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General Category => Comic Related Discussion => Topic started by: mchlk on October 12, 2011, 01:03:48 PM

Title: Atomic Horror Suggestions?
Post by: mchlk on October 12, 2011, 01:03:48 PM

Howdy Folks,

I was just wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of some Atomic Horror/Post-Apocalyptic Comics from the Golden Age.
I've seen "Atomic War" and "Atomic Attack", but I was looking for something a bit more SciFi.

Any suggestions?

Title: Re: Atomic Horror Suggestions?
Post by: josemas on October 12, 2011, 02:11:21 PM

There's also Commander Battle and the Atomic Sub published by ACG.  DCM has the complete run.  Can't remember if that was more war or more sci-fi though.

Best

Joe

Title: Re: Atomic Horror Suggestions?
Post by: skybandit on October 12, 2011, 07:38:40 PM

Captain Marvel #66 is a pretty gruesome depiction of how even superheroes would be helpless in an atomic war.  Then there's the two series "Atomic War" and "World War III" from Ace, and "Atom-Age Combat" by St' Johns.

Title: Re: Atomic Horror Suggestions?
Post by: jfglade on October 13, 2011, 01:53:14 PM

 You might also take a look at the Lost World series from Planet Comics #21 through #69 which features a character named Hunt Bowman. The series anticipated apocalyptic science fiction storylines and has many elements which become more or less cliches in the fifties and early sixties, but the Lost World in question is a future Earth which has been conquored by lizardlike aliens from space instead of being the results of atomic war. There's quite a bit of Hunt Bowman in Killraven of Marvel's "War of the Worlds" series from the seventies.

 A series that matches the sort of thing you're looking for is one DCM cannot display; "Atomic Knights" was a sporadic series in issues of Strange Adventures in the very early sixties. Unfortunately, the series was published by DC and is not in the public domain.

Title: Re: Atomic Horror Suggestions?
Post by: mchlk on October 14, 2011, 07:25:32 AM

Thanks for all the suggestions, I shall check them out.  Atomic Knights sounds interesting, I'll have to see if it was reprinted ever.

Title: Re: Atomic Horror Suggestions?
Post by: josemas on October 14, 2011, 07:32:59 AM

DC published a hardcover collection of the entire run (15 stories-1960-1964) of Atomic Knights last year. 

Best

Joe

Title: Re: Atomic Horror Suggestions?
Post by: Megaton on March 14, 2014, 12:30:04 AM

Sorry to revive an old post, but I didn't want to start a new thread when there are already so many good recommendations here.

Since it's been a while, does anyone have any more suggestions for public domain titles featuring nuclear war, atomic war, or post-apocalyptic settings?