Monday, 15 December 2025

WOWZA! THRILLING ADVENTURE STORIES #2...


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I can't help but wonder whether any other b&w magazine ever had such a magnificent line-up of top-notch artists as Thrilling Adventure Stories #2 by Atlas/Seaboard.  Adams (colour cover), Simonson, Starling, Heath, Severin, and Toth!  That was surely worth a dollar of anybody's money.  Anyway, I promised you Crivs I'd show you the mag when it arrived and I always try and keep my promise.  Why?  Because a promise made is a debt unpaid, that's why.

Don't remember having this issue back in 1975, though I definitely had (and now have again) the first ish.  There were only ever the two issues so I can legitimately claim to have a full set - can you?  Regardless, enjoy the dynamic drawings and feel free to comment on them.   





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6 comments:

  1. McSCOTTY15 December 2025 at 23:08

    At the time in the Fanzines and letter pages a lot of folk rightly commented on Simonson's art as being the standout strip. But for me Toth was the star of this issue.

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    1. Kid15 December 2025 at 23:52

      I've just finished reading the strips in the mag, McS, though I'll have to go back and look at them all to see which one makes the biggest impression on me. It's a shame there were only two issues. I wonder if there were any strips prepared for what would've been #3, and whether they ever appeared anywhere else?

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  2. McSCOTTY16 December 2025 at 00:58

    I read somewhere that some unused horror and war comics were repurposed and used in European and other overseas comics. Of course as you probably know Howard Chaykin took the Scorpion to Marvel and rebranded him as Dominic Fortune and Rich Buckler did a similar thing with Demon Hunter to other publishers. Although in these cases I'm not sure if either artist used actual stories created for Atlas is any "rebrand".

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    1. Kid16 December 2025 at 01:06

      Yes, I knew about Chaykin's and Buckler's characters, but I know nothing about unpublished stuff intended for the b&w mags that never appeared, McS. It's more than likely what you say happened with unused horror and war strips was actually the case.

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  3. Colin Jones17 December 2025 at 00:57

    The cover mentions The Towering Inferno which my mother went to see when it was first released but she said she was the ONLY person in the cinema, apart from the staff of course.

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    1. Kid17 December 2025 at 03:25

      That happened to me once, CJ. I went to see either The Jungle Book (years after its first release) or Spy Kids and I was the only one there. Maybe I should've put on a fresh pair of socks before I went. Spy Kids was cr*p.

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