*Miscellaneous 1940-1959: In the 1950s, Atlas, like most publishers, was scrambling around different genres to find the next ‘big thing’, and one such experiment was 1953’s Speed Carter, Spaceman, Flash Gordonesque space opera as Speed, accompanied by plucky sidekick Johnny and the shapely Stellar Stone, went where no man had gone before. These pulpy adventures were high on action and tinged with horror, as the publisher tried to cover all bases, but Speed Carter Spaceman, (technically, in the indicia, ‘Spaceman’: On the cover, ‘Speed Carter Spaceman and the Space Sentinels’ – no possible confusion there…) didn’t catch on with the public despite some quality work, and had only a short 6-issue run, initially illustrated by the superb Joe Maeely. We have four of the six back in stock: #1 (FA/GD £70 pictured), #2 (GD/VG £75 pictured) and #4 & #5. Whenever we’ve had Speed before (‘scuse the expression), he’s left the premises with appropriate alacrity, so don’t hang about!