The Atlas Comics Library No. 12: Complete Mystery

Available from Fantagraphics when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

The tense, urban tales of Complete Mystery collected in this Atlas Library volume were among the first shots fired in what would become a veritable Timely/Atlas crime wave. The year 1948 saw the debut of a long-form, film-noir-influenced "crime novella" comics format titled Complete Mystery featuring Marvel's top artists: Gene Colan, Syd Shores, and Carl Burgos (with three stories written by editor Stan Lee). In "Seven Dead Men!" greedy mobsters and a beautiful girl lust after a quarter of a mil