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Riot 5
Atlas Tales
Title Profile
Curated Atlas tales, timelines, and cover art notes.
Issue Information
- Cover Date
- April 1956
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Indicia Publisher
- Animirth Comics, inc.
- Cover Credits
-
John Severin pencils and inks unsigned
- Contributions
-
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Cover Creator Credit
Issue Overview
Riot #5 was published by Animirth Comics, inc. in April 1956. It is part of the Riot series, which ran from April 1954 to June 1956.
Cover credits include John Severin.
Atlas Tales indexes 10 stories for this issue, including "Boy Meets Girl." Indexed story credits include Stan Lee and John Severin, among others. The current cover scan may need replacement.
Stories
Boy Meets Girl
Credits
Stan Lee script signed
John Severin pencils and inks signed
Contributors:
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Tom Lammers: Story Information
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Tom Lammers: Story Information
Notes: Features "John Whine," a parody of actor John Wayne (1907-1979), and "Marilyn Oh Oh," a parody of actress Marilyn
Monroe (1926-1962). Theatre in splash is the "Stanly," an allusion to scripter Stan Lee.
So I'm a Genius
Credits
Credits not yet documented
Mother Goosepimple's Nursery Rhymes
Credits
Stan Lee script signed
Joe Maneely pencils and inks signed
Contributors:
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Riot's Cartoonists Look at T.V.
Credits
Contributors:
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Tom Lammers: Story Information
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Tom Lammers: Story Information
Notes: The style of the art in some panels is reminiscent of Virgil Partch (1916-1984) and in others of Ted Key (1912- ). Boy in one
panel wears a Superman costume.
World's Fastest Airline Non-Stop to London
Credits
Bill Everett pencils and inks unsigned
Contributors:
Ger Apeldoorn: Creator Credit
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Tom Lammers: Story Information
Ger Apeldoorn: Creator Credit
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Tom Lammers: Story Information
Notes: Parody of advertisement for Trans World Airlines ("TUA").
New! Easy-Open Automatic Door!
Credits
Bill Everett pencils and inks unsigned
Contributors:
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Tom Lammers: Story Information
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Tom Lammers: Story Information
Notes: Parody of advertisement for Westinghouse Electric Corp. ("Pest-in-House") refrigerators.
Why Izzit?
Credits
Contributors:
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Tom Lammers: Story Information
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Tom Lammers: Story Information
Notes: Very similar in style and content to Jimmy Hatlo's (1898-1963) comic strip, They'll Do It Every Time.
Why Izzit?
Credits
Contributors:
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Naughty Georgie
Credits
Joe Maneely pencils and inks unsigned
Contributors:
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Tom Lammers: Story Information
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Tom Lammers: Story Information
Notes: Though the title appears at the top of each page, the pages are numbered continuously and the job number only appears on
the first. Note on last page reads in part, "Send your Naughty Georgie rhymes to Stan Lee, Riot, ... If we like 'em, we'll
probably steal 'em ... but we'll use your name!"
Laddie
Credits
Stan Lee script signed
Joe Maneely pencils and inks signed
Lassie
starring
Contributors:
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Tom Lammers: Story Information
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Tom Lammers: Story Information
Notes: Parody of the CBS-TV series Lassie (1954-1973), and its stars Tommy Rettig (1941-1996), as "Timmy Headache;"
Jan Clayton (1917-1983), as "Nan Waitin';" and George Cleveland (1885-1957), as "George Cincinnati."
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