Space Week continues at Comic Book Compulsive and this time the focus is on yet another obscure Atlas comic you might not have heard of. Attempting to take advantage of America’s then current mania for outer space and space travel as seen in kids shows like Captain Video and Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, between 1951 and 1952 Atlas Comics published five issues of Space Squadron.

Given the several ads scattered through out #1 nearly begging readers to sign up for a one year subscription Stan Lee obviously thought for once he had caught lightning in a bottle with a comic. But predictably such wasn’t the case. Here are two stories featuring Space Squadron‘s hero Captain Jet Dixon with art by George Tuska. If there’s one thing wrong with this comic it’s the writing, though it’s not so much the quality as the volume. Starting with the cover page after page of Space Squadron is littered with word balloons filled to the bursting with mostly unnecessary text tangling dangerously close to some pretty nice art by George Tuska.