ATLAS COMICS LIBRARY Volume 10 Sports Action

Baseball, boxing, football — Marvel honored every sport by rendering short graphic biographies of the most prominent athletes of the time, including Sugar Ray Robinson, Knute Rockne, and Jackie Robinson — in the never-before-collected Sports Action. In the summer of 1949, Marvel decided to bring its successful sports pulps to the Atlas comic-book line, launching Sport Stars #1 (which became Sports Action with its second issue), the same title as one of the most successful sports pulps of the 1930s. Across fourteen issues, the artistic cream of the Timely/Atlas crop — Syd Shores, Joe Maneely, Bill Everett, Bob Powell, Gene Colan, George Tuska, Bernard Krigstein, and others — told true stories of the sports icons the 1930s and 1940s, including: Knute Rockne (football), Hack Wilson (baseball), Man O’ War (horse racing), Herman Sandow (physical culture), Bronco Nagurski (football), Ralph Kiner (baseball), Phil Rizzuto (baseball), Warren Spahn (baseball), Sugar Ray Robinson (boxing), Jackie Robinson (baseball), and Niles Kinnick, the 1939 Heisman Trophy winner of the Iowa Hawkeyes, among a score of others! These never-before-collected stories add to the historical Timely/Atlas tapestry, providing another window into the variety and breadth of Marvel’s early history!