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Atlas Comics is the 1950s comic book publishing company that evolved into Marvel Comics. Magazine and paperback novel publisher Martin Goodman, whose business strategy involved having a multitude of corporate entities, used Atlas as the umbrella name for his comic book division during this time. Atlas evolved out of Goodman's 1940s comic book division, Timely Comics, and was located on the 14th floor of the Empire State Building. This company is distinct from the 1970s comic book company, also founded by Goodman, that is generally known as Atlas/Seaboard Comics. ==After the Golden Age== Atlas Comics grew out of Timely Comics, the company that magazine and paperback novel publisher Martin Goodman founded in 1939, and whose star characters had been the Human Torch, Sub-Mariner, and Captain America. The post-war era, however, found superheroes falling out of fashion, with television and paperback books also competing for readers and leisure time. Timely stopped producing superhero comics with the cancellation of ''Captain America Comics'' at issue #75 in February 1950, by which time the series had already been titled ''Captain America's Weird Tales'' for two issues, with the final issue featuring only anthological suspense stories and no superheroes. The company's flagship title ''Marvel Mystery Comics'', starring the Human Torch, had already ended its run with #92 in June 1949, as had ''Sub-Mariner Comics'' with #32 in the same month. Timely made one more attempt at superheroes with the publication of ''Marvel Boy'' #1-2 (Dec. 1950 - Feb. 1951), which was retitled ''Astonishing'' with issue #3 (April 1951) and continued the ''Marvel Boy'' feature through #6 (Oct. 1951). In lieu of superheroes, Goodman's new comic book line expanded into a wider variety of genres, producing horror, Westerns, humor, funny animal, drama, crime, and war comics, later adding a helping of jungle, romance, espionage, medieval adventure, Bible stories, and sports comics. As did other publishers, Atlas also offered comics about models and other career women. Goodman began using the globe logo of the Atlas News Company, the newsstand-distribution company he owned, on comics cover-dated November 1951, even though another company, Kable News, continued to distribute his comics through the August 1952 issues, with its "K" logo and the logo of the independent distributors' union appearing alongside the Atlas globe. This united a line put out by the same publisher, staff and freelancers through 59 shell companies, from Animirth Comics to Zenith Publications. Atlas would attempt to revive superheroes in ''Young Men'' #24-28 (Dec. 1953 - June 1954), with the Human Torch (art by Syd Shores and Dick Ayers, variously), the Sub-Mariner (drawn and most stories written by Bill Everett), and Captain America (writer Stan Lee, artist John Romita Sr.). The short-lived revival also included restarts of ''Sub-Mariner Comics'' (issues #33-42, April 1954 - Oct. 1955) and ''Captain America'' (#76-78, May-Sept. 1954). All three superheroes also appeared in the final two issues of ''Men's Adventures'' (#27-28, May–July 1954). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Atlas Comics (1950s)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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