I'm closing off my current look back at Atlas-Seaboard with these last two publications, neither of which I have nor have ever seen in person.
Above is Gothic Romances a one-time only magazine that hoped to add women to the Atlas-Seaboard reading audience, despite all the content appealing to boys and men they published otherwise.
It features a fantastic painted cover by Elaine Duillo, artwork used again on a novel entitled The Conservatory written by Phyllis Hastings.
There are a few bits of spot artwork by Howie Chaykin, Ernie Colon, and Neal Adams in this book, but it's really not a comic book, though a collectible for dieheard Atlas-Seaboard fans for sure.
My Secret is another magazine, more recently identified as part of the Atlas-Seabaord cache, but this despite its evocative Marvelesque cover image has no comics content whatsoever according to reports.
And that wraps up my look back at the summer of 1975, when a new kid showed up on the block, but who quickly got knocked down because of a combination of poor management and a weak economy. Though the Atlas-Seaboard material shows up in foreign formats sometimes, the rights to it still remain locked up as far as I know.
The stuff is still pretty cheap on the back issue market, save for a few gems like those above. But this material like the stuff from Tower Comics and Skywald Comics would make for some great reprints, and I suspect might well find an audience today.
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