Post by John Helmer on Sept 29, 2010 8:04:41 GMT -5
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Phil Latter, Freelance Writer, on Claw The Unconquered
'Never, Ever Published by Atlas Comics'
Published: 09/29/2010 01:41am
Phil Latter, a former comic retail employee and freelance writer located in Canada, read Dave Brzeski's Talk Back mentioning Claw The Unconquered (see "Dave Brzeski of The House on the Borderland on Atlas Comics Revival") and had this to say.
Dave Brzeski posted in the Talk Back section that he was interested in hearing that Atlas Comics will be coming back with new comics stories. I agree and I am, similarly, delighted that this is finally happening! However, I had to smile and shake my head, that Mr. Brzeski thinks that the barbarian Claw The Unconquered, was ever an Atlas character. In the 1970's, Claw The Unconquered appeared in his own title, created at, for and by DC Comics, Inc. That title ran twelve issues, with an approximately two-year interruption between issues #9 and #10 through #12.
The final issue of Claw The Unconquered, #13, saw print only in one of the two issues circulated of the extremely-limited distribution title Cancelled Comics Cavalcade, following the much-lauded, at the time, the "DC Implosion," when numerous DC titles were cancelled. Only 30 copies of DC's Cancelled Comics Cavalcade were ever published. I thankfully have a rare copy of those two thick publications.
Claw The Unconquered, despite Mr. Brzeski's mistaken belief, was never, ever published by Atlas Comics. Twenty years later, Claw The Unconquered, or rather, a version of him, appeared in DC's Primal Force #4. Claw The Unconquered also had a bearing on the storyline in Wonder Woman (Vol. 3) #21. Claw then returned again at DC Comics in 2008 for a new six issue miniseries. And in 2006, two years previously, DC Comics/Wildstorm (another imprint of DC Comics, Inc.), and Dynamite Entertainment jointly published the four issue miniseries Red Sonja/Claw: The Devil's Hands, teaming Claw with Red Sonja. Most recently, Claw The Unconquered appeared in DC's Time Masters: Vanishing Point #2.
Atlas did publish no less than three barbarian type titles, but Claw The Unconquered was not one of them. Atlas Comics at that time (circa 1975) published four issues of Iron Jaw; four issues of Wulf The Barbarian; and one single one-shot issue of Barbarians (featuring Iron Jaw). Barbarians #1 was published between the publishing of Iron Jaw #3 and #4.
Phil Latter, Freelance Writer, on Claw The Unconquered
'Never, Ever Published by Atlas Comics'
Published: 09/29/2010 01:41am
Phil Latter, a former comic retail employee and freelance writer located in Canada, read Dave Brzeski's Talk Back mentioning Claw The Unconquered (see "Dave Brzeski of The House on the Borderland on Atlas Comics Revival") and had this to say.
Dave Brzeski posted in the Talk Back section that he was interested in hearing that Atlas Comics will be coming back with new comics stories. I agree and I am, similarly, delighted that this is finally happening! However, I had to smile and shake my head, that Mr. Brzeski thinks that the barbarian Claw The Unconquered, was ever an Atlas character. In the 1970's, Claw The Unconquered appeared in his own title, created at, for and by DC Comics, Inc. That title ran twelve issues, with an approximately two-year interruption between issues #9 and #10 through #12.
The final issue of Claw The Unconquered, #13, saw print only in one of the two issues circulated of the extremely-limited distribution title Cancelled Comics Cavalcade, following the much-lauded, at the time, the "DC Implosion," when numerous DC titles were cancelled. Only 30 copies of DC's Cancelled Comics Cavalcade were ever published. I thankfully have a rare copy of those two thick publications.
Claw The Unconquered, despite Mr. Brzeski's mistaken belief, was never, ever published by Atlas Comics. Twenty years later, Claw The Unconquered, or rather, a version of him, appeared in DC's Primal Force #4. Claw The Unconquered also had a bearing on the storyline in Wonder Woman (Vol. 3) #21. Claw then returned again at DC Comics in 2008 for a new six issue miniseries. And in 2006, two years previously, DC Comics/Wildstorm (another imprint of DC Comics, Inc.), and Dynamite Entertainment jointly published the four issue miniseries Red Sonja/Claw: The Devil's Hands, teaming Claw with Red Sonja. Most recently, Claw The Unconquered appeared in DC's Time Masters: Vanishing Point #2.
Atlas did publish no less than three barbarian type titles, but Claw The Unconquered was not one of them. Atlas Comics at that time (circa 1975) published four issues of Iron Jaw; four issues of Wulf The Barbarian; and one single one-shot issue of Barbarians (featuring Iron Jaw). Barbarians #1 was published between the publishing of Iron Jaw #3 and #4.
