#forgotten comics

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Alas, Poor Atlas: Marvel Comics in the Mid-Fifties that didn't last long.

Series published between 1953 and 1957.

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Super Magician Vol 5, # 8, 1947.

During the 1940s, Street & Smith, the company that published The Shadow and Doc Savage, among many others, also published comics for a while.

Along with comics for their famous characters like The Shadow, Doc, and Nick Carter they also had several non-pulp characters like Super Magician, Red Dragon, the Hooded Wasp, and the first superhero parody character, Super Snipe.

Unfortunately, like can with so many others from that era, you can't see any of these stories or characters online.

While S&S is gone. the company was bought by Condé Nast, who I'm guessing also got the comic rights (?)

So don't look for them on Digital Comic Museum.

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Ship Ahoy and Tailspin “The Ten Cent Comic Book Series” (you mean like all the others at the time?)

Published by Spotlight Comics in 1945.

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Espionage was a British television series premiering in 1963 and broadcast in the United States by NBC.

The 24 black and white episodes, with a running time of 48 minutes per episode, had no regular cast, choosing instead to follow various spies as they did their "jobs". The episodes featured spies for the West, for the Soviet Bloc, spies working for peace, and resistance operatives.

The episodes drifted between contemporary times, the Second World War and the interwar period with occasional episodes set in other times.

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At first I thought the top image was a satire or something, but no.

Doc Carter VD Comics, and Little Willie were the total output a comic company called Health Publications Institute.

Both came out in 1949.

I have been unable to find out who Bill Hinnant was.

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Two pages from DC’s Mr. District Attorney

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Obscure comics from 1952, they aren’t just forgotten today, they really weren't all that well known back then.

Well, Big Town was based on a radio series that starred Edgar G. Robinson for it’s first two or three seasons, but as comics go still not much of a much. 

But really, 1952 was the start of some hard times for comics.

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Cannon was a CBS detective television series that aired from 1971 to 1976. In it, William Conrad played private detective Frank Cannon.

It being about a past middle-aged character its chances of getting a comic book adaption was at best slim.

In America at least… seems there were some produced overseas.

All that and a Yusuf Islam colour PIN-UP!