Atlas’ The Scorpion & Planet of the Vampires!

In the early 70’s, Atlas, a small comic company attempted to make it’s mark.  Although it folded after a few years Atlas did have a couple of comics that many fans [or at least this fan] fondly remember.

The Scorpion  was Howard Chaykin‘s swashbuckling, never-aging hero.  After Chaykin left Atlas he reinvented The Scorpion as Dominic Fortune for Marvel Comics.  I’d like to see Chaykin return to Scorpion.  Who wouldn’t?

The second Atlas title that I loved as a kid was Planet of the Vampires.  Think of Beneath the Planet of the Apes  and substitute vampires for monkeys.  Pat Broderick was the interior artist and Neal Adams inked Broderick‘s covers.

Man, those were the days.