Atlas Comics Library #2

In "Fountain of Death," Venus and Baron Franz Heinrich journey to Mars in a rocket of his own design, chasing the mythical Fountain of Youth. When they face the planet’s alien inhabitants, their escape becomes a race against time—and fate. Back on Earth, the baron finds a different kind of renewal, one that rekindles a bond long thought lost.

Casper Waltham wakes up one day certain he’s not real—just a character in someone else’s story. As his world unravels in strange, surreal ways, he begins to question everything, from his memories to his very existence. In the final panel, an artist’s hand reaches into the page, drawing the very panels we’ve just read.

In "The Graveyard Waxworks," a hidden race of subterranean creatures infiltrates the living world by taking over fresh corpses, threatening to overrun the surface. When Venus uncovers their scheme, she uses cunning and the power of sunlight to turn the tide—revealing the true horror beneath the earth's quiet facade.

When photographer Jerome Lenz captures Venus with his enchanted camera, her very dimension collapses—leaving her trapped as a flat image on animated paper. With time running out, Whitney Hammond steps in to unravel the mystery and restore her.

In "Escape from Death," space pirate Kallam Raa faces a grim choice: endure a life of forced labor or flee aboard a derelict ship carrying a crew of outcasts, each suffering from a mysterious, disfiguring illness. The story unfolds with tense urgency as Kallam weighs his fate against the unknown, stepping into a world where survival means joining those society has cast aside.

In "The Living Dolls," Professor Zorsky’s eerie carnival exhibit draws curious eyes with its unnervingly lifelike dolls—until Venus and Whitney Hammond uncover a deeper, more dangerous truth behind the spectacle. As the sisters delve into the mystery, they find themselves trapped in a world where the line between performer and puppet blurs, and the show’s master has far more control than anyone imagined.

In "Where Gargoyles Dwell!", Venus ventures into the Graycar building and discovers a hidden 13th floor teeming with aggressive gargoyles. Facing the queen of these monstrous creatures, she must confront the unnatural terror lurking in the skyscraper’s shadowed halls.

In "The Sealed Specters," Venus and Whit’s fun ride on Cloney Island’s Tunnel of Love takes a terrifying turn when they’re dragged into a hidden cave beneath the park. There, they face a grotesque cabal of goblins, ghosts, and the enigmatic caretaker Old Joe, all scheming to inhabit human bodies and seize control of the world above.

In "The Mad Mountain!", Venus finds herself stranded in a forgotten mountain realm after a plane crash, stumbling upon a long-abandoned city that pulses with eerie life. As she and the other survivors confront monstrous plant creatures that rise from the ruins, the line between nature and nightmare begins to blur.

In "The Little Man," multi-billionaire Wembley’s obsession with the bizarre leads adventurer Ryan on a dangerous mission to the remote jungles of Balu Balu, where he’s tasked with retrieving a living shrunken man from the native people. What begins as a simple acquisition takes a chilling turn when Ryan realizes the true cost of Wembley’s collection—and the line between collector and specimen may be thinner than he thought.

Neptunia, daughter of the sea god Neptune, unleashes devastating tidal waves upon the Atlantic coast in a vengeful rage after her father’s death in the atomic blasts at Bikini Atoll. Her fury threatens to drown entire cities until Venus intervenes, stepping in to halt the cataclysm before it’s too late.

In "The Madman's Music," a clarinet player, haunted by a recent injury, discovers his playing has changed—so profoundly that only the dead can hear it. As he struggles to make sense of this eerie gift, his attempts to reconnect with the living world unravel into something far stranger.