
diversionsofthegroovykind.blogspot.com/2010/06/secret-origins-tiger-man.html
(yall like tiger-man with pants/without pants ?) 
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Post by mh on Oct 30, 2013 12:10:54 GMT -6
(yall like tiger-man with pants/without pants ?)
this golden age tiger-man (phil britton) wore them -- this one -- not sure
 
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Post by Doc Quantum on Oct 30, 2013 12:26:09 GMT -6
I went through a phase back in the mid-'90s where I collected every single Atlas-Seaboard comic I could find. I ended up getting them all except for two issues, which were just too rare to be easily found.
My favorite was the Scorpion by Howard Chaykin. The first couple issues were great, as I recall. Then the third issue was by a completely different creative team and turned the Scorpion into a spandex-wearing super-hero. Most Atlas-Seaboard titles started out strong, then changed everything up for the worse by around the third or fourth (and last) issues. I'm guessing they had a fairly piss-poor business model and just happened to be publishing new comics when other publishers were starting to cut back. Charlton Comics, for example, laid off almost all of its staff in 1976 and stopped printing any new material. They'd end up printing numerous reprints for the next 9 years, with only a small handful of new stories appearing in the '80s before the company finally went under. Atlas-Seaboard just happened to pick the wrong time to get into the comics business.
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Post by mh on Oct 30, 2013 19:50:01 GMT -6
they did the same thing to tiger-man they did to the scorpion. the final issue had steve ditko art which i can't argue with, but the story had t-m bouncing around rooftops like daredevil! it worked to negate the gritty intercity feel of the previous issues. and they should have kept in the african stuff from the first issue thru the character's entire run. without that tiger-man was very confusing.
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Post by Babu Baboon on Oct 31, 2013 18:53:34 GMT -6
(yall like tiger-man with pants/without pants ?) Tigerman without pants is the most disturbing thing I've ever seen. Did Atlas have the blue skinned Starman? DC later had him show up in their Starman series and later JLA. If they acquired that Starman, I wonder if they have Tigerman or other Atlas properties? |
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Post by mh on Oct 31, 2013 19:38:49 GMT -6
Tigerman without pants is the most disturbing thing I've ever seen. Did Atlas have the blue skinned Starman? DC later had him show up in their Starman series and later JLA. If they acquired that Starman, I wonder if they have Tigerman or other Atlas properties?
(damn ... is this friggin bob kanigher? woooo!)
he looks like a character that could've started at atlas alright, but I don't know. I had this issue once! later on he got bluer
and here he looks almost exactly like the 1st issue special again
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