Timely-Atlas-Comics

This particular blog post is something a bit different. It was supposed to be published back in 2013 as an adjunct to my book with Blake Bell, THE SECRET HISTORY OF MARVEL COMICS.  It's really ...

http://timely-atlas-comics.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-secret-history-of-marvel-comics.html

Our Pearl Harbor. It's been an unfathomable 20 long years since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and the years haven't fully dulled the horror, nor the collective pain in New York City...

http://timely-atlas-comics.blogspot.com/2021/09/september-11-2001-new-york-daily-news.html

It's no secret that I love comic strips. They were my first love, well before I even knew of the existence of comic books. As documented occasionally on this blog, the Sunday comics section o...

http://timely-atlas-comics.blogspot.com/2021/08/thimble-theatre-1919-1920-by-elzie-segar.html

  In my last blog post HERE , I uploaded my long-lost interview with artist SY GRUDKO. Sy came to my attention in the early 1990's simply because he was so obscure, having done only a hand...

http://timely-atlas-comics.blogspot.com/2021/08/sy-grudko-timelyatlas-years.html

SELMA AND SY GRUDKO, CIRCA 1952 Back in the early 1990's I finally began a long-planned Timely/Atlas indexing project that had been on my mind for years. This was before there was a via...

http://timely-atlas-comics.blogspot.com/2021/08/sy-grudko-1927-2011.html

  A happy 10th anniversary to this blog, Timely-Atlas-Comics, launched a decade ago on December 26, 2010, with my long interview with Timely's Marion Sitton! 10 years? Is that even possib...

http://timely-atlas-comics.blogspot.com/2020/12/happy-10th-anniversary-to-this-blog.html

  A happy 100th anniversary to the long-running classic News comic strip, WINNIE WINKLE, debuting as a daily strip on September 20, 1920 in the Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News ...

http://timely-atlas-comics.blogspot.com/2020/09/ot-tales-from-new-york-daily-news.html

65 Years ago today, on Tuesday, October 4, 1955, "Next Year" finally came. The Brooklyn Dodgers won their first (and what would be their "only") World Series, beating the hated New York Yankees i...

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With the publication of my latest book on September 9, “ATLAS AT WAR” brings some of the hardest-hitting Atlas war stories of the 1950’s back into print for the first time in nearly ...

http://timely-atlas-comics.blogspot.com/2020/09/atlas-at-war-interviews.html

The following interview ran in the September, 2018 issue of ALTER EGO, #154, featuring a cover penciled by Allen himself and retro-style inks by Dan Davis. While the printed interview had a bit ...

http://timely-atlas-comics.blogspot.com/2020/03/allen-bellman-timely-revisited-2018.html

It is with much sadness that I report the passing today of my dear friend, artist ALLEN BELLMAN, the last man alive who drew the exploits of Timely's golden-age Captain America during the Second ...

http://timely-atlas-comics.blogspot.com/2020/03/allen-bellman-1924-2020.html

"THERE ARE NO WORDS" - KARL EHRHARDT, THE SIGN MAN AT SHEA, OCTOBER 16, 1969 A gloriously happy 50th anniversary to the most miraculous, most improbable, and most unadulteratingly joyous ch...

http://timely-atlas-comics.blogspot.com/2019/10/tales-from-new-york-daily-news-happy.html

A happy centennial anniversary to America's very first tabloid newspaper, THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, first appearing on the newsstands as THE ILLUSTRATED DAILY NEWS 100 years ago today, June 2...

http://timely-atlas-comics.blogspot.com/2019/06/ot-tales-from-new-york-daily-news.html

Today, June 6, 2019, is the 75th anniversary of the most critical juncture of the Second World War, "OPERATION OVERLORD," the Allied amphibian assault of 160,000 troops on the beaches at Nor...

http://timely-atlas-comics.blogspot.com/2019/06/75th-anniversary-of-d-day-3-atlas-war.html

Happy 100th anniversary to the third comic strip to ever appear in the NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, Carl Ed's HAROLD TEEN! The strip made its debut 100 years ago today, May 4, 1919 in the pages of...

http://timely-atlas-comics.blogspot.com/2019/05/ot-tales-from-new-york-daily-news.html

Born Vincenzo Francisco Gennaro Di Fago on November 28, 1914, in Yonkers, New York, VINCE FAGO arrived at Timely's doorstep in the McGraw Hill Building following the Japanese attack on Pearl...

http://timely-atlas-comics.blogspot.com/2018/12/we-wish-you-fago-christmas-and-happy.html

STANLEY MARTIN LIEBER, better known to the world as STAN LEE since 1941, passed away on Monday November 12, 2018, at the age of 95. With a vitality beyond the average nonagenarian, where he...

http://timely-atlas-comics.blogspot.com/2018/12/stan-lee-1922-2018-timely-years.html

Today, August 10, marks the 40th anniversary of the 1978 New York City newspaper strike, a pressman's strike, that resulted in the cessation of publication of all three major New York newspapers;...

http://timely-atlas-comics.blogspot.com/2018/08/ot-tales-from-new-york-daily-news.html

One of the more interesting discoveries I've made, in my indexing through the decade of the 1950's in the NEW YORK SUNDAY NEWS comics, was the discovery of the futuristic single panel fe...

http://timely-atlas-comics.blogspot.com/2018/02/ot-tales-from-new-york-daily-news.html

Begun as a blog to unload (or upload) all the information I'd accumulated in my decades of research into MARTIN GOODMAN and all his published product ... comic books, pulps, magazines and di...

http://timely-atlas-comics.blogspot.com/2018/01/ot-tales-from-new-york-daily-news.html

On the occasion of this blog's 50TH post anniversary (over the course of exactly 7 years, nearly to the day), I want to show an obscure little item that is near and dear to my heart. As many kn...

http://timely-atlas-comics.blogspot.com/2017/12/we-wish-you-maneely-christmas-and-happy.html

You meet a lot of people as you go through life, people who leave varying degrees of impressions. Every once in a while, the impression left is like a Jurassic leaf fallen on glistening wet ...

http://timely-atlas-comics.blogspot.com/2017/09/charles-h-king-1934-2017.html

A happy centennial birthday to the late JACK KIRBY, the greatest and most influential comic book creator in the history of the medium (and possibly "all" visual mediums), born Jacob Kurtzber...

http://timely-atlas-comics.blogspot.com/2017/08/happy-100th-birthday-to-jack-kirby.html

This one is tough. I was out west this year once again at the San Diego con with a large family contingent. The trip went as one might imagine ... incredible crowd sizes, frenetic, hectic ...

http://timely-atlas-comics.blogspot.com/2017/07/fabulous-flo-steinberg-1939-2017.html

OT : TALES FROM THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS SUNDAY COMICS (#3) Today marks the 75th anniversary of the Japanese bombing of the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, "a date," according to Pre...

http://timely-atlas-comics.blogspot.com/2016/12/a-date-which-will-live-in-infamy.html