{"product_id":"atlas-comics-library-10-sports-action","title":"ATLAS COMICS LIBRARY Volume 10 Sports Action","description":"\u003cp\u003eBaseball, 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 \u003cem\u003eSports Action\u003c\/em\u003e. In the summer of 1949, Marvel decided to bring its successful sports pulps to the Atlas comic-book line, launching \u003cem\u003eSport Stars\u003c\/em\u003e #1 (which became \u003cem\u003eSports Action\u003c\/em\u003e with its second issue), the same title as one of the most successful sports pulps of the 1930s.\n\nAcross fourteen issues, the artistic cream of the Timely\/Atlas crop — \u003cstrong\u003eSyd Shores\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eJoe Maneely\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eBill Everett\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eBob Powell\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eGene Colan\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eGeorge Tuska\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eBernard Krigstein\u003c\/strong\u003e, and others — told true stories of the sports icons the 1930s and 1940s, including: \u003cem\u003eKnute Rockne\u003c\/em\u003e (football), \u003cem\u003eHack Wilson\u003c\/em\u003e (baseball), \u003cem\u003eMan O’ War\u003c\/em\u003e (horse racing), \u003cem\u003eHerman Sandow\u003c\/em\u003e (physical culture), \u003cem\u003eBronco Nagurski\u003c\/em\u003e (football), \u003cem\u003eRalph Kiner\u003c\/em\u003e (baseball), \u003cem\u003ePhil Rizzuto\u003c\/em\u003e (baseball), \u003cem\u003eWarren Spahn\u003c\/em\u003e (baseball), \u003cem\u003eSugar Ray Robinson\u003c\/em\u003e (boxing), \u003cem\u003eJackie Robinson\u003c\/em\u003e (baseball), and \u003cem\u003eNiles Kinnick\u003c\/em\u003e, the 1939 Heisman Trophy winner of the Iowa Hawkeyes, among a score of others!\n\nThese never-before-collected stories add to the historical Timely\/Atlas tapestry, providing another window into the variety and breadth of Marvel’s early history!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fantagraphics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59643986247966,"sku":"ATL10H","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/0684\/7006\/files\/ATL10H.jpg?v=1784524280","url":"https:\/\/shop.budsartbooks.com\/products\/atlas-comics-library-10-sports-action","provider":"Bud's Art Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}