![]() When Pellos (AKA Rene Pellarin) took over the strip, he used the same opening script for Mon Journal No. If so, it would have appeared in one of the four black and white, interior pages. ![]() 69, but the issue is missing from the Angouleme collection. The page may have appeared in Mon Journal No. Liquois drew Charroux’s first “Atomas” page: According to, writer Robert Charroux created the character for artist Auguste Liquois, who was drawing a similar superhero space opera “Salvator” for the weekly Tarzan periodical in 1947: Charroux,” but the strip’s origins are more complex. Each full-page episode included the credits: “par Pellos ed R. “Atomas” replaced “Hopalong Cassidy” on the back cover. 70 featured Atomas in its revised header and “Charlie Chan” as its new front feature: 68 also announced a forthcoming feature: “Soon Atomas the Master of the Atom.” “Captain Marvel Junior” continued on the cover until December 18, 1947, after which the series moved to its own inside, black and white page. Mon Journal also translated an American magician strip, retitled “Ibis L’invincible,” for one of its two interior color pages. 21 on January 23, 1947, reprints of the American “Captain Marvel Junior” appeared on the cover. It’s front and back cover adventure strips were in color, with four of the six, inner pages in black and white, a standard format among French, newspaper-style, comic strip periodicals of the time. Mon Journal (“My Journal”) ran its first weekly issue on August 8, 1946. I met fellow superhero scholar Alex Buchet for the first time in Paris during a World Cup game televised in an Irish pub before my wife’s poetry reading in the building’s medieval cellar. After bemoaning the sorry state of Hollywood superheroes, Alex and I agreed we should collaborate on a project. I was headed to Angouleme, France’s center for comic book research, where I would be delicately flipping sixty-five-year-old newspaper sheets printed with the still-bold colors of one of France’s first superheroes, Atomas. Ed note: This post was put together with the help and collaboration of Alex Buchet.
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