Once More Into the Breach

The ATOMIC GODS AND MONSTERS anthology series features forgotten heroes from the atomic age. What makes these characters unique is that they only appeared in reprinted stories under new names. "Earth-R" is a world sparsely populated by costumed crimefighters and criminals. It began in 1940 with X, the Phantom Fed, a master of disguise G-Man, and over the next decade and half, more than a dozen "atomic heroes", ranging from pulp vigilantes to jungle heroines to mystics to occult detectives to advanced technology heroes to scientists to actual superhumans joined him in the crusade against crime. It is now the mid-'50s. The contributors to the series are a mix of pros and fans who share a love of public domain characters.