Phoenix #1
(January 1975)

Seaboard, 1975 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.25 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
6 times a year
On-sale Date
1974-11-12
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Seaboard Periodicals Inc.
Brand
Atlas Comics [separate triangular A]
Editing
Jeff Rovin (editor)

Issue Notes

On sale date from Comic Reader #112.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Phoenix / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Dick Giordano; Sal Amendola (layout)
Inks
Dick Giordano
Colors
?

Genre
science fiction; superhero
Characters
Phoenix [Ed Tyler]; the Deiei

Indexer Notes

Giordano pencils per Nick Caputo, July 2012. Amendola cover layout per interview in Comic Book Artist # 16.

From the Ashes (Table of Contents: 1)

Phoenix / comic story / 20 pages (report information)

Script
Jeff Rovin
Pencils
Sal Amendola
Inks
Sal Amendola
Colors
?
Letters
John Duffy

Genre
science fiction; superhero
Characters
Phoenix [Ed Tyler] (astronaut, first appearance, origin); Jim (astronaut, last name Price or Stock, death); Burt (astronaut, last name Price or Stock, death); Leslie Tyler (Ed's wife, first appearance); Carmine Russo (NASA director, first appearance); Steve; Mitch; Eric (off-panel, man watching through rifle scope); the Deiei [Nerei; Hars (death); Lei (death); Daelin (apparent death); Garin (apparent death); Neia (apparent death); Setra (apparent death); others]
Synopsis
In 1977, a space lab named the Threshold I suffers a disaster, and the three astronauts aboard must abandon their mission. However, only one makes it back to Earth alive. He is abducted by aliens named the Deiei, who take him to their secret Arctic base.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Origin of Phoenix. Story continues in next issue.

What's Happening With Atlas (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Phoenix
  2. 1. From the Ashes
    Phoenix
  3. 2. What's Happening With Atlas
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Chris Boyko
  • Nick Caputo
  • John Censullo
  • Pirrou Claude
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Mark Q
  • Tony R. Rose