Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Battlefield

Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Battlefield (2011–present, Marvel) collects the pre-hero war comics from the 1950s Atlas era, a time when Marvel was still finding its voice. This single-issue volume highlights the gritty, human-scale combat stories that defined the line, with artist Werner Roth delivering the bulk of the period’s battlefront visuals. It matters as a preservation of the company’s transition from 1950s genre titles to the superhero renaissance of the 1960s.