#5667779 - 05/10/12 12:54 AM
Re: A year in the life of a publisher
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Went back to the boxes and pulled out two books.
First, another issue of Astonishing, the issue preceding the eyeballs of death, # 29 -
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#5667781 - 05/10/12 12:55 AM
Re: A year in the life of a publisher
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And then I pulled out another Maneely job for RJ -
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#5667830 - 05/10/12 01:16 AM
Re: A year in the life of a publisher
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Great cover! I love how Arrowhead looks as bloodthirsty as any "redskin savage" you'd find on a comic cover, yet he's ( presumably) the hero.
Yes, he is the hero but only in the sense that he is the protagonist of these stories. First, it's a rare book from Atlas that has some loose continuity in the relationship between the events and characters and Arrowhead showcases both.
Second, Arrowhead, a renegade Pawnee, son of a chief and hence proud of his heritage is living at a time when the nations were pressured by the ever increasing white presence and this dictates Arrowhead's attitude.
Take these as sample:
[Talking to his horse] "It is strange, Eagle, some of the white men are good, some bad ... but all are the enemies of the Indian for they drive him from his land ... and that is the thing I must always fight."
then later, "The Blackfeet are my enemies ... but they are red men! The long knives are my enemies ... and they are white! And blood is thicker than water!"
Gives you enough insights into his character and motivation. Arrowhead is shown repeatedly killing bad white men; twice in three stories in this one issue.
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#5713172 - 05/25/12 12:25 AM
Re: A year in the life of a publisher
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Scrooge
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Lovers # 58 -
As you can see right from Pike's cover, by 1954, the Atlas Romance stories were more kind to the protagonists than their earlier brethren (see a recent post in the Shadow thread). We have four fairy tale endings in this issue and I believe I'll find the same in most if not all other issues from 1954. So, now, the interest lies in what plight each of the girls have to overcome and as I've found out from reading Romance books from this period, there are a lot of stories about women and women working and women in the workforce. A lot of ink was spent in this early '50's period about the changing roles of women in society and how traditional roles were challenged by the trend.
Stories in this issue are unmemorable and the art is pedestrian (even Pike's story) but I did enjoy Pike's job the best with the tone of the story and the allusion to the monolithic hierarchy of corporate America and the accompanying societal pressure.
QUESTION: Anyone knows if there is any significance to the shoulder patch on the cover?
Here are two pages from that story -
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When I asked him about that issue he recalled putting in extra effort and being proud of his work at that time.
