The Atlas Comics Library No. 10: Sports Action

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

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 name as one of his most successful sports pulps of the 1930