{"id":11173,"date":"2014-11-28T17:00:58","date_gmt":"2014-11-28T21:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=11173"},"modified":"2025-10-05T16:14:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T20:14:52","slug":"dynamite-the-scorpion-planet-of-the-vampires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=11173","title":{"rendered":"Atlas&#8217; The Scorpion &amp; Planet of the Vampires!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2014\/z112814chaykin_scorpionsplash.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"712\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the early 70&#8217;s, <strong>Atlas<\/strong>, a small comic company attempted to make it&#8217;s mark. \u00a0Although it folded after a few years <strong>Atlas<\/strong> did have a couple of comics that many fans [or at least this fan] fondly remember.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>The Scorpion<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 was <strong>Howard Chaykin<\/strong>&#8216;s swashbuckling, never-aging hero. \u00a0After <strong>Chaykin<\/strong> left <strong>Atlas<\/strong> he reinvented<strong> The Scorpion<\/strong>\u00a0as <strong>Dominic Fortune<\/strong> for <strong>Marvel Comics<\/strong>. \u00a0I&#8217;d like to see <strong>Chaykin<\/strong> return to <strong>Scorpion<\/strong>. \u00a0Who wouldn&#8217;t?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The second <strong>Atlas<\/strong> title that I loved as a kid was <em><strong>Planet of the Vampires<\/strong><\/em>. \u00a0Think of <em><strong>Beneath the Planet of the Apes<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 and substitute vampires for monkeys. \u00a0<strong>Pat Broderick<\/strong> was the interior artist and <strong>Neal Adams<\/strong> inked <strong>Broderick<\/strong>&#8216;s covers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Man, those were the days.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2014\/z112814planetvampires1_cover.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"773\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the early 70&#8217;s, Atlas, a small comic company attempted to make it&#8217;s mark. \u00a0Although it folded after a few<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-comics","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11173"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40180,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11173\/revisions\/40180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}