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War Adventures 1
Atlas Tales
Title Profile
Curated Atlas tales, timelines, and cover art notes.
Issue Information
- Cover Date
- January 1952
- Sighted Date Stamp
-
Nov 29
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Indicia Publisher
- Hercules Publishing Corp.
- Cover Titles
- Battle Fatigue!
Fatigue!
Cold Steel!
The Weapon! - Cover Credits
-
Sol Brodsky pencils guess
- Contributions
-
Frank Wilmot: Cover Creator Credit
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Cover Creator Credit
Issue Overview
War Adventures #1 was published by Hercules Publishing Corp. in January 1952. It is part of the War Adventures series, which ran from January 1952 to February 1953.
Cover credits include Sol Brodsky.
Atlas Tales indexes 5 stories for this issue, including "Cold Steel!." Indexed story credits include Robert Q. Sale and George Tuska, among others.
Stories
Cold Steel!
Credits
Robert Q. Sale pencils and inks signed
Contributors:
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Michaël Dewally: Story Scan
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Michaël Dewally: Story Scan
Pass the Ammunition!
Credits
Credits not yet documented
Battle Fatigue
Credits
George Tuska pencils attributed
Bill LaCava inks guess
Contributors:
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Michaël Dewally: Story Scan
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Michaël Dewally: Story Scan
The Weapon!
Credits
Werner Roth pencils and inks unsigned
Contributors:
Frank Wilmot: Creator Credit
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Michaël Dewally: Story Scan
Frank Wilmot: Creator Credit
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Michaël Dewally: Story Scan
News Item!
Credits
Norman Steinberg pencils and inks guess
Contributors:
Frank Wilmot: Creator Credit
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
John Benson: Story Information
Michaël Dewally: Story Scan
Frank Wilmot: Creator Credit
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
John Benson: Story Information
Michaël Dewally: Story Scan
Notes: The first panel, the "photo" in the newspaper, is not a swipe of Russ Heath art, it IS Russ Heath art, a photostatted panel from "Truck Convoy" in BATTLE 6. That issue is dated the same month as this issue, January 1952. That story is signed by Hank Chapman, and "News Item" has many indicators--theme, structure, and style--that it is also written by Chapman. Chapman, who evidently was in the office enough to see and sign his completed stories as they came in, must have selected this panel for the "photo" and statted it for the "News Item" artist. (This is far more likely than the artist seeing the story in the shop and daring to ask for a stat to use in his story, or even thinking of it.) Note the jeeps in the background, which do not really fit the death scene (shown later in the story) that the photo is supposed to depict. - John Benson
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