Atomic Age (comics)
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics/Epic Comics |
| Format | Science Fiction |
| Publication date(s) | 1990-1991 |
| No. of issues | 4 |
| Creative team | |
| Created by | Frank Lovece, Mike Okamoto |
| Written by | Frank Lovece |
| Penciller(s) | Mike Okamato |
| Inker(s) | Al Williamson |
| Colorist(s) | Steve Oliff/OliOptics; John Wellington; Christie Scheele |
| Editor(s) | Marcus McLaurin |
Atomic Age is a four-issue comic-book miniseries, cover-dated November 1990 to February 1991, published by the Marvel Comics creator-owned imprint Epic Comics. It was created by writer Frank Lovece and penciler Mike Okamoto, and inked by Al Williamson.
The series was among the items featured in the Bowling Green State University exhibition "The Atomic Age Opens: Selections from the Popular Culture Library." Collaborator Al Williamson won the 1991 Eisner Award for Best Inker for his work on it and other series that awards-year, with Okamoto winning the Russ Manning Award for most promising newcomer.
Set in October 1957, immediately upon release of the Soviet artificial satellite Sputnik, Atomic Age is an ensemble seriocomedy of individuals affected by the first confirmed contact of humans and extraterrestrials. The principal cast is: Joe Nuñez, a put-upon, twentysomething Hispanic stringer for the Los Angeles Eagle newspaper in California; his beautiful, blond girlfriend, Nan Stoddard, an ambitious and restless young woman whose feelings for him may be genuine or an attempt at being transgressive through interracial dating in that pre-Civil Rights era; U.S. Army Col. John Patrick Lear, a proud yet pathetic figure who at the end of his career has been relegated to commanding the backwater military base Charity Island, in Melanesia off Papua New Guinea; and Nimbus, a mysterious, deep-black alien who has arrived on Earth confused of his origins but programmed to find and kill members of a genetically engineered slave race from his planet. The slaves, called drones, hope to commit species suicide — what the story calls "geneticide" — by destroying the scattered pieces of the original split of the drone race's original "mother cell".
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