This compilation restores some of Atlas Comics’ classic combat tales! by Jamie Frevele Back before Marvel became the House of Ideas we know and love today, it started out under the name Atlas Comics. During the 1950s, people of all stripes were looking for stories, and Atlas wanted to tell them. From horror to science… Read more

A standout sequence relates Kirby’s time in the Army: Arriving in France shortly after D-Day, he is plunged into a universe of lethal violence. (When his superiors realize he’s the artist who drew Captain America, they send him ahead as a scout to make maps.) Kirby channeled some of his firsthand experience into fictional war… Read more

With the publication of Dead Reckoning and Marvel’s Atlas at War!, some of the hardest-hitting war stories of the 1950s are back in print for the first time in nearly 70 years. As this book was being prepared, and as immersed as I was in the collective artistic oeuvre of my favorite comic creators of… Read more

DR: We asked Allan Harvey to give readers a “behind-the-scenes look at his work restoring an Atlas at War! graphic. In the following, Harvey walks us through this process. AH: Here’s a panel from a 1952 story drawn by Joe Sinnott. You can see [1] that the paper has deteriorated due to the passage of… Read more

“War is not healthy for children and other living things.” That famous ‘60s slogan was created by women who had grown up with the Korean War and World War II and weren’t at all happy that young men were dying yet again in Vietnam. Nonetheless, there’s something almost mythical about a well-told war story, whether… Read more

Wednesdays (and now Tuesdays) are new comic book day! Each week hundreds of comics are released, and that can be pretty daunting to go over and choose what to buy. That’s where we come in! Each week our contributors choose what they can’t wait to read this week or just sounds interesting. In other words,… Read more

So many terrible things happened during WW2. It is vital that as many of stories of those that experienced it are remembered. This is as much for our sakes as it is for theirs. This was a heartbreaking read. It tells the story of Francisco Boix and his time at Mauthausen, a Nazi concentration camp…. Read more

Francisco Boix, a Spanish photographer during WWII, is interred in January of 1941 by the Nazis in Mauthausen, a concentration camp for political dissidents, in this horrific and provocative graphic novel based on a true story. At Mauthausen, prisoners are routinely worked to death or casually murdered by their captors. After Boix lands a cushy… Read more

Delitte and Baiguera, with the support of the the French National Navy Museum, deliver a dramatic history of significant 20th-century naval battles that impresses with its research but less so with its narrative. Delving into three battles—Tsushima (1905), Jutland (1916), and Midway (1942)—Delitte and Baiguera honor both the officers and rank-and-file combatants who fought and… Read more

Comic Book Review: The Best of Don Winslow of the Navy edited by Craig Yoe. Don Winslow of the Navy was created as a newspaper comic strip in 1934 by Lieutenant Commander Frank Victor Martinek, a Naval Reserve officer. He wanted to encourage enlistment in the U.S. Navy during a time of relative peace, especially… Read more