Atlas-Seaboard was an upstart company started up by Martin Goodman, the former publisher of Marvel Comics, to compete directly with the company he'd begun and had run for decades. It was an act of spite pure and simple, as well as a questionable act of commerce in the final analysis. The company began with a bang but ended with a whimper only a few months after it debuted. It was a glorious moment, but a moment only in comics history.
Dick Giordano was one of the many excellent talents of the time who worked for the company. He did some of their most iconic covers for many of their debut issues. Above is a complete gallery of his work for them. "The Crusty Bunkers", the unofficial squadron of talent overseen by Giordano and Neal Adams did some work on these books, and that's likely how Giordano was involved, so his hand might be hidden in a few of these books. I suspect he might've inked a few pages in Wulf the Barbarian myself. But these covers are all the work that is confirmed.
Dick did all the covers above, including the fantastic cover for Phoenix #1 by himself, save for the Morlock 2001 cover which features his inks over Al Milgrom's pencils.
I'll have a more detailed look at Atlas-Seaboard coming up in a few weeks. This is just a taste.
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So why is the Brute a giant on the cover anyway? He was about normal inside
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