Atlas/Seaboard June 1975.

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The Greek Titan Atlas was, famously, strong enough to hold up the sky but can Atlas the comic company even succeed in preventing the roof from falling in on it?

Given the short-lived nature of Atlas's books, it's a bit of a shock but Vicki's managed to achieve a third issue.

And it's not even the final one!

Inside, we encounter such classic material as Company Loves Misery, Lamping Along Together, Let's Get in Shape for Summer!, Weanie Meanie and The Vicki Fun Page! Mostly reprinted from the 1960s pages of Tippy Teen and Teen-In.

Once more does Tiger-Man leap into the fray!

And he does so in a tale which features the Blue Leopard who, in the absence of any other information, I shall assume to be the villain of the piece.

The final issue of Police Action smashes us in the face with Sam Lomax in ...One Hot Dog With Murder, Please! and Luke Malone in something called ...Rock and Robbery.

But Sam and Luke; will we ever see their like again?

Police Action may have died but nothing can kill Phoenix. Not even the Devil, Yetis or the Loch Ness Monster, all of whom turn up in this unlikely tale set in the Himalayas.

But our hero doesn't get this issue all to himself.

Instead, he has to share it with a backup strip starring brand-new crime-fighter the Dark Avenger who must thwart the plans of the Rat Pack!

Atlas finally gets a martial arts hero of its own. Albeit one who looks like he was designed by Frank Robbins.

I can shed no light upon the contents of this one, not even whether it's any good or not but I can reveal it's brought to us by the talents of Ed Fedory and Jim Craig and that, despite appearances, Fearless Frank seems to have had no involvement in this mag.

Tragically, this seems to be the only issue of the book that will ever appear.

I can share little insight into the contents of this one either, but it stars a character called Adam Lucard and is the handiwork of Gary Friedrich and Frank Thorne.

This comic too will only last for one issue before being terminally staked through its heart.

But back to hardier fare, as the Destructor hits his third issue, and a confrontation with the Huntress who's been hired by the mob, to bump him off.

And it looks like she might just do it!

Ironjaw already has his own book but it seems that's not enough to contain awesomeness on his scale. And so he finds himself being granted a second vehicle for his talents.

The first tale of the issue, which stars the man himself, is called The Mountain of Mutants and, to the shock of no one, contain mutants.

That's followed by a yarn in which a 1970s decathlete is catapulted into a barbaric age, 2,000 years in the future.

Sensationally, this is another book which will survive for just one issue before folding.