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Baseball, boxing, football — Marvel honored every
sport by rendering short graphic biographies of the
most prominent athletes of the time, including Sugar
Ray Robinson, Knute Rockne, and Jackie Robinson— in
the never-before-collected Sports Action.
In the summer of 1949, Marvel decided to bring its successful sports
pulps to the Atlas comic-book line, launching Sport Stars #1, which
became Sports Action with its second issue, the same name as one
of his most successful sports pulps of the 1930s.
Across fourteen tumultuous issues, the artistic cream of the
Timely/Atlas crop (Syd Shores, Joe Maneely, Bill Everett, Bob Powell, Gene Colan, George Tuska, Bernard Krigstein, and others) told
biographical stories about sports heroes of the 1930s and 1940s in
all the major sports: Knute Rockne (football), Hack Wilson (baseball),
Man O’War (horse racing), Herman Sandow (physical culture), Bronco
Nagurski (football), Ralph Kiner (baseball), Phil Rizzuto (baseball), Warren Spahn (baseball), Sugar Ray Robinson (boxing), Jackie Robinson
(baseball), and Niles Kinnick, the 1939 Heisman Trophy winner of the
Iowa Hawkeyes, among a score of others!
These never before collected stories add to the historical Timely/
Atlas tapestry, providing another window into the variety and breadth
of Marvel’s early history