Flickr photo pool: Atlas comic book monster tribute

Ape Lad has resurrected Ashley Holt's 1999 collaborative art project entitled Our Bullets Are Useless.

Shown here: Rommbu by Bob Kathman

Here's Ashley's description of the project from the original site: In the late 50's and early 60's, Marvel Comics (then known as Atlas) produced a series of horror and science fiction titles invariably featuring giant monster bent on destroying the human race. Whether alien invaders, dreams come to life or science gone awry, these creatures knew only hostility and vengeance, smashing anything in their path, impervious to conventional weaponry, until the little boy or nutty old man that nobody listened to figured out that the monster was allergic to a certain air freshener or some such.

These stories, appearing in such titles as Journey into Mystery and Tales to Astonish and usually drawn by Jack Kirby or Steve Ditko, have inspired at least a dozen artists...and they're all here! In 1999, I asked my fellow cartoonists to contribute to Our Bullets are Useless, a tribute book to the Atlas monsters, and herein are the results: fifteen unique renderings of gargantuan beasts terrorizing mankind.

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[#1 posted by abb3w , April 8, 2008 8:39 AM]

Of course, one of these old monsters had a slightly better upbringing, overcame his humble beginnings, and continues as a hero today: the Hulk.

[#2 posted by arsantiqua , April 8, 2008 9:16 AM]

Chris Wisnia at tabloia.com has a wonderful set of Kirby style comics. I especially loved the Doris Danger set with its goofy monster name and battling secret armies.

Dennis

[#3 posted by aarrgghh , April 8, 2008 11:40 PM]

what? no fin fang foom?!?